Dec. 24. - Opening of the new Reredos at St. Michael and All Angels' Church, presented by the Rev. C. D. Pater and Miss Pater.
Dec. 25. - Thomas Bowling, of Market-place, Wigan, found frozen to death in Borsdane Wood, Hindley. - Robert Kellett, mining engineer, found killed on the railway near Bryn.
Dec. 27. - Roper's Mill, Pemberton, destroyed by fire. - Old Folk's Treats at Abram and Upholland.
Dec. 28. - Farewell Sermon at St. Catherine's Church by the Rev. John Fairhurst.
Dec. 29. - Serious Railway Collision at Crow Nest Junction, Hindley; 30 persons injured.
Dec. 31. - Inquiry into the death of a collier killed at Park Lane Collieries; recommendation by Mr. Hall as to the timbering of mines in West Lancashire.
Jan. 1. - Fancy Fair at St. Mary's. - Sale of Work at the Wesleyan Schools.
Jan. 2. - Lecture in Greenough-street Schools by Mr. George Harris Lea, on "Free Trade versus Fair Trade."
Jan. 5. - Serious Machinery Accident at Pennyhurst Mill, Wallgate. - Public Meeting at Shevington with reference to the township water supply.
Jan. 6. - Old Folk's Treats at Golborne and Hindley.
Jan. 7. - Town Council Meeting: Discussion as to the Holt and Caldwell prosecutions, the gasworks and its finances, and the new slaughter-houses in New-square. - Public Meeting at Hindley to protest against the Wigan Corporation scheme under the new Seats Bill. Similar protests at Ince, Aspull, and Orrell.
Jan. 8. - Children's Party in the Public Hall, given by the Mayor and Mayoress.
Jan. 9. - Meeting of Farmers in Wigan to consider the rent question. - Treat by the Mayor of Wigan to aged poor. - Meeting of the Manchester Geological Society in the Wigan Mining School: Interesting discussion on safety lamps. - Meeting of the Representatives of the Out-Townships with reference to the Redistribution of Seats Bill.
Jan. 11. - Death, at Aldenham Lodge, Herts., of Mr. Thomas Part, solicitor, aged 86 years.
Jan. 12. - Public Meeting at Pemberton on the Seats Bill: Resolution adopted objecting to join Wigan in any scheme for two members.
Jan. 13. - Free Dinner to poor people in the Volunteer Drill Hall. - Motion in the Lancashire Chancery Court with reference to the will of the late Mr. T. Knowles, M.P.
Jan. 14. - Masonic Ball. - Lord Crawford's Rent Audit: Announcement of reductions in farmers' rents. - Resolution not to join Wigan under the Seats Bill unanimously adopted by the representatives of the out-townships.
Jan. 18. - Hospital Sunday.
Jan. 19. - Petition agreed to for the voluntary winding-up of the Appley Bridge and West Lancashire Corn Mill Company, Limited.
Jan. 20. - United Kingdom Alliance Meeting in Wigan.
Jan. 22. - Volunteer Officers' Ball.
Jan. 23. - New Redistribution Scheme for Wigan adopted at a special meeting of the Town Council, but objected to by the representatives of the out-townships. - Inquiry by the Boundary Commissioner at Manchester as to the new divisions of South-East Lancashire.
Jan. 24. - Consecration of the new Church of St. Paul's, Adlington, by the Bishop of Manchester. - Inquiry, at Liverpool, by the Hon. T. H. W. Pelham, Boundary Commissioner, into the new divisions of South-West Lancashire, and the petitions by the Wigan Corporation for an alteration of the borough boundaries.
Jan. 26. - Conference of Coal Owners and Miners with reference to the basis for a proposed wages sliding scale.
Jan. 27. - Lowton Ploughing Match.
Jan. 28. - Conservative Lecture at Pemberton by Mr. H. Byron Reed. - Ellen Brooks, factory operative, drowned in the Douglas at the Seven Stars; recommendation by the jury that the footpath should be made secure for passengers.
Jan. 29. - Announcement made of the intended resignation of Mr. Maskell W. Peace, Town Clerk of Wigan since Sept. 24th, 1866. - Old Folk's Treat at Pemberton. - Twenty-ninth Makerfield Ploughing Match. - Fire at Hindley Saw Mill.
Jan. 30. - Resignation to Mr. Councillor H. Ackerley.
Jan. 31. - Pennyhurst Mill totally destroyed by fire; damages £20,000.
Feb. 1. - Opening of the new Railway from Bolton to Atherton.
Feb. 2. - Meeting in the Wigan Public Hall to denounce the British Opium Trade.
Feb. 4. - Wigan Borough Sessions; eight prisoners. - Quarterly Town Council Meeting: Discussions as to the granting of slaughter-house licences and the extension of the gasworks. - Resolution passed abandoning the Wigan Improvement Bill; Mr. James Platt appointed paid auditor; and the resignation of Mr. Peace accepted, and a motion passed that in future the Town Clerk be required to devote his whole time to the duties of the office. The question of Mr. Ackerley's resignation, after an animated discussion, deferred until the next meeting. - Lord Gerard's annual Rent Dinner.
Feb. 8. - Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, M.P., at the Circus.
Feb. 9. - Summonses against Wigan Grocers under the Food and Drugs Act heard and dismissed. - Aspull decides in public meeting to endeavour to have that township taken from the Westhoughton and added to the new Ince division.
Feb. 10. - Order made in the Lancashire Chancery Court for the voluntary winding-up of the affairs of the Wigan Spinning Company, Limited.
Feb. 11. - Liberal Club Ball.
Feb. 12. - Conversazione and Dance given by the Mayor and Mayoress in the Drill Hall. - Two men killed and two injured by an accident at the Bamfurlong Collieries.
Feb. 14. - Presentation of Prizes to the members of the 4th L.R.V. Shooting Club.
Feb. 16. - Reception of Sunday and Day School Teachers by the Mayor and Mayoress at the Drill Hall. - Sudden death of Dr. J. L. Molyneux, of the Brooklands, Upholland, aged 42 years. - Ratepayers' Meeting at Ashton to consider the new St. Helens and Wigan Junction Railways Bill.
Feb. 18. - Special Town Council Meeting to receive Counsel's opinion with reference to the resignation of Mr. Ackerley. Resolution passed not to accept the opinion or the resignation.
Feb. 20. - Death of Mr. Francis Percy, aged 67 years, manager of the Kirkless Ironworks. - Messrs. T. Swarbrick and W. A. Byrom re-elected Burgess Auditors.
Feb. 25. - Special Town Council Meeting: Mr. Councillor Ackerley's resignation again declined by 16 to 13 votes. - First Annual Meeting of the Wigan Chamber of Commerce.
Feb. 27. - Local Government Inquiry at Blackrod.
Feb. 28. - Evidence given by the Hon. Mrs. W. Gerard in Lord Durham's matrimonial suit.
Mar. 1. - Death, after a brief illness, at his residence, Woodlands, Buckingham, of Mr. Charles Herbert Whaley, son of the late Mr. Thomas Whaley, of Taplow Lodge, Bucks.
Mar. 3. - Issue of the Report of the Sub-Committee on Railway Rates and Charges. - Death, at Westfield House, Rugby, of Mr. Richard Pennington, J.P., of Hindley, aged 85 years. - Death of Mr. Wm. Nickson, of Orrell Gardens, aged 78 years.
Mar. 4. - Town Council Meeting: Resolutions passed that the gas accounts be audited by the professional auditor, and that the new Town Clerk be paid £700 per annum. - Wigan Public Hall Association Meeting. - Miners' Conference at Brimingham.
Mar. 6. - Application for a Mandamus granted by the High Court of Justice compelling the Town Council to declare Mr. Ackerley's seat vacant. - Claim against the Pemberton Local Board for compensation water dismissed by the county magistrates.
Mar. 9. - Opening of New Line from Platt Bridge to Pennington.
Mar. 11. - Special Town Council Meeting: Counsel instructed to appear in response to the mandamus.
Mar. 13. - Annual Meeting of the shareholders of the Wigan Tramways Company.
Mar. 14. - Football Cup-tie Competition: Wigan v. Aspull.
Mar. 16. - Lecture at Ince, by Mr. C. M. Percy, on "The Liberalism of the Future." - James Tait, travelling draper, Dicconson-street, committed for trial on the charge of fraudulent bankruptcy.
Mar. 17. - Deputations from the Wigan Mining and Mechanical School interview the City of London Livery Company.
Mar. 21. - Motion made by Mr. N. Eckersley, M.P., in the House of Commons, that Wigan be struck out of the schedule of the new Seats Bill of towns which had to lose one member. Voting: For the motion 65; against, 91; majority, 26. - Annual Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Permanent Relief Society.
Mar. 22. - Presentation of a Memorial Window to Our Lady's Chapel, Aspull, by Lady Stafford, in memory of her mother, Mrs. F. S. Gerard.
