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Port Vale are away to Crawley this weekend looking for three successive wins for the first time since October. Over to our fans' panel of Ian Woodward, from Congleton, Chris Bentley, from Norton Heights, and Andrew Blakemore, from Denford, for their verdict.
WHAT'S YOUR TEAM?
Ian Woodward : "Assuming everyone is fit, I'd go with the same starting eleven who won at Colchester last weekend. It's probably a bit early to consider Tom Pope, so I'd stick with the much maligned Theo Robinson who certainly played his part in the past two games. He just needs a goal now to silence the keyboard warriors. Therefore my team is: Brown, Smith, Legge, Brisley, Montano, Oyeleke, Joyce, Conlon, Worrall, Robinson, Rodney."
Andrew Blakemore : "Given the level of fitness that Darrell Clarke has referenced before with the squad I can see him making changes. However, I would keep the majority of the team that picked up that good win at Colchester."
Chris Bentley : "Brown, Brisley, Smith, Legge, Montano; Oyeleke, Joyce, Conlon; Worrall, Rodney, Robinson."
WHAT'S YOUR PREDICTION?
Ian Woodward : "Our record at Crawley is pretty impressive and reads W4 D1 L1, the only defeat coming on our first visit there in 2012. They've done pretty well this season and will no doubt be thinking they're still in with a chance of a play-off spot so despite our recent upturn I'm expecting a hard game. I'd certainly settle for a point to continue our momentum but think there'll be a few goals, so will say 2-2."
Andrew Blakemore : "Crawley have one of the better home records in the division. All we need to do is ensure we don't lose, and I think we can continue this run of form, with a draw this time, I'll go for 1-1."
Chris Bentley : "Crawley is a happy hunting ground for us but I'd be happy with a point here after our last two wins. I'll go 1 1 with Worrall to score."
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Ian Woodward : "Those wins over Newport and Colchester have certainly lightened the mood as well as easing our relegation fears and just a handful more points from these last nine games should be enough to ensure safety. Like many of us though, I'm sure manager Darrell Clarke will want to rake up as many points as possible as he looks towards next season with the building blocks already being put in place following more additions to the backroom staff this past week.
"Getting everything right behind the scenes, operating professionally and planning for the future is of course to be welcomed but there'll be an expectancy from some supporters that whichever players arrive in the summer this will all automatically translate into a dramatic upturn in our fortunes, meaning we should be amongst next season's challengers. It would be great if that happened of course but I think fans will need to temper their expectations, try and be realistic and give Clarke the time he needs to move us forwards.
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"There's no doubt the pressure on football managers these days appears more intense than ever. They are now expected to soak up all the negative attention and act as a shield for the shortcomings of others.
"In this current hire and fire culture I was still staggered to see that 16 new managers have been appointed across PL and EFL clubs since Darrell Clarke arrived at Vale Park a mere 38 days ago. Only three of the current League Two managers have been at their club longer than three years with Salford now on their third manager this season. The continually revolving door may work for some clubs but after what we've endured these past few years, it's stability we now need."
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Andrew Blakemore: "What a difference a week makes. Two massive victories, which was such a confidence boost and a huge sigh of relief. I felt after the mentally draining Newport home game, the Colchester game would be similar, given that it was a relegation six-pointer. Thankfully it didn't. I don't think I could have sat through another 90 minutes like that Newport match. It was a very good away day performance, which we deserved to win, the difference in the players at the end of the game was smiles across the team, which is something we've not seen for a long time and I don't think Darrell Clarke could really contain his delight either.
"Survival was always in our hands, but now it really is even more. The simple thing is, just to mirror Southend and Grimsby's results and we are over the line. I would say 45 points will be sufficient to survive. With the goal difference we have on the bottom two teams, it's another point, and when they have only won seven all season, can they really win three or four matches in the final 10, or rather pick up those points and any additional on top of what Vale pick up? It's doubtful. Let's get the points on the board then focus on the summer rebuild."
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Report as Tom Pope makes comeback in Port Vale behind-closed-doors win
Chris Bentley : " I was interested to see that we've appointed Head of Coaching Nathan Rooney this week and Director of Football David Flitcroft has mentioned potential plans for a new training facility. Have we struck gold under the Vale Park pitch or something?
"It's very refreshing to hear but it all comes at a cost which hopefully won't affect the playing budget because we need an overhaul in the summer.
"Having said that, there's no doubt that there's a lot of good things happening behind the scenes as we try and put proper structures in place to become a more professional set up. First things first, we need to cross the safety line and I think another win and a draw from the last nine games will do it.
"I can't wait for the season to end now, I've hated it if I'm being honest. It just hasn't been the same not going to the games but hopefully we can look forward to returning to Vale Park in August and we can all put this farce of a season with no fans behind us."


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Q: Nested async/await functions I am trying to understanding how to use async/await in nested manner.
In the example, I am calling function a() and inside that, I want to call b() and ensure that b() resolves before a().
The following is the code and although b() is called, it is not getting resolved.

function a() {
   b();
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve('resolved a');
    }, 2000);
  });
}

function b() {
  console.log('calling b');
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve('resolved b');
    }, 2000);
  });
}

 async function asyncCall() {
  console.log('calling');
  const result = await a();
  console.log(result);
}

asyncCall();

The output of the code above is:
"calling"
"calling b"
"resolved a" (This line shows up after 2 seconds)
Then, I changed to code to include async/await in a(), (everything else is the same)

async function a() {
   await b();
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve('resolved a');
    }, 2000);
  });
}

function b() {
  console.log('calling b');
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve('resolved b');
    }, 2000);
  });
}

 async function asyncCall() {
  console.log('calling');
  const result = await a();
  console.log(result);
}

asyncCall();

The output of the code above is:
"calling"
"calling b"
"resolved a" (This line shows up after 4 seconds [In the previous example it was 2 seconds])
But in both the case, 'resolved b' is not getting printed.
I have 2 questions:

*

*How do I print 'resolved b' ?

*Is it common to have cases like this where an async function (in this case, function "a"), is both the callee (it is called by asyncCall()) and the caller (it is calling b()) ?

