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As you know, a few weeks ago we began a discussion of the love of God built around this Christmas season and based on the verse"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." And I suppose when we announce we're going to speak about the love of God, most people would think, "Well that's a fairly simple, straight-forward, direct subject, one that would be easy to understand, easy to treat." But I think we have found in going through this concept of the love of God that it has some profound mystery and it has some depth to it that taxes our greatest intellectual and even our greatest spiritual capacities.
At the very beginning four weeks ago when we started the series on God's love, I said to you that to say to people that God loves the world is simple. But to accept that statement as fact is not so simple. There are some probing, disturbing and often unanswered questions that plague the minds of anybody who thinks deeply about the idea that God loves the world.
For example, if God is love and loves the world, why is the world such a place of tragedy where so many people suffer so severely? If God is love and loves the world, why does He allow disease and death and why does He allow eternal hell? If God loves the world, why does He let people perish and why is He their punisher? If God loves the world then why didn't He devise a plan to save the world? If God is a loving Father, a loving Father of all humanity who cares so deeply, why doesn't He act like a human father would act who would never allow His children to make a choice that could destroy them if he could overrule it or prevent it?
Now these kinds of questions are deep questions. And when people struggle for an answer it very often leads them to some seriously wrong conclusions. These very questions have driven people to universalism, that is the idea that in the end everybody will be saved and that will solve the problem. God does love and in the end He'll just save everybody.
These questions have led some other people to what is called annihilationism, that God loves the world so much He could never punish people forever in hell so the believers will go to heaven and the unbelievers will just go out of existence and there will be no conscious punishment at all. These kinds of questions have not only driven people to universalism and annihilationism, they have driven people to hyper Calvinism to saying basically God loves His elect and hates everybody else, feels no compassion for any other than those who are His by virtue of a divine decree and is content to send people to hell as He is content to send some to heaven. And others have solved this problem by being driven into Arminianism. Arminianism is the theological perspective that basically says man is sovereign and God can't really determine what he's going to do, He just leaves it up to man and God does love everybody and certainly wishes everybody would get saved, but everybody won't. So God's disappointed as anybody else would be who would like to see that happen.
But universalism or annihilationism or hyper-Calvinism or Arminianism are not biblical responses to this very, very important issue of God loving the world. We have to turn to the Bible to learn the truth and we can understand the problem clearly, we can understand what is at stake here, we can't fully comprehend all of its implications but at least we can understand the problem if we can't fully grasp the solution. And we have to go to the Word of God. And when we go to the Word of God, what I've tried to do is to simplify what it teaches about God's love into three propositions.
Proposition number one, God's love to the world is unlimited in extent. It is unlimited in extent. God so loved the world...He does love the world. There is an unlimited love of God which extends to all men and manifests itself in common grace, compassion, warnings and the gospel invitation. And that is God's unlimited love. God's love for the world then is unlimited in extent, that is it extends to the whole world.
But the second proposition that was essential for an understanding of God's love is this, God's love is limited in degree. He does love the world enough to give them common grace and compassion and warnings and a gospel invitation. But He does not love them the way He loves His own. The love that God has to the world is bounded by time and space, it is temporary, it is temporal, it turns to hate for those who reject Him and ultimately He will cast those people into eternal judgment. His love for the world is not like His love for His own. In John 13:1 it says,"Having loved those who were in the world who are His own, He loved them unto perfection," or He loved them eistelos, having loved His own, eistelos. What does it mean? Perfectly, fully, comprehensively, completely, to the limit, to the max, to the last, eternally, all of that. God has a love for the world that is limited in extent when compared to the love that He has for those who are His own.
And we've been talking about God's love for His own which is unique for the elect, for those who repent and believe. That love is merciful and gracious and forgiving and restoring and exalting and lavish and everlasting love that holds nothing back, that pours out every good gift forever on every child of God. It is an inseparable, unbreakable, unconquerable, unchangeable, unwavering, unfading love that is impervious to all attacks. It is kind, sanctifying, cleansing, purifying, nourishing, cherishing love that makes its object holy. It is a love that disciplines, trains, chastens and leads toward godliness. It is a love that surpasses all human knowledge and reason and experience and can be known only to those who experience it because they are the beloved of God. It is that limitless love that God has for those who pursue righteousness and the obedience of faith.
And so, we've looked at that unlimited love of God toward the world. We've looked at that limited love that God has toward His own. That takes us to the third and perhaps most significant question and that is: how do we answer all those initial queries? How do we understand the difference between the way God loves the world and the way He loves His own? On what basis does He do that? Why does God have a different love for some folks than other folks all bound up in His own purpose, His own will, His own desire, His own decree? And that leads us to the third proposition...God's love to the world is qualified by the demands of His glory. God's love to the world is qualified by the demands of His glory. That is to say that however God loves, He will love in a manner that is absolutely consistent with who He is with His glory.
Now I want to address that this morning with you because it is an absolutely essential truth to understand. Because God loves the world does not mean that He is obligated to be an unqualified lover of everybody equally. That is not the case. He is not a prisoner of His own love nor is He a prisoner of man's desire for that love or of man's reasonings about that love. God does not have to love everyone the same no matter what, no matter who just because people expect it or men think it's fair or equitable. And so I say again, because God loves does not mean He is obligated to be an unqualified lover of all people equally. Obviously He is not. He loves the world in one sense, He loves His own in a far-greater way.
Let me say it another way. Because God loves does not mean that His love is separated from His other attributes. It does not mean that that love exists, as it were, in isolation from everything else as if it was untouched, unmodified and unmixed and unaffected by holiness, wrath, righteousness, judgment and every other attribute. God is neither the jailor nor is He the prisoner of any of His attributes. Each of them acts not independently but in perfect harmony with all the others. If God then is to glorify Himself, He must put all of His attributes on display. And whatever His love accomplishes can in no way obliterate His other attributes. Whatever His mercy and grace and kindness and goodness and tender-heartedness achieved cannot obliterate what will be made manifest by His hatred, His anger, His wrath, His vengeance and His justice. All of God's attributes have a place in the demonstration that He carries out through the purposes of creation.
And so, we can simply say this that God loves in a way that is consistent with His full glory...God loves in a manner that is consistent with His full glory. God glorifies Himself by manifesting all of His person. And God's saving purpose and God's love is tied to God's glory, not man's. It is tied to God's purposes, not man's. It is tied to God's desires, not man's and God's will, not man's.
If you understand this one great surpassing truth about God, it's going to answer all those difficult questions that I posed at the beginning. If you only understand this, you're on the way and that is the simple truth although it is profoundly revealed and much of it unknown to us...the simple truth is God does whatever manifests the fullness of His glory. Whatever puts His glory on display and His glory is the sum of all of His attributes. God cannot in doing one thing cancel out something else. God's glory is the issue.
And I want to lay that foundation down as well as I can for you to understand it. So turn to Psalm 31. We're going to look at a few Old Testament passages and then two in the New to just lay this groundwork and then next Sunday we'll complete this series with a look at one particular passage. I'll say more about that in a few moments. This is not like a sermon but more like a Bible study but it's very important to understand this if we're going to deal with these hard questions.
In Psalm 31 the psalmist is coming before the Lord and talking about God's power and salvation and deliverance. And he says basically that there is obviously trust in God's ability to save and deliver and rescue and help and strengthen. But that's not what I want you to focus on. What I want you to focus on is the reason why. But let's start with verse 1, "In Thee, O Lord, I've taken refuge. Let me never be ashamed. In Thy righteousness deliver me. Incline Thy ear to me. Rescue me quickly. Be Thou to me a rock of strength, the stronghold to save me for Thou art my rock and my fortress."
Now you have a lot of statements there. "In your righteousness deliver me, listen to me, rescue me, be my rock, be a stronghold, save me, You're my rock, You're my fortress," all repeating God's saving delivering rescuing work. And when he's done with all of that he says in verse 3, "For Thy namesake Thou wilt lead me and guide me."
