Podcast appearances and mentions of Eddystone

The first in a planned series of future episodes about the world's most well-known lighthouses. The enormous Lighthouse of Alexandria is the most famous lighthouse of all time, and stood for 1500 years on the shore of Alexandria, Egypt, and It is one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Hook's Lighthouse in Ireland is over 1200 years old and is the oldest, intact, operational lighthouse in the world. The Eddystone off the coast of England has gone through numerous iterations, dating back to the 1600's. Written, edited, and produced by Rich Napolitano. Original theme music by Sean Sigfried. All episodes, images, and sources can be found at shipwrecksandseadogs.com. Go AD-FREE by becoming a Patreon Officer's Club Member! Join at https://www.patreon.com.shipwreckspod Join the Into History Network for ad-free access to this and many other fantastic history podcasts! https://www.intohistory.com/shipwreckspod Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Merchandise is available! https://www.bonfire.com/store/shipwreckspod/ You can support the podcast with a donation of any amount at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shipwreckspod Follow Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Subscribe on YouTube Follow on BlueSky Follow on Threads Follow on Instagram Follow on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Harvey - Eddystone Lighthouse 

Jennifer Perri shares her remarkable journey from adversity to empowerment. Hailing from the small town of Eddystone, Pennsylvania, Jennifer's story is one of resilience, courage, and unwavering determination.Episode Highlights:Humble Beginnings: Jennifer Perri's childhood in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, was marked by her magnetic personality and ability to connect with people from all walks of life.Facing Adversity: Jennifer's life took an unexpected turn during her senior year of high school when her parents divorced, leading her into a toxic relationship marked by abuse and turmoil.A Journey of Self-Discovery: Escaping her abusive marriage, Jennifer embarked on a journey of self-discovery and resilience, facing numerous challenges as a single mother raising two children.Empowering Others: Drawing on her own experiences, Jennifer found solace and purpose in financial consulting, empowering women to take control of their finances and rebuild their lives after divorce.Overcoming Challenges: In December 2021, Jennifer faced another hurdle when she was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare neurological disease that left her paralyzed from the shoulders down.The Road to Recovery: Despite the challenges she faced, Jennifer's unwavering spirit and determination fueled her remarkable recovery journey, inspiring others with her resilience and strength.Empowering Women: Jennifer's experience reinforced the importance of her work empowering women to overcome adversity and embrace their inner strength, proving that anything is possible with the right mindset and determination.Closing Thoughts:Jennifer Perri's story is a testament to the power of resilience, hope, and the human spirit. Through her work and her journey, she continues to inspire and empower women to rise above life's challenges and create the lives they deserve.Follow Happy single mom podcast on InstagramFollow @jperricoaching

It's Friday and time for a fun, about-town edition of your Daily Detroit. Jer checked out Cadillac Lodge with drinks and snacks; the Monroe Street Midway with bumper cars (see our Instagram!), giant slide, puck putt and arcade. Also quickly talked to the owners of Flamingo Vintage and DCreated Boutique. Devon dug a bit into listener requests for an update on Basan in the Eddystone near Little Caesars Arena. He also threw an "Ale Mary" looking for lunch spots, and hit up Ale Mary in downtown Royal Oak. Jer remembers an absurd burger from 2017. Plus, a kind word about Anchor Bar, also open for lunch. Feedback and sponsorship inquiries: https://forms.gle/MnwUf8uJEtpyG9m2A or dailydetroit -at- gmail -dot- com

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Today we are talking about a truly remarkable feat of engineering, made all the more impressive by the fact that no engineer was involved in the project for over half a century.William of Orange wanted to make Plymouth his main naval dockyard, with the only slight issue being a square mile of razor sharp rocks 9 miles offshore. But not to worry, it would be a simple fix. All it needed was someone to figure out how to build the worlds first open ocean lighthouse, and if they could front the money themselves then that would be just perfect....Guest Host: Jack Heathcote See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Richard B.” Rick” Spence is professor emeritus of History at the University of Idaho, where he taught from 1986 to 2020. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1981), and taught there as a visiting assistant professor from 1981to 1985. His primary areas of study are Modern Russian, Modern European, Middle Eastern and Military History.Dr. Spence's research interests include Russian and military history, espionage, occultism, secret societies, anti-Semitism and true crime. His previous work for The Great Courses/Wondrium includes, The Real History of Secret Societies (2019) Crimes of the Century: A Selective History of Infamy (2021) and the upcoming Secrets of the Occult.Spence's major published works include Boris Savinkov: Renegade on the Left (1991), Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly (2002), Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult (2008), and Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, 1905-1925 (2017). He is the author of numerous articles in Revolutionary Russia, Intelligence and National Security, Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism, American Communist History, The Historian and other journals. He has also contributed to New Dawn and other popular publications. His other projects include the mysterious conspiracy figure James Shelby Downard, the deadly Eddystone munitions plant explosion of 1917, and connections between rocket engineer-occultist Jack Parsons and espionage.

David Appleby was a lighthouse keeper in England for 32 years. After he was hired by Trinity House in 1965 and trained at Harwich, he spent some time as a supernumerary keeper at various light stations. His first assignment as an assistant keeper was at isolated Eddystone, one of the most famous lighthouses in the world. Eddystone Lighthouse, England. USLHS photo. David Appleby Other stations where David worked included Wolf Rock off Cornwall and Longstone in the Farne Islands. His longest stint was seven years at Lynmouth Foreland in North Devon. David was the last keeper at St. Mary's Light and Souter Point Light, and he was one of the last crew of lighthouse keepers in England when he left the North Foreland Light in 1998. He lives today in northeastern England. North Foreland Light Station, England. USLHS photo.

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Champion Wine of Show, Best Pinot Noir & Top Gold Medal winner at the recent 2022 Tasmanian Wine Show, the 2020 Eddystone Point Pinot Noir is an absolute must-try! Jill & Richo chat to Stewart Byrne, the man behind the award winning Eddystone Point wines, about the differences between Californian and Tasmanian Pinots, his award winning Rieslings & Pinot Gris, and what it's like to live and work in one of the most beautiful wine regions in Australia. #eddystonepoint#tasmaniawines

Seconda di tre puntateLa Coruna, Douvres, Otranto, EddystoneDal mitico faro di Alessandria d'Egitto al Colosso di Rodi, dai fari-torre dell'Italia Rinascimentale fino alle lanterne ottocentesche: storie di luce e di costruttori audaci, come quelli della dinastia degli Stevenson. Enrica Simonetti, autrice di volumi sui fari editi da Laterza e Adda, naviga con noi in un'ondata di vicende per raccontare un “mondo a parte”, tra mare e cielo.Enrica Simonetti è giornalista de La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Responsabile del settore Cultura e Spettacolo. Ha scritto per Editori Laterza “Lampi e splendori” nel 2000, “Fari d'Italia” nel 2005 e “Luci sull'Adriatico” nel 2009; e per Adda “Puglia viaggio nel colore” nel 2019 (tradotto in inglese nel 2021).Foto di Nicola Amato e Sergio.A cura di Francesco De Leo. Montaggio di Silvio Farina.https://storiainpodcast.focus.it - Canale Eventi e luoghi ------------Storia in Podcast di Focus si può ascoltare anche su Spotify http://bit.ly/VoceDellaStoria ed Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/la-voce-della-storia/id1511551427.Siamo in tutte le edicole... ma anche qui:- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FocusStoria/- Gruppo Facebook Focus Storia Wars: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocuStoriaWars/ (per appassionati di storia militare)- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/focusitvideo- Twitter: https://twitter.com/focusstoria- Sito: https://www.focus.it/cultura

Paul Harvey - Eddystone Lighthouse (first made of concrete)

Today we visit the Eddystone in downtown Detroit. We share some history, then talk to Keith Bradford. He's the Senior VP of Development at Olympia Development. More: https://eddystonedetroit.com/ Remember, we have our 2021 annual listener survey: http://dailydetroit.com/survey

Today's show is mostly about developments around town. - There are new plans for the State Fair Transit Center that would save the historic Dairy Cattle Building, but demolish all but the portico of the old Coliseum - Marwood + Marston is coming to the North End, an $18.2 million residential development with affordable housing - There's some progress over at the Eddystone. It overlooks Little Caesars Arena. - Barcade (the actual name-brand Barcade) will open on Selden later this August.  - Is a business-focused hotel coming to downtown Ferndale? - A possible Meijer in Macomb Township is facing stiff resistance from residents because of fears of lights, crime and sex trafficking that the grocery store might bring. https://www.macombdaily.com/2021/08/06/plans-for-macomb-township-meijer-move-ahead/ - And late-breaking news as we record the podcast, the founder of Garden Fresh Salsa, Jack Aronson, has died at 68. Remember we're wherever fine podcasts are found and are powered by our Patreon members! Thanks to our newest members Timothy, Gary, Kanwinder and Jon... as well as Rebecca who stuck with us. You can join them at http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  

Prima c'erano gli antichi romani, poi è arrivato l'ingegnere John Smeaton, uno dei primi ingegneri civili della storia, che mette a punto la calce idraulica e dà il via all'invenzione del cemento. Il tutto partendo da un faro costruito quattro volte.

