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Palestine in the Time of the Patriarchs
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After more than two centuries of decline, urban life returned to Canaan in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1550 B.C.) as classical Canaanite culture reached its zenith. Cities and villages sprang up, especially in the coastal plains and the great fertile valleys of Jezreel and the northern Jordan Valley. Over five hundred Middle Bronze Age sites have now been identified in Canaan. The urban character of Canaanite society is clear; perhaps as much as 65 percent of the population of Canaan dwelt in the numerous heavily fortified towns that dotted the land. Most towns were small, however, less than twenty acres in size. About 5 percent of the settlements were large cities by standards of the region—up to two hundred acres in size.
Several major Canaanite cities of this period have been excavated. Gezer, Megiddo, Aphek, Shechem, Jericho, Dan (Laish), and Hazor are among many sites yielding evidence of a sophisticated urban society. The most characteristic feature of these cities was an extensive fortification system. Each site was heavily fortified with thick walls made of mud brick set on a stone foundation. Builders utilized huge stones, quarried locally, some weighing more than a ton each. Some walls consisted of boulders roughly fitted together, called "Cyclopean Masonry." Often these walls stood on massive ramparts made of local soils and debris.
Inside the walls, the Canaanites erected temples, palaces, administrative and judicial buildings, industrial facilities, along with more modest domestic houses. Many of the cities bear clear evidence of town planning. Certain crafts, such as metalworking and pottery manufacturing, reached high levels of achievement. The beautiful pottery of this period attained technical standards seldom surpassed in later times. By adding tin to copper, Middle Bronze Age metalsmiths developed a true bronze, allowing the production of new, often better and stronger, tools and weapons.
Politically, Canaan was a land of city-states. Each larger Canaanite city functioned independently and was headed by a king who controlled the surrounding villages and territory. Security must have been a prime concern, judging from the large fortifications; likely, the various kings feared the ambition of other city-states.
The Canaanites basically were agricultural in their economy, although trade played an important role also. Surpluses of grain, olive oil, wine, and possibly timber and cattle were exchanged for luxury goods. Trade with Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Cyprus flourished. Contemporary economic documents found at Mari mention both Hazor, the largest of the Canaanite city-states, and Laish (Dan) in connection with the international metal trade vital to all Middle Bronze Age kingdoms. The Bible recalls that "Hazor formerly was the head of all those [Canaanite] kingdoms" (Josh. 11:10), a recognition of the political and economic importance of that great city.
Relatively few kings or cities are mentioned in the biblical accounts of the patriarchal journeys in Canaan, leading to the impression that the land was sparsely inhabited. In light of the previous description of Canaan in the Middle Bronze Age, how are we to explain this? First, the patriarchs migrated through portions of Canaan less densely inhabited at this time, primarily the Negeb and the Western Mountains. Second, the patriarchal lifestyle essentially was pastoral, avoiding the larger cities in preference for grazing land, though their travels occasionally brought them into contact with their urban neighbors. Many of the cities mentioned in Genesis in connection with the patriarchs—Shechem, Bethel, Salem (Jerusalem)—were, in fact, inhabited at this time. By and large, the patriarchal lifestyle portrayed in Genesis is pastoral rather than urban (see the following section).[1]
By Thomas V. Brisco
Holman Bible Atlas, Holman Reference (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998)
[1] Thomas V. Brisco, Holman Bible Atlas, Holman Reference (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998), 43–44.
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Iraq is willing to play an active role within OPEC to support oil prices but will not sacrifice its goal of expanding market share and will continue to ramp up output, its oil minister said on Saturday.
Jabar Ali al-Luaibi, on a visit to the southern oil city of Basra, renewed calls for local and international oil companies in Iraq to increase production and announced plans to double crude storage capacity at the country's southern export terminals to 24 million barrels in the "coming years" from 12 million barrels currently.
"The ministry has new ambitious plans to develop the oil sector," he told reporters. "Among them, the most important is to increase crude output to reach a level that suits Iraq's needs; we don't want to specify a ceiling for future production like in the past."
Luaibi, who became oil minister this month, said Iraq wants to "strengthen OPEC's role in achieving a balance in the oil market," but his comments on continuing to increase output suggested it was not looking to take part in a possible agreement to freeze output.
"Iraq is seeking to play an active role in order to support oil prices while preserving a share that is proportionate to its reserves," Luaibi said.
Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries are due to meet informally in Algeria next month on the sidelines of the International Energy Forum (IEF). Russia is also expected to attend the IEF.
Iraq's production currently stands at around 4.6 to 4.7 million barrels per day for the whole country, including the self-rule Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Luaibi said.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday said the country has not yet reached its full oil market share, suggesting his government is not willing to restrain crude output.
OPEC's second-largest producer, trailing Saudi Arabia, Iraq depends on oil sales for 95 percent of its public spending. Its economy is reeling under the double impact of low oil prices and the rising cost of the war on Islamic State militants.
The government has invited international oil companies to express interest in the country's plan to expand four of its refineries, oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said separately on Saturday.
The government would consider investment offers on a build-own-operate or build-operate-transfer basis for the refineries, which are located in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, and the southern regions of Samawa, Kut and Basra, the spokesman said.
Sources in OPEC and the oil industry this week told Reuters that Iran, OPEC's third-largest producer, was sending positive signals that it may support joint action to prop up the oil market.
Tehran refused to join an attempt in April to freeze output at January levels, scuppering those talks because Saudi Arabia said it wanted all producers to join the initiative.


Terrorism is a non-fiction history short book. The book consists of a quick summary and explanation on how terrorism started, how many kinds exist, and compares certain ideologies such as comparing Jihad with terrorism or comparing Al Qaeda with ISIS. According to the book, terrorism started from the 14th century and they were mostly religious related.
Cyber terrorism is, for example, something we are facing today. Viruses, stealing information, abusing the systems are just some of the things mentioned in this book. I was intrigued in reading that Holy wars did not just take place in the Islamic tradition, they also had been in Christianity and Judaism and that recent holy wars are not religious related and are more politically based.
I enjoyed the fact that this book was written by someone that was biased. The author lays out everything in a summarized format and everything is very crispy clear. The work provides references to historical events. The author clearly has knowledge on the subject matter and has created a solid work for anyone that does not know much about the topic.
I did not think that I was going to like this book, but I did. I recommend it to people that wish to understand the issue.


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English club confirm signing of international midfielder after Rangers departure
Date: 14th June 2018 at 3:13pm
Written by: support
Blackpool have confirmed the signing of Northern Irish midfielder Jordan Thompson after the midfielder left Rangers following the expiry of his contract.
The Seasiders confirmed Thompson's signing on their official website after the twice-capped midfielder signed a two-year deal at Bloomfield Road.
Thompson joined the Gers in 2015 from Manchester United but couldn't force his way into a regular first-team place at Ibrox despite impressing when given a chance to shine.
The versatile ace, who can also play at left-back, made three appearances for the first-team at Ibrox and had stints on loan with Airdrie, Raith Rovers and Livingston.
