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We are committed to this project as our shop car. We are under the process of conducting the following:
-S52 engine swap
-body work (wrap/repaint, body kit, etc.)
-suspension (Lead Tech, Jason will be making one for this project)
-Tires/Rims
and we are open to suggestions, give us your feedback here or under the "Review" tab on our fan page www.facebook.com/brianjesselautohaus
Stay tuned for the latest updates on our launch party, and many exciting events.
Also a chance to vote and win prizes throughout the building process.
ALTERNATIVE GOVT COMMITTED TO TRAFFIC LIGHT LABELLING FOR FOOD SHOPPERS 17-1-07
FG & LABOUR PROMISE CLEAR NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION ON FOOD PACKAGING
UK EXPERIENCE SHOWED 40% REDUCTION IN SALES OF UNHEALTHY FOOD AFTER INTRODUCTION OF TRAFFIC LIGHT LABELLING
FINE GAEL AND THE LABOUR PARTY HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR POLICY ON TRAFFIC LIGHT FOOD LABELLING , A SYSTEM WHICH WILL SEE DIETARY ADVICE PRESENTED AND EASY-T-FOLLOW FORMAT ON THE FRONT OF FOOD PACKAGING.
PICTURE SHOWS FROM LEFT THE PARTIES AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SPOKESPEOPLE, DR MARY UPTON TD AND DENIS NAUGHTEN TD WITH TWO SUPERHUMAN EXTREMES MODELS SUPERSIZED JOHNNY MURPHY AND HEALTHY ROBERTA ROWAT AT THE LAUNCH IN DUBLIN YESTERDAY.PIC:MAXPIX-NO FEE
The EBRD is committed to supporting the Green Energy Transition in its countries of operations. As more variable renewable energy sources are incorporated into the generation mix, new solutions are needed to ensure the stability of the electricity grid and the provision of reliable, high quality electricity supply. Additionally, the rise of distributed, consumer-led energy generation models may increase demand for solutions that decrease end users’ reliance on a centralized grid. Energy storage is likely to play a key role in providing such solutions to grid operators, generators and consumers alike.
This event brought together stakeholders from the private, public and financial sector to discuss the future of energy storage and its role in creating resilient, green economies. The panel explored the potential disruptive effect of storage on the energy industry, and how businesses and governments can contribute to and benefit from investment in energy storage solutions.
Moderator
Mattia Romani
Managing Director, Economics, Policy & Governance, EBRD
Speakers
Jason Channell
Managing Director, Citigroup
Guy Doyle
Chief Economist, Energy and Carbon, Mott MacDonald
Peter Kuijs
Managing Director, AES Jordan
Risto Paldanius
Director Energy Storage, Solar and Integration, Wärtsilä Corporation
TobaccoDays (TD) is committed to showing you; the pipe-maker, the pipe collector, the pipe hobbyist – the pipe world from a different perspective. Every topic covered on TD aims to make you think different. Aims to make you see different. Anything & everything that we can bundle up together and have the final outcome alter an existing attitude on the subject covered, is considered a wonderful day here at TD.
Today I launch a new series which has the aim to highlight the beautiful & varied texture on our beloved pipes. Yes, we hold our pipes, caress them, enjoy them & smoke them day in and day out. Do we ever miss some of the small details though? Can we look at them any deeper? Of course we can.
To assist that process, I went out and hired a professional photographer (high-speed camera, strobe lights, big set-up & all) and took macro pictures of pipes to focus on their surface, their texture. The next phase of the project required me to find a way to express the beauty of the pipe’s surface. Since I lack any skill in the photo shop arena, I went out and hired a professional graphic designer and together we art-directed the project and took it to it’s final stages. The question of – How do we show the beauty of the pipe’s surface & make sure that we ‘really see it’ was the one thing guiding this project. While the pipe’s surrounding’s are definitely photo-shopped, the actual surface of the pipe remains 100% untouched. You are looking at the actual pipe surface of a J.T. Cooke pipe, as it looks in reality. This was part of the project’s point. To show the surface, unchanged, in order to highlight it’s ‘interest factor’ that much more.
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
Jan Anderson, a committed Detroiter and poet, graciously collaborated with us on a projection series where she recited her poetry about Detroit. Text of the recited poems follows:
WHEN THE PEOPLE LEAVE
When the people leave
The siege begins,
And the windows fall
And the halls are spooked
And the roof rots
And the lot vacates
And the placated defacate
Until the weeds stand tall
And the ghetto palms appear
And the tears depart
And the garden grows
In the people’s hardened hearts.
DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Detroit sits motionless
Like a daughter with her mother’s lifeless body.
The place is a chamber eerily apart from space and time
A ball of light hovering above a hole.
Two forms unable to inhale the next moment or
To cling together to fill the hollow.
Only in perfect still can the echo of being still be felt
So the daughter turns to stone like the mound of clay on the table before her.
The corpse must be returned to the soil
Before energy can again be found –
The heat between them forging iron to last
Until she too is a mound bereft of anything.
Detroit is still
Like a mountain blocking the sun.
A cavern is inside, precious metals in sum.
But our loss is its loss
Such is the formlessness of grief that it blankets all things
The nothingness before it is a vacuum
Into which vitality is slowly drawn –
Such is the black hole of tragedy that all material is reformed.
When our lifeless generation is duly mourned and returned to the ages,
New life will be formed
And there will no weeping, no striking out,
Only the duty of remembering in a city that is no longer an innocent child.
THE LAST PACKARD COMPANY MAN
As a lover he didn’t read minds or chart the heart’s inner terrain with his hands.
Those hands were working hands, greasy leathery tools.
Steel was the vessel of his spirit, and everything he touched became this sort of flesh.
The last Packard Company man lived to work,
Strove to be a cog in the great machine.
His shift was the prayer that sanctified him to his wife and children,
Made them believe in God.
The City’s Committee on Plant Closings asked him who he was
and he told them that he fought two great wars building the planes that brought death to the first and second global conflicts.
The heat that forges memory is the same that bends metal.
What does a soldier do after the war is lost?
Is honor found in the hands or in the heart?
Is faith the whole, or only part?
Do you believe because it’s in your head, or is belief an act of defiance instead?
Fully Committed at Lost Nation Theater, August 5-22, 2010, stars Eric Love as 40 different characters. Set is by Ellen E Jones, lighting by Emily Crosby & Jared Nelson, sound design by Nicole Carroll and skillfully directed by Tara Lee Downs. photo by Francis Moran, Francis Moran Photography
Members of the Los Angeles Police and Fire Departments were joined by caring and supportive members of the community, including volunteer barbers, at the St. Baldrick's event in North Hollywood, California on March 15, 2008. The charitable effort raised funds to help battle childhood cancer. © Photo by Mike Meadows
South Sudan’s army has said it is committed to progressing and ensuring it meets its goals of having a child-free army. A senior military commander touring the construction of a Child Protection Office – a project supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) – within South Sudan’s People’s Defence Forces headquarters says the construction is on schedule, with the launch of a completed building expected in three months.
Once complete, there will be four offices, one meeting room, a reception area and a verandah.
Major General Chaplain Khamis Edward, Head of Child Protection, SSDF stressed: “We are tackling six things, and we don’t want these six grave violations to continue within the SSPDF or outside the SSPDF … we want to put an end into use and recruitment of children…”
Under a Quick Impact Project, which allows for UNMISS to improve the lives of communities across South Sudan, the UN Mission under its Child Protection Office has provided funds to ensure that the construction is a success.
