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Post by ShadFlow » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:06 am
"Continuing from where we last left off..."
OKAY! THE SECOND PHASE HAS BEGUN! As our main protagonists begin their journey off into the inception of the Second Phase, they find themselves split up! Forced to deal with the constant threat of their buttons being snatched! Taking on these challenges alone, they'll have to rely on their own brain and brawn to make it to the next portion of the exam...however it seems as if Mary and Yuuki have already gotten themselves in situations. What will happen? Let's find out on this episode of Shounen Stars!
<Cue opening!>
"You'll never catch me!" Julius ran through the caves being chased by a large group of kids. Bobbing and weaving every twist and turn trying to distance himself."Get your ass over here! We''re not done with you yet!" He chuckled to himself never looking back."These guys are persistent, I'll give them that. However-"Julius schemed looking ahead. A menacing grin crawled over his face."Heh, perfect..."
It wasn't long until the group caught up breathing heavily as their eyes furiously glared at the boy, trapped in a dead end."Well looks like you've got me trapped-"
"Can it!" One member cut him off stepping forward. Suddenly Julius's body tensed up as his face became a little pale.The fairly muscled boy held out his hand aggressively."Give all of them back!"
"Give what?" He responded cockily.
"Don't play coy! You're in no position to be playing these games! So cough up all of our buttons and your own! And maybe just maybe I'll only partially break your face."
There was a small pause. He bit his lip."Tch. Looks like you got me. I don't like losing but I'm a person of my word. I'll let you touch em."His remark was smooth, like a con-artist. Alas, digging within the contents of his jacket pocket he pulled out four pins, each with their respective targets on them still. Strapped together by a fine piece of red string. Tossing it forward, the by took a small step to try and line up with its trajectory.
Immediately after he took a hold of the buttons, there was another item this time chucked directly at his face. A gray spherical item that then blew up into dark gray smoke on impact."What the-" THWACK! Suddenly from being blinded by the impact and smoke, an elbow came in contact with the boys face. Julius made sure to also grab his arm with the other hand, snatching the buttons from his open palm. Making a getaway dash the other kids were flustered and confused. The event happened so quickly. The area of the dead end was rather small allowing the smoke to clump up faster. Julius remembered exactly where they stood, and how many footsteps it would take to get around them.
"What's going on?"
"What the hell happened?!"
"Damn I can't see anything!!!"
"What're you just standing around for?! Go after him!"
The one that had been hits voice was muffled. Holding his nose, trying to stop the blood from running. But it was too late. The once trapped Julius managed to escape and was running still. Though he could hear the angry and frustrated screams of the other group echo throughout the cave walls.The thought of their misery made him snicker. "Guess it wasn't such a bad idea to bring these after all!" Sometime had passed. He wasn't sure how long. But it was definitely less than ten minutes. Coming to a pause, there was some more needed planning.
"Alright I got my targets. Now all I need to do is find the exit...urgh, this is gonna be even worse than the first phase." There were no possible outcomes of how to find the exit that crossed his mind. The silence of the boy in the headband was a bit nerve racking. Anyone could have been lurking in the shadows. Suddenly a voice broke the silence. Then the sounds of metal of some sort hitting the stone walls. The sounds were feint but he was sure that there was another conflict going on not too far. Maybe perhaps he could make another alliance by offering the other buttons he managed to swipe? Walking cautiously toward the sound it eventually got louder and louder.
Around this corner- Before being able to completely turn, a knife dashed its way passed, slicing the collar of his shirt sticking into a wall. Julius was stunned. Just an inch further he and would have been dead! Taking a big gulp his eyes trembled. Danger signals telling him to retreat.His composure returned quickly. Making the turn, to his surprise Mary had been in combat with a lolita!
She threw knives almost as if she wanted to kill the girl.That was against the rules! Wanting to run in head on, there was hesitation. If she was trying to kill Mary there was no doubt she would do the same with him. Julius began walking forwards to the site. A few times a knife either flew past him, or landed inches away from his foot.
What the hell am I doing?
Not realizing it yet, he wanted to help Mary. Not because of friendship or anything. But because that other girl wasn't playing by the rules! Cheaters were the worst!"Hey you!!!" He screamed out loud to her, face showing his animosity towards her."Playing with knives I see? That's quite cowardly of you!"
One hand pointed at Yume, as the other remained in his pocket.
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Post by Kurusu » Fri Jan 27, 2017 6:47 am
"Oh cruel karma!" Mary ran away from the murderous bunny girl. Knife whizzed past her her, clanging on the floor and the wall. How come this girl managed to bring so much knife with her is beyond what Mary could imagine.
"Hey you!! Playing with knives I see?" Julius pointed nonchalantly, but clearly angrily, at the bunny girl. Mary immediately recognized the flirty Julius, and quickly yelled at him to run. "Just go! She'll kill you!" Mary was certain. After all, the girl had killed...
Wait, she hadn't. That guy was just unconscious.
Yet, the situation was too complicated for Mary to try to make sense out of, and so she decided that running was still the best course of action. She ran past Julius, and tapped his shoulder to signal him to run with her.
"Get out of my way!" The bunny girl suddenly conjured a huge hammer out of nowhere, it's size seemingly impossible for the girl, for anyone, to actually hold it. Yet there it was, single handedly swung by the bunny girl and aimed at Julius's face.
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Post by UmbraSight » Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:10 pm
A stunned silence lasted for nearly seven seconds as the four in the cavern stared at Yuuki, and she remained frozen staring back. No one seemed quite sure what their reaction should be in this situation, but somewhere in the back of Yuuki's mind where the stun had worn off, a little voice was droning observations. The three were surrounding the girl, but their postures had been relaxed when she turned the corner, and the three had been looking at her as she entered the chamber. Had she made much noise as she rushed to the chamber? It was possible, but she wasn't certain. A line of goosebumps crawled up her spine.
A few other flickering thoughts flashed through her mind. The girl didn't look relieved to see her, not like someone who was in her position should. In that little space in the back of her mind, suspicion took shape, and her heart began to patter a quick rhythm as adrenaline burned through her veins and made her joints feel loose. The scream had been a lure. The four in the room shared a glance, as if attempting to decide who exactly should be the one to speak up first or make the first move. Yuuki felt herself pull her right foot back, like some half-hearted attempted to extract herself from the scenario. The nearest boy matched her movement, taking his own half-hearted step towards her.
"Hey, what's your number?" The tallest of the three boys asked, his words struggling to cut into the uneasy silence. Yuuki said nothing as she brought her hands up, fingers curled into fists in a boxer's pose. Another few anxious glances were exchanged between the four.
Her mind raced through her options, attempted to choose one before the group made its move. The only option that really seemed like it would work would be to try to run. Lose them in one of the side passages. She doubted she could take one of them let alone four.
"What are you waiting for, she can't beat all of us!" The girl said, her voice was firm, but seemed to lack conviction behind it. The three others stirred, each taking short steps towards her.
Yuuki's legs tensed. She had done track and field all her life, she was certain she could get away.
"Just give us your badge and we won't have to fight." The tallest said, cracking his knuckles.
//… under her weight the floorboards gave, and she fell into the dark...// Fall of the Aelir Isles, Vol. III
Post by ShadFlow » Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:07 am
"Sh-shit!!"
Julius managed to hop out of of the way of Yumi's hammer, by inches. It was large. Much larger than that of the girl yet she could wield it with ease. She was dangerous. Rolling off of his shoulder backwards, Julius landed in a crouched position; outfit tracking dirt onto its surface. She was formidable. Of course this was to be expected to encounter along the way. He slowly rose up brushing off some of the dirt that stuck on his outfit.
