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Kohl-Grassley Generic Drug Bill Would Save Taxpayers Nearly $4.8 Billion, Congressional Budget Office Says
WASHINGTON – A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate finds that a bipartisan bill aimed at cutting costs by encouraging competition from generic drugs would save taxpayers nearly $4.8 billion over the next decade.
CBO anticipates that enacting the Preserve Access to Affordable Generic Drugs Act (S. 27) would accelerate the availability of lower-priced generic drugs and generate $4.785 billion in budget savings between fiscal years 2012 and 2021. CBO also estimates that earlier entry of generic drugs affected by the bill would reduce total drug expenditures in the U.S. by roughly $11 billion over the decade.
The CBO estimate can be found here.
The bill would deter "pay-for-delay" settlements in which brand name drug companies settle patent disputes by paying generic drug manufacturers in exchange for the promise of delaying the release of the generic version into the market. Under the legislation, these anti-consumer pay-off agreements would be presumed illegal and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would be provided the authority to stop the agreements.
"Generic drugs are essential to making medicine affordable and holding down costs for taxpayers," Kohl said. "As CBO's new cost estimate shows, backroom pay-for-delay deals are keeping generic drugs off the shelves at a great cost to consumers and taxpayers. Congress and the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction should take this opportunity to fix this problem."
"CBO estimates that there would be significant savings to both the federal government and consumers if our legislation were to be enacted. When people across the country are having a hard time making ends meet, this could be a real boost to their bottom line," Grassley said. "I urge the deficit reduction committee to include this legislation in their efforts to make the necessary reductions in the federal budget."
Last month, Kohl and Grassley urged the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to include the bill as part of its budget-cutting effort. The letter can be found here.
The Federal Trade Commission also released a report last month that found that drug companies entered into 28 potential pay-for-delay deals in FY 2011, nearly matching the previous fiscal year's record of 31 deals. Overall, the agreements reached in the latest fiscal year involved 25 different brand-name pharmaceutical products with combined annual U.S. sales of more than $9 billion.
In July, the Senate Judiciary Committee favorably reported the Preserve Access to Affordable Generic Drugs Act.
Previously, CBO estimated that the bill would save the federal government – which pays approximately one-third of all prescription costs – $2.68 billion over ten years. The president included a provision to end pay-for-delay settlements in his FY 2012 budget and estimated it would save the federal government $8 billion over ten years.


