The reason for Jesus' choice to deliberately remain in Jerusalem so as to dialogue with the teachers of the law is given in verse 49: He was following his Father's will. It's the climax of the narration, serving to resolve the drama that was initiated when Jesus chose to remain behind in verse 43, and providing the underlying motivation for the entire episode. For Mary and Joseph, the whole episode gave them an up front and close prelude to the three days without Jesus before his resurrection. For Jesus, this verse is a wonderful and enigmatic summary of his identity and mission: "being in the things of his Father". This can also be understood colloquially as "in my Father's house", but mysteriously really meaning "I and the Father are always one".
Our "solar system" is a great analogy to describe the various relationships in the passage, and how they are all related to the Father. If the Father is like the sun at the center, and Jesus is like the earth revolving around the sun, then Mary (along with Joseph and the teachers of the law) is like the moon revolving around the earth. I think this image is very insightful: every Christian, as these secondary characters illustrate, are to "act the moon". That is, their lives ought to revolve around Jesus! And by doing so their lives ultimately revolve around the Father. Mary doesn't understand Jesus' answer precisely because she doesn't see that Jesus' life revolves around the Father first. So she treasures Jesus' words and actions in her heart as she discovers the Father behind everything her son says and does.
Hence, the passage definitely highlights the utter importance for adolescents to encounter God as their Father. This is all the more urgent in view of today's world. Too many adolescents are growing up in broken homes, or falling into tragedies caused by the poisonous pop culture that surrounds them (they literally "breathe it in" all day long). All adolescents, but especially those who are wounded, need to find in their Heavenly Father the source of their existence and the one that gives them true and everlasting meaning and value. He has to become real for them through experiences of grace and love. In fact, God can only feel love for us, and out of love for us he even sent us his only begotten Son to suffer and save us from sin and darkness. He has given us the Holy Spirit, through whom we can enter into communion with the very life of the Trinity.
To conclude this section, I believe the passage presents us with a three step process through which Christ redeems the brokenness of adolescence in general, and adolescents in particular, elevating all things to the level of grace. The process can be summarized as the answer to three relational questions: Who is God? Who am I? Who are others to me? First of all, the passage shows teens that it is Christ that can bring them to a real relationship with the Father in this decisive moment of their lives. Then, it is Christ that transforms them from within, renewing their soreness of heart with his word and enlightening their inquisitive mind with his wisdom. Christ moves them to redefine correctly their relationships, their family, teachers, acquaintances, et cetera, always in light of their relationship to their Father in Heaven, and his will for their lives.
I've written about how to help teens learn to pray here: A New Way to Teach Teens to Pray on their Own.
And this article can help them learn to review and renew their ongoing relationship with God: The Examen Prayer for Teens – Part 1, and Part 2 here provides practical examples.
51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his mother was treasuring all the words in her heart. 52 And Jesus was advancing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
Lastly, verse 51 shows us it was not yet Jesus' hour, so he returns home, willingly subjecting himself to his parents' authority. Verse 52 then summarizes the 15-20 years Jesus spent in Nazareth after this episode. Quite a bit of that time was vocational. Since teens were taught the specific manual trade their father practiced, Jesus probably learned carpentry and stonework from his foster father, Joseph. Learning a specific trade was actually considered as important as practicing their religion. It was sacred, and there was a lot of wisdom in this.
But there's a deeper message to these verses. It reminds us of Hebrews 5:8: "Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered". By being subject to Mary and Joseph, Jesus learns what really matters in life, that is, to value the things that God values, to follow the will of God, even if to the world it's insignificant or folly. And God values obedience to parents, more than adolescents may realize.
What Jesus did in Nazareth was to see the spiritual everywhere, in reality itself. He exercised an ability to understand daily life in as far as it reveals the mystery of the Father's plan. On the inside Jesus was silently preparing himself by seeing everything about his ordinary life under the perspective of the extraordinary mission that awaited him in the future. And he had the memory of those three days as a glimpse of the Paschal Mystery he was called to reveal and fulfill.
Jesus shows us at least three important lessons for adolescents. These are like light posts on which to guide their adolescent years as they grow into adulthood. First of all, Jesus shows them the wisdom of taking advantage of their most precious years so as to invest them for their future: career, family, faith. Second, Jesus shows that it's not necessary to rebel from parents and detach from society in order to advance one's vocation. On the contrary, faithful obedience to parents and a gradual immersion into the real world through education are excellent ways to develop virtue, character, and a solid identity and purpose. Obedience truly forges character! And third, these verses remind us about how valuable it is for adults to help adolescents get a taste now of the kind of future they could aim at. This future is one where each person plays a part, seeking to bring about positive change in a world that desperately needs it. Hence, mentors are called to help adolescents live now in an anticipatory way what each teen is called by God to be: a son or daughter of God, faithful to Him in prayer and daily life, firmly hoping in Him, charitable with one's neighbor, sincere with oneself, etc.
