Notes and Jottings - pages 209-222.
This chapter forms a kind of parenthesis, an important one, too, and full of matter, as Paul's parentheses always are. Redemption puts Christians upon a wonderfully new footing. It takes them out of man's place as such altogether, though they are still down here, and it puts them before God in a new condition and state as the result of that redemption. True, they await the adoption, the redemption of the body; they groan, being burdened as long as they are here; but the more we look into it, the more we shall see that the cross is the passage out of one state into another, as well as the putting away of sins. I speak, of course, of Christians.
We have been brought to God according to the efficacy of God's working, connected with our being quickened, and with the full character of our being risen with Christ. It is a new state as well as a new life, for we have passed the Red Sea.
The expression, "Worship God in the spirit," has led me to this. As in John 4, "Ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father." All human standing with God is gone. Jerusalem was a standing with God, but man could never make anything of it; yet it was there, though to no purpose as regards the state man was in. Its very character was manifest in that the veil was there, and man could not see God. But redemption rends the veil and puts man right into God's presence, so that now, through the cross, we have passed into the light that is on God's side of the cross; and there we worship in spirit.
Circumcision leads to this. As in Colossians, we are buried and risen again, putting off the body of the flesh (not, the sins of), through death; this is true circumcision. We are the circumcision, if we have really put off our place, that is, the old man. All is gone.
He says "concision," treating the Jewish thing with contempt. We have no confidence in the flesh; he does not say, wickedness, but flesh, and that which he here calls "flesh" is religious flesh, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, etc. He will not call it circumcision. This is a great thing to get hold of. In Corinthians, it goes a great deal further, for besides the new creature, we have there a new creation, which means that the old thing has been dealt with; now all is of God. Of course, we are of God, but this is as belonging to the new creation; He has created us again in Christ Jesus.
210 We find, then, these two things: a new nature (and creature, too, in that sense), and a wholly new scene to which we belong now. It is not this world, but a new creation; Corinthians includes all this.
Christ had a place in the old creation, that is to say, He came into it in grace, but, when there, men would not have Him. Had He been received, He would have been, so to speak, the keystone of the arch of an impossible bridge. But now that He has risen, He has become the centre of the new creation. Just as Adam became the head of a race after he sinned, so Christ has become Head of a race after He has risen. The new creation is founded on Christ's death.
The result for us is that of our complete acceptance before God upon this new ground, standing, and state; and then comes the question of the practical effect of this upon us.
"All things of God"! Well then, God has, of course, no fault to find with me. But then again, if I am of God, I have nothing more to do with this world. Every Christian would own that he must have a new life; but I do not think it is always realised by us that Christ has died to this creation, and that He has begun another one.
Not merely am I renewed in mind with a new nature; but I have passed through the Red Sea, and I do not belong to Egypt at all. Our bodies do, of course, left here as they are, but I am speaking now of our place in Christ.
This is why the apostle declaims against the enemies of the cross of Christ, those who mind earthly things, because the cross of Christ has passed its sentence upon everything on earth. The world is crucified to me, and I to it.
If I had obtained righteousness under the old system, it would have been of man, but of course I could not thus obtain it. Under that system the law was a perfect rule for man.
But Christ having wrought the work that has glorified God, if in Him we had not a place in the new creation, God would not be righteous, for then Christ would not reap the fruit of the travail of His soul. Under law, man could only give man's righteousness, but now it is God's righteousness by faith, and, if by faith, it is not in myself, though afterwards there will be no doubt the fruits of righteousness.
211 Righteousness of God is revealed; it is an object which is before me, and I believe in it. This righteousness has been displayed to faith in the setting of Christ at God's right hand, where it is now publicly testified, and from whence we have the administration of it; and thus our Lord speaks "of righteousness, because I go to my Father." Clearly, therefore, it is outside of man, for it is Christ's work thus actually owned by God. Then the Holy Ghost comes down and says, 'True, that all are sinners, but all is settled.' Therefore, the apostle does not here talk about 'having my sins,' but, setting aside the old system, he speaks of "not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law."
He had done with the question of his own righteousness, and with the whole thing upon which this rested. Outwardly "blameless" he might have been, but now he is in another place altogether through the work accomplished on the cross. And Christ, of God, is made unto us, wisdom and righteousness, etc.
And this links us with what is heavenly, because Christ is there. He has deserved the glory as man. Righteousness is connected with the finished work of Christ, and this brings in life, and then we go practically from life to righteousness. Looked at as "in Christ," we begin from His work, and we go on to life. Christ accomplished the work before He became the Head of a new race.
By obtaining life, I learn next my place in this righteousness of God; I am sanctified unto the blood of sprinkling.
When I am quickened, I am brought into the value of a work already done. But if a person is looking back or within to see if he is quickened, he will never find peace. When brought to that estimate of the flesh, whereby he sees the whole system as rotten, and condemned, and done with ("now the judgment of this world"), then he no longer looks at it with reference to his standing with God. With such a one it is now all Christ. Then there is no cloud upon the light of God's countenance, because it is God's satisfaction with His work.
212 It makes it most distinct when I see Adam as head of his race, after he had sinned, and Christ as Head of a new race after He had accomplished His work. The question of life and responsibility, and of the incompatibility between the two has been settled at the cross. Arminianism and Calvinism, i.e., the tree of grace and the tree of man's responsibility, are both found in Paradise, nor can we reconcile these two things in man, except it be in Christ.
The law took up this same question, and made responsibility to be the ground of life: "This do, and thou shalt live"; there again we have life and responsibility put together, but responsibility comes first as testing man.
Well, Christ then comes and charges Himself with both the responsibility and the failure, and He settles the whole question so that life now comes first.
It would have been all right, in one sense, had Adam eaten of the tree of life, but this was not to be.
But, by taking us out of the whole former condition, Christ becomes our life.
Redemption has taken us out of the place in which we were responsible, I speak now as to our standing before God. By redemption, this question has been settled perfectly and for ever.
Every intelligent creature, such as angels and all else, is, of course, responsible as set in that position. So when we have to say to God through Christ, we are in a place of responsibility to glorify God according to the perfect law of liberty. We have to show out this life of Jesus in this mortal body, because we have got the life. Condemnation is for sinners who are in a lost state. If a man is judged, he is judged for his works; but, besides this, he is in a lost state.
It all goes together, though, as a matter of fact, man is lost to begin with. "By one man's disobedience many were made sinners." Redemption takes me out of that state; I am delivered from the power of darkness, and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son. And this blessing we have in our poor bodies here; burdened and groaning we may be truly; but we have been brought to the full and thorough conviction that the old man is an evil thing, and that we have been redeemed out of it. Still, we need to have our senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
213 An angel delights to serve like Christ, not as perfectly, of course, but it is his nature so to do; and as regards the new man abstractedly, we delight also to do His will. Along with this, there may be with us a great deal of darkness, a will that has to be broken; there is much for us to learn, and much to humble us in ourselves. And oh! how very soon this shews itself, if we are not watchful.
Nothing but the sense of the presence of God can keep us in self-judgment; we may be ever so sincere, but self is not judged except in the presence of God.
We may not be always conscious of it, whilst seeking to do the right thing; but let something turn up, and we find flesh is still alive!
But when the presence of God is realised, the practical state of the soul is totally different; there is then a sense of dependence, and of lowliness, and of nothingness which we only learn in God's presence.
A matter comes before a man in his service as a Christian, and he sets about to judge it; he seeks to do this thoroughly according to God's mind; but self gets set in motion, and then it is detected whether he has been with God about it.
Ques. I suppose you would say that a Jew never was in God's presence?
