It's the question we've been waiting years to know the answer to: whether excessive overdraft fees of up to £35 a time for slipping overlimit can be deemed fair by law.
If the Supreme Court rules they do, it could re-open the floodgates for millions to reclaim their cash.
This will be a fast-moving story so please return to www.moneysavingexpert.com/bankchargesresult from 9.45am on Wednesday (25 November), and throughout the day, for full details and what it means for you.
After the banks paid out over a billion pounds to reclaimers, in July 2007 the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) agreed to a test case with the banks to sort the law out, at which point most claims were put on hold.
First, the courts have to decide if fairness rules apply (which is what today's judgment is all about). If they apply, the OFT then has to decide if charges are indeed unjust.
The High Court has ruled fairness laws apply, the banks tried to overturn this decision at the Court of Appeal and failed. Now the Supreme Court has to give its verdict following another appeal by the banks.
What if the banks lose?
The next step is for the OFT to decide if charges are fair. But as it's the group that has taken the banks to court, it's likely to suggest they are unjust.
But then it's expected that the banks will challenge any OFT ruling that goes against them, to further delay matters. However, politicians have already stated they are against that, and would push for a negotiated settlement.
If charges are deemed unfair, the one million-plus people with claims on hold and up to 8 million more eligible to claim could be due vast compensation: £100s, even £1,000s each.
However, details regarding exactly who that applies to and how much they would be able to claim is still a long way off.
What if the banks win?
This would represent a massive blow to reclaimers, but this site will continue to pursue avenues to get consumers their cash back.


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Malcom McLean is credited with transforming the shipping industry with his ideas about containerized shipments. Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale.
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6 Obituaries, THE RECORD - Jan. 16, 2007 HERNER, Harley and Ruth (Leiskau) - Passed away tragically, away from home, on Sunday January 14, 2007. Ruth was born January 27, 1921 in Wilmot Township a daughter of the late Frederick and Amelia (Miller) Leiskau. Harley was born July 31, 1920, also in Wilmot Township, a son of the late Christian and Edna (Iutzi) Herner. Harley and Ruth were lifelong residents of Baden where they owned and operated Herner Wood Products Ltd., since the 1950's. They were members of St. James Lutheran Church, Baden and enjoyed cottage life for many years at Sauble Beach. Ruth had a great sense of humor, loyally supported Harley and loved her family best! Harley loved everything "wood", built homes, cottages and furniture for many years and had been a chauffeur for Baden's Livingston family in his younger days. Ruth and Harley were married 62 years ago on October 14, 1944. Sadly missed by children, David and Colleen Herner, Gail Herner and Howard Schell, all of Baden and Beth and Ken Baer of RR 2, Wingham. Lovingly remembered by grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Christa and Terry Gerber (Matthew and Meghan), Amie and Todd Wilker, Laura Herner, Jessica Wagler and Derek Hamilton (Emma), Rebecca Wagler, Kyle, Mark and Brandon Baer. Also remembered by Harley's sisters, Eileen Kochem of Waterloo, Helen Boldt of Petersburg and Geraldine and her husband Joseph Roth of New Hamburg as well as several nieces and nephews. Harley was predeceased by brothers-in-law, Clancy Kochem and John Boldt. Ruth was predeceased by brothers, Clarence and his wife Ferne and Harry and his wife Lula and sisters Olive and her husband Ed Diebel and a sister in infancy. According to Ruth and Harley's wishes, cremation has taken place. Friends and relatives are invited to an informal visitation period at Mark Jutzi Funeral Home, 291 Huron St., New Hamburg on Friday, January 19, 2007 from 1-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. A Private Family Committal will be held at Fairmount Cemetery, Baden at a later date. As expressions of sympathy donations may be made to London Health Sciences Foundation or the charity of choice.
LIZ MONTEIROHarley and Ruth Herner played board games together. They went grocery shopping together. They even had knee surgery together two years ago in Toronto.
On Sunday, the elderly Baden couple died together."They were inseparable,'' said Laura Herner, one of eight grandchildren. "It's so fitting that they go together.''"Neither of them would have lasted without the other,'' said Eloise Klaehn, a family friend. "That's what they would have wanted.''The couple were coming home from visiting their daughter, Beth Bear, in Wingham when the crash occurred.They were travelling east on Perth Line 86 west of Listowel just before noon when their pickup truck crossed the centre line and went into the ditch on the west side of the highway, striking a large tree.Harley, who was driving, was pronounced dead at the scene. Ruth was sent to the London Health Sciences Centre, where she later died.Perth OPP said the road was snow-covered at the time. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, Const. Glen Childerley said yesterday.Yesterday, St. James Lutheran Church in Baden rang the church bells 173 times in memory of the long lives of Harley, who was in his 87th year, and Ruth, who was in her 86th year.The Herners were fixtures in Baden, where they'd always lived. The village wanted to show its appreciation for the couple, who always gave generously to their community.Laura Herner said she feels lucky to have had her grandparents for as long as she did.
"We have so many memories,'' the 26-year-old said.At Christmas, Ruth prepared a turkey and her famous Jell-O salad for the family of about 20 people.
Everyone brought a side dish and Ruth did the baking."Grandma made the best sugar cookies and cherry pie,'' Laura said.Each day, Harley still went to work shortly after 6 a.m. even though he'd already passed the business reigns to his son, David.Herner Wood Products Ltd., on Snyder's Road in Baden, opened in 1950 and Harley rarely missed a day.Ruth prepared lunch every Saturday and brought it to the store.As a young man, Harley, worked for J & J Livingston, which later became the Dominion Linseed Oil Co.For 11 years, Harley worked as a driver-salesperson, distributing products across Ontario.He was also the personal driver for factory owner J.P. Livingston, transporting the boss around in a Cadillac.On occasion, Harley brought Ruth along. Livingston would often slip Harley a $20 to spend with Ruth. When the couple got married in October 1944, Livingston gave them $200.Shortly after, Harley, a carpenter by trade, left to start his own business.Klaehn said the Herners had a special bond that few couples have.At the celebration of their 60th anniversary two years ago, the couple held hands the whole time.
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In the years following the American Revolution in the 1770s, there was uncertainty and apprehension in the Mennonite communities of eastern Pennsylvania.
