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First they came for the partners of beneficiary fraudsters, and I was silent. Then they came for the professional advisors of corporate entities, and I thought "hang on - this is completely ridiculous!"
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1969 Pontiac Firebird
Earl Blundell, Marion, AR
"Unreal!" "Very nice!" "Sick car!" Earl Blundell says it's amazing to him to hear these things about his Firebird after working on it for so long. But now that it's finished, he can stand in his garage and smile, knowing that he accomplished his original goal. "I took a junker, and with some time and dedication, created a monster, a beautiful monster," Blundell told us. Back in 1969, Blundell's uncle bought the Firebird. It was the car he and his new wife drove on their honeymoon. Many years later, it was also the first car Blundell ever drag raced. Seven years ago, Blundell bought the car with the intention to just build a driver, but with the help and motivation from his family, Javier's paint and body, and Precision Race engines, the project turned into much more. Working on it once a week, Blundell dropped in a 575hp Weiand-blown 383ci small-block with an Eagle forged crank and H-beam rods, 9.2:1 Mahle forged pistons, CNC-ported Patriot Race Rite 225cc heads with 2.08/1.60 valves, MSD coil, plug wires, 6 BTM box, and a COMP Cams solid roller cam. A Strange Super 60 with a Detroit Locker, 4.10 gears, 35-spline axles, and Strange chrome-moly driveshaft gets the power to the ground. A Unisteer manual rack with ididit steering column and Hotchkis springs help him keep the power in check. Many more future upgrades are in the works for the interior and suspensions, but first things first: Blundell intends on enjoying what he has for a while.
1985 Chevy Monte Carlo
Bob Morse, Pittsgrove, NJ
Cars from the '80s are the perfect affordable option for hot rodding since they're still easy to find in decent shape. Take this '85 Monte Carlo for example; it only took $500 for Bob Morse to bring home a clean base for a build with his son. Luckily, the body was very straight and had very little rust, so they were able to dive right in and yank the entire drivetrain and kick it to the curb. For the new combo, the Morse boys opted for a new 350ci/330hp crate motor backed by a rebuilt Muncie four-speed and a custom driveshaft. Part of us thinks they should have gone for more gears, the other loves the retro-ness of it. In the rear, a 10-bolt 8.5 out of an '87 Buick Grand National was swapped in. Yes, they know that's a '60s Ford color, but it just happened to match the vision they had for the color. Now that it's back on the road, Bob reports that the Monte has exceeded their expectations. It runs and handles great, and is a blast to drive.
1975 Chevy Nova
Bryon Lawrenz, Pueblo, CO
Bryon Lawrenz was in his sophomore year in high school in 2007 when he found this '75 Nova parked on a side street with the "For Sale" sign asking $1,500. After talking price, he bought the car for $1,000 and drove it home. The following summer, Bryon and his grandpa Rick Lawrenz, painted the Nova in his airplane hangar and the vinyl top was added to complete the Cabriolet look. The Nova was used as Bryon's daily driver all throughout high school, and is currently still his ride while in college. In the fall of 2011, the old 350 was starting to go through a quart of oil a week, so Bryon decided it was time to drop in a new engine. A family friend, Tony Martinet, built a new 350 and with the help of two uncles, his dad, both brothers, and his best friend, the team managed to pull the old engine and trans out of the car in less than a day. Bryon's brother, Michael, then tore down the trans and rebuilt it within a few hours so that it could be reinstalled with the new engine the following day. The Nova was also treated with an MSD Street Fire distributor, Edelbrock valve covers, two-barrel Rochester carb, and Flowmaster exhaust. Down the road, Bryon plans on redoing the upholstery and the whole interior including new dash and gauges. In the next few months, he plans on fixing the surface rust on the panels and touching up the paint of the car. In the meantime, he'll still be sliding behind the wheel daily.
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Charles Michael Lewis, Nashville, TN
Charles Lewis picked up this amazingly clean '78 Thunderbird from the original owner back in 1987. He was looking for something different from all the '80s Mustangs and Camaros cruising the lot, plus at $1,500 it fit his high school budget. With a few tweaks of the timing and carb, Charles soon realized the potential of the car. The 400M engine made good torque and the T-bird's control arm rear suspension made for a surprisingly well-handling ride for such a large car.
During the '90s, more modifications came. The 400M was bored .30 over and rebuilt with a mild Melling cam, 9.5:1 pistons, Weiand intake, and an Edelbrock 600 carb. The machine work was done by a local shop, but Charles and a buddy did all the teardown and reassembly in his parent's garage. A few years later the suspension and heavy-duty brakes were given a full rebuild and 17×8 and 18×10 wheels were added to put everything to good use. A C6 was slid in place of the original FMX, along with a set of Hooker Super Competition headers. The T-bird is a weekend toy rather than a daily driver now, which will give Charles more time for more mods, including a Gear Vendors overdrive, Edelbrock cylinder heads, bigger brakes, and suspension upgrades. In the aesthetics department, Charles is also pondering a custom cowl hood that follows the lines of the original.


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Well, may I invite you to turn in your Bible to 2 Corinthians chapter 12...2 Corinthians chapter 12. We have come to the end of this epistle and are considering the last section of this great letter which we've entitled "The Faithful Pastor's Concerns....The Faithful Pastor's Concerns."
If I were to sum up what concerns a pastor, or what concerns a church leader, what concerns an elder in one word I would sum it up as the word "edification," upbuilding. Or to use two words, the building up of the saints. We are given to the church for its upbuilding.
Notice at the end of verse 19, chapter 12 verse 19, Paul says, "All for your upbuilding, beloved." And then over in chapter 13 verse 10 where the section ends, the end of that verse, "For building up and not for tearing down." So in 12:19 and 13:10 he speaks of his commitment to building up the church, and in between those two verses is the final section on how that is done. This is a very, very instructive portion of Scripture. It is at the end of the epistle, that doesn't lessen its important...importance, in fact if anything it heightens it. He has reached a kind of crescendo here and he gives us a summary of what is involved in the building up of the saints which is the passion of his life. Back in chapter 10 and verse 8 he said the same thing. The Lord had called him "For building you up and not for destroying you," chapter 10 verse 8.
Most notably in Ephesians chapter 4, Paul outlines what this involves. Ephesians 4:11 speaks of the Lord who gave some as Apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists and some as pastor/teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of service to the building up of the body of Christ. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, teaching pastors have as their responsibility therefore the building up of the body of Christ. What does that mean? Well verse 13, "Till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness and deceitful scheming, but speaking the truth in love we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ."
Building up the church then means maturing the church, strengthening the church so that they become more like Christ, until they attain to the mature man the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. The goal then that we have the broad goal of the pastor in the church is the maturing of the saints, bringing them to Christ's likeness, to the measure of the stature which belongs to Christ, conforming them more and more to the image of Jesus Christ, until they grow up in all aspects unto Him who is the head, even Christ. Now that we know. That is a very, very foundational and basic truth.
In our passage, and you can return to 2 Corinthians chapter 12, in our passage today Paul will outline for us the first step in accomplishing this objective. And as we move through this section in the next several weeks, more and more of its richness will unfold. The Apostle Paul did everything he did for the edification of the church. Everything he wrote in this letter was for their upbuilding, to strengthen them spiritually, to mature them spiritually, to increase their progressive sanctification, to shape them more into the image of Jesus Christ. Now any true pastor, any true servant of God, any true apostle is consumed with this, the spiritual maturing of his people. That's what we're called to see happen. That's what we're called to do. That's what Paul desired. That was his passion, that was his concern and that is the concern of any faithful pastor, the sanctification of his people...the edification, the building up, the purifying, the maturing, the nurturing, the growing of God's church more and more into the likeness of Christ, reaching the measure of stature of the fullness of Christ.
Now, because of that there are certain tasks that we must be committed to which contribute directly to that sanctification process. And Paul outlines those in this section. We're going to find six things that he must focus on, six features of ministry, six emphases and he's going to unfold them for us through these verses. If you are concerned for the sanctification of the church, which you must be because that's what you're called to do, if you've been given for the upbuilding of the saints and you're committed to that, there are six things you must be consumed with. One is repentance; two is discipline; three is authority; four is authenticity; five is obedience; and six is perfection...and those are the six features that Paul works through down to verse 10 of chapter 13. The pastor is concerned that his people become like Christ.
