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According to the "Spotify Wrapped" the United Kingdom is my largest audience in terms of overall new listeners this show received in 2024. In addition to mainland Great Britain and Northern Ireland, we also received tons of new listeners in the Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man and the British Overseas Territories of Gibraltar, the Pitcairn Islands and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. In addition to the massive amount of new listeners in the UK this show also received listeners in 20 new countries and territories in addition the original 63 I mentioned previously. Here's the list in case you're interested: Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory) The Bahamas Lithuania Dominica Mauritius Cyprus Luxembourg Trinidad and Tobago St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (British Overseas Territory) Namibia Jamaica Republic of North Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Albania Belarus Pitcairn Islands (British Overseas Territory) Isle of Man (Crown Dependency) People's Republic of China (Chinese Mainland) Saudi Arabia Seychelles Belize Argentina If you would like to reach out feel free to send an email to: atelierfuralle@gmail.com. You can also leave a review of the podcast and follow this show on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/atelierfuralle?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551850785306 Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/FVWn1jmT Discord Server https://discord.gg/XsZZ42NU X (formerly known as Twitter): @JDDragonPodcast
GB2RS News Sunday the 15th of September The news headlines: The RSGB is looking for its next Youth Champion Success for an RSGB member at the IARU ARDF Championship Today is the last chance to book early bird tickets for the RSGB Convention The RSGB is looking for its next volunteer Youth Champion. This could be one role or split between people who focus on different aspects of it. The Youth Champion will work closely with RSGB Board Liaison Ben Lloyd, GW4BML and the RSGB Outreach Team to ignite interest and develop links with schools, universities, Scouts, Guides and the general public. They will also help to support current young amateurs and motivate them to try new things within amateur radio after they gain their license. This role needs someone proactive, good at building relationships with young people, and passionate about inspiring the next generation of radio amateurs. For the full role description go to rsgb.org/volunteers and if you would like to apply or find out more, contact Ben Lloyd via gw4bml@rsgb.org.uk The 24th IARU Region 1 ARDF Championships in Bulgaria saw an RSGB member on the podium. David Williams, M3WDD took the silver medal position in the M60 category of the 144MHz Classic five-transmitter race at the Championships held at Primorsko, Bulgaria earlier this month. David had come so very close to winning being only 14 seconds behind the winner Jozef Simecek of Slovakia. There were four races altogether. The week of competition started with the Sprint race on 80m followed the next day by the 2m five-transmitter Classic race for the M60 category in which David did so well. A well-earned rest day followed and after that came the 80m five-transmitter race. The week ended with the Foxoring event, a combination of direction finding and orienteering, again using the 80m band. You can see the results in full, and read more about ARDF, at rsgb.org/ardf Don't forget that the RSGB Convention early bird price ends today, Sunday the 15th of September. There's a range of great presentations planned, a fantastic microcontroller workshop to take part in, as well as all the fabulous social opportunities to enjoy like the Gala Dinner. Go to rsgb.org/convention to find out more and book your tickets. Have you ever tried LoRa? Or Node Red? Have you used the Raspberry Pico for coding or played a Morse game with an Arduino? These are just some of the great activities on the RSGB's website that are available for National Coding Week which begins this Monday, the 16th of September. Whether you fancy doing something different for a club night or would like to sample something new just for fun, there's an activity to inspire you! You could even try combining your love of amateur radio with the software interests of a young family member. The RSGB is offering nine activities this year so head over to rsgb.org/coding and get involved. The next Bletchley Park 1940s weekend is taking place on the 21st and 22nd of September. If you are visiting for the event, make sure you drop into the RSGB National Radio Centre where you'll be able to see several World War Two receivers on display. Don't forget that RSGB members can get free entry to Bletchley Park, which also includes admission to the RSGB National Radio Centre. You can access this fantastic offer by logging into the RSGB membership portal via rsgb.org/members and selecting ‘Visit Bletchley Park'. Don't forget that National Hamfest 2024 is coming up on the 27th and 28th of September and promises to be an unforgettable celebration of all things amateur radio. As always, the traders and manufacturers are lining up to bring you the best in amateur radio equipment and accessories. Many exhibitors will be offering exclusive deals, making it the perfect time to upgrade your gear or add new items to your shack. For more information and to purchase your tickets, visit nationalhamfest.org.uk And now for details of rallies and events The Broadcast Engineering Museum near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire is new and a work in progress, so it only opens a few days each year. Today, from 11 am to 4 pm, the Museum is having an open day. The Museum contains a vast collection of historic broadcasting equipment and memorabilia, some restored and working, on display in a former RAF sergeants' mess. Free parking is available on-site. For more information email contactus@becg.org.uk or visit becg.org.uk The British Vintage Wireless Society is holding a swap meet and auction today, the 15th at the Weatherley Centre, Eagle Farm Road, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, SG18 8JH. Stallholders can gain entry from 9 am. Admission for visitors will be available from 9.30 am for £8. The auction starts at 12.30 pm and hot and cold refreshments will be available all day. For more information visit bvws.org.uk or email Jeremy Owen, G8MLK at secretary@bvws.org.uk The East Midlands Ham and Electronics Rally is taking place on Saturday the 21st of September. The venue will be Beckingham Village Hall, Southfield Lane, Doncaster, DN10 4FX. The doors will be open for visitors from 9.30 am until 4 pm and admission will cost £3 per person. Disabled access will be available from 9.15 am. For more information, including booking and contact details, visit g0raf.co.uk/rally Weston Super Mare Radio Society Radio and Electronics Rally will take place on Sunday the 22nd of September from 10 am. The venue will be The Campus Community Centre, Worle, Weston super Mare, BS24 7DX. For further information and to book a table email westonradiosociety@gmail.com Now the Special Event news To celebrate the G-QRP Club's 50th anniversary special callsign G5LOW, and all its regional variants, will be QRV until the 30th of September. In addition, several overseas stations will be joining in with the event. For more information, including details of commemorative certificates that will be available for chasers, visit tinyurl.com/GQRP50 Advance notice now that during October and November, special callsign PZ5JT will be back on the air from Surinam during the jungle training of the Royal Dutch Army and Marines. The station is operated by personnel from the signal regiment and they will be working on the 40, 20, 17, 15 and 10m bands using SSB. Operators will be using in-service military L3Harris radios from different locations and will welcome your call. Now the DX news Carl Gorse, 2E0HPI will be operating from multiple locations for the Parks On The Air scheme around the Lancashire area from tomorrow, the 16th, to Friday the 20th of September. He will be using Yaesu FT-857d and Xiegu G90 transceivers with 20W. Listen out for Carl on all bands from 160 to 10m using FT4, FT8 and SSB. Maxim, OH7O will be active as 3D2YY from Viti Levu, OC- 016, on Fiji until the 19th of September. He will operate mostly SSB and some slow CW on the 40 to 10m bands, and possibly the 80m band, from different locations around the island. See QRZ.com for more information. Now the contest news Today, the 15th, the 70MHz Affiliated Societies Contest runs from 0900 to 1200UTC. Using all modes on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Worked All Europe DX SSB Contest started at 0000UTC on Saturday the 14th and runs until 2359UTC today, Sunday the 15th of September. Using SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Today, the 15th, the UK Microwave Group 24 to 76GHz Contest runs from 0900 to 1700UTC. Using All modes on 24 to 76GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also, today, the 15th, the IRTS 70cm Counties Contest runs from 1300 to 1330UTC. Using SSB and FM on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Irish stations also give their county. The IRTS 2m Counties Contest is also taking place today, the 15th, from 1300 to 1500 UTC. Using SSB and FM on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Irish stations also give their county. Also today, the 15th, the British Amateur Radio Teledata Group Sprint PSK63 Contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using PSK63 on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is your serial number. Tomorrow, the 16th, the RSGB FT4 Contest runs from 1900 to 2030 UTC. Using FT4 on the 80 to 10m bands, the exchange is your report. On Tuesday the 17th, the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130 UTC. Using all modes on 1.3GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Thursday the 19th, the 70MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130 UTC. Using all modes on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Sunday the 22nd, the Practical Wireless 70MHz Contest runs from 1200 to 1600UTC. Using all modes on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA, and G4BAO on Thursday the 12th of September 2024 Last week showed that HF conditions are improving as we head into the autumn. With a solar flux index still above 200, there was plenty of DX available to work. CDXC members reported working VP6WR on the Pitcairn Islands, KH8T on American Samoa and 3D2USU on Fiji, which is not a bad catch for early September. A little closer to home, 9A168TESLA in Croatia has been popping up for short periods celebrating the 168th anniversary of the birthday of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla. Watch DX Summit closely for operating times. The daylight maximum useable frequency, or MUF, over 3,000 kilometres remains above 28MHz on the whole, although a raised Kp index tends to reduce this. Geomagnetic conditions remained relatively calm with the Kp index below 3 all week. That changed on Thursday the 12th as material from a coronal mass ejection, or CME passed the ACE spacecraft in the early hours. The solar wind speed increased to more than 500 kilometres per second and the Bz swung south. On Thursday the 12th, the Kp index was 5 and the Met Office Space Weather department was forecasting potentially unsettled conditions for this weekend, ending today the 15th. At the same time an X-class flare occurred, with lowered MUFs due to increased D-layer absorption. Two large coronal holes on the Sun's surface are also now Earth-facing and threaten to add to the solar wind this weekend. According to NOAA's predictions, the solar flux index should stay in the 210 to 225 range next week, although a large number of spots are about to rotate off the Sun's visible disk. This may be compensated by an active region that's about to rotate into view. This has been emitting C-Class and lower-level M-flares and could potentially be the same region that produced several energetic eruptions off the far side of the Sun over the past week. Time will tell. And now the VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO The heavy showers at the end of last week produced some good rain scatter, but no QSOs in the UK were noted due to the showers not coinciding with GHz contests and few suitable home stations were active to take advantage of them. After a gradual build-up of pressure over this weekend, ending the 15th, high pressure is suggested by most models during the coming week. However, there is some uncertainty about the position of the high. Currently, models are favouring the north of Britain and this means that in the south, although still on the edge of high pressure, there could be a brisk northeasterly breeze, which may weaken the inversion prospects. It's not clear if the Tropo will be functioning in time for the 70MHz Affiliated Societies Contest today, the 15th, but should be helpful for the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest on Tuesday the 17th and the 70MHz UK Activity Contest on Thursday the 19th. Solar conditions are still likely to offer the chance of the occasional elevated Kp index, which is a good sign of possible aurora. It will be interesting to see how things evolve this weekend, ending the 15th, as a series of expected CMEs are due to reach Earth. The amateur bands between 10m and 2m are the ones to check as well as looking out for ‘watery' sounding signals on the HF bands. Remember it doesn't have to be dark for radio aurora, so don't wait for dusk before checking. Meteor scatter is mainly down to random activity in the coming week. However, with the September Epsilon Perseids stream still active until the 21st, having peaked on the 9th, conditions may be slightly enhanced. For EME operators, Moon declination is negative but rising and going positive again on Wednesday the 18th. Moon visibility windows will continue to rise while path losses decrease as we approach perigee on Wednesday the 18th. 144MHz sky noise is moderate for the whole of next week. And that's all from the propagation team this week.
