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Someone from Perth, Australia sent me the book 'Prophecy Speaks' by E.A. Rowell. I can only guess that it was someone who had read my blog about my atheistic past.
I very much enjoyed the book. Thank you very much for sending it to me. Though it was written in 1933, I found it very powerful in its, what to me were new arguments for the divine nature of the Bible and Jesus.
I would highly recommend the book to others and indeed have passed the book along to others.
Again Thank you very much for sending the book to me.
Yours in the love of Christ,
Friday, October 28, 2011
Someone from Perth, Australia sent me the book 'Prophecy Speaks' by E.A. Rowell. I can only guess that it was someone who had read my blog about my atheistic past.
Posted by David Stokely at 11:00 AM
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I was going to do a little Bible word study this lunch hour on the word ‘ignore’. It was a quick study. In neither the KJV Old Testament nor in the KJV New Testament is the word ignore or any form thereof found.
In short, is your desire to be Godlike?. . .want to be Christlike?. . . Jesus never ignored. . . I cannot find that God is ever recorded as ignoring a person or a situation. Jesus was about engaging everyone He could. . . in every manner that He could. It wasn’t always pleasant, as when he drove the money changers from the temple. Sometimes He was in your face confrontational, as in the numerous times that He confronted the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. . . but. . . but. . . BUT He is never recorded to have walked by. . . ignoring someone in need. . . the priest and the Levite are used as illustrations of what not to do. The Samaritan is given as the model of how we are to behave.
Jesus was all about engagement and never about shutting someone out. He was about tearing walls down and not about building them up. . . We are instructed to be fisher’s of men and a hook on the end of a fishing pole. . . or a net cast into the ocean is the ultimate in non-discriminatory ministry. . .
I’ve been so very convicted for the past past month or so. . . I live in a very small town. Over the past two years, I have seen an individual quite regularly, whom I have in my mind accused, tried, and convicted of living a sinful lifestyle. I have completely written them off. On numerous occasions, I have done my best to ignore him, when passing in the grocery store aisles. My heart has been filled with anger at him. . . not love. I am so convicted. I am very ashamed at this self-righteousness within me.
I am now seeking to do my best to engage this person in love. . . without condemnation. . . more recently I see the ‘Occupy’ people in downtown Elkhart, on many afternoons when I pick my wife up from work. Again a feeling of anger has risen up within me. I really cannot even articulate a reason why. Perhaps in some way I feel threatened by them, but these are people greatly and genuinely dissatisfied with the world and how life is treating them. They are openly proclaiming their unhappiness. These men and women, so fervently waving their signs are opportunities for ministry. Their signs are cries for help. . .symptoms of their seeking change. They are looking for the answers to life’s various problems in politics and the solutions of man. . . A recipe for nothing but increased discontent.
One afternoon, I plan to arrive early. . .I need to spend some time to engage them. . . hear their woes. . . feel the pain in their hearts. . . and just maybe help them to show them a different . . . a non-political answer. . .
Posted by David Stokely at 12:57 PM
Friday, October 21, 2011
In the perfect silky darkness of the womb. . . no hope was required. No need went unfilled. No sharp edges. . . No dimension of cold. . . No hunger. . . No lack in any measure. . . till fullness of term burst upon us in an inky magnitude 10 rupture of our universe. . .once a velvet vault. . . now a velvet vise. . . an amniotic tsunami carryied us forth. . .our first breath, a lung filled scream at the injustice. . harsh sterile lights. . .sudden lack. . . spawned in hunger. . . cold. . .and fear. . .
We live a lifetime of yearning for return to that maternal garden of Eden. . . Compounding needs. . .hunger. . . loneliness. . . pain. . . fear. . .grasping our fading memory of perfection. . . believing against all evidence that that one day we can return to that secret garden. . . our personal Eden. . . this is the mother of hope.
To hope is the oxygen of our soul. . . to draw breath is to hope. . .To look forward then to the other boundary of our earthly life. . .to the aching darkness of the grave. . . in that domain, there is no hope. With stillness of breath, comes the expiring of hope. . .Through that doorway, no unfound need gets filled. . .all false hope unmasked. . .
Between these lands of hope unknown and hope deceased, reside one true hope. . . He is the eternal hope of all mankind. His name is Jesus. He is God almighty robed in flesh. . . He is God our Father come to earth to save us. He is God who placed Himself upon the cross. . . He is God who became a lamb, to be willingly sacrificed for our sins. . .who by His horrible and humiliating execution, opened a doorway, enabling us to escape death and thereby become our HOPE fulfilled.
What are your aches and pains. . .
What are your fears and sorrows. . .
Lay them aside. . .
Place them before Him. . .
Receive His embrace. . .
Receive His promise never to forsake you. . .
Accept His sacrifice and forever celebrate with Him. . .
Come with us, to the land of joy and hope. . .
Posted by David Stokely at 11:29 AM
I'm doing a Bible study on hope. Here are all the occurrences of the word hope in the King James Version:
(Ruth 1:12) Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
(Ezra 10:2) And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
(Esther 9:1) Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
(Job 4:6) Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
(Job 5:16) So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
(Job 6:11) What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
(Job 6:20) They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
(Job 7:6) My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
(Job 8:13) So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
(Job 8:14) Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
(Job 11:18) And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
(Job 11:20) But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
(Job 14:7) For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
(Job 14:19) The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
(Job 17:15) And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
(Job 19:10) He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
(Job 27:8) For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
(Job 31:24) If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
(Job 41:9) Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
(Psalms 16:9) Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
(Psalms 22:9) But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
(Psalms 31:24) Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
(Psalms 33:18) Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
(Psalms 33:22) Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
(Psalms 38:15) For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
(Psalms 39:7) And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
(Psalms 42:5) Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
(Psalms 42:11) Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
(Psalms 43:5) Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
(Psalms 71:5) For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
(Psalms 71:14) But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
(Psalms 78:7) That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
(Psalms 119:43) And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
(Psalms 119:49) ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
(Psalms 119:74) They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
(Psalms 119:81) CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
(Psalms 119:114) Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
(Psalms 119:116) Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
(Psalms 119:147) I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
(Psalms 119:166) LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
(Psalms 130:5) I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
(Psalms 130:7) Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
(Psalms 131:3) Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
(Psalms 146:5) Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
(Psalms 147:11) The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
(Proverbs 10:28) The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
(Proverbs 11:7) When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
(Proverbs 13:12) Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
(Proverbs 14:32) The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
(Proverbs 19:18) Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
(Proverbs 26:12) Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
(Proverbs 29:20) Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
(Ecclesiastes 9:4) For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
(Isaiah 38:18) For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
(Isaiah 57:10) Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
(Jeremiah 2:25) Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
(Jeremiah 3:23) Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
(Jeremiah 14:8) O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
(Jeremiah 17:7) Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
(Jeremiah 17:13) O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
(Jeremiah 17:17) Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
(Jeremiah 18:12) And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
(Jeremiah 31:17) And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
(Jeremiah 50:7) All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
(Lamentations 3:18) And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
(Lamentations 3:21) This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
(Lamentations 3:24) The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
(Lamentations 3:26) It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
(Lamentations 3:29) He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
(Ezekiel 13:6) They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
(Ezekiel 19:5) Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
(Ezekiel 37:11) Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
(Hosea 2:15) And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
(Joel 3:16) The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
(Zechariah 9:12) Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
(Luke 6:34) And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
(Luke 23:8) And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
(Acts 2:26) Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
(Acts 16:19) And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
(Acts 23:6) But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
(Acts 24:15) And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
(Acts 24:26) He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
(Acts 26:6) And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
(Acts 26:7) Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
(Acts 27:20) And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
(Acts 28:20) For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
(Romans 4:18) Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
(Romans 5:2) By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
(Romans 5:4) And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
