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COE: Gifts Support Entrepreneurial Ideasby Howard Hewitt • July 25, 2012 Share:
The Challenge for Excellence goes far beyond supporting faculty, creating more scholarships, and supporting immersion learning. Gifts have also helped establish funds to nurture entrepreneurial ideas.
Made possible in part from a gift from the estate of John H. Schroeder, the Schroeder Center for Career Development established SEED Grants. The Supporting Entrepreneurial Enrichment and Development (SEED) Program awards up to $500 to assist students in pursuing a great business or non-profit idea.
"We are working with significantly higher numbers of Wabash students with entrepreneurial interests, and this program helps these students start to turn these interests into reality," Schroeder Center Director Scott Crawford said. "We believe this institutional support can be invaluable in fostering an entrepreneurial spirit in our students, which is a great complement to their liberal sets education."
One of the first grants went to Justin Taylor '15, Joseph Jackson '14, and Charles Kolisek '14. The students are building a website which will combine recruiting for athletics, the arts, and general academics into one location. Information is managed like a social network allowing students to communicate with college admissions officers or coaches.
The three students used their grant to attend business incubator programs, including the Boston Chapter of the Princeton Entrepreneurship competition where they won third-place honors for new ideas.
Taylor leads the group effort and emphasizes it's not just another project; the three students are building a real business. The three are currently trying to raise funds to get the website built and business up and running.
Taylor explains the project in the video below.
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We're continuing our study of Matthew, and this is message number 44 in our series; we've had such a wonderful time. We've been doing it on Sunday nights, and in the last two weeks, have moved to Sunday morning for our study of Matthew. We come this morning to a very potent, insightful, and misunderstood passage of Scripture: Matthew 5:38-42.
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you not to resist evil. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away."
One element of the great American philosophy of life is that we all have certain inalienable rights. We're big on rights; in fact, maybe we've never been bigger on rights than we are nowadays in our society. We are hyper-conscious of our rights. We have had movements for civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, prisoners' rights; we have unions to demand rights for the employees. We are very conscious of our rights. In fact, it is not uncommon in our society to hear someone say, "You'll never get away with that. You can't do that to me. I'll get even."
The other night, I was driving home with my family and we pulled onto the freeway, and apparently pulled in front of someone a little more closely than I thought. I didn't think I hit him, but apparently, I dented his psyche. So for the next five miles, he was behind me, flashing his bright lights on and off, and honking. That was him demanding his right to a certain area of the freeway upon which no one was allowed to infringe.
Deep down in the human heart is a retaliatory, vengeful, spiteful spirit; it's part of the curse of sin and it's there in all of us. It comes out in the most strange ways. I'll always remember the story of the bride and groom who got married in the horse and buggy days. They rode off on their honeymoon, and the horse bolted, and the guy said, "That's one." The horse bolted again, and he said, "That's two." The horse bolted yet again, and he said, "That's three," and took out a gun and killed the horse. His wife said, "That's terrible; you can't do that!" He said, "That's one."
Deep down in the human heart is this retaliatory, get even kind of spirit. Frankly, in our society, we make heroes out of the kind of people who take nothing from nobody, who don't stand any guff. They are the strong, the tough, the courageous, and the macho; and our society looks down on the meek and the non-retaliating, the gentle, the forgiving, the gracious, the merciful person who demands nothing from anyone, and we say he's a weakling and a coward.
I was trying to analyze why America was so in love with John Wayne and why it was such a tremendous loss to the country to loose him. I think it was because John Wayne was, in a sense, the national symbol of the crusty, tough, 'take nothing from nobody' kind of folk hero that really symbolizes American attitudes. That's part of human nature, to not let anyone get away with anything until you've told them. Or to let them know that they can't do that to you.
Basically, that's at the heart of the Jewish misunderstanding of 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,' give them what they're due. That's the way it was being applied in Jesus' time. It had become a license for vengeance, a basis for a vendetta, sort of a biblical permission to have a grudge or to strike back. But Jesus said, "If someone hits you on the right cheek, give him your left. If someone sues and takes your coat, give him your cloak. If someone asks you to go a mile, go two. And if anyone needs what you've got, give it or loan it."
That's antithetical to everything in human society; that doesn't cut it with the human heart. I've noticed something interesting in our fight for rights - inevitably, when a fight for rights takes place in a society, the upshot of it is going to be lawlessness. This is because when people begin to live on the basis of their rights, then a dominant selfishness begins to take place. And when you have a whole lot of people being selfish, they will invariably tread on each other. In a fight for rights, what is lawful just gets pushed into the background.
C.S. Lewis found the idea of the need for rights, or the struggle to get even, so true of the human heart that he used it as the basis of his argument for moral law in the universe in his book, Mere Christianity. Everyone has that in them, and we have a sense of justice, and I believe that is the image of God. But in the Fall, that sense of justice became perverted into a vengeful spirit. It isn't so much the idea that if a person does something wrong, we want it to be made right to uphold the law and to maintain a righteous standard so that God, who made the righteous standard, can be glorified; it's that we want to get even. That's the perversion of a moral righteousness given us in the creation of God.
Instead of that, we just have a retaliatory spirit, and that's what James talks about in James 4, when he says, "From whence come wars and fightings among you? They come because you lust." Because the normal desire for justice is perverted into vengeance, grasping, retaliation, and that's why we have war. So, in our society, everyone fights for their rights. We're so big on rights right now that we're setting the law aside. We have a vengeful society if they don't get their rights. I've had parents say to me, "It's just easier to give my kid what he wants than to try and discipline him." Basically, that's what society is saying.
Contrast the fight for rights, the demand for your due, with what the Apostle Paul said in I Corinthians 9. "Do we have no right to eat and drink? Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?" In other words, Paul says, "I'm a minister of the Gospel; have I no right to earn a living doing that? Do I have to work to earn my living? Don't I have a right to be paid for my ministry?" Then he says, "Don't I have a right to marry if I so choose, and take a sister to be a wife? Don't I have a right to those things?" Yes.
"Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ." In other words, Paul says, "My life is all about setting aside my rights." Look at Romans 14-15, and it says, "Don't use your liberty to make anyone stumble." We have rights, but rights can be offensive to someone else. If pushed far enough, our grasping desire for our due, our rights, literally obliterates law. This is precisely the issue to which our Lord speaks in Matthew. He contrasts the ethics of His Kingdom, which is forgiveness, seeking nothing, no defensiveness, no self-protection, no rights for me, with a grasping, retaliatory, spiteful, vengeful, grudging spirit. It characterizes society.
Let's see what He's saying specifically. I remember several times in my life the occasion of standing on the Mount of Beatitudes, no doubt very near to where Jesus gave this great sermon. It is still a beautiful, green hillside, dotted with some trees, and it slopes down to the Sea of Galilee, where little waves just ripple on the edge of the grass. I've stood on that hillside and imagined myself there when Jesus taught. I've imagined how, beneath His feet, stretched out the vast multitude of people who were hearing the sermon. In front of the people gathered close to Him were the Pharisees and scribes, who thought they were the best of men, and perhaps even closer to Him were the disciples.
As Jesus speaks in this particular part of the sermon, He is speaking directly at the form of religion developed by the scribes and Pharisees. You see, they believed that they had attained self-righteousness on their own merit. They believed that they were able to enter the Kingdom of God on the basis of their own self-righteousness, that they had attained a standard of excellence by law, by legalism, and by ritual. They masked the reality of their sinfulness. So Jesus is busy, in the Sermon on the Mount, ripping off their masks, stripping their hypocrisies, so that they will see themselves a wretched sinners.