Not as a principle, and therefore the Jew never could judge himself; one could never find in him, for instance, a consciousness of the two natures; conscience of sins truly, and we read that "I was shapen in iniquity," for without a sense of this, in some degree or other, there never could have been any saints at all. But if quickened, they walked on the earth with piety in their lives, and they had blessed revelations of God on the earth.
So Abraham talks with God, and God comes down to his tent door, and sits at table with him, but it is to him as on the earth; so in the cloud at the door of the tabernacle, God talks with Moses, but that is not taking Abraham and Moses up into heavenly places.
I have no doubt they looked forward in hope, but there was no dwelling of God with man until redemption had been brought in, not even in figure. God never dwelt with Adam; neither did He dwell with Abraham, nor with Moses; after He had brought Israel out of Egypt, then He speaks of dwelling among them, and we see in this the fruits of redemption, though in an earthly way, of course.
214 So now He redeems us, and then dwells with us.
Ques. Except as He sanctified the seventh day, one never finds even holiness in Genesis?
Ques. But surely Abraham is in heaven?
Oh, yes; I believe Abraham to be in heaven, of course, but, in speaking of the revelations and instructions of God, we do not find God dwelling with man until redemption comes in.
Ques. There seems to be a difficulty with some as to the character of God's dwelling now in the Church as a whole; they think it is limited to those who are members of the body of Christ. Can you help such?
It is quite true as to the individual, but God does dwell in the Church. As for mere professors being there, it would be a denial of the apostasy to limit His dwelling to the body of Christ. Strictly speaking, God does not dwell in the body; the body is looked at as united to Christ on high, and each individual believer, as having the Holy Ghost, is in the body of Christ. We are members of Christ's body. That is as down here, on the earth; but then there is another thing: "Builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." But suppose false brethren creep in, as in Jude, no one could say that the Holy Ghost had ceased to dwell in the assembly because false ones had come in.
I do not speak of the Holy Ghost dwelling in any particular local assembly at all.
The moment I speak of Christians as members of the body of Christ, I speak of them individually, and I have lost the idea of "house."
Ques. But at the first, was it not the same?
Yes; it was set up all right at the first, but it had not then become like a "great house." Though, remember, the great house in 2 Timothy is only a comparison.
But when false brethren were brought in unawares, the Holy Ghost did not leave in consequence; nor does He go, until the time of judgment comes.
The Shekinah was in the temple until the time of the captivity at Babylon, but not afterwards.
We see how the prophet Ezekiel saw them weeping for Tammuz; then, worse still, he saw them worshipping the sun; through the hole dug in the wall he saw the images portrayed, and he found things getting only worse and worse. Could God spare such a nation? So He goes up with the cherubim and leaves the nation altogether. Now, God has not done that, as yet, with the Church. The Church has departed from Him, but He has not executed judgment upon it, and therefore blessing still continues under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
215 But towards the close of Paul's ministry, the present state was fast developing. I was struck, lately, in noticing how all the catholic epistles, as they are called, speak of the evil as already come in.
And where evil is, God must come to judge it. Even the epistle to the Hebrews is no exception. But what struck me, was the universality of this in the catholic epistles.
Suppose we had only received instructions for a good state of the Church, we should not know what to do nowadays. It is just the not seeing the provision that has been made which leads, of course, to the confusion of the present time.
But God is working, I trust, amid the present state of distraction in the Church. Yet at such a time it is, that all sorts of false things are set up, sometimes by man's wit, and sometimes by Satan. And honest souls are trying to satisfy themselves with utter worldliness; consciences are troubled about it, and saying we must have a higher life, and so on, and very earnest souls some of these are.
Ques. Would you object to speak of the present place of profession as the house of God?
It is not called the house of God in 2 Timothy, yet that is its place of responsibility, whatever may be its place of profession; responsibility rests upon it, because of the presence of the Holy Ghost. It is contemplated as God's building, in 1 Corinthians; but, although built in part of wood, hay, and stubble, the building still belongs to God. Just as I may say, that is my house, though I may have a bad bricklayer working upon it among the rest.
Ques. Is it not doctrine that is there spoken of?
Yes, in 1 Corinthians it is, but then people brought it in. It has nothing to do with our works.
When the profession is cast off, the apostasy will go further. This is the true character of apostasy. The principle of it is already at work, though it will not come to its head until the true Church has gone. The mystery of iniquity began to work in Paul's time; and it is still working, and will do so until Christ comes.
216 As long as people thought the pope was antichrist, they called Romanism the apostasy.
Ques. "As ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists"?
Yes, "antichrists," i.e., the spirit of the thing is already there, but it has not yet come fully out.
The professing Church not being yet apostate, anybody who cuts himself off from the Church is apostate, properly speaking, for it is now a thing that can be apostatised from.
Ques. In what light do you regard Swedenborgianism?
Well, it is not Christianity at all; it is difficult to speak of such a thing. God will judge about it.
Ques. What as to Mormonism?
I suppose they called themselves Christians once. Their doctrine is this, that, supposing the people are married for all eternity, and have children all through eternity, and supposing the world that they are in gets too full, they, by faith, create another world, and he who so creates, is the god of the world he creates; and he packs off part of his children there; and so they believe that the One whom we call God and Father, is One who has created this world, and packed us off into it.
It is somewhat difficult to call that apostasy, though there may be individuals among them who were once professing to be Christians, but who have apostatised. What I have just said, I have from some of their own writings in my possession.
Professing to call Jesus, Lord, is the great thing that characterises Christianity.
Ques. What is, "partakers of the Holy Ghost"?
It refers to the Holy Ghost now present in power, without having anything to do with being born again.
Ques. What of Bishop Colenso?
Well, is he not denying the testimony of the Word of God? And that is bare infidelity.
Individuals may be apostate at any time. As long as the Church remains, there is a professing thing on the earth that is not apostate. Laodicea is therefore called by the name church, though it will be afterwards spued out of His mouth.
In Philippians, we get more the individual running: "This one thing I do."
217 Ques. What would be, "being made conformable unto his death"?
The apostle was looking to be killed; he carried, in spirit, the sentence of death in himself.
Ques. Does it, then, refer to martyrdom?
Yes. "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus" was, with the apostle, the taking up the "sentence"; but in the next verse, "delivered unto death," it was God doing this with him. We have the two things in Corinthians; he was "bearing about," and then, he was "delivered unto death"; this latter is because we cannot always be trusted to do the thing honestly.
The apostle really was, as much as any one, always holding himself dead; but the being delivered unto death, was God dealing with him for his good, but he required God's hand to hold him fast.
Ques. How far can Christians now take that up?
Everybody must answer for his own conscience. I do not know who could say that absolutely: "always," is a very awkward word. If one does not hold that he is dead to the world, he is not really on Christian ground at all. It is a difficult thing to say, 'my flesh never budges,' but I speak of the Christian principle of life. Paul says, "Death worketh in us, but life in you." 'I am so completely dead, that Paul never appears to you Corinthians, but only Christ; death works in me, but life, Christ's life, in you.' Wonderful practical state Paul was in!
Take again this epistle. Sin, as to experience, is never once mentioned in it; but we have the experience of a man walking in the power of the Spirit of God, and with salvation, too, always before him, running the race towards the prize; even justification was before him, as he says, "that I may . . . be found in him." At the end of the race he will find everything. Yet he could not have been running the race if Christ had not laid hold on him. Salvation, here, is final deliverance in glory. It is this that puts down perfection, for he had seen Christ in glory, and knew that he should be like Him. I would not thank you for your perfection, if you are looking to be as Adam was in the garden of Eden. I am looking to be like Christ. As one said in France, 'They are looking to be perfects, but we look to be pluperfects.' Perfection is seen in this: Christ had laid hold on Paul, and he had set out running to reach Christ actually in glory. It is the calling above, not on high, that is, up in the heavenly glory; and he contrasts this with the path of death in minding earthly things. It is by having the heart set on the end, that the realisation of it is found on the way. Like a light at the far end of a dark passage, every step you take towards the light brings you both nearer to it, and also into more of its power, and the lighter it becomes.
