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REVEALED: China Sent Hunter Biden a 3-Carat Diamond at About the Same Time Joe Biden Was Stealing and Relocating Classified Documents (VIDEO) — The Gateway Pundit
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) joined Maria Bartiromo this morning on Sunday Morning Futures.
James Comer dropped this bomb in this morning's interview.
Comer told Maria Bartiromo that Hunter Biden was given the 3.2-carat diamond from China at the same time Joe Biden was stealing classified documents and moving them around to his homes and offices.
Rep. James Comer: This isn't the most complex investigation on the planet. Investigating the Biden family is kind of like tracking a bleeding bear in a snowstorm. There's evidence everywhere that would point out that this family has been involved in influence peddling schemes for decades. And this is very concerning. And I think that the American people are getting a taste of this with the fact that these documents were stored in so many different locations. Does anyone beleive that those classified documents when they left the Vice President's office that they just took them to multiple locations all over the east coast?… This is very concerning… Look we know a lot more about the diamond than I need to talk about right now. That diamond was given to Hunter about the time these documents were being transported to different locations. It's very concerning.
The Gateway Pundit has reported on Hunter Biden's diamond gifts from China for years now.
New Report Reveals 'Gifts' Given to Hunter Biden from China Including a Diamond Ring that We Reported On a Year Ago (VIDEO)
Now, Rep. Comer admits they have more information on the diamond than he can share at this time.
Let's see how justice is served. This will be a good test.
Via Sunday Morning Futures.
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4 thoughts on "REVEALED: China Sent Hunter Biden a 3-Carat Diamond at About the Same Time Joe Biden Was Stealing and Relocating Classified Documents (VIDEO) — The Gateway Pundit"
A. L. Luttrell January 22, 2023 at 12:10 pm
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They will all get away with all of this. They know they are covered by the Deep State. Just enough resistance to make us think something will be done (Fools Gold) (Arlin Report comment)
kommonsentsjane January 22, 2023 at 12:22 pm
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Biden needs to return it – 3 carat diamond is not worth the exchange. Most rich folks with inflation would need double, i.e., at least a 6 to 8 carat.
The country was taken by the Chinese cleaners again.
kommonsentsjane
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And, in coming weeks, that image will becomereality as the Community Agriculture Site program developed several years agoexpands to a 225,000-square-foot area on 56th Avenue.
It's the most recent expansion of communitygardening in Reno County, with this empty area owned by a neighbor beingtransformed in coming weeks to a vegetable farm of sorts not far from the citylimits.
Meanwhile, Buckley and CAS volunteers are alsoeyeing an empty lot near Lincoln School as another community/school garden sitewhile city leaders express excitement about planting more urban gardens acrossHutchinson.
Buckley, one of five Reno County MasterGardeners who started the CAS concept about seven years ago, met withHutchinson's Community Improvement Commission last week to talk about theLincoln School possibility and tell them about CAS. The Lincoln project is agarden they hope could be growing vegetables by summer 2014.
"We are strong advocates for community gardens,"said city Planning and Development Director Nancy Scott, adding that her staffhas attended several training session on the topic. "We think it is a realplus when we can have community gardens in our community. When we revised ourzoning regulations, we made sure community gardens can be anywhere."
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Q: Would Sauron have had the ability to appear in fair form again if he got the ring back? In the First and Second Ages of Middle Earth, Sauron had the ability to change into an appealing form to Men and Elves.  He could then deceive them, and used the name of Annatar.  However, once he was on Numenor and the Island was destroyed, so was his fair form so he was subsequently trapped in his "hideous" form.
Since it is said that he was gaining much of his old strength back, would it have been possible for Sauron to regain the ability to appear fair to the peoples of Middle Earth again had he regained the ring from Frodo and Sam?

A: We don't know for sure; as far as we know, he never tries.
However, Sauron loses the ability to assume a fair-seeming form during the destruction of Númenor:

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home.
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According to Appendix B, this occurs in S.A. 3319. The Ring was created c. S.A. 1600, so he had already made the Ring when he lost his fair-seeming form. It seems stunningly unlikely that recovering the Ring would put him at a higher level of power than when he was at in the Second Age, so I'm inclined to say no, he could not.
However, note that it only says he could not appear fair to men. He could, perhaps, still assume a form that seemed fair to Dwarves (for example), but we don't know.

A: No. From Akallabeth: "he could never again appear fair to the eyes of men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea back to middle earth". Note that after he returns to middle earth he is in possession of the ring, thus he cannot appear in fair form even with the ring.

A: In a deleted scene from the final Peter Jackson film, Sauron demonstrates the ability to regain his "fair" form for a few brief seconds, just before his iconic fight with Aragorn.
There's no specific indication that possessing the One Ring would allow him to do so for longer, but by the same token I think we can assume that being uber-powerful couldn't possibly hurt his chances.

A: No he wouldn't,he had the ring when he left Numenor and was unable to wrought himself a fair semblance because he'd been immersed in evil for too long and as far as i know he was at his full strength then.

A: Surely he wouldn't bother to appear 'fair' if he had the Power of the One Ring - not the sort of entity to bother with niceties.

