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Growing gains: Scottsville's new eastern accent
When I first phoned the new Asian eatery in Scottsville, China Moon, I somehow wasn't expecting to hear a deep voice with a very Virginia accent on the other end. White guys can't jump, right? But restaurant owner-chef Robert Oliphant isn't letting his lack of Asian heritage stop him from branching out gastronomically.
"I've always loved dabbling in Asian and Pacific Rim flavors,' says this chef of 25 years from North Garden, "and I felt that an Oriental restaurant would go over very well in Scottsville."
Oliphant, who lives only 10 minutes from Valley Street, took over the fortune cookie-sized space formerly occupied by Memory Lane Diner, attracted by its location and low-overhead. Since the space only fits a few stools and a single six-top table (often reserved ahead of time!), China Moon is primarily a take-out lunch and dinner place serving a selection of classic and more experimental Asian dishes egg rolls, General Tao's chicken, Thai sticks, teriyaki steaks, and vegetarian offerings.
Oliphant says he makes everything fresh daily, but he's learning that he can't be too health-conscious in Scottsville. "I tried to avoid breading and frying the chicken, but that's just too healthy for people here," he says.
A step or two behind Crozet, Scottsville nevertheless finds itself in a transitional phase, and its growing pains and gains are perhaps most evident at the dining table. The town is only a few miles south of new ventures like the very upscale Kluge Farm Shop and the blossoming organic Maple Hill Farm.
Downtown Valley Street is home (among many others) to both Lumpkins– a traditional Southern family restaurant still run by 80-year-old Mrs. Virginia Lumpkin herself– and Magnolia, the innovative southern-inspired restaurant created by Northern transplant Howie Velie.
For chefs like Velie, who find the town laid-back and entrepreneur-friendly, Scottsville is quite the culinary conundrum.
"My problem has been that my higher-end clientele think I'm too low-brow, sometimes, and my lower-end clientele think I'm too high-classed and that they have to dress nicely to come in," Velie explains to Dish.
His tactic? He does what he loves and welcomes customers, whether they're wearing a tie or shorts and flip-flops.
One thing I both love and hate about Italy is that many shops, restaurants and museums are closed on Monday. While a majority of Charlottesville restaurants are open seven days, slow-paced Scottsville is still clinging to this Monday – and in many cases, also a Tuesday– siesta. From what I could gather from a random survey, this tradition stems from busier weekend traffic, making a Monday "rest" more sensible than a Sunday one.
But many locals are puzzled– and perhaps a bit peeved– at lunchtime. "I'm not sure why this tradition exists," one hungry Scottsville lawyer says. "I don't think everyone is fasting on Mondays."
Both Magnolia and China Moon are closed on Monday and Tuesday. Velie, who's busy opening a new inn in the countryside (more on this later), is considering offering cooking classes with his partner Chang on sleepy days, but for now he dedicates Mondays to mycology– yes, to hunting for mushrooms.
Curious? Try Magnolia's "sweet and sour mushrooms": bright orange "chicken-of-the-woods" mushrooms served either with black-eyed peas and spicy vinaigrette slaw or deep fried and tossed in hot sauce for a "boneless wing." I'd call these growing gains!
Station break
Service at Station, the West Main Street eatery owned by Barbara Shifflett, stopped on September 12 for what is being called a "brief reorganization period."
Things look quiet around there, and I've heard talk about the restaurant being for sale. But according to a somewhat cryptic statement issued by the management company, The Restaurant Group, plans are to re-open Station in October, with a "re-fitted menu" and an "affordable price-point."
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A 'one injection' cure for Arthritis within five years … well, let's hope so!August 15, 2008 at 1:02 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 5 Comments
Tags: anti-TNFs, ARC, Arthritis Research Campaign, BBC, cells, coffee, cure, cure for RA, Daily Telegraph, DMARD, DMARDs, drug, five years, immune system, injection, RA, research, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatology, scientific paper, side effects, trigger, vaccine
Some great news was widely reported yesterday – there might be a cure for rheumatoid arthritis and it could be tested and available within five years. No disputing it, that is great news! But a word or two of caution …
Unlike a drug, this treatment involves taking cells from a patient's immune system, altering them in the lab and injection them back in to a joint affected by rheumatoid arthritis. However, not only have there been no human trials yet, there have actually been no trials at all. The only work that's been done so far is on the cells in the laboratory.
The announcement seems a little premature to me because they don't even know yet whether the re-injection of the cells will cause the 'fixed' immune system cells to spread through the body or not.
The injection is likely to cost in the region of £25,000 according to press reports. The cynic in me wonders whether that's why it's being billed as a 'one injection cure'. Because if all it did was halt the disease in one joint, and most RA patients have many joints affected, the cost would be totally prohibitive and perhaps the research would be stopped. According to the Daily Telegraph : 'The team also hope to find out if the vaccine is effective only in the joints it is injected into, or whether the new cells spread throughout the body.' So as yet they really have no idea whether it's a cure or something to help one badly affected joint. And if it affects one joint for £25,000, the 'National Institute for Clinical Excellence,' in the UK, (who are the folks that decide whether medication is too expensive to give to patients, and who are often known as NASTY for obvious acronym reasons) certainly won't be letting us UK folk have this on the NHS!
The BBC's report quotes Professor Alan Silman, from the Arthritis Research Campaign, who are a charity I hold in great esteem and who are funding this research, as saying that the cells should be 'reset' to normal activity, rather than attacking the joints and that 'The presumption is that they will stay this way, unless the same trigger which is thought to cause the problem in the first place is encountered again. Aye, there's the rub!!
Not only is this currently nothing more than a presumption, but more importantly we don't actually know what the trigger is – or I should probably say what the triggers are, as it's thought that there are many different triggers. So let's suppose, as has been suggested in the scientific literature, that one of the many triggers is consumption of decaffeinated coffee. If the cell 'resetting' is a success and NASTY decides the treatment will be made available an the NHS, then I toddle off for my injection, it works, I feel fantastic for a day or two (and that's assuming, of course, that it doesn't have some horrible side effects) and then I have a nice cup of decaffeinated coffee … if that's my trigger, Wham – flare up – back to square one? I don't know, but maybe. There isn't even a comprehensive list of known triggers, so it's not possible to even avoid them after the injection!
Then there's the side effect thing – this is, like the current DMARDS and anti-TNFs, something that affects the immune system, stopping it from attacking the joints in error. Again according to the Telegraph article, and they may have got the wrong end of the stick slightly, or I may have, and I haven't read any scientific paper on this, 'Using chemicals, steroids and Vitamin D, the team has devised a way to manipulate a patient's white blood cells so they suppress, rather than activate, the immune system.' So …where does the immune system go? Is one cured of RA but suddenly unable to leave a big plastic bubble for fear of getting a common cold and dying from it due to lack of immune system? Probably not, because it's probably very specific cells they're targeting, but I'd like to understand this a bit better.
Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted that RA, and cures for it, are being thoroughly researched, and even more glad that there might be a light at the end of the tunnel. As someone said on the NRAS forum yesterday, hope is a good medicine in itself. I'd just have appreciated some slightly more balanced and less gungho reporting.
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Let's open our Bibles to Matthew chapter 22 this morning, Matthew chapter 22. It seems as though each new paragraph that unfolds for us in Matthew's gospel stands alone in uniqueness, in importance. We almost feel like we're going from mountain peak to mountain peak. And it's no different in that last paragraph in Matthew 22 to which we look this morning. It is just so very, very important. And I want you to listen carefully as I read Matthew 22:41 through 46 and then we look to it to see what the Lord will teach us.
"While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He? They say unto Him, David's. He said unto them, How then does David in the Spirit call Him Lord saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on My right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool. If David then called Him Lord, how is He his son? And no man was able to answer Him a word, neither dared anyone from that day forth ask Him any more questions."
What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He? What a question. The most important question of all questions. What do you think of Christ? Whose Son is He? When it comes to opinions about Jesus Christ, the world has never lacked for any variety of suggestions. In fact, about 100 A.D. the Jews wrote this of Jesus, quote: "Jesus practiced magic and led Israel astray," end quote.
A few hundred years later they came into power in the Roman Empire a man named Julian the Apostate who ruled from 361 to 363. And Julian was known as the ancient adversary of Christianity and he wrote this: "Jesus has now been celebrated about 300 years, having done nothing in His lifetime worthy of fame, unless anyone thinks that a very great work to heal lame and blind people and exercise demoniacs in the villages of Bethsaida and Bethany," end quote.
