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We crowdsource Orvis's maternity, paternity and parental leave policies, based on Orvis's employee reviews and anonymous tips from Orvis employees.
Orvis offers. This information is based on anonymous tips submitted by employees.
How many weeks of paid maternity, unpaid maternity, paid paternity and unpaid paternity leave do employers in the Retail: Shoes, Accessories and Apparel industry offer?


I recently gave a presentation in Hong Kong on the topic of how startups can do their own online PR. I touted HARO as a great tool for reaching out to journalists and reporters, but recently became aware of another resource from Publicize, a results-oriented PR firm. Publicize has created a free list of 100 tech reporters. But it doesn't stop there, they also have lists of reporters at the top 100 newspapers, complete with names and email addresses.
But before you go ahead and copy all those email addresses and start sending five emails each day, begging for them to write an article about your company, stop and think for a minute–will that work? Of course not. I write for Forbes, Entrepreneur, and other publications. I get pitches all the time from companies wanting coverage. Most of them never get written up in an article. Why not? I think I'm a reasonable guy, so hopefully it's not just because I'm a jerk. Part of it is that I'm busy. I can only write so many articles. Part of it is that people pitch me on stories where I don't have any relevant expertise, and I try not to write about things I don't know about. Part of it is that people give a bad pitch. If I can tell someone hasn't read any of my writing, doesn't know what I write about, and is just spamming me and a bunch of other writers, then that email gets deleted. If they send me more emails, they get blocked. But if someone writes a thoughtful email directly to me, and it's obvious they've done their research and picked me for a reason, then I'll at least respond. And chances are, if they're really done their research, they'll know what to say to me to get me interested in their story. You need to do the same before you start contacting the reporters on this list.
So check out my slides linked above, take a look at the list of reporters, and check out this infographic, also from the folks at Publicize. As the infographic points out, PR is becoming intertwined with SEO. Some of the best SEO is good PR.
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Do you have questions about Married To The Army: Alaska?
Whether you are a civilian who knows nothing about military life, or a seasoned veteran of any of the Armed Services, we've put together a list of Frequently Asked Questions for you to help get to know our show and how it all happened.
Q: Why the army? Why not Air Force, Navy or Marines?
A: The Army was the first to give our producers approval to tell the stories of real-life military spouses.
Q: Why does the show only follow wives? In today's Military, many of those who serve are women and their husbands are civilians.
A: Our casting outreach included husbands and wives of soldiers, but it just happened that the final group we focused on was all wives.
Q: Why didn't you focus on the families and children since they sacrifice so much, too?
A: Married To The Army: Alaska follows the lives of the spouses and their families, as you can't separate their stories. Several of the wives on the show have infants and toddlers, two have school-age children and one has a son at West Point. You'll meet all of the kids in the series and see how deployment and life in the military impacts the entire family.
Q: Why did you just focus on Fort Richardson and not Elemendorf Air Force Base, since they share a joint base?
A: Because we only had clearance from the Army, we could not expand our casting to Air Force wives.
Q: Did you include Enlisted and Officers' wives?
A: Yes, four of our wives are married to Enlisted men and three are married to Officers. We have a Colonel's wife, two Majors' wives, two Specialists' wives, one Sergeant's wife and one Staff Sergeant's wife.
Q: We noticed you were at a memorial service - did the army allow you to be there since they are usually closed to media?
A: We worked with the Army to cover the Memorial Services with the utmost respect and dignity for our Fallen Soldiers. They allowed us to shoot before and after the ceremonies. Any footage you see from inside the chapel, during the actual service, is from the Army videographer, who was there recording the service for the families.
Q: Why no husbands of women serving?
A: We opened up our casting to include male and female spouses, but very few husbands actually applied.
Q: What about dual-Military couples?
Our casting also included dual military, but again, only one dual-military couple applied, and they were stationed at Fort Wainwright and PCSd (PCS: Permanent Change of Station) in the spring.
Deleted Scenes: Song for a Soldier
Episode 6: Traci Finally Comes Clean
Episode 6: A Traditional Army Coffee
Deleted Scenes: Frantic Phone Calls
Deleted Scenes: What to Wear
Episode 7: Celebrating 20 Years
Episode 7: Welcome Baby Olivia!
Deleted Scenes: Baby Birthdays
Deleted Scenes: Yolanda Meets Salina's Baby

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Johannessen, O.M., Sandven, S. & Melentyev, V.V. Towards Operational Sea Ice Monitoring by Satellite SAR Data in the Northern Sea Route. Proceeding of Oceanology International 96, Brighton, UK 5. - 8. March 3, 283-295 (1996).
Sandven, S. & Johannessen, O.M. Towards operational sea ice monitoring services in the Arctic. European Operational Oceanography: Present and Future. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on EuroGOOS (2006).
Furevik, T. The transport of temperature anomalies toward the Arctic Ocean. OCEANOBS99 conference in Saint-Raphael, France Oct. 1999 18-22 (1999).
Esau, I. Turbulence-resolving simulations of circulations near ice edge. General EGU assembly, 15-20 April, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9, 01318 (2007).
Zilitinkevich, S., et al. Turbulent energetics in the stably stratified geophysical flows and the problem of critical Richardson number. International Conference Mesoscale Meteorology and Air Pollution in Commemoration of the Late Professor Lev Gutman and His Outstanding Contribution to Theoretical Mesometeorology, 15-17 September 2008, Odessa State Environmental University, Odessa, Ukra (2008).
Johannessen, O.M., Lisæter, K.A., Drange, H. & Evensen, G. Two decades of microwave satellite observation of Arctic Sea ice variability and trends. In Proceedings from the PORSEC confernce, Goa, India 5-8 December 2000 (2000).
Johannessen, O.M., Miles, M. & Shalina, E.V. Two decades of microwave satellite observations of arctic sea ice variability and trends. In proceedings of IGARSS'00, Hamburg Germany, 28June-2July,1999 (1999).
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Denver, Colorado is the largest city in a 500-mile wide radius making it a hub of storage and distribution of goods to the Mountain West and Southwest states. Because of Denver's massive commerce sector it's a popular destination for our executive clients. Many of our business VIPs rely on our precise logistics and knowledgeable drivers to get them around safely and efficiently.
Denver's newly expanded state-of-the-art convention center is a major attraction drawing thousands each year. The Colorado Convention center contains a wide variety of meeting and conference rooms, two ballrooms and an indoor amphitheater. The center is host to over 400 events each year.
Global Rider contracts exclusively with Denver's most knowledgeable chauffeurs to save you time and spare you inconvenience while traveling to and from Denver. We're also prepared to help you plan and coordinate luxury tours and vacations to Aspen, Colorado, one of America's favorite vacation destinations. Book a VIP ski-trip to the Aspen Mountain Ski Area or play 18-holes at the world famous Tom Fazio-designed golf course at the Maroon Creek Club. Whatever you'd like to do, Global Rider can make it happen.
We service all of Colorado's public and private airports including Denver International Airport and Aspen-Pitken County Airport.


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Minuscule 2818 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Aπρ20 (von Soden). Formerly it was labelled as 36aK in all catalogues, but it was renumbered by Aland, because two manuscripts had number 36 (36e and 36a). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 12th-century.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles and Catholic epistles on 245 parchment leaves with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, 39 lines per page, the pages are 26 by 20.5 cm. The text is written on a parchment in minuscule.

It contains Prolegomena. The text is divided according to the  (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their  (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. The text of the Acts of the Apostles is surrounded by a Catena of Church Fathers. It contains Martyrium Pauli.

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Aland placed the Greek text of the Acts in Category II. The text of the Catholic epistles is in Category III.

In Acts 8:37 it has a text supported by the manuscripts: Codex Basilensis, 323, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, and several others.

In  it has an addition αγιον επεπεσεν επι τον ευνουχον, αγγελος δε (holy [spirit] fell on the eunuch, and an angel). This reading is supported by the manuscripts Codex Alexandrinus, 323, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, and several others.

In  it reads μεγας for ουκ ολιγος, the reading is supported by 94, 307, 431, 1175, copsa, arm.

In Acts 20:28 it reads του κυριου (of the Lord) together with the manuscripts Papyrus 74 C* D E Ψ 33 453 945 1739 1891.

History of the codex

The manuscript was cited in Walton's Polyglott, enumerated by John Mill (Novum Testamentum, Prolegomena § 1390), examined by Wettstein, and edited by Cramer in 1838. It was cited by Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland 27) in Acts 15:28; 21:25.

The codex is located now at the New College (58), in Oxford.