Paul the Apostle was concerned that his people became like Christ. And it was that concern that literally consumed his heart and his mind. It moved his emotions and it moved his will. His concern for them had very little to do with their physical well being, it had very little to do with their health, very little to do with their wealth or prosperity, very little, if anything, to do with their success, very little to do with their comfort, very little to do with their personal satisfaction or the fulfillment of their desires and goals, that was not an issue for Paul. The faithful pastor's concern was for the sanctification of his people. He was concerned for their spiritual well-being.
And I daresay it is fairly common that most churches and most Christians in them become preoccupied with the physical concerns of the church and much less preoccupied, if at all, with those which have to do with personal sanctification. We're very troubled when someone has a serious illness. We are very troubled when someone falls into severe economic straits. We are very troubled when a child dies in a family and we go there and we understand the sorrow and the pain and the loss and we rally to pray on behalf of that individual and that family that is most deeply wounded by the loss. We struggle when a marriage breaks up or when a partner leaves because of the loneliness of that individual and perhaps we even do everything we can to find a new partner, if that indeed by God's allowance there's a possibility of remarriage. We're concerned when people have automobile accidents and are maimed. We're concerned when parents lose a young person a car crash and all of that. And rightly so. But it tends to be that we get consumed by these sort of physical concerns and there's little space in our emotions and in our mind to be occupied with the deep concern for the spiritual issues of the church.
Well the true pastor is consumed with those matters. Of course he's concerned to be a part of times of suffering and times of pain and times of illness and times of loss and times of difficulty in the matters of physical life, but only insofar really as they touch the spiritual dimension because that's where the real concern lies. In fact, we ought to count it all joy when we fall into most trials because they have a perfecting work spiritually. So sometimes we have to tell you the pastor is cheering on the pain because of its remedial effects spiritually. But what does concern and must concern the faithful pastor is the spiritual well-being of his people. And at the beginning of Paul's discussion here, he deals with the first matter on his list and the matter is the matter of repentance.
A faithful pastor is, first of all, concerned for the repentance of his people. This is where the whole concern of building up, nurturing, sanctifying the congregation has to start. Sin must be being dealt with. Notice verse 20. "For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish, that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances. I'm afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced."
You know, I really believe that churches today and pastors today and elders today need to be held accountable for faithfulness to the matters that are in this text. They need to be held accountable for the matter of repentance, discipline, authority, authenticity, obedience and perfection. That is how they will be held accountable before God and they need to be held accountable even today by others. And most notably at the very head of this list is to be concerned about the issue of repentance. We're accountable to God, I believe, for that concern. Paul was concerned about his people in regard to sin. Why? Because it is sin that is the enemy of spiritual progress. Sin is that which thwarts edification. The building up of the saints is hindered by sin. Becoming like Jesus Christ, that process is retarded severely by sin. Sin is anything that displeases God and anything that displeases God does not contribute to the process of sanctification to which all of us are called. So sin then becomes of supreme importance to the shepherd of the sheep, to the pastor. He is concerned about sin in the life of his congregation, just as a parent should be primarily beyond everything else concerned about sin in the life of his child.
Now look at Paul's concern, verse 20. "For I am afraid..." He says the same thing at the beginning of verse 21, "I am afraid." What is he saying here? He has some fears, the word is phobeo from which we get the English word phobia. It's...it's not talking about a superficial thing, it's talking about a deep-seated fear, a deep-seated anxiety, something that has a way of wracking his content. He says, "I have a phobia, if you will, I have a deep-seated anxiety, I have a deep-seated misgiving. I am afraid that perhaps when I come," he says that in both verses and he's referring to his planned third visit. Back in verse 15 he said, "Here for the third time I'm ready to come to you." In chapter 13 verse 1, "This is the third time I'm coming to you." He had been there once to found the church. He had been there a second time to confront some sin and what was known as the sorrowful visit referred to in chapter 2 verses 1 and 2. And now he's about to go back the third time but he's afraid. Frankly, the second time he went was agonizing, absolutely agonizing because when he got there he found rebellion, he found sin. And he says in chapter 2 verse 1, "I determined this for my own sake that I would not come to you in sorrow again." I just don't have the heart for it, I just can't deal with it again. I don't want to come there and see what I saw the first time and have to deal with all the sorrow that came about as a result of it. I don't want to come in affliction and anguish of heart and tears, as he referred to in chapter 2 verse 4. I don't want that again. But he's planning to come but he's afraid that when he comes it's going to be like the last time he came when he was so heart broken, when he confronted their sin and they rejected him and he left with a broken heart.
Now you notice here that he's somewhat restrained. He says, "Perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish...perhaps." He's not ready to make a complete denunciation of the Corinthians. He is restrained. He will not pass final judgment on them until he sees for himself the real evidence when he gets there. That's why in chapter 13 verse 1 he says, "This is the third time I'm coming to you and every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses." In other words, we're not going to take any assumptions. When I get there we're going to have a real tribunal and we're going to find out what condition you're in spiritually. He was very concerned that he would go there and face the heartbreaking reality of carnality in the church. This would be the very opposite of what God wanted. This would be the very opposite of what he wanted. He wanted their edification. End of verse 19, "Everything was for your upbuilding, beloved, everything. Everything is for your spiritual good, for your sanctification. And I don't want to come there and find unrepented sin."
Such a fear, by the way, was reasonable because the last time he went he found that. It was reasonable because since that last time false teachers had gained the ascendency and many of the Corinthians had followed their lies and you don't follow error without attendant sin. Iniquity follows error, theological error is followed by behavioral iniquity. So he realizes that there is great potential for sin to be in that church because they have false teachers there who were leading them astray. And he's afraid that when he goes there he's going to find that is present, sin and no repentance, as he notes in verse 21.
Now remember, he had written them a severe letter after his sorrowful visit and he called them to repent of following the false teachers and repent of the attendant sin. And that letter was delivered by Titus and Titus had come back to him before he wrote 2 Corinthians and said they did repent, they reaffirmed their love to you, Paul. That's in chapter 7 and it's very hopeful he says in verse 6 that Titus finally came and he reported to us, verse 7, your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me so that I rejoiced. He was happy that they had indeed repented and verse 9 he says, "I now rejoice not that you were made sorrowful by my letter but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance. You repented and your repentance was without regret," verse 10, "and it was a godly sorrow, and an earnestness," verse 11. So there was definitely a repentant group in that church, maybe the majority and they repented at that letter taken by Titus.
But sin and error die hard and the false teachers were still there and there was certainly still a minority that hadn't yet repented. And so Paul wrote 2 Corinthians to kill all the remaining noxious weeds that were still in the soil of the Corinthian church, those who were still unrepentant, still continuing in sin.
The bottom line here though for you to understand is that nothing is more painful to the pastor than sin in his beloved church. It just crushed him. Back in chapter 11 verse 28 he talked about the daily pressure upon me of concern for all the churches. What was that? Verse 29, "Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?" The pastor is concerned about the spiritual weakness and sin of his people. That's what is consuming the heart of Paul. That's my fear. My fear is that I'm going to get there and that's what I'm going to run into. And my fear is, first of all, when I come, verse 20, I may find you to be not what I wish. I'm doing to come there and you're not going to be what I wish. You're not going to be growing in Christ, growing in grace, repenting of sin, moving ahead, becoming more like Christ. But rather the very opposite, I'm going to find carnality, and iniquity, and a lack of repentance and if I find you to be not what I wish, then I may be found by you to be not what you wish. If I don't find you the way I want to find you, then you're not going to find me the way you want to find me.
You say, "What does he mean by that?" Well if you go back to 1 Corinthians 4:21 he said to them he was going to come to them in this first letter and he says in verse 21, "What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod?" That's an instrument of chastening, discipline. "Shall I come to you with a rod or with love and a spirit of gentleness? What's your desire? Take your choice. It's up to you. Deal with your sin and I'll come to you with love and gentleness. Don't deal with sin and I'll come with a rod." That's what he means in verse 20. If I find you to be not what I wish, you're going to find me not what you wish.
