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EICMA 2017 Cafe Racer Collection
Let's take a closer look at them…
Kawasaki Z900RS Café
Kawasaki had already unveiled their stunning new Z900RS at the Tokyo Motor Show, but they still had a trick up their sleeve for EICMA. Along with the standard trim Z1 inspired Z900RS, Kawasaki has also unveiled the Z900RS Cafe. Boasting the same performance, handling and electronic specifications as the standard Z900RS the Cafe is, simply put, an exercise in styling and boy does it look good!
Oozing '70s old-school style the Z900RS Cafe features a retro bikini fairing that perfectly captures the era. Narrow, low slung handlebars provide steering clearance and position the rider for more spirited riding. The tail remains the same and the standard Z900RS but Kawasaki has added a new seat design that features a higher rear step to mimic classic cafe racer styling. Perhaps the most striking feature of the Z900RS Cafe, however, is its 'vintage lime green' paint scheme. The classic Kawasaki livery is topped off with bold white racing stripes and black pinstriping.
If we were to nitpick our only gripe about the Z900RS Cafe would have to be the lack of wire wheels. Although the slim spoke cast wheels Kawasaki created for this range do a good job of mimicking them, nothing screams classic like laced wheels. That small gripe aside we are very excited to see this bike hit the streets in 2018. With its 110bhp performance and modern handling, it's sure to be a hoot to ride. The Kawasaki Z900RS Cafe will be priced slightly higher than the standard Z900RS at around $14,500USD (TBC) and we're hoping for a release date in the first half of 2018. For more details of the new Z900RS, you can read our full feature on that bike here.
Honda Neo Sports Café CB1000R
Honda teased us with the Neo Sports Café CB1000R concept last month at the Tokyo Motor Show. At EICMA 2017 they went one step further and unveiled the final production version of the bike. Styling changes between the production and concept versions are limited to minor tweaks, mostly for legal requirements. According to Honda the Neo Sports Café "elegantly combines more with less", a design approach synonymous with café racers. Honda has integrated the latest in engineering and electronic gadgetry into the CB1000R to deliver "cutting edge" performance while its design draws on classic café racer styling trends.
"The 2018 CB1000R stands out from the crowd by moving away from the standard super sports-derived big naked formula to create a motorcycle that melds exhilarating function to a form that offers a radically fresh, visually stunning two-wheeled aesthetic. It's a motorcycle that looks, feels and performs very differently from what's gone before." – Honda Japan
Honda has paid special attention to reducing exterior plastic components on this bike, recognising that motorcyclists in the modern classic sector have developed an aversion to the stuff. Honda claim that on the Neo Sports Café there are only 6 visible plastic parts.
The Neo Sports Café, otherwise known as the CB1000R is powered by an engine derived from Honda's CBR1000RR. The re-tuned 998cc inline four produces 15kW more than the RR version with a power figure of 107kW and 104Nm of torque. Honda has also developed a unique 4-2-1 lightweight exhaust that enhances mid-range muscle and produces a deeper engine sound. Other features on the bike include an anti-slip clutch system, a ride by wire throttle with 3 selectable performance modes, adjustable Showa suspension and dual radial mount four piston caliper brakes.
Suzuki SV650X CAFÉ RACER
The third Japanese manufacturer to unveil a production-ready café racer styled motorcycle at EICMA was Suzuki with their SV650X. Similar to Kawasaki's Z900RS Café the SV650X has the same basic specification list as the bike it's based upon, the big differences are in its styling.
Café racer styling influences are somewhat evident on the SV650X. Suzuki has wrapped the bike's headlight in a small bikini fairing that bares slotted details and added high-mount clip-on handlebars to the fork legs. The bikes larger capacity fuel tank also has a redesigned silhouette and the rear end features a tuck and roll style seat. The SV650X also gets a unique silver and black paint scheme with contrasting red details and they've wound back the styling clock with the use of classic Suzuki livery on the fuel tank.
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Kawasaki Z900RS Cafe project bike
Suzuki also plans to release a range of aftermarket parts for the SV650X which include the dual fog lamps seen in these press photos. The lightweight SV650X is powered by a 645cc v-twin that produces 75bhp and handling can be fine-tuned thanks to its adjustable front forks.
The fourth cafe racer on the list hails from Indian manufacturer Royal Enfield and is perhaps one of the most significant developments from the company in decades. Enfield unveiled both the Interceptor and cafe racer styled Continental GT at EICMA 2017 and both bikes are powered by an all-new parallel twin engine that was developed at the companies UK based tech center. The brand new engine uses a single piece forged crank with a firing order (270 degree) designed to produce an engine note similar to that of a v-twin. The previous version of Enfield's Continental GT laid claim to being the companies most powerful engine, but thanks to the new 650cc twin the2018 GT produces around 30% more power (47bhp and 52Nm).
The café racer influenced styling has been carried over to the new GT with a Manx-esque fuel tank, single seat and clip-on handlebars. Unfortunately, the bike's frame rails extend beyond the shorter tail unit rather than modifying the subframe to tighten things up.
Of all 4 cafe racer styled bikes shown at EICMA the Enfield Continental GT is the only one sporting wire wheels. This simple difference gives the Continental GT a more distinct classic bike appearance than its Japanese contenders and earns it a big thumbs up from us. Both wheels measure in at 18 inches and stopping power comes from disc brakes equipped with ABS. The Continental GT 650 will be available in the rather oddly name colors of "Ice Queen" white, "Sea Nymph" blue and "Black Magic". Disappointingly the racy red of the previous model is no longer an option…perhaps we can expect to see this color scheme reintroduced in a special model, à la Triumph's Thruxton R?
Milan was once again buzzing with motorcycle mania as the world's top manufacturers gathered to showcase their latest developments at EICMA 2017. This year we were pleased to see a glut of retro-styled, "modern classic" motorcycles amongst the new releases. While that is great news for nostalgic types like us, what was even more exciting was the announcement by not one, but 4 manufacturers that they will be releasing café racer themed models in 2018.
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Texas archaeologists to spotlight San Antonio's origins
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Scott Huddleston, Staff writer
Kay Hindes, San Antonio's city archeologist and the organizer of the Texas Archaeological Society's 89th annual meeting, says many of the sessions will spotlight excavations and research in the Alamo City.
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This 2014 photo shows ornate lifting handles on a bronze canon recovered from the French frigate La Belle on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. The 1686 shipwreck and research of some 1.8 million artifacts recovered from excavations in 1996 and 1997 will be the topic of a free public forum from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Menger Hotel, during the 89th annual meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society.
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Archaeologists display the tip of a Mexican army sword during a 2016 news conference at Alamo Plaza. Nine sessions regarding excavations and research on the Alamo and Mission San Antonio de Valero are planned Saturday during the 89th annual meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society.
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Some 400 archaeologists and researchers are in San Antonio this weekend to share the latest findings on historical sites throughout Texas, with a focus on excavations at the Alamo and other locations tied to the city's 1700s origins.
For the first time, the Texas Archaeological Society is inviting the public to attend its afternoon symposium — "The Archaeology of San Antonio de Béjar," set for Friday, the opening day of its 89th annual meeting at the Menger Hotel.
Kay Hindes, San Antonio's city archaeologist and meeting organizer, said the gathering, normally held here about once every decade, was timed for the city's tricentennial, being celebrated throughout 2018 in observance of the founding of the first mission and presidio here in 1718.
"It's a pretty unique opportunity for the public to hear presentations by archaeologists who have done the work," Hindes said.
On ExpressNews.com: Artifacts reveal more about San Antonio's origins
The Texas Archaeological Society Meeting is holding its annual meeting in San Antonio to coincide with the city's tricentennial. It is offering two free events that will be open to the public.
"The Archaeology of San Antonio de Béjar," 3 to 4:40 p.m., Ballroom B, Menger Hotel
"The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle," 7 to 9 p.m. Ballrooms A, B and C, Menger Hotel
Registration is open to the public; $110 for nonmembers, $50 for students. Visit txarch.org for details.
The free symposium, scheduled for 3 to 4:40 p.m., includes presentations on Spanish colonial middens, or trash heaps, found near San Fernando Cathedral; artifacts unearthed in Main Plaza in 2007; recent discoveries north of the plaza with ties to the 1835 Battle of Bejar and historic Veramendi House; objects linked to the 1722 presidio in Plaza de Armas; and items found in an alley behind the Spanish Governor's Palace.
Hindes said the support of about a dozen public and private sponsors made it possible for the society to invite the public to its opening day symposium.
Another free public event, from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, will feature a presentation by archaeologist Jim Bruseth on the 1996-97 excavation of the 1686 La Belle shipwreck off the Texas coast. Bruseth will discuss his 22-year analysis of 1.8 million artifacts recovered from the wreckage of one the ships of French explorer La Salle.
On ExpressNews.com: Restoration of La Belle completed
A banquet at 7 p.m. Saturday will include comments by University of West Florida professors Greg Cook and John Worth on the "Emmanuel Point" shipwrecks of 1559 found off the Florida coast in 1992, 2007 and 2016 — "one of the most important archaeological sites ever found in North America," Hindes said.
Nine presentations on archaeology of the Alamo are set for Saturday morning, including an update on 2016 excavations in Alamo Plaza and reports by independent researcher James Ivey on the mission and battle compound's north and west walls.
On ExpressNews.com: Excavations in the Alamo area
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Ivey also will present his findings that the Mission San Antonio de Valero had been in the area now known as La Villita before a storm prompted its relocation in 1724 to today's Alamo Plaza. He believes past research suggesting the mission had previously been where St. Joseph Catholic Church now stands by The Shops at Rivercenter was erroneous.
Members of the public interested in attending other sessions can do so by registering for the annual meeting. Fees are $110 for nonmembers, or $50 for students.
The meeting also will include reports on other archaeological sites across Texas, including prehistoric and Spanish colonial mission sites. A "Titans of Texas Archaeology" symposium will highlight the work of elders in the profession "who wrote the textbooks, established standards and formulated methodologies," Hindes said.
There also will be a presentation on the updated website of Texas Beyond History, a public education service of the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University and 15 other organizations. The service was created in 2001 to interpret and share the results of archaeological and historical research on Texas' cultural heritage.
Scott Huddleston is a staff writer in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read him on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | shuddleston@express-news.net | Twitter: @shuddlestonSA
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Scott Huddleston is a veteran staff writer, covering Bexar County government, local history, preservation and the Alamo. He has been a reporter at the Express-News since 1985, covering a variety of issues, including public safety, criminal justice, flooding, transportation, military, water and the environment. He is a native Texan and longtime San Antonian.