There have been people who took a very negative view of Jesus. The leaders of His own day said He did what He did by the power of hell, the devil himself. But for the most part, humanity has been somewhat condescending to Jesus, somewhat generous, somewhat patronizing, somewhat complimentary. Some of the great philosophers of the world have looked at Jesus as the best of men. Rousseau, for example, wrote, "When Plato describes his imaginary righteous man loaded with all the punishments of guilt yet meriting the highest rewards of virtue, he describes exactly the character of Jesus Christ," end quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, himself not a believer, said, "Jesus is the most perfect of all the men that have yet appeared on the earth." Diderot said He was the unsurpassed. Even Napoleon called Him the emperor of love. And John Stuart Mill, the philosopher, said He is the guide of humanity. The scientist Lesche(?) said He is the highest pattern of virtue. Rennan the French atheist said He is the greatest among the sons of men. Theodore Parker called Him the youth with God in His heart. And David Strauss who was a staunch hater of Christianity and denied all of its supernatural claims said Jesus is, quote, "The highest model of religion within the reach of human thought." H.G. Wells wrote, "When I was asked which single individual has left the most permanent impression on the world, the manner of the questioner almost carried the implication that it was Jesus of Nazareth. I agreed, Jesus stands first," end quote.
And so it has been that even in the mouths of those who do not believe in Him there is a kind of condescending, patronization that says He's the best of men. But the other side of that is that underneath all of that is a very incipient denial that He is anything more than the best of men. And it has always been that Christianity has found its most violent detractors and its most aggressive attackers coming at the deity of Jesus Christ. That is the most attacked point of our doctrine. The major emphasis of those who would deny the reality of Christianity is to attack the deity of Jesus Christ, emphasize that He is a man and nothing more.
It comes from every direction. A couple of days ago I read an ad that came in the mail. It said this, "Sunday at 7 p.m., the Christadelphians invite you to a Bible address on the subject,`Jesus is not God,' given by Arthur Woods, Bible teacher."
Three Sundays ago in the Seattle Times, a feature article appeared and filled the entire page. It read, "The Reverend David Ossen(?), pastor of The First United Methodist Church has swung vigorously into a sermon series emphasizing Jesus Christ as man, not God. He says that the reason there is any controversy at all on this issue is because, quote, `There is always a bunch of people who say Jesus is God'" end quote. He went on to say, "how important it is for us to have as proper a perspective of Jesus as we can to know Jesus as He really is and not some fantasy, end quote. In fact, he called biblical data concerning the deity of Christ, quote, "A lot of darned nonsense," end quote. His associate, Gary Starky(?) said, quote, "Jesus is one of us," end quote. In fact, the article suggested that Jesus was like Mother Teresa or Caesar Chavez.
If you study not only liberal Protestantism, not only historic apostasy, not only European philosophy or even American philosophy where you get all of these opinions, but if you just study religion, you will find that it makes overt attacks on the deity of Jesus Christ. Let me suggest a few of them to you.
The Anthro-Pasophical(?) Society led by Rudolph Steiner who is an occult medium, says "Jesus was an ordinary man who at 30 received the Christ's essence," whatever that is. Black Muslim theology teaches that Jesus was a prophet, however, not the equal of Moses or Mohammed and His religion was Islam, not Christianity. The Center for Spiritual Awareness led by Roy Eugene Davis says, "Jesus was an enlightened soul and men must be awakened to their own Christ nature within them." Christian Science teaches that Jesus was a mere man who demonstrated a divine idea but His blood cleanses nothing. The Church of the Living Word leader, John Robert Stephens(?) considers himself God's chief mediator and intercessor. The Church Universal and Triumphant with Elizabeth Claire Prophet(?) as leader says Jesus is a man with Christ consciousness, one of many men who have achieved that level. Echon Carr(?) says Christ is God and so is everybody else. Free Masonry says, quote, "We tell the sincere Christian that Jesus was but a man like us." Hare Krishna says, "Jesus is just another guru." The I.M.(?) Movement believes Jesus is an ascended master. The Jehovahs Witnesses teach that Jesus Christ is the created being Michael. The Mormons say He is the spirit brother of Lucifer. The Rosecrutian(?) religion identifies Christ as the reincarnate cosmic man. Scientology teaches that Christ achieved as a man, quote, "A state of clear but not the highest state of an operating thetan(?)." The Local Church...the Local Church, Witness Lee says Christ was neither God nor man but a mixture. The Unification Church leader, Sun Yung Moon says Christ must achieve perfection and He will do it by marrying and having perfect babies. The Way International led by Victor Paul Weirwell(?) says Jesus is not God. The Unitarians teach that Christ was a man. And the Sacred Mushroom of the Cross, led by John Allegro(?) says Jesus Christ was a mushroom.
And that's a few of the myriads...the myriads of such attacks on the deity of Christ. It is...it is absolutely prosaic to say it that all false systems have a problem with the unique identity of the deity of Jesus Christ. And that is where the battle lines are ultimately drawn in terms of the Christian faith. And these misrepresentations and misconceptions are not new. In fact, they even existed in the time of Jesus Christ. And they are essentially behind the scenes in this text. The Jews believed in a non-deity Messiah. They believed their Messiah would be a human political military leader. And this text comes as a corrective to that very serious error.
Now you remember that this is Wednesday in Matthew 22 of the Passion week, Christ will be crucified on Friday to rise on Sunday. And He is in a long drawn-out conversation with the religious leaders in the temple. He has come to the temple which He cleansed the day before. He preaches and teaches the Kingdom. He is stopped in chapter 21 verse 23 by the authorities who say to Him, "By what authority do You do this? And who gave You that authority?" He doesn't answer their question, but He does give them three pronouncements of judgment in the form of parables saying to them, "You are shut out of the Kingdom of God and others are going to be put in there in your place." They're incensed by the fact that He teaches contrary to them. They're incensed by the fact that He has power that they don't have. They're incensed by the fact that He has popularity with the people that they can't seem to attain. They want to get rid of Him. When He cleansed the temple, that only increased their hatred. And now when He pronounces judgment upon them, their hatred is increased all the more. And so they come back at Him with a series of questions meant to discredit Him. They ask Him three questions, none of the questions discredit Him, they all discredit the ones who asked them. And the people are even more fascinated with what He says.
And so, they have heard the three parables on this Wednesday. They have asked the three questions. And the conversation with the religious leaders is about to end. But there's one more question and it doesn't come from them to Him, it comes from Him to them. And the purpose of this question is to make very clear the identity of the Christ, the Messiah. You see, they were living under the false assumption that the Messiah would be just a human military leader. Oh, He had to have all the right credentials, but He was human in the view of these religious leaders and their followers. And so the Lord confronts them and the crowd gathered there at the Passover season with a pronouncement here that the Messiah in fact is far more than just a human, He is God. And that's the essence of this passage.
Now it all begins with an incisive question in verses 41 and 42...an incisive question. "While the Pharisees were gathered together," you can stop there for a moment. That sets the scene. Go back to verse 34. "When the Pharisees had heard that He had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together." The Pharisees had asked Him a question with the Herodians. He answered that. The Sadducees who were their enemies, came, asked Him a question, He answered that. He shut the mouths of the Sadducees so the Pharisees regrouped and they were discussing that. They came up with another question. They sent a law expert to ask that question in verses 34 to 40. And you remember how that went. He asked what the greatest commandment was. The Lord told him to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. That has taken place. And the Pharisees are still gathered together. All their questions have been answered. They have really nothing more to say. They have no more weapons left. Their arsenal is depleted. They have been set upon by the genius of His answers. They have no recourse.
So He turns to them. They're still gathered together. They're still huddled there in the midst of the temple courtyard and no doubt surrounded by all the people with Jesus in the center as the focus of attention. And for the last time personally He confronts them. And you have to believe that His confrontation is a two-fold thing. That on the one hand it is a proclamation of who He is that indicts their ignorance. It is a pronouncement that ultimately reflects upon their judgment. In other words, He says to them you thought Messiah would be but a man, I'm telling you Messiah is also God and your failure to understand that is an indictment, is the cause of your judgment. You ask Me by what authority I did these things back when this day began, now I'm telling you the authority. The authority is that I'm more than man, I'm God.
This, verse 41 to 46, is the answer to the question in chapter 21 verse 23. By what authority? It is at the end of the conversation that He gives the answer. This is the authority. And it comes in a very, very marvelous way. And so He sets out, in a sense, to confirm their judgment by a proclamation of who He is. And it's inconceivable that they are ignorant of that.
