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What Examples do We Follow?
What Examples do We Follow?
© C. o. Bishop, 2/9/2018 THCF 2/11/2018
Hebrews 13:7-9
We have been slowly working our way through the Epistle to the Hebrews. We have finally reached the last chapter, and we are reading the writer's instructions to the Hebrew believers. The epistle has presented a series of comparisons, where Jesus is compared to the Old Testament figures of the Messiah—foreshadowings of the real person who was to come. There were the Prophets who spoke the living Word to the people…and were usually ignored, and eventually killed. There was the Temple and the tabernacle, each of which was loaded with pre-figures of the redemption that the coming Messiah would deliver to the World. There were Angels, revered as the messengers of God, above whom the Messiah is recognized to be not only their Commanding officer, but their actual creator…God himself!
A total of seven such comparisons were made, and, in every case, Jesus was shown to be infinitely superior to the Old Testament pictures, just as virtually anything we can see is far superior to a grainy, scratched, black and white photograph, from an old-time "Brownie" camera.
But the writer in making no more comparisons.
A total of seven warnings were also given, evidently to those unsettled in their faith… specifically, to those dabbling in faith, but convinced in their own minds, that, "If things don't work out", they could still go back to the Jewish religion of the Law. The writer makes it clear that, if they reject the real Lamb of God…the fulfillment of all the Old Testament sacrifices, then there was no animal sacrifice they could turn to, for redemption.
They must either make a clear "step" from believing in the old sacrifices as being God-ordained (and they were!) to placing their faith in Jesus as the fulfillment of all the prophecies and pictures, or…they would have nowhere to turn. Seven such warnings were given, becoming more stern and serious as they progressed.
But the writer is offering no more warnings.
He is only offering instructions for real believers, now: He began in Hebrews 12:1, and continues to the end of the epistle. We are in Hebrews chapter 13, now, and considering just three verses, today; Hebrews 13:7-9.
The Example of the Church Leaders and Teachers.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
This in an admonition to look to the local church leaders and teachers—the elders, or overseers—the shepherds or pastors—as examples of how to live our lives. We are to learn from them a living faith, not just a head-knowledge of appropriate doctrine. The writer says to consider the results of how they live. I take this as a warning, personally, that I am to live in a way that will not lead someone else astray. Peter also said that the elders were to live as examples for the flock. (1st Peter 5:1-3) Quite honestly, I find that command very intimidating. I don't know whether I can fulfil that command. All I can do, again, is to throw myself on the mercy of God, and seek his guidance daily.
Have there been shepherds who did a good job? Certainly, there have been. Moses was an excellent example. Was he perfect? Nope. God never said he was. But he did say that, among all the people of God, "Moses was faithful!" That is quite a testimony, coming from God.
Joshua, whom Moses trained, was also an excellent example. There were only two times when he should have asked God's direction and failed to do so. The first was disastrous, the second only a continuing burden for Israel. But there was not a single recorded instance of his disobedience to God. Joshua was the first (and best) of the Judges.
Samuel was the last of the Judges, and was right up there with Joshua. There is no record of any disobedience on his part…only that he failed to raise his sons in a godly manner. (Actually, only that they turned out rather badly. God does not say, (as He did in the case of Eli) that Samuel had done a bad job. Most of the Judges had some personal problems, in spite of their faith and service.
Moses followed God. Joshua followed Moses's example, and learned, in his own life, to follow God. That is the kind of example God calls the elders to provide. In fact, he gives a peculiar assignment, to the elders, to go along with the command to live as examples for the flock: he tells then to find reliable men and deliberately disciple them, training them to follow along and feed the flock as well. (2nd Timothy 2:2) The elders are to produce other elders, as well as shepherding the flock.
Leaders are not "made by" seminaries and Bible colleges, though such institutions can help with schooling. Many men and women, however, who completed theological training subsequently have fallen prey to the enemy, through temptation of one sort or another, and become shipwrecked…a castaway: still part of God's flock, but no longer able to serve. Church leadership is trained up within the church. Human credentials are neither part of the qualifications nor part of the responsibilities.
He says we are to consider the "end" of the lifestyle of the elders: does it honor God, as a general result? Then it is a good thing to emulate. Does it consistently point you to the Bible for authority, rather than itself? Does it always point you to a better walk with Christ? Then it is a good example to follow.
The Example of Jesus
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
I'm not completely sure why this verse is here…the only thing I know to do is to connect it with the previous command, "…consider the end of their conversation". The result of a consistent walk with God should be that an observer sees the person of Christ in the believer's life. And Jesus has not changed, throughout the ages. The character of the believers' lives in the time of Abraham was the same as it is supposed to be, today. Godliness is not just a matter of piety, but rather the Agapé love of God, along with His righteousness, and holiness, flowing through a believer into the World around them. He hasn't changed.
Once, when I was in Bible School, I was struggling with the concept of having a love for God. He still seemed too abstract for me to love, not to mention the fact that I still had no concept of what the Agape love really was. I was looking for a feeling of "loving God." As I was pondering this lack in my life, I was praying while I studied the scriptures, and it occurred to me to say, "I have a hard time loving what I can't see!" (Actually, that is quite Biblical, though I didn't know it!) But as I prayed, it suddenly occurred to me that I could see Jesus in a somewhat older fellow student who had kindly taken me under his wing, and was lovingly drawing me along to a more stable walk with God. He offered no condemnation for my worldly, foolish former life, but just encouraged me to move forward. The man's name was Bob Mulloy, and he has served for nearly 40 years now in Indonesia, as a missionary. That memory is still precious to me, because I am now aware that his loving example was what drew me along, specifically because I could see in him the living Christ.
On a personal level, I think it is important to constantly self-examine: 1st John 1:5, 6 says, "this, then, is the message which we have heard of Him and declare unto you; that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all; If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth." If I am not walking in the light, then I am not in fellowship with God. He goes on to say, in verse seven, "but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth us from all sin." This is something to strive for and to maintain.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
This is a warning, peculiar to believers; there will always be those who teach "strange doctrines". They come up with odd, obscure references and interpret them in such a way as to bring believers into bondage regarding food, clothing, and rituals of various sorts. None of those things have any real effect on the believer's life. Grace, not external trivia, is to be the core issue for us. The writer points out, in passing, that the Jews had the dietary laws, and kept them, but it did not profit them. That is important to see: it did not profit them! None of their self-efforts were profitable. Maybe the Jews didn't do a great job of obeying God's Laws, but they surely did it better than I do: And it did NOT have a good result! It was NOT profitable!
Most frequently, when a cult adds legalism to the Grace of God, it draws its treasured trinkets from a limited understanding of the Jewish Tabernacle and Temple rituals. Remember, those were only a foreshadowing of the reality to come, which is Christ. We have the reality, now and forever; why do we need a grainy, limited-quality photograph, when we have the living Christ?
Think for a moment about who the people were who gave Jesus the worst trouble during His earthly ministry: It was not the common people, with their goofy, misguided thinking about things in general. It was not the Gentiles, as a rule, though they got involved at the end. It was not even the blatantly ungodly sinners among the people who gave him the fierce, consistent resistance: It was the religious leaders! Specifically, it was the religious leaders within Judaism, which was truly ordained by God. They had all of God's Word at the time: the whole Old Testament. They had the Temple, and the memory of the tabernacle. They were conscious of the miraculous history of God's relationship with the Jewish people. They knew the prophecies of the coming Messiah…but had locked in on one aspect of His coming that they really liked, and were ignoring all the rest.
Their doctrine had begun correctly, but had become nothing but legalism. And it was not profitable, either for individuals who attempted to live it, or for the nation. It resulted in their utterly rejecting the Messiah when he finally came.
Later on, both Peter and James (see Acts 15), when confronted with the demand from the Judaizers, that the Gentile believers should be forced to become Jews, responded by saying "Neither we nor our forefathers were ever able to carry that burden: why do you suppose the Gentiles would ever be able to do so?"
Jesus has not changed, and humans have not changed. He is still holy, and pure, and is still holding out the gift of eternal life to anyone who will receive it. We, as humans, still want to add to it, take away from it, twist it and deny it. So, how can we avoid the traps of false teaching?
