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using System;
using System.Text;
using AutoFixture.AutoMoq.UnitTest.TestTypes;
using AutoFixture.Kernel;
using Moq;
using Xunit;

namespace AutoFixture.AutoMoq.UnitTest
{
    public class MockTypeTest
    {
        [Fact]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixtureThrowsWhenSetupIsNull()
        {
            // Arrange
            var fixture = new Mock<IFixture>();
            // Act & Assert
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentNullException>(
                () => MockType.ReturnsUsingFixture<string, string>(null, fixture.Object));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixtureThrowsWhenFixtureIsNull()
        {
            // Arrange
            var mock = new Mock<IInterfaceWithProperty>();
            var setup = mock.Setup(x => x.Property);
            // Act & Assert
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentNullException>(
                () => setup.ReturnsUsingFixture(null));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixtureSetsMockUp()
        {
            // Arrange
            var mock = new Mock<IInterfaceWithProperty>();
            var setup = mock.Setup(x => x.Property);
            var fixture = new Fixture();
            var frozenString = fixture.Freeze<string>();
            // Act
            setup.ReturnsUsingFixture(fixture);
            // Assert
            Assert.Equal(frozenString, mock.Object.Property);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixtureSetsMockUpLazily()
        {
            // Arrange
            var mock = new Mock<IInterfaceWithProperty>();
            var setup = mock.Setup(x => x.Property);
            var fixture = new Mock<ISpecimenBuilder>();
            // Act
            setup.ReturnsUsingFixture(fixture.Object);
            // Assert
            fixture.Verify(f => f.Create(typeof(string), It.IsAny<SpecimenContext>()), Times.Never());
            var result = mock.Object.Property;
            fixture.Verify(f => f.Create(typeof(string), It.IsAny<SpecimenContext>()), Times.Once());
        }

        [Fact]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixture_SetsMockUpWithNull_WhenContextReturnsNull_AndMemberIsReferenceType()
        {
            // Arrange
            var mock = new Mock<IInterfaceWithProperty>();
            var fixture = new Mock<ISpecimenBuilder>();
            fixture.Setup(f => f.Create(typeof(string), It.IsAny<ISpecimenContext>()))
                .Returns(null as string);
            // Act
            mock.Setup(x => x.Property).ReturnsUsingFixture(fixture.Object);
            // Assert
            Assert.Null(mock.Object.Property);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixture_SetsMockUpWithNull_WhenContextReturnsNull_AndMemberIsNullableValueType()
        {
            // Arrange
            var mock = new Mock<IInterfaceWithNullableValueTypeProperty>();
            var fixture = new Mock<ISpecimenBuilder>();
            fixture.Setup(f => f.Create(typeof(int?), It.IsAny<ISpecimenContext>()))
                .Returns(null as int?);
            // Act
            mock.Setup(x => x.Property).ReturnsUsingFixture(fixture.Object);
            // Assert
            Assert.Null(mock.Object.Property);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixture_Throws_WhenContextReturnsNull_AndMemberIsNonNullableValueType()
        {
            // Arrange
            var mock = new Mock<IInterfaceWithNonNullableValueTypeProperty>();
            var fixture = new Mock<ISpecimenBuilder>();
            fixture.Setup(f => f.Create(typeof(int), It.IsAny<ISpecimenContext>()))
                .Returns(null as object);
            // Act
            mock.Setup(x => x.Property).ReturnsUsingFixture(fixture.Object);
            // Assert
            var ex = Assert.Throws<InvalidOperationException>(() => mock.Object.Property);
            Assert.Equal("Tried to setup a member with a return type of System.Int32, but null was found instead.",
                ex.Message);
        }

        [Theory]
        [InlineData(typeof(OmitSpecimen))]
        [InlineData(typeof(NoSpecimen))]
        [InlineData(typeof(object))]
        [InlineData(typeof(StringBuilder))]
        public void ReturnsUsingFixture_Throws_WhenContextReturnsUnexpectedSpecimen(Type specimenType)
        {
            // Arrange
            var mock = new Mock<IInterfaceWithProperty>();
            var specimen = Activator.CreateInstance(specimenType);
            var fixture = new Mock<ISpecimenBuilder>();
            fixture.Setup(f => f.Create(typeof(string), It.IsAny<ISpecimenContext>()))
                .Returns(specimen);
            var expectedExceptionMessage =
                string.Format(
                    "Tried to setup a member with a return type of System.String, but an instance of {0} was found instead.",
                    specimenType.FullName);

            // Act
            mock.Setup(x => x.Property).ReturnsUsingFixture(fixture.Object);
            // Assert
            var ex = Assert.Throws<InvalidOperationException>(() => mock.Object.Property);
            Assert.Equal(expectedExceptionMessage, ex.Message);
        }
    }
}


