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Thursday, November 22, 2012
What makes for a special 'show' bike
Shortly after the last NAHMBS I got the idea for a guideline for the next show bike-I had intended to do a second annual 'Ficticious bike show awards' but was so busy during the show at my own booth that I had no time to walk the show and see what it was I had intended to write about. So, with those circumstances you will all have to settle for this: The 2012 Show Bike guidelines, at least how I see it. The categories will each have a set of standards, each more 'exclusive' and prestigious than the last.
Builder's waiting list:
1. Builder has a 3 month waiting list.
2. Builder has a 1 year waiting list
3. Builder has a 3 year waiting list
4. Builder has a 6 year waiting list.
5. Builder's list is now closed.
6. Builder's list was never opened.
Logo treatment:
1. Painted on logo
2. Hand painted on logo
3. Acid etched logo in tube
4. Stainless logo soldered onto frame
5. Removed material from tube in shape of logo
6. Neon logo
7. Small r.c. blimp with logo on side orbiting show bike
Sales points as to exclusivity of show bike:
1. Limited edition of only 5 frames
2. This frame would max out your credit card
3. Taking out a second mortgage would be needed to fund this frame purchase
4. Selling testicle would be needed to purchase this frame
5. Selling one kidney would be needed to purchase this frame
6. Selling both kidnleys would be needed to purchase this frame
Marketing philosophy:
1. This frame would be good for anyone
2. This frame would be good for almost anyone
3. This is a luxury item for special people only
4. This is a luxury item for one special person or less
Method of construction:
1. Hand brazed with an oxy-acetylene torch
2. Brazed with mapp gas
3. Hearth brazed with rendered fat from free-range chickens
4. Brazed with methane extracted from the anus of free range livestock
Materials selected for construction:
1. Good steel
2. The best steel
3. The very best steel
4. Slightly better than the very best steel
5. N.O.S. cryogenically stored steel previously owned by a succession of deceased framebuilders who never got around to using it to build a frame
Seat attachment style:
1. Brazed binder with fully adjustable polished seatpost
2. Seatmast with 2 c.m. of adjustment
3. Seatmast with 1 c.m. of adjustment
4. Saddle welded to seat mast ( no adjustment)
5. Bibshorts stitched to saddle welded to seatmast ( less than no adjustment )
With these guidelines, one can only begin to imagine what kind of incredible artistry will be gracing the halls of the next handmade bike show. Ideally, you won't be able to afford it and if all goes to plan, you wouldn't be able to ride it.......that, in bike show talk is a masterpiece.
9 comments:
Hmmm, what was Show Bike #2?ReplyDelete
Good thing I'm not going - I have stickers & a bolt-on seat collar, and use really good steel.ReplyDelete
on a side note "the bike that hate built" was pretty damn nice.......
At least the guy that bought the 'bike that hate built' does not hate it....ReplyDeleteReplies
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If you're talking about the bike in the pic, no, I don't hate it at all. It has taken me on long tours on the West Coast, through shifting sand and crazy-fun traffic in Egypt and across the mountains and valleys of Syria (before everything went to shit there). And it is still my daily workhorse. "Not hate" doesn't even begin to cover it.Delete
Show what you build, and don't show what you don't want to make more of.ReplyDelete
See you there this year?
No shoe for me....too busy. It's a good problem. Maybe 2014......ReplyDelete
you crack me up you cynical SOBReplyDelete
Hopefully we will start seeing purely ironic entries win prizes (in fact I'm suspicious that it's already happened).ReplyDelete


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For those of you who are visiting with us, what we do around here when we gather together is what you've already experienced, in addition to that we turn to the Bible. This incredibly enriched book written by God using certain human authors who wrote down what God wanted them to write, we go into the Bible to understand it. It is God's revelation, it is God's message to us. It is the only book that God ever wrote. Everything He wanted us to know is contained within the 66 books of the Bible. Every Word of God is pure. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. All of it is profitable for our instruction and our training. All of it works together to produce in us an understanding of divine truth, an understanding that changes our lives for time and eternity.
So we have determined that if this is fact is the Word of God, if every word comes from Him, every line, every verse, every paragraph, every chapter, every book, then we must go to each of these portions and we must understand what it is that He has said. So month after month and year after year and decade after decade we work our way through the text of Scripture. And we are transformed in the process, as you well know.
We find ourselves in a book in the New Testament called 1 John. John wrote three letters, the Apostle John, three letters. The first one is the longest and then there are two very brief letters which are identified as Second John and Third John. Of course, we also know that John wrote a gospel which is the record of the Lord Jesus Christ. And also, John was used by God to write down the book of the Revelation, the apocalypse which describes the end of the world and the eternal state.
But we're looking at one of his three letters. This first one, just five chapters, a book that many consider to be basic to an understanding of the Christian faith. And it is and yet though it is basic, the longer you study it the more you dig into it the deeper and richer you find that it is. You might assume that a book that is very basic wouldn't have much appeal to someone who was very mature and very knowledgeable in the Bible and theology. Quite the contrary is true. The mysteries of this marvelous letter are inexhaustible, as we're finding out.
Now we find ourselves in the second chapter working our way through in a section that really takes up the latter part of the second chapter from verse 18 down to verse 27. And we've titled this discussion, "Christians and Antichrists." And the reason for that is because of verse 18, "Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen from this we know that it is the last hour."
Almost everybody in the western world can demonstrate some familiarity with the word Antichrist. It's a somewhat ominous word, it's a word that carries with it certain apocalyptic visions. It has sort of connected with it a certain darkness, a certain bleakness, a certain fiercesomeness, it's a word that sort of belongs with evil and demons and destruction and death. It's a foreboding word, this word antichrist and rightly it should be because the antichrist is indeed a foreboding individual, the Bible says, will come at the end of the age.
The word antichrist is a word that evokes then a sort of singular response from everybody who is familiar with it. If you know anything about the Bible, when the word antichrist comes up, you think immediately about a vicious beast who arises at the end of human history and is empowered by Satan and dominates the world and forces everybody to worship him and massacres people all over the globe, particularly Jewish people and people who confess Jesus Christ. A horribly powerful sovereign, almost omniscient person who knows everything about everybody because everybody is sort of in the system, marked in some way as to be identified by him and his forces. A horrible creature, a powerful, threatening creature that finally comes to his end, the Bible says, under the destruction of Jesus Christ who returns, engages in a very brief battle with Antichrist, and all of his forces because Antichrist is a human being, albeit energized by Satan and demons, still a human being he is defeated along with his forces by Jesus Christ at the end of human history. And Christ then sets up His own Kingdom on the earth and rules in that Kingdom for a thousand years, at which time the universe as we know it is dissolved and in its place a new heaven and a new earth is created where we who know Christ will live with Him forever and ever in perfection, righteousness, joy and peace.
But just the word antichrist, and we think of this solitary monster, this massively powerful anti-God, indeed anti-Christ individual who is the last and greatest enemy that the gospel will ever know. But you've got to extend your thinking beyond that because in verse 18 it says it is true, you have heard it right that Antichrist is coming, that final one, even now, however, many antichrists have arisen, says John. You don't have to wait to run into antichrist, the only antichrist is not the one that's coming at the end of human history. In fact, there are many antichrists right now. They are, in fact, everywhere. Some of them are here tonight in this place. They're in your homes, in some cases, in your schools, they're at your work place. They ride with you on the airplane. They ride with you on the bus. They talk to you in the neighborhood. They're involved in every aspect of human life, education, government, medicine, entertainment, religion. They're everywhere, these antichrists.