The pacifist Mennonites were concerned that if hostilities flared again, they would be pressed into military service.
So when the opportunity came to buy land in the German Tract, in British-held Upper Canada, many young Mennonites jumped at it.
Among them was Joseph Schneider. After purchasing 448 acres of forested land in what would become Ontario, he moved his wife, Barbara Eby, and their four children north to British North America in a covered wagon from Pennsylvania in 1807.
The Schneiders would have been among the very first non-native residents of the community that would eventually become known as Berlin, and then Kitchener.
At first, the family lived in the wagon while Schneider went about clearing his land. After building a log cabin, barn and stable, he cleared a road -- which is now Queen Street South -- from the cabin to the edge of his property at the Great Road, now King Street, where the Walper Terrace Hotel now stands.
In 1816, Schneider built the area's first sawmill on the stream flowing through his property -- Schneider's Creek. Then in 1820 (some sources say 1816), using timbers and planks fashioned in the sawmill, he built the barn-like home in the Pennsylvania German style that still stands at 466 Queen St. S.
Schneider, no relation to John M. Schneider who founded the J. M. Schneider meatpacking firm, prospered as a farmer and sawmill operator. He and his wife raised seven children.
"Joseph Schneider was a common person, a farmer, a humble man," says Susan Burke, curator at the Joseph Schneider Haus Museum.
"But he was an important man in this community, for sure."
Joseph and Barbara both died in 1843, before cameras were available so there's no photograph of either.
Their son, Joseph E. Schneider, took over the homestead, which still included more than 300 acres. Over time, the family sold much of the farm for housing lots.
A swampy area close to the creek was purchased by the Town of Berlin in the 1890s. Victoria Park was created, complete with a man-made lake.
The house and surrounding property remained almost exclusively in Schneider family hands until 1975 when the City of Kitchener bought it and conveyed it to the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation to begin its restoration as a museum.
WATERLOO REGION (Jun 25, 2007)Two hundred years ago this month, Joseph Schneider and his brothers Jacob and Christian arrived at a wild tract in Upper Canada where they faced dense, old growth forests, swamps, ever-flooding creeks and the wildly beautiful Grand River.Could Joseph Schneider have imagined that through his influence and hard work, these traditional hunting grounds of the Huron Indians would eventually become Kitchener, a hub of industry and industrious people? This place became Schneider's legacy and there are still remnants of his influence, including a few thousand Schneiders, Sniders and Snyders, all variations of the same name.On Saturday, June 30, the clan will celebrate its illustrious ancestor with a reunion. The last gathering was in 1909, when news reports of the day claimed a couple of thousand people showed up, many from hundreds of kilometres away. That reunion was for the kin of all three brothers.This weekend's event will be just the family of Joseph Schneider.Vern Sherk is a seventh generation Schneider who was aware of his family history as a youngster, but a couple of decades ago his interest really piqued."There was more information available," he explained, citing documents and books by local historians.Suddenly, having all this accessible information gave Sherk a new appreciation for his family, for Joseph Schneider.He learned that his ancestor arrived in Waterloo County with his brothers, his wife Barbara and four of what would grow to be a family of seven children.They travelled with several other Mennonite families -- Erbs, Ebys and Webers, among others, whose ancestors had come to the U.S. decades earlier to escape religious persecution. This particular group came from Lancaster County, Penn., with four heavily laden wagons and a dream of finding inexpensive, fertile land.Waterloo County was divided into parcels of 448 acres for the settlers, but first they had to cut the trees, pull the stumps, plow the land and build homes and barns. Early settlers faced endless days of intense labour yet viewed it as an opportunity, not a hardship.The results of that labour are to be seen across the city today: the 1820 Joseph Schneider Haus Museum on Queen Street was the family homestead and Victoria Park was part of the farm that Schneider refused to sell, even as industry sprang up on adjacent properties.
One of the symbols of his family's success was a clock.Susan Burke, curator at Joseph Schneider Haus, explained that with their Swiss and German background, time keeping was important to the settlers. The Schneider family clock was carefully transported from Lancaster to their new home. Over the generations, the clock eventually was lost to the family until a Schneider descendant spotted it while visiting a Kitchener home. The owner sold the clock back to the Schneider family and it's now on loan to Schneider Haus. This clock is on the family reunion's logo and used in its catchphrase "Time To Come Home."Miriam Sokvitne, now in her 90s, is the family matriarch, a woman of considerable presence. The Schneider heritage is precious to the retired nurse who is also keeper of family heirlooms and history.Her father, Joseph Meyer Snyder, returned the clock to the family, wrote a book about their history and bought the homestead after it had been used as rental housing for several years. Sokvitne begged then-premier John Robarts to have the site declared a heritage site. "I not only cried, I bawled," she said, remembering her passionate outpouring.Once the homestead was back in the family, Sokvitne and her husband travelled the countryside searching for heirlooms. From spinning wheels to toys, these artifacts will be on display at the reunion with, of course, the clock as centrepiece, a symbol of the man known as Kitchener's founding father, Joseph Schneider.


Metaphorically, this is how most people do life. They are running around trying to prove that they are good enough, trying to prove that they are okay. It is exhausting and nerve wracking.
It is also completely unnecessary. It is about as useful as if I spent great amounts of time trying to convince people that I have a right arm – even when they have already acknowledged that I have a right arm.
What if we are already okay! What if there's nothing we need to prove! What if we were born okay – or even amazing!
If we let go of needing to prove, then we could relax and breathe and go after life with ease and joy.


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Panopticon planskitse af Jeremy Bentham, 1791 Panoptikon er en type af fængsels bygninger designet af filosoffen Jeremy Bentham i slutningen af 1700-tallet . Designet muliggør, at en overvågende person kan observere ( græsk -optikos ) alle ( græsk pan- ) fanger uden at de er i stand til at vide om de bliver overvåget eller ej, derfor Panoptic definition is - being or presenting a comprehensive or panoramic view. How to use panoptic in a sentence. panoptic Has Greek Origins The Panopticon is a type of prison and asylum building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe ( -opticon ) all ( pan- ) prisoners without the incarcerated being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has Jul 18, 2020 · Panopticon definition: a round prison in which all cells are visible from the centre point | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
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Camouflage is precisely not invisibility. Light doesn't pass through camouflage, and neither does camouflage project an image of its surroundings onto itself. Camouflage is very simply this: the confusion of figure for ground.
