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Janice S. DeBarros
Vice President
Ms. DeBarros is a Vice President at Ameresco. She is responsible for contract negotiations and sales closures of public housing projects. Ms. DeBarros has over twenty-five years of energy performance contracting experience in the multifamily public housing market.
Prior to joining Ameresco, Ms. DeBarros was Vice President of Citizens Conservation Services, overseeing the growth of utility demand side management programs as well as public housing energy performance contracts. She has also overseen policy consulting efforts with numerous utility, state, and national organizations. For nine years, Ms. DeBarros was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development. She managed low-income energy and housing programs and policy development for the Secretary and the Governor of Massachusetts, including direct management of over $100 million in program funds.
Ms. DeBarros earned a Senior Executive Management Certificate in Government Programs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, as well as and bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University.
Ameresco Management
Ameresco Corporate Management
George P. Sakellaris, P.E.
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Andrew Garfield shows himself for the first time since the Academy Awards debacle.
Heather Graham after eating vegan food. Apparently she survived.
Hugh Jackman rides a scooter while scooting? the dog.
Heidi Klum wants you to dislike her even more.
Johnny Depp playing guitar before hot boxing with Willie Nelson.
Jessica Simpson leaves a baby shower early after
this display with Odette Annable and???
Keith Urban helps his daughter with her bag. Nicole Kidman wouldn't have.
Liam Neeson in his bid to keep horse drawn carriages in NYC.

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Intractable Pain Linked to Low Cortisol »
"SAN ANTONIO â" Patients with severe chronic pain, including those with arachnoiditis, have low serum cortisol levels, a new study has shown.
Before prescribing opioids to such patients, clinicians should check cortisol levels, and if t"...
Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in clinical practice.
Serious adverse reactions associated with DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION include respiratory depression and apnea and, to a lesser degree, circulatory depression, respiratory arrest, shock, and cardiac arrest.
The following serious adverse reactions described elsewhere in the labeling include:
- Respiratory depression and secondary effects on intracranial pressure [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS]
- Hypotension [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS]
- Gastrointestinal effects and effects in sphincter of Oddi [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS]
- Drug abuse, addiction, and dependence [see Drug Abuse And Dependence]
- Effects on the ability to drive and operate machinery [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS]
The most common adverse effects are lightheadedness, dizziness, sedation, nausea, vomiting, sweating, flushing, dysphoria, euphoria, dry mouth, and pruritus. These effects seem to be more prominent in ambulatory patients and in those not experiencing severe pain.
Less Frequently Observed Adverse Reactions
Cardiac disorders: tachycardia, bradycardia, palpitations
Eye disorders: vision blurred, diplopia, miosis, visual impairment
Gastrointestinal disorders: constipation, ileus, diarrhea, abdominal pain
General disorders and administration site conditions: weakness, feeling abnormal, chills, injection site urticaria
Hepatobiliary disorders: biliary colic
Metabolism and nutrition disorders: decreased appetite
Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders: muscle rigidity
Nervous system disorders: headache, tremor, paraesthesia, nystagmus, increased intracranial pressure, syncope, taste alteration, involuntary muscle contractions, presyncope
Psychiatric disorders: agitation, mood altered, nervousness, anxiety, depression, hallucination, disorientation, insomnia, abnormal dreams
Renal and urinary disorders: urinary retention, urinary hesitation, antidiuretic effects
Respiratory, thoracic, and mediastinal disorders: bronchospasm, laryngospasm
Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders: injection site pain, urticaria, rash, hyperhidrosis
Vascular disorders: flushing, hypotension, hypertension
Postmarketing Experience
The following adverse reactions have been identified during post-approval use of hydromorphone. Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure: anaphylactic reactions, confusional state, convulsions, drowsiness, dyskinesia, dyspnea, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, hepatic enzymes increased, hyperalgesia, hypersensitivity reaction, injection site reactions, lethargy, myoclonus, oropharyngeal swelling, peripheral edema, and somnolence.
Read the Dilaudid-HP (hydromorphone hydrochloride injection) Side Effects Center for a complete guide to possible side effects
Drug Interactions With Other CNS Depressants
DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION should be used with caution and in reduced dosages when administered to patients concurrently receiving other central nervous system depressants including sedatives or hypnotics, general anesthetics, phenothiazines, centrally acting anti-emetics, tranquilizers, and alcohol because respiratory depression, hypotension, and profound sedation or coma may result.
When such combined therapy is contemplated, the dose of one or both agents should be reduced. Opioid analgesics, including DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION, may enhance the action of neuromuscular blocking agents and produce an increased degree of respiratory depression.
Interactions With Mixed Agonist/Antagonist Opioid Analgesics
Agonist/antagonist analgesics (e.g., pentazocine, nalbuphine, and butorphanol) and partial agonist analgesics (buprenorphine) should be administered with caution to a patient who has received or is receiving a course of therapy with a pure opioid agonist analgesic such as DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION. In this situation, mixed agonist/antagonist analgesics may reduce the analgesic effect of DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION and/or may precipitate withdrawal symptoms in these patients.
Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)
MAOIs may potentiate the action of DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION. Allow at least 14 days after stopping treatment with MAOIs before initiating treatment with DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION.
Anticholinergics or other medications with anticholinergic activity when used concurrently with DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION may result in increased risk of urinary retention and severe constipation, which may lead to paralytic ileus.
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DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION contain hydromorphone, which is a Schedule II controlled substance with an abuse liability similar to morphine. DILAUDID can be abused and is subject to criminal diversion.
DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION are intended for parenteral use only under the direct supervision of an appropriately licensed health care professional.
Abuse of DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION poses a hazard of overdose and death. This risk is increased with concurrent abuse of alcohol or other substances. Parenteral drug abuse is commonly associated with transmission of infectious diseases, such as hepatitis and HIV.
DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION can be abused in a manner similar to other opioid agonists, legal or illicit. This should be considered when prescribing, dispensing, ordering, or administering DILAUDID INJECTION or DILAUDID-HP INJECTION in situations where the physician or pharmacist is concerned about an increased risk of misuse, abuse, or diversion. Prescribers should monitor all patients receiving opioids for signs of abuse, misuse, and addiction. Furthermore, patients should be assessed for their potential for opioid abuse prior to being prescribed opioid therapy. Persons at increased risk for opioid abuse include those with a personal or family history of substance abuse (including drug or alcohol abuse) or mental illness (e.g., depression). Opioids may still be appropriate for use in these patients, however, they will require intensive monitoring for indications of abuse.
Opioid drugs are sought by people with substance use disorders (abuse or addiction, the latter of which is also called "substance dependence") and criminals who supply them by diverting medicines out of legitimate distribution channels. DILAUDID INJECTION and DILAUDID-HP INJECTION are targets for diversion.
"Drug-seeking" behavior is very common in persons with substance use disorders. Drug-seeking tactics include, but are not limited to, emergency calls or visits near the end of office hours, refusal to undergo appropriate examination, testing or referral, repeated "loss" of prescriptions, altering or forging of prescriptions and reluctance to provide prior medical records or contact information for other treating physician(s). "Doctor shopping" to obtain additional prescriptions is common among people with untreated substance use disorders and criminals who divert controlled substances.
The risks of misuse and abuse should be considered when prescribing or dispensing DILAUDID INJECTION or DILAUDID-HP INJECTION. Concerns about abuse and addiction, should not prevent the proper management of pain, however. Treatment of pain should be individualized, balancing the potential benefits and risks for each patient.
Addiction is defined as a chronic, neurobiological disorder with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental aspects, characterized by one or more of the following: impaired control over drug use, compulsive use, continued use despite harm, and craving. Drug addiction is a treatable disease, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, but relapse is common.
Abuse and addiction are separate and distinct from physical dependence and tolerance. Physicians should be aware that addiction may not be accompanied by concurrent tolerance and symptoms of physical dependence in all addicts. In addition, abuse of opioids can occur in the absence of addiction and is characterized by misuse for non-medical purposes, often in combination with other psychoactive substances. Careful record keeping of prescribing information, including quantity, frequency, and renewal requests is strongly advised.
Proper assessment of the patient, proper prescribing practices, periodic re-evaluation of therapy, proper dispensing and correct storage and handling are appropriate measures that help to limit misuse and abuse of opioid drugs. Careful record-keeping of prescribing information, including quantity, frequency, and renewal requests is strongly advised.
Healthcare professionals should contact their State Professional Licensing Board or State Controlled Substances Authority for information on how to prevent and detect abuse or diversion of this product.
