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It could be sold as early as next year, Achilles told the paper.
The move would certainly be a logical one for HTC, which last year launched 'Universal', a 3G PDA phone handset with a fold-up-and-rotate 640 x 480 display and a QWERTY keypad. HTC has also shipped handsets with slide-out QWERTY keypads. Any of these designs could feasibly be scaled up to UMPC size, and with a suitably powerful but low power consumption CPU you'd have a solid alternative to the likes of the OQO and Samsung's Q1.
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Hi Chris,
Since we live so close, I wouldn't mind playing tennis in the mornings either. It would have to be early like 6 am on weekdays and obviously later like 8 am on weekends. Evenings are fine as well. Preferably Wednesdays or Thursdays
Sunday is not great, attend Church and usually go out to lunch...Saturday or after 6:30 works best for me...
are you still looking to play? I'm about a 2.5 I think! Maybe a 2.75..let me know, I only can play after work, after 6:30 or Weekends...
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Thanks for the comment! I just reread my profile since it's been so long so yeah, I would love to play. I live in Tarzana now but it's not really that big of a deal since it's literally the border of Encino/Tarzana.
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Tonight as we think about the great revelation of Scripture, we return to the theme that we began last Sunday night of the love of God. Does God love the world? For those of you who are visiting with us tonight, or haven't been here, we have been engaged in a doctrinal study and we have been looking at some of the very most important doctrines in the Christian faith and some of those that are hard for some people to understand and handle. And our little trek through these doctrines which began with a look at the perseverance of the saints, or the security of the believer, has brought us all the way to discussing the issue of the love of God. And the Bible says that God is love. He is also spirit. He is also light. He is also life. He is also holiness. But He is love. And this is the most commonly proclaimed attribute of God, it's the favorite attribute of God, it's the popular attribute of God. It makes people feel good to hear that God loves them. It is affirming to hear that. Just a simple recognition that God loves you is an amazing reality.
But it is not by any means as simple as some people make it seem. And so, we have taken a brief look at this love that God has, defining it more carefully and bring it into more sharpened focus. Does God love the world? Yes. He does love the world. Does He love every single person in the world the same way? No. He does not.
I dealt with this in rather careful detail in a book I wrote called The Love of God, or The God who Loves, depending on which edition you have. And at the time, I don't think I even understood fully the character, the nature and the extent of the love of God and so it was a very helpful effort on my part. And I remember years ago when I went through the series, I think I preached seven or eight or nine messages on this theme, so we're giving you a really just a condensed look at it in these couple of Sunday nights. But when we talk about the love of God, we are then forced to look at the love of God in all its categories. And the first category we looked at last Sunday night is that love which God has for Himself, intra-Trinitarian love. The Father loves the Son, the Father loves the Spirit, the Son loves the Spirit and the Father and the Spirit loves the Son and the Father, there is this perfect love, this perfect communion of love inside the Trinity.
And we noted that the New Testament makes it clear that the Father's love for the Son is perfect, that the Son's love for the Father is perfect, and we looked at some Scriptures that indicate that. And, of course, the Spirit is swept up in that love in its perfection as well. It was the Father's perfect love for the Son that caused the Father to seek a bride for His Son. It was the Son's perfect love for the Father that caused the Son to give His life to purchase the bride to please His Father. It was the Spirit's love for the Father and the Son that caused the Spirit then to do the great work of transforming and regenerating those who would become the bride of the Son. Ir is the love of the Father for the Son and it is the love of the Son for the Father that is the primary motivating reality in the history of redemption, only secondary is the love that God has for mankind. The primary issue here is God loved the Son so much that He sought a bride for Him and the Son loved the Father so much that He sought to pay the price for that bride, and ultimately when the Son has received His bride, according to 1 Corinthians 15, He will then turn around and give Himself and His bride back to the Father that God may be all in all. And so we've been learning that within the Trinity is this great expression of love going on, and we are secondary in the sense that God loves us so that He can fulfill His love to Himself within the Trinity. God's loving people rises out of intra-Trinitarian love.
We move then to the second category, God's love for Himself being first, God's love for humanity in general being second. This is the love of God that is general. This is the love of God that's often referred to as unconditional love. This is the love that is unlimited love. This is the love that is indiscriminate love. This is what Titus 3:4 calls God's love for mankind. This is the kind of love that Matthew 5 talks about God loving His enemies. And so should we.
Now four features characterize this love that God has for everyone. One, common grace. He makes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. He has provided in this world expressions of His love, expressions of His goodness and His kindness and His mercy and His compassion and His tenderness to all men in just the goodness and the richness of life itself. That's common grace.
Secondly, God loves all mankind with a love of compassion. The Bible talks about the fact that God feels compassion for sinners in general. This love is not motivated by their value, it's motivated by the loss of value that sin has produced.
And thirdly, we talked about the fact that this general love of God is manifest in warning. Throughout the Scripture all sinners everywhere are warned of judgment. Scripture is filled with warnings about judgment, warnings relentless and endless warnings which will be heard by people who never will be redeemed. But God's broad warnings to the world are part of His extended love to mankind.
And finally, the gospel offer is a demonstration of God's love for mankind. There is a legitimate offer of the gospel to anyone who believes. We are told to take that to the ends of the earth and preach it to every creature. And so there is a love that God has for mankind.
But I want to talk tonight about that third category of love, as we prepare for the Lord's table, and that is the love that God has for His own. He does love the world in a way expressed in common grace, compassion, warning and gospel offer. But He loves His own in a very different way, a far different way. God's love for the world, think of it this way, God's love for the world, for mankind in general, in unlimited in extent but limited in degree. God's love for the world in general is unlimited in extent but limited in degree. He...He loves them all but to a limited degree. God's love for believers is limited in extent, but unlimited in degree. God's love for His own is limited to those who believe and they are those whom He has chosen. And so His love for them is limited to them but it is unlimited in degree and in expression. His love for His own is eternal and limitless.
