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BGE(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual BGE(4) NAME bge -- Broadcom BCM570x family Gigabit Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS bge* at pci? dev ? function ? Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. See mii(4). DESCRIPTION The bge device driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the Broadcom BCM570x family of Gigabit Ethernet chips and the BCM5906 chip. The interfaces supported by the bge driver include: · 3Com 3c996-T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T) · Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE- TX/1000BASE-T) · IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE- TX/1000BASE-T) · Netgear GA302T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T) · SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T) · SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000BASE-SX) The BCM570x family supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware. The bge driver supports this feature of the chip. See ifconfig(8) for infor- mation on how to enable this feature. The level of interrupt mitigation for received packets can be adjusted with the hw.bge.rx_lvl sysctl(8) control. A value of 1 yields a bge interrrupt for every two full-sized Ethernet frames. Each increment of the value will, roughly, halve receive interrupt rate, up to a maximum of 5, which interrupts about every 30 to 40 full-sized TCP segments. SEE ALSO arp(4), bce(4), ifmedia(4), mii(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY The bge driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.1. AUTHORS The bge driver was written by Bill Paul <email@example.com> for FreeBSD and ported to NetBSD by Frank van der Linden <email@example.com>, Jason R. Thorpe <email@example.com> and Jonathan Stone <firstname.lastname@example.com>. NetBSD 6.1 September 26, 2009 NetBSD 6.1
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A professor used physics to prove he didn't run a stop sign and avoided paying $400.
Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at the University of California San Diego, was apprehended for running a stop sign. Krioukov then convinced a judge of his innocence through a 4-page paper, Physics Central reported.
According to Krioukov's paper, published online, he sneezed, accelerated quickly and then abruptly slammed on his brakes at a stop sign. Then, a larger car went by his, creating the illusion that he hadn't stopped.
The officer perceived Krioukov's angular velocity instead of his linear velocity. That means that the officer's perspective 100 feet away could have created the optical illusion that Krioukov hadn't stopped when in fact he did.
The California judge was convinced, and Krioukov got off scot-free.
We'll see if his argument creates a precedent in traffic court.
Here's a chart Krioukov made showing how the officer's vantage point could have led to a misperception about speeding:


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PSU breaks ground on Center for the Arts
Monday, February 4, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Members of the Pittsburg State University family came together Feb. 1 for a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Center for the Arts. Because of cold weather, officials moved the ceremony inside, but that didn't prevent participants from turning spades of dirt to signify the start of a project that has been decades in the making.
PSU President Steve Scott opened his comments by paying tribute to those who worked for many years to make the center a reality.
"It's often said that we stand on the shoulders of those who come before us. Never has this been more true than today," Scott said. "This project is the culmination of 35 years of hard work and the contributions of many, many individuals. It was their hope and their commitment that sustained this long journey that brings us here this morning."
Scott said the leaders who advocated for the construction of a center for the arts on campus "understood the importance that the arts hold in a well-rounded education."
The president also paid tribute to the anonymous lead donor, whose $10-million lead gift "signaled Pittsburg State University's intent to reclaim its rightful place as the cultural center of this region."
Tim Emert, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, also talked about the importance of the arts in education. Emert, who also serves as president and a board member of the William Inge Festival Foundation, said the arts enhance all areas of education.
"They help develop communications skills, strengthen character and by their very nature, encourage critical thinking," Emert said. "This is why it is so important that universities and communities continue to invest in the arts."
SGA President Lara Ismert said the groundbreaking was more than a ceremonial start for a new building project.
"It's a celebration of the relationship Pittsburg State enjoys with its students," Ismert said, noting that students have pledged $7 million for the project.
"Why would students, many of whom will not be here when this center opens, pledge their support for a new Center for the Arts?" Ismert asked. "It's because we believe in this university and want to see it thrive for the next generation of Gorillas."
The event concluded with officials, who represented the campus community, donors, and those involved in the actual construction of the building, turning spades of dirt.


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February 3, 2019 Let's Go #3
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- 1 John 4:7 8 & 11
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- Galatians 5:6
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-2
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Part I: Getting Ready for Sex.
Chapter 1: So You Want to Know More about Sex.
Chapter 2: Tuning the Male Organ.
Chapter 3: Demystifying the Female Parts.
Chapter 4: Courtship, Marriage, and Commitment: Getting to Yes.
Chapter 5: It's All about Control: Contraception and Sex.
Chapter 6: Growing Up Fast: The Challenges of the Teen Years.
Part II: Doing It.
Chapter 7: Foreplay: Revving Up Your Engines.
Chapter 8: Intercourse: Coming Together for the First Time.
Chapter 9: Changing Positions: Variations on a Theme.
Chapter 10: Going for the Big O.
Chapter 11: Afterplay: Embracing the Moment.
Chapter 12: Spicing Up Your Sex Life.
Part III: Different Strokes.
Chapter 13: Enjoying Oral Sex.
Chapter 14: Savoring Solo Play and Fantasy.
Chapter 15: Keeping Up with Cybersex and Other Hot Stuff.
Chapter 16: Celebrating Same-Sex Relationships.
Chapter 17: Conquering the Challenges of Mature Sex.
Chapter 18: Thriving Sexually with Illness or Disability.
Part IV: Having A Healthy Sex Life.
Chapter 19: What You Can Catch and How to Prevent It.
Chapter 20: Erectile Dysfunction and Other Male Sexual Problems.
Chapter 21: Low Libido and Other Female Sexual Problems.
Chapter 22: Avoiding Sexual Relationship Pitfalls.
Chapter 23: Sex and the Law.
Chapter 24: Teaching Your Children about Sex and Keeping Them Safe.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 25: Ten Dumb Things People Believe about Sex.
Chapter 26: Ten Tips for Safer Sex.
Chapter 27: Ten Things Women Wish Men Knew about Sex.
Chapter 28: Ten Things Men Wish Women Knew about Sex.
Chapter 29: Ten Tips for Truly Great Lovers.
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Let's go back to Revelation chapter 4 and our study of a visit to the heavenly throne, Revelation chapter 4. The Bible, by the way, refers to heaven about 550 times, both the Hebrew and the Greek words, that being the Old Testament word and the New Testament word, refer to what is lofty, or what is high up. Heaven is simply a name for something very high. In 2 Corinthians 12:2 Paul speaks of three heavens. He says he was caught up into the third heaven.
Simply understood, there is the atmospheric heaven, we live in this atmospheric heaven, sometimes called the troposphere. It is the environment, the atmosphere of air around the earth, the air we breathe. It would include also the heaven of clouds and rain and snow.
Beyond our atmospheric heaven there is what we could generally call the planetary heaven, stars, moon, planets, sun, the heaven of all the celestial bodies where frankly we can't live because we can't breathe. That's the second heaven and it's an infinite amount of space.
And then, thirdly, the heaven where Paul was caught up, the third heaven is the home of God, the divine heaven where God dwells. And while we understand that there is no place that can contain God, Scripture is very, very clear that nothing can contain God...He is too great, He is too glorious, He is too large, He is too infinite. But even though heaven, as it were, cannot contain Him, it is His home. Paul then was saying he was caught up beyond the atmosphere, beyond the planetary space into the very abode of God.
