During rare moments of introspection, Ruckman sometimes admits what could not be denied. We provide these quotes here because many Ruckman defenders will adamantly deny what Ruckman has actually admitted to in print.
I know I am no example. I'm one of the crudest fellows you ever met in your life. They have been trying to refine me for forty years, and I am worse now than I was ten years ago.
If I have had one fault, it has been in being too much to the point, too direct, too thorough, too concentrated, too vulgar, and too specific in making charges.
To do this I used the simplest, plainest language possible (downright crude and vicious at times) in the "street Koine" of the late twentieth century.
If I have used harsh and sarcastic language in dealing with them on these matters (and I certainly have), I make no apology to anyone, and I will continue to turn a deaf ear toward every suggestion from every corner [including the Bible?!] to "reform" my ways.
…I have a sort of ingrained streak of meanness which eventually the Lord will purge out.
I used to live with some of the students who went to PBI. When we got home from one of those fellowships, I would go over to the cabinet below the sink and say, "And now a testimony from Bro. So-and-so!" and then I would kick all the pots and pans out of the cabinet and send them clanging and banging to the floor. That is just the way his crying struck me.
[Attitude when he attended a Fundamentalist conference] I would make a contribution occasionally by opening my upper shirt pocket with my fingers and then pretend it was a "barf bag" on a plane. After simulating a good "puke" I would "pat" the shirt pocket shut.
Those four messages [by Ruckman] were enough to split three national fellowships, more than fifty colleges and universities, and several hundred local churches.
At one time, I had a list of fourteen Baptist churches in the Pensacola area that had split off the Brent Baptist Church where I used to pastor.
May God help us to keep our eyes on the Lord (Heb. 12:2), as He will never fail us.
Dr. Ruckman is by far the most qualified pastor I have ever met or read about. I graduated in 1994 from PBI it was by far best experience of my life.The Bible was opened up for me as it was for many others because of Dr. Ruckman. God help us when he passes off the scene.
Whether he is qualified by your feelings or experience is not the norm. The Bible is the norm for a pastor's qualifications. Using the Bible as a norm and Ruckman's own admissions (as properly documented in this article), he fails miserably in qualifying for this sacred office. Those who choose to look the other way are following a man. Repent and follow Christ, who will never have to admit wrong and will never let you down.
Listen dummy, no pastor meets all of the requirements of 1Timothy 3, if you can find me a better man than DR. Ruckman to follow I would like to meet him. Other wise shut your trap and listen, you might learn something, see you in the funny paper.
Another example of a Ruckmanite making a mockery of God's Biblical qualifications for a pastor in hopes people will overlook them and not apply them to Ruckman.
I grew up in Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola Fl. Some of the pictures and behavior you are putting out I have seen and know very much about, I went to school there and graduated in 1996 and now am a pastor myself in Enid, Oklahoma. God has used Dr. Ruckman in my life to get me right, keep my family together, train my Father who also went to school there; Dr Ruckman was a friend to me when my daughter was in the hospital for a week with Spinal taps every 12 hours just after she was born. What you don't mention is all the children that come to him after the services to get gummy bears because they love him and I could give you a life time of stories of others that are serving the Lord today and have had an influence on the world for Christ because of Dr. Ruckman despite his "qualifications". But instead of trying to examine Dr. Ruckman's qualifications as you have why not try to get out there and accomplish half of what he has done? God has used all kinds of people that the "Brethren" didn't think were qualified. What has amazed me over the years is that you guys that are so worried about pointing out Dr. Ruckman's inadequacies and "qualifications" to try to get him disqualified is that God hasn't disqualified him. You can be all up in the air about this matter but only God himself will be able to straighten it all out and I guarantee that the love and compassion of this "crazy man" has influenced more souls to come to Christ than your post. If we are going to go according to the lists in I Tim 3 and Titus there isn't one pastor on the planet that is "Blameless", a lot have the problem of being hospitable, and many of them are adulterers by their thoughts. If you don't want anything to do with Dr. Ruckman that is fine but it sure is funny that you guys who have these "problems" with his "qualifications" sure do seem to talk an awful lot about him. Go do something for God unless that would be to much like Dr Ruckman.
Whether a pastor is nice to people in need (it is expected of anybody in that position) or hands out candy to kids is not what I Timothy 3 and Titus 1 is about overall. If one does not meet the Biblical qualifications for a pastor, there is no trial period in which those qualifications can be overlooked until the candidate can prove he can be nice to people in need. You place qualifications in quotes multiple times as if they were made up to disqualify Ruckman or should not be taken seriously, but they come straight from the Bible. It almost seems that you are trying to say the Biblical qualifications in I Tim. 3 and Titus 1 as worthless when you state such things as "…there isn't one pastor on the planet that is 'Blameless'…" I would agree that some qualifications on their own could seem a little vague, but all the Biblical qualifications taken together paint a picture that is the opposite of Ruckman, based on his own admissions. You stated about Ruckman that "God hasn't disqualified him." If Titus 1 and I Tim. 3 are God's qualifications, and this article accurately documents Ruckman's own admissions, then God has indeed disqualified him from the pastorate, and not myself or anyone else.
I just wonder how many wives some of the so called Brethren have had before they had a Ceremoney! Marriage is flesh joining flesh and I believe you are judging where you have no right to judge!
Ruckman, Peter. The Full Cup, p. 99, 200.
By his own definition, he had far more than three wives. He doesn't even apply his own teachings to himself!
Ruckman should not be a Pastor at all. He is NOT the husband of one wife and he himself describes a horror of violence in his home.
His verbal assaults upon other fundamentalist Pastors are shameful and not in keeping with the speech of a Christian, let alone a Pastor.
I understand that people lose their tempers from time-to-time, but Ruckman engages in a steady stream of invective. He belittles, tells untruths and in general brings discredit upon the WORD.
Then there is his racism, aliens and the black helicopters, approval of abortion.
He is not a Pastor, he's a man that surely needs our prayers because he is bordering on lunacy.
I would also like to point out that all you Pastors or whoever you are have a sinful nature and I bet each one of you lust if you see a good looking woman. All of you are every bit as guilty of sin as the next person.
A good observation, but exactly how does that justify Ruckman?
listen punk ,dr ruckamns read his bible more than 400 times ,lead thousands of souls to christ, bible say that by your fruits you shall know them, dr ruckmans fruits are manly bible beleiving,soul winning ,jesus christ loving men not little egotistical ,efimaninte women . and you cant give me one story of dr ruckman being rude or crude to any fod fearing bible beleiver , the only time hes crude is when idioys like you try and correct gods word.
just because a person reads a book 400 times doesn't mean they have an accurate understanding of all of it. he has salvation correct for this dispensation, but he is in error in the other dispensations.
As for winning souls, there is no doubt that God can use human instruments, regardless of how fallible they are. However, the Holy Spirit is the one who ultimately convicts a sinner. The number of people saved under someone's ministry is not a gauge of their spirituality or how Biblical their teachings are. For example, an evangelist might have 100 saved after one sermon in one part of the world, and yet preach for a whole month in a Muslim country and not see anyone saved. There were 12 saved during the invitation when I preached to a people group undergoing revival a few years ago, but I have also preached dozens of times before and since without decisions. The fact that Ruckman claims hundreds or thousands saved under his ministry is irrelevant when it comes to the issue of whether his teachings are Biblical or if his conduct is Christ-like. Bringing up personal statistics that Ruckman claims for himself is a diversionary tactic in a vain attempt to avoid dealing with his documented misconduct in the light of God's Word.
Ruckman himself trying to correct Gods word to cover his own. God forbid.
I read the Bible in 40-day cycles nine times a year at 30 chapters daily. God has been gracious to assist in this labor of memorizing the Bible that the build-up to that by the year's end will make some seven or eight times in two years. Thank God for it- what a sure cure to leave Pentecostalism and Ruckmanism (Esa. 8.19-22)! The strange thing about Ruckmanites is they fabricate the facts to prop up their cult later. In a 2014 sermon, one of the last rock been made, he admitted to reading the AV about 150 times. I do not find this very impressive considering his lack of Christian character and grace. Especially, it is an imperative considering that God helping me, I'll do that in the next 16 years or so. Like your cult leader, you have not read Paul very well, much less any of the other apostles. Here are two quotes on Christian living and speech for you, seeing that they seem to be a difficult area.
Do you ever bother to read your Bible for yourself, or do you always read it in light of his teachings? If so, you are literally no different than a Catholic who reads the Bible with a Catholic lens ingrained on him from birth, or a Russellite (JW) or an occultic Mormon.
Hmmm… This is an oddity in this Ruckmanite's comment. In 2014 treaching his interpolations on Bullengerism, Ruckman claimed to have read the Bible 150 or so times in his life, and his preaching ended approcimately two years later. He would have to read around 750 chapters per day of the 1189 in the Bible to accomplish these missing 250 times this Ruckmanite alleges within one year and about 250 to accomplish the same in this alloted time frame. I read the Bible 30 chapters a day; that requires one to three hours of reading dependantnpn the material. It is an impossibility Ruckman or anyone else in two years could approach reading this rate! Lying and embellishment are a sin!