How are we then to understand how God loves us? I was visiting folks in the hospital today and I was talking to the lady who was there by her husband in intensive care and she was talking about last Sunday and she said, "I was so overwhelmed last Sunday because we sang, 'Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus. Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free.'" and she said, "'In my mind, all I could think about was the Tsunami, this massive flood just sweeping away everything. And I saw in that the image of the overwhelming and deep love of Jesus for me.'" That is a way to understand the love that He has for His own. It is all encompassing, all engulfing and rather than being all destructive, it is all beneficial.
Turn to John 13...John 13. There are many places to go, by the way, in the New Testament to look at this issue. This is one, John 13 verse 1, the feast of the Passover was about to come. This would be the Passover at which the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world would be slain. This was the Passover where Jesus was to be crucified. So it says, "Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that the hour, His hour, had come that He should depart out of the world to the Father." He's very aware, He is meeting here with His Apostles in the Upper Room. It is the night of His betrayal. His crucifixion is only hours away. He knows it. He looks at the Apostles who are around the table, all of them including Judas were there. And it says, "Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them," the NAS says, "to the end." Other translations say, "Eternally." Others say, "To the uttermost."
Now here is a kind of love that is unique. "Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them eis telos...eis telos," He confers an eis teloslove on His own. It is a quality of love, a degree of love beyond anything the world in general experiences. First Timothy 4:10 says, "God is the Savior of all men," in a temporal way, that is He shows love to all men, delivering them at least temporarily from the destruction and the judgment and the hell that they deserve. But that same verse says, "He is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe." There is a sense in which He is a Savior of all men, physically and temporally, not bringing to sinners what they deserve when they deserve it, but extending grace and compassion and warning and gospel offered to them. But when it comes to believers, He especially loves them. And especially is the Savior of those who believe not in physical, temporal sense, but in a spiritual eternal sense.
What does it mean eis telos? What does it mean that He loved them to the end? And by the way, they weren't being particularly lovable at this moment because if you compare the gospel account, they were arguing about which of them would be the greatest in the Kingdom which was rather a continual argument that they had, fighting for position and posturing themselves with reference to the Kingdom they thought Jesus was going to bring. And so they were about as ugly as they ever got. There wasn't anything particularly winsome about them at the time. But then again, the love of Jesus is not affected about how He feels about them or how they act at the moment. And that's the nature of this kind of love. What does it mean eis telos?
Well in the Greek it means "unto the end," "unto the finish." And it can go a lot of directions. Let me suggest a few. Number one, it can mean completely or perfectly, or fully. He loved them to the maximum of His capacity to love. That is to say He loves them so completely, so comprehensively, so fully that He cannot love them more. And His love is so full and so rich that He cannot hold back anything from them. Therefore Scripture says we are joint heirs with Christ, we inherit everything that Christ inherits. Scripture says we sit on His throne. Scripture says Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers. Scripture says that everything that is heaven that belongs to God and belongs to Christ will also belong to us. It is that breadth of love, that limitless range of love that causes everything that God has to also belong to us.
It also can mean that He loves us to the end. Eis teloscan be chronologically. He loves us not only completely and perfectly, but to the end, to the last. He loves us right till it's over. This is sort of like Romans 8, "What shall separate us from the love of Christ, tribulation and all those other things that are listed there?" He loves us when we're cowardly, He loves us when we're disloyal. He loves us when we're disobedient. He loves us when we're doubtful. He loves us when we're fearful. He loves us when we're rebellious. He loves us when we are flatly disobedient. He loves us when our love for Him grows cold. The disciples have lived through all of those phases, didn't they? Just like we do. In spite of their doubt, in spite of their lack of love, in spite of their fear, in spite of their disloyalty, in spite of their disobedience, He never wavered, He never wandered away from His love for them. He protected them in the garden from being arrested because He knew they could never survive the arrest and the scrutiny and the interrogation and the punishment, so He never let it happen. He loved them even when they were in disbelief walking on the road to Emmaus, moaning because they had put their trust in one who is now dead and they were overcome with hopelessness. He loved them when they were outright disobedient. He told them to go into the mountain and wait for Him and they went back to their old profession of fishing and He loved them anyway in John 21. And the real test of His love, "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." And He loved them enough to lay down His life to forgive their sins. His love for them to the end meant that He loved them enough to die for them, even in the midst of their failures, in the midst of their weaknesses. That's what it means to be loved by the Lord. It means to be loved completely. It means to be loved so fully that He couldn't love you more than He loves you, and it means that every benefit that His love can possibly give, He gives. And it means that that love is to the end, to the last, it's never going to be anything other than that.
Sometimes people get a little bit confused and they talk about that as if that's how God loves the world. That is not how God loves the world. He doesn't love them in that way. He doesn't love them savingly. He doesn't love them limitlessly. He doesn't love them permanently, no matter what. But He loves His own that way. And that's what it says in verse 13, "Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end." That would exclude Judas and that's why a little while later He dismissed Judas. Verse 2, "During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him." Jesus had a little dialogue and dismissed Judas and he went out and betrayed Jesus. And you know the rest of the story.
It means to love perfectly. It means to love to the very end. And thirdly, it can convey the idea of loving forever. Eis telosis a way to express something that is eternal. And the phrase is used to speak of eternity, forever. He loves His own forever. It is not just a general love that expresses common grace that blesses us temporally in this life, it is not just that general love which causes God to feel compassion for us. It's not that general love that warns and gives the gospel. This is a different love all together. It is limited in its extent, but it is limitless in its degree and its quality. This is the love of God that only believers experience. This is the love of God that was predetermined before the foundation of the world in the sovereign unaffected plan of God to choose some to be saved. This is the love of God that was expressed on the cross when Jesus died to actually pay the penalty to those upon whom God had set His love before the foundation of the world. In fact, the temporary brief love that God has for mankind eventually turns to eternal hate when they reject Him and feel His judgment. Psalm 5, "I hate all who do iniquity."