You say, "Isn't that rather unkind?" No, the kindest thing you can ever do for someone is show them their sin, so that they know they need a Savior. No one is going to come to a Savior unless they know they need one. So Jesus tears off the masks so that they might see the sin. He has already shown them that, in spite of what they thought, they were murderers, adulterers, liars (as we saw last week), and now He's going to show them that in spite of what they thought, they were filled with vengeful, spiteful, grudging spirits not characteristic of the Kingdom of God. They betrayed their sinfulness. Jesus is reiterating God's standard to them, and saying, "You fall short."
This passage has led to some confusion in many people's minds. People have used this passage to teach lawlessness, pacifism, conscientious objection to war, to instruct on anti-capital punishment, and to bring about a disbelief in justice and civil law. This is not atypical. In fact, Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist, used the Sermon on the Mount, and this very passage, to make his main point: there should be no police, no armies, no soldiers, no authorities in society, because then, we'd have utopia. Maybe he wasn't as great a novelist as most people think! That seems ridiculous, and it is.
This passage has confused a lot of people. We won't be able to get through all of it this morning; we'll have to finish it next time. But I'll lay the foundation, and hopefully, it will help you to get a start. Let's look at the same three points we've seen in all these illustrations in Matthew 5, as Jesus exposes the sin of the Pharisees. First, we have to note the principle of Mosaic law, then the perversion of Jewish teaching, and finally, the perspective of Jesus.
Let's look first at the principle of Mosaic law; look at verse 38. He says here, "You have heard that it was said." Basically, that refers to their tradition, but in this case, it was an exact quote from the Old Testament, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." They're trying to play holy, and He's trying to show them they're sinful, so He picks another illustration.
He says, "Alright, you go on the principle of, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' That's how you operate; that's what you have been told by your rabbinical traditionalists." But behind that, it's interesting that that is a real Old Testament quote. They had just shifted the emphasis and messed up the interpretation, as they so often did with the Old Testament.
Let me add this footnote. The message I'm going to give you is very important because, as I said earlier, concomitant with a struggle for rights is a certain lawlessness. This passage is fantastic in putting into balance and perspective where the law fits in the life of a believer. The Bible upholds law and order, it upholds that whole area. While we can talk about forgiveness and turning the other cheek, it is never to the detriment of what is lawful. We'll see that as we go that there is a beautiful balance in this. If you see your way clear through this, you'll understand that.
All throughout the Bible, God exalts law. God made society to be lawful. In fact, if you read the minor prophets, you will hear God, over and over, indicting Israel for unjust judges, unlawful acts, inequities in their nation. The law is an essential thing. Romans 13 says that the people put in positions of law are the rulers, or agents, of God. The government and authorities are ordained by God, that's very clear.
If you want to know why God gave the law, look at I Timothy 1:9-11. "The law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites," and that is homosexuality. In a fight for homosexual rights, we are obviating the law that God has ordained to preserve a righteous standard. Always, in a fight for rights, the law gets scuttled. Because if you let men have their way, the things they want are unlawful, because men are evil.
The law is given to stop this; the law is given, he says, "For kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust." What is it all saying? God gave law to protect righteous men against ungodly, evil men. At no point in time are we to obviate law.
I was reading the writing of Will Campbell this week, sort of a woodsy-type preacher who is pretty much a rabblerouser. His basic statement that interested me was that what Jesus was really saying is that we need to get rid of all the law. But that isn't it at all; there must be law!
You say, "If we are to forgive, turn the other cheek, never retaliate. If someone sues us, and we're not to fight him, but give him everything we have and more. If anyone wants to borrow, we should just lend it, then where does the legal recourse come? Where is the balance? What if someone commits a crime against me; do I just say, 'It's alright, brother, would you like anything else?'" Is that what we're to do, just turn them loose, let them all go and forgive them? Is that what this is saying? Or do we uphold the law and punish them? Is that what it's saying?
I hope you want to find out. Look again at verse 38. The statement is this, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." I've heard people say, "Boy, that kind of stuff is merciless; that's the bloodthirsty, Old Testament stuff." Some of the old critics of the Bible used to say there was a different God who wrote the Old Testament. They said the God of the Old Testament is not the God of the New Testament. They thought he God of the Old Testament wanted an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and that He was saying, "I'll get you. Whoever does anything to you, get them back, and if he pokes your eye, poke his eye. If he knocks your tooth out, get his." But is that what it is saying?
Do you know why people interpret it that way? Because that's the way the human heart is. But that's not the way God's heart is, and that's not what it means in the Old Testament when it says that. Let me help you.
Starting in Exodus 20, you have the law of God basically codified, systematized. In that chapter, you have the moral law, which is between a man and God, or a woman and God. But in Exodus 21-23, you have the civil law. The moral law is taken care of between a man and God; the civil law is taken care of within the framework of magistrates, judges, courts, and duly constituted authorities. God instituted judges, magistrates, and authorities to take care of civil matters.
Now, there are three times in the Old Testament where the phrase, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," is mentioned. All three of those times relate to a civil situation; they relate to something occurring within a duly constituted authority: a judge, a magistrate, etcetera. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," is not a statement that is in any way related to personal relationships.
However, that's precisely what the Pharisees had done with it. They took a divine principle of judicature, a divine principle for the courts, and they made it a matter of daily vendettas. Let me show you why I say that. Let's look at the three Scriptures where this phrase is mentioned. The first is in Exodus 21:22.
"If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." In other words, if you harm a woman with child (and we won't go into all of the possibilities; there could be harm where she doesn't loose the child, there could be harm where she does loose the child), the point is that the husband has the right to seek damages, and the judge will determine.
So this is a civil situation; the husband doesn't get a club and beat up the guy; this is not a vigilante approach. This is not personal vengeance. In order for there to be structure in law and order, and in order for there to be preservation of society, you cannot have personal vengeance. So even in the Old Testament, in civil law, there were judges to deal with these matters; the judge determines. "But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."
"If a man strikes his servant." So suppose you have a servant and you get mad at him, and haul off and belt him and knock his eye out, or wound his eye so that he can't see. "If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye. And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth." In other words, within the framework of the civil law, God was protecting the weak from the strong, the good from the evil, by saying, "There will be just recourse."
However, notice the term 'judges' there; this is civil, it is not a matter of personal vengeance. If you're a servant and your employer knocks your tooth out, you don't catch him at an unwary moment and knock his out; you would go to the court in Israel and say, "This is what happened," and it would be confirmed by the mouths of two or three witnesses, and the just due would be given to you: you'd be set free. So this would temper the master's treatment of slaves if he knew that if he struck his slave, and the slave lost a tooth, he'd lose his slave. That would be a high price to pay.
You see, law is a restraint, and when justice is enacted speedily and equitably, it has a great effect on society. There is a second use of this same phrase in Leviticus 24.
"If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him - fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him." In other words, mark this, there is to be equity. The punishment is to fit the crime, and it is in a civil setting. The third one is in Deuteronomy 19.
"One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established." So if there are sufficient witnesses that the man has done something, where are the witnesses coming? This is a court setting, a tribunal, a magistrate, this is a civil thing.
"If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he ought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you."
Do you know how to get rid of evil in a society? Give just punishment speedily for people who commit crimes, even perjury, as in this case. "And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you. Your eye shall not pity." Notice this: there is no place in a court for pity. The law demands justice. If society is to be preserved, there must be justice. The court is not the place for pity.
I'll always remember the judge in Pasadena who felt sorry for the rapist and let him go, and he raped and murdered a 9-year-old girl. Then the judge felt sorry for the little girl. The court is not the place for pity, it is the place to hold the standard of righteous law high. Why? Because that and that alone will preserve society and put fear into the hearts of men.
