As some of you know, I was planning to homeschool my kids at one point. That didn't really pan out but I do take the boys educations very seriously and do what I can to supplement the education they get or will be getting from the public school they attend. Part of that is making sure they don't loose everything they've learned over the summer.
Logan's teachers were great about sending things home for him to do over the summer and I signed him up for free tutoring through a program he's in to get extra attention with reading and math skills.
To help keep him in the school mindset I also bought one dollar workbooks for him and Lucian to work on after lunch.
After Logan's first tutoring session I have been told that he will not have any trouble in first grade! Parenting win!
The takeaway here is that even if your kids attend a public school, their education is your responsibility. I am so lucky to be able to stay home with my boys and I know not everyone has this opportunity. Even with busy schedules, there are small things you can do to keep your kids on track. Reading them is a big one. If you work third shift and aren't home at bedtime, read to them whenever it works for you. I assure you they don't care if it's a bedtime or middle of the day story. You can also buy these workbooks and assign them pages to do while you're at work. You can grade them and go over it in the minutes you have to spend with them.
Hope you and your family are having an excellent summer vacation!
Today, the first of the new year, while we are in the city running errands, grocery shopping and the like. I am going to ask to make an extra stop. I am going to stare at temptation and only buy one book!
Hey everyone! I have had my juicer for over a week and while I was unable to start a fast or reboot because of timing issues, I have been juicing every day and started replacing some meals with juice, I still lost six pounds!! I am beyond excited since I had ten pounds of baby weight from Lucian that I just could not shake. Also, I have that stubborn belly fat pouch thing which is shrinking.
There are a few things that you should know about juicers. A juicer should go no faster than 80 rpms. A slow juicer. The reason is because when the juicer speeds up beyond 80 rpms it begins to heat up your juice which destroys the micro nutrients and defeats the purpose of juicing. The one I bought is one of the more expensive ones so let me tell you why we chose it. First of all my Juice Mentor, Sifu Sarah, has had hers for about two years give or take a couple of months, juicing every day and it is still going strong. Finding products that last today is harder than finding a needle in a haystack so I immediately knew I wanted to go with that brand at the very least. Looking at the Omega juicers there were a few options. The least expensive was the VRT 330. We did not choose this one because it is made for juicing every few days and during the fast we will be juicing every day a couple of times a day. Once you cut and juice your veggies and fruit they again will begin to lose those micro nutrients which are so important. So you need to drink your juice as soon as possible after making it. So for fasting the Omega VRT 350 was a better choice. I also plan to drink juice as a regular part of my diet once the fast is over.
On days when I am working I will have no choice but to juice my breakfast the night before. I can't really be running the juicer at 4am with two kids sleeping right above my head. Unless I want a grumpy husband when I get home. The idea here is to give you the most information so that you can make the best decisions for you and your family.
For a less expensive option on a juicer, there is the Hamilton Beach 67601A. My mom bought this juicer for a beginner model. The juicer cost is significantly lower than the Omega unfortunately it does not give you the rpms. However, it is 800 watts while the big ones that go 1200 or more rpms are closer to 1000 watts so it is still a better choice. I know this is the direction that is best for me and my family that is why I spent the extra money and got the one I did. I have been doing a lot of research on juicing from watching documentaries to reading books and talking to people who already do it. Don't feel like you need to run out and buy the most expensive juicer you can find to get a good one. Some of the crazy expensive ones are way too fast. Reaching speeds of 13,000 rpms. No that is not a typo. Starting small is just fine and probably better for more people.
Happy Juicer hunting! I am here if you have any questions or concerns. Feel free to comment.
About two years ago my Kung Fu Instructor, Sifu Sarah, told me that she was using juicing to treat her husbands cancer. During our conversation I was amazed at the power of juice and thought, well that's good to know if I ever get sick. Her daughter told me to watch Forks Over Knives, available on Netflix instant, and I thought, sure I will but later.
I was not ready to get rid of my hamburgers just yet. Fast forward a year and I had started to think more seriously about food mostly because as the main meal maker for my growing family it was my responsibility to keep us healthy. So as I was scrolling through my instant queue one rainy day looking for a movie I saw Forks Over Knives, and thought Ok, why not? What's the worst that can happen? I am a science minded individual so that documentary really hit me where I live.
Briefly let's step back into my childhood. I was raised on a small farm in rural New Hampshire. We had pigs, cows, chickens and a moody horse named Captain. We ate the male cows and we milked the females. My father just recently told me he used to order twenty-five chickens each year and once they were grown we would have a rooster for dinner every week until their were only hens left, from which we got our eggs. When my parents divorced, I was five-ish, we got rid of the animals. Anyway I was and am ok with killing animals for food, just don't ask me to do it. I would rather not eat them at all but if you want to I won't hold it against you.
That being said, I watched the movie and I was mortified. I had been lied to. We all had. The experiments that these two men were doing, unknown to each other, had the same results. The animal protein we had been trained was our best source of protein was in fact killing us. The cause of many cancers and heart disease.
However, I still didn't know how to make a change. I did not know how to cook vegetables. I knew how to cook meat and I was good at it. Also, there was no way my husband was giving up his beloved steak tips. So I made a conscious decision to make more veggies and less meat and starch but that was as far as it went. I also am still on the fence about cutting meat out entirely. I am still pretty much thinking "If one of us gets sick" Although after watching Food Inc., and hearing a mother talk about her little boy dying slowly over the course of mear weeks because of a contaminated hamburger, I have definitely rethought the big meat company route.
Fast forward another year and Sifu Sarah brings up juicing again. This time the juicer cost and the cost of the fruits and vegetables are what are in my way. About a week later my sister calls me up and says "We got a juicer! You should come over and have some fresh juice sometime!" So I did. It was amazing. So fresh and just delicious. So I asked what was in it, naturally. There were at least three vegetables I absolutely despise in it. So I went back to Sarah and we talked in length about what is necessary in a juicer. I then looked them up online and began to research juicing in general. That is when I stumbled across Joe Cross and his movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (also available on Neflix). In which Joe embarks on a journey to get control of his body and off prescription drugs by going on a 60 day juice fast. The results are amazing and inspiring.
After the movie I was decided. I would do a ten-day juice fast, which Joe called, a reboot, and much to my surprise and happiness, my husband will be joining me. That means that we will be eating nothing but juiced vegetables for ten days. Maybe longer if we feel we need to once we reach the ten-day goal. I will also be drinking water because I think we need just plain old water sometimes.
This is a detox that we have been in need of for quite some time. My motivation is the fact that I cannot remember a time in my entire life when I woke up feeling rested. No matter how much sleep I get, I am still tired. I thought I might have lyme disease last year because I had joint pain and I was so tired. Just exhausted and I am sick of it. The tests came back negative. I am also desperate to be able to think without bursting a blood vessel. Unfortunately I am only slightly exaggerating. When I speak there are more Uh's and Uhm's in it than actual words and its driving me crazy.
Mike's motivation is trying to fit into his dress blues for Memorial Day. I will keep you updated on our progress and please remember if you are going to embark on a fast you should always consult your doctor especially if you are on prescription medications.