(Romans 5:5) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
(Romans 8:20) For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
(Romans 8:24) For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
(Romans 8:25) But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
(Romans 12:12) Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
(Romans 15:4) For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
(Romans 15:13) Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
(1 Corinthians 9:10) Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
(1 Corinthians 13:7) Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
(1 Corinthians 13:13) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
(1 Corinthians 15:19) If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
(2 Corinthians 1:7) And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
(2 Corinthians 3:12) Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
(2 Corinthians 8:5) And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
(2 Corinthians 10:15) Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
(Galatians 5:5) For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
(Ephesians 1:18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
(Ephesians 2:12) That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
(Ephesians 4:4) There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
(Philippians 1:20) According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
(Philippians 2:23) Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
(Colossians 1:5) For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
(Colossians 1:23) If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
(Colossians 1:27) To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
(1 Thessalonians 1:3) Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
(1 Thessalonians 2:19) For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
(1 Thessalonians 4:13) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
(1 Thessalonians 5:8) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
(2 Thessalonians 2:16) Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
(1 Timothy 1:1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
(Titus 1:2) In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
(Titus 2:13) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
(Titus 3:7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
(Hebrews 3:6) But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
(Hebrews 6:11) And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
(Hebrews 6:18) That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
(Hebrews 6:19) Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
(Hebrews 7:19) For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
(Hebrews 11:1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
(1 Peter 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(1 Peter 1:13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
(1 Peter 1:21) Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
(1 Peter 3:15) But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
(1 John 3:3) And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Posted by David Stokely at 11:28 AM
Friday, October 14, 2011
(Genesis 39:17) And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:
(Genesis 41:40) Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
(Genesis 43:7) And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
(Genesis 44:2) And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
(Genesis 44:10) And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
(Exodus 8:10) And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
(Exodus 8:13) And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
(Exodus 8:31) And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
(Exodus 12:35) And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
(Exodus 32:28) And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
(Leviticus 10:7) And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
(Numbers 3:16) And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
(Numbers 3:51) And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
(Numbers 4:45) These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
(Numbers 14:20) And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
(Numbers 36:5) And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
(Deuteronomy 9:10) And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
(Deuteronomy 34:5) So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
(Joshua 2:21) And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
(Joshua 8:27) Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
(Joshua 8:34) And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
(Joshua 19:50) According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
(Joshua 22:9) And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
(Judges 11:10) And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
(1 Samuel 17:23) And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.
(1 Samuel 25:9) And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
(2 Samuel 7:17) According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
(1 Kings 3:12) Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
(1 Kings 12:24) Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
(1 Kings 13:26) And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
(1 Kings 14:18) And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
(1 Kings 16:12) Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
(1 Kings 16:34) In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
(1 Kings 17:1) And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
(1 Kings 17:5) So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
(1 Kings 17:16) And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
(1 Kings 22:38) And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
(2 Kings 1:17) So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
(2 Kings 4:44) So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
(2 Kings 6:18) And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
(2 Kings 7:16) And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
(2 Kings 9:26) Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
(2 Kings 14:25) He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
(2 Kings 23:16) And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
(2 Kings 24:2) And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
(1 Chronicles 11:3) Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
(1 Chronicles 11:10) These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.
(1 Chronicles 12:23) And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
(1 Chronicles 15:15) And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
(1 Chronicles 17:15) According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
(2 Chronicles 35:6) So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
(Ezra 10:5) Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
(Nehemiah 6:6) Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
(Nehemiah 6:7) And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
(Esther 1:21) And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
(Psalms 119:9) BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
(Psalms 119:25) DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
(Psalms 119:28) My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
(Psalms 119:41) VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
(Psalms 119:58) I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
(Psalms 119:65) TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
(Psalms 119:76) Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
(Psalms 119:107) I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
(Psalms 119:116) Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
(Psalms 119:154) Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
(Psalms 119:169) TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
(Psalms 119:170) Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
(Isaiah 8:20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
(Jeremiah 13:2) So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
(Jeremiah 26:20) And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
(Jeremiah 27:12) I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
(Jeremiah 32:8) So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
(Jeremiah 38:27) Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
(Jeremiah 42:4) Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
(Jonah 3:3) So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
(Haggai 2:5) According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
(Luke 1:38) And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
(Luke 2:29) Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
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text: In 1989, Nike ushered in a new era of innovative product to the market, one concept being the Air Flow. The running shoe became the predecessor to a number of future releases that would bridge lightweight, functionality and comfortability; seen in nearly every subsequent release including the Presto. Nike once again introduces the Lunar Flow, a revamped version incorporating its signature Lunarlon technology. Composing the upper is Fuse technology, deemed the most lightweight and breathable mesh ever conceived by the company. The Lunarlon sole embodies both shock absorption and lightweight repulsion, and comes Nike+ enabled. The Lunar Flow will arrive in a trio of limited edition monotone colorways, including the grey/white pair seen above, along with a red and black. Each is priced at ¥11,550 (approx. $144 USD), available now through mita sneakers.

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An original oil painting of Harriet Tubman will be officially unveiled during an open house from 1 to 3pm on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the Harriet Tubman Museum and Education Center in Cambridge, MD. The event is happening in honor of the grand opening of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in March. The 24” x 36” painting was commissioned by Cambridge native Thomas Harding and created by Cambridge artist George Wright. Giclée prints of the painting will be available for purchase at the Harriet Tubman Museum and at Downtown Frame of Mine, which features many of Wright’s works. The Feb. 18 event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. The Harriet Tubman Museum is located at 424 Race Street in Cambridge. For more information about the event, call 410-228-7977.
Celebrate the life and heroism of a true American patriot in the original one-person play, “Harriet Tubman: Defender” on Saturday, March 4 at 7pm. The performance happens at the Dorchester Center for the Arts in Cambridge, Maryland. The play stars Eunice Lewis-Seagraves and is a production of the Heralds of Hope Theater. Tickets cost $10 each. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center. Purchase tickets in advance at EventBrite.com or by calling 410-228-3131. A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door if available. This event is happening in honor of the grand opening of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in March.

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Wheeling and dealing in Detroit.
For the past few years, suppliers to the automotive industry have talked about producing subassembled doors, sunroofs, and seats, which would enable automakers to reduce the amount of space and work required for assembly. Rockwell International (Troy, Mich.) is one supplier that is ready to start delivering. At the 1989 Society of Automotive Engineers International Congress and Exposition in Detroit in February, the company announced a contract with an Italian automaker (but declined to specify which one). Rockwell will supply modular door assemblies as cassettes to be bolted into cars on the production line.
