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For immediate release - Wednesday, September 14, 2005. Contact Bill Brauch - 515-281-8772.
DES MOINES. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced today that FSB Financial, Ltd., has agreed to significantly improve the interest rate and other terms of Dan Nelson consumer auto loans that FSB bought from Nelson's financing company, South Dakota Acceptance Corporation, also known as Car Now Acceptance Company, or CNAC.
Miller said the agreement between his office and FSB will provide better loan terms to about 1100 consumers whose auto loans were purchased by FSB from Dan Nelson's financing company. The loans were originated at Nelson dealerships located in Des Moines, Council Bluffs and Sioux City. A similar agreement was reached with MetaBank last month, affecting about 1400 consumers.
"FSB has stepped forward to provide much better terms for consumers," Miller said. "FSB already has been implementing many of these improvements, and our agreement makes the terms official and universal for FSB's Dan Nelson customers. We appreciate FSB's cooperation."
FSB's Dan Nelson customers will benefit in several ways under the agreement:
"This will provide significant relief and savings to hundreds of consumers," Miller said. The agreement applies to vehicles purchased in Iowa, regardless of the buyer's state of residence. South Dakota is expected to conclude a similar agreement on behalf of its consumers.
"Our office will continue to work with other financial institutions that now own loans originated by the Dan Nelson companies," Miller said, "to seek improved loan terms for consumers."
FSB sued Dan Nelson Automotive Group in May in state court in Texas, alleging that it was misled by Dan Nelson Automotive.
Consumers do not need to take any steps to participate in the agreement, and the agreement does not take away any private legal rights or remedies of consumers. The terms of consumers' loans will be changed automatically, and a letter will be issued to them very soon with detailed information about the agreement. Consumers will continue making the same payment amount at the same location, but the interest rate reduction and $500 credit will reduce consumers' total payments and shorten the length of loans.
Consumers with questions about the agreement with FSB may call FSB at 1-888-372-3868. Consumers also may call the Iowa Consumer Protection Division at 888-777-4590 (toll-free) or 515-281-5926. Consumers also may write to the Iowa Consumer Protection Division, 1305 E. Walnut St., Des Moines, Iowa 50319, or send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com . The Attorney General's web site is www.IowaAttorneyGeneral.org.
In January, Miller's office sued Dan Nelson Automotive Group, its financing company South Dakota Acceptance Corporation, and business partners Dan Nelson and Chris Tapken. The lawsuit, filed in Polk County District Court, alleged that the defendants engaged in violations of Iowa consumer fraud and consumer credit laws, and engaged in ongoing criminal conduct in connection with their sales of used motor vehicles in the three cities. (FSB is not a defendant in the suit.)
The agreement with FSB - and the similar agreement reached last month with MetaBank -- does not affect Iowa's consumer fraud lawsuit, which remains pending. "We alleged in our lawsuit that the defendants substantially harmed consumers," Miller said. "They are out of business now, but they still need to be held accountable for the alleged violations."
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Windows Phone 8 development on a Mac running OSX and VMWare, using also the phone emulator:
What is needed is a more recent Mac (MBP Early 2011, i7 in my case, OS X 10.7.5, 16GBytes RAM), VMware Fusion (in my case vers 5), Windows 8 OS (64-bit Pro version in my case), and the Windows Phone 8 SDK (the free Express version in my case).
A couple of configuration changes to the Windows 8 VM configuration are needed otherwise the Windows Phone emulator will not work.
1) Add (or cheek they are present) to .vmx file these rows:
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
mce.enable = "TRUE"
vhv.enable = "TRUE"
2) Settings -> CPU and memory -> Advanced: check "Enable hypervisor applications in this virtual machine"
3) Settings -> CPU and memory: make sure 2 Cores (or more?) are assigned to the Virutla machine
4) Settings -> Advanced: Preferred virtualizationn engine: Intel VT-x with EPT
After restarting Win 8 x64 VM, the HyperV system (and e.g. WIndows 8 Phone SKD debugging / Windows Phone Emulation) works perfectly.
I found these instructions from a posting by user JSaa (Credit to him!) at
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Adding to the list of savings -- how about all PERS recipients receive a retirement based on their actual average pay? As is, retirement pay is subject to many incentives and advantages. Margaret Carter served in the legislature for 25 (?) years. She (at 72 yrs.) was appointed to a high paying position in DHS (approx. $120,000/ yr.), and that number is the base salary (after 3 years) for her retirement (her pay in the legislature was $25,000 - $30.000/yr.). I'm confident there were other candidates much more qualified, as well as much younger. It appears she was 'gifted' this position only for being a loyal party member. This 'gifting of positions' is standard practice within Oregon's government, costing taxpayers millions in extra benefits at retirement.
However, there is little chance of any meaningful reform to PERS. The Demos in the legislature are bought and paid for by the public unions. Voting for any PERS reform is most likely to cost some their position next election cycle, and the legislators know it. And very few will be willing to take that chance.
Some voters complain about corporations and private enterprise using campaign contributions to have their way with lawmakers -- but in Oregon, public unions far outspend the private sectors each election cycle. So far, it's money well spent!
In what other situation would an employee have the right to shield his retirement from those who have made the payments into the fund? None come to mind!
And if these retirement packages are not completely out of line, why all the desire to keep them secret? Embarrassment, shame, getting away with something not deserved? The actions of the public employees on this issue are not those of people who are thankful to have a secure, well-paying job. In fact, the attempt to hide the pensions raise suspicions that something is badly amiss.
In this case, maybe the public employees should remember who is actually paying the bills. I hope they realize the charade will not last forever -- and when things come to light, the 'boss' might be quite angry!
I think you will find Unions (related to employees through the State) have a bigger influence on State government and Big Corporations on Federal Gov't. Neither in my opinion is right.
In my opinion, those who are supposed to represent the people should never be allowed to take campaign money from anyone, period. Today most elections are won from the pocket book -- spend more than the rivals -- win the election. And the real winners are those who stuff the most pockets. How can the public expect to be represented when the politician is 'owned' by entities who expect favorable legislation for the monetary support?
And while on the subject, let's lose the political parties altogether. Their most visible achievement is keeping the partisan divide alive and festering. In all the decades of such bickering, what good has come?
Instead of how much money spent, or what consonant follows the name, let's elect representatives on merit and good intentions. Take away those options (campaign contributions and partisan politics), and just possibly the people might have some true representation.
If I decide to run for office, I will not run with a party. My campaign will be charity work within communities with donations and 50% going to non profits of ther choice another 10% towards the cause within the community and 40% to my campaign. I wouldn't even be that interested in my vote, because I would take a pay cut, hire more staff to get the district's opinion and have a web-site to poll laws and bills so they can vote. I would vote only the way my district wants. Not anyone else.. Like this was suppose to be, not what it became. AND hopefully by leading, others would take note and bring about serious change (unlike today) that would finally give people to voice they deserve (equally).
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Your idea would resound with most, but wedging the way in might be the most difficult. But wow, would the political parties get their pretty panties in a bunch if they were to become irrelevant? What would all those people who never had a real job do? Move to Portland?
Speaking of pay cut, our new commissioner Allen Springer declined the pay raise that was due all three commissioners. He told me it just didn't seem right, with others struggling to make just make it.
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When I was in Paris recently, the buzz was all about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, the (now former) head of the International Monetary Fund, and his charge of brutal sexual assault of an African hotel maid in New York. Initially the dominant cocktail conversation centered around his handcuffed 'perp' walk, something the French found horrifyingly prejudicial. It didn't take long, however, for his history as an incessant groper of women to become the talk of the town. Women led the topic, pointing out that his actions far transcended being a womanizer and instead were indicative of an undoubtedly sick mind. And the overwhelming consensus was that his wife knew about his actions for years and looked the other way. In fact, French journalist Tristane Banon appeared on a popular French talk show way back in 2007 and said that DSK had attempted to rape her during a 2002 interview, remarking that his behavior was comparable to a "rutting chimpanzee," resulting in ripping her clothes as she fought him off. Before his arrest, Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist, probably would have run against President Nicholas Sarkozy. Initial French polls showed that half the population actually thought the whole situation was a setup engineered by President Sarkozy.
