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In a discussion on the August 28 edition of CNN's The Capital Gang about the 2004 Republican Party Platform on abortion, National Review Washington editor Kate O'Beirne claimed, "[T]he majority of the public is far closer to the Republicans on the pro-life issue, the abortion issue, than the Democrats." Yet polling data suggests otherwise.
Although the full Republican Party Platform is not yet publicly available, The New York Times reported in an August 25 article that like past party platforms, the 2004 edition supports a constitutional ban on abortion:
On abortion, the platform retained from previous conventions a call for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, expanding its discussion of the issue to a five-paragraph section on the "culture of life" from just two paragraphs in the 2000 platform in a section titled "Upholding the Rights of All."
While the Republican Party Platform endorses a constitutional amendment banning abortion, the majority of Americans oppose such an amendment, according to the only recent polling data that directly examined the level of public support for a constitutional ban on abortion. A University of Pennsylvania National Annenberg Election Survey conducted July 1 to July 21 found that 48 percent of Americans "strongly oppose" "a constitutional amendment banning all abortions," and 17 percent "somewhat oppose" such a ban; meanwhile, 23 percent "strongly favor," and 7 percent "somewhat favor," and banning abortion.
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Trained by the owner's father, Biznath Parboo, both trainer and owner, father and son, are quick to dismiss the lackluster run by the son of Freud in the Breeders' Cup.
The elder Parboo concurred and said, "I expect him to run 110% better here. When he's 100%, he knows how to do just one thing – win. When he gets into that starting stall, he knows what he has to do."
During Giant Ryan's six-race winning streak, the now six-year-old horse won races over four different tracks – the inner dirt track at Aqueduct, the main dirt track at Aqueduct, a sloppy main track at Belmont Park and the dirt oval at his home base of Calder Racecourse.
As trainer Parboo noted, the versatile horse can win when racing from off the pace, when running from just behind the leaders or when running on the lead - so how the race plays out Saturday doesn't seem to faze the trainer.
The biggest question mark remains as to whether Giant Ryan will take to Meydan's all-weather surface when the gates are sprung at 7:35 UAE time Saturday evening.
So far he seems to be taking to the going in his morning routine – which has mostly consisted of one circuit jogging followed by a second circuit galloping at bit of quicker clip. On Tuesday, the exercise rider blew out the horse the final 200m. Willie Martinez, who last rode Giant Ryan when winning a minor stakes race at Calder last June, will have the mount Saturday.
Giant Ryan, representing the first starter in Dubai for both the trainer and the owner, is probably flying under the radar in the Dubai Golden Shaheen and that's just fine by his connections.
Biznath Parboo, 72, is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, who went to the United States in 1972. He trains strictly for his family – son Shivananda and granddaughter Sherry – though he pointed out when queried on the subject, "I get asked to train for others all the time."
As for the different spelling of the surname by father and son, Biznath Parboo explains that when renewing a visa "many years ago," the 'h' was left off. The rest of the family uses the preferred spelling of the name – Parbhoo.
Shivananda Parbhoo felt as soon as they acquired Giant Ryan as a two-year-old that he had found a special horse and that "he looked like a champion."
Even though he broke slow in that first start, he passed all but three in the 10 horse field and then broke his maiden by five lengths the next time out and then won an allowance race just two weeks after that.
Once he found his niche as a five-year-old last season, the New York-bred rattled off six straight. Despite winning the Grade 2 Smile Sprint Handicap at Calder in July 2011, he was largely ignored in the Vosburgh – a race he won wire-to-wire digging in after a fierce stretch battlewith Force Freeze to prevail by a half a length.
The Breeders' Cup disappointment followed, but after getting some time off he's been working steadily with the Dubai Golden Shaheen as his specific early season target –so much so that a planned excursion to run in New York was scrapped at the last minute as soon as the team knew they had secured an invitation to Dubai.
"He's 100% fit and happy," Parboo said. "He couldn't be doing any better."
Giant Ryan has provided quite a ride for both owner and trainer.
"This is a dream come true," said owner Shivananda Parbhoo. "It's unbelievable."
"Everyone here has treated us so well," added Biznath Parboo.
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Law enforcement wants to be able to look through your text messages up to 2 years after you sent them. They say it is in case these messages and the info about them are ever needed in a criminal investigation. I could see how those messages may be able to prove a person committed a crime, yet storing that info would cost ungodly amounts. A cost that would probably be passed on to the end user.
Would that cost be worth it to store bazillions of "LOL"?
Maybe they should change it and only store messages by elected officials? Then we could catch the real crooks. Oh, we could add onto that and say to store messages sent by any phone assigned to any Government agency? Then we could really catch the wasteful spending and fraud.
I'm sure that if they ever did get a law passed to store text messages, the Government and its employees' would be exempt. The government would never pass anything that would possibly expose their fraud.
Full CNet article HERE.
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Bookie53463 posted a topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseHi Everyone, I'm just curious as to your opinion as to the nature of my abdominal discomfort/bloat/visible distension. Basis stats Age: 29 years old Height: 6'2'' Weight: 173 lbs Celiac History 1) Experienced abdominal discomfort/bloat/visible distension & constipation for years until via high antibodies and biopsy confirmed celiac disease at age 25 2) Went on a strict gluten free diet for 2 years. Only my constipation moderately decreased which never really bothered me. I ultimately completely lost my appetite from being gluten-free and went off the gluten free diet a few months later after losing lots of weight (I understand there's an increased risk of cancer, etc. when going back to gluten, but that doesn't really concern me actually). 3) I take miralax everyday which largely treats the constipation but doesn't really affect the abdominal discomfort/bloat/visible distension which bothers me very much. As a result of this distension, even though everyone thinks I'm very thin, I can't really wear a belt tight at all and need to wear loose clothing all the time or I would indeed get much more constipated and uncomfortable. 4) I also have some degree of urinary incontinence which I think is related to some element of muscle weakness from this bloating/distension as it's difficult to really empty my bladder My questions 1) Do other celiacs out there have a symptom pattern like this? 2) Do others think this is just fat? 3) If it were just fat, would it really be that uncomfortable to wear even a slightly tight belt? (I can't imagine fat people are in extreme discomfort most of their waking hours when wearing a belt) I know many will likely respond with "you really should be gluten free" and/or "you weren't gluten free enough". All I know is that being gluten free made me feel worse and that I researched the contents of everything I put in my mouth for 2 years which largely meant I didn't out at restaurants except those which specifically catered to celiacs. If I would need to be stricter than that, I'd just as soon need to wear a respirator outside for fear of inhaling a tiny gluten particle when walking near a bakery. That's not a life, it's a recipe for depression. thanks guys I've put a few links to pictures of my gut and a little video if you care to look. Pics: imgur.com/2WC1k.jpg imgur.com/ccj87.jpg imgur.com/k8FrA.jpg imgur.com/ulZJr.jpg Video: vimeo.com/11252511
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Bookie53463 replied to Bookie53463's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseI agree with you though from reading studies on the risks of developing other problems, the relative increase is pretty tiny (e.g. the risk of intestinal lymphoma might be 3 times higher in untreated celiac disease, but the actual risk is miniscule to begin with... (the stats supporting such a relative risk are pretty risque as well)) I'm only concerned with what's certain and real as opposed to what's abstract and extremely unlikely. Keep in mind that the incidence of these other issues might appear higher here because generally only people with more serious celiac disease frequent forums like this (i.e. a biased population).
What's Wrong With Me?
