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The travel industry has experienced tremendous growth over the past few decades and advances in technology have helped fuel this expansion. Some of us are old enough to remember the days when airline reservations were stored in a flight book and airline reservation agents would work the phones to assist travel agents as well as a few consumers with their travel arrangements. As technology evolved, the complicated formats to input "pre-paid ticket" information were replaced by electronic tickets and the airlines practically did away with paper tickets all together. Transformational changes have occurred throughout each of the travel verticals. As more people travel more frequently the need for hotel accommodations and ground transportation also increases.
Travel agents remain an important part of the travel industry and have been evolving the way that they interact with suppliers and customers along with the rest of the industry. Travel agent software such as airline booking engines, hotel booking engines and even cruise booking engines were launched years ago and have been evolving ever since. The transition to online commerce has been crucial for many agencies to remain in business. The online booking engines available today provide agents or their customers the ability to book just about anything online including an airline seat, a hotel room or even a cruise vacation.
With just a few clicks of a mouse, today's travel agent software can access the information that agents or their consumers shopping online need to research which particular hotel meets an individual's needs best. Hotel searches can be narrowed to a specific neighborhood within a city, the hotel star rating or price range. You can even research whether a hotel property has banquet facilities, a restaurant or room service. Air travel searches can be specific to an airline, time of day or even class of service. Online searches for cruise vacations can be specific to a Sailing region, such as Alaska, a specific cruise line or cruise ship and even by the length of the cruise. High resolution photographs of a cruise ship's public spaces as well as sample cabin photos are complimented by detailed descriptions and integrated into the booking engine to help agents and customers when deciding what suits their needs the best. Users can even select which seating time they prefer for dinner, choose their bed configuration preference and even alert the cruise line of a special occasion such as a passenger's birthday.
Like many businesses, consolidation has forced many travel agencies to merge or join forces with other agencies forming new agency affiliate relationships. The ability for a host agency to share their travel agent software with affiliated agencies or agents quickly and easily can be a powerful tool. As agencies form new alliances, many still want to maintain their individual brand name with their customers, so many offer the ability to customize the header, footer and fonts to match the branding.
Choosing a travel agent software with the right combination of options for your business can be a critical decision. Finding a technology partner that will help you reach today's mobile consumer with the content they are looking for can be just as important.


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MAGNIFICENT views from this direct ocean 15th floor apartment. Turnberry Ocean Colony is located in Sunny Isles Beach just south of Golden Beach and north of Bal Harbour. These neighboring cities are part of Miami-Dade county in South Florida. Turnberry Ocean Colony feature’s two 37-story towers and is one of the most exclusive and established oceanfront developments in Sunny Isles Beach . Each tower includes 130 residential units with Intracoastal and ocean views.
This exclusive apartment is priced to SELL! Call me today for more information and to schedule your private showing.
Marina Palms, North Miami Beaches’ newest addition to the city’s rapidly growing construction boom has opened its marina for business this week. The condo towers feature 468 unit ranging from 1-3 bedrooms. The Marina features 112 boat slips able to cater to boats up to 100 feet. Another key component to the marina’s unparalleled service is a full sundry store open to the public, and of course a high speed fuel point. Residents may enjoy the membership to a private boating club right from the marina ( pricing and availability may vary).
North Miami Beach, A city at the northeast point of Miami-Dade county Florida, is proud to be the home to the new Marina Palms Luxury Residences and Marina. The project will be fully completed by mid 2017 with only now the completion of the south tower which has just topped off. The history behind the location and the way that they incorporated it into the project really sets it apart from some of the other new construction in the area. An amazing article can be found here that gives you a detailed historical background on the area and the specific location of the project itself. Welcome to the new Miami everyone!
THE ARK OF GOLDEN BEACH GOES UNDER CONTRACT!
One of Golden Beaches most famous home went under contract. The home is situated at 480 Ocean blvd on a dry lot and was a design collaboration between world famous Chad Oppenheim and Jacob Abramson. Its unique glass shaped ark is the epicenter of the design. The home boasts six bedrooms and eight bathrooms all under 8,500 square feet. A rooftop patio situated at the tip of the glass ark gives the homeowner a great sunrise and sunset view while enjoying the saltwater breeze. The home is listed for just under six million USD and we have yet to know the selling price of this gem, closing date is set for June 15, 2016.
Golden Beach Florida, Located in the north-eastern point of Miami-Dade county on the sands of the Atlantic Ocean and to the west the Intracoastal Waterway is home to one of South Florida’s most luxurious and sought after communites in the country. Home to many influential celebrities and wealthy residents, for most people it is an honor to call it home.
Several years ago, the luxury real estate market in Miami was sustained by foreign buyers who sought to invest in multimillion-dollar waterfront properties. But that’s not the case today, at least for real estate investors in Latin America and Europe.
Fewer foreign investors are purchasing luxury real estate in South Florida, in part due to a global recession, as currencies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Venezuela have been devalued. In some cases, due to lower purchasing power, real estate investors are seeking properties in a lower price point than in years past.
According to the Miami Downtown Development Authority’s latest market study, all-cash transactions are decreasing. Market activity in 2015 was weaker than in 2014, in part due to the worsening global economy.
Compared with the US dollar, the purchasing power for many foreign currencies has dropped since 2014 and since 2011, with the most significant changes experienced by the Brazilian real (almost 59% since 2011), Russian rouble (more than 60%), and the Argentinian peso (almost 70%). However, there was a positive change to the purchasing power of one currency since 2011 — the Chinese yuen.
Will We See the Market Shift Toward Chinese Investors?
Between 2011 and 2014, the yuen‘s purchasing power agains the US dollar had to increased 8.61%, with a cumulative change of 0.45% between 2011 and 2016.
Recent moves by real estate developers, too, as reported in The Real Deal, have been made in an attempt to attract investors from Asian countries, namely China. And the Miami Herald reports that direct Chinese foreign investment in the US has increased by 30%, with more than $1 billion invested in the state of Florida by Chinese companies.
Will we see a shift from South American and European investors to Chinese investors in luxury real estate in South Florida? We will just have to wait and see.
Are you interested in learning more about the Miami luxury real estate market, or investing in luxury waterfront properties? Let’s discuss this information. Just call me at 954.661.8871.
Miami-Dade County, Florida Real Estate is Booming!
Things are continuing to look up for the South Florida real estate market, according to the most recent data released.
Evidently, more and more investors are coming to South Florida to get a piece of the action – which in turn is strengthening our local housing market.
According to the most recent article I read in the Miami-Herald, plenty of private equity firms in the area are snatching up prime South Florida real estate lately.
For example, Fort Capital recently purchased the historic Surf Club in Surfside. It is expected to be revitalized and later sold.
That’s what the company did after it bought most of the Capri South Beach along with other coveted pieces of South Florida real estate.
Experts say that the South Florida market is getting hotter and hotter, with demand rising.
This is particularly true in the hotel arena, where investors are buying and building hotels left and right!
The latest activity reflects a national trend in which the lodging industry is expected to spend more than $5 billion this year on upgrades that range from redesigned lobbies to additional fitness centers and restaurants.
Here in South Florida, some of the more specific drivers to this recent hotel boom include rising tourism numbers, scarcity of available land and more lenient lending policies.
Through September, hotels in Miami-Dade were more than 76 percent full, which is up slightly from the same period a year before.
Room rates in South Florida increased by 7 percent to almost $163.
Revenue per available room in South Florida also grew by about 8 percent year-over-year to $124.55.
You may be thinking to yourself – that’s great but what exactly does this mean for the South Florida residential housing market?
Since everything is inter-connected, more interest and investments in the South Florida hotel market will likely lead to more interest and investments in the South Florida real estate market as well!
To learn more about how the current hotel industry boom here in South Florida will benefit the local residential housing market, please contact me, Scott Patterson.
The outlook continues to look rosier and rosier for South Florida home sellers lately!
According to the most recent media reports, there’s a shortage of foreclosures for sale.
Rates of foreclosed homes for sale have dropped in both Miami-Dade and Broward County!
This is great news for area home sellers since foreclosures generally pull down the median sales price, meaning that it’s harder for sellers to get the price they want for their own home.
Broward County foreclosures-related home sales were about 3,259 during the second quarter, down 31 percent from last year.
In Palm Beach County, there were about 2,966 foreclosure sales, down 15 percent from a year before.
Miami-Dade foreclosures down about 29%.
Distressed properties account for 20 percent of all sales in Broward County.
In that county, the average price for homes is $126,230.
Meanwhile, distressed properties account for 22 percent of all sales in Palm Beach County.
In that county, the average price for homes is $121,766.
During the week ending on Oct 24, there were a total of 9,149 homes for sale on the Miami, Florida real estate market, including more than 2,000 that were in some stage of the foreclosure process.
Also during that week, the average listing price for Miami homes was $592,559, up 0.7 percent from the previous week.
And the median sales price for 3- and 4-bedroom homes was $150,100 and $225,000, respectively.
As previously noted, foreclosure sales have a negative impact on area home sellers because they tend to pull the median home sales price and market values down.
Thus, the fact that foreclosure-related sales are dropping is a positive sign for area home sellers who want to get the best price on their home!
Your South Florida Real Estate Expert!
If you’re interested in learning more about how the recent trend on the South Florida real estate market will affect you as a home seller, please contact me, Scott Patterson.
Thus, I’ll be happy to help you with all of your South Florida real estate needs as well!

