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The U.S. ground troops deployed to Syria by the Trump administration to join the battle to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State are not welcome, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview published Saturday. "Any foreign troops coming to Syria without our invitation or consultation or permission, they are invaders, whether they are American, Turkish, or any other one," he charged.
"And we don't think this is going to help. What are they going to do? To fight ISIS? The Americans lost nearly every war. They lost in Iraq, they had to withdraw at the end. Even in Somalia, let alone Vietnam in the past and Afghanistan," Assad continued. "They didn't succeed anywhere they sent troops, they only create a mess; they are very good in creating problems and destroying, but they are very bad in finding solutions."
Though U.S. intervention in Syria, which is beset by the twin crises of civil war and ISIS invasion, began under President Obama, President Trump's recent decision to deploy 400 Marines and Army Rangers marks the first time U.S. troops will engage in conventional warfare in the country instead of maintaining an advisory role. Bonnie Kristian
Beekeepers in the United States saw a third of their honeybee colonies die between April 2016 and April 2017, an annual survey finds. That sounds grim, but it's actually a slight improvement over similar assessments in the last decade, in which an average of 40 percent of the colonies died off annually.
"I would stop short of calling this 'good' news," said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a University of Maryland professor who is also a project director at the Bee Informed Partnership. "Colony loss of more than 30 percent over the entire year is high. It's hard to imagine any other agricultural sector being able to stay in business with such consistently high losses."
Some of the dead colonies may be salvaged, but the process isn't easy. One bumblebee species was added to the federal Endangered Species List earlier this year, and steady decline of bee populations is a serious and widespread problem that is believed to be linked to pesticide use.
"Bees are good indicators of the landscape as a whole," said Nathalie Steinhauer, who worked on the new survey. "To keep healthy bees, you need a good environment and you need your neighbors to keep healthy bees. Honeybee health is a community matter." Bonnie Kristian
President Trump may be asked to subject his tweets to legal scrutiny before posting them, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday night in a story covering changes to White House procedure Trump will entertain upon his return home from his tour abroad Saturday evening. The tweet vetting would be designed to avoid unforced errors as the Trump campaign and administration undergo scrutiny in federal investigations concerning Russian interference in the 2016 election:
One major change under consideration would see the president's social media posts vetted by a team of lawyers, who would decide if any needed to be adjusted or curtailed. The idea, said one of Mr. Trump's advisers, is to create a system so that tweets "don't go from the president's mind out to the universe."
Some of Mr. Trump's tweets — from hinting that he may have taped conversations with Mr. Comey to suggesting without any evidence that former President Barack Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower — have opened him to criticism and at times confounded his communications team. Trump aides have long attempted to rein in his tweeting, and some saw any type of legal vetting as difficult to implement. [WSJ]
Many of Trump's critics and supporters alike have repeatedly (and unsuccessfully) urged the president to curtail his tweeting habits, as his posts often come back to bite him politically. Bonnie Kristian
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on Saturday said he "would not be concerned" by backchannel communications with Russia, though he declined to specifically comment on allegations that President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner unsuccessfully attempted to arrange a secret communication channel between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin shortly after the election.
National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Press Secretary Sean Spicer also refused to discuss Kushner at Saturday's media briefing. "We're not going to comment on Jared," said Cohn. "We're just not going to comment."
McMaster did note the U.S. has "backchannel communications with a number of countries," though Kushner was a private citizen and not an authorized representative of Washington at the time when he allegedly spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Kushner's legal team said Friday night he has "no recollection" of the alleged conversation with Kislyak, and he is happy to speak with federal investigators about his role in the Trump campaign. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump spoke Saturday at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Sigonella, Italy, one of the final events of his first tour abroad since taking office.
After an introduction from First Lady Melania Trump, the president began by pointing to a helicopter he could see landing in the distance, wondering if the craft contained Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — or perhaps "Justin from Canada," which is probably a reference to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and not Canadian pop star Justin Bieber.
.@realDonaldTrump just wondered who was in the helicopter coming in...."Justin from Canada?" Hmm.....@JustinTrudeau or @justinbieber ?
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) May 27, 2017
Trump's speech quickly turned to more serious matters, with a lengthy section about "eradicating the terrorism that plagues our planet." He condemned this week's terrorist attacks on concert attendees in England and Coptic Christians in Egypt, vowing cooperation with allies to "confront the shared threat of terrorism."
Toward the end of his speech, the president spoke of honoring fallen American forces on Memorial Day. "There is no peace without those willing to bear the scars and wounds of war," he said. "There is no strength without those brave enough to protect the weak and the people that need protection. And there is no prosperity at home without those willing to shoulder our burdens overseas."
"You are the warriors of freedom," Trump told the assembled troops. "You are the ones who protect the God-given freedoms that are the birthright of every single American child." Watch the entire speech below. Bonnie Kristian
Police evacuated London's Old Vic theater, located near Waterloo Station, during a performance on Saturday in response to an unspecified security threat. The area was isolated as "specialist officers" investigated the scene, but ultimately nothing suspicious was found.
More drama offstage! All evacuated to Imperial War Museum gardens.. #oldvic including cast pic.twitter.com/w5JbruAKfQ
— Rachel Griffin (@Carryonsmiling) May 27, 2017
The false alarm comes less than a week after a suicide bombing in Manchester, England, during an Ariana Grande concert left 22 people dead and dozens more injured. The play that was interrupted is a showing of Woyzeck featuring Star Wars actor John Boyega.
This is a breaking news story and has been updated throughout. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump will return to Washington on Saturday after the second day of the G7 summit in Italy, completing his nine-day tour through Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Europe. Saturday morning, Trump claimed on Twitter that his speech in Brussels Thursday is already producing results:
Many NATO countries have agreed to step up payments considerably, as they should. Money is beginning to pour in- NATO will be much stronger.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2017
Trump's description of "payments" into a fund is misleading; NATO countries actually pledged in 2014 to hit a 2 percent of GDP target for their own defense spending. Only five allies have met that goal.
The president also used Twitter Saturday morning to address his decision on the 2015 Paris climate accord:
I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord next week!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2017
The other G7 member nations — Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Britain, and Canada — are all urging Trump not to exit the agreement made by former President Obama. They reaffirmed their "strong commitment" to the accord on Saturday, but Trump declined to join the declaration at that time. However, the White House on Friday said Trump's views on climate change are "evolving." Bonnie Kristian
Two people were killed and a third injured on a commuter train in Portland, Oregon, on Friday, by a man witnesses said was "yelling a gamut of anti-Muslim and anti-everything slurs." Unverified reports suggest the suspect may have been targeting two Muslim girls riding the train, one of whom was wearing a hijab.
The victims were attempting to protect other passengers when they were stabbed. "Terrible tragedy on Portland's Max Train," Oregon's Sen. Jeff Merkley wrote on Twitter of the attack. "Champions of justice risked and lost their lives. Hate is evil."
The suspect has been detained by police, who have deemed his rant to be hate speech. Neither the attacker nor the victims have been publicly identified. Bonnie Kristian


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Ohio A study of muffler technology at Ohio State University is giving automakers new options for designing quieter cars.
Engineers here have tested a promising new muffler design that utilizes glass fiber, and are developing the computational tools manufacturers will need to optimize the design.
The new design can often silence auto noise just as well as a typical muffler, but it can be lighter, less prone to corrosion, and help engines work more efficiently.
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Two-dimensional magnetic structures are regarded as a promising material for new types of data storage, since the magnetic properties of individual molecular building blocks can be investigated and modified. For the first time, researchers have now produced a wafer-thin ferrimagnet, in which molecules with different magnetic centers arrange themselves on a gold surface to form a checkerboard pattern. Scientists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel and the Paul Scherrer Institute published their findings in the journal Nature Communications.
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OXFORD United will be hoping tomorrow's officials have their eyes peeled after a controversial incident in the 3-2 defeat to Plymouth Argyle on Boxing Day.
Just after falling behind, James Constable powered a header which hit the underside of the crossbar.
Referee Andy Davies allowed play to continue, but footage appeared to show the ball had crossed the line.
Constable was frustrated, but admitted it was not clear at the time, tweeting: "I wasn't sure, thought it was close but couldn't see through all the bodies! Linesman had the best view!"


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Nice Article on Corporate Forensics
Good article in SC Magazine by Jim Carr on how to handle a data-stealing breach. Enterprises need to have forensics systems and personnel inplace, whether that be inside your organization or fropm an outsourcer. Either way, this article helps inform you on how to make some of those decisions.