"That's a neat trick you've got there." He stood between her and Mary as she retreated. If Yumi could hold that hammer like a knife, then it was more than likely she could catch up to the two. The only option was to ensure their escape, by somehow misdirecting her. This wasn't impossible for someone of his intellect, but it would prove a challenge."Before this bout ends, I'd at least like to get a hold of your number.Just to guage if this is really worth the time or not." Julius slipped his fingers in his pocket pulling out his badge.
Number 86.
Holding it out he placed it back in his pocket then placed both hands in confidently."Seems appropriate." He waited for Yumi to make a move. Moving his fingers around in his pockets. He had a lot of metallic items in his pocket, from the sound.
"How about you give me all of your buttons and you'll go home only half beaten."
Immediately after the boy threatened Yuuki, a voice interjected into the conversation. Hopping down from a ledge above the white haired eye patched boy landed in front of her with a loud thud. Landing in a squatted position with both arms rested on his knees, gaze glaring at the group.His entire entrance was dramatic, topped off with a loud kiss of his teeth. Slowly rising.
"So it seems we've got a hero here, huh guys? "The boy snarled, the two other boys chuckling with menacing intention.
"You seem confident in yourself...that pisses me off. It's a good thing you have a punchable face, I can blow off some steam." He cockily responded, punching his palm. " Now we can do this the easy way, where you toss me them and you'll only get a black eye or my way..."Suddenly a grin came about his face. Menacing."...Where I'll take the buttons, and your teeth.Black eyes included. Your choice-"
"Big talk for someone about to get his face pounded in! You dumb little shit!" The boy charged forward, with a fist cocked backwards.
"Tch, guess we're doing it my way!"
Once the boy got close, he threw a punch however it was easily dodged. With a small slip of the head, the eye patched boy used the momentum to roll up his arm into an uppercut directly into his chin."Grrk! I-I didn't even see him move! " This was the thought that traveled through his head once he realized...he fucked up. Head jerked backwards a foot suddenly met with his abdomen region, knocking the air instantly out his lungs. Body sent forward into a small roll, where he lied limp from the pain.
The girl shrieked.
"Damn you, bastard!"
"You think we're gonna let you get away with that?"
As the two others charged forward, they soon met with a similar fate. Both beaten down rather quickly lying next to their 'leader' groveling in pain. The girl was shaken, stunned after watching her accomplices be beaten."Hmph, you guys proved no challenge whatsoever." The boy complained walking towards the three boys, going through their pockets once he reached. Retrieving their buttons, he was disgusted. "None of these are mine! Damn it!Why is this so freaking hard?!"
After a moment, his gaze trailed to the girl. Jumping as her legs wobbled. There was a chance for her to run, but being overcome with fear she couldn't bring herself to do it. As he walked towards her, his hand aggressively grabbed her by the collar bringing her face closer to his own.
"I suggest you couch up that damn button unless you wanna end up like your friends over there. I have no issue with hitting a girl if it impedes my success..." He stared into her eyes with violent intent. His other hand slowly beginning to develop into a fist."And my patience is thinning so I suggest you make a move soon or else."
Post by Kurusu » Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:55 am
"Awww... You could've been beautiful." The bunny girl said with a sincerely disappointed voice after Julius dodged her hammer. The girl's exact definition of 'beautiful' is debatable.
Julius then requested a parley, and showed his badge. 86. Mary, deciding that having Julius with her would make it somewhat possible to take the bunny girl down, stood firmly next to Julius. Her eyes not leaving the bunny girl, and stayed vigilante over any sudden movements. Mary questioned whether she should show her badge along with Julius, but the bunny girl had showed her something surprising before she could come to a decision. The girl took out a cute, flowery pouch, and poured the content out onto her hand. The content were buttons. A dozen of them.
"They all enjoyed my art very much!" Said the bunny girl with a bright smile. A bright, chilling, smile. The girl put the button back in the pouch, and then produced an axe out of nowhere.
In an instant, the girl rushed in with the axe, and chopped at Mary's face. Mary, of course, was not going to be an easy target. She side-stepped the path of the axe blade gracefully, and delivered a quick left jab to the girl's face. The bunny girl barely dodged the punch as Mary's knuckle nicked her cheek. In response, the girl sliced Mary's exposed wrist with a knife, one that had been yet again produced out of nowhere.
The blade struck true, and Mary yelped as some tendons in her left wrist were severed, making it impossible to clench a fist with her left hand. The duel ended in a split second, with Mary sustaining an injury. She quickly back stepped away to gain some distance, and then clutched her left wrist in pain. She had never had a cut wound before, and it hurted more than she had imagined it would.
While Mary was distracted with her bleeding wrist, the bunny girl turned towards Julius and swung her axe, aiming for his neck. Laughing hysterically as she did so.
Post by UmbraSight » Sun Jan 29, 2017 10:57 pm
Yuuki felt her shoulders tense as the taller boy took a step in her direction. She tilted her weight into the ball of her left foot, ready to pivot hard and dash out of the room before she was with grabbing range. Turn, take the corner sharp, cut into a side passage and lose herself in the tangle of caverns before they could recover and catch up.she pulled a breath of damp air and --
-- froze. An eyepatched boy with white hair lept down from a ledge from above and landed a foot in front of her. The tall boy stopped as a ripple of surprise slid through the group, but he recovered quicker than the rest of his friends as his lips curled into a snarl.
"So it seems we have a hero here, huh guys?" The tall boy growled, his friends both chucking.
"You seem confident in yourself...that pisses me off. It's a good thing you have a punchable face, I can blow off some steam." The boy responded, hitting the palm of his hand with his fist. The group bristled, clearly not expecting the white haired boy to show backbone. Yuuki's eyes slid back over her shoulder as thoughts of using this moment to escape slid through her mind. She felt a flicker of uncertainty and by the time her attention returned to the two boys they were in motion.
The tall boy was rushing forward, swinging his fist forward with the force of his body behind it, but the white haired boy easily dodged with only a motion of his head. Yuuki was barely able to follow the motion of his arm as he drove an uppercut under the boy's chin, followed by a quick knee to the gut. The girl shrieked, a real scream this time, not like the one she had given earlier, and the two friends of the tall boy both rushed forward.
They quickly met with the same fate.
In only a few seconds the newcomer had reduced three targets to writhing masses the ground. Yuuki felt her lips part, party from disbelief and partly from awe. Where had he learned to fight like that? Could she learn to fight like that too? Her shock only lasted for a moment while the eyepatched boy skillfully extracted three buttons from the boys and complained that none were his target, before her composure returned.
The newcomer stalked over to the quivering girl and grabbed a handful of her collar. Yuuki pursed her lips for a moment before she too started to walk over.
"I suggest you cough up that damn button unless you wanna end up like your friends over there. I have no issue with hitting a girl if it impedes my success..." the white haired boy snarled. Yuuki came to a stop next to them, her arms crossing just under her bust. The girl looked over at her, green eyes wide with fear. Yuuki simply stared back.
"I would also suggest that you hand your button over." Yuuki said. "I don't think you want to lose teeth over this." The girl squeaked.
"In my left pocket!" She yelped. Yuuki reached over and slipped two fingers into the girl's pocket and came out with a button. She held it up number side facing the white haired boy.
"This the one you needed?" Yuuki asked, as a thought drifted through her mind.