Here is the said sermon where Ruckman claims the 150 figure.
I documented how Ruckman has admitted to practices and behaviors that disqualify him from the pastorate according to the qualification in the very Bible he claims to read but doesn't practice.
Because Paul said he was rude in speech does not give anyone a right to do likewise for the same reason that if Peter denied Christ three times it doesn't give us a right to do likewise. Also the term "rude" is old English for unlearned. Just look it up in the Greek. I know Ruckman says "don't go to the Greek," but he does it a lot when it suits him. In other words, he wants you to do as he says not as he does. We have no right to interpret the Bible with the alternate modern meaning of a KJV word if it originally had a different meaning when translated which in turn is considerably different than the meaning in the original languages.
You don't have to, because Ruckman has already done it for you repeatedly in his writings.
Many students whose capacities exceeded "Ruckman's"? For example?
…You found someone that knew more about the Bible than "Ruckman," did you? Who?
If you continue to insist that the man you follow practices or believes something different than he even admits to, your subsequent comments will not be allowed. I should not be wasting such time with those who follow a man instead of following Christ and His Word.
Two scriptures come to my mind as I read your accusations and opinions. The first is in Proverbs which speaks about how God hates those who sow discord among the brethren. The second has to do with how you are causing the discord. By being an "accuser of the brethren" like someone else that is mentioned in the Bible. You have also quoted scripture that you says disqualified him from being a pastor. Several people have asked and I would ask also for you to name someone who is qualified in your opinion.
I am simply warning others that Ruckman is spreading discord. And I use his own writings to prove it, not relying on hearsay or rumors. How could that make me the one spreading discord?
As for me being an "accuser of the brethren," I don't even use the term for Ruckman himself, because the only time it shows up in the Bible it refers to Satan.
Now, as for your Paul comment, it was one time common to call an uneducated or uncultured person rude because he/she lacked refinement. I doubt Paul would have fitted that category because of his background and education. Perhaps he was considered rude in that he was very direct in his speech and didn't pussyfoot around the sensitivities of those that opposed him. That does not necessarily make him crude or vulgar or nasty. Once upon a time the state of lethargy was called stupidity, but feeling stupid after overindulging and being stupid on an empty stomach are not the same thing! Food for thought, don't you agree : ) Blessings. B.
Keep on keeping on! Gipp, Chandler, Stockard, Andrew's, McGaughey…..yourself.
You know you're in His Will because of Dr Ruckman. Stay by the stuff.
Typical Ruckmanite rhetoric with no substance.
The same Dr. Ruckman who holds to bigotry and racism? Yeah, what a guy.
That would only be politeness by Ruckman's twisted definition!
I believe that King James Bible A.V. 1611 is a perfect words of God, and as far as i know , Dr. Ruckman stand in that final authority, so what ever you said bad against him…. does not matter , i thank THE LORD he used him as an instrument for me to recognize that book and used it in my daily life.. even I'm to far from America still the words reached me because of dok..thank you!
Doesn't matter? Really? Think about what you just said. It sounds like you are so thankful to Ruckman that it doesn't matter what anybody says against him, even if they can prove serious Scriptural error in his beliefs. "Does not matter." A very cultic statement. I plead with you to reconsider, and choose to follow Christ, not a fallible man.
Reading this thread of comments is completely laughable! Calling a brother in Christ names over disagreements is unbiblical and un-Christlike to say the least. Why not just examine the facts and face the truth head on?
Dr. Ruckman needs no protection. He never cared about judgements from people who judged him. He is with CHRIST right now right, wrong or anything else. It never was in anyone's hands. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR CHRIST TODAY?
I double-checked, and page 273 does indeed mention circumstances of marriage to his second wife. I have since added that it was from the 1998 edition of his book, in case it has been revised.
man mine is 1992 so checked a few pages before and after, could only find she divorced him to marry police officer . never new she was x wife of student couldent find that statement. but she is the sister of megaheys wife. who was his assistant pastor. gossip makes my head hurt.
Normally gossip refers to passing along personal information that is questionable, second-hand, or unverified. However, everything that was pointed out in this article came straight from Ruckman's own writings, and the source was given. Calling this gossip is unreasonable.
If J Frank Norris and Billy Sunday did what you said and worse, it doesn't make it right. The Bible is the Christian's guide for how to live, not fallible man. What other Bible characters did wrong does not justify sin.
"dr ruckman was certanly at liberty to be the way he is because of the souls hes led to christ and the hundreds of churches hes responsible for starting and the time he spends in gods word and how he defends it."
Any accomplishments in life or ministry does not entitle anyone to extra liberty. We are all to follow The Book. No one is entitled to exceptions or entitlements.
"he has as much liberty as any one of the previous men i mentioned."
Absolutely not. Anyone who claims to be a believer is to conform his conduct to the Word of God, not the example of fallible men.
Do you realize how cultic you come across? According to http://www.familiesagainstcultteachings.org/Cult-Education/Cult-Warning-Signs/ one of the marks of a cult is "Anything the group/leader does can be justified no matter how harsh or harmful."
S Godfrey's statement was quite a while back, but I can't let it go. A Christian knows he's in the word of God because of the Holy Spirit and because of "line upon line, precept upon precept", NEVER because of any man, regardless of WHO that is; Ruckman, Schofield, Larkin,, Gipp, your favorite TV or radio personality, college "professor", or producer of books, tapes, CD's or DVD's. Do not get God's word "filtered" through anyone else. You are commanded to study so YOU can be a workman. Ruckman is gone. YOU read and STUDY your Bible for YOURSELF. It is not anyone elses opinions or study notes you will be judged by one day, but GOD's Word. If yo can't understand it, ASK Him, (GOD, not some man, who is flesh), and He will show you. He has for me, dozens of times, and He wants to do the same for you. And when God reveals truth to you, it is a hundred times more of a blessing than when a man does.
Let he that is without sin cast the first stone. We should all leave one by one and drop it.
Any one God used to the extent of Dr. Ruckman would draw fire from many sides. Only God doesn't have any improper alterior motives.
Typical Ruckmanite, applying Scripture to others, while letting Ruckman off the hook. Typical cultic approach.
Ruckman taught us to use scriptures and our authority is the Bible my friend,"don't mess around with my book"
You know reading all this is funny. God used men all throughout the bible that you egotistical self righteous biggets would not use. You wouldent let them step foot behind your pulpit. I think of David a man that commited adultery and then seen that her husband was killed aka murder which in old testament was punishable by death and God said that man is a man after mine own heart. I cant say i understand that myself. God did not ask me to understand why or who he was using. I guarentee alot not all but alot of youns would not let David stand behind your pulpit. Thank God that he has and always will use sinners saved by the grace of God. Thsts what seperated David from others. Why who else was willing to fight goliath. And i say who else was God going to use to defend his Holy infallable in errant word KJV besides a few men like Ruckman. You see God sees not as man. But God looketh on the heart. God uses willing men not the best men.
I've just finished reading your article and most of the comments under it, and my question is this – what Scripture qualification are you saying he doesn't meet?
hes not a striker, by all accounts.
not a brawler even by accusation.
he is married to only one wife – an acceptable interpretation of a never-ending debate topic.
not soon angry. By his and your accounts I don't read anything where he got angry with anyone suddenly. It doesn't say never gets angry, just not soon angry.
Of good report of them that are without. I've heard bad and good about him, but most unsaved people that knew him or of him give a good report of his testimony and character.
he is an example to the flock, one way or another.
So the only thing I see is that he isn't blameless so he should be disqualified from the ministry? Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Unless you have something other than this Im afraid you cannot disqualify him from anything. Otherwise any pastor who could be blamed for anything should not be allowed to pastor.
Im sorry but I hope you have something more to base your claims on, and if you do please put it in your article.
No one is blinder than the man who refuses to see.
The word translated striker in the AV in I Timothy 3.3 as well as Titus 1.7 from the Byzantine text is πλήκτης meaning a quarrelsome bruiser. See in Strong's Concordance of the Bible G4131. It derives from G4141 πλήσσω meaning to strike or smite. That this is Ruckman to the minutest degree is only obscure to the spiritually blind. What is more, the word for brawler is G269 ἄμαχος, distinguishing someone who is "not contentious". The root word μάχη interestingly enough is used in three of the best verses describing Ruckman EVER: II Timothy 2.23, Titus 3.9 as well as James 4.1.
I looked at Ruckman's commentary to see what he had to say about the term "striker" in the context of pastoral qualifications. For 1 Tim. 3:3, all he has is half a sentence: "…he is not to go around beating his adversaries up…" Under Titus 1:7, not much more: "The 'striker' is the 'brawler' of 1 Timothy 3:3…" That's all he has to say. For the term "brawler," which is virtually synonymous, Ruckman has absolutely nothing to say under 1 Tim. 3:3. Very shallow treatment of these terms for a commentary. In what little he says, it seems that he tries to leave the impression that "striker" refers exclusively to a physical act of violence, but as it has been pointed out here, the meaning in the Greek is not limited to a physical act.