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Government officials and experts discuss next steps to effectively address anti-Semitism through education in Moldova. The importance of combating anti-Semitism through education was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova, reported Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The event brought together 20 Moldovan Government and Parliament officials, international experts, and representatives of academia and the Jewish community to discuss effective approaches to education on anti-Semitism in Moldova’s specific context. During the discussions, participants underscored that the best approach is one that systematically incorporates such study in the national curriculum.
Participants noted the Government’s recent efforts to further Holocaust commemoration and education in Moldova. This includes Parliament’s July 2016 Declaration adopting the findings of the 2004 Elie Wiesel Report and, subsequently, the adoption of an Action Plan of concrete measures to strengthen the study and remembrance of the Holocaust in Moldova. They also welcomed a recent decision to entrust oversight of the Action Plan’s implementation to Parliament’s cross-party Human Rights Committee as an important step.
“Every OSCE participating State has a specific local context, and this must be reflected in school curricula to ensure effective education about the Holocaust and address anti-Semitism,” said Jan Henrik Fahlbusch, ODIHR Adviser on Combating Anti-Semitism.
This event was organized as part of the ODIHR project, “Turning Words into Action to Address Anti-Semitism”, funded by the German government, and follows ongoing efforts by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and ODIHR to assist the authorities in increasing awareness and understanding of the Holocaust in Moldova. To this end, in June 2016 the Mission facilitated the participation of government and civil society representatives at plenary meetings of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in Geneva, Switzerland.

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At Solar Panel Installation Guys, we have factory trained experts who are experienced in Solar Panel Installation. With decades of experience in installing the solar panels on roof tops, building tops as well as stand -alone structures, you can count on our solar panels installers to meet all your solar panels requirements conveniently. Solar Panel Installation cannot be entrusted to people who do not understand various technical issues on their installation. For instance, the solar panels will require to place at certain angles facing direct sunlight for maximum absorption of the solar energy. There is also the issue of mounting the solar panels using roof-ground mounts, pole mounts as well as flush mounts. Our experts understand all these types of mounts and will advice you more about them. Once you engage our solar installer services, you will learn on solar powered water pumps, cutting on your power meet readings as well as safeguarding the environment through use of pollution-free source of energy. At Solar Panel Installation Guys in Mountain Center, CA, all these issues will be catered for you so that you can maximize your investment in solar panels.
In Mountain Center, CA, you will get fully bonded, licensed and insured solar installer services. These three issues are vital for the continuity of our services as it shows commitment to providing high standard and quality services. If you engage unlicensed solar installer services, you will have no one to blame if anything goes wrong. They will pack their tools and disappear and you will have no recourse.
We comply with the requirements of the municipal laws on the installation of solar panels so that you do not find yourself with the law for endangering the environment. Our installations are environmentally friendly and meet all the safety requirements. We will take you through the stages of solar panels installation so that you can benefit immensely from your investment in solar panels. We are glad to let you know that we rank tops among other solar installers services in Mountain Center, CA. Go ahead, come to us and enjoy top of the range solar panels installation services.

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So a lot of things have happened this week but how could my word be anything other than cold! I know most of the country will be feeling the same.
I think we may have got off lightly with a lot of the weather, I may be eating my words by the time this is posted, but we haven’t had a huge amount of snow, just an relentless flurry of the white stuff. It has been so, so cold though.
On Monday I had to go and pick up the kids from school in my wheelchair. There was a slight flutter of snow but it wasn’t sticking around. It was, however, incredibly cold and chilly and it didn’t matter how wrapped up I was I still felt the bite.
I vowed not to go out again this week, but on Wednesday I had to pop to the end of the street to the GP surgery, again in my wheelchair, again in the flutter of snow that didn’t settle.
I’m so lucky that my house is warm, we have only a slight draft in the living room but if we draw the curtains we don’t feel it, and we haven’t had the heating on that much during the daytime. All the bedrooms are cosy except for the Little Man’s room and he has a big duvet to keep him warm. If he gets too cold he can always come and cuddle with me, I won’t mind.
I look at the news and see how awful it’s been almost everywhere else and feel quite lucky. Yes, it’s freezing cold but we’ve had little in the way of transport disruption and the school has been open all week. The kids finally have a snow day today, I’m just glad they don’t have to go out in the cold.
My fingers are tightly crossed that the Beast from the East and Storm Emma are soon packing there bags and leaving our country alone.
p.s. Don’t you think the photo I’ve used is beautiful. I love Unsplash for free images, there are so many gorgeous photos to choose from.
We have managed to stay warm though.
It has been bitter! we only had snow last night and now I’d like it to leave!


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Join us as we welcome Dr. Edward P. Hoffer, a well-respected 40 + year veteran of the American medical system. He will discuss his book, "Prescription for Bankruptcy: a doctor's perspective on America's failing health care system and how we can fix it". The program is free and light refreshments will be served.
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People in Property are a fiercely independent company, extremely proud of its success to date. If you were given an opportunity, would you take it?
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Interlock Weatherstrip Set – Set includes two pieces of weatherstrip that screw to the sides of the operating and stationary panels and they seal the door panels in the middle when in the locked position.
Operating Panel Left Jamb Weatherstrip (Outside) - This weatherstrip is glued to the outside surface of the left side jamb. The operating panel seals against this weatherstrip when in the locked position. The operating panel would be on the left as viewed from the exterior.
Operating Panel Right Jamb Weatherstrip (Outside) - This weatherstrip is glued to the outside surface of the right side jamb. The operating panel seals against this weatherstrip when in the locked position. The operating panel would be on the right as viewed from the exterior.
Operating Panel Jamb Weatherstrip (Inside) - This weatherstrip is glued to the inside surface of the side jamb. The operating panel seals against this weatherstrip when in the locked position. This weatherstrip is universal and fits on the inside of either the left or right side jamb.
Stationary Panel Jamb Weatherstrip (Inside) – This weatherstrip is glued to the inside surface the side jamb of the stationary panel. This weatherstrip is universal and fits on the inside of either the left or right side jamb.
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MESCO Inc. is a 57 year old Philippine-based company that had been supplying the manufacturing and industrial companies with the best in machine tools, engineering products and technology available in the market. It has been instrumental in the country’s industrialization, contributing to national progress. It provides the industry with top-quality machines and industrial products as well as engineering services at competitive prices – where and when they are needed.
Beyond machine products, MESCO Inc. also provides a range of solutions to its clients, including financing and engineering assistance, production or tooling analysis, technical training and after-sales service. Committed to its vision of being internationally recognized as an outstanding provider of metal manufacturing technology in the Philippines, MESCO Inc. is guided by the three core values in dealing with their business partners – which are “Passion for Excellence”, “Sense of Urgency” and “Teamwork”.
For decades, MESCO Inc. had established the ties and good relationship with their business partners from all over world such as USA, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Israel, Korea and Thailand to name a few. Among the major product lines they carry include Mazak’s CNC machines, Iscar’s toolings and inserts, Hanel’s storage solutions, Mitutoyo’s measuring instruments, Mitsui Seiki’s air compressors, Rivalit’s hoses, Vickers’s hydraulics and pneumatic valves/ pumps/ motors/ cylinder/ etc. and lot more.