Tolerance to opioids is demonstrated by the need for increasing doses to maintain a defined effect such as analgesia (in the absence of disease progression or other external factors). Tolerance to different effects of opioids may develop to varying degrees and at varying rates in a given individual. There is also inter-patient variability in the rate and extent of tolerance that develops to various opioid effects, whether the effect is desirable (e.g., analgesia) or undesirable (e.g., nausea). In general, patients taking opioid analgesics that are appropriately titrated for pain control develop tolerance to the respiratory depressant effects fairly reliably. Conversely, tolerance to the constipating effects of opioids rarely develops, even when they are administered over long periods of time.
Physical dependence is manifested by withdrawal symptoms after abrupt discontinuation of a drug or upon administration of an antagonist. Physical dependence and tolerance are not unusual during chronic opioid therapy.
The opioid abstinence or withdrawal syndrome is characterized by some or all of the following: restlessness, lacrimation, rhinorrhea, yawning, perspiration, chills, myalgia, and mydriasis. Other signs and symptoms also may develop, including: irritability, anxiety, backache, joint pain, weakness, abdominal cramps, insomnia, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, or increased blood pressure, respiratory rate, or heart rate.
In general, opioids used regularly should not be abruptly discontinued.This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
Last reviewed on RxList: 7/16/2015
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- " Compared to other hostels, the price is too high. During 10 days they didnt clean the room. The wifinis not good and in the morning they turned it off. "
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- " Excellent one at the Center of Cairo , their rate is a good value in compare with the others around , my room had a very good view on Adly Street alive area of down town , I really enjoyed my stay and the staff who run the hostel are honest and helpful too ,I would stay here again at the end of my tour . "
- 23 Jun 2015 Elizabeth Australia
- " My booking was only 1 night to try it and I decided to stay my second night of Cairo there and they helped by booking my train ticket to Luxor , when I come back to Cairo it will be my hostel to stay the last night before departure I can recommend it to every traveler looking for a good , clean , good value and well located hostel in Cairo ,,, "
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My kids love chicken drumettes, I mean, they LOOOOOVE them. My son usually eats them without making too much of a mess and he neatly wipes his hands before touching utensils. On the other hand, my daughter eats them as if they are her last meal. She never seems to notice the sticky mess on her face. Well, either way, I was really happy seeing my kids devouring these drumettes. Just as a note, 10 pieces of drumettes are not enough for my family if it's the only main dish. Enjoy!
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- 10 chicken drumettes
- ½ tsp. sea salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 celery stalk
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 bay leaves
- ½ cup white wine
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 4 Tbsp. orange marmalade (As brands vary in sweetness, please adjust amount based on taste.)
- Rinse the chicken and pat dry. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cut celery into 2" pieces and smash them with the flat side of knife. Peel garlic and smash it with the knife as well.
- In a non-stick frying pan, heat olive oil on high heat and cook the chicken until browned.
- Transfer the chicken into a Dutch oven (or a large pot). Then add celery, garlic, bay leaves, and Seasonings.
- Place otoshibuta on top of the chicken, but do not cover with the Dutch oven lid. Start cooking over medium high heat. When boiling, turn down the heat to medium and simmer for 15 minutes.
- After 15 minutes, remove otoshibuta. Continue cooking until sauce is almost gone. Use a spoon to coat the chicken with the sauce and flip the chicken once in a while.
- When there is about 2 Tbsp. of sauce left, turn of the heat. Transfer the chicken onto a plate, and pour the sauce on top. Serve immediately.
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If someone predicted that the Henderson County Board of Commissioners would enact a no-new-taxes budget that also spent $10.5 million on capital needs plus met a backlog of maintenance and repairs for public schools and BRCC, that person might have been deemed hopelessly out of touch.
Yet it happened last week.
The miracle of 2009 is either very crafty budgeting, a finger in the dike or the magic of borrowed money. In truth, it is a bit of all three.
County commissioners early on directed County Manager Steve Wyatt to craft a no-new-taxes budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year. Even as they dug deeper into reserves and voted to borrow money for capital construction and something called long-term repairs, commissioners held the line on taxes.
In the end, the commissioners approved the $109.5 million budget on one of the strangest 3-2 votes of recent political history.
Commissioners Mark Williams, Larry Young and Chuck McGrady voted yes while Chairman Bill Moyer and Commissioner Charlie Messer voted no.
"I think it is irresponsible," Moyer said.
One thing we can say about this budget season. It marks the end of the old taxpayer watchdog wing of the local Republican Party. In the past, the self-styled watchdogs would vote for things like new schools then vote against the taxes needed to pay for them. That pattern went the way of 5 percent unemployment this year.
No commissioners argued strongly for holding the line on capital spending when it came to an addition to relieve overcrowding at Apple Valley Middle School and North Henderson High School. That addition, at $9 million, is in the new budget.
But Williams and Young, up to now members in good standing of the taxpayer watchdog club, argued strongest for building now because prices are low, borrowing is available at very favorable rates and problems will only get worse if commissioners don't act.
This is precisely the argument that Moyer himself has made over the past 10 years, battling the blowhard "fiscal conservatives" who were only too happy to show up at ribbon cuttings for new buildings they had opposed.
In recent weeks, Williams has led the charge to build now, while the price is low and while, incidentally, construction workers need jobs. He made a good argument. It just doesn't fit with the demagoguery we're used to hearing on the subject of borrowing for capital projects.
The new budget can't be called conservative by any stretch of the word but it's not highly risky either. The reserves remain at $22.4 million, or 19 percent of the budget. The overall debt of $118 million is high, to be sure, but it is within state guidelines and the board's policy. More to the point, the county will pay it back; this ain't Congress.
There could be some smoke and mirrors here, too, but we won't know that for sure until we plod on through a distressingly stubborn recession.
TN EDITORIAL: Borrow and spend gets it done
If someone predicted that the Henderson County Board of Commissioners would enact a no-new-taxes budget that also spent $10.5 million on capital needs plus met a backlog of maintenance and repairs for public schools and BRCC, that person might have been deemed hopelessly out of touch.


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Backs arched, teeth bared, claws out, Auckland and Wellington today remain locked in a deep-seated, decades-old rivalry. Or Wellington does, anyway. Auckland couldn't care less.
And that, for seething Port Nicholsonians, is the most infuriating thing of all. "Absolutely positively can't beat us on a good day; we're the cultural capital," bellows Wellington at Auckland, in its very best stage voice. "Hi! Good for you," replies Auckland, before wandering back out to the deck to stare at the horizon and plan tomorrow's commute.
Parochial Wellingtonians could, therefore, be forgiven a squeal of delight at seeing one of New Zealand's finest commentators, the voice of Auckland, Brian Rudman, denounce in the Herald this week the "Big Lie" of Wellington as the cultural capital. That "deeply ingrained ... myth" had been given fresh currency by a just-published report, co-commissioned by Auckland "economic growth agency" Ateed.
And they had failed, bewailed Rudman, to point up the debatable - or wrong - assumptions about the city's cultural assets.
They'd swallowed it without so much as a fact-check or quibble. And in doing so, they echoed the population more widely. "It's as though Wellington's Big Lie has brainwashed not just its own citizens, but the majority of Aucklanders as well."
A similar point was made four years ago in Metro magazine by Simon Wilson, a former Wellingtonian, in a feature that demonstrated how, measured by scale, influence and power, Auckland is irrefutably the "epicentre" of New Zealand arts. And yet, he wrote, somehow the perception persisted - Wellington as the city of culture, Auckland still dogged by the "reputation of a philistine city".
Look around, and it's clear that Wilson is right - that reputation is nonsense. The Auckland Arts Festival, which opened this week, has a programme full of quality and fire. The Pasifika Festival, which turns 21 this weekend at Western Springs, is unique in the world. In May there's the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, the Film Festival at the mighty Civic a couple of months later. The Diwali splendour, the music in parks, the movies at Silo Park, the Art Gallery, the Museum, the range of theatre - on and on the list goes.
All of that is to be applauded and treasured. But the killer fact, as Rudman notes, is that 90 per cent of Wellingtonians consider themselves, according to the recent Nielsen Quality of Life Survey, to live in a city that has "a culturally rich and diverse arts scene". In Auckland, the corresponding figure is 39 per cent.
That's a shocking contrast. But it squares with anecdotal evidence. In Auckland, you experience culture if you attend it. In Wellington, you don't have to actually take part to feel part of it. Wellington is palpably, vocally, unmistakably a city of culture. Auckland is a city of many cultures. But it doesn't have the feel of a city of culture.
