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We have finally come to the last and final and culminating element in salvation, and that is the great doctrine of glorification...glorification. And whenever I talk on this subject, and I do occasionally, the last time I did was a Truth and Life Conference out at the college. We had a great time talking about this with the students there. But whenever I talk about this, I am reminded of a trip a few years ago to Kazakhstan and some of you will remember this, I took a rather long journey, it's about a 35-hour flight to get there and changing planes in various locations across the earth. Finally arriving there about seven o'clock in the morning on a Monday and I was met at the airport somewhat bleary-eyed, it's one thing to fly and be able to sleep, but to keep flying and changing planes and keeping yourself awake makes it a rather daunting thing to anticipate any immediate action when you arrive at your destination. But I was greeted in the airport by some gentlemen there in ???? in Kazakhstan who said, "All is ready at the conference and it will begin as soon as we get you to the church." This is pretty typical for over there. And so I exited the airport into a rickety van which is also pretty typical, and off we went to the church and it was packed with 1600 pastors from Central Asia for the first pastors' conference, church leaders conference in the history of Central Asia in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. They had come from many, many places. The church was strong in that part of the world because that's the area where the communists exiled all the pastors and the Christians they wanted to get rid of in Russia. They sent them there and, of course, they went there, preached the gospel, planted churches. And as a result the church was strong. This was a church that seated 1600, I think 1400 and 1600 came, they taxed all their capabilities to feed everybody, but it rained all week and they were cooking soup in the church yard and the more rain, the more soup. That's the way it worked. And the boiling pots, those big ones that you boil a missionary in, you know, those really big ones, they just kept filling up with rain water and they'd throw more salt and pepper and a few more potatoes and we had a great week.
My responsibility was to teach on the doctrine of the church. And I was to teach on the doctrine of the church for six days...Monday through Saturday. And that in itself is a daunting task but a great subject. And I began to teach, of course, through a translator and pour out my heart on Monday and Tuesday and got through Wednesday and I was defining all I knew to define about the church biblically, and the leaders called a special meeting on Wednesday night and they pulled me into the meeting and the translator said they have a great concern. And I said what is it? They said they want to know when you're going to get to the good part. This is not good news. This is three days and I haven't got to the good part yet? That's a little discouraging. I said, "What is the good part, if I may be so bold as to ask? What is the good part?" They said, "The good part is they want to know about their future. They want to know what God has prepared for them that love Him. They want to know what is to come in the future for the church of Jesus Christ."
I understand that. I was staying with a widow lady along with Roman Detrek Yanko(???) from Slavic Gospel. We were staying in her home. She had only been widowed a few months earlier. Her husband had died and she managed to scrape up an egg for us in the morning and some horsemeat which she stood in line for during the day. And then it was the bread and soup. We saw people make immense sacrifices. There was really nothing attractive about this world, nothing to hold them to this earth. And the good part was yet ahead. And so I said, "I will on Friday from beginning of the day to the end of the day talk about the good part." And we had one explosive and dynamic Friday as I endeavored to unfold the future plan of God for His church. They were exhilarated beyond description to find out that what I taught them from the Bible is exactly what they had believed even though we had never met. They had been reading the same Bible and drawing the same conclusions and it was a great time of thrill for all of us.
There should be a stampede for books on heaven. There should be literally a storming of the gates anyplace where heaven is the subject. People should be buying up the tapes every tape and every CD available that describes the life to come. That's where we're going. That's where we're headed. That's why we were saved.
I want you to turn to 1 Peter chapter 1. There are a lot of places in the Bible that relate to this subject, but I want to grasp this wonderful verse 13 in 1 Peter 1 as a starting point and a focus. First Peter 1:13, "Therefore gird your minds for action, pull in all the loose ends in your thinking." Another way of saying get rid of extraneous thoughts, jettison what is trivial, nail down your mind. The language here is metaphoric. People wore tunics and when they went into action they had to put a sash on, pull the tunic tight. When soldiers did it in battle they would pull the four corners of the tunic up through the sash, trying to get in a kind of mini-tunic so it wouldn't encumber them at all. You get in to any kind of battle, any kind of action and you've got your dress blowing in the breeze, you're in serious trouble. It can be used against you. And so you tie down everything tight. That's the language that Peter intends for us to understand. Pull in everything tightly. Start thinking seriously. Keep sober. Simply not in the physical sense, avoiding what inebriates you, but think about the things you ought to be thinking about. Think about the things that matter. Cut everything out of your thinking that isn't important. And it comes down to this. When you've pulled in all the loose ends and you've done away with all the debilitating trivialities and when you begin to think clearly about priorities, you will fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The main verb in this verse is "fix your hope." And it is a command, look to the future. Hope differs from faith only in this sense, that hope extends faith into the future. Hope extends faith into the future. It is believing what is to come as promised. Faith accepts what God has done, hope acknowledges what He will do. And you notice the word "completely" there, unreservedly, fully, perfectly, consummately. Clear your mind of anything that encumbers clear thinking and fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. This is a life focus. This is a life focus. It has implications in verse 14, "Even to your obedience and not being conformed to the lusts which were yours in your ignorance before you were saved." It shows up in your desire to be holy in your behavior, as verse 15 says. Or as verse 17 says, "In conducting yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth." You largely live your life in view of this hope. And when you set your affections on things above and set your affections on things to come, it dramatically impacts how you live your life and we'll look at that as we come to the conclusion of our study tonight.
The Bible is clear on this subject that this is where we are to have our focus. We have a hope, says Hebrews 6:19, that is an anchor to the soul. This is a profoundly important statement. Your soul is anchored by your hope. That is to say what you know to be true about your future because God has promised it is what anchors your soul. It is this hope that gives you security. It is this hope that gives you steadfastness. You're anchored by this hope. You're secured by this hope. You're held tightly by this hope. It prevents you from floating around in a milieu of doubt and questioning cause you know what God has promised and you've fixed your hope completely on that promise for a glorious future.
If you back up a little bit in 1 Peter chapter 1, you have that hope described starting in verse 3. In verse 3 it is called a living hope, it is that a living hope in the sense that it is a hope for life to come, it is a hope that we will have eternal life. "Blessed be...verse 3...the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." As Christ died and is alive, so shall we though dead be alive, our hope is a living hope. And what is the character of that hope? It involves verse 4, an inheritance which is imperishable, it cannot ever be destroyed. It is undefiled, it can never be scarred or marred or stained. It will not fade away, that is no amount of time or circumstance can ever diminish it in the least. And it will never be taken from us and given to someone else because it is reserved in heaven for you. God has prepared for those that love Him a future and it involves life, resurrection life, life after death. It involves an inheritance, an inheritance that is so vast we are said to be joint-heirs with Jesus Christ and He is the inheritor of everything that God possesses. It is an inheritance which cannot be destroyed. It cannot be defiled. It cannot be diminished. And it cannot be directed to someone else. It is for you and you are protected by the power of God through faith. You can never lose this hope because you are being continually protected by the power of God through the faith that He has given you which does not die and you are headed toward a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. You are headed for a salvation in its fullness which will be revealed in the end. The language here is staggering. Verse 9 says it again. "You will obtain as the outcome of your faith the final salvation of your souls."
In the meantime there are some sufferings. He says in verse 6, "For a little while if necessary you're distressed by various trials." All this does is vindicate your faith. All this does is verify your faith. All this does is prove your faith. And I've said that and it's so important for us to understand. One of the reasons that it is so good to have trials is because when you survive them, that is proof of your saving faith. I don't know about you but I want a faith that's proven and tested. I want a faith that I have a confidence in that it is a true and saving faith. And so, trials prove faith. When you go through the trial and you survive the trial, you then know the faith was real and then that faith which survives every test becomes more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire. It's more precious than anything to have a tested faith because it secures your confidence in the salvation that God has given you being an eternal salvation through the gift of a lasting and permanent faith so that you know...look at the end of verse 7...that you will be found in the end at the revelation of Jesus Christ offering praise and glory and honor to Him.
Even though you don't see Him, verse 8, you love Him. Though you don't see Him now, you believe in Him. You're already rejoicing with joy inexpressible and full of glory and some day, as verse 9 says, you will receive obtaining the outcome of that faith the final salvation of your souls. You will receive what the end of verse 11 calls the glories to follow.
So Peter starts out this wonderful epistle celebrating glorification, the great truth of the fulfillment of a living hope. Now with that as a background, I want you to understand that this is the culmination of everything in the gospel.. It does concern me that there is an immense amount of emphasis on the doctrine of justification. There is an immense amount of interest in the doctrine of regeneration. There is an immense amount of interest in the doctrine of effectual calling. There is an immense amount of interest in the doctrine of particular redemption. There is an immense amount of interest even in what I call human inability, or the doctrine of depravity. But there seems to be so little definitive interest in the great reason for all of that which is the final and most glorious of all doctrines, the doctrine of glorification. We can get so worried about taking a view of the future that we avoid it all together just for the sake of being irenic. I recently met with a handful of the finest theological minds in this nation. No two of the six of us had the same view of eschatology. We all have the same view of every other doctrine I've mentioned tonight. And out of that difference, out of that sort of contentment to sort of let everybody sort of devise his own scheme of the end, we have diminished our interest in this great reality of glorification. And it's very rarely preached on, taught on, or written on. In fact, you can almost guarantee that if you write a novel on the future, it will sell like crazy. But if you tell the truth about the future, nobody is going to buy it.
