Will you take your Bible with me and look at the 6 chapter of Matthew? Earlier in our worship, the choir sang what is known to us as the Lord's Prayer, and that is the theme of our study. We're examining Matthew 6:9-15 in these days, and looking particularly this morning at verse 9, the first phrase of this prayer. I want, however, to read the entire prayer through verse 13, so that you'll have it in mind as we approach it this morning. Matthew 6, beginning in verse 9.
There are two spiritual activities which are to be unceasingly part of a believer's life, two great pillars that hold up the believer in the matter of daily living. One is the study of the Word of God. Two, prayer. Thus did the apostles confess in Acts 6:4, "We will give ourselves continually to prayer, and the ministry of the Word." Prayer is our speaking to God. Studying the Word is God speaking to us. Those two things are the composite interchange between man and God. And so the Bible speaks that we are unceasingly to be involved in both, constantly, daily, feeding on the Word of God; constantly, daily responding in communion with God.
Clear back in the Pentateuch, the affirmation of God's will recording his law and giving it to man was that man would talk of the law when he sat down, when he stood up, when he was lying down, and when he was walking in the way. Man was, through the Psalmist, to meditate on the law of God day and night. The law of God, then, was to be a matter of his thoughts and a matter of his conversation all the time.
So with prayer. The apostle Paul says, "Pray without ceasing." The apostle Paul says, "Praying always, with all prayer and supplication." The New Testament tells us that we are "in everything, by prayer, with thanksgiving to make our requests known unto God." We are to be praying at all times. We are to be studying the Word, taking it in, meditating on it, giving it out at all times. Those two things, then, become the consuming element of the life of the believer: Hearing God as he speaks in his Word and speaking to God in our own prayers.
Now we've studied much about the taking in of the Word of God in the past and shall again in the future. But for this time we're focusing on prayer. Prayer, one of those two constants in the believer's life. George Mueller, that great man of prayer, was asked how much time he spent in prayer. His reply was, "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk, when I lie down, and when I rise. The answers are always coming." Prayer, for him, was a way of life.
Our Lord knows that. Our Lord knows that prayer is to be a way of life. Our Lord here stops in the midst of his discourse on the sermon on the mount, which particularly compares the false standard of religion of the Pharisees and the scribes with the true standard of God, and he interjects a word of instruction to all of those who name his name, in order that they might know how they are to pray.
Prayers a very important thing. If it is a way of life for us, then it's needful for us to understand how to pray. In fact, this very same model prayer which he gives here is also given in Luke in response to the question, "Lord, teach us to pray." If prayer is something we are to do unceasingly, then best we know how to do it properly. And so our Lord teaches us to pray.
Notice what he doesn't teach us. He doesn't teach us about the posture of prayer, because any posture will do. In the Bible people prayed standing, lifting up their hands, sitting, kneeling, lifting up their eyes, bowing down, placing their head between their knees, pounding on their breast, facing a temple, et cetera, et cetera. There was no specific posture.
Notice he doesn't tell us anything about the place of prayer. People in the Bible prayed in battle, in a cave, in a closet, in a garden, on a mountainside, by a river, by the sea, in the street, in God's house. First Timothy says, "Let men pray everywhere." In the Bible people prayed in bed, in a home, in a fish even, on a housetop, in a prison, by the sea, in solitude, in the wilderness, on a cross, and so forth.
He doesn't tell us about the times of prayer. I remember a man preaching a sermon to a bunch of ministers and he preached on why the Bible teaches that mornings are for prayer and we should pray in the morning. And I examined my Bible and in the Bible I find people praying in the early morning, in the morning, three times a day, in the evening, before meals, after meals, at the ninth hour, at bedtime, at midnight, day and night, today, often, when they're young, when they're old, in trouble, every day, and always.
Jesus doesn't tell us a specific time, a specific place, a specific posture. There are some people who when they pray they feel they have to have their prayer shawl on. The Jewish people today, when they pray they have to dress for their prayer, but as you find in the Bible people prayed in all kinds of circumstances in attitudes: Sometimes wearing sackcloth, sometimes sitting in ashes, sometimes shaving their heads, smiting the breast, crying out, applying dust to their head, tearing their garments, fasting, sighing, groaning, crying loud, sweating blood, agonizing with broken hearts, broken spirits, pouring out their hearts, rendering the hearts the Bible says, making an oath, offering a sacrifice, offering praise, singing songs, et cetera.
Those aren't the issues. In any posture, in any time, in any place, under any circumstance and in any attire prayer is fitting because prayer is a total way of life. Prayer is an open communion with God that goes on at all times. Sometimes it becomes more concentrated and intense than other times, but prayer is a way of life. And if it is a way of life, then we need to understand how to pray, and that is precisely why Jesus teaches us here. This is not a prayer to be prayed so much as it is a model for all prayers. I really think the most important message that I will preach to you on this entire series I gave you last Sunday. If you didn't get it, you need to listen to the tape because it sets for you the whole purview of this entire concept in this, the disciples' prayer.
"In this manner, pray" does not necessarily mean "in these exact words," and I think people who have just taken this in its own exactness recited it again and again have lost its meaning, which is to be for us a skeleton outline for a definition for all prayer. All praying is to follow the pattern and the model given here.
Now, in our last study we noted that the major thrust of this prayer is that it focuses on the glory of God, and that is fitting because that is what all prayer is to do. Prayer is not trying to get God to agree with me. Prayer is not trying to line God up with what I need. Prayer is myself affirming the sovereignty and majesty of God, and taking my will and making it submissive to his. That's true prayer.
We know that in John 14:13-14 our dear Lord says that when we ask anything in his name he hears us in order that the Father may be glorified. Prayer is not for you to get what you want or me to get what I want, prayer is to put the majesty of God on display. It is that God may be glorified. All prayer focuses, then, on God, and this prayer is no different.
In studying the prayers of the Old Testament - which I've been doing the last couple of weeks to get a feeling for how the Jewish people approached prayer - I was amazed to find that even in the deepest, most severe circumstance, even in a pit of despair that we couldn't even imagine, before a true saint of God would enter into a prayer, most frequently he would worship God.
For example, I was reading in Jonah. Jonah was in the belly of a great fish, in an unbelievable circumstance that no one could even relate to. Talk about fear, talk about misery. There he is in the belly of a great fish, and in chapter 2 of Jonah he begins a prayer, and you would think that he would dispense with all of the amenities and just get down to, "Get me out of here, God." But Jonah begins with a marvelous anthem of worship and praise, because no man can really ask God for something unless he affirms that God has the sovereign right to say yes or no. That's the basis, our will to be brought into submission to him.
I read Daniel chapter 9, and Daniel is on the precipice of disaster all the time because of the strategic place that he stands in the midst of a pagan Babylonian society. In the perplexity that was gripping him at that time he bowed to pray, and in the midst of a terrible situation he utters his prayer, and the whole prayer opens up, almost ignoring the situation with an affirmation of the majesty, and the glory, and the dignity, and the holiness, and the almighty character of sovereign God.
I got a little further in my study and I came to Jeremiah 32, and dear Jeremiah who spent most of his life in frustration, confusion, and perplexity, who spent most of his times weeping because of his broken heart over his people, begins to pour out a prayer to God in the midst of his perplexity, and it turns out to be nothing but a recitation of God's majesty, attribute after attribute, as it begins.
Why do that do that? And why does this begin, "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done"? And why does it end "for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever"? Because God is the focus of all prayer. Prayer is to give God the privilege of displaying his majesty. It is to bring my life into harmony with his will.
Now do you see, people? This is the typical prayer of the Old Testament saint who knew what prayer was all about. Prayer was all about setting God in his rightful place, and then bringing my will into submission to his. And that's exactly what he does in verse 11, beautifully. "Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth." Stop there for a minute. Do you notice that he doesn't even mention yet the request in his heart. He doesn't even bring that up. He just says, "First of all, I want to acknowledge that you're God and you have a right to do what you want. Secondly, I want to acknowledge that I submit to your way and your will." And this this magnificent statement at the end of verse 11. "Unite my heart to fear thy name." Make my heart one with your heart. That's prayer. Prayer is just bending and bowing submissively to the will of God. Then in verse 12, no matter what happens, "I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore." Now that's prayer. That's prayer. And you can't separate it from praise. Setting God in his rightful place as sovereign and bringing our own lives submissively into his will.
Now with that in mind go back to Matthew 6, and that was just a brief look at the theme of the prayer as God's character and person. We covered it in great detail last time.
But look again at how I've outlined this prayer, would you? Very, very simply, this prayer, every facet, every short, power-packed statement in this prayer focuses on God, every one. "Our Father who art in heaven," that is God's paternity. "Hallowed be thy name," that is God's priority. "Thy kingdom come," that is God's program. "Thy will be done," that is God's purpose. "Give us this day our daily bread," that is God's provision. "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors," that is God's pardon. "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," that is God's protection. "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever, amen," that is God's preeminence. Every phase speaks of God.
Prayer, then, is to put God in his infinite, majestic place. Let's look at the first one: God's paternity. "Our Father who art in heaven." You know, beloved, I could spend weeks on this one phrase. It literally opens up to me so much. These are the hardest kinds of sermons to preach, where there is so much that can be said that you don't know what to pick and choose, and what to leave out. But just notice that phrase: "Our father who art in heaven." That's the invocation that begins the prayer.
If you think about it, that's probably the most common term we use in our prayers. Father, Father, Father; again and again, rightly so, for this is the pattern that Jesus sets. Prayer begins with a recognition that God is our Father. Tremendous truth in that thought. God is our father. Now what does that say to you? Well, let me say beginningly that the word "our" has reference to believing people. And so the negative fact of "our Father" is that it is a death blow to the liberal teaching of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
Liberals, for years, have taught what is the universal fatherhood of God. God is everybody's father. We're all the children of God, and we're all brothers. Well, there's only one sense in which that's true and that's all, just one, and that is in the sense of creation. That is in the sense of creation. We are only children of God universally insofar as we have been created by God.
Malachi 2:10 "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" In the sense that God has created us, we are one. Acts 17, Paul says, "we are all his offspring." And he says that to the philosophers on Mars Hill. In a sense of creation, yes, God is our father. In a sense of relation, no, he is not.
Jesus said in John 8:44 to the Jewish leaders, "You are of your father the devil." In 1 John chapter 3, John very clearly characterizes two families: The children of God, and the children of the devil. The children of God do not continue to commit sin, the children of the devil do, and so he makes the clear distinction between the two families. The apostle Paul makes a clear distinction between children of light and children of darkness. There is not simply one family of mankind under one universal fatherhood of God. There are two families in the world: the children of God and the children of the devil.
Jesus makes that abundantly clear. There's no way around that. Peter says in 2 Peter 1:4 that only those who believe have been made "partakers of the divine nature." Only those of us who have been born again have been born into the family of God. Only "as many as received him" had the right to be called "the sons of God," John 1:12. There are two families. So the very statement of Jesus, "Our Father," eliminates a world of unbelieving people.
There's a positive side to this, not just the elimination of that. But the positive is, "Our Father" is an affirmation of an intimacy with God that is wondrous. Because, you see, for most of the world the gods and/or god they worshipped was a very distant, remote, and fearful being. Sadly, there was an amazing remoteness even in the Jewish thinking of Jesus' day. The Old Testament Jew, the saint of God in the Old Testament, understood something of the fatherhood of God. There's no question about that. He understood that God was the Father. I think they understood it more in a national sense than they did in a personal sense. I think they understood it more in terms of God's sort of overall care of the nation Israel than they ever understood the intimacy of a relationship with God as a personal Father.
I don't think it was until Jesus came that men really understood the intimacy of God. And I think that's illustrated graphically when Philip says to Jesus, "Show us the Father," and Jesus says, "Have you been so long with me, Philip, you don't know if you've seen me, you've seen the father?" I think it was Jesus that brought us the intimacy of that, but in the Old Testament, the Old Testament Jew really did understand God as a Father, more in a national sense than in a personal sense.
As time went on, and you come to the time of Jesus, they lost the Father concept of God. God became more and more remote, and I don't think it was God that moved. I think they moved. As they moved away from true religion, as they moved away from true worship, and they redefined their system to tolerate sinfulness, they cut themselves off from God's fatherly care. Therefore, they assumed that God was remote, and they even stopped using God's names. It became a blasphemous thing to even mention the name of God. They had developed a wide gulf. They had lost the sense of God's fatherhood, even in a national way that they had known it in the past.
Verse 7 says, "And there is not even any that calls on your name, none that stir up themselves to take hold of you: for you've hidden your face from us, and consumed us, because of our iniquities." God, we feel lost. We feel cut loose. We are so evil, we don't even seek you anymore. We can't even find you anymore. That's a pretty desperate situation.
And to what does Isaiah then appeal? Verse 8, beautifully he says, "But now, O Lord, thou art our Father - " stop right there. You see, he reaffirms the comforting reality that God is a Father, and fathers take care of their children. You see, they understood that. They understood something of the concept of God as a Father. Even though we're sinful, you're still our Father.
Let me just tell you, if I can sum it up, in a sense, that the Jews in the Old Testament saw in the fatherhood of God five basic things. I don't know if this is a comprehensive five, it's just what I saw. Number one, they realized that God was a father in terms of his begetting. They saw the begetting of God as an act of a father. In 1 Chronicles it says of him that he is "the God of Israel our Father." That's a title. The God of Israel our Father. In other words, the one who has begotten the nation.
Secondly, in the concept of father, the Jews saw the nearness of God. A father is one who is in a family relationship. A father, not like an uncle, or a cousin, or a friend, or a neighbor, a father is a filial relation. And so they saw in the term "father" something of nearness. To get an illustration of this - I'm not going to take time to turn to it - read Psalm 68. It is really amazing.
