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Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible
Church Pulpit Commentary
MacLaren's Expositions
Sermon Bible Commentary
Keil & Delitzsch
Mackintosh's Notes
The serpent's subtlety, and insnaring question, Genesis 3:1.
The woman's answer, Genesis 3:2.
The serpent denies the certianty of the threatening, Genesis 3:4; suggests a benefit by eating, Genesis 3:5.
The woman looks on the fruit, takes, eats, gives to the man, who also eats of it, Genesis 3:6.
The consequence of their sin, Genesis 3:7-8.
Adam's summons, Genesis 3:9, appearance, Genesis 3:10, examination, Genesis 3:11, excuse, Genesis 3:12.
The woman examined, excuses, yet confesses the fact, Genesis 3:13. Sentence upon the serpent the instrument, Genesis 3:14; upon the devil the chief agent, with the first gospel promise, Genesis 3:15; upon the woman, Genesis 3:16; upon the man, Genesis 3:17-19. Adam names his wife, Genesis 3:20.
God clothes them, Genesis 3:21.
They are thrown out of Paradise, Genesis 3:22, to till the ground, Genesis 3:23.
Their return impossible, Genesis 3:24.
The serpent; or rather, this or that serpent; for here is an emphatical article, of which more by and by.
The serpent's eminent subtlety is noted both in sacred Scripture, Genesis 49:17; Psalms 58:5; Matthew 10:16; 2 Corinthians 11:3, and by heathen authors, whereof these instances are given; that when it is assaulted, it secures its head; that it stops its ear at the charmer's voice; and the like. If it be yet said that some beasts are more subtle, and therefore this is not true; it may be replied,
1. It is no wonder if the serpent for its instrumentality in man's sin hath lost the greatest part of its original subtlety, even as man's sin was punished with a great decay both of the natural endowments of his mind, wisdom, and knowledge, and of the beauty and glory of his body, the instrument of his sin. But this text may, and seems to be understood, not of the whole kind of serpents, but of this individual or particular serpent; for it is in the Hebrew Hannachash that serpent, or
this serpent, to signify that this was not only an ordinary serpent, but was acted and assisted by the devil, who is therefore called
that old serpent, Revelation 12:9. And this seems most probable, partly from the following discourse, which is added as a proof of that which is here said concerning the serpent's subtlety; and that surely was not the discourse of a beast but of a devil; and partly from 2 Corinthians 11:3, which hath a manifest reference to this place, where the apostle affirmeth that the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety; not surely through that subtlety which is common to all serpents, but through that subtlety which was peculiar to this, as it was possessed and acted by the devil. There seems indeed to be an allusion here to the natural subtlety of all serpents; and the sense of the sacred penman may seem to be this, as if he said: The serpent indeed in itself is a subtle creature, and thought to be more subtle than any beast of the field; but howsoever this be in other serpents, it is certain that this serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, as will appear by the following words. If it be said, the particle this, or that, is relative to something going before, whereas there is not a word about it in the foregoing words; it may be replied, that relative particles are often put without any antecedents, and the antecedents are left to be gathered not only out of the foregoing, but sometimes also out of the following passages, as is apparent from Exodus 14:29; Numbers 7:19; Numbers 24:17 Psalms 87:1; Psalms 105:19; Psalms 114:2; Proverbs 7:8; Proverbs 14:26. So here, that serpent, that of which I am now to speak, whose discourse with the woman here followeth.
Quest. How the serpent could speak, and what the woman conceived of his speech, and why she was not affrighted, but continued the discourse with it? There be two satisfactory answers may be given to these questions.
1. The woman knew that there were spirits, and did freely and frequently converse with spirits or angels, who also did appear in some visible shape to her, which seems very credible; because in the following ages not only the angels, but even the blessed God himself, did in that manner converse with men. And as they afterwards used to appear in the shape of men, why might not one of them now appear to her, and converse with her, in the shape of a beautiful serpent? And why might she not freely and securely discourse with this which she thought to be one of those good angels, to whose care and tuition both she and her husband were committed? For I suppose the fall of the angels was yet unknown to her; and she thought this to be a good spirit, otherwise she would have declined all conversation with an apostate spirit.
2. A late ingenious and learned writer represents the matter thus, in which there is nothing absurd or incredible: The serpent makes his address to the woman with a short speech, and salutes her as the empress of the world, &c. She is not affrighted, because there was as yet no cause of fear, no sin, and therefore no danger, but wonders and inquires what this meant, and whether he was not a brute creature, and how he came to have speech and understanding? The serpent replies, that he was no better than a brute, and did indeed want both these gifts, but by eating of a certain fruit in this garden he got both. She asked what fruit and tree that was? Which when he showed her, she replied: This, no doubt, is an excellent fruit, and likely to make the eater of it wise; but God hath forbidden us this fruit. To which the serpent replies, as it here follows in the text. It is true, this discourse is not in the text; but it is confessed by Jewish and other expositors, that these words:
Yea, hath God said, & c., are a short and abrupt sentence, and that they were but the close of a foregoing discourse; which might well enough be either this now mentioned, or some other of a like nature. And that expression which follows, Genesis 3:6, when the woman saw, i.e. understood that it was a tree to be desired to make one wise, may seem to imply, both that the serpent told her, and that she believed, that the speech and understanding of the serpent was the effect of the eating of that fruit; and therefore that if it raised him from a brute beast to the degree of a reasonable creature, it would elevate her from the human to a kind of Divine nature or condition.
He said unto the woman, who had upon some occasion retired from her husband for a season (an advantage which the crafty serpent quickly espieth, and greedily embraceth, and assaulteth her when she wanteth the help of her husband).
Yea, or, why, or, is it so, or, indeed, or, of a truth. It is scarce credible that God, who is so bountiful, and the sovereign good, and so abhorring from all parsimony and envy, should forbid you the enjoyment of any part of those provisions which he hath made for your use and comfort.
Of every tree, or, of any; for the word is ambiguous, which therefore the cunning adversary useth to hide the snare which he was laying for her.
To wit, in order to the eating of it. Or the touch might be simply forbidden, or she might reasonably understand it to be forbidden in and by the prohibition of eating, because it was an occasion of sin, and therefore to be avoided. For it is not probable that the woman, being not yet corrupted, should knowingly add to God's word, or maliciously insinuate the harshness of the precept. Others read, lest
peradventure ye die, as if she doubted of the truth of the threatening; which seems not probable, the woman yet continuing in the state of innocency, and such doubting being evidently sinful; and the Hebrew particle
Pen doth not always imply a doubt, as appears from Psalms 2:12; Isaiah 27:3; Isaiah 36:18, compared with 2 Kings 18:3.
It is not so certain as you imagine, that you shall die. God did say so indeed for your terror, and to keep you in awe; or, he had some mystical meaning in those words; but do not entertain such hard and unworthy thoughts of that God who is infinitely kind and gracious, that he will, for such a trifle as the eating of a little fruit, undo you and all your posterity, and so suddenly destroy the most excellent work of his own hands.
If you would have the whole truth of the matter, and God's design in that prohibition, it is only this, He knoweth that you shall be so far from dying, that ye shall certainly be entered into a new and more noble kind of life; and the eyes of your minds, which are now shut as to the knowledge of a world of things, shall then be opened, and see things more fully and distinctly.
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil, or, as God, like unto God himself in the largeness of your knowledge; the very name that God hath put upon the tree may teach you. But this is a privilege, of which, for divers causes best known to himself, some of which your own reason will easily guess at, he would not have you partake of.
The woman saw; by curious and accurate observation, and gazing upon it, or perceiving it by the serpent's discourse, as was observed on Genesis 3:3.
Pleasant to the eyes, to wit, in an eminent degree; for otherwise so were all the rest.
To make one wise, which she might know by the serpent's information. See Poole on "Genesis 3:1".
Gave also unto her husband with her, who by this time was returned to her, and who now was with her; or, that he might eat with her, and take his part of that fruit.
And he did eat, by her persuasion and instigation. See 1 Timothy 2:14.
The eyes of them both. The eyes of their minds and conscience, which hitherto had been closed and blinded by the arts of the devil, were opened, as the devil had promised them, though in a far differing and sadder sense.
They knew that they were naked. They knew it before, when it was their glory, but now they know it with grief and shame, from a sense both of their guilt for the sin newly past, and of that sinful concupiscence which they now found working in them.
They tied, twisted, or fastened, the lesser branches or twigs, upon which were also the leaves of a fig tree, which peradventure was then near them, and which because of its broad leaves was most fit for that use.
Made themselves aprons, to cover their nakedness.
The voice of the Lord God, mentioned Genesis 3:9, or rather the sound, as the word voice is often taken in Scripture, as Psalms 93:3; Revelation 10:3; Revelation 19:6. Either God the Father, or rather God the Son, appeared in the shape of a man, as afterwards he frequently did, to give a foretaste of his incarnation. About evening, the time when men use to walk abroad to recreate themselves, when there was a cool and refreshing wind, whereby also the voice of the Lord was more speedily and effectually conveyed to Adam and his wife.
Adam and his wife hid themselves: being sensible of God's approach, and filled with shame and conscience of their own guilt, and dread of judgment, instead of flying to God for mercy, they foolishly attempted to run away from him, whom it was impossible to avoid.
The Lord God called with a loud voice: Thou whom I have so highly obliged, whither and wherefore dost thou run away from me, thy Friend and Father, whose presence was lately so sweet and acceptable to thee? In what place, or rather in what condition, art thou? What is the cause of this sudden and wonderful change? This he asks, not that he was ignorant of it, but to make way for the following sentence, and to set a pattern for all judges, that they should examine the offender, and inquire into the offence, before they proceed to punishment.
He confesseth his nakedness, which was evident, but saith nothing of his sin; which, if possible, he would have hid: see Job 31:33. And is grieved for the shameful effects of his sin, but not yet sincerely penitent for his sin.
I hid myself, out of reverence to thy glorious majesty.
That thou wast naked; or, that thy nakedness, which lately was thy glory, was now become matter of shame.
Whereof I commanded thee; concerning which I gave thee so severe a charge upon pain of death.
I have eaten, not by my own choice and inclination, but by the persuasion of this woman, whom thou gavest to be with me, as a meet help, a faithful friend, and constant companion, supposing that it was not good for me to be alone, which the event shows would have been much better for me. Thus Adam excuseth himself, and chargeth God foolishly with his sin.
I did eat, out of complacency to her, not from any evil design against thee.
How heinous a crime hast thou committed! What a world of mischief hast thou by this one act brought upon thyself and all thy posterity? Or, why hast thou done this? What causes or motives couldst thou have for so wicked an action? What need hadst thou of meddling with this forbidden fruit, when I had given thee so large and liberal an allowance?
And the woman said, The serpent, a creature which thou hast made, and that assisted by a higher power, by an evil angel, for such I now perceive by sad experience there are,
beguiled me, a weak and foolish woman, whose seduction calls for thy pity, not thine anger;
and I did eat, being surprised and over-persuaded against my own judgment and resolution.
Unto the serpent; or rather, this or
that serpent, which, as was said before on Genesis 3:1, was no ordinary serpent, but a serpent acted and assisted by the devil; and therefore this sentence or curse is pronounced against both of them:
1. Against the serpent itself, which though an unreasonable creature, and therefore not subject to a law, and consequently not capable of guilt or sin, Romans 4:15, yet, being the instrument of the devil's malice, is rightly punished; as other beasts being abused by man's sin did suffer together with him, Exodus 32:20; Leviticus 20:15-16, not for their crime, but partly for the punishment, and partly for the benefit of man, who is their lord and owner, Psalms 8:6; for whose sake seeing they were made, it is not strange if they be punished for his use, that in their punishment man might have a demonstration of God's anger against sin, and a motive to repentance. See Poole on "Genesis 6:1", and following verses to Genesis 6:22. See Poole on "Genesis 7:1", and following verses to Genesis 7:24.