Whatever You do in my life, God, is not so much for me as it is...what?...for You. It is for the sake of manifesting Your glory in order that people might see that You are a God in whom we can take refuge, that You are a God of righteousness, that You are a God who hears, that You are a God who rescues, that You are strong, that You are a Savior, that You are a leader and You are a guide--do it, God, to put Yourself on display. That is the prayer of a knowing saint...not for my sake but for Your sake. That is the reason for everything that God might display His glory before the angels and all creation. So whatever God does is not going to be because the majority of evangelicals have voted Him to do it. It is not going to be because it seems the most rational and the most reasonable thing to do or we think it's the most equitable. It will be done without regard for what we would desire but with regard only to that which would be consistent with the display of God's glory. And whenever you see "for Thy name's sake" the concept of God's name is just an embodiment of all that He is. When you remember confronting Moses He said, "My name is I am that I am." In other words, My name is who I am. So God is going to display who He is in what He does. He is a God of salvation and He is a God of judgment. He is a God of grace and He is a God of vengeance. He is a God of mercy and He is a God of justice. And He will display all of that because that puts His name in a place to be respected, revered, honored and worshiped.
In Psalm 79 and I'm giving you just a few brief samples, a small little sampling of many verses that address this, but in Psalm 79:9 the psalmist here is crying out to God because he fears the destruction of Jerusalem...that is the historical notation on this Psalm. He says, "Help us, O God of our salvation," and then this,"f"for the glory of Thy name and deliver us and forgive our sins for Thy name's sake." That is always the issue. Do what is consistent with who You are. Do what is consistent with Your glory, with Your name, with the manifestation of Your character, Your nature, Your attributes.
In Psalm 143:11 is another very brief comment. "For the sake of Thy name, O Lord, revive me." For the sake of Thy name, O Lord. Again, that is always at issue. And so we can't go to God and say,"L"Look, Lord, now we're trying to figure out how You ought to treat this world and we think it wouldn't be fair for You to let some people go to hell cause that's not very nice and that's not loving and so we'd like to suggest to You a view called universalism and just ask You if You would just please adapt that to Your plan and let it happen." Or we might say to God, "We don't like that idea of a conscious punishment of the ungodly forever and so we would like to suggest to You that we've taken a vote and we vote for annihilationism." Or, "Lord, we think the whole thing shouldn't resolve itself in Your character because that puts too much pressure on You, so we would like to suggest Arminianism and just let man be completely responsible for whether he's saved or lost and that way he can bear the whole brunt of the deal and it doesn't reflect on You at all."
But what we want and what we desire is not the issue. We are the pot and He is the potter, we are the created and He is the creator. We are the maid and He is the maker. And we're here because He put us here and He's in charge of everything and everything that He does will be a consistent reflection of who He is. And if you understand that, you are on the path to resolving all the difficult questions because the answer to whatever might seem to you to be inequitable or unfair or difficult or hard to understand is that it must in the end bring God...what?...glory.
Now look at Daniel chapter 9. I want to give you a couple of illustrations that I think will be most helpful to you. In Daniel chapter 9 Daniel is praying a marvelous prayer, one of the model prayers of Scripture. He is anticipating that God is going to deliver His captive people out of Babylon back to their land because God promised that He would after 70 years. So he reminds himself when reading Jeremiah the prophet that the captivity was for 70 years, the 70 years is nearly up. And so he starts to pray to the Lord. In verse 4 he calls Him the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant in loving kindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments. And then he launches in to this confession,"W"We have sinned," verse 5, "committed iniquity, acted wickedly, rebelled, turned aside from Your commandments, ordinances." And he keeps talking like that all the way down, verse 11, "All Israel has transgressed Thy law, turned aside, not obeying Thy voice." So the curse...curse has been poured out on us along with the oath which was written in the law of Moses, servant of God, for we've sinned against him.
Now I'm going to stop you right here. First of all, what Daniel is saying is this, "God, You've punished us severely." Dispossessed from their land, slaughtered in the assault that came, carried off into captivity, they have been severely punished. And they have been living in idolatry prior to that time so the punishment of God was a just punishment. God then by showing that idolatry is a severe sin worthy of destruction has glorified His name. It magnifies the holiness of God, doesn't it, when He has a holy reaction against idolatry. And Daniel would agree to that, that what You've done to these people they deserve and it does not impinge on Your glory at all to do it, it exalts You and honors You and glorifies You that You have judged this iniquitous and wicked people with a severe judgment because it tells us how holy You are. So God is glorified in the judgment, God is glorified in having showed that idolatry is a severe sin worthy of destruction. That magnifies His glory.
But now God has promised that He's going to restore His people to the land and the prophet is now going to say, "God, glorify Yourself now with Your mercy." It isn't either/or, it's both. And so he prays in this prayer for the Lord to bring the people back.
Go down to verse 17, Daniel 9. "So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Thy servant and to his supplications," and here it is,"for Thy sake, O Lord, let Thy face shine on Thy desolate sanctuary." That is again on Jerusalem and on the mount where the temple was. "O my God, incline Thy ear and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Thy name for we are not presenting our supplication before Thee on account of any merits of our own but on account of Thy great compassion. O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and take action for Thine own sake, O my God."
For You, put Your grace on display. Put Your mercy on display. Put Your restoring power on display. That's the point. You've glorified Yourself in Your wrath, now glorify Yourself in Your mercy. In Isaiah 49:3 God said, "You are My servant Israel, in whom I will show My glory." And He did. He showed His glory in judgment and He showed it in mercy. He showed it in justice and He showed it in grace. He showed it in vengeance and He showed it in forgiveness. You cannot isolate God to just one attribute. You can't make God the prisoner of one attribute. He is glorified in the full range of His glorious nature. And Daniel is saying, "God, do this for Your own sake, do it to glorify Yourself."
Look at Isaiah for a moment, chapter 48...Isaiah chapter 48. And here we find the same kind of perspective. Verse 9, here God says, Isaiah 48:9, "For the sake of My name I delay My wrath." How interesting. God shows His glory in His judgment, His wrath. He shows His glory in His mercy, His grace. And He also shows His glory in just His patience...in delaying wrath. And He says, "For My praise I restrain it for you in order not to cut you off." You can glorify Me for My justice, you can glorify Me for My grace and you can glorify Me for My patience.
Verse 11, here's the key, "For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act." That's the key. You ought to underline that and never forget it. Whatever God does He does for His own glory. "For My own sake, for My own sake I will act. I cannot let My name be profaned and My glory I will not give to anyone else." I will do whatever My glory dictates I must do. And My glory is a glory manifest in wrath, it is a glory manifest in forgiveness, it is a glory manifest in restraint and patience, whatever it is I will do it if it's consistent with My glory. We could sum it up by saying God has an unswerving commitment to act for His own glory.
Now look at Jeremiah 14 and this is nothing new but another illustration among many of this great principle. Jeremiah 14 verse 7, "Although our iniquities testify against us, O Lord, act for Thy namesake." You see, the prophets really understood this that God was compelled to do whatever revealed His glory. That's what He did. "Our iniquities testify against us, but, O Lord, act for Thy namesake." What is he saying? Forgive us for that too will display Your glory.
Later in the chapter, look at verse 20, "We know our wickedness, O Lord, the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against Thee, do not despise us." Why? "For Thine own namesake. Do not disgrace the throne of Thy glory. Remember and do not annul Thy covenant with us." In other words, what they're saying is, "God, You made a promise to this nation, You can't leave us in this kind of situation, You've got to come back, Your glory is at stake." What aspect of His glory? Not His wrath, not His grace, not His patience, but His...His faithfulness, His promise because He made a covenant. "Do it for Your own namesake, don't disgrace the throne of Your glory. Remember and don't annul Your covenant."