How are we to identify them? Go down to verse 22. How do we know when we've run into an antichrist? Verse 22, "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ, this is the antichrist." Anybody is antichrist who denies that Jesus is the Messiah. Bound up in that word Christ, of course, the Hebrew equivalent, Messiah, is that He is the anointed of God, the anointed prophet, the anointed priest who intercedes for men before God, the anointed King, the sovereign Lord. Any denial of Jesus as Lord and Redeemer, Lord and Savior constitutes an antichrist attitude. You cannot come to Jesus with patronizing sort of diminished compliments. You cannot speak of Jesus as a good man, a noble man, a religious man, a wonderful healer, a man who had God in his heart, as one writer called him, you cannot with all of the best that you can think of to describe Him, describe Him as man without taking your place among the antichrists. He is not just a man, even a good man, even the best of men. He is not just a religious man, even the best of religious men. He is in fact the Messiah, the Christ of God. And if you deny that, the rest of the verse says you are denying the Father and the Son. You have just denied God and His Son because Jesus the Messiah is the Son of God, that is to say possesses the same nature of God, He is to God as you are to your father. You bear the same essence. You are the son of your father. You're genetically put together from your father. You bear the same essential life essence, you are human because he is human. And Jesus is the Son of God, since God is God, Jesus then is God as well. Since God is deity, divine, so is Jesus. You say anything less than that Jesus is Messiah, Savior, promised, anointed, prophet, priest and King, Redeemer, if you say anything less than that, you've denied the Son and you have therefore denied the Father. The Son and the Father are one.
"Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God." If you do not confess Jesus with your mouth as Lord, Romans 10 as we heard earlier tonight, Romans 10:9, if you do not confess...what is confess? Homologeo, to say the same thing, if you do not agree with Jesus concerning who He is as has been revealed by Him and in Scripture, if you do not make the right assessment of Jesus, you are not from God and this is literally it says, this is antichrist, the antichrist attitude. "You have heard that it is coming, but it now is already in the world."
And one other verse in 2 John verse 7, "Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist." If you deny that He is Messiah, that's an antichrist spirit. If you deny that He is the Son of the Father God, therefore bearing the essence of deity, that constitutes an antichrist attitude. If you deny that he is God in human flesh, that is antichrist attitude.
Summing it up, to say anything less about Jesus than what is true, to deny anything about Him that is revealed concerning Him in Scripture is to take your place among the antichrists. Any misrepresentation of Christ constitutes an antichrist attitude. Anybody who rejects Jesus Christ as Messiah, Lord and Savior, anybody who rejects Jesus Christ as God, anyone who rejects Jesus Christ as man cause He was fully the God/Man is antichrist. You cannot reinvent Jesus. You cannot patronize Him with some definition that you think is perhaps good enough, if you say less than what God has said about Him, you are guilty of being antichrist.
To make it very simple, Jesus said this in Matthew 12:30, "He who is not with Me, is against Me." And there isn't any middle ground. You're either with Him, or you're against Him, that's it. You're either a Christian, or an antichrist. Kind of hard to think about the fact that antichrist wait on you in the restaurant, check you out of the market, but they do. Anybody who does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, who does not embrace Him as Messiah, King, as God, as Man is guilty of the spirit of antichrist. You are either for Him, or you're anti-Christ.
And so the emphasis on Christians and antichrists in this section is central to John's purpose. Go back to chapter 2 where our text is for a minute. John is trying to clarify who the true Christians are. And he's trying to finger the phonies. He's trying to put his finger on the deceivers, especially those deceivers who infiltrate the church and try to replace the truth of God with lies. Do I have to go back over this again? Maybe just very briefly.
There is in the universe a great conflict between the truth and lies. God is true. God cannot lie, the Bible says. God speaks only what is true. That's because God is absolutely perfect. God always tells the truth, always speaks the truth, He is the truth. That's why Jesus could say, "As God incarnate I am the way, the truth and the life." And so what Satan wants to do is sow a lie everywhere he can in the world so that people don't believe God. Satan does not want people worshiping God. Satan hates God who judged him and sentenced him to a Lake of Fire and even created a Lake of Fire for Satan and all the demons and as well all the antichrists, human beings, who reject Him. But Satan does everything he can to sow lies in the minds of men and women, that's what happened back in Genesis chapter 3, as we've noted for you, comes to Eve in the garden and he says did God really say....making her question God. Then he goes even beyond that and said God told you a lie, God said you would die when you ate of that fruit, I'm telling you you won't, God is a liar, I'm telling you the truth, so this is the conflict. God speaks the truth in His Word, and Satan comes in to sow lies. And so what Satan wants to do is to sow those lies among the people who believe the truth. He wants, as it were, rip out of the hands of God all the potential prospects. He wants to tear out of God's possession all those who are drawing near to Him through hearing the truth. And so he works very hard to sow lies in the church.
We see that all the way through the New Testament. No sooner is the church planted, founded, launched in the second chapter of Acts, then heresy just hammers the church. And all the writers of the New Testament epistles that are working with the church and writing to the church deal with the heresies that are assaulting the church cause this is the great satanic strategy. Not all antichrists infiltrate the church. Anybody who rejects Christ is antichrist. Not all antichrists infiltrate the church, but many do. And John wants his readers, including us, to be able to distinguish between the true Christians and the antichrists who infiltrate the church to replace the truth of God with satanic lies. John dealt with this, as you know, and Peter dealt with this and James dealt with this. Jude dealt with this and Paul dealt with it all the time. The lies sown among the believers, among those who were committed to the truth, to lead them astray and to capture those who were just coming to understand the truth.
So John knows that in this congregation there are Christians and antichrists. There are true believers and there are the deceivers, the liars, the antichrists who have come in to infiltrate. He wants the readers to understand the difference...the difference. As you know, going through this book there are basically two categories of tests that he offers. He offers doctrinal tests to determine whether someone is a true Christian. Doctrinal tests are twofold, the first is their view of man that man is a sinner. Secondly, their view of Christ. Someone who is a true Christian has a right view of himself, that is a right view of his depravity and his sinfulness, and a right view of Jesus Christ as Messiah, as God and as Man.
And then there are also moral tests that John gives by which you can determine a Christian. Not only by what they believe, but by how they live. And the two moral categories have to do with obedience and love. True believers who have been transformed obey God, they obey the Word of God gladly, eagerly. Also, they love God, they love others and they do not love the world. So true Christians, John is pointing out all through this epistle, are known by their doctrine, they have the right view of sin and the right view of Christ, they're known by their behavior, they are obedient to the Word of God, and they demonstrate spiritual love and they don't love the world.
But here in verse 18 is a very severe contrast. You could look at a church and say, "Well, there are the people in the church who believe the truth, and there are those who don't. There are the people in the church who obey and love and the people who don't obey and don't love. And you would understand what we're talking about, what John is writing about, but how much more stark is it to say there are in the church Christians and antichrists? Those are such polar opposites." And for John in this text the issue is their view of Christ...their view of Christ. If you have the right view of Christ that leads you to salvation, if you have the wrong view of Christ, you are an antichrist. Now if you're in the church and these people appear, these who are against Christ who assault the character of Christ as God and Man and who assault the role of Christ as the anointed Messiah, prophet, peace and King. If you were in a church and you see people doing that, could shake your confidence...could shake your faith, could make you wonder whether you're safe, whether you're okay, whether you might defect, whether you really have the truth or not. And so John says the very fact, in verse 18, just still reviewing, the very fact that there are these antichrists that infiltrate the church and so lies is proof that it is the last hour. He starts verse 18, "It is the last hour," he ends verse 18, "It is the last hour." Only again he says,"We know that it is the last hour because of the many antichrists that have arisen. It is the very attack on the truth that proves Christ to be true.
Why would Satan be making such concerted effort against the deity of Christ? Why is it that worldwide, incessantly, relentlessly every cult, every heresy always assaults the nature of Christ? Liberal theology assaults the nature of Christ. Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, you name it, they go after the person of Christ. This is typical of the satanic assault and it is evidence plenty that Christ is the true Christ to have stirred up this much animosity.
What does it mean it is the last hour? Well I told you last time, the last hour means the messianic age, the age inaugurated when Messiah came, the last hour of man's day. We know it's the last hour the time of Messiah because the Messiah must have come or else why would all the forces of antichrist be so relentless and adamant in attacking Him? And so we have the distinction then in verse 18 between antichrist and Christians.
Now what I want to do in the verses that flow down here, and John...the way John writes is not always linear and sequential, he kind of circles around things. So we'll take this in two sections and jump around a little bit. First of all, let's look at the characteristics of the antichrists, and then we'll look at the characteristics of the Christians.
The characteristics of the antichrists, three characteristics that identify them. These antichrists are false Christians, as I said, not all antichrists come into the church, infiltrate and try to sow lies and deceptions, attacking the nature of Christ, and the work of Christ. But the ones that do are manifest, they are manifest. And in this case the first thing that John says about them is, the first characteristic, they depart from the fellowship...they depart from the fellowship. Wherever there is a true church and a pure church, a true fellowship, wherever there are those who genuinely know Christ, these liars and deceivers and antichrists don't survive. They come into the church, they endeavor to destroy the church by sowing the discord of lies ad deception. But eventually they leave. Verse 19, "They went out from us," they-going back to these antichrists, they went out from us.