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#define SIZE_X 230
#define SIZE_Y 225

#define ROW_YEARS 3
#define COL_YEARS 4
#define SIZE_CELL_YEARS_X 56
#define SIZE_CELL_YEARS_Y 60

#define ROW_MONTH 3
#define COL_MONTH 4
#define SIZE_CELL_MONTH_X 56
#define SIZE_CELL_MONTH_Y 60

#define ROW_DAY 7
#define COL_DAY 7
#define SIZE_CELL_DAYNAME_X 14
#define SIZE_CELL_DAY_X 32
#define SIZE_CELL_DAY_Y 28

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    int tmpPosY=parent->pos().y();
    QRect rec = QApplication::desktop()->screenGeometry();
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    int width = rec.width();
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      {
        tmpPosX=width-SIZE_X;
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      }
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    widget->setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
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    pal.setColor(QPalette::Background, Qt::lightGray);
    widget->setAutoFillBackground(true);
    widget->setPalette(pal);

    verticalLayout = new QVBoxLayout(widget);
    verticalLayout->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("verticalLayout"));
    verticalLayout->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);

    horizontalLayout = new QHBoxLayout();
    horizontalLayout->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("horizontalLayout"));
    horizontalLayout->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);

    pushYearAndMonth =new QPushButton(widget);
    pushYearAndMonth->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("pushYearAndMonth"));
    pushYearAndMonth->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
    pushYearAndMonth->setFixedWidth(100);
    connect(pushYearAndMonth,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(on_clicked_pushYearAndMonth()));

