Adding to the long list of tobacco control practitioners who have publicly declared that smoking may be no more harmful than vaping - which involves no tobacco and no combustion - a South Carolina respiratory therapist is telling patients that they should not quit smoking using electronic cigarettes because these devices may be more dangerous than tobacco cigarettes, which kills more than 400,000 Americans each year.
On the Greenville Health System blog, a respiratory therapist writes: "I strongly oppose the use of e-cigarettes. It is unregulated and could potentially be more dangerous than a regular cigarette."
This respiratory therapist misleadingly reports that: "emergency rooms across the United States have been reporting visits from patients that use e-cigarettes, with a variety of complaints, including blood clots, difficulty breathing, coughing, headaches and chest pain." But he fails to also mention that emergency rooms across the nation have also been reporting visits from patients who use NRT, with a variety of complaints that include blood clots, difficulty breathing, coughing, headaches and chest pain.
Moreover, he fails to report that emergency rooms across the nation have also been reporting suicides and attempted suicides from the use of Chantix.
This irresponsible advice, supported by a fraudulent lie - that smoking may be safer than vaping - represents public health malpractice, in my opinion. In fact, as it may convince some smokers to continue smoking rather than switch to a non-tobacco product that has helped thousands quit smoking, it could actually constitute medical malpractice, as this negligent information and advice could actually lead to medical harm.
Why is it negligent? Because it deviates from a well-accepted standard of care in medical and respiratory therapy practice, which is telling the truth. By disseminating false information - that smoking may be no more hazardous than vaping - to patients, this could lead to medical harm by convincing smokers not to quit via electronic cigarettes, but based on false information.
It is certainly not medical malpractice to advise patients not to use electronic cigarettes, because these products are not yet the standard of care in medical treatment for smoking dependence. However, to tell patients not to use electronic cigarettes because they may be more dangerous than cigarettes is clearly negligent, and in my opinion it rises to the level of malpractice if it ends up causing medical harm (i.e., a smoker who is misled by this advice and decides not to quit smoking because of the advice).
But beyond the issue of medical or public health malpractice, I am most concerned about the simple principle of honesty. As medical and health professionals, our very first obligation is to be truthful with our patients and with the public. The information being provided by this respiratory therapist is untruthful. It is simply not the case that smoking may be less hazardous than vaping. There is no credible scientific debate about that issue in the year 2014.


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Q: few questions about the principals of redux I read few tutorials about redux, but I still have some questions about redux:
1) if the reducers do not mutate the state, but return a new state, how does the new information is being kept?
2) what is the most recommended place to hold API requests back to the server when I change the data? the reducers? the store? or maybe other place?
Thanks a lot!

A: In your reducers you always copy the current state and only update the cloned one. Usually you will see a spread operator:
return { ...state, foo: 'new foo' }

If we make it step by step:
const newState = { ...state } // copy the current state
newState.foo = 'new foo'
return newState

you can also use Object.assign() to copy the state:
const newState = Object.assign({}, state)

All other information will be kept because the new state is always copied from the previous state.
API requests are usually handled in action creators. Since they are asynchronous you will need middleware to handle them, like redux-thunk.
Reducers should be pure and synchronous, you should never send API requests in a reducer. If you are using React another place to call the API is your component. It's totally fine to do that especially you are working on a small app. But most of the time you want to separate the UI and the logic, that's why we use action creators.
For asynchronous action creators you can take a look at this chapter: http://redux.js.org/docs/advanced/AsyncActions.html

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Announcements, October 2, 2014
Posted on October 2, 2014 by afscmeretirees161
From: Charles Hogan President
AFSCME Retirees, Sub-chapter 161
This blogsite (Election 2014) contains material given to me at the PEOPLE Political conference held in Peoria as well as additional information handed to Sub-Chapter Presidents at our quarterly meeting in Springfield.
With last year's legislative assault on our pensions and benefits, we have one option. The resolution adopted by the conference is provided below. On the convention floor in Peoria, I watch one Local President after another rise to endorse Pat Quinn. None of them were Quinn's friends. Their message was that they would vote for Quinn on the 4th in order to defeat Rauner. On the 5th of November, we go back to fighting Quinn's and Madigan's policies.
Please take the time to read the posted material, which we expect to update regularly. It can be a sanity shield. During the next five weeks, you will be targeted with a lot of political messages. Their effect will confuse and discourage undecided voters. The hope is that they will stay home and not vote.
But this isn't a usual off year election. The budget problems in Springfield, combined with the effects of lawsuits of Harris v Quinn, & Citizen's United have emboldened our enemies. They want to defeat AFSCME. Money is no object. If they can cripple public employee unions as they did in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan, we could lose our pensions and benefits.
We have a two part plan:
• A person to person effort to get votes for Pat Quinn.
• Then calls to our legislators explaining what our pensions mean to us. They need to hear from constituents like us now and after the election. We want to make them understand that we won't disappear after November 4th. We aren't going to pack up and wait for the 2016 election.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE DELEGATES TO THE AFSCME PEOPLE CONFERENCE—SEPTEMBER 13, 2014 WHEREAS: Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner has launched an unrelenting, dishonest and mean-spirited attack on public employees and their unions; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner has made clear his deep-seated hostility to workers' rights, whether in the public or private sector, calling for the establishment of "Right-to-Work" zones in Illinois, which would drastically undermine the economic security of working people; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner is trampling on a long tradition — going back to Abraham Lincoln — of Illinois Republicans who respected working people and honest labor, including support for the right to collective bargaining; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner has repeatedly attacked the very existence of unions that represent teachers, sanitation workers, correctional officers, caregivers, firefighters, and other public employees, stating that in his view, "by their nature…they're immoral"; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner is a hedge fund billionaire who made a good part of his vast wealth from public pension funds, but now argues that public pensions should be completely abolished; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner has a documented record as a cutthroat venture capitalist who operated private care facilities that were found to have caused unnecessary suffering and death to hundreds of their elderly and disabled residents; who bought up companies and shipped their jobs overseas; and who sought to cheat his workers out of the wages and benefits they had earned; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner's campaign is based on a web of lies and half-truths which mask an agenda that would slash funding for education, shift the tax burden from the wealthy to middle income families, and cut the wages of hundreds of thousands of working people; and WHEREAS:
Bruce Rauner owns nine homes and belongs to a wine club that costs $140,000 annually just to join, yet rails against the modest pay and benefits of public employees; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner says he will cut the pay and benefits of public employees, vowing to force them out on strike to impose his will; and WHEREAS: Bruce Rauner represents a profound threat to the decent standard of living and basic workplace rights that AFSCME members have fought so hard to attain; and WHEREAS: AFSCME Council 31 has pledged to do everything possible to defeat Bruce Rauner; and WHEREAS: Critical to defeating Bruce Rauner is ensuring that as many citizens as possible cast their votes for Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Pat Quinn; and WHEREAS: The serious differences that AFSCME has had with Governor Quinn over the past four years cannot stand as a barrier to taking the necessary actions to defeat Bruce Rauner. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That AFSCME Council 31 recommends support for Pat Quinn for governor of the

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Although Drake deleted his initial tweets complaining about not being on the cover, as well as being misquoted while discussing Kanye West's latest album, Yeezus, the rapper kept the final tweet in that sequence intact. "I'm done doing interviews for magazines. I just want to give my music to the people. That's the only way my message gets across accurately," he wrote.
In other news, February 13 marked the five-year anniversary of the release of Drake's debut mixtape, So Far Gone, which launched his rap career.


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Britt Reid is the son of LA's most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene — until his father mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato, they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves — protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets.