In Psalm 68, there is this discussion of God and his power, and it talks about God being on a high hill, and it talks about God riding the clouds, and it talks about his chariots are 20,000, and his chariots are angels, and God is flying through the sky, and ascending great mounts of holiness. And then it comes way off of that and it says, "And he is a father to the fatherless." And he puts us in a family. Isn't that great? They knew the majesty of God, they understood something of the remoteness of God, but they also knew that he was a father to the fatherless, and that God put people in a family. So they saw his nearness.
Thirdly, I believe the Jews, in seeing the concept of God as a Father, saw his loving grace. A father is forgiving, a father is tender-hearted, a father is merciful, a father is gracious to his children. And thus did they say in Psalm 103, "As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." He is like a merciful father. He is like a condescending, gracious, and gentle, kind father. So thoughtful, so gracious. That's how they saw God.
Fourthly, I believe the Jews of the Old Testament saw the fatherhood of God in terms of his guidance. A father guides his children, doesn't he? He leads them, shows the direction to go, gives them wisdom and instruction. That's the way they saw it. In Jeremiah 31:9 it says, "They will come with weeping, they will come with supplications and I will lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: - " why? " - for I am a father to Israel." God says, "I'll guide them. I'll lead them by the river. I'll them in a straight way. I'll make sure they don't fall." Why? "I'm their father, and a father guides, and a father loves, and a father stays near, and a father begets," you see.
But all of that didn't sentimentalize God to them, because there was a fifth thing that they saw. They had to see that because God was their Father, they were required to obey him. That was their part. God would beget, and God would be near, and God would be gracious, and God would also guide them, and they were to respond to him in obedience.
In Deuteronomy chapter 32 there's a simple statement that reiterates this, and we could look at other Scriptures, but just this. They corrupted themselves, they were sinful, and the word comes, "Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your Father who hath bought you?" Can you treat your Father with disobedience, disrespect? So they understood him as a Father, perhaps in a more general way. But nonetheless, they understood him as a Father; begetting, loving, living alongside, guiding, and training them in obedience, and they knew they were responsible to obey. This a Jewish concept.
You know, later on in the sermon on the mount - go back to Matthew 7:7 - Jesus reiterates this concept. He says, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that ask receive; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." Why? Why is God going to do this? Why is God going to hear you when you ask? Why is God going to open when you knock ? Why is God going to help you find when you seek? Why?
Because God is like this. And he goes on in verse 9, "Of what man is there of you, whom if his son shall ask him bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your - " what? " - Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" They, again, are introduced to the fact that God is a beneficent, caring, loving, sustaining Father, just as a father in the world takes care of the needs of his children.
But I think they had a remoteness - as we go back to what Jesus says in chapter 6 - which had caused him to lose this sense of intimacy. I think all they had left was the pagan concept. You know, the Greeks called Zeus "Father Zeus." And in connection with "Father Zeus," the term came to mean "lord" or "ruler." It lost all of its intimacy. It didn't have any intimacy left.
And by the way, Zeus was a pretty rotten god. I just want you to know that. There was a nice god named Prometheus, and Prometheus looked down in the world, according to the Greek legend, and Prometheus said that there was no fire in the world. And men were cold at night, and fires are not only good for keeping warm, they're good for lots of things: Popcorn, and marshmallows, and fellowship, and stuff.
And Prometheus looked down on the world and he said that it's not good that man doesn't have fire. So Prometheus gave the world fire, and Father Zeus got so mad at Prometheus that he took Prometheus in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, found a rock sticking out of the water, and he chained Prometheus to that rock and left him there through all of the terrible heat of the day, and the thirst of the day, and the cold of the night, and constantly tore – I think it was he said some kind of a bird with claws - that ripped his liver out, and Prometheus, according to the legend would always grow a new liver, and so always he was having that done to him. The Greeks said that's what Father Zeus thinks about doing something good for people.
Now that's the context of this day. "Father" didn't mean anything. It had lost its meaning. And to the Pharisees and the scribes to think of God as a Father was a very empty thought. It meant no more than a lord, or a god, or a ruler, or a king. Jesus uses it in a new fashion. Jesus injects into it something rich, something special, something intimate. Not just in the word that he says, as we shall see, but in the way he brought God to men, right? Jesus made that intimacy possible.
By the way, when Jesus prayed he always used the word "Father;" over 70 times the word "Father," he always used it. Only one prayer did he ever pray and not use the word "Father." Do you know what prayer that was? "My God, my God why has thou - " what? " - forsaken me?" Only in sin-bearing was he separated from the Father, and only then did he not say, "Father." All the other times the intimacy of that relationship was expressed, and only in that one temporary moment, when it was broken by sin-bearing did he ever address God in any other term.
Listen, when you go to God and say, "Father," you're not talking about Father Goose or father anybody else, some beneficent person who wants to drop golden eggs, or Mother Goose, or whatever else. And we're not talking about some deity who is totally unconcerned and is a father only in a sense that is leadership or headship. We're talking about somebody beneficently loving, somebody personally involved, somebody absolutely intimate.
Let me take it a step further. I studied a little bit this week about the philosophies of that day and I found out some interesting things. There were two major philosophies existing at the time of Christ in the Greek or Roman world. They are known as the Stoics and Epicureans. You've read about them, right? The Stoics had one essential attribute for gods. They said the major attribute of a god is apatheia. We get the word "apathetic" from it. Now apatheia to the Greek is the essential in ability to experience any feeling.
Now, the Greeks said this. If a person can feel love, he can be hurt. If a person can feel joy, he can feel sadness. If a person can feel happy, he can feel unhappy. So, therefore, the gods do not feel anything or they could be hurt. So they choose, then, to be totally passionless, emotionless, incapable of any feeling. They are apathetic and indifferent. That's the Stoic view of Gods. Totally emotionless, passionless, indifferent.
The Epicureans had a little different idea. They said the supreme quality of the deities is ataraxia. Ataraxia is a term which means "complete serenity, complete calm, perfect peace." Now they said if the gods get involved in human affairs, they'll lose their calm, right? They'll lose their cool. If they get in the mess in the world, they will never be able to maintain their serenity. Therefore, the Gods are detached. And they had what we call today a "deistic view," that there is a power up there that gets it all going and then walks away because he doesn't want to get involved.
H.G. Wells, in one of his novels, painted a picture of a man defeated by the stress and strain and tension of modern life. And the man was dying, and he was told by somebody who was a very saintly man that his only hope was fellowship in God. And he said, "What? That up there having fellowship with me? I would just as soon think of cooling my throat with a milky way or shaking hands with a star." The Stoic sees his emotionless god, the Epicurean sees his utterly detached god, the modern philosopher sees god as the dark, dreaming, dumb Thing that turns the handle of the idle show. Even the Jew of Jesus time sees God as a father only in a remote, distance, faded, past sense with little meaning.
To all of that confusion, Jesus simply utters without explanation two words, "Our Father." Our Father. And in so doing, cracks open a shell that empties upon us marvelous new dimensions of meaning. The term in the Greek is pater. Jesus didn't use that term. Jesus spoke Aramaic when he talked, though the Bible was written Greek. There's little doubt in my mind that he used the term abba, for abba was the familiar term. Abba was the endearing term used by a little child for its father. In fact, the Talmud says that the first thing ever learned was to say abba and ima.
We don't come to God like Father in terms of the way the Jews used to think, just some deity responsible for the whole nation. We don't come to God as some indifferent, detached deal. We come to God as an intimate father. We use the term "abba." This is an answer to modern skepticism. This is the answer to the confusion of the Pharisees. This is the answer to the philosophers.
Let me close our thoughts this morning by summing all this up. What does it mean that God's our Father? What does it mean that we can go to him as Father? Listen to this. Number one, it means the end of fear. It means the end of fear. Missionaries tell us that one of the greatest gifts that Christianity brings to heathen society is the certainty that God is a loving, caring father, because heathen people live under the fear of their gods.
If you've read the book The Lords of the Earth you'd know the incredible, unbelievable fear that those people lived under before they were released by faith in Christ. This has been repeated a thousand thousand times around the world as false religions have lived under absolute fear until coming to know the loving Father through the loving Son. They believe in gods. Their worlds literally are jammed full of gods that are jealous, hostile, grudging, vengeance-prone gods, in whom they live in absolute fear. And that's why it's so wonderful when Jesus says, "Our Father." It puts the end to fear. You don't have to fear God. He's your father through Christ.
Secondly, I believe God as a Father settles the matter of hope. Hope. You know, the world is hostile? There are iron laws in this world that when you break those laws, you do it at your own peril. You sin, and consequences come, and "the wages of sin is death." No wonder Voltaire said that life is a bad joke. No wonder he said men are fools, drowning in a sea of mud. He had no hope. It was all crashing down. That's because he didn't have a loving Father.
I remember as a little boy one time my dad set me on a corner and he said, "Wait for me. I'll come back and get you." And he didn't come, and he didn't come, and it got dark, and it got darker and darker, and I was alone on the corner. Finally, he'd had car trouble, and he came back hours and hours after the stores were closed, and I was standing in the dark. Of course, he hugged me, and wondered if I'd been upset, and I don't remember all these details. He just told me I said, "No. I'm not upset because you told me you'd come back and I was just waiting for you." That's the love of a child for a father. That's the hope. But in the midst of a hostile world that's falling apart, God is our Father and he'll take care of it.
Thirdly, I think it settles the matter of loneliness. If God is a Father, then that's something lonely people need to know about, right? The heart knows loneliness. The heart knows bitterness, the loss of self-worth, and unworthiness, self-despair. We all suffer pity, self-pity. We desperately need respect. Where are we going to get that? Is there anybody who knows us for what we are and loves us for that? Is there anybody who can lift us up and give us value? Is there anybody who can make us feel like we have a friend?
God can. He's our Father. He's our Father. He said, "Lo I am with you always. I'm a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." The fatherhood of God settles the matter of loneliness.
Fourthly, I think this phrase here settles the matter of selfishness. Would you look at it again? It says, "Our Father," not my father, "Our Father." And Jesus teaches us what I told you last week - and I'll just hit at it because we covered last week - that prayer is something which isn't selfish. It embraces the community of faith, always. In fact, there's no singular personal pronoun in this entire prayer. When you pray, don't pray centered on yourself. Pray with your arms around everybody else. Ephesians 6:18 says, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication - " listen to this " - for all saints." Pray for everybody.
You know, if you just focus on yourself, you've missed the point. He's not your Father, he's not my Father, he's "Our Father." The very use of the word "our" ends all claims to exclusiveness.
Fifthly, God as a Father settles the matter of resources, because it says, "Our Father who art - " where? Where? " - in heaven." Listen. When you go to your father for resources you don't say, "Oh, Lord, I know there's not much to draw from in the world." Listen, he's not drawing from the world. He's drawing from heaven. I believe that this adds a dimension that just carries us out of our trouble. "Our father who art in heaven - " he has all of the supernatural domain at his disposal. All that heaven is, all that it means in Ephesians to be "blessed in the heavenlies with all spiritual blessing" is available in him. He is a loving Father who has all the resources of heaven.
Arthur Pink says, "If God is in heaven, then prayer needs to be a thing of the heart and not the lips, for no physical voice on earth can rend the skies." If God is in heaven, then our souls must be detached from the earth. If we pray to God in heaven, then faith must wing our petitions.
You want satisfaction? God has it at his disposal. If you want fairness? God has it in the heavenlies. Peace, fellowship, knowledge, victory, boldness, it's all there. I pray to a Father who has absolutely eternal resources. Oh, what a great thought.
Sixthly, seeing God as a Father settles the matter of obedience. There used to be a commitment to obey your father, I don't know if it's around anymore. It was so important that in the Old Testament, God said if you find a disobedient child stone him, because I want the world to know that you're to obey your father. Because that's a mirror picture of how you're to respond to God your father. That settles the matter of obedience. My children are to obey me, and I'm an unworthy father. We are to obey him, and he is an infinitely worth father.
The whole point of the fatherhood of God comes down to the fact that we are to obey. Jesus obeyed the father. He said, "I didn't come to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me." He said, "My mete is to do the father's will. Nevertheless not my will, but yours be done." If he can assign himself a place of subserviency in perfection, certainly we can be subservient in our imperfection.
Finally, it settles the matter of wisdom. If God is the Father, then he is infinitely wiser than we are. Do you remember the old television program Father Knows Best? That will never play again. That will never play again. But Father does, and we're right back where we started, submissive to his will, because it is the best.
Now listen to me. What happens when you know God is your father? First, it removes fear; secondly, it provides hope; thirdly, it ends loneliness; fourthly, it does away with selfishness because he's "Our Father;" fifthly, it provides infinite heavenly resources because he's "Our Father in heaven;" sixthly, it demands obedience; and seventhly, it declares wisdom.
So to begin a prayer, "Our Father which art in heaven," is to indicate my eagerness to come as a child beloved to a loving Father, to receive all that his love can possibly give me. Now, when you pray, will you pray in this manner? Let's bow together.
Lord, every time I say "our Father" I know I'm not lost in the crowd. Every time I say that, I know you're there. I know you're there removing my fear, providing hope, taking away loneliness, doing away with selfishness, providing vast and infinite heavenly resources, calling for my obedience, and affirming your absolute wisdom. Oh, what a thing it is to have you as a Father.
In all our prayers, dear Lord, may we come with a deep sense of gratitude that you are our father to whom we can say daddy, papa, abba, in intimacy because you care. You didn't just make us subjects of your kingdom. You didn't just make us servants to your will. You didn't just call us "friends." You made us sons, and daughters, your children, and told us to call you "Father." Thank you. And may we be obedient children, may we who are your children live and walk as your children should. For your glory in Christ's name, amen.