The Annapolis Film Festival opens on Thursday, April 4th, and runs through April 7th. It features over 70 films, panels, coffee chats, and parties throughout Annapolis. We had the opportunity to talk with Gary Jobson, the director of Unfurling the World, an incredible sailing documentary. Unfurling the World | April 6, 2024 | 12 Noon | Maryland Hall Between 1933 and 1956, Irving and Electa Johnson sailed with young, inexperienced sailors aboard two schooners, both named Yankee. Each time the Johnsons set sail for a voyage, they witnessed new and remote places that few people had visited. World-class sailor and film producer Gary Jobson narrates the original footage shot by Captain Johnson and the Yankee crew, which is now archived at Mystic Seaport. In exclusive new interviews, some crew members pay tribute to the Johnsons and share their lifetime memories of their voyages around the world. The travels took the Johnson and the crews to mysterious Easter Island and the beautiful Bali, where they met intriguing inhabitants and experienced true maritime history when they raised the anchor of the HMS Bounty on the Pitcairn Islands. Unfurl the world, and discover all the excitement and beauty of traveling around the world without even leaving your seat. (USA, 77 min, Documentary) Tickets and passes are on sale now for the 12th Annual Annapolis Film Festival.
In this episode of "American Potential," Host Jeff Crank welcomes Yoel Diaz Cuni and Mari Daniela Diaz, a couple sharing Yoel's journey from Cuba to the United States. Yoel's emotional first experiences in America, from marveling at the abundance in grocery stores to opening his first American paycheck, provide a poignant perspective on the freedoms and opportunities often taken for granted. Mari shares her fascination with remote places, including plans to visit the Pitcairn Islands, contrasting Yoel's upbringing in a Cuban village without electricity, underscoring the stark contrasts between life in Cuba and the U.S. The couple discusses the challenges of daily life in Cuba, from censorship and scarcity to the government's strict control over basic necessities like food and electricity. Yoel's reaction to his first American steak at Texas Roadhouse, a simple pleasure denied in his homeland due to stringent regulations, illustrates the profound appreciation immigrants have for the liberties afforded in the United States. Through Yoel and Mari's stories, this episode explores the transformative power of freedom and opportunity. It serves as a reminder of the hardships faced by those living under oppressive regimes and the enduring hope and resilience of those who seek a better life in America. Their journey underscores the importance of cherishing and defending the liberties that define the American dream. Check out American Potential here: https://americanpotential.com Check out our Spanish episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8wSZydeKZ6uOuFlT_1QQ53L7l6AmC83c Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanPotentialPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanpotentialpodcast/ X: https://twitter.com/AMPotentialPod
1.Intro 2.Mutiny through the ages 3.Naval Mutiny 4.Army Mutiny 5.Air Force Mutiny ps The Wagner GroupThere is always an underlying grievance. Jamie and Tom dive into the history of Mutiny.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information
What do you know about a place called 'Gibraltar'? Hopefully, after this briefing, a lot more than you knew before! In this episode, I am joined by my good friend Caine, who has ten years of experience teaching about British culture in China. For the benefit of those of us in the West, he runs the Youtube channel "Videos By Caine" with a special focus on traditional Chinese culture. Caine previously guided us on our deep dives into tea, British men's wardrobes, tattoo culture, and Christmas. Check out his recommended rabbit hole: "The Pitcairn Islands". Well worth a Google, as we discuss! Please also check out Caine's channel: https://www.youtube.com/videosbycaine Message me anytime on Instagram, or e-mail: AlbionNeverDies@gmail.comCheck out my https://www.youtube.com/britishcultureCheck out my Red Bubble shopSeveral subscribers have their postcards and other little 'thank you's in the post, randomly drawn from the list, and one has a free mug on the way!Subscribe to my newsletter: https://youtube.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b3afdae99897eebbf8ca022c8&id=5165536616 Practicing Connection: Working together to help families and communities thrive.Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch host this exploration of personal and collective...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show
词汇提示1.mutiny 兵变2.harsh 严厉地3.cramped 狭窄的4.veteran老兵5.marine 海军陆战队员6.commissioned 受委托的7.turmoil 动乱的8.complexion 肤色9.seized 夺取10.tyrant 暴君11.tactful 圆滑的12.controversy 争论原文Mutiny!!Mutiny is a word that has brought fear to the most powerful empires in the world.Mutiny is when soldiers and sailors refuse to obey their commanders, often killing or imprisoning them.Mutiny can spread through whole armies and navies, throwing governments into crisis.No wonder that nations have always taken harsh measures to punish mutinous leaders.The ancient Romans executed every tenth man from an army unit that had mutinied.However,one of history's most famous mutinies did not happen to a whole army or navy, it happened on a single small ship, H.M.S. Bounty.H. M.S. Bounty set sail from England in December 1787.It was a small cramped vessel, uncomfortable during a long voyage.Its goal was to sail to the South Pacific and bring back Tahitian breadfruit plants.The government hoped that breadfruit would provide a cheap food for black slaves in the British West Indies.The captain of the Bounty was William Bligh, a veteran of many voyages.His crew, however, was largely made up of inexperienced young men.There was no room on the ship for soldiers or marines, so Bligh, as the only commissioned officer, had the difficult task of maintaining order.Many of the sailors established relationships with island women.Meanwhile,the collection of breadfruit plants for the homeward voyage continued.In April 1789, Captain Bligh decided that it was time to return to England.The breadfruit plants were loaded on the deck, making the ship cramped indeed.The Bounty set sail and would no doubt have reached England again, except for the turmoil in the mind of one of its young officers.Fletcher Christian was 24 years old, of dark complexion, and from a good family.As the Bounty pulled further from Tahiti, Fletcher seemed to have decided that he didn't want to return to England.Tahiti had been an earthly paradise, and now long months of discomfort aboard ship awaited him.He was too far from Tahiti to return by himself.On April 28, 1789, some of Fletcher Christian's friends seized control of the ship.Captain Bligh and eighteen sailors who supported him were put in a small open boat with limited food and water.Meanwhile,Christian and his 24 followers sailed back to Tahiti.Eventually,Fletcher Christian would sail the Bounty to the uninhabited Pitcairn Islands,far to the south of the shipping lanes.Meanwhile,Bligh and his loyal followers sailed in their open boat almost the width of the Pacific Ocean.They suffered from thirst, hunger and sickness, as well as hostile natives.Finally,they reached Timor in Indonesia in June and eventually made their way to the capital, Batavia.When they returned to England, Captain Bligh was first greeted as a hero.Soon,however, public attitudes changed.The legend began that Bligh was a cruel tyrant who had caused the mutiny by harsh treatment of his men.Although Bligh had a temper, and was not very tactful, this does not appear to be the whole story.In fact, it is the controversy over who is to blame for the mutiny - Bligh or Christian -that has kept the story alive for more than 200 years.翻译兵变! !叛变这个词让世界上最强大的帝国感到恐惧。兵变是指士兵和水手拒绝服从他们的指挥官，通常会杀死或监禁他们。兵变可以蔓延到整个陆军和海军，使政府陷入危机。难怪各国总是采取严厉措施惩罚叛变的领导人。古罗马人每十个叛变的士兵中就有一个被处死。然而，历史上最著名的兵变之一并没有发生在整个陆军或海军身上，它发生在一艘小船上，英国皇家海军舰艇“赏金”号。1787年12月，英国军舰“赏金”号从英国启航。这是一艘窄小的船，在长途航行中很不舒服。它的目标是航行到南太平洋，带回大溪地的面包果。政府希望面包果能为英属西印度群岛的黑奴提供一种廉价的食物。“赏金”号的船长是威廉·布莱，他参加过多次航行。然而，他的船员大多是没有经验的年轻人。船上没有士兵或海军陆战队员的位置，所以布莱作为唯一的军官，承担着维持秩序的艰巨任务。许多水手与岛上的妇女建立了关系。与此同时，为返航收集面包果的工作仍在继续。1789年4月，布莱船长决定是时候回到英国了。面包果栽在甲板上，把船挤得很挤。“赏金”号启航了，如果不是船上一位年轻军官脑子里的混乱，它无疑又要到达英国了。弗莱彻·克里斯蒂安24岁，肤色黝黑，出身名门。随着“赏金号”离塔希提岛越来越远，弗莱彻似乎已经决定不回英国了。塔希提岛曾经是人间天堂，现在等待他的是船上漫长数月的不适。他离塔希提岛太远了，不可能一个人回去。1789年4月28日，弗莱彻·克里斯蒂安的一些朋友控制了这艘船。布莱船长和支持他的18名水手被安置在一艘小船上，食物和水都很有限。与此同时，克里斯蒂安和他的24名追随者乘船返回塔希提岛。最终，弗莱彻·克里斯蒂安将“赏金”号驶向无人居住的皮特凯恩群岛，那里离航道很远。与此同时，布莱和他的忠实追随者们驾着他们的敞舱船航行了几乎整个太平洋。他们饱受干渴、饥饿和疾病的折磨，还有充满敌意的当地人。最后，他们在六月到达了印度尼西亚的帝汶岛，并最终到达了首都巴达维亚。当他们回到英国时，布莱船长首先受到了英雄般的欢迎。然而，公众的态度很快就改变了。传说布莱是一个残酷的暴君，他残酷地对待他的部下，引起了这场兵变。虽然布莱脾气暴躁，而且不太圆滑，但这似乎并不是事情的全部。事实上，是关于谁应该为兵变负责的争论——布莱还是克里斯蒂安——使这个故事流传了200多年。
Welcome to all our new listeners in the Pitcairn Islands! In a packed episode, ElTele rejects tea bags, and continues on his jazz guitar odyssey. Nice! The Captain reviews the debut crime novel by Scottish comedian and raconteur Frankie Boyle.In our main feature, we examine The Guardian's list of the 70 greatest singles which reached number two in the UK charts. Are these records better than the number ones which beat them to the top spot? How often did novelty records get to number one, and why? ElTele digs into the six part Story of Only Fools and Horses documentary, talks about the career of series writer John Sullivan, and the 'spinoff film and TV series' phenomenon.We round off the episode with comments on the controversy at the football World Cup.Show notes and links at https://www.onlyapodcast.com/episode-28-is-second-place-better-than-first/https://linktr.ee/onlyapodcast
How many plastic carrier bags have you got in your house? I seem to have cupboards full of them and it feels like they're taking over my home! The ubiquitous shopping bag is just one example of the million things we use made from this useful material, plastic. But unfortunately, it's not the easiest thing to recycle and this is causing an environmental problem. 你家里有多少个塑料手提袋？我的橱柜里似乎装满了它们，感觉就像他们正在接管我的家！无处不在的购物袋只是我们使用这种有用材料塑料制成的数百万件物品的一个例子。但不幸的是，这不是最容易回收的东西，这会导致环境问题。Most of our everyday plastic items end up in landfill, left to rot away for many years. But some of it blows away, blighting the countryside and causing damage to the natural environment and harming wildlife. The problem is most acute in our oceans. Research has found an uninhabited island in the South Pacific is littered with the highest density of plastic waste anywhere in the world. Henderson Island, part of the UK's Pitcairn Islands group, has an estimated 37.7 million pieces of debris on its beaches.我们的大多数日常塑料物品最终都被填埋，多年后腐烂。但其中一些被吹走，破坏了乡村，对自然环境造成破坏，伤害了野生动物。这个问题在我们的海洋中最为严重。研究发现，南太平洋的一个无人岛散落着世界上密度最高的塑料垃圾。亨德森岛是英国皮特凯恩群岛的一部分，其海滩上估计有 3770 万块碎片。The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, described how remote islands act as a 'sink' for the world's rubbish. They become collecting points for fishing items and everyday things including toothbrushes, cigarette lighters and razors; things that we throw away. Dr Jennifer Lavers from the University of Tasmania says "Almost every island in the world and almost every species in the ocean is now being shown to be impacted one way or another by our waste."该研究发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上，描述了偏远岛屿如何成为世界垃圾的“接收器”。它们成为钓鱼用品和日常用品的收集点，包括牙刷、打火机和剃须刀；我们扔掉的东西。塔斯马尼亚大学的詹妮弗·拉弗斯博士说：“世界上几乎每个岛屿和海洋中的几乎所有物种现在都被我们的废物以一种或另一种方式影响着。”This highlights the potentially deadly effect of our disposable culture. When we throw something away, it doesn't just disappear, it goes somewhere and because of the durable nature of plastic, it takes a long time to decompose and stays there causing great damage to the ocean's ecology. Some other recent worldwide research estimates that 90% of all seabirds have swallowed plastic. And worse still, this plastic is broken down into tiny particles over a long period by the wind and the waves, then sea creatures at the bottom of the food chain ingest them. These creatures are eaten by the fish that we eventually consume.这凸显了我们一次性文化的潜在致命影响。当我们扔掉一些东西时，它不仅会消失，还会去到某个地方，而且由于塑料的耐用性，它需要很长时间才能分解并停留在那里，对海洋生态造成巨大破坏。最近的其他一些全球研究估计，所有海鸟中有 90% 吞食了塑料。更糟糕的是，这种塑料在很长一段时间内被风和海浪分解成微小的颗粒，然后食物链底部的海洋生物摄取它们。这些生物被我们最终食用的鱼吃掉。The solution to this problem would be to use less plastic. Several countries now charge for using plastic carrier bags which reduces the amount used and some products now use natural and recyclable materials but it seems inevitable that plastic will continue to be necessary in many of the gadgets that we demand.这个问题的解决方案是使用更少的塑料。一些国家现在对使用塑料手提袋收费，这减少了使用量，一些产品现在使用天然和可回收材料，但塑料似乎不可避免地在我们需要的许多小工具中继续成为必需品。So next time you pick up a carrier bag, or buy a plastic bottle of water, spare a thought for the birds and animals on the remote Henderson Island. What do you do to help the environment?因此，下次您拿起手提袋或购买塑料瓶水时，不妨想想偏远的亨德森岛上的鸟类和动物。你做什么来帮助环境？词汇表plastic carrier bag 塑料购物袋ubiquitous 感觉无处不在的blight （使）破坏wildlife 野生动植物acute 十分严重的be littered with 在公共场合到处乱扔垃圾density 密度debris 碎片sink 池子，坑impacted 受影响的disposable culture 丢弃文化durable 持久的decompose （使）分解ecology 生态particle 微粒ingest 咽下，摄取recyclable 可回收利用的spare a thought for somebody 替某人着想
After the famous mutiny on the HMS Bounty in 1789, the mutineers fled and eventually settled on the remote Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific. Travel writer Brandon Presser tells us about his journey to meet their descendants in what he calls a “trailer park at the end of the world” — and why he wanted to tell a different side of their story in his book, The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific.