As more stories emerged about DSK's sexual aggression, the U.S. had its own public figure brought down by reckless sexual conduct, Arnold Schwarzenegger, making headlines. What is it with these visible, powerful cads, who think they can get away with such blatant disregard for their families and their constituents? The tide turned in America after the very public humiliation and consequent impeachment of Bill Clinton, although the spin was that Monica Lewinsky was the aggressor, and Clinton caved into his typical male desires. And as for consent, which is what DSK's attorney is claiming about the oral sex, it's a tough issue. I don't believe for a minute that this DSK alleged assault was consensual, but let's face it. There are instances when a woman has a rich, powerful boss – like the Sperminator – who chases after her while holding her employment in his hands and does what he demands. Let's hope that more women, like the hotel maid, stand up for their rights and take these assholes down.


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2007 Photo Contest Winner by Paul Milette. A great blue heron strides forward triumphantly with a fish caught in his bill.
A closeup profile of a gopher tortoise in sand and grass. His shell is mild brown with darker, scaly skin.
A thick stand of swamp ferns leads to shallow marsh water.
A closeup of the very dainty bluish-purple flower called Blue Curl.
Dozens of bright yellow bachelor buttons bloom, along with vibrantly green swamp fern and grasses, in an open dry prairie.
Silhouettes of clouds and slash pine dominate. Golden sun lights the backs of the clouds.
Great blue heron struts through center of photo, wings tucked and one leg comically held forward. Shallow water with lilies, grass in background.
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Join our February Bird Hosts Les and Jane for a woodland bird walk. This walk is over fairly even terrain and will look for some of our resident birds as well as the birds that migrate through Goose Island in the spring.
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Feb 27, 2014 from 08:30 AM to 11:00 AM |
Where | Goose Island State Park |
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Join our February Bird Hosts for a woodland bird walk. This bird walk will meet at the restroom rooms on Warbler Way of Goose Island State Park, on most Thursdays. Please Park at the north end of Turk's Cap Trail (next to campsite 157, across the street from the restrooms).
Les and Jane are returning as our February Bird Hosts. They will listen and watch for birds and help point out the birds, their behavior, and calls. Join us for this easy bird walk, where you can see birds, and maybe even learn a few new things.
When: 8:30 a.m.
Parking: Park at Turk's Cap Trail Parking Lot, next to campsite 157.
Where to meet: The restrooms on Warbler Way.
What are we doing: Bird watching and walking.
Things to bring: Binoculars, water, sun screen, bug spray, shoes suitable for walking, a camera, and dress in weather appropriate clothing.
Walks may be canceled or postponed in event of rain.
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There are just times when nothing but a comforting bowl of soup will do. As such, I have my favorites, but as I love to try different things, I found myself intrigued when I saw Pacific Natural Foods' Organic French Onion Soup. Each 8-ounce serving has just 30 calorie which was way too tempting to pass up. I bought my 16 ounce soup box for $2.29, which was a reasonable price for an all-natural soup.
I opened the container and poured myself a cupful. When it was heated it up, I dug in (can you dig in with soup)? It was decent, though it was highly salty, which put a damper on the flavor.
I'm more a fan of French onion soups on the sweeter end of the spectrum, so this wasn't necessarily my cup of tea (or soup). I finished the container and was pretty satisfied, but I can't say this is the best soup I've ever had. I flipped over the box to see what kind of sodium damage I was looking at, and saw the following nutritional information: 30 calories, 1 gram of fat, 30% of the daily value for sodium, 3 grams of sugar, and 1 gram of protein for each 8-ounce serving.
Wow - 60% of the daily value for sodium for a container! The ingredients are filtered water, organic sauteed onion base (organic onions, organic dried onion, salt, organic butter (milk), natural flavor), organic cane sugar, organic onion flavor (contains organic sunflower oil), sea salt, organic garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract and Xanthan gum.
This is not one of my favorite soups from Pacific Natural and while I remain a loyal fan of the brand, I'm not a big fan of this soup.


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Family Compositae
The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.
Tribe Senecioneae
The Senecioneae are a tribe of closely related genera that can be recognized most readily by the nature of the pappus and the involucral bracts or phyllaries. The phyllaries are basically in one well developed, often partially or wholly connate series of equal length that closely envelope the head . Frequently there are a few, very much smaller and mostly randomly distributed, often necrotic-tipped bracts near the base of the main series. The pappus is of fine, soft, often pure white capillary hairs . Heads may be either discoid or radiate . -- Gerald Carr.
Genus Senecio
, biennials, perennials
, subshrubs
, or shrubs
, 5-100(-250+) cm (perennating
taprooted, fibrous-rooted, branched caudices, or suberect to creeping
rhizomes; roots
often fleshy
, seldom branched; herbage
or hairy
, often glabrescent
at flowering) . Stems single or clustered, erect
to lax
or branched) . Leaves basal and/or cauline; alternate; petiolate
or sessile (bases sometimes clasping
) ; blades
subpalmately to pinnately nerved, mostly ovate
or deltate to oblanceolate
, lanceolate, linear
, or filiform
(and most intermediate shapes
), rarely suborbiculate (sometimes palmately or pinnately lobed to 2-3-pinnatifid), ultimate
entire or denticulate
to serrate or toothed
(sometimes with relatively many callous
or teeth), faces
glabrous or hairy (usually arachnose to tomentose
, often glabrescent) . Heads (sometimes nodding
) usually radiate
or discoid
(rarely quasi-disciform), usually in corymbiform
to cymiform, sometimes paniculiform
or racemiform
, arrays (sometimes from axils of distal leaves), sometimes borne singly. Calyculi usually of 1-8+ bractlets
(bractlets often intergrading with distal peduncular bracts, mostly 1 / 5 - 1 / 2 + times phyllaries), sometimes 0. Involucres mostly cylindric
or turbinate
to campanulate
, 5-15(-40) mm diam. Phyllaries persistent
, usually ± 5, 8, 13, or 21 [34] in (1-) 2 series, distinct
(margins interlocking), erect (often reflexed
in fruit), mostly oblong
to lanceolate or linear, subequal
or equal, margins usually scarious
. Receptacles flat to convex
, foveolate, epaleate. Ray florets usually ± 5, 8, 13, or 21 [34], pistillate
, fertile
, sometimes 0; corollas usually yellow, sometimes ochroleucous
or white, rarely reddish to purplish (laminae
sometimes barely surpassing
phyllaries; peripheral pistillate florets usually 0, sometimes 1-8+; corollas usually yellow, sometimes ochroleucous or white) . Disc florets (5-) 13-80+, bisexual
, fertile; corollas usually yellow, rarely ochroleucous, white, reddish, or purplish, tubes
shorter than to equaling campanulate throats, lobes
5, erect to recurved, usually ± deltate; style branches stigmatic
in 2 lines
, apices usually truncate-penicillate. Cypselae cylindric or prismatic
, usually 5-ribbed or -angled, glabrous or hairy (especially on ribs
or angles
, hairs
sometimes myxogenic) ; pappi usually persistent (fragile), sometimes readily falling, of 30-80+, white to stramineous
, barbellulate
to smooth
. x = 10.
Species 1000+: nearly worldwide, mostly in warm-temperate, subtropical
, and tropical regions
at mid and upper elevations
The concept of Senecio in traditional North American floristics stems from nineteenth century botanists who saw the genus as a diverse
held together by similar morphologies of the heads
and florets
. Studies in the past two decades have shown Senecio in the broad sense to be a collection
of separate lineages
; a better taxonomy is to be had by treating the lineages as genera. Some of the lineages were recognized in the past as infrageneric
assemblages. A treatment of Senecio by T. M.