Mar. 23. - The case of "The Queen v. the Wigan Corporation" argued in the High Court of Justice; the Council ordered to declare the seat vacant. - Presentation to the Rev. John Fairhurst.
Mar. 26. - Local Government Inquiry as to the extenstion of the Wigan Gas Works.
Mar. 30. - Band of Hope Festival in the Drill Hall.
April 1. - Prolonged Sitting of the Town Council: Mr. Ackerley's seat declared vacant; the question of Mr. Marsden's new premises in Wallgate referred back to the committee; the resignation of Mr. Alderman Darlington accepted, his appointment as Town Clerk confirmed, and a cordial vote of thanks awarded to Mr. Peace for his services to the town.
April 6. - Opening of a Liberal Club at Pemberton.
April 9. - Mr. T. Stuart returned unopposed for the vacancy in All Saints' Ward.
April 10. - Formation of a Farmers' Club for Wigan and District.
April 11. - Decision come to at a Miners' Conference in Wigan to bring out a Labour Candidate for the Ince Division.
April 13. - Liberal Meeting in Hope-street School: Address by Mr. Geo. Harris Lea. - Adoption of Colonel McCorquodale as Liberal Candidate for the Newton Division.
April 14. - Conversazione by the Wigan Kyrle Society in the Drill Hall. - Return of seven of the retiring Wigan Guardians, and Mr. John Woods in place of Mr. T. Smith.
April 16. - Fancy Fair at St. John's, Wigan. - Third Annual Meeting of the Wigan Charity Organisation Society. - Adoption by the Council of the Liberal Association for the Ince Electoral Division of Mr. C. M. Percy as the candidate for the party.
April 17. - Death of Canon Brandreth, rector of Standish, aged 72 years.
April 18. - Mr. Eckersley intimates his acceptance of the invitation to become Conservative Candidate for the Ince Division.
April 20. - Mr. C. Bradlaugh, M.P., at the Public Hall. - Meeting of Miners to consider over-production and the selection of a Parliamentary Representative. - Conservative Meeting at Pemberton in celebration of "Primrose Day."
April 21. - Funeral of the late Canon Brandreth in Standish Churchyard.
April 22. - Town Council Meeting to consider the estimates for District Rate. - Wigan Borough Sessions; four prisoners.
April 23. - Presentation of a new Canopy to Father Chapman at St. Joseph's Chapel.
April 25. - Liberal Meeting in the Public Hall: Adoption of Mr. C. M. Percy as the Liberal Candidate for the Ince Division. - Resolution passed at Miners' Conference that the miners could select and support their own candidate. - Close of the Rugby Football Competition: Victory of Wigan. - Sale of Work at Goose Green.
April 26. - Sermon by the Bishop of Manchester at Standish on the death of Canon Brandreth.
April 27. - Adoption by the Conservative party of Mr. F. S. Powell as the Candidate at the General Election.
April 29. - Wigan Mechanics' Institution Annual Meeting. - Presentation to Mr. Jonathan Longbotham on his leaving the Norley Collieries.
May 1. - Meeting of the Manchester Geological Society in Wigan: Discussion on the use of Gunpowder in Mines and Safety Lamps.
May 6. - Town Council Meeting: Discussions on the Wages of Scavengers, the Professional Auditorship, the Chairmanship of the Parliamentary Committee, Mr. Marsden's Property, and the Management of the Sewage Farm.
May 7. - Annual Meeting of the Wigan Infirmary. - Death of Mr. Joseph Meek, J.P., of Swinley Hall, aged 75 years.
May 8. - The House of Commons assents, on the motion of Mr. Egerton, to the name of the Ince Division being changed to Hindley. - Presentations to Inspector Keir and Sergeant Savage on their retirement from the County Police Force.
May 13. - Formation of a Wigan and District Football Association.
May 15. - Conservative Meeting at Aspull: Address by Mr. Frank Hardcastle.
May 23. - Inspection of the Lancashire Hussars at Southport. - Presentation to Mr. T. Wall, J.P., by his employés.
May 25. - Infirmary Gala in the Park. - Shocking death from neglect of a child in Holland's-yard, Lower Morris-street.
May 27. - Liberal Meeting in Scholes: Adoption of Mr. T. Worthington as candidate at the Municipal Elections.
May 28. - Conservative meeting at Hindley: Address by Mr. N. Eckersley, M.P.
May 29. - Inspection of the 4th L.R.V. at the encampment at Scarborough.
May 30. - Death of the Rev. Charles Thomas Quirk, rector of Golborne, aged 73 years.
June 1. - Confirmation by the Bishop of Manchester at Standish.
June 2. - Conference of Permanent Relief Society Representatives at Manchester.
June 3. - First Annual Dinner of the Wigan Rugby Football Club.
June 4. - Town Council Meeting: Cattle in Woodcock-street, and the auditing of the Accounts the principal matters discussed.
June 5. - Liberal Meeting at Hindley.
June 8. - Death, very suddenly, at Hasely Manor, near Warwick, of Mr. Thomas Fisher, M.D., of Stone House, Pemberton, in his 82nd year. - Presentation to the Rev. Father Kirwan at St. Joseph's Chapel. - On the motion of Lord Crawford the House of Lords replaces Ince instead of Hindley as the name of the new Parliamentary Division.
June 10. - Death of the Rev. Alfred Hewlett, D. D., vicar of Astley, in his 82nd year.
June 15. - Presentation to the Rev. D. Price, late curate of St. Thomas's, Wigan.
June 18. - Colliery Explosion at Clifton Hall, Pendleton; 177 lives lost. - Presentation of Prizes at the Wigan High School By Mrs. Thomas Taylor.
June 20. - Speech Day at the Wigan Grammar School. - Conservative Demonstration in Haigh Park. - Laying of Foundation Stone of a new Primitive Methodist Chapel at Ince.
June 22. - Special Town Council Meeting with reference to the working of the Sewage Farm. - Liberal Demonstration at Pemberton. - Swimming Gala at the Wigan Baths. - Unveiling a bust of Cardinal Manning at St. Joseph's.
June 27. - The Foundation Stone of an Independent Methodist School Chapel at Bryn laid by Colonel McCorquodale.
June 30. - Re-election of Sir Richard Cross for South-West Lancashire on his appointment as Home Secretary in the Conservative Government. - Death at Aldwinch, Northamptonshire, of the Rev. Sir Henry J. Gunning, Bart., in his 82nd year. The deceased gentleman was rector of Wigan and rural dean from 1833 to 1864.
July 1. - Town Council Meeting: The increased Gas capital and the Circus building discussed. - The St. Helens and Wigan Junction Railways Bill passed by the House of Lords' committee.
July 2. - Sale of Work at Aspull opened by Lady Stafford.
July 4. - Presentation at Ashfield, by the Mayor and members of the Corporation, of a piece of plate and illuminated address to Mr. Maskell W. Peace, on his retirement from the Town Clerkship of Wigan.
July 8. - Stoppage of work at the Wigan Victoria Mills.
July 11. - Demonstration by Temperance Societies in Wigan.
July 18. - Wigan Cricket Club Athletic Festival.
July 22. - Borough Sessions; 10 prisoners.
July 23. - Commencement of the extension of the Wigan Gas Works.
Aug. 1. - Reception at Pemberton of Sergeant John Greenall on his return from the Soudan.
Aug. 3. - Wigan and District Floral and Horticultural Show in Westwood Park.
Aug. 4. - Mr. Thomas Shortrede, agent for the Winstanley estates, found shot through the head in the grounds of his residence, Park House, Winstanley. An open verdict afterwards returned.
Aug. 5. - Town Council Meeting: The question of the abolition of the Wigan Pleasure Fairs adjourned.
Aug. 6. - Great Liberal Open-air Meeting at Newtown.
Aug. 10. - Sudden death, near Billinge, of Mr. James Green, butcher, Wigan, aged 51 years.
Aug. 12. - Deputation to Lord Iddesleigh from Provincial Free Libraries.
Aug. 17. - Sudden death of Mr. James Birchall, of York-street, Wigan, aged 67, one of the oldest engine drivers on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
Aug. 20. - Opening of the new Wing at the Infirmary by Miss Gidlow, the donor; reception by the Mayor and Mayoress.
Aug. 26. - Wigan Brewster Sessions.
Aug. 27. - County Brewster Sessions. - Acceptance by Mr. N. Eckersley, M.P., of plans for the Free Library at Hindley.
Aug. 29. - Re-opening of St. John's Chapel, after renovation.
Sept. 2. - Town Council Meeting: The Pleasure Fair question adjourned until the annual meeting.
Sept. 7. - Visit of Cardinal Manning to Wigan: Great meeting of the League of the Cross in the Drill Hall.
Sept. 9. - Opening of the Revision Courts for the borough and county divisions.
