When the sudden desire to trekking hits me, I started my research to find an ideal location for a weekend trekking nearby Jakarta. It has been a while since the last time I did the trekking in Bromo and it was really worth rewarded. I checked some weekend escape destinations in Bogor and Sukabumi, somehow I was attracted by the images that I found for Situ Gunung, Sukabumi.
Situ Gunung National Park is part of the Mount Pangrango National Park. It is located at the mountain base of Mount Pangrango. Seeing those images of Situ Gunung lake are rather enchanting that made me decide to postpone the eager for trekking.
Early morning from the heart of Jakarta, you can take the train (commuter line) direction to Bogor to catch the Pangrango train Bogor-Sukabumi. Once you arrive in Bogor station, you need to exit the station and walk towards Paledang Station. It is only 10 minutes maximum by walk and involving crossing the bridge. If you are not sure about the direction, do ask to people there.
The journey with Pangrango train will take 2 hours 4 minutes to be exact but if your first destination is Situ Gunung, you need to get off at Cisaat station, just before the terminus station of Sukabumi. From Cisaat station, there is "angkot" (public car) with blue color that can take you to Polsek Cisaat for IDR 4,000 and then you still need to walk to the T-section of Pasar Cisaat. I prefer to walk all the way from Cisaat station (A) to Pasar Cisaat (B) though. It is not far and very walk-able.
At Pasar Cisaat T-section right in front of Yomart, you can catch the red angkot direction to Situ Gunung. Before get in the car, it is better to confirm first that the angkot is really going to Situ Gunung, if the driver says yes then you are good to go. The normal ride without traffic jam to Situ Gunung will take around half an hour. The angkot will stop right at the entrance of Situ Gunung (the second letter B on the map) and it will cost you IDR 10,000.
At the entrance of Situ Gunung National Park, you can purchase the ticket for IDR 16,000 during normal day and IDR 18,000 during holiday. Sunday is somehow considered as a normal day so I paid only IDR 16,000. When you enter, you will have to choose to go left or right. Left way will lead you to Situ Gunung lake and right way will bring you to Curug Sawer (curug = waterfall).
So this is the famous human-made lake that made me change my mind and postpone the trekking. Surrounded by the green scene, it was refreshing and tranquil except when those teenagers were putting on a loud music from their phone, so disturbing.
There is one small deck serving bamboo kayak for visitors to merge with the lake. It will not cost a fortune if you'd like to have a ride; I think it will be around IDR 10,000. I didn't take a chance to get on the bamboo kayak as I was more enjoying to walk around the lake and watching people fishing.
After visiting the lake, I went back to the entrance gate and moved to direction to Curug Sawer. The track is more challenging than Situ Gunung. For those who are not used to trekking or sport, it could be quite hard. During the journey, I heard almost everyone was complaining about the track. They said it was so far, tiring and they even mentioned that they would never come back again. Some people who were on the way back to entrance gate with their short breath even told me that I would feel the same as them. That really got me questioning, was it that hard?
Eventually it was not as hard as they told me it was. I made it to the waterfall after almost 30 minutes of trekking. What is hard is that the track was really slippery and you need to go slowly to avoid unexpected accident.
The waterfall is quite isolated but I saw there are plenty of people who made it there. Food stalls are available surrounding the waterfall, unfortunately this causes the trash lying here and there at site.
It is possible to have one-day weekend escape by taking a train to Sukabumi in the morning and back to Bogor in the afternoon if you just want to visit Situ Gunung, but the Pangrango train availability and schedule are limited so it is advisable to book your tickets at least 2 weeks in advance. As for me, I couldn't get the ticket back to Bogor at the same day so I had to spend one night in Sukabumi and went back to Bogor by taking the first Pangrango train at 5 am. It was not a bad idea in the end to spend one night in Sukabumi because I could taste the delicacy of Bubur Ayam Odeon for dinner.
Sukabumi is not a popular place for foreigner; hence the English speaking people in Sukabumi is not as many as in the touristic place. Having your GPS activated will save your energy to try to make people understand what you are saying. Yes or No question will work, "Situ Gunung yes?" or "Stasiun Sukabumi (Sukabumi station) yes?".
Situ Gunung track involves the stone based ground which makes it slippery to just walk. I almost tripped for multiple times even with my sneakers. Wear your comfortable shoes, avoid wearing flip-flop like seriously!


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Google is expanding eSim reach beyond Fi
With connectivity taking a more prominent role, Google has tied more partnerships to support eSim on the Pixel 3, taking the business into international markets.
While the eSim functionality on Pixel 2, claimed by Google to be "the first major smartphone with eSIM", only worked on Google's own MVNO, Project Fi (now Google Fi), the internet giant just announced it has built more support for eSim on its new Pixel 3 phones. The partners listed in the Google statement included Sprint in the US, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone in Germany, EE in the UK, and Airtel and Reliance Jio in India. Also included are Truphone and Gigsky, two MVNOs that operate in multiple markets.
After Apple threw its weight behind eSim with its latest products, projections of the penetration of eSim have been raised. ABI Research now predicts 420 million eSim compatible phones will be shipped by 2022, 100 times higher than the four million sold in 2017. Established mobile operators may still view eSim with suspicion, as it makes churn so much easier. But, like new technologies in the past, from VoIP to OTT services, it would be hard to hold back the tides of progress. Moreover, it does force operators to be more innovative and customer centric, in addition to helping improve operational efficiency. On the other hand, consumers will benefit from the flexibility and easy roaming arrangements that eSim enables.
This trend has certainly been embraced by MVNOs too. Ralph Steffens, CEO of Truphone, one of Google's partners, said in a statement, "This new technology signifies a massive shift in the telecommunications industry. It's having an impact on everyone from phone providers to chipset manufacturers to mobile network operators. But most importantly, it directly impacts businesses and consumers by offering them more flexibility over their mobile connectivity."
Pixel has never been one of the best sellers, and Google needs to get the whole Android ecosystem behind it to build the eSim momentum. To this end Google is rallying the Android OEMs.
"To enable a consistent and simple experience across the ecosystem, we're also creating a program that allows Android device makers to build eSIM-capable smartphones. We look forward to continuing our work with our partners on the potential benefits of eSIM—whether that's getting you connected to a phone, watch, tablet, or laptop—in the future," Google said in the announcement.
