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Canon's new imagePROGRAF iPF850 44"/ 5-colour large format printer with high capacity Hot Swap ink tanks, 320GB HDD, built-in accounting software, dual rolls,stand and high capacity stacker is designed for the AEC, reprography, CAD, GIS, Poster and In-House Print markets. The iPF850 delivers premium quality to high volume continuous print environments.
The imagePROGRAF iPF850 is the latest technical perfection for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Mechanical CAD, Architecture, Engineering and Construction industries. Architects, engineers and construction firms can produce plans in exceptional detail with precise line rendering. Mechanical CAD engineers can create photorealistic visualisations of plans in applications such as AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop or Pro/Engineer and bring them to life quickly with exceptional quality. GIS specialists can render complex "what-if" scenarios using maps, seismic analysis data or images from satellites. Even with huge file sizes generated, the imagePROGRAF iPF850 can handle your demands with accurate colour and exceptional line rendering.
Design Supply, an Accredited Canon Large Format Solutions Partner, works closely with Canon to provide the best solutions available to get the job done for your business and maximize your opportunities. With more than 25 years of experience in the large format printer market, Design Supply offers expertise and knowledge in tailoring the exact solution for your specific application.
Key features of the Canon imagePROGRAF iPF850
The iPF850 44" large format printer features Canon's unique 5-colour dye and pigment reactive ink system which produces the sharpest, thinnest lines and the improved magenta ink makes the red gamut even better. Designed specifically for CAD & GIS applications, a minimum line width of 0.02mm can be achieved with a range accuracy of +/- 0.01%. This unique formulation improves ink adhesion to the media and minimises colour bleeding. This means clearer text, smoother curves, and sharp fine lines even on uncoated technical papers. Using reactive inks also improves scratch and marker resistance so prints are far more durable than those printed with conventional dye inks.
The iPF850 produces 2400 x 1200 dpi and produces A0 draft prints in just 42 seconds. Higher capacity Hot Swap ink tanks now available in both 330ml and 700ml, reduce the frequency of ink replacement, support high volume continuous printing, and reduce the cost per millilitre of ink, reducing total cost of ownership. Hot Swap ink tanks allow ink cartridges to be replaced during printing for maximum productivity. Improved magenta ink expands the colour gamut and produces clearer red text and lines in CAD drawings, architectural renderings, posters and POS displays. The internal hard disk drive in the imagePROGRAF iPF850 has 320GB HDD and 32GB of buffer RAM, offering much more storage for print jobs. . Dual rolls easily handle different types and varying widths of paper up to 44" at the same time and features automatic paper switching between rolls to suit print requirements. The iPF850 features a high capacity stacker which holds up to 100 sheets of different size paper up to A0.
Printer driver flexibility for the imagePROGRAF iPF850 addresses the needs of a diverse range of users. The iPF850 includes Direct, Print & Share, the Print Plug-in for Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint and an AutoCAD optimisation module. Print Utility for iPad and Oce Publisher Select will be available from Autumn, 2015.
Canon's Direct Print & Share utility, the popular workflow software bundled with the iPF850, featuring collaboration and printing via the cloud. Print a host of file types without needing an application, upload and download file for immediate sharing, with easy access even from mobile devices. Supporting a broad range of cloud providers, Direct Print & Share contains a 'Shortcut' feature. The 'Shortcut' print feature extends the capability of being able to print without opening files by allowing users to print automatically to pre-defined settings, by just dragging files into a 'Shortcut', which suits environments where automation and centralised control of printing are essential. 'Shortcut' also saves time and effort and allows batch printing of multiple file types. Canon's Direct Print & Share utility allows printing HPGL/2 easily, as well as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, CAD & GIS drawings and general graphics
A Printer Driver Optimization Module for AutoCAD is included with the iPF850, so HP-GL/2, HP-RTL files are easy to print, including the ability to set palette and pen settings, for the most demanding CAD workflows.
Specifications and specifications
Designed for practicality and usability, the iPF850 is designed to integrate seamlessly and work perfectly with the most demanding CAD/GIS workflows. Large files are processed efficiently with enhanced HP-GL/2 support, HP-RTL format is also supported and an AutoCAD optimized driver for Windows is included. It features improved device management and security for large workgroups with eMaintenance connectivity, locking control panel and SNP v3 protocol.
A front-loading paper system and a front access ink tank system means you can change paper and ink easily even when printer is installed in a tight space or flush against a wall. A large, bright, menu-driven LCD control panel gives easy access to sophisticated functions. Prints are automatically stacked and can be collected from a high capacity basket to prevent damage. There's even a handy print timer to let you know how long a job will take to complete. Borderless printing technology keep you more productive as there is no need for offline trimming and Auto Skew Correction enables unattended printing by automatically adjusting for any skew in orientation and feeds the paper/media correctly.
Manage printing costs more easily with the built-in Status Monitor on the imagePROGRAF iPF850. The Status Monitor's accounting function collects job logs and automatically calculates costs per job or time period. An economy mode can be selected which uses less ink: ideal when printing draft documents. The built-in accounting function allows accurate tracking of the cost per print and the overall cost of the printer and enables viewing of the data through the printer driver, or exporting it to a CSV file for use in other files or systems.
As you would expect from Canon, reliable performance is a given. For added peace of mind, Canon imagePROGRAF printers and print heads feature a 12-month warranty.
There is a complete range of Canon and third party media compatible with the ImagePROGRAF iPF850, available from Design Supply's media specialists whose expertise can help you determine the best solutions for your particular printing needs.
Canon imagePROGRAF CAD & GIS (5-colour) wide format printers use a number of advanced Canon proprietary technologies to achieve fine lines, small text and highly detailed graphics produced with incredible accuracy and sharpness.
FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) print-head technology for 5-colour imagePROGRAF printers features a total of 15,360 nozzles into a 1" high density print head. Bi-directional printing design of the imagePROGAF printers means print times are significantly faster than conventional print systems which require multiple passes for each line to compensate for uneven droplet size and placement on the paper. An innovative ink-nozzle manufacturing method results in precisely uniform 4 picoliter droplets resulting in 2400 x 1200 dots per inch (dpi) and outstanding print performance.
Canon's CAD and GIS (5-colour) range of imagePROGRAF iPF830, iPF840, and iPF850 printers feature a 5-colour dye-and-pigment reactive ink system designed specifically for the CAD/GIS market featuring a new high chroma magenta ink, for enhanced colour reproduction and more vibrant results for the indoor poster and POS printing environments. This unique formulation improves ink adhesion to the media and minimises colour bleeding. When black ink intersects with coloured ink (for example, words printed on a colour background) the black and cyan inks induce a chemical reaction that prevents black from bleeding into the colours. This means clearer text, smoother curves, and sharp fine lines even on uncoated technical papers. Using reactive inks also improves scratch and marker resistance so prints are far more durable than those printed with conventional dye inks.
The CAD & GIS (5-colour) range of imagePROGRAF printers utilise two types of black ink for the best possible results on all types of media. For photo-type a black ink (BK) is used and for high contrast prints on matte paper, a matte black (MBK) is used. This process ensures smooth graduations across every media type and is highly efficient as the relevant ink is automatically selected for each media type.
Canon's advanced L-COA (Large Format printer Common Architecture) image processor delivers faster high-quality output and print optimization. L-COA helps your printer carry out the most complex print jobs - where files can often exceed 200MB - with ease.