The Example of God's Word:
Avoiding the Snares of False Doctrine
There are a couple of keys, here: One is the command, back in verse seven: "Consider them who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the Word of God." What kind of doctrine are they teaching? As we asked before, "Are they turning your eyes to the Bible for answers?" That is a good place to start.
Within that answer, though, is a caveat, a "beware sign". The writer says your heart should be strengthened by Grace, not what you eat. He used "diet" as a single example of the kinds of wrong focus that bad teaching produces. Jewish dietary laws are one of the things that many cults latch onto, because they think they can do it! "Here is something I can do to make God approve of me: I don't eat this, I do eat that!" But that is characteristic of all legalism, not just the dietary law of Judaism, which was specifically for them, no one else.
Any teaching which tends to point me away from God's Grace (even when it seems to be coming from God's Word), and which makes my relationship with Him dependent upon outward "trappings of faith," or "acts of piety" instead of an actual, active, living Faith in the Grace of an actual, active, living God, is likely to provide a snare for my soul. Such teachings turn us away from the actual source of living water, the Person of Christ, and encourage us to "dig out cisterns" (our own works) in which to store our own supply of "water."
Please turn in your Bibles to Jeremiah 2:12, 13
"12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Two Evils!
- They forsook the LORD—the God of Israel—who alone is the source of righteousness, and eternal life…and
- They turned to their own works, as a replacement.
The Lord calls Himself the fountain of living waters. Compare this to John 7:37-39 where Jesus said that those who came to him in thirst would receive an indwelling fountain of living waters…and it goes on to say that he referred to the Holy Spirit, which at that time was not yet given. The Holy Spirit is God! And, God is the one who offers the living water! In the desert, Moses was told to command the rock, and it would bring forth water for the nation. Paul says in 1st Corinthians 10:4 that "…that Rock was Christ." (Wow!)
So, in Jeremiah, we see Jehovah God as the source of living waters. In John, we see the Holy Spirit as the indwelling source of living waters. And in 1st Corinthians, we see that even back in the desert, 1500 years before the first advent, the Rock—the source of the water—was Christ!
So: humans ignoring God's command to allow him to provide, and to guide, and to bless, is a pretty major abdication, to begin with. But having the total audacity, and arrogance to suggest that "…my water is better, anyway", when we can't even produce water, let alone store it, is beyond imagination. It is utter insanity! And yet we do it! We choose to look away from God and His Spirit, and His Written Word, and His final eternal payment for sin, at the Cross…and look to our own works, our own philosophies, and smugly say, "I have my own way!"
Jesus said that He himself was the only approach to the Father, and that He himself was the only sacrifice for our sins.
So…any teaching that wanders away from those central ideas, and turns us away from Grace, to legalism, is something to be avoided. Any teaching that turns us away from God's written Word, which he says we are to focus on, as unto a light in a dark place…is to be avoided. Any teaching that tends to marginalize or minimize the preaching of the Cross, is to be avoided. These things are all central to a relationship with God. And the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews says for us not to be "…carried about with strange doctrines." We can only obey that teaching by deliberately choosing to follow the teaching of God's Word…learning from the examples of our teachers, and remembering that Jesus himself has never changed! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever!
Lord Jesus, we are utterly dependent upon your immutability—your unchanging goodness. We know that you have never changed, and we ask that you teach us to follow your Word, so that we are not drawn away by false teaching, or odd practices. Teach us to rely upon your Grace.
Shining as Lights in the World
Shining as Lights in the World
© C. O. Bishop 12/16/2017; Cornell Estates 12/17/2017
Philippians 2:14-30
We have been studying through the epistle to the Church at Philippi, and we have seen that the people to whom Paul was writing were already believers, already saved. Paul had stated, in Philippians 1:6, that "He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Over in 1st John 5:11-13, God makes it clear that He wants us to know that we have eternal life. This is supposed to be a secure, completed matter, with no further doubts, so that we are free to enter into God's service, and not having to constantly "check to see if we are saved." Then he goes on, in the following verses, to say that the normal behavior of believers is that we are to "shine as lights in the World." How do we do that? He goes on to give examples:
Shining in Life
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Complaining and bickering are not supposed to be part of the "normal Christian life". The prohibition against such things actually extends to all people, not just believers. As believers, though, we are supposed to be characterized by love, peace, unity, honesty, stability, etc. So, if that is what we are supposed to "look like", what would be the result of that reality in our lives?
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
He says the result will be that others can find no cause for blame in us, unless it is specifically regarding the person of Christ (Remember the prophet Daniel!). People around us will have to admit to themselves that we do no harm to those around us (again, unless they have a specific problem with Christ and the message of the Cross.) We are to live out the reality of the fact that we are called the Sons of God (Jesus said "Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the Sons of God"), and that we are the Sons (the heirs) of God. If we are his children, then our lives should reflect that truth in all areas, and every day, not just a mish-mash of sacred and secular; sometimes holy, and sometimes contaminated by sin.
There will be no cause for rebuke in our lives, either from other believers or from unbelievers, though we are forced to live in a fallen world. Paul goes so far as to call the World around us "a crooked and perverse nation." (That seems to fit awfully well, even today, doesn't it?) But, far from offering the believers a "way out," he pointed out the purpose of their being there: they were to "shine as lights in the World." We are to be lights for God; lampstands from which the light of the Gospel can shine, unhindered by sin, disunity, anger, jealousy, etc.
We are to proffer the written Word, as well as the Living Word. Both are part of how we "shine as lights". Remember what was said about Jesus, the Living Word, in John 1:4 "In Him was Life, and the life was the light of men."
One thing to keep in mind is that a dirty lamp does not shine brightly. Frequently, over the years, after a winter storm, I have suddenly realized that the headlamps on my automobile had excessive road-grime on them. After I stopped and cleaned them, I was surprised at the dramatic change in brightness. The light was always present in the lamps, you see, but the road-grime had built up slowly enough that I did not realize how much their light was being dimmed by the dirt, until it was very difficult for me to see the road ahead. I think that our personal habits, words, attitudes and behavior can also gradually take on the "patina" of the World around us, until the Light of Christ is quite dim in our lives. So, as the Living Word (Jesus) is present and preeminent in our lives, the Light of God will shine through us. The final result will be that God's Work in us is not wasted, but is a good investment. That's how Paul felt, too! His labor had not been wasted!
One other thing it might be well to remember is that the response of others to the light of God is largely dependent upon their personal character, not just the relative brightness or dimness of the light. So long as it is really the light of God, and not just our human piety or cleverness, or "logic", or something similar, their response is ultimately based on how they respond to light.
J. Vernon McGee once related how, when he was a young boy, he was required to go out at night, and tend to the cattle in his father's dark barn. He took a lantern with him, and when he opened the barn door, two things happened simultaneously: the rats which had been scavenging on the barn floor all ran for cover, and the birds which were roosting in the rafters mistook the lantern-light for daylight and began to sing. Why the difference? The light was exactly the same! But the lifestyle and character of a rat is very different than that of a bird. Their characters, whether bird or rat, were revealed by their response to the light. It is the same principle, in humans. Our character is revealed by our response to God's light.
Shining in Suffering
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
The Greek word for "offered", here is "sperdomai"…"poured out" –it refers to the drink-offerings which were part of a worship offering; not to be consumed by the priests, but to be poured out upon the offerings being burned as worship offerings. Paul felt that, if his service culminated in death, while their lives were being offered daily as living sacrifices, then he was a worship offering along with their offerings, so they could rejoice together. (What a blessing!)
Later, we will see that Epaphroditus had been terribly sick, as well, and his main concern was for the grief of those who loved him and were anxious for his health. He mourned for their mourning, as he had no way to assure them that he was at peace, and walking with The Lord. (There were no telephones, nor any other means to communicate at a distance: not even a postal service. We will wait, and discuss that portion of scripture when we get there, though.)
