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Custer State Park buffalo roundup draws 14,000
by Matt Dayhoff · September 30, 2013
Phill Randall carries the American flag as wranglers work to control the herd as they move toward the corral area Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 at the annual bison roundup at Custer State Park in South Dakota. Over 1,100 of the park's bison are rounded up from all corners and herded into corrals where they'll be vaccinated, branded and sorted for an auction in November. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn)
The crowd lines the fence of the south viewing area during the 48th Buffalo Roundup in Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The park estimates 14,000 people showed up to the annual event this year. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
A herd of more than 1,000 buffalo make the final push into the corrals during the 48th Buffalo Roundup in Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The roundup is necessary to maintain the herd as the event gives park staff a chance to check on the females and brand calves. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
Catherine Neihart, 12, left, and her sister, Jessalee, 10, from Braddyville, Iowa, wear buffalo costumes made by their grandmother during the 48th Buffalo Roundup in Custer State Park Sept. 27, 2013 in Custer, SD. Their family owns a tour bus company and brought about 50 people to the roundup this year. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
Horsemen help push buffalo to the corrals during the 48th Buffalo Roundup in Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The roundup is necessary to maintain the herd as the event gives park staff a chance to check on the females and brand calves. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
Jim Williams, of El Paso, Texas, wears a buffalo hat before the 48th Buffalo Roundup in Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The roundup is necessary to maintain the herd as the event gives park staff a chance to check on the females and brand calves. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
A.J. Walters of Grand Rapids, Mich., with his quarter horse, Duke, prepare for the 48th Buffalo Roundup at Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. This was his 15th year as a volunteer at the park. In the background, people find a spot on the north viewing area. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
Phill Randall of Custer holds the American flag after completing the 48th Buffalo Roundup in Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 201. This is his fifth year with the roundup. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
Wranglers work to control the herd as they move toward the corral area Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 at the annual bison roundup at Custer State Park in South Dakota. Over 1,100 of the park's bison are rounded up from all corners and herded into corrals where they'll be vaccinated, branded and sorted for an auction in November. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn)
Buffalo are processed through health checks and branding for calves after the 48th Buffalo Roundup at Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The roundup is necessary to maintain the herd as the event gives park staff a chance to check on the females and brand calves. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
A buffalo waits in a chute while it's given a health check during the 48th Buffalo Roundup at Custer State Park, S.D., Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The roundup is necessary to maintain the herd as the event gives park staff a chance to check on the females and brand calves. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
A buffalo is branded with the number "3" for 2013 and an "S" denoting the state's ownership, during the 48th Buffalo Roundup at Custer State Park, S.D. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The roundup is necessary to maintain the herd as the event gives park staff a chance to check on the females and brand calves. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)
More than 14,000 people lined the hills of Custer State Park in South Dakota last Friday to hear the thunder and watch as more than 1,000 buffalo corralled by horseback riders in what has become a huge tourist draw for the Black Hills.
"People come from all over the world for this special connection to American history," said freelance journalist Chris Bury, who was producing a segment for the Al Jazeera network's "America Tonight."
"This is a historical spectacle," he said.
Park managers use the event, in its 48th year, as a management tool. They brand and vaccinate the animals and cull the herd in an effort to maintain a balance of bison and rangeland forage. More than 400 of the bison will be sold at a November auction that will generate about $500,000 for park operations, the Rapid City Journal reported.
The roundup is typically held on the last Monday of September, following the park's weekend arts festival. It was moved ahead of the arts festival this year.
"It was born of the idea of attracting even more people," said Craig Pugsley, visitor services coordinator for the park.
The park also offered another major change this year. The north viewing area was altered to allow for better vantage points. The fence that used to line the top of the hill has been moved to the base of the hill, providing a "natural amphitheater for people to sit and watch," Pugsley said.
The cattle guard near the hill also was moved. The changes will allow more people to watch from the north side and to be closer to the buffalo as they rush toward the corrals.
Erwin Graf and Bettina Bardill, who live near St. Moritz, Switzerland, took in New York City and Tennessee's Nashville and Memphis before coming to the Black Hills.
"We came here for the spectacle, for the buffalo, for the wildlife," Bardill said. "In Switzerland, you don't have thousands of buffalo."
Information from: Rapid City Journal, http://www.rapidcityjournal.com
Matt Dayhoff
Matt Dayhoff started as a photographer for the Journal Star in 1992 shortly after graduating from the Ohio University School of Visual Communications. In 2009, he moved into the newsroom as an online editor and producer and is now responsible for helping manage and edit much of the editorial content on pjstar.com.
