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Today, internet marketing research company comScore released a white paper detailing which Facebook features receive the most usage and where users interact with branded content. The report shows that 27% of Facebook browsing is on the news feed and home page — 4% of all time spent online in the US. 21% of time was spent on profiles, 17% on Photos, 10% on applications, and 25% on the rest of the site. Most engagement with branded content happens on the news feed, not Pages, yet the average brand in the top 100 Facebook Pages reaches only 16% of their fans per week if they post five days a week.
These stats should illuminate that brands should put more effort into optimizing their news feed posts than developing apps for their Pages if they want to reach the most people. The report is based on a two million person opt-in panel of web internet users that agreed to be monitored, so the sample size is ample though it might skew towards savvier, less skittish users.
Facebook’s Photos feature is often considered a core driver of time spent on Facebook. ComScore’s stats showing more usage of the news feed than Photos don’t necessarily disprove this, as time spent reading news feed stories and notifications generated by photo uploads and tags are counted towards the news feed’s time. Facebook has yet to develop other features as popular as the news feed or Photos.
Some might expect that applications and games would take up more than 10% of user time. In September 2010, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said over 200 million people, or roughly 40% of users were playing games on Facebook when the service had 500 million users, and that stat might still hold true. A few months prior, Playdom CEO cited undisclosed personal sources saying 40% of all time on Facebook was spent on games — a much higher percentage than comScore’s figures. These new stats should serve as a reality check that brands shouldn’t be too focused on building tab applications or marketing within social games.
ComScore’s data supports a similar conclusion as findings by Facebook Page analytics tool provider PageLever, which showed that the average Facebook Page receives an average of just 7.49 news feed post impressions and only 3.19 unique Page views per day per 100 fans. Essentially, each post a Page publishes only reaches a small fraction of its total fans via the news feed, and an even smaller portion of its fans visit the Page itself.
Pages that want to increase the percentage of their fans which they reach with news feed posts should make sure to post every day. A study of the top 100 Pages showed that for each additional day per week that a Page posts, it reaches 2.5% more of its fan base. Those that post every day can reach as much of 22% of their fan base each week.
A study of three popular brands on Facebook, Starbucks, Bing, and Southwest Airlines, showed that they saw 40 to 151 times more impressions in the news feed than on their Pages. While this study only had three data points, marketers should take note of the disproportionate amount of exposure that occurs in the news feed. This is partly because re-shares of news feed posts by a Page’s fans help drive news feed exposure.
ComScore’s white paper also stresses that a great deal of potential for exposure lies in the friends of a brand’s current fans. If Pages can post content compelling enough that fans are willing to re-share it, they can reach a huge new audience. This is because Facebook has said for years that the average user has 130 friends, though we’ve heard that could be closer to 170 now. ComScore’s report shows that the total count of the friends of fans of Facebook’s most popular Pages is on average 31 to 84 times higher than the fan counts of those Pages.
For Page posting strategy tips that can help you leverage your existing fan base and gain new Likes, visit the Facebook Marketing Bible, Inside Network’s complete guide to marketing and advertising through Facebook.


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Welcome, Persia and Stephanie !
Persia Walker and Stephanie Joseph joins the Kowalczyk Group as a summer undergraduate research fellows. Welcome, Persia and Stephanie !
We develop and apply modern methods of mathematical physics to study nanoporous materials, which contain micro- and mesopores. They include carbon nanotubes, activated carbons and activated carbon fibres, zeolites, mesoporous molecular sieves, silicas and other inorganic oxides, etc. Our industry-oriented projects are heavily grounded in fundamentals. A brief summary of the topics of current interest in the group are presented on the Research page.
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The Bayou Bonne Idee Water System is experiencing problems with the water supply system due to low pressure for customers who live on: McGowen Parker, Horseshoe Lake Rd., Kiwi, Albernathy, Martin Luther, Bayou Drive, Crye Rd., Grabault Rd., DRC Lane, Valerie Lane, Lorraine, Viney Wood, & Hwy La. 2.
Because of these problems, the water produced by our water supply system is of questionable microbiological quality.
Therefore, as a precaution, the Bayou Bonne Idee Water System is issuing a boil advisory effective immediately for the areas listed above. This boil advisory is to remain in effect until rescinded by the Bayou Bonne Idee Water System.
Again, if you live at one of the affected areas listed above, please be sure to disinfect your own water prior to consumption until you have been advised otherwise.
Upon notification from the Office of Public Health’s State Regional Laboratory that the samples collected from our water supply have been found to be safe, the State Health Department will notify the water supply of the sample results. Upon such notification, the Bayou Bonne Idee Water System will then rescind the Boil Advisory and notify its customers that the water has been found to be safe.

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If you're looking at the beginning of your retirement ahead, take on these few tasks and decisions to make the following years worry-free and exciting.
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text: Welcome to Trails at San Tan apartments in Gilbert, AZ. We don't just rent apartments. From the moment you walk through the front door you'll feel the comfort that makes our residents happy to call us home. Cutting edge amenities, meticulously-groomed grounds, and a dedicated staff contributes to a higher standard of living. Convenient shopping, schools, local museums and parks are all close at hand, with sponsored activities to develop new hobbies while getting to know your neighbors.

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Ellen Lucas has been running the Carson Nugget Nevada Day Classic for longer than she cares to remember. The Gardnerville runner decided to try something different Saturday and wound up with a new course record.
Lucas, 47, finished as the first woman overall in the Carson City 8-kilometer race and set a course masters women’s record with a time of 32 minutes, 47 seconds. Her time broke the old course standard of 33:19 set by Jackie Taylor in 1999.
Brett Long was the overall winner in a men’s course record of 26:35 and Gregorio Castro edged defending race champion and training partner Agustin Arroy for second-place. Castro ran 27:49 and Arroy 28:17.
Jason Morgan of Bridgeport was fourth in 28:55.
“I tried to go back and look up my time. I went back through three albums and still couldn’t find it,” said Lucas.
Lucas, former Douglas High running star Brooks Hill and Julie Taggart also finished as the first women’s relay team at the Lake Natoma Four Bridges Half Marathon and Three-Person Relay on Sunday.

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Time Is Money -- How Much Is Your Time Worth?
The phrase has become hackneyed with overuse, yet hits the nail on the head when describing a small business owner’s relationship to time. In fact, in a study conducted earlier this year by the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the 592 respondents reported that they valued their time at an average of $170 per hour—making wasted time an expensive proposition for those small businesses.
Entrepreneurs understand the importance of managing time unlike just about anyone else. Creating jobs (two out of every three new jobs in the U.S.) isn’t a 9:00 to 5:00 proposition. This week OnDeck released a new survey that suggests America’s small business owners spend an average of 53 hours a week building their businesses compared to the national average workweek of 47 hours. What’s more, one-third of the business owners surveyed said they would need 69 hours a week to successfully run their businesses.
A longer-than-average day was certainly my experience as a small business owner. Like many business owners, I was motivated and felt my business required more of my time. However my wife would often call the office into the wee hours of the morning to ask if she needed to bring over a sleeping bag—my cue it was time to wrap up for the day and come home.
By the way, although 45 percent of them described work/life balance as an illusion, other surveys suggest the independence of working for themselves is worth it. That’s certainly the way I looked at it.
Why Would a Small Business Lender Be Interested in How a Business Owner Values Time?
That’s a good question with a very straightforward answer.
Speed to funding is a big deal to businesses and the time it takes to find a lender, complete the application, and hopefully obtain approval can take a business owner away from the important work of running the business. In fact, 63 percent of those in the ETA survey said speed was a primary reason for choosing the online lender they did. The ability to act quickly to take advantage of an opportunity is often critical to successfully leveraging that opportunity into increased profits.
According to a 2014 New York Federal Reserve survey, the average small business owner spends 33 hours applying for a small business loan. As a business owner, whether or not you value your time at $170 per hour or something else, those 33 hours become expensive—particularly when you consider the number of applicants that leave the traditional small business loan process empty handed.
The time it takes to find financing is a challenge for many small businesses and an opportunity cost that is simply too high. It’s not the decline rate that troubles me, but the lost time waiting for the decline.
Technology has changed the way we shop, the way we make travel arrangements, and even the way we hail a cab. In much the same way, technology can now streamline the loan process and give businesses faster answers so they can make decisions about the growth opportunities they can pursue, and those they can’t.
What’s more, it’s not just technology, it’s looking at small business lending from a completely different paradigm. How lenders evaluate business creditworthiness and the type of financing they offer are all part of the equation. There are even traditional lenders that are recognizing the problem and working on solutions.
What Would You Do With an Extra 33 Hours?
What if a small business owner could get some of those hours back?
I seldom talk about what we’re doing at OnDeck in this column, but this is an initiative I can get behind—I’ve experienced the pain of feeling like there was never enough time to get everything I wanted to get done, done. As a result, in addition to other initiatives designed to share helpful timesaving tips over the next few weeks, I’ll be hosting a Facebook Live chat to share tips and best practices that will hopefully help you recoup some of that precious time. I hope you’ll join us. Visit OnDeck’s Facebook page, Facebook.com/OnDeckCapital at 2:00 pm EST on September 1 to be part of the conversation.