And what does he fear might be there? Sins that destroy the unity of the church. Sins that destroy the unity of the church. "Perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances." All of those sins, folks, strike at the unity of the church. That's part of his commission. You remember the text I read you in Ephesians chapter 4? "For the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith." The church is to be one. The Lord wants a church of people who are looking on each other and not on their own things, considering others better than themselves, serving and ministering to one another where there's harmony and love. And Paul is saying I'm afraid I'm going to come and find sins that destroy the unity of the church. And he gives a typical list of the kinds of sins that do that.
Paul is good at lists. He's involved in giving lists many times in his letters, lists of sins such as 1 Corinthians 6, Galatians 5. But here is a little list that has to do with what disrupts the unity of the church. And these are the kinds of iniquities he fears could exist. Now why would he fear this? Because they were part of pagan culture. They were part of pre-Christian Corinthian experience. The very sins listed in verse 20 were typical of pagan behavior in Corinthian society. And they had already been carried into the church by the Corinthians when they were converted and they had already been...they had already been acting out these sins in the church. You say, "You mean those very sins were already a part of the church?" Absolutely. In fact you will find every single one of those sins addressed in 1 Corinthians. In Paul's letter he addresses every one of those sins and says to the Corinthians, "You've got to stop doing that." I mean, their culture was that way. It was argumentative. It was a culture of debate. And the people picked their people and their leaders and they were always embroiled with each other. It was a selfish culture. It was an arrogant society. There were all kinds of tumults and upheavals and anger and disputes and slanders and gossips. That was a way of life, as it is today and they dragged it right into the church and Paul had to confront it all.
Strife, for example, he already spoke to them about in 1 Corinthians 1:11, it means rivalry, discord, debates, literally battles. And then the word jealousies, zelos, envyings. He confronted that in 1 Corinthians 3:3. And then angry tempers, thumos, outbursts is the word, fits, sudden explosions of anger, out-of-control hostility. He addressed that in 1 Corinthians 6:1 and following. And then disputes, erithia, factious attitudes, divisiveness, partisanship. He addressed that in 1 Corinthians 1:11.
And then slanders which is open loud-mouthed criticism, public insults, public vilification. He spoke of that in 1 Corinthians 5:11 and 6:10. And by the way, that's an onomatopoetic word, katalalia, katalalala, gossip is another word used here and that too he had to address in an indirect way in 1 Corinthians 11:18. Gossip is quiet whispers of criticism. That's a word in the Greek that's even hard to pronounce, psithurismos. It's like psstpsstpsstpsst, another onomatopoetic word, whispers of criticism. Arrogance, that's another word that...that is sort of onomatopoetic, starts out with a p-h-u, whew...hot air, puffed up, overblown. He referred to that in 1 Corinthians 4 and 5 and 8. And then he closes with disturbances, disorder, tumults, anarchy. They may have been trying to exercise congregational rule where everybody does what's right in his own eyes. And 1 Corinthians 11:20 and following, 1 Corinthians 14:26 and following deal with that. Every one of these sins had been dealt with in 1 Corinthians and were a part of pagan culture. They got dragged into the church and Paul's afraid he's going to come there and find they've all sort of come back again because if people are following error, they inevitably are going to follow sinful behavior. And these are the things he fears he'll find. Familiar sins, they were a part of the habit patterns of these people before they came to Christ. They had even been dragged into the church. And some of them even showed up at the communion table, you will remember, according to 1 Corinthians 11. And they could have risen their ugly head again under the destructive influence of the false teachers. And Paul is afraid he's going to find that stuff when he gets back into the church. Those sins that destroy the unity of the church.
Then in verse 21 he's afraid he's going to find those sins that destroy the purity of the church. He says, "I'm afraid I'm going to come again and what I'm going to find, look at the end of verse 21, I'm going to find impurity, immorality, sensuality which they have practiced. These are the sins that destroy the purity of the church.
Now these sins were really very dominant features of social life in Corinth. In fact, they were a way of life in Corinth, just like they are today in our society. Immorality was rampant. The first word is the word impurity, akatharsia. You've heard of the word a catharsis, a catharsis is a word for cleansing. When somebody says you had a cathartic experience or you went through a catharsis, that means you had a cleansing. A is the alpha-privative which negates a word, akatharsia means unclean. And the word unclean, or impure, is a general word used for sexually wicked living. When you couldn't specify anything, it was just general sexual uncleanness. The second word is immorality, that's the Greek word porneia from which we get the word pornography and it basically is easily defined. It is the word fornication and I know that is a word that needs definition, and the word fornication has as its most clear synonym prostitution...prostitution. Any act outside of marriage, any sexual act outside of marriage is fornication and/or prostitution. You prostitute yourself when you engage in a sexual act outside marriage. So that is the word prostitution.
And then there's the word sensuality, aselgeia, which is a word that basically is used to described unrestrained sexual sin that is blatant and publicly indecent. This is flagrant publicly indecent blatant sin without restraint in the sexual realm. Paul says, "I'm afraid I'm going to come to the church and find this, I'm going to find sins that destroy the unity of the church and then I'm going to find sins that destroy the purity of the church. This is what I'm afraid of."
To go to bed with a Greek prostitute in the Greek language is the verb "Corinthianize." Prostitutes were so common in the city of Corinth, there were street walker prostitutes in the secular society of Corinth, and there were religious prostitutes in all the temples because when you engaged a temple prostitute you somehow, they believed, you communed with the deity through that act, it was an act of worship. Prostitution, fornication, impurity, sensuality dominated that society. That sin died very hard. And now remember, Paul addressed that kind of activity in 1 Corinthians 5 and 6 in his first letter in no uncertain terms, talked about a man who was having an affair with his father's wife and went on to talk about how that kind of leaven leavens the whole lump and what a disastrous effect it has on the church. And then he went in to chapter 6 and talked about the terrible idea that a believer would join himself to a prostitute and therefore join Christ with whom he is one to that prostitute. And then he goes in to chapter 7 and talks about marriage and how marriage is to be sacred and how people are to conduct themselves and avoid fornication. So 5, 6 and 7 of 1 Corinthians addressed the same issues. And Paul is concerned that as these people have fallen victim to the false teachers and as they have drifted, they're going to fall back into these same old patterns of sin.
Now verse 21 tells us a little bit about what may have been the character of this situation. He says, "I'm concerned about many of those who have sinned in the past." Now "who have sinned in the past" is a verb, one verb, proharmartano, harmartano is the verb "to sin," pro means "to sin before," it means "to sin previously." It's in the perfect tense which means they started it in the past and they're still doing it. I...I...he says, "I'm concerned about those who sinned in the past (implied) and it's continued on and they have not repented...unrepented, continued sexual sin. It began in the past, continued persistently into the present, and perhaps still going on even as he wrote and would still be going on when he arrived. He says at the end of verse 21, "It's something which they have practiced." In other words, it's become a pattern. It's how they live. It's an ongoing pattern of sin without repentance that began in the past and continues.
That's very important to understand. That's what concerns the pastor. You don't expect there to be sinlessness in the congregation, you don't expect people never to sin. What you do expect and what you cry out for, and pray for, and preach for is that if they do sin they...what? They repent. That's the issue. If they sin, Galatians 6, "If your brother's overtaken in a fault, you go to him, you restore him in love considering yourself lest you also be tempted." The church ought to be the safest place in the world to sin because if you sin you're immediately confronted in love and gentleness and brought back to righteousness and blessing. That's why it's so dangerous to sin so repeatedly and get put out of the church because now you have no one caring for your spiritual condition. You're not under those gracious influences. The church is the safest place to sin because you're immediately called to repentance under the preaching of the Word of God, under the influences of the Spirit of God both in your own life and the lives of those around you. God doesn't expect perfection. He does expect and desire repentance. But Paul is concerned about people who've got a pattern of sin, a practice of sin and they just don't repent. They just keep it up without repentance. That's what breaks his heart.