Barkley (1978) reflected the traditional circumscription of the genus; a narrower circumscription is used here. Present concepts, plus a catalogue
of genera, were presented by Barkley (1999) .The "species-groups" recognized here are given names
purely as a matter of convenience; the groups and their names are intentionally given no formal taxonomic
status (T. M. Barkley 1978) . Some of the groups may represent natural evolutionary alliances
; that remains to be clarified.The following taxa are not established
of the flora
but are nonetheless noteworthy:Senecio brasiliensis (Sprengel) Lessing var. tripartitus (de Candolle) Baker is a South American weed
of disturbed
sites, introduced
on the Gulf
Coast near Pensacola, Florida, in 1893-1894. Its presence was discussed by J. M. Greenman (1917) and by L. J. Uttal (1982), both of whom treated it as Senecio canabinaefolius Hooker & Arnott. It is toxic
to livestock; it seems not to have persisted in the flora.Senecio bicolor (Willdenow) Viviani (S. cineraria de Candolle) is one of the plants
called "dusty miller" in the horticultural trade. It occasionally persists in the flora after cultivation.Species of the African genus Euryops are commonly cultivated in California and Florida and, to a lesser extent, in other warm areas of the flora. They would key
here to Senecio. They are shrubs with leaves dissected
or prominently toothed, phyllaries connate
for the proximal
third of their lengths
, and yellow corollas. Apparently none persist for long after cultivation.Relatively recent collections from low-lying (50-100 m
), seasonally wet, disturbed areas in Orange and San Diego counties, California, have included
semi-weedy perennial herbs or subshrubs 100-200 cm that are initially arachnose to tomentose, soon glabrescent, and have oblanceolate to linear or filiform leaves (2-7 cm), notably small heads in corymbiform arrays, ± 13 phyllaries 3-4 mm, and 7-8 ray florets with corolla laminae 2-3 mm.
G. L. Nesom (pers. comm.
) has suggested that these plants are Senecio linearifolius A. Richard, a native
of Australia and Tasmania.References to shapes, sizes, bases, margins, induments
, etc.
, of "leaves" in keys and descriptions
refer to principal (largest, most conspicuous
) leaves at flowering unless otherwise indicated.[1]
- Domain:
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
- Class:
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
- Tribe:
- Subtribe:
- Genus:
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Groundsel, ragwort, butterweed [reputedly from Latin senex, old man or woman, alluding to the white pappus bristles resembling the white hair of an elderly person]
- Specific epithet:
- Botanical name: - Senecio haworthioides
- Specific epithet:
- Genus:
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Groundsel, ragwort, butterweed [reputedly from Latin senex, old man or woman, alluding to the white pappus bristles resembling the white hair of an elderly person]
- Subtribe:
- Tribe:
- Subfamily:
- Family:
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Order:
- Lindley, 1833
- Superorder:
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass:
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Class:
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subphylum:
- Phylum:
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom:
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Kingdom:
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
Similar Species
Members of the genus Senecio
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 174 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
Myrica pennsylvanica (Northern Bayberry) · Myrica pensylvanica 'Morton' (Silver Sprite Bayberry) · S. acaulis (Senecio) · S. actinella (Flagstaff Ragwort) · S. amplectens (Alpine Groundsel) · S. amplectens holmii (Holm's Groundsel) · S. amplectens var. amplectens (Showy Alpine Ragwort) · S. amplectens var. holmii (Holm's Groundsel) · S. ampullaceus (Texas Groundsel) · S. angulatus (Climbing Groundsel) · S. anteuphorbium (Senecio) · S. aphanactis (Chaparral Ragwort) · S. aquaticus (Water Ragwort) · S. arborescens (Estrella) · S. arizonicus (Arizona Ragwort) · S. aronicoides (Rayless Ragwort) · S. articulatus (Candle Plant) · S. aschenborianus (Senecio) · S. astephanus (San Gabriel Ragwort) · S. atratus (Tall Blacktip Ragwort) · S. aurea (Golden Groundsel) · S. ballyi (Senecio) · S. bellidioides (Alpine Groundsel) · S. bicolor (Silver Ragwort) · S. bicolor cineraria (Dusty Miller) · S. bigelovii (Nodding Groundsel) · S. bigelovii Gray var. hallii Gray (Nodding Ragwort) · S. bigelovii var. bigelovii (Biglow's Ragwort) · S. bigelovii var. hallii (Hall's Ragwort) · S. blochmaniae (Dune Ragwort) · S. bolanderi var. bolanderi (Bolander's Ragwort) · S. californicus (California Ragwort) · S. cannabifolius (Aleutian Ragwort) · S. cannabinifolius (Hempleaf Ragwort) · S. cineraria 'Cirrus' (Cirrus Dusty Miller) · S. cineraria 'Silver Dust' (Dusty Miller) · S. clarkianus (Clark's Ragwort) · S. clivorum (Summer Ragwort) · S. confusus 'Sao Paulo' (Mexican Flame Vine) · S. congestus (Clustered Marsh Ragwort) · S. crassifolius (Senecio) · S. crassissimus (Vertical Leaf Senecio) · S. crassulus (Meadow Groundsel) · S. cristobalensis (Senecio) · S. cylindricus (Senecio) · S. dangarensis (Largescaled Rasbora) · S. deflersii (Pickle Plant) · S. dimorphophyllus var. dimorphophyllus (Splitleaf Groundsel) · S. dryadens (Longnose Tapirfish) · S. elegans (Purple Groundsel) · S. elmeri (Elmer's Ragwort) · S. eremophilus (Desert Groundsel) · S. eremophilus var. eremophilus (Desert Ragwort) · S. eremophilus var. kingii (Ragwood Groundsel) · S. eremophilus var. macdougalii (Macdougal's Groundsel) · S. ertterae (Ertter's Ragwort) · S. erucifolius (Hoary Ragwort) · S. erucifolius erucifolius (Hoary Groundsel) · S. eurycephalus Torr. & A.Gray var. eurycephalus Torr. & A.Gray ex A.Gray (Widehead Groundsel) · S. eurycephalus var. eurycephalus (Siskiyou Ragwort) · S. ficoides (Senecio) · S. flaccidus (Douglas Senecio) · S. flaccidus var. douglasii (Douglas' Groundsel) · S. flaccidus var. flaccidus (Threadleaf Groundsel) · S. flaccidus var. monoensis (Green Groundsel) · S. fremontii (Dwarf Mountain Ragwort) · S. fremontii var. blitoides (Dwarf Mountain Ragwort) · S. fremontii var. fremontii (Dwarf Mountain Ragwort) · S. fremontii var. inexpectatus (Dwarf Mountain Ragwort) · S. fremontii var. occidentalis (Dwarf Mountain Ragwort) · S. glastifolius (Holly-Leaved Senecio) · S. gunnii (Mountain Fireweed) · S. haworthii (Senecio) · S. herreanus (String of Beads Cactus) · S. herreianus (Gooseberry) · S. hispidulus (Hispid Fireweed) · S. hybridus (Common Ragwort) · S. hydrophiloides (Tall Groundsel) · S. hydrophilus (Alkali Marsh Groundsel) · S. hypoleucus (Pale Groundsel) · S. inaequidens (Narrow-Leaved Ragwort) · S. integerrimus (Columbia Ragwort) · S. integerrimus Nutt. var. exaltatus (Nutt.) Cronq. (Columbia Groundsel) · S. integerrimus var. exaltatus (Columbia Groundsel) · S. integerrimus var. integerrimus (Lambstongue Ragwort) · S. integerrimus var. major (Lambstongue Groundsel) · S. integerrimus var. ochroleucus (Paleyellow Ragwort) · S. integerrimus var. scribneri (Scribner's Ragwort) · S. jacobaea (Ragwort) · S. jacobaea dunensis (Ragwort) · S. jacobaea jacobaea (Ragwort) · S. jacobsenii (Trailing Jade) · S. kirkii (Tree Daisy) · S. kleinia (Mountain Grass) · S. kleiniaeformis (Spear Head) · S. kleiniiformis (Spearhead) · S. lamarckianus (Bois De Ch) · S. lemmonii (Lemmon Groundsel) · S. linearifolius (Fireweed) · S. littoralis (Woolly Ragwort)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Ediger, R. I. 1970. Revision of section Suffruticosi of the genus Senecio (Compositae). Sida 3: 504-524.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16362747
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2142438
- Theodore M. Barkley "Senecio". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 540,541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 570, 615. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]


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New Club Development (NCD) Application 2014-2015
The Student Activities Board (SAB), a student government body composed entirely of student leaders representing existing student clubs and student councils at NYU, is responsible for recognizing and governing All-Square clubs at NYU. To facilitate the development of new All-Square clubs and to minimize the duplication of existing clubs, the SAB has created the New Club Development Program (NCDP) to assist groups of students proposing to start a new All-Square club. On September 8, 2014 the SAB begins accepting and reviewing applications to the program for the upcoming academic year. Once the application process closes (11:59pm on October 6th) the SAB will not accept applications again until next Fall 2015. The program takes two semesters to complete, fall & spring, in that order.
