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Hidden Hand Originates in the The Royal Arch Degree of Freemasonry, a degree introduced under Illuminati infiltration.
The Royal Arch Degree (the 13th degree of the Scottish Rite or the 7th degree of the York Rite) is also known as the Mason of the Secret. During this Degree, initiates are said to receive great Masonic truths.
"The members of this Degree are denominated companions, and are "entitled to a full explanation of the mysteries of the Order"; whereas in the former Degrees they are recognized by the common, familiar appellation of brothers, and kept in a state of profound ignorance of the sublime secret which is disclosed in this Chapter. This accords with the custom of Pythagoras, who thus distinguished his pupils. After a probation of five years, as stated before, they were admitted into the presence of the preceptor, called his companions, and permitted to converse with him freely. Previous to the expiration of that term he delivered his instructions to them from behind a screen"
-John Fellows, Fellows's Inquiry into the Origin, History, and Purport of Freemasonry
"If we pass on to the Royal Arch, we receive a wonderful accession of knowledge, and find every thing made perfect; for this is the nec plus ultra of Masonry, and can never be exceeded by any human institution."
-George Oliver, Lectures on Freemasonry
It is during this degree that the initiate learns the sacred name of God.
"A Degree indescribably more august, sublime, and important than any which precede it, and is, in fact, the summit and perfection of ancient Masonry. It impresses upon our minds a belief in the being of a God, without beginning of days or end of years, the great and incomprehensible Alpha and Omega, and reminds us of the reverence which is due to His Holy NAME."
-George Oliver, Historical Landmarks
This holy name is Jahbulon, a combination of words meaning "god" in Syriac, Chaldaic and Egyptian.
"JEHOVAH. Of the varieties of this sacred name in use among the different nations of the earth, three particularly merit the attention of Royal Arch Masons:
1. JAH. This name of God is found in the 68th Psalm, v. 4.
2. BAAL OR BEL. This word signifies a lord, master, or possessor, and hence it was applied by many of the nations of the East to denote the Lord of all things, and the Master of the world.
3. ON. This was the name by which JEHOVAH was worshiped among the Egyptians."
-Malcolm C. Duncan, Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor
The initiation ritual to this degree re-enacts the return to Jerusalem of three Most Excellent Masons who were held captive in Babylon. I won't go through the whole ceremony and symbolism but at one point, the initiate is asked to learn a secret password and a hand sign in order to go through a series of veils. The following image depicts the hand sign required to go through the second veil, as documented in Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor:
"Master of Second Veil: "Three Most Excellent Masters you must have been, or thus far you could not have come; but farther you cannot go without my words, sign, and word of exhortation. My words are Shem, Japhet, and Adoniram; my sign is this: (thrusting his hand in his bosom); it is in imitation of one given by God to Moses, when He commanded him to thrust his hand into his bosom, and, taking it out, it became as leprous as snow. My word of exhortation is explanatory of this sign, and is found in the writings of Moses, viz., fourth chapter of Exodus":
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow"
As stated above, this hand gesture is said to be inspired by Exodus 4:6. In this biblical verse, the heart ("bosom") stands for what we are, the hand for what we do. It can thus be interpreted as : What we are is what we ultimately do. The symbolic significance of this gesture might explain the reason why it is so widely used by famous Masons. The hidden hand lets the other initiates know that the individual depicted is part of this secret Brotherhood and that his actions were inspired by the Masonic philosophy and beliefs. Furthermore, the hand that executes the actions is hidden behind cloth, which can symbolically refer to covert nature of the Mason's actions. Here are some of the famous men who used this hand signal.
Hidden Hand of the Men of Jahbuhlun
The Hidden Hand that Shaped History
Big Daddy Kane Hand (hidden)
"Mother, Teacher, Destroyer" by The Hidden Hand, a heavy metal band
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF)
Witchcraft's Hand of Glory
Mubarak & General Colin Powell
Todd Palin (b. 1964 – )
Husband of 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin
Aleksandar Karađorđević (b. 1945 – ) Born Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Karađorđević is claimant to the throne of Serbia. [source]
Four early Soviet-era Gulag-camp commandants giving the hidden hand sign for the cameraman. [source]
Mikhail Levandovsky (center), gives the hidden hand for the photo. Flanked by Sergei Kirov (left) and Konstantin Mekhonoshin (right). These three men were deeply involved the bloody 1917 Communist Russian Revolution. [source]
Skull & Bones society In this photo of Skull & Bones secret society members, the man at the far left of the photo is seen displaying the hidden hand sign. Exact date of photo unknown, appears to be around the mid-1800's. [source]
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1881 – d. 1938) Atatürk at the Sivas Congress (held from September 4 to September 11, 1919). [source]
Vladimir Lenin (b. 1870 – d. 1924) Harbinger of the bloody 1917 Communist Russian Revolution.
Karl Marx (b. 1818 – d. 1883) German – Jewish revolutionary and communist icon. Marx authored The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (1862– 1911). The mason Stolypin, government representative of the Duma who stirred tensions between peasants and workers i, Stolypin gave way to Kerensky, another mason
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (b. 1854 – d. 1918) Freemason and one of the most influential figures in modern Occultism. One of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. [source]
Paul von Hindenburg (b. 1847 – d. 1934) Prussia-German field marshal and statesman (German President). [source]
Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844 – d. 1900) German philosopher and atheist. Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch (superman) later served as an inspiration to Adolf Hitler and the teachings of the Nazi Party. Note: Feet [source]
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (b. 1842 – d. 1917) Freemason and famous Civil War Union Army Lieutenant. Rhodes was a Member and Worshipful Master of Harmony Lodge, #9, in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was also the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island in 1892-1893. [source]
John Wilkes Booth (b. 1838 – d. 1865) Freemason and American stage actor who assassinated U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Younger brother of Edwin Booth, also a Freemason and stage actor. Note: Because of Wilkes' notoriety, the Freemasons have quietly removed his name from their membership records.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (b. 1834 – d. 1904) Freemason and designer and sculptor of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. The Statue of Liberty is actually a representation of the Goddess Columbia and is coded full of secret society meanings and occult symbolism. Bartholdi was one of the early members of Lodge Alsace-Lorraine, Paris (Oct. 14, 1875) which was composed of prominent intellectuals, writers and government representatives. [source]
James A. Garfield (b. 1831 – d. 1881). Freemason and 20th President of the United States. (Assassinated)
Giuseppe Mazzini (b. 1805 – d. 1872) Prominent Italian freemason, mafia member and politician.
Franklin Pierce (b. 1804 – d. 1869) 14th President of the United States Photo circa. 1855 Possible Freemason. (unconfirmed)
Émile Maximilien Paul Littré (b. 1801 – d. 1881) French lexicographer and philosopher."In 1875, he applied for membership in the Masonic Lodge La Clémente Amitié (Grand Orient de France)." (…) "… his funeral was conducted with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church." [source]
Victor Hugo (b. 1802 – d. 1885) French poet, playwright, and novelist. Hugo was also deeply involved in the occult and mysticism. Hugo's demented mind wrote L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs), a story about a boy whose face had been horribly shaped into a permanent smile by fiendish cosmetic butchers. This grotesque tale was the basis for Batman's "Joker" character. It has been alleged that Hugo was not only a Rosicrucian but was also Grand Master of the occultic order known as the Priory of Sion. [source]
William Tecumseh Sherman (b. 1820 – d.1891) Ruthless American Civil War Union general. His total war polices of "scorched earth" against the South, have earned him the reputation as the first 'modern general'. [source]
Giacomo Antonelli (b. 1806 – d. 1876). Powerful and influential Cardinal and Secretary of the Papal States under Pope Pius IX. Antonelli was involved in the 1865 plot to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Antonelli also hid a murderous associate of assassin John Wilkes Booth in the Vatican State, where he had fled, to protect him from execution by American authorities who sought his extradition.
Richard Wagner (b. 1813 – d. 1883)
Robert Anderson (b. 1805 – d. 1875) Freemason and Major General in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Anderson was in command of Sumter at the time of the Confederate attack. Raised in Mercer Lodge No. 50, Trenton, N.J. May 27, 1858. He was also an honorary member of Pacific Lodge No. 233 of New York City.
Napoléon III (b. 1808 – d. 1873) Freemason and Emperor of France, 1852-70. Member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of France. Note: also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte [source]
Andrew Johnson (b. 1808 – d. 1875) 32° Freemason and 17th President of the United States. Johnson pardoned 3 of the 8 men charged in the Lincoln assassination. Initiated May 5th, 1851 in the Greeneville Lodge No.119, Greeneville, Tennessee. First U.S. President to be impeached. His close association with Freemasonry was one of the factors that led to his impeachment trial. [source]
William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809 – d. 1898) British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94). [source]
Stephen A. Douglas (b. 1813 – d. 1861) Freemason and U.S. Senator from Illinois, who gained fame by his debates with Abraham Lincoln. Initiated on June 11th, 1840 Springfield Lodge No. 4, Springfield Illinois. Upon his death, Douglas was buried Masonically, per his request. A monument was dedicated to him Masonically in Chicago on Sept. 6th, 1866. Fellow Freemason and then – U.S. President Andrew Johnson attended the ceremony.
Richard Wagner (b. 1813 – d. 1883) Anti-Semitic German composer, conductor, theater director, and essayist. Wagner was greatly admired by Adolf Hitler. [source]
Mikhail Katkov (b. 1818 – d. 1880) Russian occult publisher of Moscow Gazette. Katkov brought Hindu and Theosophy teachings to Russia. He also published some books of the Russian occultist and mystic, Helena Blavatsky [source]
John Ruskin (b. 1819 – d. 1900) Tutor to illuminated students such as Cecil Rhodes. Advocated a world empire. Spent his later years in an insane asylum. Rumored to have been a pedophile.
Rutherford B. Hayes (b. 1822 – d. 1893) Freemason and 19th President of the United States. Only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission.
George B. McClellan (b. 1826 – d. 1885) Freemason and Major General during the American Civil War. McClellan was the Democratic nominee opposing Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election. Received all three degrees of Freemasonry Dec. 9th, 1853, in Willamette Lodge No. 2, Portland, Oregon.
James A. Garfield (b. 1831 – d. 1881) 14° Freemason and 20th President of the United States. (assassinated) nitiated in Magnolia Lodge No. 20 of Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 22nd, 1861. The third degree was conferred to him by Columbus Lodge No. 30, Nov. 22nd, 1864. Garfield received the 4-14° ASSR (Southern Jurisdiction) on Jan. 2nd, 1872 from Albert Pike, in Washington D.C. At his funeral, nearly all the officers of the Grand Commandery of Ohio, 14 commanderies of that state, and 8 commanderies from adjacent jurisdictions were present and participated in the funeral cortege.
