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Dynamics Analysis of Car-Trailer Systems with Active Trailer Differential Braking Strategies
ISSN: 1946-3995, e-ISSN: 1946-4002
Published April 01, 2014 by SAE International in United States
Citation: Sun, T., He, Y., and Ren, J., "Dynamics Analysis of Car-Trailer Systems with Active Trailer Differential Braking Strategies," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst. 7(1):73-85, 2014, https://doi.org/10.4271/2014-01-0143.
To date, various control strategies based on linear vehicle models have been researched and developed for improving lateral stability of car-trailer (CT) systems. Is a linear-model-based controller applicable to active safety systems for CT systems under emergency operating conditions, such as an evasive maneuver at high lateral accelerations? In order to answer the question, the applicability of an active trailer differential braking (ATDB) controller designed using a linear CT model is tested and evaluated, while the controller being applied to a CT system represented by a linear and a nonlinear CT model. The current research leads to the following insightful findings: the ATDB controller designed using the linear model can effectively improve the lateral stability of CT systems under regular evasive maneuvers at low lateral accelerations, but the controller is not applicable to CT active safety systems under emergency evasive maneuvers at high lateral accelerations. The insightful findings resulted from the paper will provide valuable design guidelines for the development of active safety systems for CT systems.


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About 1 hour from Tokyo. Also a few minutes from Yokosuka U.S. military base by train. Get off the bus and hike for a few minutes. The sun shining through the trees is pleasant.
The height is not so high, so walk for a few minutes.
It was already there, right by the entrance, a natural rock-climbing wall.
Map routes vary.
A few minutes’ walk from the entrance is a wall of even higher difficulty.
Finally, we arrived at our destination this time.
You can also rock climb on this Buddha statue, but it is dangerous and there is a warning sign. A good hiking course for a walk.
Detailed locations can be found on my TripAdvisor.
Thank you for reading to the end. Please don’t forget to bookmark this page.
That’s right. There are both natural and…
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PATIENTS were struck down by a virulent stomach bug which led to the closure of a Teesside hospital ward.
The University Hospital of North Tees has been confirmed as one of the hospitals hit by an outbreak of norovirus, or “winter vomiting virus”.
Dozens of wards at hospitals across England and Wales have been closed to new admissions in order to control the outbreak.
The highly infectious bug causes symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea and fever, and can spread quickly.
One of the affected wards was at Stockton’s University Hospital of North Tees.
Ward 39, an elderly rehabilitation ward, was closed to admissions on December 15, health chiefs have confirmed.
This became necessary after ten patients were reported as having episodes of diarrhoea and vomiting.
A spokesman for North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust said: “Strict infection control measures were immediately implemented and these remain in place.
“In addition samples were collected and sent to the virology department at Newcastle who confirmed the presence of norovirus.”
He said a total of 21 patients were affected but, “thanks to rigorous infection control procedures,” the outbreak had been contained.
The ward reopened yesterday after a thorough cleaning operation.
South Tees hospital bosses say they haven’t had to close any wards - but they are monitoring the situation.
A spokeswoman for South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust said: “We are aware there is a lot in the community and we are keeping a close eye on things. We do have an occasional outbreak but at the moment there is no increase.”
Noroviruses are a group of viruses that are the most common cause of stomach bugs in England and Wales. They can be transmitted by contact with an infected person, by consuming contaminated food or water or by contact with contaminated surfaces or objects.


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The college offseason is much like free agency in the NFL. Instead of money, though, schools use other methods, such as program prestige, to lure high schoolers to their campuses.
When recruiting, you must carefully evaluate the individual because each one is extremely vulnerable. An immature talent can bring a whole locker room down if the school doesn't have the proper leadership in place.
Stanford is coming off a Orange Bowl win against Virginia Tech. The Cardinal still have the best quarterback in the country, Andrew Luck, and now are looking forward to their new recruits hitting the field for them.
Here are a few freshmen who will be the future of Stanford football going forward.


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Nothing wrong with keeping your options open!
As you know, Demi Lovato just got out of a six-year relationship with longtime boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama in June, so it's totally understandable that she's taking her time before diving into something serious.
Last week, rumors started swirling after the 23-year-old singer was spotted in the Big Apple on a dinner date with football player Odell Beckham Jr. at Hunt & Fish Club — and now we learn although it's "nothing serious," the new duo have been "talking about spending more time together."
Related: Mandy Moore & Wilmer Prove You Can Be Friends With Your Ex!
An insider tells People Demi had a "great time" with the 23-year-old athlete, but isn't quite ready to settle down:
"They're still talking, but it's nothing serious. She's talking to a few different people right now and enjoying being single."
Getchu some, girl!
Considering the Stone Cold songstress is currently on tour with Nick Jonas, we can't imagine there'd be much time for a full-on commitment anyway.
Happy fishing, Demi!
[Image via WENN.]
Tags: breakups, demi lovato, love line, nick jonas, odell beckham jr., wilmer valderrama

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Protein Name & Synonyms:
This PPIL3 antibody is generated from rabbits immunized with a KLH conjugated synthetic peptide between 118-146 amino acids from the C-terminal region of human PPIL3.
This gene encodes a member of the cyclophilin family. Cyclophilins catalyze the cis-trans isomerization of peptidylprolyl imide bonds in oligopeptides. They have been proposed to act either as catalysts or as molecular chaperones in protein-folding events. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.
Mouse, Rat, Chicken
PPIL3; Peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase-like 3; Cyclophilin J; Cyclophilin-like protein PPIL3; Rotamase PPIL3
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Q812D3; Q9D6L8; Q5ZLV2; NP_115861.1; NP_570981.1
Peptide Affinity Purified Rabbit Polyclonal Antibody (Pab)
Calculated Molecular Weight (Da)
|PPIL3 Antibody (C-term) (Cat# 102-13261) western blot analysis in 293 cell line lysates (35ug/lane).This demonstrates the PPIL3 antibody detected the PPIL3 protein (arrow).|
2-8°C (short-term); -20°C (long-term)

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At the blog Recovering Agnostic I came across the phrase, “… a breach in my previously impregnable certainty”. I rather like this thought – and the blogger’s honesty – that certainty, like some fortress, might be breached. Are our opinions not often like walled cities, defended at all costs? There is a humility in acknowledging that what is self-evident to ourselves might be unsustainable for another.
I am living in Chester, a city which was originally a Roman garrison, surrounded by an ancient wall; not a five minute walk from here is the place where in 1646 Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarian forces breached the wall, forcing the capitulation of the Royalist stronghold.
How fiercely I defend my ideas, and how fiercely others seek to assert their own! There’s nothing wrong with conviction – but it too easily ossifies into an impregnable citadel, or becomes the fanatic’s clarion call. Bertrand Russell said it well:
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Could we oppose tyranny without conviction? I doubt it. But conviction and purpose need not preclude doubt or self-questioning.
Voltaire noted that “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Perhaps we must find a place between doubt and certainty, a place where we permit our opponent a little dignity, without surrendering our own.

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Kitchen Call: Springtime is smelt season
Needing to pick up a few items for dinner, I headed for the big supermarket, skipping the fresh fish market. I only buy fresh fish where the counter people let me smell it before I buy. Fresh fish should smell like the ocean, bright and briny, not “fishy” at all. At home, I have little time to deal with heads, tails, bones or skin.
So as I looked over the choices, noting the high prices, I saw something reasonably priced that I hadn’t seen in awhile — smelts. Smelts are little tiny fish, so 1-1/2 to 2 pounds will feed four easily. This was going to be great! A novelty fish, homemade tartar sauce, on a big old-fashioned double-chop salad. I planned to fry the fish at the last minute to keep them hot and crispy.