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules (2001–)
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

Notes

References

Further reading

 Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, Verlag von Arthur Glaue, Berlin 1902-1910.

External links

Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts

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Literally very few things I like more than Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. It's my downfall in life, but what a way to go!
Little Blog Dress Media is proud to sponsor the 49th Annual Easter Beach Run, it has been a joy to work on this event promoting it. It is historic and awesome and I feel honored to be a part of it! And NOW a first ever popup!
Join Krispy Kreme Doughnuts for the Debut Special Appearance of the New, Giant Inflatable Pop Up Shop during the 49th annual Easter Beach Run Daytona Beach on Saturday, March 26.
Fans have enjoyed the iconic Krispy Kreme Daytona Beach location at the intersection of Nova Road and International Speedway Boulevard for more than 50 years. For special occasions, the Pop Up Shop brings the joy of Krispy Kreme to various community events with its inaugural appearance on the sandy shores of Daytona Beach.
The course begins right on Daytona Beach and will start at 7:30am. The festive themed run was first held on Easter Sunday as an activity for visiting college students, and today, it has become the longest consecutive race in Florida. Participants can look forward to a scenic run on one of the most famous beaches in the world and can either enjoy the 4-mile race or 2-mile fun run/walk. Kids are welcome to take part in the ¼ mile race as well as the 100 and 50-yard dashes. After the race, participants will receive finisher medals, shrimp and grits from title sponsor Bubba Gump Shrimp co. and there will also be an awards ceremony.
With more than three decades of expertise as an authorized franchisee of Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, Florida Family Foods is a second-generation, family-owned business successfully operating Krispy Kreme shops throughout Central Florida to include Melbourne, Daytona Beach, Winter Park, Millenia and Kissimmee. Florida Family Foods earned national recognition for the brand's "most innovative local relationship marketing program" in 2014 and continues to partner with numerous non-profit organizations and community-based programs annually. Stay social with your local Krispy Kreme shop on these channels www.facebook.com/KrispyKremeDaytonaBeach and www.Twitter.com/KKOrlando.


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City Council Expected to Endorse an Early Primary for Washington, DC
Washington DC.- The DC City Council is expected to pass a Sense of the Council resolution tomorrow, Tuesday, July 11 in support of an early 2008 Democratic Primary for the city of Washington. Were the DNC to act on the proposal, Washington DC would take its place immediately after Iowa or New Hampshire in the opening days of the presidential nomination window.
FairVote recently released the report, "Outside Looking In: How Shutting Washington DC out of the Presidential Primary Process Hurts Black and Urban America." The report details how the potential DNC move would be of major importance not just for Washington, but for black and urban voters across the country. Those two demographics are among the Democrats' most loyal constituencies, and moving them to the forefront of the nomination process would almost certainly change the political landscape for 2008 and beyond.
The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee made the decision last month to establish one new primary and one new caucus in the early primary window traditionally dominated by New Hampshire and Iowa, and will make their final decision on July 23. Several states and the District have applied for the two new slots.
Read the report, Outside Looking In here.
Read FairVote's recent Washington Post commentary here.
Executive Director Rob Richie, and Research Fellow Ryan Griffin are available for comment. Contact Communications Director Ryan O'Donnell at ryan@fairvote.org, 301-270-4616, or 413-335-9824 after hours.


A view of the 700-square-foot circular mural in the atrium of The Grohmann Museum on the campus of MSOE (Milwaukee School of Engineering) in downtown Milwaukee. The Element of Fire, by German artist Hans Dieter Tylle, depicts great thinkers including Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Johannes Gutenberg and Leonardo da Vinci.
victory over the Charlotte Bobcats Saturday evening at the Bradley Center.
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Difficult laryngoscopy and intubation using thyromental distance during: Operative assessment of patients
Author(s): Dr. Nagendra Prasad
Abstract: The airway begins functionally at the nares. The septum divides the nasal cavity into two narrow cavities. The nasal cavity extends from the external nares to the posterior choanae, where it becomes continuous with the nasopharynx. Vertically it extends from the palate to the cribriform plate. Each half has a floor, roof, a lateral wall and a medial septum wall. The lateral wall is uneven because of the three bony projection known as conchae. 300 consecutive (apparently normal) American Society of Anaesthesiologist grade 1 &2 adult patients undergoing elective surgical procedures under general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation at Medical college and teaching Hospital were the subjects in this study. Thyromental distance<6cm was considered as predictor of difficult intubation. There were 16 cases out of 300 patients (5.3%) belong to thyromental distance less than 6cms.
Dr. Nagendra Prasad. Difficult laryngoscopy and intubation using thyromental distance during: Operative assessment of patients. Int J Med Anesthesiology 2020;3(4):157-159. DOI: 10.33545/26643766.2020.v3.i4c.179


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Diminished cast announced
Posted on 16 March 2017.
Tamla Kari, Gwilym Lee, Lyndsey Marshal, Wendy Nottingham and Rufus Wright will star in Sam Hoare's new play, Diminished.
Tamla Kari's television credits include The Musketeers and Cuckoo and her film credits include The Inbetweeners Movie.
Gwilym Lee's theatre credits include Versailles and Hamlet (both Donmar Warehouse), and recent television credits include Midsomer Murders.
Lyndsey Marshal's recent theatre credits include Othello (National Theatre), and her television credits include Silent Witness and Inside No. 9.
Wendy Nottingham's recent theatre credits include The Last of the Boys (Southwark Playhouse), and her television credits include Peaky Blinders and Mr Selfridge.
Rufus Wright's recent theatre credits include The Audience (West End/Broadway), The 39 Steps (West End) and Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse/West End).
It seems that Mary and Adam Connor have the perfect life together; great jobs, a new flat and a beautiful baby girl. But as the hidden cracks begin to show a devastating hole opens up in their picture-perfect world and tests their relationship to the very limit. Is their marriage really for better or worse or are some things truly unforgivable?
Sam Hoare's debut play interrogates society's willingness to overlook unsettling truths and asks how far we will go to assuage our guilt. His award-winning feature film Having You released in 2013 starred Anna Friel and Romola Garai.
Tom Attenborough returns to direct following sell out hits Experience earlier this year and The Wasp which opened in the West End last year. His other credits include Speech and Debate (West End), Private Lives (ATG UK Tour) and Dinner with Friends (Park Theatre).


FALMOUTH – Several very substantive sessions about the future of Cape Cod were held on Thursday at the Shape The Cape Summit at the Seacrest Hotel.
The summit, put on by CCYP, featured Roy Heffernan of Life Is Good as the keynote speaker, and Heidi Sosik of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as the lunch speaker.
But it was the breakout sessions where local leaders in several fields led high level discussions about the future of work, life, housing and more on Cape Cod that were the true highlight of the event.
Here is a distilled version of the summit – 8 hours in 23 minutes.
Even if you went to the event, you probably couldn't attend all the sessions. We did. Thus, we apologize for walking in and out of each room several times. But here is what you may have missed.
Cape Cod is in good hands.


This study aims to treat polluted waters of Asaluyeh petrochemical units using activated sludge method. In this method the qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted on chemical and biological sludge samples besides ashes resulted from burned sludge. Then, in order to determine an optimal usage of chemical and biological sludge, different approaches were studied, and the most appropriate one, which has technical and economical justifications, was introduced and finally, efforts were made for marketing and communicating with sludge and ash consumer industries. The results of this study showed that because of relatively high humidity of these sludge which requires heat for evaporation, the burning process of the sludge is an expensive method. Also, organic materials comprise a major part of chemical and biological sludge, which considerably decrease after turning into ashes because of burning organic materials and their conversion to gases. Among metal oxides in these three types of chemical and biological sludge and ashes, the iron oxides are the main ones. Our analysis of these ashes and sludge showed that this sludge can be used in order to enhance mechanical resistance in asphalts due to their high organic load index LOI in addition to the presence of silicon and aluminum oxide. The obtained ashes and biological sludge have the capacity to be used as chemical fertilizers in pastures and agricultural lands. The ashes resulted from burning chemical and biological sludge in Mobin petrochemical complex have the capacity to be used in bricks.


