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Aurora Fox Valley Inn
114 rooms, lounge, and restaurant. Laundry, large outdoor pool, and game room. Free continental breakfast.
Motel 6 - Aurora
118 units convenient to I-88. Major credit cards accepted.
Aurora Historic Districts/Aurora Historic Preservation Commission
Tour the Near Eastside (350 homes dating from the 1800s), Stolp Island, Westside and Riddle Highlands, two of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Bicycle Trails - Aurora
More than 35 miles of trails, from Aurora to Crystal Lake, pass through scenic landscapes. Routes include the Fox River, Virgil Gilman and Red Oak Trails, and the Illinois Prairie Path.
Fox River Games Paintball
Bring a group of friends to play a round of paintball at Fox River Games. Open play or "walk-on" play is recreational play for all ages (age restrictions) and skill levels. Play as an individual or play in groups. Typically we are open every weekend Saturday and Sunday and during the summer we operate on Wednesdays and Fridays too. Please check our website for our operating schedule and specific hours of operation.
Oakhurst Forest Preserve
Explore the acres of woods and lakes, with scenic trails, shelters and views of Aurora and Chicago's skyline.
Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple of Greater Chicago
This temple is one of only three Sri Venkateswara Hindu temples in the United States, constructed by Native American artisans.
Grand Army of the Republic Hall
Built in 1878 from funds raised by the people of Aurora, this structure was originally built as a monument to Aurora's Civil War veterans and as a shrine to their fallen comrades.
Phillips Park
Located on over 325 acres including a 28-acre fishing lake with a one-mile multiple use trail and a restored prairie grass development. The remains of the extinct elephant-like mastodon were found in this lake in the 1930s. Attractions include a life-size sculpture of a mastodon at the Mastodon Gallery, the gorgeous Sunken Garden, an 18-hole golf course and driving range, a zoo, war memorials, a winter recreation area and a 8,000-square-foot BMX & Skate Park.
Phillips Park Zoo
Established in 1915, this free zoo is open daily, year round. Exhibits include bald eagles, wolves, mountain lions, foxes, otters, elk, goats, llamas, turkeys and peacocks.
Sunken Garden
View the spectacular display of 15,000 flowers of 15 varieties, plus a three-tiered fountain and the Four Seasons statues that complement this exquisite English garden.
Aurora Area Architecture
The Aurora area features diverse architectural styles, including designs by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Bruce Goff and George Grant Elmslie. The area is also home to one of the largest collections of Sears mail order homes.
Aurora Historical Society.
This local history research archives houses historic photos, books, documents and maps covering Aurora's history from the 1830s to the present. Open by appointment only.
Riverfront Playhouse
This popular local theater group performs original plays, musicals, murder mysteries, comedies and children's theater.
Swimming Stones
This kinetic water sculpture, created by Christian Tobin, combines art with the law of physics to enable giant stones to rock, spin and swivel on a cushion of water.
Luigi's Pizza and Fun Center
Enjoy the fun here that includes laser tag, an arcade room and great pizza.
Vaughn Athletic Center and Indoor Water Park
The Vaughan Athletic Center is dedicated to fitness excellence with quality equipment and programs designed to offer members the best value for their fitness dollar. The newest facility in the Fox Valley Park District is the Vaughan Athletic Center located on Indian Trail near Orchard Road on the far west side of Aurora. The Vaughan Athletic Center features 225,000 square feet of athletic, fitness, and aquatic fun. The Vaughan Athletic Center is home to an aquatic center with three indoor pools. The aquatic center offers lap swimming, diving boards, warm water therapy, swim lessons, and aquatic fitness classes. In addition, there is an indoor water park featuring two water slides, a lazy river, and spray and play areas. In the Vaughan Athletic Center's 10,000-square-foot, full-service fitness center, members can use a wide variety of equipment, attend the Fox Valley area's best group exercise classes, and receive personalized, one-on-one help from certified trainers. This year-round indoor water park has tube slides, zero-depth entry and interactive water play.
Aurora University
This university boasts a beautiful quad, and features the Schingoethe Center and Dunham Gallery of student art.
Chasers Laser Tag
Join in a game of state-of-the-art laser tag.
Randall/Orchard Road Corridor
These rapidly growing roads stretching through Aurora, North Aurora and Batavia are full of shopping and restaurant surprises.
Blackberry Farm
Go on a one of a kind country adventure you'll never forget! Become pioneers for a day on a real 1800s farm and village. Miniature train rides, pony rides, petting zoo, pioneer craft demonstrations, and special events. In the Discovery Barn see chickens, sheep, piglets, baby goats and more.
Copley Theatre
This theatre offers affordable, live entertainment, comedy, concerts, dance and family shows. Group discounts/theatre rentals; perfect for meetings, performances, fundraisers and banquets.
Aurora Skate Center
Let Aurora Skate Center share the joy of roller skating in a family-friendly environment. They pride themselves with offering something for everyone, from the little ones to adults who have been skating for years. Home of the Aurora 88s, Aurora Skate Center takes pride in their professional-quality hardwood maple "floating" floor. On Mondays they host a live organ-music dance session with Frank Pellico, organist for the Chicago Blackhawks, playing the only triple-deck Hammond X-66 Pipe Organ (w/ 26-ranks of pipes) in the country. See Friday and Saturday night on the "Daily Calendar" for "Fresh Fridays" and "Old vs. New School Saturdays!" See their web site for more events and details.
Ultimate Sports Dome
This sports spot features go-karts, batting cages, miniature golf and an indoor driving range.


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This is what I did today! Hard to see? It's boxes (and boxes and boxes) of folded, addressed, stamped, and stuffed envelopes to our mailing list which I am now in charge of "sealing" so that we can mail them out bright and early on February 23 to announce the release of our 2007 Vintage! AND, our updated spiffy new website! Chantico.
Well, it's a quiet time at the winery - that is, it has been quiet until the past two weeks. We are getting ready to release our 2007 Vintage on February 23. AND, with the help of fabulous Mark Gorman of Stimulent LLC, our website will be completely updated. It will look and feel much the same, but be quite a bit easier to navigate and... it will have video, so you can see what it is that we do! We hope 2010 has been good for you so far. We are pleased with the amount of rainfall we have received (our well is even happier) and hope for a few more storms before the bloom of Spring and the cycle begins once again! Chantico.
This is the fun part of harvest - getting down and dirty in the tank! Tom is shoveling out the berries that will be composted - the wine from this tank went into barrels this morning. Lucy and Ethel introduced the world to stomping on the grapes - we just continue the tradition! Chantico.
No, not that kind! A wine press. And the Press wanted to tell Tank #6 that it has no right to complain. How would it like it's belly filled to the brim then inflated? Talk about a belly ache. And not just one time but for each tank separately and each barrel fermentation. So, Tank #6, chew on that for a bit and stop yer bellyachin! xxoo The Press
One of our cherished customers, Paul DePalma from Dayton, Ohio, brought us this..... okay, no he didn't bring us this catamaran, but he did bring us this fantastic photo showing Paul enjoying a glass of Anomaly on the Anomaly! And although we'd like to say he named it for the wine, he actually did what we did, he pulled out his Thesaurus and began searching for a name. And, like us, when he landed on Anomaly, he said, "that's it!" and like us, hopefully went to dinner! Thank you Paul for the great shot and for the personal delivery of the photo! Chantico!
So, as I was saying, I was feeling stuffed and taking me to the doc is definately NOT an option, so as you can see, the hose that had been filling me up had to be diverted directly to my source (I always preferred the top-down rather than bottom-up type of feeding). But since I'm so tall (and I can hold 2200 gallons, yep, I'm a big guy) it took THREE people to carry my feeding tube up the ladder. I'm tired just watching them haul that thing up. But they got it up and in and all I can say is that I feel so much better now. And we're back to a smooth start to the afternoon.... oh oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Chantico from Tank #6.
Tank #6
So this morning, all seemed to be going smoothly (never a good sign). Donuts and fruit were out, grapes were making their way from Indee's Vineyard across the road to the winery, the mood was upbeat and, as Tank #6, all I had to do was stand there looking all pretty and shiny in my stainless jacket (which is actually called a "jacket") and receive the fruits of their labor. And as I said, all was going well.... at 7 am that is. Then, about 8:30-ish, I felt full, stuffed, uncomfortable. Yet, how could this be? I hadn't eaten all year and we were just beginning to fill my belly.... what the heck was going on? I would have taken a peek outside if my darned stainless legs weren't so heavy, AND cemented to the tank room floor with bolts the size of cigars. But I heard the people outside staying, "stop, it's backing up...." they were onto me....