Peter also says, if you look at 1 Peter chapter 5 and verse 10, after you've suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to His eternal glory in Christ will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish. You see that little phrase, "Who called you to His eternal glory in Christ." That's the effectual calling, that's the calling that regenerated you, that justified you, that ransomed you, that redeemed you, that converted you, that saving work of God was a work of God intended to produce eternal glory for you in Christ. That is your glorification. No one was saved just to be justified, or only to be justified and sanctified. All who are saved are saved to be justified, sanctified, and finally glorified. And I'm not going to belabor the issue, you find all throughout the teaching of the New Testament emphasis on the wonderful future that God has prepared for us, the hope that He has given us of glory. In fact, Paul says in Romans 5:2, "We rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
I wonder sometimes whether Christians really do rejoice in that. Everybody seems to think that the Christian life is about tweaking our experience here, to sort of manipulate it into the max comfort level, instead of being lost in the wonder of what is to come and content to suffer whatever needs to be suffered here in order to have our faith proven because it endures the trial so that we can live confident in a true and saving faith, having been granted to us by the grace and power of God and rejoice in a clear and unwavering hope for an inheritance that is promised to us. The benefit of trials then is they allow you to live in maximum confidence that your faith is the real thing and your hope, the true hope.
Now when we talk about the future and glorification, we can talk about it from a practical standpoint, the effect that it has on us. And if we have time, we will. In fact, this will probably be a two part message anyway, or three or who knows how many? And that's okay because this is a subject worthy of our careful thought. But I want to talk about it from a different angle, if I might. I want to talk about it in a way that I think is really at the very foundation of understanding our glorification. Look back at verse 13. "Gird your minds for action, keep sober in spirit." Now notice this, "Fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ."
Now what strikes you about that sentence? He doesn't say, "Fix your hope on heaven." He doesn't say, "Fix your hope on Jesus Christ." He says, "Fix your hope on grace." "Fix your hope on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." Now that is just a great truth.
We have a promise of an eternal inheritance that cannot be destroyed, that cannot be diminished, that cannot be marred or scarred, that cannot be redirected. We have the promise of an imperishable, glorious future in the presence of God. We have been given a true and enduring and proven faith so that we know that one day all that God has promised will come to us. That hope becomes the anchor of our souls through all the issues of life. It has massive implications to how we conduct our lives, how we view things in this world. But Peter says, "Don't look at it at least for this moment as what it's going to bring you without understanding this...that it is as much a gift of grace as every other aspect of your salvation." Your justification is certainly by grace, you didn't deserve it. Your sanctification, that is the goodness of God and the work of the Spirit in you to conform you into the image of Jesus Christ and overpower and overrule your sin is a work of mighty prevailing, enabling, purifying grace. But when we think about heaven, for some reason we don't necessarily think of it as the greatest and the culminating element of grace.
When people discuss heaven, as they do on rare occasions, you often hear people say, "I don't know, I think we're going to be surprised who's not there." Ever heard people say that? I think we're going to be surprised who's not there. I don't think that will enter into anybody's mind. Other people say, "I think we're going to be surprised who is there." I don't think that's going to be the big shock. I don't even think the big shock is going to be the glory of God. I don't think the big shock is going to be the splendor of Christ. I don't think the big jolt when you arrive at heaven is going to be the beauty of eternal perfection. I think the big shock is going to be that I'm there. That is going to be the shock of all shocks. We will be eternally overwhelmed with ever-increasing wonder at the reality of the kind of grace that would allow us to be there. Here I rejoice in the unmerited sovereign grace of my election. I rejoice in the unmerited, unearned sovereign kindness of God in my effectual calling. I rejoice in the grace that justifies me and the grace that regenerates and ransoms and converts me. I rejoice in the grace gift of faith to believe the gospel.. I rejoice in the ongoing grace that sanctifies and gifts me and enables me to serve. But I don't think my rejoicing in those things even comes anywhere remotely close to the rejoicing that I will experience when I see what glorifying grace gives me...and it will be grace. And I think the stunning reality of heaven will definitely be that I'm there. And I don't know how I am going to think in my glorified condition but if there's any vestiges of John MacArthur from here, the first thing is going to be shock and staggering, overwhelming wonder and the immediate thought, "How in the world did someone like me ever end up here?" Fix your hope completely on that grace. It is grace...listen...that chose you, it is grace that called you, it is grace that justified you, it is grace that sanctified you, it is grace that will glorify you. It is all grace, grace, nothing but grace from eternity past in the sovereign counsel of God to eternity future in the sovereign and glorious presence of God. It is grace.
I look forward to what eternal grace will do for me. I look forward to future grace. I have had grace in the past. I enjoy grace in the present. I look forward to grace in the future. My hope looks to that next great explosion, that final culminating grace that will never be improved upon because it is perfection. That will be brought to me at the revelation of Jesus Christ, at the unveiling of Christ, the apokalupsis, His appearing, when I see Him. It could refer to the Second Coming, it will for some the Rapture of the church, but it is at whatever moment that Christ is unveiled to me, in that moment, that final massive gift of grace will bring it all into complete culmination.
Paul in writing to Titus, chapter 2, says, verse 11, "The grace of God has appeared bringing salvation." And that salvation instructs us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly and righteously and godly in this present age, that's sanctifying grace. But also looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus because that's glorifying grace. He came that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. And the ultimate realization of that is the final purification when we are forever made perfect. Paul in Romans 8 calls this the redemption of our bodies, our inner man, as we've learned, already having been redeemed, our inner man already having been sanctified and cleansed, we are awaiting that remaining flesh that clings so powerfully to us to be eliminated.
And so Peter says, "Look, don't fix your thought on the event as wonderful as the event is of your death, the apokalupsis, the unveiling of Christ, your meeting face-to-face with Him, don't even fix your hope on Christ alone as wonderful as that is, but fix your hope on the reality that this is all by grace. You couldn't do anything to earn your justification. You don't earn by your own merit your sanctification. And you certainly don't earn your glorification. That is, as all other elements of salvation, a gift of grace. I love the way it expresses it in verse 13, "Fix your hope completely on the grace...listen to this...to be brought to you." It's gift language, to be brought to you.Wow...that is such a staggering reality.
A benediction in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 helps us to see this in another way."Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace." Eternal life is a gift of grace. Glorification is the final act of grace. It is the grace upon grace that finally ends the grace. It is the final grace in grace upon grace. You will no more deserve the redemption of your body, your sinful body so polluted by sin then you deserve the redemption of your polluted soul. We will no more deserve a home in heaven then we deserve right now, a place among the redeemed. We will no more deserve an eternal weight of glory then we deserve the indwelling Spirit of glory now. We will no more deserve sinless perfection of body and soul forever then we deserve forgiveness for every sin of body and soul now. We will no more deserve unhindered, unbroken intimacy and communion with the living Lord then we deserve to worship and to pray and to serve Him now. We will never deserve it. It will be grace then. It is grace now. It has always been grace. We cannot save ourselves. We cannot keep ourselves saved. We cannot make ourselves worthy of eternal glory. And so when the Bible says, "For by grace are you saved," it is speaking of it in the full and complete sense. Live in anticipation of heaven and know this...it doesn't depend on you. Is that a great word?
Look at Romans 8. Our hope is secured in the language of Romans 8 in powerful expressions. Verse 28, a good place to start, "God causes all things to work together for good to those that love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, predetermined to love, He predestined." And what did He predestine us to? "To become conformed to the image of His Son." Is that going to happen here? No. We were predestined not just to be justified and not just to be justified and sanctified, that is saved and kept saved. But we were predestined to ultimately be conformed to the very image of His Son who would then be the premier one, the prototokos among many who are like Him. And whom He predestined He called and whom He calls He justified and whom He justified these He also...what?...glorified.
In John 6 Jesus said, "All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me and I will lose none of them but raise him up on the last day." Whoever has been chosen is effectually called to salvation. Whoever is called is justified and whoever is justified is glorified. And no one falls through the cracks and no one is lost in the process. And what shall we say to these things? "If God is for us, who is against us?" If this is God's purpose and God's plan, who can successfully overrule it? And if God didn't spare His own Son to accomplish it but delivered Him up for us all, that is to bring us from predestination to glorification, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? If this is the plan from beginning to end, then how will God not give us what we need to make sure the plan is completed? No one can successfully bring any charge against God's elect. God has already justified us. No one can successfully condemn us. Christ already having paid in full the price for our sins and being raised from the dead and seated at the right hand of God now intercedes on our behalf. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword...now in verse 38, death, life, angels, principalities, things present, things to come, powers, height, depth, none of these things can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. It's about God loving us. It's about God choosing us. It's about God calling us, regenerating us, justifying us, keeping us. And by grace all of that and by grace glorifying us. Peter says, "Fix your hope completely on final grace, future grace, the grace of glorification that will be brought to you as a gift, grace is always a gift, when Jesus comes or when you see Him because you've gone into His presence." All present grace, in fact, is but a taste of future grace. All present grace is but a taste of future grace. Every little gift of grace that we receive day by day, hour by hour, year by year as we live our lives, all the outpouring of grace upon grace upon grace, collectively all of it can't be compared to future grace. The glory of justification cannot even be fully comprehended by us now. The glory of our being kept in sanctification cannot compare with the overwhelming expression of grace that we will see and experience in eternal glory. And the same God who graced us savingly and graced us sanctifyingly will grace us in the glory of a future that can't even be conceived of. And so we will spend forever, I think, in wonder, every moment...and there's no sleep there and the reason I think there's no sleep in heaven is because you don't even want to blink because you'll miss something staggering. Some people say, "Well, heaven sounds boring." Oh my, how could you even have such a thought? You need to be awake forever to suck in all the glory and to live in staggering wonder that you're even there. That's what it means to be lost in wonder as the hymn writer put it. You are coming, Hebrews 12 says, to heaven and there are the spirits of righteous men made perfect. Heaven is perfection of spirit.