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Ingersoll Rand Shares Smart Building Insights at 2016 Building Energy Summit
#SmartTech in buildings: benefits surpass efficiency & productivity. @OwenASmith of @IngersollRand shared at #2016BES http://bit.ly/1pFdvqh
Owen Smith, director, energy policy and strategy, Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability (CEES) at Ingersoll Rand,shares expertise at key industry events throughout the year.
NEWSROOM: Trane Technologies
CAMPAIGN: Ingersoll Rand Speaking Engagements and Events
CONTENT: Press Release
DAVIDSON, N.C., March 20, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Owen Smith, director, energy policy and strategy, Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability (CEES) at Ingersoll Rand (NYSE: IR), a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, shared insights at the 2016 Building Energy Summit in Washington, DC on March 16 to help building owners understand and maximize the benefits of smart buildings.
Smith joined experts from Philips Lighting and exp US Services, Inc., on a panel moderated by Leo O'Loughlin, senior vice president for energy and sustainability services at JLL. The panel, "Smart Buildings: Redefining the Future Workplace Environment," explored key performance indicators for smart buildings, design technology to support building networks, and the value provided by smart building applications.
"When it comes to the value of smart technology in buildings, we know that the benefits are clear for owners and occupants – from efficiency to productivity to comfort and more," Smith said. "But there are also benefits outside of the building. Opportunities exist at the grid-level where buildings can provide value to the electricity system by acting as resources for the grid."
The 2016 Building Energy Summit is an annual conference that gathers commercial building owners and energy experts to collaborate on best practices, share case studies and provide necessary resources for implementing energy efficient technologies and solutions. This year's conference is built around the theme "Redefining Efficiency in the Built Environment."
Ingersoll Rand Climate Commitment
Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, announced in 2014 the company's Climate Commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its products and operations by 2030. The Ingersoll Rand Climate Commitment pledged to:
Cut the refrigerant GHG footprint of its products by 50% by 2020 and incorporate lower global warming potential (GWP) alternatives across its portfolio by 2030;
Invest $500 million in product-related research and development over the next five years to fund the long-term reduction of GHG emissions; and
Reduce company operations-related GHG emissions by 35% by 2020.
To date, the company's Climate Commitment has supported the avoidance of approximately 2 million metric tons of CO2e globally, which is the equivalent of avoiding annual CO2 emissions from energy used in more than 270,000 homes and more than 2.1 billion pounds of coal burned. By 2030, the company expects to reduce its carbon footprint by 50 million metric tons.
About Ingersoll Rand
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) advances the quality of life by creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments. Our people and our family of brands — including Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Thermo King® and Trane® — work together to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings; transport and protect food and perishables; and increase industrial productivity and efficiency. We are a $13 billion global business committed to a world of sustainable progress and enduring results. For more information, visit www.ingersollrand.com.
Owen Smith is the director of energy policy and strategy in Ingersoll Rand's Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (CEES). In this role he works with Ingersoll Rand's businesses to develop market-leading strategies that reflect significant trends in the energy sector. His efforts expand and accelerate market opportunities for energy efficiency solutions by engaging with leaders from business, non-profit, academic and government institutions. He also seeks to ensure the company's strategic brands are well positioned to thrive as they address society's pressing energy and environmental challenges.
Smith came to CEES from Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a thought leading environmental non-profit that engages with businesses, communities and institutions to advance market-based solutions to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. As Principal of RMI's Electricity and Communities Practices, he was accountable for programmatic goals to accelerate the transformation of the electricity system and to enable communities to capture economic benefits by leading on climate and energy challenges.
Prior to RMI, Smith worked at Duke Energy where he scaled renewable energy and energy efficiency across Duke's regulated utilities. He also held positions in corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, finance and marketing.
Dan Berei, Ingersoll Rand
704-655-5018, dand.berei@irco.com
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Rototiller Racing!
Mike Finneganwriter
Tammy Nelson said "NO" for a long time. Her husband, Kelby, had hot-rodded a rototiller for the Purple Pea Festival's (PurpleHull.com) annual World Championship Rototiller Races, and with it he aimed to win the Men's Modified class. Kelby wanted her to enter the family tiller in the Women's Modified class. The lure of the festival and the $500 prize eventually persuaded the stay-at-home mother of three to grab the handlebars and dash behind the tiller across the 200-foot-long dirt course in less than 11 seconds. Both Nelsons won in 2011. Then she did it again in 2012. The tiller is currently on a diet and in preparation for a three-peat.
A rototiller is commonly used to churn the soil on a farm to prep it for planting seed. If it's in working form, you walk behind the tiller at a leisurely pace as tines (the blades) attached to the gearbox spin through the soil. Most tillers are powered by 510hp, gasoline engines. The tillers used in the Modified class are nothing like these stock machines. They must be based on a production tiller and retain the original gearbox and chassis. Beyond that, anything goes. The engine, throttle, and tines can be modified any way you choose, as long as the engine doesn't produce more than 50 hp.
Running behind a 50hp tiller--blades a spinnin'--is, well, nuts. A race begins with the machines idling, one competitor in each lane, with referees at the opposite end of the track working a stopwatch. A starter waves a flag, and the racers go for it. They must keep their feet on the ground and hands on the bars during the race. A three-second penalty is assessed for being dragged across the finish line or exiting the lane. YouTube has some nutty videos of racers who can't keep up with their machines and eat dirt. Search "rototiller racing" and be entertained.
1. This 8-ounce fuel tank holds 98-octane unleaded fuel. The engine burns about 3 ounces per pass.
2. The ATV also donated the handlebars, which are mounted to a section of schedule-40 steel pipe.
3. The tiller is an unknown brand that Kelby dug out of junkyard.
4. The coilover shocks and muffler are there for looks. They came from the Kazuma, too. Kelby gutted the muffler and sectioned it so it would be louder.
5. The tiller weighs about 200 pounds.
6. Kelby works at a machine shop and beefed up the stock tiller box with larger shafts, made new sprockets to change the gear ratio to 1:1, and built a chain and sprocket to connect the gearbox to the engine.
7. The 110cc, carbureted, gas engine was robbed from a Chinese-made '00 Kazuma four-wheel ATV. It's been bored 0.100-inch over and has a hotter camshaft. Stand the Kazuma mill next to a 110 Honda, and you'd swear they were the same. Yay, China!
The Modified class record was 7 seconds. The record was retired in 1993, after a great conflict erupted when the Modified class tillers started going too fast and stopped resembling actual tillers. The World Tiller Racing Federation was created, and rules were put in place to keep things safe and reasonably sane.
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Last week I gave a Bible Study on Jacob. God does speak to us in several different ways over the course of time; and Hebrews 1 brings this out. Certainly, the story of Jacob is speaking not just to people at that time. The Bible has been preserved right the way down for our own time today. It's speaking very largely to us today with a very central message, and Jacob was a crucial personality within scripture.
Today I would like to continue where I left off, because although last week I touched on Joseph, the Bible Study was really in regard to Jacob and how that final trial was so severe for him. But the story of Joseph isn't in the Bible just as an aside to the story of Jacob by any means! There's a great deal within his story - and I want to to show what God has to say to us through the story of Joseph.
I want to deal with the aspect that this story of Joseph it pictures us today.
Secondly, it teaches us about trials for the righteous - as Joseph was. He was doing things right, and he went through trials.
Thirdly, it teaches us how things can change overnight. And all of us need to keep this point in mind in our own lives because things can and do change overnight. So often when we're actually looking at the trials that we go through, it can seem as if God allows it to go on and on and run its course. But it comes to a point where the trial suddenly resolves itself, and when that happens we know Who has done it!
Fourthly it gives us a view of certain aspects of the life that we will have within the Kingdom of God.
And finally, it teaches us about forgiveness - because of what his brothers did to him. There are certain crucial elements there that we need to understand.
There is speculation as to whether this was a Scottish tartan; and it may well be that it was something along those lines. This is speculation, but it is speculation that has been around the Church for a long time.
In other words, he said, "Well, perhaps God has got something in mind for this particular boy." And, in fact, God did. When we look at this example, we need to ask ourselves a question: "Who were the dreams for? Were they for the brothers?" Well, no, they weren't for the brothers primarily. They were for Joseph because of the things that he had to go through, and God knew he needed those dreams to keep him going right the way through. And eventually, when he saw them fulfilled, it actually helped him to handle the situation properly (as we'll go on and see). When we look at the situation here and we start applying it to our own life now, what's our present goal for? Is it for the people in the world? The answer is no, it's not. The hopes and dreams we have....they are for the brethren within the Church. It's for us, individually, to make sure that we do keep going. We need to make sure that we never lose track of that aspect.
Let's go over to Hebrews 11, the "faith chapter". These people had these hopes, these dreams. They were looking forward: "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off... (Hebrews 11:13)They are looking afar off....they are looking out into the future.
Now, the 'confession' is not just by word. It's by what they were doing and how they were acting that they confessed. Their life was actually governed by these dreams, and that is true of every single one of us. It's the hope for the Kingdom of God and what we see in the future. We have been given a foretaste of that. It's not a clear foretaste. It's almost like a dream. We are looking forward. We have the Holy days, and we go through them every year; but we only see through a glass darkly.(I Corinthians 13:12) We only see a certain amount and not the full picture.
