A father who lived far from home used to write letters to his son. The letters were both educational and silly enough to captivate a five-year-old. They were all about random hobbies and interests of his, and they also directed him to ponder over the creation of Allah by explaining how Allah had created everything, how the food on his plate had reached there, and how every creation of Allah is obedient to Him.
When Prophet Muhammad (sa) met Ibraheem during his ascension to Paradise, Ibraheem advised him: Command your Ummah to plant the saplings of Paradise plentifully, as the soil of Paradise is fertile and its plain is spacious.
It was asked: What are the saplings of Paradise?
He replied: La hawla wa la quwata illa billah.
In the following days, the young boy was seen engaging in the remembrance of Allah, even though in a childlike manner, counting and saying the phrases as he ran from one room to the next. As an adult, I usually forget Dhikr even though it is so doable and find it difficult to utter it regularly. Looking at him, I realized how lucky he was to have the seeds sown in this young age.
While we strive to inculcate many positive habits in our children, why not add the habit of making Dhikr to it? It will be a source of reward for both us and our children and also a refuge for the heart. Below are some tips to help build this habit in our kids, and during the process, in ourselves too.
Only when our own vessels are brimming with the love and remembrance of Allah will we be able to pour the same in the hearts of our children. Our everyday conversations, engagements, and reactions are observed and absorbed by our children, and we often catch them repeating our actions. Let us be the role models of this advice of the Prophet (sa) by remembering Allah with simple phrases like Allahu Akbar (Allah is the Greatest), Astaghfirullah (I seek forgiveness from Allah) , and Subhan'Allah (Glory be to Allah) as we go about our daily chores. Children do not hear, they see.
Do not wait for the child to become 'old enough' to teach them the basic everyday Duas for sleeping, eating, travelling, and so on. Start from the day they enter the world by saying the Duas out loud. When nursing and giving food, say Bismillah (In the name of Allah). When leaving the home, recite the Dua loudly so they can hear it too. This way, when something is done continuously and from a tender age, it becomes second nature.
Moreover, the recitation of Duas should not be limited to rote learning and repeating like a parrot. Impart the meaning and essence of these everyday Duas in an age appropriate manner. The goal is not to simply do Dhikr as a task. Rather, it is to remember The One out of love and reverence.
Do not force the children – encourage them. Encourage them through the various hadiths that tell us about the virtues of remembering Allah, for instance, the one about planting trees in Paradise. You can also discuss how the trees of Paradise will be like.
Children love to read and hear stories about treasures. Tell them about this treasure of Paradise, accompanying a treasure chest craft or colouring activity.
You can also put up colourful Dua posters in your home as eye catching reminders.
According to their interest and age, map out a Dhikr plan for your children. For instance, saying La hawla wala quwwata illa billah a few times each day. Be careful to include the phrases mentioned in authentic hadiths. Some phrases of remembrance can be found here.
Teach your children to praise Allah using their fingers. However, in some situations, the counter or prayer bead is handier, especially for kids. Although it is better to count on fingers, the latter is permissible when the intention is not to show off.
To make it special for your kids, gift them a personal counter or make a masbaha (tasbeeh) with beads.