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Born Name Brandy Lee Ledford
Birth Place Denver, Colorado, United States
Net Worth $500 Thousand
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Husband Damian Sanders (divorced)
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American actress, Brandy Ledford is popular for playing in the 1993 action movie The Demolition Man. Recognized for her good looks and charming personality, she is still one of the beautiful actresses in Hollywood despite her advancing age.
Many of you might not be aware of the fact that this gorgeous personality Brandy was once a married lady and even has a child with her former husband. So, who was she married? Who was her husband? How many children did they have? What about her other relationships and affairs? Let's explore all the queries related to her:
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Famous actress Brandy Ledford born as Brandy Lee Ledford was born on February 4, 1969, in Denver, Colorado, United States. She is currently at the age of 50. There is no information regarding her parents and family life. Also, she hasn't revealed anything about her siblings. Further, her education qualification, University, and graduation year are also hidden to the public.
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Moving towards her career actress Brandy played the role of Desiree on Modern Family, starred as Dawn Masterton on Baywatch Hawaii, and Doyle in the science fiction TV series Andromeda.
In addition to this, Ledford also starred in the SciFi Channel series The Invisible Man and the critically acclaimed Whistler, for which she was nominated for two Best Actress awards, at the Leo Awards and Gemini Awards.
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Beautiful model and actress, Brandy Ledford is one of the well-paid personality in the entertainment industry with a fascinating net worth. Her hardworking nature and positive attitudes towards her work are the major reason for her huge success.
Also, it seems that her fate and fortune is also in favor of her since she achieves all her aims at a very young age. According to a source, her net worth is estimated to be $500 Thousand, which is really a good amount. Her annual salary is still under the review but it seems that Brandy makes a good amount of money since she leads a very luxurious life.
Brandy Ledford's Personal Life. Relationship, Dating, And Affairs.
Heading towards Brandy's personal life, She was married to snowboarder Damian Sanders in the early 1990s. But due to several undisclosed reasons, the marriage did not last long and the pair separated and divorced after a short time. Additionally, they had no children together. Her ex-husband Damian Sanders is a professional snowboarder.
Brandy was also married to Martin Cummins who is the Canadian actor famous for his works in Riverdale, Dark Angel, and Poltergeist: The Legacy. They exchanged vows in the presence of their respective family members and close ones in 1998.
Brandy with her husband Martin Cummins share a son, though, his name is not yet revealed to the public. Although this time also her relationship did not last long and unfortunately, they divorced in 2004.
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Discussion in 'Web & Email' started by meldeanevan, Jan 27, 2006.
How do I view the history of my internet use even if the history button shows nothing. I heard there is another way in which you can view the ALL the history of the internet use since you have had your computer.
I have never used it so cannot vouch for it.
You can go to tools, internet options, temporary internet files, settings, then view files and this will show all the sites visited, including times, dates, etc. This will only show what's been view since temp internet files were cleaned out last.
This is great, I bet this is exactly what meldeanevan was looking for. I am going to use this myself...I think it may come in handy...thanks for the post 1069.
Winspy..Link given by 1069..10 out of 10..
Javacool's MRUBlaster and CCleaner claim to delete/empty User Assist Files. I use both and User Assist Spy is unable to load these keys, suggesting that they are deleted or empty.
PS. I have used @Winspy and Super Winspy for some time now and routinely delete index.dat files with Window Washer (although CCleaner claims to do it as well).


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Is Our Food Packaging Dangerous?
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Read any tips on how to eat healthfully and wholesomely, and one thing you're never going to see is a recommendation to eat more packaged foods. There's a reason for that. They are, on the whole, not very good for you. They're processed, full of preservatives and harmful fats, contain massive sodium bombs, and have enough sugar to power a class of 4th graders on a sprint around the world.
But there's another dangerous issue with our packaged foods: The actual packaging.
The Zurich-based non-profit Food Packaging Forum has spent the past two years examining how the packaging we use to hold food affects what's inside. They've looked at how bisphenol S, the substitute for BPA, reacts to food. They've studied how chemicals migrate from paper and boards into dry foods. They've researched how dyes in packaging leak onto the food.
Their latest study, however, looks at something else. It focuses on the vast gulf between dangerous chemicals and the laws designed to protect us. And it's not very comforting.
The group cross-referenced the chemicals considered dangerous by the E.U. and those deemed safe enough to be legally used by American regulatory boards. The result? A whopping 154 dangerous materials are legally used in the U.S. Things like phthalates (which are used to make plastic flexible and durable and, oh yeah, have also been linked to male infertility) and benzophenones (constantly used in packaging inks, despite being harmful enough that Skin & Allergy News gave it the 2014 Contact Allergen of the Year "award").
While the results of the study may be alarming, the intended effect isn't to get everyone to clear their fridges and burn their pantry. Instead, it's to show how the regulation boards have been neglecting to police food packaging with the same tenacity they attack other areas. Says Doctor Jane Muncke, the managing director of the Food Packaging Forum:
Chemicals with highly toxic properties may legally be used in the production of food contact materials, but not in other consumer products such as computers, textiles and paints.
There's clearly something wrong when non-edible products are put under more scrutiny than actual food. But until the regulation boards start putting together adequate legislation to deal with this blind spot, consumers must protect their own health. So, what are some possible solutions?
In Germany, one grocery store has taken the dramatic leap of getting rid of their packaging completely. Instead of single-use bags or prepackaged items, their entire inventory is in bins and vats that consumers can portion off with their own packaging. While this method is more due to the grocer's concern about the environment -- along with, no doubt, a concern about his store's bottom line, which is certainly assisted by not having to buy bags -- it may still be a vision of the future of grocery stores if the hyper-local movement continues.
But until that happens, there are a few things consumers can do to lower the impact poison packaging can have on their health.
For one, avoid cans and plastic. If you can't, make sure not to store them in direct heat. Secondly, take meals packaged in plastic or cardboard out of their containers before heating them up in the microwave. And if you're storing foodstuffs like grain, flour, or sugar, put them in glass or ceramic jars instead of letting them sit and soak up the bad materials of the plastic containers.
But the best thing you can do for yourself, as always, is just avoid packaged foods entirely.
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Meet the Northwest actor living his 'Star Wars' dream
Rory Ross, who lived in Auburn and Walla Walla, plays a minor role in "The Book of Boba Fett." #k5evening
Author: Kim Holcomb
Published: 6:30 PM PST January 26, 2022
Updated: 12:58 PM PST February 16, 2022
SEATTLE — Imagine being a massive "Star Wars" fan as a kid, then growing up to actually play a role in the galaxy.
That's exactly what happened to an actor from the South Sound, who appears in the new series "The Book of Boba Fett" on Disney+.
Rory Ross' dream took shape at age six when he was hospitalized with a rare fungus contracted on his family's Iowa farm. Doctors wore hazmat gear to examine him, and he was incredibly scared.
"My mom went to the media library and she brought "Star Wars: A New Hope," and that was my first time ever seeing anything Star Wars related," he said. "It gave me the hope that I too was going to be okay."
He recovered, and moved to Western Washington a few years later. After graduating high school at Auburn Adventist Academy and college at Walla Walla University, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
That decision ultimately brought him full-circle when he landed a small part on the set of a Star Wars production.
Ross plays a Tusken raider in "The Book of Boba Fett," a masked role that presented some challenges while filming.
"Spoiler alert: you can't see through that costume!" he said, laughing. "Your peripheral vision is completely shut off. You're walking but it's quite literally tunnel vision. You're really hoping you're walking in a straight line and not into a tent."
His role is limited and uncredited, but for Ross, it's a dream realized.
"To be in "Book of Boba Fett," to be in "Star Wars" already in a small but vital part of the story, it's amazing," he said.
The adventure will continue in another project — Ross reports he's playing a storm trooper in the upcoming "Obi-Wan Kenobi" series.
His ultimate goal? Playing a Jedi – unmasked – studying under Luke Skywalker.
But for now, Ross is embracing his experiences and hoping they serve as inspiration for others.
"Nothing is impossible," he said. "As cliché as it might be, it's really true."
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Hi Nicole! The Harmony Barber Shop, just off of Main Street in the Magic Kingdom park, is a wonderful spot for a first haircut. The shop is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, but doesn't take reservations. Haircuts are first come, first serve, so you may want to go early as the line can get long.
My daughter had her first haircut at the Harmony Barber Shop,and it was a magical experience! The kind barber entertained her with lots of stickers, gave her a cute hairstyle, and even sprinkled a little pixie dust on her! She received a set of Mickey ears with "First Haircut" embroidered on the back, and a bit of her hair was packaged up for us along with some pixie dust.
First haircuts at the Harmony Barber Shop cost approximately $18, which includes the commemorative Mickey ears.
Hope you have a great time in July!