Google adds some Pixels
Internet giant Google ramped up its involvement in the consumer hardware space with the launch of new Pixel branded smartphones and tablets as well as a home hub.
The Pixel 3 and its XL variant offer both an industrial design and spec upgrade on their predecessors. Initial impressions indicate the redesign is well received and the spec upgrades are significant. There also seems to be more AI stuff going on, including a call screening functions that taps into Duplex technology to save you having to interact with a caller if you're not sure about them.
Google debuted a new device category in the form of the Pixel Slate – a tablet running Chrome OS that seems to be positioned as a direct competitor to Microsoft's Surface product range, with an emphasis on hybrid laptop functionality. Once more initial takes seem positive, especially about its attempt to be the best of both worlds, although the full range of requisite peripherals and accessories does make it an expensive proposition.
Lastly we have the Home Hub, which is an AI-driven smart speaker with a 7-inch screen that will compete with equivalent products from Amazon and Facebook. One big difference is that Google is making a virtue of it not having a camera installed in an apparent bid for people to take it into the bedroom or even the bog. There's also a physical mute switch to prevent the device listening to you, which seems like a good say to allay fears about being spied on by Google, but does call into question what the point of the device is.
"Our goal with these new products, as always, is to create something that serves a purpose in people's lives – products that are so useful they make people wonder how they ever lived without them," said Rick Osterloh, VP of Hardware at Google. "The simple yet beautiful design of these new devices continue to bring the smarts of the technology to the forefront, while providing users with a bold piece of hardware."
The Pixel 3 starts at £739, with the XL coming in at £869. The Slate starts at £549 without peripherals, while the Home Hub will set you back £139. Google has managed to throw down the gauntlet to the majority of the consumer tech world with one set of launches, which is fun, but time will tell whether any of them are able to claim significant market share. Here's a vid.
Google bids for AR and AI leadership with new Pixel 2 smartphone
Internet giant Google's big gadget unveil is all about positioning itself for the artificial intelligence era, not becoming an iPhone killer.
The flagship product is the Pixel 2 – a product so important for Google that it blew a billion bucks on beefing up its R&D team. As a premium smartphone the specs seem to measure up, with the camera apparently of the highest standard. But top components have been table stakes in the smartphone game for some time; Google's aim is not to go toe-to-toe with Apple and Samsung.
Google is investing in smartphones and other hardware such as smart speakers, laptops, etc partly to showcase what's possible with the latest versions of Android (which was also the point of the Nexus series), but more importantly to invest in the installed base for its services.
The main point of Android was to create a platform for Google products and services – principally search, but also maps, Gmail, etc, against which further advertising could be sold. Google won the battle for the mobile internet but the new battleground is the voice-driven AI assistant. As Apple has shown with Siri, it's not enough just to be first to market with this stuff, your AI platform needs to be ubiquitous if you want it to get mainstream traction. The frontrunner in this respect is Amazon and its Alexa platform and Google seems to be more concerned with that then making the next 'iPhone killer'.
That won't stop gadget commentators from constantly leaning on that cliché, of course, but there are signs that the penny is starting to drop. "Google has a mountain to climb if it wants to displace Apple's iPhone. Even challenging Samsung, which has a trio of superb Android-powered flagship devices, will be tough," said Ben Wood of CCS Insight.
"Although Google is promising that Pixel 2 will be available in more markets than the original Pixel devices it is will still only be offered in a handful of countries. This underlines Google's limited ambitions at present with the Pixel being more about the "art of the possible" on Android phones rather than a serious threat to Apple."
"When it comes to smart speakers there is now a bewildering variety of different devices for consumers to choose from including Apple, Amazon, Google, Sonos, Sony and more. Amazon's first mover advantage with Alexa and Echo combined with aggressive pricing and an ever increasing range of "skills" (which recently passed the 25,000 milestone) means Google and others have a lot of catching up to do."
One area Google seems to think it can compete well in is the underlying AI. Alexa does seem a bit limited in this respect – hence the defined 'skills' – so using its growing portfolio of in-house gadgets to promote its capabilities in that area would seem wise. Also Amazon utterly failed in the smartphone market, so Google can point to augmented reality as an extra string to its bow that Amazon lacks.
This isn't the place to pore over the various bells and whistles claimed by the devices, we'll leave it to the videos below to do that. But it's clear from the products themselves and from Google's supporting press tour that a cornerstone of Google's forward strategy is bossing the AI era, which on the consumer side means getting people to use as many Google AI-driven products as possible.
Google cherry-picks the best bits of HTC for $1.1 billion
HTC has accepted $1.1 billion to hand over much of its smartphone engineering talent and IP to Google.
Some kind of M&A involving the two has been on the grapevine for some time but the assumption was that Google would simply buy HTC with the kind of cash Larry Page routinely finds down the back of his primary-coloured beanbag-sofa. In the end Google was able to just pluck out only the parts of the company it wanted.
The main acquisition is a reported 2,000 smartphone engineers, many of whom are already working on the Google Pixel phones, which are white-labelled by HTC. On top of that Google gets a non-exclusive license to a bunch of HTC smartphone IP. For this Google is shelling out $1.1 billion which, at first glance, seems like a good deal for HTC.
HTC's total headcount is currently around 10,000 and its market cap is around $1.9 billion, so Google is handing over cash that's equivalent to 58% of the company for just 20% of its people and no outright ownership of any of its assets. HTC is spinning this as enabling it to reduce overheads and redouble its efforts on its own flagging smartphone operations as well as future bets such as VR.
Another way of looking at this move, however, is that HTC is mortgaging the future for an immediate cash injection. HTC has been running at a loss for ages and while losing 2,000 of its best engineers will reduce overheads, it must surely also cripple its smartphone R&D efforts.
In a masterpiece of doublespeak, HTC made the following statement at the top of its announcement: "Transaction Reinforces HTC's Commitment to Innovation and Its Branded Smartphone Business." It's very hard to believe how getting rid of the cream of your smartphone engineers can achieve anything but the opposite of that.
For Google the big question is: How come you're doing this after the Motorola acquisition went so wrong? The answer is probably two-fold. Firstly the main purpose of the Moto buy was probably to stockpile smartphone patents at a time when predatory patent litigation from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and Apple threatened the whole Android ecosystem. Google messed around with phones for a bit but then flogged all but the patent parts to Lenovo.