The right kind of spirituality?
Following my post on indexing, the erudite Hannibal Taubes has taken time out from his intrepid explorations of Chinese village temples to alert me to the fine subject index of A Stuffed owl: an anthology of bad verse, edited by D.B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee (1930).
If there is no such anthology for Tang poetry, then someone should compile one forthwith.
For another unlikely index, see here.
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Nightmare superbug killing half of those who are infected says CDC
March 7, 2013 crisisboom	Comments off
A nightmare gut bacteria that can kill up to 50 percent of those infected, the extremely drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)–producing K. pneumoniae sequence type 258 (KpnST258) has emerged as an important pathogen worldwide. Hospitals are scrambling to get rid of this bacteria. Check out the video, "Hospitals scramble to kill 'superbug'"on NBCNews.com.
A deadly class of superbugs nearly impossible to treat with a fatality rate approaching 50 percent need to be stopped. But how do scientists stop the CRE outbreaks from reaching the general public? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has identified deadly 'nightmare' bacteria that's resistant to antibiotics and spreading through the nation's hospitals. There's the potential for CRE bacteria to spread to patients with common ailments such as diarrhea or more severe infections such as pneumonia. The doctors don't have any drug to treat CRE outbreaks because the bacteria is resistant to Read more…
Categories: disease and pestilence Tags: bacteria, disease and pestilence, superbug
Animal diseases increasingly plague the oceans
VANCOUVER — When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada's west coast in greater numbers, marine biologist Andrew Trites was distressed to find that domestic animal diseases were killing them.
Around the world, seals, otters and other species are increasingly infected by parasites and other diseases long common in goats, cows, cats and dogs, marine mammal experts told a major science conference.
The diseases also increasingly threaten people who use the oceans for recreation, work or a source of seafood, scientists told reporters at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held this year in this western Canadian city.
The symposium "Swimming in Sick Seas" was one of many sessions at the meeting that drew a bleak picture of the state of
Categories: disease and pestilence Tags: animals, bacteria, disease and pestilence, ecosystems, fungus, ocean, Parasites
DNA Hackers: Synthetic biology weaponized virus, zero-day exploit to infect your brain?
January 26, 2012 crisisboom	Comments off
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From the let's get futuristically freaky department, future hacking crimes could take a decidedly sinister twist; not hacking to breach systems but brains, bodies and behaviors. This DNA hacking goes way beyond potentially using police bees to bust biohackers, or even storing unhackable data in box of bio-encrypted bacteria. It's not science fiction to hack insulin pumps or to use jamming signals to stop hackers from lethal pacemaker attacks, but now bioengineers and security futurists are warning that the day is coming when criminals and bioterrorists hunt for vulnerabilities that will give a new meaning to zero-day exploits. In the future, a weaponized virus will aim to infect you, your brain and body biology, and not just your computer or mobile device.
While some people resist the idea of needing antivirus or other security software defenses for their smartphones, in the world of synthetic biology, a world where bits, bytes, atoms and biology mix dreams with nightmare realities, it could be lethal to lag behind in patching potential vulnerabilities. Some day, when you hear about something going 'viral,' it Read more…
Categories: Biology, Bioterrorism, Coming Events Tags: bacteria, biology, bioterrorists, brain, DNA
World-wide cholera pandemic traced to Bangladesh
August 29, 2011 crisisboom	1 comment
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A cholera pandemic that has swept poor countries in three waves over nearly four decades has been traced to a bacterial strain that first emerged in Bangladesh, scientists reported on Wednesday.
The current pandemic is the seventh since cholera, a water- and food-borne diarrhoeal disease caused by the Vibrio cholerae bug, emerged nearly two centuries ago.
Gene sequencing of 154 samples of V. cholerae taken from patients around the world show today's pandemic can be traced to an initial outbreak of cholera in the Bay of Bengal in 1975, the investigators said.
In 1982, the strain, known as El Tor, acquired genes making it resistant to antibiotics. As a result, successive waves of the disease spread around the world, propagated from the original source.
The new probe, published in the British journal Nature, points to the Read more…
Categories: disease and pestilence Tags: bacteria, Bangladesh, cholera, disease and pestilence, Haiti
Deadly superbug outbreak hits problem-plagued network of Ontario hospitals
July 4, 2011 crisisboom	Comments off
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A deadly outbreak of a highly contagious superbug has claimed the lives of 15 patients in Southern Ontario, raising questions about whether enough is being done to prevent and control the spread of hospital-acquired infections.
Niagara Health System, a sprawling network of seven hospitals serving 434,000 people in a dozen communities, has declared an outbreak of Clostridium difficile, commonly known as C. difficile, at three of its sites.
C. difficile is a particularly menacing infection that causes diarrhea and travels from person to person through hand contact. It is one of the most common infections in hospitals and long-term care homes.
The incidence of C. difficile has been lower in Ontario than in other jurisdictions, including Quebec, where a particularly virulent strain of the disease caused 2,000 deaths. But over the past year, the rate of infection in Ontario has climbed 33 per cent, to 0.40 per 1,000 patient days in May, 2011.
The provincial government introduced mandatory reporting in Read more…
Categories: Canada, disease and pestilence Tags: bacteria, C. difficile, Canada, Clostridium Difficile, diarrhea, disease and pestilence, Niagara Falls, ontario, pneumonia, Quebec, superbug
Hong Kong declares scarlet fever outbreak
June 21, 2011 crisisboom	1 comment
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Hong Kong has declared an outbreak of scarlet fever after it claimed the life of at least one child while infecting thousands of others in the city and elsewhere in China.
A seven-year-old Hong Kong girl died from the illness late last month while a five-year-old boy in the city died Tuesday morning from what health authorities said was a "very likely" a case of scarlet fever.
Hong Kong authorities have recorded 40 new cases in the past few days, pushing the total number to 459 so far this year, the highest annual total in the city and more than three times the figure for the whole of 2010.
The boy — who also had chicken pox — developed a fever last Wednesday and was admitted to hospital on Sunday with symptoms of the illness.
His condition deteriorated rapidly and he died Tuesday morning, Thomas Tsang, controller of Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection, said.
Classes have been suspended at the boy's kindergarten for a week, a first for Hong Kong following a scarlet fever death.
"The situation is rather serious at the moment," Tsang said Tuesday.
"We are facing an epidemic because the bacteria that is causing scarlet fever is widely circulating in Read more…
Categories: disease and pestilence Tags: bacteria, chicken pox, China, disease and pestilence, epidemic, Hong Kong, scarlet fever
A Microscopic Chytrid Fungus Is Causing Massive Declines In Frog Populations Worldwide
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A microscopic chytrid fungus is causing massive declines in frog populations all over the world and even the extinction of certain species. Together with colleagues from Europe and the USA, researchers from the University of Zurich present methods as to how the chytrid fungus can be combated in the journal Frontiers in Zoology: namely with bacteria and fungicides. However, the possibility of vaccinating the frogs is also being considered.
The midwife toad: a species that is particularly sensitive to the chytrid fungus.
Photo: Benedikt Schmidt
New pathogens are not just a growing problem for humans and livestock, but also wild animals. Along with the destruction of their habitats and the overexploitation of their populations, a disease caused by a chytrid fungus called chytridiomycosis is one of the three Read more…
Categories: Animal deaths, disease and pestilence Tags: animal deaths, Australia, bacteria, chytrid fungus, disease and pestilence, Europe, frogs, fungus, north america, pathogen, Spain
In U.S., Salmonella Is On the Rise While E. Coli Retreats
June 7, 2011 crisisboom	Comments off
TUESDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) — As a deadly new strain of E. coli in Europe makes headlines, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday that salmonella, not E. coli, remains the biggest foodborne health threat to Americans.
In fact, while rates of several types of foodborne illness — including E. coli — have been falling over the past 15 years, there's been no progress against salmonella infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While infections from Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157 (the strain of most concern in the United States) have dropped almost in half and the rates of six other foodborne infections have been cut 23 percent, salmonella infections have risen 10 percent, the agency said.
"There are about 50 million people each year who become sick from food in the U.S. That's about one in six Americans," CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said during a noon press conference Tuesday.
In addition, about 128,000 people are Read more…
Categories: disease and pestilence Tags: bacteria, beef, CDC, chickens, disease and pestilence, E. coli, Europe, food, livestock, milk, poultry, salmonella, United States, vegetables, water
E.coli outbreak in Europe caused by new toxic strain
An employee of Czech center of national reference laboratories prepares samples of vegetables for molecular testing on EHEC bacteria (bacterium Escherichia coli.) in Brno June 1, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/David W Cerny
By Tan Ee Lyn
HONG KONG | Thu Jun 2, 2011 8:13am EDT
HONG KONG (Reuters) – The E. coli epidemic in Europe is caused by a new, highly infectious and toxic strain of bacteria that carries genes giving it resistance to a few classes of antibiotics, Chinese scientists who analyzed the organism said.
The scientists at the Beijing Genomics Institute, who are collaborating with Germany's University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, completed sequencing the genome of the bacterium in three days after receiving its DNA samples.
"This E. coli is a new strain of bacteria that is highly infectious and toxic," said the scientists at the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen city in southern China.
They said in a press release on Thursday the bacterium was closely related to Read more…
Categories: disease and pestilence, Europe Tags: Africa, bacteria, disease and pestilence, E. coli, EAEC 55989, epidemic, Europe
New concerns over Lyme disease
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Ted Simons can't remember the content of a recent phone conversation. When he reads, an activity he has always enjoyed, he has trouble understanding and retaining what he's read.
Yet Simons, a performer and composer of music, can still play the piano and remember thousands of songs. The 78-year-old Westport resident and his wife Jean don't know exactly what's wrong with him.
Tests have shown it's unlikely he has Alzheimer's disease, though he shows signs of dementia. The couple have tried various therapies, but nothing has worked for long. In talking to doctors, the Simons have developed a possible, unexpected cause for Ted's confusion and memory problems: Lyme disease.
The illness, spread by tick bites, can affect different organ systems, including Read more…
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, CDC, Connecticut, deer tick, dementia, disease, disease and pestilence, fleas, Lyme disease, tick, United States


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Q: Getting header information using c# I am trying to create an outlook add-in in C# which collects header information from new emails in the inbox. Googling it says to use the following code to get the header information for the email.
mailitem.PropertyAccessor.GetProperty("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x007D001F/")

However when I use this the error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Click the schema address also says the resource is no longer there is there another way of getting this or do I need to use a different language?
For reference I have added the below.
private void Quarantine()
    {

        Outlook.MAPIFolder inBox = (Outlook.MAPIFolder)this.Application.
        ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder
        (Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
        Outlook.Items items = (Outlook.Items)inBox.Items;
        Outlook.MailItem MailItem = null;
        items.Restrict("[UnRead] = true");
        var destFolder = inBox.Folders["test"];
        string StrRegex = @"(Final Score - [-][0-9] | Final Score - [2][0 - 1] | Final Score - [0 - 1][0-9])";
        Regex Reg = new Regex(StrRegex);
        foreach (object email in items)
        {
            MailItem = email as Outlook.MailItem;
               String Header= MailItem.PropertyAccessor.GetProperty("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x007D001F/");
                if (!(Reg.IsMatch(Header)))
                {
                    MailItem.Move(destFolder);
                }
            }

        }
    }

A: as operator will return null is the object is not a MailItem. Your code never checks for that. You can have objects other than MailItem in the Inbox folder, such as ReportItem, MeetingItem, etc.