But it's not just perfection of spirit because in Philippians chapter 3 and verse 20, "Our citizenship is in heaven from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory." So it's not just perfection of spirit, it's perfection of body. And in 2 Corinthians, that very familiar fifth chapter, the Apostle Paul says, "It is for us a house, a building from God...verse 1...a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Spirits made perfect and an eternal body, not made with hands. That is not produced humanly, an eternal body, a building made by God and we long for that wonderful reality. That's why Paul says, "It's far better to depart and be with Christ," as he told the Philippians. Or as he told the Corinthians, "He preferred to be absent from this world to be at home with the Lord." There will be in that day nothing to defile us, nothing unclean, nothing imperfect. No sin, no suffering, no sorrow, no pain, no doubts, no fear of God's displeasure, no temptation from Satan, the world, the flesh, no persecution, no abuse, no division, no hate, no quarrels, no disappointment, no anger and no effort. No effort? No effort. No more prayer, no more fasting, no more repentance, no confession of sin, no weeping, no watchfulness, no more teaching, no more preaching., no more learning, no more struggles.
You say, "Well, that's all pretty negative." Yeah, because it's so...we can only conceive of not experiencing what we experience. We can't conceive of experiencing what we've never experienced. So we address it in negative terms and so does the book of Revelation. No more tears and crying and dying and it will be a life of perfect pleasure, perfect knowledge, perfect comfort, perfect joy, perfect satisfaction, perfect adventure in the sense that every split second will be the explosion of wonder...never a second a boredom or weariness. All that we know in this life about being weary and hungry and tempted and scorned and hated and all those kinds of things, all the disappointments...never. Pure, unmixed, everlasting joy, an unending newness of everything. That's why in Matthew chapter 25 our Lord said when He gave the little parables about the servants, "Enter into the joy of your Lord." That is the dominant feature of heaven...joy, exhilarating, exuberant satisfaction and joy.That's a good place to stop, I think, and not next week because of the Shepherds' Conference, but the week after, I want to dig a little deeper into that idea of joy. And then I want to talk about what we do know the Bible says our glorification will be like.
Lord, it's such a privilege for us to have this insight into what You have prepared for those that love You. There's so much to say about this and we've just barely touched on it. But even the little that we've drawn our own thoughts toward tonight has filled us with, I trust, a new and fresh anticipation. May we be only loosely interested in this world and only insofar as it advances Your Kingdom. Help us to know that all that is around us is perishing and passing away and isn't worthy of our love, but only that which is eternal matters. Help us to pull in all the loose ends of our distracted lives with all kinds of things flying around in the breeze and to start to think about priorities and that will press us into that one great fixed reality of what is coming for us as the final expression of Your grace...our future glory, undeserved and yet waiting for us. May we fix our hope on that future grace and live in anticipation of it and never be drawn away into this world, never be caught up in what disappoints us because even the things that trouble us profoundly are simply ways to prove that our hope is the real thing because our faith endures the trouble. We thank You for the trials that increase our confidence in a gift that is a true and saving faith so that our heart burns even brighter with hope, having endured suffering. May we live in the light of our future, eagerly waiting to see You face to face which is far, far better than anything here. We long for that final grace and we thank You for the promise of that grace to come through Christ. Amen.


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There were some adjustments on site to meet township occupancy approvals that Jason Motts, who also is owner of the Buick, GMC dealership next door and the Abeloff Nissan dealership in Bartonsville, hopes to happen this week.
After that, the occupancy permit goes to the state for a dealership license, a process that takes about three months. Parking concerns have been resolved.
"We hope to open in mid-July," Motts said.
Motts already has 75 cars of all eight KIA models on site that his Buick, GMC dealership has been selling since last June and the showroom can fit five, with a quick turnaround for any custom orders, he said. "The building's done," Motts said as furniture came in last Monday and computers on Tuesday. "It's just final touchups and cleanups" And the cars.
Motts got approval to sell them from the South Korean company last April, an approval sealed with his commitment to build a showroom to Kia's liking. "That's Kia's major focus nationwide to have an updated or new facility," Motts said.
They broke ground for the 7,300-square foot building in September and had a snug fit on the available property after meeting township setback requirements along with Stroudsburg and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation roadway mandates.
In the meantime, Motts and his staff have been selling Kias next door, but Motts feels the new marquee and showroom will give it a better presence on the Route 611 corridor among the many other auto dealerships.
"It's going fairly well but not a lot of Kias are sold in the Poconos and we're looking to change that," Motts said. He feels Kias have a lot of appeal and a price point that can start around $14,000 with the Rio but go up to $39,000 for the Cadenza, a luxury model whose price point might be a little too steep for most buyers.
About the Kias, Mott said, "There's a lot to like," which includes the 40 mpg on the highway for some models. "Kia sales have tripled over the last four years."
Kia is affiliated with Hyundai, which owns 30 percent of the Kia company. Two models — Optima and Sorrento — are built in the United States and the rest are built in South Korea. Sorrento, which sells in the low $20,000 range, and Cadenza are the only models sold with six-cylinder engines as the Korean industry moves away from that engine. Hyundai Tucson that also has popularly received six-cylinder models in the United States, is selling its newer models only in four cylinders.
Motts said he already has two mechanics at Buick, GMC dealership specially trained for Kias and will have a sales force of four or five once the showroom opens.
"I like the design. The quality is much improved," Motts said. "It's the style, the design, the technology. One of the best things I like is it's one of the fastest manufacturers to turn around and redesign their products. They do it about every four years. Most others do it over five to seven years."
Motts said a grand opening date will be set for sometime in August.
Rt. 611 in Stroud Township gets more cars
The new Abeloff Kia dealership showroom on Route 611 in Stroud Township looks like it's ready to open tomorrow.


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Looking for info on Shubael CLAGHORN settled North Carolina in 1772
My wife is a great great grand-daughter of JEREMIAH CROWELL NORTON and ANN(A)CLARA SIMONS
1. JEREMIAH CROWELL NORTON born 6 June 1819; married MARGARET STUART VINCENT (born 2 Dec 1821) on 6 Oct 1845 in Edgartown.
Child of JEREMIAH and MARGARET:
ABBY, born 14 Oct 1853; married GEORGE NOLAN 1 Jan 1874.
Then he sailed to NZ where he married (possibly bigamously) ANN(A) CLARA SIMONS on 5 July 1862 in Auckland NZ
JEREMIAH died 31st Aug 1897 Northland, NZ
2. SHUBAEL CLAGHORN NORTON born 27 May 1794 Edgartown; died Aug 1871 Edgartown; married POLLY DAVIS NORTON (born 24 Mar 1794 Edgartown; died in Nov 1874 Edgartown) 22 Sept 1816 Edgartown.
Children of Shubael Claghorn NORTON and Polly Davis NORTON were:
JANE WEST born 4 Apr 1821 (twin.); married JOSEPH THAXTER 16 Mar 1845.
HENRY D. born 4 Apr 1821 (twin.); married MARY A. BEETLE 6 Jan 1848.
ABIGAIL S. born 29 Feb 1824
SHUBAEL CLAGHORN JR, born 31 Jan 1825.
MARY DAVIS born 14 May 1829; married PHILIP C. SMITH JR. 1 Dec 1847.
DEBORAH A. born 25 Feb 1833; married JERUEL WEST 1 Jan 1852.
CORDELIA V. born 1 Sep 1834
3. SUSANNA CLEVELAND born 29 Sept. 1767 Edgartown; died 14 July 1849; married THOMAS MARTIN NORTON (born 29 Feb 1764 Edgartown; died 5 Feb 1849) 20 Feb 1794
The children of Susanna CLEVELAND and THOMAS MARTIN NORTON were:
THOMAS MARTIN born 10 Sep 1796; married ELIZA NORTON 6 May 1824
ARIEL born 19 Feb 1799; married CORDELIA VINCENT 26 Aug. 1827
SUSAN born 13 Feb 1802; married:
1. JONATHAN FISHER 13 Feb 1821;
2. PETER MARTIN COFFIN 8 Sep 1839
EDWARD born 22 Feb. 1805; married:
1. LUCY CLEVELAND 20 Sep 1829;
NICHOLAS born 12 Sep 1805; married MARY M. JERNEGAN 21 Oct. 1832
4. JEDIDAH CLAGHORN born 8 Mar 1748/9; died 13 Jan 1820; married SETH CLEVELAND (born 16 Nov 1742 Edgartown; died about 21 May 1809 Edgartown)
The children of Jedidah CLAGHORN and Seth CLEVELAND:
MATTA born 8 Mar 1772 Edgartown, died 23 Jan 1844. Married Joseph Cleveland 12 Jan 1797.