And it's very similar to what Joseph had - he had these dreams and he was looking forward into the future, but he told everyone about them! This can be a problem with us also. Particularly, early on when we're first converted, we do tend to disregard the crucial fact that God has to open the mind. We don't realize what this understanding is for and that we're in this unique position. A position of being trained, and being trained to be teachers, and understanding the ways of God, and being able to apply and teach those ways in the future. And as it says in verse 13, by saying these things, they basically confess that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. They conduct their life in that regard, and in that way they are declaring plainly that they are seeking another country. They are looking forward to that country because they are living as strangers and pilgrims now. All of us should look at this particular life and realise we're just passing through it. We've got to make sure we don't get off track in that, because it's so easy to do so. We are looking forward in that regard.
We keep on our knees. It's sometimes very difficult - particularly when you've got a full time job, or you've got children, young children. It's very difficult to pray every single day and there are times when, okay, we might not make it; but it won't be as good a day as if we had. It's not that "That's it...now you're lost forever." It's not that way, but we do need that constant contact with God. It's like when you fast for a day, you don't feel as good - in fact, you feel absolutely rotten. Well, that spiritually should be telling us something. We should be feeling spiritually rotten if we haven't managed to get on our knees that particular day. It's not going to kill us spiritually, but it isn't going to help us either.
Now, Joseph had these dreams. He didn't necessarily know what they meant; but obviously they are to do with his brothers, and his father, and mother bowing down to him. But did he know what that really meant? How it was going to be fulfilled? Did he know the great detail there? No, he didn't. Now, we know we're going to be in the Kingdom of God ahead of our relatives, and our friends, and the people that we work with; but do we really understand what that means? Do we really, understand what it's like to be a son of God? To be a spirit being? We don't. We're still very, very human and very fleshly. Yes, we've got certain things written here that we can understand 'through a glass darkly', but we're not there yet. We been given vision there, very much like Joseph had, with these dreams that he'd been given.
There is an eternal world that this one rests in - or is it on? You know, I'm getting out of my depth! There is an eternal world there, and it is that which we're looking toward. That's what we're looking for ultimately.
So, if we go back to I Corinthians 2, we find ourself in a situation similar to Joseph's. He could not see where things were leading. He could only see what he had been given at that particular time, and all he had were these dreams. He could see that they certainly said some pretty big things; and he was featured very, very strongly within those dreams. But exactly how it would all work out, he certainly could not see. He certainly couldn't see as much as we do. We see a great deal more.
Human beings cannot see the future; and Joseph's brothers could not see the future in any way, shape or form! They didn't even believe the dream that he'd had at all, and yet that dream came true. That dream materialized, even though Joseph didn't understand it fully initially.
Now, we see here that the Holy Spirit in fact has revealed those things to us; and we've got to be aware that we did not receive them in any other way. The only way that we have these things that we understand today is through the very Spirit of God; and God chose, and Christ chose, to reveal it through a particular individual. So, again, it's all to do with foundations.
Let's turn back to Genesis 40. Again, here's Joseph now. He's been given the perception of dreams, and he's giving it to Pharaoh's officers.
As far as dreams go, in most cases, as Mr. Armstrong used to say, they're just random collections of thoughts; and most of it is totally daft. But in this particular case, Joseph had been given the ability to recognize that this was something which was outstanding; and this was something which was unusual.
"And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me. (Genesis 41:16) Because, they were saying, "Tell him, interpret the dream for him." He says, "Look, that's not coming from me." The interpretation of this dream did not come from Joseph. It came from God Himself.
"God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace." (Genesis 41:16) And, in verse 25, it mentions something similar: "And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shown Pharaoh what he is about to do".(Genesis 41:25) So he was recognizing the Source continually, and pointing Pharaoh to it. He was recognizing that No, it wasn't him that was doing this. It was God that was doing it.
The dream that we have - the goal that we have, the vision of the future that we've been given - these didn't come from a mere man. To be able to take this Book and put it together in a way to reap the understanding of scripture - it is impossible. You cannot. All the seminaries are trying to look at it and trying to understand it, but they don't get this understanding out of it at all. They look at it on a purely superficial level. They do not see the consistency and the Word of God clearly coming through scripture because they're not keeping the Holy days; and, yes, they're not doing various other elements. It was the Spirit of God that revealed; and this is what so many of the fractures, within the Churches, have lost sight of. They do not realize and really understand that "No, these things did not come from Mr Armstrong. They came because they were revealed by God, because it was time for them to be revealed by God." It is essential we have that clarity!
It had to be the Spirit of God that revealed these things to him, or through him.
There was a certain amount of spiritual discernment within Joseph that was not there within his brothers. His brothers could not see at all, but he could. Maybe a miniscule amount, but a certain amount of discernment had been given to him specifically by God. Mr. Armstrong continually used to hammer the lectern and remind us; "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draws him" (John 6:44) and we must never ever lose sight of that. In the case of Joseph, the dreams were for him, personally. They were not for his brothers, but he went ahead and made himself thoroughly obnoxious by telling all and sundry. So this should, in fact, teach us all many lessons in that area, when we think deeply on the 'dreams' that we have been given.
Secondly, it teaches about trials and specifically trials for righteousness. If you go back to Genesis again, this time even further.
Now Jesus Christ as it was there - the God of the Old Testament - could see all the way down the ages and could see what was necessary. And there's more to it than that. You know, the coming out of Egypt, how much of that was also because WE have got to come out of Egypt? It's continually mentioned. Was He actually engineering it because He knew, right down at the end-time, there's going to be a group of people ready to be teachers who have to come out of spiritual Egypt? And therefore, He's giving them a type; and He's giving them an example of people that they can look back on and see how they could not keep the Law of God, which is spiritual. All of these things presumably are going through the very mind of God many, many years before. And it was to Joseph's great-grandfather that He was saying this to. So when we come over to Genesis 37, we see this 17-year-old kid. Basically, that's all he is. He's 17 years old. He's got some dreams, he's looking forward into the future, but he doesn't deserve what happens to him.
This trading route, it even existed right into the 1500's A.D. It was only when the Portuguese started to sail around the Cape of Good Hope that they actually broke this Arab trading route and the monopoly that the Arabs had on it in this area.
Now, he didn't deserve that. What he'd done in broadcasting those dreams to his brothers didn't justify what they did. In fact, they were planning to kill him. I mean, have we ever really gone through something like that? Okay, I've had people threaten to kill me. I think I've mentioned that before, them firing their .22 rifle over my head while I worked - just to reinforce their threat. But this was a 17-year-old boy. Life isn't fair. But let's look at it now, in context.
We're looking about the trials of the righteous. We're looking at a God who knew about the people of Israel coming out of Egypt 400 + years further down the line. And you're looking at a people being ready as the people of God, who have come out of Spiritual Egypt, and all the implications involved in that. I mean, you're looking at a whole picture, but Joseph had nothing of that understanding! All he knew was that he was getting sold - he'd had some dreams and now he was getting sold down the river. No, he did not deserve what happened to him.
So, even though he was a slave, it mentions here that the Eternal was with him; and the Eternal helped him as a slave, but he was still a slave, he couldn't get away.
So certainly, within the confines that he found himself, he behaved himself correctly. He did as much as he could as far as what he knew was right, and tried to avoid Potphar's wife and rejected her improper suggestions.
He was doing what was right. He had been trained by his father in what was right and what was wrong.. You know, you don't [naturally] do what he did. If he'd just been allowed to grow up, he wouldn't have done that; obviously he'd been trained by his father and the training was showing through.
And you might think, why did God possibly allow that to take place? And yet you notice here, within this section, that it was a certain type of prison. I don't know how the structure worked at that particular time, but there must have been some reason for him getting into that particular position. He was a slave - albeit of Potiphar, the Captin of the Guard - finding his way into the king's prison.
Again, couldn't God work it out some other way? Well, presumably no. He was using circumstances, which were none too pleasant, to work with Joseph. And, as I say, these things have not been recorded for no reason. They've been preserved for us - so that we could go back and read them and say, "Hey! This guy, he did what was right yet he seemed to suffer for it." But all the time, God had a hand in it. God had seen all the things that were going on. The view that He had was SO much greater. He could see a view that was beyond anything that Joseph could see at that particular time. So he found himself then in the prison - but in this prison of the king.
So, God was with him through this trial. But it was a trial! It was difficult. It was not easy. We can find this in our lives. Turn over to Psalms 105. I want to just point out one thing within Psalms 105, which I probably haven't brought out to the same degree before. But we find the hand of God on the nation of Israel, and the way in which things happened.
Tradition has it that he was crippled to some degree by his imprisonment. Now how badly crippled? It's debatable, because there's another place that says that when he came out of prison, he actually ran. Now how fast he ran we don't know, but he obviously wasn't totally crippled.
So God was using the time in prison to test Joseph - this time was a time of testing. And we go through our time of trials, and our difficulties. And if we look at his situation - I mean he was a 17-year-old boy when he found himself going out into the field there, when he was taken and sold. When he actually gave the interpretation of the first set of dreams in the prison, he was 28. That was 2 years before he was actually taken out. So it was 11 years from both being a slave and also being in the prison ward. It's a considerable length of time. It doesn't just happen that quickly. You know, we read these accounts here within scripture; and we can so often just read over them and not realize the time elements.
It was 11 years. What would we do? What's eleven years back from now? What were we doing then? So just think about all that length of time that was actually taking place. And this wasn't someone in their 50's or 60's... this was a 17 year old boy. And for a 17 year old, 11 years can seem almost a lifetime! It's over half his lifetime at least.