But there's more to it than that. I believe also that there's an invitation here because not all the Pharisees were as rigid in their rejection as some. There must have been some tender-hearted ones. There must have been some sensitive ones because the law expert, or the scribe, that had just asked Him the question back in verse 35, when he heard the answer, Jesus said to him, you remember as recorded in Mark 12:34, "You are not far from the Kingdom." So it must have been that here was at least one, and there must have been more who were close to salvation and for whom the further information about the deity of Jesus Christ could be saving truth, could bring them to the knowledge of Christ. And so I think it comes not only as an indictment saying, in effect, how could you be so foolish not to know your own scriptures, how could you be so foolish to have missed all of this, but it comes also as an invitation to those whose hearts are still open.
Notice the question then, as the Pharisees were there gathered, Jesus asked them saying, What is your opinion of the Christ? What is your opinion of the Christ? Now He's not asking about Himself, it's indirect. He's not saying I am the Christ. He's not saying what is your opinion of Me? He is asking them for a Messianic identification. You believe in the Messiah, the Christ...whenever you see that Christos with the article, it refers to the Messiah, the officially anointed one, the one they anticipated. Christ is really a New Testament term for Old Testament term "Messiah." So what is your opinion about the Messiah, the anointed one, the one you're waiting for? Whose Son is He? Whose Son is He?
Very simple question, as far as the Jews were concerned. Very easy to answer. In fact, it was so easy because they didn't know the full answer. They thought they knew the answer. They didn't know. They thought the Messiah was nothing more than a man, human. So the question appeared to them to be very easy to answer. What is your opinion of the Messiah? Whose Son is He? Simple. They never really understood the fullness of what the Messiah's role would be and they never understood His identity. They thought His role was political. They thought His identity was human. And Jesus wants to take them to another understanding.
So, you go from the incisive question to the inadequate answer. Look at their answer in verse 42. "They said to Him," and there would be no hesitation, whose Son is He? "They said to Him, David's...David's." That's easy. David's son. And they hurried to show their knowledge when in fact they show their ignorance. You see, any Jew would have given that reply. I mean, that's understandable. That's what all the scribes taught. In fact, in Mark 12:35, Jesus says you believe that Messiah is the Son of David because that's what the scribes teach. And that is what they taught. You say, "Where did they get that information?" They got it from the Old Testament. You say, "Is it true?" Yes it's true, He was Son of David. In 2 Samuel chapter 7, God gives the promise of an eternal Kingdom to David and He says this, "When thy days be fulfilled, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers. I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thine own body, I will establish His Kingdom. He shall build an house for My name and I will establish the throne of His Kingdom forever." It can't be Solomon because Solomon's kingdom didn't last forever, did it? Hardly. But there's coming some seed out of the loins of David, some life in the Davidic line that's going to have an eternal Kingdom. He will be a Son of David. And from 2 Samuel on, the Jewish people knew that it would be David's son who would be the one to reign and rule as the anointed, the Christ, the Messiah.
In Psalm 89, this is reiterated many times. Psalm 89:3, "I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sword unto David My servant, thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all generations." In verse 20, "I have found David My servant and with My holy oil have I anointed him, with whom My hands shall be established, Mine arm also shall strengthen him." In verse 24 you have a similar word, "My faithfulness, My mercy shall be with him, in My name shall his horn be exalted." And then verse 34, "My covenant will I not break, nor will I alter the thing that has gone out of lips, once I've sword by My holiness I will not lie unto David, his seed shall endure forever, his throne as the Son before Me, it will be established forever like the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven." So God promised that there would be a son of David who could come to reign.
You can see it even in the minor prophets. It's familiar to them. I'm thinking of, I think it's the ninth chapter of Amos where there's a recollection of this same promise. Yes, verse 11, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that has fallen and I will raise up his ruins and I will build it as in the days of old." And in Micah 5:2 you have the idea that Messiah comes out of the city of David, Bethlehem. And so, David's son, David's son is something very obvious in the Old Testament.
Now I want you to turn for just a moment to Ezekiel 37 and this points it up, I think, rather firmly in Ezekiel, and it does so in a unique way. In Ezekiel 37 verse 24, as the prophet Ezekiel under the inspiration of God looks to the millennial Kingdom, looks to the future, the day when God and His people will come together and they will be cleansed and all of that, they will be no longer defiled, there will be a great time of cleansing verse 23 says. Then in verse 24, "And David My servant shall be king over them." Now that doesn't mean the literal David, that is Messiah. But Messiah as a couple of times is indicated in Psalm 89 which I read, Messiah is so identified with David that sometimes He is actually called David. There's such solidarity between the two. So David My servant here in verse 24 refers to the Messiah, shall be king over them, they all shall have one shepherd, they shall walk in My ordinances, obey My...observe My statutes, rather, and do them. They shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob My servant in which your fathers have dwelt. They shall dwell in it, even they their children and their children's children forever. And My servant David shall be their prince forever, moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them and multiply them and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them forever more, My tabernacle also shall be with them. Yea, I will be their God and they shall be My people.
So starting at the time of the millennial Kingdom and sweeping into eternity, David's greater son who even here is called David because of that identification will rule an everlasting Kingdom. So the Jews because of those and other passages knew that the Messiah was to be of the seed of David, of the loins of David.
And as you move through Matthew's gospel you see this. You go back, for example, to Matthew chapter 9 verse 27 and you will hear this cry to Jesus, "Have mercy upon me, O Son of David." As there's a reaching out for the healing power of Christ. Mercy, O Son of David. You find in chapter 20 of Matthew, the two blind men in Jericho cry the same thing, "Have mercy upon us, O Son of David." In other words, calling out to Jesus as the Messiah. When Jesus healed in Matthew 12:22, He healed many people and in verse 23 all the people were amazed and said this is not the Son of David, is it? That was a Messianic title. When Jesus rode into the city, they cried "Son of David....Son of David." That is the Messianic title. That is the term the Jews used to identify David's greater son who would sit on the throne and reign.
When Jesus went into the temple on the next day, Tuesday, and cleansed it, you remember the little boys all shouted "Son of David...Son of David." So the Jews had it straight that the Messiah would come in the lineage of David, that He would come in the line of David. Now this is very important. And that is why Matthew goes to great lengths to present Jesus Christ's genealogy in chapter 1. He starts out the whole gospel by saying, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the Son of David, and then he traces the entire genealogy from Abraham through David down to Joseph to Christ. In other words, David was in...set in motion, a progeny or a line which resulted in the birth of Messiah. Messiah came in the Davidic family. Luke in chapter 3 follows the same thing. Luke traces it through Mary, Matthew through Joseph and it comes together to indicate that this is indeed a son of David, both his father and mother were in the Davidic family.
And I want to just give you a little footnote, folks. If Jesus had not been, you can be sure that would have been a major issue in the New Testament with these leaders. You know well that they could have disqualified Jesus instantaneously from being Messiah if they could have proven that He did not have a Davidic genealogy, right? They could have eliminated Him very fast. And you know well that they must have checked. And in the temple they kept records on the genealogy of everyone. In fact, the records were kept so well that everyone knew their genealogy and it's only been since the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. that the Jewish people today no longer know their genealogy because the records have been lost, and they being scattered were unable to keep track of them. But those days were different and they knew. In fact, you couldn't hold any civic responsibility in the nation unless your genealogy was known. The priests who married would never marry someone whose genealogy they did not know. So genealogy was very very important. And if they could have disqualified Jesus on a non-Davidic line, they would have done it. The fact that they didn't and never brought it up indicates that in fact He was from the line of David. Therefore was qualified humanly to be the King of Israel. And if they had had a monarchy in those days, He would have been the king.
But their answer, as right as it was, was inadequate. It was true but it was partial. It was correct but it fell short of the full answer. And, you see, they're saying to Him, "Who do You think You are, letting people call You Son of David? That great Messianic title is too great a title for You." And He is saying no, it's too a small a title for Me. Just the opposite. I mean, David had many sons, thousands of them, many descendants. How was one to be distinguished out from all of them? I mean, how was one to be distinguished above Solomon, or above Hezekiah or above Joseph the father of our Lord? Who was to stick out? I mean, if you're just looking for son of David, you've got a lot of folks to choose from.
Where do we find the answer? Davidic descent is only one mark, there's got to be another one. Where are we going to find it? Well, the first place we ought to look is where? Scripture...Scripture. And that's exactly where the Lord goes. So the incisive question, they think it has a simple answer, but they have an inadequate answer. That leads to the third point that I want you to see, the infinite reality...an infinite reality. The Lord responds to their inadequate answer by presenting them something that is infinite, it's incomprehensible and it's true and it's marvelous.