So you see, the Old Testament prophets and the psalmist all understood and so did the people that whatever God did He did for His own glory. That's the simple truth. And if heaven is to be populated on the Lord Jesus Christ and hell is to be forever populated with those who do not, that is to the glory of God. And if God chooses to save some and not others, that is to the glory of God because God does what is consistent with His glory.
In Romans chapter 1 and verse 5 Paul says that the grace of God that called him to be an Apostle by which he preached the gospel which brought about the obedience of faith among the nations, end of verse 5, was for His namesake. Again, salvation is for God's glory. Third John, that little epistle says in verse 7, "They went out for the sake of the name. They preached the gospel for the sake of the name for the glory of God." Salvation is for God's glory. Vengeance is for God's glory. Patience is for God's glory. Faithfulness is for God's glory. Every aspect of God's nature puts His glory on display. And you cannot isolate one attribute of God and let it erase all the rest. So God will love but in loving He will not obliterate His judgment. In showing compassion He will not eliminate His justice. God is God. And God will consistently and perfectly and purely and with absolute holiness enact everything that is consistent with every characteristic that He possesses.
So for the purposes of His eternal glory, God does what He does whether it is to save sinners or damn them. We can say it this way, while God loves the world, while God is not willing that any should perish, while God finds no pleasure in the death of the wicked, while God feels compassion for all who die in their sins, while God offers warnings of judgment and a gospel invitation to the whole world, in the end He will still be glorified by the damnation of sinners, or He wouldn't do it because He will always do what gives Him glory. His sincere and legitimate and real love to sinners is not separated from His ultimate glory. His ultimate glory demands that He not save everybody or He would.
You say, "Well then how can His love be real?" Well a human judge may have a sincere compassion for a guilty criminal, sincere pity, real tenderness and yet be forced to have him executed to uphold the standard of justice. You see, in enacting justice does not necessarily eliminate compassion. You can weep over one because you love that one while at the same time upholding the standard of righteousness. R.L. Dabney(?) writes about Chief Justice Marshall who wrote a book called The Life of Washington, actually several volumes on the history of George Washington. And one section in that work on Washington deals with Major Andre, a famous name you remember, and Marshall in writing about Washington says this, "Perhaps on no occasion of his life did the Commander In Chief obey with more reluctance the stern mandates of duty and of policy," end quote.
In other words, he felt compassion and love and affection for the man but the standard of righteousness had to be upheld in order to maintain the integrity of his office in the dignity of his person. About that incident, Dabney comments, "In this historical instance we have these facts. Washington had plenary power to kill or to save a life. He was Commander In Chief. Yet he signed his death warrant with spontaneous decisiveness." He goes on to say,"E"Every deliberate rational volition is regulated by the agent's dominant subjective disposition and prompted by his own subjective motive but that motive is a complex, not a simple modification of spirit." That's well put.
To make that kind of judgment doesn't mean the only thing he felt was justice. There was a complex of motives, a complex of attitudes. But the end result was the result of the most compelling of those. Dabney goes on to say, "The motive a single decision may be complex, involving many intellectual considerations of prudence or righteous policy and several distinct and even competing compensions(?) of the optative powers. And Washington's volition to sign the death warrant of Andre did not arise from the fact that his compassion was slight or feigned, but from the fact that it was rationally counterpoised by a complex of superior judgments and propensions of wisdom, duty, patriotism and moral indignation." He says, "The pity was real but was restrained by superior elements of motive. Washington had official and bodily power to discharge the criminal but he had not the sanction of justice." And God has that complex of motives which in the end must manifest justice. Not in every case, but in some at His own discretion.
Now this should be obvious to any thinking person who looks at Scripture. It is obvious that God seeks His own glory, right? It is obvious that everything He does is for His glory. His glory is the manifestation of the fullness of who He is, therefore He is going to get glory in wrath as well as in grace. So He's going to do what manifests wrath as well as grace. We see that throughout the Old Testament. Some people live and are forgiven and some were killed by God directly in their sin, right? And God made those choices and was glorified in either case. When He judged and destroyed the people in Israel, that gave Him glory. When He forgave and restored them, that gave Him glory. And the point is that God will be glorified in all those ways.
Now there are some people who don't want to accept that. And so this is the scenario that they will come up with. God loves everybody so much God wants everybody saved. And God is calling everybody to be saved but the power to be saved is not His, it's in man. And man refuses to exercise that power. He refuses to make that move and make that choice because he loves his sin and his sin is more powerful than God. Right? Wouldn't you have to conclude that? If God wants everybody to be saved and the power is in man and God wants him to be saved and God does everything He can do to get him saved but they don't become saved then whatever is working in them is more powerful than God.
And then you have to add another component. And they say also the difficulty is that Satan is making a lifelong effort to keep the person from believing. So the combination of their own fallen flesh and sin and the efforts of Satan are just more clever and more powerful than God.
I can't accept that because those who believe that are saying God wants everybody saved and He's exerting all His power, all His omnipotence that He can muster on the free will of the sinner hoping he'll repent and believe for salvation, God is not indifferent, He is loving, He is compassionate, He's working as hard as He can to get people saved and they just won't. Now such a perspective saves the sincerity of God, it saves the love of God at the expense of the power of God and the sovereignty of God. Right? He's really not in charge and He can't pull it off though He is sincerely compassionate and He does love them. That diminishes God's glory.
On the other hand, let's go the other way. Some would say, "No, God has the power," by the way, that was an Arminian approach, some would say, "God has the power and God has the sovereignty, He just hates sinners so He doesn't care about them. Doesn't feel anything toward them." That's a hyper-Calvinist perspective. He's not loving. He's not compassionate. He just loves His own. And what you've done there is you've saved the sovereignty of God and the power of God at the expense of...what?...the love, the compassion of God. You can't do that either because the Bible is replete with evidence that God loves and is compassionate. How else do you explain the tears of Jesus, Luke 19:41, when He wept over Jerusalem? How do you explain the tears of God that were cried through the eyes of Jeremiah? How do you explain the tears of Paul? God loves and God is compassionate and God grieves and God aches because He cares about sinners. His pity is real. His compassion is real. His love is real. But that does not mean that He saves everyone because pity and love and compassion are overridden by weightier matters in God's eternal purpose. God truly pities but that pity is counterbalanced by superior motives so that even though He pities the sinner He does not will to save the sinner because if He did He would. The all-wise mind of God can look at the multiplicity of issues in His vast Kingdom and He has good reasons and motives to do every single thing He does, actions for which we have not the least conception. We have no idea why.
But we do know this. His ultimate goal is not to please the evangelical majority. His ultimate goal is not the greatest aggregate of well being among His creatures. His ultimate goal is...what?...His glory. And we don't know all the ways in which God may deem His glory is most highly promoted, all that we can say is this, whatever God does in saving, whatever He does in damning, whatever He does in electing, whatever He does in rejecting is the most for His glory beyond anything else and apart from every other consideration. God's purpose is not to make the most sinners in the universe happy. His purpose is to glorify Himself. And God may see in His omniscience divinely rational ground for every single thing He does though we can't see it at all. God knows and does what brings Him glory. And obviously He is glorified when vessels are fitted for wrath just as when vessels are prepared for glory.
A monarch, let's say, benevolent king has two murderers before him on trial, both guilty. Murderer A has committed a crime equal to murderer B, they're culpability is exactly the same. However, murderer A is a physician, a medical practitioner. Murderer B has absolutely no knowledge of the craft. Murderer A is not just a physician he is the best. The king finds both A and B equally guilty yet he reprieves A. Why? Because in his kingdom there is a plague and that plague is destroying lives and he knows that the skill of this physician can save lives. So A is reprieved simply because of his skill to help the suffering. B is hanged. He's hanged for murder. But some people think he's hanged for not going to medical school. But that's to miss the point. A who escapes was equally guilty of murder, isn't it true then that B was really hanged because he didn't know medicine? No. B was hanged because he murdered. A was spared because there was a purpose which the king knew he could fulfill.