218 It is often asked, if, "conformable unto his death," is present or future; the question is a mistake, for Paul was looking on to the end, and he was characterised by it. It is wonderful to see how the apostle realised this. He says, "I have suffered the loss of all things, and do [not did] count them," etc.
When at first we tasted the blessing of salvation and redemption in our hearts, what was the world to us? It was all nothing; just trees, and fields, and roads, that was all.
We are apt to get back gradually into natural associations; but it was not so with Paul. He was maintained in the effect that the first revelation of Christ had produced upon his soul. Really, when we are first converted, the world is like a parcel of gewgaws, not cared for by us at all. Men are but big children. A child likes its little carriage, to draw about with a doll in it and a lady likes a carriage drawn about with herself inside, dressed up like a doll. We know how present things do affect the mind, but it shews how quickly the mind gets off its object. We need power so that Christ may dwell in the inner man. And then there is the practical gaining of strength day by day. The fact that the world is judged, though believed in by us, yet often it is not practically judged in our lives; but, through grace, this gradually becomes true to us in detail.
When a certain breaking down of self takes place in a man's life, it produces a total change in him, but afterwards he has to learn it all in detail.
There is a complete change. He has accepted death really, by faith, and so he says, "the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world"; but then he has to watch against details and judge them; and if they start up again, then he must deal with them still more severely.
Of course, all this is after the eye of faith has been directed to the cross of Christ. It is a great mercy when, at starting, the Christian makes, by grace, a clean cut with the world. If my heart is not full of Christ, outward things will produce their impression. If I am not full of Him, 'Oh,' I shall think, 'what a beautiful picture!' That shews there is a vacant space left in my heart for such a thing to come in. The world is like Samson's hair, the roots of which, in a certain sense, still remain. Or else, it is like the twigs of willow in the ground, which will sooner or later begin to grow again. If we are firm, the world will become, of course, only more adverse; it will not tolerate, nor even bear with decided Christianity. A Christian, who gets into the world, is not happy anywhere, for there is nothing in the world that can satisfy him, and then, when he gets among his fellow-Christians, his conscience reproves him. He does not grow, nor does he get the enjoyment of the things that are in the word of God, and which are really his own.
219 A clean cut with the world is very often distinct from having the sentence of death written in ourselves.
Suppose anyone, before finding peace, goes through excessive exercises, so that the world becomes, so to speak, torn into shreds, directly such a one gets peace, the whole thing is settled. But now, when a full gospel is preached, and conviction brought in, a soul has oftentimes to go through the death of the flesh afterwards. Sometimes a person gets forgiveness and peace before he learns the killing power of the law. If he keeps close to Christ, he will find out what the flesh is; but in one way or the other he has to learn, just as much as if he had never been forgiven, that in himself, that is, in his flesh, dwelleth no good thing. In keeping close to God, he apprehends with God what he is. But if he does not do so, he will have to learn it with the devil. Saul was in such a state, that for three days he neither ate nor drank. I do not doubt it was with him deep exercise of soul; but there is, of course, no prescription as to time.
Romans 3 gives us forgiveness as to our sins; then afterwards, in chapter 7, we find out that in ourselves dwelleth no good thing. There I arrive, experimentally, at the root of self, and then it becomes a question not of forgiveness, but of deliverance. I do not believe we are really delivered from its power, until we have judged the flesh as a perfectly bad thing.
Nowadays, a great deal of current Christianity is characterised by knowing Christ after the flesh.
I remember when I was converted, all the Christians I met, were like people outside, and trusting they would be right when they got in, instead of being already inside.
220 But now that full forgiveness is preached, it often happens that people know forgiveness, and yet they have not learnt themselves.
Doubtless Paul had not fully attained, but one thing he did, and in that we see the energy of Christian life in him.
Ques. "As many as be perfect." Who are they?
Those who understand both redemption and this resurrection. I may be forgiven as a child of Adam, and I am so, but now I am a child of God. "Perfect," as he here calls it, is a Christian dead and risen; one who is not only quickened, but who knows that the blood of Christ is the only foundation for justifying him from his sins, and further, that as dead and risen with Christ, he has got out of the old place into the new one. I have seen Christ risen, and I am going to be like Him, and that is all I now know. That is what the apostle calls "perfect." It is the same in 1 Corinthians: "We speak wisdom among them that are perfect"; and so, too, in Ephesians 4: "Unto a perfect man." You cannot talk of the body coming up to the stature of the head, but, individually, it is true. At the last, undoubtedly, all Christians will come to that state.
Ques. He says, "that I may know him"?
Just so; so I can say I have everlasting life, and yet it says the end is everlasting life. It is the same with other truths.
In verse 10, it is much the same as we have in John, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure." He does not say of such an one, that he is as pure as Christ is pure, but that he purifies himself according to that standard. He looks on to the future, and then applies it to the present state.
It is a great thing to say that I desire to be made conformable to His death, and that in everything I am running in that spirit. But how can that be said except martyrdom is before me?
It is a great deal easier for me to give up the world than to be content when the world gives me up; when we find the world lets us go with, 'Oh, he is turned saint, let him go' - that is a great deal harder to bear. Of course, if martyrdom confronted us, every Christian would rather be killed than give up Christ; but still, this is, little by little, the daily experience of the perfect Christian. It is astonishing to see where Paul really was. There is another passage in 2 Corinthians: "For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause."
221 If you are not with God for yourself, you will have self there for you. It may not be from want of sincerity or devotedness (it may, of course, issue in that), but if you are not with God a great deal, you have left your sweet retreat, and you are not safe. I speak not of salvation, but as to your present state of soul. There is an immense amount of temptation connected with our service, and there are, too, perilous times with it all.
Ques. With what do you connect the "forgetting those things which are behind"?
With this, "Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee." If I were running in a race, I should not stop to see how I was getting on, or somebody else would soon out-distance me. There will be time enough to reckon up victories when I have reached the goal.
Sometimes persons are busy reckoning up their experiences; but to such I would say, 'Go and get new ones.' When the eye of faith is opened to see these revelations of God, it makes us conscious how little we are. What a scene of glory and of moral perfectness we find as we look at Christ, or even at the apostle! "The life which I now live in the flesh," he says, "I live by the faith of the Son of God." There was a great consciousness of this with the apostle, and though in his letter to the Galatians there was very little expression of his heart, yet it comes out there also. Much as he loved these Galatians, he does not salute one of them, and he closes with simply this: "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks [i.e., brands] of the Lord Jesus." Nor does he even sign his name to the epistle.
Ques. What were the "beggarly elements" that he speaks of in chapter 4:9?
They were Judaism, though the Galatians were not Jews; but that is what they were getting back to, i.e., to live in the flesh. And so, in early times, there was a constant effort to use and to improve the world. St. Augustine actually says that the drunkenness that marked their feasts might at least be sanctified by its being observed to saints, and not to devils. The "Lupercalia" were feasts at the time of the shortest day, in honour of the new energy of the sun, about to be put forth in the spring. Indeed they are observed to this day in the East Indies; all heathen observed them; so they put Christ's birth there and sanctified the time, and that is Christmas. It was done by Gregory, first in Africa, and then elsewhere. Augustine himself went to preach against getting tipsy in honour of the saints, and they nearly killed him. The forty days of Lent were not settled until the fifth century; Jerome gives the account of it. Paulinus could not get the Christians to be sober; and so he tried by means of pictures, fine arts, I and the like to set them free from their drunkenness; that is! what they call the primitive Church!
222 Ques. What about Good Friday?
That depends on the sun and moon, and they are very authentic. The full moon of the month Abib can be very well known, and then Pentecost is fixed seven weeks after. To find Christ's birth, you can only begin with Zacharias in the order of the priests in the course of Abia, and if you can reckon that through, it would put Christ's birth at a totally different time of the year. Anniversaries are part of human nature.
We have one more point to notice here; Christ is coming to change our vile bodies; not "vile," morally, for it is not an abusive term, but one which means really, "body of humiliation."