    arrowDOWN =new QPushButton(widget);
    arrowDOWN->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("arrowDOWN"));
    arrowDOWN->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
    arrowDOWN->setText("down");
    arrowDOWN->setFixedWidth(50);
    connect(arrowDOWN,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(on_clicked_arrowDOWN()));

    arrowUP =new QPushButton(widget);
    arrowUP->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("arrowUP"));
    arrowUP->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
    arrowUP->setText("Up");
    arrowUP->setFixedWidth(50);
    connect(arrowUP,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(on_clicked_arrowUP()));

    horizontalLayout->addWidget (pushYearAndMonth,0,Qt::AlignLeft);
    horizontalLayout->addWidget (arrowUP,0,Qt::AlignRight);
    horizontalLayout->addWidget (arrowDOWN,0,Qt::AlignRight);

    separatorLine = new QFrame(widget);
    separatorLine->setFrameShape(QFrame::HLine); // Horizontal line
    separatorLine->setFrameShadow(QFrame::Sunken);
    separatorLine->setLineWidth(1);

    tableWidgetYear = new QTableWidget(widget);
    tableWidgetYear->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("TableWidgetYear"));
    tableWidgetYear->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);

    tableWidgetMonth= new QTableWidget(widget);
    tableWidgetMonth->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("TableWidgetMonth"));
    tableWidgetMonth->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);

    tableWidgetDay= new QTableWidget(widget);
    tableWidgetDay->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("TableWidgetDay"));
    tableWidgetDay->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);

    verticalLayout->addLayout (horizontalLayout);
    verticalLayout->addWidget (separatorLine);
    verticalLayout->addWidget (tableWidgetYear);
    verticalLayout->addWidget (tableWidgetMonth);
    verticalLayout->addWidget (tableWidgetDay);

    selectedYear=0;
    selectedMonth=0;
    selectedYear=0;

    setTableYears();
    setTableMonth();
    setTableDay ();

    tableWidgetYear->setVisible (false);
    tableWidgetMonth->setVisible (false);
    tableWidgetDay->setVisible (true);
}

void Calendar::setYear(){

    QPushButton *pB= (QPushButton*)(sender());
    selectedYear=pB->text ().toInt ();
    pushYearAndMonth->setText(pB->text ());
}

void Calendar::setMonth(){

    QPushButton *pB= (QPushButton*)(sender());
    selectedMonth=QDate::fromString( pB->text (),"MMM").month();
    setDayName(selectedYear,selectedMonth);
    tableWidgetYear->setVisible (false);
    tableWidgetMonth->setVisible (true);
    pushYearAndMonth->setText (QDate::longMonthName (selectedMonth)+" "+QString::number (selectedYear));

}

void Calendar::setDay(){

    QPushButton *pB= (QPushButton*)(sender());
    selectedDay=pB->text ().toInt ();
    accept();
}

QDate Calendar::getDate(){

    return QDate(selectedYear, selectedMonth, selectedDay);
}

void Calendar::setDate(QDate currentDate){
    selectedYear=currentDate.year();
    selectedMonth=currentDate.month();
    selectedDay=currentDate.day();

    pushYearAndMonth->setText (QDate::longMonthName (selectedMonth)+" "+QString::number (selectedYear));
    setDayName(selectedYear,selectedMonth);
}

void Calendar::on_clicked_arrowUP(){
    if(tableWidgetDay->isVisible()){
         selectedMonth++;
         if(selectedMonth==13){
             selectedMonth=1;
             selectedYear++;
         }
         setDayName(selectedYear,selectedMonth);
         pushYearAndMonth->setText (QDate::longMonthName (selectedMonth)+" "+QString::number (selectedYear));
    }
    else if(tableWidgetMonth->isVisible()){
         selectedYear++;
         setMonthName();
         pushYearAndMonth->setText (QString::number (selectedYear));
    }
    else if( tableWidgetYear->isVisible()){
       selectedYear= selectedYear+12;
       setYearName();
       pushYearAndMonth->setText (QString::number (selectedYear-11)+" - "+QString::number (selectedYear));
    }

}

void Calendar::on_clicked_arrowDOWN(){
    if(tableWidgetDay->isVisible()){
         selectedMonth--;
         if(selectedMonth==0){
             selectedMonth=12;
             selectedYear--;
         }
         setDayName(selectedYear,selectedMonth);
         pushYearAndMonth->setText (QDate::longMonthName (selectedMonth)+" "+QString::number (selectedYear));
    }
    else if(tableWidgetMonth->isVisible()){
         selectedYear--;
         setMonthName();
         pushYearAndMonth->setText (QString::number (selectedYear));
    }
    else if( tableWidgetYear->isVisible()){
       selectedYear= selectedYear-12;
       setYearName();
       pushYearAndMonth->setText (QString::number (selectedYear-11)+" - "+QString::number (selectedYear));
    }
}

void Calendar::setTableYears(){

    tableWidgetYear->setRowCount(ROW_YEARS);

    tableWidgetYear->setColumnCount(COL_YEARS);

    tableWidgetYear->verticalHeader()->setVisible(false);

    tableWidgetYear->horizontalHeader()->setVisible(false);

    tableWidgetYear->setSelectionMode( QAbstractItemView::SingleSelection );

    tableWidgetYear->setShowGrid(false);

    for(int i=0;i<ROW_YEARS;i++)
    {
        tableWidgetYear->setRowHeight(i,SIZE_CELL_YEARS_Y);

    }
    for(int i=0;i<COL_YEARS;i++)
    {
        tableWidgetYear->setColumnWidth(i,SIZE_CELL_YEARS_X);
    }

    for(int i=0;i<ROW_YEARS;i++)
    {
         for(int j=0;j<COL_YEARS;j++){
             QPushButton *cellButton=new QPushButton(tableWidgetYear);
             cellButton->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("YearButton(%1,%2)").arg (i).arg (j));
             tableWidgetYear->setCellWidget (i,j,cellButton);
             connect(cellButton,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(setYear()));
         }
    }
    tableWidgetYear->setVisible (true);
   setYearName();
}

void Calendar::setYearName(){
    int currentYear;

    if(selectedYear==0){
        currentYear= (QDate::currentDate ().year())-(ROW_YEARS*COL_YEARS)+1;
    }
    else{
        currentYear=selectedYear-(ROW_YEARS*COL_YEARS)+1;
    }
    for(int i=0;i<ROW_YEARS;i++)
    {
         for(int j=0;j<COL_YEARS;j++){