We know it's a long trip to that place if you have to go through the first two heavens to get there. I'm not sure it's quite that simple but if we were to try to understand how far away the third heaven is, we would have to do a little scientific explanation. From the earth's surface and extending upward say seven to ten miles is what is called the troposphere. Extending beyond that is the stratosphere. Extending beyond that approximately fifty miles is the mesosphere. Extending beyond that for 250 miles or more is the ionosphere. And extending beyond that to the outer limits of the planet's atmosphere is what's called the exosphere, that's the planetary heavens.
Beyond that is infinite space and somewhere beyond that is the third heaven. It's a long way. We all understand that. So when Jesus said to the dying thief, "Today will you be with Me in Paradise," He was talking about a very fast trip...very fast, a trip that only God in miraculous and supernatural power could effect.
But beyond the first and the second heaven is the third heaven. To understand the third heaven you can go to the Bible and there are some descriptions. The first description we can only remind ourselves of, we don't take the time to read it again, is in Ezekiel chapter 1. Ezekiel's description of God's throne in heaven is really astonishing. You can't fully understand all that he describes, and I'm sure he didn't either. But under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the first chapter of Ezekiel's prophecy, he attempted to describe what he saw when God gave him a look at heaven...blazing light was reflected off of polished jewels, colored wheels of light were mingled with angelic beings. Around the throne of God, around the throne of the eternal and glorious God, shining in full glory, he saw flashing, sparkling, spinning rainbow of brilliance. He referred to the faces of the angelic creatures, the lion, the man, the ox and the eagle. Although it is difficult to understand every specific in his vision, it was a vision of sovereignty and majesty and glory, it was a vision of angels in all their splendor, a vision of the incredible beauty and symmetry and perfection of the heavenly throne. The wheels were moving in concert, the flashing lightning, the sparkling jewels, the brilliant light, the angels all pictured God's glory. And it was something more than any of us, including the one who wrote it, could even comprehend.
Paul when he took his trip, noted earlier, in 2 Corinthians 12:2 wasn't even allowed to talk about what he saw. And when you come to the New Testament, the best illustration, the best description of heaven comes right here in Revelation chapter 4 and also in chapter 5 as John goes up to the third heaven for his visit and is told by God to write down what he saw. And so we get another glimpse. This is the record of what John saw and heard when he was taken to heaven.
Chapter 4 verse 1, we remind you of what it says, "After these things I looked and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I had heard like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me said, `Come up here and I will show you what must take place after these things.'" Come up here. John, as it were, is caught up into heaven not for coronation, not for glorification, as we noted last time, but for revelation. He is not caught up there to stay, he is caught up there to see something so that he can write it down. What is it? "I will show you...He says...what must take place after these things." What things? The things in chapter 2 and 3, that is the things that happen in the church age, the things that are characteristic in the church. I'm going to show you what's going to happen after these things...after the church, as it were, has run its course this is the end, I'm going to show you the end, the time of coming judgment on the earth at the end of the age. That is what must come to pass after these things.
And so, from here on out to the end of the book of Revelation you have the future. Chapter 4 and 5 actually doesn't get into the future prophecy, it just sets the stage. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the throne room in heaven, the presence of God and the Lamb and set the scene for the judgment which begins to unfold in chapter 6.
Now as we enter the door that is standing open in verse 1, and we come with John through his pen into the throne room of God, the central feature is indeed the throne. And as we read last time through these eleven verses, it becomes apparent to us that the throne is the issue here. The word is used repeatedly in this very brief chapter. And I was pointing out to you last time and I'll continue to do that, some of the features.
First point we made was simply to state the fact of the throne, verse 2, "Immediately I was in the Spirit," that is to say he was in a supernatural ecstatic transcendent state, under the influence of the Holy Spirit so that he was lifted above time and space and he was able to see with spiritual eyes. In that condition, "Behold, a throne was standing in heaven." This is the dominant feature of heaven that John sees. It is the sovereign throne of Almighty God.
We noted secondly that as we focus on the throne, things are going on in connection with the throne. And the second point was"on the throne." Please note at the end of verse 2, "One sitting on the throne." Then verse 3, "And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance." Now the first half of that verse identifies something of the vision of God. The One sitting on the throne, as we noted, is God. We also told you that the temple is the place in which the throne exists. We said that the throne is not in a palace, remember that? But the throne is in a temple.
It should be noted, chapter 21 verse 11, that it says there just so you don't become confused, it describes God there. It describes His glory. And it says that the city of the new Jerusalem, the holy city coming down out of heaven has the glory of God. And again you see it had brilliance like a costly stone, crystal-clear jasper. Again you see the throne later on in the heavenly city and in the heavenly city God dwells and so you would expect the same glory, the same brilliance.
But go over to verse 22 of chapter 21 and you read there, "I saw no temple in it for the Lord God, the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple." Now I simply need to pull those all together to say this, throughout the book of Revelation it speaks about the throne and it speaks about the temple. And it links, as I pointed up to you last time, the temple with the throne. But when you get to chapter 21 and you see the final heaven, the final glory of heaven as manifest through the heavenly city, the new Jerusalem, it becomes apparent that the temple is in fact the presence of God Himself. So God is His own temple, in which His own throne exists. There is a temple in heaven but it isn't a building then, it is a person. It is the very person of God. He Himself is the temple. You see then the eminences of God. He is the temple. He Himself is the throne, no doubt, as well as the One sitting on it.
And what John is seeing here is not a chair in a building, is my point. He is simply seeing the symbol of the sovereignty of God in the very...in the very temple of God which is, of course, the infinite presence of God Himself. Now you can go back to chapter 4, I just wanted to note that so you didn't become confused as you read further in the book.
There is a throne. The throne is in the temple, but the temple in reality is God Himself and the Lamb. The third point that we noted for you was around the throne. And the first thing we saw in verse 3 was there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. We now move off of the throne where we saw God sitting to around the throne. And we said that a rainbow is a symbol of mercy and a symbol of grace. But there are more things around the throne and that takes us further on into the text.
I want you to look at verse 4, and now we get into some of the fascinating elements of this scene. Not only was there around the throne a rainbow in verse 3, but verse 4 says, "Around the throne were twenty-four thrones." Now, there isn't just this one throne in which God is placed in His shining brilliant diamond-ruby glory, but there are some other thrones. Now this is very interesting to me because it means that somebody has been coronated here. Somebody has been elevated here. Somebody is sitting alongside Jesus Christ, alongside God, for we remember in chapter 1 that Christ has been exalted. We remember in chapters 2 and 3 that there was a promise given to the church that we would reign with Christ and even that we would sit on His throne as He sits on the Father's throne. So there is...there is the throne of God and Christ, but there are also twenty-four other thrones. This is quite an interesting thing.
We have to ask the question about these twenty-four other thrones. It appears that there is a shared reigning here. In chapter 20 of Revelation we see another revelation to God, or vision, "I saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given to them." So there is a shared rulership in heaven. There is a shared leadership. Sovereignty is somehow spread among some others. Some others have been coronated and elevated.
Who are they? Some might suggest that they're angels. Well, angels are called thrones in the New Testament, Colossians 1:16. It's a term for some ranks of angels. But no where does it say that angels sit on thrones. No where in the Scripture do we see angels reigning or ruling. In fact, in Hebrews chapter 1 it says they are ministering servants sent out to minister to the saints. We'd be hard pressed, I think, to be dogmatic and say these were angels because these are thrones and furthermore verse 4 says, "I saw twenty-four elders sitting on them." So we wouldn't assume that twenty-four elders were sitting on twenty-four angels. Since angels are never said to reign, are never seen sitting on thrones, we would assume then that whoever the twenty-four elders are they're sitting on these thrones, they have a shared rulership with Christ...probably not angels. It would be best, I think, to see them as human beings.
