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As I said, we're not going to keep you here long tonight but this is a good opportunity to answer some questions. And I just made the suggestion this morning they might write them down, and I kind of got inundated. And I think what we're going to do tonight is begin with these questions that have been written down because I want to respond to them. And, you know, you sort of set the agenda, I'm much more comfortable in some ways determining what I'm going to say, but it's kind of a special joy to be able to just respond to you. And I'm going to go through these questions just as they've come. And I've just briefly glanced at them because I was handed them before the service began. And I think you'll find them very interesting. And there may be some time for a few at the microphone, but we'll have to wait and see with regard to that.
Someone handed me an article in the newspaper. There have been a couple of articles. I think there was one in the L.A. Times this morning about a supposed revival. "God is up to something," was the headline written by Larry Stammer(?), the Times religion reporter, and it went on to talk about all these people who are saying there's this great revival, this movement of God that's coming through the Vineyard and the Toronto Blessing and all of that. And you know, millions of tens of millions...one comment was, "...Tens of millions of people are being saved." And it goes on and on with all of these really wild claims.
You need to read those things with great amount of discernment because as we were saying this morning, it doesn't seem to be anything more than something that's on the surface. But you need to be careful as you read those things not to get drawn in.
There was another article in the Daily News that somebody handed me, and actually it is an ad and it says, "Reading the Bible carefully, an exciting twelve-week hands-on seminar beginning Thursday, January 11," and it goes on to talk about the fact that many of the problems people have in understanding the Bible, it says, "...Comes from not reading it carefully." And so this man and his organization are going to help you to read the Bible carefully. And to give as an illustration, "Did you know that even though most everyone talks of the apple that Adam was given by Eve to eat, the Bible mentions nothing about an apple at all. So you can join us as we sit down together in a class and read the Bible carefully."
Well, in the first place, who said it was an apple? I never said it was an apple and I'm not sure any Bible teacher ever said it was an apple. And I don't think that's a very good way to attract a crowd because who really cares whether it was or wasn't, and why would people want to come to discover such trivial things like that.
But anyway, it tries to pull you in. And if you read through it carefully it says they're going to talk about creation, the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Great Flood, the Tower of Babel, the promise made to Abram and so forth.
And then there's a little tiny note at the side that says, "The expense of these seminars is being absorbed totally by the Christadelphians." And you need to know that because I've been asked this regarding these articles, the Christadelphians is a cult. Their subtlety is that they say here that they are fundamentalists. It says the sessions are sponsored by the Christadelphians of Reseda, a fundamental Christian community that wholeheartedly believes the Bible alone holds the answers and so on. But the Christadelphians are a cult. They've been around for a while. They do not hold to the doctrines of Scripture and you need to be very careful about that.
But if you were to read that, if the average person was to just read that, it would sound like this is evangelical, fundamental, basic Christianity. And when they pick up the Times and read about this "God is doing something," this is how people view Christianity. This is...this is supposed to be it. This is supposed to be the movement of God. And I think even believers and unbelievers can really be duped if they come to those conclusions. So you need to be very discerning. It's a real battle out there, you know, to reach people with the truth in the midst of all of this aggressive error. So we have to be discerning people. And we know that, we're...we're working hard to make sure we are.
Well let me get into some of these questions. Here's one that's a practical question, two-part question. What is the ultimate purpose for the premarital counseling at Grace? Second, is the class meant to be purely instructional or to be a test for the man or the woman's godliness? Is it biblical for the man to use the class as a test to see if they should be engaged?
Well let me answer that. First of all, what is the ultimate purpose of premarital counseling? I would say it probably has two purposes. One would be to determine the spiritual maturity, spiritual life, the spiritual commitment, the spiritual condition of the individuals involved. And I think it's very, very much on our minds that people marry in the Lord, right? That they both be Christians, that they both be living godly lives because if you're not living a godly life you can't know God's will. You don't determine God's will by living in sin. That is why from the time that I first began the marital counseling, premarital counseling, I said you have to ask the question of any couple that comes in...are they...are they in sin? Are they behaving toward one another immorally? ARe they engaged in sexual sin of any kind? Because if they are, they're not in any condition to discern the will of God, right? So if they say, "Yes," then you have to ask them to live purely for a period of time so that in a condition of pure obedience to God they can really discern what is right.
So it is to determine the spiritual condition of those people involved. And to help them understand and anticipate what marriage is all about because I think it's so...it's so misunderstood in the time in which we live. There's so much divorce. There's so much sexual sin. We have a whole generation of young people who are coming up who really don't understand what marriage is. They haven't really seen it. You know, the majority of children now in our world will come...in our nation, will come from divorce families...the majority of them. And they're not going to have a model that is viable and that is godly. So we want to help them to understand what marriage is really all about, what God expects and we want to teach them how to make a marriage what the Lord would want it to be and what they would surely want it to be.
And then the question is at the end...is it biblical for the man to use the class as a test to see if they should get engaged? Sure. You may already be engaged and you may decide after the class that that's the right thing to do. On the other hand, you may decide, you know, maybe we need to wait, or maybe this isn't really best. And we just want to help people. We don't want to...we're not there to tell you yes/no, it's not like we're some spiritual authority on that. We want to bring you to the test of Scripture, to understand what the Word of God says and to take a look at your own life, look at this relationship and see if it really does fit what God would have. But is definitely a period of time to ask those questions about your spiritual life, your compatibility and whether or not this is really the will of God for your life. That's why we do it. It's not just...you know, here's how to run a budget, and, you know, here's how to, you know, make sure your wife is happy and here's how to make sure she gets a few words in here and there so you have sort of a copacetic relationship, that's not what it's about...it's about real examination of spiritual condition because that's the stuff that makes lasting relationships.
Now here's one, and it's sort of, you know, in the general category of marriage and family and that. On Luke...In Luke 2:41 to 52, Jesus age 12, and the question is, "Did Jesus at age 12 disrespectfully disobey His parents by not informing and not returning with them when it was time to leave?"
You remember Jesus' family had gone down to Jerusalem for the feast. And they obviously went with a whole entourage of people, probably friends and relatives who had come down from Nazareth. Jesus was twelve years of age, they came down for the feast and then they started back home. And when they started back home it became apparent to them somewhere along the road, and it must have been a large group or they would have known immediately that Jesus wasn't there, but as this whole entourage moved back toward Nazareth, it became apparent that Jesus was not there. And so His parents had to return back to Jerusalem and they found Him. And where was He? He was in the temple.
Now it is traditional that Jewish boys are barmitzvahed, that means they're made a son of the law. What that means is that they become responsible at that age for their own obedience to the law of God. It doesn't mean they're kicked out of the house. It doesn't mean they're on their own. They would certainly, in most cases, continue to live with their parents. But it does mean that they take on personal responsibility for the law. So we will not conclude that Jesus was exercising His right to live on His own, or to be on His own or to conduct His life apart from His parents or to be non-submissive to them in any way. Nor should we conclude that He had sinned in doing what He did because He couldn't sin, right?
Jesus answers the question. Some Bible commentators, this little note says, have said at this particular time that no longer was Jesus technically under parental authority. I don't think that's true. I think He was still under some parental authority and certainly would have exercised perfect parental respect. But the correct understanding of that whole issue is come...comes right from the mouth of Jesus. You remember when they found Him He was in the temple, right? And what was He doing? It's very important to note that He was asking questions. He was not teaching. He was not usurping a role of authority in the temple with the learned men. He was simply asking questions. He had come under the...the law. He was now responsible to keep the law Himself. He had reached what we could call that general time of accountability where He was personally accountable to the law of God. And He was simply in the temple doing everything He could to comprehend what that responsibility really meant. In His humanness He was asking the questions that pertained to the matters that were at hand in His own life because that same text says that Jesus Himself grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. There was development in Jesus, there was actual development, physical development, spiritual development...He didn't go from imperfection to perfection, He didn't go from sin to righteousness, He just had an expanding spiritual awareness. And this was part of it. At the age of twelve He was asking the questions that pertained to His own living righteous life.
And when His parents said, "Why have You done this?" He gave the right answer. He didn't say, "You're not important." But He said this, "I must be about My Father's business." And they had to recognize that from then on the claim on His life had to do with that which was from God. And that their authority would not be ignored by Him, but it would always be under the authority of His Father. And that's all He was saying.
I think in a general sense He was saying, "Look, I've been made a son of the law and I must understand the fullness of what this means." There was no rebellion there. There was just a...there was just a priority, the ultimate priority.
Here's another question. "If you have been baptized in another church, whether by immersion or sprinkling, is that acceptable for membership at Grace Church?"