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When did the B&M and MEC discontinue use of telegraphy? I grew up in central Mass. near the Fitchburg main, and recall the old four-tiered poles standing into the '70s, but I don't know whether they were still being used. IIRC, most of them were taken down shortly after the Guilford purchase and replaced with new single-tiered poles that I assume were used for electrical/signaling purposes. (The same thing was done on the MEC.) The wires on these later poles appear now to be dormant, except between proximate signals cabinets.
Can't answer for telegraphy, but at least some of the wire got repurposed for telephony, but with the shift from manned stations and towers and to radio for train-order transmission, there was less demand for telephony, so wayside poles generally got ignored unless they fell across tracks. There was even some further repurposing for both wayside and crossing-protection signaling, some of which is still in effect.
It's ironic that because of the Federal mandate for PTC the MBTA commuter lines in Eastern Mass are sprouting wooden poles like weeds every weekend.
Some of the pole lines had power and or code lines for signals, besides the communications lines. I have mentioned before that B&MRRHS Bulletin had an article about the communication systems used by B&M. It was published about 10 years ago.
Fitchburg line in Lincoln had several sets of greenish (presumably copper) wires at the top of the poles. I remember those wire disappearing sometime in the late seventies. I think there was a comm line too; not sure what it did or when they disappeared.
Don't know about the B&M, but the New Haven switched over from telegraph to telephone circa 1927.
jaymac wrote: Can't answer for telegraphy, but at least some of the wire got repurposed for telephony, but with the shift from manned stations and towers and to radio for train-order transmission, there was less demand for telephony, so wayside poles generally got ignored unless they fell across tracks. There was even some further repurposing for both wayside and crossing-protection signaling, some of which is still in effect.
Could the same wire support phones lines or did phone lines require new wiring to go up across the system?
handled at that time- late 60's.
As long as the wires were in good shape, they could be used for anything -- telegraphy, telephony, signal coding, crossing protection, teletype -- that didn't require high-speed date capability.
POTS - "Plain Old Telephone Service" is a twisted-pair of insulated copper wires, aka "CAT-2" I think. Using pairs of wires and twisting them cancels out interference, which is also important because these pairs are usually tightly bundled into a cable. What I've seen of the old telegraph poles on the B&A mainline, apparently in use until the the 2000's for signaling, were individual wires with insulation falling off, on glass or plastic or missing insulators, patched with cable bundles. Having the wires separated by a few inches & on insulators would help some with interference, and allow higher current than telco wires. So, probably could run analog telephone over the telegraph wires but the quality would be variable & it would be pretty bad during a rainstorm and a nightmare to debug.
Crosstalk was more or less successfully prevented by having transposition brackets at prescribed intervals to change wire position and reduce pickup. Even with those, the system was never intended for anything other than low-speed usage.
Speaking of telegraph poles, I took a walk on the old Eastern ROW on the Hampton marsh Sunday. I can't speak for Mass. but I'm guessing every telegraph pole from the MA/NH state line to Portland was cut down. Except for about a half a dozen on the marsh. Anybody have an idea why these were spared?
All but 2 are about to fall into a salt water channel as decades of tidal ebb and flow are slowly undermining the bases of the poles.
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Those poles might have been left standing because no budget to haul them away and cut poles next to tidal channels turn into easily identifiable navigation hazards during storm surges. Somebody showing more foresight than usual. I'll photograph that H-arm next time I'm up that way; it probably was for a transition from pole to cable, possibly for the Hampton River bridge.
Poles between Ipswich and Parker St. Newburyport were removed during the late-1990s rebuilding/reopening. Parker St. to Merrimack St. when the rail trail was built. Around the Merrimack River draw during its "don't fall into the river" rebuild in the 1980s. The B&M probably salvaged usable poles between Kittery and PT Tower 1 in 1945 and 1952. I didn't notice when Seabrook - Portsmouth got cleaned up, but poles were gone from Hampton and North Hampton years before the rails were removed.
as sideways movement would halt the domino effect.


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WILLEMSTAD - Emsley Tromp was rightly dismissed as president of the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten (CBCS). This is according to a recent ruling of the Court of Justice.
Tromp's request to declare the termination of his employment contract null and void and to allow CBCS to pay various compensations is hereby rejected.
The former president was ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings on the side of the CBCS, which were estimated at 1,500 guilders. The CBCS 's request - which in response to the Tromp case itself also instituted a case, in order to cover itself in case the former president was in the right - has, however, been granted. The judge dissolved the employment contract between Tromp and the CBCS immediately, without awarding a compensation. Although it is actually seen as a fact that this agreement has already ended on October 17, 2017.
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Q: MySQL / MariaDB SSL Connection without verify CA I need to cryptography a connection between client and server.