Countershading is a good example. Many animals differentiate figures of interest (prey, predators, reward, danger) from ground (the earth, trees, walls, mundanity, non-danger) by noticing the presence or absence of shadow. That which casts a shadow tends to be a figure on the ground, an object of note; that which doesn't, tends not to be. Countershading, then, is a coloration pattern wherein the lower parts of an animal—the legs, the belly, the front base of the neck—are lightly colored, while the upper parts—the nape, the back, the head—are dark. Thus, where one would expect there to be dark shadow, there is brightness; & where one would expect brightness from the glare of the sun, there is darkness.
Camouflage is a tactic of representation, a fiction. It seizes on a visual aspect of the world and falsely re-presents it, turning it on its head. Countershading is an illusory reversal of the nature of light, and, thereby, an exploit of a method of figure/ground differentiation & cognition employed by almost every creature that perceives light. And this mode of cognition, of categorizing the world into figure and ground by relations of lightness and darkness, is so universal that almost every creature who hunts or is hunted presents some degree of countershading: fish, mammals, birds, insects—even creatures who are not themselves able to perceive light. 1
Camouflage works to dissolve the figure into the ground. Could we say that every camouflage we might analyze has already failed? For its very purpose is to ward off the accrual of object-hood, the perception of meaningful edges, borders, or silhouettes; of demarkations from the world. But if camouflage functions to dissimulate & dissolve the body, it only does so by reifying & visually expressing in inverse the perceptions of others. A caterpillar may be incapable of perceiving color, but its vibrant green body is a prescient image of how its predators perceive—like a negative of a bird's system of visual cognition. It now feels appropriate to mention that the first mass deployments of military camouflage in World War I were helmed by artists at least as much as by scientists.2
Some sixty years later, during the late Cold War of the 1980s, a British major invented a camouflage pattern to dissolve tanks and armored vehicles into the streets of Berlin.3 Framing and painting cardboard silhouettes of British tanks against what patches of Berlin he saw thru his office windows, he developed a motley of blue, grey, tan, & brown pastel squares, 18" on a side, which rendered the killing machines almost indecipherable from the german metropolis. This camouflage pattern was applied first to the vehicles under his command, then, following remarkably successful trials, to the entire British armored force in Berlin—when suddenly, like a virus, the pattern leapt the Berlin wall and appeared on the armor of the Warsaw Pact.
Imke Paust, British Chieftain tanks on parade in West Berlin, 18 June 1989. Department of Defense.
A "disruptive" camouflage like "Berlin Camo", as it came be known, functions through a kind of multifactorial countershading. Where standard countershading relies on one overarching radical inversion, that of light and shadow, disruptive camouflage is a good deal more promiscuous, pulling multiple conflicting, conflated, and non-representational sub-patterns from its environment. Disruptive camouflage may even draw on elements of countershading itself in its spatters of indigenous colors, lines, & shapes—Anything and everything in order to "disrupt" the eye from visually "enclosing" or cognizing the figure. In a sense, it is all the form of the ground with none of its content, a perfect parody.
Successful camouflage is a simulacrum of the essence of a place—even if such an essence never existed—for it is itself a fiction, a game of appearances incoherent outside its nest of nested relations. If Berlin Camo worked, it worked only because of what it took for its ground and what it took for its figures. It worked on a vehicle parked in the street; at no closer than 50 yards; in Berlin at the time of the Wall; within the scope of the perceptual technologies of the visible spectrum then deployed by NATO & the Warsaw Pact. All these heterogenous accidents, all these imbricated subjectivities had to cohere for Berlin Camo to illude & elude. One could even say—for it was never actually put to the test by live combat—Berlin Camouflage only ever worked in the war-gaming imaginations of the soldiers & officers, there and then stationed, Soviet and capitalist, in the final years of the Cold War.
West Berlin, 1988. Image courtesy of Flickr user "winsleigh".
The impartial truth of camouflage lives at the inverse of disinterested inquiry and immobile thought. It's a necessary fiction spun at the edge of life and death, a rigorous vagary. It's an equal product of the deaths it causes and of those it staves off. Camouflage may grow ever more specific to a ground, ever more granular, just as the ground grows in interminable fractal expansions the closer you look. But so long as the looker can look a little closer, or a little to the left, or look besides another looker, camouflage will never be an image of the ground, a replica, simply because an image plane seen from one direction will soon fail from another; or, like an impressionist painting, function at one scale and rapidly disintegrate at another. Camouflage must be an abstraction in order to delude at all. It necessarily preserves the distinction between figure and ground in order to blur it. And yet, even as an abstraction, the efficacy of camouflage is limited by the parallax & scalar disintegration that a looker's movement may entail. All camouflaged figures are thus forced to choose the beginnings and ends of their fictions, their periods of abstraction, by the qualities of their own bodies, and by which period, of the looker's total potential field of movement, their bodies have most reason to hide during. A pattern designed for the human body at small arms range looks like a solid block of color on a tank at heavy weapons range. Berlin Camo began on the streets of Berlin and ended fifty yards away—outside of that, it was too late for the fiction to matter one way or another.
My claim is simple: Camouflage is an essential tactic of invasive architecture in New York City. It is used to blur the figure of gentrification into the ground of the neighborhood. It is used to ward off critical objecthood. It draws the skyline over the silhouette.
Like the khaki and olive uniforms of early mechanized armies, invasive architecture once reached for minimally textured drabs in the 50s & 60s, perhaps hoping to blend into the city through a lack of conspicuousness. And yet, as the British and American armies realized at about the same time, an absence of conspicuousness over a large enough expanse is itself quite conspicuous. The condominiums typical of this design were reviled in their time for their looming, blank facades, which were all the more distinct for their regular, rectilinear forms. Even today, they and their apartments continue to sell distinctly below market price.4
About two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, and on the cusp of what we call the Great Recession, two high-rise condominiums rose up in the Lower East Side. The gentrification of LES wasn't by then a new story, but the height and scale of these condos, stories taller than their surroundings at the time, were still remarkable enough to cause both of the employed architecture firms, themselves quite pedigreed, a certain degree of self-conscious consternation.