Secondly Google has since decided to take making its own smartphones a bit more seriously; looking to take the lead in the premium Android segment with the Pixel range as Samsung continues to try to develop its own ecosystem. Google seems to have learned from the Moto move that it's better to pay a premium for just the bits you want than aquire a bunch of superfluous stuff at a bargain, the disposal of which ends up costing more in the long term anyway.
"This agreement is a brilliant next step in our longstanding partnership, enabling Google to supercharge their hardware business while ensuring continued innovation within our HTC smartphone and VIVE virtual reality businesses," said Cher Wang, Chairwoman and CEO of HTC. "We believe HTC is well positioned to maintain our rich legacy of innovation and realize the potential of a new generation of connected products and services."
"HTC has been a longtime partner of Google and has created some of the most beautiful, premium devices on the market," said Rick Osterloh, SVP of Hardware at Google (pictured above with Wang and a veteran of the Motorola acquisition). "We're excited and can't wait to welcome members of the HTC team who will be joining Google to fuel further innovation and future product development in consumer hardware."
Superficially this looks like a win-win, but scratch under the surface and it seems likely that HTC gratefully accepted whatever Google offered. That offer was probably more generous than it needed to be, perhaps partly because Google genuinely doesn't want HTC, which was its very first OEM partner for the Nexus 1, to die.
But as this excellent Bloomerg analysis shows, HTC is unlikely to turn the corner without shedding a lot more overhead, especially in manufacturing capacity, which it over expanded after a couple of strong years at the start of the decade. What seems more likely is that HTC will gradually phase out its smartphone brand and focus entirely on things like VR, but it's not about to shout that from the rooftops. Here's the official rationale.


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Fourth speed camera stolen from A68
A FOURTH speed camera on the A68 has been cut off by, who police believe is, a protestor.
Three of the devices, which are valued at around �10,000 each, were attacked last year along the trunk road between Soutra and Newtown St Boswells.
And on Sunday night the camera crook struck again - this time sawing through the pole and removing the entire device at the site just north of Lilliardsedge.
A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police told us: "Like the other incidents the whole unit has been taken.
"Early indications show that a Stihl saw or something similar was used - and we are linking this latest theft with the ones last year." Officers believe the thief struck between 11pm on Sunday and midnight.
And it would have taken at least ten minutes to have sawn through the pole and removed the camera. The spokesman added: "If anyone saw or heard anything we would like to hear from them." Previously the camera at the Newtown St Boswells bypass was cut off at the start of December. And the devices at Birkenside, just north of Earlston and at Headshaw, just north of Oxton. were taken earlier in the year.
Police are treating the crimes as theft, vandalism and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Inspector Brian Jones, Scottish Borders Road Policing Branch for Lothian and Borders Police, made an appeal for information. He said: "If any member of the public has information they think might relate to any of the crimes please contact the police on 0131 311 3131 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. It could be that a passing motorist witnessed what they thought was a maintenance vehicle servicing the camera and this might not have been the case." The safety cameras are located at places where there is a history of collisions and speeding. It is claimed that removing them from their locations puts motorists at a greater danger.
The previous three cameras sites along the A68 have all been identified for upgrading over the next few months with new digital devices to be installed.
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Hate? Terror? What Motivated Orlando Nightclub Shooter?
Shooter's father: "We are apologizing for the whole incident"
While no one may ever know what was truly going through the head of the man who shot over 100 people at a gay Orlando nightclub on Sunday, his family says he may have been motivated by pure hate against the LGBT community, NBC News reports.
Various law enforcement officials have identified the shooter as Omar Mateen, 29, who was born in New York and lived in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Because of his name and heritage, there were immediately questions about Islamic fundamentalism — but his father said it may have been a recent incident involving two men showing each other affection that set the gunman off.
"We were in Downtown Miami, Bayside, people were playing music. And he saw two men kissing each other in front of his wife and kid and he got very angry," Mir Seddique, told NBC News on Sunday.
He also said the family was not aware he would take any action. "We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident," Seddique said.


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Ep. 73: #MikeOut , Clarke's Out, Canes Stumble.
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Episode 66: North Carolina FC midfielder Steven Miller joins us in the studio as a co-host we talk about the team, the Hurricanes, the Courage, and call up ex-UNC and NCFC player Billy Schuler to see what he's learned in school. Check out the podcast on iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher, and Google Podcasts !


The house is located in Tavronitis of the municipal unit Voukolies, about 10 minutes' drive west of Platanias. It is a ground-floor residence with two bedrooms and a bathroom. In front of the building there is a parking area and there are spacious verandas with nice sea views, around it.
From the main entrance we enter an open-plan living and kitchen area, which has an exit to the courtyard and views of the sea. The kitchen has many cupboards and all the necessary electrical appliances. A short corridor leads to a bathroom with shower cabin and to two bedrooms, which are very spacious and have closets and exits to the courtyard. In the one bedroom there is an enclosed terrace with an office space but this area can be configured into anything else that suits your needs. A door leads from the terrace of the home to a second bathroom, which has a washing machine.
The ceilings of the entire property are lined with wooden paneling and have insulation that maintains a constant temperature throughout the rooms. An external staircase leads to the rooftop terrace. Here, there are solar panels, which generate much of the electricity that is required for the use of the residence during the summer months. The house also has traditional-style, wooden doors and windows with screens, solar water heater and air conditioning throughout the areas. There are, finally, pipes that are ready to be connected if you want to add central heating with radiators and oil boiler.
The village has restaurants, cafes, bakery, supermarkets, some shops and a beautiful beach. Within a short distance, there is a junction of the highway to Chania-Kissamos, from where you can easily reach any area of the prefecture. The city center of Chania and the airport are about 25 and 35 minutes' drive, respectively.


Report: Hill House To Close In JuneThe Hill House is almost $12 million in debt and has no funds to continue, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
New PG Editor Defends Publisher While Praising Newspaper StaffNew Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editor Keith Burris is defending publisher John Robinson Block while praising the newspaper staff.
KDKA Goes One-On-One With The Post-Gazette's New Executive EditorThe appointment this week of Keith Burris as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's new executive editor raised some eyebrows.