So he got stuck there - 2 years later he was still there. He had no concept whatsoever of what was going on. He'd had these dreams way back, 11 years or so before. Every single thing he could imagine, as far as his life was concerned, had gone wrong. He'd done what was right, and he got caned for it. And yet, with all of this, God was still working with him. God still was there, and it says His Word was trying him. His Word was testing him. He was making sure because He could see further forward. He could see what He was about to do. And knowing that, He said, "Look! If Joseph is not ready, he cannot be used."
And if WE are not ready for what is coming, we cannot be used! And so often we look at our trials, and we look at our trials backwards; but God sees our trials forward...what He plans to achieve. That's the difference. Trials forward as opposed to trials backwards are two entirely different things. Only God has the perspective of trial forward. Our entire concept is trial backwards, and this is our problem all the time. Joseph was no exception. He looked at his life backwards. He still had the dreams. Obviously, he must have rehearsed these dreams in his mind. The eleven stars, the sun and the moon bowing down, and the sheaves bowing down, what about this? How many times did he pray about that -"When, O Lord?" - without any prospect of it!
Look at us today as a group of people. How on earth can this small, diverse group do what we're supposed to do? How on earth can we do it? Well, we can't. We cannot do it; but GOD CAN, because God looks at trials forward. But when He puts the trials on us, we have got to make sure we understand that's what He is looking at and allow Him to do that. Allow that Word to test us. Allow that Word to have its full course, as it says over in James chapter 1.
Who were in the prison? They were people within Pharaoh's court. We know the butler and the baker - those are two mentioned, but who else was in there? You see, for Joseph to be ready to assume the command that he did within Pharaoh's household, he ended up rubbing shoulders with the high and mighty that weren't quite high and mighty at that time! They were the best class of the prisoners, you know... people who were people of influence; and he probably learned a great deal there, in that prison. It seems that God says, "Right, I know just the perfect school for you." And He takes him and sticks him in this place for a number of years - to teach him certain lessons. But that is where God put him ... in school. It's like Moses. "Okay, when you've done your General bit, I'll put you in another school." And God had him stuck with some sheep for about 40 years! It's not quite what we understand by school, but this is the way that God works. This is what He does.
So you're going to be READY for when that time actually comes. So that God can use you, and use me, in whatever capacity that He has called us for. And we have been called for reasons.
Now, I was looking at that the other day; and I was thinking, "Well, you know, one way of looking at that (which never really dawned on me before) is that if God is really living His life in us then it says here that God cannot be tempted with evil. If God is in us, He cannot be tempted with evil. What's in this heart of ours? Are we converted - really converted? I mean are we converted into the kind of God-being that God requires of us? If we're getting trouble, then the problem is us! Just read what it says; but just have that concept in mind.
It's the human bit that's still there that gives us problems; and, in the case of trials, it certainly gives us problems. You see, God's idea of trial forward is different from our idea of trial backwards.
For whatever reason, because He's looking at trial forward, He sees that this is something that is necessary. Now, as I say, the perspective that He has is totally different than ours. He's looking right down through time - thousands of years ahead sometimes. He's looking at certain situations that He may want to use us in, in the Kingdom of God, in the Great White Throne Judgment. I don't know. But He does have a perspective that we don't have. And it's a case of "let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing" - that we might be ready for that time.
So what He's doing - that we'll be perfect and entire, lacking nothing - that's the righteousness of God. That's what He's looking for in us. So here's Joseph. He could not see forward. He could only see backwards. He could see his trial; and, yes, he could see the dream that he had, and the dream was wonderful! But how on earth that dream was going to materialize, he hadn't the foggiest idea. He had no clue! But his perspective was backwards. Yet God was there; and He was working it out; and He was training him, within that school, within that prison. He was actually instructing him, bringing him in contact with courtiers and people that had fallen out of favour. I would imagine that certain people got chucked in that prison that didn't really need to, purely because Joseph needed to get in contact with them. Chances are that happened. And they probably thought, "Why me?" Well, one day they'll find out. But it was the purpose; and the whole thing was engineered; and the whole thing was on target; and the whole thing was happening according to plan. If we turn over to Romans 8, we find ourself today in the same boat.
The whole creation! The entire creation that you can see out of your eyes, your window each day! It's been made in a certain way. It's chewing on each other. "For the creature was made subject to vanity ..."(Romans 8:20) Get your Strong's out, and go and have a look at the origin of that word 'vanity' I can't remember what the word is now, but the word literally means 'to chew on'. In other words, it's like you've got a small rubber ball in your mouth, and you're just continually chewing, and you're not getting anywhere. You can also apply it as the alligator eats whatever happens to stray anywhere near it. Everything is chewing on each other. Out to get. The entire creation is that way.
Now God knew, with Joseph, the liberty that He was about to allow him. He knows what liberty is about to happen regarding the Church. We can't see, because we can't see trial forward. We only see trial backwards. It's exactly the same as Joseph! The advantage is that we can read this Bible, and we can see what happened - and what will happen.
And, sometimes, we can loose sight of this. But that is in scripture. I know a lot of people kind of blindly trot it out, but it is in scripture and therefore it is the truth.
That's the purpose in our life. That's why we are called. This is the view forward. This is what we're looking at as far as the future is concerned. It's trial forward. But it's dim, it's like a dream. But it's not a dream. It's not a vision. It's reality! We cannot see clearly, but through a "glass darkly"; but it's very, very similar to the way Joseph was as well. It helps us in that we try and make sure that we maintain that big picture - that we realize that the plan of God is there, and that (as far as God is concerned) He's working it out, and He will cause these things to occur on target.
And Egypt was the major nation of the whole entire earth at that particular time. Now, if he was not ready for the responsibility, he couldn't have done it. How could he have organised what he did re. the 7 good years and the 7 years of famine and get all that sorted - if he hadn't have had the experience in Potiphar's house initially, and in the prison rubbing shoulders with the courtiers? This was all part of the training! At the time no doubt it looked totally as if it were arbitrary. It wasn't. It was not random at all.
So here was Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Now, if they hadn't have been appointed to a position of authority, they would never have gone through the fiery furnace because they wouldn't have come to anyone's attention. So God could have stopped the fiery furnace at that stage quite easily, without any problem at all.
God could have said, "Hang on a minute. I know what's in his mind. I'm going to change his mind." And could have done so quite easily - and stopped things at that stage. Couldn't He? He could have stopped it, but He didn't. And think about all the stages as we read through here.
Now, they didn't have to accuse the Jews. If God would have gone ahead and kept them quiet, then there wouldn't have been a problem; and Nebuchadnezzar would not have got into in his rage and fury.
Now, who made the rule? Why didn't they say whoever didn't worship, they get caned? Or they get sent out of the province of Babylon, or another punishment? No. We've got to have this fiery furnace. So God could have stopped it at all these different stages. You read verse 13 and you think, "Hang on a minute. This guy's having a bad day!"
He threw a fit, to say the least! Then they brought these men before the king, they got him on this bad day. "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzaar, we are not careful to answer you in this matter." (Daniel 3:16) In other words, "You know, Nebuchadnezzar, let's not mince words. If our God wants to save us, He will. And if not, we're still not doing what you said." And he was absolutely livid. He was utterly beside himself! You don't do this to the Idi Amins, the gentile despots of the ancient world.
But God could have stopped this trial at any of these different stages!. We can do exactly the same thing in our own lives. I think we're going to need to say "You do it, in Your own time." When you look at Daniel in the lion's den, the same kind of thing occurs. Again, God could have intervened at any stage.
I know that one particular story sticks in my mind. We were talking last night about all the various times when God intervenes in life. When it's very clear that He has stepped in. It's helpful to actually make a note of these things so that you remind yourself of them as you go through life - because it's very, very encouraging to look back on, and learn from as other trials crop up in our lives.
We had this shed that I erected on our land, and it was a decent size. There had been a farmer who'd knocked down his old shed and he was going past on his tractor to dump the corrugated iron sheets at the local tip. Money being very tight at the time, I stopped him and asked, "Do you want all those sheets?" And he said, "No." So I said, "Well, I'll build a shed out of it." So I did, and it worked out all right. There was plenty left over, and I took the remainders down to the tip. But the problem was, the back wall was against an earth bank. We kept some chickens in there and I noticed there were rat droppings in their run. And I left the light on for a few nights - so they'd get used to the light - and when I went in to check, there were dozens and dozens and dozens of rats everywhere - the place was alive with them! So I tried to get rid of them by poisoning them. Quite literally, as you put the spoon down the hole, you could see the rats eating the stuff off the spoon. So I thought, "I've got to do something about this shed. There's no way this can go on.... I've got to build a wall."
Now, the problem was the bank was rock. To make room for the shed initially, we'd had a JCB (a large mechanical digger) in to dig the bank back - the road actually went along top - and I built the shed there; but we really needed to go ahead and build a wall up the side, and I simply could not do it. It was just a huge, huge job. And I thought, "This is ridiculous. I've got to do something about these rats. How do I get rid of them all?" I was having to work at the same time.
Anyway, in Wales it can really rain at times. There was one night it just threw it down with rain - it was so torrential. The rain was running down the road and there was water everywhere. It just so happened, the telephone company were putting in a new telephone line in a trench beside the road; and it was coming down the back of the shed. It also happened to be open that night. They'd opened this trench up on the top, by the road; and the water ran down all night into this trench; and the whole bank gave way. Now, I had been nibbling my way with a shovel into the back of this bank; and, of course, this was sheared off with all the rain. The drop is about 18 feet altogether, from the top to the bottom; and it's very solid. And I came over to milk the goats the following day, and I found mud everywhere. I got my shovel out, and I started to dig - and I thought, "This is ridiculous. There's no way can I dig this out." because, again, it was a huge amount and all within the shed.