5 – Hi, _______ name is Phong. I'm a student.
6 – ________ do you live? I live on Tran Phu street.
7 – What is _____? It is a schoolbag.
8 – Every morning, Ba ______ up at six o'clock.
9 – When do you have English? I have it ________ Monday and Thursday.
10 – What time ____ you get up? I get up at five o'clock.
11 – Are there any flowers to the left of your house? _____________.
12 – I go to the __________ to send the letter.
13 – Which sentence is correct?
A. Do your brother watches TV in the evening?
B. Is your brother watches TV in the evening?
C. Does your brother watches TV in the evening?
D. Does your brother watch TV in the evening?
14 – Which sentence is correct?
A. There is a flower garden to the left of the house.
B. There is a flowers garden to the left of the house.
C. There is a flower garden the left of the house.
D. There is a flower gardens to the left of the house.
15 – " It's 9:45 now." means: ________________.
C. It's forty- five nine D. It's a quarter to nine.
A. There is big well in front of the house.
B. There are big wells in front of the house.
C. There is a big well in front of the house.
D. There are big well in front of the house.
17 – Phuong lives in a apartment in town.
Nga is twelve years old. She is in grade six, class 6A1. She lives in a house with her mother, father and sister. Their house is next to a bookstore. In the neighborhood, there is a hospital, a market and a stadium.
Nga's father is a doctor. He works in the hospital. Her mother works in the super market. Nga goes to school at six- thirty in the morning. She has classes from seven to eleven thirty.
Nga is twelve years old. She is in grade six, class 6A1. She lives in a house with her mother, father and sister. Their house is next to a bookstore. In the neighborhood, there is a hospital, a market and a stadium. Nga's father is a doctor. He works in the hospital. Her mother works in the super market. Nga goes to school at six- thirty in the morning. She has classes from seven to eleven thirty.
__________ 19 – There are four people in Nga's family.
__________ 20 – Nga's father works in the factory.
__________ 21 – Her mother works in the supermarket.
__________ 22 – Classes start at seven and finish at twelve.
23 – How old is Nga ?
24 – What does her father do?
25 – Is their house next to a hospital?
26 – What time do her classes finish?
33. How many students are there in your class?
34. How do you go to school?
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Q: Keras: How to calculate total memory required for model.fit() Every time I hit the OOM headboard it hangs and I'm forced to restart the kernel in Spyder.
For a 2dLocallyConnected network, how can I calculate the memory required for various batch sizes?
Edit* Code wasn't included because I was hoping for a general answer.  Something along the lines of # of parameters * 4 bits + size of batch * some constant.
Here is an example network:
model = Sequential([
LocallyConnected2D(100, kernel_size=(10, 20), strides=1, padding='valid', activation='relu', input_shape=(10, 90, 1)),
 Flatten(),