Prophecy about our own future?Possibly.Description of what happens to a world that is so engrossed in their own fantasies that reality is ignored and the world deteriorates.Definitely.
Saint Dane has outdone himself on Veelox.Aja Killian, the Traveler from Veelox, believes she has the answer to defeat Saint Dane and resents the appearance of Bobby who we find out in this edition has been designated (by whom we do not know…..Uncle Press?) the "lead Traveler".Aja is very smart, but she is also arrogant and naive.A bad combination when you have to fight the ultimate evil.
Veelox is a world in neglect.The inhabitants spend their lives "jumping" into a fantasy world within their minds using a technology called "Lifelight".A jumper lies down in a bed of sorts, is connected to Lifelight, is fed via electrodes attached to their skin and enters a perfect world of fantasy where all their dreams can come true.The perfect fantasy is something everyone wants and gets.It is also something Saint Dane has been planning to use to bring down his first territory.When everyone is jumping, there is no one to fight a takeover.
To fend off Saint Dane, Aja realizes that she must make the fantasy world a little less appealing so that people will jump less and return to their deserted homes and back to reality. To do this, she has developed a "reality bug", a software program that injects just a bit of reality into every jump.
For example, in my ideal fantasy I am spending my life on the beach in Kauai. Since I am perfectly happy, I want to spend my entire "life" there and reality can take care of itself without me. But the reality bug might produce a hurricane, or I might get bitten by a thousand mosquitoes….anything to force me to spend less time in my jump and more time taking care of my home….. and reality.
Aja explains the reality bug plan to Bobby. They agree to load the reality bug and, hopefully, save Veelox. Unfortunately, Saint Dane is not only evil, but, he is patient (often setting up the path to destruction years and years in advance), and clever. Once the reality bug is introduced into Lifelight something terrible happens. The bug is far more dangerous and lethal than Aja meant for it to be (guess who had a hand in helping Aja design it?). Fantasy crosses over into reality. The reality bug feeds on the jumpers fears and grows into a monstrous killer as it is fed by millions of jumpers.
While Bobby, Loor, and Aja struggle to save Veelox, Mark and Courtney on Second Earth find out that they have been pre-ordained (Bobby's journals are sent to them) to be acolytes (people who help the Travelers by providing clothing, food and other assistance in each territory). And Gunny has followed Saint Dane to Eelong to try and head off his attempts to bring down that territory.
"Pendragon The Reality Bug" is a tremendous book full of action, thought provoking ideas, and plot twists that will leave you sitting on the edge of your seat until the very end of the book…..and beyond.The Pendragon series has taken a sharp turn to the dark side and the rules have changed.Bobby, Mark, Courtney, Loor, Gunny, Aja and the rest of the Travelers and acolytes are in for a real battle in the books ahead.They will need to step up to the challenge or Halla will be under the rule of Saint Dane.If one territory falls, they may all fall like dominoes.
Saint Dane makes He Who Must Not Be Named look like a wimp.
Announcement: Book 9, "Pendragon Raven Rise" is due in stores May 20th.I still have four books to complete before I will be caught up, but, my daughter is planning on reading "Raven Rise" starting that day.