So it is with God. We all should be damned but God has designed for some of us to fulfill a redemptive purpose. And purely on that basis alone we are redeemed...though as guilty as those who perish so that it's all of grace and it's all for divine and holy purposes which are unknown to us apart from the unfolding of those in the experience of our lives and some day perhaps in retrospect from glory. God knows what His purposes are. He is wise. He is sovereign. His motives are unrevealed to us. But this we know, whatever He does He will do for the sake of His own glory. He will put Himself on display as a God of justice, judgment, vengeance, wrath, punishment. He will put Himself on display as a God of mercy, grace, love, forgiveness and everything in the middle...a God of patience, a God of faithfulness. The salvation of some sinners and the eternal misery of others all focuses on God's glory. And, friends, that's all we need to know. And then we just worship God for His glory. And then when we think about our own salvation, what does that elicit? Gratitude, overwhelming gratitude...Why, O God, why out of all...why was I in the A group? Why?
So a true compassion and love for sinners is restrained by a consistent and absolutely holy motive so that it never takes the form of a will to regenerate. God's compassion is real. His love is genuine. But overruling it is an immutable and sovereign necessity to display His glory in His judgment. And that's why He doesn't save everybody. His glory demands the true and complete satisfaction of all His wondrous attributes. And when we look at our own lives and we see that we have been saved and we have been forgiven and we have been given eternal life and been imputed the righteousness of Christ and we're on our way to eternal glory, purely at the discretion of God who prompted our hearts, it is overwhelming cause for praise and worship and adoration. Isn't it? It should fill us with thanksgiving that should come out with every breath, every breath.
You say, "What about the people on the other side?" Well the Bible addresses them and all I can say is this, to those of you who don't know Christ the issue is always your unbelief. You can't look around to see if your name is on a list of the chosen. There's no list, at least in this world. You don't need to try to talk to somebody who can find out for you from God whether you've been chosen. What you need to do is repent and believe cause that's what the Bible tells you to do. In fact, the Bible says God has commanded all men everywhere to repent. And Jesus said, "Him that comes to Me I will not turn away." And the book of Revelation ends with this invitation, "Whosoever will, let him come." It's not an issue of trying to find out if you belong to the ones that God has chosen to display His grace, it's an issue of whether you're willing to turn from your sin. And that's what God says to you...turn from your sin. In fact, the prophet said, "Why will you die? Repent, turn, turn, why will you die?" As if to say it doesn't have to happen.
These inscrutable truths about the glory of God are beyond us. But one thing is not beyond us. If you confess your sins and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you'll be saved and on your way to heaven and numbered among the elect. And you forever and ever and ever will be an agent through whom God will display the glory of His grace and His love and His mercy and His forgiveness and His kindness. And not one through whom He will display forever His justice and His judgment. And so, I say to you what Jesus would say if He were here--Repent and believe the gospel...believe that Jesus died and rose again for you. Embrace Him as Lord and Savior, turning from your sin and become one of God's own children and enter into the sphere where God is glorified through His goodness and His grace.
Next week we're going to look at the one passage that pulls all of this together in one text, Romans 9. Let's bow in prayer.
Father, these passages and these thoughts that come from Your Word are so profound and yet so essential for us. We can't go through life dictating to You how You ought to act, what You ought to do. We need to gladly submit ourselves to the one compelling driving motive of the whole universe and that is that You would be glorified. O God, we thank You for glorifying Yourself. You are worthy to be honored and praised and exalted by all created beings. And we think about the fact that there were angels who were created to give You glory and they fell, a third of them and now two thirds have been left in Your presence to glorify You, one third have become demons. And, Lord, You never had any plan to redeem them, You never had any way they could ever be restored or saved or forgiven. From the moment of that rebellion throughout all eternity their damnation was fixed. There was no grace with angels, no mercy and no forgiveness. But that wouldn't have been adequate. You needed a place, You needed a creature in whom You could display Your glory, the glory of Your mercy and so You made man. And when man did what angels did, You set out to redeem him. Father, thank You for calling sinners to repent and believe and may sinners do that even this day and enter into Your grace in the manifestation of Your glory through the means of Your love for all eternity. We thank You for such a privilege, such a wonder, in Christ's name. Amen.
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Heres a new one. This is an x-out Champ Boss. You can't see the disc, but this was a good pull. It hit the tree line that is 400-410 away about 10-15 ft high and it was just coming out of its turn. I'd say it would have ended up in the 450-460 range if it wasn't for the trees. I've really been concentrating on accelereating late in the pull
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Since my last week of blog posts reads a little like an Oprah interview with James Frey, I've decided to lighten up a little bit...
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'm taking part in a panel discussion at next week's sold-out Technology Conference, sponsored by ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership (Tuesday, Jan 31 - Wednesday, Feb 1). My panel session is entitled Web 2.0: The Long Tail, Social Media and The Future of Associations, and I'd like to try to prove a point. The point I'd like to prove is that Web 2.0 and social media not only enable online participation, but also in-person interaction.
Here's where you come in.
If you're in this session (and I know some of you will be), request the microphone and say, "My question is for Mr. Martin. Ben, what is your favorite Bon Jovi song of all time?" For your trouble, I'll give you $20 on the spot, answer your question, tell the participants about this experiment and (if you want) feature you on the Certified Association Executive blog.
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Since my last week of blog posts reads a little like an Oprah interview with James Frey, I've decided to lighten up a little bit...
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- Nick said...
Let me know how that goes. I can't go to the conf (new job and too much $$) but if you're getting together with blogoclump types, I'd love to meet - lunch or dinner, whateva. Tuesday night I'm slammed tho.
- Ben said...
Most definitely. Can you make it to the reception on Tuesday night? Here's a link:
- Fred Simmons said...
Wish I could make it to see how this turns out.


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Silfverberg scores twice in Senators win over Jets
OTTAWA -- Jakob Silfverberg scored twice to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 4-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.
Guillaume Latendresse and Kyle Turris also scored for the Senators (15-8-6), who got 25 saves from Robin Lehner.
Zach Bogosian scored the lone goal for the Jets (15-12-2), while Ondrej Pavelec faced 42 shots.
The loss put an end to the Jets three-game winning streak.
Trailing 2-0 heading into the third the Jets finally beat Lehner at 3:26 as Bogosian's shot from just inside the blue-line made it through traffic and just under the crossbar.
Evander Kane had a great chance to tie the game midway through the period on a 2 on 1, but was robbed by Lehner who made a great pad save.
Minutes later the Senators made it 3-1 with a power-play goal by Turris and 75 seconds later Silfverberg scored his second of the game.
Fatigue seemed to be a factor for the Jets, who were playing their third game in four days. Ottawa dominated the first period jumping out to a 2-0 lead and outshooting Winnipeg 19-6.
The Senators opened the scoring at 3:44 of the first as Daniel Alfredsson battled his way down the side boards to the front of the net where the puck bounced in off Latendresse.
The Senators made it 2-0 with a power-play goal with less than two minutes remaining in the period. Sergei Gonchar made a pass across the crease to Silfverberg who managed to handle a bouncing puck and beat Pavelec up high.
Gonchar extended his point streak to seven games with assists on Silfverberg's and Turris's goals.
Notes: The Senators LW Kaspars Daugavins was a healthy scratch. Ottawa is without G Craig Anderson (ankle sprain, indefinite), D Mike Lundin (concussion, indefinitely), D Dave Dziurzynski (concussion, indefinite), D Erik Karlsson (Achiles, out for season), C Jason Spezza (upper body injury, indefinite), LW Milan Michalek (knee, indefinite), D Jared Cowen (hip, out for season). The Jets' D Paul Postma, C Alexander Burmistrov and G Al Montoya were a healthy scratch. Winnipeg is without D Tobias Enstrom (shoulder, indefinite), D Zach Redmond (leg, indefinite), RW Anthony Peluso (hand, indefinite), C Jim Slater (upper body, indefinite).