Dense(1, activation='sigmoid')
])
model.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer='adam', metrics=['accuracy'])

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Q: Comparing two strings with Regular Expressions in JavaScript I'm fairly new to regular expressions and I'm trying to compare two strings together using regex as a place holder/wildcard for certain values that can change in the string that I'm not concerned with. However, if I implement the following code:
var regex = /my .* is/;

var str1 = "Hello, my name is... not important.";
var str2 = "Hello, " + regex + "... not important.";

var result = str1 === str2;

console.log(str1);
console.log(str2);
console.log(result);

I would expect the return to be:
"Hello, my name is... not important."
"Hello, my name is... not important."
true

Instead I get this:
"Hello, my name is... not important."
"Hello, /my .* is/... not important."
false

Can anyone enlighten me as to what's going on and how I might fix it?

A: As you yourself noted, concatenating an object (in this case, a regex instance) to strings will coerce the object to string. This is expected behavior.
What you want instead is regex.test(string) (string.match(regex) would also work but is not as semantically accurate).

let regex1 = /my .* is/;
let regex2 = /^Hello, my .* is... not important\.$/;

let str = "Hello, my name is... not important.";

console.log(str);
console.log(regex1);
console.log(regex2);
console.log(regex1.test(str));
console.log(regex2.test(str));

regex1 will test for the phrase my _blank_ is, while regex2 will test for the exact statment mtaching Hello... important.

A: When concatenating any variable with a string in javascript, javascript will cast everything to a string and concatenate. For example,
var a = 5;
var str = "The value of a is " + a;
console.log(str)

would print "The value of a is 5"
This is causing the value of str2 to be "Hello, /my .* is/... not important."
Look at this answer for comparing two strings with wildcards.


