You've got your Bibles open to Joshua chapter 7. The last time we were together, we were in Joshua chapter 6. You remember the theme of chapter 6, and that message is spiritual victory. Spiritual victories are fought and won by faith. As much as that was the climactic moment of God's people experiencing spiritual victory, as soon as we get into chapter 7, we flip the coin, and the theme of chapter 7 is spiritual defeat.
Certain defeat awaits the people who tolerate hidden sin.
If chapter 6 was a high point, a mountain top, we get into Joshua chapter 7, and we are right back in the valley. We're going to learn five things about hidden sin this morning.
How many of you have watched that television show CSI? And then, there's CSI: Miami and CSI: "every other country." What we're about to get into chapter 7 is CSI: Jericho. What does CSI stand for? Crime Scene Investigation. What we find in chapter 7 is a crime scene, and we have to find out "whodunit." Let's find out.
Is that hard for you to grasp? Notice here in verse 1, "The anger of the Lord burned against Israel." Why is that? Well, Israel had violated the covenant that God had pulled them into.
God would not allow the people to plunder the possessions of Jericho. Everything was to be burned—everything was to be completely annihilated except for the treasure that was to go into the treasury of the Lord. And yet, there was a man that got his greedy little fingers on some of the stuff. He's the man identified as…what was his name? Achan. By the end of the story he was achin'! Things did not go well. He brought trouble upon himself and he brought trouble upon the people of God, and his sin angered God.
Do you have room in your theology for a God who gets angry? Do you? You say, "Oh, that's the Old Testament God! I like to believe in the New Testament God; He's all about love and grace and mercy and forgiveness." Listen. There's only one God, and He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Sin angers God.
You say, "Well, I can't really reconcile that, because how could a loving God be angry?" Uh, do we have any parents in the room? Where are the parents? How many of you have at least one child that you love? Okay? A couple of them are questionable and harder to love—I get that, but you have one, right, that you love. You would give your life for this child.
But let me ask you: does that child ever do something stupid that angers you? And yet, when you are angry at this child, do you stop loving the child? No. It's your love that lays the foundation for your anger, because what you're angry at is that they are forfeiting the best for their lives. You're angry at the scars and the damage and the pain that they're inviting into their life because you love them so much.
Have you seen Micah's kids? They're the cutest kids: Reese, Callie and Blaze. Do you know, I do not get angry when Micah's kids do something stupid. I mean, I like Reese, Callie and Blaze. We had them over at the house last night after the service. I especially like Blaze—I'm really fond of Blaze. I like 'em all, but I don't get angry when they do something stupid. Why? They're not my kids, right? That's Micah's responsibility. And Micah loves them far more than I ever could. Now when Zac does something stupid, I get angry, okay? Because I want him to have the best. And, if you're a parent, you can understand how God can love and experience anger at the same time.
Mark it down: Hidden sin angers God. It's a real emotion of a real God. Some of us have trouble understanding this because, when you and I get angry, we are almost always in sin, right? The Bible tells us that there is a way to experience anger without sinning. Ephesians 4:26 tells us, "Be angry [but] do not sin…" So, it's possible, but how often do you sin when you get angry? It's almost all the time, right?
The Bible tells us over in James 1:20, "The anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God." But when we think about the anger of God, realize this: The anger of God always produces the righteousness of God, because God is perfect in all of His ways. He has absolute moral perfection. Everything He does is right. When we do something stupid, it produces an anger in God.
Listen, without the anger of God – love, grace and forgiveness have absolutely no meaning. Until you understand that, "Because of sin, I have made myself an object of God's anger." Until you grasp the weight of that concept, you have no need for a God who mercifully forgives. Without the anger of God, the cross of Jesus Christ has no point. If you want to see a picture of the anger of God toward sin, think about what happened on that cross. That was a picture of the anger of God being poured out on Jesus Christ because of the anger God has toward every sin.
Now, by the way, this message is for sinners here this morning. So, if you're not a sinner, you are dismissed. All the perfect people can leave the service, because this is a message for people who have sinned. Do you believe there is any sin in here? Absolutely. There is some hidden sin in here. Our desire is that, by the end of the service, hidden sin would be confessed and forsaken and repented of, so that you don't have to suffer the consequences of the anger of God.
Do you understand that there is no temptation that you can resist when you are proud, self-righteous and think that you can't fall into sin? When you are overconfident and underestimate the power of the enemy, that is when you are most prone to fall and suffer a great spiritual defeat. That's what happened here to the people of Israel.
The smallest temptation is impossible for me to resist without a desperate dependency upon the grace and the power of God. 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 12, says: "Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall." It's when you are proud that you are in the most danger of being defeated by the enemy.
Look here at Joshua 7:6: "Then Joshua tore his clothes…" That was a sign of humility. You see this over and over in the Old Testament. When people were in sin and people were suffering spiritual defeat—the kings, the leaders, they would tear their clothes. It was a sign of what was going on inside of their own heart.
They didn't want to have any pretense of wearing fine, royal clothes on the outside. They wanted the outside to represent what was going on, in the inside. Their hearts were broken, their faith had been torn, and they ripped their clothes on the outside to symbolize what was going on in the inside. So, Joshua tore his clothes "…and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads." Again, another sign of humility.
Now, if you've been tracking with us through the book of Joshua, that ought to sound familiar to you. Do you remember, back at the end of Joshua chapter 5, when Joshua came and met the Commander of the Armies of the Lord, and do you remember what Joshua did when he realized who the Commander of the Armies of the Lord was? What did he do? He fell on his face and worshipped.
That's a good question to ask when you're defeated by hidden sin. "God, why do I keep falling? What is going on?" If you're facing some resistance in your life right now, if there's turmoil and chaos going on in your life right now, it would be good for you to go to God and ask, "God, is the opposition and the chaos in my life caused by some hidden sin in my life?" That's a good prayer to pray.
Scripture goes on. Look down here at verse 10: "The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?" Interesting, isn't it? The Lord says to Joshua, "This is not a time for you to be praying! This is a time for you to be leading! This is a time for you to get involved go on a search for the reason why you have been defeated!" That's exactly what Joshua does.
God tells him, in Joshua 7:11, "Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings." Israel has sinned.
And I thought, "Well, maybe I'll just give you a list of a hundred sins and you could go through and check off the ones that you are hiding." I thought about that. But, do you understand that sin, at its core, is simply unbelief? It's a failure to believe God.
The reason we know that is because of those two words I had you underline there in verse 1. How does this whole episode start? It starts, notice in verse 1, with a broken faith. Do you have a broken faith? You just simply don't believe that what God has said is wrong, is wrong for you.