2. Against the devil, who is here principally intended, though as he lay hid in the body of the serpent which he possessed and used, so his curse is here mentioned under the cover of the serpent's curse, and under the disguise of such terms as properly and literally agree to the serpent, but are also mystically to be understood concerning the devil; with whom the Lord entertaineth no conference, as he did with Adam and Eve, whose sin was less than his, and whom God meant to bring to repentance; but immediately denounceth the curse against him, as one that sinned against much greater knowledge, and from far worse principles, not from mistake or misinformation, but from choice and rebellion, from hatred of God, and from mere envy and implacable malice against men.
Because thou hast done this, deceived the woman, and tempted her to this sin, thou art cursed; or, shalt be from henceforth, both really and in the opinion of all mankind: or, be thou.
Every beast of the field; as in other respects, so particularly in that which here follows;
upon thy belly shalt thou go. If the serpent did so before the fall, what then was natural, is now become painful and shameful to it, as nakedness and some other things were to man. But it seems more probable that this serpent before the fall either had feet, or rather did go with its breast erect, as the basilisk at this day doth; God peradventure so ordering it as a testimony that some other serpents did once go so. And so the sense of the curse being applied to this particular serpent, and to its kind, may be this: Whereas thou hadst a privilege above other kinds of serpents, whereby thou didst go with erected breast, and didst feed upon the fruits of trees and other plants; now thou shalt be brought down to the same mean and vile estate with them,
upon thy belly (or rather, breast, as the word also signifies)
shalt thou go, & c. as they do;
and dust shalt thou eat. Dust is the food, as of earthworms, scorpions, and some other creatures, so also of some serpents, as appears both from Isaiah 65:25; Micah 7:17, and from the testimony of Nicander, Theriac, ver. 372, and Philo, an Arabic writer. Or, the dust is the serpent's sauce rather than his meat; whilst creeping and grovelling upon the earth, and taking his food from thence, he must necessarily take in dust and filth together with it. These two clauses being applied to the devil, signify his fall from his noble state and place to earth and hell; the baseness of his nature and of his food, his delight being in the vilest of men and things, it being now his meat and drink to dishonour God and destroy mankind, and promote the esteem and love of earthly things.
Vers. 15. Though now ye be sworn friends, leagued together against me,
I will put enmity between thee and the woman; and the man too, but the woman alone is mentioned, for the devil's greater confusion.
1. The woman, whom, as the weaker vessel, thou didst seduce, shall be the great occasion of thy overthrow.
2. Because the Son of God, who conquered this great dragon and old serpent, Revelation 12:9, who came to destroy the works of the devil, 1 John 3:8, was made of a woman, Galatians 4:4, without the help of man, Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:34-35.
Thy seed; literally, this serpent, and, for his sake, the whole seed or race of serpents, which of all creatures are most loathsome and terrible to mankind, and especially to women. Mystically, that evil spirit which seduced her, and with him the whole society of devils, (who are generally hated and dreaded by all men, even by those that serve and obey them, but much more by good men), and all wicked men; who, with regard to this text, are called devils, and the children or
seed of the devil, John 6:70; John 8:44; Acts 13:10; 1 John 3:8.
And her seed, her offspring; first and principally, the Lord Christ, who with respect to this text and promise is called, by way of eminency,
the seed, Galatians 3:16,Galatians 3:19; whose alone work it is to break the serpent's head, i.e. to destroy the devil, Hebrews 2:14. Compare John 12:31; Romans 16:20.
Secondly, and by way of participation, all the members of Christ, all believers and holy men, who are called the children of Christ, Hebrews 2:13, and of the heavenly Jerusalem, Galatians 4:26. All the members whereof are the seed of this woman; and all these are the implacable enemies of the devil, whom also by Christ's merit and strength they do overcome.
The head is the principal instrument both of the serpent's fury and mischief, and of his defence, and the principal seat of the serpent's life, which therefore men chiefly strike at; and which being upon him ground, a man may conveniently tread upon, and crush it to pieces. In the devil this notes his power and authority over men; the strength whereof consists in death, which Christ, the blessed Seed of the woman, overthroweth by taking away the sting of death, which is sin, 1 Corinthians 15:55-56;
and destroying him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, Hebrews 2:14.
The heel is the part which is most within the serpent's reach, and wherewith it was bruised, and thereby provoked to fix his venomous teeth there; but a part remote from the head and heart, and therefore its wounds, though painful, are not deadly, nor dangerous, if they be observed in time. If it be applied to the Seed of the woman, Christ, his heel may note either his humanity, whereby he trod upon the earth, which indeed the devil, by God's permission, and the hands of wicked men, did bruise and kill; or his saints and members upon the earth, whom the devil doth in diverse manners bruise, and vex, and afflict, while he cannot reach their Head, Christ, in heaven, nor those of his members who are or shall be advanced thither.
I will greatly multiply, or certainly, as the repetition of the same word implies.
And thy conception, in diverse pains and infirmities peculiar to thy sex; i.e. Thou shalt have many, and those ofttimes, false and fruitless conceptions, and abortive births; and whereas thou mightest commonly have had many children at one conception, as some few women yet have, now thou shalt ordinarily undergo all the troubles and pains of conception, breeding, and birth, for every child which thou hast. Or,
thy sorrows and thy conception, by a figure called hendiaduo, are put for thy sorrows in conception, or rather in child-bearing, which the Hebrew word here used signifies, Genesis 16:4; Judges 13:3. Aristotle, in his Histor. Animal. 7, 9, observes, that women bring forth young with more pain than any other creatures.
Bring forth children, or bear, for the word notes all the pains and troubles which women have, both in the time of child-bearing, and in the act of bringing forth.
Sons, and daughters too, both being comprehended in the Hebrew word Sons, as Exodus 22:24; Psalms 128:6.
Thy desire shall be to thy husband; thy desires shall be referred or submitted to thy husband's will and pleasure to grant or deny them, as he sees fit. Which sense is confirmed from Genesis 4:7, where the same phrase is used in the same sense. And this punishment was both very proper for her that committed so great an error, as the eating of the forbidden fruit was, in compliance with her own desire, without asking her husband's advice or consent, as in all reason she should have done in so weighty and doubtful a matter; and very grievous to her, because women's affections use to be vehement, and it is irksome to them to have them restrained or denied. Seeing, for want of thy husband's rule and conduct, thou wast seduced by the serpent, and didst abuse that power I gave thee together with thy husband to draw him to sin, thou shalt now be brought down to a lower degree, for he shall rule thee; not with that sweet and gentle hand which he formerly used, as a guide and counsellor only, but by a higher and harder hand, as a lord and governor, to whom I have now given a greater power and authority over thee than he had before, (which through thy pride and corruption will be far more uneasy unto thee than his former empire was), and who will usurp a further power than I have given him, and will, by my permission, for thy punishment, rule thee many times with rigour, tyranny, and cruelty, which thou wilt groan under, but shalt not be able to deliver thyself from it. See 1 Corinthians 14:34; 1 Timothy 2:11-12; 1 Peter 3:6.
Hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, i.e. obeyed the word and counsel, contrary to my express command.
Cursed is the ground, which shall now yield both fewer and worse fruits, and those too with more trouble of men's minds, and labour of their bodies;
for thy sake, i.e. because of thy sin; or, to thy use; or, as far as concerns thee.
In sorrow; or, with toil, or, grief.
Thorns also and thistles, and other unuseful and hurtful plants, synecdochically contained under these, shall it bring forth to thee, of its own accord, not to thy benefit, but to thy grief and punishment;
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field, instead of those generous and delicious fruits of Paradise, which because thou didst despise, thou shalt no more taste of. See Genesis 1:29.
In the sweat of thy face, i.e. of thy body: he mentions the face, because there the sweat appears first and most. Or, with labour of body or brain, Ecclesiastes 1:13, and vexation of mind,
shalt thou get thy food and livelihood:
bread being put for all nourishment, as Genesis 18:5; Genesis 28:20.
Dust thou art, as to the constitution and original of thy body. See Genesis 18:27; Job 1:21; Psalms 103:14. Though upon thy obedience I would have preserved thy body no less than thy soul from all mortality; yet now, having sinned, thou shalt return unto dust in thy body, whilst the immortal spirit shall return unto God who gave it, Ecclesiastes 12:7. Thus thy end shall be as base as thy beginning.
The word signifies either a living, or, the giver or preserver of life. Though for her sin justly sentenced to a present death, yet by God's infinite mercy, and by virtue of the promised Seed, she was both continued in life herself, and
was made the mother of all living men and women that should be after her upon the earth; who though in and with their mother they were condemned to speedy death, yet shall be brought forth into the state and land of the living, and into the hopes of a blessed and eternal life by the Redeemer, whose mother or progenitor she was.
The Lord God, either by his own word, or by the ministry of angels,
made coats of skins, of beasts slain either for sacrifice to God, or for the use of man, their lord and owner;
and clothed them, partly to defend them from excessive heats and colds, or other injuries of the air, to which they were now exposed; partly to mind them of their sin, which made their nakedness, which before was innocent and honourable, now to be an occasion of sin and shame, and therefore to need covering; and partly to show his care even of fallen man, and to encourage his hopes of God's mercy through the blessed Seed, and thereby to invite him to repentance.
The Lord God said, either within himself, or to the other persons of the Godhead, Adam and Eve both are become such according to the devil's promise, and their own expectation. This is a holy irony, or sarcasm, like those, 1 Kings 18:27; Ecclesiastes 11:9; q.d. Behold! O all ye angels, and all the future generations of men, how the first man hath overreached and conquered us, and got the Divinity which he affected; and how happy he hath made himself by his rebellion! But this bitter scorn God uttereth not to insult over man's misery, but to convince him of his sin, folly, danger, and calamity, and to oblige him both to a diligent seeking after, and a greedy embracing the remedy of the promised Seed which God offered him, and to a greater watchfulness over himself, and respect to all God's commands for the time to come.
As one of us, i.e. as one of the Divine persons, of infinite wisdom and capacity. Here is an evident proof of a plurality of persons in the Godhead; compare Genesis 1:26, and Genesis 11:7. If it be said, God speaks this of himself and the angels; besides that as yet not one word hath been spoken concerning the angels, it is an absurd and unreasonable conceit that the great God should level himself with the angels, and give them a kind of equality with himself, as this expression intimates. To know all things, both good and evil.
Lest he put forth his hand: the speech is defective, and to be supplied thus, or some such way. But now care must be taken, or man must be banished hence,
lest he take also of the tree of life, as he did take of the tree of knowledge, and thereby profane that sacrament of eternal life, and fondly persuade himself that he shall live for ever. This is another scoff or irony, whereby God upbraideth man's presumption, and those vain hopes wherewith he did still feed himself.
For prevention thereof, the Lord God sent him forth, or expelled him with shame and violence, and so as never to restore him thither; for it is the same word which is used concerning divorced wives.
To till, to wit, with toil and sweat, as was threatened, Genesis 3:17, the ground without Paradise; for he was made without Paradise, and then put into it, as was noted before.
The east of the garden, where the entrance into it was, the other sides of it being enclosed or secured by God to preserve it from the entrance and annoyance of wild beasts. Or, before the garden, i.e. near to the garden; before any man could come at the garden any way.
Cherubims, i.e. angels, so called from their exquisite knowledge, and therefore fitly here used for the punishment of man, who sinned by affecting Divine knowledge.
And a flaming sword in the cherubims' hands, as it was upon other occasions, Numbers 22:23; Joshua 5:13; 1 Chronicles 21:16,1 Chronicles 21:27. And this was either a material sword, bright, and being brandished, shining and glittering like a flame of fire; or flaming fire, in the shape of a sword. Or, flaming swords, because there were divers cherubims, and each of them had a sword; the singular number for the plural. Or, a two-edged sword,
which turned every way, was brandished and nimbly whirled about by the cherubims; which posture was fittest for the present service,
to keep the way that leads to Paradise, and so to the tree of life, that man might be deterred and kept from coming thither.
Poole, Matthew, "Commentary on Genesis 3". Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/mpc/genesis-3.html. 1685.