Crisp is a hot food trend right now. Chefs double fry potato sticks. They add panko (Japanese bread crumbs) to strips of zucchini before sinking them in a bath of hot oil. And they compete with Colonel Sanders for crunchier coating. (In case you haven’t noticed, carbs have replaced fat as the dietary villain.)
The trick to keeping the fat quota down is a shorter oil bath, quick pan-frying rather than deep-frying, then a stop on a pile of paper towels to absorb excess oil. And smaller, thinner cuts of the food to be fried, e.g. those tiny smelts.
Smelts are in season in early springtime when their home waters rush. At night, by the light of flashlights, fishermen drop nets into the water, each carefully guarding a secret spot.
I couldn’t remember the last time I’d cooked the tiny fish. So memory was foggy. As I started to give the batch a quick rinse, I was shocked to find bones still inside! Had I been cheated? Had I missed something? What to do? First, I pulled out all my New England cookbooks and checked the indexes. Some included them, others skipped them entirely. And differences of opinion ranged from removing bones (none with directions) to eating them.
I tried all my American cookbooks, antiques and modern ones alike, and found the same. Last resort, the Internet. Same results.
It took a family member raised on the coast of Maine to remind me: Cut off the tails, if you want, but leave the bones in. Butterfly, or flatten, the fish. Dip into egg wash, and coat with cornmeal. Not the finely powdered corn flour, but nice, grainy cornmeal. That’s where you get the crunch.
Set out lengths of brown paper. Heat a neutral oil like canola or vegetable in a deep skillet, and add the smallest fish as a tester. Then you’re ready to cook! Cook in batches and never overcrowd the pan or the fish will turn out soggy. Shovel each finished batch onto a sheet pan and keep them hot in a 250F oven until they are all cooked.
Then serve them on a big platter, covered with more brown paper. Everyone messily digs into a big plate of the fish, finds the end of each backbone and it pulls out easily. Any pin bones left in the fish are softened and entirely edible.
Homemade tartar sauce is a must. Lemon wedges are nice extra touch.
BASIC FRIED SMELTS
To add a bit more crunch, I salt the fish with large grain sea salt (sometimes labeled “finishing salt”) while it drains on the brown paper. I also use tongs rather than a spatula as they don’t lift extra oil from the pan. (Note: Forks and knives optional.)
2 pounds smelts, cleaned, without heads, tails optional
3 eggs plus 2 tablespoons cold water
a few drops hot sauce, entirely optional
1-1/2 cups grainy cornmeal
salt and pepper, to taste
neutral oil for frying
Special equipment: a large, heavy, deep skillet so that they oil does not splash brown paper or paper towels.
1.Heat the oven to 250F. Make a cut down through the entire open side so that the inside is exposed and the smelts lie flat. I cut off the tails. Rinse smelts well under cold running water. Pat dry with paper towels.
2. Beat the eggs with the water in a bowl so that white and yellow are fully incorporated. If using hot sauce, add this to the mixture. Place the cornmeal in a separate bowl.
3. Dip the smelts first in the egg wash, shaking off any excess, then into the cornmeal, making sure that both sides are coated. Pat coating on, if needed.
4. Heat the oil. Add the smallest smelt to the pan. It should sizzle and turn golden brown on one side. Pick it up with tongs and turn to the other side. Once this works, add a batch to the pan, being careful to keep spaces between them to prevent sogginess. Turn, and cook on the other side. Take them out with tongs, transferring to brown paper or paper toweling to drain excess oil. Salt them right away. Transfer fish to a sheet pan and to a warm oven to keep hot. Serve as soon as the last batch is finished, nice and hot!
HOMEMADE TARTAR SAUCE
Makes about 1-1/4 cups
1 cup mayonnaise, homemade or best quality purchased
2 heaping tablespoons sweet pickle relish
2 teaspoons medium capers, drained and chopped
a few drops lemon juice
hot sauce, entirely optional, to taste
Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
Makes as many servings as you want
The idea here is to have as many colors as possible, so this list is red, orange, yellow, green and purple.
2 to 3 types of lettuce, some crunchy, some deep green
cucumbers, peeled and seeded
tiny cubes of cheddar
blanched green beans
red bell peppers
yellow bell peppers
Cut all the elements into a small dice, about 1/2-inch each, including lettuces. Toss gently. Pour on favorite vinaigrette. Toss again, very gently.
— Linda Bassett is the author of “From Apple Pie to Pad Thai: Neighborhood Cooking North of Boston.” Reach her by e-mail at email@example.com. Read Linda’s blog at LindABCooks.wordpress.com. Follow Linda for quick recipes on Twitter at @Kitchencall.

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14th January, 2010
The first six months of last year were extremely busy for me along with all of the usual culprits we moved house and organised a trip as a family to Malawi.
Within days of arriving in Malawi I felt myself relaxing, reordering my life and questioning the pace at which I live. The people around me had time, time to talk, time to listen, time to sit, and time to just be.
PICTURE: Mateusz Stachowski (www.sxc.hu)
"Intuitively it seemed to me that rest was required for my spiritual growth, for me to be formed into the image of Christ. Theologically I wanted to explore if this was indeed the case, and if it was what did that mean for all of us living busy lives with little rest?"
It is never wise to romanticise another culture’s way of existence. I knew how hard the women in the village worked just to feed their families and yet they had time. I, on the other hand, had been living ‘time poor’ and now that I had time I was a bit disquieted by it.
While there was plenty to do there were stretches of time with nothing to do. I was faced with my need to do something in order to feel like it was OK to be there. I also recognised that I had been tapping into God sporadically and ‘on the run’.
I began to wonder what impact this was having on my soul, my spirit and on those who surrounded me in my ‘normal’ life in Australia as we all rushed from one task to the next. There was little rest in my life, little time, and yet I both craved this and was a bit intimidated by it. I was also aware that without time to just sit with God I was unable to connect with Him at anything other than an extremely superficial level.
Intuitively it seemed to me that rest was required for my spiritual growth, for me to be formed into the image of Christ. Theologically I wanted to explore if this was indeed the case, and if it was what did that mean for all of us living busy lives with little rest?
Spiritual formation is the process of becoming more Christlike, of being formed into the likeness of Christ. Lawrence O Richards, in the book A Theology of Christian Education, uses the term ‘Christian education’ but describes the same process: “Christian education is concerned with life, and with the growth of eternal life within the human personality, toward likeness to the God who gives it. Christian education is concerned with the progressive transformation of the believer toward the character, values, motives attitudes and understandings of God himself.”
Rest as used in Scripture means to cease, to not work, to desist or leave off. It usually has connotations of refreshment, stillness and often repose. The term rest is strongly linked to Sabbath in Scripture as Sabbath was to be a day of rest for the people of God. As Eugene Peterson, author of The Message, writes in his 1987 book Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity: “Sabbath means quit. Stop. Take a break. Cool it. The word itself has nothing devout or holy in it. It is a word about time, denoting our non-use of it, what we call wasting time.”
Rest and Sabbath
When I originally determined to write on rest I had no intention of writing on Sabbath. Yet theologically these two are synonyms. Sabbath is rest. The words used in scripture have similar meanings though Sabbath is generally used to specify a particular ordinance. It is therefore not possible to talk about rest theologically without speaking of Sabbath, God’s command in the Old Testament to rest.
Rest in Scripture
‘Rest’ and ‘Sabbath’ are frequently referred to in Scripture. The first time rest is referred to is in Genesis and it is of God Himself and the rest He chose on the seventh day after creation (Genesis 2: 2 NIV). Yet it must be noted that this act of rest was not, according to Denise Daniels, a “stay from exhaustion”. In a 2004 article in the Journal of Psychology and Theology, she writes that instead it indicates “God’s autonomous choice not to be subject to his creation but ruler over it.”