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http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/artic ... gging-dirt
How do you stop a criminal mind from getting into your key line-of-business systems? You probably can't, which is why Mike Jones (not his real name) keeps a computer forensics services company at his beck and call. The attempts to steal the personal identifying information on credit cards never ceases.
Jones, an investigative manager for a large U.S. financial services company (who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of his business), relies on Cybertrust, Herndon, Va., to help him identify, forensically examine, and remediate database compromises intended to steal the information on credit cards' magnetic strips processed by his company's systems. The data-stealing breaches don't occur on his firm's systems. They actually take place on those of the retailers, restaurants and other merchants that accept credit cards as payment for goods or services.
Jones certainly isn't alone in this regard, says Michael Gavin, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. "It takes a bit of an expert to run forensics tools and know what you're doing when investigating computer-related crimes," he says.
Some of the enterprise-class computer forensics tools available include CA's eTrust Network Forensics, Guidance Software's EnCase Enterprise Forensic Edition, AccessData's FTK, NetWitness's NetWitness, and the open source Helix. They are all extremely complicated applications that require considerable training and expertise to use properly, according to Matthew Shannon, a principal with Agile Risk Management, a forensics and litigation support services provider based in Tampa, Fla.
Looking to outsource
But it often doesn't make sense to hire and keep forensics experts on staff full-time, notes Shannon. Consequently, most companies find a consulting firm they can partner with for their forensics investigations, Gavin says. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernest & Young, are among those Gavin points to. Others include Agile, Kroll Ontrack, Mandiant, and Neohapsis.
Keeping it inside
Still, many enterprises do keep computer forensics in-house. Just how many is open to discussion, says Forrester's Gavin.
Deploying and maintaining an enterprise-class forensics application in-house is something that requires training and a certain amount of experience, Brill says. "And, after a certain amount of time, you have to update the software, and you have to understand how the update affects how you use the software."
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[quote user="jmike"]Me...frosty??* I would never insult anyone.*
Thanks guys good to see you too.* Have the idiots left the board yet?* If so, I may stick around a bit, but they exhausted me last season.* I would not have enjoyed this season if I was on these boards dealing with their BS.* As it was, I really loved this season.* Damn shame our QB holds this team back huh?
yeah, he holds it back so much that he took a contract restructuring just to spite everyone in returning 6 mil +/- back to the budget.
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For this morning, I want us to study together the Word of God relative to the person of Jesus Christ. The focal point of the life of a believer is Christ, not the church, but Christ. The great thrust of the prayers of every believer are that Christ might be lifted up, that Christ might be exalted, that His will might be done. It's Christ we love and Christ we worship and Christ we preach and Christ we wait to see and Christ we will reign with forever and ever. Christianity is a personal relationship with the living Christ and so as we focus upon Him, we are really going right to the main cornerstone of our faith.
There are so many different dimensions to the person of Christ that it's staggering. It's bewildering sometimes, I'm sure, to try to pull it all together, all the magnificence of His character and we don't want to do all of that in any one given time but this morning, I'd like us to look at one aspect of Christ and that is Christ as King...Christ as King. And we've entitled our study this morning The King Who Came to Die.
It is clear from Scripture that Jesus was a king. There's no question about that. The Old Testament prophesied that He would be a king. In Psalm 2, verse 6, God the Father speaks of the Son Jesus Christ in these words: "Yet have I set my King upon My holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me 'Thou art my Son. This day have I begotten Thee.' Ask of Me and I shall give Thee the nations for Thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession." God and the Son in conversation about the reign of the Son as king. He is prophesied to be a king.
In 2 Samuel, Chapter 7, it is predicted that a greater Son of David...greater than Solomon...would come and reign over an eternal kingdom. In Isaiah Chapter 9, it says, "Of the increase of His government, there shall be no end. He will reign upon the throne of David to order it and to establish it with justice and with judgment henceforth and from forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform it." So the Old Testament clearly indicates that Jesus is to be a king.
And, of course, when Jesus arrived in the world, that's the first recognition we have of Him. In Matthew chapter1, clearly Matthew outlines the genealogy of Jesus in order that the world may know that He is in the line of David, that He has the right to rule and to reign as King. In Matthew chapter2 and verse 1,
"When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem saying, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?'" It was a recognition of the prophets that a king was to be born and there was a recognition when He was born that in fact He was the King, the royal Seed of David, the one who had the right to reign and the one who had the right to rule.
The New Testament also indicates that He rules now as King over the hearts of His subjects. In Colossians chapter 1, it tells us that we have been translated, we who believe in Christ, into the kingdom of His dear Son and we are now the subjects of the King. And the New Testament also tells us that in the future, He shall return. According to Revelation 19, "As King of Kings and Lord of Lords and He will subjugate the world and the universe to His rule forever."
In fact 1 Corinthians 15:25 says, "He must reign until He has put all things under His feet." And Hebrews 1:8 says that He is a king and that He is a king forever. The Word there is very clear. "Unto the Son, he says, 'Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.'" And so it is clear from Old Testament, the past, from the birth of Christ in the New Testament, from the present reign of Christ in His church and the future glorious return of the King, that Jesus is a king. He a king. Basically, there are three dimensions to His kingdom.
Number 1, He is king over the whole universe. He is king over the whole universe. This is outlined for us in many places in the Bible but let me just remind you of Psalm 8 and in Psalm8, verse 4, we have what is repeated in Hebrews and referred to the Messiah there, these words: "What is man that Thou art mindful of him and the Son of Man that Thou visitest Him? For Thou hast made Him a little lower than the angels...referring to Christ here...and crowned Him with glory and honor." Now here it comes. "Thou madest Him to have dominion over the works of Thy Hands. Thou hast put all things under His feet." Every single thing that exists in the universe was made to be subjected to Jesus Christ. He is the King of the universe. He rules everything that exists.
But taking it a step further, within the confines of that universal kingdom, Jesus also is stated in the Bible to be the King of Heaven or the King over the spiritual domain where God dwells. This clearly is where He rules. In 1 Peter 3:22, it says that when Christ ascended into heaven and sat on the right hand of God that angels and authorities and powers were made subject to Him. He rules the angelic host, both fallen and unfallen. He is King over the heaven, the holy heaven. He is King over all the heavens, the spiritual heavens, even where Satan dwells. He is the ultimate monarch though He has given the right to Satan for temporary exercise of rule.
In John 17:24, He prays that the church may come to heaven to be with Him that they may behold His glory, they may see His dominion. In Revelation3:21, He says, "To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with Me in heaven on My throne." So He is King in heaven ruling the hosts of heaven. He is King in the universe ruling those created things, those material things that are in our time space dimension. And thirdly he is...and this relates to us so specifically...He is King of the church. He rules His church. He rules the spiritual dominion of saints who believe in Him, both the church triumphant, which has been exalted into His presence and the church militant still alive in the world. And that we find in Ephesians 1:22 where it says, "All things are put under His feet and He has been given the right to be Head over the church."
So He is a king on the widest possible scale of the universe. He is King over the hosts of heaven. He is King over His church. He is a king. He came to earth to announce that He was a king. In fact, He had a forerunner and the forerunner's name was John and John was the voice of one crying in the wilderness and John's message was "Repent for the kingdom is at hand." The King is coming. And he declared the coming of the King and when Jesus came, he said the same thing. "The Kingdom is at hand." And Matthew, the first gospel, presents Christ as king. He came to tell the world He was the king.
But how was He received? As a king would be received? Was a royal robe placed upon Him? Were the trumpets blown? Was the carpet laid out? Was He given a throne? No, the very opposite. He was rejected. He was turned away. The sin of the world had blinded them to the reality of the King and His kingdom and nowhere is that made more clear than as we see how people reacted to Him in the New Testament period. They did not want him. In fact, the summation of it all is we will not have this Man to reign over us. They did not want this King.
I want to show you this morning three illustrations of how the world rejected the kingship of Jesus. And I want to entitle them in three ways so you'll remember them...the mercenary mob, the mistaken multitude and the mocking magistrate. Let's begin by looking at the sixth chapter of John's gospel. John chapter6, and I will introduce you to the mercenary mob. In John 6, verse 15, we begin and I'm only going to read that one verse. "When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take Him by force to make Him a king, He departed again into a mountain Himself alone." Now stop there for a moment.