Apple AirTags are here, and Frank is ready to do some programming with them... but can he? What are Apple's mysterious APIs that should work with this wonderful device do? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1) ⭐⭐ Machine transcription available on http://mergeconflict.fm

Apple AirTags are here, and Frank is ready to do some programming with them... but can he? What are Apple's mysterious APIs that should work with this wonderful device do? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1) ⭐⭐ Machine transcription available on http://mergeconflict.fm

Our topic of discussion today is the wildly successful Remington 700 Bolt Action Rifle. A poster child for Remington for years. It was used by the military as a sniper platform. It’s design has been copied many times over. It has as many configurations as there are days in the year. It has been used to take every game species around the world. Alright, every species is a stretch but the Remington 700 has been and remains to this day a go-to bolt action rifle for shooters and sportsmen alike.  For the sake of brevity, we will start our portion of the Remington 700 story with war-time production of bolt action rifles during WWI. Remington (among others) was contracted to produce Lee-Enfield Pattern Rifles - these were M1914 rifles - for the British.  A brief diversion-  Lee-Enfield rifles are bolt action and magazine-fed, with full-length stocks like so many other military rifles. They are chambered in .303 British and were carried around the world by the Brits and many others. The P14 made by Remington was essentially a replica of the Lee in .303 British.  Once the US entered the war, P14 production halted- and production of the 1917 version commenced. The P17 was a P14 that was adapted for the standard US Military cartridge- the 30-06- and the same chambering as the Springfield 1903 rifle that was in heavy production at this same time. The P17 is rather distinct- it has very large wings on either side of the action protecting the rear sight, as well as a bolt handle only a mother could love. After wartime production ended in Ilion and Eddystone(two of Remingtons factories), Remington recognized the need for a sleeker sporting rifle for the burgeoning crowd of sportsmen of the time. And being businessmen they realized they were already tooled up to make P17s with a bunch of extra parts laying around. As a result, they developed the Model 30- a sleeker version of the P17- which retained some features like cock on close bolt and bent bolt handle. They were Mauser style actions with dual locking lugs, box magazines, claw extractors and essentially were sporterized versions of the P17. The 30 eventually gave way in 1941 to the Remington 720- their own website states it was an improvement on the model 30 and produced from 41 to 44 but production would again jump to military focus for WWII- primarily Springfield 03 and 03A3 rifles.  When civilian production resumed after the war, some lasting features endured. Esthetics like losing the distinctive P17 wings and slimming the action as well as very functional changes like a cock on open would carry forward. Remington continued the development of the 720 which gave rise to the 721, 722 and 725. These were the first to drop the large claw-style extractors in favor of a recessed bolt face that contained the ejection/extraction parts. These rifles also utilized a cylindrical action that could be machined on a lathe allowing for faster and more economical production.  The release of the Remington 700 in 1962 was the culmination of all the production advances made since the P14 and lessons learned over the years certainly solidified what was needed to produce a successful rifle for the consumer market. As mentioned, the production of rounded actions on lathes was both accurate and efficient. Stamping parts like bottom metals reduced cost. Attention to aesthetic details in the bolt handle and the overall configuration of the stock resulted in a slimmed and attractive rifle. The push feed action and three-piece bolt with recessed bolt face that housed the c-clip extractor and plunger were also innovations that carried forward into production Remington 700s. It was originally made in two options, ADL and BDL with the ADL having a blind magazine (id no bottom metal) and BDL having bottom metal. Aside from this major difference, the two options varied in stock configuration and details like checkering pattern, forend caps, recoil pads, sights, and swivels. Both were offered in short and long action calibers. Remington 700 rifles were known for their out-of-the-box accuracy, a result of a number of features - stout actions, free-floated barrels, and single-stage triggers to name a few. No doubt tight tolerances of chambers and barrels helped increase accuracy. For years Remington held top accolades as the rifle with the best out-of-the-box accuracy. ADL and BDL models gave way to a variety of configurations from Remington that reflected the march of progress in gun technologies and the ever-growing use case of customers. Synthetic stocks and a myriad of coatings options were implemented over the years. Specialty rifles were developed for use cases from mountain hunting to long-range varment shooting, competition target and everything in between with features like bull barrels, sporter contour barrels, and upgraded deluxe wood, checkering and engraving, detachable magazines and more. Of note, Remington also produced left handed 700’s as well. The gun has been factory chambered in a wide range of calibers from .17 to .458 though I suspect many more have been re-barreled and/or rechambered to non-factory and wild cat calibers. Not to mention the fact that today one can get a Remington 700 clone action or rifle from any number of manufacturers in almost every caliber or build up a custom rifle to meet ones needs.  Controversy is drawn to like a moth to a flame, and the 700 is not without its share, the primary subject of which is the original single-stage trigger designed by Remington’s Mike Walker. Litigation arose as a result of rifle malfunctions, the implications of which were that rifles with these triggers were faulty and could fire while on safe. Remington’s X-Mark Pro Trigger was the response in 2007 to these implications and I will leave this discussion there as diving any further would require 20 minutes more and this is, of course, a 10 minutes on series.  Love them or hate them, the Remington 700 family of rifles has endured the test of time and is not likely to disappear. If you owned one, or have a Remington 700 story you want to share let me know, I’d love to hear it. That’s all for today, thanks for stopping by the gun room.

Flight Attendant president Sarah Nelson on how the PRO Act would have made a difference in this week's union election at Amazon…Historian Robin DG Kelly on the long history of union suppression in Alabama…Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Executive Director Laura Penn reports on how the stage industry has been devastated by the pandemic, but is getting back on their feet…Doctor Saud Anwar, a pulmonologist at Manchester Memorial Hospital who also serves as a state senator in Connecticut's General Assembly, talks about the effects of the pandemic on healthcare workers…And we hear from building trades leaders in Oregon about the state's Prevailing Wage Rate law…Ronnie Hobbs is the Transportation Division legislative director for the Sheet Metal And Rail Transportation – or SMART – union; today he explains how the SMART Army is making a difference in the community…Patrick Town and Ross Wolf discuss financial stability in the COVID era…And we wrap up this week's show with a visit with Eliza Hittman, the writer and director of the acclaimed 2020 film NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS.. We've got reports from Heartland Labor Forum, Black Work Talk, Belabored, America's Workforce Radio, AFT in Action, The Voice of Oregon Workers, Talking SMART, Working to Live in Southwest Washington and On Writing. Bonus: Labor History in 2:00 on Explosion at Eddystone. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. Also, check out our livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you'll also find profiles of members of the Network. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Heartland_Labor @BlackWorkTalk @DissentMag @AWFUnionPodcast @AFTCT @smartunionworks @SWWACLC @WGAEast @ILLaborHistory Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

Was awesome to catch up with Jordan this week. Jordan and i spoke about his childhood, his strange habits while on a night out, the tragic passing of his brother to Bone Marrow Failure in 2017 and so much more. If you or anyone you may know are wanting to help support the fight to find a cure for Bone marrow failure Jordan and a few mates will soon be taking part in a 300km run from the Eddystone point lighthouse to the Menzies centre Hobart aiming to complete the run within three days!! All donations no matter the size will go along way in finding a cure. You can donate through the link below or look up ” The Bloody Long Run” or ”The Alex Gadomski Fellowship” on Facebook. Hope you enjoy the episode! Really appreciate the continuous support and feedback means a lot!! - Make sure to give it a like and follow (Subscribe). REMEMBER TO LOOK AFTER YOUR MATES & YOURSELF. The Alex Gadomski Fellowship - https://www.mrv.org.au/my-fundraising/128/8-mates-3-days-300ks

Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse with the twin towers of Thacher Island in the background; photo by Jeremy D'Entremont. Paul St. Germain In this episode, host Jeremy D'Entremont interviews Paul St. Germain, author/historian and president of the nonprofit Thacher Island Association, about recent progress at Straitsmouth Island Light Station off Rockport on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Tremendous strides have been made in the restoration of the property, which will soon be accessible to the public. Jeremy and co-host Cindy Johnson continue the exploration of the history of England's famous Eddystone Light, with a look at the construction of the present (1882) tower, designed by James Douglass. There's also a discussion of the origins of the famous song The Eddystone Light, with a rendition by the Irish/folk duo Shannachie. And there's a trivia question with prizes to the first two correct people to answer correctly. Nineteenth century illustration of the 1882 Eddystone lighthouse, USLHS archives

Bakers Island Lighthouse, Salem, Massachusetts. Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont. Host Jeremy D'Entremont interviews Annie C. Harris, director of Essex Heritage. The non-profit organization promotes the cultural heritage of Essex County, Massachusetts, and owns the Bakers Island Light Station in Salem. The station consists of an 1820 lighthouse tower, two keepers’ houses, and outbuildings. Through Essex Heritage, tours of the historic light station are available, and also overnight stays. Smeaton's tower (USLHS archives) In the history segment, Jeremy and co-host Cindy Johnson continue the saga of the lighthouses on the Eddystone Rocks off Plymouth, England, with the story of Rudyard's 1709 tower and Smeaton's 1759 tower, which represented a major step forward in the construction of wave-swept lighthouses. From The Monster of Piedras Blancas Jeremy and Cindy then discuss the 1959 horror film The Monster of Piedras Blancas, which was shot largely at California's Point Conception Light Station. Jeremy recalls a phone interview with one of the movie's stars, Jeanne Carmen.

Larissa and Casey, innkeepers at Braddock Point Lighthouse In the latest episode, host Jeremy D'Entremont and co-host Michelle Jewell Shaw discuss the first tower on the Eddystone Rocks off Plymouth, England, designed by the colorful showman Henry Winstanley and completed in 1698. Winstanley's tower after 1699 modifications The feature interview is with Casey Moulton of the Braddock Point Lighthouse on the south shore of Lake Ontario, in Hilton, New York, a few miles northwest of Rochester. The magnificent Victorian keeper’s house is operated as a bed and breakfast inn. There's also a trivia question with prizes to the first two people to get the correct answer.