Well the answer to that is yes in the broadest sense. And I'll tell you why. Certainly if you have been immersed anywhere since you've become a Christian, since you've become a Christian, that is what we would believe is a valid baptism. And we don't expect people to be rebaptized in our church as if you needed a baptism for every church you might attend. You only need one baptism in your life after you become a Christian. But with regard to sprinkling, the question gets a little more difficult.
I don't believe the Bible teaches baptism by sprinkling. I don't think that you can support that mode of baptism exegetically or out of the text of Scripture. But if a person in good faith was raised in that environment or converted in an environment where sprinkling was the mode of baptism and in good faith they made their public testimony of their faith in Jesus Christ and were instructed that this is the manner in which you do that, their conscience was clear and they were obedient to that which was taught to them, we would acknowledge that. At the same time, we would hope and trust that over a period of time they might come to a better understanding of the mode of baptism. We wouldn't want to eliminate their membership because of the mode but we would want them to come to an understanding of the true biblical means of baptism and at some point ask for that immersion to be done.
Now if a person were to come and say, "I want to be a member of Grace Church but I have never been baptized in anyway," we would ask that they be immersed prior to completing or immediately after completing that membership process. Okay?
And you say, "Well why is baptism an issue?" It's an issue because the Bible commands it, right? It's a matter of obedience. And if you have any questions about that, get the tape...I did a tape a couple of years ago called, "Understanding Baptism," which summarizes all of it. And I know you can get it in the tape room and probably in the bookstore.
Here's another interesting question about the book of Jonah. How do modern Jews view the lesson learned by Jonah? Well, if you're talking about modern Jews, modern, I suppose we could say, conservative Jews or reformed Jews...you have to, I suppose you could put Jews in four categories. Contemporary, you can have sort of the Hasidic which would be the radical orthodox, the sort of more normal orthodox who would both hold to a very literal interpretation of the Old Testament. Then the conservatives who would waffle a little bit and be more liberal and not hold to a literal interpretation of the Old Testament, a more fanciful and allegorical and spiritualistic approach to it and not necessarily historical and literal at all. And then the reformed Jews who would be more sort of racial Jews and holding on to their religion purely for its social forms and customs and traditions.
There are a small number of Hasidic Jews. There are quite a large number of orthodox Jews around the world and they have, of course, come to Israel and there's a lot of them in New York and other places like that. But most modern Jews fall into the conservative and reformed group and they wouldn't even necessarily believe there was a Jonah. They wouldn't believe the story even happened. They would simply see it as some kind of allegory or some kind of picture about the fact that it's necessary to have compassion on people who are going to fall under judgment.
The orthodox would see it for what it is. If you pick up an orthodox commentary on the book of Jonah, they would say Jonah was a prophet of God and that Jonah went to Ninevah and Ninevah repented and they would say Jonah had a wrong attitude about their repentance. I mean, they would have to admit that this is the way it is because they would take it literally.
The question then follows, do...do the Jews who would see the lesson literally preach to Gentiles or feel they need to? I would answer that by saying a good loyal orthodox Jew if he really believed in the book of Jonah and in the Old Testament would have to do everything he could to reach out to Gentiles and try to convert them to Judaism. And they do that. They do that.
Is there...here's another question...is there any difference between the Reformers and the Puritans views on regeneration. This is kind of a simple question. Let me answer it this way. The Reformation, the Reformers as we know Martin Luther, Zwingi, Melanchthon and others, basically articulated and crystallized the view of regeneration that became the Puritan view. The Puritans come at a later time...a hundred years later and more. And so the Puritans locked on to the Reformed doctrine of salvation that came out of the Reformation. So there really wouldn't be a great distinction. The Puritans took that basic view and elucidated it and extrapolated on it and developed it and enriched it by their voluminous writings. I mean, they were unbelievable. Talk about verbose, I mean, they had no terminal facilities. They didn't know how to stop, they just kept going deeper, wider and richer. And, of course, we're all immensely indebted to that because we live in a world of short answers and quick everythings. That's why, I think, there's such an appeal to the Puritan literature to people today because to go back and plunge that deep is so refreshing in the superficiality of our current time.
Now here's a statement that I'm sure comes because of my message this morning. And while I was preaching on some verses in Jeremiah, somebody was poking around in the rest...as you tend to do when I'm preaching and you glance down and find a verse I don't comment no and wonder what it means. But in Jeremiah chapter 30 there is a verse that someone asked if I could briefly explain. I think it's not too difficult to understand. Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 21, the question is...the verse, I'll read it, Jeremiah 30:21, "Their leaders shall be one of them, their rulers shall come forth from their midst and I will bring him near and he shall approach Me..." and then this is the question, "For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me? declares the Lord."
What does that mean? Why would God say, "Who would dare to risk his life to approach Me? declares the Lord." Well, in the context here this is a wonderful, wonderful statement. If you go back to verse 18 or even back further into chapter 30, the Lord talks about the future salvation. For example, look at verse 10...well, go back to verse 8...go back to verse 7, verse 7 he's talking about the time of Jacob's trouble...what's that? Well that's the time of the Tribulation in the future. And he says, "But he shall be saved from it and it shall come about that on the day, declares the Lord of host, I'll break his yoke from off their neck and tear off their bonds and strangers shall no longer make them their slaves." In other words, Israel is going to be liberated from the terrible oppression of the Tribulation. "And they will serve the Lord their God and David their King, that is the Messiah whom I will raise up for them." And in the middle of verse 10, "I will save you from afar and your offspring from the land of captivity."
First of all, this is to promise of the deliverance of the Babylonian captivity. And then beyond that it's the deliverance from the great time of persecution to come on Israel in the period of the Tribulation. So God promises salvation. And that's--that's sort of the context of this.
Go down then to verse 18, you can pick it up there, "I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city shall be rebuilt on its ruin." That happened in the return from exile, you remember the city was rebuilt, the wall was rebuilt under Nehemiah, the temple was rebuilt. "The palace shall stand in its rightful place and from them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry." So Jeremiah said after captivity there's going to be a return. "I'll multiply them, they'll not be diminished, I'll honor them and they'll not be insignificant. Their children shall be as formerly, their congregations established before Me. I'll punish all their oppressors. And their leaders shall be one of them." In other words, instead of being led by a Babylonian, you'll be led by a Jew, one of your own people. "And I will raise your leader right up from your midst and bring him near. And he'll approach Me. For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me."
Why does He say that? Because you would never approach God on your own unless you were brought or invited. "And you shall be My people and I will be your God." In other words, God is saying I will do the unthinkable. I will draw you to Me. And who would ever think to do that without a proper invitation? I will do the unthinkable.
The Jewish people by the time they had experienced all the preaching of Jeremiah would have, if they had any response to it positively at all, would have concluded that they should fear God because God was going to come in fiery judgment. And after seventy years in captivity and even more than that for some, would have seen God as a very stern God of judgment and would have been reluctant to draw near to Him...and yet He says here what would be something you would be reluctant to do normally, you will do because I will bring you near...I will bring him near and he shall approach Me who otherwise wouldn't even dare to do that. That's mercy, that's grace, that's forgiveness...and that could be said of us as well. We wouldn't dare to draw near to God on our own, if we really understood who He was. But we draw near to Him because He draws near to us and brings us to Himself.
All right, here's another question. What is dispensationalism? And what is your position from Scripture on the subject?
Dispensationalism, and I'll try to condense this cause I don't want to get too bogged down, dispensationalism is a system. It is a system...it is a system that got sort of out of control. I think it started out with a right understanding. The earliest and most foundational and helpful comprehension of dispensationalism was that the Bible taught a unique place for Israel and that the church could not fulfill God's promises to Israel. Therefore there is still a future and a kingdom involving the salvation and the restoration and the reign of the
nation Israel...historical Jews. Dispensationalism at that level, if we just take that much of it, and that's all I want to take of it, that's where I am on that, dispensationalism became the term for something that grew out of that and got carried away because it got more and more and more compounded.
Not only was there a distinction between the church and Israel, but there was a distinction between the new covenant for the church and the new covenant for Israel. And then there could become a distinction between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of heaven. And there could become a distinction in the teaching of Jesus between what He said for this age and what He said for the millennial age. And they started even to go beyond that and then there were some books in the New Testament for the church and some books in the New Testament for the Jews and it just kept going and going and going until it became this very confounded kind of system. And you see it, for example, in a Scofield Bible, and other places, you see it...if you want to see it in graphic form in a book by Clarence Larkin, all kinds of charts and all kinds of things that try to explain this very complex system.