Ignatius L. Donnelly (b. 1831 – d. 1901) U.S. Congressman, populist, and writer. In 1882, Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, which detailed his theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Donnelly is credited with initiating the Atlantis mania that became such a feature of popular literature in the 20th century and contributed to the emergence of Mayanism. (non-codified eclectic collection of New Age beliefs)
Edwin Booth (b. 1833 – d. 1893) Freemason, Shakespearean actor, and older brother of American stage actor and assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Initiated in New York Lodge No. 330 on Sept 11th, 1857. Edwin once declared, "…to be Worshipful Master and to throw my whole soul in that work, with the candidate for my audience, and the lodge for my stage, would be greater personal distinction than to receive the plaudits of the people in the theaters of the world." [source]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Freemason and Austrian composer. Poisoned, died at age 35. Mozart's involvement in Freemasonry may have played a role in his death. Initiated in Austrian lodge Zur Wohltatigkeit on Dec. 14th 1784. Painting c. 1777. Note: Mozart's father Leopold Mozart, was also a Freemason and composer.
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834). 33° Freemason and French military officer who was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the bloody French Revolution. Lafayette was also made an honorary Grand Commander of Supreme Council of New York. More than 75 Masonic bodies in the U.S. have been named after him, including 39 lodges, 18 chapters, 4 councils, 4 commanderies, and 7 Scottish rite bodies.
Salomon Rothschild (1774-1855) – Vatican treasury banker. Wealthy Jewish(?) founder and overseer of the Vienna, Austria branch of the Rothschild clan. Salomon Rothschild was quite possibly the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. Hitler's father's mother was a maid in Salomon Rothschild mansion, and Salomon was a well-known womanizer. After she had become pregnant, she was abruptly dismissed. Interestingly, since this would have made Hitler part Jewish, investigating Hitler's family tree was illegal in Nazi Germany on pain of death.
Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) Freemason. Known as the "George Washington of South America" Bolívar used genocidal terror tactics to achieve his aims. He joined Freemasonry in Cadiz, Spain and received the Scottish Rite degrees in Paris and was knighted in a Commandery of Knights Templar in France in 1807. Bolívar founded and served as master of Protectora de las Vertudes Lodge No. 1 in Venezuela. The country of Bolivia is named after him. Bolívar also served as the president of Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia in the 1820's. Belonged to the Order and Liberty Lodge No. 2, Peru. Note: the Chequered floor.
Napoleon I (1769-1821) . Freemason and Emperor of France, 1805-14. Napoleon's four brothers – Joseph, Lucian, Louis, and Jerome, as well as his stepson, Eugene Beauharnais, his brother-in-law Murat, and nephew, Jerome, were all Freemason's. Most of them held high Masonic rank. Those who were chosen by Napoleon for high honor and office in the state were usually Freemason's. Of the six, who, with the emperor himself, formed the Grand Council of the Empire, five were certainly Freemasons, including Arch Chancellor Prince Jean Jacques Regis Cambaceres, an enthusiastic and active Mason. Of the nine lesser imperial officers of state, six at least were active Masons. Of the marshals of France who served under Napoleon, at least 22 of the first 30 were Freemasons.
Goethe (b. 1749 – d. 1832)
Paul Whitehead. (1710-1774) English satiric poet and prominent member of the infamous Hellfire Club. [source]
William Dawes (1745-1799). Freemason [14] and one of the three men who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord. British POWs from the Battle of Saratoga complained to Parliament that he gave them short supplies.
John Jay (1745-1829). Co-wrote the Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. There is no direct proof that Jay was a Freemason. However, in a letter to George Washington on April 21st, 1779 he wrote the following text which appears to have Masonic significance: "The dissolution of our governments threw us into a political chaos. Time, Wisdom and Perseverance will reduce it into Form, and give it Strength, Order and Harmony. In this work you are (in the style of your professions) a Master Builder, and God grant that you may long continue a Free and Accepted one.
Seth Read (1746-1797). The man Instrumental in putting the Latin motto and popular Masonic phrase: "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (Out of Many, One) on U.S. coins. [source]
Baron von Knigge (1752-1796). Freemason and member of the Bavarian Illuminati.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). One of the best-known figures of the bloody French Revolution. Involved in perpetuating the Reign of Terror (1793-1794). On July 28th 1794, Robespierre was executed by guillotine, without trial in the Place de la Révolution. (according to legend, the only man to be guillotined face-up).
Thomas Cochrane (1775-1860) Royal Navy officer and radical politician. [source]
Abraham Whipple (b. 1733 – d. 1819). American revolutionary naval commander
Francisco Pizarro (1471-1541). Spanish conquistador and murderer of indigenous peoples in South America.
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Greg Norris said:
I am trying to find out if Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" is the same as the freemasonic hand gesture. The more I learn about Adam Smith and how he worked for British East India Trading Co. and his cohorts "The Enlightenment" I find it highly plausible that the "invisible hand" he was talking about was the freemasonic financial organizations that wielded so much financial power that "magically" drove the market. Any idea about this connection?
zaidpub said:
Sorry Greg, I do not know … but the American and British gentlemen of the day were almost all either directly or indirectly involved in Freemasonry, which accounts for certain actions and inactions during the war. Thehidden hand of this government was certainly afoot. M Baigent and R Leigh, in the Temple & the Lodge have an entire chapter devoted to the War — he may be mentioned there, i do not remember … All the best.
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mabona eldadi said:
why most of these people were men?
Salaam ,
These societies were and are male dominated in a male chauvinist civilization and especially among elitist circles. Not only that, there are strong undercurrents of homosexuality in the upper ranks. For example, Ataturk.
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chijiokr said:
I would like to known more about this..message
johnqtriplett said:
Egomaniacs – this is so funny. Please believe me when I tell you that they receive nothing but a bunch of oral history and secrets about who is buried in Grants tomb- no worries- they know nothing believe me lol Well just a mater of time before people put these things together – touche Dr Zaid – but here is what is somewhat the truth too
Ezekiel Watters said:
A fool prophessing himself wise. You and the legions of gullible dupes among an otherwise free humanity constitute the true "no nothings" of the world. It is your incredulty and overconfidence in your assesments and understanding of the world that deliver us all into the bondage of evil men time and time again.
I've been studying this multifaceted and multilayered enigma for over two decades and therefore know beyond doubt that your grasp of the subject is superficial at best. So boorish and tiresome.
I disagree Ezekiel but on you go
cody manuel said:
I shared your story friend. I'm a beginner to this research but i have found most and your page filled in the blanks for me.the world was and still is being lied to and people are brainwashed to this lie so bad that they look at people like me and you like we have lost our mind's. People are too caught up in time, they have no time. They have no time to notice anything because they have to pay to live on earth. People are constantly busy. I was looking up information about the hidden hand to back up my post on Facebook. I explained to everyone that presidents are selected not elected. People talk about who they voted for or who they are going to vote for but their vote doesn't make a difference because they were given the vote to make people feel like they have a choice. We are slaves to the elite but people don't see it that way the just say it is what it is and don't worry about it because they don't have time to because they have a family to feed and take care of and everything costs money. I'm still confused and half brainwashed myself but I label myself as human not American. It makes a lot of people mad but I don't care because I see that as a problem of the world we are all divided and labeled as a culture or nation instead of human. I have a lot on my mind I'm sorry for spilling it out on your page. I don't get on my email but if you would like to contact me you can do so on Facebook. Thanks for taking your time to find all this information and sharing it with the world.
Hi … don't do Facebook, but yu can post here anytime or write to me email. Keep learning, stake your ground and die there.
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Mothers Out Front Kansas City is a nonprofit organization comprised of mothers and others building a powerful grassroots movement to ensure a swift, complete, and just transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean and renewable energy. Together, we can create a healthy climate and a livable future for all children and future generations in the Kansas City metro area.. Join us and take action!
We are committed to REAL climate solutions: we follow science and advocate for change that will measurably reduce planet-warming pollution.
As the problem of climate change is interwoven with historical injustices, we are committed to an intersectional, diverse climate movement in Kansas City. More voices mean better solutions and a fight for a safe climate for ALL children.
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You can check out the adopted plan here. We advocated for the closure of the Hawthorn coal-fired power plant in Northeast Kansas City; cooling strategies like the use of street trees in all neighborhoods; protected bike infrastructure; energy efficiency and electrification upgrades for renters and low-income families; and for better east-west public transit lines.
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UN peacekeeping troops who have reached a reported massacre site in the northeastern town of Gobu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have discovered 12 corpses but no mass grave, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
"The presumption is there was a massacre but it is very difficult to know who the killers were and what really happened," Hamadoun Toure, spokesman for the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC), said in Kinshasa, the nation's capital.
UN troops who discovered the bodies, he said, did not have enough equipment to examine the bodies and so determine the moment and cause of death. "We are waiting for pathologists and other experts to determine if there was really a massacre," he added.
MONUC officials are to investigate reports by survivors of a 16 January attack on boats carrying displaced people and traders, that 24 assailants seized their vessels and took them to Gobu, along Lake Albert, where they killed about 100 male passengers.
The investigators have tried on several occasions to reach Gobu but have been forced back. On one occasion unidentified gunmen fired at them in the village of Djo, seven kilometres south of Gobu. More recently bad weather grounded their helicopters trying to reach Gobu, 60 km north of Bunia. So UN troops were finally sent there on foot.