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Q: C# Quartz.Net Scheduler job not executing if it has got parameterised constructor I am using C# Quartz.Net to create a scheduled job and make it as a windows service using TopShelf.
The scheduled job is not executing if the class contains a parameterised constructor. I am using Unit for Dependency Injection.
Can anyone help me what is the problem?
Here is the sample code:
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        ISchedulerFactory factory = new StdSchedulerFactory();

        IScheduler scheduler = factory.GetScheduler();
        scheduler.Start();

        IJobDetail job = JobBuilder.Create<SimpleJob>()
            .WithIdentity("job1", "group1")
            .Build();

        ITrigger trigger = TriggerBuilder.Create()
            .WithIdentity("trigger1", "group1")
            .WithSchedule(CronScheduleBuilder.CronSchedule("0/5 * * * * ?"))
            .Build();

        scheduler.ScheduleJob(job, trigger);

    }
}

public class SimpleJob : IJob
{
    public SimpleJob(IRepository repo) { } //If i comment out this line, then it works.
    public void Execute(IJobExecutionContext context)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, JOb executed");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

Thanks

A: According to the documentation for IJob

Instances of this interface must have a public no-argument constructor

By defining your constructor, the compiler assumes you no longer want the default constructor.
What is the point of this special constructor? (It won't be used by Quartz.)
If you need this constructor for some other purpose, then you also need to explicitly include the default constructor which Quartz can then use.

A: We were able to implement this as mentioned above having our own JobFactory.  We wanted to treat our jobs as any other class using our IOC implementation to provide the dependencies the jobs need.
Here is our implementation:
    public class ContainerJobFactory : PropertySettingJobFactory
    {
        private readonly IContainer container;

        public ContainerJobFactory(IContainer container)
        {
            this.container = container;
        }

        public override IJob NewJob(TriggerFiredBundle bundle, IScheduler scheduler)
        {
            var job = container.GetInstance(bundle.JobDetail.JobType);
            if (ReferenceEquals(job, null))
                return base.NewJob(bundle, scheduler);
            SetObjectProperties(job, bundle.JobDetail.JobDataMap);
            return (IJob) job;
        }
    }

Here is how we plugged in our JobFactory:
 scheduler.JobFactory = new ContainerJobFactory(StaticContainer.Instance);
 await scheduler.Start();

A: The short answer is that Quartz.Net requires a parameter-less constructor.  And that's that.
Since you look look like you want to INJECT, here is an article I had bookmarked.
http://blog.goyello.com/2009/09/21/how-to-use-quartz-net-in-pro-way/
The key information line is
"You may want to create your own implementation of JobFactory to accomplish things such as having your application's IoC or DI container produce/initialize the job instance."

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Q: Google Maps API v3 Google Earth API integration - load Earth view on load I'm using the google-maps-utility-library-v3 to incorporate a Google Earth API view to a Google Maps API v3 implementation.  Those Google Maps API v3 / Earth API utilities have been written by user jlivni as far as I can tell, the availability of which code has helped me greatly thus far.
(very rough working prototype of my implementation is here)
The problem I have is that I want to default (on page load) to the Google Earth view, rather than (as in the prototype above) one of the Maps API v3 standard views.
I have looked at lines 81, 131 and 133 of the (uncompiled?) googleearth.js at the above link (under src) and tried the following when setting the Maps API options within my JourneyImmersionInitialiseMapLoadGPXAnimate.js ...
var myOptions = {
    zoom: 18,
    center: arr_lat_lon[currentTrk][currentTrkseg][0],
    scaleControl: true,
    tilt: 45,
    mapTypeId: earthMapType,
    overviewMapControl: true,
    overviewMapControlOptions: {
        opened: true
        }
    };

map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), myOptions);

... but get ...
ReferenceError: earthMapType is not defined

Additionally I've tried ...
mapTypeId: GoogleEarth.earthMapType,

... which results in a grey map canvas with no map type options on the top right.  Once I've selected the Earth view from the page I can then change between the standard Earth API map types at the console in Firebug using ...
earth.getInstance().getOptions().setMapType(earth.getInstance().MAP_TYPE_EARTH)

... or ...
earth.getInstance().getOptions().setMapType(earth.getInstance().MAP_TYPE_SKY)

... but again, use of earthMapType or GoogleEarth.earthMapType in place of the last element results in an error at the Firebug console, this time ...
Error: Error calling method on NPObject!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
(as I'm a newbie I can't provide more than two links in this post but wanted to add that I have looked at stackoverflow.com/questions/3039250/google-earth-integrated-with-google-maps-api-v3)

A: This library doesn't have a public method to switch programmatically, and if you try to do it before all the setup is in place, it will fail.  Ideally there would be a callback after instantiating your GoogleEarth object, but lacking that you can hack around the issue by using the private showEarth_() method on the uncompiled JS.
Noting you have to wait an arbitrary amount of time before the plugin is ready, something like this should generally do the trick:
googleEarth = new GoogleEarth(map);
setTimeout('googleEarth.showEarth_();',1000);

This is all pretty hackish, so please file a feature request on the issue tracker to add in a supported method for switching to the Earth type programmatically.