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Join CODE's Technical Director, Louise Frost, backstage as she and the Shokunin Clik team help shape the SS19 looks on runways in New York.
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Code Salon / July 29, 2019
Every amazing production that happens at New York Fashion Week is the result of an army of talented professionals coming together behind the scenes to craft trendsetting hair and make-up.
Twice a year, our very own creative genius Louise Frost kicks it backstage at NYFW with Shokunin Clik, a hard-working team of seasoned beauty & style industry professionals. The group is led by hair stylist and educator Joseph Dimaggio, who works internationally in the fashion and editorial worlds and is a Master Session Ambassador for CODE product partner fav, Davines North America.
"This creative work is not for the faint of heart," says Louise, "it's for people who want to be hair mavericks and get out of their comfort zones to produce the beautiful work that you see on the runway."
Pulling off the diversity of looks seen during a typical day at fashion week requires scores of talented artists who love what they do and who know how to excel at creative collaboration while under pressure. "One of the most inspiring things about being on the team," says Louise, "is that you have to be able to function at a high level in a team environment to pull this off."
When Louise and the rest of the Shokunin Clik team come together for runway shows they step away from the high profile creative roles they play in their day-to-day worlds. There's no room for outsized egos in the intimate and frenzied space behind the runway where the look and feel of a show are crafted.
During fashion week, days start early and end late for the Shokunin team. On a typical day, Louise is up early making her way to the venue where she styles models for a diverse group of designers who all have their own unique aesthetic. Speed, adaptability and a sense of humor are key when you are rushing to achieve super detailed looks that would take hours to create at the best hair salons in San Francisco.
Last September, Louise worked the NYFW Spring/Summer 2019 shows. There, she and the Shokunin team crafted original looks for new and established brands including L'Agence, where they created styles that were organically slicked in front with dry loose waves in the back.
High and loose ponytails were the look at GCDS (God Can't Destroy Streetwear). The event was GCDS's first New York runway show.
F/FFFFFF, a brand founded by Chinese designer Zac Zeng in 2017, also made their NYFW debut. The clothing line was on trend with models walking the runway in shiny neon fabrics and hair tied in perfectly messy knots.
All in all, Louise and the team created looks for 22 designers showing their SS19 collections over five days.
The time Louise spends at fashion week is intensive, challenging and highly social. She says, "It a gives me a chance to be with some of the best stylists and top make-up artists in our industry and to affirm that I know what I am doing. I get to grow as an artist and stay on top of my game."
It also provides her with the opportunity to be totally tuned into what is trending in the beauty and style industry–an outcome that benefits her talented crew at CODE salon, as well as our guests. "What you see on the runways in New York during fashion week is always going to influence the trends elsewhere in the country including the Bay Area," says Louise.
So, hooray, we say, for Louise and all the knowledge and insight she brings to her role as Technical Director at CODE salon SF. We're thankful she is constantly expanding her creative world and ours too!
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For those who're in a rush, take a look at our prime decide, LEONLITE Twin Head Motion-Activated LED Light.
Typically you simply have to see what's happening outdoors.
Perhaps you're raking up leaves and it's beginning to get darkish out.
Maybe there's one thing shifting about outdoors and also you'd wish to know what's happening.
No matter your cause, the reply to all of those considerations is a movement sensor outside mild.
The movement sensor is a good way to all the time see the place you're strolling and to assist forestall would-be thieves from contemplating your home.
In fact, you don't need to simply go together with any previous movement sensor flood mild. These lights have come a great distance since visiting your grandparents had them put in to ensure youngsters stayed off their garden.
There are all types of movement sensor lights on the market available on the market as we speak. Listed here are eight of our favorites.
Not all movement sensor lights are created equal. The complete objective of those movement lights is to light up a given space.
At different occasions you simply need a blast of shiny mild over your whole property.
So what you're in search of is perhaps a bit totally different out of your neighbor. No matter it's you're contemplating although, make certain to maintain all of those various things in thoughts.
It's a flood mild, so that you need lots of mild. However the place is the sunshine directed, and do you want one sensor mild or a collection of sensor lights to cowl the given space?
The easiest way to find out that is the space your movement sensor lighting will journey and the illumination angle.
Does it mild up the complete 180 levels of 1 aspect (so with two lights you'll be able to fill a whole property)? Or perhaps you want a smaller angle as to keep away from blasting mild into your neighbor's window.
No matter you're in search of, that is one thing to think about.
Ideally, you need LED lights. These are brighter and can last more. Altering out movement sensor lights is usually a little bit of a ache as a result of these lights are often larger up and you have to escape the ladder and different gear to make it to the bulb. So naturally, the much less typically you must change out the sunshine the higher.
This one is usually missed however extraordinarily essential.
What sort of lighting supply does your movement sensor lights require? Can you employ a chargeable battery or does it hook up with a standard energy supply? When you have quick access to the lights (corresponding to when putting in on a patio) the battery choice will not be a nasty approach to go as it's simpler to put in. In case you're having the sunshine put in greater up you'll doubtless need a conventional energy supply.
Simply one thing else to think about.
The worth level in your outside movement sensor lighting will differ. Lights on this listing begin at beneath $50 and go all the best way as much as beneath $250. Simply what precisely do you get for a further $200?
You'll need to maintain studying to seek out out.
The editor's decide actually comes down to 2 cut up teams: sensible movement sensor lights or conventional movement sensor lights. If you would like a sensible movement sensor mild that permits you to management the system with Amazon Alexa than the Ring design is a superb choice to go together with. It bundles a video digital camera together with the movement lights.
Whereas the Ring choice is nice, and if that's the boat you're in by all means go that method, we determined to provide our Editor's Pick to the LEONLITE 20W Twin Head Motion-Activated LED Outdoor Safety Light.
We consider that extra individuals are going to be on the lookout for a movement sensor mild that works with motion and doesn't want to return with a video digital camera function. Plus, not all movement sensor lights are for safety functions however on your yard.
The MAXSA Improvements is a wonderful entry into safety movement sensor lights.
The setup makes use of twin lights, each of that are adjustable so you'll be able to direct the lights within the path you need.
Moreover, the LED lights keep cool to the contact and can last more than halogen lights.
The lights will present illumination of as much as 40 ft and every mild presents a 180 diploma mild space. This manner, you'll be able to mild an entire circle, do you have to need to.
The lighting can also be photo voltaic powered. This manner, you'll by no means have to fret about changing battery packs or connecting it to a tough line. Now, this does imply will probably be higher in case you stay in a principally sunny surroundings, however so long as you do this can be a nice choice.
The lights can detect motion of as much as 40 ft away, and with the design, you possibly can monitor two totally different places (which is nice when you will have it on the nook of a home, or should you stay on a nook lot).
Every mild covers 180 levels.
Would you like the safety and contact of a movement sensor mild, however you don't like the best way it appears? If that sounds such as you the Heath/Zenith Shaker Cove Mission Type mild is ideal for you.
This mild seems like an ornamental mild you'd discover on the aspect of a historic constructing. It additionally is available in each silver and oil-rubbed bronze, which provides a further contact of magnificence.
Plus, the glass across the mild is required, to assist in giving that additional contact of weathering whereas not wanting like your conventional flood mild.
It makes use of a single 60-watt incandescent bulb, which does imply you'll be altering it extra steadily than an LED. This additionally isn't the sort of mild you'd decide to throw mild in lengthy distances.
It's extra of a light-weight you'd set up across the entrance porch or a walkway. It simply doesn't have the sort of energy you'd need for a flood mild. Nevertheless, the sunshine can detect motion as much as 30 ft away, so it can kick on properly earlier than you attain the entrance door.
The sunshine supplies as much as a 150-degree angle of sunshine. As it's designed to be put in by the entrance door you don't want something additional.
The MAXSA Photo voltaic-Powered LED Twin Head Motion Activated Safety Lights is just like the opposite MAXSA designed photo voltaic powered mild. The primary distinction with this setup is the size of time it takes to completely cost the solar energy and the quantity of space it illuminates.
There are three solar-powered batteries inside the setup. As soon as charged the batteries will present 150 one-minute activations.
The lighting supplies illumination of as much as 30-feet away whereas overlaying a 150-degree space.
There's a black and a white model of the MAXSA Photo voltaic-Powered LED Twin Head Motion Activated Safety Lights.
Principally, with this setup, you're deciding whether or not you need quicker charging and extra makes use of per cost for a shorter distance with 30 levels of much less protection, or would you like fewer makes use of per cost however for a wider viewing space.
You might not want a full 40 ft of protection both, during which case the 30 ft choice might be higher. Actually it comes right down to which is best on your property.
One of many huge promoting factors for the LEONLITE 20W Twin Head Motion-Activated LED Outdoor Safety Light is the lighting choices you possibly can think about. It is available in both daylight or heat white choice. The nice and cozy white provides you an orange tint to it whereas the white is clear daylight (with virtually a blue trace to it).