Paul was now sending a letter by Epaphroditus, telling them how he himself felt about the prospect of death, and his own past sufferings, as well as how Epaphroditus had responded to the challenge. He doesn't spend much time on either instance, but we can learn by their examples, so that we, too, can "shine in suffering."
Shining in Service
Paul then gives Timothy as an example of someone who was "shining in service:"
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
Timothy was one of Paul's protégés, and fellow-workers, along with Silas and Titus. Many commentators, for some reason, assign to each of them the office of having been "the pastor" of one of the New Testament churches, but there is absolutely no scriptural evidence to support that notion, and there is much evidence to contradict it.
To begin with, every single example we are given in scripture states that there were multiple elders in every church. The few passages where both the Greek word translated "pastor" ("poimen," which simply means "shepherd") and either of the words translated "elder" or "bishop", are used, all reveal that the pastors, elders and bishops were identical—the same men, in the same office; not some sort of "hierarchy" of ecclesiastical authority. All the various divisions and layering of authority (abbots, archbishops, cardinals, etc.) came later, as error crept into the church, all of which furthered the idea of a separation between clergy and laity…for which there is also no scriptural basis. ("Pastor, elder and bishop" are not the same words: they describe the various functions of the office. But they are the same individuals in every case, in scripture.)
Finally: Titus, Timothy and Silas were all given itinerant ministries; helping the churches, training and appointing leaders, and correcting error, but then…moving on. There are various opinions as to their job-titles, and I am not going to address that now, but it simply cannot be the "pastor" of a local church! Paul specifically told the "pastors, elders, overseers" of the local church at Ephesus (Acts 20:28) to stay put, and tend that flock! Titus, Silas and Timothy were told to do what they had been sent to do and get back to Paulm as soon as possible, for another assignment. You can't both shepherd a flock and also run all over the Mediterranean coast, tending to all the flocks. Whatever they were, it was not an elder, pastor or bishop (all words for the same office.)
Paul sent Epaphroditus with this letter in hand, but he promised to send Timothy as well. He knew that Timothy would care for and teach the flock as well as he himself might have done, and that he would bring back the news as to how they were thriving (not "take root" there, and be their "pastor.") Interestingly, some commentators declare that Epaphroditus was the "pastor" of the church at Philippi, others claim that he was definitely not the pastor, but was an "ordinary layman". Both opinions are utterly lacking in scriptural support, and both, in fact, are in contradiction to definite scriptural teaching. There is no such thing as a singular "pastor" of a local assembly in scripture, but neither is there such a thing as a "layman". Both ideas are the remnants of a serious, divisive, destructive error that began to creep into the church in the first century, and which, by the fourth century, was established as a general rule, as we see it today. The scriptures teach that every believer is a priest in the body of Christ…and the only two church "offices" named are elders and deacons. No one is a "layman", and church leadership is always plural.
Without regard to the relative titles of either Epaphroditus or Timothy, Paul reminded the believers at Philippi that they already knew Timothy's testimony, and his reputation: He was faithful, and had a genuine heart for the welfare of the flock. Paul said that he was the only one currently available to him, in that category. He was not stating that he was the only one in existence…just that he, Paul, had no one else to send. Besides, Timothy had served with Paul, as a son would serve with his father in a secular job, effectively serving as an apprentice. Paul was only waiting to find out what his own sentence might be (as a result of his upcoming trial) before sending Timothy to them. He still was hoping that he himself would be permitted to go and see his friends once more, as well. We don't know for certain whether he did or not, but my opinion is that he probably did. He stated with some certainty that he expected to come and visit them. It is just that we have no scriptural proof that he actually made the journey there again.
Shining in Sickness
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
The church at Philippi had sent a gift to Paul by the hand of Epaphroditus. Epaphroditus had then stayed and cared for Paul, but had contracted some sort of disease while he was there, and had been very sick: he had nearly died. Evidently he had been there for some time, too, as news had already gotten back to Philippi that he was sick, and likely to die, so they were deeply grieved for him:
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Epaphroditus knew that they had been sorrowing for him, and, as he convalesced, he was anxious to go home and let them know that he was well. Paul, then, is sending him, along with this letter, and confirming that he had been very close to death, but that God had mercifully chosen to extend his life. Paul was especially grateful for that, as his own troubles were deep enough without adding to them the grief of losing Epaphroditus.
Paul was grieved for their sorrow, too, and, by sending Epaphroditus, he hoped to completely alleviate their sorrow, and also to diminish his own. He asked, then, that they receive him as a man of God, gladly accounting Epaphroditus as one who had served; risking his life to honor God. Paul knew that the church at Philippi had very limited resources, and that the gift they had earlier sent by the hand of Epaphroditus was dipping very deeply into their meager income, and they had given beyond what they really could afford.
Epaphroditus had stayed and served in ways they could not serve from such a distance. It was not a lack of care, but a lack of opportunity and ability that forced them to send a representative. They served through Epaphroditus, just as we hope to serve through the missionaries we support, though very few of us are privileged to travel to foreign fields to serve. Paul said that such people are to be respected for their service, and the risks involved with that service.
Shining Today
But each of us have circles of relationships in our individual lives, within which (perhaps) we are the only source of light…or within which we and a few friends or relatives, collectively, are the only sources of light. None of us are completely secluded: there are always individuals whose lives we can touch; those whose lives we can bless; those whom we can serve, and for whom we can "hold forth the Word of Life." The only question, really, is: How will you respond to the opportunity, when it comes?
Lord Jesus, alert our hearts and minds to the people around us who need your Grace, and who, for whatever cause, have never trusted you as their personal Savior. Give us the passion to reach the lost, and to love the unloved, so that we may be genuine lights in the World around us. Open our eyes and let us see the need. Open our hearts and let us serve you.


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The Samsung Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat update release has begun though its not the Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat update that's rolling out. Instead, its an obscure version of the company's Galaxy S3 Android 4.4.4 KitKat update that is first to market ahead of the Android L release that's expected to arrive sometime in the weeks ahead.
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While Samsung Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat updates are still lagging behind the pack, we've at least seen a number of new details emerge in recent weeks including today's surprise Galaxy S3 Neo Android 4.4.4 KitKat update release.
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The roll out is a bit strange given that the Galaxy S3 Neo isn't a big name device and given that Kazakhstan is not a focus region. It's also strange given the Galaxy S3's Android 4.4 KitKat update situation. The Galaxy S3 Android 4.4 update has only rolled out to a few devices in a few regions though this could perhaps be the start of a broader roll out.
Samsung's first Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat update should spread to other Galaxy S3 Neo users in the future and we expect this update to be the first of several now that we've confirmed more Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat updates for arrival.
Samsung's Galaxy Alpha and rumored Galaxy S5 LTE-A for Europe are both running Android 4.4.4 KitKat. We've also seen the Android 4.4.4 KitKat confirmed for the Galaxy Note 4. Earlier this week, we also saw Australian carrier Optus confirm an Android 4.4.4 KitKat update for its Samsung Galaxy S5 though a release date remains unclear.
We've also confirmed the Sprint Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat update for arrival in the United States. The Sprint Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat update was discovered inside a User Agent Profile string on Sprint's website. And while that update is now confirmed to be in testing behind the scenes, it's still not clear when Sprint plans to release it.
Then, yesterday, with the help of our friends at XDA-Developers, we spotted another U.S. bound Android 4.4.4 KitKat update. The Sprint Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.4 KitKat update is now confirmed to be in testing as it too is listed inside of an RDF file on Sprint's website. The User Agent Profile confirms the Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.4 KitKat update but it does not confirm the release date.
Like the Sprint Galaxy S5 Android 4.4.4 KitKat situation, a specific release date is not known. Sprint is well known for being first to major Android upgrades and it would not be surprising to see it beat out its fellow U.S. carriers to the Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.4 KitKat upgrade.
What's clear though is that today's surprise Android 4.4.4 KitKat update roll out is the first of what should be several Android 4.4.4 KitKat releases for Samsung Galaxy smartphones and perhaps, tablets as well. Unfortunately, we still haven't seen any details regarding Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3, or Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.4.4 KitKat upgrades surface and it's not clear if Samsung has any plans for them ahead of Google's Android L update.
