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Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar Saga: Series Wrap-Up
Saturday, November 18th, 2017 | Posted by Ryan Harvey
Last week I concluded my book-by-book look at Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar novels, the prehistoric world inside the Earth's crust where the stationary sun eradicates the passage of time. The complete series consists of seven books:
At the Earth's Core (1914)
Pellucidar (1915)
Tanar of Pellucidar (1929)
Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929–30)
Back to the Stone Age (1937)
Land of Terror (1944)
Savage Pellucidar (1963)
Compared to Burroughs's other two long-running science-fiction series, Mars/Barsoom and Venus/Amtor, Pellucidar is more difficult to summarize. The Venus novels were written over a short period of time during the end of Burroughs's career and all feature the same hero, Carson Napier. There are no Venus classics, with the best (Lost on Venus) only middling and the rest ranging from bland to unreadable. The Mars series presents a vast canvas that arcs across Burroughs's career, but it's the most consistently high quality of any of his series, including the Tarzan novels, so it's not too difficult to give it a broad analysis that primarily looks at changes in protagonists.
The Pellucidar books, however, present conundrums when consumed in a short period. Like Mars, Pellucidar spans the major phases of ERB's career: success in the 'teens, a stabilizing period in the twenties, a steepening decline throughout the thirties, a World War II revival, and a "lost" story and final volume published posthumously in the sixties. Unlike Mars, Burroughs visited Pellucidar sporadically, with a fourteen-year lapse after the first two paired novels, and later a seven-year gap.
The change in quality in the Pellucidar novels is erratic as well. At the Earth's Core is a masterpiece; Land of Terror is close to ERB's worst, with Back to the Stone Age perched only a few rungs higher; Savage Pellucidar is immensely superior in construction and excitement to the Mars and Venus books written at the same time; and Tarzan at the Earth's Core is a fun pulpy crossover. That the series even has a crossover makes it unique among Burroughs's science fiction. He linked his novels using a fictional version of himself, whom I call the pseudo-ERB, who reports to readers the tales learned from his various protagonists. But only when Tarzan flew into Pellucidar in an airship did ERB unite two of his worlds for a full story.
Perhaps the most confounding aspect of Pellucidar is that when reading the series in its entirety, it becomes clear Burroughs never planned or wanted to expand the setting beyond the original two novels. Burroughs wrote a number of mini-series that were really single novels published in separate parts: The Mucker, The Moon Maid, The Cave Girl, The Land That Time Forgot. When Burroughs completed At the Earth's Core, he was in a powerful enough position as a newly successful writer that he could leave the book on a cliffhanger with the story awaiting resolution and know he'd have the opportunity to publish Part 2 within a year. That second book, Pellucidar, satisfactorily concludes the adventures of explorers David Innes and Abner Perry in the inner world. Not only have David and Perry defeated the reptilian overlords, the Mahars, and resolved all the plot strands of the first book, they set about to transform completely the lands of Pellucidar with an extensive modernization program.
I believe Burroughs meant for it to stop there; it took almost a decade and a half before he wrote another book in the setting. The first three books of the Mars series form a similar complete tale of an outsider's conquest, but Burroughs waited only a little over a year before he started writing the next Barsoom novel, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and set out to find new ways to explore the Martian setting. With Pellucidar, he apparently felt he'd taken the story as far as it should go by 1915. He concluded Pellucidar with a vision of the inner world as a Steampunk paradise, then left it the same way he left Caspak and the Moon.
It was repeated readers' requests that eventually catalyzed Burroughs to go back to his dictaphone to create more Pellucidar adventures. He might have continued to resist fans' pleas, but he found Pellucidar gave him an opportunity to enliven his flagging interest in churning out Tarzan novels by sending the Lord of the Jungle to the Earth's Core. Tanar of Pellucidar was written specifically to set up Tarzan at the Earth's Core (and unfortunately feels exactly like set-up).
Once ERB had re-opened Pellucidar for business, he couldn't close up shop so easily again. He soldiered onward over the next fifteen years, seemingly as lost as the protagonists of Back the Stone Age and Land of Terror. Creative exhaustion was setting in for the aging author in the 1930s, and his malaise about Pellucidar and what to do with it comes through in the almost plotless meanderings of those two books. (I'll admit to enjoying Back to the Stone Age more than I once did, but I can't recommend it to anyone except the Burroughsian faithful.)
When Burroughs was on his game with the three best of these novels (see below for the ranking), the ingenious setting of Pellucidar brought out some of the greatest excitement and ingenuity of his career. At the Earth's Core, where the mystery of time is the most meaningful and powerful, is an SF masterpiece that I'd rank it among Burroughs's Top Five if I ever tried to construct such a list. (I won't because the list would be impossibly fluid.) David Innes is an energetic character whose ambitions of a modern colonial conquest set him apart from Tarzan and even John Carter. The Mahars are among the best creatures, let alone villains, in the ERB canon, and the follow-up novel makes them even more fascinating through biological empathy. It's unfortunate the Mahars never returned to their starring role, which is one of the big flaws of the overall series. The Korsars did make for enjoyable replacements in Tanar of Pellucidar, even though they're pretty rotten at the actual sailing part of piracy. Tarzan at the Earth's Core is quintessential pulp that revives Pellucidar's strange nature by putting it up against the powers of Tarzan and interfering with them. It's also a winner for pulse-pounding, savage action — Tarzan is good at bringing that out. As far as end-of-career works go, Savage Pellucidar is intriguing and offers a deep well for analysis. It also stars O-aa, one of ERB's best heroines, which is a fantastic surprise so deep into a series.
The nature of time and direction in Pellucidar are both its most fascinating and most frustrating elements; I'd argue they're what made Burroughs reluctant to give the inner earth as many series entries as Mars. There's no shortage of adventures possible in Pellucidar because of the prehistoric fauna that can include almost any type of beast and the ability to pull in surface-world characters from other parts of Earth's history, such as the piratical Korsars and the offbeat mid-nineteenth-century Cape Cod cannibal Ah-gilak. The timelessness of the setting, however, created a writing dilemma. It's difficult to sustain tension and overlapping plots when time cannot be measured in any meaningful way. The later novels fell into a sense of aimlessness as each focused on single heroes moving through linear episodic encounters: Tanar, von Horst, and David Innes once again.
Even with the excitement of Tarzan at the Earth's Core, the later books have a sense of drift without tension. Monsters and strange races pop up, but nothing hangs around for long — without time, eventually nothing seems to matter. One of the most inventive aspects of At the Earth's Core becomes a background detail of the later novels and a hindrance that was infecting the heroes. Land of Terror is the nadir, where David Innes, once the most colonial-minded and optimistic of ERB heroes, stays lost doing nothing while nothing happens.
This is why Savage Pellucidar is such an intriguing finale. Whether intentional or not, the final book lays out a retroactive theme for the series: the futility of civilization-building without the progression of time. Innes and Perry have been in the inner world for more than thirty years when Savage Pellucidar starts — and even this isn't clear, since there's no reference to the outer world through a framing device with the pseudo-ERB. During these decades, none of the progress toward an industrialized Empire of Pellucidar that David proclaimed in the closing chapter of the second novel, back in 1915, has been realized. No typewriters, sewing machines, steam engines, colleges, or any of the triumphant vision he planned to construct with the help of Perry's science. Thirty to fifty years later, almost nothing has been accomplished. Devices to tell time have been destroyed. Perry's inventions rarely work and nobody appears to want to use them. The people of David Innes's empire are still at Stone Age levels of both technology and thought, as if nothing has changed at all. This is the theme of Back to the Stone Age at work — a primitive land will turn even the modern human mind back to a Stone Age mentality. Innes and science cannot move Pellucidar forward: it is as much the Land That Time Forgot as Caspak.
Yet David Innes feels no frustration with this in either Land of Terror or Savage Pellucidar. He's not even resigned to it; it's simply the reality. This is probably because Burroughs himself was satisfied with Pellucidar this way if he needed to continue writing more novels set there. He could've ignored the time issue: at the end of Pellucidar, David Innes discovers a way to create the demarcation of time even with an immobile sun. But in the next novel, David purposely destroys all the clocks and gives Pellucidar back its chrono-subjectivity because its inhabitants couldn't get accustomed to the idea of time. It's a shrug at the once magnificent plans of civilization and progress: "Well, that didn't work. So it's back to caveman and dinosaur antics."
That I'm even able to have this type of discussion about a series of lost world pulp novels featuring dinosaurs, savage ape creatures, hyaenodon sidekicks, Tarzan beating up a cave bear, and telepathic super Rhamphorhynchuses is why Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of my favorite authors.
Aside from pointing out problems with individual novels, overall the biggest flaw with the Pellucidar series is that Burroughs didn't take advantage of more of its opportunities. A trip to the pendant world. More new topside adventurers. The discovery of additional time-trapped civilizations from different eras of earth, similar to the Korsars. A return of the Mahars to wage war against the Empire of Pellucidar. These could all form the basis of fantastic novels. But Burroughs relied repeatedly on an episodic formula that repeats in Tanar of Pellucidar, Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, and to a lesser extent in Savage Pellucidar and Tarzan at the Earth's Core.
Still, when Burroughs used the setting for savage encounters with strange beasts — and Tarzan at the Earth's Core is top in that field — he delivered the exquisite thrills he's known for. The continuation of the series past the excellent original duology was worth it for the Tarzan crossover and O-aa alone. It also gave us some of the best animal companions in the ERB canon: Raja the Wonder Hyaenodon, Old White the mammoth, O-aa's killer wolfhound Rahna, and even Tanar's snake buddy.
So I come to the end, still finding summarization eluding me with the most unusual of ERB series. Its triumphs are strong enough to make them worthy companions to the finest Mars novels, while its decline creates its own fascination even as it plunges to a career nadir. Perhaps fascination is the best single word summary. No matter what, Burroughs and his worlds fascinate.
The series ranked from best to worst
Pellucidar
Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Savage Pellucidar
Tanar of Pellucidar
Land of Terror
For a rousing close-out, an unscientific list of the best moments in the Pellucidar saga:
The Mahars hypnotize and gradually devour human captives inside a watery grotto. (At the Earth's Core)
David Innes and the Mahar Tul-al-sa part company, and Innes ponders the role of the Mahars in Pellucidar's chain of being as she flies off. (Pellucidar)
Tarzan battles a Pteranodon in mid-air. (Tarzan at the Earth's Core)
Only minutes after being captured, O-aa grabs the spear from her kidnapper and immediately runs him through with it. (Savage Pellucidar)
The newly created Great Navy of Pellucidar arrives at the climax to rescue David Innes. (Pellucidar)
Airship O-220 passes through the polar entrance into Pellucidar. (Tarzan at the Earth's Core)
The initial iron mole drilling disaster that opens the saga, complete with Perry swearing at the malfunctioning machinery. (At the Earth's Core)
The mammoth Old White rescues von Horst from an arena death among sabertooths, hurling a few of the creatures into the watching crowd. (Back to the Stone Age)
David Innes imagines the Empire of Pellucidar remade as a modern industrial society. (Pellucidar)
A stampede of seemingly all prehistoric life on Pellucidar scatters the search party from the O-220. (Tarzan at the Earth's Core)
Jason Gridley makes fun of Edgar Rice Burroughs's plotting style. (Tanar of Pellucidar)
Dian sics three sabertooths on a man who hoped to forcibly seize her. (Savage Pellucidar)
Jason Gridley finds Tarzan in the jungle and delivers a message to him from Tarzan's own creator. (Tarzan at the Earth's Core)
David rescues a wolfhound from drowning and develops a dedicated sidekick, Raja. (Pellucidar)
The first discovery of the polar opening from Pellucidar to the outside world. (Tanar of Pellucidar)
Jason Gridley opens fire with revolvers on a pack of hyaenodons while trying to save Jana from her pursuers. (Tarzan at the Earth's Core)
Next: I'll stay with Ed during the last phase of his career, Beyond the Farthest Star.
Ryan Harvey is one of the original bloggers for Black Gate, starting in 2008. He received the Writers of the Future Award for his short story "An Acolyte of Black Spires," and his stories "The Sorrowless Thief" and "Stand at Dubun-Geb" are available in Black Gate online fiction. A further Ahn-Tarqa adventure, "Farewell to Tyrn", is currently available as an e-book. Ryan lives in Costa Mesa, California where he works as a professional writer for a marketing company. Occasionally, people ask him to talk about Edgar Rice Burroughs or Godzilla in interviews.
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Thanks for taking us on this tour.
Comment by Major Wootton - November 18, 2017 10:44 pm
I'll second that — this has been a great series of posts.
Comment by Raphael - November 21, 2017 11:10 am