Meet the leading designer and maker of Bluetooth beacons in Italy, BlueUp. Partnered with Quuppa for next generation angle-of-arrival location, and supporting iBeacon and Eddystone, BlueUp offers beacons of all shapes and sizes, gateways, along with software and cloud services. As the number of beacons grow and they gain more and more visibility, new applications constantly appear and are even changing the way we talk about “beacons” or “tags”. This week we talk with Alessio Cucini, who has seen the evolution of the beacon market since launching BlueUp in 2014. Optimistic about the direction of the beacon market, Alessio discusses the shift in applications and terminology, iBeacon versus Eddystone, and encryption versus static IDs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Highlights Official Bulletin: War bonds, fake news, prostitutes, shoes, trucks and draft dodgers |@ 01:00 Guest: Mike Shuster on the low enthusiasm, Creel, 4 minutes men and arrests for disagreeing with the government. |@ 07:15 War In The Sky: Profile Raynal Bolling |@ 11:00 Events: Memorial day retrospective |@ 14:00 States: NY “Beyond The Trenches”, Eternal Light - relit, IN - Aaron Fisher, PA - Big boom at Eddystone |@ 15:15 Guest: Dr. Cathy Gorn - executive director of National History Day |@ 19:00 Guest: Donna Crisp National Vice Chair of Commemorative Events for the 100th Anniversary of WWI for the DAR. |@ 25:15 And more... ----more---- Opening Welcome to World War One Centennial News. It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration. WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Today is May 31st, 2017 and I’m Theo Mayer - Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host. World War One THEN 100 Year Ago This Week We have gone - back in time 100 years ago this week…. It is commencement week at universities around the country - and this week in May, 1917, Texas A&M - which  -  for those of you who don’t know - stands for Agricultural and Military - has cancelled their graduation ceremonies. The Aggies have nixed the ceremonies because most of the 120 students in the graduating class have reported to active duty in the military. This is a first - ever - for Texas A&M. link:http://today.tamu.edu/2017/05/02/texas-am-system-regents-honor-class-of-1917-cadets/ The Bulletin The war effort is getting in full swing around the country - for details let’s look at some of the headlines and stories in the “Official Bulletin” America’s government war gazette published by the order of president Wilson. There are themes that manifest in the paper: Buy War Bonds - is a clear theme-  as the nation prepares to raise massive amounts of capital for war. Headlines on that theme - this week include: Appeal To Women Of Nation To Purchase Liberty Bonds Secretary Of Commerce Urges Every Employee To Purchase Liberty Loan Bond Navy Called Upon To Get Behind The Liberty Loan Liberty Loan Success Vital. Farmers And Liberty Loan. Subscribers Can Pay For Liberty Loan Bonds Now Buying A Liberty Bond Is - The Least Sacrifice Americans Must Make, Says George Norris It goes on in every issue. This is a national fund drive like no other in history. Unlike the wars of the late 20th and early 21st century that are paid for by some magical process (called debt), in 1917 the populace is expected to step up and contribute. But some things stay incredibly parallel. Here is a headline from Secretary of the Navy Daniels about fake news. Dateline Saturday May 26, 1917: "FALSE REPORTS" ABOUT SINKING OF U. S. SHIPS DEPLORED BY SECRETARY DANIELS " It is with deep regret that I note the daily stream of false reports with regard to the sinking of American ships. Brokerage wires are a particular source for these baseless rumors that cannot but be -  the cause of needless distress to every true American as well as to mothers. " The reason for these false reports cannot be ascertained. The one hope is that the press will refuse to aid this campaign of vicious rumor that is being carried on so industriously by persons unknown." Following is an interesting appeal by Secretary of War Baker - sent as a letter to all governors of all states regarding the moral maintenance of young conscripts. In the training camps already established or soon to be established large bodies of men, selected primarily from the youth of the country, will be gathered together for a period of intensive discipline and training. The greater proportion of this force probably will be made up of young men who have not yet become accustomed to contact with either the saloon or the prostitute and who will be at that - plastic and generous period of life when questionable modes of indulgence - easily serve as outlets for exuberant physical vitality. The article goes on in detail about keeping these young men from corruption, gambling, drinking and partying too heartily. We are also in a war of new technology and America is, if nothing else, incredibly innovative. Dateline May 28, 1917: FULLY MOTORIZED FIELD BATTERY HAS JUST BEEN DEVELOPED BY U. S. ARMY Believed to be First Complete Unit of Horseless Artillery Created  - Early Substitution of Tractors for Animals in Handling Nearly all Forms of Ordnance Predicted. The story goes on to explain the details but mechanization was a big deal with trucks, tanks, ambulances and even Harley Davidson motorcycles. Just as with innovation American industry and American entrepreneurship are both also exercised in a big way. A good and simple example is shoes! Dateline June 2cnd, 1917: Headline: ARMY AND NAVY CONTRACT FOR 3,450,000 PAIRS OF SHOES Contracts for shoes, 2,000,000 for the Army and 850,000 for the Navy, have just been awarded, it was announced to-day. These are the largest shoe contracts ever made by the Government and were made under the new system by which the requirements of the Army and Navy are considered jointly and the representatives of practically the entire industry affected are brought together to meet the needs of the Government. The war effort also upsets the social norms of American Society as the country tries to come to grips with fundamental changes. Dateline May 28, 1917: TRAINING CAMP FOR COLORED MEN ESTABLISHED IN IOWA The Chief of Staff of the Army issues a brief outlining the provisions made for training camps for colored citizens : " You are advised that training camps for colored citizens will be established at Fort Des Moines; Iowa, under section 54, National Defense Act, and the regulations prescribed for present training camps, except as modified herein and hereafter. The camp is under the control of the Department Commander, Central Department, who will prepare and conduct the same. “ The story of WW1, the conscription of African Americans, their treatment before, during and after the war - and how this led to the civil rights movement is fundamental - to what made WW1 the War that Changed the World! Another ongoing theme that continues weekly is the draft, the process of it, the resistance to it and the conflict about it. Examples this week include the following headlines: Dateline May 29-June 1, 1917 Headline: 11 ARRESTS FOR ATTEMPTS TO HINDER REGISTRATION Eleven arrests have been made and nine Indictments have been returned by Federal grand juries as the result of attempts to hinder registration in accordance with the provisions of the new Army bill. Headline: PROVOST MARSHAL DENIES ALL MARRIED MEN WILL BE EXEMPT FROM DRAFT LAW The article explains that there will be no exemption for married men with families - as rumor had been insinuated. Headline: WAR DEPARTMENT - POINTS OUT WHAT YOUNG AMERICANS SHOULD DO ON REGISTRATION DAY What does a young man do on registration day? He does his duty to his country, and he will find that the ways and means of doing it are not laborious, involved, or complex. Headline: MEN LEAVING U. S. TO ESCAPE REGISTRATION TO BE HALTED Department of Justice officials are determined that no man subject to registration under the new Army law shall escape his obligation by leaving the United States before June 5. Each issue of the official bulletin is now being published daily on the centennial of its original publish date. You can read the current and past issues on our web site. For historians, social anthropologists, and anyone interested in exploring the nuances of America’s transformation in 1917, go to ww1cc.org/bulletin Link: ww1cc.org/bulletin Great War Project Joining us now is former NPR correspondent Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog.  Mike - Your story this week also looks at the conflicts in US society over the war. What is the story? “In the us little enthusiasm for war” LINK: http://greatwarproject.org/2017/05/28/in-u-s-little-enthusiasm-for-war/ Thank you Mike. That was Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog.   War in the Sky This week in the great war in the sky, we are going to profile US Army Colonel Raynal Bolling. Bolling, an arkansan who graduates from Harvard Law School and moves to the east coast - is in sympathy with the objectives of the “Preparedness Movement”, a group of influential Americans advocating military preparedness for involvement in World War I and drawn primarily from wealthy lawyers, bankers, academics, and politicians of the Northeast. He is also members of the American Aero Club, and began taking flying lessons on property owned by the Wright Company near Garden City, New York. By that time the United States was at war with Germany. Bolling was called to active duty as a major in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps on April 27, 1917, Quote: "for duty in connection with the organization of the 1st Reserve Aero Squadron," pursuant to authorization of the National Defense Act of 1916. So on May 26, 1917, 100 years ago this week, he organizes a new 154-man squadron, the first air reserve unit in the United States. Before Bolling could actually take command of his unit, he is detached in June 1917 for staff duty. Turns out that French premier Alexandre Ribot has sent U.S. President Woodrow Wilson a telegram at the end of May urging the United States to contribute 4,500 aircraft; 5,000 pilots; and 50,000 mechanics to the war effort. Because of his legal experience Bolling is assigned to assist in the drafting of legislation to fund the development of military aviation in response to Ribot's proposal. The subsequent Aviation Act, passes on July 24, 1917 and is the largest single appropriation for a single purpose in US History, $640 million. That is over 13 billion in 2017 dollars!! In conjunction with that duty, he is also appointed to the advisory Aircraft Production Board of the Council of National Defense to head an aeronautical commission to Europe known as "the Bolling Mission," to represent Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and the Board. We will hear more about Raynald Bolling in the coming months - he was smart, effective and an influential character in the formation of US military aviation. Especially 100 years ago this week in the great war in the sky! The Great War Channel If you’d like to watch interesting and informative videos about WW1, 100 years ago this week - check out the new posts from our friends at the Great War Channel on Youtube. This week their new episodes include a special about Croatia. Indie Nydell - the show’s host - points out that most nations involved in WW1 were parts of empires - This special, focuses on one nation inside the Austro-Hungarian Empire - Croatia. The 10 minute retrospective will provide new insight into a country that we hear about in the news occasionally, but don’t really know. So to learn more about WW1 from a more European perspective we recommend watching the wonderful videos from the Great War Channel on Youtube. The link is in the podcast notes or search for the great war on youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar World War One NOW Activities and Events WW1 well represented during Memorial Day We are going to open our story about memorial day with a quote about General Pershing from Sandra Pershing his granddaughter-in-law…  who quotes the general: [sandra quote audio from video] General Pershing would have been proud - our American World War I veterans were well-remembered and well-honored this Memorial Day! …And that - thanks to the work of hundreds of volunteers across the entire country! The U.S. National WW1 Centennial Events Register at ww1cc.org/events showed over 50 Memorial Day weekend events, exhibits, activities, and parades with a WW1 theme. They were shared by groups and individuals in Arkansas, California, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Ohio, Florida and so many more places. You can read more about the many diverse events that took place on Memorial day at ww1cc.org/news and we encourage you to check out our events register, and to add your upcoming events to it, at ww1cc.org/events - Click on the big red button to put your WW1 related event into the national Register - which will become part of the permanent national archive of the centennial. link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/2475-wwi-well-represented-on-memorial-day-2017.html ww1cc.org/news ww1cc.org/events Updates From The States Next, it’s time for some updates from the states and this week we begin with TWO stories about New York! WW1 beyond the trenches in NY Historical Society Last week, and exhibit called: World War 1 Beyond the Trenches opened at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan. The exhibit had previously been at the Pennsylvania Academy of the FINE Arts running with great acclaim for several months under the name:  World War 1 and American Art. Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank, has curated the show for its presentation at the NY Historical Society. There is another chance to hear Dr. Frank speak about the collection as she'll be giving a special gallery tour on June 26th to explore how artists across generations, aesthetic sensibilities, and the political spectrum used their art to depict, memorialize, promote, or oppose the Great War. It is truly an amazing collection - and a MUST SEE if you are going to be in NY between now and September 3rd. link: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/%E2%80%8Bw%E2%80%8Borld-war-i-beyond-trenches%E2%80%8B Flagstaff Aglow Now a story about Flagstaff - Not Arizona but still in New York… Near Madison Square Garden… Three years ago the star atop the - Eternal Light Flagstaff - A WW1 memorial in Madison Square Park in Manhattan extinguished. This past week, at the cost of $50,000 - and in time for Memorial Day… the eternal-lit-star shone brightly once again! The flagpole is a monument to the Veterans of WW1 and to New York’s role in the war, a port city that a vast number of doughboys passed through - on their way to and from Europe. Interestingly - It’s also the location of the wreath-laying ceremony which commences New York’s nationally famous annual Veterans Day Parade – the largest in the country. WW1 Centennial Commissioner Libby O’Connell was a speaker at the relighting ceremony along with representatives from the United War Veterans Council, the Madison Square Park Conservancy, the Manhattan Borough President and the New York City Park’s Manhattan Borough Commissioner. Thank you NYC for honoring our Doughboy veterans! link:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/nyregion/madison-square-park-memorial-day.html?_r=1 Indiana: Aaron R. Fisher On the Indiana State Centennial Commission website at ww1cc.org/indiana, there is an article about Aaron R. Fisher, the mostly highly decorated African American soldier from Indiana to serve in WW1. Fisher was the son of a Civil War veteran and was raised in Lyles Station, Indiana. He joined the army in 1911 way prior to the outbreak of the war  -- was promoted to Corporal in 1914 and served under Pershing during the Mexican Punitive Expedition that we talked about last week.   He was promoted to Lieutenant during his service in WW1 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross from the U.S. government and the Croix de Guerre from the French government for the bravery and determination he displayed in battle, leading his troops to successfully repel a German raid despite his troops being outnumbered and himself being wounded. Read more about his life - and service at ww1cc.org/indiana or by following the link in the podcast notes. link: http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/indiana-in-wwi-stories/2391-aaron-r-fisher.html ww1cc.org/indiana Pennsylvania Pennsylvania's nickname is "The Keystone State" because it was the middle colony of the original thirteen colonies, and because Pennsylvania has held a key position in the economic, social, and political development of the United States. In 1917 it was also home to the Eddystone Munitions plant which produced shrapnel shells and other armaments for the war effort. But on April 10th, 1917, just days after America joined the war, it blew up! 139 people were killed when 18 tons of black powder ignited, setting off an explosion that could be felt for ten miles. You can learn all about the Eddystone Munitions plant by visiting ww1cc.org/pennsylvania - all lower case. They have many resources, links and articles there about Pennsylvania during the War including Eddystone, local stories from the era, and much more. Link:ww1cc.org/pennsylvania http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/images/Pennsylvania/EDDYSTONE_MUNITIONS_CO_illustrated2.pdf http://www.delcotimes.com/article/DC/20170325/NEWS/170329777   Education National History Day In our education section we have a follow up to last week’s introduction to National History day. This year’s theme “Taking a Stand in History” With us today is the executive director of National History Day,  Dr. Cathy Gorn. [Hi Cathy ] [Cathy - Tell us a little about National History Day and how it evolved from a series of contests to a full-fledged, highly acclaimed national academic program.] [And quite a successful organization to boot!  You mentioned that National History Day has a WW1 themed essay section… How was WW1 represented? How did it go? ] Thank you - and your organization for making history bright, new and exciting for our kids - That was Dr. Cathy Gorn the executive director of National History Day, who joined the organization in 1982 - and helped shape it into what it is today - thank you for joining us. link:https://www.nhd.org/ International Report The First World War of Plates This week in our International Report we return to France… This time not for Jazz but for plates. Throughout WW1 both sides of the conflict used an unexpected commonplace object to shore up morale for the home front: decorative plates. A recent article from French website Centenaire.org outlines the history of printed decorative plates and their use as bastions of patriotism during a grueling conflict. The images are compelling and the stories they tell are as well - a sort of patter in the platter. Follow the links in the podcast notes to read more about these propagandistic domestic objects - link:http://centenaire.org/fr/espace-scientifique/arts/la-grande-guerre-des-assiettes Upcoming WW1 film Now from New Zealand - A story about filmic recreation. The Victorian section of Oamaru, a city in New Zealand, was recently turned into war-torn France as a set for filming. The film will become part of an installation dedicated to the Anzac forces that will open in the new - Sir John Monash Media Centre, in France, due to be opened on Anzac Day in 2018. You can see footage from the recent shooting in Oamaru and learn more about the project by following the link in the podcast notes. link:https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/town-perfect-ww1-scenes Spotlight in the Media Gwinnett Braves Baseball recognizes doughboys A quick update about WW1 Baseball - As you may know - the singing of the national anthem at baseball games started as a tradition during WW1. In a collaboration with Minor League baseball - a growing number of teams are holding WW1 Veteran events in their stadiums - this story shows how this is bringing awareness of “The War That Changed The world” - to local communities. This past weekend a great article was published in the Gwinnett Daily Post - And for those who may not know - Gwinnett County is a lovely community in Georgia - The article highlights the Gwinnett Braves game on Memorial Day that honored those who served in World War One. Take a read - to see how more communities are engaging in the national conversation on WW1. We’re looking forward to seeing more articles about these exciting Baseball games as they continue throughout the month of June. Follow the link the the podcast notes. link:http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/gwinnett-braves-recognizing-world-war-i-dough-boys-at-memorial/article_6dc8bef1-79b8-52a2-a9c7-0f003ba781a0.html Interview with Donna Crisp Next, we would like to welcome another guest who will introduce us to the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution the NSDAR or more often simply referred to as the DAR. Donna Crisp is the National Vice Chair of Commemorative Events for the 100th Anniversary of WWI and Treaty of Versailles for the DAR. [Hi Donna - welcome] [Donna -  That sounds like a really fantastic program - and it also sounds like you and Cathy Gorn should get together and have a chat! [chuckle] Fantastic :) Well thank you very much Donna - That was Donna Crisp - the National Vice Chair of Commemorative Events for the 100th Anniversary of WWI and Treaty of Versailles for the DAR. You can learn more by simply going to D-A-R.org - link: DAR.org Articles and Posts In our Articles and Posts where we explore the World War One Centennial Commission’s rapidly growing website at ww1cc.org - Howard Sabin Let’s start with a story connected to America’s WW1 Memorial in Pershing park and an article by Sabin Howard - the sculpture for the giant bas-relief wall that is a central part of the design. This week at ww1cc.org/news we have an interview with the sculptor, where he discusses how he created the design using live actors to model elements for him. Read the story at ww1cc.org/news or follow the link in the podcast notes. link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/2476-four-questions-for-sabin-howard.html ww1cc.org/news Stories of Service On ww1cc.org’s Stories of  Service - a section of the web site dedicated to capturing and preserving the stories of the people who served - this week we feature Ladli Prasada Varman. It again shows the immense diversity of those who served one hundred years ago - many of whom were recent immigrants. Varman was such a man - who immigrated to the US in 1913 from east India, settling in Los Angeles. When America entered the war, Varman was drafted into the army. In looking at the Stories of service posting, we noticed that his draft card listed him as caucasian. This is notable because of ongoing events at the time involving the East Indian American Community; a wave of arrests of Indian Nationalists and Germans took place in 1917. They were accused of violating the United States neutrality laws by conspiring on American soil with Germany to overthrow the British Raj. The conspiracy charges led to the Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial—at the time the longest and most expensive trial ever held in the United States. The story of this this Trial, as well as the lives of Indian Americans who served in WW1, is told on our site at ww1cc.org/vande A few days after being drafted, Varman declared his allegiance to the United States of America in California. He went on to serve in the Army from June 1918 to January 1919 and was part of Battery D of the 144th Field Artillery in the 40th Division. Read more about his life and legacy at our Stories of Service page by following the link in the podcast notes. To preserve your own family’s ww1 story in the national archive - we invite you to go to “submit a story of service” at ww1cc.org/stories - all lower case. link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service/2336-ladli-prasada-l-p-varman.html ww1cc.org/stories ww1cc.org/vande WWrite Blog This Week on the WWrite blog: University of Kansas Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Associate Professor, Lorie A. Vanchena, discusses - WWI American Immigrant Poetry: A Digital Humanities Project, an impressive and original project about WWI American poetry. The poems discussed are those written in response to World War I by immigrants in the United States and constitute a broad range of commentary on the war—for, against, and much more. Read more about the project by visiting the Wwrite blog at ww1cc.org/w-w-r-i-t-e link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/articles-posts/2472-world-war-i-american-immigrant-poetry-a-digital-humanities-project.html ww1cc.org/wwrite The Buzz - WW1 in Social Media Posts That brings us to the buzz - the centennial of WW1 this week in social media with Katherine Akey - Katherine - what do you have for us this week? Memorial Day events from around the country We’ve been very busy over the weekend sharing posts on our Facebook page to highlight the many, many different commemorative events that took place this Memorial Day Weekend. If you go to our page and scroll through the timeline you’ll see videos, photos and articles from all across the country. link:https://www.facebook.com/ww1centennial/ https://www.facebook.com/TheCherokeeNation/videos/1277989135660195/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE https://www.facebook.com/theworldwar/photos/a.10150262914016241.369716.149455476240/10155306190851241/?type=3&hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE https://www.facebook.com/ww1centennial/posts/782417271933573 https://www.facebook.com/RichardRubinAuthor/photos/a.264012127354201.1073741828.249364528818961/309000606188686/?type=3&hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE WW1’s Harlem Hellfighters “Half Moan, Half Hallelujah” More people across the country are are talking about WW1 and those who served. This week, the Daily Beast published an informative and moving piece about the Harlem Hellfighters and the black regiments of the war. link:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/29/the-harlem-hellfighters-who-cut-down-germans-and-gave-france-jazz?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon The memorial that refuses to glorify war (by richard rubin!) Penned by author Richard Rubin, “The WWI Memorial That Refuses to Glorify War” discusses a WW1 memorial sculpture Les Fantomes, or the Phantoms. It is, according to Rubin, the eeriest war memorial you will ever behold. link:http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/landowski-wwi-memorial-marne-statues   Thank you Katherine. A fascinating collection of what’s posted about WW1 in social media - All of Katherine’s stories have links in the podcast notes. Closing And That’s WW1 Centennial News for this week. Thank you for listening! We want to thank our guests: Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog Dr. Cathy Gorn, executive director of National History Day Donna Crisp, National Vice Chair of Commemorative Events for the 100th     Anniversary of WWI for the DAR Katherine Akey the Commission’s social media director and also the line producer for the show. And I am Theo Mayer - your host. The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1; This show is a part of that effort! we are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC. We rely entirely on your donations. No government appropriations or taxes are being used, so please give what you can by going to ww1cc.org/donate - all lower case Or if you are listening to the show on your smart phone you can text us a donation - just text  the letters: WW1 to the number 41444. We want to thank commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library for their support. The podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn   on  iTunes and google play ww1 Centennial News. As of last week you can also find us on TuneIn. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. Thanks for joining us. And don’t forget to share what you are learning here about “The War that Changed the World”.   So long. [music]