And lo and behold, how strangely familiar a pattern of disruptive, irregular blue and tan blocks appear across their facades.
L.E.S., N.Y.C. Image altered to approximate a c. 2007 skyline. Courtesy the author.
101 Ludow deploys a pixelated, earthy tiger stripe seamlessly over the axes of its envelope, as if it were at once the ubiquitous brick of the LES and a patch of overcast sky. Blue Tower, perhaps more successfully, deploys scattered sky-blue squares to disrupt & be disrupted by patches of darker navies, blacks and purples. None of the squares form a cognizable pattern, though our eyes would naturally seek it in the contrast of light and dark. Altogether, the facade appears as an indecipherable pattern of simultaneous vertical and horizontal forms, which are themselves shaded randomly into the colors of a bright sky, sheet glass, and building walls—ultimately drawing both the sky and the patchy texture of the blocks surrounding up over the building.
Blue Tower, Ibid.
101 Ludlow, Ibid.
Both architecture firms—Rawlings Architects of 101 Ludlow and Bernard Tschumi of Blue Tower—explicitly state their intent to "blend" or camouflage their structures into their respective environments, Rawlings with "bricks of a palette similar to the fabric of historical Lowest East Side buildings"5 and Tschumi through a " pixelated envelope that both projects an architectural statement and blends into the sky, simultaneously respecting and embracing the dynamism of the neighborhood".6 A note however: I don't believe we necessarily need such tidy confessions from the designers of invasive architecture to characterize the perceptual operations of their facades. As a general rule, I've no clue of the rational designerly intent behind the aesthetics I perceive, and am affected by. But then, a caterpillar or a deer needn't intend its camouflage to function in order for it to do so. My argument is primarily concerned with the effect that such heterogenous shapes, colors, lines, and volumes have on our perceptions of the buildings they ornament.
In any case, a walk down any re-zoned gentrifying street reveals that 101 Ludlow and Blue Tower appear to occupy a kind of midpoint of invasive architecture facade ornamentation. Elsewhere, it would appear that when condo facades don't revive post-war looming drabs, they become incredibly convoluted. Shapes and patterns stop and start with no apparent structural or systematic cause. There's a constant rectilinear bracketing and re-bracketing, each loud bracket undermining the other, of an effect that's somehow both brash and deeply self conscious. It reminds me of how pickup artists dress.
Larger buildings in this vein reproduce the geometric cacophony of entire blocks unto themselves, as if 3 or 5 or 7 buildings were all cut and pasted into each other. The line between one building and the next—the line denoting one building as itself, as a unified entity, fades from sight. In contrast to the old, blank giants, these buildings exemplify that the key to true ineffability, to being that which cannot be thought or said, is continuous self-disruption: Not the absence of signal, but a signal that won't stop interrupting itself, thereby always eluding its reception as figure. What can you even say about a building which appears to be at least 3 or 5, a different style, order, rhythm, & color pattern for each partially disgorged volume? The only consistency left is literally internal—in the rigorously unit-maximized striation of its internal layout. A thousand faces for a grid.
But for the skyscrapers in the back and the low buildings in the bottom right, this jumbled mass in fact consists of only two separate buildings. L.I.C., 2019. Ibid.
At this point, the visual efficacy of the camouflage of such architecture has more to do with the naval dazzle patterns of WWI than contemporary disruptive variants. Dazzle patterns accept the impossibility of hiding too large or unmistakable a figure atop the ground, and instead focus on confusing the looker's perception of that figure's speed, identity, and heading across the ground. Dazzle camouflage was designed for the combatants of an earlier naval warfare who could only rely on targeting in the visible spectrum, with ships and submarines deploying telescopes and observation-based calculation to determine a target's class and vector. In such circumstances, bold, geometric patterns which could confuse the position of a ship's prow & bow, or the size of its wake, or its length & height had the potential to introduce error into the hunter's ballistic calculations, and so help the prey survive. I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate that the manipulators and manipulations of capital have an interest in confusing perceptions of their speed, identity, and heading.
Guilty, A yacht with exterior design by Porfiri Studio and Jeff Koons. Image courtesy Giacomo Spagnoli.
But ultimately, at this far end of the spectrum, it's clear the effect of these facades has shifted beyond camouflage as I've defined it so far. And we have to ask, who would these buildings hide from, anymore, anyway? After all, what little opposition Rawlings and Tschumi's buildings faced was largely of their own conscience—Tschumi, in any case, continues to cultivate the professional identity of a socially engaged architect. I should rather acknowledge that after the so-called end of history—that is, the collapse of "really existing socialism"—the gates of the city lay blown off their hinges. All the old foes—communities, zoning boards, architecture critics, the professional injunction to build buildings that serve the social (assuming that was ever an effective force)—these were & are still roundly defeated by an unprecedented capital assault. With developers choosing bargain basement firms or trying their own hand at the drawing table, an architect's noblesse oblige soon turns into a liability. Under such conditions, I claim invasive architecture turns into the architecture of occupation.
In light of this, let me define camouflage one more time: Camouflage is about being visible in relation to the ground in ways that coerce the looker's mechanics of perception into a forming a cognition beneficial to the camouflaged in either doing violence to, or avoiding violence from the looker. And perhaps, with invasive architecture's victories, we've left even this expanded definition, and now, like the livery of a species whose predators have all died out, the markings which had once served to conceal and confuse hereafter serve only to distinguish specimens of the same species as they turn to compete among each other. Ad copy aside, however, these buildings fall far short of any real formal differentiation—aesthetically, they have far more in common than not, even within the parameters of their own architectural lexicon. Nor, lacking any clear signification or centrality—indeed, being defined by their incoherent decentralization—could you really call them monuments. And yet, like monuments, they attempt a form of mass address.