Ethical Studies helps students to develop their opinions by presenting them with topics that will challenge their perception of how they fit into the world around them. The course combines Religious Education, Citizenship, PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) and Ethics (knowledge of moral principles). It enables students to develop relevant knowledge, skills and understanding in these areas in order to have informed views and be able to make informed moral decisions. It therefore prepares them well for life in the modern world. Students' Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education is important to all of us at The Weston Road Academy, and the cross-curricular, collaborative nature of the subject is something we are excited about. All students in Years 7-11 have one lesson per week of Ethical Studies.
In Key Stage 3, students develop their ability to understand, analyse and synthesise information and consider ethical and religious issues in a variety of topics including Relationships; Being British; Crime; Drugs, Alcohol and Respect.
In Key Stage 4, the subjects are more challenging but appropriate to the students' age. We tackle Media and Culture; War and Conflict; Politics and Parenthood. Some of these topics may be research based, which will encourage students to develop their own path through a topic and present their considered opinions to the class.
There are topics that specifically look at Religious Education and faith for both Key Stages. They are clearly identified in the programme for Ethical Studies and a parental right of withdrawal exists for these topics.
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June 5, 2022 • By Rebecca Brenner Graham
How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
Skye C. Cleary
EXISTENTIALISM'S REPUTATION precedes it. As my Introduction to Philosophy professor, only half-joking, posited, "You can be an existentialist, but you have to dress in black and smoke French cigarettes and drink a lot of coffee and believe that life is pointless." In Existential America, historian George Cotkin elaborates on how an image of black turtlenecks and black coffee and the celebrities of Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus were imported from France to the United States in the mid-20th century.
Although existentialist philosophers rarely labeled themselves as such or agreed on a definition of what they were doing, existentialism is a coherent and sound philosophy. It begins with the claim that "existence precedes essence," meaning that people enter the world (they exist) before they can be said to have a fixed definition (or essence). They are free to create their own essence, and with this freedom comes responsibility. The contrast between how strange it is to exist and the reality that we are here is called "absurdity." From absurdity, nihilists would avow that life is meaningless, and thus do whatever they want. Existentialists, however, typically reject nihilism and embrace authenticity. For Martin Heidegger, authenticity was related to our "being toward death." For Friedrich Nietzsche, the "eternal return of the same" counsels us to live as if our life will repeat itself eternally.
Some French existentialists, however, posited more nuanced ideas of authenticity that engaged with other people, systems of oppression, and the world. Skye C. Cleary's How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment explores Simone de Beauvoir's ideas of existential authenticity and applies them to life today. The book sits at the intersection of biography, philosophy, and self-help, yet it transcends all three. Cleary successfully fuses philosophical analysis, personal insight, and cultural commentary.
How to Be Authentic is structured into three sections. Cleary's three sections are "Formative Years," "Situations," and "Toward Fulfillment." The four sections of volume two of The Second Sex are "Formative Years," "Situation," "Justifications," and "Toward Liberation." Both structures proceed from thoughts on being human to current problems faced, culminating in ideas for action. Cleary's blend of contemporary, personal, and philosophical analysis parallels much of Beauvoir's own work. Both works center lived experience, including aging, parenting, and marriage.
How to build an authentic marriage? Historically, heterosexual marriages have privileged men's careers, personal lives, and especially finances. Cleary applies Beauvoir's philosophy to advocate for dividing labor equitably. Men must clean and cook and, if applicable, care for children more to compensate for historical inequities. Even when partners share household labor, how can anyone commit to a romantic relationship for life with existential authenticity if change is constant in the process of becoming ourselves? Cleary answers that rather than a traditional "till death do us part" union, existentially authentic marriages require regularly choosing to build a marriage together, in many cases over the course of a lifetime.
Beauvoir's own open relationship with Sartre remains part of their legend, an enduring detail of the French existentialists' public image. While maintaining that Beauvoir and Sartre's lifelong relationship was existentially authentic, Cleary adds that their "essential" relationship prevented "contingent" relationships outside their partnership from attaining authenticity. Contingent relationships were plagued by power imbalances tracing their roots to Beauvoir and Sartre's essential connection. (As a result, be it said in passing, one of their "contingent" lovers died by suicide, and another suffered a nervous breakdown.) Every relationship, either platonic or romantic, begins with a power imbalance, and yet such a relationship can transcend the resulting power struggle to attain authenticity through genuine connection. Friendship operates authentically in this way, too: "It is exhilarating to be respected by a friend," writes Cleary, "to find comfort through shared suffering and empathy, to challenge each other with new ideas and insights, and to discover the world together."
How to be an authentic mother? Becoming a parent is existentially complicated. The accessibility of abortions and reproductive health care can make motherhood as authentic of a choice as possible for the mother. Cleary points out that these agents of freedom remain disproportionally inaccessible to marginalized populations, including people of color and people in poverty. Even in the best circumstances, however, motherhood can cause further existential crises. Cleary offers descriptions of her own postpartum struggles to illustrate for the reader the existential complications of parenting.
How to age authentically? Ranging from coloring hair to plastic surgery, consumerist society pressures us to hide our aging. Cleary is less concerned with judging each of these antiaging measures as right or wrong and focuses instead on whether their motivations are authentic. For example, if a woman uses antiaging treatment to reduce sexist ageism in the workplace and advance her career, that might be existentially authentic. Obscuring age to resist the fact that we are all going to die, according to Beauvoir and Cleary, is "inauthentic" and "problematic." Awareness of inevitable death should motivate people to rebel and resist oppression while we are here, according to Beauvoir and Cleary.
Cleary integrates race and racism into her analysis throughout the book. She quotes, among others, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Patricia Hill Collins, and Koa Beck. Some of these women critiqued Beauvoir's white feminism. Cleary writes: "I have wrestled with critiques by women of color of Beauvoir and whether I should write at all because, as a white middle-class woman, I don't want to soak up the moral oxygen by claiming that my struggle should be the only one that matters." Cleary constructs a narrative in which Beauvoir applied existentialism to feminism; hooks, Lorde, and others added feminism to antiracism to center intersectionality.
Cleary's How to Be Authentic is fresh, new, and prescient. She explores the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccinations, hashtag activism, the murder of George Floyd and the global response, social media generally, and modern workplace struggles, all through the lens of Beauvoir's philosophy. When the idea of suicide emerges as it typically does in existentialism, Cleary uses the updated language (like "died from suicide" and "took their own life") rather than the accusatory "committed suicide." She adds a personal anecdote about a friend who died from suicide.
How to Be Authentic builds on a recent flurry of existentialist nonfiction. British writer Sarah Bakewell's 2016 book, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails, invited readers to 20th-century Parisian cafés for accessible and engaging philosophizing. Kate Kirkpatrick's 2019 book, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, analyzes the philosopher's life and works, including previously unpublished letters. Cleary's own 2015 monograph, Existentialism and Romantic Love, builds on her doctoral dissertation to philosophize romance.
In Existentialism and Romantic Love, Cleary constructs a case against the idea of "soul mates" and advocates for authentic relationship-building. Beauvoir enjoyed long hikes, while Sartre detested hiking, exemplifying the healthy pursuit of their own interests. Cleary's husband plays team sports, while she practices yoga. I find energy and inspiration in acoustic open mic night at a local café, while my husband prefers Emo Night concerts. Relationship psychologists likely support the notion that partners should maintain their own interests. As a philosopher, Cleary adds a layer: indulging in the constant process of becoming oneself is necessary for authenticity. Building on her philosophy of romantic love, she bears out the idea of authenticity in this new book.
Rebecca Brenner Graham earned her PhD in history from American University in 2021. She works as a history teacher at the Madeira School and as an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University.
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Dog safety around swimming pools is not unlike safety rules for children. Pools can be fun and refreshing, but dangers lurk for the untrained dog.
One dear friend of mine had an old dog of hers drown in her pool. She felt awful and voiced over and over how she could not imagine how the dog got out of the house and into the pool.
She had several dogs, so I brought them all out. First, I had them placed in the deep end one at a time, and made them swim to the steps and climb out by themselves. Then we had them all at once, so they would get used to the chaos without panicking, and still head to the steps to get out.
If they don't know to go to the steps, then they will try to get out the sides. Then they can become vertical in the water and drown.
For short-legged dogs, you may want to install a little ramp, or put blocks on the steps to make it easier. Consider this also for older dogs whose hips are getting weak.
I also had my friend install a self locking gate on the pool fence to insure safety.
Don't let your excited dog get over tired, either. Especially an older dog, whose hips simply are not as strong as before. And just because you have a canine, do not automatically assume he can swim, or swim well without tiring. Watch your dog as you would a child.
Pool safety rules for children should always include no running on the pool deck. It's slippery when wet, and someone could slip and be hurt badly on the deck or into the pool. The same holds true for dogs, with broken bones and other freak accidents that you cannot undo.
You also need to remember that chlorine is toxic for dogs. Do not let your dog drink the pool water. It's hot, so be sure to have fresh drinking water available at all times on or near the pool deck, and show your dog where it is. Also, the dog's eyes can be irritated by the chlorine, so after the swim time is over, rinse them thoroughly with fresh water.
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Mebusevleri, which means "Houses of Parliamentarians", is bordered by  Anıttepe, Tandoğan and Beşevler neighbourhoods. In addition to these neighbourhoods it is bordered by the Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Atatürk.