They're common characters in the play out of this final scenario. The word "elder" is presbuteros, the same word in the New Testament used to refer to the leaders in the church. There is no occasion in Scripture where the term "elder" in the Greek or the Hebrew is specifically and unquestionably related to angels. There is an obscure text in Isaiah 24:23 that some would like to assign to angels but that cannot be for certain. So the term"elder" is used to speak of men. And the one questionable passage in the multiplicity of uses does not change that...since it can't be proven.
It also says that whoever is on these thrones is sitting, you'll notice there in verse 4. The twenty-four elders are sitting. By the way, if I may note, elder would be an inappropriate word to use for angels since angels don't age. It says they were sitting. Angels are not seen sitting. Angels seem to me to be usually seen hovering, flying, standing, ready for action, waiting, not sitting. As I said, in Hebrews 1:14 they are seen in the form of ministry. In Isaiah 6 they are hovering like celestial helicopters around the throne waiting to be bidden to do their duty. In Matthew 18:10 it says that they are always beholding the face of My Father who is in heaven. They surround the throne looking at the face of God, always looking in His face, waiting for any expression that acts as a dispatch to send them on their duty on behalf of the saints.
Whoever these twenty-four elders are, they have entered into some kind of rest. They have sat down. They have taken a seat. It is the rest of a triumphal rule. They're sitting with God around His throne in triumph.
Now you'll notice something else about them in verse 4, "They're clothed in white garments." Angels do appear as white, you see that in the gospel of John chapter 20 verse 12, you see it in Acts chapter 1 verse 10. You see them in white apparel, evidently indicating their purity, their holiness, their glory. But being clothed in white garments is generally the garment of the saints, the clothing of the saints. If you go back in to chapter 3 verse 5,"H"He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments." Chapter 3 verse 5...chapter 3 verse 18, "I advise you to buy for me gold refined by fire that you may become rich in white garments that you may clothe yourselves." So in this immediate context we would assign them the white garment to saints in the church. It is the garment of righteousness, as it were, imputed to them by faith. They have become overcomes by faith in Christ and been granted that garment. In fact, in the description of the bridal garment that the bride of Christ wears in Revelation chapter 19, it says that it was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, white and clean. And the fine linen or the white linen is the righteous acts of the saints. So we are clothed in righteousness.
So we could assume then that this could be men because they are called elders, men because they are sitting and in some ruling triumphal role, some coronated condition. There's another component here I think that's very helpful in chapter 4 verse 4, it says,"They had golden crowns on their heads." Crowns are never promised to angels anywhere in Scripture, nor do we have occasion in Scripture to ever see an angel wearing one. And particularly this one, this is not diadema, the diadem of the king. This isstephanos, the crown of the one who won the victory, the runner's crown, the warrior's crown, the one who went through struggle, the one who went through trial, the victor's crown, the conqueror's crown, the laurel wreath that was given to one who was competing and won the victory.
Holy angels don't struggle with sin. Holy angels don't struggle with personal trials. They're not trying to win some personal triumph over whatever difficulty faces them, although they are in conflict with the forces of hell and the fallen demons, this is not for them a personal conflict...triumph over sin, trials, struggles, as it is for believers. These are stephanos, always the overcomer's crown, the crown of the one who ran the race and finished victorious.
You will notice in chapter 2 verse 10 the promise of this crown given to believers. "Be faithful unto death and I'll give you thestephanos of life." Crowns are for the overcomers. This is a rather common New Testament truth. In the ninth chapter of 1 Corinthians Paul says, "Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things and they do it to receive a perishable crown, or wreath, stephanos, but we an imperishable." So here again believers are in a combat and a conflict and a struggle which yields to them a crown.
In 2 Timothy chapter 4 you are familiar with verse 8, I know. Paul says in the future there is laid up for me thestephanos of righteousness. Again, another victor's crown. In James chapter 1 and verse 12 we will again receive the crown of life. And in 1 Peter chapter 5 and I think it's verse 4 the same again, the unfading crown of glory, always the victor's crown always promised to the believer.
So as I look at Revelation chapter 4, just kind of taking you through that information, it would seem best to me to assume that what you have here is redeemed humanity. Angels could not properly be called elders since they don't age. Angels as far as we can tell in Scripture don't sit. Although they do appear in white, so do the saints. Angels are never given crowns, nor are they promised crowns, but believers are.
Now the question comes, if this is some kind of redeemed and coronated humanity, who is it? Who are these twenty-four elders and what do they represent? Well let me give you a little bit of further insight to help you with that. There were twenty-four elders appointed by David to represent the Levitical priesthood, that's in 1 Chronicles 24, interestingly enough. There were twenty-four elders appointed by David and they were to represent the twenty-four courses of priests.
Furthermore, according to the next chapter, 1 Chronicles chapter 25, there were twenty-four divisions of singers in the temple. Twenty-four patriarchs listed, twenty-four elders representing the priesthood, twenty-four singers representing the divisions of musicians in the temple. Twenty-four then is a...an interesting number that seems to speak of completion. It seems to speak about a representative group. All of the priests were represented in the twenty-four. All of the Messianic genealogy was represented in the twenty-four. All of the musicians were represented in the twenty-four. We could conclude then that twenty-four can be a representative number. So whoever these twenty-four are, they represent a larger group.
All right, then, who do they represent? Now somebody will immediately suggest they represent Israel. They represent Old Testament saints. We have a problem with that. Israel has not by the time of this vision, Israel has not yet been...what?...saved. The Tribulation hasn't begun. A hundred and forty-four thousand haven't been sealed. The witness hasn't been given. Israel has not looked on Him whom they have pierced. Israel as a nation has not been converted yet. Oh yes, there are individual Jews who have been converted and come to Christ all through history, but the salvation of Israel has not yet occurred. They haven't been redeemed. Because they haven't been redeemed they haven't been glorified and coronated and set to reign. Israel's salvation has not yet occurred. There is yet to be a divine judgment on Israel, yet to be the sealing of the 144 thousand Jews, that is yet to come. In fact, it's over in chapter 7, it hasn't happened yet.
So, follow my thought, this cannot represent then a coronated and completed Israel. This cannot be the redeemed crowned clothed reigning Israel represented by these twenty-four elders. It can't be because it hasn't happened yet. The multitude saved out of the time of Tribulation are not included with the twenty-four elders.
Some people say, "Well maybe it's the Tribulation saints." They haven't been converted yet either...not yet. The elders are distinct from those people who are saved who come out of the Tribulation time. The people who are redeemed and saved and come out of the Tribulation, they will sing songs of praise along with the twenty-four elders. It can't be...it can't be a coronated representative of Israel, it can't be a coronated and throned representative of the Tribulation saints because they haven't been converted yet either.
Some say, "Well, twelve of them represent the church and twelve of them represent the Old Testament saints." On what basis do we split the twenty-four? What exegetical basis is there in the text to make twenty-four two twelves? It never says twelve and twelve...so why split the group? If God intended us to have two groups of twelve I think He would have inspired John to put down two groups of twelve. And so, I don't think there's really any compelling reason to say...well, twelve represent Old Testament saints and twelve represent New Testament saints. If they are a representative group, then certainly that is possible, but there's no compelling reason to split into two groups the twenty-four. And you still have the problem of how can you represent a coronated Old Testament Israel, as it were, when they haven't yet been converted as a nation? That has to happen during the Tribulation. Then we read in Daniel 12, at the end of the time of Tribulation, Daniel 12:1 to 3, "Then they will be lifted up and brought into glory." And that doesn't happen till the end of the Tribulation which in this context hasn't yet even begun.