The cultural and artistic richness of Auckland seems somehow insulated from Auckland itself. To a degree that's a big-city thing, but it's by no means inevitable or permanent. Part of it is the public transport (hundreds of people disgorging from an underground railway station at Aotea Square could properly transform concrete muddle into cultural nucleus), part of it is the sprawl. The Auckland Plan sees this, it points in the right direction, and should be defended in the face of Government ministers' retrograde stances on transport and land supply.
But there is also something to be said for re-engaging in an old-fashioned, friendly enmity with Wellington. When Wilson's Metro piece was published, it sparked a predictably furious reaction from the capital. How very dare they? But in Auckland, of course, it provoked something more like an, "Oh, right". Auckland needs to be roused.
A neutral observer wrote in the Marlborough Express in 1909 of the Wellington-Auckland rivalry, forged in decades of wrangling over the location of the capital and perceived attempts to poach each others' settler populations. The paper's correspondent described the "extraordinary self-conceit and jealousy of Wellington which afflicts the average Aucklander". We could argue about the endurance of that first part, but the jealousy has dissipated almost completely. And it might do Auckland good to rediscover it.
Disclaimer: The author is a born and bred Wellingtonian, who used to tell people that the wind in the capital was a good thing because only the strong-willed stayed, while the dickheads went to live elsewhere. He now lives in Auckland.


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22 inch on center joists! please help
hello all im a newbie to this website. all the help and comments i can get would be highly appreciated. i am installing a 4 1/4 inch wideand 3/4 inch thick t&g red oak hardwood floors. my joists are 2x8, 22 inch on center, for the subfloor it is a 1 x 4 plank runnnig at a 45 degree angle to the joists also it is a semi detached home around a 1000 sguare feet. i was planning on installing a new subloor (3/4 inch t&g plywood 4x8 sheets, glueing and also screwing it down every 8 inches) before i found out my joists are so far apart. any suggestions on what should i do for the subfloor? I want to eliminate any bounce in the floors. Should i just glue and screw the 3/4 plywood over the existing 1x6 planks???
also what size staples and nails are usually used for 3/4 inch hardwood ?
The plywood will not add much stiffness to the floor. In order to compute stiffness of the joists, you need to know the clear span of the joists, the joist spacing (you indicated it was 22 inches OC), the actual depth and width of the joists (an old 2x8 may be full size, modern 2x8 are smaller), and the species and grade of lumber used for the joists. Adding 3/4 inch plywood will stiffen the system a bit, but most of the stiffness comes from the joists.
one thing i forgot to mention i do have in my kitchen(11 feet by 11 feet)a 12 by 12 inch ceramic tile sitting on the original subfloor plus a half an inch plywood. there are no cracks anywhere, and its been like tha for atleast 6 years.
should i just go with the extra layer of plywood then? i understand u mentioned that the stiffness of the floor depends on mostly the joists. but could it be that the exisitng subfloor is just old and loose, and thats why it is so noisy, and bouncy in some areas.
Hi Martinzz,
In your first post the joists were 2x8, now they're 1 3/4 x 3 3/4" :no: I don't think so. You also say the span of the joists is 20 ft. Again, I don't think so.
Maybe you'll wanna start over? :whistling2:
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Thanks Willie and Richard for remembering my mother in law Phyllis. She was as you say a very special lady and she would have loved the fact that you were drinking to her remembrance in the sun.
Pretty and oh so unique Cuenca
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After our visit to Cuenca it was back in Charlie who promised to take us to Toledo, which she did. The roads in Spain are fantastic to drive on and so very very smooth. Lots of new freeways everywhere not being used. Do not know why they build them because the normal road is still excellent with hardly any traffic on it
Now here we are in Toledo , parked in a 5 star park, sitting outside the restaurant having a wine and looking at the most fantastic view of the city. Will probably stay here for 3 or 4 nights and enjoy it all. Lots to see and discover here. Still warm and sunny as well.
Just an addage, for those people who will understand this, we are having a drink in the most gorgeous place and wish to toast a wonderful lady called Phyllis, who to us will always be remembered as a grand lady.It has been a privilage to know you Phyl, rest peacefully xoxo


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Jesus: The Solution to the Human Dilemma
Well, those of you who are a part of Grace Church, you know that I've been in a rut for years and I just keep teaching the Bible week after week after week, verse by verse but every Christmas I try to do something different. It's like variety time for me. So I thought, "What can I do this Christmas to share with you some things on my heart that might be a fresh look at some things we probably ought to understand?"
From time to time I'm invited to speak on university campuses, college campuses or to groups of people who are detached from a church setting and usually you can't just go diving in at the point of chapter and verse because they need to be kind of convinced that they need to even look at the Bible because there might be something important there. And so that's what I thought we ought to do this time and so I want to share with you what I think is simply just a very simple picture of the human dilemma and then I want to offer to you the solution that comes in Jesus Christ.
You know, I'm fully convinced; I guess I get more cynical every Christmas as I get older and I'm very young, I want you to know that, but as I get older I get cynical about Christmas, but I'm fully convinced this year that if even Jesus were invited, He wouldn't come to the birthday party the world is currently throwing for Him. You see, it isn't honest ‑ very hypocritical. They don't really care about Jesus. It's very tongue and cheek, it's very patronizing, it lacks two things that I think everything ought to have and that is honesty and integrity. And frankly, I don't even like to attend it but I don't know how to get out of this world to avoid it. It seems to be everywhere and it's a party that I just as soon not be at.
It reminds me when I was in high school, one time, a friend and I went to a party. We didn't know what kind of party it was but there was a girl there that my friend liked. I didn't particularly care for girls for awhile after that, football was what I worshipped but I grew out of that eventually. But there was a girl he wanted to see or be with so we went to this party and of course I was raised in a sheltered pastor's home and got to this party and it was very dark and there was music playing very slow, we used to call it 'necking' music in that day and these couples were sitting in the corners and people were dancing real slow and I said, "This is no fun at all". This kind of party and he said, "Yea, this is no good, what do you want to do to change the complexion of the party?" So we took and we blew out the fuses so they couldn't have the records or the lights or anything in that whole part of the house. We put pennies in the fuse box. Of course, everybody was upset nobody ever knew what happened and we came in and said let's go into the living room, we had a terrific idea, we had all these games ready. We had a great time. We played games and had a wonderful time. They didn't know what they were missing. I thought of this because I get this feeling at Christmas, I'd like to blow the fuse on the whole deal. You know, I would just like to blow the fuse and say ‑ hey, I've got a better kind of party, do you want to see? Let me show you how Christmas ought to be celebrated. I don't know, hypocrisy is a hard thing to deal with and I guess it gets down into my heart the fact that these people are running around feverishly trying to celebrate the birthday of the one they totally reject. That doesn't make sense. They don't want Jesus in their life, they don't want Jesus Christ to make any claims, they don't even want to acknowledge the reality of who He is they just want to have a birthday party so they can have an excuse for all the things they want to do. And it's at His expense.
And I think it salves the conscience of the world into thinking it's Christian. What a paradox. Jesus said so beautifully, so simply, so fully, "I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly". And then Jesus said so pensively, so tragically, "You will not come to Me that you might have life". I'm come that you might have it but you won't take it. And John sums it up when he says, "He came unto His own and His own received Him not". And men still reject the source of life, they still reject the only hope and frantically celebrate that He was born and couldn't care less.
And for the most part wish He wasn't.
I'd like to take a good look at life without Christ, at a world without Christ to see what is really there or isn't there. Now we live in a fantastic world. If ever anybody could have life and be happy it ought to be twentieth century man in western culture. I mean, we have got everything. Creature comforts beyond belief.
There aren't any limits to what we could have to fill up our lives.
Take for example, the fact of just information. You can learn so many things. You can expand your horizons. The end of adventure has never been seen. You can read and fill your mind and find exciting things and find and discover cures for this and that and solutions to this and that and now we have incredible technology. I mean, we have everything conceivable. And it's even mushrooming, folks, in ten years you won't believe the kind of world we're living in. Do you realize three‑thousand pages are published every second? That's a lot of information cranking out. They can't even store it anymore. Books are hopelessly cumbersome. We have to store things on microfilm. I received a deal in the mail about a certain thing that was soliciting a pastor's library. I think it's five‑thousand volumes. It comes in a little can like this and you have this huge machine you read it. That's the only way we can store the volume of material we have. And that's too cumbersome, microfilm is too big. Now we have what's called Laser Storage, they store information on crystals. They shoot a laser beam at one of the edges of the crystal and it refracts onto a screen and they can read it. There will be a day when you go to school in college and you'll have a bag of crystals. Have you got your science crystal? You know. But that's too bulky. They're now developed what's called molecular storage. They can now store information on molecules.