A force that shifts from invasion to occupation must also in certain ways shift from the illusion of absence to the illusion of omnipresence—a flag on every street, an ear at every door. Couldn't we say that although cutting a building into multiple pseudo-subbuildings helps elide an immediate perception of its true immensity by dispersing its scale into a multiplicity of sub-assets, that multiplicity also works reciprocally to increase how populous the architecture of occupation appears to be? A condo project the size of a block may splinter into what looks like 7 different, smaller buildings, yet these smaller buildings don't just add up to a large condo, but to what looks like an entire neighborhood. I'd place such a structure at the very crest of the shift between invasive architecture and the architecture of occupation. It still retains certain visually deceptive elements tactically useful for blending an invasive force across a hostile ground. But more than anything, the architecture of occupation hides as architecture: Not by evading visual perception but thru architecture's inherent quiet interstitially, its grounding of certain flows to foreground others, its mundane creation of figures by routing them. In its decentralization, expanding spatial distributions, aesthetic self-disruptions, & pseudo self-differentiation, the architecture of occupation begins to broadcast not a signal, not a coherent figure, but an ostensibly a-signifying field, a ground noise increasingly difficult to cognize as new, or alien, or indeed, as an object of cognition at all. The fractured, functioning figure begins to form the ground itself; and to the extent that it does, it becomes the ground which figures us all. But what do we really think differentiates this architecture of occupation from any building that came before it? Pierre Bélanger is right to say "a critical map of architecture isn't a plan, but a section."7 A plan shows shelter and meaningful space and the flows of life; a section shows walls and time and the infrastructural flows which permit life to exist. Architecture is always already ground in plan; in section, architecture and all its dumb, blank faces are compelled to remain but figures among others. And if ground can ever be recaptured, it's only through a violent re-figuration, through refusing the ground its pretensions to nature, neutrality, & its ravenous delineations—for this, finally, is the identity of the ground: the great delineator; of silhouettes, of fields, of borders, of limits. The ground demarcates life & meaning through its own apparent immobile a-signification. To retake the ground is not only to rout it into figuration, but to do so by taking its place instead, even as a camouflaged imposter at first, for to remain a figure would be to leave things unchanged. Is this against meaning? Is this against nature? Then let it be—to retake the ground is to raise the dead.
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Central Missouri Research, Extension and Education Center Director Named
Dusty Walter named director
Written by Kate Preston · January 14, 2022
Dusty Walter has been named director of the Central Missouri Research, Extension and Education Center (REEC), effective Tuesday, Feb. 1. The Central Missouri REEC is one of the four research, Extension and education centers of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR).
Walter has been the director of natural resources management for AES since 2012. He also serves as superintendent of the Wurdack Research Center and co-superintendent of the Land of the Osages Research Center.
"I am excited to take on this new role. We are poised for innovative changes and continued good work in the AES," said Walter. "Working with our partners, we'll provide a research platform that supports Missouri agriculture and offers an inviting space to engage the surrounding communities."
Walter will help direct the research, Extension and education opportunities at the various properties within the Central Missouri REEC. The Central Missouri REEC includes several farms in and around Columbia. These farms focus on agronomy, soils, horticulture, livestock, agroforestry and forestry research.
Walter is an alum of the University of Missouri, as he received his bachelor's, master's and PhD from the School of Natural Resources in CAFNR. He has previously taught courses in forestry management and has conducted research at the Wurdack Research Center.
"We are excited to name Dusty as the director of the Central Missouri Research, Extension and Education Center," said Shibu Jose, associate dean of research in CAFNR Office of Research and director of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. "Dusty has been involved with CAFNR and AES through his education and previous leadership positions; we are excited for the future of the Central Missouri REEC."
"In education and experience, I am a true Mizzou son," Walter said. "I look forward to collaborating across teams to grow the Central Missouri REEC in key areas – areas that support adding value to Missouri agriculture and are representative of how CAFNR AES can partner with the community to build a healthy world."


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From 'five-and-dime' to 'dollar'
My brother, who recently moved here, asked if there were any Dollar Tree stores in the area.
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My first commercial job while still in high school was in that kind of a store. Lincoln Store in Norwich, Connecticut had just about anything you needed but it was more like a Penney's store with furniture and appliances.
Christmas that year, I got permission for my parents to take advantage of my employee discount. They waited until Christmas Eve to come to town for their shopping. Every once in a while, I caught sight of them from my workstation - list in hand, seeking out the least costly item to fill their shopping basket. When you're buying gifts for a family of ten, you have to make a little go a long way.
As my thoughts connected the Woolworths of old with the Dollar Generals of today, I couldn't ignore the irony. In my lifetime, we have gone from a 'five-and-ten', as the old stores were known, to the present-day 'dollar' stores.
Things change true but people aleays look for a bargain
Phyllis A. Still December 28, 2017 at 9:23 AM
My dad became one of the youngest managers of Woolworths in the late 50s. He started in Greenville Tx. I love browsing in retro 'five-and-ten' stores. The Dollar stores just don't have the same charm.
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Stopped by a local flea market yesterday on a search for a new/old office chair. While walking the aisles, my eye went to a pair of familiar colored boxes that turned out to be gorgeous aerial views of two Missouri towns done on Kodak 10x10, (or maybe it was 8x8) glass plates. I was so surprised, I really didn't pay close enough attention to the size.
Anyway, I am slightly familiar with the Fairchild and other film based aerial cameras, but have never heard of aerial cameras that used glass plates.
Can anyone enlighten me as a Google search produced nothing.?
lenser, I can't answer directly. The RAF used plate cameras during WW-I, initially with plates inserted and removed manually, later with motor-operated magazines of plates. Not long after the War ended RAF switched to roll film cameras. I don't know USAF's practice, but it seems that by the time the US entered WW-II all of the Army Air Force's aerial cameras used roll film.
There's no reason why the plates you found had to have been shot with a military camera.
I would make a gentleman's bet that the plates are 9.5" x 9.5". Plates were used for aerial work into the 1930s. Although I once worked at RAF Upper Heyford, an air recon base with British and American forces, I never saw a glass plate. To the best of my knowledge the RAF and USA were on parallel development tracks.
Those plates might be valuable for historical purposes, depending the content.
The Shed has been trying to sell those plates forever. I think they are intended to be used to contact copy aerial film images.
The boxes were probably "diapositive" plates. They are (were) used to make contact positive images from aerial photography film. The diapositives were used in equipment to make maps from stereo images. The main advantage of glass diapostives are that they were more dimensionally stable then film diapostives. Very helpful when measuring down to 1 micron.