A:
How do I print 'resolved b' ?

Your code as it stands completely ignores the resolved value of b. The first example ignores the promise entirely. The second example waits for the promise to resolve but does nothing with the resolved value (not even capture it in a variable).
You have to console.log() it like you did everything else you logged.
You could logthisvalue = await b(). You could b().then(logthisvalue => here). You could modify b() so it logs its own value.

Is it common to have cases like this where an async function (in this case, function "a"), is both the callee (it is called by asyncCall()) and the caller (it is calling b()) ?

Yes.
The async and await keywords are tools to manage promises.
Top level await has poor support so, in general, you can only use await inside an async function.
You have to call an async function for it to do anything.
The async function has to get a promise to await from somewhere and usually that is by calling another function.

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by Elliott Davis | Aug 9, 2018 | Communities Recent Cases, Environmental Health News, Environmental Health Recent Cases, Native Fish Recent Cases, Uncategorized | 0 comments
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Clean water is essential for people and wildlife to survive. The city of Molalla—located in Clackamas County, Oregon—is failing to protect this right. For over a decade, Molalla's sewage treatment plant has violated the terms of its Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) permit, undermining people's health and the quality of the Molalla River.
The facility contains two storage lagoons, each of which needs to be cleared out. However, as the lagoons remained filled, they could not hold incoming wastewater. The excess wastewater was sprayed on unauthorized fields and in excessive quantities, particularly during the summer months, causing ponding and runoff into Bear Creek. Additionally, the facility's outdated piping collects stormwater and groundwater, further exacerbating capacity issues at the City's facility. The City has neglected its duty to properly manage the plant.
The DEQ sent several warning letters to the City in the past. But, it has never taken any formal enforcement action for the persistent violations. On behalf of Bear Creek Recovery, Crag stepped in to hold the City of Molalla accountable for years of violations against the Clean Water Act.
Poor water quality has a direct impact on people's health and the environment. Treated sewage wastewater is not safe for human contact. As Bear Creek and the Molalla River flow to the Willamette, the deterioration of water quality has far reaching impacts. When the City of Molalla discharges wastewater during the summer, people swimming in the river are immediately put at risk. During the summer season, flows are lower which means less dilution for wastewater discharges.
The history of violations at the City's facility is the result of poor maintenance and mismanagement of the sewage plant as well as failing infrastructure. Bear Creek Recovery members are understandably concerned about the potential risks the City's pollution poses to the health of Bear Creek, the Molalla River, and the community. Under the Clean Water Act, individual citizens or groups may bring an action against an alleged violator, to protect the waters they care about and depend upon. This lawsuit is about ordinary citizens standing up for their right to clean water.
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After repeated violations of the law, the City of Molalla must be held accountable. It's time for the City to comply with its permit and create a facility that can adequately treat sewage, without harming the environment.
The Background – 2006 -2018
Since 2006, Crag had been working with a coalition of various groups and concerned Molalla residents to force the city to maintain the failing wastewater treatment facilities and to prevent the excessive wastewater discharge and irrigation. The City had been constantly violating their DEQ permits and the Clean Water act. At that time, Crag secured a consent decree requiring the city to comply. In 2009, that decree expired and the city continued its pattern of violations. In 2014, we filed a complaint on behalf of Bear Creek Recovery, again seeking resolution to the poor maintenance and operation of the sewage plant and failing infrastructure.
In 2015, after eight months of negotiations, a settlement was reached which was to require substantial work by the City over the next 3 1/2 years to improve management of its wastewater and improve the operation of the treatment facility. The City committed a quarter of a million dollars to remove sewage sludge from the treatment lagoons and to repair failing sewer lines throughout the city. The agreement also mandated additional monitoring and management of the City's recycled water irrigation practices on nearby fields and summer discharge of water into creeks.
Currently….
Again, following a long pattern, the City of Molalla also violated the agreement reached in 2015 and the Clean Water Act. In 2018, Crag, on behalf of Bear Creek Recovery, sought to enforce the agreement and hold the City accountable for its continued non-compliance. The decree was re-negotiated to include additional compliance and reporting measures while the city works towards constructing a new waste water facility. The amended agreement also includes various other stipulations, retaining some of the previous ones and adding others.
Examples of new stipulations are a timeline for certain projects to be completed and requiring quarterly meetings, open to the public, for the City to report on its compliance and progress towards the facility upgrade. In addition, the city had to hire an outside consultant (Compliance Specialist) whose duty is to track the city's compliance with the Amended Decree as well as any MOA's entered into by the city with DEQ. These reports are required to be posted on the City of Molalla's website.
The agreement also required the City to contribute funds towards an environmental project to protect important cold-water salmon habitat in the Molalla River. The project was carried out by the Native Fish Society.
This new consent decree will run until March, 2024 or until the City has a new facility up and running.
For five years, we have proudly represented Bear Creek Recovery, a group of local Molalla residents concerned about the City's actions and the possible impacts to human health and water quality. Bear Creek Recovery members are hopeful that the additional restrictions and requirements included in the 2015 settlement will lead to long-term solutions to the City's Clean Water Act violations and protect public health and the environment in the Molalla area.
Maura Fahey and Chris Winter are leading our work to protect water quality in the Molalla River. Staff Attorney Maura Fahey shared the importance of this case.
"This case is a prime example of the Clean Water Act at work. Where the regulating agency has failed to hold the City accountable for its violations, local residents have kept a close watch and are working to ensure that the City cleans up its act."
We are committed to ensuring access to clean water, for the residents of Molalla and people across the Pacific Northwest.
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Q: python sys.argv in classes name.py [list of integers 2, 4,..], integer I wanna pass 2 arguments, one as list [8, 10], and one as integer in terminal.
file MySeq.py
like: MySeq.py [8, 10], 32
How would i do this?
import sys

class MySeq():
def __init__(self, positions, length):
    self.positions = positions
    self.length = length

def length_fragments(self):
    diffs = []

    diffs.append(self.positions[0])
    for i in range(1, len(self.positions)):
        diffs.append((self.positions[i] - self.positions[i - 1]))
    diffs.append(self.length - self.positions[len(self.positions) - 1])

    return diffs

#positons = sys.argv[1].replace('[', ' ').replace(']', ' ').replace(',', ' ').split()
#positions = [int(i) for i in a]
#length = int(sys.argv[2])
print(MySeq(positions, length).length_fragments())

A: A way will be to pass arguments like this:
$ python filename.py 30 50 13

And code like this:
import sys
int_arg = int(sys.argv[-1])
list_from_args = list(sys.argv[1:-1])
for i in range(len(list_from_args)):
    list_from_args[i] = int(list_from_args[i])

This would mean that the args 30 50 will be converted into a python list object (that contains int) and the last argument ( 13 in this case ) will be treated as a int.