It's our fifth harvest morning - but don't get confused, it's not 5 days in a row, it's the fifth "call" in stock speak, which I don't, so let me explain! The first day of harvest is truly the first day we pick the fruit off the vines and sort those little berries until we can sort no more and our eyes are bleary and we aren't sure if we are moving or if it's the sorting belt. Then the next time we pick is Harvest Day 2 (but it actually could be a week later - just depends on the grapes and when they are ready which is our winemaker's call - one of the most stressful decisions we think as once the grapes are off the vine, there is no more ripening, no second chances, no more, "hmmm, should we let them hang another day or two....." So we are on our 5th harvest day this morning although harvest began for us on September 17. Hope that makes sense! And now, back to the sorting table! Chantico.
Tomorrow is our third pick day. Want to guess how many pick days we will have? My guess (and it is truly a guess) is 9 - we shall see! My challenge has been creating a Facebook Fan Page for Anomaly. My first try ended up being a Group page which, I have learned, is NOT a Fan Page! So now I am trying to get our "groupies" (love that term!) to become our Fans! If you want to be a fan, you just click the Become a Fan button on the right side of this Blog, and then each time you log into Facebook and go to the Anomaly Vineyards page (the one with the little black logo, NOT the one with the silhouettes of the two people - they are Groupies) you will see photos, video, and just fun stuff about what is going on at the winery.
What is the diff between this Blog and the Facebook Fan Page - well I just don't know, but I'm trying to keep up with all the technology of the times, so I thought I'd be remiss if I didn't also have a Fan Page! I mean, dinner conversation always ends up with Facebook talk - and we want to at least appear to be with it!
Hope this beautiful Fall season finds you all well and happy! Chantico.
Today was (almost) flawless. Usually when harvest begins, we can count on a glitch - the power won't go on, the sorting belt has an issue, something.... But today, everything went smoothly. We brought in about 4 tons of fruit and hand-sorted it - twice: once before the destemmer and once after, We celebrated with a bottle of champagne and our the annual revealing of the Harvest T-Shirts at the end of a long day. Tomorrow we do it again (well, not the champagne part!). Harvest is here! Chantico.
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John 14:27
July 25, 1971
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We come now to John 14 and our message of this morning is Part 4 of the same message. It's kind of a funny thing about this message; originally it was just one, then it was two, then three now it's four. It seemsas though the truths that are in this particular portion just keep opening up and we find it very difficult to get all the way through it in any less than 4 messages, however, since today we'll be dealing with only one verse we have a good shot at it. And hopefully we'll make it.
In the Bible there is a very interesting word in the Hebrew and that word is one that's perhaps very common to you, certainly to us after being in the Holy Land and it's the word Shalom. Shalom is the word that in its purest meaning translates peace. But shalom does not simply mean peace, the absence of trouble, it means peace that is everything good. Shalom is the idea of that which makes for the good of man. When someone says, Shalom or Peace unto you, it doesn't mean I hope you don't get into any trouble, it means I hope you have all the highest good coming your way. It's a positive word. Now most people in our world don't have any idea about the positive aspect of peace. They're having enough trouble just trying to find the negative aspect, that is they're trying to find a place where there's no trouble. They're trying to just find the absence of trouble let alone the positive good that is the true meaning of the word peace. In all over the world these definitions of peace indicate this. For example in Ecuador and Bolivia there is a tribe of Indians with whom we became very familiar on our ministry in South America called the? Keetua Indians. The Keetua Indians describe peace this way; peace is translated to sit down in one's heart. To sit down in one's heart. Instead of running around in the midst of constant anxieties of life, peace to the Keetua Indian is just to sit down and be comfortable with himself. Now that is in a sense a beautiful way to put it, however, it leaves us with just the negatives. It doesn't tell us about anything that is outgoing; it's strictly just sitting there sort of at peace or still in your own heart. The Cole Indians of Mexico define peace as a quiet heart. The Biuli people of West Africa define peace as having a song in your body, having a song in your body. But perhaps closest to the truth is the Kecktian Indians of Guatemala. And these Indians define peace as, and this is a beautiful definition, quiet goodness. In other words, it is an active thing. It is not just quiet rest at peace in your own heart, having a song in your own body, it is quiet goodness. It is the goodness of life. It is a positive rather than just a negative. It is not just the absence of noise it is the presence of calm and it's an aggressive kind of calm. Now when you talk about this kind of thing you're getting a little bit closer to biblical peace although you still haven't gotten there. But God had it right when He chose the word shalom because that means a peace that is a positive peace. It is the peace of goodness communicated. It is not just the absence of trouble. In fact, friends, the absence of trouble has absolutely nothing to do with biblical peace. Whether you have trouble or don't have trouble has nothing to do with peace in the biblical sense. In all of the other definitions of other tribes and so forth that we've mentioned basically the idea of peace is the absence of trouble. The biblical idea of peace has nothing to do with whether there's trouble or not trouble. The biblical idea of peace is simply the highest kind of goodness and it may or may not be related to trouble. It's something like what Paul said when he said, "Whatsoever state I am therewith to be," what? "Content" It didn't matter about the circumstances. It's also something like Paul said ‑‑ James said, pardon me, when he said "Count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptation." In other words, thereis a certain kind of peace that is totally unrelated to circumstances. It is a goodness of life that doesn't ever get touched by what happens on the outside. It's like the apostle Paul singing in the Philippian jail. With all of the adverse circumstances that were there, all of the horror of such a place and yet he could sing with joy in his heart, being confident that there was goodness involved, that God was being gracious toward him, he could actually exude this kind of goodness and when the opportunity arose he actually communicated that goodness to the Philippian jailor, it resulted in his salvation and that of his entire family.
Now where does a man find this kind of peace that's not just the absence of trouble but it's kind of a positive goodness? Where does he look for it? Is it even available? Well, without beggaring the point let me just say that you're certainly aware of what men are looking for today, isn't it? Peace. Constantly, incessantly they search for it. Unfortunately, they don't find it. Where can man find a peace that has nothing to do with whether he's in seriously gross kind of circumstances or whether he's in outwardly joyous circumstances? Where can he find a peacewith no sorrow or no danger or no trouble or no suffering can reduce it all? Where can he find a peace that is positive? A peace which rather than being effected by the circumstances affects the circumstances? A negative peace is affected by the circumstances, a positive peace affects them. So that the peace overrules the circumstances whereas the peace that the world gives is overruled by the circumstances. Well, we're going to see it and it's here in John 14, very obviously in verse 27.
Now as we come to verse 27 just keep in mind that in this whole chapter Jesus is comforting the disciples with a marvelous legacy as He anticipates His crucifixion in the coming dawn. He's about to die and He leaves them with this legacy. They're broken hearted because He's going away. It seems to them that everything has gone wrong. And so in deepest love Jesus gives to them a legacy, a divine, unique and permanentone involving five supernatural promises and they are to change their sorrow into joy.
The first one, you'll remember, was in verse 16 and 17 He promised them a supernatural helper or comforter. The second one in verses 18 and 19, He promised them a supernatural life that would make them sensitive to God's dimension. Thirdly, in verses 20 through 24 He promised them a supernatural union, that they would become one with Christ and with the Father. And He emphasizes the fact that a man can only be one with the Father and one with Christ when he loves Jesus Christ genuinely. Then we saw that He promised a supernatural teacher in verses 25 and 26, a resident truth teacher. First of all He would instruct the disciples in the recording of Scripture so that they would be unerring in their transcripts. And so when the Word of God was originally written the promise of verse 26 is that they would write it without error. That they would remember exactly verbatim every word that Jesus spoke, they would have total recall by divine inspiration. But it also moved past that and the idea here is secondarily is that we shall be taught of the Spirit. Not in the sense of revelation, you'll re ember, but in the sense of what? Illumination. No longer does the Spirit give us revelation, He illuminates the revelation He already gave. The revelation is the Word of God, He is now illuminating us. And that's what John meant in I John 2:20; "But ye have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things." In other words the unction is the Holy Spirit, verse 27; "The anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you," that's the Spirit, "ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." In other words, we also have the indwelling Spirit to be our teacher. And you'll remember also that the teacher uses the Word of God and illuminates it to our mind. So Jesus promises them a supernatural helper, a supernatural life, a supernatural union, a supernatural teacher. Then the last of
His supernatural promises is in verse 27.