Does he want my button too?
There was no way she could fight him, but she didn't want to get knocked out so easily. If she made it into the school could she learn to be strong like he was? She wanted to find out, at the very least.
Post by ShadFlow » Mon Jan 30, 2017 7:23 am
He was surprised that Mary was able to hold her own, originally thinking she was just some average girl. But now wasn't the time to marvel at his own misjudgment.As Yumi's axe drew closer and closer Julius took a step back, only to find himself tripping on his shoe lace. Staggering backwards, trying to catch his uneven balance, missing the axe before it could land."Gah!" Landing clean on his back, he began to become more aggravated. Recovering a short moment after, onto his feet, like an agile cat.
His eyes focusing on the now injured girl, bleeding from her wrist.
"Tch! This girl's too aggressive for me to just try and use childish gimmicks on. I can't beat her in a direct fight..."It was now time to get serious. Yumi already had more than enough buttons to pass the exam. What the hell was her deal? Slowly his eyebrows began to furrow. This dilemma was annoying as it was entertaining.
Julius remember! Never take a gamble you're sure to lose! Bow out if you can't manipulate the odds into your favor! The exit was not too far behind him now. It was just a simple matter of turning and running away...
"Sorry, Cas...I'll have to go against that advice you gave me..." There was a person, who needed his help."...I'm done running. That's why I came here!To gain some courage!" His eyes suddenly showed fury, determination. He was going to get Mary and himself away from this girl. There were screws loose in that girls head. It was too dangerous to try and actually beat her...escape was the primary objective. Both arms crossed over burrowing deep within his jacket, retracting out once more he held two black metallic balls in each palm. Yumi stood in between both of him and Mary. Trying to get pass would be the biggest challenge.
"Oi, Mary! I'll need you to do something for me, can you do it?" Julius called to the girl, giving her no sense of direction of what his plan was. Eyes locked onto Yumi the entire time.
"I need you...to hold your breath!"
The boys eyes glared at the girl before he pushed her aside. Snatching the button from Yuuki's soft hand afterwards. His eye observing how she carried her self. Sizing her up. Then suddenly he sucked his teeth then put the button in his pocket." You ain't anything special." He responded to her. Turning on his heel he began to walk in the same direction Yuuki had came from."Next time I won't be there to save you; if you can hold your own you'll make it, if not-" He stopped looking back over the shoulder."The hierarchy will place you where it sees fit. I'll allow you to keep your button, just because I'm curious..."
Post by UmbraSight » Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:22 pm
It wasn't her number, but still, she wasn't exactly happy to see it go as the white haired boy yanked it out of her hand. His hands were hard, the skin rough no warm against hers as their hands touched. The corners of her lips slanted downwards into a frown as the boy spoke. Was she that easy for him to read? Or was that just his way of saying hello to everyone? Her gaze shifted from the boy down to the three groaning boys, then over to the other girl who seemed to be scooting away. She looked back up, catching his one red eye as the boy looked back at her.
Her faint frown deepened for a moment before she took a step forward towards the boy. Perhaps it was foolish, but she didn't exactly feel concerned that the boy might try something to harm her. Not that it would take much for him to turn on her or cause her harm. She had barely been able to follow the movement of his arm when he had punched the tall boy, and Yuuki knew she couldn't move her body fast enough to dodge a blow like that. Still, Yuuki took another step towards the boy. She dipped forward in a quick bow. "If that is the case then I thank you." She said, straightening back up.
She lifted her hand and held it out for the boy to take. "I am Yuuki, and I am in your debt." She said, "if you require my assistance in the future, or wish anything from me, let me know. I suspose I owe you one, for now."
Post by Kurusu » Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:52 pm
"I need you... to hold your breath!"
Julius said to Mary with a conviction that Mary hadn't expected from him. His first impression to her, after all, was more of a carefree sly guy. Yet, his eyes were now of a man on a mission. His voice sounded like a kind of fighter who got punched in the face, got back up, and realized that he had to win the fight. Mary couldn't tell what Julius was planning, but she could tell that, whatever it was, he could pull it off. She nodded, and closed her mouth with her uninjured hand.
At the same time, the girl had recovered from the missed swing. She took a quick glance at Mary, noticed that Mary would not pose a threat for now, and quickly turned her attention back to Julius. She raised her axe for another assault, and menacingly walked up to Julius, licking her lips while doing so. "Hehehe..." She giggled. She was so going to turn Julius into a masterpiece.
Post by ShadFlow » Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:47 am
"Whatever." His response was cold, as he turned his shoulder."You better scram, or else I'll change my mind." With both hands placed in his pockets, the boy began to walk away from Yuuki. Showing her no sign of respect."I'll shake your hand when you prove to be useful, until then you're dirt." Those were his last words to the polite girl. While certainly she felt strong, he had his doubts about her. His instincts were crying out easy-prey.But there were times where his instincts had cost him, like his eye. Underestimating foes, and eventually being beat.
That wouldn't happen again...
She began towards him again. Julius could feel his muscles tensing up. Fear slowly but gradually began to develop. That tickling feeling in his abdomen, heart rate beginning to increase as adrenaline pumped through veins. Alright...I just gotta do it before she gets too close...but I have to make sure she's also in range...Scheming, predicting, putting into action. These were the steps that a great strategy had to follow in order to work. Of course there are also many factors that come into play in between. So he waited. Both arms guarding his face in a unique pose. One arm on his forehead, other under his bottom lip, both faced outwards with the spherical objects held in each palm; only his eyes and nose were open areas.
Right, that's right keep coming, closer. Just a little closer...
Every footstep Yumi made was being calculated and analyzed in Julius's brain. It was going as planned. His eyes never losing sight. For a moment he was silent, then he chuckled. From being feint, raising in volume so both girls could hear."You do realize that you've already lost, right?" Eyes glancing at Mary, then to the left of Yumi before returning to her. His constitution returning its confidence.
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Trump is Leading in the Polls
(TheConservativeNews.org) – Former President Trump continues to make headlines and gain media attention. The former president certainly still holds some power in the political landscape, and a recent poll shows Trump is still at the top of the food chain.
Several big-name Republicans spoke at the Republican Leadership Conference in Mackinac Island, MI, which takes place every other year. Red voters from all over Michigan attended the conference and heard from prominent voices such as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Nikki Haley, a former US ambassador for the United Nations.
Trump wins Mackinac conference straw poll with 47.5% of votehttps://t.co/xLGWyjaPlB
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 27, 2021
However, it was former President Trump who made headlines as he led in the straw polls with 47.5% of the vote. The poll serves as an unofficial idea of who the people of Michigan want to be the top dog in the Republican party in 2024. Governor DeSantis came in second, at around 25%.
The poll indicates that President Trump still holds a certain amount of influence. However, an estimated 44% of Michigan conservatives say Trump's endorsement of candidates wouldn't affect their voting decisions. The next three Republicans to finish in the top five were Governor Noem, with 8%, and Senator Cruz and Haley, each with 6% of the vote.
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SinoSwiss Technopark is located in the center of Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing. As one of the key international business parks in the Liangjiang New Area, SinoSwiss Technopark is supported and guided by the Chongqing Municipal government and Liangjiang New Area government. The 2 billion RMB, 190,000 square meter green low-rise and town-house styled park provides a state of the art range of diversified business, research and development spaces for Swiss and global companies, especially high-tech SMEs. It is also set to become a major centre for the local incubation of joint ventures with the potential to see massive growth in the Chinese market.