Now let me stop there for just a minute. The people in the church were maybe wondering why these people had come, why they had proclaimed that they were true teachers, they knew the truth, that the true believers in the church were under some illusions that Jesus wasn't who they believed He was. That the theology that they had been taught was not accurate, that it wasn't a representation of the truth of God. They were saying all of this, they were a part of the church. Then all of a sudden they left. Some of the believers might be saying, "Were they really telling us the truth? Are we wrong? And they left and we've lost our opportunity and now we're sort of caught in this deception?" There were those kinds of questions apparently swirling around. They went out from us, did they take the real truth with them? Well maybe there were some in the church that were influenced by these false teachers that had at least superficially, like we heard tonight again in the times of baptism, superficially they possessed Christ, they said they believed, they went through the motions outwardly. The false teachers came in, they followed along the false teachers, they bought into their lies and when the false teachers moved on, these people left the church. How are we to understand that? Did they follow the truth? Did those guys have the truth? What were those people? And if they were really real, why did they leave? Why did they follow the false teachers if they were really a part of us, if we really had the truth?
And in verse 19 John answers all of those kinds of queries by saying, "They went out from us but they were not really of us. For if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out in order that it might be shown that they all are not of us."
Amazing thing, God actually allowed false teachers still to come into a church, to pull out the people who aren't genuine. Did you get that? God uses liars and deceivers and false prophets to purge the church. There were some people who left the church to which John is writing. Could be any other church situation at that time or since, but initially these were people who left the church. They abandoned it. They went out from us...these antichrists left us Christians. Why? And they, no doubt, took some people with them. Why? Well they never really were of us, they're not real Christians, if they had been of us they would have remained with us, they went out in order that it might be shown that they all were not of us. Their defection gives clear evidence of their character.
There was an actual purpose in their departure, at the end of the verse. I mentioned it. See that "in order that," that's a purpose clause. They went out, they left...obviously the Spirit of God was at work in their leaving, "in order that it might be shown that they all are not of us." So God allows false teachers to come in the church, influence certain people in the church, drag them out of the church and the church says...what happened? What happened? Did they...are we missing something? Are we wrong? Are we not? How could this happen? These people were here, they seemed to be professing the truth, and they left.
And the response of the writer John is, "This is one way in which God makes it clear who is real...who's real. Their departure was their unmasking. And it was good that the false teachers came...listen...and that the false teachers led astray those who never really were of us, so that they wouldn't remain like leaven, like a rotten apple in a barrel to influence the rest of us."
Doesn't God work in amazing ways? You might say to yourself, you actually believe that God would allow antichrists to infiltrate the church? Yes, just like He allowed a messenger of Satan to tear up the Corinthian church to accomplish the humility of the Apostle Paul, as 2 Corinthians 12 says, God would allow error to come into a church to be sown among believing people. Today it happens all the time through books that are written, through magazine articles, through internet sites, through television, through radio in order that like magnets the antichrists might attract to themselves the people who aren't real believers and purge the church. Amazing. We have that going on here. I'm amazed. I hear about people who have decided to follow some false teacher or some false teaching, leave the church, abandon a true and biblical view of Christ, the doctrine of salvation.
I'll give you an illustration. A lady in our church when we were over in the chapel, actually the Family Center, came to me after the service and said that she wanted to come to the knowledge of Christ. And I went off in the little side room and spent an hour with her and talked to her about Christ. And she professed to believe and embraced Jesus Christ. She stayed in our church for many, many, many, many years. She taught in our church. She served in our church. She became something of a personal missionary, endeavoring to reach out to people. She was in our church until she began to be drawn by false teachers, probably two decades in our church. Her influence was growing. It was growing not only in our church but in other churches as she was communicating her faith in Christ to women's groups here and there. And false teachers came, got a hold of her, and she left, totally denied everything she said she had believed. And people have said to me, concerning this woman, "How could she do this?" And the answer is here. God protected not only us, but God protected His church in other places by sending along a strong enough magnet of false teaching to unmask her, lest she be responsible for leading others astray. I've communicated that to her on a number of occasions.
She went out from us because she wasn't of us. If she had been of us, she would have continued or remained with us. That's what it says. But she went out so that it could be known that she was not of us. There are going to be plenty of false teachers out there and they're going to attract the false believers. Now she is an apologist for a false religious system. Everywhere she can go, she makes a defense for that false system against the truth.
There's no question in my mind whether or not she's a Christian, she's not. She went out from us because she was not of us. And I'll give you a little hint of what's to come. True Christians don't do that. True Christians don't do that. The end of verse 27, he says,"His anointing teaches you, you true Christians, about all things is true and is not a lie and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him." You know what "abide in Him" means? You will remain. You can send a dozen false teachers into this church, you can put them on the television, the radio, the internet, whatever other means to communicate, they will not...they will not draw true believers away because true believers remain, they abide, they stay. And that's why in verse 19 he says, "If they had been of us, they would have remained with us."
You're not going to abandon the truth for a lie if you're a true believer because the faith to believe the truth that God has granted to you is permanent. So their departure was their unmasking. Luke 12:2 says, "Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed or hidden that will not be known." And part of God's work in His church is the work of uncovering. It's really interesting to watch this happen, to watch the people who profess to be Christians follow the deceivers and the liars and the religious phonies, and charlatans. If they had been of us, they would have remained with us. That is the principle.
Now what that's saying is that salvation is proven by perseverance. Have you heard that word? You remember one of the great tenets of Reformed Theology is the perseverance of the saints. True Christians stay true to the faith. Colossians 1:21,"You were formerly alienated, hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He's not reconciled you in His fleshly body through death," you've been reconciled to God. "You have been presented before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach." Isn't that amazing? You've literally been given to God, holy and above reproach because you've been covered with the righteousness of Christ. Verse 23, adds this caveat, "If indeed you continue in the faith and are not moved away." If you are moved away, then you were never blameless and holy before God, you were never justified. You were never reconciled. You were reconciled if you continue in the faith, it is an element of redemption that perseveres. It is a part of God's saving gift. There are no defectors among the ranks of the transformed.
In Hebrews 3:6 it says, "Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house we are if we hold fast our confidence." How do you tell when somebody really belongs to God? How do you tell when somebody really belongs to Christ? If they continue. "If you continue in My Word you're My real disciple." Again Hebrews 3:14,"We have become partakers of Christ if we hold fasts the beginning to the end." If there's perseverance.
So the first thing you can note about antichrists in the congregation is they depart from the fellowship. They don't survive the truth. They come in, they do their work, they like magnets pull those who are not real, if they can, out of the church and their evil treacherous work actually is overturned by God for the purifying of the church. And that's been going on for a long time in Christianity. It's been going on certainly in my lifetime, it's going on all the time. There are false teachers all over the place in Christianity, all over everywhere, pulling false believers away from the true church. So in a sense they meant it for evil, God meant it for...what?...for good. By their defection they give evidence that they never were really of us.
So John is saying...let's go back to 1 John, John is saying,"Look, don't be shaken, don't be rattled by this defection, don't be wondering...oh, oh, oh, what happened, did these people lose their salvation? Are they going after something that we should be listening to?" Don't question what you know, don't doubt your...don't doubt the truth of Scripture. All you saw there happening when those people left was the unmasking of hypocrites. You saw people who never did believe truly apostatize which means fall away before they ever came to full faith. John is saying, "You Christians, don't be shaken by that. Don't be shaken by the fact that that happened. Don't expect that that's never going to happen. Don't think that that can only happen when Antichrist comes. When Antichrist comes they knew that Antichrist would be a deceiver, right? They knew that. They knew that Antichrist would be a deceiver from Daniel, that he would make a pact with Israel and deceive them and break the pact in an abomination of desolations, they knew that, Jesus repeated that in His Olivet Discourse, His sermon on the His Second Coming. I told you they knew the Thessalonian epistles it talked about the men of sin who would come and who literally deceived the world, they knew the coming antichrist would be a deceiver and John is simply saying to them, there are antichrists all over the planet now, some are going to infiltrate the church, they're going to deceive people and lead them out. But when they go out, know this, they never were really of us. And the fact that this is going on should prove to you that it is the last hour, it is the messianic time, and Jesus indeed is the Messiah, or there wouldn't be such an assault on Him. So instead of making them question their faith, it should have strengthened their faith. It should be the very opposite of producing doubt, it should produce confidence.