Tim I'm also in missouri and someone gave me a set of these plates for my birthday awhile ago. Mine are captures of the Missouri River and I have a total of six plates that all fit together to make a large single image. As mentioned above each plate is 9.5x9.5 but my plates were captured with a Wild Super Aviogon lens which I think might be a Zeiss optic design? I have a couple pics of my set that I will post later, my wife plans on making a coffee table top with the plates.


Unai Emery may have denied reports that he has fallen out with Mesut Özil, but news from Turkey has done little to quell speculation that that all is not well in the relationship between the Arsenal manager and his star midfielder. News organisation Fotomac says Fehnerbahce are lining up a cheeky bid for Özil in January, speculation that ought to be taken with a shovel full of salt considering the rather parlous state of the club's finances.
While they're not exactly short of a bob or two, the Turkish football expert Emre Sarigul, writing recently in the Guardian, says that Fenerbahce's new president, Ali Koc, "has made it his duty to sort out the spiralling debts, currently standing at a staggering €621m". With three years remaining on his £350,000-per-week contract, Özil won't come cheap. Furthermore, at 29 years of age, such a deal hardly fits in with the Turkish club's new policy of investing only in young players. In slightly more plausible speculation, Manchester United are also believed to be monitoring the situation of a player Arsenal are believed to value at around £40m.
With his contract due to expire next summer, Cesc Fàbregas is free to discuss his future with foreign clubs from January, but could be sold by Chelsea in the next window so his employers get some money rather than letting him go as a free agent. The Spaniard appears surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge, where Jorginho, N'Golo Kanté, Ross Barkley and Ruben Loftus-Cheek are ahead of him in the pecking order and interest from both Milan clubs means Chelsea may sanction his departure.
Ben Chilwell's impressive start to the season certainly hasn't gone unnoticed. Along with his Leicester City team-mate Demarai Gray, the full-back was drafted into the England squad for tonight's friendly against Switzerland and he has also attracted the attention of Tottenham Hotspur. Having failed to sign a single player last summer, Spurs are eager to recruit some new faces and are also being linked with Paris Saint-Germain's unsettled midfielder Adrien Rabiot and his Ajax counterpart Frenkie De Jong. Spurs are understood to have had a £45m bid for De Jong rejected already, while Barcelona are also interested in the 21-year-old.
Despite his ropey start to the season – remember that horror show against Cardiff? – Brazilian midfielder Kenedy wants to turn things around and earn himself a summer recall to Chelsea. "I hope this year I can make a good season for Newcastle and go back to Chelsea to continue," he said. "I have a dream to return and to be a champion for the club." With his club yet to secure their first win of the season, Newcastle fans will be fully behind him in his quest to rediscover his excellent form of last season.
And finally, Hirving Lozano, one of Mexico's star players during the World Cup, is a wanted man. Atlético Madrid are understood to have joined Manchester United, Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund in the coterie of admirers giving the 23-year-old PSV Eindhoven winger the glad eye.


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MISSION: Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra will provide concerts of compelling professional symphonic music, support music education, and expand audience awareness of musical excellence for the diverse communities of the greater Chicago region.
Now in its 43rd season, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is a leading performing arts organization in Chicago's Southland providing professional orchestral music of beauty and excellence to the region. IPO's repertoire ranges from Baroque and Classical masterpieces, to world premieres and modern favorites. The Illinois Council of Orchestras named IPO the "Illinois Professional Orchestra of the Year" in 1992, 2010, and 2020, recognizing IPO's overall artistic excellence.
IPO's 43rd season has been reimagined to reflect the need to keep patrons, staff, and musicians safe. IPO will have an Opening Night Concert in 2020 highlighting a fantastic American composer – but instead of visiting us at the beautiful Ozinga Chapel at Trinity Christian College, it will be presented virtually. IPO had hoped beyond hopes throughout the past months that we would be able to resume our in-person full orchestra concerts this Fall 2020. Alas, given the pandemic's continued toll on our shared humanity, we have made the necessary decision to postpone all October, November, and December 2020 concerts to similar dates in 2021. A decision regarding February 2021 concerts and beyond will be made in the coming months.
IPO's history dates back to 1954. Then known as the Park Forest Orchestra, it was formed at the community level with volunteer musicians. In 1978, the orchestra was re-formed into a professional chamber orchestra performing in Park Forest. In 1982, the orchestra was renamed to reflect its regional mission. Instrumental to IPO's growing success was the naming of Carmon DeLeone as Music Director in 1986. During DeLeone's 25 year tenure, the IPO expanded its Artists-in-the-Schools Education Program to include interactive Youth Concerts. In the 1990s, IPO performed in residence at the Center for the Performing Arts at Governors State University in University Park. In 2008, the orchestra began a new residency at the Lincoln-Way North Performing Arts Center in Frankfort, a regionally centralized location. Maestro DeLeone became Conductor Laureate of the IPO in 2011. After an international search process, IPO appointed David Danzmayr as Music Director, serving from 2012-2016 and expanding IPO's programming to include an American work on every program. In 2017, following a search that attracted over 170 applicants from around the world, IPO's Board of Directors' announced the hiring of Stilian Kirov as Music Director beginning with the 40th Anniversary Season. Kirov has expanded IPO's repertoire and developed Classical Evolve, the company's first Composer-in-Residence Competition.
IPO has a 43 year track record of expertly managing concerts and youth programming. New leadership, both Executive and Artistic, are bringing a new vitality to the organization with an eye towards future programming growth, increased community partnerships, and strengthening our fiscal foundation. The orchestra recently unveiled a commitment to address equity, diversity, and inclusion across the organization. IPO is led by a 22-member Board of Directors focused upon aligning the organization's goals to the needs of the Chicago Southland. IPO believes in the power of high-quality music and music education to transform lives.
IPO's Board of Directors and Senior staff are dedicated to utilizing our talents, connections and skill sets to broaden the quality of life in and around Chicago's Southland to include a vast array of musical offerings.