So the love God has for His own is vastly different. It is a...it is a sort of spiritual Tsunami. It is a surge of love. It is a depth of love and a breadth and a height of love that literally engulfs us. And it always turns to salvation, always.
The best way to illustrate this saving love is to look at a couple of Old Testament passages, just briefly. Deuteronomy chapter 7, Deuteronomy chapter 7 and I just...pick it up in verse 6, Deuteronomy 7 verse 6, "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God," he's talking to Israel here, "You are a holy people to the Lord your God, the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth." This is divine election. Verse 7, "The Lord did not set His love on you..." Stop right there. That expression is another way to say what verse 6 said. God has chosen you. The Lord did not set His love on you, nor choose you because you were more in number. Why did He choose you? Because He set His love on you. Why did God set His love on just this nation? It was the uninfluenced purpose of His own sovereignty.
Verse 8, "Because the Lord loved you," etc. Verse 9, "Knowing therefore the Lord your God, He is God the faithful God who keeps His covenant and His loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments." And here you have this picture of God in eternity past loving certain people, Jews, in the little tiny nation of Israel, descendants of Abraham through Isaac and setting His eternal love and covenant on them.
Turn to Ezekiel 16, here is another more dramatic and more graphic illustration of this. In fact, this is one of the most graphic chapters in all the prophets and certainly the most vivid forceful chapter in Ezekiel, also the longest chapter in Ezekiel, 63 verses. And it's really an amazing chapter. Through the years a couple of times considered this chapter and I...I'm not going to get bogged down but I just want you to get a feel for what's going on here. This chapter demonstrates God's forgiving eternal love to His own. The story of Israel is presented here, really in very kind of vivid and even somewhat distasteful sordid imagery. In fact, it was so ugly that many rabbis forbid this chapter to be read or explained in public. They skipped it because it focuses on Israel in what many of the Jews felt was an unsavory way. Verse 1, "The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 'Son of Man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.'" Oh that's a bad start as far as the Jews were concerned because it exposed their abominations. "And say, 'Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite, your mother a Hittite.'" That's just a little history. The nation basically was born out of a Caananitish background, Amorites and Hittites. "As for your birth, on the day you were born, your navel cord wasn't cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing and you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you, rather you were thrown out into the open field for you were abhorred, or hated, on the day you were born."
The dwellers in Canaan were generally called Amorites or Hittites. It's talking about the fact that Jerusalem and the Jewish people had pagan origins. And because of idolatry, Jerusalem was acting in a very Caananitish way even at this time. And that's what led to the captivity that Ezekiel was a part of. When the nation came into existence, it was weak and defenseless and poor, it was...it was liable to perish, it was just out there on its own in a field. I guess you could say the field was Egypt. It received no pity from any human source. This was a common thing to do, by the way, in the ancient world. If you didn't want a baby, you didn't necessarily have to abort the baby, just cut the cord and throw the baby in a field. Israel was unwanted and uncared for, thrown out in the field, as it were, in Egypt. Nobody had bothered to cut the navel cord, nobody had bothered to wash with water which was always done to cleanse that baby when it was born, and babies were rubbed with salt to mitigate against any infection and wrapped obviously for protection and warmth. Nobody had any pity on Israel. Nobody cared. There they were, thrown out in the open field of Egypt, hated.
Verse 6, "Then God said, 'When I passed by, I saw you squirming in your blood. I said to you while you were in your blood, Live. I said to you while you were in your blood, Live. And I made you numerous like plants of the field.'" And that's a little bit about the history of Israel and Egypt. They grew to a mighty nation...mighty nation, maybe as many as two million of them that came out of that field. But this is just a start. "I made you numerous like plants of the field, you grew up, you became tall, you reached the age for fine ornaments. Your breasts were formed, your hair had grown...maturity...and yet you were naked and bare, you still weren't complete, you still weren't covered. I passed by and I saw you and you were at the time for love and so I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine, declares the Lord God." I picked you up out of no place. I picked you up when you were left to die. I picked you up out of Egypt and I brought you back and I allowed you to mature. And then I clothed you and protected you and I bathed you with water and washed off the blood and anointed you with oil. And I clothed you with embroidered cloth and I put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet." Take that, you environmentalists. "And I wrapped you with fine linen and I covered you with silk and I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck."
Wow, you know back in verse 8 it says, "I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness." That was tantamount to a marriage covenant. God says I made you My bride, I made you My wife. And then I took care of you and I washed you and I clothed you and I adorned you. Verse 12, "I put a ring in your nostril," not a big bull ring, by the way, but just a little ring was worn often in those days and still in some cultures. "Earrings in your ears, a crown on your head, adorned you with gold, silver, dressed in fine linen, silk, embroidered cloth, you ate fine flour, honey, oil, you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty and your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty." That would be about the time of Solomon, right?, when the kingdom really reached its apex. Lavished goodness from God, I did all this for you.
But...verse 15, "You trusted in your beauty, you played the harlot because of your fame. You poured out your harlotries on every passerby who might be willing." Wow. Every stranger you had an liaison with. And, of course, this is talking about idolatry. There was real adultery going on in Israel but He's talking here about spiritual idolatry, spiritual adultery. You took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and My silver which I gave you, made for yourselves male images, you turned the gold and silver I gave you and you flaunted that and you made idols out of it and you played the harlot, you worshiped the very idols made out of the goods that I gave you. Took your embroidered cloth and you covered them and you offered My oil and incense before them. You took everything I gave you and used it in your idolatry. My bread I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma. So it happened, declared the Lord God.
Verse 20, He asks at the end of the verse, "Were your harlotries so small a matter, you slaughtered My children, offered them up to idols by causing them to pass by through the fire. They got involved in worshiping Molech. And besides all the abominations," verse 22, "and harlotries, you didn't remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood. You forgot, you forgot." And it just goes on. I won't take the time to read it.