A: run
python MySeq.py 8,10 32

Since sys.argv is automatically a list of string, just use comma and split it to become a list.
def __init__(self):
        self.positions = sys.argv[1].split(',') # 8,10 to ['8', '10']
        self.length = int(sys.argv[2]) # 32


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YOUR ONLY CHANCE IS IF YOUR LEADERS AND POPE LISTEN TO THESE MESSAGES AND IMPLEMENTS THEM AND IDENTIFIES THE MESSIAH AND MAKES HIM KING AND MUSTER THEIR ARMY TO DEFEND AGAINST THE WICKED (SO FAR THEY HAVE REFUSED). THE CLOCK IS TICKING. WOE TO YE THAT WONT LISTEN AND WHO FOLLOW YOUR OWN STUBBORN WAYS THAT ARE VOID OF THE TRUE GOD WHO YOU DON'T KNOW. YOUR LEADERS SHOULD BE THE TOP SCIENTISTS NOT BUSINESS MEN. YOUR MAJOR OBJECTIVITY SHOULD BE THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE AND NOT THE ECONOMY AND JOBS. THE TOP AND PROVEN INTELLECTS SHOULD BE LEADERS. THEY ARE NOT. HENCE THE TROUBLE YOU ARE IN WITH GOD.


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Women have been able to free themselves from the chains of being governed, controlled, abused, dictated and misused by men whom they marry by gaining education, according to Mary Wollstonecraft education has enabled women to know their rights as women and those of their men unlike the ancient non educated women who had a stong self belive of being feminine in all their deeds and the world was for men, the world of education and politics just to mention a few while women had a role of motherwood and caregivers.
Subsiquently, education has successful changed the misconception on the law of nature, that women were born to be inferior to men emmernating from their feminism, what can a woman do? Nothing, the place for a woman in the ancient times according to Mary Wollstonecraft was in the home to take care of their families and to bear children and could not do what was regarded to be a man's affair like politics and leadership,educating a woman therefore has done away with the inferiority complex in the todays society.
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"No starship may interfere with the normal development of any alien life or society."
— Prime Directive (United Federation of Planets General Order 1)
"The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy…and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous." – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
The Victorian political philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1973) and Star Trek's far-future United Federation of Planets (the Federation) differ substantially on the colonial question. In particular, Mill the Victorian liberal imperialist thought that it was the duty of the British to help "civilize" less developed states through colonialism. Within his stages of civilization, Mill regarded underdeveloped states like India to be backwards and in need of benign British despotism, which was "a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end."[1]
Although Star Trek's Federation may share some similar Victorian-era ideas about imperial power structures and civilizational stages, by contrast it has strict rules about not attempting to "civilize" or colonize "backward" societies. It is enshrined in their Prime Directive, which was first introduced in the Original Series (1966-69) as a none-too-subtle anti-imperial rebuke of the US war in Vietnam.[2]
However, despite their glaring differences on colonialism as civilizing mission, J. S. Mill and the Federation do see eye-to-eye when deciding whether it is morally justifiable to intervene in foreign conflicts.
Mill had strong opinions about when a country should and should not intervene in international conflicts, which he articulated in his short 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" and elsewhere in his writings. He made a provocative argument, which has led to the spilling of much scholarly ink on the subject.[3]
For Mill, whether a country ought to be able to help another "in a struggle against their government" depended upon whether "the yoke which the people are attempting to throw off is that of a purely native government, or of foreigners." If it was purely an internal struggle — a civil war, a conflict within a nation — Mill advocated for a policy of non-interventionism.
However, in the case of hostilities between nations, Mill urged a policy of interventionism. In "the case of people struggling against a foreign yoke, or against a native tyranny upheld by foreign arms," the people "may be unable to contend successfully for them against the military strength of another nation much more powerful." To provide humanitarian assistance to "a people thus kept down, is not to disturb the balance of forces…but to redress that balance…Intervention to enforce non-intervention is always rightful, always moral, if not always prudent."[4]
Mill's moral justification for humanitarian intervention has proven to be at least as palatable for future generations as it was back then. In The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill & the Responsibility to Protect (2015), for example, political scientist Michael Doyle returns to Mill to make the 21st-century moral case for certain instances of humanitarian intervention, including in Syria.[5]
Mill's moralistic theory about when and when not to intervene is also put into practice by the far-future generations of Star Trek's Federation.
The two-part "Redemption" episode (1991) of Star Trek: The Next Generation vividly illustrates the series's Millian theory. The episode opens with Gowran, the newly appointed leader of the Klingon High Council, beseeching Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Federation starship Enterprise, to help defeat the Duras family, a powerful Klingon clan that has challenged Gowron's newfound authority.
Because this is deemed to be a civil war purely within the Klingon Empire, the Prime Directive's Millian policy is obvious: the Federation shouldn't intervene. Thus when Picard's first officer, Will Riker, asks if Gowron is "the legitimate leader of the empire, shouldn't we help him?" Picard gives an emphatic no. If they were to give aid to Gowron, they'd "be dragging the Federation into a Klingon civil war." To which he later adds, "the Federation cannot interfere in, what is by definition, an internal Klingon affair."
Jump forward a few weeks, and Gowron's side is losing the civil war, and badly at that. They are outgunned and out-equipped. What happens next embraces the other dimension of Mill's theory: If one side of a civil war is receiving military aid from a foreign power — "foreign arms" as Mill called it — intervention becomes morally justified.