You think, "All those rules and all that judgment and stuff, that's all back in the past. We live in a contemporary society, and I'm sure God would understand. After all, I kind of feel like I was just born to sin. And it's kind of good, because God loves to forgive sin, and I love sin, so I have this great relationship with God, because I sin and He loves, and it's just this great love relationship." If that's your attitude toward sin, you do not understand sin.
Sin starts when I don't believe what God has said is true. Sin is a broken faith with God. When we come into relationship with Christ, for those of us who are Christians, we've bowed before His Lordship and we've said, "I am living my life—no turning back—I've decided to follow Jesus." When you do that, you enter into boundaries for your life. Christ is Lord, He gets to set the rules, and it doesn't matter how many shots you make outside of the boundary. It doesn't count. We're to live our lives inside the boundary.
Sin is transgressing, it says here in verse 11 – the covenant of the Lord. That's what sin is: You're playing life outside of the boundaries; and when you do, it's not going to go well for you—and it's not going to go well for the people you love. Look here in verse 15: "'And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.'" Sin is an outrageous thing to God.
And, understand this: sin is declaring war on God. It is setting myself up as an enemy of God and saying, "God, I will set my own rules; I will live as I please. Get out of my life!" And it is not until we understand that what may be covered on earth is exposed in heaven. Hidden sin cannot be hidden by God.
Look down here at Joshua 7:12. God wants to deal with the sin. He says, "Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more…" Do you understand that when you sin, you forfeit the presence of God?
The next time you're tempted to sin, understand that God says, "I will be with you no more." It doesn't mean that we lose our relationship with Christ; it means we lose the sense of His presence, the sense of His goodness, the sense of His power. Do you want to go through life without the presence of God? "Unless you destroy the devoted things from among you," it says it verse 12.
Look at verse 14: "In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the Lord takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the Lord takes shall come near by households. And the household that the Lord takes shall come near man by man." Do you understand what God was doing?
God says, "I want you to get everybody in their appropriate tribes." So, if there were two million people…we don't know exactly how many people there were. Let's say a tribe was like one-hundred-thousand people. Then He says, "I want you to section off the hundred-thousand people, not by tribes, but by clans." So maybe that was like a hundred people. Then God says, "by households," so maybe that's down to like ten people.
Now, if you are Achan, and you notice that Joshua is starting to put people into smaller and smaller groups, to try and figure out who is the one person who has brought trouble on Israel, at what point do you stand up and say, "It's me! It's me. Just stop. Eventually you're going to whittle it down and you're going to find me"? But Achan doesn't do that. He continues to hide, and he continues to hide and God continues to expose, and God continues to expose, to bring it out. God wants to cut out the cancer of sin among those people.
I told you a couple of weeks ago that I had this little procedure done on my foot. Let me tell you what I had. It's kind of gross. I may lose credibility here. But, how many of you have ever had a plantar wart? Lift your hand. Confess your plantar wart in church. Get that thing exposed in church, right?
But, do you understand that sin is a virus that spreads, unless you get every single cell out. That's what God is committed to do in your life, in your family and in this church. Why are we so serious about exposing sin? Because God's glory is at stake among His people in the church. What you think is hidden, God sees in heaven.
This is expressed in Psalm 139:11 and 12. Here's a guy who is thinking, "Maybe I can cover my sin." He says, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night…" But God says, "Even the darkness is not dark to me; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with me." Understand that hidden sin cannot be hidden from God.
And then the third thing. . .
Interesting, isn't it? If you're going to confront somebody over sin. Have you ever had this conversation with somebody that you love, maybe a child, maybe someone in your small group? It's a hard conversation isn't it? It takes an incredible amount of love to have that hard conversation. You have to love someone enough to confront them over their sin.
But I doubt that your conversation started with this: "Give glory to the Lord God!" Is that the way you start that conversation? So, why did Joshua say that? It's because Joshua understood that giving glory to God—and hiding sin—are mutually exclusive activities. You can't do both at the same time. We sing the song, "Show me Your glory! Show me Your glory!" You want to see God's glory? Confess your sin!
I remember, as we used to travel around in Life Action—to a lot of different churches—we would deal with sin; a lot of times we would even have to deal with sin among a church staff, a pastoral staff. I remember, we were in this one church in Alabama, and this pastor—he loved to talk about the glory of God, and he loved to talk about the miraculous things, and he loved to talk about signs and wonders that were going on. And yet, when you talked to him, you never really felt like you were getting anything tangible, or anything real, that God was doing in his life.
It was about ten days into those meetings that he finally came in and confessed, in humility, that he'd been too busy in his ministry; he'd forsaken his ministry to his wife; he was way too caught up in his own personal activities and his personal performance, and he had become so proud. He confessed that, and I just remember, the glory of God descended in that conversation. I looked at him and I said, "You know what? That is the greatest sign of the glory of God that we've seen! A man humbly confessing his sin, and crying out to God in need of grace and a new start—to do the thing that God has told him to do." Giving glory to God—and hiding sin—are mutually exclusive.
If you want to see the glory of God in your life, expose the hidden sin in your life. If we want to see the glory of God in this church, hidden sin has to be exposed and rooted out and cut out from among us. Do you know what the greatest tragedy is, when you hide sin? It's not the damage you cause to your own life. The greatest tragedy is, when you're hiding sin, God does not receive the glory from your life that He created it to generate.
Don't look at me like you're pious. If you've ever been to the mall, you've thought the same thing. "I need this," right? So, what was going through his mind? What was he thinking? Now, I don't know what he was thinking, really, because—I mean—how are you going to wear that, and people not know, "That did not come from the mall in Israel!" Right? "That came from the mall in Jericho!" I don't know where he thinks he's going to wear this thing. And then, he sees silver and gold and he thinks, "Why, I need that!" Do you understand that sin is: trying to satisfy a God-given desire in a God-forbidden way?
What was the desire in Achan's heart, in wearing the garment? Significance. "If I wear that, people will think highly of me! I'm going to look good, and I'll feel valued!" You and I have that same need. Now, listen, is the desire to feel significant and valued, sinful? Yes or no? No. The desire to feel significant—God's built that into us. We want to feel like we're built to do something great. The problem is, is that when you try to get your desire for significance met in a God-forbidden way, that's sin; and that's what happened to Achan.
And then, he grabbed some gold and silver. What do you when you grab gold and silver—what desire are you trying to meet? The desire for security, right? It's when we look to things that are created, rather than the Creator for our security, that we sin. We think, "If I could just have some gold, if I could just have some silver, if I could just get my retirement account, if I could just kind of have this house and this car and all these different things, financially, work out, then I would feel more secure." It's a lie! And it so often leads us into sin. That's exactly what happened to Achan! His desires for security and significance led him into sin.