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Samantha Brown was born in Dallas, Texas and spent her formative years growing up in New Hampshire. Normal travel back then was loading up the family station wagon to visit relatives in Pennsylvania. Her biggest international trip was driving across the border once to Canada for a Quebec family vacation in junior high school… Oh the things to come!
After falling in love with the performing arts in high school, Samantha decided to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in fine Arts from Syracuse University. The week after graduation Samantha moved to New York City, with her cat, to pursue her dream of being on the stage. Not surprisingly this lead to 8 years of waiting tables, auditioning and various roles in off to off off off Broadway productions.
How She Got The "Best Job In The World"
Samantha's career as a television travel host happened by accident. A producer spotted her work in a commercial and recommended her to the Travel Channel in 1999 to audition for a new show being developed called "Great Vacation Homes".
The audition almost did not happen… Samantha missed her first audition in Jacksonville, Florida after she failed to make a connecting flight. Thankfully It was rescheduled again for a week later. Her initial flight the second time was also delayed and Samantha had just five minutes to make her connecting flight. She sprinted to the gate and arrived 10 minutes after the final boarding call.
A sympathetic attendant encouraged Samantha to try to board the plane, so she continued her run on the tarmac toward the small 50 seater jet located about 100 feet away. A dispatcher interrupted her sprint, telling her it was too late to board.
Breaking down and through tears she told the dispatcher she had been waiting on tables for eight years hoping for a dream job like this. He relented, and told her only the flight's pilot could overrule his decision. As the dispatcher boarded the plane and explained the situation to the cockpit, Samantha ran the 100 feet and positioned herself under the nose of the plane. She looked up at the captain, opened her arms pleadingly and shouted "PLEASE!!!!"
A decade of series followed, including Great Hotels, Girl Meets Hawaii, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America, Green Getaways, Passport to China, Great Weekends and Samantha Brown's Asia. In 2017, Samantha moved from Travel Channel to PBS and created her new show there called "Samantha Brown's Places to Love". In May 2019, "Samantha Brown's Places to Love" won the Emmy for Outstanding Travel/Adventure Program and Brown won the Emmy for Outstanding Host. Samantha's fun-loving style has made her a revered and engaging television personality whose approach is less expert, less host and more a person you would want to travel with.
On Traveling…
Over the last 17 years, Samantha has traveled around the world visiting over 250 cities in 62 countries and 40 of the United States creating over 160 hours of programming (and counting). After all of that traveling she reluctantly accepts her title as a travel expert, preferring jokingly the more humble title of Travel Goddess.
She calls herself an airport geek and enjoys her time spent in them (unlike everyone else in the world). Once in an airport, she loves to check the large departure board for where people are traveling to. Even just seeing the names of exotic destinations like Istanbul, Casablanca and Jaipur make her want to travel more.
What Samantha enjoys most about travel is not necessarily the "must do's" of a destination; visiting museums, castles and monuments. Her passion is to focus on the people, their culture, and the privilege of spending time in their everyday lives.
In 2011 Samantha debuted her stylish line of luggage on the Home Shopping Network. The line quickly became a "customer pick" and went on to be one of the top brand launches for the year. Living out of a suitcase for over a decade, Samantha has enjoyed designing luggage as well as accessory cases, handbags and a packing system that bring ease and elegance back into travel and remind people that when it comes to their life they should Go Ahead and Jump In!
"Places To Love"
Samantha is currently filming her new series on Public Television (PBS), "Samantha Brown's Places To Love". With her new show she will take viewers on a discovery of the emotional heart of travel by highlighting the people who are changing, challenging and strengthening a destination to deliver a decidedly refreshing and enriching travel experience. Season 1 will air nationwide in January, 2018.
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Anna Nicole Smith's Ex, Mark Hatten, Shot and Killed in South Carolina
By Stephen Andrew - May 7, 2020 02:46 pm EDT
It has been reported that Anna Nicole Smith's ex, Mark Hatten, was shot and killed in South Carolina over the weekend. According to TMZ, Hatten died on Sunday, though the circumstances surrounding his death appear to be unclear. He appears to have been involved in an altercation with another man, which eventually turned fatal.
Hatten had a very complicated history with Smith, as she previously testified in court that they began dating in 2000, with Hatten one night confronting her while brandishing a knife. Smith ended things with Hatten at this point, but claimed that he went on to stalk and threaten her for almost two years after their relationship ended. In 2002, Hatten is said to have shown up at Smith's home unannounced. When her neighbor asked him to leave, Hatten allegedly assaulted him. He was eventually sentenced to 7 years behind bars for stalking Smith and assaulting the neighbor.
Tragically, Smith passed away in 2007, suffering a fatal, accidental dug overdose. Broward County Medical Examiner and forensic pathologist Joshua Perper stated that Smith's death was due to "combined drug intoxication" with chloral hydrate — a sleeping medication — as the "major component." This came one year after the death of her oldest child, Daniel, who died in Smith's hospital room three days after she gave birth to her youngest, Dannielynn. An autopsy discovered that Daniel died from a combination of drugs, including antidepressants and methadone.
After this, there was a highly publicized paternity case over the baby, with Larry Birkhead — Smith's former romantic partner — eventually being found to be Dannielynn's biological father. The dad and daughter pair currently reside near his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Earlier this year, Birkhead spoke to Us Weekly about parenting 13-year-old Dannielynn, joking that she has one main thing in common with her mother: "The ability to spend money!" Birkhead added, "That's probably there. That's probably the biggest. But beyond that, you know, she's got some personality traits of her mom's, and she's funny, but I think she's a good mix of the two of us."
Birkhead went on to share that, to this day, fans of Smith will approach Dannielynn in public to gush over how much they loved her mother. "So many people come up to her and say, you know, 'I was a big fan of your mom's,' and, 'I loved your mom,' or, 'She inspired me to lose weight or be a model or just being a single parent.' And so, you know, a lot of people helped me in that regard. … She's just a really great kid," he said.