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Q. Should teachers be paid based on their performance? Why or why not?A. Exceptional teachers should be rewarded! However, they have endured nearly a four-year pay freeze. We need to let our state Legislature know this is unacceptable. We are losing many qualified teachers to the private sector where they can make more pay for fewer hours.
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- Rachel Maddow has finally been given her own show at MSNBC. She's taking over Dan Abrams' 9:00 ET spot on September 8 (the Monday after the conventions). Congrats! [NY Times]
- Barack Obama told John McCain to stop questioning his patriotism just because they disagree on national security. It won't work, but it was well-said, so go read it. [Politico]
- John McCain might really be prepared to piss off the fundies and pick a pro-choice VP, which should mean that very few pro-choice women will actually vote for him but could mean the fundies will stay home in a snit on Election Day. [CNN]
- Diane Feinstein, expected to chair the California delegation at next week's Democratic convention, won't be able to attend because she broke her ankle last week. Get well soon! [CNN]
- Polls show pet owners strongly prefer John McCain over Barack Obama. Quick! Get cute pictures of Obama with puppies! [US News & World Report]
- We might consider offering corrupt, almost-impeached former military dictator Pervez "Uncle Pervy" Musharraf asylum because he faces
perprosecution in his home country. God forbid he face that! [AFP]
- There's an 8-year-old boy named James Robinson on our government's Do Not Fly list. Our government won't take him off, but it turns out if they use his middle name, he doesn't get stopped. Foolproof system we got there to deter terrorists. [CNN]


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Desktop virtualization has continued to make headlines in IT, but despite the focus on the topic, there are a number of myths that remain. The root cause is that there are actually many flavors of desktop virtualization and what's true for one type is not always true for another. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which hosts virtual desktops in a data center, is one of many ways to virtualize desktops, and the one that has sparked a lot of these myths, but VDI is not the only way to virtualize the desktop.
Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV), a phrase coined by Intel®, describes a different approach to desktop virtualization. Where VDI centralizes both management and execution of virtual desktops, IDV maintains the benefits of centralized management while securely leveraging the computing power of end-point devices to deliver better performance, mobility and lower cost of ownership. This slideshow features the top ten myths of desktop virtualization, as identified by Sham Sao, SVP, Virtual Computer.
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Everything you need to know about the way millennials consume their food. Maybe TMI, actually. Watch now.
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The Obama Administration has pledged $25 million dollars to the Federal Pregnancy Assistance Fund, which aims to "assist women who have decided to carry their pregnancies to term and those who are parenting" by providing grants to states that apply.
The federal grant money, according to a press release issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, "will be used to will provide pregnant and parenting teens and women a seamless network of supportive services to help them complete high school or post-secondary degrees and gain access to health care, child care, family housing, and other critical support. In addition, States can use the funds to combat violence against pregnant women."
It's not exactly clear how the money will be distributed, and as it appears to be a program concentrating on women who have already chosen to go through with their pregnancies, it's doubtful that any of the grant money will be used for sex education or pregnancy prevention options. If nothing else, providing education, housing, health care, counseling, and protection to mothers in need is surely a positive thing.
So far, both pro-choice and anti-choice groups support the fund, though the fairly vitriolic fighting currently taking place between pro-choice and anti-choice CNN commenters (with a few random Tea Party quips thrown in for good measure) is perhaps proof that the "common ground" the administration is looking for, in terms of finding a way to appease both sides by working toward an overall decrease in the need for abortions, hasn't been found just yet.
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Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation aimed at establishing stronger standards of openness, transparency and integrity in the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial derivatives that have helped bring the nation to the brink of the worst recession in decades.
Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, announced the filing of the bill Thursday (Nov. 20). He called the legislation a critical step toward rebuilding and restoring confidence in the U.S. financial system, which has been battered by a continuous stream of bad news.
Some economists estimate the total face value of credit default swaps has skyrocketed to a total of $531 trillion or eight-and-a-half times the world GDP of $62 trillion. "This has created a very dangerous situation," Harkin said in a telephone press conference. "Indeed, Warren Buffett has called derivatives 'financial weapons of mass destruction.'"
Over the years, he said, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Congress have accommodated the swaps industry by allowing instruments that are essentially futures contracts to be privately negotiated without the safeguards provided through exchange trading.
In contrast, trading of financial futures on regulated futures markets subject to the oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been a "net positive to the economy, has caused no stress to the financial system and has easily endured the collapse of one and the near-collapse of two firms that were very active in the markets," Harkin quoted Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chairman Terrance Duffy as saying.
"The economic downturn in this country is forcing us to examine all contributing factors to the crisis in our financial markets," Harkin said. "By restoring reasonable safeguards and regulation of swaps, including credit default swaps, along with all futures contracts, this legislation will go a long way toward ensuring confidence in the markets and reestablishing soundness and integrity.
"My bill will end the unregulated 'casino capitalism' that has turned the swaps industry into a ticking time bomb. And it will bring these transactions out into the sunlight where they can be monitored and appropriately regulated."
The legislation, the Derivatives Trading Integrity Act, will bring more transparency and accountability into the marketplace, he said. Specifically, the bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act to eliminate the distinction between "excluded" and "exempt" commodities and regulated, exchange-traded commodities; futures contracts for all commodities would be treated the same.
In addition, the bill eliminates the statutory exclusion of swap transactions, and ends the CFTC's authority to exempt such transactions from the general requirement that a contract for the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery can only trade on a regulated board of trade. In effect, this means that all futures contracts must trade on a designated contract market or a derivatives transaction execution facility.
Virtually all contracts now commonly referred to as swaps fall under the definition of futures contracts and function basically in the same manner as futures contracts, Harkin noted.
The House Agriculture Committee also appears to be considering legislation that would extend Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight to credit default swaps and other financial derivatives. The committee held its second hearing on the issue in as many months Thursday.
"One thing we learned at October's hearing is that very few people know much about the credit default swaps market and even fewer people know the significant role they have played in the financial and credit crisis that has threatened the stability of our economy," said House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn.
"I think one of the things we can do right away to start opening up and cleaning up the swaps markets is to use the CFTC model of transparent and above-board central clearing process. At some point, our regulators and the next Congress will have to get to the root of the problem before it is too late and allow for some real oversight of these markets, to provide transparency and accountability for both buyers and sellers, and to reduce systemic risk."
"I am encouraged we are collectively moving forward with establishing a clearing mechanism for credit default swaps," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., the committee's ranking member. "It will improve transparency and risk management, and will create a method for price discovery."
The credit derivatives market has grown dramatically over the last 15 years. Financial institutions, some of whom have notably failed or been taken over by the government in recent months, including American International Group (AIG), Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Washington Mutual, have been the most frequent users of credit derivatives.
Harkin said he did not expect the Senate to take any action on his legislation until the next Congress, which begins in January. "I'm just laying my markers down so that senators can begin thinking about how they want to address this issue."