We hereby cordially invite you to join in the opening ceremony of SinoSwiss Technopark, with the presence of top leaders from Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee, the Consulate General of Switzerland (Chengdu) and other distinguished guests to witness the opening of the park and meet a first delegation of 18 companies from Switzerland and Europe who are seeking for cooperation in Chongqing by attending the 2018 Sino-Swiss Business Incubation Competition.
Chinese organizations are facing accelerating changes. Collaboration and cross-departmental work has become much more demanding due to high complexity and time pressure of the tasks involved. Digitalized processes of global customers and suppliers will increase this pressure. How effective is your organization managing these challenges? Is cross-functional collaboration aligned and supportive for business outcomes? How useful are established information and communication processes and technologies?
If you want to make your management and workforce of your Chinese organization a winning team and maximize productivity, you need to translate your strategy, your goals and your spirit into the local setting – it is this information that transforms mere elements into a viable system.
In this workshop lunch we will introduce you to a step-by-step approach integrating Governance and strategy, collaboration and knowledge management, skill building and team development. You will hear about how to align an organization to the purpose it is meant to follow and enable managers and employees to understand and commit to what their contribution needs to be.
Get insight and inspiration about how organizations can be transformed iteratively and lastingly. Real case examples will demonstrate how managers and employees effectively align their activities to a common purpose, how they develop collective capabilities and optimize their efficiency while aligning and adapting to new challenges that pop-up!
The workshop is designed for CEOs and executives, decision makers, business developers and Senior HR Managers.
Both events can be registered separately.
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Where Are They Now? Hull's 2005 Challenge Cup heroes
League Express 23/08/2016
Fullback: Motu Tony
After lifting the cup with Hull in 2005, Tony played on the wing in their major final appearance against St Helens in the Grand Final the following year, eventually finishing his career at Wakefield. Tony is now back at Hull, working as the club's Football Manager!
Wing: Nathan Blacklock
After being forced into retirement due to a chronic knee injury in 2006, Blacklock headed home to Australia – and as recently as last year, he was helping coach the Tingha Tigers side in New South Wales.
Centre: Kirk Yeaman
A Hull FC legend without doubt, Yeaman is the only member of that Hull 17 from the triumph in Cardiff to still be playing for the club – have not left in over a decade. He will almost certainly play again in a major final for Hull this weekend against Warrington at Wembley.
Kirk Yeaman in action for Hull. ©RLPhotos
Centre: Richard Whiting
Like Yeaman, Whiting had remained a permanent fixture at Hull going into 2016 – but the versatile veteran made the switch to Leigh Centurions this year, ending an association with FC lasting over a decade. He is rumoured to be linking up with Toronto Wolfpack next season in League 1.
Wing: Gareth Raynor
The former Great Britain winger would continue playing right through to 2013, when he eventually hung the boots up after a stint with London Skolars.
Stand-off: Richard Horne
Like several of the 2005 Hull heroes, Horne played out the remainder of his career with the Black and Whites, eventually hanging up the boots in 2014. Now? Horne remains at Hull, and is a vital part of Lee Radford's coaching staff as they aim for glory again this year.
Scrum-half: Danny Brough
Brough would go on and produce even better form later in his career than the stuff which helped Hull lift the cup in 2014. Still playing to this day at Huddersfield, Brough is a multiple Albert Goldthorpe Medal winner, as well as a recipient of the Man of Steel award.
Prop: Ewan Dowes
Another Hull FC icon, Dowes eventually left FC in 2011 to finish his career in the lower leagues, having stints with Dewsbury and later Workington before hanging up the boots. Now, according to his own Twitter account, Dowes is a Financial Planner.
Hooker: Richard Swain
The man who last lifted the cup above his head as captain of a Hull FC cup-winning side eventually retired in 2007, but he still comes back to Hull occasionally: and did so last year as part of an event concerning Gareth Ellis' Testimonial programme.
Prop: Garreth Carvell
The ex-Great Britain prop produced arguably the form of his career at Hull before enjoying similar success at Warrington in the years after his departure from Hull in 2008. He would then return to Hull after a short stint at Bradford before finishing at Castleford and Featherstone. Carvell now has a role at Salford, working in their off-field department team.
Second row: Shayne McMenemy
McMenemy returned home to Australia in 2008 after earlier spells with Oldham and Halifax in this country. He would play for WA Reds that year but now, his own LinkedIn page says he works as a Business Development Manager back in Sydney.
Second row: Stephen Kearney
Kearney eventually returned to the NRL – where he worked as an assistant at Brisbane as well as taking up the head coach role with New Zealand: a job he still has to this day, having been in charge during last year's tour of England and subsequent Test series defeat.
Stephen Kearney. ©RLPhotos
Loose-forward: Paul Cooke
The man who played such a crucial role in Hull winning the cup eventually switched across the city to Hull KR in a high-profile 2007 move, before then going on and playing with Wakefield. Cooke took up the coaching job at Doncaster and was a success, before moving to rugby union for a short while before taking up the role he has now in Leigh Centurions' coaching staff.
Paul Cooke. ©RLPhotos
Subs: Paul King – would eventually finish playing with York in 2012 after leaving Hull in 2009; Jamie Thackray – is still playing to this day, with Championship side London; Tommy Saxton – another still playing in 2016 – he had been playing for York this year; Chris Chester – took up the coaching role at Hull KR before landing the Wakefield job earlier this year.
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2018 FOMC Voting Members Cheat Sheet
January 9, 2018 10:50 AM UTC in News
In their meeting last December, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members oozed optimism as they not only raised their interest rate range as expected, but also upgraded their economic forecasts AND hinted at more rate hikes to come in 2018.
See, the Fed's latest dot plot showed that at least 6 voting members are targeting a range of 2.00% – 2.25% in 2018, which is THREE interest rate hikes away from its current levels.
December 2017's Interest Rate "Dot Plot"
Thing is, not all of them are VOTING members. This means that who the voters are matters as much (or maybe more) than the median of the members' estimates.
So, does the Fed's current list of voters have enough hawkish voices in their midst this year? Here's a quick 411.
Who votes on the policy changes anyway?
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has 12 members:
7 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and
4 of the 11 regional Reserve Bank presidents.
The Board of Governors, Chair, Vice Chair, and President of the New York branch ALWAYS get to vote, while regional Fed Presidents rotate each year.
Non-voting Reserve Bank presidents attend the meetings of the Committee, participate in the discussions, and contribute to the Committee's assessment of the economy and policy options.
The rotating seats are filled from the following four groups of Banks, one Bank president from each group:
Boston, Philadelphia, and Richmond
Cleveland and Chicago
Atlanta, St. Louis, and Dallas
Minneapolis, Kansas City, and San Francisco
Who's in and who's out?
Fed Chairman Janet Yellen will be replaced by Governor Jerome Powell in February, while New York Fed President Dudley is expected to retire in mid-2018. This will leave the Board with 4 members out of the 7 available slots until Dudley officially retires and ups the vacancies to 4.
Out of the regional Presidents, Mester (Cleveland), Barkin (Richmond), Bostic (Atlanta), and Williams (San Francisco) will have voting power this year.
Meanwhile, committee members Evans (Chicago), Rosengren (Boston), Bullard (St. Louis), and George (Kansas City) will still get to sit at the cool table but NOT get to vote on policy changes. They'll still likely put in their two cents in committee discussions, though.
Can't wrap your head around the new team? Here's a neat cheat sheet (hey, it rhymes!) for ya!