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What future is there for the nation of Israel?
"But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our report?'. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: 'Their sound has gone out to all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world'. But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: 'I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation'. But Isaiah is very bold and says: 'I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me'. But to Israel he says: 'All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people'. I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 'LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life'? But what does the divine response say to him? 'I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal'. Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Just as it is written: 'God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day'. And David says: 'Let their table become a snare and a trap, A stumbling block and a recompense to them. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their back always'. I say then, have they stumbled", that is, Isarel, "that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, 'Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in'. Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: 'The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins'. Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! 'For who has known the mind of the LORD? Or who has become His counselor?'. 'Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?'. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen".
Now I would guess a great deal of you didn't understand a word of that reading, and it is one of the most difficult portions of Scripture. Even the apostle Peter said about certain things that Paul taught, that they were very difficult to understand. So we're going to try our best, as this is the portion that has been given to us today to consider, to understand what Paul is teaching. We have come a long way these last two weeks, looking at chapters 9 and 10. If you want a title that would sum up, really, what Paul is getting at in all these verses, it is this: 'What Future For Israel?'. What future is there for the nation of Israel?
Now Romans 9, 10 and 11, generally speaking, teach about God's sovereign dealings with Israel which are central to the plan of worldwide redemption. As we have journeyed through chapters 9 and 10, we have learned how - in chapter 9 in particular - God sovereignly chose the nation of Israel as a missionary nation to the world. His desire was that they should witness His goodness and glory to all of the globe, but also that they should be a vehicle for delivering Messiah, Saviour - and that's how the nation of Israel would chiefly be a blessing to the world. They would be the ones from whom Messiah would come and be Saviour.
Now, Paul has spent much of his time arguing that God acted justly and righteously when He chose to set aside Israel temporarily because they did not believe in the Messiah who came from them. The reason why they were set aside, as far as their responsibility is concerned, we saw last week in chapter 10, is because of their unbelief, their lack of faith. They missed the way of faith, and thought that God's righteousness could be achieved through their own righteous works. Because of their unbelief God has turned away temporarily from His chosen people, Israel, and is now turning to the Gentiles with a universal message of faith. Now, if you were here two weeks ago, let me cast your mind back to remember some of the context of the book of Romans, certainly as far as chapters 9, 10 and 11 are concerned. There was a Jew-Gentile issue in Rome. We'll not going into all the details of that, but just to say that many of the Jewish believers who were in the church in Rome were finding this difficult - what difficult? This transition from God working exclusively with the elect nation of Israel, to now broadening His dealings out to the whole world. They find it difficult to grasp, and there were many questions that were arising in their hearts - and it didn't help that Paul was now calling himself 'the apostle to the Gentiles'.
So the question that is inferred throughout all these chapters, coming from the heart and mind of Jewish believers in the church of Rome, was: has God abandoned His covenant, elect, Old Testament people, Israel? Now they have learned already, as we've seen in chapters 9 and 10, that God has set Israel aside temporarily. So now there is a fresh question arising from their heart: 'Well then, is God finished with Israel for good?'. Chapter 11 verse 1 gives us the answer: 'I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not!'. You can't get much plainer than that! 'Certainly not!'. There is a two-pronged argument now coming from Paul as to why He has not cast away His ancient people, Israel. The first is: Israel's rejection is not total, verses 1 to 10 of chapter 11. Then his second prong is: Israel's rejection is not final. It is not total and it is not final!
Has God abandoned His covenant, elect, Old Testament people, Israel?
Now let's deal with these one at a time. So not only did God foreknow Israel - that means He knew them beforehand - and He not only foreknew that they would fail Him, and be supplanted by other Gentile peoples, but He had Moses (the law) and Isaiah (the prophets) explicitly predict this. We read this at the end of verse 10, two prophecies from the law of Moses and the prophet Isaiah. God foreknew these things - and let me just pause here for a moment to say that nothing takes God unawares. There are no unforeseen circumstances as far as God is concerned, and especially none that disrupt His sovereign purpose and plan. So by quoting the prophets here, Paul is telling us that this is something that God foresaw - His programme is not disrupted. We read, and I hope you studied, in chapter 8 that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. God had foreseen all this, and prophesied through the law and the prophets.
Israel's rejection is not total, this has not taken God unawares. Paul cites two pieces of evidence why Israel have not been cast away. The first is himself, Paul personally, in verse 1 we read this: 'For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin'. He's saying: 'Israel's rejection is not total, because there are Israelites being saved - and I am one of them, of the tribe of Benjamin!'. So Paul's argument is personal, he has been saved - but there is not only his personal argument, there is a principle of remnant that he uses as evidence that Israel is not rejected totally. What is this principle of remnant? Well, it's simply this: though the majority of Jews are in unbelief, they have not accepted Messiah, they are in blindness, God - right throughout Jewish history for that matter - has often worked through a faithful remnant. The example of this that Paul gives in verses 2 to 5 is how God works through a remnant in Elijah's day, Elijah the prophet. Verse 2: 'God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 'LORD, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life'? But what does the divine response say to him? 'I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal'. Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace'.
Now it may have been that Paul felt a bit of an affinity with Elijah. Elijah was praying against God's people, and Paul, at times, felt himself praying against what his own people, the Israelites, wanted - at times his own death. I'm sure Paul felt alone, like Elijah did. Yet, as God said to Elijah, Paul is saying to believing Jews: there is a remnant, there is a remnant, those who have not bowed the knee to Baal, those who have believed in Messiah, Jews who have been saved. Now, it's not that the number is of importance in this remnant, how many they are; but the fact that God has been faithful to His covenant promises in keeping a remnant of His own elect people, the Jews. Now Paul uses this illustration from Elijah's day, and here is the application in verse 5: 'Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace'. Again, as I have said in previous weeks, election here is corporate. It's speaking of a group of people, and what Paul is saying in verse 5 is: 'God, likewise as in Elijah's day, has graciously chosen that a group of Jews, a remnant, should remain'.
Of course, this remnant is of grace, not of works - and that's revisiting where we were. Let me just repeat that for the benefit of anybody that's here and is not a Christian: this salvation that Paul espouses through the whole book of Romans is a salvation that is a free gift, offered by God, upon the sacrifice of His own Son, and it's got nothing to do with what you can do for God, or have done for God, or will do for God. It's all of grace, you must take it by faith, it is a free gift.
Now in verse 7 Paul tells us how each person in this elect remnant of the Jews have obtained this status: 'What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded'. How did this remnant obtain righteousness with God? Well, we have already learnt this in previous verses: it is by faith, and the rest have been hardened or blinded in their unbelief - chapter 9 has taught it, chapter 10, and now chapter 11. In verse 8 now, and through to verse 10, Paul now quotes Isaiah 29 and David from Psalm 69 to show that God has the right to judicially blind those who refuse to believe. You see, if you follow the gospel writings, you will find that the Jews among whom the Lord Jesus was ministering, performing His miracles, speaking His marvellous words, they would not believe - but there came a moment in the gospel record when it changed from them not believing by will, to not being able to believe, and we read: 'They could not believe', not 'They would not', but 'They could not believe'. God reserves the right to judicially blind those who refuse to believe. In verse 8 there's a wonderful illustration of this: 'God has given them a spirit of stupor', and the spirit of stupor is simply an attitude of deadness toward spiritual things.