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Early Access: Super Star Shooter 16
A retro inspired tunnel shooter made with Unity, Super Star Shooter 16 is a surprisingly fun game, even in its current unfinished form. Flying into the screen, shooting enemies and […]
A retro inspired tunnel shooter made with Unity, Super Star Shooter 16 is a surprisingly fun game, even in its current unfinished form.
Flying into the screen, shooting enemies and dodging obstacles while collecting power ups (some of which will allow you to do more than just dodge obstacles – get hold of missiles and you can say goodbye to those pesky barriers) is well done and only occasionally let down by its 3D perspective, which can make the placement of enemies and projectiles difficult to judge.
It's filled with brilliantly trippy, psychedelic effects on each wall of the tunnel you fly through – giving it the feel of a retro-futuristic flight through the cyberspace we imagined in the 80s. It's got a phenomenally good synth-based soundtrack too, which adds a great deal of appeal; not unlike the pumping electronica in games such as Tempest 2000, it's worth playing to experience the soundtrack alone – though the straightforward shooting, thrusting and dodging action is compelling in its own right too.
Though still in Early Access – and, technically, unfinished – it does feel like reasonably complete experience as is. However, many more features are planned, such as boss battles, balancing and better quality effects.
I've been impressed with what I've seen of the game so far – it's fast, smooth and responsive – and I'm looking forward to see it develop even more as it nears full release.
You can purchase Super Star Shooter 16 on Steam here.
Disclaimer: I was provided with a code for the game for preview/review purposes.
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Vol. 4 No. 20 · 4 November 1982
The Old Corrector
Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier by Dewey Ganzel
Oxford, 454 pp, £15.00, October 1982, ISBN 0 19 212231 2
Once convicted, the greatest forgers of English literary documents have stayed convicted. In two famous cases, those of the 17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, who fabricated poems he attributed to a mythical 15th-century Bristol monk, and the equally immature William Henry Ireland, who forged manuscripts by Shakespeare before which Boswell knelt in adoration, apologists have found a degree of extenuation in claiming that theirs were the follies of ambitious but misguided youth. Still, their guilt remains unquestioned, as does that of the monarch of them all, the diabolically clever Thomas J. Wise. When the Wise scandal erupted in 1934, only two or three quavering voices were raised in his defence and then were heard no more. John Payne Collier also had a few defenders at the outset of his ordeal, but after his presumed exposure was complete, no one publicly doubted his guilt, or that his purposes in committing his sensational hoax were an unforgivable breach of scholarly integrity.
Now, just short of a century after Collier's death, an energetic American scholar has risen to clear his name. Fortune and Men's Eyes is the studiously even-handed biography of an ambiguous and not especially likeable man who, Ganzel thinks, was convicted of a crime he did not commit. It is also, in part, an absorbing exercise in what might be called 'forensic bibliography', ranking with John Carter and Graham Pollard's classic exposé of the Wise forgeries, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain 19th-Century Pamphlets. The story of Collier and his suspect 'Perkins Folio', the cause célèbre of Victorian literary criminology, is a tangled one, but Ganzel tells it with admirable lucidity.
Even if Collier had not ushered the much-vexed Perkins Folio into the world of Shakespeare scholarship in 1852, he would have found a place in the record books for the sheer length of his literary career, almost eighty years, from the day he became a Parliamentary reporter for the Times at the age of 15, until he died at the age of 94, still busily engaged in editing old literary texts. His output of original and edited material was prodigious: the first history of the English drama, a five-volume edition of Spenser, editions of old plays, ballads, the miscellaneous literary and historical lumber of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Whatever his faults, he deserves to be remembered as one of the indispensable forerunners of modern literary scholarship.
In some respects, Collier was a born loser, as he was all too well aware. After thirty years of service on the Morning Chronicle as drama critic and leader-writer, he found himself demoted and earning the same pay as the rawest newcomer in the office. His association with a newspaper, in an age when working journalists still sat below the salt, was a count against him in intellectual circles. He played the game of preferment to the hilt, but apart from becoming librarian to the Duke of Devonshire, an unlucrative post, he always ended up empty-handed. He had strong hopes of becoming licenser of plays when the Duke was Lord Chamberlain and thus had the power to make the appointment, but the opportunity vanished when Devonshire resigned at the change of administration in 1834. Until well past mid-life (sixty years in his case) he was in financial straits. 'Instead of floating down the stream of good luck,' he wrote in 1850 to his faithful friend, the diarist Crabb Robinson, 'I am left high and dry on the sand-bank of disappointment.'
He complained of injustice, but his misfortunes were partly of his own making. He was temperamentally constituted to attract trouble: his frustrated expectations merely intensified his innate pugnacity, brusqueness, superciliousness, aggressive insecurity. In his relations with fellow scholars he was cavalier and self-serving, chary of giving other workers their due except by way of blame. When, 70-years-old and in ill health, he was faced with the gravest crisis in his career, he was exceedingly vulnerable to attack, the more so because his considerable powers as a controversialist seemed to desert him whenever he found himself on the defensive. His numerous enemies had their knives ready for him: but he had helped unsheathe them.
In the perilous atmosphere of Shakespeare studies in the Early Victorian era, anybody who ventured to publish a new edition of the plays, as Collier did in 1842-44, took his chances. Ostensibly acting as public benefactors by producing texts that were professedly 'better' than any that had preceded, as well as uncovering more and more of the historical and biographical circumstances in which the plays were written, Shakespeare scholars fought in a bear garden of their own design. Not that one hears the 'splat-splat' of the mudpies (to use the politest figure) that Swinburne and F.J. Furnivall were to shy at each other in an embarrassing exchange of Billingsgate in 1880, over the poet's A Study of Shakespeare: the scholars of Collier's time phrased their acrimony with pens dipped in acid, a practice that was much more genteel, as befitted the gentlemen they weren't, and much more insidious.
Too many of Collier's colleagues – and therefore, as things turned out, his adversaries – shared his worst traits. Their unquestioned devotion to literary-historical research and editing, and above all to Shakespeare, was fatally tainted by truculence, suspicion, egotism and sheer enmity. They were not professional scholars in the modern sense, because that breed of academic specialist did not then exist. None of the impressive but sometimes uncritical and erroneous literary and bibliographical erudition they carried could have been obtained in any kind of formal education. They were self-taught, acquiring their knowledge at great expense of mind and spirit in the time they took from earning livelihoods, sometimes precarious ones, as librarians, sinecurist clergymen or lawyers. For that reason, they had invested an excessive amount of emotional capital in what was essentially an avocation. And because none of them was wealthy, they also regarded the editions they produced as another kind of capital from which, with luck and shrewd management, they might extract a fair amount of profit. Under these conditions, their protestations of disinterestedness and good will as they pursued their rivalries were disingenuous. They were amateurs, to be sure, but neurotically-driven amateurs with little love for one another, and scarcely more lovable to us than their contemporary, the unspeakable Sir Thomas Phillipps, the monomaniac who ruthlessly amassed and guarded what was reputed to be the hugest collection of manuscripts ever owned by a private person, so big that the dispersal of it had to be spread over two or three generations. Their virtue lay in their being self-willed martyrs to the sacred cause of learning. Their defect lay in their addiction to vituperation and jealousy, which was meat and drink to them, and in their readiness to convert differences of opinion into personal vendettas.
Collier's role as editor of Shakespeare, to say nothing of his temperament, qualified him to join this troubled coterie. Despite an assault by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, a rival editor who was to join in the later, louder hue and cry, the edition established his reputation. He anticipated the modern editor in his concentration on the progress of the earliest editions of the plays through the fallible press as providing the key to the authoritative text, the closest to the one which came from the author's pen: a procedure at odds with that of 18th-century editors, who devoted themselves to 'conjecturing' what Shakespeare wrote, or meant to write, in those thousands upon thousands of cases where the printed words seemed not to make sense. By 1850, however, Collier had seemingly changed his mind, in deference, Ganzel suggests, to 'signs that the public's interest in a rigorous text had waned' and that 'any successful new edition of Shakespeare would have to accommodate that change.' In the new edition he proposed, his second, the text would be based on the customary conjectural system rather than on a word-by-word comparison of the quartos in which many of the plays first appeared with the subsequent folios in which they were collected.