I really think they got carried away and started imposing on Scripture things that aren't in Scripture. For example, traditionally dispensationalism says the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 to 7, has nothing to do with us, so we don't need to worry about it. When I went through the Sermon on the Mount and writing my commentary, as well, I pointed out how foolish that is. So let me tell you, I have been accused through the years of being a leaky dispensationalist, and I suppose I am. So let me take you down to where I believe dispensationalism...I don't use that term because it carries too much baggage, but let me take you down to what part of dispensationalism I affirm with all my heart. It is this, that there is a real future for Israel. And that has nothing to do with some kind of extrabiblical system, that has nothing to do with some developed sort of grid placed over Scripture.
The reason that I believe you have to have a future for Israel is because that is what God promised...period. And you see it in Jeremiah. In Jeremiah chapter 30 right on to the...to the thirty-third chapter, there is a future for Israel, there's a new covenant. Ezekiel chapter 37, the valley of dry bones is going to come alive, right? God's going to raise them back up. God's going to put a heart of flesh in and take the stony heart out and give them His Spirit and you have the promise of a kingdom to Israel, you have the promise of a King of David's line, a Messiah, a throne in Jerusalem. You have the promise that there's going to be a real kingdom.
So, my dispensationalism, if you want to use that term, is only that which can be defended exegetically or expositionally out of the Scripture and by a simple clear interpretation of the Old Testament, it is obvious God promised a future Kingdom to Israel. And when somebody comes along and says, "All the promises of the kingdom to Israel are fulfilled in the church," the burden of proof is not on me, it's on them. And the simplest way that I would answer someone who is what is called an amillennialist, or a covenant theologian, that is believing there's one covenant and the church is the new Israel and Israel is gone and there's no future for Israel, and amillennialism meaning there is no kingdom for Israel, there is no future millennial kingdom, my answer to them is simply this, you show me in that verse in the Old Testament which promises a kingdom to Israel where it says that it really means the church...show me, where does it say that? On what exegetical basis, what historical, grammatical, literal interpretative basis of the Scripture can you tell me that when God says Israel He means the church? Where does it say that? That's where the burden of proof really lies. A straight-forward understanding of the Old Testament leads to only one conclusion and that is there is a kingdom for Israel.
One way to understand that is to ask yourself a question, in the Old Testament...and if you wanted to get sort of a general sense of what the Old Testament is about, it's simply about this...it reveals God and His law and it tells what's going to happen to you if you obey it and what's going to happen to you if you don't. And then it gives you a whole lot of illustrations of that, right? It reveals God and His law and it tells you what's going to happen to you if you obey it and if you don't...blessing and cursing.
Now when Israel sinned, disobeyed God, what happened? Judgment, chastening, cursing, slaughter. Was it literal? Yes. Was it Israel? Yes. So if Israel received all of the promised curses literally, why would we assume that they would not receive the promised blessing literally? Because some of those are in the same passages and how can you say in this passage the cursing means literal Israel, but the blessings means the church? There's no exegetical basis for that. And you've now arbitrarily split the verse in half...you've given all the curses to Israel and all the blessings to the church. On what basis exegetically?
I remember when I was in Jerusalem one time and we were in the convention center right near the Kenezite in Jerusalem and I was there with Dr. Charles Fineberg who was the keynote speaker and David Ben Gurion(??) was there who was the Premier of the land of Israel at that time and Teddy Kolek(?) who was the mayor of Jerusalem. And we were sitting on the platform and an amillennialist had come to speak. It was the Jerusalem conference on prophecy. It was a tremendous event. And it was an amillennialist who got up to speak and he made the great announcement to David Ben Gurion and to some of the Kenezite members and the mayor of Jerusalem and all these Jewish dignitaries as well as the three thousand people that were there that the promises to Israel in the Old Testament were going...were being fulfilled in the church.
Now it's one thing to say that but you don't need to take a trip to Jerusalem to say that. That there would be no kingdom and...he preached on Isaiah 9:6, "The government will be upon His shoulders," 9:6 and following. And he said that means the government of your life and he's talking about personal conversion here and so forth and so on. Well I remember when that message was done and I sat through it with Dr. Fineberg. Dr. Fineberg was, to put it mildly, upset. And his opening line, because he gave the next address, was, "So we have come all the way to Jerusalem to tell you that you get all the curses but the Gentile church gets all the blessing." And then he launched into a message about the promises of God.
If you take a literal approach to Scripture, you cannot conclude anything other than that God has a future for Israel. What that means is that the church is distinct from Israel and when God is through with the church, takes the church to glory, then He brings that time of Jacob's distress, that we read about earlier, purges, redeems Israel and the kingdom comes.
I don't want to say anymore than that about dispensationalism, I don't believe there are two different kinds of salvation. I don't believe there are two different covenants. I don't believe there's a difference between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of heaven. I don't believe the Sermon on the Mount is for some future age. I don't believe you can hack up New Testament books and some for the Jews and some for the church. I think that the only thing the Bible really hold up in that kind of system is that there is a future for Israel. And that's an exegetical issue.
Okay, it's probably more than you probably wanted to know, but it's very, very important because it preserves the literal interpretation of Scripture. And listen, folks, once you're not literal then who's to say? Right? I mean, why not just say...well, Israel really means left handed Texans. If it's not exegetical, if it's not in the text...oh it means Canadians...how can you say if you can't say what's literally there.
All right, Daniel 9 is another question...and it looks like we're just going to be able to answer these questions that are written down. Daniel 9, these are good questions, by the way. Somebody asked me on the way to church tonight..."Are there any questions you can't answer?" I appreciated the compliment very much and I said yes, there are two questions I can't answer. One is questions that have no answer, they're just beyond our ability and other...the other is questions to which I do not know the answer, I can't answer those either. And you know that if there was a paper up here that had one of those, you would never even hear me ask myself that question. And that's why I usually like to use the microphones because I think the transparency and the vulnerability is...is maybe good.
But anyway, let's look at Daniel 9. "Seventy weeks have been decreed to your...for Your people and Your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up the vision and prophecy and anoint the most holy. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks, it will be built again with plaza and moat, even in times of distress."
Now we could really, this could be a whole long deal, but let me just say, here's the question...Scripture says from the decree to rebuild the temple until the Messiah shall be sixty-nine weeks...seventy weeks actually. Seventy weeks have been decreed for Your people to finish the transgression to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, so forth and so on. And that's exactly right. Seventy weeks...seventy weeks. The question is--when does this start?
Well, the decree to rebuild was the decree of Artaxerxes, I think it was 440 B.C., something around there, and if you go--remember now, seventy periods of seven, seven sevens, seven of seven years, 490 years--so if you go seventy weeks it says you go all the way, listen to this in verse 24, you go all the way to finish the transgression. In other words, the end of sin, you make an end of sin, you make atonement for iniquity, you bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up the vision of prophecy, anoint the most...what does that signify? The Kingdom. That's all the way to the Kingdom, it's going to be seventy sevens.
So you are to know and discern, verse 25, that from the issuing of the decree to restore and to rebuild until the Messiah there will be seven weeks and sixty two, just splits it up, seven and sixty two make sixty nine. Then after the seven and after the sixty two, after the sixty nine, verse 26, the Messiah will be cut off. What does that? That's the crucifixion...that's the crucifixion. So from the decree of Artaxerxes around 440, sixty-nine sevens, you multiply seven times sixty-nine and you have to change some days because the Jewish calendar had 360 days instead of 365 days, and you add all of that up you know it's a fascinating thing to realize...if you start at the decree of Artaxerxes and go exactly sixty-nine times seven years of 360 days, the sixty-ninth week ends when Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday in the Passion Week and was executed.
There are two chronologies that follow that. One was developed by Sir Robert Anderson many years ago and the more late one has been developed at Dallas Seminary by Harold Horner in his book, Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ. But in both cases the chronology brings you right down to the crucifixion of Christ. Now that covers the sixty-nine weeks, you've still got one week left...one week left. And at the end of that seventieth week, sin is done with, atonement is made, the vision's complete, the prophecies are complete, everlasting righteousness comes in and the holy place is anointed. What is that describing? The Kingdom. So you've got seventy weeks, sixty nine go to the crucifixion and a seventieth week goes to the Kingdom. Has the seventieth week occurred yet? No. Seventieth period of seven years is the time of the Tribulation in the future. We are living between the sixty-ninth and seventieth week in this church age and that's what it is saying here. After the sixty nine the Messiah was cut off.