Bookie53463 posted a topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseHi Everyone, I'd first like to say how nice it is to have such a large kind community of contributors in such a context. I'm curious if I'm missing something in my treatment and interpretation of my problems because, at this point, it seems as though there's nothing I can do to get any real relief... A number of years ago, I started to have constipation and both bloating and visible distension. -constipation for me defined as having a very hard stool every other day or so -bloating/visible distension being defined as having a large bulbous stomach when standing, minimal amount of "pinchable" fat, a general sense of discomfort; having to wear pretty loose pants such as to not be in extreme discomfort (e.g. I'm 6'2'' and 175lb wearing a 36 inch waist pants while having a body fat of around 13-15%) -- i find the bloating/distension bothers me least if i eat/drink absolutely nothing (as such, I've only had a minimal appetite for years and have to remind myself to eat otherwise I have other problems from being too thin) I was diagnosed with Celiac via blood tests and biopsy. Immediately afterward, I adopted a gluten-free diet (pretty carefully, I doubt I had much exposure to gluten). I followed this diet for a year (during which point my blood work decreased from 180 to 80 (where over 30 is positive)). At the end of that year, my constipation was somewhat improved but my bloating/distension did not improve at all. Also, during that year, I spent a period of time (3 weeks) having a virtually complete elimination diet (elemental diet) though it did not help my bloating/distension (no soy, sugars, etc.). After the year, I decided it wasn't worth it to continue the diet since it didn't help my primary symptom of bloating (I've since started taking miralax which has solved the constipation problem). My celiac bloodwork is now back up high but I feel no different than I did during the year that I deprived myself of gluten. I also have very little lactose in my diet (that makes me feel worse) though I do have a little low lactose cheese (ie hard cheeses). My questions are... Is there anyone here who's been able to solve their bloating problem? -How long did it take? -Did it seem to relate to your bloodwork? -Does anyone here understand the underlying mechanism for bloating in celiac? (I don't seem to pass much gas) -If it's inflammatory -- would/has prednisone helped anyone? -I've been trying low-dose naltrexone but it hasn't done anything for me Could this just be IBS? Do I just have to learn to live with being uncomfortable for the rest of my life? Thanks guys (and gals)
I know I'm a bit lactose intolerant and as such, have very little lactose containing products My primary symptom of an uncomfortable distended bloated abdomen doesn't seem to cycle with what I eat that much --> it only seems to feel less uncomfortable if I avoid food in general I've tried a 3 week elemental diet under the theory that this might be some sort of bacterial overgrowth but it didn't help (and such a diet would have been free of lactose/fructose/gluten for that time) -- I still felt pretty bloated during those three weeks making me think this symptom may be a function of ongoing inflammation as opposed to some sort of other process also re: dietary compliance -- I was compliant as I could ever really be (my anti-gliadin was negative); if i became any more compliant I'd rule out eating out entirely (e.g. I would usually just eat mexican food like tacos which could have a spec of a gluten in them from a fleck of flour landing on them in the kitchen -- though if that's enough to set me off I should wear a mask everywhere...)
Hi everyone, I was just wondering what people's experiences have been regarding their tTG results and their symptoms after they have become gluten free... Before going gluten-free, I had a tTG score of about 180 (where a high positive is > 30) 1.5 years later, my tTG is only 70, so still a strong positive but not as positive My primary symptom of a [essentially constant] bloated/distended/uncomfortable gassy stomach did not change at all over that 1.5 years (i.e. I'm 6'2'', 170 lbs, and still wear pants with a 36 inch waist despite being a muscular guy). My symptoms are the above mentioned bloated stomach and moderate constipation/sense of incomplete evacuation (the latter which is helped by miralax but alleviating the constipation has done little to help the other more concerning symptom). --> Have other people had these symptoms and had a high tTG? --> Will I have to wait until my tTG is much lower to experience any improvement? Thanks guys
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder not entirely unlike Crohn's, IBD, etc. and hookworm/TSO appear to function as a sort of gut specific cortisone (similar to endocort) though with seemingly fewer side effects
I'm just curious as to your symptoms -- I had a similar tTG result (180 or so) prior to starting a gluten-free diet. Did your symptoms go away even though your blood test is still "high"? What symptoms do you have? After about a year on the diet, I got down to a 60 or 70 (at the same lab/method/test kit/etc.) though my symptoms (mainly pretty constant distension and bloating never went away, i.e. right now I'm 6'2'' and 170 lbs with low body fat of around 11-12% though I have to wear 36 inch pants to only mostly be comfortable and look reasonable whereas most people with my stats wear a 32 comfortably) never changed. At that point, potentially prematurely, I stopped the gluten-free diet and eat whatever I want though I keep my gluten intake pretty low (my tTG is back over 100 now). I feel miserable and want to change something to hopefully improve my situation. Re: "Why can't our doctors just know more about celiac? argh" --> because most GI's are idiots since it's a relatively "soft" specialty in terms of interpretation of images and the relatively low litigation risk and besides, with celiac, there isn't an army of drug reps giving seminars, free lunches, and pushing drugs on GI's to give them to celiac patients
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Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone here has tried TSO/Whipworm and/or Hookworm therapy for their Celiac disease. It seems potentially helpful (granted there doesn't appear to be a tremendous amount of research on it). While trying out different diets might ultimately help me, fixing my immune system so I can live a comparatively normal life is far more appealing... Helminthic therapy
Does This Sound Like Celiac? Any Advice?
Bookie53463 replied to Bookie53463's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseI've had some cheese over that time and continue to do so, anything more than s small amount though and I also have an enzyme with it (lacataid). After reading through here, it seems as though there are people who do this diet for years with no improvement. The idea of that is pretty frightening to me, at least in my current state, life is tolerable. I don't feel I can pursue my life goals too readily or at all, but I can at least subsist whereas on gluten-free and feeling miserable, subsisting was tough (i.e. dating is tough since most more desirable women would (nor can I blame them) avoid me, being really thin is tough since I lost my appetite on gluten-free since decent tasting food required more work, I'd typically eat the same bland stuff day after day). Yes he did, I didn't seem to have much in the way of absorption problems Something like a year and half -- I don't eat much bread honestly anyway -- just once in a while I might have some pizza and I'm not paying attention to additives in things anymore (i.e. I have regular soy sauce instead of the wheat free soy sauce when I was gluten-free). Oddly enough, I grew to really like gluten-free pantry bread and still eat it as it's, to me, better than most conventional bread. -->I'm mostly curious about the underlying pathology surrounding my bloating/distension since it doesn't seem to really mirror other's celiac experiences (relatively constant) . I'd even provide a picture/video if that would help. -->Perhaps I have a particularly resistant case of bacterial overgrowth -- is constant bloating a typical symptom? i.e. I can suck in my gut but I feel a lot of pressure when I do that
Does This Sound Like Celiac? Any Advice?
Bookie53463 posted a topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseHi Everyone, I'd first like to thank everyone for spending so much time and research into putting together such a high quality forum. I've been feeling uncomfortable for years and have only found some relief in one thing -- fasting or just eating very little which is unfortunately pretty unsustainable... Since my early 20's I gradually developed symptoms of bloating and distension along with moderate constipation. Having a bowel movement or passing gas seems to reduce the pressure to some extent but it's virtually always there (morning/afternoon/night -- doesn't seem to matter). I've been taking miralax for a few months which seems to help the constipation but does little to help the bloating/distension (i.e. I'm 6'2'' at 170 lbs, 12% body fat and have to wear 36" waist pants to avoid putting any unbearable pressure on my abdomen). In trying to figure out what's going on with me, I was tested for Celiac disease and had sky high serology (i.e. ~170 on a tTG blood test where 30+ was a strong positive) and positive pathology (Marsh II). After my endoscopy, I was very strictly gluten-free for a year and I felt absolutely no different even though my tTG dropped gradually to around a 40 on the same exact test kit. Since I felt no better after a year of being very strict (barely ever ate out except at restaurants which specifically cater to celiacs and ate salads the rest of the time out or prepared my own food), I gave up on the diet. Since I started eating bread again, I really feel no different than I did that year. I essentially thought -- if I'm going to feel miserable, I might as well not deny myself something which seems to have no impact on me. My serology is now high again (I had it tested out of curiosity) though I feel no different. I've tried zelnorm, amitiza, prilosec, activated charcoal, variety of enzymes, tons of exercise (aerobics, pilates), lactose free, soy free, a variety of antibiotics and even a 3 week vivonex diet for possible overgrowth. --> Is there something I'm missing here? --> Is this symptom of a relatively constant bloating sensation with distension common for celiacs? Is it a function of constant inflammation or more just my abdominal muscles having been retrained as a function of my gut generally being pretty gassy? --> Is my only real option to go gluten-free again and hope for the best? (not sure I can handle that again unless I had some real confidence it would help me) thanks guys


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Andy Richter takes a zombie tour of Atlanta
Anyone who has visited Atlanta knows the journey isn't complete without trips to the aquarium and headquarters of CNN and Coca-Cola.