When Jesus realized...and He could perceive it because He was omniscient and knew their minds...that they were going to make Him a king by force, He removed Himself. You say, "But I thought you said He came to present Himself as king. Surely this would be the ultimate response of the people. Here they are ready to make Him king. It looks good." Let's talk about it. I call these people the thrill seekers or the mercenary mob. Let me explain the scene.
Going back to the first verse in the sixth chapter, we find Jesus on the Sea of Galilee or the Lake Galilee, the Sea of Chinneroth or Tiberias, that little lake in the north of Israel. And He's there with a great multitude, verse 2 says. We're told there were 5,000 men and if there were 5,000 men, it's clear there were 5,000 women. And the Gospel records tell us that those 5,000 people had been there...5,000 men, I should say, plus 5,000 women and I might as well, you'd probably have at least 15,000 to 20,000 children...a very conservative estimate of 25,000 to 30,000 people. They had been there all day long because as we put the other Gospel accounts together, we find that for the entire day Jesus had been healing all their diseases, healing all their sicknesses and teaching them God's divine truth all day long. My, what a marvelous way to spend the day. In spite of all of that, they had no real appreciation of His person. They had no real understanding of who He was. They had been attracted simply by idle curiosity. They were pleasure-seeking thrill seekers.
Look at verse 2. A great multitude followed Him because they believed in Him...no. Because they saw His miracles which He did on those who were diseased. They were sensational things that He did and they had the love of the sensational, the thrill seekers were all there. But in spite of their motives, Jesus in tenderous pity, in loving kindness and mercy, had met their physical needs, had healed them, had taught them and when it came to the end of the day, He actually fed them their dinner. How did it affect them when He fed them dinner? Verse 14 says, "Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, 'This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.'" This is Him.
And they quote Deuteronomy 18 where Moses had predicted that a great prophet would come and they say, "This has got to be the one." The miracles had overwhelmed them, particularly the last one, and you remember what happened, don't you? They had nothing to eat and the disciples came and said, "It's late in the day and there's no provision for food and the multitude is hungry. What do we do?" And Jesus says, "Have them sit down." And the other Gospels say that he said, "Have them sit in groups of 50 and 100 and so that we can move between them and pass the food."
The only thing was there was no food. But that didn't bother Jesus. One enterprising man by the name of Andrew showed up with one lunch and said, "I found one kid with five barley crackers and two pickled fish." The Lord says, "That'll be fine." And the Bible says He took the five crackers or loaves and He gave them to the 12 disciples. Now it doesn't take a mathematical genius to figure out that that's a miracle. You give 5 crackers to 12 people. And if you think that's something then you try to give those same 5 crackers from the 12 people to the 30,000.
And it says simply in verse 11 that "Jesus took the loaves, given thanks, distributed to the disciples" and then in verse...further it says, "He distributed to the disciples and the disciples to them that were sitting," and in verse 12, "They were filled. He said, 'Gather up what's left.'" And there were 12 baskets left so the disciples could eat and they were filled. They were foddered up. They were hayed up like dumb animals, stuffed to the gills with this food. Plenty for everybody. Jesus created food, an astounding thing.
And they said, "This is the prophet." And you say, "Well, boy, that's great." And in verse 15, they tried to make Him a king. You say, "That's what He wanted." Nope. You see, it was all for the wrong reasons. Now listen. Instead of falling down on their knees to worship Him as Messiah, the incarnate God, instead of taking the position of ungodly sinners crying out for mercy and prostrating themselves at His feet in reverent penitence, instead of owning Him as the Blessed One worthy of their hearts' adoration, they only wanted to use Him; that's all. They said, "We've got a genie on our hands. We'll get ahold of this guy and rub the magic lamp and He'll zap all kinds of things into existence. This could be an incredibly beautiful world. Free food. No more disease."
There's no repentance here. There's no worship here. There's no submission here. This is purely a mercenary mob who are in it for personal and selfish gain. There are plenty of people like that today. They see Jesus as a prophet. They see Jesus as a good teacher. And they say, "Well, you take what you can get. Some of His teachings, wonderful. He's made a contribution to mankind, etc." And they never see their need to fall before Him as the incarnate God. They never see their need to bow before Him in repentance seeking forgiveness. They never see Him as a refuge from the wrath to come. They are misguided. They don't have the right view. They are like the mercenary mob. Jesus is there for whatever good He may contribute.
And you know that's wrong. You don't come to Jesus for what you can get. You come to Jesus because of who He is. I don't come to Jesus because of what He gives me; I come to Jesus because of what He deserves from me. Listen. If He only saved me and never gave me anything, that would be more than I ever deserved. But the people saw a welfare state. This is incredible, socialized medicine. Nobody will ever be sick again. They saw free food. This is breakfast, folks, and lunch and dinner. This is fabulous.
In fact, Jesus wouldn't accept this kind of kingship and so it says in verse 15 that He departed into a mountain alone. He sent His disciples in a boat across the sea because He didn't want them influenced by this mercenary mob. And later in the night, you remember, He walked across the sea and met his disciples and they wound up at Capernaum in the morning, and no sooner had they gotten in the morning to Capernaum then you come to verse 26 in John 6 and they were there again. The whole crowd is there.
"And Jesus answered and said, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, you seek Me not because you saw the miracles but because you did eat of the loaves and were literally hayed up like a dumb animal. You're here for the free food.'" Listen. Jesus never fed them again and Jesus moved out of their midst on that evening. Why? Because nobody uses God and nobody uses Christ like some genie. There are terms and there are conditions by which the blessing of God is activated in the life of an individual and one of those terms is to confess Him as Lord, is to bow before Him as King, is to repent of sin. And there was none of that here; none of it. God is no utilitarian genie.
You can go back to 1 Samuel chapter 4 and read the first 11 verses and you'll find some interesting things. You'll find the children of Israel got into a war with the Philistines and they were afraid they were going to lose the war and so they hadn't paid attention to God for a long, long time and somebody said, "You better get back there and get the Ark of the Covenant which represents the presence of God and bring God up here so we can win. We'll get God in here and we'll rub our magic lamp. Go get them, God, and everything will be fine." And you remember what happened in 1 Samuel 4. They brought the Ark up and the Philistines began to say, "Oh, we're dead. We're going to lose. Oh, they've got their God." And the Israelites were saying, "Hallelujah, He's here. Terrific." And you know what happened. God reversed the whole thing, gave power to the Philistines and they wiped out the Israelites and then they stole the Ark. And God was saying, "I don't work on your terms; I work on mine."
And the mercenary mob had no hope of ever knowing the kingship of Jesus...none. And I'm afraid sometimes Christians are even like that. I'm afraid sometimes when we really want something out of Jesus, we kind of snuggle up, huh? We kind of get close, start getting things right, because we're looking at Christ as the one from whom we get what we want. When we want comfort in sorrow, when we want strength in our weakness, when we want peace in the midst of turmoil, when we want health in the midst of sickness, we kind of draw close.
But when He comes to us with stern demands for sacrifice, when He comes to us with challenges of great effort and hard work, when He comes and tells us about a cross and about pain, then we're not so interested, are we? And that's because maybe we came in kind of like the mercenary mob coming to Jesus for what we could get rather than what He deserved.
It may be that if you examine your heart carefully, you may love Jesus like the mob did for what you can get out of Him and you may be flinching at His demands and a little bit resentful. Well, Jesus knew the carnal enthusiasm of the mob and He didn't want it and He still doesn't want it. He doesn't want people to come to Him for what they can get. He wants people to come to Him for what He deserves. And when you come to Him on those terms, believe me, He will open the floodgates and pour out the blessing, won't He? They wanted a king all right but they wanted a king on their terms and they missed the point.
And Jesus said to them in verse 27, "You got it wrong. Labor not for the food which perishes but for that food which endures unto everlasting life which the Son of Man shall give unto you. You got it backwards. You better turn in your mercenary attitude for a little spirituality. Instead of seeking what your body needs, you'd better seek what your soul needs." So the mercenary mob saw Him as a king but for the wrong reason and He rejected it.
Let me introduce you to a second group. Look at the 12th chapter. I call them the mistaken multitude...the mistaken multitude. This is Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday historically in the church has been a kind of a high occasion, but in my mind, Palm Sunday is one of the saddest days in the history of humanity. Do you know what Jesus did on Palm Sunday? He cried. He wept. His heart was broken because all of the hullabaloo was nothing but hypocrisy and sham.