Oh, and take note that we're assuming that Yellen has already stepped down:
From the list above, it looks like the hawks will be in control of the group this year. While incoming Fed Chair Powell and New York's Dudley will likely continue Yellen's pace of cautious tightening, we also know that Williams, Bostic, and Mester see around 3-4 rate hikes until December. Brainard will likely be more dovish than hawkish, however, while Quarles and Barkin have yet to show their dovish/hawkish feathers.
Take note that there are only 8 (out of 12) voting members listed above. Dudley will also step out by mid-year while Richmond has yet to choose a permanent President. This means that Donald Trump can still appoint at least four new FOMC members including Powell's Vice Chairman.
So unless Trump chooses uber doves for the vacant seats, it's likely that the hawks will be in control of the group this year.
Question is, will they be hawkish enough to raise interest rates THREE times as the December meeting minutes suggested? Or will economic circumstances force them to dial down their hawkishness?
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. Lance Armstrong


Yes pete, that's my baby. Hope your jealous ha. Yeah it was bout 75-85k cost me. But I've also put some stuff into it so cost me a bit more.
Anyone know why it posted 2 threads for it? Very strange.
why is the 2 pics diff, ones blue badge other is gold ?
It was blue when i bought it but i painted it gold since that's what most of the traditional ones were. what you think looks better?


Police Officer Misconduct :: Charleston Police Misconduct Lawyer Lofton and Lofton, P.C.
Police are generally subject to the same kind of professional hierarchy that can impact abuse cases involving schools [link to Sexual Abuse by School Employees page] and the clergy [link to Sexual Abuse by Clergy page]. This means officer misconduct is often masked or denied by superiors. In fact, certain departments have been known to plant evidence, illegally obtain incriminating testimony, and even charge the injured party with assault on a peace officer or resisting arrest. Many alleged suspects have gone to prison or lost their lives based on nothing more than an intentional or accidental mistake.
If you were injured or deprived of your rights by police, contact the South Carolina personal injury attorneys at Lofton & Lofton today. For over 25 years, we have defended the rights of victims injured by the negligent or intentional acts of others. We are also seasoned criminal defense attorneys who have extensive knowledge of the strategies police may use to challenge incriminating evidence or get charges dismissed. Call (843) 722-6319 for a consultation or contact us online.


I've been conveniently putting this off for awhile now, but time to get some connectors repinned. Earlier posts for this project showed two lovely hack jobs on some connectors. The first appears on the J8 connectors on the power supply board.


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Tibério Minúcio Augurino (m. 305 a.C.; ) foi um político da gente Minúcia da República Romana eleito cônsul em 305 a.C. com Lúcio Postúmio Megelo.

Primeiro consulado (305 a.C.)

Megelo foi eleito cônsul em 305 a.C. com Lúcio Postúmio Megelo. Já nos movimentos finais da Segunda Guerra Samnita, os dois cônsules se dirigiram a Sâmnio para continuar a guerra, cada um numa região diferente: Postúmio seguiu para Tiferno e Megelo, a Boviano (Bojano). Postúmio, que comandava a coluna oriental, superou uma forte resistência samnita em Tiferno antes de se juntar novamente à coluna de Megelo. Juntos, os exércitos lutaram na Batalha de Boviano, que foi a vitória decisiva e final da guerra, pois os samnitas pediram a paz após a perda de Boviano. Lívio relata que, segundo alguns dos autores consultados por ele, Tibério Minúcio teria sido morto neste combate e Marco Fúlvio Curvo Petino foi nomeado cônsul sufecto em seu lugar.

Ver também

Bibliografia

Cônsules da República Romana
Romanos antigos do século IV a.C.
Nascidos no século IV a.C.
Ano de nascimento desconhecido
Segunda Guerra Samnita
Minucii
Romanos antigos mortos em combate

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Home / Uncategorized / Imperfect Ministry. Powerful Life Progress.
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Saddleback Visual Arts does not have all the answers in how to do arts ministry. But we have seen the power of ministering through and to artists. This community and way of ministering makes an impact in the lives of individuals. Here's just a few that I shared exactly two years ago at our 2018 conference, each of these individuals stood and and were cheered on by the 180 in attendance:
I will start by saying that I (Jason Leith) have unexpectedly fallen in love with the Church, which is God's chosen instrument, his family who will carry his love to the world.
My wife, Katherine Leith, now sees that art can have more depth than a personal story, it can reveal how God transforms our story.
Steven Homestead found an arts community whose love, trust, and support have helped him grow as a leader and artist.
Mark Dickinson has the opportunity to get out of the home studio to meet people, build friendships, and get feedback from other artists
Claire Allsbrook came to understand that her art life, relationships, and expression of faith, didn't have to exist separately; but could blend in a community like this.
Five years ago God called Judith Blanchard to help with this ministry, while doing so she realized her life calling to be an artist.
Annie Witlen has found an honor just by being part of this community as she is surrounded by artists who are always creating to inspire others.
After searching for many years, Sandhya Artique found her home at Saddleback Visual Arts who she now sees as family.
Megan Sauder gained confidence in the value of her work, and was encouraged to explore the powerful impact of art locally and overseas on the mission field.
Hannah Marc realized that true artistic fulfillment cannot be found in just education— we need to live and create in the presence of God.
Katrin Koch discovered, how God's multiplication is taking place, how he is working through us when we unite.
SVA created a space for Margo Allsbrook to feel at home, to be, to think, and to create as an artist.
Jose Lozano is now a published writer and he attributes that to the support and encouragement he's received here.
Mandy Hinkle found her ministry, her tribe, and eventually her life calling.
During Melissa Bayes' time with SVA, her community gave her the encouragement and prayer support to step into her craft and be comfortable with declaring herself an artist.
Before Teri Shagoury found SVA she was working in isolation and doubted the validity of her work. Now she feels supported and is part of a community that understands her desire to make art that is an expression of her faith.
Rather than just commercial art, Dan Long has realized how his fine art can be used to impact people spiritually.
Michelle Lum found a community that helped her embrace her calling to be an artist and minister.
God provided David Chen a family to cheer me on in my challenge.
Peggy Iriarte had forgotten who she was. SVA helped her get out of a black hole. It's helping her focus and become the artist God made her to be.
These stories are so beautiful, but none of them unfolded without a great deal of sacrifice. Working through the church in arts is a joy, but it's not without challenge. We are creating something out of what seems nothing. People were asked to step out of their comfort zones. We faced rejection and failure as individuals and as a ministry. And navigating relationships always comes with challenges.
So I encourage you, as you continue to seek life change through you ministry, do not be discouraged when you face difficulties. We do not move from mountain top to mountain top. To reach the next peak, we must first go through the valley.
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With the unearthing of a new northern Ontario mining hot spot on the cusp of exploration come a number of challenges for mining companies hoping to take advantage of the opportunities. Previously uncultivated land means logistics to be determined for energy, water, waste and of course, productivity.
Labelled the "ring of fire," the area near Hudson Bay is rich in copper and zinc and is being touted as one of the most promising mineral development opportunities in Ontario in more than a century. Since the economics of the mining sector are highly dependent on time to market, cost management and environmental responsibility, Ontario Centres of Excellence is partnering with the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to fund transformative R&D that responds to the sector's challenges outlined above.