Now, if you're here today and you have an attitude of deadness toward spiritual things, beware! Especially if you're a religious person, verse 9 speaks of that: 'David says: 'Let their table become a snare and a trap''. The idea is that their table was their self-acclaimed security, all they owned as Jewish religious people - but that table became a snare, it was their downfall, because they rested in an assurance of what they were as Jews and how they practised their law, but they did not have faith in Messiah and they missed the righteousness of God. Now you beware if that's the case with you today. Are you in a stupor as far as religious, spiritual matters are concerned? Beware! Certainly beware if your security is found in your own self-righteousness, that was the Jews' mistake. But the main point of these verses is: Israel's rejection is not total. Paul in himself is an example of an Israelite who has been saved, but there is also a remnant according to the election of grace, by faith. There is a remnant of Jews even today coming to faith in Messiah.
That's the first part of his argument, Israel's rejection is not total. But the second is: Israel's rejection is not final - we find that in verse 11 through to the end of the chapter. Look first of all at verses 11 through to 14, for therein Paul argues that the purpose of Israel's stumbling, their unbelief in Messiah, was not that God could rubbish them and dispose of them, but rather for two reasons: God allowed them to fall into unbelief first that salvation would go out to the rest of the world, the Gentiles; but secondly he argues that Gentile salvation, these Gentile nations coming to Christ, would actually provoke the Jews into eventual faith in their Messiah that they missed. Verse 11 speaks of that, if you look at it please: 'I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall?', that means utterly fall, be rejected forever, 'Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy', to provoke Jews to jealousy, 'salvation has come to the Gentiles'.
Are you in a stupor as far as religious, spiritual matters are concerned? Beware!
Now let's deal with these one at a time. The first reason that God has allowed Israel to fall into unbelief is that salvation should go out to the Gentile world. In many instances, we read that the gospel only went out to Gentiles after Jews rejected it. I could give you many examples for that: Acts 13, 18 and 28. First the Gospel comes to the Jew, they reject it, and the apostles go and preach to the Gentiles. So the Jews' unbelief has enabled the Gospel to go out to Gentile nations, but secondly: this happened in order to provoke the Jews to a kind of jealousy, so that they might eventually believe in Messiah. Now this is a matter of profound regret, that through church history - rather than making Jews envious of the truth of the New Testament - the Christian church has often provoked Jews to opposition of Christ by persecution of Jews and hatred for Jews, and even anti-Semitism. Now think about it: we coming to faith, in Gentile nations, was meant to provoke Jews to faith in Jesus - is that what the church has done throughout her history? Or have we provoked the Jews to opposition? Equally tragic is the fact that Israel's fall, that Paul says in verse 12 has brought riches to the Gentiles, has only resulted in further rejection of Messiah among the Gentiles! Isn't that tragic? Now that the Gospel has gone out to the whole world because of the fall and unbelief of Israel, what an awful tragedy that, just as Israel rejected Messiah, now the Gentile nations are rejecting Him as well!
Now let me bring it very personally to you: are you rejecting Him? If you are, I want you to consider the lengths that God has gone to in order that you should embrace His Son as your personal Saviour. He has allowed His own elect people to be blind in unbelief so that the Gospel could come to you in Ulster. I know many people in Ulster think the Gospel originated here, but it didn't! The reason that you have got it today, you're hearing it today, is because of this fall - as Paul puts it - into unbelief of the Jews.
Now Paul in verse 15 turns the tables somewhat, and he says, stay with me: if the Jews' rejection of Jesus has brought blessings to the Gentile nations, just think what worldwide blessings there will be when the Jews accept Jesus. Look at verse 15: 'If their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?'. Now we'll revisit that in a moment or two, but first Paul illustrates how Gentiles have been blessed through the nation of Israel. In verse 17 he uses an analogy: 'If some of the branches were broken off, and you', Gentiles, 'being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches'. Now it's very simple, although it sounds complicated. The Gentile nations are described here as 'a wild olive tree', Christian Gentiles who have believed in Messiah, but the olive tree, the natural olive tree in the analogy refers to Israel - those who have inherited all the promises of God and the covenant of promise. Now some of the branches of this natural olive tree have been broken off, that is: unbelieving Jews have been taken away out of the promises by unbelief, but they have been taken away - Paul says - so that some of the branches of a wild olive tree, Gentile branches who believe in Messiah, should be grafted in.
Now verse 18, look at it: 'If you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you'. Gentile believers should not despise the Jews, because Israel and her promises are the root that supports the Gentile branches. Jesus on one occasion was talking to a Samaritan woman at a well in John 4, and He uttered this statement, and it sums up everything I've just said: 'Salvation is of the Jews'. What that simply means is: Israel were God's elect people to bless the whole world, a nation that came into existence to be a missionary nation to the world, and also the vehicle to deliver Messiah to be the Saviour of the world - and that's what Jesus meant when He said, 'Salvation is of the Jews'. If we are to be saved as Gentiles, we are engrafted into the natural olive tree in place of the branches of unbelieving Jews who have been broken off.
I hope you're with me. Now Paul points out a warning in verses 19 to 22, read it carefully: 'You will say then, 'Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in'. Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off'. Now Paul is saying unbelief is the reason why Israel was broken off, those branches were broken off and cast away. Now he's turning the tables to the Gentiles, and he's saying: 'You've been engrafted in in place of the Israelites who have not believed, but beware, because for the same reason of unbelief you can be cut off as Gentiles'.
Now, let us pause for a moment, because some teachers use this to espouse a doctrine of 'saved and lost', that one moment you can be saved if you believe, but you have to continue to believe, and at the moment you cease to believe you will be one of these broken branches that will be cast away. That is not what is being spoken of here, it is not 'saved and lost' - but rather it's got to do with God's programme, remember we're speaking corporately now of Jews and Gentiles - God's talking about nations, He's not talking about individual salvation. Here's one reason why we know this: when you go back to Romans chapter 1, as I directed you back there, I think, two weeks ago, you will see that Paul addresses nations, and he says that if nations continually harden themselves against God and suppress the knowledge that they have of God, what will God do to them? He will cut them off, He will give them up, He will give them up, He will give them over. So this is a principle that Paul has already espoused at the very beginning of the book, and he's saying: 'Gentiles beware! You have received the gospel because of the fall of Israel, but beware - if you do not believe in the gospel as Gentile nations, you too will be cut off!'.
Have you got it? Beware of hardening your heart. Is there someone here - and I know this is complicated, but if you can grasp this much, do so: beware of hardening your heart against God. Beware. Verses 23 and 24 speak of how unbelief cut the Jews off, but now Paul says if they could believe, if they should believe, they will be grafted in again - they will be grafted in again! Now this is obviously speaking nationally here, it's not speaking of individuals. The reason why we know that is: there are Jews today who are believing, Paul was an example in his day of Jews believing, so was the remnant, there are Jews believing today, there are Jews who are benefiting from all the blessings of salvation - but this is speaking of how, nationally, if the Jews embrace their Messiah, they will be engrafted in again. But note: this is not conjecture that Paul speaks about, you know, 'If a Jew believes, well then he'll get the blessings'. Look at the verses please, let's read them, verses 23 and 24: 'And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief', if they believe, 'will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again'. You say, 'Well, that's not definite'. 'For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?' - but it's not certain, is it? Verse 25: 'For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved'.
This is not simply conjecture about what could happen in all possibility if Jews believed in their Messiah, but rather this is prophetic. What Paul gives us here in verses 25 and 26 is the promise of restoration to Israel, and therefore Paul exhorts the Gentiles: 'Don't gloat over the fact that Israel have fallen in unbelief, and you are believing in the Gentile nations. Nor, for that matter, should you proudly assert that they are cut off from God forever'. 'No!', Paul says, 'Here I'm going to reveal to you a mystery', a mystery is simply, in the Bible, a truth that has been previously obscured or hidden. The church is a truth like that, it's a mystery. It was never known in the Old Testament, but it's revealed through the apostles and through the Lord Jesus in the New Testament. 'Here's another one', Paul says, 'Israel's blindness in part, their unbelief now, is only until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in'. That simply means that when the number of believing Gentiles is complete, then Israel's eyes will be opened - and verse 26 says: 'And all Israel will be saved'.