Don Beattie, G3BJ, is a former president of the Radio Society of Great Britain, past chairman of BARTG,  or the British Amateur Radio Teledata Group, past president of the CDXC, the British DX foundation, board member of the RSGB,  and its acting general manager for two years.  The list goes on and on.  Don is currently the President of the IARU, or the International Amateur Radio Union for  Region 1. G3BJ is a leader in British amateur radio and is my QSO Today.

Sejam bem-vindos ao episódio #003 do Faaala, Neto! Nesse episódio, conheça o que são os Beacons, como funcionam e também alguns exemplos de utilização dessa tecnologia. Conheça também a Physical Web, uma forma de uso dos Beacons que não necessita de um aplicativo no celular. E saiba também sobre os padrões comerciais, como o iBeacon, e mais detalhes sobre o Eddystone, o formato aberto proposto pelo Google em 2015. Além é claro, de como desenvolvedores podem utilizar essa tecnologia e onde obter os seus Beacons. Esse assunto foi sugerido através do Twitter, pelo @glauberthy e se você quiser também sugerir algum tema, dar sua opinião, crítica ou sugestão entre em contato pelo meu perfil, @netomarin, ou pelo perfil do blog, @devcommunitybr. E por fim, siga nossos perfis, assine o nosso feed e nos ajude, avaliando o podcast no iTunes. =) Links citados nesse episódio: Beacons na Wikipedia Hangout com GDG Recife sobre Beacons Google Developers: Beacon Protocolo Eddystone Eddystone @ GitHub iBeacon for Developers - Apple Conheça alguns fornecedores de Beacons Abraços e até a próxima!

Nesse episódio, conheça o que são os Beacons, como funcionam e também alguns exemplos de utilização dessa tecnologia. Conheça também a Physical Web, uma forma de uso dos Beacons que não necessita de um aplicativo no celular. E saiba também sobre os padrões comerciais, como o iBeacon, e mais detalhes sobre o Eddystone, o formato...

Martin Spindler und Marcel Weiß sprechen über die Nutzerzahlen von Fitbit, die im Zuge des Börsengangs veröffentlicht wurden, und über Eddystone, Googles neuem Open-Source-Ansatz für Beacons. (Datei) Links zu den Themen: Fitbit: 1 Red Flag That Fitbit, Inc. Investors Can't Ignore Wear This Device So the Boss Knows You're Losing Weight The Quantified Other: Nest...

Martin Spindler und Marcel Weiß sprechen über die Nutzerzahlen von Fitbit, die im Zuge des Börsengangs veröffentlicht wurden, und über Eddystone, Googles neuem Open-Source-Ansatz für Beacons. (Datei) Links zu den Themen: Fitbit: 1 Red Flag That Fitbit, Inc. Investors Can’t Ignore Wear This Device So the Boss Knows You’re Losing Weight The Quantified Other: Nest...

Welcome to episode #243. On the show: Location-based soundtrack on the Williamsburg Bridge; The Great Escape; Google's Eddystone beacon initiative; Spotify's musical map of the world; Enplug's digital signage app marketplace; CrispMedia partners with Taste Of Home for hyperlocal content in grocery stores; Swrve and Plot Projects partner; NTT DoCoMo helps us shop with our eyes; 800 Square Feet is Canada's first shopping apartment; the GPS turns 20 and so does Amazon. Our special guest is Ian Dallimore, Director of Innovation and Digital Strategy for Lamar. Full show notes can be found here.