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On this week's episode of Coffee with Closers, we talk with Mark Tomlinson, the Administrator of a remote British outpost in the South Pacific called Pitcairn Islands. It is one of the few places in the world that hasn't had a single confirmed case of COVID-19. Tomlinson discusses his day-to-day duties as Administrator of an Island of approximately 50 people and the challenging but necessary task of getting Covid vaccines from the UK all the way to Pitcairn. He also talked about his professional life as a British Foreign Service Officer.
Once upon a time a Royal Navy mutiny created an island of sex crimes and incest. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-real-story-behind-infamous-mutiny-hms-bounty LOST PARADISE: FROM MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY TO A MODERN-DAY LEGACY OF SEXUAL MAYHEM, THE DARK SECRETS OF PITCAIRN ISLAND REVEALED
Plastic items from more than 25 different countries, including New Zealand, wash up on the remote Pitcairn Islands, posing a threat to a habitat that's home to unique and endangered species. British photographer Mandy Barker visited the islands in 2019, and Aotearoa is about to see her disarmingly beautiful images of some of the six tonnes of plastic rubbish collected from the uninhabited UNESCO World Heritage-listed Henderson Island. SHELF-LIFE is the title of the exhibition of Mandy's photos that will go on show at Auckland Museum, including pictures of toys, chess pieces, syringes, an ice skating boot and a toilet seat. Lynn Freeman asked Mandy what makes Henderson Island unique. SHELF-LIFE by Mandy Barker will open at Auckland Museum - anticipating a move to Level 3 Step Two - later this week. For a limited time you can experience the exhibition online until Auckland Museum reopens.
Vaccine 4 1 1 - News on the search for a Covid 19 Coronavirus Vaccine
This is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 21st, 2021.It is now official, at least according to the numbers from Johns Hopkins, COVID-19 has now killed as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu. 675,000 Americans died during the 1918 pandemic, in waves that played out over about two years. But back then there were no vaccines. It wasn't until the 30s researchers even understood influenza was caused by a virus and not a bacterium.Finally, some much needed good news for travel and tourism. The U.S. said it will allow foreigners to fly into the country this fall if they have vaccination proof and a negative COVID-19 test. That replaces a hodgepodge of rules that kept out non-citizens from countries that frankly, are doing better than the U.S. in containing outbreaks.The school mask fight may soon switch to a vaccine for kids fight. Pfizer said its vaccine works for children 5 to 11 and it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon. For elementary school-aged kids, Pfizer tested a much lower dose — a third of the amount that's in each shot given now. But after the second dose, the kids developed coronavirus-fighting antibody levels equal to that of teens and young adults getting regular-strength shots. Pfizer says the kid dosage also proved safe.Someone just got COVID in American Samoa. That's newsworthy because, it was their very first case. And even then it was a traveler from Hawaii. Believe it or not there are still countries and territories, mostly islands, that have yet to experience one case of COVID, including the Cook Islands, Saint Helena, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Pitcairn Islands. Mostly the kinds of places where Survivor is filmed. No special treatment for the president of Brazil. He's against vaccinations and would not get vaccinated before attending this week's UN General Assembly in New York. Therefore, he was not allowed inside a New York City restaurant and was told he'd have to eat his pizza slice outside. Which he did. In the United States cases were down 8%, deaths are up 29%, and hospitalizations are down 8% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending down since September 13. There are 9,748,413 active cases in the United States.With not all states reporting daily numbers, the five states with the greatest daily number of deaths per capita are Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Idaho, and West Virginia. The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Knox, KY. Russell, KY. Scott, TN. Andrews, TX. Rockcastle, KY. Lewis, WV. Powell, KY. Perry, KY. Whitley, KY. And Lincoln, MT. There have been at least 676,059 deaths in the U.S. recorded as Covid-related.The top 3 vaccinating states by percentage of population that's been fully vaccinated: Vermont at 68.9%, Connecticut at 67.7%, and Maine at 67.5%. The bottom 3 vaccinating states are West Virginia at 40.1%, Wyoming at 40.6%, and Idaho at 40.8%. The percentage of the U.S. that's been fully vaccinated is 54.6%.The 5 countries with the largest recent 24-hour increase in the number of fully vaccinated people: Ethiopia up 4%. Kosovo 3%. And Oceana, Thailand, and India 2%. Globally, cases were down 12% and deaths were down 8% over 14 days, with the 7-day average trending down since August 27. There are 18,639,928 active cases around the world.The five countries with the most new cases: The United States 85,913. The U.K. 36,100. Turkey 27,688. India 24,925. And Russia 19,744. There have now been at least 4,699,187 deaths reported as Covid-related worldwide. For the latest updates, subscribe for free to Vaccine 411 on your podcast... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots for September 21st, 2021.It is now official, at least according to the numbers from Johns Hopkins, COVID-19 has now killed as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu. 675,000 Americans died during the 1918 pandemic, in waves that played out over about two years. But back then there were no vaccines. It wasn't until the 30s researchers even understood influenza was caused by a virus and not a bacterium.Finally, some much needed good news for travel and tourism. The U.S. said it will allow foreigners to fly into the country this fall if they have vaccination proof and a negative COVID-19 test. That replaces a hodgepodge of rules that kept out non-citizens from countries that frankly, are doing better than the U.S. in containing outbreaks.The school mask fight may soon switch to a vaccine for kids fight. Pfizer said its vaccine works for children 5 to 11 and it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon. For elementary school-aged kids, Pfizer tested a much lower dose — a third of the amount that's in each shot given now. But after the second dose, the kids developed coronavirus-fighting antibody levels equal to that of teens and young adults getting regular-strength shots. Pfizer says the kid dosage also proved safe.Someone just got COVID in American Samoa. That's newsworthy because, it was their very first case. And even then it was a traveler from Hawaii. Believe it or not there are still countries and territories, mostly islands, that have yet to experience one case of COVID, including the Cook Islands, Saint Helena, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Pitcairn Islands. Mostly the kinds of places where Survivor is filmed. No special treatment for the president of Brazil. He's against vaccinations and would not get vaccinated before attending this week's UN General Assembly in New York. Therefore, he was not allowed inside a New York City restaurant and was told he'd have to eat his pizza slice outside. Which he did. In the United States cases were down 8%, deaths are up 29%, and hospitalizations are down 8% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending down since September 13. There are 9,748,413 active cases in the United States.With not all states reporting daily numbers, the five states with the greatest daily number of deaths per capita are Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Idaho, and West Virginia. The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Knox, KY. Russell, KY. Scott, TN. Andrews, TX. Rockcastle, KY. Lewis, WV. Powell, KY. Perry, KY. Whitley, KY. And Lincoln, MT. There have been at least 676,059 deaths in the U.S. recorded as Covid-related.The top 3 vaccinating states by percentage of population that's been fully vaccinated: Vermont at 68.9%, Connecticut at 67.7%, and Maine at 67.5%. The bottom 3 vaccinating states are West Virginia at 40.1%, Wyoming at 40.6%, and Idaho at 40.8%. The percentage of the U.S. that's been fully vaccinated is 54.6%.The 5 countries with the largest recent 24-hour increase in the number of fully vaccinated people: Ethiopia up 4%. Kosovo 3%. And Oceana, Thailand, and India 2%. Globally, cases were down 12% and deaths were down 8% over 14 days, with the 7-day average trending down since August 27. There are 18,639,928 active cases around the world.The five countries with the most new cases: The United States 85,913. The U.K. 36,100. Turkey 27,688. India 24,925. And Russia 19,744. There have now been at least 4,699,187 deaths reported as Covid-related worldwide. For the latest updates, subscribe for free to Coronavirus 411 on your... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
From her family's ancestral sword-making business in Sligo to her own experiences of the damp and hunger of wartime Dublin, 94-year-old Helen Fegan-Joyce recalls the past with exceptional eloquence. As well as stories of her missionary aunt (who tracked down the Bounty crew's descendants on the Pitcairn Islands) and her nationalist uncle Bertie (a close friend of Arthur Griffiths), she recounts the excitement of buying her first pair of shoes, swimming off Rosses Point and salmon fishing in the dark of night. Music by Liam Mulvaney
Linda Colley discusses her new book The Gun, the Ship and the Pen, which explores how written constitutions, together with warfare, forged the modern world. She talks about constitutions across the globe, from the United States and France, to Russia and the Pitcairn Islands. (Ad) Linda Colley is the author of The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World. Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charters-Land-Britain-Written-Constitution/dp/1846684978/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to Countries in Common Season One: Pandemic Superstars Episode 1: No Covid in the South Pacific A father-daughter geography-comedy podcast where we talk about the world's countries by finding unique similarities, not political differences. 7 Countries + 2 Territories without ANY documented cases of Covid to date: The Cook Islands, Kiribati, Palau, The Pitcairn Islands, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu ------------------------------------ Link to Aborina's trip (famous for being famous) https://www.slideshare.net/Aborina/holiday-to-kirbati ------------------------------------- Subscribe now to make sure you know when our first episodes drop. Check us out on Instagram @countriesincommon and twitter @countriescommon You can also email us at countriesincommon@gmail.com Thanks for listening! ------------------------------------- Cover art by www.jgibb.ca Music by Dr. CW -------------------------------------
Solar eclipse in the Southern Hemisphere and the Radio Story on Three of the Pitcairn Islands. First Radio Broadcast from KDKA. Indian Regional Shortwave stations still on the air. Japan DX report. Complete schedule for Wavescan.