Is not that interesting? Ruckman expediently omitted that he was unqualified to pastor in his commentary!
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Ruckman was indeed a product of his time. One of those who in the last days would seek worship for himself and not for Christ. There will always be some who prefer to believe foolishness than truth, the Devil is powerful in this world and he knows his targets. Ruckman's doctrinal cancer has resulted in the ruination of many men, women and churches, yet scripture tells us he will recieve his reward, the only compassion I feel for him is sadness when he stands before the Christ of God, and answers not for his sins which are many, but for the fact that he knew better, and still chose to serve himself and not Christ.
I have never meet anyone as knowledgeable or wise to the scriptures as bro Ruchman God has given him insight that other have failed to see, He's Opened the scripture to hundreds of Bible students and things i use to stumble over i now enjoy Thank you so much Dr. Peter S Ruchman.
If you just read what Ruckman admits to and you left a comment like that, it sounds like a classic case of blindly and foolishly following a man in a cultic fashion.
The pastoral epistles mandate an absolute moderation that was altogether absent in Ruckman's life. Interestingly, that is yet another link between himself and Rome. We Waldensians and our counterparts the Wycliffites decried this in the Noble Lesson as well as the Twelve Conclusions as the preistcraft kept the Messias from the people with their mendicance and absurdity. It makes one wonder who had the bright idea to let this braggart in the ministry who had the same spirit as the papacy….
Peter Ruckman is admitting humility!!!
Let's say all his marriages, resurrection date-setting, deep dive into Oriental occultism, endless railing so forth were cast aside. Ruckman dsbelieved salvation is identical in both covenants. He makes the identical argumentation of Rome's Trent Council, Canon IX, that salvation is not by faith through grace in Christ by all of scripture to God's blessed glory alone for the former covenant. Thus, if those saints were not redeemed by hoping for the Apocalypse 14.6 everlasting gospel (note "euangelion" here is singular as well as the term employed by Paul as it is in English) Christians are, they are as lost as the Jews who cried for the Amen's death. Salvation is founded in the former covenant which states it is the salvation of the new (Deut. 30.6; Cant. 1.4; Isa. 55.1-7; Hos. 11.4; Jer. 30-2; Ezek. 11, 19, 36-8; Joel 1-3; Zach. 4.6-7), so to reject this casts serious aspersions on Ruckman's record that Christ is true. It's like Ford launching a new line of vehicles then renouncing all their other current or former lineup as fraudulent. If a papist is lost without God's grace on an elect, bleating, drawn sheep, why would Ruckman have an exemption?
Question C. Are not a circumspect walk and a sound creed sufficient evidences of Christianity?
Answer. No; for men may be beautiful without, and be but as whited sepulchres; and may profess a sound creed, but never feel its power, nor receive the truth in the love of it.
Matt. 15.8-9 & 23.23-28; Rom. 2.28-29; Phil. 3.4-7,18; 2 Thess. 2.10; 2 Tim. 3.5.
You know what they say "haters gonna hate"
Are you truly going to justify a man who in 1976 admitted he was DEMON POSESSED from his years in Oriental theosophy (Proverbs 17.15-20)? He could not have been a Pentecostal because 99 percent of the movement would expel him; they rightly deny a believer could be demon posessed. Furthermore, you should only follow Jesus as well as his apostles (Ps. 37.37; Mt. 4.20; Mark 8.34, 9.38-9; Luke 5.11; John 1.43; I Cor. 1.11, 4.6-10; Eph. 5.1) as they folloed Christ, for in following Ruckman, you demonstrate an ungodly penchant like Isræl (Ro. 9.31). You also betray your semi-ultra-dispensationalism (Ro. 14.19).
This "ruckmanite" character can't spell or speak in sentences too well, & does a poor imitation of his late guru. And I can guarantee he doesn't bother with the FACT that the KJVO myth is not found in Scripture & is therefore false.
Dr. Ruckman's 'advanced revelation' stuff is just plain goofy. The KJV nor any other bible translation can correct its SOURCES! That'd be equivalent to a daughter giving birth to her own mom!
I believe you meant "mark of the beast" and not "marka the beast" lol. Don't criticize others for not spelling correctly when you can't either lol.
The criteria you quote in Timothy refers to being the pastoral leader of a physical, actual church. Even if there is a chance you are right that Dr. Ruckman was disqualified from holding the office ( a point I am not fully convinced of), his real position and what he is remembered for in the world outside his small Pensacola congregation is being a Bible TEACHER. And for teaching Scripture, the Lord has not forbidden any man to speak of Him, to teach His truths to the people, not even women , outside of the church/gathering setting).
It is slanderous of you to assert that Dr Ruckman taught such concepts as the water circulatory system in Adam and the ten foot tall Antichrist, et cetera, as though it were absolute doctrine… a personal revelation of his which all Christians must believe and obey, a la Joseph Smith. Whatever Dr. Ruckman was teaching, his rallying cry was "DON"T BELIEVE ME. READ THE BOOK".
The mark of a false teacher or cult leader is that he DEMANDS that the follower receive his words and teaching without question. Nothing could be further from the case with Dr. Ruckman, who took meticulous pains to ensure that he pointed people to the AV 1611 for their authority and DID NOT rely on him. For me and many other Christians who heard some of his more unusual assertions, this simply got our attention and spurred us on to study the relevant Scripture to see what the BOOK said, not Ruckman. And for me, some I may agree on, some I believe there is insufficient evidence, and some I disagree. Regardless, this was his life's work and what he wanted: for the Christian to reverence that Book above any other authority, even if meant absolutely disagreeing with him on some of the "lesser" concepts he taught !
The frank and honest admissions he made about the sins in his life and personal relationships were all part of his attempt to prevent any sort of "cult leader" or "hero worship" status from happening. By doing so, Ruckman left himself wide, wide open to attacks from critics. But in doing so he also trumpeted the truth that he wanted everyone to know. "I am nothing. God and His Word are everything."
And that's exactly what he was for decades! The fact that he taught some or a lot outside his pastoral role does not excuse outright disobedience to the Word of God in holding to his pastoral position!
I didn't simply accuse him of teaching such things, I demonstrated it by quoting him directly. That is the opposite of slander. You in turn do not quote him to prove me wrong.
You know he often ridiculed others unmercifully who didn't reach the same conclusions on controversial matters. If you want to take that as if he didn't mean others should believe it, you can continue to believe in your make-believe world.
He would occasionally say something along the lines of "don't take my word for it, look up the verses." That may work for some people who will assume he's got to be right if he lists a verse reference or two after making a statement. The reason many have rejected Ruckmanism after being exposed to it, is that they did indeed look up some verses regardless of whether Ruckman encouraged them to or not. For example, I have looked up the verses Ruckman uses when he makes questionable claims such as him knowing the day Christ was born, certain physical characteristics of the Antichrist, where Eden was located, the original language spoken before Babel, the language that will be spoken in heaven, the main ingredient in Esau's pottage, etc. Since the passages he provided did not say what he said they did, I have no qualms in affirming outright that he is a false teacher. If he isn't a false teacher, then nobody is.
As for the mark of a false teacher, it is simply that he teaches what can be demonstrated to be false. As for whether Ruckman was a cult leader heading up an actual cult, it depends partly on one's definition. When some people think cult, they visualize a tight-knit group living in a compound in isolation where everyone and everything is bound to the dictates of the cult leader. That is not Ruckmanism. But Ruckmanism is at the very least a "personality cult." It does manifest some cultic characteristics as documented throughout ruckmanism.org.
Some cultic leaders are more subtle and know better than to publicly demand he be followed without question. Ruckman more commonly uses the tactic of name calling and ridicule when others he targets (often those who question him publicly) do not agree with his strange teachings.
Why not be more specific? Which teachings of Ruckman? I hear this all the time from Ruckmanites, that they "don't agree with him on everything," but they don't dare specify. In such cases it is obvious where their loyalty lies.
Our satisfaction should come from pleasing God and conforming to his Word. Could it be that by following Ruckman, his followers were feeding his ego and encouraging his behavior and odd teaching? His followers apparently created an environment in which the more exotic, novel and bizarre his teachings, the more they loved him.
I notice the whiners defensive of their cults are usually ignorant of terminology; libel refers to what is in print, not slander. I have to deal with this with one Free Grace Movement proponent whom says all monergists are Gnostic despite being wholly apathetic about the actual definition of Gnosticism. It is basically one giant circular argument from respecters of persons.
In all my apologetics, I nearly always document exactly what some sectarian leader a la Ruckman says. Suffice it to be so invariably the cries echo or unloving, railer, slanderer, back-biter so on. It takes a truly warped mind to fall into such man worship if the apostles placed themselves under pain of being an anathema for heresy. What do you think they will do if they knew Ruckman said Christians go into the God hood in his Reference Bible on I Corinthians 15.28? I fully expect a full pardon, but we are chopped liver for crying aloud against heresy.
On the popular Ruckmanite Andrew Sluder's YouTube page, he has referenced Ruckman had an obscure teaching that one might be redeemed if he somehow lost the mark of the beast by the lopping off his hand or some other means. Could you verify the veracity of this claim?
"The reason a comment may not be approved could range from provocativeness, going off topic, lack of substance, lacking Christian grace, baseless accusations, etc." Hypocritical to say the least. Nothing to see hear just some more fluff from someone suffering from Ruckmanitis.