            QPushButton *pB;
            pB=(QPushButton*) tableWidgetYear->cellWidget (i,j);
            pB->setText (QString::number (currentYear++));
            pB->setStyleSheet("Text-align:center");
            connect(pB,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(showMonthTable()));
         }
    }
}

void Calendar::setTableMonth(){

    tableWidgetMonth->setVisible (false);

    tableWidgetMonth->setRowCount(ROW_MONTH);

    tableWidgetMonth->setColumnCount(COL_MONTH);

    tableWidgetMonth->verticalHeader()->setVisible(false);

    tableWidgetMonth->horizontalHeader()->setVisible(false);

    tableWidgetMonth->setSelectionMode( QAbstractItemView::SingleSelection );

    tableWidgetMonth->setShowGrid(false);

    for(int i=0;i<ROW_MONTH;i++)
    {
        tableWidgetMonth->setRowHeight(i,SIZE_CELL_MONTH_Y);

    }
    for(int i=0;i<COL_MONTH;i++)
    {
        tableWidgetMonth->setColumnWidth(i,SIZE_CELL_MONTH_X);
    }

    for(int i=0;i<ROW_MONTH;i++)
    {
         for(int j=0;j<COL_MONTH;j++){
             QPushButton *cellButton=new QPushButton(tableWidgetMonth);
             cellButton->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("MonthButton(%1,%2)").arg (i).arg (j));
             tableWidgetMonth->setCellWidget (i,j,cellButton);
             connect(cellButton,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(setMonth()));
         }
    }
    setMonthName();
}

void Calendar::setMonthName(){
int listMonthNumber=1;

    for(int i=0;i<ROW_MONTH;i++)
    {
         for(int j=0;j<COL_MONTH;j++){

            QPushButton *pB;
            pB=(QPushButton*) tableWidgetMonth->cellWidget (i,j);
            pB->setText (QDate::shortMonthName (listMonthNumber++));
            pB->setStyleSheet("Text-align:center");
            connect(pB,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(showDayTable()));
         }
    }
}

void Calendar::showMonthTable(){

    tableWidgetYear->setVisible (false);
    tableWidgetMonth->setVisible (true);
}
void Calendar::showDayTable(){
    tableWidgetMonth->setVisible (false);
    tableWidgetDay->setVisible (true);
}

void Calendar::setTableDay(){

    tableWidgetDay->setRowCount(ROW_DAY);

    tableWidgetDay->setColumnCount(COL_DAY);

    tableWidgetDay->verticalHeader()->setVisible(false);

    tableWidgetDay->horizontalHeader()->setVisible(false);

    tableWidgetDay->setSelectionMode( QAbstractItemView::SingleSelection );

    tableWidgetDay->setShowGrid(false);

    for(int i=0;i<ROW_DAY;i++)
    {
        if(i==0){
            tableWidgetDay->setRowHeight(i,SIZE_CELL_DAYNAME_X);
        }else {
            tableWidgetDay->setRowHeight(i,SIZE_CELL_DAY_Y);
        }
    }
    for(int i=0;i<COL_DAY;i++)
    {
        tableWidgetDay->setColumnWidth(i,SIZE_CELL_DAY_X);
    }

    int counter=0;
    for(int i=0;i<ROW_DAY;i++)
    {
        for(int j=0;j<COL_DAY;j++){
            if(counter>6){

                QPushButton *cellButton=new QPushButton(tableWidgetDay);
                cellButton->setObjectName(QString::fromUtf8("DayButton(%1,%2)").arg (i).arg (j));
                // cellButton->setFlat(true);
                tableWidgetDay->setCellWidget (i,j,cellButton);
                connect(cellButton,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(setDay()));

            }else{
                counter++;
            }
        }
    }
}

void Calendar::setDayName(int year,int month){
    int listDayNumber=1;
    QDate date;

    for(int i=0;i<ROW_DAY;i++)
    {
        for(int j=0;j<COL_DAY;j++){

            if(i==0){
                //Days Names
                QTableWidgetItem *item=new QTableWidgetItem(QDate::shortDayName (j+1));
                item->setTextAlignment (Qt::AlignHCenter);
                if(j==6){
                    item->setTextColor(QColor(Qt::red));
                }
                tableWidgetDay->setItem(i,j,item);
            }
            else{

                date.setDate (year,month,listDayNumber);