The $2 million joint program will fund research projects in the area of advanced manufacturing that have the potential for immediate upstream or downstream benefit to the mineral industry. Leading to novel, newly adapted or adopted processes, products or services, these projects will be co-funded by OCE, CEMI and NSERC for up to $400,000 each (including a required industry cash and in-kind contribution). Participating companies will get full access to the university researchers and graduates who are selected for funding. The academic IP generated by the projects will also be offered to the companies according to a predetermined research agreement. The project results will be used to the commercial advantage of these companies and/or their supply chain.
OCE and CEMI will host a one-day invitation-only forum in Toronto on June 28 to learn more about the needs of the mining sector and to network with potential academic and industry project collaborators, identifying projects suitable for further development. Organizers hope to attract transformative thinkers and executives from outside the mining sector who can bring trans-sector solutions to the table. As CEMI and NSERC are both federal organizations, the program is national in scope, open to all Canadian accredited universities and Canadian industry partners.
Following the event, interested applicants will have the opportunity to submit expressions of interest, which will be reviewed, with successful applicants invited to submit full proposals by October 2012.
For full program details, please visit the program page.


The optical, magnetooptical (Kerr effect and magnetotransmission), and magnetotransport properties of La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 and La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/SrTiO3/La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 heterostructures on SrTiO3 substrates are studied. The contribution of the interface boundary to the magnetotransmission is typical of a material with a transitional composition. It is found that a 2-nm-thick SrTiO3 spacer does not influence the shape and position of the magnetotransmission peak in a field normal to the surface of the heterostructure but increases the contribution of the upper layer to the magnetotransmission in the Voigt geometry and also enhances the magnetoresistance that is due to the tunneling of spin-polarized carriers through the spacer. The Kerr spectra taken of the heterostructures are typical of single-layer single-crystal films.


On 10 January, 2011 Tunku Syed Razman Environmental Foundation held a meeting with the Minister of Energy, Green Technology & Water. A Presentation was made by the Foundations Subsidiary company Arena Agro Technology Sdn Bhd. An introduction was made about the processing of Bio Diesel and the prototype machine called RAZAK BIO1 in conjunction with the recognition of the Father Of Developments of Malaysia, the former 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Razak.


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REVOLUTION in the Americas... WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
The Beast is Rising Up!
INSIDE REPORT ON SEATO CONFERENCE
God's Government Versus Man's Government
Man Rejects God's Way
Human Mind and God's Spirit
Hebrews Series 13 - Juvenile Delinquency
One of the reason that we don't have better news today, is simply because we have so much juvenile delinquency in the United States today and one reason we have that is so much parental delinquency and some rather wacky psychological ideas of a modern psychology perhaps I should say, falsely so-called, that has been permeated some of our school systems and a good many of our parents in this country in the last thirty or forty years. Now, whether you realize it or not, a good many of the psychologists and the experts are about ready to return child rearing back to the home and to get back to the idea that if you spare the rod; you'll spoil the child.
Now, let me tell you a little something about what a man named Howard Whitman has said. He quoted this, from a boy just 17 years old, he said, my father, he's a 'Beaut.' He just a low down so and so. My dad! He don't give a darn if I live or die. Now, that boy, his name was Bud, is only a 17 years old, wearing a faded purple jacket, gray denim slacks. And, Mr. Whitman says, he stopped me as I was entering the hotel in New Orleans, and asked for money to get something to eat. The boy had been on the bum for three weeks, sleeping in flop houses, washing dishes, and pan handling for money to buy food. He had quit High School in Chicago, and had struck out for Miami, in hopes of striking it rich, as he put it, in vacation land. When this failed, he started bumming and hitchhiking back with nothing but the clothes on his back. He'd been washing his clothes at night, but his one pair of socks wouldn't take it any longer. They gave out and he'd thrown them away the day before.
Now, Mr. Whitman says, before I took him to a local family agency to get him back on the track, Bud told me a story. His mother, he said, had died three years ago. She was the only person who ever gave a darn for me, said the boy. I'm just quoting it as exactly as Mr. Whitman wrote it. Bud's father had divorce her three years earlier and had gone off and had married another woman. And so, Bud was kind of an orphan. Staying with grandparents and hating life, for the raw deal it had given him, running away now and then, to get revenge. He was bitter when he talked about his father. With a choked and a sullen voice, he said, they ought-ten to let him walk out like that, he's just for himself. Looking out for his own self and for a good time. What happens to me doesn't matter, he never sends any money, he never even writes to fine out if I'm alive.
Now, if Bud were the next boy to turn up on your front page as a delinquent, would you wonder whom to blame? The next day, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, so it continues Mr. Whitman, I visited the juvenile detention home and met Charley, age 15 and his brother Leonard, 16. Charley also was a runaway from Kansas City. He wore the blue jeans and the tee shirt, of a teenager, and had a mop of sandy hair, which was three weeks over due at the barber shop. Charley had run away to join the merchant marines and been pick up as a vagrant. We sat down together in the green living room of the new detection home.
Len and me, Charley said, Len and me left home because we couldn't stand it any longer. All mom cared about was card games. She played cards and bingo five and six nights a week. She even use the money that Len and me made working after school. Then, Leonard added, when she got mad, she'd curse at us and tell us that we were just in the way, that if it weren't for us that she could be free and have a good time. The boys describe the professional card games, to which there mother was addicted. She would pay fifty-cents or a dollar for a seat at the table, and then play cards until she was either broke or intoxicated with winnings, which she would take back and lose the next night. You know, that's one thing about gambling, incidentally I'm going to break in here since that's been mentioned.
I don't know whether you read the article by the owner of one of the biggest, I guess the biggest gambling house up in Reno, one of the biggest gambling houses in the whole United States, of the whole world. And of course, gambling is legal up there. But anyway, this gambling house owner said, he want to answer the question, 'do we cheat or is it straight or is it crooked in our gambling house'? No, he said, we don't have to cheat. It's absolutely straight. And that's the truth in these gambling houses. They don't have to cheat. Not at all. It's fixed in a certain way. For instance, the roulette tables and things of that sort. By the law of average it's fixed that the house is going to get a certain slight break on it and a profit provided it breaks even as it does of course over thousands of plays or thousands of dollars, or however you want to rate it. But here's the way he explained it. They don't have to cheat and they don't have to keep anything hid or crooked or anything of the sort. They're piling up money and they're making themselves millionaires running these gambling houses without it. And here's why, it's a matter of human nature.
A man comes in to gamble. It gets into his blood. If he begins to win a little bit, he wants to win more. And he can't stop. He can't stop when he's ahead; he hasn't got sense enough to stop because he all intoxicated with the whole thing by that time. He's got to win more. Just a little more and then I'll quit. But before he gets that little more, where he willing to quit, at least before he comes to the time where he's willing to quit, he begins to lose. Well, if he loses a little bit, now he got to keep on long enough to get that back. But probably he goes on losing more and more. Now he's got to get that back. Well, if he gets a little of it back, he has got up where he wanted, so he keeps on. Pretty soon he gets down even and now he's got to get back again up on top. Well, then he begins to lose and go under. Now, he has less than he came in with. Well, now he got to continue to play until he gets at least even with the game. He can't quit behind that game. So he keeps on and it goes up and down; up and down and of course it goes back and forth and then there's a good many games that's an even 50-50 break between him and the house but, you know first he winning and then there're winning. But the thing is when he winning he never can stop until he gets just a little more. He hasn't won quite enough to stop. And when he's behind he can't quit until he gets back up ahead again. And so what does he do? Well, he continues until he's broke. Now, the thing is, the house never goes broke. The house has enough money, they don't have to stop. They have more money than the customer and the customer continues to gamble until he's broke. Now, one of them has got to go broke because they wont quit. And it is always the customer who goes broke and so the house gets their money.