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Giant Eagle 'Stands With Pittsburgh' After Synagogue ShootingGiant Eagle is standing with Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Enters New Era Without Daily, Printed NewspaperTuesday is the first weekday in centuries without a regularly scheduled, printed newspaper in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette To Drop 2 Days Of Printing Starting Next MonthThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will not print a paper two days a week, starting next month.
Post-Gazette Editorial Cartoonist Rob Rogers: 'I Was Fired'Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers says he has been fired.
Cartoonist Speaks Out On Post-Gazette's Failure To Run His Editorial CartoonsRob Rogers' cartoons in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been a fixture for decades, but now a dispute with the paper has led to his drawings being dropped.
Award-Winning Editorial Cartoonist's Often Liberal Cartoons Absent From Post-Gazette's PagesFor six days in a row, Rob Rogers' often edgy, liberal and anti-Trump editorial cartoons have been absent from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Post-Gazette's Endorsement Of Rick Saccone Surprises Many, Angers SomeThe once-liberal Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has endorsed the conservative candidate the 18th District Congressional race, surprising many and angering some.


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Last year, Wal-Mart was dead money, mired in a trading range since 2009 while the Standard & Poor's 500 had doubled.
All that changed as the stock quietly rallied with the market last summer. And now, despite the broad market's choppy 2012, the retail giant reached an all-time high of $71.30 on Thursday.
That's great for Wal-Mart Store s (ticker: WMT) investors but it underscores a shift in the sector that should have dismal scientists worried. Discount retailers are doing well while their pricier cousins are not.
The technicals point to the same conclusion. Stocks similar to Wal-Mart are outperforming the market while high-end retailers are lagging.
To say that Ross is in a bull trend is an understatement, especially since the overall retail environment is not very good. Following a decline in both consumer confidence and sentiment, the sector delivered weaker-than-expected June sales data amid a slew of company confessions.
On the other side of the coin, luxury retailer Harry Winston Diamond (HWD) provides an extreme example of the market marking down high-end names. After scoring its 2012 closing high of $15.76 on March 26, the stock has shed more than a quarter of its value through Thursday afternoon where it traded near $11.75. Over that same span, the S&P 500 is down just 3%.
Upscale retailer Macy's (M), which generates far greater daily volume, peaked in May and has lost 17% since then (see Chart 2). Its rising trendline from last summer was soundly broken to the downside, and it has been trading below its key 200-day moving average for most of the past two weeks.
Although the bears have gotten a bit tired as evidenced by stalled downside momentum indicators, the trend is now to the downside.
We can find similar trends and breakdowns in the likes of accessories maker Coach (COH) and tony department store Nordstrom (JWN).
One other chart I like to watch when analyzing opposite ends of the retail spectrum is the ISE Revere Wal-Mart Supplier Index.
The last time I examined this index here, Wal-Mart was still in its trading range while the suppliers index was making higher highs (see Getting Technical, "After Black Friday, Blue Monday for Retail Stocks," Nov. 29, 2010). This suggested that Wal-Mart was selling a lot of products but not making much money on them, possibly due to discounts and promotions designed to entice customers.
But now, both Wal-Mart and the suppliers index have made new all-time highs. I'll leave the details to Wal-Mart analysts to ponder but from the technical perspective this is similar to Dow Theory. This century-old basic concept for chart readers looks for both the Dow Jones Industrial and Transportation Averages to make new highs together to confirm bullish markets.
For Wal-Mart, the trend is clear. As for its more upscale cousins, it appears customer wallets are a bit tighter in those establishments.
Last year, Wal-Mart was dead money, mired in a trading range since 2009 while the Standard & Poor's 500 had doubled.


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Indiana University is home to a collection of nearly half a million historical video, sound, and film recordings. It includes rare oral histories and performances, endangered and extinct languages, and remarkable moments in popular culture.
In an effort to rescue these treasures from the hands of time—many are now on obsolete formats and actively degrading—we've launched the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI), a $27M project to digitally preserve the collection, add extensive metadata, and make much of it available online.
MDPI is the largest university-led media digitization project in higher ed and the country.
In an age where the idea of "truth" is cause for debate, we believe it's more important than ever for scholars, researchers, and the leaders of tomorrow to have access to historical material that is unedited and unfiltered.
The MDPI project parallels the media digitization work being done at the Library of Congress and other large, global archives. By 2020, where copyright law allows, the collection will be digitally available worldwide for anyone to access.
NARRATOR: At Indiana University, we are keepers of history.
NARRATOR: We are keepers of music.
NARRATOR: We are keepers of human experience.
NARRATOR: We are keepers of memory.
NARRATOR: With the vast collection of historical media in our care, we must do more than simply keep it.
NARRATOR: We need to protect it.
NARRATOR: Make it accessible. And share it.
NARRATOR: But we must act quickly. Some of our precious pieces are already well over one hundred years old.
NARRATOR: Unplayable for decades, because of age or obscelence. They are crumbling to dust.
Julie Bobay: out of anyone's reach because of expense and time, that people have just watched it go on.
Julie Bobay: that experts estimate in fifteen years will simply be gone.
Barbara Truesdell: that you know is increasingly in danger. Increasingly becoming unusable because tapes have a shelf life.
Barbara Truesdell: is a great relief and a great joy for me.
Mike Casey: Here at IU we have some 560,000 audio, video and film objects that's just in Bloomington that doesn't include the other regional campuses.
Mike Casey: approximately 280,000 recordings over the next four years.
Julie Bombay: So our goal is, anything that we can legally clear for open access will be streamed over the web.
Barbara Truesdell: We have a searchable online index right now, of our collection. But people contact me every day and they're like is it available online? And I have to say no. But it will be. Now I can say it will be.
NARRATOR: At Indiana University we are committed to ensuring that our heritage and our history live on.
Herman Wells: And I like I said to the board at this time, Dr. Kinsey was a recognized scientist.
NARRATOR: And that the voices of the past can continue to guide the present and future.
Herman Wells: He must be protected by the University and his right to carry on his research must be unimpaired.
The materials we're digitizing come in more than 20 media formats and date back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In many instances the materials reveal hidden insights about popular narratives, or stand as the official record of tradition for cultures long lost to history.