      new episoide next week   Out by october 6 th   Bought new computer not nearly as good as my  old one       SEALAND           From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Principality of SealandMicronation Flag Coat of arms Motto: E Mare LibertasFrom the sea, Freedom Anthem: E Mare Libertas by Basil Simonenko Sealand from above Status Current Capital HM Fort Roughs[1] Official languages English[2] Demonym Sealander, Sealandic[3] Organizational structure Oligarchy, Constitutional monarchy  -  Prince Michael[4] Establishment  -  Declared 2 September 1967[5]  Area claimed  -  Total 0.025 km2 (All livable space)[3] 0 sq mi Population  -  estimate 50+ (2013)[6] Claimed GDP (nominal) estimate  -  Total US$600,000  -  Per capita US$22,200[5] Purported Currency Sealand dollar(pegged with the USD)[7] Time zone GMT[8] Websitehttp://www.sealandgov.org The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located in the North Sea. Its mass consists of what was HM Fort Roughs, a former Second World War Maunsell Sea Fort, off the coast of Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.[1][9] While it has been described as the world's smallest country,[10] or the world's smallest nation,[11] Sealand is not recognised by any established sovereign state, although Sealand's government claims it has been de facto recognised by the United Kingdom (after an English court ruled it did not have jurisdiction over Sealand as territorial water limitations were defined at the time)[1] and Germany (see below). Since 1967 the facility has been occupied by family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates, who claim that it is an independent sovereign state.[1] Bates seized it from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in 1967 with the intention of setting up his own station at the site.[12] He attempted to establish Sealand as a nation-state in 1975 with the writing of a national constitution and establishment of other national symbols.[1] Bates moved to mainland Essex when he became elderly, naming his son Michael regent. Bates died in October 2012 at the age of 91.[13]     One of the other platforms which guarded a port           Sealand     PALM ISLAND   Beginning in 2001, three man-made islands in the form of palm trees are being constructed off the coast of the Emirate of Dubai. The islands consist of Palm Jumeirah, the smallest island, Jebel Ali, and Palm Deira, the largest island. These projects are only possible due to a topographic feature: the shallow, coastal sea in the Persian Gulf reaches far into the open sea, reducing the water depth. With a planned area of 50 square kilometres (km²) Palm Deira will be 25 times larger than Monaco upon completion.         the summer of 2007. In total, the Palm Islands house 60 luxury hotels, 4,000 residential villas, 1,000 water homes, 5,000 shoreline apartments and multiple marinas, restaurants, shopping malls, sports facilities, health spas, cinemas and dive sites, according   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWElZICyBns         just great pic  o bishop rock lighthouse         Pitcain Islands With a population of only around fifty, the people of Pitcairn are descended from the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island is approximately 3.2km (2 miles) long and 1.6km (1 mile) wide with the capital Adamstown located above Bounty Bay and accessed by the aptly named road, "The Hill of Difficulty".   http://www.government.pn/index.php Wreck of the Bounty       Stamps  Pitcairn Island Honey Bees Please Note: All prices are in New Zealand Dollars 20c, $1.00, $1.80, $3.00 Single Set $6.00 Sheetlet $1.00First Day Cover $6.60       Bishop rock Bishop Rock Lighthouse, the second tallest     after the      Eddystone     Lighthouse,           is often referred to as "King of the     Lighthouses" and it is an impressive structure. It stands on a rock ledge 46m long by 16m wide, 4     miles west of the Scilly Isles. The rocks rise sheer from the seabed 45m     below.    http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk/A_heritage/Lighthouses/LG2_EW/Bishop_Rock_Lighthouse.htm       Picture by Richard Knites     Lighthouse information Grid       Name: Bishop Rock Lighthouse,     Isles of Scilly, Cornwall     Current status:     Currently in use     Geographic Position: 49 52.3 N 06 26.7 W     Grid Reference: SV807065 Ceremonial County: Cornwall         Appearance:     Tall granite tower with helipad on top     Round granite tower, incorporating keeper's quarters, with lantern and a     helipad built above the lantern. Tower is unpainted grey stone, lantern and     helipad painted white. Map     Link:     maps               StreetMap Aerial photo:       Other photos: Photo       Photo.     Originally built:     1847 of iron but washed away     Current lighthouse built:     1851, first lit 1858, encased and extended after 1881     Height of Tower: 49m   167ft     Height of light above mean sea level: 44m   114ft     Character of light: 2     White Group Flashes Every 15 Seconds     Character of fog signal: Fog     signal discontinued 2007      was     one long and one short blast every 90 seconds     Range of light: 24     miles     Owned / run by: Trinity House     Getting there:   Access:   Website:     TH Other Useful Websites: Wiki  Routes:   Other Relevant pages: For more articles, lists and other information     see the                 Lighthouses Section      Lighthouse Map of England and Wales          Featured List of     Lighthouses - England and Wales             List of Minor Lighthouses and Lights - England and Wales             Notes:  