Maybe you think I am crazy, maybe I am. Either way I need a change and I can't wait around for someone to tell me what's wrong because my tests always come back normal and I don't want todays band-aid solutions of some medicine that barely treats the side effects and causes more problems that the disease itself.
My juicer should arrive on Wednesday of this week. Mike is starting his fast on Thursday and I will start mine Friday afternoon when I get home from work. My understanding is the first three days are the hardest so I will be blogging about it each of those first few days. I want to try and vlog too so we shall see about that.
Here are a few links if you would like to check out what I have learned. If you are health driven I recommend Fat, Sick and Nearly dead. If you are science driven, Forks Over Knives. And if you are morally driven I suggest Food Inc, but have a tissue ready.
My Best Bud Sara and I will be making our first book club video this evening on Google Hangouts! The page is called Judging By The Cover as that is how we choose books. Tonights discussion is on Veronica Roth's Divergent!! I cannot wait to hear what Sara thought!. I will be posting the link later I hope you all head over and find the page ahead of time though. The photo is old book pages.
So, about three weeks ago I noticed Ruby, our yellow lab, looked a little rounder than normal. She is a very lean dog so when she was suddenly round, it caused me to raise a brow. My husband took her to the vet who reported, he was sixty percent sure she was in fact pregnant but he could tell us for sure next month.
He also said a lot of dogs have false pregnancies with their first heat so I thought ok we will know one way or another next month. Non-the-less I kept poking her belly trying to feel pups and about a week after the vet visit I was successful. Knowing she was in fact expecting I planned to build a welling box and get her settled in. Based on what I had read I had maybe two weeks to be ready. Meanwhile in the back of my mind I keep thinking it will be any day.
I never trust my instincts. Anyway, last Saturday February 15th, I woke up at 215am for work as per usual and Ruby pranced around when i turned on the light as usual but something was different. She had not eaten her dinner. I had read that dogs will not eat within twenty-four hours of giving birth, you would think this would be a significant clue however, sometimes she just doesn't eat so I didn't think much of it. I fed her a milk bone and as I got into the car I thought, Mike is going to call me saying she in labor. Shrugged the thought off and headed out.
I had been at work for a little over an hour when Mike called me. "We have three puppies so far." Is what he said. So I hopped back into my car and raced home. I am writing this for multiple reasons. One being its a cute story that ends happily with nine puppies, but I know how this could have gone and honestly I had been expecting the worst so I thought I would share some information that would have been helpful to me about a week ago.
First, it's tough to tell when your dog is in heat but research is your friend. If you don't get your female fixed pay attention. We had no idea for the first half of Ruby's heat because she was so good at cleaning up after herself. Talk to your vet and remain vigilant. We were EXTREMELY lucky that things turned out well for us. and Ruby took to being a mother. She is still a puppy herself after all.
Second, lots of things can go wrong with young mothers. They can neglect their young, they can kill their babies, sometimes they just don't know what to do and the babies die because the mothers don't clean them off and get them breathing. Honestly I was expecting to lose puppies, but Ruby took to motherhood very well. I did have to warm the pups and set them up for their first drink which is very important. There were four at this point and as it turned out five to go. In situations like this you should have thread, scissors, and a suction bulb like you use for babies noses. If your dog does not clean the babies you need to break the amniotic sac clean out their mouths and cut the cord and then rub them off with towels till they cry out and then put them right on the teat. You also need to keep the puppies warm. Their number one reason for fussing is because they are cold. If they are on a teat and still crying they may need to eliminate urine or a bowel.
I was lucky that Ruby reacted as a mother dog should and I was lucky to have had a grandmother who taught me a lot about dogs and let me help as a collie birthed a litter once (I was like ten). So, when Ruby had trouble with baby number eight I knew what to do. The amniotic sac had broken before he was born so when she pushed his head popped out and when she stopped his head slipped back in. Poor Ruby panicked momentarily when she couldn't find him. When she pushed the second time I slipped my fingers behind his jaw and waited for the third push and gently guided him out, then it was a lot like that scene in 101 Dalmatians when the guys has the puppy in the blanket and he in rubbing it trying to get it breath. Of course, this pup did not squeal like the rest he just eventually gave a heavy sigh which was good enough for Ruby and I.
If you need a safe place to keep pups in a pinch a laundry basket with a blanket works great!
Once all nine were out and it was a reasonable hour, I gave my gram, Mimi, a call. She told me I needed to call the vet and see if we could get an x-ray, the biggest danger at this point was that there could be a pup stuck in her still. I had no idea this could even be an issue, I am so happy I thought to call her!
Two x-rays later we were in the clear. I went home and over the next few hours noticed Ruby was not cleaning the pups properly. She was licking them to help them go to the bathroom (Puppies can't eliminate without help) So I called Mimi once again and received instructions to show Ruby how to clean the pups with mineral or baby oil and cotton balls. After I showed her a few she began doing that too. I still have to help a little but honestly I don't blame her for not wanting to lick puppy poop.


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Scripta minoa: the written doc ...
Evans, Arthur J.
Scripta minoa: the written documents of minoan Crete with special reference to the archives of Knossos (Band 1): The hieroglyphic and primitive linear classes — Oxford, 1909
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/evans1909/0005
Page: V
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.806#0005
Archaeological literature
V-X Preface
List of tables / List of plates
1-110 I. The pre-phoenician scripts of Crete. Their mediterranean relations and place in Minoan story
111-272 II. The hieroglyphic or conventionalized pictograpgic script of Crete
273-293 III. The Phaestos Disk
294-302 Analytical index
Tafel I-XIII
The aim of the present publication is to give in the first place a Corpus
as complete as possible of the existing records of the script of Minoan Crete
by means of photographic facsimiles and copies of the documents. In the
second place I have endeavoured to supply a preliminary apparatus criticus
in the form of tables and explanatory catalogues of the different signaries,
the classification of the documents according to their form and contents,
an analysis of the principal formulas employed, and an examination of the
order in which the inscriptions run, often facilitated by the auxiliary marks
that accompany them. It has, moreover, been possible to elucidate the
different systems of numeration associated with the successive types of the
Minoan scripts, and, in cases where the characters afforded an ideographic
clue, to assign a meaning to certain sign-groups and formulas. But, in the
absence of bilingual inscriptions, the material as a whole has not reached the
stage when any comprehensive attempt at interpretation or transliteration is
likely to be attended with fruitful results. The present work is of a more
preliminary nature, and the main object before me has been so to set forth
the evidence as to supply a basis for further studies.
But in a World so new, where it has been necessary in a large measure
to quarry the material as well as to lay foundations for the future
fabric, my task could not be limited to a mere reproduction and analysis
of the inscriptions. These have to be also considered in their broad anthro-
pological aspect as a singular, in many respects an unique illustration of the
evolution by successive stages of an advanced system of script out of the
universal elements of primitive pictography. In a more special way these
various stages have to be placed in their relation to the several periods of
the marvellous civilization of ancient Crete, to which in a comprehensive and
generalized use of the word I have ventured to apply the word ' Minoan V
1 As at least a convenient term for the prehistoric a dynastic sense we have at least the warrant of the
civilization of Crete, the word has now acquired ancient tradition preserved by Diodoros, who, like
a general currency in France, Italy, the United Herodotos, seems to have drawn largely from Eteo-
States, and our own country, as well as among Cretan sources, that thereweretwokings ofthename
many German scholars. In extending to the word of Minos (iv. c. 60, § 25). As I have pointed out

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The Coastal Post - August 1999
Monsanto's Terminator Technology Could Lead To World Famine
By Carol Sterritt
For many of us, this has been the best of times; it has been the worst of times.