In 1906 Edward S. Curtis received funding from J. P. Morgan to document the quickly vanishing traditions of Native American life.
Over the next thirty years, Curtis used wax cylinders to capture field recordings of language, music, and tribal lore from tribes whose leaders included Geronimo, Sitting Bull, and others.
IU owns 7,000 wax cylinder field recordings—a collection second largest after the Library of Congress.
The Lilly Library at Indiana University is home to a vast collection of Welles materials: thousands of one-of-a-kind film recordings, images, and correspondences.
The collection also includes 600 lacquer disc recordings that contain rare radio performances and rehearsals.
Lacquer discs are highly prioritized for preservation at IU. The coating is chemically unstable, making the discs prone to sudden and irreversible failure.
A tour through time can reveal surprising things. The origins of cultural phenomena, changes in pedagogical techniques, the evolution of societal ethos—the more historical dots we have to connect, the more equipped we'll be to learn from what came before us.
In this short film, the United States Fifth Army—the first American field army to be activated outside of the U.S.—reports about life on the beachhead as they fight German forces during World War II.
The legacy brand Alka-Seltzer shifts away from radio advertising to television advertising; by the 1970s, Advertising Age ranks their TV ads as some of the best in the country.
A cultural icon is born when Baskin-Robbins hires Carson-Roberts Advertising, who recommends adopting the number 31 to define and differentiate their brand.
An interview featuring a prisoner and a warden reveals a hidden power structure between U.S. prison inmates, and why it persists.
A short scripted film reveals what suburban residents think about motorcycles, and offers tips for motorcyclists about riding laws and etiquette.
A recorded group discussion shows a PTA president, a minister, a restaurant owner, a county sheriff, and others sharing their concerns about venereal disease and juvenile delinquency.
A short, partially animated educational documentary explores the secrets of Mercury, and how its used in modern life.
A partially scripted documentary shows the emotional, psychological, and socioeconomic effects of adult illiteracy.
Can Mars sustain life? We're about to find out. But first, IU astrobiologist Lisa Pratt is making sure it's safe to explore.
Our country is facing an unprecedented opioid addiction crisis. At Indiana University, we're doing something about it.
Our pledge to preserve human history is only the beginning.
The IU School of Medicine is the largest in the country, committed to reinventing health care standards around the world. The Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies teaches more languages than any other American university to prepare graduates for meaningful global engagement.
The Jacobs School of Music produces legendary musicians, while #1-ranked programs from the Kelley School of Business and the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs prepare tomorrow's brightest minds for tomorrow's biggest challenges.


Turkish Daily Taraf reported on Tuesday Turkish President Abdullah Gul decided not to make a defense to constitutional court that opened a closure case against ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Daily said President Gul's decision is based on the article saying a president can not be tried except "treason".
The report stated the President sees the case against him "violation of constitution".
AK Party's defense text does not include a section regarding the President Gul.
The closure case targets to ban 71 members including PM Tayyip Erdogan and President Gul from party politics for five years.


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Home The Beats Education Denver Public Schools posts record gains on latest state tests
Denver Public Schools posts record gains on latest state tests
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado
Denver students made more academic progress on state English and math tests last year than ever before, and the overall percentage of third- through ninth-graders who scored at grade level moved to within a few points of the statewide average, test results released Thursday show.
It's a significant feat for the state's largest school district, which ten years ago lagged far behind.
Notably, the diverse district's academic growth was driven by low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities and English language learners. Students in those groups made progress at a faster rate than students not into those groups, shrinking the growth gaps between traditionally underserved students and their more privileged peers.
Superintendent Tom Boasberg called the results "wonderful." He said that while the district's gaps "are still large and concerning, it's nice to see them moving in the right direction."
Overall, more Denver Public Schools students met or exceeded state expectations on most tests in most grades. Among the biggest increases was the percent of third-graders at grade level in literacy. In 2015-16, 32 percent of DPS third-graders met that bar. In 2016-17, it jumped to 38 percent, a 6 percent increase. The statewide average was 40 percent.
Boasberg credited the district's focus on early literacy, and its monetary investment in new curriculum and more training for early childhood teachers and paraprofessionals. A tax increase approved by voters in November includes $6.8 million to continue those efforts.
Find your school's scores
Search for your school's growth scores in Chalkbeat's database here, or search for your school's test results and participation rates in Chalkbeat's database here.
"We've never had growth like that in third-grade reading," Boasberg said.
Denver students also continued to outpace their peers across Colorado in academic growth. The state uses "median growth percentile" scores to gauge how much students learn each year.
A growth score higher than 50 means students are learning at a faster rate than peers who started the year at the same academic level as them. A growth score lower than 50 means students are learning at a slower rate than their academic peers.
Denver's overall growth score in literacy last year was 57, up from 56 the year before. In math, the overall growth score was 53, up from 51.
"It all starts with our teachers and our school leaders," Boasberg said of the improvements.
The district has expanded to nearly all schools an initiative that allows successful teachers to teach part-time and coach their colleagues part-time, and Boasberg said the latest scores are proof that helping teachers improve helps students, too.
Mixed results for reform efforts
Denver is nationally known for its education reform efforts, which include granting charter school-like autonomy to district-run schools, and replacing persistently low-performing schools with schools officials deem more likely to succeed.
The school board this past school year voted to close three long struggling elementary schools, including Amesse Elementary in far northeast Denver. Board members chose as a replacement a program proposed by leaders of nearby McGlone Academy. The district has held up McGlone as a rare example of a successful turnaround school.
But this year, McGlone's scores faltered. On most tests, fewer students met expectations last year than the year before. Growth scores fell, too, to 41 in literacy and 37 in math.
Amesse posted higher growth scores: 58 in literacy and 49 in math.
Boasberg said he remains confident in McGlone's leaders. McGlone principal Sara Gips Goodall said she's excited by the growth at Amesse. She pointed to other measures of success at McGlone, including low student suspensions and high teacher retention.
"McGlone, over multiple years, has had very strong growth," Boasberg said. "This year, their growth wasn't as strong. Part of that was all of the time and effort that the school put into planning for and working with the community around the Amesse turnaround."
He added that, "I think you have extraordinary teachers and leadership at McGlone who have an exceptional track record, and I'm confident they'll have strong growth this year."