So I don't think it can represent the completed nation of Jews. I don't think it's best to associate it with angels. I don't think it fits the Tribulation saints because they're not converted till later, as you will note in chapter 7 verses 9 and 10. That leaves us with only one other group. And while obviously you cannot be hard and fast and dogmatic about it, it seems to me best to see this as twenty-four elders representing a coronated exalted Raptured church. That is what makes the most sense to me. Certainly if you go to the New Testament and you read the word "elder" it fits the church, doesn't it? It is the common New Testament word for the representatives of the church, for those who are the leaders in the church. And when we see twenty-four elders we could easily understand that they represent the whole church.
According to 2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 8 it says, "There is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day and not only to me but also to all who have loved His appearing." Paul says there's a day coming when believers are going to be coronated, when believers are going to be enthroned, when believers are going to be crowned. And I believe that that glorious day is the Rapture.
Now what are we going to conclude then? Follow the thought. If you have a coronated, crowned, exalted, glorified church in heaven, you've had to have a Rapture. This then becomes one of the important texts to look at when trying to understand a pre-tribulational Rapture. Furthermore, I want you to understand the song the elders sing. Go to chapter 5 verse 8, "When He had taken the book," that is the Lamb, "the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints and they sang a new song, saying, `Worthy art Thou to take the Book and to break its seals, for Thou wast slain and didst purchase for God with Thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. Thou hast made them to be a kingdom and priest to our God and they will reign upon the earth.'"
Here you have the elders and they are joined by the four living creatures, we'll talk about them in a moment who are angels, and they're singing a song of redemption. And so I think it's consistent that we represent the church. They have found their place in the Father's house. They are the overcomers who have received their crowns. They are the ones who were promised that they would reign with Christ and they are now sitting on thrones. They are living in the place prepared for them in John 14, Jesus said, "I will come and take you to be where I am." And where He is is in the Father's house and that's where He will take us. They have gone to be with Jesus. They have been coronated. They are sitting on their thrones. They are wearing the crowns, as it were, and all of this is symbolic of their glorification. I think there's every reason to see in this a raptured, glorified church.
Now follow this. These twenty-four elders, which seem to be the representatives of the church, watch the mighty accession of those who are coming out of the Tribulation with washed robes. Look at chapter 7 verse 11. "And all the angels standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God saying, `Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.' And one of the elders answered saying to me, `These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they? And from where have they come?'"
One of the elders said, "We've got some new folks here. Who are these people?" "And I said to him, `My lord, you know.' And he said to me, `Yes.'" It was a rhetorical question. "These are the ones who come out of the Great Tribulation and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Isn't that interesting? You have the church in heaven welcoming the Tribulation saints. Again that speaks of a pre-tribulational Rapture. They are there in heaven already watching the accession of the Tribulation saints coming up out of the Tribulation.
They are also in heaven when the seventh angel sounds. Go over to chapter 11 verse 15, "The seventh angel sounded," and now you're really getting near the end. Verse 15, "There arose loud voices in heaven saying, `The Kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He will reign forever and ever.'" Now Christ is going to take the world over. This is the end. This is the last moment, the seventh trumpet immediately followed by seven bowls of wrath in a brief period of time. And the world becomes Christ's. Then verse 16, "And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God saying, `We give thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who was because Thou hast taken Thy great power and has begun to reign.'" There are the twenty-four elders. They're in heaven when the Tribulation saints are converted and come into glory. They're in heaven when the seventh angel sounds and the kingdoms of the world become the kingdoms of Christ.
Go to chapter 14. In chapter 14 verse 1, "I looked, and behold the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion and with Him 144 thousand." You remember, that's twelve thousand out of every Jewish tribe. The Jews don't know what tribe they are but God does. And they'll be His witnesses during the Tribulation. "And there are 144 thousand of them, they have His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters, like the sound of loud thunder and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps and they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders and no one could learn the song except the 144 thousand who had been purchased from the earth."
Now here again you have the elders and where are the elders? They are in heaven when the 144 thousand are on earth gathered together at Mount Zion. They watch the mighty accession then of the Tribulation saints who are coming to Christ and coming to heaven. They are in heaven when the seventh angel sounds. They are in heaven when the 144 thousand are gathered.
Go to chapter 19. In chapter 19, "After these things I heard as it were," this is right at the time of the destruction of the whole world system when God destroys the whole system called Babylon. "A loud voice of a great multitude in heaven and they're saying,`H`Hallelujah, salvation and glory and power belong to our God because His judgments are true and righteous. He has judged the great harlot...that's Babylon, the false religious system...who was corrupting the earth with their immorality. He has avenged the blood of His bondservants on her.' And a second time they said`Hallelujah,' her smoke rises up forever and ever and the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, `Amen, hallelujah.'" They're there again. There you see the twenty-four elders sitting enthroned in heaven from which they watch the overthrow of the Babylonian system.
So what...if we can conclude anything here is clearest to me is that you have twenty-four elders representing the church...the church then having been caught up to heaven is there while the Tribulation goes on from which the church watches Tribulation saints coming to glory, watches and hears the seventh angel sound, watches while the 144 thousand are sealed and watches while God overthrows the Babylonian system that dominates the time of the Tribulation.
So, we are not...we are not able to be absolutely dogmatic because the text does not tell us specifically who the twenty-four elders are but I have reason to think that this is as good an understanding as we can have. The twenty-four elders then probably aren't angels. They probably aren't the nation Israel. They probably are not the multitude on the earth during the time of the Tribulation, but most likely would represent the church. They are the new priesthood, as it were, they are the new kings and priests as we are called in Revelation chapter 1. We as the church are represented in the twenty-four elders, having been caught up into glory.
Now let's go back to our text. We saw the throne. We saw who was sitting on the throne. We saw what was around the throne, a rainbow and twenty-four thrones with twenty-four elders. Let me take you to a fourth point...from the throne, from the throne. Verse 5, "And from the throne," you see you can outline this whole chapter with prepositions. "From the throne proceed flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder."
That's just a little part of that verse. But it's very important. "From the throne" is a reverent way of referring to God. He is the throne. He is the temple. He is on the throne. From God proceed flashes of lightning, sounds and peals of thunder. What's the point here? The point is God is in a judgment mood, that is the point. God is in a judgment mood. Coming out of Him is fury. In chapter 8 verse 5 it talks about the angel who took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, threw it to the earth and followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and earthquake. Now what you see in 8:5 is on the earth what John saw in heaven. It comes out of God and all the way down to earth.
Chapter 11 verse 19, "The temple of God which is in heaven was opened and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and earthquake and a great hailstorm." There's a similar vision as John again sees heaven and sees the same lightning and the same flashing, thundering. Chapter 16 verse 18, "The seventh angel sounds, pours out his bowl," this is the end of the judgment, the final climax. What is it? "Flashes of lightning, sounds and peals of thunder." The very same terminology.
So what you're seeing in heaven is just a preview of the explosion of thunder and lightning that's going to tear up the whole world. And it isn't the thunder and lightning men are used to, it's the thunder and lightning of the fury of God, not the fury of nature. We shouldn't be surprised at this, you can go all the way back in to the book of Exodus and you see God manifesting Himself in the same way. I think it's chapter 19 where God was revealing Himself...yes, verse 16, "Thunder, lightning flashes, thick cloud, loud trumpet sound, everybody trembled." And so here does John see coming from the throne evidences of the judgment fury of God. This is prophetic then of the fire storm of righteous fury about to come from the holy throne on a sinful world. You are now beginning to see God move into action. And when chapter 6 opens up, that fury begins to unfold on the earth.