                if( date.isValid ()){

                    if(listDayNumber==1){
                        for(int k=0;k<date.dayOfWeek ();k++){
                            QPushButton *pB;
                            pB=(QPushButton*) tableWidgetDay->cellWidget (i,k);
                            pB->setEnabled (false);
                            pB->setText(" ");
                        }
                    }
                    QPushButton *pB;
                    pB=(QPushButton*) tableWidgetDay->cellWidget (i,date.dayOfWeek ()-1);
                    pB->setStyleSheet("Text-align:center");
                    pB->setVisible (true);
                    pB->setEnabled (true);
                    pB->setText (QString::number (listDayNumber));
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Facilities (Campus Spaces)
More Than Skin Deep: The Value of Interior Design
By Scott Berman
PHOTOS COURTESY OF BELSON DESIGN ARCHITECTS
It can be a double-edged sword when colleges and universities lack a strong, historic identity in terms of their campus' architecture and interior designs.
Lacking that identity — at least in terms of outside perceptions — can free up an institution in its choices of colors, fabrics, furniture, materials and spaces. Yet it can also present challenges in terms of setting standards as changes occur and renovation and new construction projects come along. Changes in policy, technology, products and aesthetic tastes make interior design approaches even more complex.
A Walk Through SUNY at Stony Brook
College Planning & Management recently toured the campus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and talked about interior design with John Fogarty, director of Capital Planning, and Yumi Yoshino-Hempel, architectural designer. The Long Island campus started 52 years ago with institutional, formulaic architecture inside and out.
Things have changed. Dramatically. But "unlike a Yale, we don't have a huge tradition we can rely upon," says Fogarty, in a comment to which planners on many campuses could relate. "Because of that, we are actually more open to what the designers come in and offer."
For example, the campus, which now encompasses some 12,000,000 square feet, has recently opened an environmentally friendly dining hall with display cooking, designed with student feedback; a journalism lab whose furnishings and furniture evoke professional newsrooms; and various interior spaces equipped for easy ad-hoc study and casual collaboration.
There is also a willingness to dramatically change spaces, including a project, albeit decades ago, which completely encompassed and expanded a library building; and a courtyard covered with what the university describes as a "greenhouse-style ceiling" and enclosed to create a light-infused atrium as part of an extensive 2005 renovation of a 1962 Humanities Building.
One campus project, Frey Hall, another 1962 building that was renovated, expanded and reopened in 2012, implemented many changes, as the university and the project's architects, Belson Design Architects with Ewing Cole, point out. According to Belson's website, "the interior architecture fosters a sense of community and common identity for both students and faculty. The interior layout facilitates collaboration, is active and engaging, and encourages informal interaction."
PHOTO COURTESY OF SCOTT BERMAN
Some details illustrate. Frey Hall's atrium lobby is wide enough to accommodate scores of students transiting to and from Frey's 19 classrooms and three newly constructed lecture halls, in addition to offering space for collaborative work and interaction. There are high stools by Steelcase that, along with upholstered furniture pieces, lend a comfortable, informal vibe to the space. In other details, the expansion turned an exterior brick hall into an interior feature, as the university points out, beneath high columns rising to a ceiling of skylights and suspended acoustic panels.
The lecture halls, which each hold 250 students, are arranged in tiers containing two rows of substantial, mounted tables with 360-degree swivel seats, enabling easy collaboration between rows. The interior is no-frills yet attractive, with ample inset lighting and audio-visual technologies, and with practical and aesthetic wood acoustic paneling in a light maple veneer by Decoustics.
A walk-through of an upstairs classroom wing hallway reveals a space for informal group work furnished with a media:scape group ensemble by Steelcase as well as tables and chairs by Herman Miller, Fogarty points out.
Keeping Students Engaged and On Campus
Such features are happening in a dynamic context. In fact, a key challenge for campuses today is how to design classrooms and other spaces that remain relevant, in which students are engaged, in the view of Paul Hutton, principal of Cuningham Group Architecture and chair of the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education. A key question, he says, is that "if everything is online, why should I go to a lecture?"
Hutton notes some projects in response in recent years, and says the designs of various spaces — for instance at Princeton University, the University of Wisconsin and Stanford, among others — reflect gathering interest nationwide in interiors that foster cross-disciplinary involvement, and collaborative, hands-on entrepreneurial approaches to learning.
He points out the influential, 34,000-square-foot Integrated Teaching & Learning Laboratory (ITL) at the University of Colorado-Boulder's School of Engineering. According to the university's website, the design of ITL "supports a variety of learning styles" for university students in a diverse plan that includes "an active learning center…open laboratory plazas, fabrication 'shacks,' group work areas" and more. ITL is also a showcase for engineering and the campus as a whole.
Another standout, says Hutton, is Stanford's Institute of Design, or d.school, where, the university points out, students collaborate at standing project tables amid a multitude of storyboards and move furniture and panels with dry-erase surfaces together to create ad hoc collaborative work areas as well as lounges.
A key part of such design is its furniture — that is, pieces that reflect gathering knowledge about how people are learning today — as in standing desks and flexible pieces that work well for both individual and collaborative work. Manufacturers such as Steelcase, Computer Comforts, KI, Fleetwood Group, Virco, Agati and Sauder Manufacturing Co., to name a few, are among those that have responded to these trends.
Campuses have also responded to how students learn and live. At Stony Brook, for example, the Hawrys Campus Recreation Center, an 85,000-square-foot standalone building for the general student population, opened in 2012 with a distinctive interior assortment of materials, finishes, furnishings and furniture. The assortment ranges from a fine metal walk-off surface that rings under footsteps, to perforated gymnasium soffits and upstairs running track fencing, to lounge nooks, to pops of school color. Fogarty points out flooring varieties, including the gymnasium's high-gloss maple floor by Connor Sports and the indoor track's Mondo Ramflex product. There is Armstrong acoustic ceiling tile with sleek, inset lighting.
The building is clearly a bustling focal point of campus life, attracting a sizable portion of the undergraduate student body everyday. As Fogarty puts it, the goal is to "make a friendlier, student focus" for facilities, and to create "a lively campus" where students want to be and stay. Interior spaces, finishes and furnishings are important parts of the process.
SOME IDEAS ABOUT CAMPUS INTERIORS
Bear in mind that you are competing, as Stony Brook's Fogarty points out. Choices about space, colors, fabrics, furniture and materials communicate values and express campus themes, things that can impact student recruitment and retention.
Be cognizant of specific instances of wear and tear and be ready to respond when renovating. Put another way, what changes would best preclude features that have not worn well or been frequently broken in spaces across campus?
Design spaces with elements that suggest and foreshadow those that your institution's graduates will be encountering in their imminent careers.
Ask yourself what it would take to help make spaces remain as relevant and attractive as possible for as long as possible.
This article originally appeared in the April 2015 issue of College Planning & Management.
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LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (pre-release stream)