In Exodus we find that the Sabbath is the fourth command of the Decalogue (Exodus 20: 8). As in the commandment against idolatry, the Sabbath contains a reason for the giving of this law. Further on in Exodus (31: 12-17) the Sabbath is described in terms of a sign, a covenant between God and His people.
In Deuteronomy the Sabbath is spoken of as a reminder of the freedom that the people of God now have after centuries of slavery. (Deuteuronomy 5: 1-21) It marks an intention that the people of Israel be relieved, according to HHP Dressler, “of their daily occupational work for one day in seven in which they could worship God and refresh their bodies.”
Rest is spoken of numerous times in the Psalms. In Psalm 46: 10 the people of God are implored to “be still and know that I am God” and in Psalm 62 rest in mentioned repeatedly, rest in God and only God. The word here means stillness, silence, cease.
In Mathew 11: 28 Jesus says that He will give rest to those who come to Him. The word rest here literally means to repose and by implication to refresh. The writer of Hebrews speaks of rest again literally translated as repose, a rest we follow God’s example in, a rest that is now linked to salvation. James KA Smith, in Working at Rest, describes this as an invitation to participate in the life of God. He asserts that this is much more than “an abstention from our doing; it is also an entrance into Gods rest.” There is an eternal and future component to the rest referred to in the New Testament but there is also a sense from the writer of Hebrews that is it something we can also enter ‘today’.
Jesus and rest
There is no doubt that the way Jesus viewed the Sabbath was markedly different to many of the religious leaders of the time. Jesus claim that the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2: 27) not only challenged the thinking of the day but teaches us now. As Don Carson asserts, “Jesus is not suggesting that every individual is free to use or abuse the Sabbath as He sees fit but that Sabbath observance in the Old Testament was a beneficial privilege not a mere legal point-an end in itself as the Pharisees seem to think”. Jesus also declared Himself Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12: 8).
Jesus modelled for us practices of Sabbath and rest, according to Marva J Dawn – author of the 1989 book Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting, “by his frequent times of solitary and intimate conversation with his Father as well as by his habitual participation in Jewish corporate worship and festival celebrations.” Jesus recognised the need for rest both of a physical kind (Mark 6: 31) and also of a more deeply rooted variety (Matthew 11: 28-30).
Jesus time on earth was limited and He knew that it would be yet He took time to celebrate corporately, sit prayerfully and rest. If He who had so much riding on His mission had the time to rest then how can we believe that we do not?
PART II - FINDING REST?
22nd January, 2010
Why did God require the Sabbath?
The Sabbath was a sign of God’s covenant with the people of Israel and it was a reminder that they were valued by Him. The Deuteronomy passage (5: 1-21) in particular reminds us that God knows our need for rest physically and that we are always more to Him than what we produce. “The moment we begin to see others in terms of what they can do rather than who they are,” says Eugene Peterson. “We mutilate humanity and violate community.”
PICTURE: Cristina Nichitus (www.sxc.hu)
"Whether God requires rest of us or intends rest for us, it would appear that He knows that we need rest."
HHP Dressler asserts in an 1982 article – The Sabbath in the Old Testament, that the Sabbath is motivated by both religious and social concerns: “First of all the Sabbath was introduced to remind the people of Israel of a divine timetable. This timetable, the seven day week, is to be followed on earth. This is followed by a social concern; workers need a period of regular rest, which is provided for everybody-animals, servants and aliens.”
But, as Dressler notes, “the Sabbath is more than an imitation of a divine pattern or an expression of social concern; it is a sign, a “perpetual covenant” between God and His people. It is a spiritual holy day, a day that refreshes both soul and body. The Sabbath was a sign that the Israelites were God’s people set apart and made holy by Him.
Is the Sabbath required today?
As noted earlier, any theological discussion of rest will require analysis of Sabbath. There is much disagreement among authors as to whether God still commands Sabbath. While lengthy discussion of this issue is not the purpose of this article, it is worth noting that there are varying opinions regarding this. This relates to any discussion on rest because of the relationship between rest and Sabbath in Scripture. Some authors believe that we are commanded to rest and others believe that God intends for us to have rest, we need to understand what God would require of us today.
Peterson believes that rest is commanded: “But this is why the Sabbath is commanded and not just suggested for nothing less than a command has the power too intervene in the vicious , accelerating, self-perpetuating cycle of faithless and graceless busyness, the only part of which we are conscious being our good intentions. “
Others believe that God intends for us to have rest but that it is no longer commanded for us to do so. “Everyone including Jesus would agree that human beings need rest, but that observation must not be used to introduce the notion that the mosaic Sabbath was therefore moral law,” writes DA Carson in the article, Jesus and the Sabbath in the Four Gospels.
AT Lincoln, in an article looking at the Sabbath from a Biblical and theological standpoint, states that the “New Testament does reinterpret the category of literal Sabbath rest and this must be given priority in hermeneutical considerations”. He asserts that while the commands to Israel about the Sabbath are no longer binding they do remain instructive about “God’s concern for his people’s physical rest. If God commanded his people to rest every seven days back in the Old Testament and it was considered valuable is it not likely that such regular rest will be just as valuable today?”
Lincoln notes further that when considering the significance of ‘the Lord’s day”, Sunday, problems arise when we relate it to the Old Testament Sabbath, which many do. “In the history of the church many Christians have virtually equated the Lord’s Day with the Sabbath and have therefore based their observance of the day on an application of the regulations of the fourth commandment to the first day of the week.”
He asserts, however, that the Sabbath that the New Testament people of God must observe is to enter God’s rest and thereby cease from ones own works. “Therefore the New Testament people of God discharge their duty of Sabbath observance , according to this writer, by exercising faith…They cease from their own works so that God may work in them.” Whether God requires rest of us or intends rest for us, it would appear that He knows that we need rest. A number of authors use the term Sabbath rest to denote the type of rest that is used in Scripture from this point on in this article, the term Sabbath rest will be used.
The Intention of Sabbath
While there is debate among authors and scholars as to whether Sabbath is required or intended, there is little dispute amongst scholars that Sabbath is needed, that rest is needed. Can this rest simply take any form? Is Sabbath rest different to other rest?
Eugene Peterson argues that Sabbath needs to be understood Biblically not culturally. He asserts that a widespread misunderstanding of Sabbath “trivialises it by designating it a ‘day off’. Sabbath is not a day off …A day off is a bastard Sabbath.” While Peterson acknowledges that days off are beneficial He asserts that these are ‘secularised’ Sabbaths. N Suen, in the 2007 text Sabbath: Making space for God and Life, also asserts that the Sabbath is “not to be confused with a day off. Rather it is a day on. It is the day when we practice being fully alive in the life God created us to live. Enjoying the things God gives us for pleasure.”
"One of the primary intentions of Sabbath is that we begin to recognise the Biblical Genesis rhythm of work and rest."
One of the primary intentions of Sabbath is that we begin to recognise the Biblical Genesis rhythm of work and rest. Peterson talks about the evening-morning sequence in the creation account (Genesis 1:3-31) and the reminder that this account gives us that while we sleep God is already at work and that when we wake we join Him in what He has been doing.
Potentially even more important is the recognition that when we stop working “nothing essential stops”. This rest allows us to recognise that we are not ‘god’. “The Sabbath is the antidote to the pressures of a self-made world which compels us to empire build, hoard and trample for our own survival,” says Suen.
Sabbath gives us the great gift of rest, of not striving, of leaving it all to God and considering who He is and what He has done. It gives us the time to attend to Him. Sabbath also allows us to refocus on the things that are important – accordingt to Suen - “our faith, people we love, play and leisure that keeps us creative and human.”