You may read this verse and think, "Achan confessed his sin; he's so specific about what happened." What we don't see is the same level of humility and repentance that we saw earlier from Joshua. Where is the falling on his face, where is the ripping of his clothes, where are the ashes on his head to indicate, "Not only did I do it, but I hate that I did it! I'm so ashamed that I did it! I never want to do it again"? We don't see any of that.
Do you understand that confession without repentance is just an announcement? And the last thing we need in church is more announcements! Have you announced your sin, or have you turned from your sin and repented of sin? Hidden sin won't remain hidden. It's coming out.
As we were in Belize this week, there were probably about a hundred pastors that we got to minister to. Over the course of—really—sixteen-hour days, we were just trying to meet as many pastors as we could. You've got to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince. So, we spent a lot of time, and we really poured our lives into these people and really grew to love these people.
Andrea was with us and, while I was doing a session kind of down in the main auditorium of this church we were meeting in, I was actually leading a session on the importance of the home in the life of a pastor. . .and how you have to make sure that you don't put your ministry before your marriage. . .because it's so easy to believe that, "If I take care of my ministry, God will take care of my marriage." I was like, "Guys, that is a lie! You have to take care of your marriage and trust God to take care of your ministry, because if you lose your marriage, you'll lose your ministry!" That's what I was pouring into these pastors.
At the very same moment, Andrea was upstairs in the church, and she had about twenty-five of these pastors' wives, and she was pouring into them. After her session, one of these ladies went to Andrea and said, "Can I talk to you?" She said, "Sure." The lady said, "I'd like you to come back to my house." So Andrea was going back to her house to sit and visit with her. This lady said, "I'm a little afraid to talk to you, because it's about my husband." And she went on to tell Andrea that her husband, pastor, was actually living with another woman, committing adultery. And everybody in the church knew it, and all the pastors knew about it.
Andrea grabbed a couple of other pastors and sat, herself with this wife and that pastor, along with two of our Harvest pastors, and for hours pleaded with this man—and this couple—to repent of sin and put God back in the priority position in their life. Unfortunately, sadly, this pastor welled up with pride, put up walls, shut down, and chose to hide sin. Hidden sin won't remain hidden; God is going to bring it out. He loves His church way too much to let it continue.
We see that in Achan's life. Look at Joshua 7:22 and 23. "So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath. And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down…" Before who? "…before the Lord." The Lord was there! The place to bring your hidden sin is into the presence of the Lord.
[Verse 24:] "And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the Valley of Achor." The word "Achor" means "trouble." And this was a valley—a low point—of trouble.
[Verse 25:] "And Joshua said, 'Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.' And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones." If Achan had had any foresight, to believe that the price tag of his sin was that he was going to lose everything—and that sin was going to bring certain pain—not only to him, but to his wife and to his children—and that everything that had anything to do with him would be lost, do you think he would have valued that garment? Do you think he would have wanted to pay that kind of price tag for his sin? No, and so that's the way it works. The devil wants to blind you to the price tag of sin. He wants to whisper in your ear and say, "This won't cost you anything! This won't hurt you! This won't hurt anybody!" And that's what he does—he deceives us into thinking we can tolerate this in our lives, and we don't understand the pain that sin will bring into our lives!
I heard this week a report that Shamu is sick. Have you ever gone to SeaWorld? They call it Shamu. This is actually Tilicum. Recently, our family watched this very troubling documentary called Blackfish, about Tilicum. He's a thirty-five-year-old whale that's been at SeaWorld for many years. And, of course, you've seen the tricks—how the trainers get in the water with him, and all the different things—and we all applaud.
But the reality is this: Tilicum is a killer whale, and in fact, he's actually killed three trainers in his lifetime. Now, I don't how you feel about this, but I'm thinking if you get in the water with an animal that has "killer" for his first name, you probably get what you deserve, right? I mean, sad reality here, but do you understand this? There has never been a report, of any kind, of a killer whale harming a human being as long as he is in the wild. The problem happens when you try to contain them or train them or play with them.
And the same thing is true with sin. If you try to manage your sin, if you try to contain your sin, if you try to train it to do tricks when you want it to behave, and you play with it? That's what gets you in trouble. You cannot manage sin. Hidden sin will bring certain pain. Proverbs 28:13 says…You like promises in God's Word? Here's one for you! "Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy." What do I do immediately after I sin? You have two options: you can either conceal it, which will ensure certain pain in the future, or you can confess it and obtain mercy. Two options, every time I sin.
Have you found yourself in the story yet? You and I are modern-day Achans. The reason I know that is because we've already dismissed all the perfect people. The only people left are people like Achan, who have sinned. We've broken faith. We've transgressed. We have tried to satisfy God-given desires in a God-forbidden way—and here we are.
Do you understand that the Lord's anger burns against us? Our only hope of making it out of alive is for something to motivate God to turn His anger away from us. Do you understand what happened two-thousand years ago? We celebrate it this week. One day, God sent His son and hung Him on a cross. For six hours, God hurled stones of judgment and anger and wrath at His own Son. And He threw strikes. And there were bruises that appeared on Jesus' body, and there was blood that flowed. Until, finally, Jesus was dead and buried, by your sin. And they put one final stone in front of His tomb. And for three days, Jesus was crushed by the weight of your sin and my sin. But three days later the stone was rolled away, and Jesus was victorious over sin and death. And spiritual defeat was crushed by the weight of a victory that Jesus won over my sin.
Only those who will confess and believe that Jesus paid the price tag for the sin that I committed…only those that trust in the Savior's love and victory that He won, at Easter, over sin…only those who believe have any hope that God's anger will be turned on the Day of Judgment. Where does God find you this morning? Does He find you hiding sin?
Do you know the reason we hide sin? It's because we don't think there's any remedy for it. We don't think that God's gracious enough and good enough and forgiving enough to forgive a modern-day Achan like me. Do you have a broken faith? The remedy is to repent and believe and to trust that Jesus Christ, on that cross, took every stone that should have been hurled at me. . .it's the only remedy for sin.
Is there any hidden sin in here? Now's the time to confess it and deal with it. Some of you need to go to God right now, in your heart of hearts, and quit justifying and quit rationalizing and quit moralizing and blaming somebody else for your sin. You need to repent; fall on your face and repent of sin. But don't leave it there.
Some of you need to go a spouse, you need to go to a child, you need to go to a parent; some of you need to get on the phone or go to an employer's office this week, and confess that you have wronged that person. Some of you may need to come to a pastor and confess, "I have been hiding sin for years. And I'm tired of it. And today I repent." What is God asking you to do?