5. SHUBAEL CLAGHORN born about 1725 Chilmark; married MARTHA HILLMAN (born about 1728) 7 Jan 1748 Chilmark
Only child of Shubael CLAGHORN and Martha HILLMAN was :
Shubael moved to North Carolina in 1772. He served in the Revolutionary War in various capacities after his removal to that state. His brothers HAWES (born 1733), BENJAMIN (born 1736) and TIMOTHY (born 1743)also moved to North Carolina.
I am trying to find where SHUBAEL AND MARTHA CLAGHORN settled in North Carolina. I would also like their death dates.
Looking for information about WALTER SCOTT (b. 1851) & MARY ANN VICKERY (b. 1851) & their children of Seavington, Somerset, England
For more information on Walter's grandparents & mother see JOHN SCOTT and ELIZABETH PHELPS.
WALTER SCOTT born 1851 Seavington St Michael, Somerset, England; died aged 39, 1890 Whitelackington, Somerset, England; married MARY ANN VICKERY (born 1851 Seavington St Michael, Somerset, England; died aged 32, 1884 Whitelackington) 1872 Seavington St Michael
Known children:
MARY ELIZABETH bapt 21 Jul 1872 Seavington; had son out of wedlock - Bertram Vickery Scott christened on 25 Apr 1890 in Seavington St Michael
EMMA JANE bapt 30 Jan 1876 Seavington
GEORGE WILLIAM bapt 25 Dec 1878 Whitelackington, Somerset, England
LOUISA bapt 27 Jun 1880 Whitelackington, Somerset, England
FREDERICK bapt 5 Mar 1882 Whitelackington, Somerset, England
HENRY bapt 25 Mar 1883 Whitelackington, Somerset, England
After Mary Ann's death, Walter then married EMMA BRAKE (born 1848 Seavington St Michael, Somerset, England) 1885 Seavington St Michael
BEATRICE MAUD bapt 31 Mar 1886 Whitelackington
PETER bapt 30 Jul 1887 Whitelackington
GEORGE born 1889 (1911 Census listed)
WALTER bapt 14 Sep 1890 Seavington St Michael
CHARLES VICKERY SCOTT born (christened 4 Feb) 1874 Seavington, Somerset, England; married AMELIA OSBORNE (born 1878 Bournemouth, Hampshire, England) 1895 Wales
MARY ANN born 1897 Blaenclydach, Wales; married LEVI (LEN) WATKINS
WILLIAM CHARLES born 1901 Blaenclydach, Wales; married DORIS RIDGWELL
STANLEY born 1903 Blaenclydach, Wales
EMMA JANE born 1905 Blaenclydach, Wales; married OWEN EVANS
PHYLLIS AMELIA born 1907 Blaenclydach, Wales; married
LILY MAY born 1910 Blaenclydach, Wales
DAISY MAUD SCOTT born 1 Mar 1899 Blaenclydach, Wales; died 10 Feb 1982 Auckland, NZ; married SPENCER EDWARD MAY (born 21 Mar 1901 Ystrad, Wales; died 21 Mar 1956 Auckland, NZ) - These are my maternal grandparents. I don't need information about them or their descendants.
I am just looking for more information on this side of my family not including Daisy Maud SCOTT.
I would also like to know what happened to WALTER and MARY ANN's Children after Walter's death. It would be helpful to know.
Looking for info on THOMAS MAY (born c1820) & ELIZABETH VICKERY (born c1826) married 5 July 1845 Pyle, Wales
These are my maternal great great grandparents and their children
THOMAS MAY born about 1820 Luccombe, Somerset; married ELIZABETH VICKERY (born 1826 North Molton, Devon, England) 5 July 1846 Pyle, Glamorgan, Wales
MARIA born 1847 Newton, Bridgend, Glamorgan
BENJAMIN born 1849 Pyle, Glamorgan
ELIZABETH born 1855 Pyle, Glamorgan
GEORGE born 1860 Ystrad, Glamorgan
WILLIAM born 1862 Ystrad, Glamorgan
SARAH JANE born 1868 Ystrad, Glamorgan
These are my maternal great grandparents and their children
THOMAS MAY born 1857 Ystrad, Glamorgan, Wales died 20 July 1917 Ystrad, Glamorgan, Wales; married ELIZABETH EDWARDS (born 1860 Dowlais, Glamorganshire, Wales; died 7 Oct 1943 Ystrad) 1880 Pontypridd, Wales
Children (all born in Ystrad):
ELIZABETH MARY born 1881; married WILLIAM JOHN WARE
WINIFRED born 1883; married IDRIS DAVIES
ALICE MAUD born 1885; married JOHN JONES
BENJAMIN born 1887; married LUCY JANE PATE
TIMOTHY born 1889; married LAURA HOBBS
THOMAS born 1891
BEATRICE born 1893; married RICHARD WILLIAMS
MYRDDIN born 1897; married ELSIE ORCHARD
GWLADYS born 1899
SPENCER EDWARD born 1901
CERIDWEN born 1903; married DAVID J DAVIES
SPENCER EDWARD MAY born 21 Mar 1901 Ystrad, Wales; died 21 Mar 1956 Auckland, NZ; married DAISY MAUD SCOTT (born 1 Mar 1899 Blaenclydach, Wales; died 10 Feb 1982 Auckland, NZ) 1923 Tonypandy , Glamorgan, Wales.
These were my mother's parents.
Thanks to janilye for providing the four missing children of Thomas MAY and Elizabeth EDWARDS, I am still two short and they are probably the ones who died young.
There were 13 children born of which two had died before the 1911 census.
I would like to know more about my great grandfather's brothers and sisters. I would really be thankful.
Any information anyone can provide on either Thomas MAY and Elizabeth EDWARDS (like their full birth date, siblings, parents etc) or Thomas MAY and Elizabeth VICKERY (like their full birth date, siblings, parents etc) would also be appreciated.
ELIZABETH - wife of Joseph LAMBERT married 1851 London, England
Thanks to MarkHassocks I now know the maiden name of my great great grandmother.
Her name was ELIZABETH CAMP (born (baptised 20 Aug) 1820 All Saints, Edmonton, Middlesex, London).
Elizabeth married JOSEPH LAMBERT (born 19 July 1823 in Sprowston, Norfolk) and they had the following children all born in London:
Joseph Lambert born 1851
Denni Lambert born 1852
Elizabeth Lambert born 1855
Louisa Lambert born 1858
Henry Lambert born 1862 - my great grandfather
Henrietta Lambert born 1864
BMD records show that they were married in the St Giles Parish of London in 1851. The page of records shows 4 couples who got married that day; all the females were named Elizabeth (CAMP, DAVIS, HARDY & LANDER).
Looking for verified information on Ann(a) Clara SIMONS (b. circa 1847) wife of Jeremiah Crowell NORTON
I am looking for verified information (birth place, year of birth) on ANN (ANNA) CLARA SIMONS.
In documents, she has been variously referred to as Ann, Ann Clara, Anna, Anna Clara and just Clara.
LDS and others have her parents as Walter Simons and Catherine Wiffen (married early 1842 in Chelmsford, Essex, England - BMD UK Chelmsford Mar 1842 #51);
There is no UK or NZ BMD birth for ANN(A) SIMONS (on any variation) that would match info given. Some sources I have seen give 1842 and others 1847. Her death certificate gives it practically as 1847. LDS give it as 1842.
She married Jeremiah Crowell NORTON (born 6 June 1819 Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA; died 31st Aug 1897 Northland, NZ) on 5 July 1862 Auckland, NZ (NZ BMD 1862/4505).
It is interesting to note that she married as Clara Simons and he as Jeremiah Carvell Norton (widower).
After Jeremiah Crowell NORTON died in 1897; she married Joseph TIMPERLEY(her son's father-in-law) in 1899. This time she calls herself Ann Clara (NZ BMD 1899/3021).
She died 5th May 1914; Again she is noted as Ann Clara (NZ BMD 1914/2768).
I wonder what her real first names were?
Any verified info on her would be appreciated.
Please be positive as all comments made are helpful.
Looking for info on Thomas HARDWICK & Susan POWIS (married 1835) of Lugwardine, Herefordshire, England
Looking for more info on my ancestral line. In some documents HARDWICK is written HARDWICKE; POWIS is also written POWYS.
Thomas Hardwick married Susan Powis 2 Nov 1835 Lugwardine, Herefordshire, England.
Children (all born in Lugwardine, Herefordshire, England):
Ann Hardwick born 1836
Martha Hardwick born 1838
Jane Hardwick born 1843
Thomas Hardwick born 1845
Susan(nah) Hardwick was bapt. 15 Jun 1841 Lugwardine, Herefordshire, England; died 1894 London. She married Samuel William Hambling 27 Sep 1863 Trinity Church, Marylebone, London (Middlesex). He was born 1840 in London and died 1905 in London.
Ernest William Hambling born 1865, London
Susan A Hambling born 1870, London
Walter E Hambling born 1872, London
Eleanor Hambling born 1876, London
Henry C Hambling born 1879, London.
Louisa Florence Hambling (born 1869 St Giles, London) married Henry Lambert 1892 in St Giles, London.
These are my great grandparents.
Susan Hambling (nee Hardwick) was also known as Susannah.