Dressler, meanwhile, describes the deprivation mentality that arose amongst the Israelites - one that seems also to have infiltrated the thinking of many believers today: “Instead of understanding it to be their privilege to rest on the Sabbath they viewed it as deprivation, instead of recognising their opportunity to commune with God, they saw only inconvenience and hardship. Rather than discovering freedom to worship, they felt in bondage to a law, and instead of grasping the idea of renewal of their covenant relationship to God, they experienced the tragedy of legalism. “
Why turn such a precious gift into deprivation? Why see something so valuable as a burden? Could it be that in our driven world what we fear more than anything is to be left behind? To be less productive than others, if our worth is tied to our productivity and so called success the prices of a days rest is high indeed. Yet if we are to order our lives around God and His values how essential a gift this is.
PART III - FINDING REST?
4th February, 2010
Both scholars who believe that the Sabbath is still mandatory and those who don’t, generally agree that a need for rest is Biblical. While there is much debate as to whether this needs to occur on a Sunday, another given day, or intermittently throughout the week, most authors believe that Sabbath rest is important. A. T. Lincoln asserts that the scriptural principle of Sabbath suggests that we should take regular rest and that this “rest can be any day or extended part of a day, including Sunday".
While I personally agree with Lincoln, I would also assert that it not helpful to get ‘stuck’ on when rest should occur rather that it is essential that it does. As Gordon McDonald has noted in the book Ordering Your Private World, we are in great need of rest. We need rest because we live in a cultural value system that idolises productivity. He states that while he does not believe that productivity is wrong, to idolise it is. “Sabbath rest penetrates to the deepest levels of fatigue in the inner, private world. This fatigue is rarely touched by any of the modern amusements.”
ALWAYS IN A RUSH: What do our busy lifestyles tells us about ourselves - and our relationship with God? PICTURE: James Farmer (www.sxc.hu) Cropped.
"What is essential to Sabbath rest is that nothing is ‘achieved’. Even much of our leisure is still inadvertently about performance. And while these forms of recreation may be important for life balance, they are not Sabbath rest in the truest sense. We have leisure but not rest."
Wayne Muller assertsin the 1999 book
Sabbath Rest: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest that our lack of rest bears consequence on others. “Our lack of rest and reflection are not just a personal affliction. It colours the way we build and sustain community, it dictates the way we respond to suffering and it shapes the ways in which we seek peace and healing in the world."
What is Sabbath rest and what does it require? To cease working, unproductive time.
"The only way to stop our chronic need to work in our own way and with our own sense of hurry is to stop, to cease, to spend time immersed in God’s enfolding devotion to us and in the triune provision of whatever we need in order to do the work God really wants us to do in God’s manner and cadence," writes Marva J Dawn
in Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting .
Yet, as Eugene Peterson has noted, entering into ‘empty non-functional time’ is difficult and requires protection, for ‘we have been taught that time is money.’ It is not helpful to become overly prescriptive about how rest needs to happen. “We don’t have rules for preserving the sanctity of the day, only the commitment that it be set apart for being, not using. Not a day to get anything done but a day to watch and be responsive to what God has done.”
As McDonald asserts there is no need for legalism rather we need to accept this gift: "Frankly, I think some have destroyed the joy of the Sabbath as did the Pharisees by surrounding it with prescriptive laws and precedents. That is not our Sabbath. Our Sabbath was given for us, given to us by God. Its purpose is worship and restoration and whatever it takes to make that happen we will do."
What is essential to Sabbath rest is that nothing is ‘achieved’. Even much of our leisure is still inadvertently about performance. And while these forms of recreation may be important for life balance, they are not Sabbath rest in the truest sense. We have leisure but not rest.
The key components of this unproductive time are prayer and recreation. Peterson asserts that the two reasons given for Sabbath in Exodus and Deuteronomy develop into these parallel Sabbath activities. Dawn, meanwhile, asserts that there is a “tremendously deep need for play” within our society and that freedom to play is a direct result of stopping work". Sabbath rest also enables us to experience both solitude and community. She asserts that this is where a great part of the emotional healing of the Sabbath lies. As we all need “silent spaces, times for reflection and meditation” and we also need “communal interaction”.
Sabbath rest allows us the time to reflect on what God is doing and also on why we do what we do. “True rest is happening when we pause regularly amidst daily routines to sort out the truths and commitments by which we are living," notes McDonald.
Yet such rest is deeply counter-cultural and even deeply disturbing for those who are living by the agenda that says ‘you are what you do’. Sabbath keeping, in this sense, is challenging and counter-cultural. As Richard. Swenson asserts in the 2004 text Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives: "A Biblically authentic and balanced life will include time to be still, to remember, to meditate, and to delight in who He is and what He has made. But a large obstacle stands in the way. There is no glory in rest. No social acclaim. We are never a hero because we rest. We can only be still and wait upon the Lord."
Dawn asserts that we need an “intellectual overhaul weekly-otherwise we get more and more entrapped in the thinking patterns of the world.” She believes that Sabbath enables this as it is time when we cease not only from work but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation and finally from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the centre of it all.
"There is a driveness about our existence, a pace, a lack of rest. Even a scorning of rest. There seems to be a deep seated desire, even need, to be productive."
There is the heart of the matter. Sabbath enables us to place God back at the centre and stops us living as though we were ‘god’. It is our weekly or even daily reminder that we are not ‘indispensable” that Yahweh is indeed God. When we give up the busyness that is the characteristic of so many lives we begin to see, according to Dawn, “ourselves as God's saints called to an alternative lifestyle dwelling in grace and responding with non-frenzied ease.” We can begin to view time as a gift rather than just an exploitable commodity. We can also begin to recognise ourselves as dearly beloved children of the most high God, loved for who we are not just what we do.
“This is what we celebrate on the Sabbath day," writes Dawn. "We join the generations of believers - going all the way back to God’s people the Jews - who set aside a day to remember that we are precious and honoured in God’s sight and loved, profoundly loved, not because of what we produce.” Which in turn allows us to love others in the same grace filled way or, according again to Dawn, “To celebrate God’s love on our Sabbaths also transforms us so that we can more deeply value others in the same way.”
Most of the people I know both within and outside of church have very full lives, busy lives. Why are our lives so busy? As Swenson asserts, we have more time saving devices that at any other time in history yet those in the West seem to be more ‘time poor’ than at any other time in history. There is a driveness about our existence, a pace, a lack of rest. Even a scorning of rest. There seems to be a deep seated desire, even need, to be productive. What is concerning about this is that it has become tied to our worth; many of us have believed the world when it has told us that we are as valuable as what we can produce and achieve.
There is a strong message in our consumerist culture that in order to be successful we must be productive and as Muller says, this means that we must have ‘more’: "In our drive for success we are seduced by the promises of more: more money, more recognition, more satisfaction, more love, and more information, more influence more possessions, more security. Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere - even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others - the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others."
Many of us have so bought into this value system that we are almost proud of being so busy, of having no time to rest, play and pray. Muller again: "We say this to each other with no small degree of pride, as if our exhaustion were a trophy, our ability to withstand stress a mark of real character. The busier we are the more important we seem to ourselves and we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family to be unable to find time for the sunset, to whiz through our obligations without time for a single, mindful breath, this has become a model of a successful life."
This need to accomplish leads to what Dawn describes as an “a terrible frenzy about time". Peterson quotes one critic as noting that “most of us have taxi-meters for brains, ticking away, translating time and space into money.” Such busyness, such emphasis on productivity and success flies in the face of the ‘unproductive time’ that God calls us to in Sabbath rest.
Peterson, when asked in an interview how busyness affects our spiritual lives, asserted that “busyness is the enemy of spirituality. It is essentially laziness. It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing. It is filling our time with our own actions instead of paying attention to God’s actions. It is taking charge.” Maybe this taking charge, this desire to be in control, productive, successful, points to a deep-seated concern spiritually.