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No Room for Indifference
A year ago or so, I was approached after church by a young woman who had recently become convinced of Reformed theology. Coming from a fairly legalistic background, her spiritual life had been energized by the biblical message of God's …Read More
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I wish I had been told when I was young about the lie all of us naturally believe. This lie is explained to us by Jesus when he said to the Jews who had believed on Him: "If you continue in …Read More


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The Lord always has His hand in His work and I see it in so many ways. In all the ministries the Lord has privileged me to be involved in, I see His hand at work. And certainly that's true in the preaching that the Lord has called me to do. As I sort of plan out this series on the anatomy of the church, I can't really anticipate exactly how long it's going to take me to work my through the issues that have been so important to us, but it seems as the Holy Spirit has all along had a perfect plan in mind. And we find ourselves coming, this morning, to the next in our series of looking at spiritual attitudes. You remember now, we're talking about the anatomy of the church and as we look at what the church should be, there are certain attitudes that must exist in the life of the church, we've called those the internal systems. We spent some time on the skeleton, the structure of the church and now we're looking at the internal systems, those spiritual attitudes and spiritual motivations that carry the life of the church, that really make the church what it is on the inside. And, after all, what it is on the inside is really what it becomes on the outside. And we've been talking about spiritual attitudes like faith and obedience and love and humility and unity and contentment and joy and thankfulness and forgiveness. And we've worked our way through those things, including courage and boldness, strength, all very essential spiritual attitudes. As far as I can tell right now, I just have two more that I want to address...one more at the very end will be the attitude of hope. We don't hear a lot about hope and not a lot of sermons are preached about hope. But, after all, it's one of that great triumvirate...faith, hope and love in 1 Corinthians 13, and so it will be addressed. And I think fittingly so just as we come to the end of this year and begin to launch into next year, we'll look at the subject of hope because hope addresses the future.
But before we get to the issue of hope, there is another matter of a spiritual attitude that is absolutely crucial, and it is perhaps likely that we will spend not only this Sunday on this attitude but next Sunday as well. And that's fine, that works out perfectly because it fits so wonderfully into the theme of this season of the year.
Now this attitude that I want to address this morning I had to think about for a while because it could fit into the next category in my discussion of the anatomy of the church. There could be a case made that it really belongs in the muscles. We're going to talk about the muscles, the actual function of the church, and maybe that's where I thought it would go initially, but I backed away from that after some consideration and I feel it needs to go right here in the internal systems because it's on the inside before it ever shows up on the outside and it is the attitude of worship...worship....worship.
This is at the very heart and soul of all that we are as Christians individually and collectively. The church worships when it comes together and that's what we did this morning with those Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord. And as we were listening to the greatness of those lyrics and the majesty of that music about the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, our hearts were lifted up in worship and we felt the emotion of those truths surging through us in the joy and the exhilaration of that music. The church collectively comes together to worship, that is a function of the church.
But it can only do that functionally if it has worshiping people. And that's why we say it starts in the heart. And so it really does belong in this particular category of spiritual attitudes. There are a lot of things being emphasized in the churches in our country today and sad to say worship is not one of them. In a very self-centered church, in a very pragmatic oriented church, in a church that's concerned more about how unbelievers feel than about the heart attitude of believers, worship is deprioritized. In churches that are well programmed and run very efficiently and their services are all timed down to the gnat's eyebrow and everything serves a pragmatic purpose, worship has a very difficult time finding a place. Services emphasize all kinds of things today and rarely is the high point and the focal point worship. I suppose it's important for me to say at this point that we would desire that every time we come together on Sundays in the presence of the Lord and with one another, it is for the primary purpose of worship. And even the teaching is designed to enhance our personal worship, not just while we're here but after we've gone.
Worship is absolutely at the heart of everything that we do. We can in our society, of course, get very busy and very acclimated toward activity and action, it's kind of the American way. We can get so busy that it just translates into our church life which is a whole lot of activity with very little contemplation, very little real heartfelt worship. I remember reading some years ago about a distinguished explorer who spent a couple of years among some savage people in the upper Amazon. And he attempted a forced trek through the jungle of extraordinary speed for some of his exploring purposes. He was driving these native carriers to the limit physically. And all went well for about two or three days of this hard driving march. On the third day all the natives just sat down beside their burdens and refused to move. The explorer was frustrated and tried to command them to get up and get going and their chief explained, quote: "They're waiting for their souls to catch up to their bodies."
And maybe that's how it is in the church in our country. There's an awful lot of action and an awful lot of activity, but maybe we need to stop and let our souls catch up with our bodies. Now to turn to a passage of Scripture that will help us focus on worship and really is only a launch point, and I confess to you, I don't know everything that I'm going to say. I know there is much more in me than I can say, but we'll get a good start this morning if we begin in John chapter 4. This will be our launch point to talk about worship.
It is the theme of verses 20 to 24, John chapter 4 verses 20 to 24. Let's begin in verse 20, "Our fathers worshiped in this mountain and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus said to her, `Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall you worship the Father. You worship that which you do not know, we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews, but an hour is coming and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
Now if you notice as we were reading through the word "worship" is repeated a number of times, eight to be exact, in just those brief five verses. Eight times worship is mentioned, it is clearly then the theme of this conversation between a Samaritan woman and the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now seeing the word "worship" mentioned eight times demands from us then a definition. What is the word "worship" in its singular meaning? What is it saying? Well simply it means to give honor to a superior being...to give honor to a superior being. That would be a dictionary kind of definition. So this is a discussion here about giving honor, in this case, to God who, of course, is superior. Worship is to give honor, to pay honor to a superior being.
Now in the New Testament there are a couple of words used for worship throughout the New Testament. One of them is the word proskuneo, and it literally means to kiss toward, and that was because it was somewhat common in days of kings and monarchs for people to come down and kiss the feet or kiss the ring or kiss the hand as an act of homage, an act of submissive honor and adoration. It can mean to kiss the hand, it can mean to bow down, it came to mean to prostrate oneself, which is what subjects did beneath the feet of kings who were elevated on thrones. And that is the word that is used here. It is that word of abject obeisance where you literally bow down and prostrate yourself before one who is superior to you.
There is another word in the New Testament, however, that you will also note is used and translated worship in English, it is the word latreuo and it means to render service, to render homage, to render honor, and it's used elsewhere in the New Testament. But in either case, and I mention those two not to show you so much the difference but just to note there are two words that basically mean the same although a case could be made that latreuo more relates to the priestly kind of service to God whereas the word proskuneo is more of a royal word, latreuo being more of a priestly one. But nonetheless they both have to do with one who serves or honors or gives homage to one superior to himself.
Now how does that Greek get into English? Well when you come to English there's an old English word that you don't find anymore, obviously, it's from the old Anglo Saxon language and the word was werthship, and werthship became the sort of the progenitor to the word that we used worship, and it means to render homage to a superior being. And, of course, in Anglo Saxon culture and in the culture that developed out of that in England, they were very used to having chiefs and kings and rulers over them to whom they gave worship. That's been a part of humanity through all of the centuries and we are among those people in more modern times who don't have those kinds of cultures, we don't have an understanding of kings and so we have to fill in a few blanks as we...as we read the Bible and it uses these kinds of motifs, these kinds of backgrounds to express divine and spiritual truth. But we can understand, I think, what it means simply to give honor to God, to give Him reverence, homage, adoration, praise and glory.
Now there are a number of ways that we can sort of jump in to understanding worship, but let me take you back clear back into the Old Testament to the thirtieth chapter of Exodus...to Exodus chapter 30. And there's an interesting...there's an interesting formula here that I think will fascinate you. The Lord giving commands to His people through the book of Exodus about how they were to worship Him...commands about how to build the place of worship, commands about how to bring their offerings, about how the priests should function, how the Levites who assisted the priests should function, commands about all matters of worship. And one that I find most interesting is in the thirtieth chapter of Exodus in verse 34. "Then the Lord said to Moses, `Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.'" Now that's a recipe, folks, that's a recipe, that's a formula for a mixture...equal parts of all of those that are mentioned.