And they've developed a technique whereby it's claimed they could store the entire library of congress on an object the size of a sugar cube. That's incredible. Information. Astounding, sixty‑ million pages a year of scientific and technical literature are published. The advances are unbelievable. A thousand books a day are published. If you took all of the information that man has learned from his beginning to 1?45, it would be one inch in the little analogy we're going to do. From zero, from man's historical beginning to 1?45 if all that information equals one inch, from 1?45 to 1?45 equals three inches. From 1?45 to 1?75 equals the height of the Washington Monument. We have learned an awful lot, folks, we're in the midst of an information explosion that's unrivaled.
Part of the last times, I believe, Daniel 12:4 says that knowledge will increase in the last times. It's going so fast right now we're going to kill ourselves if the Lord doesn't do something. But we have everything conceivable to occupy a man's mind, to fill up his life. The technological advances are incredible. I was reading a magazine put out by Pacific Telephone in which they were predicting the things they are working on that should be in by 1??O, some of them right away, some of them as late as 1?9O. For example, video education in the home. No more going to school. Members of the family will observe. the instructor, hear questions of other students and even ask questions all through their picture telephone at home.
World‑wide satellite stations will make education exciting beyond anything we experience now, you can take your education from anybody, at anyplace in the world and never leave your house. Such picture phones will be set up so that you can touch a button, tune in any course you want. Another thing that was interesting, they said touch a few more buttons and you will be able to turn the pages of a book in a foreign library. Another one, shopping by phone. Deliver us.
Listen to how this works. Of course, there is a consolation, you can just pull the cord. Shopping by phone. If you want to order several items from a store, you dial the store number, you dial a series of item numbers, you insert your card into the slot in your home phone, press a button and hang up. The order is recorded and the price is paid. Portable telephones will replace public telephones because of the destruction problem, they can't maintain them. All the city will be full of little jacks and you will have a little tiny phone like a Dick Tracy size watch telephone, you'll go up to make a phone call, just plug it into one of these little jacks, it will record the number and you'll make your call. I don't know if you've studied holography, this is a most fascinating thing. I saw a complete demonstration of it one day when I was speaking to a civic club and it was incredible. It will beam into your home a TV picture that is three‑hundred and sixty degrees. So if you want to know who's sneaking up on the good guy, you just walk around and see.
That's only the beginning. We are developing the ability to select the sex of the newborn, to create life in a test tube, the growth of fetuses in artificial wombs, genetic control and micro surgery by radiation and laser beams, development of ova and sperm banks, control of the aging process with a life expectancy of 100 years, elimination of tooth decay by welding enamel on teeth with laser beams, spot welding of the retina of the eye, extended use of the bloodless knife in surgery, extended use of artificial organs such as plastic corneas for the eye, metallic bones, dacron arteries, artificial hearts and computerized electronic muscles. That's the bionic man! Development of synthetic foods, development of ocean farming and possibly undersea cities, experiments in human hibernation You got problems? We'll put you to sleep for twenty years or at least four ‑ until your teen‑agers get into their twenties. Development of effective appetite and weight control program. I was reading the other day that they're developing food that is made out of wood that is 100% non‑digestible so you can eat anything you want and since it's wood it just goes through your system. It has no food value at all but you can eat it, nice, good taste and everything. What are you having for dinner ‑ oak or ash? Myself, I prefer birch. Development of fantastic cities. In the year, Herman Cohn says in the year 2000, this is interesting, there will be cities of fifty to one‑hundred‑million people. He calls them Megalopolises and he says they will be so big, for example, one will stretch from Boston to Washington, will be called Bos‑ Wash, the other one from Chicago to Pittsburgh he calls Chic‑a‑ Pitts and from San Francisco to San Diego will be San‑San.
Now these are incredible things to think about. In 1??4 the predictions are that we will have household robots and it just goes on and on. It is incredible what man is filling up his life with.
The science and the technology and the information, it would seem that if ever there would be a day when man would be happy, he has created a veritable world‑wide Disneyland and he can play all day long. Listen, do you realize how many stores that sell things that nobody needs? Nobody needs them. They don't do anything, except you play with them. Man is filling up his life but you know what happens? It's tragic and I think, maybe, it's just the fact that man has to face the reality that the more stuff he has the more he has to face the fact that he's never satisfied. And that's what the Bible means in Luke 12 when it says the life of a man consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. Whether it's information or whether it's technology or whether it's goodies, whatever it is life doesn't find itself in those things and so today we have alcoholism and we have drugs and we have sex and we have all these other things as people try to fill the gnawing void that can't be filled with all this other stuff.
And then, of course, there's a backlash to all that technology.
We have the other people who want to go natural and so right up next to the computer store is the natural food store. And you can go in there and it's all very natural. We want to run back to nature, we don't like it so complicated. You know why? Because it didn't solve our problems. The frustrations of man, now he's going in a circle.
He can do anything he wants and he thinks that he wants something but When he gets it he doesn't want it so he goes back into his circle to where he started again. Illustration. Arthur Clark a science fiction writer and a futurist described his idea of the ultimate city vehicle and he was looking into the future and what would man need as an ultimate city vehicle, obviously we can't be driving around in Belch‑Fire 8's for the rest of history running into each other and killing off our population so something's going to change, polluting our society so his thing was this. He drew up seven principles that should govern whatever this vehicle is.
1) Simple to produce with a minimum of tool‑up time, hence inexpensive. 2) Self‑repairing, that would be great. 3) Stylish.
4) Good passenger visibility unobstructed. 5) Computer equipped to aid in driving, so the vehicle can actually think in the process.
6) Top speed 2O miles‑an‑hour so there aren't any fatal crashes.
The next one, number 7) The by‑products of this should be non‑ toxic and biodegradable. And with all of those conclusions, his suggestion is that the ultimate transportation for a city dweller is a horse.
Now we have so much, we have developed so much, we have invented so much, we have created so much and there's always that total emptiness when you get to the end of the line. We still kill each other, we still curse each other, we still slander each other, we still sue each other, we still fight each other, there's more crime, more suicide than ever. I read an article in the paper, sad, little children under ten:
two‑hundred committed suicide last year. Sad. You say, "How could it be?" It's despair, people, it's despair. Raising a child in a technological age it isn't any different than raising them in the age of the horse or anything else if he doesn't have anything on the inside. Time magazine says America is like an unloved child, smothered in candy, we're fat and full of pimples and still crying for more.
What is the answer to a society with everything and yet facing the reality that it has nothing and it comes off so hypocritical?
What's the answer? Well some people say education. We could be happy if we could just educate people. We've got to educate them not to do this and not to pollute and not to do this. B. F. Skinner comes along and says what we really have to do is control their brains. We've got to get little zappers in there and block out part of their brain. We'll block out the criminal part and we'll block out the having too many babies part and we'll block out the pollution part and we'll control everybody and we'll have an elite group of people who'll run this little block‑out factory and we'll move in and put the little zappers on there and do it to them. And other people say, well it isn't that tough all we need to do is to train them so we'll develop day‑care centers and we'll take children out of the home and there was a bill in congress to this affect three years ago, we'll take babies out of home at six‑months, train them until they're five and then put them in the public school system and by that time we'll have it educated out of those areas. Congress voted it down, incidentally, they may not always. And other people say, well it's higher education, we've got to develop an elite group of people who will solve the problems of the world by higher education. Higher education can't solve much of anything in terms of what's in man's heart. Kafka's great story of the defiant fisherman is the best picture of higher education I've ever seen. He pictures a city that is totally bombed out, it's been devastated, it is flat and the bombing has just occurred so that every single building in the city is down except one building. And there's one beautiful pristine, white, clean building without a mark on it, sitting right in the middle of a bombed out city, smoke and smoldering and burning and bleeding people and bodies everywhere and death everywhere. There's one solitary man walking through the rubble, he paces through the rubble, he comes to this building, he ascends the stairs, he goes in, he goes up and up and up till he reaches the top floor and down at the end of a long dark hall he sees a light, he walks down the hall and sure enough it's a bathroom, he walks in and he sees a man sitting there fishing in the bathtub, he looks and says, "You're not going to catch anything". He says, "I know" and keeps on fishing. "There aren't any fish". "I know", and keeps on fishing. "There isn't even any water." "I know", and keeps on fishing. Kafka says that is higher education. Scary. What's he saying? He's saying higher education is somebody up somewhere looking for something that isn't there while the world is dying because it isn't dealing with real problems.