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Hi All To make a long story short, father in his middle 40-ties decided it's time to check are there any modern time "Close Combat" game for him and here we are. Finally:) But on the road to Combat Mission it was obvious that some games are more "eye candy". First decision was to make textures mod. But omg there are "billion" already top notch textures and community already provided great stuff here. Then I discovered "War Movie" mode. Why devs didn't made it default? But than again colors in movie mode are somehow too washed and not for everybody eyes. But Battlefront made right direction (they just weren't enough radical with movie shader settings) Textures are great we just need some fancy shader FX stuff. Being developed few iOS games myself I totally understand enormous amount of work small team like Battlefront can have with its own engine and all the assets. As there is no SweetFX or Reshade for Mac OS X only solution was to try dig in into shaders and here we go: - this is modified Battlefront "War Movie" shader - this will replace the opt-M (alt-M) mode - put the unzipped folder in "z" folder - should work also with CMFI and CMBS - don't know is this is allowed. Would be great if someone from Battlefront check it. Even greater if this is somehow putted in future official releases - tested on iMac OS X Yosemite with ATI 6750m - little or no performance hit - OS X only (someone can check it on Windows too - not sure will it work) - screenshots are unedited. Only used some community mods (aris mostly) - experimental stuff - please don't edit shader if You don't know what You are doing! Combat Mission FXShine mod link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/49hc7e5cn0lve4d/AADjTuXSsx6l35wtx_4g3mnda?dl=0 Oops - long story! Please enjoy and post Your best screenshoots!
I have noticing while rotating the map horizontally, that really nice detailed shades from trees appear on tanks then disappear 5 seconds later. Almost like an extremely slow flicker. Happens when zooming in or out as well. Has anyone found something that remedies this? Something that needs to be turned off or on it Nvidia control panel?
Hi This tweak mod was originaly for CMRT but members reporting that it's work perfectly with CMBT (latest update) so please give it a try! - this is modified Battlefront "War Movie" shader - this will replace the opt-M (alt-M) mode - put the unzipped folder in "z" folder - works also with CMRT, CMBI and CMBS (latest updates) - little or no performance hit - OS X and Windows - experimental stuff - please don't edit shader if You don't know what You are doing! Combat Mission FXShine mod download: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/49hc7e5cn0lve4d/AADjTuXSsx6l35wtx_4g3mnda?dl=0 Please check original Thread at Red Thunder section for more: http://community.battlefront.com/topic/120795-fxshine-shader/ As I don't have CMBN Screenshots are from CMRT unedited but post Your Best Normandy screenshoots so we can replace them!
Hi CMFI fans This tweak was originaly for CMRT but could not resisted to try it in CMFI. Still don't own CMFI but it works in demo! - this is modified Battlefront "War Movie" shader CMFI tweaked version - this will replace the opt-M (alt-M) mode - put the unzipped folder in "z" folder - works also with CMRT, CMBN and CMBS - little or no performance hit - OS X and Windows - screenshots are from demo version unedited. - experimental stuff - please don't edit shader if You don't know what You are doing! Combat Mission FXShine mod CMFI tweak link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yqic9aamxuqfbzi/AADTj7R-HbHXHgWWS8wuCdSYa?dl=0 Please check original Thread at Red Thunder section: http://community.battlefront.com/topic/120795-fxshine-shader/ Please enjoy and post Your best sunshine Italy screenshoots!


Discovery Boundries and Blacksmithing in Johnston, Sunday, October 2, 2016 2:00pm to 4:00pm | Neutaconkanut Hill Conservancy, Inc.
Meet at Andrew Harris House. 216 Morgan Ave, Johnston RI.
Neutaconkanut Hill Conservancy invites you to a very special afternoon outing. Neutaconkanut Hill was the original boundary of the Providence settlement led by Roger Williams. But did you know that just a few short years later the hill was included within the settlement when a new boundary was set at Hipses Rock in Johnston? Join the Conservancy for a rare opportunity to visit this little known landmark which is on private property. We will start and end at the historic Andrew Harris House in Johnston for this short and easy paced tour to marvel at this enormous rock feature and its collapsed cave. A visit to the newly restored blacksmith shop will be another highlight of this special afternoon which will conclude with refreshments at the house.


Trainer Tip of the week – Here is an inspiring story that I had to share with you.
Client Christmas Appreciation Party – Pictures are here from the event along with Awards.
Weather and being inside – Just as a reminder, we use the weatherchannel.com as our source to let us know how cold it is. We are inside if it's 38 degrees or under. Outside if it's 29 degrees or over. If for some reason the CARC is closed, we will certainly let you know before hand. This is another reason we are adding the Facebook Secret Page (see below) will be helpful as it will be real time information we can use.
Anyone like to Carol? GYIS client Belinda Fernandez wanted to me pass along the evite for the Caroling they are having this Friday night. Here is the evite.
Workouts this week – Here are the workouts for the third week. We go M-W-F and Saturday this week.
3 or 6 month options – If you are not on our 12 month option, please read this section as it contains information you need to be aware of. Each of you should have received a few letters by now but we just wanted to make sure everyone knew about our slight rate increase and how you can lock in your "old rates". Here is a quick letter that explains it more. Here is our current commitment form in which you have until December 17th to turn it in.
2013 Changes and additions – If you were not able to make the Client Party, we went over a few key things happening in our program and that will happen in our program in 2013.
1. Losing a teammate – Long time client and awesome trainer Julie Smith is moving on to the next step in her life. She will be putting more time and effort into learning and studying for her master's degree. Next Friday will be her last day with us. So please share your love and appreciation to her over the next few weeks. We have been very blessed to have her on our team and she will be missed.
2. Facebook Secret Group – We know not everyone uses facebook but the majority of people at least have an account and we are going to use this as a tool for 2013 to help you.
The private group will be used as a way we can all communicate with each other in real time. Share ideas, share tips, share challenges, share accomplishments, share goals, and more. I already know it will be a key component to many of our clients and am looking forward to it. If you are not already, you will need to become friends with Coppell Boot Camp on facebook before January 1st when we launch it. If you are not on Facebook, you may look into it just to be a part of this group.
3. Other 2013 additions – As you know, we have and continue to add things that puts you in an environment that will help you succeed. So our goal is to continue to add contests, events, tools and more to do just that.