Neighbourhoods of Çankaya

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Sounds simple, yet you'd be surprised by the amount of people who don't understand this concept.
This can be intimidating to the media fledgling. A producer has to oversee an entire array of platforms and content creators in order to establish a coherent and profitable story world. That requires connections, of course, but also an often intimidating amount of knowledge of production across a wide variety of distribution points. Does he or she really need to understand how every media works in order to create a great roll-out strategy?


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Was I A Failure At That Job, Or Did My Boss Who Disliked Me, Sabotage Me?
The author writes about the really hard time her boss gave her at one of her early jobs, and wonders about the continuum between failure and sabotage - where does one end and the other begin?
Mira Saraf
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The author writes about the really hard time her boss gave her at one of her early jobs, and wonders about the continuum between failure and sabotage – where does one end and the other begin?
It was August 2013, and I was sitting in the downtown Toronto office of the major international retailer I worked for. I felt nauseous, the feeling of illness mingled with anxiety permeated throughout my entire being.
I had to complete a 'goals' presentation: outlining my strategy for an upcoming season. It was the first time I was doing anything like this, which would have been enough reason to be nervous, but on top of that: my boss Filippa hated me, and thought I was poor at my job.
My title was 'merchandiser' – which was a catch all phrase that included allocation of product to stores, ensuring execution of each new collection and helping drive sales through promotions, markdowns and other activities.
I was unusual in that I had been hired externally – I had not been promoted up from a store team. This made me an outsider, and the object of much suspicion by long term veterans of the company.
Filippa had seemed really nice right off the bat, strong and decisive, but the oddities started to seep through the cracks: we heard whispers that she asked all the other teams around the office about us as a team and individually and had expressed displeasure that I often traveled on store visits with one of my female teammates, Laura. I suspected she didn't like us talking to each other either, so we kept our distance for a time just to be safe.
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About a month in she started getting frustrated at me in our Monday morning and Friday meetings where we would review the business and say what actions we were taking. She gave me feedback that I was looking at the wrong things, and that my actions weren't concrete enough.
But it seemed more than that – I noticed if I said something and a colleague of mine said the exact same thing a few weeks later, she would accept it from them, but would tell me off for not having an impactful enough action.
She beat my spirit down bit by bit and lectured me so regularly in front of my team, that when someone else happened to get similar verbal tongue lashing, she referred to it as "a la Mira." It was like I was on trial every single day.
I'm not sure why she disliked me so much, but I will tell you that it was an open secret. It might have been because I once posted something on the store communication portal, and when our country manager started demanding why it was up there, I had stammered that she had asked me.
That was cowardly and I'm not proud of it. I wish I could take it back but I cannot.
To make matters worse: the ugly truth was, I had a long way to go when I started the job. In fact, to this day, I'm not sure I really understood what was expected of me. I did try, it's not like I just gave up. I studied my style books, collections and SKU's, tried everything to get better idea of what should be where and what happened when. But at the back of my mind, her words echoed, and in the end whatever I did always fell short for her.
After being told every day that I was terrible at my role, I started to embody that reality. I lost the motivation to get better.
The worst part was that she could not tell me how to improve, because she had never actually done my job. It was a peculiarity of this particular retailer that our managers actually came from a different stream.
She wanted me to get help from my team, who felt that since they had got no training either, I was lucky with whatever I got.
My team sympathized me one-on-one, but in front of her, nobody said a word. To be frank, I'm not sure I would have in their place, either. The country manager loved her, everyone thought she was a force, and so I began to feel more and more isolated, and fear for my job.
I have never been the black sheep or underperformer of a team and that was a hard pill to swallow.
In June, we traveled together, and I got a sense of who she was: someone who gets angry if she doesn't get the answer she wants, whether it's the hotel clerk that can't find her rewards account or it was the taxi driver that had a $1 surcharge he failed to tell her about. She's the one type that sends her salad back because "it doesn't have enough pecans."
But the point was that on that trip: I realized that our dislike was mutual. I did not react well to her either: I blanked out when she asked me questions. I did try to smoothen things over that worked for a few weeks till she traveled home for some work; when she returned, we appeared to be back square one.
I began to wear down. I was putting as many hours as I could in but felt like a nervous wreck all the time. I was emotionally and physically exhausted and could not look forward to anything. I didn't exercise, I didn't eat right, I didn't look after my body.
When the 'goals' presentation rolled around, I knew it would go badly, but was unprepared for how bad. My teammate, one of the stars of the team, reviewed my presentation and said it was fine, but it was not. I got torn apart on every single page of the presentation, including on things that I'd worked with her on – which she pretended I'd never discussed with her. I felt like a lamb being led to slaughter.
I'm not writing this to skewer Filippa. Though I'd prefer never to see or speak to her again, it's not about villainizing her. We are all biased towards our colleagues, whether senior or junior, whether positive or negative. We write people off quickly, or we over-idolize them.
To this day, I try and pick apart the strands that are so intricately strung together in my mind: how much did she goad me towards failure, and how much was I just not good enough? Could I have done something differently?
I had formed my judgement of her, just like she had formed one of me – and neither of them was terribly pretty. Perhaps it was my judgement of her that held me back.
The truth is, Filippa did not make me fail, I made me fail. She pushed me in that direction, and at least from what it seemed: did her bit to sabotage my progress, but somewhere along the way, I decided I couldn't work past a certain point for her. I couldn't get that steel-minded focus to do what needed to be done, to fight until I understood what it was that they wanted from me.
It was this failure that led me to move back to India so in a way I suppose I should be grateful. But I'm not, all I wish is that it had happened differently – with less negativity and more objectivity.
Was my failure necessary to tell me that I was in the wrong field? That I had already quit once, and it was time to leave it for real? Was it that I was a poor fit for that world? These are questions which I struggle to answer.
But what I do know is that the shame of it still lingers, somehow, in the back of my mind. I wish I could erase it, but so far it has not happened. With each passing year it dilutes more, but sometimes when I look back at those 11 months I wonder: could it have turned out differently? Did I make a mistake by taking the easy way out? I'll never be sure.
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After actress Tanushree Dutta opened up, this author pens down her own workplace harassment experiences in 11 years of being a woman in the corporate world.
Tanushree Dutta, an actress from some years ago and an ex-Miss India has spoken up about how she was allegedly harassed on a film set almost 10 years ago at the hands of the veteran actor Nana Patekar and other crew members.
In 2008, when this incident took place, she had raised her voice. But instead of getting any support she had suffered a backlash from the industry and the media. She was not believed, simply because she was a newcomer, and that too a woman. She was obviously lying to get the limelight, maligning a good man's name. She seemed that 'type'. So the gossip went. Hence, her career died a premature death and she left for foreign shores.
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One would expect Indian policewomen to be sensitive to the issues of their own gender, but this author's study shows that they weren't usually, just strong women choosing their battles.
In 2004, when I was researching Women's Police Stations in Bangalore as part of a paper I was to write, they were still a new thing, although the very first one was already a decade old. The local MLA had seen the need for a Women's Police Station and pressurized those in power.
I ended up in a mini-forest in the middle of the city. The Police Station had picturesque stone steps leading me in. I had expected to meet a bunch of women who were highly committed to the cause of women, were feminists, and possibly the most exemplary role-models that modern state institutions had made space for, even nurtured. Instead, what I found was a group of women who cooked, cleaned, and pleased their husbands, and then came to work — taking on a double burden.


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description: Continuation token used to page through ad units. To retrieve the next page of results, set the next request's "pageToken" value to this.

description: Hosted account id of the associated publisher after association. Present if status is ACCEPTED.

description: Unique identifier of this association session.

description: Kind of resource this is, in this case adsensehost#associationSession.

default: adsensehost#associationSession

description: The products to associate with the user. Options: AFC, AFF, AFS, AFMC

description: Redirect URL of this association session. Used to redirect users into the AdSense association flow.

description: Status of the completed association, available once the association callback token has been verified. One of ACCEPTED, REJECTED, or ERROR.

description: The preferred locale of the user themselves when going through the AdSense association flow.

description: The locale of the user's hosted website.

description: The URL of the user's hosted website.

description: Code of this custom channel, not necessarily unique across ad clients.

description: Unique identifier of this custom channel. This should be considered an opaque identifier; it is not safe to rely on it being in any particular format.

description: Kind of resource this is, in this case adsensehost#customChannel.

description: Name of this custom channel.

description: The custom channels returned in this list response.

description: Kind of list this is, in this case adsensehost#customChannels.

description: Continuation token used to page through custom channels. To retrieve the next page of results, set the next request's "pageToken" value to this.

description: The averages of the report. This is the same length as any other row in the report; cells corresponding to dimension columns are empty.

description: The header information of the columns requested in the report. This is a list of headers; one for each dimension in the request, followed by one for each metric in the request.

description: The currency of this column. Only present if the header type is METRIC_CURRENCY.

description: The name of the header.

description: The type of the header; one of DIMENSION, METRIC_TALLY, METRIC_RATIO, or METRIC_CURRENCY.

description: Kind this is, in this case adsensehost#report.

description: The output rows of the report. Each row is a list of cells; one for each dimension in the request, followed by one for each metric in the request. The dimension cells contain strings, and the metric cells contain numbers.

description: The total number of rows matched by the report request. Fewer rows may be returned in the response due to being limited by the row count requested or the report row limit.