But what would it be like to visit those places as a zombie?
Conan sidekick and Walking Dead fan Andy Richter mixed his passions for tourism and the undead while the show was on location. It resulted in quite a few stares:
I'd say Richter would make a refreshing addition to the Walking Dead cast, especially after all the death and heartbreak we saw last season. (And if that didn't work out, perhaps Zombie Andy could become a CNN anchor. I'm sure they've hired worse!)
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2007 OLAB Students Hit the Home Stretchby Jim Amidon • July 13, 2007 Share:
The 60 rising high school seniors participating in the 2007 Opportunities to Learn About Business program have hit the stretch run.
They'll wake Friday morning with an overwhelming list of projects to finish as the business and marketing simulation games comes to a conclusion.
Click here to see pictures taken on Thursday.
The OLAB program is an intensive seven-day immersion into business. Participants — Labbies as they're called — work from 7 a.m. through 11 p.m. each day grappling with all aspects of starting and running a business. And just like the real business world, there are bumps in the road.
The students learn basic concepts of how to work in small groups and make sales and marketing presentations. They must identify a target market and design features and benefits for a hand-held device so different from the competition that they'll earn a niche market share that could vault them to status as industry leader.
Along the way, they learn about profit and loss, the stock market, and how a simple math mistake when managing finances can leave a firm completely broke and seeking emergency loans to continue operations.
It's a brilliant program; a simulation game that teaches students the concepts of business as they play it, says Bert Barreto, who directs the OLAB program and is one of the primary instructors, along with Greg Shaheen, a long-time instructor and former participant.
The 60 students come from all corners of Indiana — from small, rural schools to elite private schools — and a handful come from other states. The majority are members of their high schools' National Honor Society and about half attended Hoosier Boys State or Hoosier Girls State.
They come to OLAB thanks to the generosity of corporate and individual sponsors, who pay all of the costs for this intensely intelligent summer "camp," though very little of the OLAB program resembles anything like most summer camps. Sure, there are some recreational activities and social events, but the focus is on hands-on learning, which is why the program has continued to thrive for over 30 years at Wabash.
A range of Wabash professors, staff members, and outside consultants deliver the learning, in workshops and lectures.
Early in the week, the 60 students were broken into 12 teams (companies) with five members. Each company must create a target-specific product and determine a marketing strategy and advertising campaign that will differentiate their product from the other 11 firms selling similar hand-held devices.
And just like all businesses, there are labor problems. Mid-week, the students faced real labor negotiators as an industry-wide "strike" loomed on the horizon. Wabash alumni — mostly attorneys and bankers — grill the student management team for the best deal for "their" union members.
The result — like the computer simulation that drives the financial aspects of the game — is real, experiential learning for the students. The participants are forced to view the future of their companies through the eyes of their fictional employees. Wabash alumni like Brad Johnson, Jon Pactor (pictured), Chris Braun, David Pippen, Tim Oliver, and Rick Cavanaugh, among others, drive hard bargains and ensure that the students understand all aspects of employee relations. The high school students have to negotiate over day care facilities, fitness centers, insurance policies, paid vacations and sick days, and, of course, higher salaries and (hopefully for the firms) increased productivity.
By Friday afternoon — exhausted — the students will have completed a comprehensive advertising campaign that includes print, Internet, and television advertising.
Then — less than 24 hours before they pack up to go home — they face, perhaps, the most grueling assignment. One person from each team must deliver a 10-minute stockholder speech to a room full of their firm's stockholders. Over the course of two hours, each team will explain to all of the other participants how their firms fared over the course of the week — and two fictional fiscal years of operations. If they are good, these reports incorporate every learning element of the week, from business ethics to working in an environmentally sensitive climate, and from the difficult labor negotiations to the very real, cold financial aspects of profit and loss.
The students will graduate from the program Saturday afternoon in a 3:00 p.m. ceremony in the Lewis Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.


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Hall to Join St. Louis Sports Hall of Fameby Staff Writer / St. Louis Blues
|LISTEN: Chris Kerber Interviews Glenn Hall on KMOX
Former Blues goaltender Glenn Hall will be inducted into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame on Nov. 14 at the Millennium Hotel.
Hall played with the Blues for four seasons before finally retiring after the 1970-71 season. Often credited with establishing the butterfly style for goaltenders, he used the style to win 401 career NHL games.
Hall was named to the NHL All-Star team during his first two seasons with the Blues (he appeared in 11 All-Star Games overall) and won the Vezina Trophy in the 1968-69 season, a trophy he had won on two previous occasions.
As a Blue, Hall played in 140 games, posting a 58-52-28 record to go along with a 2.43 goals-against average. He ranks as the Blues' all-time leader in shutouts (16). In addition, Hall is seventh in franchise history in games played (140), 10th in wins (58) and eighth in minutes played (7,983).
Along with goaltender Jacques Plante, Hall led the Blues to three consecutive Stanley Cup Finals appearances from 1968-70, even claiming the Most Valuable Player Award despite being a member of the losing team.
Hall will be inducted in the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame along with former St. Louis Rams star Orlando Pace and former St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds. Tickets for the Induction and dinner reception may be purchased for $150 per person or $1,250 per table of ten. Ticket orders are now being accepted, with check or money order made out to the "St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame." To order tickets, send a check or money order to St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 190833, St. Louis, Mo. 63119, or call Tim Moore at 888-627-3235. Tickets may also be purchased on-line at www.stlouissportshalloffame.com.
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The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), published two assessments prepared in response to a petition for nonregulated status submitted to the agency by developers of a variety of sugar beet genetically engineered (GE) to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate. This variety is commonly referred to as Roundup Ready (RR) sugar beets. In considering the request, and in accordance with a U.S. District Court decision in 2009, APHIS has prepared two analyses, one under the Plant Protection Act and another under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). These two analyses will be available for public review for at least 30 days before APHIS makes its final regulatory determination.
Under the Plant Protection Act and APHIS' regulations, the Agency is specifically required to evaluate if the RR sugar beet variety is a plant pest to agricultural crops or other plants or plant products. The Act defines a plant pest as organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, or insects that can cause harm to agricultural crops or other plants or plant products. APHIS' final plant pest risk assessment, available HERE, finds RR sugar beets are not likely to pose a plant pest risk.
While APHIS' PPRA is focused on the plant pest risk associated with RR sugar beets, the Agency's final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), available here, comprehensively evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the three alternatives before the Agency. While helpful in informing the Agency regarding any potential environmental impacts before making its final regulatory determination under the Plant Protection Act, NEPA does not provide APHIS any authority to address such environmental impacts.
The final PPRA and EIS are not APHIS' final regulatory determination on the petition for the nonregulated status of RR sugar beets. These two documents will be available for public review for at least 30 days before APHIS makes its final regulatory determination on the petition for nonregulated status. APHIS will publish in the Federal Register its record of decision for the FEIS and its final regulatory determination after that 30 day period has concluded.
In examining these alternatives – to maintain the regulated status of RR sugar beets; to determine that nonregulated status was appropriate for RR sugar beets; or to continue regulation of RR sugar beets with regulatory conditions in place – APHIS has evaluated a host of concerns and issues that have been raised regarding RR sugar beets. These include gene flow between RR sugar beets and non-GE sugar beet, table beet, Swiss chard, and wild beet varieties. APHIS also analyzed the implications for herbicide use and tillage, and impacts on weed development and on non-target organisms, such as amphibians. The Agency also studied impacts of its decision on public health and worker safety.
In the FEIS, APHIS has selected alternative 2, determination of nonregulated status for RR sugar beets, as the Agency's preferred alternative. This is consistent with the Agency's authority with regard to determining the plant pest risk of RR sugar beets.