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Helen Mirren in a scene from "The Leisure Seeker."
When last we saw Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Oscar-winning Dame Helen Mirren, 72, she was drinking tequila on the red carpet and riding a Jet Ski at the Academy Awards.
That leads to an obvious question: Would she have jumped on the ski if she hadn't been drinking tequila?
"I only had one little shot," said Mirren. "I did it because I promised to do it. I'd said I would."
And how long did it take to plan the stunt?
"Seconds," she said. "Literally a last minute. They asked me to do it and I said, 'Sure.' It was stand here, go there, and then it was over."
More planning went in to her next appearance on the show, sharing the stage with Jane Fonda to present the award for best actor. Mirren talked about their shared 50 years in front of the camera and the changes they've seen along the way, leading to today's #MeToo and Time's Up movements.
"I think for an awful lot of women, this is something we've been waiting for for a long time, the Time's Up movement. I say it's about time. Why didn't this happen 30 years ago? That doesn't mean I'm not joyful that it's happening now. I am. But I'm aware that the work of effecting change is still in front of us. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out," Mirren said.
The signs are encouraging. Mirren, although she is officially a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire, is of working-class origins and is most interested in the way nonfamous women — working stiffs — have made strides on film sets.
"You have to understand, when I started making movies, I was often the only woman on the set. On a big movie, you can see 150 people running around. That's a lot of jobs. And lately I've been seeing more and more women in the technical jobs, and it's great. These are jobs that pay well and, until recently, they've been reserved for men. I had a female boom operator on one recent job. That requires amazing upper body strength, and this woman was solid," Mirren said.
She made Collateral Beauty with Will Smith and was pleased to see (still a rarity) a female cinematographer, Maryse Alberti.
"All of her camera crew were women. When you see things like that happen, it means a great deal. Because it puts an end to outdated ideas. You can no longer say women can't do it, because they are doing it," said Mirren.
As an actress, Mirren has been doing it, and doing it well, since the late 1960s, alternating among stage, film, and television — winning a Tony for The Audience, Emmys for Prime Suspect and other roles, and an Oscar for The Queen.
Her latest is the independent drama The Leisure Seeker, the story of Ella and John Spencer (Mirren and Donald Sutherland) taking a final road trip — Sutherland's character is succumbing to dementia, and Ella wants them to have one final adventure, even if her husband is only flickeringly aware of what is happening.
Ella is a Southern woman whose trip takes her past Charleston, S.C., on her way to the Florida Keys. It's linguistic and geographical territory Mirren knows well — she and her husband, director Taylor Hackford, had a home in New Orleans for many years and still return to the city regularly. They once rented a van and drove from Natchez, Miss., to Charleston, looking for antique furniture. She loved the experience, and it's one of the reasons she fell for The Leisure Seeker script.
"It was a great little road, just the two of us and the dog, staying in little towns, in bed-and-breakfasts. We filled up the van with furniture and filled ourselves up on great Southern cooking. Fried chicken, black-eyed peas, and collard greens," which Dame Helen split into two posh syllables — coll and ard. A great actress can make even vegetables sound dignified.
"Road trips are such an American thing. Ingrained in the American character is being able to comprehend these vast spaces that the country occupies. It's what most impressed me when I first came to this country," said Mirren, who took a passenger train from the East Coast to the West Coast on her way to her first Hollywood auditions some 30 years ago. "The vastness of those spaces, it completely amazed me, and still does."
She got over her European bias against cheap "petrol" once she saw how important automotive transportation is for many Americans. She also began to understand why we love our cars so much — it's part of why she was keen to take a role in a recent Fast and Furious sequel, the Fate of the Furious, playing Jason Statham's East End mum.
That was great fun, said Mirren, who said she enjoys herself on film sets more than she used to.
"Film sets used to intimidate me. Not least because there were so few women on set. The feeling was, you have few friends there. They can be quite intimidating, but that's changed for me. I love it. I do," she said. "I've always had a passion for it, and you have to, because when you're starting out, you don't get paid very much. You have to have a huge passion for it, a curiosity about it and excitement about it. You have to want to be there at 4 a.m., when it's below zero, and I still do."

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text: There was serious doubt among the people involved about whether San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos would rule in favor or against Bayer. Bayer’s appeal of the Monsanto Cancer Verdict. was resolved Tuesday morning as the judge upheld the jury’s decision that the glyphosate-based weedkiller (aka Roundup) sold by Monsanto caused a California man’s terminal cancer and that Monsanto intentionally hid its dangers.

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text: Since the bitcoin network is already getting obscenely large, using their ledger is not necessarily possible, but the same technology could be modified for our specific purpose. This network would be specifically for the containing of hashes of ever corporate document in every corporation. As each and every document is created and subsequently edited, it’s hash is added to the global ledger. Then if at some point in the future, there is some question or doubt as to the creation or last edited date of a file, it could be searched for in the ledger and verified that it was created on a particular date. This could be useful if, for example, a company needed to prove in court that a policy document had existed before a certain event to shield themselves from a liability lawsuit.

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Dress up your next craft project with printed washi tape. Made to add accent your art, this must-have is available in a variety of prints. It offers a smooth matte finish on one side and an adhesive surface on the other. Use to add color to decorations, craft projects, and personal organizers.
Washi tape is like masking tape that has a decorative, patterned surface and can be easily removed. For best results, apply washi tape on clean and dry fabric, wood, or glass surfaces.
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Many traditional household cleaning solutions contain toxic and potentially hazardous ingredients.
These ingredients can cause respiratory irritation and may increase indoor pollution leading to some serious health issues.
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CleanOne, Inc. uses only non-toxic or plant based cleaning solutions and offers revolutionary steam cleaning. Steam cleaning loosens the dirt and kills the dust mites, viruses, mold and other allergens and harmful bacteria that live in your home, and leaves surfaces sparkling clean. Steam cleaning can be used on most hard surfaces such as counter tops, glass, bathroom fixtures, stainless steel surfaces, and floors made of vinyl, laminate, wood or tile. It even disinfects upholstery and curtains.
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text: KINGSTON TINSLEY TROUSERS FROM THE BANANA MOON CITY LINE. The blackKINGSTON TINSLEY trousers are one of the stand-out pieces from the Winter 2016 collection. They go with everything and, while being a wardrobe basic, they are a cut above the rest! Made with very comfortable crepe fabric, they feel delicate when worn. The lining is silky and the quality of the fabric is excellent, with the way it flows whenmove in them making these trousers a clear favourite! They feature front pleats that fall from the two pockets, giving a relief effect, just like carrot trousers. The curved raglan pocketscontribute to theelegance of these lovely trousers.A thick black satin crepe drawstringensures that the trousers fit perfectly at the waist while adding an attractive detail to the piece.There is also a pocket at the back to the right, adding a finishing touch to these classic trousers. The KINGSTIN TINSLEY trousers can be worn rolled-up with a ROBBEN BERLINA top and high-top STONEY SNEAKERS. Our model is 1.75m tall and is wearing a size 38.


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text: Having tried and tested Twitter a couple of years ago I am almost becoming the anti-twitter spokesperson with the amount of dribble being circulated on it of late from the corporate world and wannabe celebrities. But I am not naive to the potential and actual success people have had from using it regularly to create and strengthen their profile and social networks. ie: Barack Obama. I also accept it is a great classroom tool specifically in the secondary school area and I came across this article from bestcollegesonline.com that lists the top 100 twitter tools for teachers some of you may find this useful.


