Understanding Christian Terms: What's a Covenant?
The Bible talks quite a bit about covenants. As Christians, we primarily hear about the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, but what the heck is a covenant and what's the difference between the Old and the New?
A covenant is more than a simple promise. A covenant is a contract or agreement between two parties (groups or people). Every covenant has "terms," things that each party agrees to do and the benefits that will accompany fulfillment of the contract terms.
For example, a simple employment contract might say that you (the employee) agree to be at work on time and to perform your job duties as well as you possibly can. In return, your boss (the employer) agrees to pay you the amount promised. If either person breaks the contract, they risk losing the benefits; if your boss refuses to pay you, you may stop coming to work.
Think of Biblical covenants like that. God has agreed to do something, but in order to receive what God has promised, the people have to carry out their part of the contract. In the Old Testament, God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, led them to Mount Sinai and made a covenant with them.
The basic promises of God in the Old Covenant are that He will perform miracles on Israel's behalf, drive out their enemies and enlarge their borders. In return, Israel will abide by the Law, which God gives them. We know the Law as the Ten Commandments, but if you read the book of Leviticus, you'll find many detailed rules that accompanied the Law.
God didn't give Israel tons of commandments, but each command had to be carried out in a very specific way because of how holy and perfect God is. Take this example from the Ten Commandments–You shall not steal. Seems simple enough, right? Don't take stuff that doesn't belong to you. How about copying DVDs, is that stealing? What about downloading music from the Internet that you didn't pay for, is that stealing? What if you own a movie, but you make a copy and give it to a friend–does that break the commandment?
Keeping commandments wasn't difficult, it was impossible! Occasionally God would save someone who wasn't an Israelite, but it was rare. The Old Covenant said that Israel's salvation depended on their ability to keep God's commandments according to God's perfect standards. Could you do that? Nope, neither could I. I can't go one full day without breaking at least one of the Ten Commandments!
Enter Jesus Christ and the New Covenant. The New Covenant is a covenant of grace. We no longer have to live up to God's impossibly perfect standards to receive salvation. We receive God's amazing salvation by His grace through nothing but our faith in Jesus Christ! Can I get a hallelujah?
The Old Covenant was salvation based on works. The New Covenant tells us it's impossible for us to be saved by our works. The Old Covenant was only for the Israelites. The New Covenant says salvation is for anyone who believes in Christ and confesses Him as Lord. In the Old Covenant, people went through prophets or priests to talk to God (except in special cases). The New Covenant gives us free access to God; Hebrews 4:16 tells us to draw near with confidence to the throne of grace.
Remember however, that grace is not an excuse to sin (Romans 6:1-2) and though we are no longer saved by works, we are now expected to show our faith by our works (James 2:18).
It's important to understand the differences between the Old and New Covenants so we can explain salvation intelligently to those who don't yet know God. People come to us with so many questions and we're supposed to be able to at least answer some of them!
PI girls, has this helped you better understand the difference between the Old and New Covenants?
Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, 'You must not covet' (Romans 7:7).
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Thanks for this article! It helped clear things up for me too!
wow that was great! Hebrews 4:16 is on of my favorites now!
which Bible is the real Bible? like which version tell's the 100% truth? also can you lose your salvation? i just don't get it. my friend was telling me that different Bibles tell different things. so i'm confused like will God realy never leave you or forsake you? or did the people who wrote the niv changed the words, so they changed the meaning? please help! i am realy confused and sad.
All the bibles are real bibles. (As long as it consists of the original teaching.) The more accurate translations are ESV, KJV, and HCSB (to my knowledge so far) however are more difficult to understand. Easier translations are NLT and NIV. The Message is alright, however paraphrases the original text and I wouldn't use it unless you are using it alongside another whole non-paraphrased translation. Yes, some of the words are changed but it doesn't lose its meaning just loses its depth, its pizzazz. You know how some words are just stronger than other words? Well that's all that it loses with some of the easier translations and even with some of the more difficult translations just because there isn't a word to even describe that one word so they get as close as possible but it's still the same meaning.
no! Jesus will never forsake you! He will always love you! God tries everyday to get closer to you, but you have to do your part. In my Bible, the New Living Translation( it is easier for me to understand) it tells us that God is a perfect gentleman. He will not force Himself on you on push you too far. God may back away at sometimes, but only because He doesn't want to upset you!
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Rochelle Porter, age 71, of Hopkins, died on December 29th, 2021. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Helen Finkelstein. She is survived by her daughter, Cara Strauss; son, Andrew Porter; granddaughters, Emerson, Joee and Sophia; sisters, Sandy (Steven) Eisenman, and Barbara Lerner, as well as many nieces, nephews, and extended Minneapolis Strauss family. Rochelle was the oldest child of Holocaust survivors. She grew up in Vineland, NJ and graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Rochelle raised her kids in Lower Merion (a suburb just outside Philadelphia) and was always very close to her family-- especially her sisters. In 1991 Rochelle moved to Scottsdale, AZ where she lived until around 2011, before moving back to Vineland to care for her own dying mom, and to be close to her family. By FAR the most important thing to Rochelle was her kids and grandkids, so in 2016, she moved to Minneapolis full time to be closer to them and became a part of the extended Strauss family. She will be truly missed by all. Funeral service, 12:30 PM, Friday, Dec. 31st at the Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery Chapel, 70 1/2 and Penn. Funeral will be available via Zoom as well. Please email: [email protected] for the link for both the funeral and the Shiva. Family gathering, Saturday night after services at Beth El (services begin at 4:30 PM) and Shiva, Sunday night at Beth El at 7 pm.
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'Stealing thunder' in sports public relations
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17th July 2018 48 min read
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In the sports industry, individual athletes and organisations have an ethical predicament when faced with a crisis which is not yet known to the media or public: should they elect to self-disclose the relevant information before a third party exposes it or do they 'keep a lid on it' and conceal the information in the hope that it will not become public knowledge?