Google's Android L update was first announced at Google I/O 2014 back in June. And while the update is available in beta form for developers, it's still without a public release date. Rumors point to an arrival later this year though that remains unconfirmed. And while companies like HTC and Motorola have confirmed upcoming Android L releases, Android L details still haven't emerged for Samsung Galaxy devices.
For now, users must contend with Android 4.4.4 KitKat and below.
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I have had my phone since 06/07/2014. It worked fine until it didn't. I called AT&T because the phone was freezing up. I was advised to do a hard reset. Bad idea. Once I did the hard reset, my phone would not stay powered on. It would power off just sitting on the table untouched. I had to call AT&T back to get a warranty replacement which was a "certified like new" device. Fancy name for refurbished which means someone else had the phone and had problems and they called themselves fixing it but not. Today, AT&T pushed out an automatic update which caused my "certified like new" phone to act a lot like my old defective phone. Now I am waiting on a new "certified like new" phone to be sent to me. In the meantime, I have no phone!!!!
Let me see if I understand this. Samsung had a big announcement about some new products earlier this week for whatever reason and the release on Kitkat 4.4.4 as seen in the article above. I purchased my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (GT-N8013), which "WAS" their flagship product at the time, and they announced that it was to get Kitkat 4.4.2 about 6 to 8 months ago. As of yesterday (9/5/2014) my GT-N8013 id still running Jelly Bean (4.1.2) while Samsung has flooded the marketplace with numerous new phones and tablets. I am not sure that Samsung will be my product of choice in the future because it appears as if Samsung is attempting to get me to purchase a new produce rather that to update the current product.
Forget about it. Let's leave Samsung, they don't respect their customers. When it comes to updates, they're really very slow. I've had the same experience that many others explain everywhere in other forums, my T Mobile S4 is a piece of crap after it was updated to kitkat 4.4.2 last february 14, 2014, I hate the phone and I'm willing to update it to 4.4.3 or 4.4.4 in order to see if it improves. I wish I could downgrade it to the oldest android version it had when I bought it. We have to move to Motorola, Nexus, HTC or whatever other phones, but Samsung SUCKS (It is a shit)!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got this note/tablet and the volume levels sucks. I can't hear the speakers loud. If I knew then wat I know now I wouldn't have got it. Overall I like the phone just the volume n the internet sucks badly.
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Day 5: Social skill slam book
Posted on December 05, 2013 in Differentiating Instruction, Inclusion
Did you have a slam book as a kid? We remember using slam books to share favorite things, classroom crushes, and recommendations for friends.
Our idea is a slight variation of these popular social tools. We are suggesting that teachers create social skill slam books for their students needing advice and guidance from peers on topics such as making friends and dealing with stress. Because so many of the students we support are visual, we have also changed our format to include pictures of classmates instead of just their secrets and words of advice.
To create a slam book, decide on the social skills you want to target and develop simple questions based on these skills. Sample questions include:
- What are some topics you like to discuss with your friends?
- How do you start a conversation with someone new?
- How do you deal with anxiety?
- How do you cope with a low grade?
Then, ask your student with social challenges to choose a few peers he or she respects and would like to use as advisors.
On the first page of your book "introduce" the advisors by writing a few sentences about each and putting a photo there of the group. On each page thereafter, write one question on the left side of the book and 3-4 answers on the right side. Include a photo of each respondent by his or her answer.
Give this book to the student to study proactively or bring it out during confusing or frustrating moments. Add new pages as challenges emerge.
Consider adding the student's own voice to the book in spots. In other words, let the book serve as a tool for positive self-talk
For more differentiation ideas for K-12 classrooms, check out From Text Maps to Memory Caps [Paul Brookes Publishing].


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The heart and passion of Snowbird is spelled out in our mission statement and it works itself out through our vision to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus to as many students, leaders, and adults as possible. A lot of people care about a lot of things, but the passion that drives the blood of SWO is a Gospel drenched love of Jesus and desire for people to know and worship Him.
It takes a significant amount of resources and staff to serve the students that are here for a week, weekend, or even a daylong event. Our prayer is to always find ways to keep the Snowbird experience accessible to all students. This is why we are making an appeal for donations the SWO Scholarship Fund: starting this week and culminating on #givingtuesday (Dec. 1).
By God's provision, the scholarship fund has been able to provide full or partial scholarships to Boys and Girls Homes, athletic teams, local Andrews students, individual families with specific needs, foster children, and girls rescued out of sex trafficking. But we want to do more!
We love the opportunities that we have to partner with hundreds of churches and thousands of individuals each year, but as we continue to grow, our vision is that we will also grow in our ability to minister to students coming from less than ideal circumstances.
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Structured Exception Handling: The .Net Framework Exception Handling is built using this mechanism which is offered by Microsoft Windows. It mainly introduces 3 blocks namely try, catch and finally.
- try - is like a guard where we write the code which might cause an exception to be raised.
- catch - is a block which is intended to handle an exception which is raised in try block.
- finally - is a block which is intended to write a cleanup code.
What can be thrown?
The CLR allows an instance of any type to be thrown. But CLS mandates to throw only the Exception derived objects. The C# compiler allows to throw only exception derived types.
Some points about try, catch, finally and throw in C#:
- try cannot stand by itself. Means, try block musht be followed by catch or finally block.
- You can write multiple catch blocks for a single try block but you cannot write multiple finally blocks.
- You can write catch in 2 ways:
1. Without specifying any exception type.
2. By specifying an exception type.
- finally block always executes, even if try block is having a return statement. However, you cannot write return statement in this block!
catch vs catch(Exception ex): These both are same and used to handle generalized exceptions.
The first one can be written like this:
try { } catch { throw; // Throws any and all exceptions without altering the stack trace. }and the later one can be written like this:
try { } catch(Exception ex) { throw; // Throws any and all exceptions without altering the stack trace. }The above two code fragments will be having same behavior(but you will get compiler warning for the second one, since the variable ex is not used in the block).
Note: This is same only if the CLR version is 2.0 and above - Prior to that the later one will catch only CLS-Compliant Exceptions. In version 2.0 of CLR, Microsoft introduced RuntimeWrappedException class which is derived from Exception so it is CLS-compliant exception type. This class contains a private field of type Object. In version 2.0 and above of the CLR, when a non-CLS compliant exception is thrown the CLR automatically constructs the instance of RuntimeWrappedException and initializes its private field to refer to the object that was actually thrown.
When we need to log the exception information or do some other operations based on the values of exception object, then we can use the later one. Otherwise first one will be fine to delegate the exception to the caller.
Be Careful with throw vs throw ex:
Now lets alter the second code like this:
try { } catch(Exception ex) { throw ex; // Throws any and all exceptions by altering the stack trace. }Note the throw statement above. This makes a lot of difference to the first code(i.e. throw;). When an exception variable is specified along with the throw statement, the stack trace of the exception will be altered. Here we are lying the client code by changing the actual location of the exception! Hence, it will be difficult to debug such codes and therefor it is not the preferred or recommended way.
Here is an example code to check this behavior.
Throwing different exception than the catched one: We can also throw a different exception than the one which is catched by catch clause. This is useful when we need to maintain the meaning of a methods contract. Ex:
// Source: CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter internal sealed class PhoneBook { private string pathname; public string GetPhoneNumber(string name) { string phone; FileStream fs = null; try { fs = new FileStream(pathname, FileMode.Open); // Code to read from fs until the name is found goes here. } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) { // Throw different exception containing the name, and // set the originating exception as the inner exception. throw new NameNoteFoundException(name, ex); } catch (IOException ex) { // Throw different exception containing the name, and // set the originating exception as the inner exception. throw new NameNoteFoundException(name, ex); } finally { if (fs != null) fs.Close(); } } }As you can see in the above code GetPhoneNumber's contract is to find and return the phone number. Hence, in this case a meaningful exception will be NameNoteFoundException(Off-Course, this should be of type Exception derived).
We can see this approach in many places of FCL like type initialization, smtp connection, dealing with entity framework context etc.
Note: This should be used with extensive care. Improper usage of this will make the code horrible to maintain!