Looking for information on the family of Ellen Agnes Smith b.1895 London, UK
I am looking for info regarding my grandmother, Ellen Agnes Smith born 23 February 1895; died 1976.
Ellen married my grandfather Henry William Ernest Lambert in Nov 1919 Islington, London, UK.
Her father is listed in the marriages as Thomas Smith, drayman, deceased.
Looking for more ancestral info on Lambert/Lambard/Lamberd (WILLIAM buried 1709) Line of Suffolk andNorfolk, England
Thank you to my fourth cousin, Mark who has been able to take me another two generations back in my family history.
WILLIAM LAMBERT (LAMBARD/LAMBERD) buried 10 Nov 1709, St Michael's Beccles, Suffolk.
He married Elizabeth Vout (baptised 23 Mar 1673 St Michael's Beccles; buried 15 Feb 1698 Beccles (cause of death childbirth?)
Children (all baptised in Beccles): Elizabeth Lambert baptised 2 Nov 1695; Sarah Lambert baptised 14 Feb 1698; buried 18 Feb 1698
WILLIAM then married MARTHA NIGHTING (KNIGHTING) (buried 17 Aug 1749 St Michael's Beccles) 1698 St Mary's Henstead, Suffolk.
Children (all baptised in Beccles):
William Lambert baptised 11 Apr 1699; buried 22 Jul 1704
Joseph Lambert baptised 17 Jan 1701; buried 28 Sep 1786; married
1. ELIZABETH JULIANS 23 Sep 1723;
2. HANNAH WARD (née RACKHAM)
BENJAMIN LAMBERT (LAMBARD/LAMBERD) baptised 24 Oct 1703 St Michael's, Beccles, Suffolk, England; died between 1751 and 1757, Suffolk. He married SARAH BRADMAN (BRADNAM/BREDNAM/BRADNUM) 21 Feb 1726 St Michael's, Beccles, Suffolk.
This Benjamin was Landlord of the Bricklayers Arms, thereafter landlord of the Falcon PH, Market Place, Beccles, from June 1739. In 1750 occupation listed as 'bricklayer'. In will of John Bradnum (Sarah's father) proved March 1751 listed as 'cooper'.
Children (all baptised in Beccles): Sarah Lambert baptised 12 Jan 1728 (married Thomas Baxter 21 Oct 1751 Thorington, Suffolk); Hannah Lambert baptised 10 Aug 1730; died Oct 1730; BENJAMIN
BENJAMIN LAMBERT (occupation: silversmith) baptised 13 Mar 1737 St Michael's, Beccles, Suffolk, England; died (buried 10 Feb) 1786 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He married ANN WEBBER (born about 1748 Norfolk, England; died (buried 26 Nov) 1819 North Elmham, Norfolk) 8 Dec 1766 St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Children (all baptised in Great Yarmouth): Benjamin Lambert baptised 22 Nov 1767; died (buried 24 Nov) 1794; gold & silver smith; Mary Ann Lambert baptised 23 May 1769; HENRY LAMBERT; William Lambert baptised 8 Oct 1775;
John Lambert baptised 24 Jan 1777; Sarah Webber Lambert baptised 28 Nov 1781
HENRY LAMBERT (occupation: labourer) baptised 18 Aug 1771 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died (buried 7 Jun) 1824 Wroxham, Norfolk. He married JUDITH BAKER (born about 1768 Norfolk, England; died (buried 30 Dec) 1827 Wroxham, Norfolk) 17 Jun 1791 Witton, near Blofield, Norfolk
Children (all baptised in Witton near Blofield):
Elizabeth Lambert baptised 21 Jun 1793; Henry Lambert (tinsmith) baptised 18 Aug 1794; married MARY ANN WISEMAN; BENJAMIN LAMBERT
***Was JOHN BAKER born 1 June (baptised 12 June) 1791 Blofield, son of JUDITH, actually the base born son of HENRY? JOHN BAKER subsequently was known as JOHN LAMBERT.
BENJAMIN LAMBERT (Labourer) was christened 28 Nov 1798 in Blofield, Norfolk; died Oct 1882 Smallburgh, Norfolk. He married MARY ANN CORTHINE on 26 Dec 1818. She was born 1798 in Frettenham, Norfolk.
Children (all born in Sprowston): Ann Lambert born 6 May 1819; Harriet Lambert born 26 May 1821; JOSEPH; Hannah Lambert born 8 Aug 1825; Charlotte Lambert born 8 Sep 1827; Elizabeth Lambert born 24 Nov 1829; Susanna Lambert born 1832; Benjamin born 1834; William Lambert born 1837; Mary Lambert born 1839
JOSEPH LAMBERT was born 19 July 1823 in Sprowston, Norfolk. He married ELIZABETH (surname unknown)in 1851. She was born 1823 in Edmonton, London.
Children: Joseph Lambert born 1851, London, Elizabeth Lambert born 1855, London, Louisa Lambert born 1858, London, HENRY LAMBERT; Henrietta Lambert born 1864, London.
HENRY LAMBERT was born 1862 in St Pancras, London (1881 Packing Case Maker). He married LOUISA FLORENCE HAMBLING (b. London 1869) in late 1892
Children: HENRY JOSEPH LAMBERT born 1894, London St. Saviour, Henrietta Eleanor Lambert born 1896, London, Ernest G Lambert born 1898, London, Elizabeth Mercy Lambert born 1900, London.
HENRY JOSEPH LAMBERT was born 1894 in London St. Saviour. He married ELLEN AGNES SMITH on Nov 02 1919 in St Thomas, Barnsbury, London. She was born 23 February 1895. He was in the military service between 1914-1920, Regiment - 14 RR of Cav, Machine Gun Corps Cavalry - Reg No. 1020347215. Occupation 11 March 1920, Shoeingsmith Machine Gun Corps.
Child: HENRY WILLIAM ERNEST LAMBERT born 11 March 1920, 18 Gainford Street, Islington. Died 22 April 1972.
Interested in finding more information regarding JUDITH BAKER. She had John just a few weeks before marrying HENRY LAMBERT. She also had another child out of wedlock before JOHN.
Any info on my family line would be greatly appreciated:)


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Treatment for high-grade cervical dysplasia during pregnancy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am 25 years old and I had a pap smear done this year but shortly after became pregnant. About six weeks later I received a call advising me that my pap smear was abnormal with severe dysplasia and a colposcopy was recommended. I was told by a midwife that due to my pregnancy she would not perform any kind of biopsies and she would only examine me with the microscope. Now my question is what kind of treatments can be done while I am pregnant and will this risk my baby's life? Has this happened to other women in a similar situation? I would appreciate if you could answer my questions.
Thank you.
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
While in most cases it is no problem to defer biopsy until after pregnancy (especially in the case of low grade lesions), in the case of high-grade dysplasia, the need for immediate evaluation may warrant biopsy during pregnancy. Experienced coloposcopists routinely biopsy pregnant women safely when the pap smear and colposcopy findings are concerning for a high-grade lesion, though they usually avoid performing an endocervical curettage, which is a scraping from the inside of the cervix. Specific recommendations for treatment and follow up could be made after a definite diagnosis is made on biopsy. I would recommend that you see a gynecologic oncologist or a gynecologist experienced in colposcopy for another


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General Information on IIM:
- IBM Installation Manager replaces the ISMP installer and Portal Update Installer (PUI) and manages life cycle for WAS 8 and WP 8. IIM can install and uninstall core products, update or rollback fixpacks and fixes, modify and remove features
- IIM version 1.5.2 or higher required
- Silent install supported on all platforms. GUI mode supported ONLY on Windows/Unix platforms. Command line supported ONLY on z/OS.
- Can record a response file without actually installing the product either by manually editing a sample response file that comes with the media or record one using IIM.
- IIM is composed of a binary directory (from where you run the product) and a data directory (logs are recorded here).
- IIM cleans up everything after a failed install. Need to create a log.properties with debug lines to pause IIM on a failure. This will allow for time to collect logs.
- When viewing IIM logs for a Portal 8 install, use a browser to open the index.xml file from the IIM logs location for better formatting of the logs. You will need the log.xsl file in the same directory.
- To uninstall IIM, for GUI navigate to IM_DATA_DIR/uninstall/uninstall, for console navigate to IM_DATA_DIR/uninstall/uninstallc
General Information on WebSphere Portal 8 Installation:
- Portal 8 packaging comes from 3 sources: Live repository via Passport Advantage, physical DVD's, and electronic images.
- Can install WAS 32-bit on a 64-bit platform
- Can install to an existing WAS for any content offering. Express MUST install its own WAS.
- Using an advanced configuration, can change such options as context root, default home, profile name, etc.
- Content offerings (Enable, Extend, WCM and WCM SE) are an extended offering of WP 8 Server and cannot be installed without a WP 8 Server.
- WAS ND binary cannot be shared between multiple WP 8 Server offerings
Portal v8 Regular Offerings (Server, Enable, Extend, WCM, WCM SE)
Best Practices:
- A repository contains the required parts for installation. For Portal, one needs WAS, Portal, content offering, and Setup repositories.
- Single set of Portal binaries for each content offering (Server, Enable, Extend, WCM, etc.)
- Provide up-sell from server to WCM offering without reinstall
- Select all required iFixes for WAS 188.8.131.52 when installing Portal 8
- Extract all electronic images to the same directory.