They were phony from the start. It just took this to unmask them. Let them go. Let them go. Because they are...they're a negative influence in the church, they're infection in the church. See, that's one of the reasons why church discipline is such an important thing. You remember that in Matthew 18 Jesus says,"Somebody sins, go to them, if they repent you've gained your brother. If they don't take two or three, if they don't repent, tell the church." As you know, tell the church, the whole church goes after them. If they still don't repent, what do you do with a sinning person in the church who won't repent? What does it say? What's the next step? "Put them out, treat them like a tax collector, and an outcast, put them out." And when you put them out, you treat them as if they're unbelievers, because you don't have any evidence that they are. You have to wait and see what unfolds, whether or not there will be repentance and the evidence of true repentance in their life which would indicate that perhaps they were true believers. Or became true believers under the influence of the Spirit of God in the time of discipline. But better for the church that they be out than that they be in, infecting the church with their sin. The same is true of anybody who denies Christ. The same is true with anybody who denies the gospel. The same is true of anybody who is a liar and a deceiver. They come in the church, God allows them in the church, so that they can draw to themselves the false believers, so that they can leave the church for the church's own benefit.
And we should know that in this time, this time since Messiah first arrived, this last time when the Messiah has announced Himself, when Jesus Christ is the Messiah in this last hour that the attack on Him that's gone on since He first arrived and will go until He comes back is evidence that it is indeed the last hour. Turn to 1 Timothy chapter 4, boy, our time is going quickly tonight, 1 Timothy chapter 4, the Spirit explicitly says that in later times, in these last times, some will fall away from the faith. They're not true Christians. We just learned that in 1 John 2:19. They'll fall away from the faith. How will they fall away from the faith? They'll pay attention to deceitful spirits, doctrines concocted by demons. They'll believe hellish lies.
How they going to hear them? By means of the hypocrisy of liars, seared in their own conscience. Seared means scarred, that is to say it's senseless tissue. When you scar a portion of your body, you destroy the nerves and so it doesn't have any feeling or any sense. Well their conscience is scarred. They're unconscionable, they don't feel any pain about the fact that they're hypocritical, that they're leading people astray. It's a painless experience to them. They've literally hardened their conscience so long that it's got nothing but scar tissue over it. So here come these hypocritical false teachers, lying, unconscionable liars, but it's as if they've been branded with an iron, they're beyond feeling, cauterized consciences feeling nothing. And they're the ones that spread the lies.
And as a result, "Some will fall away from the faith." They get to the church, they're starting to understand, they're interested to some degree, they get close, like in Hebrews chapter 6, they get all the way up the edge and then they fall away. That's apostatizing. It happens under the influence of false teachers.
Now you want to do everything you can to protect the church. This doesn't mean, "Okay, let's invite all the false teachers in." We want to guard the truth, but we know they're going to come because this is the satanic strategy. We want to keep it at a minimum if we can but we know they're going to come. Oh they may not join this church, but they'll try to influence this congregation. And as I said, they can do it through books and tapes and they can do it through the internet, they can do it every way that media conveys information. Cause that's the strategy. Falling away from THE faith, not faith, falling away from the faith, Christian faith, that is to say the content of the gospel. They fall away from the gospel, from the truth under the influence of these liars.
Now this is not good, even though God overrules it and uses it to purge the church. Turn to 2 John again for a moment as we just kind of sort through these things. I intended to go a little further than I'm able to tonight. But in 2 John 7, many deceivers have gone out into the world. There are many of them out there. And invariably they do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. They always assault Jesus Christ. They've always got some spin on Jesus Christ that's contrary to the truth. This is a deceiver, an antichrist. Verse 8, "Watch yourselves, watch yourselves, be on guard about this so you don't lose what you've accomplished, so you may receive a full reward." Anyone who goes too far doesn't abide in the teaching of Christ, if you follow those false teachers, and you don't stay in the truth of Christ, you do not have God. Same thing exactly that we saw in 1 John 2:19."If you don't stay faithful to Christ, you do not have God. If you do remain in the true teaching, you have both the Father and the Son."
So in one sense we have to guard the church against the false teachers. In the other sense, even though we're protecting and guarding so that we can honor the truth which honors God, we realize that when lies come, lies cannot cause true believers to abandon the faith. What the liars do is collect the people who are professors but who are not possessors, the false Christians and draw them to themselves and thus purge the church.
It doesn't matter what Satan does, God overrules it, doesn't He? He overrules it. And verse 10, "If any one comes to you and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house. Don't greet him. For the one that gives him a greeting participates in his evil deed."
If somebody shows up and has the wrong view of Christ, don't say, "Come on in and let's have a cup of coffee, and we'll talk." Get rid of him, they're the workers of Satan. They're the workers of Satan. They will not destroy your faith but they may assault your confidence. And weaken your devotion to the truth. If you even ask them into your house, that is to say if you welcome them, do anything to aid them in their enterprise, even greet them, you're a participator in their evil deeds.
You know, I take that literally and I want to be as kind a person as I can be. But false teachers cannot receive my kindness. I cannot say anything to them that is kind. I cannot wish them well. I cannot greet them, or I become a partaker in their evil deeds. I'm only left with one thing and that is to confront them. Watch yourselves. But just know this. Anybody who buys into the lies about Christ does not abide in the teaching of Christ, that is to say everything that Christ is and taught, the true Christ, the true gospel..doesn't have God. When somebody leaves this church, I don't care how long they've been here, to go into a false religion, they never were saved, they don't have God. They may affirm the deity of Christ, but deny the gospel of Christ. If you add all this together, you must affirm that Jesus is who He is, the anointed Messiah of God, that He is the Son of the Father, that is God, one with God, that He is God in human flesh, that is He is the God/Man perfectly human, perfectly divine. And here you must affirm not only who He is but what He taught...the gospel.
So John says, "Look, you can tell the antichrists, they leave the church." Don't question why you stayed, you stayed because you're real.. You stayed because you loved the truth. You stayed because God protected you because you're one of His own. You stayed because God by His Holy Spirit has given you the will to persevere, because God has given you a new nature which abides, which remains, which continues, which doesn't default, and doesn't betray and doesn't rebel, and doesn't revolt, and doesn't abandon the truth.
Well, the first characteristic then of these antichrists is that they do not remain. They do not stay. And they do not stay because they are not real. They depart from the fellowship. Secondly, they deny the faith. Secondly, they deny the faith. And I think this is pretty obvious. We've already looked at it, verse 22 and 23, "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ, this is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, the one who confesses the Son has the Father also." And again he goes back to the Christological test. It's always this, true Christians have the right view of Christ, His person, His work, and His gospel. The people who affirm that are the true Christians. The ones that don't are not...are not.
We've been talking a lot about this. Not only do you have to believe in Christ to be saved, contrary to what is now popular, that you can just believe there's a God up there somewhere and go to heaven, not only do you have to believe in Christ to be saved, but you have to believe in Christ who is the true Christ revealed in Scripture...not just your own version of Christ. Not only do you have to believe in Christ, but in Jesus Christ who is the anointed promised Messiah of God, who is both God and Man, and you have to believe what He taught about salvation, the true gospel. And if you don't, you don't know God and you don't have the Father. You can see here again that the Father and the Son are linked, the Antichrist is the one who denies the Father and the Son. You can't deny the deity of Jesus Christ without denying the God who is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is a trinity, He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If you deny the Son, you deny God, the God who is trinity. And if you deny the Son, you don't have the Father. That is to say, if you reject Jesus Christ, you do not know God because there is only one God and that is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's how He designates Himself in the New Testament.