It's sad to think that there may be an end to LCD Soundsystem's exceptional dance-punk style on horizon. I have a special attachment to Sound of Silver, mostly cultivated through extensive listening at work that planted a seed, finally blossoming into an unfaltering love. LCD Soundsystem excels at blending digital, multi-track music with words that are so real and readily applicable to life. Songs like "All My Friends" and "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" have a sort of eternal resonance that makes them not only interesting to listen to, but also builds a sort of kinship. We've all been in the mental/emotional places that these songs highlight. Distance, sadness, confusion, incompleteness, and nostalgia comprise a large portion of life. The whole exercise of growing up is predicated upon failure, retries, ego-boosts and ego-breaks. And we'd all be so lucky to have our individual experiences soundtracked by such dynamic, motivating music. LCD Soundsystem's newest This Is Happening will release here in the States on May 18th, but at present it is streaming for free via the band's website at lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/. I have listened through the album twice, and I can't imagine a better way for the band to cap off this project (if this is, in fact, their final collaboration).
James Murphy has always had a grasp of those qualities that make up great music. While the music LCD Soundsystem has shown some signs of repetition, the mood, style and tone of each song has been carefully honed. This Is Happening starts with a slow burner, "Dance Yrslf Clean," which plays up a certain level of drama in the whispered, paced lyrics that builds up and finally overflows in an explosion of dance beats and raucousness. Really, it's the perfect "welcome back" track because it doesn't force its way into your ear so much as (like a great salesman) endear itself to you before showing its true colors. If you know LCD Soundsystem at all, you will instantly recognize this track, like a mother knowing its baby's cry. The powerful opener fades down into "Drunk Girls," a track that is chanting and anthemic. And then "One Touch," which calls interaction and connection as its primary topics. Really, there's not a bad song on the album. The confessional, intimate style (something rare for dance music) permeates this album, as it does other LCD Soundsystem albums, but here even more so. "All I Want," "I Can Change," "You Wanted A Hit," and "Pow Pow" all fulfill the upbeat requirements, creating an air of happy dance-pop that drives the core of the album. But, it's the closers that really pluck at the heartstrings. "Somebody's Calling Me" is a quiet, austere track that settles the mood for "Home." "Home" is the last song on the album. It's all about leaving something and moving on, and reconciling that change. In a lyrical gem we're given: "You might forget the sound of a voice/Still you should not forget the things we laughed about." It seems that we're always confronting this idea, moving on, leaving, changing relationships. Life is transition, or rather, living is transition. When we're stationary (in mind, heart, body, or any combination) is when we begin to die. Sometimes, as in this closing track "home" is actually just transition, rather than some arbitrary stationary object. Ultimately, "home" lies in love and memories; it's always there, but the way we perceive it always changes too. So, LCD Soundsystem leaves us with some philosophical thoughts, as they've done before. If this album is a goodbye, a parting gift, then it's a truly sincere one. And if LCD Soundsystem returns for a fourth helping, then it's just an incredibly apt closing to the album. Pick up a real copy on May 18th, and listen through the catalog because every song in the LCD Soundsystem project is precise, caring and exceptional.
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Home » News » Earthquakes, Famines, Pestilence, Disasters » World's 2nd-largest Ebola outbreak surpasses 3,000 cases
World's 2nd-largest Ebola outbreak surpasses 3,000 cases
by Morgan Winsor | posted in: Earthquakes, Famines, Pestilence, Disasters, News	|
The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 3,000 cases and 2,000 deaths as the yearlong epidemic continues despite access to an experimental vaccine and developmental treatments.
A total of 3,004 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since Aug. 1 of last year, according to Congolese health officials, and 2,899 of those individuals have tested positive for Ebola virus disease, which is transmitted through contact with blood or secretions from an infected person and causes an often-fatal type of hemorrhagic fever.
There have been 2,006 deaths so far, including 1,901 people who died from confirmed cases of Ebola. The other deaths are considered probable cases. Just over 900 people sickened with the virus have recovered so far, according to Congolese health officials.
The grim milestone comes a month after the World Health Organization (WHO), the global health arm of the United Nations, declared the ongoing outbreak an international emergency. The WHO's director-general has described the outbreak as more complex than the deadlier 2014-2016 epidemic in West Africa due to the region's political and security instability, attacks on health workers, a highly mobile population and community mistrust and misinformation.
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A health team begins to disinfect a clinic in Ngongolio, Beni, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Aug. 28, 2019. The clinic briefly treated a patient before he was sent to a treatment center for Ebola.
This is the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the most severe there since 1976 when scientists first identified the virus near the eponymous Ebola River. It's also one of the worst on record anywhere, second only to the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in multiple West African nations that infected 28,652 people and killed 11,325, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The current outbreak is now spread across three eastern Congolese provinces that share international borders with South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.
On Thursday, Uganda's Ministry of Health said that a 9-year-old Congolese girl with Ebola had traveled across the border to Uganda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with her mother to seek medical care. The child has been placed in isolation at an Ebola treatment center that was set up in a nearby Ugandan town in preparation for cross-border cases, according to the health ministry.
(MORE: Ebola outbreak spreads to 3rd province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo)
Although the average number of new cases reported per week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has dipped slightly during the last few weeks, the number of affected areashas increased.
Cases have been identified in new geographical areas in recent weeks, though the epidemic's epicenter is North Kivu province, where conflict and limited infrastructure has hampered the response.
A technical committee running the Ebola response and reporting directly to the Congolese president organized two days of training this week with health workers in the country's capital, Kinshasa, to help prevent the potential spread of the virus there and prepare for the response by strengthening the city's entry checkpoints. There are currently no suspected cases of Ebola in Kinshasa, which is some 1,700 miles west of the outbreak's epicenter, according to a press release from the committee on Thursday.
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A health worker wearing protective gear checks on a patient isolated in a plastic cube at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo, July 13, 2019.
Dr. Benoit Kebela, a Congolese epidemiologist on the committee, said the only effective weapon to stopping the spread of the virus is community involvement.
"It is community ownership that will stop this 10th epidemic," Kebela said in a statement Thursday. "In the city of Kinshasa, there are community leaders such as street leaders, localities, neighborhoods, communes and the whole community with whom we can put an end to this epidemic."
(MORE: Ebola outbreak reaches remote, militia-controlled territory in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Bob Kitchen, vice president for emergencies at the International Rescue Committee, one of the aid groups on the ground assisting Congolese health officials, told ABC News in a statement Thursday that many people in the affected areas are "afraid to seek treatment for illnesses, worried they will be sent to an Ebola treatment center where they fear they could contract the disease."
