A PERSON WHOSE SPIRIT is regenerated and within whom the Holy Spirit abides can still be fleshly for his spirit may yet be under the oppression of his soul or body. Some very definite actions are required if he is to become spiritual.
Generally speaking we will encounter at least two great perils in our life but are enabled to overcome not only the first but the second of them as well. These two perils with their corresponding triumphs are: that of remaining a perishing sinner or becoming a saved believer and that of continuing as a fleshly believer or developing into a spiritual one. As sinner-turned-believer is demonstrably realizable, so carnal-turned-spiritual is likewise attainable. The God Who can change a sinner into a Christian by giving him His life can equally transform the fleshly Christian into a spiritual one by giving him His life more abundantly. Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer. Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
The Spirit alone can render believers spiritual. It is His work to bring men into spirituality. In the arrangement of God's redemptive design the cross performs the negative work of destroying all which comes from Adam while the Holy Spirit executes the positive work of building all which comes from Christ. The cross makes spirituality possible to believers; but it is the Holy Spirit Who renders them spiritual. The meaning of being spiritual is to belong to the Holy Spirit. He strengthens with might the human spirit so as to govern the entire man. In our pursuit of spirituality, therefore, we must never forget the Holy Spirit. Yet we must not set aside the cross either, because the cross and the Spirit work hand in hand. The cross always guides men to the Holy Spirit, while the Latter without fail conducts men to the cross. These two never operate independently of each other. A spiritual Christian must experimentally know the Holy Spirit in his spirit. He must pass through several spiritual experiences. For the sake of clarity we shall discuss them in a somewhat sequential fashion, although in actual practice they frequently occur simultaneously.
Quite a few remarks will be made concerning how to be spiritual, but let us not forget what we have learned heretofore.* We should realize by now that what hinders one from being spiritual is the flesh. So if a person maintains a proper attitude towards it he shall encounter no difficulty in making progress. It is surprisingly true that the more spiritual one becomes the more he knows the flesh, because he increasingly discovers it. Had he not known it, how could he be spiritual? Hence we cannot neglect what has been discussed earlier concerning the flesh, since it serves as the basis for seeking spirituality. Unless there is this fundamental dealing with the flesh, whatever progress one may make shall inevitably be superficial, shallow, and unreal. But if one knows how to resist his flesh in all things—denying its activity, power, and opinion—he may be regarded as already spiritual. Nevertheless we would still like to cite some positive measures which are related directly to the spirit.
*See Part Two, Chapters 4 and 5, the latter Chapter particularly.
The salient implication of Hebrews 4.12 is whether we are living by intuitive guidance in the spirit or by the naturally good or bad influence of the soul. The Word of God must judge in this particular respect, for only God's sharp Sword can differentiate the source of our living. As a man's knife cuts and divides joints and marrow, so God's Sword too pierces and separates the most intimately linked spirit and soul. Initially such dividing may be simply a matter of knowledge, but it is essential that it enter the realm of experience; otherwise it shall in fact never be understood. Believers should allow the Lord to introduce this cleaving of spirit and soul into their practical walk. Not only must they seek it positively with consecration, prayer, and yieldedness to the operation of the Holy Spirit and the cross, but also they must actually possess such experience. Their spirit needs to be liberated from the soul's binding enclosure. These two must be parted cleanly even as the spirit and soul of the Lord Jesus were not one bit mixed. The intuitive spirit needs to be freed wholly from any influence which may come from soulical mind and emotion. The spirit must be the sole residence and office of the Holy Spirit. It must be released from every disturbance of the soul.
The various experiences of having his outer and inner man divided will make a believer spiritual. A spiritual believer differs from others for the simple reason that his entire being is governed by his spirit. Such spirit-control connotes more than the Holy Spirit's authority over the soul and body of man; it also signifies that man's own spirit, upon being elevated as head over the whole man through the working of the Holy Spirit and the cross, is no longer ruled by the soul and body but is powerful enough to subject them to its rule.
The division of these two organs is necessary for entering spiritual life. It is that preparation without which believers shall continue to be affected by the soul and hence shall always pursue a mixed course: sometimes walking according to the spirit life but at other times walking according to the natural life. Their pathway fails to be marked by purity, for both spirit and soul are their life principles. This mixture holds believers fast within a soulish framework which damages their walk as well as hinders the important work of the Spirit.
Were a believer's outer and inner life definitely separated so that he walks not according to the former but according to the latter, he would sense instantaneously any movement in his soul and immediately shake off its power and influence as though being defiled. Indeed, everything belonging to the soulish is defiled and can defile the spirit. But upon experiencing the partition of soul and spirit, the latter's intuitive power becomes most keen. As soon as the soul stirs, the spirit suffers and will resist right away. The spirit may even be grieved at the inordinate stirring of the soul in others. It will in fact repulse a person's soulish love or natural affection as something unbearable. Only after experiencing such separation do Christians come into possession of a genuine sense of cleanliness. They then know that not sin alone, but all which belongs to the soulish, is defiled and defiling and ought to be resisted. Nay, it is far more than simply knowing, for any contact with what is soulish—whether in themselves or in others—causes their intuitive spirit to feel defiled and to demand instant cleansing.
**Compare Part Three, Chapter 5.
In his first Corinthian letter, Paul informed his readers that whoever "is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him" (6.17). And note that he did not say, "one soul with him." The risen Lord is the life-giving Spirit (15.45). His union with the believer is therefore a union with the believer's spirit. The soul, the seat of man's personality, belongs to the natural. All it can and is to be is a vessel for expressing the fruit of the union between the Lord and the believer's inner man. Nothing in his soul partakes of the Lord's life; it is solely in the spirit that such a union is effected. The union is one of spirits with no place for the natural. Should it be mixed in with the spirit it will cause impurity to the union of spirits. Any action taken according to our thought, opinion or feeling can weaken the experimental side of this union. Things of the same nature unite perfectly. Inasmuch as the spirit of the Lord is pure, ours likewise needs to be as pure in order to be united truly with Him. If a believer clings to his own wonderful ideas and is unwilling to lay aside his preference and opinion, his union with the Lord will not be expressed in experience. The union of spirits permits no adulteration from anything soulish.
Wherein lies this union? It is in identification with Christ in His death and resurrection. "If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his" (Rom. 6.5). This verse explains our union with the Lord as one of being united with His death and resurrection. This simply indicates we are completely one with Him. By accepting His death as our death we enter into this union with the Lord. By additionally accepting His resurrection we who have died with Him shall be resurrected as well. Through faith's acceptance of His resurrection we shall stand experientially in the place of resurrection. Because the Lord Jesus was raised from the dead according to the Spirit of holiness (Rom. 1.4) and was made alive in the spirit (1 Peter 3.18), we too, when united with Him in resurrection, actually are united with Him in His resurrected Spirit. Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.* Once identified with His death, we lose the sinful and the natural in us; once identified with His resurrection, we are united with His resurrection life. Thus our inner being which is now united with the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. "You have died . . . through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead . . ., so that we serve . . . in the new life of the Spirit" (Rom. 7.4,6). Through Christ's death we are joined to Christ, even in His resurrected life. Such union enables us to serve in the new life of the Spirit, free from any adulteration.
*See Part Three, Chapter l, on the two essentials for deliverance from sin.
How marvelous is the cross! It is the foundation for everything spiritual. The purpose and end of its working is to unite the believer's spirit with the resurrected Lord into one spirit. The cross must go deeply to rid him of the sinful and the natural within him that he may be joined to the positive resurrection life of the Lord and thus become one spirit with Him. A believer's spirit, together with all which is natural and transient in him, needs to pass through death so that it may be purified and then united to become one spirit with the Lord in the freshness and purity of resurrection. Spirit is joined with Spirit to become one spirit. And the outcome will be: to serve the Lord in "newness of spirit" (Rom. 7.6 Darby). What is of the natural, of self, and of animal activities has no more place in the believer's walk and labor. Both the soul and the body may then but exhibit the purpose, work, and life of the Lord. The Spirit life leaves its imprint on everything, and everything speaks of the out-flowing of the Spirit of the Lord.