Although the SAE annual meeting has been held in Detroit since 1924, the show is not limited to car enthusiasts from the Motor City. Approximately 25 percent of the companies exhibiting at the 1989 show were from 10 countries other than the United States and Canada. Over the past five years, the event has more than doubled in size, easily selling out recently expanded Cobo Hall. The Detroit People Mover, an elevated public transit rail system, snaked visibly through the rafters above the exhibit floor.
With the current public concern for safety and the environment, the Detroit SAE history committee sponsored a session, "The History of the Automobile and the Environment." It took a frank look at society's continually changing attitudes toward the automobile--through the good and the bad, growing from an "unwanted child" in the early part of the century into "today's undaunted adult."
At a session on vehicle lighting trends, Oswald Haase, professor of physics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, proposed a study to determine the correlation between windshield wear and night driving accidents. The cumulative effect of sand, salt, pebbles, ice scrapers, windshield wipers, road film, and abrasive cleaners creates tiny craters and scratches that affect the way light passes through a windshield; some light passes through normally, while the rest is deflected or scattered. Haase and his colleagues in Sweden and West Germany have already obtained a correlation between windshield wear and driver reaction time by collecting data with a device that measures the ratio between normal and stray light through a windshield.
PHOTO : RIM polyurea. Mobay (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced its new reaction injection molding (RIM) polyurea system for producing automotive fascias. RIM polyurea is said to have certain physical and processing advantages compared to injection-molded thermoplastics. A day-long session was devoted to the difference between the two materials.
PHOTO : From coupe to convertible. When Jaguar Cars converted their XJ-S coupe into a convertible, they worried about maintaining noise level and ride comfort standards without adding substantial weight to the car. Consulting engineers in England used the I-Deas finite element analysis program from SDRC (Cincinnati, Ohio) to analyze the car's body and drivetrain. Design changes made as a result of the analysis increased the torsional stiffness by more than 20 percent with only a 4 percent increase in weight.
PHOTO : Composite molding material. The Durez Division of Occidental Chemical Corp. (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) announced a new composite molding material, Durez 31988, for use in automotive fuel and air management systems like this throttle body for a 2.3-liter Ford engine. The material is resistant to chemicals commonly found in motor vehicles, including methanol fuels, and it offers better vibrational stability than steel and aluminum.
PHOTO : Combination luxury-sports car/off-road vehicle. Looking at this unusual car, attendees might have thought that John Delorean was back in the business. (He's not.) Vehma International (Richmond Hill, Ontario) hopes to produce its Torrero on a limited basis in the 1992-93 model year.
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Kanpur city is separated from rural fields only by the Ganga. Cars can cross along the top of the Ganga Barrage, a dam and tourist attraction with ice cream. Air can cross anywhere. There is no kilometres-high boundary wall to divide the atmosphere at city borders. “Air flows like a fluid,” as the slogan reminds engineering students. But all that flow has to come from somewhere. I asked the engineering students’ teacher where.
In the Cafe Coffee Day at the centre of the IIT-Kanpur campus, the air conditioning made such a contrast to the warm, humid outside air that condensed water ran down the windows. The staff finally solved the problem by opening wide the two glass front doors, in a seeming attempt to air condition Kanpur itself. It was summer break. Around 10 or 15 students were working silently on their laptops across the large rooms of the coffee shop. Only in the section labelled “SILENT ZONE” were any of the students talking with one another.
I was there to talk with Professor Sachchida Nand Tripathi, or Sachi as he cheerfully introduced himself. We met in his office on a weekend: it seemed obvious to him that Saturday would be a work day. Perhaps he suggested the coffee shop to get away from the ringing of his office phone with requests for presentations. Sachi was once the PhD teacher of Sagnik – my collaborator who worked with Josh, Sangita, and me in chapter 2 to learn the effect of air pollution on child height. When I visited, Sachi was part of a team that was in the final process of submitting a new research paper to a journal. His paper is one of several studies seeking to sort out where north India’s air pollution comes from, based on what chemicals and particles it contains.
Many questions remain unanswered about the details of the source of north India’s air pollution, even to the experts.
In this, “source apportionment” (as the experts call it) is just like every other aspect of the air pollution problem: successive central and state governments have not collected enough data or tracked the challenge. A few months before we talked, Sachi had told a reporter from Reuters, “The state government does not have the mechanism to understand the sources of air pollution, how will they tackle it?” As Sachi explained to the reporter, the decision not to adequately investigate particulate matter cannot be excused by claiming that pollution is a surprise: “The state needs to act. This was very much coming.”
Because high quality data is so scarce, the science is at a stage where some differences among different studies’ conclusions have not been resolved. Sachi is part of one team working with the central government’s pollution control board. Others use different strategies and find conclusions that are a little different.
Each strategy for source apportionment is an approach to combining incomplete data with theory and models to fill in the gaps. Some studies are bottom-up: they start with estimates of emissions, and then use a computer model to fill in how different sources of pollution would contribute to the total concentration of particles.
Other studies are top-down. They look for specific chemical compounds in the final mix of particles that waft in the air. Top-down studies solve what amounts to a complex algebra problem to make the possible sources add up to the counts of fingerprint chemicals that are found in the mix. The results do not perfectly agree on the details, but both types of study find that north India’s pollution comes from many sources.
What is a concerned citizen to think about all this? What does it mean when different studies give different answers about the sources of the pollution?
Despite the confusion, three conclusions are clear. One is that much better monitoring is necessary. Pollution levels vary radically across places and times of year, so it would be no surprise if pollution’s sources did, too. It is not enough merely to track the fluctuations in the numerical levels of pollution. We also need details of the chemical make-up of the pollution that would let researchers learn more about its origins.
Sachi gave me an example: some properties of a bit of air pollution precisely reveal the process that released it. Josh Apte demonstrated a machine like this in his backyard garage. It sorts particles by giving a different electrical charge to particles depending on their mass. Grinning, Josh handed me his baby, walked around the corner, and lit a piece of paper on fire, so I could see his new apparatus blink with excitement as it cycled through its scan of particles.
Building such a system in India will require a major, sustained effort, but not an unprecedented one: other countries do it routinely. As Sachi lamented, the government bureaucrats appear to believe that they can commission a single study of source apportionment and resolve the matter, once and for all. “There was one apportionment study done in 2014-2015, and that’s enough,” officials seem to think.
He compared India with Paris and other foreign cities, where apportionment studies are continuous – “round the clock!” – and monitoring is constant, even though air pollution levels are much lower. “That is what they did in China,” where air pollution levels used to be almost as high as India’s, but have been recently brought under control.
Researchers understand this need. Almost everyone I talked with writing this book told me about some new study to figure out the sources of Delhi’s pollution.
The stories often turned out to be about different members of the same few research teams. The University of Birmingham recently paid to have an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education advertising that their top scientists are studying Indian source apportionment: “the university is working with partners to identify the different causes and effects of air pollution in China and India, which together account for half of all deaths linked to air pollution.”