When it becomes clear that the Duras are receiving "foreign arms" from the Romulans, Picard begins to advocate for the Federation to intervene in the conflict, and it's right out of Mill's playbook. "If the Duras are being aided by the Romulans," he argues to his superiors, "it becomes very much our concern" because the Romulan Empire – prone to duplicitousness and hostility — would then be able to shift the balance of power in the quadrant and destroy the hard-won 20-year Klingon-Federation alliance. The Duras, Picard continues, "must be getting help" from a foreign power. The Federation therefore needs to intervene to "redress the balance," as Mill put it.
Picard proposes that the Federation intervene to restore the Klingon civil war to a purely internal affair. He suggests blockading the suspected regular shipment of military supplies being sent by the Romulans to the Duras with a Federation fleet parked at the Romulan/Klingon border. "We take no offensive action, but we will be in a position to expose any Romulan supplies that attempt to cross the border." In this way, he is able to even the playing field. With his moral justification for intervention to enforce non-intervention, Jean-Luc Picard was effectively plagiarizing J. S. Mill.
It thus seems that Mill's theory of moral intervention is bound for a long shelf life. After all, it's living long and prospering in the far-future foreign policy of Star Trek's Federation.
[1] J. S. Mill, Collected Works, VIII, 224. On J. S. Mill and colonialism, see, et al., Eric Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India (1959); Bernard Semmel, "The Philosophic Radicals and Colonialism," Journal of Economic History 21 (Dec. 1961): 513-525; Eileen P. Sullivan, "Liberalism and Imperialism: J. S. Mill's Defense of the British Empire," Journal of the History of Ideas 44 (Oct.-Dec. 1983): 599-617; Lynn Zastoupil, "J. S. Mill and India," Victorian Studies 32 (Autumn 1988): 31-54; Michael Levin, J. S. Mill on Civilization and Barbarism (2004); Beate Jahn, "Barbarian Thoughts: Imperialism in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill," Review of International Studies 31 (2005): 599-618; Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire; The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (2006); Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Colonies," Political Theory 38 (2010): 34-64.
[2] Manu Saadia, Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek (2016).
[3] Kenneth E. Miller, "John Stuart Mill's Theory of International Relations," Journal of the History of Ideas 22 (Oct.-Dec. 1961): 493-514; Carol A. L. Prager, "Intervention and Empire: John Stuart Mill and International Relations," Political Studies 53 (Oct. 2005): 621-640; Alexis Heraclides and Ada Dialla, Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century: Setting the Precedent (2015);Michael Doyle, The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill & the Responsibility to Protect (2015).
[4] Mill, Collected Works, XXI, 122-3.
[5] Michael Doyle, "When to Intervene: What Would John Stuart Mill Do About Syria?" Foreign Affairs, Nov. 20, 2015.
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Through My Eyes: I Don't.
- understand why people think that going for manicure and pedicure is a waste of time and money.
- sleep with the lights on.
Not even with one small lamplight at a corner. Somehow it just irritates me, a lot. I like it dark and cold.
- want to know whether the jellybean is a he or a she.
- know most of the songs title that's in this whole universe.
Maybe just those which I really like or it just happens that someone mentioned it. But I can never answer you if you ask me of a song's name. Never!
- like to eat char hor fun.
- drink a lot of water, naturally.
- know how to download youtube videos.
I've googled it many times, and in the middle of reading/watching the steps, I give up. It's too deep. Haha.
- get obsessed with celebrities.
Those pretty and handsome superstars, of cos I like to see. but not to the point of having their photos on my phone screen saver or desktop. And I have always been having this one thing to one man. JOSH DUHAMEL. How can anyone not like this dude? He's like too good looking for anyone.
- like carbonated drinks, anymore.
- complain as much as I did before.
- understand why people want to dye their hair.
Don't you think that the color of hair that you came to this world with suits you best? I just don't really understand la. I know my grandma dyes her hair black cos most of it are becoming white. Haha.
- want to have less than 4 kids next time.
- want to wear contact lens, forever.
Yes, laser is definitely considered. Later on perhaps.
- think I am addicted to Facebook.
(i think.) Once, Koay asked me if I would pay RM1/year if one day Facebook decided to charge at that rate. I think I answered no. Hmm.. Wait, I don't know if it's RM1 or RM100. Oh well, I can live without Facebook (actually, I'm not so sure) But I can definitely live happily without logging into it for few days! Achievement, yes.
- like to think and have deep thoughts.
Most of the times cos I'm so lazy.
- usually think properly when I see something really unique especially stationeries.
I would just get it. Like recently, I bought a notebook that costs me RM30 from Popular. And I regretted it when I got home. Kena nagging session from him sumore. Down.
- want to work in the finance line though I have a degree in it.
It's common, right? People usually study one thing and work another thing. Haha. But I do see myself using my finance degree in the future. There must be a reason why I studied it what right? So far, I'm enjoying my travel line.
Which ranks one of the top must-get-list.
- think it's a sad thing to be short.
- like talking when I'm in a car/bus/van on a long journey/roadtrip.
- like to eat fruits.
- know why people don't think that I'm a shy person.
I am, in some ways. Get to know me and you'll realized deep inside this girl, there's some shyness.
- why I'm so loud.
- want to have a big wedding.
so, here's my 28 of i don'ts since its today's date.
Have a blessed weekend, everyone.


Originally from Oregon, she holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from Ohio University and a Bachelors of Arts with University of Portland. Her next project is play Juliet this Summer with Muse of Fire Theatre Comapny. Chrisler was most recently seen in Chicago as Emma in Emma with Dead Writers Theatre Collective. Her other Chicago credits include Time To Burn with Forget Me Not Theatre Company, and Landmark Festival with Prologue Theatre. Her other regional and professional credits include The Jekyll & Hyde Show, The Three Musketeers, and A Christmas Carol with The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She was also in Much Ado About Nothing and Blithe Spirit with The Monomoy Theatre.


The Xoloitzcuintle come in a variety of colors, but are usually black or charcoal gray, and almost always solid.
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Xoloitzcuintles are best with older children, with whom they can match their energy for play and also guard them as though they're their own children.
As with any breed, it is recommended that your child is always supervised when interacting with your Xoloitzcuintle to keep both the child and dog safe.