Sept. 11. - Presentation at Wigan to several of the explorers after the Clifton Hall Colliery Explosion.
Sept. 14. - Meeting of Roman Catholics in Wigan to protest against exclusion from public offices. - Meeting of Conservatives in the Public Hall: Announcement of the retirement of Mr. N. Eckersley, and selection of Col. Blundell as candidate of the party for the Ince Division.
Sept. 21. - Application by the Corporation for an injunction against the owners of the Circus building declined.
Sept. 24. - The water supply to the borough turned off from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. owing to the drought.
Sept. 25. - Removal of Superintendent Weir from the Pemberton to the Leigh Police Division.
Sept. 26. - Conference of Elective Auditors at Manchester.
Sept. 28. - Lecture by the Rev. J. Guinness Rogers in connection with the Centenary of St. Paul's Chapel, Wigan.
Sept. 29. - Opening of a series of Lectures in the Public Hall, on Christian Evidences.
Oct. 5. - Serious Boiler Explosion at the Trentham Manure and Bone Works, Newtown.
Oct. 7. - Town Council Meeting: Discussion on the Street Improvement expenses and Coke contracts.
Oct. 12. - Lecture by Mr. Arthur Arnold, M.P., on "The Free Land League."
Oct. 14. - Public Meeting of Roman Catholics on the Free Education question. - Presentation of Prizes by Colonel Blundell at the Ince Central Schools.
Oct. 16. - Great Liberal Meeting in the Drill Hall: Addresses my Mr. H. H. Fowler, M.P., and Colonel McCorquodale.
Oct. 17. - David Wm. Jones, artist, of Poolstock, found dead in Dean Wood.
Oct. 20. - Inquest on the body of Jones. A verdict of death from natural causes returned. - Liberal Demonstration at Aspull.
Oct. 22. - Sudden death of the Bishop of Manchester. - Serious affray between poachers and gamekeepers in Garswood Park. - Sale of Work at Pemberton. - Death of Mr. L. A. Majendie, husband of Lady Margaret Lindsay, second daughter of the late Lord Crawford.
Oct. 26. - Rejoicings at Lathom House on the coming of age of Lord Skelmersdale. - First Annual Meeting of the Wigan Kyrle Society.
Oct. 27. - Great Liberal Meeting in the Circus.
Oct. 29. - Conservative Demonstration in the Drill Hall; Addresses by Mr. F. S. Powell and Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, M.P.
Oct. 31. - Town Council Meeting: The sale of coke again discussed.
Nov. 1. - Six Conservatives and four Liberals returned as Town Councillors in place of five Conservatives and five Liberals who retired. - Colonel Blundell at the Hindley Public Hall.
Nov. 3. - Decision given in the Mining case of Berry v. the Rainford Coal Company.
Nov. 4. - Wigan Quarter Sessions: 13 prisoners. - Meeting in connection with the Hospital Saturday and Sunday movement.
Nov. 5. - Meeting to establish a branch in Wigan of the Girls' Friendly Society.
Nov. 9. - Presentation of an address to Mr. Gladstone on his passage through Wigan to Midlothian. - Deputation to the Mayor requesting him to accept the mayoralty for a fourth year; the request declined. - Over-winding Accident at the Middle Place Colliery, Ince; one man killed. - Sudden death of Mr. Thomas Swarbrick, of Church-street, aged 42 years, one of the burgess auditors. - Annual Meeting of the Town Council: Mr. Park re-elected Mayor. The Fair question again postponed.
Nov. 12. - Liberal Demonstration in the Circus.
Nov. 13. - Meeting of the Farmers' Club to consider the Parliamentary Candidates' replies to their questions.
Nov. 17. - Notices given by the Miners for an advance of 10 per cent. in wages.
Nov. 19. - Receipt of the Writs for the Parliamentary Elections.
Nov. 23. - Nomination for the Wigan Borough Election. - Great Conservative Meeting in the Drill Hall. - Presentation of the Mayor's portrait to the Free Library.
Nov. 24. - Nominations for the Ince, Westhoughton, Newton, and Chorley Elections.
Nov. 25. - Polling for the Wigan Borough Elections: Mr. F. S. Powell (C.), 3637; Mr. George Harris Lea (L.), 2721. - Nomination for the Ormskirk Election.
Nov. 27. - Ince Election: Colonel Blundell (C.), 4271; Mr. C. M. Percy (L.), 3725. - Westhoughton Election: Mr. F. Hardcastle (C.), 6011; Mr E. Cross (L.), 3741. - Election of a Burgess Auditor: Mr. T. Smith returned by a majority of 706 over Mr. G. J. Healy.
Nov. 28. - Suicide of Mr. James Henry, student at the Roman Catholic College at Upholland.
Nov. 30. - Ormskirk, Leigh, Chorley, and Newton Elections: Return of Mr. A. B. Forward (C.), Mr. Caleb Wright (L.), General Fielden (C.), and Sir R. A. Cross (C.).
Dec. 1. - Railway Collision at Hindley.
Dec. 7. - Application granted to Mr. Councillor Worthington for an extension of time in which to make his return of election expenses.
Dec. 9. - Town Council Meeting: The motion for the abolition of the Pleasure Fairs withdrawn. - Decision given in the Aspull Sewage case.
Dec. 14. - Jubilee Meeting in Wigan of the Church Pastoral Aid Society.
Dec. 15. - Conservative Tea Party at Ince. - Discovery of the body of a child in the waiting-room at Wigan Station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.


Do you want to increase the amount of money you make? Do you have an earnings goal but are unsure on how to achieve it? Business can be very straight forward if you know what you need to improve. This article will explain how.
I'm by no means claiming to be a business mentor or guru. However one thing I do believe to be a strength is my organisation. A few years ago, I attended an excellent workshop by a man named Geoff Sober. He has featured on my podcast and taught me a great deal about money and your attitude to money. In this article, I will explain a different way of approaching your finances.
Why is it that Apple is a household name and yet Nokia is gone by the way side? It is of course down to product quality, but whether a business survives or not is very much down to profit margins.
If it costs Apple $50 to make an iPhone and they sell them for $500, they make $450 per phone. This is simple maths. If they want to increase their profit margins they can either increase the price in which they sell the phone OR they can reduce their out-goings. A phone being sold for $510 or a phone being made for £40 is the same profit made.
Now let's apply this to paying gym rent. If you pay £500 gym rent per month and deliver 80 sessions per week, each session is costing you £6.25. A simple way of decreasing outgoings would be to do more sessions. Although this seems like common sense it's an massively overlooked aspect of business. Do not view your rent as a monthly outgoing, view it as an expense per session.
Take Home Point Number 1: It is more profitable to be busy. Get clients training frequently even if it means reducing your session prices slightly. It will pay off more financially.
You do not charge your highest rate per hour. You charge your average rate per hour. To see what you actually charge for a session note all your clients hourly rates and find the average. This gives you a very important piece information; your session profit. How much you charge on average minus your rent per session gives you the actual amount you earn per session. This is critical for your business. For your business to grow, you want session profit to increase, ideally to around the 70-80% mark.
Below you can download the same spreadsheet I used to calculate session profit. All you have to do is type in your clients name, how much the pay per session, how many sessions they do per week and how many clients you have. Then type in the rent you pay in the other tab and the spreadsheet will do everything for you.
If you head over to YouTube and type in Chris Knott Coaching, you'll be able to access the full video on how to use the spreadsheet.


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UFO Interviews:
(Sign Oral History Project, Thomas Tulien, Project Coordinator,
Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Many of the interviews are with U.S. Air Force personnel who witnessed the 24 October 1968 Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, UFO incident.
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"Farmer may have had close encounter"
(Sandusky Register, Ohio)
Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se
The whole article (Page 1):
"Farmer James Lawson doesn't know what made the perfect 50-foot circle in his cornfield, but he's not ruling out the possibility that it was an alien being.
The corn stalks are flattened in neat rows in clockwise swirl, hidden from the nearest intersection but visible from inside the field.
The phenomenon is common in Britian, with hundreds of such incidents reported in recent years. Crop circle reports have also come in from the Soviet Union, Japan and New England.
'I was just making my first trip (on a combine) through the field,' Lawson said . 'The first thing I thought of was a UFO.
'I thought 'holy smokes, what is this?' '
'It feels weird. There's no road coming in,' said Lawson, 70. 'It could have been here quite a while, but the ears are still on the stalks. Maybe it's been a month or so.'
'When I went in to tell my wife, she didn't believe me,' Lawson said. 'She said, 'You're goofy.' '
Lawson has farmed for 42 years and although he did not think the crop circle is a hoax, he wasn't quite ready to accept the UFO theory.
'It couldn't have been the wind because the dike would have stopped it. And it's a perfect circle. The stalks are mashed in perfect rows,' he said. 'Maybe it was a UFO that made the circle when it landed and then took off.'