This is ascension life. The believer is joined to the Lord Who sits at the right hand of God. The Spirit of the enthroned Lord flows into the spirit of the believer, who is on the earth yet not of the world; the enthroned life is accordingly lived out upon the earth. The Head and the body share the same life. With such a union He is able to pour forth the power of His life through the believer's spirit. As a tube which is connected to a fountain is able to convey living water, so too the believer's spirit which is united with the Spirit of the Lord is capable of transmitting life. The Lord is not just the Spirit; He is the life-giving Spirit as well. When our spirit is joined intimately with the life-giving Spirit, it is filled with life; and nothing can limit that life. How we need to have this in our spirit that we may triumph continually in our daily walk. Such a union clothes us with the victory of the Lord Jesus. It gives us the knowledge of His will and mind. It builds and expands the new creation within us by the rich inflow of the Lord's vitality and nature. Through death and resurrection our spirit ascends-even as the Lord has ascended on high—and experiences "the heavenly places," having trodden all that is earthly underfoot. Our inner being is in ascendancy, far above any obstacle or disturbance. Yes, it is continually free and fresh and discerns everything with the transparent sight of heaven. How radically different this life of heaven on earth is from one that is swayed by emotion. The former kind displays heavenly nature and is persistently spiritual.
God's children already have the Holy Spirit abiding in them, but they may not recognize Him or obey Him. They need to do so completely. They must realize that this indwelling presence is a Person, One Who teaches, guides, and communicates the reality of Christ to them. Until they are willing to acknowledge the foolishness and dullness of their soul and are ready to be taught, they block the way of this Person. It is necessary for them to let Him regulate everything so as to reveal the truth. Except they know in the depth of their being that God's Holy Spirit is indwelling them and unless with their spirit they wait for His teaching, they will not welcome His operation upon their soul life. Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest. We know He verily abides in us when we understand that our spirit, which is deeper than thought and emotion, is God's Holy of Holies by which we commune with the Holy Spirit and in which we wait for His communication. As we acknowledge Him and respect Him, He manifests His power out from the hidden part of our being by extending His life to our soulical and conscious life.
The Christians at Corinth were of the flesh. In exhorting them to depart from their carnal state, Paul repeatedly reminded them of the fact that they were God's temple and that the Holy Spirit lived in them. Knowing He indwells them helps Christians to overcome their carnal condition. They must know and understand perfectly by faith that He abides in them. Christians should not be content merely with knowing mentally the doctrine of the Holy Spirit as given in the Bible; they also need to know Him experimentally. They will then commit themselves without reservation to Him for renewal and submit every part of their soul and body to His correction.
The Apostle put to those at Corinth this question: "Do you not know that God's Spirit dwells in you?" (1 Cor. 3.16) Paul seemed to be surprised at their ignorance of such a sure fact. He viewed the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as the foremost consequence of salvation, so how could they miss it? However low a Christian's spiritual measure may be, even as low as that of those Christians at Corinth (alas, many probably do not rise higher than that), he nevertheless ought to be clear on this fact without which he shall long remain carnal and never become spiritual. Even if you have not yet experienced His indwelling, could you not at least believe he does abide in you?
Can we refrain from worship, respect, and praise when we consider how the Holy Spirit—Who is God Himself, One of the three Persons in the Triune God, the very life of the Father and the Son—comes to live in us who belong to the flesh? What grace for the Holy Spirit to dwell in the likeness of sinful flesh just as the Lord Jesus once took upon Himself the same likeness!
In order for man's innermost organ to gain dominion over the soul and the body and thus serve as channel for the life of the Spirit to be transmitted to others, there must be His strengthening. Paul prays for believers "that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man" (Eph. 3.16). He so prays because he considers it infinitely important. He asks God to strengthen by His Spirit their "inner man," which is the new man in them after they have trusted in the Lord. Therefore the prayer is that the believer's spirit may be strengthened by God's Spirit.
From this we may deduce that the spirits of some saints are weak while those of others are strong. Whether they are potent or impotent depends upon whether or not they have received His strengthening. Since those at Ephesus had been sealed already with the Holy Spirit (1.13-14), the Apostle's prayer for them must be concerned with a gift other than His indwelling. His prayer indicates they must have not only the Holy Spirit indwelling them but also have His special power inundating their spirit so as to render their inner man strong. It is possible for us to possess a weak spirit although having God indwelling us.
To be filled with might in the inner man is the urgent need of Christians. However, unless they appreciate how feeble theirs is they will not ask for the invigoration of the Holy Spirit. Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. Such phenomena betray the weakness of the spirit in its dominion over feeling and the physical body. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26.41). Willingness by itself is not sufficient; the spirit also must be strong. If it is sturdy it can overcome the infirmity of the flesh. Why do believers sometimes find themselves dragging and failing while laboring for souls? Lack of power in their spirit is the explanation. The same holds true in the case of environment. How easily we are affected by the confusion of the outside world. Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest. Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying. A vigorous spirit can move forward in the midst of adverse environment or feeling, but a frail one is impotent to stand against opposition. Great is the need of power in the spirit for spiritual warfare with Satan. Only those who have might in the inner man understand how to exercise their spiritual strength in resisting and attacking the enemy. Otherwise the battle will be make-believe, fought in the imagination of the mind or the excitement of the emotion, and perhaps fought with the weapons of flesh and blood.
In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power. Without delay God will answer the expectation of their heart, once all obstacles on their part are removed. Believers do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit's filling, because He has descended already. What they need only wait for is for themselves to fulfill the condition for His filling, which is, they must let the cross perform a deeper incision upon them. Should they be faithful in believing and obeying, then within a very short time the power of the Holy Spirit will saturate their spirit and strengthen their inner man for living and for laboring. Some may receive His filling immediately upon once surrendering themselves to the Lord, for they already have met the conditions for such filling.
This invasion of God's power in us, this infilling of His Spirit, happens in the human spirit. It is the inner and not the outer man which is activated by His power and thence becomes strong. This is most important to recognize, for it helps us to exercise simple faith in our desire for the filling of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 3.14), rather than to anticipate some bodily sensations such as a shaking, a jerking, or a hurling to the ground. Yet Christians need to be watchful lest they use faith as an excuse for not experiencing the empowering of the Holy Spirit. The conditions for filling must be accomplished and the attitude of believers must be firm. God will fulfill His promise.
By reading what the Apostle affirms in the succeeding verses in Ephesians 3 about apprehending, knowing, and filling, we are certain this strengthening with might in the inner man renders it highly sensitive. Like the body, the spirit has its functions and consciousness. Prior to the mighty inflow of the Holy Spirit's power into their spirit, believers scarcely can detect its intuitive power; but afterwards its intuitive force becomes most distinctive and hence readily discovered. As the inner man is energized, its intuitive power is increased. Believers are able to sense its slightest movement.
The effect of having the spirit filled with God's power is to afford it full sway over the soul and the body. Every thought, desire, sensation and intent is now governed by the spirit. The soul can no longer act independently: it becomes instead the spirit's steward. Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling of the Holy Spirit differs from the baptism with the Holy Spirit, because the latter is for the purpose of service while the former solves the problem of life (naturally it will affect service too).
Transformation from soulish to spiritual does not guarantee that believers never again will walk according to the flesh. On the contrary, an ever present danger exists of falling back into it. Satan is constantly alert to seize every opportunity to cause them to plunge from their lofty position to a life below par. It is therefore highly necessary for God's children to be watchful at all times and to follow the Spirit so that they may remain spiritual.
To live by the spirit means to walk according to intuition. It is to have all one's life, service, and action in the spirit, ever being governed and empowered by it. This preserves the saint in life and peace. Since he cannot remain in a spiritual state unless he walks according to the spirit, then at the very least the saint must understand its various functions and laws if he is to walk well.
To live after the spirit is the Christian's daily task. He ought to perceive that we can live neither by the noblest of feelings nor by the loftiest of thoughts. We must walk according to the guidance accorded us through our intuition. The Holy Spirit expresses His feeling through our spirit's delicate sense. He does not operate directly on our minds, suddenly inducing us to think of something. All His works are done in our innermost depths. If we desire to know His mind we should conduct ourselves in accordance with the intuition of our spirit. At times, however, we may sense something there without comprehending what it means, what it demands, or what it is communicating. Whenever this happens, we must commit ourselves to prayer, asking that our mind may be given understanding. Once we apprehend the meaning of what we have sensed intuitively, we thereafter should behave accordingly. The mind can instantly be enlightened and made to understand the meaning of intuition; but abrupt thoughts which originate with the mind void of intuition ought not to be followed. Solely intuitive teaching represents the Spirit's thought. Only this should we follow.