“Great!” I thought, “and how timely that I am writing chapter three.” The word “India” is a link in that article. When I click it, the University of Birmingham website tells me that they are collaborating with engineers at IIT-Delhi, and partnering with my friend at the University of Texas. Of course, these are major research projects that need large teams. It is only good that big open questions are being tackled by international collaborations. My point is that we need many more of them, so I had hoped I would learn of something new. This was Sachi’s point, too. If in Paris – where PM2.5 is reported to be “good” as I type – the government monitors pollution sources round the clock at several sites, then India has a long way to go to build an adequate data collection network.
The second clear implication from the apportionment studies is that the air pollution comes from many sources. That means that no one quick fix will solve it all. Cars, trucks, industry, coal plants, trash burning, crop residue burning, construction, even traditional stoves and household fires to keep warm: air pollution is caused by a complex list of sources. This complexity makes it easy to appear to be taking aggressive action, without actually solving the problem. A government can highlight one small part of the problem while ignoring the rest. Even a government that wants to would be challenged to track down and plug each source of emissions – in the real world where bureaucratic resources and capacity are limited.
The third upshot of the source studies is that ‘Delhi’s’ air pollution is not only Delhi’s. So, policy cannot succeed if it only focuses there. Coal burnt in Kanpur, crops burnt in Haryana, cars idling on the Gurgaon highway – each of these contributes. Sachi implicated “all the northern Ganga belt” as a culprit: Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, UP, he listed. Getting to each source of the air pollution requires leaving Delhi.
Excerpted with permission from Air: Why India Must Solve Pollution and Climate Change Together, Dean Spears, Harper Collins.

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Summer is a time to slow down, to enjoy simple pleasures, Rebecca Fletcher and I have put together a list of wonderfully languorous, sink into the summer sunshine reads.
A huge thank you to our perfect sponsors Fable England for sponsoring our July reads. This couldn’t have been a better partnership with our first book “Yours Cheerfully” by A J Pearce. This wonderful novel is set during the Second World War and The Fable adventure began at a vintage fair, where a delicate printed bee scarf dated from the 1940’s was discovered by their founder, crafted from off-cut fabric used for the RAF pilots in World War II. The beautiful bee print symbolised flight, determination and courage.
This sparked the idea of telling a tale through prints and delicate hand painted jewellery. Each represents positivity and inspires kindness to uplift the human spirit, bringing joy to all who possess the Fable charm. This couldn’t be a more apt pairing with “Yours Cheerfully”.
From the fabulous, heart happy “Yours Cheerfully” by The Sunday Times best selling author A J Pearce to the captivating “Letters Between Six Sisters”: documenting a magazillion letters between the extraordinary Mitford Sisters to Barbara Pym’s blissful “Excellent Women” we have all summer reading requirements covered. Rebecca Fletcher delves in and explains more:
It was Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women that got me thinking about this month’s theme. It’s ticks all the dictionary definition boxes with its tale of Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth. That strong feeling of friendship, a group of women supporting each other, the relationship between sisters. Much like the March sisters, all the characters in this month’s selection for Are You Sitting Comfortably? are sisters doing it for themselves so join us as Rebecca and I curl up under a parasol with our reads on the theme of sisterhood. From women’s rights and wartime spirit to dealing with smug marrieds and striking it out as spinsters or the ups and downs of a gaggle of siblings, there’s poignancy, perhaps even a little mild peril in some cases but plenty of joy to be had from reading our bookish trio for July.
Enter the lovable Emmeline Lake in A J Pearce’s gorgeously uplifting novel, Yours Cheerfully. Technically this is a sequel but both Yours Cheerfully and A J’s first novel, Dear Mrs Bird, read beautifully as stand alone books. In fact, I would almost say that I enjoyed the return of Emmy Lake in Yours Cheerfully more. She really seems to have found her feet at last. You’re bound to fall in love with her just as much as I have.
‘As I began to collect the readers’ letters and carefully put them back in my file, I thought of all the women who had written in wanting to help the war effort. So many of them had been waiting months for an official reply or been told they were too old or too young or were simply worried about doing the right thing.
This was our chance to help them.
And it was time for me to step up.’
London, 1941. Things have moved on at Woman’s Friend magazine following the departure of Henrietta Bird, its formidable former editor and Emmeline Lake has taken on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Charles, Emmy’s boyfriend, has been stationed back in the UK and whilst best friend Bunty is still reeling from the tragedies of the Blitz, she and Emmy are looking to the future. So, when the Ministry of Information calls on women’s magazines to recruit much needed women workers for the war effort, Emmy is thrilled to be able to help do her bit. Faced with the challenges of what it really means to be a woman at work in wartime, Emmy and Bunty find themselves with a huge dilemma. Can Emmy stand by her friends and do her duty all at the same time? A J Pearce’s Yours Cheerfully is a story that’s full of heart – a tale of courage, friendship and the power of raising one another up. I’d say if you’re looking for the perfect pick me up in bookish form, this will hit the spot very nicely.
From one group of marvellous women to another – Barbara Pym and her novel, Excellent Women. I’ll admit that I was late to the Barbara Pym party and I only wish I’d discovered her sooner. It appears I’m not the only one to have had the same thought. When a whole host of established writers and literary critics were asked by the Times Literary Supplement in 1977 who they would nominate as their most underrated novelist of the past century, Pym appeared on the list twice – nominated by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil no less. Since then, her work has been revived and subsequently fallen out of favour many times but there’s something about her talent for writing wonderful characters and social comedy that, once enjoyed, is unforgettable.
“I suppose an unmarried woman just over thirty, who lives alone and has no apparent ties, must expect to find herself involved or interested in other people’s business, and if she is also a clergyman’s daughter then one might really say that there is no hope for her.”
Take Mildred, our protagonist in Excellent Women, for example. She’s one of the ‘excellent women’ often ignored or taken for granted. A clergyman’s daughter and spinster, in the eyes of her friends and neighbours Mildred is a ‘godsend’, one of life’s natural copers. A good job too as she finds herself taking far more of an active part in all the drama which unfolds when the dashing Rockingham Napier and his anthropologist wife Helena move into the flat below her, not to mention the new lodger who causes quite a stir at the vicarage. Excellent Women is a wonderful portrait of 1950s England, of ordinary people living ordinary lives but most of all, it’s a spotlight on plucky heroines who aren’t always keen to follow the path intended. If this is your first encounter with Pym, then expect lots of witty asides, plenty of tea drinking, perhaps a drop of two of medicinal brandy and a heaped teaspoon of English charm. Excellent Women is endearing and very funny.
Our third and final foray into sisterhood this month charts the stories of a rare breed of sisters indeed – The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley.