So what do you have? The throne, on the throne, around the throne, from the throne...fifthly, before the throne...before the throne. Another preposition opens to us another dimension. In verse 5 in the middle, "There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven spirits of God."
Now we come before the throne. And we see something else. Verse 6 says, "And before the throne there was, as it were, a sea of glass like crystal." Two things then are before the throne. First, seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. This is not a lampstand. Remember back in chapter 1 we saw lampstands and the Lord was fixing the lampstand and it represented the church. This is not a lampstand used indoors, this is a torch used outdoors. John sees seven torches of fire. They're burning around God's throne.
You say, "What is this?" He tells you, it's the seven spirits of God. You say, "Wait a minute, I thought there was one Holy Spirit." You're right but the...the idea of the language is the seven-fold spirit. These are not lamps that give off a soft gentle light to the indoors, these are fierce blazing torches. And what you see in the Holy Spirit here is fury also. These torches were used for war. Go back and read Judges 7, read Nahum chapter 2, torches associated with war. God is ready to make war and the Holy Spirit is His war torch.
The seven spirits of God have also been mentioned back in chapter 1 verse 4. We went in to detail when we studied it there. And I told you they're basically two passages that help you with that. One is in Isaiah 11:2 because in Isaiah 11:2 you have a very kind of clear outline of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in seven dimensions. Let me just remind you of it. Isaiah 11:2, "And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him." And then it says this, "The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord." There you have seven titles for the Holy Spirit. He's the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of wisdom, the Spirit of understanding, the Spirit of counsel, the Spirit of strength, the Spirit of knowledge and the Spirit of fear or reverence.
There you have then the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The seven-fold torches represent the seven-fold Spirit, the fullness of the Spirit. Also, I mentioned to you that He could be alluding to Zechariah chapter 4 because in Zechariah's prophecy in chapter 4 he also alludes to the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And he pictures the Holy Spirit as a seven-fold lampstand. That's where the Jews get their menorah, you know that seven-candle...seven-candle candlestick. Zechariah talks about in verse 6, "Not by might and nor by power but by My Spirit," says the Lord. So the seven-fold torch vision is the seven-fold Spirit.
By the way, the seven-fold Spirit of Isaiah...wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, knowledge, reverence, deity. The seven-fold Spirit of Zechariah is power. The seven-fold Spirit of Revelation 1, grace and peace. But the seven-fold Spirit here, fiery judgment. Could this be the fulfillment of the words of John the Baptist? Matthew 3 said Jesus was coming and when He comes He'll baptize you with fire, with the Holy Spirit and with fire. This of which John spoke was a judgment prophecy. The fiery fury of the Holy Spirit is associated with the flashing light and the thunderous peals of the throne of God.
The Holy Spirit know to us as the Comforter becomes the consumer. And He will consume you if you do not know Christ.
Then also verse 6, "Before the throne..." the language here is...is a little bit elusive. "Before the throne, as it were, like...well, it was and it wasn't...a sea of glass like crystal." Now you hear a lot of people talk about a sea here. This is not a sea, this is a sea of glass. Sea is metaphorical. What John saw at the base of the throne was crystal glass. It's very important to note that. Revelation 21 says, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth," verse 1, "and the first heaven and the first earth passed away and there was no longer any sea."
So Revelation 21 says there's no sea in heaven. What John saw here was not a sea, there's a river, not a sea. What he saw here was crystal glass like a sea. On the throne sits God. His refracting presence coming through, as it were, diamonds and rubies and an emerald rainbow. And then at the very base of the throne is crystal glass, refracting through every imaginable prism that it could possibly contain, the light of God's glory and bouncing it throughout the infinite universe. A huge crystal base stretching out before it, glistening. This is the pavement of crystal on which the throne of God sits.
Back in Exodus 24:10 Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the seventy of the elders of Israel and they saw the God of Israel. Listen to this, "And under his feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire as clear as the sky itself." They're describing the same thing. A pavement crystal clear and yet sapphire. Yes, because what comes from God is blazing light and fiery red...the color of sapphire. Ezekiel chapter 1, Ezekiel describes the floor. He says, "There's a floor under God's throne," he says, "It's the color of awesome dazzling crystal stretched across the sky," Ezekiel 1:22. It's absolutely consistent.
So there is this magnificent crystal base. Heaven is not a world of shadows. Heaven is not a world of mists. It is a world of splendiferous light, refracting through jewels and crystal beyond anything we could ever describe of even imagine. There is God in all His glory ready to pour out His fury. God's splendorous and glorious beautiful, majestic, sovereign powerful and holy and filled with wrath.
So, we look on the throne, around the throne, from the throne and before the throne. And we'll stop there. There are two more points, in and around the throne and toward the throne, but that's for next time.
Father, we are awed by the vision, thrilled at Your glory. We have so much anticipation for the day when we enter heaven and we see this magnificence. But, God, we know as well that this is a scene of fury, judgment, wrath and our hearts grieve for those whose sins have separated them from you. We thank You, Father, for the hope we have to be in that heaven that John shows us. But we also know that there are many, a world of people who will never know the glories of heaven, only the horrors of hell. And we can only pray for their salvation and call on them to embrace Christ.
Thank You, Father, for giving us such a vivid glimpse of Your sovereignty as we see the power begin to unfold in future judgment. Thank You for the warning of this book. Thank You that it sets down for all to see who will look...exactly where history goes and what happens to those who know not Christ. Thank You, Father, for the grace of such a revelation.
We thank You for the hope of the redeemed church, to be caught up to meet You in the clouds and be taken to the place You've prepared for us, there to enjoy the time of our coronation, our reigning with You as kings and priests, as Peter said, there to enjoy the time of rewards, the marriage supper of the Lamb while the judgment breaks loose in this world. Thank You, Father, for our hope. And yet as we rejoice in our hope we sorrow with those who have no hope. And may our hearts open to them to see them move from hopelessness to hope, even as the testimonies we heard tonight. We thank You in Christ's name. Amen.
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The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults.
Brian Floca, who hails from Temple, Texas, won the 2014 Caldecott Medal for "Locomotive," which he wrote and illustrated. The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded to the most distinguished American picture book for children for the year. "Locomotive" was published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. (**See below for a brief interview with Floca.)
"Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures," written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press, is the 2014 Newbery Medal winner. The John Newbery Medal goes to the most outstanding contribution to children's literature.
The Coretta Scott King Book Award recognizes an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults. "P.S. Be Eleven," written by Rita Williams-Garcia, is the King Author Book winner. The book is published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
The Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award goes to "Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me," illustrated by Bryan Collier. The book was written by Daniel Beaty and published by Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group.
The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award goes to "When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop," illustrated by Theodore Taylor III. The book is published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership.
The Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement goes to Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. The award is presented in even years to an African American author, illustrator or author/illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and/or young adults, and who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution.
And the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults goes to "Midwinterblood," written by Marcus Sedgwick. The book is published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group.
**Illustrator and author Brian Floca, who was born and raised in Temple, won the Randolph Caldecott Medal on Monday for his picture book "Locomotive."
Awarded annually by the American Library Association, the Caldecott goes to the most distinguished American picture book for children.