Take an innately sinful man with a depraved nature and give him his rights, and he'll run right into chaos if you don't make consequences for his behavior. I'll tell you, parents, start it with your children. If there are no consequences for the behavior of your children, they will never learn what it means to live a righteous life.
So he says at the end of Deuteronomy 19:21, "Life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In all three of those passages, you will see that the law was for the civil courts. It even mentions judges and magistrates several times. The point is this: the law was never to be taken into the hands of an individual. God knew that would be utter chaos; you cannot have anarchy and preserve society. So the intent of the Mosaic law was to control sin, in this case, the sin of anger, violence, and revenge.
In our own rugged individualism, we want to strike back. Even in marriage, we play that one-upsmanship, don't we? You feel like she's had the upper hand for a while, and you have to figure out a way to get back on top, to get even. God had another way to go. You say, "Wait a minute, John. You just said this is Mosaic law: an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, maintain the standard of justice." Yes, that's right; in the courts. But that is not all the Old Testament teaches, and we'll see that in a few moments.
This is the intent of the Old Testament law. The statement, "An eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," do you know what it means? The punishment must fit the crime; no less, and no more. It was a restraint on the innate vengeance that is in an evil heart. An eye for an eye didn't mean, "When you get it, give it back!" It meant that when justice functions, let it never go beyond its bounds. If it is only a tooth, then only a tooth should be taken, or in kind. Usually, it was money that compensated, not an actual tooth. In other words, God was limiting the innate, evil human heart, which always seeks to go beyond how it's been offended.
For example, go back to the illustration of me pulling in front of the guy. All I did was pull in front of the guy; he didn't even have to put his brakes on. But he was irritated because he liked looking at the back end of the other car, I suppose. He was irritated, but he didn't just pull around and get in another lane. For five miles, he blinked his lights; it was completely beyond compensating for what I had done.
You know, no one ever murdered another because he got murdered; ever! They go way beyond! "You mess around with my girlfriend and bang! You're dead." It's always beyond, always an overreaction, and that's why God said, "An eye for eye, tooth for tooth, no more, no less." He put the boundaries on justice. In the Old Testament, it doesn't mean take personal revenge. That isn't the idea at all.
This is the oldest law in the world, did you know that? It's known as lex talionis. It is the oldest law in the world, and we found it in the code of Hammurabi. It's sometimes called 'tit for tat,' sometimes 'quid pro quo.' It just means equal punishment for the crime. It is in Hammurabi's Code, and says, "If a man has caused the loss of a gentleman's eye, his eye shall be caused to be lost. If he shatters a gentleman's limb, one shall shatter his limb." In other words, bound up in the human heart is a sense of justice. But the problem is that it gets perverted into vengeance.
Don't miss the point; that is a good law. It is a law that puts fear into people's hearts. That law doesn't do anything but good for righteous people. It just protects them. People say, "We can't have all these laws, it encumbers us." The more strict the law, the more protection for the righteous people. All they affect negatively are people whom they should affect negatively, evil people whose evil is out of control.
Let me give you several thoughts. First of all, this is a just law. It is a just law because punishment should fit the crime. It's nothing more than justice, it's just equal. Let me give you an illustration. Judges 1:6-7 says, "Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes." Now that's strange.
You say, "Why did they do that? He was an enemy, so they cut off his thumbs and big toes?" Yes. "And Adoni-Bezek said, 'Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me.'" He was busy cutting off the thumbs and toes of others, so he got his own cut off. That is an illustration of what was done in an Old Testament setting.
Did you know today in Iran, when they catch a thief, what they do to him? They cut off his hands. That has a tremendous effect on shoplifting. I'm not saying that I want people's hands cut off; what I'm saying is that people are sinful. I'm sinful. And if there aren't rules, and if fear is not put in our hearts, we will pursue an evil path. It's a just law. "Whatsoever a man sows," said Paul, "That shall he also reap." Jesus said, "Judge not, lest you be judged. As you have measured it out, so shall it be measured to you."
Secondly, it is a merciful law. An eye for an eye is merciful because it limits vengeance; it does away with vendettas and blood feuds. You've read so many times about a native who goes over to another tribe and kills someone in the tribe. What happens? The whole tribe comes over and slaughters everyone in the other tribe. No, no. This law says, "Only the person who committed the crime, and only commensurate with the crime should be the punishment." It's a merciful law. It puts a lid on human vengeance
If a master of a slave brutally beat his slave, and the slave lost a tooth, the courts would free that slave. That slave could take his case to court and be set free. What that did was restrain an evil master, do you see? It's merciful. The law never hurts the good and the righteous people.
Thirdly, it is therefore a beneficent law. It was designed to protect the weak from the strong, the peaceful from the violent. You see, our society gets everything twisted. We talk about 'right' so much now that it seems often that today, criminals have more rights than honest people. Our suffering society, overrun with crime and violence, would do well to reexamine the Old Testament law. But you see, once you deny God and let that go, everything is gone.
I believe the pulpit must be the place to put this all back into perspective. We have to preach a just character in the heart of God, and we have to enact a just, lawful discipline in the church. We have to preach an eternal punishment in Hell. Why? So that the world will know there is right and wrong, reward and consequence. I believe that when the pulpit went liberal, and stopped preaching the character of God, Hell, and eternal punishment, and when the church stopped disciplining sin, that society just fell into the flow. Maybe we could lay the whole thing at our own doorstep.
If we have an efeminate generation that wants to abolish capital punishment, turn prisons into country clubs, and relax justice in violation of God's law, maybe it's because we haven't proclaimed it the way we should have. That's the legacy of liberalism. To restrain evil is merciful and beneficent; not to restrain evil, not to have punishment, not to have things the way they should be is to allow evil to run rampant. Then everyone pays the price.
Arthur Pink says, "Magistrates and judges were never ordained by God for the purpose of reforming reprobates or pampering degenerates, but to be His instruments for preserving law and order, and that by being a terror to the evil (Romans 13), they are to be an avenger to execute wrath on him that does evil." He is right; there is to be terror. The law has been ignored because God's character has been ignored, because a sense of eternal punishment has been ignored, because the church doesn't even bother to discipline.
Pink further says, "A conscience has become comatose. The requirements of justice are stifled. Maudlin concepts now prevail, as eternal punishment is repudiated, either tacitly, or, in many cases, openly. Ecclesiastical punishments are shelved, churches refuse to enforce sanctions and wink at flagrant offenses. The inevitable outcome has been the breakdown of discipline in the home and the creation of a public opinion which is mawkish and spineless. Schoolteachers are intimidated by foolish parents and children, so that the rising generation are more and more allowed to have their own way without fear of consequences. And if some judge has the courage of his convictions and sentences a brute for maiming an old woman, there is an outcry against him." This is the legacy we have in our country.
So Jesus, whatever He says, will uphold the Old Testament law. He won't obviate or change it. If God said, "The law is just, merciful, beneficent, and has a reason to be," Jesus will not change that. Why? Because Jesus said, "Not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law until all be fulfilled. Anyone who breaks the least of these commandments, or teaches anyone else to do so, is the least in the Kingdom of Heaven." He said, "I have not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it." So what He's doing here when He says, "But I say," is not obviating the law but saying, "Let me clarify what God meant. I speak for God." As I said earlier, that's not the whole of the Old Testament law; there is so much more. The law must be upheld, justice must rule, there must be a right sense of justice. But on the other hand, what should be our attitude? In the work of justice, do we hate the criminal? Do we feel vengeance and bitterness and spite? Listen to what the Old Testament also teaches in Leviticus 19:18. "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people." That's the same book and the same author - Moses.