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MariaDB [(none)]> show variables like "%ssl%";
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| Variable_name       | Value                      |
+---------------------+----------------------------+
| have_openssl        | YES                        |
| have_ssl            | DISABLED                   |
| ssl_ca              |                            |
| ssl_capath          |                            |
| ssl_cert            |                            |
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Its possible to authenticate with SSL without verify the client certificate with server CA (ssl_ca) ?

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Its possible to authenticate with SSL without verify the client certificate with server CA (ssl_ca) ?

No, you will need to create a CA, generate a Certificate Generation Request (CSR), then generate a client certificate from the CA.  Both sides of the connection will need the client cert and the CA.
You can reuse the same client certificate for all clients.  Or, when creating the user you can use REQUIRE CN= to enforce the user to connect with a specific certificate (this requires a different step when generating the client cert).

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*I recommend using passwords as well for authentication

*Pay attention to the expiration date of your CA.  Updating the CA or client certs requires a restart of MySQL

*You can have more than one CA in your ssl_ca file to allow for a transition period if you are required to rotate CAs.

*The CN for your CA cannot be the same as your client cert.  You will tear your hair out trying to figure out what you did wrong if you do this.

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Kathy Hochul stumps ex-Gov. David Paterson by dedicating sugar maple tree in his honor in Albany
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Gov. Kathy Hochul hosted predecessor David Paterson in Albany on Friday where the first black governor in state history was honored with a newly planted tree as a crowning achievement at the Executive Mansion alongside trees dedicated to the likes of former President and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"Sugar and maple's a little too sweet in my opinion, but sometimes I think that's what got me in trouble," Paterson told The Post about his his tumultuous time atop the executive branch in between March 2008 and the end of 2010.
"I don't think even Cuomo even made the short list," he quipped about ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo not getting the honor.
The closed-press event was moved inside following rain.
Kathy Hochul dedicated a sugar maple tree in former Gov. Patterson's honor.
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Hochul credited Paterson — who became governor after his predecessor Eliot Spitzer resigned after getting caught with prostitutes — with helping her while she took over from Cuomo following his resignation amid multiple scandals last year.
"His legacy as a person with a disability is an inspiration to generations of New Yorkers. Governor Paterson's expertise, guidance and sharp wit were a great comfort to me when I took office, and I am proud to honor him at today's ceremony," she said at the ceremony of Paterson, the first legally blind person to become governor in state history, according to a press release.
Budget battles, economic recession and a legislative coup by renegade Democratic state senators made political life difficult for him while living at 138 Eagle Street following the resignation of Spitzer.
Patterson's tree at the Executive Mansion is around a tree planted to honor former Gov. Franklin Roosevelt.
Tough fiscal times meant hard choices like unpopular budget cuts that Paterson expressed hope Friday might become more impressive with time — like a tree, one might say.
"You know, I was trying to get the job done and just trying to be decent to everybody — so maybe it does represent me," the Harlem Democratic added about the sugar maple, which can live for more than 200 years.
The full weight of the honor did not strike Paterson when he got a call from Hochul last March suggested he swing by the Executive Mansion sometime to get a tree planted in the yard his honor.
Patterson took over following former Gov. Spitzer's resignation.
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Hochul reportedly came up with the idea while strolling the mansion grounds in March with First Gentleman Bill Hochul when they saw sugar maples — the official state tree — with plaques honoring former Govs. Franklin Roosevelt and Nelson Rockefeller.
"They talked to the staff there and they said: 'Well, each governor can plant a tree in memorial to a former governor,'" Paterson told The Post.
Gubernatorial gardening with trees dates back to 1910 when then-Gov. Charles Whitman planted one in honor of his son, according to the Hochul administration.
But no one passed the memo to Paterson about how he could dabble in such ways with the gubernatorial grounds during his time in office.
"What I thought was interesting is when I was governor, no one told me that you could plant a tree and name it after someone," Paterson added.
"I'm just glad they didn't plant me!"
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GLINKA based his Opera, Russlan and Ludmilla, on one of the many delightful, fantastic Russian fairy tales, about dukes, knights, poets, dwarfs, fairies, and it gigantic head which blows and creates storms. The Overture is bright, energetic and direct.
THE pleasant mountain region of Bavaria. its people and jts peasant life are pictured in the melodious Suite of choral pieces by Sir Edward Elgar , of which two are now to be performed. The words are by the late Lady Elgar, in imitation of Bavarian folk-songs.
The Lullaby begins :—
Sleep, my son, oh ! slumber softly,
While thy mother watches o'er thee. Nothing can affright or harm thee.
Oh ! sleep, my son.
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Over the heights the snow lies deep, Sunk is the land in peaceful sleep ; Here by the house of God we pray, Lead, Lord, our souls today.