If it’s unconventional women you’re after, then you’ve come to the right place with our wildcard choice this month. The word ‘eccentric’ must have been invented for the Mitford sisters – I’m not even sure notorious would cover all their antics. Collated and edited by Diana Moseley’s daughter in law, Charlotte, this collection of unpublished letters not only charts a time of significant political and social upheaval but also the bond, quirks and rivalry rife between the sisters. In a correspondence spanning eight decades, the reader is invited into the worlds of six born storytellers. From the wit and word wizardry of novelist Nancy to Pamela and her love of country life; renowned beauty and fascist wife of Sir Oswald Moseley, Diana; Unity and her obsession with Hitler that led to personal tragedy; Jessica’s communism and break from her family to the US and lastly, Debo, socialite and debutante who became Duchess of Devonshire. Every time I dive back into this one, I feel I’m in the room with them all. Confidences, childhood nicknames and teases, gossip, envy – the sisters never fail to disappoint with their gift for storytelling and penchant for humour. They are every bit as wild and dynamic as you might imagine. An utterly unique read – this is the Mitfords in their own words.
‘Nancy to Diana
3 September 1966
I’m shaking all over with nerves from trying to ring up Debo. How can people telephone who haven’t got secretaries? It took 1 ½ hours partly because they pretend that wretched Basloe has got a W somewhere. How can it? Bwalsoe? Bawsloe? I give up. I’m crying….’
Join us on July 22nd for an Instagram Live with the incredible A J Pearce. The perfect way to kick off the summer holidays. Xxx


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JUICE RECIPE: * 1 beetroot * 1 carrot * 1 apple and * 1 lemon Choose organic and local where possible. Simply wash the ingredients but there is no need to peel them. Chop into chunks and chuck in a juicer. For optimum benefits it should be consumed immediately. It really is that simple! edf0fd9ffe0225e203f4da1ac7a64f11
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Super Easy All-Natural Energy Drink - homemade, vegan, pure and healthy energy that's ready in 30 seconds. The healthy replacement for coffee and sugary drinks for: focus, concentration and energy! Made with superfood matcha powder. From The Glowing Fridge.
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My approach to nutrition is simple: I try to eat from a plant, tree, or animal at every meal. I personally add fresh juice to my diet and do not advocate juice cleanses or fasts that eliminate eating whole foods. I put together my nine favorite juicing recipes to share with you along with a few juicing 101 tips to get you started!

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South Africa in the country at the most southern tip of African continent with long and diverse history. When people think of Africa, they first thing of apartheid and Nelson Mandela, or the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but the true secret of this beautiful country lies in its rich nature. One of the most sought after adventures in Africa as a whole are hiking tours on the trails in South Africa. Hiking tours are the perfect get away from the everyday world and present a great opportunity to spend vacations actively while also being one with the beautiful South African nature.
Spezialised Tour Operators organize a 2-8 hour hikes through the South African forests and welcome everybody – be it individuals or groups – to come along and share the experience. Exploring the wonders of Western Cape region is followed by the famous Garden Route. The route also present a climbing challenge – Table Mountain may sound a bit unusual, but it takes quite a climb to get on top of it and enjoy the view. The beautiful hiking route also includes the Otter trail, known for its pristine nature and priceless views. The hiking tour ends with a safari in the open Land Rover in the second largest national park in South Africa – the Addo Elephant National Park.
Hiking tours in South Africa are full of natural wonders and a great way to spend vacations actively. The hike can take up to 14 day, but we also offer shorter routes which will also give away a first-hand insight in what South Africa has to offer. With all the untouched wild on either side of the trail all along the hiking tours, South African routes are one of the many things in South Africa to be experienced and enjoyed.

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The 20-year-old attacking midfielder came on at half-time and ran Barcelona’s rearguard ragged to cancel out Suarez’s goal. But the Uruguayan teed-up up Paco Alcacer to put Barcelona back in-front.
Ivan Rakitic made it 3-1 and Neymar then added the fourth with his 100th goal for Barcelona.
They stay two points behind Real Madrid with nine games left to play although Zinedine Zidane’s men have a game in hand and the second Clasico of the season at home at the end of the month.
Barcelona took a while to get going in the first 45 minutes. Rafinha hobbled off after 16 minutes further weakening a side without the suspended Lionel Messi and rested Andres Iniesta.
This was always going to be a difficult game – Barcelona have failed to win any of their last three games following an international break.
But they still had Suarez and he almost put Barcelona ahead on 25 minutes. Neymar swept down the left on to a pass from Andre Gomes. The Brazilian fed Suarez and he went close with a delicate chip that came back off the crossbar. Neymar headed in the rebound but from an offside position.
Granada’s Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa was in fine form and he twice denied Suarez from close range. Somehow Granada made it to the half-hour point without having conceded.
Ochoa saved again from Suarez who shot as he was being dragged to the ground by David Lomban. He stayed on his feet and let fire; had he gone down it would have been a penalty.
Barcelona had peppered Granada’s goal with 12 shots in the first half and when finally one of them went in it was predictably from the boot of Suarez. It was route one stuff from Barcelona but Jordi Alba’s long diagonal forward dropped perfectly for Suarez who let it bounce before dinking it over Ochoa who was off his line and helpless to stop it.
It was Suarez’s fifth goal at Granada’s Los Carmenes Stadium in three years. Last year he grabbed a hat-trick on the day Barcelona won the league. This was huge in terms of keeping them in the race.
Boga came on at half-time after a first half in which Granada had failed to force a single save from Marc Andre ter Stegen.
Within five minutes the Chelsea loanee had his team on level terms. The former France under-19 international raced away from a square back-four and slotted calmly past the German keeper.
Barcelona needed digging out of a hole again and Suarez came good for the second time in the game.
He had been in constant battle with Lomban throughout and they tangled again with the Granada defender fouling the Uruguayan and Suarez responding with a hand to the face of Loban. The referee penalized neither infraction and Suarez was clear to dink a pass over the top of Granada’s defence into the path of Paco Alcacer.
The former Valencia player had replaced the injured Rafinha in the first half and he took his chance shooting past Ochoa to score Barça second. There have been big questions over the 30m euros summer acquisition – this was his fourth goal of the season, his third in the league, and without doubt the most important.
Ivan Rakitic scored a deflected third after good work from Neymar and Suarez and with Granada now reduced to 10-men after Uche Agbo was sent off.
Neymar then bagged goal number four and it was his 100th for the club. Both he and Suarez had stood up to the plate in the absence of Messi who will be back on Wednesday as Barcelona take on Sevilla.


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Stormy - How could you!?!? It's for the children, after all. How would you feel if all the kids were running around with Hoof & Mouth disease and cervical cancer? [/sarcasm]
Vaccines work by prodding the immune system to produce antibodies against viruses and bacteria, thus priming the body against these pathogens before they enter it. Some antibodies, however, can react against not only the intended pathogen proteins, but also against human proteins — a phenomenon called cross-reactivity. A 2015 study published in Science Translational Medicine discovered that antibodies elicited by the Pandemrix influenza vaccine cross-reacted with a human brain protein — hypocretin receptor 2.