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What Devices Can You Use With ASICS Studio?
Right now the app can only be downloaded and used on iPhone devices. We're planning on introducing the app to Android devices in the near future so if you're using an Android device please hang in there! Our app is coming to you soon.
Do you have a particular device you use that you'd love to see integrated with ASICS Studio? Let us know! Please use the link below to contact our team and share your ideas.


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We have an exciting artist lineup this year. It will consist of a mixture of live music and a celebrity DJ Battle! More details to come.
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The Martin Luther King Dare to Dream Association, Inc. has been serving the community for years in collaboration with Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority (TDIA), Cumulus Broadcasting, and The City of Tallahassee. We have had the honor of watching a vision become reality that we are more invigorated by each year. As we continue to give our community the opportunity to “Dare to Dream”, we invite you to participate as a vendor, sponsor, or festival participant and join us as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King while inspiring the community to pursue their personal dreams and goals through the MLK Dare to Dream Festival. This year our theme is MLK Dare to Dream…The Next Generation. We are focusing on the next generation that is poised to make a positive difference in our society.
Monday, January 21, 2019 – from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Cascades Park, Tallahassee, Florida.
The festival will allow the community to gather in fellowship to continue the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a way to celebrate his dream and inspire others to pursue their own dreams. There will be a Live soundstage, musical performances by various artists, and new this year a Celebrity DJ Battle. The festival will also feature an MLK Birthday Bash for kids, food, vendors, community service project, and a historical exhibit. It will be hosted by none other than Comedian Tight Mike.


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Neither Update 1 or Update 2 are listed/available on Autodesk website.
The Application Manager better not be the only way to get this information and downloads. If it is, this is a problem for Enterprise companies that manage installs and updates who don't want to use Application Manager.
The Update Releases are available as direct downloads. Per Autodesk QA, they *should* be showing up on the website shortly. But there are direct download links to them.
Thanks Aaron. I think if you got the filename, and then add http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/2015/RVT/ to the start of it, you would possibly have a direct link. Works for Update 2.


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Abstract. This paper investigates a class of impulsive partial neutral functional integrodifferential evolution inclusions with infinite delay in Banach spaces. The existence of mild solutions of these inclusions is determined under the mixed Lipschitz and Caratheodory conditions by using another nonlinear alternative of Leray-Schauder type for multivalued maps due to D. O'Regan. At the end, one example is presented.
DOI: 10.12732/ijpam.v85i5.12 How to cite this paper?

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text: The BEARDS OF COMEDY Tour is quickly becoming one of the hottest shows in the U.S, with four of the funniest, freshest (and yes, bearded) faces in comedy. Not your typical ‘southern’ comedians, the “Beards” deliver an original brand of humor that’s deeply rooted in stand-up, and lightly blended with avant-garde elements of music, sketch, and improv. The Beards are comprised of; Andy Sandford (voted “Best Atlanta Comedian” by Creative Loafing, CMT’s “Next Big Comic” Top 12 Finalist), Joe Zimmerman (nominated by Rooftop Comedy for the Golden Shingle Award – given to the most outstanding rising star in comedy), TJ Young (winner of multiple festival awards, Comedy Death Ray), and Dave Stone (Rooftopcomedy.com’s 2010 “Silver Nail Award” winner, voice actor for “Squidbillies”). Contrary to popular assumption, The Beards of Comedy Tour is not a comedy tour focused on facial hair humor. The name is more a parody of a “hook,” or label. It means nothing in itself to have a beard, but four coincidentally bearded comedians offering their own refreshing twist on the traditional stand up comedy show; that’s something worth labeling. It’s labeled The Beards of Comedy Tour, and their work has not gone unnoticed, selling out shows in numerous national markets. In July of 2009, The Beards recorded their debut album, “Comedy for People” for Rooftop Comedy Records. They are often featured on the nationally syndicated radio show “The Regular Guys” and can be heard in regular rotation on Sirius XM Radio. Individually, the Beards have worked with…Aziz Ansari, Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, Doug Benson, Greg Giraldo, Todd Glass, Andy Kindler, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Marc Maron, Greg Proops, and many more. One thing is for certain: The Beards of Comedy Tour is a fiercely follicled foursome of hilarity to be reckoned with…with laughter, not violence.


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Welcome. My name is Bianca Young and I am honoured your journey has led you here.
The path I have walked has been multi coloured. An incredibly challenging journey to land me in this moment and I wouldn’t change a single thing. It has become clear to me that all of us are on the greatest journey - to know ourselves deeply and to feel at home in the skin we are in.
We grow constantly, and can move closer to this with every challenge and experience we face. Through a lifetime of self discovery, I bring a wealth of hands on life experience to my work.
Leading with love, patience and understanding, I motivate an authentic self love in others, always with open arms and a hand to hold through the journey of unexplored terrain.
An individuals journey of self discovery, belonging and deep self love are my deepest passions. It is my humble honour to aid this journey in somebody’s life. Once you accept who you are, you become undeniable to yourself and those that you meet.
For those seeking facts - my background spans more than 20 years in Early Childhood Education, Social Work and Leadership. It has been an extraordinarily rewarding path.
Today I work in the Mental Health Sector as a respected Support Worker and leader within my community.
I feel extremely fortunate to be a valuable part of the psychological and educational development of both adults and young people in my community, whilst also supporting the social, emotional and energetic journey of my peers.
The past 18 years supporting, mentoring and volunteering with teens, adults and community has been a transformational experience.
Guiding these people to envision and execute their goals, cultivate self love and acceptance in an explorative environment has been a privilege.
This includes my current work with The Smith Family as a Teen Mentor and Queensland Support Ambassador for the Australian Alopecia Foundation. I am so deeply grateful to contribute to humanity in such a rewarding way- sharing what I have learnt and experienced to help others.
All of this work led me to deepen the energetic journey we are also taking in this life (on purpose or not)! My personal experience was nothing short of dark, challenging and painful. Yet equally ecstatic, rewarding and enriching.
I have explored many modalities and teachings in my 43 years.
The one all encompassing truth I learned was how we place more importance on the mind over the body in our culture.
It has become undeniably clear to me through my own experiences and overcoming that the body is where we hold our trapped unfelt emotion and trauma - in a physical form. There isn’t a single experience that we have as human beings that doesn’t touch the body and mind equally, yet we rarely explore our body for emotional or mental healing.
It is when we combine both movement and mindset that we can DEEPLY transform our lives. With an authentic foundation of self love and self acceptance everything grows. With this support and acceptance of community there comes a deep sense of belonging.
Through movement and dance we can shift the inner most beliefs and patterns within us.
My teacher training and dance study has been with the founder of Kundalini Alchemical Dance, Leyolah Antara. I am honoured to offer this powerful practise of medicine movement to adults and children in Brisbane and surrounds.
This work has had a life altering impact on me and I am excited for this practice to inspire as many lives as it can. It is such a fun, self expressive and deep journey!