January Calendar – January Accountability Calendar.
December 22nd Monthly 5k @8am for all GYIS clients.


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UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT PROMISES TO INVESTORS TO AVOID HASTY AMENDMENTS TO LEGISLATION
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not in favor of hasty and ill-conceived retrospective amendments to legislation that worsen the condition for doing business in the country, the head of state said at a briefing in Vilnius on Wednesday after a meeting with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda.
"I want to confirm once again: my team and I will not take any hasty and ill-conceived steps related to retrospective changes in our legislation that would worsen the conditions for doing business in the country," Zelensky said.
"We respect any investor who already works in our country. This applies to everyone, regardless of sector and business, from a restaurant to the green energy sector," the president added.
He said that the second Lithuanian solar power plant was opened in Ivano-Frankivsk region on Wednesday (the plant of Lithuania's Modus Grupe with a capacity of 14 MW in the village of Zalukva).
"It's pleasant that Lithuanian companies not only stay on the Ukrainian market, but also continue developing investment projects," Zelensky said.
According to him, Ukraine expects the boost of investment activities.
"We are betting on improving the mechanisms of public private partnership, which is one of the tools to attract additional investment in the public sector of the economy," the head of state said, recalling the recently adopted law on concession.
INVESTORS, PRESIDENT, UKRAINIANE


On April 11, 2013 the USA Network is launching The Moment, a new series hosted by legendary NFL quarterback Kurt Warner. In this unscripted reality show nine individuals will be taken on a life-changing journey, each being given a second chance to reclaim the career dreams they put on hold and to rewrite their life stories.
Whether these past dreams are realized or not, just the thought of someone getting a second chance in life is one to which nearly everyone can relate. But second chances in life go beyond career choices, and the Bible is full of stories that show how God provides them. Here are seven great reminders of a gracious God who gives second chances.
The Bible is clear and consistent when it refers to Rahab—she was a prostitute. Even 3,000 years ago that was not considered an honorable profession. And to make matters even worse, she was a Gentile who lived in the city of Jericho in the land of Canaan at a time when the nation of Israel was about to conquer the land. But this Gentile woman of ill repute had heard about the God of Israel and His greatness. So when spies from Israel showed up at her house, she put her life on the line to hide them. And God granted her a second chance. When Jericho was completely destroyed, only Rahab and her family survived its destruction. But even more amazing is the fact that we find Rahab's name in Matthew's genealogy of Christ.
God gave Moses a second chance to return to Egypt and set His people free.
The life of Moses is an amazing story of second chances — two of them to be exact. He was born in Egypt during a dangerous time for young Jewish boys. Condemned to death by the order of Pharaoh, God chose to spare Moses's life and gave him the privilege and protection of growing up in Pharaoh's palace. When other infant boys in Israel found death early in life, Moses was raised with—and as—royalty. As a member of Pharaoh's house Moses was in a position to help his nation which had been enslaved. But when he killed an Egyptian taskmaster to save a Hebrew young man, the wrath of Pharaoh drove him out of Egypt for fear of his life. Yet 40 years later God gave Moses a second chance to return to Egypt and set His people free.
The Bible tells us that David was a man after God's own heart. But that's not all he was. He was also an adulterer and murderer—both of which were capital offenses according to the Law of Moses. The story of his affair with Bathsheba and his attempt to hide his sin by having her husband, Urriah, killed by putting him on the front line in battle is one of the most appalling tales of sin in Scripture. But when confronted with his sin, David's heart broke in repentance and God granted him grace and a second chance.
At the time of Christ tax collectors were even more despised than they are now. Most were greedy, dishonest men who had the power and authority to take advantage of the poor and become rich at their expense. Zacchaeus was just this kind of man. So when Jesus came to town and chose to stay with him, people couldn't believe it. Why would Jesus, obviously a man of God, choose to even associate with this sinner? This is just the kind of person Jesus came to save—and to give a second chance.
In every group there always seems to be someone who just has to blurt out the first thing that comes into their mind. When it came to the disciples of Jesus, Peter was that person. James, John, Andrew and the rest of the disciples could always count on Peter to open his mouth and insert his foot. Even during the final hours before Christ's crucifixion Peter boldly proclaimed that he would stand by Jesus' side even if it meant death. But Jesus knew better and before the son could even rise again, Peter emphatically denied Christ to save his own life. Yet Jesus had plans to use Peter in a mighty way to build His church and gave him a second chance to show his love for Jesus.
There may be no greater need for a second chance than when you have spent your living for yourself and come face to face with death for the things you have done. The two men crucified on either side of Jesus were those kind of men. They lived their lives in such a way that they were deserving of death. And so they hung, nailed to a cross, next to Jesus. One of the men joined the crowds and soldiers in mocking Christ. But the other realized who it was being crucified next to him and, with death nearby, asked for mercy. This simple act of faith, this humble request was heard and answered as Christ promised him a second chance in eternity.
All of us need a second chance, and God is willing to give it. Paul says it so well in his letter to the church at Ephesus.
Brian has spent more than 20 years in Christian publishing providing leadership at companies such as Crossway Books, Tyndale House Publishers and Christianity Today. He has also been actively involved in his local church serving as a lay leader in various ministries over the years. He resides in Wheaton, Illinois with his wife and has two grown sons who are faithfully walking with Christ.
Very encouraging to read. Thank you, and thank God for his mercy. The part with the thief on the cross next to Jesus, has always moved me in a special way. Whatever bad things we do or have done, if we turn to Christ with our sins and give Him authority in our lives he truly forgives again and again. Thank you again for reminding me of His mercy.
Mr. Ondracek. What a comforting work this is. It reminds me of the Prodigal Son who came running back to the father who I believe reflects our Heavenly Father…a God of 2nd, 3rd, and more changes. Glory to God for His infinite love. Well done sir. Thank you.
Yes everyone deserves a second chance. And God is more than just a willing to give to those who are whole heartedly willing to receive it. Just as the thief on the cross next to Jesus. After declaring Jesus to be his Savior, he instantly receive forgiveness and a chance to live with Jesus for eternity in heaven. This is the love of God, it is so AMAZING!
Thank you sir your the compassion to share this word for us. God Bless you and your family.