Alfred Orono-Orono, Head of Child Protection Office, said: “Each stone here emphasizes the kind of unity that we have with the SSPDF, that each nail that goes here is a nail into the coffin of the death of issues of violations against the children of South Sudan.”
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
Dedication page --the first page of Pali Tipitaka in Siam script.
This page indicates that the younger brother of the King of Siam, the Venerable HRH Prince Vajiranana was the editor of this Book.
It is also printed that the Siam-script Pali Tipiaka was published in 1893, specially in commemoration of the Silver Jubilee celebration, the 25 years anniversary of King Chulalongkorn Chulachomklao celebration on the throne
"Pāḷi" is an old Indian dialect of the mass, spoken in the Indian Subcontinent over 3,000 years ago. During the lifetime of the Buddha, Pāḷi was the Dhamma-language of the Buddhist teaching and thus finally became the written medium of Buddhist scripture, the Tipiṭaka.
During an early period, Pāḷi Tipiṭaka was committed to memory and was propagated by Theravāda Buddhist monks orally from generation to generation. It was first written on palm leave some 400 years after the demise of Buddha or in the first century BC.
The first written Pāḷi Tipiṭaka took place in old Sri Lanka when the entire Tipiṭaka was inscribed on palm leaves --in Sinhalese script-- for the first time. Consequently, the Tipiṭaka on palm leave was the conventional depository of the Buddhist Theravāda scripture for over 2000 years.
In 1893, King Chulalongkorn Chulalongkorn of Siam revolutionised the traditional Buddhist depository convention --the King published the Tipiṭaka in Book-form for the first time. In stead of inscribing the sacred Pāḷi texts by hand in old Khmer script, the King ordered a new edition, totaling 39 volumes, to be printed in modern-typeface of the Siam script.
With the efficiency of printing technology of the day, such as, Western printing machinery and local book-binding in Bangkok, these newly edited sets of Siam-script Tipiṭaka were sent as royal gifts to 260 institutes across five continents in 1896.
in 2007 Dhamma Society completed the digital preservation project of this historic set and published the digital preservation edition in 40 volumes, entitled Chulachomklao Pāḷi Tipiṭaka : A Digital Preservation Edition 2008. A version with English introduction will appear in 2009. See detail at : www.tipitakahall.net
Digital Archives from the Dhamma Society's World Tipiṭaka Project in Roman Script, 1999-2007.
Tipiṭaka International Council B.E.2500 (1956)
World Tipiṭaka Edition in Roman Scrip 1956-2005
Tipiṭaka Studies Reference 2007
พระไตรปิฎกปาฬิ "ฉบับจุลจอมเกล้าบรมธัมมิกมหาราช ร.ศ.112 อักษรสยาม" ชุด 39 เล่ม จัดพิมพ์โดยพระบาทสมเด็จพระจุลจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว ในปี พ.ศ. 2436 โดยใช้เวลาดำเนินการปริวรรตจากอักษรขอมและเปลี่ยนเป็นการจัดพิมพ์ด้วยเครื่องพิมพ์บทกระดาษ เป็นฉบับพิมพ์ชุดแรกของโลก
พระไตรปิฎก จปร. อักษรสยาม ได้มีการพระราชทานไปทั่วกรุงสยามและในประเทศต่างๆ ใน 5 ทวีป ทั่วโลก นับเป็นพระธัมมทานที่สำคัญยิ่งในประวัติศาสตร์พระพุทธศาสนาเถรวาท ดังเช่นที่พระเจ้าอโศกบรมธัมมิกมหาราชได้ทรงทำการสังคายานาพระไตรปิฎกในชมพูทวีปและได้ส่งพระธัมมทูตไปเผยแผ่จำนวน 9 สายในอดีต
We are committed to this project as our shop car. We are under the process of conducting the following:
-S52 engine swap
-body work (wrap/repaint, body kit, etc.)
-suspension (Lead Tech, Jason will be making one for this project)
-Tires/Rims
and we are open to suggestions, give us your feedback here or under the "Review" tab on our fan page www.facebook.com/brianjesselautohaus
Stay tuned for the latest updates on our launch party, and many exciting events.
Also a chance to vote and win prizes throughout the building process.
South Sudan’s army has said it is committed to progressing and ensuring it meets its goals of having a child-free army. A senior military commander touring the construction of a Child Protection Office – a project supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) – within South Sudan’s People’s Defence Forces headquarters says the construction is on schedule, with the launch of a completed building expected in three months.
Once complete, there will be four offices, one meeting room, a reception area and a verandah.
Major General Chaplain Khamis Edward, Head of Child Protection, SSDF stressed: “We are tackling six things, and we don’t want these six grave violations to continue within the SSPDF or outside the SSPDF … we want to put an end into use and recruitment of children…”
Under a Quick Impact Project, which allows for UNMISS to improve the lives of communities across South Sudan, the UN Mission under its Child Protection Office has provided funds to ensure that the construction is a success.
Alfred Orono-Orono, Head of Child Protection Office, said: “Each stone here emphasizes the kind of unity that we have with the SSPDF, that each nail that goes here is a nail into the coffin of the death of issues of violations against the children of South Sudan.”
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
Mike took Bethan, James and Lucas to visit the Bicester family today. I couldn't go, as I'd committed to help on the gate at the Rare Plant Fair at the Old Rectory in the afternoon. I enjoyed being down there, though, and chatting to lots of random people - I've missed that! :-)
Jan Anderson, a committed Detroiter and poet, graciously collaborated with us on a projection series where she recited her poetry about Detroit. Text of the recited poems follows:
WHEN THE PEOPLE LEAVE
When the people leave
The siege begins,
And the windows fall
And the halls are spooked
And the roof rots
And the lot vacates
And the placated defacate
Until the weeds stand tall
And the ghetto palms appear
And the tears depart
And the garden grows
In the people’s hardened hearts.
DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Detroit sits motionless
Like a daughter with her mother’s lifeless body.
The place is a chamber eerily apart from space and time
A ball of light hovering above a hole.
Two forms unable to inhale the next moment or
To cling together to fill the hollow.
Only in perfect still can the echo of being still be felt
So the daughter turns to stone like the mound of clay on the table before her.
The corpse must be returned to the soil
Before energy can again be found –
The heat between them forging iron to last
Until she too is a mound bereft of anything.
Detroit is still
Like a mountain blocking the sun.
A cavern is inside, precious metals in sum.
But our loss is its loss
Such is the formlessness of grief that it blankets all things
The nothingness before it is a vacuum
Into which vitality is slowly drawn –
Such is the black hole of tragedy that all material is reformed.
When our lifeless generation is duly mourned and returned to the ages,
New life will be formed
And there will no weeping, no striking out,
Only the duty of remembering in a city that is no longer an innocent child.
THE LAST PACKARD COMPANY MAN
As a lover he didn’t read minds or chart the heart’s inner terrain with his hands.
Those hands were working hands, greasy leathery tools.
Steel was the vessel of his spirit, and everything he touched became this sort of flesh.
The last Packard Company man lived to work,
Strove to be a cog in the great machine.
His shift was the prayer that sanctified him to his wife and children,
Made them believe in God.
The City’s Committee on Plant Closings asked him who he was
and he told them that he fought two great wars building the planes that brought death to the first and second global conflicts.
The heat that forges memory is the same that bends metal.
What does a soldier do after the war is lost?
Is honor found in the hands or in the heart?
Is faith the whole, or only part?
Do you believe because it’s in your head, or is belief an act of defiance instead?