Such a walk by the spirit requires reliance and faith. We have seen before how all good actions of the flesh exhibit an attitude of independence towards God. The very nature of the soul is independency. Should believers act in accordance with their thought, feeling and desire, they have no need to spend time before God, to wait for His guidance. Those who follow "the desires of body and mind" (Eph. 2.3) need not rely upon God. Except Christians realize how useless, how undependable, and how utterly weak they are in seeking to know the will of God, they shall never cultivate a heart of reliance upon Him. To receive God's guidance in their spirit they must wait upon Him therewith; they must refrain from taking their feeling or thought as a guide. Let us remember that whatever we do or can do without trusting, seeking, and waiting upon God is or will be done in the flesh. With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
To walk in this fashion requires faith of the believer. The opposite of sight and feeling is faith. Now it is the soulish person who gains assurance by grasping the things which can be seen and felt; but the person who follows the spirit lives by faith, not by sight. He will not be troubled by the lack of human assistance, nor will he be moved by human opposition. He can trust God even in utter darkness for he has faith in God. Because he does not depend upon himself, he can trust the unseen power more than his own visible power.
Walking after the spirit involves both the initiation of a work by revelation and execution of it through the Lord's strength. Frequently believers beseech God for spiritual power to do a work which has not been revealed at all in their intuition. This is simply impossible, for what is of the flesh is flesh. On the other hand believers frequently know the will of God through revelation in their intuition but bring their own strength to the work to perform it.* This likewise is impossible, for how can they begin with the Holy Spirit and end up with the flesh? Those who follow the Lord must be brought to the place of no confidence in the flesh. They must confess they can originate no good idea and must admit they possess no power to fulfill the Holy Spirit's work. All thought, cleverness, knowledge, talent and gift—which the world superstitiously worships—must be set aside in order to enable one to trust the Lord wholly. The Lord's people should persistently acknowledge their own unworthiness and incompetency. They dare not initiate anything before receiving God's order nor attempt to execute God's command in self-reliance.
*See Part Two, Chapter 4.
Our aim is to be a spiritual man but not a spirit. If we recognize this distinction our lives shall never be cut and dried. We today are human beings and shall be so eternally, yet the highest achievement of a human being is to develop into a spiritual man. The angels are spirits; they have neither body nor soul. But we humans possess both. We are to be spiritual men and not spirits. The spiritual man shall continue to retain his soul and body; otherwise, he would be reduced to being a spirit instead of a man. No, what is meant by being a spiritual man is that he is under the control of his spirit which has become the highest organ of his whole person. Let us not be mistaken on this point. A spiritual man retains his soul and body; being spiritual does not annihilate these organs nor their respective functions, because these make man what he is. So although the spiritual man does not live by them, he certainly has not annihilated them either. They instead have been renewed through death and resurrection so that they are perfectly united to the spirit and have become instruments for its expression. Hence the emotion, mind and will remain in a spiritual man but are subject entirely to the guidance of the intuition.
The emotion of a spiritual man is completely under his spirit's regulation, no longer asserting an independent course as it once did. It does not block the spirit nor resist its move because it does not insist upon its own affection and feeling. The emotion now rejoices solely in what the spirit likes, loves only what the spirit directs, feels merely what the spirit permits. It has become its life: when the spirit stirs, emotion responds.
The mind of the spiritual man likewise cooperates with the spirit, wandering no more as in the past. It does not object to the spirit's revelation by raising its reason and argument, neither does it disturb the peace of the spirit with many confused thoughts, nor does it rebel against the spirit by boasting in its own wisdom. Quite the reverse, the mind cooperates fully with the intuition in advancing on the spiritual journey. If the spirit unfolds any revelation the mind discerns its meaning. It will assist the spirit to fight should the latter plunge into warfare. If the Holy Spirit desires to teach any truth, the mind will help the spirit to understand. The latter, though, has the authority to stop the mind's thinking as well as to initiate it.
The spiritual man also retains his will, yet it too is no longer independent of God but now decides according to the dictate of the spirit, having abandoned self as its center. The will does not insist upon its desire as before. It consequently is fit to obey God. No more is it hard and stiff but is completely broken; hence it cannot resist God or strive against Him. It has been tamed of its wild nature. Today when the spirit receives revelation and apprehends God's wish, the will decides to follow. It stands at the spirit's door like a courier, awaiting its every command.
The body of a spiritual man is subjected to the spirit as well. Because it has been cleansed by the precious blood and has had its passions and lusts dealt with by the cross, it can serve today as an obedient servant to the spirit's order as that order is communicated to the body from the spirit through the soul. By no means does it entice the soul into many sins by its passions and lusts as it formerly did. Instead the body now answers swiftly all the spirit's directions. The latter through the renewed will has complete authority over the body. Gone are the days when the body pressed a weak inner man. The spirit of a spiritual man has grown strong and the body is under its power.
(1) He has God dwelling in his spirit, sanctifying him totally. Its life inundates his entire person so that his every component lives by the spirit life and functions in the spirit's strength.
(2) He does not live by soul life. His every thought, imagination, feeling, idea, affection, desire and opinion is renewed and purified by the Spirit and has been brought into subjection to his spirit. These no longer operate independently.
(3) He still possesses a body, for he is not a disembodied spirit; yet physical weariness, pain, and demand do not impel the spirit to topple from its ascended position. Every member of the body has become an instrument of righteousness.
To conclude, then, a spiritual man is one who belongs to the spirit: the whole man is governed by the inner man: all the organs of his being are subject completely to it. His spirit is what stamps his life as unique—everything proceeds from his spirit, while he himself renders absolute allegiance to it. No word does he speak nor act does he perform according to himself; rather does he deny his natural power each time in order to draw power from the spirit. In a word, a spiritual man lives by the spirit.


Har din Google Navigator slutat fungera?
Den senaste uppdateringen till Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.2 i kombination med senaste maps medförde också att många fick problem med Google Navigate.
Anledningen är en uppdatering av Android TTS (Text To Speech) och om man går in i menyn i telefonen och återställer språket till Engelska i stället för Spanska så fungerar det utmärkt igen.
Tryck på inställningsknappen bredvid "Google TTS Engine", välj sedan "språk" och till sist "Engelska (USA)".
Nu fungerar Google Navigate utmärkt igen.
I have for a long time looked for the perfect To-Do application. I have looked at very complex software on the Android platform such as Astrid, I have looked at some of the more simple ones such as Taskos but I have in time stopped using them one by one.
The reason is that they are not working with me, they are working against me. I used to love Remember The Milk but when I got the smartphone app it started dwindle. It just gets too fiddlesome and after a while I stop maintaining the database and then I might just as well do with good old pen and paper.
Until a couple of weeks ago when I found the perfect to-do manager that works as my brain works. I have now tried it out for a while and I am really happy with it. So happy I want to share my joy with you!
I have tried to follow the Getting Things Done scheme of things, different focus and various perspectives, never felt very natural to me. I have a more geometric kind of memory, i have no problem remembering numbers, figures and symbols, I also know roughly in which pile I have put something. Even if my home folder looks disorganised I know how to find my stuff pretty quickly. But the Getting Things Done (GTD) scheme just clashes with my frontal neo-cortex somewhere.
Enter the fantastic "Do it (Tomorrow)". It's so simple it is brilliant. You have a notebook like app in your phone (and on the web) which has two pages. It has a page for TODAY and a page for TOMORROW. Everything you want to do today you put on the TODAY page and everything else on the TOMORROW.
Every morning all tasks ends up on your TODAY page and you quickly dismiss all you can not do today, all you do not want to do today, and those that you think you won't have time for by pressing the right hand arrow and they just whiff off to the TOMORROW page. What is left is your todays task list.
As the day progresses you probably find new stuff you need to add. Make a decision, either put it on todays list if you seriously think you will handle it today or put it on the TOMORROW page if you want to do it tomorrow (or later).
It wors brilliant because this is exactly how my brain organises tasks naturally. It has pretty much two compartments for not finished tasks and they are "now" and "later" which corresponds pretty well to the TODAY and TOMORROW pages.
I have also realised I put far too many tasks in the GTD schemes and similar, it's no use. Things that ought to be completed in november should not be in your task book in June. Just let it mature for a while. Maybe in October it is a candidate. But keep it simple, that really works – for me at least.
The android, iPhone and web versions can be synced. Just input your email address and a password of your choosing (does not have to be the same as your webmail password mind you) then it will synchronize automatically across platforms.
On the smartphone app you switch between TODAY and TOMORROW by swiping. Moving a task from one page to the other is done by touching the arrow pointing to the opposite side. You can also arrange the order and delete them completely, just touch the EDIT button first and you will see how you accomplis that.
To tick of a task when it is done, simply touch it. A pencil-line crosses it out and you are done. The next morning it is gone if you ticked it done on the TODAY page, if you ticked it on the TOMORROW page it will be moved, already ticked off, to your TODAY page and sit there for a day. Quite simple.