You should never hold a grudge, never avenge. If there is a crime committed, then you should seek the law to do its work, because that preserves society and exalts God, who wrote the law. But your heart is filled with forgiveness and love, so that Jesus says, "Love your enemies and do good to those who spitefully use you and persecute you."
I've stood at the door of my own home under the threat of a man coming in with a knife to maim one of my children. What would I do if he came in and killed one of my children? I thought that through pretty thoroughly in those days when we were going through that. What would I do? Well, what Jesus is saying to me to do would be this: catch the man, hold the man. If he was hungry, feed him. If he was thirsty, give him something to drink. If he needed Christ, give him the Gospel. Most of all, forgive him and love him, and then let the law do exactly what God gave the law to do. They work together; one belongs in the courts, and the other belongs in my heart. It's an attitude of forgiveness.
That's why Proverbs 25:21 says, "If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink." And we're talking about a real enemy here, not the guy over the fence who doesn't cut his weeds and they grow into your yard. We're talking about someone who comes to kill your family, a serious enemy.
I couldn't help but think of that film of Nicaragua where the soldier was standing over Bill Moyers, the NBC correspondent, just watching him lie on the ground, and blew a bullet into his head. That is human vengeance. The Old Testament says, "If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink." But it also says, "If he commits a crime, take him to court, to the judges, to give him due punishment for his crime."
Proverbs 24:29 says, "Do not say, 'I will do to him just as he has done to me.'" Don't say that. That's vengeance. Jesus hangs on a cross, and they've set about to murder Him, and He knows it will be a little time until they will murder His disciples. So He looks down the ages and sees all the heroes of the faith who will die in martyrdom. He looks at an ungodly, unruly world and says, "Father, forgive them. Forgive them." He knew that justice would take its course; He knew if they died without repentance, they'd spend eternity in Hell. And yet His heart was a heart of forgiveness. So when I catch that man in my house who has killed my child, I must forgive him in the love of Christ, I must tell him about Christ, I must feed him. On the other hand, I must let the law take its course because that it to uphold the divine standard. I cannot say, "I will do to him as he has done to me."
This is precisely the point, beloved. We've come to the second thought, and I'll just mention it, and then we'll close. The Pharisees had perverted this great truth into a personal vengeance principle. "If someone gets your tooth, get his." Instead of taking it as a limit on vengeance, they took it as a mandate for vengeance. Their emphasis was wrong; they removed it from the courts, made it a personal revenge, and used it to justify hearts full of hate. Jesus is saying to them, "You're not righteous. You're not righteous at all. If you were righteous, you wouldn't be vengeful." They cherished a spirit of retaliation.
You say, "John, how do you find this kind of balance where you can uphold the law of God and still be free in your heart to forgive?" I'll tell you how, it's very simple, at least the concept is stated simply. The only person who is non-defensive, non-protective, non-vengeful, never bears a grudge, has no spite in his heart, is a person who has died to self. What is there to defend? If I die to self, what is to defend? But if I'm going to fight for my rights, then I prove the point that self is on the throne, self is ruling.
Jesus had died to self in the sense that He had abandoned Himself to the Father's will, so if He died, He died. Paul had abandoned himself to the Father's will and died to self, so that he said, "If I live, I live to the Lord. If I die, I die unto the Lord. So whether I live or die, I'm the Lord's." He knew what it was to say, "I die daily." If Paul had lived for himself, he would have gone through his life defending himself against his critics; he never did.
You see, selfishness is defensive, protective, vengeful, spiteful, reactionary. So if we are to have the Spirit that Jesus asks for, we have to die to ourselves.
One of the biographers of William E. Gladstone, the great British Prime Minister, said this of Gladstone, "Of how few who have lived for more than 60 years in the full light of their countrymen and have, as party leaders, been exposed to angry and sometimes spiteful criticism, can it be said that there stands against them no malignant word and no vindictive act? This was due, not perhaps entirely, to Gladstone's natural sweetness of disposition but rather to self-control, and a certain largeness of soul, which would not condescend to anything mean and petty."
Well, you can be in a situation like that, where you're the Prime Minister (and he was a Christian), and you're criticized by everyone, and never have a vindictive response or a malignant word in response. You're manifesting the spirit Christ is talking about. What about the death of self? If someone kills my child, if I have died to self, I don't take it as a personal grief. I will uphold the law for the glory of God, but I'm not going to strike that man back out of personal anger and vengeance of, "Look what you've done to me." No.
The heart of the matter, then, is to understand what it means to die to self. Listen, maybe this will help. When you're forgiven, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you sting and hurt with the insult of the oversight, but your heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ -- that is dying to self. When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient loving silence -- that is dying to self.
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, or any annoyance, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it as Jesus endured it -- that is dying to self. When you are content with any circumstance, any food, any offering, any clothing, any climate, any society, any solicitude, any interruption by the will of God -- that is dying to self.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or record your own good works, or itch after any commendation from others, when you can truly love to be unknown -- that is dying to self. When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and your circumstances more desperate -- that is dying to self.
When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself, and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart -- that is dying to self.
Ask yourself a question: are you dead yet? If we are to know the balance between holding up the law of God in an evil society and pouring out a heart filled with forgiveness and love, and empty of any vengeance, any self, it will be when we learn what Jesus meant when He said this, "If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me." Let's pray together.
I think, Father, of the words of the Apostle Paul, whose great prayer was, "That I may know Him by being made conformable to His death." We learn from the sufferings of Jesus Christ how He responded in His heart, forgiving the very crucifiers. Being reviled, He reviled not again, only reaching out His love.
Father, may that spirit be in us, may we die to self as Christ did, in the sense that He obeyed the Father's will, even in death. May we be willing to crucify ourselves; may we not be defensive or protective. Like Paul in I Corinthians 4, may we not justify ourselves. God, help us to know the balance between holding up Your law for Your glory and the preservation of righteousness in society, and having hearts of forgiveness even to the people who break that law, even if they break it against us and wound us in the breaking. Teach us to die to ourselves and live unto You. We pray for Christ's glory, Amen.

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In today's uncertain economic climate, companies are continually looking towards the design and manufacturing process as a way of increasing efficiency and contributing to the bottom line. Recent research shows that best-in-class companies make the greatest use of simulation technology – an important consideration when competitiveness is vital in a turbulent marketplace.
Following on from the outstanding success of the previous conference held in 2008, the NAFEMS UK Conference 2010 was again the country's premier conference on Simulation Technology for the Engineering Analysis Community. Sponsored by Simulia, it brought together leading industrial practitioners, consultancies, academic researchers and software developers with a common interest in engineering analysis.
Once again, this two day conference covered the current best practices and state-of-the-art in FEA, CFD and associated technologies, providing attendees with the most comprehensive overview of the technology available. In addition to the informative main conference sessions, this time the conference was further enhanced by activities hosted by a number of the NAFEMS Working Groups.
The conference aimed to increase awareness and provide a discussion forum for topics that are important and relevant to engineering industrialists and academics. NAFEMS is acutely aware that the economic climate at the time, placed as even greater focus on the business benefit that simulation can bring to industry. In response to this, the conference endeavoured to highlight the economic issues associated with simulation.
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The 22 companies that chose to exhibit and sponsor the UK Conference 2008 found it to be an excellent opportunity for promotional and product / project awareness, and direct access to technology leaders. The 2010 Conference will provide a similar opportunity with a number of exhibition spaces available for vendors of software, hardware and associated services to demonstrate their wares and meet with delegates.