During a time when the Edelman Trust Barometer reports that the public has increasingly lost trust and faith in institutions around the world, crisis management research has indicated it is ethically the correct decision for individuals and organisations to fully self-disclose information about a crisis and communicate honestly and transparently with all stakeholders who are affected by it.
Yet, in reality, it appears that individuals and organisations are fearful of taking responsibility and self-disclosing information about a crisis because they believe it will lead to lasting reputational damage following unwelcome attention from the media and other interested parties, and that the admittance of potentially incriminating information may also incur legal liability.
Indeed, both individuals and organisations seem hesitant to proactively and openly communicate with stakeholders so long as the possibility exists that the crisis can be dealt with internally without public knowledge and the crisis is considered limited in nature by senior management.
This approach is risky at best and individuals and organisations must realise that the truth will surface eventually, particularly when media and consumers have access to more information than ever before and social media enables rapid and widespread sharing of information worldwide.
In a sporting context, consider USA Gymnastics which was subject to a media investigation by the Indy Star which exposed the governing body for its failure to disclose serious allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse perpetrated by coaches against child athletes to the relevant law enforcement authorities, its stakeholders and the public. The public revelations led to a gymnast reporting a complaint against USA Gymnastics employee Dr Larry Nassar who was subsequently convicted of abusing over 150 athletes and was sentenced to 170 years imprisonment.
Or professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, who continually denied and legally challenged allegations of systematic doping throughout a sustained period of sporting success which included seven Tour de France titles. He was eventually charged by the US Anti-Doping Agency who disclosed that Armstrong had operated a widespread doping regime for several years and was corroborated by the testimonies of former team-mates and individuals close to him.
And then there is the example of the National Football League (NFL) and Baltimore Ravens who were both found to be complicit in failing to openly disclose the full set of circumstances which led to the arrest and charge of superstar player Ray Rice for the serious assault of his fiancée, Jay Palmer. Instead, two security videos were leaked to and published by entertainment website TMZ.com which showed Rice assaulting Palmer and dragging her unconsciously into an Atlantic City casino. The NFL was forced to suspend Rice and his contract was terminated by the Ravens.
As illustrated above, the consequences of failing to self-disclose a crisis which is subsequently revealed by third parties can be devastating. High levels of negative media coverage and widespread public indignation on social media will severely damage their reputation leading to loss of trust and confidence from sports fans and the general public, reduction in investment by sponsors, lawsuits and criminal proceedings, resignation of c-suite executives and the instigation of government inquiries and reports.
The long-term implications for the reputation of individual athletes and sports organisations in crisis should therefore not be taken lightly and the increasing prevalence of crises and scandals in the sports industry led former Labour Party Director of Communications Alastair Campbell to conclude that "sport takes bronze when it comes to understanding the importance of reputation management".
Therefore, how can public relations practitioners operating on behalf of individual athletes and sports organisations manage crises more effectively to lessen their destructive impact on reputation?
Recent academic research offers evidence for the effectiveness of using 'stealing thunder' as an alternative crisis management strategy, which involves an individual or organisation proactively self-disclosing crisis information before other interested parties, such as the media, become aware of the incriminating information.
The usefulness of stealing thunder was first established within the contexts of social psychology and law but has recently been advocated within the research field of crisis communications where the rationale and potential benefits for public relations practitioners have been documented.
According to the research, there are six reasons why practitioners should use stealing thunder to self-disclose information when individuals and organisations become aware of a crisis so that they can mitigate its effects on reputation.
Increase credibility
Individual athletes and sports organisations who self-disclose incriminating information will appear more credible because people do not expect them to willingly divulge major problems and issues about themselves. Rather, they expect that information revealed by an individual or organisation in crisis will be one-sided and biased.
Stealing thunder, however, supplants these expectations, thereby increasing the credibility of an individual or organisation and reducing the reputational damage which they may suffer. Importantly for practitioners, research has also confirmed that media reporters consider them to be a more credible source when they steal thunder on behalf of an individual or organisation.
The importance of maintaining credibility in a sporting context was underlined by the corruption crisis which continues to overshadow FIFA, the world football governing body. Following the arrest of several FIFA executives suspected of widespread corruption, organisational spokespersons, including then president Sepp Blatter, continued to deny the existence of institutional corruption to the worldwide media despite the charges levied on its senior executives by the FBI.
The organisation and its senior leadership lost significant credibility in the eyes of its stakeholders and millions of fans around the world, tarnishing its reputation and thereby reducing FIFA's ability to retain financial investment by sponsors.
Reduce crisis severity
Practitioners should also be persuaded by research which details that individual athletes and sports organisations can benefit by using stealing thunder to reduce the severity of a crisis as perceived by stakeholders.
In the eyes of the public, the revelation of negative information may be inconsistent with their expectations and they may resolve that inconsistency by changing the meaning of that information. In the crisis context, people may consider the issue or problem as less severe because they expect that the individual or organisation would never voluntarily reveal damaging information about themselves.
Reducing the severity of a crisis within the sports industry is of particular interest to practitioners who wish to protect the reputation of athletes and organisations and minimise the impact of any negative outcomes resulting from a crisis.
Consider the severity of the doping crisis which blemished the reputation and integrity of world athletics following the leak of incriminating anti-doping data by the Fancy Bears hacking group and the subsequent investigation and recommendation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that Russian athletes be banned from competition.
A study commissioned by Sports Business International revealed that the reputation score for athletics among fans in the UK dropped from 30.9% in October 2015 to -1.2% in March 2016 as a result of the crisis, while long-term commercial partner adidas severed its sponsorship agreement with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) three years early costing the organisation an estimated £20m in revenues.
Less attention