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Experts say we're still years away from fully driverless cars, Dan Strumpf of The Wall Street Journal reports.
California, Nevada, and Florida have all passed laws regarding driverless cars. But in Nevada, where legislators have made the most progress, self-driving cars are only legal for testing, and nothing more.
Other states, like Arizona, have also mulled over legislation for self-driving cars, but hit a wall when it came to liability issues.
They couldn't figure out who to blame if a driverless car gets in a wreck.
But there are other issues, too.
"We don't actually have a fully self-guided car," Stanford Law School lecturer Bryant Walker Smith told The Wall Street Journal. "We don't know how various aspects of that will be introduced. We don't know how they will ultimately perform or what 'safe' is.…It would be much easier to analyze the legal uncertainty if we had an actual product out there."
Still, those potential legal issues haven't stopped companies like Google, Nissan, and Audi from testing driverless car technologies.
Google has been working on self-driving cars for a few years now, but the sensors it currently uses are super expensive, which could also delay it from bringing these cars to the mainstream.
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Dactinomycin or Methotrexate in Treating Patients With Low-Risk Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01535053
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : February 17, 2012
Last Update Posted : January 4, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|Choriocarcinoma FIGO Stage I Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor FIGO Stage II Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor FIGO Stage III Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor Hydatidiform Mole
|Biological: Dactinomycin Drug: Leucovorin Calcium Drug: Methotrexate Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
|Phase 3
I. To test the hypothesis that treatment with multi-day methotrexate is inferior to treatment with pulse actinomycin-D (dactinomycin) in patients with low-risk gestational trophoblastic disease with respect to complete response.
I. To describe the frequency of post protocol surgical treatment for each arm. II. To describe the frequency of post protocol multi-agent chemotherapy treatment for each arm.
III. To compare multi-day methotrexate to actinomycin-D with respect to frequency and severity of adverse events in patients with low-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.
IV. To investigate the impact of treatment on overall quality-of-life (QOL) and explore the influence of treatment on issues such as body image, sexual functioning, and patient-reported side effects and disruption.
V. To assess whether uterine artery pulsatility index (UAPI) can provide independent prognostic information predictive of single-drug resistance.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM I: Patients receive dactinomycin intravenously (IV) over 15 minutes on day 1.
ARM II: Patients receive methotrexate intramuscularly (IM) on days 1, 3, 5, and 7 and leucovorin calcium orally (PO) on days 2, 4, 6, and 8 OR single agent methotrexate IV on days 1-5.
In both arms, treatment repeats every 14 days for up to 20 courses* in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up monthly for 1 year and then every 3 months for 1 year.
NOTE: * Patients will be treated for three courses after human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) < 5 mIU/mL or until evidence of treatment failure (biologic progression), disease progression, or unacceptable toxicity despite dose modifications. Upon normalization of hCG (< 5 mIU/mL), patients will be treated with three additional courses.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|384 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase III Randomized Trial of Pulse Actinomycin-D Versus Multi-day Methotrexate for the Treatment of Low-Risk Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia
|Actual Study Start Date :
|June 18, 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|May 31, 2018
Experimental: Arm I (dactinomcin)
Patients receive dactinomycin IV over 15 minutes on day 1.
Biological: Dactinomycin
Given IV
Other Names:
Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
Active Comparator: Arm II (leucovorin calcium and methotrexate)
Patients receive methotrexate IM on days 1, 3, 5, and 7 and leucovorin calcium PO on days 2, 4, 6, and 8 OR single agent methotrexate IV on days 1-5.
Drug: Leucovorin Calcium
Given PO
Other Names:
Drug: Methotrexate
Given IV and IM
Other Names:
Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
- Complete response vs treatment failure [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]The information fraction is estimated by the number of eligible patients evaluated for response at a given time divided by the target sample size of eligible patients. However, the timing of the interim analyses will likely vary from this exact schedule for practical reasons. At the interim analysis, the test statistic for the primary analysis will be compared with the critical boundaries defined by the statistical design parameters an O?Brien and Fleming alpha spending function as proposed by Lan and DeMets.
- Severity of adverse events as assessed by the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4 [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]The maximum grade of any adverse event observed during active treatment period or within 4 weeks of completing study treatment for each eligible patient will be tabulated. The proportion of patients with a serious adverse event or reported grade 3 or worse adverse event, regardless of attribution, will be compared between the treatment regimens using a chi-square test.
- Overall QOL as measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General (FACT-G) [ Time Frame: Up to 26 weeks ]A linear mixed model that accounts for the correlation among the repeated measures will be fitted for the FACT-G score adjusting for baseline score and other covariates. The patient-reported symptom measurement scores and treatment disruption on QOL will be summarized by treatment arms with the estimated means for continuous variables or frequency tables for categorical variables accompanied with 95% confidence intervals.
- UAPI (optional) [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]Analyses will report predictiveness curves (with observed risk for assessing calibration) for UAPI with and without the interaction term, functions of sensitivity, specificity and risk, risk distribution by treatment outcome, and area under curve from receiver operating characteristic analysis. These analyses will help to evaluate the predictive accuracy of UAPI when predicting resistance to standard single agent therapy.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients who meet International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage I, II, or III criteria for low-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN): post molar GTN or choriocarcinoma (as defined below); patients may have had a second curettage but must still meet GTN criteria below:
Post molar GTN
For the purposes of this study, patients must have undergone evacuation of a complete or partial hydatidiform mole and then meet the criteria for GTN defined as:
- A < 10% decrease in the hCG level using as a reference the first value in the series of 4 values taken over a period of 3 weeks (> 50 mIU/ml minimum) OR
- A > 20% sustained rise in the hCG taking as a reference the first value in the series of 3 values taken over a period of 2 weeks (> 50 mIU/ml minimum) OR
- A persistently elevated hCG level a period of 6 months or more following the initial curettage (> 50 mIU/ml minimum)
- Histologically proven non-metastatic choriocarcinoma OR
- Histologically proven metastatic choriocarcinoma if the metastatic site(s) is restricted to one (or more) of the following: vagina, parametrium, or lung
- World Health Organization (WHO) risk score 0-6
- Patients must be willing to practice effective contraception for the duration of the study
- White blood cell count (WBC) >= 3,000 cells/mcL
- Granulocytes >= 1,500/mcL
- Platelets >= 100,000/mcL
- Creatinine =< 2.0 mg/dcL
- Bilirubin =< 1.5 x institutional normal
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 3 x institutional normal
- Alkaline phosphatase =< 3 x institutional normal
- Patients who have met the pre-entry requirements
- Before enrolling a patient, the institution must verify the availability of an adequate supply of methotrexate for a full course of therapy
- Patients must have signed an approved informed consent and authorization permitting release of personal health information
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who do not have GTN
- Patients with non-gestational choriocarcinoma
- Patients who have previously been treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy; however, patients who received prior low-dose methotrexate for treatment of an ectopic pregnancy will be eligible for this study
- Patients who have received prior pelvic radiation
- Patients with placental-site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT) or epithelioid trophoblastic tumor (ETT)
- Patients with Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) performance status of 3 or 4
- Patients with a history of other invasive malignancies, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, are excluded if there is any evidence of other malignancy being present within the last five years; patients are also excluded if their previous cancer treatment contraindicates this protocol therapy
- Patients whose circumstances at the time of study entry do not permit completion of the study or required follow-up
- Patients who wish to breast-feed during treatment
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01535053
Show 289 Study Locations
|Principal Investigator:
|Julian Schink
|NRG Oncology
|Responsible Party:
|Gynecologic Oncology Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01535053 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2012-00250 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
GOG-0275 ( Other Identifier: NRG Oncology )
GOG-0275 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
U10CA180868 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U10CA027469 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|February 17, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 4, 2019
|Last Verified:
|January 2019
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Trophoblastic Neoplasms
Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
Hydatidiform Mole
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic
Pregnancy Complications
Calcium, Dietary
Folic Acid
Calcium-Regulating Hormones and Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Bone Density Conservation Agents
Abortifacient Agents, Nonsteroidal
Abortifacient Agents
Reproductive Control Agents
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
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My first time posting on Think Atheist, so I thought some of you might find this to be interesting.