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Last month, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning pledged $500,000 to aid the Pat Summitt Foundation in its work to combat Alzheimer's Disease but that wasn't the end of his giving for 2013.
Manning's PeyBack Foundation is donating $581,000 to children's organizations in four states close to Manning's heart. He grew up in Louisiana, went to college in Tennessee and has played professional football in Indiana and Colorado.
"The mission and work of the PeyBack Foundation is something we are very passionate about," Manning said in a statement. "We are pleased to add Colorado to our giving cycle and are proud of the positive impact that so many youth-based organizations in this state, as well as in Indiana, Tennessee and Louisiana, have on our communities."
The donations are made to organizations promoting leadership growth and opportunities for at-risk children in the four states. Manning's foundation has made more than $6.5 million in donations to such organizations since it was founded.
As we were reminded with Friday's news of a slight change to Manning's contract, the quarterback stands to make a great deal of money in the next couple of years. It's nice to know that some of that money will go to help others as well.


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Policies and Services
Lending Policies
About the Library
The Collection
The main library on the Levelland campus houses more than 75,000 volumes, including an extensive print reference collection and an up-to-date circulating collection, which support all college programs. In addition, students have Internet access to over 42,000 electronic books. Also available are over 30,000 microforms and over 1,000 non-print materials, including audiotapes, CDs, maps, videos, and DVDs.
The libraries have a state-of-the-art online catalog which allows easy access to library holdings. The libraries' online databases may be accessed from the library or any campus computer connected to the Internet and from remote sites via the Internet using a password. These databases give access to several thousand periodicals from which full-text articles and images may be viewed and printed.
To understand how material selections are made, read the SPC Library Collection Development Policy.
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to suggest titles to be added to the collection and may use the online Title Suggestion Form.
Circulation Policy
Borrowers must present a current student ID to check out reserve or circulating materials. All materials are available for use by the students, faculty and staff of South Plains College, the residents of the college district, and Texas Tech University and Wayland Baptist University students upon presentation of valid identification.
Reference works (call number preceded by Ref), periodicals, and reserve materials may be used in-house but do not circulate. Circulating books are located in the "stacks" on the second floor of the Library.
The Library's online catalog is available from dedicated terminals on the first and second floor and from any computer on the SPC network. Access is also possible via the Internet by connecting to the SPC library webpage (https://www.southplainscollege.edu/).
For questions about remote access to the online catalog, email Levelland or Reese Center librarians or call the Information Desk at (806) 716-2330 Levelland or (806) 716-4682 Reese Center.
Course Reserves
Faculty can put books and other materials on reserve so that they are available to everyone in the class. The materials can be checked out with a student ID at the Circulation Desk. Generally, the items can be checked out for use in the Library for a two hour period. Faculty who want to post online reserve materials can contact the Library by calling the Information Desk at (806) 716-2330 Levelland or (806) 716-4682 Reese Center or emailing Levelland or Reese Center librarians.
Loan Periods
Reference books and periodicals: Library and classroom use only.
Microform materials: Library use only. Viewing machines are available in the library.
Audiovisual materials: One week.
Circulating books and maps: Three weeks.
Reserve materials: Library use only. Two hours.
Renewals: Circulating materials may be renewed provided no one has placed a hold and provided there are no unpaid fines. Books eligible for renewal may be renewed by telephone: (806) 716-2299 Levelland or (806) 716-4682 Reese.
Recalls: All materials are subject to recall. Upon receipt of a recall notice, a borrower will have 72 hours to return the item.
Lost book charges: Borrowers are responsible for paying for lost or damaged materials. For items that are out-of-print or non-replaceable for other reasons, a fee of $35.00 per item is charged plus a nonrefundable $10.00 processing fee. The charge for a book still in print will be based on the replacement cost of the item plus a nonrefundable $10.00 processing fee. Unpaid library charges will be added to the student's account and if left unpaid will prevent issuance of grades or transcripts.
Interlibrary Loan
The interlibrary loan (ILL) service obtains materials not owned by the SPC Libraries for students, faculty and staff. Books, media items and other materials are borrowed from another library and are made available to the requester for limited periods of time. This service can also provide photocopies of articles. Library patrons may use the online Interlibrary Loan forms.
Information Services
The Information Desk is staffed at all times to provide assistance in using Library resources and services. Library instruction for classes is available upon request; contact the Library by calling the Information Desk at (806) 716-2330 Levelland or (806) 716-4682 Reese Center or emailing Levellandor Reese Center librarians.
Other Services at Levelland
Computing resources: Ten computers connected to the Internet are available on the first floor for access to the Library's online resources. An additional 40 computers are available for student use when they are not being used by a class. Wifi is available to all students and guests. Online resources include electronic databases with access to the full text of thousands of periodical titles, over 60,000 electronic book titles through ebooks on Ebsco, and other online reference resources. Three stand-alone computers provide additional access to the online library catalog.
Equipment for people who are visually impaired: Text magnifying equipment is available in the Microform area of the first floor.
Audiovisual services: The Library's collection includes audio and video materials that have been cataloged and can therefore be identified in the online catalog. Videos and DVDs are shelved near the Information Desk. Other materials can be obtained at the Circulation Desk. VCRs and TVs along with audiotape players are available for student use.
Video tape duplicating: The Library offers free tape duplicating of non-copyrighted, educational materials at the Circulation Desk. Library users must provide blank DVDs for this service.
Photocopying: Copy machines are available for both paper and microform articles. The machines are coin-operated. Price of a photocopy is 5 cents. Change is available at the Circulation Desk.
Laminating: Laminating is available at the Circulation Desk at the cost of 35 cents per foot.
Other Services at Reese Center
Computing resources: The Library provides fifteen computers for online research, email, word processing and other software applications. Reese library computers have and DVD drives. Students have access to a scanner and may print color laser copies. Color copies cost $0.25 each. Transparencies may be created in the library. The cost is $1.00 per sheet if the library supplies the transparencies.
Photocopying: A photocopier is available for student use. The machine is coin-operated. Price of a photocopy is $0.10 per sheet. The machine accepts coins and bills ($1, $5, $10, $20). The bookstore is available to make change for students when necessary.
Audiovisual services: TV monitors, VCR and DVD players along with audiocassette players are available for student use in the library. Audiocassette recorders may be checked out for one week.


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Niche from the central gate of Rouen
John Ruskin
R. P. Cuff, engraver
3 x 3 inches
From Plate I, The Seven Lamps of Architecture in Works, 8.16
According to the "Index to the Plates" (8.xvi), this plate refers to the pp. 52 and 123. See below for pasages.
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow
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Ruskin's discussion in The Seven Lamps of Architecture
[I]t is one of the affectations of architects to speak of overcharged ornament. Ornament cannot be over- charged if it be good, and is always overcharged when it is bad. I have given, on the opposite page (Fig. 1), one of the smallest niches of the central gate of Rouen. That gate I suppose to be the most exquisite piece of pure flamboyant work existing ; for though I have spoken of the upper portions, especially the receding window, as degenerate, 2 the gate itself is of a purer period, and has hardly any renaissance taint. There are four strings of these niches (each with two figures beneath it) round the porch, from the ground to the top of the arch, with three intermediate rows of larger niches, far more elaborate ; besides the six principal canopies of each outer pier. The total number of the subordinate niches alone, each worked like that in the plate, and each with a different pattern of traceries in each compartment, is one hundred and seventy-six.* Yet in all this ornament there is not one cusp, one finial, that is use- less not a stroke of the chisel is in vain; the grace and luxuriance of it all are visible sensible rather even to the uninquiring eye ; and all its minuteness does not diminish the majesty, while it increases the mystery, of the noble and un- broken vault. It is not less the boast of some styles that they can bear ornament, than of others that they can do without it ; but we do not often enough reflect that those very styles, of so haughty simplicity, owe part of their pleasurableness to con- trast, and would be wearisome if universal. They are but the rests and monotones of the art ; it is to its far happier, far higher, exaltation that we owe those fair fronts of variegated mosaic, charged with wild fancies and dark hosts of imagery, thicker and quainter than ever filled the depth of midsummer dream ; those vaulted gates, trellised with close leaves ; those window-labyrinths of twisted tracery and starry light; those misty masses of multitudinous pinnacle and diademed tower ; the only witnesses, perhaps, that remain to us of the faith and fear of nations. All else for which the builders sacrificed, has passed away all their living interests, and aims, and achieve- ments. We know not for what they laboured, and we see no evidence of their reward. Victory, wealth, authority, happi- ness all have departed, though bought by many a bitter sacrifice. But of them, and their life and their toil upon the earth, one reward, one evidence, is left to us in those gray heaps l of deep- wrought stone. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours, and their errors; but they have left us their adoration.