description: The totals of the report. This is the same length as any other row in the report; cells corresponding to dimension columns are empty.

description: Any warnings associated with generation of the report.

description: Unique identifier of this URL channel. This should be considered an opaque identifier; it is not safe to rely on it being in any particular format.

description: Kind of resource this is, in this case adsensehost#urlChannel.

description: URL Pattern of this URL channel. Does not include "http://" or "https://". Example: www.example.com/home

description: The URL channels returned in this list response.

description: Kind of list this is, in this case adsensehost#urlChannels.

description: Continuation token used to page through URL channels. To retrieve the next page of results, set the next request's "pageToken" value to this.

description: Get information about the selected associated AdSense account.

description: Account to get information about.

description: List hosted accounts associated with this AdSense account by ad client id.

description: Ad clients to list accounts for.

description: Get information about one of the ad clients in the specified publisher's AdSense account.

description: Account which contains the ad client.

description: Ad client to get.

description: List all hosted ad clients in the specified hosted account.

description: Account for which to list ad clients.

description: The maximum number of ad clients to include in the response, used for paging.

description: A continuation token, used to page through ad clients. To retrieve the next page, set this parameter to the value of "nextPageToken" from the previous response.

description: Delete the specified ad unit from the specified publisher AdSense account.

description: Account which contains the ad unit.

description: Ad client for which to get ad unit.

description: Ad unit to delete.

description: Get the specified host ad unit in this AdSense account.

description: Account which contains the ad unit.

description: Ad client for which to get ad unit.

description: Ad unit to get.

description: Get ad code for the specified ad unit, attaching the specified host custom channels.

description: Account which contains the ad client.

description: Ad client with contains the ad unit.

description: Ad unit to get the code for.

description: Host custom channel to attach to the ad code.

description: Insert the supplied ad unit into the specified publisher AdSense account.

description: Account which will contain the ad unit.

description: Ad client into which to insert the ad unit.

description: List all ad units in the specified publisher's AdSense account.

description: Account which contains the ad client.

description: Ad client for which to list ad units.

description: Whether to include inactive ad units. Default: true.

description: The maximum number of ad units to include in the response, used for paging.

description: A continuation token, used to page through ad units. To retrieve the next page, set this parameter to the value of "nextPageToken" from the previous response.

description: Update the supplied ad unit in the specified publisher AdSense account. This method supports patch semantics.

description: Account which contains the ad client.

description: Ad client which contains the ad unit.

description: Ad unit to get.

description: Account which contains the ad client.

description: Ad client which contains the ad unit.

description: Generate an AdSense report based on the report request sent in the query parameters. Returns the result as JSON; to retrieve output in CSV format specify "alt=csv" as a query parameter.

description: Hosted account upon which to report.

description: Dimensions to base the report on.

description: End of the date range to report on in "YYYY-MM-DD" format, inclusive.

description: Filters to be run on the report.

description: Optional locale to use for translating report output to a local language. Defaults to "en_US" if not specified.

description: The maximum number of rows of report data to return.

description: Numeric columns to include in the report.

description: The name of a dimension or metric to sort the resulting report on, optionally prefixed with "+" to sort ascending or "-" to sort descending. If no prefix is specified, the column is sorted ascending.

description: Start of the date range to report on in "YYYY-MM-DD" format, inclusive.

description: Index of the first row of report data to return.

description: Get information about one of the ad clients in the Host AdSense account.

description: Ad client to get.

description: List all host ad clients in this AdSense account.

description: Create an association session for initiating an association with an AdSense user.

description: Products to associate with the user.

enumDescriptions:
AdSense For Content
AdSense For Mobile Content
AdSense For Search

description: The preferred locale of the user.

description: The locale of the user's hosted website.

description: The URL of the user's hosted website.

description: Verify an association session after the association callback returns from AdSense signup.

description: The token returned to the association callback URL.

description: Delete a specific custom channel from the host AdSense account.

description: Ad client from which to delete the custom channel.

description: Custom channel to delete.

description: Get a specific custom channel from the host AdSense account.

description: Ad client from which to get the custom channel.

description: Custom channel to get.

description: Add a new custom channel to the host AdSense account.

description: Ad client to which the new custom channel will be added.

description: List all host custom channels in this AdSense account.

description: Ad client for which to list custom channels.

description: The maximum number of custom channels to include in the response, used for paging.

description: A continuation token, used to page through custom channels. To retrieve the next page, set this parameter to the value of "nextPageToken" from the previous response.

description: Update a custom channel in the host AdSense account. This method supports patch semantics.

description: Ad client in which the custom channel will be updated.

description: Custom channel to get.

description: Update a custom channel in the host AdSense account.

description: Ad client in which the custom channel will be updated.

description: Dimensions to base the report on.

description: Filters to be run on the report.

description: The maximum number of rows of report data to return.

description: Numeric columns to include in the report.

description: Index of the first row of report data to return.

description: Delete a URL channel from the host AdSense account.

description: Ad client from which to delete the URL channel.

description: URL channel to delete.

description: Add a new URL channel to the host AdSense account.

description: Ad client to which the new URL channel will be added.

description: List all host URL channels in the host AdSense account.

description: Ad client for which to list URL channels.

description: The maximum number of URL channels to include in the response, used for paging.

description: A continuation token, used to page through URL channels. To retrieve the next page, set this parameter to the value of "nextPageToken" from the previous response.