Ran across this today (http://worldviewwarriors.blogspot.com/2012/09/proof-of-worldwide-fl...)...a blog by the name of "Worldview Warriors" arguing for a biblical flood using this argument:
"The first obvious sign that a worldwide flood occurred is that there would be thousands upon thousands, millions upon millions of dead creatures buried underneath the surface of the earth. When we look at Geology, guess what? This is exactly what we find: thousands upon thousands and millions upon millions of creatures buried beneath the earth. Unfortunately, before secular humanists got their hands on the fossil record, creationists were poorly interpreting the fossils that were buried underground, which paved the way for secular scientists popularizing more scientific interpretations of the fossils. Today, creationists fight to set the record straight despite the fact that their interpretations are more reasonable and more logical than that of secularists."
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Sadly, "God can do anything he wants."
As an abstract being in the mind of monkeys, this is about right, but resorting to the 'irrestable force meets X' relys upon an assertion that such a force exists to start with. Theists just muddled the issue again. Must be nice to always have a ready made number of 'excape cards'. The 'excape cards' are only immagined also, since they exist, not to win an argument, but to delay the final result, 'the god hypothesis is crap!'
Again, I return to my point that, 'religion is about the wait'.
Yes. It is a very convenient out. God become like magic duct tape, able to patch up any argument (in the mind of the theist, that is) that he or she can't find a solution to when faced with a real argument.
How can you win when the opposition can suspend all logic with "And then...a miracle happened!"
Exactly. Miracles are easy fixes when you have nothing else to bolster an argument.
(Damnit, I was almost through typing something really good and suddenly I fat fingered something and Google started loading--bye bye, masterful prose....)
My goal talking to theists who claim to have rational reasons to believe is precisely TO force them to pull the faith card. At that point they are forced to realize (especially after I rub their noses in the steaming pile they just dropped) that ultimately there is no rational argument for their position. They may then make the claim that no position, including mine (atheism takes faith that there is no doG, don'tcha know) can be rationally justified, but my point--that they have no rational basis--is still made.
Does that stop them from repeating the same line about having rational reasons to believe, on the next non-believer conversion prospect they run into? Nope, most Xians in apologetic mode are willing to repeat arguments they've been forced to concede are wrong; it's the Xian version of taqiyya. Saving the soul they are talking to is of overriding importance (and given their [very faulty!!!] premises, honestly, I can't blame them for thinking like that).
(Another fun one is getting them to concede that their notions of absolute morality is ultimately based on their subjective choice of which doG to believe in. Usually they spot that trap before I can quite close it on them but their flight reflex is fun to watch. And if they are honest with themselves, they might figure something out when they think about it later.)
Did anyone mention the concept that watercraft date back to the neolithic period (around 10,000 years ago). So to quote Joe Rogan on the subject of Noah, "All those other people with boats, their shit didn't work."
Surely humans at the time were not all duds. Could it be that the Flood Story was a attempt to reverse the theist sense that they were losing in the market of public opinion, of their day?
'See our guy can build a BOAT, fill it with animals, and save the WORLD! We spit on the rest of you!' Just over the mountain from there the locals can't see what all the fus is about. Was the story only ment for a easily impressed few? 'N' years latter we are stuck with a failed editing job?
I've just received a new email from Bill Seng, the main Christian commentor on the World Wide Flood blog, directing me to a section of what I've already characterized as the Confirmation Bias capitol of the world, Answers In Genesis. On this site, the author, Matt McClellen, has written an article, "Abraham and the Chronology of Ancient Mesopotamia." In his article, McClellen presents a table, which I won't bother to reproduce here, entitled, "Traditional Chronology of Ancient Mesopotamia," beginning with the Hassunah Period, 5800-5500 BCE, all the way down to the First Dynasty of Babylon (Hammurabi), 1895-1594 BCE.
This table has been produced by an actual Mesopotamian historian, Alfred J. Hoerth, Director of Archaeology Emeritus at Wheaton College, who, in the field of Biblical archaeology (about which, he has written several books), takes a maximalist view of the Bible vs history - that is to say, he tends to accept the Bible as historical, then sets out to prove it, a Confirmation Bias point of view, one would think. Below the table, presented on AiG, he even lists his book title, publication date and page number data:
Table 1. The traditional chronology of Early Mesopotamia (after Hoerth 1998, p. 35; Roux 1992, pp. 501–508).
Bear in mind, this table is being used by Mr. McClellan as evidence for his claims, but he still isn't satisfied with this biblical maximalist's point of view, as evidenced by the disclaimer he feels he needs to make before presenting you with Hoerth's table:
"A Bible-believing Christian will, of course, reject the dating of the oldest periods but, as mentioned in the introduction, this paper will not discuss these older periods as it will be shown below that they will have no effect on how we date Abraham."
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Archive for the 'McMulin Genealogy' Category
Tombstone Tuesday – Nathaniel & Mary Wood
Nathaniel and Mary McMulin Wood are buried in the Milan Cemetery, Ryan Township, Sumner County, Kansas. This cemetery is located one mile west of Milan, Kansas (and about 15 miles west of Wellington) on Highway 160.
Nathaniel and his wife Mary were homesteaders in Sumner County, owning a quarter section of ground just about two miles west of Milan on what is now known to locals as "old 160 highway". My apologies to anyone who is researching, I don't know the new 9-1-1 name for this country road without driving out to look.
Nathaniel and Mary were my husband's great grandparents on his father's side, and though I do have a little more information on them, I don't have much and I don't have it with me right now.
My mother-in-law, C. Maxine Deffenbaugh Kline, always told me that Nathaniel's nickname was "Than" and I thought that was interesting, as most would be nicknamed Nat or Nate.
Someday soon I need to do more research on that line!
P.S. If Nathaniel and Mary are in your family tree, please leave a note so we can 'connect the dots.' Thanks and 'happy hunting!'


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To check your video card, go to the search box on the taskbar and search for "device manager." In Device Manager, expand Display adapters.
Video cards that support NVidia NVENC include:
For more info, see NVIDIA NVENC Support Matrix.
If your PC can't record game clips, you'll get a message like this when you try to make one:
Sorry, this PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements for recording clips.
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UMB News: WP Carey Foundation Announces $30 Million Gift to University of Maryland School of Law
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: U. of Maryland Law School Gets $30-Million Gift
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The National Law Journal: A Major Donation and A Name Change for Maryland Law School
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From Maryland Law's Website: April 25th, 2011 -- Today the W.P. Carey Foundation announced a gift of $30 million to the University of Maryland School of Law. The gift is the largest in the School's history, one of the top 10 largest gifts to any law school, public or private, and one of the largest in the history of the University System of Maryland.
The gift will enable the School of Law to strengthen its programs, with a special emphasis on faculty support, and increase the School's endowment. In addition to the gift, the University of Maryland has committed to raise $15 million to support the School of Law.
W. P. Carey Foundation founder Wm. Polk Carey said, "This gift represents the Carey family's educational and philanthropic legacy in the great state of Maryland and helps us honor family members who dedicated their lives and careers to education, to civic duty and many to the legal profession itself. It is our hope that with this gift, the University of Maryland School of Law will continue its tradition of graduating students who make a special contribution to the business world--like my grandfather and his brother did."