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[Image: The corridors of LIGO, Louisiana, shaped like a "carpenter's square"; via Google Earth].
It's been really interesting for the last few weeks to watch as rumors and speculations about the first confirmed detection of gravitational waves have washed over the internet—primarily, at least from my perspective, because my wife, Nicola Twilley, who writes for The New Yorker, has been the only journalist given early access not just to the results but, more importantly, to the scientists behind the experiment, while writing an article that just went live over at The New Yorker.
It has been incredibly exciting to listen-in on partial conversations and snippets of overheard interviews in our home office here, as people like Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and David Reitze, among a dozen others, all explained to her exactly how the gravitational waves were first detected and what it means for our future ability to study and understand the cosmos.
All this gloating as a proud husband aside, however, it's a truly fascinating story and well worth mentioning here.
LIGO—the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory—is a virtuoso act of precision construction: a pair of instruments, separated by thousands of miles, used to detect gravitational waves. They are shaped like "carpenter's squares," we read, and they stand in surreal, liminal landscapes: surrounded by water-logged swampland in Louisiana and "amid desert sagebrush, tumbleweed, and decommissioned reactors" in Hanford, Washington.
[Image: LIGO, Hanford; via Google Earth].
Each consists of vast, seismically isolated corridors and finely calibrated super-mirrors between which lasers reflect in precise synchrony. These hallways are actually "so long—nearly two and a half miles—that they had to be raised a yard off the ground at each end, to keep them lying flat as Earth curved beneath them."
To achieve the necessary precision of measurement, [Rainer Weiss, who first proposed the instrument's construction] suggested using light as a ruler. He imagined putting a laser in the crook of the "L." It would send a beam down the length of each tube, which a mirror at the other end would reflect back. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant, so as long as the tubes were cleared of air and other particles, the beams would recombine at the crook in synchrony—unless a gravitational wave happened to pass through. In that case, the distance between the mirrors and the laser would change slightly. Since one beam was now covering a shorter distance than its twin, they would no longer be in lockstep by the time they got back. The greater the mismatch, the stronger the wave. Such an instrument would need to be thousands of times more sensitive than any before it, and it would require delicate tuning, in order to extract a signal of vanishing weakness from the planet's omnipresent din.
LIGO is the most sensitive instrument ever created by human beings, and its near-magical ability to pick up the tiniest tremor in the fabric of spacetime lends it a fantastical air that began to invade the team's sleep. As Frederick Raab, director of the Hanford instrument, told Nicola, "When these people wake up in the middle of the night dreaming, they're dreaming about the detector."
Because of this hyper-sensitivity, its results need to be corrected against everything from minor earthquakes, windstorms, and passing truck traffic to "fluctuations in the power grid," "distant lightning storms," and even the howls of prowling wolves.
When the first positive signal came through, the team was actually worried it might not be a gravitational wave at all but "a very large lightning strike in Africa at about the same time." (They checked; it wasn't.)
[Image: "Newton" (1795-c.1805) by William Blake, courtesy of the Tate].
The big deal amidst all this is that being able to study gravitational waves is very roughly analogous to the discovery of radio astronomy—where gravitational wave astronomy has the added benefit of opening up an entirely new spectrum of observation. Gravitational waves will let us "see" the fabric of spacetime in a way broadly similar to how we can "see" otherwise invisible radio emissions in deep space.
From The New Yorker:
Virtually all that is known about the universe has come to scientists by way of the electromagnetic spectrum. Four hundred years ago, Galileo began exploring the realm of visible light with his telescope. Since then, astronomers have pushed their instruments further. They have learned to see in radio waves and microwaves, in infrared and ultraviolet, in X-rays and gamma rays, revealing the birth of stars in the Carina Nebula and the eruption of geysers on Saturn's eighth moon, pinpointing the center of the Milky Way and the locations of Earth-like planets around us. But more than ninety-five per cent of the universe remains imperceptible to traditional astronomy… "This is a completely new kind of telescope," [David] Reitze said. "And that means we have an entirely new kind of astronomy to explore."
Interestingly, in fact, my "seeing" metaphor, above, is misguided. As it happens, the gravitational waves studied by LIGO in its current state—ever-larger and more powerful new versions of the instrument are already being planned—"fall within the range of human hearing."
If you want to hear spacetime, there is an embedded media player over at The New Yorker with a processed snippet of the "chirp" made by the incoming gravitational wave.
In any case, I've already gone on at great length, but the article ends with a truly fantastic quote from Kip Thorne. Thorne, of course, achieved minor celebrity last year when he consulted on the physics for Christopher Nolan's relativistic time-travel film Interstellar, and he is not lacking for imagination.
Thorne compares LIGO to a window (and my inner H.P. Lovecraft reader shuddered at the ensuing metaphor):
"We are opening up a window on the universe so radically different from all previous windows that we are pretty ignorant about what's going to come through," Thorne said. "There are just bound to be big surprises."
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Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn are red carpet official!
Woods and Vonn attended the Met Ball as guests of Vogue, and were also dressed by the magazine, Us Magazine reported.
The couple announced that they were an item on their Facebook pages back in March, roughly two months after Vonn finalized her divorce from husband, Thomas Vonn, in January 2013.
"I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods," Vonn, the most decorated female skier in U.S. history, wrote on her Facebook page. "Our relationship evolved from a friendship into something more over these past few months and it has made me very happy."
Woods divorced his wife, Elin Nordegren, in August 2010 in the wake of the golfer's public cheating scandal.
Click through the slideshow below for more photos of Vonn and Woods at the Met Ball, then tell us what you think of the power couple's first public appearance in the comments!