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For a time, after he had made his namo, he lived at St. Petersburg as Solo Violinist to the Emperor of Russia, but lie liked wandering best of all. and travelled all over Europe and America, playing. the Violin and seeing the world.
He is universal y known for his small compositions. He also wrote two Violin Concertos and a few other large-scale works.
The Romance from his D Minor Concerto is aptly described by its title.
The Finale has melodies in the style of gipsy music. The First is vivacious, the Second passionate, and the Third dance-like, with skips in it. The extreme brilliancy of the Movement is accounted for by the fact that the work was written for the Spanish virtuoso, Sarasate.
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During a rousing, sold-out start in South Africa, the former president's words were sung by a soaring soprano.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – The Minnesota Orchestra is touring South Africa in Nelson Mandela's name. So it made sense that the first concert took place at Cape Town's City Hall, a place so important to Mandela's legacy that a bronze statue of him stands on its balcony.
During a rousing, sold-out show Friday, the former president's words, sung by a soaring soprano, once again hung in the air.
No one saw such connections more clearly than Bongani Ndodana-Breen, who composed a Mandela tribute serving as a centerpiece of the tour. "Everything is coming together full circle," he said.
With big plans and carefully packed instruments, the Minnesota Orchestra arrived here this week to start an 11-day, five-city journey across South Africa — the first professional U.S. orchestra to tour the country. People packed the grand, honey-colored City Hall, its interior so recently renovated that the white paint still looked wet.
Surrounding the orchestra on all sides, the crowd cheered the new piece "Harmonia Ubuntu," its composer — whom music director Osmo Vänskä pointed out in the crowd — and soprano Goitsemang Lehobye.
Two Minnesotans in town for the tour — Dr. Arthur Horowitz and Fran, his wife — approached, wide-eyed.
"I must have your autograph," Fran Horowitz said, opening the program to Ndodana-Breen's biography and handing him a pen.
In their short time in Cape Town, the musicians, a few carrying dog-eared copies of Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom," encountered his legacy around every corner.
Some visited museums grappling with the history of apartheid, against which he famously fought. A few dozen peered through the bars of his prison cell.
On a harbor cruise, trumpet player Manny Laureano saw the boat that brought Mandela back to the mainland when he was freed in 1990.
"And now, here we are, going to play in the space where he gave his first speech after being released," he said just before the concert. "Those are all very powerful things to absorb.
Then the orchestra performed "Shosholoza," a traditional miners' song that Mandela sang while doing hard labor. It has become a kind of unofficial national anthem.
On the London stage, the Minnesota musicians belted it out.
At a welcome dinner Wednesday night, guests grabbed flutes of sparkling wine and paused to have their faces painted. A woman with a colorful head wrap and a steady hand flicked black, red and white dots and designs around their eyes.
After a short chat with Laureano, she painted three footprints on his forehead.
"It's personal," he said, smiling, when asked its meaning.
Before the dinner's 14 courses began, a surprise: The South African Youth Choir took the stage with robust voices and driving djembe rhythms.
Two courses in, the restaurant's house ensemble emerged in patterned, gilded fabrics, dancing, singing and playing marimbas. They performed again, four courses in. Then again and again.
After dessert, the house band returned once more — and struck up "Shosholoza," the song the orchestra had played in London.
The room erupted. Many musicians — their faces painted to match the musicians onstage — stood, clapped and sang along.
Soon, at Carlson Nelson's urging, everyone in the room was on their feet. "Hey, we know that one," second violinist Michael Sutton said, laughing.
Just before the start of Friday night's concert, a dozen kids stood off to the side of the City Hall lobby, playing and laughing. They were here for their very first orchestra performance.
The children, in grades four through eight, play marimbas together as part of MusicWorks, a nonprofit that intervenes in the lives of kids in Cape Town's marginalized neighborhoods, said Mark Williams, its program coordinator.
Normally, they couldn't afford tickets to a concert like this, where most seats cost 600 rand, or more than $40 U.S.
"It's very expensive!" Williams said. But the Twin Cities-based Medtronic Foundation, which is helping to underwrite the tour, gave the group the tickets for free.
The concert gets these kids "off their phones, their TVs, exploring life," said Andile Siyo, the group's other chaperone and an instrument maker. And it exposes them to greater opportunities in music, he added.
This was a first for Williams and Siyo, as well. The middle-aged men had never been to a symphony orchestra concert, either.
The Minnesota Orchestra began with a pair of national anthems — South Africa's first, then the United States'. It closed with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 — perhaps the world's most famous.
After a few standing ovations, Vänskä turned, for the first encore, to Finnish favorite Jean Sibelius, his countryman. But for the second, he returned to the podium with a surprise.
A single bass drum echoed through the hall. The beat built. Marimba. Trumpets and trombones.