Environmentalists the world over have been rejoicing that entire governments are backing away from companies like US-based Monsanto. Recently, Monsanto has been "offering" the world genetically-altered foods, and new varieties of seeds that are considered to be terminator seeds. The genetic alteration of basic foodstuffs includes impregnating the genetic code of specific plants with bt (bacillius thuringiensis). The pollen of corn that has thus been modified has been shown to kill off feeding Monarch butterflies, even those eating other crops at a distance from the altered ones.
And in the new "terminator seed" diorama, traditional food crop seeds will become sterile if certain chemical products are not applied. A farmer who heavily plants Monsanto soybeans will find that the seed from this crop will not regenerate, for example, following a season in which no Round Up (a Monsanto post-emergent herbicide) has been applied to the crops.
In Europe, and other countries, this is a "hot" news item. Discussions of the many profound and historical implications of new food and seed policies are discussed daily in the media. While America's collective unconscious was stuffing itself on Monica and Bill forced-feedings, and following those, the "strike" against Yugoslavia-people the world over have been carefully considering what the future may hold once genetically altered foods enter the mainstream of their croplands.
A slang word created to describe the brave new world of genetically- alterated seeds and crops is the term, "Franken-food." One noted implication is that the newly burgeoning "organic" farming approach will quickly, within a single decade, be exterminated by "Franken-food" technologies.
For instance, a farmer choosing Monsanto's methods cannot control the pollen from his crops. Thus any neighboring farms may well have their non-Monsanto seed source genetically altered, via pollen-transmission of the "Franken" crop's DNA-coding.
In the United States, EPA approval of the new food methods was nearly instantaneous. As those of us researching the EPA's industry-shilling policies understand all too well, the EPA examined these new farm methods only from the stand point of whether they would indeed produce viable crops. Larger implications were to be examined by a special agricultural committee of the Agriculture Department. This committee, as we cynics suspected it might, quickly decided that there was no need to actually supervise proposals coming from "respected" industries.
In other lands, the approval for Monsanto was not easily forth-coming. The European Union (EU) passed legislation prohibiting the importation of such foodstuffs. Norway, Cote d'Ivorie, and most importantly, India, prepared lengthy summations that were presented to the scientific body of the United Nation's Bio-diversity Convention (SBSSTA). But their careful demands for consideration of ethical and political realities could not sway a body of international political power already sold out to the Powerbrokers.
Rather, the SBSTTA scoffed at an approach requiring caution in terms of embracing these new technologies. Instead, the go ahead was given for complete commercialization, if not outright monopolization, of the world's seed bank. This UN decision goes even further. It allows trade sanctions to be imposed upon those national governments who ban the terminator seed.
In related developments in Great Britain, consumers there are regaining control over their food market. Five years ago, the Monsanto-manufactured hormone, bovine somatotropin (BST), a substance injected into dairy cows to increase milk production (by 10 to 15%) had been banned by the European Union. The United States, on Monsanto's behalf, demanded that the World Trade Organization force punitive sanctions against the European Union if the ban was not removed by December, 1999. Accepted European science found carefully documented links between consuming BST-altered milk and breast and prostrate cancers. American governmental "science" rejected such "concerns".
According to London's "The Guardian Weekly", "it has been revealed that when the US Food and Drug Administration discovered that Monsanto's own tests were grossly inadequate, it established a new safety category, approving BST as a "manageable risk." Last year, the FDA admitted that it had allowed the sale of the hormone without having seen any safety data. It had relied instead on a summary provided by Monsanto."
The Guardian goes on to say, "Exposure of this kind of collusion has seldom prevented the United States from forcibly exporting its revolting habits. The World Trade Organization has to decide whether a country or a group of countries is excluding a product for genuine health and safety reasons, or doing so merely in order to protect its own manufacturers."
The pattern emerging is that of the United States, through powerfully controlling most international organizations, using force, on behalf of Monsanto, to inflict brand new behaviors upon entire sets of nations. These mandated behaviors involve a people's most intimate activities, i.e. controlling their farming and market consumption habits. Few things are as intimate as what you put in your mouth each meal.
The World Trade Organization relies on the UN's food standard agency, Codex. Codex is top-heavy with US-aligned advisors, "scientists", and other "experts" recruited from America's big agri-business to determine whether a product is safe or not. Its history is saturated with its rubber-stamping approval for most US-derived technologies.
But recently, as the Guardian points out, Codex has taken a small independent first step away from being America's hostage. Using safety concerns rather than political ones, it announced that scientific data was too overwhelming in proving that the bovine hormone was not safe, and therefore, not consumer-ready. Therefore, the US was unexpectedly asked to drop its lawsuit against the European Union.
However, the bovine hormone will continue to be part of our own food regimen. Perhaps that is fitting and perfectly poetically just. Here in the home of the non-brave, and the land of the corporate-controlled, we do well to ingest those things we eagerly attempt to forcibly export. America, eat your Round Up-ready soy beans and drink your BST milk. The genetic nightmare America has created is as close as your children's lunch boxes. Don't forget to lick your plate. The specter of a Monsanto-created, world-wide famine lurks in the not-to-distant future, just one more bridge to the twenty-first century.


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How Noah is a New Adam
Mark Giszczak has a great post up on the word the word kaphar, כִּפֶּר, which, according to the BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon), means: "to cover over", "to make propitiation," or to "pacify."
One can easily see how "to cover over" can also be applied to cultic propitiation contexts--sacrifice "covers over" sin.
Mark goes on to point out that the word is found in another unexpected context.
I found it very interesting that the same word is used in Gen 6:14 when the Lord commands Noah to cover the ark with pitch. Strangely enough, the same root is used for the word which means "pitch." Unfortunately, Gen 6:14 is the only occurrence of the word. But the image of God covering over sins with pitch is a powerful one, not that Gen or Ezek actually says that. The Ezek passage is referring to a future time when God will kaphar Judah's sins. I suppose it also has theological implications, but I don't want to take this too far. The point is that we can compare Ezek 16:63's use of kaphar with Gen 6:14 and come up with the image of God covering our sins with pitch. Cool.
In fact, Genesis seems to present Noah as a kind of new Adam, with numerous motifs reminiscent of the creation account. As in Genesis 1, in the story of the ark of Noah we see how a new creation emerges out of waters (Genesis 1:2; 7:11). The number "seven" also figures prominently. The flood begins after seven days, evoking the seven days of creation (Gen. 2:2; 7:10). As the Lord rested on the seventh day, the ark comes to a rest in the seventh month (Gen. 2:2-3; 8:4). Noah sends out birds every seven days (8:10-12). Noah was commanded to take seven pairs of clean animals (animals acceptable for sacrifice) into the ark (Gen. 7:2). We might also mention that "Noah" means rest--evoking the Lord's resting on the seventh day of the creation account.