You can also add information to the exception variable before throwing it. Like: ex.Data.Add(anyObject);
Topics will be covered in Part - 2: CER(Constrained Execution Region) and Automatic Generation of try/catch/finally.
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A 37-year-old male applied for life insurance. He has a history of metastatic paraganglioma initially diagnosed in September 2009 after symptoms of left chest and left groin pain and fatigue, followed by a finding on CT scan, ultrasound and MRI of an 18x16x8.5 cm tumor in the left perirenal area.
A genetic test revealed a mutation in SDHB (succinate dehydrogenase unit B) gene. In 2010, he was found to have metastasis to the bones, ribs, sternum, left upper abdomen and lungs. He received treatment with 135 mCI of 131 iodine MIBG. Seven years later he had a CT scan of the chest, abdomen and pelvis that did not show evidence of progressive disease. But a slight elevation of chromogranin A prompted an MRI of the cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral spine which showed two lesions at the level of T3 and T4 not seen previously. A PET scan was ordered, but the results are not provided.
What is a paraganglioma tumor and what are the mortality implications?DefinitionParagangliomas (PGLs) are rare vascular, neuroendocrine tumors of paraganglia cell clusters originating from the neural crest that have co-migrated with the autonomic nervous system. PGLs are associated with either the sympathetic tissue in adrenal (pheochromocytomas (PCCs)) and extra-adrenal locations (sympathetic PGLs (sPGLs)) or the parasympathetic tissue of the head and neck paragangliomas (parasPGLs, formerly called glomus tumors).
PCCs and sPGLs are catecholamine-secreting tumors that arise from chromaffin cells, whereas parasPGLs are mostly chromaffin-negative tumors and usually non-functioning.
EtiologyMost PGLs occur as sporadic tumors, however at least one-third of PGLs/PCCs are hereditary. Four hereditary syndromes can be associated with development of PGLs:
Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome: patients with VHL gene (found on chromosome 3) can develop pheochromocytomas (often bilateral), paragangliomas, retinal angiomas, central nervous system hemangioblastomas, renal cell carcinoma, renal and pancreatic cysts, pancreatic endocrine tumors and epididymal cystadenoma.
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndrome type 2A and 2B: are due to mutations in the RET gene and usually associated with bilateral pheochromocytomas.
Neurofibromatosis type 1, also known as Von Recklinghausen's disease: the result of mutation in chromosome 17; pheochromocytomas can occur in up to 5% of cases, both inside and outside the adrenal gland.
Familial Paraganglioma Syndrome: is caused by mutations in the succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) gene and can be associated, albeit rarely, with pheochromocytomas.
Epidemiology The prevalence of PGLs is unknown, but has been estimated to be between 1:6500 and 1:2500 in the USA. The annual incidence has been reported to be two to 10 cases per million. PGLs may occur at all ages, with the highest incidence between 40 and 50 years, and with an approximately equal sex distribution. Most PGLs/PCCs are benign, but 10% to 15% are malignant, defined by the presence of metastatic spread in sites where chromaffin tissue is normally absent, such as lymph nodes, liver, bone and lungs.Malignant pheochromocytoma and sympathetic paraganglioma affect only about 100–200 people per year in the United States.
Figure 1 — CT scan showing tumor
Enhanced CT scan show 4.5-cm retroperitoneal PGL (arrow) with heterogeneous enhancement in left paraaortic area. Note large cystic component with fluid level (arrowhead) within tumor mass. High attenuation of dependent fluid in cystic portion is suggestive of intratumoral hemorrhage. Source: American Journal of Roentgenology. 2006;187:492+
Diagnosis The diagnosis of paragangliomas is based on physical examination, biochemical testing, and imaging studies. Pheochromocytomas in the adrenal gland may produce both adrenaline and noradrenaline. However, only paragangliomas that occur in the organ of Zuckerkandl, which is found along the lower part of the aorta, can make adrenaline. The remainder of paragangliomas are either non-functioning or produce noradrenaline only.
Figure 2 — Paragangliomas (PGL) and Incidence of malignancy by PGL type
Paragangliomas (PGLs) are rare vascular, neuroendocrine tumors of paraganglia cell clusters originating from the neural crest that have co-migrated with the autonomic nervous system. The chart at right shows the incidence of malignancy of various types of PGLs.
Clinical presentationThe majority of sPGLs and PCCs produces catecholamines in advanced cases causing symptoms of catecholamine excess. Highly variable symptomatology in patients with PGLs may reflect variations in the nature and types of catecholamines secreted, as well as co-secretion of neuropeptides. Hypertension, continuous or paroxysmal, is the most common feature of advanced PCCs and sPGLs. Typical symptoms are paroxysms of severe headache, palpitations and diaphoresis, 'the classic triad'. Other symptoms may include anxiety, nausea, vomiting and weakness. In addition, hyperglycemia, resulting from metabolic actions of catecholamines, may be the presenting symptom.
ParasPGLs are usually benign and only a minority (4%) produces catecholamines. They can remain clinically silent for years. But their usual location in the head and neck in the proximity of nerves and vascular structures often results in considerable morbidity due to compression or infiltration of the adjacent structures. They may cause symptoms such as hearing loss, tinnitus, dysphagia and cranial nerve palsy. Carotid body tumors are the most common parasympathetic PGL, usually presenting as a painless neck mass.
Biochemical testsStudies have found the rate of elevated catecholamine metabolites to be 88% in abdominal/pelvic PGL. Compared to PCC the levels of urinary metanephrines, while elevated, were much lower. The level of normetanephrines in PGL were much higher than in PCC. Levels of catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline, dopamine) and metanephrines may be measured in either the plasma or in a 24hour urine collection. Levels that are 2 or more times the upper limit of normal levels confirm the diagnosis of paraganglioma.
Figure 3— Retrospective Study Results
In a retrospective study, patients with metastatic pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma who underwent palliative resection of the primary tumor (green line, n = 28) had longer median overall survival than those who did not (blue line, n = 24). Roman-Gonzalez A, et al. Ann Surg. 2017
Imaging studies When the diagnosis is confirmed with plasma or urine studies, the patient should have a CT scan or MRI to identify the location of the PGL. Nuclear medicine tests like a MIBG (metaiodobenzylguanidine) scan or PET (positron emission tomography) scan can be helpful in locating tumors. The MIBG scan is specific for adrenaline-producing tumors while the PET scan identifies any very metabolically active tumors.
There is no definite histological finding that can be used for the diagnosis of malignant PGL. Therefore, malignancy is defined by the presence of metastases: tumor spread to sites where chromaffin tissue is normally absent.
Natural history These tumors are derived either from sympathetic tissue in adrenal or extra-adrenal abdominal locations (sPGLs) or from parasympathetic tissue in the thorax or head and neck (parasPGLs); the two types occur with similar frequency.
sPGLs may develop anywhere there are sympathetic nerve cells, and this usually means along any of the major arteries in the body. They frequently produce considerable amounts of catecholamines, and in approximately 80% of patients, they are found in the adrenal medulla.
The remaining 20% of these tumors are located outside of the adrenal glands, in the prevertebral and paravertebral sympathetic ganglia of the chest, abdomen, pelvis and bladder. Far and away, the most common site is within the abdomen where approximately 85-90% are located. Most abdominal sPGLs arise from a collection of chromaffin tissue around the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery (the organ of Zuckerkandl) or aortic bifurcation.
In contrast, the most common location for a parasPGL is the carotid body in the neck. Carotid body paragangliomas arise at the bifurcation of the internal and external carotid arteries and have classic radiographic features.
While most PPGLs are benign, about 10% of PCCs, 20-25% of extra-adrenal abdominal and mediastinal secretory PGLs are malignant. In the skull base and neck, malignancy is least common for jugulo-tympanic tumors (2-4%), slightly higher for carotid body tumors (4-6%), and highest for vagal tumors (10-19%).
Compared to adrenal PCCs, PGLs have a higher risk of being malignant or cancerous, as high as 40-50% in some studies. Larger tumor size (over 5 cm), invasion of the tumor into adjacent structures, and metastases to other organs are characteristics of malignant paragangliomas. PGLs typically metastasize to lungs, liver, bones, and lymph nodes.