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Who is Holly Sonders, Oscar De La Hoya's girlfriend?
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It's been a huge year for boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya.
After quitting boxing a staggering 13 years ago, he announced that he was returning to the sport for a bout against former UFC champion Vitor Belfort.
However, he sadly had to postpone his comeback fight in September after being hospitalised with Covid-19.
It's been an exciting year for his love life too, as the 48-year-old is now dating someone new.
Who is his girlfriend? Meet Holly Sonders.
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Meet Holly Sonders
Oscar De La Hoya's new girlfriend is golfer and sports broadcaster Holly Sonders.
The 34-year-old from Ohio started her TV presenting career at the Golf Channel when she was just 21-years-old before joining Fox Sports five years later.
She was an accomplished golfer from a young age and gained a golf scholarship at Michigan State University. However, she doesn't play the sport professionally anymore.
Holly, who is based in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, is also huge on Instagram, with 607,000 followers on her profile @holly.sonders where she often posts raunchy photos.
Inside Holly and Oscar's relationship
Holly and Oscar met at a boxing event in June 2021 where she was interviewing him.
They were then spotted a few times following the boxing event, and speculation soon began that they were dating.
The pair were photographed outside Nobu in Malibu, and Holly held onto Oscar's arm and put her hand on his chest, seemingly confirming that they were an item.
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Who have they dated in the past?
Oscar De La Hoya was previously married to Puerto Rican singer Millie Corretjer.
They wed in 2001 and were together for a decade before splitting in 2016. The pair have three children together.
Holly recently dated professional gambler Dave Oancea, or "Vegas Dave" as he's better known.
However, they called off their engagement in 2019.
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AIIMS Pathology Reduces Error-rate Significantly using LiveHealth
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Dr. Gaurav Chhabra, Asst. Professor Pathology at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, shares how lab automation has helped reduce errors and leakages leading to more reliable results.
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Dear Mr. President è il quinto singolo estratto dall'album I'm Not Dead di Pink.

La canzone è stata pubblicata solo in alcuni paesi, tra questi Germania, Australia, Belgio, Austria e Canada.

Una lettera a Bush

Pink inizia la canzone rivolgendosi al Presidente (George Bush Jr), invitandolo a fare una passeggiata con lei, come se fossero persone comuni e come se fossero l'uno sullo stesso piano dell'altra, per potergli fare alcune domande.

Comincia in modo diretto la sua "interrogazione" chiedendogli come possa sentirsi nel vedere persone senza tetto, chiedendo quali speranze riguardino le sue preghiere della sera, cosa pensi di se stesso guardandsi allo specchio, e se sia orgoglioso di sé.

Il ritornello incalzante rende sempre più esplicito il tono della conversazione a senso unico: come può dormire serenamente mentre molte altre persone piangono, come può sognare mentre molte madri non hanno la possibilità di dire nemmeno addio (questo è un possibile riferimento alle madri dei soldati americani e delle madri dei paesi "occupati" accomunate dalla perdita dei figli), ribadisce l'incredulità rispetto al suo camminare fiero a testa alta, e lo sfida a rispondere guardandola negli occhi.

Continuano le interrogazioni, toccando aspetti globali, diritto al perdono e all'accettazione, diritti civili, accettazione del diverso e presa di coscienza anche dei propri errori, veri o presunti, prima di esprimere severità nei confronti degli altri.

Pink informa il Presidente che il duro lavoro è quello di ricostruirsi la casa distrutta dalla guerra, occuparsi dei figli affrontando la miseria e torna a chiedergli come faccia ad essere sereno, trovandosi presidente e vedendo questi aspetti della vita durante il suo mandato.. forse spingendolo a chiedersi lui stesso se sia o no il caso di fare qualcosa per porre rimedio.

Conclude con la consapevolezza che mai avverrà questa camminata e questa conversazione col Presidente.

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UK EP single

released: marzo 12, 2007

 "Dear Mr. President" – 4:33
 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" – 3:18
 "Dear Mr. President" (live at the I'm Not Dead Tour) – 4:45
 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" (live at the I'm Not Dead Tour) – 4:44

UK download single

released: marzo 12, 2007

 "Dear Mr. President" – 4:33
 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" – 3:18

Dutch CD single

released: aprile 16, 2007
 "Dear Mr. President" – 10000:69
 "Dear Mr. President" (live at the I'm Not Dead Tour) – 4:45

Belgium CD single

released: dicembre 21, 2006

 "Dear Mr. President" – 4:33
 "Dear Mr. President" (live at the I'm Not Dead Tour) – 4:45
 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" (live at the I'm Not Dead Tour) – 4:44

Belgium CD maxi

released: dicembre 21, 2006

 "Dear Mr. President" – 4:35
 "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
 "Dear Mr. President" (live at the I'm Not Dead Tour) – 4:45
 Pink: Live from Wembley Arena trailer (DVD trailer)

German CD maxi single

released: aprile 27, 2007

 "Dear Mr. President" – 4:33
 "Dear Mr. President" (live at the I'm Not Dead Tour) – 4:45
 "Leave Me Alone" (I'm Lonely) – 3:20
 "Who Knew" (live from Wembley Arena) – 3:29
 "Dear Mr. President" (live from Wembley Arena) (video) – 4:45
 Live from Wembley trailer - live from Wembley Stadium

Austrian CD single

released: aprile 27 2007

 "Dear Mr. President"; 4:33
 "Dear Mr. President"(live from Wembley Arena, London); 4:45

Australian CD single version 1

released: luglio 7, 2007

 "Dear Mr. President"; 4:36
 "Who Knew" (live from Wembley Arena) – 3:30
 "Dear Mr. President" (live from Wembley Arena) – 4:46
 On the Road with Pink (video) – 9:43

Australian CD single version 2

released: luglio 7, 2007

 "Dear Mr. President"; 4:36
 "U + Ur Hand" (live from Wembley Arena) – 4.41
 "Dear Mr. President" (live from Wembley Arena) (video) – 4:53
 Pink: Live from Wembley Arena trailer (video) – 0:59

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Prospects for 3 pangolin species dims after IUCN Red List downgrades status
The pangolin's future looks gloomy, according to the latest update by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which assesses the conservation status of species.
Of the eight known species of the pangolin, one of the world's most trafficked mammals, two African species, the while-bellied (Phataginus tricuspis) and the giant ground pangolin (Smutsia gigantea), have been moved from "vulnerable" to "endangered" on the IUCN Red List. One Asian species, the Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis), has been uplisted from "endangered" to "critically endangered." No species improved in status in the assessment.
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/three-pangolin-species-closer-to-extinction-iucn/