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Fire In Houston Office Building Kills 3,
HOUSTON (AP) _ Fire ravaged the upper floors of a six-story office building, killing three people and injuring at least six others as firefighters used ladder trucks to help survivors escape through windows.
Authorities believe the fire broke out in a medical supply firm on the fifth floor, but they were still investigating the cause.
Flames shot from the building's top two floors late Wednesday afternoon just as the business day was wrapping up. Heavy smoke blanketed a nearby 10-lane freeway during the evening rush hour.
Roy Anderson and Larry Gill, who work at Rail Crew Express on the sixth floor, said they were outside when they heard an explosion and glass shattering.
They called for help while a passerby ran inside and pulled the fire alarm.
As the fire spread, people still inside called the fire department for help, saying they were trapped inside offices filling with smoke, District Fire Chief T.J. Dowdy said.
``I heard people scream on the other floor, I went out in the hallway and it was filled with smoke,'' Dawn Herring, 26, who works for an accounting office on the fourth floor, told the Houston Chronicle. ``Both stairways were filled with smoke. We all had to come back in the office. Everybody panicked for a second, but then my boss broke a window with a chair.''
Herring was eventually rescued by firemen.
``We must have waited 15 to 20 minutes, but it seemed really long,'' she said.
Three bodies were found on the building's fifth floor, two in the same office, Dowdy said. The victims and their companies weren't immediately identified.
Four people injured in the fire were taken to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, where a spokesman said one was in critical condition and the others were in fair or good condition. Three firefighters were among the injured, Dowdy said.
J Systems owner Jim Jimenez, whose office is on the fourth floor, got out when he saw smoke in the atrium. He looked back and saw the flames.
``It looked like the entire suite was on fire,'' he said. ``It just took seconds.''
Boxer Property Management Corp., which manages the building, declined to comment on the fire.
The building, constructed of glass and masonry in the early 1980s, is about 58,000 square feet and sits on the 610 Loop, a busy highway. An engineering firm and several medical clinics are listed as tenants.
Workers in a Chicago high-rise office tower also got a scare Wednesday when fire broke in equipment on the roof. The blaze on the 45-story downtown building didn't spread beyond the roof, officials said, and firefighters had it out in about two hours.
News On 6 HOUSTON (AP) _ Fire ravaged the upper floors of a six-story office building, killing three people and injuring at least six others as firefighters used ladder trucks to help survivors escape through windows.

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Breaking – Guber rerun: Thugs invade collation centre, tear result sheet in Kano, INEC suspends final declaration
March 24, 2019 Blueprint Politics, Top Stories 0
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended final collation of supplementary governorship election in Kano State after thugs reportedly invaded Nasarawa local government area collation point and tore result sheet.
Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Riskuwa Shehu, who disclosed this early on Sunday said: "As we were waiting to reconvene with the intention to continue with the collation, we heard a disturbing report that just as they were about to conclude, results collation in Nasarawa local government were disrupted and the result sheet torn away and there was a lot of commotion and the police had to rescue some people.
"As it is now, we don't have the result and even the E. O. (Electoral Officer) had to be rescued. Luckily, nothing happened to him. He was saved from the crisis.
"But the intention of the commission is that we are going to refer to our primary and secondary data of results that were collated from the polling units as well as the ward level.
"When we get the results in the presence of all the representatives of political parties, we will regenerate the results and we will confirm those that are acceptable within our laws and guidelines and those that have to be cancelled because the card readers will have to be referred to as well.
"Based on that, we will have genuine results and we will complete the collation for the state governorship election," he said.
Results from 21 local councils have been collated already and the incumbent Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress led his challenger, Abba Kabir-Yusuf, of the Peoples Democratic Party.
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Ocwen's Servicing Woes/ Expectations for Successors-in-Interest
May 4, 2017 by Carolyn Dion Leave a Comment
Breaking down the major CFPB/20 State action against Ocwen and also looking at one interesting servicing issue in detail. I's a mortgage servicing bananza today!Ocwen Enforcement Action!Let's start with the Ocwen action:Brought by the CFPB along with 20 other states, this has caused Ocwen's stock price to drop 55%. Ocwen is a major loan servicer, with a 1.4 million loan portfolio spread across 50 states.I normally hate to copy long quotes, but here are some relevant parts of the CFPB's statements:
Today the [CFPB] is filing a lawsuit against Ocwen, one of the nation's largest nonbank mortgage servicers. We are seeking relief to compensate consumers for years of systemic and significant errors throughout the mortgage servicing process, which cost some of them their homes. We allege that Ocwen calculated loan balances improperly, misapplied borrower payments, and botched escrow and insurance payments. We believe Ocwen failed to properly investigate and fix these problems when people formally complained, and it illegally foreclosed on borrowers. And we believe Ocwen compounded these failures by selling the servicing rights to these loans without fully disclosing or correcting errors in people's records…. Among the infractions we allege in our complaint, Ocwen failed to credit payments made by borrowers and botched basic tasks related to managing escrow accounts. It also enrolled some borrowers in add-on products they did not request and did not want, then charged them anyway. It bungled payment of people's hazard insurance, pushing some into force-placed insurance. And it mishandled borrowers' private mortgage insurance, overcharging them in the process. Further, it has failed to properly handle communications with the heirs of troubled properties, such as widows or children trying to prevent foreclosure on a deceased relative's home. When borrowers made formal complaints, we believe Ocwen's investigations and responses were inadequate …
Ocwen has long touted its ability to help struggling borrowers avoid foreclosure. But according to our complaint, Ocwen failed to give borrowers accurate information and foreclosure protections as required by law. As a result of these and other failures, we allege that Ocwen illegally initiated foreclosure proceedings and wrongfully conducted foreclosure sales, at times before even completing a review of borrowers' applications for help in saving their homes. We further assert that even when some borrowers were meeting their obligations under a loan modification agreement, such as making trial payments, Ocwen unilaterally broke the agreements and filed foreclosures on their homes.
Successors-in-Interest
Notice the one sentence above that is highlighted. Let's talk about that now.
It's an unfortunate reality, your mortgage borrower passes away and leaves someone behind who wants to live in/own the house. Can they afford the mortgage payment? Is there a chance this is just a scam? How do we protect the borrower's private information but also take care of this poor person who just lost a loved (presumably) one?
Get ready to be pulled in a dozen different directions. On one hand, we need to protect the deceased borrower's private information. But federal regulators (and human decency) want us to make it as easy as possible for successors-in-interest to handle the borrower's affairs. Another key concern is to promote home retention; to do everything possible to allowed loved ones to keep the home of a borrower who has passed away.
Three Considerations (Balancing Act)
1. Protecting private information from bad people (people trying to commit fraud)
2. Making it easy for a true successor-in-interest to get information
3. Doing enough to help the successor-in-interest stay in the home, such as by helping with loss mitigation options.
New CFPB Rules on Successors-in-Interest
Definition of "successor-in-interest"
Rule addressing How to confirm a successor-in-interest's identify and ownership interest
Extend same protections provided to the successor-in-interest as would have been provided to the original borrower.
"Successor-in-Interest": Defined
Since we can't focus on all the parts of the new rule, let's pick one of the three – defining who is, and is not, a successor-in-interest.
Rule: A successor-in-interst is someone who receives an ownership interest in a dwelling that secures a closed-end consumer loan because of:
(1) The death of a joint tenant or tenant by entirety
(2) The death of relative
(3) Any transfer where the spouse or children of the original borrower becomes owner
(4) A transfer resulting from divorce or legal separation agreement
(5) A transfer into an inter vivos trust where the original borrower remains a beneficiary
Simple enough, right? Well here are the key points of this definition:
No occupancy requirement — someone who is not living in the dwelling can still be a successor
No borrower requirement — someone who has not agreed to assume the loan can be a successor
Limited Parent-Child transfers — The definition does not go so far as to provide successor-status to a child who receives property from a parent who is still alive.
Intriguing turn-around-your-life story … Former bank robber turns life around and lands job as a professor at Georgetown Law
Hey Gen X and Boomers will love this … CNBC reports that more millennials live with a parent than with a spouse! Pretty embarrassing statistic for that generation.
On My Mind …
What are the benefits of building trust? This is an excerpt from The Trust Edge by David Horsager:
I once worked for a man who was very talented and accomplished, but had trouble trusting his staff. The atmosphere around his office was tense, and nobody wanted to be the one to make a mistake that would draw his ire. We felt no freedom to act creatively, and the threat of failing to meet his demands was constant. As a result, productivity decreased and morale tanked. This is what happens when there are great expectations, but no trust. People crumble in this environment. When there is a lack of trust, everything costs more, takes more time, and creates more hassles. Extending trust inspires greater efficiency and effectiveness.
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
– Peter Drucker