Other explanations from around the world range from the landing pods to crazed hedgehogs to a freak natural event.
Lawson said he would leave the circle alone and harvest around it.
'l think people would be interested,' he said. 'Who knows who might want to come and see this?' "
The photo text:
"James Lawson of rural Milan, Illinois, stands on the ladder of his combine in front of the mysterious circle of flattened corn he found in his field while harvesting Tuesday. The circle is a perfect 46 1/2-foot in diameter and had no sign or evidence of cutting or humans in the circle area."
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Satellite photo of Milan, Illinois (tageo.com)
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Young Champions: Emerging Artists in Contemporary Photography
Loss, longing and self-discovery are just some of the themes portrayed in the photographic work of the three inaugural winners of the New Generation Photography Award.
Vibrant story of the dynamic art scene in British Columbia: Gary Sim's collection
The exhibition B.C. Artists: The Gary Sim Donation allowed curator Katherine Stauble to shine a spotlight on a significant, recent donation by collector Gary Sim of almost 1000 publications.
Signs of Passage: The Iconography of the U.S.-Mexico Border
"Frontera: Views of the U.S.-Mexico Border" brings together a roster of national and international artists, whose works question the very notion of borders, attempt to define their edges, and explore their...
Voyage and Violence: The 2017 Canadian Biennial at the AGA
It is an exciting year for the Canadian Biennial. For the first time in its history, the exhibition is spread across two venues, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Art Gallery of Alberta in...
Creates and Cahén in the Spotlight at the Beaverbrook
Searching for a way to celebrate visual arts traditions during Canada's sesquicentennial year, Fredericton's Beaverbrook Art Gallery went deep and wide.
Photographs in the Canadian and Indigenous Galleries: An Integral Part of Our National Narrative
Installed in the short passageway between rooms A102 and A103, cartes de visite and other studio prints demonstrate that there was already an active commercial photography industry in Canada during this period...
Animals in the Parlour at the Esker Foundation
"The animals have taken over the parlour," laughs Mary Anne Barkhouse, a Kwakiutl artist, as she describes her newest exhibition at the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Alberta.
A Visual Primer: The 2017 Canadian Biennial
Since 2010, the National Gallery of Canada has been contextualizing its permanent collection of contemporary art through Biennial exhibitions that showcase its most recent acquisitions.
James Wilson Morrice: The A.K. Prakash Collection in Trust to the Nation
One of Canada's foremost modernist painters, James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924) had a unique genius for distilling the life that swirled around him in markets, cafés, and parks into timeless moments.
Emerging Artists Take Centre Stage: National Gallery Hosts 19th Annual RBC Painting Competition
A bomb, a nun, and a pair of shiny black boots hang together as a powerful trio of paintings that greet viewers at the exhibition of this year's finalists for the 19th annual RBC Painting Competition.


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Eleven days, thirteen clues, and one kid who won't give up.
In Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, 12-year-old Cricket and a field cricket named Charlene find adventure in an overgrown ghost town in Electric City, Mississippi. They follow a thirty-year-old clue trail left by an eccentric artist in search of a secret room that may or may not exist–all to try to win back Cricket's run-away mother. Cricket must use her wits and just a smidgen of luck to live off the land in a Mississippi winter and put together the pieces of an increasingly baffling puzzle. As she works toward uncovering the final clues, Cricket meets the reclusive last resident of the ghost town, enlists the help of a poetry-loving dog, and takes up a touch of grave-robbing.
The true stories behind the story
The idea for Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe began when I lived in one of the few remaining houses in the ghost town of Electric Mills, Mississippi. Electric Mills was the site of one of the first electric lumber mills in the country and, in its heyday, was called the brightest town south of St. Louis. The town had its own theater, teaching hospital, ice cream parlor, schools, and church. It even had its own currency–the Doogaloo. When all of the timber was harvested, most of the buildings in the town were sold off, but a few structures remained.
Growing up, I spent a lot of time exploring the woods and the old ghost town. I was intrigued by the thick concrete sidewalks that wove through woods, overgrown gardens at the old home sites, and scattered concrete pillars that had once held up large homes. I made up stories about the people who lived there.
For inspiration for the art mystery, I drew upon the art of my favorite artist, Walter Inglis Anderson, who, like the artist in Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, painted magical representations of nature and the world around him. He also left a few secrets behind.
A life-long outdoor enthusiast, I've experienced first-hand how time spent outdoors changes your perspective. I wanted to allow my main character, Cricket, to experience this as she survived on her own in the woods and tried to solve a clue trail. Spending so much time outdoors helped her work through her conflicting feelings about her run-away Mama.
I spent years writing this book, talking to residents of the ghost town, camping in the woods, foraging for food, learning outdoor survival skills, and talking to friends about their complicated family dynamics.
The books behind the story
Two of my favorite books growing up (and to this day) are My Side of the Mountain and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. I admire how My Side of the Mountain drew readers into the natural world and made surviving in the wild a quest of its own. I love how From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler immersed readers in the intriguing setting of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and drew them into an art mystery. I challenged myself to combine those two elements—outdoor survival and an art mystery–together in one novel.
What's the best thing about growing up in a small town?
Many things. You know almost everybody, almost everybody knows you, and you have plenty of room to go exploring.
Where I fudged
Although this is a work of fiction, I based it on the natural world in Kemper County, Mississippi. To serve the story, I changed a few things:
I moved up the time that bamboo shoots would likely appear in Cricket's woods.
I had the copperhead appear a few days after the sleet storm. Hibernating snakes typically will wait for a period of several warm days before making an appearance.
I set the fictional ghost town somewhat south of the real one to increase the likelihood that crickets could be heard in February.
Cricket refers to substance in the copperhead's bite as "poison," but it is actually referred to as venom.
Cricket thinks that Charlene chirps in order to call her family, but crickets really chirp to attract a mate.
If you see something else that doesn't look like it's accurate, let me know and I'll add it to this list!
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GOD IS IN THE DETAIL: Pinigit To Win It; A master class in branded apps.
Pinigit To Win It; A master class in branded apps.
1. Barclays have started to build real value into their mobile offering rather than just borrowing it from their existing online platforms. They are now in a position to develop a really strong mobile community around making banking easier in a similar way Nike+ has built a community around helping runners train harder.
2. The strategic decision to make this product available to all (regardless of whether you have a Barclays account) is very significant. Everyone using the app will store small amounts of cash in a 'Pingit Wallet' in effect becoming a mini Barclays customer. We are then already one step closer to becoming fully blown Barclays customers and as they become known for making banking easier by interacting with consumers in the mobile space, I would argue the likelihood of making that last step will massively increase.
3. And finally the name Pingit is a neat strategic creative execution for the product. By coining the phrase Pingit (as in "Can I have that £20 you owe me?" – "Yeah I'll ping it to you now") early on we will use it to describe that action going forwards (like Hoover) regardless of whose technology we are using, thereby adding to the brand value.


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Rawsrvnt's Fallin' In Love?!? Is new song about God, a girl, or both?
By Sketch the Journalist on July 17, 2012 at 6:21 PM
"Fallin' In Love" is the new summer jam from Florida hip hop worship artist Rawsrvnt. The track's high-energy, electropop beat and vocal stylings are tailor-made for beach parties and radio requests, but its ambiguous lyrics may cause some fans to ask whether the song is about God, a girl, or both.
Is it okay for a Christian artist to make a song about romantic love instead of godly love? What if it's a mix of both?
Does it bleed into the "Jesus-is-my-boyfriend" territory that some believers feel is a negative trend in modern worship music? Or is it simply a strategic decision to attempt to expose and connect faith-based art to as many different people as possible?
"I wrote 'Fallin' In Love' in a moment of pure passion," Rawsrvnt cryptically stated.
"As with any piece of quality art, I think it's up to the consumer to spend time with it and ultimately decide both what they believe the author intended and the message they're going to take away from it."
The song, which was produced by Crane and features Christian rapper Milliyon, is currently available for purchase from iTunes.
Fans who are "Fallin' In Love" with the track are urged to use the #LoveStruck hashtag on social media networks and visit Rawsrvnt.com/LoveStruck for FREE electronic wallpapers and other goodies.
A full visual version of "Fallin' In Love" is set to release on Tuesday, July 24th.
Jason Bellini
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A Mississippi man who boasted about gunning down four defenseless dogs has been handed the ridiculous sentence of only 30 days in the county jail. We must call out the judge who failed to deliver justice for the innocent victims of this cold-hearted killer and ask that she give him the maximum sentence for animal abuse.
After witnessing two of his sister-in-law's dogs fighting, Elijah Gatlin went into his residence, retrieved his gun, and returned to shoot one of the dogs named Patches and then threw her lifeless body in a creek. Elijah later returned to shoot his sister-in-law's remaining dogs, three of whom were hiding in terror beneath the trailer-house in response to witnessing Gatlin fatally shoot Patches.