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BATON ROUGE – LSU Executive Education’s Breakfast to Business series will host “Taking Control of Your Retirement Portfolio” on Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. in room 1420 of the LSU Business Education Complex.
LSU Finance Professor Don M. Chance will share practical tips that will help individuals and businesses with retirement portfolio management.
Registration is $25 per person, which includes a full breakfast and the opportunity to network with LSU experts and area professionals.
More information is available at executive.lsu.edu. You may register by clicking here.
For more than 50 years, LSU Executive Education has prepared individuals and organizations to meet the challenges of a changing workplace and economy. Visit executive.lsu.edu to register or to obtain more information about this course and other LSU Executive Education programs.
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Paleo Biltong is dried after being marinated in the perfect blend of apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper and coriander which give it a wonderful aroma and a balanced flavour. All our spices are blended on site in small batches to make sure every batch is as fresh as possible. Barefoot Biltong is made from prime cuts of grass fed beef.
For all the Cross fitters and Paleo folks our paleo product range contains No MSG’s, No nitrates, No chemical preservatives, No additives, No flavourings or colouring and No sugar.
How do you like your biltong?
"Med/Wet" and ready to eat after 4-5 days in the dryer, this biltong is soft and tender. “Dry” is ready to eat after 5-6 days in the dryer, great for those who like it a little more chewy. To put it is simpler terms how do you like your steak in a restaurant? If you like medium to rare, then med/wet is the biltong for you, if you like your steak well done, then dry is the biltong for you.
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text: Alumnus Vincent Kekana (Tsogo 1988) is organizing a game of golf for Alumni. Message: Greetings! A game of golf is planned for March against another school Alumni. Inviting Tsogo Alumni who play golf so that we can form a team of golfers against this other school alumni. Any Tsogo alumni who plays golf and is interersted can contact Vincent Kekana (Tsogo 1988) at vincent@risimatigroup.com. This is a great networking opportunity and should be fun.

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text: 98326 zip code is located in west Washington. 98326 zip code is part of Clallam County. 98326 zip code has 291.22 square miles of land area and 12.59 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total 98326 zip code population is 759, which has grown 38.00% since 2000. The population growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 17.05% and is much higher than the national average rate of 11.61%. 98326 zip code median household income is $13,667 in 2010-2014 and has has shrunk by 55.15% since 2000. The income growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 31.72% and is much lower than the national average rate of 27.36%. 98326 zip code median house value is $225,000 in 2010-2014 and has shrunk by -114.29% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 52.82% and is much higher than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers 98326 zip code is close to the state average in quality. The 98326 zip code area code is 360.


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I am A Member of the Churches of Christ. I am a minister in a Church of Christ (though some Churches of Christ might not claim us). For the record, I love the Churches of Christ.
We are a tradition in the broad sweep of Christianity much like the Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian traditions are traditions: we have our own language, inside jokes, denominational gatherings, print publication, online watchdogs, schools/colleges, regional nuances, doctrinal sticking points. Most churches that claim to be non-denominational are either a) in denial or b) about to become a denomination. Churches of Christ have some beautiful, worth-copying traits. And, we have some things we’re still trying to let go of, improve, and be honest about.
We’re like any American family in that way. We have so many good things. And we have some secrets we don’t want to go public. I know some who only want to talk about the good (naiveté) and those who can only see the bad (cynics) … I don’t think we get to choose.
Here are my reasons I’m still in the Church of Christ.
I met my wife. If you are keeping score, this is at the top of the list.
I was born into the Churches of Christ. This is as close to a Calvinist as I’ll ever get. I believe God was somehow in the mix as he brought me into the world.
I was raised in the Churches of Christ. I think there’s something to the notion of “bloom where you are planted.” The Church of Christ is the space and place (because of my family) in which I was introduced to the person of Jesus. I was nurtured and nourished by beautiful people who lived the love of Jesus in compelling and often dangerous ways.
Almost all of my memories are healthy, positive, and life-giving. In fact, I can’t come up with one singular large “beef” I’ve had.
I met hypocrisy in the Church of Christ. Hypocrisy is not failing to live up to a desired standard. That’s being human. Hypocrisy is the denial of not living up to a standard one claims to live up to. I’m thankful for this for it allowed me to recognize my own hypocrisy and inconsistency.
I met deep thinkers in the Church of Christ. Sisters and brothers who introduced me to the classic Christian thinkers of the 20th century as well as the important voices in church history.
I encountered my calling in the Church of Christ. God speaks primarily to me through people (in addition to scripture, music, and creation).
I now appreciate other denominations and their leaders because of my time in the Church of Christ. Other denominations have just as many beautiful and toxic elements-but you have to be in one to recognize this in others.
I met my future. I was introduced to the kingdom of God, the future, Jesus as the embodiment of God’s intent for humanity (what Christians call heaven).
I believe in the best of the Church of Christ — autonomy, primacy of scripture’s story, Anabaptist position on government, sacraments of baptism and Lord’s Supper, etc.
I’m aware of the worst — sectarianism, boys club tendency, racism, bad theology, isolationism, etc.
I love the Church of Christ the same way I love being an American. I love her enough that I’m going to brag about the best and confess the worst. I hope we all do this regarding our own personal lives.
I am more interested in being a part of church that is engaging the Muslim, Baha’i, Buddhist, Jew, and Agnostic persons of a community than I am “patting ourselves on the back” because the Baptists, Methodists, and Church of Christ ministers had lunch together. It’s a new day. We need courage.
People often wonder if the Church of Christ will exist in 50 years. 100 years? I have no idea. I know this; the kingdom of God will still exist. And the churches that get in line with the kingdom of God — in all of its complexity and genius and generosity — these churches will continue to flourish, and do the behind-the-scenes-work-of-God the church universal has been doing for two millennia and counting.


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VMware Cloud Foundry might be the overall most satisfactory platform-as-a-service offering in the cloud ISV space, according to a new study by the Evans Data Corporation. Those developing for private clouds are favoring IBM SmartCloud, while for public clouds, it’s all about Google App Engine. But overall, it seems to be Cloud Foundry developers who are happiest with their development environment.
The vendor-independent study polled developers who used the various and sundry PaaS offerings on the market on 14 different criteria. Cloud Foundry had the edge in reliability, supplied development tools and price for service and storage, while developers applauded IBM’s security, expertise and auto-scaling. Interestingly, Google won not on its features or services, but rather its market roadmap and vision for the future.
It’s interesting that despite all the buzz around Java PaaS solutions such as Cumulogic and Jelastic, it’s still the big guns — VMware, Google and IBM — that are generating the customer satisfaction. Of course, they’re also the ones with the massive marketing budgets, so there is that.
I maintain my position that the PaaS marketplace is headed for a shakeout — some are going to go under or get sublimated. The cloud ISV space may be growing, but it can only support so much.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Set your seat properly. Don’t push it so far back that you have to lean and hunch forward to reach the steering wheel.
Take breaks. If you have a long trip ahead of you, stop about every hour to stand, stretch, and redistribute your weight.
Many of us are desk jockeys. We sit through most of our day, often in the same position, hour after hour, talking on the phone and staring at computer screens. Is it any wonder we’re stiff?
Position your computer properly. You should be seated at eye level to your screen, so that you don’t have to look too far down or too far up to do your work.
Use a footrest. “If the balls of your feet are supported on something, it makes it easier to rest on the ‘sit bones’ deep in your glutes, which helps unload your spine,” Polivka says.
Take a break. Set a timer on your computer and, every 45-50 minutes, get up for a few minutes to stretch and walk around. When you sit back down, make sure you’re getting into a supported position with a neutral spine -- neither slumped forward nor pushed back.
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Tech giants, like Amazon, Expedia, Google, and Microsoft, have thrown their considerable weight behind Washington state and Minnesota in a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive immigration order. But smaller players have just as much to lose under anti-immigration policies — and now some of them are stepping into the ring.
Fifteen startups have added their names to an amicus brief, signed by more than 100 technology companies and other businesses. The original brief backs the states’ case, detailing how the executive order negatively impacts employees and business operations.
Start-up companies contribute substantially to this country’s economic prosperity and growth potential and for reasons similar to those already set forth by the Technology Companies in their Amici Brief, start-ups are especially affected by the immigration order at issue. Many start-up companies are founded by, and rely heavily on the hard work of immigrants. Orders of the type at issue here cause immediate harm to technology companies, their employees and their families, and the competitiveness of the United States in the global market for innovation. In many instances, the technological innovation driven by U.S. start-ups contributes not only to the national prosperity but also to the national security. Implementation of the immigration order at issue thus has the potential to harm the country’s security as well as its prosperity.
As of last year, more than half of U.S. startups valued at $1 billion or more were founded by immigrant entrepreneurs, according to a study cited in an open letter The National Venture Capital Association sent to President Trump yesterday. The letter, signed by more than 100 investors and entrepreneurs, implores the president to reconsider his existing executive order, which temporarily blocks citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and suspends refugee immigration indefinitely.
The NVCA letter also expresses concerns over a draft of another executive order, originally obtained by Bloomberg News.
The draft pledges to overhaul the H1-B visa program, which allows skilled, graduate-level immigrants to work for employers in the U.S. Big tech companies, like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, rely heavily on the H-1B visa to recruit talent.
The leaked order also reveals the Trump administration’s plans to kill the “International Entrepreneur Rule,” that President Obama pushed through after Congress failed to create a “startup visa” to encourage foreign entrepreneurs to grow companies in the U.S.
It’s unclear when the draft executive order will be implemented. Meanwhile, the legal battle over Trump’s travel ban is escalating quickly. Yesterday, a panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals grilled representatives of Washington state and President Trump over a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued by a federal Judge in Seattle Friday. The TRO immediately halted implementation of Trump’s immigration ban until its legality could be tested in court.
The Department of Justice claims the president was well within his authority to suspend immigration of aliens deemed to be a national security threat. The Trump administration says the temporary halt is necessary to study immigration procedures and defend the country against threats of terrorism.
President Trump used his favorite platform to express frustration with the legal challenges to his immigration order.
The Ninth Circut judges will likely decide whether the travel ban will be reinstated by the end of the week. The high-profile case is expected to rise to the Supreme Court.
Washington and Minnesota have been steadily amassing support from other states and members of the business world but this latest brief is the first explicit declaration of support from the startup community.
“I don’t think U.S., has an immigration problem, because of the fact that it is a country of immigrants (Donald J. is not exactly Native American) proves that immigrations worked, historically,” said Marot.
Read the full amicus brief and a list of startup signatories below.
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In Japan, the springtime bloom of cherry blossoms is an annual rite of celebration, accompanied by picnics and parties under the flowering canopy.
But this week, an odd thing happened: Some of the trees bloomed again. In autumn.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that a weather company had received hundreds of reports of the trees blooming, across an area stretching from Kyushu, in southwestern Japan, to Hokkaido in the north.
The apparent cause? The two typhoons that struck the country in September and early October.
Wada explained that a popular variety of cherry blossom tree, the yoshino cherry, buds in the summer but does not usually bloom, due to a hormone released by the tree’s leaves that stop the buds from developing.
But this year, many leaves were stripped off by those powerful typhoons – bringing strong winds and salt exposure that caused withering. Warm temperatures followed, which further encouraged the buds to bloom.
Fortunately, the out-of-season flowering isn’t expected to affect the springtime blooms.
The spring flowering of cherry blossoms in Kyoto has been documented for more than 1,000 years, as The Washington Post reported last year. By poring over diaries and chronicles of emperors, aristocrats and monks, a professor at Osaka Prefecture University named Yasuyuki Aono assembled a data set of cherry blossom flowering dates, stretching back to 801 A.D.
For most of that time, the full bloom dates were pretty consistent. But since 1850, the date of flowering has pushed earlier and earlier. That same trend has been documented by the National Park Service since 1921 in Washington, D.C., home to 3,000 cherry blossom trees given by Japan.
“In both Kyoto and Washington, the warming trends and earlier blooms are most likely due to a growing urban heat island effect and increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” meteorologist Jason Samenow explained in the Post.