Locally committed to improving the quality of life for Coventry people
Council Plan 2013/14 End of Year Performance Report
Coventry City Council
Taken from the Council Plan end of year performance report (Cabinet, 8 July 2014) goo.gl/xwjm04
Find out more:
Council Plan: www.coventry.gov.uk/councilplan/
Performance: www.coventry.gov.uk/performance/
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead
1. Pamaname, 2. For our children’s sake…?, 3. MUNDO_UNO, 4. Caught in the act..., 5. Passing On Wisdom, 6. le idee sono colori, 7. Fish boy, 8. enjoying the story, 9. Hop Skip, 10. Untitled, 11. Taheerah, 12. Untitled, 13. Habib Koite and Bamada, 14. Mahamadou Kone of Bamada, 15. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 16. Funny, I woke up craving liver, 17. Lee & Valencia, 18. they should call it Coldorado, 19. Woman in Myanmar, 20. Queens, NY, 21. Dragonfly Zen Are Moments Of Magic Dsc03654, 22. U. Utah Phillips at the 2006 Kate Wolf Festival, 23. Closet Accordion Player ~ Barrybar, 24. L'imam de la mosquée, 25. the jaguar dance
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Earth Day 2013 was celebrated in the Buffalo District with a combination of many different activities, April 22, 2013. They include: the Riverwalk Cleanup, E-Waste for Camp Good Days, Puma Bring Back Program and Flower Bed Cleanup. District employee's participation in the events, shows how committed they are to going green and saving the planet.
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
International Girls in ICT Day 2016 @ ITU HQ
The Girls in ICT initiative of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a global effort to raise awareness on empowering and encouraging girls and young women to consider studies and careers in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The initiative is committed to celebrate and commemorate the International Girls in ICT Day on the fourth Thursday of every April as established by the ITU membership.
© ITU/A.Mhadhbi
Khmer Rouge committed genocide, killing over 20% of the population in a bizarre sense of recreating a pure Cambodian past. A macabre desire to document what perpetrators rationalized as enemies of the state. They would torture prisoners until they confessed at being spies, then they would kill the citizens. Here two of the 1,700,000 million seem to look out through bars at S21, their first stop on a nightmare train.
Documentary suggests many contributing factors that led to genocide- many countries and forces in addition to the Khmer Rouge.
Life of Pol Pot www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgkkmOnwoE
Series at www.flickr.com/photos/karl_wolfgang/sets/72157632510545036/
Jan Anderson, a committed Detroiter and poet, graciously collaborated with us on a projection series where she recited her poetry about Detroit. Text of the recited poems follows:
WHEN THE PEOPLE LEAVE
When the people leave
The siege begins,
And the windows fall
And the halls are spooked
And the roof rots
And the lot vacates
And the placated defacate
Until the weeds stand tall
And the ghetto palms appear
And the tears depart
And the garden grows
In the people’s hardened hearts.
DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Detroit sits motionless
Like a daughter with her mother’s lifeless body.
The place is a chamber eerily apart from space and time
A ball of light hovering above a hole.
Two forms unable to inhale the next moment or
To cling together to fill the hollow.
Only in perfect still can the echo of being still be felt
So the daughter turns to stone like the mound of clay on the table before her.
The corpse must be returned to the soil
Before energy can again be found –
The heat between them forging iron to last
Until she too is a mound bereft of anything.
Detroit is still
Like a mountain blocking the sun.
A cavern is inside, precious metals in sum.
But our loss is its loss
Such is the formlessness of grief that it blankets all things
The nothingness before it is a vacuum
Into which vitality is slowly drawn –
Such is the black hole of tragedy that all material is reformed.
When our lifeless generation is duly mourned and returned to the ages,
New life will be formed
And there will no weeping, no striking out,
Only the duty of remembering in a city that is no longer an innocent child.
THE LAST PACKARD COMPANY MAN
As a lover he didn’t read minds or chart the heart’s inner terrain with his hands.
Those hands were working hands, greasy leathery tools.
Steel was the vessel of his spirit, and everything he touched became this sort of flesh.
The last Packard Company man lived to work,
Strove to be a cog in the great machine.
His shift was the prayer that sanctified him to his wife and children,
Made them believe in God.
The City’s Committee on Plant Closings asked him who he was
and he told them that he fought two great wars building the planes that brought death to the first and second global conflicts.
The heat that forges memory is the same that bends metal.
What does a soldier do after the war is lost?
Is honor found in the hands or in the heart?
Is faith the whole, or only part?
Do you believe because it’s in your head, or is belief an act of defiance instead?
After Compliments,
Dear Prospective Student,
Academy of Art & Design offers several professional courses in art, design and allied fields. We are committed to providing our students with quality & professional educational experience. Many opportunities to enhance your education are provided beyond the traditional classroom experience. You'll have the opportunity to participate in profession related organizations, specialized workshops, guest lectures, field trips, and study programs.
Selecting a career in ART & DESIGN can be the correct choice for you if you desire to be in a creative field that combines artistic abilities with technical knowledge and skills.
These are exhilarating times. Life moves fast and is ever-changing. Everyday we are bombarded with information and images that stimulates and energizes our imagination. In this exciting climate, design professionals are being called upon to bring order to the environments that we experience daily-the places we live, work and play. Academy of Art & Design is devoted to preparing students and professionals to respond and compete in this expanding field. This is an exciting time. You are on the threshold of an important decision. Clearly one of the most important decisions that you'll ever have to make. Your " CAREER."
We have also started short-term professional courses, which may be of your interest. You can take admission in any of our professional course and avail the best education in the field. We recommend that you apply early no matter what course you are interested. Call on 9987002023 / 2771 4343 to discuss getting started today or for further details, SMS your name & email id on 9892521443.
Our expert core faculties :
Prof. Salam Khan, Director - Interior Design & Space Management - Responsible for achieving the set target and developing new designs & layouts. He is a visiting lecturer at L. S. Raheja School of Architecture (Bandra), Istituti Callegari Milano (Chandivali), INIFD (Bandra), Garodia School of Professional Studies (Ghatkopar), Late Bhau Saheb Hiray College of Architecture (Bandra), S. N. D. T. (Juhu), CKT (Panvel), Bharatiya Vidyapeeth College of Architecture (Belapur) and many more reputed colleges in Mumbai & Navi Mumbai.
Ms. Shabnam Deshmukh, Director – Fashion Design & Technology – Responsible for generating good clientele for our ever growing business. She is a visiting faculty in Indian Fashion Academy (Dadar/Thane), CKT (Panvel), INIFD (Vashi) and many more reputed colleges in Mumbai & Navi Mumbai.
Kindly check our Academys details on :
www.facebook.com/academyofartanddesign
labs.google.co.in/smschannels/subscribe/DesignEducation
www.lsraheja.com/architecture/faculty.asp
Sincerely,
Ms. S. Deshmukh. - 9987002023
(Director - Academy of Art & Design )
Creative Educational & Charitable Trust’s (Govt. Regd.)
Academy of Art & Design (Govt. Regd.)
College of Fashion Design & Interior Design
C-212, 2nd Floor, Nerul Railway Station Complex,
Nerul (E), Navi Mumbai – 400706.