It doesn't do any good to change a man's mind. It's like Polius at USC said, "When you take a man's mind and give it high impact. and do nothing for his soul all you do is create a monster".
Technologically trained but small of soul and all you've done is get a problem on your hands. The answer is not in education because it's just one man educating another man and none of them have been able to solve the problems. Some people say, well of course the answer is in rationalism. The human mind can solve everything.
You know, I'm the master of my feet, I'm the captain of my soul, I will solve all the problems of society. Funny joke, we can't solve anything. Rationalism didn't work. You know the German Rationalists came along a few hundred years ago and they said we will only accept what the mind of men can understand, the mind is ultimate. And so a bunch of them decided to attack the Bible because in those days the Bible kind of reigned supreme in the European society and they were a very absolute objective people who believed in objective truth. There was a right and a wrong. And they said we've got to get rid of the Bible so they went through the Bible, Graf, Wellhausen, Baur, Straus, Fernoun some of these people, and they said let's take all that isn't able to fit into the mind of man out, all the miracles, anything supernatural and they took it out. One of them came up with 27 verses that he felt were still valid. 27 verses in the whole Bible. You know, they were ‑ and over there there was a mountain and down there there was a valley, you know, that was it.
But you know what happened? It didn't take very long for them to realize that when they had done that, they had just crucified their souls because if there wasn't any supernatural then there wasn't any God and that gnawing longing in the heart of a man that says there's a God somewhere could never be satisfied and they were in agony, absolute agony. And so there was a movement in Europe known as Neo‑orthodoxy and Karl Barth, a German [Swiss?] theologian, decided we just killed ourselves, guys, we've got to put some miracles back in. So Karl Bar&h came along and started grabbing the miracles and started chucking them back into the Bible. And he got them in there. And so you'd say to him, hey Karl, terrific, you put all the miracles back. Yea.
You believe in the virgin birth? Oh yea. You believe Christ died?
Yea. You believe He rose from the dead? Yes. You believe He's coming again? You believe He walked on the water? Oh yes. Do you believe that happened in actual history? No. Well, where did it happen? Well it happened in heilegesichte, super‑duper history.
You say, what's that Karl? You see, he wanted the miracles but he didn't want them enough to put them back where they belonged. He had them up in a fog. That's why when he came to the end of his life, he never did explain what he meant, at the end of his life somebody said, "What's the greatest thing you ever knew?" The only thing he could say was, "Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so". You see, they all found out that rationalism didn't work. I mean, it didn't work to have any God, it didn't work not to have any miracles, it didn't work, you couldn't answer the hunger of a man's heart, an eternal hook to hang his destiny on. And even when they put them half‑way back in, that didn't work either because they had to create an unreal environment.
And then, of course, there were the people who came along and said, "Oh yes, the answer is in religion, we've got to get all the way back to religion". And so we've had it all, mysticism, cultism, eastern religions, legalism, all kinds of conceivable areas of Christian There's no end to religions, of religions there is no end, believe me.
I can't even keep up with them. People say have you heard about this one? About once a week I hear about a new one.
Timothy Leary use to say before he stopped saying things, he use to say, (they put him in places where he couldn't say too much) but he use to say, "What we all should do is start our own religion?" Everybody had a religion and you know what? Religion doesn't make it.
Religion is man inventing God. That is backwards, people, that is backwards. Religion says; and man created God in his own image.
People reached out, they tried to get God so they created God. They didn't want the God of the Bible because He's too demanding, you see, They didn't want the standards that He set so they made their own.
Kierkegaard called it a leap of faith, you just develop your own thing and leap out there, friends. And you would ask a liberal theologian, "Well, what was your leap?" "Oh, that's something you don't talk about. It's my first order of experience, I've had contact with the holy other, I've touched the ground of being." Does that confuse you? It's hopeless because these people are just jumping into a contentless experience. "Oh yes, I believe in God, oh yea, I've touched God." You know, you even hear it today on a layman's level but on a philosophical level they were leaping around everywhere saying there's something out there, I've touched the being, whatever. The simplistic would be that the Indian who thought that there was a happy hunter in the happy hunting ground, he invented it.
Once the philosopher started leaping, everybody was off and leaping.
Pretty soon the artist started leaping into their own contentless experiences. It use to be when you went to an art museum, oh, it's a lovely painting, there's a lady, there's a man and a little kid, a horse and a mountain. Now you go and it's askew, you know. You don't even know what it is. I was looking at one the other day and it said, I think it was titled 'Maiden ascending a staircase'. Maiden ascending a staircase. It was incredible. There was like six big blotches of different color. There wasn't a maiden and there wasn't a staircase, there wasn't anything. Francis Schaeffer points this out that what's happened is they're just jumping and jumping. They're just jumping out there inventing their little deal.
And it happens in music. Play some of John Cages music sometime.
It sounds like two garbage trucks collided. It doesn't make any sense but that's his leap, leave him alone. He has a right. And, of course, we hear all of this philosophical openness to any kind of religious experience and what happens? In comes the occult, in comes eastern mysticism and captivates the minds of people. In comes TM, transcendental meditation, and scoops up these people just sitting around who are open to just anything that comes along.
But after all is said and done they can try it in all those areas.
They can look for it in education, rationalism or religion and they always come up empty and there's despair there. Sartre has written a novel which is his comment on life. He calls it Nausea that will give you a little idea of his view of things. He was a sad man, sad pessimist. The opening of the book, the main character O'Conton says this, quote; "Nothing happens, there are no beginnings, days are tacked onto days with no rhyme or reason: an interminable, monotonous addition.
There is nothing, nothing absolutely no reason for existing", end of quote. So here's a man who's concluded there is nothing and no reason to live and he says now I'm going to go out and see if I can find something. First I'll look in science and education, just what we were talking about, and he looks in science and education and he says this doesn't make it because it only explains the mechanics not the meaning.
I can put it in the test‑tube and oh yea, that happens but it doesn't say why. That doesn't make it. He says, "I know what, I'll have my own leap, I'm going to live for experience". And he goes all the way from thrills to theology and every experience in between. He goes all the way even masochism, any kind of an experience and when he sums it up he says this, "If my life existence is meaningless then every experience I have is also meaningless because I'm the only one who can authenticate my experience". And he says, "I know, I'll try humanism.
I'll lose myself with people, I'll give myself to people, love your neighbor, love your brother, help other folks. And I did but I found out people, for the most part, are evil or selfish or bigoted or hateful or even murderous and I didn't care for that". And then he says, "There's only one other thing I'll try and that's love".
And so he chases after love but the only kind of love he can ever come up with is sexual and every time he gets into a sexual relationship he destroys the object that he tried to love because love for his is only lust. And finally he says at the end, "I dreamed of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives".
There's a lot of despair in the world and maybe I've unmasked a little of it but maybe you're saying, "But I don't see all of this".
You know, people cover it up. You can't just walk around saying, "I'm in despair". You can't walk around like that all your life so you cover it up. You buy a new car, you buy a CB radio so you don't ever have to think. If it isn't music you can talk to some jerk who's got something to say on another line and you can say that strange language, you know. I'm sure there are some good things talked about, I don't know. But you can fill up your whole life. You can go home and turn the TV on loud, go to bed and listen to the radio till you fall asleep, get up, turn on the radio again, you can fill your life or you can just buy things all the time. Keep buying things so you always have something that makes you feel good or you can have your hobby or your sport or you can just drink booze and dull your senses or take drugs or you can just do what's totally absurd. You know, some people do tha They just flip out. Did some of you notice a movie that was on television a week or so ago, Catch 22? That is one of the greatest philosophical comments on the human dilemma I've ever seen. Very, very clear. Listen, here are these guys and I think it was World War II and they were on this island and they were flying missions for the Air Force. Flying missions and they were stupid missions and very dangerous and the guys hated the duty and they only hoped that when they hit 25 missions that they could get out. So they got a new colonel who came in as soon as they hit 25 he raised it to 3O, they hit 3O he raised it to 35, they hit 35 he raised it to 4O and on and on. No way out. There's the human dilemma. That's a metaphor of the human dilemma. No way out. You're trapped on an island in a stupid existence doing meaningless things and there isn,t any way out. Now there was only one way you could get out of that duty. Those of you who saw that picture remember what. The only way you could get out of that duty is to be insane because they don't want insane people flying those missions but you had to turn yourself in for being insane and if you're smart enough to turn yourself in for being insane you weren't insane. And that was Catch 22. The only intelligent people in the human dilemma are the ones who are nuts, who've flipped out. It's like a kid told me one time who was totally spaced out. He says, "Man I may not know any answers but I sure don't have to mess with the questions anymore". And so the guy finally decides there's only one thing left to do. Build a raft and paddle to Sweden.