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According to police, he was drunk driving down a Florida street. A dental office was straight ahead
The pediatric dentist didn't stand a chance.
According to police, a drunk driver drove into the Ocala building this weekend.
A Facebook post from the Ocala Police Department said officers were sent to Healthy Smiles Dentistry at around 12:30 a.m. Sunday regarding an accident. Officers were near the crash site, which occurred at the busy main intersection of 10th Street, TUSEN 35 Orlando reported.
At the scene, officers were able to see a Chevrolet Equinox causing "major damage" to the building. The white SUV was a total loss and stood in the middle of the dark street. Surveillance video shows the moment the vehicle entered the building.
The driver, identified as Gabriel Hausy, 22, was no longer in the vehicle. A witness described the appearance of the suspect and officers were able to see the suspect from a distance. When Hausy realized he had been spotted, he started running, the post said.
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During the "brief foot chase", another officer in a vehicle spotted Hausy; eventually he was detained.
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Police investigations revealed that de Hausy was the registered owner of the Equinox and that he had purchased alcoholic beverages at a bar about an hour and a half before the crash.
Hausy agreed to submit to a breath test and the results were 0.14 percent, well above Florida's legal limit of 0.08 percent.
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The suspect was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence with material damage, non-violent resistance to an officer and leaving the scene of an accident with material damage.
"To end!" an officer yells in bodycam footage, which is a clip of the take-down.
"Put your hands behind your back!" shouts the officer. "Put your hands behind your back!"
"Please!" shouts the suspect, whose face is on the ground, while he is handcuffed.
There were no injuries, but damage to the pediatric dentist's building was "catastrophic," the department noted.
A few hours after the crash, Healthy Smiles sent a message to patients on social media, notifying them of the situation and showing a photo of a one-story office, which looks ruined, with police tape all over it:
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"We are saddened to say that our office was badly damaged by a vehicle last night," the post said. "Our family is distraught after the opening of our new building less than a year ago, but are confident that we will weather this setback."
No one answered the phone at the office on Wednesday.
"Drunk driving is truly a reckless decision and there are serious consequences for such negligent behavior," Ocala PD said. "Unfortunately, a man ignored this fact and caused catastrophic property damage to a nearby building. It should remind us that this kind of dangerous driving can have devastating consequences."
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A couple of weeks ago my children and I set out with our co-op to do a mapping skills exercise. (This sounds super official, but translated that's me and two friends and all our kids learning directions and beginning mapping!) We have a range of ages so we have different difficulty levels for the activities.) We met up to teach cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) to the younger students, and combine that with beginning mapping for our K-3 students. In this age of directions read aloud to us at the push of a button, I want to make sure my children understand how to read a map. Hopefully this will also encourage a good sense of direction at some point. (Please tell me it doesn't make me old that I remember looking up streets for my mother on a map while we were driving around!) So here's what we did, and what map skills worksheets we used.
The website has numerous worksheets similar to this one, and you can find them all over here.
For the "older" children (the ones in kindergarten and 2nd grade), I handed them a city block grid to map where we walked. This City block grid is the one that I found at the last minute to print off to use (real-life confessions!), before I figured out how to make my own blank one for mapping. You can make your own grids, with wide "streets" for younger kids, and smaller ones for more detailed mapping for older kids. (Here is the tutorial on how to make the table grids wider and gray.) Then as we walked the kids traced where we were going, and occasionally we stopped to draw in our own landmarks (if you can read our map, we saw an ice cream shop and a motel with a prominent sign). In order to do this they had to keep their map oriented correctly, and put some spatial awareness to work to figure out where to place things on their new map.
If you can also see on the map, we walked right past our fire station…and it so happened that several of our firemen were all geared up to meet a school field trip! So we got a personal tour of the fire engine, and got to ask questions (well, we mamas did… the kiddoes were too busy playing with the helmet!). Talk about day made!
If you'd like to do something like this mapping exercise, here is my printable for your own blank city block map skills worksheet if you want to do this exercise with your elementary aged students. Printable: BlockGrid.
Google image search "compass rose" and then print off one you like. Have the little ones point/circle/put a check mark next to the direction you're heading.
What activities have you done to teach mapping skills to your kids? I plan to do more and would love to hear some ideas!