We'll see that as we look at John 12:12 through 18. Let me read it to you. "On the next day, many people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet Him and cried 'Hosanna. Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.' And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat upon as it is written 'Fear not, daughter of Zion. Behold thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.' These things understood not His disciples at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of Him and that they had done these things unto him. The people therefore that were with Him when He called Lazarus out of his grave and raised him from the dead bore witness. For this cause, the people also met Him for they heard that He had done this miracle."
This is Sunday. It's Sunday in Jerusalem. It's the day after a feast. What feast was it? Oh, it was a wonderful feast. It was a feast at the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus and many guests were there. I mean this was a wonderful thing. Talk about a birthday. This was really a birthday. Lazarus, who was dead, had been made alive and everybody that cared was there to celebrate, and love for Jesus reached it climax there as Mary poured out ointment on the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair and the great demonstration of love, washing Jesus' feet, not unlike what Jesus would soon do to His disciples' feet. The climax of love occurred at that feast.
I'm afraid also the climax of hate occurred around that time because the plot of Judas was hatched. It was morning now after the feast at the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Everybody knew Lazarus was alive. Everybody knew of this incredible resurrection. Everybody knew he was dead because the whole place had been mourning in Bethany for four days. And the fever pitch of discussion about Jesus was surging through the City of Jerusalem and through the town of Bethany that He had raised Lazarus from the dead.
And Jesus got up in the morning and He left Bethany and it was Palm Sunday, the first Palm Sunday, and as He approached the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives, He said to His disciples, "Go into a small village and you'll find there tied to a post a colt, the foal of an ass, and its mother...the donkey and the baby donkey. Bring them to Me because I will ride the colt into the city." That was in exact fulfillment of Zachariah 9:9 which is quoted in verse 15. "Fear not, daughter of Zion. Behold, thy King cometh sitting on an ass's colt."
Matthew tells us that the two disciples went, found the mother and the colt, brought them out. Jesus rode the colt. The Gospels also tell us that when they went in the village, the animals were right where Jesus said they'd be, tied to a post, and they brought them. And so Jesus mounts the little colt and rides into the city.
Now, riding alongside of Him is this multitude that had been at the feast at Lazarus' house and they're going along and they're saying the hosannas and blessed be the King of Israel and Matthew adds they said, "The Son of David, the right to reign, who cometh in the name of the Lord." And they were praising Him as he was riding the little foal toward the Eastern Gate, a gate today which is sealed up and the Bible says will never be opened again until Jesus returns.
And off He went for the city and as He got close to the city, the mass of humanity began to surge out. Verse 13, the people went forth to meet Him crying "Hosanna." And so the little flock coming from Bethany is met by this mass of humanity surging out of the Eastern Gate to meet Jesus and they're all crying the hosannas. The enthusiasm becomes consuming as the two crowds flow together. Jesus is being introduced as the King, as the Messiah, and He in no way ever denies their hosannas.
To help you to get an idea of what was going on, on one occasion around this period, a census was taken at the Passover season to see how many lambs were slain at the Passover and one census reported there were 256,500 lambs slain in that week. That's a quarter of a million. Now listen. There had to be a minimum of ten people per lamb and on that minimum estimate, there would be something around 2,700,000 people in the city at that time of the season. It would be literally exploding with humanity. All of the pilgrims from all over the nation having to come to worship at Passover in Jerusalem. And this mass of humanity surges out of the city. The crowd from Bethany meets them, all crying "Hosanna." An incredible scene.
And you say, "What's the point?" The point is they're screaming "Hail the conquering hero. Hail the deliverer. Hail the Messiah. Hail the Son of David. Hail the King of Israel." The crowd in Galilee had tried to make Him a king by force and now the crowd in Jerusalem screams that He is a king by virtue of what He has done. Now notice that they threw in His path palm tree branches. These, according to Revelation 7:9 and I think even in Old Testament text, are symbols of strength and salvation. They're also sometimes used to reflect joy and beauty. If you sum up strength and salvation and joy and beauty, you'll get the proclamation that they're making with the palm branches. They're glorifying and exalting with joy the beauty of their strong Savior who is coming. This is their King and it looks so good again.
And what started out to look so good in Galilee now looks so good in Jerusalem at last, you might say. They see Him as a king. They did...all for the wrong reasons again. You say, "What now?" Well, I'll show you. They wanted a political king who would overthrow the Roman government. They had been under the oppression of Rome too long. They were chafing under this. They were sick of being under the Babylonians and the Medo-Persians and the Greeks and then having a little slit of light when Judas Maccabeus had given them a time of independence, closed up so fast, and now to be under this chafing Roman domination was a terrible burden for them to bear and they wanted out from under this and they saw this Man as their potential revolutionary leader. Listen. Just set the scene in your mind.
This is Passover and Passover commemorates the deliverance from the bondage of Egypt and this is the time when they are celebrating deliverance from a foreign power. How fitting when they see a deliverer to conclude that God has sent the Deliverer who will do it again at this Passover. And they knew that Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead. There had never been any charlatan pull that off. They said, "This has got...this Man has got the power." And they cried, "Hosanna." Do you know what that word means? The word "hosanna" means "save now." It was a political cry. Do it now. Deliver us now. Save us now. It was a prayer for deliverance. They're crying to this Man, to this Man Jesus.
And Matthew adds that they said, "Son of David," and by that they were saying, "You're our King. We acknowledge You as the King. We make You the King. We ask You 'Save us now.'" And do you know that what they said there in verse 13, "Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord," is a direct quote of Scripture? Did you know that? It's from Psalm118:26. It's right out of that Messianic Psalm and let me add this. Psalm118 was the last Psalm in a group of Psalms called the "Hallel." Have you ever heard of that? The Hallel, we get "hallelujah" from it. "Hallel" means praise to God. So when we say, "Hallelujah," we're praising God.
The Hallel was a group of Psalms from Psalm 113 to 118 which were pure praise to God. They taught these to their children. The first Psalms a little boy ever learned were Psalms 113 to 118, the Praise Psalms. They were sung at great acts of God. They were sung at times of praise. They were sung at times of thanks at the temple. They were sung always at the Passover. They were very common in the life of the people. They knew them. They knew their content. They knew something of their meaning. And so when they cry out "Praise God" and they start singing the Hallel, they are acknowledging the ultimate praise to God as He brings His King Deliverer. And I'll add another interesting footnote.
Psalm118, which they do quote specifically, has been traditionally throughout Jewish history called "the conqueror's Psalm." So they are hailing the conquering hero. In fact, they had said that same Psalm to Simon Maccabeus a hundred years before when he had defeated the Syrians. And so now they are looking at Jesus as another conqueror. They're singing the conqueror's Psalm. They're throwing the palm branches down. They see a political leader. To them, it's only a matter of time and the trumpets will blow and the call to arms will come and the revolution will begin and the Jewish nation will overthrow Rome.
You say, "Man, that must have been some scene." You could never recreate it...never. There would be no hysteria, no excitement in the world, that would be equal to the Jews after thousands of years of waiting to the feeling that this finally was the arrival of their Messiah. This was an incredibly exciting moment. What about Jesus? Well, quietly and silently in the midst of all the rabble and racket, Jesus was making a statement but nobody seemed to get the message. Jesus did not ride into the city on a white horse. Jesus did not come blasting into the city on a gold chariot pulled by four great chargers.
Jesus rode on a baby donkey. There was a message there but nobody seemed to get it. Jesus' heart was broken. He was sick inside. He tried to show them that His Kingdom was not political. The donkey was a symbol of peace. He came as Prince of Peace. He wasn't thinking about conquering Rome. You say, "What was He thinking?" I'll tell you. I can tell you exactly what Jesus was thinking because it's recorded in Luke 19 verse 41. This is precisely what He was thinking. "And when He was come near"; he's riding in now to the cries of the crowd. The cries are indicated back in verse38 of Luke 19. He hears all these things. He comes near. "He beheld the city" and what? Wept. They're all screaming in excitement, exhilaration, like they can't believe and Jesus is crying. The tears are on His cheeks. "Saying..." and this is pensive, almost a soliloquy. "If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong until thy peace, but now they are hidden from thine eyes." What a heartbreak.