Providentially, as it appeared at the time, a volume fell into Collier's hands which richly met his needs: a copy of the second folio (1632), once owned by an unidentifiable man named Perkins and annotated throughout with some twenty thousand textual emendations in what seemed to be a 17th-century hand. Purchased for 30 shillings from a Newport Street bookseller named Rodd, it was the literary find of the century. The only discovery that could have stirred more excitement would have been a copy of the first folio corrected with equal lavishness in Shakespeare's own hand – a remote possibility, given the fact that the first folio was published seven years after Shakespeare's death. One could assume, as Collier did when he announced this treasure-trove in 1852, that the emendations had been made, if not by an actor on the contemporary stage, then by someone else who either had access to the texts used in contemporary performances or was a most devoted and retentive playgoer.
The discovery came at a moment when several new editions of Shakespeare were in preparation. If the 'Old Corrector's' emendations were authoritative, Collier's proposed new edition, incorporating them, would turn the others into waste paper before they were printed. At once Collier's rivals, with a mixture of dismay at their own prospective losses and of sheer envy of his incredible luck, raised the inevitable questions. Who was Perkins? Who had owned the folio before Rodd (now dead, hence unable to testify) bought it? Who was the Old Corrector? How authoritative – how genuinely 'Shakespearean' – were his emendations? Or were they genuine at all? It is typical of the distrustfulness prevalent among Shakespeare students, and of their personal regard for Collier, that from the first it was intimated – fear of libel preventing outright accusation – that he had written the swarming corrections himself.
One of his accusers at this stage was a man named Andrew Brae, an outrider who had no connection with the rest. The cause of his animus was as obscure as the motiveless malignity with which, at this very time, Mr F.'s aunt was pursuing the unoffending Arthur Clennam through the pages of Little Dorrit. Brae inundated Notes and Queries with a series of articles attacking the Perkins emendations on philological grounds, his reckless fury increasing as Collier's other adversaries, resenting his intrusion on their turf, ignored him. When he continued his assault in a pamphlet called Literary Cookery, Collier sued him for libel and won a pale sort of judicial victory. But Brae's malice was contagious and helped keep the anti-Collier crusade aflame.
Shortly after he acquired the folio, Collier exhibited it briefly at meetings of learned societies, and in the ensuing years printed most, but not all, of the emendations. But he withstood the rising demand that he submit it to other experts for a thorough examination. In May 1859, however, the new Duke of Devonshire, to whose late father Collier had given it, acceded to the request of Sir Frederic Madden, the Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum, that it be lent to him for inspection. The controversial volume thus was brought into an atmosphere which was itself heavy with dispute, for the Museum was seething, as it had been for many years, with intra-mural intrigue and jealousy. As far as Collier himself was concerned, the institution and its rancorous staff represented a living monument to yet another defeated expectation he had suffered some ten years earlier. During a Royal Commission's investigation of the British Museum's management, he had given testimony on the kind of catalogue the library should possess: a printed one (the existing one was chaos in manuscript form) whose entries would be of the maximum immediate assistance to readers wishing to identify and locate a certain book. He thus spoke in opposition to Antonio Panizzi, the Keeper of Printed Books, an Italian political exile of boundless energy and conviction, who is usually credited with transforming the British Museum library from a relic of the dark ages of librarianship into a flourishing, efficient institution worthy of the Victorian period. (Ganzel paints him in somewhat darker colours.) Panizzi argued for a manuscript – not printed – catalogue whose entries would be distinguished by cumbersome bibliographical detail. Panizzi, having expertly manipulated the commission's deliberations, won. Collier's hopes, this time of obtaining a permanent, well-paid position in the British Museum, perhaps as editor of the catalogue, were blasted once more.
Given Collier's characteristically tactless opposition to the man in power, it was only fitting that the British Museum should have served as the staging-point for the assault on his precious folio that now got under way. Madden, the borrower of the book, was a paranoid like Collier and Brae, but whereas their visitations were relatively mild and intermittent, his was pathological and permanent, as his diaries attest. Although Panizzi's senior in service, he had seen Panizzi, through a legal nicety, snatch the head librarianship he coveted, and for thirty years he remained his superior's deadly enemy. He hated Collier because in 1854 Collier had been less than helpful when Madden got into trouble by buying for the British Museum 160 old manuscripts which proved to have been stolen from the library of Collier's second bibliophile patron, the Earl of Ellesmere. In the campaign that was now mounted against the Perkins Folio and its all too fortunate discoverer, Madden remained in the background, preferring to use as cat's paw a non-member of the British Museum staff, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, who had relatively little interest in Shakespeare and who, like Brae, had never even met Collier. But it was a third party, Madden's assistant in the Department of Manuscripts, the liberally christened Nicholas E.S.A. Hamilton, who exploded the initial bombshell in a letter to the Times five weeks after the folio had arrived in Madden's office. Hamilton announced to the world that on many pages of the book were faint pencil marks, some in the margins, some, most damningly, under the inked emendations. The easy inference was that Collier – not some Old Corrector – had written these as guides for the subsequent inking-in of the 'corrections' and had failed to erase them. Hamilton also maintained, as a handwriting expert, that the Old Corrector's writing was not of the 17th century, nor indeed, of any particular time, though it came closest to being modern.
Shortly after this letter appeared, Ingleby published (and dedicated to Brae) a book called The Shakespeare Fabrications, in which he repeated and expanded upon Hamilton's charges. Some months later, in January 1860, Hamilton published a pamphlet in which he enlarged on the bill of particulars to include an old charge, formerly made only obliquely, that before Collier's purchase of the Perkins Folio he had engaged in a series of wholesale forgeries, including manuscripts in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere and insertions in important manuscripts relating to the Elizabethan stage at Dulwich College. This of course was a separate issue, but it was useful in establishing a presumptive pattern of criminal behaviour. (More than a century later, as recently as 1971, a member of the staff of the Folger Shakespeare Library brought a fresh charge against Collier: the fabrication of 83 ballads in a manuscript commonplace book he owned. Ganzel vigorously disputes the charge.)
To bolster their case, Madden and Ingleby sought to prove that the fateful emendations had not been in the Perkins Folio when it left Rodd's hands. An unexpected witness for the defence, no less a personage than the Principal of New College, Oxford, asserted in a letter to Madden that he had happened to see the book at Rodd's shop and that the emendations had been there then. Madden and Ingleby, never to be discouraged, sought to discredit his testimony. They proceeded, most ill-advisedly as it proved, to advertise for the former owner, hoping he would testify that the emendations were not in the book when he sold it. The owner answered the advertisement at once, only to declare that the emendations had in fact been there when he bought it. These twin bits of crucial information were suppressed.
Ingleby's summing-up in his A Complete View of the Shakespeare Controversy (1861) belied its title. A massive compilation of most of the printed documents the controversy had generated, it was far from complete, in that it ignored or distorted the considerable amount of evidence, and inferences from that evidence, which militated against Collier's guilt. But it was received as what it purported to be, the last word in the by now wearisome dispute, and has remained so to this day. Not a single voice was raised in the old man's defence. Swinburne, to be sure, praised Collier's services to scholarship without committing himself to a 'blind confidence in the authority or value' of the Perkins Folio. Such qualified praise from one of Furnivall's adversaries was enough to sustain that peppery, cocksure scholar's exertions as an anti-Collierite long after Collier's original enemies had left the battleground.
Ganzel has counterbalanced Ingleby's indictment by a fresh examination of all the evidence, circumstantial and textual, that was ever alleged against Collier. He has scrutinised the emendations in the Perkins Folio, now at the Huntington Library in California, with a scepticism somewhat different from that of Collier's accusers, for, has he says in his first pages, he approached the tendentious case with an open mind. The conclusion of his meticulously prepared and skilfully argued review is that Collier was not guilty as charged. Granted that he was no lamb among the wolves, was he the victim of an outright conspiracy? Although Ganzel uses the word, there was never a conspiracy in the sense that a whole cabal, a veritable mutton-chop mafia, merging their individual grievances into a common hatred of Collier, sat down one day in a room in the British Museum and vowed to 'get' him. At least, Ganzel has found no evidence of such a plot, although he has ransacked Collier's and Madden's private papers. But, he insists, Collier was framed. It was poetic justice of a sort, if Justice is equipped with a sense of irony along with her blindfold: the alleged manufacturer of evidence was convicted by evidence which was itself manufactured by someone else – none other than Sir Frederic Madden himself, who, Ganzel argues, forged the fateful pencil marks. With this accusation Ganzel has dramatically reopened the case of the Perkins Folio. He may also (and I think this is likely) have nailed it down for good.
Vol. 4 No. 20 · 4 November 1982 » Richard Altick » The Old Corrector