Adams County Sheriff's Lieutenant Cal Green reported that Gatlin led responding deputies to where he had thrown Patches' body. Carie also recovered the body of a second dog, Duke, a day later. The bodies of the other two dogs who were shot have not been found. One of the five dogs escaped Gatlin's killing spree without being shot.
On February 14, 2019, Elijah Theodore Gatlin of Natchez, Mississippi, was sentenced for killing Patches and was charged with only one count of aggravated cruelty to animals. Lt. Green had added that if the other dogs were found, there could be further charges.
Although Gatlin admitted to shooting four dogs in court, The Mississippi Dog and Cat Pet Protection Law of 2011 limits a single incident of cruelty to a dog or a cat, or multiple dogs or cats affected in one instance to count as just one count. If the assailant has no prior conviction of animal cruelty within the past five years, the crime is a misdemeanor no matter how many animals were harmed and no matter how badly. A first offense charge of aggravated cruelty is punishable by up to a $2,500 fine, up to a six-month jail sentence, or both.
We must not be silent when our elected judges fail to impose sentencing that could deter individuals from committing heinous acts of violence against animals. Please join us in writing to Justice Court Judge Eileen M. Maher to share how dismayed we feel over her incredibly lenient sentencing of Elijah T. Gatlin.
Please complete the form on In Defense of Animals page and send a letter HERE!


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Liberalism Does Not Frame 2k
Published on June 8, 2017 by D. G. Hart
When I read Jake Meador's index of political theologies, I was generally in agreement and thought he accurately describe 2k. I guess my biggest disagreement was over his definition of liberalism:
When I speak of liberalism, I am referring to something broader than just left-wing politics or even some brand of liberalism realized in a single discipline, such as theological liberalism.
At its heart, liberalism is concerned with how human beings know things. As a system, it is suspicious of knowledge not derived from empirical observation. Thus it is suspicious of the claims of religious faith as they inform social life. Religious practice is fine for individuals, but any attempt to enforce a set of religiously based moral norms beyond the religious individual or maybe a voluntary religious community is suspect because the knowledge is not sure enough to justify political application. Indeed, this skepticism goes beyond a skepticism toward religious faith and goes so far as a skepticism toward any kind of comprehensive moral system that claims to be true in anything beyond a particular, local sense. We simply do not trust our moral judgments enough to think they can be binding in anything beyond an individualistic, voluntaristic sense. When this epistemological agnosticism becomes pervasive in a social order, you basically have some species of liberalism.
In an odd way, these instincts can make liberalism like a more traditional Christian sort of social order. It tells us that men should be persuaded rather than coerced into belief. It tells us that there is, as one friend put it, a "just area of sovereignty," that each person possesses. However, the way that liberalism arrives at these ideas is not necessarily through the belief in a God who rules over creation and endows his creatures with dignity, honor, and freedom. Rather, they arrive at it through a lack of confidence in the ability of anybody to wield coercive authority justly or to infringe upon a person's autonomy.
I don't understand why you conceive of a political order in epistemological or philosophical categories. For mmmmmeeeEEEE, liberalism was mainly a way to overcome divine right monarchy that extends from Hammurabi through to those audacious claims for the papacy by canon lawyers in the thirteenth century down to French and British kings (among others) who objected to checks upon their power. The question that liberalism (classical) tackled was not how we know but what authority is legitimate. I guess you could push that back to epistemology. But why unless you privilege philosophy?
Meador went on to describe 2k's relationship to liberalism this way:
The best way to get at the key difference between this group and the Radical Anabaptists is to highlight the differences in how they see the church's relationship to civil society. For these thinkers, there is no problem with Christians participating in civil society. Indeed, such participation is inevitable. That is why Dr. Moore heads up an organization dedicated to protecting religious liberty and why Dr. Leeman and a number of his colleagues with 9 Marks pastor in Washington D.C. and support church planting efforts in the capitol city.
However, the good that these thinkers hope to achieve in all societies outside of the institutional church is purely natural while the goods they hope to achieve within the church are supernatural. The institutional church is, in Leeman's understanding, an embassy for the Kingdom of God. Thus the institutional church as such is an institution of a qualitatively different sort than any other physical, visible institutions in the world. Likewise, Drs. VanDrunen, Hart, Clark, and Trueman have all at various times gotten very nervous about what they see as an attempt to sacralize work that is rightly understood as secular.
Thus there are two core pieces that unite the Post-Liberal Retreatists:
First, they have what I take to be a realistic and appropriately sober assessment of our cultural state.
Second, they see the work to be done in non-ecclesial institutions as being primarily defensive not only in our current moment, but in principle.
The positive work of taking hold of supernatural goods happens primarily in the institutional church. Thus the Post-Liberal Retreatists are suspended, as it were, between the Post-Liberal Protestants and the Radical Anabaptists. They share a similar read of the current cultural moment with both groups. Like the Post-Liberal Protestants, they still have a place for Christian participation in civil society. Like the Radical Anabaptists, they see the work of the institutional church as being qualitatively different than the work Christians do outside the church and essentially constructive in a way that civil society participation cannot be. So they would say, with the Anabaptists, that the church is a polis, but that it is not a comprehensive polis in the way that the Anabaptists use the term.
That sounds fair enough. But it locates 2k too much within the categories of the pre-modern and modern West. In fact, much of the blow back that 2k receives comes from Protestants who have a soft spot for Christian establishment in the form of the confessional state, whether Geneva's City Council, Scotland's monarch, or the Netherlands' republic. Most critics of 2k want a Christian society of some kind. 2k is suspect, then, because it won't support such a desire or programs to achieve such a society.
But what if Christendom or post-Christendom are not the only options? What about pre-Christendom? Here the idea is not that the time before Constantine was ideal but that a religiously diverse or even a religiously hostile environment is normal. It's what Jesus and the apostles faced. Those are the conditions under which the church emerged and the canon established. For that reason, modern Christians should not think that either Christendom or a Christian friendly liberal government (like the U.S. before 1965) are the default settings for the church. Christianity can persist in any number of circumstances. It can be like the Old Testament promised land, like the Israelites in exile, like the early church under the domination of Rome, or even like Scottish Presbyterians in covenant with a divine-right monarch. Christianity is flexible. It's not tied to one political order.
This perspective seems to inform Proto-Protestant in his assessment of political liberalism. Notice that he starts by identifying the way that Rome used to regard liberalism and the United States:
Classical Liberalism so poignantly represented by the United States was viewed as poison and a triumph of the secular over the sacred. Rome sought to protect its flock from the influences of American ideology. Classical Liberalism was the spawn of the Reformation's triumph of the individual. The lone man was allowed to challenge and cast down all authority. This is the sociological aspect to Luther that many Protestants have failed to grasp. The individual gets to decide what is right and wrong and the Reformation unleashed epistemological uncertainty and the social chaos which began the long process of dismantling Christendom.
The Reformation led to Modernism and as a consequence Post-Modernism and now Nihilism.
Undoubtedly there is some truth to this narrative and the post World War II period has brought about a time of intellectual reconsideration on the part of Evangelical Protestants and not a few defections to both Rome and Constantinople. The political Papacy utterly defeated by the late 19th century reformed its teaching and came up with a new paradigm for the industrial secular age. Consequently it allied first with Fascism then with the West (in general) at the conclusion of the war. It began to build a new empire, one wed to the Capitalist forces so dominant in the Protestant world and joined the fight (real or imagined) against world Communism. Today Rome no longer rules a geopolitical realm but instead reigns over a vast financial empire and has regained a little of its lost ground.
Evangelicals have been forced to reckon with the problems of Christianity wed to Classical Liberalism and as I've written elsewhere there are tendencies both toward revisionist history and increasingly in the direction of abandoning Liberalism for a more Roman Catholic-friendly Throne and Altar type paradigm.
So if Protestants don't follow Roman Catholics, where do they turn? The Bible and in so doing they abandon the sufficiency of Scripture. Protestants have made Scripture do more than it was supposed to:
There is undoubtedly much that is valid in the critique of Classical Liberalism and in what the Reformation unwittingly unleashed. And for this reason the glorification of Protestantism which is at its zenith in this 500th anniversary year, ought to be weighed carefully if not rejected.
But the truth of the critique is limited to the sociological realm.
The true problem is not individualism (which can indeed work to destroy society) but the attempt to formulate Sola Scriptura into a comprehensive societal worldview. That was a rival philosophical project rooted in speculation and dependent on speculative philosophical coherence… thus it fragmented.
The Reformers only began to toy with this question. Luther, perhaps the more conservative of the Reformers was content to sustain the Medieval-Renaissance order and sit under the protection of a so-called Christian prince. Calvin's Geneva moved in the direction of Authoritarian Republican government. Zwingli took up the sword (so to speak) and died by it on the battlefield.