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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.52 Uberaba 2019 Epub 27-Jun-2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0460-2018
Emergence of aph(3')-VI and accumulation of aminoglycoside modifying enzyme genes in KPC-2-possessing Enterobacter aerogenes isolates from infections and colonization in patients from Recife-PE, Brazil
Elza Ferreira Firmo1
Adriane Borges Cabral2
Érica Maria de Oliveira1
Ana Catarina Souza Lopes1
1Departamento de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brasil.
2Centro Universitário Cesmac, Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde, Maceió, AL, Brasil.
The objective of this study was to characterize genes of aminoglycoside modifying enzymes (AMEs) in colonizing and infecting isolates of E. aerogenes harboring bla KPC from patients at a public hospital in Recife-PE, Brazil.
We analyzed 29 E. aerogenes clinical isolates resistant to aminoglycosides. AMEs genes were investigated by PCR and sequencing.
Colonizing and infecting isolates mainly presented the genetic profiles aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI or ant(2")-IIa/aph(3')-VI. This is the first report of aph(3')-VI in E. aerogenes harboring bla KPC in Brazil.
The results highlight the importance in establishing rigorous methods for the surveillance of resistance genes, especially in colonized patients.
Keywords: Enterobacter aerogenes; Aminoglycoside modifying enzymes; Antimicrobial resistance; KPC
Enterobacter aerogenes is a gram-negative bacillus that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. The bacterium is found in the environment and in the human gastrointestinal tract, and is an important opportunistic pathogen capable of colonizing and infecting hospitalized patients. E. aerogenes frequently causes healthcare-associated infections, such as pneumonia, meningitis, urinary tract infections, surgical site infections and sepsis1,2.
Carbapenems were the first-line antibiotic in the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant E. aerogenes3. However, resistance to carbapenems has emerged and the prevalence of carbapenem resistant isolates of E. aerogenes is increasing4.
One of the major causes of carbapenem-resistance in Enterobacteriaceae is the production of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC). This enzyme has been frequently reported in E. aerogenes5,6. KPC-producing bacteria are often resistant to other antimicrobials, such as aminoglycosides, which may be due to the presence of the bla KPC gene, genes encoding aminoglycoside modifying enzymes (AMEs), and 16S rRNA methyltransferase genes in the same plasmid7,8.
Although studies have increasingly reported the emergence of KPC-producing gram-negative bacteria that are multidrug-resistant, little is known about the presence of bla KPC-2 and genes for AMEs in colonized isolates. In China, one study described the presence of aph(3')-VI associated with another carbapenemase, New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM)9. Another study based in Curitiba-PR, Brazil, reported aac(3)-III, aac(6')-Ib, and ant(3")-Ia genes in four E. aerogenes isolates, with none detected simultaneously with the bla KPC-210 gene. A study from Recife-PE, Brazil, described many E. aerogenes isolates that harbored beta-lactam resistance genes, including bla KPC-26. However, no AMEs genes were investigated. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize AMEs genes present in 29 isolates of E. aerogenes harboring the bla KPC gene that were obtained from isolates that had colonized and infected patients at a public hospital in Recife-PE, Brazil.
The E. aerogenes isolates harbored the bla KPC-2 gene and were resistant to one or more aminoglycosides. The isolates were from a tertiary hospital in Recife-PE, Brazil, from November 2011 to August 2012. The isolates were identified biochemically using the Bactec 9120 or Phoenix™ automated systems (BD). The presence of bla KPC-2 in these isolates was previously reported6. The minimum inhibitory concentration for antimicrobials was determined using the Phoenix™ system, according to CLSI criteria11.
Bacterial genomic DNA was extracted using the Kit ZR Fungal/Bacterial DNA Miniprep (Zymo Research), according to the manufacturer instructions for gram-negative bacteria and quantified using a NanoDrop 2000c UV-Vis spectrophotometer. AMEs genes aac(3)-Ia, aac(3)-IIa, aac(6')-Ib, ant(2")-Ia, and aph(3')-VI were amplified by PCR using specific primers. The PCR amplification reactions were performed in a total volume of 25 μl per tube, containing 1 μl of genomic DNA (10 ng/µl), 2.0 U of Taq DNA polymerase (Promega), 200 μM of deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) (Promega), 1.5 mM MgCl2, and 1 µmol of the primers. The PCR amplifications were performed in a thermocycler (Biocycler Biosystems) for 5 minutes at 94°C for initial denaturation, followed by 30 cycles of denaturation at 94°C for 1 minute, annealing at 55oC (Table 1) and 1 minute at 72°C, followed by a final extension at 72°C for 5 minutes. The PCR products were subjected to electrophoresis on a 1% agarose gel. Representative isolates of positive PCR products for the tested genes were selected, purified using a commercial kit (Wizard® SV Gel and PCR Clean-Up System, Promega), and sequenced by the Sanger method to confirm the presence and variant of the genes. The nucleotide sequences were analyzed by BLAST (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) and Clustal W (European Bioinformatics Institute) (http://www.cbi.ac.uk/) and have been deposited in GenBank (accession numbers: KU899109, KU899110 and KU695892).
TABLE 1: Origin, and phenotypic and genotypic resistance profiles to aminoglycosides in KPC-possessing Enterobacter aerogenes isolates from a tertiary care hospital in Recife-PE, Brazil.
Isolates
Inpatient unit
Source of isolation
Resistance phenotypes
AMEs genes
to aminoglycosides
Ea2A UCO1 Rectal swab III aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea3A UCO2 Rectal swab I aph(3')-VI
Ea4A CARDIO Rectal swab III ant(2")-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea5A ICU Rectal swab III aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea8A ICU Rectal swab II aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea13A UCO1 Rectal swab I aph(3')-VI
Ea14A UCO1 Rectal swab II aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea16A UCO1 Rectal swab III aph(3')-VI
Ea17A UCO1 Rectal swab III aac(3)-IIa
Ea20A UCO1 Rectal swab III aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea23A UCO1 Rectal swab I ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea24A ICU Rectal swab III aac(3)-IIa/ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea31A CARDIO Rectal swab III aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea7A ICU Blood II aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea18A ICU Blood III ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea27A UCO1 Blood III aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea28A ICU Blood I ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea32A UCO1 Blood I ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea34A ICU Blood I ant(2")-Ia
Ea10A CARDIO Urine I aph(3')-VI
Ea11A M. CLINIC Urine III aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea26A CARDIO Urine III aac(3)-IIa/ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea12A ICU Tip catheter III aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI
Ea15A ICU Tracheal aspirates II aac(3)-IIa
Ea19A ICU Tracheal aspirates I ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea30A ICU Ascitic fluid I ant(2")-Ia/aph(3')-VI
Ea: E. aerogenes. A: public hospital; ICU: intensive care unit; UCO: Coronary Unit; CARDIO: cardiology; M. CLINIC: medical clinic. Phenotype I (resistance to amikacin and tobramycin), Phenotype II (resistance to gentamicin and tobramycin), Phenotype III (resistance to amikacin, gentamicin and tobramycin).
The isolates were from different patients admitted to different sectors of a public hospital in Recife-PE, Brazil. Of the 29 E. aerogenes clinical isolates, 15 (51.7%) were obtained from rectal swabs (surveillance culture), followed by blood (n=7), urine (n=3), tracheal secretion (n=2), catheter tips (n=1), and ascitic fluid (n=1) (Table 1).
All E. aerogenes isolates were resistant to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, cefazolin, cefotaxime, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, ertapenem, levofloxacin, meropenem, and piperacillin-tazobactam. Resistance to imipenem reached 93% (27/29) and 90% (26/29) for cefepime, and 82% (24/29) trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole. In addition, 100% (29/29) of the isolates were resistant to tobramycin, 86.2% (25/29) were resistant to amikacin, and 65.5% (19/29) were resistant to gentamicin. Three aminoglycoside resistance phenotypes were identified in the isolates (Table 1). Among those, the most predominant was the phenotype III, which presented resistance to all aminoglycosides tested. Phenotypes I (resistant to amikacin and tobramycin) and II (resistant to gentamicin and tobramycin) were also detected.
The most frequent aminoglycoside resistance gene was aph(3')-VI, which was detected in 89.6% (26/29) of the isolates and were detected in all aminoglycoside resistance phenotypes. The aac(3)-IIa gene was found in 51.7% (15/29) of the isolates with resistance phenotypes II and III. The ant(2")-Ia gene was detected in 41% (12/29 ) of the samples (phenotype I and III) (Table 1). The aac(6')-Ib and aac(3)-Ia genes were not found. In phenotypes I and III, resistance to amikacin could be explained by the presence of the aph(3')-VI gene, and the resistance to gentamicin and tobramycin by the presence of the genes aac(3)-IIa and ant(2")-Ia.
Of the 29 isolates of E. aerogenes, 15 were colonization isolates and 14 were obtained from infections (Table 1). Among the colonization isolates, phenotype III was the most common, presenting resistance to the three aminoglycosides tested. Phenotype I (amikacin and tobramycin) was the most observed among the infection isolates. Colonization and infection isolates presented mainly the genetic profiles aac(3)-IIa/aph(3')-VI or ant(2")-IIa/aph(3')-VI.
Patients hospitalized for prolonged periods, mainly in the intensive care unit, are most at risk of acquiring infections by E. aerogenes12,13. In the present study, the samples analyzed were obtained from patients admitted to different sectors of a public hospital.
It is alarming that most of the genes (bla KPC, aph(3')-VI, aac(3)-IIa, and ant(2")-IIa) were detected in colonization isolates obtained from cultures of surveillance samples (swab rectal). A review in 2016 showed that patients colonized by carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae had a 16.5% increased risk of developing an infection13. Therefore, it is essential to identify colonized patients by isolates carrying carbapenemases and other resistance genes, for example the AMEs genes, to prevent the transmission of resistance genes and adequately treat the patients. The present results highlight the need for medical authorities to institute rigorous detection and dissemination control methods for multi-drug resistant isolates in the hospital environment, since the intestinal tract provides a favorable locus for the transfer of genes that confer resistance.