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A basic set of books and definitions laying out what has to accounted for by any proposed theory about how living creatures evolve. Does Darwin's theory qualify? You be the judge.
Dawkins: Ancestor's Tale. Evolution backwards from us.
Fanciful yet educational vehicles for discussions about evolution from a humanities' perspective.
Publications and groups operating in the humanities-evolution space.
Tips on how to equip yourself for coming up with new evolutionary theories.


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Bruce Springsteen has a song oeuvre in the hundreds. The setlists for his legendarily long concerts are 99 percent his music. But he occasionally covers another artist’s work. That’s the case with a beautiful song that I first heard him sing in 2005 and again the other night on the Stand Up for Heroes concert. Since then, I’ve been mesmerized by this song and have listened to it dozens of times. Two video versions below.
I really needed a Bruce Springsteen fix, since it’s been 14 months since I saw him live at Wrigley Field last September. (See Related Links below.) So I was very excited about this concert. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd opened with his band and the Wounded Warriors Project, a band of warriors with instruments, voices, missing limbs, and other wounds we could not see. They played a great set including Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” John Lennon’s “Imagine,” Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” “Hallelujah” included a beautiful solo by Tim Donley, a veteran with an amazing voice–and no legs.
You can donate to Stand Up for Heroes here, by the way. This year’s concert raised a record $5 million. The Woodruff foundation has raised $20 million to help veterans after they return home.
Bruce came on solo to do an acoustic set. First of all, however, he did his dirty joke routine. “I don’t understand this. A night of comedy for soldiers…and the entire night went by with no dirty jokes?” Bruce had to tell his bad dirty jokes, one between each pair of songs.
He sang an acoustic version of “Dancing in the Dark,” and then his wife, Patti Scialfa, came out to share the mic on “If I Should Fall Behind.” Finally, he went to the pump organ to sing “Dream Baby Dream,” a really beautiful song that he has rarely performed live.
The first time he played DBD was May 11, 2005, at the first Devils & Dust concert at the Rosemont Theatre. (What? You don’t think I keep notes of these important historical events?) That theater is a nice venue for a solo performer. (I saw Leonard Cohen there too.) “Dream” was the last song in Bruce’s 24-song set and I had never heard it before. The fans I was with hadn’t either and there was a great buzz on the message boards that night and the next day. Many thought it was the Roy Orbison song, “Dream Baby,” but I knew it wasn’t the same melody.
The next day someone (or many someones) figured out that the song was by the punk band Suicide, which influenced Springsteen’s album Nebraska. Among other Suicide recordings, “Dream Baby Dream” is on their album called Attempted: Live at Max’s Kansas City 1980.
You can watch Bruce’s 21-minute SUFH set (including bad jokes) here.
And you can also watch another beautiful version of “Dream Baby Dream” in this 5-minute video that Bruce released at the end of his Wrecking Ball tour to say thanks to his fans. The video, edited by the super-talented Thom Zimny, includes clips of Bruce from various concerts and lots of footage of fans and their reactions. I’m sure I’m in there somewhere.
I’m still looking for an audio-only version of DBD that I can download for my iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. So far I haven’t found any, either free or for purchase. There are rumors that it will be on the next album, which he better be working on right now. 2014 tour in North America, Mr. Springsteen? So I recorded the audio from the video as a voice memo on my iPhone. Bruce fans will do anything for a few minutes with their favorite musician.
Wrigley x 2. Two wonderful nights at Wrigley Field in September 2012. My favorite musician and my favorite ballpark.
I believe in rock and roll. My very first blog post, in which I tell how much I love rock and roll and how it all started.
The 12-12-12 concert for Sandy last December. A great night and a British invasion.
Live music is always better and here’s why.
And you got your wish – it’s on High Hopes. Do you listen to it a lot? Were you sad when they pulled the pipe organ off stage at the end of the show in Nashville and he did Thunder Road instead?
I was crying in Charlotte when he played it. I think a lot of us were. Hope you hear it again soon. Hope I hear it again soon!
Great blogging and I look forward to exploring more.
I do listen to it a lot. I have the DBD video bookmarked and also listen to it on High Hopes. In Nashville, the Thunder Road solo was so cool that it made me forget i wanted to hear DBD live. I’ve only heard it live on the D&D tour.

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When a combination of both conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss are present at the same time in one ear, this is referred to as mixed hearing loss. In this case, there is likely to be damage to the outer or middle ear as well as to the inner ear or auditory nerve.
Causes of mixed hearing loss vary dramatically from one indivudal to the next. Sensorineural hearing loss may already present and the conductive hearing loss develops later due to a trama or other issue. A conductive hearing loss that has not been treated may be present and sensorineural hearing loss develops from aging or long term exposure to loud noise.
Medication or surgery may correct the conductive portion of the mixed hearing loss, but these treatments will not correct the sensorineural portion of the hearing loss. Many people who suffer from a mixed hearing loss will receive medical treatment for the conductive hearing but will have to use hearing aid to treat the remaining sensorineural component of their hearing loss.

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Um..hi out there! I realize I haven't blogged in many, many months, but I couldn't let Penelope's birthday come and go without writing her annual birthday letter. I hope you are following me on Instagram where I post much more frequently :) Perhaps I'll be back here someday soon!
Five years since you came into our world and changed it forever.
Five years since you made me a Mom.
Five years of sunshine, fun, smiles, infectious laughs and the very best snuggles.
Five years of challenges that I never could have prepared for.
The longest and shortest five years of my life.
A few weeks ago, we got all of our snow gear on for the walk to school. We were running late, as usual. You, in your hot pink coat with furry lining, a matching pink Trolls hat, and bright blue Paw Patrol boots, turned to me as I closed the door and said: Mom I’m going to run.
You took off down our long hallway with reckless abandon, feet churning and long hair waving, running with the pure, innocent joy of a baby. I had to stop and just watch you, to soak in the moment. How much longer will you do these things? How much longer will I see the remnants of a baby before you’re too much of a big girl and too grown to run without self-awareness or worry of anyone watching? It was that moment that hit me like a ton of bricks and all I could do was shed some tears and try to imprint the moment on my brain.
You had a big year. You finished pre-k 3 and started 4s. You loved summer camp. You learned karate and earned a yellow stripe belt, followed by an orange stripe. You took dance class and absolutely loved it. You were a toy soldier in the school Christmas pageant and absolutely rocked it.
You became the very best big sister to ever exist, I’m pretty sure. Watching you and Henry together makes my heart sing. If Henry is fussy, you happily make him laugh. If Henry is happy, it’s likely you aren’t far away. If Henry needs a diaper change, you say: Mom, let me get my step stool! so that you can help. Not one moment of jealousy. Not one moment of not understanding why henry needs extra attention. You love your brother and you love being a big sister. When Henry was born, you received a big sibling book, and in it was a question about how you felt when you found out you were going to be a big sister. Your response? I always wanted a baby.
This year, we did lots of cooking and baking together. You are always excited to help in the kitchen and lately I’ve started to let you use small knives to chop vegetables and you do such a great job. So meticulous and precise. From vegan cookies to dad’s sandwiches, you’ve made a ton of goodies over the last year.
You still manage to challenge us on the daily. You fight with us about wearing pants, shorts, tights and shoes. Fight is an understatement. In these really tough moments, I pray for strength and pray that you also continue to have courage in your convictions. Because while it’s painful to get us all out of the house in the morning, there’s a small part of me that remembers I still hope that you never stop fighting for what you want.
You are so close to reading. You can sound out letters and love writing. Will you be a writer someday like me? I would love that so much. You love your baby dolls, and have more than you can keep up with naming at this point. You love school and your friends. I wish I could be a butterfly on the wall of your classroom so I could listen in on what you all talk about (we recently found out that you discuss music and who got to see despacito performed on tv (at the Grammys)).
We just took a big, big trip to Disney World over your birthday. Daddy and I had been planning it for months and I’m so happy to say that it was truly one of the best weeks and trips I’ve ever taken. I had the best time experiencing the magic of Disney with you and I will cherish those memories forever.
Happy birthday, my sweet baby girl. Thank you for being you.