The crowd erupted. They laughed, they clapped, they pulled out their cellphones. Then many of them sang along.


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Have you ever driven down the highway, 65 mph, and decided just to let the car drive itself? Get the car going straight, set it on cruise control, take your hands off the steering wheel, maybe climb in the backseat to look for some munchies?
What advice would you give a student with an important exam coming up? One possibility is to tell him not to worry, perhaps take some time off and relax. After all, the student has probably studied for other tests in the past. It wastes a lot of time to keep studying over and over again.
What advice would you give if you knew the end of the world was imminent? How about, "Don't worry, this sort of thing happens all the time. Just make sure you pack an extra pair of underwear." Our lesson today begins with 1 Peter 4:7, "The end of all things is near." Let's not climb in the backseat to look for munchies, let's see what Peter has to tell us about living in the last days.
We know the end of all things is near… "for the bible tells me so…" but we mortals have such short memories. We forget and we take our focus off God. Peter, the author of our book today, was our textbook example of taking our focus off of Christ. When Peter saw Jesus walking on the water, Peter's eyes were on Jesus and Jesus called him. And Peter walked on water! But then Peter looked at the world around him and noticed how high the waves were and how deep the sea was and started to sink. Peter's salvation was still secure – Jesus reached in and caught him – but would Peter have sunk if his eyes remained on Jesus?
In the middle of going to work, shopping for groceries, exercising at the gym, we look at our watch and think, "What time was the world supposed to end?" And the end of the world becomes less important than picking up the dry cleaning. But the end of all things are near, and it's not hard to imagine the last days becoming closer. If you forget the end is near, turn on the TV and watch the news for 5 minutes.
Daily focus on Christian living is important. I'm not talking about a checklist of Christian things to do daily – I had my quiet time, I prayed over my meals, I read my bible – I'm talking about minute-by-minute focus on how God wants us to live. What do we do, what do we think, what do we say. We are to live in a way that glorifies our Living God every single moment. Last week Fred taught us about living with joy in the midst of suffering. We're first class passengers and we know our plane is landing safely, so a little turbulence is exciting. With joy in our hearts, what do we do with our lives? We glorify God through our character, and we glorify God for the way we endure suffering.
What do people see when they watch you and listen to you? In Matthew 5:16, Jesus says, "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." With every action and with every single word, what do people see when they look at you? Are you Christ's ambassador?
1 Peter Chapter 4 is about our character and how serving and suffering interact. To be good servants and to be good witnesses, we must be developing a character that glorifies our Lord. All of us – and especially me – tend to focus on the characters of other people and how they do not meet our needs. We think it's very easy to fix somebody else's problem. That's a mindset that takes focus and prayer to overcome. Instead, we are to focus on our own character and how we can meet the needs of others.
1 Peter 4:7, "The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray." The very first thing toward building a focused Christian character is to pray. To pray effectively, be clear-minded and self-controlled. As children of God, we have a communion with the Holy Spirit living inside of us that interprets our prayers and gets answers from God for His glory. Our prayers are powerful and God desires them, it moves God to work in our lives. But to have effective prayers, the NIV says we must be clear-minded and self-controlled. KJV says serious and watchful. NLT says earnest and disciplined. To do this we must be focused on what God wants, not what we want. We clear our minds and we seek God's will. The best way to do that is to study God's word and see what God's will is. Through study, prayer, and meditation, we clear our thoughts, we seek His will, and then we can exercise a disciplined prayer to God.
1 Peter 4:8, "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." This is agape love, the self-sacrificial love that Christ showed us. We are to sacrifice for each other with no hesitation or reservation. I don't think the NIV captures the essence of the word "deeply" here. The Amplified bible calls it "intense and unfailing love for one another." This agape love is from God working through us and has nothing to do with how we feel. Sometimes we don't "feel" loving. Love anyway. Sometimes we feel irritated. Love anyway, because love covers a multitude of sins, both their sins and especially our own sins.
1 Peter 4:9, "Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling." Have you ever been asked to do something and you say, "oh, all right, I'll do it. Sheesh, why does everybody always ask me to do it?" Whatever we do, do it in love and joy. Offering to help somebody while being grumpy about it does not glorify the Lord. God loves a cheerful giver, so… give cheerfully.
Hospitality is one of the spiritual gifts described in the bible – we all have gifts, and as faithful stewards of these gifts God has given us, we are to use them for His glory. Give yourself to others cheerfully because you are doing the Lord's work. In 1 Peter 4:10, he says, "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms." You have a spiritual gift, an ability given to you by God. Are you using it? Are you unsure whether you have a gift? There are three main scriptures that describe spiritual gifts and are listed in Ephesians 4:11, Romans 12:3-7, and 1 Corinthians 12:1-12, 28. These scriptures clearly say that each one of us as a member of the body of Christ are given one or more gifts, each member is just as important as any other member, and that gifts we are given are to be used to glorify God.