Based on the results of the susceptibility profile, several isolates of E. aerogenes showed resistance to the three aminoglycosides tested, and were correlated with the presence of more than one of the AMEs. Most isolates showed resistance to amikacin, which explains the high percentage of the aph(3')-VI gene. In China, a study showed the presence of the aph(3')-VI gene in isolates of E. aerogenes associated with NDM10. To our knowledge, the present study is the first report of the aph(3')-VI gene in E. aerogenes in Brazil, especially in isolates harboring the bla KPC gene. This causes concern since amikacin is only recommended when resistance to gentamicin and tobramycin is observed14. Therefore, the presence of the aph(3')-VI gene and the bla KPC gene in the same isolate may hamper the treatment of infections caused by these microorganisms, since aminoglycosides and carbapenems will be inactivated by the encoded enzymes by these two genes.
In this study, all isolates encoding aac(3)-IIa were resistant to gentamicin, suggesting that the enzyme AAC (3)-II is a determinant of resistance to gentamicin in E. aerogenes14.
In Brazil, the gene ant(2")-Ia has been found in other gram-negative bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa15. The ANT(2")-Ia enzyme confers resistance to gentamicin and tobramycin14. However, in this study, this enzyme seemed to be directly related to tobramycin resistance. The aac(6')-Ib and aac(3)-Ia genes were not detected in this study, although they have already been described in E. aerogenes in Paraná, Brazil11.
The simultaneous presence of resistance genes aph(3')-VI, aac(3)-IIa and ant(2") and bla KPC in the same isolate, as demonstrated in this study, adds to the mechanisms of the dissemination of resistance to aminoglycosides and carbapenems in the hospital environment, and decreases the chances for therapeutic success of infections caused by E. aerogenes. Several AMEs have been already identified in different bacteria species in Brazil. However, the emergence of aph (3 ')-VI gene in E. aerogenes described here indicates the continuous dissemination of AMEs encoding genes in Brazil. These results highlight the importance in establishing rigorous methods for the surveillance of resistance genes, especially in colonizing patients.
The authors thank the Sequencing Platform LABCEN/CCB, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, for use of their facilities.
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Financial Support: Funding was provided by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes) e Fundação de Amparo a Ciência e Tecnologia de PE (FACEPE).
Recebido: 24 de Outubro de 2018; Aceito: 08 de Janeiro de 2019
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New Day: An Album by Randy'd'dawn
July 16, 2020, in Articles > Music, by Sonjel Vreeland
Rap artist Randy'd'dawn has released an album of Baha'i-inspired music titled New Day. Although unnamed, I first came across his work on the official website of the world-wide bicentenary celebrations of Birth of the Bab with this music video called "The Story of Love – The Bab, The Gate". His gentle yet profound lyrics and his catchy rhythms were easy to recognize when I stumbled across New Day. I caught up with him to hear all about his work and I hope you enjoy our conversation:
Baha'i Blog: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
My name is Randal Seffu, I was born and raised in a city called Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, East Africa. I struggle a lot with small talk but am getting better each day. At 19 years old, I believe I found the most profound and interesting answers to questions I had about life in a study circle I took part in and the most friendly environment — it was the first time ever in my life to encounter such a loving environment that made me feel safe to want to learn. Prior to this experience, and even now to a lesser extent (with the help of self reflection and through gaining spiritual insights from reading Baha'u'llah's Writings), I have been living with fear of judgment. This experience is treasured in my heart: every teaching, authoritative statements, even personal insights that were shared in the different opportunities I was involved in studying this new Word of God, so long as it resonated with me, I took it to heart. I have realized the strength of having a sensitive reflective nature (which is how I would describe a part of who I am) as it allows me to gain more appreciation, and I tend to pick up more easily on people's feelings, which helps me meet my responsibilities in caring for my kind (humanity) which is a Message brought by God's Messengers every time humanity gets hopelessly sick and is not caring for one another.
Baha'i Blog: Could you tell us about your album 'New Day'?
There are many dimensions to it. Creatively I wanted to align the name and title of the album with the significance of time period that we're living in. It makes it more interesting for somebody to listen to a depiction of true reality done with high artistic capabilities, as opposed to using the easy way of appealing to people's lower natures to attract their interest. This is one idea I wanted to address with the album: art is a way to express reality and as of lately, art has become really dark reflecting a period of darkness or at night when the Sun of Truth and reality is hidden behind clouds of fancy and disbelief. New Day is a better reality than the present darkness. It brings arguments offered as personal opinions that depict this new day where teachers and students will have to wake up for another day of school, where an artist will have to wake up to a new reality that is not bad, maybe new to them but a better one, and where children are safer from forces outside their control. I discuss in the album why hope exists and that no one should ever give up hope. More than a cry for help, this album is a reminder of the strength in all of us to defeat evil and to make it through dark roads, and the dark night into a bright new day showing the good that exists in the world that has power over evil. I am looking forward for a world where a song represents an idea and what is more exciting than when art becomes our entertainment but is made with wonderful, exciting ideas?
Baha'i Blog: What was the process like to put the album together?
The album has 13 tracks. I wrote half of songs many years back (some 11 years ago) and the remaining half during the last two years. I was fortunate to have been serving at Baha'i World Centre while putting the album together. I received help from diverse and talented individuals serving at World Centre at the time from graphic designers, to videographers, singers, guitarist, poets, etc. At the time I had been exploring the idea of how to make art more interactive and more meaningful. I had conversations with friends and still continue to explore thoughts around it and would like to encourage artists to raise this question and allow people to benefit from highly and intellectually creative content in artistic works that raise the standard of arts.
Baha'i Blog: Could you tell us a little more about the collaborations involved?
Out of the 13 tracks I collaborated with different musicians and artists on seven tracks. I was fortunate to have worked with and learned a lot from all these seven amazing talented individuals.
Here are some of the collaborations:
The song "Diamond Gold Heartbreak" features Roya Bennett. This song presents the most expensive heartbreak of all. The song's chorus "honey is a million bucks" challenges the common phrase "you look like a million dollars". It is linked to the lack of knowledge of our true selves; the song questions the idea of self worth and the impact of materialism on diminishing one's self esteem. The song hopes to stimulate discussions on how our true wealth can be reflected. Remaining passive to these ideas can further our doubts and degrade our self worth.
"5th Dimensional Love" features Bonnie Lisbeth, a talented musician of the recently released EP Lost at Sea. The song presents the idea that there can be a 5th dimension to love when one experiences a near-death experience that allows one to witness realities in both the physical plane and the spiritual realm. In this song, a man finds the love of his life in the spiritual realm, which saves him from ignorance and brings him to a state of awakening. Ever since, though he bears the same name and continues his life, everything has changed. He has found the most beautiful feeling of love and satisfaction through his communion with God. Prayer is his sweetest feeling and it leaves him in a state of joy and ecstasy, and on the earthly plane he reflects on his love for his dear wife Aresu. This song is accompanied by a music video.
"Mfalme" features Esra Lilian. "Mfalme" is the Swahili word for King. In this song, singer songwriter Esra Lilian presents a Swahili chant hailing for the coming of the long awaited King. The true King does not rule by power over the people from His seat on the throne. Rather, He reigns over all things in the Kingdom of God.
"Prophets" features Nadiv Gicheru, a Kenyan musician and guitarist. This song reflects on the Educators that appear every 1000 years, bearing a specific message for humankind to advance world civilization. However, traditions and cultures might veil us from recognizing and receiving this knowledge, impacting our progress towards material and spiritual prosperity. This song is also accompanied by a music video.
I have learned that details matter in adding richness to any successful endeavor. Every single lyric is significant, just as much as the album cover, videos, etc, in contributing to increased knowledge and awareness and carrying any message across with more clarity. I am grateful I had the opportunity to collaborate with passionate artists who worked with an exemplary spirit of service that only proves themselves to be believers of a new day and their hopes that this concept brings. I am grateful to have worked with Shayan Nosrat Jorgan who designed the album cover, Ngaira M and GCC Studios production who put together animation music videos for two songs, Simon Cyrus Helmers who directed the video for Africa, Iddy Kijuna responsible for photography ideas that helped frame the concept in the 5th Dimensional Love animation video, Farbod Salehi for photography, and most importantly for my wife's support in doing this project.
Baha'i Blog: What did you learn during the process?
I learned patience, I learned about my particular style of music and how to listen. I learned how effective art is in contributing to knowledge and attitudes.
Baha'i Blog: Thank you so much for chatting with us, Randal!
You can listen to and download New Day here: https://orcd.co/newday. You can also find out more about Randy'd'dawn from his Twitter account, Facebook page, Instagram account and webpage.
Below you'll find a music video for a song not featured on the album but specifically written in honor of the bicentenary of the Birth of the Bab:
Honouring Abdu'l-Baha by Singing Louise Waite's "Benediction"
Into the Fire by Smith & Dragoman Explores Baha'i Themes and History
Higher Grounds – A Jazzy Global Album by DO'A
The Neurological and Spiritual Benefits of Music for Children
Prayers and Passages – A New Album by Walter Heath
46 A Cappella Baha'i Blog Studio Sessions (Voice Only)
The Baha'i Waiata Project – A Māori Musical Devotions Initiative
Chapter 45 – An Afro-Futuristic Album by Zahyia