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Most people who follow my work know my stance on barefoot and minimalist training. If you don’t know me or my work, know that I’m a huge advocate. Today, I want to get a bit more into the science side of what happens when our heel strikes the ground during gait. We’re going to talk about forces, and more specifically, impact forces - how important they are and how crucial it is that we are prepared to handle them.
Because this is a topic I could talk about for days, I’m going to break it down into two parts so I don’t get going on an epic journey and lose you halfway through. So, for now, grab a coffee and enjoy part one of Impact Forces, Shoes, and Lower Leg Injuries. And don’t worry - part two will go into specific injuries and what you can do about them.
Put simply, impact forces refers to the force that is absorbed from striking the ground. To put it in context, when you walk and strike the ground, you are creating an impact force of one to 1.5 times your body weight. Running increases this to three to four times body weight, doing anything ballistic up to ten times, and tumbling in gymnastics can create impact forces up to eighteen times your body weight, all of which are happening very quickly.
You can see from these numbers that to perform these activities we must be able to withstand a huge amount of force going through our body over a short period of time and on a continuous basis. When we are completely dissociated from the ground and/or when we are not in control of how these impact forces are absorbed by our body, impact injuries of the lower leg occur.
"You need impact. It gives you energy to move. In fact, without impact you would have to work a whole lot harder."
Did you know some people get stress fractures simply from walking to work? They are so deconditioned and so dissociated from the ground that they can’t even handle the impact forces of walking. And this is not abnormal. This is becoming common. In fact, as a physical therapist I see this as well as a number of similar injuries that are entirely preventable, like shin splints, Achilles tendonitis, and plantar fasciitis.
When it comes to the lower leg, what is imperative for injury prevention is that you can anticipate the ground and therefore anticipate the impact forces so you can store and use them as elastic energy with minimal loss. The problem is that most people simply react to these forces. You’ll see later why this is a problem.
A lot of people believe they need to minimize impact in order to prevent injury. Add some cushion to your shoes, and that will take away the impact and prevent injury, right? This is actually flawed thinking. You need impact. It gives you energy to move. In fact, without impact you would have to work a whole lot harder. When your body perceives impact, it damps (receives) the impact in such a way that it stores it as potential energy to be used later. This means your body has to work less due to all this energy, which essentially cost you nothing.
So, know that impact isn’t a bad thing. It is an inevitable and useful thing. You just need to be ready for it.
You perceive the forces through vibration (impact forces are vibration). You detect this through the many small proprioceptive nerves on the skin on the sole of your foot (something to think about for later: shoes get in the way of this).
You damp (receive) the vibrations. Many people believe this is done through eccentric muscle contraction, but the truth is that from the knee down (where most impact injuries occur) this happens through isometric contractions. Now, in order to make clear how this happens, I need to back up a bit and explain some anatomy and physiology.
In our lower limbs, our muscles are housed in a compartment that is created by the thick fascia that surrounds them. When muscles isometrically contract, this creates pressure that causes the pressure of the entire compartment to increase. We want this. This creates stiffness in the muscles, and turns the compartment into a sort of splint.
"To successfully deal with impact forces, you must anticipate them - not simply react to them."
This “splint” accomplishes two things. It makes it so the vibrations cannot go through and provides support to the bone. Both of these things are crucial, because without the body’s ability to do this the vibrations would be transferred from the soft tissue that are meant to anticipate them into our bone, and we most definitely do not want that. If this happens and if the bone is inadequately splinted, it will bend slightly and this is what leads to injuries such as shin splints.
To successfully deal with impact forces, you must anticipate them - not simply react to them. To efficiently dampen vibration, you utilize your fast twitch muscle fibers. The challenge is that impact forces peak at under 50ms after first contact, while fast twitch muscle fibres don’t peak until 70ms. This is why you must anticipate, not react, so you have enough time to efficiently and effectively damp the vibrations.
Once damped, the impact forces are then stored as potential energy in your connective tissue, in the contractile units of your fascia. The potential energy is used as elastic energy. For this to be efficient, you need to be stiff before heel strike (remember what we talked about regarding compartment pressure). If muscle contraction is not happening in time, stiffness will be low and energy will be leaked.
Going back to shin splints, consider that they often happen when a runner is fatigued. That is because when fatigued the muscles aren’t contracting fast enough or high enough causing low stiffness and compartment pressure that isn’t peaking in time to deal with the impact forces of running.
To understand how this potential energy is then used to your advantage, think about walking. Once you hit your mid-stance, your Achilles and plantar fascia are stretched like rubber bands, and then they recoil. This recoil is when we convert potential energy to energy we can use. The recoil releases stored energy that adds force to your muscles that doesn’t require much work from you.
How Does Footwear Fit In?
Remember how I talked about the importance of creating pressure within the compartment to keep vibrations from moving on or from going in to the bones? Well, you actually have four compartments in your lower leg and nine in your foot.
If you wear shoes or orthotics what happens is this - the muscles in your feet get weak, lazy, and atrophy. This means your shoe damn well better be taking in and damping the vibrations for you because your body no longer has any idea how to do it. And if your shoes aren’t doing this, then look out because you’re an injury waiting to happen.
"If you wear shoes or orthotics what happens is this - the muscles in your feet get weak, lazy, and atrophy."
Now, it would be inconceivable to expect people to never wear shoes, but you absolutely need to do some barefoot training. This will help to not only strengthen your feet, but to also train them to build compartment pressure.
I mentioned that I could talk for days on this, so I will leave you with this: letting the muscles of your feet get weak, atrophied, and lazy will lead to a lower limb injury. I can guarantee it. Weak, lazy feet mean you cannot properly perceive, damp, or store vibration, nor can you then use that potential energy. This can lead to lower limb injuries including shin splints, Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, and stress fractures.
In part two, I will break down each of the injuries mentioned above and help you develop a plan to prevent them from happening.
1. Dr. Emily Splichal. The Art of Movement Efficiency. Perform Better Functional Training Summit. Perform Better. Providence, Rhode Island, US. July 19, 2015.


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We've collected our best resources on LTO-5 tape backup to help you stay up to date on this new technology.
Data storage analysts and pundits have been predicting the demise of backup tape storage for years. But even though the use backup tape storage is declining, according to Storage magazine's Purchasing Intensions survey last spring, 19% of respondents said they still plan to increase their use of tape. Recent advancements in the latest addition of the LTO tape format, LTO-5 may breathe new life into this so-called dying technology. LTO-5 tape cartridges have twice the capacity of LTO-4 tape, holding 1.5 TB native and 3 TB compressed data. The data transfer rate increases from 120 MBps to 140 MBps native, and 240 MBps to 280 MBps compressed.
To help you stay up to date on the latest news and information on LTO-5 tape drives and tape storage, we've collected our top five tips on LTO-5. Learn whether or not LTO-5 is right for your business, LTO-5 tape specifications and pricing, and what users are saying about the switch to LTO-5.
Is the enterprise data storage market ready and does anyone really need the kind of capability offered in LTO-5? William R. Qualls, director of magnetic tape at Imation Corp., says yes. In his view, higher capacity gives organizations a chance to keep the same physical footprint while keeping up with the doubling of data that happens every two years, on average. However, other users and analysts are more cautious. Learn about LTO-5 tape technology and whether or not it is a good choice for your businesses in this article.
Quantum Corp. recently announced general availability of LTO-5 tape autoloaders, drives and media, and launched an early customer adoption program of LTO-5 for its Scalar tape libraries. In addition, Overland Storage rolled out an E Series of its NEO tape libraries with LTO-5. LTO-5 has backwards compatible read-and-write capabilities with LTO-4 to make for smooth upgrades. However, LTO-5 only has read capabilities with LTO-3, which could make it a bit trickier to upgrade from older tape systems. In this article, read about Quantum and Overland's LTO-5 tape backup products and read about other LTO-5 tape announcements in these data backup news briefs.
W. Curtis Preston, TechTarget executive editor and independent backup expert, outlines how LTO tape differs from other tape media, discusses the various generations of LTO tape, and the pros and cons of LTO-5 in this guide. Learn the differences between LTO-5 and LTO-4, and how LTO tape continues to evolve with LTO-5 in this LTO FAQ guide.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. recently launched its first set of LTO-5 tape products, bringing out LTO-5 tape libraries, drives and cartridges, as well as TapeAssure, a new free software utility that proactively monitors the health and performance of tape devices. The LTO-5 tape cartridges cost $168.50 for a rewriteable cartridge and $185 for a WORM version. New drives are list priced at $3,559, while a kit to upgrade an existing MSL to LTO-5 is list priced at $12,000. In addition, new MSL 2024 LTO-5 tape libraries start at $9,000. HP's EML and ESL enterprise tape silos and low-end autoloaders will add LTO-5 support around midyear. Learn everything about HP's LTO-5 tape products in this article.
W. Curtis Preston gives you the skinny on tape backup in this tutorial. What role should tape play in your backup plan? How do you choose the right tape library for your enterprise? And how do you take care of magnetic media and backup tapes? Get the answers to all of your tape storage questions in this tutorial on tape backup and recovery.
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“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation aboundeth by Christ.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
Many people are under pressure right now. Maybe you are under pressure and in trouble. You may be wondering if there is a way out.
Now, some people say we are not supposed to even talk about trouble. In this verse, however, the apostle Paul sure did.
Thank God for a man who is not ashamed or afraid to admit he is in trouble. In handling trouble, I have found the first step out of it is to acknowledge it.
Paul said, “For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life” (2 Corinthians 1:8).
As you can see, trouble does come. It also came to Jesus. It came to the disciples as well. It comes to me and it comes to you. However, there is a way out of your trouble. There is a way out of your despair. There is a way out of your distress. You are a child of God, and God never intended for any of His children to be overcome by the devil.
You are an overcomer. Don’t ever forget that.
Paul went on to say, “But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead” (2 Corinthians 1:9). Look where Paul’s faith was. Thank God we know the One who even raises the dead.
Even death itself has no dominion over us as believers. Eternal life beats in your breast. So, if you are in conflict and in big trouble, you know what the end is going to be.
You may ask, “What if I die?” There is no death because to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. It is just that quick — one moment we are here on earth, and the next we are with Him. So why should I be fearful? Why should I be afraid? Why should I be distressed? It is because “greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
Think about that, beloved. God has a miracle for you. You don’t have to stay in the mess you are in. There is a way out.
The Bible says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of them all” (Psalm 34:19). This is talking about us!