Now, actually, as this man said, and they have cards all over as you're driving anywhere in the western whole third of the United States you'll see the cards of this house or their billboards up all over the highways in every place. And, it was an article in one of our largest popular national magazines, I think, where this was written. I think it was some years ago now but not too long it comes back to me, I remember. Now, he says, supposing a man does win 10,000 dollars or something at gambling at his house? Do they hate to give it him? Why no, they're perfectly glad to give it to him. Not only that, they want to publicize that, they want everybody to know how much this man won because that makes everybody else want to come and win. Of course, the others aren't going to win most of them are going to lose. Now, in the law of averages, once in a while a man wins and has enough sense to quit when he's ahead.
As a matter of fact, I had business over in Las Vegas one time, and I was over there to see a man, who I had been informed wanted to make a donation to Ambassador College. And, we were staying in a certain hotel, and we were to see the man as we drove over and got there in the evening or late at night and we were to see him the next morning. Well next morning, the man who was, well our agent and taking care of this matter for us, came to see me and he said, well, he said, you know something that you maybe didn't know, this man has a part interest in one of our casinos here and he said there were two or three men from Hollywood that were over here last night and took the thing for I think for was over a hundred thousand dollars, I believe it was something like a hundred and ten thousand dollars. And they quit when they were ahead. Now, that was such a lost; that really hit the gambling casino, that hit the owners and the management and they said that he had such a headache, that he wasn't going to feel like donating anything today and so we didn't see him. Well, of course I didn't know that he was in the gambling business or anything of that sort because this man had a very high reputation. And, one of the best thought of men in the state, as far as that is concerned.
Now, what actually happened to those gamblers, did they quit a hundred and ten thousands dollars ahead? I think that was the amount. Maybe it was more. It might have been over two-hundred thousand; I did,.. it was a terrific amount, I don't just remember. I believe it was! Come to think about it, I believe it was over two-hundred thousands dollars. And I believe it is in what they call a 'crap' game; that's shooting dice, you know. I don't know much about it, cause I've never done it. Never in my life have I ever gotten into such a game and I don't understand it. I'd seen it, when I'd been over there, you have to walk past those places to get to the dining room. But, I never stopped long enough to have it explained and I don't understand the game and I don't care to understand it.
But nevertheless, here's what happened to those fellows. They went over to another gambling casino from there, where they lost a big share of their money. And then they went to another one where they got cleaned out and lost all the money they'd come with and in addition to that hundred or two hundred thousands dollars they'd won. And so, this one gambling casino lost but the others made it up, and that's the way it goes. You know, you might just as well realize, my friends, you just can't beat it. There's no use of trying. Too many people in America are just trying to get something for nothing. They're trying to get money without earning it.
Now, I've heard of a lot of people who will go to Reno or to Las Vegas to gamble. And, will make a trip once or twice a year. And, they set aside a certain amount of money. And they say its their pleasure and they enjoy it. They go there with a certain allowance, a certain amount of money. They know they're going to lose it. But they feel that's their way of spending that much money for pleasure. So they gamble, and it may last two, three or four days, they take enough money to let it. They win, then they get behind then they get ahead and then they get behind. But they keep on until they're behind all the money that they set apart that they come with; there to gambling. And, when it gets to that point, they quit and go home. Now there are people that go to Las Vegas every year who do it just that way. But what fun they get out of that; I never could see.
You know, some people can get dope in them. They start out with marijuana and then they go into heroin. And they get to the place they crave it and they have to have more. Well, it just isn't healthy. Don't ever get yourself to the place where you crave that sort of thing. Now, I've never been inoculated with it. What fun they can get out of it, I've, I've seen them in gambling dens, I've had to walk past those places. And, I don't see them looking really happy. They don't have their faces wreathe and smiles and happiness and just exuding joy and seeing how much good they can do for everybody and everything in that sort,..
No, the best you can say is there just came for excitement, but most of them have a worried look. And I've seen some that had a terrible worried look before they got through and I've heard of many cases, in Las Vegas, for instance, and places like that, where people come in there, they lose all they got and where men will gamble away all of the money they had and they'd plan on something that the family needed and was going to do but they thought they could run it up just a little more money. Well, they don't do it, they lose all they had. If they do run up a little bit they haven't got sense enough to quit when they're ahead. Course you think probable you'd quit when you're ahead, oh no, you wouldn't, you're human just like everybody else. Very few ever do. And if they quit when they're ahead in one place, why they lose it later. And it's just like this boy said, if his mom got a head tonight, she'd lose it tomorrow night. Now that's human nature. You know that sort of thing just does not pay.
You know, my friends, I read in the Bible there is a personage quoted as if He existed, of course a lot of people think He doesn't exist, because He doesn't seem real, not even as real as Santa Clause because a lot of people dress up like Santa Clause and, I guess a lot of little children really think that they've seen Santa Clause. But, not very many people think God is real. Because they haven't seen Him, but I read in the Bible where one is quoted, saying, "I am God. And there is none beside me." And where this God said that He had sent one called Jesus Christ to this earth. And that Jesus Christ is not just an ordinary man, in the same since as you and I are, that is that He was not born from two human parents like us but from one human parent and from God. But He was born of a virgin. The virgin Mary and God was His only Father. And, that this Christ who came, from this one who calls Himself God and says He's God in the Bible. That He said that if we would seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; that all these material benefits and everything would be added to us — (Matt. 6:33).
You know, I have found, that if a man will try to improve himself, if he will study, if he will think about what he is doing, if he will work diligently at what he does, and think about it and study about it, and always try to improve himself and to get ahead, if he will honestly seek the Kingdom of God and if he seeks the Kingdom of God and God's righteousness he's going to be doing those things. He's going to be diligent in his business, he's going to be honest in it though, and he's going to give a dollars worth of service and the effort for every dollar that he receives in pay. He's not going to try and get something for nothing. He's not going to try to cheat the other fellow, he's not going to try get rich quick at all, and he's going to be honest and industrious and studious and you know, I've found he may have some ups and downs, he may have some financial worries, but in the end he's going to come to a confidence, in the end he's not going to have to worry, and when he comes past sixty years of age, he's not going to be in the position that I understand, let's see, it either 95 or 98 percent of all people past sixty in the United States are dependant on their children. Rather he'll be able to be in the position to help his children instead of having them having to help him. And, he want have to worry about where his bread and butter comes from, he's going to be alright because he'll find that these material things have been added. It really pays off. It really pays off and I can give you any number of experiences where that has worked out and where it's true. It certainly does.
Well, to get back, and since I've started this I'd better finished this little story and show you exactly what happened. Now this Leonard added that when this woman got back home, she was mad, she'd curse at us and tell us that we're just in the way and if it weren't for us she could be free and have a good time. The boys describe the professional card games. Only, I guess I was a little farther along, I'm reading this, of course, something that I whip out. I was down here where she would lose the next night, whatever she'd win one night if she did win gambling. Well, that's the way it goes. Now, the boy's father, as they described him was well intentioned but weak and unable to do anything about it. When, their mother, isn't that the common idea today, yes, just as I told you, now that's in the Bible too.