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Building Lincoln's Hearse
by Heidi Walters
Some of the cats are sacked out in the sunshine and others inside the Blue Ox Millworks office by crackling wood stoves. Bluto, the golden-eyed, bear-faced dog, flops like a giant, piled-up rug on some unevenly stacked timbers in the yard. Birds are talking, the air is still, it's an early spring in early February. Peaceful.
But the people are busy. Someone's hammering on metal in the blacksmith shop, tink-tink-tink-tink. A blue beast of a tractor, three-quarters of a century old, rumbles to life. And inside the cavernous workshop behind the office, Blue Ox master craftsman Eric Hollenbeck and his two main woodworkers stand beside an ornate, partly finished hearse working out a last-minute detail. The hearse is a replica of the original that carried President Abraham Lincoln's body on the final leg of the funeral procession's two-week, 1,654-mile train journey back in April and May of 1865. The original hearse is gone; this one is, as Hollenbeck puts it, as authentic as humanly possible. And war veterans, mostly, have been building it.
Photo by Alexander Woodard
L-R: Eric Hollenbeck with Blue Ox master woodworkers Enrique Ayala and Cesar Murillo
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In a few days, the hearse will be on its way, accompanied by Hollenbeck (a Vietnam veteran), to Tombstone, Arizona. There, after Hollenbeck takes the hearse apart,Tombstone Hearse and Trike Co.'s Jack Feather, a Vietnam veteran and the lead builder in this project, will paint its body pieces black. After it's reassembled Feather will finish the interior and assemble the chassis, wheels and axles built by Jay Jones (also a Vietnam veteran) of Custom Wagons in Kentucky. And then the hearse will go to Springfield, Illinois, where on May 1 through 3 it will star in the 150th anniversary commemoration of Lincoln's funeral. Then it will be stationed with the Staab Family Livery Co., which has overseen the work.
But before the hearse leaves Eureka, the public can see it up close at free open houses this Saturday, Feb. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Monday, Feb. 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Blue Ox Historic Park, First and X streets in Eureka.
For the dozen or so combat veterans who've labored on the hearse the past nine months at Blue Ox alongside Hollenbeck, his wife, Viviana, and other craftspeople, it's the end of an intensely challenging project. But it's just the beginning of the new veterans program at Blue Ox th at, in collaboration with College of the Redwoods, is intended to help veterans — through learning new skills at this quiet, other-time, industrious park — seek a sense of purpose and peace that's often eluded them in post-war civilian life.
The hearse that carried Lincoln on the last day of his funeral procession in 1865.
Numerous hearses carried Lincoln's body in the cities visited by the funeral procession. The photo, above, is the only known existing photo of Lincoln's final hearse, which, drawn by six black horses, carried him to Oak Ridge Cemetery. The hearse was built in Philadelphia in 1857 for St. Louis livery operators Lynch & Arnot. It cost $6,000 then — nearly $200,000 in today's dollars. Before Lincoln, it had carried the bodies of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, the first general to die in the Civil War; and both a Missouri governor and senator. For Lincoln, a new wood and cloth panel was built for the middle window, with 36 stars for each state of the Union, upside-down torches and a silver medallion with the president's initials, "in memoriam" and "May 1, 1865" engraved on it. The hearse was lost in a livery stable fire in 1887 that also killed three men and about 200 horses.
The new hearse, under construction at Blue Ox Millworks.
Hollenbeck and his crew, conferring daily with historians elsewhere by conference call, recreated the hearse's main body and decorative features using a single historic photo, an historic newspaper account of the procession, and the dimension of the back wheels from the old bill of lading from when the hearse was transported by train to Illinois. The photo was shot at an angle, so Hollenbeck had to correct for that before he could figure out the scale of the rest of the parts. They designed and built everything — the main frame, in maple like the original except for the wooden frames that hold the glass panels in place, which are sturdier redwood; and the decorative details, carved in wood then cast in aluminum — melted-down scrap they collected at a junk yard. Charles Ellsworth and Lynnie Horrigan of Allpoints Signs then gold- and silver-leafed these details. Embedded in the fires-of-life pillars, which will be topped with ostrich feathers, are black cabochons made at Blue Ox from slabs of Brazilian onyx.
Eric Hollenbeck and the hearse he and his crew built for the 150th commemoration of President Lincoln's funeral.
The new Lincoln hearse, nearly finished, at Blue Ox.
Eric Hollenbeck polishing a black onyx cabochon.
Eric Hollenbeck polishing black onyx cabochons. Onyx, he says, was the Victorian symbol of mourning.
Working on the Lincoln hearse at Blue Ox has been a salve, and life-changer, for veterans like Cody Drury (below). He was in the Army's mortar infantry and, among other things, was part of the initial invasion of Baghdad. When he came back home to the states, he says, he had trouble channeling his anger. In combat training, he says, you learn to focus your rage on to attacking the enemy. "My job was to kill and destroy," he says. "And that ends up seething in your brain." He drank a lot afterward, and hid from society. Little things would trigger disproportional anger, and he'd get violent. "At this place," he says of Blue Ox, "I get to use the diligence I learned in the Army to create. I can still get frustrated, but there's the care and support here
. We're like family
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Cody Drury, an Army veteran, with Bluto. Drury served from 2002 to 2004 in the mortar infantry. He helped build the Lincoln hearse and became skilled at Blue Ox in numerous trades. He says Blue Ox is his sanctuary.
Community Blue Ox Millworks veterans Lincoln
Photo By Mark Mckenna
As one door closes, another opens at the Blue Ox
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Q: Standard deviation of average events per ID in R Background
I've got this dataset d:
d <- data.frame(ID = c("a","a","a","a","a","a","b","b"),
                event = c("G12","R2","O99","B4","B4","A24","L5","J15"),
                stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