Find their home page now or if you have an Android phone you can download it form Market immediately. iPhone users find it in the app store or from the home page on the web first.
This is so cool it is almost insane! And this will definitely increase the usefulness of an already extremely useful device beyond what anyone can dream of today.
The new Android API, primarily for tablets (let's hope it will be used on smartphone devices soon as well) means it will be much simpler for hardware manufacturers to connect peripherals to your Android device.
The API allows any device with host USB functionality to connect to a multitude of USB devices and interact with many different kinds of devices from music devices, exercise equipment, input devices such as joysticks, standard USB keyboard… you can almost find no end to the stuff that you could potenmtially hook up to your android.
Most users of their smart phones have realized that althought the phone can do a lot, battery time is definitely a problem once you start using it streaming music with Spotify, surfing, watching movies on youtube and so on. The reason is that the processor needed to run these applications needs to be quite spiffy and being spiffy means it will use a lot of power.
Since there is a limit to the size of most phones, there is a limit to the battery size that can be used and so the phones with the fanciest processors are left with low battery times – unless you keep them in standby most of the time but then they are not so bad and might last a couple of days actually.
But what is the fun in that, you bought the phone to use it so you want to use it but you still wish you could avoid depleting the battery before that important call comes through. Or what if your youtube watching escapades drained the battery just before you really needed google maps to find the address in the old town you where looking for?
There is a solution for that and this is to get a secondary power source. There are plenty of different versions out there, some with solar panels that claim to charge themselves in the sun light and then you can connect your phone to them to charge the phone. They also have an internal battery so you can let them drink the sunlight in the day time and charge its internal battery, then later connect your phone to charge it. However I have tested two different brands of these and it does not really works.
So unless you live in a country with a scorching sunlight, just avoid the solar charged power packs. What you want is something that can be charged in the car, from the computer or from a wall socket and carries enough of amps to charge your phone at least twice.
A lot of the modern phones can be charged on the USB port of an ordinary computer. This is good because it means we are finally seeing some kind of standard for charging small appliances such as MP3 players, phones and even camera batteries. So a power pack should have a USB port or perhaps 2 even.
The site is in Swedish but the facts for this power pack are: 2xUSB ports that can do up to 500 mA (which is standard USB current) each. The pack contains 5000 mAh (or 5 Ah if you want) which is more than twice that of my phone pack which also has a lower voltage. I should be able to get 2-3 charges out of this pack and now that I have tested it for about a month I am really happy with it.
It is small enough to fit in my pocket, only thing I need to take with me is a USB cable to charge the power pack or the phone as I want. I usually charge it from a USB wall socket charger and then just use the standard data cable for the phone.
The powerpack can be charging at the same time as you put 2 more appliances to charge from it. This is really good cause you can thus use it to charge your phone while at the same time you charge the power pack.
I found more or less by mistake how to make a screen capture on the Galaxy S Android mobile. Other such instructiond requires the installation of an SDK or similar but this anyone can do really.
Go to the screen you wish to capture. Then press and hold the back/return button for a couple of seconds and then hit the middle button. A camera shutter sound is played and the image is captured.
From Jonas comment below I would conclude this is a Galaxy S specific feature that is not android 2.2 common unfortunately.
All of us who like the Android and writes about specific software on the android would love to have this feature implemented so I will suggest it to Google and see what happens in the coming versions on Android.


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We are a small and ambitious team, each contributing to winning the fight to ending malaria, saving millions of lives and eradicating the poverty that this disease causes to so many. During our ten year existence UK government malaria investment has trebled; last year we convened the Malaria Summit, reaching over one billion people with our 'Malaria Must Die' campaign, delivering $4.1 billion of investment to the global fight from governments and the private sector, and a momentous commitment from 53 leaders to halve malaria in five years.
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Latest Workout: Hot Yoga. I mean…it's cardio, strength conditioning and stretching all combined into one! And my fave new thing to bring to class is this snazzy yoga towel by bestie gave me in a gift basket as my 'something blue' the morning of the wedding!
Latest Music: Aka: Songs I have on repeat RIGHT NOW.
Latest Show: Weeds (still) We're up to Season 7, Episode 10. I'm dreading when it's over because I am addicted to that weedy goodness.
Latest Lulu Buy: Track Attack Shorts. Gave them the ol' test run yesterday when I did a 6km walk through Fish Creek Provincial Park yesterday, and I gotta say I really liked them. I'm not really a short person…ESPECIALLY when I'm working out…but I found that the length was pretty good and the waistband stayed put.
Latest Deal: Well, I DID get a pretty sweet J.Crew dress last weekend (originally $59 marked down to $9) but my LATEST deal was a groupon for The Clayground (pottery painting studio). A few weeks back, my friend Mackenzie and I attempted to meet up at a particular studio but found the prices to be WAY too high. I saw this groupon yesterday morning, so we both quickly bought one. Hello, cake stand, I'm coming to paint you!!!
Latest WANT: Ray Ban Aviators with mirrored pink lenses. Can't find them on the Canada website (go figure) but they're on the US website! Feel free to send me a pair.
That's about it for now, tell me some of your latests!!
When you finish weeds, you should watch orange is the new black on Netflix! Same creator as weeds and a similar feel! I love it so far!
Already watched the whole season!!
Is your dress (beer pic) from the GAP?
I really need to hop-on the hot yoga bandwagon, everyone raves about it! And I feel sad for you about the Ray-Ban's, I couldn't live without mine!
I'm drinking a Summer Weizen right now! I went to a couple craft beer festivals last year and I have to admit, I'm slowly starting to like beer. It's just tough to find one that doesn't taste gross/inflicts a headache.
I think it's safe to say that I love beer. But only because I have been to so many craft breweries that I've really acquired the taste!


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The Akrapovič Slip-On Line system is the first step in exhaust tuning. Crafted from high-grade titanium, which considerably reduces the weight in comparison to the stock system, it has been perfectly designed to fit directly onto the existing link pipes. The system increases power, provides better throttle response, and improves torque, and also conjures up an amazing sound from the naturally-aspirated V8 engine. The Slip-On Line system has two valves. The system maintaines the valve regulation of the NPP (Performance exhaust) system and is developed to be compatible with the car's drive mode selector, and Akrapovič engineers have developed an electronic device to drive the exhaust valves for each mode—Weather, Eco, Tour, Sport, and Track—giving the driver an even greater opportunity to enjoy the sound of the Akrapovič Slip-On Line across the whole spectrum of the car's performance. It's topped off by four large-diameter carbon fibre tailpipes with titanium inners, to make the Slip-On clearly recognizable as an exhaust that means business.
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Raja Ampat and Beginner Divers
For diving enthusiasts, it seems that Raja Ampat Regency, West Papua is one of the areas that must be visited. There are more than 76 diving spots, which can be enjoyed with various characteristics. Beside the beautiful sea, Raja Ampat is also known to have strong ocean currents. So divers really need to pay attention to the location and the weather that often changes.
One of Raja Ampat's senior guides, who had also been part of Conservation International (CI) for 17 years, Husen said there were several dive spots that were friendly to beginners. Usually these points are also used to teach tourists who are not licensed to dive.
Arborek One of the best underwater islands has many school fishes. No wonder foreign and local tourists choose this island to become a mandatory destination for Raja Ampat. For beginner divers, this island has a small portion of safe locations to study. Because it has a gradual depth and is relatively safe from large currents. "Because there we can gradually drop two, three, four meters to 15 meters to learn.
Yenbuba In Yenbuba village which is included in the District of Meos Mansar, Mansuar Island, Raja Ampat Regency is also one of the favorite diving spots. The clear sea and diverse fish are its advantages. The divers of foreign tourists diving at the Yenbuba Tourism Village spot, on Manswar Island, Raja Ampat, West Papua. The clear sea, rich biota, and still well-maintained make it one of the favorite diving spots in Raja Ampat. On this island there is also a gradual depth for diving learning. Besides that, you don't need to swim far to see beautiful coral and fish. Enough on the dock, you can already be amazed by the beauty of the marine biota. "Don't go in there (Yenbuba) when the new water recedes and the water just installs. Because if you just want to recede, the flow will come out very fast, and when you plug it in, the current will be very fast,"
However, for beginners who want to learn diving, they should find a special dive center that has the program. In this special program you will be given training and material several times, before being invited to diving.
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Eight Species of Birds of Paradise That Raja Ampat Has
In Raja Ampat there are eight species of bird of paradise that can be enjoyed by tourists who visit.