It was in the 17th century that Protestant Scholasticism began to earnestly reckon with the implications of the Reformation applied to society. It was at this point that Sola Scriptura as a social organising principle failed. Rightly so I would add, as the New Testament nowhere even envisions a Christian State/Christendom project. In fact it repudiates the very notion of it.
In wedding Reformation theology to the Christendom project the Protestant Reformers and certainly the Scholastics after them undermined their own vision and sowed the seeds for epistemological collapse. They employed (and even exploited) the Scripture for something it was not meant to be used for. In the end their project exploded into the 17th century Wars of Religion and ultimately undermined not only their social vision… but their theological and ecclesiastical hopes as well….
But even granting the narrative that Liberalism and Modernism were the natural outgrowth of Protestant theology applied to society, then such a notion must be condemned as sub-Biblical. It does not represent New Testament doctrine either in its concepts of values. Confidence in reason? I think not. Rights? The individual? Progress? None of the concepts are found in the New Testament. Only deformed Judaizing hermeneutics can locate them through distorted readings of the Old Testament.
If liberalism is not the basis for evaluating politics or its reaction to Christendom, the proper starting point for political theology is as Paul Helm recently observed Christ's teaching that his kingdom is not of this world. Proto-Protestant explains what that means for 2k (even if he does not self-identify as 2k):
Speaking generally if both paradigms were and are wrong, what then are we to make of the so-called and very misnamed Judeo-Christian West? Not much. As a society it has some very good things about it and many that are rightly condemned. Christian it is not. And the more it is associated with Christianity the more problematic it becomes.
As pilgrims we understand that this world is not our home. We look for a city to come, a new heavens and new earth. We can live and function as the salt and light Oracular Church in any culture and civilisation. That said, some will be more pleasant than others. But pleasant isn't always better, especially if it leads to laxity, complacency and confusion. Though not pleasant the most spiritually vivacious times of my life have been during periods of hardship and opposition. It's not pleasant to live that way but the antithesis becomes razor sharp which spiritually speaking is healthy. It's a good place to be. If goods, lands, and prosperity are set aside and no longer important to me, then hardship becomes certainly less hard. The yoke of suffering, the burden of Christ to which we are called, becomes a little lighter.
And though on a practical level I lament the downfall and paganising trajectory of the West … spiritually speaking it's probably the best thing that could happen. The widespread apostasy is like a forest-burn. In the end it will make for a healthier forest. The forest to which I refer is not society, but the Church. Don't ever confuse the two.
While on the one hand I celebrate the fact that the Protestant Classical Liberal narrative is being exposed as a lie… both doctrinally and historically, I am concerned that many Protestants are quickly succumbing to an equally problematic lie… the Pre-Liberal Throne and Altar vision of Medieval Roman Christendom.
If Jake Meador had started with the church in exile and Christians as pilgrims as the frame for his index, he might have used a this-worldly (immanentize the eschaton) vs. an otherworldy (don't immanentize the eschaton) division. That one even pits 2k against Anabaptists since the latter regard (as I understand it) the company of believers as an outworking of "the perfection of Christ."
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8 thoughts on "Liberalism Does Not Frame 2k"
markmcculley says:
The word "spiritual" (undefined) certainly makes Paul Helm Indifferent about the status quo. Luke 7.28 Whoever is least in the kingdom of God is greater than John the Baptist. Paul Helm–"The kingdom is a dispensational matter. The kingdom of God has not to do with social policy of any kind… A person with a British and a Swedish passport )may be said to be a member of two kingdoms. But how we relate to a decaying culture and society is a matter of the individual Christian and the family. You may think that the Benedict Option is for you and your house. Others may be able to make a career in Caesar's household."
DGH–But what if Christendom or post-Christendom are not the only options? What about pre-Christendom? Here the idea is not that the time before Constantine was ideal but that a religiously diverse or even a religiously hostile environment is normal….It can be like the Old Testament promised land, like the Israelites in exile, like the early church under the domination of Rome, or even like Scottish Presbyterians in covenant with a divine-right monarch. Christianity is flexible. It's not tied to one political order.
mcmark—Along with Bahnsen and most theonomists, I certainly agree that church and state are distinct in the land and children promises to Abraham. But if you live in a church which collapses all the promises to Abraham into one promise, you can say that the promise to Christ to have children is no different from the promise to Abraham to have children, and then you can say that the promise to Abraham to have children is no different from a presumed promise to Reformed Christians to have children who are born "in the covenant".
To be "Reformed" always means agreeing that some of the non-elect are born "in the covenant of grace". This argument (even more than the Lutheran dogma of water regeneration) inherently TIES THE POLITICS of the church to the ideology of covenant succession . How much is "pre-Christendom" like the land and children promises to Abraham?
Was Abraham ("pre-Christendom") a "revivalist" or "a perfectionist" who reduced all the promises to Christ? Or did Abraham avoid immanentizing the eschaton by circumcizing all to whom land and children were promised?
Does "spiritual" mean " by definition church is not politics"?
Calvin–About 130 years ago the popes reduced the city itself to their control, until they came into the authority they hold today. For some two hundred years they have so troubled the CHRISTIAN WORLD in their efforts to hold or increase that authority . . . that they have nearly destroyed the CHRISTIAN WORLD .
Genesis 3: 14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent:
You will eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.
Galatians 3: 16 Now the promises (plural) were spoken to Abraham and to his seed (Christ) . He does not say "and to seeds," as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.
Luther –"For think what disaster would ensue if children were not baptized; what would be the final outcome but thoroughly heathenish existence? They separate themselves from the churches, even in those places where pure Christian doctrine prevails, and where the abuses and idolatrous practices have been abolished, and they set up a ministry and congregation of their own, which is also contrary to the command of God… In the case of tenets which are opposed to the secular government the matter is easier to deal with . For there is no doubt that in such cases the stiffnecked recalcitrants are sure to be punished as sedition-mongers. Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism or unnecessary separation, then, because these articles are also important. . . we conclude that in these cases also the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.
Genesis 12: 3 and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse those who treat you with contempt,
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
Romans 4: 17 As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. Abraham believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist. 18 Abraham believed, hoping against hope, so that he DID BECOME the father of many nations, according to what had been spoken, So will your descendants be.
The "spiritual" promise?–Abraham,you will have one child, forget all the other children you will have.
Another promise–you will have children and some of them will be cut off from the covenant.
Another promise—you will have children not born in your covenant, as many as believe the gospel by God's effectual call.
James Haldane –"although an oath was made to Abraham, securing the blessing to all families of the earth through him, this does not prove that the covenant made with him was the new covenant… To call this promise to Abraham the new covenant or "the covenant of grace", is only calculated to mislead. For surely it was peculiar to Abraham that Christ should spring from him."
Proto– The Anabaptists of Munster fell prey to false prophets and visions. I'm not going to defend their actions but I will only say it was a deviation, not the norm. It was not a faithful representation of mainstream Anabaptism let alone Medieval Waldensian ethics. It was the Bohemian Chelcicky who criticized the violent revolutionary Taborite branch of Hussitism. They too were a deviation and like Munster failed and disappeared. Tuininga seems to allude to Munster in his comments. This is a common slander used by Magisterial Protestants to discredit the Anabaptists and all they stood for… as if the Munster Revolt were the norm or in any way represents what the Anabaptists generally stand for. Its excesses and failure are utilized to dismiss the entire Anabaptist Anti-Sacralist view even though Munster didn't actually represent them. It is a classic straw-man argument.
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2014/03/two-articles-on-reformed-two-kingdom.html
Curt Day says:
I think that there is a problem when people try to automatically extend the 'conservative' and 'liberal' labels across political, theological, and philosophical spheres. The best way to describe theological liberalism is to say that it denies the supernatural of the Scriptures and tends to reduce all reality to the physical where science is the ultimate judge. But political liberalism is something that is significantly different than that and once you get to the political sphere, you now need to introduce the political left noting that there is no theological left. In addition, all that we can say about theological liberalism and at least much of what we can say about political liberalism can be derived from theological liberalism.
Theological conservatism, from a Christian perspective, recognizes the supernatural alongside the natural in the Scriptures. Where God's Word has spoken, God's revelation is the ultimate judge. And a theological conservative doesn't have to be a political conservative and a theological liberal doesn't have to be a political liberal.
However, there is a question that we Christians must answer regarding the recognition that Christ's kingdom is not of this world. Do we take that to mean that we retreat from the world or as a source of strength to be involved in the world. Either approach can bring negative associations with the Gospel. In addition, we might want to look at the Reformers as semi-anarchists with regards to human authority. They can be classified that way in that all human authority should be tested by whether that authority's legitimacy can be supported by the Scriptures in terms of their pronouncements and actions. And if an authority's legitimacy cannot be supported by the Scriptures, it should be done away with.