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1 Injured in Shooting, Robbery in Dallas: Police
Published July 6, 2021 • Updated on July 6, 2021 at 2:04 pm
One person is injured after an attempted robbery in Dallas on Monday.
According to the Dallas Police Department, officers responded to a shooting call at 1822 Adelaide Drive.
Police said the victim was shot during an attempted robbery.
The male suspect was wearing denim shorts and a hat at the time of the robbery, and he fled westbound on foot, police said.
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Dallas Fire-Rescue transported the victim to an area hospital after the shooting.
According to police, this incident is still currently under investigation.
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Q: is there a way i can combine two indicators in trading view pine script? I am a new member with not much coding skills if someone can help me combine these codes into 1 indicator so I can use it for myself while trading will be appreciated.
indicator 1-(Owner-drsweets)->
study(title="EMA 20/50/100/200", overlay=true)
shortest = ema(close, 20)
short = ema(close, 50)
longer = ema(close, 100)
longest = ema(close, 200)
plot(shortest, color = red)
plot(short, color = orange)
plot(longer, color = aqua)
plot(longest, color = blue)```

indicator 2- RSI (owner-Trading view default) ->

    ```//@version=5
indicator(title="Relative Strength Index", shorttitle="RSI", format=format.price, precision=2, timeframe="", timeframe_gaps=true)

ma(source, length, type) =>
    switch type
        "SMA" => ta.sma(source, length)
        "Bollinger Bands" => ta.sma(source, length)
        "EMA" => ta.ema(source, length)
        "SMMA (RMA)" => ta.rma(source, length)
        "WMA" => ta.wma(source, length)
        "VWMA" => ta.vwma(source, length)

rsiLengthInput = input.int(14, minval=1, title="RSI Length", group="RSI Settings")
rsiSourceInput = input.source(close, "Source", group="RSI Settings")
maTypeInput = input.string("SMA", title="MA Type", options=["SMA", "Bollinger Bands", "EMA", "SMMA (RMA)", "WMA", "VWMA"], group="MA Settings")
maLengthInput = input.int(14, title="MA Length", group="MA Settings")
bbMultInput = input.float(2.0, minval=0.001, maxval=50, title="BB StdDev", group="MA Settings")

up = ta.rma(math.max(ta.change(rsiSourceInput), 0), rsiLengthInput)
down = ta.rma(-math.min(ta.change(rsiSourceInput), 0), rsiLengthInput)
rsi = down == 0 ? 100 : up == 0 ? 0 : 100 - (100 / (1 + up / down))
rsiMA = ma(rsi, maLengthInput, maTypeInput)
isBB = maTypeInput == "Bollinger Bands"

plot(rsi, "RSI", color=#7E57C2)
plot(rsiMA, "RSI-based MA", color=color.yellow)
rsiUpperBand = hline(70, "RSI Upper Band", color=#787B86)
hline(50, "RSI Middle Band", color=color.new(#787B86, 50))
rsiLowerBand = hline(30, "RSI Lower Band", color=#787B86)
fill(rsiUpperBand, rsiLowerBand, color=color.rgb(126, 87, 194, 90), title="RSI Background Fill")
bbUpperBand = plot(isBB ? rsiMA + ta.stdev(rsi, maLengthInput) * bbMultInput : na, title = "Upper Bollinger Band", color=color.green)
bbLowerBand = plot(isBB ? rsiMA - ta.stdev(rsi, maLengthInput) * bbMultInput : na, title = "Lower Bollinger Band", color=color.green)
fill(bbUpperBand, bbLowerBand, color= isBB ? color.new(color.green, 90) : na, title="Bollinger Bands Background Fill")'```