Before I close, I wanted to introduce my new book series. It's called "The Father's Adolescent Series". I'm hoping to take the reader through a four-step journey.
The first step takes the reader from a presentation of the text itself to its historical accuracy. The next step presents the entire passage in a narrative way, diving into its significance. Then, from the story, I'll move the reader to the allegories that further bring out the meaning of the passage. Part of this step will be to show the reader how the passage presents its own spirituality. It's a complete Christian way to relate to the Lord that adolescents can follow. Lastly, I'll expand what I've started to present in this blog post, that is, I'll show how the passage can illumine our understanding of adolescence and youth ministry.
Publishing a book is one more way to evangelize, and one more way to develop the richness of this passage, which is hardly touched upon in academia or literature. Indeed, all of Jesus' life emanates a deep richness waiting to be explored, and this passage is not an exception. And like I said earlier, although this passage is just 13 verses long (Lk 2:40-52), it covers up to 30 years of the life of Jesus. Even more, the passage is truly a miniature Gospel, through which you can get a unique glimpse of Jesus' nature, life and mission. Of all the things that could be mentioned about these hidden years, Luke chose this episode in Jesus' adolescence. We're truly grateful for that since this is the only passage in the NT where Jesus is an adolescent. What can it say to us about adolescence itself? That's also part of what this article and my book seek to answer.
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I absolutely love all the granite and tile in our new house. It's beautiful! But improperly installed tile/grout is no bueno.
The inspector said it was just something that needed to be re-grouted/caulked and that it was just the house settling. I did a little more research (really just to figure out what grout to get) and apparently you are never supposed to have grout join 2 solid surfaces because of settling. Tile+Granite= 2 solid surfaces. So the crack was inevitable with the shifting of the house and water exposure.
I'm glad I did that research because had I just repaired the crack with more grout we would be facing this issue again in the very near future. Instead I grabbed a tube of this stuff. It's called Poly Blend and it's caulk for grout.
There were a couple of epic fails before getting to this point so lemme share.
One of the nightmares of moving into a new house is figuring out all the colors. Wall color, grout color, trim color... you know for touchups like this.
I needed to choose a grout color. Easy right? Wrong. Choices... decisions... headaches...like how the color chart was a never ending sea of grays, browns, and tans the length of my firstborn son.
By the way these little brochures are SUPER handy. Almost as handy as my paint deck.
I confidently chose the color that I thought our grout was (Oyster Gray), waltzed to home depot to purchase the grout/caulk and was completely defeated when the worker told me that color was only a special order... womp. He said it was highly unlikely that the builder spent the time to special order grout. So unless I wanted to take the risk of a special order, then he suggested finding the next closest color.
I came home with "Non-Sanded" Poly Blend caulk in Linen. I got home, quickly cut off the top of the tube, and got to work. Only to realize that I had just wasted $7 and felt totally defeated again.
See that glob above? The light glob that totally doesn't match the grout. Yeah that's the color I chose. To my defense it was a quick decision. A quick decision with 2 hungry kids. Not exactly thinking material.
Josh had gone through and circled the choices that were in stock, and I decided to go back (by myself with no hungry kids) and try to find another color. The biggest issue I was having was that the "Sanded" and "Non-Sanded" caulk in the SAME color looked different on the tube. So I had no idea what to believe. The brochure or the side of the tube?
This time I brought a picture of the tile/grout on my phone. I got the advice of an associate, and bought 2 more tubes. One in Delorian Gray, one in Light Smoke (it's funny because the first time we went when Josh circled the colors-light smoke wasn't in the store- that's why it's not circled). She suggested the gray and although I didn't think it was right, I did feel like there is a hint of gray in the grout so MAYBE she was right. I figured I had nothing to lose. After I got home and compared the 2 new colors to the grout I decided to give the Light Smoke a try. The gray just wasn't right.
Also instead of buying the "non-sanded" caulk, I went with the "sanded". I didn't like how the non-sanded was just like regular caulk. It just didn't look/feel right there. Once I started working with the sanded caulk I fell in love. It looks and feels so much like grout but it has the stretchyness of caulk.
I ran a line of it and then went back and smoothed it over with my finger. I dipped my finger in water and kept a paper towel close by. Then I went back and wiped any excess from the counter and touched up the line with my pinky!
Here it is done, and looking a little light, but it always dries darker! Not going to lie I was a *little* worried that it wouldn't dry darker but my fingers were crossed! I went to sleep hoping to wake up to darker results!
And just like I thought- it dried darker!
Overall, this project took 2 weeks of thought and about 10 minutes of work! I'm so glad to have this finished and knowing what color our grout is is such a relief.
Now on to use the rest of the tube on our shower and the kids tub/shower!