The Student Activities Board will notify your founding members regarding your application status by 11:59pm by November 6th. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your application please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
For All Clubs in the New Club Development Program
Submitting a petition of 100 signatures in support of your club.
Reviewing and revising, if needed, your mission statement.
Setting goals and objectives for the club.
Recruiting new members (Minimum of 10 fully matriculated NYU students in good standing with the University and no more then 2/3 student members from one school. Membership must be open to all students at NYU and without restrictions.)
Writing and ratifying your club Constitution.
Electing officers.
Planning club activities or a publication and submitting an action plan to your CSALS advisor.
Applying for seed funding.
Holding club activities or distributing a publication.
Preparing for your final evaluation by the Student Activities Board (SAB).
Submitting a club budget for the next academic year. (Only if the SAB grants your club All-Square status following your final evaluation.)
Following the timeline set by Student Activities Board (SAB) that includes deadlines for completing each component of the New Club Development Program (NCDP).
If you have questions about the NCD process, please do not hesitate to contact your Student Activities advisor.


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My father called this little news piece to my attention yesterday. It's a nice idea, but I initially didn't understand it and thought it meant something else. Let me explain.
I love things that grow. If your store has potted plants, I will buy everything you sell. Even maxi skirts. I hate maxi skirts. But I love plants. This photo from Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page (yes, I stalk Zuck. Your point is?) is of a restaurant with a tree in the middle. I drooled.
So when I read the article about the Mariners promotion, I initially thought, They're asking people to bring soil to start a garden at the stadium? That. Is. So. Beyond. Great.
They're actually giving away soil. But now the idea is in my head. It could be a little vegetable garden. I'm sure they could get volunteers to take care of it and the players could all have a plant they sort of sponsor. Like "Pat Burrell's Pumpkin" and "Javier Lopez's Tomatoes". You know. Stuff like that. It would add a slightly rustic vibe to the park and have some benches. It would be slightly enclosed, like the mini diamond for toddlers at AT&T Park and you'd obviously have to have a ticket to the game to go in it. Things that grow make every space a little nicer to be in. You'd just have to figure out how to keep the seagulls out. Good luck on that.
The Giants are hitting some bumps in the road in various areas of their play and this is sort of a bad time for that. I mean, there are worse times like during a pennant race in September, but this is a bit of an end-of-Spring-Training nightmare.
And there's the whole Brandon Belt thing.
I personally think Belt will the start the season in AAA, and rightly so. As far as I can tell, the 2011 team has been built without the idea that Belt will be a defining factor. Sabean signed a first baseman for three more years in the offseason. I'm sure he projects Belt contributing- perhaps even majorly- this year and certainly 2012/13, but the team is just structured to work without him, I think. And two relatively minor injuries shouldn't change that. There are many, many internal options and I don't think it would hurt Belt to see a few more weeks/months in AAA. It feels ever so slightly panicky to put him on the Opening Day roster.
Of course, Opening Day roster is the roster for one day. The next day, it can change. It's more symbolic. And symbolically, I think it's better for Belt not to be there.
And the Neftali Feliz saga? No comment. ::shakes head::
Diamond Girl
p.s. Just checked out the Giants 2011 commercials. It's an interesting campaign. Sort of taps into every fan's daydreams. But do you remember that "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" commercial where PC talks about capturing a family vacation with a pie chart and Mac says, "I feel like I was there!" ? That was sort of my reaction (watch what I'm talking about here at 3:07). Then again, if anyone gave me that chance to paint Andres Torres's toenails, I would so do it. Confess to Pat Burrell? Not so much.


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While Team USA was taking home a slew of golds in London, the Rundown USA team was uncovering award-winning gems all summer long.
Here's the best of our USA edition -- they're each like little gold medals themselves (plus shipping and handling).
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Friday, April 27, 2012
My Neighborhood in 2009
I blogged about these houses in 2009.... So long ago... It was a post on my OLD blog...
39 comments:
- Celtic Thistle said...
Well done on finishing that UFO! It looks great too, love the quilting.
- April 27, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- Katherine said...
Cute! I love all the fun quilting stitches!
- April 27, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- debbie @ happy little cottage said...
Adorable!!! And the quilting is awesome! Love it Jodi! Have a great weekend!
- April 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- notes of sincerity said...
So so cute Jodi!! :o)
Houses tug at my heart and yours
are absolutely adorable.
Doesn't it feel so nice to have a finish? I posted one of mine today. Slowly I am going through my closet of u.f.o's. :o) - April 27, 2012 at 1:30 PM
- Heidi Staples said...
Such a great idea to make it into a table runner...adorable!!
- April 27, 2012 at 1:37 PM
- Talin's Corner said...
Another UFO done! Great job, they are cute houses.
- April 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM
- Patchwork and Play said...
Your houses are so cute! And the idea if using them in a table runner is great! Love it!!!
- April 27, 2012 at 1:57 PM
- Cherie said...
It looks great! What a great use for them =D
- April 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM
- Debby said...
Very cute!! And another project complete, gotta love that, congrats
- April 27, 2012 at 3:11 PM
- Kati from Kati's Quilting said...
I love these gorgeous little houses! It's on my to-do list, too bad you didn't have the inspiration to make some more. The fabric are really cute and the quilting is just lovely!
- April 27, 2012 at 3:29 PM
- sandra said...
They are so cute and what a good idea, I was thinking of doing that with some of my UFO's too because I just don't need large quilts.
How are you feeling these days. Blessings sandra - April 27, 2012 at 3:40 PM
- Pamela Nees said...
LOVE those houses! And the quilting! ;)
- April 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM
- Sonia B said...
Very very cute!
- April 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM
- Nedra said...
Every time I see houses, I think of Nanette. Your table runner turned out great!
- April 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM
- Joy said...
That is adorable!
- April 27, 2012 at 4:40 PM
- mac said...
Very cute and a great idea to use up UFO's. I too am trying to work through my unfinished quilts - found some I had completely forgotten about (cleverly buried).
- April 27, 2012 at 5:30 PM
- Nicky said...
Great idea to finish it off and also to have fun while practicing loads of machine quilting!
- April 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM
- Diane said...
This is adorable!
- April 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM
- SharronR said...
The table runner is so cute, and I love the quilting!
- April 27, 2012 at 8:38 PM
- Kath said...
Loving your work a always, and just love the colours of the new quilt from the Scrappy book. Love that book too, and it is on my wish list.
Your 'runner' is fantastic, love the quiulting and it so suits the project. - April 28, 2012 at 12:14 AM
- Lori said...