The setup makes use of 20W bulbs that produce the sunshine of 120W halogens. This manner, in case you have been to run the lights all through the night time you'd save $550 yearly.
These lights are waterproof and the lights are blocked off so climate won't injury the climate.
Every bulb has a lifespan of 50,000 runtime hours, so that you gained't be pulling out your ladder anytime quickly.
This setup provides you many adjustable modes, which is one other spotlight of the gear. It offers you with an on-time mode, so the lights will click on on at sure occasions. There's an auto mode the place it detects actions across the sensors, and there's a nightfall to daybreak mode, the place the lights will fade on and off based mostly on the lighting outdoors. This manner, there's extra mild whenever you want it, much less mild if you don't.
The sunshine has a 180-degree sensing space whereas offering you with a 60-foot detection distance.
Now, this mild won't have the complete 360-degree illumination choice, so that is greatest put in on the aspect of a constructing. Nevertheless, it's a strong choice in your property.
The LEONLITE 20W Twin Head Motion-Activated LED Outdoor Safety Light does use an AC energy supply, so chances are you'll need assistance from an electrician putting in the gear.
LED outside lighting will prevent a considerable quantity over conventional lights.
Whenever you need lights which might be protected towards the weather and can be out, utterly uncovered to rain and snow, daylight and wind, the RAB Lighting Tremendous Steal 360 sensors are the best way to go. The lights are protected with the half-cone designs.
Plus a further layer ofwaterproofing protects the bulbs additional.
For the RAB Lighting configuration, every particular person mild has a 180-degree sensor. This manner, you possibly can learn a full 360-degree circle across the gear. In case you have a pole otherwise you need to throw mild from the nook of your property, this is a wonderful design choice.
Can regulate the sensitivity management from 100 % to 30 %. This manner, for those who don't need the complete 180-degree space illuminated you possibly can modify this. The adjusted space may also be brighter as the sunshine is concentrated.
The lighting makes use of a 120 volt wired connection, so you might need to contact an electrician to put in the gear. In case you are bringing in an electrician you may need to have a number of put in directly (this manner you're not paying an electrician to return out and set up only one two-bulb gadget.
There's a timer mode you possibly can set the sunshine too, and you may program it to run for sure lengths of time. You can even modify the sensitivity of the movement detection (this manner in case you reside in a wooded space your lights gained't be clicking on and off on account of wind).
The MR. Beams wi-fi gear is a superb buy as a result of whereas it is a little more costly than different setups up to now on the listing, it comes with two two-light setups. This manner, you'll be able to place the lights on two totally different partitions of your own home, or you possibly can double-up the lights on a single wall.
The lighting gear is available in each white and brown. In case you stay in a particularly brilliant space (reminiscent of in Arizona or Nevada), a brown choice is nice because it won't present solar bleaching, plus it gained't seem as dusty from the desert.
The lights use adjustable LED gear, with every mild able to pivoting 180 levels. Every mild may even shine line on a 135-degree angle.
The lights are on the smaller aspect, however the gear can decide up motion 30 ft from the lighting setup.
The MR. Beams makes use of a wi-fi LED highlight system that's simply put in with out assistance from an electrician.
The MR. Beams gear does run on disposable lights. The producer says you'll be able to change the batteries out annually if the bulbs activate eight to 10 occasions a day. Nevertheless, there's a great probability your lights will click on on greater than this common, so that you'll possible want to exchange the batteries extra regularly than annually. Because of this, you could want to think about the precise placement.
If it's simply above your storage or close to the entrance door will probably be straightforward sufficient to vary out the batteries. Nevertheless, in case you set up the lighting greater up you could need to contemplate whether or not one thing that requires annual battery replacements is best for you.
The sunshine mechanically shuts off after 20 seconds if no further motion is detected.
There's a dusk-to-dawn sensor constructed into the sunshine, so it won't click on on through the day. It's also weatherproof.
For the worth, the variety of lighting models you obtain and the convenience of set up, this can be a strong choice to think about.
In the event you actually need to get skilled together with your movement sensor lighting gear, the Versonel Nightwatcher Professional Motorized LED Safety Motion Monitoring Flood Light is a wonderful solution to go.
The Versonel Nightwatcher works with a single motorized head, just like a safety digital camera that pans with motion.
The gear works with a passive infrared sensor that may detect motion of as much as 55 ft whereas providing 220 levels of visibility. After the motion has left the sensor studying space the sunshine mechanically strikes again to its unique setup.
The Versonel Nightwatcher Professional Motorized LED Safety Motion Monitoring Flood Light additionally makes use of a microprocessor movement/warmth activated auto monitoring mild head. This manner, it is ready to determine the motion of an individual moderately than the motion of a tree.
The movement sensor does require a 120V energy supply, so it'll have to be wired into your property or workplace's electrical system. Because of this, you'll possible want to usher in knowledgeable to carry out the set up.
The Versonel Nightwatcher Professional Motorized LED Safety Motion Monitoring Flood Light can be a lighting choice if you need one thing that gives improved safety as an alternative of only a flood mild for security. Whereas the sunshine will detect you shifting nearer to the sunshine supply, it's usually extra particular for safety wants.
The Versonel Nightwatcher Professional Motorized LED Safety Motion Monitoring Flood Light can also be not one of the best with extreme rain. So whereas it'll work outdoors, you shouldn't depart it utterly uncovered to the weather (don't set up it immediately beneath the gutter the place water comes out). In case you can set up it underneath an overhang that is the easiest way to go.
This setup does value $100 greater than the subsequent choice on the listing. Nevertheless, the options you get for that additional $100 are subsequent to none.
Relying on what you're in search of, that is by far the best choice on the market. When you don't need a safety digital camera constructed into the floodlights this isn't going to be just right for you (principally it's both good for you or it is best to keep away from it).
First, Ring is an Amazon based mostly sensible safety and equipment producer. The corporate creates sensible Wi-Fi doorbells, door screens and different gear. That is principally a safety digital camera and floodlight in a single.
The gear is available in each black and white, so you'll be able to go together with what works greatest on your private (or skilled) wants.
Every mild produces 1,800 Lumens of sunshine and is both hardwired into the house's electrical system or it makes use of a related electrical field.
Every mild provides a 140 diploma horizontal mild and 78 levels vertical mild.
The video digital camera function although is what units it aside. The digital camera runs at 1080p HD and can shoot in night time imaginative and prescient with the lights are usually not on. You may also activate the stay view function by way of the Ring software (which is on the market on each iOS and Android).
The Ring Floodlight is a brilliant Wi-Fi equipment, so that you'll want an add velocity of a minimum of 1Mbps (though 2Mbps is beneficial).
You'll be able to pan and zoom with the video digital camera, and when the lights kick on the system will mechanically start to document.
You possibly can modify the movement detection management on the lights. Inside the app, you possibly can inform the Ring Floodlight to watch the motion round a sidewalk or different walkway. This manner, if youngsters are throughout the road enjoying basketball or driving their bikes by the lighting doesn't click on on.
The Ring Floodlight comes with a free 30-day trial of Ring Shield Plus, which lets you retailer movies for as much as 30 days. With out the cloud service the video continues to be saved for a number of hours, supplying you with time to obtain the video feed do you have to need it.
The Ring Floodlight is Amazon Alexa enabled. This implies you'll be able to management the system together with your voice utilizing an Amazon Alexa gadget. For those who use Amazon Hearth TV you possibly can inform the TV to convey up the safety feed. If in case you have some other video Alexa system you possibly can see the feed as properly (it's also possible to deliver it up in your cell phone or pill).
In the event you're concerned with upgrading your own home's safety monitoring whereas putting in a flood mild this can be one thing you need to think about. The mixture is outstanding and is in contrast to any of the opposite floodlights on this listing.
Now, you possibly can all the time use a special sensible digital camera setup and a inexpensive flood mild, though the 2 working collectively in a single setup does make it simpler.
There are a selection of nice outside movement sensor lights out there. The worth level of those totally different lights will range relying on some options and what you're involved in. You'll be able to go anyplace out of your primary flood mild all the best way as much as a Wi-Fi enabled sensible Ring floodlight with Amazon Alexa management.
When you're in search of a sensible movement sensor and also you need to go all out on your property's safety system, choosing the Ring Wi-Fi design could also be what's greatest for you.
Nevertheless, if you have already got a sensible doorbell you actually don't want this feature (in case you're putting in it close to your entrance door). Plus, you possibly can mix a Ring doorbell with an ordinary movement sensor floodlight for lower than the 2 collectively.
That's the reason we determined to go together with the LEONLITE 20W Twin Head Motion-Activated LED Outdoor Safety Light. For the typical residence or property proprietor, this gadget provides you every little thing you want, plus various programming options that make your gear that makes it an incredible bang on your buck.
The Ring system is nice if that's what you're on the lookout for, however in most conditions, for those who simply need a flood mild with some management designs, it's essential take a look at the LEONLITE 20W Twin Head Motion-Activated LED Outdoor Safety Light.