Eight species of bird of paradise that are recorded in the Raja Ampat Islands are red sandalwood or with the Latin name Pradisaea rubra, bald cenderawasih (Respublica diphyllodes), small cenderawasih (Paradisaea minor). Then, rattan defender tendon (Diphyllodes magnificus), king's cenderawasih (Cicinnurus regius), wire-bred dead (Seleucidis melanoleuca), curly neck manokodia, and glossy manocodia.
BPPT Supports Raja Ampat in Many Aspects
Doberai Private Island – Raja Ampat Eco Resort
The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) is working with the Raja Ampat Regency Government, West Papua, to develop in the tourism, technology and innovation sectors, and fisheries.
Head of BPPT Unggul Priyanto explained that the potential of natural resources in Raja Ampat Regency is very large and has a strategic geographical location.
Thus, a good physical and non-physical infrastructure is needed to develop the place into a tourism area, technology development and innovation, and fisheries.
"The technology developed supports national priority programs, which are contained in the Medium-Term Development Plan for 2015-2019," said Superior in a press release received by Business on Wednesday (2/14/2018).
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PROUDLY PRESENTING THE NEW GORGEOUS BEACH IN RAJA AMPAT DOBERAI ECO RESORT
As number of guest staying in Raja Ampat Doberai Eco Resort (Raja Ampat Resort) is increasing rapidly for the last one year, we perceive the need to expand our "playground" that consist of beach, dive spot, camping ground and trekking area in and adjacent Urai island.
Urai island, the 70 ha natural beautiful island where we are located, has many gorgeous white sand beaches around it, and one of them we name it JB's Park. The beach actually one of the house-reed in our Raja Ampat Resort. The dive spot is known to be abundant with soft coral, hard coral, nudies, macros, sea turtle and pigmy.
JB's Park beach is simply natural and sexy beach. Just like any other enticing beaches in tropical countries, JB's Park is "equipped" with clear white sand, crystal shallow water, pretty coconut trees, shady green trees, beautiful coral reef and privacy. We put privacy as one of the criteria to be an ideal beach. This is in line with the concept of our Raja Ampat Resort, which is to provide the "play ground" as privacy as possible for the guest. We guaranty that the guest and his/her spouse or partner would literally be alone.
Based on the natural condition, inputs from guest and our consultant, we have decided that the beach is highly ideal to be a camping ground in our Raja Ampat Resort. The camping ground is specifically needed by canoe riders, guest who area crazy about beach but want to stay in completely empty beach, guest who just want to be alone in a sexy empty tropical beach.
Canoe riders in Raja Ampat are guest who explore and enjoy 1,500 island of Raja Ampat, that's why it is classified as archipelago, by riding canoe. The riders row their canoe in 10 up to 20 people in a group. The riders usually could be strong enough to row their canoe for a month in one time visit to Raja Ampat. They stay in a different island for almost every night. That is why they need JB's Park.
Even though the riders are usually equipped by state of the art canoe, that can carry every items needed for survival in a wild mother nature such as tent, food, mini cooker, first aid medical treatment etc, but based on request we still provide them with complete support that could allow them to relax, enjoy, and regain their energy to continue their exciting but challenging canoe riding in Raja Ampat.
RAJA AMPAT DIVING
Diving in Raja Ampat is the best diving in the world. It has the world's most biodiversity marine region with more species of fish, coral, and mollusk than anywhere else. The enormous number of species can be staggering. Some areas have large group of manta rays, turtle, school of fish and regular sighting of shark.
Definitely Doberai Eco Resort provides varieties of packages or customized packaged for diving. However, Doberai Eco Resort sets a standardized packaged that includes diving in it. See packaged.
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Improving our services and at the same time promoting the new dive spots in Raja Ampat, we, Doberai Eco Resort |Raja Ampat Resort, again, proudly introducing the Doberai Eco Resort house reefs. the dive spots that never been explored before.
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The number of existing and upcoming Bitcoin hard forks continues to grow at an alarming rate. In fact, it seems the next fork is always just around the corner. Bitcoin Private, for example, is one of those upcoming forks, but these tokens will not be issued to BTC holders. That in itself is a rather remarkable decision. Whether or not anyone will care about this fork remains to be determined, though.
It is evident that Bitcoin lacks privacy and anonymity traits. Although some government officials like to label Bitcoin as anonymous, it is anything but. Instead, users achieve some degree of pseudonymity when using the world's leading cryptocurrency, but that is far from the same as anonymity. Adding more privacy-centric elements to Bitcoin is certainly possible, although it will not be easy whatsoever. Various developers are contemplating borrowing elements from Monero to achieve that goal in the future, though.
Until that happens, we will most likely see more hard forks which offer some privacy upgrades. Bitcoin Private is a perfect example of how things will most likely evolve in this regard. It is a brand new Bitcoin hard fork which uses the same privacy technology as is found in ZClassic these days. More specifically, the fork will use zk-snarks to achieve privacy, even though it still comes nowhere close to actually being a privacy-oriented currency. Optional privacy is good, but some people will look for something more than that.
Additionally, Bitcoin Private will serve as a peer-to-peer form of digital money in which no intermediaries are involved. Transactions will be broadcast and verified by nodes before they are passed along to miners for final approval. There will be a slightly bigger block size compared to Bitcoin, which will be of some interest to users all over the world. After all, Bitcoin has major scaling issues, and they won't be resolved overnight without some major shakeups.
What is rather remarkable about the Bitcoin Private fork is how the new BTCP tokens will not be issued to Bitcoin users themselves. Instead, this airdrop will occur on a 1:1 basis with Bitcoin Cash and ZClassic holders. It is a rather interesting approach, although it remains to be seen if this will give the project more legitimacy in the long run. So far, there is no official whitepaper providing further specifics, which means there's plenty of room for speculation.
As is usually the case when a new fork is announced, no exchange has officially confirmed support for it as of yet. That is not unusual, mind you, as there are still a lot of aspects of this new fork which have yet to be clarified. Whether or not any major exchanges will support this airdrop moving forward remains to be seen. Other forks have been called off due to a lack of exchange support in recent weeks.
Although its website claims there is a team of 50-ish contributors on the project, there are still some issues to be resolved on GitHub. For example, it is unclear if there will be hardware wallet support, a proper wallet, proper mining difficulty adjustments, and so forth. All of these issues can be resolved over time, as there is no official launch date set for this fork just yet. It is unclear if this fork uses Bitcoin Cash's new CashAddr address format or sticks with the traditional Bitcoin address model.


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I Want My Ex Girlfriend Back! How Can I Get My Ex Girlfriend Back?
Men are not professionals in expressing their feelings and it is really perhaps basically above beer bottles you have been dealing with your ache. It is well worth it that you take steps to prove to her that you love her. It is worth the whole lot the time. It is going to be a prolonged, uphill process. So you've damaged up with your girlfriend. If you're asking yourself "Can I get my ex-girlfriend back?" then the breakup possibly wasn't so devastating that you come to feel the relationship can't be stored.
Asking her the right concerns will make it easy for her know that you do truly care about assembly her demands. Control your emotions. If you can't keep them in check then vent to friends and relations yet not her. Do this in private. Do not let her see that you're susceptible. This is in fact a essential action in the approach to get her back, so don't waver. Stop all the things contact for lots of weeks and this consists of no calling her or texting her and completely no operating into her.
If you've exactly not long ago damaged up with your girlfriend, I may well surely empathize with your difficulty, as I have gone by way of it myself. It's a coronary heart wrenching experience. What if your ex contains moved on and incorporates a new boyfriend? Well, the probabilities of profitable her back are fewer right now having said that not difficult. Pay focus to what she does. If your understand that such variables produce her angry then change your tactics unless you discover nearly anything she responds to.
If you are not responsive to her you won't study the signs so pay interest to her. And desperate isn't how you prefer to look at everything. When you do consult her, do not argue with her about how your relationship was. Are you struggling from a damaged coronary heart? Have you been enjoying sleepless nights contemplating your latest break-up?
Start Afresh - After accepting the reality of the matter and learning from it, begin anew. Stop getting drunk one night when a different. Have a lengthy new shower and shave. Put on nice clothes and go out. Well, nobody may very well blame you. People possess their unique ways of dealing with their disorders, unfortunately, you can't go on and on sulking forever. If you really don't favor her back considering you genuinely love her then the relationship will most likely operate its course and end anyway. Why examine it back?