Poverty Polls and Issues Ignored.
This week Gallup posted a poll that said that Obama's support is suffering among "the poorest Americans". Poor, according to them was defined as anyone earning $2,000.00 or less per month. I suppose that means I'm poor. My first clue should have been that I met a "homeless" couple who made more than I did. Well, maybe not, it did say those who "earn" $2,000.00 or less and I "earn" $2,080.00 a month, but since my heath care costs doubled when Obama announced his "Obamacare" plan, and through taxing, my net pay is around $1,400.00 a month. Apparently, that's pretty poor. I had no idea I was poor. I have a vehicle, make rent, buy food, and I obviously have internet access. I can't afford all the food I want, I don't have cable, or even a real bed or any real furniture that didn't come with the trailer I rent, but I never thought of myself as poor. Sure, I just turned in my third request to my job to get a new pair of boots because my old ones are falling apart, and I can't go to all the places I would like to go because I can only afford so much gas, but again, I'm not "poor". When I want more money, I just work overtime.
I mentioned a "homeless" couple I met the other day. I put that in quotations because they aren't homeless anymore since they just rented a trailer next to mine. Before this, they lived in a nearby tent city though. Their job is to stand on street corners and sell a locally published homeless newspaper. And like I said, they make more than I do. By Gallup's definition, they aren't "poor".
So that brings me to a conclusion… I think this poll is skewed! A media poll that's skewed? Say it ain't so! I know, it's crazy right? But I really don't think that this poll says anything other than they expected low income Americans to fully support a Democratic party in office, and now even us "poor folk" are becoming disillusioned with Washington politics as usual.
Onto other news, London is burning! Riots are breaking out all over the place because someone was shot and killed by police officers. I haven't seen the whole story reported here in the US. All they say is "young people" are rioting… No one here is reporting that the reason they are rioting is because they think the police shot this man because he was black. I think however, that police shot him for being a criminal illegally possessing a handgun and shooting at the police officer… I could be wrong though. I don't know the officer, he might just be a racist prick. Other people are joining the riots because they say that the local government is ignoring predominately black neighborhoods in the city. According to the rioters, burning their own neighborhoods down is supposed to improve things though. Other people are joining the looting because they say they're poor and can't afford the things they want. Apparently, they make less than $2,000.00 a month. Well, according to Gallup I'm poor and I follow the law so there really is no excuse for this kind of burning and pillaging in my mind. I wonder if S&P will downgrade their credit rating now since it requires rioting in the streets to get their social-economic politics under control?
Dang, London, I thought you all prided yourselves as being all civilized and junk! When they do riot, they apparently go all out! You would have thought that someone made a bad call at a soccer game or something! I'm sorry, that really isn't fair to say. They call it "football" over there don't they?
I work at a prison, in the city. It's not the biggest city ever, and it isn't the biggest prison ever. In fact, it's one of the smallest ones in the state. The main point of this prison is to house the worst of the worst that the state has to offer. As you may suspect, this leads to some hair-raising situations, and I've seen many. However, last night was a new one on me, because the threat wasn't from the inmates, we're prepared for that, this threat was from an area where we have no jurisdiction or authority, the community.
Correctional Officers don't tend to have many fans. Most citizens never think about us, and those who we come in contact with regularly tend to wish they were somewhere else. Yep, no one wants our job and even we would like to see the need for our job diminish. It's one of those thankless endeavours that I have built my life around. I do patrol on the graveyard shift.
A voice came over the radio saying "central control, you'll need to send someone out to get me, my vehicle broke down. I'm in a bad neighborhood". I'll have the change the names of the places and people here for privacy reasons. We'll say this guy's name is "Officer Black".
Then a voice answered. We'll call him "Sgt. Gray", "Yeah, 10-4 Officer Black, we'll send another vehicle out as soon as possible". All seemed pretty normal, after all, state vehicles break down sometimes. Several minutes passed.
"Hey, I'm in a really bad neighborhood, you need to send someone quick, I've got a lot of eyes on me right now" Officer Black said, sounding a little more panicked than before. "Yeah 10-4. Officer White, are you on the way?" Sgt. Gray asked. "Yes, I'm on the way now, I should be there in about 15 mike" Officer White said as he drove off with a state issued van. "Hey you've got the shotgun with you right, Officer Black"? Sgt. Gray asked, "10-4 Sarge" was the answer. Several more minutes passed. Sgt. Gray told central control to try to get a wrecker from the Department of Transportation to go to "South Street" to pick up the vehicle.
By this time we were hanging on the radio to hear how things were developing. From the sound of it, it wasn't going well. Every minute or so the calls from Officer Black became more frantic. "Hey Sarge, more people are showing up" followed by "These guys are armed, get here fast". At this point, Sgt. Gray informed Officer Black that there was no wrecker to be found at this time of night and to stay calm, we're calling the police. Meanwhile, a crowd of 10 to 15 people had formed around our officer and were closing in. Each minute seemed like an hour as we did all we could do, listen and wait.
Apparently, the crowd became violent. Officer Black was forced to take action. He evacuated the vehicle with the shotgun, and instructed the crowd to disperse. "Central control, tell metro that I'm armed, these people are armed and they're not backing down". Was the next nervous call we heard. The hoard refused to comply, they knew that this officer was alone, that he was from the prison and didn't have the authority to arrest them. However, they didn't know if he had the authority to use that shotgun to defend his own life… He did have that authority, and it looked like he might have to use it. Metro was called again, but there were no blue lights in sight.
Things were looking bad for Officer Black as the mob grew more brave, but at that moment, Officer White showed up. The people scattered. "Central, this is Officer White, I'm here and it looks like everyone is headed back inside". We all cheered, thinking that things were finally safe. Officer White had brought a can of gas and a set of jumper cables to try to get the vehicle working again. Things were looking up… Until the crowd saw that Officer White was unarmed… Either way, the presence of Officer White had changed the dynamic of the situation. The mob saw things in a different light now, but they still weren't happy at the appearance of prison officers in their neighborhood. Slowly, things started going south again as the crowd assembled once more.
After a few more moments, to our horror, there were now two panicked voices calling for assistance. "This is getting serious guys, get metro out here now, we're like sitting ducks!" Officer White shouted on the radio. The only thing they could do was cling to that shotgun, and hope help arrived. Sgt. Gray instructed them to stay in their vehicles until the police arrived, then try to put gas in the vehicle or jump start it when the police have secured the area. Little did we know, it would be another half hour before the police would get there as they were held up on another crime on "North Street".
Several more tense minutes passed, I was now wondering why they don't have convoy training at the academy and debated trying to explain to them what a box formation was and how to do 360 degree security. It's hard to do all that with only two vehicles and one gun though. Eventually, there was no getting around it. The armed members of the crowd were back and our officers had to take action since help was just too far away. It's a good time to note that they weren't out in some remote area, they were in the middle of a sub-industrial part of one of the largest cities in the state. Officer Black held the mob (About 20 people by now) at bay with the gun again while White tried to get the vehicle running. Unfortunately, it was broke hard and still wouldn't start.
Luckily, as the crowd was about to try to take the two in a rush, blue lights flashed down the street. The police were here! Well, one was there anyway, but that was enough. In an instant, the crowd was gone, and order was restored. The police called their wrecker to tow the vehicle back to the prison and everyone got back safe.
Situations like this is the reason I choose to carry a gun when I'm off duty. You never know when you'll be thrust into a bad situation, and in this case, if it wasn't for that one shotgun, our man Officer Black would have been skinned alive long before help could get to him. No matter how safe your neighborhood may seem, you never know where chance will take you. In the end, criminals don't care about who you are, they only care if you have the means to defend yourself or not. As I got home this morning, I watched the news only to find that a woman on the other side of town had to use her handgun to defend her life when two robbers broke into her house, The police can't be everywhere at once. Keep your head on a swivel out there, we're all in this together.