It's that time of year again where people are getting excited for the Malvern Autumn Show.
The event will return to Three Counties Showground later this month, and it's not one to miss.
It will be a spectacular showcase of the season, and the show has compiled its very own 'Bucket List of Family Fun' so that families can get involved before the show and plan their day.
Diana Walton, Head of Shows for the Three Counties, said: "The Malvern Autumn Show is a great day out for all the family so we wanted to pull together a practical guide of how parents can plan and make the most out of their day.
Here's a bucket list of Malvern Autumn Show family fun.
Listen to Treehouse Tales in the brand new Treehouse Garden with renowned British Indian Storyteller Peter Chand on Saturday and Christine McMahon on Sunday.
Relax on the Family Green – a laid-back area where families can sit, play and picnic all with the stunning backdrop of the Malvern Hills. Junk Fish make a welcome return with their wonderful range of 'make and take' activities, all carefully prepared using mostly recycled materials and they'll have giant garden games, hula hoops and circus skills equipment. With kids fully occupied, grown-ups can unwind in this area too with a chill out bean bag space.
Wonder at the CANNA UK Giant Vegetables Championship, which are sure to make a big impression on little visitors with a spectacle of mighty marrows, colossal carrots, beastly beetroot and much much more.
Enjoy all the fun of the fair as the fairground comes to the Vintage Village with classic Old Tyme rides dating from the 1900's including a Carousel, Helter Skelter and Ferris Wheel.
Find out about forgotten skills using traditional techniques, demonstrations in the Forgotten Skills Marquee that will teach children of trades of the past.
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For sale is one 4ac reground cam.
Long story short, my mate bought the car which had this cam in the engine (the standard cam in the boot). He pulled the 4ac out recently, and today ive pulled it out and inspected it.
Lift seems to be the same, if anything .25mm more. Duration is unknown, but the lift points may have been alterd slightly. Its been on the engine for about 5-10,000km.
Can get pictures, but the lobes are still clean and shiney.
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Sage 1 30cm 30cm x 40cm In ground.
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I have an stl that I downloaded from Thingiverse that needs support material. None of the built in slicers engines in Matter Control will build the support material even with the box checked in settings. (Slic3r just errors out). I verify this in Layer view.
I loaded the stl in Kisslicer and generated gcode and loaded that into Matter control. It shows the necessary support material in the Layer view, however the print starts on layer 2. Layer 1 is blank. I have no idea how to correct this. Any suggestions or advice is appreciated. I'm completely new to Kisslicer.
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Seems to be more of a problem with fMattercontrol, then it is with KissSlicer. I'd post this in the other thread.
Mac The Knife wrote: Seems to be more of a problem with fMattercontrol, then it is with KissSlicer. I'd post this in the other thread.
It very well could be MatterControl causing the problem, but I thought I'd start with the application that generated the gcode since that is what tells the printer what to do.
This is the item. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:118125 the piece that I'm having difficulty with is the "Ark_Top_Cherubs_Only_Fixed.stl"
Repetier host reports that the model is not manifold,,,, and won't slice it. MC ver1.2.3 will generate a gcode, that if I load it into RH, shows it having a bottom layer. It does show a problem with one of the cherubs,,,, it wants to add a solid layer between the wings.
Hmm, ok, the MatterControl layer view seems to not be happy when loading up KISSlicer gcode. So I wouldn't worry about that.
Also, notice that MatterControl most likely reports something like 5053 layers, where KISSlicer should calculate out to 23.048*5= 115 layers with 200 micron layers.
Pulling the STL into KISSlicer and slicing it definitely shows that the model has a solid base, and slices correctly.
KISSlicer looks fine for output. Support material is added, layer starts where it should. Were you having issues when you sent the KISSlicer generated gcode to the printer?
But even KISS reports mesh errors with the model. These should be fixed to eliminate issues.
gestalt73 wrote: Hmm, ok, the MatterControl layer view seems to not be happy when loading up KISSlicer gcode. So I wouldn't worry about that.
Yes. It loaded it fine. But in the Layer view, it shows starting on layer 2. If you move it to layer 1, the screen goes blank. I tried to print it anyway, just in case it was reporting incorrectly but, alas, it didn't lay down anything for layer 1 and of course, layer 2 was too high. I'm trying to figure out why it doesn't have anything on layer 1. I contacted the guy who posted it on Thingiverse and he's emailing me the gcode for a version with support material that he created in Simplify3D. Hopefully that will solve the immediate problem but I still would like to know why the disconnect between Kisslicer and Matter Control to avoid future issues.
Have you tried running the STL through Netfabb to see if it repairs it?
Glacian22 wrote: Have you tried running the STL through Netfabb to see if it repairs it?
No, please elaborate...what is Netfabb?
* update. I ran the stl through NetFabb Basic and there were a lot of problems with it. After repairing it, I exported repaired stl. I loaded that into Kisslicer and then exported the gcode into MatterControl and the same issue exists. Blank layer one. Now the good news, I tried the Slic3r engine again and this time it didn't crash and it did generate the support material and is printing on layer 1.
There must be some issue between Kisslicer gcode and MatterControl. I don't know which is the culprit but I do know that the stl isn't the cause (now that its repaired). And Slic3r does now generate the support material. MatterSlicer still totally ignores the support material. Cura also doesn't recognize the support material but it does have layer 1.
Which is why I'll stick with Repetier Host.
Mac The Knife wrote: Which is why I'll stick with Repetier Host.
Well, I hit print and instead of printing, the hotend temp began to drop. As soon as I cancel the print and hit preheat the temp goes back up. Gota love it!