* I have certainly not examined the seven hundred and four traceries (four to each niche) so as to be sure that none are alike ; but they have the aspect of continual variation, and even the roses of the pendants of the small groined niche roofs are all of different patterns. (I now italicise this last sentence, for it is the best illustration in the whole book, of the loving and religious labour on which it so frequently insists. [52-53]
A Second Reference
the feeling of breadth being retained in minor ornaments, long after it had been lost in the main design, and sometimes capriciously renewing itself throughout, as in the cylindrical niches and pedestals which enrich the porches of Caudebec 1 and Rouen. Fig. 1, Plate I., is the simplest of those of Rouen ; in the more elaborate there are four projecting sides, divided by buttresses into eight rounded compartments of tracery ; even the whole bulk of the outer pier is treated with the same feeling; and though composed partly of concave recesses, partly of square shafts, partly of statues and tabernacle work, arranges itself as a whole into one richly rounded tower. [123]
Ruskin, John. Works, "The Library Edition." eds. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. 39 vols. London: George Allen, 1903-1912.
Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture in Works, vol. 8. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Web. 2 June 2010.
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Lil Wayne has been released from prison, according to prison records.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper, who served eight months for having a loaded gun on his tour bus, was released from the Rikers Island prison facility Thursday morning, according to the New York Department of Corrections. His managers said the celebrity was headed for his Miami home.
The multiplatinum-selling artist emerged with his career in high gear. His latest album, "I Am Not a Human Being,'' hit No. 1 on the chart after its September release.
The rapper told fans through a website Tuesday that he "was never scared, worried nor bothered'' behind bars.
He pleaded guilty last year to attempted weapon possession. He started a year-long sentence in March but got time off for good behavior.


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Create a consistently configured environment that is secure against known vulnerabilities in operating system and application software. The server owner must know which security issues and software updates are relevant to their environment, and who is the person responsible for keeping up to date on newly released patches and security issues that affect the systems and applications deployed in their environment.
Firewall Rule Registration
Servers on the university's network that require inbound access from the Internet must be approved and registered with the Information Security Office. To register, please fill out our form.
Server Owner Responsibilities
Anti-Virus and Spyware
Download the latest virus removal tools from a university-approved licensed anti-virus and spyware software product. The IT Service Desk can assist you with installing a university approved Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware product.
Information Integrity
Create a system and method for secure data transmission, data storage and data retrieval over the network. All data containing high-risk, restricted or confidential information must be encrypted.
Third party or guest servers may be hosted on the university's network only in agreement with the Director of Systems and Network Management and must be registered with the Information Security Office. The person registering the site is responsible for ensuring that the server content and management comply with this guideline and university policies.
Generally accepted ports allowed in the firewall rules when registering a server include:
- 22 (SSH/Secure Shell)
All other requests for ports that are required for inbound access from the Internet (affecting the perimeter firewall rules) must be documented with a legitimate business or academic purpose and approved by both the Information Security Office and Network Security Administrator. Any questions regarding the registering of a server can be sent to email@example.com.


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Suominen produces nonwovens. We are part of the manufacturing industry but we don't exist just to make things. Our purpose is also to develop nonwovens and expand their possibilities. We make nonwovens better.
Suominen has two business areas: Convenience and Care. Although the scope of their operations might be different today, they nevertheless share many megatrends, raw materials, technologies and employee capabilities. Moreover, the product features may often be similar – after all, nearly all our products eventually touch human skin.
Why to invest in Suominen
Sustainability stems from the business and ultimately supports the business. It cannot be reduced to reporting or charity activities. Instead, it involves, e.g., developing more responsible products, which our customers and end users crave. That is the way we see it.
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Uhm guys.
Well I just CAME from 4Chan, and they linked here, so you uhm... can probably expect a lot of mudkips flying around any time soon.
To comment on the article: why sleeping pills?
Why not jump off a building?
And poison has long been avoided by women as a suicide means, because it screws up the face.


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It's time to plan a Mardi Gras Party. This year Mardi Gras is Tuesday, February 24th. Start off with festive invitations from Paper Style.
Ask your guests to come in masks or crazy hats to get in the spirit. Another idea is to have a costume contest. Crown whoever has the best costumes as the Mardi Gras King and Queen.
The official colors of Mardi Gras are purple, green and gold so use these colors to fill your room with decorations. Plum Party has some great sale items right now for Mardi Gras.
Be sure to incorporate the traditional Mardi Gras beads into your decorations and use them as party gifts.
There is nothing like a great Mardi Gras menu to get everyone's taste buds going. Epicurious has some great recipe ideas like Jambalaya, Shrimp Creole and Crab cakes. For dessert, you should serve the traditional King Cake. Make sure to put a plastic baby into the cake and whoever finds it has to host the party next year.
The Hurricane is the traditional drink served in New Orleans. Try this recipe from Cocktail Times.
– 2 oz light rum
– 2 oz dark rum
– 2 oz passion fruit juice
– 1 oz orange juice
– 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
– 1 tbsp simple syrup
– 1 tbsp grenadine
– Garnish: orange slice and cherry
Shake all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a hurricane glass. Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.
Be sure to set the mood with some great Jazz music that can be found on Amazon.
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I have just learned about using PGP/GPG for email encryption and one thing has always bugged me:
How is it possible that a message encrypted with somebody's public key can be decrypted only with that persons privated key?
This concept of asymetric encryption is not very intuitive for me. Simply said I would except that the process to encrypt with the public key should be unique and therefore be able to be reverted with the same key.
What's the key operation that ensures this is not possible?


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A John Wayne Airport official advised those traveling today to check with their airline for any flight impacts due to the incident Friday morning at Los Angeles International Airport.
A man with a rifle opened fire inside Terminal 3 at LAX, wounding several people.
Following the incident, LAX announced on its twitter account, that "other than arriving flights, flight operations have been temporarily held."
Jenny Wedge, spokeswoman for John Wayne said operations are normal
"Any flights being diverted away from LAX will likely go to Burbank and Ontario. Should that change, we will update our twitter status," she said.
Airport police services and security partners continue to monitor the situation at LAX, Wedge said.
"There are security measures that are taken during situations like this, may or may not be visible to traveling public but passengers and visitors and employees at the Airport should feel assured they are safe," she said.


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* All water is treated with chlorine disinfection before it is delivered to the residents' home.
The City of Sierra Madre is responsible for providing high quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components. When water has been sitting for several hours, residents can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing the tap (for 30 seconds to 2 minutes) before using water for drinking or cooking. Those that are concerned about lead in the water; may wish to have their water tested.