text: The main objective of this study was to find out factors affecting performance appraisal process in the telecommunication industry. In the last two years the performance appraisal exercise in Telkom Kenya is increasingly becoming a mere routine exercise; this was noted in the 2008 when employee opinion survey on performance appraisal was conducted, out of the 200 questionnaires distributed to the employees only 100 expressed job satisfaction with performance appraisal, which reflected 50% of respondent, while in the year 2009 out of 200 questionnaire issued to the employees only 50 expressed satisfaction with performance appraisal, which represented 25% of the respondents. This declining trend of response toward performance appraisal has raised a lot of concern to the management Telkom. The study used descriptive research design. The target population for the study involved members from the telecommunications industry in Kenya with about 3000 employees. Target population consists of 150 employees in department of mass market and customer care and sample under study was 50 employees. From the study findings Majority of the respondents had indicated that they were not satisfied with the compensation package given after the performance form the findings this means that compensation package in telecommunication industry could not match with their capabilities of the employees.


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The change fee and any difference in fare will be waived for new United flights departing on or before February 10, 2018, as long as travel is rescheduled in the originally ticketed cabin (any fare class) and between the same cities as originally ticketed.
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Southwest Airlines has not issued a travel alert.
To all you affected by the storm, traveling or not, my thoughts are with you. If you are a traveler, please contact your airline so that you can be rerouted, compensated, or both. To my friends in Boston, maybe this would be a good time to try out the Colonnade Hotel’s winter special.

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I was recently asked by Elizabeth Peterson to guest post on The Inspired Classroom blog. Elizabeth is an elementary classroom teacher dedicated to infusing arts education into her instruction. This is a great blog to add to your blog reader!!
This week, the theme is Arts Integration. You can find my guest post here: http://www.theinspiredclassroom.com/2010/09/making-connections-through-the-arts/.
Thanks, Elizabeth, for this great opportunity!


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Ever since starting at Branch VFX I’ve been trying to figure out how to setup different Shotgun features. Shotgun’s own documentation seems to be… Well, let’s just say that it’s aimed at people who already have a pretty good idea of what they are doing and don’t need a step by step tutorial.
So I decided to write some stuff up as I go on this mildly boring adventure to help me remember exactly how to do different things, and maybe it’ll help other people who are trying to learn Shotgun’s many awesome features.
So what is Shotgun Toolkit?
As I understand it, the toolkit is Shotgun’s attempt to build a fully functional pipeline that is technically ready to use out of the box. Toolkit will organize your folder and file structure, figure out which shot and task you’re working on at any given time, let you save and open files in a standardized way in it’s supported apps, publish a finished file so other departments can pick it up, etc. It’s really an amazing piece of software.
But toolkit is (mostly?) a backend system. If you have an existing pipeline (let’s say you’re in love with the way your Maya saves files) you can integrate it into toolkit. So Shotgun took the time to build the front end of the pipeline as well, and named it ‘Shotgun Desktop’. Desktop has a few basic apps that have very clear names like Publisher and Loader that kind of tells you what they do.
As you can see I’m using a mac os machine, so if you’re using windows your path will look something like Z:\jobs and Z:\software\shotgun.
You can name your folders what ever you like, but jobs and software/shogun are pretty standard.
The first thing I did (after creating an project on our studio’s Shotgun site) was to google how to setup Shotgun toolkit. I got this link. It looks like it’s exactly the thing I needed only… the very first item in the table of contents is “Deprecation Note”. Get used to it. Half the time my searches lead to old documentation that has nothing to do with the current way Shotgun or Toolkit work.
On the positive side, the old documentation always leads to the new one. To download and install Shotgun desktop follow the instructions here. It’s pretty straight forward, though it goes into details that might be unclear to new users. They mention a lot of Desktop’s app but the only ones you will see right away are the project browser and maybe the publisher. The rest of the apps are only available once you are in one of the DCC apps, and even then only if they were launched via the project browser or the Shotgun site.
3. Run the installer. At least on a mac there are no options other than the location of the installation.
At this point you might think you are done. After all, you can see your project and if you have any DCC apps installed you can even launch them from the desktop. The Shotgun Panel will load with them and you’ll be able to see your assigned tasks. But… The only apps you’ll have access to will be the Loader and the Publisher. You will not be able to save via the Shotgun menu for example. Strange isn’t it?
Turns out that installing Desktop is only the very first step in setting up toolkit. The instructions for actually setting up a project can be found here. And by here I mean here. Yes, there are 31 sections to read BEFORE you get to the part where you can actually see anything useful in Desktop. Don’t get me wrong, each of these sections is important, interesting, and will give you a better understanding of what toolkit is, but all I wanted to do was to open a file in Maya.
It’s also named kind of funny ‘Taking over a Pipeline Configuration’. Who are we taking it over from? I’m not sure why it’s not just called setting up a (toolkit) project, especially since the command to run it is called ‘Advanced Project Setup’.
Select a Configuration: A toolkit configuration is a massive set of files (mostly text files) that define how the pipeline works. If it’s the first time you’re running the setup and you’ve never created a configuration of your own, you should select the ‘Shotgun Default’ option since it’s a good place to start. If you already setup a configuration you don’t really need to be reading this post, but you probably want to select one of the other options (set up from an existing, a git server, etc).
Define Storages: There are all sorts of storage types in the world. What Shotgun means in this case is where do you want to save your production files? This is the root folder for ALL of your projects. So we’ll select /Volumes/beapot/jobs. Note you can define here three types of paths, one for each type of supported os (linux, windows, mac os). I like putting all three in since you never know when a new os will be introduced into your pipeline.
Select Configuration Location: Now we tell toolkit where to save its own files. In our case it’ll be /Volumes/beapot/software/shotgun/madness. Notice that this time it doesn’t take two steps to define your storage option, you enter the full path.
Now just run the setup. It will take a few minutes but at the end of it you will have your first project setup with toolkit.
If you’ve used the default settings you should now be able to simply launch into a DCC app (say Maya) and play with the options that will appear on the new Shotgun menu.