Israel is an impudent prostitute without control, without conscience. Eventually you get down to verse 35 to 43 and you have the Babylonian Captivity. God will not be pacified any longer. I'll bring, verse 43 says, I'll bring your conduct down on your own head. Judgment came and it came in the form of the Babylonian Captivity. Slaughter, people taken out of their country, all of this because of your abominations.
And then in verses 46...in 46 and following, He talks about Samaria and Sodom. Samaria, evil, the northern kingdom wicked, taken away into captivity, never to return. Sodom, homosexuality, gross sin, destroyed by fire and brimstone. Samaria and Sodom would have been bywords for the worst, but verse 47 says, "Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations but as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they." Worse than Sodom? Worse than Samaria?
Now where does all this go? Go down to verse 60, "Nevertheless," there's a great word, "nevertheless, I will remember My Covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish an everlasting Covenant with you." What? Why? Why? "You will remember your ways," verse 61, "and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger. I will give them to you as daughters but not because of your Covenant, thus I will establish My Covenant with you and you shall know that I am the Lord in order that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done, the Lord God declares."
Why in the world is He going to forgive them? Why didn't He forgive Sodom? Why didn't he forgive Samaria? Judah is worse. Why? Verse 60, "I will remember My Covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish an everlasting Covenant with you." I made a pledge, I made a promise based upon My sovereign will. This is the essence of the kind of love that God has for those He chooses. He will save them and He will give them salvation no matter how they blaspheme and spurn Him. Eventually they will turn. You will remember, verse 63, you will be ashamed, you will be humiliated, I will forgive you. Sodom was destroyed. Samaria was unredeemed. Israel was worse. Yet God forgave because He predetermined to do it. He set His saving love upon that people. And to this day He is saving a remnant out of Israel, in spite of Israel's horrific apostasy in the past. And some day He will redeem the nation because He has promised to do it. It's an illustration of the fact that His love for His own is perfect, it is complete, it is saving love, it is eternal love and whom He predetermines to love, He will love savingly.
It was said of Solomon, "The Lord loved him." Solomon sinned yet was, it says in Nehemiah, beloved of his God. You see, we are the beneficiaries and the recipients of a sovereign love established before the foundation of the world, set upon us. It is limited to those whom God chooses and those who believe. It is unlimited in its quality and its degree. Ephesians 2 says, "It is a love that forgives, it is a love that gives life. It is a love that promises eternal glory. It is a love that brings kindness forever. It is a love that produces righteousness and it's all of grace." Ephesians chapter 5 says, "It is a love that gives life. It is a love that separates from sin. It is a love that cleanses. It is a love that purifies. It is a love that makes holy. It is a love that nourishes. It is a love that cherishes."
Luke 15 says, "It is a love that forgives and lavishes and rejoices and restores and enriches." Romans 8 says, "It is an inseparable, unconquerable, unbreakable everlasting love." And so it is that God loves His own and He loves us to the extreme end of His love which is really without end. And He loves us through all our lives to the very last, no matter what. And He loves us throughout all eternity. He has saved us to lavish that love upon us.
And I know we go back to the question we talked about months ago...why did God not choose to love everyone like this? Well He didn't, but if you ask me why He didn't, I can't tell you the answer any other than this, because loving this way brought Him glory. God is not obligated to be the unqualified equal-opportunity lover of all people. God is not the prisoner of His love, nor is He the prisoner of man's expectation for His love. And God's love is not separated from all the other attributes which bring Him glory like justice and holiness and righteousness and wrath. Everything God does in the end is for the glory of His name. He loved Jacob for His glory and He hated Esau for His glory. And for the purposes that He Himself knows and are absolutely righteous, God loves the way He loves. We will not understand it. Maybe we'll get closer to understanding it in heaven. But we can certainly rejoice in it.
When you come to this table then, you come to celebrate this eternal love which God the Father set on you before the foundation of the world by which He determined to save you and give you as a part of the bride to His own beloved Son. And it was for you that the Son died, paying the penalty for your sin in order to purchase you to be His bride, some day then to give Himself and the bride back to the Father that God may be all in all. And so, we come overwhelmed, I trust, with this astonishing gift of salvation, born out of God's sovereign love. Let's pray together.
Father, as we come now to this table, we really are overwhelmed. This is just too mysterious. We're no better than others. We're no different than others. We're no saints on our own. There's nothing in us to be commended. There's nothing in us particularly lovable, how in the world could we ever assume that You could find something lovable in sinners when You are perfectly holy? But out of the grace and mercy of Your heart and out of Your immense love for Your Son, You determined that You would love some of us and that You would love us to the max and that You would love us to the end and that You would love us through all eternity because it serves Your purpose in loving Your Son. And that Your Son would love us because it served Him in showing His love for You. And that the Spirit would join in by redeeming us to a mighty work of transformation so that this great love could be complete. We think of the words of Jesus who talked about how the Son loves the Father and the Father loves the Son and how He longed that all who believe would enjoy participating in that same love. And we will forever enter in to the love that is unique to the Trinity. O God, this is so vast and so marvelous and we know that being loved finds its highest moment at the cross where the price is paid to make Your own those You determine to love. So we come to the cross so grateful, so thankful and again to be reminded of the sacrifice that our Lord made there.
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Well, It looks like fieldwork season is upon us and everyone but everyone is out and about in the never ending quest for beetles (especially new to science beetles!) but then, just as it's always cocktail hour somewhere in the world, so too it is always fieldwork season somewhere in the world (I love these excuses; as I write I'm thinking, hmm, it's 9am GMT, where in the world right now could I be sipping a gin martini?!).
Anyway, back to the point of things, recently one of our long-standing volunteers decided to take himself off to Africa, along with his long-obliging / suffering and lovely wife (wives, lovers, partners, husbands of entomologists you will understand what I mean!). This little trip was part of a collaboration to basically collect more beetles from more places in Tanzania than our usual intrepid entomologist Hitoshi - for Hitoshi's fieldwork exploits read here.