Boasberg and other officials held a celebratory press conference Thursday at the Manual High School campus, which is also home to McAuliffe Manual Middle School, a replication of the successful McAuliffe International School. Both are innovation schools, which means they're run by the district but enjoy flexibilities with scheduling, teacher hiring and firing, and more.
McAuliffe International has for years posted high test scores and had above-average growth. The school is not as diverse as the district as a whole — just 18 percent of students qualify for subsidized lunches, a measure of poverty, and 37 percent are students of color.
McAuliffe Manual opened last year with sixth grade in an effort to bring high-performing middle schools to northeast Denver, a neighborhood that historically lacked them. Nearly six in 10 students qualified for subsidized lunches, and seven in 10 were students of color.
While McAuliffe Manual trailed McAuliffe International in the percentage of students at grade-level, its growth scores were nearly as high: 72 in both literacy and math, compared to 75 in literacy and 74 in math at McAuliffe International.
There was more good news for three previously low-performing elementary schools — Goldrick, Harrington and Schmitt — in the midst of school turnaround. New principals spent the 2015-16 school year soliciting opinions and crafting plans to improve academic performance at the schools while other leaders handled day-to-day operations — a strategy known as "year zero."
In 2016-17, the first year the new principals and their improvement plans were in place, growth scores at all three schools shot up by as much as 24 points.
Another turnaround school also showed remarkable progress. The University Prep Steele Street charter school, which replaced struggling Pioneer Charter School last year, boasted growth scores of 84 in literacy and 91 in math. The math growth was the highest in the state.
The test scores at four schools that are part of another DPS experiment, an "innovation zone" that gives the schools even more autonomy than regular innovation schools, were a mixed bag.
Two of the schools, Creativity Challenge Community and Denver Green School, posted increasingly strong scores on most tests and showed high academic growth.
But two other schools, Ashley Elementary and Cole Arts and Science Academy, saw low growth and slipping scores. The median growth percentile in math at Ashley was 32, well below the district average. At Cole, where just 5 percent of fifth-graders scored at grade-level, it was 17.
Boasberg said the scores at those two schools are concerning. But he said he appreciates what the innovation zone, called the Luminary Learning Network, is doing. District officials have talked about inviting other innovation schools to form similar zones.
"They have some very strong leadership at the zone," Boasberg said, "and we recognize that for any one school, you are going to have some ups and downs." He cautioned against reading too much into the scores of Ashley and Cole.
Jessica Roberts, executive director of the Luminary Learning Network, said it's become clear that Ashley and Cole, which serve a more at-risk population, need a different type of support than the other two schools. Zone leaders are working to help them figure out how to use their increased autonomy — and freed-up funding — to boost student achievement, she said.
"We have confidence in these school leaders," Roberts said, "and we will provide additional support in coaching hours and oversight over how their resources are used."
Narrowing gaps
About two-thirds of Denver's 92,000 students qualify for subsidized lunches, a proxy for poverty, and about 77 percent are non-white. More than a third are English language learners.
The district has in the past struggled to close wide gaps between how much students in those groups learn each year and how much students not in those groups learn.
White students, non-low-income students and non-English language learners have historically posted higher proficiency scores and higher growth scores, which continues to be the case. But their growth scores last year remained relatively flat.
Meanwhile, the growth scores for students of color, low-income students and English language learners increased by several points for every group in each subject.
In literacy, Latino students had a growth score of 54 and black students had a score of 53. White students had a score of 64, meaning the gaps were 10 points and 9 points, respectively. Those are smaller than in 2015-16, when the gap for both black and Latino students was 13 points.
The gaps in math last year were bigger than the gaps in literacy. Black and Latino students had a growth score of 50 in math, while white students had a score of 63, a 13-point gap. However, that gap also shrunk from the year before, when it was 16 points.
The smallest gap last year was between English language learners and native speakers in literacy. State statistics, which include "exited" English language learners who no longer need services in the count of English language learners, show no gap at all.
But DPS statistics, which break exited English language learners into their own category, show a 3-point gap between English language learners and non-English language learners.
The district has in recent years provided more training for educators who teach English language learners, worked harder to ensure all eligible students get those classes and made efforts to encourage bilingualism and biliteracy, Boasberg said.
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Melanie Asmar on August 17, 2017. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.
Photo by Melanie Asmar. McAuliffe Manual students gather for a photo with Denver Public Schools officials at a press conference Thursday.
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Melanie Asmar covers Denver Public Schools. Asmar previously worked as a reporter for Westword newspaper in Denver and for a daily newspaper in her native New Hampshire. She joined Chalkbeat Colorado in 2015.
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Local authors turn the page at LiteracyNENY…
Local authors turn the page at LiteracyNENY event at Skidmore
By Thomas Dimopoulos |
PUBLISHED: November 29, 2005 at 4:50 a.m. | UPDATED: July 22, 2021 at 7:24 a.m.
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Authors Russell Banks, Douglas Glover and Laura McClendon will be spending some time at Skidmore College Sunday afternoon, reading from their works and highlighting this year's literary soiree for the local chapter of LiteracyNENY. "These writers value the work that we do to raise the level of literacy in the community," explained Executive Director of LiteracyNENY Sue Hensley about this year's PageTurners Event. "The goal is to celebrate local readers and writers from our community and use the event to support our organization," she said. Banks has published five short story collections, four poetry books and nine novels, "Rule of the Bone," "Cloudsplitter" and the 1985 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize work "Continental Drift," among them. Banks is currently writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," which is being produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Glover originally grew up on the family tobacco farm in Canada before relocating locally, where he taught at Skidmore College and SUNY Albany, and hosted the weekly literary radio program, "The Book Show," at WAMC. A journalist and author, Glover has penned four novels, a book of essays and has edited the annual Best Canadian Stories since 1996. Also reading at the event is Clifton Park resident McClendon, whose recently published debut novel, "Too Many Secrets," is set in the town where she makes her residence. All three authors will be reading from their works and will be available for book signings during the event. Literacy Volunteers was originally founded in Syracuse in 1962 and organized in Saratoga County since 1981. "Warren County has been involved in the project for over 35 years, Washington County over 10 years and Saratoga County more than 20 years," Hensley said. "We merged the three counties into one organization which is LiteracyNENY (North Eastern New York.)" The group provides assistance to adults to improve reading, writing and English speaking skills by providing free, private, one-on-one tutoring in adult basic education and English for Speakers of Other Languages. Among the skills taught are survival skills – like understanding medicine bottles, identifying labels and street signs – helping adults work with their children and improving basic writing skills and reading skills. The group estimates there are at least 30,000 adults in local counties whose lack of reading and writing skills limit their life choices. In these counties, LiteracyNENY is the only source of educational assistance for adults with limited reading and writing skills. LiteracyNENY will host its annual PageTurners event from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Skidmore College's Surrey Inn. Advance tickets are required and seating is limited. For tickets, $40, and information, contact LiteracyNENY's main office, 793-7414.