In response to a U.S. District Court decision in 2009, APHIS has worked hard to complete this FEIS and ensure it is sound and comprehensive. While APHIS worked on the EIS for the petition for full nonregulated status for RR sugar beets, the Agency granted an interim regulatory measure to partially deregulate the RR sugar beet root crop production under mandatory conditions and issue regulatory permits for the seed crop production. This allowed both the root and seed crops to go into the ground and be harvested in accordance with strict Agency requirements and monitoring.
In October, 2011, APHIS published a draft PPRA and a draft EIS and made them available for public comment for 60 days. APHIS held three public meetings across the United States during the open comment period for both documents, and approximately 150 people attended. APHIS received approximately 25,000 comments on the drafts, many of which were helpful to the agency.
APHIS has submitted the final EIS to the Environmental Protection Agency for publication in the Federal Register. APHIS anticipates that EPA will publish a notice that the final EIS on RR sugar beets is available for public review in the Federal Register on June 8th, 2012. A copy of the FEIS provided to EPA can be reviewed HERE and the final PPRA is available HERE.
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On Windows Mobile 6.5 (CE) Kontact Touch has a resource problem, the searching and indexing is done via strigifeeder and strigidaemon.
Next steps:
Options as tokoe saw them 2011020914:32:
1) A UI option to switch strigi_feeder between online/offline mode
pro: The strigi_feeder in offline mode wouldn't index anything until it is switched back to online mode. So it would take away pressure on the device during initial sync, since CPU and I/O usage is reduced.
contra: Since recent data are not indexed with strigi_feeder in offline mode, some internal searches might not return the correct, or better said 'expected', data. Switching the strigi_feeder to online mode automatically when a search is started is not really an option, because feeding the new data to strigidaemon takes a while, so they won't be included in the current search results.
costs: We have to extend strigi_feeder to correctly record actions during offline mode and replay them when switched to online mode. Furthermore we need options in the UI to switch the mode of the strigifeeder (Ideas from Björn Balazs?).
2) IDLE detection in strigidaemon with automatic shutdown
pro: Afaik strigidaemon uses lots of memory when running, so stopping strigidaemon whenever no indexing or search is done, should provide some free memory on the device.
contra: Searches are done quite often (e.g. the autocompletion in mail composer) and strigi_feeder will index data as soon as something changes (e.g. read flags in emails), so I doubt that strigidaemon will have long idle sessions. Strigidaemon might cause additional costs during its startup/shutdown phase.
costs: We have to implement an idle detection in strigidaemon (non qt-based!) and a clean shutdown procedure. Furthermore we have to extend akonadiserver to handle the disappearance of strigi dbus interface gracefully and restart the strigidaemon on demand. This needs a lot of testing!
It would be possible to combine 1) and 2), but this will increase the number of side effects, so much more testing is needed.


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Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Selena Gomez and Laurence Fishburne have all signed on to star in William H. Macy's directorial debut "Rudderless" at Unified Pictures.
The music drama follows a grieving father in a downward spiral who stumbles across a box of his deceased son's original music.
He forms a band, hoping to find peace in the wake of his loss.
Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison penned the script from an original story they wrote with Macy.
Macy and wife Felicity Huffman (the duo known as Filliam H. Muffman) also star in the film. Keith Kjarval and Brad Greiner will produce.
Source: THR


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Well finally tonight we bring our study of the little epistle of Jude to its conclusion. And you can now turn in the Scripture to the last two verses of Jude's epistle. Jude, you remember, is not one of the Twelve but was in fact a child of Joseph and Mary and therefore a half-brother of Jesus Himself. And Jude was used by God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, to write this important epistle. And the conclusion of the letter is in some ways the high point of all of it. Let me read the final two verses.
"Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord are glory, majesty, dominion and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen."
If I ask you, what is the most important truth in the whole realm of salvation, what would you say? In the amazing and in the profound and blessed and gracious mix of doctrine that make up soteriology or the theme of salvation, which doctrine is most crucial? Which element of God's saving promise is most encouraging, most satisfying, most attractive and most comforting?
Now, of course, all the doctrines of salvation are necessary and all the doctrines of salvation are precious. But one of them stands out as the most attractive of all, the most valuable of all. And I don't know if you've ever endeavored to make such a distinction. I've been testing that question on a few people over the last week and I have never received the right answer. And some of them very knowledgeable. It isn't because they don't know the right answer, it's because they've never really thought about which is the most important of the doctrines of salvation.
Well without holding you in unnecessary suspense, I will tell you. It is the doctrine of eternal security, otherwise known as and perhaps more accurately known as the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. It is that biblical truth that says once you're saved, you're saved forever. Or to put it in the negative sense, if you have received eternal life, you can never lose it. I'm not diminishing the glories of the doctrine of justification. I'm not diminishing the glories of the doctrine of regeneration. I'm not diminishing the glories of the doctrine of conversion, or adoption, or reconciliation, or redemption, or ransom. But I'll tell you this, all those doctrines would be to some degree diminished if salvation was not forever. Take that doctrine away and all those other doctrines are depreciated. Take that doctrine away and all consummate joy, confidence, assurance, rest, comfort and hope is significantly downgraded and justifiably replaced with doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. And in the light of the call to salvation being so demanding, so all-consuming, as we were reminded again this morning, in light of the fact that our Lord has told us we must confess Him as Lord, and that means absolute and total self-denial, cross bearing and obedient submission to His will, the demand is so great that He Himself says there are few people who desire to do that. He Himself says it is hard to find the truth and hard to accept the truth and hard to believe the truth. It was He Himself who said you must count the cost. And in the end, the people who do come into the kingdom, in a sense, seize it by force in an act of aggression because they are so terrified by the alternative which is eternal judgment.
In view of the fact that the call to salvation is so demanding, so all-consuming that it involves the total commitment of everything I have to Christ, it is an abandonment, as we've been saying, it is the end of me and I yield up everything to Christ. I come empty handed, as the song says, nothing in my hands I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling. Having given up all to be forgiven, having given up all to be rescued from hell, having given up all to receive the promise of heaven, only to be told that this deal comes without a guarantee? You're asking a lot out of me. You mean to tell me that I give myself up totally to You to be my Lord and Master You might not keep me? You might not hold on to me? There isn't any guarantee? That really makes it even more difficult if not almost impossible to make this level of commitment. You mean, You're asking me to give up everything to commit myself to you with no guarantee?. Now that is really huge. You're telling me there's no assurance that I'm going to make it to heaven?
And I'll tell you this. If the Lord can't hold on to me, what hope is there? If salvation isn't God's work, then I'm not going to get there. Do you understand that? If it's not His work and He doesn't hold me, and He doesn't keep me, and He doesn't preserve me, I won't make it. If God doesn't save me, I can't save myself. If He doesn't sanctify me, I can't sanctify myself. And if He doesn't glorify me, I can't glorify myself. If He doesn't keep me, I can't keep myself. I'm not good enough to save myself and I'm certainly not good enough to keep myself. I will never be worthy of salvation. I wasn't in the past, I'm not now.
Let me put it another way. If you could lose your salvation, you would. You understand that? If you could, you would. If it's possible, it will happen. It has to be. If any part of my eternal salvation depends upon my power and ability and commitment and righteousness, I won't get there. Think about Adam. Adam who had no sinful tendencies, Adam living in a perfect world wouldn't know sin. No sin at all. Adam with no sin at all and no sinful tendencies inside couldn't keep himself in a right relationship of obedience and love to God. How would we think we could in a fallen world with fallen natures? And the more mature you are as a Christian, the more spiritually minded you are, the more righteous you are, the more sanctified you are, the more wretched you know you are, right? The Apostle Paul in Romans 7, "O wretched man that I am," that's the statement of a very mature Christian.