That is not intelligent that is stupid. You can't build a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean and paddle to Sweden. But don't you see what the point is? When man has all of his rational options closed out he does what is irrationaI, absurd because he has no other choice.
Do you want to know why people do the strange, irrational, bizarre things they do? It's despair. You say, "Well, John, why does man feel this despair?" That was the introduction. Just so you'll know where you are. Why does man feel the despair? I think there are three things, basically, that we could use to sum up his pressure points.
This is where man feels the drill. Number one is the area of sin and guilt. Man lives with a sense of his sinfulness and the guilt that comes behind that sin and he is forever trying to deal with that issue. Sin is a reality. Look at Romans chapter 3 for a moment.
I want to call your attention to a very simple passage here that helps us to see the human dilemma in terms of sin and guilt. In Romans chapter 3 and, you know, this is where the Bible enters in, see, and the Bible is saying look, we know what's going on, you know. You want to know what the human dilemma's all about the Scripture will tell you precisely. The Bible speaks to man. Now what you have in Romans ? verse 10 is this, "As it is written, there is none righteous. No, not one".
We begin by recognizing that God says there aren't righteous people there are only unrighteous ones. "There is none that understands, there is none that seeketh after God." You know when Adam sinned what's the first thing he did? He ran and hid. And men have been running and hiding from God ever since. They don,t seek God. "There all gone out of the way they have together become unprofitable", it's a word in the Greek that means to go sour like milk, they've gone sour. "There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open grave, their tongues use deceit, the poison of snakes is under their lips, their mouth is full of cursing. Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace they have not known and there is no fear of God before their eyes". Now there you have a summation of man's sinfulness. It's in his mouth, it's in his f+et, it's in his hands, it's in everything he does because man is a sinner. The result of it is he feels guilt, verse 1? talks about the fact at the end of the verse that all the world has become guilty before God. Sin has consequence. You can't sin and not feel the results. It's like pain, when you inflict harm on your body your body sends impulses that tell you you've done that. And your conscience and your so I will respond to sin with impulses of guilt. And people run like mad to cover that up. They drink, they take drugs, they sleep, they go to the psychiatrist and they want so badly for them to tell them it isn't your fault that you're the way you are your mother shouldn't have locked you in the closet when you were a kid or always giving you the smallest banana, you know, and your sister got the bigger one or whatever. People want to abandon themselves to sin and then they want to get out of the consequence but they can't get out and so they try to escape in areas that don't really do anything but magnify the reality of their sin. They justify. Today, the latest ploy to alleviate guilt is to justify it. We've lost our morality so we can do that. Now, all of a sudden, sin is macho, right? Ump, see. Or sin is cool, not hung up, see. I flow baby. Whatever is going, man, I'm in it. I like sin is natural, it's only natural, man, biological. Or it's liberated.
We were under all that bondage, now we've been liberated, see. All of these are ploys to deal with guilt but it's the hypocritical thing, it never really solves the problem. There is always, I believe, gnawing in the heart of a man and a woman and a sense of retribution in someday, I'm going to repay you. There's got to be payment. And the reason I believe that is because I believe God has given that consciousness of sin to every man to drive him to the knowledge of God Himself. Man has been running and hiding and he tries to find all different trees to hide from and pretty soon he gets exposed and he runs for another tree. And God seeks and man hides because of sin and guilt.
There's a second pressure point in the human dilemma and that's lust and desire. Like Oscar Wilde said and I agree, "Lust is a cruel master". It's a terrible thing to be driven totally by your own lust and desire. If ever there was a lusting society it's the twentieth century America. It is incredible, I mean, you just drive down any street and it is just loaded with things that pander lust and evil desire. I mean, now you can go to a massage parlor and use your Master Charge, your Bank‑Americard, dirty book stores over here, great big billboards with half‑dressed people on them, solicitation to go to certain movies. Billy Graham said the movies are like the drippings from a broken sewer and he's right. There's no end to it all just pandering, pandering and pandering what is the most responsive part of a man that is his lust. And the family has died because everybody's out on the street looking at the billboards to see where they want to put their lusts to work. Everybody left home and they've traded lust for love and sensuality for security and so the family died. And when the family dies everything is gone. There's no warmth, there's no acceptance and there's no fulfillment so we have despair.
In Ephesians chapter two look with me at verse 3, Paul chronicles a little of this when he says in verse 2, "You're guided by Satan, the prince of the power of the air", and then in verse 3, "Among whom, also, we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind or the thoughts". So we have a thought, we desire out of the flesh and we fulfill it. That's pretty much man and we become, really, the children of wrath. In other words, we begin to feel God's retribution, God's judgment. And so man suffers from the pressures of sin and guilt, lust and desire. Can't ever get out of it, he can't ever get himself divorced from this driving force that destroys him, destroys his family, destroys. his society.
There's a third thing. I think the third pressure point that man faces, and I'm trying to analyze these as I see people and as I feel in my own heart and as I look at the scope of the Scripture.
The third one is purposelessness and meaninglessness. It seems to me the worst of all is to not have any reason to be. Like Edna St. Vincent Mallay said, "Life must go on, I forget why". Or like Arthur Miller in his play has a woman and her husband sitting at the breakfast table, they never talk, she sits there with her hair all done up in things and she has on that old ratty bathrobe and she looks like yesterdays breakfast, he sits across the table and he's down in the mouth and he reads the paper and she says, "You never talk to me, life has deteriorated to how many miles we get on our Volkswagen". Pretty sad when life gets to that level. But it is for a lot of people. You know what the Psalmist said? He said the ungodly are like the chaff which the wind drives away. You know when they harvest the wheat and they put the grain in those little baskets they would go in and they throw that right in the air and the grain was heavy enough to fall back into the basket but the wind would blow the chaff away and that's how it was separated because it was useless, it was worthless and I think that's what God is saying about man. That man is useless apart from Him and man has that feeling of uselessness, purposelessness. He has no eternal hook to hang his life on and say, Hey, I belong here, this is where I hang. He has no sense of eternal continuity. You know, one of the greatest statements ever penned in the whole Bible is this, "Your fruit shall remain", remember when Jesus said that in John 15, "You shall bear much fruit and your fruit shall remain"? Listen, it's one of the most exciting things in the world to know that your life can have an eternal continuity.
It's incredible to think of that. Your not just plopped in and gone, ashes, forgotten. If you're a Christian, you have a part of God's eternal plan, you are in the flow of destiny with God. If you don't know Christ you're just‑phist‑gone and you have voided the purpose for your being. Time magazine recently introduced and so did Newsweek as I remember, a new philosophy that's sweeping the country.
Tens of thousands of people are in it it's called EST or est, you've seen it probably. Warner Earhardt which is a pseudonym for a guy who is an ex‑used car salesman somewhere who just took on that fancy name and developed this thing. But what happens is that people go and they go for a couple of weeks and what it is it's a brainwashing technique.
He goes in there, they have a couple of weeks of this intense painful, concentrated, mental smashing. I mean, they are battered and smashed and beaten verbally and captivated. They can't even leave to go to the bathroom. They keep them there, they're on the floor sweating and writhing and he just literally destroys them and drains them and smashes their ego and I can't imagine all this is involved in it.
When it's all over and you've been through the whole thing and it's done with, he gets up and this is the last thing this is the closing statement he makes, "Well, you've got it now because there's nothing to get". Obviously the truth is what's so what's not so obvious is so what. What is is ‑ so what and he leaves. That is something. All that and all you know is ‑so what. Boy, he's got the handle on the problem of man ‑ so what. So what ‑ meaninglessness. There's got to be a point of reference in the universe. There's got to be a hook to hang your life on, a rock, a standard, a source of abundant life.
There's got to be meaning somewhere. The deist comes up and says, God is a cosmic force up there somewhere. Well, that's nice to know but that doesn't touch me. The fatalist says, God is just a practical joker and the religious hedonists says He's a glorified grandfather and the pantheist says He's everything and somebody else says He's a cosmic party pooper and Christianity comes down to He's a loving, sovereign, holy, righteous God and He's the hook to hang your life on. And He's come into this world and He was born as a man as a babe in Bethlehem and that's Christmas. And I dare say that if you are having a party without a reality of Christ the party is a sham.