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Participants in the 11th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting agreed that the "single most important feature" of a new round of trade liberalization and investment negotiations by the World Trade Organization (WTO) would be its conclusion within three years, according to U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky.
Such a time limit would mean that issues "not genuinely ripe for full-scale negotiation should not be part of any single undertaking," Barshefsky said during a September 10 press conference in Auckland, New Zealand. "Instead the round must remain balanced but manageable."
One of the significant outcomes in the Ministerial Joint Statement relates to biotechnology, according to Barshefsky.
"The APEC call for a rules-based system that is at least transparent and science-based would make an enormous difference to agricultural trade," she said. "It goes without saying that if the science is negative, that is the end of the inquiry. But, process-wise, we must be sure that regulations are published and followed, that the scientific data required are spelled out and then considered in an appropriate manner, and that the process not be politicized as it is today, particularly in the European Union."
On accelerated tariff liberalization (ATL), Barshefsky said that "APEC remains fully committed to early progress on ... zero-for-zero tariff treatment" in the areas of forest products, fisheries, the auto industry, toys, gems and jewelry, environmental goods and services, food, and medical equipment.
"The idea that has been discussed and will be further discussed in Geneva (at the upcoming WTO Ministerial) is that there should be early provisional implementation of those tariff cuts before the conclusion of a round," she said. "But in terms of a final binding, that is to say a contractual final commitment to implement in the future, the rest of the market access negotiations would have to successfully conclude in the round."
China's accession to the World Trade Organization is still under discussion, Barshefsky said.
"We have not yet established a specific timeline for conclusion of the talks, because for both China and the United States the resolution of the outstanding issues on satisfactory terms must be the goal. And that is far more important than establishing any arbitrary timeline," she said.
"With respect to accessions generally, of course, accessions consist not only of bilateral discussions but of very substantial and complex discussions in Geneva among all of the parties. The discussions in Geneva on China's accession, as well as on the accession of Chinese Taipei and some 30 other countries, are proceeding in Geneva on a normal basis," she continued.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who also attended the press conference, emphasized that the United States remains committed to a one-China policy, dialogue between China and Taiwan, and a peaceful resolution of the situation.
QUESTION: I have a question for Ambassador Barshefsky. In the light of what the New Zealand minister has just said about the early results and single undertaking, does this mean the United States has now abandoned its position that there should be an early harvest of agreements in any round? Are you now -- do you now take the view that you should simply go for a single undertaking?
AMBASSADOR BARSHEFSKY: The short answer is no. And let me explain that answer. The United States' view on single undertaking is that there can be no agreement on single undertaking until the bounds of the WTO agenda is agreed. The APEC Ministers' statement makes clear that the single most important feature of the round -- apart from agriculture, services and industrial tariffs -- is that it must conclude within three years. Necessarily, that means that issues not genuinely ripe for full-scale negotiation should not be part of any single undertaking, and instead the round must remain balanced but manageable, which is precisely the United States' position.
With respect to ATL (Accelerated Tariff Liberalization), the significance of the decision reached at APEC is this. First off, that APEC remains fully committed to early progress on the eight sectors for, essentially, zero-for-zero tariff treatment. The idea that has been discussed and will be further discussed in Geneva is that there should be early provisional implementation of those tariff cuts before the conclusion of a round, but in terms of a final binding, that is to say a contractual final commitment to implement in the future, the rest of the market access negotiations would have to successfully conclude in the round. So this again is entirely consistent with the United States' position that trade liberalization is an on-going process. It is not merely a process that starts and stops every decade with the launch of a round.
QUESTION: My question is to Madame Secretary Albright. You met with the PRC Foreign Minister, Minister Tang Jiaxuan, yesterday, and it was reported that there was a lengthy discussion regarding Taiwan. And Minister Tang told us, after the meeting, that he raised certain -- several points and, by using very harsh words, he said that the difficulty for the past few months of the U.S.-China relations is solely responsible at the U.S. side. He also said that President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan is the biggest stumbling block in the development of U.S.-China relations. I wonder, do you have any response to this statement, and what's the prospect of the outcome of President Clinton's meeting with President Jiang Zemin tomorrow?
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: Let me say that I believe that I had a frank and productive discussion with Foreign Minister Tang yesterday. We had met previously in Singapore and have maintained contact. In response to the issue of Taiwan, which is very much on the minds of Beijing, I made very clear that our policy has three pillars. It remains the same, which is we have a one-China policy, we believe that the situation ought to be resolved through dialogue, and peacefully. I think that there have clearly been questions recently about the U.S.-China relationship. We believe that it is an important relationship and that it is in U.S. national interests to have one in which there is engagement between the United States and China. That is what President Clinton believes. And it is hard to predict the outcome of any meeting, but there have been a number of meetings in the past between the two Presidents. I am sure that they will be discussing a variety of issues that concern both of us, that have to do with our trade relationship, the issues of non-proliferation, human rights, and issues where we believe that our interests are really very much in common -- that is, to do with the situation on the Korean peninsula.
QUESTION: I understand there's been some progress on the talks between the United States and China on WTO accession. I was wondering if Ambassador Barshefsky might be able to give us a bit of a readout and, in particular, what issues still stand between the two sides and how you potentially see a way around the Taiwan and China entry question, if it gets to that stage. Thank you.
AMBASSADOR BARSHEFSKY: I think I did provide an essential response yesterday evening to the question of meetings held between the Chinese side and the United States' side on WTO. I've indicated that the U.S. and China have resumed WTO discussions, that we have asked our officials to begin to address outstanding issues so that they can be resolved in a mutually satisfactory manner. We have not yet established a specific timeline for conclusion of the talks, because for both China and the United States the resolution of the outstanding issues on satisfactory terms must be the goal. And that is far more important than establishing any arbitrary timeline. I do think that the discussions which Minister Shi and I have had last night were constructive and were very productive in tone. You know, of course, that there has been essentially no contact on the WTO issue for over four months for reasons with which I know you are quite familiar. And so the meetings that have been held, both in Beijing by our technical people as well as between Minister Shi and myself, have helped, I think, to break the ice and to allow for engagement in a more routine and normal manner. And I think that is all to the good. We're quite pleased about that, and I think that essentially captures the sum and substance of the discussions.
With respect to accessions generally, of course, accessions consist not only of bilateral discussions but of very substantial and complex discussions in Geneva among all of the parties. The discussions in Geneva on China's accession, as well as on the accession of Chinese Taipei and some 30 other countries, are proceeding in Geneva on a normal basis.
QUESTION: I would like to ask the American delegates whether they could expand a little bit on the agricultural decisions that are being proposed and whether you had any difficulties or disagreements or stumbling blocks with some of the ministers of the different economies here, particularly in regard to Australia or China or Japan? Thank you.
AMBASSADOR BARSHEFSKY: I think there are two very significant outcomes in this declaration with respect to agriculture. The first has to do with the complete elimination of agricultural export subsidies on a global basis. This is a matter highlighted by Vice President Gore at Davos this past January. The United States is of the firm view that global agricultural export subsidies are trade distortive, discriminate against the developing world, and artificially restrain agriculture production in countries that have a comparative advantage in that production. I did not detect any difference among APEC economies with respect to the absolute importance in the next round of, first off, a core focus on agriculture and, second, the absolute elimination of agricultural export subsidies.
The second significant outcome has to do with biotechnology. That is to say, an APEC call for a transparent, rules based, scientific process with respect to the issue of biotechnology.
To digress for a moment, as you know, from the U.S, point of view, our chief complaint with respect to European biotechnology decisions is that the regulatory process in Europe, such as it exists, is opaque and highly politicized. The APEC call for a rules-based system that is at least transparent and science-based would make an enormous difference to agricultural trade. It goes without saying that if the science is negative, that is the end of the inquiry. But, process-wise, we must be sure that regulations are published and followed, that the scientific data required are spelled out and then considered in an appropriate manner, and that the process not be politicized as it is today, particularly in the European Union.
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8 Best Moments From the 2021 CrossFit Games
The 2021 Games were flush with historic moments that will forever live on the highlight reel.
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Last updated on August 9th, 2021
As the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games approached, there was little doubt that historic moments were guaranteed to come to fruition. They certainly did not disappoint as the week of competition was filled with drama, records, firsts, and more.
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Biggest Moments of the 2021 CrossFit Games
Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr Passes Mat Fraser For Most All-Time Event Wins
Justin Medeiros Becomes Youngest Ever Fittest Man on Earth®
Jonne Koski's Performance in Event One
Mallory O'Brien Becomes the Youngest Ever Event Winner
Guilherme Malheiros's Mastery in the Snatch Event
Annie Thorisdottir Shocks the World with Bronze Medal Finish
Team CrossFit Mayhem's Perfect Day One
Adaptive Division Makes Its Games Debut
Five-time Fittest Man on Earth® Mat Fraser announced his retirement from competitive CrossFit in February 2021 — meaning a new champion would be crowned for the first time in half a decade. Reigning Fittest Woman on Earth®, Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr entered the Games on the cusp of setting multiple records — which she broke and then some. The Teams Division returned after a year-long hiatus due to COVID-19, and the Adaptive Division finally made its debut at the Games after years of anticipation.
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The number of epic moments in Madison, WI, was easily in the dozens, if not more. However, below is a breakdown of eight of them that are likely to spark fondness and awe in peoples' memories in the years to come as to why the 2021 Games were extraordinary.
Toomey-Orr is the G.O.A.T
The notion that Toomey-Orr is the greatest strength athlete of all time before the 2021 CrossFit Games was perhaps debatable. Not so much now. By the final day of competition, her lead on the overall leaderboard was so large that the broadcast team routinely referred to the remaining competition as the "coronation of Tia-Clair Toomey."
In addition to winning a record-tying fifth consecutive Games, she also shattered the record for most Individual event wins ever. At the start of the 2021 Games, Fraser held the record with 29 event wins. Toomey-Orr matched that with a win in Event 11 and would go on to win three of the last four events to further the record to 33. Of the 15 events that made up the 2021 Games, Toomey-Orr won nine of them.
In her post-Games interview with Niki Brazier, Toom-Orr said she intends to compete next year. If and when Toomey-Orr decides to return for the 2022 CrossFit Open, it would mark her journey to a potential sixth CrossFit Games title — the most by any athlete ever. With the level of dominance she has displayed over the last half-decade, and at just 28 years old, chances are the top of the podium will not be open to anyone else as long as Toomey-Orr is on the roster.
Fittest Man on Earth
Justin Medeiros entered the 2020 CrossFit Games in his rookie season and left as the bronze medalist and Rookie of the Year. He was the overall leader in the Men's Division for the majority of the competition and ultimately clinched the title of Fittest Man on Earth® at just 22 years of age — the youngest to ever do it.
Medeiros' journey throughout the 2021 Games was one of consistency. He only won one of the 15 events, but he only finished outside the top 10 twice — Events Two and Three. Although he has only been at the Games twice, he has yet to finish off the podium. Only three other athletes fall into that category — Rich Froning, Mat Fraser, and Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr. That's some pretty notable company.
The Aquatics of Jonne Koski
Jonne Koski of Finland is notoriously proficient in the water. He was a competitive swimmer before starting CrossFit. He previously won the 2015 Games water-based event, "Pier Paddle," and scored second in both "Beach" in 2014 and "Run Swim Run" in 2017. However, much of his young CrossFit career (he is 26) has been plagued by injury that forced him to withdraw from high-level events. However, for the 2021 Games, he looked as strong as he ever has and made his presence immediately felt in Event One.
The opening event of the Games consisted of a mile-long swim followed by a three-mile kayak. Koski got out to an early lead, furthered it throughout the event, and casually sauntered his way across the finish line two and a half minutes before the runner-up, Lazar Đukić, exited the water. Koski's remarkable performance in this event was one of the most striking of the entire competition and it paved the way to his eventual sixth-place overall finish — the best of his career.
The Future of CrossFit is Here
There were two teenage athletes in the Women's Division at the 2021 CrossFit Games — Emma Cary and Mallory O'Brien. They finished the Games in 16th and seventh, respectively, overall. O'Brien received the Rookie of the Yƒear award for that seventh-place finish that was highlighted by a historically unique feat.
In Event Four, against the top-ranked athletes in the field, including Toomey-Orr, O'Brien paced the field, performing wall walks and thrusters more efficiently than anyone else. Her first-place time of 13:41.22 was over a half-minute faster than the Fittest Woman on Earth® and made the 17-year-old O'Brien the youngest athlete to ever win an event at the Games.
Silky Smooth Snatch
What a breakout performance the 2021 Games were for Brazil's Guilherme Malheiros. The 21-year-old fitness phenom won three events en route to a seventh-place overall finish. He outsprinted everyone in the field in Event Three, cleaned house in Event Seven, and blew everyone in the Alliant Energy Center away with flawless technique in Event 12 — the one-rep max snatch.
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Malheiros' performance and charisma in the snatch event caught the broadcast team and crowd so off-guard that the Brazilian seemingly became an instant fan favorite. He had tremendous speed under the barbell, caught it high, and would do the same gesture of pointing to the sky and/or dabbing on his way back to the sidelines to await the next round. His opening snatch of 260 pounds looked identical to his winning snatch of 305 pounds and it was a moment that will be remembered for years to come.
Bronze Burnished by Greatness
Two-time Fittest Woman on Earth® Annie Thorisdottir took the 2020 CrossFit Games season off as she was busy becoming a mom. She returned to the Games in 2021 after finishing second worldwide in the 2021 Open despite her doubts that she was capable of competing at the highest level of competition anymore. During a post-competition interview, she admitted, "I wasn't even planning on being here. I didn't think I could compete." Of course, that couldn't have ended up further from the truth.
Thorisdottir not only stood on the podium as the bronze medalist at the 2021 Games but constantly surprised herself throughout the competition. In what easily became the most meme-able moment of the entire competition, Thorisdottir assumed a face of absolute shock after catching a 200-pound snatch overhead. She sat at the bottom of the lift dumbfounded, knowing that the weight was secure and that all she had to do was stand up.
The back half of the competition saw Thorisdottir steadily make her way up the leaderboard rankings to the point where she entered the final event in a dead heat for third place with Kristin Holte. It was a dramatic addition to that final event — whoever beat the other would stand on the podium. Thorisdottir put her gymnastics background on display as the leader for the majority of the event. Toomey-Orr and Laura Horváth ultimately finished first and second in the event — as they did the overall — but Thorisdottir beat Holte by seven ranks to step onto the podium for the sixth time in her Games career.
After winning four consecutive CrossFit Games titles as an individual, Rich Froning moved into the Teams Division as the leader of Team CrossFit Mayhem. He led them to four Games titles in five trips to the Games before the 2021 season. (There was no team competition in 2020.) For the 2021 Games, Team Mayhem got a makeover with the additions of Taylor Williamson, Andrea Nisler, and Chase Hill and dominated the competition.
Team Mayhem scored two historic firsts at the 2021 Games en route to a record fifth Teams Division title. First, they threw a perfect game on Day One of the competition, winning all four events. Second, they won the Games by the largest margin ever — 279 points over runner-up CrossFit Oslo. The only variable that has remained constant in Team Mayhem's continued dominance year after year is Froning's presence on the team. All divisions combined, he is the all-time winningest CrossFit Games athlete with nine gold medals — four as an individual and five as part of a team.
There was an entirely new division competing at the Games in 2021. Three classes in the Adaptive Division were present in Madison to compete on the sport's biggest stage. The top five athletes from the Open in the Upper Extremity, Lower Extremity, and Neuromuscular classes were invited to compete at the Games. They put on a show to remember.
Whether it was Brett Horchar's dominance in the Neuromuscular division or Logan Aldridge deadlifting 502 pounds, the debut of the Adaptive Division was a glaring success that could very well lead to its expansion in future Games.
Onward to 2022
There is still plenty of elite-level CrossFit competition left in 2021. Notably, the Rogue Invitational is forthcoming at the end of October. Preparation for the 2022 CrossFit Games season is, however, already underway as the 2022 CrossFit Open has already been announced to begin on Feb. 24, 2022.
As was the case in 2021, there are plenty of unknowns heading into 2022 — will we see the return of Kari Pearce, who had to withdraw from the 2021 Games due to a positive COVID test? Will Brooke Wells have sufficiently recovered from the dislocated elbow she suffered during the one-rep max snatch event? Will Justin Medeiros concede the throne to a new contender, or is 2021 the beginning of his dynasty in the sport? Can anyone legitimately challenge Toomey-Orr for the title of Fittest on Earth®? We'll have to wait and see, but it is surely a season to look forward to.
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In Russian, the English word privacy is approximated by a complex description using the words for 'solitude. Fundamentally, privacy was for finance. John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the.
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Martin Luther King School Milwaukee Mar 01, 2013 · St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran School's purpose is not only to aid parents in bringing up their children for a useful life as citizens of this world, but especially to direct the students' attention to their lasting citizenship in heaven, and to lead them to boldly confess Christ to others. The Salvation Army
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What Led To The Constitution The constitutional power to judge a president is left to Congress. Impeachment is not so constrained. But successful impeachment leading to removal requires the support of numerous Republican. The Lecompton Constitution (1857) was one of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas. It was drafted by pro-slavery advocates and included provisions to protect slaveholding
With blithe sadism, Aykroyd homed in on all the characteristics that made Nixon such a poor. By far the most generous portrayal of Nixon on stage or in film is in John Adams's "Nixon in China." A.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the.
"Had I never read," he complained, "what Americans had written of themselves nor any description of what Europeans had. One sage whom he does not quote is John Adams, who warned: "Our Constitution.
The final of the 2019 NCAA men's basketball tournament will be many things: slow, physical, tight, tense. Both are vying.
"A government of laws, and not of men," John Adams first said. The administration's policy. Some were subjected to abuse in prison, verbal and physical: At the Metropolitan Detention Center in.
John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper.Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John Adams by David McCullough.The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first 50 years of the.
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, and also served as the first vice president of the United States.