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In the Pandava camp, Yudhishthira, a reluctant warrior, tries desperately to hold his allies together and escape capture without appearing to be a coward. Meanwhile, his young and impulsive nephew, Abhimanyu, a warrior prince, dreams of glory and yearns for a chance to save the Pandava cause. The lives of these three warriors, Yudhisthira, Radheya and Abhimanyu, collide brutally on the thirteenth day. A story of how stories are created, how fact becomes fiction, how history becomes mythology and how men become legends, The Thirteenth Day re-imagines India's greatest epic like never before.
Aditya Iyengar graduated from St. Xaviers’ College with a BMM degree. Later, he perused masters in English Literature. Currently, he is a Marketing Executive in a TV Channel and lives in Mumbai. Prior to that worked with an advertising company as a writer and won a number of awards for creativity.
The Thirteenth Day is the tale of the Great War between the cousins – Pandavas and Kauravas. The title announces what can be expected out of the book. The blurb is crisp and describes the story, arousing the reader’s interest. The cover page gives a sneak peek into the battle field and how it would have been.
Mahabharatha is one of the longest and greatest epics. It illustrates what is good and what is bad. It emphasizes that only satya and dharma would win. Generally, Indians grow up listening to these stories. Lord Krishna’s naughtiness as well as shrewdness and Abhimanyu’s courage are always awe-inspiring. Where Suyodhana also referred as Dhuryodhana follows the wrong path along with his uncle Shakuni and a hundred brothers, his cousin Yudhishtir with his 4 brothers follow the path of righteousness.
I am sure that we all know Mahabharatha in bits and pieces. Further, in recent times, it has been retold several times, from different viewpoints. This book retells only the war days, after the fall of Grandsire Bhishma.
The narrative is lucid and simple words and used to tell the story. The dilemma of the Pandavas, the helplessness of Radheya (Karna) and the never ending greed of Suyodhana is well-captured.
However, in a time when market is flooded with books based on/inspired from Mahabharatha or retelling the same from the perspectives of different characters is a trend, this book seems like just-another in the long list of similar book. Having said that, taking the plot as the last three days of war is different, though it offers nothing new.
I appreciate the author for considering the great epic as history rather than a mythology.
In short, this book will surely give a fair idea of how the last three days of war were… It will surely add more perspectives and would let you empathize with each character - they are presented as normal human beings with emotions and not as Demi-God who are capable of everything!

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Contrary Argument to Robert Samuelson’s "Government is not Beholden to the Rich"
In a Washington Post article of November 19 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-lobbyists-for-the-rich-do-not-own-government/2013/11/19/8e47d8f0-513e-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html), Robert Samuelson makes this argument.
To try to prove his point, he simply explains how the federal budget is spent, showing that a majority of our social support spending (a huge part of our budget) goes (one way or another) to provide for the elderly in our nation–individual benefits, health care, veterans benefits, etc.
The information Samuelson uses come from the Congressional Budget Office, and we trust it is accurate.
It is certainly true that Americans resist giving up Medicare and Social Security entitlements, and it is also true that we have to make some adjustments in these to preserve the financial integrity of our federal finances. It is also true that consensual change is difficult in this country–we are legislatively gridlocked.
Have a look at the Piketty and Saez 2004 study “Income Inequality in the US 1913-2002” (http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/piketty-saezOUP04US.pdf) or look at Real World Economics Review Blog’s (http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/25-graphics-showing-upward-redistribution-of-income-and-wealth-in-usa-since-1979/) showing the dramatic increase in the degree of US inequality across the last 3-4 decades.
Piketty and Saez found that the top decile’s share of wage income in the US rose from about 25% in 1957 to about 34% in 2002. Real income of the 99% was about the same in 2002 as it was in 1972, inflation adjusted–i.e., about the same buying power–no improvement. However, the top 1% saw real income double across that period. If all types of transfers are included, real income of the 99% has grown by 40%, but real income of the 1% has grown by 3.3X.
WordPress reports that the top tax rate for millionaires in 1945 was 66%, and in 2010, that rate was 32%. In 2007, the bottom 50% of the US owns 2.5% of total US wealth. The top 50% owns the remainder, with the top 10% owning 71%, and the top 1% owning 35%.
No matter how the government’s social welfare system is configured (Samuelson’s focus), it is irrefutably true that in almost any social breakdown (by income, by skin color, by educational achievement, etc.), the US has markedly worsened in terms of increased inequality since the 1970s.
So, how can one fail to recognize that the income and wealth and power of the country is increasingly with the wealthy and connected?
If we don’t concern ourselves with ways in which to remedy this trend, we are likely to experience great instability in our country in the future. There are practical answers we should galvanize around.