A: You can copy and paste two indicators back to back. Just remember that, there can only be one indicator() or study() call in a script.
The problem with your example is the scaling. When you have the RSI on price chart, it messes up with the scaling.
//@version=5
indicator(title="EMA 20/50/100/200 and RSI", overlay=true)
shortest = ta.ema(close, 20)
short = ta.ema(close, 50)
longer = ta.ema(close, 100)
longest = ta.ema(close, 200)
plot(shortest, color = color.red)
plot(short, color = color.orange)
plot(longer, color = color.aqua)
plot(longest, color = color.blue)

ma(source, length, type) =>
    switch type
        "SMA" => ta.sma(source, length)
        "Bollinger Bands" => ta.sma(source, length)
        "EMA" => ta.ema(source, length)
        "SMMA (RMA)" => ta.rma(source, length)
        "WMA" => ta.wma(source, length)
        "VWMA" => ta.vwma(source, length)

rsiLengthInput = input.int(14, minval=1, title="RSI Length", group="RSI Settings")
rsiSourceInput = input.source(close, "Source", group="RSI Settings")
maTypeInput = input.string("SMA", title="MA Type", options=["SMA", "Bollinger Bands", "EMA", "SMMA (RMA)", "WMA", "VWMA"], group="MA Settings")
maLengthInput = input.int(14, title="MA Length", group="MA Settings")
bbMultInput = input.float(2.0, minval=0.001, maxval=50, title="BB StdDev", group="MA Settings")

up = ta.rma(math.max(ta.change(rsiSourceInput), 0), rsiLengthInput)
down = ta.rma(-math.min(ta.change(rsiSourceInput), 0), rsiLengthInput)
rsi = down == 0 ? 100 : up == 0 ? 0 : 100 - (100 / (1 + up / down))
rsiMA = ma(rsi, maLengthInput, maTypeInput)
isBB = maTypeInput == "Bollinger Bands"

plot(rsi, "RSI", color=#7E57C2)
plot(rsiMA, "RSI-based MA", color=color.yellow)
rsiUpperBand = hline(70, "RSI Upper Band", color=#787B86)
hline(50, "RSI Middle Band", color=color.new(#787B86, 50))
rsiLowerBand = hline(30, "RSI Lower Band", color=#787B86)
fill(rsiUpperBand, rsiLowerBand, color=color.rgb(126, 87, 194, 90), title="RSI Background Fill")
bbUpperBand = plot(isBB ? rsiMA + ta.stdev(rsi, maLengthInput) * bbMultInput : na, title = "Upper Bollinger Band", color=color.green)
bbLowerBand = plot(isBB ? rsiMA - ta.stdev(rsi, maLengthInput) * bbMultInput : na, title = "Lower Bollinger Band", color=color.green)
fill(bbUpperBand, bbLowerBand, color= isBB ? color.new(color.green, 90) : na, title="Bollinger Bands Background Fill")

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American, United and Delta Finally Invest in Business Class. Which Is Best?
Eric Rosen, Bloomberg
- Oct 26, 2016 12:00 pm
Airline passengers are tough critics, but even the most hardened road warrior should agree that the premium cabin experience is much improved from five years ago. Now airlines should turn their attention to coach, right?
For business travelers flying in and out of the U.S., this may be the most exciting travel news all year.
In recent months, all three major U.S. legacy airlines—American Airlines, Delta, and United—have unveiled eyebrow-raising designs for new lie-flat international business-class seats, some of which have already gone into service. Gone are the outdated seats and subpar onboard amenities that have long tormented frequent fliers. In their place are glossy offerings that can actually compete with international standard setters, like Cathay Pacific, Etihad, Qatar Airways, and Singapore Airlines.
So what can you expect? Here's a run-down of all the details you need to know—along with our own best-in-class awards for the features that matter most.
Not all of American's business class seats are created equal—and that's because the airline has had several false starts deploying upgrades across its fleet since 2013. After three totally different configurations went into its 777-300ERs, 767-300, 787-8, and 777-200 aircraft, American confirmed in May that it had settled on a new seat for its remaining 777-200s, 787-9s, and A350-900s. Did you get all that?
If not, just know that new seats of some sort should be on all American Airlines planes within the next year or so. The newest seats, called the B/E Aerospace Super Diamond, were partially deployed in October—find them on 787-9s for longer domestic routes (i.e. Dallas to Los Angeles) and long-hauls to Madrid and São Paulo.
Luckily, they were worth the wait. The Super Diamonds are the largest business-class seats on American's planes at 27.7 inches wide and 79 inches long when reclined to a lie-flat bed. There are 30 aboard each 787-9, laid out in a reverse-herringbone configuration.
The Perks: 18-inch entertainment screens loaded up with nearly 300 movies; AC and USB plugs; Cole Haan amenity kits with C&O Bigelow products; and menus designed by a rotating cast of James Beard Award-winning chefs. And really wide seats.
The Caveat: Inconsistency across the fleet means you could still get a business class seat on a 777-200 that doesn't lie fully flat.
In August, Delta announced it would be creating the first all-suites business class in the entire industry—meaning each seat will be fully closed off by a door. The seats will appear aboard Delta's 25 forthcoming A350-900 aircraft, which are due to begin service on the airline's transpacific routes in the fall of 2017.
Delta also plans to refit its 777-200 aircraft with the new suites starting in early 2018. By the end of the process, about 20 percent of Delta's long-haul fleet have the new suites (if all goes according to plan).
If the seats look familiar, that's because the carrier used the same ones—but a bit narrower and without the privacy doors—for its Business Elite cabins in recent years. A350-900s will have 32 of them arranged in a staggered front-facing 1-2-1 configuration; each will be over 21 inches wide and recline to a length of up to 81 inches.
The Perks: High-resolution 18-inch screens with up to 300 movies, HBO, Showtime, 18 channels of live satellite TV (on select flights), podcasts, 2,500+ songs, and games. A USB port and universal power outlet for each seat. Heavenly bedding from Westin, Tumi amenity kits, and Kiehl's products, as well as sleep suits on some transpacific flights. And the five-course dinners come with wine pairings from Master Sommelier Andrea Robinson.
The Caveat: Availability. Delta One will only be on 20 percent of the carrier's fleet, on unspecified routes, and not until late next year.
Back in June, United announced a long-awaited overhaul of its international business-class service and amenities, including new seats. The cabins' name, Polaris, is chosen after the North Star. The new seats will debut aboard United's forthcoming 777-300ERs in December 2016, followed by its future 787-1000 and A350-1000 aircraft. After that, the airline will put the new seats aboard its existing 777-200s and 767-300s.
On board, Polaris cabins will be laid out in a slightly angled and staggered 1-2-1 pattern; there are electronically controlled privacy dividers for the middle section. Instead of doors, the seats will have "Do Not Disturb" lights for privacy.
Each seat will be up to 23 inches wide and recline to a fully flat bed of up to 78 inches; at bedtime on long-hauls, the flight attendants will dress it up in custom bedding from Saks Fifth Avenue and leave behind matching pajamas.
Also part of the rollout? A series of nine Polaris-branded lounges, the first of which will open on December 1 at Chicago O'Hare (the rest will follow in 2017, in hubs like San Francisco, Newark, and Washington Dulles). They'll have quiet areas with daybeds, pre-flight menus from Chicago-based chef Art Smith, cocktails by mixologist Adam Seger, and dedicated shower facilities.
The Perks: Amenity kits with Soho House's signature line of Cowshed Spa products, food from Chicago chef Bill Kim, and wines selected by United's Master Sommelier, Doug Frost.
The Caveats: Entertainment is less of a strong suit with Polaris. Their high-definition entertainment screens will be just 16 inches wide, with up to 150 movies and 185 television shows. Wi-Fi is also hit or miss: some planes don't have it at all, and others offer the service for purchase.
There's no clear winner, but your priorities will help you choose the cabin that's right for you.
If you want privacy… Delta wins hands down. With suite-style seats that have closing doors, the airline's new business class will offer the most privacy, though the seats may not be as wide as some of the others out there.
If you want personal space… American pulls ahead with the widest seats of all three carriers and a reverse-herringbone configuration that ensures easy direct-aisle access for everyone.
If you want to book sooner rather than later… American Airlines' new cabin is already operational on its newly delivered 787-9s, along with some refitted 777-200s. United is up next, with its December debut. By contrast, Delta's seats won't be available until late 2017.
If you want reliable availability… We don't know which routes will be included in United's Polaris launch, but the carrier still wins in this category. Why? Their rollout will be the fastest and the most comprehensive out of any fleet.
If you want great amenities… Go with either Delta or United. Luxe bedding by Westin and Saks Fifth Avenue, respectively, earns points for both style and substance.
If you want to stay entertained… Choose American or Delta. Both will have 18-inch screens with over 1,000 hours of entertainment, as well as in-flight Wi-Fi (for a price).
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Another Outspoken Female from "Confessions of a Food Nazi" tagged me for this meme.
1. Is there a vegetable you hated as a child, but came to love as you got older?
Tomatoes, believe it or not. I couldn't manage to eat even one slice of the very first pizza I ever ordered because I could not stomach the tomato base on it. I still can't eat raw tomato (unless marinated in oil and garlic like a bruschetta) but I simply could not live without cooked ones in all their forms.
Cabbage. My childhood was spent eating overcooked cabbage boiled for hours in bacon or ham water (the traditional Irish way of cooking it) and it was years before I discovered it as the versatile, delicious vegetable it is – cooked or raw.
3. Name one favourite summer vegetable dish.
Tuna Nicoise. Done the cheater's way with tinned tuna (don't ask me why, I just prefer it that way). With lots of black olives and new potatoes and green beans and proper cos lettuce (none of your new-fangled rocket or mesclin).
4. And one for winter?
5. What vegetables are in your fridge and freezer right now?
None in fridge. We have been away for the weekend. Baby sweetcorn and garden peas in the freezer. Pathetic.
6. Is there a vegetable you really like but don't make much yourself?
Pumpkin. It seems to be Australia's national vegetable but we just don't eat much of it in Ireland/England. I learned to make a good pumpkin soup when I was here years ago on a serious budget, but haven't touched one since in my own kitchen. Maybe this winter will be a new beginning.
My mother was raised in a fairly poor family in a small town in County Dublin, but there was always enough to eat. Vegetables grew in the back garden, there was lots of floury potatoes, fish on Fridays and maybe some Hafner's sausages as a treat on Saturdays.
In our family food and love are interchangeable. As a result most of what we eat, and who serves it, is laden with symbolism.
Christmas dinners were rushed to make sure we had enough time to sit down again at six o'clock for tea. It wasn't much different the rest of the year, and even when the food being served was more modest than Christmas dinner, there was always the exhortion to "fill up on bread". For the families of post-war children, it was always important to "eat loads".
Over the years, and miles from home now, food still conjures up many emotions and associations.
My mother lists reading restaurant menus as one of her more serious hobbies, and it is always a big highlight to have as many family members around the table for dinner – difficult when we are spread across two continents.
This blog is an attempt to pull together all the recipes from my lifetime, food served to me with love by family, friends and strangers.
Many have a story attached and some speak for themselves.