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U Arizona study finds ECEC communication plays an important role in success at home
Effective communication between early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and families can result in parents being more likely to engage in educational activities with their children at home, researchers from the University of Arizona (UA) have found.
Wth some parts of Australia returning to stricter lock down conditions, the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in shifting primary responsibility for children's learning and development on to families has highlighted the need for effective communication between services and the families who use them.
As the pandemic progresses, and as parts of the country return to some degree of normality, ECEC services, researchers say, will play an important part in ensuring that parents continue to be engaged in their children's education at home.
A study, conducted by University of Arizona researcher Melissa Barnett before the pandemic began, explored the role that ECEC centres play in encouraging parents to engage in educational activities with their children both at the centres and at home. The researchers also explored how parental engagement can help better prepare young children for kindergarten.
One of the core goals of the study was to understand the extent to which parents perceive that early childhood educators are working with them and engaging them, and whether that is linked to school readiness.
"There's been some research evidence that when parents of preschoolers are more engaged in early childhood education centres, their children may be more prepared for kindergarten. But it's not entirely clear why that's the case," Associate Professor Barnett said.
Among the researchers' key findings:
When parents perceive that ECEC services do a good job of communicating with them and providing information about how their children are doing, they are more likely to engage in educational activities such as reading and singing with their children – both at the centre and at home. And the more parents engage in educational activities at home, the better prepared their children are for kindergarten, in terms of language and early reading skills.
The more involved parents are in centre activities – such as volunteering in classrooms, attending meetings or supporting in excursion supervision – the more educational activities they do with their children at home.
Although early childhood education centres appear to influence the quantity of at-home educational activities, they do not influence the quality of those activities. And the quality of at-home educational activities is one of the strongest predictors of a child's school readiness, influencing not only language and early reading skills but also early math skills.
The research is based on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort, a nationally representative sample of 10,700 children who were born in the United States in 2001 were followed from birth to kindergarten. The researchers homed in on the 17 per cent of those children who were enrolled in early childhood education centres at four years of age.
Parents provided input using a series of statements designed to measure how well they thought their early childhood education centres did at keeping them informed and involved, also answering questions about how often they engaged in educational activities with their children, both at the centre and at home.
The children completed assessments to measure their language, reading and early math skills prior to entering kindergarten.
For those children enrolled in ECEC services, the work parents did at home was a good predictor of how well children were prepared for school, in terms of the quantity of what parents were doing and the quality of what they were doing," Associate Professor Barnett said.
Those ECEC services who made the most effort to connect with and engage families had children who were the most ready for school, and this was especially true for lower-income households, researchers said.
The researchers also observed parents and children engaging in learning activities and assessed the quality of those interactions based on how much cognitive stimulation they provided. They found that quality matters even more than quantity for school readiness.
While the importance of reading and singing to children is widely known, the quality of what was being offered by parents varied, and it is this quality piece, Associate Professor Barnett said, that was "really critical and perhaps harder to change".
This quality variance, she added, presents an opportunity for ECEC services to make a difference for children and families.
"Parents who are able to engage and volunteer at those centres are getting the message that they need to read with their kids and sing songs with their kids, but they may not be getting messages about how best to do that," she added.
To support families to improve the quality of their offering, the Associate Professor suggested ECEC services think about ways to build activities around a child's unique interests and abilities, to ensure activities such as reading are more meaningful, and suggesting questions that may help children relate stories to their own experiences.
Unfortunately, Associate Professor Barnett said, many families don't have access to early childhood education centres and the support they provide, especially in lower-income areas, where, according to her findings, they might have the most impact. Issues of access are heightened by COVID-19.
"We know that families in many communities didn't have access to high-quality early childhood education, even before the pandemic, and it's become an increasingly significant problem as centres have closed and may need to remain closed," she said.
"In part, our findings point to the value of those opportunities for lower-income parents to be involved in ECEC services, so this potentially could even further increase what we see as a socioeconomic gap in school readiness."
For those families who are currently conducting home based learning with their children, researchers advised to focus on the importance of quality activities as much as possible.
"This may be an especially challenging time to do that, as parents are juggling multiple potential stressors and time crunches," she said, "but those home learning activities really are important to prepare children for school."
Their findings were recently published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly and may be accessed here.
Preschool children can't see the mountains for the cat
Five ways that reading with children helps their education
by Emma Vardy, Coventry University
$160 million School Readiness Funding initiative announced in Victoria
For school readiness, parents want confident, mature children with pre-reading skills
ACER engaged to investigate how preschools support literacy and school readiness


Chef de Partie. An opportunity has arisen at our client based in Christchurch near Bournemouth for a chef de partie to work in their busy property. As part of a hard working brigade you will be assist the Head Chef in serving food to a 1-2AA rosette standard.


2013 Empire Life Kingston Jazz Festival starts today with La Bottine Souriante!
The 2013 Empire Life Kingston Jazz Festival kicks off today with a concert held in co-operation with the Festival de la Francophonie. La Bottine Souriante take to the stage at 7:30. Join us at 6:30 for a pre-show concert by Ottawa's Craig Pedersen and Bean Trio!
If you're still hungry for more, Craig Jones will be leading the RCHA Jazz Jam from 8:30-12!
With a full brass section, accordions, strings and lots of foot-stomping, the frenetic energy of this legendary ensemble fuses traditional French folk music with salsa, jazz and its own salute to Québec. This show is great for audience members of all ages and is guaranteed to be a chance to celebrate the opening of the Kingston Jazz Festival with a kitchen dance party on the Grand stage.
La Bottine Souriante first appeared on the Québec music scene in 1976 and is a living legend of French North American roots music. In over twenty five years, this remarkable group has released twelve albums, four of which are certified Gold (meaning that over 50,000 copies have been sold) and three Platinum (over 100,000 sold). In 2001, they also released a musical anthology to celebrate their 25th anniversary.
Altogether, they have sold over half a million albums! The group has won dozens of awards and headlined festivals around the world. La Bottine Souriante is no longer simply a Québécois/Canadian musical phenomenon. The group and their explosive sound have crossed borders the world over and left in their wake countless enchanted audiences. The group has developed a distinctive sound that successfully allies its homage to tradition with a dash of jazz, salsa and pure folk, while at the same time perfectly representing the symbol of vitality and pride of its mother culture. In addition, the music identifies strongly with the current World Music movement.
La Bottine has developed an exceptionally tight, cohesive sound, with their unique flavour of celebratory music. These two elements, music and celebration, characterised by pulsating rhythm, breathtaking sound, and exuberant spirit, have been inseparable. And it is directly into this turbulent energy that La Bottine Souriante sweeps its rapturous public. It is no wonder that the US-based Dirty Linen magazine has proclaimed La Bottine "The best band in the world"!


The comedy club occupancy of Baltimore is an ever-shifting mosaic of mirth and misery, but right now Mobtown is riding high with three clubs, and Magooby's is clearly the cream of the crop. Located in a former dinner theater nestled between a post office and a shooting range, Magooby's is one of the best-looking comedy clubs in the nation, and they back it up with top touring comedians and a genuine commitment to local comics that had been sorely lacking in Baltimore's club scene. Magooby's may not be where comedy lives, but it is where comedy goes for a few hours to enjoy some wings.