To say that Jewish people who believe in the God of the Old Testament are accepted into God's Kingdom is not true because they deny the Son, they therefore deny the God who is Father and Son. So if you deny the Son, you don't have the Father. If you confess the Son, you have the Father. There isn't any way to the Father except through the Son. There isn't any true understanding of God unless you understand the God who is God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is one in essence with Christ. This again is this marvelous and critical doctrinal test for a true Christian. You can't be in God's Kingdom unless you confess Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Look at chapter 4 verse 2, "By this you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. And whenever a spirit that comes that does not confess Jesus is not from God but is the spirit of Antichrist."
Always, folks, you come back to Jesus Christ. There were all kinds of bizarre views and still are of Jesus Christ. There is the popular and common view that He was just a man, not God. That's intolerable. He is the Son of the Father, the second member of the trinity, He is one with God. He is God. "I and the Father are one," He said, "If you've seen Me, you've seen the Father." "I work and the Father works," that is to say we both work, at the same time we work because we're one. There were those and still are who deny that Jesus is God, that is Antichrist.
And there are those who deny that Jesus is man. As we saw in the passage just read, there are those who deny that Jesus is come in the flesh, 2 John. We looked at it in verse 7. There are some who believe in a...how can I say this?...in a Christ spirit but deny that He ever took on real flesh. This...this was a common view around the time of John's writing. In 100 A.D., that's four years after John died, and John wrote these epistles in the nineties of that first century, so right around that time there was a development of a...of a view connected with a man named Syrinthias(??), later became known as a Gnostic view, and that view...well it's been around for a long time in Greek thought that there was this sort of divine floating Christ's spirit, this sort of spiritual entity, this sort of divine powerful presence that was ethereal and spiritual and supernatural. And Syrinthias believed that, and sort of affirmed this Syrinthian view that John is addressing here, that this floating Christ's spirit descended on the man Jesus at His baptism and left about three years later, just before He died on the cross so that Jesus, the Jesus spirit, the Christ's spirit just came and went temporarily so that Jesus is not God fully incarnate in human flesh, but He is just a man temporarily granted this divine spirit. Syrinthian heresy, of course, was fought against by the church and conquered.
So there were some who said He was just a man and not God, and there were some who said the Christ's spirit is just a divine spirit and not human. Whatever side of that error you'd like to land on, the results are exactly the same. A denial of the incarnation, a denial that Jesus is the God/Man, any denial of that or of the fact that He is the Messiah of God, the promised King, prophet, priest, Redeemer, Savior, any denial or alteration of the teaching of Christ, as we saw in 2 John, constitutes an anti-Christ spirit. You cannot repudiate Christ in any sense without putting yourself on the side of Antichrist. And so we...we see then that antichrists depart from the fellowship and they deny the faith.
Third thing they do, they try to deceive the faithful...they try to deceive the faithful. And we'll end with this one. Verse 26,"These things I have written you concerning those who are trying to deceive you." It's an unsuccessful effort, but they try. They may toss us to and fro, and blow us around with these winds of doctrine, but they cannot make us not sons of God. They cannot...cannot lead us astray ultimately. They can foul up our simplicity of devotion to Christ, they can tamper with our confidence. They can raise doubts in our minds. But they cannot take away our eternal life. They cannot destroy our faith. They may weaken it, they may make it fragile. If we doubt, the Scripture says, He remains faithful. If we deny, He will...what?...He'll deny us. A true believer under the onslaught of false teachers will not deny Christ, though we may struggle with doubt.
John says I'm telling you all these things, I'm writing all this because I'm aware of those that are trying to deceive you, trying to make you think they have the truth. And they weren't able to convince these people of the truth, they had the enlightened knowledge, they had the elevated, remember it's kind of a pre-Gnostic idea, they have the transcendent insight, the transcendent knowledge. They know the truth about Christ, the supernatural truth that you common hoi polloi don't know. They have grasped the glorious transcendent truth and they have pulled together all the other people who grasped that transcendent truth and they have left the church because you will not come along and embrace the truth. And you're sitting here worrying and fretting that maybe the truth has abandoned you and now you're stuck and you've got your doubts and you just need to know I'm writing to you because I know they have tried to leave you in this position of being deceived.
And I'm just telling you, the very fact that Christ was attacked by these people, the Christ that you know to be the Christ of Scripture, the Christ that God has reveled, the very fact that there's relentless attack on the nature of Jesus Christ as to His deity and humanity and Messiahship, the very assault on the essence of His teaching in the gospel should prove to you that He's the Messiah and it is the last hour. Why else would this be going on? And they left, not because they had the truth, they left because they didn't have it. And they took with them the rest who didn't either. And this is a purging and a purifying of the church. They are exposed as the false by their departure.
Of course, their ultimate end is tragic...tragic. In 2 Peter chapter 2 Peter talks about them being reserved for the day of judgment. Terrible words of judgment in that second chapter of 2 Peter. These false teachers are described in such graphic terms, we'll save it for next time.
So in the church, Satan will sow antichrists, deceivers and false teachers. Not necessarily in a local church, it happens here, it's tougher here because we're strong in the Word here and we've overcome the evil one in that sense. But he sows these liars in the church at large, doesn't he? And very successfully. In fact, there are virtually whole denominations, Christian, quote/unquote, denominations that exist today that are made up of nothing but antichrists. People say, "Well, you know, it's too bad about all the mainline denominations going liberal." No it isn't. All the liberal churches, all the dead Christ-denying churches should be separate from the real church, right? So that we know that they are not of us. If they had been of us, they never would have left. And the issue is always Christ.
Well, so does John describe the antichrists, next Sunday night we will look at the other side and see how he describes Christians. Let's have a closing word of prayer as we end our day together.
It's been a wonderful day, our Father, in Your Word and Your people and in worship and in praise and fellowship and testimony and service to You. All we can say is that we're grateful beyond words that You have seen fit to rescue us, to give us the knowledge of the truth which we could not attain to on our own, knowing that the natural man cannot understand the things of God. We have absolutely no capacity to come to the knowledge of the truth. How we bless Your name and praise You and thank You that You have given us that knowledge. You have opened our hearts and minds to understand. You have given us an understanding of sin and our sinfulness so that we confess our sins and You forgive them. You have given us an understanding of Christ, who He is, why He came, what He did, what He said. And that the truth that is in us is permanent, it cannot be taken away and the evidence of that truth is that we remain faithful, that we abide, that we stay while those that are not of us leave following the lies and the deception.
We can think of many people in our church through the years who are gone, gone into false religions, gone into cults, and gone into the whole antichrist spirit of the world itself, having nothing to do with anything religious, led away by lying and deception and demonic doctrine, deceitful spirits, hypocritical liars. And while on the one hand our hearts grieve for them and we would pray that You might be gracious to them, on the other hand we're glad for the cleansing. We're glad for the purging because we know that it is a pure church, it is a powerful and a blessed church. We pray that we might be that church.
But before those that aren't real are drawn away, before they're magnetized and attracted to lies, God, how we pray that if there are people in this church who have not yet embraced Jesus Christ fully, or have not yet come to the end of themselves and in self-denial and a willingness to take up their cross and follow Him, acknowledged Him as Lord and Savior, may they do that now that they might enter into eternal life and be secured in that powerful persevering faith that You grant. We pray, O God, that there would be some like those who gave testimony in baptism tonight were around the church but didn't know You. We pray, O God, before they are drawn away into some apostasy, some final defection, they might come to the full affirmation of the truth in salvation in Jesus Christ. May they cry out for that salvation from a penitent heart and ask that You would grant them the gift of forgiveness and eternal life and full faith to receive it. This we pray that You might be honored in the salvation of those who are the recipients of Your grace who then forever and ever will praise You through all eternity because You're worthy. These things we ask in the name of Jesus Christ and everyone said...Amen. Our prayer room is open to my right by the exit sign, if we can help you personally, please feel free to come. Good night.

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They missed the Polar Vortex over the weekend in Chicago and St. Louis, but the Ducks looked at the weather forecast upon arriving home and saw possible trouble — an expected high of 79 degrees in Los Angeles on Saturday.
That night at 6:30, the Ducks and Kings play their NHL Stadium Series game at Dodger Stadium.
"Kind of thought about it. … I don't know what they're going to do if it stays this warm out. It's going to be something different," Ducks center Mathieu Perreault said Monday after the Ducks practiced for Tuesday's home game against the Winnipeg Jets.
Game officials have expressed confidence the Dodger Stadium ice quality will be fine as temperatures decrease in the evening.