- Setup disk is unique to each offering. It's different for Server, Enable, Extend, etc. If installing all at the same time, make sure to have the correct assembly.
- There is no tracing or logging with launchpad.
- Always choose the repository.config from the setup disk, <Setup_Disk_location>/eimage, when chosen, there are no prompts for individual disks over choosing the repository.config from individual offerings (WAS, Portal, Portal Offering).
- For iSeries ONLY, change Portal profile to 64-bit JVM SDK. Requires WAS managesdk task and ConfigEngine modify-jvm-heap-size and swith-64bit-lum-file tasks.
Things to Avoid:
- Windows XP and Windows 2003 are NOT supported with Portal 8
- For installing as non-root, apply PM64484
- WAS 8 ND can be uninstalled while leaving Portal 8 installed. This will leave a broken Portal server that will not work. Do NOT do this.
- Launchpad does not appear in user's language. Run 'setup LaunchPadLocale xx' where "xx" is fr, es, de, etc.
- WAS 8.5 Liberty profile will not work with Portal because it does not contain WebContainer. Need to install WAS with 'Full Profile'.
Known issues:
- May need clean up of some directories after uninstalling Portal and WAS. Should only be a remaining AppServer directory. This is expected.
Portal v8 Express Offering
- Supported only on Windows, Linux, iSeries. Now supports 32-bit and 64-bit on Windows/Linux. 32-bit is only on 32-bit, 64-bit is only on 64-bit.
- Must install WAS with Portal. Cannot install to an existing WAS.
- No advance install – ports, profile name and context root are default
- Install DB2 v9.7 under the covers
- Does NOT support clustering except for Idle-Standby function
- Available in trial version. Timesout after 60 days. If you buy the full version, you can run a Config task that picks up the license and turns off the timeout. Don't need to do anything else.
- Only on Express will you be prompted for a DB2 user name and password.
- Full install only, no base or custom installs.
- For Express, make sure a failed install is cleaned up. Especially true because of DB2 user id's.
Things to Avoid:
- On Windows, need to have C drive present. Don't have to install C drive, it just needs to be present.
- In trial version, if the <PortalServer root>/bin/lum/files get lost, Portal will not start up. Need to restore from backup or electronic image.
- May need to first blank out password fields on the DB2 user id and password panel if you decide to change the user id.


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Spread your wings and fly away in ecstasy with this incredible butterfly clit stimulator. It's so discreet that no one will notice... but powerful enough to leave you breathless! Enjoy the convenience of hands-free operations as you stimulate and tickle your clit ever so gently. Powered by a mighty micro-bullet, the tail of the butterfuly is cleverly curved to provide pulsation where it counts most. Strap on the adjustable thigh and waist straps, and you're ready for passion play. It's perfect for a satisfying solo thrill and small enough to use during intercourse!
Ships Everywhere.


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I don't own Twilight Heroes, Ryme does, please don't sue me or any of my collaborators.
I don't own the airship picture, either. Please don't sue me!
This story is loosely based upon an ongoing roleplay in the TH chat.
This story is also a parody, so OOC characters are supposed to be that way.
Some characters approved the use of ther actual username (Hero name), and some haven't, 'cause I didn't ask them XD
Twilight Heroes: Amazing Tales
Previously on THAT:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Carygon Nijax was taken to a City Tour by Crowid
The Crowidae crashes Out in the Desert, and Crowus brachyrhynchos is convinced it was Carygon Nijax's fault
The League of Amazing Super Heroes gathers info about Carygon Nijax
Golaf thinks he's a Hat
Talk-a-tile is plotting something
Chapter 4: A lil' bit of Story
Aboard the giant helicopter, a quartet of heroes are sitting in the cockpit.
JozzyBot sits in the pilot's seat.
Oiler sits to her right, in the co-pilot's seat.
Carygon Nijax is sitting in a passenger's seat behind the duo.
Crowid sits in a passenger's seat, as well.
Crowus brachyrhynchos got shooed into the storage room, and won't be permitted back until he takes a shower.
Carygon Nijax : Hey Jozz... nice ride.
JozzyBot: oh, thanks!
Carygon Nijax : Does this babe have a name?
JozzyBot: O'course! This is the...
JozzyBot grabs something from a box between her and Oiler's seats.
JozzyBot points at Carygon Nijax with the nail gun and shoots.
Carygon Nijax dodges the nail... which ends up half embedded in the wall behind him.
Carygon Nijax: Hey!
JozzyBot: Sorry, it's just that I can't fully trust you yet!
Carygon Nijax: OK.
Carygon Nijax scratches his head.
Oiler taps JozzyBot's shoulder.
Oiler: Could you at least tell him the name of this 'copter?
JozzyBot: Oh! Yeah! This is the Antimass!
Carygon Nijax: Wow. Nice name!
Oiler: Yeah, it's named that because it works by...
JozzyBot pokes Oiler, and covers her mouth.
Oiler frowns.
Oiler: Oh, sorry... nothing...
Carygon Nijax glares at Oiler and JozzyBot.
Crowid: So.. where do we go now?
JozzyBot: Dunno... C-gon, is there something you wanna do?
Carygon Nijax: Huh? Why me?
JozzyBot: 'cause you're the new one in town... I bet you came here for a reason.
Carygon Nijax nods.
Carygon Nijax: Well, now... I'd like to know how you all became super heroes... and... learn more about this city...
JozzyBot: You'd like a city tour?
Carygon Nijax shakes his head.
Carygon Nijax: No thanks!
Oiler: Then you want us to tell you Twilight's story, right?
Carygon Nijax: That would be great!
Oiler: Then let's head to the RPC's HQ!
JozzyBot: Right! Heading to JitterSpout Coffee!
Crowid: Stop calling our HQ that way!
Crowid glares at JozzyBot.
JozzyBot shrugs.
JozzyBot: But it was JitterSpout Coffee before it became our HQ.
Carygon Nijax grins.
JozzyBot fiddles with her pilot's console, causing the Antimass to head southeast towards University Heights.
Meanwhile, in the League of Amazing Super Heroes Gym, Talk-a-tile and Raccoon Girl try to train Golaf...
Talk-a-tile: Okay, Golaf... listen carefully.
Golaf: I can't listen! I'm a hat! Hats don't have ears!
Talk-a-tile sighs.
Talk-a-tile: Let's suppose you are a hat with ears... now... listen to me.
Golaf: Even if I'm a hat with ears, someone has to wear me so I can listen!
Talk-a-tile sighs again, and looks at Raccoon Girl.
Raccoon Girl sighs, too, and hoists Golaf over her head.
Golaf: Now I'm listening!
Talk-a-tile: Okay.. we need you to get close to the RPC and-
Golaf: Wait! You want ME to get close to those FREAKS?!
Raccoon Girl smirks and whisphers, "Those freaks."
Golaf glares at Raccoon Girl.
Golaf: What's wrong with you?
Raccoon Girl : oh, it's just that you saying 'those freaks' makes me laugh.
Golaf kicks Raccoon Girl.
Talk-a-tile: Hey! Listen! I need you to spy those freaks!
Golaf: Spy? Like 006?
Raccoon Girl : You mean 007.
Golaf: No, I mean 006... because I'm better than 007.
Raccoon Girl stares at Golaf.
Talk-a-tile glares at the duo.
Talk-a-tile: Yes... like that guy... but the most important thing is that the RPC doesn't need to find out about this mission!
Golaf: Oh, a secret mission!
Talk-a-tile smiles.
Talk-a-tile: Exactly!
Golaf: And.. what do I get as payment for doing that?
Talk-a-tile: Well... you... might get a membership to the LASH!
Golaf: Um... not interested.
Talk-a-tile: Chips?
Golaf: Nah.
Talk-a-tile thinks...
Raccoon Girl approaches Talk, still carrying Golaf, and whispers something in Talk's ear.
Talk-a-tile scribbles something onto a small piece of paper.
Talk-a-tile: What you think about this?
Talk-a-tile shows Golaf the piece of paper.
Talk-a-tile wrote:__________________________________________________
Hat's Certificate
The holder of this Certificate is recognized officially as a
Golaf reads the piece of paper.
Golaf: Now we have a deal!
Talk-a-tile smiles...
Later, in University Heights airspace...
JozzyBot: WE'LL LAND HERE!
Crowid: OK, but why are you shouting?
JozzyBot: Eh... somehow, I thought you couldn't hear me.
Crowid raises an eyebrow.
JozzyBot glares at Crowid.
JozzyBot lands the Antimass next to JitterSpout Coffee, and cloaks the giant 'copter.
Crowus brachyrhynchos bounds out the changing room, fully dressed, and manages to exit the vehicle first.
Crowus brachyrhynchos enters the coffeeshop, and sits down at a four-seat square table.
Crowus brachyrhynchos stands back up, and moves to a rectangular table that seats six.
Carygon Nijax follows, as does everyone else. They all sit around the rectangular table.
Oiler: So... here we are... whaddya wanna know about Twilight, C-Gon?
Carygon Nijax looks at everybody.
Carygon Nijax: Mainly, why there are so many 'heroes' in this place.
Crowid glances at everyone else. He nods.
Crowid: It all started so many years ago...
Oiler: With the Twilight Meteor Shower.
JozzyBot: Hundreds of meteors fell from the sky, landing in this city.
Crowid: Curious, many of us citizens of Twilight apporoached one of the meteors.