There are fears among practitioners that self-disclosing a crisis will lead to significant levels of unwanted attention from the media and the public, but research reflects the contrary: individuals and organisations who reveal crisis information first have been found to receive less attention than those crises discovered by another party.
To illustrate, results of a study which compared media coverage of four high profile individuals in crisis demonstrated that individuals who steal thunder receive less media coverage and that stories and reports about the crisis are framed in a more positive manner. This is explained by commodity theory which, in the context of a crisis, suggests that when information is made freely available and is less scarce, it is less interesting and less valuable to people, including reporters.
The comparable situations of American entertainment icon David Letterman and golf superstar Tiger Woods, who both faced a crisis due to the existence of their extra-marital affairs, help to illustrate this.
Letterman stole thunder and self-disclosed this information during his popular talk show, using humour to make it sound like an amusing anecdote rather than a personal crisis. Woods, on the other hand, remained silent on the issue and waited until the media revealed the circumstances of his personal crisis.
Encouraging outcomes for Letterman's reputation included much less media coverage, more positive frames in news articles and fewer negative frames. Moreover, stealing thunder was effective in bringing closure to the story and helped the media move onto writing about what happens next for Letterman. Conversely, Woods' reputation was tarnished by higher levels of intense media coverage which was found to be more negative in sentiment.
By stealing thunder, practitioners can seize the opportunity for individual athletes and sports organisations to set the tone and tell the story in their own way. A significant advantage gained from self-disclosure is the ability to frame the crisis according to their own terms and downplay its significance to the media and stakeholders.
Individuals and organisations who appear to be more remorseful than rational in their communication will also benefit from being perceived by stakeholders as being more sincere, thereby positively influencing post-crisis reputation, a significant outcome by which practitioners may be judged.
A frequently cited success story in sports crisis management concerns the tennis star Maria Sharapova who in 2016 called a press conference to reveal to the media and wider public that she had tested positive for a banned substance at the Australian Open before this information was released by the tennis authorities.
During the press conference, Sharapova fully disclosed the circumstances that led to her anti-doping violation and took full responsibility for her actions. This approach enabled her to own and control the narrative which was delivered in a remorseful manner to the media in attendance. There was little left for the media to reveal or investigate.
Thanks to her self-disclosure, Sharapova was able to tell the story on her own terms, generating positive comments in the media from fellow athletes including Serena Williams and fans, who showed their support using social media hashtags #IStandWithMaria and #WholeWorldWithSharapova.
Influencing consumers
Practitioners can persuade individuals and colleagues to use stealing thunder in a crisis thanks to research which demonstrates that consumers are more likely to buy from you again in the future if you self-disclose the crisis information first, rather than being revealed by an external third party.
Stealing thunder can therefore provide an important advantage for sports organisations who wish to remain profitable and continue to generate revenues from the sale of tickets for events and competitions and branded merchandise to fans.
A question of ethics
When individual athletes and sports organisations experience a crisis, they have an ethical duty to take full responsibility and truthfully disclose crisis information in its entirety to all affected stakeholders.
As such, practitioners should remind colleagues that in times of crisis, stealing thunder enables individuals and organisations to prioritise the needs of their stakeholders and behave ethically.
Stakeholders are more likely to have a favourable response to this approach and consider the individual or organisation as more ethical than ones who choose to conceal information and appear defensive.
A case for stealing thunder
Throughout their careers, public relations practitioners operating in the sports industry are more than likely to be called upon to manage a crisis confronting an individual athlete or organisation.
Should the crisis become public knowledge thanks to the revelations of external parties, individuals and organisations risk huge damage to their reputations following the negative media coverage and widespread sharing of information on social media that inevitably follows.
This article has offered persuasive evidence to advocate the alternative use of stealing thunder in times of crisis over waiting for it to be discovered by external parties, including the media and affected stakeholders. Indeed, the use of stealing thunder to self-disclose incriminating information in times of crisis has been proven to mitigate its negative effects on the reputation of individuals and organisations.
Practitioners advising athletes and sporting bodies can legitimately claim that stealing thunder will make them appear more credible in the eyes of the media and stakeholders, while reducing the perceived severity of the crisis. Stealing thunder will also draw less attention from the media and stakeholders and provide an opportunity for individuals and organisations to more positively frame the crisis on their own terms. Consumers are also more inclined to buy products or services from organisations who steal thunder. Finally, individuals and organisations are considered more ethical by stakeholders when they steal thunder.
In times of crisis, practitioners should be aware stealing thunder is the most effective means to strategically manage and protect the reputation of individuals and organisations.
This article was submitted as part of an assignment for the CIPR Professional PR Diploma with PR Academy.
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Tel Aviv court convicts killer soldier
Posted on 04/01/2017 at 1:09 pm.
TEL AVIV, January 4, 2017 (WAFA) – A military court in Tel Aviv Wednesday convicted an Israeli soldier, who shot and killed in cold blood a wounded Palestinian in Hebron, of manslaughter.
The court said Elor Azaria, who shot dead Abdul Fattah al-Sharif on March 24 while lying on the ground after he was shot and injured by Israeli forces following an alleged stabbing attack, did so in revenge rather than because the wounded Palestinian had posed a threat, as claimed by the killer soldier.
Many Israeli right wing activists, including lawmakers, and supporters of the killer soldier demonstrated outside the court hoping to pressure it against convicting him.
The sentence will be announced within a month.
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Pupils from Aquila class took part in the Stroud schools country dance festival at Stratford Park. Brimscombe were one of a large of number of local primary schools taking part in this colourful and fun event. Our pupils looked fantastic in their striped costumes and danced brilliantly to the many traditional tunes. Parents and members of staff got up on the dance floor too and everyone just had a good time.
Huge thanks to Mrs Oliver who, showing endless patience and resilience, choreographed all the dances and taught the children the many complex moves using her own unique diagrams and notes.
Also, a big thankyou to Mrs Newman's mum Cynthia for the making the costumes.