Verse 43, "He said to them, How then does David in the Spirit call Him--that is the Messiah--Lord?" How then does David in the Spirit call the Messiah Lord? If He is the son of David, how is it that David calls Him Lord? The word"Lord" kurios, common word in the Greek, used many many times in the New Testament for deity, it's the title of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every time He's called Lord it's kurios. You go back to the Old Testament and the word that you'll find back there for Lord is adonay...adonay. That, too, used all throughout the Old Testament as a title for God, a title for God. For example, in Genesis 15, "After those things, the Word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision saying, Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord God...Lord God." That's deity. And in Deuteronomy chapter 10 and verse 17 we read this, "For the Lord your God is a God of Gods and Lord of Lords," Yahweh and Adonay, it is a title of deity.
There's so many places you could look at this but Psalm 35 would be another one, verse 23. "Stir up thyself and awake to my right even unto my cause, my God and my Lord." And then over in 38 verse 15, "For in Thee, O Lord, do I hope, Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God." And you can find it all the way to Malachi chapter 1 verse 6 that God...deity is called Lord, adonay.
So, Jesus says if Messiah is only David's son, human, how is it then that David calls Him Lord God, deity, divine? Well, that's an important issue. You say, "Maybe...maybe David made a mistake. Maybe he was...maybe he was a little, you know, out of sorts at that point. Maybe he was acting independently, maybe that was his opinion." No. "Well maybe it wasn't David at all that said that, we just think it was." No, look at verse 43 again. "How then doth David--watch this one--in the Spirit call the Messiah Lord?" There's a qualifier there that's very important, isn't it? When David called the Messiah Lord he was what? He was in the Spirit. He was in the Spirit. By the way, that's the same Greek phrase used in Revelation 1:10 and Revelation 4:2. Revelation 1:10 talks about John being in the Spirit on the Lord's day. It means to be under the control of the Spirit. And if you wonder what its interpretation is, all you need to do is compare Mark 12:36, the comparative passage, because in that text Mark gives us the whole statement, the Savior said, "How then doth David in the Holy Spirit call Him Lord?" So He's not talking about the human spirit, He's talking about the Holy Spirit.
Now we say this then, that when David said it he was inspired by the Holy Spirit, right? David under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit calls the Messiah Lord. And uses a term for Him that refers to God.
You say, "Well, where did he do that?" So in verse 44 the Lord gives the scripture. And He quotes directly from Psalm 110:1, "The Lord said unto my Lord." David wrote that Psalm. And David wrote, "The Lord...Yahweh...said unto my Lord...adonay..." And we've got two Lords, folks. Lord number one talking to Lord number two. "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool." God is called Yahweh, God is called Elohim, God is called Adonay in the Old Testament. And here that God, that Yahweh God says to David's Lord, "Sit Thou at My right hand till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool."
Now Jesus used Psalm 110:1 for a lot of reasons. But mostly because they all believed that Psalm 110 was a Messianic Psalm. They just didn't understand the implications of that first verse. The Jews believe that. They acknowledge it as a Messianic Psalm. In fact, Psalm 110 is the most often quoted Psalm in the New Testament. It is the most frequently quoted Psalm in the New Testament. It is quoted by Peter, quoted by Paul, quoted by the writer of Hebrews. It is quoted in Matthew, Mark, in Luke. Now listen carefully. In all three gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, this Psalm is attributed to David by Jesus. In all three gospels, this Psalm is attributed to David by Jesus.
Now what is the Lord saying? I want you to listen very carefully, this is very, very important and this verse has been attacked. Anybody who wants to knock out the deity of Christ has got to deal with this verse. And its really suffered the arrows of the critics. But listen carefully. When the Lord says David calls the Messiah Lord in this Psalm, the Lord is therefore interpreting this Psalm for us and He's telling us three things. Number one, He's saying the Psalm is Messianic because David is talking about Messiah. That's the whole point of the conversation. What think ye of the anointed one? Whose son is He? They said David's. Then why does David call Him Lord?
Jesus is saying Psalm 110 is speaking of Messiah because when David says the Lord said to my Lord, his phrase "my Lord" is Messianic. So Jesus is affirming the Messianic character of Psalm 110. Secondly, He is affirming Davidic authorship. He is saying David said it. You don't see David's name in Psalm 110, Jesus tells you David wrote it. And that is the tradition of the Jews. Before Jesus' time they assigned it to David. That's why it has that little indication at the heading that it was written by David, it is a Psalm of David. But Jesus affirms it.
Thirdly, most important of all, Jesus affirms the deity of Messiah. When Jesus quotes Psalm 110:1, He says: one, it is Messianic; two, it is written by David; and three, it affirms the deity of Messiah. That's its intent.
Boy, this is important. Now listen carefully. I did a little reading this week in some of the critical analysis of this particular text. And I was fascinated to find out that many critics deny the Messianic character of Psalm 110. They say it's not Messianic. In fact, they deny the prophetic character of it. In fact, they deny prophecy. And the reason they do that is because they don't believe the Bible's supernatural and it can't predict the future. So they just make it a historical document, they deny its Messianic purpose.
Secondly, I was amazed to find out that critics deny Davidic authorship. They say language was not that developed. David couldn't have written in his time, and his time language was too underdeveloped to give the expressions that are given in Psalm 110, plus the priest/king situation would have been unfamiliar to David. Which is a whole lot of baloney, to put it mildly.
And the third thing they deny is the deity of Jesus Christ. Now if you're going to deny the deity of Jesus Christ, you would do well to deny the Davidic authorship of this Psalm and to deny also its Messianic character. And then you can deny the deity of Jesus Christ. The only problem is you've just said Jesus is a liar because Jesus affirms the Messianic character of the Psalm, He affirms the Davidic authorship and He affirms that it presents the deity of the Messiah. And so what you're saying, in effect, is Jesus is a liar. So don't come back to Him with any patronizing nonsense about the fact that He's the highest level of human virtue because if He's the highest level of human virtue, He wouldn't be lying about who He was and who the Messiah was and is. But it amazes me that they always turn the heat on those passages that speak of the deity of Christ. And frankly, I would rather trust Jesus Christ's interpretation of Psalm 110 than any God-rejecting critic I can think of whom I have no reason to trust at all.
In spite of what the critics might say, Jesus said David wrote it. Jesus said David wrote it under the Holy Spirit's inspiration. Jesus said David wrote it under the Holy Spirit's inspiration to speak about the Messiah. And He said he wrote it under the Holy Spirit's inspiration to speak about the Messiah to tell us the Messiah's God. That's why it's there.
And what did God say to David's Lord? Look at verse 44, what did He say to Him? "The Lord God said to my Lord, the Messiah, the Christ, Sit Thou on My right hand." What does that mean? God Himself, the Yahweh of Israel, the creator of the universe, the God of very Gods--as the theologians called Him-- has designated a position of rank for the Messiah that brings Him to His own right hand and puts Him in co-equal place of power and authority with Himself, virtually declaring His deity...Sit on My right hand, sit on My right hand. That's why Hebrews 1, the writer of Hebrews says that God has lifted Christ and placed Him at His right hand. Equal glory promised the Messiah because He is equal deity. And it says in the original, "Be Thou sitting," present imperative, continuous, take a continuous place of exaltation on the right hand of God.
Now the right hand of God is the symbol of authority and as the right hand of a man normally is the strength and the power and the dexterity of the man, so the right hand of God is the place of power and authority and might. And so Christ is put at the right hand of God, a place of equality, a place of expression of authority, of expression of power. And by the way, that authority and power is invincible because it also says in Psalm 110:1, "Till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool...Thy footstool." In other words, I'll subjugate everything under You. There may be detractors, there may be Christ-deniers, there may be enemies of the Kingdom but ultimately I'll take all those enemies and they'll become Your footstool. In other words, You'll...it's that old oriental idea where the king puts his heel on the neck of the vanquished foe. And if you want to see it specifically, you need only go to Joshua chapter 10 verse 24, here the kings that were defeated, they brought the kings to Joshua. Joshua called for the men of Israel, said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near, put their feet on the necks of them." And that was the sign of the vanquished foe.
And so, God says to David's Lord, the Messiah, I'm going to bring You to a place of equality with Me, a place where You express My power and My authority and it will invincible and all those who fight against You will be brought under the heel to show they are vanquished. Christ will subjugate all His detractors, all His rejectors, all those who deny Him.