He says, "Oh, if you only knew. If you only knew what God had planned for you in this day. If you only knew the things which belong to your peace. But it's too late. They're hidden. For the day shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee around, and keep thee on every side and shall lay thee even with the ground and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." Jesus is weeping, number 1, because they missed the point and, number 2, because they are about to be flattened and He here is predicting the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Titus came in, entrenched the city, surrounded it, moved in, slaughtered the people, killed over a million, a hundred thousand of them. Jerusalem was flattened. And Jesus wept because He knew it was coming and He wept because they had missed the whole point of His kingship. They wanted a political king and He cried while they screamed "Hosanna."
Jerusalem would be visited by a conqueror but not Jesus...not Jesus. No Roman soldier would have ever thought that this Man riding in on a colt, the foal of an ass, was a revolutionary. No Roman soldier would ever have thought that He was coming in to drive out the Roman legions. It should have been evident to everybody that His Kingdom was not of this world. But they were so hysterical that they never got the point of the donkey. You know, you hate to say it but so many people through history have been just as mistaken as the mistaken multitude. Just like they thought Jesus was nothing more than a social reformer, there are people today who think the same thing.
They look at Jesus as sort of a patriot, a reactionary, a revolutionary, somebody who has got a social message to proclaim, and they forget that Jesus didn't come to remove poverty from the world. He even said, "The poor you'll always have with you." Jesus didn't come to set all the economic injustices of human society right. He didn't come to invent a new kind of human government. Jesus came to touch the souls of men and to change society from the inside not the outside.
If you're looking at a Jesus that you think is a social problem solver, it's going to be hard to convince yourself of that because Christians have been in the world for 2,000 years and we haven't really done a great job on changing the world from the outside. If you think that Jesus came into the world just to heal the social institutions, you've missed the point. So the mercenary mob, they were dead wrong. All they wanted was free meals. The mistaken multitude, they were dead wrong. All they wanted was somebody to break the Roman yoke and when the mistaken multitude didn't get what they wanted and Jesus didn't fulfill their wish, they screamed for His blood and denied that they ever wanted Him as a king and said, "Caesar is our king. We don't want this Man to reign over us." When He wasn't the Jesus they wanted, they chucked Him.
There's one other illustration in John 18. I call this the mocking magistrate...the mocking magistrate. Pilate was the magistrate who mocked. Once the Jews had determined that Jesus was not going to start a revolution, the first time He could say anything on Palm Sunday, you know what He said? He said, "Except a kernel of wheat fall into the ground and...what?...and die, it abides alone." He started talking about dying and all of a sudden, He turned the whole crowd off and they began to know this wasn't the one and so they began to cry for His blood and they needed an accusation to get Him killed and so they dreamed up an accusation and in Luke 23:2, they began to accuse Him saying, "We found this Fellow perverting the nation, forbidding to give tribute to Caesar and saying He is a king." And they tried to get the Romans to think He was a political threat to the security of Roman government.
Isn't that incredible? They were accusing Him of doing the very thing they couldn't get Him to do. Once they tried to make Him a king and then once they hailed Him as a king but when He wasn't the king they wanted, they were ready to kill Him for claiming to be a king. And so they got Him into Pilate's hands and Pilate was so blackmailed by now that he had no way out. He had made so many stupid mistakes with the Jews that they had told him one more deal against us and we'll tell Caesar and he was afraid he was going to lose his job. He was being blackmailed.
And they put Jesus on his hands and said, "We want Him dead" and Pilate was stuck because he couldn't do anything else and keep his job, he thought. So he starts to talk to Jesus in verse 33 of 18 and he says, "Are you" and it's the emphatic Greek pronoun..."Are You the King of the Jews?" This can't be. Is this a joke? You? Are You the King of the Jews? Pilate took one look at Jesus...humble, meek, no royal robes, no army, no following, no kingdom, no empire that he could see. He says, "Are You the King of the Jews? This is what they're accusing You of claiming to be. Are You what all that shouting was about last Sunday?" Pilate had no concept of a spiritual kingdom. He had no concept of a spiritual king. The humbly clad, meek Jesus in his mind was no king at all.
Jesus answered him in verse 34 and said, "Sayest thou this thing of thyself or did others tell it thee of Me?" And Jesus insightfully puts the finger right on Pilate's problem. Pilate, you're just mouthing this accusation. That's all. Is this your idea? Is this a Roman accusation? Are the Romans saying I am a revolutionary? Is this your own thing? And there was the indictment of the blackmailed Pilate. Pilate says, "Am I a Jew? Are You kidding me? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered Thee unto me."
And I love this. He says, "What have You done?" He didn't even know. "Why did they turn against You like this? This isn't Rome. This is your own people. What did you do? What did you do to deserve this? We're not accusing you. We would never choose you for a king. You don't look like any threat to us. Your own chief priests have done this. The whole thing is Jewish. The whole thing is religious. It isn't Roman. It isn't political. What have you done?" Jesus said, "Well"...verse 36..."My kingdom is not of this world. You see, if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight in order that I should not be delivered to the Jews. But no, My kingdom is not from here." Boy, that is an absolutely fantastic statement. Listen. He says, "Pilate, if My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight."
According to history, do you know how many troops Pilate had available at that time? Three thousand. Do you know how many troops Jesus had available at that time? Just under 3million, if He had decided to be a political leader. Do you know who would have won? Jesus said, "If my kingdom was of this world." Notice He doesn't deny that He's the king. He doesn't say, "I'm not a king." He just says, "My kingdom is not this kind of kingdom that you think. If it were, you'd have been long gone and I'd be sitting in the seat here."
And Pilate says, "Well, if your kingdom isn't the kind of kingdom that's of the world...in verse 37...are you a king? What kind of king is that kind of king? What kind of king are you?" And, of course, the answer to that is that Jesus is the king over a spiritual kingdom, isn't He? Colossians 1, "We've been translated from darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son." His kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. His kingdom is not a kingdom of physical power. His kingdom is a kingdom of spiritual reality. He rules the hearts of men.
Pilate was right when he saw nothing in Jesus resembling a king but he was wrong when he concluded that Jesus was therefore not a king. He was a king...a king in a way that Pilate never could understand. Are you then a king? Watch Jesus' answer. "You said it." And the vernacular right on. "You said it that I'm a king. You better believe it, brother." That's the Greek idiom there. It is emphatic. He's not saying, "Well, you said I was a king. I guess I am." No. "You said it, fellow. To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world. When I got here, they said...the angels saying that He is born who is king. The wise men said, "Where is He that is king?" I came to be a king. I am a king and mine is a spiritual kingdom in the hearts of men and women who believe.
But Pilate didn't understand it and so in verse 1 of 19, Pilate took Jesus and scourged him, beat him. And the soldiers who played a game on the floor of Fort Antonia; you can still today see the stones on that floor. They're still there with the markings that show you the game they played and they used to take their prisoners and make them change...it was a common game...and then mock them. And they played the game with Jesus and they pushed a crown of thorns on His head and they put a robe on Him made of purple and they said, "Hail, King of the Jews," and they smashed Him, and it's literally saying in the Greek "and they kept saying and they kept giving Him blows with their hands." They mocked Him as a king.
And then in verse 19 of Chapter 19, Pilate wrote a title and mockingly put it on the cross and the writing was "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." And it was a laugh. It was a joke. It was a mock. And it was done in order to incite the Jews, in order to infuriate them by saying, "Here's your king. How do you like it?" And they came running to Pilate and said, "Change that to 'He said he is king.'" And Pilate said, "No way. What I have written, I have written." And that was his final way to sort of blast them by making them face the fact that he'd just put up there "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." That's your king.
And he mocked...the mocking magistrate. He missed the point, didn't he? He was a king. The mistaken multitude missed the point. He was a king. The mercenary mob missed the point. He was a king. You say, "But, John, it's so sad that He died, that it all had to end up in death." No, it isn't sad because that was the plan. Did you know that? He was the King who came to what? To die. So you see, the world thought that they had pulled their thing when really they had done God's thing. In Acts2:22 and 23, it says that "By God's foreknowledge and God's determinated counsel, you have slain Him." Listen. This is the plan. The King had to die.
Listen to me. I'm going to close with this and I want you to get it. This is the key to everything. We cannot have Jesus as King without having Him as Lamb, right? The Lamb of God, slain for the sins of the world. There's a great future day coming and Jesus will return. Isn't that right? And in Revelation 11 and 19, it describes how He will take over the world and He will set up His Kingdom and He will be King of Kings and He will be Lord of Lords. But did you ever notice something? That the descriptions of Jesus as King in the Book of Revelation are so frequently as a Lamb King? Did you ever notice that?