If you should choose to read further in this essay you may discover that ideas most of us Christians accept as scriptural are not scriptural at all. I admit, I am somewhat of a nuisance in this regard; so it might be best if you do not continue reading.
I was thinking as I awakened this morning of a statement Jesus made. He said, referring to the religious leaders of the Jews, that if the blind lead the blind they both will fall into a pit. I wonder if this is true today.
I have no doubt the Jewish Scribes and Pharisees, and other important leaders, were sincere, dedicated men. How could they be so blind as to cause their Messiah to be crucified? No doubt because the spirit of religion had prevented them from behaving as decent human beings.
Is it true today? Is the spirit of religion blinding the eyes of today's religious scholars, principled men and women laboring with the best of intentions, seeking to promote the cause of Christ? I guess so, because it appears the Christian preaching in America has departed from the New Testament writings.
As I said, please do not read further, unless when you hear grace-rapture-heaven preached Sunday after Sunday you wonder if this really is what the Christian salvation all about.
So I will dedicate the remainder of what I have to say to those who are not quite content with the current preaching of grace-rapture-heaven. Fasten your seatbelt. You are in for a wild ride!
A I see it, one of the profound misunderstandings of Christian thinking is the idea that Christ's purpose for us is to "go out and save souls." What "saving souls" means varies, I believe, from one Christian organization to another.
Where is this emphasis in the New Testament?
It may be true that the common denominator of various concepts of "saving souls" is that the individual will not go to Hell when he or she dies but will go to Heaven to live forever with God and the angels.
I very well could be mistaken, but I think the notion that the objective of being saved is to go to Heaven when we die was adopted in the early years of the Christian Era, as an imitation of the other religions of the world. It may be noticed that several religions present the idea that if we are faithful to the teachings of our religion we will go to some kind of paradise when we die.
Any person who wishes to can search the Scriptures and look for an emphasis on going to Heaven to live there permanently after he or she dies. It soon will be evident there is no such emphasis in the Bible.
Also, one can search the Gospels and the Epistles and count the verses that imply the goal of our salvation is to escape Hell and go to Heaven.
When you have a moment, search the Old Testament and see if there are passages that speak of our future life in Heaven.
When we come to the New Testament, there is a great deal of emphasis on the Kingdom of God. Both John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus proclaimed the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth. Neither man spoke of our going to Heaven.
The Lord Jesus spoke many parables about the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven. These are the same kingdom, by the way, although some mistakenly have believed that Matthew was speaking of one kingdom and the other three Gospel accounts were speaking of a different kingdom.
The slightest analysis of the subject will reveal that all four Gospels are speaking of the same kingdom, the Kingdom of God which comes to us from Heaven.
The Lord Jesus taught us to pray that God's Kingdom would come and His will would be done in the earth. The Lord Jesus never once pointed us toward eternal residence in the spirit Paradise, according to the best of my knowledge.
Heaven is a place. The Kingdom of God is the rule of God from within the believer. It operates on the earth as well as in Heaven.
There is nothing in the writings of the Apostles that indicates the goal of salvation is that we might go to Heaven, and not Hell, when we die. The writings of the Apostles emphasize the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and especially righteous behavior, saying that if we do not live righteously we will not inherit the Kingdom of God; not that we will not go to Heaven when we die.
Why didn't the Apostle say that if we lived according to our sinful nature we would go to Hell and not to Heaven when we die?
Christ and His saints are going to govern the nations on the earth.
Now, with the above verses in mind, go through the Bible and find passages that point toward our eternal residence in Heaven.
You will not find any. The emphasis of the teaching of Jesus and His Apostles is the acquiring of eternal life, and the resurrection from the dead. If our destiny were Heaven, there would be no need for a resurrection. The purpose of the resurrection is that we can live once again upon the earth.
I am not unaware of the fact that I am saying the fundamental Christian viewpoint is unscriptural. But I cannot see how anyone studying the Scriptures with an unbiased mind could maintain that the Bible is about leaving the earth and going to Heaven to live forever.
Is there a Heaven? Of course there is. The reason we go to Heaven when we die is that death, the last enemy, drives us from our home, which is the earth.
But, as we read in the last two chapters of the Book of Revelation, when God has put all of Christ's enemies under Christ's feet, then the Tabernacle of God, which is the Christian Church, the Wife of the Lamb, will descend from Heaven and be established forever upon the new earth.
How could it be otherwise? God created us on the earth, and this is our home. If God wanted us to live forever in Heaven He would have created us there.
Inasmuch as it is clear that the Bible is about a Kingdom that is coming to the earth. and the plan of redemption brings us into the Kingdom of God (we are born again so we can see and enter the Kingdom, not Heaven!), it is unconscionable for us to continue to preach and teach that our goal is to die and go to Heaven.
But "everyone" thinks otherwise, it might be maintained. How often has it been true that "everyone" has been wrong? "Everyone" used to believe the earth was flat, and if we sailed long enough we would fall off the end.
So in the present case, "everyone" is in error. The only Word we can count on is the Bible. The Bible tells us that God, in response to the rebellion of the angels, is creating a Kingdom, of which the Lord Jesus Christ is the King.
That Kingdom is coming to the earth. Then God's will shall be done in the earth as it is today in Heaven. When it does, you and I do not want to be forced to remain in Heaven among the angels.
If what I have maintained thus far is biblical, then precisely what is the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom from Heaven?
The Kingdom of God is, first of all, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the King of the Kingdom and is Himself the Kingdom.
When Christ is formed in us, then we are of the Kingdom.
The saints are the Kingdom proper. They are destined to govern those of the nations of the earth whom God chooses to save to citizenship on the new earth.
The people of the nations whom God saves to citizenship on the new earth will live under the rulership of the saints. Thus the citizens of the new earth are in the Kingdom of God in that they are being governed by the Kingdom of God.
The first part of this essay is about the Kingdom of God. The New Testament in particular tells us about the Kingdom that is coming to the earth. Very little in the New Testament has to do with our going to Heaven. The emphasis is on the Kingdom; and for this reason, we should be pointing toward entering the Kingdom today instead of waiting to die and go to Heaven.
We really do not know what it would be like to die and go to Heaven, in that the New Testament does not tell us or point to our going to Heaven as the objective of our salvation. Thus the first part of the essay is a background for the main topic.
The title of the present essay is, "Those whom You have given me." The second part of this essay is about the division between God's chosen people and the remainder of mankind. It is not that God's chosen people go to Heaven, and the rest of mankind go to Hell. Yet I believe this is the prevailing viewpoint. We send out missionaries to save mankind from Hell.
It is the wicked who go to Hell, not the people who never have heard the Gospel, unless they are wicked. Even those who profess Christ go to Hell if they are wicked. Christ did not come to give the wicked a ticket to Heaven. He came to bring eternal life to those whom God has given Him.
I wonder how many Christian organizations believe that Jesus said the above two verses.
Even though none of the above can be found in the Bible, many preachers enthusiastically continue with these fantasies while claiming that they subscribe to the plenary verbal inspiration of the Received Text.
The problem here is, while the world is lost and dying, so are the Christian believers. They are not being fed the Word of God. Jesus told us that if we loved Him we would feed His sheep; at least He said that to Peter. But we are not feeding the sheep. We are rehearsing errors that have been accumulating for the last several hundred years, particularly the error of Dispensationalism.
When announcing the work of Christ, in the sixty-first chapter of the Book of Isaiah, the first three verses have to do with building up the members of the Body of Christ until they become oaks of righteous behavior. I add the word "behavior." Otherwise today's teachers will claim they are built up in imputed righteousness, an assigned righteousness which exists only in God's mind, rather than in visible truthfulness, honesty, and kindness.
Can you imagine an oak of "imputed righteousness"? Yet that is the conclusion of today's scholars. Since these scholars unquestionably are honorable and sincere, we must conclude that the meaning of the Scriptures has been hidden until we are close to the coming of Christ and His saints to set up the Kingdom of God on the earth.
Let us consider that the Bible is not written to people who are not of God's elect, His Israel, His Royal Priesthood. The members of the Royal Priesthood have the Spirit of God and can understand the Scriptures. The remainder of the people of the world do not have the Holy Spirit. However, they can gain some insight into righteous behavior from what has been written, such as the Book of Proverbs.
But they certainly cannot understand, or would not accept if they could understand, that God deals with a special group of people, chosen from the beginning of time to be the brothers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Have you ever heard the above two verses preached? Maybe verse 28, but not verse 29. Why haven't you heard verse 29 preached? After all, it is just as much of the Scriptures as John 3:16 (which is preached incorrectly in that we have Jesus saving us from Hell rather than giving us eternal life).
The reason you probably have not heard Romans 8:29 is that the philosophy of Humanism has infiltrated Christian preaching and teaching. As long as the preaching emphasizes how wonderful people are, and how God loves us so much He wants to bless us all whether or not we keep the commandments of Christ, you will have an audience of Americans who want their ears tickled.
Are we going to give some thought to this, or not? Do we care that so many of today's preachers are not hearing from Jesus but only are repeating the myths that "everyone" is preaching? Are the blind leading the blind?
It is no wonder that the fear of God is leaving America. It is no wonder that we are having the financial and political problems that are occurring. The fear of God is leaving, and we are preaching a humanistic gospel.
It indeed it a fearful thing, or ought to be a fearful thing, to be a false prophet, like the palace prophets during the days of the kings of Israel. There were hundreds of palace prophets, but very few who were hearing from God.
Is there such a thing as a Royal Priesthood?
Are there actually people who belong to God in a special way, and have been called out of the world that they might be prepared to serve as a Royal Priesthood? This, of course, has nothing to do with Catholic priests but to the Christian saints.
Are God's people ever told that they are a chosen people, a Royal Priesthood? Why not? What would be the advantage of telling the Christian believers they have been selected to be a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God?
If the saints were taught that they are supposed to be saints (holy ones), that they have been chosen from the beginning of time to belong to God in a special way, to be a holy nation, maybe some of them would act like it.
I think the believers are being flattered. Right now, as I am typing (November 24, 2011), the American people who have any money are rushing about frantically preparing for "Black Friday." "Black Friday" is the day after Thanksgiving when people crowd the stores, causing traffic jams and making it difficult for the police. The sales are made in celebration of the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, if you can imagine.
This is because we are not being taught that we are holy ones of God, chosen to be members of the Body of Christ. We just are ordinary Americans, waiting to die and go to Heaven.
Meanwhile, the Lord Jesus is speaking to us that He is ready for us to enter the spiritual fulfillments of the final three Levitical observances: the Blowing of Trumpets; the Day of Atonement; and the feast of Tabernacles.
But many of us do not have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying. Perhaps there are people in the smaller countries who are hearing from the Lord. If they are, they need to send missionaries to America.
We members of God's elect are told in the New Testament that we are members of the Body of Christ; that each one of us has been given gifts whereby we can build up our fellow members of the Body until they are oaks of righteousness.