Paraganglioma syndrome 4 (PGL4) is associated with mutations in SDHB at gene locus 1 and is the second most common type of familial paraganglioma. SDHB mutations are associated with a higher malignancy rate (21% to 79%) than other types of SDHx-associated familial paraganglioma syndromes, and with renal cell carcinoma.
Treatment The definitive treatment of PGLs is surgical excision of the tumor. Laparoscopic surgery is commonly the technique of first choice for resection adrenal and extra-adrenal PGLs when oncologic principles can be followed. Surgery can also be used as a curative treatment for recurrent or limited metastatic tumors.
Traditional chemo-therapy with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and dacarbazine (CVD) has been used most extensively with progressive and widely metastatic PGLs. Molecular targeted therapies such as sunitinib (tyrosine kinase inhibitor) and everolimus (mTOR inhibitor) have been tried with mixed results.
Prognosis The long-term prognosis of patients after operation for non-malignant PGLs is excellent, although nearly 50% may remain hypertensive after surgery. On long-term follow-up, about 17% of tumors recur, with about half of these showing signs of malignancy. Although follow-up is especially important for patients identified with mutations of disease-causing genes, there is currently no method based on pathological examination of a resected tumor to rule out potential for malignancy or recurrence. The prognosis of metastatic PCC/PGLs is variable. Long-term survival is possible even in the presence of distant metastatic disease, but five-year survival rates are ≤ 60%.
Prognosis is impacted by tumor burden, location of metastases, and rate of progression; patients with brain, liver and lung metastases tend to have a worse prognosis than do those with isolated bone lesions.
Returning to the case Unfortunately, and despite the resection of the primary PGL tumor with the nephrectomy, this case has unfavorable features such as the onset of a malignant PGL at a relatively-young age, the very large dimensions of the tumor, and the presence of metastases. Moreover, the two lesions recently found on the MRI of his spine are quite possibly a recurrence. Finally, the mortality rate associated with metastases would raise very significant long-term mortality concerns.
ReferencesRoman-Gonzalez A, Jimenez C. Malignant pheochromocytoma-paraganglioma: pathogenesis, TNM staging, and current clinical trials. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2017;24: 174–183.
Bronson S. Malignant Pheochromocytoma and Sympathetic Paraganglioma Research OncoLog, August 2017, Volume 62, Issue 8
Corssmit E.P. and Romijn J.A. Clinical management of paragangliomas European Journal of Endocrinology (2014) 171, R231–R243
Vasiliu et al Malignant Paraganglioma; a Story of a Long Time Survival J Surgery 2015 Volume 10, Issue 2-15.
Prades C.A.et al Metastatic Malignant Paraganglioma: A Case Report and Review of Literature World J Oncol. 2017;8 (3):92-95
Fliedner S.M.J. et al Metastatic Paraganglioma Semin Oncol. 2010 December; 37(6): 627–637.
Tischler A.S. and deKrijger R.R. Pathology of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma Endocrine-Related Cancer (2015) 22, T123–T133
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Canu L et al Sunitinib in the therapy of malignant paragangliomas: report on the efficacy in a SDHB mutation carrier and review of the literature Arch Endocrinol Metab. 2017;61/1.


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Supplies of snow removal equipment remain high
Kansas road crews worked around the clock to clear the ice and snow off the streets and highways.
Kansas Department of Transportation crews covered nearly 1,800 lane miles since 8 p.m. Sunday.
By midday Monday, day shift drivers were working to clear shoulders and ramps.
KDOT employees said they want to remind drivers that looks can be deceiving.
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Looper said another dangerous practice he saw Monday morning was people texting while driving in the snow.
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The 2010 Ford F-150 Harley-Davidson delivers a new standard of "custom cool," combining the smooth handling and legendary durability of America's best-selling truck with the authentic styling of Harley-Davidson, the industry leader in motorcycles.
This marks the 14th Harley-Davidson edition of an F-Series truck and latest in a line of Ford Harley-Davidson F-Series models dating back to 2000, which aim to appeal to customers who appreciate quality and unique details only this kind of collaboration can bring.
"Our successful co-branding, unmatched in the industry, offers customers true specialized truck luxury," said Derrick Kuzak, Ford's group vice president of Global Product Development. "Just like with our other associations, we've linked with an industry leader to offer the best of the best."
The successful collaboration between these two icons of the open road has produced eight F-150 models, as well as six Super Duty F-250, F-350, and in 2009, the first Ford F-450 Harley-Davidson edition truck. The 2010 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 is the first Harley-Davidson edition vehicle built off the award-winning new 2009 Ford F-150.
"This truck builds on the legacy of toughness that's been the hallmark of the Ford F-Series brand," said Matt O'Leary, chief engineer. "Now we're giving customers more of everything they love with the best F-150 and the boldest Harley-Davidson F-150 ever - featuring a fully differentiated design, all-wheel-drive capability, 22-inch wheels and a knock-out interior."
The exterior of the 2010 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 offers a bold front fascia and six-bar shaped billet style grille and boasts specialized forged aluminum and Harley-Davidson® chrome badging. The truck will have a lowered appearance because of a fully integrated deployable running board.
Also standard are 22-inch low-profile performance tires - the largest in the F-Series lineup - and Euroflange forged wheels with a polished and painted center wheel cap. The paint selection is classic Harley-Davidson - Tuxedo Black and the first Ford application of Lava, a deep maroon with three-color metal flake.
The interior is customized to appeal to the truck buyer who appreciates the attention to detail for which both Ford and Harley-Davidson are renowned.
"There's a real tie-in between the truck's interior and exterior designs," said Patrick Schiavone, Design director. "It's very much like how some customized Harley-Davidson motorcycles have a prominent theme that runs through them. That's how we tie it in with custom bikes."
Also impressive are the seats and console lid, which features hand-made cloisonné badges; the console has a limited-edition serialization plate.
"These handmade badges continue our theme of premium Harley-Davidson offerings," said Schiavone. "Probably the only place that most people have seen hand-made cloisonné is on premium Harley-Davidson motorcycles. It's really high craftsmanship, and people will recognize it as another connection between the two brands."
Linkage is apparent even in the smallest details, such as adornments on the seats.
"The theme of the seat was designed to resemble a Harley® biker jacket," Schiavone said. "We even used authentic materials you'd find on Harley-Davidson MotorClothes® brand apparel."
The seat backs feature ribbed leather treatments, engraved Harley-Davidson button snaps and even zippered map pockets featuring zippers from Harley jackets.
It is important to the Ford Design team that the truck remain genuine to enthusiasts of Harley-Davidson, customers who traditionally are as loyal to their motorcycles as F-150 owners are to their trucks.
That's why the team meets regularly with Harley-Davidson designers and travels to motorcycle events throughout the year - including Daytona Bike Week, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Harley-Davidson dealer meetings - to talk to current and potential customers. The team wants to be sure that when Harley-Davidson owners or enthusiasts need a truck, this is the truck they choose.
"We talk to everyone we can; we find out what the customer values," O'Leary said. "We look at what they like, what they want, and what they wish they had, and we go from there."
"No one understands their customers better than Harley-Davidson and Ford," said Joanne Bischmann, vice president - Licensing, Harley-Davidson Motor Company. "We're proud to share the spirit of Harley-Davidson authenticity in a unique interpretation of America's favorite truck, the F-Series."
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Arrangements are being made by both the government and the marchers to prepare for the upcoming Azadi March. According to the reports, the twin cities Islamabad and Rawalpindi will be sealed at several main junctions with the use of shipment containers. Around 100 containers will be needed in around 10 locations in and around the Red Zone. The police have decided to block each of the Expressway's connecting roads from both sides from Faizabad to the Koral flyover. All the connecting roads of Rawalpindi to I.J. Principal Road will also likely be sealed. This entire exercise of sealing the cities will disrupt life for the residents and cause all the economic activity in the cities to come to a halt.