Now, we'll look at that in more detail tonight, because it's based on the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31. But the reason why Paul shares this mystery is because he says that the chances are, if Gentiles misunderstand this mystery, they will be haughty, they will boast over their gain and the Jews loss. It's interesting that some people interpret this passage of Scripture, and indeed all New Testament portions generally to do with Israel, as 'spiritual Israel'. It was John Calvin who believed that Israel, in this portion in particular, signified all the redeemed the Jews and Gentiles together. This idea first came into vogue in the teachings of Augustine, the early church father, in his book 'The City of God'. He basically said this, that 'the spiritual church of the New Testament replaces the carnal nation of Israel'. Of course, in Reformed Theology this has led to the error of 'Replacement Teaching', and it simply is this: that the church is the continuation of the old nation of Israel, but in a spiritual sense. Therefore, what happens is, all the promises to ancient Israel are spiritualised and applied to the church. Now that's very common in Christianity, but the problem is: Israel has not once - that term 'Israel' - has not once been used of Gentiles in Romans 9, 10 and 11 - and indeed I go further, and you might want to question me on this afterwards, Paul never uses the term 'Israel' of Gentiles in any of his writings. When he speaks of 'Israel', he's either speaking of the whole nation of Israel, or the believing remnant among Israel today. The only 'spiritual Israel' is the believing remnant existing now.
F.F. Bruce put it: 'It is impossible to entertain an exegesis which understands Israel here in a different sense from Israel in verse 25'. Look at it, verse 25, Israel is spoken of as a nation in blindness, and in verse 26 it speaks of them as 'all being saved'. But Paul is saying ignorance of this mystery has led to pride and a haughty spirit toward Israel - all Israel will be saved! Verse 26, it's remarkable: 'All Israel will be saved'. Is Israel rejected for good? No! Just as now the nation as a whole, generally as a whole, has rejected Messiah apart from this one faithful group of believers among the Jews, a remnant according to the election of grace, so then in a future day the nation as a whole will accept their Messiah. Of course, that shouldn't be a surprise - because, if you know your Bible, you will know that Scripture elsewhere teaches that the Lord Jesus will not return again to this earth until Israel responds to God through His Messiah, Christ. If you want to read about that, read Zechariah 12, and even the Lord Jesus in Matthew 23 says: 'I say unto you', Israel, 'you shall see Me no more till you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!''.
So Paul quotes now in verses 26 and 27 from Isaiah, and shows that God still has a plan for Israel. He still has a plan, He has not cast them off, He foreknew everything about them, He had His prophets predict it - and one certain thing: God will never dishonour His word! His word is at stake, verses 28 and 29: 'Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers', the patriarchs to whom the covenants were made, 'For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable'. When God promises something unconditionally, He is duty bound and obliged to fulfil it. He foreknew Israel, and He gave His promises. If Israel has been condemned to extinction and no future, God has dishonoured His word.
Now we will look more at that tonight, but let me just leave you with this consideration this morning: if Israel is condemned to extinction and has no future, how do you account for the supernatural survival of the Jewish people since the establishment of the church at Pentecost? I mean, if the church replaces the old nation of Israel, why are the Jews still among us - against all the odds, it has to be said? Furthermore, how do you account for Israel's resurgence among the nations of the world as an independent state? How do you account for it? Less than ten years after Hitler boasted that he would build his Nazi empire on the graveyard of Israel, on May 14, 1948 Israel became a nation state. They have been victorious in several wars, not least their War of Independence in 1948 in which they were outnumbered 80 to 1. As soon as Israel declared her independence as a state, roughly half a million Jews in Israel were surrounded by 40 million Arabs that were determined to push them into the sea! Think of the significance of this: from A.D. 70 to 1967, and some of you can remember that year, from A.D. 70 to 1967 Palestine was ruled by forty different Gentile nations - but today it is under Israeli control! How do you account for that?
During the hearing of the British Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937, David Ben-Gurion, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, accounted for Jewish nationhood now, last century, in these words: 'The Bible is our mandate'. Chapter 9 of Romans teaches us Israel's past election, chapter 10 teaches us their present rejection through unbelief, and Chapter 11 teaches us their future restoration. Israel is the only nation in the world with a complete history - past, present and future! Why? Verse 29, because 'the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable'. The covenants that were made with the patriarchs, God has not changed His mind concerning them. Can I say to you this morning that Israel is a sign to all the nations of the world, and if you want to know that God is for Israel - and I'm not saying everything they do is right politically or militarily, far from it - but if you want to know God is for them, all you need to see is their existence today and their nationhood which is most likely a fulfilment of prophecy to the day when they will, as a nation, embrace Christ and Jesus will come.
Now, do you know what that means, unbelieving friend here today? The coming of the Lord surely draws near. It's time you believed in this Saviour - but to those of you who do believe: remember that this 9, 10 and 11 of Romans follows on from Romans 8, where believers of all of hue, Jew and Gentile, were asking 'Well, if God has not honoured His promises to Israel, how can we know that He's honoured His promises to us? You say we're secure in Christ, but how can we know?'. What Paul is saying here is: 'He is true to all who believe, Jew or Gentile, for God must keep His word!'. Verse 30: 'For as you were once disobedient', do you remember what you were as Gentiles, where you came from? Marvel at God's grace that, through mercy shown to you, they also may obtain mercy. They may be provoked to jealousy, 'For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all'.
God is not a simpleton - who else but God could have engineered such a plan as this?
Who only God? I ask you, I know it's complicated, but God is not a simpleton - who else but God could have engineered such a plan as this? That His own elect people should fall into unbelief, that the gospel should go out to the nations, in order to make them jealous again that they might believe and embrace Messiah, and He comes to the world and reigns through all the nations. That God who foreknew Israel should use their fall for world redemption and, in the light of that, the obvious response of Paul and us should be wonder, love and praise. Verse 33: 'Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! 'For who has known the mind of the LORD? Or who has become His counselor? Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?''. God is the source, the means and the end of all things. He is the Creator, the Sustainer, and the goal of everything - and He should be praised forever!
Verse 36 simply reads: 'For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen'. Someone has said: 'All these words are monosyllables, a child just learning to read could easily spell them out - but who shall exhaust their meaning: 'For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen''. Praise is to be our response, but it's not our only response. If I may digress, chapter 12 verse 1: 'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God', what mercies of God? These mercies! These mercies that have already been mentioned - the cost of our salvation. Not just Christ's death and resurrection, but what it has cost the elect people of the Jews. The blessing that has gone out to us - what does that require of us? 'That we present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service', our rational service - our duty!
Do you praise Him? Have you given yourself to Him? Let us pray. Now, I know this subject matter is very difficult, but it may be that you're here - a believer or an unbeliever - and you have at least grasped something, and the Spirit of God has touched something, well, respond. You have a responsibility to respond. What is the response? Well, for both unbeliever and believer alike, it is to embrace Christ by faith, and give your all to Him for He is worthy - and God has planned it so.
Father, truly our minds cannot take in these deep truths in all their great capacity. Yet Lord, we are left, in a sense, dumbfounded - and all we can do, even though it is imperfect, is to worship. The fact that we who are not a people, should be called the people of God, and should know Yahweh, the covenant God, as our God - but what it cost to Israel. O Lord, we pray that we ourselves as the church, collectively, would be a provocation to Jewish people, that they would see Christ in us, and that we would not provoke them to hatred but to faith in Christ, Messiah. Lord, most of all, help us, every one, to believe God, to believe You in Your promises. You have set Your word above Your name, and You will not fail. Though we are faithless and unbelieving, You remain faithful for You cannot deny Yourself. May all here believe and have faith in God. Amen.
This sermon was delivered at Scrabo Hall, Newtownards, Northern Ireland, by David Legge. It was transcribed from the eleventh recording in his 'The Gospel Explained' series, entitled "What Future For Israel?" - Transcribed by Andrew Watkins, Preach The Word.