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Atal Pension Yojna is a bad deal
5 min read . Updated: 19 Mar 2015, 09:33 PM IST Monika Halan
The guarantee in the Atal Pension Yojna gives the subscriber a bad deal
Atal Pension Yojna (http://goo.gl/Rs9Xqi ) was announced in Budget 2015-16 as an upgrade to the Swavalamban scheme, which will now fold into the new defined benefit pension scheme for the poor. The pension fund regulator will administer the scheme, which is open to all unorganized sector workers who currently do not avail of any social security scheme and have a bank account. Why this scheme? To give clarity of future benefits to the subscribers—something that was missing in the Swavalamban scheme, says a government note. This is an analysis of the product. Spoiler alert: 'regressive' is the word that comes to mind.
What is the product? It is a pension-oriented savings product that gives a defined pension starting at age 60. It can be boarded from age 18 to 40 and exit is at age 60. The government will match half the contribution of the subscriber, or 1,000, whichever is lower. If the subscriber saves 800 in a year, the government will put in 400. If the subscriber saves 2,000 in a year, the government will put in 1,000. If the subscriber saves 3,000 in a year, the government will put in 1,000. The monthly pension can be chosen from between 1,000 a month, at intervals of 1,000, and 5,000 a month. The subscriber will get the pension; on his death the spouse will get the pension, and when both die, the nominee gets the corpus back. The annuity looks very much like the Jeevan Akshay plan from Life Insurance Corporation of India (http://goo.gl/0QVZAU ) with the seventh option ticked.
My problems with the Atal Pension Yojna. First, I don't see the government contribution in the numbers that the Ministry of Finance has put out. From the handout it seems that the purchase price of the annuity is given as the indicative return of corpus. Let's work through one example. The fifth option has a pension of 5,000 per month and a return of corpus of 8.5 lakh. At age 30, the annual contribution is 6,924. The indicative corpus is then the final value of the sum of savings and returns earned. I find that the rate of return at which 6,924 reaches 8.5 lakh is 8.44%—not very different from the prevalent rates on Public Provident Fund (PPF) and Employees' Provident Fund (EPF). But if I add the government additions to the savings for the same age and pension set, I get an internal rate of return number of 7.35% that yields 8.5 lakh. So, either the subscriber is not getting the government handout or is getting a sub-optimal return.
When you look at the returns on National Pension System (NPS) funds, you realize that the subscriber of the pension scheme is getting a pretty bad deal as returns of 7.35%, or even 8.44%, compare poorly with the return history we have of the NPS funds. The average return since financial year (FY) 2010 on the government bond schemes of NPS is 9.09%, on the corporate bond schemes it is 10.65%, and on the equity funds it is 13.25%. An average return (of the three fund options) of 10.67% would give the same saver above a corpus of 15.81 lakh, almost double of what she is currently getting. In giving a guarantee, the government is taking away the cream on long-term savings that will now go to the annuity provider insurance company. The guarantee in the Atal Pension Yojna gives the subscriber a bad deal—the sweetener is not that attractive after all.
Problem two: we're going back from the clean product structure of the NPS to a world where fuzzy product structures allowed sub-optimal returns to savers and encouraged financial firms to charge high costs. The Atal Pension Yojna is a complicated scheme, which falls back in putting out a number that the subscriber will get rather than the indicative return that she will earn. Even the poorest of the poor understand the concept of rates of return. They understand that nau taka is more than double of a char taka return. IFMR Trust has a blog, http://goo.gl/bpyzRe , on how pathetic these monthly pension numbers look post the bite of inflation in the future. In 40 years, the value of 5,000 will be 710. The pulling and pushing of the NPS to suit various left or right ideologies must stop. It is a great product; please allow it to remain so.
Problem three, and this is a big one. We're opening the gates of debate on returning to the realm of defined benefit in pensions. There is huge pressure from the post-2004 IAS officers to return to a world of defined benefit pensions. This will be a big error as it will totally destroy the target of limiting the fiscal deficit to 3% of gross domestic product and revenue deficit at 0. To leave you with a scary number. Gautam Bhardwaj and Surendra A. Dave, in a 2006 paper, (http://goo.gl/SJoEhO) estimated the implicit pension debt, or net present value of future pension promises, in 2004 to be 20 trillion.
End note: As luck would have it, while battling the numbers of Atal Pension Yojna, I happened to meet professor Muhammad Yunus at the NDTV Delhi studio—we were both panellists for a show. Within 60 seconds, he was explaining his version of a pension plan. People save each week a committed amount, say, 250 taka, he said. They do this for 10 years. And at the end of 10 years, we match what they have saved, he said. They can now take the entire corpus out or put it back as a fixed deposit and earn the same interest for as long as they want. "It is a very popular scheme and the poor love it for its simplicity," said Yunus. Do the poor get a bad deal? Nope, the product gives a compounded average return of 12.6% for a 10-year deposit.
Monika Halan works in the area of financial literacy and financial intermediation policy and is a certified financial planner. She is editor, Mint Money, Yale World Fellow 2011 and on the board of FPSB India. She can be reached at expenseaccount@livemint.com


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Office Coordinator Found Guilty Of One Count Of Fraud
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EMPLOYEE GUILTY OF 108 COUNTS OF OCCUPATIONAL FRAUD
"Your fraud involved also a considerable degree of deception and a measure of sophistication". You are now 42 years of age. You have no prior convictions, and it is a sad reality that you have lived to the present a life that has been a worthwhile one as a family member and as a member of the community, but you stand now convicted of what is a most serious offence."
These were some of the comments from Chief Judge O'Brien in sentencing Debra Anne Woltmann, a 42 year old wife and mother of four children. The sentence handed down in the District Court of Queensland on 1 May 2015 was 5 years imprisonment (suspended after 14 months) for defrauding her employer. The case was described as an aggravated fraud offence due to the fact the offending was committed as an employee and the amount involved exceeding $30,000.
His Honour commented further that:
"On 108 separate occasions over a period of about three and a-half years, you misappropriated from your employer an amount of some $276,000. You were employed by that firm as a bookkeeper. It was a small family business, and the breach of trust that is involved in this case can only be described as considerable".
"…it seems to me that in this case, the seriousness of your offending conduct cannot simply be measured by reference to the amount of money that is involved. I have seen the statement of your former employer, the complainant in this matter, and it is clear enough to me that no penalty I impose on you today can adequately reflect the sense of betrayal at your conduct or restore the harm, financial and otherwise, that has been done to your former employer".
When asked to comment about this matter, Mr Jensen, the Director of the Complainant, stated:
"I knew that something wasn't right. Working long hours, company was profitable, but we always had cash flow issues.
Our accountant recommended we engage Steven Ponsonby from Forensic Accounting QLD to put the books under the microscope. The Forensic Accounting Qld investigation uncovered significant anomalies resulting from a number of fraudulent transactions at the hands of a staff member.
The matter was promptly referred to the QPS and on Steven's recommendation, a solicitor was engaged to commence civil proceedings for recovery of the misappropriated monies. The swift and prompt action of Steven and his team allowed us to achieve full restitution of the misappropriated payments quantified and payments for interest and legal costs.
If we hadn't engaged the services of Forensic Accounting QLD, I doubt that we would have achieved such an excellent outcome in such a short timeframe. We really appreciated the professional and fresh approach adopted by Steven and his team at Forensic Accounting QLD and would have no hesitation in recommending their services."
This case highlights the importance of engaging the correct professional help at the first indication of an anomaly or any fraud behavioural red flag[1].
Having a Certified Fraud Examiner ("CFE") on your team will give you the best possible chance of achieving a successful prosecution and maximising a civil recovery in any occupational fraud. The CFE credential denotes proven expertise in fraud prevention, detection and deterrence.
The ACFE[2] is the world's largest anti-fraud organization and premier provider of anti-fraud training and education. Together with more than 75,000 members, the ACFE is reducing business fraud worldwide and inspiring public confidence in the integrity and objectivity within the profession.
CFEs around the world help protect the global economy by uncovering fraud and implementing processes to prevent fraud from occurring in the first place.
[1] 2014 ACFE Report to the Nations: http://www.acfe.com/rttn-red-flags.aspx
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Phil Stewart
| 2 November, 2015 @ 4:50 pm
Steve, sorry 'bout this, but in the second para there is a typo as regards the amount of the theft. I think it should read…"the amount involved exceeding $300,000″ (not $30k).
I would be interested to read more about this matter. The type of fraud and the manner in which it was concealed. My small business clients rely heavily on the honesty of their bookkeepers so it is a matter of some relevance. Was the transcript published?
Steven Ponsonby
Thank you for your email. We advise that this isn't an error, rather is referring to the severity of the fraud due to the misappropriation exceeding the sum of $30,000 pursuant to Section 408C of the Queensland Criminal Code (1899).