Football Insider verdict:
Thompson never let himself down when given a chance at Ibrox but couldn't quite make that step up to being a regular first-team player. Loan spells away from Ibrox gave him a chance to continue to play regularly but it wasn't a surprise to see him leave this summer after his contract ended. With a host of promising midfielders coming through the Academy at Ibrox, Thompson was always going to find it hard to earn a new deal. Thompson is a talented player though and should do well with Blackpool as they look to climb back up the leagues and win promotion from League One. There wasn't much chance of him winning an extended deal with the Light Blues and it is good to see the Northern Irishman land a new club quickly. Having former Gers team-mate Joe Dodoo at Bloomfield Road should make it a bit easier for Thompson to settle in with his new side and make an impact quickly.
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A TX homeowner heard noises outside of his at around 1am.
When the homeowner went to investigate he says he found a man trying to break into his vehicle.
The homeowner fired one shot at the suspect who then fled the scene.
Police arrested a man nearby matching the description of the suspect.
Neither the homeowner or suspect were injured.
In Texas, it is legal to use lethal force to defend your property, which includes your vehicle.


As I sit on a train to meet some friends, my thoughts return to another journey that is set to begin – my PDA child will start at a new school.
I woke up this morning and could feel my fingertips pressing into the palms of my hands.
I feel overwhelmed. It's like overload.
If this is the first of my blogs you ever read, you may wonder what the big deal is about starting a new school. Sure, plenty of kids have to do it, just one of those things.
Well not in our case, not with our history, not when you have a debilitating condition that is PDA.
Firstly, I need to allow my daughter to feel that this is ALL her decision. It takes so much strategic thinking to sow an idea and allow it to permeate enough so that it can be absorbed as hers.
The hours roll by with excited conversations about school uniforms and how she will look.
"You need to tell the new head that I like dressing as a boy. Well, sometimes," she says to me.
Her thoughts are running away with eclectic urgency, she is distracted enough to forget her fear of leaving the safety of home.
Inside, I'm fretting. My scars are so, so raw still. And so are hers.
Oh god, will they like her? Can they handle her? How will she make friends?
I like to go to school if they understand my Autism.
I run away because I need my mummy. Now I don't get so cross.
I miss my friends so much.
I want my rabbit in school.
I like writing on my homework. I like to see my friends. I like bringing my toys in to school but I'm not allowed to bring my toys in but I wish I can every day.
I read her innocent words and can touch her vulnerability. I feel it too.
I know the tuts, the stares, the beginning foundations need setting once again, for our family to be included.
My armour is creaking, it needs oiling to protect me once again.
It's just a transition, we can do this.
The adrenaline is wearing off, her panic of a new change is setting in. She pleads that her middle sister can go with her.
I haven't even addressed how I will be able to get both children on separate school runs.
Im looking out of the train and as we are speeding along our journey the static scenery blurs away into the distance.
I wish all of the negativity we have scratched on our once blank canvas can do the same.
This transition tastes like freedom.
A change I wasn't fully open to before.
I had allowed myself to be convinced, I had trusted those professionals around me when they said mainstream wasn't going to work for my child.
The strategies and resources had been exhausted they said. Only, I learnt this was not actually the case.
And when they decided to reinstate her, could I and should I actually send her back?
That rhetoric wouldn't change over night.
And then someone came along in a mainstream setting, having looked at her EHCP, I'm sure with some reservations, but with the passion to give it a go.
Her 1:1 in the last setting had that feeling: an eagerness to not write someone off.
I'm taking that positivity with me on this journey, regardless whether we succeed.
1. For my daughter to finally access an education.
2. That she is accepted for WHO she is.
There is no hard or fast rule as to whether a PDA child is best suited in a specialist or mainstream setting.
I've learnt that some succeed and some fail in both.
The only chance these kids have to flourish is by a senior leadership team who really have an inclusive ethos in their school.
Autism/ADHD: Is it in the genes?


The time that an exhibition hangs in the gallery is so fleeting that we are pleased to offer these online adaptations indefinitely.
This exhibition includes drawings and photographs in the Hunt Institute Archives that are contained within the textual records of botanists who did not consider themselves artists. This exhibit examines three collections that intersect the disciplines of the scientist and the artist and considers the potential reinterpretation of these images outside of the restrictions of classically defined art forms.
Carolus Linnaeus (also Carl von Linné, 1707–1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist whose work laid the foundations of modern biological systematics and nomenclature. Long before Linnaeus, classical science was important in the shaping of subsequent science in the West. Transmitted through the cultures of the Mediterranean area, classical science was recovered during the Renaissance and ensuing Scientific Revolution and undergirded the search for a new botanical system. Drawing on the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, Linnaeus developed a coherent system for describing, classifying and naming organisms. Linnaeus' students traveled the globe to explore and collect information and specimens. Aspects of the Linnaean system have enabled amateurs and professionals worldwide to identify, name and describe plants for more than two centuries.
Through history the virtues and pleasures of herbs have enhanced our daily lives and connected us to the natural world through all of our senses. Through the centuries herbs have been used not only for medicinal purposes but also to flavor and preserve food, to scent and protect household environments and to dye or stain the skin and textiles. From the countless cultivated or wild herbs with overlapping applications we have chosen a selection within the four categories of physic, flavor, fragrance and dye. Each topic provides highlights of the usage of five herbs at specific points in history. The 20 herbs are illustrated by original watercolors and prints, rare books or manuscript pages from the Hunt Institute's Art, Library and Archives collections.
After the show, Hunt Institute gallery, 3 January 2014, photograph by Lugene B. Bruno, reproduced by permission of the photographer. To ensure that you never miss a show, sign up for our mailing list.


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It's quite interesting, when you push into it. The formalized points system is going to be so completely hackable.


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8 August, 07:30
Mike Tyson has accused the creators of the Mike biopic, streaming platform Hulu, of stealing his biography. In social networks, the boxer said that the creators did not ask his permission to shoot the project and no one consulted with him to create the series. In addition, the creators of the biopic did not pay him interest.
Hulu is the streaming version of the slave owner. They stole my story and didn't pay me. Don't let them fool you. I do not support their story about my life. This is not 1822. This is 2022. They stole my biography. To the Hulu executives, I'm just a black man they can auction off
— he wrote on Instagram *.
Tyson noted that Hulu representatives tried to pay millions to his brother so that he would reveal to them the details of the boxer's life. Hulu was desperate to pay my brother millions without offering me a dollar to promote the story of my life. He refused because he honors friendship and treats people with dignity. I will never forget what he did for me, just as I will never forget what Hulu stole from me.
The series "Mike" was announced in 2021. Trevante Rhodes played the title role. In July of this year, the streaming platform Hulu unveiled the first trailer.