David Oram has worked in the Entomology Department for about seven years first starting out in the Lepidoptera section (Lepidoptera being his first love) and lately in the Coleoptera section where presently he is working on a recurating the Meloidae (the oil beetles). In real life David is a dentist. Really.
Fieldwork may appear glamorous, romantic, exotic and... a picnic! Below is David and his wife Dawn enjoying a well deserved break from beetle collecting in the Selous Reserve.
And now I hand you over to David's account of his fieldwork trip to Tanzania:
"Following on from some of the recent venturesome exploits of a certain member of the Coleoptera section at the NHM to Tanzania (namely HT) ; DAO and DO have just paid a visit to the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania during March 2012.
The Udzungwa Mountains cover an area of approximately 1990 Km² in the Iringa and Morogoro regions of south central Tanzania; part of the chain of a dozen large forest-swathed mountains, rising from the flat coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania, known collectively as the Eastern Arc Mountains. These stretch from the Taita Hills of southern Kenya to the Makambako gap southern Tanzania.
The mountains are about 7-8 hours drive southwest of the capital Dar Es Salaam and are bordered in the northeast by Mikumi National Park in the east by Selous Reserve beyond Kilombero Valley, in the north by the Great Ruaha river and Ruipa river in the southwest.
As our time was limited we travelled initially by small plane to Mikumi from the Selous Reserve, continuing the last shorter distance by road. This did not prove to be without incident as enroute a tree fell down over a vehicle just ahead of us nearly killing all the occupants. Somewhat shaken we arrived safely at the Hondo Hondo campsite in the afternoon.
This time of year being the start of the rainy season, to have dry weather was a bonus so when we arrived we set to with the mercury vapour (M.V.) light but first found we had to make some alterations. The choke needed replacing as did the light, but most of the equipment was in place and plenty of kind help was around from Jock the manager of the camp and his staff. The light and sheet was set up on a beautiful site overlooking the forest and mountains which just rise up in front of you.
Jock and staff fixing up the M.V. light
The early evening was warm and humid but dry with clear skies. On the forest edge we could watch the antics of some of the unique primate life of the Udzungwa red colobus and Black and white colobus and listen to the noises of the forest.
This was a magic spot until we could hear the sound of thunder; there was no rain to start with until after dark and the M.V. light had been on for half an hour or so. Then it rained like a continuous thunderstorm for at least five hours. A lot of rice is grown in this area and I now realised why. The field with the light and sheet was like a paddy field in at least 1-2 feet of water. The insect nets were like planks of wood and anything that could not swim was in trouble. We continued hoping for a change in the weather but gave up in the early hours of the morning. We must have been quite a sight inspecting the sheet and light every thirty minutes or so, into which things were still trying to fly into, in a small column of umbrellas.
The light survived this onslaught of appalling weather really due to the sound electrical connections by Jock and his men. We moved the M.V. lamp to a more sheltered spot for the next four nights. Needless to say it did not rain again at night.
Beetles and Moths arrived in even numbers most nights and included; the beautiful black and red flat faced longhorn Ceroplesis militaris; some large Prioninae Tithoes maculata; a ship timber beetle possibly Atractocerus brevicornis; plenty of chafers and dung beetles. The moths included many hawk moths; Hippotion celerio, Hippotion eson; the beautiful green hawk Euchloron megaera; Nephele comma; Nephele rovae and many species of Saturniidae.
Ceroplesis militaris, Cerambycidae
Atractocerus brevicornis, Lymexillidae - a rather unusual looking beetle; and what do you think it's mimicing?!
Tithoes maculatus, Cerambycidae - Will give you a nasty nip - just look at those mandibles!
Dung beetles
For dung beetles we did set up some traps interestingly on the path used by the Elephants every morning at about 4am on the edge of the forest and our campsite. I was a little concerned about this but Emmanuel who was with me suggested these would be good sites and how right he was even the elephants seem to have been careful not to tread on them. One day was spent setting the traps up and finding local farmers to help; collecting some dung left by elephants contained dung beetles already who often were better diggers than us and avoided our attempts at capture. A number of these dung beetles have yet to be identified.
David and Emmanuel setting an elephant dung trap
Sap loving beetles
Another day at Hondo Hondo or rather the nearby village of Mang'ula was to prove interesting. Emmanuel who had helped with the dung beetle traps had a farmer friend at Mang'ula where he harvested bamboo sap for a drink. Bamboo is grown often around the edges of rice fields and suger cane here. The bamboo is used to make baskets and for transporting agricultural produce. We walked to Mang'ula as it was only a couple of miles away and the roads around Hondo Hondo are dirt roads with many undulations and corrugations so progress in a vehicle is slow. Once with the farmer's family I realised getting to the bamboo was not as easy as we had to cross some flooded fields of rice but supplied with wellingtons I was all kitted up. The sap is harvested by cutting through a stem of the bamboo then attaching a collecting bottle at an angle to allow the sap to just flow into it in a similar way to rubber sap. The chafer beetles congregate around the cut ends of the bamboo with lots of like minded insects including ants, bees, wasps, and butterflies. The end of our visit to the bamboo was rewarded with a shared drink of sap with the locals; fine as long as it's not too alcoholic…"
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LeBron James slammed the most vicious of dunks on Jason Terry's head Monday night.
The immediate reaction was DOA in Wikipedia's eyes. Cause of death being viciously dunked on.
In the slightly longer term, it was a crucial two points in the Heat's 105-103 victory over the Celtics, and the continuation of Miami's 23-game winning streak.
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Neuse Extension group winners; Trudy Pickett's home solutions column
ECA has blue ribbon winners
Fourteen members of the Neuse Extension and Community Association and one staff member from the Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Service office attended the Southeastern District Meeting March 5 in Wayne County.
More than eight Lenoir County women entered local blue ribbon entries into the ECA District Day Cultural Arts competition. Five brought home district blue ribbons.
Lenoir County ECA District Day blue ribbon winners are Betty Davis, crafts; Marva Brown, creative writing, both poetry and short story; Anne Gaddis, chair bottoming; Katherine Pierce, flower arrangement or wreath, and acrylic painting; and Carolyn Sutton, knitting.