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Q: How to fix 'Install failed. Installation failed Rerun' error in Android? I'm trying to connect a device (an oximeter) to a Android smartphone via UART cable. So I need to build an app capable of reading data from this device. For this, I'm using Android Things, but I haven't been able to make this app to run, 'cause I get this error: "Install failed.
Installation failed
Rerun"
Pretty sure this tag "uses-library android:name="com.google.android.things" android:required="true"" is getting me this error, without it it runs but crashes.
MainActivity:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {

String TAG = "Log";

private static final String UART_DEVICE_NAME = null;

private UartDevice mDevice;

private TextView tv;
private List<String> serial;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    tv = findViewById(R.id.serial);
    serial = new ArrayList<>();

    PeripheralManager manager = PeripheralManager.getInstance();
    List<String> deviceList = manager.getUartDeviceList();
    if (deviceList.isEmpty()) {
        Log.i(TAG, "No UART port available on this device.");
    } else {
        Log.i(TAG, "List of available devices: " + deviceList);
    }

    // Attempt to access the UART device
    try {
        mDevice = manager.openUartDevice(deviceList.get(0));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.w(TAG, "Unable to access UART device", e);
    }
    try {
        setFlowControlEnabled(mDevice, false);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    try {
        configureUartFrame(mDevice);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    try {
        writeUartData(mDevice);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();

    if (mDevice != null) {
        try {
            mDevice.close();
            mDevice = null;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.w(TAG, "Unable to close UART device", e);
        }
    }
}

public void configureUartFrame(UartDevice uart) throws IOException {
    // Configure the UART port
    uart.setBaudrate(57600);
    uart.setDataSize(8);
    uart.setParity(UartDevice.PARITY_NONE);
    uart.setStopBits(1);
}

public void setFlowControlEnabled(UartDevice uart, boolean enable) throws
IOException {
        uart.setHardwareFlowControl(UartDevice.HW_FLOW_CONTROL_NONE);
}

public void writeUartData(UartDevice uart) throws IOException {
    byte[] raw = new byte[]{(byte) 0xA5, (byte) 0x10, (byte) 0x02, (byte)
0x1A, (byte) 0x00, (byte) 0x00};
    byte cs = (byte) ((raw[1] ^ raw[2] ^ raw[3] ^ raw[4]) & 0xFF);
    raw[5] = cs;
    int count = uart.write(raw, raw.length);
    Log.d(TAG, "Wrote " + count + " bytes to peripheral");
    readUartBuffer(uart);
}

public void readUartBuffer(UartDevice uart) throws IOException {
    // Maximum amount of data to read at one time
    final int maxCount = 9600;
    byte[] buffer = new byte[maxCount];

    int count;
    while ((count = uart.read(buffer, buffer.length)) > 0) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Read " + count + " bytes from peripheral");
        serial.add(String.valueOf(buffer[count]) + " ");
    }
    StringBuilder data = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = 0; i < serial.size(); i++) {
        data.append(serial.get(i));
    }
    tv.setText(data);
}
}

AndroidManifest:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.oximetro">

<uses-permission
android:name="com.google.android.things.permission.USE_PERIPHERAL_IO" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

    <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.things"
android:required="true"/>
</application>

</manifest>

build.Gradle:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
compileSdkVersion 29
buildToolsVersion "29.0.0"
defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.example.oximetro"
    minSdkVersion 27
    targetSdkVersion 29
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
    testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-
optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}
}

dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.2'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.2.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.things:androidthings:+'
}

I appreciate any help, even alternatives to do what I'm trying to do, which is reading data from an oximeter via UART with an Android smartphone. Running this code I get the error mentioned above, so the app does not even open on device.

A: You can't run the Android Things library on your phone. Your phone doesn't have the library hooks to make the hardware connections. The phone, knowing it doesn't have everything it needs to run the app, should refuse the installation.