The series will show moments from the life and sports career of Mike Tyson, including scandalous incidents. So, 25 years ago, the famous fight between Tyson and Evander Holyfield took place, during which Mike, annoyed by the "dirty tricks" of the opponent, in a fit of rage bit off part of his opponent's ear. For this, Tyson was fined $3.3 million and stripped of his boxing license for two years.
The series is set to premiere on August 25th.
*Instagram is owned by Meta, a recognized extremist organization in the Russian Federation
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At the beginning of last year, we wrote about CS50, Harvard's Introductory Computer Science course, taught by Professor David Malan. Today, we bring you the updated version of the class, filmed throughout the past semester at Harvard. Why revisit an updated version of the same class a year later? For one thing, the material has been updated. And, as you can tell by the rousing reception Malan receives from the audience at the start of the first lecture (above), Malan is kind of a big deal. From his opening boom of "This is CS50," Malan immediately comes off as an unusually charismatic professor. He offers what might just be the most engaging online class you've ever seen.
So what does this charismatic computer scientist cover over three months? An impressively large amount of information about coding. Malan builds the course from the ground up, and begins by describing how transistors are employed to transmit information within computers. From then on, he outlines a vast amount of computer science in highly accessible language. This will almost undoubtedly be the clearest presentation of topics like "command-line arguments," "cryptography," and "dynamic memory allocation" that you're likely to hear.
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Home » Latest Updates » Major leadership summit set to grip the port city of Durban
Major leadership summit set to grip the port city of Durban
By Ashok Ramsarup :: American renowned leader, visionary, thought-thinker and entrepreneur – Bishop T.D. Jakes — will be jetting to the port city of Durban in South Africa next month to attend the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC) Leadership Summit 2019. This comes in the backdrop of the country's political scenario, corruption, economic and unemployment challenges since the dawn of democracy.
Religious leaders from various faiths, captains of industry, government and civil society will be addressing various issues of national importance and expected to find and develop new strategies across the length and breadth of the country.
At the launch of the Leadership Summit, ICC Chief Executive Officer Lindiwe Rakharebe strongly believed that the dialogue would be a catalyst for change. Rakharebe hoped thesummit would make a difference and address the economic and social challenges South Africa was currently facing.
The ICC had been important driver in contributing to the country's Gross Domestic Product. It contributed more than 46-billion Rand to the country's fiscus and helped to provide 113 800 in the port city. Ultimately this led to the ICC being the leading international events destination in the world since opening its doors in 1997. The ICC was officially opened by President Nelson Mandela, who was sworn in as the country's first black president.
Rakharebe said the country was facing a leadership crisis that led to the ICC dwelling on the importance of leadership that had a vision and committed to confront the many challenges that faces the nation.
She said: "Bishop Jakes will be sharing the stage with diverse and prominent speakers, including local church leadership in brainstorming various topics, including ethical leadership, trans-generational leadership, women in leadership, progressive leadership and leading in difficult times.
"I am quite vocal that leaders must lead with integrity and maintain high levels of interest, passion and care for the people they serves. Our actions as leaders directly contribute to a legacy of the current leadership generation which will measure of the contribution,'' said Rakharebe.
She quoted Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng that "ethnical leadership is not an option but a national imperative because when you are a leader you have the authority to influence those that you lead and it is what you do that largely determines what those who follow you are likely to do".
Bishop Vusi Dube of the eThekwini Community Church said leaders must become the voice of the people and they must be able to follow the legacy of Nelson Mandela who set a high standard in ensuring peace and democracy in the rainbow nation.
Bishop Dube said the Rwanda genocide was an eye-opener as that country brought hope to people in Africa that a strong leadership could bring about a meaningful change. He quoted American church leader and civil rights activist Martin Luther King whose voice resonates around the world today. "I believe leaders can emulate Martin Luther King and use the leadership forum to create a stable society," he said.
Radio and Television personality, preacher, and business woman Zanele Mbokazi said nation building, social cohesion and moral regeneration were the key pillars for sustainable development. Mbokazi said South Africa was yearning for peace, stability and prosperity. "I am hoping leaders emerge to build a unified South Africa and believe in ourselves to make a difference," she added.
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"Now we are drawing our collective events experience and using this magnificent facility to initiate and develop meaningful events which can contribute positively to our communities and to society at large.
"This event is a great opportunity for organisations to invest in their leadership teams. We would love to see businesses sending their entire management teams to the event, for government leaders to attend this event as groups and for churches to invest in their pastors by sponsoring them to attendthe Leadership Summit," added Langley.
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This is a delightful read. The descriptions alone pulled me into the story. I felt as if I was right in that kitchen.
It's Suzanne's 13th birthday, and Daisy is shocked and saddened to learn that she's never had a birthday party. So she sets out to give her one, complete with a cake, ice cream, soda, and balloons. But when Suzanne's mother shows up, the party's over. A poignant coming of age story where good will and alcoholism collide.
Collection: Daisy Hunter Story No. 1
Daisy and her family accompany their hardworking father on a trip to collect his wages from a slow-paying customer, and encounter surprising consequences. A poignant coming of age story that captures the fallout in a collision of classes. Winner of the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2007, Honorable Mention.
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Sometimes winning is everything.
Champion swimmer Aerin Keane is ready to give up her dreams of college swimming and a shot at the Olympics. As she starts senior year in her third high school, Aerin's determined to leave her family troubles behind and be like all the other girls at Two Rivers. She's got a new image and a new attitude. She doesn't want to win anymore. She's swimming for fun, no longer the freak who wins every race, every title, only to find herself alone.
But when her desire to be just one of the girls collides with her desire to be the best Two Rivers has ever seen, will Aerin sacrifice her new friendships to break a longstanding school record that comes with a $50,000 scholarship?
Ino's Love
Sometimes the people who love us best are not family.
Elderly Ino prepares a delicious, Italian Christmas Eve feast for her successful CEO son, but when he's too busy to spend the holiday with his mother she shares her dinner and gifts with her home health aid. A heartwarming story about giving and forgiveness.


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Hawaiian house by LifeEdited harvests more energy and water than it consumes
Dan Howarth | 13 March 2018 Leave a comment
Design consultancy LifeEdited has built a family home on Hawaiian island Maui, as a model for sustainable, off-grid living.
The LifeEdited: Maui residence was completed last year to showcase methods of constructing, furnishing and running a house with as little environmental impact as possible.
The black building is entirely self-sufficient, boasting a combination of design and technology features that save and produce energy, and collect and store rainwater.
"We are presenting a vision of the future that is sustainable, resilient and frankly, awesome," said LifeEdited founder Graham Hill.
"With as much as 70 per cent of global carbon emissions tied to constructing, operating and furnishing buildings, the project is a firsthand representation of how we can reshape our future, starting with life at home."
The two-storey house sits on a steep remote site. Measuring 1,000 square feet (93 square metres), its flexible layout includes four bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and an indoor-outdoor area for cooking, eating, working and relaxing.
All of the living space is located on the upper level, while a garage and storage facilities are housed underneath.