Autoimmunity, in which antibodies attack human proteins, is also known to play a critical role in normal brain development, Leckman noted. According to Leckman, if children were experiencing inflammation — a process that promotes autoimmunity — at the time of vaccination, the combination of inflammation and vaccination could have deleterious effects on brain development. Such data on vaccination timing was not included in the database on which the study was based. ~~> Thanks Stormtruth, I took the opportunity of reading this and placed the heavy truth part here above. ( I have noticed other essays on similar topic describe the phenomenon "cross-reactivity" as 'class switching' to do with mast cells, suddenly bringing on radical Ige antibodys that attack the body, instead of the regular antibodies available to it. It's part of the 'non- specific' immune defence system. This causes big problems. )
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Cal/OSHA updated its FAQs to conform to the new recommendations of the California Department of Health (CDPH). So, hot off the presses, here are the latest rules for California workplaces. A couple interesting points to note: First, there is no quarantine required for boosted employees and a shortened quarantine option available for fully-vaccinated, but not yet boosted employees if they are asymptomatic and test negative 3-5 days after exposure (see Table 2 below).
Also note that LA County will require employers to provide employees who work indoors with a medical grade mask, surgical mask, or N95 or K95 respirator., effective January 17th. Employees who are required by their employers to wear N95 or K95 respirators are also not considered “close contacts” under Cal/OSHA so would not need to be excluded from the workplace for workplace exposure contact tracing. Happy first Friday of 2022!!
Table 1: Exclusion Requirements for Employees Who Test Positive for COVID-19 (Isolation)
|Requirements apply to all employees, regardless of vaccination status, previous infection, or lack of symptoms.||
Table 2: Employees Who Are Exposed to Someone with COVID-19 (Quarantine)
|Requirements apply to employees who are:
+Includes persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 within the last 90 days.
++See Table 4 for definition of booster-eligible.
*Antigen test preferred.
+++Employers are not required to exclude asymptomatic employees in this category if:
- A negative diagnostic test* is obtained within 3-5 days after last exposure to a case;
- Employee wears a face covering around others for a total of 10 days (please refer to the section in this FAQ on face coverings for additional face covering requirements); and
- Employee continues to have no symptoms.
Table 3: Employees Who Are Exposed to Someone with COVID-19 (No Quarantine Required)
|Requirements apply to employees who are:
× (See Table 4 for definition of booster-eligible)
|Employees do not need to quarantine if they:
Table 4: California COVID-19 Vaccines Booster Recommendations
|COVID-19 vaccine||Primary vaccination series||When does a person becomes booster-eligible||Which vaccine booster dose to receive|
|Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech||1st and 2nd doses||6 months after 2nd dose||Any of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States may be used for the booster dose, but either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech are preferred.|
|Johnson and Johnson [J&J]/Janssen||1st dose||2 months after 1st dose||Any of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States may be used for the booster dose, but either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech are preferred.|
|World Health Organization (WHO) emergency use listing COVID-19 vaccine||All recommended doses||6 months after getting all recommended doses||Single booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine|
|A mix and match series composed of any combination of FDA-approved, FDA-authorized, or WHO-EUL COVID-19 vaccines||All recommended doses||6 months after getting all recommended doses||Single booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine|
In addition to the above, pursuant to section 3205(c)(10)(E), when an order to isolate, quarantine, or exclude an employee is issued by a local or state health official, the employee shall not return to work until the period of isolation or quarantine is completed or the order is lifted even if the order exceeds the specified exclusion requirements in the ETS or CDPH recommendation.
Q: What if tests cannot be obtained following a close contact?
A: If employees covered by Table 2 cannot be tested as required, quarantine must continue for at least 10 days as explained in the table. If employees covered by Table 3 cannot be tested on day 5, employers should follow the ETS. For vaccinated close contacts, as of January 14, 2022, that means wearing a face covering and maintaining six feet of distance for 14 days following the close contact.
i Employers may require employees submit to viral testing for COVID-19. Please refer to the FAQ from DFEH for further information.
ii A fever is a measured body temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
iii A fever resolves when 24 hours have passed with no fever, without the use of fever-reducing medications.

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Pharmamum’s Ultimate Guide: Cough
I went to the doctor today with my 4 year old daughter. For the last 4 days she has been coughing and coughing to the point it has caused her to vomit. My doctor said it was viral and there is not much you can give a young child with a cough. It will just subside on its own.
As a pharmacist and a mother of 2 under the age of 4, I am continually being presented with coughs, from my own children as well as giving advice to parents wanting to know what to do with their children’s cough.
In 2012, the Therapeutics Goods of Australia changed the recommendations for cough and cold preparations as a result of a review of safety and efficacy for over the counter cough and cold medicine used in children. It was found that these medicines may cause harm to children and the benefits have not been proven for children under 6 years of age.
When you think about why a baby/child has a cough and what their little bodies are trying to do, it is obvious that they are trying to clear and expel what is irritating their airways. If you give your child a cough suppressant, it will suppress your baby/child’s cough and stop what their body is trying to do.
So what causes a baby/child to have a cough?
Virus- Both bacterial and viral infections can cause a cough however the most common reason a baby has a cough is due to a virus causing an upper or lower respiratory tract infection.
Asthma -Asthma will not be formally diagnosed until your child is 5 years old. However around 70% of children have intermittent asthma, which means they have short, isolated episodes of asthma, usually in response to a respiratory infection or environmental allergen.
Post nasal drip– A cold/flu may start out as congestion in the nasal passage and then often the excess fluid will drip down the back of the throat, irritating the airways and causing a cough. Often by the morning a phlegmy sounding cough arises, as the body is trying to expel the buildup of mucus.
Irritants- Cold air, cold food eg. milkshakes, ice-cream all constrict the airways and trigger a cough. Other Irritants eg smoke and allergens eg. pollen also can a trigger a cough.
So when a parent comes in to the pharmacy, what advice do I give them? I give the advice that works for me with my children:
1.Hedera helix (Ivy leaf extract) – There are a few different brands currently on the market eg Prospan and Little coughs. Prospan is more concentrated than Little coughs. With my eldest daughter Prospan causes her to vomit whereas my youngest can take it with no ill effects. However they both can take the less concentrated Little Cough liquid with no side effects. In 2% of children, Ivy leaf extract can cause vomiting or diarrhoea, it is worth trying as it has been proven to be effective. Ivy leaf extract does not suppress a cough. It loosens mucus so that your baby/child can cough up the mucus and get it off their chest. It also has a soothing effect on the airways and stops the cough that ‘hurts’ whilst relaxes the airways. It can be used in infants and children and is the only cough medicine available and safe for children under 6 years of age.
2. A vaporiser- A vaporiser won’t necessarily stop a cough but it adds moisture to the air in your baby/child’s room. This allows your baby to breathe more comfortably and stops the cold dry air hitting the airways, which often triggers the airway to constrict and cause your baby/child to cough. I recommend just water in the vaporiser as the steam generated is what makes your baby/child breathe easier. I would not recommend the use of menthol/eucalyptus inhalant liquids in the vaporiser until your baby is over 2 years of age for the relief of nasal congestion. Once eucalyptus is added to a vaporiser, always keep the door open to prevent the eucalyptus concentration building up in the room. I would also recommend on those cold nights, if you have heating, to make your child’s bedroom temperature around 19-20 degrees, just for the same reason, it stops the cold air hitting the lungs and tightening.