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Q: Media queries are not reflecting while using Preact I am trying to use Preact of my existing application in react
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Q: What principle difference between Structure and Tuple? writeln(is(Tuple!(string, int) == struct)); // true

What is real user case when I should use Tuple instead of struct?

A: Tuple is mostly for convenience as it's often shorter to write tuple(0, "bar") than defining the struct.
There are a few use cases where a tuple is handy, e.g. unwrapping to an AliasSeq:
import std.typecons : tuple;

void bar(int i, string s) {}

void main()
{
    auto t = tuple(1, "s");
    bar(t.expand);
}

expand can also be handy when working with ranges:
void main()
{
    import std.stdio : writeln;
    import std.typecons : tuple;

    auto ts = tuple(1, "s");
    foreach (t; ts)
    {
        t.writeln;
    }

    import std.algorithm : minElement;
    import std.range;
    tuple(2, 1, 3).expand.only.minElement.writeln; // 1
}

Another real-use case is zip where the result of zip([0], ["s"]) is Tuple!(int, string) (or in general staticMap!(ElementType, Args)) which is easier than generating the struct dynamically (though of course with static foreach or mixin that would be possible too).

A: Largely choosing one over the other is based on preference, some coder may never use Tuples and other most of the time.
They do generally have different use cases.
The primary difference is that a Tuple is typed (named/identified by the compiler) by the types in it while a Struct is typed by a label chosen by the coder. i.e. if a function returns Tuple!(string,int) and another function that returns a string and int tuple will be returning the same type; but if a function returns a struct (e.g. Struct fun(arg)) that contains a string and int (struct Struct{string s; int i;}) it can be returning a different type than another function that returns a different struct with the same types.
Essentially the same difference and reasons a coder would choose a struct or an array for Vector or Position (struct Pos {int x; int y;} vs int[2])
Tuple!(string,int) == Tuple!(string,int)
StructA != StructB
No hard rule just how strongly typed you want to / is appropriate to be.