The "lack of community acceptance" remains the greatest obstacle to containing the outbreak, Kitchen said.
"Building trust with the community doesn't just mean dialogue with the affected population," he added. "It means working with the community to adapt the response and address the overall needs they are facing inside and outside of the Ebola outbreak."
FILE – In this Friday, June 14, 2019 file photo, people coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda. Ugandan health authorities on Thursday, Aug. 29,
An experimental Ebola vaccine developed by American pharmaceutical company Merck that was tested in the West Africa epidemic was approved for use in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a week after the outbreak was declared last year. More than 206,000 people in the current outbreak zone have received the experimental vaccine since Aug. 8, 2018, according to Congolese health officials.
Meanwhile, two of four experimental treatments being tested in the outbreak are now being offered to all patients after showing promise in saving lives. Preliminary findings from a randomized controlled trial that began last November in four Ebola treatment centers in North Kivu indicated that patients receiving either of two antibody-based therapies, known as REGN-EB3 and mAb114, had a greater chance of survival compared to those receiving two other experiential drugs, known as ZMapp and remdesivir.
After a meeting to review the initial results, an independent monitoring board recommended all future patients be offered either REGN-EB3 or mAb114, while the other two treatments be stopped.
"From now on, we will no longer say that Ebola is incurable," Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director-general of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's National Institute for Biomedical Research, which is co-sponsoring the clinical study, told reporters during a telephone briefing earlier this month.
(MORE: New treatments show promise in the fight against Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo)
But the epidemic is still not under control. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a medical charity which is providing care for Ebola patients in collaboration with Congolese authorities, said it is "extremely concerned about the lack of visibility on the actual epidemiological situation," since a high number of Ebola deaths are being reported from where people live, rather than from treatment centers, in recent weeks.
"Many people have died of Ebola in their communities before they could be identified, diagnosed, and admitted for treatment of the disease," MSF said in a statement Thursday. "Roughly a third of Ebola-related deaths have been diagnosed only post-mortem, which is a clear indication the response to the epidemic is failing in identifying and tracing people who've potentially contracted Ebola."
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/worlds-2nd-largest-ebola-outbreak-surpasses-3000-cases/story?id=65261822
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When the new Sunday School manual for 2019 came out I took a look at the first lesson to get a feel for how the lessons were organized. The teacher's manual includes a video clip of the interview Christ had with the rich young man who was told to sell everything he had and give the money to the poor. As I watched the young man's reaction to the instructions to go and sell all that he had so he could follow Jesus, something struck me. That young man had no idea who he was talking to, who he was rejecting. Rejection was probably not the word highest in his mind at that moment, because he was too busy sorrowing after his required losses if he was to follow the Savior's counsel.
The young man was talking to the very person who would judge the whole world in the day of judgement. He was talking to the very creator of the universe, the person who had created the planet on which he lived, and by whose spirit he lived and breathed every moment of his life. And he was rejecting him because he loved his toys (which he would leave behind at death) more than him who gave him the life he was currently enjoying. The young rich man was rejecting the only man who could ultimately forgive his sins. There is more than a little bit of irony at play there.
We began our first estate when our Father in heaven clothed us with spirit bodies and began to teach us how to progress toward godhood. Since his work and his glory is "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39), I can't imagine there ever being a time when our eventual godhood wasn't included in everything we were taught.
All of God's children were raised in love and peace in a perfect environment. There was no backbiting, no sin, no parents with issues. Our heavenly parents knew the importance of their roles to raise us and guide us in perfect righteousness. And we all had perfect examples of what parents should be like. Yet despite this upbringing, one third of his children chose to support Lucifer, preferring him to be their god, rather than our Father to be their God. Lucifer wanted God's throne, and a third of the children of God supported him in his quest for that throne.
It took a war in heaven to settle the issue with our rebelling brothers and sisters. Our Father had to consign one third of his children to perdition for open rebellion of his laws, and we hadn't even made it past the first stage of our eternal progression! Think of it. Lucifer was able to convince a third of God's children to reject His perfect love for whatever promises of ease, comfort, or power Lucifer was promising them. They had an absolute knowledge of the goodness of God and his perfection, yet they chose eternal damnation rather than to live under his merciful rule.
Our Father in heaven loved them with all his heart. He treated them no differently than he would have treated all his other children, because he is no respecter of persons. How painful it must have been for God and his Christ to have all that potential and offers of glory rejected for hollow lies and betrayal of their love. But the law is the law, and they had justly earned their reward. There was nothing he could do but to reward them according to their choices, since they had moral agency just like we did. This was how they chose to use their agency, and he could not violate that agency.
Those who used their agency to choose God over Lucifer fulfilled the conditions of our first estate and qualified to move on to the second estate, mortality. The reward for having kept our first estate was the promise of an immortal resurrected body in a kingdom of glory, whether a limited kingdom of glory or in the celestial kingdom where there would be glory added upon our heads forever. The promise was that every soul would receive this reward through the merits of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
Was that the end of the rejection and betrayal of God's love? Not by a long shot. Even those who, knowing perfectly who God was, had to still make it through mortality without further betrayal. But without that perfect knowledge of our Father and our Savior, Lucifer, now known as Satan, has been able to cloud the judgment and convince many of God's children that Satan's ways are more alluring than God's promises. So we have literally billions of God's children who have participated in and accepted Satan's lies during their time in mortality.
Satan thinks this has given him the upper hand in his continuing war on God and his children. But God, knowing more about the nature of his children than Satan, included a time for them to be redeemed after mortality in the spirit world. So even in death he is still reaching out to his children to give them every opportunity to be redeemed through the merits of Christ.
It is true that Christ created the universe. He created the earth on which we live out our lives. He was the God of the Old Testament, the great Jehovah, the giver of the law of Moses. But when he came to earth, Jesus was to come in a special role. Despite his pedigree, he was to come to earth and live as any other mortal in most respects. He was not coming as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords during his time on earth. He was the son of a carpenter, born in a manger, and raised in a small town of no great fame. He was not rich. He was not powerful. He had no political influence. He grew up to be an itinerant preacher.