And when you read about the Kingdom of our Lord and the Kingdom of Christ which He rules, according to Psalm 2, with a rod of iron, in which He vanqyusges all of His enemies and so forth, you know that this indeed is supported in many scriptures.
Son of David is not enough, that's the point. Son of David is inadequate. Son of God must be added. Son of God must be added. Verse 45, "If David then call Him Lord, how is He his Son?" Frankly it's a riddle they can't answer. "And no man was able to answer Him a word." They couldn't answer it. They couldn't answer it. These were the religious leaders, folks. This is the braintrust of Judaism. And they couldn't answer Him because they would not acknowledge what was clear out of that passage and that was that He had to be God as well as man. How can He be son of David and David's Lord at the same time? He would have to be God and man.
You say, "Well, boy, how could they know that?" Scripture. Psalm 110, their favorite Messianic Psalm, or one of their favorites, was all right there. The Lord said to my Lord. David acknowledged that. The Messiah was his Lord as well as his offspring.
Now we could ask the question: well, this is so indirect, He's just talking about the Messiah sort of out here, where does it connect up with Him? Just this, they knew He was the son of David, didn't they? They...as I said earlier, surely would have checked the genealogy on that. Did they have enough evidence to know He was also the Son of God? Did they? I think they did. In fact, I think they had more than enough. I think He did so many things to prove He was the Son of God, they had to fight the obvious to conclude anything other than that. "And many other signs," John writes, "truly did Jesus in the presence of His disciples which are not written in this book, but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God." All the healings, all the miracles, all the raising of the dead, all the incredible words that He spoke, the teaching that He gave, supernatural knowledge, all of that was to demonstrate that He was Son of God. They could see He was son of David, genealogy proved that. They could also see that He was Son of God, His manifest miraculous supernatural nature proved that.
And instead of them standing there dumbfounded, somebody should have said, "Messiah is then man and God, right? And we see in You the Davidic line and the deity." But they didn't say anything.
You see, it is the great heart of Christianity that Jesus Christ is the God-man...the God-man..the God-man. And I don't care what all these other isms and cults say and all these liberals, that is to deny the very heart of the Christian faith and to make out yourself as a fool when the Scripture's so abundantly clear. If there were nothing else in the Bible but Revelation 22:16, it would be enough. "I Jesus," here's His own testimony, "have sent My angel to testify unto you these things in the churches." Listen to this, "I am the root and the offspring of David."
Now how can you be the source of David and the offspring of David? Same thing. He is David's Son, He is David's Lord, the God-man. Yes, He's human. Luke 2:52 says He grew in wisdom, stature, favor with God and man. Every bit human, every bit the Son of David. He knew pain. He knew thirst. He knew hunger. He knew weariness. He knew sleep. He knew pleasure. He knew even the experience of death. He made a whip, He drove men out of the temple. He was no phantom. He could be spit on. His beard could be plucked. He could be crowned with a crown of thorns. He could be nailed to a cross, a spear driven into His side. Yes He was human. He is called in the Bible Son of man, the man Christ Jesus, man of sorrows. He possessed flesh and blood. He could be touched. He could be embraced. His feet could be kissed and washed. He had a soul and spirit, that human part of us. He says My soul is exceeding sorrowful in Matthew 26:68 and in John 13:21 He was troubled in His spirit. He was in every point tempted like as we are. He was son of David, son of David, He was a man. He was as we are.
But He was also God. And He shared with God the attributes of omnipotence. He is the creator. He is the commander of the elements, as we see in His life. He is the controller of all the creatures. He is the provider of food. He is the healer. He is the raiser of the dead. He is the forgiver of sin. He's the judge. He has the attribute of omnipresence. In Matthew 18:20 He said that He was able to be everywhere at all times if He so desired to be. He is omniscient. He knew things that people were thinking. He knew them before they ever said them or never said them. He showed that He never changed. He demonstrated in HIs life that He like God is holy and true and wise and sovereign and loving and eternal and glorious. And when people worshiped Him it was all right. And He asked to be prayed to and He asked to be believed on for salvation. And He carried the same names as God carries, rock, stone, Savior, redeemer, Holy One, Lord of hosts, King, first and last, light, lawgiver and on it goes.
And whenever the writers of the New Testament present Christ, they present Him as Son of David, Son of God. And that's why Paul in opening the gospel of Romans chapter 1 says that this is a message concerning God's Son Jesus Christ our Lord, made of the seed of David according to the flesh but declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. He is David's Son in the flesh. He is God's Son declared through the resurrection. And Paul writing again to Timothy says in 2 Timothy 2:8, "Remember Jesus Christ, born of the seed of David, risen from the dead according to my gospel." The gospel says He's born of the seed of David, that's His humanness. He's risen from the dead, that's His deity. And the God-man is the only way to perceive Jesus Christ accurately. The two natures of Christ indivisibly fused in the God-man. That is the theme of so many elements of Scripture. Read Philippians 2 again where He humbles Himself, thought it not something to hold on to to be equal with God, but abandoned that to become a man, humble Himself, obedient to death. And God highly exalted Him, giving Him a name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. Yes, He is Son of David. Yes He is David's Lord.
And what did they say when they saw Him in John 1? Yes He was a man. He came into the world as a man. He was one of us and yet we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. They saw God as much as they saw man. And this is the only way to perceive Christ..the only way. I mean, you have to believe He was God. Bernard Ramm's(?) rather classic approach to it offers some hypotheses that I think are helpful in our thinking.
If God became a man we would expect His human life to be sinless. Jesus was.
If God were to become a man we would expect Him to be a model of purity. Jesus was.
If God were a man we would expect His words to be the greatest ever spoken. Jesus' words were.
If God were to become a man we would expect Him to exert a profound power over human personality. Jesus did.
If God were to become a man we would expect some supernatural acts. And Jesus did them.
If God were to become a man we would expect Him to manifest the love of God. And Jesus did in dying on the cross.
And the conclusion can only be that He's God, David's Son, David's Lord. And if they had had open hearts, they could have seen. And if they had asked the right question, if the Messiah is Son of David, Son of God, are You that Messiah? They should have put two and two together. But their obstinate unbelief left them with what I call as a final point, an inappropriate response, an inappropriate response.
Their response was not right. Verse 46, "And no man was able to answer Him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions." He shut the mouths of the critics, frankly. He silenced those who wanted to ask Him questions, to trap Him. Mark says in Mark 12:37, the common people heard Him gladly. The common people wanted to hear more.
You say, "Isn't that good?" Yeah, it's good but the common people tend to follow whatever the trend is and a couple of days later they're screaming for His blood, aren't they? They wanted to hear more because they were still thinking He would be the political military leader. They weren't quite turned off yet. But when it came that He never did overthrow Rome, they could be turned into those who cried for His blood.
But the leaders, they just shut their mouths. All their best planned wisdom, all their genius, they asked questions, they got answers profound, I mean, just taking the questions they asked and the question Jesus asked here, you could give that to a person and it would be enough to tell them who Christ was without equivocation. They rejected all that. They would not be intimidated. They would not be embarrassed. They would not be humiliated by this uneducated young Nazarene. They refused. They were helpless in front of Him. He dumbfounded them. But they never got the message. They refused to believe.
Listen, as I've been saying in this part of Matthew, secularism--it isn't secularism that is so much denying Christ as it is religion. Secularism is sort of indifferent. It is self- righteous religion that is so damning to people. And people get caught in these religions that deny the deity of Christ and they're so damning. And they don't want to hear the truth. How many times have we been brought into a discussion with somebody on the deity of Jesus Christ? It's constantly there. And with all the evidence, like this inappropriate response, they say nothing, stop the questions.
What is your response? What is your response? Matthew 26:63, the high priest gets up on his little place of authority and says, "I adjure You by the living God, tell me whether You're the Messiah or not." Jesus said yes, you said it. It was a while after this until He actually said He was the Messiah. But they knew that's where He was taking them. They wanted Him to say it so they could kill Him for such blasphemy. That's how far away they were from the truth. All the evidence and they thought He was a blasphemer. So some took that approach. Some just silently walked away. And a few believed. What's your response?
I always think about the Samaritan woman. She was the first person Jesus revealed His Messiahship to, you remember that in John 4? She was looking for Christ. He told her He was the Christ. She was saved. Do you know today there are between 400 and 500 Samaritans? And they're up on Mount Gerizim still regularly waiting for the Messiah. They're waiting for the Messiah. They don't believe He ever came. He revealed Himself first to them. Historically, they've never believed. How sad.