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Here and Now: American Valor #2 by Cheryl Etchison
Welcoming Cheryl Etchison to the blog today with her upcoming release, the second in her American Valor series. Please read on for my review of this contemporary romance title, read an excerpt, and be sure to enter the giveaway where you could win a $25 gift card to the eBook retailer of choice.
I don't think any of us have trouble understanding the difficulties facing those who return from war, but Cheryl Etchison brings a story that is all about moving forward, and avoiding glances in the rear-view mirror.
Lucky is a former Ranger, a medic for his unit. After his military career ends, he's decided to return to school while working 3rd shift at the local hospital. Not interested in much more than getting through his next set of tasks, he's slowly reintegrating into civilian life. If only his classmates were as understanding as his work colleagues.
Rachel is one of Lucky's coworkers, and while they are 'friendly' they aren't friends. Until his chemistry lab partner shows up with a dinner and more on her mind. Quick thinking and desperation have Lucky begging for help in pushing off the young co-ed. But, Rachel needs something too: the relationship with her boyfriend is notoriously unstable, and she's finally decided that enough is enough. She'll help him, if in return, he puts those muscles to use and helps her move out.
These two are adorable together: tentative steps to knowing one another ignores that first spark of attraction as they both decide to be friends. Well, the friend zone is as dangerous to their hearts as any war zone that Lucky ever served in. Wholly competent and decidedly capable in an emergency, the whole 'feelings' thing has him in knots, with no way out. Rachel is desperately trying to become less of a people-pleaser, learning to say no, and speak for what she truly wants. But she never thought she'd want another relationship.
With secondary characters that add humor and moments with a couple from the first book, this story is sure to please people who want a little less angst from a military themed story, but still want to understand the characters' decisions, choices and motivations. A wonderful introduction to the series that works well on its own, although I'm now curious about Danny and Bree.
Title: Here and Now
Author: Cheryl Etchison
Genre: Contemporary Military Romance
Published by: Avon Impulse
Published on: 26 July, 2016
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The Rangers of the 1st/75th fight hard, train hard and play hard. They are physically strong and mentally tough, disciplined and courageous. But all their military training hasn't prepared them for falling in love.
Former Ranger Medic Lucky James feels right at home working long night shifts in the ER, but less so during the day, when his college classes are filled with flirtatious co-eds. When his 19-year-old chem lab partner shows up at his work with dinner for "her Lucky," he quickly enlists the help of Rachel Dellinger, a nurse and fellow third shift "vampire".
Rachel is a people pleaser at heart, but she's finally decided enough is enough when it comes to her on-again, off-again boyfriend. When Lucky begs Rachel to help him ward off the advances of his teenager pursuer, she blackmails him into helping move her things out of the apartment she shared with her ex into a place all her own.
From there a friendship is born between two people just trying to make it through the night. Neither are living in the past or planning for the future. Until one day changes everything.
A copy of this title was provided via for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
Even though he knew it was coming, Lucky James flinched at the first volley of gunfire. He remained steady for the next two volleys, the loud crack giving way to the mournful sound of the bugle.
During his five years with the 75th Ranger Regiment, he'd never attended a stateside service for a fallen soldier. He'd stood at attention on a tarmac halfway around the world as the American flag was lowered to half-staff and "Taps" blared from loudspeakers. He'd carried flag-draped metal coffins holding the remains of his brothers-in-arms up the ramp of the C-130 that would deliver them home. He'd knelt beside many of those coffins, placed his hand atop them, silently begging forgiveness for failing them. After all, as a Ranger medic, his number one priority was to return his fellow soldiers home to their loved ones safe and sound. Not in a box. Never in a box.
When the bugler finished, the honor guard lifted the American flag from Ethan Dellinger's casket and began the ceremonial folding. Everyone watched in silence as the soldiers worked in tandem, pulling the fabric taught, smoothing each crease, making each fold with precision. It had been years since he'd last seen Ethan; his last memories of him were as a chatty middle schooler who invited himself to shoot hoops with Lucky at a nearby playground one day. Over the course of the next few years, Ethan would show up out of the blue and follow Lucky around as he worked on his car, mowed the yard, whatever he was doing. Right up until the day Lucky left for basic training.
To be completely honest, Lucky hadn't given much thought to Ethan during the past five years. After all, he was just a kid he once knew. He hadn't even known Ethan had joined the army immediately following his high school graduation. Only after arriving home on leave the day before had Lucky learned from his father that "the youngest Dellinger boy" had been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
Barely three weeks into his very first deployment, Army Pfc. Ethan Dellinger died two months shy of his nineteenth birthday.
His immediate family assembled only feet away from his casket with the remaining friends and family forming a semicircle around the grave site. From where Lucky stood at the back, he could see each of their faces. Ethan's mother and father sat side by side on small folding chairs with elderly relatives, grandparents perhaps, seated next to them. The youngest of four children, Ethan's immediate family was large to begin with, and when in-laws, nieces, and nephews were thrown into the mix, it grew to massive proportions.
Despite the large gathering, his eyes were drawn to Ethan's sister, Rachel. She stood out even among her own siblings with her fiery red hair and bright blue eyes.
She and Lucky were of the same age, had attended the same schools from the time Lucky and his father moved to Durant, Oklahoma, in the middle of seventh grade. In all that time, he'd never spoken more to her than the occasional hello, goodbye, or single-word answer. And for as long as he could remember, while she'd never paid any mind to him, she'd always had his attention, despite the fact they traveled in different social circles.
But what stood out about her today he found upsetting. There she was, surrounded by all these people, all family or friends of her brother, and she stood completely alone. With her arms wrapped tight around her middle, Rachel comforted herself at a time when no one else seemed to notice or care.
It took every bit of self-restraint for him to not make a scene, march over to where she stood, and pull her into his arms. He was on the verge of saying to hell with being polite when the service ended and the crowd began to disperse. Everyone except him. He remained right where he stood, watching Rachel as she walked over to Ethan's casket, pressed a kiss to her fingertips, and laid her hand upon the polished wood.
He had only taken a few steps in her direction when her head lifted and she caught sight of him. Much to his surprise, she stepped away from Ethan's casket and walked toward him. Her blue eyes were red and swollen, her face tearstained.
"Rachel," he began the moment she was in earshot. "I'm very sorry about Ethan. He was a great—"
Before he could finish his condolences, her palm met his cheek with a resounding crack.
"How dare you come here," she said bitterly.
The tears fell freely down her face now. Her hands shook and her body vibrated with restrained fury.
He apologized a second time for reasons unknown even to him. But judging from the expression on her face and the hurt in her eyes, the words needed to be said.
"This is your fault," she said, pointing to the hole where her brother's casket would be lowered and the adjacent pile of red dirt that would bury him deep beneath the earth's surface. "Ethan idolized you. Wanted to be you. He joined the army in hopes of following in your footsteps. Except he didn't score high enough to be a medic. Wasn't fit enough to be a Ranger. I hope you're happy."
Stunned into silence, he could do little more than watch as Rachel Dellinger turned her back on him and walked away.
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About Cheryl Etchison
Cheryl Etchison graduated from the University of Oklahoma's School of Journalism and began her career as an oil and gas reporter for a weekly business paper. Bored to tears and broke as hell, it wasn't long before she jumped ship and headed for the promise land of public relations. But that was a nearly a lifetime ago and she's traded in reporting the facts for making it all up as she goes. Currently, she lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and three girls.
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During the school year, my job is more like 6 to 6 instead of 9 to 5. Sometimes teams work out four days a week, sometimes they go to two or three, it depends on the season. Getting to work with Michigan Tech athletes is the best part of my day.
My job allows me to teach and educate young athletes on the shortcomings I experienced when I was an athlete. I had a tough road and went through a lot of pain and suffering. My goal is to help these athletes learn and understand that they can take anything that's thrown at them. I learned more from my downfall than I did from my success, and ultimately, those are the lessons I want to share with Michigan Tech athletes — to help them grow out of darkness.
In a week it's groups, office time, more groups, practices, and then during the hockey season, I go on the ice for hockey practice daily and am there for the team at all the games. I can't coach, but I play an integral part in hockey due to my former playing. I really like to work out, that's probably my favorite thing, so I try to work out once a day.
I have a lot of pride in everything I do that is Michigan Tech because I want it to excel. I want us to be the best at everything. We're kind of like a hidden little snowglobe type place, but we need to embrace that because it's what makes us special. Michigan Tech's a very proud school, so I feel lucky to have a hand in shaping our culture. There's so much that goes into seeing student-athletes grow, I mean, that's ultimately why I'm in it, why I love being here. I'm very fortunate to work with great people.
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His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them He meant. John 13:21, 22.
The confusion gets worse when Jesus answers John's question about who the culprit was, with, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." Then, dipping the piece of bread, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. He identified Judas but the disciples were not even close to tracking with Him.
Their reaction to Jesus' assertion shows how our mental context plays out in our understanding of reality much of the time. It's the same reason why in an accident report there are always discrepancies in the stories where two or more people are involved or witness it. The disciples were in a another frame of mind, one which had nothing to do whatsoever with a crucifixion or betrayal. They brought their context with them, the preoccupation with which they functioned, and inserted it into the conversation without ever stopping to consider whether or not it fit the subject.
Understanding Scripture takes concentration, focus and a willingness to suspend our own agenda for the sake of one which may not have anything to do with our current state of being. In other words, it takes us out of our own context and plops us down in another. The disciples' thoughts were a million miles away from any idea that Jesus might die within a couple of days from this meal. It never crossed their minds because the context in which they lived was one of seeing the miraculous messiah, who changed water into the finest wine, healed the sick, raised the dead, fed thousands from a small basket of food and walked on water with a command over the elements that baffled the mind. Their context wasn't ready for His suffering or death; nor could their spiritual house withstand the storm of humiliation and loss they were about to experience.
I guess this is one of the many reasons why I harp on this subject so much. I find the general Christian teachings about how life should be, out of step with Christ's teaching to the contrary and the whole of Hebrews 11 where it tells us not to get discouraged when we suffer. In order to gain membership, many have set the church of Jesus up for a rude awakening as well as a fall, because they teach a feel good gospel—much like motivational speakers do for their audience. The message becomes about the here and now instead of the hoped for reward of change. Our true hope looks forward to a city not built with human hands, which God has built us. I am wary of people who preach a self-help gospel, one which makes us feel good about ourselves—the "I'm okay, You're okay" teachings of pop psychology has no place in a Christian church.
We'll study this more in depth when we reach John 16, 17, but for now suffice it to say that Jesus promised not only peace, joy and love to His followers, but with them persecutions. When we ignore the latter for the sake of teaching the former, we do so to our own hurt; we set ourselves and others up for discouragement or a shipwrecked faith. Our faith is for the purpose of helping us through the worst our world can throw at us and remain standing.
Jesus overcame the world for our sake—and by "our" I mean the whole of humanity throughout the history creation. What is expected of us is to follow suit; to stand firm though the heavens fall.
Yet the context in which we live speaks to us louder than the one God creates. We see the world's wealth and compare the message of Jesus with it and think somehow they match up, when they don't. We compare lifestyles with the world only to see that pieces of the message don't match up with it so we create a hybrid religion made up of both, which then sets us up for a split personality spiritually.