Like Adam, Noah is told to be "fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 2:28; 9:1) and given "dominion" over the creatures of the earth (Gen. 2:28; 9:2). We might also note that the ark is created in three sections (cf. Gen 6:13) corresponding to the three realms of the cosmos created in Genesis 1. The tripartite structure is likely meant to indicate that the ark, like the cosmos, should be seen as a kind of temple [which had three sections: (1) Outer Court, (2) Holy Place, (3) Holy of Holies].[1]
In addition, we might also mention that the downfall of Noah is also reminiscent of Adam's. Noah ends up in a vineyard, as Adam was in the garden. As Adam ate the forbidden fruit, Noah consumes too much of the fruit of the vine and becomes drunk. He is then found "naked". This results in his issuing prophetic statements about the consequences about what has just happened.
[1] For a fuller treatment see, S. W. Holloway, "What Ship Goes There: The Flood Narratives in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis Considered in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Temple Ideology," in ZAW 103 (1991): 328-354; Meredith Kline, Kingdom Prologue (South Hamilton: Gordon Cornwell Theological Seminary, 1989), 156-59; C. T. R. Haywood, 'Sacrifice and World Order: Some Observations on Ben Sira's Attitude to the Temple Service," in Sacrifice and Redemption (S. W. Sykes, ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 22-34.
Margaret Barker and Crispin Fletcher-Louis, among others, have much to say about Noah as High Priest. See also Barker's article "Atonement: the Rite of Healing" for some thoughts on the meaning of kpr and how it relates to the "cosmic covenant" explored by her and Fr. Robert Murray, especially how she links atonement to the idea of repairing the tears in the fabric of the cosmos that allow chaos and wrath to flood in.
Michael Barber said...
Thanks anonymous! (Who the heck are you?!--you've got some mighty good bibliographic references there!)
I just finished Fletcher-Louis' All the Glory of Adam: Liturgical Anthropology in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Leiden: Brill, 2001). The section in there on Noah was fascinating.
I'll check into that Barker article as well!
Stuart said...
Sorry for the anonymous thing, so here I am with my real name! The semantic field one should explore with reference to the pitch is not so much "cover over" as "mending the gaps".
I loved CFL's ATGOA, but found it very mind-boggling at the same time! (I think Andrei Orlov is writing stuff on priestly Noah themes as well these days). Barker builds on the work of Milgrom in his massive (but surprisingly readable!) Leviticus commentary to outline an Israelite world picture of the creation bound together by great covenantal bonds that bind everything up in one complex web of relationships and laws, in which the cosmic and moral orders are inextricably intertwined.
Sin caused the fraying of this great cosmic fabric, and the greater the sin, the greater the fraying, and the leakier the ship of the world became as it floated upon the cosmic waters. With the fraying of this cosmic fabric and the violation of the covenant, came the ever greater danger of the breaking in of "wrath" through the gaps, flooding through to restore the world to a hellish primeval chaos without form or void.
Since the tabernacle/temple complex represented a microcosm of the creation, ritual actions performed there served to effect change at the level of the microcosm, specifically, repair of the damage that threatened to bring everything crashing down. The rituals brought about, in microcosm and macrocosm, atonement in its literal sense of at-one-ment, the binding up and reunification of that which was shattered, and the greatest of these ritual acts was the great blood rite of Yom Kippur, which brought about the renewal of the whole cosmos, its healing, its reunification, its deliverance, its exodus, from bondage to the decay that threatened ultimately to crumble it to utter ruin.
And performed by the High Priest bearing the Name, it was nothing less than the action of the Holy One of Israel Himself, an action not of cruel coercion, but of outpouring love. Each part of the temple received the blood outpoured upon it, and hence each part of creation received the saving action of its High Priestly LORD, making all things new, bound up from its brokenness to be headed up anew in Him.
Noah thus comes first as a prophet of judgement to his generation, having received a vision which God has given to His servant "to show what must soon take place", to proclaim the doom that is coming.
But he also comes as a preacher of repentance, proclaiming that there is a means of escape: though the disaster that is looming is unavoidable, nonetheless God inn His mercy has offered a way out to those who have eyes to see it and ears to hear it, that God will make a way through the waters for a remnant of the redeemed to pass through to a new world after the judgement has passed over.
Furthermore, he comes not merely as the messenger of such glad tidings, but as the one who is the means for realising them, for as he proclaims and prophesies, enduring the ridicule and rejection of his people, he brings into being the means by which the escape from the judgement may be made, the Noachic Church of wood and pitch, the temple-microcosm of a new world in embryo that will pass through the birth pangs of the tomb-womb of the flood waters to emerge fully born on the other side.
But only a few, only his family, heed his message, and enter into this ark of salvation, and only they are safe, sealed in by the pitch, when the cosmic fabric finally frays beyond recall, and the "wrath" comes crashing through the torn firmament of the world, and the time comes for the destroyers of the world to go down into the pit.
Yet after wrath has spent itself, upon this awful sight of wrack and ruin, that has become the tomb of evil, descends love unmeasurable, the light and the wind, the sevenfold-in-one arc of the Glory, to kiss it in perfect mercy, that it might be healed, and be no longer the tomb of the old, but now to bring forth in ecstasy, "like a strong man in desire", as the womb of the new, and the ark comes forth from the waters, the microcosm of a new world sitting atop the holy mountain, and Noah comes forth from the house of the ark shining like the bow in the clouds after rain, radiant with sevenfold splendour, to offer upon the holy mountain the oblation that founds a world anew.
Whereas Adam's work is to till the garden, and to keep it from the onslaughts of evil without, and to warn Eve of what is to come when evil does break through to stalk the garden-temple, Noah's work is to build the ark, and to stock it, and to warn, and to gather in those that heed, and to go in, and to shut the door, as the old heaven and the old earth pass away, and the new heaven and the new earth of the ark-temple come forth into the light of a new day. But both works are liturgical acts, the liturgies of the two great High Priests of the Primeval History.
My name is Andrew. Stuart, I like your comment on the fraying of a garment, but I think you should also consider the idea of kpr or kaphar as meaning "to cover" as with a garment, the garment that God gave Adam and Eve, the fact that Hebrews 10:20 mentions the veil representing the flesh of Christ and that the veil and the garment were the same so the garment represents Christ's flesh covering Christians, but not at baptism but in the ancient and modern Christian temple endowment. See Temples of the Ancient World, pp. 506-507.
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The four Trackers, Jacqueline Breen, 19 from Sydney, David Ramli, 21 from Sydney, Matthew Clayfield, 22 from Melbourne and Nick Parkin, 23 from Adelaide, were chosen from almost 100 applicants nationally and are looking forward to their unique opportunity.
Contributions are being warmly welcomed and since the site has been live, Jem Anning, the site's managing editor, has busy answering the emails and phonecalls.
The Australian Government is considering setting up a 'consultation blog' to give the public a chance to have their say on public policy and proposed legislation.
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Helmut Newton (31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004), born Helmut Neustädter, was a German-Australian photographer.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous.