Space-saving furniture in the lounge and bedrooms allows the areas to be used for different functions, depending on the occupants. LifeEdited said the home is capable of entertaining up to 20 people.
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The house is outfitted with efficient LED lights and a low-energy air-conditioning system. Windows and sliding doors are made from a high-performance composite called Fibrex, while tiles are partially composed of recycled materials.
Thin solar panels cover the gently pitched roof, collecting 10,550 watts of power to supply everything in the house, and charging a 1973 Volkswagen Thing that has been converted to electric. A Blue Ion 2.0 Energy Storage System in the garage acts as a battery.
Rainwater is collected from the roof via chains at each corner, filtered on-site and stored in a tank close to the home.
LifeEdited: Maui is designed to comply with the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, which aims to implement 100 per cent clean energy across the island chain by 2045.
The second largest of the Hawaiian islands, Maui is a popular location for holidaymakers, second homes, and retirement retreats.
Other new houses on the island include a getaway comprising to small pavilions and a clifftop residence with a faceted concrete roof, which are both designed to make the most of the warm climate.
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Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly reunite in a tiny-superhero Marvel sequel that's faster, funnier, and more cunningly confident than the original.
Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judy Greer, Tip. "T.I." Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Forston, Randall Park.
"Ant-Man and the Wasp" has a pleasingly breakneck, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't surreal glee. It's a cunningly swift and delightful comedy of scale, in which Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), that quipster mensch of a convict-turned-superhero (has there ever been a movie criminal this nice?), shoots around in his miniaturizing metal suit like the world's tiniest gadfly, only to loom up as large as Godzilla. Either way, he always has time to deliver a line like "Do you really just put the word quantum ahead of everything?" The answer is: Yes. "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is a fantasy of mutating matter in which buildings collapse into Monopoly toys, a Hello Kitty Pez dispenser gets inflated into a freeway battering ram, and the most fearless of the characters is injected into an ocean of psychedelic sub-atomic protoplasm.
The director, Peyton Reed, also made the first "Ant-Man" (2015), but at the time he'd never helmed a special-effects blockbuster before, and his inexperience showed. He jammed comedy, action, and origin-story mythology into a film that had more amiable spirit than craft. In "Ant-Man and the Wasp," Reed keeps the entire movie — one-liners, Macy's Parade effects, hand-to-insect-wing combat — spinningly aloft. Always an inspired director of comedy ("Down with Love," "Bring It On"), Reed has learned how to operate the heavy machinery of a Marvel superhero movie yet keep it all light and fast and dizzying. His combat scenes don't overpower. They're well spaced out and actually make visual sense, like a hypnotic one early on in which Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), a.k.a. The Wasp, confronts a pack of goons in a restaurant kitchen by popping in and out of micro size, sliding along the edges of a tossed carving knife only to burst into her full ninja self to deliver the knockout blows.
Yet part of the fun of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is that you don't have to pretend there's anything cosmic at stake. How could you? The plot is an elaborate throwaway. Rudd's Scott Lang is doing all he can to be a good divorced daddy to his daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Forston). As he lip-syncs — to the "Partridge Family" theme song! — and digital drums his way through his last few days of house arrest, he is lifted out of his predicament by Dr. Hank Pym, the physicist and former S.H.I.E.L.D member played, once again, by a triumphantly disgruntled Michael Douglas, in a silver coif and goatee, who bites down into the role of this cuttingly tormented science geek.
Hank won't rest until he extracts his wife, Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), from the Quantum Realm, where she's been miniaturized and living for 30 years (one hopes that they have Netflix, or at least QVC), ever since she sacrificed herself by going sub-atomic to defuse a bomb. Hank and their daughter, Hope, have built a tunnel that will theoretically transport them to the Quantum Realm. But the lab on which the project depends — it's housed in a building that looks like a decaying steel-and-glass Hollywood talent agency — is also coveted by two forces of People We Don't Want To Root For.
The first of them is Sonny Burch, a trafficker of black-market tech, played by Walton Goggins as the most unctuously literate of oily Dixie sleazehounds. Then there's Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), a quivering and alienated desperado who, after being damaged as a young girl in a lab accident presided over by her scientist father (a colleague of Hank's), acquired the ability to phase through objects. Her powers are visually vivid yet a tad vague, and so is her goal: to use the lab to set herself free. John-Kamen plays her like a fallen member of the X-Men turned tremulous indie rock star.
Hank and Hope's desire to reunite with Janet is certainly understandable, and Michelle Pfeiffer has a lovely, wistful presence, yet the plot of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is just a MacGuffin, a frame on which to hang the hijinks. The movie is all jokes and movement, fused by the spirit of transmogrification. Scott, who went down to the Quantum Realm before, has a bit of a mind-meld with Janet, which means that in one scene Paul Rudd literally channels Michelle Pfeiffer, and hilariously. He does it by acting indelibly…sweet.
But even that's just a momentary, let's-try-it-on lark. The movie keeps referencing Ant-Man's adventure in Germany, where he joined up with the Avengers in order to…well, I'm going to confess that I had no immediate recall of what, exactly, Ant-Man had contributed to the greater scheme of the "Avengers" saga. Instead of pretending it matters, I'll just say that he was there, and that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is probably none too different for it.
That each of these films is somehow "relevant" to the greater MCU is a conceit that isn't always borne out by what's on-screen. Yet Ant-Man, by living in his own universe of wisecracking micro obsession, justifies his existence. Rudd's performance has only gained in confidence (having a hit will do that for you). In "Ant-Man and the Wasp," he's direct and witty and alive, as when he surveys Lilly's Wasp and says to Hank, "Hold on, you gave her wings?" There's a prickly hint of ego coursing beneath the surface of Rudd's presence. That's what keeps him fresh.
As the Wasp, who with those fluttering wings is a partner (and possible romantic savior) to Ant-Man's ant-riding cowboy, Evangeline Lilly seizes her moment with a refreshing air of skepticism. Her Hope doesn't trust the whole superhero thing, and comes off a stronger heroine as a result. If there's an actor the movie elevates, apart from her and Rudd, it's Michael Peña, who plays Luis, Scott's former cellmate and his colleague in the security-consultant business, with escalating stardom. The film's comic peak kicks off with a nattering debate about what "truth serum" is, and when Luis gets an injection of it, Peña's rapid-fire confessional monologue (with the dialogue mimed by the characters he's talking about) has you hanging, in stitches, on every insane word.
"Ant-Man and the Wasp" is a full two hours, yet even when it's pulling out all the stops, the movie never gives you that sinking sensation you can get when a comic-book film's extended climax kicks in, and you feel the visual effects army taking over. That's because Peyton Reed invests every moment of the movie with personality. That's not quite the same thing as humanity. But it's enough to qualify as the miniature version.
Reviewed at AMC Lincoln Square, New York, June 26, 2018. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 118 MIN.
Production: A Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release of a Marvel Studios production. Producers: Kevin Feige, Stephen Broussard. Executive producers: Victoria Alonso, Louis D'Esposito, Stan Lee, Charles Newirth.