For example, when you see Him sitting on His throne in chapter 5, He is the Lamb sitting on His throne. It is as a lamb that He fights the kings of the earth and subdues them in Chapter 17. It is as a lamb that He defeats Satan in Chapter 12. It is as a lamb that He weds His church in Chapter 19. It is as a lamb that He alights the eternal city in Chapter 21. It is as a lamb in Chapter 22 that He sits on the throne and from Him flows the Water of Life that refreshes the eternal city. He is the Lamb King and while men throughout the ages have hailed their kings with "Long live the king," we praise God that the King came to die because He becomes the Lamb King who takes away the sins of the world.
And what is to be our response? Not that of the mercenary mob or the mistaken multitude or the mocking magistrate. Our response is to be exactly what I read you when we began this morning. These words: "Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth. And that every tongue should confess 'Jesus Christ is Lord' to the glory of God the Father." What is your part? To confess Jesus as Lord and to fall into His submissive Kingdom where all His subjects bow to His rule. Let's pray.
Father, we thank You for the Lamb who was slain that He might reign in our hearts and some day return and reign on the earth. We pray that no one here would miss being a part of this kingdom. The songwriter put it this way: King of my life, I crown Thee now. Thine shall the glory be. I hope that's true in your life. I hope you can say that. If you haven't said it before, why don't you say it right now? Why don't you commit your life to the kingship of Jesus Christ? Maybe you've never received Him as Savior. Maybe you're a Christian but you haven't been obedient to the Lord. You haven't followed the rules and the commands and the direction of the King.
If you'd like to beginning today and take your hosannas out of the category of hypocrisy and put them into the category of truth. Make your hallelujahs be meaningful and honest. Don't hail Him as King if you don't worship Him as King or obey Him. Jesus said, "Why do you call Me Master and Lord and do not the things I say?" Come and bow before Him and accept His forgiveness, His salvation and the home He prepares for you in His Kingdom. Thank you, Father, for our fellowship this morning. Do Your perfect work in all of our hearts. In Jesus' name and for His glory. Amen.
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Conservation Professionals Invited to South Dakota CRP Workshops June 17-18
Brookings, S.D. -- The Conservation Reserve Program Readiness Initiative is returning to South Dakota with a pair of workshops on CRP topics. The first workshop on wildlife habitat development will be June 17 with a registration deadline of May 17. The second course on CRP mid-contract management will be June 18 with a registration deadline of May 17. Participants can choose to attend one or both courses and lunch will be provided both days. Online courses on CRP core training, wind erosion modeling, soil erosion modeling and web-based planning tools are available now.
Sponsored by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the South Dakota workshops are part of the CRP Readiness Initiative, a nationwide effort to train conservation professionals and independent consultants to provide the planning, implementation and management services associated with the Conservation Reserve Program. While especially relevant to the more than 400 professionals who have already participated in the program, the South Dakota workshops also may be useful to conservation professionals working on other NRCS and conservation planning projects. Professionals from nonprofits, conservation districts and state agencies with ties to NRCS are encouraged to participate.
"Participants taking these courses will dig deeper, learning about advanced planning concepts and conservation tools and practices, like developing wildlife habitat and managing contracts," said Kevin Erb, CRP Readiness Initiative co-director and Certified Crop Advisor. "After completing the training, they will be able to help landowners plan for and implement sound conservation practices that will enhance water quality and wildlife habitat, while keeping nutrients in soil where they can boost yields."
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- Developing Wildlife Habitat on June 17 covers landscape and habitat concepts. Participants will learn to "read the landscape" by identifying landscape features within the context of Wildlife Habitat Guides and Ecological Site Descriptions. Participants will learn how to apply a "state-and-transition" process to identify existing site features and choose the conservation practices that will transition the site to the desired habitat. Landowner input will be used to guide students toward completing a CRP Wildlife Habitat Plan within the context of a "virtual field day" to prepare the student for a corresponding field course.
- Mid-Contract Management: Creating and Maintaining Exceptional Habitat on June 18 provides participants with a background in mid-contract management purpose, benefits and limitations within the CRP conservation planning process. Participants will learn strategies in working with landowners to develop a mid-contract management plan and will conduct a site visit to evaluate the effectiveness of mid-contract management practices on the land. An online portion of both courses must be completed in advance of the in-person workshops. Instructions on completing the online portion will be provided three weeks prior to the class.
Online courses currently available
- The Wind Erosion Prediction System course covers the WEPS computer model, wind erosion process and its effects on agricultural production and the environment. This basic course takes participants from software installation to basic use of WEPS to compare a variety of conservation practices to reduce wind erosion.
- The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation -- RUSLE2 -- course teaches participants to use the model to understand and compare practices to reduce soil erosion caused by rainfall and runoff.
- The Conservation Planning Web Tools course provides a hands-on exploration of the Web Soil Survey and electronic Field Office Technical Guide -- eFOTG -- two tools used by conservation professionals in a variety of conservation programs.
- The CRPRI Online Core Training guides participants through the process of creating a viable CRP conservation plan. The course covers the various sub-programs of the CRP (General, Continuous and CREP), resources available to planners and strategies for stakeholder interactions when developing a conservation plan. The NRCS 9-Step Planning process under the Conservation Reserve Program is covered in detail. The course concludes with next steps for becoming a certified Technical Service Provider.
Online Core Training is free of charge to all participants. Supplemental courses are available free of charge to those who complete the online Core Training and for a fee to all others.
For more information on the CRP Readiness Initiative, visit facesofcrp.info. To register for the South Dakota or online workshops, visit conservation-training.wisc.edu and click on the Conservation Planning link.
Contact: Tim Gieseke, CRP Readiness Initiative Midwest Media Contact, at 507-359-1889 or email@example.com.
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Paralyzed cyclist, champion against cancer, dies at 54
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a resident of South of Midtown
on Feb 1, 2013 at 8:30 pm
So very sad to read this. He was a wonderful, generous man and talented artist. I had the pleasure of sitting for him as an artist's model many times. He will be missed very much by his friends and family and indeed those of us who did not know him that well but for whom he always had a smile.
a resident of Downtown North
on Feb 1, 2013 at 8:57 pm
what a sad loss, he was such a nice man always smiling he will be missed.
a resident of Downtown North
on Feb 2, 2013 at 9:14 am
So sad to hear about Lawrence. I had talked with him many times at Peet's, about coffee, dogs, and bikes. Such a kind man. He will be missed around Palo Alto.
a resident of Mountain View
on Feb 3, 2013 at 7:19 pm
A true champion with a heart as big as the out doors. I'll always remember his smile.
a resident of Evergreen Park
on Feb 4, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Lawrence was a true hero...unlike Lance Armstrong. May Lawrence rest in peace. He will be missed.
a resident of another community
on Feb 5, 2013 at 8:59 am
I knew Lawrence for many years and worked with him often as a model. I've missed him for several years already as he had to step back from his drawing groups to care for himself. I will continue to miss his presence and influence within the greater drawing community but will always remember him as an individual with one of the most positive outlooks toward life that I have ever known. There will remain a place in my heart for Lawrence forever.
a resident of Downtown North
on Feb 7, 2013 at 8:15 pm
It was with very great sadness that I learned of Lawrence's passing. Lawrence was a rare spirit indeed - a very aware & perceptive man. He faced the many, many difficult challenges he had in life with great courage, humility, humor and nobility. I delighted in our many conversations at Peet's, & around town. My entire family sends deep & sincere condolences to Lawrence's family & loved ones. We will never forget Lawrence.
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Hope College has moved up in the annual "College Sustainability Report Card" compiled by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
Hope has earned a B- in the report for 2011, a dramatic climb given that the college received a D- grade two years ago and a C+ for 2010.
The report card evaluates institutions in nine main categories: administration, climate change and energy, food and recycling, green building, student involvement, transportation, endowment transparency, investment priorities and shareholder engagement. The college's aggregate score included As in food and recycling and in investment priorities.
Other institutions with higher overall grades make larger financial investments in personnel and departments solely vested in sustainable efforts. Hope continues to strive to balance its commitment to environmental stewardship with the stewardship of the financial resources entrusted to it, particularly with regard to the impact of spending on tuition.
Sustainability is an ongoing process at the college that includes not only individual and departmental efforts but the coordinating work of a Sustainability Advisory Committee comprised of faculty, administrators and students.