Since the commercialization and banality of editorial magazine pages have made this work uninteresting, advertising has become an increasingly important part of my work. It is interesting to compare European and American mores in regard to my work. One will notice that most of my European images have a stronger sexual content that those destined for American publication. The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
Growing up, I was surrounded by Nazi imagery, like everybody in Germany, and for a boy obsessed with photography it left an indelible impression on me. Later this influence was tempered by Brassaï and Dr. Erich Salomon. My love of photography at night started with m early experience of … the Brelin undergrund stations. Even today I love photographing by the light of street lamps or in the glare of my flash.
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos — and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them — that is interesting.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. Even when I am not in sympathy with the person, I have to be in love with him or her while I'm doing their portrait. Le Pen adored me (at least until his photo ran alongside Hitler's in Le Monde), and we got on extremely well.
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The prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications, died in a car crash in Hollywood, after taking the wheel of his car from his winter abode, Chateau Marmont, driving into a wall.
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" My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. "
Meghan O'Rourke
" If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. "
" Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it. "
" There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh. "
" When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before Christmas' stuff. I saw 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times. "
Kate Leth
" For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic. "
Mary Kay Andrews
" I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd. "
" My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board. "
" A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus. "
" 'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video. "
" In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. "
Jack Steinberger
" There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus. "
Monica Johnson
" 'El Gordo' is the name given to the oldest lottery jackpot in the world - and the richest. Held every year in Madrid on December 22, the Christmas Lottery culminates with the picking of the El Gordo number, the Fat One, which, for many, has become the true Christmas miracle in Spain. "
" I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas. "
" My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house. "
" I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance. "
" From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work. "
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" T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. "
Clement Clarke Moore
" It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year. "
" I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves. "
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" My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. "
" I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one. "
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University hiring freeze won't be lifted soon
The University will not be hiring additional faculty to keep up with the influx of students — at least not soon.
Walter Knorr, vice president and chief financial officer, said the University administration hiring freeze that President Timothy Killeen announced July 2 is still in place and will not be lifted until further notice.
Killeen announced the hiring freeze due to the lack of state appropriations for fiscal year 2016.
When the freeze was announced, Tom Hardy, University spokesman, said current openings would not be filled either. The openings range from a $25,000-a-year civil service position up to a $160,000-a-year position as an academic professional director.
Still, University officials expressed excitement about increased enrollment for the 2015-2016 school year.
"Our enrollment numbers are at historical highs at U. of I.," said Edward McMillan, Board of Trustees chairman at the board meeting Thursday. "We are up 10.2 percent in this freshmen class. It's very exciting — the University is working successfully to increase the enrollment of students."
Wilson said she believes the marketing plan approved by the Board of Trustees last year has played an important role in the enrollment success.
"I want to emphasize that we're still doing great things here," Wilson said. "We need to remind ourselves of that."
Wilson said the new freshmen class includes 7,565 students, which is the second largest class of students in the history of the Urbana campus.
"We have a bigger, more diverse class with the most academically talented students in the world," she said.
Additionally she said 120 new tenured faculty joined the University this year, despite slowed faculty hiring.
"They're coming to join an elite group of faculty recognized across the country," she said.
"We want to make sure that we've taken some deliberative, concrete steps to put the University in a position to act fiscally conservative," Hardy said.
Wilson also recognized the University's national rankings.
"Students, parents and faculty members look at rankings, and we need to pay attention to them and be proud we're doing as well as we are," she said.
Currently, Wilson said the University is ranked 41st among all institutions in the county according to the US News & World Report, and is tied for 11th among the nation's public institutions.
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"I just feel like it's really important we share good news," she said. "I'm excited to be serving in this role."


Commas are confusing. Unlike other types of punctuation, they are used in many ways. If you want to write clearly and professionally, you need to use commas correctly. Zen Comma will show you how. The 14 major uses of commas and the most common errors.
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Commas are confusing. Unlike other types of punctuation, they are used in many ways. If you want to write clearly and professionally, you need to use commas correctly. Zen Comma will show you how.
Zen Comma uses examples, instructions, and anecdotes to teach you the 14 major uses for commas and the most common errors. It also contains exercises to help pinpoint the comma rules you need to learn.
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The various koans interspersed throughout the chapters are intended to help you "meditate" on comma concepts. When you understand these koans, you will be able to apply their concepts to your own writing.


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Home Analysis UEFA Champions League 2019/20: Lyon vs RB Leipzig – tactical analysis
UEFA Champions League 2019/20: Lyon vs RB Leipzig – tactical analysis
Mayur Mehta
We were into the business end of the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League group stages and the final matchday of Group G saw Lyon hosting RB Leipzig. While Leipzig was already qualified for the next round and only needed a draw in this game to top the group, Lyon had a daunting task ahead of them to qualify for the knockout stage. A defeat would have surely knocked them out of the competition while a win also did not guarantee the qualification. In addition, Les Gones also required Benfica's favor to beat Zenit Saints Petersburg in the other Group G game.
Lyon has had a terrible start to the season as they sit seventh in Ligue 1, having won only seven out of the first 17 games. Leipzig, on the other end, has been flying in Bundesliga under their new manager Julian Nagelsmann. After scoring the highest amount of goals in the league so far, the German side is only a point and a position away from topping the table.
In spite of such a contrasting form, the two sides battled an even contest to earn a deserved draw. Memphis Depay's dramatic second-half equalizer and Benfica's win saw Rudi Garcia's side miraculously qualify for the Round of 32.
In this tactical analysis, we will do an analysis of how the German side was set up for this game. Besides, we will also see how Garcia improvised his tactics along the game to rescue a crucial point after trailing at the halfway mark.
Credit – Wyscout
Although Rudi Garcia generally set's his Lyon team in a 4-1-4-1 system, the French manager chose the alternate choice of 4-2-3-1 formation for this game. It was not a surprise that the first-choice goalkeeper Anthony Lopes started between the sticks. While Jason Denayer and Joachim Andersen formed the center-back pairing, Kenny Tete and Rafael retained their places at the full-back positions in the absence of Youssouf Koné and Léo Dubois respectively. Lucas Tousart, who replaced Maxence Caqueret, formed the two-pivot defensive midfield line alongside Thiago Mendes. Bertrand Traoré was replaced by Martin Terrier in the three-man attacking midfield line on the right side along with Houssem Aouar on the left. With 24 goals and two assists between them so far in the season, the attacking duo of Depay and Moussa Dembélé completed the lineup with the former playing as a number 10.
Nagelsmann, on the other end, set his Leipzig side in his favored 4-4-2 formation on paper that switches to 4-2-2-2. While the usual choice of Péter Gulácsi was seen on the goal, Nordi Mukiele and Marcelo Saracchi formed the full-back pairing alongside the center-backs Dayot Upamecano and Lukas Klostermann. This was the usual back-five that the German coach has preferred in the UCL. Konrad Laimer was rested and replaced with Amadou Haidara. The Mali international formed the two-man pairing with Diego Demme ahead of the defensive line. Christopher Nkunku was another change for Marcel Sabitzer and he was positioned alongside Emil Forsberg on the wings. While Nkunku attacked mostly from the right-flank, Forsberg occupied more central positions between the lines. The attack line consisted of Yussuf Poulsen, who was the preferred choice over Patrik Schick in the UCL, and Timo Werner, who was in red-hot form, scoring 11 goals and providing six assists in the last seven starts.