*I used bread flour for this recipe.
Temperature: Pre heat (180) for 2mins and bake (180) for 15mins and (200) for 5mins.
I followed the instruction to the dot and this takes 3hours from start to finish.
The bread came out soft, good to have it on the stop but the bun became real hard the next day! :( Maybe I should try this again with a proper oven.
Temperature: Pre heat (160) for 5mins and bake (160) for 20mins.
I cheated and used Beksul's Oatmeal Cookie Mix for my first ever air fryer cookie.
The taste of this pre-mix is not too sweet and leads towards a more raisin cookie taste instead of oats and I do recommend it!
Temperature: Pre heat (180) for 3mins and bake (180) for 8-10mins.


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In attività fin dal 1999, ha raggiunto il successo nel 2008 grazie a un remix del brano Loca con su tiguere, insieme a Voltio e Ñejo & Dálmata.

Nel 2009 ha partecipato alla composizione del brano di successo internazionale del rapper Pitbull I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho). Nello stesso anno ha esordito come solista con l'album El malo, pubblicato dall'etichetta discografica Planet, pubblicato il 5 dicembre.

L'anno seguente ha partecipato alla realizzazione dell'album della nota popstar colombiana Shakira, Sale el sol, per il quale ha scritto diverse tracce. Ha inoltre duettato con la cantante per la versione in lingua spagnola del brano estratto come primo singolo, Loca, ispirato al brano Loca con su tiguere che l'ha lanciato, che ha riscosso un buon successo. Il disco contiene un altro duetto, nella versione in spagnolo della canzone Rabiosa.

Discografia

Album in studio
 2009 – El malo (Planet Records)

Collaborazioni
 2010 – Loca (versione spagnola) (Shakira feat. El Cata)
 2011 – Rabiosa (versione spagnola) (Shakira feat. El Cata)