"Locomotive," which Floca also wrote, takes place in the summer of 1869, when the First Transcontinental Railroad — which ran from Omaha, Neb., to Sacramento, Calif. — was completed. Drawn in pen and ink and watercolors, "Locomotive" explores the "iron horses" that rode the rails and the landscapes passengers would have seen flashing by.
"Temple was founded by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway," said Floca, 45, on the phone from his Brooklyn, N.Y., home. "There was a train that used to be in a prominent spot in town, and you'd drive by it all the time. When I started my book, I just started drawing something that looked like that train."
Floca grew up on the southern edge of Temple. He liked to play in the woods, read and watch bad movies on TV.
"As a kid, I did a lot of 'Star Wars' and 'Hobbit' drawings," said Floca, who graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island and earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. "I got a lot of support from my family and teachers."
Floca spent this past Christmas in Texas and did a book-signing in his hometown. "My fourth-grade teacher came," he said. "It was so great to see her. I remember her using some of my drawings in her lesson plans. At a time when you hear about arts funding in schools being cut, I am very appreciative of the support I got as a kid."
In addition to "Locomotive," Floca has illustrated and written other picture books: "Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11," "Lightship" and "The Racecar Alphabet." He also illustrates books written by others, including the popular Poppy Stories series by Avi.


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Should you use up cosmetics you already have before buying new, safer products?
When do you use up products you already have, and when do you either try to return them or just opt to throw them away?
I got that question today. Here it is in full, along with my answer:
"I would like your opinion. Before I heard you on Martha Stewart on Sirius, I was purchasing my normal stuff. I would do recyclable as much as possible, didn't know much about free trade or organic or all that. Then I bought your book. Now, I've read your book and would like to do what I can to protect myself and the environment. What would you suggest I do with several unopened cosmetics, or the rest of already opened cosmetics? I've got half bottles of shampoo and conditioner that I would gladly replace with organic. I've got unopened bars of Neutrogena soap and unopened bottles of Neutrogena acne wash. I've got unopened Neutrogena cosmetics (powder, under eye concealer). Should I use up what I have already opened? Dumping it and just recycling the bottles doesn't sound right. If you would share your opinion, I'd appreciate it."
Here's how I responded:
"Is there any chance of returning the unopened products? The easiest would be to take them back to the store where you bought them. I called the Neutrogena customer service line ( https://www.neutrogena.com/contactus.asp?mainVal=as ) and they said that as long as the products are unopened, the store should take them back, even if you don't have a receipt.
"Re: the opened and half used shampoo, conditioner and soap, I would go ahead and use them up, since if you throw them away you have probably a worse effect because you're dumping more concentrated materials down the drain or in the dump than diluting them somewhat with water. Also, these are products that don't usually penetrate your skin. There is the least health risk in using soaps that only stay on your body for minutes, as opposed to products like make-up and deodorant that are designed to penetrate the skin over time.
"With the opened cosmetics, honestly, I have an old cosmetics bag that I've unwanted dumped lipstick, blush and mascara into. I no longer want to put these products on my body, but I don't want to throw them away either. Someday, I'll include them in my city's hazardous waste pick-up. They don't really qualify as hazardous material, but that just seems better than tossing them in the trash (though, if you didn't want to bother with that, you could double bag them and throw them away. Most things don't degrade in a landfill, so they'd probably remain intact, especially since they're also in a case)."
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Teen Girls Charged With Killing Pet Birds During Break-In
Police are accusing two teenage girls of committing a horrific crime when they broke into the home of a fellow student on Super Bowl Sunday. According to Fox News, Hallie Pate and Jordan Ruiz killed two parakeets belonging to their classmate and smeared the bird's blood on the furniture and doused the interior of the home with lighter fluid.
Police allege the two girls stole an Xbox One gaming console and medical inhalers from the house as well. After they were done inside, the two girls went outside and set a parked car on fire before leaving.
WITN reports police were able to locate the girls after they attempted to sell the stolen items. They face a dozen charges including " two counts of felony cruelty to animals, breaking and entering, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, larceny after breaking and entering, and obtain property by false pretense."
Both girls are being held on $50,000 secured bonds.
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While millions of tourists flock to New Orleans each year for the fun, food, and music, only the locals know that Mid-City staple Rock 'N' Bowl has it all — including an authentic NOLA experience you just can't find on Bourbon Street.
Still sporting many of the decorations and memorabilia from 1958, when neighboring Pelican Stadium accounted for most of the business, this late-night hot spot has a vib all its own. Rock 'N' Bowl's 18 bowling lanes are complimented by a stage and dance floor, a menu of bar-style treats with a Cajun twist, and a fully stocked bar.
Like the city itself, Rock 'N' Bowl is a unique mixture of old and young, generational residents and new transplants, serious bowlers and…the rest of us. I personally find it hard to care about the five pins still standing when Kermit Ruffins or the Iguanas or the Bucktown Allstars take the stage. It's not unusual for a favorite band or song to send perfectly dressed jitterbuggers spilling off the dance floor and into the pits or even to catch a couple of regulars waltzing on the bar.
After struggling through slow start in the mid-80s, Rock 'N' Bowl seems to have found its place. Special occasions (such as Elvis' birthday) or popular bands can attract hundreds, so get there early if you don't want to wait outside for people to leave. Even so, the alligator sausage, softly blinking lights, and ever-changing mix of funk, zydeco, and jazz performers justify the wait.
There's something about Rock 'N' Bowl that can't really be described so much as experienced: When it's way past midnight and the drums are kicking and the saxophone starts singing…you will quickly forget that you can't bowl and you'll finally understand what makes this city a thing all its own.


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I believe that efficiency comes into play when you do not sparge. It serves as a rinse and really ensures you wash all of the sugars off of the grain.
couldn't I just put ALL the water needed into my MT keep it at 152ish THEN just raise the heat to 170 for the last 10 minutes….done?
Expect about 50% efficiency if you do not do a sparge. I have tried the no-sparge method a few times and that seems to be true every time. When I do a separate sparge, I get around 75% efficiency.


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|A complete Betty Foy. Credit: Rivendell Bicycle Works.
While we're on the subject of mixtes, it seemed like a good idea to include the Betty Foy. As with other Rivendell frames, the Betty Foy is high quality steel, with investment lugs. The frameset is currently available in three sizes: 50, 55, and 60 cm.
Here is what Rivendell, i.e., Grant Petersen, has to say about the Betty Foy:
Clearance is key to the Foy. It has enough to fit tires up to 40 mm wide, so it's good on rough roads. It has clearance to take fenders easily, even with 40 mm tires, so it's the ideal foul weather commuter. What you can do on a bike, you can do on your Betty Foy.
The name "Betty Foy" comes from a character in the Wordsworth poem "Idiot Boy" (go ahead, read it!). This is a nice touch, given that there is something poetic about mixtes.


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Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when teen pop star Justin Bieber played two sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 28 and 29.
There were thousands of screaming girls, and Bieber seemed especially pumped to be performing at what is widely considered the world's most prestigious entertainment venue. In the 10 concerts witnessed by a Star writer on Bieber's Believe tour, a bra flying onto the stage during an encore at the second Garden show was the only thing unusual that night.
But behind the scenes, there was something both sinister and bizarre going on, though it is not known whether Bieber or his people knew of it.
A police affidavit alleges that two prison inmates and a nephew were hatching a plot to murder Bieber and his director of security while the singer was in New York for those shows.