Lyon pressing structure and attacking setup – exposing wide channels
Lyon was set up in a 4-2-3-1 system on paper that transitioned into a 2-4-4 during possession as the full-backs pushed into the midfield line. The modus operandi of Lyon's attack was to find the runners in the wide channels beyond the high defensive line of Leipzig. The two wide-attackers would position themselves in the wide channels while Dembélé would position himself in between the two Leipzig center-backs, as shown in the following figure.
The compact horizontal shape of the away side allowed Terrier and Aouar to remain in the outside space so that they could run into the wide channels when they receive the ball. The plan was to use their excellent ball carrying ability to pose a threat to the opposition's goal.
Depay had a flexible role in the system that allowed him to improvise his positioning based on a situation. In the above figure, he has positioned himself in the number 10 position behind the attacking trio since Lyon was looking to build up using short/ medium passes. Such a position will allow the Dutchman to drop deeper to provide a passing option for his side.
The above figure, which was taken a few minutes after the first image, shows Depay in a relatively advanced position. The Dutchman, in this case, has joined the attacking line and he is making a run behind a Leipzig central defender as Andersen looks to make a long ball behind the Leipzig backline. The former Manchester United player was also occasionally seen dropping into his own half for passing support and assisting ball progression.
Off the ball, Garcia had instructed his players to press Leipzig high up the pitch whenever possible to prevent the German side to build their play from the back. The pressing system utilized seems to be more man-oriented rather than space-oriented, as shown in the following figure.
As you can see in the figure, Terrier and Dembélé were marking the two Leipzig central-defenders. Moreover, Lyon has pushed their midfielders into the attacking third to create numerical equality. The man-to-man marking forces Leipzig to go long in this case.
In situations where the home side could not press like above, they had a pressing trigger to force Leipzig wide during the buildup. Once the German side went wide, Garcia's team would start pressing aggressively and make lateral movements towards the ball to create overloads to win possession. This pressing structure is shown in the figures below.
In the figure above, Upamecano received the ball from the goalkeeper without any pressure from Lyon. As soon he opens up the line of play by passing to his center-back partner (Klostermann), Lyon's pressing trigger is initiated. The ball-sided wide player (Terrier, in this case) immediately starts his run to press the man in possession to force him to pass the ball to his full-back (Saracchi).
Once Saracchi receives possession, Terrier quickly changes direction and starts pressing the Uruguayan, as shown in the figure above. Not only that, but the remaining Lyon players also start making lateral movements towards the ball to create overloads on the flank and cut the short passing options. It eventually leads to possession turnover for Lyon and the home side can then start a counter-attack.
Overall, Lyon's pressing was aggressive which is highlighted from the fact that they allowed Leipzig to make only nine passes before making a defensive action (PPDA).
Leipzig's typical attacking setup – Vertical ball progression and third man run
Leipzig was set up in a 4-4-2 system on paper which transitioned to a 2-5-3 in possession as the full-backs pushed into the midfield line. An attacking midfielder would also drop deep to create numerical superiority during the buildup phase. The front three would constantly look to make runs behind the high defensive line of Lyon. An instance of their buildup is shown in the following figure.
As you can see, the full-backs are responsible for providing the width while the extra attacking midfielder that dropped deep created a seven versus six in their own half. The attacking line saw a similar setup to Lyon's attacking line where two of the attackers would position themselves in a flat line to expose the outer space in the wide channels while the center-forward (Poulson) would stay central.
Leipzig created attacks in their typical fashion which involved fluid attacking movements along with rotations and constant vertical ball progressions along the thirds to create third-man runs all over the pitch. One of the instances is shown in the following figure.
One of the highlights of Leipzig's buildup play was to quickly look for vertical balls that bypass the attacking and midfield lines of Lyon rather than switching the ball laterally for a patient buildup. As you can see in the figure, Upamecano quickly looks for Forsberg after receiving the ball from his goalkeeper. Forsberg's movement of dropping deep highlights the fluid rotation that we mentioned above. In the first image, it was Werner who had dropped deep in their own half while Forsberg positioned himself in the attacking line. This time, it was the other way around.
The Sweden international, who is facing his own goal, would look for a one-touch lay off back to Upamecano who will then look for a one-touch vertical ball in the wide channel for Nkunku. Eventually, the French youngster would make a run on the right flank and provide a low cross inside the box for Poulson and Werner.
Leipzig's central dominance caused problems for Lyon in the first half
One of the major tactical principles of Nagelsmann's Leipzig is to maintain central overloads on and off the ball. We have already mentioned that the away side formed a 2-5-3 structure with the ball. The midfield line of five helped the Bundesliga side to not only rotate possession effectively but also to effectively counter-press to regain possession quickly after losing it.
Having said that, it was their tactic of creating central overloads off the ball that was most effective, especially in the first half, which helped them not only to create deadly counter-attacks but also to capitalize on Lyon's mistakes. Moreover, the players always stayed close to the play which also allowed them to win loose balls and second balls in the middle/ attacking third.
As shown in the figure above, Leipzig overloaded the center during a Lyon buildup. Such an overload has completely blocked any passing lanes in the center. Consequently, it forces the home side to go wide, and this where Leipzig would trap Garcia's men in possession. The German side would quickly make lateral movements towards the ball maintaining short distances to overload the wide areas to regain possession. The shorter distances between Leipzig players make room for carrying out a swift counter-attack.
The figure above shows the three versus two overloads created by the away side six seconds after the first image. Aouar has no passing option available due to which Nagelsmann's men are able to win back possession in the wide area and hurt the home side with a quick transition from the middle third.
As mentioned above, Leipzig's central overloads without possession also hurt Lyon for their mistakes and help them away side to win loose/ second balls in the attacking third.
Observe how Leipzig players have formed a cage of six versus four in the center. Denayer opted to carry the ball into the middle third in this instance. A bad first touch allowed Demme and Forsberg to intercept in a dangerous area. The loose ball was received by Poulson who could then find Werner making a run beyond the high defensive line of Lyon, as shown in the following figure.
Unfortunately, Werner missed the one versus one chance but such kind of positioning from Leipzig leaves no room for error.
Lyon's attacking intent lead to a resurgence in the second half
After trailing 2-0 in the first half, Garcia realized that his side was going out of the competition regardless of the other result of the group and there was nothing more to lose. Hence, he amplified the attacking shape of his side and instructed more players to go forward during the buildup, as shown in the following figure.
As you can see, both the full-backs have pushed into the attacking line that consequently allowed both the wide-midfielders to tuck inside. This shift from a three or four-man forward line from the early stages of the game to a five-man attacking line not only provided Lyon with more options going forward but also limited Leipzig's attack since they had to now put an extra man behind.
The result was evident from the fact that while the home side had just one shot attempted in the first 37 minutes of the game, they created six in the next 15 minutes of the game after the switch.
Garcia's side started to have more men in the attacking wide channels to create better combination play. This also provided much-needed support to Aouar and Terrier, who could now rely on their ball-carrying ability to dictate the final third.