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Celtics forward in court on domestic assault charges
Jared Sullinger charged with battery and witness intimidation
Updated: 11:45 AM EDT Sep 23, 2013
Jim Lokay
The attorney representing Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger says there have been "no issues" between his client and the woman he is accused of assaulting.Flanked by his client, who remained silent during a brief pre-trial hearing in Waltham District Court, Charles Rankin says Sullinger and his girlfriend, Deann Smith, have abided by a previous court order requiring a third party to be present when the two were in contact with each other.He also told a judge that he does not believe Smith will pursue any charges against Sullinger, claiming that while she has since moved back to Ohio, the two are attempting to reconcile their differences.Sullinger was charged on Sept. 3 in connection with the alleged incident at the home he and Smith shared in Waltham.The 21-year-old, who joined the Celtics last season, was accused of pinning Smith down during an altercation. Police were called to the home, but Sullinger had fled the scene.Sullinger pleaded not guilty to several charges, including battery and witness intimidation, and was freed on $5,000 bail.Sullinger will return to court on Oct. 28.
WALTHAM, Mass. —
The attorney representing Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger says there have been "no issues" between his client and the woman he is accused of assaulting.
Flanked by his client, who remained silent during a brief pre-trial hearing in Waltham District Court, Charles Rankin says Sullinger and his girlfriend, Deann Smith, have abided by a previous court order requiring a third party to be present when the two were in contact with each other.
He also told a judge that he does not believe Smith will pursue any charges against Sullinger, claiming that while she has since moved back to Ohio, the two are attempting to reconcile their differences.
Sullinger was charged on Sept. 3 in connection with the alleged incident at the home he and Smith shared in Waltham.
The 21-year-old, who joined the Celtics last season, was accused of pinning Smith down during an altercation. Police were called to the home, but Sullinger had fled the scene.
Sullinger pleaded not guilty to several charges, including battery and witness intimidation, and was freed on $5,000 bail.
Sullinger will return to court on Oct. 28.


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A defining aspect of The Community College Partnership Program is its active, coordinated and structured approach—a strategy that goes well beyond the typical articulation agreements between most community and four-year colleges. Students interested in the program are identified in their first-year and Dickinson staff, working with community college advisors and counselors, will ensure the selected students receive the support, coaching and course work needed to transfer and be successful at Dickinson. Potential matriculates must earn a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.25 and graduate with a transferable associate's degree to enable students to matriculate with junior status and complete a bachelor's of arts or sciences degree at Dickinson in two years.
Community College Partnership Program students will enter Dickinson as a group, a strategy that is similar to other cohort groups on campus. The idea is that students adjust and perform better when they have a built-in support system and all the members are going through a similar experience. While some transfers will take place this year, a distinctive feature of this program is the close working relationship of both institutions with select students.
As community colleges have developed selective honors programs, more students who would have previously begun at a four-year college are instead beginning their higher education at a community college. In the U.S., demographic changes forecast that over the next ten years community colleges will need to educate an increasing number of lower income, first generation and minority students. Those same demographic shifts will affect private four-year colleges, as these students are less likely to enroll at these institutions as first-year students.
In these challenging economic times, the partnership offers students a new approach to financing and completing their college education. The program introduces a new "tuition model" for higher education at a time when students and their families are particularly nervous about their ability to meet the cost of a college education—particularly at private, liberal-arts colleges. Financial incentives from Dickinson, in the form of a scholarships up to $25,000, plus other grants and financial aid to meet fully their demonstrated need so that tuition is neither an obstacle nor a deterrent.
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The Financial Advisers Disciplinary Committee (FADC) is an independent body established pursuant to section 103 of the Financial Advisers Act 2008 (the Act).
The FADC was established in December 2010 by the Minister of Commerce to conduct the disciplinary proceedings described above.
The Act sets out the functions of FADC and authorises it to determine its own procedures in order to meet its responsibilities and obligations under the Act.
to impose a range of penalties ranging from recommending to FMA that it cancel the AFAs authorisation to imposing a fine not exceeding $10,000 as a result of the disciplinary proceedings.
The Financial Advisers Act 2008 established the FADC. The FADC is made up of between four and six members.
Sir Bruce Robertson was appointed a High Court Judge in 1987, was President of the Law Commission from 2001 to 2005 and then sat on the Court of Appeal until he retired in 2010. Sir Bruce was the Chairman of the Rugby World Cup Authority and is now the Chairman of the Sports Tribunal. He continues a long involvement with the Pacific as President of the Courts of Appeal of Vanuatu and the Pitcairn Islands. He is also a Judge of the Qatar International Court and Disputes Resolution Centre.
Tracey Berry has over two decades of experience in financial services, specialising in wealth management, regulatory affairs, compliance and distribution. She is presently the Non-executive independent Director and Chair of Nikko Asset Management NZ, and Deputy Chief Executive of the Ara Institute of Canterbury. Tracey has also held the positions of General Manager Wealth and Insurance, and Group Manager at Kiwibank and Head of Wealth Management at Westpac NZ and Head of Private Bank at Bank of New Zealand. Tracey has a Post Graduate Diploma in Personal Financial Planning from Waikato University and holds the following designations: PFP, FFin, AFNZIM.
Geoff Clews is an Auckland Barrister, specialising in contentious tax and trust issues. He is also a professional trustee for several charities, and a company director. Geoff has studied and published expert commentary on the standards and processes to which professional investment stewards should aspire to under New Zealand law.
After a 28-year career as a financial adviser Simon Hassan stepped down from this role in September 2018. Over the years Simon was closely involved with the profession at many levels, both locally and internationally. He was a Fellow of and served two terms as President at the Institute of Financial Advisers (now Financial Advice NZ). Simon also lectured in financial advice at Massey University, and was closely involved with the lead up to financial adviser regulation in New Zealand. Currently independent Chair of Financial Advice NZ's Certification Committee, Simon provides consultancy services to professionals, firms, government agencies and education providers. Simon has an MA with First Class Honours, a postgraduate Diploma in Education, and a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Personal Financial Planning).
Peter Houghton has twenty years of experience in the finance industry in London. He moved to New Zealand from the United Kingdom in 2010, after spending nineteen years in the investment banking industry. The majority of Peter's career has focused on providing investment research to fund managers' globally. His last role was Global Head of Investment Research at Dresdner Kleinwort Investment Banking in the United Kingdom, prior to which he held a number of positions with J.P. Morgan.
David Macdonald was Auditor-General of New Zealand from 1995 to 2002. Prior to this appointment he was a partner in Deloitte, in Wellington from 1971 to 1989 and in London from 1990 to 1994. After serving his term as Auditor-General he joined Victoria University of Wellington as an Adjunct Professor from 2002 to 2010 teaching auditing and public sector financial management and exploring his particular interests in auditor independence and regulation, and accountability and transparency in the public and private sectors. David holds a Bachelor of Commerce, is a Life Member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and has been a member of the Institute's Disciplinary Tribunal since 2002.