Well, the call then is for repentance. And any pastor worth his...worth the title and the responsibility must start his concern for the sanctification of God's people at that point. I'm concerned, Paul says, about sin in your life. Oh I'm concerned about your economics and I'm concerned about your career and I'm concerned about the disappointments in life and I'm concerned about the physical problems that you have and those are matter for prayer and concern, but those aren't nearly so concerning to me as your spiritual condition because the worst that can happen to you physically is you die and that's the best that can happen to you because then you leave the sinful world behind. Far better to depart and be with Christ, right? But what does concern me is sin in your life because then you forfeit the blessing of God in this life, you forfeit eternal reward in the life to come and you lose your usefulness and fruitfulness and effectiveness both in the lives of believers and unbelievers who need to hear from you and see through you the power of the gospel. I'm much more concerned about the spiritual dimension.
You can't ever be concerned that you have a large crowd, that's insufficient. You can't be concerned that they liked the sermon, you can't even be concerned that they got it which is nice when that happens, that it was clear and understandable and they got the message. The thing that has to be the bleeding passion of your heart is the personal holiness of the people. And I confess that the hardest thing to hear is when I hear about some pattern of unrepented sin that's been uncovered in the life of a believer or revealed in the life of a believer. That is just wrenching.
And Paul had an experience that I think you'll understand. Verse 21, he says when this happens two things take place, two things, it effects me two ways. First, verse 21, "I'm afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you." It brings on me shame...it brings on me shame, it brings me low, tapeinoo, it means to be brought low. You know, he's saying I just...my credibility is at stake here, the authenticity of my apostleship is at stake. You are my epistle, he said, known and read of all men, right? You...if somebody wants to know whether I'm a true apostle of Jesus Christ, if somebody wants a valid affirmation of my ministry, they look at you. And if you're just engulfed in sins that destroy the unity and the purity of the church, then-then I'm dishonored, then my critics are justified, then those who would attack my authenticity have reason to attack it. You've pulled my name down.
Now it wasn't that Paul hadn't learned that humbling was good. Back in chapter 12 verse 7, you know, he said that because of the greatness of the visions that he had had and the revelations, the Lord had to put a thorn in his flesh, a messenger from Satan to buffet him to keep him from exalting himself. The Lord was humbling Paul in some very, very difficult ways. Being humbled is one thing, being humiliated is something else. I don't want to be humiliated with people saying, "Oh yeah, you know that Corinthian church, that church full of impure corrupt contentious fighting, wrangling people, that church was pastored for two years by the Apostle Paul." It would humiliate him and cast further doubt on the authenticity of his apostleship and give more fuel to his enemies. It's humiliating.
I can understand when a pastor does everything he can do in a church situation and what he gets back is sin. I can understand that he gets brokenhearted. I can understand that it's more than he can handle. I can understand that you reach a point of shame where you really don't want to be associated with it, it's heartbreaking, it's crushing and you might leave. Nothing is more distressing, nothing is more discouraging, nothing more disheartening, nothing takes away your joy and sort of saps your strength more than a failure at the very place of your greatest effort and your great...and you're making a great effort for the sanctification of your people and there's a monumental failure at that point, you begin to question the validity of what you do, question your own ministry and your without honor.
But there's a second part of it. Not only did Paul fear suffering shame, but sadness. Verse 21, "And...he says in the middle of the verse...I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past." Not only will I have to suffer shame, but sadness. The word mourn here, pentheo in the Greek, means to grieve. It's that inward aching, it's that deep-seated trouble, grieving down deep. It's just grievous. You find your congregation in a sinful condition, and it's a dishonor to you because you've been there, or you've been the shepherd, you've been the leader, you've been the pastor and it's also a source of deep sadness. I can understand when a man leaves a church under conditions like this. I can understand when a pastor reaches the point where he just has lost heart. Paul was depressed over the Corinthians, as he says in chapter 7. In chapter 2 he said he didn't have enough strength to even minister to an open opportunity in Troas because he was so heart sick about the mess in Corinth.
I can understand when a pastor packs up and says, "You know, the shame is too great and the sadness is too great because the sin is too great." Anything short of that you better reexamine your motives. It may be that you're leaving because you're looking for greener pasture or because the challenge is too hard or because the place isn't exactly the way you would like it, or because they're not treating you the way you'd like to be treated. But I think if you do leave and you...and we can honestly say there might be justification for it, it's when you've reached the point where the sins of your people have so shamed and saddened you that you just have nothing left. They have...they have continued to strike blows at the unity of the church and the purity of the church and against the truth that they have heard. It wasn't that Paul hadn't taught them the truth, he had. He had taught them the truth. I can understand a man losing heart in a situation like that because the concern we have is for repentance. It's...it's not for perfection in the sense that there's no sin. We want them to move more and more toward the perfection of Christ but we understand there's going to be sin in everybody's life. And all the Lord expects is repentance for that and that breaks the pattern of shame and sadness that comes into the heart of the preacher. We expect to have to deal with sin in our own lives and sin in the lives of the people. We rejoice when there's repentance.
In closing, turn to Revelation chapter 2. Revelation chapter 2, here is the Lord writing to the churches, seven churches. And as the Lord writes to the churches we get a picture of what concerns Him. He's writing to Ephesus in chapter 2 and He says, "I know your deeds," verse 2, "your toil and your perseverance and you're not tolerant of evil men and you test everybody who claims to be an apostle and you discern the false from the true and that's good. You have perseverance, you endured, you haven't grown weary." But He says, "I'm concerned about you because you left your first love." Well that is...that is a serious indictment. Then in verse 5, "Remember therefore from where you have fallen and do...what?...repent." Again even the Lord doesn't expect sinlessness in His church but He does call for repentance.
Down in verse 12 in the letter to the church at Pergamum and He writes to that church and affirms some who are faithful witnesses. But He says, "I'm concerned about you because you have some there...verse 14...who have the teaching of Balaam and you've put that teaching in there that taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, eat things sacrificed to idols, commit acts of immorality and you've also followed some of the teaching of another false group called the Nicolaitans." Verse 16, "Repent...repent."
What does that mean to repent? It means to consider the pattern of sin, turn around and go the other direction. Repent. Chapter 3 He writes to the church at Sardis, actually in the church at Thyatira in verse 21 He talks about giving time to repent to the church at Thyatira, but she doesn't want to repent. And then in chapter 3 verse 3, the church at Sardis that had a name that it was alive, and probably had a good crowd, just dead. And He says in verse 3, "Remember therefore what you have received and heard and keep it and repent." Repent...repent. Verse 19 to the church at Laodicea, "Those whom I love I reprove and discipline. Be zealous therefore and repent."
That's what God is asking for in His church, repentance, brokenness over sin, contrite heart, confession of sin, admission of sin and telling the Lord you desire to turn from it. That's Christ call to His church, that's Paul's call to his church, that's my call to you, that's every pastor's call. That's why I say, the faithful pastor is concerned for the sanctification of the church, the building up of the church and that starts with being concerned for the repentance of his people. That's my prayer for you that when sin crouches at your door and is successful in taking you captive to it, you will repent and the grace of God washing you clean continue on the path of sanctification.
Well, what happens if you don't repent? The faithful pastor is concerned secondly for the discipline of his people. That's for next time...the discipline of his people. Join me in prayer.
Father, this is an important and foundational word in the life of Your church and we bless You and praise You and thank You for it. And may we respond as we ought to respond to this truth. O God, may we be a pure church, may we repent of sins of impurity and sins of disunity, anything that divides the unity of the church, anything that pollutes the purity of the church, Lord, may we repent of it and walk in confession and righteousness. And may You make churches and pastors faithful to this priority and may they set aside the trivialities that occupy so many ministries and focus on these issues that really matter, knowing that righteousness not only honors God but exalts a people, brings blessing and that righteousness comes from the faithful clear teaching of the Word of God so that we are built up in the faith and are strong and have overcome the wicked one. Righteousness comes out of disciplined living according to the Word of God, and obedience. Righteousness comes out of faithful prayer, personal communion. Righteousness comes, Father, as we come together and strengthen one another with mutual ministry in love and encouragement, intercession. And when sin does come, may we immediately repent that Christ might be honored in our fellowship in our church. We pray in His name. Amen.