Tel. : +91 22 27714343 Cell. : +91 9987002023
Email : academyenquiry@yahoo.com
Website : www.designcareer.in
www.facebook.com/academyofartanddesign
Office Timings : All 7 Days of the week from 10 am to 6:30 pm
UGC Govt. of India Approved Degree Offered :
Bachelor of Science in Interior Design (3 Years)
Bachelor of Science in Fashion Design (3 Years)
Autonomous Professional Diploma Courses Offered :
Department of Interior Design & Space Management :
3 Years Professional Diploma in Interior Designing & Space Management
2 Years Advance Diploma in Interior Designing & Decoration.
1 Year Diploma in Interior Designing.
Department of Fashion Design & Apparel Management :
3 Years Professional Diploma in Fashion Designing & Apparel Management
2 Years Advance Diploma in Fashion Designing & Technology.
1 Year Diploma in Fashion Designing.
3 Months Certificate in Fashion Tailoring
3 Months Diploma in Fashion Tailoring
“If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain.”
Last weeks trip through Georgia provided some beautiful discoveries, the most interesting of which was a sprawling historic plantation, complete with numerous tenant farmhouses. The entire property was undergoing an active controlled-burn the day we visited and as I took this photo, kindling was still burning on all sides.
Despite being abandoned, each building on this expansive property had very well maintained firebreaks to protect the homes from destruction during this process. The people who care for this land are obviously dedicated to the maintenance of these historic structures as each building also had a a well maintained or brand new roof.
These structures may be too far gone to ever welcome another family, but how grateful I am to know that there are committed stewards out there who value the importance of maintaining these special places.
After Compliments,
Dear Prospective Student,
Academy of Art & Design offers several professional courses in art, design and allied fields. We are committed to providing our students with quality & professional educational experience. Many opportunities to enhance your education are provided beyond the traditional classroom experience. You'll have the opportunity to participate in profession related organizations, specialized workshops, guest lectures, field trips, and study programs.
Selecting a career in ART & DESIGN can be the correct choice for you if you desire to be in a creative field that combines artistic abilities with technical knowledge and skills.
These are exhilarating times. Life moves fast and is ever-changing. Everyday we are bombarded with information and images that stimulates and energizes our imagination. In this exciting climate, design professionals are being called upon to bring order to the environments that we experience daily-the places we live, work and play. Academy of Art & Design is devoted to preparing students and professionals to respond and compete in this expanding field. This is an exciting time. You are on the threshold of an important decision. Clearly one of the most important decisions that you'll ever have to make. Your " CAREER."
We have also started short-term professional courses, which may be of your interest. You can take admission in any of our professional course and avail the best education in the field. We recommend that you apply early no matter what course you are interested. Call on 9987002023 / 2771 4343 to discuss getting started today or for further details, SMS your name & email id on 9892521443.
Our expert core faculties :
Prof. Salam Khan, Director - Interior Design & Space Management - Responsible for achieving the set target and developing new designs & layouts. He is a visiting lecturer at L. S. Raheja School of Architecture (Bandra), Istituti Callegari Milano (Chandivali), INIFD (Bandra), Garodia School of Professional Studies (Ghatkopar), Late Bhau Saheb Hiray College of Architecture (Bandra), S. N. D. T. (Juhu), CKT (Panvel), Bharatiya Vidyapeeth College of Architecture (Belapur) and many more reputed colleges in Mumbai & Navi Mumbai.
Ms. Shabnam Deshmukh, Director – Fashion Design & Technology – Responsible for generating good clientele for our ever growing business. She is a visiting faculty in Indian Fashion Academy (Dadar/Thane), CKT (Panvel), INIFD (Vashi) and many more reputed colleges in Mumbai & Navi Mumbai.
Kindly check our Academys details on :
www.facebook.com/academyofartanddesign
labs.google.co.in/smschannels/subscribe/DesignEducation
www.lsraheja.com/architecture/faculty.asp
Sincerely,
Ms. S. Deshmukh. - 9987002023
(Director - Academy of Art & Design )
Creative Educational & Charitable Trust’s (Govt. Regd.)
Academy of Art & Design (Govt. Regd.)
College of Fashion Design & Interior Design
C-212, 2nd Floor, Nerul Railway Station Complex,
Nerul (E), Navi Mumbai – 400706.
Tel. : +91 22 27714343 Cell. : +91 9987002023
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Read Coventry City Council's 2016/17 End of Year Performance report online at smarturl.it/CovPerf1617
Highway maintenance has improved, with increased public satisfaction for speed and quality of repair. The number of potholes reported has also reduced.
Fly-tipping has increased, which may be due to a combination of easier reporting, reduced enforcement action and increased disposal fees.
The city continues to have low rates of recycling for household waste and the recent growth in volume has seen a greater proportion sent to the waste-to-energy incinerator or to landfill.
Crime rates have gone up in the city, as has happened across the region. However, the city continues to have lower crime rates than Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the rate of increase has been lower than these areas.
There has been a decrease in the number of repeat incidents of domestic violence, suggesting that the support provided by the police and partner agencies and the management of repeat offenders is having an impact.
Coventry’s schools have made good progress, with primary schools being better than average and secondary schools having closed much of the gap and are more similar to comparator areas but there remain challenges to reach our target of being at or above the national average.
Healthy life expectancy is increasing. More adults are physically active. However, there are still challenges around levels of smoking and increasing rates of child obesity.
Children’s social care have seen fewer re-referrals and fewer children re-entering care. The recent Ofsted inspection highlighted the progress made, moving from ‘inadequate’ to ‘requires improvement’.
More adults using social care are receiving self-directed support and more people are receiving direct payments. Additionally, the number of regulated services rated as inadequate has reduced and more adult social care service users feel the service makes them feel safe.
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by John Mac Arthur
In 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 21 we read this: "For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps."
There is little question in anyone's mind that the life of Christ is an example. But I daresay most people would not assume that the death of Christ is an example and yet that is exactly what Peter says. That Christ in suffering and dying has left us an example that we are to follow. Now we understand how we can follow the example of Christ in His life. The Bible tells us that He was the perfect person, the perfect man, that He knew no sin, that He was without sin, that He committed no sin, that He was holy, that He was innocent, that He was undefiled, that He was separate from sinners and that whatever a man could be He was. And so in life He is the perfect example. In fact the Bible says that looking at His life we are to be holy as He was holy. We are to be pure as He was pure. We are to be gentle as He was gentle. We are to be wise as He was wise. We are to be humble as He was humble. We are to be obedient to God as He was obedient to God. We are to be serving as He served. We are to be from the world as free as He was free from the world.
We understand that the life of Christ was an exemplary life. Even a French atheist once said that Jesus is the model of all human virtue. Few people would argue that Jesus lived an exemplary life. But the issue before us in this verse that Peter gives us is not the example in His living but the example in His dying. And that is so crucial because the truth of the matter is that you learn more about the character of a person in their dying then you do in their living.
You say, "What do you mean by that?" What I mean is to say this, that the truest revelation of you and me comes in the time of our deepest trial. Trials reveal character. Adversity reveals virtue or the lack of it. And the greater the trouble and the more severe the adversity, the purer the revelation of what we are. I am not convinced that I know a person whom I only know in the good times, I know a person whom I know in the difficult times, in the trying times, under stress, under duress. That's the truest purest revelation of what you are. And since that it is true it is also true that we find then the purest truest revelation of the character of Jesus Christ in the time of His greatest trial. And that was the time of His dying. And we find that in His dying He is as perfect as in His living. And His dying only confirms the pure perfect character manifest in His living.
But in His dying He gives us revelations of His character that teach us how to live. I think for the most part we look at His dying and we say, "Well, His dying shows us the significance of sin, it shows us how we had to have a Savior pay the price for our iniquity. His death was for us a substitutionary death by which He took our place, died our death, paid for our sin." But Peter says there's something more. He died not only for us but He died as an example to us. He died to show us how to live. That's what I want you to focus on this morning...the example of Christ in His death.