Solar eclipse in the Southern Hemisphere and the Radio Story on Three of the Pitcairn Islands. First Radio Broadcast from KDKA. Indian Regional Shortwave stations still on the air. Japan DX report. Complete schedule for Wavescan.
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The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 125*Brightest kilonova ever seenAstronomers have detected the brightest kilonova event ever seen unleashing more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 12-billion-year lifetime.*A new way of seeing invisible dark matterAstronomers have found a new way to estimate the amount of mysterious dark matter contained in halos around galaxies.*A record close shave as asteroid 2020 VT4 skims past the EarthWell just in case you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse – an asteroid the size of a house has just swooped over the Earth at a record close distance -- passing less than 400 kilometres above the South Pacific Ocean near the Pitcairn Islands.*The Science ReportModerna claims its new COVID-19 vaccine to be 94.5 percent effective.Facebook, Google, and Twitter shown to be engaged in a co-ordinated campaign of political censorship.Growing fears that climate change has now reached the point of no return.The first sighting of the elusive Bigfin Squid in the waters of the Great Australian Bight.New study looks at personality types prone to conspiracy theories.Sponsor Details:This episode of SpaceTime is brought to with the support of ExpressVPN...Rated No.1 by TechRadar...and as used by us. For three months free when you sign up for any 12-month package just visit www.tryexpressvpn.com/space and help support the show. The Great Courses Plus...lifelong learning from the best in their fields. For your 14 day free trial of the entire library, please visit www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/space and help support the show. LastPass password manager….it’s one we use and is a lifesaver. Check it out for free at spacetimewithstuartgary.com/lastpass and help support the show. NameCheap.com….your online presence begins with a great domain name. Find your perfect one with NameCheaps powerful tools. Visit spacetimewithstuartgary.com/namecheap for more details and help support the show. For more SpaceTime visit https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com (mobile friendly). For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimewithstuartgary Get immediate access to over 200 commercial-free, double and triple episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/RSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetime Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.comTo receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at
"Easter Island Part 3: Mysteries and Updates“ Episode 155 In part 3 we will be discussing all the new theories and mysteries surrounding the island. We will look at the work of Thor Heyerdahl, Dr. Robert Schoch, Dr. Anthony Peratt, and we will look at all the mysteries like where did all the Rapa Nui people disappear to? Who were the Island’s earliest inhabitants and where were they from? What was the source of their mythology? Why are there still so many archeological mysteries to this day? We will also touch on some of the more out there theories. *Easter Island Parts 1 & 2 Easter Island Part 1: Mainstream Theories and History https://youtu.be/6h0GoRz-6k4 Easter Island Part 2: Alternative Theories and Mysteries https://youtu.be/jCeZQaEhxvc Roughly 1,000 B.C. the Indigenous people of the Philippines and Indonesia started migrating east. Some of them landed in Micronesia, some in Melanesia, and some in Polynesia. Polynesia is a sub region of Oceania and is located to the east of Micronesia and Melanesia. Easter Island is the furthest east of all the Polynesian Islands. It is also one of the most remote places on the planet. The nearest islands are the Pitcairn Islands 1193 miles to the west and The Juan Fernandez Islands which are 1,756 miles to the east. The closest continental point to Easter Island is its home country of Chile which is about 2,300 miles away. Easter Island is about 64sq miles in size. This remote island would become home to the Rapa Nui’ people. The Island is most famous for the monoliths the Rapa Nui people carved called Moai. Easter Island got its name from the 1st recorded visitor who was a Dutch explorer named Jacob Roggeveen. He arrived on Easter Island on Sunday April 5th, 1722 which was Easter Sunday hence the name Easter Island. The Moai represent the Deified ancestors of the Rapa Nui people. It is said the dead ancestors have a symbolic relationship with the living and would assist them with the things they would need in life. In return they would secure a themselves a better place in the spirit realm. Almost all the Moai face inwards to observe their descendants while keeping their backs to the spirit realm. Ahu are the stone platforms that some of the Moai are erected on. Most of the Ahu are found along the coast and out of the 313 only 125 actually held Moai. Ahu Akivi features the only 7 Moai that face outward. These 7 Moai represent King Hotu Matu’a’s 7 scouts. As the legend goes Hau-Maka had a dream of an Island he called the “Center of the Earth”. When he woke from his dream he told King Hotu Matu’a of this mythical land. King Hotu Matu’a sent his 7 scouts from Hiva which is possibly modernday Marquesas Islands to find the Island. The 7 scouts found the Island and then returned to Hiva to bring the King back to his new home on Easter Island. *Sign up for Indra’s Web which is the social media app we created dedicated to these topics. You will get an alert when it is ready for use. https://indrasweb.org/ *If you enjoy our podcast and content and want to help us grow, check out our Patreon account and enjoy the exclusive episodes and interviews. You can also listen to us on the go through our website listed below. Join our Discord channel if you want to chat. We are also on all podcast platforms. Our Links: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/MindEscapePodcast Website - https://www.MindEscapePodcast.com Discord - https://discord.gg/62bHFpd Twitter - https://twitter.com/MikeEscape Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mindescapepodcast/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/MindEscapePodcast/ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-escape-podcast/ Spotify Podcasts - https://open.spotify.com/show/0OXM81pXkn2OYT45NsoRQb?si=THFEq0SoRVqvsZzjR5xZMA
If you are looking for a distraction from the grinding news coverage of Coronavirus then look no further! Paul and Gerry discuss the Alex Salmond Trial, Oil price wars, Scottish involvement in the murky shipbreaking industry, Zoom's lawsuit for handing data to Facebook, Locust plagues in Africa, and the frankly bizarre history of the Pitcairn Islands! Find us on Twitter https://twitter.com/PGMcast & our website https://www.notanotherfakenewscast.com/ #NAFNC
In 1982 an eccentric, paranoid coal baron from Frog Level, VA wanted to buy a remote island to get away from Communists, taxes, and Freudian psychoanalysts. He chooses one of the Pitcairn Islands (of Mutiny on the Bounty fame) and proceeds to try to buy it from the UK, of which it is a colony. And here's the thing: they almost said yes. They wanted to say yes. A real-life version of Boss Hogg came THIS CLOSE to building a mansion on a remote island where he could spend the rest of his life watching cowboy movies without being bothered by Communists. One of my favorite stories, with a little something for everyone. Please support Mass for Shut-ins, an independent and ad-free podcast, via Patreon. Contact me via Facebook, Twitter (@edburmila), or the venerable website Gin and Tacos.
Pastor Andy Davis preaches a verse by verse expository sermon on Luke 24:44-53. The main subject of the sermon is the sacrifices of God's people that lead to the accomplishment of the Great Commission. - Sermon Transcript- Turn in your Bibles to Luke 24. And as I mentioned in my prayer, this is the time of year that we focus on unreached people groups, on missions. We have something called The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering named after a woman named Charlotte Moon, shortened to Lottie Moon, who was a missionary that served in China for many years, 39 years. She ran a school for girls in Tengzhou and also in Pingdu, and she burned with a strong passion to reach girls, those girls for Christ and women, to bring them to faith in Christ and anyone that she could talk to about the gospel. She regularly baked fresh cookies, and the aroma, as it would waft from where she lived, from the kitchen would be attractive to people. You talk about the aroma of Christ, it was initially the aroma of cookies and it brought people in. But as she would share those cookies, she would also share with whoever partook share the gospel. She was especially known for writing moving and passionate letters to Baptists in the US to support missions. That more people would go out as missionaries, that those that didn't go would support with more money, and her letters home detailed China's hunger for truth and the struggle of so few missionaries taking the gospel to almost half a billion at that point, Chinese, in her day. And so she pleaded for more workers and for more money, and she once wrote home to what was called the Foreign Mission Board at that point, "Please say to the new missionaries that are coming that they are coming to a life of hardship, responsibility, and constant self-denial.” A life of sacrifice, disease, turmoil, lack of co-workers threatened to undo Lottie's work but she gave herself consistently to the work of the Lord, and she worked with others to help lay a foundation for a church of Christians in China that is really uncounted. We don't have any idea how many Chinese Christians there are, but we will know on Judgment Day what her labors, her sacrifices, and that of many others have done in the lives of the Chinese. She died as a direct result of her self-denying, self-sacrificial life, as there was a famine in that part of China at that point, and she denied her own food to the point where it was beyond help as people knew that she was dying, but they knew it too late. The Woman's Missionary Union started The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering in 1918 to honor her sacrifices and to move Southern Baptists to similar sacrifices for the sake of the gospel. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering makes up more than half of the annual budget of the International Mission Board, so every dollar that we give to The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goes directly overseas to winning lost people. Now, FBC's goal this year is $150,000. And it's our desire that every man, woman, and child, as a member of this church or involved in this church should weigh carefully what God is calling him or her to do, that we would pray about it, think about it, what level of sacrifice. It's easy... It's kind of out of sight, out of mind. It's easy for us to forget about missionaries, and it's easy for us to forget about people like we just saw in the video, who have no access to the gospel. They're living in countries where it's very, very hard to hear of Christ and we are called on to be people of faith. Who see invisible things and they press on our minds, we see not only those folks who are in different parts of the world, but we see ahead in time to what Judgment Day is going to be like, and we yearn that people be made ready to stand before God, having been cleansed from their sins through faith in the blood of Christ. And so, our desire is to focus, and what I wanna do is root this Great Commission in the Scripture that you just heard Bob read for us, that we would understand that this is not some new thing that was thrown together, but it's been going on not just for 2000 years, but even before that, as Jesus says in Luke 24, it was founded on the Old Testament Scriptures. And so we're gonna walk through that today, and I want you to see how it's rooted in Scripture, and to understand the sacrifice, the central sacrifice of Jesus Christ, it's the center of the gospel. But then the lesser sacrifices that are essential to the spread of the gospel that our brothers and sisters have done who are willing to suffer and deprive themselves and go through difficulties so that lost people may hear of the gospel. And then thirdly, that each of us would weigh our own involvement in that and see what God is calling us to do. I. Central Sacrifice of the Great Commission: The Death of the Christ So let's zero in this morning as we begin on the central sacrifice of the Great Commission, the death of Jesus Christ. Now, the Great Commission is found in five different places at the end of each of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; each has their own version of the Great Commission. So he gave it multiple times slightly different language, and then again in the Book of Acts, that the disciples are responsible to move out from Jerusalem through Judea and Samaria to the ends of the earth with the gospel. But we're gonna look at Luke 24 and look at verses 44-47, “And he said to them, This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled, that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the prophets and the Psalms. Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, This is what is written, that Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” So the centerpiece of the Great Commission, the centerpiece of the gospel is the death of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. Now, picture in your mind this powerful poignant scene there in the upper room, Christ had died on the cross, the third day he came to life again. The women had just come back from the empty tomb. And they had declared it to be empty, they said that they had had an encounter with the resurrected Christ, and Jesus had told them to go to report to his brothers what they had seen and that he was risen, and they did so. The upper room where they were meeting together was the place where Jesus had had the last supper with his disciples just days before that. And so they were there in the Upper Room in Jerusalem with a tiny church, and now they were assembled there in fear and bewilderment. John's Gospel tells us that they were in there with the doors locked for fear of the Jews. So they were afraid of dying, they were afraid of being arrested, they were afraid of suffering the same faith that Jesus had being crucified. Now, in Luke's Gospel, the reaction is emotional and powerful. Look at verses 36-43. “Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you’, but they were startled and frightened, thinking that they saw a ghost. He said to them, ‘Why are you troubled? Why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet, it is I myself. Touch me and see. A ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see, I have’. And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, ‘Do you have anything here to eat?’ They gave him a piece of broiled fish and he took it and ate it in their presence.” So Jesus is offering them what Luke tells us in the Book of Acts, in Acts chapter 1, many convincing proofs that he was alive. And why did he have to do this? Because they couldn't seem to believe their eyes. It was too good to be true. You ever heard that expression before? It's just too good to be true. You realize how essentially pessimistic that is. I mean, anything really good can't be true, but that's effectively what the text says. They could not believe it for joy. I mean, joy means it can't be true. “Friends, let me tell you something. Beyond your wildest dreams, God is gonna lavishly bless you for eternity in the new heaven and new earth. It's going to be greater than anything you can possibly imagine. In one sense, you could say the whole thing is turned around, it's too good not to be true. That's how good God is.” " God is gonna lavishly bless you for eternity in the new heaven and new earth. It's going to be greater than anything you can possibly imagine." But they couldn't believe it, and so he's got to give them all these convincing proofs. People just don't die and come to life again. It just doesn't happen. When somebody's dead, they stay dead. And so he's got to do all these things. He says, Look at my wounds, touch me and see, look at my hands, look at my feet. Do you have anything here to eat? So he eats some broiled fish. All of this physicality to prove that he had really physically been raised from the dead. That's the centerpiece. His death and his resurrection from the dead is the centerpiece of the gospel. And then Jesus explains all of this and roots it in the prophetic writings. He roots it in Scripture. And why is that? Because none of us can touch him and see. We don't get to watch him chew and swallow broiled fish. We don't get to put our fingers in the nail marks. We're going to get it from Scripture or we're not gonna get it at all. And what Jesus shows us is that the Scripture's predated his birth. These things have been predicted, they'd been written about in the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms. This was not new, any new thing, but the Lord had told ahead of time what he would do. Look at Verse 44, he said, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, everything must be fulfilled about me that is written in the Law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms.” Now, without the direct work of almighty God on their minds and on yours and mine, we'll never believe it. We'll never believe it. Our hearts are so hardened in sin. We are so far from God. We are so, so corrupted and twisted, but because of our sins and the sins of the people we live around, it's hard for us to believe God's Word. We need him to work directly on our hardened hearts. And so look what it says in verse 45, what a marvelous verse. “Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.” I think that's something we should pray about as we have our quiet times, don't you think? As we go before the Lord and we open up the Bible, say, O God, through your Holy Spirit, would you just open my mind that I might understand the Scriptures? Help me to see what's written here so it's not just some empty words that don't mean anything to me. He opened their minds, and isn't it marvelous that he has that kind of power? He actually has access to your mind, he has access to your heart, and he can open it up to his working through the Word of God. And so, he then roots his atonement in Scripture. Look at verse 46, “This is what is written, that Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day.” So all of this thing had been predicted in Scripture, God had planned it before the foundation of the world, but he had begun to pay out the truth little by little, right from the beginning in the Garden of Eden, how the serpent came and deceived Adam and Eve, and God cursed the serpent. And in Genesis 3:15, he said, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers. He will crush your head and you'll bruise his heel.” And so that was the prediction of how Jesus, by his death, would crush Satan who held the power of death. Genesis 3:15, that's right from the beginning, and then right after that comes the animal sacrificial system. Even that same day, as their eyes are open, they realized they were naked, God clothed them with animal skins so that in the next chapter, Abel began offering animal sacrifice. And so throughout the Old Testament, we have animals sacrifice, the blood of bulls and goats and sheep offered under the command of God, but all of them as a picture of Christ's blood sacrifice on the cross. And the lessons are very plain and clear. All sin deserves the death penalty. The death penalty can be paid by a substitute, but the substitute can't be an animal. It's just symbolic. Those were the lessons of the animal sacrificial system, but it was all written there in the Law of Moses. And we have the story, of course, of the Exodus. Remember the 10 dreadful plagues that persuaded Pharaoh to let the Jewish people go out of bondage into the freedom of the promised land? And the last plague was the most dreadful, the most terrible, the plague on the firstborn. And God commanded the Jewish people that they should sacrifice the Passover Lamb, they should kill the lamb and paint its blood on the doorpost and on the lintel of their doors, and the angel of death would see the blood and pass over and would not bring the righteous judgment of God on the sinners inside that house. For all have sinned, the Jews had sinned too, but God had provided for an atoning sacrifice. And so that taught a very important lesson, and it's important for the Great Commission, that our salvation comes in two basic steps: Redemption accomplished and applied. The redemption is accomplished by the blood sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world once for all, never to be repeated. Never needs to be repeated. That's why it's different than the animal sacrifices that had to be repeated endlessly year after year. But Jesus once for all died in our place. That's redemption accomplished, and Jesus said, It is finished, and that's it. Nothing more needed. But then step two, the blood has to be spiritually painted on individual sinners, the redemption has to be applied, and that happens by the Great Commission, it happens by evangelism and missions, by people who have the message of the gospel traveling, it might be just across the office, it might be across the street in evangelism, or it could be to the ends of the earth in missions, and take that message of the gospel and apply it so that people hear it and believe, and the blood gets spiritually applied to us and we are forgiven of our sins. And he said All of that was predicted in the Law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms. II. The Great Commission Stated Plainly You heard the text that Jason read, Isaiah 53, “All we like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him, on Christ, the iniquity of us all.” That's written seven centuries before Jesus was born. So Jesus lays out these Scriptures for them. Everything that was planned and then written about in the Scriptures had to be fulfilled. And so that is the deliverance of the world from sin, the shedding of the blood of Christ once for all, and then the application of that message to the Great Commission. And the Great Commission stated plainly, look at verse 46-48, he told them, “This is what is written, that Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.” So Christ has entrusted to his disciples the proclamation of the gospel message. Look carefully at the words, repentance, and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations. There is one Savior, one redeemer, the Christ whose blood alone atones for sin, but this one message of the one redemption has to be taken to distant parts of the earth. And Jesus says, You are witnesses of these things. Now, witnesses, they were eyewitnesses. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was there in the upper room with the early church. And I think a lot of that information we get that we... This time of year, as we read in Luke chapter 2 about the birth of Jesus probably came humanly speaking through Mary, as she shared the experiences that she had as a virgin, bringing the only begotten Son of God, fully man, fully God into this world. You're witnesses of these things, of how he lived a sinless life among them, and how he did great signs and wonders. There was no healing he could not do, there was no... Nothing too difficult for him. He gave great displays of power like stilling the storm and feeding the 5000, all these incredible miracles. You are witnesses of these things. You saw them with your own eyes, and you saw me die on the cross, you saw me dead, and you saw me now, you're seeing me now physically raised from the dead. You are witnesses of these things. These facts are essential to the gospel, and repentance and forgiveness of sins proclaimed in his name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. Oh, what glorious good news that is for all of us. All of us, if we repent of our sins, turn away from darkness, turn away from wickedness and turn to God; if we repent of our sins, forgiveness of sins will be ours through faith in Christ. Not by works, but by simple faith. That's the gospel, and that message will be preached in his name to the ends of the earth. That's the Great Commission. Now, the Great Commission was written in the Old Testament, not just that Christ would die, but that the message would be carried by messengers from Jerusalem through Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth. That was predicted too. From the original call of Abraham, where God says, I will bless those who bless you. I'll curse whoever curses you, and through your offspring, all peoples on earth will be blessed. Peoples means nations. So from the calling of the Jewish nation, God had intended to bless all nations on earth. And then Psalm 2 in verse 8, “Where God the Father says to the Son, Ask of me and I'll give you the nations as your inheritance. The ends of the earth, your possession.” That's in the Psalms. And then at the end of Isaiah 66. I love this verse. This is one of these Great Commission verses. Listen to this, Isaiah 66:19, "I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive," some of the remnants, "to the nations, to Tarshish," that's in Spain, "to the Libyans," North Africa and Lydians, Central Asia, famous as archers, to Tubal and Greece. And listen to this, "to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. And they will proclaim my glory among the nations." Isaiah 66:19, the Great Commission was written. Jesus said, "This is what is written, repentance and forgiveness of sins we preached to the ends of the earth." So only as this gospel is proclaimed can people in those distant lands, like we saw in that video, hear the Gospel message and believe. But the power of the Great Commission always has been the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. We wouldn't have moved... As a church, we would not have moved out of the upper room if it weren't for the power of the Holy Spirit. Even after seeing evidence of Jesus's conquest of death, a week later, they're still in the upper room with the doors locked. And Jesus said, "You must stay in Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high. You're gonna receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth. Again and again, our brothers and sisters that have stepped out in faith and have traveled through the centuries to distant lands to share the gospel have testified it was only by the compulsion of the spirit in their hearts that they left behind their friends and family and went to dangerous places. III. The Subsequent Sacrifices of the Great Commission The Spirit moved them. Now, you may say, "I don't feel like I'm called to be a missionary." Maybe you're not. Not many are called to actually go to cross-cultural settings and do that, not many, but some. But we are, all of us, called to travel from point A to point B. Like I said, it could be across an office to an unsaved co-worker. And you may feel, "I don't think I can do that." Well, it's the same feeling. It's the same fear. It's the same Holy Spirit that enables us, driven and compelled by love to share the Gospel with people. You receive power, and you'll be my witnesses. Since that time, it's been a river of sacrifice. Brothers and sisters have been willing to lay it on the line to take the Gospel from Jerusalem, through Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth. They've been willing to sacrifice. It's amazing, Jesus was a prophet. He made predictions. And he said, "This thing here, 120 in the upper room, is not gonna stay here. It's going to go to the ends of the earth." Now, a prophet has to be vindicated by his predictions coming true. Well, that prediction has famously come true. There is not a political nation on earth represented at the United Nations in which there is not a church of Jesus Christ with people assembling to meet and worship Christ. There are hundreds of millions of Christians spread all over the Earth. His words have come true. It's not done yet, but His words have come true. His prediction has happened. In every generation, the Holy Spirit sees to it that Jesus's name is the most famous human name on earth. There is no more famous human being than Jesus in every generation. The Holy Spirit sees to it. Better than any PR department getting the name of some rock star out, that fades like grass within two or three generations. Every generation, Jesus is the greatest name because the Holy Spirit sees to it. This has happened. Now, when I look at the prediction of the distant islands, I thought, "I wonder what the most distant island is." So bear with me for the next few moments as I Googled, "Where is the farthest place from Jerusalem on planet Earth?" Remember, it's a globe, so if you go around too far, it goes back the other way. So I've asked numbers of friends. Some of them said "LA" for a lot of reasons. Others, "Alaska," different things. Well, are you ready? The most distant island on planet Earth are the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific. The Pitcairn, you say, "What is that?" Have you ever heard of "Mutiny on the Bounty"? It was a movie. And some mutineers went and they overthrew Captain Bligh, and they took over. And they knew that they were gonna get hunted down by the British Navy, and so they were looking for someplace. They stumbled upon some uncharted island about 1500 miles southeast of Tahiti. It is 11,305 miles from Jerusalem. Now, you'd say, "Well, that doesn't count, Pastor, there were no people there