And we'll see it, it's very simple, very basic, I'm not going to say anything to you this morning that's profound, the verse is so simple you could just read it and leave it at that. There are some things we would like to say in terms of comparative passages and to summarize. But this is a simple truth. Coming to verse 27 He promises them a supernatural peace. Verse 27; "Peace I leave with you, My peace," must be supernatural if it's His, "I give unto you. Not as the world giveth give I unto you, let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid." Now in that simple verse which is so self explanatory we have what really amounts to a divine gift to kind of superintend life attitudes so that all of the other gifts can really function. This is the gift that enables them to hold the wildest fear and pause. That enables them to still a riot. That enables them to hush a cry. That enables them to rejoice in pain and trial. That enables them to sing in the middle of suffering. This is the overruling attitude gift that when this is right effects all the others, and how we are affected by them. This is a promise of a positive peace. A peace that is never affected by circumstances but a peace which in turn affects circumstances. Now there are four features of this peace in this verse and I want you to see them this morning.
The nature of the peace, the source of it, the contrast of it, and the enjoyment of it. The nature, source, contrast, and enjoyment of supernatural peace.
First of all the nature of peace, what is this peace? When He says peace I leave with you, that's a legacy as He's going, what kind of peace is it? In fact, what is its nature? Well, in the New Testament there are two types of peace. One is objective and the other is subjective. One has to do with your standing before God, the other has to do with your experience or your living. One of them has to do with your relation to God and the other has to do with your relation to life as a believer. And you never have the second subjective peace until you have the first objective peace. First of all, let's look at that objective peace. In Romans chapter 5 and you'll need to look at that for a moment, we're introduced to this objective kind of peace. Now man has sinned, obviously, the whole process having begun with Adam and Eve, and every man borninto the world is in open rebellion against God. All of us are at war with God. We come into the world fighting against God. There is a rebellion going on. One of the things that happen immediately when you receive Jesus Christ is, now mark this, that the rebellion ends, the war is over. You and God are no longer enemies, you become friends. Therefore, peace is made on an objective basis between you and God. Romans chapter 5 verse 1; "Therefore, being justified by faith, it that is we have been by faith redeemed, declared righteous, "Immediately we have what? Peace--what kind of peace? With God. In other words, the war is over. The war is over through the Lord Jesus Christ we have come into the knowledge of God, our sins are forgiven, rebellion ceases, the war is over, we have peace with God. You can compare verse 10, for example, if when we were - and what's the next word? Enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more being reconciled we shall be saved by His life. In other words, we were enemies against God, we fought against God, everything we did militated against God's principles, we were antagonistic toward God. We were enemies of God in every single sense of the word. But when we came to Jesus Christ we became at peace with God, it's as if God was on one side, we were on the other side, Christ filled the gap, took the hand of God ‑ the hand of man redeemed and placed them in together into the same grip. We have now been brought together through Jesus Christ. Christ has made peace by the blood of His cross. And so God and man estranged have been reconciled. And Paul says ‑ that's really our message, II Cor. 5, that's the ministry of reconciliation. That God was reconciling man in Christ, Christ takes God and man and brings them together by virtue of His act on the cross and His resurrection. So then, there's an objective peace that is called peace with God, mark that, peace withGod. We are no longer enemies of God. We are friends. Now that was God's wonderful purpose in salvation. Another verse comes to my mind in Colossians 1:20, listen to this; it says, Christ, in reference here, "having made peace through the blood of His cross by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself." Verse 21, "And you that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight," and to whom does Christ present you? To God. And so Paul there says it is indeed Christ that reconciles us to God and we are at peace, no longer enemies but friends. Beyond friends, the Bible says we are even sons. And I think that's something of what the psalmist had in mind in Psalm 85:10 whenhe made the classic statement, "Righteousness and peace have kissed each other." You see, without righteousness there's no peace with God. A sinful, vile, wicked man cannot come into the presence of a holy God, there must be something that occurs to take that sinful man and make him righteous before he can be at peace before God. And that's exactly what Christ did, dying for his sin, imputing His righteousness to that man, that man became righteous therefore, righteousness was first and then peace. And thus did the psalmist say ‑ righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Without two you can't kiss. And so they've got to both be together.
Now then righteousness brings peace. And that's peace with God. But there's an interesting result to this and this is kind of a footnote, when we have peace with God we also have peace with other men who have peacewith God. So there is a sense in which immediately upon coming into fellowship with God and we are no longer enemies but friends, we automatically are also at peace with other believers who themselves have been reconciled with God. And this is Paul's point in Ephesians 4:13; and we studied this just a couple of weeks ago on Sunday night. But he says in 13, "Till we all come to the unity of the faith of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ, no more tossed about, etc., verse 15, and speaking the truth in love and together growing up in all things into Christ." Verse 16, the whole body fitly framed together, etc. Then in verse 17, he says, "Therefore, do not walk as the heathen walk." In other words, we're different, we are a new breed, we're one with God and we're one with each other. In Ephesians chapter 2, we see this again made clear, "He is our peace who hath made both one, Jew and Gentile, who were estrangedalso and enemies." He has brought together, verse 15 says, "To make one new man that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby." And so it is that we are not only reconciled to God and peace with God is made but peace is also made with every other man. Look at it like this. If you have two men who are at peace with God those two men are also at peace with each other, aren't they? And that's the point. And so there is a positional peace, that is the peace with God that Paul speaks about, objective ‑‑ call it phase one peace if you like. And it deals with your standing before God and it affects your relationship to other believers. So it is that we have peace with God. James mentions it in 2:23, 1 think it is, and "The Scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God." And so peace with God is made and we become friends with God. Now that's the first kind of peace.
But that's not what Jesus is talking about here. In verse 27. That's phase one peaceand that belongs in Romans 5. Verse 27 is phase two peace. It is the experiential peace; it is the subjective tranquility of the soul that Jesus is getting at here. It is the settled, positive peace that affects the circumstances of life that He's speaking about. It is that peace which is so aggressive that rather than being victimized by events, it attacks those events and gobbles them up. It is an aggressive peace. It is a supernatural, permanent, positive, no side effects, divine tranquilizer. It's the peace that Paul speaks about in Philippians 4:7 a very familiar verse but one that we need to consider, Philippians 4:7, listen to this; "And the peace of God," not peace with God but the peace of God, "which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." This is not peace with God this is the peace of God. This is experiential, experimental, the inner peace of the soul, the inside tranquility, the aggressive goodness that attacks the situation and devours the trouble and turns it into joy. This peace is the smile of God reflected in the soul of His child, this is the heart's calm after Calvary's storm. It is the firm conviction that He who spared not His own Son will also along with Him freely give us what? All things. It is the peace that says My God shall supply all your needs. It is the peace that doesn't make sense in the midst of the circumstances because it is a peace that isn't based on circumstances and the reason Paul says it passes all understanding is because it doesn't seem reasonable that such peace could exist in the midst of problems and troubles like Christians go through. It can't be figured out on a human level, it's divine supernatural peace. And we really can't grasp all there is to it. No man can. It doesn't make sense; it's the kind you can't understand. Because it is not like the world's peace that which is determined by circumstances but rather the very opposite ‑ it attacks the circumstances.
You'll notice at the end of verse 7, Philippians 4, it says that this peace and this is a fantastic thought, will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Now that's a very, very deep thought. How can peace guard your heart and your mind? The Philippians were used to seeing Roman guards, everybody in that part of the world was, and they were aware of a sentinel guarding responsibly the area where he was commissioned to guard but far more wonderful and undoubtedly in the mind of Paul is the promise that God's peace is going to mount guard and stand at the door of my mind and my heart on guard. And the word for guard there is not the normal simple word for keep, guard and watch it is the word that is used in a military sense to stand at a post and guard against the aggression of an enemy. The very peace of God, the peace that I leave you that Christ talks about, is going to stand guard over my heart. It's going to prevent worry from corroding my heart. It's going to stand guard over my mind, it's going to prevent unworthy thoughts from tearing up my mind. Peace is on guard in my life. And the Christian has entered that impregnable citadel which no one can dislodge him out of. And the name of the fortress is Christ and the guard is peace. And this is just the peace that men are seeking for. And it can't come til first of all the objective peace comes; until you are at peace with God you can't have the peace of God. Men seek a condition in which they have no unsatisfied desires gnawing at their heart. They want present peace. Men seek a condition where there are no strings of conscience dipped in the poison of past sins tearing at them and torturing them hour by hour, they want also a past peace. And men seek a condition with no foreboding fear of the future unknown and the dark tomorrow, they want a future peace. Men want a present, past and future peace. And that's exactly the kind of peace that Jesus left with us. It's a past peace in the sense of there's no guilt because the past is forgiven, right? And Paul can say, forgetting those things which are behind. It's a present peace because there is no unsatisfaction; the present is totally fulfilled in Jesus Christ. It's a future peace because there is no fear, the future is forecast, our destiny is determined eternally and we have that security in the indwelling Spirit. That's what man is looking for, a past, present and future peace, and that's exactly what Jesus gives. But He gives it only to those who have peace with God, who have ended their rebellion and by faith in Jesus Christ come into a reconciled relationship with God and thereby are qualifiers for receiving the peace of Jesus Christ, the peace of God.