Now you tell me. Why is it that apparently most of the Christian believers in America do not understand they have been given gifts of the Spirit that they are supposed to be exercising so their brothers and sisters will attain to the full measure of the stature of Christ?
I will answer my own question. They are being taught grace-rapture-heaven-grace-rapture-heaven-grace-rapture-heaven. This is not called "feeding the sheep." This is why the Christian people are unaware the Spirit has given to every one of us a gift whereby we can build up our brothers and sisters in the Lord.
As a result, our brothers and sisters are not being built up. They are not being prepared to be resurrected and to ascend with Christ when He appears. They are in no condition to mount the white war stallions and descend with Christ as He brings justice to the nations.
Therefore America is being chastened, and shall be chastened much more severely in the days to come. The people of the world do not understand they are being chastened because of the lukewarmness of the chosen people. Perhaps one of these days the sailors will throw Jonah out of the boat and the tumult will cease.
When the Christian people suffer much persecution I think they still will be taught grace-heaven-rapture. It is reported that after the great earthquake in San Francisco several years ago, some of the ministers hastened to assure their congregations that God was not involved in the earthquake. This in spite of Jonah's declaration that such events come from God.
I do not believe most of the Christian ministers of today are self-serving liars. I think many of them have given up successful careers that they might obey the call of the Lord. But after setting forth in obedience to their call, they are not listening to Jesus as to what they should be doing at each moment. They are listening to each other. They have forgotten that God works in us not only to will but also to do His good pleasure.
The members of the Royal Priesthood are referred to in the Scripture as saints, as the elect, as the Wife of the Lamb, as the brothers of Christ, as the sons of God, as Israel, whether Jewish or Gentile by physical birth, as the Body of Christ, as the Church"; "as the family of God." They are not of the world. God has called them out of the world that they might bear witness of God's Person, His will, His ways, and His eternal purpose in Christ.
Will we ever understand that mankind is divided into God's elect, and then the remainder of the people? The Bible is written to the elect. The evangelist, although preaching the Gospel to every creature, will serve to bring forth from every group those whom God has chosen. No person can come to Christ unless the Father draws him or her.
But such a separation is not democratic. It is not humanistic. It sounds as though God is playing favorites. It is not fair. It creates an elite whom God treats in a special way. Even in the Kingdom there are some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, and some a hundredfold. All this is true.
When Christ was manifest on the Mount of Transfiguration, only three of the disciples were permitted to witness His Glory. Among the tribes of Israel there were the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites, who were more holy, closer to God, than the rest of Israel. This is true, and from our standpoint it is not fair.
Let me tell you something. God is not "fair" in our humanistic use of the term, but He is just. When Jesus spoke as He did to the Syrophoenicianwoman, telling her that healing was reserved for God's elect, He was not being "fair," by our standards.
Get used to it! God is the Potter, and whatever He wants to do with His creation is His own business. He appoints people at various levels in His Kingdom. Our role is to find out what He wants of us and to do it cheerfully, whether it is to ride in the front chariot, or to sweep up behind the horses in the royal parade.
If I am not mistaken, the one who calls into question God's fairness is Satan, who is positive it is not fair for God to throw him into the Lake of Fire when so many individuals among God's elect lie, steal, and gossip. I think Satan's accusation will gain ground among the peoples of the earth until they are shaking their fist at God and cursing Him.
If you hope to find justice in this world you are going to be disappointed. You are not going to be treated fairly. Jesus Christ was not treated fairly, was He? We Christians are to count ourselves as deserving nothing. We are to make ourselves nothing. Paul said the Apostles were the filth of the world.
If, as Christ did, we make ourselves nothing, taking on ourselves the nature of a servant, we will be exalted in due time. Adopting such an attitude of humility does not come easily to us American Christians. We tend to be arrogant, certain that God views us a special people whom He favors. Maybe we are going to find out in the future that such is not the case.
Yes, we Christians have been chosen of God. But we are not to grasp this privilege as though we are God's favorites. It becomes us Christians to be humble, and to do what good we can while we are living on the earth, even if, as was the case with Jesus Christ, we are despised for doing so.
We of God's elect are being created the Tabernacle of God, that appears in the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation. The Lord Jesus Christ is the chief Cornerstone. We are the rooms in the Father's House (which is Jesus). He went to the cross, and then to Heaven, to prepare a place for us in God, and for God in us.
Our being prepared a room in Christ requires many instances in which we are required to deny ourselves what we want, if we are to do the will of God. We are to take up our cross and follow Jesus at all times. We are placed in various imprisoning circumstances for many years at a time.
The way to eternal life has a small gate and the road is difficult.
So when we say we have been chosen from among mankind to serve God as a governing priest, we do not mean that our way will be easier than that of the people of the world. Actually, we must through much tribulation enter the Kingdom of God.
But this wilderness experience is necessary if we are to serve God as a royal priest. Our task is to reconcile people to God and God to people. A rod of iron must be created in us if we are to govern with Christ.
The thousand-year Kingdom Age, which will commence when Jesus and His saints appear and terminate at the time of the final resurrection, is one in which the nations will be broken to pieces as they seek to live in their self-will instead of obeying Christ and His chosen kings.
If we have an ear to hear the Spirit of God we know that the Day of Atonement has begun, a period that will last from the present hour until the end of the thousand-year Kingdom Age. During this period all mankind will be dealt with in the effort to make people eligible to be saved during the final resurrection.
Unfortunately, some will not agree to the rule of Jesus Christ and His saints and will be thrown into the Lake of Fire to be with Satan and eventually to become part of Satan.
The judgment of which I speak begins with those closest to God; who are serving Him fervently; who always are crying out, "Not my will but Yours be done." If such disciples will continue to press forward in Christ, as did the Apostle Paul, they will attain to the first resurrection. This means they are part of the Firstfruits, of the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation.
If you will study the fourteenth chapter you will notice that there is no lie in their mouth. It takes a lot of God's consuming Fire before the lie of the human nature is burned out of us.
Also, they did not defile themselves with women. This does not mean they do not marry. Marriage does not defile us. It means there is no relationship, circumstance, or thing in their life that comes between them and the Lord Jesus. They stand with Him on Mount Zion and have His name and His Father's name written on their foreheads.
Those who do attain to the early resurrection will be raised from the dead when Christ appears and work with Him in the task of installing the Kingdom of God on the earth.
The great wall between God's elect and the remainder of mankind is set forth clearly in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John.
The above is quite a statement, isn't it? It is clear that those who have been chosen from the beginning of the world to represent God have really been separated from the rest of the world. We are not of the world any more than the Lord Jesus Christ is of the world.
In the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation we find the wall that stands between the Tabernacle of God, which is the Christian Church, the Wife of the Lamb, and the nations of people whom God has saved.
When Christians seek to tell what Heaven is like, they use a passage that actually is not speaking of the Christians but of the saved people from the nations of the earth.
The verses above are not describing our life in Heaven. Rather they are telling about the condition of the people of the nations whom God has saved to citizenship on the new earth. The reason these saved people are so blessed is that the saints are bringing the Presence of God to them.
The people of the nations have access to the trees of life that grow on each side of the river of the Spirit of God. They can eat from the trees and gain eternal life. The leaves of the tree will bring healing to them.
The trees of life are part of The Tree of Life, the Lord Jesus. They are saints who have passed through the four levels of the water of life and now are planted by the river of the Spirit of God.
The river of the Spirit of God flows from the saints.
The people of the nations who will not obey the rule of the saints will not be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and partake of the refreshing that comes from God through the saints.
We are being told, in the last two chapters of the Book of Revelation, that after the end of the Kingdom Age, and the final resurrection and judgment have taken place, God will create a new sky and a new earth.
The eternal house of God, the Tabernacle of God, will come down through the new sky and be located forever upon the gigantic new earth.
There will be no temple as such in the new Jerusalem. God Himself and the Lamb will be the Temple of it. The Throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the Christian Church, the holy city, the new Jerusalem.
Living on the earth will be people from the beginning of the world whose names have been found in the Book of Life. They will be governed and blessed by the members of the Royal Priesthood, who will bring the Presence of God to them.
Now we can make sense of the verses in Isaiah that describe the people of the earth, and then Israel. When the Prophets are describing the Messianic Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, "Israel" means all who have become part of Jesus Christ, whether Jewish or Gentile by physical birth.
"Your" and "you" in the verse above is speaking of God's Israel, that is, all those who have become part of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the light of all we have stated in this essay, it is clear that the current emphasis in Christian teaching and preaching is misdirected. Energy, time, and money are being expended in the attempt to persuade the people of the world to "accept Christ." The idea is that once they "accept Christ" they will not go to Hell but to Heaven.
How can we expect God's blessing on what we are doing when we are not following the Scripture?
Is there a difference between the church-attenders who have "accepted Christ," and a disciple? A disciple is a person who denies himself, takes up his or her cross of imprisonment, and follows the Master at all times. What percent of the church-attenders of the world have been told they are not Christians unless they deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Christ?
Still we go on trying to get the world "saved from Hell." But that is not the purpose of the gifts and ministries that have been issued to each member of the Body of Christ by the Spirit of God. The gifts have been given to us so we can minister to one another, building us up to the fullness of the stature of Christ.
Why are be to be built to the fullness of the measure of Christ? It is so we can work with Christ as He establishes the will of God on the earth. This is what we pray for in the Lord's prayer.
The church-attenders who have done nothing more than "accept Christ" are not in any condition to work with Christ in installing the Kingdom of God on the earth. Rather, their objective is to go to Heaven and praise God forever. This is a joke, in that the average church-attender would have difficulty praising God for five minutes.
In short, we do not know what we are doing. Why do we not know what we are doing? Because we are not listening to Jesus. We are trying to build the Kingdom of God by means of our own wisdom and strength. Meanwhile God's elect remain spiritual babies, being ignorant of their own gifts and ministries, for the most part.
Isaiah 60 tells us clearly that when God's time comes, the nations of the earth will come to the Divine Glory that will be resting on God's elect. As the Lord Jesus informed us, when we are one with each other in Him in the Father, the world will believe.
We of today are attempting to get the world to believe when we ought to be helping the believers to become one with each other in Christ in the Father. We are ignorant of God's plan because we do not have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
What is it going to take to persuade the Christian leaders to stop and listen to the Spirit of God?
If the Lord Jesus Christ came and stood among us, would He tell us to go out and try to save the lost and dying of the world; or would He exhort us to build up the members of the elect to the fullness of the stature of Christ?