Young people ask me all the time, "Will I ever get victory over sin?" Sure...sure. But it's good news, bad news. As you mature you'll sin less and feel worse because with the decrease of sin comes an increase of holiness and with an increase of holiness comes a greater hatred of sin and you sin less and hate it more. You have no capacity to save yourself ever in this life and you have no capacity to keep yourself saved either. You're still fallen, I'm still fallen. I still have unredeemed human flesh. Sin is still in me. I'm prone to sin, I'm prone to doubt. I'm prone to unbelief. I'm prone to rebellion. I'm prone to pride. Frankly, I fall to those things, as we all do, and all kinds of accusations could be successfully brought against me. Satan could go to God's throne and lay out a formidable and increasingly longer list of the sins of John MacArthur. And the longer I live, the longer the list gets. All kinds of accusations could be brought against me by God Himself who knows everything. All kinds of accusations could be brought against me by Christ. All kinds of accusations could be brought against me by the Holy Spirit who lives within me. And all kinds of accusations could be drawn out on a list that are brought to my attention by my own conscience. And frankly, the accumulated list would be horrific and so would yours. For every one of us there is a staggering list of indictments. There is a staggering list of disqualifications. We continue to violate God's Law. We continue to be, to one degree or another, idolatrous. We continue to be wicked. And believe me, the list is sufficient to condemn us all. How could we ever keep our own salvation? The thought is absolutely ridiculous.
And so I say, if I could lose my salvation, I would. And so would you. God would have any reason and every reason to reject me. Satan would have more than enough accusation to bring against me. And people in my life through all these years could rehearse sins that they know of. And even if I thought I hadn't slipped back across some imaginary line into a non-saved condition, how do I know where that line is, huh? And then if you ask me to give up my whole life to Christ and tell me I have to hang on by the fingernails, that doesn't sound like a very attractive offer to me. At best I could play games with myself and I could say, "Well, you're not as bad as he is, you're not as bad as she is, you're certainly not as bad as that group over there and those people over there." And then what do you get into? Self...what?...self-righteousness. I can always find people worse than I am, that's easy. And if I can't find people that I know are worse than I am, I can certainly find people that I think are worse than I am.
You see, at best I have to live some kind of deception, some kind of illusion about who I really am and I can't honestly go to Romans 7 and I can't honestly say there's something in me that's evil as well as there's something in me that's righteous and there's this war going on and I'm a wretched man. I can't honestly say that. But at the same time I have to say I'm hoping to be good enough to hang on to my salvation. Consequently I'm prone to self-righteousness and spiritual pride which is the very opposite of the truest and purest Christian virtues which is absolute and total humility. I'll tell you this, if I...if I have to keep myself saved by anything that I do, I will live my whole life under a cloud of fear, real fear because I can't do it. And I'll tell you this, if you think you can, if you think it's up to you to hang on to keep yourself saved, you have a deficient view of depravity. You don't really understand depravity. And that's why, by the way, in the Arminian theology system where they believe you can lose your salvation, they also have a warped view of human depravity. They think people are better than they really are. You have to if you're responsible to hang on.
So you're deceived about your sinfulness and you're deceived about your righteousness. Spurgeon said, "No man can keep himself, he'll surely fail. If left to ourselves, we'll go to hell. Only Jesus can save us from our sins."
So, I submit to you this, that the most important element of salvation doctrine, the one doctrine that matters most in the end is the guarantee that this covenant of salvation is forever and that it's not up to me, it's up to Him. To me, that is THE most important element of the gift of eternal life, this in a word, its permanence.
Now this isn't a minor issue. This isn't a sort of, you know, intramural debate where it's sort of optional, you can believe it or not, believe it doesn't really have a lot of implications. Oh yes it does. This doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, that is to say the true stains persevere to the end, being eternally secured by the Father, this doctrine is tied inseparably to the doctrine of election. If He chose you to eternal life, then He'll get you there. It is tied inseparably to the doctrine of justification. If He covered you with the righteousness of Jesus Christ and if in fact Jesus Christ paid in full the penalty for your sins, then never could any sin that you commit be held against you and therefore there would be no basis on which to ever take your salvation away since all your sins have been paid for in full. It is tied inseparably to the work of the Holy Spirit by whom you are sealed in the process of sanctification. It is tied to the great doctrine of glorification by which God has intended having elected you in eternity past to then call you and then justify you and bring you to glory and lose no one on the path. If you can lose your salvation, the purpose of God is thwarted, the power of God is diminished, the plan of God is contingent. You have to redefine election. You have to redefine justification. You have to redefine sanctification. You have to redefine glorification. It turns the whole thing on its head. And like so many matters in life, what seals the deal is the guarantee, right?
I mean, you're that way in this world, aren't you? You buy something, you say, "Well what's the guarantee?" And somebody says, "There's no guarantee, it might not work tomorrow." Or you go in to purchase something of significance, like a house or whatever, you say, "Well we're going to sign a contract, aren't we? So we know what the deal..."
"Oh, there's no guarantee, I might come back and take this house in three days, you have no guarantee." Well you're not about to engage in that kind of commitment.
I mean, it's just a simple thing to understand that what seals the deal is the guarantee, and that's true in salvation. Yet it is so sad and tragic and misleading the vast numbers of professing Christians live with the notion, the crazy notion that they can and may forfeit their salvation and end up in hell if they don't hang on. So the question is simply this, can one who has been forgiven, justified, regenerated, converted, redeemed, ransomed lose the blessing that came through that saving work? Go backwards in reverse and forfeit heaven?
The benediction in Jude answers the question. Let me go back to it. "Not to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory, majesty, dominion and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen."
You know, whenever you come to a doxology like this, you're almost tempted not to explain it but just to say it. He is able, He is able to keep you, He is able to keep you from stumbling, to keep you so that one day He will make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy. And therefore, to the One who is able to do this, the only God our Savior who through Jesus Christ our Lord does that, be glory, majesty, dominion, authority before all time now and forevermore amen. And all the glory goes to Him because all the keeping is His, right? If I hold on myself, then the glory goes to me. This devastates that erroneous view.
This is a doxology. This is praise to the only God, the only Savior who through Jesus Christ our Lord is to receive all the honor, all the glory, all the majesty, all the dominion, and all the authority forever because He is the One who is able to keep us and make us stand in His presence.
Doxology, by the way, is doxaand logos, logosmeaning word, doxameaning praise. It's a word of praise, a praise word. Scripture is filled with them, with doxologies. Each of the five books of Psalms, the 150 Psalms are divided into five books, at the end of each of the five books is a doxology, chapter 41 verse 13, chapter 72 verses 18 and 19, chapter 89 verse 52, chapter 106 verse 48 and the entire 150thPsalm is a doxology that closes the book. So the songbook of the redeemed was punctuated, climaxed in responses of praise for God's glorious work among His people. Angels sang a doxology at Christ's birth, it's recorded in Luke chapter 2. People gave a doxology at Christ's arrival in the city of Jerusalem when they hailed Him as Messiah in Luke 19. The New Testament is filled with doxologies. And none of them ever deal with mundane matters. They always deal with salvation. They always deal only with that which is eternally marvelous. They are words of grateful praise to God for saving sinners. And doxology, dear ones, is a foretaste of heaven. That's what we're going to spend forever doing, declaring doxology. They are outbursts of praise in contemplation of the greatness of our salvation.
In Galatians chapter 1, this is a typical kind of glorious doxology, though brief. "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ who gave Himself for our sins that He might deliver us out of this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father to whom be the glory forevermore, amen." You find this kind of spontaneous Holy Spirit energized doxology all through the New Testament, these kinds of outbursts. I love the one at the end of the epistle to the Romans where in verse 25 Paul says in chapter 16, "Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for long ages but is now manifest and by the Scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the eternal God has been made known to all the nations leading to obedience of faith, to the only wise God through Jesus Christ be the glory forever, amen." And that's how Paul doxologizes the end of the great Roman letter.
In writing his wonderful first epistle to Timothy, Paul says in chapter 1 verse 17, "Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen." And what's he saying that for? Where is it coming from? "Because I, the chief of sinners, foremost of all, found mercy." Doxology comes in response to the saving work of God and it recognizes that it's all His work and He receives all the credit, all the honor, all the glory. Paul writes as he closes out his life, the last few strokes of his pen, "The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom." Paul knew he was secure. "The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed whether committed by others or even himself, "And will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom, to Him be the glory forever and ever, amen." Doxology.