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The 2017 season of Arrow has left many wondering how it'll turn out for a sequel, but that's only part of the story.
Arrow's revival was a watershed moment for the show, bringing together the stars who made it the biggest hit on the CW in recent memory and bringing in a slew of new talent.
Here's a look at how the series' return will affect TV viewers, and what they can expect from its next incarnation.
The Arrow revival was the season that brought together all of Arrow's stars, including Stephen Amell, Felicity Smoak, and Willa Holland.
Here are their thoughts on what it means for their roles in a new iteration.
"It was a wonderful, great, very special season.
And I loved every minute of it.
It was the best season of the show.
It's the best in a long time.
It took the show in a totally new direction and brought in some really great new actors.
And we really, really liked them.
It felt like the whole show was on the verge of being reborn.
And it was, I guess, the most exciting season of any show on television in my life.
I've been watching it for two years.
It feels great. "
I'm very happy to be back.
It feels great.
It definitely feels like the end of a season.
The fans have been waiting a long, long time to see this.
I can't wait. "
So, yeah, I'm super excited.
I can't wait.
I'm just as excited as I've ever been about coming back.
I know we're going to do it.
And hopefully it'll be the best show that I've done.
I mean, it'll probably be the greatest show on TV, period."
Amell said that he and Felicity will be back in the new series.
"We're going into the second season," he told Entertainment Weekly.
"And that's when you see the change.
You know, we're not just the same guy anymore.
We're very different people.
I think that was a big thing.
It gave us a little bit of a breather.
I have to say, I was excited to be part of it, because I had such a great time with Arrow, and I felt like it was a great season.
I don't think I'm a lot like Felicity. "
But it's not the same.
I don't think I'm a lot like Felicity.
I still like Felicia and Felicia still likes me.
I guess that's a little different.
I didn't have to do the same things.
But it's just a little more different.
It'll be really fun to see what happens in that season.
I was really excited about it. "
Also, we'll see if [the new showrunners] Marc Guggenheim and Greg Berlanti are willing to give me the chance to play Oliver.
I was really excited about it.
I thought they were really interested in me playing Oliver.
And they've got to see me play Oliver because I'm the guy who can save the day.
I just feel like the show needs me to be that guy, and it'll give me more to do.
I would love to."
Amll said that Felicity and Felix will be returning to their roles.
"Oh my gosh, yes.
They'll be back," he said.
"Felicity's going to be really important.
I loved her.
And Felicity's been really good to me and her family, and she's a really good actress.
She's just so smart.
She knows how to handle herself.
And she has such a natural charisma.
And then there's Felicity, she's so funny, she can sing.
I feel like she's really good at that.
And Willa's got this really funny voice, so she can pull off her voice.
So that's really exciting."
Holland also chimed in.
"They're gonna be back, yes," she said.
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Other Barks & Bites – Friday, May 31: Copyright Infringement for Embedded Images, Poland Complaint on New Copyright Rules, and Senate IP Panels Announced
By IPWatchdog
Bites (noun): more meaty news to sink your teeth into.
Barks (noun): peripheral noise worth your attention.
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Senate IP Subcommittee announces its roster of panels for its first two of three hearings on patent eligibility in America; the U.S. International Trade Commission institutes a Section 337 investigation of lithium ion batteries over trade secret claims; reports indicate that Amazon could buy Boost Mobile; Poland files a formal complaint over the European Union's new copyright rules; Time settlement leaves open question of copyright infringement for photos embedded on social media posts; Finjan Holdings loses patent infringement claims against Juniper; VoIP-Pal.com announces positive results at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and U.S. district court; Japan's IP court hands win to Nintendo in Mario Kart trademark case; and the Federal Circuit vacates district court over failure to consider joining relevant patentee.
Senate IP Subcommittee Publishes Rosters for Patent Eligibility Hearings – Earlier this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Intellectual Property published the rosters of panel witnesses for its first two hearings on the state of patent eligibility in the U.S., which will take place on June 4 and 5. A third hearing will take place on June 11 and a total of 45 witnesses will testify in front of the Senate IP Subcommittee.
Federal Circuit Vacates District Court Over Failure to Consider Joining Patentee to Case – On Thursday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Nanya Technology Corporation. While the CAFC agreed with the Northern District of California that Lone Star didn't own the patents it asserted, it found the district court erred in dismissing the case without considering whether the relevant patent owner should have been joined.
USITC Institutes Section 337 Investigation Over Trade Secret Misappropriation – On Wednesday, the U.S. International Trade Commission announced that it was instituting a Section 337 investigation of lithium ion batteries, battery cells and related products imported by SK Innovation of South Korea and an Atlanta-based subsidiary to look into trade secret misappropriation claims filed by LG Chemical.
Time Settlement Leaves Open Question of Copyright Infringement Over Embedded Images – A Southern District of New York copyright case filed by Justin Goldman, the individual who captured a photo of Tom Brady and Boston Celtics GM Danny Ainge, was voluntarily dismissed on Tuesday, following a settlement from Time Inc. and other media defendants. The dismissal leaves open questions the case raised regarding whether embedded images shared on social media can constitute an act of copyright infringement.
VoIP-Pal.com Announces Successes at PTAB and District Court – Voice-over-Internet Protocol patent owner VoIP-Pal.com announced in a press release on Tuesday that the PTAB had denied Apple's request for rehearing in two inter partes review (IPR) proceedings and that a U.S. district judge had denied motions by Amazon and Apple to invalidate patent claims on Section 101 grounds. These decisions follow an op-ed penned by VoIP-Pal.com CEO Emil Malak published recently on IPWatchdog.com.
Poland Files Complaint Over European Copyright Directive – On Friday, May 24, the nation of Poland filed a complaint with the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding recently adopted changes to EU copyright law. Poland argues that the new copyright law may result in preventative censorship, which is forbidden by Poland's constitution and EU treaties.
Copyright Registrations Heat Up Over Bitcoin White Paper – On Friday, May 24, an application for copyright registration was filed with the U.S. Copyright Office by a Wei Liu who claims to be the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, author of the Bitcoin white paper. A previous copyright registration for the Nakamoto white paper by Australian computer scientist Craig Wright helped contribute to a $1 billion rise in the market cap of Wright's own cryptocurrency.
Federal Circuit Upholds PTAB Invalidation Based on Issue Preclusion – On Thursday, May 23, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Pabst Licensing v. Samsung Electronics, upholding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB's) invalidity finding. Pabst voluntarily dismissed appeals of related PTAB decisions invalidating other patents that were from the same patent family and shared a specification with the patent in this case.
English Court Hands Out Prison Sentence for Failure to Comply With Infringement Order – On Tuesday, May 21, the Chancery Division of the England and Wales High Court issued a judgment which sentenced Gary Wilson, a former director of Quickjuul, to a two-month prison sentence after a judge determined that he had failed to comply with an order in a trademark infringement case to transfer a domain name to vaporizer firm Juul Manufacturers.
Japan IP Court Decides Trademark Case Against Mario-Themed Go-Kart Company – On Thursday, video game firm Nintendo announced that Japan's Intellectual Property High Court had held that go-kart rental services offered by MariCar, including costumes for go-kart riders resembling characters from Nintendo's Super Mario gaming series, constituted trademark infringement and unfair competition.
Microsoft Avoids Infringement Charges Over Internet Translation Patents – A judgment by the District of Delaware on Wednesday found that tech giant Microsoft didn't infringe upon a pair of patents covering services for translating Internet searches and advertisements, although Microsoft failed to have the court invalidate the challenged claims.
Apple Granted Patent on Foldable Screen Display – on Tuesday, Apple was issued U.S. patent No. 10,303,21 for a "foldable cover and display for an electronic device."
Juniper Networks Avoids Patent Infringement Charges in Finjan Case – On Wednesday, the Northern District of California handed out a judgment which found that routers and virus scanners marketed by cybersecurity firm Juniper Networks didn't infringe upon software patent claims asserted by tech firm Finjan Holdings.
Iron Maiden Files Trademark Suit Over Video Game – On Tuesday, May 28, British heavy metal band Iron Maiden filed a trademark infringement suit in the Central District of California against the Danish video game developer behind the first-person shooter game Ion Maiden.
Magistrate Judge Recommends Patent Settlement Lien to Recover Legal Fees – On Tuesday, May 28, U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Preston Deavers of the Southern District of Ohio recommended granting a $640,000 lien on patent settlement funds in a dispute between prosthetic firms for the recovery of unpaid legal fees to Shumaker Loop & Kendrick, who represented ALPS South LLC in the case.
Most Claims in Narcos Copyright Suit Dismissed – On Friday, May 24, the Southern District of Florida dismissed most of the copyright claims brought by a journalist who alleged that the producers of the Netflix drama Narcos duplicated experiences that she reported regarding her affair with drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Stylist Files Counterclaim in Kentucky Derby Pin Copyright Case – On Thursday, May 23, Andre Wilson, the designer of the 2018 Kentucky Derby Festival jacket, filed a counterclaim in a copyright case brought by the Kentucky Derby organizers to the Western District of Kentucky. Wilson's counterclaim seeks damages for copyright infringement caused by the sale of the 2019 Derby Festival Pegasus Pin which resembles the jacket designed by Wilson.
Heirs of Andy Griffith Show Theme Songwriters Sue CBS – On Thursday, May 23, the heirs of Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer, the songwriters behind the theme song for the 1950's sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, sued CBS Television Distribution in the Central District of California over sales of DVDs of the sitcom which use the theme song without a license.
This Week on Wall Street
Amazon Could Buy Boost Mobile From T-Mobile and Sprint – On Thursday, May 30, Reuters reported that e-commerce giant Amazon.com has expressed its interest in purchasing both Boost Mobile and wireless spectrum from both T-Mobile and Sprint, two major American telecoms that are currently in the process of finalizing a merger.
Dell Beats on Quarterly Earnings But Falls Short on Revenue – On Thursday, May 30, information technology firm Dell Technologies announced its most recent quarterly earnings in which it beat analyst predictions of earnings per share by 29 cents but fell short of expected revenues by $600 million. Shares of Dell had dropped by nearly 5 percent after-hours on Thursday.
Uber Loses $1 billion in First Quarter as a Publicly-Traded Company – On Thursday, May 30, ride hailing firm Uber released its first quarterly earnings report as a publicly-traded company and informed investors that the company lost $1.01 billion during the quarter thanks in part to weak growth in its core ride-sharing business.
Quarterly Earnings – The following firms identified among the IPO's Top 300 Patent Recipients for 2017 are announcing quarterly earnings next week (2017 rank in parentheses):
Monday: None
Tuesday: com, Inc. (t-159th); Koninklijke DSM N.V. (t-295th); LG Display Co., Ltd. (65th)
Wednesday: Tokyo Electron Ltd. (94th)
Thursday: Ciena Corp. (t-280th)
Friday: None
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jack June 1, 2019 10:32 am
"Another controversial provision, passed by the EU as part of the directive, is article 17 (previously article 13). This provision will hold online platforms directly responsible for copyright infringement that occurs on their platforms, and may force them to police the content on their sites through content filters."
This actually fascinating stuff. Amazon.com is going be forced to stop some of the fakes sold through their site. Standard behavior of infringers is to copy advertising from the original manufacturer.