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Within the City of Turlock, many departments issue permits for a variety of enterprises. These include, but are not limited to: building permits, business licenses, permits to conduct a business from your home, permits for business signs, mobile food vendors, alcohols sales, garage sale and many others that are required within the city limits.
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Here’s a full-featured remote shutter project which [Pixel-K] just finished. It seems that he’s interested in taking time-lapse images of the cosmos. Since astrophotography happens outside at night, this presented some special design considerations. He wanted something that he could configure in the dark without zapping his night-vision too much. He also wanted it to be easily configured with a pair of gloves on.
The project enclosure is a 4x AA battery box. He removed the partitions between each cell, leaving plenty of room for the guts. Inside you’ll find a lithium battery and a micro-USB recharger board. It powers the Arduino mini pro which drives the 1.8″ LCD screen and actuates the optoisolator which is responsible for triggering the camera. On the right you can see the clear knob of the clickable rotary encoder. All of the user settings are chosen and selected using just this one knob.
He’s already tried it out on a 6-hour shoot and had no battery life problems or other issues.
Over on Stack Exchange, there’s a proposal for a new CNC/3D printer site. It’s a personal manufacturing stack exchange, and hopefully we’ll see some awesome discussion when it’s eventually created.
Stack Exchange is already well-known for hosting the most useful programming site as well as awesome sites/forums covering everything from LaTeX to grammar. The proposed Personal Manufacturing site is sure to provide a ton of advice and discussion covering the hardware, software, electronics, and toolchains of CNC routers, RepRaps and mills.
The personal manufacturing stack exchange hasn’t been created yet – a few more people still need to commit to use it. Once that’s done, though, we’re sure to see a lot of very helpful advice and discussion from the Stack Exchange community.
Kudos to [Michael] for sending this in.
[Glen] built this shiny party machine out of a pretty sad-looking scooter. We’d bet you’re wondering why we think it’s a party machine when it looks so common? The only real giveaway in this photo is the custom exhaust, but hidden in the body of the beast is 720 Watts of party power plus a whole bunch of extras.
When he gets where he’s going, [Glen] parks his ride and lifts up the seat to unfold the entertainment. Attached to the underside of the saddle is a 720 Watt audio amplifier. It drives one big speaker under the seat, as well as two tweeters and two mid-range speakers that were fitted into the front console. But these days a party isn’t a party without some video, and that’s why you’ll also find a 7-inch LCD screen suspended from the upright seat. Tunes and videos are supplied by an iPod touch up front, or the PC he built into the ride. All it’s missing is a gaming console!
The STM32 Discovery boards are nothing new, we’ve looked at them several times. But the newest sibling in the line might be just the thing to make the leap from your steadfast 8-bit projects. We got our hands on it and recorded a video review.
The STM32F0-Discovery gives you a programmer and ARM Cortex-M0 chip all on one convenient board. The top portion is the ST-Link V2 programmer, and includes jumpers and a programming header which let it easily program off-board chips.
The included microcontroller is an STM32F051R8T6 which includes 64kb of program memory and 8kb of RAM. Coming in at $1.80-3.77 in single units and in a hand-solderable LQFP package this raises an eyebrow for our future projects. It has an 8 MHz internal oscillator with 6x PLL which means you can run at 48 MHz without an external crystal (check out [Kenneth Finnegan’s] PLL primer if you don’t know what this is).
The only thing holding us back is the development environment. ST provides everything you need if you’re on Windows, but we want a Linux friendly solution. We know other Discovery boards have worked under Linux thanks to this project. This uses the same ST-LINK V2 so it should work as well. If you want one of your own head over the ST page to see if they’re still giving away samples. There should be a button labeled “Register for your FREE KIT”.
Ham skills prevail in this year’s LayerOne badge hacking contest. [Jason] was the winner with this Morse Code beacon hack.He got a head start on the competition after seeing our preview feature on the badge hardware development. It got him thinking and let him gather his tools ahead of arrival.
The hardware is segregated into two parts of the board. The lower portion is a take on the Arduino, and the upper portion is a wireless transmitter meant to control some cheap RC cars. [Jason] figured this was perfect for conversion as a CW beacon (continuous wave is what Morse Code is called if you’re a ham). The first issue he encountered was getting the badge to play nicely with the Arduino IDE. It was setup to run Slowduino firmware which uses the internal oscillator. [Jason] soldered on his own crystal and reflashed the firmware. He found that the transmitter couldn’t be directly keyed because of the shifting used in the RC car protocol. He cut the power to the transmitter, and found that it could be more accurately keyed by injecting power to one of the other pins. Check out the video after the break for a better explanation of his technique.
[Franklyn] wrote in to tell us about the The Hack Factory Big Board project. The Twin Cities Maker group, a Minneapolis/St Paul based hackspace, set out to provide an education tool to help students make the leap from schematic diagrams to bread board connections. Naturally their conclusion was to create a humungous 10x scale bread board. The board features scaled up yet fully functional capacitors, resistors, a dip switch, and the jumbo-est LEDs we’ve seen in a long while.
Like its 0.1″ pitch counterpart, passive components can be thrown in 1″ pitch breadboard to create a myriad of analog circuits. The Twin Cities folks even tossed together an optical theremin using a scaled up photoresistor. Beyond analog circuits the board can also demonstrate various ICs using either a custom breakout board featuring an 8-pin DIP socket or a vacuum formed Atmega 328 which boasts an internal Arduino Uno. The cool thing about the giant 28-pin DIP is that it does not necessarily function as a microcontroller. Instead the UNO will be loaded with chip emulation programs geared towards the lesson at hand, jumpers select programs to teach debouncing, logic, flip-flops, and a whole slew of other basic concepts.
We are a bit concerned that the next logical step is a gigantic soldering iron, but at least we finally have something to interface to the huge liquid crystal display. If you still want more giant circuit stuff check out this 555 footstool.
Check out a quick intro video after the jump!


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YKROK developed the Quality Assurance program to monitor health and safety policies and procedures, curriculum guidelines and program standards. Well-trained operations representatives review each centre several times a year. These comprehensive reviews are unannounced and supplement the corporate tie up visits.
To ensure our environment is safe, we employ a variety of methods to keep kids healthy.
Our Operations Managers are on-site. That means there’s personal pride involved in each centre. With active, involved centre heads and operations, the highest standards continue to be upheld.
All meals and snacks are prepared in a commercial-grade kitchen away from classrooms.
Nutrition prepared balanced meals are served in our kid-sized classrooms, so children can eat in a place prepared specifically for mealtime.
All locations have a pantry room for efficient cleanliness and proper storage of cleaning products.
We’re serious about washing hands and offer child-size sinks! We teach proper hand washing with soap and warm water, making cleanliness an everyday habit!
We wear gloves to prevent germs. We use precaution and wear disposable gloves to impede the spread of germs.
Every quarter our lab technicians collect samples across centres for quality control purposes.
Our facilities have advance safety and security features such as fire drills, fire equipment, smoke detectors, hospital tie ups, doctor on call, and ambulance available in the tech park.
All of our facilities are located inside IT Parks, inside worksites of companies, and a select few in high street neighbourhood locations. They have a similar look and layout. Therefore, families relocating have a familiar place for their childcare needs in their new worksite.


text: Lifestyle Communities condominium, the Franklin, located at the Falls at Hayden Run in Dublin. This end unit condo has speakers built into the ceilings providing surround sound in the finished lower level and the main floor! Receiver/Tuner/Amplifier Included! Finished lower level has a bathroom! Open floor plan. The eat in kitchen has Stainless steel appliances, breakfast bar and sliding glass doors leading to the patio area. Great room. All new carpet installed and interior is freshly painted. 1,280 square feet of living space, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Super fun community with two pools, fitness facility, clubhouse, outdoor sports areas, outdoor volleyball & the GOAT restaurant/bar! Great location close to Tuttle Mall, I-270, and restaurants. Agent owned.


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Early Pre-K classes are a fun introduction to baseball. Spacial orientation games help give our youngest players tools to utilize their surroundings. Focal points of classes are bases, how to be safe, and how to get outs.
All concepts are gently introduced with simple games.
Being Nice and Doing Your Best are our two class values, incorporated into every session. They are an introduction to our program pillar values of Positivity, Effort, Perseverance, and Sportsmanship. Players hit off a tee. Classes graduate to age appropriate game play.
The spring season will begin on April 1st and ends the week of May 27th (9 sessions). There is no will be no classes on Monday, May 27th for Memorial Day.


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Global Economics Group has opened an office in Beijing, and expanded its Greater China team, in response to growing demand for its services. The new office is headed by GlobalEcon Managing Director Dr. Vanessa Yanhua Zhang and is centrally located at CBD. GlobalEcon has also announced that Professor John Jiong Gong, one of the leading antitrust economists in China, has joined the team as a Director. In addition, Amanda Jing Yang, an economist who has worked at several of the multinational law firms in China, has joined as a Senior Associate, to support the team.
GlobalEcon has played a leading role on competition policy cases in China. Dr. Zhang, along with GlobalEcon’s Chairman David S. Evans, served as the economic experts for Tencent in the first antitrust case in China decided by China’s Supreme People’s Court. They have also worked on other significant agency investigations, mergers, and private litigation. Prior to joining GlobalEcon Professor Gong served as the economic expert in private litigation and mergers.
The new Beijing office continues GlobalEcon’s international expansion providing economic analysis of high profile antitrust and regulatory matters. In addition to the new Beijing office, the firm has significant operations in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Madrid as well as the US offices in Chicago, Boston, and New York. Since its founding in 2011, GlobalEcon’s antitrust and regulatory economists have worked on significant matters in China, Singapore and Korea; Mexico and other countries in Latin America; the European Union; as well as the United States.
Dr. Gong is one of the recognized antitrust authorities in China. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and is now a Professor of Economics at the University of International Business and Economics. Dr. Gong has extensive experience in antitrust and competition policies, and has advised to MOFCOM and World Bank Group on relevant issues.
Ms. Yang received her master’s degree in economics from Peking University. She specializes in economic analysis, industry analysis, market research, competition analysis and merger analysis, with years of experience as an Economist in well-known international law firms. Besides our on-the-ground experts in Beijing, our global talent team will also provide solid support to offer clients multilingual and tailored service.
Dr. Zhang, who has led GlobalEcon’s Greater China practice since the firm’s founding, has worked a wide range of competition matters in Greater China, the U.S. and the E.U. She has submitted expert reports before the Supreme People’s Court of China, Guangdong High People’s Court, National Development and Reform Commission and Anti-Monopoly Bureau of Ministry of Commerce. Dr. Zhang is a Senior Researcher at MRLC of Renmin University, China. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics, and a B.A. in economics from Peking University.
Global Economics Group (GlobalEcon) brings together world-class thought leaders, highly experienced experts who have presented before courts and regulatory bodies worldwide, ex industry executives with deep practical experience and a multi-disciplinary staff including econometricians and finance economists. Our mission is to provide independent and rigorous economic analysis in complex legal, regulatory, and policy matters throughout the world.
Our experts have worked on some of the most significant legal and regulatory matters of the last quarter century and have worked for many leading corporations and government agencies. We serve clients around the globe from our offices in Chicago, New York and Boston and through a global network of affiliates.
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She also provides the service of home art consultation throughout London and parts of the home counties.
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The by-election in Panaji and Valpoi constituencies would be held on August 23.
Manohar Parrikar will tomorrow file his nomination from Panaji constituency for August 23 bypoll.
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will tomorrow morning file his nomination from Panaji constituency for the August 23 bypoll.
"Parrikar will visit the Mahalaxmi temple in the morning and then go to file his nomination," BJP leader Siddharth Kuncolienkar, who vacated his seat to make way for Mr Parrikar to contest in Panaji, told reporters.
Mr Parrikar, who has been getting elected from this constituency since 1994, had resigned in the year 2015 to take over as Defence Minister in the Narendra Modi government.
Mr Parrikar returned this year as Goa Chief Minister after BJP formed government in the coastal state with support of other parties.
Mr Parrikar initially had a choice to contest either from Curchorem or Panaji constituency but chose the latter one, which has been his bastion.