Crew: Director: Peyton Reed. Screenplay: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari. Camera (color, widescreen): Dante Spinotti. Editors: Dan Lebental. Music: Christophe Beck.
Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judy Greer, Tip. "T.I." Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Forston, Randall Park.


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The 2018 GCT Field
GM Magnus Carlsen
Tɪᴛʟᴇ: GM
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Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: Norway
World Champion (2013 – Current)
Rᴀᴛɪɴɢ: 2859
Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, and the current World Chess Champion. Carlsen was a child chess prodigy who became a chess grandmaster in 2004, at the age of 13 years and 148 days, making him the third-youngest grandmaster in history. In November 2013, Carlsen became World Champion by defeating Viswanathan Anand. On the May 2014 FIDE rating list, Carlsen reached his peak rating of 2882, which is the highest in history. After defeating Caruana in their 2018 World Championship Match, Carlsen ended the year by winning the World Blitz Championship, his 10th World Championship title in total. He's been having a phenomenal showing in 2019, winning Tata Steel and Shamkir Chess with a round to spare ahead of his closest rivals
GM Hikaru Nakamura
Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: USA
2018 Grand Chess Tour winner
Nakamura is a five-time United States Chess Champion who also won the 2011 edition of the Tata Steel Group A. He has represented the United States at six Chess Olympiads, winning two team bronze medals and the first team gold in 40 years at the 2016 Olympiad. In May 2014, when FIDE began publishing its official rapid and blitz chess ratings, Nakamura was ranked number one in the world on both lists. In 2015, the American GM won the Gibraltar Chess Masters tournament, captured his fourth U.S. Championship, place first at the Millionaire Chess Open, and propelled his classical FIDE rating to a career high of 2814. 2016 also proved to be a fruitful year for Naka as he repeated first place finishes at the Gibraltar Chess Festival and the Zurich Chess Challenge. In 2017, Hikaru won his third consecutive Gibraltar Chess Festival. He is the 2018 Grand Chess Tour winner.
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: France
2017 Sinquefield Cup winner
Often referred to as MVL, he came to prominence in 2009 after winning the title of World Junior Chess Champion. He is currently the No. 1 ranked player in France as well as a three-time French champion (2007, 2011, shared in 2012). He is also a four-time winner of the Biel Grandmaster Tournament (2009, 2013, 2014, 2015) and a former World Junior Champion (2009). His biggest tournament victory to date has been the 2017 Sinquefield Cup, where he finished first ahead of Magnus Carlsen. He won Sharjah Grand Prix in the same year and the 2018 Shenzhen Masters. MVL has been part of the Grand Chess Tour since 2015 and finished second in the 2018 edition after losing in the finals to Hikaru Nakamura.
GM Fabiano Caruana
The No. 2 ranked player in the world, Caruana became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days. He was the youngest grandmaster in the history of the United States until his record was beaten in 2009 by Ray Robson. After winning the 2014 Sinquefield Cup with a score of 8.5/10 and a performance of over 3000, he achieved a FIDE rating of 2844, becoming the third highest-rated player in history. Caruana has represented the United States in two Olympiads, winning team gold in 2016 and team bronze as well as individual bronze in 2018. He had a phenomenal showing in 2018 winning the Grenke Chess Classic, Norway Chess, and tying for first in the Sinquefield Cup with Carlsen and Aronian. Caruana won the 2018 Candidates tournament thus becoming the first American to challenge the World Champion in a unified match in 46 years. After drawing all classical games, Caruana lost the match in rapid tiebreaks.
GM Levon Aronian
Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: Armenia
2017 World Cup Winner
Aronian has been the leading Armenian chess player since the early 2000's. He has also led the Armenian national team to three gold medals in Chess Olympiads (Turin 2006, Dresden 2008, Istanbul 2012) as well as to gold at the World Team Chess Championship in 2011. His peak rating of 2830 is the fourth highest in history and put him in the number two spot in the world behind Magnus Carlsen. He won the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010. He was also World Rapid Chess Champion in 2009 and World Blitz Chess Champion in 2010. Aronian was the winner of the Chess World Cup in 2005 and then again in 2017, the only player to have won it twice. He is the 2015 Sinquefield Cup winner and tied for first with Carlsen and Caruana in 2018. He is also the winner of the inaugural Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz. Aronian is one of the most well liked chess players in the world and is considered a hero and a celebrity in his home country. A 2006 CNN article referred to him as the David Beckham of chess.
GM Wesley So
2016 Grand Chess Tour Cʜᴀᴍᴘɪᴏɴ
So is a former chess prodigy who became the youngest player to pass the 2600 threshold in October 2008, breaking the record previously held by Magnus Carlsen. In February 2015 he entered the world top-10 after tying for second place at the 2015 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The following year he returned and tied for second place, just a half-point behind Magnus. 2016 saw the American GM earn first place in the Grand Chess Tour by winning the Sinquefield Cup and the London Chess Classic. He represented the US in the 2016 Olympiad, winning team gold and individual gold on board three. In 2017, Wesley won the Tata Steel Masters tournament and became the eleventh player in history to surpass 2800 FIDE. He was crowned the 2017 US Champion after defeating Alexander Onischuk in the playoffs.
GM Viswanathan Anand
Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: India
World Champion (2007 – 2013)
The former World Chess Champion became India's first grandmaster in 1988. He held the FIDE World Chess Championship title from 2000 to 2002 and became the undisputed World Chess Champion in 2007. He defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008, Veselin Topalov in 2010 and Boris Gelfand in 2012 before finally losing the title to Magnus Carlsen in their World Chess Championship match in 2013. He won the Candidates Tournament the following year thus earning the right the challenge Carlsen. He is also a two-time World Rapid Champion. In 2006, he became the fourth player in history to cross 2800. He has been ranked No. 1 in the world for 21 months. Anand is considered a hero in India and Anand was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour. In 2007, he became the first sportsman to receive the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.
GM Leinier Dominguez
2008 World Blitz Champion
Wildcard Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz
Leinier Dominguez is a 5 time Cuban Chess Champion who completed his transfer to the United States Chess Federation in December 2018. He is currently the 4th highest rated player in the US and placed joint-second behind Hikaru Nakamura in his first US Chess Championship in May 2019. Leinier is a former World Blitz Champion having won the title in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2008. In June 2013 he won the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki, Greece while in 2016 he earned an individual silver medal playing on board 1 for Cuba in the 42nd World Chess Olympiad in Baku. His 2019 accomplishments include winning second in the 2019 U.S. Chess Championship and becoming the co-winner of the Netanya Masters in Israel.