Bagosphere, a Bacolod-based social enterprise, wins top prize (AUD 100,000) at Frontier Innovators, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's innovationXchange (DFAT iXc).
Bagosphere provides short-term, career-focused training programs to bridge the skills gaps in communications, IT, and soft skills and prepare disadvantaged youths for jobs in fast-growing industries across the Philippines. It aims to skill, re-skill and upskill one million individuals by 2040.
BagoSphere was among the 15 top teams selected by Frontier Innovators from over 700 applications and over 52 countries from the Asia-Pacific region. The finalists work hard to provide a wide range of innovative and unique solutions that deliver impact and support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in areas such as health, agriculture, environment, education, and finance, among others.
Frontier Innovators will support Bagosphere to scale its impact as it contributes to SDG #1: No Poverty and #4: Quality Education. Bagosphere will receive grant funding, six months of tailored support, and access to relevant expert advisors, potential partners and investors.
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In episode 70, the 2017 Roadmap show that one of my main goals for 2017 was to publish a book.
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750Words.com: Its a free and simple website and by signing up you are pledging to write 750 words per day in the plain and simple writing tool they provide right in the browser.
Workflowy: Simple writing tool for outlining and creating lesson plans, etc.
Ulysses is $44 & $25 for the iOS Apps.
Bear, which is a hip and free app for Mac & iOS devices for writing. Bear is free and I kind of like it.
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Review – No Man's Sky – To infinity, and BEGONE!
So the hype around No Man's Skye reached a level I have never seen before as a gamer and I have been playing my entire life practically.
The fervor for this game was off the charts, and what everyone perception was fell into a very different place than what the reality is.
2 years ago Hello Games took the stage at E3 and brought the house down, with the promise of a seemingly infinite universe for us to explore, 18 quadrillion (that is 18 with 18 zeros) planets to explore, it would take a single person over 5 billion years to see them all.
If that is not a promise of greatness I don't know what is.
This captured peoples interest, oh my God, all the things we could do, all the places we could go! But not a one of you adoring fans asked what we would do when we got there.
Peoples perception of No Man's Sky was unexplainable. I have asked dozens of people what they think of it, and it always comes up with, it was not as good as I expected. When pressed about what they expected it to be, no one really has a solid answer short of, "I don't know, just better that this"
And there in lies the problem. People as a whole built up No Man's Sky to be something it was never intended to be. Not once did the developer come out and say it would have a rich story, diverse NPCs to weave a tale of a galactic hero.
It's promise was simple, we will give you more planets than you can count, and you can go check them out.
End of description.
This summer we were shown a series of trailers that totally encapsulated the game, Survive, Trade, Fight, Explore.
This is EXACTLY what No Man's Sky is. And STILL people were shocked when it didn't turn out as THEY expected.
That folks is on YOU, not Hello Games, who gave you exactly what they told you they would.
So about this review, where does one begin to review a game that in all fairness, I have seen less than .000000000000000000000000000001 of?
Well my experience was almost exactly what I thought it would be (short of the ending, but more on that later) It was a fun run around the galaxy. The end.
Did it become repetitious? Yes. Was it boring? At times yes. Were planets all the same? Hardly. Were animals all the same? Almost never.
And last but not least, was it fun? Mostly.
In the 40+ hours I put into the game I would say I enjoyed about 30 hours worth. When I finally decided I had enough of going to random generated planet Q8172X12 and decided I was going to make a run for the center of the galaxy, things got tedious.
It became a rinse repeat formula until I reached the core. Make a pile of warp cells, jump to a black hole, go into black hole, repair ship, jump to black hole, run out of cells, then go get resources to make more, and start over. Rinse, repeat.
That is the last 10 hours to go from wherever you're at, to the galaxy center.
Once you have lost the wonder of exploring new planets and solar systems, the game loses a lot of its shine.
This is a game that is far more about the journey than the destination. I will not spoil the ending, but I will say that a lot of people will be disappointed, but you should really have seen it coming.
For someone like me who has a completionist attitude and a smidge of OCD, No Man's Sky can become a total nightmare at times.
When planet side there is always one more point of interest, one more set of ruins, one more outpost. It is honestly endless. I spent close to 8 hours on my first planet before I realized there is no way I will ever see it all and left.
This also plays into one of the games biggest short comings. There is no means of tracking where you have been or what you have discovered on a planet.
Sure you can get a tracker for life forms discovered, but there is no way to get back to a outpost or base you have been before as the game has no mapping system when planet side.
This is insanely frustrating when you are in the midst of harvesting resources and trying to sell them.
You found a new trading outpost, fly off into the sunset, harvest a pile of resources, then have no where to sell them as you scour the planet for another installation.
It is little things like this that stop No Man's Sky from being great. The concept is solid if you are into a world / walking simulator. But it is the technical details that leave things coming up shy.
The game is also hampered by a lot of technical glitches. From constant game crashes and lock ups, to weird behavior like getting into your ship and being catapulted into the sky, or sometimes ejected from you ship and thrown hundreds of miles away.
It is goofy things like that that really mar what could have been a much better game.
I for instance got locked out of my platinum trophy due to a glitch. One particular trophy requires you survive on a "Extreme" planet for a grand total of 8 hours. What you don't get to know is it needs to be 8 hours on the same planet, and if you leave, you have to start over 100%
Now this would not be such a big deal if the aforementioned glitch that tosses you back into orbit didn't take place. Get tossed like that and the timer resets completely. You could lose 7 hours of progress in one glitch.