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Graziella de Michele (born 28 December 1956) is a French singer-songwriter of Italian descent. She is famous for her 1987 single "Le Pull-over blanc" ("The White Sweater"), which was a top-three hit on the SNEP singles chart and achieved Silver status.

In the early 1980s, De Michele followed her musical idols, Ramones and Talking Heads, around Europe before ending up stranded in London. She returned to France and worked as a nurse until she achieved success with "Le Pull-over blanc."

The song was first covered by Arno Hintjens in 1990, then by Alexandre Balduzzi and Nolwenn Leroy of Star Academy on the Fait sa Boum album in 2003.

De Michele's next singles passed unnoticed and therefore the singer can be considered as a one-hit wonder.

Discography

Albums
 1989 : Le Clown d'Alicante
 1994 : Les Terres mouillées

Singles
 1985 : "Let's Fall in Love"
 1986 : "Le Pull-over blanc" – No. 3 in France, Silver disc
 1987 : "Cathy prend le train"
 1989 : "La Lettre de Jersay"
 1989 : "Barcelone"
 1993 : "Vision d'Amsterdam"
 1994 : "17 ans"
 1994 : "Le jeune homme de Berlin"

Collaborations
 1985 : cover of Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" on the compilation Les Enfants du Velvet
 1990 : cover of Téléphone's "New York avec toi" on the album Diversion, release for the ten years of Virgin France
 1995 : "Ce garçon qui s'en va", dedicated to Cleews Vellay (lyrics : Lionel Florence, music : Guy Delacroix), on the album Entre sourire et larmes (Squatt / Sony Music), released to raise funds against AIDS
 1997 : about ten cover versions on the series of Atlas compilations Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises, including "Message Personnel", originally recorded by Françoise Hardy

References

External links
  Official site
 Anecdotes about "Ce garçon qui s'en va"
 Graziella de Michele, on Bide et Musique

1956 births
Living people
French people of Italian descent
French singer-songwriters
Musicians from Lyon
Michele, Graziella de

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Q: Mysql query inverse IN or search an item from array I have two table in my datebase. first one is tools table:
 ------------------
|  id  |  toolName |
|  1   |  ...      |
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and user table:
|----------------------------|
|  id  |  name     |  tools  |
|  1   |  ...      |  1,2,4  |
|----------------------------|

User can have many tools in the same time. so user.tools is array. I want to get user (or users) who used one tool (by tools id).
I thought this code would work, but it didn't work:
select * from user where toolID in (user.tools)

A: Use find_in_set():
select *
from user
where find_in_set($toolID, tools) > 0

A: I think you should try different data model with following tables:
Tools
Users
UserTools

The UserTools will be a junction table (read about many-to-many relationship)
Otherwise you should use find_in_set (as user Bohemian pointed)
But i suppose it may be not a efficient solutions because of string comparison (correct me if I am wrong)