I'd like to break your party up if I could and offer you a real party, a real celebration. Jesus is God. God wanted us to hang our life on Him and so He came down and said here's how through My Son Jesus Christ who lived and died and rose to give you life.
Christmas has no more meaning to people without Christ than any other day in their life but with Christ every day has as much meaning as Christmas. Every day. Christmas is "And the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory", what glory?
"The glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth". We saw that it was God and we gave Him our lives, that's Christmas and Christmas is nothing but that. Let's pray.
Our Father, we do acknowledge that apart from You we only have sin and guilt to pay for out of the past. Lust and desire to experience in the present. Meaninglessness and purposelessness for the future. And that's no way to live. You never meant that. You've been reaching down to touch us since Adam. You've been looking for us among the trees of our own makings as we hide. May we be honest and open enough to come out and say ‑ God, I guess I need You, I want the Christ of Christmas, the Lord Jesus Christ the living God in human flesh who died and rose again that I might have life. I want the abundant life You give, I take the gift. Father, it's my prayer for the folks that are here who know you that they might, this morning, freshly commit themselves to You, for those who don't that this might be the first real Christmas when Christ is born in them. Amen.
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It irks me to see celebrities who are constantly trying to out skinny each other while the average woman is left wondering what's wrong with her.
This absurd size zero trend needs to stop.
What are we trying to do?
Save food for future generations?
So while I enjoy my bowl of ice-cream, you go check out the skinny, the lanky and the downright skeletal...
1. Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker has always been a beautiful and polished woman, but her recent paparazzi shots make us wonder if she became obsessed with dieting and gym.
Her arms and face are looking desperately thin and people are speculating that she's recently lost around 15 lbs!
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Jaimee McPadden, MD has joined the staff at Lakeview Clinic as a family physician with obstetrics. She will be working at Lakeview Clinic in Waconia.
Dr. McPadden grew up in Norwood Young America and is a graduate of Central High School. She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Luther College. She began her medical education at the University of Minnesota Duluth School of Medicine and participated in the Rural Physicians Associate Program at Lakeview Clinic. She received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota. She completed her family medicine residency at United Hospital in St. Paul. She has special interests in obstetrical and newborn care, sports medicine, and preventive health care.
Dr. McPadden lives in Waconia with her goldendoodle Arnie. She enjoys spending time with her family, biking, gardening flowers, and all sports.


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Despite recent headlines, Canadian rates of suicide and attempted suicide have remained largely unchanged over the last several decades. What has changed is that we've seen increasing rates of suicide in the Canadian military recently, after stable rates for decades. The problem of suicide is not limited to the military in Canada; indigenous populations, especially in northern remote communities, have high rates of suicide. We need a unified approach across provincial and federal sectors to reduce suicides in the military, among veterans and civilians.
The argument about guns in America is a pointless one because, frankly, the pro-gun lobby won the debate many years ago. Like that Japanese soldier living on an island for decades, unaware that WWII was long over, the anti-gun crowd continues to fight a battle that it already lost. Americans long ago made up their minds in regards to guns. They want to keep guns and it is likely that no tragedy is great enough to change that fact. Not even a little bit. In fact, Americans not only want to keep their guns, they want to change very little in regards to how they keep them, how they get them, or what they do with them.
It's clear that despite all the convincing research demonstrating how guns make us less safe, not more safe, Americans are still very much enamoured with their guns. They rationalize, justify and explain away each tragedy, whether an accidental death by a handgun or a mass shooting of innocent people by rifles or automatic weapons. It's not a logical argument; it's an emotional one, and until we can address the complex psychology at the root of the desire to own guns, we aren't going to convince people to give them up.
Bruce found himself convicted of roughly two dozen counts of possessing unlicensed firearms. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and a lifetime prohibition order from possessing firearms; therefore, he can no longer be a gunsmith. Moreover, his entire inventory of firearms and ammunition (worth roughly $116,000) was forfeited to the Crown.
Twitter exploded with comments by people wondering how Michael Zehaf-Bibeau could get a gun in Canada. The myth is that private citizens can't own guns. While the country doesn't have something along the lines of a Second Amendment to the Constitution, citizens can own guns. That's because the Canadian system is more about licensing and registration than restriction. And even that's been watered down in the last few years.
A growing sense of entitlement is leading to gun violence in the U.S. Many people think they are entitled to guns, and are entitled to control the lives of other people. But this isn't the case. Let's be clear -- in life, we are entitled to but one thing: our own lives. Apart from the air he breathed to help sustain his life, we are not entitled to anything else -- no person, no shooter, is entitled to kill anyone.
Despite the many upstanding, ethical police officers out there, the force has given the public numerous reasons to question its conduct. There have been a number of high profile cases of alleged police brutality in Canada and Quebec, including the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests, the 2012 Quebec student protests, and the Robert Dziekanski taser incident.
Around 10:45 a.m., I decided it was time to turn off Lego Stars Wars and turn our attention to real war, and all those who have fought, or continue to fight, for our freedom. First, I had to get Max Skywalker on board. He really had no idea what Remembrance Day was all about. My super-simplified explanation went something like this...


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It seems like "deja vu all over again" when Waitangi celebrations become the huge scrap the protest movement want them to be.
I write this the day before Waitangi, after a build-up filled with arguments. Leadership among the iwi, ongoing constitutional arrangements and water rights seem to have been this year's topics, and there is the air of expectation there will be more shouting and more abuse, and less listening and less reasoned debate to come.
Hopefully, by the time this column is printed I will have been proven wrong. I am proud of the way the Whanganui Electorate celebrates Waitangi Day with events in the city and particularly in Patea, where the Pae Pae in the Park has become a festival event.
There was a period of quiet when Helen Clark decided she would not go to Waitangi to celebrate the signing of the Treaty. She was responding to what was a bad experience for her, but forgetting that many, a lot of them Maori, had unpleasant experiences at Waitangi, too.
These things are not to be swept under the carpet.
With a change of government, Waitangi Day had seen the Prime Minister and MPs return to the treaty grounds and the marae for the purpose of debate.
The problem is that a debate is not one side shouting at the other, just as it is not two sides shouting at each other.
The Maori Council is seeking debate, and the Prime Minister is happy to meet and have the debate, but last year the opportunity walked out the door when he was shouted down and unable to be heard.
This year the opportunity arises again, and it is one which is very important. That Waitangi Day is not only a celebration but a day for discussion is recognition of the importance of the date: February 6.
To have the celebrations without the debates would be to ignore the historical and current concerns of Maori and Pakeha.
I realise many would rather we just have a day off to go fishing, golfing, or whatever and not seek to celebrate or discuss anything - but that is not the point.
While most don't recognise or celebrate the significance of other holidays such as Labour Day, Easter or Queen's Birthday, that is not a reason to prevent those who do wish to acknowledge them. Many of us now bear in mind the importance of Anzac Day, yet in previous decades we did not. I think this resurgence in those taking the opportunity to consider the sacrifice of others on April 25 is a very positive thing.
In spite of the ill will and bad grace that is evident in the presence of some at Waitangi, I hope that the recognition of those things we agree on, alongside those things we still debate, will lead to a better celebration of who we were, who we've become, and who we will and can be as a nation in the future. Having the guts to recognise all those identities and yet still stand as one people is hugely important.
It is always easier to throw stones than offer the olive branch, but we should always prefer the latter to the former.


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Date: March 24 2013
A 62-year-old pilot has died after crashing a recreational aircraft in northern NSW.
The crash happened shortly after 8.50am (AEDT) on Sunday at Lismore airport, police say.
The pilot is yet to be formally identified, but a police spokeswoman said he's believed to be a 62-year-old Lismore man.
Because the plane was not an ultra-light or a fixed wing aircraft, no investigation will be conducted by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, she added.
Lismore airport was closed for most of Sunday, but reopened just before 5pm.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
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As you grow the crops and accomplish the missions, you will be earning diamonds that will help you decorate and buy everything you need so the farm is the best of them. Fertilizers, harvesters and seeders will help you grow your farm faster but be careful not to run out of diamonds.
The graphics are really smooth and it's fun to play. It works well and the tutorial is pretty detailed, you will learn everything in an easy way and you'll be able to play fast and be entertained for quite a while. It's one of those games that you can play once a day and never get bored of it.
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Every international team have their strengths but the Springboks are a particularly physical side - it's been the same since year dot.
The physical confrontation is what blows away most of the Springbok opposition and we are one of the few teams in the world who can handle the physical factor.
We saw in the weekend that the Wallabies can't handle it, but we can.