And Jude does the same thing, back to our text. This is a doxology. This is a doxology that calms our fears and fuels our hopes. This is a doxology that gives us joy. Now before we look particularly at the doxology, for just a few moments, a reminder of the flow of the book for those of you who haven't been with us.
Jude, our Lord's half-brother, wrote to call us to the war against false teachers, apostates. "Certain persons...verse 4 says...who crept in unnoticed," crept into the church, they're like reefs under the surface hidden in the church, he says down in verse 12. And they are ungodly and licentious and they deny the Lordship of Christ. These are apostates and false teachers imbedded in the church. And Jude then goes on to give us the history of these kinds of apostates. He characterizes them for us as well. And after this long description of apostates running all the way down to verse 17, he says, "But you...but you." How you going to defend yourself in a time of apostasy? How you going to protect yourself? How you going to fight for the truth? How you going to engage in the long war against the truth?
First of all, he says in verses 17 to 19, "Remember...remember the words spoken beforehand by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ." They said in the last times there would be mockers following after their own godly lusts. Remember this, it was said that they would come. Don't be surprised, it was prophesied many times. So when you're caught in a time of apostasy and that's all times, and you begin to wonder how things could begin to go so wrong and how the church could go so bad and how it could defect and pervert itself from the truth, remember this is no surprise, this is what was prophesied.
And then the second thing...first, remember, and then remain. "Build yourself up on your most holy faith, pray in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, wait for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life." Remain in the place of blessing, remain faithful to spiritual growth, spiritual communion, spiritual obedience and hold out your spiritual hope.
Thirdly he says, reach, verses 22 and 23. "Have mercy on some who are doubting, save others snatching them out of the fire, and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh." This is...this is important. We remember that the Lord promised us this would happen. We remain in the place of blessing. And we reach out to the people in danger, the people who are being captivated by the apostates and the false teachers.
The first category is those who are the confused. They doubt, they're not sure. The second is the convinced, those that are already in the fire and we have to reach in and snatch them out. And finally, the committed, those that are defiled by those evil lies.
The last responsibility we have in the world in this great war for the truth is to rescue people out of apostasy, rescue people out of heresy, rescue people out of false religious systems. And it's dangerous work. You can get singed snatching people out of the fire. Remember the leaven of the Pharisees, false teaching has a powerful influence. You can even in rescuing people get yourself in a polluted situation, like picking up filthy underwear, is Jude's language here. That's dangerous to get close to this stuff.
And that poses the final question, really. If this apostasy is so dangerous and so deadly, if this false teaching is so potentially polluting and harmful, is it possible that we could lose our salvation? Because if it is, I'm not sure I want to get close to that stuff. I'm not sure if this could cost me my eternal salvation that I ever want to get close to anybody who's polluted. And so the fourth is the word rest. Remember the Lord said it would be this way, remain in the place of blessing, reach out to those in danger, and rest in Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy.
Now this whole epistle was about people who fell, and angels who fell. And now after he's gone through all of this history of the Israelites that fell and the Sodomites who fell, and the angels that fell and the false teachers that fell and the victims of the false teachers that fell and he now says, "Go out and reach these people." And in the minds of the readers there would be this thought, "Well what if we did that, we might fall too, we might fall victim to that lie and we might find ourselves fallen out of salvation."
Could I fail? Could I apostatize? Could I reject the truth? Could I be so polluted and stained by the false teachers I'm trying to reach that I abandon the faith? If I get near them even for evangelism sake will I be okay? Will I remain in God's love? Can I avoid defilement?
And the epistle ends with a statement of assurance. And Jude says there are two things you must know, He is able to keep you and make you stand in the presence of His glory. That's really all I want to know. Can He keep me and can He get me there in the presence of His glory? And Jude says not only can He do that, but He will.
So two points, tonight, two critical things the Lord is able to do, preserve us and present us....preserve us and present us. The One who chose us and saved us will keep us. Let's look at that idea of preserving us in verse 24. "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling," just that phrase. "To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling."
Now what that says is He is able to keep us from stumbling. He's able to do it. I read that and I say, "Okay, I'm glad for that but that asks another question, or poses another question in my mind. Does He want to preserve us?" I'm glad that He's able, does He want to? And the answer to that, of course, is He wants to. He's holy. He hates sin. He could not want us to lose our salvation. That would be to want evil for His children. God can't want evil at all for anyone ever. He couldn't want us to turn. He couldn't want us to defect. He couldn't want us to be lost in sin. If He did, then He would be less than holy. So the obvious answer to the question, does He want us to be kept to the end, is yes and all we need to know is, is He able? And that's why it says what it says. "To Him who is able."
Turn to 2 Peter 3:9. Reinforcing this great truth, 2 Peter 3:9, "The Lord is not slow about His promise." You know, the Lord promised that He was going to come and take His people to glory and all of that, and, you know, believers at the time of Peter were wondering when it was going to happen. And Peter says, "Well, you know, don't be too anxious with the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. God doesn't watch the clock and doesn't watch the calendar like you do." Because He hasn't come and hasn't fulfilled that promise doesn't mean He's slack, doesn't mean He's indifferent. But He is patient. Now watch this, He's patient toward you...He's patient toward you.
Who is he talking to? Who is the "you"? Well the believers, the brethren, as they are called by Peter. He's patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish but for all to come to repentance. It's very important to understand this verse. Why does the Lord tarry? Why doesn't He come? Why does history keep going on? Why does redemptive history keep going on?
I'll tell you why. It's not because God is a slacker. It's not because God won't fulfill His promise. He is being patient toward His people, toward you and not wishing for any of His people to perish but for all of His people to come to repentance. Some people think that this means He wants the whole world to come to repentance. No. That can't be possible because this is in a context of judgment. Verse 7 says, "There's a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men." The reason the Lord tarries is not for the ungodly that are going to be destroyed, but it is for His own who have been elect from before the foundation of the world to be gathered in. And redemptive history will continue to go on until all who were chosen have been called and justified. And when the chosen of all been justified, then will come the end. God is not willing that any of His own perish, but that all come to repentance. There His own by election and because He chose them, they will come to repentance and faith and salvation and glorification.
In John chapter 6 we have another passage which is very important in this matter, John chapter 6 verse 37. "All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me," He's talking here about the people that the Father gives the Son, that is the Father has chosen them before the foundation of the world, to give them to the Son, all people that are saved throughout all redemptive history are love gifts from the Father to the Son. They constitute the bride that the Father has sought and is seeking for His Son. "All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me," so history has to keep going and keep going and keep going till the people that God chose before the foundation of the world are born and justified, that has to continue.
People say, "Why doesn't the Lord come? The world's so bad, why doesn't the Lord come? Why doesn't He stop the sin?" Because all the elect are not yet in. "All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me and the one who comes to Me, I'll certainly not cast out." Well of course not, he's a gift from the Father, she's a gift from the Father.
And verse 39, "This is the will of Him who sent Me...listen to this, this is so powerful...of all that He has given Me, I lose none, but raise him up on the last day." The Father chooses, the Father gives to the Son, and the Son keeps and the Son raises on the last day. Nobody falls through the cracks. And verse 40, "This is the will of My Father that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life and I Myself will raise him up on the last day." Everyone who has a true vision of Christ and believes in Him will receive eternal life and be raised on the last day.
Down in verse 44 He says it another way. "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him and I will raise him on the last day." Everyone the Father chooses He gives to the Son, everyone He gives to the Son sees the Son, believes in the Son. Everyone who believes in the Son as a gift to the Father, the Son receives, everyone the Son receives the Son keeps, everyone the Son keeps He raises at the last day.
The question then is not about God's willingness. It's not about God's purpose. We know He is willing and we know He has purposed to save all the elect. The only question is, is He able? In 1 Timothy 2 it says, "He desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth," that is all who are His. We know He desires them all to come to eternal life, the question is, is He able? Jude answers it, "Now to Him who is able..." He is able. He is the only God our Savior and if He doesn't save us, we aren't going to save ourselves. He is able.