I love it! What size are the houses? I've been working on houses from the Full House pattern by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co..
- April 28, 2012 at 5:00 AM
- Sew Create It - Jane said...
Looks fab...very cheery!
- April 28, 2012 at 6:54 AM
- Sandy said...
I would love to make something like this, but am a new quilter and have no idea how to even start one. Any suggestions??
- April 28, 2012 at 7:08 AM
- Betty Lou said...
Your quilting make the quilt so interesting, like it.
- April 28, 2012 at 7:36 AM
- amy smart said...
I LOVE this Jodi!! And the quilting makes it extra fabulous. So cute. Way to finish a UFO too. :)
- April 28, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Becky said...
Niiiice! Have you ever noticed how that UFO pile seems to grow no matter how much ya do? Just when you think you're making progress - ah, but if we weren't being crafty we'd probably be sharing a jail cell ;)
- April 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Sue a Skirted Lady said...
The variety of quilting really gives it pizzaz! Seeing pictures of your colorful projects always brightens my day.
- April 28, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- Cheri said...
This makes me think of that old song "On the Street Where You Live" Love the quilting!
- April 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- Becky said...
A table runner was the perfect choice for these blocks--it turned out wonderful!
- April 28, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- mrchandler said...
This s so cute! Makes me want to try one like this.
- April 28, 2012 at 1:09 PM
- QuiltNut Creations said...
adorable! love it.
- April 28, 2012 at 9:21 PM
- Cynthia said...
Oh my gosh, that is the cutest table runner I have ever seen!!! Your machine quilting is gorgeous :)
- April 28, 2012 at 10:20 PM
- Nancy said...
I love it. I want to make a house quilt!
- April 29, 2012 at 4:55 AM
- Lynda said...
Always good to finish a UFO! Love all the quilting you did.
- April 29, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Kathleen Grace said...
Adorable! What a great use for those cute blocks:>)
- April 30, 2012 at 3:05 PM
- Carla said...
This is so cheerful!
- April 30, 2012 at 6:36 PM
- Allison said...
geat table runner! I'm also trying to finnish up my UFO's, and have decided that 'finish' doesn't have to mean 'finnish as originally intended' good luck with your pile of UFO's!
- April 30, 2012 at 7:45 PM
The houses are adorable!
Where can I find the pattern for them? - May 17, 2012 at 5:39 AM
- Lizzie said...
I love your houses! They are adorable!!!!
- June 7, 2012 at 2:51 PM


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Since 1994, this Canadian company has brought high design to the table in the form of forks, knives, and spoons. Its stainless-steel flatware comes in a variety of styles, from Scandinavian-inspired to medieval to modern. Yet in all cases, the rigorous design and production processes—which includes multiple grinding and polishing stages—ensure the utensils last a lifetime. With these pieces in hand, even takeout feels made-to-order.


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Monday, July 21, 2008
One of my favorite Mexican foods is camarones a la diabla—the devil's shrimp. In theory means shrimp in a fiendishly spicy red pepper sauce, but even in Mexico the level of spicing varies considerably. A simple beachside restaurant at Zihuatanejo served camarones lived up to this fiery reputation.


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Updated: February 19, 2013 11:52AM
Here's a look at What's Going On in the Southland including in Frankfort, Oak Forest and Chicago.
Steel retirees to meet
The Republic Steel Retirees will meet on Thursday at Steve's Lounge, 13200 S. Baltimore Ave., Chicago.
The meeting will begin with a social hour at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $15 for members and $18 for guests.
Information: Cass Wapinski, (773) 307-5675 or Dan Gordon, (773) 721-9631.
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IPO to host concert
The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, led by music director David Danzmayr, will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Performing Arts Center at Lincoln-Way North High School, 19900 S. Harlem Ave., Frankfort.
Danzmayr and the IPO will perform several masterworks by composers who were fascinated with expressing the figuration of water through music.
Water pieces will include Handel's "Water Music," Britte''s "Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes," Debussy's "La Mer" and Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending."
Tickets are $35 to $55 for general admission or $5 for students.
Information: ipomusic.org or (708) 481-7774.
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School to host Fun Fair
St. Damian School will host its Eighth Grade Fun Fair from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the gymnasium at the school, 5300 W. 155th St., Oak Forest.
The free event will feature food, raffles, games and prizes. All proceeds will benefit the Neurofibromatosis Midwest.
Information: www.stdamianschool.org or (708) 687-4230.
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About bencar's Garage
About me and my passion for cars
I grew up in a household headed up by a Mechanical Engineer, from the time I was old enough to know what's what, I was surrounded by machinery, people who talked about mechanical devices, and of course cars. I've been active in the hob by for over 32 years, restord 2 cars, run a Car Club, write for the Pontiac-Oakland Club International (http://www.poci.org), and PontiacRegistry.com (http://www.pontiacregistry.com). I also belong to the National Firebird & Trans Am Club, and the National Street Machine Club.
My first car
[img]http://[/img]My 1960 Plymouth, which I still have, and which can be seen at http://bencar...scarpage.html
Car I wish I still had
None, I have all of them as of now
My dream car
Ram indiction motored version of my 1960 Plymouth, in a Plum Red Convertible
Car clubs I'm in
See my intial entry above.
- Type of racing: 1/4 Mile
- Driving song: I Can't Drive 55
- Car movie: Smokie & The Bandit
- Car book: Firebird-The Auto Biography
- Car magazine: Smoke Signals
- Car game: None
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- Jan 1, 2013 at 11:55 am
- do you remember my 73 grand am that was a total rust bucket but it as 1 owner car with 50 some thousand mile, it had been it storage for 20 years but 16 years of illinois road slat had already done it damage. was your friends 73 pontiac as rusted out as my grand am. what surprised about my grand awas there wasn't any rust in the cowl/fire wall rad support or under the vinly top or front or back windows . repalced the doors with ca rust free .cut the dog legs off a pair of 77 lemans fender and weld them onto my 73 fenders. first we mounted the complete 77 fendero the 73 and we all stood there and looked at it and some thing was right. then after staring at for a while it hit some one the the 77 fende didn't have aside marke lightt in the fender. it was in the header panel. A friend of mine picked me up pair of 77 fenders that where beat to s_it on the tops but the dog legs where perfect so we cut the dog legs of that set of fenders. which left me with a 77 lemans fender i litterley could not give it away.so ended in the scrape pile at locale yard . i jsut don't have enough room and the shop had stripped to bare metal and it turn to rust after sitting outside my garage for 6 months. the sad thing is some poor guy in the midwest or east coast could have used on a lemans or can am
- Mar 24, 2012 at 3:34 pm
- Nice looking trans am, also belong to the pontiac/Oakland club international and national firebird trans am club along with the charter oak firebirds out of Connecticut.
- Jul 1, 2010 at 12:19 am
- Thx for the add!! Wicked rides
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Yesterday I issued comments on the rumor that Governor Cuomo was "punting" on the difficult conversation on the Triborough Amendment. While the truth of his comments have yet to flushed out, I find it very disappointing on many levels. First, the Governor has enormous popularity in this state. With an approval rating of around 70%, Governor Cuomo clearly has the bully pulpit at his disposal. Second, the financial cliff that is approaching our schools, municipalities is growing closer. The topic of mandate relief has been discussed at length for a considerable amount of time. The Cuomo administration itself held public hearings on mandate relief last winter for the very purpose of examining the very factors that are contributing to this crisis.
So the question needs to be asked…what's the point?
If the Cuomo administration is not going to talk about Triborough where does that leave other significant issues like Wicks and Scaffold Law? Does the administration not view the fiscal crisis in our communities seriously? Is the call for mandate relief just a buzzword in our political rhetoric?
Also troubling by the rumor is that the Governor presumably states that because labor won't discuss this issue that the legislature won't look at it. Why is the Governor, with enormous public appeal, punting on a difficult – but necessary – conversation and casting blame on the legislature?