What's our mistake? Comparing the message and life of Jesus with the norms of the world. The disciples heard Jesus say to Judas, "What you are about to do, do quickly" yet it never even entered their minds what He meant. The words didn't compute; the actions of giving Judas a piece of bread dipped in wine flew by their consciousness. How did they interpret the words and actions? Some thought He was sending Judas out for more supplies for the feast, others didn't track at all.
John later gives us a clue how to clear our minds of everything but the priorities of God. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17. Subtract the world's priorities and immerse ourselves in the kingdom of heaven and we will see clear enough to grasp what role we are to play in the here and now.
"I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep." John 10:14, 15.
I find the wording here fascinating. Did you catch it too?
Jesus put the believer on par with His Father in knowing Him. Yet I don't think He's talking about the depth of knowledge here, rather He's pointing to the fact of it. Those who know Jesus recognize Him wherever they meet His influence. In this way they are like the Father because they are aware of Christ at all times.
But who is the hired hand in this parable?
I don't think it's a God designated position by choice, instead the person chooses tending sheep as a throw away career. In other words, they might be just about anybody who either falls into service in the kingdom or chooses it out of pressure or a desire for its fringe benefits. These types of people don't really know their own Master for they run at the first sign of threat to the flock. The comparison couldn't be more poignant for the leaders of Israel than if Jesus had spelled it out. The leaders of Israel had no real knowledge (as a body of leadership) of God. They bought into the Law out of self-preservation and ancestral loyalty.
What started this discussion? The blind man's healing. Jesus is telling the leaders and Pharisees (who were an influential sect in Israel at that time) they were acting like hired guns, ready to cut and run at the first sign of real danger.
So how does this apply to the man born blind's situation?
As far as I can reason it out, they assigned the punishment for sin on people like to the blind man out of ignorance and getting an easy answer to a difficult problem. Answering why there the righteous suffer alongside of the guilty gives any good theologian a headache. Coming to a workable conclusion, even if it has holes we can see, is better than none at all. Plus, the Ten Commands seemed to be saying just that anyway when it brought the sins of the fathers onto the children clear down to the third and fourth generation. (See Exodus 20:4-6) This command, though, focused on the sin of idols, which they took as a blanket statement.
The problem with the Pharisees' (and others') reasoning is they ignored Ezekiel's dismissal of their own conclusion in three places where he quotes God as saying, "The man who sins will die…if his son repents and does not follow his father's evil, he will not suffer for the father's sins." (My paraphrase). So why would they cop into such an easy out if this were true?
Simple: they were hired guns. They liked the esteem being in the public service brought them but they cared very little for the burden of humanity. In other words, they were not of God's heart just God's chosen people. Anyone who cops out of studying the Word in depth to find God's heart will rely on extreme conclusions—or they will lean that way. There are so many books written which address why the righteous suffer it's amazing. I mean just a simple study of the book of Job should send these Pharisees running for their pens to rewrite their commentaries. Job suffered despite being found a righteous man. There was no sin in his family he didn't cover with a sacrifice nor was there any outstanding problem God needed to deal with in him. The fact that Job learned humility and a greater trust in God through his experience didn't mean that he was unrighteous by God's standards.
Have you ever noticed children when they play always end up with a leader? Depending on the nature of this child the play will be free or dictated. The more power a child holds over the others the more whimsical their demands and harsh their judgments. The saying "Absolute power absolutely corrupts" applies even here because we cannot hold it without becoming drunk with it. The Pharisees and leaders were in a position of being unquestionable by the common people. The average person did not read in that era, though most men memorized a book of the law for bar mitzvah, they probably didn't read on a regular basis. The leaders could reveal or withhold information as they chose; emphasize this over that and generally dictate the game being played.
The people from other "pens" must mean the gentiles, for Jesus reached out to them as well. The thought of the day was that God would not even lift a finger to help a gentile unless that person converted to Judaism. And that could be true, to a certain extent. Jesus, on the other hand, came as an ambassador to reconcile all people to God. The Jews were supposed to live as the priests of the nations, dispensing God's message of grace, mercy, righteous living and justice to the world. They failed to do this because they grew proud of their status as "the chosen people" and looked with disdain on the world around them. The pendulum had swung from their past desire to imitate the other nations to thinking they were better than.
God didn't look at the world that way. His purpose for Israel wasn't simply for them but a means of redeeming the world as whole.
The difference between those truly converted to the gospel and hired guns is the former take on the heart of God for the world in order to build God's kingdom for eternity. The hired gun does so build a kingdom for this world alone and cares very little about what comes after that. Jesus, however, came to give us life to the full, and those who follow Him will grab this principle with both hands to dispense it to others being saved. We will be like Him, have His heart in us and take on His purpose.
"Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." John 4:38.
What does Christianity have to offer the world that they would even want?
I know that sounds pessimistic but don't think I'm being down on our gospel just realistic about the world itself as a whole. I've watched the methods people use to "reach" out to those around them and shake my head in amazement at the foolishness we bring to the table.
First off, the world manipulates others for their own advantage not the other way around. Yet Jesus turned this principle on its head and commanded us to be servants. The principle goes the same for our witness. We are not to use manipulation or coercion of any sort but to let our lives shine as examples of the grace, mercy and supernatural power of the God we serve.
The harvest is out there so we don't have to run around frantically searching for people to convert. And anyway it's not our job to convert anybody. The Spirit of God has come into the world to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, our job is to go out find those willing to respond to the Spirit's invitation. Manipulating them by fear tactics, intellectual superiority or a number of other methods just wastes our efforts. I'm not saying we shouldn't be well informed or armed with the gospel of truth, rather I believe we accomplish nothing when we think that our prowess in these methods bring about conviction.
The work of God is supernatural not earthly.
The law and prophets suffered, struggled and searched for the truth; many of them died for the sake of that truth. The disciples would be the ones to reap the benefits. Even John B suffered for his message as did Jesus. Jesus isn't saying, however, the disciples wouldn't be put through trial and persecution, rather He pointed to the work of bringing in the harvest of souls desiring eternal life.
Jesus told His disciples to go out into the world as witnesses, at the same time He instructed them to become as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Serpents never attack unless they are cornered, doves are at the mercy of those who catch them and helpless to escape once held. So we are not to fight the evil in the world, but be a living example counter to it. The power of our witness comes not from our words as much as it does our example of a changed attitude and life. The fact of our sinful fallen state (putting us on par with the rest of the world) allows those around us to see first hand the power of God in a life. They "witness" the changes in our natures, methods and attitudes, wondering what kind of power could do such a thing.
The harvest is constantly ripe. We don't have to wait for it to ripen because different fields come to maturity at various times. Even in the most infertile ground we can find pockets of growth and places to plant seeds. Instead of thinking it is our efforts alone which accomplish the work of God, we must recognize our effectiveness comes from God in us. We are conduits of His message and presence in the world.
Jesus called us "salt" of the earth. We flavor and preserve the dead and dying so that God doesn't destroy the planet. Just like in the days of Noah and Sodom, God will not destroy the world until the salt is so thinly spread it ceases to be effective. Noah was only ,one man amongst a world of people willing to follow the Lord; Lot was merely one servant in twin cities who stood for God. Each saved a small amount of their loved ones from impending disaster.
So will it be in the Day of Judgment. The believers by that time will be so few their presence will fail to "flavor and preserve" the world from the Judgment.
What is to be done about this problem?
Nothing, for we cannot prevent it. Our only obligation to the world is to keep working and harvesting where we find the ripe grain, which means we must be involved, engaged and exposed to the world in order to recognize the harvest when we see it. It also means we must live our lives out in the open so that those searching for Christ's way will find it easily. Our examples of Christ to the world are not sinless but displaying the grace of God growing us into ever increasing righteousness, which then gives those trapped by evil hope for themselves. This is our means of planting seeds and harvesting the fruits.
In the message of the gospels, who plants or reaps matters very little for their work is of equal importance and interchangeable. The only thing that matters is to make sure both happen when the opportunity arises.
I am always amazed by the lack of teaching on this principle of wisdom. The sheer belligerence in the Christian church has garnered as much persecution as our stance for Christ in recent years, I wager, for obnoxious presentation, pride and condescension result in division not wisdom. In keeping with Proverbs' stance on these last methods we must conclude that anything which smacks of arrogance, pride or obnoxiousness steps outside the character of Jesus and therefore opposes His message in practice if not opinion.
In our modern world mocking the gospel, Jesus, religion and those who practice it seems to be the norm for our society at large. I see debates arranged between prominent religions leaders in the Christian faith and those who oppose it and wonder what the justification is for such displays. Since there is no scientific proof or conclusive evidence for Jesus being the Way, Truth and Life, I see these debates as totally futile bordering on imbecilic for they accomplish very little, if the goal is to convince the world to believe in Him.
How can we practice a method which derives its methods from scorn and ridicule. Mocking another person's belief takes a sense of superiority and complete disregard for them as people. It shows a lack of concern for their feelings as individuals and wholesale disrespect of their beliefs, which translates into looking at them personally as complete idiots. Yet I've also know many a Christian who practiced this same attitude and method towards those who disagreed with them. Since these practices are outside the mandate of Christian love, I cannot see how being like the world is any advantage.
Sure, I've met many an agnostic and atheist who looked down on anyone who believes in God or gods period. I've argued with them over such stringent views as they present only to be derided and ridiculed for my pains.
Jesus told us how to handle such rejection: Leave without fanfare, go outside the town and wipe the dust off our feet as a testimony against them. This will be seen by them as silly and idiotic, but in God's view we are testifying to their judgment. The Christian ethic forbids wars on behalf of Christ for we aren't to resist one who is evil but move on from them; if we can't move on because they imprison us, we are not to let them close us down or destroy our open natures in Christ. However, we can be quietly godly.
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For through me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer." Proverbs 9:10-12.
Fearing God is the starting point for wisdom. Learning to know Him intimately is the only means to understanding Him.
The place where wisdom begins is right where many fall off. We can't even begin a discussion with people who reject God as supreme or ridicule any belief in Him. In these cases our best argument is our very life–how we live and handle relationships. The growth in us because of Christ will speak louder than all the preaching or pressure of argument. Yet we also cannot conclude a person is a fool just because they happen to reject the idea of a God or gods. Why? Simply because we don't know them. We have no idea what brought them to the place they now stand because we have no information until we listen to their journey.
One of the lessons I learned from experience is that rebuke is easy but useless when applied to someone who does not practice wisdom or respect for views different from their own. A person so engrossed in their own opinion is not interested or open to any viewpoint outside their own. Proverbs claims these fools are only interested in airing their own opinions. I wonder how many Christians fall into this category, for we many times listen less than we push our sales pitch for Christ down the throats of others.
There is a need in our education of the church to teach careful instruction, wise presentation and a sense of respect for other people's right to believe what they will. We must follow our Golden Rule, which our own Master commanded us to practice, to do to others what we would have done to us. This means in an argument or debate we remain respectful though our opponent may not, we remain careful of their person though they might refuse, we remain understanding of the truth of our walk by faith though they ridicule or scorn our stance. And we do all this without becoming scornful, derisive or any way condescending.
That's what it means to follow our Master and our greatest weapon against the darkness.