3. Baby Vicks eucalyptus rub- Rubbing the Vicks on your baby’s feet and putting socks on, really helps a cough. I honestly don’t know how it works but whenever I rub it on my children’s feet, they often have a better nights sleep with a lot less coughing. Vicks BabyBalsam is also great on the chest so the vapour can help a blocked nose. Vicks BabyBalsam can be used from 3 months of age.
4. Speak to your doctor- If the above options are not helping, I would recommend speaking to your family doctor, as once they listen to your baby/child’s chest they may recommend an inhaler that will open and relax the smooth muscle in the airways and/or an anti-inflammatory inhaler. Sometimes oral medication may be prescribed too ( eg a corticosteroid liquid). Often when a baby/child has a virus they can get what is called a ‘post viral asthma’ where the body produces mucus to try and kill the virus and remove it from the body. This mucus production that sits in the airways narrows the airways causing them to constrict. An inhaler relaxes the smooth muscle allowing your child to breath easier and obtain more oxygen. If an inhaler is recommended, a spacer with a mask is important to use to ensure the medication gets to the airways. Obviously a baby would not understand to breath in through the mouth, so using a mask will ensure your child/baby will be breathing in the medication and it will reach the lungs. Once the airways are relaxed, you may notice your baby coughing more initially, as the mucus loosens and expelled. Your doctor will also need to assess whether antibiotics are required. Most commonly a cough is due to a virus and antibiotics will not help, however your doctor will need to gather information from you and make an informed decision.
Unfortunately there is no way of preventing a cough and a cough can often linger on for a couple of weeks after a cold/virus. However if a child is otherwise happy and going about their daily activities with no problem whilst their cough persists, then there is no cause for concern, the cough will pass. However if there are any of the following symptoms, it is very important to see your local doctor:
- Your child has difficulty in breathing and you are hearing a wheezing sound on their breath out
- When your child coughs, there is a ‘whooping’ sound on their breath in.
- Your child gets out of breath when coughing
- Your child’s cough comes on suddenly with a fever
- If your child’s skin turns very pale or even a blue colour whilst coughing
- The cough is just not going away
- You can give a baby older than 1 year, a teaspoon of honey which may give some short term relief by coating the lining of the throat which acts as a barrier to irritants.
- Give your child warm (not hot) drinks.The warm liquid will often help soothe the airways.
- Avoid cold drinks and ice cream, as you will notice it sets off a cough.
- Avoid air conditioners, this will often exacerbate a cough.
Please feel free to leave comments on this blog and if there are any questions I am more than happy to answer them. Also if you tried a remedy that worked well for your children that was or wasn’t mentioned above, let me know. I hope this information does help.
Disclaimer – The material on this blog is only to be used for informational purposes only. As each individual situation is unique, you should use proper discretion, in consultation with a health care practitioner, before applying the methods, medicines, techniques or otherwise described herein. The author and publisher expressly disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects that may result from the use or application of the information contained herein.


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Results Wrap | Reporting season blog
Live blog | Welcome to the Financial Review reporting season blog. Companies that reported today include: ■ Wesfarmers ■ Brambles ■ Coca-Cola Amatil ■ Woodside Petroleum.
Live blog | Welcome to the Financial Review reporting season blog. Companies due to report today include: ■ Wesfarmers ■ Brambles ■ Coca-Cola Amatil ■ Woodside Petroleum ■ APN News & Media ■ Fletcher Building ■ The Reject Shop.
2.53pm: Treasury Group ’s full-year NPAT rose 26 per cent from a year ago to $131 million as market conditions improved and strong performances of its RARE Infrastructure and Investor Mutual units. The company will pay a fully franked final dividend of 27¢ a share on September 25.
11.55am:Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has lifted its full-year profit guidance to about $NZ100 million from a previous estimate in May of $NZ97 milllion. The revised forecast is based on an exchange rate of about NZ84¢ to the US dollar for the rest of the year. Its earlier estimate was based on an exchange rate of 86¢ against the US currency.
11.15am: Countplus has reported a 1.7 per cent jump in full-year after tax net profit to $10.9 million and EBITA of $19.1 million, up 0.5 per cent on a year ago.
10.44am: Ausenco said net profit after tax for the half year ended June 30 fell to $2 million from $3.5 million after revenue dived to $184.2 million from $258.9 million. The company will not pay a dividend. A year ago, shareholders received a dividend of 2¢ a share.
10.30am: Tox Free Solutions’ net profit after tax for the full year surged 60 per cent to $21.7 million. Revenue rose 30 per cent to $369.9 million. EBITDA rose 15 per cent to $66.6 million.
10.14am: Fortescue Metals has delivered a 57 per cent surge in full-year net profit after tax to $US2.7 billion with revenue jumping 45 per cent to $US11.8 billion. The company will pay a final dividend of A10¢ a share on October 3, taking the total fully-franked payout for the year to 20¢.
10.10am: Wesfarmers has reported 19 per cent jump in full-year net profit to $2.69 billion on the back of a 4 per cent rise in revenue to $62.3 billion. The company will pay a final dividend of 105¢ a share on September 3 and a special dividend of 10¢ a share. Before the results were released, Wesfarmers said it planned to return $1.1 billion, or $1 a share, to shareholders.
10am: Upstream oil and gas company Roc Oil’s net profit for the six months ended June more than doubled to $US53.8 million, from $US20.5 million a year ago. The result included profit from the sale of BMG. Revenue rose to $US143.4 million from $US114.1 million and gross profit rose to $US56.3 million from US$49 million.
9.48am: PaperlinX ’s earnings improved significantly with the company’s after tax loss for the year narrowing to $63.6 million from $92.8 million a year ago. Revenue was little changed, up 1 per cent on a year ago to $2.83 billion.
Managing director Andrew Price said: “Our turnaround strategy is bearing results, with a significant improvement in our underlying result, following strong performances in the Canadian and ANZA regions and improved positions in Europe.
“But given our business in Europe reported a loss this year, work is still required to continue the turnaround in this region. Worldwide, trading conditions in our established paper markets remain challenging and changes in the competitive landscape further reinforce the need to redefine our merchant model and focus on growing our diversified businesses as part of our longer term strategy".
9.43am: Liver cancer drug developer Sirtex Medical said its full-year net profit climbed 30.6 per cent to $23.9 million thanks to record dose sales of its targeted internal radiation therapy.
The company just missed expectations of net profit of $24.6 million. It had net profit of $18.3 million in the same period last year.
Revenue rose 30.9 per cent to $131.3 million, which beat consensus expectations of $127.8 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
9.33am: Mining services company Macmahon Holdings has returned to black with a full-year profit of $30.4 million, a 203 per cent improvement on the year ago’s $29.5 million loss. Revenue for the period fell 13 per cent to $1.017 billion. The company will not pay a dividend.
9.30am: Gas infrastructure company APA Group has posted a 16.5 per cent rise in net profit after tax for the full year to $343.7 million, underpinned by acquisitions and organic growth. EBITDA fell 2.1 per cent to $747.3 million. Distribution per security rose 2.1 per cent to 36.25¢.