Two Shakespearian characters mysteriously appeared in our bespoke lampposts when they were installed as part of Enchanted Parks in Gateshead.
Inspired by the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the overall theme of this after-dark arts adventure was 'A Winters Tale'.
Over 10,000 people visited the event at Saltwell Park over 5 consecutive nights.The conversation between the 2 characters lasted 7 minutes and was on a continuous loop.


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Q: Powershell script for comparing two directories and excluding certain files The short is that I have two external hard drives (labelled T: and V:) along with my primary SSD; I use T: strictly for media storage, and V: should simply be a mirrored backup of that. One twist is that I slightly amend certain file names on T: after a video has been watched by putting a hash in front of it (to signify which video in the list I'm upto). Example: 1. Pilot, #2. Show, 3. Game ... watch ep 2, it becomes: 1. Pilot, 2. Show, #3. Game.
I now have really weak, useless code, sorry. I'm fairly new to Powershell and I don't want anyone to waste their summer's day doing it all, but any suggestions to get me going? Really, I'm focused on any sort of exclusion/ignore provision for files which are 99% comparable; i.e. #2. Show vs 2. Show (I know about the count from left/right function but can't seem to get it to work how I want it to).
Thanks and sorry for the muddled question.
Code atm: gci -recurse -path C:\V\TV, C:\T | Where-Object {$_.name -like "*.txt*"} | Group -noelement | where {$_.count -eq 1} |  Sort-Object -Property Name
`Count Name

1 #Goodbye - Copy (20).txt
1 #Goodbye - Copy (6).txt
1 #Hello - Copy (21).txt
1 #Hello - Copy (7).txt
1 Goodbye - Copy (20).txt
1 Goodbye - Copy (6).txt
1 Hello - Copy (21).txt
1 Hello - Copy (7).txt`

A: If you simply want to know what are the differences between the two, the following script is what you might want:
$T = Get-ChildItem T: -Recurse
$V = Get-ChildItem V: -Recurse
Compare-Object $T $V

or in its compact form:
compare (ls T: -Recurse) (ls V: -Recurse)

Please note that it will simply compare every files found under T: and V:
You can narrow your comparison by some filtering in Get-ChildItem cmdlet.
EDIT
update from comment, the following is the script that will list only unique value, stripping filename from starting character # , using TrimStart method of [String]
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path T:,V: | %{ $_.Name.TrimStart('#') } | Sort-Object -Unique


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Nigerian govt considers extending concession of Garki hospital
The federal government has expressed willingness to further partner with NISA Premier Hospital on the management of Garki General Hospital, valued at about N361.1 billion, for continued sustainable and efficient healthcare delivery.
The acting Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, ICRC, Chidi Izuwah, made this known on Thursday in Abuja during a Monitoring and Supervision visit by the ICRC Management team to Garki Hospital.
He recalled that Garki General Hospital was concessioned for 15 years to Nisa Premier Hospital in 2007, following the approval by the Federal Executive Council. He said that before then, the hospital had been closed for six years and lacked basic healthcare infrastructure.
He commended the management of Nisa Premier for transforming the general hospital into a world class hospital in under 10 years.
"ICRC is concerned about the infrastructure development of Nigeria, so any initiative using the Public-Private Partnership model, we will support in the interest of Nigeria.
"We are aware that efforts have been made by the PPP manager of Garki Hospital in terms of facelift, provision of hospital utilities and equipment, recruitment of qualified doctors and nurses to ensure that this serves as a model for hospital PPP in Nigeria.
"We are here therefore to further encourage you to do more, because we believe you can do more.
"We want you to convince us that there is justification for government to further partner with Nisa Premier upon the expiration of the current concession agreement,'' he said.
Earlier, the founder, Nisa Premier, Ibrahim Wada, urged the government to extend the concession agreement for the management of Garki General Hospital to sustain and improve present achievements in efficient healthcare delivery.
Giving reasons for this demand, Mr. Wada, who is also the Vice Chairman, Garki Hospital, said that from 2007 till date, Nisa Premier had invested N4.63 billion in modern medical equipment and repairs of Garki Hospital.
"The huge investment we have made, has also increased our debt profile which currently stands at N800 million. These long term investments need time for us to recoup investment and make profit.
"It is our grave concern that the remaining term of the concession will not be enough for us to take benefit from our investments.
"Conscious of the fact that the term of the concession would lapse in four years and bearing in mind the provision of Article 19:13 of the Concession Agreement, we must respectfully seek a review of the concession beyond 2022,'' he said.
Mr. Wada said that if the concession agreement was extended, Nisa Premier is ready to invest another N100 billion over the next 30 years, to transform Garki Hospital into an international hospital.
He said over the last 10 years, Garki Hospital has broken new grounds in healthcare delivery in the Federal Capital Territory.
Since the concessioning of the hospital, a fully equipped neurosurgery department, sickle cell clinic, in-vitro fertilisation clinic has been introduced.
So far, 25 kidney transplant surgeries and 43 open heart surgeries have been successfully conducted while the IVF clinic has recorded hundreds of births.
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Doctors Are Free To Leave Nigeria Because We Have Surplus, I'm Not Worried – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr Chris Ngige has said that he is not bothered about the decision of medical doctors who choose to leave Nigeria to practice outside the country.
Ngige who was a guest on Channels TV Sunrise Daily said the practice is not alien to Nigeria, because he was taught by Indians in secondary school.
"I'm Not Worried, We Have Surplus (Doctors), if we have a surplus, we export. I was taught Biology and Chemistry by Indian teachers in my secondary school days.
"They are surplus in their country. We have a surplus in the medical profession in our country. I can tell you this. It is my area, we have excess. We have enough, more than enough, quote me."
Ngige, when asked if nothing was wrong, owing to his position as a qualified medical doctor, said there was nothing wrong in their choice to practise overseas, at the detriment of Nigeria's health sector.
"There is nothing wrong, they go out to sharpen their skills, earn money and send them back home here. Yes, we have foreign exchange earnings from them, not from oil."
The minister said the move does not amount to brain drain when asked.
"Those guys go there, they are better trained because of the facilities they have there. Eventually, I know a couple of them who practise abroad but set up medical centres back home. They have CAT scan, MRI scan which even the government hospitals cannot maintain. So, I don't see any loss.
"Brain drain will only be inimical when for instance neurosurgeons travel and we don't have neurosurgeons here."
World TB Day: Ganduje Installs 10 GeneXpert Machines in Kano
By Yakubu Salisu
The Kano State Commissioner for health, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso has said that, since the inception of Governor Abdullah Umar Ganduje, significant efforts have been made to reduce the burden, socio-economic impact and the transmission of Tuberculosis (TB) in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), " the end TB strategy"
He made this known yesterday at a press conference in Kano to mark the world Tuberculosis Day during which he said Nigeria is ranked 6th among the 30 high TB burden countries in the world and 1st in Africa.
According to him, the Governor, between 2015 to date has installed 10 additional GeneXpert machines (bringing the total to 18 GeneXpert sites) so as to ensure quality management through early diagnosis, prompt and effective treatment of all TB patients in the state.
He said, the DOTS centers were also increased from 382 to over 770 as well as increase and access of diagnostic equipment and services from 86 AFB Laboratories to 255 in 2019.
Ketso said that the state government with the support of KNCV/Challenge TB project has expanded TB services to prisons, military barracks, police academy and tertiary institutions in the state which has yielded positive results in the control of the airborne disease in the state.
Furthermore, the commissioner the commissioner applauded the efforts of the state government for placing highest priority in saving lives especially those of women and children who are more vulnerable in the society by providing essential health care services both at the primary and secondary level care levels, and did not relent in taking a holistic insight into the fundamental needs of the state health sector.
Lassa Fever: 42 Confirmed Dead, 538 Cases Reported in 16 States
Forty-two lives have been claimed across the country by a fresh outbreak of Lassa fever, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
A total of 538 cases were reported in 16 states in the first 27 days of the year, the NCDC said in an update yesterday.
However, only 213 of the reported cases tested positive, two were classified as probable and 325 negative.
The NCDC put the fatality rate at 19.7%.
The breakdown of the cases, state by state, reveals that 77 new confirmed cases were reported from Edo(24), Ondo(28),Ebonyi(5), Bauchi(3), Plateau(5),Taraba(3), Gombe(1),Kaduna(1), Kwara(1), FCT(1), Benue(2), Rivers(1) Kogi(1) and Enugu(1).
States with new deaths are Edo(4), Ondo(2), Benue(1), Rivers(1) Plateau(2) Taraba(1) and Bauchi(1).
16 states (Edo, Ondo, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Plateau, Taraba, FCT, Adamawa and Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Benue, Rivers Kogi and Enugu) have recorded at least one confirmed case across 40 local government areas.
In the report, one new healthcare worker was affected in Enugu State.
A total of four healthcare workers have been affected since the onset of the outbreak in two states – Ondo (2), Ebonyi (1) and Enugu(1) with no death.
102 patients are currently being managed at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) treatment Centre in Edo State (34) ; Federal Medical Centre, Owo,Ondo State (40); Bauchi (5); Plateau(8); Taraba(3); Ebonyi(6); and others(6) States.
NCDC also said a total of 2,070 contacts have been identified in eight states.
Of these 1673(80.8%) are currently being followed up, 361(17.4%) have completed 21 days follow up. 23(1.1%) symptomatic contacts have been identified, of which 13 (0.6%) have tested positive from three states (Edo -2, Ebonyi-5 and Plateau-6 ).
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday said it was mobilizing experts to intervene with a view to containing the disease.
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I am currently a resident in Gainesville, VA, however a big piece of my heart is still is Scranton, PA where I grew up and where my family is. I attended college at Kutztown University obtaining my undergrad degree in Criminal Justice and Psychology. The two combined have always been extremely interesting to me. During my last semester at school, I decided I wanted to take my focus more into the biological aspect of my degree. I took some time off after I graduated and moved to Ocean City, MD for a few months and then moved my way down to Florida, where I attended the Crime Scene Program at St. Petersburg College. (I'm a huge beach lover so this was one of the most fun times in my life). Other than school and work, I began to find a new passion for nutrition and fitness, which has only gotten stronger over the years.
Once I moved to Virginia, I started working for the Sheriff's Office in which I was assigned to the Adult Detention Center for 5 years. During that time, I learned so much about myself (I also made some life long friends and met my husband 🙂 but found my focus and attention were still in studying fitness and health, wellness and nutrition. It quickly became my main passion. I made a huge decision when I decided to leave the department and center my career around what I love, instead of what made sense. I immediately obtained my NASM Personal training certification and became a trainer, continue to study Fitness Nutrition and also many aspects of mental health and wellness. I learn something new in this industry every single day and researching it is something I love to do. Now that I am working here at Advantage Physical Therapy with a great team of people, I am learning so much more about the body and ways to not only train it but ways to heal it.
Right now my goal in life is to just be happy, keep on educating myself and travel to as many places as I can. I have a crazy bulldog puppy, great friends and an amazing husband here and now a great team of coworkers and am doing something I love everyday. That is why they say to follow your heart, because it will always lead you right where you belong.