Many questions…too few answers..
Now to some other news of the day..
The notorious MTA Payroll Tax, a perfect example of everything that is wrong with New York's business climate, was ruled unconstitutional by a State Supreme Court Judge. Many Small businesses had previously been exempted from the tax last December, but it still was impacting others. The State is predictably appealing to the State Court of Appeals (New York's highest court).
New York was awarded yet another grant from the federal government for the development of a health insurance exchange.


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Believers are united to Christ, that they may bring forth fruit unto God. (1-6) The use and excellence of the law. (7-13) The spiritual conflicts between corruption and grace in a believer. (14-25)
Verses 1-6 So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seeks justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, can make any sinner free from the law of sin and death. Believers are delivered from that power of the law, which condemns for the sins committed by them. And they are delivered from that power of the law which stirs up and provokes the sin that dwells in them. Understand this not of the law as a rule, but as a covenant of works. In profession and privilege, we are under a covenant of grace, and not under a covenant of works; under the gospel of Christ, not under the law of Moses. The difference is spoken of under the similitude or figure of being married to a new husband. The second marriage is to Christ. By death we are freed from obligation to the law as a covenant, as the wife is from her vows to her husband. In our believing powerfully and effectually, we are dead to the law, and have no more to do with it than the dead servant, who is freed from his master, has to do with his master's yoke. The day of our believing, is the day of being united to the Lord Jesus. We enter upon a life of dependence on him, and duty to him. Good works are from union with Christ; as the fruitfulness of the vine is the product of its being united to its roots; there is no fruit to God, till we are united to Christ. The law, and the greatest efforts of one under the law, still in the flesh, under the power of corrupt principles, cannot set the heart right with regard to the love of God, overcome worldly lusts, or give truth and sincerity in the inward parts, or any thing that comes by the special sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit. Nothing more than a formal obedience to the outward letter of any precept, can be performed by us, without the renewing, new-creating grace of the new covenant.
Verses 7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostle would not have known the sinfulness of his thoughts, motives, and actions, but by the law. That perfect standard showed how wrong his heart and life were, proving his sins to be more numerous than he had before thought, but it did not contain any provision of mercy or grace for his relief. He is ignorant of human nature and the perverseness of his own heart, who does not perceive in himself a readiness to fancy there is something desirable in what is out of reach. We may perceive this in our children, though self-love makes us blind to it in ourselves. The more humble and spiritual any Christian is, the more clearly will he perceive that the apostle describes the true believer, from his first convictions of sin to his greatest progress in grace, during this present imperfect state. St. Paul was once a Pharisee, ignorant of the spirituality of the law, having some correctness of character, without knowing his inward depravity. When the commandment came to his conscience by the convictions of the Holy Spirit, and he saw what it demanded, he found his sinful mind rise against it. He felt at the same time the evil of sin, his own sinful state, that he was unable to fulfil the law, and was like a criminal when condemned. But though the evil principle in the human heart produces sinful motions, and the more by taking occasion of the commandment; yet the law is holy, and the commandment holy, just, and good. It is not favourable to sin, which it pursues into the heart, and discovers and reproves in the inward motions thereof. Nothing is so good but a corrupt and vicious nature will pervert it. The same heat that softens wax, hardens clay. Food or medicine when taken wrong, may cause death, though its nature is to nourish or to heal. The law may cause death through man's depravity, but sin is the poison that brings death. Not the law, but sin discovered by the law, was made death to the apostle. The ruinous nature of sin, and the sinfulness of the human heart, are here clearly shown.
Verses 14-17 Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the apostle found himself so very far short of perfection, that he seemed to be carnal; like a man who is sold against his will to a hated master, from whom he cannot set himself at liberty. A real Christian unwillingly serves this hated master, yet cannot shake off the galling chain, till his powerful and gracious Friend above, rescues him. The remaining evil of his heart is a real and humbling hinderance to his serving God as angels do and the spirits of just made perfect. This strong language was the result of St. Paul's great advance in holiness, and the depth of his self-abasement and hatred of sin. If we do not understand this language, it is because we are so far beneath him in holiness, knowledge of the spirituality of God's law, and the evil of our own hearts, and hatred of moral evil. And many believers have adopted the apostle's language, showing that it is suitable to their deep feelings of abhorrence of sin, and self-abasement. The apostle enlarges on the conflict he daily maintained with the remainder of his original depravity. He was frequently led into tempers, words, or actions, which he did not approve or allow in his renewed judgement and affections. By distinguishing his real self, his spiritual part, from the self, or flesh, in which sin dwelt, and by observing that the evil actions were done, not by him, but by sin dwelling in him, the apostle did not mean that men are not accountable for their sins, but he teaches the evil of their sins, by showing that they are all done against reason and conscience. Sin dwelling in a man, does not prove its ruling, or having dominion over him. If a man dwells in a city, or in a country, still he may not rule there.
Verses 18-22 The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it. The believer sees more of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the law. His earnest desires to obey, increase as he grows in grace. But the whole good on which his will is fully bent, he does not do; sin ever springing up in him, through remaining corruption, he often does evil, though against the fixed determination of his will. The motions of sin within grieved the apostle. If by the striving of the flesh against the Spirit, was meant that he could not do or perform as the Spirit suggested, so also, by the effectual opposition of the Spirit, he could not do what the flesh prompted him to do. How different this case from that of those who make themselves easy with regard to the inward motions of the flesh prompting them to evil; who, against the light and warning of conscience, go on, even in outward practice, to do evil, and thus, with forethought, go on in the road to perdition! For as the believer is under grace, and his will is for the way of holiness, he sincerely delights in the law of God, and in the holiness which it demands, according to his inward man; that new man in him, which after God is created in true holiness.
Verses 23-25 This passage does not represent the apostle as one that walked after the flesh, but as one that had it greatly at heart, not to walk so. And if there are those who abuse this passage, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction, yet serious Christians find cause to bless God for having thus provided for their support and comfort. We are not, because of the abuse of such as are blinded by their own lusts, to find fault with the scripture, or any just and well warranted interpretation of it. And no man who is not engaged in this conflict, can clearly understand the meaning of these words, or rightly judge concerning this painful conflict, which led the apostle to bemoan himself as a wretched man, constrained to what he abhorred. He could not deliver himself; and this made him the more fervently thank God for the way of salvation revealed through Jesus Christ, which promised him, in the end, deliverance from this enemy. So then, says he, I myself, with my mind, my prevailing judgement, affections, and purposes, as a regenerate man, by Divine grace, serve and obey the law of God; but with the flesh, the carnal nature, the remains of depravity, I serve the law of sin, which wars against the law of my mind. Not serving it so as to live in it, or to allow it, but as unable to free himself from it, even in his very best state, and needing to look for help and deliverance out of himself. It is evident that he thanks God for Christ, as our deliverer, as our atonement and righteousness in himself, and not because of any holiness wrought in us. He knew of no such salvation, and disowned any such title to it. He was willing to act in all points agreeable to the law, in his mind and conscience, but was hindered by indwelling sin, and never attained the perfection the law requires. What can be deliverance for a man always sinful, but the free grace of God, as offered in Christ Jesus? The power of Divine grace, and of the Holy Spirit, could root out sin from our hearts even in this life, if Divine wisdom had not otherwise thought fit. But it is suffered, that Christians might constantly feel, and understand thoroughly, the wretched state from which Divine grace saves them; might be kept from trusting in themselves; and might ever hold all their consolation and hope, from the rich and free grace of God in Christ.
Romans 7:1-25 . SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
Relation of Believers to the Law and to Christ ( Romans 7:1-6 ).
Recurring to the statement of Romans 6:14 , that believers are "not under the law but under grace," the apostle here shows how this change is brought about, and what holy consequences follow from it.