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Johnson: X-factor Rainey could give Stampeders fits
George Johnson • Calgary Herald
Nov 12, 2015 • November 12, 2015 • 5 minute read
The elusive Chris Rainey is a threat to score a touchdown every time he touches the ball on a return. Photo by Jason Payne /Postmedia News
That edge-of-the-seat moment, as the Klingons or the Romulans are bearing down, when Capt. Kirk needs all the juice a wounded starship can generate, imploring "Mr. Sulu, Warp Factor 2" and — bling! — the USS Enterprise explodes off into the outer reaches of some distant galaxy?
That's Chris Rainey.
Johnson: X-factor Rainey could give Stampeders fits Back to video
The way a snake sheds its skin? That's Chris Rainey, too.
Accelerating past people. Slithering out of downfield tackles. Leaving pursuers clutching at dead air. As easy to pin down as a shadow in sunshine.
"I don't got no fear," says the B.C. Lions' edge-of-your-seat returner. "I don't fear hits. I'm just out there playing football. I've got a big heart.
"I'm fearless in everything, because I like to be No. 1 in everything. I like to be the best. I want to be great. You've got to block out everything if you want to be great."
All that's required for him to is a crease, a crack, a glimpse of freedom …
Quarterback Jonathan Jennings, tailback Andrew Harris, wideout Manny Arceneaux … they all pose problems for the Calgary Stampeders this semifinal Sunday.
Chris Rainey, though, he's the X Factor. The way the man can run, the number of bodies he leaves littered in his wake, he might even qualify as an X File.
Not that the Stamps need any reminding. On Sept. 18th, right here at McMahon Stadium, Rainey ran back a kickoff AND a punt for touchdowns, each covering 103 yards; piled up an astonishing 186 yards on kicks and 147 on punts.
The locals still won but the post-game talk centred around Chris Rainey.
So special teams coach Mark Kilam is braced for a touchy topic of conversation when approached after Calgary's Wednesday practice at McMahon.
"He's a great player," says Kilam. "Our guys know the challenge that's ahead of us. He's a dynamic player. We kick the ball to one of those guys every week. He's someone who's hurt us in the past.
"We've seen the clips. They remember that game. And we're going to do everything we can to try and limit him."
That he has. Look closely and the scars are still visible on the cover team.
Like a predatory animal in attack mode, Rainey claims to be able to sense anxiety.
"Oh yeah," he says, "you can definitely smell fear. You can smell that in the pre-game. If you've been playing a long time, you can tell who's scared, who's nervous, who's in panic mode. All that kind of stuff."
It was, that night of the 18th, like watching a city slicker dropped on top of the rankest bull at Stampede
"Maybe he was a little under the radar the last time we played him," says Stamps' teams mainstay Jeff Hecht. "So maybe there wasn't as much tape to go on. Now we're halfway into our second week of watching film on the guy. So as far as our preparation, our attention to detail and how seriously we're taking him as a threat, we're in a lot better position to handle what they try to do with him.
"Obviously they beat the crap out of us in that aspect of the game that night. When they do everything right and we do everything wrong, when those two situations collide, you have career games.
"What makes him good is that he follows the scheme, but when the scheme breaks down he then becomes a really great improvisational player.
"There are only a handful of guys in the CFL that can change a game. He's one of them."
The Chris Rainey backstory has been told before. How he was born in jail, both his parents incarcerated. How his mother, Valerie, who's battled drug addiction throughout her life, nicknamed him Jad, a code word for jail, mad and sad, which how she felt at the time. How he grew up under the care of his grandmother, Ella Kincaid, in harsh conditions.
How he could run, all day long.
"I'd run down the street, throwing the football like a quarterback, then I'd go catch it," he recalls. "My grandma finally said, 'You know what, I'm gonna sign you up for football.' And she signed me up. I've definitely been working on my vision all my life. I want perfect vision, so I can see everything a step before it happens.
"It's just a God-given gift. And I go out and use it."
The dark side of the Rainey story is no secret, either. While playing university ball at Florida, he was arrested for sending a threatening text to a sometimes girlfriend, pled guilty to a misdemeanour stalking charge and was suspended five games. Three years later, he was charged with one count of simple battery and dating violence, again involving a girlfriend, and was waived by the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers the very same day.
What he's done in Vancouver is revitalize the return game. When the Leos chose to allow both Steph Logan and Tim Brown to depart this off-season and they fizzled in that area early in the season, a lot of questions were being asked. In amplified tones.
The signing of Rainey, cut free by the Montreal Alouettes in June, changed all of that.
"It's his vision," praises Lions' special teams captain Jason Aragki. "He just has great vision. He sets up his blocks, he knows how to do it. He's patient. And he's got the speed that can really hurt ya. You think you have leverage on him, but you don't. And he knows it. A lot of returners are fast. They're quick. But they don't have the vision to go with it.
"And, to be honest, he's fearless. He doesn't pitter-patter. He hits it."
So every iota as much as Jennings' escapability and arm, as Arceneaux's gloved flytraps, as the shimmy and shake of Harris, the Stamps will be holding their collective breath every time either Rene Parades or Rob Maver launches a ball downfield.
Hold on to your hats.
"All I can say," says Chris Rainey lightly, "is that people ain't seen nothing yet.
"I try to score every time I touch the ball. EVERY time. Like my momma always says: Run fast as you can and don't look back, 'cause when get in the end zone, no one can touch you no more."
gjohnson@calgaryherald.com
Twitter.com/GeorgejohnsonCH