What is your gift? If you're not sure, get clear-minded and self-controlled and pray about it. God always answers those prayers when you're asking His will. If you're still unsure, pick one. Your gift will not grow unless you're using it. Volunteer for something – anything – and start building your spiritual character. To some extent, our spiritual gifts will fall into two broad categories, gifts of speech (such as evangelism, encouragement and teaching) and gifts of service (such as administration, giving and mercy).
When we speak, speak carefully. I think this is one of the hardest things to control. We can talk the good talk, but it is so hard to remember 24 hours a day to control what we say. James 3 has very strong words about what we say, that the very same tongue we use to praise God we also curse people who are made in God's image. What comes out of our mouth reflects what is really inside our hearts. And our words can be destructive, like a small spark that can set an entire forest on fire. James 3:6 says our "tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell." That makes me shudder.
Listen to how important our speech is: Peter says in 1 Peter 4:11 that "If you speak, you should do so as one who speaks the very words of God." When you profess to be a Christian, every word that you speak represents Christ on earth, for you are Christ's ambassador to your brothers and sisters in Christ, to your spouses, to non-believers. Every word you say reflects your heart and reflects Christ, so choose each and every word carefully. Once you say them, you can't take them back.
Why do we serve? For the same reason we exist – to glorify our king. God doesn't want you to do it alone – God will grant you the strength you need to accomplish what He wills for you. Philippians 4:13 says "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me." Good Christian character is focused prayer, hospitality without complaint, words that reflect the Holy Spirit within you, and service that depends, not on you, but on the strength that God provides. We glorify God through our character.
We also glorify God for showing our Christian character when we suffer. Peter tells us that we are to expect hardships, trials, and suffering. 1 Peter 4:12, "Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you." Why do we suffer? It tests this character we have been building. James 1:2-4 says, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." Without hardships, our faith doesn't grow, it atrophies.
Just as James says, "consider it pure joy," Peter says in 1 Peter 4:13, "But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed." Pure joy! Rejoice! Wahoo, I'm suffering! Ok, that's a little over the top, maybe, but the minor suffering we endure mirrors the suffering of Christ. To focus on the suffering itself focuses us on this temporary life. When we focus on eternity, though, these hardships are only temporary.
1 Corinthians 4:16-18 says, "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." When we reach our heavenly destination, all this suffering will seem as nothing, all totally conquered by the saving grace of Jesus.
1 Peter 4:14, "If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you." This is what Peter means by "participating in the sufferings of Christ." Christ was persecuted and crucified because of who He is, and if we are persecuted because of who He is, we share in His suffering. Peter tells us that we are "blessed" and it can be difficult to understand how persecution is a blessing.
Our Chinese friends returning back to China have told us they miss our church here and the freedom of worship. In China, the official position of the Communist Party is that party membership and religious belief of any kind are incompatible. Religious organizations are required to register with the government and accept supervision from the government. The official position from Beijing is that no one is persecuted for their beliefs, but evangelism is not permitted. Worshipping in groups is often prohibited. Peter tells us that those persecuted in this way are blessed. More than just being happy, the blessing is the favor that God finds with these martyrs for the Holy Spirit of God rests upon them. Knowing that God finds favor in us for persecution in His name gives us encouragement.
Not all suffering comes from God, though. Just because we are suffering doesn't mean God is blessing us. Sometimes we deserve the suffering. 1 Peter 4:15, "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler." "Or even as a meddler" – I found that interesting. If we're punished because we're bad, we deserve it. If we commit murder or we steal and go to jail, Christ is not honored and the suffering endured is merely punishment. If our persecution is because we're sticking our nose into other people's business and it annoys them, we're not blessed. We're bringing hostility on ourselves and Christ is not honored.
Christian suffering that brings God's blessing is specific; "However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name." Martyrs that preach the name of God to their captors are blessed. Cassie Bernall was reportedly asked by the Columbine shooters if she believed in God, and when Cassie said, "Yes," she was killed. God blesses those persecuted in His name. Peter, the author of our book today, was also martyred preaching the name of Christ and was supposedly crucified upside down outside of Rome. Do not be ashamed, the end of all things is near, and persecutions in the last days will increase. Stay focused on God and not the light and momentary persecutions of this temporary life. We have hope in Jesus.
In verse 17 & 18, Peter tells us that the time of judgment is near. The followers of Christ will be judged and found righteous through the covering of the sacrifice of Jesus. As sons and daughters of God, we have no fear of judgment. We know we are sinners, but we also know that Christ our Lord died for those sins so that we may appear unblemished before God.