GM Anish Giri
Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: Netherlands
4 Time Dutch Chess Champion
The Russian-born Dutch Grandmaster achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 14 years and 7 months, which made him the youngest grandmaster in the world at the time. Giri is a four-time Dutch Chess Champion (2009, 2011, 2012, and 2015). He won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010, thus qualifying to Tata Steel in 2011, where he defeated Magnus Carlsen in 22 moves. Giri has also represented the Netherlands at five Chess Olympiads, winning three individual bronze medals (2010, 2014, 2018). He was one of the members of Anand's team during the World Championship Match against Topalov, which Anand won. In 2018 he tied for first with Magnus Carlsen in Tata Steel and finished second behind the World Champion in 2019 in the same tournament.
GM Vladimir Kramnik
Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: Russia
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Paris GCT Wildcard
The Russian Grandmaster was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads.
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Cᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ: Azerbaijan
Mamedyarov is the No.1 player in Azerbaijan and was the third highest rated player in the world in September 2018. He is a two-time World Junior Champion (2003 and 2005) and a three-time European Team Champion (2009, 2013, 2017) with Azerbaijan. Mamedyarov was World Rapid Chess Champion in 2013, scoring 11.5/15. He represented his country at the 2012 Chess Olympiad and received a gold medal on the third board. GM Mamedyarov is also a two-time winner of the Tal Memorial (2010 and 2014) and Shamkir Chess (2016 and 2017) tournaments. In 2018, he won the Biel Chess Festival after defeating Magnus Carlsen and tied for second place in the Candidates Tournament. His peak rating of 2820 is the sixth highest in chess history.
GM Alexander Grischuk
Three time World Blitz Champion
Wildcard Paris Rapid & Blitz
GM Alexander Grischuk is widely recognised as one of the best blitz chess players in the world having been crowned World Blitz Champion in 2006, 2012 and 2015. He has also competed in four Candidates Tournaments and was a semi-finalist in the FIDE World Championship in 2000. Grischuk is a former Russian Champion and has won the Linares super tournament.In November 2014, Grishchuk crossed the elite 2800 ELO rating mark when he took clear first place with 5/7 points in the Tashir Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian. He is a veteran of 9 chess Olympiads and has won two team gold, three team silver and a team bronze medal while representing Russia. He narrowly missed out on selection as a full GCT tour participant in 2019 and will be a significant threat as a wildcard at the Paris Rapid & Blitz.
GM Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Karjakin was born in Simferopol on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine. He represented Ukraine until 2009, when he changed federations and now represents Russia. Karjakin was a childhood chess prodigy; he still holds the honor of being the youngest player to earn the grandmaster title at the age of 12 years and 7 months. Sergey showed in all eight of the Chess Olympiads in which he competed, earning three gold, two silver and two bronze medals. In 2016, Karjakin won the Candidates Tournament and with it, the honor to challenge World Champion Magnus Carlsen for the title. After a hotly contested November match in New York, Karjakin had a tied score against the world champion, but lost the match on playoffs. His defensive skills during the match earned him the playful title of Russia's "Minister of Defense". He is a former World Blitz and World Rapid Champion. He has won team gold with team Russia during the 2013 and 2019 World Team Championship.
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As the struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare with a plan that will decrease fast-rising and exorbitant premiums as well as increasing consumer choice rages on, another health care crisis looms.
Americans are facing an increasing shortage of primary care physicians, and the problem is only expected to get worse over the next 10 years.
Imagine a world where everyone has to travel hours to find a doctor who is able to provide treatment and lifesaving medicine. Imagine having a child fall ill, but the nearest pediatrician being many miles away.
This shortage is already affecting communities nationwide. Many have begun to lack much-needed medical services, and this pressure is most deeply felt in rural communities.
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Until we give American doctors more freedom to practice medicine across the country, the current restrictions will only continue to reduce access to care for the ordinary Americans politicians are trying to help.


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Is there a commandline command I could execute that would give me that information?  I just want the branch name.
Also, is there any way to see how many revisions I'm behind or ahead with git svn?
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A Home Hummer Hybrid
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I didn't drag myself to the International Builder's Show (IBS) this year. It was held in Las Vegas, which is a city I've managed to avoid so far. I've passed through its airport, but haven't walked its legendary neon-lit streets. I couldn't imagine breaking that good record by going to an annual event I also try to avoid. Hype, pretense and an unfettered pandering to fantasy are hallmarks of both Las Vegas and the Builders Show. I imagine it played out as just another lavish show in a city known for disconnection from reality and the playing-out of juvenile narcissism. So there's symmetry in having the Builder's show in Las Vegas, and if it stays there, it's unlikely I'll ever feel obligated to attend again.
One of the really fun (or funny) events at IBS is the annual unveiling of what has come to be called "The New American Home." The basic idea is to build an actual home somewhere near the convention hall that puts on display architecture, design and technology meant to represent some kind of ideal about the state of the American home. It's always something of a joke, though, because what actually happens is that all the manufacturers and suppliers who get involved attempt to show off their stuff at a scale in proportion to their investment, so the home always balloons in size, and becomes silly in its complexity as it is forced to take on every feature, amenity and gadget that could possibly be deployed in a single dwelling.
As reported in the recent edition of Popular Mechanics, this year was no different. After reading about this year's show house, I'm glad I didn't see this one in person. I might have left my lunch on one of its oh-so-green floors. It is one thing to build the usual big, stupid mansion for the benefit of hundreds of participating companies to display their wares, because visitors at least get it: it's not a house; it's a whole bunch of product showrooms in disguise. It's quite another thing to try to call this conspicuous sales event a green and sustainable home. That's no longer funny. The 2009 "New American Home" is almost 9,000 square feet. No amount of green materials or ingenious energy efficient features can overcome this gaudy fact.
This one actually fails to be credible demonstration of renewable energy supply offsetting the home's demand, as pointed out by Popular Mechanics:
The bulk of an estimated $2500 annual total utility cost would come from the natural gas used to heat and cool the house, heat the water and fire up those fireplaces. In its defense, the house cools itself using 39 percent as much fuel as a comparably sized structure, but using a rough Las Vegas average of $7 per million btuin natural gas (the national average is $4.90), we estimate that this house consumes close to 300 million Btu in gas per year. At 293 kwh-per-million Btu, that's getting up past 85,000 kwh per year—three times the average American home's 27,022 annual kwh. Put simply, this house is bloated.
So you can't, as they say, put lipstick on this pig. LED lights, photovoltaic panels, recycled flooring can't justify the puffed-up extravagance of its raw size. As this home's energy conservation measures and renewable energy technologies try to chase down its gargantuan energy requirements, it conjures the image of a dog in the futile chase of his own tail. So, the 2009 New American Home is the equivalent of making a Hummer into a hybrid; it wouldn't be a bad thing to do, but that wouldn't make it an ecological solution to be touted as the way forward.
The truly New American Home of the future will be much smaller. It will be energy efficient because of its size and sustainable because of its built-in capacity to adapt to constantly changing needs and technologies. As a country, we need to learn how to live differently and build differently. It certainly would have been much more instructive if the National Association of Homebuilders, which directs the building of this model home, would show some courage in this regard, but I don't expect it. That would be too much like leading, and that hasn't been an area in which the NAHB has been inclined.