For myself I am locked out simply because my game crashed and I was punted back to the PS4 menu. I came back in and now my time is stuck at 5.7 Sols (57 mins) and will not increase again ever.
All in all No Man's Sky is what it set out to be, a game about exploring the cosmos, and on that it delivers 100%. Is it that game you want it to be? Highly unlikely.
A solid 7/10. I can't say I would recommend it per se, as it is not for everyone, but read the reviews and impressions, and if you are realistic in your expectations, you will walk away satisfied.
By thecompulsivecanadiangamerin Uncategorized August 27, 2016 August 29, 2016 1,089 WordsLeave a comment
Toy Review – Lego UCS Tie Fighter – #75095
So last up for our toy reviews is the Lego Ultimate Collector's Series Tie Fighter.
There have been a few Tie ships made over the years by lego, including the Interceptor, Bomber and Vader's Tie Advanced, but all of them never really captured the feel and look of the ship.
The original was the Tie Interceptor in 1999, which in a bizarre move used blue Lego as the trim color. Over time Lego groups designs got better and better but still never really hit the mark, from being a bland grey color, not the iconic black, to overall design sloppiness, they never felt quite right.
That is until the 75095 Tie Fighter.
This set hits ever mark and really captures the ship design we have all grown up with. With some really unique choices in elements and trim, this ship is near perfect.
Coming in at 1685 peices and a price of $229cnd.
Like all of the current Lego sets, all the elements come in numbered bags, which as you know I am not overly fond of, it really takes the fun guess work out of building Lego, having to hunt for parts. I know, I could just dump them all together, but really that would feel like a waste of time since the instruction are all laid out in a bag to bag set up.
This set holds a total of 13 sets, some containing multiple bags as well.
The build was very straight forward with very little challenge to it, unlike the B-Wing I previously built, this set seems rather boring by comparison. The wings themselves were fun as they were rather unique, but all told this build took only about two and a half hours.
There are 3 distinct parts to the build, cockpit, left and right wing, and stand. That is it.
The cockpit design was well mad and feels really solid.
I pity those poor pilots though, that cockpit barely has elbow room in it.
The wings had a really awesome connection mechanic that sadly I failed to capture. Once built there is a small shaft that inserts into each wing, and then 2 small hings come to lock it in place, it is hard to describe, but it holds thing together very securely without traditional connectors.
The completed model stands over 16″ tall.
The stand itself is a little lack luster thought, there is a hole in the bottom of the ship that fits on a smooth round peg on the stand, this sadly does not lock it in place, and instead forms a swivel. Now it is not a huge gripe, but from just normal house vibration from walking and such, the set tends to rotate a bit off center.
I would have much preferred a square peg, square hole design over the rounded as that would have kept things in alignment no problem.
Lego also decided to go with a mini-fig for this set as well, giving you one Tie Pilot that sits nicely on the base next to the sign.
All in all a good build, but nothing spectacular. An obvious must have for Lego Star Wars fans and at a decent price point as well.
A solid 7/10 and a lovely addition to the collection.
By thecompulsivecanadiangamerin Uncategorized August 3, 2016 February 21, 2017 550 WordsLeave a comment
So I am back our second toy review at CCG.
This time we have the amazing Star Wars Lego B-Wing, set 10227 from the Ultimate Collector's Series.
This set originally debuted in 2012 and retailed for just $199us, sadly I missed the boat on the set going into moratorium and as with everything Lego, you either buy it retail when it is available, or pay through the nose later.
This baby set me back to the tune of $299us from Ebay and with shipping, tax and duty ended up closer to the $450cdn. Now that may seem like a boat load of cash for a Lego set, but it pales in comparison to waiting another year or so.
There are many Star Wars sets that are into the $2000 range and above. So as painful as it was, it could have been much worse later on.
This was one of my all time favorite ships growing up, having an on screen time of maybe 1 minute at very best in Return of the Jedi, it was memorable minute.
It is a very unconventional ship, and that showed through in the very unconventional build as well.
The set comes in at a 1487 pieces and has 3 manuals.
A lot of the design here was mirror images of each section, Lego did a very cool job of making this set look seamless, slapping a front and back identical wing or mid-section together and having it look like one complete section.
Something to note as well, Lego seemed to go through their spare parts bucket and find a rainbow of color choices for the interior, unseen elements. Now we oft get a few bizarre colored bricks in sets like that that will go unseen.
But never have I seen this much of a rainbow used, it is like they had a massive pile of unused bricks they had to get rid of and just tossed anything and everything they could into 10227.
When things came together though, boy do they look great.
The cockpit is an exceptional standout with some very unique design elements. They added what would usually be a tank track to two giant Technic tire rims to form the spinning cockpit.
The main thrusters were also well thought out, using the before mentioned mirror design, they snapped together seamlessly, as did the main bottom wing.
One of the biggest complaints I have read online has been about the bottom gun attachment. It was a bizarre choice for such a sold ship otherwise, to be holding onto a massive bulk of lego with just 8 pegs. This could have been built a lot more solid in my opinion, but that being said, I did not have it fall off even once, something that a lot of others did have happen.
This is not a play set though, and more of a model, so really if it is just sitting on a shelf, it should never be an issue.
All told the build took about 4 hours, but I am also a very seasoned Lego vet. There were many complex portions of the ship, and it was one of the more enjoyable builds I have done.
The finished product looks amazing on the shelf next to the rest of the collection.
The only other complaint I have is the plaque that has all the details on it, the sticker itself is too small. Every other set I have owned has had a sticker that covers about 98% of the plaque, this one though is millimeters away from the edges on all side, it is almost as if they did not size it right in post.
That is a small gripe though, as it is black on black and not too noticeable from a few feet away.
All in all, a fantastic set worthy of the UCS moniker.
A solid 8/10 and a highly recommended buy now before the price goes up even more.