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Quip is a software that is most commonly used in the financial business sector as it allows the workers to create documents, slides, and other useful financial spreadsheets. They can help the workers and team leaders analyze data and take decisions in real time based on it of the input provided by other team members. Quip allows the users to work in groups since a number of people can join in on documents, spreadsheets, and slides. They can also edit the documents and provide their feedback to other people in the group. In this way, the efficiency of group working is increased and work can be carried out in a more streamlined and effective manner. It improves the efficiency of the work since the uses can interact with each other in real time and fix the problems that are being faced instead of having to wait for every person in the group to submit their inputs in turn.
The software is also popular in the sales departments since they have to carry out data based campaigns and take decisions in quick time. The process of Salesforce and sales business becomes much more streamlined and effective since all the big data that is collected by teams working on sales company campaigns can be shared directly on the spreadsheets using Quick software. The data analyzing teams in the office can analyze them, and provide their input or feedback to the teams in the field quickly. In this way, the results generated can be improved and better campaigns can be carried out.
What are some of the features of the Software available to the users?
What are the significant benefits of using quip for office work?
What are the pricing packages available to the users of quip?
Some Interesting Facts And Figures about Quip
Reviews received by Quip from experts and customers on internet platforms
There are a number of features available to the uses of liquid software below are discussed some of the most useful features of the software
Documents: Great varieties of documents are available in the Quip software with the help of which, teams can carry out all sorts of work. The document is not just a single page of paper but it is a combination of different types of documents such as spreadsheets and slides along with the number of different apps that improve the quality of the work that is being generated by the team members.
Sides: They are one of the most important documents used in the business and office work since they can provide Insight into the work being carried out in a precise manner. They are one of the most useful tools of communicating with Team leaders or managers since they do not have to include everything that is being done by the team but only the most important aspects of the work. Slides provide high flexibility in this way since it can be a medium of providing precise information in an effective manner.
Spreadsheets: They are one of the most important documents in any office since in today's business landscape workers have to deal with big data in order to be able to carry out their functions smoothly and also to make more informed decisions on the projects that are being carried out by the company. Usually, there are lots of people working on a single spreadsheet since it is a collection of data that involves the work of many people. The spreadsheet of Quip is online, which means that many members can join in and provide the input on the document in real time. In this way, team members can access the work that is being carried out by all members simultaneously and make better decisions
Chat: One of the most important features of the app is the chatting feature since it allows the workers to carry out their work and interact with other members of the team in real time. In this way, they do not have to email each other, which can delay or break the smooth flow of the work. Hence, work can be carried out in a more effective and productive manner as compared to the traditional ways of doing work
Apps: There are a number of apps available in the ecosystem of the quip software, which makes it possible for the workers of the team to use them in order to simplify their work. In this way, the users are able to create high-quality work, which can be a source of the success of the project and provide benefit to the workers as well. In short, these apps improve the productivity of the workers.
There are a number of benefits and advantages that the workers in any office can avail by using quip software for or conducting their day-to-day business work. Below we will discuss some of the benefits offered by the software for teams working projects other companies:
Makes sure that everyone is on the same page: This is one of the biggest advantages that is offered by Quip since all the team members are working on the same document, which is shared online. All the members can share their opinion and ideas in real time with other members of the team making it possible for them to work quickly without having to send emails. Since communicating through Emails can be a source of time wasting. With working on Quip, all the members of the group get a quick idea about what everyone else in the team is thinking and they can develop a coordinated strategy moving forward.
A better-streamlined workflow: Quip software improves the flow of work since all the members of the team are working together on a single document or worksheet. Hence, in this way, they can all make their suggestions and improvements to the work without having to wait for the turn of the other person. Thus a better culture of work is created which enables the team members to complete their task in quick time. In this way, no one has to wait for the turn of the other person since everyone is working in a coordinated fashion. This is a great benefit for businesses in today's competitive business landscape since those businesses, which are not able to capitalize on the changing landscapes of the market, tend to lose business in competition in a longer Run.
The high value of work: There are a number of features available in the quip software ecosystem, which helps the team members work in a highly effective manner. In this way, high-quality of work gets generated. It provides great contributions to the projects and campaigns carried out by the company and improve the efficiency of the workers and their significance for the company. High-quality work also plays a great part in the success of the campaigns and projects being carried out by the company. It also helps the workers achieve their personal goals in the project since they can save time and generate good quality work without having to focus on unnecessity things.
Efficient decision-making: One of the top class services offered by Quip software is that it helps teams work in such a fashion that they can collaborate with each other in real-time and share their findings, ideas, and thoughts with each other in a more effective manner. In this way, teams make better decisions since they are on the same page, producing a high quality of work and accessing the work of every member of the team in real time. Good decision-making not only provides great results for the team but also helps in the success of the company in today's competitive business landscape.
There are two different pricing packages available to the users of the quip that can be used depending upon the requirements of the workers. The two packages are mainly monthly package and yearly packages. Below we will discuss the details of these packages in order to guide our readers and enable them to make an informed decision about the type of package that they need:
Monthly package: In the monthly package, the users get access to all the services offered by quip. In order to avail this package, they have to pay a monthly fee of $30 per month. The package can be used by a team of 5 persons, however, in order to add any other person to the team to the software an additional amount of $12 has to be paid. It means that in case there is a team of six persons then the total amount of $42 per month will have to be paid. There is also an availability of a trial period with the help of which the users can use the package free for some time before deciding whether they should get the package.
Yearly package: Yearly package also provides users access to all the features of the software in order to be able to better carry out the tasks involved in their campaigns and projects. It also costs $30 per month through the amount is charged initially for the whole year. In case of the early package in order to add more than 5 people then for every extra person, an amount of $10 has to be paid which means that the subscribers get a discount of 2 dollars every month for every additional person added to the team in comparison with the monthly package.
In this article, we will bring all the reviews received by software from experts and customers from all over the world on different internet platforms. However, before we do that we will first discuss some of the interesting and significant facts and figures about the company in order to educate our leaders about the history and status of the company in the areas that it provides services. The facts and figures are as follows:
The company was founded 7 years ago in 2012 which means that it is among the latest software developer companies in the world
The company was originally founded by Bred Taylor and Kevin Gibbs who are also among the Co-founders of Google maps and Facebook.
Kevin Gates also found it a Google App Engine after he left working for Facebook
Both the partners started to work on Quip after leaving their positions at previous companies and managed to launch the software in 2012.
The app quickly became one of the most successful apps in the world and generated huge profits for the company
It received the best app awards from The Guardian, Next Web, and The Times.
Some of the major partners have funded the expansion and innovation projects of Quip as in 2015 it received a funding of 30 million dollars from Greylock Partners.
In 20 16 the original founders of the company sold it to Salesforce for a total amount of 750 million dollars, which shows that the valuation of the company increased drastically over a period of only 4 years.
Quip also acquired variety and Studio Unity designer in 2017.
It has one of the biggest user bases in the world since thousands of workers from all over the world make use of this platform in order to carry out their work in a more streamlined fashion.
Below we will give a list of all the reviews that Quip has received from customers and experts on different internet performs from all over the world. It is the most effective way of judging the performance of a software or any product since the users of the product or experts are better able to give useful feedback about the product:
Software Advice: It is a well-respected internet platform where customers can review a number of different products based on their personal experience. Quip software has also been reviewed here. On this platform, users can give a rating out of 5. Based on 143 votes by the users, it has received a cumulative rating of 4.5 out of 5
Tom's Guide: It is an internet platform where experts review the products and a guide is provided for the consumers in order to be able to better use the product. Here a rating is provided to the products out of 5. Quip has also been reviewed on this platform by an expert name Henry. He has given a rating of 3 out of 5.
PC Mag: It is another popular platform on the Internet where customers can review software products and give their feedback about their productivity. On this platform, Quip has received a rating of 3.5 out of 5.
Trust Radius: On this platform, the experts review all the popular software products. On this platform, a cumulative rating is assigned to the software products. Quip has received a rating of 8 out of 10 based on reviews from 26 customers.
Get the app: It is one of the most popular app reviewing platform on the Internet where the uses of the app can provide their honest feedback about the usefulness and performance of an app. Quip has also been reviewed on this platform by 141 customers who have given it a rating of 4.4 out of 5.
Finance online: It is an internet platform where a number of products that are helpful in the finance sector are reviewed by experts. These experts compare the performance of the product in comparison to other competitors in the market and provide comprehensive feedback so that the users can make an informed decision about whether they should purchase it. Quip software has also been reviewed on this platform and it has received a rating of 8.5 out of 10.
Glassdoor: It is a highly respected platform on the Internet where customers can provide an honest opinion about the products that they have used since on this platform only legitimate review can be added. The rating of this platform is more trustworthy as compared to many other platforms on the internet. On Glassdoor, Quip has received a rating of 4.5 out of 5 based on the reviews by two customers
Featured customer: It is another popular platform on the Internet where hundreds of people review software products that they have used. They can give a rating to the products so that other people may be able to make a better decision before making an investment. Quip software has also been reviewed on this platform and it has received a cumulative rating of 4.8 out of 5 based on reviews from 25 customers.
FileHippo: It is a major website on the Internet where the users can download software. Quip software is also available on this platform, which the users can download and purchase it subscription from the online website of the company. On this platform, the buyers of the product can also give feedback in order to help other customers about the performance and usefulness of the product. On FileHippo, Quip software has also been reviewed and it has received a rating of 7.5 out of 10 based on the reviews from 330 customers.
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Boil chicken and cut dice.
Put in mix vegetables to hot water then strain, when it cool, mix with other ingredients, stir and ready to filling.
Fill the spring roll skin and folding, stick with egg white, and frying in hot cooking oil (about 170oC) until brown.