In his time in mortality he had to be subject to all manner of humiliations. He was rejected, reviled, mocked, ridiculed, and scorned, just as any other human might be. The powerful around him tried to trap him and find reasons for killing him because they hated what he stood for. Did Jesus know who he was? Yes, he did. He knew what he had done as Jehovah, and what he was going to do for these very people who were mocking him and wanting to stone him. He knew that without the sacrifice he would make in their behalf they would be forever locked out of God's presence, their Father in heaven.
Jesus also knew the people were blind, and that much of that blindness was not their fault, but the fault of their forefathers who had rejected the truth he had given them as Jehovah. He also knew they did not have the gift of the Holy Ghost to bear witness of him. He actually needed them in this wicked state, because they needed to kill him. The scriptures teach us that only the Jews, his own covenant people, were wicked enough to kill their own God, for if any other group of people had witnessed the miracles Jesus performed, they would have welcomed him as their God.
From the beginning the plan of salvation stated that Christ had to be killed by his own people. He had to be utterly rejected by the very people he was there to save. His work had to be done on his own merits, without any outside help. He had to be alone in his sacrifice, and his sacrifice had to be utterly complete. He had to give all of himself for his Father's children. Not only did he have to suffer for their (our) sins, but he had to do it all alone.
Look in the scriptures for anyone who stayed by Christ's side as he was scourged, mocked, tortured, and crucified. There was no one. He was totally abandoned. There were followers who stayed at a distance, but there was no one who spoke up for him, or who tried to physically come to his rescue. Talk about being abandoned. Jesus, who had suffered every form of injustice during his mortal ministry, who then went to Gethsemane and suffered the consequences and pains of every sin and injustice known to mankind for every person who had and would ever live, was, in the end, abandoned even by God our Father. In the very end he had to be able to say that he had accomplished his sacrifice on our behalf all by himself. And he did.
What does he know of forgiveness?
Christ was there with the Father in our first estate when a third of the children of God rejected they who had loved them wholly and completely. As Jehovah he experienced his own repeated attempts to bless the lives of the children of covenant Israel (Jacob). As much as he loved his people, he knew they were rebellious and stubborn. He had to punish them with captivity, famines, and a host of other results because of their betrayal of their covenants. But his love for them never flagged or wavered.
As the Messiah in the New Testament Jesus was guided in his ministry by our Father in Heaven to do all in his power to demonstrate God's continuing love for his children. Jesus sacrificed himself in every respect to do all in his power to convince the people around him that he could offer them so much more than Satan could. He then paid for all their/our sins, knowing that most of the children of God would still succumb to Satan's lies. But despite all that, he paid the price for their temporal salvation anyway, because he promised he would do that in the premortal world. It was part of his calling as our Savior.
His payment for our sins and subsequent resurrection opened the door for us to be ultimately forgiven of our currently unrepented sins, and to be resurrected as well. His act of love for us promises us all a resurrected body and a kingdom of glory for eternity. And for those of us who repent of our sins through his atoning sacrifice, we can obtain eternal life, the kind of life God, himself, lives, and will be blessed with eternal increase and family ties.
God, our Father has always known who would accept him and his Son, and who would reject them. Jesus knew of our weaknesses and loved us anyway, before our mortality, and during our mortality. He is still working with the children of God in the spirit world to reclaim as many of them for his Father as he can. This is what spurs on the great missionary work on the other side of the veil, and the temple work on this side of the veil. Despite our fickle and often disrespectful nature, he continues to love us and wants to forgive our sins. He is willing to forgive us, and always will forgive us just as soon as we turn from our sins and return to him.
We are babes in the woods. We know nothing about the hearts of our brothers and sisters. We ourselves are burdened with sins. What right do we have to claim the privilege of deciding who should be forgiven of their sins and who shouldn't? Only God has that kind of perspective and knowledge. Our brothers and sisters are in the same condition we, ourselves are in. We are all riddled with sins that need to be forgiven.
God truly does know and understand betrayal and rejection. He knows what it means to love so purely and completely that no amount of sin can tarnish his love for the sinner. He takes no joy in punishing us when we sin, but his laws must be upheld, especially by himself. Always and forever Christ's atoning sacrifice remains in force, allowing us to be forgiven of our sins whenever we choose to turn to God for forgiveness. But even this great promise of forgiveness has an expiration date. On the day of judgment it will be everlastingly too late to change our minds. If we are going to seek reconciliation with God (forgiveness of sins), today is the best time to do it.
It is important that we always have the idea clearly affixed in our minds that we do not think like God, nor understand as God does. We are his disciples, and he is our master. Judging others is not up to us, but up to him. It will take everything we have just to learn to love others with a Christlike purity without having to worry about needing to judge their state of righteousness. We should be all too happy to leave that in the capable hands of the Lord.
As we reach out to serve others we are bound to eventually experience such unpleasantries as betrayal and rejection. Such is the human condition. But when we follow the Savior's example and love those who reject us or betray us anyway, the Savior will teach us what it means to feel true charity.
I feel such gratitude for your testimony; for your understanding of gospel principles as they confirm my own. Since my son passed last year of an opiate relapse, my relationship with God and man is being refined.. It feels that my soul is growing more sensitive to the elegant simplicity of God's ways. I"m learning through so desperately loving a son who struggled against weakness, but lost. God has allowed me to comprehend the yearning of a parent's soul to save a beloved child by any sacrifice. God, Himself sacrificed and suffered; making sacred offering of His Beloved Only Begotten Son for the right to free us from sinfulness. God, Himself paid the price to satisfy eternal laws of justice and mercy, eager save His children who have injured unity with Him.
Knowing God made such sacrifice for me, how can I refuse to forgive? I don't want to bear the burden of unforgiveness. But, as life continues to offer opposition in all things, I discover my own weakness. With God's help and my earnest desire, He teaches me to forgive painful betrayal and sorrowful injustice. He eases the sting as I seek look to Him. In forgiveness I find peace. In forgiveness, I find God.
Thank you Raeann. I really like your phrase, "He eases the sting." We always feel the hurt from the loss or the betrayal, but the stink of it is removed as we seek Christ's forgiveness for our own sins. Peace replaces the pain of the loss or betrayal. These are tough lessons to slog through. God bless.
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The intense discussion on women's rights and the #MeToo movement has had a profound impact on the workplace. On this call, we will discuss key issues related to what is really happening and possible remedies.
Question 1: How has your organization been impacted by the various activities relating to the #MeToo movement?
Question 2: How are these issues affecting the policy, communication, culture, training, and targeted programs for both women and men in your organization?
Question 3: What have you implemented, plan to implement, and/or observed to address these critical issues?
Question 4: How transparent is your organization on this issue?


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