Oiler: Once we got close to one, we felt a lot of energy coming from it.
JozzyBot: Yeah... and some of us were carrying an item, so we somehow ended up placing said item on our meteor.
Oiler: But when we held one of those items afterwards, we felt almighty!
Crowid: A lot of power... invaded us... we felt like super heroes!
Carygon Nijax interrupts the excited trio.
Carygon Nijax: So.. you all got super powers from a meteor?
JozzyBot: Yep... but, not all of us became super heroes...
Oiler: Some people decided to use this new strength for their own benefit...
Crowid: Though many of us took the hero's way...
Carygon Nijax: So... this was a peaceful town before the meteor shower?
Crowid: Sort of... crime existed... but police kept it down.
Oiler: But after the meteor shower...
JozzyBot: Panic took hold of the city, that's why some of us, the super heroes...
Oiler: We decided to protect those without super powers.
Crowid: We managed to do so quite well... there was even a point when we all thought about retiring...
JozzyBot: But then somebody appeared...
Oiler: Somebody smart enough to organize the villains...
Crowid: And put them back on the streets.
Carygon Nijax listens intently. The trio of storytelling heroes pause, taking a breath.
Carygon Nijax frowns. Simultaneously, they say... "The Mick."
Oiler: This guy left the streets full of fiends and other foes.
Crowid: And this time they were winning...
JozzyBot: We all had to organize, create some sort of leadership.
Oiler: That's why the Heroes' Guild was founded.
Crowid: After that... sub leagues and councils were created due to the high number of heroes in this city...
Carygon Nijax: And then, after getting organized, crime went down... right?
Oiler: Not exactly.
JozzyBot: We stopped several attacks they've made on the city, but...
Crowid: The city is not safe at all...
Carygon Nijax leans forwards.
Carygon Nijax: Now tell me... what kind of powers did those meteors give you?
JozzyBot: Well, there are four classes of heroes in Twilight.
Oiler: Gadgeteers, Naturalists, Psions and Elementals.
JozzyBot: Gadgeteers are creators of all manner of gizmos and gadgets, Naturalists can channel all manner of animals...
Oiler: Psions have psychic and telekinetic powers, and Elementals wield the four classical elements.
Crowid shakes his head.
Crowid: You forgot one class.
Carygon Nijax looks at Crowid, interested.
Crowid: The Distorters.
Carygon Nijax: Distorters?
Oiler jumps to his feet, angry.
Oiler: That's not true!
JozzyBot remains seated. She speaks quietly, initially.
JozzyBot: We aren't even sure if those exist...
Carygon Nijax: Why not?
JozzyBot: There are rumors of some people who were directly hit by the largest meteors-
Crowid: Two people! Only two!
Oiler: Rumours! Nonsense!
Crowid: There are two heroes who can distort reality!
Carygon Nijax: How is that-
Crowid: Nobody has spoken to either directly, but many people have seen them!
Oiler: Ignorants!
Crowid: They are the Rhyme and the Random Word Generator!
JozzyBot scowls.
JozzyBot: Just myths; don't listen to Crowid, C-Gon.
Soon, the waitress interrupts the silence, approaching the heroes and taking their orders.
The Waitress: What would you all like to drink tonight?
Crowid: I'll have a fancy latte, please!
Oiler: Same here.
JozzyBot: Me too.
The Waitress turns to Carygon Nijax.
The Waitress: And you, mister?
Carygon Nijax looks at the menu blankly.
Carygon Nijax: Just... eh... bring me a Coke.
Oiler grins.
Oiler: Would you like some mentos with that?
Crowus brachyrhynchos laughs, as does everyone else, except for Carygon Nijax.
Carygon Nijax is confused.
Carygon Nijax: Yeah... I think so...
JozzyBot glares at Carygon Nijax.
JozzyBot: So... you DO want some mentos with your Coke?
Carygon Nijax: Yeah.. I think-
JozzyBot draws her railgun, stands up, and aims at Carygon Nijax.
The Waitress flees, alarmed by the weapon and obvious threat.
JozzyBot starts yelling at Carygon Nijax.
JozzyBot: I knew there was something wrong about you!
Carygon Nijax replies, scared.
Carygon Nijax: What did I do?!
JozzyBot: Nobody sane from this world would ask for a Coke and Mentos together!
Carygon Nijax: That proves nothing!
JozzyBot: Yes it does! You're far too sane to be insane... so you're not from this world!
Carygon Nijax: Wha-?!
Carygon Nijax is hit by a shot from JozzyBot's railgun, which somehow immobilizes him.
JozzyBot grabs some duct tape from Crowid's belt, and ties, or rather, tapes C-Gon up.
Crowid: I knew there was no water tower in Somerset Square...
Oiler: So, what do we do with him now?
Crowid: Let's take him to Susan... she'll know what to do...
Oiler: And she might tell us if he's an alien as JB says... or if he's just an ignorant...


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There is a growing recognition among community leaders in our region that unending competition between local governments for real estate, income and other tax revenues significantly hinders the ability for the region to compete nationally and internationally. The current system hinders our capacity as a region to attract and retain business economic development, encourages inappropriate and wasteful development patterns, and creates inefficiencies in government operations.
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Global Cleantech 100
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October 18, 2011
The third annual Global Cleantech 100—a list of the top 100 private companies in clean technology—was collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data with over 6,000 nominations and specific input from an expert panel. These companies represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech—the companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow's clean technology challenges.
The 2011 list includes Thayer School spin-off SustainX, Inc.
Founded by Professor Charles Hutchinson and three Dartmouth engineering Ph.D. graduates—Dax Kepshire Th'06, '09, Ben Bollinger '04 Th'04, '08, and Troy McBride Th'01—SustainX is developing technology to compress and store air in a way that helps utilities optimize their use of alternative energy such as wind and solar power.


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Alison Davies Couture 40/50/63mm Wood Curtain Pole in a Fools Gold finish with the Feathered Urn finial and Metal Brackets. (Metal brackets are available in Brass, Antique Brass, Chrome and Satin Nickel.)
Alison Davies Couture Designs 40mm, 50mm and 63mm wood curtain pole sets, lovingly hand-crafted and hand-painted in the UK. With a choice of stunning classic or contemporary resin finial designs and available in 10 popular colour finishes this unique curtain pole range offers choice, affordability and high quality.
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PPL Electric Utilities will spend nearly $1 billion this year fixing up its Pennsylvania electric system, the utility said this week.
PPL Electric Utilities will spend nearly $1 billion this year fixing up its Pennsylvania electric system, the utility said this week.
The projected investment of $968 million is the largest scale infrastructure investment since the 1960s and 1970s, according to PPL.
The effort includes roughly $616 million for transmission projects. Another $352 million will go toward upgrading the distribution network, which delivers power directly to homes and businesses and includes the poles, wires and substations seen along local streets and highways.
PPL said more than 900 tradespeople and other professionals, in addition to its own workforce, will be involved in the work.
"This is an important time in the history of the company," said PPL Electric Utilities President Gregory Dudkin. "The investments this year and the nearly $3.8 billion we're looking to invest over the next five years are aimed squarely at one thing — strengthening our system so our customers can depend on safe and reliable service well into the future."
PPL's capital investments have been on the upswing for the past several years. In 2009, the utility invested $301 million. That figure increased to $429 million in 2010 and to $684 million last year.
PPL Electricity Utilities, which has 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania, is a subsidiary of PPL Corp. PPL Corp. also generates and markets electricity.
In recent years, income generated by infrastructure improvements has become an increasingly important part of PPL's revenue mix. The profit on such work is virtually guaranteed.
For example, the PUC voted 4-1 in December to allow PPL Electric Utilities a 10.4 percent "rate of return on equity." That means the utility can bill customers up to an extra $10.40 in profit for every $100 in PPL shareholder money used to pay for the likes of new poles and transformers.
Also a factor in PPL's infrastructure push is Pennsylvania's new fast-track rate-making process, which allows utilities to increase prices without traditional regulatory review.
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Cover for KARLSTAD Corner sofa 2+3/3+2
Houston Sand Blended Viscose designed by Nevotex
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Cover for IKEA KARLSTAD Corner sofa 2+3/3+2 - Houston Sand. Cream colour works well with brown furniture combinations, creating relaxing, light and warm room decor. The colour cream is widely used as one of the off-white colours in interior design. Cream and beige colours work well as a base and can be contrasted with active and passive colours.
Please note this custom cover is tailored by CoverCouch to fit the IKEA KARLSTAD Corner sofa 2+3/3+2 model. Sofa is not included and is available at IKEA.
Please note this custom cover is tailored by CoverCouch to fit the IKEA KARLSTAD Corner sofa 2+3/3+2 model. Sofa is not included and is available at IKEA.
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Houston Sand is a blended viscose fabric, offering the best bang for the buck ratio. The fabric is extremely durable, available in the most popular colour combinations. Meets high resistance to piling, excellent colour fastness and abrasion performance.
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Thinking of buying that super-expensive graphics tablet? Maybe you don't need to, because Suck are offering this digital pencil that mimics the human finger, allowing it to be used on touch pads.