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Cowboys News: Amari Cooper's Fine, Dak Prescott's Record, And Micah Parsons' Vow
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Ernesto Cova
The Dallas Cowboys are getting ready to host the San Francisco 49ers for the Wild Card Weekend of the NFL playoffs, and, as per usual; there's a lot going on.
America's Team is looking to silence its critics and prove that they have what it takes to be a legit Super Bowl contender once again.
Here, we've gathered the most important news about the team, featuring Amari Cooper's fine, Dak Prescott's words on the playoffs, and Micah Parsons' warning to the 49ers' offense.
Kendall Jenner Braves The Cold In Bikini
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Amari Cooper Fined Over COVID-19 Protocols Violation
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Cowboys' wideout Amari Cooper is once again walking on thin ice.
The NFL fined him for attending a Dallas Mavericks game, as he's still unvaccinated and in violation of the league's protocols:
"Prior to attending the Mavericks game, Cooper was on the sideline at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, cheering on Alabama against Cincinnati. Cooper was with teammates CeeDee Lamb (Mavericks) and Trevon Diggs (Cotton Bowl), but since they have been vaccinated, they do not have the same restrictions and were not fined," reported Todd Archer of ESPN.
Cooper had a brief spell on the sidelines this season after testing positive for COVID-19.
Ex Olympic Skier Tries A New Hobby And Gives Tips On Authenticity
Dak Prescott Talks Playoff Football, Embracing Pressure
Even so, nothing is distracting the team's focus from thriving in the playoffs.
When asked about it, Dak Prescott opened up on how unique the atmosphere is at AT&T Stadium at this point in the year, stating that the fans will always play a key role:
"One thing you can't replicate is playoff football, especially at AT&T Stadium, having played two playoff games here," Prescott told the Cowboys website. "You can feel the atmosphere in warm-ups, and really just from the time you show up at the game. You can feel it. It's something special. It'll be exciting to see Cowboys Nation show out and be a big part of this game."
Mikaela Shiffrin In Bathing Suit Catches 'Massive Waves'
Prescott Reacts To High Expectations
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Prescott knows there's a lot of pressure on his shoulders right now. But far from shying away, he thinks that's only going to motivate him and the team to perform at the highest level:
"I don't know why people label the word pressure as such a bad thing," Prescott added. "I think it creates high expectations and high standards, and it usually creates high results. For me, it's just about who I am and staying true to that. Preparing the same way. Trusting the people around me, trusting the play-callers and my preparation and just going out there and playing the game that I love without any hesitation."
Micah Parsons Warns 49ers Offense
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And one guy who doesn't need any extra motivation is Micah Parsons, who'll be back with the team after missing the regular-season finale due to Covid-19.
When asked about San Francisco's stout offense, Parsons' response didn't disappoint:
"I'm from Harrisburg, where the bullies get bullied,"_ Parsons said, as quoted by Michael Gehlken of The Dallas Morning News. _"There's a bully in every gym. … At one point, it's going to take somebody to stand up and fight. I ain't ever back down from a challenge."
The 49ers' offense is peaking right now but Parsons has already proven to be a generational talent, so they better watch out.