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Asahi Glass made a new start as "AGC Inc." Leveraging our advanced technologies, we will continue to offer solutions that make people's lives better around the world.
Takuya Shimamura
Representative Director, President and CEO
On July 1, 2018, Asahi Glass changed its company name to "AGC Inc."
Looking back, AGC launched the integrated management of the AGC Group on the global scale in 2002. In 2007, when it marked its 100th anniversary, we unified our group brand as "AGC" and most of the group companies changed their company names to incorporate AGC in their legal names. And this July, Asahi Glass became AGC Inc. to complete the integrated management framework for the AGC Group on a global scale.
The origins of the AGC Group can be traced back to more than 110 years ago, when the founder challenged to start the first domestic manufacture of flat glass in Japan, hoping to make people's life better and facilitate the industrial development in the country. As it shows, the AGC Group's origin is "to provide products that benefit the lives of people around the world."
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Francisca Vives Casas (Cádiz, 16 de septiembre de 1956) es una historiadora española especializada en el patrimonio histórico artístico de Vitoria y Álava y la Historia de las mujeres.

Biografía
Es licenciada en Filosofía y Letras (sección Historia) por la Universidad de Navarra (1979). Especialista en Conservación y Restauración del Patrimonio Arquitectónico y Urbano por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1996) y doctora en Historia del Arte por la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) (1998).

Desde el año 2004 ha sido profesora en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la UPV/EHU de asignaturas para la Licenciatura de Bellas Artes y, recientemente, profesora en los grados de Arte, Creación y Diseño y Conservación y Restauración de los Bienes Culturales. Desde el año 2015 es profesora en las Aulas de la Experiencia de Álava. Es profesora en el Máster en Conservación y Exhibición de Arte Contemporáneo (CYXAC) de la UPV/EHU.

Sus líneas de investigación se centran en el patrimonio histórico artístico de Vitoriay Álava, la Historia de las mujeres, tanto en su aspecto histórico como artístico, en los siglos XVIII y XIX hasta la primera mitad del siglo XX.

Es responsable del Patrimonio del Convento de Santa Cruz de Vitoria desde 2014. A su labor investigadora ha unido la de divulgación de la historia de Vitoria a través de su colaboración en prensa escrita, en radio y televisión.

Obras
Ha publicado libros, artículos en revistas científicas y colaboraciones en obras colectivas, entre las que destacan:

 El Palacio de Montehermoso: historia de un edificio / Montehermoso Jauregia: eraikin baten historia, 2008.
 La vida cotidiana de las mujeres en la Vitoria de los siglos XVIII y XIX, con Paloma Manzanos Arreal, 2005.
 Patrimonio histórico artístico en el término municipal de Vitoria-Gasteiz, con Susana Aréchaga Alegría, 2005.
 Torres y fortificaciones en Álava, con Susana Aréchaga Alegría, 2004.
 Las mujeres en Vitoria-Gasteiz a lo largo de los siglos: recorridos y biografías, con Paloma Manzanos Arreal, 2001.
La Academia de Bellas Artes de Vitoria (1818-1889). (Ayuntamiento de Vitoria, 2000).

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Nacidos en Cádiz
Historiadoras de España
Alumnos de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Navarra
Alumnado de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Alumnado de la Universidad del País Vasco
Profesores de la Universidad del País Vasco
Historiadores de España del siglo XXI
Españolas del siglo XXI


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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il Berliner Fußballclub Dynamo nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 1982-1983.

Stagione
Grazie ad alcune ampie vittorie ottenute nelle prime gare, la Dinamo Berlino prese immediatamente il comando della classifica dell'edizione 1982-83 della DDR-Oberliga, per poi lasciarsi sorpassare dal Carl Zeiss Jena (che, più avanti nella stagione, avrà occasione di eliminare la squadra ai quarti di finale della coppa nazionale) a causa di una serie di pareggi. All'ottava giornata la squadra riprese definitivamente il comando della classifica e, rimanendo imbattuta per tutto l'arco del campionato, conquistò il quinto titolo consecutivo assicurandoselo con quattro gare di anticipo. In Coppa dei Campioni la Dinamo Berlino incontrò come primo avversario l'Amburgo futuro vincitore del torneo, che passerà il turno sconfiggendo la squadra con un 2-0 casalingo dopo che l'incontro a Berlino Est si era concluso sull'1-1.

Maglie e sponsor
Le divise già utilizzate nella stagione precedente vengono confermate.

Rosa

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Statistiche dei giocatori

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Q: How to do automatic expansion or autocomplete of functions and variables in a Clojure repl Is there a way to expand the current command at the Clojure repl like I'd be able to do in Common Lisp?
For example say I have typed:
Math/

I would like the tab key to expand to all the available variables and functions in that namespace.
I'm using Clojure as inferior-lisp would like to know how to do this from the plain vanilla repl in Clojure, and through swank slime.