That's the kind of peace He's talking about in verse 27. Now how do I get that peace? Number two ‑ the source of peace. The source of peace, "My peace I," what? "Give unto you." The source of this peace is Christ. He gives it. God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity is the only source of peace. There is no peace anywhere else. There is only the transient peace of a song in your body or of sitting down in your own heart or of being tranquil in the midst of positive circumstances which is a pretty fleeting kind of peace. It really means you've probably shut off your brain, got drunk or gotten stoned on drugs or you've failed to recognize the obvious. Because in the purest sense there is no real peace in this world. And Paul had it straight in I Cor. 14:33 when he said, "God is not the author of confusion but of peace." There is no peace that God didn't author. God is the author of peace. I Cor. 14:33. And naturally, if God is the author of peacethen a godless man in a godless world is in a state of turmoil.
God alone brings peace. In fact, in the New Testament Hebrews 13:20, God is called the God of peace. Philippians 4:9 He is called the God of peace. I Thess. 5:23 God is called the very God of peace. And then Jesus Christ also in the New Testament is seen as the one who gives peace. In Hebrews 7:2, for example, He's called the king of peace. In Acts 10, I think it's verse 36, Peter says, "The word which God sent untothe children of Israel preaching peace by Jesus Christ." Preaching peace by Jesus Christ. II Thess. I think also in 3:16, "Now the Lord of peace Himself, give you peace." And so Christ is seen as the dispenser of peace. Not only that the Holy Spirit is a giver of peace, Galatians 5:22 says that one of the fruits of the Spirit is love, joy‑‑what? Peace. Peace has a divine source. God is the God of peace. Christ is the Lord of peace. The Holy Spirit dispenses peace as a gift. And this is the key, peace comes through God and godless men can't know peace. They can know a momentary tranquility and it comes out of positive circumstances and a little bit of ignorance mixed in. Because if a man really knew what destiny awaited him without God there wouldn't be one split second of peace. So it is only a peace of ignorance. If there is any real peace and I doubt that there is.
Now you'll notice that in every case, also, all the way down through these supernatural promises they're all provided by the Trinity. In fact, they're all provided by the Holy Spirit. Did you notice that? Did you notice that even the beginning the supernatural helper, that's the Holy Spirit, the supernatural life is imparted to us by the Spirit, the supernatural union takes place as the Spirit places us into the body of Christ. The supernatural teacher is the Holy Spirit; the supernatural peace is a gift of the Spirit. The Spirit's ministry is all wrapped up in this. And isn't this exactly what Jesus said? He said, here's this whole legacy and when did He tell them they would receive it? When? On the day of Pentecost and on the day of Pentecost who was it that came? It was the Holy Spirit. This whole legacy is tied up with the coming of the Holy Spirit. He was to provide it all. This shows you the importance of the Spirit's ministry. You say, ‑ Well, wait a minute, you said it was Christ's peace, why is it that the Holy Spirit is giving it? You said it was Christ providing the life, it was Christ sending the teacher, it was Christ providing the union because we love Him, He comes and abides with us and He comes with the Father to dwell in us, if it's all Christ what's the Spirit doing giving it out? Listen, did you read again John 16:14? Listen to it, "He shall glorify Me because He shall receive of Mine and show it unto you." You know what the Holy Spirit's ministry is? To take the things of Christ and give them to us. It is Christ that promised us all those things, it is the Spirit of God who takes the things of Christ and gives them to us. So He says you'll have all of this and it will all come through the Holy Spirit. And so in the New Testament, sometimes it talks about Christ being the one who gives peace, God giving peace, the Spirit giving peace, it's all the same.
Now notice He says "My peace" and this is really the key to the supernatural aspect of it, it is His own personal peace. It is the same deep, rich, peace that stilled His heart in the midst of mockers and haters and murderers and traitors and everything else that Christ faced, it is the very personal peace of Jesus Christ Himself that He gives to us. It's been tested, friends, it was His own shield, His own helmet, it served Him in battle. And He gave it to us when He left. The peace which Christ desires to characterize us who are His disciples is the same peace that He had. It should give us the same serenity in danger, the same calm in trouble, the same freedom from anxiety, it should give us that same kind of positive, aggressive peace that reaches out and tackles troubles like they were a challenge not a threat. It's this kind of unruffled serenity that was so obviously a characteristic of Jesus. And you know, His disciples could see it and those who loved Him could see it. He had a calm about ‑Him that was just uncanny. It was unnatural. It was inhuman. It was supernatural. In the midst of unbelievable problems He was a rock, He was so calm and so collected and you can imagine it was familiar to His friends, but you can imagine how it drove His enemies crazy, to see someone who was that calm. In fact in John 19 Jesus appeared before Pilate and He was so calm and so serene and so controlled and so at peace that Pilate became greatly disturbed. And in almost a point of frenzy, Pilate says ‑ don't you know that I have the power to kill you or to release you and Jesus was just standing there and it was irritating Pilate and finally, he just yelled and said ‑ don't you know what I can do to you? And in perfect peace Jesus replied and said ‑ Yes, you can't do anything to Me unless the Father let you do it. Now that's the kind of peace that Jesus is talking about. That's the kind of peace that He gives to us. It's undistracted fearlessness and it's translated trust. It's a matter of believing God. And I can only think of one occasion in the entire life of Christ recorded in the four gospels where Jesus showed anything but peace and that was in the ‑‑ by the tomb of Lazarus when He made the statement ‑ Now is My soul troubled. And He began to anticipate His death. And then in Gethsemane when He sweat great drops of blood. And you know why that was a stress? Because those moments on the cross were the moments when He had no peace. And He was anticipating those peaceless moments when He was separated from God. But for every other occasion of His life He lived in a perfect calm, perfect serenity, an inner experiential peace and it's the same peace that He gives you. Now that's the source of peace. Christ to you brought by the Holy Spirit.
Now the contrast of peace. It isn't like the world's peace and we've already hinted at this. Verse 27, "Not as the world giveth give I unto you." No, I don't want the world's peace, I mean, that's not worth a hoot. The world's peace, New York Times recently ran an article said that we've had 53 wars in the last 17 years. I'm not talking about skirmishes ‑ wars. 53 wars in the last 17 years. 21 of them have been major size wars, fair sized wars. Since 36 B.C. 14,553 wars. Before World War II we had an average of 2.61 new wars every year. But since we've past World War II and we've now entered the enlightened scientific age we now have 3 new warsevery year. More then we had before we got so smart. And the New York Times closed the article by saying ‑"Peace is a fable." end quote. Man doesn't know any peaceat all; he's not even at peace in his house. Houses are shattered and destroyed and torn apart and shredded, no communication, no love, no care, no concern, divorce, the breakup of a family, all kinds of problems I don't even need to go into it, I'm not going to labor the point it's obvious to everybody. There is no answer to peace because man just can't seem to find it. There's no peace in his heart, there's no peace in his home, there's no peace in his schools, there's no peace at his job, there's no peace in his country, there's no peace in his world. And the sham kind of peace that the world offers is the peace of escape from reality. It's the peace of a pill or a bottle or whatever it takes to forget your troubles. It's the peace of not really looking at it. It's the peace of putting your blinderson; it's the peace of going to bed and forgetting it. It's unfulfilling, it's fleeting and it's worthless. And yet men try to hold on to some kind of a mock peace by a thread and they can't. And men today live in a situation of existential shock. They're shocked because they don't understandtheir own being. They don't know what they are, where they're going, what they're going to do when they get there, if they get there. They do not know anything. And troubles mount up, monstrously and man has to finally escape and so we have 25 million alcoholics out of our population and some fast becoming that. And people escaping in anyway possible. I saw a cartoon that said on the bottom., it said ‑ I've got so many troubles that if anything else happens to me it will be two weeks before I can even worry about it. But it piles up and up and up and the bottom never gives away because there's never any escape for any of it because there's no answer. And so he goes to visit the "shrink" the psychologist, you know, the whole bit, or psychonalysist or family counselor or whatever other guy it is and he's got a $35.00 weekly solution that sort of pacifies your conscience. You've got to figure that if I blew $35.00 bucks he's got to have helped me, so maybe you talk yourself into the fact that you feel a little better. After about a year you feel worse, of course. And generally speaking, he represses the real problem until after a year you're sicker than you were when you went. And there is no peace. Man is not going to find peace because he has a theological problem. The reason man can't find peace is theological. It's not emotional. It's not circumstantial. It's not your mother, father, grandmother, you're raised in the church, you had a bad experience when you were a child, your father attacked you or your school teacher hit you too hard, it's not that, your problem if you have no peace in your heart is theological. Because, my friend, when you are at peace with God you have the peace of God. And it's just as simple as Jeremiah 17:9 which