It's got 2 people (IDs) in it, and they each have some events.
The problem
I'm trying to get an average number (count) of events per person, along with a standard deviation for that average, all in one result (it can be a dataframe or not, doesn't matter).
In other words I'm looking for something like this:
| Mean |  SD  |
|------|------|
| 4.00 | 2.83 |

What I've tried
I'm not far off, I don't think -- it's just that I've got 2 separate pieces of code doing these calculations. Here's the mean:
d %>%
  group_by(ID) %>%
  summarise(event = length(event)) %>%
  summarise(ratio = mean(event))

# A tibble: 1 x 1
  ratio
  <dbl>
1     4

And here's the SD:
d %>%
  group_by(ID) %>%
  summarise(event = length(event)) %>%
  summarise(sd = sd(event))

# A tibble: 1 x 1
     sd
  <dbl>
1  2.83

But I when I try to pipe them together like so...
d %>%
  group_by(ID) %>%
  summarise(event = length(event)) %>%
  summarise(ratio = mean(event)) %>%
  summarise(sd = sd(event))

... I get an error:
Error in `h()`:
! Problem with `summarise()` column `sd`.
i `sd = sd(event)`.
x object 'event' not found

Any insight?

A: You have to put the last two calls to summarise() in the same call. The only remaining columns after summarise() will be those you named and the grouping columns, so after your second summarise, the event column no longer exists.
library(dplyr)

d <- data.frame(ID = c("a","a","a","a","a","a","b","b"),
                event = c("G12","R2","O99","B4","B4","A24","L5","J15"),
                stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

d %>%
  group_by(ID) %>%
  # the next summarise will be within ID
  summarise(event = length(event)) %>%
  # this summarise is overall
  summarise(sd = sd(event),
            ratio = mean(event))

#> # A tibble: 1 × 2
#>      sd ratio
#>   <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1  2.83     4

The code is a bit confusing because you are renaming the event variable, and doing the first summarise() within groups and the second without grouping. This code would be a little easier to read and get the same result:
d %>%
  count(ID) %>%
  summarise(sd = sd(n),
            ratio = mean(n))

Created on 2022-05-25 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

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IN PHOTOS: DEAN and SAAY wowed Filipino fans with their smoking hot performances
by: InqPOP! Staff
Last November 10, the DEANTRBL X SAAY joint concert was a surreal experience for their fans because they had the chance to celebrate DEAN's 26th birthday with him at the New Frontier Theatre.
The theater was filled with nothing, but high energy and powerful vocals of SAAY as she belted out her debut single, "Circle." During the concert, SAAY surprised the audience with a new setlist for their Filipino fans.
She also performed an acapella song called "L.O.V.E" by Frank Sinatra.
Photo by: Nicole Ortega/InqPOP
She also performed some of the following songs: "Quiet Down", "Vodka and Lemon Shot", "Love Drop", "Fallin', "Sweaty" and "Cold View."
She finished her set with the song "Encore."
Meanwhile, the crowd couldn't help but sing their hearts out when DEAN finally took the stage. Despite his condition, DEAN was still able to perform really well.
He began his performance with his remarkable songs, "Love" and "Dayfly." He became a little emotional while singing "Instagram," which was Korea's number 1 song in the music chart in 2017.
Of course, the audience did not forget to sing DEAN a "Happy Birthday" song.
DEAN showed off his iconic moves while performing "Put My Hands on You," "D (Half Moon)," "I'm Not Sorry" and "21."
He capped off the night with his encore "Bermuda Triangle."
DEANTRBL X SAAY is presented by MCA Music.
DEANxSAAY
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Q: Testing for 400 errors with paste on a web.py app I'm using paste to do some functional testing on my 'controllers' in my web.py app. In one case I'm trying to test for a 400 response when a malformed post is made to an API endpoint. Here is what my test looks like:
def test_api_users_index_post_malformed(self):
    r = self.testApp.post('/api/users', params={})
    assert r.header('Content-Type') == 'application/json'
    assert r.status == 400

But I'm getting the following exception:
AppError: Bad response: 400 Bad Request (not 200 OK or 3xx redirect for /api/users)

I see paste has HttpException middleware, but I can't find any examples on how to use it or if its even the right way to go. Any suggestions? Or am I just going about this wrong?

A: I know I'm tardy to the party, but I ran across this searching for the answer to the same issue. To allow the TestApp to pass non 2xx/3xx responses back you need to tell the request to allow "errors".
def test_api_users_index_post_malformed(self):
    r = self.testApp.post('/api/users', params={}, expect_errors=True)
    assert r.header('Content-Type') == 'application/json'
    assert r.status == 400

Happy Hacking!


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Q: Getting Environment Variables Of An User By Using Python I have defined an environment variable by adding export TEST1=VAL1 line into /home/username/.bashrc file.
This variable is listed when printenv command is used on terminal on my user account. But it is not listed when the following python code is used:
variables = subprocess.check_output("printenv", shell=True, executable='/bin/bash').decode()

What is the solution for listing this variable by using Python.
OS: Debian-like Linux, Python: 3.9

Example code for running terminal commands in python:
import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk

builder = Gtk.Builder()
builder.add_from_file('test.ui')
window1 = builder.get_object('window1')

class Signals:
    def on_window1_destroy(self, widget):
        Gtk.main_quit()

builder.connect_signals(Signals())

import subprocess
variables = subprocess.check_output("/bin/bash -l -c printenv", shell=True).decode()
f = open("/tmp/env.txt","w")
f.write("%s" % (variables))
f.close()

window1.show_all()
Gtk.main()

GUI file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Generated with glade 3.22.1 -->
<interface>
  <requires lib="gtk+" version="3.20"/>
  <object class="GtkWindow" id="window1">
    <property name="can_focus">False</property>
    <property name="default_width">300</property>
    <property name="default_height">300</property>
    <child>
      <placeholder/>
    </child>
    <child>
      <object class="GtkTreeView" id="treeview1">
        <property name="visible">True</property>
        <property name="can_focus">True</property>
        <child internal-child="selection">
          <object class="GtkTreeSelection"/>
        </child>
      </object>
    </child>
  </object>
</interface>

A: With shells, there is a difference between login and non login execution (see man bash).
executable attribute does not accept parameters, just an executable.
So try:
#! /usr/bin/python
import subprocess
variables = subprocess.check_output("/bin/bash -c printenv", shell=True).decode()
f = open("/tmp/env.txt","w")
f.write("%s" % (variables))
f.close()

Output do not contains TEST1 variable.
With bash -l option:
#! /usr/bin/python
import subprocess
variables = subprocess.check_output("/bin/bash -l -c printenv", shell=True).decode()
f = open("/tmp/env.txt","w")
f.write("%s" % (variables))
f.close()

Output contains TEST1 variable.