The only good thing about this latest version of the New American Home is the advertised promise that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas.
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Job reproves his friends. (1-5) He represents his case as deplorable. (6-16) Job maintains his innocency. (17-22)1-5 Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless, but what good does it do? Angry answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures, in comparison with God; one time or other we shall be made to see and own that miserable comforters are they all. When under convictions of sin, terrors of conscience, or the arrests of death, only the blessed Spirit can comfort effectually; all others, without him, do it miserably, and to no purpose. Whatever our brethren's sorrows are, we ought by sympathy to make them our own; they may soon be so.
6-16 Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took full notice of all his sorrows. Those who pour out tears before God, though they cannot plead for themselves, by reason of their defects, have a Friend to plead for them, even the Son of man, and on him we must ground all our hopes of acceptance with God. To die, is to go the way whence we shall not return. We must all of us, very certainly, and very shortly, go this journey. Should not then the Saviour be precious to our souls? And ought we not to be ready to obey and to suffer for his sake? If our consciences are sprinkled with his atoning blood, and testify that we are not living in sin or hypocrisy, when we go the way whence we shall not return, it will be a release from prison, and an entrance into everlasting happiness.
Ps. 34:19 is comforting, it says 'many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all". Also v. 15 "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry".
Why do so many still dare to open their mouths against the Lord's servants? The LORD considered Job among the rarest and most beloved men ever in the world, with Noah and Daniel someone who could move God powerfully with his prayers. Who are you to find fault? What right and authority puts you in the seat to judge God's servant; of whom God testified that he is perfect and upright like none else!
In verse 12, Job mistakenly stated that God set him up as his target. It was really Satan who was targeting Job. We should remember who is really the cause of suffering and evil.
Job was a man of integrity.lost all he had.but never gave up on God.a lot of times things sometime block our way and cause us to not see the things that God would have us to see.and a lot of times God will remove those things that block us from seeing spiritual.to let us know that I got this trust me.Job trust God and came through as pure Gold.
Don't be so critical of one that appears to have fallen from Grace. It is only an opportunity for you to pray for him and let God use you heart and tears to restore him! What a privilege!
In Job 15 we learn his friends told him his afflictions were his punishment for his sins: Job knows this is not true in v.17. Job 16:2"I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all." In v. 11 he called them "wicked". It looks like his friends lived close to him. I hope this helps.
Bible fan, you say, "pain and suffering can't be good." Please read Psalm 119:71 "It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn thy statutes." Psalm 119:75 "I know O Lord that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me."
My question is who were the people living around Job when the 16th chapter of Job and the 12th verse was written ?
pain and suffering can 't be good - buddhists claim that western folk make the pain worse by infusing "self " and personality into the picture -for example Job says God is pouring his wrath on me and i am without sin, etc,etc but really sometimes bad things happen which cant not be easily explained and are more about the physical forces of nature rather than your personality or God 's personality taking exception with your "self "
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Whom does Job blame for his suffering?
Job thought God caused the sufferings, although he respected Him.
He thought Satan caused it.
He thought someone put an evil spell on him and his family.
He blamed his enemies from the village.


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Edwin Leslie speaks about his ability to finance a renovation of the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center and Ramada Hotel during a presentation at the convention center in Waterloo Aug. 22
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WATERLOO — A developer buying Waterloo's downtown hotel and city-owned convention center is staying despite what he described as a "witch hunt" against his integrity by several council members.
Edwin Leslie, president and chief executive officer of Leslie Hospitality, released stacks of personal financial records for city officials, members of the public and press Tuesday that he said he was not legally obligated to provide.
During a presentation at the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, Leslie said he's been treated unfairly and was vetted more thoroughly than other developers doing deals with the city.
He blamed City Councilmen Bruce Jacobs, Tom Lind and Steve Schmitt for pushing for information he was not obligated to release under terms of the development agreement or which had been provided for private review by the city's professional staff.
He singled out Jacobs for circulating false information about his business operations, including a misleading online records search and "slanderous" article from Carefree, Ariz., referencing his status as a gay man.
Leslie said he broached his concern with Mayor Quentin Hart earlier this year about whether Waterloo would be accepting of a gay-owned company buying its convention center.
"The mayor kind of laughed at me," Leslie said. "He said, 'Well, we have a black mayor. We're a progressive city.' And he gave me 25 great reasons about why I shouldn't worry about that."
Leslie noted the report from the truthfinder.org website provided to Jacobs by a constituent showed 20 bankruptcies, 17 lawsuits and other issues.
"The problem with what (was) sent to Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Jacobs distributed to the other City Council members of his choosing is that I'm not Edwin A. Leslie. … I'm not Edwin L. Leslie," he said. "I'm Edwin W. Leslie."
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He also reiterated his contention Jacobs should abstain from the issue because he unsuccessfully sought Leslie's business in May before raising concerns about the project.
"Mr. Jacobs works for a bank that's loaned me $17 million since that time (for a different project). If I'm not credit worthy and I have financial issues, why did Great Western Bank accept my personal guarantee on a $17 million loan?"
The Courier reached out to Jacobs for comment, but had not received one.
In a previous statement to The Courier and comments made during Monday's City Council meeting, Jacobs said he supported the project.
"This deal is somewhat different than most as we are paying an out-of-state developer a million dollars of borrowed money to take our convention center," he said. "We must make sure we put it in the hands of a solid developer.
"All council members should have done their due diligence to make sure we do that to the best of their ability, not just rely on a PowerPoint presentation at a city council meeting," he said. "The point is, this deal is happening and we need to support it now. I am asking for the public and council to get behind the project as we are beyond the fact-finding stage and into implementation."
Leslie said he isn't walking away from the project.
"I'm asking for one thing in this transaction: fairness," Leslie said. "Twenty-five years ago I would have packed up my toys and said this is not worth the hassle. I'm not going to do this deal and I'm going to say goodbye Waterloo and you can sell your hotel and convention center to someone else.
"Those days have passed," he said. "I'm going to dig in. I'll fight for what's fair and I'm going to fight for what I believe in."
Leslie has already purchased the Ramada Hotel, which will be fixed up and rebranded as an upscale Hotel RL. He expects to close on the acquisition of the convention center once City Council members reaffirm a development agreement.
Council members voted 4-0 July 17 to sell the convention center for $1, provide $1.1 million to help fix it up and tax breaks in the future based on the increased value of the hotel and convention center. Leslie Hospitality is expected to invest more than $20 million remodeling both buildings.
Schmitt and Lind abstained from voting on the original agreement, saying they lacked enough information. Jacobs abstained from voting due to a potential conflict of interest, but continued questioning Leslie's qualifications.
Schmitt attended the meeting Tuesday and defended the councilmen's questions as looking out for the taxpayers' interests.
"The whole council is in favor of this project; nobody voted against this project," Schmitt said. "(Two) council members abstained because they did not feel we had the information we needed to proceed.