says, "The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." Okay, that's a good truth. Jeremiah 17:9, man's heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Now with that in mind I want to show you two verses; Isaiah 48:22 and I think this will answer the problem of why man doesn't know peace. Isaiah 48:22, just listen to this, "There is nopeace saith the Lord," we know that but watch the next statement, "unto the wicked." Did you get that? Man's heart is deceitful above all things, desperately wicked and immediately Isaiah says there is no peace to the wicked. So if man is wicked he can't have peace. You go over to chapter 57 of Isaiah, same book, verse 21; "Thereis no peace, said my God, to the wicked." Same thing again. Clearly outlining the problem. Now when you get over to the book of Jeremiah, this was Jeremiah's problem. Jeremiah was in Judah and problems were rising up fast, great army was coming in to destroy Jerusalem to take them to captivity. And they were scared. And peace was being removed from that land, obviously. There was going to come a destruction like they had never experienced. And listen to what Jeremiah says in chapter 6 verse 14; "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace‑peace." In other words, they tried to patch up their crummy ways and they say peace ‑peace, everything is okay, lots of peace talk, peace ‑ peace ‑"when there is no peace." When the world talks about peace, friends, it's a lie. There is none, there isn't any. When people meet around a table and talk about peace it's a lie there is no peace. Jeremiah says in chapter 8 verse 11, "For they have healed the hurt of my daughter slightly saying peace ‑ peace when there is no peace." Same message. Verse 15, "We looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health but behold trouble." Chapter 14 verse 19; "Hast thou utterly rejected Judah, hast thy soul loathed Zion, why hast thou smitten us and there is no healing for us, we looked for peace and there is no good and for the time of healing and behold trouble." Chapter 16 verse 15, pardon me, verse 5, "Enter not into the house of mourning neither go to lament or bemoan them for I have taken away my peace from this people saith the Lord." You can prayfor world peace, my friend, but the Bible doesn't tell you to do that. And God's not about to answer it. And the reason is because there can be no peace to the wicked. And to pray for world peace anyway is to pray cross grain from what we know is prophetic planning on the part of God. There's not going to be any world peace, there's going to be world war increasing. Now you can pray for individuals to come to peace with God. Jeremiah saw it in Jerusalem. He kept praying and said ‑God, what's going on? And God said ‑ I've taken it away, it's gone, there's no peace. And the peace that we often think about and we hope that this and that's going to bring peace in this world and the president goes to Red China that's going to bring peace and if they have talks in Paris that's going to bring peace and we'll try this and we'll try that and that's going to bring peace. My friends, nothing is going to bring peace. Revelation 6:4 says that when the tribulation begins there's going to be a little tiny period of peace bit after about 312 years down comes the crash and peace will be taken from the earth. Luke 21 says that men's hearts are going to fail them for fear. People will be dropping dead everywhere from heart attacks. And at a faster rate than they are now. The world's peace doesn't exist, it's a lie, it can't exist, no man without Jesus Christ can have any kind of peace and no world without God can ever know peace. And I say, if a man has a moment of peace in this world it's only a camouflage hiding the eternal pressure of God's judgment. So we see the nature and the source and the contrast of peace. The peace the world offers is a lie. It's based purely on circumstances and ignorance and it's not genuine peace at all.
Now the result of peace. "Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid." That statement shows what should be our response to such a promise of peace. He began the chapter with that, verse 1, let not your heart be troubled. He ends this section with some few closing remarks but primarily the discourse is ended in verse 27 with the same statement. We ought to be able to lay hold on this peace. There it is ‑ it's ours. But we must take ahold of it. Isn't it interesting that it says ‑ I give you peace and then He says ‑ let not your heart be troubled? You see, it's peace given but it has to be peace received and applied in our lives. With all the promises we've received, my from all this chapter alone, if we just had John 14 and nothing else in the whole Bible except John 3 to tell us how to get saved, we'd be the happiest people in existence. Just knowing this legacy is ours. With all that kind of promise and with the promise of a calm, untroubled peace to be ours, the very peace of Christ we ought to be able to lay hold on that peace and not go around with troubled hearts all the time. And if you have a troubled heart, my friend, it's because you don't believe God, it's because you don't trust His peace. You don't really think you can make it because you know what anxiety is and turmoil? It's never over present circumstances it's always over anticipation, it's because you haven't paid the bill and you know that sooner or later the roof's coming in. It's always the future that causes the anxieties. Initially. And then of course, there are many whose anxieties come way out of the past. And all of these are under the care of God. He has forgiven the past and the future is guaranteed secure with all your needs supplied. What is there to worry about? Don't let your heart keep on being troubled. Don't let it be afraid. What do you have to fear? So He leaves them peace. The kind of peace that Stephen had as he sank bleeding and bruised under the stones of that cursing mob and lifted up his face and offered a loving, forgiving prayer for his murderers and said ‑ Lay not this sin to their charge, Father. It's Paul's kind of peace that let him be driven out of one city, be dragged almost lifeless out of another city, stripped by robbers, arraigned before ruler after ruler and saying continually - rejoice ever more and again I say rejoice. Tonight we're going to see some of the pictures of the prison in which Paul was a prisoner in Rome and in which his heart rejoiced. Paul had an uncanny peace. In II Cor. 4 and may I add quickly it's the same peace that you and I have, he just applied it. I love this, verse 8 11 Cor. 4; listen, "We are troubled on every side," well, that's quite a claim, right? We have got it bad, "We are troubled on everyside, yet not distressed, we are perplexed but not in despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. We are cast down but not destroyed. Knocked down but never knocked out. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus." We just live a life of dying, dying, dying, all the time. We're delivered unto death, verse 11, but we don't worry about it. Verse 17 he says, "O our light afflictions for just a moment and it works in us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory," and here's the key, "we look not at the things which are seen." We don't look at our problems, "but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, trouble comes and goes but the things that are not seen are eternal." My friends, Paul had it right, he said just get your eyes on the eternal things and the temporal problems don't even matter. Keep your eyes on eternal things.
Well, there they are, five promises. The promise of a super- natural helper, a supernatural life, a supernatural union, a supernatural teacher or instructor and a supernatural peace. Very quickly, let me conclude by saying this. In every case, my friend, all five‑‑are you ready for this? Don't turn your brain off now. This is the key. In every case, all five of these, we must appropriate the gift or the legacy. Now watch what I mean. We have a supernatural helper, right? But we must yield to His help. Paul said, being kept filled with the Holy Spirit. Paul said to the Galatians, "Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." The Spirit is our helper but we must yield to His power. We must follow His leading. We must accept His instruction. "Quench not the Spirit." Then we have been given supernatural life, haven't we? We have been given supernatural life but Paul said, "We are to live that life." Paul said in Romans 6; "So act like those who are alive unto God." If you have a new life, walk in newness of life. In other words, in every case there's an appropriation. We can't sit back and do nothing we've got to attack the Christian life; we've got to go at it full blast. We also have a supernatural union, don't we? We're one with Christ and one with God. But you know, Paul said to the Ephesians, "You've got to uphold that union, you have to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit." Right? We have one Lord, one faith, one Baptism and all those one, one, one in Ephesians 4 but we've got to strive to hang on to that unity. To work to make that unity visible and real. Jesus prayed in John 17, He said; "Father, I thank You that I'm one with You, You're one with Me and we're one with them and they're one with us." And then He prayed; "I pray that they may one with each other." We've got to uphold that unity, that union. And then He promised us a supernatural teacher. My Friends, to have a supernatural teacher is not all of it. Paul said this, "Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." There are a lot of workmen that should be ashamed, you know that. Rightly dividing the word of truth. Study, study, you can't say ‑ Well, Holy Spirit, here I'm going to stand ‑teach me. Boy, I wish we could do that. It would sure simplify things. Study to show yourself approved. Colossians 3, what is it verse 16, 1 think? He says, yes‑‑"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another." We have to strive to be available to be taught to open the word of God that the Spirit might illuminate us.
So, we have a supernatural helper but we have to yield to Him. We have a supernatural life, we need to live that life and mortify the old life and put on the new man and walk in newness of life. We have a supernatural union and we have to up hold that union to glorify Christ. We have to remember Galatians 2:20, "I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me." And let Him live through us. We have a supernatural teacher but we must get in and dig and learn and study the word.