Details of the grisly plan — which involved strangling two other victims with a paisley tie and then castrating them — were revealed Wednesday in an affidavit for arrest obtained by New Mexico State Police.
But the plot may have been thwarted by a missed highway exit and a pair of recorded phone calls between an inmate and one of the accused.
According to the affidavit, the plan was hatched behind bars after inmate Dana Martin was transferred from a Florida prison to the Southern New Mexico Corrections Facility in April.
Shawna Richer travelled North America for two months, watched the superstar perform 11 concerts, and met hundreds of fans, in search of what it means to be a Belieber. Available Friday Dec. 21 at stardispatches.com
Martin, 45, serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in Vermont, was reportedly obsessed with Bieber. He had written him letters and even had a tattoo of the singer on his leg.
He allegedly recruited Mark Aaron Staake, 41, a fellow inmate at the time, after Staake noticed the tattoo on his leg. The plan was to kill four people in two states, with Bieber as the main target.
Oddly, the details were spilled on Nov. 20, when Martin asked to speak to police, telling them Staake (who had been released on probation on Oct. 22) and his nephew, Tanner Ruane, 23, had been planning to commit the first two murders, neither of them Bieber. New Mexico police declined to identify those intended victims.
In his interview with police, Martin described how the first two killings were to be carried out: strangulation with a paisley neck tie, followed by castration with Fiskars "Durasharp" brand garden clippers. The affidavit said there was a bounty of $2,500 on each testicle.
"Martin stated that a paisley tie needed to be used because that was what he (Mr. Martin) had used previously," the affidavit reads.
Martin is serving consecutive life sentences for murders committed in 2000. The strangulation murder of the 15-year-old girl was a "case of jealousy," police told The Associated Press.
In his police interview, Martin said that in addition to the two Vermont slayings, there would be two more targets. The main one was identified in the affidavit as J.B., who "has a measure of fame."
Lt. Robert McDonald of the New Mexico State Police told the Star that "J.B." was Bieber. However, investigators from New Mexico State Police have yet to make an official statement.
The affidavit describes Martin as "a very good manipulator," who, "as part of his ruse," convinced Staake he had access to large sums of money and a multimillion-dollar historic home where Staake and Ruane could hide out.
He also allegedly told Staake he had connections to Chinese gangs in New York, who had "sanctioned" the murders.
Martin told police he had been in contact with Staake since his release, and that Staake was to be in New York City in late November.
McDonald declined to speculate on why Martin revealed the plot to police when he did, but a pair of phone conversations on Nov. 19 hint at a plot unravelling.
The plan, according to the affidavit, called for two murders in Vermont, followed by two in New York. But the would-be assassins missed an exit in Vermont and were headed toward Canada on Nov. 19 in a 1983 BMW. When they spoke with a U.S. border agent at the Highgate Springs crossing, Staake was arrested on an outstanding New Mexico warrant.
That same day, Ruane phoned Martin in a call, recorded by the prison, telling him of Staake's arrest. "Mr. Ruane did not want to 'move it forward' without Mr. Staake," reads the affidavit, referring to the two Vermont killings.
Ruane then made his way south, phoning Martin again from a truck stop in Rotterdam, N.Y. The focus of that call was on Victims 3 (Bieber) and 4.
In the recorded conversation, Ruane tells Martin that Staake was going to "handle the whole putting down of the 'dogs' and I (Mr. Ruane) was going to go 'snip, snip.'"
Martin went to police the next day and Ruane was arrested Nov. 26 by New York State Police, who had been on the lookout for the BMW.
New Mexico State Police are working to get Staake and Ruane back to that state. "Paperwork is in the process to get them extradited," said McDonald.
The question now is could the alleged hit men have got close enough to Bieber to carry out the abduction and gruesome attack?
The pop star employs an imposing security detail. Chief among them are security director Moshe Benabou, a former Israeli soldier, and Dustin Folkes, a celebrity bodyguard based in Los Angeles. They are never far from him. Nor is tour manager Kenny Hamilton, who formerly served as Bieber's bodyguard.
"We take every precaution to protect and ensure the safety of Justin and his fans," Melissa Victor, vice-president of media and artist relations for Island Def Jam Music Group, told the Star in an email.
These bodyguards are obsessively protective of Bieber when it comes to paparazzi and sometimes even well-meaning fans.
Given the number of teenage girls who follow Bieber and stake out his hotels, his security detail is vigilant. He was the target last year of an allegation that he fathered a child with an obsessed fan after a brief encounter in a backstage bathroom. Bieber supplied DNA to prove he was not the father.
Related: Justin Bieber at The Rogers Centre
Grammy Awards: Justin Bieber shunned, Drake and Carly Rae Jepsen nominated
Justin Bieber tops Bing searches in Canada


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Everyone has sinned and broken God's laws. Because the penalty for sin is death, each of us deserve to spend eternity in hell in separation from God. We are totally incapable of achieving heaven on our own. There is no way we can be good enough to attain forgiveness from sin or achieve eternal life by our own works.
God so loved the world that He gave His only son, Jesus Christ, to rescue us from our sin. Jesus died on the cross, was buried, and rose again on the third day. He paid the penalty for our sin and took the punishment that we deserved.
Forgiveness and the free gift of eternal life is offered to anyone who will repent of their sin, and believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior. Redemption is wholly by the blood of Christ, and salvation is by grace, through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God, and the final authority for our lives. It is literal, historical, and infallible.
There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God, born of a virgin, sinlessly perfect. His sacrifice is substitutionary and representative. He rose bodily from the dead and ascended to His Father's right hand, where He now ministers as our Great High Priest.
Jesus Christ is coming again to rapture His church, and subsequently to return and reign over the earth.
God created the universe ex nihilo (out of nothing) by His spoken word in six literal days as the Bible states.
There will be a resurrection of both the saved and the lost to either eternal life or eternal judgment.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Nick Tepesch pitched six strong innings for his second win while Elvis Andrus and Nelson Cruz each drove in runs to lead the Texas Rangers to a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night.
The first-place Rangers have won six of their last seven games.
Tepesch (2-1) allowed five hits in 6 2-3 innings. He shut the Twins out through six before Josh Willingham homered in the seventh inning to make it 2-1.
The rookie right-hander had allowed only two baserunners up to that point and showed no lingering effects from taking a liner off his right forearm in his previous start last weekend against Seattle.
Minnesota starter Vance Worley (0-3) allowed two runs and six hits in five innings.
A night after scoring nine fourth-inning runs in L.A. against the Angels, the bleary-eyed Rangers landed in the Twin Cities at 6 a.m. on Thursday and didn't look nearly as good against Worley.
They didn't need to, thanks to Tepesch, who flew ahead to Minnesota the night before. He retired the first 12 batters he faced before Justin Morneau singled up the middle to lead off the fifth.
The Twins finally got to Tepesch in the seventh when Willingham drove a fastball 351 feet into the left-field seats.
Chris Parmelee and Trevor Plouffe each followed with two-out singles to chase Tepesch. Robbie Ross relieved to get Ryan Doumit on a groundout to end the inning.
Tanner Scheppers induced Willingham into a based-loaded double play to cap a scoreless eighth, and Joe Nathan pitched the ninth for his seventh save in as many chances.
Cruz, who has RBIs in five-straight games, drove in his club-leading 18th run of the season in the second on a single that scored Adrian Beltre from third. Andrus made it 2-0 in the fifth with a run-scoring double.