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Israel Netanyahu Accuses Mandelblit of Coup Plot in Legal Funding Turndown
Netanyahu Accuses Mandelblit of Coup Plot in Legal Funding Turndown
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 12:38 pm | ח' תמוז תש"פ Updated Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 4:09 pm
YERUSHALAYIM (AP/Hamodia) -
Israeli attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (Flash90)
In perhaps the most overt attack yet by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, the PM openly accused him of plotting to oust him.
Several hours after Mandelblit submitted his opinion that Netanyahu should not be allowed to accept a large donation from a wealthy American friend, Netanyahu declared that "Mandelblit's plot of a governmental coup has been fully exposed.
"Mandelblit is trying to undo the democratic decision of millions of citizens who elected Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister," he said.
Israel's attorney general said Tuesday he opposed a request from Netanyahu to have a wealthy American supporter finance his legal defense against corruption charges.
Netanyahu had asked an Israeli oversight committee to allow a 10 million shekel ($2.9 million) donation from Spencer Partrich, a Michigan-based real estate magnate, to fund his legal team. Because Partrich also happens to be a witness in one of the cases, the committee had asked the country's attorney general for his opinion on the matter.
In his response, Avichai Mandelblit said there was no reason to grant Netanyahu this "unusual gift," particularly since Partrich's relationship to Netanyahu dates back to his first term in office in the 1990s.
"Even if over time a personal friendship developed between them, the relationship was built on the basis of one between a wealthy businessman and a senior politician, with all that that entails," he wrote in his opinion.
Mandelblit's stance will likely lead to the committee rejecting Netanyahu's request, in another setback for the beleaguered prime minister. His associates lashed out at Mandelblit's decision, calling it another chapter in the "persecution" of the Israeli leader.
While the request itself for financial aid from a friend was not illegal, the optics were jarring because Netanyahu is standing trial for just such sketchy ties to wealthy businessmen.
In addition, just last week, he successfully got the Knesset to approve tax exemptions that could exceed $150,000, all while Israel is grappling with a major economic crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Last year, the committee declined his request for the 10 million shekels from Partrich, saying it was inappropriate given the charges against him, the documents show. The committee said its decision was final.
But when a new committee was formed under Netanyahu's hand-picked state comptroller, it took up the request again, citing "a significant change in circumstances" that arose following Netanyahu's indictment in January, according to the committee documents.
Following the attorney general's opinion Tuesday, he will likely be turned down again.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz tweeted on Tuesday, that he "fully backs" Avichai Mandelblit following his rejection of Netanyahu's request for financial legal aid, according to Ynet.
Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn from Blue & White also defended the attorney general:
"Mandelblit is not persecuting anyone," said Nissenkorn in a statement, "he is simply doing his job. An attack on the state's gatekeepers serve to harm and weaken our democracy, which will only serve to violate the rights of every citizen in the State of Israel."
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"After the Wise Men Had Left" - January 1, 2017
There's something about the way we currently celebrate the Christmas season that invites people to forget – or, worse, ignore - why Jesus was born in the first place. It has to do with the way that we extract the good news from its setting in normal life. The way we treat the story told by Matthew and Luke, covering it with snowflakes and tinsel and surrounding it with a moat of eggnog, turns it all into a fairy tale and makes it seem "once upon a time". To someone like Luke it was news – dateline: Bethlehem, in the days of Caesar Augustus, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. We also take that one part of the gospel and treat it as a stand-alone event, when it represents the account of the beginning of a life that included a whole lot more.
Miss that and you miss the true power of a proclamation that has to do with you and me. This happened; so what are you going to do about it? Or maybe that's why we do such a good job of distancing ourselves from the grittiness of the stable – it leaves us off the hook from the deeper questions about why this baby was even born.
The example I use is a nativity scene that I've seen in multiple settings. It's put out by "Precious Moments" and all the figures are cute. There's a cute little Mary and a cute Joseph, both of them looking like third-graders in a Christmas pageant. Ditto for the shepherds. The angels are cutest of all. Everything is in pastel colors, of course. Got the picture? Now, imagine, if you will, a Precious Moments crucifix. You can't do it, can you? Not without a sense of sacrilege. That should tell you something.
The birth of Jesus is not a sentimental moment. It's a profound matter that changes everything and is a threat to business as usual. It's so much of a threat that the powers-that-be try to put an end to it, precisely because it shows them to be powers-that-aren't.
Herod tried to put an end to Jesus in a direct way, as his son (also named Herod) would help Pilate and the Romans and the religious authorities to do again about three decades later.
"And he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men." [Matthew 2:16]
That was the real war on Christmas. It had nothing to do with the wording on a Starbucks cup. It was a brutal attempt to kill the Messiah before he had even learned to walk. It didn't work, because God gave a warning to the wise men and to Joseph: "Scatter! Now!"
"Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." [Matthew 2:13]
That saved Jesus' life. The time would come for him to die, like all people, but not then and not that way.
In the course of this confrontation, innocent children died. The Herods of history are notorious for that. How many children died in Aleppo this year? How many, in fact, were in hospitals specifically targeted for bombing? How many children in Flint, Michigan were damaged by lead contamination that was caused by the conscious choice to cut resources for public utilities like water? How many boys are sent to war as soldiers or girls are caught up in human trafficking? How often does a modern Herod drag a child into the narcotics trade to addict yet other children? And all for what? So that Herod can stay in power and do it all over again because that fear of losing power is stronger in him than respect for an innocent child's life. Make that a village of children. No, make that a world of them.
The gifts of the wise men, given to Jesus, speak to the way that God handles a world of Herods, because we all have some of him in us. Traditionally, these gifts are seen as honoring three aspects of Jesus' mission that Herod is bound to find threatening, with each gift offering hope to the weak and to those that he and his successors would intimidate and control.
Gold. Wealth is what so much of the world spends its whole life scrambling to get and keep. It's what oil companies use to buy politicians' silence about climate change, and it's why they do it. It's what leads people to turn a blind eye to corruption of all types. The wise men gave it to a poor baby instead.
"Born a king on Bethlehem's plain,
Gold I bring to crown him again,
King forever, ceasing never,
Over us all to reign."
It's a recognition that our resources are at Jesus' service. It's a gift, if you will, of defiance because the money is going to Herod's opposite, and (as Jesus himself would later observe)
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
[Matthew 6:21]
Frankincense. It was burned in ancient temples to honor the gods. Even today, in Catholic and Orthodox churches, it is used as a way of announcing the presence of the holy. Along those lines, one scholar of Roman liturgy writes,
"The offering of an incense is a generous and beautiful rite. The bright grains of incense are laid upon the red-hot charcoal, the censer is swung, and the fragrant smoke rises in clouds. In the rhythm and the sweetness there is a musical quality; and like music also is the entire lack of practical utility: it is a prodigal waste of precious material. It is a pouring out of unwithholding love."[1]
When the wise men presented it to Jesus, they were saying that this child was holy, as God is holy. Sorry, Herod, but you don't fall into that category. You don't get to say what is right and what is wrong, especially since for you that generally is a matter of expedience. I remember a man, a devout Quaker who used to teach math at Penn Charter, commenting, "Honesty is not the best policy. It can never be just a policy. It's a principle."
Then there's myrrh. That's a perfume that was used for anointing a dead body. It recognizes that Jesus would confront death. Although he escaped it as a child, and would escape it again and again throughout his years on earth, those years would be numbered. One day, in fact, three women would find their way early in the morning, carrying spices (perhaps including myrrh) to treat his body for proper burial. The amazing thing would be that they would never get to use the spices, because his body would be gone. Jesus' death would bring life, and his life would bring death to the old ways of fear and intimidation and hatred.
That means that the chief means of Herod's control is no longer effective, at least for followers of the baby who escaped his clutches. One of those followers, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, was arrested two weeks ago for protesting the latest in a string of highly questionable moves by the governor and legislature of North Carolina. While in the Wake County jail, he wrote an open letter that began, "Dear King Herod," and finished with these words:
"…as I watched Speaker Moore yesterday evening, I saw a sadness in his face that I suspect you too must have felt. Absolute power, they say, corrupts absolutely. But it also makes people lonely. It's one thing to know you can get away with murder. But it's something else to have to live with it.
You did all you could to kill the nonviolent revolution of love that was born in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, King Herod. And your heirs are doing all they can to abort the Moral Movement that is still a toddler in North Carolina today. But we celebrate Christmas because Jesus showed us that when a light shines in the darkness, the darkness cannot overcome it.
And that, my dear brother, gives me hope for you. The good news of Jesus is that there's room for everyone on the winning side. I can pray for Speaker Moore and his colleagues, so enslaved by the grip of fear. We can love them and hope they will join us, even as we stand to insist that what they are doing is wrong.
And in the meantime, while the struggle continues, we can rejoice that we don't have to suffer the loneliness that plagues our enemies. There's good company over at the jail house. And at the state house here in NC. If you could, I'd love for you to join us.
Jonathan"[2]
[1] Monsignor Romano Guardini, cited in Matthew D. Herrera, "Holy Smoke: The Use of Incense in the Catholic Church" (Tixlini Scriptorium, 2011). https://www.scribd.com/doc/170397802/Holy-Smoke-The-Use-of-Incense-in-the-Catholic-Church
[2] Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, "Open Letter to King Herod: Why I Was Arrested at #NCGA" at Red Letter Christians (December 16, 2016). https://www.redletterchristians.org/open-letter-to-king-herod-why-i-was-arrested-at-ncga/
"A Decree Went Out from Caesar Augustus" - December 24, 2016
"In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken
while Quirinius was governor of Syria."
In twenty years I've had eleven posts,
in every corner of the Empire.
I've seen the forest where it meets the coast
of the North Sea. I've traveled the entire
length of Roman roads until they stop
halfway to Persia. I've climbed the icy top
of mountains that look down on Italy
from summer snowfields, and the Pyrenees
where Gaul becomes Iberia. The sea
has been no stranger, nor the tyranny
of sun in Africa in afternoon.
My enlistment will be over soon.
We've had some skirmishes from time to time
with villagers or tribesmen who thought Rome
was growing distant and who crossed the line
between resentment and defiance. Some
decided not to pay their taxes. Wrong.
Augustus' reach is far; his arm is strong.
It's sad when these provincial yokels think
that they know better than a Roman. We
it is who pull them from the constant brink
of local strife and tribal jealousy.
The peace of Rome alone ensures that grain
can travel where it's needed, and the rain
itself is channeled via aqueducts
to where it's needed. Roman engineering
conquers native ignorance, and Luck
herself gives up her domineering
way. For that it's only fair they pay
their taxes. That is the imperial way:
to pay your taxes and to sacrifice
to any gods the Empire permits.
Nobody cares what other foreign vice
or funny kind of mumbo-jumbo spirits
you get mixed up with, just don't interfere
with revenue.
That worked till we came here.
This province is a mess. I blame their priests
who won't give them a statue of their god
or let them even at the very least
have someone draw a picture of just what
he looks like. How can they learn the decent fear
authority relies on or revere
the emperor the way they should without
a concrete image in their heads of who
they bow to? That alone, without a doubt,
explains the strategies we have to use
to make them pay attention to the law,
and fear the legions that enforce it all.
We're stationed mostly in Jerusalem,
their capital. But when Augustus made
his proclamation of a census, then
they wouldn't just count off and stay
right where they were. Oh, no. They had to go
back to their tribal lands to call the roll.
We also had to scatter to these towns
where tax collectors are a target. We
provide them with protection in the crowds,
since local terrorists occasionally
slip up behind them with a knife and – pow!
Down goes the poor guy in a second. Gone.
The province costs Caesar another one.
We can't allow that. We are in control
of towns like this, and they should shake
every time they see our men patrol
or even hear the sound their armor makes
as they enforce the curfew. Pleasant dreams
are not what travels with them through the streets.
We have to do that. A potential mob
has filled this town to its capacity.
The inns are full with people who would rob
us without giving it a second thought
and call themselves a patriot when caught.
They're everywhere, and keep on coming. We're
assigning places where we can. Some curl
up in some random spot they commandeer.
I found a stable for a pregnant girl,
her husband, and a donkey. That took work.
Don't ask me why I did it. I'm no clerk
of housing for these refugees. And yet
it seemed the thing to do. And I would give
you decent odds that they will not forget.
Perhaps the child she bears, if it should live,
will prove exceptional, and in the end
might even be a tax-collector's friend.
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"Whatta Ya Know!" - December 18, 2016
This week the choir brings us the message through their music, which revolves around the first chapter of John, expressing the way that God came to us through Jesus, a flesh-and-blood human being who was at the same time one with God.
Not to leave the children out, this meditation on that subject will be offered before the cantata. Obviously, it won't be verbatim.
The seed pods are gathered from a tree in the churchyard, pictured here. Each child will have one. They are relatively fresh and when the kids inevitably shake them in time with the later music, the sound will probably only annoy their older siblings.
Good morning! I have something for everybody today, but I'm just going to show one of these to you for now, and give them out later. This is a seed pod that I picked up from the ground under a tree out back.
Every fall, when the time is right, the tree produces seed pods like this one. It doesn't happen in the summer or the winter or the spring. It only happens in the fall. Nobody forces the tree to do it. I cannot walk up and say, "Tree! Grow some seeds for us!" and I cannot walk up and say, "Tree! Don't grow any seeds anymore!" It's in the nature of the tree to produce these seeds.
It's a funny thing, too. The seeds are both part of the tree and separate from it. They come from the tree and, given the right conditions, they grow up into that same kind of tree again. It's like the original tree is part of the seed, like the seed is part of the tree. Without seeds, the tree wouldn't be itself, and without the tree, the seeds wouldn't even exist.
That's kind of one way to think about God and Jesus.
The Bible tells us that Jesus was with God forever, from before the beginning of the world, that he was part of God, like the seed was part of the tree even in spring, back before it even started to form. Then, when the time was right, he came to be part of the world so that we could know more about God and his love. He was always part of God and God was always part of him.
The Bible talks about it by calling Jesus the Word that God speaks, because words are something that come from our deepest heart and say something about what is way down inside us. It says,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God and all things came into being through him…"
And it says,
"The Word became flesh and lived among us."
There's a lot about God that we don't understand. But what we do understand is what God shows us in the way that Jesus lived, which was always the way that God wanted him and all of us to live. He loved us, and he still does, because that is just who God is. God is love.
In a few minutes the choir is going to sing about that, and we're going to hear more from the Bible about how God sent Jesus to share that love, but let's beat them to it, and we'll sing about it before they do. Do you know this song?
"Love came down at Christmas,
Love all-lovely, love divine.
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign."
Now, be sure you get one of these seed pods to take with you as you head back to your seat.
"What We Have Known and Will Know" - December 11, 2016
Luke 1:46b-55
Back in April, we went outside together after the second service and stood around a hole that Barry Lee had dug in the churchyard. Next to it was a tree that was waiting to be planted. Earlier, he had shared with us the tradition of the Iriquois, who had planted this kind of pine, whose branches grow in clumps of five, as a sign of unity that was to grow among their Five Nations when they set aside the violence and hatred that had controlled them in the past. We, like them, buried reminders of those ways that we want to see banished from our community and our hearts, and planted the tree to grow over them, as a guardian to see that they are not dug up again, and to replace them with something of life and beauty. This we did with prayer and with song.
Since then I've been watching the tree take root and grow. I hope you've been paying attention to it, as well. What starts out small grows big in time and spreads its branches wide. When I was small, there was an enormous pine tree in my aunt and uncle's yard. I don't know how many times different relatives pointed to it and told its story. It had been a seedling that someone dug out of the ground in the Poconos one summer and that year it had found its way onto a table inside as a Christmas decoration before it went outside again and took over most of the front yard. When I look at our peace tree, I think about what it will be in thirty years.
You do know, don't you, that trees aren't the only things that do that?