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Shortly after Passover in 1962, I sat in my small church in Norfolk, Va. with my sermon outline in hand. The last special song was being sung, after which I was to preach. As they were singing, a voice spoke to me. It was as if a man about six feet tall was speaking to me from about three feet to my left, between the congregation and me. The voice said, "Preach barley harvest." I turned toward where the voice had come from, and, with my face lifted toward where his would be, I said, in a low voice like a whisper, "Lord, I don't even know what Barley Harvest is." I turned back to meditate on the instructions which the voice had given me, and looked up the references to it in the scriptures. I knew almost immediately what the Lord wanted me to preach about, and as they finished the song I went to the pulpit and preached about forty-five minutes on the prophetic fulfillment of the Old Testament allegory of "Barley Harvest."
Earlier that year, February 4th or 5th, 1962, depending on the part of the world in which you lived, there was a total eclipse of the Sun, by the Moon, which coincided with a rare grouping of five of Earth's planets. (It sounds as if the eclipse lasted two days, because it crossed the international date line.) Grady R. Kent, who was our bishop at the time, published an article in the March issue of our church periodical, "The Vision Speaks," entitled "The Beginning of The End." In that article he asserted that the eclipse was a sign of that beginning. There is a story, in 1st Samuel chapter twenty-five about Abigail going, with her five maidens, to her marriage to King David. I believe that story is an allegory concerning the coming "marriage" of Christ and the Church, at the end of the world. We also have Jesus' parable about the five wise virgins who went in with Him to the wedding. By this parable, Jesus also confirmed what Paul told us about the resurrection. There will be an assortment of groups at the wedding: the Bridegroom (Sun), the Bride (Moon), and the five Bridesmaids (planets), together with the "guests" (stars) at the wedding.
"The End of The World"
We can readily see that the end of the world (not the planet), as it is depicted in the parable of the tares in Matthew 13:24-30,36-43, is not a singular event. Jesus said, "Gather ye together first the tares." The harvest, therefore, consists of a series of events. The Tares (false grain), are gathered first. The next phase of harvest is the gathering of the "Children of the Kingdom." The third phase is the gathering together of the Children of Wrath. The second phase is also prophesied of in Rev. 14:14-16, and third phase is prophesied of in Rev. 14:17-20.
As the time drew near for the first phase of the Harvest to begin, on January 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII announced his intentions of calling a worldwide church council. The fields were almost ripe. Then, in February 1962, the great and extremely rare eclipse and planetary alinement signaled that the time of the end had fully come. Pope John XXIII opened the first session of Vatican II, on October 11, 1962. That council redefined the public image of the Catholic Church in dramatic ways which would make it more acceptable to the Protestants. Thus was launched a new ecumenical effort to bring all of the wayward "daughters" back into "the fold." And there arose in Babylon "him that handleth the sickle." See Jer. 50:16. We are now into the thirty-fifth year of the harvest of the tares. Even as I write, the Anglican church is working on the final difficulties of their reunion with Rome.
Decline of the United States of America
I do not believe it was a mere coincidence that, during the time of Vatican II, ( October 11, 1962, to December 8, 1965.) The United States of America made a sweeping move to socialize the country and establish Atheism as the official religion. It started, in 1963, with the prohibition of prayer and Bible reading in the public schools. This restriction has been amplified by a zealous and determined effort to teach our children to commit fornication and to accept the doctrine of devils which asserts that life spontaneously sprang from matter.
Throughout the time of Vatican II, the U.S. government used the public schools to implement a whole new way of life in America which is designed to supplant all of the freedoms which have been guaranteed by the constitution. (Through interference by the schools, parents are no longer free to correct and train their own children.) By the end of Vatican II, we had seen Affirmative Action, Head Start and school busing, all innocent sounding, and seemingly beneficial. But their true design was to deprive us of our liberties. The whole face of this nation has been changed, with laws enacted which will surely be used to exercise tyranny upon our citizens, especially those embracing true Christianity. I believe it is time for the believers to "confess that they are strangers and pilgrims here, and to declare plainly that they seek a country." (Heb. 11:13,14.)
God Gives Knowledge to the Righteous
In Amos 3:7, it is written, "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth his secret unto His servants the prophets." I have noticed for years that many Christians love, and grossly misapply, 1 Cor. 2:9, which is a quotation from Isaiah 64:4. Many Christians seem to rejoice that they know nothing, and can know nothing. However, the tenth verse shows that it is the ungodly who don't know. He said, "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." Likewise, Christians glory in what they think 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 means, but they don't seem to believe chapter five. But He spoke the truth in 1 Thess. 5:4, "Ye, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief." Not even Jesus knew the day of the total destruction of the earth: that event is still more than one thousand years away. See Matt. 24:3,35,36 and Mark 13:31,32. But Jesus went into great detail concerning the sign of His coming, and of the end of this world. He did so, because He intends for us to be forewarned and to make the necessary preparations for His arrival and for "the world to come" during the seventh millennium. Heb. 2:6.
The Time of Harvest is here, and the day of preparation for our Lord's return. Phase one of the harvest will soon give way to phase two, during which the Children of the Kingdom shall be gathered into His "barn." Thus shall be ushered in the unity of the faith, which has been so long in coming. We might have thought that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the last one hundred years would have fostered that unity, but, alas, it seems to have created even more division. The Holy Ghost has not yet managed to "guide (us) into all truth." But we rest in the fact that "The scriptures cannot be broken." As Isaiah said, "They shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion." Isa. 52:8.
Solomon declared, "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past." Eccl. 3:15. Paul later said, "Verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service," by which the Holy Ghost was signifying something about the "Church" under the new covenant. Heb. 9:1-9. The spiritual harvest, which is to be, has already been, in the allegories of the Old Testament.
"Pentecost" of the New Testament is called "The Feast of Weeks" in Exodus 34:22, and in Exodus 23:16, it is called "The Feast of Harvest." For us to understand what Pentecost is really all about we must first understand the commandment concerning this Feast in the Old Testament, for it is our school master. As Paul said, "For the law having a shadow of good things to come." Heb. 10:1. When God called it the Feast of Harvest, he was telling us that it is a prophecy about the end of the world. However, by using the term the "Feast of Weeks," God instructs us concerning the time frame of its fulfillment. "Ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord." Lev. 23:15,16. "Begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God." Deut. 16:9,10.
As you can see, God used the time frame of 'weeks of days' in the partial fulfillment of this feast, in Peter's day. However, in applying this to the spiritual harvest, we must count a day for a year. I will begin to count from the time that the Harvest of the Tares began in 1962. The sign, "in the heavens above," appeared a few days before the beginning of the lunar year. So, I will make my calculations beginning with Abib, the first month of that lunar year, just about the time of the Spring Equinox. That is the method which the Lord commanded the Israelites to use. With that reckoning, we are now almost at the end of the fifth week of years. That leaves us only two more weeks of years between April 8, 1997 and the Year of Jubilee.