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Author Shana Rothrock will meet with children Sunday to speak about writing. Rothrock recently completed her first book, "Wadsworth: A Prairie Dog Adventure," and began work on its first sequel, "Wadsworth: Jonathan's Journey."
Her first book is 148 pages and intended for readers ages 7 to 12. The books are based on a prairie dog colony at Standley Lake, Colo., and many major characters are based on Rothrock's family and friends.
The plot of the first book is about the prairie dogs struggling but coming together to save the colony from a snake.
Rothrock and Tate Publishing are already planning for the book to be the first in a four-book series. Rothrock will meet with children after a puppet show in the afternoon in the basement of the Marion City Building for the discussion about writing and the second book signing for her book.
"I actually write the entire book in my head, then sit down to type it up," Rothrock said of her process. "When I finished it, it was the most fulfilling moment of my life."
Rothrock now lives in Golden, Colo., but she grew up in Kansas and still has a home in Council Grove. Her book signing and discussion will be part of the third annual Christmas Celebration in Marion.


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February 26, 2009 - Gary Tasman
Saturday, February 28th (where does the time fly?) my column is about improving commercial property to attract better tenants; get more foot traffic and customers; and eventually (when fully leased and profitable)become a very desirable income property to sell. Here is an excerpt from the column:
"Inner beauty is an important attribute if you're a person. But when it comes to commercial buildings, what's inside may count for very little if people - namely, prospective buyers and tenants - can't get past the exterior. However, like people, commercial properties can appear to be drastically improved and often younger after a well-done makeover.
You'll notice I said "well-done." Slapping a fresh coat of paint on a building won't do much to enhance its value if the property has shabby landscaping, shattered signage and a trash-covered parking lot. However, through renovation, marketing and management, it's possible to restore a property's reputation and value..."
To read the entire article, please get the Saturday edition of The Cape Coral Daily Breeze (if you don't already get it delivered to your door). If for any reason you happen to miss it you can email me on Monday and I will be happy to send you a copy. Please feel free to direct all questions to me at firstname.lastname@example.com and keep on reading my column. I appreciate the opportunity to express my thoughts on commercial real estate to everyone each week.
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Figure skating
Figure skating, sport in which ice skaters, singly or in pairs, perform freestyle movements of jumps, spins, lifts, and footwork in a graceful manner. Its name derives from the patterns (or figures) skaters make on the ice, an element that was a major part of the sport until recently. There are various kinds of figure skating, including freestyle, pairs, ice dance, and synchronized team skating. The style of competition, as well as the moves and techniques of the skaters, varies for each category of skating. Figure skating has become one of the most popular sports of the Winter Olympics.
Pioneers of the sport
A Treatise on Skating (1772) by Robert Jones, an Englishman, is apparently the first account of figure skating. The sport had a cramped and formal style until American Jackson Haines introduced his free and expressive techniques based on dance movement in the mid-1860s. Although popular in Europe, Haines's style (called the International style) did not catch on in the United States until long after he had died at the age of 35.
In the early 20th century, Americans Irving Brokaw and George H. Browne helped formalize the style created by Haines by demonstrating it to American audiences. Brokaw, the first American to represent the country at international competitions, participated in the 1908 Olympics, where he finished sixth. Browne, who organized the first U.S. championships in 1914 for men, women, and pairs, wrote two important books on skating and was involved in the establishment of a national skating organization.
Canadian Louis Rubenstein, a former student of Jackson Haines, was also instrumental in the development of figure skating. He led the effort to formalize competitions and tests by establishing governing bodies for skating in the United States and Canada. He helped organize the Amateur Skating Association of Canada (now called Skate Canada) and the National Amateur Skating Association of the United States. The latter organization and the International Skating Union of America (founded in 1914), which had American and Canadian members, were the predecessors of the United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA), founded in 1921. Established with only seven skating clubs across the nation, by the 21st century it oversaw more than 400 clubs with some 100,000 members.
The International Skating Union (ISU), founded in the Netherlands in 1892, was created to oversee skating internationally. It sanctions speed skating as well as figure skating and sponsors the world championships held annually since 1896. With more than 50 member nations, the ISU establishes rules about the conduct of skating and skating competitions.
Also notable for their important contributions to the sport of figure skating are Axel Paulsen, Ulrich Salchow, and Alois Lutz. Each man created a jump that is now named after him. Paulsen, a Norwegian equally expert in figure and speed skating, introduced his jump in Vienna in 1882 at what is generally regarded as the first international championship. The "axel" was later perfected by Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström. Salchow of Sweden first performed his trademark jump (the "salchow") in competition in 1909. In London in 1908 he also won the first Olympic gold medal given for figure skating. Lutz, an Austrian, invented his jump (the "lutz") in 1913.
While the English diarist Samuel Pepys claimed to have danced on the ice during London's hard winter of 1662, modern ice dancing most likely developed out of the Vienna Skating Club's adaptation of the waltz in the 1880s. The sport grew rapidly in popularity during and after the 1930s. Although the first U.S. national championship for ice dancing was held in 1914, it did not become an Olympic sport until 1976.
20th-century champions
Figure skating currently contains more female than male participants, but this has not always been the case. At the first world championships, held in St. Petersburg in 1896, only a men's event was skated. Pairs were not introduced until 1908 and ice dancing not until 1952. The first woman to participate in a world championship event, Madge Syers of Great Britain, did so in 1902. Because the rules did not specify the sex of participants, Syers entered the world championships held in London, and she finished second only to Salchow, who offered her his gold medal because he thought she should have won the event. The next year the ISU rules were changed to specify that women could not enter the event, but a separate women's category, which Syers won for the first two years, was finally created three years later.
Twenty-one years later Sonja Henie emerged as the first major female skating star. She reigned as world champion from 1927 to 1936 and parlayed her fame into a Hollywood career. Winning her first world title at the age of 14, she was the youngest champion until Tara Lipinski won the world championship in 1997 at an age two months younger than Henie. Lipinski also dethroned Henie as the youngest female Olympic champion by winning the gold medal in 1998 when she was 15. Canadian Barbara Ann Scott, the first non-European to win a world championship, became a professional skater, as did both Henie and Lipinski, after she won an Olympic gold medal in 1948.
Dick Button was the first great American male star of the 20th century. Now regarded as the "voice of figure skating," he won five world titles (from 1948 through 1952) and two Olympic gold medals (1948 and 1952) along with seven U.S. national championships (from 1947 through 1953). Button also completed a double axel at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first skater to land such a jump in competition. While Button's success paved the way for the emergence of more multirevolution jumps in figure skating, other male skaters developed different aspects of the sport. Karl Schäfer, for example, introduced new elements into spinning by creating a "blur spin," or scratch spin, where the skater rapidly spins on one foot in an upright position.
The U.S. figure-skating community was devastated in 1961 by a plane crash that killed the entire U.S. team. The team was on its way to Prague for the world championships when the plane crashed on approach to Brussels. The championships were canceled. Although the United States had lost such potential world champions as Laurence Owen, American skating returned to world prominence in 1966 when Peggy Fleming, renowned for her elegance and grace, won the women's world title in Davos, Switzerland, and an Olympic gold medal two years later in Grenoble, France. Fleming followed in the footsteps of such great American Olympic champions as Tenley Albright (1956) and Carol Heiss (1960). Janet Lynn, an Olympic bronze medalist in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan, and Dorothy Hamill, an Olympic gold medalist in 1976 at Innsbruck, Austria, were also part of the ascension of women's skating in the United States. New coaches who went to the United States included Carlo Fassi, an Italian singles champion in the 1940s and '50s. He coached Americans Fleming and Hamill as well as British Olympic champions John Curry and Robin Cousins.
Katarina Witt of East Germany, dominating women's singles in a manner that had not been seen since Henie, won Olympic gold medals at both the 1984 (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) and 1988 (Calgary, Alberta) Winter Games. American Scott Hamilton (see Sidebar: Scott Hamilton: Training for Olympic Gold) won four world championships (1981–84) as well as an Olympic gold medal in 1984. Earlier, American brothers Hayes and David Jenkins had won successive Olympic gold medals at the 1956 and 1960 Games. Brian Boitano continued the American Olympic dominance by winning the gold medal in 1988.