The Ducks will practice at Dodger Stadium at 6 p.m. Friday, and team equipment manager Doug Shearer said he'll get the players' reaction to the ice quality immediately afterward, and also during the game.
Shearer said he'll bring two skate machines to Saturday's game, keeping an extra in the Dodgers' dugout if widespread adjustments are necessary.
"We'll see what the guys say and back off how deep the hollow [skate bottom] is if it's too soft," Shearer said. "Because of our practice time, we'll have a good feel for how it'll be at game time under the lights."
Three years ago, Perreault was on Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau's Washington Capitals' team that beat the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Winter Classic at Heinz Field, where rain hampered the conditions.
"The ice was awful," Perreault said, adding the players' attention to hockey was "a little choppy" during the first period because of the novelty of the game. "We got up to a lead after two, and in the third period the ice was so bad, we were kind of sitting back and chipping pucks out, making it hard for them to make a play in our zone."
At least it'll be warmer for Ducks center Saku Koivu, who played in an outdoor game in Edmonton, Canada, as a member of the Montreal Canadiens when the temperature was minus-13 degrees.
"It's going to be even more special now with the weather," Koivu said. "Playing in California … I don't think anyone ever thought it'd be possible to do here. It's going to be a great experience."
The NHL on Monday requested fans buy their parking pass online at http://www.nhlstadiumseriesparking.com to help traffic flow. General parking is $20; premium are $35 and $50.
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Defenseman Luca Sbisa, out since Nov. 22 because of a torn right hand tendon, played extended minutes in two games for minor league Norfolk over the weekend, returned to the Ducks and was paired with veteran Francois Beauchemin in Monday's practice.
"Ready to go and excited to help the team," Sbisa said.
Sbisa said there was still some minor stiffness in his right wrist because of extended immobility, and said his first game back felt like he was skating with a "40-pound vest" on. But he said he was fine the second game.
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Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen unveiled new bright orange goalie pads Monday.
An indicator he'll start Saturday with the Ducks wearing their special orange jerseys?
"I don't know if Bruce would've known that, since they were ordered two months ago," Andersen said of the pads.
Earlier Monday, Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller showed a photo of the top of the special mask he'll wear Saturday. Hiller agreed with a team official it was best to unveil the entire mask Saturday. So it's looking like Hiller's start.
When: 7.
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Etc.: The Jets have won three games in a row for new Coach Paul Maurice, who said forward Evander Kane (14 goals) will return to play after a four-game absence (hand cut).


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I made one years ago from a receiver for a large air cond. system. had screens in there and probably safe for excess of 300 psi. has a top that is removable with several screws. NOT CLEAR and it is out side on my car lift. I have never changed or reheated the silica bead. sits for long period in the hot sun and seem to be ready all the time.
Mine's rated at 160 psi but only supplied with air regulated to 100 psi so should have a bit of safety margin. However it is a sensible warning, having had a 25 mm 'stop end' blow off I'm aware of the power stored in compressed air.In the case of my main desiccant drier, it is housed in an unmanned Portakabin, so there should be no risk to life and limb.In the case of the one on my CNC Plasma Table, it is more exposed, but the input air is regulated down to 70 psi, so a higher safety margin.
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As mechanical filters load with particles over time, their collection efficiency and pressure drop typically increase. Eventually, the increased pressure drop significantly inhibits airflow, and the filters must be replaced. For this reason, pressure drop across mechanical filters is often monitored because it indicates when to replace filters.
Conversely, electrostatic filters, which are composed of polarized fibers, may lose their collection efficiency over time or when exposed to certain chemicals, aerosols, or high, relative humidity. Pressure drop in an electrostatic filter generally increases at a slower rate than it does in a mechanical filter of similar efficiency.
Thus, unlike the mechanical filter, pressure drop for the electrostatic filter is a poor indicator of the need to change filters. When selecting a gas turbine filter, you should keep these differences between mechanical and electrostatic filters in mind because they will have an impact on your filter's performance (collection efficiency over time), as well as on maintenance requirements (change-out schedules).
"Some fibrous media air filters have electrostatic charges that may be either natural or imposed upon the media during manufacturing. Such filters may demonstrate high efficiency when clean and a drop in efficiency during their actual use cycle. The initial conditioning step of the dust-loading procedure described in this standard may affect the efficiency of the filter but not as much as would be observed in actual service. Therefore, the minimum efficiency during test may be higher than that achieved during actual use."
"Certain types of filter media rely on electrostatic effects to achieve high efficiencies at low resistance to air flow. Exposure to some types of challenge, such as combustion particles in normal atmospheric air or oil mist, may neutralise such charges with the result that filter performance suffers. It is important that the users are aware of the potiential for performance degradation when loss of charge occurs. It is also important that means be available for identifying cases where the potential exists. The normative test procedure, described in annex A, provides techniques for identifying this type of behaviour. This procedure is used to determine whether the filter efficiency is dependent on the electrostatic removal mechanism and to provide quantitative information about the importance of the electrostatic removal"
These paragraphs clearly indicate that air filter experts recognize the effect that time has on the efficiency of filters which rely on passive electrostatic charges. Moreover, there are concerns about the potentially inaccurate test results which may occur when applying the standard to coarse fibre filters that rely on an electrostatic charge.
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After 6 years of collaboration among dozens of researchers, we have a new book!
Suthers, D. D., Lund, K., Rosé, C. P., Teplovs, C., & Law, N. (2013). Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group Interactions. New York: Springer.
The key idea of this book is that scientific and practical advances can be obtained if researchers working in multiple traditions make a concerted and sustained effort to engage in dialogue with each other by comparing and contrasting their understandings of a given phenomenon and considering how these different understandings can either complement or mutually elaborate on each other. This key idea applies to many fields, particularly in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as education and computer science. The book shows how we have achieved this by presenting our analyses of collaborative learning during the course of a four-year project involving dozens of researchers in a series of five workshops. The 37 editors and authors involved in this project generally study collaborative learning, technology enhanced learning, and cooperative work, and share an interest in understanding group interactions, but approach this topic from a variety of disciplinary homes and theoretical and methodological traditions. The sustained dialogue across these multiple "voices" makes this book useful to researchers in many different fields and with diverse goals and agendas.
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Following the meetings held in Berlin (10-11 November 2005) and at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (2-3 March 2006), the World Heritage Centre is organizing a third Periodic Reporting reflection meeting at UNESCO Headquarters, on 9 and 10 November 2006, as requested by the World Heritage Committee.
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Greenwich swims past rival Fairfield Prep
GREENWICH -- "Wow" -- that was the first word out of Greenwich High School boys swim coach Terry Lowe's mouth following the Cardinals' much-anticipated showdown against rival Fairfield Prep Saturday, and rightly so.
From the 200-yard medley relay to the meet's final event -- the 400 freestyle relay -- the times both teams registered were reminiscent of the performances usually seen at the State Open in March.
Indeed, both teams are well ahead of schedule, especially defending State Open champion Greenwich, which remained undefeated with a convincing 116-70 victory over Fairfield Prep before a packed house at GHS.
The Cardinals (5-0) won 11 of the 12 events, including impressive victories in the relays.
"Wow, 1:35 in the opening relay (200 medley relay) wins states almost every year and the same with the 200 freestyle relay," Lowe said. "Both teams had to be really pleased with the times. To swim like that this time of year is amazing."
Senior Alex Lewis and junior Thomas Dillinger each had first-place finishes in two individual events and were part of a pair of winning relays for Greenwich.
"To be honest, we live for the competition we receive in this meet," Lewis said. "No other opponent is as strong as Fairfield Prep, they matchup evenly with us in almost every race. We get pumped up when we face them and this win gives us a great feel for where we stand."
The Jesuits, who lost to the Cards 96.5-89.5 last season, were paced by Bryce Keblish, who placed first in the 200-yard individual medley (1:56.93) and tied Greenwich's Jack Montesi for the top spot in the 100 butterfly (51.37).
"I am thrilled with our performance," said Fairfield Prep coach Rick Hutchinson, whose squad placed second at the State Open last winter. "These were the best times we've done all year and some of the fastest times we've had in a dual meet in school history."