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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Chapters 7-10
Part II Chapters 1-7
Chapters 27-Epilogue
What is a Romance?
Alexandre Dumas and The Three Musketeers Background
D'Artagnan
The central character of the novel, d'Artagnan is a young, impoverished Gascon nobleman who comes to make his fortune in Paris. He is brave, noble, ambitious, crafty, and intelligent. Like any Romantic hero, he is driven by love and ruled by chivalry, but occasionally prone to fall into amoral behavior.
The most important of the Three Musketeers, Athos is something of a father figure to d'Artagnan. He is older than his comrades, although still a young man. Athos is distinguished in every way--intellect, appearance, bravery, swordsmanship--yet he is tortured by a deep melancholy, the source of which no one knows.
A young Musketeer, one of the great Three. Aramis is a handsome young man, quiet and somewhat foppish. He constantly protests that he is only temporarily in the Musketeers, and that any day now he will return to the Church to pursue his true calling. Aramis has a mysterious mistress, Madame de Chevreuse, a high noblewoman, whose existence and identity he tries to keep from his friends.
Porthos, the third of the Three Musketeers, is loud, brash, and self-important. He is extremely vain, and enjoys outfitting himself handsomely; but for all that, he is a valiant fighter and a courageous friend. His mistress is Madame Coquenard, the wife of a wealthy attorney.
Lady de Winter
A mysterious, beautiful, dangerous, and ultimately evil Cardinalist agent. D'Artagnan becomes obsessed with her, but eventually she and the Musketeers become fierce adversaries. Milady has a secret, and she kills anyone who finds it out--her left shoulder is branded with the Fleur-de-Lis, a mark put on the worst criminals.
Madame Bonacieux
Wife of Monsieur Bonacieux and lady-in-waiting for Queen Anne. Madame Bonacieux is loyal to the Queen through and through. D'Artagnan falls in love with her, and in doing so gets involved in the Queen's secret affairs.
Monsieur Bonacieux
D'Artagnan's landlord, and Madame Bonacieux's husband. He originally comes to d'Artagnan for help when Madame Bonacieux is kidnapped, but after a private audience with the Cardinal, turns on his wife and becomes a Cardinalist agent.
Monsieur de Treville
The head of the King's Musketeers. Monsieur de Treville is an honorable and distinguished gentleman, and close friend to the King. He treats all his Musketeers as his sons, and is an important figure of support for the young d'Artagnan. He is a rival of Cardinal Richelieu for favor and influence with the King.
King Louis XIII
King of France. Louis XIII is not much of a ruler, and is dominated by his advisors, most notably Cardinal Richelieu, the most powerful man in France. He is a petulant and petty person, and those around him who are most successful are those who have learned to manipulate his pettiness.
Cardinal Richelieu
The King's most influential advisor, Richelieu is the most powerful and important man in France. He is furiously self-absorbed, but also an extremely effective leader of the state. Richelieu works hard to maintain the reputation and power of the king, since this is the stock on which his own status is based.
Queen of France. Anne is Spanish, and her loyalties are divided between her Spanish heritage, her position as Queen of France, and her love for George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham. The King does not trust her, or particularly like her, and the Cardinal hates her. Anne leads an unhappy life in the court.
George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham
Favorite and Minister of War for King Charles I of England. Buckingham is the perfect English gentleman, handsome, witty, brave, wealthy, and powerful. He is desperately in love with Anne of Austria, who, more reservedly, returns his affections. Throughout the novel, Buckingham's only motivation is to see and please Anne.
Lord de Winter
Lady de Winter's brother-in-law. Lord de Winter is a foppish gentlemen, not given to intrigue or action, but he rises to the occasion when more is demanded of him toward the end of the novel.
Comte de Rochefort
The Cardinal's private spy, a dangerous man.
Comte de Wardes
A Cardinalist agent; Milady is in love with him.
Milady's maid; she falls in love with d'Artagnan.
John Felton
A British Naval Officer, ward of Lord de Winter; a Protestant.
Planchet
D'Artagnan's manservant. A very intelligent, reliable, somewhat brave man.
Athos' manservant. Athos has trained him to communicate in hand-signals, to minimize speech.
Porthos's manservant. Like his master, he enjoys the finer things in life.
Aramis's manservant. He wants nothing so much as for his master to enter the Church.
Madame de Coquenard
Porthos's mistress, the wife of a wealthy attorney. She dotes on Porthos, living for his affection. Porthos keeps her identity secret from his friends, telling them his mistress is a Duchess.
Madame de Chevreuse
Aramis's secret mistress, and a close personal friend of the Queen. Madame de Chevreuse is banished from Paris because the King, goaded by the Cardinal, suspects her of aiding the Queen in her personal and political intrigues.
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With 2015 starting TOMORROW, I thought it was a good time to start off a blog for my cards (and other crafty projects...we will see). Since joining Stampin' Up, I have very slowly gotten myself organized but now I think I am ready. This morning I wanted to work with some of the stamp sets that I ordered in my demonstrator kit. I wouldn't say they are seasonal but both stamp sets have such pretty flowers!
This card is on a Rich Razzleberry base that I ran through the Big Shot (woohoo Christmas present!) using the decorative dots embossing folder. I stamped the Blended Bloom stamp and attempted to use Rich Razzleberry blendabilities (which are awesome but I want to practice more...and what a great stamp to try with!). The sentiment is from the Endless Birthday Wishes set and is stamped in Hello Honey. This was mounted onto a Hello Honey piece of cardstock before finishing it with a little bit of bling!
My second card uses the Flower Patch set, which allows you to do some layered stamping. I saw something similar on Pinterest that I wanted to give a shot. I used the colours Wisteria Wonder and Blackberry bliss to stamp both the flowers and the sentiment on a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I trimmed the edges of the flowers before gluing the cardstock to a Blackberry Bliss base. SOMEHOW I managed to get ink all over my hands and that would contribute to the small smudges but I still think it is a pretty card that I might try again.
I'm really looking forward to using some of the new stamps from the Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration coming out next week. Plus the whole next year will be me learning a little bit more about stamping and techniques that I can't wait to show! I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year!
Labels: Blended Blooms, Endless Birthday Wishes, flower patch, Stampin' Up!
I really like your Flower Patch card, Jenna. Trimming around the flowers gives such an interesting element over just a square layer.


Here's the Question sketch I did for Eric at Heroes Con.
There have been so many great artist to draw the Question, from Steve Ditko to Denys Cowan, so I was trying really hard with this one to just go with my gut and make him my own. This one is probably in my top five sketches I did from the show.
Check back tomorrow for more Heroes sketches.
What, no one commented on this yet? I think there is no question that this piece. . . is superb.


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Q: Merging Development Branch to Main: There were no changes to merge My main branch has some files that have different codes from the same file of development branch. The development branch is the one that has the correct version of these files but when I am trying to merge it to main branch(target); I am getting a message saying

There was no changes to merge

How can I resolve that problem so that the main branch has the correct version of those files?

A: When merging files TFS doesn't just look at the differences between the two branches, but it also keeps track of whether you've ignored these changes in a previous merge attempt. When merging TFS offers you 3 options when there are conflicts:

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*Merge

*Keep Source

*Keep Target

When you pick Keep target or when you manually merge and deselect certain changes, TFS will mark these changes as "resolved" and will not offer them again when you try to merge in the future. This is called a "merge credit".
You can also create these issues using the commandline when using tf merge /discard which will tell TFS to ignore the changes in those files/changesets when considering merges.
There are two ways to force TFS to reconsider these changes:

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*Use force merge. On the commandline you can initiate a merge in which TFS will temporarily ignore it's records and will offer you every different file for merging. This can be a lot of work, but once done your merge history will be back in shape. To issue a force merge run tf merge $/Source/Folder/File $/Target/Folder/File /force /version:T This will almost certainly raise a merge conflict which you can resolve to get the right changes in the target branch.