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Perseverance Sees Evidence of Flash Floods in Jezero Crater
Nearly eight months into the Perseverance rover's mission on Mars, researchers have confirmed that Jezero crater is (as was believed) an ancient lakebed, but more significantly, that it once experienced powerful flash floods that pushed boulders from tens of miles upstream into the crater basin.
Years before Perseverance ever left Earth, orbital photographs of Jezero crater showed what looked to be the remains of a river delta, where water once flowed into a huge lake 45 kilometers in diameter. This river feature is, in large part, what earned Jezero the honor of being chosen as Perseverance's landing site – it seemed an excellent location to study Mars' liquid heritage, and maybe, just maybe, find signs of life (On Earth, river deltas are often fertile feeding grounds for all kinds of microbial organisms).
An orbital image (enhanced color) of the Western delta in Jezero Crater on Mars, where the Perseverance rover landed in February. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
But orbital photographs can only provide so much detail. Having cameras and instruments on the ground enables researchers to examine rock features and outcrops on the delta face that are not visible from space. Perseverance has now given scientists enough data to make stronger claims regarding the history of the lakebed and the river that once flowed into it.
A trained eye studying layers of sedimentary rock on Mars can peer backward in time to understand the region's past. Using images from the Rover's Mastcam-Z camera, researchers were able to distinguish two distinct periods in the crater's hydrological history. At one time – between 3.6 and 3.8 billion years ago – the region was wet and humid, featuring a calm and quiet lake, with a small river feeding it from the West. But something changed late in the lake's history. A shift in climate or in the watershed turned that calm river into a rushing, raging channel for periodic flash floods. As the researchers put it, Jezero crater's sedimentary geology "indicates a transition, from a sustained hydrologic activity in a persistent lake environment, to highly energetic short-duration fluvial flows."
The evidence for the calm period in the crater's history is found in tilted sedimentary deposits, a formation that indicates slow-flowing water as layers of sediment were deposited gradually over time.
The evidence for the flash floods, on the other hand, is seen in huge boulders, some weighing several tons and up to a meter wide, that were scattered across the top of the delta (in the youngest layers of the outcrop).
Sedimentary outcrops in the "Delta Scarp" in Mars' Jezero Crater, the upper layers of which hold 'boulder-bearing units' indicating flash floods in the distant past. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ASU/MSSS.
Benjamin Weiss, an MIT professor who worked on the analysis, explained that "you need energetic flood conditions to carry rocks that big and heavy. It's a special thing that may be indicative of a fundamental change in the local hydrology or perhaps the regional climate on Mars."
The boulders appear to have originated some tens of kilometers upstream. To move such boulders to their current resting place in the delta would require enormous force, moving up to 3,000 cubic meters of water per second at a rate of 9 meters per second.
For now, the source of these flash floods is uncertain. A paper published today in Science hypothesizes that possible causes include "intense rainfall events, rapid snowmelt episodes (from either a climatic origin or heating by volcanism or impact), or through progressive building of glaciers and glacial lakes in the watershed creating episodic surges. Thus, the transition in flow intensity at Jezero crater may be related either to paleoclimatic shifts (global or regional), or changes in watershed hydrology."
Either way, the team now has a better understanding of the region's past, with two distinct periods clearly visible in the geological record.
As the rover nears the delta, researchers are eager to get up close and personal with the sedimentary deposits, taking samples for future return to Earth. The fine-grained clays near the bottom of the delta, the paper concludes, "have high potential to preserve organic matter or potential biosignatures." Whether there was any life there to be preserved in the first place is impossible to say right now, but Perseverance is doing its best to find out. To date, Perseverance has traveled 2.61km, and still has a ways to go before reaching the delta proper. You can see the rover's current position and track its route here.
Jennifer Chu, "Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake." MIT News.
Mangold, Gupta et al."Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits at Jezero crater, Mars." Science.
Feature Image: a butte near Jezero crater dubbed "Kodiak" by the rover team. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS; edited by Jim Bell/ASU.
CategoriesAstronomy, Mars, Perseverance Rover Tagsflash floods, Jezero crater, Perseverance, Water on Mars
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Dwaj ludzie z szaf?
" I especially loved the use of the vibraphone, which gives these pieces appropriate bursts of energy and fun. "
Written by Joep de Bruijn - Review of the music as heard in the movie
Dwaj ludzie z szafą (Two Men and a Wardrobe, 1958) is a silent short film by Roman Polanski. The idea of the film is that two men carrying a wardrobe around try to make contact with people, but in their journey they stumble upon one rejection after another. It ties in with Polanski´ personal life against the backdrop of World War II. The score was done by Krystof Komeda.
Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) was an important jazz musician that was recognized in Poland and the rest of Europe as the most important person to work on Polish free jazz. His album Aegestic (1965) performerd by his Komeda Quintet, including the famous trumpeteer Tomasz Stanko. is arguably one of his finest achievements. This same Stanko was involvement in a series of new releases, honouring and keeping the music by the long deceased Komeda alive. Alongside his career in jazz he wrote scores to more than 40 flms, increasingly adopting more elements of classical, experimental and pop music, which is also evident in all his collaborations with director Roman Polanski. He began to write music to his short films, continuining with scores to full length films Knife in the Water Cul-de-Sac and Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (segment "La Rivière de Diamants", before expanding on his ´usual jazz score´ and typical 60 sound with variations of a hauning worldless chorus in Dance and the Vampires and his portions of electronics and the shivering lullaby for Rosemary´´s Baby.
Back in the days, Komeda enjoyed great success with his Sekstet Komedy, generally performing modern Polish jazz, but also for films such as Dwaj ludzie z szafą. The music in the film starts as the two men emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe. Komeda introduces us to the slow, every day life main theme, which has a great melody for a woodwind. The series of rejection these men face, ultimately force them to return to their place of departure, the sea. On the one hand, the theme sounds like an enchanting breeze that ties in with the comical side of the short. On the other hand, the slower, downbeat takes, reflect on the feeling of discomfort and rejection, befitting for the film.
A secondary musical idea is the upbeat tempo jazz that underlines some of the more comical elements of the film. I especially loved the use of the vibraphone, which gives these pieces appropriate bursts of energy and fun. Komeda applied very direct shifts between the two music ideas in the film, but reserved different music for the scene in which the two men meet a group of youngster, who end up giving them a beating. A nice staccato motif, performed by deep bass, vibraphone and woodwind, establishes a wonderful feeling of evil and suspense.
Komeda´s music is not devoid of mickey-mousing, which works well in a tragicomedy such as this. It is fine seeing him mimick a character crawling through the sand musically, but the decision to underscore the rejection of a girl invited to look into the wardrobe´s mirror, with an overtly direct woodwind take on disappointment, is rather awful. It sounds like a crossover of the failure in a cartoon and answering wrongfully on a tv show, which is far out of reach with the content of the film. I am sometimes amazed how such hugely deviating moments were even approved by the directors Komeda worked with. A similar curiosity can be found in his music to Polanski´s first main feature Nóz w Wodzie (Knife in the Water, 1962).
The score is fully available on a release tied with Nóz W Wodzie and Gdy Spadaja Anioly (Power records) and on Jazz In Polish Cinema - Out Of The Underground 1958-1967 (Jazz on Film records). Like Gdy Spadaja Aniol, it comes directly from the audio track of the film, including some sound effects such as the sea. I suspect the original recording was deemed lost, but there are no sources to verify this. Nonetheless, if this is the one and only way to enjoy this fine score to Dwaj ludzie z szafą, I could not be less than grateful.
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Winners of the European Inventor Award 2014 in the category industry
Koen Andries et al: in their own words
About the invention
Sector: Pharmaceuticals
Company: Janssen Pharmaceutica (Johnson & Johnson)
Patent number: EP1527050
Invention: Drug against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Tuberculosis continues to claim more than 2 million lives annually. Even worse, the bacteria causing the disease are becoming increasingly resistant to existing medications. Enter a new anti-TB drug invented by Belgian researcher Koen Andries and team, a highly effective compound named bedaquiline that cuts off the energy supply in tuberculosis bacteria.
The invention is a chemical compound initially labelled "R207910", later renamed "bedaquiline". As a so-called first-line therapy for tuberculosis, the molecule proves a highly effective inhibitor of mycobacterial growth in the disease-causing organisms. Bedaquiline also eradicates multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), of which there were a reported 500 000 new cases worldwide in 2012.
All previous TB medications relied on slowing the reproduction of the TB bacteria, thereby gradually bringing down infection levels over time. But as the first truly new anti-TB drug in 40 years, bedaquiline paralyses the energy supply in the bacterial cell, which then dies. This novel mechanism, paired with its fast-acting effectiveness, makes bedaquiline a powerful weapon against "multi-drug-resistant" (MDR) cases of TB.
Societal benefit
The rise of TB infections continues worldwide, with 8.6 million new cases and 1.3 million deaths in 2012, about 95% of them in developing countries. Although conventional drugs are available, many patients stop taking them after initial symptoms of TB subside. But finishing the course of treatment is crucial because drug-resistance and relapses may occur. The new drug reduces treatment time by about 40 days, so patients are much more likely to take it for the full duration of the treatment.
Economic benefit
Next to the direct impact of deaths related to tuberculosis, the disease can have a paralysing effect on the economy of entire regions. Especially in areas where tuberculosis is widespread – primarily in poorer countries – the infection can also be devastating to overall economic performance, because victims are hindered in their ability to work or need to drop out of the workforce entirely as the condition worsens.
Developing countries could lose as much as to US $3 trillion in productivity over the next decade, according to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. With current medications, simple infections are treatable in about six months, while up to 20 months can be required for serious cases. The new drug invented by Koen Andries and team, marketed under the name Sirturo, is nearly twice as effective as traditional treatment at eradicating TB in patients – and cures the disease after just eight weeks.
Koen Andries and Jérôme Guillemont
Jérôme Guillemont
Koen Andries
Jérôme Guillemont and Koen Andries
While the drugs typically used to treat TB and MDR-TB target either the cell wall or RNA of mycobacterium tuberculosis to slow its reproduction, bedaquiline is the first drug to interfere with its metabolism. Specifically, bedaquiline targets the enzyme ATP synthase (adenosine 5'-triphosphate), which is critical to the energy generation of the mycobacteria.
By interrupting the energy cycle inside the TB bacteria, this "ATP Synthase Inhibitor" can destroy the infectious agent more quickly. And because it is not related to the drugs to which TB is becoming resistant, bedaquiline is also more effective in the destruction of MDR-TB.
The inventor:
Koen Andries is a microbiologist with a PhD in veterinary medicine. He began his career with research on viral diseases in animals. After reading a World Health Organisation (WHO) report in 2001 that described the increasing prevalence of tuberculosis as well as its growing unpredictability, he decided to switch his focus to human medicine and began to search for a cure for tuberculosis together with French chemist Jérôme Guillemont.
As a professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp, Andries poured over the "compound library" of his employer Janssen Pharmaceutica, headquartered in Beerse, in the Flemish region of Belgium, together with his team. They tested thousands of chemical substances – repeatedly recombining and retesting them – until they finally zoomed in on the quinoline molecule, which became the basis for their new medication.
The approval of new drugs is a highly bureaucratic process that can take many years. But because of the revolutionary effectiveness of bedaquiline, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accelerated the approval in 2013. Other countries including Germany have also fast-tracked approvals: This is an exceptional status that demonstrates the drug's importance in battling tuberculosis on a global scale.