when they landed." But they landed there, and they had some battles within themselves. There was some murder that took place. And the few that were left repented of their sins and started reading the Bible and set up a flourishing, strong Christian community that's still there. And a whaler came 18 years later, just saw this uncharted island, went ashore to see if there's any water, and found a church and Christians there praising God. You just say, "Alright, but that was inhabited. What about any habited islands?" Yes, New Zealand is the farthest inhabited island. And the history of the Gospel in New Zealand is fascinating. How it was first discovered by an explorer named Tasman, and he eventually gave his name to Tasmania. And he prayed over those islands, that God's purpose would be done there. James Cook came over a century, more a century and a half later, prayed about the same prayer. Eventually, God sent some missionaries. And they took on the fierce Maori people, who were war-like cannibals, and won many of them to faith in Christ. A marvelous story. And so you have Christ's church there in Auckland and those areas. That's as far as it gets from Jerusalem. And God's Word has been fulfilled. Now, in every generation, the church has advanced the Gospel at very high cost. It's been a trail of blood, brothers, and sisters, a trail of blood. And Paul saw it coming. It was already happening in his own life. In Colossians, Chapter 1, Verse 24 and 25, he said, "Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church. I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the Word of God in its fullness." That's my commission. And he's fulfilling it by writing the letter to the Colossians. But he had not been there. He didn't plant that church. And he said, "I rejoice in what was suffered by the men and women that did come with the message of the Gospel. And they suffered, and I rejoice in that suffering. And I'm filling up in my flesh what's lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body." What does that mean? Careful of blasphemy here. There's nothing lacking in redemption accomplished. It was accomplished once for all. But what's lacking is the second step, it has to be applied. And that takes suffering. And Paul says, "I rejoice in that suffering. I rejoice in it." Now, the Gospel spread. Initially, the persecutors were unbelieving Jews who had not yet crossed over to faith in Christ, and so they kick people out of their synagogues, and they wouldn't buy and sell from them. They arrested them, even beat some of them. Read about it in the Book of Acts. But then the Romans took over and began persecuting. And for a couple of centuries, there was on and off persecution by the Roman emperors and by the Roman authorities. Even spilling our brothers' and sisters' blood in the sands of the Colosseum until at last that ended with Constantine's conversion, hope it was genuine, in 312. And Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Remarkable proof of the spread of the Gospel. Whether he was genuinely converted or not, he saw it at least politically expedient to declare himself a Christian. Incredible, in a very short amount of time. But the Gospel didn't stop there. It continued to spread among the barbarian tribes, tribes of Germania. They're terrifying, militaristic. And missionaries went out and were willing to suffer and even die to bring those Germanic-speaking people to faith in Christ. And up to the islands of what we call the British Isles, Britannia, and again, the fierce peaks in the Scottish Highlands, being willing to take on courageously tribal chieftains that would have and were ready to slaughter them. But they won many of them to Christ. This has been going on in every generation.As it says in John 12:24, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself a single seed. But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit." And so that has been the principle, Christians willing to lay down their lives, willing to die for the spread of the gospel. Now, for me, I love missionary hero stories. I just love reading about people like Lottie Moon or others. I especially like stories I haven't heard. So that's hard to Google. "Stories Andy Davis hasn't heard yet on missions" came up empty. But there is one book I was reading recently of a number of missionaries I had never heard of. And one of them, amazingly, was a man named James Gilmore in the 19th century, who was a missionary to Mongolia. I really believe we just saw mission work among the Mongolians. They just said Central Asia, they didn't say exactly, but those yurts are Mongolian style. And I wonder if those brothers and sisters are from Mongolia. I don't know for sure, but I know this, that James Gilmore, a Scottish missionary to Mongolia, suffered as much as any, just the physical deprivations of working in such a hostile land. The land itself is vast. It's about the size of the American West. And this man just went on foot, sometimes walking, hiking up to 40 miles a day on foot. He originally began as a missionary in China, but then went into the northern regions, to the Mongolians. And they're very spread out. They're herdsmen, and they move around. Their yurts, their tents travel. And so he went from place to place. It's a cold land. Sometimes the temperatures plummet as low as 40 degrees below zero. He endured long spells of hunger and thirst on his treks. His target people, the Mongolians, dwelled in filthy, vermin-infested yurts. They were very nasty places. And he would go in there, and he would share the Gospel. He would seek to win them from animism and Buddhism, Lamaistic Buddhism. And they were very... A lot of them struggled with drunkenness, with violence, with thievery. And as he would witness to them, he would do rudimentary medical care, basic medical things like extracting bad teeth and other things like that. He was not a trained medical worker, but he knew some basic things, and people would come and he would care for them. And he would share simple Bible stories and the simple life of Jesus, His death on the cross, His resurrection. And he was there for four years of diligent sacrificial labor, James Gilmore. In 1874, he could not count a single convert, and he went beyond that. There was not even a single person that he felt was interested in the Gospel. Imagine doing that kind of work for four years. But he was concerned that no Mongolian he ever talked to did not come to faith in Christ because of a lack of clear, passionate proclamation of the Gospel. That's what he said. He wanted to be certain no Mongolian would be justified in pitching into us for not pitching into them more savagely. Listen to that, pitching into them savagely, for not, in fact, taking them by the cuff of the neck and dragging them into the kingdom. Sounds a little like a frustrated missionary after a while, but sharing the Gospel, it's like, "I'm gonna drag you into the kingdom." But there's no physical place to go. It has to be by hearing and believing. And after four years, no response. He left for a short time and then came back in 1884. And he finally won his first convert. He was in a dirty Mongolian tent. There was a fire in the center of the tent. There's generally smoke in there, but this was unusually bad because an outsider came in and started stirring up the smoldering log, filling the yurt with noxious smoke. And so he was getting as low as he could to just get some air in the tent. But then out of the cloud... He couldn't even see the man. Out of the cloud, this man spoke, "I have for months been a learner of Jesus Christ, and now I am ready to trust Him." Gilmore said of that moment, "The place was as beautiful to me as the gate of heaven, and the words of the confession of Christ from out of that cloud of smoke were as inspiring to me as if they had been spoken by an angel from out of the cloud of glory." They left the yurt. They walked together for 23 miles, talking about Christian theology. You have a 23-mile walk with a man, what are you gonna tell him? So he did basic Christian follow-up. They hugged each other. They knelt together and prayed. And then as far as I know, James Gilmore never saw that man again. Gilmore continued to travel in native fashion. He walked everywhere. He ate porridge. He lived on equivalent of about six cents a day. During one eight-month stretch, he preached to almost 24,000 people, sold 3000 Christian books, saw about 6000 patients with rudimentary medical treatments, distributed 4500 tracks, traveled almost 1900 miles, spent about $200 on himself for his own needs, and reported that in all of that, only two individuals came to faith in Christ. So as I look at that, I think, "Pastor, couldn't you have chosen a more triumphant story?" There are many more triumphant stories, but do you not see the grace of God in that? His relentless commitment to share even if he doesn't get the response. That's all we're called to do. You can't grab someone by the scruff of the neck and drag them into the kingdom, but we can, at great cost, be willing to take the message to them. He reminds me of what it says in that hall of faith in Hebrews 11:37-38, "They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground." IV. The Heavenly Celebrations Awaiting These Sacrifices Now, I believe when we get to heaven, we're going to celebrate brothers and sisters that sacrifice like Lottie Moon and like James Gilmore. We're gonna celebrate them. And you have, and so do I, a massive education waiting for you on the history of missions. And you're not gonna be bored at all because I really believe God's gonna not just tell you about it, but show it to you. And you're gonna get to know them, these heroes, and all of them are going to testify that whatever glory they have for their sacrificial service belongs to Christ. And they're going to lay their crowns before Jesus. As I was doing leaves a couple of days ago, I was thinking about these hero stories and brothers and sisters and the honor that's gonna come in heaven to them. But I was also thinking about that song "God and God Alone" by Steve Green. And I was thinking, "All the glory goes to him." And these heroes and heroines are gonna say that. They're gonna cast their crowns, all of them, before the Lord. And I thought about that scene in Revelation, chapter 5, where the scroll is in the right hand of God Almighty. He sits on the throne. And a search is made in heaven and earth and under the Earth, and no one is found who is worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, except Jesus. And so we're gonna celebrate and honor the sacrifices that were made. We're going to rightly celebrate them. We're gonna learn. We're not gonna feel jealous of them. We're gonna honor them, even if they are greater sacrifices than our own. And many of them will be greater than our own. And they'll have a greater place of glory than we do. But all glory goes to Christ, so there is no one like him, and his alone is the glory of the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He alone had the right to take the scroll and open its seals. Now, I read other stories, and they're exciting. You wanna hear some of them? Come to me afterwards, and I'll tell you more. One particular man in Japan left during the period in the middle of the 19th century, when it was illegal for Japanese to leave Japan. They couldn't leave their own country. He had come across the track, had become a Christian. He wanted to get theologically trained. His name is Joseph Nisima. He was in the bottom of a boat that was a junk, that was traveling to China, and he hid under some ropes. And he eventually went to Andover Seminary, right near where I went to seminary, was theologically trained, went back to Japan and set up a school for boys, and led hundreds of Japanese boys to faith in Christ. I can't wait to meet him. I was a missionary, my wife and I were missionaries in Japan. And it's hard work there, very slow, not a lot of converts. Then there's George Mackay, who worked in Formosa, now known as Taiwan, among some headhunters who collected the heads of their victims. This guy went up into the mountainous regions of Formosa, Taiwan, and shared the Gospel in tents in which their heads strung together, all around there. And they liked him because, like James Gilmore, he was good at extracting bad teeth. So that's very painful, and so he's able to pull it out and alleviate their pain, they're willing to listen to the gospel. And he led a number of them to faith in Christ. So those were sacrifices that have been made. People that are willing to go into dangerous places and share the gospel. The question that's in front of us now, this month and really year-round, not just because of the Lottie Moon Christmas offering, but because we're Christians, because we read the Scripture, we see it. We can feel what it was like to be in the upper room. What are we called to do? V. A Call for You to Sacrifice for the Great Commission And it always must begin with prayer. Start by presenting yourself as a living sacrifice and saying, "Lord, what am I to do for unreached people groups? What involvement do you want me to have?" One of the benefits we have of being in this church is we have a number of friends that are serving amongst unreached people groups right now. If you wanna know their names, come to any of the elders or church members, we'll tell you who they are and what people groups they're working with. You can pray for them. And in this day and age, we can even stay in contact with them and ask how we can pray for them this week. The home fellowships have adopted missionaries. Be faithful in praying for them. Find out what their needs are, so we can be praying and lifting them up. You know how Paul says that we should join our brothers and sisters that are in prison as if we were in prison with them. Well, I think the same mentality, we can join people in their struggles for missions as if we are fellow missionaries with them through prayer. “We can join people in their struggles for missions as if we are fellow missionaries with them through prayer.” Secondly, financial giving. I'm very well aware that a couple of weeks ago, I urged you to consider your involvement in the More than a Building campaign, and that continues to be a need. We borrowed money, and we're going to pay it back at interest. The sooner you can give, the less money and interest we'll pay. It'll be better for the Kingdom. And that's still true, but I think we have enough bandwidth, don't we, to also think about missions. We have enough bandwidth to say, "There's that, but there's also unreached people groups." And we have the chance, as Southern Baptists, to give money directly to brothers and sisters that are gonna go and serve into the distant most parts of the earth. We can share through them financially in giving. So just go before the Lord and say, "Lord, what do you want me to give to unreached people group missions?" And then finally, go. So what does this mean? It means look for opportunities to go. We have a mission trip going to Taiwan. I don't know if there are any openings on that, but we're gonna be regularly going overseas on short-term mission trips. But there may be some of you that God may be calling. No matter what stage of life you're in, it's amazing how many opportunities there are, how many pathways there are to go and serve overseas. One family, the Hausons, were sitting in pews just like you folks. He had a successful consulting business, consulting job, and was doing very well, but God called him out of that to go do business missions in North Africa. And he's serving now. I talk to him every other week and get prayer requests from him. God called him out of a situation just like you guys are in, sitting there in the pew, to serve in cross-cultural missions. So what is God calling you to do? What will you be glad that you did when you get to Judgment Day? What will you be eternally glad that you did in heaven? What can we celebrate for the glory of God? What sacrifices are you willing to make? Close with me in prayer. Father, we thank you for the Word of God. We thank you for what it does in our hearts and our minds. Thank you for how the Great Commission is a timeless work. It is something that you planned before the foundation of the world, that Christ would be slain for the elect. From before the foundation of the world, that plan was made. And now, the call on us, that central sacrifice has been once for all made, now you're calling us to other sacrifices, that the gospel might be applied to those who, right now, as I speak, are not yet Christians. And so I pray, O Lord, that you would please call us to willing, cheerful sacrifice for the spread of the gospel. We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