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Enrich your learning experience off-campus, even overseas
Many of your most memorable and rewarding experiences at Concordia will happen outside the classroom — in fact, they may very well happen in another country. In keeping with our mission, Concordia offers a wide variety of hands-on opportunities that promote students' intellectual, emotionally, physical and spiritual growth. We believe the more broad and rich your experiences, the more effective you'll be as a servant leader. Depending on your major, you could pursue any of the following opportunities:
- Internships and practicums — Explore potential careers and obtain real-world experience in a professional environment. With the help of the career services office, locate and secure an internship or practicum that matches your goals and interests. You can even student-teach in such places as Hong Kong, Australia, Slovakia and Shanghai or Korea.
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In action following the clash at the Plei Me Special Forces camp 30 miles southwest of Pleiku earlier in the month, the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) launches Operation Silver Bayonet.
U.S. troops, in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, sought to destroy North Vietnamese forces operating in Pleku Province in II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands). The operation concluded in November with a week of bitter fighting when fleeing North Vietnamese troops decided to protect an important staging area and supply base in the Ia Drang Valley. It was the bloodiest battle of the war to date. In one engagement, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry fought a desperate three-day battle at Landing Zone X-Ray with the North Vietnamese 33rd and 66th Regiments; when the fighting was over, 834 Communists lay dead on the battlefield. In an associated engagement, 500 North Vietnamese ambushed another battalion from the 1st Cavalry Division at Landing Zone Albany, wiping out almost an entire company. Reported enemy casualties for Operation Silver Bayonet totaled 1,771. U.S. casualties included 240 killed in action.


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It's a truly rare occasion where Charles Johnson acknowledges the rather shady past of his blog, which has been covered in sufficient depth at this very website for several years.
Having evolved from a persistent LGF Watcher to a casual LGF reader following the colossal paradigm shift that site has undergone, imagine my (positive) surprise when reading this thread on a warning about global warming as from over 20 years ago from Isaac Asimov. Well, not the thread itself, but the first comment written by none other than Charles himself:
If I'd posted this at LGF in 2007, Asimov would have immediately been accused of being a commie atheist hack sci-fi writer with no idea what the fuck he was talking about.
Spot on. How often does this kind of statement by the Lizard King happen?
A more interesting question is though: Why does Charles shove all the blame to his former fan base? Back in 2007, would've he done the same? According to 2011-Charles, definitely not. But as he has previously been proven to have a remarkably short memory when it comes to opinions on global warming, it seems probable that he would've joined in.
But hey, this is quite some progress! Gotta give credit where credit is due.


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I live in Weho now, moving to Mar Vista soon so I'll hit anywhere on the westside. I played D1 tennis, but haven't hit in a while and I really want to get back into it. Singles, doubles, sets, matches, just hitting, whatever...I'm down! Open availability. Let me know! email@example.com
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Hey Melissa!
I played club in college, so i don't know if i'm up to par with you, but I'd love to hit sometimes if you're down! I usually play at LATC by UCLA. They have awesome courts. Let me know! email@example.com
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You up for mixed dubs? I can get together a group for a session maybe early next week in the evening. Mar Vista Rec Center or Stoner Park. We're all USTA rated strong 4.0s/average 4.5s. Lemme know!
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I am down to hit some rallies and practice whatever, on the weekends mostly. Every now and then, I can do a weekday. Let me know. :)
hey melissa, i'm in mar vista too. i'm 4.0/4.5 lefty play 2-4 times a week. i play mostly singles but a group of us has been getting a doubles game going and ofter need a 4th as well. anyway, hit me up if you want play either or....i play mar vista courts but other courts at night because the lights kinda suck there.
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Build A Plane unveiled a new campaign called Kids Across America at Sun 'n Fun. The new program encourages kids to find sponsors for every mile they travel to reach AirVenture 2012 in Oshkosh. The kid who raises the most money wins a complete Private Pilot course from Red Bird Flight Simulations. Runners up can win other prizes like a week vacation to the Bahamas from Air Journey or a $1,000 scholarship from AOPA.
"Kids Across America is a great program because it gives kids a chance to help kids," said Build a Plane president Lyn Freeman. "And the prizes that have been donated for the kids to win are incredible!"
Just like athletes who raise money for every mile they run or bike or swim, Kids Across America will fund new Build A Plane youth aviation education programs across the United States. Any means of travel to the Oshkosh fly-in qualifies for the program. All money raised by kids and donated to Build A Plane is tax deductible.
"And the grand prize from Redbird Flight Simulation is an incredible opportunity," said Build A Plane Executive Director Katrina Bradshaw. "All the aircraft rental, flight instructor fees and world class simulator time is all included."
The one-week vacation to the Bahamas allows a family to fly their airplane to three different hotel/resorts. Room, transfers, flight plans and eAPIS are all provided by Air Journey.
Build A Plane has been operating since 2003 and is an IRS-approved 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that solicits aircraft donations then redirects those airplanes to school across America. More than 200 real airplanes have already been placed. Build A Plane creates the opportunity for kids to learn science, technology, math and engineering by building or refurbishing a real airplane.
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Oxfam Warns Climate Change And Extreme Weather Will Cause Food Pric...
In two decades, if the effects on extreme weather are also considered, global starvation from Climate Change will be horrendous. Previous estimates only looked at gradual impacts such as rising average temperature.
"The huge potential impact of extreme weather events on future food prices is missing from today's climate change debate. The world needs to wake up to the drastic consequences facing our food system of climate inaction," Gore said….
"As emissions continue to soar, extreme weather in the US and elsewhere provides a glimpse of our future food system in a warming world. Our planet is heading for average global warming of 2.5–5°C this century. It is time to face up to what this means for hunger and malnutrition for millions of people on our planet,"...
... the impact of warming-driven extreme weather shocks leads Oxfam to conclude corn prices could increase a staggering 500% by 2030.
Oxfam's new report, Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices, highlights for the first time how extreme weather events such as droughts and floods could drive up future food prices. Previous research only tends to consider gradual impacts, such as increasing temperatures and changing rainfall patterns.
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Many of the articles on Climate Change now suggest that starvation will be the main impact on most of us. They often describe it in terms of the cost of food. But I think they ignore the bottom line, that there just won't be enough to eat. People envision going to the grocery store and seeing loaded shelves with high prices, instead of imagining empty shelves. Readers don't "get it" at a gut level.
Here's an example of how extreme weather from Climate Destabilization cuts food production in unexpected ways. Drought and heat cut corn yield, then fungus destroys half of what's left. Corn stalks and weeds nearby are poisoned from the fertilizer which wasn't absorbed for growth, which poisons cattle eating them.
2012 drought: Pick your poison
More than half the corn crop sampled in Missouri isn't fit for human consumption, thanks to unusually high levels of a carcinogenic toxin.
Corn infected with the fungus Aspergillus flavus. The worst drought to hit the United States since the 1930s has farmers coping with a number of impacts, from cyanide poisoning in cattle to fungal infestations in corn.
... it's another chapter in an unfolding disaster that shows no sign of abating. And with climate projections showing more frequent summer droughts in heavy farming areas, these elevated drought-related poisons add to the challenges growers face in a changing climate.
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talking to veterinarians and other folks in Iowa since June, and I'd estimate somewhere around 150 cattle have died from toxic nitrate doses," said Steve Ensley, a toxicologist at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
The annual tally is usually less than five, he said.
In this interview with Bill Maher, Bill McKibbon says that each degree the climate warms will cut green yield 10%. If that's true, we're all going to starve a lot faster than expected.