"Our busyness prevents us from attending to God, allowing Him to set the agenda, and having our lives disrupted by His priorities."
Peterson goes on to state that “It is an either/or situation. Busyness has nothing to do with activity, and spirituality is not the absence of activity. You either enter into what God is doing or you don’t. A busy person is a lazy person because they are not doing what they are supposed to do.” What are we supposed to be doing? Allowing God to be central in our lives, allowing, God to be God.
Augustine’s pondering on His own condition is possibly the most confronting of all when read with the frenzied pace of the West in mind: "I wonder if I immerse myself in a hundred and one Christian projects precisely in order to forget that I don’t desire God all that much. Sometimes all our work and busyness undertaken with the passion of a ‘vocation’ is just a cover for the fact that we prefer the comfort of ministry pursuits instead of the disruptive encounter with the Triune God. Our mundane busyness can be a symptom of a spiritual restlessness-a symptom of our own disbelief and disobedience which would prevent us from entering God’s rest."
Our busyness prevents us from attending to God, allowing Him to set the agenda, and having our lives disrupted by His priorities.
PART IV - FINDING REST?
20th February, 2010
Rest and spiritual formation
Author Calvin Miller stresses that intimacy with God cannot be rushed, that we cannot enjoy the presence of God if we are always looking at our watches. If spiritual formation is being made into the likeness of Christ, being transformed, then this will require intimacy with God. There are no short cuts to intimacy either in human relationships or in relationship with Yahweh; it takes time, unhurried time, focused, deliberate time. The kind of time that Sabbath rest creates and the busyness of our world destroys. “Time itself must be surrendered to the pursuit of the depths of God," notes Miller. "God does not wear a watch. His unthinkable glory is learned only in our time consuming communion with Him.”
TIME OUT: Spending time 'resting with Christ' helps us to become more like Him.. PICTURE: Rodolfo Belloli (www.sxc.hu)
"Because Sabbath rest requires an abstinence of activity that is ‘productive’ it is a reminder of who is truly in charge, who is actually ‘god’."
God at the centre
Sabbath rest enables a re-assessing, a re-ordering of life around the priorities of God. As stated earlier it allows us to step away from the mindset of the world and seek after the King and His values. As James KA Smith has asserted in his book Working At Rest, entering God's rest is not therefore a matter of doing nothing, “it is a matter of desiring the right things, and then ordering our activities in light of that desire. When our desire is ordered to and by the love and grace of God, our autonomous desires to make our mark begin to look empty, even silly.”
Marva J. Dawn sums it up this way: "Our spirit becomes more unified when our relationship with God is the centre and focus of our lives and all other aspects find their proper priorities in the worship of the Lord. Our bodies are sounder when we enjoy a rhythm of fasting and feasting, when we truly rest by giving up the burden of possessions, when we have time for naps. Our souls are more complete when we can get in touch with our deepest emotions, our true sexuality, our creativity, our senses of delight and play. Our minds become more robust when the narratives or our heritage as Gods people remind us of our redemption and when, as a result, our attitudes are made more wholesome and our freedom leads to the generating of new ideas."
Because Sabbath rest requires an abstinence of activity that is ‘productive’ it is a reminder of who is truly in charge, who is actually ‘god’. As Dawn has noted in our culture that places enormous importance on work productivity our “weekly ceasing reminds us that the value of work lies not in itself nor in the worth it gives us but in the worship of God that takes place in it.” This requires a degree of trust as Smith has noted. He has asserted that to choose not to enter Sabbath rest “would be to refuse this gift of rest by retaining our own frenzied confidence in human effort-trusting in our own labours rather than God’s grace.” It is often during the times when we choose to not ‘do very much’ that other important things have the time and space to take place. “I forget that more important things are happening in me as God works to change my character and transform me into His likeness," writes Dawn. "If I am worried about my productivity I usually miss the lessons He is allowing me to experience so that I can be changed.” She asserts that when we rest it enables “God to be God” in our lives.
Time to attend to God
If we are to become like Christ, then we must take time to be with Him. As Miller has noted: “The clock belongs to Christ, and each tick summons us to surrender every second to the glory of His name.” Yet all too often our experience is different to this as we find ourselves as, according again to Miller, “a hassled fellowship of disciples who serve the clock and call it God.” To hear from God, to make Him our centre requires our time, unhurried time.
Eugene Peterson stresses the need for this and asserts that we need to "respond with reverent prayer to the demand of God for our attention, to listen to Him, to take Him seriously in the actual circumstances of this calendar day, at this street address... This is a kind of attentiveness that we know from instruction and experience can be entered into only slowly and deliberately. There is a large, leisurely centre to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed. This demand is not for prayer on the run or prayer on request. It means entering realms of spirit where wonder and adoration have space to develop, where play and delight have time to flourish."
Only Sabbath rest can create this time, this time cannot take place on the run. As Peterson has noted, Sabbath rest quiets “the internal noise so we hear the still small voice of our Lord.” He goes on to say that “At regular intervals we all need to quit our work and contemplate his work, quit talking to each other and listen to Him. God knows we need this and has given us a means in Sabbath-a day for praying and playing, simply enjoying what He is.”
The recognition that Sabbath rest gives us of our ‘place’ in the world as dearly beloved children who are not in fact ‘god’ and the time it gives us to hear from Yahweh lead to our transformation. They give us a Kingdom perspective and enable us to disentangle from the values of the world and embrace the values of the Kingdom.
"To be formed in the likeness of Christ requires time, unhurried time, the type of time that Sabbath rest gives us."
“Sabbath: uncluttered time and space to distance ourselves from the frenzy of our own activities so that we can see what God has been and is doing," writes Peterson. "If we do not regularly quit work for one day a week we take ourselves far too seriously. The moral sweat pouring off our brows blinds us to the primal action of God in and around us."
Dawn has called Sabbath rest holy time as it allows us to focus on God without distraction. This allows the Spirit to come with and renew us, transforming our thinking “from the inside into new patterns in line with the perfect wisdom of God.” She has noted that this sets us free and allows us to be more fully the people He has made us to be. “The gift of Sabbath rest gives us time “to ponder God’s truth instead of our work, to notice Gods creations of beauty and to relish Gods goodness in our closest relationships. After a beautiful Sabbath of intellectual rest we will know ourselves more truly and can pursue paths more closely attuned to Gods own righteousness.” Sabbath rest transforms us.
Rest is an essential part of spiritual formation. To be formed in the likeness of Christ requires time, unhurried time, the type of time that Sabbath rest gives us. Sabbath rest enables this formation to take place by allowing us to step back from busy, performance orientated lives and place God back at the centre. It gives us the time and space to attend to God and what He is doing, to focus of His priorities and the people He has placed in our lives. Sabbath rest characterised by prayer and playfulness enables Yahweh to transform our lives and firmly acknowledges that He is God and we are not.
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Belgian international feels his penalty save against Stoke immediately endeared him to fans.
Simon Mignolet feels that the fact he has not yet conceded a goal in Liverpool’s Premier League campaign has acted as a huge confidence booster.
After keeping Liverpool in the game with a late penalty save against Stoke, the keeper believes that his performance against the Potters has been key to the positive start to his Anfield career.
Speaking to the club website he said: “Obviously if you do that in your first game as a Liverpool player in the Premier League, you’re very happy.
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Throughout the investigation into the 9-11 terror attack on the US facility in Benghazi, the question has often been asked, “Why didn’t this consulate have the same security that every other US consulate has?” Well, we have our answer, and it makes the Hillary Clinton State Department look very bad indeed.
Here’s the video:
The fact that we are only finding this out now is just further evidence that the Obama administration has been hiding information from Congressional investigators since day 1.