*This episode has many images and diagrams. We suggest watching the episode on our youtube channel here is the link: https://youtu.be/jCeZQaEhxvc *Subscribe to our youtube channel. "Easter Island Part 2: Alternative Theories and Mysteries“ Episode #83 In part 2 we will be discussing all the alternative theories and mysteries surrounding the island. We will look at the work of Thor Heyerdahl, Dr. Robert Schoch, Dr. Anthony Peratt, and we will look at all the mysteries like where did all the Rapa Nui people disappear to? Who were the Island’s earliest inhabitants and where were they from? What was the source of their mythology? Why are there still so many archeological mysteries to this day? Roughly 1,000 B.C. the Indigenous people of the Philippines and Indonesia started migrating east. Some of them landed in Micronesia, some in Melanesia, and some in Polynesia. Polynesia is a sub region of Oceania and is located to the east of Micronesia and Melanesia. Easter Island is the furthest east of all the Polynesian Islands. It is also one of the most remote places on the planet. The nearest islands are the Pitcairn Islands 1193 miles to the west and The Juan Fernandez Islands which are 1,756 miles to the east. The closest continental point to Easter Island is its home country of Chile which is about 2,300 miles away. Easter Island is about 64sq miles in size. This remote island would become home to the Rapa Nui’ people. The Island is most famous for the monoliths the Rapa Nui people carved called Moai. Easter Island got its name from the 1st recorded visitor who was a Dutch explorer named Jacob Roggeveen. He arrived on Easter Island on Sunday April 5th, 1722 which was Easter Sunday hence the name Easter Island. The Moai represent the Deified ancestors of the Rapa Nui people. It is said the dead ancestors have a symbolic relationship with the living and would assist them with the things they would need in life. In return they would secure a themselves a better place in the spirit realm. Almost all the Moai face inwards to observe their descendants while keeping their backs to the spirit realm. Ahu are the stone platforms that some of the Moai are erected on. Most of the Ahu are found along the coast and out of the 313 only 125 actually held Moai. Ahu Akivi features the only 7 Moai that face outward. These 7 Moai represent King Hotu Matu’a’s 7 scouts. As the legend goes Hau-Maka had a dream of an Island he called the “Center of the Earth”. When he woke from his dream he told King Hotu Matu’a of this mythical land. King Hotu Matu’a sent his 7 scouts from Hiva which is possibly modernday Marquesas Islands to find the Island. The 7 scouts found the Island and then returned to Hiva to bring the King back to his new home on Easter Island. *Check out our other channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKCf7SAPYav74Mnk7612Wuw *If you enjoy our podcast and want to help us grow, check out our Patreon account and enjoy the exclusive episodes and interviews. You can also listen to us on the go through our website listed below. https://www.patreon.com/MikeandMaurice https://www.mikeandmauricemindescape.com/
#EasterIsland #Moai #RapaNui This episode has a lot of pictures and visuals check out and subscribe to our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG2WjItR5P4sO_Qh1gS9WOA "Easter Island Pt 1: Maintream Theories and History" Episode #83 Roughly 1,000 B.C. the Indigenous people of the Philippines and Indonesia started migrating east. Some of them landed in Micronesia, some in Melanesia, and some in Polynesia. Polynesia is a sub region of Oceania and is located to the east of Micronesia and Melanesia. Easter Island is the furthest east of all the Polynesian Islands. It is also one of the most remote places on the planet. The nearest islands are the Pitcairn Islands 1193 miles to the west and The Juan Fernandez Islands which are 1,756 miles to the east. The closest continental point to Easter Island is its home country of Chile which is about 2,300 miles away. Easter Island is about 64sq miles in size. This remote island would become home to the Rapa Nui’ people. The Island is most famous for the monoliths the Rapa Nui people carved called Moai. Easter Island got its name from the 1st recorded visitor who was a Dutch explorer named Jacob Roggeveen. He arrived on Easter Island on Sunday April 5th, 1722 which was Easter Sunday hence the name Easter Island. The Moai represent the Deified ancestors of the Rapa Nui people. It is said the dead ancestors have a symbolic relationship with the living and would assist them with the things they would need in life. In return they would secure a themselves a better place in the spirit realm. Almost all the Moai face inwards to observe their descendants while keeping their backs to the spirit realm. Ahu are the stone platforms that some of the Moai are erected on. Most of the Ahu are found along the coast and out of the 313 only 125 actually held Moai. Ahu Akivi features the only 7 Moai that face outward. These 7 Moai represent King Hotu Matu’a’s 7 scouts. As the legend goes Hau-Maka had a dream of an Island he called the “Center of the Earth”. When he woke from his dream he told King Hotu Matu’a of this mythical land. King Hotu Matu’a sent his 7 scouts from Hiva which is possibly modernday Marquesas Islands to find the Island. The 7 scouts found the Island and then returned to Hiva to bring the King back to his new home on Easter Island. *Check out our other channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKCf7SAPYav74Mnk7612Wuw *If you enjoy our podcast and want to help us grow, check out our Patreon account and enjoy the exclusive episodes and interviews. You can also listen to us on the go through our website listed below. https://www.patreon.com/MikeandMaurice https://www.mikeandmauricemindescape.com/
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The island was uninhabited. It had been on the maps for decades, lying somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean below the Pitcairn Islands, but having no name, no accessible valuable resources, or signs of previous habitation, or even signs of pirate visitation. On a remote island, a researcher finds a strange link between two animals and an even stranger link between myth and reality. What is that link? Find out in this episode of Storyfeather. Genre: Mythology, Science Fiction CREDITS Story: “Carapace” Copyright © 2015 by Nila L. Patel Music: “Mysterious Trip-Hop Lounge Beat” by Digital Emotions Music by Lee Rosevere “It’s A Mystery” “Curiousity” “Sad Marimba Planet” “Under Suspicion” “Chillin’ in the Forest” “Thoughtful” “The Long Journey” “Expectations” “Heat Haze” “Universe Calling” “How I Used To See The Stars” Music by Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Lee Rosevere at freemusicarchive.org Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Just another day on the ship – 18th century sailors taking a break from scrubbing the deck and manning the wheel to fight over a wedding dress. Everyone likes to feel pretty sometimes. Join us for this episode as we breakdown minute 47 of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest by discussing Will Turner’s apparent inability to recognize Captain Jack Sparrow’s hunt for the key of Dead Man’s Chest scam, the incredible cinematography including the definitive view of Port Royal and its harbor, the use of seamless transitions, the appearance of the merchant ship Edinburgh Trader and its link to the famous replica HMS Bounty, a quick bit of Mutiny on the Bounty history and the Pitcairn Islands, behind the scenes with Steven Speirs, the Quartermaster of the Edinburgh Trader, costuming by Penny Rose, and our recurring segment Really Bad Eggs. Thank you for listening to this episode of The Black Pearl Show (Pirates of the Caribbean Minute)! If you enjoyed it, please like and share on Twitter and Facebook. We’d also be VERY grateful if you could rate, review, and subscribe to Pirates of the Caribbean Minute (Black Pearl Show) on iTunes. You can also listen and review via Stitcher, Tune In, and Google Play. For questions or comments, you can call the show at 86-37-PIRATE or send an email to podcast@blackpearlminute.com. We just might feature your questions on future episodes. Your support helps a lot in ranking this show and would be greatly appreciated. If you’re looking for a podcast that discusses Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise (in a movies by minutes format), integrates historical pirate and the golden age of piracy facts, analyzes and entertains, then Pirates of the Caribbean Minute is for you. Website: http://blackpearlminute.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/PiratesoftheCaribbeanMinute Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackpearlmin Instagram: https://instagram.com/blackpearlshow Cursed Listeners’ Crew (A Pirates of the Caribbean Minute Facebook Group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/272990339778981/
In this week's episode I discuss the fascinating history of the least populous national jurisdiction in the world - the Pitcairn Islands. Covering: Early settlers, Discovery, HMS Bounty, Mutiny on the Bounty, Early settlement on the Pitcairn Islands, Murder, Re-discovery of the mutineers, A constitution being drafted, Emigration - twice, The Pitcairn Island's Philatelic Bureau, The 2004 sexual abuse trials, The future of the Pitcairn islands. As ever thank you so very much for listening. Please do subscribe if you're new around here and leave a review if you're not.
Download Episode! Lee has led an incredible life, traveling to all 193 countries and being the youngest American to accomplish this feat at that time. And he is only 6 territories away from completing the Travelers Century Club. Lee travels in style whether it is entering his 193rd country under a hail of gunfire or hanging out with Prince Harry in Antarctica. Lee grew up in modest circumstances and began his travel with a semester abroad in London. This trip and the loss of his friends on 9/11 sparked his interest in travel. Lee was motivated to complete the Travelers Century Club after he read an article about Charles Veley accomplishing the TCC list. He shares with us the high and lows of traveling in Africa. Lee recounts summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro and spotting lions in the Serengeti. And also, how even the ATMs in Nigeria are in on the scam. Lee shares his journey to off-the- beaten path places like Tuvalu (awful experience) and Pitcairn Islands (rewarding experience). Please listen in and enjoy. Subscribe on iTunes today! Check out our partners and sponsors: Chasing 193, Volume II: The Quest To Visit Every Country In The World. Explore the unique stories from 20 more world-class travelers from various backgrounds and nations and from all walks of life who have tirelessly pursued visiting every country in the world and have filled their lives with a virtually endless amount of adventure. And take a look at Large Minority. They organize international rallies around the world including: Sri Lanka, Cambodia, the Philippines, and the Amazon. More about Lee Abbamonte: Born in: CT, USA Passports from: USA Website: Lee Abbamonte Facebook: Lee Abbamonte Twitter: @LeeAbbamonte Instagram: Lee Abbamonte Subscribe on iTunes today!! About Counting Countries Counting Countries is the only podcast to bring you the stories from the dedicated few who’ve spent their lives on the singular quest of traveling to every country in the world. Less people have traveled to every country in the world than have been to outer space. Theme music for this podcast is Demeter’s Dance, written, performed, and provided by Mundi. About GlobalGaz Ric Gazarian is the host of Counting Countries. He is the author of three books: Hit The Road: India, 7000 KM To Go, and Photos From Chernobyl. He is the producer of two travel documentaries: Hit The Road: India and Hit The Road: Cambodia. Ric is also on his own quest to visit every country in the world. You can see where he has traveled so far and keep up with his journey at GlobalGaz.com How Many Countries Are There? Well… that depends on who you ask! The United Nations states that there are 193 member states. The British Foreign and Commonwealth office states that there are 226 countries and territories. The Century Club states that there are 325 sovereign nations, territories, enclaves, and islands. The Most Traveled Person states that there are 875 unique parts of the world. The Best Traveled states that there are 1281 unique places in the world. Me? My goal is the 193 countries that are recognized by the UN, but I am sure I will visit some other places along the way. Check out our partner and sponsor: Chasing 193, Volume II: The Quest To Visit Every Country In The World. Explore the unique stories from 20 more world-class travelers from various backgrounds and nations and from all walks of life who have tirelessly pursued visiting every country in the world and have filled their lives with a virtually endless amount of adventure. Disclaimer: I will earn a fee if you order from Amazon/Agoda.