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Kerala High Court Seeks State Response
By Steven L. Burrows	 Last updated Nov 26, 2021
A helpless mother addressed the Kerala High Court on Thursday, alleging that her daughter, a survivor of sexual harassment, had been refused admission to a public school.
Judge Raja Vijayaraghavan V. ordered the head of government to obtain instructions and submit the reasons why the child victim cannot be accommodated in the defendant school.
The petitioner is the mother of a 17 year old child. The child was continuing his first year VHSC (FHW) course at the Victory VHSS Olathanni Assisted School. Due to abject poverty, she was staying at Christian Mission Children's Home.
Lawyer R. Gopan represented the petitioner and argued that due to an unfortunate turn of events she was sexually abused.
As a result, a crime was registered at the Kunnikode Police Station, alleging offenses, inter alia, under Article 3 of the POCSO Law and Article 376 of the IPC.
It was argued that the school in which the child continued his studies was located near the house of the accused. It is also argued that the child is always mocked by some people.
In order to continue her studies, she applied for transfer admission to the government vocational upper secondary school.
The lawyer claimed that although there are enough vacancies in said school, for one reason or another, admission is denied. Several representations were filed before the respondents and the same is pending.
The Court will take up the case again on November 30.
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Making the world better by design
The expanding role of creative design
Susan Schaefer
Updated: October 19, 2017 - 1:01 pm
Dutch & American Housing Symposium roundtable discussion on Good Design & Affordability led by Andrea Brennan, Minneapolis director of Housing Policy and Development. Photo by Susan Schaefer
The economic impact of the creative arts in Minneapolis astonishes. Estimated at over $4.5 billion in sales, or eight times that of Minneapolis' sports sector according to the 2015 Creative Vitality Index (CVI), an economic measure used by the city, it has earned our region a lofty place as a national creative mecca.
Behind such stunning statistics toil humans whose creativity and innovation fuel this so-called creative class, dubbed by author Richard Florida. Frequently laboring for the sheer love of their craft, many visual and performing artists, directors, inventors and innovators produce from an inner creative core more likely fueled by passion than personal gain. These makers are marked by an almost holy drive to create – and when their artistry and intent collide, it often yields something extraordinary in its wake.
Imagine for a moment a once vibrant neighborhood overrun by dilapidated, boarded-up buildings, drug dealers and harassed neighbors. The neighborhood is not located in Phillips, Folwell, Steven Square, Jordan, Cedar-Riverside, Near North or anywhere in Minneapolis. Or in any of countless cities such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit or Chicago. In fact, it is not located in the United States.
Astonishingly, it was a section of the Dutch capital city, The Hague, which had experienced a serious social downturn. Though many Americans dreamily regard the Netherlands as a quaint country laced with windmills and canals, a country known for humane and liberal laws that grant Dutch citizens a dignity of life not found here, there are and have been pockets of blight and neglect.
In 2007, a housing project dubbed "de Beeklaan" addressed this urban decay by corralling public and private creativity to develop a sophisticated housing project that allows a mix of people from varying socioeconomic and ethnic levels to live in (basic) harmony, helping to rid the surrounding neighborhood of the undesirable forces that previously plagued it. This and other examples of complex design thinking were presented during the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and Goldstein Museum of Design's "Complexity: Dutch & American Housing" symposium, an intense 30-hour weekend mounted in early October to correspond with the release of "Complex Housing: Designing for Density," a new book by professor Julia W. Robinson.
Robinson's book and this symposium provided an updated perspective on the roles of design, architecture and urban planning as agents of change, specifically showcasing designers, architects and urban planners as creators of live-work environments that foster the rise of creative hubs. Minneapolis is just such a hub.
A marvelously symbiotic relationship exists between artist migration to neglected, often blighted urban neighborhoods and redevelopment. Last month's Creative Class column commemorated our own Melisande Charles, Minneapolis' first arts commissioner, an arts pioneer whose singular efforts helped to revive the city's Warehouse District.
Throughout history artists have sought inexpensive spaces and places to live and work. As was the case in the Warehouse District, and more recently in Northeast Minneapolis, artists move in, set up studios and create living spaces, lofts and galleries. In America, cagey developers sniff out the new housing, retail and commercial opportunities that accompany such "squatting," often interrupting this cycle with upscale or upmarket projects that ultimately price the artists out.
The Complexity workshop presented encouraging examples of how this sequence can be disrupted — at least in the Netherlands. Of course, Dutch and American circumstances differ vastly. Besides the obvious scale of our countries (17 million vs. 350 million inhabitants; the total landmass of the Netherlands approximates that of the state of Maryland), three primary factors — culture, economy and politics — most undermine the probability of replicating the Dutch results.
In his foreword to Robinson's book, Hans Ibelings, prominent editor of The Architecture Observer, notes that ingrained in the Dutch ethos is "the idea that architecture is a common good."
"The best Dutch housing is the collective product of, in no particular order, developers, clients, architects, contractors, and municipalities, which usually appear to agree on the idea that every project is the shared responsibility of all parties, with the final product more important than the interest of any individual party," Ibelings writes. "This is often reflected in the implicit and sometimes even explicit acknowledgment that making money isn't the first and foremost reason to build. Robinson offers a striking example in one of her case studies, quoting the developer who matter-of-factly mentions a significant financial loss in the same sentence he calls the project as a huge success."