And then, lastly, what we saw this morning, we have a supernatural peace. But you know something, friends? To have that supernatural peace puts the obligation on you to, watch it, exercise that peace. Colossians 3, I'm going to read you this verse ‑ 15, listen to this, are you ready? "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts." Do you see what he says? You have this peace now let it rule. You say ‑ Well, I'd like to let it rule. So, what do I say Okay peace ‑ go, rule! I'll tell you how to let it rule. Watch this. Old Testament truth, Isaiah ‑ "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace," watch this one, "whose mind is," what? "Staid on thee because he trusts in Thee." Do you see that? Perfect peace comes when our focus is off the problem, off the trouble and constantly on Christ, how do you do that? By studying the Word of God and being taught by the Holy Spirit. The peace of God is yours, let it rule. How do you let it rule? By concentrating on God's truth and the person of Jesus Christ in the, Word of God. And peace will rule your hearts when you focus on Christ. If you just live your life for you and run around in your little circles and look at all your problems and all your needs and stay away from the Word of God, I promise you ‑ you spend one hour a day in the Word of God and peace can rule your life. And all of this is ours. All personal gifts from Jesus. Every one of these things was His and all we have to do is appropriate them.
Father, we thank You again this morning for Your peace. We ask this morning that it might be the prayer of our lives to let Your peace rule in us. And as we close our service this morning we pray that the Holy Spirit will do a convicting work and speak to our hearts, teach us by moving us to action what we need to be and do for Your glory. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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Rand Paul's filibuster brings back fond memories of my own
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Six hours later, Senator Moynihan joined me. After more than 15 hours, he broke it to me that the House had left session and it could not amend the bill. I would have kept going, but Moynihan persuaded me that I had done everything I could. Although I lost, I proved that I would fight for my principles and the people of New York.
Senator Paul's fight was not too dissimilar. In late February, he raised objections to the Brennan nomination and to the Obama administration's use of unmanned aerial drones on American soil. He threatened to filibuster the Brennan nomination, and delivered on that threat.
He opened by saying, "I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court."
Soon Paul was joined by many of his colleagues. I applaud him for standing up for his beliefs.
When American jobs are sent overseas, it's a tough pill to swallow. The same can be said for local jobs being relocated out of state. In this area, the Northrop Grumman Corp. will be moving 850 jobs from Long Island to Florida, leaving just 550 workers on Long Island. In the 1980s, more than 25,000 Long Islanders were employed by the company.
It's a sad reality that high tax rates have forced companies to flee Long Island.
I urge our New York senators to band together with other Northeast senators to ensure that the federal government doesn't eliminate the deduction of state and local taxes. If they eliminate these deductions in high-cost states like New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, there will be a mass exodus of businesses and the middle class from New York and other Northeastern states.
Al D'Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Two crash victims remain hospitalized
Published: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 5:04 p.m.
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OCALA - Two men injured in a wreck in which two other men died early Thursday remain hospitalized, according to Florida Highway Patrol troopers.
Demontay D. Billups, 22, and Eddie D. Woods, 18, were continuing to receive treatment Friday at Ocala Regional Medical Center.
Billups' brother, Cornelius L. Rawls Jr., 19, and Bryan L. Blunt, 22, died in the crash, which occurred on County Road 329 near North Marion Middle School.
Troopers said the 2008 Dodge driven by Blunt was heading west when he lost control and the car went onto the grassy shoulder and then hit a tree. Rawls and Blunt were ejected.
Officials said the road was wet, which was a contributing factor.
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In the window of the pigment store where I work part-time there are banks of display cases full of colored pigments. I've been wanting to record them and then come home and try to match the colors with paint.
which by the way, is an old enamel kitchen tray found on Ebay.
And then to match the colors swatches on a test sheet of paper. The next step is to make a painting.
My watercolor teacher, David Dewey, used to say, the painting is first of all, set up on your palette.
Get your colors down there first. I used to take a ton of pictures of his palette mixings.
Then put it down on the paper.


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This morning we warmly welcome the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, His Excellency Solomon Passy. Minister Passy has had a long and varied career, including as an academic, parliamentarian and president of Bulgaria's largest non-governmental organization – the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria. Since the fall of communism, he has been one of the leading proponents of Bulgaria's integration into the Euro-Atlantic community. This has special significance with Bulgaria's impending NATO membership. With Bulgaria now leading the OSCE, we welcome Mr. Passy as the Chairman-in-Office.
I am very pleased that, in outlining your program for 2004, you stressed that implementation of OSCE commitments will top your agenda. Indeed, implementation of freely-undertaken commitments by all 55 participating States is central to fostering cooperation, democratic transformation and respect for human rights and the rule of law in the OSCE region, thereby contributing significantly to Euro-Atlantic stability and security. OSCE's core mission is to help ensure implementation.
We continue to face many challenges in the OSCE region. Even a short list would include the endless agony of war-torn Chechnya, the extremely difficult negotiations in Transdniestria, the upcoming elections in Ukraine, the crackdown in Azerbaijan following rigged elections, the fledgling democracy in Georgia, the dismal human rights situation in Belarus and Uzbekistan, the entrenchment of a bizarre dictatorship in Turkmenistan, human trafficking, corruption that undermines the rule of law, and violent intolerance that tears at the fabric of our societies.
I hope the Bulgarian Chairmanship will maintain support for the OSCE's efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Having been appointed last week at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Winter Meeting as the Assembly's first Special Representative to Combat Trafficking, I will encourage the legislatures in the region to revamp laws wherever needed to provide the tools necessary for combating this slavery. In conjunction with strong leadership on this issue from the Chairman-in-Office, I believe we are poised to make substantial progress in thwarting this evil trade.
In the spring of 2002, Europe witnessed a spike in anti-Semitic violence not seen in decades. Members of the Helsinki Commission have since actively engaged in the fight against anti-Semitism in the OSCE region, urging our fellow parliamentarians and governmental leaders to take action. There appears to be a gradual diminution of violent acts, although sporadic episodes continue to arise throughout the region. I was pleased that the Maastricht Ministerial Council took a strong position on this, with foreign ministers again denouncing anti-Semitism and intolerance, and approving a follow-up conference on anti-Semitism and a follow-up conference on racism, xenophobia and discrimination. These evils are worthy of more attention, and I appreciate Bulgaria's leadership in supporting and facilitating these two events.
We look to Bulgaria to play a helpful role in fostering implementation of the newly adopted Action Plan on Roma and Sinti. Two years ago, we were fortunate to have Bulgarian Ambassador Poptodorova participate in a hearing on Romani human rights issues. We invited her contribution in light of Bulgaria's positive efforts to integrate its Romani minority in the field of education. Just a few months ago, Bulgaria adopted comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, consistent with the Istanbul Summit Declaration. But, much remains to be done to improve the situation for Roma in the OSCE region. I am alarmed by reports this week of violent clashes between Roma and police in Slovakia and will continue to monitor developments there.
As you know, we've had the Chairmen-in-Office testify for the last three years – Foreign Ministers of Romania, Portugal, and The Netherlands. Your appearance is unique in that you are appearing before the Commission early in your tenure as Chairman.
The responsibilities of leading the OSCE will be challenging, yet this is also an exciting time for your country. I have followed Bulgaria's remarkable transition since the fall of communism and am very pleased at Bulgaria's progress as a democratic country about to become a full-fledged member of NATO. Unthinkable fifteen years ago, I know you have worked hard to achieve these reforms. We salute Bulgaria's firm cooperation in the war on terrorism and in building a more secure, peaceful and democratic world. You bring a unique perspective to the Chairmanship, coming from a country that has come a long way in such a short time in its democratic transformation. At the same time, we recognize the challenges that Bulgaria still faces – in tackling corruption and organized crime, and ensuring the rights of Roma and other minorities, and promoting religious liberty.
It is with deep sadness that I open today's hearing by noting the sudden death of Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski in a plane crash in southern Bosnia. Trajkovski served – and represented – his country well as President since 1999, which included some difficult years for Macedonia. Among other things, he was credited with helping to stop an internal, ethnic conflict in Macedonia and put the country back on the path of reconciliation. The President was stopping to attend a conference in Mostar en route to Dublin to submit Macedonia's application eventually to join the European Union.
Many know that his background as a Methodist minister made him unique in a region which places such an emphasis on cultural traditions. Many European leaders have already issued praise for his passion and friendship.
I am sure our featured witness this morning, Foreign Minister Passy of neighboring Bulgaria, knew of President Trajkovski's accomplishments.
On behalf of the entire Helsinki Commission, let me express our condolences to Boris Trajkovski's family and friends. To the people of Macedonia, let me add that your country just lost a great leader, but I encourage you to take pride in what he did for Macedonia and the region as you work toward the brighter future he was seeking. I am confident you can rely upon the United States for support to this end.