If this is true, this is huge. A former State Department diplomat has come forward alleging that confidants of Hillary Clinton separated out incriminating Benghazi documents before the Accountability Review Board could investigate.
From Daily Signal:
As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to “separate” damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
According to former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell, the after-hours session took place over a weekend in a basement operations-type center at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. This is the first time Maxwell has publicly come forward with the story.
At the time, Maxwell was a leader in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which was charged with collecting emails and documents relevant to the Benghazi probe.
“I was not invited to that after-hours endeavor, but I heard about it and decided to check it out on a Sunday afternoon,” Maxwell says.
He didn’t know it then, but Maxwell would ultimately become one of four State Department officials singled out for discipline—he says scapegoated—then later cleared for devastating security lapses leading up to the attacks.
Obviously, Hillary will deny this but if the witness is credible, and he seems to be, even those on the left might begin looking at the Benghazi cover-up as a real scandal.
One of the sad realities of this date in the Obama age is that we now have not one but two terrorist attacks to commemorate. For the 2012 attack on Benghazi, we still have very few answers and a defiant White House who refuses to give any straight information.
Today, we remember the Americans who lost their lives when the White House turned their backs on them.
Ambassador Chris Stevens
We will continue to pursue the answers to why these four Americans were abandoned while they were under attack and why the Obama administration lied about it in the days after.
Greta Van Susteren claims the White House contacted her to discourage a reporter from covering Benghazi.
Bill Whittle. He’s fantastic as usual. This one is full of head shaking information about how President Obama delayed the rescue mission to save kidnapped journalist James Foley for more than 30 days. His reason, according to his advisors? He didn’t want to be “Carterized.” Well, he’s worse than a Carter. Obama is a coward.
Here’s the video:
What happened after the failed rescue mission is even more shocking. Obama revealed classified information to the enemy and once again failed to rescue Steven Sotloff.
The full interview isn’t out yet, but three US security contractors with the CIA are finally telling their story to the public. In this advance clip, the team tells Bret Baier that they were ordered to stand down 3 times.
Finally, they actually defied orders in a last ditch effort to save Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith, but it was already too late.
Here’s the video:
It still remains to be told who actually gave the stand down order. Did that call come from the State Department in Washington, the CIA, the Pentagon, or the White House?
With the anniversary of September 11 coming up, this certainly doesn’t fill me with much comfort.
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Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa.
Intelligence reports of the stolen jetliners were distributed within the U.S. government over the past two weeks and included a warning that one or more of the aircraft could be used in an attack later this month on the date marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against New York and Washington, said U.S. officials familiar with the reports.
“There are a number of commercial airliners in Libya that are missing,” said one official. “We found out on September 11 what can happen with hijacked planes.”
The official said the aircraft are a serious counterterrorism concern because reports of terrorist control over the Libyan airliners come three weeks before the 13th anniversary of 9/11 attacks and the second anniversary of the Libyan terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the Benghazi attack, which the Obama administration initially said was the result of a spontaneous demonstration against an anti-Muslim video.
Obama won’t be able to call this one a “spontaneous airplane crash.” That’s still not much comfort.
I’m not sure if this is something we should laugh or cry about, but you have to admire Jason Mattera’s audacity.
Here’s the video:
Mattera: “If you could make it out to Christopher Stevens, I think you knew him.”
Clinton: “Yeah, I’m not gonna make it out to Chris Stevens.”
Mattera: “What difference does it make?”
Man, the use of her own words against her is just brutal. If she ends up running in 2016, Hillary will face that line over and over again as a bludgeon against her credibility.
Fox’s James Rosen grilled State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki yesterday when she gave hollow answers as to why it took the US government so long to capture Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala who wasn’t taking great efforts to hide himself.
here’s the video:
Since the attack on Benghazi, it was very clear that Ahmed Abu Khattala wasn’t trying to hide. He gave interviews to multiple press outlets including to the New York Times and CNN. Each time, his interview was held in a public space with very little security.
The only reason the Obama administration chose to pick him up yesterday is that they desperately needed a distraction from all the other issues they’re facing.
Hillary “What Difference Does it Make” Clinton continues to assert that the ridiculous “Innocence of Muslims” video was at least partially responsible for the attack at Benghazi.
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This has, of course, been thoroughly discredited multiple times. The attacks on the US facilities in Benghazi was planned in advance by terrorists, and in no way a spontaneous response to a stupid YouTube video.
Here’s the left’s manufactured outrage du jour.
When a Heritage foundation on the topic of the Benghazi attack opened the floor to questions, law student and American Muslim Saba Ahmed used the opportunity to ask a loaded question about the supposed American portrayal of “all Islam and Muslims as bad.”
Here’s the video. I know it’s a bit long, but the full context and response from the panelists is important.
Notice first that the panel and the audience was quite welcoming to Ahmed and her question, even laughing along when she said she joked that she is the current leader of the Islamic peace movement. Also notice that multiple panel members directly addressed her assumption that Americans think “all Muslims are bad” as misleading. Notice that the audience applauded Ahmed at the end.
Now, let’s dig into Bridgett Gabriel’s fiery answer!
Here’s how the Blaze summed it up:
After a response from Frank Gaffney, Gabriel began by thanking Ahmed for the question. Then she launched into a heated explanation of why radical Islam matters, even if the majority of Muslims are peaceful.
“There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world today – of course not all of them are radicals!” Gabriel said. “The majority of them are peaceful people. The radicals are estimated to be between 15 to 25 percent. … But when you look at 15 to 25 percent of the world Muslim population, you’re looking at 180 million to 300 million people dedicated to the destruction of western civilization. That is as big as the United States. So why should we worry about the radical 15 to 25 percent? Because it is the radicals that kill. Because it is the radicals that behead and massacre.”
Gabriel continued to note that the majority of Germans, Russians, Chinese, and Japanese in the 20th century were peaceful people, but the radicals in charge massacred tens of millions of people.
“The peaceful majority were irrelevant,” Gabriel said repeatedly.
“I’m glad you’re here, but where are the others speaking out?” Gabriel asked, before being drowned out by a round of applause. “As an American citizen, you sat in this room and instead of standing up and [asking] something about our four Americans that died [in Benghazi] and what our government is doing to correct the problem, you stood there to make a point about peaceful, moderate Muslims.”
What Gabriel said here about the peaceful majority is the truth. So long as the majority are silent and do not take action en masse against the violent radicals, they are irrelevant to any discussion about radical Islam. It goes without saying that not every Muslim is a terrible person. Of course not every Muslim is a terrible person. However, when the minority represent a number as large as the population as the entire United States, the violent, radical minority will be the primary relevant piece of the conversation.
Take a look at how the liberal media is portraying this exchange:
Instead of simply reporting the truth, liberal media outlets today from Media Matters to the Washington Post are calling the exchange at the Heritage meeting “ugly” and “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.” It is none of the above. The exchange was emotional and truthful, and no amount of phony outrage can change that.
It’s about time. A rare bit of good news from an otherwise bleak forecast in the Middle East.
U.S. Special Operations forces captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in a secret raid in Libya over the weekend, the first time one of the accused perpetrators of the 2012 assault has been apprehended, according to U.S. officials.
The officials said Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured Sunday near Benghazi by American troops, working alongside the FBI, following months of planning, and was now in U.S. custody “in a secure location outside Libya.” The officials said there were no casualties in the operation, and that all U.S. personnel involved have safely left Libya.
Khattala’s apprehension is a major victory for the Obama administration, which has been criticized for having failed so far to bring those responsible for the Benghazi attacks to justice.
I don’t want to minimize the importance of this development, but I feel it important to point out that this capture does not absolve the Obama administration of its responsibility in the events leading up to the attack on Benghazi. It also doesn’t excuse the continued coverup of the investigation. The White House maintains a stone wall of lies and misinformation and has refused to fully cooperate with any investigation into the matter.