When a Springbok team are playing well, the only side in the world who can beat them are New Zealand and sometimes we can't beat them either, which is why I think they are our number one adversary.
The Australians have had their moments through being clever and playing a good brand of rugby but they lack the physical presence of the Springboks, who are big, strong men used to playing at a fast pace in good conditions.
The game of rugby is all about winning the contest areas and the Springboks are pretty effective at that.
They treat us with high regard and have incredible respect for the All Blacks and New Zealand rugby players because we can beat them and are very consistent in our performance levels. They don't have the same regard for other teams, I'm pretty positive about that.
We toured over there for weeks and it was very hard to win with local referees in South Africa and that is a fact, not an accusation, and I think it was similar for them here in New Zealand.
I played three tests when they toured here in 1981 and then for the Cavaliers in 1986 and of course in the Currie Cup.
They were and still are our greatest adversaries and they play a fast and powerful style of rugby which is a challenge for any loose forward.
They are the ultimate challenge - a test of your rugby manhood in many respects. Long may it continue, it's a great contest.


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Netzeitung.de, a German place, calls weblogs "noise" in an interview with Jason Kottke. And bravo to him for defending them, "Google's search results are at least as relevant as they have always been, if not moreso. I can almost always find what I'm looking for in the first 10 results or so. I think part of the problem is perception. "


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Patriots practice report: No Rob Gronkowski visible
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FOXBORO — A day after being spotted doing agility drills on the lower practice field, Rob Gronkowski was not spotted anywhere on the grass complex Tuesday afternoon as the team worked out in full pads for a second straight day.
The Patriots continued their preparation for the Giants this Thursday night at Gillette in the final preseason game before the season opener Sept. 8 in Buffalo.
Gronkowski is on the PUP list and there were no firm indications one way or another from Bill Belichick Tuesday as to whether he will be removed from the list by 6 p.m. Saturday. If he is not, he will be forced to miss the first six games of the season.
For a second straight day, DE Jermaine Cunningham and WR Mark Harrison were seen on the lower grass fields with training staff before practice began. Cunningham was in full pads and expected to take part in practice. DL Armond Armstead was not seen on the lower practice field.
Harrison and Armstead, both on the non-football injury reserve list, were not in uniform and a decision on both needs to be made by 6 p.m. Saturday when the roster is set at 53 players.
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The new PokerStars Team Online players have now had a week to settle into their new roles and the first of them to come out and introduce himself is that of Austrian pro Matthias Brandner. He took to PokerStarsBlog to introduce himself and let us all learn a little about what his poker strengths are and what else he does outside of the game.
He was one of three lucky Supernova players that were chosen after applying for the positions on the team and he was quick to show his appreciation at being given the opportunity to represent the world's most successful online poker site.
"This is my first blog entry, so allow me to briefly introduce myself. First of all, my name is Matthias Brandner, and I'm very glad that I've been given the opportunity to join this great team and represent my favourite poker site out there. I'm an avid cash game player who specialises in the lesser known games – such as Razz, 2-7, or Badugi. I've studied and played the latter a lot. I hope I can bring those games a bit closer to you and tell you how I balance poker and my life around it."
Brandner is different to the norm when it comes to his poker variations of choice. He prefers to play the variations that are considered not as popular among the rest. He loves the lowball style games and obviously excels at them.
"Nowadays I'm playing Badugi up to FL 100/200 and the other games up to FL 30/60. I hope I can establish myself there further while managing to gather interest for these games and bring more players into them. Besides playing online as I always do, I'll write regular blog articles, will be active on Twitter and on internet forums, and play some live. I plan to play EPT Vienna in the middle of March".
He also goes on to explain his other outside interests including that of finishing his studies in I.T. and psychology and that of his love for music. He even has a YouTube channel where he uploads recordings of him playing the piano.
For the full blog, simply head over to PokerStarsBlog but in the mean time he has even shared other avenues that players and fans alike can follow him on, so check them out.
Mati312 (pokerstrategy.de)
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The many influential Americans seeking war with the Middle Eastern country include:
1. Munitions companies that profit from the sale of missiles, helicopters, bullets, etc.
2. TV pundits who get lots of extra work whenever our bombs detonate.
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With an afternoon or evening of grilling on your schedule, you have two choices when it comes to what to wear: the rattiest t-shirt you own, or a nice shirt that's all but guaranteed to get dirty. Instead, simply don this ruggedly stylish canvas apron. It provides a barrier between you and all the flyaway sauces and marinades that come with being King of the Grill.
Its mad out of nice material like a carhartt jacket but, I dont think that amount of durability is needed near the grill or in the kitchen. It still covers the same area a normal apron would cover and most things dont soak through an apron. Mine is still sitting in the cabinet with the rest of my grilling items. Used only one time and never again over bad idea1
I was excited to see this apron in my birchbox this month. However, upon opening the product, I quickly noticed the cheap materials it was made of. The metal D rings were small and flimsy, the canvas material wasn't a rugged as I was expecting, and the puny little leather straps were a joke. They are light and weak. Not to mention that if you are wearing a XS, S, or M size, don't plan on this apron fitting. Clearly made by skinny models for skinny models. Very disappointing.1


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The official opening of the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) is held at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström on Saturday 18th June 2011.
CAA brings to Turku Archipelago over 20 new art works by international and local artists. The exhibition is the largest contemporary art project in the Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture programme.
Free bus transport is organized between Turku and Korpoström. The art works along the route will be introduced. The bus leaves from Turku at 11am, from outside the Orthodox church by the Turku market square. Return from Korpoström leaves at 6pm.
The Come Across Comics project will bring comics to new surroundings
As the summer gets closer, you may come across some peculiar signs along the streets and in the parks. The signs won't be there to forbid you from walking on the grass, but rather they'll invite you to take a peek at contemporary Finnish comics.Organised by the Turun Sarjakuvakerho (Turku Comics Club), the Come Across Comics project will bring comics to new surroundings. These signs – including one frame each and resembling traffic signs – will become part of the Turku cityscape for the duration of the summer.
This invitation is for you who live in the Turku Archipelago. You are invited to participate by sending in cuttings from houseplants by post. In exchange of the cuttings you will receive a souvenir from the project. For each donated houseplant cutting a patch of sea grass will be transplanted at the bottom of the archipelago sea.
The aim of the project is to shed light on a biotope in danger of extinction, the
In the CAA blog now a collection of stories from the past year of the artists' first encounters with the Turku archipelago, research trips together with the navy, the pilots or fishermen, etc.
During the Spring the blog follows the production of various new art works, from short films to local food.
The Contemporary Art Arhipelago blog
(Aesth)ethics: Encounters with nature
Fri 5.8.2011 at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström
What is the value of the landscape? How is nature today encountered as sacred? What is the freedom associated with it? What is untouched nature? How do the responsibilities and potential, both as individuals and as a community, entwine in our relation to it?
Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) discussions
What do you fear or hope for, or what would be the most surprising thing that could happen? Archipelago Science Fiction is a new work by the artists Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Henrik Andersson for the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA).
The artists collected future visions from the archipelago residents and organised three workshops for the locals in Korpo, Utö and Houtskär in January 2011. The scenarios are now being turned into scripts for short films in the blog: http://contemporaryartarchipelago.fi/scifi/
During Spring 2011 we will film the fantasies with the locals as actors. The films will capture scenarios that combine the thoughts, fear and wishes of many archipelago residents. The first filming will take place in May.
The Animate exhibition series in the Darkroom at the Turku Art Museum will get off to a flying start with work by the Estonian animation director Priit Pärn, one of the foremost animation artists in the world.
Pärn's drawings and prints have featured in many exhibitions, and he is also known as an illustrator. Work in the animation studio launched Pärn on an international career as animation director.Although Priit Pärn has taught animation in many schools and institutions all over the world, he considers Turku his second home, having taught animation here from 1994 up to 2007. Pärn played a crucial role in establishing the international reputation of animation training in the Turku Arts Academy.
Welcome to explore Turku archipelago with new contemporary art works as your guides this summer, from Saturday 18th June! 155 days to go to the opening of the Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) exhibition, which will spread across the isles from Ruissalo to Utö, along the roads and marine routes.
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Archipelago Science Fiction is a new work by the artists Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Henrik Andersson for the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA).
Questionnaire (please fill in by 6.1.2010): http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/caa/
As noone can tell how things will really be in a hundred years, there are no boundaries set for your imagination!
Welcome to the workshops:
Fri 7.1.2011 at 12-17 Korpo, hotel Nestor