On this date in 1957, inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O company. Here are some things you may not have known about the Frisbee. Morrison said the idea came to him while he and his future wife, Lucille, were tossing a cake pan back and forth on a beach in 1938. Another person offered them 25 cents for the pan. As the pan cost just 5 cents, Morrison figured there might be a business opportunity there. Following World War II, Morrison designed a more aerodynamically stable disc he called the Whirlo-Way. In 1948, he and a business partner began selling the discs at fairs and shows. In 1955, he designed a new model, called the Pluto Platter, which is the design he sold to Wham-O. A few months after buying the design, the company decided to change the name to Frisbee, after discovering that’s what college students in the Northeast called the Pluto Platter. The term Frisbee was derived from the Frisbie Pie Company, whose empty pie tins were tossed around the Yale University campus. Morrison described the name as “a horror. Terrible.” In 1964, the Frisbee was redesigned to increase the thickness of the rim, which made it much more controllable. After the redesign, sales of the disc soared. A class of sports was invented using the Frisbee, including Frisbee Golf and Ultimate Frisbee, among others. Although people use the name generically, the name Frisbee remains a trademark of the Wham-O company. The company was known for mailing reminder letters to newspaper writers who didn’t capitalize the name, along with a new Frisbee. The year after Wham-O bought the rights to the Frisbee, they introduced the Hula Hoop. The company introduced the Slip ’N’ Slide in 1961, followed by the Super Ball in 1965. According to Lamar Hunt, the late owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Ball’s name was the inspiration for the name of the Super Bowl. The company also marketed Silly String, the Hacky Sack and the Boogie Board. Our question: What type of action stabilizes a Frisbee in flight? Today is World Freedom Day in Taiwan and South Korea, and Bounty Day in the Pitcairn Islands. It’s unofficially National Pie Day, Measure Your Feet Day, and National Handwriting Day. It’s the birthday of U.S. Founding Father John Hancock, who was born in 1737; painter Edouard Manet, who was born in 1832; and Princess Caroline of Monaco, who turns 60. Because our topic happened before 1960, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random. This week in 1972, the top song in the U.S. was “American Pie” by Don McLean. The No. 1 movie was “The Cowboys,” while the novel “Wheels” by Arthur Hailey topped the New York Times Bestsellers list. Weekly question: In the song “American Pie,” who is referred to as “The Jester”? Submit your answer at triviapeople.com/test and we’ll add the name of the person with the first correct answer to our winner’s wall … at triviapeople.com. We'll have the correct answer on Friday’s episode. Links Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or our website. Also, if you’re enjoying the show, please consider supporting it through Patreon.com Please rate the show on iTunes by clicking here. Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frederick_Morrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbie_Pie_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham-O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyboarding https://www.checkiday.com/01/23/2017 http://www.biography.com/people/groups/born-on-january-23 http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_1972 iOS: http://apple.co/1H2paH9 Android: http://bit.ly/2bQnk3m
In the second part of his second complete interview with Rufus McGaugh, Rufus and Tony Gatliff talk about the importance of doing EXTRA to obtain an A+, the difference in child-rearing between now and 20+ years ago, the “exclusive” 100% Irish-American club, remembering the 1980’s famine and drought in Ethiopia, unbelievable African sunsets, the concept of cultures that are totally, 100% separated from any other part of society, the very interesting “Pygmy” culture in Africa, the HMS Bounty and the Pitcairn Islands – which were formed off of folks that were originally on the HMS bounty, Marlon Brando, and more of Rufus’ travels all over the world. Please have a listen to this episode of Military Mortgage Talk and enjoy!
Millrose Podcast takes the show on the road... to New England! Mark visits with Andrew & Kristi Button as together they discover the least-populated country in the world, reminisce about college life, and talk about using DVRs for efficiency. Links: Wikipedia: Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands Traveler's Guide to Pitcairn Islands (Travellerspoint) Pitcairn Islands Tourism Explore Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands, on Google Earth Photos of Pitcairn by photographer Captain Peter: Andrew & Kristi Button are long-time residents of New England, living outside of Concord, N.H., with their son Greyson. Andrew is on the design team for La Pièce – The Room, a unique private wedding and event venue in the heart of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Kristi serves on the staff of the New Hampshire School Administration. Mark Breta is co-host and co-producer of Millrose Podcast. Mark is a musician and worship leader, involved at his home church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Mark is a city guy and calls Chicago home, but finds ways to travel, including visiting his favorite cities, New York and London. He enjoys going to concerts, cooking, stand-up comedy, and watching football. He spoils his nieces and nephews, and counts the minutes until their next visit together! To learn more about Mark, visit his website.
With gay marriage now legal in the USA (not to mention, Sweden, New Zealand, Uruguay, and the Pitcairn Islands), let’s look at how same-sex attraction develops during adolescence. Is same-sex attraction stable during teenage years, and what are lesbians’ first memories of same-sex attraction? Download the MP3 Participate in my research! The psychology of fail videos (women only) How do you help others? Rate me! Rate, review, or listen in iTunes or in Stitcher. Read the transcript! How Same-Sex Attraction Changes During Adolescence Two new research studies show how LGBT identities form during adolescence.The articles covered in the show: Hu, Y., Xu, Y., & Tornello, S. L. (in press). Stability of self-reported same-sex and both-sex attraction from adolescence to young adulthood. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Read summaryMcClelland, S. I., Rubin, J. D., & Bauermeister, J. A. (in press). “I liked girls and I thought they were pretty”: Initial memories of same-sex attraction in young lesbian and bisexual women. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Read summary
The director of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Global Ocean Legacy discusses the importance of protected marine areas.
The director of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Global Ocean Legacy discusses the importance of protected marine areas.
The bid to create the world's largest marine reserve, diseases threatening corals in the Caribbean, what is the best way to conserve coral reefs in Fiji, and why fish microbes matter too. Plus news of DNA sequences extracted from a 400,000 human ancestor in Spain, contraceptive pills for men, pain-free injection patches and the brain basis of dyslexia... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
The bid to create the world's largest marine reserve, diseases threatening corals in the Caribbean, what is the best way to conserve coral reefs in Fiji, and why fish microbes matter too. Plus news of DNA sequences extracted from a 400,000 human ancestor in Spain, contraceptive pills for men, pain-free injection patches and the brain basis of dyslexia... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
The bid to create the world's largest marine reserve, diseases threatening corals in the Caribbean, what is the best way to conserve coral reefs in Fiji, and why fish microbes matter too. Plus news of DNA sequences extracted from a 400,000 human ancestor in Spain, contraceptive pills for men, pain-free injection patches and the brain basis of dyslexia... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The bid to create the world's largest marine reserve, diseases threatening corals in the Caribbean, what is the best way to conserve coral reefs in Fiji, and why fish microbes matter too. Plus news of DNA sequences extracted from a 400,000 human ancestor in Spain, contraceptive pills for men, pain-free injection patches and the brain basis of dyslexia... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
On Wednesday 22nd November 2006 Sir Ian Barker, former Judge of the New Zealand High Court, and Emeritus Chancellor of the University of Auckland delivered a lecture entitled 'The Pitcairn Trials Saga - Justice in Britain’s Smallest Colony'. He discussed the history of Pitcairn, the various attempts to give it a legal system over the years since the mutiny on the Bounty, and gave an account of the lead-up to the arrest and trials of 6 men on Pitcairn for historic charges of sexual abuse of girls and young women, the trials on Pitcairn and in New Zealand, and the various challenges to the Courts' jurisdiction. If you wish to research the issues considered in the lecture further, you can review the various judicial decisions: - Reasons for report of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal, 11 October 2004 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2004/52.html); - Directions of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Leave to Intervene and Directions hearing, 9 November 2005 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2005/42.html); - Judgement of the Privy Council 30 October 2006 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2006/47.html); For more information about Pitcairn, you may also review the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands).
On Wednesday 22nd November 2006 Sir Ian Barker, former Judge of the New Zealand High Court, and Emeritus Chancellor of the University of Auckland delivered a lecture entitled 'The Pitcairn Trials Saga - Justice in Britain’s Smallest Colony'. He discussed the history of Pitcairn, the various attempts to give it a legal system over the years since the mutiny on the Bounty, and gave an account of the lead-up to the arrest and trials of 6 men on Pitcairn for historic charges of sexual abuse of girls and young women, the trials on Pitcairn and in New Zealand, and the various challenges to the Courts' jurisdiction. If you wish to research the issues considered in the lecture further, you can review the various judicial decisions: - Reasons for report of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal, 11 October 2004 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2004/52.html); - Directions of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Leave to Intervene and Directions hearing, 9 November 2005 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2005/42.html); - Judgement of the Privy Council 30 October 2006 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2006/47.html); For more information about Pitcairn, you may also review the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands).
On Wednesday 22nd November 2006 Sir Ian Barker, former Judge of the New Zealand High Court, and Emeritus Chancellor of the University of Auckland delivered a lecture entitled 'The Pitcairn Trials Saga - Justice in Britain’s Smallest Colony'. He discussed the history of Pitcairn, the various attempts to give it a legal system over the years since the mutiny on the Bounty, and gave an account of the lead-up to the arrest and trials of 6 men on Pitcairn for historic charges of sexual abuse of girls and young women, the trials on Pitcairn and in New Zealand, and the various challenges to the Courts' jurisdiction. If you wish to research the issues considered in the lecture further, you can review the various judicial decisions: - Reasons for report of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal, 11 October 2004 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2004/52.html); - Directions of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Leave to Intervene and Directions hearing, 9 November 2005 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2005/42.html); - Judgement of the Privy Council 30 October 2006 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2006/47.html); For more information about Pitcairn, you may also review the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands).
On Wednesday 22nd November 2006 Sir Ian Barker, former Judge of the New Zealand High Court, and Emeritus Chancellor of the University of Auckland delivered a lecture entitled 'The Pitcairn Trials Saga - Justice in Britain’s Smallest Colony'. He discussed the history of Pitcairn, the various attempts to give it a legal system over the years since the mutiny on the Bounty, and gave an account of the lead-up to the arrest and trials of 6 men on Pitcairn for historic charges of sexual abuse of girls and young women, the trials on Pitcairn and in New Zealand, and the various challenges to the Courts' jurisdiction. If you wish to research the issues considered in the lecture further, you can review the various judicial decisions: - Reasons for report of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal, 11 October 2004 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2004/52.html); - Directions of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Upon a Petition for Leave to Intervene and Directions hearing, 9 November 2005 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2005/42.html); - Judgement of the Privy Council 30 October 2006 (http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/uk/cases/UKPC/2006/47.html); For more information about Pitcairn, you may also review the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands).
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