Home Solutions: Make your grilling greener
Many U.S. households � some estimate 74 million � own at least one outdoor grill or smoker, according to the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. Traditional charcoal grills produce smoke and soot particles that can pollute the air, irritate the lungs and aggravate heart problems.
Catherine Zandonella, author of �National Geographic Green Guide Families,� shares some tips on how to go green with grilling and making barbecue better for your health and the environment.
To get the charcoal smoky flavor and reduce pollutants, avoid charcoal briquettes with conventional additives such as sodium nitrate or charcoal with self-lighting petroleum products. Use a natural lump brand of charcoal.
The charcoal briquettes � which can contain coal dust, sodium nitrate, sawdust, starch or limestone � can release toxic byproducts. Briquettes soaked in lighter fluid are the worst offenders, releasing volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, that contribute to smog when burned.
Avoid using lighter fluid, which gives off petrochemicals that can penetrate food. Use a chimney starter, filled at the bottom with recycled newspaper and the top with wood briquettes. Light the bottom and in about 20 minutes the briquettes will be ready to add to the grill.
To keep backyard air clean, try an electric grill. It emits the fewest pollutants and is good for outdoor cooks whose communities have charcoal and gas restrictions. Electric grilling is probably the fastest and easiest method of outdoor cookery. However, nearly three-fourths of the electricity made in the U.S. comes from burning fossil fuels. Cooking on an electric grill for one hour creates about 15 pounds of carbon dioxide, because making electricity usually involves burning coal, gas or oil.
The gas-powered grill is the cleanest burning and most popular U.S. option. It runs on either liquefied propane gas from a refillable tank or natural gas piped from the home supply. The typical charcoal grill has a carbon footprint nearly three times larger than the gas grill.
Finally, ditch the disposables. Use reusable plates, cups and silverware instead of paper or plastic disposable ones.
Resources: Catherine Zandonella and care2.com
Trudy W. Pickett is extension family and consumer agent at the Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Office, 1791 N.C. 11/55. Reach her at 252-527-2191 or email@example.com.


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Here are the 2013 nominees for the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame: Rush, Deep Purple, N.W.A., Public Enemy, Albert King, The Marvelettes, Procol Harum, Chic, Heart, the late Donna Summer, Kraftwerk, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Randy Newman, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The Meters.
In order to be eligible for a Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame nomination, artists must have released their work at least 25 years prior to appearing on the ballot. This year's nominees released their first single in 1987, or prior.
Inductees will be announced in early December, while the 28th Annual Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will not be held until April 18th in Los Angeles.


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One thing about me that not many people know is that I love taking pictures on airplanes of the panoramic views. I decided that I would share some of my most recent one with you, of the flights home to Cape Town, leaving from Denver, with layovers in New York City and Dubai.
|Farmland somewhere over Colorado.
We arrived at Denver's Airport (DEN) and it took a while to be fully checked in because our domestic flights were not attached to our international flights. The desk person had to verify that our visas were valid because she said the airline could be fined up to 10,000 dollars for not verifying. She also had to make sure that we could have two checked luggage pieces each, without paying, which of course we did because we were flying internationally.
|Wispy Clouds.
In NYC, at JFK, we had to check in with Emirates, which took a long time because they only had two people working it. Our seats weren't together, so they reassigned them for us. In the end, we still had enough time to eat one last American meal.
We unfortunately had to go through security at a place that only had six gates, and not many shops/restaurants; so we were very limited in what food choices we could eat. The restaurant was fairly expensive, so we shared a beer, the hubby had some chicken wings, and I had some Blue Cheese and bacon (streaky bacon to people in SA) covered potato chips. Not the best meal to end our time, but good enough.
|Lovely Light as we fly into NYC. Can you count how many ships are in the picture?
I popped some DayQuil pills because I had gotten sick two days before, and was till sneezing and coughing often. We tried to use our phones and 3G internet as much as we could before we flew out.
Once we boarded the plane, we realized that we had been seated in an emergency row, with only our two seats, then the aisle (instead of the normal three). We felt pretty lucky because we could stretch our legs out and stand easily. We sat across from two flight attendants during takeoff and landing and got to talk to them for a little bit.
|Our leg space on the flight from NYC to Dubai.
Next, I'll post about the Dubai airport and our last flight to Cape Town.
Song of the Post: American Pie by Don MacLean. Just feeling a little sentimental...


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Sep 3, 2008
Day 63: Stewie Griffin
Stewart Gilligan Griffin, more commonly known by his nickname "Stewie", is a fictional character in the animated series Family Guy. Stewie is obsessed with world domination and trying to kill his mother, and has an ambiguous sexuality. He is the youngest and the smartest child of Peter and Lois Griffin.
Wizard magazine rated him the 95th greatest villain of all time.
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- Jayne said...
I would love to see Napoleon Dynamite!
Love your site.
- September 4, 2008 at 4:43 PM
- Drummyralf said...
This is slightly offtopic, but I can't find any contact button on your site. That's why I'll just ask you in a comment.
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I've just done your 'Stewie version' and was awesome!
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- September 8, 2008 at 7:40 AM
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Love this idea! We downloaded Raph from TMNT and Spiderman....Thanks for a fun afternoon activity!
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Denture Program
To provide for the additional health needs of the Sac and Fox Nation. Many Native Americans are often under insured or lack health insurance altogether. The Sac and Fox Nation deem it an important governmental function to ensure all of its members receive adequate health care. This program is open to all Sac and Fox Nation tribal members regardless of their location of residency.
- Applicant must be an enrolled member of the Sac and Fox Nation, residing anywhere.
- Applicant is encouraged to exhaust any other tribal or Indian Health Services resources. This program may be used in conjunction with IHS & other resources to provide the applicant the maximum benefits available to them.
- Applicants with private insurance must submit claim to their insurance first. SFN RAP Denture program will work as a secondary insurance for those tribal members with denture insurance available to them.