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Tale of the Dragon – Request Started!
Here's some updated info from the guy who requested the table.
I'll answer as best I can. My fav. graphics/style is Gottlieb's Amazing Spiderman pin. I'm not a big fan of the newer pins with all the ramps, spinning huge gimmicky objects, multi-balls, etc. Some of the ideas of those things might come into play. More on that at the bottom of this e-mail. I have included a brief description of the road below, hopefully it will give you an idea of the concept.
Deals Gap (Tail of the Dragon) is a portion of U.S. Route 129 in Tennessee. The road earned its name from its curves being said to resemble a dragon's tail.
Deals Gap is a popular and internationally famous destination for riding enthusiasts (of motorcycles), as it is located along a stretch of two-lane road known as "The Dragon".
The 11-mile stretch of the Dragon in Tennessee, is said to have 318 curves/corners. Straight down the side of the mountains on one side (no guardrails) and straight into the mountain on the other. Some of the Dragon's sharpest curves have names like Copperhead Corner, Hog Pen Bend, Wheelie Hell, Shade Tree Corner, Mud Corner, Sunset Corner, Gravity Cavity, Beginner's End, and Brake or Bust Bend. At one end of the Dragon, at a popular gas station/memorabilia store, is located the "Tree of Shame" with collection of parts from crashed motorcycles.
Since part of the road is also the southwestern border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, there is no development along the 11-mile stretch, resulting in no danger of vehicles pulling out in front of those in the right of way. It mostly travels through forested area and there are a few scenic overlooks and pull-off points along the route. At one of these, you can view the Topoco Dam, it was used in the famous dam jump scene from the movie The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford.
I have highlighted in red (Not visible on this page, sorry) , the best parts of the road that I think should be incorporated. Maybe something like the Fugitive Dam outlets being drop targets or the roll overs at the top of the playfield? The "Tree of Shame" being some kind of objective to get your bike parts back? The "Scenic Overlooks" could be the usual roll overs on the playfield sides near the middle? "Wheelie Hell" is a part of the route that crests a hill and the road drops out from under you, so maybe some kind of 3D hill near the top of the playfield, to one side? For me, it's all about the switchback tight corners, mountains, riding a Sportbike style motorcycle (rice rocket/crotch rocket). There, how's that for a beginning?
Thanks Mark! I'll start working on a design this comming week!
This table is awesome. I've ridden the "Dragon" twice. Great concept. I am very interested in following the progress on this table. Nice job.


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'Homeless at Howard' is Selfish Outlier Within Legitimate HU Student Movement
The fortunate part of this story is that he wasn't expelled from the university altogether for breaking such an important rule designed to keep students and staff safe. The unfortunate part is that he, along with a small group of other students and Twitter advocates, thought that his case would be a good one for media coverage and public sympathy.
'Homeless at Howard' is Selfish Outlier Within Legitimate HU Student Movement June 22, 2016
JL Carter Sr.Posted on November 10, 2015 June 22, 2016
Norfolk State Alum Devon Henry Featured in Fortune Magazine
Students at Howard University are in a weird place these days. Many have responsibly joined in raising awareness about the #TakeBackHU movement, a campus and social media-based campaign to raise awareness about the university's struggle to maintain facilities and technologies, while balancing operations and student aid needs on almost a daily basis. At the center of this discontent, a continuing effort to improve communication between administration and students.
Couched within that movement, is the #SilentShowtime marching band initiative, a protest project seeking answers for unpaid scholarships and funds promised to student musicians. Like many marching bands, seemingly, there is no specific fund or promise of support for the Showtime, but rather, a mix of departmental, institutional and development funds cobbled together annually to help out a tremendous group of student ambassadors. And again, the primary issue is building communication with students before they get upset about broken promises.
But this Homeless at Howard story is not a part of this movement at the Mecca. A student, Jawanza Ingram, admits to letting in students through an emergency exit of a dormitory to celebrate another student's birthday. He gets thrown out of university housing, only to launch a sub-campaign headlined with pictures of himself out on the streets with luggage in tow.
Ingram, a freshman, probably doesn't remember when a Howard student was sexually assaulted and stabbed in a university dorm three years ago, by a man who was not a student, but was able to walk undetected through the halls of Bethune Annex. Like many students, holding doors and elevators for friends is a regular practice to avoid the hassle of swiping or signing in to residence halls. It is as common as getting up and going to class or to a meal in the dining hall.
But this is also extraordinarily risky, especially on a college campus where drugs and sex, or the potential for either, can lead to dangerous circumstances. The group of friends coming through the emergency door may have been okay for the night, but if one guy walks in behind them, and you as the door holder avoid that sinking feeling in your stomach that accompanies the silent, internal question 'I don't think that dude goes here,' what happens when you see that guy on the news the following day for a rape or a murder?
What happens when a classmate's life is taken or tragically altered because you let him in?
And if anyone thinks that scenario is outlandish, or so foreign that it can't happen at an HBCU where we all are family, just remember that school shootings used to be an anomaly in this country – an HBCUs across the country have lost four students to gun violence this semester alone.
It would be easy to start going in on how millennials don't appreciate or respect rules because they live as a self-serving, self-important generation of thinkers who believe that the world and its construct is for interpretation, not internalizing. But that just isn't true – they are just as lazy, arrogant and free-spirited as were 10, 20, 30, and 40 years ago. They just put their worst thoughts and habits on Twitter and Instagram for all of us to see.
They are also as community-minded, politically astute and socially optimistic as we were years ago, which is why Howard students are at the forefront of two legitimate movements for improvement on campus, and among the leaders of social justice movements around the nation and the world. Their accomplishments and failures are not unlike our own; just in a new day with new risks and rewards which we couldn't imagine during our undergrad years.
Ingram is probably among this same group, but to do wrong, know wrong and expect right in return isn't going to be among the finest moments in his social justice portfolio. And when he goes to get a job a few years from now, here's hoping he will have crafted an eloquent response to the interview question, "so tell me about the homeless thing that was in the news?"
Hopefully, Ingram will realize sooner than later that getting tossed out on his butt for breaking university rules will be the best thing that's ever happened to him. Maybe he'll become more motivated, more self-reflective, and more appreciative of the privilege of being a Howard student, and the responsibility it requires. But today, for all of his interviews and media-generated pity around his breaking the rules, he should get comfortable with having several seats in an apartment or room permanently off-campus.