Sometimes we long for the Rapture to come and take us away from this wicked world, to save us from this corrupt generation. But God placed us here for a reason, and God doesn't make mistakes. If we long for the Rapture because we want to be closer to the Lord, that's a beautiful thought, but our purpose in this life is not simply to exist then go to heaven. Our purpose in this life is to see His will done on earth as it is in heaven, and He will use us and give us the strength we need to do His will. Why do you exist today? Because God is using you to show His glory. Your looks, your body, your possessions, your talents and your spiritual gifts are given to you by God to show His glory in us. We have purpose in this life, given to us by God.
So Pray. Love. Serve. Speak His name. Live like there's no tomorrow because someday you'll be right.
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What is the IM Theory?
Posted by Tonali Windslor on June 6, 2022
The IM Theory, also called Isolation Moderation is a foreign policy framework that was created to solve many of the challenges facing nations in the modern era. The IM Theory is a system based upon moderate isolationism that teaches nations the secrets to achieving economic prosperity, avoiding war, maintaining peace with other nations, and most importantly, developing a harmonious society. While many of these ideas are innovative and thought-provoking, similar ideas have been seen in different political philosophies throughout history such as from the ancient Greeks, Niccolo Machiavelli, Kautilya, and Sun Zu. The IM Theory is a system that can be applied in any country on earth regardless of culture, values, or government system. The basic premise is that nations must look inward and improve themselves first and solve their own problems instead of getting overly involved in the affairs of other countries. Hence the term Isolation Moderation...
The IM Theory has 5 basic principles. These are Closed Borders, National Defense, Free Trade, Peaceful Relations, and Social Affairs.
Closed Borders refers to each nation maintaining strongly defined territorial boundaries that limits the number of outsiders who can enter the country at any given time. This is not a policy based upon xenophobia, but rather it refers to the natural sovereignty and autonomy that are inherent in every nation. All nations, just like people, naturally seek autonomy and independence rather than excessive integration with other countries. This is why we are currently seeing many nations throughout Europe looking to withdraw from the European Union in order to have more control over their own affairs. Also, the inability of nations to control their borders always leads to negative outcomes, such as immigration problems, terrorist activity, human trafficking, the illegal drug trade, and the spread of deadly diseases. There are many examples throughout history where nations eventually collapsed or declined in power as a result of over-expansion and weak border policy. Two of the most prominent examples of this are the Roman Empire and the British Empire. Both of these empires became too large to manage themselves effectively, leading to their eventual declines. This strong border policy also includes limits on immigration, visa restrictions, a national language, a preference for assimilation over multiculturalism, and stronger citizenship requirements.
A strong national defense refers to the idea that all nations should invest in maintaining a powerful military force to protect themselves against foreign aggressors while also ensuring a peaceful life for their citizens. Having a strong military should be used only for defensive purposes and not for aggressive actions, military conquests, or nation building campaigns. Each nation should follow the policy of armed neutrality, where they are always prepared for war, but rarely ever having to resort to military conflict. There have been many examples throughout history where nations with strong militaries were able to defend themselves from hostile foreign powers and preserve their way of life. This includes Japan during the late 1800s, Finland during the 1939 war with the Soviet Union, and Israel for most of its short history. Additionally, the IM Theory does not believe that any nation should hold supreme military power over the rest of the world, either as a hegemonic power or international police force. Instead, there should be a system of multiple superpowers, where military power is balanced among several countries. This type of multipolar system is already naturally developing as the United States declines in power and other countries such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil rise in power.
Free Trade refers to the act of each nation eliminating protectionist policies, which include lowering tariffs and building central ports to manage international commerce. Free Trade has been shown to improve the economic well-being of nations that have enacted these policies, with China and India being prime examples. Countries that have limited free trade policies have suffered economic consequences. This can be evident with how the implementation of tariffs and other protectionist policies during the Great Depression actually made the situation much worse and even prolonged the economic crisis longer than necessary. Although there may be some short-term job losses that result from free trade policies, these will eventually be counterbalanced by lower rates of unemployment and wage increases over time.
Peaceful Relations refers to the active practice of nations working to maintain positive relations with other nations and avoiding conflict as much as possible. All nations should avoid official alliances with other countries, since being part of the traditional alliance system is very expensive to maintain and the benefits are never distributed evenly. During the late 2000s financial crisis, the countries of the European Union had to give multiple financial bailouts to financially mismanaged countries like Greece, even though they were not the cause of these problems in the first place. During the First World War, the complex alliance system proved to be highly problematic as each nation was required to intervene once their allies were attacked. The result was a violent war that devastated the entire European continent for many years, with millions of people dead or wounded. Instead, temporary military alliances should be formed to accomplish specific objectives, such as intervening in a humanitarian crisis. The IM Theory also advocates that nations should limit their involvement in international organizations such as the United Nations, and reduce the amount of foreign aid given to other countries. Instead, nations should focus on helping other countries through a technical assistance program called the Foreign Charity Service, where skilled workers are sent to provide specific services to poor and developing countries.