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Amsterdam Good Time, Part 1
And so it continued. Not content with fireworks, rowing contests, schoolchildren's chain-making competitions, and exhibitions galore, it was finally time for the historians to have their four-penn'orth about the 350th anniversary of the Battle of Medway, which was why I spent last weekend in Amsterdam, attending a conference jointly organised by the Naval Dockyards Society and the Vrienden van de Witt.
Marginally too large to smuggle aboard the Eurostar
In truth, I don't need much persuading if a trip to Amsterdam is in the offing. I've loved the place since I first went there, well over thirty years ago, when I was working on my doctorate. I knew I could hardly work on seventeenth century naval history without seeing things from the Dutch side, so I swiftly became well acquainted with the Rijksmuseum, the Scheepvaartmuseum (the Dutch national maritime museum), and the great churches, not to mention many rather less renowned landmarks. One of these was a little bar which floated my boat for some unfathomable reason, and to which I return every time I'm in Amsterdam, including this one. It's nothing special – indeed, in some respects, it's a bit insalubrious – and it hasn't actually changed at all in the thirty plus years since I first went there (possibly one of the reasons why I like it), but it's very central, never particularly full, and always seems to be playing exactly the music I like, i.e. almost nothing written since The End of Music, which, of course, took place in approximately 1990. And no, I'm not going to tell you what it's called or where it is, in case you all start going there. But it provides a haven for a breather between my regular destinations, which on this trip, included the likes of the Rijksmuseum, the Oude and Nieuwe Kerks, and the Kok secondhand bookshop, plus a new discovery, the wonderful 'secret' Catholic church of Our Lord in the Attic.
Turner Prize? More like the Turnip Prize, IMHO
(The visit to the Oude Kerk was a bit frustrating, largely because it currently contains what has to be one of the daftest 'modern art' installations I've ever encountered – and there's a lot of competition for that title, says Mr Grumpy Old Man. This one consists of what are essentially large rectangles of gold wrapping paper laid out over the floor, thus obscuring many of the fascinating grave slabs and forcing visitors to play a game of human chess, i.e. having to move to the right or left if someone else is approaching along the same vertical line.)
I'd not been to the Rijksmuseum since its huge refurbishment some five years ago, and was duly impressed by the new look. But like all great international museums, visiting it is still a slightly frenetic experience, thanks principally to the vast tour parties on their 'see the Rijksmuseum in five minutes' excursions – and invariably, that means setting up a colossal siege line in front of The Night Watch. However, that's only marginally less hectic than the rest of the floor devoted to the Dutch 'Golden Age', the seventeenth century, which unfortunately includes the naval displays, my principal target. Still, most tourists are significantly smaller than me, and only relatively few needed to be hospitalised as I manoeuvred myself into poll position in front of the glorious works of art by the van de Veldes et al. However, I'm not sure that the Rijksmuseum refurbishment has been kind to the naval material. The sternpiece of the captured Royal Charles, for example, now hangs above a door, and it's not possible to get as close to it as it was in the old incarnation, where it was alongside a mezzanine. But otherwise, it's still possible to wander through huge swathes of the museum, including, for example, the ship models room, and encounter very few people, while of course, I'm not going to complain too much about any national museum that devotes an appropriate amount of space to naval history. (Are you listening, British Museum?)
'Ninety-nine!' (This caption is respectfully dedicated to all members of the 1974 British Lions touring party)
Tomorrow, I'll blog about the conference programme itself. There was one massive timing glitch during it, though – but it most certainly wasn't the fault of the organisers. When I sat down after giving my paper, I checked my emails, and came across a piece of information that I wish I'd known about earlier, so I could impart it to the audience. (OK, yes, that's an euphemism for 'indulging in shameless self-publicity'.) This was the news that the new Quinton novel, The Devil Upon the Wave, had become available on Amazon that very afternoon. Naturally, the book focuses heavily on the Dutch attack on the Medway, but it also places Matthew among the defenders of Landguard Fort as they try to beat off yet another Dutch onslaught, and also takes him to sea, albeit this time aboard the Dutch fleet, where he confronts a terrible dilemma and a huge personal tragedy. Several real historical characters make 'cameo appearances', among them King Charles II, Samuel Pepys, and Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, while fans of the broader Quinton family may welcome the return of the enigmatic Uncle Tris, Matt's outspoken elder sister Elizabeth, his dour Dutch brother-in-law Cornelis, and, of course, his feisty wife Cornelia. As a special treat and 'teaser trailer', next Monday's post on this site will provide a free preview of Chapter One – and for a book set against the backdrop of the events of 1667, it's most definitely not what you're going to expect!
Filed Under: Naval historical fiction, Naval history, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amsterdam, Dutch in the Medway, Journals of Matthew Quinton, Medway 350, Rijksmuseum, Second Anglo-Dutch War, The Devil Upon the Wave
R Landzaat says
Thanks JD,looking foward to hearing more from you in near future.


The key cogs in the hosts' domestic contingent starred, while those in the opposition's disappointed.
Chennaiyin FC bounced back with a strong result after their poor showing against FC Goa. The Highlanders had no answers to the attacking prowess that Chennaiyin showcased this game. The game was won in the midfield and Bikramjit Singh and Dhanpal Ganesh contributed immensely to this victory. NorthEast United will look to sort out their problems and put on a good showing come next match day but until then, this defeat will sting.
He was a spectator throughout the game and did not have much to do and the NorthEast strikers did not do enough to test him. He made a couple of convincing saves but was never strained. Karanjit made 3 saves and also had 3 catches.
Offered a lot for Chennaiyin FC on both avenues, attack and defence. He played his role to perfection until he was taken off at 65' due to an injury. Bikramjit had a total of 38 touches and completed 28 passes with a passing accuracy of 54%. Although that looks worrying, it was his cross that led to Chennaiyin's second goal.
The target man for Chennaiyin FC did what he was asked to do. Jeje held the ball really well and played some crisp 1-2's with his compatriots Gregory Nelson and Raphael Augusto. He finished with 29 passes and a pass accuracy of 62%. He was taken off at 81 minutes and was given a standing ovation by the fans.
The surprise package today. He didn't feature in the match-day squad for Chennaiyin FC's first game and he was slotted into the line-up as a holding midfielder for today's game. Needless to say, he did his job to perfection. Dhanpal finished his game with 40 passes, 2 interceptions and 1 block. One of the man of the match contender.
Francisco was one of Chennaiyin FC's best passer this game. He finished the game with 78% pass completion rate. Not only on the front, Francisco Fernandes was a big menace whilst defending as well as he finished the game with a big total of 4 blocks.
Jerry, without a doubt, was one of Chennaiyin FC's standout performer. His contribution defensively was on par with what he contributed to the attack. He had completed 1 cross, he created 1 chance which and his tackle by the half line is what started the attack which led to Chennaiyin FC's first goal. Jerry looked very mature and a different player from last game.
Came on for Bikramjit Singh with just 30 minutes to go in the match. Did not contribute much defensively because when he entered Chennaiyin FC were cruising and had the game under control. Germanpreet completed the game with 73% pass completion rate.
Brought on for Jeje in the dying moments of the game, Rafi was a bit erratic in his passing with just 33% of his passes, finding the target. Rafi managed to pluck one out of the sky and add to his goal tally in the closing moments from a corner.
Had a very sub-par game. He struggled to play against Gregory Nelson and was beaten on multiple occasions. Once Chennaiyin FC eased up on the pressure, he was able to push up and managed to create one chance. Nirmal completed 39 passes with a 69% completion rate and managed to rack up 3 clearances. If he could've held his ground better, he might've had a better chance against the quick feet of Gregory Nelson.
Doungel went missing in the first half until he was taken off at 40'. He looked completely toothless and provided nothing to his number nine. One of the worst players on the pitch today, he created just 1 chance and ended the game with a poor 64% passing rate.
The goals that NorthEast conceded today were all poor defending errors and TP Rehenesh was found helpless. He made 4 catches and he also finished the game 3 saves. Unfortunately, a half decent performance was overshadowed by poor defending.
He looked shaky right from the get-go. The first goal was a deflection off him that ended up in the back of the net. Abdul struggled to position himself when the balls were lifted up. He finished with no interceptions, with a meagre, 1 clearance and 1 block.
He was the best defender in the back line for NorthEast. He tracked Francisco well and stopped his crosses from causing problems to the already shaky backline. He contributed offensively rarely which saw him finish his game with 1 cross. Robert's defensive contributions were impressive considering that his team conceded 3 goals. He had totalled 2 clearances and 3 blocks by the end of the 90 minutes.
A lot was expected out of Lalrindika Ralte this game as he squared up against Jerry. Jerry completed dominated him and with the help of Dhanapal Ganesh and Bikramjit, Ralte's threat was neutralized. He created just 1 chance and delivered only a single cross in the entire game and ended with a very poor 46% pass completion rate.
Narzary was introduced for the misfiring Doungel with 56 minutes on the clock. His touches and his dribbling were too much to handle for Inigo Calderon as he was beaten on multiple occasions but Narzary failed to make anything out of this momentary brilliance. He made 2 crosses and 2 interceptions down his wing and finished the game with an above average 64% passing rate. Narzary looked like a problem for CFC when he was brought on but his impact was nullified by the strong midfield and the Chennaiyin FC's defence.