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Ontario Public School Boards' Association: Who We Are - ET Spring 2015
By T.J. Goertz
The Ontario Public School Boards' Association (OPSBA) is a unique organization whose members come together to give strength to public education in Ontario. The association is governed and controlled by our member boards and is a leader for excellence in governance, funding, education program policy and labour relations.
School boards are accountable to the people who elect them for providing sound educational opportunities for all students, for creating conditions that promote student learning and well-being, and for providing opportunities for parents, staff and the public to become involved in setting priorities that work for the local school board and community. It is also all trustees' role and responsibility to develop budgets that turn provincial education funding into programs and services that meet student needs in diverse communities.
Led by President Michael Barrett, OPSBA is positioned to advance the objectives of member boards in the critical areas of influencing public policy and education investment in the province. We work successfully to advance clear, cohesive and authoritative positions that get to the heart of the pressing issues and needs of school boards today. OPSBA will, with our members' support, continue to strengthen a remarkable school system where all students achieve.
Together, our member boards and school authorities--small isolate boards or hospital-based boards- serve the educational needs of almost 70 percent of Ontario's elementary and secondary students.
The Structure of OPSBA
OPSBA's board of directors provides strategic direction to the organization and includes representatives from English public district school boards, OPSBA's First Nations Council and school authorities.
The executive council reports to the board of directors and includes representatives from our five regional councils-Eastern, Western, Central East, Central West and Northern-as well as our president, the first and second vice-presidents and the enrolment vice-president.
In addition, the association hosts numerous committees and work groups, including the Education Program Work Group, the Coalition for Children and Youth Mental Health, the Policy Development Work Group, the Labour Relations Council, the Provincial Labour Relations Network and planning/advisory committees for the various annual professional development opportunities that OPSBA provides.
Our expert staff, under the leadership of Executive Director Gail Anderson, is well respected and called upon frequently to advocate on behalf of the best interests and needs of the public school system in Ontario.
In addition to our wide-ranging advocacy supporting the goals and initiatives of Ontario's public education system, OPSBA facilitates a number of regular events:
Public Education Symposium Every January, this symposium offers a unique and rich combination of information and resources, guest speakers who are recognized experts in their field, forums and plenary sessions that raise the most critical issues of the day and access to experienced and dedicated professionals.
Education Labour Relations and Human Resources Symposium This comprehensive event provides context for trustees and school board staff on new and emerging issues in the human resources and labour relations sector every March in Toronto.
Annual General Meeting & Program At the AGM, OPSBA members determine priorities and directions for the coming year, elect officers and plan for the future. This event also includes a comprehensive professional development program for trustees. This year, OPSBA's Western Region is the host, and the event runs June 11 to 13, 2015, at the Westin Trillium House at Blue Mountain.
Summit on Children and Youth Mental Health As a lead organization in the Coalition for Children and Youth Mental Health, OPSBA takes a key role in organizing the Summit on Children and Youth Mental Health, which is held every two years. It is designed to deepen knowledge about mental health among all those who work with children and youth, and to highlight programs and services that have been proven to work. The next Summit on Children and Youth Mental Health will occur in April 2016.
OPSBA's publications include Education Today; the annual Key Work report and the Annual Report, which outline the association's key priorities and subsequent supporting actions; a wide variety of professional development materials for both school board trustees and school board staff; and position papers on a range of education program- and policy-related issues.
For more information on OPSBA and the work we do, please visit our website at www.opsba.org.
T.J. Goertz is an alumnus of the District School Board of Niagara and has a degree from Carleton University's School of Journalism and a post-graduate certificate in public relations from Centennial College. A former community newspaper reporter and editor in Niagara, his career includes corporate communications for the Town of Richmond Hill and a communications/social media portfolio with the Toronto DSB. This included managing the board's Twitter and Facebook accounts. Since 2012, T.J. has worked as a strategic social media specialist for OPSBA and is part of the association's dynamic communications and policy team. He lives in Toronto with his wife Ashley.