Now how are we going to know anything about Him in His death? How is His character revealed? It cannot be revealed in something He does because He is nailed to the cross and cannot do anything. It cannot be revealed to us in something that He thinks because we can't read His thoughts. Therefore the only thing we can know about the character of Christ in His dying is in what He says. And through the years, year after year after year, since perhaps the earliest years of the church people have celebrated the Easter season by looking at the seven last sayings of Christ. And that's exactly what I want us to do this morning for a reason that perhaps you have never entertained before, and that is that they reveal the truest purest character of Christ and they teach us how to live. What He said in dying became principles for living. And so we flow through the seven last sayings of Christ.
The first of His sayings is recorded in Luke 23 and verse 34. You don't need to look it up, it's familiar to you. The first thing He said from the cross was this, "Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing." And in so saying He revealed His character. The principle is this, He died forgiving those who sinned against them...He died forgiving those who sinned against Him. That, dear friends, is a principle for living. Jesus in His dying revealed a forgiving heart, even against those who took His life. Think about it. Men had done their very worst. The one by whom the world was made had come into the world but the world knew Him not. The Lord of glory had tabernacled among men but He was not wanted by men. The eyes which sin had blinded saw in Him no beauty that He should be desired. At His birth there was no room in the inn which foreshadowed the treatment He was to receive at the hands of men all His life and in His death. Shortly after His birth Herod sought to slay Him. And this hostility was only the beginning of a life long hostility which He experienced. Again and again His enemies sought His destruction. And now as we come to the time of the cross their vile treachery has reached its climax. The Son of God has yielded Himself into their hands and they are in the process of executing Him. They had gone through the motions of a mock trial with trumped up false accusations. And though the judge admitted he found no fault in him, he nevertheless yielded to the insistent clamoring of the crowd that hated Him and agreed to His crucifixion. No ordinary deed could satisfy earth or hell and so the implacable foes of Jesus made sure that He died the most painful intense shaming death imaginable, that of hanging on a cross.
And as He hangs on the cross the victim, as it were, from the human perspective of the hatred, animosity, bitterness, vengeance and vile wickedness of a world of men and a host of demons, what is His response? What is His reply? We would have expected as human beings that He might have cried out to God for pity, that He might have shaken His fist in the face of God as one unworthy of such an execution. We might have assumed that He would cry malediction or vengeance upon His killers. But He does none of that. The first thing He says is a prayer. The first prayer He prays is a prayer of forgiveness for the very people who have taken His life. And underlying His prayer for forgiveness is an understanding of the wretchedness of the human heart. And He expresses it in the words, "They do not know what they are doing."
You see, the Lord Jesus understood the sinfulness of men. He understood the blindness of the human heart. He understood the ignorance of depravity. He knew that they neither understood the identity of the victim, nor the enormity of the crime. They understood neither and He knew it. They did not know they were killing the prince of life. They did not know they were executing their creator. They did not know that they were slaughtering the Messiah, the Lord Christ, the Savior. And the deed and the expression of Christ's statement, "They don't know what they're doing," shows how much the carnal mind is at enmity against God.
But the truth of the matter is they needed forgiveness. Because the only way they would ever be ushered into the presence of holy God, the only way they would ever know the joy of walking with God and being with God, the only way they would ever experience heaven, the only way they would ever experience the joy that God gives one who was in fellowship with Him was if their sins were forgiven. And so He prays along the line of their profoundest need. He prays for these wicked murderers to be forgiven. He is more concerned about their forgiveness than He is vengeance upon them for what they've done to Him. He is more concerned about what happens to them than what has happened to Him. He is praying for the people who killed Him to be forgiven for doing what they've done to Him. This is the magnanimous heart of Christ. This is the truest revelation of a pure heart, for a pure heart seeks no vengeance. Peter says, "Being reviled He reviled not again, being insulted He did not insult back but rather He prayed for them who took His life."
Forgiveness is man's greatest need. Forgiveness is man's only way to enter into fellowship with God. Forgiveness is man's only way to be let out of hell. Forgiveness is man's only hope for blessing. Forgiveness is thus what Jesus prayed for. And the first important lesson which everyone needs to learn is that we are sinners and as sinners we are unfit for the presence of a holy God. And because of that it is vain for men to seek noble ideals. It is vain for men to form good resolutions. It is vain for men to adopt formal excellent rules to live by until the question of sin has been dealt with. It is of no use to attempt to develop a beautiful character and aim to do that which will meet with God's approval while there is no relationship between you and God and while there is sin between you and God. It is like fitting shoes to feet that are paralyzed, or getting glasses for eyes that are blind, it is irrelevant.
The question of the forgiveness of sin is the most basic fundamental vital question of all. It does not matter that I am highly respected in the circle of my friends if I am yet in my sins. It does not matter that I have attained a level of human goodness if I am still in my sins. And so the great truth here is that Jesus understood the deep need of man and He understood that the only way man could ever escape hell and know blessing was if His sins were forgiven, and it did not matter to Him that the sin for which He pleaded was the sin of killing Him. In fact, it was for the very sin of killing Him that He was dying. And what a beautiful picture do we see of the principle, He died praying for the forgiveness of those who sinned against Him. There, by friend, is a principle for living. There is a way to live your life, being more concerned with God forgiving the sin of the one who sinned against you than that you should receive vengeance. That's the way to live your life.
Stephen learned that. Stephen, that saint of God, who was stoned to death for loving Christ and preaching Christ as he was being crushed under the bloody stones in Acts 7 and verse 60 it says he said to God, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." He was praying for their forgiveness, too.
How should you live? You should live with a heart of forgiveness toward those who wrong you, being more concerned that they be forgiven than that you get vengeance.
The second word of Christ on the cross is recorded in Luke 23:43. The second utterance that Jesus made from the cross was this, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in paradise." You remember that there were two thieves crucified with Christ, one on the right hand and one on the left. One of those thieves said to Jesus, "Remember me when You come into Your Kingdom." To which Jesus replied, "Today you shall be with Me in paradise." And that teaches us the second great principle. Jesus died bringing the truth of eternal life to a damned soul. Jesus died bringing the truth of eternal life to a damned soul.
It's imagined...it's hard to imagine how Christ on the cross feeling...mark it...the venomous hate and wicked sin of all the sinners of all the ages, for He was bearing it all, could at the same time be concerned with the salvation of one of those sinners. But He was. Never was He too preoccupied, not even then, to be interested in leading someone to paradise. That's the way to live your life. Jesus in His dying shows His character and His life commitment was to bring men to God...was to bring people to paradise. And He was doing it in His dying as He had done it in His living.
It is quite remarkable and quite dramatic how this man came to trust in Christ. After all, look at the scene. What is there about Jesus Christ that is at all convincing? What is there at this particular occasion in the life of Christ that's going to convince you that He's the Christ of God, the Savior of the world, the Messiah, the King? Certainly not the circumstances. This is no victor, this is a victim from the human viewpoint. After all, this is one who is dying because He is totally rejected. The society to which He has come has no interest in Him at all. There is no one saying, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." There is no one yet affirming that this in fact is the Son of God, that happens later. Even His friends have forsaken Him. The people to whom He has come hate Him. He is weak and in disgrace. He is in a position of shame. His enemies are triumphing. His crucifixion is regarded as totally inconsistent with anything related to the Messiah. His lowly condition is a stumbling block to the Jews from the very first and the circumstances of His death can only intensify that. In fact, the thief speaks to Christ and Christ to him before any of the supernatural phenomena occurs that might have convinced him that this was a work of God. The rocks have not split, the earth has not quaked. The darkness has not come. The graves have not opened. The tombs have not released their victims. The centurion has not said, "This truly was the Son of God." None of that has happened yet.