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Q: BasicNetwork.performRequest: Unexpected response code 400 for https://api.infermedica.com/v2/diagnosis - Android Java I'm testing the inter media API and I am trying it using this code below. I used volley for this:
    String url = "https://api.infermedica.com/v2/diagnosis";
    JSONArray evidence = new JSONArray();
    JSONObject evidence1 = new JSONObject();
    try {
        evidence1.put("id", "s_1193");
        evidence1.put("choice_id", "present");
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    try {
        evidence.put(0,evidence1);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    JSONObject postparams  = new JSONObject();
    try {
        postparams.put("sex", "male");
        postparams.put("age", 30);
        postparams.put("evidence", evidence);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    Log.e("DATA:", postparams.toString());
    JsonObjectRequest jsonObjReq = new JsonObjectRequest(Request.Method.POST,
            url, postparams,
            new Response.Listener() {
                @Override
                public void onResponse(Object response) {
                    Log.e("DATA: ", response.toString());
                }
            },
            new Response.ErrorListener() {
                @Override
                public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                    // As of f605da3 the following should work
                    NetworkResponse response = error.networkResponse;
                    if (error instanceof ServerError && response != null) {
                        try {
                            String res = new String(response.data,
                                    HttpHeaderParser.parseCharset(response.headers, "utf-8"));
                            // Now you can use any deserializer to make sense of data
                            JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(res);
                            Log.e("DATA:" , obj.toString());
                        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
                            // Couldn't properly decode data to string
                            e1.printStackTrace();
                        } catch (JSONException e2) {
                            // returned data is not JSONObject?
                            e2.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