1. I speak to them that know the law--of Moses to whom, though not themselves Jews the Old Testament was familiar.
2, 3. if her husband be dead--"die." So Romans 7:3 .
3. she be married--"joined." So Romans 7:4 .
4. Wherefore . . . ye also are become dead--rather, "were slain."
to the law by the body of Christ--through His slain body. The apostle here departs from his usual word "died," using the more expressive phrase "were slain," to make it clear that he meant their being "crucified with Christ" (as expressed in Romans 6:3-6 , and Galatians 2:20 ).
that ye should be married to another, even to him that is--"was."
raised from the dead--to the intent.
that we should bring forth fruit unto God--It has been thought that the apostle should here have said that "the law died to us," not "we to the law," but that purposely inverted the figure, to avoid the harshness to Jewish ears of the death of the law [CHRYSOSTOM, CALVIN, HODGE, PHILIPPI, &c.]. But this is to mistake the apostle's design in employing this figure, which was merely to illustrate the general principle that "death dissolves legal obligation." It was essential to his argument that we, not the law, should be the dying party, since it is we that are "crucified with Christ," and not the law. This death dissolves our marriage obligation to the law, leaving us at liberty to contract a new relation--to be joined to the Risen One, in order to spiritual fruitfulness, to the glory of God [BEZA, OLSHAUSEN, MEYER, ALFORD, &c.]. The confusion, then, is in the expositors, not the text; and it has arisen from not observing that, like Jesus Himself, believers are here viewed as having a double life--the old sin-condemned life, which they lay down with Christ, and the new life of acceptance and holiness to which they rise with their Surety and Head; and all the issues of this new life, in Christian obedience, are regarded as the "fruit" of this blessed union to the Risen One. How such holy fruitfulness was impossible before our union to Christ, is next declared.
5. For when we were in the flesh--in our unregenerate state, as we came into the world.
the motions--"passions" (Margin), "affections" (as in Galatians 5:24 ), or "stirrings."
of sins--that is, "prompting to the commission of sins."
which were by the law--by occasion of the law, which fretted, irritated our inward corruption by its prohibitions.
did work in our members--the members of the body, as the instruments by which these inward stirrings find vent in action, and become facts of
to bring forth fruit unto death--death in the sense of Romans 6:21 . Thus hopeless is all holy fruit before union to Christ.
6. But now--On the same expression, compare James 1:15 .
we are delivered from the law--The word is the same which, in Romans 6:6 and elsewhere, is rendered "destroyed," and is but another way of saying (as in Romans 7:4 ) that "we were slain to the law by the body of Christ"; language which, though harsh to the ear, is designed and fitted to impress upon the reader the violence of that death of the Cross, by which, as by a deadly wrench, we are "delivered from the law."
that being dead wherein we were held--It is now universally agreed that the true reading here is, "being dead to that wherein we were held." The received reading has no authority whatever, and is inconsistent with the strain of the argument; for the death spoken of, as we have seen, is not the law's, but ours, through union with the crucified Saviour.
that we should--"so as to" or "so that we."
serve in newness of spirit--"in the newness of the spirit."
and not in the oldness of the letter--not in our old way of literal, mechanical obedience to the divine law, as a set of external rules of conduct, and without any reference to the state of our hearts; but in that new way of spiritual obedience which, through union to the risen Saviour, we have learned to render (compare Romans 2:29 , 2 Corinthians 3:6 ).
False Inferences regarding the Law Repelled ( Romans 7:7-25 ).
And first, Romans 7:7-13 , in the case of the UNREGENERATE.
7, 8. What . . . then? Is the law sin? God forbid!--"I have said that when we were in the flesh the law stirred our inward corruption, and was thus the occasion of deadly fruit: Is then the law to blame for this? Far from us be such a thought."
Nay--"On the contrary" (as in Romans 8:37 , 1 Corinthians 12:22 ; Greek).
I had not known sin but by the law--It is important to fix what is meant by "sin" here. It certainly is not "the general nature of sin" [ALFORD, &c.], though it be true that this is learned from the law; for such a sense will not suit what is said of it in the following verses, where the meaning is the same as here. The only meaning which suits all that is said of it in this place is "the principle of sin in the heart of fallen man." The sense, then, is this: "It was by means of the law that I came to know what a virulence and strength of sinful propensity I had within me." The existence of this it did not need the law to reveal to him; for even the heathens recognized and wrote of it. But the dreadful nature and desperate power of it the law alone discovered--in the way now to be described.
for I had not known lust, except, &c.--Here the same Greek word is unfortunately rendered by three different English ones--"lust"; "covet"; "concupiscence" ( Romans 7:8 )--which obscures the meaning. By using the word "lust" only, in the wide sense of all "irregular desire," or every outgoing of the heart towards anything forbidden, the sense will best be brought out; thus, "For I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not lust; But sin, taking ('having taken') occasion by the commandment (that one which forbids it), wrought in me all manner of lusting." This gives a deeper view of the tenth commandment than the mere words suggest. The apostle saw in it the prohibition not only of desire after certain things there specified, \ but of "desire after everything divinely forbidden"; in other words, all "lusting" or "irregular desire." It was this which "he had not known but by the law." The law forbidding all such desire so stirred his corruption that it wrought in him "all manner of lusting"--desire of every sort after what was forbidden.
8. For without the law--that is, before its extensive demands and prohibitions come to operate upon our corrupt nature.
sin was--rather, "is"
dead--that is, the sinful principle of our nature lies so dormant, so torpid, that its virulence and power are unknown, and to our feeling it is as good as "dead."
9. For I was alive without the law once--"In the days of my ignorance, when, in this sense, a stranger to the law, I deemed myself a righteous man, and, as such, entitled to life at the hand of God."
but when the commandment came--forbidding all irregular desire; for the apostle sees in this the spirit of the whole law.
sin revived--"came to life"; in its malignity and strength it unexpectedly revealed itself, as if sprung from the dead.
and I died--"saw myself, in the eye of a law never kept and not to be kept, a dead man."
10, 11. And--thus.
the commandment, which was, &c.--designed
life--through the keeping of it.
I found to be unto death--through breaking it.
For sin--my sinful nature.
taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me--or "seduced me"--drew me aside into the very thing which the commandment forbade.
and by it slew me--"discovered me to myself to be a condemned and gone man" (compare Romans 7:9 , "I died").
12, 13. Wherefore--"So that."
the law is--"is indeed"
good, and the commandment--that one so often referred to, which forbids all lusting.
holy, and just, and good.
13. Was then that which is good made--"Hath then that which is good become"
death unto me? God forbid--that is, "Does the blame of my death lie with the good law? Away with such a thought."
But sin--became death unto me, to the end.
that it might appear sin--that it might be seen in its true light.
working death in--rather, "to"
me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful--"that its enormous turpitude might stand out to view, through its turning God's holy, just, and good law into a provocative to the very things which is forbids." So much for the law in relation to the unregenerate, of whom the apostle takes himself as the example; first, in his ignorant, self-satisfied condition; next, under humbling discoveries of his inability to keep the law, through inward contrariety to it; finally, as self-condemned, and already, in law, a dead man. Some inquire to what period of his recorded history these circumstances relate. But there is no reason to think they were wrought into such conscious and explicit discovery at any period of his history before he "met the Lord in the way"; and though, "amidst the multitude of his thoughts within him" during his memorable three day's blindness immediately after that, such views of the law and of himself would doubtless be tossed up and down till they took shape much as they are here described we regard this whole description of his inward struggles and progress rather as the finished result of all his past recollections and subsequent reflections on his unregenerate state, which he throws into historical form only for greater vividness. But now the apostle proceeds to repel false inferences regarding the law, secondly: Romans 7:14-25 , In the case of the REGENERATE; taking himself here also as the example.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual--in its demands.
but I am carnal--fleshly incapable of yielding spiritual obedience.
sold under sin--enslaved to it. The "I" here, though of course not the regenerate, is neither the unregenerate, but the sinful principle of the renewed man, as is expressly stated in Romans 7:18 .