It's a familiar scene. An industry under fire. A congressional committee demanding answers. A corporate CEO called to testify.
Yet the familiarities, in this case, end there. When Boeing CEO Bill Allen appeared before a House subcommittee—addressing charges that military aircraft makers had improperly inflated profits at the government's expense—there was no lawyer whispering in his ear. There were no notes before him. There was no hint that he wasn't personally responsible for Boeing's actions. And when he had finished his quietly forthright explanation, there was no question that Boeing—far from gouging the government to pad executives' bonuses—had in fact been laying the foundations for future greatness, plowing profits into research and development. The committee's response now seems unimaginable: It erupted into a standing ovation.
I disagree. Having spent years studying what separates great companies from mediocre ones, I can say unequivocally: There are role models to learn from—albeit not the ones you might expect. It's what inspired me to go back to my research and assemble my list of the ten greatest CEOs of all time.
Who made the cut? Some names on the list will be familiar, while several you might expect to see—names like Gates, Grove, Welch, and Gerstner—weren't eligible for a simple reason: Great CEOs build organizations that thrive long after they're gone, making it impossible to judge their performance until they've been out of office at least ten years. That criterion—legacy—was one of four I used to winnow a universe of more than 400 CEOs. I also scored the top candidates on impact (presiding over innovations—whether technical or managerial—that changed things outside the company's walls), resilience (leading the company through a major transformation or crisis), and financial performance, measured by cumulative stock returns relative to the market (or other financial metrics in the case of pre-IPO companies) during the CEO's tenure.
So what, exactly, made these ten so great? Strikingly, many of them never thought of themselves as CEO material. The second-greatest CEO on the list initially refused the job on the grounds that he wasn't qualified. No. 9 described herself as "scared stiff." No. 5 was once told flatly, "You will never be a leader." Striking, too, is the sheer scale of their time frames. Surrounded by pressures to manage for the quarter, they managed for the quarter-century—or even three-quarters of a century. The No. 4 CEO shaped a company that would average 15% earnings growth for an astonishing 75 years.
Yet if one thing defines these ten giants, it was their deep sense of connectedness to the organizations they ran. Unlike CEOs who see themselves principally as members of an executive elite—an increasingly mobile club whose members measure their pay and privileges against other CEOs'—this group's ethos was a true corporate ethos, in the original, nonbusiness sense of the word corporate: "united or combined into one." They understood the central paradox of exceptional corporate leadership: On the one hand, a company depends more on the CEO than on any other individual. Only the CEO can make the really big decisions. Yet a company equally depends on the CEO's understanding that his or her role still represents less than 10% of the total puzzle. Much depended on them, but it was never about them.
Inclusion on this list would surprise, if not horrify, more than a few of them. But if the question is how to identify more of the right leaders—and how a new generation can learn to become the right leaders—there is no better answer than these ten. In an age of diminished standards, those they set loom larger than ever.
On Aug. 3, 1963, Katharine Graham heard the crack of a gunshot within her house. She ran downstairs to discover that her husband, Philip, lay dead by his own hand.
"Steward," however, would not describe Graham's approach to her new role. At the time, the Washington Post was an undistinguished regional paper; Graham aimed for people to speak of it in the same breath as the New York Times. A crucial decision point came in 1971 when she confronted what to do with the Pentagon Papers—a leaked Defense Department study that revealed government deceptions about the Vietnam war. The Times had already incurred a court injunction for publishing excerpts. If the Post published, it risked prosecution under the Espionage Act. That, in turn, could jeopardize the company's pending public stock offering and lucrative television licenses. "I would be risking the whole company on this decision," Graham wrote in her memoir, Personal History. Yet to opt for assured survival at the cost of the company's soul, she concluded, would be worse than not surviving. The Post published.
Eventually vindicated by the Supreme Court, it was a remarkable decision for an accidental CEO who suffered from lifelong feelings of insecurity; phrases like "I was terrified" and "I was quaking in my boots" pepper her memoir. That anxiety would soon reach a crescendo as Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein doggedly investigated what became known as Watergate. Today we take that story's outcome for granted. But at the time, the Post was largely alone in pursuing it. In choosing to publish, Graham built a great paper and, in turn, a great company—one that ranks among the 50 best-performing IPOs of the past quarter-century and earned the investment of Warren Buffett. Graham never awarded herself much credit, insisting that, with Watergate, "I never felt there was much choice." But of course, she did choose. Courage, it's said, is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in its presence. By that definition, Katharine Graham may be the most courageous CEO on this list.
He gave fledgling ideas freedom to grow at 3M—but insisted they learn to stand on their own.
Many know the story of the 3M scientist who blasted a hole in his basement to house the machine that made his little sticky tabs—a product that had failed market tests—and how, like a drug dealer, he created a base of addicted users by distributing free samples to headquarters staff. It's one of many 3M stories that celebrate the lone spirit who persists against all odds. The oft-overlooked lesson, though, is the "all odds" part. It's precisely because 3M entrepreneurs must battle attempts to kill off their ideas that a handful of winners like Post-its emerge. Without this creative tension—freedom vs. discipline, innovation vs. control—all you have is chaos, or worse. Enron was a highly innovative culture that lacked discipline, innovating itself right out of existence.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." By that definition, McKnight was not just a first-rate intelligence, but a genius—a genius whose company was lucky by design.
In 1981, as the stock of Chrysler hit an all-time low, America was beginning its enthrallment with the man hired to save it. Lee Iacocca would soon be a national icon—bestselling author, star of more than 80 commercials, and everyone's image of a turnaround artist.
That same year, as the stock of Fannie Mae hit an all-time low, a different executive was hired to save the deeply troubled mortgage lender. David Maxwell would not become a national icon—nor even a recognizable name. Yet by the time both men retired in the early 1990s, Maxwell's Fannie Mae had beat the stock market at a rate more than twice that attained by Chrysler under Iacocca.
More inspired than inspiring, more diligent than dazzling, Maxwell took a burning house and not only saved it but built it into a cathedral. Some steps, such as selling off $10 billion in unprofitable mortgages, were classic fireman stuff. But his deepest genius was to frame the rebuilding around a mission: strengthening America's social fabric by democratizing home ownership. If Fannie Mae did its job well, people traditionally excluded from owning homes—minorities, immigrants, single-parent families—could more easily claim their part of the American dream. If turnaround is an art, Maxwell was its Michelangelo.
The former Johnson & Johnson boss is a legend revered—for the wrong reason.
Burke's real defining moment occurred three years before, when he pulled 20 key executives into a room and thumped his finger on a copy of the J&J credo. Penned 36 years earlier by R.W. Johnson Jr., it laid out the "We hold these truths to be self-evident" of the Johnson & Johnson Co., among them a higher duty to "mothers and all others who use our products." Burke worried that executives had come to view the credo as an artifact—interesting, but hardly relevant to the day-to-day challenges of American capitalism.
"I said, 'Here's the credo. If we're not going to live by it, let's tear it off the wall,' " Burke later told Joseph Badaracco and Richard Ellsworth for their book Leadership and the Quest for Integrity. "We either ought to commit to it or get rid of it." The team sat there a bit stunned, wondering if Burke was serious. He was, and the room erupted into a debate that ended with a recommitment. Burke and his colleagues would conduct similar meetings around the world, restoring the credo as a living document.
The Kimberly-Clark chief was told 'You'll never be a leader' by the Army's officer-training school.
Lois Smith could tell a big decision was afoot at Kimberly-Clark whenever she heard the rumbling of a backhoe in the middle of the night. That was Darwin again, moving rocks from one pile to another. This was how her husband mulled over big decisions—and to judge by the huge piles still standing sentinel at Gotrocks Farm in Wisconsin, Smith was a champion muller.
And Smith got it right. Twenty-five years after becoming CEO, Kimberly-Clark was the world's No. 1 paper-based consumer-products company—its stock outperforming the market by a factor of four over that span—and owned its main rival, Scott Paper, outright. Smith moved rocks and, in the end, moved a rock that nobody thought could be moved.
The Merck & Co. boss didn't worry about Wall Street—and grew profits 50-fold.
Late one afternoon in 1978, Dr. William Campbell did what all great researchers do: He wondered at the data. While testing a new compound to battle parasites in animals, he was struck with the idea that it might be effective against another parasite—one that causes blindness and itching in humans so horrific that some victims have committed suicide. Campbell might have simply scribbled a note in the files and gone to lunch. After all, the potential "customers"—tribal people in remote tropical locations—would have no money to buy it. Undaunted, Campbell penned a memo to his employer, Merck & Co., urging pursuit of the idea. Today 30 million people a year receive Mectizan, the drug inspired by his observation, largely free of charge.
The most exceptional part of the story is that it wasn't an exception. "Medicine is for people, not for the profits," George Merck II declared on the cover of Time in August 1952—a rule his company observed in dispensing streptomycin to Japanese children following World War II. Yet fuzzy-headed moralistic fervor wasn't George Merck. Austere and patrician, he simply believed that the purpose of a corporation is to do something useful, and to do it very well. "And if we have remembered that, the profits have never failed to appear," he explained. "The better we remembered, the larger they have been." It's the mirror image of CEOs whose unhealthy fixations with Wall Street have served neither people nor profits: Merck served shareholders so well precisely because he served others first.
A Brazilian businessman once told me how he'd sent letters to the heads of ten U.S. retailers in the1980s, asking to visit to see how they ran a retail operation. Most didn't bother to reply, and those who did sent a polite "No, thank you." All except Sam Walton.
Yet Walton himself refused to let his colorful personality distract from his central message: to make better things ever more affordable to people of lesser means. And before his death in 1992, he made two brilliant moves to ensure that idea would outlast him. First, he set a goal that he knew would be unachievable in his lifetime: to grow annual sales from less than $30 billion to $125 billion by the year 2000. Second, so that no personality would become bigger than the idea, he picked a successor who had seemingly undergone a charisma bypass. Under David Glass, Wal-Mart blew right past the $125 billion goal, clocking in at $165 billion in 2000.
Its planes helped win the war—yet victory in 1945 looked like death for Boeing. Revenues plummeted more than 90% as orders for bombers vanished overnight. And bombers, everyone knew, were what Boeing was all about.
Everyone, that is, but its new leader. An understated lawyer who said he wasn't qualified for the job, Bill Allen never saw Boeing as the bomber company. It was the company whose engineers built amazing flying machines. In 1952 he bet heavily on a new commercial jet, the 707. At the time, Boeing had no business being in the commercial market, or at least that's what potential customers said. ("You make great bombers up there in Seattle. Why don't you stick with that?") Yet Allen's time frames were bigger too. He saw that Boeing could compete by changing the industry. Under his leadership, Boeing built the 707, 727, 737, and 747—four of the most successful bets in industrial history. At a board meeting described by Robert Serling in Legend & Legacy, a director said that if the 747 was too big for the market to swallow, Boeing could back out. "Back out?" stiffened Allen. "If the Boeing Aircraft Co. says we will build this airplane, we will build it even if it takes the resources of the entire company." Like today's CEOs, he endured the swarming gnats who think small: short time frames, pennies per share, a narrow purpose. Allen thought bigger—and left a legacy to match.
Most people have never heard of Charles Coffin—and that's the ultimate testimony to his greatness. His predecessor had something to do with this. No CEO finds it easy to take over from a founding entrepreneur; now imagine that founder holds patents on the electric light, the phonograph, the motion picture, the alkaline battery, and the dissemination of electricity. But Coffin knew his job was not to be the next Thomas Edison—though Coffin, too, would prove a master inventor. His invention was the General Electric Co.
Edison's wouldn't be the only name to overshadow his. Coffin's era (1892-1912) became known as the "Steinmetz era," in homage to the brilliant GE electrical engineer Charles P. Steinmetz. What little name recognition Coffin did enjoy would then be obliterated by the likes of Swope, Cordiner, Jones, and Welch—GE CEOs who became giants in their own day.
Copyright © 2003 Jim Collins, All Rights Reserved..