And then in verse 35, "And with it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure and holy. And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting." That is you part of it in the tabernacle right in front of the Holy of Holies. You put it there. "Where I shall meet with you; it shall be most holy to you. And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the Lord. Whoever shall make any like it, to use as a perfume, shall be cut off from his people."
You know what that means? Killed. Anybody...anybody who pirated the formula to make perfume for himself out of it was to be executed. That's really an amazing thing to me. There was something so sacred, there was something so unique and so separate and so holy about worship that even in as simple a formula as the mixture required to make a perfume that acted as incense burning before the tent of meeting where God met with His people, that formula was never to be reproduced for any other personal use. Worship then is something very unique and it is symbolized in that incense. It is symbolized in that fragrant perfume that rises to God. It is something pure and separated from all of the rest of life. And that's how we have to consider it. It is something sacred. And a violation of worship is a very serious thing, even violating the formula resulted in death. Worship is that important to God. Even in its symbols God was saying...This is very important and I expect pure worship.
Turn over to the New Testament for another illustration of the centrality of worship, to John's gospel again, only this time go beyond chapter 4 to chapter 12. In chapter 12 we read this, "Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead." Of course, Lazarus stands as a monument to the power of Christ. "So they made Him a supper there and Martha was serving. But Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him." You get the scene. He's in the home of these beloved friends, just a chapter earlier in the eleventh chapter that Lazarus was dead and Jesus raised him from the dead, an incredible reunion has occurred because his body had been in the grave for four days when he came forth. The word has spread from Bethany of the resurrection. In fact, it spread into the city of Jerusalem and it is the reason why when Jesus entered Jerusalem they threw palm branches at His feet and hailed Him as King because they had heard that He raised Lazarus from the dead. This was the monumental prepassover miracle that was convincing enough to the people to indicate that this was their Messiah. So now the reunion has occurred. Lazarus is raised. A supper is being held to celebrate this tremendous event. And Lazarus is there at the table, having a discussion. And I've always wondered what they were talking about. My first question might have been...Lazarus, where were you for those four days and what was it like?
Lazarus was the only person I know of who had not a near-death experience, but a real death experience. And came back and didn't say anything about it in Scripture. But anyway he was there eating. Martha was serving. Verse 3, "Mary, therefore, took a pound of very costly perfume, of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume." Just a little note here. Martha serving and Mary...what?...worshiping. Martha serving and Mary worshiping. It's fine to serve, has a place but it comes second to worship. She anointed Him with costly perfume, sacrifice was involved in that, adoration was involved in that, humility was involved in that. She wiped His feet with her hair, the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
It's probably true that her hair went all the way down maybe to her knees so there was plenty of it to use. She was lavishing on Him worship for what He had done. Martha's approach was to provide a meal, Mary's approach was to worship and Mary chose the better part.
Can I talk about that for a moment? There is a distinction between ministry and worship...a very important distinction to recognize. Ministry...listen to this now...ministry is that which comes down to us from the Father. Now mark this. Ministry comes down to us from the Father through the Son in the power of the Holy Spirit out through the human instruments. Okay? That's kind of the flow. Ministry starts with God, through His Son in the power of His Spirit through the human instrument.
On the other hand, worship is that which goes from us by the Holy Spirit's power through the name of the Son back to the Father. And so while they are distinct, they are connected. As the ministry flows down, the praise flows back. Ministry descends, praise ascends. Like the prophet who speaks to the people for God and the priest who speaks to God for the people. There is that distinction. And I really do believe that that balance must be maintained in the life of the church. That's really why we do what we do, that's why we have a service where we initiate praise and in the power of the Holy Spirit through the name of the Son we take it back to God. And then we have a time for the ministry of truth which comes from God by His Son through His Spirit through the human instrument to enable you then to go out as well and minister. That is a very essential and biblical balance.
But even the ministry of the Word, even the ministry that we carry on here is designed to enhance worship. If you attend church to see what you can get out of it, you missed the whole point. If you came here for a blessing, you missed the whole point. The truth of the matter is you don't come to get, you come to give. And even what you get is to enhance your ability to give, right? In other words, whatever you receive from the ministry of the Word of God, whatever truth comes to bear upon your heart is only to enhance your worship. I mean, if you go to church and the sermon is really lousy and it happens, believe me, and somebody says to you, "Well what did you get out of that?" That isn't the right question. If it was a two on a one-to-ten scale, the issue is not what did you get, the issue is what did you give, isn't it? What did you bring to God, a right heart attitude, even a fumbling, bumbling preacher who simply states things in a very colorless way when he speaks the truth should excite the heart of a true worshiper. No matter what he lacks in prose, no matter what he lacks in charm or skill, when truth is spoken it should excite the worshiping heart. Worship is utterly involved with giving honor to God. And that's why we come together and it has to rise out of the heart.
The psalmist said in Psalm 45:1, "My heart is overflowing with a good matter." And he used the Hebrew term that means to bubble up like boiling water going over the edge of the pan. My heart is just bubbling, boiling over. And when you live with a bubbling, boiling, overflowing heart of worship, the sermon no matter how weak it might be, the lesson no matter how lacking in skill it might be will still excite your heart.
Each of the five books of Psalms...there are five books of Psalms among the 150 Psalms, each of the five books ends with an explosion of worship. Each of those five books of Psalms ends with a doxology, an explosion of worship. Why? Because the people would read through the Psalms and accumulate all of this information about God and His character and His work and eventually they would explode in adoring praise and worship. That's what we're supposed to do.
When a Jew went to the tabernacle or the temple to worship, he didn't go there and have somebody say, "Well, what did you get out of it?" That wasn't the point. He took an animal. He took a sacrifice. He went to make an offering. He was giving to God what God required. He was bringing to God his worship and his adoration and his penitence. His heart was reaching out to glorify God. And when Christ was born, the child came into the world, the angels glorified God, "Glory to God in the highest," they said.
That's what worship is. Worship is giving to God. And it's giving to God out of a heart that is bubbling over because one understands and is grateful for God's saving power and unending goodness. There are doxologies not only in the Old Testament, there are doxologies in the New Testament. Some months ago I gave you a sermon on those doxologies. Be reminded of one of them. Romans 11:33, "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways, for who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to Him again, for from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen." And that's Paul's boiling over, bubbling outburst of praise after eleven chapters of contemplating the doctrine of salvation. That's what worship is. It's boiling over, it's bubbling over, it's overflowing with gratitude to God in worshiping and honoring Him. That's what it is. It's recognizing that my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus, like it says in Philippians 4, and then saying immediately after, "Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever amen." That's it, that's worship. In contemplation of God's gifts there's an outburst, almost an uncontrollable outburst of praise.
And coming to church on the Lord's day to worship the Lord shouldn't be a drudgery, it shouldn't be something you have to do, something you feel obligated to do, something you think you should do because you want to train the kids in that direction. You ought to be here so eager to get in the place that you're here early and you can't wait for the corporate opportunity to lift your boiling over soul in praise to God.
Paul in Galatians says, "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ who gave Himself for our sins that He might deliver us out of this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father," and just contemplating that he bursts out, "To whom be the glory forevermore. Amen." And he says amen only in the third verse of the first chapter. He's only in to this thing four verses and he bursts out in praise. That's a heart of worship.