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In one of the very last paragraphs penned by the Apostle Paul, he spoke of loving and anticipating the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 4:8). And this should cause each of us to ask ourselves the question, "Do I love His appearing"? "Do I really want to see Him?" And as we discuss and debate the fine points of the coming of Jesus at the Rapture event, we must not lose sight of this most important personal attitude.
In this article, we will finish this short series where we have been setting forth some of the key factors which point to the Rapture being before the start of the period of the Tribulation. So far we have presented four arguments: (1) the distinction that exists between the Church and the nation of Israel which moves us towards a pre-tribulational rapture; (2) the stated purposes for the Tribulation found in the Bible do not include the Church and this points to a pre-tribulational rapture; (3) the lack of evidence for the Church being in the Tribulation in the biblical tribulation passages and this supports a pre-tribulational position; and (4) the clear statement of scripture that the Church is excluded from the coming wrath of God which becomes a compelling support for the pre-tribulational rapture position. Several other evidences will now be presented as we wrap up our abbreviated discussion.
(5) The Concept of the "Imminent" Coming of Christ. The word "imminent" is not found in the Bible but has become the word to express the theological idea of the "any moment" coming of the Lord Jesus. The imminent coming simply means there are no signs or events that must take place before He could return and take His bride (the church) to be with Himself. The imminent coming of Jesus is not the same as saying the "soon coming" of Jesus. Though the return is imminent, it may or may not be soon (unless, of course, you have received some divine revelation on the matter). As the NT writers addressed the issue of Christ's return, they used terms that anticipated this as an any-moment event; that is, that no intervening events had to take place. So they encouraged readers to be watching and waiting for the Lord's return. They did not suggest they should be looking for an event or sign which might signal Christ's coming. We must remember that the Second Coming of Christ has the distinction of not being seen as imminent, since many signs such as the appearing of the Antichrist and the setting up of the "abomination of desolation" in a Jerusalem temple must first take place (cf. 2 Thess. 2:3-4; Matt. 24:15). But the Rapture is an imminent event and the Church is exhorted to look for the Lord's appearance and not for certain events or some particular signs.
Here are some scriptures, which when read normally, lead to the conclusion that the writers of the NT believed in an imminent coming of Jesus.
James 5:7-9. Believers are exhorted to live righteously because Judge Jesus is right at the door and could come through it at any time.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. Here believers are encouraged to patiently be waiting for Jesus, not for signs or events.
1 Corinthians 1:7. Paul praises these believers because they too were anticipating the coming of the Savior, not tribulation events.
1 Thessalonians 4:15. Paul clearly saw himself as alive at Jesus' coming which could happen at any time.
Titus 2:13. Again, believers are exhorted to be looking for the blessed hope, which is the glorious appearing of Christ and not the tribulation period.
1 Corinthians 16:22. The conclusion to this letter includes the use of "Maranatha" which conveys the hope that Jesus could return at any time.
Even more Scriptures suggest that the writers and recipients did anticipate an any-moment return of the Lord (e.g. Rom. 13:11-14; 1 Cor. 15:51-53; Phil. 4:5; and 1 John 2:28-3:3).
(6) The Distinction Between the Events of the Rapture and the Second Coming. There are, of course, some similarities between these two events since both focus on the same Person, Jesus, returning from the same place heaven to deal with the same subjects, namely, human beings. But similarities between two events does not mean that they are the same or that they take place at the same time. (e.g. hearing the national anthem while standing with a crowd of people in a stadium does not mean you are at opening day of the major league baseball season. There are countless events which could match this setting). Some of these distinctions are: (1) at the Rapture the saints meet Jesus in the air while at the 2nd Coming Jesus returns to the earth to the Mount of Olives; (2) There is an unmistakable element of judgment on unbelievers at the 2nd Coming but no such element at the Rapture; (3) There is no mention of the Messianic kingdom (the millennium) being set up in connected with the Rapture, but that is the main reason for the 2nd Coming; (4) At the Rapture both living saints and dead saints receive glorified bodies, but in 2nd Coming passages there is no reference to living believers being changed; (5) The Rapture occurs before the wrath of God is poured out while the 2nd Coming follows the time of wrath in the day of the Lord; (6) The Rapture has no signs that precede it while the 2nd Coming has dozens and dozens of signs and events; (7) At the Rapture, the Lord returns with His people to the "Father's house" while at the 2nd Coming He returns to the earth and stays there; and (8) At the Rapture all believers are removed from the world leaving just unbelievers, while at the 2nd Coming all unbelievers are removed in judgment leaving only believers in the world.
(7) An Interval is Needed Between the Rapture and the Second Coming to Allow for Three Key Events. This point is directed just to the post-tribulational/pre-millennial view since all other views have some amount of time between the Rapture and the Second Coming. Three events would require some element of time (and would not fit with rising to meet Christ in the air and immediately turning around and descending back to earth). These three events are: (1) the judgment seat of Christ; (2) the marriage of the Lamb; and (3) the salvation of people after the Rapture event who will then populated the earth during the Messianic kingdom.
The judgment seat of Christ will involve hundreds of millions of church age saints. If this time of the evaluation of all believers is to have meaning (not just to the individual but to all of creation) there must needs be time involved. God does not "need" time but He is here dealing with people for whom He created time, and time is significant to the creation.
The Messianic age begins with believers only. But if all believers are raptured and glorified at the 2nd Coming, then there would be no believers with non-glorified bodies left to enter the millennium. Such people are essential for reproduction of human life in the messianic age, since those in glorified bodies do not reproduce.
Those of us who hold to the Pre-tribulational rapture do so with some good, solid biblical and theological supports. This view is not wishful thinking. We can have confidence that when we approach the Scriptures and interpret them normally, as one would any literature, this position rests on a solid foundation. Yet, behind all the discussion lies the key question. "Do I really love His appearing?" This is the question every believer in Jesus Christ is obligated to ask no matter what theological view they take on the timing of the Rapture event.


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