*Undo the previous merge using Rollback. If you've recently done the merge in which changesets have been discarded. Find it in the history, rightclick the changeset and pick Rollback and check in the code that has been undone. This will actually remove all of the changes in that changeset and will reset the "merge credits". Once this has been done you can redo the merge and do it right this time. This can also be done from the command line using tf rollback

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"No reason why India couldn't come to Pakistan and Pakistan go to India": Ramiz Raja
India and Pakistan haven't faced each other in a bilateral series since 2012-13.
By Salman Anjum - 03 Dec, 2022
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja is lately grabbing the headlines with his comments on BCCI and Indian cricket.
On Saturday (December 3), Ramiz once again touched the contentious topic, stating that there is "no reason" for India and Pakistan not to host each other in Test and white-ball cricket.
While the arch-rivals continue to lock horns in multi-nation tournaments, they haven't faced each other in a bilateral series since 2012-13 because of political hostility.
"Both boards need to come to terms whether we want to play each other or not. Pakistan is willing, but they quote political interference. You can't work when there is political interference," Ramiz told BBC's Test Match Special.
"They quote the government doesn't allow it, so that kills the debate. There is no reason why India couldn't come to Pakistan and Pakistan go to India," he added.
While Pakistan last toured India for the T20 World Cup in 2016, India have not visited Pakistan since the 2008 Asia Cup.
Pakistan have the hosting rights of the Asia Cup 2023, but BCCI secretary Jay Shah has mentioned that India will not travel and the event would be shifted to a neutral venue.
In response, PCB has said that alteration to the Asia Cup might see them to opt out of the 50-over World Cup in India next October and November.
"Why give it to us in the first place and then make all those statements that India will not travel," said Ramiz.
"India cannot come because the government will not allow them because that has been the stated position, but to take the Asia Cup away from us is just not right."
The PCB chief also expressed his frustration that neutral cricket boards like ECB and CA are not doing enough to break the deadlock between Pakistan and India.
"The neutral cricket boards that have held important positions, when they keep quiet it frustrates me completely," he said.
"The International Cricket Council has to think out of the box and work better."
(With BBC inputs)
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Energy poverty linked to cognitive deficits
By Will Parker on June 4, 2012 in Mental Health, News
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Pitzer College say they have found children exposed to open-fire cooking in developing countries experience difficulty with memory, problem-solving and social skills. Past research identified numerous health risks to those exposed to smoke from open cooking fires, but this is the first time it has been associated with deficits in cognitive development. The researchers, Mary Gauvain at UC Riverside and Robert L. Munroe from Pitzer, have published their findings in the International Journal of Environmental Health Research.
Their research comes as international public and private agencies advocate, through the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, the use of clean and efficient cooking stoves in the developing world. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is among the alliance's supporters because of the impacts of open-fire cooking on health and climate change.
Previous studies have shown that children's exposure to carbon monoxide and toxins in smoke from open-fire cooking poses risks to immune systems and susceptibility to respiratory ailments, including pneumonia and changes to the lungs and other organs. Gauvain wondered if open-fire cooking could have anything to do with cognitive development and decided to look at our cognitive data in relation to cooking methods.
Gauvain and Munroe studied approximately 200 children aged 3 to 9 living in traditional communities in Belize, Kenya, Nepal and American Samoa. Two of the communities – Logoli in Kenya and Newars in Nepal – consistently used open-fire cooking with wood, dung or straw indoors. In American Samoa, cooking was done on kerosene stoves. Families in Belize were split almost evenly among those who cooked only with wood on open fires, those who used both open-fire and kerosene-stove cooking, and those who cooked nearly exclusively with kerosene stoves.
Gauvain and Munroe found that exposure to open-fire cooking, as opposed to cooking on kerosene stoves, was associated with both lower cognitive performance and less frequent structured play, regardless of culture, child age and educational level, and socioeconomic status.
While the researchers cannot say for certain that smoke from open-fire cooking causeslower cognitive performance, their results echo the findings of a 2008 study that found direct connections among toxins in the air, brain development and cognitive impairment. That study compared MRI scans of 9- and 10-year-old middle-class children living in Mexico City, where there are high levels of air pollution, and Polotitlán, a city in Mexico with low air-pollution levels.