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Gérald Tremblay (2001- )
Elected mayor of Montréal in November 2001, Gérald Tremblay was re-elected to a second term in the fall of 2005. In addition to his role as mayor, Mr. Tremblay is chairman of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) and the Montréal Agglomeration Council. Throughout his career, Mr. Tremblay has explored numerous fields of activity that have allowed him to expand his expertise in the areas of business and community development.
As mayor of the province of Québec's major city, he uses the experience he has acquired to serve his community. His goal is to build a city whereby citizens' remain at the heart of the concerns of his administration. Following his arrival at city hall, Gérald Tremblay demonstrated his skills at uniting people when he invited all Montréal partners interested in the development of the city to work together and propose projects that would secure Montréal's future. He also demonstrated his leadership ability by laying the foundation for the new City of Montréal. In addition to these accomplishments, he provided Montrealers with a long-term vision of the city through: Imagining and Building Montréal 2025 – A World of Creativity and Opportunities, which was the fruit of the 2002 Montréal Summit and the ensuing action plans.
A lawyer and member of the Barreau du Québec since 1970, Gérald Tremblay holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School. He developed a business turnaround concept while acting as senior partner and general manager of a consulting firm under the Sobeco Ernst & Young Group. After helping to revive the Fédération des Caisses d'entraide économique du Québec, he was noticed by the Government of Quebec at the time, which was led by Robert Bourassa. He was president of the Société de développement industriel du Québec from 1986 to 1989 and then served on the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Hydro-Québec's board of directors, becoming member of the latter's executive committee.
In 1989, Gérald Tremblay was elected as the Liberal MNA for Outremont and appointed Minister of Industry, Commerce, Sciences and Technology from 1989 to 1994. During his mandate he designed and advanced Québec's economic development strategy based on the industry cluster concept.
Today, in addition to being mayor, president of the CMM and the Agglomeration Council, Gérald Tremblay is shouldering other responsibilities in various Canadian and international bodies. Among others, he is member of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)'s board of directors and holds different positions within this organization's Big City Mayors Caucus. He is also director of the St. Lawrence/Québec region under the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative. Furthermore, Gérald Tremblay is member of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)'s executive board and also serves as vice-president of the Commission sur l'eau et l'assainissement. He is executive vice-president, treasurer and president of METROPOLIS' Commission sur le financement des services et des infrastructures and founding member of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change. He was recently elected vice-president of the Association internationale des maires francophones (AIMF) and is a member of Mayors for Peace.
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