Leithart–Tuininga defines liberal democracy as a system of representative, democratic government erected to protect rights "in accord with the rule of law under a system of checks and balances that includes the separation of church and state." Virtually none of liberalism's theological critics objects to these forms and procedures as such. Their complaint isn't against representative government or voting or freedom of speech and association. No one advocates a fusion of Church and state. Rather, they claim that such a formal, procedural description masks the basic thrust of liberalism. Liberalism's stated aim is to construct a society without substantive commitments, leaving everyone free to choose whatever his or her or her own may be. Liberalism's common good is to protect society from adopting any single vision of the common good. That's a deviation from classical and traditional Christian politics (including Calvin's), which sought to orchestrate common life toward a common end—the cultivation of virtue or the glory of God.
Leithart–"In fact—and this is the other side of the critique—liberal societies do have substantive commitments. The liberal state pretends to be a referee, but beneath the striped shirt it wears the jersey of the home team. Under the cover of neutrality, liberal order embodies, encourages, and sometimes enforces an anthropology, ecclesiology, and vision of the good society that is often starkly at odds with Christian faith. Tuininga never confronts that line of analysis. …Tuininga is right that Calvin never claims that "civil government is a means of grace by which God justifies or sanctifies human beings," but who ever thought otherwise?… Because Tuininga hasn't grappled with the theological critique of liberalism, he doesn't fully recognize the anti-liberal force of Calvin's positions.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2017/06/is-calvin-among-the-liberals
The liberal state does not forgive (but will kill) those who oppose liberalism.
Hauerwas— Troeltsch saw quite clearly that if Christians were to assume the task of forming the ethos of modern societies, the "myths" once thought constitutive of the Christian faith must be rejected or reinterpreted. Reinhold Niebuhr wanted Christianity to be BOTH orthodox AND the "form" of culture. One of the benefits of assuming the mantle of Troeltsch is you get to call anyone who worries about making Christianity a civilizational religion a "sectarian."
Hauerwas–"The claim is that America has avoided the unhappy choice between heteronomy and autonomy and that therefore America has avoided and can continue to avoid the idolatry called theocracy. The religious right needs to understand that it does not need to use first-order theological language in public —though in the process the religious right may fail to notice it has thus accepted the philosophical presuppositions of Protestant liberalism."
But Niebuhr was also in favor of elite-centered rule because he believed that the masses were an obstacle to change.
In addition, when we look at the specifics of what is meant by a specific common good, what we can sometimes see is the erosion of rights for some for the sake of that good. And that comes from how some groups look at how they should society. When those groups look at sharing society as equals, then we see a maximum protection of rights. But when groups seek a privileged position so as to define, for society, a common good, then we see how groups can infringe on the rights of individuals from other groups.
The same-sex marriage controversy is a case in point. Many fellow religiously conservative Christians, because of how they defined the common good, have, in the past, and currently tried to run roughshod over the religious rights of those whose religious views were at peace with homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Thus in the name of the common good or human flourishing or whatever you want to call it, they have, in the past, criminalized homosexuality and near recently opposed the legalization of SSM. Thus, though this argument was not used in the courts, the religious of freedom of those who see homosexuality and SSM as being acceptable were being infringed on by the definition of the common good by these Christians. And this was despite the fact that we Christians have the right to preach against homosexuality, as we should.
Or go back to Calvin's day and his persecution of both witches and heretics. Should his persecution of those groups be allowed today in the name of protecting the common good?
That Calvin and Leithart would disagree with me is no skin off my back. Both exhibit strong authoritarian tendencies though Calvin was more proficient at that than Leithert is. And something authoritarians never seem to be able to comprehend is what it means to share society with others as equals. That is because they can never turn off the authority switch. They are OCD about putting someone in charge. And seeing that we have the freedom of speech to tell people to repent, I don't see how living as a Christian in today's society is incompatible with the Christian faith.
BTW, as for whether the liberal state will kill those who oppose the liberal state, shouldn't we take an inductive approach to determine the answer? In addition, perhaps Liberalism's definition of the common good is to broad for the myopia of some Christians, like Calvin, to see.
D. G. Hart says:
mcmark,
Liberalism's stated aim is to construct a society without substantive commitments, leaving everyone free to choose whatever his or her or her own may be. Liberalism's common good is to protect society from adopting any single vision of the common good. That's a deviation from classical and traditional Christian politics (including Calvin's), which sought to orchestrate common life toward a common end—the cultivation of virtue or the glory of God.
No kidding. What does Leithart think? Is he a United Colors of Beneton guy who thinks progressively that we can still have a "common good" like Calvin's? A common good that unites everyone?
You make deals and in 1789 the West made a deal. The nation would supply the common good. The question then became whether you wanted to be a republic (Switzerland) or an empire (UK and US).
But to long for a common good also invites refugee crises. You can't have common without exclusion.
I think this means that you see "the democratic nation state" as a common good. I think this means that you affirm the need for Christians to exclude or kill non-liberals or anti-liberals. You can't have the collective breakfast without breaking a few eggs… Hitler was elected by the democratic process, and exclusions will follow…
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If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
For in so doing
you will be heaping fiery coals on his head.
Be realistic—after you have defined what you have in common with pagans as the good, you tend to call good whatever you do to overcome what you call evil. Thank you God that we are less evil than those who once occupied Geneva…
Romans 13–For the power serves God as an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.Submit…
Psalm 76: 10—"Even human wrath shall praise you, for you are to be feared. Who can stand before you when your anger is roused."
James 1:19 "Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God requires"
Isaiah 10: 5 Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger;
the staff in THEIR hands is MY fury!
6 Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10: 12 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, God will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes
David Gordon (p 120 in "By Faith Alone: Answering the Challenges to the Doctrine of Justification")–God was just as surely Israel's God when God cursed the nation as when God blessed it.
Amos 3: 2 I have known only you
out of all the clans of the earth;
therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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mcmark, who said anything about democracy? National Socialism was an ethos, as Walter Sobchak pointed out.
Sure, liberal societies exclude non-liberals. Isn't that what law enforcement does? You break the law, you don't abide by liberal society.
But at least liberal society doesn't make Trinity or confessing Allah the law.
https://www.thenation.com/article/martin-luthers-revolution/
Where could the elevation of the individual conscience and the bifurcation of holy pursuits from profane politics lead? Enlightenment liberalism was not, and is not, capitalism; the former is a collection of political, social, and economic theories, and the latter is a vast material system. Nor can (or should) Protestantism, in all its variegated forms, be equated with either liberalism or capitalism: There are expressly anticapitalist and entirely illiberal Protestants, and no tradition encompassing the Quakers, the Shakers, and the Amish could seriously be framed as a simple extension of liberalism.
Yet there appears to be an important connection between the liberal thought that followed from Protestant arguments and the emergence of capitalism. "The kind of sociopolitical structure that Protestantism engenders—-based on free inquiry, participatory politics, and limited government—tends to favor market economics," Ryrie argues, and "a certain generic restlessness, an itchy instability, is absolutely a core characteristic of the Protestant life." As a result, he explains, "this self-perpetuating dynamo of dissatisfaction and yearning has helped to fuel and support the growth of capitalism."
Roper reminds us that "Luther was not 'modern'" and had no intention of ushering in a post-Christian era, whether secular, liberal, democratic, or capitalist. Not coincidentally, Luther doesn't appear to have been particularly gifted at foreseeing how his ideas would transform politics or would themselves be transformed by their emergence in public life.
His two-kingdoms theology "left him without a positive account of what the state can do and how it might help its citizens," Roper writes, "and it did not allow for a situation where a Christian or a Christian ruler would have to resist a superior authority." When such events arose in his lifetime, Luther "abdicated responsibility, and left the matter for jurists to decide."
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Today, I am going to teach you how to cook "Peranakan" or "Nyonya" dish – "Asam Pedas". It can be cooked using a variety of seafood like the mackerel or machete, but we strongly recommend the stingray. This dish takes less than 30 minutes if you have Sambal prepared earlier.
Add laksa leaves and ginger torch flower. Mix well.
Add tamarind juice. Stir and mix well.
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.
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Femtocells: Pros and Cons
Sprint launches home cells to boost signals
Sprint's new Airave femtocell to get 3G
Femtocell FAQ: Is it time for your own 'personal cell-phone tower'?
Cell-service miracle or mirage? We answer 18 burning questions about femtocell technology.
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Cost is one of the questions still without a clear answer. Critics point to the many fees associated with Sprint's Airave femtocell service. First, there's the $100 cost of the box. Then there's the $5 monthly service charge, in addition to the fee for your regular calling plan and minutes used. If you don't already have an unlimited plan, you can opt to pay an extra $10 a month for unlimited Airave minutes; for families, that's an extra $20 per month. Finally, add the cost of your broadband service.