Protests of political parties and the management of the government now need to evolve in order to continue the smooth functioning of daily routine of the residents. All political protests end up choking the capital city - a situation that the country can neither afford nor propagate. There is no timeline for the March either which means that the government will be spending out of its own pocket to put up these containers. According to the officers, each container costs more than Rs5,000 a day to rent. Along with the financial losses, the losses of the domestic market are also counterproductive to the narrative of both, the government and the protestors.
At the same time, there is always a risk of a law and order situation. Protestors being prompted to take up arms or indulge in violence against the state will not be a healthy narrative for any side. At this point, the police have more than 1,000 gas masks, 200 teargas launchers and 13,000 shells available in the logistics division armoury along with enough batons, plastic helmets, riot jackets, riot shields, shin guards and arms, if needed. Rangers and Punjab Constabulary (PC) personnel will assist the police if the law and order situation deteriorates during the Azadi March. The entire exercise sets the wrong precedent for the onlookers. Bringing the cities to a halt should not be any party's go-to move or the government's intention at the time of chaos. The government and the protestors should sit at the negotiation table as soon as possible to minimise the damage to the economy and find a political solution that eases out tensions on both sides.


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Here are some photos I took during my walk:
The original Drum Tower dates back to 1272, during Kublai Khan's reign. The current incarnation was built in 1420.
Today people carry their own time-keeping devices.
A man guards the Drum Tower's gate. The building is under construction.
When I pointed my camera at this fake soldier, he pointed his fake gun at me.
The man on the left trains birds. The man on the right is just curious.
One of the birds, attached to a nail by its breast.
Electricity is a welcome achievement in the hutongs.
Roasting ducks, possibly for Peking duck, a local specialty.
A motorcycle delivery man.
These rickshaw drivers will show you around the neighborhood for a modest fee.
Happy officers give a Chinese warning.
New and old.
The Hello Kitty car.
A crumbling facade.
Another rickshaw driver.
Those infamous public bathrooms don't clean themselves.
Future roof tiles.
Friends taking a stroll through the neighborhood.
The elderly are revered in China.
Time for a newspaper break.
"Must wear defence mask" is always sound advise.
Beer bottles stacked on a window sill.


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RCA vs Blackpool Bowmen Friendly Shoot 2016
Rochdale were this year's hosts for the annual friendly shoot against Blackpool and thankfully the weather stayed fine for another great shoot. Both clubs were well-represented with over 50 archers shooting.
The recurve trophy went to Rochdale's team: Russell Reader, Garry Partington, Rebecca Stephenson and Alex Dixon.
The Longbow trophy was won by Ian Fleming of Rochdale.
The Compound trophy was taken home by the Blackpool team: Julie Yates, Paul Sykes, Len Kitching and Dave Sandham.
Rochdale Junior awards went to: Oliver Quigley (boy, compound), Oliver Taylor (boy, recurve), Chloe Webb (girl, recurve) and Emily Campbell (girl, barebow).
Many thanks to the field party, the volunteers and to Blackpool Bowmen for their enduring friendship.
Roll on next year when Rochdale makes the trip across the county to the coast and we can do it all again!


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HBO's 'Watchmen' is the best TV show of the year and the Golden Globes' biggest snub
- "Watchmen," the best TV show of 2019, was completely snubbed from this year's Golden Globes nominations.
- "Watchmen" is HBO's most popular new series of the year and has received rave reviews from critics.
- Lackluster but star-studded shows like Apple's "The Morning Show" and HBO's second season of "Big Little Lies" were nominated instead.
- "Watchmen" is inspired by its graphic-novel source material, which may have turned off the group that votes on the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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When the nominations for January's Golden Globes were announced Monday morning, one of the most buzz-worthy new shows of the year was absent from the list.HBO's "Watchmen" was snubbed entirely, failing to gain a single nomination. It's an egregious oversight by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group of international journalists who vote on the Globes.
Based on the acclaimed 1985 graphic novel of the same name, by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, "Watchmen" has been a ratings champ for HBO and a critical favorite since it debuted in October. It's the premium cable network's most popular new show of the year and has a 96% Rotten Tomatoes critic score. It was recently also nominated in major categories by the Critics Choice Awards.
"Watchmen" acts as a follow-up to the graphic novel, in which a group of masked vigilantes are pulled into a vast and insidious conspiracy when one of their own is murdered. In the show, after a white supremacist group returns to terrorize the Tulsa, Oklahoma police force, Angela Abar (played by Golden Globe and Oscar winner Regina King) is roped into a new kind of conspiracy that has its roots within the world of the novel's alternate history.It's a highbrow show that is unapologetically inspired by its graphic-novel source material, which may have been a turn off for the HFPA. For instance, the latest episode on Sunday, called "A God Walks Into a Bar," focused on what the all-powerful Doctor Manhattan has been up to between the novel and the show. The sixth episode, "This Extraordinary Being," redefined the backstory of the first superhero in "Watchmen's" world, Hooded Justice."As exemplified by riveting and revealing episodic storytelling, where new characters emerge and earn their hour-long spotlights, 'Watchmen' intensifies the majesty of our human experience, even as it keeps its cast on equal footing to the rest of us," Indiewire's Ben Travers wrote in his review of Sunday's episode.
"Watchmen's" snub is even more perplexing when you consider what was nominated for best drama series instead. Apple broke through with "The Morning Show," which was initially panned by critics (reviews have improved slightly since Apple TV Plus launched). And "Big Little Lies" was nominated for its lackluster second season.
We don't know how many people have watched "The Morning Show," but Apple TV Plus has failed to generate much excitement since it debuted last month with little content compared to its competitors. But it stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, and HFPA loves star power at its ceremony. The same for "Big Little Lies," which enlisted Meryl Streep this year opposite Nicole Kidman and Witherspoon."Watchmen" will have a chance at redemption at the Emmys next year. Hopefully the Television Academy will be more rewarding than HFPA.
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"When I arrived here I was very very happily surprised," says Yves Rouche, a hotel consultant and golf club manager from South Africa, who came to Slovakia more than five years ago to live with his girlfriend. After studying in France and living all around the world he settled down in Košice. Slovakia was much more colorful and free than he initially thought it would be, he said. "Actually this country was very nice, beautiful women - certainly one of the highest concentrations of pretty ladies," he says.
Video made by journalism students who discovered Slovakia for the 19th edition of Spectacular Slovakia , the annual travel guide published by the English-language weekly The Slovak Spectator.
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An online campaign in solidarity with detained photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, popularly known as Shawkan, was launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday, amid a recent spate of journalist arrests.
The start of the campaign coincided with the Cairo Criminal Court's decision to postpone a session in the Rabea sit-in dispersal case, in which Shawkan is one of the 739 defendants, until April 14, according to lawyer Karim Abdel Rady. The photojournalist has been held in illegal pretrial detention since he was arrested in August 2013, while covering the violent dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in by security forces, which killed hundreds.
The Paris-based organization called on people to share pictures of themselves mimicking the action of taking a photo with the hashtag #MyPicForShawkan on social media, mirroring an image of Shawkan during a court appearance. A number of journalists and photojournalists have already contributed to the campaign.
#Egypt|ian photojournalist @ShawkanZeid has been in illegal pretrial detention for 4 yrs, 7 months, 27 days. For 1,700 days. For 40,800 hrs. For 146,880,000 secs.
Today @RSF_inter launches #MyPicForShawkan. Mimick the act of taking a photo & share online. Stand with Shawkan. pic.twitter.com/142GXRPzph
— Mai El-Sadany (@maitelsadany) April 10, 2018
"We have decided to launch this solidarity campaign on social networks because of the gravity of the situation," RSF Secretary General Christophe Deloire said on the organization's website. He added that the organization hopes that, if the campaign manages to mobilize enough supporters, "the Egyptian government will not be able to ignore our appeal."