What is your response? Jesus Christ, yes Son of David, yes Son of God. The God-man came into the world as man to die for man, as God to have victory over death and sin and hell. The perfect Savior.
Father, we come now in a moment of prayer, thanksgiving for the Christ who is our Savior, perfect God, to win the victory over death and hell and sin and Satan. God who alone could defeat the grave, God who alone could break the power of sin, He had to be God to have power of that magnitude. And He had to be man or else how could He take the place of men? How could He be a substitute for men? And so Jesus came, perfect God, perfect man, dying as man for men, as God for God's sake to defeat sin. We know that believing in Him we have life eternal.
While your heads are bowed for a moment, if you have never opened your life to Christ, you find that there is an awakening in your heart of faith in who He is, there's a new vision, new perspective put there by the Holy Spirit, I trust you'll respond. Jesus doesn't need any patronization. He doesn't need any accolades or sentiments from men which are insufficient to proclaim who He really is, He is David's Son and David's Lord, Son of Man and Son of God, nothing less. And coming to Him with anything other than that is inadequate. But if you believe that in your heart, receive Him as your Savior. He applies forgiveness to you, your sins are washed away, the gift of everlasting life is yours. That's what He offers.
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The 2012 Hope College volleyball team is among a record 622 college and high school teams nationally to earn the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award.
It marks the fifth consecutive time the Flying Dutch have received the award.
The AVCA award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
"We are very proud of our student-athletes and their commitment to excellence both in the classroom and on the court," Hope coach Becky Schmidt said. "This award acknowledges the commitment, discipline and hard work that our student-athletes bring to their college experience. We thank the AVCA for recognizing these qualities in our student-athletes."
Hope is one of an NCAA Division III-record 93 schools to claim the AVCA honor.
Earlier, Hope received the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Team GPA Award for the 2012-13 school year with a 3.671 Team GPA — the second-highest among league's teams in all sports.
Since the AVCA's award's inception, the number of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 622. Honorees this year surpassed the 2011-12 mark of 536.
"Excellence doesn't happen by accident, either on the court or in the classroom," AVCA Executive Director Kathy DeBoer said. "It takes consistent preparation, relentless effort, and determined leadership. A full year of academic achievement, by an entire team of individual students, is a remarkable achievement. What better way to start a new season than with a celebration of an award so emblematic of all that is necessary for sustained success."
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Theater's This Is Our Youth Continues Tonightby Karen Handley • April 18, 2005 Share:
The Wabash College Theater Department will present its final theater production of the season, This Is Our Youth, which will run April 20-23 in the Experimental Theater in the Fine Arts Center. The performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. each evening. NOTE: This play contains adult language and situations. It may not be suitable for children.
Set on Manhattan's Upper West Side, This Is Our Youth follows 48 hours in the lives of three very lost young souls. Kenneth Lonergan's award-winning play is a lacerating, meticulous, and hilarious snapshot of the simmering moment between adolescence and adulthood.
The New York Times says this about This Is Our Youth, "In a season in which some of the wise men of the theater have been trying to force-feed insipid fare…to young audiences, it's sheer relief to celebrate the return of a rambunctious and witty play about wayward teenagers and post-adolescents that doesn't turn youthful travails into plastic rap—This Is Our Youth—by turns caustic, cruel, and compassionate—is the real real world."
Directed by Michael Abbott, associate professor of theater at Wabash, the cast list includes: Andrew Dits as Dennis, Wesley Jacks as Warren; Naseema Muhommed as Jessica; and Donald Claxon serves as stage manager.
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It's time to roll the dice on the Market Vectors Gaming ETF .
The global interest in gambling and gaming is a trend that growth-oriented investors want to play, without wagering too much of their money; Tom Lydon, editor of ETF Trends, suggests that investors might want to put as much as 3% percent of their growth-oriented money into the sector, which is why he made the Market Vectors Gaming ETF his "ETF of the Week."
Appearing on MoneyLife with Chuck Jaffe, Lydon noted that "this is a gamble and not something you sell your S&P allocation for, but to take between 2 and 3% of your equity allocation to buy for the next three to five years, I think you would be well-served."
Lydon noted that the gaming ETF is comparatively recession-proof, as the idea of easy money is always in play. With gambling revenues projected to rise to $500 billion globally by 2015 – and rising by an average of 5% per year at that pace – Lydon said the business is poised to grow, although he did warn that an anti-corruption campaign in China could hold down some gaming stocks with interests there.
"I think you have to give this a chance, as we're seeing global economies really improving tremendously, and with that the gaming industry as well," said Lydon, who noted that after the initial period he will be looking for the ETF to stay above its 200-day moving average, that would be his sell trigger.
In the meantime, if the ETF falls below that trend line, Lydon said he would remain patient.
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Suppose we faced a very different economic environment: Imagine that inflation was running at 5% against our inflation objective of 2%. Is there a doubt that any central banker worth their salt would be reacting strongly to fight this high inflation rate? No, there isn't any doubt. They would be acting as if their hair was on fire. We should be similarly energized about improving conditions in the labor market.At his blog, Stephen Williamson offers a critique of the speech. Among his arguments:
In the United States, the Federal Reserve Act charges us with maintaining monetary and financial conditions that support maximum employment and price stability. This is referred to as the Fed's dual mandate and it has the force of law behind it.
The most reasonable interpretation of our maximum employment objective is an unemployment rate near its natural rate, and a fairly conservative estimate of that natural rate is 6%. So, when unemployment stands at 9%, we're missing on our employment mandate by 3 full percentage points. That's just as bad as 5% inflation versus a 2% target. So, if 5% inflation would have our hair on fire, so should 9% unemployment.
Evans is forgetting the lessons of the 1970s. What Evans is proposing is a change in the policy rule - a change in how the state of the economy maps into actions by the Fed. What economists understand today that they did not in 1975, is that commitment by the Fed to a policy rule is critical for its success in fulfilling its mandate. Once the public understands that the Fed intends to exploit a short-run Phillips curve relationship (and the problem is worse if the short-run inflation/unemployment tradeoff in fact does not exist), then all bets are off. High inflation can become well-entrenched and we have to go through an episode like the policy-induced "Volcker recession," followed by a long period where the Fed re-establishes its credibility.Although the wording of the Federal Reserve Act requires the Fed to care about both inflation and unemployment, as Williamson notes, its practice has evolved towards a de facto inflation targeting rule with an objective similar to the European Central Bank's "below, but close to 2%". This is evinced by all the mentions of the Fed's "comfort zone" as well as the "longer run" projections of 1.5-2% inflation from Fed board members and regional bank presidents. In terms of economic theory, it can be justified by the result, in some models, of "divine coincidence" - that policies which stabilize inflation also stabilize output.
If the Fed heeded Evans' argument, it would be more willing to risk breaking its inflation target rule to reduce unemployment. In economic theory, one of the main points benefits of having a rule is that it lends "credibility" to monetary policy and "anchors" expectations (this speech by Charles Plosser is a nice intuitive exposition of the "time consistency" logic underlying this argument). But that only works if the central bank actually follows its rule. Hence Williamson's concern.
Inflation targeting is relatively new - New Zealand was the first to adopt the practice in 1989, and it has since been implemented by the UK, Canada, and the European Central Bank, among others. Most of the countries that have adopted inflation targets have set them in the vicinity of 2%.
While there are good reasons in economic theory for having monetary policy rules, the past few years have raised questions over whether a 2% inflation target is the right rule. There are several alternative rules that might have performed better in the wake of the financial crisis:
- Inflation targeting with a higher target would reduce the risk of hitting the "zero lower bound" on short-term interest rates.
- Price level targeting would require higher inflation to make up for periods of too-low inflation.
- Nominal GDP targeting is a re-incarnation of Milton Friedman's stable money growth rule, focusing on the right hand side of the identity MV = PY, which avoids the problem of unstable velocity (V), which doomed the early 1980's experiments with money growth rules.
However, that raises a conundrum: if the Fed breaks its (implicit) rule, even for the sake of adopting a better rule, it risks denting its credibility....
Of course, the real problem with Evans' speech is that Ben Bernanke has no hair, so there is no reason for him to act like his hair is on fire. That may be why bald guys are so cool.


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Rescue Beauty Lounge Spongebob Pre-Fall Collection Swatches
Ji Baek did it again. I am not a fan of creme sheers and I am completely and totally taken with this collection. Of course, I expected nothing less than perfection from Rescue Beauty Lounge – Ji and company consistently design colors that are in a league all of their own. Ji conjured up the Spongebob Squarepants Collection after hearing that Marc Jacobs drew inspiration for his collections from the popular children's TV show. I love that these delicate sophisticated colors were designed based on a TV show, the silliness of which is rivaled only by Ren & Stimpy.