Having said that, it was not only the positions that were tweaked by Garcia. In the first half, Lyon used a more direct approach to put the ball into wide areas which allowed Leipzig full-backs to hold their line. The French manager made a slight alteration to this approach. Instead of a direct ball from deeper areas, Lyon would look for an immediate pass to the ball-sided wide-player (full-back or wide-midfielder), who would drop into the middle third. This would draw the ball-sided full-back of Leipzig out of his line creating space behind him, which would then be exposed by the nearest Lyon attacker, as shown in the following figure.
Tete has dropped deep to receive a pass from Denayer thereby drawing Saracchi out of his right-back position. Terrier is seen to be making a quick run into space in the wide channel. The same pattern was also observed on the other side of the field as well.
Moreover, by committing more men in the attacking third allowed the home side to win more duels and loose balls that made them to quickly switch the ball into the wider areas before the German side can make a horizontal movement. This is in fact, how Lyon scored their first goal. Terrier won a tackle in the left half-space and the loose ball was retrieved by Tousart who quickly put in a diagonal ball from the center into the right half-space where Aouar was unmarked. The youngster put in a brilliant finish from just inside the box after a slight cut-back.
In conclusion, it was a game of two different halves between the teams who were evenly matched in terms of the quality of the players at their disposal. While Leipzig's tactics to dominate the central areas of the pitch allowed them to overpower the home side during the first half, Garcia's attacking intent along with his tactics to expose the wide channels allowed his men to get grip on the second half. Leipzig created 85% of the attacks from the center while Lyon created 65% of attacks from the flanks.
Two defensive mistakes from Lyon cost them penalties in the first half which saw the home side at the cusp of elimination. However, a brilliant finish from Aouar and the equalizer from Depay completed Lyon's comeback.
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Yahoo's recent acquisition of youth-centric site Tumblr grabbed all the headlines. But for anyone who wants to understand Yahoo's strategy--and "Web 3.0″ in general--it's the company's recent bid for video streaming site Hulu, reportedly worth $600-$800 million, that matters more.
By buying Hulu, then, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is acknowledging that, contrary to the notion that the internet remains a hotbed of disruption, parts of it, at least, are quite a mature market. She's hedging her bets: buying the daring, trendy startup, Tumblr, in the hope that it will turn into a money-spinner, but also a reliable cash cow, Hulu, to guarantee her conglomerate a steady stream of revenue.
The evidence that video streaming is now a mature market is in the kinds of licensing deals being signed. Television networks and movie studios are signing non-exclusive deals to provide their content to Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Google and anyone else with a few hundred million dollars to spare. Streaming video is becoming a commodity, available everywhere. In response, Netflix has been dumping content that anyone can license and investing in proprietary TV shows that can be watched only on Netflix.
Commoditization doesn't mean that Hulu is a bad business. But it might mean it's becoming a low-margin business. In which case the best place for it is inside a larger company, like Yahoo, which can integrate it with its other services. Yahoo already attracts 45 million unique visitors a month to its videos, according to comScore--one-third as many as Google/YouTube (though Yahoo's users watch far less total video). Hulu has 24 million visitors. Facebook, for comparison, has 63 million video watchers, second only to Google. Putting Yahoo and Hulu together--even if their existing audiences overlap somewhat--makes them a contender for that number two spot. Not so boring after all.


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What Dads Should Do After Childbirth
Fatherhood is something that many fathers long for. However, for many fathers, especially first-time fathers, fatherhood can be a difficult time. This mostly as a result of the fact that they do not really know what's expected of them and what they should do in helping their wives. To help those who find themselves trapped in such unfortunate scenarios, this article is going to share with all fathers what they should do after childbirth.
Become the new cook and nutritionist
Labour drains women of most of their energy. As such, after childbirth, fathers should do most of the household chores as possible including cooking. It's important however that in addition to assuming the role of the house cook, fathers should also become nutritionists as women soon after birth need to eat nutritious diets. Fathers should provide more proteins and vegetables. In the same vein, it's important that the wife also takes lots of water.
We know becoming a 'house husband' maybe a whole new experience for many but it's important to note that you can always engage in your favourite pastimes in the comfort of your own home, for instance, replacing your casino visits by simply opting to play at a casino online.
Massage her
The first few days after childbirth may be quite uncomfortable for the wife especially if she had to go through the caesarian section. As such, in order to ensure that your wife is always stress-free and comfortable,it's advisable to become her new masseuse. Thanks to the power of the internet, fathers can easily learn all about massaging online.
Encourage her to seek support from other mothers
As alluded to above, the first few days after childbirth maybe uncomfortable for the wife, as such, one way of ensuring that your wife removes the 'uncomfortable' burden is to encourage her to seek support from other mothers. Through mixing, mingling and sharing stories with other mothers, she may learn a thing or two of how she can cope with the stress that comes with giving birth.
Regularly compliment her
Another great way of ensuring that your wife is stress-free during the immediate days after giving birth is to regularly complement her. Whenever she undertakes to do a task and she completes it, remember to tell her how immensely proud you are. This will only help to raise her confidence and to make her stress-free.
Let her cry
After a difficult birth, it's only normal that she may go through some emotional trauma. When this happens, you should not force her to keep her emotions inside but rather, you should encourage her to let her emotions out. Keeping one's emotions inside will only compound the situation.
No pressure for sexual acts
We all know that fathers love intimacy. However, it's advisable to postpone our quest for sexual acts to later dates when she is comfortable and ready. Pressurizing for sexual acts soon after childbirth may lead her to resent you and the relationship.
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Ram raiders strike at village store to steal ATM
This is the fourth time raiders have ripped ATMs from the outside walls of Co-ops in the county
The scene of the ram raid on Sapcote Co-op
Police investigating a ram-raid to steal a cash machine from a Sapcote store say it may be linked to three similar incidents over the past month
The latest smash and grab was at 1.15am yesterday at the Heart of England Co-op in Church Street, Sapcote, with eyewitnesses saying the thieves used a forklift to smash into the wall and tear out the ATM. The JCB was abandoned at the scene and the cash machine was loaded onto a pick-up truck.
Stores in Whetstone, Newbold Verdon and Asfordby have all also been targeted.
One resident, who asked not to be named, even followed the thieves in his car.
He said: "I'd not long gone to bed when I heard the noise but I'm a light sleeper anyway. They rammed the wall four times.
"They loaded the cashpoint from a forklift onto a blue Toyota Hilux. I got dressed and tried to follow the route they had taken down Church Street, on to Cooks Lane and then onto Sharnford Road. I was probably a couple of minutes behind them.
"There was wire on the road from the cashpoint so it was obvious which way they had gone. Eventually they went onto the main Coventry Road then went left towards Sharnford and then towards Polesworth where I found the control box.
"They then went off towards Fosse Meadows where I bumped into a policeman. There was a helicopter out trying to find them and I took him back to where I had found the control box.
"Something like this happened about 18 months ago when they got away with loads of cigarettes in a tarpaulin. It was only a matter of time before someone tried it because there is nothing to block them driving straight into the building."
Another eyewitness said: "We heard the digger reversing - it had the prongs out and it took the cashpoint and loaded it onto the truck and drove off. It woke us up, the noise was really loud. Nothing like this normally happens round here."