There's a man whom I've met twice, very superficially, but whom I admire greatly, who is the Rev. Thom White Wolf Fassett. While the tree has been growing, I have been reading (not as steadily as I should, I admit) his book about the historic interaction of European and Native Americans and also the intersection and interaction of Native American spirituality and European Christianity. It's called Giving Our Hearts Away, and in it he reflects on the sort of experience that Mary's song of praise looks forward to as well.
"He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty." [Luke 1:51-53]
God takes the small, the lowly, the poor and dispossessed, and overturns empires. God uses the hurt and the ill-treated, the lost and the insignificant, to establish justice and peace.
Since the planting of that tree out there, we have seen something unprecedented. Out on the plains, the Sioux stood up to an oil company and the Army Corps of Engineers and said, "This patch of land and river matter to our souls as well as our bodies. Do not cross it." In times past, and we all know this to be true, the Army would just have shot them or moved them on. This time it didn't work. Time will tell whether the decision will hold, but at least for now the more powerful group has had to back down.
It kind of makes you wonder what we mean by "powerful", doesn't it? Maybe for once power is seen not as force but is seen as the ability to touch the conscience. Maybe strength is not all about ballistics but is embodied in depth of conviction. Maybe influence lies in the ability to call upon the things we hold in common when we are at our best, including respect for one another and for the earth. Maybe there is no shame in backing down when we see we are harming one another. Maybe there is dignity in being able to say, "I see that I was wrong. Thank you for helping me do better."
Humility is an underrated virtue. Part of that is that it is most clearly visible among people who have little choice except to be humble. We discount the virtues of people we do not value the way that God values them. A young, unremarkable girl living in Nazareth is startled and afraid when God sends an angel to speak to her. (Who wouldn't be?) But Luke tells us that she became "much perplexed" [Luke 1:29] when she is greeted with respect and honor:
"Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you." [Luke 1:28]
I can just picture her saying, "Who, me?" That wasn't how a woman was treated, besides which, wouldn't God be wasting his time dealing with somebody so far out of the loop, so removed from the centers of power, so totally out of everything?
Then again, wherever God decides to act, that is the center of things, even if it's in some minor town in Galilee, or in a dark corner of a stable behind an inn, or on a hill outside the walls of Jerusalem where they execute criminals. We've seen that. In fact, God makes a habit of working most wonderfully when you get away from the capitols and the cameras, although they eventually feel the result of what he does.
Thom White Wolf Fasset again:
"The teachings of Jesus free us from confinement as we recognize God is at work in all things everywhere. While humankind may loose destructive forces upon the face of the earth, God stands ready to love us unconditionally."[1]
He speaks from his own experience as part of a marginalized community, and as a Christian.
"The sacred instructions given to our people by God to revere and preserve in ancient times have been renewed and revitalized in Jesus and the New Covenant. Love, grace, and forgiveness bring healing and gentleness to the human community as clear signs of a New Promise. …Does not the history of our people teach us of the power of the Holy Spirit?
We have been in preparation since ancient times to carry this loving ministry and to move among the people of the earth. We who live in two cultures and those claiming historic Christian creeds need to affirm this ministry and reinforce our commitment to speak clearly and prophetically on behalf of the dispossessed, the hungry, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned, the poor, the oppressed and all living creatures who have no voice."[2]
The coming of the kingdom begins small and unnoticed, and among the small and disregarded. But it is God's kingdom, after all, and the one who knows its ways best of all, Mary's son, in fact, once observed:
"With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." [Mark 4:30-32]
[1] Giving Our Hearts Away (New York: Women's Division of the General Board of Ministries of the United Methodist Church, 2008), 125-126.
[2] Ibid., 126.
"What We Do Know" - December 4, 2016
We may not know when Jesus will come again, when time will end, when everything will be wrapped up. But if we want to know how to be ready for that, whenever it does happen, maybe we should look at the way we were told to be ready the first time he showed up. Directions about how to prepare at that time came courtesy of this strange figure, John the Baptist, who was active when Jesus was getting ready to start the three years of his public ministry.
There was, at that time, a sense of expectation in the air that something was going to happen, or had to happen. The Jewish people were badly oppressed by the Romans, the political leaders had dragged the priests and the Temple into their own struggles for control and power. Some of them were clearly trying to use the institutions of religious life not to build up people's faith or to glorify God, but to keep the Romans happy. Some did that for selfish reasons, others did it out of fear and in an effort to protect the people. Either way, corruption had found its way to the top and was infecting the whole system.
Some groups became so disgusted with what was going on that they turned their backs on Jerusalem and the Temple and went to live in the desert. They built their own villages and communes and lived on their own, waiting for God to send a Messiah, a Chosen One, who would clear things up and set things right, and then they (or their children or their grandchildren) could maybe live decent lives in peace and quiet. That was their hope? Was that so wrong?
John the Baptist, scholars believe, lived for at least a time among these people. The ritual baths that are found in their settlements point toward the sort of ritual that John became known for, although he put a new spin on it. They emphasized the need for purity and would wash as a sign of inward cleansing, praying for forgiveness of their sins. John took that idea, but then turned back toward the settled areas, and took it with him.
"Then the people of Jerusalem and all Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins." [Matthew 3:5-6]
I've seen pictures of the Jordan. It's not the clean, clear water that the ritual baths required. It's muddy and messy and brown, and with crowds of people stirring up the riverbed it would have been even more so. That was the water that John was telling people to dip into, while at the same time telling them to clean up their lives.
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." [Matthew 3:2]
Mark would later tell us that Jesus spoke the same words.
What John expected of people who had truly repented, though, was not that they should go out into the desert to lead lives of separation, like folks who hold themselves apart from the world, but that in the world they should be a sign for others of what righteousness should look like. In Luke's account,
"the crowds asked him, 'What then should we do?' In reply he said to them, 'Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise.' Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, 'Teacher, what should we do?' He said to them, 'Collect no more than the amount prescribed for you.' Soldiers also asked him, 'And we, what should we do?' He said to them, 'Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.'" [Luke 3:10-14]
It meant doing their jobs the regular daily work and responsible and in an ethical way. It meant caring for the people that were around them. Nothing spectacular there, right?
The pressure not to live that way can sometimes become strong, though, as at the time of John and of Jesus. Part of the story of John the Baptist is how he died. He dared to tell King Herod that there was something wrong with having killed his brother so that he could marry his sister-in-law. That got him thrown into prison and eventually beheaded. Speaking up for common decency can, in some times and places, call for great courage.
For people who await the coming of the kingdom, whether soon or late, to live responsibly in the midst of corruption may become an almost heroic deed. People who do that bear witness that "the way things are done" does not always equal "the way things should be done". The people being baptized in the dirty old Jordan instead of the carefully constructed ritual baths knew that.
Even now, to confess your sin like they did and to ask God's forgiveness, knowing that you will continue to live in the middle of temptation and trials. is also to witness to the power of God to keep your life in his own hand. It is to say that Jesus will be the judge and ruler of all things, not the world. John said,
"I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing-fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." [Matthew 3:11-12]
When Jesus described the Last Judgment, he spoke about people who do what is good and right all the way along, not even giving it a thought, who will surprised at his approval, even gratitude, toward them. He tells of them asking,
"'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?' And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'" [Matthew 25:37-40]
If you really want to be prepared, that's the way to do it. Just keep on keeping on. Do whatever is good and right and pleasing to God, simply because it is good and right and pleasing to God.
There's a story that's attributed to Martin Luther, but nobody can find it anywhere in anything written before about World War II, so it's probably apocryphal, but it's still a great story. Someone is said to have asked him, "If you knew that the world were going to end tomorrow, what would you do today?" to which he is said to have replied, "I would go outside and plant a tree."
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