If delicate isn't your thing, Ji says these colors look positively amazing layered over Rescue Beauty Lounge Underwear, the brightest white on the market. The brightness of Underwear gives these sheer colors a back-lit effect. As soon as I get my hands on Underwear, I'll hook you guys up with swatches. Until then, enjoy these polishes in their unadulterated form.
These swatches are 4 coats each, taken in artificial light. I prefer sunlight images but I got home too late from work and I just had to show these to the world tonight. Despite having been taken in artificial light, these swatches are true and accurate depictions of these colors. It goes without saying at this point that the application of these polishes was perfect, not a streak insight.
If my addiction to nail polish could be expressed in one color, Rescue Beauty Lounge Bikini Bottom would be that color. At first glance this blue looks dupish to Color Club Blue Light and China Glaze For Audrey, both of which I also love. Sorry guys, no such luck. Bikini Bottom is a very light watery blue, almost jelly like in its delicate finish. For Audrey is a greener blue creme, not jelly at all. Blue Light is a brighter light blue, also creme, no jelly. The only downside to this color is that I don't think it can be pulled off at 2 coats – that and, this color should have been named Squidward. : P
Most people think that yellow is a difficult color to wear, Rescue Beauty Lounge Square Pants will prove those people wrong. I think there is a commonly accepted notion that yellow tends to run the risk of looking a bit garish, but Square Pants is soft and delicate. It's visibly yellow, not pastel, but it's not shocking on the nail. This color was put on earth for people who want to try yellow but fear it might be 'too much'. Perfect.
Spongebob may be the star of the TV show, but for most people, Rescue Beauty Lounge Starfish Patrick is the star of this collection. Described as "wispy peach coral", it's definitely the most accessible of the 3 colors. Bikini Bottom is my personal favorite, but my NOTD right now is Starfish Patrick, primarily because it's subtle enough for work.
I did take some swatches of Square Pants and Starfish Patrick at 2 coats for those of you who are not sheer polish adverse.
As you can see, these colors are wearable and streak-free even at 2 coats.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
By: Katie Sanchez
Hello my name is Katie I had my second child on April 23, 2013. On April 30th of 2013 I had a cardiologist appointment just a check up to make sure all was fine because my blood pressure rised a little after giving birth so I decided just to get checked to make sure all was ok. I went in and shortly after having my vital signs checked and the nurse walked out, I felt the right side the nerve on the right side of my head move it was really strange, then my right arm started to move up and down uncontrollably. I was able to get up from the chair walk to the door and open it with my right hand with no problem and call for the doctor. Doctor walked in and asked if I could lay on the bed again I was able to get up from my chair and walk to the bed with no problem once I was on the bed that's when I realized I could no longer feel my right side of my body. But I was surprisingly calm and before anyone said anything I already knew what had happened.
EMT arrived and took my clear across town to the farthest hospital instead of taking me to the one right next door to them I will never understand why. When I arrived they took a CS and discovered that I had a blood clot in my head. My family then had a hard choice to make because I had just had a cesarian 7 days before so if they gave me the blood busting medication they said I could bleed to death but if I didn't take it I could stay paralysed for the rest of my life. After my mom talking to her good friend who is a obgyn he said if I started to bleed out. I was given the medication and 2 hours later regained some movement in my leg 7 hours later regained some movement in my arm and thank the good lord I did not bleed out... & months later I am able to walk and have almost mastered jogging. My arm works well as do my fingers but typing is a little slow. But that's ok because I am here for my children. I'll continue to work on myself and its changed my eating habits and my outlook on life. If anyone is wondering it was not my blood pressure that caused my stroke doctors said during the healing process I developed a blood clot from my c section that made its was to my head they said my veins cuagualated.. I hope my story brings a little inspiration to some people.. Just remember to never give up and that there is LIFE AFTER STROKE!!!!
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The New England Patriots announced Friday that they released veteran Steve Gregory.
The safety's agent, David Canter, first announced the news via Twitter.
Gregory started in 13 games last season. He showed promise before injuring his thumb in Week 9 of the 2013 season, after coming off a subpar first season with the Patriots. Rookie third-round draft pick Duron Harmon filled in during Gregory's absence.
The move will save the Patriots approximately $2.85 million on the 2013 salary cap.
The 31-year-old Gregory was entering the final season of a three-year deal after spending his first six seasons with the San Diego Chargers.
Pro Football Focus ranked Gregory their 25th safety, grading him eight spots ahead of Harmon.
The Patriots must now decide to move forward with Harmon or look to find another safety to pair with stud Devin McCourty.
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Walker Auto Parts, a third-generation family-owned business based in Raleigh, purchased the NAPA Auto Parts store in Snow Hill on Aug. 1.
The former store was owned by Robin Tyson, whose husband owns Tyson Automotive Performance.
This makes the 24th free-standing NAPA auto parts store Lee Walker, vice president of sales, and his wife Sara own. In business since 1960, the Walker family also own three stores inside government facilities.
Rodney Lovic, who worked at Advance Auto in Snow Hill for two years, is the store manager.
�The opportunity came up,� he said, �and it�s the best thing I�ve ever done.�
A Lizzie resident, Lovic was a Greene County Sheriff�s Office deputy for 13 years until sometime after his partner and friend, Jon Willis, was shot to death while responding to a domestic call in July 2010.
Cary Ray, a district manager for five Walker Auto stores, said the mainstay of the Snow Hill store is the wholesale commercial division. The shop sells agricultural, ATV off-road heavy-duty truck parts, including delivery.
�We�re a family-based operation,� Ray said. �We have a family-based mentality.�
Walker also has a wide selection of retail items, including car and light truck parts, as found in name-brand auto stores, said Ray, who is based in Morehead City.
Parts warranties range from one year to lifetime.
The store takes special orders on parts not readily available. There is a mid-day shuttle that brings orders in daily.
�Call in by 10:30 (a.m.),� Ray said, �and if it�s at our Six Forks location, we�ll have it by 12 o�clock.�
Lovic can also check the Farmville, New Bern and Selma stores for availability. A second employee, Tyler Whaley, a parts professional, picks up and delivers the parts.
�We�re there to service (the customers),� Ray said, �and provide the very best parts and pricing.�
Walker Auto Parts, 1108 Kingold Blvd. next to Kerr Drug, is open 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. For information, call 252-747-7492.
Tractor Supply Company is holding a PetVet Clinic from 1-2 p.m. on Saturday.
Operated by PawsPlus, the PetVet will offer individual and comprehensive vaccine packages for rabies, bordetella and parvo, as well as microchipping and heartworm tests and preventives.
�This new, low-cost vaccine service,� said John Wendler, Tractor Supply Senior Vice President of Marketing, �is a great complement to our broad offering of pet foods, treats and supplies, and it offers a high-value clinic experience for our customers.�
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Digital records of the inoculations will be kept, and clinic attendees will be advised when their pet�s next vaccination is due.
Tractor Supply Company, 1030 W. New Bern Rd., is open 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sunday. For information, call 252-208-0146.
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How to prove that a closed subspace of a Banach space is a Banach space?
A subspace is closed if it contains all of its limit points. But in the proof of the above question how can use this idea to get a Cauchy sequence and show that it is convergent in the subspace?


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The Cabinet Office is at the centre of government, making government work better. This website brings together information from units in the Department.
Speech by Tessa Jowell at the ACEVO National Annual Conference in London, 5 November 2009.
The Prime Minister has appointed Dawn Butler MP as the Minister for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement, based in the Cabinet Office.
The Minister will continue with her duties as an assistant whip, but will also work with ministers in relevant Government departments – particularly with DCSF and MoJ - and other relevant bodies in order to:
The Minister will work on a part-time basis to allow for whipping responsibilities and will also take on other responsibilities inside the Cabinet Office in due course.
The Connection in St Martin's-in-the Field, London, has received a £185,000 Government grant to provide much needed services for homeless people in the Capital.
Campbell Robb, Director General of the Office of the Third Sector and Social Exclusion, has announced he will take up a new post at Chief Executive of major UK housing and homelessness charity Shelter.
In 2009, the Prime Minister, on the advice of the Cabinet Secretary, with the support of the three Agency heads and having consulted widely within Government, agreed to the recommendations of an internal review on strengthening the central intelligence machinery.
The overview section of the central intelligence machinery section of this site has been updated, including revised terms of reference for the Joint Intelligence Committee and a paper on new central intelligence structures.