Gauvain and Munroe said the fact that the negative effects of open-fire cooking were strongest for the youngest children, who spent more time in the home where the cooking took place. "Exposure to wood-burning stoves may be more damaging than people realize. It could have cognitive and behavioral effects. We're trying to draw attention to the fact that the problem may be much broader in scope," said Gauvain.
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Not Satisfied with Half the Picture: My Quest for Truth Beyond Tradition
In April 2017, Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler sent out invitations to participate in a book project with the working title, Ten From The Nations: Exploring the Torah Awakening Among Non-Jews. Her motivation is to increase awareness of the fact that we are witnessing the gradual fulfillment of Zechariah 8:23. She did so by compiling testimonies from non-Jews who have experienced a Torah awakening of some sort, and from Jews who are actively building relationships with those who are stepping forward from the nations. Her book includes the voices of Christian Zionists, Bnei Noach, Ephraimites, Gerim and more.
It is an honor to be one of those invited to submit a testimony. What follows is the story of my journey into an appreciation of Torah and the Hebraic roots of my Christian faith.
For more information on Ten From The Nations, visit http://www.tenfromthenations.com/.
For the first few years of my life, people fell into one of two categories: white, or black. Then the rules changed and the world got complicated.
Scenes of my formative years. Left: going to church in Pensacola, Florida, with my father and older sister in 1962. Right: Dawson Memorial Baptist Church (with Pastor Edgar M. Arendall) and Briarwood Christian School in Birmingham, Alabama.
The world into which I was born was white, Southern, and Baptist. That was in 1961, when the requirements of my father's career in insurance caused my parents to depart from their native Alabama and take up temporary residence in Pensacola, Florida. As we moved back to Alabama in 1963, the Civil Rights Movement entered its most active stage. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail, sit-ins and marches defied segregationist strongholds, and the Federal Government took steps to correct a longstanding injustice. Little of this turmoil impacted me until 1968, when a Federal judge ordered the desegregation of Birmingham's public schools. One day I went to school with my all-white third grade class of about 20 students; the next day the class had swelled to over forty, half of whom were black.
I cannot say whether the addition of so many new playmates of color caused any trauma to myself, but I know that it shook my parents to their core. At the end of that academic year, they removed my brother and me from the public school, opting to make the financial sacrifice of placing us in the sanctuary of a Christian academy where we could receive a better education. It also had the advantage in their eyes of being an all-white school.
Well, almost. What may have escaped their notice was that Briarwood Christian School had a non-discrimination admissions policy. That explains the presence of one black child in the kindergarten – the only black child enrolled there during my years at Briarwood. My education was hardly interracial, and yet this turn of events triggered inexorable alterations to my worldview. By the age of 8, I learned that the antiseptic white society into which I had been born was less utopian than I had been taught. There was a world of color awaiting my exploration, and a host of questions that the scripted answers could not begin to satisfy.
What I had been taught was not all wrong. Much of it was right, but it was incomplete. So was the worldview of my black counterparts –much of it quite right, but incomplete. Our combined worldviews formed a far more complete picture, with the white perspective filling gaps in the black perspective, and vice versa. Thus my education proceeded along two parallel tracks: a formal track provided by the teachers and preachers at school and church; and an informal track hidden in the recesses of my heart and soul and mind. The hidden track evaluated everything presented to it, often reaching conclusions at odds with the accepted norms. Hence the reason it remained hidden.
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Author Albert J. McCarnPosted on May 14, 2017 March 6, 2018 Categories Commonwealth of Israel, One New Man, TorahTags Abraham, Alabama, antichrist, Apostle Paul, B'ney Yosef North America, Birmingham, Bnei Noach, Briarwood Christian High School, Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Britain, British Isles, Catholic, Charismatic, Christian, Christian Zionist, Christmas, Daniel, Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Easter, Edgar M. Arendall, English Puritans, Ephesians, Ephraimites, Episcopal, FIrst Fruits, Florida, Fourth Beast, free will, Gerim, Good Friday, Good Shepherd, Gospel of Matthew, grace, High Sabbath, Holy Spirit, House of Joseph, I John, Isaac, Jacob, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jewish people, John Calvin, John Knox, Judah, King James Bible, Law, Lost Tribes, Massachusetts, Messiah, Messiah Yeshua, Messianic, Morningstar Ministries, Passover, Pensacola, Pentagon, Pentecostal, predestination, Rick Joyner, Rivkah Lambert Adler, Romans, Sabbath, September 11, Southern Baptist, Sunday School, Ten From the Nations, Ten Tribes, Torah, Unleavened Bread, US Army, Virginia, Washington DC, Yeshua, Zechariah 8:233 Comments on Not Satisfied with Half the Picture: My Quest for Truth Beyond Tradition