That any American developer would or could lose money on a project is as irreconcilable for Americans as is the Dutch government's fundamental assumption that all citizens have a right to be housed. A fundamental right. It's the law. More astounding is that all "housing is seen as integral with settlement design, and that the wise design of settlements is a government responsibility." Thus, Dutch artists and other low-income residents are able to purchase or rent affordable, innovative, sustainable spaces. Correspondingly, architects are empowered to ply advanced design as part of a collective that includes residents, developers, bankers and government official who make this all possible.
In essence, the Dutch in their infinite wisdom have created an ultimate virtuous cycle where design professionals are highly valued.
However, in a modest office just a level down from where this symposium took place sits the University's Minnesota Design Center director, Tom Fisher, the former dean of the School of Architecture. If it's up to Fisher, Minnesota design professionals, in the parlance of gaming, will "see" the Dutch model and "raise it."
Tom Fisher, director of the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Design Center. Photo by Susan Schaefer
The work of the Center is forging new and critical ground in the high stakes world of 21st century fields like education, public infrastructure, public health, politics and economics, to name a few, where "design thinking" helps solve the world's complicated problems.
Though design professionals are most known for designing visible objects, like the urban design, landscape or buildings discussed during this month's symposium, or typeface or clothing, Fisher is out to prove that they are well suited to helping solve large, complex, invisible problems, and his latest book, "Designing Our Way to a Better World" from University of Minnesota Press, helps us see why.
"We tend to think of design in terms of the visible world around us: the buildings we occupy and the products we use," Fisher writes. "But the 'invisible' systems that we depend on in our daily lives — the infrastructure buried beneath our feet or in our walls, the educational and health systems that we all experience as we age or become ill, and the economic and political systems that affect us in myriad ways over time — remain just as much designed as anything that we inhabit or use."
Not many ordinary Minnesotans understand the heft and impact of the Minnesota Design Center he leads. Nor is the story of how the School of Architecture morphed into the College of Design much known outside the field. Yet Fisher's and the University's leadership add essential gravitas to Minnesota's role in this critical and cutting-edge field.
The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture merged with the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel to become the College of Design in 2006. Fisher explains, "By having all of the design disciplines in one college, we have been able to develop new interdisciplinary programs, like product design or human factors. This new college has also positioned us well to participate in the growing interest in design thinking, which is the topic of my recent book. The redesign of the systems that are not working well — our educational system, our political system, our economy, our infrastructure, etc. — may be one of the most important tasks before us, and it is something to which our Center and our College has to contribute."
The Minnesota Design Center is the same entity that luminaries Bill Morrish and Catherine Brown led under the original name, the Design Center for American Urban Landscape, for over 20 years ago as its first directors.
"We changed the original name because it seemed too long and too hard for many people to remember. I am the fourth director of the center," Fisher clarifies.
The resulting Center, supported by a generous endowments by foundations like Target and McKnight, tackles complex issues, replicating and surpassing the complexity represented by the Dutch housing models.
According to Fisher, we live in "a period of unprecedented urbanization, with record numbers of people moving into cities, and a period in which we face profound economic, environmental, technological, and social changes."
In response, the design community is undergoing a transition from strictly defining itself in terms of outcomes — architects producing buildings, industrial designers products, etc. — to more broadly defining itself in terms of the knowledge, processes and methods used to do such work, which has applications far beyond its traditional outcomes.
Under Fisher's leadership, "the Center provides a platform and a place where a diverse group of people can work on projects related to these issues, helping communities and organizations recognize and respond constructively to the opportunities that we face in Minnesota as well as nationally."
For example, the Center has worked with Allina Health to teach design thinking skills to the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta so that that organization can respond more creatively and flexibly to global health challenges, and with four Minnesota counties (Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka and Dakota) to reimagine the adult foster care housing system to give residents greater choice.
With such efforts percolating in our own backyard, members of our design profession are contributing as great or greater societal impact as the admirable Dutch model.
We Minnesotans have much to be proud of as our creative class contributions spiral up and beyond the traditional metrics that the Creative Vitality Index measures.
Professor Julia W. Robinson listens as architect Matt Finn from Cermak Rhoads explains Catholic Charities Higher Ground homeless shelter to Dutch participants. Photo by Susan Schaefer
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Id
:   `FragmentLiveDataObserve`
Summary
:   Use getViewLifecycleOwner() as the LifecycleOwner instead of a Fragment instance when observing a LiveData object.
Severity
:   Error
Category
:   Correctness
Platform
:   Android
Vendor
:   Android Open Source Project
Identifier
:   androidx.fragment
Feedback
:   https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=460964
Affects
:   Kotlin and Java files
Editing
:   This check runs on the fly in the IDE editor
Implementation
:   [Source Code](https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:/fragment/fragment-lint/src/main/java/androidx/fragment/lint/UnsafeFragmentLifecycleObserverDetector.kt)
Copyright Year
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When observing a LiveData object from a fragment's onCreateView,
        onViewCreated, onActivityCreated, or onViewStateRestored method
               getViewLifecycleOwner() should be used as the
LifecycleOwner rather than the                 Fragment instance. The
Fragment lifecycle can result in the Fragment being
active longer than its view. This can lead to unexpected behavior from
              LiveData objects being observed longer than the Fragment's
view is active.