Take your Bibles, if you would, and turn in them to Matthew, chapter five. As we continue in our series in Matthew's Gospel and the Sermon on the Mount, we come to two great statements that Jesus makes about you. "You," [He said,] "are the salt of the earth.” “You are the light of the world." It was the winter of 1699, and a stately trading ship, a sailing vessel, was sailing along the southern coast of England, 300 years ago this month. As she approached the Eddystone portion of the coastline, the ship's captain tensed. His navigator announced that they were nearing the infamous Eddystone reef, which had caused untold wrecks over the years, costing hundreds of sailors their lives and sending thousands of pounds worth of cargo to the bottom of the English Channel. Now the reef consisted of a cluster of rocky pinnacles just below the surface, invisible to the eye, but deadly to the hulls of wooden sailing vessels. The captain knew that the reef, nine miles off the shore of England, was at its worst in the winter, especially during foggy weather. Suddenly, his watchman called out, "There's a light just off the starboard side, Captain." The captain stared through the fog at a glowing beacon and, suddenly, he realized that the rumors that he had heard were true. Somebody had actually built a lighthouse on the Eddystone reef. That lighthouse saved his life that night, as he ordered the navigator to sale wide around it. The Eddystone lighthouse was built by Henry Winstanley in 1698 and it was one of the greatest achievements of civil engineering in history. It was the first lighthouse built fully exposed to the sea, nine miles off the shore. The light keepers lived there all winter long and their job was to keep the light alive by replacing the 60 candles as they burned down. How many times do you think that they had to replace those candles? And there was also a great big hanging lantern with a big fire in it and they had to keep it burning, while at the same time, preserving their own lives from the threat of fire. Those light keepers in that lighthouse risked their lives that winter, in Winstanley's lighthouse. But the winter of 1699 was the first in centuries that there were no shipwrecks on the Eddystone reef. Now what difference did that lighthouse make to that ship that night? It made the difference between life and death, between financial prosperity for the investors and ruin. It made all the difference in the world. And in effect, Jesus, when he calls us “the salt of the earth,” “the light of the world,” is saying to us, “You should make a difference.” There should be a difference in the world because you are in it. When people come and interact with you, there should be a difference, an impact made by you because of their interaction with you. Because in both analogies, “you are the salt of the earth,” “you are the light of the world,” Jesus lists dangers that the effect will be muted, the effect will be neutered, that there will be no impact. I. Christ’s Teaching Technique Who is He talking to? He is talking to the people about whom the Beatitudes are true. We have talked about the Beatitudes, the characteristics of members of the Kingdom of Heaven. It began by saying, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, [spiritual beggars,] for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Runs all the way to the end where it says, "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." In between are a series of character traits that we have been looking at carefully over these last many weeks. And we have seen that these character traits are to characterize every Christian. There is brokenness, humility, a hungering and thirsting after righteousness and after God. There is a mercy that flows from those individuals. There is purity of heart and a willingness to go out and be persecuted as long as they can be peacemakers in the world. That is who we are talking about. And He is saying, of those people, the people that that is true of, those people “are the salt of the earth.” Those people “are the light of the world.” And in this way, Jesus is using His significant teaching technique. It is a remarkable thing. He takes earthly examples, earthly things that we can understand, that we interact with all the time, and uses it to teach us spiritual truth. Salt… How many of you go through a day without interacting with salt? Probably none of you do. And I know that none of you can even survive without light, as we will make clear later on, even if you are blind. It is something we can understand. And this is the way that Jesus teaches. He is taking things that we can understand from everyday life and He is teaching us spiritual truth with it. He did the same thing with Nicodemus when He was explaining about being born again. He takes something that we experience all the time, birth, and says your conversion to Me, your entrance into the kingdom of heaven is like a birth. Nicodemus didn't understand. You remember, in John 3, Jesus says, "I have spoken to you of earthly things [in earthly language]," would be one translation. "I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe. How then will you believe if I speak of [in] heavenly things [language]?" He certainly wouldn't get it then. Jesus talks of salt and light, things we can understand, and He says, "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it up on its stand and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." That is Jesus' lesson to us. In both cases, both the salt and the light, there is to be an impact. But there is a danger that the impact will be lost. The salt could lose its saltiness. The light could be hid under a bowl. So Jesus is challenging us, as Beatitude Christians to make all the difference, the same difference that the Eddystone lighthouse made to that ship that night. We are to have an impact on the world. II. “Salt of the Earth” (verse 13) Let's look at the first analogy carefully, "You are the salt of the earth," verse 13. Now, we interact with salt pretty much in one way these days. But, back in Jesus' day, there were two major things that salt did for them. The first, in the days before refrigeration, salt was a preservative. As soon as you killed an animal, a cow or sheep, or something, the meat began to deteriorate especially in that climate, so that within hours it was border-line whether it was safe to eat or not. But the ancients found that, if you rub salt into the meat, or into fish, you could retard, you could slow down the decay process enough, so that the food would be still good to eat much later. And so in this way, they learned to preserve food. I didn't really know how salt retards corruption so I looked it up in the Encyclopedia Britannica. I have to learn these things. I am constantly learning new things, but apparently what the salt does, is it prevents the moisture, which carries the bacteria, from spreading from place to place. There is bacterium in one place and, without the salt, it is going to move all the way through that flesh. It is going to multiply. It is going to grow. But, with the salt, it does not spread quickly. It stays where it is. Now, if you eat salted meat a long time later, it's bad. It doesn't totally get rid of the corruption, but it retards the process, slows it down and, in this way, it acts as a preservative. But this was before refrigeration. Therefore, you can see how valuable salt was in their lives. If they ever wanted to eat meat, they had to eat salted meat or they had to slaughter it and then eat it right away, right that day. Jesus, of course, is teaching us a spiritual truth here. He is not so much talking about salt as He is talking about a spiritual truth behind it. We, as Christians, are to make an impact on the world, on the society, on the culture around us. That impact is to be significant, as significant as the impact of that salt is on the corruption spreading through that meat. We are to be somewhat of a preservative in the surrounding culture. Now, sin has a decaying effect on society, doesn't it? It has a decaying effect on individual people. It rots us and, since society is made up of people, sin can spread and it can rot a whole society. Christians are to make an impact in slowing that process down. You know that in the days before the Flood, in the days before Noah, every single inclination and thought of the human heart all the time was only evil, and so judgment had to come. God being Holy, He brought judgment. The same thing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah. The corruption had gotten to such a great level, such a great depth at that point, that judgment was going to come. It was inevitable. Jesus is saying that the effect of beatitude Christians, on the surrounding culture, is to slow that process down. Why? It is so that the work of the Gospel can continue to spread, so that the influence of the Gospel can move, because, if the corruption goes too quickly, there is nothing that the people can do. There is no opportunity to share the Gospel. Judgment must come. There is anarchy in the streets; there is no peace, people stealing things from you, murdering you in the streets because the corruption has gotten to that level. Christians have a retarding influence on that corruption. We slow it down. America today is accelerated down a road of corruption. We all know it is true. We can see it. We see things on television. We read about things that we did not see 20 years ago. We should be shocked. The sad thing is we are not shocked, because the thing has been done in a cunning manner by the one who did it, namely Satan, and all his evil hordes. But as we look around us, we see the avenues of the corruption, the media for example, television, satellite TV, we see the internet. All of these things accelerate the transfer of information, don't they? But, if that information is corrupting, then it also accelerates the spread of corruption. Christians are to be salt and light. They are to be salt in that they retard that decay process. But let's not make a mistake here. Things have to be kept in perspective. About 100 years ago, Christians got confused about their mission in the world and they began to think that the only thing that mattered was doing this kind of salting in society. They were out there affecting society, opening up orphanages and hospitals, feeding the needy, giving to the poor, etcetera. And these were ministries that were commanded by Christ and by Scripture. But what did they lose? They lost the effect of preaching the Gospel. They no longer saw that it was necessary. They came to be called, in later years, social gospelers. In other words, they said that regeneration through faith in Christ was not necessary. We don't need to preach the Gospel. What we need to do is have an influence in society around us and, in this way, we will bring in the Kingdom. Well, it never happened. We cannot go too far and say that the sum total of all we are to be as a church is salt in society in this regard, that we retard corruption. However, it is an important ministry the church is to do. The church is to make a difference in the spread of corruption around us. Because this church is here, because First Baptist Church is here, the society around us should be influenced. There should be an impact, and that impact should be to retard or to slow down the decay process. Salt is not just a preservative. I would dare say that most of us do not interact with salt that way. How do you interact with salt? Well, it is on your table, right? It is in a salt shaker and you put it on your food. How many of you enjoy McDonald's fries without salt? I will go back to the McDonald's. I will go back to the drive-through and say... And I'll try to say it nicely… I would say, "I asked for salt. Would you mind giving me a few little packets? I can't eat fries without the salt." And why is this? It is because it does not taste the same. Salt is a flavor enhancer, isn't it? It brings out the flavor of the fries, and whatever else is in a fry. I do not want to know what is in a fry. But I like them. They taste good. And they taste better with salt, don't they? Can you think of other foods that just taste better when they are salted? There are just a number of them. Salt is a flavor enhancer. And the same was true back in biblical days, as well. Listen to Job 6:6. I bet you thought I would never find a verse about this, but it is in there. Job 6:6 says, "Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg? I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill." Look it up, Job 6:6: you have to salt the egg white or else you will not taste it. That is what Job said. Salt is a flavor enhancer. There is a story from the Arabian Nights about a Sultan who had three daughters and he wanted his daughters to come before the entire court, and to give expressions of love for him. He was an egomaniac, I think. "Come and tell me how much you love me." And so the first, the eldest daughter came and said, "You are the apple of my eye." Well that was old, but maybe back then it was not old, maybe it was new. "You are the apple of my eye, you are what I like to look at the most." The second daughter said something poetic like, "You are a fragrant breeze blowing across the garden." Well, that sounded good too. The third daughter, however, looked at him and she was the shrewdest, most clever of the three, and she said, "You are the salt in my food." And he was insulted by this. He thought, "This is terrible, how could you say this in front of all these people." He was angry and he told her to go out, go out from the court. Several weeks later she had the opportunity to demonstrate what she meant. She connived with the cook and said, "I want to cook his favorite meal but I am going to cook it my way." And so she cooked the meal, his favorite dish, without salt and she served it to him without any salt on the table. But she wore a veil. He did not know who she was, and he ate the food and it tasted just like Job said, "It tasted tasteless." There was something missing, and then she came in and she presented him with a gold tray and a little container of salt with the spoon, and he salted the food and it tasted good. At that moment she removed the veil and said, "Father, you are the salt in my food." And then he understood. Without salt, it was tasteless. What does that have to do with us? I believe that sin has a deadening effect on the soul. I believe the longer you go on in sin, the less anything tastes to you. Life becomes black and white. It becomes grayscale rather than colorful. That is what sin does. We should not think of it as an accident, it is what Satan intends. Do you understand that God created pleasure? He created pleasure. He created your tongue with different kinds of taste buds to taste different types of flavors. He created your eye to see and discern millions of different shades, subtle shades of color. God is a God of pleasure. We think that pleasure is evil, but what Satan does is he hijacks certain pleasures to entice you into patterns of sin. But what he wants to do as soon as possible is get the pleasure out of it, because pleasure is dangerous, it leads to God, He is the giver of it. And so this is what he does. In The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis talked about this whole thing. Have you ever read The Screwtape Letters? It is remarkable. It is a training manual from an older demon to a younger demon on how to entice people like you and me into sin. And what the older demon, Screwtape, said to Wormwood, his little nephew, is, he said, "Whenever we're dealing with pleasure, we're in the enemy territory," enemy being God. Everything is backwards in The Screwtape Letters. So he says pleasure is enemy territory, "Any pleasure is God's. This is what you want, Wormwood, an ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure. That's the winning formula." An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the law of diminishing returns and so, life begins to taste like nothing. I have a testimony about that from the great Charles Darwin. Have you ever heard of Charles Darwin? He was the one who started the whole Theory of Evolution over a hundred years ago. And this is what he wrote, "Up to the age of 30 or beyond it, poetry of many kinds gave me great pleasure. And even as a school boy, I took intense delight in Shakespeare. Formerly pictures gave me considerable and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I tried to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost any taste for pictures or music. I retain some taste for fine scenery but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness." That was near the end of his life. I do not think it was an accident. Satan was pulling pleasure away from him little at a time until he was nothing but a man who knew nothing about God, or the God who gave pleasures. How are Christians to make an impact on this? We know Jesus Christ. We know the Good Shepherd, and what did the Good Shepherd say? In John 10:10, "I have come that they may have life and might have it abundantly." We have a joy that the world cannot understand, a joy that is infectious, a joy that creates a hunger and a thirst for something more. And when we move through the world and people interact with us, there is something contagious about us in a positive way. There should be anyway, because we are rejoicing in the Lord in all circumstances and we can create a thirst for God by that kind of salty living. It has to do with the way we talk. In Colossians 4:6 it says, "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt so that you may know how