A: Have you tried Clojure mode for Emacs? It has autocomplete (suggestions are shown in new window, and if there's only one possible option, it is used to expand name), highlighting and many other nice features (not more then for CL, but not less too).
It is available via ELPA. After installing ELPA type M-x package-list-packages, set cursor near needed package and press i (already installed packages are in red). You'll need packages clojure-mode, slime, slime-repl and swank-clojure. When you're done with i-marks, press x to complete installation. Finally, press M-x slime - Emacs will tell, that Clojure is not installed and propose to download and use latest version. Just agree.
You can also integrate Emacs with Leiningen.

A: The vanilla repl in Clojure is pretty crippled; it doesn't even have history. Avoid it for anything but the most primitive of tasks. I don't think you can get this in inferior-lisp, but in the slime repl you can just use TAB to complete things like this. In clojure-mode buffers with slime activated it's M-TAB, or you can tie it into your hippie-expand functions.

A: Another vote in favour of clojure-mode and slime under Emacs. In particular, if you set up auto-complete, then you can use my ac-slime package to get context-aware tab completion in a dropdown list. Here's a screencast showing it in action.
And, further to technomancy's comment about hippie-expand, here's how to tie slime completion into hippie-expand.
Update: as of 2012, nrepl, nrepl.el and ac-nrepl are replacing slime and ac-slime; same functionality, smaller and cleaner codebase.
Update2: as of Oct 2013 nrepl.el is renamed to cider and it and ac-nrepl have moved to the clojure-emacs organisation on github. nrepl remains as the server component