So I called our local councillor and said, "Look! It's hardly my fault that the drain's blocked further up." I tried pleading with him on the phone and he came down to check it out, which was quite amazing in itself. He said, "Oh, no problem. It's the telephone company's fault." In fact, he looked almost pleased. It almost felt that there had been some kind of friction between these two companies, the two groups, in the past; and this was his time to get even.
All these rats and then the mud problem ... it was a disaster after disaster! But what then happened was amazing. The council came in and they cut the road in half, not just the edge that had crumbled. And down to a decent depth as well. I said, "Look, I can demolish the old shed (It was just built from old rubbish that was going down to the dump anyway) as long as you let me put another shed back onto the resulting wall. So, we got this huge 18 foot wall built, all the way along the back of the shed. It goes half way underneath the road, with a concrete block ramp, a solid block of mass concrete. Cost-wise, I did a rough estimation at that time and it was about 18 or 20 thousand pounds. This was back in the 70's. And not only did it not cost us anything, but they said, "Well, we need to have some electricity from somewhere to put the traffic lights on while we're working on it; and so we'll pay you to plug into your electricity." And I made quite a fair amount of money out of it! And all of this happened out of what looked like a whole series of disasters, all the way, until finally, BANG! The last one, the whole thing resolved itself, the whole scenario. And there have been several things like that that we've found actually have happened within our life. It's going back to remember those that help us in the hard times. In Isaiah 30, we've got to remember that this Being is our Father ... And He is our Father now. It's the same kind of relationship as the child in the womb to a father; and, if you as a father have begotten such a child, you are inordinately concerned about that child!
In other words, you make record of this (because this is not just talking about ancient Israel by any means). You go ahead and look forward, looking forward into a time in the future.
And He's talking to these people that go down to Egypt - who put their trust in the physical, material things of this world. The entire world does. And, unfortunately, so do, I would say, we within the Church - we within the Churches, the wider Church groups - unfortunately. We shouldn't be doing so, but there are those that are putting their trust in what the world says, what the world advises.
Now, it's talking about Israel. It's been talking about these people in the land generally, but here we're now talking about Zion, about the true Church.
It's the Holy One of Israel talking here and He's looking at the people that were in Israel. The people in Israel who are then going to dwell in Zion, but the people of God will have prepared that location for them; and that is our job.
That is what we're all about. This is the purpose of our trials, and remember, these things can change overnight. The end, when it comes, will be very sudden. But if we are ready (if we have learned through the various trials), just as Joseph was taken from the dungeon up to the level of just below Pharoah, we are going to be taken from this human level, which is of the earth, up to the very God level. But the only way that can be possible is if we are ready! And if we're not ready, He cannot use us. If we haven't gone through the full tuition, He cannot use us.
So now he could actually see the fulfillment of that dream. And the training that he had while in that prison house, while with Potiphar, all of that was leading up to this particular time. And it was all part of an even bigger plan that God had for the very children of Israel, and even for us today. And we find ourself in a similar kind of position. We're on the verge of the very Kingdom of God itself, the establishment of the Kingdom. And the government that must be there in the Kingdom has got to be applied in our own lives today; and, if we don't apply it properly, we won't be there because we're not going to be fit to be there. So it's got to be through certain difficulties and trials that we achieve that.
So he locked them in prison for three days. In the future, we are going to have a role to play in the conversion of the people that we might have told our dreams to now and got short shrift on. They respond totally negatively towards us. Well, they are going to need converting in the future. And it may well be that the way to do it - depending on the individual - will be something along these lines, because when they are resurrected, in many cases, they will come up and will present themselves before what, as far as they are concerned, is God - because that's what we'll be. This Being, this glowing Being! And an awful lot of people will start going across to the right hand; and they look at this Being and this Being looks at them and says, "No, you're going left." And their heart sinks. It might be that they need time to think things over for a few days, hence the "prison."
"And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house [because here they're coming back the second time]. (18) And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us..."(Genesis 43:17,18).
So they felt they were obviously being selected out for a purpose; but they had no idea what that purpose was, and they were frightened. And this is a type of the Kingdom of God. This is a type of a situation that will arise when people come before us.
Now I think of my own particular family. My eldest brother died of cancer. We have been without him for several years now. And it will be a case of bringing him out and presenting him to the rest of the family. And my Uncle Tommy, who I never knew... he died in a Japanese prison camp in Burma, on the Burmese railway. But he will be presented to the rest of the family; He was only in his very early twenties, if that. He might have been late teens. The family have never seen him since then. And yet, although he died at that time, he'll be presented to these other family members. My father and his sisters and brother, they knew each other all the way through their life; and they'll have a lot of catching up to do. There is a type here, right the way through, of what we will face and how we will do this.
It says "troubled" but if you check the margin, it says terrified. They were apoplectically terrified that this guy suddenly appeared on the scene. But you know, let's just remind ourselves of something in Revelation 3. Now, I'm convinced this primarily refers to Mr. Armstrong; but I think it also has an application to us as well, because we have also had to put up with an awful lot of the aggravation that came out of the apostasy in Worldwide.
Just be patient. James says it. He says, let patience have its perfect work. It talks about the patience of the saints. It's constantly saying, "Look, just be patient." Realize and understand what is going on there.
And notice what it's talking about. The redeemed shall come to Zion. It's talking to us, the Church. We're Zion.
The whole creation groans in travail, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, as it says in Romans 8. This is being said another way here in Isaiah.
We will see this in the future, we will see this actually occur; and at that time then, there's the fulfillment of the dream, the vision. There's the goal. We don't see perfectly now. We see through a glass darkly. But eventually it will materialize. Just the same as it did for Joseph, eventually it will all come together. And one thing it will teach us - what the story of Joseph also teaches us - is about forgiveness.
Let's go over to Genesis 45.
NOW he saw the purpose of his training and why he had been sent. It was God that had sent him - to preserve life. That was the purpose of it.
God had trained him for it. He engineered the entire scenario. He put him right through all of this, and He is the One that is ultimately responsible. So we're looking here at Joseph's approach to it. But his brothers, they still didn't look at it the way Joseph did. They looked at it in a slightly different way, especially after Jacob's death.
Back in Luke 21 we can read that the church will be 'hated of all men for My name's sake' and also that brethren will go ahead and betray one another unto death. They then come up in the resurrection, get presented before God; and all this is in the back of their mind. And then you say, "Well actually, I'm so-and-so (Bob, or Sally, or whoever.)" And they are going to be terrified. "You mean you're God?" How can that be? I didn't quite understand that at the time!"
And it is the most phenomenal story; and yet God has had it recorded and preserved to teach us lessons. You see, the Word of the Eternal tested him throughout this time. Was this positive outlook always in Joseph's mind? Did Joseph always have this kind of approach? The chances are, when he got thrown into prison, he was stomping mad; and he would have liked to have gone ahead and reaped some kind of reverge. But he never got the opportunity, because God worked with him. This is my speculation; but I speculate based on my own reaction of what would've happened if my brothers had done anything like that to me!
We need to learn forgiveness today to teach it in the World Tomorrow. Now turn to Matthew 6 and let's just remind ourself of where it talks about the daily prayer, the outline prayer.
"And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors...."(Matthew 6:12) And He reinforces that in verse 14: "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."(Matthew 6:14) Well, why? Why is that so important? You and I are going to have to be teachers of others who perhaps might be murderers and their victims. How are you going to reconcile people like that? I mean, if we're out to wreak vengeance all the time, how are we going to teach reconciliation? We can't. We can't adequately teach if we're are out for vengeance and to get even. We cannot be like that. It's impossible. We've got to handle it a different way. And Christ gives us the example as far as handling it is concerned. He says, "Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing." And He leaves that as an example as far as we're concerned. Interesting thing, again, in chapter 5.
And if we have a problem - maybe a husband and wife are at each other's throats for some reason, but in order to get on their knees and have God hear their prayers, they are going to have to go ahead and sort out the problem. They've got to be reconciled. It is necessary, it's such a vital area, and Joseph does teach us about forgiveness. My own personal gut feeling is I don't think that his reaction was always 'sweetness and light' toward his brothers. I just don't believe that, especially when it first happened. It was something he had to learn. He had to see God's hand in all of these things. And having seen God's hand in it, then he started to think, "Well, hang on a minute, the brothers were instruments. That's all. They were only instrumental in what actually occurred. It was God who was doing it!"
And you go all the way back to Abram - at that time the Eternal was testing him, the Eternal was training him.
Remember, it says: "Leaving us an example that you should follow in His steps." So He didn't do any sin. No guile [deceipt, deception] found in His mouth.
We've got to learn that, and it's sometimes very difficult. I mean, this guy that I mentioned to you earlier, who threatened me at one time. My thoughts towards him were none too sweet! He owed me quite a bit of money as well, but he wasn't about to pay. This was several years ago. But, still, if you allow your mind to dwell on it, you can get bitter. Even at this late stage, you can. But eventually he suffered enormously for what he did. He lost absolutely everything - wife, family, farm, business. Everything, the lot - it all disappeared.
But one day we've got to teach victims and murderers how to forgive, and we've got to be able to do it today. That's the purpose of this. It's because we are to be teachers. That's why we're here.
So I hope this story of Joseph does in fact teach us. We've got a dream for the future, and although it's not seen clearly we need to understand how this present world fits within that dream and make sure that we allow God to work with us the way that Joseph eventually did. He allowed God to work with him so he was then ready and prepared. It's trial backwards with us. That seems to be the main problem with us, so many times. And it's always trial forward with God.