At the end of the book of Romans, or near the end of the book of Romans in chapter 15 we come down to verse 27, well 25 really...I'm sorry, 16, verse 25, "To Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages," that's the gospel, "but now is manifest and by the Scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the eternal God has been made known to all the nations leading to obedience of faith to the only wise God through Jesus Christ be the glory forever. Amen." You say, "Well I know about these." Yeah, I know you know about them, I'm simply reminding you that that is the attitude of worship...that is the attitude of worship. You find it as Paul writes to Timothy in 1 Timothy chapter 1, he is a Psalm 45:1 person, he's boiling over and any small, it seems, any small discussion of the greatness of God's grace causes him to boil over. In 1 Timothy he's talking about how he was saved. He was...he was a blasphemer, verse 13, he was a persecutor, he was a violent aggressor, he was shown mercy and he says in verse 15 that he was the chief of sinners and he was saved. And he gets down into verse 16 and talks about how he found mercy with God. And then in verse 17 he boils over, "Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen." Now when you sing the hymns that we sung this morning, those are simply ways to give expression to that worshiping heart. And I'm sure that many of the doxologies in the New Testament, we can't reconstruct the situation obviously, we don't have any recordings, but I'm sure many of the doxologies of the New Testament became songs of the early church as they give expression to the joy that they felt in contemplating the greatness of the salvation God had provided for them. And you find those stretching throughout all of the New Testament. The end of 2 Timothy chapter 4, "To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen." It was just spontaneous. It was like a...it was a like a knee-jerk reaction. When you brought up a salvation truth, Paul reacted in worship...in worship.
How long has it been honestly, how long has it been since your own heart experienced that kind of spontaneous worship? How long since you were so controlled by divine truth and so overwhelmed by the goodness of God and the greatness of salvation and the grace and mercy the Savior provided for you, so overwhelmed by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, so thrilled with the truth of Scripture, so grateful for God's constant care and protection and provision in your life that it just took a small indication of divine truth to cause you to boil over in worship? Are you right on the brink of a doxology at any moment? Should be if your mind is set on divine things, if your mind is set on heavenly things. There is no joy, there is no exhilaration, there is not thrill, there is no happiness that can compare with the joy and the thrill and the exhilaration and the happiness of one who is...who lives doxologically...now there's a phrase for you. And that's what I'm after in this look at worship. I want to get you to live on the brink of a praise explosion. And not some artificial thing, not something that has to be induced by a certain mood, but something that is absolutely spontaneous, sort of like you just pulled the trigger of divine truth and it goes off. That's spontaneous worship.
You know, there are a lot of ways, I suppose, that through the years people have suggested you might be able to tell a spiritual person from a fleshly one. Or you might be able to tell someone who is totally committed to the Lord from one who is not. And there may be a number of ways to do that, but none is more evident and none is a better indicator than the person who is always on the brink of praise.
You say, "Well you don't know my circumstances." Ah, that isn't the issue. Paul and Silas were in stocks in the middle of the night in jail, for all they knew they were going to die. And what were they doing? Singing. Why were they singing? They were singing because it gave expression to their praise. You say, "Well why didn't they just recite the words?" Well that would be worship in truth and they wanted to worship in spirit and in truth and God has given you emotional capability. And when your emotions move along with the truth, your whole person is exhilarated in the expression of worship. That's why you love the kind of music you enjoyed today. That's why you could look at the faces of these young people and they were just lit up brightly as they sang those songs because they came from within the heart. They sang because that's what Christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit do.
Just to give you a biblical context for that, Colossians tells us in chapter 3 that those in whom the word of Christ dwells richly, Ephesians 5 says those in whom the Spirit is controlling life, speak to themselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and sing and make melody in their heart to the Lord. They are spontaneously joyous. They spontaneously worship. Even when difficulties come along, they become cause for Psalms and songs and hymns.
That's the kind of attitude I want the church to have, not a self-centered attitude. And self-centered preaching, psychological preaching and quasi psychological preaching and man-centered stuff and all of that just breeds the very antithesis to true worship, where as God-centered, Christ-centered, Spirit-centered worship produces worshipers. That's the goal.
Well let me tell you a little bit about the background here in John chapter 4, now that we've sort of gotten that started. Jesus is speaking to a Samaritan woman. Now this woman has some real serious problems. She is a wicked sinful woman. And she knows it. And so does Jesus because He knows everything. Jesus came to a well in Samaria. He by all normal standards shouldn't have been in Samaria. Samaria was a place of outcasts. You remember in Israel's ancient history that the kingdom was divided after Solomon...ten tribes went to the north and constituted what became known as Israel...two tribes stayed in the south and made up what was known as Judah, those two tribes being Judah and Benjamin. And you remember that both the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom fell into serious and deadly idolatry. And eventually the northern kingdom was taken captive from which they never really came back, although many in those ten tribes had filtered down into Judah and Benjamin and so that eventually the reconstituted Israel after the Babylonian captivity included all twelve tribes. But the northern kingdom was taken off in 722 B.C. into captivity. Later on in 603 or 604 and then 586 B.C. the southern kingdom was taken off into captivity.
Some of the people who were left behind, some of the women who were left behind intermarried with pagans, intermarried with Gentiles and made a half-breed race that became known as Samaritans. They developed their own sort of form of religion, made their sacred mountain Mount Gerizim and had a religion of their own, a sort of a mixture of paganism and Judaism, which by the way still exists today among a very, very small Samaritans, still worshiping on Mount Gerizim today. But they were outcasts to the Jews because they had intermarried. They had done the forbidden thing and married idolatrous Gentiles.
So when Israel came back from captivity after its seventy years of captivity and came back into the land and the nation was reestablished, the Samaritan, these mixed people, were not accepted. Furthermore, they were...they demonstrated themselves to be enemies of Israel and so there was a continuing hostility. Well, Jesus went into Samaria and Jews would have said He shouldn't be there, but He was there. And in fact, He runs in to a woman at a well and He asks this woman to give Him some water. And she does, and it wasn't an easy thing to do because to draw water out of that well was a formidable task and she did it and provided for Jesus. She had come to get water, as women did in that part of the world. Women would go to the well in the time of the evening and fill up the pots either on their heads or across their shoulders and they would carry them back to the village. And then Jesus had this little discussion with her about living water and about water that you drink and never thirst again. And He's really talking about spiritual satisfaction.
I think she got the message. So in verse 15 she says to Him, "Give me this water." It's remarkable that a Jew is even offering her salvation as an outcast. It's astonishing really. And she gets the message. She knows that something unique is going on. She knows He's not talking about H2O. "Give me this water, I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw." And I think she's talking back in metaphoric terms, I don't think she's simply talking about some kind of magic water. He said to her, "Go call your husband and come here." The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said I have no husband, for you've had five husbands and the one whom you now have is not your husband. This you have truly said."
In one simple statement Jesus unmasks her iniquity because before He gives living water to anybody, before anybody can receive salvation, they must acknowledge...what?...sin. And so again as with the rich young ruler, and we see that in Matthew 19 later in Jesus' life, we find here the same barrier. Fine, you want living water, I have living water. I can give you living water. The issue is your sin...before I can give you the living water there must be a recognition of your sin, the sin is unmasked. And He says you've had five husbands and the one whom you now have is not your husband. By the way, that's a good text to prove that just because you live with somebody doesn't make you married. Some people say, "Well, you know, since we came together physically we feel it's marriage and when people come together physically that constitutes a marriage." It doesn't because this woman was living with this man and Jesus says he is not your husband...so that doesn't constitute a marriage. That's a footnote. But it does constitute adultery, fornication.