    ) {
        @Override
        public Map<String, String> getHeaders() throws AuthFailureError {
            HashMap<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();
            headers.put("app-id", "MY-APP-ID");
            headers.put("app-key", "MY-APP-KEY");
            headers.put("authorization", "Basic Og==");
            headers.put("Content-type", "application/json");
            return headers;
        }
    };

    Log.e("DATA: " , "calling volley");
    RequestQueue requestQueue  = Volley.newRequestQueue(this);
    requestQueue.add(jsonObjReq);

After running it and checking the logs here is the result:
 E/DATA:: {"sex":"male","age":30,"evidence":
 [{"id":"s_1193","choice_id":"present"}]}

 E/DATA:: calling volley

 E/Volley: [236] BasicNetwork.performRequest: Unexpected response code 400
 for https://api.infermedica.com/v2/diagnosis

 E/DATA:: {"message":"bad request"}

I tried the logged json in Postman and it was accepted:
Here is the screenshot of my postman result

I've been looking for answers around here, I already added the content-type, and I made sure that my keys are correct. Am I using the volley correctly. Your help will be much appreciated.

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Q: Django username/password and api key JWT authentications I have some requirements where I need to be able to authenticate the user either with username/password or with an api_key and return a JWT token for both cases.
My approach with the username/password:
 if request.data['email'] and request.data['password']:
            try:
                user = User.objects.get(email=request.data['email'])
            except User.DoesNotExist:
                return Response({'Error': "Invalid username."}, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

            if user:
                if user.check_password(request.data['password']):
                    payload = jwt_payload_handler(user)
                    token = jwt_encode_handler(payload)

                    exp = datetime.now() + api_settings.JWT_EXPIRATION_DELTA
                    return Response({'token': token,
                                     'exp': format(exp, 'U')},
                                    status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
                else:
                    return Response({'Error': "Invalid password."}, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

where jwt_payload_handler is implemented as:
def jwt_payload_handler(user):
 payload = {
        "id": user.id,
        "date": get_user_join_date(user),
        "username": user.username,  }
 return payload

One of my questions is doesn't the keyword username need to be in the payload for the token to be a valid one?
What would a good approach be in the case of the api_key considering the key is not related to a user?
Should i create a default user that will be used in the payload given the api_key provided was correct?
Any suggestions?

A: Yes, you can create a default user to use with the API key. Of course, this will mean that data is shared across everyone who uses that API key, which may be fine in your usecase.
Beware that there are security gotchas for using just one API key. If the API key is compromised, you will need to send out a new key to every user of your API. Consider creating a separate API token for each consumer of your API, the same way that every consumer has their own username/password. That way, if a consumer compromises their API token, you only need to generate a new one for that particular consumer.


Additional Features Inrush current limiting thermistor, suitable for high energy and short term high current applications. Dissipation constant 85.2mW/°C. Thermal time constant 64mW/s. Material type I (for beta and curve). Recognised by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for ensured safety.
The AS32 0R530 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 30A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 0.5Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in co..
The AS32 0R536 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 36A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 0.5Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in co..
The AS32 1R030 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 30A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 1Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in comb..
The AS32 1R036 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 36A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 1Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in comb..
The AS32 2R025 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 25A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 2Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in comb..
The AS32 5R020 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 20A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 5Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in comb..
The AS32 20010 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 10A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 20Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in com..
The AS32 50006 inrush current limiting thermistor from Ametherm offers a maximum steady state current of 6A (up to +25°C) and a resistance of 50Ω ±25% (at 25°C). The Ametherm AS series are designed to withstand high steady-state current and input energy. Compared to traditional inrush current limiters, the devices offer lower current density, faster reset times, and a wider temperature range without derating. This lower current density, in comb..