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Imagine there’s a cardboard box in the corner of your house. It’s nothing special and it’s been there for a long time -- so long that you can’t even remember what’s in it.
Let's leave the box there for the moment and let me ask you a question.
How easy is it for you, me, or any human being to be deceived? Have you ever been misled or deceived by someone and felt really hurt they may have misled you?
When we think about our relationships in the Church there’s a high level of trust because we have high expectations of each other, don’t we? I expect I can take you at your word and you expect you can take me at my word. If anyone was to in any way abuse that we’d be very disappointed.
So, how easy is it for us to be deceived?
There are lessons we need to draw from the Days of Unleavened Bread that might help us understand the cardboard box and the matter of being deceived.
I’d like to begin in Exodus 12 which are the instructions Moses, under inspiration and the direct command from God, gave to the nation of Israel as they were about to prepare to leave Egypt.
Exodus 12:14-20 So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
If a person ate leavened bread during the Days of Unleavened Bread, the penalty was to be cut off from the nation of Israel – a very serious penalty indeed!
16 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat - that only may be prepared by you. 17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native in the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.
6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.
We take that instruction seriously and diligently rid our homes of leavening before the Days of Unleavened Bread. Leaven is a symbol of sin and the parallel for us is that if we’re not diligent in removing the spiritual leaven we may be cut off from the Kingdom of God.
At the end of these days it’s fine to eat leavening, but the lessons we have learned have to remain. It is so easy for us to think “The days of unleavened bread have finished for this year; we’ll just move on”.
Much like Israel was given the unleavened manna wandering through the wilderness, we too are to eat of the unleavened bread of Jesus Christ. Every day through the wanderings in this spiritual wilderness we have to have a commitment to remove spiritual leavening.
Do you and I recognise the leaven in our lives? We might look back over the past twelve months and be disappointed with ourselves. If we’re honest and humble before God, we realise just how much we haven’t done and just how carnal we still are. The more we are committed to God’s way of life the more we see ourselves. How diligent are we in seeking to remove the very subtle elements of our nature that lead us to sin?
James talks about the lusts that reside in our hearts, which is where sin comes from.
How about the following, do we recognise any of this kind of leaven?
Luke 12:1 In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, Christ began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy”.
Christ describes the hypocrisy of the Scribes and the Pharisees as leaven.
He’s not talking about those who are followers of Christ, who have committed their life in a covenant relationship, through baptism to God, and had their sins forgiven. They’re now in a special relationship with God through His Spirit dwelling within them. They’re called saints and the elect and are precious to God. When they sin and fall short they go before God and seek repentance.
That’s a whole different mindset to what He’s talking about here.
However, in using this example, there’s a danger I want to bring to our attention. The hypocrites, in the context of what Christ is referring to here, didn’t set out to be hypocrites. Typically hypocrites don’t recognise their hypocrisy and, as a result, are deceived.
They have a box (or many boxes) in the corner of their house that should have been removed years ago. They put a nice cloth over it, and become so comfortable with it they rest their feet on it. It has become part of who they are. It defines them.
The Scribes and Pharisees believed they were righteous. It wasn’t a charade. They actually thought they were the standard.
Luke 18:9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others.
Could this ever become us? Is there anybody within the body of Christ whom you or I have despised? Maybe that’s a strong word to use: disliked, not wanted to be in the same room as, may be better.
The Scribes and the Pharisees believed they had a special calling -- that they were the standard by which others should be measured.
How easy could it be for us to start thinking the same thing, to come to a similar mindset? And this mindset, as Christ clearly shows in this parable, results in other attitudes and actions that compound the leaven of hypocrisy. The result is harsh judgement, condemnation and despising others. Have you ever done that? I have.
Hypocrites don’t believe they’re hypocrites. We look back at the times when we may have harshly treated somebody, harshly judged somebody and can feel justified in what we do We may call it righteous indignation.
You may have heard me say previously that as far as the human experience is concerned I don’t believe there is any such thing as “righteous indignation”. I don’t believe any indignation we have is righteously motivated, because we are still human, and have other attitudes and mindsets that drive why we do what we do. These attitudes tend to be more carnal than godly.
You know, hypocrites don’t believe they’re hypocrites. They staunchly defend their righteousness, which is what the Scribes and Pharisees did. Their cardboard box has become a part of the furniture and is no longer recognisable for what it is.
The Pharisee and the tax collector both had a relationship with God. They both were involved in going to the temple.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men - extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
Have you ever looked around the Church and thought, I’m glad I am not like so and so. They’ve been in the Church all these years and they still haven’t got it together.
What’s the lesson? Simply put, before God it’s better to be like the tax collector. It’s time to acknowledge the box, or the boxes. It’s pretty safe to say we all have at least one box in the house, that doesn’t belong.
Additionally the leaders of the Jews, the Scribes and the Pharisees, believed they had the authority to supersede Scripture. They imposed the traditions of the elders in the place of Scripture. That’s why Jesus not only warned the apostles about the leaven of hypocrisy, but also the doctrine of the Scribes and Pharisees, because if you think about it, one follows the other.
Matthew 16:5-12 Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have taken no bread.” 8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? 11 How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? 12 Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
I believe we understand that at least through the inter-testamental period prior till the coming of Christ, the people of Judah did not want to go back into captivity and slavery again, and so they tried to make sure the law would never be broken. Through the process of time, and certainly by the time Christ came, they had established the traditions and oral teachings of the elders, as more important, and possibly more valid than the law of God and, as such, made the law of God irrelevant.
I think there are parallels in our time.
Let’s go to Matthew 23. This is a chapter where Christ really strongly chastises and corrects the Scribes and the Pharisees.
Matthew 23:13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
Who is the door to the Kingdom of Heaven? It’s Jesus Christ. He said so Himself. What the Scribes and the Pharisees, the experts in the law were doing, caused by the leaven of hypocrisy and false doctrine, was to prevent others from entering the kingdom as well as themselves.
Why? Because they denied Christ. They denied the door. He was standing before them. He was the door, and they rejected Him.
John 8:41-47 You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father - God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.
They had bought into Satan’s lie. The lie hasn’t changed since the time Satan influenced Adam and Eve. The lie that you will not die...that God is withholding something from you. God is not giving you all the information. He is misrepresenting things, or He’s even lying to you.
For the scribes and the Pharisees, their Saviour, who had come from God, was standing before them and they couldn’t recognise Him. They were diligent and earnest yet they were deceived and didn’t know it. They truly were, as Christ says here, of their father the devil. He’s the arch deceiver.
Let’s go back to Matthew 24.
I asked at the beginning is it possible for you or me to be deceived? Notice Christ’s warning here in the Sermon on the Mount.
Matthew 24:3-5 Now as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of this age. 4 And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many”.
Christ’s not talking about false religion. There are all sorts of permutations of preaching a false Christ and some religions don’t preach Christ at all. No, Jesus is directing His sermon to His disciples and to us. He says there will be those who come among you and preach a false Christ seeking to take a following after them. He says Don’t YOU be deceived by that.
Matthew 24:9-12 Then they will deliver YOU up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
Who’s going to be offended? The Bible is speaking of Agape - godly love here. The Godly love of many will grow cold. You and I might think to one degree or another that has already happened, and maybe to a certain degree it has. It happened right down through the ages and will yet happen again. The only way a person can have can have Godly love is if he has God’s Holy Spirit.
The warning is that we not be deceived. How easy is it for you and I to be deceived by those who come preaching a false Christ? But he who endures to the end shall be saved; he who stands fast; he who is diligent in spiritual de-leavening and recognises the boxes he has allowed to stack up.
I mentioned to someone in Tasmania last week, How is the box coming? and he replied Which one? – which is a very honest thing to say. I think for most of us have multiple issues we know are leaven, and we’ve not been anywhere near as diligent as we need to be to get rid of them.
He who endures, he who is standing at the end, he who is characterised by an unleavened life-- not characterised by hypocrisy, but characterised by an unleavened life, will be saved.
Matthew 24:23-24 Then if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Christ or There! Do not believe it. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
I don’t believe this is talking about the deception which the false prophet and the beast are going to foist upon the world mentioned in the Book of Revelation. The language there is very specific, and talks about deceiving the world.
We need to be very careful about the language we use, and how we present what we’re doing. We know the account of Paul and Peter and others talks about false apostles and false preachers leading people away.
What can happen if we don’t get the leaven out? Christ is referring to false teachers who preach a false Christ - that is, false doctrine. He is referring to members who will betray members and to losing your first love. These are all effects of spiritual leaven and can happen when you begin to consider yourself more righteous than others. Or worse, more righteous than God. They have to improve the law; they have to add things to the law, which in some cases is nothing more than tradition. That actually happens today.