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Willkommen bei den Louds – Der Film (Originaltitel: The Loud House Movie) ist ein US-amerikanischer und britischer Zeichentrickfilm, basierend auf der Zeichentrickserie Willkommen bei den Louds. Am 20. August 2021 erschien der Film weltweit bei Netflix.

Handlung
Nachdem die Familie Loud herausfindet, dass Dads Vorfahren aus Schottland stammen, machen sie sich auf den Weg dorthin, wo sie erfahren, dass sie adelig sind und ein Schloss besitzen. Angus, der Verwalter des Schlosses, heißt die Familie herzlich willkommen und überzeugt Lincoln auch davon, dass er der Duke der Stadt sein könnte. Diesen Titel lässt sich Lincoln nicht entgehen, mit der Absicht, dass er damit nicht länger im Schatten seiner Schwestern steht. Währenddessen möchte jedoch Morag, eine ältere Dame, deren Vorfahren vor 400 Jahren das Schloss der Louds erobert haben, die Louds so schnell wie möglich vertreiben, um sich so selbst zur Duchess zu ernennen.

Produktion und Veröffentlichung
Im März 2017 wurde bekanntgegeben, dass ein Film zur Serie Willkommen bei den Louds am 7. Februar 2020 von Paramount im Kino erscheinen soll. Dieser Termin wurde jedoch am 18. Januar 2019 zurückgezogen. Bereits am 5. Februar 2019 wurde bekanntgegeben, dass der Film stattdessen bei Netflix erscheinen würde. Im Januar 2021 wurde von Netflix erneut bestätigt, dass der Film noch im selben Jahr Premiere feiern wird. Der Film erschien schließlich am 20. August 2021 weltweit bei Netflix.

Besetzung und Synchronisation
Die deutschsprachige Synchronisation entstand nach einem Dialogbuch und -regie von Christine Pappert durch das CSC-Studio in Hamburg.

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Filmtitel 2021
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Sofitel held a lovely dinner just this week featuring Indonesian food featuring Chef Pradipta Bayu Primaputra of Pullman, flown in all the way from Jakarta.
Our featured Chef, Pullman Jakarta's Indonesian master Chef, Pradipta Bayu Primaputra. He grew up in vibrant Jakarta where his interest, deep appreciation and passion for Indonesian cuisine were cultivated. He pursued his love for food with experience enriched by attachments with Ritz Carlton Doha and the capital's most prestigious catering company and provider of choice for culinary requirements for dignitaries and state visitors, Culture Royale. For this week-long food festival featuring Indonesian dishes, he will introduce heritage recipes rooted from Javanese, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Balinese cuisine.
In person, Chef Bayu is a lovely fellow: soft-spoken, humble … But his cooking is the total opposite: dynamic, fiery, alive!
Dinner started with this earthy appetizer: Gado gado. It is really is just boiled vegetables … but that cracker! With the Indonesian peanuts and the kaffir … that is one beautiful cracker. Chef Bayu shared that this is a popular dish in Jakarta – you can find it on the street, you can find it in a five star hotel.
Next we had the Balinese version of satay: Sate Lilit. Sate is usually done with chicken but this one used prawns, as sate lilit is usually made with seafood. But what i loved on this one was the sambal paste that crowned it. It made those simple appetizer sticks come alive!
For the main course, we simply had chicken. But there is nothing simple about making this chicken. First of all, it is cooked like it was "inasal" but more complicated is the sauces that come with, using both a red chili paste and a white chili paste – both made by the chef from scratch!
Finally, dessert. This looks just like our minatamis na saging. And the chef did use just local bananas. But what made it Indonesian is the milk that was first simmered. Pour this on those bananas and you are immediately transported to Indonesia!
This series of dinners is for their campaign called Flavors of the World wherein they feature a foreign chef every number of months. But what is special is that the guest chefs do a "chef's table" and you get to watch them while they cook. Or you can even book a cooking lesson, especially if you are a big group!
If you want your own private dinner or cooking lessons, just call Sofitel and they will arrange and customize it for you. Some requirements: minimum is for 10 people, 3 days notice, P4,200 nett per person including 5 courses, coffee or tea plus the bespoke welcome drink, and if you want wine-pairing, just add P1,500 more.
You have until Sunday to catch Chef Bayu at Sofitel's Spiral. Head on over! It's worth the traffic!


I wasn't very productive today. I didn't find a job. I didn't watch the World Cup. I didn't finish the second trench tile. I didn't even watch a film. However I have worked on the trench tile. I did watch "All Quiet on the Western Front" last night and I've been reviewing my other research material, principally two books.
"The Canadian Corps in World War I", is an Osprey title, perhaps the first one I bought. It has a Van Doo on the cover and I pretty much will do a unit of them, how big of a unit I'm not sure. Three officers and 116 enlisted men would be the best number. The other book I bought is called "Postcards from the Trenches", it is real postcards produced during the Great War that this collector ultimately donated to a museum and they produced the book. It and the film reveal that my trenches may be too orderly, but other material shows it was all a matter of what sector the photos were taken in. The Canadians or the Stormtroopers as the Germans dubbed them were always sent where the fighting was thickest Vimy, Ypres, the Somme.
Hopefully after the drybrush things look fine. My two observations are it is better to leave a small gap between planks on the ground as it is easier to get the brush in there, requires less planks, and is more historically accurate. The second observation is I don't need quite as much grit inside the trenches. Less grit but maybe more little detail bits.
I found two more interesting links while reading threads over a the Lead Adventure forum which along with B&C, The Waaagh, and the Miniatures Page is my go to place to discuss painting, converting, terrain, and mini manufacturers.
The first link is an informative page with pictures about life in the trenches of World War One along the Western Front primarily. The second link is to a new (to me) line of WW1 trench inserts. These would be inserted into correctly cut shapes of foam, saving all the bother of doing the planking and sandbagging by hand. They look pretty good, narrow, but big enough to accommodate 30mm bases apparently. They are designed for 25/28 mm miniatures. I may have to give them a go, at least their machine gun nests when I make version 2.0 of No Musk's Land.
Tomorrow I'll have to try harder to find a new job and it will be the drybrush fest as I will drybrush the planks, the sand and dirt, and the sandbags to match the first tile.
So in and around looking for a job and doing research in the form of watching movies set in the trenches of World War One, I've been gluing grit, sand, cork, cat liter, etc to my latest trench table tile.
The movies I've watched the last two nights are "Passchendaele", which despite the guys at Happy Bats hatred of Paul Gross was useful as they were wearing Canadian uniforms. They didn't spend much time in the trenches, more like in flooded craters. The next movie I watched had lots of flashbacks to the trenches in France, with French and German soldiers. Their trenches were flooded and they too had more ruined forests than I had planned on putting into my battle field.
I may make some ruined forest type scatter terrain, but flooding all my trenches and craters… I'll invest in some water effects at some point and fill the bottoms of a few craters just for fun, but I'm leaving my trenches as is. Some of the trenches in "A very long engagement" were not lined with wood, especially on the ground. This is counter to my own research. I did see lots of sandbags and barricades made of wood as well as barbed wire and telegraph lines.
I think the trenches look better filled with stuff, so this tile has more plastic bits glued both in and outside the trenches. I have to remember that I will have plenty of larger scatter terrain too. I also plan to name my trenches and fortified positions. This was a common practice, the trench in "A very long engagement" was named "Bingo Crépuscule", a name I may give to one of my trenches, as it is both obscure and realistic at the same time. Soldiers often gave humorous or ironic names to places they were stationed.
My first choice of films for WW1 is "Paths of Glory" which I own, but it is in black and white and film making, the technical side has advanced a lot since that earlier but still awesome Kubrick film. The other rapid suggestion was "Black Adder goes Forth" which I also own. Most of that series is spent in HQ or in the front line bunker/sleeping quarters for Black Adder and Baldrick. I'll have to look for some more trench warfare movies. Wikipedia has this list of WW1 films.
There was just a goal in the World Cup! Spain is up 1-0 at the 62nd minute.
I've seen "Joyeux Noël" recently, maybe that influenced me in starting my trench project, most of that movie takes place in the trenches. It also shows how close the enemy really was to each other, they could yell back and forth. It was less than a football pitch wide in place. "Joyeux Noel" has some useful extras for learning more about what really happened in the trenches of WW1 as censoring the press was still prevalent back then.
I generally followed the same order and techniques I used on the first tile. This time I used thinned glue earlier, more beach sand, glued on plastic details sooner, and then added cork and finally another layer of cat liter. That is the current state of the tile, the glue is home drying on the cat liter and maybe later tonight I can begin painting things black. Remember to gob on a bit and dab it onto the grit rather than paint in proper brush strokes. Once the girt is good and covered in black, the drybrushing begins.
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NHL cool to Olympic participation despite IIHF assurances
by: JOHN WAWROW, Associated Press
FILE – In this Nov. 1, 2018, file photo, National Hockey League Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly speaks to the media prior to the ice hockey NHL Global Series match between the Florida Panthers and the Winnipeg Jets in Helsinki, Finland. The NHL remains reluctant to reverse course and compete at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing despite new assurances from Olympic officials to lift various major stumbling blocks, which also have the backing of the league's players. (Martti Kainulainen/Lehtikuva via AP, File)
The NHL remains reluctant to reverse course and compete at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing despite new assurances from Olympic officials to lift various major stumbling blocks, which also have the backing of the league's players.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly significantly tamped down hopes of the world's best players returning to the Olympics for the first time since 2014 by referring to recent talks as being "very preliminary" and leaving open many unanswered questions.
"We aren't there yet. In fact, we aren't even close to being there," Daly wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Monday. "At this point in time, we continue to believe that the negatives outweigh the positives."
At the same time, Daly raised another concern by suggesting the issue of Olympic participation might be resolved easier if it were tied to ongoing negotiations to extend the league's collective bargaining agreement with its players. The two sides are scheduled to spent the next two days in CBA talks in Toronto.
NHLPA executive director Don Fehr responded by telling The AP he hoped the NHL wasn't moving the goal posts on the union in regards to the issue of Olympic participation, with the Beijing Games taking place before the current CBA expires.
"I can't figure out why anybody would not want to go and take advantage of this opportunity because it doesn't come around every day," Fehr told The AP by phone.
"We think and have always thought that a matter like this should be addressed on its own merits, and it seems to us that the merits on this one are crystal clear, pellucidly clear," he added.
The setback in discussions comes a week after NHL and NHLPA officials attended a meeting in New York where the International Ice Hockey Federation provided mostly verbal – but few written – assurances addressing many concerns that prompted the league to decline to participate at the Winter Games in South Korea. The NHL had participated in the previous five Olympics.
Among the long-standing issues IIHF chief Rene' Fasel addressed included paying for players' travel and insurance costs. Another issue was providing the league and union access to video and still images to allow both to market its players.
Daly called the meeting "positive," but said the league continues to have "valid reservations" over how Olympic participation disrupts its schedule by having to shut down the regular season for two weeks once every four years.
Messages left with Fasel and the IIHF was not immediately returned.
Fehr was encouraged following the meeting.
"The impression I had coming out of the meeting was that there ought to be a way to get this done to everybody's satisfaction," Fehr said.
Fehr doubted the Olympics issue would be raised during talks this week, by saying, "the NHL needs some time to go through and digest and think through what happened at the last meeting, as we do."
Though there's no firm deadline yet set on the NHL sending players in 2022, Fehr hoped an agreement is reached well before Fasel's term as IIHF chief expires in September.
Differences over Olympic participation have the potential of derailing talks after both sides showed good faith in September, when they ensured three more seasons of labor peace by not using an opt-out clause. Such a move would have terminated the existing CBA this September.
Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf wasn't surprised when informed how the NHL might attempt to fold Olympic participation into labor talks given how a large majority of players favor representing their respective countries.
"Why do you think that is?" Getzlaf told The AP with a laugh. "They're a business. If they put that into negotiations, that means it's a leverage chip for them that they're going to try to use against us."
New York Islanders NHLPA representative Anders Lee said the chance to compete in Beijing should be as important to the NHL as it is to the players.
"There's a lot of things that go into this, and there's a reason why China: It's a draw," Lee said. "It's a great thing for our game. That's why it's so important to both sides."
Fehr noted the two sides have enough issues that need to be settled in negotiations without having to introduce competing at Beijing into the mix. He did note, however, a desire to establish a long-term international calendar of events that would include Olympic participation and the revival of the league- and union-sponsored World Cup of Hockey, which was last played in 2016.
"We can only hope that as these discussions continue, whatever the initial reactions are will give way to the facts and circumstances," he said. "My view, and this is a personal view, if you take advantage of the opportunities when they come."
Daly responded by saying Fehr is entitled to his point of view regarding the value of NHL Olympic participation.
"But so are our owners," Daly said. "We participated in five consecutive Olympic Games, beginning long before Don was involved in our league. We have a pretty good sense of the positives and negatives associated with participation."
AP Hockey Writers Stephen Whyno and Larry Lage contributed to this report.
For more AP NHL coverage: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports


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I have seen Santa Claus. The real one. It's simply one of the facts of my childhood, along with visiting the Grand Canyon, falling off that slide in Kansas, having a Boston terrier named Beauregard, and winning the fire prevention poster contest in Mrs. Easterling's first-grade class.
People normally smile or give me a sidelong yeah-right eyeroll when I tell them this. Then the awkwardness sets in as they realize my expression hasn't changed and that I am, in fact, completely serious. Perhaps that's you right now.
It happened in Alaska, which seems fitting, given its proximity to the North Pole. When I was six years old, we were stationed at Fort Richardson, the army base just outside of Anchorage. It was a magical land where day and night traded places throughout the year and moose ambled down from the mountains during the winter to stare at you through your dining room window on taco night.
I was a smart kid and not especially gullible. I had seen the helicopter land at the base PX the week before Christmas and recognized that the red-suited man who jumped out was not actually Santa (or, at best, a low-level deputy Santa). Similarly, on Christmas Eve, when our doorbell rang and "Santa"—who was working the whole neighborhood—came in to give us candy, get a cup of cheer, and talk military business with Dad, I immediately saw his darker whiskers under the loose-fitting white beard. I was not fooled.
It's not that I was skeptical of Santa, mind you. Perhaps it was because I was so passionately on board with the program that I could easily recognize a phony.
Awhile after #FakeSanta left on that Christmas Eve, it was time for bed. My older brother, Rick, and I shared a room in the basement of our government-issue housing unit. I climbed into my lower bunk (Rick got the upper one by virtue of seniority) and managed to calm my excitement enough to fall asleep. However, at some point in the middle of the night, my eyes opened. As I groggily came to, the significance of the opportunity before me presented itself.
I couldn't stand it–I had to check. I slipped out of my bunk and scooted across the floor to the fire escape ladder that led to the window. From inside the room, the window sat up near the ceiling; however, because we were in the basement, it looked out into the backyard at ground-level. I gingerly climbed the rungs, breathless with excitement.
I reached the top and peered through the frosty pane. And there, directly behind the house, lit up by the moonlight's reflection off the snow, was . . . nothing. The field that ran from the back of the house to the distant woods was empty: no sleigh, no Rudolph, no Santa. I sighed.
AND THAT'S WHEN IT HAPPENED. At that precise moment, Santa walked around the corner of our house, right in front of the window. The real McClaus: red suit, rosy cheeks, white hair and beard, twinkling eyes, and all. (Also, if anyone asks, Santa does not wear black gloves. Rather, red-and-white-striped knit mittens.) He seemed to be on his way somewhere, but suddenly he stopped short and turned toward my astonished little face in the dark window. He smiled at me kindly, leaned down, and tapped on the glass. And then he straightened up, waved, and continued on his way.
About to burst with excitement, I scurried down the ladder and flew up the stairs, where I was clobbered by the sight of piles of presents, bulging stockings, and a BRAND NEW COLOR TV sitting under the tree. I raced back down and woke up Rick, and we felt it imperative to immediately alert the rest of the family. Christmas came early that day.
When I die, this will be one of the questions on my shortlist for the Big Whom/Whatever (you know, along with the one about The Meaning of Life): "So, what was that Santa sighting about?" I suspect that both questions might have similar answers.
At any rate, I find myself here 50 years later, still wide-eyed, still believing this preposterous story. In fact, one gift the experience has given me over the decades has been precisely a sense of wonder and the ability to willingly suspend disbelief.
I figure that believing in Santa is the least I can do. Because there's a way in which, through this experience (and other similar ones), I've long felt as if Someone out there was telling me, "Hey, I believe in you. As proof, here, take this little piece of magic. It will be our special secret." So, I guess the title of this post only tells half the story. Because, yes, I saw Santa Claus. But, perhaps even more importantly, he saw me.


First edition. 8vo. Quarter cloth and paper over boards, x, 475 pp., introduction, abstracts. Field Columbian Museum Publication 81, Anthropological Series, Vol. V. One hundred and forty-six traditions (myths) of the Arapaho have been collected by Dorsey and Kroeber. An important record for the traditions of the Southern and Northern Arapaho Indians. Former owner's name stamp at top of front cover, light wear to the spine ends internally clean and tight, else a very good copy.


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Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, Washington, DC Podcast
We Begin Again and Again and Again
We Belong to the Resistance
Tonight, We Are Those Who Dream
Those Who Dream Are Not Alone
Those Who Dream Sow Joy
Those Who Dream Prepare the Way
Keep Awake
We Begin Again in Love
Survival of the Most Cooperative
Make Way for the Image of God
Black Lives Matter to God
Jacob, Jesus, and Improv
This sermon was partially inspired by the childrens' book,Sugarfootn' in the South with Brer Rabbit: How Handclapping got Started in the Church by Barbara E.L. Wilson Mosima who is also interviewed as a part of this sermon. Learn more at www.sugarfoots.com.
The Trickster
This sermon was partially inspired by the childrens' book, Sugarfootn' in the South with Brer Rabbit: How Handclapping got Started in the Church by Barbara E.L. Wilson Mosima. Learn more at www.sugarfoots.com.
The Grinchy Way of Salvation
The Pace and Practice of Freedom
Includes snippets of two Children's Books: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? both by by Bill Martin Jr. (Author) and Eric Carle (Illustrator)
A Tale of Two Trees
I Bring Not Peace but a Sword…
Reconciling Sunday 2020
This sermon also includes talks from: Deacon Sam Marullo Xavier H. Katie A. Lyn B. Interspersed are portions of David Haas' "We Are Called." © 1988, GIA Publications, Inc. Permission to stream granted by ONE LICENSE, License #A-734885. All rights reserved.
First Sermon – Visible & Invisible
This is the first sermon Pastor Alisa preached for the May 31, 2020 worship. After events unfolded, she wrote a second sermon (the previous one) which was shown in virtual worship.


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Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza dies of 'cardiac arrest' at 55
in National News, World
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government says
He was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling unwell, his condition improved but on Monday he had a cardiac arrest and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, the government says.
Mr Nkurunziza was due to step down from the presidency in August.
In 2015, the announcement that he would run for a third term plunged the country into chaos.
On his death, he had been president for 15 years.
After a change in the constitution, he was able to run for a further term in last month's election but he decided to retire and was to be known as the "supreme guide to patriotism".
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