Now in the seventieth week, very important, the prince who is to come, verse 26, is the Antichrist. Verse 27, "Will make a firm covenant with many for one week." What happens in the time of the Tribulation? The Antichrist comes up and with whom does he make a covenant? The Jews and he becomes their protector. And that's the holocaust of the Tribulation. But at the end of that seventieth week, everything is wrapped up, Christ comes and sets up His Kingdom. So this church age is the age in between. Its end is signalled by the Rapture of the church, and we don't know when the Lord is going to come for His church, it could be at any time. After He comes, the period of the Tribulation begins just prior to the Kingdom. And once the seventieth week is complete, the Kingdom comes.
Well, let me see. Here's a good practical question, we can kind of close on this one. The disobedience of society toward the laws of society...traffic laws, illegal immigration, littering, graffiti, abortion, rape, murder, you know all the list, it's upsetting to Christians, upsetting in various degrees. What should our attitude and response be toward unbelievers committing these sins?
This goes back to where we started tonight a little earlier. I don't like that. I don't like...I don't like the trashing of our world, do you? I don't like the trashing of our culture. I don't like the devastation of our children. I don't like murder and rape and abortion and drugs and homosexuality and feminism. And I don't like political correctness and I don't like multi-culturalism that wants to wipe out all vestiges of Christianity, literally wants to wipe out western culture totally and replace it with eastern mysticism. I don't like all of that. I don't like the corruption of politics. I don't like all of this stuff. And it does come down to littering and graffiti and the invasion of things that upset us and make us live in fear and drive-by shootings and who knows what all. We don't like any of that, nobody likes that. And we have every reason not to like that. We should have a holy aversion to iniquity, God does, doesn't He?
But the same God who hates the sinner weeps and He Himself is a mixture of grace and justice...of compassion and vengeance. Should we all become Rush Limbaugh fans? Should we all take on the Republican socio-economic agenda? Should we all become to one degree or another racists and want to take back our society and our culture from...from the complexities that it now experiences? Should we...should we maybe even become revolutionaries? Are we justified in...in a real revolution that the liberation theology people would espouse, a literal machine-gun takeover? What should be our attitude?
I think the best answer to that question and the most concise is found in the second chapter of Titus. The third chapter actually of Titus. And the first few verses of this chapter, just a very, very, very potent section. In fact, whoever asked that question might want to get the tapes on this section because it's so important.
Now, let me give you the background to Titus. Titus is an evangelistic epistle. It teaches about evangelism. And it starts with God. In verse 3 of chapter 1, "God our Savior." In verse 4, "Christ Jesus our Savior." In chapter 2 verse 10, "God our Savior." In chapter 2 verse 13, "Our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus." In chapter 3 verse 4, "God our Savior." In chapter 3 verse 6, "Jesus Christ our Savior." You get the idea that this is about a God who saves, right? Whenever God is identified here, whenever Christ is identified with the exception of the opening verse, they are identified as Savior. God has a saving purpose. And Paul is writing to Titus to tell Titus how to make the church effective in the saving purpose of God. If you're going to have an evangelistic outreach, here's what you have to do. First of all, chapter 1, you have to have pure leadership. You've got to get rid of false teachers and you've got to get godly leaders. That's where effective evangelism starts. Chapter 2, you've got to teach sound doctrine and you've got to have a godly congregation. He talks about how the older men are to behave, older women, younger women, younger men, employers, employees, all that.
In other words, he's teaching how to have an evangelistic outreach. Then he comes down to chapter 3. First is take care of your leadership, chapter 1. Chapter 2 is, make sure your church is pure. Chapter 3 talks not about your relationship to the church but your relationship to the unregenerate world. And it says this, "Remind them to be subject to rulers, authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed. The first thing we are to do no matter how debauched, or how pagan our culture is or is becoming is to be subject to the rulers, obey the laws, submit to the authorities, be obedient and be eager for every good thing we can do. Verse 2, he says don't speak evil of anybody, don't malign anybody, don't be contentious but be gentle, show every consideration for every person.
We don't have to accept the sin, we can hate the sin. We can have a holy...a holy wrath against those who perpetrate that iniquity, justifiably so. But we do not malign, we do not rebel. We are meek, we show every consideration. We do to them every good deed. We submit to every law, even those we don't think are fair. Why? Verse 3, "Because, have you forgotten we also once were foolish?" What does that tell you? That tells you that there are going to be authorities and kings and rulers and governments and people that are foolish. And foolish people will do foolish things, will they not? They'll make foolish laws. They'll give foolish leadership. They'll render foolish verdicts. They'll behave foolishly. They'll teach foolishly. They'll teach foolishly. They'll lead foolishly. Because they're foolish. But remember, we also were foolish ourselves once. They will also be disobedient to God. They will be deceived. They will be enslaved to various lusts and pleasures. They will spend their life in kakia, in evil and envy and hate.
Do we see that today? Yes, they'll do that. And we once were that way and if it weren't for the grace of God we'd still be that way. That's the right attitude. Remember that only by the grace of God are you not a part of it. And remember this, verse 4, it was the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind that appeared and He saved us. I love those three little words right there...you ought to circle them..."He saved us." He reached down and saved us and the only reason we're not a part of the problem is because He saved us. We didn't save ourselves. He says, "Not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness but according to His mercy by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior." Down at the end of verse 8 he says, "You better engage in doing good because this is profitable and this is right if you're going to reach the lost."
So, it's a tough balance. We can resent the sin, we can even have a holy wrath toward the sinner. But at the same time we have to remember that if it weren't for the grace of God, we would be right there with them, right? It's only because He saved us and we must remember that and treat them with compassion. As we were saying with Jeremiah, Jeremiah hated the sins of his people, he had a holy aversion toward the people who were perpetrating iniquity, but it broke his heart. And it was that mingling of compassion that put the zeal in his ministry.
How upset should Christians be about unbiblical government? I think we need to be upset about those things that are biblical issues. How upset should we be about economic policies? Don't be upset at all about them. That isn't...those kind of things, political issues, economic issues, you may have a preference here and a preference there, what you have to get upset about is that which is a biblical issue, an issue of righteousness, an issue of sin. And we have to remember that we can't expect much out of the wicked.
And let me give you...I hate to tell you this, folks...but as the society gets worse, it will get more inequitable. It will get less and less just, less and less fair and more and more disturbing. And I...I hate to say that apart from some divine intervention, we may not have seen what we will see, in fact we may not even be able to imagine what it might be.
Okay...good, good questions. And it calls upon us to live godly lives in this world.
Well, one other question, just quick...I didn't...I forgot this was here. This is a question that has a broader implication. In John 13:38 Jesus tells Peter, "A cock will crow when he denies Him." The same is said in Luke 22:34 and Matthew 26:34 but in Mark 14:30 Jesus said, "Before a cock crows twice." Why does it say twice in one gospel and in the others it only says "before the cock crows"?
It's a simple question. Jesus said the cock will crow, He didn't say how many times it will crow. At least it was recorded that He said how many times it will crow in the other gospels, but Mark said that He said it would crow twice. The point is this, when you're studying the gospels, when you see a discrepancy like that which appears to be a discrepancy, the simplest way to treat it is the actual incident is the sum of the parts.
For example, when you have the account of the crucifixion of Christ, the different New Testament writers, the synoptic writers, say something was written, you remember, on the sign above Jesus. One says one thing, one says another, one says another. And what is the truth of it? Each had a purpose in identifying something there but what was there was the sum of everything. It's not a contradiction, it's simply that you put the...you put the whole together. Jesus did say, "Before the cock crows twice," it was Mark who recorded that He said twice, the rest simply abbreviated the statement and said that He said, "Before the cock crows."
So you want to do...when you study the Bible, and this is an old thing, you know, people always debating about the synoptic problem, meaning the synopsis of Christ's life...Matthew, Mark and Luke...why are there contradictions? But if you study them, there aren't contradictions there, there are different perspectives as eyewitness looks...eyewitnesses look at that, different emphases because of the purposes of the writer. But you always combine things, you don't eliminate anything. And you'll have the sum of the parts.
That's why if you don't have something in your library, as a Christian you ought to go in the bookstore and get one, and that is a harmony of the gospels. What it does is it lists in columns the gospels and harmonizes all the accounts in all the gospels so that you can put them all together, very helpful tool. In fact, our own Dr. Thomas teaching in our seminary, done a masterful job of doing a harmony of the gospels for the New American Standard, which is a real treasure for one who wants to harmonize the teaching of the Scripture.
Well, let's stand. You've been great tonight, what a great time.