I said before that the example of Jesus Christ is what we go back to -- how He related to others, what He taught us to do. That’s the standard.
The most insidious form of deception is self-deception, thinking ourselves to be righteous. Are we capable of being deceived in this way? We need to consider how we might have allowed this particular piece of furniture to take up residence and how to get rid of it.
Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.
There’s a regression here that begins with pride – I use the word “regression” deliberately. It begins with pride which then leads to the subsequent attitudes or actions. Pride will mask the other sins and we begin to rationalise and justify them. The scribes and Pharisees in the time of Christ did all these things. They were literally of their father the devil.
He rose against the throne of God. We too can allow pride to be the catalyst for the leaven of hypocrisy to be established so that before we know it, it’s a part of the furniture, and we don’t see it.
Lucifer’s heart was lifted up within him. Pride drove him to do what he did. He lied. When you think about angels who came in and out before the throne of God for eons, Lucifer was able to deceive them, to the point that a third followed him. He lied to the angels to influence them.
He led a violent attack on God’s throne and, in that sense, sought to shed innocent blood. He’s devised wicked plans to undermine the plan of God ever since. That’s why he was in the Garden of Eden. That’s why he came to try to tempt Christ. Lucifer, or Satan as he became, was always was quick to do evil.
Hypocrisy always begins with pride. We may preach the standard of Christ and the law of God, but if we’re not careful we may not be actually living it. We think we’re sincere and genuine, but we’re deceived, and this is so insidious and subtle. That’s why pride is so dangerous - we get to the point where we just don’t see it in ourselves and the leaven becomes a part of the furniture.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed for the day of redemption.
That Holy Spirit, that guarantee of salvation granted to us, by God himself, seals us. God is faithful. He will redeem us into his family at Christ’s return, if we don’t grieve the Holy Spirit.
31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
This is just leaven by another name, and by extension it’s hypocrisy to have these attitudes because it’s contrary to the mind of Christ. It has to be cast out.
I’ve been better as a result of things that have happened to me. I could give you names, places and sometimes dates. But the very fact I remember it is a problem, because the only reason I do is because of the bitterness that developed.
What about you? Do you remember dates, places, and names, exactly what was said? What about evil speaking and malice? It’s leaven. Are we still trying to justify why we have a cardboard box in the corner of our house that shouldn’t be there?
Two weeks ago we looked at that word “commendable” in the New King James. The Greek word translated commendable there is translated at least 122 times in the New Testament as ‘grace’.
If we suffer wrongfully it’s an act of grace similar to, but by no means of the same enormity as, the act of grace Jesus Christ performed for us.
“If because of conscience towards God” means because of mindfulness towards God. It’s because of our awareness of the enormity God’s love for us -- that He sent His son to die for our sins -- that we are willing to follow His example.
1 Peter 2:20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.
We struggle with that. Even when we are caught doing something we shouldn’t be doing we still try to justify ourselves as to why it’s okay.
1 Peter 2:21-24 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: 22 Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth.
Which one of us can say that?
23 who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously, 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.
The sins of bitterness, resentment, anger, loud quarrelling -- whatever we have committed -- Christ bore the penalty for those sins in His body, on the tree. Then we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness.
Do we understand this mindset? This is the standard. There’s no way you or I can justify that cardboard box before God or Christ. It’s leaven that has to be put out.
The Days of Unleavened Bread should remind us every year how important it is to deleaven our lives. For to this we were called. That was the covenant agreement we made with God through and by Jesus Christ at our baptism.
Let’s go to Matthew 5:3-10 Here is the antidote, if I can use that term, to Proverbs 16 and it always begin with humility.
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called the sons of God. 10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
These attitudes are the antidote to hypocrisy and self-deception. It always begins with humility; someone with a broken and contrite spirit before God. There’s only one place we get that, and that’s the core conviction of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. We need to understand His mind and that He willingly did this for us.
Therefore, the place to start is where the tax collector was. You and I are all tax collectors before God. There’s not one of us here today who’s any different than anybody else. This is a level playing field. Not one of us has a right to stand up and say “I am better than so and so”. The tax collector wasn’t concerned about the Pharisee, or what the Pharisee said, because he knew the Pharisee wasn’t the standard.
I want you to imagine eternity. Start by going backwards from here.
Think about the time of Christ and what it was like for Christ on earth – what He experienced and the culture of the day.
Now go back further to the time of Israel coming out of Egypt - the incredible miracles and the power of God being revealed.
When we go even further back we come to the time of Noah when the thoughts and intents of man’s heart were only evil continually and God destroyed all of humanity except for Noah and his family.
Then think about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. What was it like before Satan entered? What was it like to walk with God in the Garden of Eden?
Now let’s go back to John 1:1. Can you imagine what it was like when there was only God, the Father, and the Word, before there was a creation, before anything? We can’t really wrap our minds around the concept of eternity, because we just don’t understand it. It doesn’t matter how far we go back in time, there is God. He’s always there.
Now I want you to cast your mind forward.
Let’s contemplate the return of Jesus Christ. We have all sorts of understandings, at least in general terms, of what has to happen before Jesus Christ returns. Imagine Him returning in great power and glory to establish His kingdom and authority on this earth.
Then think about the Millennium and the prophecies and the insights we have as to what it will be like. An incredible change will take place on this earth. God’s law will come from Jerusalem and there will be a healing of the nations.
Go further forward and we come to the Great White Throne Judgment. Think about billions of people being resurrected, standing before Christ and being offered the life-giving waters of His Holy Spirit to open their minds. They will receive the precious gift of salvation.
New Jerusalem will then descend to earth and God, the Father, will dwell with men.
We know there’s even a glorious future beyond that and there’s always God.
Now think about your life. You have a definite beginning and, unless Christ returns soon, you’ll have a definite end of your physical life. Threescore and ten is the biblical time-frame given for our lives. Compared to eternity, it’s so insignificant. Compared to God’s glory, to His majesty and power it’s nothing. Our life is not even a blimp on the radar of eternity.
Compared to Jesus Christ and Him crucified we’re nothing. Is that how we see ourselves?
I have been crucified with Christ - the old man has been put to death.
Paul says in Colossians 3:3: For you died: The old man is dead.
You and I have been crucified with Christ.
This is the fulfilment of the Wave Sheaf Offering. It symbolises the resurrected Christ ascending to Heaven during the days of Unleavened Bread and presenting Himself as a perfect sacrifice before the Father on our behalf, so that we might have reconciliation and the remission of sins.
That resurrected Christ, the true Bread from Heaven of John 6, now lives His life in us. But I’m still a human being. l have limitations. I may not be characterised by hypocrisy. I hope I’m not, but I still live in the flesh subject to various lusts, attitudes and mindsets that don’t belong.
I’m living now “by the faith of the Son of God”, as that verse could more correctly be rendered. It’s not our faith in God, it’s the faithfulness of Christ living in us. Accepting Jesus as our Saviour should convict us to our core of who we all are. We’re all tax collectors.
Not only is it by Jesus that our sins are forgiven, but it’s only by Jesus Christ living in us that the leaven can be recognised and sin put out. Accepting Jesus as our Saviour convicts us that He’s the standard. But if the box remains, then our pride will deceive us into thinking that we’ve attained that standard already.
It’s time to acknowledge the box in the corner. And that requires humility. Humility is only genuine, sincere, and authentic when we contrast ourselves with God. Who we are in comparison to others is irrelevant. And yet we still compare ourselves among ourselves, making ourselves feel better about who we are: Because I didn’t do what that person did, I am not as bad as that person. Yes, we’re very quick to acknowledge our own sinfulness, but I am not as bad as so-and-so, who did thus and such to me. I never did that.
So we continue to slander, to ridicule, put down, demean, be filled with bitterness and anger; and we get more and more comfortable with the piece of furniture that’s wholly incompatible with the rest of the decor. It’s time to acknowledge the box in the corner. What is it we’ve let sit there year after year, after year? We’re so used to it being there we’re not even aware of its presence, and yet it imposes itself on us. It’s so much a part of us that we don’t recognise it any more.
It’s time to lift the cloth off and take a very close look at it, because somewhere, you will find hypocrisy. It might manifest itself as bitterness, resentment, gossip, ridicule, loud quarrelling, hatred, dissentions, false doctrine, man-made traditions, or whatever. There are many ways of spelling hypocrisy. However yours or mine is spelt, it is time to toss the box out.


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Winston Churchill? Copywriter for Budweiser Beer? George F. Tilton? Sam Rayburn? Joe Paterno? John Wooden? Mike Ditka? Anonymous?
I have never seen a source for this saying, and I suspect Churchill never said it. What do you think?
These quotations are all over the Internet, none of them attributed, and just seem to multiply and get passed on, like the common cold.
QI hypothesizes that the saying above evolved from simpler partial statements during a multi-year process. A version closely matching the full expression appeared in the 1930s in an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer, a product of the Anheuser-Busch company. Based on current evidence, a copywriter for Budweiser probably synthesized the saying. Details are given further below.