We are told that Ruth, gleaned "unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest." During that time Boaz commanded his young men saying, "Let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them." Ruth 2:16,23. God also used the term "handfuls" in Genesis 41:47-49. God did that to relate the gleanings of Ruth to the harvest of Joseph. He said, "In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years." And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number." The fact that some were numbered makes a direct connection to barley, because barley is called "the appointed barley" in Isaiah 28:25. And in Jeremiah 5:24, He calls it "the appointed weeks of harvest." So, in one allegory we have barley harvest and wheat harvest, and in the other we have an amount which is numbered, whereas the rest were not. When the appointed time comes, God will call for the "Book of Remembrance," and of those who are written therein, He will make up that predestined number. Mal. 3:16,17.
In the allegory of the Feast of Weeks, which is detailed in Leviticus 23:15-17, God told them to bring out of their habitations two wave loaves, of which He said, "They are the firstfruits unto the Lord." Those two appointed loaves of barley are indeed numbered in the New Testament. In chapter one, verse eighteen of his epistle, James called the twelve tribes which were scattered abroad "a kind of firstfruits" of His creatures. There are two kinds of firstfruits which are numbered in The Revelation of Jesus Christ. The Jewish kind is enumerated in chapter seven, after which he saw a great multitude which no man could number. The Gentile kind are in chapter fourteen, where He said, in verse four, concerning them, "These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb."
Weeks of days cannot apply to the spiritual harvest at the end of the world. It will be, rather, seven weeks of years. Our holy Father, which is in heaven, gave us another allegory of the harvest which makes this particularly clear. It is the allegory of the Year of Jubilee, and the seven weeks of years which precede it. The Jubilee is also about the harvest, and reveals something very wonderful, "which God has prepared for them that love Him." As in the Feast of Pentecost, there are seven Sabbaths. The year following the seventh Sabbath is the Year of Jubilee. It is the year of the proclamation of liberty.
This is what God told Moses about Jubilee. "Thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years, and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. (Exodus 23:16, shows us that the seventh month is "in the end of the year, thereby prophesying of "the end of the world.") And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you." Lev. 25:8-10.
When Jesus began His ministry, He stood up in the synagogue and read the portion of the sixty-first chapter of Isaiah which showed what His ministry would accomplish. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD." Isa 61:1. Jesus purchased our liberty on the cross, but that liberty will be realized only when Jesus reappears at the year of Jubilee.
Hear the words of the Apostle Paul. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature (Christian) was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Rom. 8:11-24.
Paul said, In Eph. 4:8-10, "Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive." [He did not say, "led captivity to liberty." They are still captive. See St. John 3:13.] ("Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?)" In the process He fulfilled Zechariah 9:11. "By the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." John also quotes Jesus thus, "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." Rev. 1:18. Paul put it so aptly when he said, "(We) shall not prevent them which are asleep, (but) the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain . . ." Yes Jesus has the keys, and in the year of Jubilee, He will crown us with the "glorious liberty of the Sons of God."
Because of the allegory of Joseph's harvest, I believe that there are seven years allotted to the harvest of all of the Children of the kingdom, the barley and the wheat. We have from now until early in the year 2012 to see the harvest finished and the promise of his coming fulfilled. However, the resurrection, according the Job's prayer, is to take place after the wrath of God is past. "O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, until thy wrath be past!" Job 14:13. Also, to those living at the time of the end, He said, "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity." Isaiah 26:20. If indeed that is the case, the gathering of the grapes of wrath should take place in the first half of the seventh week, beginning in 2004. The wrath itself would be poured out in the second half of that week; before we are either resurrected or changed.
"Now Is Your Salvation Nearer"
We are swiftly approaching the beginning of the sixth week of years, and there is much yet to be done to prepare for our Lord's return. Included in that list of things is the gathering and the perfecting of the Elect. We must bring a group of people to the condition mentioned in Isaiah 60:7, and described in Romans 15:16-18. "that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost; to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed." In Isaiah God used the allegory of Ishmael and his twelve princes to prophesy of that event. He said, "All the flocks of Kedar (and) the rams of Nabaioth shall come up with acceptance on Mine altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory." See Gen. 25:13-15. The law is clear about what was acceptable as an offering upon that altar. He said, "Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it, and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy." Ex. 29:37.
I think it is obvious, to even the casual observer, that no such condition exists among Gentile Christians today. Likewise, Jesus cannot present to Himself a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle until there is one in that condition. The day of "our gathering together unto him," and our cleansing must soon begin.
Jesus will "return at the appointed day," and all things will be "ready for the wedding." Yes, that prophecy shall soon be fulfilled where He said, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God." Rev 19:7-9.
No group of Christians, large or small, has been granted such an honor, unto this time. However, that honor shall be given to someone. Then shall the words of Paul come to pass, "In a race run all, but one receiveth the prize. So run that ye may obtain." What a day for the righteous when "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former!" Haggai 2:9.
"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."
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FUCHS & ASSOCIÉS FINANCE SA bought a fresh place in PubMatic Inc. (NASDAQ:PUBM). The institutional investor bought 351.1 thousand shares of the stock in a transaction took place on 11/30/2021. In another most recent transaction, which held on 12/31/2021, PENBROOK MANAGEMENT LLC bought approximately 24.5 thousand shares of PubMatic Inc. In a separate transaction which took place on 12/31/2021, the institutional investor, FULTON BANK, NA (INVESTMENT MANA bought 5.9 thousand shares of the company's stock. The total Institutional investors and hedge funds own 38.70% of the company's stock.
In the most recent purchasing and selling session, PubMatic Inc. (PUBM)'s share price decreased by -2.31 percent to ratify at $26.20. A sum of 867745 shares traded at recent session and its average exchanging volume remained at 1.56M shares. The 52-week price high and low points are important variables to concentrate on when assessing the current and prospective worth of a stock. PubMatic Inc. (PUBM) shares are taking a pay cut of -65.96% from the high point of 52 weeks and flying high of 21.24% from the low figure of 52 weeks.
PubMatic Inc. (PUBM) shares reached a high of $26.99 and dropped to a low of $25.09 until finishing in the latest session at $26.31. Traders and investors may also choose to study the ATR or Average True Range when concentrating on technical inventory assessment. Currently at 2.18 is the 14-day ATR for PubMatic Inc. (PUBM). The highest level of 52-weeks price has $76.96 and $21.61 for 52 weeks lowest level. After the recent changes in the price, the firm price to earnings ratio of 27.84. The liquidity ratios which the firm has won as a quick ratio of 1.90, a current ratio of 1.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.00.
Having a look at past record, we're going to look at various forwards or backwards shifting developments regarding PUBM. The firm's shares fell -2.20 percent in the past five business days and shrunk -25.44 percent in the past thirty business days. In the previous quarter, the stock fell -10.09 percent at some point. The company's performance is now negative at -23.05% from the beginning of the calendar year.
According to WSJ, PubMatic Inc. (PUBM) obtained an estimated Buy proposal from the 10 brokerage firms currently keeping a deep eye on the stock performance as compares to its rivals. 0 equity research analysts rated the shares with a selling strategy, 1 gave a hold approach, 8 gave a purchase tip, 1 gave the firm a overweight advice and 0 put the stock under the underweight category. The average price goal of one year between several banks and credit unions that last year discussed the stock is $51.20.
Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (HYMCL) shares on Friday's trading session, dropped -7.41 percent to see the stock exchange hands at $0.08 per unit. Lets a quick look at company's past reported and future predictions of growth using the EPS Growth. EPS growth is a percentage change in standardized earnings per share over the trailing-twelve-month period to the current year-end. The company posted a value of -$0.96 as earning-per-share over the last full year.
The last trading period has seen Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (HYMCL) move -95.88% and 2.62% from the stock's 52-week high and 52-week low prices respectively. The daily trading volume for Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:HYMCL) over the last session is 52579.0 shares. HYMCL has attracted considerable attention from traders and investors, a scenario that has seen its volume drop -48.14% compared to the previous one.
Investors focus on the profitability proportions of the company that how the company performs at profitability side. Return on equity ratio or ROE is a significant indicator for prospective investors as they would like to see just how effectively a business is using their cash to produce net earnings. As a return on equity, Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:HYMCL) produces 0.00%. Because it would be easy and highly flexible, ROI measurement is among the most popular investment ratios. Executives could use it to evaluate the levels of performance on acquisitions of capital equipment whereas investors can determine that how the stock investment is better. The ROI entry for HYMCL's scenario is at 0.00%. Another main metric of a profitability ratio is the return on assets ratio or ROA that analyses how effectively a business can handle its assets to generate earnings over a duration of time. Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (HYMCL) generated 0.00% ROA for the trading twelve-month.
Volatility is just a proportion of the anticipated day by day value extend—the range where an informal investor works. Greater instability implies more noteworthy benefit or misfortune. After an ongoing check, Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (HYMCL) stock is found to be 21.53% volatile for the week, while 19.76% volatility is recorded for the month. Based on a recent bid, its distance from 20 days simple moving average is -23.73%, and its distance from 50 days simple moving average is -42.33% while it has a distance of -85.55% from the 200 days simple moving average.
The Williams Percent Range or Williams %R is a well-known specialized pointer made by Larry Williams to help recognize overbought and oversold circumstances. Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:HYMCL)'s Williams Percent Range or Williams %R at the time of writing to be seated at 87.10% for 9-Day. It is also calculated for different time spans. Currently for this organization, Williams %R is stood at 87.10% for 14-Day, 88.36% for 20-Day, 98.16% for 50-Day and to be seated 98.68% for 100-Day. Relative Strength Index, or RSI(14), which is a technical analysis gauge, also used to measure momentum on a scale of zero to 100 for overbought and oversold. In the case of Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation, the RSI reading has hit 38.22 for 14-Day.
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Do not let the cynicism in the title fool you. I think it is time for us marketers to admit the marketing lies that we tell ourselves every day. I find it funny that our job revolves around trust, yet we choose to lie and trust those lies. Even funnier is the fact that you know exactly what I am talking about. I am talking about all those claims that the vendors make that sound great but don't mean much. I am also talking about false promises that companies make to lure you to their blog. While that is not exactly a lie that you are telling yourself, it is still ingrained in us. However, there's still time to make amends, and as the saying goes, better late than never.
All of us want to choose the best solutions for our MarTech stack. Many of us choose to purchase all the popular solutions. In fact, if you ask me, this has become a pretty noticeable fad, of late. They do not research whether will need it or not. They purchase it for the sake of purchasing and also because other people are succeeding with it. But, take a moment and analyze all the solutions in the market. It will help you realize the truth for yourself. There are loads of solutions that are vague, that promise you what you will need but never meet those expectations. If this is one of the marketing lies that put your trust in, then stop it. A lot of solutions out there are just empty proclamations made by vendors to lure in unsuspecting marketers.
A basic rule of thumb that you can follow while looking for solutions is to ask yourself a few questions.
Will the solution make your life easier than before?
How will your boss react to the solution?
Is there a chance of generating higher revenues?
This is a pretty straightforward way of getting yourself a solution that matters. So, stop feeding yourself those marketing lies that you need everything. You don't. All you need is what your company requires.
Every year has its own trends. This year, it is Account-Based Marketing or ABM, supposedly. Every marketer and CMO I know is talking about it. All of them want to implement it in their strategies. People are writing innumerable articles about it every day and praising it like a worshipping a pagan god. Some have even gone to the extent of hailing it as THE ultimate marketing strategy. Then again, I am not surprised at this. The amount of convenient marketing lies that vendors generate and feed it to gullible marketers will create such a situation easily.
Research from Forrester reveals that it is not as big as people are saying it is. In fact, ABM just talks about improving tactics and creating campaigns specific an account. This highly personalized approach is nothing different from what we usually try while using marketing automation. This is just a different degree of personalization. That's all there is to it.
I bet that many of you didn't know that vendors use the term integration pretty loosely. At least I didn't. In fact, most integration processes require a significant amount of lift to make it work. One might argue that this is a back-end responsibility and marketers are not responsible for this. While this is true, it is better that we take it into account. We just assume the integration capabilities of the solutions we buy. But the truth is integration is not a universal phenomenon. Before acquiring a new solution, you need to make sure that it can be integrated properly. Or else it will become a headache for your IT department and you. Choose a product that makes your life easier. If you want bigger stacks, research on the integration capabilities of different products before putting it all together.
Ah! The classic more the merrier concept. A lot of marketers that I know believe in a variety of marketing lies. Perhaps the most common one amongst them is that the more leads they can generate the greater will be their profits. The truth is, it isn't. I think, what all marketers should believe in is that the more QUALITY leads we generate, the more profits we will be making.
By quality I mean extremely interested, relevant leads that actually show an interest in your brand and your products. Why should you waste time and resources on a lead that hardly clicks on any of the CTAs you send? However, don't take this the wrong way and think that other leads are useless. But you need to have a priority-based focus that will allow you to concentrate on the best ones first. This will ensure that you do not lose out on any of the more important leads while concentrating on the lesser ones.
Again, I feel this is just an extension of the quality vs. quantity debate. The truth is, a lot of the data that we collect is unreliable. We do not pay attention to it simply because we are busy generating as much data as we can. This is unavoidable. But remember that it also affects the effectiveness of processes that are based on this data. Good data will have information that goes beyond the usual contact information. It will actually reflect the sensibility that you want your data to reflect. But before that, you need to realize that you might be sitting on tonnes of unreliable and inaccurate data. A good way to rectify this is to capture minute details about your customer's behavior. Take a note of their likes, dislikes, needs and wants. This will go a long way for both parties, i.e. you and your customer.
At some point, if you have been believing in any of these marketing lies, now is the time to leave it. Now is the time to channel your strength and use the truth to craft better marketing campaigns and create honest personalized relationships. It is time that we all stop believing in lies that do nothing to improve our productivity or increase our revenue.