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Government constitutes 3rd pay Revision Committee
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The Ministry of Heavy Industry & Public Enterprises has constituted the 3rd Pay Revision Committee for the executives of the Central Public Sector Undertakings under the chairmanship of Justice Satish Chandra (Retd.). The other members of the committee will be Shri Jugal Mohapatra, Ex-IAS Officer, Prof. Manoj Panda, Director, Institute for Economic Growth Delhi and Shri Shailendra Pal Singh, Executive Director (HR), NTPC Ltd. The Secretary Department of Public Enterprises will be the Ex-Officio Member while the Joint Secretary/Additional Secretary, DPE will be the member secretary for the committee.
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World renowned photographer Norman Jean Roy created our March 2017 cover star photographs of Ed Sheeran, delivering a vision of Ed as a powerful guitarist and troubadour, holding his guitar, on fire, in the rain. Referencing older photos of Jimi Hendrix and other rock icons, he imbibed that feeling in the photographs. He also revealed his views on Instagram and social media, which he says is "creating a volatility that is overall very dangerous."


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Catudal Genealogy
Do we as Catudals have a Native Indian heritage or not?
The answer is yes and no. If the question is directed as such: Is the Catudal line Native in any way? then the answer is no. If you follow the pure male line back to Jean-Baptiste Catudal dit St-Jean who came to New France in and around 1721 from France then it is clear in the genealogical record that the pure male line of Catudals is not Native.
The next question is did any child born a Catudal (or one of its dit names of St-Jean or St. John) marry a Native Indian or have children with a Native Indian? The answer again – as far as the historical record uncovered to date shows – is no. There is nothing in the historical record to indicate that anyone born a Catudal married a Native Indian. That is not to say that they didn't. It is only to say that there is no baptismal record, no marriage record, no land claim, no Census record, nor any other records where this is seen to be the case.
We have to keep in mind though that pre-1900's people did not openly admit to being a Native Indian or being a 'half-breed' or acknowledging on a Census that they were 'Red' if they didn't have to. Now-a-days we have a romantic idea of what it is or was to be Native. Our forefathers thought different and they knew the harsh realities that came with being considered a 'sauvage'.
There are DNA tests available, which can give conclusive proof of Native blood. The problems with those tests are that they can't tell from which line or from how far back the Native blood is from.
The reason is that one of the genetic markers, which indicates whether one has Native blood or not, is either passed down from mother to child unchanged (but only the female child will pass this marker down to her children) or from father to son unchanged. This means that it cannot be determined from which generation the Native blood came from. The Indian bloodline could be from 2 generations back or from 1,000 years ago. There is nothing, to date, that can make that distinction.
A person who has both Native Indian blood and European blood is called a Métis. Each Métis Association and each area these Associations fall in, all have their own criterion as to when a person is considered a Métis. Generally, the main criteria is that you can prove a link to a Métis or to a Native Indian. That means that you must have primary documents, ie. Baptism records, for each generation, starting from you, back to the person who is Native. Métis status is recognized regardless of whether the Native blood comes from the paternal or maternal line.
There is DNA evidence to support and to also call into question a Native Indian tie-in for the Catudal family line. Firstly, not in support of a Native tie-in: Jean-François St-Jean ( Mélanie St-Jean's father – another genealogist doing Catudal research) had a Y-DNA test done, which only looks at the pure male line, The results showed that his heritage is European without any Native blood. To be specific, his test showed that his paternal haplogroup is R1b.
Secondly, Michel Catudal (another researcher) wrote this in the group 'Catudal' on Facebook regarding us having a possible Native tie-in:
"My son, wife and myself went thru some genetic tests at McGill university when I was working on an engineering contract in Montréal and we were told that we have some genetic hearing loss traits only found so far among Iroquois. The only native information I have found in the Catudal family is in the Acadian branch of the family. As for my wife she is half Cherokee half Amish. I was told that we have Mohawks ancestors but didn't find anything to prove it. As for the hearing loss genetic traits, they were both identical in my wife, my son and I and the experts at McGill told us that they have found these only among Iroquois until they met us. Both Cherokees and Mohawks are of Iroquois descent. I do not know about the Abenakis, maybe they have common ancestors also."
It isn't clear exactly what tests Michel had but it does show that there is a possibility that he has some Native tie-in but from what line, paternal or maternal, is not clear.
Having said all of that, there are indirect Native Indian connections to some of the Catudal lines and here are two examples of those connections:
One of the Catudal tie-in lines to Native Indian starts at Marie Abenaquie who was a Micmac Indian , her daughter was Edmee Lajoie Briard LeJeune, her daughter was Marie Françoise Louise Gauterot, her daughter was Madeleine Terriot, her son was Pierre Robichaud, his daughter was Marie Françoise Leborgne Belisle, her daughter was Marguerite Robichaud, her daughter was Marie Josephte Pepin Lachance, her son was Pierre Chabot, his daughter was Philomene Chabot who was married to Maglorie Catudal.
The other line that has Native blood in it starts at Jean-Vincent Saint-Castin who married Marie Mathilde Pidiwamiska (also known under the name Mataconando and or Pidianske) in 1684. Their daughter was Anastasie Saint-Castine, her daughter was Marie Françoise Leborgne Belisle, her daughter was Marguerite Robichaud, her daughter was Marie-Josephte Pepin-Lachance, her son was Amable Chabot, his daughter was Philomene Chabot and her son was Barthelemy Catudal.
There are some Catudal families who have grown up with the common understanding that they have Native blood through the Catudal line, which on face value, begs the question "why would that sort of information have been passed down if it weren't true?" Good question. I would like to give an example of how it is not always the case that what is passed down regarding Native heritage is true.
My grandmother Yvonne Catudal (née Tremblay) grew up knowing that her grandmother, Sophie Godard dit Lapointe was a Native Indian. All the grandkids grew up also having this information about our Native heritage. Close to seven years ago I met a cousin whose great great grandmother was also Sophie. She too grew up with the same information. She put me in touch with yet another cousin from another side of the family who also could trace themselves to Sophie and they too grew up with this information. So here we were, three people who had come from this particular line but who had grown up without contact to the others and all of us had been given the same information. You can imagine how surprised we were when I took a mt-DNA test, the one that tests the pure female line, and received the results showing that I did not have a Native tie-in. My Mitochondrial haplogroup is H, which means that my pure female line is European. Those people who have Native blood belong to Haplogroup A, B, C, D or X only. The story about Sophie being Native Indian is not true, at least it isn't if the genetics can be believed.
The story could have originated because Sophie looked Native. She even had the nickname 'Squaw'. Maybe the only reason she had this nickname was because she looked Native and not because she was.
I have come to learn that this phenomenon, of being under the impression or understanding that one has a Native heritage when in reality there is nothing to support the claim, is rather common.