[The following is taken out of the last pages of the tract "Bible Classes and Women Teachers" written by brother Irvin Barnes].
GOD'S WAY IS ALWAYS BETTER! His way is always sufficient. It has already been proven by command, statement, example and inference that the church is to gather in a single assembly for public teaching. This is the Bible arrangement. This is God's way. In regulating the gift of prophecy, Paul sets forth the one assembly concept in 1 Cor. 14:31, "For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted."
It is noteworthy how the word all appears three times in this short passage. Please note the primary concept set forth. One speaker speaking at a time to one undivided assembly so that "all" may learn! Laying aside the matter of spiritual gifts or other questions about the passage, please understand that Paul here confirms that "all" can learn in an undivided assembly with one speaker doing the teaching. This being true, there is positively no need whatsoever for classes.
An interesting prophecy concerning how God's word will go forth is found in Isa. 55:8-11, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord, For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."
When rain falls the same measure of water falls on the giant oak as on the small sprout growing beside it. The oak absorbs perhaps hundreds of times more moisture than does the tender sprout. The young plant absorbs what it can use and grows year by year until it may eventually take in as much or even more than does the giant oak. This illustrates God's plan for the public teaching of His word and His people. Preach all of the Bible to all of the people, continuously. The babes in Christ will absorb as much as they need for proper spiritual growth and development. The mature Christian will absorb the truth in ratio to age and ability. This is a way that is scriptural, simple, safe, and workable, and should have never been tampered with by adding the class arrangement.
ARE CLASSES IN THE CHURCH?
The expression, "in the church," is used a number of places in the New Testament. 1 Cor. 11:18, "...when ye come together in the church..." 1 Cor. 11:20, "...when ye come together therefore into one place..." 1 Cor. 14:19, "Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding..." 1 Cor. 14:23, "If therefore the whole church be come together in one place..." 1 Cor. 14:28, "But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church." 1 Cor. 14:35, "For it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
When a local congregation of the church of Christ comes together for a public service there is a point at which the audience is called to order and a point at which it is dismissed. All that transpires between this calling to order and dismissing the crowd is to be considered as in the church. Imagine people gathering for a church service at an appointed time of ten A.M. The people, men, women, and children, may converse, exchange greetings etc., until the appointed time arrives. At some point a brother will call the audience to order. It may be with an announcement, a song, a prayer etc. Once the audience is called to order, the women cease to talk. Tongue speaking is regulated in the event that foreigners are present and wish to speak. Simultaneous teaching is forbidden. Confusion is not allowed. Common meals must not be eaten. Why? Because the Scriptures teach that such is not to go on in the church.
Are Bible classes then in the church? Does the church, when it is assembled in classes constitute some form of church assembly? If so, they clearly violate restrictions placed on the, "in the church," capacity.
The first problem we might consider is that of women teachers. In some classes women direct or teach the class. In others, women read scripture, ask and answer questions. If classes are in the church then the women who participate in them are guilty of speaking in the church which violates 1 Cor. 14:35.
Secondly, if classes are a form of church assembly then when two or more classes are in session at the same time with a teacher speaking to each class the church is guilty of endorsing simultaneous teaching. First Corinthians 14:30-31, forbids two speakers to speak at the same time in the church.
Classes are either a form of church assembly or they are not! Classes are either in the church or they are not in the church. Obviously, those who use classes must take the position that classes are private and not public, that they are not in the church and do not constitute any form of church assembly. They must so argue in order to escape the problems of women teaching and more than one speaker speaking at a time. They often argue that since each class excludes the presence of all the others the teaching is private and not in the church. Since the grownups do not attend the children's class then the children's class is private and vice versa. The position stated in another way is to say that, when the church is divided into classes, the classes are not in the church. It seems that the only time they recognize the "in the church"capacity is when the church is assembled in an undivided assembly.
The church is a public body. All its services, including the teaching of God's word in classes, is open to the public. The church in classes does indeed constitute a form of church assembly. An unscriptural form of assembly, in fact! When women speak in the classes they do indeed speak in the church! When several classes are taught at the same time the teachers are speaking simultaneously.
To say classes are not in the church is to defy logic. Would such a position be held with regard to secular assemblies? Consider a local public school for example. Would one reason that the fourth grade class is a private class in a public school just because it excludes the other grades? Or, that simultaneous teaching is not going on in the school just because the teachers over the various classes are divided by partition walls? Or, that the classes are not in the school because the students are not all in the same room? Or, the women who teach are not teaching in the school? Or, the only time teachers would actually be guilty of teaching or speaking in the school would be during an assembly in the gymnasium when the entire student body is assembled?
Obviously, a local school is a public body. Partition walls do not change this fact. Arranging into classes does not take the students, the teacher nor the teaching out of the school and make their activities of a private and informal nature. The church is a public body in the assembled sense just as is a school! Partitions or arranging into classes does not take the students, the teacher nor the teaching out of the church nor do they render the teaching activities of the classes private nor informal!
A glaring inconsistency exists among those who practice classification. There is a definite contradiction in what they say or claim and what they do. While they say on one hand, classes are private and constitute no form of church assembly, on the other hand they turn right around and place restrictions on the classes as if they are a church assembly! If classes are not in the church then why restrict them as though they are? For example, will brethren who provide classes allow the students to eat a common meal while the teacher lectures or instructs them? The Bible places no restrictions on private teaching. It is totally permissible to teach another across the kitchen table during a common meal in a private situation. If classes are really private and informal, then why not serve food or refreshments? If such is forbidden then why not just admit the classes are in the church and are an addition to the divine pattern for one undivided assembly?
In many of the class situations women are restricted as to whom they may teach. In most Bible classes women are not allowed to teach an adult male. They are restricted to teaching classes made up of only children and other women. In Titus 2:3-4, women are instructed to teach other women. In 2 Tim. 1:5 and 3:15, we have the implication of women teaching a child, and in Acts 18:26, the case of a woman assisting in expounding the way of the Lord more perfectly to an adult male. These passages prove conclusively that a woman may teach another woman, a child or a full grown man. Therefore, the Bible places no restrictions whatsoever on a woman as to whom she may teach!
A woman is restricted, however, in where or in what capacity, she may teach. She may not teach publicly. 1 Tim. 2: 11-12, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." The word "teach" is translated from the Greek word, "didasko," which is defined in The Analytical Greek Lexicon by Samuel Bagster and Sons, P. 98; "to teach or speak in a public assembly."
The term as here defined forbids a woman to teach in the assembly of the church and in any other public situation as well. She may not teach on radio, television, nor convene a crowd on a local street corner. A woman may teach anybody in a private situation. She may teach nobody in a public situation. It is no accident that the inspired Luke records how Priscilla and Aquilla took Apollos, "unto them," so that Priscilla might assist in his instruction.
Now, back to the question of restricting a woman who teaches in a Bible class. If the classes are private and not in the church why then can't a woman teach a man as Priscilla taught Apollos? Is it not because the classes are recognized even by those who use them as a form of church assembly? And because they realize the woman will usurp authority over the man by teaching in a forbidden capacity? Just as she would if she preached on radio or television? In private she may instruct anyone in public she must learn in silence with all subjection. Once again, if classes are private why do they restrict the women who teach them as if the classes are public.
The following line of reasoning is sometimes offered in favor of women teachers. "The Bible commands women to teach, Titus 2:3-4. Bible classes merely give her an opportunity to fulfill her duty." It is true, women must teach. Titus 2:3-4 commands it. However, there is nothing whatsoever in this passage or any other which compels the church to provide classes in order for a woman to fulfill her obligation to teach. If so, then the women who lived in the time before classes were started must have neglected their duty. The truth simply stated is, a woman can fulfill her duty to teach quite well without classes.
Women are also taught to relieve the afflicted, bring up children, wash the saints feet and follow diligently every good work, 1 Tim. 5:10. These are qualifications for a widow indeed, however, these are things the woman was to have been doing all her life as a Christian, when she had a husband and children at home. If the church is to provide classes so the woman may teach, then it must also make some arrangement to help her relieve the afflicted, be hospitable, bring up children, etc. If she can, on the other hand, bring up children, wait on the sick, and show hospitality without the church making special provisions, or some public program available to assist her, then it stands to reason she can do her teaching duty without the church providing classes.
WHAT ABOUT RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS?
Since the Bible says nothing about preaching on radio and television, if classes are wrong as an arrangement for teaching why isn't the use of radio also wrong? Radio programs and classes certainly are not parallel. Those who have classes must quickly admit classes and radio are not the same for they allow women to teach in some of the classes, yet they would not think of allowing a woman to teach on radio.
The most significant difference lies in the fact that the church assembled in classes is a coordinate to the church assembled in an unclassified assembly. Classes, not mentioned in the Scriptures, add to the undivided assembly, which is specified by command, example, inference, and statement. A radio program is not a coordinate to the assembly! One person projecting his voice electronically over the air waves in no way resembles nor is it equal to a local assembly of the body of Christ. Since a radio program is not coordinate to the assembly there is no violation by addition as there is in the arrangement for teaching by classification. In radio teaching there is no assembling of Christians whatsoever. Classes constitute an unscriptural assembly!
The church in some areas is headed ever so swiftly towards a female ministry! Lectureships and ladies seminars are being held across the land. In a large Midwestern city a lectureship was sponsored by a local church of Christ. The circular advertising the lectureship listed the subjects, places, and time each topic would be discussed along with a picture of each speaker. Among those pictured were some women. Beneath their subject titles appeared the words, "For women only." In another town, one sister was featured as the speaker in an upcoming ladies seminar. The advertisement said she had "spoken," various places in the U. S. and several foreign countries. The only difference between what is being encouraged by some churches of Christ today and going the full route to women preachers is the restriction that our sisters may speak to women only. How long will it be until we will hear of Sunday morning worship services being conducted by women for women only? Or, of gospel meetings for women only? Or, in time someone promulgating a perversion of the Scriptures in an attempt to justify dropping the "women only," restriction and by such a perversion usher in the female ministry.
Who in the church of Christ thirty years ago would have believed some of our sisters would be going on tour, holding seminars and lectureships? A definite trend is taking hold. Many seem to no longer be satisfied to leave things as the Bible sets them forth, but are determined to be like our denominational neighbors. It seems that some are no longer satisfied to deal with denominationalism on the basis of the simple truth found in the Bible but feel it is necessary to compete by introducing into the Lords church plans and programs similar to those offered by modern denominational bodies.
Aside from all the turmoil, breach of fellowship, and other complications that have been caused by the introduction of classes into the work and worship of the church, the congregations that insist on continuing to provide them and members of the body of Christ that continue to endorse them by participating in them, must face the inevitable consequences of offering God an arrangement for teaching that He has not asked for and therefore does not want!