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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born June 19, 1947, he is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries. Faced with a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground. Rushdie was knighed for services to literature on 16 June 2007.


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Q: How to select bit depth of ADC in MCU to use I trying to measure the signal with 1% error with reference voltage 3.3 V.
In my MCU (Renesas RA2A1) 2 ADC are available. One of them with 16 bit and the other one is a 24 bit sigma ADC.
How do I decide which one to use?

A: Ignoring noise, an n-bit ADC means that it outputs a reading in n-bits. Since each bit can represent two states: 0 or 1 to represent a binary number, that means that the reading is given such that it up the measurement scale into 2^n steps. So if you want +/-1% error over 3.3V, that means at most 33mV per step.
So if you have a 10-bit ADC that is measuring a full scale of 0-5V, it would be dividing that 5V up into 2^10 steps which is 4.88mV per step.

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Jeremiah Caldwell – CB – Belleville (MI) Belleville: Caldwell is a 6'3″, 170 lb. prospect who has been committed to Kentucky since January 2021. He is a 3-star, the #31 athlete, and #385 overall. Michigan offered in mid-April, and the defensive backs coach he committed to at Kentucky is now at Michigan (Steve Clinkscale). This is an unofficial visit on June 2.
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Nicholas Anderson – WR – Katy (TX) Katy: Anderson is a 6'2″, 185-pounder with offers from Miami, Notre Dame, and Texas, among others. He's a 3-star, the #62 wide receiver, and #428 overall. His two older brothers are defensive end Ryder Anderson (Ole Miss) and running back Rodney Anderson (Oklahoma/Cincinnati Bengals).
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Madam & Eve is de naam van een Zuid-Afrikaanse stripreeks geschreven door S. Francis, H. Dugmore & Rico. Hij verschijnt dagelijks in de krant.

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De hoofdpersonen zijn Gwen de blanke 'Madam' en haar meid, Eve Sisulu. Andere belangrijke personen zijn Eves dochtertje, Gwens moeder uit Engeland en de mielievrouw. Soms komen ook de tokoloshe's op bezoek of een paar inbrekers of andere tsotsi.

De moeizame verhouding tussen menige blanke huisvrouw en haar zwarte huisbediende is een bron van eindeloze satire, maar de strip schroomt niet de politiek van allerlei komaf flink op de hak te nemen en zet de soms waanzinnige kanten van de Zuid-Afrikaanse samenleving genadeloos te kijk.

De serie was razend populair vooral in de spannende dagen gedurende de afschaffing van de apartheid en was een van de weinige punten van gemeenschappelijkheid in een anderszins bijzonder verscheurd en uiterst gespannen land. Hij deed mensen eens flink om zichzelf en elkaar lachen en dat kon het land heel hard gebruiken.

Deze strip heeft zonder meer een stuk geschiedenis geschreven, zowel in de zin van de dagelijkse gang van zaken (van zijn belachelijke kant) maar ook in de zin dat ermee een uitlaatklep gegeven werd aan velen die dat nodig hadden.

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Er zijn een aantal compilaties verschenen:
 The Madam & Eve collection (1993, herdrukt 1999)
 Free at Last (Penguin 1994)
 All aboard for the gravy train (Penguin 1995)
 Somewhere over the rainbow nation (Penguin 1997)
 Madams are from Mars, Maids are from Venus (Penguin 1997)
 International Maid of Mystery (David Philip Publ. 1999)

In de Deense versie is de strip verschenen als:
 Jamen sort kaffe er pa nu, Madam
 Jeg giver Mandela Skylden for det her
 Alt under kontrol i Sydafrika!