A PCSO was standing guard on yesterday while workmen attempted to patch up the damage.
Detectives appealed for help in tracing the culprits although but as yet the four incidents have not been formally linked..
Raiders have used a digger or similar vehicle to rip ATMs from the outside walls of Co-ops around the county.
The first incident happened on October 21 at the Co-op in Dog and Gun Lane, Whetstone and was followed by raids on November 5 at the Co-op in Main Street, Newbold Verdon and then on November 7 at the Co-op in Bradgate Lane, Asfordby.
General manager of the Heart of England Co-operative Society's Food Division Peter Fletcher said: "We can confirm that an incident took place at The Co-operative – Food in Sapcote in the early hours of November 12.
"There were no staff or customers inside the store at the time of the incident. An alarm inside the store activated which alerted police to the scene.
"The thieves caused considerable damage to the building. Officials from the society and the local council were on site in the early hours to ensure the building was structurally safe."
He added: "There is structural damage as a result of the incident and we are anticipating a substantial repair bill. However the real cost of this type of crime is in the upset and concern it raises within the local community.
"The Heart of England Co-operative Society takes the issue of security very seriously. We are working closely with the police and our security providers and have provided the police with CCTV footage of the incident.
"Our security policies are constantly under review to ensure all our stores have appropriate measures in place for the benefit of both our staff and customers."
Detective Constable Stu Palmer who is investigating the incidents said: "It's obviously a great concern to us that thieves are targeting shops and cash machines, we are working closely with the premises which have been affected and studying CCTV footage from all of these incidents.
"We are looking at the similarities between all of the reports and there is a strong possibility that the incidents may be linked but our investigations are very much ongoing to establish whether there is a definite link.
"If you witnessed the incident in Sapcote or saw either the digger or the Toyota car being driven in the area then please get in touch. Even if you think the information you can provide is not significant we would still encourage you to come forward so we can follow up any leads and eliminate them from our enquiries."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Leicestershire Police on 101, follow the instructions to leave a message for the officer and when prompted key in the officer's identification number. Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers, which is free and anonymous, on 0800 555 111.
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Getting Your Limited Company Struck Off
Understanding how to strike off a limited company is important to close down a business. Check which form you need to apply to strike off your private limited company from the Companies Register.
STRIKING OFF: Getting your limited company 'struck off' the Companies Register is one way to close it down.
But, you can only strike off a private limited company if it hasn't:
Changed its name within the last three (3) months.
Sold off any stock or traded in the last three (3) months.
Been threatened with a 'winding up' order (liquidation).
Made agreements with creditors (e.g. a Voluntary Arrangement).
Meeting these conditions means you can apply to 'strike off' your company. But, you must meet legal responsibilities for closing down your business.
Note: What if the company fails to meet these conditions? In this case, you would need to liquidate your limited company instead 'voluntarily'.
How to Close Down Your Limited Company
You must follow the legal steps to close down your company. Thus, before you apply to strike off a private limited company, you would need to:
Announce the intention to any interested parties and to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Deal with the accounts and the assets belonging to the business.
Ensure any employees get treated according to statutory employment rules in United Kingdom.
People You Need to Notify
There is a specific application form to strike off a private limited company from the Companies Register (details below). After filling in 'form DS01' you must send a copy (with seven days) to anyone who the striking off may affect. In most cases, it would include:
Company members (i.e. the shareholders)
Creditors
Employees (if applicable)
Managers or trustees of any employee pension fund
Any company directors that may be unaware of the plans (e.g. they did not sign the application form)
Failing to follow all the rules and regulations on who you must tell can result in a fine and a prosecution.
If the Company Employs Staff:
You must pay their final wages or salary.
You must follow the rules if you are making staff redundant.
PAYE and National Insurance (NI)
If the company employs people you would need to inform HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) any time you stop being an employer.
Sharing Business Assets
It is wise to share out any business assets to the shareholders before the company gets struck off. Anything left over after the striking off would go to the Crown. In this case, you would need to restore your dissolved company to get back any assets.
Final Statutory Accounts
The final trading accounts and a Company Tax Return would need sending to HM Revenue and Customs (not with Companies House). Follow these 3 steps to file the company final accounts:
Prepare the final accounts and the company tax return. A different section explains accounts and tax returns for private limited companies in more detail.
Go ahead and file the accounts and the company tax return. You should state that they are the final trading accounts because the company will soon be 'dissolved' (closed down).
Finally, you must pay all corporate taxes and any other outstanding liabilities for taxation.
Note: The final year of trading may have resulted in a loss. If so, you might offset the tax against profits made in previous years. Thus, you would claim 'terminal loss relief' on the final tax return.
Capital Gains Tax (on personal profits)
Taking assets out of a company before getting struck off may be liable for Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on the amount.
In some cases, you could qualify for Entrepreneurs' Relief. Use your personal Self Assessment tax return to work out whether you can claim it.
Note: HMRC would treat the amount as income if it is worth over £25,000. In this case, the amount would then be liable for Income Tax.
Keeping Business Records after Being Struck Off
You must keep your business documents for at least seven (7) years after getting your company struck off from the Companies Register. Typical documents you must keep include bank statements, sales invoices, and payment receipts.
The rule changes if the company employed people. In this case, you would need to keep copies of the employers' liability insurance policy and schedule for forty (40) years from the date that the company got dissolved.
Apply to Strike Off Your Limited Company
It is best to deal with company assets before you apply. That may include closing bank accounts and transferring website domain names.
You can close a company online or use 'Form DS01' to strike off a private limited company from the register. Fill in form DS01 striking off application and send it to Companies House. A majority of company directors must have signed the application form.
The current cost to strike off a limited company is £10 (payable to Companies House). The striking off application fee is £8 if you close a company online. But, you cannot pay the fee by cheque from an account belonging to the company getting struck off.
Making a dishonest application to strike off a company is an offence and can result in a fine and prosecution.
After Applying to be Struck Off
Companies House will send you a letter to confirm that you filled in the form without error. They will then fulfill your request for the company to get struck off the Companies Register.
They will also publish the company status by notice in your local Gazette Official Public Record as 'struck off'.
The Gazette issues a notice period of two (2) months for people to object. If there are no objections, the company will get struck off the register. A second notice gets published after the two month period finishes to state that the company is legally 'dissolved'.
Further Information on Striking Off Your Company.
Companies House produce guidance for directors, secretaries, or company advisers on how to dissolve a company or restore a company to the register.
How to Withdraw an Application
Losing company eligibility to be struck off means you would need to withdraw your application. So for example, starting to trade or becoming insolvent would mean withdrawing the application.
Changing your mind is also a valid reason to withdraw an application. Even so, your company must still be on the Companies Register to proceed with this option.
Note: Only one company director would need to sign the withdrawal form to withdraw a striking off application.
Withdraw a Striking Off Application Online
You can use the Companies House online service to withdraw a private limited company striking off application.
Withdraw a Striking Off Application by Post
Use 'Form DS02' to withdraw a company striking off application by postal methods. Fill it in and send it to the address written on the document.
How to Strike Off a Private Limited Company from the Companies Register