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Now that we understand that Moses saw the Elohim (God) of Israel in the year 1490 B.Y. (before Yahshua) after he had led the Israelites out of Egypt, it is necessary that we acquaint the reader with certain other facts regarding this Vision. Moses wrote, “and there was under His FEET as it were the paved work of a sapphire stone and as it were the BODY of heaven in His clearness” (Exodus 24:10). Here we see that Moses writes of the Elohim of Israel having feet and a body which proves that he was seeing a supernatural spirit being in the form of a man. Then Moses sees this great anthropomorphic being create ALL things after Himself, including the man, that is, Elohim was the Pattern for everything He created.
The Universe in its totality being made up of invisible atoms is fashioned after Him. Each atom is a proton, neutron and an electron corresponding to the three-fold Pattern (Elohim) who is the fullness of the Godhead bodily, namely, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit all in ONE. We have already explained to the reader how that Moses also saw this Super Incorporeal Form instantaneously transform itself into a three-fold, intangible Tabernacle which explains the three-fold makeup of the Super Incorporeal Form. This three-fold Tabernacle also is the explanation of the three-fold makeup of everything that is in the Universe, or out of the Universe as far as that is concerned.
Yahweh Himself is spirit (John 4:24) and in this state, He is inconceivable, incomprehensible, inscrutable and invisible. Everything abides in Yahweh or Pure Spirit; there is nothing co-existent or co-eternal with Pure Spirit. It is the Source and Substance, the Limits and the Bounds of everything both invisible and visible. This Pure Spirit state of Yahweh can be likened unto a cloud which has no conceivable shape or form; and in this Spirit is encouched the attributes of Intelligence, Wisdom, Knowledge, Beauty, Love, Justice, Power, Foundation and Strength. These attributes become united together in a conceivable shape and form which Moses viewed as the Great Elohim. This Elohim then was Pure Spirit (Yahweh) in shape and form abiding within the vast Pure Spirit substance that was as yet unformed (meanibg: It did not take all of the Pure Spirit substance to form the Super Incorporeal Form of Elohim).
Then Elohim creates the physical man, Adam, in His likeness and image; and then some four thousand (4000) years later, Elohim Himself, is manifested in a physical body and walked around in the Universe [the earth plane] that He had created (John 1:14; I Timothy 3:16). This transmutation of Pure Spirit (without shape and form) into a Super Incorporeal shape and form, and then into a physical form, sets up a pattern that the whole Universe testifies of and confirms (the Unity Of The Spirit or supernal nature of Yahweh, also called the Godhead). This is Elohim, the archetye (original) pattern of the Universe.
all physical beings were without shape and form at one time. And all of the attributes and physical characteristics that were to make up such human beings were encouched within the grayish white sexual secretions (cloud-like) of the male and female when they come together. These primordial invisible substances are called genes and chromosomes which later come together in an orderly fashion to bring about a shape and form still yet invisible to the naked eye. But later, through the amalgamation of cells, the shape and form becomes visible as a tiny embryo and later a fetus, and then a newborn infant. Every human being born into the world has definitely followed this course of procedure in being born.
Not only does everyone follow this three-step conception of first — being without shape and form, later in shape and form; but still invisible to the naked eye, and then in gross shape and form. But each constituent cell, fiber, and tissue making up his developing body is three-fold. Each living cell composing the physical body is made up of a nucleolus, a nucleus, and cell body Exception: mature red blood cells have no nucleus). Then these cells are differentiated according to their position in the developing embryo into endodermal (the inner cell layer), mesodermal (middle cell layer) and ectodermal (outer cell layer) constituting tissues. These tissues then make up organs which are of necessity three-fold according to the type of tissues composing them, and then organs constitute systems of which there are three (3) sets of threes e.g. (1) nervous, endocrine, and reproductive (2) respiratory, circulatory and excretory (3) digestive, skeletal and muscular. These nine systems work harmoniously to constitute the total physical being who then is over-all Spirit, Soul and Body.
Man is, therefore, a three-fold being from start to finish and he is definitely and positively fashioned after Elohim, the shape and form of Yahweh. As we deal more and more with the different organs and systems of the physical body, one will find even more evidence of this three-fold nature of man.
Let us now turn our attention to a comparison of the three-fold man.
Moses was called up into Mount Sinai where Yahweh gave him Divine specifications for building the Tabernacle in the third month after Israel had left Egypt (Exodus 19:1). This third month of the Jews’ sacred calendar year would correspond with the month of June in our Gregorian calendar year. Considering that Moses was in the Mount for forty (40) days and then began to build the Tabernacle and knowing that the Tabernacle was completed and reared up on the first day of the first month of the second year (Exodus 40:17) after the Israelites left Egypt (April 1st), one can see that it was nine months in the building. How beautifully this is correlated to the Tabernacle of our physical bodies that require nine (9) months also to be built by Yahweh in the womb!
Furthermore, the Tabernacle that Moses built had three coverings of goat’s skin, ram’s skin dyed red and badger’s skin, and our physical bodies are composed of mainly three layers of skin, subcutaneous tissue and muscle!
Moses saw the Vision of the creation for six (6) days while in the cloud that covered the Mount, and he saw Elohim rest on the seventh (7th) day; but Moses was in the Mount for forty (40) days, so that leaves thirty-three (33) days that Elohim was showing Moses all of the generations of the flesh coming out of Adam, and instructing him about the building of the Tabernacle. These thirty-three days were fulfilled (Matthew 5:17) by Yahshua the Messiah tarrying on earth in the flesh for thirty-three years (one day for a year in prophetic time - Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6). Then when we examine the physical body we find that it has thirty-three vertebrae in the vertebral column — one vertebra for each day that Moses dwelled in the Mount after seeing the Vision of the creation (the 7 days): or one vertebra for each year that Messiah dwelled upon the earth. The Tabernacle of Moses was the backbone of Israel’s faith in Yahweh, and Yahshua the Messiah being our redeemer, is the backbone of our faith in Yahweh. It is the vertebral column that gives man his upright position, and Yahshua is our uprightness in Yahweh.
spoke of the twenty-four (24) elders gathered around the throne of Yahweh (Revelation 4:4). These twenty-four (24) elders were the twelve (12) heads of the Tribes of Israel under the Dispensation of the Mosaic Law, and the twelve Apostles in the Dispensation of Grace all gathered around the Messiah who came in to fulfill the Mosaic Law and bring it to an end. Seeing that man is made in the likeness and image of Yahweh, then he must display in his physical body the same situation for he does have the twenty-four ribs, twelve on each side, and all gathered around the vertebral column with its thirty-three vertebrae typifying the Messiah’s thirty-three years in the flesh.
Then one must also consider that the whole body of Israel were led by the cloud wherever they sojourned; they did not move unless the cloud moved (Exodus 40:36-38, Numbers 9th chapter). The Spirit of Yahweh dwelled in the cloud. Yahshua the Messiah fulfilled this by His obedience to the Will of His Father in not doing anything except that which was ordained of the Father (Spirit or cloud). He was led of the Spirit (cloud) into the Wilderness of Judea (Matthew 4:1). This same cloud that led the Israelites out of Egypt through the Wilderness of Sinai and on into Canaan Land was the same cloud that dwelled between the wings of the Cherubims which over shadowed the Mercy Seat in the Most Holy Place of the Tabernacle. So when one examines the physical body, he finds that there is a grayish-white substance that fills his cranial cavity or head region which we call the brain. And it is divided into a right and left half corresponding to the two cherubims of glory on either side of the Ark. And it is from the brain that man receives his orders to move, or think or do anything; so we also are by a cloud throughout our journeying in this Wilderness below (this earth plane).
We will now show the correlationship of the Mosaic Tabernacle with the anatomy and physiology of our physical body. Please keep in mind that the physical Tabernacle which Moses built in the Wilderness of Sinai is an exact copy of the Spiritual Tabernacle which he saw in the Vision in Mount Sinai. Therefore, when we speak of the physical component parts of our physical body and compare them with the structures in the Mosaic Tabernacle, we are speaking always of the spiritual things that these structures stand for. For instance, when we speak of the physical heart and compare it with the physical Table of Shewbread, we are really speaking of that Spiritual sustenance or bread which is Yahshua the Messiah. All things of the Mosaic Tabernacle and our physical body (in fact, all natural things) point to the Messiah or Yahweh; and He (the Messiah) is the fulfillment of all of them.
This discourse will be of no effect if one does not keep in mind that it is relating to and concerning spiritual things at all times.
If you, the reader, will refer to the chart entitled, “Man Made In The Image of Elohim By The Pattern Of The Tabernacle,” you will be able to follow the correlative explanation of the structure and function of the Mosaic Tabernacle with the anatomy and physiology of man’s body. The illustration on the left is the Mosaic Tabernacle; the illustration in the center of course, is the physical body with the head, chest and abdominal cavities exposed showing the positioning of the internal organs. The illustration below shows an interchanging of the organs of the physical body with the furnishings of the Mosaic Tabernacle to unmistakingly show the detailed and polytechnical comparison.
each corresponding number denotes the same structure in each illustration and the numbers (denoted by #) will be inserted wherever necessary throughout our discourse so as to not break the continuity of thought.
#1 - Is the Most Holy Place of the Mosaic Tabernacle. #2 - Shows the two Archangels or Cherubims of Glory over-shadowing the Mercy Seat with their wings touching in the middle. #3 - Illustrates the Cloud dwelling between them and above the Mercy Seat. The Cloud denotes the dwelling place of Yahweh (Exodus 25:22) and the large eye signifies His ever presence and attention to the deeds of man (Proverbs 15:3). In the Ark of the Covenant beneath the Mercy Seat, (#4) one sees the two tables of the Mosaic Law placed therein. (The door in front is just for the purpose of illustrating the two tables of the commandment Law). Actually there was a lid on top which formed the Mercy Seat.
These two Archangels represented Michael, a warrior who was always sent to carry out some action for Yahweh, and Gabriel who was sent to deliver messages (Jude 9; Revelation 12.7 K.J.V; Daniel 8:16; Luke 1:26). Furthermore, the invisible presence of Yahweh in the Cloud was signified by the manifestation of the Shekinah (which really was a vision of Elohim seen by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement).
#1 - The cranial or head cavity of man’s physical body corresponds with the Most Holy Place of the Mosaic Tabernacle.
#2 - The right and left halves of the brain which come together in the mid-line corresponds with the two Archangels, and the two main functions of the brain. One in carrying out some action (motor function) corresponds to the duties of Michael, and two, the sending and receiving of messages (sensory function) corresponds with the duties of Gabriel.
#3 - The brain itself is composed of gray and white matter likened unto the Cloud which over- shadowed the Mercy Seat, and it is by means of our brain that we are in touch with, and minutely aware of everything going on around us. It is really like one great big Cycloptic Eye in our heads, (even the two eyes see as one eye). The Pineal gland located in the center of the Brain was likened unto a Cycloptic Eye by the Ancients, or Greek Mythologists and also was thought to be the seat of all sensations.
#4 - The two Lobes of the Pituitary Gland (the master gland of the body) corresponds to the two tables of the Mosaic Law, and they are placed in a bony receptacle in the base of the brain and are covered over by a covering just as the Lid covered the Ark of the Covenant. In our diagram on the right,( in the mouth of the man) you will see the word LAW. This is to show the close approximation of the pituitary gland to the roof of the mouth, and it is out of the mouth that the LAW proceeds. Malachi wrote: “The law of truth was in his mouth” (Malachi 2:6).
The Vision of the Shekinah seen in the Cloud in the Most Holy Place of the Tabernacle can be correlated with the configuration of the blood vessels supplying the brain which take the shape of a stick- figure of a man (symbolizing Elohim).
#5 - The Second Vail of the Mosaic Tabernacle divides the Most Holy Place from the Holy Place, and it is blue, purple and scarlet in color. This corresponds with the neck of man’s physical body which divides the head or cranial cavity from the chest cavity. All the blood vessels passing into the head cavity are gathered together in the neck in one great profusion, the veins (colored blue to denote impure blood), the arteries (colored red or scarlet to denote pure or oxygenated blood), and the presence of the iodine filled thyroid gland (iodine means violet or purple) denotes the purple of this dividing Vail of the neck.
#6 - In the Holy Place of the Mosaic Tabernacle, one sees the High Priest standing at (#7) the Golden Altar of Incense burning incense which consisted of four principle ingredients called stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense, which were sweet odoriferous spices (Exodus 30:34-38). This Incense perfumed the entire Tabernacle and ascended through the second Vail into the Most Holy Place where Yahweh dwelled in the Cloud above the Mercy Seat, and was a sweet smelling savor to Him for it represented the intercession made by the Holy Ghost (Elohim) to the Father (Yahweh).
#8 - The seven branched Golden Candlestick (lampstand) can be seen on the left in the Holy Place where it gave Light unto the Sanctuary so that there was never any darkness there. It was extinguished at nine o’clock in the morning, when the daylight illuminated the Sanctuary; it was trimmed and made ready for the re- lighting at three o’clock in the afternoon when daylight began to fade; and it would burn all through the night until the next morning. All of the seven branches of it proceeded out of the main stem on either side, and it was filled with oil from the main stem.
Shewbread which was kept ever present for him. This was his daily sustenance as well as the meat offering and drink offering of which he partook.