The Cardinals foursome of Montesti, Iain Edmundson, Lewis and Ed Moss began the meet by winning the 200 medley relay in a blistering time of 1:35.27. Dillinger followed by touching the wall first in the 200 freestyle (1:43.26). Nicholas Wargo of Prep was the runner-up (1:45.64).
"I know Nick is a very good swimmer, so I had to take it out fast and maintain," said Dillinger who placed second in the event at the State Open a year ago and also won the 500 freestyle Saturday. "The practices we had before this week were limited due to the weather, but we made the most of what we had and that's why we performed really well today."
Keblish gave the Jesuits a lift in the 200 individual medley and was involved in one of the most exciting events -- the 100 butterfly. Edmundson was the runner-up to Keblish in the 200 IM.
"I knew the guys I was going to be racing, I've raced them in club swimming and high school swimming before, so I knew it was going to be tough," Keblish said. "I tried to work my backstroke, which was the difference in this race. For the most part, I put together four great splits."
In the 100 butterfly, Montesi and Keblish were neck-and-neck the final two laps.
"You don't see ties very often," Keblish said. "It's always fun to have races like that, it makes meets like this special."
Greenwich began pulling away with a 1-3-4 finish in the 50 freestyle and a 1-2-4 showing in the 1-meter diving event. Moss, the defending State Open champion in the 50 free, won the event in 21.01. He captured the Open title last winter in 21.21.
"Moss at 21.01, holy cow, what a time," Lowe said.
"Our times today were astonishing," said Moss, a junior. "We really stepped it up and proved we are the best team. Last year, we beat them by less than 10 points, so this really shows the improvement in our team."
Lewis' individual wins came in the 100 freestyle (46.17) and 100 backstroke (54.76) -- an event he holds the state record in. Bjorn Davis took second in the 100 freestyle and Montesi was the runner-up in the backstroke.
"The 100 freestyle I felt an incredible adrenaline rush," Lewis said. "After Jack (Montesi) tied Bryce (Keblish) I told myself I had to follow up with a great swim."
Andrew Bologna (diving, 234.10) and Edmundson (1:00.63) also won their respective events and the 200 freestyle relay squad (Wurst, Julian Fraser, Moss, Dillinger) touched the wall first for the Cards, who led 51-27 after diving. The 400 freestyle relay squad of Ben Wurst, Montesi, Dillinger and Lewis, edged Prep for first place with a time of 3:11.35. The Jesuits touched the wall in 3:11.61. Anchoring the relay, Lewis came from behind the final lap, giving GHS the win.
"I was about two or three seconds behind, so I knew I had to dig deep," Lewis said. "I was like, `I'm not losing,' and had to really kick it into gear."
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200-yard medley relay -- 1. Greenwich (Jack Montesi, Iain Edmundson, Alex Lewis, Ed Moss) 1:35.27; 200-yard freestyle -- 1. Thomas Dillinger (G) 1:43.26; 200 individual medley -- 1. Bryce Keblish (FP) 1:56.93; 50 freestyle -- 1. Ed Moss (G) 21.01; Diving -- 1. Andrew Bologna (G) 234.10; 100 butterfly -- 1. Jack Montesi (G) and Keblish (FP) 51.37; 100 freestyle -- 1. Alex Lewis (G) 46.17; 500 freestyle -- 1. Thomas Dillinger (G) 4:50.13; 200 freestyle relay -- 1. Greenwich (Ben Wurst, Julian Fraser, Ed Moss, Thomas Dillinger) 1:26.89; 100 backstroke -- 1. Alex Lewis (G) 54.76; 100 breaststroke -- 1. Iain Edmundson (G) 1:00.63; 400 freestyle relay -- 1. Greenwich (Ben Wurst, Jack Montesi, Thomas Dillinger, Alex Lewis) 311.35. Records: Greenwich 5-0; Fairfield Prep 3-1.


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For most of his adult life, Tiger Woods has held the national media in the palm of his hand. He has dictated when he'll talk, who he'll talk to, and what he'll discuss. Alongside Michael Jordan, it's well known that Woods micromanages his image more than any athlete or celebrity in history.
That control, of course, vanished in November with Woods' countless infidelity scandals. And frankly, that control was always something of an illusion anyway. You can't really control what people will think of you, and the more you strain to do so, the more people will resist.
We live in era of media manipulation. People know when you're putting on a show now. They know the celebrity they see doing a fluff interview with Letterman isn't really that way behind closed doors. They know there's plenty behind the façade, and assume some of it is unpleasant. I know I do.
You would think Woods, throughout this ordeal, would have learned that. But it's pretty clear, given the rules for his press conference on Friday, that he's trying harder than ever to spin his image. I mean, seriously: Why do you hold a press conference, invite reporters, but tell them in advance you won't answer any questions? Why are they there then? Why not just release a written or video statement?
Well, there's a very good reason why, at least in Woods' head. By inviting the media to attend his presser, but hushing them up, it's clear that Woods is trying to reassert his dominance over the media that has turned against him. It's also clear that, by apologizing (something he doesn't really need to do), Woods likely intends to make this his final statement on his personal life.
If Woods decides to take Friday to announce his return to golf (and this whole thing is pointless if he doesn't do that), you can bet that he will return to golf intent on controlling the media the same way he did before all this hit the fan. If he plays in the Masters, he'll likely only answer questions about golf (as he did before), and happily ignore anything outside of that scope. Certain media figures will be all too happy to assist him in the whitewashing, given what Woods means to golf's ratings and profitability.
It's Woods right to try and do this, of course. He owes you and me no detailed explanation of what he did. But part of the reason Woods got into this mess was because he was someone who always believed the laws of public scrutiny never applied to him.
Remember, this is a guy who grew up with his father publicly declaring, "The world will be a better place to live in by virtue of his existence and his presence. I acknowledge only a small part in that I know that I was personally selected by God himself to nurture this young man and bring him to the point where he can make a contribution to humanity.


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Cannes 2017: Ruben Östlund's Brilliant 'The Square' Wins Palme d'Or
by Alex Billington
May 29, 2017
Source: Cannes
What a year! Winners of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival awards, including the coveted Palme d'Or, were revealed at a glamorous ceremony in Cannes featuring Monica Bellucci as the host. The big winner of Palme d'Or is Swedish director Ruben Östlund (seen screaming above) with his new film The Square, which makes fun of the art world and brilliantly criticizes modern society. In addition, Nicole Kidman received a special 70th Anniversary award for her many outstanding contributions to cinema over the years, including appearing in 3 films at this year's festival: The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Beguiled, and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (as well as "Top of the Lake: China Girl"). Lynne Ramsay's fantastic You Were Never Really Here also picked up two awards, including Best Actor. No one knew what to expect, but these winners rule.
Here's the full list of Cannes 2017 winners, with most of the key awards listed below, including Un Certain Regard. I'll get into my own commentary after the winners. Head to the official Cannes website for more.
Palme d'Or (Golden Palm):
The Square directed by Ruben Östlund
Grand Prix (Runner Up):
120 Beats Per Minute directed by Robin Campillo
70th Anniversary Award:
Nicole Kidman
Best Director:
Sofia Coppola for The Beguiled
Jury Prize:
Loveless (Nelyubov) directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Best Screenplay:
Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of a Sacred Deer
(tied with) Lynne Ramsay for You Were Never Really Here
Camera d'Or (First-Time Filmmaker):
Montparnasse Bienvenue (Jeune Femme) directed by Léonor Serraille
Best Lead Actor:
Joaquin Phoenix in Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here
Best Leading Actress:
Diane Kruger in Fatih Akin's In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts)
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Prize:
A Man of Integrity (Lerd) directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
Jury Prize:
April's Daughter (Las Hijas de Abril) directed by Michel Franco
Special Prize for the Best Poetic Narrative:
Barbara directed by Mathieu Amalric
Best Directing Prize:
Taylor Sheridan for Wind River
Best Actress Prize:
Jasmine Trinca for Fortunata directed by Sergio Castellitto
That's the full list for this year. Congrats to all of the winners! This is an exciting year. The Square was one of my favorite films of the festival (read my review here) and I loved pretty much all of the winners this year in every single category. Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here is also one of my favorites (read my review here) and I enjoyed The Beguiled, 120 Beats Per Minute, and The Scared Killing of a Deer (read my review here). It's great to see female directors winning a number of awards. I'm also happy about Taylor Sheridan winning an Un Certain Regard award for Wind River. Though I'm not a fan of A Man of Integrity. I'm also overjoyed to see Diane Kruger win, she's excellent in the film In the Fade, and Nicole Kidman was great in all three of her films. Overall, I honestly think this is one of the best sets of Cannes winners in years.