Posted by BeaJolly on April 18, 2010 at 7:34pm in Thank You Jesus.
Not enough thanks can say THANK YOU JESUS!!!! Jesus is the reason for my being, He is the source of my LIFE. Thank you JESUS for my health, my mind, my limbs, my family, and my everyday. Thank you JESUS for LOVE, for beauty, for dieing on the cross so that I may have salvation---Thank you Jesus for your GRACE and MERCY!!!!


When I finished the first section, I looked up from the small manuscript titled 'The Child' to see Ville's father looking at me with his arms crossed. 'Can you somewhat understand us now Emery?' He said. I scratched my head a little and responded.
'So in a way, I'm The Child?' Franz laughed.
'Wretched? Who is Wretched?' I asked.
'I guess I did.' I answered. 'I didn't really know what he was doing but all that black thick liquid, that was Wretched?
'I wouldn't say it was him in the stain but it is exactly what he is made out of. If there is anything under his blackness then it is unknown to us but there is but there is something that requires our immediate attention.' Frank got up closer to me and whispered into my ear. 'I fear that Hellena is going to exile Ville once she gets her hands on the box, she thinks he has betrayed her. Well, he has but that's not the point, we need Ville here, without him she will find out you're a Delacroix sooner than thought but the question isn't if but when. You must leave this tower before Ville comes back, go to floor 61 B and talk to my daughters, they are aware of this also, we need more time.' Franz shooed me out of the room he was in and pushed me into the hallway and pointed to the transportation room—or elevator—that got me up here in the first place.
If I would have known what to be exactly expecting I would have treaded more lightly but now that everything is spinning into motion the only thing I can do is just to move forward. At least I'm not some chosen one, I am though, one of a few I guess. If everything was put on my shoulders I wouldn't be sure how far I would get but on the bright side if I die tragically from an incoming bus or step in the way of a speeding bullet, all would not be lost. Just find someone else they would say. What do they even need me for? They want the box not me, I won't get in there way.
All this talk of immortality and being a different kind of human just on the kind of the blood you have kind of makes my life seem so much less significant, like I don't matter in the grand scheme of things but with everything I've been told, there may be something that they aren't telling me about. Something that puts me into the mix greatly. That they hide from my view just to protect me, like I am some chosen one—as stupid that sounds. What of Ville? How did he betray his mother and where does The Family fit in with all of this? What even got this started? Oh yes, Frankie Frank and Suzie, what of them? Like they knew who I was before I even showed my face.
I'm a Delacroix, there are plenty more who have my last name isn't there? Franz did say its been centuries. Maybe I'm the last of a dying breed? It would make sense because my father always kept me sheltered from the world but then why would he let me go so easily?
Why didn't Suzie pursue her hopes and dreams? That's the question that started everything and am I even closer to finding the answer? I don't think so, not even to the slightest. If only I had forgiven my father and remained with him then none of this would have happened then where would I be at? I guess it was destiny that landed me here and it's curiosity that's continually pushing me forward. What if I was to be immaculated?


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AD149: Is Malawi losing the battle against 'Cashgate'?
Joseph J. Chunga and Jacob Mazalale 30 May 2017 Malawi
The negative effects of corruption on development are well documented (Lambsdorff, 2004; Açkay, 2006; Runde, Hameed, & Magpile, 2014; Banerjee, 2016). Malawi's establishment of an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in 1995 underlined the government's acknowledgement of the problem and determination to deal with it. In 2008, the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) was launched to provide a holistic multi-stakeholder front against corruption. At the time, it was estimated that the country was losing one-third of its revenue through corruption (Government of Malawi, 2008). Government institutions were joined in the fight by civil society organisations through the Civil Society Action Against Corruption (CSAAC), the private sector through the Business Action Against Corruption (BAAC), and the media. Notwithstanding these efforts, the 2013 revelation of massive plundering of government funds, dubbed Cashgate, has called for fresh reflections on the magnitude of corruption and the country's effectiveness in fighting it. Several convictions and sentences have been meted out against "Cashgaters" who defrauded the government through dubious procurements and the manipulation of government information management systems. Cashgate allegations against government and parastatal organisations continue to dominate the media, and many donors have withdrawn aid from Malawi citing concerns about corruption. Findings from an Afrobarometer/Transparency International survey module suggest a widespread public perception that the country is failing in its fight against corruption. Popular perceptions of corruption are high and increasing over time. Large proportions of Malawians say they have to pay bribes to access various public services. The wealthy, in particular, are widely perceived as likely to use bribery and personal connections to their advantage. Half of all citizens believe that ordinary people can make no difference in the fight against corruption, and there is widespread fear that retaliation and other negative consequence may befall whistle-blowers. Overwhelmingly, Malawians feel the government is performing poorly in fighting corruption.
More than seven in 10 Malawians (72%) say corruption has increased over the past year, including two-thirds (66%) who say it has increased "a lot."
About half of respondents say that "most" or "all" police officers (54%), business executives (47%), and officials in the Presidency (47%) are involved in corruption. Religious leaders are seen as least corrupt (22%).
Compared to 2014, popular perceptions of corruption increased in all categories of officials that the survey asked about.
Most respondents say that the rich are more likely than ordinary people to get away with avoiding taxes, avoiding facing the law in court, or registering land that is not theirs by paying a bribe or using personal connections.
More than eight in 10 Malawians (81%) say people risk retaliation or other negative consequences if they speak out about corruption.
The negative effects of corruption on development are well documented (Lambsdorff, 2004; Açkay, 2006; Runde, Hameed, & Magpile, 2014; Banerjee, 2016). Malawi's establishment of an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in 1995 underlined the government's acknowledgement of the problem and determination to deal with it. In 2008, the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) was launched to provide a holistic multi-stakeholder front against corruption. At the time, it was estimated that the country was losing one-third of its revenue through corruption (Government of Malawi, 2008). Government institutions were joined in the fight by civil society organisations through the Civil Society Action Against Corruption (CSAAC), the private sector through the Business Action Against Corruption (BAAC), and the media.
Notwithstanding these efforts, the 2013 revelation of massive plundering of government funds, dubbed Cashgate, has called for fresh reflections on the magnitude of corruption and the country's effectiveness in fighting it. Several convictions and sentences have been meted out against "Cashgaters" who defrauded the government through dubious procurements and the manipulation of government information management systems. Cashgate allegations against government and parastatal organisations continue to dominate the media, and many donors have withdrawn aid from Malawi citing concerns about corruption.
Afrobarometer survey findings suggest a widespread public perception that the country is failing in its fight against corruption. Popular perceptions of corruption are high and increasing over time. Large proportions of Malawians say they have to pay bribes to access various public services. The wealthy, in particular, are widely perceived as likely to use bribery and personal connections to their advantage. Half of all citizens believe that ordinary people can make no difference in the fight against corruption, and there is widespread fear that retaliation and other negative consequence may befall whistle-blowers. Overwhelmingly, Malawians feel the government is performing poorly in fighting corruption.
Joseph Chunga
Joseph J. Chunga is the national investigator for Malawi.
Jacob Mazalale Mazalale
Jacob Mazalale is an economist at the University of Malawi
University of Malawi
Corruption Government performance
Briefing paper
BP74: Spot the difference: A comparison of presidents and governments' Performance Since 1999 in Malawi
BP126: Are Malawian adults turning pink? Exploring public opinion on women's political leadership
Attitudes toward civil society, women, and party politics in Malawi