#MyPicForShawkan: @RSF_inter is launching a solidarity campaign
to denounce the detention of a photographer in #Egypt and the death
sentence he may receive. Support @ShawkanZeid by posting your
photo today. https://t.co/JF9mlC2go1 pic.twitter.com/RxORa4A5oX
— RSF_east-asia (@RSF_eastasia) April 10, 2018
Egypt has been criticized for detaining and imprisoning journalists, and a source from RSF, speaking on condition of anonymity, estimated that 32 people are currently in custody in relation to journalism work. Most recently, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on the arrest of blogger and citizen journalist Mohamed Ibrahim, also known as Mohamed Oxygen.
According to Abdel Rady, Ibrahim's whereabouts have been unknown since he was arrested from his house at dawn on Friday. The lawyer told Mada Masr that the blogger's family has filed an official inquiry with the Egyptian Public Prosecution, and that he has sought information about Ibrahim's location from several bodies, including the State Security Prosecution.
CPJ released a statement on Friday calling for Ibrahim's immediate release, and that of Ahmed Abdel Gawad and Adel Eissa, two photojournalists who were arrested at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Cairo on Thursday night, and whose whereabouts were unknown at the time.
Gawad, who works for the privately owned Al-Shorouk newspaper, and Eissa, who works for the privately owned Al-Mobtada website, were released on Friday night after being held and interrogated at the National Security Agency for over 24 hours.
Another photojournalist, Belal Wagdy, was arrested alongside his father on Friday afternoon. Wagdy's uncle told Mada Masr that the family has filed inquires with the public prosecutor and Interior Ministry, but their location and the reason for their arrest remain unknown.
Wagdy works for the privately owned Masr al-Arabia website, which was raided by police several days earlier. The March 3 raid was carried out under the pretense of checking software licences, and Adel Sabry, the editor in chief, was arrested. He has since been issued a 15-day detention order pending investigations into charges of spreading false news, attempting to incite protests and promoting an ideology that aims to change the Constitution. The news website is facing a LE50,000 fine in relation to its coverage of Egypt' presidential election.
Disappeared journalist Hossam al-Wakil, missing since his arrest on December 30, was brought before the prosecution in Alexandria on Sunday, and similarly handed a 15-day detention order, pending investigations into charges of joining an illegal group and disrupting public peace.
The targeting of journalism in Egypt has extended beyond journalist arrests and detention. On March 40, Al-Manassa news website joined the ranks of the 500 websites to which access is currently blocked on Egyptian ISPs, among them Masr al-Arabia.
In 2017, Egypt ranked 161 out of 180 states on RSF's 2017 World Press Freedom Index. The organization's report described Egypt as "one of the world's biggest prisons for journalists."


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The peel of an orange is rubbed off on this and mixed with a little water. Now it is applied to the affected area (preferably with a cotton swab) and has about an hour to act, before it is washed off with lukewarm water.
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Going Retro– VBSCRIPT to Check Exchange 2003 Cluster Group Node Ownership
What? Exchange 2003? – VBSCRIPT? has Andy gone mad(er) than he normally is – what all this Exchange 2003 and Clustering stuff!
Well there are still a number of organisations running Exchange 2003 whom did not make the jump to 2007 one reason or another (many whom now I suspect are looking directly at the move to Exchange 2010) – so, I believe that whereas I do not blog about Exchange 2003 as much any longer – there is still a large, healthy user base out there – whom some of which might benefit from this script in this post.
The other day I was asked to have a look at an ailing Exchange 2003 Infrastructure (which is based around Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition configured as an Active/Passive Cluster – with 2 nodes).
Now there are a number of things wrong with this environment – some of which may form the basis of a future posts, but one of the most interesting things that I came across whilst looking at the configuration was the lack of formal monitoring on the Exchange 2003 nodes within the cluster.
In fairness to the organisation concerned the vast majority of their users (some 5000 seats) are running on a dedicated Exchange 2007 CCR environment which is monitored, where this Exchange 2003 setup is a an offshoot installation for a subsidiary company whom should be (and are looking to move to 2010 in the near future) therefore, given that situation; it has been a false economy to purchase a dedicated monitoring product.
However this did not help the situation that they found themselves in, as one of the problems that the installation was experiencing was random failovers between the cluster nodes – which were going undetected as there were no alert functions in place to let the admins know that something had gone wrong.
Now – I will be looking into the cause of the failovers on behalf of the company, however the immediate issue was putting the admins in the position where they did not know when the Exchange Groups (or any other of the associated cluster groups) had failed over to the passive node.
I decided to get them through, it would be an idea to write a simple VBSCRIPT that could be scheduled via the Windows Scheduling Tool (to run every 10 minutes or so) which would check to see if the Passive Node had become the owner of any of the cluster Groups (e.g. a failover of some description had happened). If the script does find an Cluster Group running on the Passive node – it will send an e-mail to the admin – or the email address of a Distribution Group.
The script is provided below (should you wish to copy and paste it into a VBS file on your server):
strComputer = "." strPassiveNodeName ="<Provide the name of the passive node here>" Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\mscluster") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from MSCluster_NodeToActiveGroup") parseString = "MSCluster_Node.Name=" & chr(34) & strPassiveNodeName & chr(34) sub send_mail(strSubject,strGroup) Set objEmail = CreateObject("CDO.Message") objEmail.From = "[email protected]" objEmail.To = "[email protected]" objEmail.Subject = "Exchange 2003 Cluster Failover Detected - " & strSubject objEmail.Textbody = "The follow resources are now running on Node 2: " & strGroup objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "<SMTP Server IP Address>" objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update objEmail.Send End sub For Each objItem in colItems if objItem.GroupComponent = parseString Then Wscript.Echo "This node is running cluster services" Wscript.Echo objItem.GroupComponent Wscript.Echo objItem.PartComponent send_mail "Please check",objItem.PartComponent Else WScript.Echo "All Services are running on the primary node" End if Next
If you would like to have a copy of this script already formatted into a VBS file, you can download it from here
Before scheduling the script to run you will need to make that following changes:
Change the strPassiveNodeName ="<Provide the name of the passive node here>" to the NETBIOS name of the Passive Node – for example;
strPassiveNodeName ="prod-Ex2003ND02"
Change the following lines of code within the sub sendMail to reflect a valid sender, recipient address and SMTP Server:
objEmail.From = "[email protected]" objEmail.To = "[email protected]"objEmail. Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "<SMTP Server IP Address>"
For example
objEmail.From = "[email protected]" objEmail.To = [email protected] objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "172.31.253.131"
When you have changed the relevant values, you should schedule the VBScript to Execute on the PASSIVE node only – every 10 minutes.
Should a failover of any of the Cluster Groups occur, a mail will be sent to the admins e-mail address letting you know that something is not quite right!
3 thoughts on "Going Retro– VBSCRIPT to Check Exchange 2003 Cluster Group Node Ownership"
Great tip and great script Andy.
I can a question what the stated situation here. The script is a great idea to be alerted if an issues had occur and to check the cluster to ensure that the cluster resources are online along with all the Mailbox Stores.
Would you suggest a Free Exchange Monitoring tool like the one from SolarWinds that could provide Admins the ability to maintain an eye on the cluster?
I used these years ago to try it out and don't believe it had the ability to send email notifications out about the cluster but your script would handle that.
Could something like the solution from Solarwinds and your script be the ideal non-cost solution for monitoring?
Hey Brian, do you know what? I had forgotten all about Solar (bad Grogan, naughty Grogan) as it has been such a while since I last used it 🙂 The key as you point out was the e-mail notification – but you are indeed correct that for a more rounded view of the box in question and a combination with the script it would be a good idea.
I still have some work to do with this box – I might post back with an update – and Solar will no doubt be part of it 🙂
Hi ,
Iam look for the same script for exchange 2007 SCC…3 node cluster
If The ClusterMBX server A is move down to Node B, it should trugeer the email


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Arrive Market is about so much more than shopping. We want you to leave here not just with pretty things, but empowered to own your influence & change the world.
After leaving my cushy & safe career as a pharmacist in 2016 to follow my passion & go out on my own, I dove head first into the world of retail. I have spent the last couple of years getting to know the clothing world & learning through trial by fire, but was ultimately still working for someone else.
In 2018 I knew I was ready to go it alone & open my own shop, but I also felt called to serve others & make a difference because of all that I have been given.
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