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Tremec TKO Five Speed Transmission Conversion - Shifting Into The FutureWritten by on April 1, 2004 Contributors: Manufacturers Installing A Five-Speed Manual Into An Auto-Equipped B-Body
Ugrading classic musclecars is one of the hottest trends in the hobby today. More cars are being modified for "show and go" than ever before. Car owners are taking the necessary steps to make their car not only look good, but drive even better than their late-model daily-driver parked in the driveway. This is one reason the Hot Rod Power Tour has become wildly popular.
Driving a musclecar with steep gears and a TorqueFlite or an A-833 transmission on today's interstates at a sustained high rpm quickly brings several problems to light: driver fatigue, poor fuel economy, and reduced engine and accessory life. Some enthusiasts even keep a spare differential setup with taller 2.78 or 3.23 gears, just to improve this situation. But who wants to swap rearends just so they can drive their car? And what if the rearend is a Dana? When a tall highway ratio is installed, acceleration is quickly sacrificed.
Enter the Keisler Engineering five- and six-speed transmissions for classic cars. Keisler has designed a transmission kit for every popular musclecar, street rod, and truck, including a T56 six-speed for the Dakota R/T. A year ago, we installed a Keisler A-Body five-speed kit in a '70 Duster with great success. what makes the Keisler kit such a good swap for any car or truck is the use of a modern-technology Tremec TKO transmission. with its bigger gears, more efficient and stronger tapered roller-bearings, chromoly steel gears and shafts, the TKO is as tough as it is functional. Keisler engineers the transmission to fit each application and supplies a complete line of installation parts, including the balanced chromoly driveshaft. With a choice of a 3.27 or 2.92 first gear, it provides better around-town drivability, plus butt-in-the-seat acceleration at the stab of the throttle. At the top end, a choice of .82:1 (18 percent overdrive) or .68:1 (32 percent overdrive) ratio offers low rpm in fifth gear, bringing the rpm down to normal levels at 65-80 mph and perfectly meeting the needs of anyone traveling over 55 mph. fuel economy is vastly improved, an added bonus. Keisler states numerous customers are reporting a 30-50 percent fuel-economy increase over an A-833, and a 50-85 percent increase when changing from a Torqueflite automatic to the TKO five-speed. Table 1 shows driving approximately 60,000 miles would pay for the swap alone, not including the reduced wear and tear on the engine, which is a major consideration.
Other than better fuel economy, why would someone want to change from an automatic to a manual transmission? Well, for many, a real musclecar has to have a stick, but there are some real advantages too. More power is delivered to the rear wheels-automatics rob 15-25 percent of that precious resource we work so hard to make. That lost power is turned into another form of energy-heat, which is stored in the transmission fluid. The transmission fluid is pumped to the radiator's trans cooler to be cooled. Manual transmissions, due to their inherent high efficiency, do not rob enough power to even require an oil cooler and thus, produce less heat. Modern manual transmissions are lighter in weight compared to the automatic with its large fluid capacity and related system components. Finally, there is less maintenance with the new manual transmissions-they are inherently simpler than automatics and require less money to maintain. Only the clutch and release bearing require maintenance, and that's getting easier.
The recipient of this conversion is a red '69 SuperBee owned by Tom Nowatzke of Whitemore Lake, Michigan. His car is a factory 383 column-shifted automatic. It now features a 452 stroker with a Six-Pack, aftermarket floor shifter, and a Chrysler 8 3/4 differential with 3.55 gears. He sent his car to Keisler's facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, for the conversion. We found out the conversion is basically a bolt-in operation.
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This install also features Keisler's complete hydraulic clutch actuator kit. The hydraulic clutch eliminates all the moving parts of the original mechanical system. It is the easiest way to actuate the clutch, while reducing pedal effort at the same time, and increases header clearances. The system includes an application-specific master cylinder, slave cylinder with release bearing, reservoir, and all fittings and brackets for installation. For 2004, Keisler has changed to an improved hydraulic throw-out bearing. It features a self-centering preloaded bearing, piston with wiper and silicon-molded dust boot, solid adjustable spacer mount, forged aluminum hardened case, and a spring which keeps the bearing in contact with the clutch fingers at all times for quiet consistent operation. Additionally, this unit does not require an air bleeder line like the old model.Keisler stocks an assortment of floor tunnel humps, and this is the one used for the B-Body automatic conversion. It is included with the kit at no extra charge. It is shipped flat and then assembled prior to installation.You want a shifter handle? Keisler makes and supplies shifter handles for their kits. The top row is the pistol-grip style, while the lower row represents the classic round-shaft handle. Keisler also makes these handles for four-speed applications. Even Chrysler never made a pistol-grip handle for the A-body, Keisler does. (Keisler's also carries the shifter boots and rings.)The aftermarket floor shifter, front seats, and carpet are removed. The carpet to be reused during assembly.The automatic tranny, torque converter, flex plate, cooler lines, and driveshaft are also removed. The engine mating flange surface and dowel pins are thoroughly cleaned.Keisler supplies complete instructions for the conversion, including a floor template for marking the required cut-to allow the slightly taller transmission to clear the left side of the floor tunnel hump. The measurement is referenced from the engine to compensate for any variations in engine position. Using an air-saw or cutoff wheel, remove the section of hump.Attach the new hump to the tunnel using the fastening method of your choice. We used rivets for this installation. Afterwards, seal the seam above and below the floor.Prime and paint the new hump to keep it from rusting. Note the flat shelf, which provides an area for the reproduction shifter boot to attach. Also paint the bottom side. Unlike the four-speed hump, this approach provides more foot-well space and a clean, nearly-symmetric appearance.
As part of the warranty validation, the bellhousing-to-crankshaft alignment must be checked and recorded. This keeps the crankshaft and transmission input shaft running in alignment with each other. If the alignment is out of spec, the straight dowel pins are removed and replaced with offset dowel pins made by Mopar Performance, Lakewood, and Moroso. Keisler carries these and a low-cost dial indicator set, in case you don't have one.The supplied flywheel, pressure plate, and disk are installed. It is important not to over-torque the bolts and to use the alignment tool to center the disk to the crankshaft, so transmission installation will go smoothly.Using a measuring tape and ruler, determine the distance from the clutch pressure-plate fingers to the face of the bellhousing. This will be used to determine the initial setting position of the hydraulic bearing.This is the hydraulic throw-out bearing assembly set up on the front bearing retainer of the transmission. The depth from the bearing face to the transmission face should be 1/8 inch less than the measurement taken at the bellhousing to allow for clutch wear. Once set, the hydraulic bearing will self-adjust.The automatic brake-pedal pivot pin is removed, allowing the brake pedal to drop out. Keisler's pedal kit does not require removing the steering column, making changeover easy.The clutch slave-cylinder is used as a guide to drill three 5/16-inch holes through the firewall in order to mount it.Brake/clutch pedal assemblies are getting scarce, so Keisler reproduced the E- and B-body pedal assemblies shown. They fitted them with new sealed roller bearings and Delrin bushings. These pedals have the correct shape and will accept the clutch over-center assist spring when used. Designed to work with the automatic or manual pedal housing without dropping the column, they include the clutch, brake pedal arms with rubber pads, king pin, clutch housing bracket, and related attachment hardware. With the new clutch and brake pedal in place, the SuperBee is beginning to look like a manual-shift car. Keisler's pedals may also be used with the factory-equipped mechanical linkage.