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In All Things Considered, 2013: A Tipping Year For Climate Change? we learn that it's happening now.
"We've already passed all kinds of tipping points," McKibben, the founder of 350.org, tells weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden. "The NASA scientist Jim Hansen was saying, 'There's no other word for where we are now than planetary emergency.'"
"Food prices were up 40 and 45 percent around the world because the harvest failed in North America. The world is at a point [where] last year it grew less food than it consumed.... [emphasis mine]
Prices are already going up. You can see the changes. Yes, it's inevitable.
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Clark's History Department, while small, is of unusually high quality, activity, and visibility in the field. Programs of study are available for both undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduates can specialize in United States, European, or Global History. They can also take advantage of related interdisciplinary concentrations such as Asian Studies, Holocaust Studies, or Women's Studies. Graduate students can focus on America, with tracks in the history of the United States and in the history of the Atlantic World, or Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, with tracks in Holocaust History and in Genocide Studies.
The department's close ties with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester and Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) in Sturbridge, Massachusetts are wonderful assets for students studying United States history. In addition to AAS and OSV, history students have done internships at the British Museum (as part of Clark's London Internship Program) and the Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center in Worcester.
Wim Klooster, (Co-editor with Gert Oostindie)"Curacao in the Age of Revolutions, 1795-1800" by KITLV (2011)
Prof. Janette Thomas Greenwood's book "First Fruits of Freedom" by University of North Carolina Press (2011)
Prof. Doug Little's Book "American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 " by University of North Carolina Press (2002)
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In the days before the introduction of the personal computer, buying a desk was quite a bit simpler. You simply found the style and size you liked, made the choice between assembled vs. ready to assemble, and you were pretty much set.
These days, with personal computers being an essential piece of our work equipment, there are many more factors to consider in choosing a desk. Here we'll take a look at some of the more common questions computer desk shoppers face and attempt to make your decision a bit easier.
Computer desk or laptop computer desk? The first thing to consider when shopping for a computer desk is the type of computer you will be using on the desk. Will it be a desktop or laptop PC?
Computer desks designed for use with desktop PCs are generally larger than ones designed for laptop use, and offer desktop-friendly features such as enclosed cabinets to house and protect your PC tower, pull-out platforms for your keyboard and mouse, and often feature a desktop storage hutch.
Laptop desks, like the computers they're designed for, are typically sleeker and more open in design. And like laptop computers themselves, which are often more cutting-edge than desktops, laptop desks often offer modern features that are harder to find on "regular" computer desks, such as built-in charging stations for mobile devices (e.g, cell phones, iPods, digital cameras).
Additionally, the pull-out platforms on laptop desks are typically deeper and more substantial, to accommodate the size of a laptop PC vs. a keyboard.
Factory assembled vs. Ready-to-assemble. Another significant factor to consider when selectiong your computer desk is whether you want a desk that is pre-assembled at the factory or one that is ready-to-assemble (RTA).
Factory assembled desks are often (but not always) higher quality than RTA models, and save you time and labor by being ready to use right out of the box. Of course, the flip side to these advantages is that factory assembled desks are typically more costly.
Ready to assemble desks, while often perceived as being less desirable than factory assembled desks, actually offer several advantages that make them a credible alternative. They are usually more affordable than comparable factory assembled desks, are easier to ship and/or bring home from the store, and most importantly, RTA desks will often fit through narrower home office doorways that factory assembled furniture will not.
While you will need to spend some time putting your new RTA desk together, the aforementioned factors will often more than offset the labor required.
Size and configuration. Computer desks come in a wide range of sizes, from small computer carts to large U-shaped complete workstations. What will work best for you depends on the way you plan to use your desk and how much space you have available.
For commercial office applications, where users are often multi-tasking and space is less of a concern, U-shaped and L-shaped computer desks are a great option, providing ample work space for varied tasks, room for impromptu conferences with co-workers or guests, and room to house plenty of file and storage drawers.
In home offices, where space is often at a premium, compact desks and computer carts offer many of the practical features of larger desks, such as keyboard trays and wire management systems, but with a much smaller footprint.
Ergonomics. Over the past few years, there has been increased attention to the ergonomics of computer desks. Desks with proper ergonomic design and features make work more comfortable, lessen the risk of repetive stress injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome, and just generally aid in the efficiency and ease with which you can work.


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I went out with sfcchaz on Presidents' Day and our main focus was some history-based TerraCaching virtuals. I'd already found all the OCNA caches in the general area, so we stuck to the TC's and a few other "alt-geo" games.
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Glimpsed at the Heart Ball: Kathy Gonze
Kathy Gonze, 46, can thank her 19-year-old daughter Kaylie for a standout look at the red-themed Baltimore Heart Ball. "I was shopping with her for her prom dress, and she said, 'You have to buy a dress if I do.' So, I got this," said the Lutherville homemaker. "This" was a candy apple red-and-persimmon stretch satin sheath from the Karen Millen store at Tysons Corner, which fit both her "classic" style and the red theme for the American Heart Association gala at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. Gonze added polish to the outfit with a gun-metal cuff and and some black patent-leather platform BCBG slingbacks from Nordstrom. The finishing touch: a black satin clutch she bought on a cruise.
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Keyloggers are designed to silently record all of one's computer activity. They are commonly used for parents to monitor their children's computer activity. Now they are being used for criminal activity ranging from spying on individuals, to identity theft and data theft.
The security team at SpyReveal tested the leading anti-spyware and anti-virus software against ten of the most popular keyloggers. The results indicated that most of the leading security software used to combat viruses and spyware failed to detect 70% of the keyloggers. While most failed to detect any keyloggers at all, SpyReveal software successfully detected all keyloggers.
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"More and more news stories are being published of hackers who have obtained credit card records by using keyloggers," said Mr. Hankinson, SpyReveal's co-founder. "Yet, we still see major players in the security industry continue to fail at this specific type of problem."
Still don't think you or your business is at risk? Take for example Verizon's 2009 Data Breach Investigations Supplemental Report, which states, "Keyloggers and spyware...played a crucial role in larger breach scenarios in which hundreds of millions of records were compromised."
"Consumers and businesses should not rely on a single solution for security. Each has a specific purpose. We want consumers to realize that even though their anti-spyware software says 'Nothing Found,' that any keylogger could still be present, recording credit card information or business intellectual property," Mr. Hankinson added.


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Two arrested for methamphetamine possession in Orange
Police in Orange arrested two men for possession of a controlled substance after finding approximately three grams of methamphetamine and assorted drug paraphernalia during a traffic stop Thursday, Jan. 9 at about 1:28 p.m.
According to the police report, Officer Michael Roush conducted a traffic stop on a gray, four-door Nissan Altima for failure to signal when turning at the intersection of 6th Street and Park Avenue in Orange. Two men occupied the vehicle. Roush reported that he spoke to the driver, Roger Eugene Hanks of Vinton, La., who "was physically shaking and sweating." The passenger, identified as Roland Daniel Taylor of Sulphur, La., was texting, according to Roush, and when asked to stop, he lowered the cell phone in between the seat and door, and then "began making hand motions as if to stuff an item under his seat." Roush ordered Taylor to put his hands on the dash, and the man complied.
After receiving permission from the driver to search the vehicle, officers discovered a red baggie of approximately one gram of methamphetamine, plastic baggies with residue, syringes, a spoon, scales, straws and other drug paraphernalia. Upon searching Hanks, police discovered another baggie with about a gram of meth in it. They also reportedly found a gram bag of meth by the passenger's seat where Taylor had put his cell phone. Both men were arrested for possession of a controlled substance and taken to the Orange County Jail.