- Applicant may receive up to $1000 for dentures or a dental appliance. Cosmetic denture appliances will not be considered.
- Applicant may receive assistance every four (4) years. A Four year period is determined on a revolving forty-eight (48) month period which will start from the most recent date of service received. An individual may request assistance annually with a statement and diagnosis from a physician verifying they have a medical condition which necessitates denture or dental appliance replacement more frequently.
- Funding for this program is limited and each application will be processed in the order in which it was received. This program will fund as many tribal member's requests as funding will permit. However, preference may be given to emergency situations and elders.
- After eligibility is determined, applicant will receive an award letter and payment will be made directly to Physician/Vendor with appropriate backup documentation, including invoices or estimates.
- Applicants receiving services before an award letter has been issued to them may not qualify and will be responsible for payment of the services received prior to the date of the award letter.


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I have an exercise for you. Don't worry: You can do it at your computer.
Think about all the reasons why a multinational corporation would choose to move jobs to another country. Lower labor costs? More efficient and better educated workers? Potential to contribute to the positive net effect of globalization and free trade?
Or perhaps it has to do with lax labor regulations in other countries. Or a country's currency manipulation that artificially keeps the costs of that country's exported goods low.
Certainly, it wouldn't be because corporations are receiving generous tax incentives from the U.S. government for moving their jobs (and their profits) overseas. And yet they do.
That's why today Senate Democrats have resuscitated the Bring Jobs Home Act, sponsored by Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow. House Republicans killed similar legislation before it could even get to the floor.
Stabenow's bill would give businesses a 20 percent tax credit for moving their operations back into the U.S. and remove tax incentives for offshoring.
"We need to be exporting our products, not our jobs," said Sen. Stabenow in a statement released Wednesday.
Republicans, pro-business SuperPACs and other corporate mouthpieces have shamelessly attacked efforts to punish currency manipulation, which enables China to keep the costs of its exports into the United States artificially low, which when combined with low labor costs creates an incentive to outsource American jobs.
Even more telling is Mitt Romney's reluctance to talk about the negative effects of offshoring during his tenure at Bain Capital. Romney is no fool—praising the effects of outsourcing may be logical for a private equity manager—but he's learned that doing so is politically volatile.
Romney, on the other hand, doesn't much want to defend creative destruction. He boasts about building Bain, but won't discuss it in detail because it opens up a conversation about those same unattractive consequences: lost jobs, bankruptcies, private pensions dumped onto the federal government.
Offshoring and outsourcing are business practices that are part of a larger pattern of redistributing wealth to the top 1 percent of earners and slashing benefits for workers, says economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
On the contrary, it's often a way to replace well-paid employees who receive decent health and retirement benefits with low-wage, low-benefit employees at subcontracting firms.
Offshoring, outsourcing—whatever you want to call it, Americans overwhelmingly think that moving jobs overseas hurts the economy and is bad for American workers. So let's bring good-paying jobs with real benefits back to the U.S


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1)A slight feeling of gratitude to win back money wasted on a non-jackpot lottery ticket. 2)Winning back some, but not all, money wasted on lottery games resulting in a feeling of gratitude that you did not get completely fucked by the lottery.
I had to come to work today because I didn't win the fucking lottery! But I did manage to get some lotitude.
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Tonight we toured the Miami Design District, where several events were going on, celebrating the opening of Art Basel Miami 2012. Dior Homme opened its new flagship store, Vuitton across the street presented its new product design collection in its Retna decorated store.
By chance we came across the two French artists Andre and JR working on a collaborative piece in the area. JR produced photo prints of eyes in his signature style, while Andre afterwards added his signature graffiti style to it.
If you are in the area this week, you should definitely go ahead and check it out.
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Roots of John Kerry's secretary of state ambition lie in wake of 2004 defeat
WASHINGTON – Just three months after losing his campaign to be president of the United States, a politically wounded and weary Senator John Kerry took a routine fact-finding tour of the Middle East. It was one of countless overseas trips Kerry had taken in his two decades in Congress. But this time, those accompanying the Massachusetts Democrat noticed something was different.
On the return leg of the trip, during a late night stroll to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a crowd spontaneously gathered around the former Democratic nominee for the White House. They reached to shake his hand. They snapped his photo. They peppered him with questions about the Iraq War. He had attracted similar swarms in Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories.
"It was striking how people in the streets came up to him everywhere,'' recalled a close confidante intimately familiar with the trip. "It was new and different, and it was noticed by the leaders in the region.''
The 2004 presidential campaign had significantly raised Kerry's profile around the world, an international stature that helped Kerry climb out of the darkness after his defeat at the hands of President George W. Bush and allowed him to reset the trajectory of his public career.
On Friday, President Obama nominated Kerry as the next secretary of state, a post friends and colleagues say he is well-suited for. The son of a Foreign Service officer has thought deeply about matters of war and peace, and has logged thousands of hours traveling the globe on various diplomatic quests.
As a boy living in Europe during the Cold War, Kerry biked around communist East Germany despite his father's warnings and hunted for D-Day casings on the beaches of Normandy. As a young man, the Vietnam war hero turned war protestor spoke passionately out about the tragic costs of geopolitical miscalculation.
"You have a guy who, from his earliest days, has been schooled in America's international role, both in war and in peace making,'' said Max Cleland, a former senator from Georgia and a close friend of Kerry's. "He was born to be secretary of state. What you got here is a very rare human being who has been through the throes of the damned in war and in politics in a presidential election, and who has survived it all to come out on top.''
In the eight years since his 2004 run, Kerry — freed from the expectations of capturing the presidency – took a cue from his Senate colleague Ted Kennedy following his own presidential loss and focused once again on the unglamorous work of being a senator from Massachusetts, securing federal funds for Bay State road projects amid other mundane duties.