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text: The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) is warning users of a Bluetooth services error in four types of Sony Ericsson phones that could allow a denial of service (DoS) attack. The Bluetooth component fails to properly handle malformed L2CAP (Logical Link Control and Adaptation Layer Protocol) packets. However, exploits should be minimal; the phone returns to normal functionality once it is restarted. Users can protect themselves by turning off the 'discoverable' mode in Bluetooth. Secunia rates the flaw as low risk.


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A while back, a couple of people posted some brief instructions and photos of the "home depot harness" in this thread: http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/showthread.php?t=20200
I felt like this harness idea deserved its own thread, because it is very cost effective.
I followed their instructions and it turned out great. I highly recommend it. Total cost of materials is less than $20. Here are some photos.


text: Hello Ratrodbikes forum! this is my first post I believe and i figured this would be a good way to start! with my recently started project I will begin with a drawing I've been working on this idea for a while, this is basically the final revision. originally i was going to build a full on custom board track racer style bike, custom frame and the whole nine yards, but then reality kicked back in when i remembered that i don't have a MIG welder or any other useful metalworking tools! what i DID have was an 85cc tecumseh two stroke motor from a snowblower, and a couple of western flyer bicycles! the ladies bike will donate to me its front and rear brakes, forks, and shimano 333 3 speed rear hub to be mounted on the other bike. today i made a mockup of the tank, flipped the bars and a few other little things on the bike. Its been HOT. 89 with a heat index of 107 today, wasnt too bad with a fan blowing directly at me! :lol: I owe a LOT to my good friend Simon for helping me figure some of this bicycle specific stuff out (i'm a total noob when it comes to any of the more technical bicycle stuff) and with the gear ratios. for simplicities sake I've decided to order the bulk of the parts from GoKartParts.com, which also has some of the lowest priced parts i've come across. The parts chosen are as follows: *12t #35 chain 5/8 bore max torque clutch *5/8"x10" jackshaft kit (13t and 18t sprockets) *c35 chain 10 foot roll *ccl-35 connecting link x2 *72 tooth steel sprocket #35 chain all of that means that i should have around a 10.6:1 ratio in third gear with around a 50mph top speed. and stump pulling torque in first :lol: The motor, if you cant tell, is an 85cc tehcumseh 2 stroke which is 2-3hp stock if i remember right. it will be getting some mild port work, a tuned exhaust pipe, and a new carb which should be good for a little power boost i've come up with what i think will be a more than adequate mounting method for the motor, without welding! here is where i sit right now, cardboard tank mockup and all more progress as i make it! i wont be ordering parts for a while yet, but theres a lot of progress to be made without spending anything yet! please let me know what you think


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Hi,Can ya keep 4 colony hives on a pallet all the time ? We had some on pallets all year and lost 13 for no reason,I thought it might be that.We didn't lose any that we had seperated 3-4 feet.What do you think ? These are ones we just bought and they are different breed from others we have and lost none of the other breed but they were not on a 4 way pallet either.
Thanks very much,John


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Take a moment to imagine a world without Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Mary Poppins, or Donald Duck. Picture the entertainment industry without animated cartoons, multi-view movies, special effects, or color. Imagine watching TV without being able to hear what each character is saying as he or she talks. If it weren't for the creativity and perseverance of Walt Disney, the founder of The Walt Disney Company, these characters and technical innovations would not exist today.
The life and work of Walt Disney is the subject of the exhibit Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives, which opened this month at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
A Dazzling Display
Through a display of more than 300 rarely seen objects, the exhibit traces Disney's journey from his birth in Chicago to his first animation film to his groundbreaking film inventions. By showcasing various artifacts from different Disney eras, the Museum of Science and Industry hopes to portray Disney's history and remind visitors of their experiences with Disney's characters, films, and theme parks.
"When they see Mary Poppins, for example, they will recall the first time they watched the movie," Nicholas Vega, the Manager of Collections and Exhibits for the Walt Disney Archives, told TFK. "If they see the Small World doll from Disneyland, they will remember the first time they went on the ride."
Recreating Disney's World
One display in the exhibit contains a replica of the desk that was in Walt Disney's office. Artists and historians reconstructed it by looking at archived pictures of his office. Another section displays original Mary Poppins movie props, including the Mary Poppins carpetbag, a Mary Poppins outfit, and Jane and Michael's toys. Mary Poppins will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.
The exhibit also includes a Lego Cinderella Castle built by a Lego master, Walt Disney's collection of awards and trophies, and a display case full of authentic costumes from movies including Enchanted, The Great and Powerful Oz, The Mad Hatter, and 101 Dalmatians.
The Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives also has hands-on activities for kids of all ages. In the "Animation Academy," guests are given a tutorial of how to draw a certain Disney character. The characters are rotated on a daily basis, so a visitor can learn how to draw seven different Disney characters over the course of one week. There are also question-and-answer trivia games and stations where guests can listen to Disney songs.
The Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives exhibit will be at the museum until May 4, 2014. "It's a highly educational, but very entertaining exhibit," Vega says. "So you're going to learn, but you're going to have fun learning."


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Lisbon 202 - Amazing view in Chiado!
Size64 m²
Floor No.5(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Elevator in building
- Family/child friendly
- Washer/dryer
- Internet/WiFi
- Baby cot
Accommodation summary
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This luxury apartment is set in the old part of the city center, in the same building as one of our other apartments. It's bright and filled with daylight, set on the 5th floor (with elevator till the 4th) of a recently refurbished building at the heart of the elegant neighbourhood of Chiado.
This acommodation has a privileged situation and an impressive view over the castle, the river and the roofs of old Lisbon.
Located on one of the main streets of chic and active Chiado, you will be surrounded by trendy cafés and shops. Definitely it is ideal for a stay in the city during holidays or for business...
The subway is at a few steps away and is it also walking distance to the train stations that can take you to the beaches around Lisbon, to Sintra and to all the sightseeing in and outside the city.
The apartment is 64 m2 and has been renovated to include the following:
- a bedroom with double bed (165 cm x 200 cm);
- one living room with dining and sitting areas, one single sofa bed, flat screen TV, DVD and stereo;
- a complete kitchen with stove, oven, microwave, washing machine and dish washer;
- a bathroom with bathtub.
The apartment is provided with central heating and air conditioning.
The building has an elevator.
Wireless broadband access available for those who have their own laptop with Wi-Fi compatible equipment.
We will welcome you with a bottle of cold "vinho verde".
You will also find in the apartment various CDs of Portuguese music to complete your cultural experience.
House rulesCheck-in and check-out:
- Check-in is after 4 PM (You can always come after 11 to leave you luggage and get the keys, but if we have someone else leaving on the same day the apartment won't be ready before 4 PM).
- Check-out is until 11 AM.
In labour days, you can leave the luggage in our office before 11AM in the day of your check-in and/or after 4PM in the day of your check-out.
Please call us 30 minutes before your arrival.
Check-in Monday to Friday from 4PM to 9:30PM is free of charge, except on Portuguese public holidays.
Particular situations:
- additional 30 Euro for check-in from 9:30 PM to 00:00 AM everyday;
- additional 45 Euro for check-in from 00:00 AM to 8:30 AM everyday;
- additional 25 Euro for check-in on Week-ends and on Portuguese public holidays till 9:30 PM.
Please note that, for security reasons, you must bring a copy of your id card or passport when you check-in.
Kindly note that a damage deposit of 150€ OR a credit card responsability term will also be asked upon arrival.
Cleaning and maintenance:
The apartment will be cleaned prior to the arrival of each tenant.
When leaving, the tenant is obliged to leave the apartment in a reasonable condition.
The tenant signing the check-in form will be liable for the correct and decent behavior of all the persons accompanying him/her, and specifically avoiding any activity that is against any law or health policy.
Don't forget that you are going to stay in residential buildings. Guests staying in one of our apartments should know that if parties or loud music are heard, or neighbors complain and/or police is called, it can result in immediate eviction. This will also result in loss of prepaid rent.
Quiet time is from 10 PM to 10 AM. We are sure that you understand that the nightly rest of other inhabitants must be respected.
Smoking is not permitted in the apartments unless stated otherwise.
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|$ 32 AU per guest/night extra
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Reviews for this host's other properties
Excellent apartment in a central but quiet street, well appointed and new. It has all the necessary amenities, including washing machine. Great service outlet assignment and return keys. Only in the lack of a broom, a sponge for the dishes and on soap.