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The Least of All Evils
Our Democracy is hampered by a voting system that poorly reflects the will of its electorate, one that often forces us to choose between the lesser of two evils. But there are alternative systems, approval voting and score voting, which can do the job better.
The Tyranny of the Majority Weak Preferences
Suppose you and a pair of friends are looking to order a pizza. You, and one friend, really like mushrooms, and prefer them over all other vegetable options, but you both also really, really like pepperoni. Your other friend also really likes mushrooms, and prefers them over all other options, but they're also vegetarian. What one topping should you get?
Clearly the answer is mushrooms, and there is no group of friends worth calling themselves such who would conclude otherwise. It's so obvious that it hardly seems worth calling attention to. So why is it, that if we put this decision up to a vote, do so many election methods, which are otherwise seen as perfectly reasonable methods, fail? Plurality, top-two runoffs, instant runoff voting, all variations of Condorcet's method, even Bucklin voting; all of them, incorrectly, choose pepperoni.
The Tyranny of the Majority
The answer is simple: All of these methods obey the majority criterion. This criterion seems so reasonable: If a majority of voters prefer one choice over all others, then that choice should be elected. And that's the case here. A majority, 2 out of 3, prefer pepperoni to all other options. Therefore, pepperoni must win. It's completely reasonable. And it means you're willing to send your friend home hungry.
If we examine the ballots these three friends would submit to the pizza-topping election, we can see the problem. Even though you and your one friend both really like mushrooms, the ballots don't show that. They only show that you like them less than pepperoni. There's no way for you to indicate the importance of that preference, and no way to mitigate it. You can't say, as you would if you and two friend were actually face-to-face and making such a decision "I like pepperoni better, but, dude, since you couldn't eat it, I'd totally be alright with eating mushrooms." Well, almost no way: You could choose to rank mushrooms above pepperoni, making a deliberate action to, after considering the thoughtful dialogue of the other voters, submerge your own narrow self-interest by voting for the choice you have determine is the one that would deliver the best result for society at-large, despite your own personal preference....
Or we could use a voting method that already knows how to do that, and lets you express your personal preferences in the same natural way that you would among your friends.
The Tyranny of Weak Preferences
The problem here is that these majoritarian methods have no way to indicate strength of preferences. Your weak preference between pepperoni and mushrooms is given as much importance as a your friend's overwhelming preference between pepperoni and mushrooms. And yet, the ability of approval voting and score voting to cleverly subvert the majority criterion in this way has been used as an argument against it. The detractors argue that it is horrible, absolutely horrible, that a candidate could be preferred by the majority of voters but that the election method would pick someone else. But is it really so horrible? After all, didn't you say you really liked mushrooms?
The truth is, under the voting methods for which I argue, voters have the power to express a willingness to compromise, and if they choose to express that desire, then these voting methods have the ability to honor it. And conversely, if the voters do not have an interest in compromising, then they can express that too.
Now, I know that, in the voting booth, we're not all friends. But that only makes it more important that we use election methods which strive for consensus, instead of divisiveness. You don't have to vote on pizza toppings with your friends, because it's a mostly unimportant decision with only a few people affected, none of which are especially invested in the outcome. You trust each other, and can quickly talk out all possible outcomes and come to a mutually-acceptable agreement. That's harder to do with 100 million angry people deciding on their government. But you still want—no, you still need—a consensus result. The majority criterion is detrimental to that goal.
Arguing Both Sides
What I find especially funny is that the other common argument used against approval and score voting is that they will degenerate to plurality voting, because voters will only vote for their single favorite choice. We know that's not true, but it's also contradicted by their arguments favoring the majority criterion. Because, for an approval or score voting election to actually exhibit majority failure, a substantial number of the voters would have to vote for multiple candidates; while, for accusations of bullet-voting to carry any weight, nearly all voters would have to vote for just one candidate. And yet, detractors argue that both of these things will happen, which is logically inconsistent.
The truth is, sometimes voters will bullet-vote, but only when it suits them to do so. And sometimes (rarely) a majority candidate won't win, but only when the voters who prefer that candidate have made the decision to express that preference as a weak preference, and defer to the whims of the minority. In other words, only when they have said "I like this other candidate better, but dude, if you really hate him, I'd totally be alright with one of these other guys."
It's called a compromise. It's how friends stay friendly, and how civilization stays civilized.
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Labels: bullet vote, majority
Opinionator March 15, 2012 at 1:52 PM
This is one of the best arguments against majority-based voting that i have seen. It really needs more publicity.
Dale March 15, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Thank you. Please, share it far and wide.
Opinionator March 16, 2012 at 5:03 AM
About all I can do is post a comment on my blog, which I've done.
DLW April 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM
I think that if one includes extra-political civil disobedience oriented aspects that majority rule can be made to work.
Let's say that pepperoni or no pepperoni, along with mushrooms are initially the options. But then the vegetarians demonstrate how much they don't want to eat meat. This act moves the pepperoni lovers to accommodate them so the options become mushrooms or no mushrooms.
The real issue, IMO, seems to be that when you relax the cardinality of utility assumption that voting patterns under approval or rank/score, even without strategic voting, are indeterminate. Politics is more complicated and not tied to something concrete. Our perceptions of our political leaders are constantly being manipulated and their fitness depends on which issues loom large.
A majoritarian rule accepts the results from the way preferences have been shaped. I can live with that if and only if we started to have more #OWS-style civil disobedience to influence the issues and we used American forms of PR in "more local" elections to give minorities more voice.
So to summarize, I think your concerns with IRV can be addressed in other ways than the use of Approval or Range voting for important single-member political elections. I embrace a Burkean distrust of the use of those rules in that context. I also don't trust Condorcet rules that work best when voters are well-informed and willing to rank all of the candidates. Even if they're relative simple to explain if there is a Condorcet Winner(CW), if there is both not a CW and significant spoiled ballots and/or fraud then it could get very complicated and ugly.
So I think it comes down to realism vs idealism. IRV got rejected in Burlington because of a manipulative campaign against it that was funded by the Republican party who was fighting for its right to be among the two major parties in VT. And it was barely rejected. So this is not a smoking gun or problem that would be fixed if IRV were replaced with another better election rule. As you point out, seemingly valid, potentially persuasive args can be constructed by opponents against any rule.
What really matters is that we go forward. IMO, with the endorsement of IRV by Barack Obama, it's now the Mitt Romney/Barack Obama of single-member election rules. So we'd be better pushing for it to be enhanced by the use of Approval Voting, not pushing a spoiler alternative alternative to FPTP.
DLW April 3, 2012 at 12:46 PM
Dale, I'm sorry if I was too pushy above. peace.
Walabio April 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Technically, mushrooms are fruit because they are fruiting bodies (they release spores, so they are used for reproduction, so they are fruit). Fungus is not a plant. Since testes and ovaries are used for reproduction, they are fruit too.
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Q: Start a thread a second time thread = new Thread()
        {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                while(!requestedToExit)
                {
                    SystemClock.sleep(3000);
                    Log.d("debug", "in");
                }
            }
        };