Father, thank You for this wonderful evening of looking into Your Word and searching it out. I'm so grateful that the hearts of these people are turned toward Your truth so that they really do want to know the truth, not whether what Eve ate was an apple or something else, not something so insignificant as that but the real things that matter. Father, thank You for this time and we can only commit the truth to You and to Your Spirit to find a place in our hearts and in our lives. May we hear it, understand it, and live it for Your glory, in Christ's name. Amen.
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Tips on Buying Outdoor Rugs
Outdoor rugs add an aesthetically pleasing accent to your outdoor space while, at the same time, they work well to keep dirt, dust, and weather-related moisture on the right side of the door and off of your interior flooring. Whether you're shopping for an outdoor area rug to spruce up your patio, or you're simply looking for something that family members and incoming guests can wipe their feet on before entering your home, it's important to look for rugs that offer both function and fashion to ensure the perfect combination of durability and aesthetic appeal. Follow these tips to find the ideal rug to suit your specific outdoor needs and home design preferences.


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The Detroit Three once again reigns supreme at poor relations with its supplier base compared to its Japanese competitors domestically, according to a survey released Monday by Birmingham-based Planning Perspectives Inc.
Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. Ltd. and Nissan Motor Co. sit atop the annual survey, while Chrysler Fiat Automobile NV, General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. "languish" below, said John Henke, CEO of Planning Perspectives and professor of marketing at Oakland University.
"It's clearer than ever … that the vice president of purchasing plays an incredible role," Henke said. "When buyers aren't doing their job and not focusing on maximizing the benefits (of the supplier relationship), it's fiscally irresponsible."
In the survey, which generates a Working Relations Index based on supplier responses, Southeast Michigan's automakers performed poorer in communicating with and assisting suppliers in reducing costs and improving quality.
The consequence of inadequate relationships is that Detroit automakers may start losing suppliers, Henke said. Suppliers who say they have "very poor" relations with the Detroit Three — 45 percent of Chrysler suppliers; 55 percent of GM's suppliers; and 43 percent of Ford's suppliers — are looking to move contracts to Japanese automakers in the U.S., he said.
To Henke's surprise, GM's gaff with new terms and conditions from last year didn't have a large effect on suppliers' views of the automaker.
GM rolled out new terms and conditions in July 2013, to a roar of malcontent from suppliers and their attorneys.
Suppliers interpreted the conditions as giving GM far broader authority to recover warranty and safety-recall costs, take over suppliers' intellectual property rights and access their financial information. GM already scores poorly in these areas, according to Henke's survey.
However, GM struck most of the contentious parts from its contracts in February after consulting with its 11-member supplier advisory council.
Henke said Grace Lieblein, vice president of global purchasing and supply chain for GM, saved many relationships with its supply base by striking down the contentious terms.
"Grace's trust hasn't diminished," Henke said. "She's getting out and listening to suppliers."
However, Henke said buyers at GM continue to do a poor job at following Lieblein's lead, and GM has fallen to the bottom of the pile in the supplier index.
Henke stresses that good relations with suppliers directly leads to technology spending from the supply base, which leads in turn to new contracts and possibly new jobs.
Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042, [email protected]. Twitter: @dustinpwalsh


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Early Childhood
Getting Your Child Off to a Healthy Start
We all want to raise healthy, happy kids.
Parents and caregivers need to support and encourage healthy eating and physical activity for children. We can help you get the little ones you care about off to a healthy start.
There is so much to consider when creating healthy habits for children, such as nutrition, physical activity and television viewing. Use the links to the left to learn more.
Consider these facts:
- The percentage of children who are overweight or obese is on the rise in Minnesota, as in the nation as a whole.
- Healthy eating and physical activity habits develop at a young age and tend to carry over into adulthood, contributing to healthier adult lives.


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G2520, Reviewed October 1993
Missouri is a major feeder pig producing state and annually markets large numbers of pigs that other farmers feed out to market weight. During these marketing and transportation processes, stress can affect the performance of feeder pigs. Buyers often complain of recently purchased pigs that cough, scour or die. Pigs that are slow to start growing and that have poor feed efficiency also may be a problem.
This publication recommends procedures for buying, feeding and managing purchased feeder pigs.
Missouri is recognized for having an established program in most of its feeder pig markets. Pigs can be purchased from these markets that have performance standards on breeding stock, a selection program on quality and requirements on health including on-farm monitoring and testing to ensure freedom from pseudorabies. Purchasing pigs from this type of market greatly reduces risk.
In addition, the following obvious characteristics of ideal pigs should be strived for. The ideal feeder pig:
Effects of stressResearch conducted at MU has shown that the stress of marketing and transportation affects the performance of newly purchased feeder pigs. Tables 1 and 2 demonstrate a reduction in performance as measured by daily gain and feed efficiency. This reduction is most evident in the early stage of the feeding period.
Table 1Control vs. transported feeder pigs.a
Table 2Gain of control vs. travel pigs
Research has not definitely pinpointed all the areas of stress that may cause a reduction in feeder pig performance or their related harmful effects. However, management techniques can reduce or eliminate some of the more obvious types of stress.
Producers with a reputation for having problem-free pigs can be assured of getting a premium price and of having repeat buyers.
A few of the management techniques used by successful producers include:
Most sale facilities in Missouri follow a similar routine in processing pigs. They usually are unloaded, checked for health, ear-tagged, vaccinated, sorted, weighed and penned until sale time. Stress involved in these procedures varies according to the sale and manager. Top sales outlets use the following techniques to reduce stress during the processing of pigs:
Prompt delivery after a sale is important in reducing stress. When pigs are not moved out immediately, they should have access to water. Missouri and Nebraska data do not show a clear advantage in providing feed at the market unless the delay is prolonged. There should be a minimal amount of regrouping or unloading and reloading between pick-up points.
Use care in transporting the newly purchased pig. Refer to Table 3 for the recommended trucking space requirements per pig.
Table 3Trucking space requirements per pig
In hot weather, use sand or sawdust as truck bedding. Avoid parking a truck in direct sunlight for more than a few minutes when the weather is hot.
In cold weather, bed the truck with dry straw. In extreme cold, reduce the openings on the truck to reduce drafts and wind chill.
Group pigs by size and partition the truck so that no more than 50 pigs are in each section. Avoid sudden stops and turns. Give good directions on where pigs are to be delivered.
Buyers should assume that feeder pigs have been under stress during marketing and transportation and probably will get sick within a few days after arrival. To improve performance, provide a stress-free environment and prompt treatment of disease symptoms if they occur.
Facilities and equipment to receive pigs should be prepared well in advance. Thorough cleaning and disinfection is important to provide pigs with a clean, dry environment. Feed should be mixed and medication should be ready for the water. For winter arrivals, supplemental heat to maintain a 75 degrees Fahrenheit temperature is helpful, particularly for lighter-weight pigs. Pigs weighing 30 to 50 pounds need four square feet each, and 50- to 80-pound pigs require five square feet.
Observe pigs carefully and often for the first several days and provide individual treatment for animals showing signs of diseases. Call your veterinarian immediately if unusual problems or losses occur.
Opinions vary on the types of starter rations needed. Research is underway at MU to fine-tune starter rations for pigs subject to marketing and transportation stress. Consider the National Research Council recommendations as minimum requirements.
A specially formulated receiving diet fed for a minimum of two weeks after arrival may reduce death loss and aid in the control of scours. This diet should provide 15 to 16 percent crude protein with adequate vitamin and mineral supplementation.
The addition of ground whole oats to the receiving diet often may aid in the reduction of scours. While adding oats may not influence the rate of gain or feed efficiency from purchase to market, researchers in Nebraska and Missouri have reported a delaying effect on the onset of the typical post-arrival scour.
A typical receiving diet with and without 20 percent ground whole oats is illustrated in Table 4. If oats are not available, some alternative feedstuffs include ground alfalfa hay, dehydrated alfalfa meal and wheat bran. Use of alternative feed ingredients such as these does require reformulation of the diet, since these feedstuffs cannot be substituted directly for oats.
Table 4Suggested feeder pigs receiving rations
The use of an antimicrobial feed additive in the receiving diet is recommended. The feed additive selected and level of usage depends on the individual farm situation. Consult with your swine nutritionist, MU Extension swine specialist or veterinarian in selecting the additive.
The choice of additive will depend on farm history and additive availability. Regulations concerning additives and their approved levels change constantly.
Always read and follow label directions
After the two-week receiving period, pigs may be switched to a balanced grower diet.
The major health problems affecting newly purchased feeder pigs are respiratory distress (pneumonia) and diarrhea (scours). The majority of health problems are expressed five to 14 days after arrival.