Thomas Dimopoulos


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A. In the city of Iconium.
1. (1) Paul and Barnabas have evangelistic success in Iconium.
a. They went together to the synagogue of the Jews: The leaders of the synagogue in Antioch had just expelled Paul and Barnabas from that city. Yet when they came to Iconium, they again began their evangelistic efforts by preaching in the synagogue. It was still a good way to start.
b. So spoke that a great multitude both of the Jews and of the Greeks believed: Paul and Barnabas had success among the Jews and the Greeks, presenting the same gospel to both. The fact that Jews and… Greeks believed shows that Paul preached the same thing to both groups: That salvation is in Jesus, and we appropriate it by our belief (trust in, reliance on) in Him.
i. The success is refreshing, because they had just been kicked out of Pisidian Antioch, after much success there (Acts 13:50).
ii. On other occasions Paul was inclined to stay in a region for an extended period of time, strengthening the churches and working where evangelistic efforts had already borne fruit. Therefore, it may be best to see the persecution Paul had in Pisidian Antioch as God's way of moving him on to Iconium and other places.
iii. And so spoke: Paul and Barnabas presented the gospel in a way that invited belief. The way they preached encouraged people to believe in the message of who Jesus is and what He had done for them.
2. (2-6) Successful ministry creates opposition, forcing Paul and Barnabas out of Iconium.
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren. Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. But the multitude of the city was divided: part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles. And when a violent attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to abuse and stone them, they became aware of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region.
a. Unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren: Luke made it clear that it was not all the Jews of Iconium who did this, because many believed (Acts 14:1). Yet some not only rejected the message, but stirred up others to reject the message and the messengers (against the brethren).
b. Therefore they stayed a long time: They stayed as long as they could, despite the opposition, leaving only when it was absolutely necessary. They did this because they knew that these Christians in Iconium needed all the grounding they could get to stand strong in a city with much opposition.
c. Speaking boldly in the Lord: Despite the opposition, Paul and Barnabas continued to preach boldly, bearing witness to the word of His grace and touching others with the power of Jesus.
d. Bearing witness to the word of His grace: The miraculous works done confirmed this message they preached – the word of His grace. That is the only word by which both Jews and Gentiles could be saved on an equal basis.
e. A violent attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to abuse and stone them, they became aware of it and fled: When forced to, Paul and Barnabas left Iconium for Lystra (some twenty miles away) and Derbe. Their perseverance under the difficulty in Iconium didn't mean that it was time for them to become martyrs.
i. Acts 14:4 is the first time Paul and Barnabas are called apostles in the Book of Acts. The only other time the title is used for them in Acts is at 14:14. Paul often used the title of himself in his letters.
f. Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia: William Ramsay demonstrated that Lystra and Derbe were indeed together in the Roman province of Lycaonia, but only between A.D. 37 and 72, the exact period these events in Acts took place. This kind of accuracy persuaded Ramsay that the Biblical account was true, especially in an age when they were all thought to be fables and made-up stories.
B. In the cities of Lystra and Derbe.
1. (7-10) In Lystra, a lame man is healed.
And they were preaching the gospel there. And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, "Stand up straight on your feet!" And he leaped and walked.
a. And they were preaching the gospel there: Paul and Barnabas did many miraculous works, one of which is recorded in the following passage. Yet they did not travel as miracle workers. Their focus was always preaching the gospel.
b. This man heard Paul speaking: The crippled man heard Paul preach about Jesus. When he heard about Jesus, his face and manner showed that he believed Jesus could touch his life; he had faith to be healed.
i. This certain man without strength in his feet made the important transition from hearing about the work of Jesus to believing that it was for him. Not everyone makes this same transition, but they should.
c. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed: There was something about this man's faith that was evident, and it is likely that God gave Paul the gift of discernment, so much so that Paul knew God intended to heal the man at that moment.
2. (11-13) The excited crowd in Lystra declares Paul and Barnabas to be Greek gods, visiting the earth.
Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!" And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, intending to sacrifice with the multitudes.
a. The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men! These people saw a stupendous miracle happen before their eyes, yet their idea of who God is had not changed. Therefore it seemed logical to them to consider Paul and Barnabas gods.
i. The miracle merely attracted attention, and in a way, it was unwanted attention. The miracle itself saved no one.
b. Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker: In Greek mythology, it was common for the gods to come to earth in human form, though they did not always do so for the good of man.
i. The people of Lystra had a legend that once Zeus and Hermes visited their land disguised as mortals, and no one gave them any hospitality except for one older couple. In their anger at the people, Zeus and Hermes wiped out the whole population, except for the old couple. This may help explain why the Lystrians were so quick to honor Paul and Barnabas.
c. And Paul, Hermes: He was known as the messenger of the gods, so it made sense to the Lystrians that Paul (the more talkative one) was Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. Barnabas apparently had an air of authority about him, so they regarded him as Zeus.
ii. But when Paul and Barnabas saw the priest of Zeus, with oxen and garlands… intending to sacrifice, they knew things had gone too far. This was far more than honoring guests to the city.
3. (14-18) Paul appeals to the crowd, asking them to recognize the true God instead of worshipping Paul and Barnabas.