A lot of things are in the Bible that makes sense. Only, most of you say, I just don't understand the Bible. And you some how got it in your head that the Bible doesn't make any sense. So, let me tell you it does. If you think that, you just haven't understood it. Now the Bible foretold our condition today. That women will be the masters over their husbands. And that the children will really rule the rouse and that's what's happening today. And so here was one of there sickly, weakly husband that was more a mouse than a man. So, he was weak and unable to do anything about it. When their mother used the household's money for her card games, it was bad enough. But when she insisted that they turn over, the boys now, turn over the money that they made, working after school, they decided to light out. Bud, Charley and Glen, were living illustrations of what judges in a dozen juvenile courts had told me. That ninety percent of the youth problem is irresponsibility of parents. Now listen, my friends, that coming from dozens of judges and juvenile courts that have these problem brought before them. That isn't from just one case, that probably coming from many, many hundreds of case in the experience, the voice of experience from these judges.
That ninety percent of the youth problem is irresponsibility of parents and the main trouble, my friends, is that we do not teach respect for authority. We do not discipline anymore. And children are not taught to obey authority; from the beginning of the Bible to the end. The first chapter of Genesis, of course, deals with creation. About God's teaching to man, of what God began creating but you begin to find God's teaching in the very second chapter of Genesis. And there you find God commanding the man saying, do so and so, I, am the supreme ruler. And it will go well with you and everything is going to break right for you and you're going to prosper and going to be happy if you obey. But if you don't, the wages of sin is death.
Why do you need salvation? It because you have sinned! Because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God — (Ro. 3:23). What is sin? Sin is the transgression of the law of God. That law is love, it's a great overall law of love. Love is the principle of righteousness. God is love. God showers His love upon us. How much love do you have? Love is the fulfilling of God's law and that is the right way and that is righteousness. But sin is the transgression of that law. And the law is basically love. But now, we define it a little bit. God doesn't leave it up to you to decide what love is. Because, you'll read back here in Proverbs, in the fourteenth chapter and the twelfth verse, "There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death" — (Proverbs 14:12). There is a way that seems right. Now if God leaves it for you to decide which is the right way, to express love, in the way that seems right to you, you're going the wrong way. So, God goes on and tells us how,.. to express love. What this love is. And it is next sub-divided into two great principles: Love towards God and love towards your neighbor or man. And the first is love to God because, my friends, we are helpless human beings. Just as a little baby is helpless and needs its parent. So are we helpless and we need our spiritual parent, God Almighty, there's so much we need that we can only receive from God. And when you're cut off from God, you're cut off from all of those blessing, all of those benefits that you need. And so, the very first two commandments of God's law when He defined how to love God, if He leaves it to you to decided how to love God, you're going to do the way that will seem right to you. You're going to love God in the way that seems right to you and that' going to end up in death which is the wages of sin and therefore, it will be sin in the wrong way. Now, we need God! Very few people ever turn to God until they come to a plight where they realize their need of God.
And you find that very thing explained as God was explaining it to the very first man in the very second chapter of the Bible. And, did you ever turn over and see what is in the very last chapter in the Bible? And it's all the way through, it's through the Psalms, it's all through the writings of Moses, it's all through the prophets, it's all through the teachings of Jesus; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, it's all through the book of Acts, it's all the way through the letter of James and the letters of Peter and letters of John, it's all through the book of Revelation; clear to the end of your Bible where you read here in the very last chapter in the Bible. Where Jesus Christ Himself is saying, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last: Blessed are they that do His commandments; the Father's commandments that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city" — (Rev. 22:13-14).
What's your passport into the Kingdom of God? You have to have a passport to get through and that is obeying God; God's commandments. God's commandments are His law. And sin, is the transgression of that law. And that law is active, that law is in motion, that law was set there to make you happy. That was set there to give us peace; world peace and happiness; and joy and everything good. But we violated it. Nation violate it. Men and women violate it and we have nothing but family troubles and we have families and homes broke up, we have juvenile delinquency, we have wars between nations and what do we have, my friends? Nothing but troubles and headaches and sorrows and suffering because we break these laws of God.
Let me tell you there's nothing more important in life; to learn, than respect for authority and obedience. How much authority does the Bible have in the average home today? You tell a person, well the Bible says so and so that you ought to do so and so and they'll say, well yes, I know the Bible says, but then look, now here's the way I look at it. Yeah, they want you to know how they look at it. When the Bible say so and so that's God speaking and that is God's law. When you violate it I don't care how you look at it, when you violate it you're going to suffer but the unfortunate thing is you deserve that. But what you don't deserve or someone else doesn't deserve is, that you're going to make other people unhappy along with you. And ever one of us is suffering because of the wrongs and the sins of other people besides ourselves as well as from our own sins. That's one of the terrible things about disrespect for the authority of God. We make others suffer.
But, not only that, your Bible teaches that we must respect the authority of man where he has authority over you. And the laws of the government. God Almighty has set all authority and law in motion. Now, actually, what do we have in this world. We have a system where man is usurped authority from God. And this world is not God's world as most of you have suppose it was. It isn't at all. But nevertheless, God is allowing it. And there could be no authority that God didn't allow. And He is allowing it because He made us free moral agents. You don't have to obey God. And He has allowed man to set up man own ideas and systems of government and that sort of thing. But God has allowed it and God tells you and me to pray for those that have the rule over you. Are you doing it? Do you have respect for the traffic laws? You'd save a lot of lives if you did. Do you have respect for the laws of the land? Well your Bible teaches you that you should. Or does that make sense to you? A lot of you think that the Bible doesn't make sense. Well, it does and that one of the things it says and if we'd do it, we'd all be a lot better off.
Well, here's the thing, there's been a psychology that you never punish a child. You must never say no. You must never say don't. Well, let me tell you, my friends, the leading psychologists are beginning to wake up and realize that was a wacky idea. That was not right. And they are beginning to admit they've been wrong. And they're beginning to find out, that what God says is right. Now, in the twelfth chapter of Hebrews, we come to some of this. I want have time to begin at the first and go through it and I'll try to do that in the next program. But God says here, "my son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor think when thou are rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loves, He chastens." What? Not who he hates but whom He loves, He chastens. Notice that. "And scourges every son whom He receives" — (Heb. 12:5-6). God has punished me, and oh, I thank Him for it. It wasn't pleasant. Oh, no, I didn't like it at the time. I would have done anything to escaped it. But I know the good that it's done me. And now, I'm thankful. "If you endure chastening God deals with you as sons. For what son is whom a father chastening not? But if you be without chastisement, where we're all partakers, then you are bastards and not sons" — (Heb. 12:7-8). I'm reading that out of the Bible. That's a word I wouldn't use on the air except I reading it out of the Bible. And that's what God says and "thus says the Lord", my friends. He goes on to say that if were without chastening, we just don't love our children if we don't punish them. And God says, you don't love your children and in another passage, he says that you're just about like a murder if you do not punish your children.
Let me tell you something, my friends, God Almighty is the supreme ruler of the universe and we have the kind of teaching that doesn't want to acknowledge any authority, doesn't want to obey; submit to any obedience. We don't like to submit to law. Why do we have more lawbreaking in the United States than any nation on the face of the earth? It's because we have this kind of teaching. We don't even believe in punishing our children. We don't even believe in causing our children to have to obey their parents. And you know what God says. Back here in Isaiah, about how women dominate the men and they certainly do today and the children rule the rouse. That my own language for it but it's been read to you a good many times and that precisely the way it is today. That just the way things go on. As for my people, God says, their children are their masters and the women wear the pants. That's modern language for it. Well, we've got a lot of wrong psychology and that's the way it's working out. We've produce a generation of puzzled parents.