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THE same fact appears very differently to different people. Our Lord Jesus, having risen from the dead, was exalted with the right hand of God. To the Jewish priests and rulers this was a dreadful announcement. They could not endure to hear that Jesus, whom they slew and hanged on a tree, was yet alive. As the murderer is startled at the apparition of the ghost of the man he has slain, so were these rulers altogether dismayed at the idea that Jesus of Nazareth, whom they had nailed to the Cross, was risen from the grave. And they were astounded at the very thought that He, whom they had put to death with all the shame that they could devise, was with the full might and majesty of God exalted to the highest heavens. They were cut to the heart by the announcement as though a sword had cut them in two, dividing their very bones. Full of indignation, they consulted how they could compass the death of those who had brought such evil tidings to their ears.
The fact had a very different effect upon the Apostles. They were the friends of Jesus and witnesses to His majesty. And when they were certain that, though they had seen Him laid in the grave, He had risen and had ascended, and was now sitting at the right hand of God, even the Father, it filled them with the greatest boldness and consolation! They might well speak in such a name, for it was assuredly Divine! He who had conquered death and opened the gates of Heaven must be able to take care of His own followers and, therefore, with delight and courage, they bearded His enemies in their dens! There was no need for trembling–who could harm them? They blushed not–there was nothing to blush at, for it was a triumphant cause! They feared not–there was nothing to fear, for the name high over all in Heaven, earth and Hell would surely protect them from all peril! What was to the rulers a source of dismay was to the Apostles a cause of courage!
Let now enquire of you all how this fact of the exaltation of Christ impresses you? What do you think of Christ? As time would fail me to press this enquiry upon all classes in this assembly, I shall confine myself to those who have not yet found peace with God–and shall set the Ascended One before them that in Him they may find salvation! That is to be my subject–I want, this morning, to discover seekers! And by the help of God's Holy Spirit I want to encourage them, to direct them and, if possible, may this be the last morning in which they shall be called seekers and the first day in which they shall be finders! And may they, this day, know how sweet Christ is to those who find Him and how inestimably precious His salvation is to those who receive it by faith in Him!
I should be very glad, this morning, if we could get down to business, for a great deal of hearing is not earnest hearing, but mere playing at hearing. Too many of you have ears to hear and yet do not truly hear. The Word of God reaches the outward ear and goes no further because you do not listen heartily and with earnestness. Thousands of hearers are like spectators at a banquet who come into the gallery and look down upon the guests who are feasting below–but they never taste a morsel, themselves. For them there are no dainties for actual tasting! They look at the oxen and the fatlings. They see the enjoyment of the feasters. Sometimes they even feel their own mouths watering for the good things and they almost envy those who are banqueting. But they do not seek a place at the loaded tables for themselves–they remain lookers-on.
I pray this morning, and may God hear the desire of my soul, that you may all become partakers of the exceeding Grace of God in Christ Jesus at this moment! May you who have fed, feed again as you see the feast prepared in Christ! And may you who have never ventured to "taste and see that the Lord is good," approach the provisions of love this morning and be fed with bread to the fullest! I want to see an end of mere wishes and desires! I want to rejoice over the commencement of actual faith and realized salvation! Let's get down to business and let us have no more talk or delay! I long to see you saved and saved at once, or perhaps you may never be saved at all!
Seeker, you know right well that if you are ever to be saved your salvation lies in Jesus Christ. "There is none other name given under Heaven whereby we must be saved." And you know that it is so! The point is to obtain the salvation which is in that name and so to lay hold of Christ, that what is stored in Him may become your own! May the Spirit of God bless you, now, so that while we speak to our text you may be led by it to actual salvation in Christ Jesus!
First, then, let me invite you to NOTE HIS TITLES and learn their meaning. He is called, "a Prince and a Savior." You must know the Savior or you cannot be saved. It is important to you to understand the Nature and Character of Him whom the lord has set forth to be the only salvation of guilty men. The Lord Jesus is here described to you under two instructive names which comprehend within themselves the moat of His offices and relationships. Consider him now with deep attention.
The highest powers and potentates of the spiritual kingdom bow before Him and hail Him–joyfully hail Him–as Lord over all, blessed forever! His dominion extends over all creation. All things are put under His feet. He is the Prince of the kings of the earth, yes, He is Lord of All! Think of Him, then, O seeking Sinner, in this honorable estate! Let your mind conceive of Christ as worthy of all the homage and reverence that you can ever pay to Him! Do not approach Him without serious thought and careful reverence, for though He is condescending and gentle, yet is He a Prince to whom honor and obeisance must be paid!
Was it not said of old, "The government shall be upon His shoulders and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace"? He is the Prince of the house of David! He opens and no man shuts. He shuts and no man opens. There is no boundary to the power of Christ! If you seek His salvation, think of Him as Almighty and remember that His power is now employed for the salvation of those who trust in Him.
"This know, nor of the terms complain.
Where Jesus comes, He comes to reign.
To reign, and with no partial stray.
You must accept Jesus to be Leader and Commander to you or you cannot win the battle of life! You must yield Him loving obedience, or He will not be married to your souls. His dominion is sweetly tempered by love, so that, as the Prophet writes, "You shall call Me no more Baali," that is, "My Lord," with a hardness of rulership, but Ishi, "My Lord," because you are My man, My husband.
Even so Jesus is our Head and Lord, but His rule is that of supreme affection. There must be obedience to Jesus if there is faith in Him, for true faith works by love. Will you render it? Thus, Christ Jesus our Prince is crowned with honor and clothed with power–and He rightly claims and exercises dominion. I pray, dear Hearer, that you may pay homage before Him at once as your Prince. The other title of the text is, a "Savior," and this name, it seems to me, should be very delightful to every seeking soul. Struggling into light and prizing every ray of hope, it must be sweet to you to know that the Son of God is still a Savior, though manifestly a Prince!
Observe here the perseverance of the Lord's love. He was a Savior here below. He is a Savior now that He has reached His Throne. We read of Him while on earth, "The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." And now that He has gone, we still hear concerning Him, "He is able, therefore, to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them." He has not paused in His blessed work of love! "He is the Savior of the body." Savior He was when He wore the garment without seam and traversed the weary leagues of Palestine. Savior He is now that He is girt about with a golden belt and sits upon the Throne! And Savior He shall be in His Second Advent, for which we look, even the glorious appearing of our God and Savior!
Savior He was when He wept over Jerusalem. Savior He is, still, though His eyes are like a flame of fire. And Savior shall He be to His own redeemed when, before His glance, this earth shall flee away. Look up to Him under that aspect, O you who seek Him! Remember that our exalted Lord is a Savior in virtue of the prevalence of the work which He achieved while here below. When He dwelt here among men, He was able to save, but His salvation was not complete, for He had not yet said, "It is finished." Now His redeeming work is done and saving is a simple matter to Him. Never did He so well deserve the name of Savior as when He climbed to His Throne.
The ransom price has all been paid and now, O Jesus, You are Savior, indeed! The head of the serpent has beenbroken beneath Your heel–You are Savior, indeed! The gates of the grave have been burst, the sepulcher is bereaved of its prey and the Resurrection is brought to light–You are, from now on, a Savior to the uttermost, O Jesus! "By Your agony and bloody sweat, by Your Cross and passion, by Your precious death and burial," you have finished salvation and now our spirits stall rejoice in God our Savior! I pray that you who seek Him may have Grace, this morning, to see Him in the light of a Savior, as still pursuing the work of saving souls, but yet pursuing it only to apply the Atonement which His death completed. Look at him, O you ends of the earth, as the Savior, for such He is, and there is none else!
If He is a Savior, remember, this shows to trembling hearts how approachable He is. You might be abashed at coming to a Prince, but you may be encouraged in coming to a Savior! O you that would be rid of your sin, do you fear the Prince? Well may you, for He can punish you! But fear not, for the Savior will forgive you! Diseased with sin, do you think yourself unworthy of His princely Presence? Yet He is Physician as well as Prince–therefore come where the glance of His eye, or the touch of His hand will make you perfectly whole!
I wish I knew how to put my Lord before you in the best of words and describe Him so sweetly that you would all fall in love with Him, but, indeed, I believe Him to be so beautiful that if I can only convey to you the faintest idea of Him you must be enamored of Him, if you love that which is good and fair! While I am describing Him I feel I do but put a mist about Him. But, He is the sun and He can break through my cloudy language and cause your hearts to see Him in all His glory. "A Prince and a Savior." Suppose I put the words together and say, a Prince-Savior–One who is lordly and kingly in the salvation which He brings? He deals out no stinted Grace, but makes us to receive of His fullness, Grace for Grace.
Turn the titles the other way and reverse the order, and truly He is a Savior-Prince whose Glory it is to save, whose kingdom and power and dominion are all turned in full force to achieve the work of rescuing His people from destruction. "A Prince and a Savior." This is the Christ to whom you must come, O you who would be delivered from your sins. Look to Him and live!
II. APPROACH HIM, THEN, UNDER THESE TWO CHARACTERS. I would come to very close quarters with you who are seeking the Lord, while I urge you to approach Jesus Christ as a Prince. "And how shall we do that?" you ask. I answer, come to Him at once with the sorrowful confession of your past rebellion. You have lived, I do not know how many years, you unconverted ones, without paying due homage to Jesus! You have known about Him, but you have not obeyed Him. Up to this moment you have resisted His love and said, "Let us break His bands asunder and cast His cords from us." Confess this and be ashamed, for it is a great disgrace not to be swayed by such love as that of Christ!
When you have confessed the past before this Prince, then I charge you accept His great purpose and submit to His rule. He is a Prince, therefore yield yourself to be His subject. Do you know what the objective of His rule is? It is to make you love God and to be like God! You are created and, therefore, launched upon the sea of existence! You cannot help this fact or alter it–your existence has been given you and you cannot lose it! How can this creation of yours be an eternal blessing and the danger be removed of its becoming a never-ending curse? The answer is simple–if you are right with your Creator, you are right with everything! If you are reconciled to Him, you will be happy in time and in eternity!