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What is Philip Pauli doing now?
By age four, he started going to the Denver Museum of Natural History. He even noticed a mistake on a painting there. He also noticed that a certain dinosaur skeleton was missing a few of its bones. More recently, Philip has started working with an archaeological dig.
What happened to Philip from Unsolved Mysteries?
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police believed that the mysterious hitchhiker learned everything he could about Philip and then killed him.
Why was Unsolved Mysteries Cancelled?
After nine seasons on NBC, the series moved to CBS for its 10th season on November 13, 1997. After adding Virginia Madsen as a co-host during season 11 failed to boost slipping ratings, CBS canceled the series after only a two-season, 12-episode run on June 11, 1999.
Has any cases been solved from Unsolved Mysteries Netflix?
No, unfortunately. None of the cases in Netflix's reboot have been cracked, although there have been some developments since the episodes aired.
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How old is Philip Fraser?
Philip Fraser (January 27, 1814 – July 26, 1876) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Philip Fraser
Born Philip FraserJanuary 27, 1814 Montrose, Pennsylvania
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Has any cases from Unsolved Mysteries been solved?
Unfortunately, none of the cases featured on Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries have been resolved so far. The good news is, various cases from the first two volumes have received crucial updates since they premiered on Netflix.
Was Cheryl Hines on Unsolved Mysteries?
Career. Before getting her break in Hollywood, Hines worked as a waitress, television reporter and telephone operator, as well as personal assistant to Rob Reiner after she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. She enjoyed guest appearances on television shows such as Swamp Thing and Unsolved Mysteries.
Why was Jim Beaver on Unsolved Mysteries?
The Supernatural recurring character and Deadwood alum appeared as himself in a 1995 episode, offering his expertise as a biographer of George Reeves, the Adventures of Superman actor who died under mysterious circumstances in 1959.
How old is Cheryl Hines?
57 years (September 21, 1965)
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Are Larry and Cheryl still together?
Disappointed and hurt, Cheryl leaves Larry, with the pair eventually divorcing two seasons later. Although Cheryl Hines is phenomenal in her role as Larry's beleaguered wife, their divorce inadvertently saved Curb Your Enthusiasm's narrative.
What is Larry David's net worth?
It is estimated that David's net worth is somewhere between US$400 to $900 million as of 2015. The National Review estimated his net worth to be about $400 million as of 2020. Charlie Rose noted David's overall wealth as closer to $500 million in a televised statement on 60 Minutes in 2013.
Who is Larry Davids wife in real life?
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From a chef at ITC Maurya and Grand Hyatt to now a successful restaurateur, Aman Puri has long been associated with the hospitality industry. Puri's immense love for cooking and inclination towards hospitality made him shift from a chef to being the director of Imly and Duty Free.
Chef Aman Puri is the man behind the uniquely innovative and widely popular Imly menu. Through the menu, he has managed to get the Indian street food under one roof successfully. He is a food innovationist, who courageously experiments and continuously tries to create something remarkable. The Imly menu is a perfect example of his culinary skills and competence, and Duty Free, on the other hand, provides the most contributive environment for de-stressing with a fresh design spirit. Cozy niches marked by wood, a combination of subtle browns with pop teal, tables topped off in flowing translucent strips are some of the most remarkable aspects of Duty Free.
Aman Puri has left no stone unturned in making the Delhi population fall in love with street food all over again and has also combined it with quirky and colorful vibes which are no less than a lethal combination at Imly. On the other hand, Duty Free is designed to bring together the vibrant potential of youth, and the colorful vibe of the space creates a visual dialogue in itself.
In an exclusive conversation with The Restaurant Times Aman Puri talks about the art of proper menu designing, the challenges of running a bar, the importance of technological bedding and a lot more.
Menu Engineering is one of the critical factors that impact restaurant sales. According to Puri, the first step in designing a menu is analyzing the market and competition so that one can understand the taste palette of the audience and categorize the food accordingly. The menu should also define and depict the restaurant concept. The right categorization of food is of utmost importance as it assists customers to order not just the food of their choice, but also the items that are going to bring in high profit.
It is always said that first, the food should appeal to the eyes and then the mouth. The food that is worth being clicked is what wins heart these days. One of the first involvement with food is how it looks and smells, so food presentation is of utmost importance.
According to Puri, if a dish feels good and looks good, it already reaches the top. In recent years food presentation has become an important factor due to the rising growth of social media. Balancing the variety and contrast in plating is essential.
'Matching the portion size to the plate of choice is also important. You don't want your food to get lost on a dish that is too large. Similarly, a smaller plate may make the portion size look too large and take away from the overall presentation,' says Puri.
According to Puri, to run a successful bar, it is vital to ensure that the bar is always well stocked. These days the availability of liquor from the excise department is generating a lot of problems. Brands like Bira, Budweiser are not available easily, and these are the highly demanded brands. Keeping the bar stocked goes far beyond than just filling your back bar cooler or refrigerator with beer, liquor, and wine. It is essential to cater to the customer demands and proper forecasting of sales helps in achieving this.
Another prominent challenge in running a restaurant and bar is related to the inventory pilferage. According to Puri, a bar has a lot of thefts and pilferages, and so it is essential to check references and have a background check before hiring bartenders and other staff members. A close check can bring out dishonest candidates with a history of theft and alcoholism. This is useful in creating a team of dependable workers who are unlikely to steal liquor.
The restaurant business is a competitive space, and one of the keys to success in the industry is great customer service. According to Puri, one of the primary concern is ensuring accuracy and precision at the checkout point. With a restaurant-specific POS system, terminals are connected through a standard interface. When your wait staff inputs an order to their workstation or via a hand-held device, the ticket becomes accessible at all points throughout the system. This improves efficiency in the operations and also helps in processing orders faster.
Restaurant-specific POS systems allow for the real-time tracking of inventory, with the dedicated software recording the projected usage of all ingredients as each order comes in and is prepared by the kitchen. This actual time tracking increases productivity, making it easier to deflecting the over-ordering of perishable materials that can so quickly lead to waste.
Aman Puri concludes by saying that customers can expect Imly at Murthal soon and six more outlets of Duty Free all around Delhi.


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Arcàgat (en llatí Archagatus, en grec antic Ἀρχάγαθος "Arkhágatos") fou el fill del tirà Agàtocles de Siracusa. Tenia un germà de nom Heràclides.