There is shocking new information tonight regarding the 9-11 attack on the US facilities in Benghazi. The CIA listened in on phone calls made by the attackers using State Department cell phones to terrorist leaders during the attack.
The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the Obama administration knew early on that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry, as the administration claimed for several weeks after the attacks.
Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military base in Ramstein, Germany.
In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks, because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier: “Right after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA] safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers’ higher ups.”
A separate U.S. official, one with intimate details of the bloody events of that night, confirmed the major’s assertion. The second source, who requested anonymity to discuss classified data, told Fox News he had personally read the intelligence reports at the time that contained references to calls by terrorists – using State Department cell phones captured at the consulate during the battle – to their terrorist leaders. The second source also confirmed that the security teams on the ground received this intelligence in real time.
This revelation goes to show that there is still much to be uncovered about what really was going on in Benghazi before, during, and after the attack. The Obama administration still hasn’t even answered the question as to why we were there in the first place.
The lengths the Obama administration has gone to cover up the truth is astounding.
In her interview with ABC’s Dianne Sawyer, Hillary Clinton claimed that Benghazi was “another reason for her to run for President,” claiming that she’s tired of the “distractions” and “minor league” politics from Congress.
Rubio responded to her comments and appropriately slammed her for claiming the deaths of 4 Americans is “minor league.”
Here’s the video:
from Hot Air:
When asked if there was anything she could have personally done to ensure that those over whom she had responsibility could have been offered better protection, she said that there was not. “I’m not equipped to sit and look at blueprints, to determine where the blast walls need to be or where the reinforcements need to be,” Clinton said. “That’s why we hire people who have that expertise.”
Asked to respond to those comments on Tuesday on CBS News’ This Morning, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) exploited the obvious opening that Clinton’s strategy has created. Coldly, soberly, dispassionately, Rubio charged Clinton with an insufficient concern about threats to American national security.
“The State Department had at its disposal a steady stream of reporting about how dangerous – how much danger that facility in Benghazi was in,” Rubio began. “It is a fact they did not take sufficient security measures, and it is a fact that perhaps it shouldn’t have even been there, and it is a fact it should not have been there and it is a fact they did not have an extraction plan in place that was sufficient.”
“If she thinks it’s something we shouldn’t focus on, then perhaps that gives insight as to why it happened in the first place,” Rubio added, delivering the coup de grâce.
Because of her cavalier dismissal of Benghazi as a petty issue, opponents will be able to pound home the grave nature of 4 dead Americans for the entire campaign.
Marco Rubio just laid out the template for campaigning against Clinton, and that’s to correctly point out that she just doesn’t care.


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Pandell Acquires Jobutrax Field Ticketing Solution
Pandell Technology Corporation, a pioneer of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to the energy industry, announced today that it has acquired Jobutrax, a web-based oilfield field ticketing solution. The acquisition includes the software product, its associated resource team, and a growing customer base of oilfield service companies in Canada and the United States. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the purchase was described as an all cash transaction.
Jobutrax enables oilfield services personnel to quickly create field tickets using their mobile devices. The application auto-populates employee, equipment, pricing, materials, and service items, to speed up the process of creating a ticket and its associated invoice. Field tickets are then available online to oil and gas producers, where they can be reviewed and approved in real time.
“We’re thrilled with the opportunity to extend the Jobutrax solution to Pandell’s client base,” says Mark Hewitt, President of Jobutrax. “Integrating our field ticket automation with Pandell’s AP invoice automation and AFE tracking systems will streamline the billing process right from the field to the head office. This will help lower operating costs for everyone.”
“Jobutrax is an exciting addition to our suite of oil and gas software solutions,” says Greg Chudiak, Pandell’s President and CEO. “With it, we’ll be able to provide greater value to our E&P clients through an end-to-end integrated process that covers field ticketing, AP invoicing, AFE tracking, and accounting.” With more than 450 energy companies using Pandell’s software applications today, this acquisition further solidifies Pandell’s market position as the leading provider of integrated financial, operations, and land solutions to the energy industry.
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Every superhero out there deserves eventual retirement, and that includes Diego the tortoise. The libidinous giant tortoise has dedicated several years of sexual services to a breeding program in the Galapagos Islands, in which Diego took part in to help re-populate his species. After 15 years, he's saying goodbye to live out the remainder of his years in his natural environment, which is located on an uninhabited island off Ecuador called Española.
"Fifteen tortoises from Española, including Diego, are going home after decades of breeding in captivity and saving their species from extinction," wrote Paulo Proaño Andrade, Ecuador's environment minister in a tweet, which has been translated from Spanish to English. "Their island receives them with open arms."
Ladies, Diego is finally making his way home.
Some might say Diego is a sex god among his species.
Diego weighs about approximately 175 pounds, measures at about 35 inches long, and stands at around five feet tall, if he stretches his legs and neck, according to The Gu


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A Commonwealth Observer Group has arrived in Maldives to witness the proceedings of the 2013 Presidential Elections, and assess the transparency and credibility of pre- and post- election activities.
The 17 male and female observers come from Europe, North America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, with experience in politics, elections execution, diplomacy, and civil society. They will be traveling to nine atolls later this week for the September 7 election.
Group Chair and former Prime Minister of Malta Dr Lawrence Gonzi addressed the press today regarding the Commonwealth Group’s activities and intentions.
“Our task is to consider all the factors impinging on the credibility of the electoral process as a whole, and to assess whether the election is conducted according to the standards for democratic elections to which Maldives has committed itself, with reference to its own election legislation as well as relevant regional, Commonwealth and other international commitments,” Dr Gonzi said in a statement.
Gonzi specified that the group would consider “whether conditions exist for free and competitive elections; whether the Elections Commission is independent and effective; the transparency of the process; whether candidates have been free to campaign; whether public media has been impartial; whether voters are free to express their will; and whether the results process is transparent.”
He added that the group would be neutral, impartial, objective and independent in its activities and assessment.
“We are here in our individual capacities as eminent and experienced Commonwealth citizens. The assessment by the Group will be its own and not that of any member government,” Gonzi said.
The group has had informational meetings with representatives of the presidential candidates as well as the Elections Commission and other key stakeholders, and will continue to meet with these figures and relevant civil society organisations and NGOs, Gonzi noted.
He deflected questions about initial observations or concerns, however he did acknowledge that “there are issues related to procedures and processes.”
Earlier this week, Transparency International released its oversight plan for the 2013 elections proceedings, and Indian election observers arrived in Maldives. The United Nations has also announced that it will be sending an observer group to the country.
The Commonwealth Group said that it will be working cooperatively with these groups to gather information from all atolls and voting sites, “but we do have our own methods and tasks as mandated by the [Commonwealth] Secretary General.”
Observation of the Maldives’ first multi-party elections in 2008 and 2009 was conducted by Transparency Maldives, the Commonwealth Observer Group, and the Delegation of the European Commission to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Domestic observation was supported by the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands, the Canadian International Development Agency, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). Transparency International’s report on the election noted that restrictions on accessibility to polling stations according to type of observational body created confusion.
The Observer Group will write its report and release it “as soon as possible” after the September 7 election. The group will remain involved in proceedings in the event of a second round.


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was referred to the link via a website and i saw they where giving away a free bag of go-cat if you answer the questions.
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When 17th-seeded Amity takes on eighth-seeded Glastonbury Friday at 4 p.m., in the Class LL quarterfinals, the Spartans will know a few things.
“You’re going to have to be able to field bunts,” said Amity coach Sal Coppola.
The Spartans scouted Glastonbury’s 6-5 eight-inning victory over Cheshire on Tuesday. Fellow Southern Connecticut Conference team Notre Dame-West Haven is preparing for Bunnell in the Class L quarters. They opted not to scout, contrary to their opponent.