15, 16. For, &c.--better, "For that which I do I know not"; that is, "In obeying the impulses of my carnal nature I act the slave of another will than my own as a renewed man?"
for, &c.--rather, "for not what I would (wish, desire) that do I, but what I hate that I do."
16. If then I do that which I would not--"But if what I would not that I do,"
I consent unto the law that it is good--"the judgment of my inner man going along with the law."
17. Now then it is no more I--my renewed self.
that do it--"that work it."
but sin which dwelleth in me--that principle of sin that still has its abode in me. To explain this and the following statements, as many do (even BENGEL and THOLUCK), of the sins of unrenewed men against their better convictions, is to do painful violence to the apostle's language, and to affirm of the unregenerate what is untrue. That coexistence and mutual hostility of "flesh" and "spirit" in the same renewed man, which is so clearly taught in Romans 8:4 , &c., and in Galatians 5:16 , &c., is the true and only key to the language of this and the following verses. (It is hardly necessary to say that the apostle means not to disown the blame of yielding to his corruptions, by saying, "it is not he that does it, but sin that dwelleth in him." Early heretics thus abused his language; but the whole strain of the passage shows that his sole object in thus expressing himself was to bring more vividly before his readers the conflict of two opposite principles, and how entirely, as a new man--honoring from his inmost soul the law of God--he condemned and renounced his corrupt nature, with its affections and lusts, its stirrings and its outgoings, root and branch).
18. For, &c.--better, "For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is in my flesh, any good."
for to will--"desire."
is present with me; but how to perform that which is good--the supplement "how," in our version, weakens the statement.
I find not--Here, again, we have the double self of the renewed man; "In me dwelleth no good; but this corrupt self is not my true self; it is but sin dwelling in my real self, as a renewed man."
19, 21. For, &c.--The conflict here graphically described between a self that "desires" to do good and a self that in spite of this does evil, cannot be the struggles between conscience and passion in the unregenerate, because the description given of this "desire to do good" in Romans 7:22 is such as cannot be ascribed, with the least show of truth, to any but the renewed.
22. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man--"from the bottom of my heart." The word here rendered "delight" is indeed stronger than "consent" in Romans 7:16 ; but both express a state of mind and heart to which the unregenerate man is a stranger.
23. But I see another--it should be "a different"
warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members--In this important verse, observe, first, that the word "law" means an inward principle of action, good or evil, operating with the fixedness and regularity of a law. The apostle found two such laws within him; the one "the law of sin in his members," called (in Galatians 5:17 Galatians 5:24 ) "the flesh which lusteth against the spirit," "the flesh with the affections and lusts," that is, the sinful principle in the regenerate; the other, "the law of the mind," or the holy principle of the renewed nature. Second, when the apostle says he "sees" the one of these principles "warring against" the other, and "bringing him into captivity" to itself, he is not referring to any actual rebellion going on within him while he was writing, or to any captivity to his own lusts then existing. He is simply describing the two conflicting principles, and pointing out what it was the inherent property of each to aim at bringing about. Third, when the apostle describes himself as "brought into captivity" by the triumph of the sinful principle of his nature, he clearly speaks in the person of a renewed man. Men do not feel themselves to be in captivity in the territories of their own sovereign and associated with their own friends, breathing a congenial atmosphere, and acting quite spontaneously. But here the apostle describes himself, when drawn under the power of his sinful nature, as forcibly seized and reluctantly dragged to his enemy's camp, from which he would gladly make his escape. This ought to settle the question, whether he is here speaking as a regenerate man or the reverse.
24. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?--The apostle speaks of the "body" here with reference to "the law of sin" which he had said was "in his members," but merely as the instrument by which the sin of the heart finds vent in action, and as itself the seat of the lower appetites and he calls it "the body of this death," as feeling, at the moment when he wrote, the horrors of that death ( Romans 6:21 , and Romans 7:5 ) into which it dragged him down. But the language is not that of a sinner newly awakened to the sight of his lost state; it is the cry of a living but agonized believer, weighed down under a burden which is not himself, but which he longs to shake off from his renewed self. Nor does the question imply ignorance of the way of relief at the time referred to. It was designed only to prepare the way for that outburst of thankfulness for the divinely provided remedy which immediately follows.
25. I thank God--the Source.
through Jesus Christ--the Channel of deliverance.
So then--to sum up the whole matter.
with the mind--the mind indeed.
I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin--"Such then is the unchanging character of these two principles within me. God's holy law is dear to my renewed mind, and has the willing service of my new man; although that corrupt nature which still remains in me listens to the dictates of sin."
Note, (1) This whole chapter was of essential service to the Reformers in their contendings with the Church of Rome. When the divines of that corrupt church, in a Pelagian spirit, denied that the sinful principle in our fallen nature, which they called "Concupiscence," and which is commonly called "Original Sin," had the nature of sin at all, they were triumphantly answered from this chapter, where--both in the first section of it, which speaks of it in the unregenerate, and in the second, which treats of its presence and actings in believers--it is explicitly, emphatically, and repeatedly called "sin." As such, they held it to be damnable. (See the Confessions both of the Lutheran and Reformed churches). In the following century, the orthodox in Holland had the same controversy to wage with "the Remonstrants" (the followers of Arminius), and they waged it on the field of this chapter. (2) Here we see that Inability is consistent with Accountability. (See Romans 7:18 , Galatians 5:17 ). "As the Scriptures constantly recognize the truth of these two things, so are they constantly united in Christian experience. Everyone feels that he cannot do the things that he would, yet is sensible that he is guilty for not doing them. Let any man test his power by the requisition to love God perfectly at all times. Alas! how entire our inability! Yet how deep our self-loathing and self-condemnation!" [HODGE]. (3) If the first sight of the Cross by the eye of faith kindles feelings never to be forgotten, and in one sense never to be repeated--like the first view of an enchanting landscape--the experimental discovery, in the latter stages of the Christian life, of its power to beat down and mortify inveterate corruption, to cleanse and heal from long-continued backslidings and frightful inconsistencies, and so to triumph over all that threatens to destroy those for whom Christ died, as to bring them safe over the tempestuous seas of this life into the haven of eternal rest--is attended with yet more heart--affecting wonder draws forth deeper thankfulness, and issues in more exalted adoration of Him whose work Salvation is from first to last ( Romans 7:24 Romans 7:25 ). (4) It is sad when such topics as these are handled as mere questions of biblical interpretation or systematic theology. Our great apostle could not treat of them apart from personal experience, of which the facts of his own life and the feelings of his own soul furnished him with illustrations as lively as they were apposite. When one is unable to go far into the investigation of indwelling sin, without breaking out into an, "O wretched man that I am!" and cannot enter on the way of relief without exclaiming "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord," he will find his meditations rich in fruit to his own soul, and may expect, through Him who presides in all such matters, to kindle in his readers or hearers the like blessed emotions ( Romans 7:24 Romans 7:25 ). So be it even now, O Lord!


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May 7th 1901. G. John Watson Esq. , Ogden, Utah. Dear Brother Watson:- Can you not find out by looking at the letter-book of the Utah Loan & Trust Co. , something regarding the note issued by the Ogden Investment Go. It seems to me that Brother Stevens certainly would copy his let¬ter written to me on this subject at the time that he enclosed me the note of $15,000 and that he would be apt to state in the letter the date of the note and in whose favor it was issued. I am anxious to got the necessary data so as to have a duplicate note made out. I have received a letter from Judge Rolapp on this matter and I am desirous of helping him close it up at an early date. I really feel however that we ought to make sure and not issue a duplicate note in the wrong name; should we do so I am afraid that there may be some complications later on. Hoping to hear from you soon, I am as ever, Yours sincerely,
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