Comparing the Holy Place of the Tabernacle with #6, the chest cavity of the physical body one finds (#7) the lungs serving the same capacity or function as the Golden Altar of Incense. To be real polytechnical, one finds that the larynx situated above the windpipe or trachea has two superior cornu (Horns) and two inferior cornu just as the Golden Altar of Incense had four horns on it - one at each corner. The air which we breathe is composed mainly of four ingredients, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, (as aqueous vapor) which corresponds to the four principle ingredients of the incense burned on the Golden Altar of Incense. Yes, and air or oxygen is burned in our bodies for the process of oxidation which is the uniting of oxygen with other substances in a burning process.
It need not be said that breathing of good fresh air is a sweet smelling savor unto all of the tissues of the body, and that it fragranizes all of the body just as the Incense did the Tabernacle. The brain corresponding to the cloud where Yahweh dwelled is especially expectant and desirous of this air or oxygen; as it is the most vulnerable of all the body tissues when it comes to oxygen lack (remember the incense wafting through the second Vail into the Most Holy Place). Let us remind the reader at this point that Yahweh forbade anyone to duplicate the Holy Incense and only the High Priest knew how to make it (Exodus 30:37-38). Doesn’t this compare beautifully with the fact that NO ONE has yet been able to determine the exact composition of Air which only Yahweh knows!
#8 - The seven branched Golden Candlestick (lampstand) corresponds with the Aorta, that great blood vessel which comes off the heart and has just seven (7) branches which distribute oxygenated blood to all the body.
Note — We shall designate the seven branches of the Candlestick by letters to differentiate or distinguish from our regular use of numbers.
(a) The innominate artery coming off of the arch of the aorta typifies the main stem of the candlestick and it gives off (b) the right common carotid and (c) right subclavian arteries; (d) the left common carotid and (e) left subclavian also come off at the arch of the Aorta; while the (f) right and (g) left coronary arteries come off of the ascending Aorta. The descending Aorta in its thoracic portion gives off numerous branches which are too small to diminish its size. The blood circulating through this great vessel, the Aorta, gives life unto the whole body continuously day and night just as the oil burning in the Golden Candlestick furnished continual light unto the Tabernacle. Even the flickering of the light of the candlestick can be likened unto the pulsation of the Aorta and its branches.
#9 - The Golden Table of Shewbread compares with the four-chambered heart. As the Golden Candlestick was placed on the one side of the Holy Place, and the Golden Table of Shewbread on the other side, so is the heart placed more to the left side and the Aorta more to the right side of the body. The four chambers of the heart compares with the four corners of the Table of Shewbread. The bread placed in two stacks on the table signifies the two halves of the heart, the right and the left. The golden crown around the border of the Table corresponds to the coronary (which means crown) vessels encircling the heart, and the heart is truly one’s daily bread for it is by the constant beating of the heart that life is sustained.
#10 - The First Vail separated the Holy Place from (#11) the Outer Court, and entry was by the door seen in our diagram on the left. Immediately before the door is (#12) the Brazen Laver which contained water for washing the sacrificial animals before placing them on (#14) the Brazen Altar of sin offering which is located just inside (#15) the Gate of the Outer Court (the East end of the Court) . The Brazen Laver had a foot or pedestal on which it stood, and the Brazen Altar was a four-cornered furnishing with a horn on each corner where blood was placed during the sacrificial ceremonies. Over the head of the High Priest is pictured a vessel containing (#13) the Holy Anointing Oil which was poured on the head of the Priest, and signified anointing by the Holy Spirit or Quickening.
In our diagram on the right, one can see that (#10) the Diaphragm forms the First Vail and separated the chest cavity from (#11) the abdominal cavity which is the Outer Court of the physical body and that (#12) the two kidneys which are ordinarily located in the right and left flanks of the body are brought together to form a perfect configuration of the Brazen Laver. One might ask the question, WHY then are they (the two kidneys) separated in the physical body? It is to prove conclusively that Yahweh did divide the waters of the Red Sea for Moses and the Israelites, for the kidneys with water therein represent the Red Sea and the Brazen Laver. (The reader will find a fuller explanation of this under the subject of the Excretory System and the Pattern).
The sides and foot of the Brazen Laver are formed by the two ureters descending from the kidneys and the urinary bladder where the urine is held until passage. The protuberances above each kidney represents (#13) the Adrenal Glands which contain the substance adrenaline which quickens the various muscles and other tissues of the body just as the Holy Anointing Oil did the High Priest. The picture-frame configuration of the Large Intestines represent the Brazen Altar, and the small intestines where most of the food is digested (burned) are located within this frame-work. The food thus becomes the sacrifice which is burned on the Altar.
The Gate of the Outer Court corresponds with (#15) the rectal opening by which all solid waste products of digestion are eliminated, just as the skin, hair, and other portions of the sacrificial animals were taken without the camp and discarded or burned.
The bone structure of man’s physical body represents the pillars, bars and boards which were the supporting structures of the Tabernacle. The Tibia bone in the leg or Femur bone in the thigh are good examples of a pillar which made up the Tabernacle; the flat bones such as the Scapula, and bones of the Skull are good examples of boards of the Tabernacle; whereas the short, stubby bones as the Metacarpal bones of the hand, the Metatarsal bones of the foot are good examples of the bars of the Tabernacle.
This then has been a polytechnical comparison of the Mosaic Tabernacle with the Tabernacle of man’s body. But please bear in mind that the physical or visible things point to the invisible or spiritual things (Romans 1:19-20). Yes, Yahshua the Messiah was a physical man just like you or I; but, He was really Yahweh who is Spirit manifested in a visible form. Therefore, all of the component parts or members of our physical body are physical expressions of Spiritual things, such as: Intelligence, Wisdom, Knowledge, Love, Beauty, Justice, Foundation, Power and Strength (nine major ones only) which are the Divine Attributes or members which make up the Spiritual Super Incorporeal Body of Elohim.
In summation: let me say that this simple Yahweh given Pattern not only fits the physical body, but everything in the cosmographical make-up of this Universe. The smallest bit of matter that man has any knowledge of, the Atom, is basically composed of a Proton, Neutron and Electron, corresponding to the Most Holy Place, Holy Place and Outer Court of the Mosaic Tabernacle. And the Scientists to date have found only nine classifications of sub-atomic particles which make up the Atom, which further compares with the nine furnishings of the Tabernacle (the Ark of the Covenant with two (2) Archangels, one on either side, being made of one-piece was a threefold oneness (3 = 1) furnishing in the Most Holy Place; the Golden Altar of Incense, Table of Shewbread, and Golden Candlestick were the three furnishings in the Holy Place; and the Brazen Laver, Holy Anointing Oil, and Brazen Altar of Sacrifice were the three furnishings in the Outer Court).
Let us re-state that the minute Cell whether animal or plant is three-fold, being composed of a nucleolus, a nucleus and cell body. ALL matter is either a gas, liquid or solid; so no matter which way one turns, this Divine Pattern has the situation covered. WHY? Because the pattern is Elohim Himself, for He is the Archetype or Original Pattern of Everything; and the Pattern proves His existence and manifests His ETERNAL PURPOSE operating throughout the Dispensations and Ages.
of Yahweh, and the Tabernacle is the less glorious structure which represents the physical man or Yahshua the Messiah. However, as the Super Incorporeal Elohim and the Intangible Tabernacle are one and the same, so is the Temple and Tabernacle the same. If therefore, the man is a physical Tabernacle he is also a physical Temple. So, after the Israelites had built the physical Tabernacle and had followed it around and finally came to Canaan Land, they had to build a more glorious edifice or building known as Solomon’s Temple which they constructed in Mount Moriah. The Pattern of this Temple was given to David in a Vision by Elohim passing His hand over David’s physical body and showing him how to build the Temple by his own physical anatomy and physiology (as a king sitting on his throne). David wrote about this thusly, “All this," said David, Elohim made me understand in writing by His hand upon me, even all the works of this Pattern” (1 Chronicles 28:19).
Elohim, the Immortal King in Heavenly Jerusalem just laid His Super Incorporeal Body over David’s physical body (David being King in the earthly Jerusalem) in a Vision and made him to know how to build the Temple which specifications he passed on to his son, Solomon, who built the Temple. After the Temple was constructed, then the weather-beaten Tabernacle which stood out on Mount Zion was dismantled and all of the furnishings were moved into the Temple just as Moses had seen it drawn out of the Temple in his Vision.
The Apostle Paul, speaking of this wrote, “For we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of Elohim (the Temple) an house not made with hands, Eternal in the Heavens. For in this (our physical Tabernacle) we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven” (2 Corinthians 5:1-2). And the Apostle Peter wrote in this manner, “Yea, I think it necessary, as long as I am in this Tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle, even as our Saviour Yahshua the Messiah hath showed me” (2 Peter 1:13-14, H.N.B. - when Yahshua took off His physical body or transfigured in Mount Transfiguration, Matthew 17).
So when we examine Solomon’s Temple we find that it was built on Mount Moriah and one had to go up into the Temple from one part to another. It was a three-fold structure just as the Tabernacle, being composed of a Porch (Outer Court), a Sanctuary (Holy Place) and an Oracle (Most Holy Place). The Porch was at the lowest level, the Sanctuary was higher up, and the Oracle was at the highest part of the Temple. The whole structure was fashioned like unto a man sitting on a throne. The two Great Pillars (Joachim and Boaz) that flanked the entrance to the Porch are likened unto the legs of a man in a sitting position. The Porch itself would be likened unto his thighs, the Sanctuary would be likened unto the region of the hips to the neck, and the Oracle with its rounded dome would be likened unto the head region of a man. And the Temple being overlaid with gold without and within pertains to the glorious excellence of the Spiritual Edifice or Body, the inner cavities of man’s physical body is lined also with a glistening gold appearing layer depicting the excellence of the inner man or the Soul.
In confirmation of all that Moses SAW in his Vision, the Apostle John (shown on the inner cover) was on the Isle of Patmos as a witness, and he described the same Super Incorporeal Form of a man that Moses SAW, and he likened it unto the Tabernacle. His description of this Man (Elohim) fits the Tabernacle exactly. He said that he SAW One like unto the Son of Man clothed with a garment down to his feet, (likened unto the coverings of the Tabernacle), and girt about the paps with a golden girdle (likened unto the vessels of gold in the Holy Place and Most Holy Place).
John further said that his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow (likened unto the cloud above the Mercy Seat in the Most Holy Place) and his eyes were as a flame of fire (likened unto the Shekinah or glorious image of Light that the High Priest witnessed in the Most Holy Place in the Cloud); and his feet like unto fine brass (likened unto the vessels of brass in the Outer Court of the Tabernacle), as if they burned in a furnace (likened unto the Fire on the Brazen Altar in the Outer Court).
right hand upon him (Revelation 1:8-18, H.N.B., 1:7-18 K.J.V.). Thus, John confirms Moses’ description of the Super Incorporeal Form transforming itself into an Intangible Tabernacle, and he describes it as a Man.
John further stated that he was given a REED like unto a ROD and was told to rise and measure the Temple of Yahweh, and the Altar (Altar of Sacrifice) but to leave out the Court Without (Revelation 11:1-2; 21:15-17 K.J.V.). And that is exactly what we are doing in this treatise for we are measuring and comparing the Temple and Tabernacle or the Divine Pattern or the Rod with man’s physical body, but since we understand that the physical things are only types and shadows of the Spiritual things, we leave out the flesh or the Court Without.
The Apostle John also spoke of seeing the Temple of the Tabernacle of Yahweh opened in Heaven, and the Temple was filled with smoke from the Glory of Yahweh, and from His Power, and this perfectly fits Moses’ seeing Elohim breathe into the nostrils of Adam the Breath of Life (smoke) and he became a Living Soul, typifying the inner man (Revelation 15:5-8). John furthermore witnesses the crucifixion of Yahshua the Messiah (the fleshly Tabernacle or Temple) at age thirty-three (33) years, just as Moses witnessed Yahweh telling him how to construct the Tabernacle and how it was to function throughout the remaining thirty-three (33) days of his Vision in the Mount after he had witnessed the Creation of the Universe in six (6) days and SAW Yahweh rest on the seventh (7th) day, he was in the Mount a total of forty (40) days. Likewise, Solomon’s Temple stood unmolested for thirty-three (33) years before it was pillaged by Shishak from Egypt. Hence, man’s physical body has thirty-three (33) vertebrae which cause him to stand erect or upright in the eyesight of Yahweh. And as He picked twelve (12) disciples to minister with Him who functioned in the Dispensation of Grace (the Apostles) in fulfillment of the Twelve (12) Heads of the Tribes of Israel who were gathered around the Tabernacle in the Wilderness; hence, the Apostle John spoke of the twenty-four (24) Elders around the Throne of Yahweh (Revelation 4:4). Therefore, the physical man must have twelve (12) ribs on one side of his body and twelve (12) ribs on the other side of his body, making a total of twenty-four (24) ribs gathered around the vertebral column.
Spirit and who accordingly make up the Spiritual Body of Elohim.
The gold being pressed into these carved figures of angels, and overlaying them with gold, represents the taking on of the glorified and immortal body that all who believe will receive instantaneously at the appearing of Elohim, whom all mankind will see--both dead and alive. And the Apostle Paul wrote, “For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we are expecting our Saviour King, Yahshua the Messiah; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself” (Philippians 3:20-21).