End Times Reality Check: A Review of The Rapture Verdict, by Michael Snyder
What do Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the pre-Tribulation rapture have in common? There is probably a joke in there somewhere, but the punch line escapes me. The answer, though, is that all of them are part of mainstream Christian practice (at least in the West), but none of them have much basis in Scripture. When held up to the light of Scripture, the Jolly Elf, the Whimsical Rabbit, and the Get-Out-of-Persecution-Free Card actually belong more in the realm of legend, myth, and wishful thinking.
There is no need to explain to Christians that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny do not exist. Everyone knows that – and it would be better if our children understood it from the start rather than having to face their first crisis of faith when their kindergarten friends expose the truth. What everyone does not know, or does not want to admit, is that the doctrine of Jesus coming back to snatch His people away from the earth before the trials of the Last Days is not consistent with Scripture. The problem up to now is that there has been no comprehensive reference book written to examine this question from a critical point of view.
Until now, that is. Author Michael Snyder has at last filled the void with his latest book, The Rapture Verdict. It is 268 pages of systematic investigation of the subject from a man who simply wants to sort out the truth. His stark conclusion is stated in the first chapter:
Unfortunately, there isn't going to be a pre-Tribulation rapture. In fact, millions of Christians are going to die waiting for a pre-Tribulation rapture that is never going to happen.
Depending on the reader's disposition, such a statement will make him or her angry, fearful, or vindicated. Those with the latter reaction would be the ones who grew up learning about the rapture in church, but who could never shake the nagging doubt that the few dozen verses pulled out of context to justify the doctrine leave far too many unanswered questions.
Author Albert J. McCarnPosted on April 18, 2016 December 15, 2016 Categories End Times, TribulationTags Amazon.com, Christians, Easter Bunny, End of the American Dream, End Times, Feasts of the Lord, FIrst Fruits, Gospel of Matthew, I Thessalonians, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kindle, Last Days, Matthew 24, Messiah, Michael Snyder, Passover, Pentecost, Pre-Tribulation Rapture, Revelation, Rosh Hashana, Santa Claus, Second Coming, Shavuot, Sunday churchgoers, Tabernacles, The Economic Collapse, The Rapture Verdict, thief in the night, Trumpets, Unleavened Bread, Yeshua, Yeshua ha Mashiach6 Comments on End Times Reality Check: A Review of The Rapture Verdict, by Michael Snyder
What to Do When the World Blows Up: A Review of "Know the Time, Change Your World", by Barry L. Miller
It seems that everyone is expecting the world to change for the worse in September 2015. That, at least, is a prevailing topic of conversation here in the United States. I have been part of such discussions many times over the last few months, and regardless how the discussion begins, it invariably comes down to the question, "What do we do now?"
The people of YHVH should be paying attention to the signs of the times. We are indeed on the brink of major changes to the world system, and these changes likely will involve a combination of economic, military, political, and civil unrest, with a few major natural disasters thrown in for good measure. It is, after all, the end of the Shemitah, the seventh, or sabbatical, year in the seven-year cycle the Lord explained to Moses (Exodus 23:10-12; Leviticus 25:1-7; Deuteronomy 15:1-6, 31:9-13). It is also the time of the fourth Blood Moon of the tetrad we have seen at Passover and Tabernacles over these last two years. What, if anything, are we to do about all of this?
Happily, there is someone who has undertaken the task of answering that question in a rational, systematic fashion using principles derived straight from the Bible. We can thank people like Rabbi Jonathan Cahn and Pastor Mark Biltz for bringing the Shemitah cycle to the attention of the world. Now we can thank Barry L. Miller for helping us understand how to live within that cycle. That is the message of his book Know the Time, Change Your World: The Reappearance of the Seven- and Fifty-Year Biblical Cycles.
Author Albert J. McCarnPosted on August 27, 2015 August 28, 2015 Categories End Times, God's Calendar, Godly Living, Shemitah, Torah-Based Commmunity, YovelTags 7and50rhymes, Abraham, Babylonian Conquest, Barry L. Miller, Bible, Blood Moons, Creation Week, Daniel, Deuteronomy, Esther, Exodus, Feasts of the Lord, Genesis, Isaac, Israel, Jacob, Jesus, Jonathan Cahn, Jubilee, King David, Leviticus, Maccabees, Mark Biltz, Nebuchadnezzar, Passover, Pentecost, Sabbath, Sabbatical Year, September 2015, Shabbat, Shavuot, Shemitah, Sukkot, Tabernacles, The Mystery of the Shemitah, United States, Unleavened Bread, World Wars, Yeshua, YHVH, Yovel3 Comments on What to Do When the World Blows Up: A Review of "Know the Time, Change Your World", by Barry L. Miller
Fox Byte 5775 #47: Re'eh (See)
רְאֵה