While the United States continued to produce singles champions, the Soviet Union was the master of pairs. French pairs skaters Andrée and Pierre Brunet won Olympic gold medals in both 1928 and 1932, but the dominance of the Soviet Union became apparent in the 1960s and lasted into the 21st century. Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov won Olympic gold medals at the 1964 (Innsbruck) and 1968 (Grenoble) Games. Irina Rodnina won three Olympic gold medals (from 1972 through 1980) with two different partners, Aleksey Ulanov and Aleksandr Zaytsev. This dominance continued into the 1980s when Yelena Valova and Oleg Vassilyev won the gold in 1984 (Sarajevo). Yekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov won the gold twice (1988 and 1994), as did Artur Dmitriyev (1992 and 1998) with two different partners, Natalya Mishkutenok and Oksana Kazakova. The 2002 Olympic gold medal was shared by two pairs because of a judging controversy—Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia and Jamie Salé and David Pelletier of Canada.
Ice dancing was introduced as an Olympic event in 1976, and Soviet teams dominated the sport. Teams from that country won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 (Lyudmila Pakhomova and Aleksandr Gorshkov), 1980 (Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov), 1988 (Natalia Bestemianova and Andrey Bukin), 1992 (Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko), and 1994 and 1998 (Oksana Grichuk and Yevgeny Platov). However, Great Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean took the gold in 1984, and Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France placed first in 2002, winning France's first gold medal in figure skating since 1932.
Theories vary on the reason for the dominance of the former Soviet Union. One school of thought says the political and cultural forces in the country emphasized group accomplishments over individual achievement. The cultural emphasis on dance and ballet may also have been a factor, as well as the inclination of pairs and dance teams to stay together, since athletes were rewarded handsomely under the Soviet regime. Furthermore, the top singles coaches resided not in Russia but in western Europe and the United States. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, however, many Russian coaches and their skaters moved to the United States to take advantage of its superior training facilities. European and American pairs and dance teams benefited from Russian coaching, and the gap between Russia and the rest of the world began to close. At the same time, the Russians began to produce better singles skaters, partially because of access to American facilities and coaching and partially because they used different training techniques, which set them apart. Russians began to dominate men's figure skating in 1992 when Viktor Petrenko won the Olympic gold medal. In 1994 Aleksey Urmanov won the Olympic gold medal, while Ilya Kulik won it in 1998 and Aleksey Yagudin in 2002.
Recent trends and changes
During the Cold War (1947–89), judges tended to vote in East-West blocs, a practice that influenced the outcomes of some close competitions. The Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Austria often voted as a unit, while the United States, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, and Italy often showed support for athletes from their countries. However, not all the judging that was alleged to have been politically motivated was necessarily so; some preferences were simply a matter of taste. For instance, judges from the eastern bloc countries have long displayed a preference for classical music and balletic choreography over music and dance that contained more pop-cultural themes. Although this situation has moderated since the early 1990s, some voting along political and cultural lines continues.
The evolution of increasingly difficult jumps continues to be a hallmark of the sport. Triple jumps, for example, became significant for men and women in the 1980s, and quadruple jumps became increasingly more important for men in the 1990s. The triple axel, the most difficult triple jump, was first landed in competition by Canadian Vern Taylor at the 1978 World Championships in Ottawa. Eleven years later, at the world championships in Paris, Midori Ito of Japan became the first woman to complete the jump. Canadian Kurt Browning, the first person to complete a quadruple jump, landed a quad toe loop at the 1988 World Championships in Budapest. Elvis Stojko, also a Canadian, holds two records with respect to the quad; he was the first to land a quad in combination with a double toe loop (at the 1991 World Championships in Munich) and with a triple toe loop (at the 1997 Champions Series final in Munich). Timothy Goebel, an American, completed the first quad salchow in 1998 at the Junior Grand Prix finals. He also was the first to land three quads in one program, two quad salchows and one quad toe loop at the 2001 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston.
The 1990s were a tumultuous decade for figure skating. The elimination of compulsory figures from competition in 1991 gave an advantage to the more athletic freestyle skaters. Until the late 1980s, skaters who were good at figures could win competitions without having strong freestyle-skating techniques, since compulsory figures were the most important part of the sport. They constituted 60 percent of the total score at national and international championships held in the 1960s but had been reduced to 50 percent by 1968. The short program was introduced in 1973, and at that time figures were reduced to 40 percent of the score. Over the next 17 years, the ISU continued to reduce the weight of figures until they were eliminated completely from international competitions after the 1990 World Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Proponents of figures said they developed fine edge control, balance, and footwork, while critics thought them boring and mundane, compared with the athleticism and beauty of freestyle skating.
Another change occurred in the 1990s with the rules dividing professionals and amateurs. Since then the ISU has allowed amateurs, even at the lower levels of novice and junior, to earn money from endorsements and in ISU-sanctioned events. The ISU created a new system of eligibility: skaters who were "eligible" for ISU-sanctioned events, including worlds and the Olympics, and those who were not ("ineligible"). Ineligible skaters, buoyed by high television ratings, entered professional competitions with prize money and starred in their own professional ice shows.
Television became very significant for skating. Nowhere was that more evident than in 1994 when skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the kneecap by an advocate of Kerrigan's competitor Tonya Harding at the U.S. nationals in Detroit. International interest in the situation translated into high television ratings at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. The women's short program was watched by millions of spectators as Harding competed against Kerrigan, the eventual Olympic silver-medal winner.
As figure skating entered the 21st century, the level of athleticism continued to rise, with more men performing quad jumps in both the short and long programs. Increasingly, the world-level women's champions were expected to have triple-triple jump combinations (two consecutive triple jumps) in their long programs. However, the top skaters achieved success only by combining difficult jumps with artistic and elegant skating.
Some believe that, with the growing emphasis on jumps, good skating is declining. Compulsory figures provided excellent training in edge work and balance, and the difficulty of figures made it hard for skaters to move up quickly through the levels of skating. Today, very few skaters practice figures; a typical eligible skater can look awkward compared with the best ineligible performers, even though he or she may have superior jumping skills.
Although there have always been young competitors, the rule changes encouraged younger females to move up the ranks faster, since little girls can achieve triples quickly, thanks to their narrow hips and lightweight bodies. Lipinski, the youngest ever to win an Olympic gold medal, was only the beginning of this trend, which 16-year-old American Sarah Hughes continued by winning the Olympic gold medal at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Although American Michelle Kwan moved up to the senior level at age 12, she did not win her first world championship until 1996, when she was 16. "Older" skaters such as Kwan and Maria Butyrskaya (who at age 27 won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships in Helsinki) now compete against younger skaters because the great equalizer, compulsory figures, is gone. Wider hips and heavier bodies are harder to control in the air, but what the older women may lack in athleticism they can often make up in elegance and overall skating and competitive experience.
Equipment and technique
Boots and blades
Skaters wear leather boots, sometimes custom-fitted, reinforced with thick padding to brace the ankle and with wide tongues for control and flexibility. The figure skate's blade is about 3/16 inch (4 mm) thick. It is hollow-ground to emphasize its two edges, although the skater usually uses only one edge at a time. The front of the blade, called the toe pick, contains serrations, which are planted into the ice and help the skater in certain jumps. The blade also allows the skater to pivot quickly on the ice in order to perform rapid 360-degree spins. Ice dancers wear skates with shorter blades and looser padding to facilitate quick foot movement.
Figures and moves in the field
Figure-skating movements are performed on either the inside (the edge nearer the inside of the foot) or the outside edge of the blade while moving forward or backward. Most movements are based on what are called school figures, the elements of which are curves and turns performed in a precise manner to form two or three connected circles. Figures have many degrees of difficulty and develop edge control, balance, and turning skills on a single skate over a small area of ice called a patch. For mastering figures the USFSA required a skater to complete nine tests. In all there were more than three dozen separate figures to perfect, and many had to be traced with each foot. The simplest was the outside and inner figure 8, and the most difficult was the paragraph loop or the paragraph double three, which required two complete circles on one foot.