“(Bunnell) had people at my game,” said Green Knights’ coach Lou Kessler.
Notre Dame-West Haven and Amity are facing teams they did not play this season. Both coaches said scouting has its advantages and disadvantages.
Coppola said he sends assistants to games involving teams the Spartans could face in the next round. Kessler, a former football coach, relies on the input of coaches if they call him. Otherwise, Kessler isn’t too worried about scouting reports.
“I don’t like to get too involved in the stuff,” he said.
Even though he chooses not to, the coach still had an idea that the fourth-seeded Green Knights could end up facing Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year pitcher Ron Rossomando. No scouting report needed.
“We’re in the SCC, we face a lot of good pitchers all season,” he said. “That’s one good thing about playing in the SCC, it prepares you for the state playoffs.”
But, a little scouting never hurt.
Class LL defending champ Amity has been preparing in practice for a Glastonbury team that wants to play small ball. Coppola said scouting for defensive purposes can work, but anything else gets tricky.
“If you over-prepare sometimes it does the opposite for you,” he said.
Coppola said preparing for the other team’s starter is tough, because the game you scouted is not the last game he pitched. Coppola also said too much focus on what a pitcher is featuring could change the way his players approach an at bat. The coach would know after last season when teams repeatedly swung at the first pitch in fear of falling behind New Haven Register All-Area MVP Mike Concato.
“It seems like every pitch we threw over the middle of the plate they were attacking,” the coach said.
And Amity expects Glastonbury to be aggressive, too. Notre Dame-West Haven is preparing to face fifth-seeded Bunnell’s ace. However, both coaches acknowledge that anything can happen.
“We respect everyone we play,” Coppola said. “But our motto has been don’t believe the hype.”
TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: Stay up to speed on how Amity and ND-West Haven do in the quarters right here.


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LAYTON — A cement worker received significant injuries after his leg was caught in the auger of a cement pump truck Wednesday morning.
Emergency officials received a call at about 10 a.m. reporting that a man was stuck in a cement pump truck auger at Geneva Rock Products at 750 E. on Highway 193, according to Doug Bitton with Layton City Fire Department.
When crews arrived, the man's leg was significantly entangled. It took crews 30 minutes to extricate the man. He was taken by Life Flight to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray. Bitton said that his leg was "heavily compromised."
The man was an employee of Frontline, which Bitton described as a pump truck outfit. The truck was there being washed at facilities operated by Geneva Rock Products.
It is not clear if the man was washing the truck at the time, or how exactly he got caught in the auger, Bitton said.
The name and condition of the victim were unavailable. More details will be posted as they become available.


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What’s most eye-catching about Teagasc’s annual farm income survey is just how low average wages in the sector are: €25,662 in 2020. This reflects the fact that many farmers run small, part-time operations. The headline figure also masks the bigger incomes being generated on the dairy side, traditionally the most profitable farming practice.
Dairy incomes on average rose by 13 per cent to €74,236 last year on foot of lower production costs and increased milk volumes. The sector has long been the jewel in Ireland’s farming crown, punching above its weight internationally. Ornua’s flagship Kerrygold brand was the State’s first billion-euro food brand.
However, the sector is also playing a dangerous game of selling itself abroad, as a pristine pasture of grass-based farming, unspoilt by heavy industry, when the truth is more problematic. Trends in water quality, emissions and biodiversity are all going the wrong way – primarily because of a ramping-up in dairy production in line with the ending of EU milk quotas in 2015. The Republic’s dairy herd is almost 30 per cent larger while the island’s milk pool – currently at about 10.4 billion litres – is on course to double.
Government and industry here have been fudging the issue for years, promising plans and aims on climate while announcing ever-bigger food production targets. Teagasc links last year's rise in dairy incomes to increased production. In the face of the same dynamic, the Dutch government was recently forced to cull part of its dairy herd while imposing strict phosphate quotas on dairy farmers – a source of great controversy in the Netherlands.
The Climate Action Bill will – for the first time – assign legally binding carbon budgets to agriculture which, if broken, will leave the State open to possible legal challenges. Farmers are a powerful lobby group and keeping them happy while dealing with a set of challenging climate-change targets will not be an easy square to circle.


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The latest Mazda 3 range offers three diesel engines and three petrols
The latest Mazda 3 range offers three diesel engines and three petrols. Improvements to emission levels and economy are felt across the range with the 2.2 litre diesel being particularly capable. The less powerful of these engines is actually ten percent more efficient than the 2.0 litre diesel in the old Mazda 3.
The latest Mazda 3 is more sophisticated and larger than its predecessor but it is lighter which will have a significant impact on running costs. The Mazda rides on a sophisticated chassis with MacPherson strut front suspension and a multi link arrangement at the rear.
The safety list on the Mazda 3 is comprehensive; standard on all models are ABS, electronic brakeforce distribution, brake assist, traction control and stability control. There is also front, side and curtain airbags. The steering on the Mazda 3 has been revised and it is weightier, the body has more bracing and stronger welds to stop if flexing through the corners and this makes a big difference when driving. Leg and headroom in the Mazda 3 are both generous to front and rear passengers although three adults in the back might become a bit uncomfortable after some time travelling. The boot is not massive but with the 60/40 split rear seats folder over to make a flat surface this more than doubles its usable space to 635 litres.
Prices for the Mazda 3 range start at £14,755 rising to £20,895.


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The markets collapsed on Wednesday in what was a surprising drop which seems to have had a number of factors at play. However as selling commenced each dip down obviously hit stops and more selling was brought into the market. The losses were substantial on Wednesday. The NASDAQ had its worst day since 2011.
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Hey I’m Michael, I’ve been participating in a the Silver Arts Award for the last few months with Media SHYPP. Throughout this educational journey I’ve learnt new skills and knowledge such as the importance of time management! However, my favourite and most the beneficial part of this course to me was setting up the Exhibition that Media SHYPP hosted last week as the Left Bank. This was my first exhibition and the first time that my work has ever been open to the public to see. As any person would be, I was very nervous about the whole thing but as I got used to seeing my own work printed in a large format on the walls I got more comfortable with other people seeing it and asking me questions about the process of making the photos and my drive to peruse photography.
As a whole I see this as a vital stepping stone or even chapter towards me achieving a place at University next September, where I hope to study Marine and Natural Wildlife Photography in Falmouth.
Here are some quotes from the event:
“The success of the exhibition clearly demonstrates that there is a need in Herefordshire to provide outlets for young artists, photographers and film makers to share their work. At mediaSHYPP we are absolutely convinced about the positive role the creative process can have for people experiencing difficulties in their lives. We hope that we can draw attention to their talent and provide a platform that challenges common misconceptions about youth as well as giving recognition to individual and collective achievement. De Koffie Pot at the Leftbank were fantastic hosts for the event providing a truly classy environment and phenomenal catering – we are looking forward to the upcoming live music events quiz nights and well being classes.”
Kie Cummings, Arts Award / Training Facilitator, mediaSHYPP
“I was so pleased to be invited to the Shypp awards evening and see how a supportive and loving organisation can help young people turn their lives around. Its a really hard time to be young and especially hard for those who have had some hard knocks on the way. I was struck by the hardship many had experienced in their lives. We should all be involved in helping these amazing people from out own community reach their potential.”
Jess MacKenzie, Artistic Director, About Face Theatre Company
“It was a pleasure to visit the mediashypp art exhibition and attend the SHYPP award presentation to witness the success of the young people. It’s uplifting to hear how they have overcome difficulties with support from SHYPP and so important that their achievements are celebrated, to inspire them and others further, and that their progress is recorded in this way. Well done”
Dave Marshall, Associate, The Bulmer Foundation