A reinforcement plate is installed on the engine-bay side of the firewall, sandwiching the firewall along with a stamped closed-cell gasket to seal out the weather. The slave cylinder has a spherical rod-end heim-joint to connect to the pedal. If you have an original pedal set with the clutch pushrod mounting-pin, you will need to remove it by simply grinding off the back portion of the pin. The over-center assist spring was not used because we are using a diaphragm-type clutch with less pedal effort for performance street-driving. When using the three-finger clutch, the assist spring should be used for lighter pedal effort.Installing the five-speed is much easier than the four-speed and automatic, but a transmission or floor jack makes the job a piece of cake. Four bolts retain the transmission to the bellhousing.Next, the upgraded polyurethane isolator is bolted on, then the transmission crossmember bracket with supplied hardware.Finishing up the underbelly includes connecting the speedometer cable, connecting the reverse light, and neutral safety start wiring. The gear simply clips on and can be changed anytime in the future. Finally, the provided chromoly driveshaft is slid into place. This shaft is torque rated for 1,200 lb-ft., but if you like to drive hard, it's a good idea to install a driveshaft loop in case a u-joint or yoke decides to give way. Fill the transmission with three quarts of GM Synchromesh fluid (PN 12345349), through the side-access fill port.Here is the completed connection of the hydraulic line and fittings. The stainless steel flex line connects to the hydraulic bearing and then slips through the grommet hole of the fork hole cover plate. A bracket mounts to the hole where the pivot ball normally resides to support the line, keeping it away from exhaust pipes. Notice how little space this system takes, leaving room for the big exhaust headers.The reservoir neatly mounts on a supplied bracket that attaches to the brake master cylinder. In this case, the car is using the Master Power Brakes master cylinder. The reservoir has a baffle and lid to keep the system sealed. Bleeding the new design is simple-just fill the reservoir, pump the pedal, and the air will return up to the reservoir. Once a solid pedal is achieved, replace the baffle and lid.Reinstall the carpet, cutting out a small hole for the shifter approximately the same size as the hole in the floor tunnel hump. Keisler's 2004 model transmission has the small, billet shifter-tower that bolts from the top after the transmission is installed into the car. Bolt on the shift tower, and then slide the shift boot up onto the handle. Bolt the handle on with supplied hardware, then attach the shift boot and trim ring.The fuel-savings table shows how quickly you can save money running an overdrive. With just 40,000 miles of travel, you will save nearly $3,000 in gas money. There are very few performance improvements that actually save you money-this is the biggest bang for the buck you will likely every find.
The finished result looks so close to factory most people would not know the difference, except for the five-speed indicator on the top of the handle. For B-Body owners having a manual console, the console-version handle would exit through the factory hole. Tom reported the car is more responsive, cruises well at 80 mph on the center carb of the Six-Pack, and is far more fun to drive.Shown is the kit for E-Bodies and '71-'74 B-Bodies. Keisler revised the design in 2003 to provide more clearance for fitment, along with a new shifter design and other improvements, including an optional Hurst internal shift-mechanism. The shifter for this kit comes out the factory four-speed hole location and will not require any cutting for most cars. When converting from automatic, Keisler supplies the steel-reproduction, four-speed, floor-tunnel hump.Shown is the kit for '64-'74 A-Bodies. We installed this kit in our '70 Duster with great results. Similar to the B-Body, some floor modification is required. When converting from automatic or manual, Keisler supplies the steel floor tunnel hump.Here's the new kid on the block. Keisler has developed a six-speed kit for Dakota trucks based on a new Viper T56. Note the shifter location is correct for the factory console. Keisler makes a complete changeover kit for both automatic R/T trucks, as well as the five-speed Dakota Sport. They also have five-speed versions available. All kits use hydraulic clutch and work with the factory computer..


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Prep basketball: Ord's board, bucket lift Poca girls past Buffalo
Paula Ord grabbed an offensive rebound and scored with 11 seconds left in overtime to give Poca the lead and the Dots held on for a dramatic 50-48 win over visiting Buffalo in a girls basketball game on Thursday night.
Madi McGrew led all scorers with 22 points for Poca (1-2) and McKenzie Ball added 10 points. Ord finished with 12.
Chelsey Parkins scored 18 points to pace the Bison (3-1).
For Chapmanville (2-0, 2-0 Cardinal Conference), Katelynn Manns scored 18 points, Jessica Rideout had 13, Hailey Price 12 and Hillary Hainer 11. Katelynn Hall scored eight points and pulled down 10 rebounds, while Kristen Desrocher had four points, 10 rebounds and five assists.
Caroline Thornburg led Herbert Hoover (0-1, 0-1) with 18 points.
Katie Bruner scored 20 points to pace Point Pleasant (1-3) and Andrea Porter added 11.
Madison Jones led the host Indians with 16 points, while Karli Pinkerton and Ellie McClung had 12 apiece. Taylor Bartrum had a team-high five points for the Pioneers (0-3).
Kendrick and Catherine Legg each pulled down 11 rebounds for Cross Lanes (1-1). Stevie White led Van with 12 points.
Lester also accounted for 15 rebounds while Spolarich had eight assists, Davis finished with five steals and Megan Endicott totaled seven points and 11 rebounds.
For PikeView (1-1), Hope Nester scored a team-high 12 points in the loss.
Mykenzie Martin added 15 points for the Grizzlies (3-0). Jamie Bailey netted seven points for Richwood (0-2).
Murray finished the game with 22 points and 15 rebounds, while Taylor Youell chipped in 15 and Melonna Carmichael 13. Emily Cade netted 14 for Doddridge County.
Boys basketball
Zach Meadows paced PikeView (0-1) with 19 points and Logan McKinney chipped in 13.
Obi Romeo led the Spartans (2-0) with 12 rebounds in the win. For James Monroe (0-1), Chord Settle was the leading scorer with six points.
Grant Humphrey added 12 points in the win for the Warriors. Brandon Elswick scored a team-high 13 points for Van.


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Well it is now June 26th. Its now 16 days since the recall (as far as I'm concerned)I haven't heared a thing from anybody, apart from 2 occasions since I made a couple of calls. Every day I look to see if my postman delivers this letter that we are expecting to receive.Now I know that a lot of people are saying you must be patient and that these things take time, but you know, how long do you have to wait, how long will your patience last.I think this is the trouble with us Brits., we don't jump the line, we generally don't make a fuss, -- this stiff upper lip thing,-- is it really doing us any good. Ah well sorry about the moan (one thing we(me) are good at ),-back to watching the letterbox.JamesC5, you must be really pulling your hair out by now, its not as though they have to transport your bike, as I understand, they have it!
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Have done it numerous times and its been great every time. Share numerous emails, and make some actual phone calls and talk.
I have never done this, always been told that could be a huge mistake. But at the same time, it's hard for some of us to find someone with the same amount of hunting obsession/passion and knowledge. I know of quite a few situations where people did this and it always seems to be just a good time and they do well. I just don't know anyone in person who shares the same obsession as me. So it is very tempting for me to plan a hunt with...well...a stranger! But obviously you would meet up before the hunt? I don't know, anyone have experiences or just info on this? Seems dumb and risky, but awesome at the same time.
Have done it numerous times and its been great every time. Share numerous emails, and make some actual phone calls and talk.
I see nothing wrong with it.
"Only two people have died for You and I, The American Soldier died for Our Freedom & Jesus Christ Died for Our Souls!" I thank GOD for them! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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Have done it five times. One guy has hunted with me two years in a row now and will again next year. I went with a guy and his daughter on a ML hunt in NM and it was not what was described, but we had a good time. One guy shared his antelope PPs with me two years ago in Wyoming so that we could hunt the unit I knew well and the hunt went just fine. One guy hunted one time with me in my area and with my help took home 2 deer and 2 antelope and I've never heard from him since he left with not even a thank you! The other hunt was with a guy I thought I knew really well after being on a website for over two years and it was a real bust when the two week trip we were supposed to be on resulted in him shooting his antelope the first day and he went back home to MN the next morning!!! All in all I guess I'd do it again, but it's lucky that I was supplying the camping gear on that one that went bust so that I was able to stay out there on my own or I would have been in deep dodo!
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Hardest thing to do is find an old fart like me who still can hump up & down the mts...just a lot slower!!
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I have done it a few times my self but it was never planned. I've met other hunters in the field and have helped them fill their tags. The way I see it is if I offer to help them I hunt the way they hunt and I have to be prepared for what that could be. They could hunt my tail off or drive the roads. It's not my hunt I'm there to help them. This way I have no expectations either way. As far as planning a hunt and spending multipal days and I have my own tag. Then I would have to say that I would only go with my partners that I have hunted with for years.
I don't Break the rules, I Modify them.
I've met and hunted with several off forums, mainly the Washington state forum mainly. Found and hunted with great guys actually, guys that share the same passion.
Never done it either,but I would assume it would be ok if you are both die hard outdoorsman like most of us,but I also could see it being not so good if one was not to do any communication before hand and they really aren't like you! Any way where about s you at? I'm about an hour east of Fargo, maybe we'll have to do some huntin!
Its probably better to go on a short date (bird hunt, predator hunt, varmint hunt, ect ect) before you waste vacation time or points with someone you know nothing about. I could only imagine losing my license or gear because of some yahoo getting excited and poaching an animal or something along those lines. I have close friends that are good people that I won't go hunting with because of some of their hunting stories. Just because you get along as friends doesn't mean you share the same passion, morals, and ethics when it comes to hunting and being safe.
I went duck hunting with a guy I met on a forum probably 14 or 15 years ago. The hunt was lousy, and we never got into the birds, and by the end of the morning ended up hitting rocks with boat paddles back at the boat ramp.
The guy was a pretty cool dude, and today, I count him among my closest friends.. Was even in his wedding a few years back.
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