Frequent observation is a mustClose scrutiny at least twice a day for the first few weeks and daily thereafter may prevent a serious disease outbreak. Monitor the feed and water consumption, as reduced consumption of either is a sign of a problem. Provide a separate pen for any sick animals, so that individual observation and treatment can be provided to help the sick animal overcome the stress of illness.
Be prepared to act immediately in the event of illness. Have personnel trained to recognize the symptoms of the major swine diseases and the most appropriate action to take if signs appear. Do not hesitate to consult with a veterinarian if in doubt as to the appropriate treatment. Have necropsies done on dead pigs to accurately determine the cause of death and the most effective preventive treatment.
Since a sick or stressed pig will often drink while refusing to eat, medicated water is often desired for early treatment. Water medication equipment that allows measurements of consumption is preferred. Depending on weather condition, a 40-pound pig will consume nearly a half gallon of water per day, with higher consumption in warm weather. If the average consumption is much less than this, other avenues of medication should be pursued. Although all pigs may not require water medication, it is a good practice to have the medication equipment available if needed.
If pigs have been trucked a long distance or have been withheld from water for a period of time, it also may be advisable to include an electrolyte medication in the water to aid in restoring body water balance.
If palatability of the water medication is a problem, a flavoring agent such as corn syrup or flavored gelatin may increase consumption.
Avoid combining drugs or formulations unless it is done under the direction of a veterinarian. Many combinations are incompatible and the effectiveness of the combined drugs may be reduced.
Always read and follow all medication label directions and precautions, even if you have previously used the medication.
In a disease outbreak, individual animals may require injections with appropriate antibiotics. Unless special long-acting drugs are used, these injections need to be continued for a minimum of three days.
Plan on treating pigs for internal and external parasites. Treat the pigs for worms shortly after arrival with a broad spectrum dewormer.
Spray the pigs for lice and mange soon after arrival, weather permitting, using approved treatments. Read and follow label directions. Do not spray visibly sick pigs. Successful treatment requires breaking the life cycle of these parasites. Since the recommended insecticides do not kill the eggs, two or more sprayings at 10-day intervals are required for successful control.
Because of potential disease risks to swine already on the premises, isolation of the purchased pigs, either in separate lots or facilities, is recommended for at least 30 days. There is a definite health risk for producers who purchase feeder pigs and house these pigs adjacent to breeding stock.
Stress in the marketing process affects the performance of feeder pigs sold and transported from farm to market to farm. Feeder pig producers, market personnel and finishers can all develop procedures to reduce stress and improve total performance.
Management practices that can help reduce stress while handling and moving pigs include:
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HUTCHINSON — Visitors to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center will be able to watch the restoration of rusted pieces of Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon.
The Apollo F-1 conservation project premiers Friday at the Hutchinson museum. The first public tour begins at 11 a.m. with ongoing tours daily after that.
Bezos Expeditions F-1 Recovery Project, which fished the engines out of the Atlantic in March, commissioned the restoration work.
Visitors can follow its progress from the museum's new observation gallery, a glassed-in viewing area overlooking its SpaceWorks division. Tours begin in the museum's Apollo Gallery.
The National Institute for Aviation Research recently scanned four of the artifacts to help create a 3-D model to help in disassembly and reconstruction of the components.


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Király Thermal Baths
Construction of the Király Baths started in 1565, and most of the present-day building dates from the Turkish period, including most notably the fine cupola-topped pool. In 1796 they were bought, renovated and extended by a family called König.
König is the German word meaning "king," and it is the Hungarian word Király with the same meaning that the Baths are known by today. Altogether there are four pools, the medicinal water for which is pumped in from the nearby Lukács Baths.
Water temperatures: 79, 90, 99, 104 °F (26, 32, 36, 40ºC). Water surface area: 86, 108, 732, 42 sq. ft. Water mineral content: thermal water containing nitrates, calcium-magnesium-hydrogen-carbonates and sulphate-chlorides, as well as fluoride ions in significant quantities.
Address: II Budapest, Fő utca 84.
Phone: (36-1) 202-3688
Public Transport Access: busses 60 and 86 Bem József tér stop
Opening hours:
Men only: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Women only: Mondays, Wednesdays
Common: Sundays


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This map is cool: USA National Gas Temperature Map. I wonder how often it gets updated.
And speaking of gas, prune juice is amazing. Want a recipe for a good time? Drink a glass of prune juice. Wait 10 minutes. Have fun!
Edit: Wow, speaking of gas. I was just browsing old posts while working on the site, and I saw this one: Gas Prices. I wonder what my 1999 self would say now.


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It's a fine shot, Russ, conveying abandonment and desolation. I'd like it more without the fragment of road in the bottom left corner.Jeremy
I think the road is mandatory.
Here is my take, if you do not mind:
... think you might have been just a touch heavy-handed with the grain, though...
Interesting; even current owners of Hasselblad 6x6 are now reverting to a little Hasselfake on the side.Rob C
... it's a completely different picture...
Looks like a great subject to stop by next time and explore from various angles.Here is my take, if you do not mind:


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I don't think it is just me but these days I find that I am increasing playing more vinyl than CDs. Spotify is my main source of music, but every now and then I fancy something that isn't on the online music service and go and get a record out.
There is something wonderful about spinning vinyl again. It demands your attention for a start. You can't go skipping tracks (well you can but it isn't great for your needle) and then there's the sound which just seems warmer and more lively than colder digital sounds.
The big question for those who are thinking about getting the vinyl out of the loft and back into the living room is what are you going to play it on? Systems like Sonos and iPhone hi-fis have replaced the seperates based music systems of yore, and if that's you spending money on a Technics deck, or aging Dual turntable when you don't have the amp to team it up with, is a waste of time.
Which is why old vintage style record players are making a comeback. They are the consumer electronics items that bring the generations together with some being snapped up by young hipsters types who have just bought vinyl copies of the latest releases and others the preserve of aging hipsters revisiting classic vinyl from their youth.
Another reason for their popularity is that they just look great. Team them up with a suitably cool retro table and you have a really striking bit of furniture.
If you fancy one you really ought to be thinking about an original Dansette from the 50/60s. You can get them reconditioned from dealers and also from ebay – get lucky and it'll look and sound great.
However one reason you might want a record player is to make MP3 copies of vinyl. If that's you then there's a new breed or vintage style record players to consider. Up until recently most of them looked pretty horrible. However US make Crosley has changed all that and its highly desirable Collegiate player was a huge hit last Christmas and sold out in that hipster paradise Urban Outfitters. You can still buy them in the UK but you might have to wait for them come in on export.
Here then is a round up of what is available in the UK now.
Crosley Collegiate £160
Fair play to Crosley for being the first brand to produce a high quality design-led reproduction of a classic Dansette. This, the Collegiate, is a small-ish record player that has an aluminium grill speaker a leather handle and USB connectivity. It plays singles, albums and 10inch discs. It is available in several colours. It was available the UK from Urban Outfitters, but they seem to have sold out. So the only place that has it for now is this lot who can get you one on import if you are prepared to wait. Karmaloop


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My post last week, The "Self-Pub Is Crap" Debate, has probably generated more comments than any other post in 2011.
Reviewing the comments provides an excellent to-do list of how self-published authors can be taken seriously by readers.
- Hire professionals for editing, proofreading, and design.
- Put most of your cost toward editing. That means, aside from development or content editing, you must eliminate all proofreading errors and typos if you want to be taken seriously. Evelyn Lafont also recommends using beta readers to put out quality work.
- Hire a conversion house for clean e-book formatting.
- Understand the difference between vanity publishing and the BUSINESS of being an author. Don't do it just for the rush of seeing your name on Amazon. (Evelyn Lafont)
- Don't give 5-star reviews to friends' books that don't deserve it. Some people give 5 stars to every friend's book. This is a problem with both traditional and self-published books, but several readers complained that absurd and false high rankings tend to be more widespread in the self-published arena.
- Don't self-promote constantly. Self-published bloggers can be less fun to follow because they promote constantly. Many blogs, Twitter, and Facebook posts have become advertisements. (Theresa Milstein)
- If there's no quality sample, readers won't buy. Most readers decide whether to buy the book based on the quality of the sample, regardless of ratings/reviews. (Ann Best)
- Be patient. In an environment where NO ONE seems patient enough to put out quality work, your book will stand out if you take the time to do it right. (Tony McFadden)
As Fiona commented, "If you self-publish … you have to take responsibility for the finished product."


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Campaigners representing 24,000 people have called on the Mayor and cabinet to 'listen to the people of Doncaster' and vote against the closure of council run care homes.