to answer everyone." Isn't that a great verse? Let the way you carry yourself and let your talk be “full of grace, seasoned with salt”. There should be something of Christ in everything you say. Something of Christ in the way you live your life that causes people to want get close to Jesus. Here is a great story of the conversion of John Bunyan who wrote Pilgrims Progress. He was not a believer; he was actually a blasphemer, he says. And he went around from place to place fixing pots and pans; he was what was known as a tinker. He was in a kitchen one day and he overheard four neighborhood women, and they were talking. They did not know that he was listening, but they were talking. And do you know what they were talking about? They were talking about the glories of God's salvation through grace in Jesus Christ. That was the topic of their conversation and also how unworthy they were in their sin and the pleasures of heaven and how they could not wait to be there. Bunyan wrote, "They spake as if joy did make their heart speak." Joy was moving them to talk. Now, if they had been gossiping about a neighbor, do you think that Bunyan would have come to faith in Christ that day? He did come to faith in Christ that day. If they had been gossiping about a neighbor, what would have happened? It would have been just four women gossiping. What if they had been complaining about the high price of eggs? That would have been four women complaining. But instead they let their conversation be “full of grace, seasoned with salt”, and someone was saved. And his work transformed more lives than just about anyone of his generation, John Bunyan. "Let your conversation be full of grace." What is the danger to all this? The danger is that the salt may lose its saltiness. How does salt lose its saltiness? Well, actually sodium chloride salt is very stable. It does not lose its saltiness. But what happens is it gets adulterated, mixed with other things like sand or dirt or other things, and it becomes useless. Jesus says, "It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men." In the same way, the church which gets mixed up with worldly ideas, worldly pleasures, worldly entertainment, worldly way of life is useless. It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out. Can I tell you that in church history, thousands of local churches like ours have been thrown out as useless? May it never happen to this church. If we do not lose our saltiness, it won't. And the sad thing is we get drawn into the world... We get drawn into worldly things because we want to please them. We want to avoid the persecution that Jesus just got done talking about, so we become like the world. And what ends up happening? The world does what to us? It tramples us. It is no longer good for anything except be thrown out, and trampled by men. We are trampled. We are useless to anybody. The salt must not lose its saltiness. We must continue to be salty. There must be a radical difference between us and the world. And only if there is will there be power for conversion in that local church. Only as we separate from the world and become more and more different, salty, will we see people come to faith in Christ. We will see people walking down the aisles; we will hear testimonies throughout the week of people coming to faith in Christ. Why? It will be because you and I were salt that week. We were different, and we left an impact. Only through revival, only through the moving of the Spirit can we have this kind of pervasive influence in society again. Do you pray for revival? Do you pray that God would make us salty again? Jesus asks a haunting question, doesn't He? If the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? And then the convicting judgment, it is good for nothing. The implication is we should be good for something. And that something is a tremendous impact on the world. III. “Light of the World” (verse 14-16) The second analogy He uses in verses 14 through 16 is “the light of the world”. He says, "You are the light of the world." Now salt, its influence is invisible. You cannot see it; it is just there. But light is everywhere, and we see it all the time, piercing and radiant, bringing color into our eyes. What does light do? Light brings information, doesn't it? Light also brings energy. Light brings those two things, information and energy to us. Without it, we get neither. It is strange that Jesus calls us the light of the world, isn't it? That is because He Himself claimed to be the light of the world. He says in John 8:12, He says, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." So how is it that Jesus says, "I am the light of the world," but then He calls us “the light of the world”? Well, we are His light in His place. Jesus said, "While I am in the world, I'm the light of the world." There was a time coming when He would leave the world, and He would leave us behind as His light to shine in the dark place. It says in Ephesians 5:8, "You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord." And it says Philippians 2:15-16, that we are like stars shining “in the universe as you [we] hold out the word of life.” We are stars shining in His place as we offer the gospel in this dark place. Now, how did we who were darkness at one point, how did we come to be light in the Lord? Well, that is the miracle of conversion. At one point, we were dead in our transgressions and sins as we followed the kingdom of darkness it says in Ephesians 2. We were darkened in our understanding and separated from the life of God. Because of the darkness, there was ignorance in our minds and in our hearts. But then the Holy Spirit came and opened our hearts powerfully in a miracle of conversion, and light shone inside us. The light of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and we came to faith in Christ. We were converted from darkness to light. And so it says in Colossians 1:13 that, "He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of light, into the kingdom of the Son He loves." You were transferred. Do you remember the day that you were moved over? Do you remember the day of your transfer? I remember my day. Before that, it was darkness. I did not know God. He did not live in my heart; but then one day, I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, how He had died on the cross, how He shed his blood in my place. And I understood that if I had faith in Him, I would have eternal life. I would be rescued and brought over into light, and it has been light ever since. So we are the light of the world if we know Jesus. He is the light of the world first, and His light shines through us. Light, just like salt, has a variety of ministries. Salt had a negative and a positive ministry, didn't it? It had a negative and a positive influence. Negatively, salt retarded corruption and was a flavor enhancer, negative and positive. So also light has a negative and a positive side to its ministry. Negatively, light exposes or reveals or shines on danger or evil. Positively, it shows the way; it illuminates beauty and produces fruit. Let's look at these one at a time. First, we will look at light in terms of exposing danger. Near Louisville, Kentucky, there is something called the Mammoth Caves. It is an expansive cave system, one of the largest in the world. And during the early days of exploration, they did not understand just how deep and how expansive was the cave system. Some spelunkers (those are cave explorers) went in with insufficient lighting. And at one point, the lights went out. Now they had paid out ropes, so that they would be able to get back in, but in going back to the opening, one of them lost their way and fell into a 60 foot deep pit to their death. And why did this happen? Because they could not see, the light was gone; it had gone out. And so there was danger all around them, and they could not see it. Jesus alluded to this exact same thing when He talked about the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. He says, "They are blind men leading blind men." If blind lead the blind, both will fall into a what? They will fall into a pit. There is danger when there are no lights. And so also, we as the light of the world expose danger, don't we? We do that through the preaching of the gospel. It says on the day of Pentecost, of Peter, at the end of his preaching, "With many other words, he warned them; and he pleaded with them, 'Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.'" He is acting as light to expose danger, and what is the danger? It is called Judgment Day. On Judgment Day, we will have to stand accountable for everything we have ever said and done. And if we do not have the atoning blood of Jesus Christ paying for our sins, we will spend eternity separated from God, in Hell. This is the clear teaching of Christ; it is the clear teaching of the Bible; we, through the preaching of the clear teaching, we are exposing danger, we are warning people of what is to come. The wrath of God is coming; flee from it through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. We also, however, expose evil. As we act as light in the world, we show up evil around us; we do not necessarily do it on purpose, we do not point it out, but it becomes apparent just by how we live. We expose the evil of people who do not love God. And we bring them to a decision point, we become that fork in the road; people have to decide what they are going to do with their sin. And so it says in Ephesians 5, "Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible." We expose evil by the lives we live. So that is the negative side. The positive side of that is that we show the way. Just as in the darkness that cave explorer fell 60 feet to his death. If he had had the light, he would have seen the safe way. Is there a safe way through this world of sin? Yes there is, His name is Jesus Christ. For He said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." We are His witnesses; we point to Christ, we say, "Follow Him, He'll bring you to the Father. Follow Jesus!" We are lighting the way in that way, and by our own following of Christ, by the fact that we are walking after Him as His disciples, we are showing the way as well; we are showing the way. We do not just show the way though, as we preach it, as we live it, we are also pointing to other light; specifically the Scripture. It says in Psalm 119:105, "Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path." I think of Mammoth Cave when I think of that, Psalm 119:105, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Without it, I will fall into a pit, but with it, I will know which way to go. And we, as the light of the world, we testify by speaking the words of Scripture. That is all I ever try to do on Sunday morning or in other times, I am just trying to show the light that is in God's Word. That is all. We show the way, and the way is in Scripture. Finally, our on-going fellowship with one another is a form of light, isn't it? It says in 1 John 1:7, "If we walk in light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus purifies us from all sin." So our fellowship with one another is a form of light. People come into our midst and they can see Christ with us. The light does not just show the way, it also illuminates beauty. If I were to ask you to close your eyes and imagine a sunset over the Grand Canyon, with all of the colors of that painted desert, all of the deep crevices that the Colorado River has cut in there; can you imagine the beauty that is there, that God put there, that you could not see, if you had never been able to see, if you were blind? How would you ever explain it to a blind man? How would you explain to a blind man the difference between red and green, could you do it in words? It is impossible. See, light comes and gives us information about the beauty of the world around us, doesn't it? I like to think of us as the light of the world in this way: We are like prisms. A prism is a triangular piece of glass that takes light and breaks it up into different colors. Have you ever seen one? Well, sure you have, you have seen a prism. After every rainstorm, when you look up and you see God's prism up in the sky, it's called the rainbow, and the light comes through the moisture in the atmosphere, and it breaks out to different colors: red, and orange, yellow, green and blue, indigo and violet. They are so beautiful. We take God's character, His spiritual nature, and we break it out for people to see. They can see different aspects of God in the things we do. We let our lights shine, so that people can see our good deeds and praise God. They get to know God by watching us; they see perhaps His compassion in the way we minister to people who are needy. They see His patience in the way we deal with those people. They see His holiness in the way we put sin to death, and the way we walk through this world unstained, unpolluted by it. They see different aspects of God when they look at us. “You are the light of the world;” we are like prisms. It says in I Peter 2:9, "You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness, into His wonderful light." In other words, as you move through this life speaking about God, imitating Jesus Christ, you are explaining what God is like to a dark world; they do not know it, apart from us. “You are the light of the world.” That perfect process will be seen in Heaven. In Heaven, according to the book of Revelation, you ought to read it for yourself, in Revelation 21, there are 12 walls, 12 walls and 12 foundations, each stone has a different color. You have one perhaps catching the light of God. And there is no light in the city except the glory of God. Catching the light of God and refracting it to be red, or perhaps green, or maybe yellow. And in the same way God's perfection, His character revealed in heaven as it shines through us. The final ministry of light is in producing fruit. Do you know what I am talking about when I say that light produces fruit? Have you ever heard of photosynthesis? Well, you do not need to have heard of it before to realize that you would not be alive today if it were not for it. As a matter of fact, you could not understand what I am saying. Do you know that there is energy in your brain? It comes from the food that you ate. There is a biological energy that comes from eating. The sugars, the carbohydrates, get up in you and you are able to think. That is why you have to have a good breakfast before a test or something like that, so that you can think. Well, where do you think that food came from? It came from photosynthesis. It came from light hitting a leaf somewhere, or many leaves. And the combination of light plus carbon dioxide and water turned into sugar ultimately into fruit, maybe a pear. Maybe just something a cow likes to eat, and you ate the cow. But the point is that all life comes from photosynthesis. Now who is it that put together fruitfulness and light? God did it. God did it. Well Paul puts it together for us in Ephesians 5. He says, "The fruit of the light," stop right there, “the fruit of the light.” So he put them together too. Fruit comes from light. “The fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth and find out what pleases the Lord.” In other words, as you imitate God as you follow Him, you are going to be shedding out light which will produce fruit. The opposite is true as well. Ephesians 5:11 challenges us to “have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness.” Darkness produces no fruit. Light produces fruit. So, what does this mean? As you live your life in front of, for example, other Christians they will see your good deeds, praise your Father in Heaven and fruit will come in their lives. We shine the light for one another. When a brother or a sister challenges me with a word of Scripture, or an example, something the way they do, the way they pray, fruit comes in my life. “You are the light of the world.” IV. Application Now how do we let our light shine? That would be a whole other sermon, to go through a list of ways to let your light shine. It all comes down to this. Jesus summed it up by calling it good deeds. "They may see your good deeds and praise your Father in Heaven." And as you do good deeds. What is it? It is following the leadership of the Holy Spirit as He shows you the way. It says in Ephesians 2:10 "We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God has prepared in advance for us to do." Every day you wake up and He has a list of good works for you to do. As you do them under the leadership of the Spirit, “you are the light of the world.” “You are the light of the world.” Follow the leadership of the Spirit and do your good deeds. The whole point of this is that we should be open and obvious. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. God lit us and put us up high on a stand. Do not complain that everyone in your office, for example, is watching you all the time to see if you are really a consistent Christian. Rejoice in it! God did that. He lit the light in you, and He is putting it up on a stand for everyone to see. Do not chafe under it. Realize that you are the light of the world. Now by way of application I just want to ask you two questions. Are you living up to the calling you have received? It says we should make every effort to live up to the calling we have received. Are you living up to it? Are you salt and light? When people interact with you, do they see a difference in you? Or do you just laugh at the same jokes, think the same thoughts, and follow in the same way as everyone else? We are to be world changers. We are to make an impact.