Va acompanyar al seu pare en la seva expedició a l'Àfrica l'any 310 aC, i allí es va produir un motí dels soldats que li retreien el seu incest amb la seva madrastra Àlcia i es va escapar per poc. Agàtocles va deixar l'Àfrica per tornar a Sicília on havien sorgit conflictes, i va deixar el seu fill al càrrec de l'exèrcit. Va obtenir algunes victòries però després va ser derrotat tres vegades i es va haver de refugiar a Tunis. Agàtocles va tornar per ajudar-lo, però un motí dels soldats el va obligar a retornar a Sicília i Arcàgat i el seu germà Heràclides van morir a mans de les tropes. Arcàgat va morir a mans d'Arcesilau de Siracusa, un amic del seu pare, l'any 307 aC, segons diuen Diodor de Sicília i l'historiador Justí. Va deixar un fill conegut per Arcàgat el jove.

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Ratings: 'Prison Break' Isn't Busting Out
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in TV, TV News
Fox's Prison Break began its long walk into the sunset Friday night, with the first of its final episodes airing in a new time slot. Either people forgot to update their calendars, Prison Break lost some of its luster, or Friday night is just a graveyard for Fox, because the numbers were a big disappointment.
The first new episode of Prison Break in months drew only 3.38 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in the important 18-49 adults demo, according to TV By the Numbers. Those numbers are pretty much on par with the time slot's previous resident, the soon-to-be-cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
While Fox isn't expecting any breakout ratings from the remaining episodes of Prison Break, the network (and Whedonites) was hoping that Prison Break could boost the ratings of the beleaguered Dollhouse as the two shows play buddies on Friday nights for the remainder of their seasons. Prison Break's low numbers are another obstacle for Dollhouse to overcome for renewal.
Let's play pretend for a second: put yourself in the shoes of Fox executives and let us know how you would have scheduled Dollhouse, Terminator, and Prison Break?
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princess357 says:
ooohh come on.. why does it have to end??


ABB has launched a mid-range modular PLC system which, it says, will compete on cost with systems from Mitsubishi, Rockwell and Siemens.
ABB hopes that the new AC500 system will help it make inroads into a UK market that it estimates is worth £55m. Its main targets will be existing users of ABB automation equipment, such as drives and motors — in particular, OEMs and systems integrators.
The new PLC (above) supersedes the earlier AC31 family which has had limited success in the UK since it was launched about a decade ago. James Large, product manager for automation components at ABB`s low-voltage products division, says that sales of the AC31 were hindered by the "lack of a coherent support and growth strategy".
The AC500 system consists of three products — PLCs, I/O modules and HMIs. These can be used together, or can be integrated independently into existing automation systems.
There is a choice of three plug-and-play CPUs, with memory sizes ranging from 64kb to 4MB. The interchangeable PLCs are the same size, avoiding the need to change connecting parts or terminal bases when you upgrade.
The PLC can be programmed using any of six IEC 61131-3 languages. The programming software allows you to perform offline simulations before installing a system.
An LCD built into the PLC allows faults to be identified using diagnostic codes. There are two serial interfaces, and a slot for an SD memory card that can be used to upload or download, data, firmware updates, or programs. The PLCs can be accessed by a remote PC via Ethernet or serial networks.
The system`s I/O modules use ABB`s FieldBusPlug technology to support any of five fieldbus protocols — Profibus DP, CANopen, DeviceNet, Modbus or CS31.
The system`s HMI provides local monitoring and control functions, including alarm and recipe management, trend analyses, and data logging. There is a choice of ten displays, ranging from two-line text displays to 10.4-inch colour touchscreens.
Large says that the system`s modular, scalable format, and its use of terminal bases that can be wired without electronics, will allow users to reduce their stockholding. He also reckons that the simple wiring could halve installation times.
Several AC500 pilot sites are already running in the UK, including an exhibit on Brunel`s ss Great Britain ship in Bristol, which allows visitors to vary the vessel`s engine speed using the PLC to transmit command data. The PLCs have also been used in robotic cells at Nissan`s Lander site, using proven software blocks.
A low-cost micro-PLC version is planned, as are add-on motion functions.


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I don't remember that last time I did some self portraits. It's the old photographer's dilemma… always behind the lens and never in front of it!  Since I live about a block away from my good buddy and fellow pro photographer Martin Perreault, he usually takes my photo. But this time around, he was away on a 3 week trip to Australia and I really wanted to update my blog photo on the ABOUT YPS page.
I decided to make this a fun time and turn this into a mini fashion shoot with some of my recently acquired threads. So I cranked up the tunes, set my D300s on a tripod with a 10 second timer and shot away! It took about 2 hours in total with 163 shots taken. Out of those shots I liked 22. Not bad.  Here's how I did it.
I wanted something up to date for lighting so I kept it fairly simple. I set up two 1 x 4 feet strip lights with grids on either side roughly 30 degrees behind me. The strip lights were roughly 2 feet away from me. I decided to use strip lights instead of just a direct flash because I wanted a bit more diffusion… less harshness.
I stood about 10 feet from the light grey background to get a darker grey by avoiding light spill from the strip lights. I then proceeded to adjust my lights to my camera settings. I wanted a deep DOF so my settings were: f13, 1/200 sec, ISO 200. With that done, I found that firing my flashes at 40% power work perfectly. All I needed now was a fill light to eliminate the strong front shadows in the face and on the clothes.
So I set up a 2×2 softbox on a boom about a foot above my head on camera left to get some nice deep shadows under the chin and in the eyes (for a bit of edge and mystery! hahaha). In some of the final shots, I didn't want shadows under the eyes so I lowered the fill light a bit. Since it's a fill light I knew the power had to be less than the strip lights. 10% power about 2 feet away was perfect ! Here's the lighting diagram.
Once the lighting was to my liking, I needed to plan how I would pose. So I took some notes while looking at every piece of clothing I was going to shoot. Of course this just gave me a general idea of some poses to guide me and the rest would be improvised as I felt it. But this planning exercise was very important and should not be overlooked as it helps define your shoot. I then put a marker on the floor to set my focus point and to know where to stand after checking each shot. I would suggest shooting tethered with the laptop or monitor facing you so you don't have to run behind the camera after each shot.
The hardest part of the whole shoot was to get into character. Models don't have it easy, I can tell ya! Respect! Remember that I took 163 shots and only liked 22 so that means that only 13% of the photos were good. My trick to get into character was to put some awesome music and let loose for a few minutes before shooting. Dancing really wound me down.
Here are some of my favorite shots. I kept the same lighting setup of all the shots.
Before you ask me how I post processed the final images, let me tell you!  In Lightroom, I only did basic curves adjustments and reduced the red (-20) and orange (-30) saturation. Then in Photoshop, I used Topaz Adjust with the default portrait_drama setting to give it that extra pop. Topaz Labs are awesome! The best plugins I ever bought for Photoshop.
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Wow! Those are great tips! I'm checking Topaz right away!
Some nice basic ideas for self-portraits. Thanks for the information.
Loved it! I just love the studio stuff!!
You look very cool and handsome.
wow, this is great! So helpful.
Great article! I need to try this out myself.
Tried it a few times. It's hard work.


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Q: how to do Post paid billing for monthly plans using Stripe (php) How can I create a post paid billing for the subscription of monthly plan using Stripe(php) and if plan is paused for some days then would stripe cater it or not and if not then how to cater it for number of hours the subscription remained active.
PS: I searched a lot but could not find any thing good for post paid billing in Stripe.

A: To implement a kind of monthly post-billing system, you could use a monthly subscription whose amount is 0 and then use webhooks sent at the end of every every billing cycle to charge customers for what they have used during the last month, using invoice items.
It's important to understand how subscription billing cycles work, and how customers are billed for 2 different things, at the end of every billing cycle (every month if the subscription interval is month):

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*First, the customer pays the amount of the subscription for the upcoming cycle, so it's kind of pre-paid system because the customer pays for the service he/she is going to use during the next month.

*In addition, the customer may be charged for one or several invoice items that were previously added to the upcoming invoice, so this is the post-paid part.

You could use webhooks, listening to the invoice.created event, to perform some business logic, checking the customer's activity, and add items to the invoice, if necessary.
If the customer did not use your service at all during the last month, you would not add any invoice item and the customer would not pay anything, since the subscription amount is 0.
This is the gist, check this document for more details about subscriptions and invoices: https://stripe.com/docs/subscriptions/invoices

When Stripe automatically generates an invoice for a recurring
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