Do you really wish to be saved from sin? Jesus once asked a sick man, "Will you be made whole?" It is the question which He asks of you today, dear Friend. You would be glad to be saved from going to Hell. Yes, but that is not it. Do you desire to be saved from that which created Hell, from that which is the fuel of the unquenchable fire and the tooth of the undying worm–namely, the love of iniquity, the love of sin? Christ can save from sin, as a Savior, and lead you into the Kingdom of Righteousness of which He is the Prince. Are you willing that He should do so? If it is taken for granted that you have approached the Lord Jesus in this way, I would next say, as He is a Prince, surrender everything to Him. Christ claims of you that if you are saved, since it is through His redemption, you should, from now on, be His. If He has redeemed you, then you belong to Him–from now on you are not your own–you are bought with a price.
He asks it of you. Will you do it, O seeking Soul, will you do it? For if that is done, surely, then, Christ is to you a Prince and a Savior! And if this is accomplished and He is Lord, then pay your loving, loyal homage to your Prince. Behold Him in His Glory, where all the angels cast their crowns before Him while the elders adore Him with vials full of sweet odors!
If Christ is to be your Savior, He must be your Prince, and you must have a loyal attachment to Him, deep and true. Is this a hard thing to ask of you? I think it is the joy of my life to be the subject and the servant of King Jesus! The name of the Queen stirs the British soldier's heart and oftentimes, in the hour of battle, he has thought of his Sovereign and his country, and has been willing to lay down his life. But the love of Jesus is a more intense passion, by far, and the loyalty of a good soldier to Jesus Christ is a stronger force than any loyalty to earthly princes! You must have this! Do you see how right it is that you should have it? Towards such an one as Jesus we are proud to cherish a love which many waters cannot quench! A love stronger than death! Approach Him, then, with loving hearts, or at least bring your hearts and ask to have them made loving.
You must also approach the Lord Jesus as Savior. Do not proudly murmur at this. I have known some who have been willing to take Christ for their example and as their teacher–and so far they have acknowledged Him as a Prince–but Prince, or you will be lost forever! I do now affectionately urge the sinner who is seeking mercy to come to Christ Jesus, confessing that he needs a Savior. Look at your sin and consider your past life with all its transgressions. Are you not ashamed of it? Are you not afraid to stand before that Judgment Seat where you must give an account for every idle word that you have spoken?
Does not conscience fill you with trembling? Well, come and tell the Savior! Tell Him all! Pour out your heart before Him! Acknowledge that you are undone and condemned unless He can, in His pity, obtain a pardon for you. Are you actually doing so, now? Let us get down to business, as I have said before! Make the confession, now, from your heart while we are yet speaking. That done, since Christ is a Savior, believe that He is able to save you. Seeing He died the bitter death of the Cross, suffering from Divine Justice in a most terrible manner upon Calvary, there must be, in those five wounds, power enough to be the death of every sin! O crimson blood, you must have merit enough in you to wash out crimson sin! It must be so! He who died upon the Cross is God as well as perfect Man and a Sacrifice offered by Him must have infinite power and efficacy to remove sin.
Believe this, also, and when you have believed it, then understand that you must submit yourself entirely to His processes of salvation. He is able to save you, but He has a way of His own and He will not save you in your way, but only in His way! And His way of saving you is to make you feel the smart and bitterness of sin, to make you hate that sin, loathe it and to turn you from it forever! Thus He saves you–are you willing to have it so? Can you say, "Farewell," this morning, to the sins you have loved so long? Is there any attraction to you, yet, in the harlots and the riotous with whom you have spent your Father's substance? Have you still a lingering love to the far country, or can you bid its citizens a long farewell?
Do the swine attract you? Have you a hankering after the husks which they eat, so that you can refuse to go to Christ when He would take you away from these filthy pleasures and degrading delights? Can you say, "I cannot linger longer here. It is Sodom and the fire will soon descend from Heaven! I must flee for my life and look not behind me. I must and will do so, for Jesus takes me by the hand and leads me on"? If you have sincerely done this and you are willing to have a divorce from your sins–all and thoroughly–from table, bed, hearth and in all ways so that sin and you shall no more be on loving terms, then, I say, if you are willing for this, all you have now to do is to trust your Savior! Lean all your weight on Him! Repose your whole self on Him!
You see your need of Him. You see His power to save you and you know what is meant by being saved, namely, delivered from the power of sin–will you now trust Him to make you pure? If you do, you have come to Him as a Prince and a Savior, and He has said, "Him that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out," and He will not, cannot cast you out! This approach to the Lord Jesus should be made at this moment, where you now are! There is no need to go elsewhere, or tarry for an hour. While yet you are here, God's Holy Spirit can enable you to come to Christ as your Prince and your Savior. I am putting the Truth of God very plainly. I have scarcely used one figure of speech or a single ornament of language. I have tried to tell you the way of salvation very plainly. And having told you, I can do no more but earnestly ask you–will you have this Prince and Savior, or not? May the Spirit of God persuade you to give the right reply!
III. In the third place, NOTE THE GIFTS OF THE LORD JESUS. He is "exalted with God's right hand to give repentance and forgiveness of sins." Now if, dear Hearer, you are distressed, this morning, beneath the burden of sin, I pray you to catch at this blessed sentence, for there is honey here which shall take away the bitterness of your soul! I think I heard you say, "Gladly would I have Christ as Prince and Savior! I am willing enough, but this hard heart, this rebellious will–what can I do with them?" Listen–"He is exalted to give repentance." This does not mean, as some have said, to give space for repentance. We must not add words to Scripture!
What a marvelous thing this change of mind as to the past is! He can also change your mind as to the present and the future, so that, instead of looking for present pleasure, you will find your delight in future Glory realized by faith! Do you understand me? It shall be pleasure enough to you to think of the pleasures at God's right hand forevermore! Jesus can save you from living like the beast which looks not an hour ahead, but is content with the pasture around it–and will even walk into the slaughterhouse to be slain–so little does it know what is reserved for it! Jesus can save you from being so brutish and make you look into the eternal future with the eyes of a wise man!
He can work in you desires after holiness and hatred of every false way. He can take the guile out of your soul as well as the guilt out of your life. He can give you to be true and upright before Him and cleansed in the inward parts. Everything that is included in "repentance," Jesus Christ is exalted to give.
Here I preach Christ not merely to penitent sinners, but to impenitent sinners! O rock, be smashed with this rod! The Cross can fetch the waters of repentance out of stony hearts! O hard heart, be melted with this sacred fire! The fire of Jesus' love can dissolve the northern iron and steel of obdurate impenitence! He is exalted on high to give repentance! Therefore, O Sinners, look to Him for repentance!
It is added as His second gift, "to give forgiveness." And the forgiveness which Jesus gives is very blessed. I pray you, seeking Soul, pay attention to each word I now say on this point. He can pass an act of amnesty and oblivion for all your sins. If He forgives you, all your transgressions shall be as though they had never been! He will make clean work of it, blotting out every record of your sin so that in God's book there shall be no grieving memory of your having been a sinner at all! So powerful is the atoning blood that all manner of sin and transgression shall be forgiven unto men for its sake. Sins against a holy God, sins against Christ's love and blood, sins against conscience, sins against the Law, sins against the Gospel, sins which have lain in your bones from your youth up, sins of your middle age, sins of your old age, aggravated sins, black sins, damnable sins–all are gone when He says, "I have blotted out your sins like a cloud, and as a thick cloud your transgressions." Jesus has gone to Heaven on purpose to give this complete forgiveness!
He that believes on Christ Jesus shall dwell in bliss and be satisfied with the goodness of the Lord!
And mark you, once again, you shall, when forgiven, have quiet in your soul, for when you are pardoned, all the hurly-burly of your spirit shall turn into a deep calm. You shall have the "peace of God which passes all understanding" to "keep your heart and mind by Christ Jesus." "Oh," says one, "I would give my eyes for it!" You shall have it without giving your eyes! Give your heart–no, and not even give your heart as a price for it–take the blessing freely, for freely it is given! Jesus is exalted on high that He may grant free pardons to great offenders! I come back to that statement–if Jesus is exalted on purpose to give pardon, then if He does not give forgiveness to someone, He is exalted in vain! He MUST, therefore, give it to some–why should He not bestow it upon you?
then He is exalted to give me repentance and remission for my great sins! Do I need to ask you, will you have these two gifts?
Ah, Friends, it shows how deep is the depravity of the human heart that we should have need to press our Master's mercies on you. If sin were not a madness, it would only need the preacher to come and tell about this blessed Gospel and you would begin to sing, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes salvation, that said unto Zion, Your God reigns as a Prince and a Savior in Heaven." Instead, however, of offering my Lord a joyful reception, some of you will count it a weariness to be entreated and pleaded with. I feel in my own soul that though my Master enables me to put these things before you, you will not receive them unless His love forces you. We can bring the horse to the water, but we cannot make it drink. And we can bring Christ before you, but we cannot make you accept Him.
IV. As I said to you about the titles, approach the Lord Jesus as such, so now I say about His gifts–ASK HIM FOR THEM. Ask now, at this moment! Again, I say I want you to get down to business and be doing as well as listening. While I am speaking, may the Holy Spirit incline your hearts to practical obedience! At this moment ask the Lord Jesus humbly for repentance and pardon. You do not deserve these gifts–if He leaves you to perish He will be just. He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and He will have compassion on whom He will have compassion.
Till a blessing You bestow.'"
The Angel is near this morning! Seize Him! Grasp Him! And if He seem to fling you off, hold to Him, still, and say, "I will not let You go except you bless me, and bless me now!" You will get the blessing if you can pray like that! Pray with deep humility, because you are unworthy, but with violent importunity because you are in such fearful peril and you cannot endure to be lost!
And–and this is the last word–ask now! Do not put me off this morning! I am in earnest, even if you are not! But oh, it is your soul, not mine, that is now at stake! I pray you be in earnest, O Man, and be so now! Perhaps you will never hear another plea! It may be this is the last Sabbath you will spend on earth! Where will you be if you reject the Savior? Where the Sabbath bell shall never ring out its happy summons! Where the silver voice of Mercy shall never again salute you! There is another world–you will not die like a dog! There is a judgment to come and you will have to stand before your Maker to give an account of all your life!
I draw a ring round you while you are sitting in that pew, or standing in that aisle, and I demand an answer! Sinner, will you now be saved or not? Today is the accepted time! Today is the day of salvation! O Holy Spirit, lead the sinner to now ask and he shall receive! To believe, and he shall be saved. Amen and Amen! PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON–Acts 5:17-42.HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK"–304, 569, 332.