"Moves in the field," instituted after the elimination of figures, are intended to develop balance, power, stroking, extension, and edge skills. Starting with such basic edges as crossovers, spirals, and 3-turns, skaters progress to more intricate moves called mohawks, cross rolls, and edge pulls. However, unlike figures, which were confined to a small patch of ice, moves in the field are performed on the full extent of the ice. In the United States the USFSA requires skaters to complete eight tests of these moves in order to reach the top, or senior, level.
Training and injuries
Most beginning skaters, whether children or adults, enroll in classes where they learn such basic skills as falling down, standing up, and forward and backward crossovers. As skaters advance in skill level, they turn to private coaches to provide more in-depth instruction.
Competitive skaters now spend more time on conditioning and weight training than they did in the 1970s and '80s. Because they no longer have to spend up to four hours a day practicing figures, they can now spend that time on freestyle skating. To counterbalance the additional stress, they do more off-ice training, including lifting weights, endurance conditioning, stretching, and dance. On a typical day a skater may spend two or three hours on the ice and two hours in adjunct training.
The downside to the increased emphasis on athleticism is the increase in injuries. Skaters are also staying in the sport much longer than in the past, and this accounts for the high rate of injuries seen in male skaters starting in their late 20s. Triple axels and quads are very stressful on skaters' ankles, knees, and backs. Younger skaters are also injured more frequently because they start attempting triple jumps at much earlier ages. Of course, medical care and technology are much more sophisticated as well, and all athletes are taking advantage of the medical advances. Conditioning, too, is starting at an earlier age, and it is hoped that this will cut down on injury rates.
Some injuries will continue to occur, however, such as the fall that U.S. pairs skater Paul Binnebose took in September 1999. He was practicing a lift with his partner when he fell backward, hitting his head on the ice. The injury nearly cost him his life, but he recovered enough to work as a skating coach. Now there is interest in requiring pairs skaters to wear special helmets in practice to prevent such catastrophic injuries.


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- First signs of Ingrid's outer bands hit in Mexico
- Collapsed roads, flooded homes, stranded towns
- Evacuations begin ahead of the storm
Residents of Mexico's central state of San Luis Potosi felt the first signs of Hurricane Ingrid's outer bands Saturday.
Government agency Notimex reported damaged and collapsed roads and flooded homes. It said authorities evacuated residents in danger areas, taking them to one of more than 50 shelters in the region.
Emergency crews distributed supplies in boats to areas unreachable by land. Riverside towns were stranded after the water rose to critical levels.
The National Hurricane Center in the United States warned Ingrid could dump 10 to 15 inches of rain over Mexico's eastern region, with 25 inches expected in mountainous areas. The rainfall would mean flash floods and mudslides for saturated areas.
Along the coast, the center predicted a "dangerous storm surge" and "destructive waves."
Ingrid strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Saturday afternoon, the second of the 2013 season in the Atlantic region, the hurricane center said.
A hurricane warning was issued for parts of Mexico's Gulf coast ahead of the storm, which is expected to arrive Monday.
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This week, on the Linux Foundation's (formerly
OSDL) Desktop
Architects mailing list, the two sides are going mano a mano. On Monday, Marcos Pérez López replied
in Spanish to an earlier message from Torvalds in which Torvalds lashed out at the GNOME crew, claiming
GNOME developers believed their users were idiots. López's reply defending GNOME was in Spanish, and he
closed it by saying:
¿Quién es el NAZI?Who is the Nazi?
Nada más, esto para LINUS para que piense. Nothing more, this is for Linus to think about.
LINUS, NO SABES LEER ESPAÑOL, ¿A VER SI VAS A SER IDIOTA TU TAMBIÉN? Linus, you don't know how to read
Spanish, so are you an idiot too?
Godwin's Law was quickly invoked by Fernando Herrera, but that didn't stop the debate. Torvalds
took the Spanish in stride, and continued the argument by saying it was good for GNOME to be easy to use,
but that "'ONLY being easy to use' is bad." He also noted that "GNOME people seem to think that once you
'got into it,' you never want to do anything more. Not true."
Christian F.K. Schaller then threw down the
gauntlet, urging Torvalds to action with:
If you are up for a challenge, why don't you use GNOME for a month then come and do a talk about your
experience at this years GUADEC in England? Could maybe be a good way to start a constructive dialog
instead of this useless mudslinging?
This morning, Torvalds responded to the challenge, though not in the manner Schaller suggested. He
submitted patches to GNOME to make it behave as he wants, then told the mailing list:
I've sent out patches. The code is actually _cleaner_ after my patches, and the end result is more
capable. We'll see what happens.
THAT is constructive.
What I find unconstructive is how the GNOME people always make *excuses*. It took me a few hours to
actually do the patches. It wasn't that hard. So why didn't I do it years ago?
I'll tell you why: because GNOME apologists don't say "please send us patches". No. They basically make
it clear that they aren't even *interested* in fixing things, because their dear old Mum isn't interested
in the feature.
Do you think that's "constructive"?
So let's see what happens to my patches. I guarantee you that they actually improve the code (not just
add a feature). I also guarantee that they actually make things *more* logical rather than less (with my
patches, double-clicking on the title bar isn't a special event: it's configurable along with right- and
middle-clicking, and with the exact same syntax for all).
But why, oh, why, have GNOME people not just said "please fix it then"?
Instead, I _still_ (now after I sent out the patch) hear more of your kvetching about how you actually do
everything right, and it's somehow *my* fault that I find things limiting.
Here's a damn big clue: the reason I find GNOME limiting is BECAUSE IT IS.
Now the question is, will people take the patches, or will they keep their heads up their arses and claim
that configurability is bad, even when it makes things more logical, and code more readable.
Welcome to wonderful, wacky, never-dull world of free and open source software, where in spite of all the
posturing and debate, the answer is always best couched in code.


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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
McGraw-Hill College, Jun 1, 2003 - Science
This book is designed to provide students in a first or second GIS course with a solid foundation in both GIS concepts and the use of GIS. The book retains the same comprehensive coverage of GIS topics as featured in the first edition. This edition is organized into five parts. Part 1 (Chapters 1 to 7) explains the fundamentals of GIS including coordinate systems, data models, data input, spatial data editing, and attribute data management. Part 2 (Chapters 8 and 9) includes data display and data exploration. Part 3 (Chapters 10 and 11) examines the basic tools for GIS analysis and their applications. Part 4 (Chapters 12 and 13) covers terrain mapping and analysis, and spatial interpolation. Part 5 (Chapters 14 to 16) deals with GIS models and modeling, regions, and network and dynamic segmentation. This book stresses both concepts and practices. GIS concepts from fields such as geography, cartography, spatial analysis, and database management explain the purpose and objectives of GIS operations and the interrelationship among GIS operations. For example, a basic understanding of map projection explains why we must project map layers to be used together with a common coordinate system and why we need to input numerous projection parameters. Each chapter in this book is divided into two main sections. The first section covers topics and concepts addressed in the chapter. The second section covers applications, usually with three to five problem-solving tasks
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It wasn't just that Ron Howard didn't follow Formula One racing.
He was equally unfamiliar with the particulars of NASCAR, Indy car, drag racing, monster trucks — if it had four wheels and wasn't his car, what was there to worry about?
"I'm not a motor sports fan," the director said. "But I knew it was sexy and cool and very dangerous."
Screenwriter Peter Morgan, who collaborated with Howard on "Frost/Nixon," was equally naive and even a bit uninterested. "I'm really not a Formula One fan," Morgan said.
But Howard and Morgan knew an unusual human drama when they saw one, regardless of whether it was unfolding at speeds approaching 200 mph. That the larger-than-life rivalry between racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda would be partly dramatized in McLarens and Ferraris screeching around serpentine tracks — well, they would figure out the racing parts when it came time.
Their resulting film, Sept. 20's "Rush," is a drama about prominent athletes in the 1970s who had hardly anything in common except an unyielding need to beat the other to the checkered flag.
Hunt (played by Chris Hemsworth) was a dashing British playboy seemingly drafted from a Greek myth, as comfortable seducing women as navigating a hairpin turn. The Austrian Lauda ("Inglourious Basterd's" Daniel Bruhl), even before he was horribly burned in a 1976 crash, was considered less attractive, his teeth jutting out so prominently like a rodent's that he was nicknamed "The Rat."