One year on from the launch of its Greening ICT Strategy, the Government has reduced its carbon emissions by over 12,000 tonnes. This report describes the considerable measures that have been taken to make Government ICT more sustainable and outlines the plans for continued progress.
Naomi Eisenstadt, the director for the Social Exclusion Task Force, will be retiring at the end of September.
Campbell Robb, who currently manages the Office of the Third Sector, will also become responsible for the Social Exclusion Task Force following Naomi Eisenstadt's retirement, as Director-General of the Office of the Third Sector and Social Exclusion.
Following confirmation that both Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Minister for the Cabinet Office Tessa Jowell are going to use some of their summer holiday to do community work, the Cabinet Office hopes it will encourage more people to volunteer this year.
Volunteering is fun and can make a huge difference to your local community and society as a whole. While Britain already has one of the highest rates of volunteering in the world, we hope more and more people will get involved in their community.
For information on volunteering, please visit www.do-it.org.uk [External website], www.vinspired.com [External website] (for young people aged 16- 25), or contact your local Volunteer Centre to see what support you can offer.
The Cabinet Office has published a report of the first five years of the Public Services Forum (PSF). The PSF was formed in 2003 to improve dialogue between government, trade unions and public sevice employers, and it supports and encourages principles of partnership, workforce involvement and public service improvement.
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Auburn coach Gene Chizik said he feels confident he can turn the football program around.
The Tigers have slipped from a national title team two years ago to a miserable season. They're a longshot to pick up a win in the Southeastern Conference after Saturday night's 38-0 shellacking by No. 5 Georgia.
Auburn (2-8, 0-7 SEC) has been outscored 101-21 in its last two SEC games with a trip to No. 4 Alabama looming in two weeks after a game against FCS Alabama A&M.
What has gone wrong with the Tigers, who were 14-0 two years ago during Cam Newton's Heisman Trophy run?
``That's a little bit of a trap question for me, because anything that I'm going to say is going to sound like an excuse and I don't make excuses,'' Chizik said Sunday. ``So we have a lot of things that responsibility-wise we have to claim as coaches. We've got times when we could have played better on the field when we were in position to make plays. It's a team game. You win with it and you lose with it, and we've won with it.
``I still think it really prompts you to really go back and start all over and re-evaluate. That's what we would in terms of starting over again with everything that we've done, every decision we've made and move forward.''
Asked if that means he's confident he can turn the program around, Chizik responded: ``That's very accurate.''
But Chizik wouldn't talk about whether he'll even get that chance. He declined to directly answer questions about his job security.
The Bulldogs scored touchdowns on their first four possessions, then coach Mark Richt reined in the offense. They attempted only four passes in the second half.
Freshman quarterback Jonathan Wallace and receiver Emory Blake were two bright spots. Wallace completed 15 of 22 passes for 181 yards with an interception on an overthrow, and 104 of those yards came on hookups with Blake.
Auburn has had a number of injury problems, losing tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen and right tackle Avery Young for the season.
University President Jay Gogue has issued a statement saying he would evaluate the football program after the season.
Chizik, who would be owed a $7.5 million buyout as of Dec. 1 if he gets fired, is talking about next season, not next month.
``I think you got to look under the hood of the car and you've got to figure out where the problems are under the hood and that's going to become a very extensive evaluation starting with a lot of different areas,'' he said. ``I think that from there you can make very informed decisions on where you need to go with the next season and starting in January.''
First-year defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder raised questions after the Georgia game about the makeup of the defense he inherited.
``Our defense is not built with size, strength and power right now,'' VanGorder said. ``I think that becomes obvious against teams like Georgia.''
Chizik didn't disagree with that assessment. The offense has been even worse, but the Tigers are ranked 90th nationally in total defense.
``I don't really know how I interpret that,'' Chizik said of VanGorder's comments.
``We can always be bigger. We can always be stronger. But ... I think we've got guys at certain positions that we can certainly, and need to, upgrade. There's no question.''
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Look into translations and studies of the writings of Dharmakīrti, and the Indian and Tibetan commentaries on them. For example:charles wrote:Can anyone here give references to Buddhist texts or Buddhists that discuss this?
Is Enlightenment Possible?: Dharmakīrti and RGyal Tshab Rje on Knowledge, Rebirth, No-self and Liberation.
Foundations of Dharmakīrti's Philosophy.
Recognizing Reality: Dharmakīrti's Philosophy and Its Tibetan Interpretations.


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Images of the Asteroid Ceres As It Rotates One Quarter
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took these images of the asteroid 1 Ceres over a 2-hour and 20-minute span, the time it takes the Texas-sized object to complete one quarter of a rotation. One day on Ceres lasts 9 hours.
Hubble snapped 267 images of Ceres as it watched the asteroid make more than one rotation. By observing the asteroid during a full rotation, astronomers confirmed that Ceres has a nearly round body like Earth's. Ceres' shape suggests that its interior is layered like those of terrestrial planets such as Earth. Ceres may have a rocky inner core, an icy mantle, and a thin, dusty outer crust inferred from its density and rotation rate.
The bright spot that appears in each image is a mystery. It is brighter than its surroundings. Yet it is still very dark, reflecting only a small portion of the sunlight that shines on it.
Ceres is approximately 580 miles (930 kilometers) across and is the largest known asteroid. It resides with tens of thousands of other asteroids in a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter called the main asteroid belt. Besides being the largest asteroid, Ceres also was the first to be discovered, in 1801.
Astronomers enhanced the contrast in these images to bring out important features on Ceres' surface. The observations were made in visible and in ultraviolet light. Hubble took the snapshots between December 2003 and January 2004.
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Xen gets cold this time of year.
Upon his death, Nihilanth pierces the heavens with a curse. Spitting poisonous bile and otherworldly vulgarities, you can only understand a few words... "That hoodie is fantastic. Where'd you get it?" You wink. "ThinkGeek, of course.
Dodging Marines, parasitic headcrabs, and building collapses is definitely a workout. There's no doubt that the warzone is uncomfortably warm and you've spent days sweating profusely. But, what you don't know is that when Xen is cold, it's super, duper cold. So, when you decide to traverse that dimensional portal, make sure you bring a sweater, a Black Mesa Hoodie to be specific.
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(( Psh nah we don't need that part of the ship. I am sure we can do without it. Or that squad. ))Hema wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:57 am((Hate to break it to you, Trigger, but we need both squads to complete their missions for everyone to survive. ))Triggerhappy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:06 am(( Get YOU all killed ))
(( BTW someone needs to REALLY make sure there are no hostiles on the broken off part of the ship or we will be carrying a troop of enemy units right to our doorstep ))


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Software Development Lifecycle, Fahgettaboudit!
I typed the initials "SDLC" into Amazon.com's Books section and got 257 hits for books that at least mention SDLC or Software Development Lifecycle. So, maybe 257 or so authors and their readers aren't going to agree with me when I say do not waste your time documenting, developing, or devising in any way, shape, or form a software/systems development lifecycle. Fahgettaboudit!
A quick look at Wikipedia and at least one understanding of SDLC is project planning and feasibility, systems analysis and requirements definitions, systems design, implementation, integration and testing, acceptance-installation-deployment, and maintenance. Project planning is a laudable goal. Requirements gathering is a necessary step. Actually designing software is important, too. I am not advocating that you not employ an SDLC; rather what I am saying is that you not take the time to define or document one internally.
If one knows nothing about SDLCs, then embarking on a software project is probably not a workable idea. However, if building software is your business, then what I am touting is that you adopt an existing SDLC that fits your situation.
Better than documenting an SDLC, better than using an SDLC, is to assemble a team of specialists that know their roles from an expert perspective. For example, if I hire a project manager that really knows how to manage a project, then no one needs to tell this manager that they need a plan, what goes in a plan, and when a plan is sufficient for a given situation. If I actually hire a business analyst, then that analyst knows how to talk to customers; and an architect knows how to actually design a solution taking risks, costs, and schedule into account.
The reason there are so many books on SDLCs and such is that projects are not comprised of specialists. There are way too many generalists in our business. Our business is top heavy with programmers and project managers, so an SDLC is created or adopted to tell the programmer how to play analyst, designer, or tester. If we had more specialization, then we wouldn't be spending time on writing coding standards and requirements gathering how-to guides.
SDLCs? Fahgettaboudit! What you need are people who know and are passionate about their roles and tasks, who know how to do them, and who really know what to do and when. When teams start to look like hit squads of expertly trained specialists, projects will start having better dependability and delivery rates.


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