We will be publishing a Blog/case study on this case in the future which will provide further guidance on the circumstances surrounding this case. As far as I am aware, the case hasn't been reported to date. We obtained a copy of the sentencing transcript from Auscript which we used as a reference point. Happy to chat further, give our office a call or alternatively provide your contact details to info@forensicaccounting.com.au and I will contact you.
Regards Steven Ponsonby
I have known Steven for a number of years and hold him in high regard. He has built a very good reputation in the forensic field and he has a genuine interest in assisting com...
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As the first day of school approaches, these are the words I give you.
May you have a heart of gratitude. When each class ends, I hope that you say thank you – to the teacher that encouraged you, the student that made you think, the volunteer that passed out the paper plates. I hope that you know deep down in your heart what a tremendous privilege it is to go to school – with light switches and seats, with books and pencils, paper and dry erase boards. May you whisper thanks when you hold a book between your hands and when you feel the weight of the backpack on your shoulders.
May you dance to your own music, paint your own patterns, march your own rhythm. When you pick up the pastels in art class, I hope you let your boundless creativity lead you. May you stomp out those voices that tell you your idea is inferior. May you have the courage to be different, to take risks, and to make mistakes.
May you always stand up for what's right – even when the pressure is intense. Know this and let it seep into your skin – what is popular is not often best. Don't be afraid to take the road less traveled. If you are afraid, if your knees knock and your heart beats wild, that's okay too. To be brave is to know fear and to do the right thing anyway.
May you not fret over the colors of shirts, the bling on backpacks, the newness of shoes. Choose now to be content, to see through materialism to what matters more. New things glitter and gleam, but the sparkle of stuff fades quickly. Be intentional about having less so that you can give more.
May you choose kindness. Remember that compassion is strength, love is leadership. When you see the lonely child on the playground or at the lunch table, I pray that you will extend a smile and a hand. Little glowing fireflies of mercy and goodness.
May you find friendships that stir your soul, that sharpen your character. I pray that you will find one girl, maybe two or three, who will sing to your soul. I pray that there will be friends who will uplift you and love you for who you are right where you are – but always give you the grace to grow. I pray that these friends will make you laugh and let you cry. I also pray that you will know when to walk quietly away from peers that gossip and betray and waylay.
May you have teachers who inspire you, who engage you, and who point you to Jesus. If you have teachers who don't meet that criteria, I pray that you will accentuate the positive. I pray that you will understand that learning is up to you, that education is what you make of it. I pray that you'll love to read, that you'll pursue math and science and music with cheerful enthusiasm.
May you ask questions – often and without embarrassment. May you dream grand stories as you read literature. May math equations dazzle your mind. I pray that grades won't deter you or distract you. Don't forget that every great invention, every classic novel, every famed piece of artwork – began with a hundred failures and uncertainties. Be persistent in your quest for knowledge.
May you be a shining light in a dark world. Twinkle, twinkle little star. You shine the brightest when you love the strongest.
Finally, May you remember who you are. Beloved. I stamp these words on your heart right now. Repeat after me. I am beautiful. I am strong. I am intelligent. I am a change-maker and world-shaker, dream-believer and life-giver. I am loved far more than I will ever know.
You are all those things and infinitely more. Take your candle, darlings, go light your world.
These are such wise words not only for your sweet girls, but for kids (and kids-at-heart!) everywhere.


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Brexit: Theresa May set for further talks with EU leaders
Theresa May is expected to continue talks with EU leaders in the coming days after MPs backed a proposal for her to renegotiate her Brexit deal.
MPs voted 317 to 301 in favour of replacing the backstop – the insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border in Ireland in the event of no deal.
But the EU has said it will not change the legal text agreed with the UK PM.
May is also set for talks with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after MPs backed an amendment rejecting no deal.
The prime minister said that, after taking the votes into account and talking to the EU, her revised deal would be brought back to the Commons "as soon as possible" for a second "meaningful vote".
However, various EU leaders have suggested there will be no revisions to the deal, with European Council President Donald Tusk saying: "The backstop is part of the withdrawal agreement, and the withdrawal agreement is not open for renegotiation."
French President Emmanuel Macron also said the agreement was "not renegotiable", while Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the backstop arrangement remained "necessary" despite the vote.
Tusk added the EU would, however, be willing to look at the political declaration again – the part of the deal that makes a pledge on the future relationship between the UK and the EU – and that the EU would "stand ready" to consider any "reasoned request" for an extension to the leave date of 29 March.
An amendment rejecting a no-deal Brexit also won the support of Parliament on Tuesday – but the vote was not binding, meaning the date for exit remains 29 March.
Nevertheless, Mr Corbyn said as a result of the message from MPs rejecting no deal, he would now meet the prime minister to discuss the next steps.
He had previously refused to meet Mrs May unless she ruled out a no-deal Brexit herself.
Corbyn said: "After months of refusing to take the chaos of no deal off the table, the prime minister must now face the reality that no deal is not an option."
Five other amendments, including Labour MP Yvette Cooper's bid to delay Brexit if May does not get her deal through Parliament, were defeated.
May is hoping the support for Sir Graham Brady's amendment to look at alternatives to the backstop gives her a stronger negotiating position with the EU.
The controversial element of the PM's original plan is the insurance policy to prevent checks on goods and people returning to the Northern Ireland border.
It would effectively keep the UK inside the EU's customs union, but with Northern Ireland also conforming to some rules of the single market.
Renegotiation 'will not be easy'
It was one of the main reasons May's Brexit deal was voted down in Parliament by an historic margin earlier in January as critics say a different status for Northern Ireland could threaten the existence of the UK and fear that the backstop could become permanent.
She told the Commons there was now a "substantial and sustainable" majority of MPs supporting leaving the EU with a deal, but admitted renegotiation "will not be easy".
The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Westminster, Nigel Dodds, said it was a "significant night" and his MPs would work with the prime minister "to deliver the right deal for the United Kingdom".
But the leader of the SNP in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said that passing the amendment had seen the government "rip up the Good Friday Agreement" – integral to the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said the Commons had given the prime minister "contradictory instructions to have no deal but pursue a course of action that will lead to a no deal".
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But Google did not provide any details regarding which rule the professor violated.
When emailed at his Google address, Google returns an "Address not found" error message.
The professor said he initially thought it was just a mistake.
"This is just another example of these big companies that either [kowtow] to pressure…or deciding on their own accord who gets to communicate and who doesn't," he told TheDCNF.
Peterson's YouTube videos criticizing social justice regularly obtain tens or hundreds of thousands of views. The professor came under scrutiny in 2016 after criticizing a bill which could potentially criminalize using the wrong gender pronoun to identify someone. That bill is now law.
Patreon cancelled Lauren Southerns account as well.
Gotta show the rabble-rousers that Big Brother is watching, and doesn't approve.
Should also mention that Sam Harris is ditching Patreon because he refuses to allow anyone to have any kind of veto over his content.
That's an astonishingly impressive move on Sams part.
Like him or hate him, he walks the walk on free speech.
Peterson is a hero of our times and will be evermore powerful a voice against the tide of SJW bs moving forward. He will be in history books (not just Canadian either). I truly believe this.
I've seen worse things on YouTube than this.. Like beheadings.
His channel is still up and running on youtube.
Regardless, it's clear that there is a need for an alternative media place for voices that don't fit the politically acceptable narrative. There are enough people who have those views that I think it would be commercially viable.
Maybe we can call it danktube.
While I agree a place that doesn't censor based on politics etc is needed, YouTube itself is not commercially viable and has been operating in the red.
I like Vimeo, but for a more YouTube-like experience, Daily Motion might fit the bill. It's very big in Europe.
We're moving over to Gsuite for our communications.
The update at the bottom of the story say Google and YouTube mysteriously restored his access after the story hit the news.
Nevermind what Google or any other content provider thinks. If there is enough call for it, people like Peterson and Molynieux can cooperatively start their own site... The real choke point is your ISP. If Rogers and Bell (our two biggest and both left-leaning) decide to climb aboard the censorship bandwagon, or are pressured into it by the CRTC or some other state actor, what recourse will libertarian thinkers have? It might revert to a Cold War style 'battle of shortwaves'.


Jane Says is a song by Jane's Addiction, written by Perry Farrell and Eric Avery in late 1985 or early 1986. It is about their friend and former roommate Jane Bainter and her struggles with drugs, life and love.
In 1997, a music video was created for the live version of Jane Says that appears on the Kettle Whistle album. While the audio is from a Lollapalooza concert on July 24, 1991 at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in Irvine, CA and features Eric Avery on bass, video footage is from their October 31, 1997 concert at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, NY featuring Flea on bass.