Ottimo appartamento in posizione centralissima ma in via tranquilla, ben arredato e nuovo. Ha tutti i comfort necessari, lavatrice compresa. Ottimo il servizio di presa incarico e riconsegna chiavi. Unici nei la mancanza di una scopa, spugna per i piatti e relativo sapone.
It was all in perfect condition and were great anfritiones.
Repetire a great experience.
Estuvo todo en perfecto estado y fueron grandes anfritiones.
Una gran experiencia repetire.
After all the problems we had in the end was not bad. Anyway I must say that the apartment is not anything special. The situation is perfect, but inside, left much to be desired. One of the beds was a sofa bed, and it did not open, two people had to sleep on the floor, on a mattress of 5 centimeters thick. Except one bedroom, the other two were small. Lacking utensils, there is no table in the living room, etc ... In short, very very very regular.
Despues de todos los problemas que tuvimos, al final no ha estado mal. De todas formas he de decir que el apartamento no es nada del otro mundo. La situacion, perfecta, pero por dentro, dejaba mucho que desear. Una de las camas era el sofa-cama, y este no abria, dos personas tuvieron que dormir en el suelo, sobre un colchon de 5 centimetros de grosor. Exceptuando una habitacion, las otras dos eran pequeñas. Falto de utensilios de cocina, no hay mesa en el salon, etc...En definitiva, muy muy muy regular.
Fantastic location amidst the old Lisbon - top atmosphere for those who want to taste. Many traditional Portuguese restaurants and cafes nearby. Excellent apartment equipped including dishwasher and washing machine. TV we could not get it to work but yeah .. Who goes there now to Lisbon to watch TV!
Fantastische locatie midden het oude Lissabon - top voor diegenen die sfeer willen proeven. Veel traditioneel Portugese restaurantjes en cafés in de buurt. Uitstekend uitgerust appartement inclusief vaatwasser en wasmachine. TV konden we niet goed aan de praat krijgen maar ja.. wie gaat er nou naar Lissabon om TV te kijken!
Perfect location for Bairro Alto where there is alot of restaurants, cafés and bars. Also short distance to Chiado and all transportation to go where ever you would like to go. The apparatment is big anough for 3, maybe 4 people/family. It has one big bedrom and to sleeping couches. There is a bar on the corner so there are some noises, especially in the weekends. I will absolutely recommend this appartment.
Great apartment in the very heart of town. I'd recommend it to everybody!
The apartment is very well equipped and well located, safe and quite neighborhood, walking the same night. There is easy access to the Metro and Tram, but is also possible to do many things the same pe. The booking procedure with Wimdu also went very well.
O apartamento esta muito bem equipado e bem localizado, a vizinhanca e bastante segura, mesmo para caminhar a noite. Ha facil acesso ao Metro e ao Tram, mas tambem e possivel fazer muitas coisas mesmo a pe. O procedimento de reserva com a Wimdu tambem correu muito bem.
Mooie locatie in een levendige buurt, vlakbij metro Cais do Sodré. Het appartement zelf is ruim en comfortabel, en heeft gelukkig heel isolerend glas want de buurt is nogal rumoerig 's nachts. Bij het woord 'luxury' (en voor die prijs) had ik wel verwacht dat er iets van douchegel voorzien was, of wat basics in de keuken. Niet dus. En nog een minpuntje: check-in is pas om 16u.
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Giants worked out Nick Kasa by the way.. So now they've been linked to Nick Kasa, Khaseem Greene, Alec Ogletree, Brian Winters, Chance Warmack, which is great, as all are solid players, and most are guys i love as prospects...
Giants worked out Nick Kasa by the way.. So now they've been linked to Nick Kasa, Khaseem Greene, Alec Ogletree, Brian Winters, Chance Warmack, which is great, as all are solid players, and most are guys i love as prospects...
David Bass is very intriguing small school prospect i'm intrested in as many know, as well.. This guy makes tons of plays batting balls down and hes athletic enough to then make the pick after batting the pass down, and hes pretty expierenced, breaking the mizzo west st record consec starts at 50 as well as sacks with 39.5, and add 19passes defensed and 3picks as well as 56TFL.. This guys a beast , and thats what he said in one word describes himself, "BEAST".. Natural burst off the snap with good awareness finding ball carriers , whos got a competitive drive in him, and can get up to bat passes down ... One of my fave small school prospects this yr.. Having a tough time picking Catapano or Bass as DE i like most from small school.. He ran better at proday then he did at combine..
Wouldn't mind adding a DE in the later rounds to compete for a roster spot.
michael mauti, zac stacy, miguel maysonet, rontez miles, mike catapano, denard robinson, tyrann mathieu, brian schwenke, shamarko thomas, marcus lattimore, reid fragel.
Marcus Lattimore could end up being one of the best RB's in the NFl, so taking a flier on him in 3rd-5th range is quite worth it in my opinion.. This guy was one of those once every few yrs backs, that gets taken in top 5-10picks.. Like a Adrian Peterson, Trent Richardson type.. So ya , taking a gamble on him just may be worth it.. I coulden't even imagine having a Lattimore/Wilson duo at RB.. Insanity!
Khalid Wooten is a intriguing size/speed guy from Nevada.. Ran a 4.47 and 4.49 40 at his proday and looked good in the drills as well.. I don't know why this guys still under the radar, but hes got nfl size and nfl speed, and solid ball skills.. Someone to keep a eye on for sure...
Stansly Maponga DE TCU is a guy to look out for as well.. Kinda reminds me of OSI as a undersized DE, with top flight rush skills, but fell off this past yr, mainly due to nagging injuries, and his stock has taken a hit because of it.. A great upside mid rder type pick...
TJ Johnson/PJ Lonergan Centers S.Car and LSU respectively- Both of these guys are underrated centers from good teams that played in power running schemes.. TJ Johnson specifically is powerful road grader and very football savy.. hes one of those centers that goes late in draft and ends up playing 10yrs in the league..
I like Mark Harrison from Rutgers.
If we decide to pick another corner, Terry Hawthorne from Illinois.
DJ Swearinger or Shaq Wilson
Dion Sims! c'mon Reese! I like Kasa too but Sims is that athletic tightend, bavaro type. Myers is a good pass catcher can get open, but Sims can play inline and can stretch the field.
Q. Smith DE or Anthony Bryant DE...both have a lot of upside


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The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) establishes requirements for those who send commercial email, spells out penalties for spammers and companies whose products are advertised in spam if they violate the law, and gives consumers the right to ask emailers to stop spamming them.
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FOR THE BIRDS is excited to announce that we will be presenting a workshop titled "Winging It: Nurturing Authentic Communication in Feminist Organizing" at this weekend's Combating Latent Inequality Together Fest, being held in Highland Park / New Brunswick, NJ.
@ Reformed Church of Highland Park
19 S. 2nd Ave. Highland Park, New Jersey
Winging It: Nurturing Authentic Communication in Feminist Organizing
In this workshop, For the Birds (a New York-based feminist collective and distro) will guide a community discussion about internal and external struggles in feminist cultural and social justice organizing, creating feminist spaces, and coalition building. The Collective maintains that it is imperative to communicate authentically in order to bridge gaps, and to grow, both interpersonally and between groups. The workshop will discuss commonalities, such as the way that the efforts of many marginalized groups coalesce around issues like safer spaces, grassroots modes of organizing, and artistic and political visibility. For the Birds invites questions about their own processes, and seeks to find out how other feminists work through these issues and towards similar goals in their own groups and communities. This is a participatory workshop.
For additional C.L.I.T. Fest details visit their website. The entire schedule is posted here. I (Kate) am also curating a zine reading Friday night and speaking on a panel entitled "Art Labor: A Discussion of Art Practice, Presence, Preservation and Perseverance," but I wrote a fairly lengthy blog post about that on my personal blog. For the Birds will be tabling Sunday as well.
To pump you up for the Fest, listen to this "once-in-a-lifetime" podcast with the C.L.I.T. Fest organizers, in which they discuss their process planning the Fest, their own experiences in activism and D.I.Y. communities, and why conversations like these are so vital.
And, while you're at it, check out these C.L.I.T. Fest mixes!
Can't wait to see you there! Please do come say hi.


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its obvious the hybrid guys who are a true double threat like RG3,Kapernick Big ben, Flacco . these guys are not scramblers but true hybrid beings using todays modern technology to win Superbowls.
we can't get stuck in a stone aged old fashion one way to skin a cat thinking process.


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