But his real calling remained foreign policy, and he sought to play a leading role in key debates from Iraq to Afghanistan. After he had ascended to the chairmanship of Foreign Relations in 2009, he shepherded a new nuclear arms pact with Russia and personally persuaded Afghan President Hamid Karzai to agree to a runoff election after he had prematurely declared himself the winner.
"It takes a certain period of time to get over losing the presidency, but eventually he accommodated quite well,'' said Tom Hayden, a political activist and former California legislator who has known Kerry since their days protesting the Vietnam War. "The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not like a presidency in the wings, but its reach, its powers, its personnel, is enormous. In his mind, he was operating a virtual secretary of state office.''
As an adult, Kerry's induction into foreign affairs began during the tumult of the Vietnam War. The idealistic Yale University senior enlisted as a naval officer at the urging of William Bundy, assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs in the Kennedy administration and the uncle of one of his roommates.
But Kerry began questioning the country's mission in Vietnam even before setting foot in the war zone, remarking in his 1966 graduation speech, "What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism.'' Few protested the war at the time, and Kerry felt he had little choice but to serve in order to see first-hand what was happening.
His critique of the war continued in his letters home. He tried to put himself in the shoes of the occupied and wondered what it would be like "to have to bend to the desires of a people who could not be sensitive to the things that really counted in one's country.''
By the time Kerry returned from Vietnam – discharged six months early after earning three purple hearts, a bronze star and a silver star as commander of a riverine unit in the Mekong Delta – he had developed a deep distrust of government.
Yet he aspired to lead it – first weighing a 1970 run for Congress on an antiwar platform. Instead, in 1971, Kerry became the face of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and organized a national protest in Washington. In a historic prelude, the 27-year-old Kerry delivered powerful testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he would later chair, in which he famously asked, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?''
The following day, the decorated Navy lieutenant lobbed his ribbons over a fence in front of the Capitol during a demonstration he orchestrated. The events instantly catapulted Kerry to national fame.
"That was a seminal moment which showed John Kerry's odyssey from volunteering to be a part of the war to having learned the horrible lessons of war,'' said Cleland, a Vietnam veteran who lost both of his legs and his right arm in combat.
Four decades later, Kerry proudly displayed his war medals, pinning them to the breast of his tuxedo at the white-tie Gridiron Club dinner in Washington last March.
There remains bitterness toward Kerry on the part of some who believe his antiwar stance and claims of American atrocities in Vietnam made him unsuitable for the presidency and now secretary of state.
But even those who were on the opposite side of the Vietnam debate now agree that Kerry is among the most qualified for the Cabinet post.
"I didn't approve of what he did, but I understood the protesters quite well,'' said Melvin Laird, former secretary of defense during the Nixon administration whose son also protested the war. "I wish him very well.''
Laird at the time declined two requests from the Navy to court martial Reserve Lieutenant Kerry over his antiwar actions.
Thomas Vallely, a Kerry confidante and director of the Vietnam Program at Harvard Kennedy School, believes that more than any experience, the war years molded Kerry's current approach to the world.
"To me the most important thing for our secretary of state is to live in and understand the reality of the world that we're in – not the myth that's created about the world that we're in. And he has that capacity,'' he said.
Nevertheless, some are skeptical of Kerry's history of shifting positions, accusing him of being opportunistic and changing with the political winds. For example, Kerry invoked the prospect of another Vietnam to oppose war in 1990 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait but then voted to authorize the use of force to overthrow the Iraqi leader in 2002 as he was preparing to run for president. He later voted against funding to continue the war.
Supporters of the former Middlesex County prosecutor and Yale debater say he has an academic tendency to examine and see an issue from all angles, frustrating even his staff who often do not know how he will vote on an issue until he reaches the Senate floor.
Those close to him said they believe he made a conscious decision after the 2004 presidential race to leverage his new influence in the international arena.
"He was somebody,'' said Shahid Ahmed Khan, a board member of the Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee who served as finance co-chair of Kerry's presidential bid and later traveled with him to India and Pakistan.
Kerry's name was first floated as possible secretary of state upon President Obama's 2008 election.
"In 2008 he wanted to be, but one thing about Senator Kerry: he does not lobby for this position. He did not lobby last time and he did not lobby this time,'' said Khan, who runs a consulting firm in Framingham.
Kerry supporters say his personal history makes him particularly fitting for the nation's highest diplomatic post at a time when the United States is extracting itself from Afghanistan. Last month Kerry, who initially supported the Afghan war while campaigning for president, voted for an accelerated withdrawal of troops.
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, another Democratic nominee for president whom Kerry worked for as lieutenant governor, said he hopes Kerry's nomination will mean an opportunity for the United States and its allies to strengthen the peace-keeping capacity of international institutions.
"I don't know when we decided we were going to be the world's policeman, but we don't do it very well and we can't afford it,'' Dukakis said.
Close observers also expect Kerry to focus international attention on global climate change, given his long involvement with the issue. Kerry has attended at least seven international meetings on climate change over the past two decades — from Bali to Buenes Aires. While a bipartisan effort he spearheaded in the Senate in 2010 to try to enact domestic climate change legislation failed, he remains committed to helping find a breakthrough.
"Making that happen needs the top diplomat,'' said former Democratic senator and under secretary of state Timothy Wirth, who now runs the nonprofit United Nations Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing global development. Kerry understands the big opportunities, he said, like cultivating a relationship with China, the largest producer of polluting emissions.
But former Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, who has also spent decades on the international stage, cautioned that as secretary of state Kerry — who will answer directly to the president — may be frustrated to find that in some instances he has less influence than he does now.
"So much of that job is ceremonial,'' Hart said. "You still have to push the cookies and go to all the receptions. A free-floating Senate leader can bypass that to a degree.''
The challenges awaiting Kerry were on display Thursday when he chaired a hearing on the deadly attack on a US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in September.
After grilling the State Department witnesses on why they turned down requests for more diplomatic security, Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee turned to Kerry.
"The culture within the department to me is one that needs to be transformed,'' Corker said. "This committee can help. Maybe the next secretary of state can help.''


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