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Once they strapped on their helmets and were belted into their racing machines, however, they were equals — almost.
Hunt, who died in 1993, was a fearless daredevil, his bravado sometimes compensating for tactical shortcomings. Lauda, who today works in aviation and race commentary, brought a mathematician's exactitude to the sport, and his technical brilliance made him that much faster than his pursuers.
"Rush" tracks the genesis of their competition, focusing on the closely contested 1976 racing season, whose winner wasn't determined until the final race, the Japanese Grand Prix in Fuji.
Yet the $50-million film, which was independently financed at a fraction of the budget of Howard's "The Da Vinci Code," is not obsessed with the minutiae of torque, down force and short shifting. Instead, "Rush" is a tale of two men who are alternately infatuated and repelled by the other, all while willing to take great risks to prove their Y-chromosome superiority.
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"James was the only guy that Niki clearly idolized — but not as a racer, even though he feared him as a racer," said Morgan. "He idolized him as a man, his sexual virility. Niki knew that over the course of 10 races, he would beat James. But it didn't boil down to that. Niki had him licked as a racer but not as a man."
The movie was born several years ago when Morgan was asked by an American producer to write a Formula One movie. "My heart sank, really, because I'm not really a Formula One fan, and it's so particular," said Morgan, who wrote the Oscar-winning "The Queen." Before he passed on the proposal, Morgan did a bit of research and came across the personal and professional duel between Hunt and Lauda.
"And I said, 'This is riveting,' " Morgan said. "It really connected to me, and I don't connect to many things."
The original producer wasn't interested in the Hunt-Lauda tale, so Morgan wrote the script on his own dime, meeting over many meals with Lauda, with whom he immediately connected and who was content to have Morgan write a warts-and-all account.
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"I was brought up by two refugees of Germany and was raised in a world of James Hunts where I was the Niki Lauda," Morgan said, recalling being called "kraut" by his English schoolmates. "I really wanted to write about those two cultures."
The script was originally going to be directed by "The Bourne Ultimatum's" Paul Greengrass, but he left the project just as Howard's adaptation of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" was falling apart. He immediately jumped to "Rush."
Casting proved far more problematic. Bruhl, who looks much like a younger Lauda, was a natural fit, but Howard and his casting director struggled to find the proper Hunt.
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The director had met Hemsworth for a possible role in "The Dark Tower" and had admired his work in "Thor" yet knew the bulked-up Australian couldn't even squeeze into a Formula One cockpit. But in the middle of shooting "The Avengers," Hemsworth sent Howard a letter beseeching the director to reconsider and not only vowed to lose weight for the part but also sent along a self-made video of himself as Hunt.
"He had the body language — the surfer feel," Howard said. "He won the role."
Thanks to the evolution of filmmaking tricks (with a "Zelig"-like effect, Howard's action scenes are transposed into period backgrounds) and Anthony Dod Mantle's ("Slumdog Millionaire") cinematography, "Rush" takes audiences inside the cars and the racers' helmets. "I felt I could make the races an extension of the characters, and make them feel vital and visceral," Howard said.
Howard admits that the film "is a marketing challenge," a period film about a niche sport with no discernible villain. But he hopes people will see "Rush" as a homage to a lost era — "Where sex was safe and driving was dangerous," Howard said — and, ultimately, a human story, not a sports film.
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Surging demand: Coca-Cola to start 3 new plants in Pakistan
Coca-Cola Co expects to start production in at least three new factories in Pakistan and two in Egypt over the next 18 months, seeing double-digit percentage growth in sales for both markets this year, its Middle East and North Africa president told Reuters.
Surpassing Egypt for its sales growth, Pakistan will see three new plants open in the next 18 months in Karachi, Multan and Islamabad to serve the domestic market with sparkling drinks such as Coke, Fanta and Sprite.
"We watch the needle in Pakistan and almost every month we red-line on what our capacity is," Ferguson said, adding he expected sales growth of around 20 per cent in Pakistan this year. "We're just scratching the surface there."


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NEC Display Solutions to show the future of display at Passenger Terminal EXPO 2016
NEC set to take visitors on a visual journey through the airport showcasing the potential of LED technology and digital surfaces
Munich, 03 March, 2016 – NEC Display Solutions Europe is to showcase its innovative display technology solutions for airports at this year's Passenger Terminal EXPO (PTE) in Cologne, Germany from 15-17 March 2016 at Köln Messe, stand 8070 in Hall 10.1.
At PTE 2016, NEC will demonstrate reliable display applications dedicated to each stage of the airport experience, including presenting flight information, interactive way-finding, engaging retail solutions, departure gate of the future and monitoring in the control room.
Richard Wilks, Aviation Business Development Manager EMEA at NEC Display Solutions, comments: "Airports are constantly challenged to offer an efficient proposition to its passengers, discouraging confusion or anxiety during the travelling experience, whilst remaining profitable and attractive. NEC's display innovation, on show at PTE, helps ensure the airport is one step ahead of the travellers' needs."
Visitors to the NEC stand at PTE will see a new approach to displaying information at the airport through the use of LED display surfaces, which offer flexibility in presenting information that was not possible before. LED technology is set to transform how architects design and build airports, as they offer building blocks of a digital surface, allowing greater opportunity for creativity and better addressing the particular needs of each stakeholder at the airport. New shapes and new surfaces can be explored and turned into digital surfaces. This gives advertisers, designers, operations, retailers – any aspect of the airport that is concerned with a positive passenger experience – the opportunity to completely change how people interact with visual information and to do so whilst benefiting the profitability of the airport.
ichard Wilks, continues: "At PTE 2016 we are showcasing new ways in which innovative display solutions transform the passenger experience, making it a smooth and intuitive visual journey. By leveraging new technologies, such as LED, we can create digital surfaces, opening the door to a completely new airport experience."
At its stand, 8070, NEC will be showing:
- 1.5mm and 1.9mm fine pitch indoor LED surfaces – the latest LED products providing an elegant modular and future ready integration with front and rear access for ease of maintenance
- New high brightness 55- and 75-inch information displays, making sure advertising campaigns or passenger information like flights are clearly visible to the audience in any lighting condition
- 3x4 video wall using new UN551S displays, with barely visible bezel width of just 1.8 mm, to inform, engage and entertain the visitors in public spaces and shopping areas
- 84- and 98-inch 4K UHD large format displays, delivering an extraordinary reality-like visual experience extending the ideal viewing distance and allowing both long distance and proximity viewing
- 65-inch multi-touch table creating interactive and 'pixel-free' visual experiences, inspiring travellers for way-finding or retail signage applications
NEC Display Solutions has the widest portfolio of airport related display products and solutions of any supplier in Europe, with more than 40,000 LCD displays installed in over 190 airports worldwide including Heathrow, Munich, Dubai and Las Vegas.
Passenger Terminal EXPO and Conference is the most highly regarded airport terminal conference in the world, with delegates from over 90 countries, ranging from managers and their teams to CEOs. The conference offers the opportunity to address key issues affecting developments, share views, exchange ideas, benefit from the experiences of peers, and seek innovation and solutions.
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A Celebration of Family History Is Now Available on DVD!
SALT LAKE CITY—A major 2010 highlight in Salt Lake City was definitely A Celebration of Family History—a once-in-a-lifetime event that will never be forgotten by those fortunate enough to have attended. Now, all can enjoy this remarkable, inspiring event on DVD. To purchase the video (which will sell for $4.50, includes shipping and handling) or watch video highlights, go to celebration.familysearch.org.
The DVD features a celebration of family history through music, stories, and the captivating words of renowned author and historian David McCullough and President Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The event includes moving musical numbers by the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square and inspiring video presentations showing the impact family history can have on individual lives.
The talks, music, and films can be played as a single program, or they can be viewed as individual segments for those wishing to use the video as a teaching or reference aid. The presentations are sure to inspire those looking for additional insights into family history.
October 27, 2010
PRESS RELEASE: A Celebration of Family History
1 comment:
- The Grandmother Here said...
I was there! Gotta get the DVD now.
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