So she was unmasked as a wicked woman. And she says to him in verse 19, "Sir, I perceive You're a prophet." This has all been building. I mean, she knew He was a prophet when He was offering her some kind of spiritual life, and now that He unmasks her sin she's sure He's a prophet. And her response immediately is this..."Our fathers worshiped..." And what does that mean? She immediately introduces the conversation about worship. Now let me get this point settled because it's very important foundationally of what I'm going to say tonight. This whole conversation is all about a worship matter. The woman sees getting her life right as an act of worship. She now knows that this man has spiritual satisfaction to offer her. And she knows that she has to deal with her sin. And the way she understands that is, "I have to go before God and worship...I've got to settle some things with God. I just don't know where to go. Our fathers, the Samaritans, say this is the mountain, Gerizim. You people say it's Jerusalem. Where do I go to worship?"
And, beloved, just enough to start this little study by introducing this, to sum it up by saying this. From the very moment that you came to Christ, you began a life of worship. You fell on your face before God and embraced Jesus Christ repenting from your sins. At that moment you were a worshiper of the true and living God and His Son the Lord Jesus Christ and you submitted yourself, you acknowledged your iniquity, you submitted to the great King, the great Lord, you prostrated yourself as a sinner and you begged for grace and mercy as an iniquitous individual might do, falling prostrate before a king who held his life in his hands. You prostrated yourself and you worshiped God. And that's how you began your Christian life, and it should have been from there an ever increasing expression of worship.
That's what Christian living is, it's worship from start to finish. And finish, that's heaven where we worship forever perfectly. And so I ask you the question which I'll endeavor to answer tonight and next Sunday and hopefully you'll apply these truths and be able to answer the question for your own life, the question is...how long has it been since you have really regularly experienced this kind of worship of bubbling over, boiling over, spontaneous sort of knee-jerk reaction, instantaneous response to every mention of God's grace and mercy in your behalf with immediate expressions of worship? We should be boiling over when we think of all that God has done for us. And maybe as we go through this series the Lord will enable us to get back that first love where we experience that kind of worship. Let's pray together.
Father, we didn't get very far this morning but we thank You for the reminder again of how important it is to worship You, how basic, how absolutely essential to our Christian experience. We are worshipers. The Father seeks worshipers. And like this woman, we come and we know that there is life but in the way is sin. And in that moment when we came we fell on our face and bowed our knee and we worshiped. We asked You to be merciful and gracious and forgive us and we submitted ourselves to You and we pledged obedience and we said that we would honor You and adore You and love You. And, Lord, since that time we have tasted Your goodness day in and day out and yet in so many cases our worship has grown cold. Forgive us for that. Take us back to that first love which so easily exploded in praise and adoration when thinking of all You have done for us. Forgive us for our apathy and rekindle in us the fire of our praise and we'll thank You in Your Son's name. Amen.
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Well over a year ago, I wrote a post for Ars about the way I was—or wasn't—using my computer. Due to cramped space and no desire for a second monitor, I created a "laptop hammock" to hang it off the side of my desk. That way I could use it with an external monitor and keyboard without giving up precious table space.
At the time, many Ars readers (and readers elsewhere) said it was crazy. They claimed that instability, overheating, and precarious positioning could all spell doom for my laptop. But here, 16 months later, I can report everything has been (almost) perfect. If you missed the initial post and video about how I made the laptop hammock, you might want to catch up and understand its mechanics before reading about how things have panned out.
Since the laptop hammock's inception, I've been meaning to establish a more secure way of hanging it off my desk by anchoring the strings in some way. I never got around to it, in part because it's proved unnecessary. The computer's weight keeps them from shifting around too much when it's resting inside the hammock.
The only time the string supports occasionally slip off is when I'm trying to put the laptop back in after taking it out. I could still hang it inside the desk legs and solve that problem completely, but I'd be slightly more worried about knocking it with my legs. I never do that now with it positioned on the very end of the table.
A couple of commenters raised the issue of their cats finding a mortal enemy in the hammock. Everyone's cats are different. Mine have ignored it.
Numerous commenters on both Ars and Lifehacker raised hell about the potential for overheating. Not all laptops vent like a Macbook Pro (which does so through the hinge and out the back, even through the keyboard to a degree). In my time using the laptop hammock, I've experienced zero overheating problems and zero shutdowns from related complications.
If you are newly interested in the laptop hammock concept but have a venting solution with different needs, a number of commenters came up with better material solutions that afford even more circulation than cotton fabric: a mesh laundry bag, string fashioned into webbing, or even a length of sturdy fishing line threaded between the monitor and keyboard.
Likewise, a few commenters raised the issue of lint. If your intake fans are more open than mine, this could be a problem. All the solutions above are lint-free alternatives though. Something like leather, while less circulation-friendly, could be an option too (as suggested by alxx).
I can't speak to the efficacy or stability of any of these alternative materials, but they seem like solid creative suggestions. For those interested in harder data on the difference in heat dispersion, commenter Baeocystin conducted some tests at the time with his own 15-inch Lenovo laptop and an IR thermometer.
Another commenter, dm5530, claimed that he owned a laptop in the past that required the lid be open to properly ventilate. He eventually lost that laptop's video card to overheating (though not from using a laptop hammock). Obviously some computers are not designed for the hammock lifestyle, but you can find out whether yours is in fairly short order—before any major damage is done.
To drive the point home regarding stability and heat issues, I've only had one repair done since starting to use the laptop hammock. It was a hard drive replacement in early June 2012, about three months after I started using the hammock. In the intervening time, the computer sustained a nasty fall, while on and open, from an outdoor table. It was the first time the hard drive had been replaced in two years of ownership. Since that, everything has been fine with no further service required.
I can't say that my original design was a thing to behold, visually speaking, with its unfinished edges and loose threads. But since I haven't touched it much, the fabric isn't exactly unraveling all over the place. I gave it a quick trim before taking its recent yearbook picture, but otherwise it's held up.
So while it still requires a bit of finesse to get my laptop in and out of its hammock, I couldn't be happier with the solution. Most of the problems I worried about at the outset proved to be baseless. For over a year, I've been able to keep my desk a mostly open space, giving me that much more room for an inevitable deluge of random clutter.


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Although some establishments tend to combine sales and marketing arms into the same department, their scope of work is often very different in nature. For the sake of saving expenses as well as killing two birds with one stone, management takes the higher road. Marketing degree jobs normally require suitably trained individuals to work with various teams in order to establish sound grounding of the product or service at hand. To gauge public awareness and acceptance, trained marketers go out into the field. Data collected is then compiled and analyzed to better ascertain whether selling ice in the Arctic region or Sahara Desert make a better marketing plan.
The marketing manager is tasked to draw up strategies akin to battle plans to ensure minimal casualty in cost and time. Ultimately, failed endeavors put the manager's job on the chopping block. Success also needs constant monitoring and tweaking as supply and demand conform to the laws of gravity of ups and downs. Although one may brandish the best of colleges on the marketing degree, jobs continue to remain secure so long as one brings in the numbers.
Although many deem themselves suitable material for this form of employment, it demands long hours, camaraderie with clients and others in the industry in the face of tight deadlines coupled with the need to generate new and evolving ideas to attract more customers. If one cannot stand the heat, it is best to make a quick exit from the kitchen. However, the elite few thrive on the high pressure cooker of a working environment. Trained marketers with vast experience normally survive the effects of a lagging economy as they see potential market in all areas of industry. Job security and rewards are also handsome in the form as bonuses and stock options laid out for those able to deliver the goods.