Social Affairs refers to the ways in which nations can improve the well-being of individuals that live within society. This includes the preservation of the nuclear family unit and local communities, as without this foundation, society will eventually collapse. It also includes maintaining a sense of normalcy throughout society, in where order and peace are prioritized over chaos and rapid social change. Additionally, the IM Theory advocates for a a Doctrine of Freedoms and Rights for all citizens, as well as strong privacy protections for individuals.
The political philosophy of Isolation Moderation is the closest system for nations to achieve a near utopia on earth. The world greatly needs solutions to solve the many problems in the world today. And sadly, politicians have failed to produce real solutions. This is why an independent political movement is needed to challenge the current political system and bring balance back into the world. Because the world deserves better...
If you are interested in learning more about these ideas in greater detail, order your own copy of Isolation Moderation. And most importantly, join our political revolution today.
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Abraquest News for April/May 2016.
We have been busy with new installs of Abraquest, and have spent a little time improving the add books / Abraquest Online interface, for schools that have proxy servers in the network (your IT people will know if you have one).
Meanwhile we are busy upgrading our hosting package, and there is a new release of Abraquest Online coming very soon.


Hitachi Announces New 50-Inch Plasma Display : News Releases : Hitachi America, Ltd.
LAS VEGAS, http://www.hitachi.us/, June 11, 2002 - Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (NYSE: HIT), today introduced the CMP5000WXU, the newest addition to Hitachi's plasma display family. The new model joins the 42-inch CMP4121HDU, now available with a silver bezel, and the high-definition 37-inch CMP307XU, providing a complete range of plasma displays for an array of presentation requirements. Ideal for conferences and show rooms, restaurant menu boards, retail stores and sports venues, the new product features a sleek design with a large 50-inch viewing area, and exceptional video quality. The CMP5000WXU will be demonstrated in conjunction with Hitachi's full line of visual display products at InfoComm 2002 in Booth #7081 at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas from June 12 - 14, 2002.
"Overall demand for plasma displays continues to grow, and the manner in which our customers are employing them often varies. The addition of this new model will give our customers more choices in how plasmas are applied to a myriad of applications," said Pete Denes, director of sales for Hitachi America, Ltd., Computer Division, Visual Display Products. "The CMP5000WXU gives our customers everything that they want today, along with the capabilities and features for their needs in the future."
Excellent Image Quality and Advanced Features The CMP5000WXU features XGA resolution and a sharp 900:1 contrast ratio for exceptional image quality. Sophisticated color filters and high brightness ensure rich, natural colors for lifelike imaging. The 16:9 aspect ratio display is equipped with multi-scan technology to automatically adjust to VGA, S-VGA, XGA, S-XGA or UXGA resolution for enhanced brightness and contrast.
The CMP5000WXU features a slim design that is less than four inches thick, bringing a sophisticated look to any installation. The lightweight display is mountable virtually anywhere due to its 85-pound design and a variety of installation options.
To further meet the needs of Hitachi's diverse customer base, the CMP5000WXU can be upgraded with an optional video card for enhanced video capabilities. With the video card, the CMP5000WXU is HDTV-ready and accepts composite, component and DVI-D video inputs, as well as additional audio inputs. This optional video card ensures the CMP5000WXU will continue to meet customers' needs well into the future.
The CMP5000WXU is priced at $15,995 and is now available through Hitachi's network of authorized resellers.
Hitachi America, Ltd., Computer Division, supplies high-performance computer storage products and multimedia products to OEMs, value-added resellers, system integrators and distributors. The division's products include high-capacity hard disk drives, LCD/LCOS projectors, CRT monitors, color laser beam printers and flat panel and plasma displays. Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems and products, consumer electronics and semiconductors and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America. For more information, visit http://www.hitachi.us/.


Guest Host and CKM Speaker Brian Burgess sat down with life-long friends and ministry partners Heather and Carl Cartee at Crossroads Winter Conference.
Heather and Carl are a husband and wife duo who have been serving the Lord faithfully and making music together. These years of ministry have been filled with leading worship, writing songs, and mentoring musicians all over the world. They've also been around since our very first Crossroads Summer Camp, leading worship with us for 22 years.
Take a peek into the lives of the Cartee powerhouse duo as they share intimate details of their life in ministry, seasons of transition and how they've modeled their faith by taking leaps and trusting the Lord.
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