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Home » Brrrr! Cold Front No. 22 keeps many parts of Mexico below zero
Brrrr! Cold Front No. 22 keeps many parts of Mexico below zero
By Riviera Maya News on January 15, 2018
Mexico Weather — Frigid below zero temperatures continue to plague many parts of Mexico, while coastal regions experience cold nights, warm days.
The National Meteorological Service (SMN) says that for Monday, a very cold to freezing environment is expected with temperatures of -5 degrees Celsius in mountainous areas of at least 21 states around the country.
The National Meteorological Service reports that very cold to freezing temperatures below -5 C are expected in the mountainous areas of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Durango, Zacatecas, Hidalgo, Estado de México and Tlaxcala.
Areas that can expect temperatures to hover between -5 and 0 C will include higher altitude places around Baja California, Sonora, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Veracruz, Puebla, Mexico City, Morelos, Michoacan and Oaxaca.
Regions that will experience 0 C to 5 C are the "Chiapas mountains and frosts in the northern, northeastern, eastern and central regions of the Mexican Republic," said the agency in relation to information from the National Water Commission (Conagua).
They added that the northern air is expected to persist in the Isthmus and the Gulf of Tehuantepec with gusts exceeding 70 km / h, and winds from the south and southeast that could exceed 50 km / h in Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Veracruz.
On Monday afternoon, a new cold front will enter the north of Mexico and generate heavy rains in Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca.
"Showers are expected in the areas of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Chiapas and Tabasco and scattered rains in San Luis Potosí, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo," they added.
Cold Front No. 22
A weak Anticyclonic System high pressure system is driving modified polar continental air from the Gulf of Mexico toward the Yucatan Peninsula. It will continue moving slowly to the southeast, causing a lowering in the temperatures at night and early morning.
Cool winds from the north with isolated cloud cover and occasional rains over the peninsular region and the State of Quintana Roo are expected for Monday with daytime highs between 27 C and 29 C and nighttime lows of between 11 C and 13 C.