In an 'extraordinary' meeting held yesterday, Michelle Bailey of the Caregate group delivered the thousands strong petition to Doncaster Council, ahead of the final decision due to be made by Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones and the cabinet on June 25.
Addressing the council chamber, Mrs Bailey told councillors that people do not want these closures, adding that the group was prepared to take their case all the way to the European courts. She added: "There comes a time when people step over a line, when their actions are not acceptable. Your proposal to close the DMBC care homes is such a line."
Her comments preceded a debate over the proposed closures, triggered by the number of signatures collected by the Caregate campaigners.
Speaking in the debate, Mayor Ros Jones said the council was committed to protecting the most vulnerable people across the borough. "We will listen to what councillors and campaigners have to say, and we will do what we think is best to deliver to care to people in this borough, now and in the future," said Mayor Jones.
Representing Sprotbrough and Doncaster Conservatives Coun Jonathan Wood put forward an alternative motion to the proposed closures stating: "This council reminds the executive of the promises the Mayor made in getting elected - protecting the elderly and vulnerable and standing against the cut in service. We call upon the Mayor and Cabinet to step away from any intention to make any to close council run care homes."
But councillors voted against the motion with a majority of 37, with 14 voting in favour of it. Labour councillor Craig Sahman also delivered a motion reiterating the council's dedication to protecting adult services, which was carried.


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Remember LL thr f/a of Mordor Wall was well before sport/trad.. back when it was called "CLIMBING"
and a bunch of bolts have been added for free climbing attempts. free trumps aid so that is legal....
If it is a trad cliff I will do the FA ground up but I will fix it if nessicary. If the bolts are not in the right places due to whatever reasons I will fix or add bolts to my own route.
But the climber don't try to appropriate the cliff like sport do: insulting and intimidating people.
Sport climber work a route, not the technique.
...To place the bolt, you insult us...
Isn't this how Religion got started?? And look where that has gotten us
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Pen Bay Healthcare in Rockland is cutting eight positions in response to an anticipated cut in MaineCare funding and low patient volumes.
In a letter distributed Tuesday, Pen Bay administration said three positions at Mid Coast Mental Health and five at Pen Bay Medical Center have been eliminated in a cost-cutting move, according to VillageSoup. The organization is working to find the affected employees other positions within the organization or elsewhere. No other layoffs are planned. Proposed changes to the state's MaineCare program are expected to result in a $2 million to $3 million reduction for Pen Bay, according to the media site.
Pen Bay reported a strong 2011, with operating revenues exceeding expenses by $767,000 for the six months ended Sept. 30. Net income over expenses was $1.3 million. The organization is also looking at creating new positions, including pharmacy technicians, who could save Pen Bay money by finding cheaper medicine.
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No modern, synchronous integrated circuit (IC) can function without a clock network. Clock-tree synthesis (CTS), which distributes clock signals to data registers, is a critical step in the IC physical design flow. But the traditional approach to CTS, which is based on minimizing clock skew and is separate from logic optimization, is breaking down for advanced-node, high-speed designs.The problem is that today's chip designers are facing a growing "timing gap" between the ideal clocks assumed pre-CTS and the more accurate propagated clocks, which emerge after CTS. This timing gap is driven by factors like clock gating for low power, on-chip variation, and design complexity. At 40/45nm, the clock timing gap can be as much as 50% of the clock period. This makes it difficult for designers to close timing and impossible to fully optimize designs for timing, power, and area.
Clock-concurrent optimization is a new technology that bridges this timing gap. It makes CTS timing-driven rather than skew-driven while merging it with logic optimization. This approach simultaneously optimizes both clock and logic delays using a single cost metric. Observed results on high-speed processor designs have included clock-tree power reductions of 30%, clock-tree area reductions of 30%, and chip performance improvements to 100 MHz for a gigahertz design.
There's a close analogy between the need for clock-concurrent optimization today and the emergence of physical synthesis and timing-driven placement 10 years ago. At that time, there was a divergence in timing between register-transfer-level (RTL) synthesis and placement resulting from relatively inaccurate wire-load models. Without any knowledge of placement, synthesis tools could not measure timing with enough accuracy. The solution was to make placement aware of timing. Placement was then combined with many of the logic-optimization techniques that were exploited during RTL synthesis.
Today's divergence in timing occurs at the CTS step. Clock-concurrent optimization is the answer. This new technology is a fundamental reinvention of CTS that will be needed in any IC physical design flow targeting advanced nodes (32/28nm or below), gigahertz speeds, and/or embedded ARM® cores, such as the Cortex™-A9 or Cortex™-A15. It is best provided as an integral part of an end-to-end, unified Silicon Realization flow—not a point tool. This article shows why this technology has become necessary, how CTS works in today's flows, what its shortcomings are, and how clock-concurrent optimization paves the way for a new generation of complex, high-speed systems-on-a-chip (SoCs).
Clocking was a great innovation that made high-speed digital-IC design possible. It elegantly quantizes time, making it possible to abstract transistors into sequential state machines. Those machines can then be described at the RTL. But complex clock networks are a relatively recent innovation. When chips were running at speeds around 1MHz 30 years ago, the "clock" was just a wire and CTS didn't exist.
Wires didn't scale with transistors. Plus, the ability to distribute the clock signal got weaker over time. Designers started building structures that distributed and re-amplified the clock signal 20 years ago, bringing CTS into existence. An uninvited guest to this party was clock skew, which arises when it isn't possible to distribute the clock signal to every register at exactly the same time. As clock networks got bigger, the impact of skew on performance became more and more significant.
Today, clocking is extremely complex. Clock networks may include more than 100 interlinked clock signals that can be branched and merged thousands of times. Clocks may reside in diferent power domains that are shut down when not active. The clock network has a substantial and growing impact on a chip's overall power, performance and area. The time has come for a new paradigm for CTS and logic optimization.
|Figure 1: Clock-tree synthesis bridges the gap between ideal and propagated clocks.
Traditionally, clock-tree synthesis distributes source clock signals to thousands of data registers. At the same time, it balances skew so that signals (supposedly) arrive at almost exactly the same time. CTS occurs after intitial placement and before routing. The real function of CTS is to bridge the gap between two levels of timing: the "ideal" clocks that are used before CTS, when there are no actual clocks, and the "propagated" clocks that are used to directly model timing post-CTS. Figure 1 shows CTS in a traditional IC physical design flow.
To further explain the difference between ideal and propagated clocks, consider Figure 2. It depicts setup constraints, which ensure that every flip-flop takes one step forward when the clock ticks. It also illustrates hold constraints, which ensure that no flip-flop ever makes more than one forward step.
Propagated Clocks Model Of Timing
Setup Constraint: L + Gmax< T + C
Hold Constraint: L + Gmin> C
In Figure 2, L is the clock delay to A for the launching clock while C is the clock delay to B for the capturing clock. Gmin and Gmax are the mininum and maximum logic path delays (respectively) between the two flip-flops. The setup and hold constraints indicate a propagated clocks model of timing. The word "propagated" comes from the fact that the constraints start from the root of the clock. They include the time taken for the clock edge to propagate through the clock tree to each flip-flop.
An ideal clocks model of timing simplifies the propagated clocks model by assuming that the launch and capture clock paths have the same delay (that is, that L=C). In this case, the setup and hold constraints are significantly simplified:
|Figure 2: Shown are setup and hold constraints in a clock-based design.
Ideal Clocks Model Of Timing
Setup Constraint: Gmax < T
Hold Constraint: Gmin> 0
With ideal clocks, there's no need to worry about clock delays or minimum logic delays. All that matters is making sure that the design's maximum logic path delay—typically referred to as the "critical path"—is faster than the clock period. In essence, clocks have been canceled out of the timing-optimization process.
Because ideal clocks assume L=C for all setup and hold constraints, it's not surprising that the traditional CTS role is to balance clocks such that L=C. However, clock skew and the worst-case difference between L and C aren't the same thing. Clock skew is actually the difference between the shortest and longest paths between sources and sinks. In nanometer ICs, it's possible—and very common—for (L-C) to be significantly greater than the clock skew.
Essentially, the ability of tight clock skews to bind ideal clock timing to propagated timing is broken. The only solution is to give up entirely on the concept of skew, make CTS timing-driven, and combine it with logic optimization. That's the essence of clock-concurrent optimization.
Just how bad is the timing gap between ideal and propagated clocks, and how did it arise? Figure 3 summarizes the average clock timing gap for the top 10% worst violated setup constraints across a portfolio of more than 60 real-world, commercial chip designs from 180 to 40/45nm. The designs had from 200K to 1.26M placeable instances. At 180nm,the clock timing gap is small—around 7% of the total clock period. At 40/45nm, however, the gap widens to around 50% of the clock period.
|Figure 3: The clock timing gap widens at lower process nodes.