Using a pencil is more intuitive than drawing with a touch-pad, but I'm not sure how useful this is actually going to be, cute as it is. It's made from a 'super special space age silicone' and should be available soon. [Suck]


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1st poem of a 3 poem set performed by 2005 National Poetry Slam Champions Team Member and 2006 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Champs Team Member, Hakim Bellamy. Performed at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM as part of a White History Week Event called "Some of My Best Friends are Poets". For more information on Hakim Bellamy go to www.hakimbe.com or www.urbanverbs.org. For more information on White History Week go to http://nmantiracism.blogspot.com.


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Bacon Scented Air Freshener
You know, for that new meat smell.
- Looks like bacon.
- Smells like bacon.
- Tastes like cardboard and chemicals (hey - don't eat it, okay?)
Everyone talks about that "new car smell." But sometimes new cars smell kinda stinky. Now, that "new bacon smell" - freshly cooked and sizzling - now that's a smell we love every time it hits our olfactory receptors. It's like if you built a castle out of pure diamond and floated it up on a cloud and you could only get there via jetpack that fired out rainbows. Yeah, the smell of freshly cooked bacon is like that. And now you can make any space smell like meat with the Bacon Scented Air Freshener.
Look - it even kinda looks like bacon. And it smells like bacon. And you can hang it anywhere you want to smell bacon - just use the hanging string. Each Bacon Scented Air Freshener will make you remember the times you've munched bacon and how happy you were. Seriously, though, the Bacon Scented Air Freshener - it's an air freshener that smells like bacon. What more do you need to know?
Bacon Scented Air Freshener
- It hangs up and smells like bacon.
- Perfect for your car, dorm, office, or anywhere else you want to smell meat.
- Includes a handy hanging string.
- Dimensions: approx 4" tall.


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'The Weight of the Nation' review: Obesity crisis
TELEVISION Documentary a chilling look at physical, financial costs of U.S. crisis
The Weight of the Nation: Documentary series. Part 1, "Consequences," and Part 2, "Choices," at 8 p.m. Mon. Part 3, "Children in Crisis" and Part 4, "Challenges," at 8 p.m. Tues. on HBO. Additional resources at www.hbo.com/theweightofthenation.
We've all seen the TV news reports on obesity in the United States, fresh statistics from the latest study, read with professional detachment, while images of pudgy bodies cross the screen, their faces blurred or heads just out of the camera frame. It's been going on for years, as much a staple of TV news as the weather report.
Unlike the weather, though, there is a lot Americans can do about weight problems, and every minute we delay is not only critical but both deadly and expensive - expensive as in billions of dollars taken from the pockets of taxpayers and businesses. Obesity is an epidemic and perhaps America's biggest health problem.
That's the message pounded home with singular effectiveness in HBO's four-part, multidisciplinary documentary "The Weight of the Nation." Produced by Sheila Nevins and John Hoffman, "Weight" pulls no punches, spares neither the multibillion-dollar food and advertising industries nor public officials for not only failing to fix the problem but actually making it worse, and essentially writes a prescription for the nation's health and economic future that we ignore to our peril.
"This is preventable," says Jack Shonkoff of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child, one of the many medical experts participating in the film. "This is not one of those unfortunate acts of nature that we just have to accept as reality. This is not the product of a tsunami."
How fat are we? Plenty. More than two-thirds of adults are overweight and one-third are obese, while one-third of our children and adolescents are overweight and 18 percent are obese. Obesity contributes to five of the 10 leading causes of death in America, costs business more than $73 billion a year, adds $150 billion to health costs now and may hit $300 billion by 2018.
How did we get this way? Beginning in the late 20th century, we moved to a food industry based on what Dr. Kelly Brownell of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity calls "a cheap-food model." The cheapest food is also the least healthy. The category not only includes all kinds of packaged, processed foods, but, of course, fast food offerings, which have become the plaque-building lifeblood of the American diet.
The most tragic victims of the nation's weight epidemic are kids, who are, as Brownell puts it, "besieged" by advertising from an industry that wants them to eat more. He labels food marketing to children as "powerful, pernicious and predatory."
Some 40 to 50 percent of food eaten by kids is consumed at school, and school cafeterias, which have to be financially self-sufficient, push unhealthy, packaged food at kids.
4 sodas a day
And then there are those sodas. One-fourth of American teens drink an average of four sodas a day, which is the equivalent of an entire extra meal in terms of calories. Sodas, as well as energy drinks and flavored water, have no nutritional value and are often loaded with sugar. With a 90 percent profit margin on their products, the soft drink industry can spend millions on hyperactive advertising. Juice? Sounds great, except that juice isn't anywhere near as healthy as it's cracked up to be because it contains a lot of sugar and the most healthful part of the fruit itself - the fiber - has been filtered out.
It's not just about how fat your kids are but what their weight issues portend for their futures. A landmark study in Bogalusa, La., launched 40 years ago, followed overweight kids through adulthood to monitor their health. The study was key in proving that cardiovascular disease begins in childhood.
Obese kids today are already beset with the health problems facing obese 25-year-olds. Just recently, a new study found that type 2 diabetes, the variety associated with obesity, has started cropping up at an alarming rate in kids. The situation is only exacerbated by the increasing lack of activity in American lives, but especially in kids, who become hooked at an early age on TV, computers and social media. Even if children and teens could be motivated to engage in some kind of physical activity, many schools have eliminated gym classes, and poor neighborhoods often lack any kind of park area for kids to play in.
$30 billion a year
Susan Combs, Texas comptroller of public accounts, is one public official who understands the severity of the crisis. Texas has the sixth-highest rate of childhood obesity in the country and ranks as the nation's 12th "fattest" state, she says. By 2025, Combs estimates that private employers in Texas will incur an additional $30 billion a year in health care costs because of the current childhood obesity epidemic and that the state will face a "productivity crisis" as well.
Combs engineered a grant program called Texas Fitness Now in an effort to get kids off their butts. A three-year survey of schools that added fitness programs through TFN shows an overall improvement in fitness, as well as "a strong correlation" to better math and reading skills.
Should you think things couldn't be all that bad, consider that today's adults may make up the first generation in U.S. history whose children will have an average life expectancy lower than their own.
"Weight of the Nation" is filled with provocative and sometimes scary information. But the biggest take-away in the series is that the nation's weight crisis can be reversed. So, for that matter, can an individual's weight crisis.
The commercial diet industry won't be any happier about the HBO series than the food industry. In the second part of the series, "Choices," Susan Yager, author of "The Hundred Year Diet," says bluntly: "The diet industry has no reason to solve the problem. Solving the problem puts them out of business."
So what's an overweight person to do? First of all, know that losing the weight is relatively easy, believe it or not. The hard part is that you have to change your lifestyle for the rest of your life if you want to keep it off. To lose weight, set realistic goals for yourself, get support from others who are trying to lose, plan your meals and exercise portion control, and monitor your caloric intake.
When it comes to weight, mind really does matter, says Dr. Elissa Epel of UCSF, one of several institutions to have studied what is termed "mindful eating" - paying attention to what and when you eat, learning to make choices based on actual hunger and learning to value the quality of your food, not just how much of it you're consuming while watching television.
Mindful eating
Mindful eating is one way to address, well, several elephants in the room, including the fact that the food industry is heavily subsidized to produce foods that aren't all that healthy for you. What that means is that those foods - wheat, sugar, soy and corn - are not only very abundant but also that their cost in the checkout line is artificially low, while fruits and vegetables, which are not directly subsidized and make up only about 3 percent of the planted cropland in the United States, are more expensive.
In other words, the American taxpayer is shelling out billions of dollars to support the production of food whose ready availability and low price will end up costing us billions more in added health care expense in the future.
From an individual point of view, informed consumers can be mindful of which foods they choose to eat and which they don't. But what about all those packages in the supermarket aisles trumpeting the health benefits of the food they contain? Some of those claims may be true, others only relatively so, but who is really checking? The food industry itself, which is largely self-regulating.
Food companies "define what is deemed to be unhealthy," says Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Proposal killed
Recently, an Interagency Working Group on Food Marketing to Children, comprising the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Trade Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, proposed voluntary nutritional guidelines for the food industry, which would have been put forth by the FTC. The proposal was successfully torpedoed by the corporate food industry and, according to the FTC chairman, is effectively dead.
But that doesn't mean the healthy-food advocates are ready to throw in the napkin. To some of the participants in the HBO documentary, the battle for a healthier diet and an increase in public awareness of the physical and financial costs of our national weight crisis aren't dissimilar to the decades-long battle against the tobacco industry.
Weighty politics
To some extent, the weight epidemic has been politicized by the debate over national health care, which continues to play a big role in the current presidential race. While first lady and White House gardener Michelle Obama makes an appearance in "The Weight of the Nation," the issues at stake are far bigger than politics. Politicians on one side of the aisle may be more in favor of national health care than others, while other politicians are beholden, if not under the thumb, of the food industry.
Regardless of whether "Obamacare" is repealed or modified, Americans are doomed to pay even more for the cost of treating obesity-related illness if the weight epidemic is not addressed. And unless we're willing to respond to the timely wake-up call that is "The Weight of the Nation," many of us - and many of our children - will pay with their lives.
The effective way to lose weight
-- Take small steps in your diet
-- Set realistic goals for yourself
-- Get support from others who are trying to lose weight
-- Focus on portion control
-- Plan and structure your meals and monitor your caloric intake
Source: "The Weight of the Nation," HBO
Source: "The Weight of the Nation," HBO David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle TV critic. firstname.lastname@example.com