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Zemstvo District Surgeons and Their Role in the Development of Russian Medicine
Posted on : April 1, 2015 By cadmin
P.M. Bogopolsky, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Senior Researcher
at the Department of Scientific Programs and Staff Training
Academic B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center of Surgery, Moscow (Russian Federation)
In Russia in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, along with the university (clinical) surgery, zemstvo district (rural) surgery began to play to a major role in the development of medical science. State reform of medical higher education in the 1840s–1860s was an important prerequisite for this development – it eliminated an acute shortage of Russian scientific and medical staff, thereby ensuring a significant expansion of medical research and the emergence of a new and original form of national health care in the form of the zemstvo district medicine and the zemstvo district surgery. The basic principles of zemstvo district medicine – that it be preventative, free and available, with an in-patient precinct system – were fully formed at the beginning of the 20th century. After the October Revolution (1917), these principles were embraced and successfully developed by Soviet medicine, but on a centralized state basis. Many zemstvo district surgeons established themselves as outstanding practitioners and talented scientists. A large number of professors and doctors of medicine who played a big role in the development of domestic surgery began their careers as a zemstvo district doctors. Their success in developing new surgical methods for the treatment of various diseases was highly significant and their presentations at medical congresses and publications in the press were very valuable. This is why a study of the defining attributes of zemstvo district surgery in Russia and the achievements of zemstvo district surgeons is essential for a proper understanding of the development of domestic medicine and surgery in the 20th century.
Keywords: surgery in Russia in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, history of medicine, zemstvo district surgery, contribution to the development of medical science
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The History of Religiously-Integrated Medicine and Prospects for Its Future Development


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Q: The statement terminated. The maximum recursion 100 has been exhausted before statement completion I am writing a stored procedure for retrieving the xml structure for a menu control. This seems to be a valid code( according to me & it is wrong) but does not run well on query tester. How could i correct it of the error below is the code
;WITH Hierarchy AS
(
    SELECT
        MenUid,MenuName,ApplicationId,ParentMenuId, 1 AS 'Level'
    FROM
        dbo.Menu
    WHERE
        ParentMenuId = '-1'

    UNION ALL

    SELECT
        M.MenUid,M.MenuName,M.ApplicationId,M.ParentMenuId, Level + 1 AS 'Level'
    FROM
        dbo.Menu M
    INNER JOIN
        Hierarchy h ON M.ParentMenuId = h.MenuId
)
SELECT *
FROM Hierarchy
ORDER BY [Level],[MenuName]

Where ParentMenuId and MenuId are related. Certain other doubts i got are below

*

*Is this perfectly fine to use CTE for menu. What other types have you been successful

*DataSet and ChildRelations are good too(or maybe i am wrong) for this purpose ?

Give me more ideas on how you have accomplished menu system in your projects.
Input
MenuId      MenuName      ApplicationId    ParentMenuId

 1          MenuName1           1              -1

 2          MenuName2           1               1

 3          MenuName3           1               -1

 4          MenuName4           1               2

Output
<Output>
    <Menu>
        <MenuId>1</MenuId>
        <MenuName>MenuName1</MenuName>
        <ApplicationId>1</ApplicationId>
        <ParentMenuId>-1</ParentMenuId>
        <SubMenu>
            <Menu>
                <MenuId>2</MenuId>
                <MenuName>MenuName2</MenuName>
                <ApplicationId>1</ApplicationId>
                <ParentMenuId>1</ParentMenuId>
                <SubMenu>
                    <MenuId>3</MenuId>
                    <MenuName>MenuName4</MenuName>
                    <ApplicationId>1</ApplicationId>
                    <ParentMenuId>3</ParentMenuId>
                </SubMenu>
            </Menu>
        </SubMenu>
    </Menu>
    <Menu>
        <MenuId>4</MenuId>
        <MenuName>MenuName3</MenuName>
        <ApplicationId>1</ApplicationId>
        <ParentMenuId>-1</ParentMenuId>
    </Menu>
</Output>

Don't mind  about the xml structure i is easy to get with FOR XML PATH i am not getting the query to run in the first place.

A: I'd wager that
INNER JOIN
    Hierarchy h ON M.ParentMenuId = h.ParentMenuId

should in fact be
INNER JOIN
    Hierarchy h ON M.ParentMenuId = h.MenuId

edit
Using this sample data:
declare @Menu table (
    MenuId int,
    MenuName nvarchar(20),
    ApplicationId int,
    ParentMenuId int
)

insert @Menu values
(1, 'Name1', 1, -1),
(2, 'Name2', 1,  1),
(3, 'Name3', 1, -1),
(4, 'Name4', 1,  2)

and your query, with the above modification, I get
MenUid      MenuName             ApplicationId ParentMenuId Level
----------- -------------------- ------------- ------------ -----------
1           Name1                1             -1           1
3           Name3                1             -1           1
2           Name2                1             1            2
4           Name4                1             2            3

which looks correct. To help you we need to see all your relevant code.

A: Wouldn't it be easier to retrieve the data flat and do the construction work on your application layer?
EDIT:
In general I would not reccomend a caching approach but, if the menu generation code was expensive, and assuming the menus don't change much, this would be a good target for caching.


The second This Plate Matters dinner was held in the Cigar Factory -- a site I've driven by and wondered about for years. It was originally built in 1882 as a cotton mill but taken over by the American Tobacco Company in 1912. Some of the African-American women who worked at the Tobacco Company are credited with helping organize a strike to address low wages and racial discrimination -- as well as being among the first to sing "We Shall Overcome" during the Civil Rights Movement. It's pretty wild (and deeply moving) to feel so close to such heavy history. The Preservation Society is doing an amazing thing with these dinners, allowing us to experience these historic sites in all their desolate glory.
Carrie Morey prepared a comforting Southern meal and John Pope killed it with the decor. Total magic.