We've done so much since we were founded in 1991!
Quarterly Luncheons on issues of interest to our Membership past speakers have included the Governor of Oregon, Supreme Court Justices, and many prominent minority attorneys.
Participate in statewide committees and task forces including the Oregon Supreme Court Task force on Racial and Ethnic issues in the Judicial System and the OSB Diversity section.
Sponsor of Legal Education Programs including the Oregon State Bar Diversity & Inclusion Department event "Opportunities for Law in Oregon," Oregon Hate Crimes Conference (2000), Convocation on Equality (2001), Attorney Recruitment and Retention (2001), ABA National Conference of the Minority Lawyer (2003-2005).
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Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers
Write on for Israel Student Documentaries
Write on for Israel, affectionately called WOFI is a program launched by Bluestar to help High School students explore their relationship with our land and our people. The culmination of months of study is a trip to Israel, and a documentary produced by the students themselves.
Check out the films produced by last year's class of teen participants at Write On For Israel/San Francisco. The descriptions were written by the students, as well.
Too Thin is No longer In
70 million people worldwide are affected by eating disorders. as teenage girls, we see this affecting our society every day. We feel the pressure to look like the girls on TV, in movies, and in magazines. From a young age, girls are manipulated through the media to believe that thin is beautiful. Adi Barkan is an Israeli fashion photographer and model agent who is trying to change the way the media portrays women. He hopes that through his legislation, we can change the way society perceives beauty. We hope this movie inspires you all to join in our efforts to spread awareness of the media so that we can make a change.
ReWalk :An Israeli Miracle
We made this documentary to show how Israel is not only the conflict. We want to show the spirit of Israelis and how they seek to accomplish the impossible. To show how much this small country has contributed to the world, with numerous devices such as the pill cam, drip irrigation, and the iron dome. ReWalk is just another one of the innovations to come from Israel.
Returning home: A Jerusalem Story
Jerusalem was the original capital of the kingdom of Israel in the time of the first and second temple, and Jews have maintained a small but continuous presence in the Old City of Jerusalem for the past 2000 years. This film tells the little known story of the Jewish families who had lived in the Old City peacefully for generations prior to being besieged, forcibly evicted from their homes and taken prisoner of war by the Arab Legion in 1948 after the state of Israel was declared by the United Nations. The film follows the story of these Jewish refugees until they were able to return to their homes 19 years later after Israeli forces liberated the Old City during the Six Day War in 1967. My documentary group and I were privileged to spend many hours interviewing these survivors during our visit to Israel this summer. We learned the unique story of their return and rebuilding of the Old City of Jerusalem and hope to share it with you.
LGBTQ Life in Israel: A Progressing Journey
Our goals for this film were to explore the challenges and successes of the LGBTQ community while also investigating the new idea of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a concept that Israel is using their gay rights to cover up other possible controversial human rights abuses. We became interested in making this film because of all the new exciting progress occurring in the United States around LGBTQ rights such as same sex marriage. While, thinking about America's gay rights movement we began to wonder what gay life was like in Israel with its religious influence and its location.
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Labels: Bluestar, Write on for Israel
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Creative companies that rock- Hövding
Category: Test Drive a Top Company
The business of bicycle fashion and safety
What was initially a submission as an Industrial Design Masters thesis in 2005, brought about the business now called Hövding which means "….chief/chieftain/leader in Swedish" says Terese Alstin one of the two founding members of Hövding. "We wanted to choose a Swedish word to show the origin of the product." Terese continues.
With compatriot Anna Haupt, the two Swedes created a business that tackles bicycle safety with the flavour of fashion. Something that was desperately needed in the market place.
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Following his rise to fame on the tennis court and his icon fashion trends, the Björn Borg fashion brand was born. Smart, sophisticated and unbelievably out the box, it is a fashion label that does not at all hint the prim and proper designs of Wimbledon. So how does a former tennis champion and icon, lead the way in European fashion and especially with a focus on underpants, you might ask?
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The power of water may be best felt in our whirlpools. We sometimes call it bubbling energy or soothing bubbles. The best part: there are no less than five whirlpool baths waiting for you.
A bubble bath in the refreshing outside air? Choose one of the baths within the earthen wall in our garden. As a bonus, you get to enjoy the world-class view across Bussloo lake. You can also submerge yourself in bubbling happiness next to the large swimming pool, where you can choose from three whirlpools.
The combination of the massage jets and the warm water make our whirlpools good for your muscles, joints and circulation. That means they are twice as good for you. One thing is certain: you are going to love it!


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