In other words, in the most unfavorable, unconvincing circumstances imaginable this man is convinced that this is the Savior. He says to the other thief as they discuss the situation, the thief is casting insults at Jesus, and the one thief says to Him, "Why are you doing that, this man has done nothing?" And thus he affirmed Christ's sinlessness. He has done nothing wrong, the text actually says. He was convinced of His sinlessness.
Then he turns to Jesus and says, "Remember me." What does he mean by that? He is pleading for forgiveness. So he not only understands Christ's sinlessness, he understands His Saviorhood. He knows that this is the one who can bring him to the Kingdom, the Savior. And then he says, "Remember me when You come." Therefore he is affirming His resurrection and Second Coming. He knows that death isn't the end. And then the thief says, "When You come in Your Kingdom," and he also affirms His sovereignty. There he is on the cross, crucified next to Jesus Christ and in the most unlikely circumstances he sees the sinlessness, the Saviorhood, the sovereignty and the Second Coming of Christ.
Now how so? How can he see that? And the answer is very very simply this, it is not a work of man, salvation, it is a work of God...it is a work of God. And what you see there is the sovereign saving work of God. God moved on his heart to convince him of those things. And, beloved, I remind you that instead of attributing the salvation of lost sinners to the matchless grace of God, many professing Christians seek to account for salvation by the cleverness of human influences, instrumentalities and circumstances...not so...not so. Some think it was the preacher. Some think it was the person who was the individual who shared the gospel. Some think salvation is the direct result of prayer. It is not. It is the indirect result of all of that and the direct result of God's intervening grace. It didn't matter what the circumstances were. It didn't matter what might be negative. When God shattered the darkness of that thief's heart, he believed. But nonetheless it was through the instrumentality of Christ who was sensitive to be used of God to bring a damned soul to salvation.
It's always so with Him. The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost, Luke 19:10 says. Paul writing to Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:15 says, "Christ came to save sinners." And that's what He's doing on the cross. What an example. He died forgiving those who sinned against Him and He died bringing the truth of eternal life to a damned soul. Beloved, may I submit to you that that's how to live? That's how to live. That's the truest revelation of what was in His heart.
The third saying of Christ on the cross is found in John 19 verses 26 and 27. On that occasion in John 19:26 and 27 Jesus said this, "Woman, behold your Son," and then He said, "Behold your mother." What is this about? Well the principle here is very simple. Jesus died expressing selfless love. Did you get that? Jesus died expressing selfless love. You see, standing at the foot of the cross was a little group of five people, different than the crowd, the throng, the multitude, the mad mob, different than the chief priests and the scribes and elders. There was this little group. They were huddled around the foot of the cross. Who were they? Well there was John, the only man that's named, John the Apostle. And then there were four women. There was Mary, Mary the mother of our Lord...Mary who by now realized the full force of that prophetic word spoken 30 years before by Simeon when he said her heart would be pierced through by this child; Mary who had all the love a mother could hold for an absolutely perfectly sinless son; Mary who is now hurt and pained and baffled and paralyzed, yet bound by love to the cross; Mary who stands there without strength yet with no hysteria; Mary without wailing and without fainting and yet suffering in weak silence, staring at the beloved Son, there is Mary. Then there is her sister, the Bible says...possibly Salome, the mother of James and John. And then there is Mary the wife of Cleophas who was probably her sister‑in‑law and then there is Mary Magdalene, her dear friend out of whom Jesus had cast the demons.
END OF SIDE ONE
SIDE TWO
And so four women, three named Mary. Fitting, isn't it, that the word "Mary" means bitterness? Three Marys, a sister and John. Jesus was crucified close to the ground and it is reasonable to assume that they could have touched Him and perhaps they did. They were near enough to Him because He was so close to the ground that they could have heard Him speak, though He spoke in soft tones. And what does He say? He says, "Woman, behold your son." What's the point of that? Woman is Mary His mother. You say, "Why doesn't He call her mother?" Because that relationship is over now and she is not His mother. Once He began His ministry He identified her as woman in John 2 at the wedding at Cana. And now she is woman in the sense that she must look to Him not as her son but as her Savior. But He says to her, "Woman, behold your son." He's not calling attention to Himself because then He turns to John and says, "John, behold your mother." What is He doing? He is giving His mother into the care of John. He is saying, "Mary, John from now on is your son." "John, Mary from now on is yours to care for." He commits His mother to the care of John. As He is dying His mother is on His heart. Out of that little crowd His mother was the neediest of all. It is very likely that Joseph had by this time died. He disappears very early from the scene of gospel history and is no doubt dead or He wouldn't have had to make such a commitment. So Jesus could not commit him to Joseph...commit her to Joseph. He could not commit her either to His brothers, and He did have some brothers and sisters, but in John chapter 7 verse 5 it says they didn't believe in Him and He was not about to commit the care of His believing mother into the hands of His unbelieving half brothers and sisters.
And so out of compassion He commits Mary to John and John to the care of Mary. And what does this teach us? This is selfless love. Here out of the heart of one who is occupied with the weight of the world's sins, here out of the heart of one who is experiencing the most stupendous agony imaginable under the wrath of almighty God, far greater internal pain than the external pain, in the midst of all of this sin bearing His sympathy is directed towards somebody else...truly this is the purity of His character coming to the surface. This is how we are to live. Never so...mark it now...never so overwhelmed with our own pain that we lose sight of the needs of others. That's a great principle for living. Never so preoccupied with our own hurt that we miss the needs of those around us. Oh the magnificence of looking not on our own things but the things of others...the magnificence of selfless love.
How are we to live? Forgiving those who sin against us, bringing the truth of eternal life to damned souls, and expressing selfless love to others...perhaps even when they have less pain than we have. The fourth word from the cross is recorded in Matthew 27:46, this has the most pathos of all, Jesus said, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" What does this tell us? What lesson do we learn? What principle? This, Jesus died understanding the seriousness of sin. He died resenting the implications of sin, is another way to say it. He died resenting, refusing, rejecting the implications of sin. What implications? That sin separates from God. "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" That word "forsaken" is one of the most tragic in the English language, one of the most painful words that anyone can ever speak, to be forsaken, to be left alone and desolate. And when coupled with the opening statement, "My God, My God," we see that it is a forsaking out of intimacy. "My God, My God," with whom I have had eternal unbroken fellowship, "why have You forsaken Me?" It is against the background of an eternal intimacy that the forsaking has its profoundest significance. You see, sin could do...now mark it...sin could do what nothing else in the universe could do. Men could not separate the Father from the Son...demons could not separate the Father from the Son...Satan could not separate the Father from the Son...but sin separated the Father from the Son. It is the most devastating reality in the universe for it separates from God. And He experienced it.
He who was in the Father and the Father in Him, He who was one with the Father and the Father one with Him, He who had enjoyed eternally uninterrupted perfect communion within the trinity is now forsaken by God. Why? Because He's bearing sin and sin separates. God is too holy to look on sin, to pure to behold iniquity, says the prophet Habakkuk. Sin alienates from God.
And, beloved, that's what marks the climax of His suffering. The soldiers had cruelly mocked Him, the soldiers had arrayed Him with a crown of thorns, they had scourged Him and buffeted Him. The soldiers went so far as to spit upon His face and pluck out the hairs of His beard. The soldiers had given Him suffering beyond description but He had suffered in silence without response. They had pierced His hands, they had pierced His feet and yet He endured the cross despising the shame. The vulgar crowd had taunted Him. The thieves were crucified beside Him had flung their vile epithets into His face yet He never opened His mouth. But now something way beyond the pain of all of that, God has forsaken Him.