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Nick Silvaroli, WNY school business Officer of the Year, taps Kristin Morris for scholarship
Pioneer School District Assistant Superintendent Nick Silvaroli has been recognized as Business Official of the Year by the Western New York Chapter of the Association of School Bu...
Vote is Tuesday, May 17
Pioneer School District residents will choose from among a pair of candidates for one five-year term on the school board, and decide on next year's general fund budget and a new ca...
Panther sculpture installed at high school
The entrance to Pioneer High School is in the process of getting a new look under the current Capital Improvement Project. Along with those upgrades, another fresh element is bein...
May 26 is now a day off for students and staff
Pioneer School District is extending Memorial Day Weekend for students and staff.Because the district used only one snow day in 2021-22, Thursday, May 26, will now be a non-instruc...
Hearing sets the stage for May 17 budget vote, BOE election
The public has had a chance to review Pioneer School District's proposed $62.4 million general fund budget. Now it's up to the voters to decide during polling scheduled for Tuesday...
Color Obstacle Course happens June 18
A family fun event that was last held before Covid-19 is finally coming back to the Pioneer School District—with a twist!A Color Fun Run was held at Arcade Park for several years f...
Who is running for School Board?
Pioneer School District voters will head to the polls on Tuesday, May 17, from 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Voting will take place at Pioneer High School. On the ballot will be a measu...
Budget of $62.4 million approved
The Pioneer Board of Education unanimously approved a 2022-23 general fund budget of $62,408,491 at its April 19 regular meeting. The budget represents a spending increase of 5.03...
Parade for Super Alex is Sunday, May 1
A parade in honor of Pioneer student Alex "Super Alex" Heldwein will be held Sunday, May 1, on Main Street in Arcade, starting at noon. The parade will assemble at Arcade Elementar...
Board hears details of Work-Based Learning program
A special education initiative at Pioneer is aimed at students gaining skills that could lead to future employment. At its April 19 regular meeting, the Board of Education heard f...
Pioneer conducts Digital Equity Survey
Pioneer School District is asking for the public's help in assessing the instructional technology needs of our students and families. As the last two years have proven, access to a...
Pioneer among 'Best Communities for Music Education'
Pioneer School District has been honored for the fourth time with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from the NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to mu...
Superintendent: Times are busy, things are happening
Heading into the final quarter of the 2021-22 school year, things are happening all over the Pioneer School District, all designed to bring about better learning outcomes and safer...
District awaits state action on budget
Pioneer School District administrators continue to fine-tune the 2022-23 general fund budget, as negotiations in Albany continue toward a final deal on the state budget.Assistant S...
Capital Project Update: Raising the Roof
The Pioneer Capital Project Team has entered the next phase of the 2020 renovations. Having relocated the Pioneer High School entrance two weeks ago to allow for further work on th...
The Pioneer Board of Education approved a new round of capital improvements at its March 15 regular meeting and set a voting date of Tuesday, May 17—the same day as the annual budg...
State tests in ELA and Math scheduled start this week
Students in Grades 3-8 across New York State this week will begin taking the Common Core New York State English Language Arts and Math Assessments. The schedule is as follows: ENG...
Restricted entry to the high school starts March 21
Starting Monday, March 21, staff and students who enter Pioneer High School at the main entrance will be redirected to doors numbers 2 and 3 under the canopy on the south side of t...
Proposed General Fund Budget for 2022-23 totals $62.3 million
The Pioneer Board of Education got its first full look at the proposed $62,398,491 general fund budget for 2022-23. The spending increase is 5.01 percent.Meeting in its first in-pe...
Principals provide UPK update to Board of Ed
Pioneer is in its 15th year of providing a Universal Pre-kindergarten (UPK) program, providing vital social, emotional and academic skills to aid in development.During the Pioneer ...


Vehicle detection and tracking play an important role in road traffic. In this paper, we propose an efficient fusion based technique for vehicle detection and tracking. The design of fusion approach includes two CCD cameras with two different pre-processing techniques and image fusion with DWT is used to avoid the drawback of the other detection methods. The main aim of this paper is more accurate real time detection and tracking system based on the various combination of the techniques .This review paper explains how to improve the efficiency of vehicle detection and tracking using Fusion Approach. Keywords- Fusion Approach, Image Processing, Real Time vehicle Detection.


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'2016: Obama's America' Team Vows to Take on Progressives, Support Pro-American Content
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — For eight years Hollywood savaged President George W. Bush with speeches, feature films and documentaries. The Commander in Chief held his tongue and let democracy take its course.
Yet Dinesh D'Souza wasn't surprised when BarackObama.com directly attacked the one documentary overtly critical of him–D'Souza's smash 2012 hit 2016: Obama's America.
He knew it was coming
D'Souza, who attended CPAC Friday to debut the trailer for his new film, America, told Breitbart News that Obama's attack reflects who he is. The author turned filmmaker had studied Obama so intently by that point that such behavior was expected.
"I think I have his vibe," he said.
Earlier in the day, D'Souza predicted what Obama would think of his upcoming film.
"If he was upset about the last film, wait 'til he sees the new one," he said. America, hitting theaters July 4, attacks the progressive notion that both America and its capitalistic system is built on theft, not greatness. The film imagines what the world would be like if America the nation never happened.
D'Souza, currently the focus of an investigation into allegedly violating campaign finance laws, says conservatives have had his back on the issue. Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, is among D'Souza's more vocal backers against the charges. The filmmaker also received support from someone who shares a totally different ideological perspective-famed litigator Alan Dershowitz.
John Sullivan, who co-directed 2016: Obama's America and is directing its follow up, says that typically a hit like 2016 would open up some sizable doors in Hollywood.
That hasn't been the case, Sullivan says.
The industry meetings are a little more comfortable of late, but Sullivan says he still meets resistance on what appear to be lucrative box office themes–faith-based, pro-American stories.
"You have to give me a different reason for not getting into this space," Sullivan tells them. So far, they have yet to provide a compelling answer, he says.
As a conservative, "The door's never really open for you," he says, but that won't stop him from "breaking" down doors on his own in the months and years to come.
Sullivan hopes that will involve both film and TV projects featuring characters Americans already know and love, like George Washington, Frederick Douglass and Thomas Jefferson.
"These big historical figures haven't been given their due," he says.
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Schumer: 'I Tend to Believe Parnas' When He Says He Knew Trump
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Q: How to output fixed length value from UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 function? I am using UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 to convert my date to ASCII value and then writing this value to a text file.
fl_rcrd :=
        '03'
     || RPAD (' ', 23)
    || RPAD(UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 ('0' ||TO_CHAR (date_var, 'yyyymmdd') || 'C'),55)
     || code_var
     || RPAD (' ', 79);

  UTL_FILE.PUTF (fl_handle, fl_rcrd || '\n');

Here the date_var should output at position 26 and total length with padding should be 55 and code_var should print at 81st position.
But date_var is coming at 84th position which means this line is RPAD(UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 ('0' ||TO_CHAR (date_var, 'yyyymmdd') || 'C'),55)
is of total 58 length instead of 55.

Not understanding how to limit length of the output while using  UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 function?


Rates include breakfast, lunch and dinner daily and all drinks (including premium wines and spirits and liqueurs, but excluding French Champagne).
In this tranquil, intimate hideaway, the decks of the lodge seem to hover in the branches, while inside, rich calming colours and textures echo the hues of the natural surroundings. With its proximity to the river, guests at Singita Sweni Lodge are treated to up-close sightings of the incredible number of animals and birds that wander down to drink or wallow in the river.


1. Be There is being emotionally present for people. It's a powerful message of respect that improves communication and strengthens relationships.
2. Play taps into your natural way of being creative, enthusiastic and having fun. Play is the spirit that drives the curious mind, as in, "Let's play with that idea!" It's a mindset you can bring to everything you do.
3. Make Their Day is finding simple ways to serve or delight people in a meaningful, memorable way. It's about contributing to someone else's life, not because you want something out of it, but because that's the person you want to be.
4. Choose Your Attitude means taking responsibility for how you respond to what life throws at you. Once you are aware that your choice impacts everyone around you, you can ask yourself, "Is my attitude helping my team or my customers? Is it helping me to be the person I want to be?"
Learn more about the FISH philosophy and watch the inspiring video here.
Get yourself motivated to face the day on the way to work. Think of how the work you have allows you to have your life outside of it, such as a great social life. A positive attitude will make the day more pleasant and productive.
Rearrange your workspace. Hang up some new pictures. Maybe put up a postcard of somewhere you'd like to go and remind yourself that the money you earn at work will help get you there.
Use your time effectively. In your to-do list, include long term projects, as well as the more imminent things that need doing. Prioritize your to-do list - do the most important things first. When performing any task, ask yourself, "Is this the best use of my time?"
Take on (or ask for) new responsibilities. If you have a great idea, share it with those above you. Ask if you can be involved in implementing it. Try to learn more about other aspects of the organization.
Eat healthy. Take a healthy lunch to work with you. If you snack, make sure it is healthy too - an apple rather than a bag of chips. Look for ways of energizing yourself, other than adrenaline and caffeine. Try eating lunch with some different colleagues or at a different time or place.
Contribute towards creating a pleasant work environment. Do not gossip in the office, as it just creates negativity all around. Do not listen to any gossip either. Minimize your time with people that you do not have anything in common with or dislike. Ask the secretary about her mother's surgery, go out for drinks with the gang once in awhile. Building a social network at the office will make going there more fun.
Review your day before you leave for home. Look at what worked well and what could be improved the next day. If you feel satisfied with the day's work, then why not reward yourself later that day? You deserve it!
Switch off once you leave work. You are already at work for one-third of your week, so do not continue to keep it buzzing in your head during your free time. Mentally say goodbye to your office the moment you leave for home.
Every year people make resolutions. Usually they involve losing weight or eating healthier; but at TruYuu, we believe everyone should be happy in their work. Shouldn't your resolutions include making 2012 the year you found the joy in your job?
What things do you do when you are stuck in a rut in the job?
Check back for part three of our "New Year, New You" blog series, where we'll discuss how to gear your resume for your dream job.