This year's jury was lead by director Pedro Almodóvar and included: Will Smith, Maren Ade, Fan Bingbing, Park Chan-wook, Jessica Chastain, Agnès Jaoui, Paolo Sorrentino, and Gabriel Yared. This is the beginning of the end of our 2017 coverage, another year at the Cannes Film Festival wraps up with the Palme awards.
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Embattled Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie finally pulled the trigger on a signing we can get behind.
The Raiders agreed to terms with former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley on a two-year contract, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport, citing a team source, said the deal is worth $12 million. The team officially announced the signing later.
Woodley carried a 2014 salary-cap figure of $13.59 million prior to his release, so the Raiders are getting him at a fair price.
Viewed as one of the most talented young edge rushers in the league prior to signing a six-year, $61 million deal in 2011, Woodley has been alternately out of shape and unproductive over the past three seasons.
If coach Dennis Allen can light a fire under Woodley, there's still Pro Bowl potential here. He's just 29 years old and was the third-ranked available player on Around The League's Free Agency Tracker following Jason Hatcher's signing with the Redskins.
The question is how the prototypical 3-4 outside linebacker fits in the scheme of Allen and Jason Tarver, which has been 4-3 in the past.
Lamarr Houston provided a clue that the alignment could be changing, when he said a couple of weeks ago that Allen doesn't view him as a fit for his defense.
Provided the coaching staff is playing to Woodley's strengths, this is a solid addition. If there's no plan to switch to a 3-4 defense, though, it's just the latest in a long line of head-scratchers emanating from Oakland.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" recaps the wild start of free agency.


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Vanguard to Trident 1945-2000
The post Second World War Royal Navy has seen a transformation as great as that which occurred in the last hundred years.
The Royal Navy's strategic impact was transformed with the introduction of nuclear powered and nuclear armed ballistic missile submarines. HMS Resolution, the first of the Polaris armed submarines, began operational patrols in 1968 replacing the RAF's bombers as Britain's strategic nuclear deterrent. In the 1990s Polaris was replaced by the Trident missile carried by the four huge Vanguard class submarines.
The speed and endurance of conventionally armed submarines were transformed by nuclear power. It was no accident that the Navy's first nuclear powered submarine in 1963 was called HMS Dreadnought , the name of the revolutionary battleship of 1906. The last conventionally powered submarines were withdrawn in the 1990s and today Britain's submarine force is entirely nuclear powered.
Surface ships
The battleship was largely obsolete and the most modern, HMS Vanguard, was scrapped in 1960. The traditional aircraft carrier force, at its peak in the early 1960s, proved too expensive to retain and the last vessel, HMS Ark Royal was decommissioned in 1978. However, a new type of small carrier with a mix of helicopters and Sea Harrier short take off/vertical landing aircraft was developed and HMS Invincible, Illustrious and Ark Royal entered service from 1980.
The design of escort ships was transformed after the Second World War. As aircraft and submarines began to take over the role of sinking surface ships, they became the primary targets of the escort's weapon systems. HMS Devonshire, the Navy's first guided missile armed destroyer, was completed in 1962. By the 1980s escorts evolved into anti-aircraft destroyers and anti-submarine frigates, each displacing about 4000 tons, the size of a small wartime cruiser.
Changing roles
The coming of nuclear weapons cast doubt on the possibility of a long war like the World Wars. It was uncertain if a new Battle of the Atlantic would occur, but the Korean War of 1950-1953 demonstrated the importance of naval forces in limited war.
By the late 1950s the Navy's main role was one of rapid crisis response 'East of Suez', especially in the Arabian Gulf and South East Asia. The Suez operation of 1956 showed the weaknesses of the amphibious fleet and as a result helicopter carriers and assault ships were introduced by the mid 1960s.
The 1960s saw successful operations to protect Kuwait from Iraq and Malaysia from Indonesia. In 1967-1968 it was decided to withdraw from 'East of Suez' and concentrate on the NATO area. NATO strategy had re-emphasised the importance of naval power supporting the flanks of the European theatre and escorting reinforcements across the Atlantic. This ensured a substantial British fleet into the 1980s.
The Falklands War of 1982 was a remarkable demonstration of maritime power projection, retaking the islands over 8,000 miles from Britain. It emphasised the importance of the navy when its future was in some doubt; as a result many of the drastic cuts announced in the 1981 Defence Review did not take place.
In the 1990s the need for maritime power in an uncertain post-Cold War world was clearly illustrated in the Gulf War of 1991, the Adriatic and elsewhere. The intention to build two new large aircraft carriers, announced in the Strategic Defence Review in 1997, illustrated the greater importance attached to expeditionary warfare.
Social change
Life at sea was transformed as 'broadside messing', in which sailors ate and slept in small groups, was replaced by 'centralised messing', sailors sleeping and eating in separate places. Bunks replaced hammocks and considerable effort went into improving conditions of service to attract the right kind and quality of personnel: the more technological Navy required people with greater qualifications and potential.
Officer entry at schoolboy age was replaced by the mid-1950s by entry at eighteen. It became much easier for ratings to reach officer rank and by the 1990s one-third of officers entered by this route. Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) served at sea for the first time in the 1990s and the title WRNS was dropped as it became fully integrated with the Navy.
The Twenty-First Century Navy
The Royal Navy ended the Twentieth Century more powerful relatively than it had been for some time and perhaps second only to the United States Navy in its ability to project power around the world.
There are sixteen nuclear powered submarines, some of which are armed with nuclear ballistic missiles or conventionally armed Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles. The surface fleet combines three aircraft carriers with over thirty capable destroyers and frigates, an amphibious squadron recently reinforced with a new helicopter carrier and one of the most proven flotillas of minehunters in the world. It is a worthy successor to the fleets of the past whose unmatched tradition of excellence provides a powerful stimulus to the men and women of the Royal Navy today.
Further reading:
- E.J. Grove, Vanguard to Trident: British Naval Policy since World War II (London, 1987) J.R. Hill, "The Realities of Medium Power, 1946 to the Present"and N. Friedman, "The Royal Navy and the Post-war Naval Revolution 1946 to the Present" in J.R. Hill (Ed), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (Oxford, 1995).


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Experience the engaging and intense Combat Command game system with more units, more scenarios, new art, and more! Combat Command: The Matrix Edition is a new updated compilation of the Combat Command series which combines the features, units, scenarios, and gameplay from both Desert Rats and Danger Forward into one fantastic system. Included in this updated release are two brand new thrilling scenarios, Moscow and Stalingrad. This special edition also has support for 8 new armies bringing the total number of national armies included to 15, including support for the combatants in the Pacific Theater of WWII. Combat Command: The Matrix Edition also sports a fine new paint job, with many graphical components of the game improved or completely redone! All the unit graphics have been redone, Fall and Jungle terrain sets have been added, all old terrain sets have been redone, the interface has been tweaked and recolored, and more!
- Combined ruleset and scenarios from both Desert Rats and Danger Forward to bring the best from both titles
- Two new never-before-seen scenarios, Moscow and Stalingrad, to combine with the over 40 scenarios included
- Added 8 new armies to test your tactical might, more than doubling the number available in the original games!
- Redone and improved Winter, Summer and Desert terrain sets
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- As with the original Combat Command system, the engine models a wide variety of combat from amphibious and airborne operations to supply and morale effects, even night attacks, minefields, fixed defenses, and more!
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Is Sustainability still possible? Lecture
Event Date:November 5, 2013 - 6:00pm
Location:University of Maryland's School of Architecture
Erik Assadourian, a Senior Fellow at Worldwatch, will be speaking about the realities of sustainability in the context of today's world and how those realities affect whether or not real sustainability is something that can be brought to fruition.
"Is Sustainability Still Possible?" was the theme of the 2013 edition of the Institute's annual publication "State of the World." The first chapter and section openings for three chapters on particular topics are available here.
University of Maryland's School of Architecture
Room 0204 — Architecture Auditorium
College Park, Maryland
Tuesday November 5th, 2013
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