Beloved, may I warn you, don't you ever consider any vicissitude or struggle or trial or trouble in life to even come remotely close to the trouble that your own sin will bring because it will separate you from God. And no trouble when the believer is in communion with God is as severe as the separating impact of sin. Jesus experienced personally the profound pain that sin brings because it separates from God. That's how we're to live. We're to live understanding the implications of our sin that they wrench us away from God. Jesus experienced that. The separation that sin brings, the alienation, the loneliness, the forsakenness, the emptiness, the destruction, the devastation and thus teaches us how to live. We must live understanding the serious implications of sin.
The next word from the cross is recorded in John 19 verse 28. The next thing that Jesus uttered from the cross was the simple statement, "I am thirsty...I am thirsty." That indicates to me that He was experiencing the results of true humanity. That's not a spiritual statement. It doesn't mean He was thirsty for God, it means He was thirsty for something to drink. You see Him there in all His humanity and what lesson does that teach us? Simply this, He teaches us to live expressing the frailties of our humanity. He teaches us to live expressing the frailties of our humanity and our dependence. He needed a drink and He couldn't get it for Himself and He needed somebody to get it for Him. He was not unfamiliar with human need, that's why He is such a sympathetic and faithful high priest. He was fully man. He was thirsty. The New Testament says there were times when He was weary. There were times when He was hungry. There were times when He was sleepy. There were times when He was happy. There were times when He was grieved. There were times when He was groaning. He felt all the emotion of human life. And when He was hungry He needed food, and when He was sleepy He needed a place to lie down, and when He was thirsty He needed a drink and He depended on someone to give it to Him. Sometimes it was Mary and Martha, sometimes it was His mother and here He just cries, "I'm thirsty." And in so crying He shows us that we must live in the same way, we must live willing to show our human weakness and depend on someone else to supply what we need. We must learn to live dependently. We must learn to live sharing needs with others.
How are we to live? We are to live the way He died. We're to live forgiving those who sin against us even if it takes our life, being more concerned about their forgiveness and their relationship with God than about our vengeance. We are to live doing everything we can to be available to God that He might use us in bringing the truth to a damned soul. We are to live loving selflessly others who have less pain than we do and forgetting our own in compassion for theirs. We are to live understanding the serious implications of sin and thus avoiding its tremendous power to separate us from God and thus from blessing. And we are to live willing to acknowledge our human weakness and being dependent on those who can meet our needs.
The sixth saying of Christ and the next to the last one is recorded in John's gospel chapter 19 and verse 30, "It is finished." As He came near the end of His life He made a triumphant pronouncement, Tetelestai, it is finished. What principle do you see here? He died completing the work God gave Him to do. He died completing the work God gave Him to do.
May I give you an insight into what I'm saying here? It is one thing to end your life, it is another thing to finish it. It is one thing to have your life over, it is another to have your work done. I couldn't help but think of that as I noted the Los Angeles Marathon. Everybody started and everybody stopped, but not everybody finished. For most people in the world life ends and life is over but the work is not done. When Jesus said "it is finished," He had finished the redeeming work, He had come into the world, He had borne the sins of man, He had provided the sacrificial death, He had done the atoning work, He was finished. He came, it says, to take away sin by the sacrifice of Himself and He did it. He bore our sins in His own body. He condemned sin in the flesh. He defeated Satan with a blow to the head. He finished perfectly what God gave Him to do, and that's the way we must live. We must be more concerned with the work God's called us to do than the pain the work takes us through. He endured the pain because He could see the accomplishment. That's always the price of doing the work of God. It's being able to move through the pain and through the difficulty to do the work.
Paul learned from Jesus and at the end of his life could say, "I have finished my course." It wasn't easy, "I fought a fight to get it done, but I finished." That's the way to live your life. Don't just live it till it's over. Don't just live it till it ends. Live it to finish the work of God that He gives you to do.
Christ in His death gives us one other final principle for living. The last words of Jesus are recorded in Luke 23:46, this is the last statement He said on the cross, "Father, into Thy hands I commit My spirit...into Thy hands I commit My spirit." What principle is there here? Listen carefully. Jesus died entrusting Himself to the promised care of God. And that's how you're to live, casting all your care on the one who cares for you. You are to live putting your life and your death and your destiny in the promised care of God. You're to live trusting God...a life of faith, a life of trust. God had promised to raise Him from the dead way back in Psalm 16. God had confirmed that promise to Him as often times Jesus said that He would suffer and die but rise again. And He commits Himself to the promised care of God in His death. That's the only way to life, the only way to live is to commit your life to God. Commit your way unto Him, the psalmist said, trust also in Him, He shall direct your path.
Listen, we are to live a life that totally commits itself to God. Romans 12 says that we are to present to God as a living sacrifice ourselves, our life and trust Him for the outcome. Jesus, says Peter, in 1 Peter 2:23 kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously. He just kept giving Himself to God, saying, "God, I give You Myself, no matter how great the pain, no matter how much hostility, no matter how difficult the task, I commit Myself to You, You will do what's right, You will judge righteously, You will bring it to pass, You will care for Me, You've promised. I'll go to the grave, I'll go to death, I'll face the teeth of hell, I will face the one who has the keys now, that is Satan, and I'll take them out of His hand. I'll face death." The Bible says He even descended into the pit where the demons are bound after He died. "I'll face it all because I know You will not fail Me, You will lift Me out of the grave, You will lift Me to glory." That's the way to live...with confident trust in God.
And so the Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life and He died a perfect death. In His living He gave us an example of how to live and in His dying He gave us maybe the greatest example of how to live. And it seems as though in the words that He said He summed up all the greatest elements of life. And He said here is how to live...you are to live forgiving those who sin against you, you are to life giving the truth to those damned soul who without it are lost, you are to live loving selflessly and being compassionate about those whose pain may be less than yours, and making sure their needs are met, you are to live understanding the serious implications of sin and its separating power, you are to live not afraid to admit your weakness and allow others to meet your need that you might build the strength of fellowship, you are to live not until your life is over but you are to live to finish the work God gives you to do and you are to live and die trusting your life and your death and your soul and your eternity to the hands of a caring promising God. That's how to live.
Now listen very carefully as I bring this to a climax. Jesus lived a perfect life and Jesus died a perfect death. And as a result of that the Bible says God did something. You know what it says God did? It says it over and over and over again in the book of Acts, about a dozen times, God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. And then God set Him at His right hand in glory. Listen carefully. God raised Jesus from the dead and gave Him eternal glory because of His perfect life and His perfect death. That was God's affirmation of the perfection of His Son's person and work. Listen carefully. It is because of the perfection of Christ that He was raised from the dead. God has promised that He would raise those who are perfect.
You say, "Well that doesn't sound like good news to me. As much as I would like to be forgiving of those who sin against me, I'm not. I wish I were. As much as I would like to be sensitive to the lost souls around me to bring them the truth, I'm not always. As much as I wish I were selflessly loving and compassionate toward others whose pain may be less than mine, as much as I wish I applied in my life the implications of sin, but I don't. As much as I would like to admit my human need and be dependent on others, my pride holds me from doing it. As much as I would like to finish God's word, I'm lazy so much of the time. As much as I want to trust God I don't do it, I'm imperfect. I will never rise because the Father will never affirm that kind of life." You're right. You're right. And it is precisely the failure to live like that that sends the whole human race to hell. You can't live like that.