Many people believe that having Métis status is the same as having Indian Status. It is not. The term Métis was the term given to the children who were the product of the early French fur trappers or other Europeans and Native Indian women.
If you obtain Métis status then, depending on where you are in Canada or the States, you may be allowed certain rights such as special fishing or hunting rights or perhaps be given an advantage when being considered for government grants but nothing much else. Métis do not have treaty rights – there are a few exceptions where some Métis bands have treaty rights but those are exceptions.
Posted by Judy Schneider at 14:49
Valerie 14 August 2011 at 19:36
Interesting blog post. Claims of Native heritage seem to be rampant in French-Canadian families. I grew up hearing the same stories about both the Catudals and the Sicards. I'd always heard we had Iriquois ancestry. I think sometimes the family thinks a relative "looks" native and that's what starts the rumor.
Mike 29 October 2012 at 23:59
Secret Genetics and our French Canadian Ancestry
For many descendants of Canada French emigrants, stories persist of ancestral daughters who were born half Native. My own family had two such women who tied us to the original residents of the New World, public records of births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths and burials notwithstanding.
In my extensive genealogical research, I have come across other French Canadian families who share these connections as well. What made it seem odd to me though, was that both parents of the half Native daughter were usually confirmed to be 100% European. A puzzle for some perhaps, but I found the answer to that enigma in Genetics.
I surmise that sometime around the early 1800's, a spontaneous cellular anomaly occurred within a few French Canadian women which introduced what I call the "HNGM" gene. This benign strand may have replaced a portion of natural DNA in the reproductive system, the effects of which often skipped generations, making some female children unwitting carriers of it.
My own half Native grandmother seemed an improbable circumstance, having two French descendant parents, but I could not deny the longstanding elder's stories that it was true. Even more amazing, her sister had a daughter who also became a half Native grandmother! Aunt and niece: both half Native - incredible!
I was also intrigued that my 4x great grandfather Pierre never knew that his direct and subsequent female offspring would suddenly acquire the ability to produce half Native grandmothers. In many cases, these women never realized their superimposed heritage, because the honor was often bestowed long after they had passed.
By virtue of this astonishing revelation, I have reconciled the record of fact with the father to son story of my heritage. I can now say with confidence that my 3x great grandmother was not only 100% French; but secretly 100% half Native as well.
It all adds up quite nicely. My cousins will be very proud to learn they were right all along.
written after a moment of clarity by M. Fortier (3x great grandson of Scholastique Payet dite St-Amour; 1st cousin 4x removed of Sophie Godard dite Lapointe)
Judy Schneider 30 October 2012 at 14:39
Thank you for your hilarious comment Mike. I wouldn't doubt that at some point you'll start to see discussions on the Internet about the newly discovered HNGM gene. Who knows, maybe there'll be an explosion of newly realized Indian princesses because of your discovery.
Judy, my family's "legend" included stories of half Native ancestry in our Payet, Perrault, Godard and Therrien lines. All the subject women were described as Métis, including Sophie, who you describe on your blog as thought by your family to be whole Native. Of course, one cannot be both 100% Native and Métis.
Sophie's father was a descendant of Etienne Godard of France, her mother the daughter of Pierre Payet also a French descendant, so for her to have been whole or even half Native would require my secret gene theory (LOL), presume a Native Milkman in the neighborhood, or be completely false.
I wonder if the story you heard of Sophie's being nicknamed 'squaw' was fabricated as well. According to Nativeweb.org the word was used as an insult by the French. I don't know of any child or grandchild who would address or describe their mother or grandmother in any way but mère et grand-mère, and it is presumably they who left us this account.
Thank you for scientifically putting this matter to rest with the help of not-so-secret Genetics! Your mtDNA test proved the invalidity of the (wishful?) claims our grandparents made. - cousin Mike
It seems impossible to me when reading the history of the French fur trappers that most french canadians would not have some indian blood. When the frenchmen first came over to quebec there were no women but indian women. Only 5 men came with their wives. Thirty years later a boat came over and that had 700 french women from france but who did they marry. The metis offspring of the original french men who were there 30 years ago. Common sense French canadians mostly hide their indian roots.
Judy Schneider 8 February 2013 at 12:25
Actually, in 1608, Champlain founded Québec City with 28 men. In 1630 there were only 103 colonists. Many of these colonists were Jesuits, soldiers and fur traders. It stands to reason that the fur traders and perhaps some of the soldiers may have had children with Natives but it was very much frowned upon by the Church. Most times the children from these liaisons were raised with-in the Native community, hence, there weren't many who actually entered the French community and bred with the French. Of course some did, but the numbers are not as high as one might expect.
In 1634 single women started coming over with the intent of marrying and starting a family in the New France colony. These women are referred to as the Filles à Marier (marriageable girls). Unlike the Filles du Roi, who came later, these women were not commissioned by the King. They came of their own volition. During the years 1634 and 1663, 262 Filles à Marier came to New France. Most social classes were represented by the Filles à Marier. Remember, just 3 years before these women started to arrive there were only 103 colonist certainly not all of whom may have had children with the Natives.
The Filles du Roi (The KIng's Daughters)were a group of women who were sent over from France between 1663 and 1673 for the express purpose of providing a breeding stock for the New France colony which was mostly made-up of men at that time. During this 10 year time-frame approximately 770 women arrived in New France as Filles du Roi. These 770 women arrived over the course of 10 years and not all at once on a ship.
I definitely agree that the French intermingled with the Natives and from these liaisons had children; the only thing is I question the amount.
Geeze has anyone seen what actual band members look like on the east coast? Many are very white skinned.
thanks !! very helpful post!
Medigene DNA
Thank you for your comment Diane. I'm glad my post was of interest.
Her 24 February 2018 at 08:16
I want to write and say thank you for sharing this. I have been doing my husband's genealogy and we have also bee curious about Indigenous ancestry. Philomene Chabot was his 3rd great grandmother so you have helped solve this mystery. It is equally exciting and fascinating to discover that he has 2 direct native ancestors, and 2 ancestors belonging noble lineage (Jean-Vincent Saint-Castin, a French baron and Marie Mathilde Pidiwamiska an Abenaki Princess). I'm not sure how long it would have taken to find this out with out your blog. I'm looking forward to exploring more. Thank you so much for your energy!
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Next Tuesday I will announce on Twitter and Facebook (as well as in this post) where this is from and how much it costs. If you know where this is from, DON'T tell everyone and spoil the fun. The actual cost will skew everyone's answers. Until then, what would you pay for this dress?
Update: This dress is from Banana Republic and costs $150.
I would probably pay $80 for the dress. I don't really spend much on clothing, but it looks really cute, and I think with a jacket (and maybe a little length) it would be cute for a wedding.