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The team at our dental office strives to make visiting our office a pleasant and educational experience.
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Make a Travel Journal
Putting together a travel journal for your family's next vacation is a great way to get your kids reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening and what they're learning on the trip. The possibilities for a travel journal are as endlessly varied as your kids' personalities and imaginations. Make a daily journal that describes what you did each day, a scientific notebook of plant and animal observations, an art journal of sketches, or a combination of all three.
What You Need:
- Empty notebook with unlined paper (try to avoid spiral bindings or perforated pages; a hardcover notebook with a sewn binding will hold up better during the trip)
- Writing utensils such as a pen, pencil, and an eraser
- Glue
- Paint, stickers, and other materials for decorating
- Flat souvenirs such as postcards (optional)
- Computer printout map of your trip route (optional)
What You Do:
- Before you leave home, encourage your child to personalize the outside of the notebook. He could write his name on the cover, as well as the dates and destination of the trip. He may also want to draw or paint a picture on the cover or add decorations like stickers.
- Create and print an online map of the route you'll be travelling, whether by car or by plane. Help him glue the map to the inside cover of his travel journal and invite him to refer to it during the journey.
- Throughout the trip, encourage him to get out his travel journal and write in it. If he can't think of anything to write, give him a few ideas:
- Keep a daily journal, in words and pictures, of the events of the trip. He can include descriptions of the places you visit, the people you meet, and how he feels about them.
- Use the journal as a scrapbook, pasting postcards, brochures, and other items in it that he picks up along the way.
- Record observations of nature. He could make a list of the birds and animals he sees and write down questions about them so he'll remember to look up the answers when he gets home. He can also make quick sketches of plants, animals, or the landscape.
- Write stories and poems inspired by the trip. If he has trouble getting started, ask questions. What does he think it would be like to live in the place you're visiting? If the plants, animals, and objects along the route could talk, what might they say?
The possibilities are endless, but no matter what your child chooses to do with his travel journal, by the end he'll have a personal and inexpensive souvenir that will help him remember his trip for years to come.


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The following items were taken from the Sept. 21 through 27, 1913, Examiner.
• Ray Sermon, a well known Independence ball player, will head Warrensburg Normal Football Team for the year. Sermon, quarterback of the 1912 championship football team and All Missouri quarterback, was elected captain of the 1913 team at the annual Athletic Banquet at the Hotel Estes. He already had a name as an athlete before going to Warrensburg. For four years, he had been in every sport of the Independence High School.
• In the state of Missouri, according to statistics which have just been published at Jefferson City, there are 141 men between the ages of 15 and 45 for every 100 women between the same ages. The total number is 435,219 men and 308,134 women.
• Students enrolled at Elm Grove School on the Lexington Road east of Independence are Earl and Gordon Barlow, Paul, Chelse and Carl Fields, Emery and Roy Deatherage, Paul, Marian and John Lanham, George Rogers, Joe Spenser, Walter Whitney, Bertha and Mary Brasfield, Ethel Barlow, Bertha and Sadie Decker, Helen Hifner, Evaline and Isabelle Lanham, May, Lela, Mildred, Vera and Florence Rogers, and Ethel and Bessie Reed.
• A meeting was held at Higginsville for the purpose of boosting what is known as "The Blue Book Route" across the state of Missouri. The route would use the Blue Springs and Oak Grove rock road to Oak Grove and the ridge road from Oak Grove to Odessa, and from Odessa to Higginsville, and from Higginsville to Marshall, connecting from Marshall with the Old Santa Fe Trail. It is a beautiful scenic route and adapted for a broad, fine highway. While the Old Santa Fe Trail has been designated as the Missouri State Highway, that does not detract from the beauty and the availability of the Blue Book route.
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Once a vacation option reserved only for the altruistic college student, "voluntourism" is rapidly spreading beyond college campuses and into mainstream America. Increasingly, individuals are yearning for an experience that appeases both their desire for adventure as well as their social conscience, trading vacations filled with poolside pina coladas for those spent building orphanages in third world countries.
Skyway Guesthouse, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Thirty years of war, foreign occupation and genocide has left Cambodia with a wealth of orphaned and abandoned children. Located in the heart of Siem Reap, the Skyway Guesthouse offers patrons the opportunity to dedicate their days to supporting some of these impoverished victims of circumstance, whose parents or other family members have been killed or maimed by land-mines, died of hunger or disease, or targeted for murder because of their political affiliations. Volunteers at the Skyway Guest house can make a difference in the lives of these destitute children by teaching them English and computer skills, assisting them with homework and providing them with the love and attention they desperately need.
Favela Receptiva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Perched on the outskirts of Rio, Favela Receptiva is located on the edge of the Villa Canoas, a shanty town, or favela, common to Brazilian cities. The plight of those living in the hellish favela is evident from the scraps and garbage that have been collected to create the endless sea of shacks in which the residents live. Adding to the misery of its occupants, the claustrophobic Villa Canoas is plagued by sewage and hygiene problems, and while some portions of the favela have electricity, other sections are left to suffer in the dark ages. Providing a sparkle of optimism to this impoverished community, the Favela Receptiva connects inspired guests with local organizations to bring needed support to the favela. Volunteers can work to educate children; assist in cleaning and construction; aid local groups in crime prevention; and assist non-profit groups in curbing the growing wave of domestic violence and child neglect. Most of these crucial programs are focused on connecting the favela's youth to programs centered on education, community development, human rights and public safety.
Hostel Hoff, Moshi, Tanzania
Nestled in the heart of Moshi at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro in Northern Tanzania, the Hostel Hoff caters to novice voluntourists, many of whom are visiting an underdeveloped country for the first time. Unsure patrons receive guidance from the hostel regarding the myriad of volunteer options for anyone wishing to lend a helping hand. Whether it's promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, teaching the fundamentals at a local school or uplifting the social status of traditional Masai women by helping them learn English, there is a job available that meets the specific talents of every traveler. At Hostel Hoff, patrons arrive with a desire to make a difference and leave as seasoned veterans in selflessness.
INOUT Hostel, Barcelona, Spain
Only minutes from the urban flurry of Barcelona, guests at the INOUT hostel are immersed in the natural oasis of Collserola Park, where the roar of car engines are replaced by the soothing sounds of splashing streams. However, it is not simply this lush locale that makes the luxurious hostel an unforgettable vacation destination. Staffed by a team of predominantly disabled individuals who maintain an unparalleled commitment to their work, INOUT provides guests a rare opportunity to help people with special needs achieve their dreams of becoming self-sufficient members of the working world. Visitors are encouraged to assist the hostel staff with their daily tasks, including cleaning, gardening, maintenance and operation of the hostel's restaurant. It is through the development of these special relationships that guests discover the hostel's mantra. "Enter with an open heart, and you will leave with a smile, impossible to erase."
The Backpack and Africa Travel Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Sports enthusiasts rejoice! Voted Best Hostel in Africa in 2005 by Hostelworld.com customers, the Backpack and Africa Travel Center of South Africa not only provides plush hostel accommodations, it also offers the opportunity to break out the old soccer ball. This hostel offers soccer camps in the townships of Cape Town and guests are invited to donate their used soccer gear, as well as help the deprived children in the townships accomplish their dreams of soccer stardom. For the less athletic clientele, the hostel presents the opportunity to volunteer at a local crèche, or nursery. The hostel also asks those with the ability to knit blankets while lounging around the hostel, watching TV or chatting with friends. The blankets are provided to the countless sick babies, many infected with HIV, that call the crèche their home. Those volunteers who lack the skills or time to complete the project, can pass the baton to the next round of hostel inhabitants to finish the job. Through these actions, the lives of those volunteering through the hostel and those being helped are connected by the strongest of bonds.