So a button got an event, Each time I click on it it's start the thread (if the previous thread is not alive).
So I tried use thread.start() but it throw thread already started. I tried .run(), nothing happens, I also tried each time I click on the button, and it's possible to run it again, create a new thread and start it : nothing.
Some ideas ?

Using Runnable :
   r= new Runnable(){

            public void run() {
                while(!requestedToExit)
                {
                    Log.d("debug", "in");
                    SystemClock.sleep(3000);

                }
            }
        };

Then I use in my listener :
thread = new Thread(injection);
thread.start();

But I only see the debug the first time, he never enter into it after.
Thanks in advance

A: From the JavaDoc -

It is never legal to start a thread more than once. In particular, a
  thread may not be restarted once it has completed execution.

Instead, use java.lang.Runnable and create a new thread to run it when you have to.
What you need to do is:
Runnable r = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        ....
    }
};

Then, when you want to start it:
Thread t = new Thread(r);
t.start();

You need to always create a new thread to run that one runnable.


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News > Features
Ireland's County Wicklow: Wilderness and grand houses
Sat., Oct. 10, 2015
By Helen O'Neill Associated Press
County Wicklow: http://visitwicklow.ie/
WICKLOW, Ireland – The road winds across the spine of the mountains, past a seemingly endless wilderness of heather-covered bogs, lakes, waterfalls, pine forests and trails.
There is an eerie desolation to the beauty – lonely and lovely, no buildings or people, just bog cotton, heather and gorse, wild deer, sheep and wispy clouds that sweep in and envelop everything in a feathery mist. When my parents took us here as kids, we joked that we were driving up to heaven.
And yet "heaven" is just a short distance from Dublin. The mountains of County Wicklow offer some of the most spectacular scenery in the country. The wilderness is all the more startling because it is just 12 miles from the outskirts of Ireland's capital city.
"You go from a civilized, secure and safe area to this wild open space in the middle of the elements on a road that leads to nowhere," says Fred Verdier, a Frenchman who first saw Wicklow 12 years ago and now works for the local tourist board. "It is like nowhere else in the world, untouched and unspoiled, a little bit magical, a little bit scary."
From Dublin's outskirts south across the mountains, you can take the 36-mile Military Road, so named because the British army built it in the early 1800s to flush out insurgents hiding in the hills.
The mountains are home to all sorts of historical treasures, from a 5,000-year-old passage grave (an ancient stone burial chamber) at Seefin to an unusual and beautiful graveyard at Glencree for 134 German soldiers who died in Ireland during World Wars I and II.
Not far from the cemetery, but largely hidden from the road, is the famed Guinness family estate at Luggala, a turreted whitewashed lodge filled with art treasures and set on 6,000 acres between two lakes in a valley. Raucous parties here in the 1960s and 1970s drew celebrities from around the world. Today, Luggala is often rented by those trying to avoid the public eye (Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods both used it as a retreat) and by movie studios drawn to the county's wilderness and beauty.
The hills have been used in movies as stand-ins for Scotland, England, France, Germany and other countries. Films shot here include "Ella Enchanted," "Michael Collins," "Dancing at Lughnasa," "Excalibur," "Braveheart" and "P.S. I Love You." The tiny hamlet of Hollywood in the heart of Wicklow even has white letters spelling out its name in a sheep field above the town. Wicklow is also home to Ireland's two film studios, where the History Channel's "Vikings" series and Showtime's "Penny Dreadful" are produced.
Down from the mountains, the county is dotted with picture-perfect villages as well as some of Ireland's best preserved grand houses. Many of these Downton Abbey-type residences are open for tours (check websites for days and hours): Russborough House, a Palladian-style mansion built in the 1740s by a wealthy Dublin brewer and filled with antiques and paintings by Goya, Vermeer and Rubens; Killruddery house, built by the Earls of Meath in 1618, with gorgeous formal gardens, parks and walks; and Avondale House, the birthplace of 19th century nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell (dubbed the uncrowned king of Ireland for his role in fighting for home rule).
Wicklow is also known as "the garden of Ireland" and one of the most famous is at Powerscourt House, an 18th century estate with vast ornate gardens reminiscent of Versailles that were named among the most beautiful in the world by National Geographic. The great house was gutted by fire in 1974, but the stone exterior remains intact and the interior has been transformed into shops and a restaurant. Grounds include over 47 acres of gardens, terraces, statues, lakes, trails and a golf course.
At the far end of the county, and a world away from the elegance of Powerscourt, are the monastic ruins of Glendalough, considered one of Ireland's greatest centers of learning for over 500 years. Set deep in a valley between two lakes, the settlement, founded by St. Kevin in the sixth century, evokes an almost mystical sense of the past. The site includes the remains of churches, monastic cells, monuments, Celtic crosses and a round tower that served as a sanctuary in times of attack. Tour guides offer tales of how the hermit saint rebuked female suitors, cast monsters into lakes and befriended blackbirds.
As the sun fades over the ruins and the Wicklow mountains loom In the distance, it's easy to imagine the monks gathering for evening prayer, or the saint making his way to a small cave high above the upper lake to dine on a bowl of nettles and sleep on a bed of stones.