You say, "Well then what hope do I have?" I give you great hope in the words of the Holy Spirit in Hebrews 10:14. It says this, "For by one offering...that is the offering of Himself on the cross...Jesus Christ has perfected for all time those who are set apart."
Did you hear that? Listen carefully, you could never attain to resurrection, neither could I. You could never live a life that God would honor like He honored the life of Christ. You could never die a death that God would honor like He honored the death of Christ. You can never be perfect and that's why you're damned and that's why I'm damned. So do you know what God does through Christ? He gives us the very perfection of Christ. He has perfected us. God gives us the perfection of Christ. He covers us with Christ's perfection. He places us in Christ so that Christ's perfection hides us so we can say we are perfect in Christ. That's why Christians are all the time saying, "I'm in Christ...I'm in Christ..." because if I wasn't in Christ I wouldn't be perfect and if I wasn't perfect God wouldn't raise me to glory. But I'm perfect in Christ because Christ is perfect and I'm hidden in Him. That's the gospel. His perfection becomes ours when we receive Him as Savior. When you give your life to Jesus Christ His righteousness clothes you, His perfection hides you. And thus God will lift you to glory as well. In fact the Bible says He will raise you to glory and He will seat you on the very throne with Christ because you are as perfect as Christ in Christ. That's the gospel.
You say, "Well does that mean that once you become a Christian you are actually perfect?" No. We still struggle in this life, we will some day be perfect when we get to heaven. But in the meantime we are covered by the perfection of Christ so that our sin is hidden from an otherwise intolerant holy God. That's the gospel. Because He lives we can live.
He taught us how to live. He made us face the fact that we don't live that way. And then He said for your imperfections I'll cover you with My perfections. And God now sees us as perfect. You say, "But what about living that way?" Well that becomes the pursuit of every Christian. Because Christ has covered me with His perfection I want to do all I can to live as perfectly as possible. I want to be the kind of person that He was. I want to walk as He walked. I want to be forgiving. I want to be evangelizing lost people. I want to be lovingly selfless. I want to be free from sin. I want to be open to share my needs. I want to finish the work God's given me and I want to totally trust God. But I'm motivated to do that not to earn perfection but to live up to the perfection Christ gave me when I received Him as Savior, that's the gospel.
Father, we thank You for the great truths that Jesus teaches us in His dying. We pray that every one of us will be students of these truths and see them become reality in our own lives. Father, I know that in this congregation this morning there are some who have fallen short of Your perfection, who haven't lived up to this standard, but who do not have the perfection of Christ because they've never received Him as Lord and Savior. O God, may this be the day when they open their heart to the living Christ and receive His perfection for their imperfection and with that the hope of eternal heaven.
For those of us as Christians who have received the perfection of Christ, may we with a new zeal commit ourselves to live according to His life and death and follow the pattern that He set. And may the purest revelation of His character as we see it on the cross become the goal of our own living that He might be glorified and that we might be blessed. Amen.
So wie in Kuskowo und anderen Moskauer Parks trifft man auch in Zarizyno viele frischvermählte Paare, und zwar besonders am Freitag, der in Rußland als "Hochzeitstag" gilt (vermutlich, weil man anschließend zwei Abende zum Feiern und zwei Vormittage zum Ausschlafen hat). Die Parks dienen hierbei als Kulisse für die obligaten Hochzeitsphotos nach den offiziellen Zeremonien in Standesamt und - gegebenenfalls - Kirche und vor der eigentlichen Feier. Die Photosessions mit bezahltem Profiphotographen (hier virtuos auf der Treppe liegend) können dabei durchaus mehr als eine halbe Stunde lang sein, und die Braut präsentiert sich ausschließlich im Brautkleid, auch wenn die Temperaturen womöglich 10°C nicht überschreiten. Und natürlich muß unablässig gelächelt werden, denn für viele Russinnen ist der Hochzeitstag "der schönste Tage im Leben".
Pavilion Milovida (beautiful view = Belvedere/Bellevue) in Tsaritsyno park, Moscow/Russia, built in the early 19th century, restored in 2006/2007. Architect: I. V. Yegotos (1756-1814).
ODT: path or track
Bath Twp., Akron, Summit County, Ohio
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Jeffrey was the first born child of two, his brother David was born seven years later. In 1966, the Dahmer family moved to Akron, Ohio because Jeff's father Lionel obtained a job as a chemist. Jeffrey had a relatively normal childhood except for the fact that he was unusually shy. And when he had a surgery for a double hernia, his isolation grew. He also had a fascination for dead animals which was unknown until his trial in 1992 (www.crimelibrary.com). Between the ages of 12 and 14 he actually collected dead animals and would cut them open to see the insides.
During high school Jeffrey had a few friends, received average grades, played tennis and even worked on the school newspaper. When he was eighteen his parents divorced and Jeff stayed with his father while his mother moved away. During that period he took his first victim. After he graduated high school in 1978, Jeffrey took his first victim. Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Stephen Hicks in Ohio and killed him later that night by bludgeoning him to death with a barbell.
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Chris Butler had a list of “musts” when he went house shopping in 2005 in Summit County, Ohio, near his hometown of Cleveland.
“I had a pretty strict list,” he says. “I play rock ’n’ roll and I was tired of having the neighbors yell at me.” The house needed to have:
● Plenty of space to accommodate his band mates.
● Distance from neighbors, so he could make music without getting angry phone calls.
● Ground-level living quarters, in case his aging mom needed to move in.
It was a tall order in this part of Ohio, outside Akron, where the style is Ralph Lauren and the real-estate market is replete with two-story colonials, Butler recalls.
What's your home worth?
Imagine his happiness, then, when his agent showed him a stunning, 2,000-square foot split-level home atop a rocky hill on a two-acre lot deep in the woods near the town of Bath. The house was a stylish, well-built 1950s specimen, with a flat roof, wrap-around deck and expansive windows overlooking Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The price — $269,000 — seemed ridiculously low.
The other shoe dropped when Butler’s real-estate agent called. The seller’s agent had made an important disclosure: The house had been the childhood home of serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer and it was there — in 1978, while Dahmer was in his late teens — that he had committed his first murder.
Butler, a native of the region, knew that Dahmer had lived somewhere nearby. But the news that a homicide had happened in this house that he’d fallen in love with was a startling disappointment.
“My initial shock was, ‘I can’t do this,’” he says.
Then he looked at it differently: In a way — an offbeat way — the home’s bizarre and outcast persona resonated with his own. “After I got over it, it was like, ‘I can’t not do this.’ It fits my alternative lifestyle, my musician-artist nature,” he told himself.
He also understood a rule of thumb in the real-estate market: Homes that have a stigma are harder to sell. They spend more time on the market and, when they do sell, it’s usually at a discount. Some are never purchased and the owner must destroy them to recoup any of the value from the property.
The sellers of Dahmer’s childhood home were at a disadvantage, Butler sensed, so he offered even less than the low asking price and purchased the house for $245,000.
Committed for Trial
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LOXDOX. Todav.
A London 'Magistrate- has committed for trial Henry Purkiss and his wife, who are members of the sect known as ''the Peculiar People'' on a charge of the manslaughter of their three-year-old son by neglecting to give him medical help
Evidence revealed that the boy was suffering from diphtheria.
An elder of the sect was called in, and annointed the child's throat with oil in the name of the Lord.
He laid hands on him and prayed for his recovery.
The elder save evidence that the child had previously benefited by his visits - "God honouring His word.''