Farmer Maggot and his dogs. (Source: Deviant Art, ©2010-2015 ringbearer80)
It is understandable why Peter Jackson had to take considerable license with The Lord of the Rings when he brought J.R.R. Tolkien's mammoth work to the screen, and yet his choices inevitably brought disappointment to Tolkien aficionados. Why, for example, did Jackson choose to minimize the presence of Farmer Maggot? Tolkienists take issue with the fact that his role in The Fellowship of the Ring was diminished to the point of insignificance. In the book, Farmer Maggot saved Frodo and his companions as they fled the Shire, giving them provision and helping them elude Sauron's dreaded Black Riders. It was unexpected help, for Frodo had considered Farmer Maggot an enemy. As a child Frodo had taken a liking to Maggot's mushrooms, and on more than one occasion absconded with portions of the good farmer's crop. Such youthful mischief roused Maggot's anger, compelling him to chase Frodo from his land and threaten him with his very large dogs should he ever return. And so it was that Frodo grew up fearing Farmer Maggot, never knowing that beneath his fierce anger lay a loyal, generous, and hospitable heart. Thanks to the mediation of his companion Pippin, and to the dire need of the moment, Frodo at last gained opportunity to get to know the real Farmer Maggot. He explained as much as they prepared to leave Maggot's home:
Thank you very much indeed for your kindness! I've been in terror of you and your dogs for over thirty years, Farmer Maggot, though you may laugh to hear it. It's a pity: for I've missed a good friend.
Frodo's words present us with an all-too-familiar and all-too-tragic reality. How often have individuals, families, and nations remained at odds over ancient offenses, the causes of which are long forgotten? How much suffering has multiplied on the earth because natural allies regard each other as enemies, or at least minimize their contact with each other out of mistrust and misbegotten fear? And how much greater is that tragedy if the people who regard each other in this way are the two parts of YHVH's people? In truth, Moses and Yeshua have no contradictions or arguments, but their followers think they do, and for that reason Jews and Christians have separated themselves from one another for twenty centuries.
Author Albert J. McCarnPosted on August 15, 2015 August 21, 2015 Categories Bible Literacy, Commandments, Commonwealth of Israel, Godly Living, Israelite Identity, New Covenant, TorahTags 119 Ministries, Acts, American Civil War, Apostle John, Apostle Paul, Baal-Peor, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Black Riders, Caesar Constantine, Caesar Hadrian, Canaan, Christ Killers, Christian, Christianity, Church, Constantine the Great, Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy 13 Test, Diaspora, Farmer Maggot, Feast of Weeks, Founders, Founding Fathers, Frodo, Genesis, God, Gospel of John, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, grace, Great Jewish Revolt, Greek, Hosea, House of David, I John, I Kings, II Chronicles, Isaiah, Israel, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jeremiah, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Law, Law of God, Levites, Messiah, Messiah Son of David, Messiah Son of Joseph, Messiah Yeshua, Midian, Moab, Moses, Moshiach ben David, Moshiach ben Yosef, New Covenant, Numbers, Palestina, Pentecost, Peter Jackson, Pilgrim Feasts, Pippin, Psalm, Psalm 51, Psalms, Re'eh, Renewed Covenant, Roman, Romans, Sabbath, Sabbatical Year, Sanhedrin, Shabbat, Shavuot, Shemitah, Sukkot, Sunburned, Tabernacles, Temple, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, The Shire, Torah, United States of America, Unleavened Bread, Yeshua, Yeshua of Nazareth, YHVH
Fox Byte 5775 #32-33: Behar (On the Mount); Bechukotai (In My Statutes)
אַחֲרֵי מוֹת / קְדֹשִׁים
The "Interstellar Other" in film. Clockwise from top left: A mysterious monolith enlightens primates in 2001: A Space Odyssey ("Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 to become SyFy miniseries", Wired.Co.UK, November 4, 2014); arrival of the alien spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)", Steven Spielberg Movies, December 18, 2009); crop circles indicate alien activity in Signs ("Signs Movie Review", Media Circus, 2002); the end of the world according to Knowing ("Movie Review – Knowing", Firefox News, March 19, 2009).
What is this fascination with the possibility of life beyond this planet? Are we so insecure in our human existence that we cannot bear the thought of dwelling on the only inhabited territory in the entire universe? Or is it, perhaps, a deep-seated sense of being incomplete in ourselves? Whatever the reason, since the dawn of human existence we have sought for something, or Someone, beyond ourselves who shares our experience of sentience and can explain it to us.