The School of Law will be named the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law after W. P. Carey's grandfather who is a graduate of the law school (Class of 1880) and co-founder of what is now the largest law firm in the world: DLA Piper (previously Carey, Piper and Hall). The firm's current chairman, Frank Burch, is also an alumnus of the University of Maryland School of Law (Class of 1974). ). Additionally, Francis King Carey's older brother James Carey was a graduate of the law school (Class of 1875), as was his son Francis J. Carey (Class of 1912).
Governor Martin J. O'Malley, another University of Maryland School of Law alumnus (Class of 1988) said, "With gifts totaling $100 million overall to support education at all levels in Maryland, the Carey family has shown remarkable support for not only the University of Maryland, but also for the education system in general throughout the years. This gift helps to strengthen our state's global reputation in the competitive field of higher education.
In addition to this gift, the Foundation has made gifts to the Arizona State University, where the W. P. Carey School of Business is located, and to the Johns Hopkins University, where the Carey Business School (named after W. P. Carey's great, great, great grandfather) is located. This makes W. P. Carey the only individual in the country who has two business schools and one law school named after one family.
Overall, W. P. Carey and the Foundation will have given more than $150 million dollars in support of education worldwide to honor his family's long and storied legacy in education, mostly those not recognized in their lifetime for their commitment to education and civic duty, particularly in the state of Maryland. Other local Maryland schools to which the Foundation has made gifts include the Gilman School, founded by Anne Galbraith Carey, Baltimore School for the Arts, The Bryn Mawr School, and the Boy's Latin School of Maryland.
"This extraordinary gift will support the school's dedication to providing a world class education," said University of Maryland School of Law Dean Phoebe A. Haddon. "Our program has a rising national reputation for excellence and it is our hope that this gift will engage and strengthen the School of Law and the University System of Maryland overall as we continue to graduate the best and brightest students."
The University of Maryland School of Law is the third oldest law school in the country and is located on the University's founding campus in Baltimore. The University will celebrate the 200th anniversary of its chartering in 2012. Four of the School of Law's specialty areas are ranked in the Top 10 by U.S.News & World Report: Health Care Law (#3), Clinical Law (#6), Environmental Law (#7), and Trial Advocacy (#8). Its Part-Time program is ranked in the top ten as well at #8. The law school established one of the first clinical programs in the country (more than 40 years ago) and is one of the only law schools to have international clinics located on site, in-country.
Distinguished University of Maryland School of Law alumni include Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, former U.S. Senator Joseph Tydings, current U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Andre Davis, among others.
The W. P. Carey Foundation is a private U.S. foundation, incorporated in 1988 by William Polk Carey. It has a twenty-year tradition of focused philanthropy and is the embodiment of his philosophy, "Doing good while doing well."
Inspired by the Carey family's legacy of educational leadership and philanthropy, The W. P. Carey Foundation's primary mission is to support educational institutions with the larger goal of improving America's competitiveness in the world. The main focus of our support to schools, universities, lecture series, chairs and other programs is on the study of business and economics, as well as on admissions procedures and college and career guidance.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) In preparing for its game on Saturday night against No. 21 Nebraska and quarterback Taylor Martinez, Ohio State found the perfect surrogate.
The 12th-ranked Buckeyes (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten) didn't have to go far to find someone with Martinez's acceleration, vision, lane-changing speed and knack for lengthy touchdown runs.
He was just across the line of scrimmage: quarterback Braxton Miller.
Their styles may be slightly different, just like their body types. But there are also a lot of similarities between the two players, starting with how fast they are.
``The defenses will not be shocked by the speed,'' Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said of the lightning-fast signal-callers. ``They've seen it in practice.''
The game will be a matchup of run-first, pass-later quarterbacks who are closer to Usain Bolt than Dan Marino.
Miller is second in the Big Ten in rushing and 13th in the nation at 115.4 yards per game. Martinez tops the conference in pass efficiency and is 11th in the country. With better running backs to hand off to, Martinez is only averaging 60 yards on the ground.
The area where they are most similar is in their ability to create big gainers. Martinez has scored on runs of 92, 38 and 27 yards and has completed TD passes covering 68, 42, 36, 35, 29, 27, 27, 26 and 26 yards. Miller has found the end zone on runs of 65, 55, 37 and 33 yards and has thrown scoring passes of 72, 63, 44, 40, 38, 35 and 25 yards.
Defenders who have grown accustomed to chasing down their own quarterback benefit from facing someone who is just as fast.
``There's not many quarterbacks out there that run sub-4.4s, or high 4.3s,'' Ohio State linebacker Etienne Sabino said of both quarterbacks' neck-snapping speed in the 40-yard dash. ``Braxton's obviously one of them, but so is Martinez. I think it definitely helps us going against Braxton every day.''
By extension, it must also help Nebraska's defense to be chasing Martinez so much.
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, a former Ohio State player (1986-90) and captain, was the defensive coordinator at LSU when he coached against Meyer who was in a six-year run at Florida that included two national championships.
``I think there are a lot of similarities from when he was at Florida,'' Pelini said. ``They have a different style of runner at the quarterback position, so we'll see some different plays. There are a lot of similarities there, too. He had success with it at Florida, so why wouldn't he have success at Ohio State? It makes sense.''
Comparisons have been drawn between Miller and Meyer's Heisman Trophy-winning QB with the Gators, Tim Tebow. But Tebow was more of a fullback compared to Miller, who is a sprinter in shoulder pads.
Huskers middle linebacker Will Compton said Miller was more like Michigan's jet-fast Denard Robinson.
``When you face guys like Denard and Braxton, you have to get an extra set of eyes on them. You have to get an extra guy to the party,'' he said, and by party he meant gang-tackle. ``You can't leave guys one on one with him. You have to get off blocks, rally to the ball. If he makes one guy miss, the second guy has to be there to get him.''
Ohio State defenders are following those same identical instructions to bring down Martinez.
``(The key is) not over-pursuing, and breaking down and tackling him,'' linebacker Ryan Shazier said. ``And letting everybody else pursue to the ball. You put him in a circle, he can't go anywhere.''
Of course, the quarterbacks aren't the only threats for the teams. Nebraska (4-1, 1-0) also has speedy tailback Ameer Abdullah, averaging 97 yards a game rushing, and a prototypical, punishing 'Huskers back in Rex Burkhead, going for 91 a game.
The Buckeyes don't have rushing numbers like that, but do have more weapons than a shooting gallery. Devin Smith has caught 72- and 63-yard strikes from Miller, while Corey Brown will likely run the ball, catch screens and go deep for passes. Carlos Hyde, wearing a brace because of a recent minor knee injury, gets the call at running back with Jordan Hall out with a partially torn ligament in his knee.
But you can plan on Martinez and Miller playing can-you-top-this before a national television audience and more than 105,000 people at chilly Ohio Stadium.
``If he sees a crease, he can hurt you with his feet,'' one defender said. ``He's a fast guy.''
That was Sabino, talking about Martinez.
Thing is, it could just as easily have been a Husker discussing Miller.
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Is he an aggressive, paranoid, pathological liar or an American hero? That's the complex question director Jamie Meltzer explores — if never quite answers — regarding left-wing radical-turned-
With seemingly full cooperation from Darby (strangely, he even "acts" in dramatic re-creations of key events), Meltzer lays out the disparate facts of Darby's recent past, starting in 2005 when the Texas native drove to New Orleans to help rescue a friend, former Black Panther Robert King Wilkerson, from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Soon after, Darby co-founded the admirable grass-roots relief organization Common Ground.
But it's the anti-authoritarian Darby's unlikely choice to later go undercover to help the FBI expose David McKay and Bradley Crowder, two young anarchists planning to protest 2008's Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., that provides the crux of the film's mystery. Most intriguing: Was Darby, in effect, responsible for the Molotov cocktails McKay and Crowder built, at his supposed urging, that would prove their undoing?