You know, that is such a great thought. He is able, dunamenofrom which we get dynamite. He is able. Back in Daniel, they said, "Our God is able to deliver us." He is able. And the New Testament is loaded with testimonies to the power of God. Listen to 2 Corinthians 9:8, "God is able to make all grace abound to you." Wow! So that where sin abounds, grace does...what?...much more abound. He is able to supply all the grace that is needed to cover every sin. Ephesians 3:20, "Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever amen." And here's another doxology right in the middle of a letter by Paul and he bursts into doxology because he comprehends that He is able. He is able.
Well, this is repeated again and again. I'm thinking of verse 7 of Hebrews 5, speaking of Christ, "In the days of His flesh He offered up both prayers and supplications." That's the garden prayer. "With loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death." And there you have Jesus expressing confidence that God the Father could save Him from the horrific experience He was about to have as the sin bearer receiving the full fury of God's wrath. And Hebrews 7:25, "He is able to save...I love it...forever those who draw near to God through Him since He always live to make intercession for them."
There's no question about His ability, He is able...He is able. It is dangerous to live in this apostate environment today in which we live. Apostasy is on the increase. We're exposed to more lies and more deception than any generation in history because of media. And here we are with all this endless list of heresies and apostasies called to rescue people out of these systems. I mean, basically the whole world is religious. If you're going to do any evangelism, you're going to get close to somebody who is in an evil system. And the question is...should we draw back in fear and no evangelize for fear that somehow we might get burned reaching to snatch somebody out of the fire? Or we might get polluted by grabbing someone deep in filth? No. If you're a true believer, you are in no danger of fatal corruption, you are in no danger of damnation. Our God is able. Humanly speaking, the path to heaven is dangerous. It's filled with stumbling blocks. It's filled with temptations. It's filled with sins and iniquities and transgressions. It's filled with demons and Satan. But in another sense, the path to heaven is absolutely safe not because I'm able but because He's able. I'm weak, ignorant, disobedient, selfish, sinful, rebellious. And believe me, every enemy there is waits to ambush me and you too. I have no fear. I rest not in my own ability to somehow outfox the devil, or overpower my own flesh, I rest in His power. "Now to Him who is able to keep you, keep"...phulassoin Greek, to guard, it's a military word, to guard or watch over, different than the word keep used back in verse 21 which means to hold or possess. He is able to guard us, He stands guard over us, He's at His post, we are in safe custody while under assault, that's what that word means. "So as to keep us from apostatos(?),falling, apostasy. It's the only place in the whole Bible where that word is used. He keeps us from apostasy. You can't fall away because He keeps you from becoming an apostate.
How does He do it? By the gift of a permanent faith, a new heart and the indwelling Holy Spirit. He hangs on to us. Now we know this because of so many testimonies in Scripture. I go back to one that is very familiar to us in the tenth chapter of John's gospel and verse 28. "I gave eternal life to them and they shall never perish." Does that seem to say it? "And no one shall snatch them out of My hand, Jesus said, My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." I won't let go. The Father won't let go. And no one is powerful to force us to release anyone. That's why Philippians 1:6 says, "He that begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." He who started it will finish it. Nobody falls through the cracks. Apostates in Israel fell. Apostate angels fell. Apostates in Sodom and Gomorrah fell. Apostates in the church fell. But true believers are kept...kept. Our Lord has the will and He has the power to preserve us.
Secondly, to present us...this is just incredible. "Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with great joy." "To make you stand" actually in the Greek is to set you, to set you or to present you. Right now we stand in grace, Romans 5:1 to 4, but then we'll stand in glory. This is the opposite of falling, this is standing. This is enduring to the end. This is the perseverance of the saints. True believers have been given a faith that endures. "And He who keeps us will set us in the presence of His glory."
Notice 1 John 2, back up a couple of pages into 1 John 2:19, and this is a very important verse because, you say, "I know people who went to church and I know people who confessed Christ and they're no longer around and now they deny Him." Here's what explains that. "They went out from us, they were not really of us, if they had been of us they would have remained with us. But they went in order that it might be shown that they all are not all of us." When somebody leaves and apostasizes, falls away, abandons the faith, they never were real. Ah, verse 20, "But you, you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. I haven't written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you do know it." And verse 23 says, "Whoever denies the Son doesn't have the Father. The one who confesses the Son has the Father." If you ever truly confessed the Son, you will always confess the Son. If you ever truly believe in the Son, you will always believe in the Son and the Father. When somebody falls away, it's because they never were of us.
But the statement here is not about standing on earth. Being kept has to do with earth, standing has to do with heaven...standing in the presence of His glory. All this means is He keeps us here and takes us there. This is astonishing grace, really astonishing. Whenever you read in the Bible about somebody who was in the presence of God, it's a horrific traumatic experience, right? Isaiah pronounces a curse on himself. Ezekiel falls over like a dead person. Peter, James and John on the Mount of Transfiguration fall over in a semi-coma. John in the book of Revelation sees the vision of Christ and he's like a dead person, just absolutely scared out of their wits so that they faint. Whenever anybody is in the presence of God in Scripture, it is a frightening experience because they know they're sinful.
I heard some fool on television the other night talking about...talking about his meeting with God and talking flippantly and foolishly, irresponsibly about all kinds of inane and idiotic matters. He's...he never stood in the presence of the glory of God. That's just a lie and a deception. Any true believer who ever stood in the presence of God in this life, in this flesh, in this unredeemed human condition would fall over in absolute terror knowing himself to be sinful. But some day we will stand in the presence of His glory...what's the next word?...what is it?...blameless. And instead of fear, there will be great...what?...joy. Instead of fear, there will be great joy.
Anybody ever standing in the presence of God was traumatized, terrified. That is a place where no sinner can stand. And the book of Revelation makes it very clear. Chapter 21 and verse 27, "Nothing unclean, no one who practices abomination, lying, shall ever come into the heavenly city." Chapter 22 verse 15 says, "Inside are the washed, outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices lying," those kind of people don't come into the presence of God. And what...what Christian is going to say, "You know, I've kept myself saved and I deserve to stand in His presence?" What kind of a ridiculous idea is that? I am regularly pained by people who claim to have seen God, gone to haven, had visions of God, heard personally from God. What shallowness, what folly to think you can go in and out of heaven's holy presence in this earthly form? You couldn't get near God in God's heaven in this earthly form. To stand in His holy, glorious presence, you have to be amomos, without blame, pure. You have to be as holy as Christ is. Anybody who says they went to heaven is lying to you unless they died and then if they did, they can't tell you they went there.
The word amomosmeans faultless...faultless. The word was originally used to apply to sacrifices, Hebrews 9:14, to purity in a number of places in the New Testament. Right now we are not blameless, we are treated as if we were blameless because Christ bore our sins and we've been given His righteousness. And God treats Christ on the cross as if He lived our lives so He can treat us as if we lived His. But we are not now worthy to enter into heaven. That's why we have to be transformed, we have to lose this body of flesh and go into God's presence and receive a new body. But that will happen. We will not just be there alive, survivors. We will not just be free from guilt and sin, we will be holy...we will be blameless...we will be faultless...we will not only not violate God's Law, we will keep every bit of it all the time forever. It is not just that we will be there in the absence of sin, but we will be there in the presence of holiness. We will not only not be capable of doing evil, we will be only capable of doing right. We will have every power and every passion emancipated from evil and devoted only to holiness. And we'll be there with our heads lifted up, blameless before God. And instead of fear and trauma and panic and fainting, we'll be overwhelmed with joy...joy forever, joy forever.
Joy defines heaven. Zephaniah 3 verse 17 tells us another aspect of heavenly joy. "The Lord your God will rejoice over you with joy, He will joy over you with singing." Isn't that great? Not only are we going to sing praise to God, He's going to sing praise concerning us. And Jesus went to the cross for the joy that was set before Him. And what's that joy going to be? Fellowship with us. He's going to rejoice over us. God's going to rejoice over us and we're going to rejoice over the Lord and over the Father. Spurgeon wrote, "I think that's the most wonderful text in the whole Bible. God Himself singing? I can imagine when the world was made, the morning stars sang together, shouting for joy. But God didn't sing. He said it was very good, that's all. There was no song. But when all the chosen race shall meet around the throne, the joy of the eternal Father shall swell so high that God will burst into infinite song." Nothing can ever change that, absolutely nothing can ever change that. As Romans 8 points out, "Nothing can separate us from the love of God. No one can ever condemn us. No one can ever lay any charge to God's elect. Nothing can ever happen that doesn't turn out to our good because whomever the Lord chose, He called, justified, glorified."