At 40/45nm, this timing gap is wide enough to completely transform the timing landscape of a design beyond recognition between the pre- and post-CTS phases. The only solution is to directly target the propagated clock timing constraints. The launch (L) and capture (C) clock paths should be treated as optimization variables with the same significance—and degrees of freedom—as the logic path variables Gmin and Gmax.
Why has the timing gap become so significant at advanced process nodes? Three factors are contributing to this effect:
The idea behind clock-concurrent optimization is that the only meaningful goal for clock construction is to directly target the propagated clock timing constraints. L and C should be selected specifically for the purpose of delivering the best possible post-CTS timing picture. Clock-concurrent optimization merges physical optimization with CTS and directly controls all four variables in propagated, clock-timing-constraint equations—L, C, Gmin, and Gmax—at the same time. As depicted in Figure 4, clock-concurrent optimization gives up on the idea that skew is fixed. It uses L and C as variables to achieve the best possible timing.
|Figure 4: Clock-concurrent optimization allows variation in the launch (L) and capture (C) paths, allowing better timing and power optimization of IC clock networks.
Because both clock and logic delays are flexible parameters, the maximum possible speed at which a chip can be clocked is no longer limited by the design's slowest logic path (Gmax). The capture clock path can be longer than the launch clock path or vice versa. Essentially, time can flow forward or backward to the next or previous logic stage, respectively.
Such "time borrowing" can be iterative across multiple logic stages. If time can be borrowed from logic stage n+1 to logic stage n, time also can be borrowed from logic stage n+2 to logic stage n+1, and then again from logic stage n+1 to logic stage n, and so on. It can be borrowed both forward and backward from logic stage n.
The time borrowing isn't unlimited, however. It must stop either when the chain of logic stages loops back on itself or when it reaches an I/O to the chip. In a world where launch and capture clock paths are flexible optimization parameters, these "chains" of logic functions most influence the maximum possible clock speed. At most, a chain with n logic stages has n clock periods of total time available—irrespective of the clock delays to each register in the chain. Provided that the worst-case total logic delay through a chain of n stages is less than n times the clock period, it will be possible to come up with a set of clock arrival times for each register on the chain that closes timing.
It's important to not confuse clock-concurrent optimization with "useful skew"—a concept that isnow applied to registers either before or after clocks are built. If useful skew is applied pre-CTS in the flow, the timing slacks on which it is based are ideal clock slacks. They are therefore inaccurate. If useful skew is applied post-CTS in the flow, the clock tree is already built and can only be tweaked in small ways.
The goal of clock-concurrent optimization—in contrast to useful skew—is to build clocks globally from the ground up based on propagated clock slacks. Of course, this is a paradox, as propagated clock slacks don't exist until after clocks are built. The best possible compromise must therefore involve an iterative process that attempts to approximate this goal over a series of steps, where each step builds in some way on knowledge from the previous step. Of course, if the clocks are being built based on slacks, it's vital that other things that affect slacks become part of this iterative process too—hence the term clock-concurrent optimization. Examples include traditional logic optimization and timing-driven placement.
|Figure 5: Clock-concurrent optimization is shown in the IC physical design flow.
Clock-concurrent optimization thus brings clock scheduling and physical optimization together in a single iterative step. It works with clocks and logic simultaneously to achieve the best possible result. As shown in Figure 5, clock-concurrent optimization replaces both the CTS and post-CTS physical-optimization steps in the traditional IC design flow.
The key benefits of clock-concurrent optimization include:
In closing, traditional approaches to clock-tree synthesis are breaking down due to effects like on-chip variation, clock gating, and clock complexity. The timing gap between the ideal timing models used pre-CTS and the propagated timing models used post-CTS is growing. And that gap is resulting in sub-optimal solutions with respect to performance, power and area. A CTS strategy based on balancing skew is becoming unworkable and counter-productive.
Clock-concurrent optimization turns the focus away from skew balancing, makes CTS timing-driven, and combines it with physical optimization. Instead of trying to eliminate all skews in arrival signals, it allows skew to vary within timing windows. In doing so, it allows some logic functions to run more slowly and others to run more quickly. Clock-concurrent optimization has demonstrated significant performance, power, and area gains in real designs.
Clock-concurrent optimization is much more than a point tool. It is a capability that must be part of any advanced-node IC design system. Following its acquisition of clock-concurrent optimization pioneer Azuro, Cadence Design Systems has brought this technology into its Encounter® Digital Implementation System. Over time, all vendors will need to move to this new paradigm. In doing so, they will reshape the IC physical design flow as surely as the move to physical synthesis and timing-driven placement did 10 years ago.
Paul Cunningham is Senior Group Director of Engineering at Cadence Design Systems. Paul joined Cadencein July 2011 through its acquisition of Azuro, Inc. where he was co-founder and CEO. Paul holds a Masters Degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in England.
Steev Wilcox is Senior Architect at Cadence Design Systems. Steev joined Cadence in July 2011 through its acquisition of Azuro, Inc. where he was co-founder and Chief Architect. Steev holds a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in England.
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On the Feast Day of Blessed John Henry Newman, patron of Catholic Campus Ministry in the United States, USCCB Secretariat of Catholic Education has issued a report highlighting the key findings from the National Study on Catholic Campus Ministry. The Secretariat commissioned the study seeking to advance Catholic identity in higher education and to rejuvenate the vision of Catholic campus ministry nationally.
Based on the data gathered, the report offers practical suggestions to develop and enhance Catholic campus ministry. According to Auxiliary Bishop Fernand Cheri of the Archdiocese of New Orleans and Episcopal Liaison for the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, "the Church must be intentional and campus ministry must be accountable in every way possible to enrich the character and formation of the whole community; taking into account the ethnic, social and spiritual diversity of each campus and its surrounding community." He goes on to say, "Our ministry must center on people, for we are forming men and women to be people that reflect Christ to each other and to the world."
"Thus, the Church seeks to help higher education attain its lofty goal of developing a culture in which human beings can realize their full potential."
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—To Teach as Jesus Did: A Pastoral Message on Catholic Education #63"Campus ministry can be defined as the public presence and service through which properly prepared baptized persons are empowered by the Spirit to use their talents and gifts on behalf of the Church in order to be a sign and instrument of kingdom in the academic worlds. The eye of faith discerns campus ministry where commitment to Christ and care for the academic world meet in purposeful activity to serve and realize the kingdom God."
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Helping Haiti Heal Finale LiveStream Tomorrow, June 27, from 2 PM – 5 PM EST
Jun 26, 2010
As readers will recall, a few months back Harry Potter fans and fans from communities across genre and medium came together to raise money for Partners in Health, a charitable organization working to bring aid and relief services to Haiti. Together, we raised $123,000 for Partners in Health- enough for five cargo plans loaded with relief supplies to be sent to the country. Tomorrow, June 27, we will come together once again to close out the effort and re-raffle the complete set of Harry Potter novels signed by author J. K. Rowling. The event will start at 2 PM EST tomorrow, June 28, and run until 5 PM EST via LiveStream here.
The organization which won the books in our original raffle, The Association of Electrical Contractors, donated the books back in order for us to raffle this one-of-a-kind prize for the benefit of AEC's scholarship foundation and Kamp Kiwanis. In order to secure your chance at these books and donate to this cause, click here and purchase a raffle ticket now.
This LiveStream will feature Melissa Anelli, John Noe, Frankie Franco from PotterCast; Andrew Sims and Ben Schoen from MuggleCast; Harry Potter actress Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood); Wizard Rockers; the Hogwarts Radio Crew; exclusive interviews Partners in Health creator Paul Farmer and their executive director Ophelia Dahl; and some more surprise guests.
The last plane, called Dumbledore, made its way to Haiti earlier in the week, and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling sent her gratitude to the Harry Potter Alliance for this "awesome" effort. The note can be read via this link.
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Root Canals
Do you need to have an infection gone before the root canal is done? Can you take an antibiotic to get rid of the infection after your root canal?
The root canal is done to rid the tooth of the infection. You can not eliminate the infection without doing the root canal or having the tooth extracted.
If you are concerned about having a root canal done while swelling or pain is present, that is perfectly normal and common.
Antibiotics do not penetrate into your tooth and eliminate any remaining infection. Antibiotics are only necessary when significant swelling or fever (systemic signs) are involved. This can be related to certain types of root canal infections and would be given as necessary.
Melissa McCartney Drum, DDS, MS
Assistant Professor of Endodontics
College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University