Hostel Suites Oblesico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
All the Latin America capital cities are surrounded by shanty towns. Less than 30 minutes from downtown Buenos Aires such shanty towns remain unknown and are kept a secret. Hostel Suites Obelisco, along with its sister hostel Hostel-inn Buenos Aires, Hostel-Inn Tango City and Tango Backpackers, helps to organize the volunteer programmes in these towns working with the NGO "Voluntario Global". Through these programmes you have the chance to see a part of the Argentinean capital that others don't. You can explore the other side of the city to understanding more about exclusion, social fight in Latin America and be a volunteer for short or long terms programmes. Volunteer opportunities include recreational activities with children and helping adults with English, computers and more. The volunteers presence helps to minimise alienation. The objective is to always provide the tools that improve the quality of life, but also to teach them to communicate better and to have confidence in themselves.


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Boullier not bitter at Raikkonen exit
Lotus team principal Eric Boullier says he is not bitter about Kimi Raikkonen's decision to leave for Ferrari.
Raikkonen will return to the team where he won his drivers' championship in 2007 next season, leaving Lotus after two years since his comeback to Formula One at the start of 2012. Despite losing a driver who has won both of the team's races in that time and consistently been a threat in the championship, Boullier was keen to focus on what a success the partnership had been.
Asked if he was bitter at Raikkonen leaving the team, Boullier replied: "Not at all.
"Two years ago, when we decided to sign him, quite a few people thought we were crazy. And what happened in the end? We've been working with an amazing racer, who scored points for the team 27 times in a row, won two races, put motivation at a very high level at Enstone, and got on very well with his team-mate.
"Now, it's time to think about the future. You know, we remain a medium-sized team and there are some areas in which we're not in a position to fight against the other top teams just yet. We've had [Michael] Schumacher, [Fernando] Alonso, [Kimi] Räikkönen. New champions will join the list here soon I'm sure."
However, Boullier was willing to admit his frustration at losing Raikkonen after such a positive two seasons.
"Of course this is a disappointment to all of us, and we're sure you will agree that Kimi has been nothing but brilliant since he joined us. In the same breath, Enstone has once again proven its pedigree; providing him with two great cars and making his return to Formula 1 a success. It's been a win-win situation right from the beginning."


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Pharmacy Prior Authorization Request
Click here to submit a Pharmacy Prior Authorization Request to Prescription Solutions.
Appeal a Coverage Decision
If we make a coverage decision and you are not satisfied with this decision, you can "appeal" the decision. An appeal is a formal way of asking us to review and change a coverage decision we have made.
Click here to send an email with your appeal request.
Click here to find and download the Evidence of Coverage for this plan and review the grievance and appeals section.
What to do if your current prescription drugs are not on the formulary or are limited on the formulary.
New members
As a new member of an UnitedHealthcare Dual complete plan, insured through UnitedHealthcare, you may currently be taking drugs that are not on the UnitedHealthcare® formulary (drug list), or they are on the formulary but your ability to get them is limited.
In instances like these, start by talking with your doctor about appropriate alternative medications available on the formulary. If no appropriate alternatives can be found, you or your doctor can request a formulary exception. If the exception is approved, you will be able to obtain the drug for a specified period of time. While you and your doctor are determining your course of action, you may be eligible to receive an initial 31-day transition supply (unless your prescription is written for fewer days) of the drug anytime during the first 90 days you are a plan member.
For each of your drugs that is not on the formulary or if your ability to get your drugs is limited, UnitedHealthcare will cover a 31-day supply (unless your prescription is for fewer days) when you go to a network pharmacy. If the prescription is written for less than 31 days, multiple fills are allowed to provide up to a total of 31 days of drugs. After your first 31-day transition supply, these drugs may not continue to be covered. Talk with your doctor about appropriate alternative medications. If there are none on the formulary, you or your doctor can request a formulary exception.
If you live in a long-term care facility, UnitedHealthcare will cover a temporary 31-day transition supply (unless your prescription is for fewer days). UnitedHealthcare will cover more than one refill of these drugs for the first 90 days for plan members, up to a 93-day supply. If you need a drug that is not on the formulary or your ability to get your drugs is limited, but you are past the first 90 days of plan membership, the transition program will cover a 31-day emergency supply of that drug (unless your prescription is for fewer days) while you pursue a formulary exception.
You may face unplanned transitions after the first 90 days of plan enrollment, such as hospital discharges or level of care changes (i.e., in the week before a long-term care discharge), If you are prescribed a drug that is not on the formulary or your ability to get your drugs is limited, you are required to use the plan's exception process. You can request a one-time emergency supply of up to 31 days to allow you time to discuss alternative treatment with your doctor or to pursue a formulary exception.
Continuing members
As a continuing member in the plan, you receive an Annual Notice of Changes (ANOC). You may notice that a formulary medication you are currently taking is either not on the upcoming year's formulary or its cost sharing or coverage is limited in the upcoming year.
For coverage requests received each year by December 15, and approved, the plan will cover the drug as of January 1. For coverage requests initiated on or after December 16, normal time frames for resolution apply: you will receive an answer within 24 hours for urgent requests and within 72 hours for all other requests. If your request is still in process on January 1, you may receive a temporary supply of the drug for your current plan cost-sharing until your request is answered.
If you have any questions about this transition policy or need help asking for a formulary exception, a UnitedHealthcare representative can help.
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The Coverage Determination Request Form may be found under Appeal a Coverage Decision section on this page.
UnitedHealthcare's Medication Therapy Management program was developed by a team of pharmacists and doctors to help eligible members make better use of their coverage and to improve their understanding and use of medications. It also helps protect members from the possible risks of drug side effects and from potentially harmful drug combinations.
This program is available at no additional cost to you. You will be automatically enrolled in the Medication Therapy Management Program if you:
- take eight (8) or more chronic Part D medications, and
- have three (3) or more long-term health conditions, and
- might spend more than $3,017 a year on covered Part D medications
Below is a list of health conditions that may make you eligible for the Medication Therapy Management program. You need to have three or more of these conditions to qualify for this program.
- Diabetes
- Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
- Heart Failure
- High Cholesterol
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
UnitedHealthcare's Medication Therapy Management program offers a Comprehensive Medication Review (CMR) for all eligible members over the phone. A pharmacist will review the member's medication history, including prescription and over-the-counter medications, and identify any issues. Upon completion of the medication review, the member is mailed a Medication Action Plan that summarizes any clinical concerns identified and a Personal Medication List of their medication history. In addition, the member's doctor is contacted and this information is provided to them.
To help you track your medications, you can also download a blank Personal Medication List for your personal use.
Members may also receive helpful information in the mail. This can include additional information about their medications and suggestions from our pharmacists about how to make the most of your medications and benefits. This information can be helpful when meeting with your doctor or pharmacist.
For more information on UnitedHealthcare's Medication Therapy Management program, please talk to a UnitedHealthcare representative (the phone number is on the back of your plan member ID card).
Please note that these programs may have limited eligibility criteria and are not considered a benefit.