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La Princesse grenouille (en russe , Tsarevna-lyagushka) est un film d'animation soviétique réalisé par Mikhaïl Tsekhanovski et sorti en 1954. C'est un dessin animé adapté du conte russe La Princesse-Grenouille.

Synopsis
La princesse Vassilissa la très belle est kidnappée par Kochtcheï l'Immortel, sorcier maléfique, qui l'emmène dans son jardin où tous les êtres vivants sont changés en or. Kochtcheï tente en vain de séduire Vassilissa, qui se rit de lui lorsqu'il lui demande de l'épouser, car il est très laid. Furieux, le sorcier invite alors la princesse à se regarder dans un miroir ensorcelé, et il la transforme ainsi en grenouille pour trois ans et trois jours, après quoi il la chasse.

Dans un royaume à quelque distance de là, un tsar a trois fils. Afin de leur trouver des épouses, il leur demande de tirer chacun une flèche dans une direction différente et d'épouser la première femme qui ramassera leur flèche. Les flèches des deux premiers fils sont ramassées par des femmes de bonne famille qui occasionnent de bons mariages. Mais la flèche d'Ivan se perd au loin, et, lorsqu'il la retrouve, seule une grenouille se trouve à proximité : c'est Vassilissa transformée, qui exige qu'Ivan la prenne pour épouse en suivant l'ordre du tsar. D'abord désespéré, Ivan se rend bientôt compte que la grenouille n'est autre qu'une princesse métamorphosée. Il reste à trouver un moyen de libérer Vassilissa de la malédiction.

Fiche technique
 Titre : La Princesse grenouille
 Titre original :
 Réalisation : Mikhaïl Tsekhanovski
 Scénario : , d'après le conte populaire La Princesse-Grenouille.
 Photographie : Aleksandr Astafiev
 Direction artistique : Aleksandr Beliakov,
 Animateurs : Fiodor Khitrouk, Roman Katchanov, , , Boris Meïerovitch, Boris Tchani, Vadim Dolguikh, Tatiana Taranovitch, Viktor Likhatchev, Konstantin Malychev
 Son :
 Assistant réalisateur ; Vera Tsekhanovskaïa
 Décors : Irina Troïanova, Vera Valerianova, Piotr Korobaïev
 Musique : Iouri Levitine
 Montage : Lydia Kiakcht
 Studio de production : Soyuzmultfilm Studio
 Pays : Union soviétique
 Langue : russe
 Format : couleur
 Durée : 40 minutes
 Date de sortie : 1954

Distribution

Voix originales
  : Vassilissa-la-très-belle
  : Ivan Tsarévitch
  : Kochtcheï
 Gueorgui Milliar : Baba Yaga
 Boris Tchirkov : Tsar
 Alekseï Gribov : Kodrat
  : vieillard

Voix françaises
 Bernard Métraux : Prince Ivan
 Monique Thierry : Vassilissa / Baba Yaga / La femme du frère cadet
 Gérard Hernandez: Kochtcheï
 Philippe Dumat : Le tsar / la maman ourse
 Danièle Hazan : La femme du frère aîné / La louve / L'oiseau / L'oisillon / Le brochet
 Raoul Delfosse : Le vieil homme
 Jean Barney : Le narrateur / Le frère aîné / Le frère cadet

Production

L'univers visuel du dessin animé s'inspire des illustrations du peintre russe Ivan Bilibine pour les livres de contes russes traditionnels.

Distinctions
En 1960, le film obtient le prix du Certificat d'argent au Festival international du film de Mar del Plata en Argentine.

Dans les années 2010, le film est régulièrement projeté dans des festivals de cinéma international.

Éditions en vidéo
En France, le film a été notamment édité en cassette vidéo VHS sous le titre La Princesse grenouille, sur la même cassette que le dessin animé Le Petit Renne courageux, par l'éditeur AT Productions dans la collection "Réglisse" en 1990. Les films y sont distribués en version française (sauf le générique du Petit Renne courageux qui est en russe). Il a été réédité par la suite, toujours en VHS, chez Citel en 2002.

Le film a été édité en DVD, regroupé avec cinq autres dessins animés de contes, chez Citel en 2003.

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Fiche de La Princesse grenouille sur le site Kinoglaz

Film soviétique sorti en 1954
Film d'animation soviétique
Film fantastique soviétique
Film romantique soviétique
Adaptation d'un conte au cinéma
Film se déroulant en Russie
Film se déroulant au Moyen Âge
Film mettant en scène un amphibien
Film d'animation Soyuzmultfilm

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Wildlands Connection: Fall 2018
Published: December 2018
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In the last issue of Wildlands Connection of 2018, you'll read about living with our wild neighbors, the ethics of wildlife tourism, our effort to reveal that 99.9% of public comments are in favor of strong federal protections for red wolves, the exciting Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act, and so much more!
E.O. Wilson's Letter of Support for the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2018
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Prominent conservation biologist Dr. E.O. Wilson lends his support to the landmark Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act as Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) prepare to introduce it in the Senate and House in December 2018. If passed, the Act will designate wildlife corridors on federal lands and provide incentives for landowners to protect corridors on non-federal lands. In his letter, Dr. Wilson urges "all members of the Senate and House of Representatives to support this bill that would help conserve the interconnectedness of habitats of thousands of our nation's native species, boosting their resilience to climate change and maintaining the health of our country's diverse natural heritage."
Draft Pacific Wildway Map
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This is a draft preview of our Pacific Wildway Map, the first phase of which will be ready to share this spring! Working with a team of scientists at the University of Washington, we are making steady progress toward mapping landscape connectivity in the Pacific Northwest to help prioritize conservation efforts to protect wildlife—now and into the future. The Pacific Wildway Map will highlight vital linkages for species traversing the landscape as it undergoes climatic changes. Using the map as a guiding tool, we will be able to identify critical gaps where connectivity could be greatly enhanced, offering crucial protections for imperiled species like wolverines.
Using Science and Advocacy to Protect Wild Red Wolves
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In his webinar from November 27, 2018, Dr. Ron Sutherland covers the plight of America's most iconic species, the critically endangered red wolf. Learn about how Wildlands Network uses science-based advocacy to protect the last remaining wild red wolves, plagued by federal mismanagement, in North Carolina.
The Politics of Wildways Webinar
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We presented the webinar on October 17, 2018 about the evolution and importance of the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act. Susan Holmes, Wildlands Network's Policy Director, discusses the growing movement for wildlife corridors around the country, how we are building bi-partisan support, and how the bill will address protections for native species and their habitat, promote wildlife corridors, and mitigate wildlife-vehicle collisions.
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Eastern Wildway Highlights September 2018
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The Eastern Wildway Highlights Newsletter collects some of the news and accomplishments from our partners around the Wildway. This edition from September 2018 includes stories about the USFWS plan to reduce the recovery area for red wolves, the growing movement to expand and protect the Florida Wildlife Corridor, and the halted construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Western Wildway Newsletter August 2018
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The Western Wildway Newsletter collects some of the news and accomplishments from our partners around the Wildway. This edition from August 2018 includes stories about the Forest Service's intention of giving the Village at Wolf Creek road access, The Wilderness Society's work to secure the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and the reintroduction of the Wildlife Corridor Conservation Act in Congress.
Across Borders: Challenges and Successes of Landscape Conservation and Mexico Webinar
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We presented the webinar on August 22, 2018 about how differences in Mexico's culture, laws, and land tenure present unique challenges and opportunities to large scale conservation efforts, and how we're making progress in the borderlands region. Juan Carlos Bravo, Wildlands Network's Director of the Mexico Program, discusses our exciting road ecology work to make Mexico's Highway 2 more permeable to wildlife, community-based carnivore-friendly ranching models in northern Mexico, our efforts to save thick-billed parrots and jaguars, and our citizen science initiative introducing urban populations to wildlife for the very first time.
Wildlands Connection: Summer 2018
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In this issue, we discuss the proposed USFWS red wolf plan, which would allow hunters to shoot any wolves who wander outside the newly reduced recovery area. You can also learn about our new Half-East Map, used for reconnecting, restoring, and rewilding the Eastern Wildway. Finally, you can watch a video documenting the last three years of red wolves and deer at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.
Pacific Wildway Highlights August 2018
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The Pacific Wildway Highlights Newsletter collects some of the news and accomplishments from our partners around the Wildway. This edition from August 2018 includes stories about Wildlands Network's Pacific Northwest mapping project, Wildlands Network's presentation at the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, and Cascade Forest Conservancy's beaver reintroduction project.
Rewilding Literature: Catalyzing Compassion for Wild Predators through Creative Nonfiction
Writing for Animals
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In this essay, originally published in an anthology titled "Writing for Animals" (Ashland Creek Press, 2018), author Paula MacKay explores how writers can use their craft to cultivate empathy for wild predators and promote compassion on their behalf. She examines how several notable authors employ literary devices to make scientific knowledge about predators more palatable and persuasive to readers.
Final Jaguar Recovery Plan July 2018
Published: July 2018
Topics: Carnivores, Jaguar, Policy
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Finalized in July 2018 but not released until April 2019, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's new Jaguar Recovery Plan reaffirms Wildlands Network's key strategies for protecting and enhancing jaguar populations in Mexico and the U.S., while also demonstrating the need for continued robust advocacy with government officials to improve and strengthen the official recovery programs. The recovery plan details the necessity for stronger habitat connectivity through the usage of wildlife crossings and identifying new key habitat areas were jaguars can successfully be reintroduced.
Elk and Road Ecology Project Webinar
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We presented the webinar on July 25, 2018 about Wildlands Network's elk and road ecology project. Ron Sutherland, Wildlands Network's Conservation Scientist, and Emily Blanchard, Wildlands Network's Wildlife Conservationist, discuss the wildlife bridge monitoring study in Durham and the elk collaring study.
2017 Public Disclosure Copy of 990
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