The Fabric of the Universe is bound together by the Energy of Life, woven through the dimensions from the macroscopicly large to the microscopicly small. This is a Cosmic Consciousness containing its own living Universe. Our Universe, in which we live.
Now consider a multidimensional Mandelbrot of Budding Cosmic Consciousnesses, each unique with its own living Universe and Laws of Nature. This is how it is : A Grand Pattern repeating within itself with Order arising from the individual differences which occur within the eddys of the streams of Time : A Transcendental Being containing all possible Universes within itself, and it is in motion, changing as it goes along.
Once upon a time there was this guy who had a dollar in his pocket, but he had forgotten that it was there. Then The Lord came unto this guy, and He spake unto him, saying, "Worship me as your Personal Lord and Savior, and I will put a dollar in your pocket!"
Well, the guy happened to need a dollar, so he accepted The Lord as his Personal Lord and Savior, and when he reached into his pocket, he found the dollar that had been there all along.
You know how to tie a knot. Visualize a tunnel with ends opening up and facing each other. Take the right hand path. It curves gently to the left and there are stairs going up. At a certain height the roof of the tunnel opens up with the sides being some four feet on either side. From here you can see all around you.
Now the stairs go down again, curving gently to the right, and the tunnel closes up again over your head as you descend the stairs. When you get back to ground level again, the tunnel moves forward, and then begins to curve around to the left.
As the tunnel continues to curve to the left, more stairs lead upward again, and the tunnel opens up at the top as before. Here you can see all around you from a second place. Next, more stairs lead downward, the tunnel closes up again as before, and bends towards the right. It continues forward for a bit, and then curves to the left, finally coming to the end facing where you started.
You have just walked through a knot.
There are two completely enclosed areas inside. These would make nice herb gardens. The first one would need two archway entrances from either side of the tunnel. The second one would have a single entrance positioned in the middle of the long curve. Opposite that one, I would have a set of stairs leading up to another viewing area.
One thing I would not do, is to have the tunnel all round with a slope instead of stairs. I'm pretty sure somebody would wipe out badly on a skateboard! OUCH!!


Re: Season 11 Satellite of Love!
I'm a Kickstarter backer for Season 11, and the reward tier I selected included a Blu-ray box set of the new episodes. It was created for Season 11 investors only, and isn't available anywhere else.
Chances are a DVD/Blu-ray set will be available to the public sometime next summer, but that set won't contain all the bonus content the Kickstarter set has.
Crowtrobotfan4, if you are still itching to get Season 11 on DVD, Good news!
Shout! just announced their DVD and Blu-ray set will release on April 17th! The only bonus feature is the documentary, but it's an amazing, feature-length look at the entire process of bringing Season 11to life.


There are 2 new HAWK signals (High-intensity Activated Cross Walk) at mid-block crosswalks on Washington Blvd. The HAWK makes it easier for pedestrians to cross Washington Blvd. It also minimizes traffic delays. These are very easy to use and effective!
One is near the Government Center/Bell Street and another at Mill River Park/Aria Restaurant. Watch this video instructing how to use the HAWK signals.
Flashing Yellow : Slow down and get ready to stop.
Solid Yellow : Stop if possible.
Flashing Red : Stop and yield to pedestrian. Then go.


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Northern Ohio Jr. Open
Boys 16-18Boys 14-15Boys 11-13Girls 14-18Girls 13 UnderBoys 10 Under
From Saturday, June 22nd through Sunday June 23rd,the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour held the Northern Ohio Jr. Open. The tournament was made up of a 36-hole format with a field of four divisions that included the Tiger Woods Division Boys 16-18, Will Smith Division Boys 14-15, Justin Timberlake Division Girls 14-18, and the Justin Rose Division Girls 13 and Under.
Aidan Schumer of Columbus, OH took the lead after scoring a 69 on Saturday and remaining at the top of the leaderboard all weekend. Schumer followed up his first round with a 75 on Sunday to win by a one-shot margin .Following him was Aaron Apticar of Canal Fulton, OH with a weekend total of 145 strokes and rounds of 72-73. Rounding up our top-three was Luke Radis of Aurora, OH with a weekend total of 147 shots and an impressive final round 70.
Top 3 Leaders:
Aaron Williams, Matt Williams, Egor Zubov
Robert Kimmel of Shaker Heights, OH took the lead after scoring a 74 the first day and remaining at the top of the leaderboard all weekend. Kimmel followed up his first-round with a 78 on Sunday to win by a one-shot margin. Following him was Julian Dugan of Rocky River, OH with a weekend total of 153 strokes and a 71 on Sunday. Rounding up our top-three was Dominik Cosic of Painesville, OH with a weekend total of 159 shots and a two-under 70 on Sunday.
Zo McClain of Erie, PA shot a two-day total of 154 strokes to take home first-place honors with weekend rounds of 79-75 and claim a one-shot victory. Following her was Natalie Brosig of Erie, PA with a weekend total of 155 shots and rounds of 76-79 both days. Rounding up our top-three was Lizzie Bickar of Tallmadge, OH with a weekend total of 159 shots and a final round 78.
Addison Hamann of Avon Lake, OH was our lone competitor for the division with a weekend total of 179 shots. Hamann was able to shoot consistent weekend rounds and claim victory.
Boys 10 Under
Round 1.
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In 2017, The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour announced a partnership with Nexus, an international hospitality and entertainment company backed by financier Joe Lewis and Tavistock Group, golfing great Tiger Woods and musician and entertainer Justin Timberlake, which will further our collective goal of growing the game of golf, broadening the Tour's reach across the U.S. and around the world.
The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour (HJGT) was founded in 2007 with the intent of providing junior golfers between the ages of 11-18, and now 10 and under, an opportunity to play exceptional courses in a competitive environment. Golfers who participate on the tour will compete in one of six age divisions: Boys 16-18, Boys 14-15, Boys 11-13, Boys U10, Girls 14-18, and Girls U13. Based out of Jacksonville, FL, the HJGT administers events all across the nation, with stops in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. In 2016, we have now expanded to the west coast and cover California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Nevada, and Oregon.
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Pip Munckton married Mike Bate in an intimate wedding set in North Fremantle.
Marriage was never a priority for Pip Munckton and Mike Bate. Sure, they'd talked about it over the years but they weren't fully convinced that entering into the institution was for them. "I guess that's something I still believe–marriage or a wedding may not be entirely necessary, but I see it as an opportunity. An opportunity for ceremony, an opportunity to commit to love and an opportunity to celebrate and party with all the important people in your life," explains Munckton. So it was with this in mind she decided to propose to Mike one spring morning in 2016. "It was all pretty casual–we were at our local park, there was take-away coffee, avocado toast and a simple gold band I'd picked up in Melbourne the week before." Bate said yes and the pair went about planning the perfect nuptials that would hold every bit of ceremony they had wished for in a wedding day.
First things first, the bride went about sourcing symbolism to include in the day. Their friend and artist created a design to represent their love story, which was used on the invitations and on the day. The morning of the wedding the couple had the shapes tattooed onto their forearms. "It's a daily reminder of who I am as an individual and the vows I made to myself and to Mike on that day," the bride said.
The bride wore velvet mules by Loeffler Randall.
Munckton wore a Lola Varma wedding gown, an Australian label known for challenging the bridalwear space. The white silk crepe de chine featured an elegant, low back. "It was so special to wear a dress designed by such talented, local ladies," she said.
The bride's tousled hair, by Penny & Peach, and minimal make-up, by Brittany Mason, came to life with a bright red lip.
The bridesmaids wore Ilka and Alpha 60.
"We invited our family, closest friends and also extended family who were not coming to the wedding to have a glass of champagne in the afternoon and be a part of the buzz," she added.
The structure of the day didn't follow tradition. Because they dressed for the wedding together, the couple were able to get all of their wedding photographs out of the way prior to the ceremony.
The groom wore a suit by Edward McCann.
The bride accessorised with By Nye earrings and a Lola Varma veil.
They were married in front of 100 guests and they had written the ceremony themselves–including the vows.
They were married promptly at 5pm and the bride said the ceremony felt relaxed and informal. "The Guildhall is the closest to hosting a party in your own home," she added.
For the flowers, the bride worked with Sarah May of Mayflower & Co.
The florist kept to hues of pink and orange, using greenery to complement.
The couple had a neon light made in the same abstract design, a keepsake that now hangs in their bedroom.
"The champagne came out as soon as the ceremony was over and the cocktail reception, speeches and dancing began," says Munckton.
The food was by Kurt Sampson from Propellor and included a grazing board of cured salmon, sardines, pickled fennel, pumpkin, feta and more.
The bride was her own event planner.
Other styling notes included beeswax pillar candles, shards of local limestone and mismatched brass vases.
The rest of the evening's catering included a barbecue which was cooked over coals by the chef in the courtyard.