(##) Suppressing

You can suppress false positives using one of the following mechanisms:

* Using a suppression annotation like this on the enclosing
  element:

  ```kt
  // Kotlin
  @Suppress("FragmentLiveDataObserve")
  fun method() {
     problematicStatement()
  }
  ```

  or

  ```java
  // Java
  @SuppressWarnings("FragmentLiveDataObserve")
  void method() {
     problematicStatement();
  }
  ```

* Using a suppression comment like this on the line above:

  ```kt
  //noinspection FragmentLiveDataObserve
  problematicStatement()
  ```

* Using a special `lint.xml` file in the source tree which turns off
  the check in that folder and any sub folder. A simple file might look
  like this:
  ```xml
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <lint>
      <issue id="FragmentLiveDataObserve" severity="ignore" />
  </lint>
  ```
  Instead of `ignore` you can also change the severity here, for
  example from `error` to `warning`. You can find additional
  documentation on how to filter issues by path, regular expression and
  so on
  [here](https://googlesamples.github.io/android-custom-lint-rules/usage/lintxml.md.html).

* In Gradle projects, using the DSL syntax to configure lint. For
  example, you can use something like
  ```gradle
  lintOptions {
      disable 'FragmentLiveDataObserve'
  }
  ```
  In Android projects this should be nested inside an `android { }`
  block.

* For manual invocations of `lint`, using the `--ignore` flag:
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  ```

* Last, but not least, using baselines, as discussed
  [here](https://googlesamples.github.io/android-custom-lint-rules/usage/baselines.md.html).

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Water Rationing for RMR in 1914
By RMR Foundation | November 21st, 2014 | This Day in RMR History | No Comments
The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: "Drill. Light rain." [1]
Washing up mess tins
"Scanty water supply of the main camps was piped up to open reservoirs from pumping stations at wells or streamlets; as a rule there were but two taps in the lines of each battalion for all purposes. For each unit a marquee was provided for bathing and some used bell tents also, but the ration of fuel – 2 pounds wood and 1 pound coal per man until 21st November, with an added pound of wood thereafter – and the lack of boilers allowed little hot water.
The equipment per battalion for the first two months was only six tubs, one forty gallon cistern, and a stove. The Southern Command fitted up the Old Corn Store in Salisbury – ten to fifteen miles from the camps – so that a man might have a hot bath for four pence, if he could find his way there between 5 and 8 p.m. on week days or on Sunday afternoon. Village washerwomen plied a lively trade, and enterprising laundry firms in Salisbury and even London made arrangements for collecting washing weekly by motor truck.
Washing and bathing in rivers, streams or mist ponds and the watering of horses in the last, were strictly forbidden; reservoirs and pumping stations were out of bounds and under armed guard. Horse troughs connected to the camp water system were placed to serve a number of neighbouring units." [3]
[1]  War Diary, 14th Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Nov 21, 1914.  Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/e/e044/e001089676.jpg
[2]   http://vimyridgehistory.com/kit-1/cda-rallies/salisbury-plain/images/#gallery/2198/518/0
[3]   Col. A.F. Duguid, "Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1, Part 1, King's Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pp. 117-119.


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Дніпро́вка () — село у складі Біляєвського району Оренбурзької області, Росія.

Населення
Населення — 875 осіб (2010; 962 у 2002).

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Open the Trinus VR app on your phone. Ensure it's seeing the USB tethered connection (NOTE: you can do this via WiFi instead of a tethered connection – but for best results USB tethering is the recommended approach).
Open the Trinus VR software on your PC. And check the following settings: Image size and quality at Ultra & slide at Max (tick Auto Adjust on both though for easier set-up!), Switch capture mode to 'Moonlight', Sensor Output to 'Auto' and Fake 3D Auto. Those Setting's should take a lot of the hassle away of setting it up!!
With the setting's changed as mentioned in Point 2, press the on button on the PC copy of Trinus 3D. Your phone should then automatically launch 'Moonlight' and ask for which connection you would like (with the phone tethered to the PC, this is the only connection option I get presented with – this is the one I select!).
After confirming the connection is Point 3, TriDef opens on your PC (this may take a couple of seconds). Click the Gamepad icon on the right. This then launches a pop-up asking which game you would like to run. At this stage, your phone screen should now be mimicking your PC screen. Select War Thunder from the menu and off you go! You may need to do some fine tuning depending on your phone, connection speed, PC specs etc. You will have to do some tril and error your end on this one as they will be unique to your set-up.


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Nirvana is one of those bands that comes around once-in-a-generation, and they absolutely oozed charisma, and made grunge rock undoubtedly cool to listen to. Heck, their hits "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are", "Lithium", and "Heart Shaped Box" are all played on active rock radio and even classic rock radio stations as if those songs came out yesterday. Lana Del Rey offers an interesting take on "Heart Shaped Box", check it out below! The question is, did Lana Del Rey do Nirvana justice? Let us know in the comments below!
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