9.20am: Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory’s net profit for the year ended June almost tripled to $21.28 million. Revenue at the company, which was bought by Canada’s Saputo, jumped 22.7 per cent to $609 million. EBITDA rose 77 per cent to $45 million. The company will not be paying a dividend.
9.15am: SEEK Ltd has delivered a 35 per cent slump in NPAT for the full year to $195.6 million with revenue rising 22 per cent to $756.4 million. The company will pay a second half dividend of 16¢ a share, taking payout for the year to 30¢ a share. The online job ads company also flagged growth in dividends.
9.13am: Sunland Group will pay a final dividend of 2¢ a share, fully franked, after it reported a jump in net profit to $14.3 milllion from $13.59 million a year ago. Revenue swung to black from a loss the previous year.
9.06am: Brambles said its full-year after tax profit rose 5 per cent to $US584.5 million on the back of a 6 per cent rise in sales revenue to $US5.405 billion. The company will pay a final dividend of A13.5¢ a share, with franking of 30 per cent.
9.05am: Residential developer Cedar Woods has booked a record net profit after tax of $40.3 million for the 2014 financial year, a 10.9 per cent rise on the previous financial year. The record profit was underpinned by strong revenue growth from sales across the developer’s projects in Western Australia and Victoria. Full year revenue increased by 24.1 per cent to $214.5 million, boosted by a larger contribution from the sale of residential dwelling projects in Melbourne. The developer has declared a fully franked final dividend of 5.5¢ per share. Total dividends for fiscal 2014 amount to a record of 27.5 cents per share, up 6 per cent on the previous year.
9am: Coca-Cola Amatil has said net profit for the six months ended June 30 ended 15.6 per cent lower to $182.3 million while revenue inched 0.8 per cent higher to $2.381 billion. The company will pay a 20¢ interim dividend on August 28.
8.56am: Trade Me has reported a small up tick in profit, buoyed by strong growth in its classifieds business. Net profit for the 2014 financial year rose 1.9 per cent to $NZ80.1 million ($72.5 million). The New Zealand-based company, whose majority stake was sold by Fairfax Media, publisher of The Australian Financial Review, in 2012, had revenue growth of 9.7 per cent to $NZ180.1 million in the 12 months ended June 30.
8.55am: The Reject Shop has reported a sharp slump in profit as the discount retailer struggles to find organic growth.
Full-year profit for the year ending June 30, fell 25.4 per cent to $14.5 million. This was despite a 15.1 per cent increase in sales revenue to $711.5 million.
The fall in profit was largely expected after The Reject Shop revised guidance in June. Comparable store sales fell 0.5 per cent, highlighting the retailer’s struggle to find growth outside the opening of new stores. 46 new stores were opened in the 2014 financial year.
8.50am: Southern Cross Media Group said its full-year net profit after tax rose 7.1 per cent to $79.6 million while revenue was little changed, up 0.3 per cent to $640.8 million.
8.45am: AGL Energy posted a 52 per cent jump in bottom line full-year profit, but underlying profit slid 3.9 per cent. The utility halted its shares from trading pending a $1.2 billion capital raising to help fund its $1.5 billion takeover of Macquarie Generation, as flagged by Street Talk.
Underlying profit after tax for the year to June 30 slid to $562 million, from $585 million, AGL said on Wednesday. The result was almost exactly in line with market consensus estimates of $561 million for full-year underlying profit, representing a 13 per cent decline on the 2012-13 profit on the same basis of $585 million.
Net income surged to $570 million, from $375 million a year earlier, on sales that dipped 1.8 per cent to $9.54 billion. AGL said the increase was due to a decline in signficant items, which inflated the result in the 2013 financial year.AGL declared a final dividend of 33¢ a share.
8.40am: Consulting and tech solutions company SMS Management NPAT for the year ended June dived 40 per cent to $12.7 million due to a fall in client demand and project margin in the consulting unit alone with one-off items during the first half. Still, chief executive Tom Stianos pointed out that the result was in line with guidance. Revenue rose 13 per cent to $314.4 million.
8.39am: Australian civil and mining contractor NRW Holdings’ full-year NPAT almost halved to $44.2 million from $74.1 million on the back of weaker revenue of $1.134 billion although in line with FY14 guidance. The company will pay a final fully franked dividend of 5¢ a share.
8.25am: Mount Gibson Iron said its net profit after tax for 2014 fell to $96.4 milllion from $157.3 million despite a rise in revenue to $898 million from $853 million, an increase of 5 per cent. The company will pay a fully franked final dividend of 4¢ a share, the same as the previous year.
8.24am: Woodside Petroleum has delivered a 27 per cent rise in first-half net profit after tax of $US1.105 billion thanks to record output of 46.5mmboe and record operating revenue of $US3.551 billion.
First-half underlying net profit was $US1.136 billion, compared to a consensus estimate among analysts of $US1.07 billion.Last year, first-half bottom line profit was $US873 million.
Revenues jumped 24 per cent on the first half last year, which Woodside said was due to higher prices as contracts for LNG supplied from the $15 billion Pluto venture in Western Australia moved onto new pricing arrangements, as well as higher production from the Vincent oil field.
Woodside declared a record interim dividend of US111¢ per share, a hefty 34 per cent increase in the same time a year ago.
8.17am: CSG Ltd has reported a ful-year net profit after tax of $12.1 million, up from $8.7 million a year ago. Revenue, excluding interest, rose to $199.2 million from $181.3 million while EBITDA jumped to $23.7 million from $17.4 million. The company has declared a full year unfranked dividend of 5¢ a share.
8.15am: APN News & Mediahas reported net profits after tax 77 per cent higher at $22.6 million on revenues 3 per cent higher at $406 million. The Trans Tasman newspaper, radio and outdoor advertising company also said it has pushed back significant debt maturities until January 2018 after it refinanced debt facilities due to mature in 2015 and 2016 with a new facility of $630 million. Consensus forecasts were for net profits after tax of $25.3 million on revenues of $404 million. As expected there is no dividend.
8.11am: Online travel group Webjet has reported a 195 per cent rise in full-year earnings to $19.1 million, driven in part by an improvement in its Zuji business. The business reported earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $23.3 million, which was above its guidance of $21.5 million. The business’s total transaction value rose by 9.4 per cent to $967 million and its revenue margin rose to 10.2 per cent, from 8.5 per cent the prior year.Webjet declared a final fully franked dividend of 7.25¢, bringing the total full year payout to $13.5¢, which was 0.5¢ above last year.
8.05: Building material manufacturer Fletcher Building said its full-year net profit after tax rose to $NZ339 million ($306.8 million) from $NZ326 million a year ago. Revenue fell to $NZ8.401 billion from $NZ8.517 billion.
Net earnings before significant items totalled $NZ362 million, up 11 per cent from financial 2013, the company said in a statement to the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges. Significant items of $NZ32 million were incurred from the sale of Pacific Steel and Hudson Building Supplies businesses.
The company said it will pay a final dividend of 18¢ on October 15.
For all the key results released this month, take a look at the Financial Review2014 full-year reporting calendar.
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