"If the 'network is everywhere,' it might be a hard sell to tell their customers, 'It's everywhere but in your house, and for that, we want another $100,'" said Allen Nogee, an analyst at In-Stat.
"You really can't sell these as stand-alone boxes," ABI's Carlaw says. Carriers will need to market the service as part of a flat-rate data plan, he says.
What if I switch carriers?
Because femtocells are locked to individual carriers, if you switch wireless providers, you'll need to purchase a new box.
Can I use my existing phone?
Yes. One selling point for femtocells is that they will work with your current cell phone. Similar services that use Wi-Fi for offloading home calls, such as T-Mobile's HotSpot@Home, require consumers to purchase a dual-mode handset.
Are femtocells just for voice calls or can I also use them for data?
Sprint's Airave, the only femtocell service commercially available in the U.S. today, supports 1xRTT data but does not support high-speed 1xEV-DO data. However, 3G femtocell services will provide high-speed data access in Japan in early 2009 and are likely to appear in Europe soon after, analysts say.
Can I take one on the road with me?
That depends on where you're going. While they're intended for home use, femtocells can be taken on the road (Sprint's Airave box is about the same size as a standard home router) -- provided you're staying in the U.S. and the wireless carrier offers coverage at the new location.
"The Sprint one uses GPS and won't transmit unless its location is within Sprint's territory and Sprint says 'yes,'" Nogee says -- an assertion confirmed by Sprint's Airave documentation (PDF). Sprint recommends that you check the ZIP code of the area to which you're traveling to confirm that the service is available there.
What's required for setup?
Femtocell devices require you to have a wired broadband Internet connection, such as DSL or cable; they won't work with satellite or dial-up connections. In addition, you must have an available power outlet and a free Ethernet port on your modem or router. And, of course, you'll need a cell phone and calling plan with the carrier offering the femtocell service.
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Sprint's Airave box requires little setup or configuration; however, it must be located near a window for the GPS feature to work, according to Sprint's Airave documentation (PDF). The global positioning service "can take up to an hour to locate a satellite," according to Ovum analyst Steven Hartley.
Once set up, how well do they work?
Femtocells repeatedly scan the environment, seeking out the strongest signal to optimize the connection. Independent tests of Sprint's Airave from the likes of Engadget and Slashgear found the signal to be strong and clear in areas that were weak or nonfunctional without Airave. BusinessWeek, on the other hand, found the coverage to be spotty.
Once a connection is established, it won't exceed the maximum data rate of your broadband network, experts say -- something to keep in mind if you plan to have multiple callers using the service simultaneously.


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Kaduna Attorney General Pledges Support for VAPP Law Implementation
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By Uangbaoje Alex, Kaduna
Kaduna State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Aisha Dikko, has pledged state government's commitment at ensuring the Violence Against Persons Prohibition law (VAPP), signed by Governor Nasir el-Rufai, in 2018 is fully implemented henceforth.
The said her office is aware of the existence of the law which among other things seeks to address economic violence, spousal battery, which were not captured in previous laws that were met to care of cases of that nature.
Dikko, who made the pledge when Women's Rights Advancements and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), paid her a strategic advocacy visit on the effective implementation of VAPP Law in State, led by the Project Officer, Barrister Bukola Ajao, said, "we are aware of the law, and we are ready to support it's full implementation."
WRAPA, is a non-profit making charitable right based organization, advocating and mobilizing for the promotion, protection and realization of women's human rights in Nigeria.
WRAPA, is implementing a six months project titled: Legal and Social Empowerment Programme for Women's Rights in Kaduna and Plateau States, a project being funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), coordinated by the Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) which took effect in June 2020.
The overall goal of the SOAWR project is to increase and amplify the demand for the implementation of the Women's Protocol using the instruments of the Violence against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law in Kaduna State.
The AG, further said her ministry is ready to work hand in hand with WRAPA, on the campaign to ensure the effective implementation of the law and also appealed to the NGO, to help in capacity strengthening of some staff of the ministry that would be directly involved in the implementation.
Barrister Ajao, had earlier told the commissioner, that the main aim of the visit was to seek her support in making sure attention is given to the law whenever cases of VAPP are brought before the courts.
"We have been able to map out and also develop a frame work for the estimated budget require for the implementation of the law and we were able to come out with a thematic areas such as; sensitization and awareness on Gender Base Violence.
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It's day 2 of KWZ week, so let's take a look at KWZ Gummiberry. Thanks to Pen Chalet for sending a sample over for review.
Gummiberry is a medium, saturated purple.
Feathering: Low-there was quite a bit of feathering in the flex nib on Rhodia, but other than that there was no feathering.
Bleeding: Low-there was some bleeding on Rhodia and Tomoe River paper, but only in the flex nib.
Other properties: No shading, no sheen, and no shimmer. There is some small variation in color, but not enough that I would call it shading. It does look different in a fine nib than it looks in a broad nib, but that's not shading.
Ink swabs for comparison, left to right (top to bottom for mobile RSS): Diamine Purple Dream, KWZ Gummiberry, and Montblanc Beatles. Click here to see the KWZ inks together.
Waterman Tender Purple, Lamy Dark Lilac, and KWZ Iron Gall Gummiberry. Click here to see the purple inks together.
I used a broad Twilight Vanishing Point on Tomoe River paper. The ink had a lovely wet flow.
Overall, I like the flow of this ink, and it has a lovely purple color. Give it a try, you might love it.


Open sourcing my Runescape item dropping automation program.
Mounts Source Engine VPK files as a virtual drive.
A tool for taking Source maps, VPK files, and the proper FGDs, and outputting a report on what you need to do to get it to work.
A backup of all the rather mediocre tracks that populated my SoundCloud.
Tool for sorting images and comics.
Tool to easily extract clips from longer videos.
A few helpful command line utilities for dealing with images. The title is pretty self-descriptive.
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Frances M. DeGabriele, 91, of Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury – Frances M. (Marta) "Fran" DeGabriele, 91, devoted wife, mother and grandmother, died peacefully June 30, 2018 in the company of her loving family.
Frances was born and raised in Negaunee, Mich., daughter of the late Antonio and Maria (Massoglia) Marta. She married the love of her life, Vernon F. DeGabriele, on Oct. 2, 1947 after he returned back from proudly serving the country in World War II. They moved to Shrewsbury in the late 1940s and began their family life in their "forever" home on Harriet Avenue.
Fran was a wonderful mother, always focusing on her family. Another significant part of Fran's life was her love of God and her active involvement at Saint Mary's Parish where she served as a "Greeter," a founding member of the St. Mary's Parents Association, a volunteer at the school where she was known as "the reading lady," where she specialized in reading support for students needing her tender extra help. Fran remained a faithful member of the Daughters of Isabella and lived out her Christian faith with love and respect for all people. Her smile was her hallmark.
Fran's beloved husband of 56 years, Vernon, died in 2003. She leaves her loving family, Carol J. DeGabriele-Burke of Sutton, Denise M. DeGabriele-Lindberg and her husband Rusty of Holden, Steven A. DeGabriele and his wife Debbie of South Weymouth, and Dennis M. DeGabriele and his wife Rose of Falmouth, and is also survived by eight grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and many beloved nieces and nephews. Besides her husband, Fran was predeceased by two sisters, Olga Atwell and Laura Rose.
Fran's family wishes to thank the Notre Dame community for the loving care that was given to Fran during her residence there.
An hour of visitation will be Tuesday, July 3, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., at the Britton-Shrewsbury Funeral Home, 648 Main St. Shrewsbury, followed by a funeral Mass celebrating her life at 11 a.m. at Saint Mary's Church, 640 Main St., Shrewsbury. She will be buried next to her loving husband, Vernon, at Mountain View Cemetery of Shrewsbury.
Fran celebrated her faith and her love of God as a daily communicant of St. Mary's Parish, her family suggests that in lieu of flowers, Fran's life and memory may be honored with donations to Saint Mary's Church, 20 Summer St., Shrewsbury, MA 01545.
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I bought the Cobra Denali with no expectations other than the opportunity to learn basics of how to be a gun smith. Out of the box I could see that the feed ramp had sharp edges and also looked milled off-center. Also, racking it I could feel some friction at the back of the slide travel. I put in some 380 snap caps and was unable to feed them. Not unexpected. I disassembled the Cobra, de-burred the ramp and polished it--now it would feed. Took it to the range and got about 25 rounds through it before I had to put it away as it would no longer feed. Broke it down again at home and found the recoil buffer pin had dislodged. Fixed that. I isolated the reason for the binding to some friction occurring between the frame and the slide under the barrel at the front. Worked that down a bit on the frame along with polishing down some additional sharp edges on the slide. Took it to the range and no problems at all. Why 5 stars???--I bought this Cobra on sale for $101 and got exactly what I expected to get--a learning experience and a fine working firearm with only the addition of my time, patience, and desire to learn something.
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