Notes: Tepesch has not walked a batter since walking three in the second inning of his debut on April 9. ... Andrus has no errors in his last 80 chances, the longest streak of any shortstop in the A.L. ... Worley hasn't won a start since Aug. 1 of last season, when he played for Philadelphia. ... Twins C Joe Mauer went hitless for only the fourth time this season.


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The U-2 spy plane figured prominently in information-gathering during the Cold War. You might remember the U-2 spy plane incident with Gary Powers' being shot down and captured live in 1960, much to the delight to Nikita Krushchev. But now, 50 years later, the U-2 isn't ready for mothballs quite yet. In today's New York Times, a fascinating slide show and story about how the U-2 continues to stand the test of time.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Proud New Papas and Their Graffiti
In recent days, I stopped by a hospital in west Rostov and what reached out and grabbed me was the graffiti, the hospital graffiti, of all things. Care for a first-hand look? It might just grab you too.
Here we are at Maternity Hospital #20, at the entrance to the Department of Birth. (Click photos to enlarge.) Above the door a proud new daddy wrote, Sveta, thanks for the daughter, Sasha! 24 Aug 2006 (Maga). Another papa wrote left of the door, Tanya, thank you for Maks. P.S. Vova F. I love you!!! Hmmm. . . that one's extra interesting. For one thing, the "P.S." is written in English. And then one can only imagine the contribution beloved Vova F. might have made. . .
Oh, let's rewind a bit here. Earlier that afternoon, I caught a bus to west Rostov to visit sister Lyda and little Elizaveta. Later on, I mentioned wanting to get over to Maternity Home #20, because it's in the area. Lyda said, Oh, we're to be going right past it after bit when we run some errands. How about we all go together? And so we did. It was just a 15-minute walk and Liza got pulled along in the sled, as per the local custom.
The hospital complex is there on the left and the far building of red brick is Maternity Hospital #20. And that's building I was hoping to photograph.
Getting closer, there toward the left is the Department of Birth. What's special about this hospital is that a little boy was born there several years back and then adopted by a great family in the US of A. Some months ago, his mama Kimberly, wrote and asked if I could possibly find the hospital and get some photos of it. So there's the scoop.
Oh, here we are at the entrance and under the sign which says, literally, Birth House #20. Well, that pesky letter Д has fallen off the word дом, for house. But there's more fun graffiti above the door in red: Lena (is) Best, it says, a combination of Russian and English. Bet you knew that already. ;)
Now here's an especially fun note: Above the windows, in white is written, Valya, thank you for Vika (Sanya) 30 June, 2009. (Just for the record, Sanya would be the proud papa and Vika is short for Victoria. Valya, the mom's name is short for Valentina.) Oh, but the energetic daddy Sanya wasn't done yet. . .
Apparently he hopped up on the roof there and repeated his joyful announcement on the wall, left of the chimney.
Here's my favorite: To the right of the white heart is written, Julia, thank you for daughter Alina, (signed) Ruslan. He used diminutives forms for both daughter and Alina so they could be translated sweet daughter or dear Alina, for instance. But I had to smile because that's very close to Aileena (Айлина), the Russian version of my name.
Well, I had no idea that a visit to Maternity Hospital #20 would involve such amusement. Thanks to dear Kimberly for the opportunity to learn more about local birth announcements. And how about you, dear blog reader, how did you go about announcing the birth - or adoption - of your child? Did you consider painting your joy on the hospital?
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Monday, March 08, 2010
Happy Women's Day!
Congratulations on *The 8th of March!* Today is international Women's Day, a major deal - now there's an understatement - here in Russia and across the former USSR. Here are quick links to related stories and pictures posted here in recent years.
Thought you might enjoy a quick visit to the florists' section of the nearby outdoor market. This was taken Friday the 5th, three days before the actual holiday! Happy holiday dear friends and sisters!
Monday, March 01, 2010
Remembering Mom on her Birthday
While it is still February~ at least in some time zones ~ I wanted to start this Happy Birthday post in honor of my mother.
Her birthday was February 16th and she would have been 80, if she were still on this earth. Here's a photo of the two of us in December 1990.
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Tigers dance their way to Vermont state hip-hop title
VERGENNES — The Middlebury Union High School dance team on Saturday for the third time in five years won the Vermont hip-hop crown, this time before more than 1,000 fans supporting 10 teams at Vergennes Union High School.
The Tiger team — with half the dancers dressed as men with goatees and eye black — edged the defending hip-hop titlist Burr & Burton squad, 263.5-261.
MUHS had previously claimed the hip-hop title in 2008 and 2010.
In the Tigers' second category — each team competed in two of the three categories, hip-hop, jazz and pom — they finished tied for fourth in jazz, scoring 219.5 points out of a possible 300. Overall, MUHS finished fifth in the combined standings with 483 points.
South Burlington won both pom (272.5) and jazz (269.5) to earn 542 points and a 20-point win over runner-up Burr & Burton, which also finished second to the Rebels in pom (261).
Colchester, third in both pom and jazz, took third overall with 254.5 points, and Mount Mansfield (500) was fourth.
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Good fortune, determination made commencement possible
Thursday, May 9, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Friends and family will cheer for Samantha Anderson Friday when she walks across the stage at Pittsburg State University's 110th commencement exercises to receive her bachelor's of fine arts degree. But as she prepares for the big day, Anderson looks back at another day, six months earlier, when her life and her future hung in the balance.
Samantha, her husband, Shawn, both Bartlesville, Okla., natives, were on their way to do some Christmas shopping on Dec. 7, 2012, when their lighthearted trip turned tragic. Suddenly, on a bridge south of Pittsburg, they faced a car attempting to pass others at a high rate of speed.
In a time warp of split seconds that seemed like an eternity, Samantha remembers asking Shawn, "Is he going to hit us?"
"Yes," Shawn answered as the two cars met.
The driver of the oncoming car died in the explosive impact. Miraculously everyone in Anderson's car survived, although Shawn had head injuries and Samantha suffered a broken pelvis and shattered vertebrae. Shawn was treated in Joplin for his injuries and Samantha was flown to Kansas City where doctors repaired her pelvis and fused her spine.
Despite his injuries, Samantha said, Shawn was able to make it to Kansas City to be by her side for her surgeries.
Out of danger, but facing many weeks of recovery, Samantha said she was not depressed.
"I was ticked off," Samantha said. "I'm a very determined person and it upset me to think that one person's actions could change everything. Graduation was important to me."
The accident had come just days before finals and Samantha knew that some of the courses she had planned on taking the next semester were offered only in the spring, meaning any delay would put her back a full year. All of her plans seemed on the verge of collapse.
Samantha's worries were quickly relieved by her teachers in the Art Department.
"They were really great about everything," Samantha said. "Rhona Shand (Art Department chairperson) was wonderful. I was working on homework in the hospital and she told me to stop and just focus on getting better. She even helped work with my husband's faculty in the College of Technology."
Samantha got out of the hospital on Dec. 22 and showed up for the first day of spring semester classes in a wheelchair. She was determined, she said, to graduate on time and on her own two feet. On Feb. 14th, she stood for the first time since the accident and today she walks with a spring in her step.
Among those cheering Samantha on Friday will be her husband, Shawn, who is on track to earn his degree in engineering technology in 2014. It is a scenario that seemed unlikely in the hours and days following the accident.
"We are all so proud of Samantha," Shand said. "She faced some pretty big obstacles this year, but she was determined and she worked hard. She was inspirational. These are characteristics that will serve her well throughout her life."