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Kids playing in kayaks and on Stand up Paddle Boards (SUPs) learn really fast, and have a blast doing it. You can come week after week because each week is a little different – total fun in kayaks that rock! You bring picnic lunch and we’ll do the rest.
Get the family outside and have fun on the water. Learn basic paddling skills at your own pace. Some of the things you and your family will learn include – gettin’ in & out, how to manouver your boat or board & stay afloat and what to do if you tip over.
The nice thing about the Family Fun Clinic is that there’s no pressure – your instructors are there to make it a fun and safe environment that everybody can learn in.
We’ve designed this family daytrip to give your family a safe adventure out in the protected island waters and channels near our Centre.
To do that, we’ll gather first at our Paddling Centre on Cole Lake for introductions and orientation to the kayaks. We’ll make sure everyone is in a boat that fits them properly, and in some cases we’ll put the younger ones with an adult in a tandem (double). We’ll cover basic strokes and safety including asking everyone to do a wet exit – which is really quite fun and simple to do.
Once we get off the water, dried off, snacked, and loaded up – we’ll drive to our put in & head out to the islands for the rest of the day. Bring your own picnic lunch for your family, and we’ll make sure there’s time for swimming in the crystal clear island waters. We want the children to have a good time, so the emphasis will be on going at their pace.
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