"I don't think some of those requests were out of line whatsoever," he added. "I'm sorry also that we're here today. This thing was approved a month ago. In my opinion we're moving on. I think that's where the majority of the council's at."
Several residents at the meeting also weighed in on the subject, with several saying "the three"—Lind, Schmitt and Jacobs—were justified in asking for information to ensure Leslie Hospitality was capable of handling the project.
"These three councilmen who ask these questions ask them for people like me," said resident Forest Dillavou. "We have a right to know. … We have a lot of skin in the game as taxpayers."
Others, including Cedar Falls resident Bob Manning and Waterloo Councilman Pat Morrissey, said they were disappointed in how Leslie was treated during the process.
"I have never, ever seen any development agreement and the people involved be treated like you have been treated," Morrissey said. "I'm very happy you have the guts to stay here."
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KokoT Aug 22, 2017 3:04pm
How about some due diligence before circulating clearly inaccurate financial information on this guy, Mr. Jacobs??
b786alo Aug 22, 2017 9:03pm
The article is misleading in that the reader is left with the impression that Bob Manning is a Waterloo Iowa resident. Mr. Manning is a resident of Cedar Falls so he is insulated from the tax consequences of the Convention Center deal.
WaterlooWho Aug 23, 2017 8:56am
Look, an ad hominem argument! -- Attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. Also see, "avoiding the issue".
Intheno Aug 23, 2017 7:43am
Looks like the beginning of the end for the three stooges. Not enough ground or space for them to backtrack all their insidious meddling, dishonesty and obvious attempts to discredit Mr. Leslie, this project, the mayor and progress for Waterloo. Time to go boys.
Raccoon1 Aug 23, 2017 11:26am
I think with as many bankruptcys and judgements against him and his companies, he is the wrong choice to take it over
not so sure Aug 23, 2017 12:14pm
so mr jacobs distributes a false background check to his buddies, who need more information . He needs to admit his error and stay out of this, he and his crew have embarrassed Waterloo and the investor. Jacobs has shown a lack of judgement and ethics, use caution working with the local great west branch, if you don't give them the business, them might try to undercut your deal.
why are you ready to believe the developer without hearing from Mr. Jacobs? He publishes his phone number and an email. Ever thought of contacting him and hearing his side of the story? What could that hurt?
TimXXX Aug 23, 2017 4:43pm
Waterloo should be happy to be rid of this money pit. Taxpayer money never should have been spent on it. The city does keep it up in fact like most things they let it go to hell. How could anyone do worse.
radh2o Aug 23, 2017 6:57pm
Jacobs, Lind & Schmitz are a detriment to the City of Waterloo - they have shown themselves to be negative forces on the Council.
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Bobbie Houston: "There's nothing within Brian and I at the moment that wants to retire".
By churchwatcher on April 4, 2022
One person who has evaded the majority of the spotlight within Hillsong is Bobbie Houston. The #MeToo and #IllRideWithYou pastrix has been essential in Hillsong's 'virtue signalling' for decades while ignoring the horrific abuse scandals of women caused by the Hillsong name – Mercy Ministries being a prime example. While there is no doubt that Bobbie, the wife of Brian Houston, has been clearly aware of her husband's handling of his father's paedophilia, she has shown absolute no Christian compassion towards supporting those sexually abused. One should expect that with her power and influence, these victims could have had the emotional, spiritual and financial support needed to repair their lives. While she appears to give the impression she stands against abuse outside of the walls of Hillsong, to this day Bobbie Houston has done nothing to help and support abused women in her role as church leader. Instead, her silence has been deafening regarding sexual abuse within Hillsong church.
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Preferring to 'virtue signal' the 'princess culture' within Hillsong where she is all about 'women's empowerment', this silence continues to grow. It's also interesting to note that this silence appears to have been noticed by Hillsong's female 'poster child', Christine Caine. Has Christine backed off completely from her Hillsong speaking engagements? If Christine Caine was aware of the sexual misconduct or the mistreatment of women at Hillsong, it is a potentially smart move of Caine to distance herself.
So why isn't Bobbie Houston being held accountable for her knowledge
regarding the scandals she and her husband helped cover up?
To be consistent with their Hillsong theology, both are responsible (as 'one flesh') for each other's actions as church leaders.
HILLSONG PROPAGANDA PUSHED THROUGH BIBLE SOCIETY'S ETERNITY 'NEWS'.
A good example of this 'one flesh' concept recently appeared on March 23, 2022 in an Eternity News advert on Facebook. Eternity News is like the BBC of the world when it comes to integrity in journalism; when journalists and investigators break a scandal – the BBC reports or says the opposite to further whatever 'virtue signalling cause' to appeal to the expectations of their audiences. Likewise with Eternity News, they once again act as the propaganda arm for Hillsong, interviewing Bobbie Houston to portray her husband in contrast to what both the victims and the spiritually abused have revealed about him.
Note: We are mindful that this interview may have happened a week or two before Brian being forced to resign. Nevertheless, the entire point of the Eternity News piece is not newsworthy but a mere damage control piece that contributes in reinforcing the lie that Brian Houston and Hillsong are not abusive in their leadership roles in any way, shape or form.
Furthermore, her words about 'retirement' are questionable in the sense that by this stage (thanks to Hillsong elders back in January), she knew Brian Houston was unfit to continue pastoring Hillsong (because of his discipline process in how he mistreated women). By doing this interview potentially outside of Hillsong's eldership governance, was this their attempt to hold on to control of their empire? We would like to see an investigation into Hillsong's connections to the Bible Society and Eternity News as to who is authorising these stories in order to defend the 'credibility' of Brian and Bobbie Houston at the expense of Hillsong's eldership.
Eternity advertised the following advert of Bobbie Houston, Brian Houston and Hillsong on Facebook:
Bobbie Houston on retirement, criticism and 'megachurch'
Our intimate and wide-ranging conversation with Hillsong Church's Bobbie Houston has her opening up about women in leadership, dealing with criticism, retirement plans and so much more …
Explore the full interview – https://eternity.news/s/croij
Towards the end of the video, Eternity asked a question around Brian and Bobbie Houston actually retiring from ministry. Her response?
"Do I have plans to retire? I actually said that to Brian recently, maybe a year or so ago. I said, 'Honey, when do you think I should retire?' And he just laughed at me. He actually just laughed in a nice way. He's like, 'That's hilarious.' So, um, no I don't – I don't have any ti-I mean why? I'm not gonna retire from the, from loving God and wanting to serve him as best I can. Okay. But I am mindful of age.
I am mindful of seasons and 62, that means we're probably in that last quarter of our lives depending on how long we live. So we're actually mindful of the future. We're mindful of setting the future up. But there's nothing within Brian and I at the moment that wants to retire."
Source: Bobbie Houston, Bobbie Houston on retirement, criticism and 'megachurch', Eternity News, https://www.facebook.com/EternityNews/videos/399391710656464/?__tn__=%2CO-R, Published March 23, 2022. (Accessed March 30, 2022.) [8:13]
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