For over a century the search for the Interstellar Other has found expression in science fiction. Novelists like H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke have made their marks on several generations of impressionable youth, yet the massive explosion of science fiction onto popular consciousness came not with books, but with movies. Clarke's collaboration with Stanley Kubrick in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey took science fiction movies to a new level. It combined world-class writing with world-class filmmaking to proclaim to audiences that we are not alone, but in so doing left more questions than answers. Ten years later, Steven Spielberg sought to answer some of those questions in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, proposing that the Interstellar Others have been visiting earth for a long, long time, and asserting that humanity had reached a point where these advanced beings could take us into their confidence and educate us further. Movies produced over the next generation investigated different aspects of this question. Some, like M. Night Shyamalan's 2002 thriller, Signs, explored the dark possibility that alien visitors are not friendly. Signs clings to the hope that humanity can defend itself from alien intruders, and that the hostile encounter restores a sense of purpose we did not know we had lost. And then there is Knowing, a 2009 drama in which Dr John Koestler, played by Nicholas Cage, embarks on a search for the meaning behind clues predicting one global disaster after another. He learns at last that he can do nothing about the disasters; they themselves are clues all-knowing alien watchers have tracked through time to warn humanity about the imminent destruction of our planet in a massive solar flare. The aliens have no intention of letting the human race pass into extinction. Their clues guide people like Koestler in gathering children so the aliens can take them to a place of safety where humanity can begin again.
A recurring motif in these science fiction films is the search for meaning behind the evidence of alien presence. In 2001 the evidence is a mysterious monolith, and in Close Encounters it is the connection of unexplainable phenomena across the globe. In Signs it is the appearance of crop circles, and in Knowing it is the incomprehensible code of numbers and letters scratched by a child and left in a time capsule. The story tellers would have us believe that the answers to human existence are all there if we can only decipher the patterns.
The science fiction story tellers are correct in that an Interstellar Other has left patterns for us to decipher. What they have missed is that the Interstellar Other is the Holy One of Israel. His clues are in Torah, and His answers are in the rest of Scripture.
Author Albert J. McCarnPosted on May 15, 2015 October 1, 2020 Categories Bible Literacy, Commonwealth of Israel, Feasts of the Lord, Godly Living, Israelite Identity, Shemitah, Torah, YovelTags 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aleph Beta Academy, AlephBeta Academy, Apostle Paul, Arthur C. Clarke, Assyrian Conquest, Babylonian Conquest, Baruch Davidson, Bechukotai, Behar, Chabad, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Creator, Day of Atonement, Deuteronomy, Dr. john Koestler, Emor, Ephesians, Ephraim, Ephraimite, Exodus, extraterrestrial life, Ezekiel, Feast of Weeks, Feasts of the Lord, FIrst Fruits, Firstfruits, Genesis, God, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, H.G. Wells, Holy One of Israel, House of Ephraim, House of Israel, House of Judah, I Corinthians, I Corinthians 13, II Corinthians, II Timothy, Insterstellar Other, Isaac Asimov, Israel, Jeremiah, Jesus, Jewish sages, Jubilee, Judah, Kingdom of Judah, Knowing, Levitical priesthood, Leviticus, Leviticus 23, M. Night Shyamalan, Matzot, Messiah, Messiah Yeshua, monolith, Moses, Nicholas Cage, Nisan, Northern Israel, org, Passover, Pentecost, Pesach, Psalm 119, Psalms, Rabbi David Forhman, Rich Young Ruler, Robert Heinlein, Sabbath, science fiction, Second Temple, Shabbat, Shavuot, Shemitah, Signs, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Sukkot, Tabernacles, Ten Commandments, Tishrei, Torah, Twelve Tribes, Unleavened Bread, Yeshua, YHVH, Yom Kippur, Yovel
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Complaint dismissed against Windsor mayor
CTV Windsor Published Tuesday, August 13, 2019 6:16PM EDT
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens on budget night 2019 at Windsor City Hall on April 1, 2019. (Rich Garton / CTV Windsor)
A complaint against Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens has been dismissed.
The complainant, Dee Sweet, says she received a note from the city's integrity commissioner last week.
Sweet tells CTV News Bruce Elman didn't feel her concerns were with worth investigating.
The Windsor woman filed a complaint in July, alleging the mayor acted unfairly when he hosted a news conference on May 17 about the proposed acute care hospital.
Sweet was told the mayor was acting in his official capacity when he suggested different BIA's had contravened the Municipal Act with their support for CAMPP.
The Citizens for an Accountable Mega-Hospital Planning Process is appealing the city's re-zoning of the land needed to allow the hospital to be built at County Road 42 and the 9th Concession.
CAMPP has argued against the location for the new hospital as a spot that would encourage urban sprawl and is advocating for the new hospital to be located closer to the core.
A full oral hearing before the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) is scheduled to begin on Oct. 8, 2019.
Despite the integrity commissioner's findings, Sweet says she remains skeptical of the mayor's actions.
It costs the city $300 per hour for the integrity commissioner to investigate complaints.
Dee Sweet files a complaint with the integrity commissioner in Windsor, Ont., on Monday, July 9, 2019. (Zander Broeckel / AM800)
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