Well, rest, dear Christian, and join the celebration of verse 25. "To the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time...that's past...now...that's present...and forever...that's the future...amen, so let it be." All credit goes to the only God. There's only one. The only God who is our Savior. The only God who is our Savior through Jesus Christ. The only God who is our Savior through Jesus Christ who is our Lord. To Him be all glory, majesty, dominion and authority. None left for anyone else including us. We are there because He kept us. He preserved us and He presented us.
Listen, the value of salvation is in the guarantee, folks. Listen to what Spurgeon wrote. I'll close with this. "And when I heard it said that the Lord would keep His people right to the end, when I heard it said that Christ said, 'My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me and I give them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of My hand.' When I heard that said, I must confess...says Spurgeon...that the doctrine of the final preservation of the saints was the bait that my soul could not resist. It was sort of life insurance, an insurance of my character, an insurance of my soul, an insurance of my eternal destiny. I knew I couldn't keep myself but if Christ promised to keep me, then I would be safe forever and I longed and I prayed to find Christ because I knew that if I found Him, He would not give me a temporary salvation as some preach. But eternal life which could never be lost, the living and incorruptible seed which lives and abides forever for no one and nothing could ever separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." And it was that great doctrine that brought Spurgeon to salvation.
What's the point of it if there's no guarantee? But there is. Let's bow in prayer.
Lord, it is to You, the only God, our Savior, a God who is by nature a Savior, to whom we come through Jesus Christ our Lord, it is to You that all glory, meaning adoration, praise and worship, all majesty, that means elevated position, all dominion, that means sovereign rule, all authority, that means freedom to act belong before all time, now and forever. We give You all the glory and all the praise and we say amen, amen, amen, let it be, let it be, let it be. And if this were not true, all our praise for our salvation would be a prop for our fears, all our praise and adoration and songs of worship would be some kind of mental game to feel good and override our fears, but it is true, You will keep us and You will present us in Your holy presence faultless with great joy. It is in that confident expression that our worship is rendered to You and we praise You in Your Son's name. Amen.
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While I like to make homemade pasta and ravioli on a weekend when we've got more time, we still have to eat dinner Monday - Thursday. So to everyone's relief, this is a recipe for jazzing up frozen ravioli with a quick sauce.
I'm not sure if I ever really got the need for a really quick and easy dinner before Emma. The evenings seem to go by in a flash - Mike gets home at 6:30, dinner at 7:00, bath at 7:30 and Emma's in bed at 8:00 (hopefully). So, my dinner fixing window is somewhere between 6:30 to 7:00 while Mike feeds Emma her dinner of mashed sweet potatoes and pureed pears.
Start to finish this is a 15 minute meal that uses two pans - one for boiling water and the other to saute the sauce. My dishwasher (Mike) appreciates the quick cleanup!
Jazzed Up
Frozen Ravioli
with pancetta, tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach & cream
1 bag of frozen ravioli (I used two different kinds- cheese & red pepper)
1/4 pound of pancetta, diced
10 mushrooms, sliced
2 tablespoons of olive oil
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1 large can of whole tomatoes, crushed by hand, include juice
1/4 cup of heavy cream
2 cups of spinach
fresh parmesan
Boil water for the ravioli. The water should should be boiling and ready for the ravioli just as the sauce is ready.
Start by sautéing the pancetta for 2-3 minutes until it begins to brown. Add mushrooms and olive oil and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic, and cook for 30 seconds being careful not to burn it. Add in the crushed tomatoes and its juice. Stir in the heavy cream. Reduce to simmer and cook for 3-5 minutes on low. Add spinach. Turn off the heat.
Add ravioli to the boiling water. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
Reserve 1 cup of the pasta water, set aside. Drain the ravioli and put it (without rinsing) into the sauce. Toss. If the sauce needs thinning, add a small amount of the reserved pasta water. Top with fresh grated parmesan cheese.


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When Sensei Chosin Chibana explained that turning in kata often represented throws, my friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata, asked him what you are supposed to grab if the attacker is not wearing a gi. This was a logical question. In Judo, the gi is integral to many types of throws.
Chibana Sensei promptly demonstrated how to throw without a gi. He grabbed two parts of Nakata Sensei's body. Do you know or can you guess, what parts of the body Chibana Sensei grabbed? Can you name other parts of the body that could be used? Let's leave out the arms and legs to make it more interesting.
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Chibana Sensei grabbed Nakata Sensei by the side of the neck and the ear.
Throws, take downs, and other control techniques can also be applied using the following (among others):
- hair
- inside of the cheek
- eye sockets
- nostrils (especially from the back)
- chin
- the entire neck (as in a wrap)
- the armpit area
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In February, as a pilgrim visiting the place of his roots, he found his mother's grave at the East Springfield Church next to his uncle Leon King's military-style marker. The two Kings, brother and sister, taught Freddie how to play the guitar. He took their "Country Blues" style to Chicago, where he sat in with Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and other great South Chicago blues singers and developed his own unique blues riffs and style.
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I am looking for recommendations for a sewing machine insert to fit my brand new to me Koala cabinet. :D
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I am looking for recommendations for a sewing machine insert to fit my brand new to me Koala cabinet. :D
you should just be able to contact koala
I was hoping for a little cheaper than the $150 :shock: that I found on their website. Also, they appearantly changed models since then, soo, it's not a current model
Anyone handy around your house. I got a new table and measured the two sides and depth and my dad threw this together for me.
In the table
on top of table so you can see simple construction out of 1/2 MDF
I have an MDF inset too. DH cut it for me.
If your cabinet is of the style where there are little strips of wood the top insert sits on ... then you can go to a plastic company and have them cut your insert. You will need to provide the pattern
which would include the outer edges and the sewing machine area.
If you have trouble you can PM me as we have an excellent plastic company here that has cut out numerous templates and a few extention table tops for me. They also cut out the insert that I got with my cabinet that didn't fit my newer machine. Well worth the price.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, this is my first cabinet. I love the pictures because this cabinet does not have strips to set the insert on and I couldn't figure out how it's gonna be at the right level :oops:
I'll have to figure something out with legs on it :D
In that case you'll probably want to use some sort of leveling feet. It can be a bit of a beast to get everything just right otherwise. With them you just need to attach some blocks are are a little shy of the height you need then use the legs to make it just so. They're widely available in woodworking or hardware stores. The only issue is that most of them are designed to be slide easily and you'll want just the opposite. If you can find rubberized ones that's great, otherwise you can tack a little non-skid rug backing to felt bottomed legs with a little glue.Originally Posted by IngeMK
I am not sure what your cabinet is like, but I don't think you will need the feet. It doesn't have to be dead on level to work, it is just to keep your fabric moving and not falling in the hole and I don't think it will slide if the top board is "trapped" within the top hole (which means fits wall to wall from front to back) . Note that I made mine to fit the whole machine, not just the free arm so it was easier to measure and cut. Also mine doesn't go all the way accross the back so that I can fit my cone thread holder down and behind my machine. It keeps it from wandering if some cloth catches on it.Originally Posted by pinkCastleDH
Ah, well. I know that if I made one for my wife and it wasn't dead on flush with the bed of the machine I'd just be doing it again until it was. ;)Originally Posted by acesgame
Dream World website has them listed.
Ah, well. I know that if I made one for my wife and it wasn't dead on flush with the bed of the machine I'd just be doing it again until it was. ;)[/quote]
ummm, yeah, that could happen here too.
thanks for the advice with the adjustable feet!
Dream World is the manufacturer of the acryllic inserts and extension tables. I have ordered from them and had good service. They are not inexpensive because they wont be in competition with their distributors. I have also bought their products from allbrands.com


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