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Henry Clay Autograph Letter Signed 11/21/1829
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HENRY CLAY Henry Clay wrote this letter from his Ashland estate in Kentucky in 1829, about nine months after he stepped down as President John Quincy Adams' Secretary of State. In it, he talks about President Andrew Jackson - " the Military despot" - as well as the election and a friend who had published a letter of his without his permission. 4 pages, 7¾x9¾, 1 sheet folded, front and verso. Written atClay's Ashland estate in Kentucky, Nov.
You favor both of the 30th. Wonley has made the permanent arrangement to supply the place of his late Co-partner; and I think it probable that he will make none before the fate of the Journal is finally decided. However much gratified I should be, in some respects, to see you a resident of Kentucky, I should regret it extremely if it were to be the consequence of the failure of the Journal. That paper has been edited with very great ability, generally, since the commencement of the present administration; and is considered in this quarter as standing unquestionably at the head of the papers which are arrayed against the Military despot. Its discontinuance would be a great public loss, and I sincerely hope that contingency will not arise.
Something could be done, in this quarter, in the way of Subscriptions to it, if some person were authorized to receive them; and I think some thing also can done to rid of Mr. Should the Journal therefore un-fortunately stop, and should you be inclined to come to K.
Or me know immediately your wishes. On the subject of a nomination, I think my friends generally in the west have settle down on its [illegible] this wonder, unless some event should occur to recommend it. In lieu of that measure, it is thought more advisable to express, in the form of resolutions, in some other form, the disapprobation of the [illegible] of the manner in which the personas of the General Government has been recently exercised, attachment to the American System &c.
If, however, upon the meeting of our friends in Congress at Washn. It should be deemed essential that a nomination should be made at Frankfort, I think the proper communication of that conviction would have great weight with the friendly members of the General Assembly, who compose a very decided majority in each branch. I do not think that any discouragement ought to arrive out of the latest Elections. The last presidential contest was too recent, and the next is too remote. This had a double operation to stimulate our opponents, flushed with recent victory, and to produce apathy among our friends, who saw nothing at hand worthy of a great struggle.
Even with this unfavorable aspect, we have sustained no positive loss except in N. Jersey, of which I have had such explanations as to induce me to count it as nothing. On the other hand, both in N. York and Penna some gleams of hope have broken out of the darkness that enveloped these two states. I think I understand Mr.
Southworth, whose recent abuse of a private correspondence forms the subject of your last letter. The Combs were [illegible] to his case; he delivered them to Mr. [illegible] to be brought here; and from him I first learnt the manner of the transmission. It seemed to me to be a matter of common [illegible] only to acknowledge the receipt of this letter; and as he had thrown into it strong protestations of friendship &c &c. I thought it also proper to say that I placed reliance on his assurances.
The publication of my letter, without my previous knowledge or consent, was improper; and the [illegible] he makes about the omitted paragraph is also exceptionable. I really do not recollect what is in it, but I do know that there is not a work there that I had not as [illegible] the public should see as any other part of the letter. The whole of it was [illegible] under the influence of that precautionary rule, what, I think I have several times informed you, I always observed.
Southworth's whole cause in regard to [illegible] has been marked by eccentricity, to say the least. His early nomination of me was not only without any authority from me, but without my know-ledge, until I saw it in the papers. He has quarrelled [sic] moreover with some of my best friends.
Yet I have not thought it right to fall out with one, who at least manifests so much zeal and attachment, even if I disapprove, as I sometime have done, the [illegible] what be taken. This [illegible], has prevent me placing any [illegible] degree of confident in Mr S. I have never [illegible] to him; ex-cept when my silence would have been offensive, or at least wanting in politeness; and I have never addressed any letter to him, the publication of whole of which could do me, I think, the slightest prejudice. I have, in short, found him an inconvenient friend, of whom, at the same time, I have not had the heart to get rid, although I should not have [illegible] much if he had quietly taken himself off. As to the Combs, I could not [illegible] writing him.
If my friends in R. Had not placed them under his care, there would have been no occasion given for my letter You would be surprised to see what an active farm [illegible] and man of [illegible] I have become. Clay writes with me in offering you our best regards. Clay was Secretary of State under Adams, and this letter was written just nine months after Jackson's inauguration and Clay's stepping down from this post. The enmity between Jackson and Clay reached back at least to 1819, when Clay denounced Jackson's invasion of Florida during the First Seminole War. Adams during less than peaceful circumstances.
One of four Presidential hopefuls in the 1824 election, Clay had fewer electoral votes than Adams, Andrew Jackson or William Crawford and was forced to withdraw. Clay's 37 electoral votes determined the outcome of the election when, on the evening of Jan. 9, 1825, he visited Adams, and they struck a bargain. Adams won the election and the animosity of both Jackson and Crawford, who cried "corrupt bargain". Their charge gained credibility when Clay headed the list of Adams' Cabinet appointments.
Clay also served as U. When Clay died on June 29, 1852, he was sure that his last great work, the Compromise of 1850, had permanently averted a Civil War. Unfortunately, the compromise only delayed the inevitable for a decade.
Letter was not examined outside encapsulation. Lightly toned, foxed and stained. Show-through touches signature and body of letter. Rounded corners, with light discoloration along top corners.
Light discoloration and separation along spine of letter. Folded twice vertically and thrice horizontally.
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Signed by: Henry Clay
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Jacareí, São Paulo State (Brazil)
Keywords: sao paulo | jacarei | quarters | cross | castle | lion |
image by Joseph McMillan
São Paulo State
Municipal Flags of São Paulo State
Brazilian Subnational Flags
About the Flag of Jacareí
On http://www.valevirtual.com.br/jacarei/simbolos.htm, by clicking the images you will get information in Portuguese about the flag and coat of arms, which reads:
a) The coat of arms of the municipality on a field made of two [horizontal] bars of white and red.
b) Under the arms, stripes of black, white and red, shaped as a cross, evoking not only the Christian origin, but also the colors of the State of São Paulo, in the flag of which they recall the three races that made the state great.
c) White is for the purity of ideals, tradition, and nobility of actions for the common good, and red is for fighting spirit, the capacity of the Jacareian people for accomplishment.
Authorship: Dr. Enzo Silveira
Adopted on 2 May 1968 by Law no. 1,167 by order of Prefect José Cristovão Arouca.
Dov Gutterman, translated by Jorge Candeias, 24 January 1999
Description of the coat of arms [restated into English heraldic terminology--Ed.] from the same site:
On a Portuguese shield ensigned by a mural crown, which is distinctive to municipalities, per fess, the chief divided per pale:
- (dexter chief) gules a river argent and emerging therefrom a leopard proper [in Portuguese jacaré], canting arms of the city according to the meaning of its name in the Brazilian language.
- (sinister chief) gules a lion argent, from the shield of the Afonsos [kings of Portugal] in the old Portuguese armorial, evoking the Aiqueira Afonsos [note in the original text says this reference in an error], founders of the village in 1652, which was elevated to a town in 1653 and to a city in 1849.
- (base) argent, a fortress embattled proper, with portal and loopholes, recalling that Jacareí was the redoubt or stronghouse of Bartolomeu Fernandes de Faria, the famous pioneer who was celebrated in the first for his attack on the salt warehouses in Santos, reacting to the crimes of the traders whose greed reduced the people of the Planalto to desperation. He was later prosecuted for this deed, imprisoned, and was killed in prison in Bahia on the eve of his scheduled execution. In the portal of the tower, a sentinel armed with an arquebus and dressed in the doublet of the Paulistan bandeirantes recalls the deed of Bartolomeu Fernandes de Faria. The motto in silver letters on a red scroll also refers to him, with the words "For the rights and honor of the Paulistas" (Pro Paulistanum jure et honore).
The fruited branches of coffee recall Jacareí's debt to its great coffee industry.
As supporters, on the dexter side an officer of the 2nd Corps of Infantry of Guaratingueta and the Northern Villages, created by Morgado de Mateus in 1766. On the sinister, a soldier of the Guard of Honor of Dom Pedro I, commemorating that Jacareí was the second town in Brazil visited by the first chief of state of independent Brazil, right after 7 September [1822]. On the center of the mural crown, an escutcheon azure a crescent argent evokes Our Lady of the Conception, Patroness of Jacareí.
Author of this history: Dr. Afonso de Taunay
Coat of arms adopted 10 September 1952 by Law No. 229, approved by Prefect Luiz de Araujo Máximo.
Dov Gutterman, 25 January 1999