But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out and saying, "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them, who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
a. They tore their clothes: They did this to show that they were completely human, just as the Lystrians. They also did it out of an instinctively Jewish reaction to blasphemy. For Paul and Barnabas, it wasn't just inconvenient that they were called gods; it was blasphemy.
b. That you should turn from these useless things: These were strong words from Paul to people who took their pagan worship seriously, but Paul wasn't afraid to confront this mob with the truth, and the truth was that their idolatry was wrong. They had to turn from it.
i. As Paul told them more about Jesus and what He has done, he especially wanted them to turn from these useless things to the living God. Jesus could not merely be added to their pagan ways.
c. To the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them: Paul called the Lystrian crowd to consider the real God, the One who stands behind all creation, not one of the lesser (and imaginary) Greek gods.
i. The things Paul mentions in Acts 14:17 (He did good… gave us rain from heaven… and fruitful seasons… filling our hearts with food and gladness) were just the kind of things these people would think that Zeus gave them. Paul told them these blessings come from the true God who lives in heaven, not from Zeus.
ii. God's kindness to all men (in giving rain and fruitful crops) should be seen as a witness of His love and power, something theologians sometimes call common grace.
iii. Paul did not preach to these pagan worshippers the same way he preached to Jews or those acquainted with Judaism. He did not quote the Old Testament to them, but instead appealed to natural revelation, to the things that even a pagan could understand by looking at the world around them.
d. And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them: Even with all this, Paul and Barnabas had an extremely difficult time challenging the wrong conceptions of God held by the Lystrians.
4. (19-20a) Persecution follows Paul.
Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city.
a. Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came: These opponents were not content to kick Paul out of their own region (Acts 14:5-6); they followed him and brought their persecution with them.
i. Some of these persecuting Jews from Antioch and Iconium traveled more than one hundred miles just to make Paul miserable. They were dedicated adversaries of Paul.
b. Having persuaded the multitudes: They incited the people of Lystra against Paul and Barnabas, and instigated the stoning of Paul. This was obviously an attempt to execute Paul and Barnabas – with the rocks being thrown by the same people who wanted to worship them shortly before.
i. This is a dramatic demonstration of how fickle a crowd can be. Their admiration of the miracle and desire to honor Paul and Barnabas as gods did not last long.
ii. It is dangerous for any spiritual leader to cultivate or allow a kind of hero-worship. The same people who give this honor will feel terribly betrayed when the leader is shown to be human.
c. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city: Paul was miraculously preserved here. Some think that he was even actually killed and raised to life again, because stoning was usually reliable form of execution.
i. When Paul later wrote, I bear in my body the marks of Jesus (Galatians 6:17), he may have had in mind the scars from this incident. He certainly later referred to this stoning in 2 Corinthians 11:25.
ii. It has been suggested that the heavenly vision described by Paul in 2 Corinthians 12 took place at this attack. This is possible, but only conjecture.
iii. It's reasonable to think that Paul remembered Stephen when he was being stoned, and how he had been a part of Stephen's execution (Acts 7:58-8:1).
d. He rose up and went into the city: When Paul was revived, he did not flee the city that stoned him. Instead he immediately went back into it. He had been driven out of Antioch and Iconium by this traveling mob, and he was determined to leave Lystra on his own terms.
i. In Acts 16:1, we learn of a young Christian in Lystra and his mother – Timothy. Perhaps Timothy saw all this and was inspired to the high call of the gospel by noticing Paul's courage and power in ministry.
5. (20b-21a) Paul leaves Lystra for the city of Derbe, where they find more evangelistic success.
And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples.
a. When they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples: Despite the persecution in Lystra, the work of God continued – just in a different place, Derbe. Yet Paul and Barnabas continued their work: preaching the gospel and making disciples.
C. The return trip home to Syrian Antioch.
1. (21b-22) The message of Paul and Barnabas on the return trip.
a. Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith: As Paul and Barnabas decided to head back home to Antioch, they passed through the cities they had visited before, to strengthen and encourage the Christians in those cities. Paul and Barnabas wanted to do far more than gain conversions; they had a passion to make disciples.
i. Many Christians need strengthening in their souls. Many need exhorting… to continue in the faith. It is no small thing to walk with the Lord, year after year, trial after trial. It takes a strong soul and an encouraged faith.
b. We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God: This was the message that helped strengthen and exhort these disciples. This was a simple message, proved in Paul's personal experience. Paul could preach that message because he had lived that message.
i. This is for many a forgotten message today. They consider any kind of tribulation completely counter-productive to Christian living, failing to note the significant place suffering has in God's plan.
2. (23) The work of Paul and Barnabas on the way home to Syrian Antioch.
So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
a. So when they had appointed elders in every church: Paul and Barnabas were committed to not just making new Christians, but in establishing new churches, places where these new Christians could grow and be established in the Lord.
b. When they had appointed elders in every church: Paul and Barnabas knew that these churches must have proper administration, so they appointed elders in every city where there were Christians.
c. And prayed with fasting: Paul and Barnabas demonstrated their great concern for the health of these churches by their prayer and fasting.
d. They commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed: But in the end, they can only trust in God's ability to keep these churches healthy, having commended them to the Lord. It was in the Lord they had believed, not in Paul or Barnabas or the elders. The church belongs to Jesus.
3. (24-26) The itinerary of Paul and Barnabas on the way home.
And after they had passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. Now when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.
a. After they had passed through Pisidia: On the continent, they returned pretty much the same way they came. They did not stop on the island of Cyprus, but sailed to Antioch, returning to their home congregation.
b. For the work which they had completed: They beautiful words were only partially true. Although the immediate mission was accomplished, the work of planting new churches and strengthening existing ones has never ended. This would be merely the first of several missionary journeys.
4. (27-28) Paul and Barnabas arrive back in Antioch.
a. They reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles: Their success with evangelism among the Gentiles, and the blessing of God that it demonstrated, showed that what God did in Antioch was not unique. God wanted to replicate this work all over the world.
b. He had opened the door of faith: The trip was a great success, though not without great obstacles: The difficulty of travel itself, the confrontation with Elymas on Cyprus, the quitting of John Mark, being driven out of the cities of Antioch and Iconium, the temptation to receive adoration, and being stoned in Lystra. Yet Paul and Barnabas would not be deterred from the work God had them to do.
i. It can and should be asked of each follower of Jesus, "What will it take for you to back down from doing God's will? What kind of temptation or obstacle or opposition will do it?" Nothing stopped Jesus from doing God's will on our behalf; as we look to Him, we won't be stopped either.
c. So they stayed there a long time with the disciples: Back at their home church in Syrian Antioch, we can assume that Paul and Barnabas took a long break and found plenty of ministry to do back there.


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