That the self-possessed, chameleon-like Darby became a tea party darling for potentially saving many Republican lives (he also renounced his longtime leftist leanings) can't help but rankle onetime Common Ground collaborators Scott Crow and Lisa Fithian, as well as Wilkerson, all interviewed here. Several journalists also dissect Darby's actions.
Ultimately, though, it's hard to conclude who Darby, now 36, really is or what he truly believes. What emerges is a vague, often chilling impression of an unpredictable opportunist and provocateur who may not even be sure himself.
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R&B star R. KELLY's former manager is suing the singer for cash he insists he's owed.
Derrel McDavid claims he has been the man behind the I Believe I Can Fly hitmaker for decades, and had hoped to keep cashing on in his client's success after they parted ways last year (13).
According to his lawsuit, obtained by TMZ.com, Kelly agreed to hand over £760,000 as a parting gesture but the manager has seen nothing since an initial £176,000 payment.
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This past Saturday a bridal shower took place for our daughter Sarah and her fiancé Corey. (Yes, bridal showers are now held for both the intended bride *and* the groom.)
Thanks to the ingenuity of Sarah's sister, Rebecca, it was held at the Old Town Hall in Salem, Massachusetts.
Now Salem was one of the earliest villages in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and others established Salem in 1626. Salem was the fourth village established by the English so one may well imagine that Salem abounds in American history. Like other villages that were established, Salem harbor opens onto the Atlantic Ocean. All early villages were established with easy access to the ocean.
The Old Town Hall in Salem is no longer used as a Town Hall but it is a rather historic site.
So why an historic site for the shower?
When looking at venues for their wedding, Sarah and Corey decided they wanted a very special location. They decided to take a look at Turner Hill Mansion in Ipswich, Ma. They fell in love with the history and the heritage accompanying this venue. As a result, they decided to have a "vintage wedding".
Turner Hill is one of the finest estates on Boston's historic North Shore. The Elizabethan-style mansion is set among towering pines, formal gardens, rolling lawns and swan ponds.
In 1898, noted turn of the century architect William Rantoul was commissioned by Charles Goodnough Rice & Ann Proctor Rice of Boston to build a grand home. An extensive tour of Europe's historic castles and manors provided the Rice's and Mr. Rantoul with vision and inspiration for the home.
Completed in 1903, the mansion boasts hand-molded plaster ceilings, vivid wall friezes, gleaming oak hardwood floors and hand-carved paneling, doors and stairways. The reception hall's wildlife motifs and windows were modeled after Haddington Hall in Scotland. These features constitute a structural work of art that could rarely be replicated today. At Turner Hill, the Rices raised their children and entertained their family and friends in grand style in the early 1900's. A young George Patton (known as General Patton of WWII) was a frequent guest of Turner Hill and once entertained party guests from the book ladder in the library.
Shortly after Mr. Rice passed away in 1943, the estate was sold to The Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, and the property was converted to ministry and spiritual retreat uses.
In a previous blog I talked about the La Salette Shrine and how I used to take my grandmother Arthémise Dumais Lévesque to the shrine on Sundays in the summer months. She was very religious and really enjoyed her visits to La Salette with me as we were very close. Who would ever have thought that all of these years later, our youngest daughter would be married in this special place in one of the beautiful gardens.. a place that holds so many special memories for me of those special summer Sunday afternoons with my grandmother. I still cannot believe it!
In 1997, the Raymond Property Company purchased Turner Hill from the La Salette order, and worked to restore the property to its original splendor, and to reinvent the estate as a once-in-a-lifetime retreat for a new generation of guests and residents.
It is only since 2008 that weddings have been held at Turner Hill.
So as you see, there is a great deal of history in choosing this location including some personal family history with me and my grandmother.
How do Sarah and Corey plan to make this a vintage wedding that is reflective our families' heritage? They have planned well.
First Sarah, her sister and I went looking for her wedding dress. We looked at many beautiful dresses but none of them were "just right". One Saturday we went to a bridal shop and rather than what we know as the traditional white wedding dress, Sarah opted for a dress that is off-white and gold. Let me say that when she came out of the dressing room we were speechless - this was *it* this was defintely the dress she had been searching for. The dress has no train so to compliment the dress and to create a train Sarah tried on a very long custom made veil. Perfect! The veil has been made to compliment the dress. It is off-white with wide matching gold trim that matches the gold brocade on the dress. Yes, perfect indeed!
So that part of the "vintage" plan accomplished. What else could make this vintage wedding in keeping with both Sarah and Corey's heritage... they have scanned photos of the two families. They have framed them and they will be on the guests tables and on the mantle of the huge fire place. They have photos of their great grandparents and grandparents. What a nice touch!
There are many more details but I will share those after the wedding next month.
My, I am so excited about how plans are moving forward that I have digressed... so back to the shower. I arrived at the Salem Town Hall with my good friend Deb. Rebecca was there with her husband Tyler and the bridesmaids so we proceeded to set up the tables and serving tables for the guests who arrived shortly thereafter.
Corey knew about the shower and he brought Sarah in at about 11:30 a.m. She was totally surprised! It was just the best surprise! I had placed framed photos of Sarah from the time she was born through today on the staging in front of the gift table. Eveyone so enjoyed looking at those photos!
The champagne brunch was superb, the generosity of family and friends unbelievable and the joy it all brought to both Sarah and Corey ... no words can express.
At the end of the shower Corey had a surprise for Sarah. He began with a few words telling everyone that when he first met Sarah he knew this day would come... and he sang "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific. There was not a dry eye especially Sarah! What a perfect ending to a perfect event.
I have said from the beginning that if Sarah and Corey are not meant to be together nobody is.
So that was our day. Next Saturday evening is the Bachelor Party for Corey. Sarah's Dad and brother-in-law Tyler will atttend. Rebecca, Sarah, Mom and baby will go out together for the evening. We'll have our own girls' night out!
Thanks for your visit today. I hope you have enjoyed reading about the happenings in my family. It is a happy time and we are celebrating on through to the wedding.
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It's calculating the angles of the joints to reach a certain position (This is what's called reverse kinematics, right? No... wait a minute, it's forward kinematics, isn't it?
dont suppose using some small Aluminum square stock could be an option?
Hmmm if the batteries are placed nearer to a leg of a robot, then it will be further away from a leg at the other end of the robot and therefore more torque is needed.
hmmm yes i think you should find a battery pack that would fit on the leg and have one on each...anyways just an idea
hmmm....yes but youll need a very powerful battery and it wont run for very long...
60V! I assume you mean 6!?!Nice work though man.
The EEE pc is just 2 pounds. Only slightly heavier than what normal electronics for this would cost.Glad to see someone beat me to the punch of making an EEE compatible robot :-D.Are you using the EEE to control it? What OS on the EEE?Your fellow EEE owner,Half Shell


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A hotel chain, one of which is in South Carolina. It is rather tacky and is like a mini-Las Vegas, except Mexican themed. It's mascott, Pedro, is featured everywhere, including the many reminder signs you see before you reach the hotel. Some of the local teenagers enjoy driving out to these signs and using them for target practice. If you pass by any of these signs on the road, be sure to look for bullett holes in Pedro and/or the revolving sheep!
We should check-in at South of the Border so we can rest up for the rest of the drive to Florida.
Why does South of the Border have a rotating sombrero ride?
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Area in Great Britain - England
Area in England - South London
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South London is South of The Border to the Wankers in North London.
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VERB - A form of sex where the penetrating partner withdraws his/her penetrating device/organ/fingers, coats them in hot sauce (preferably a Mexican-made brand such as Tapatio), then reinserts. The penetrated partner then lets out a cry, along the lines of "Yaarrrrrrraaahaaa!"
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B: "That's a terrible stereotype."
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