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EASTON, Pa. -- A record 1,733 high school students participated in the sixth annual Lauren's First and Goal Football Camp on Sunday, June 7 at Lafayette's Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex. The one-day clinic featured 275 college coaches who volunteered their time to teach aspiring football players the in-and-outs of the game, including Art Asselta and Darin Edwards from Sacred Heart.
The donations from campers alone tallied $62,000 and the day's total of $190,000 is steadily on the rise with the help from outside contributions, including a $100,000 pledge from the Special Needs Trust in Clearwater, Fla.
Lauren, the daughter of Lafayette defensive coordinator John Loose, addressed the crowd of players, coaches, parents and volunteers who turned out to support her battle with an inoperable brain tumor and expressed her appreciation for their continuous support. Connecticut head coach Randy Edsall was the keynote speaker.
"Randy Edsall did a tremendous job as the guest speaker. He participated the entire day and brought his son to the camp. His speech was right on point and embodied what this camp is all about," Loose said. "Lauren also did an unbelievable job talking to all the coaches, players, and parents in attendance."
In the six years since the camp's inception, Lauren's First and Goal has grown from just 56 volunteer coaches and 300 campers to one of the largest one-day clinics in the nation and has added a second camp at the University of South Florida which is in its second year. Raheem Morris, head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will highlight the day's events as the guest speaker at that camp on June 14.
"We want to thank the hundreds of volunteers who helped make the day so special. Without the help from our Board, including John and Pam Troxell, this event would not be possible," Loose said. "A big thanks also goes out to Lafayette College and all its staff for their tremendous support in this charity event."
In addition to the help from the 275 volunteer coaches, current and former Lafayette football players were on hand to help set up and instruct the campers. With the generosity of its volunteers and sponsors, Lauren's First and Goal has raised over $700,000 in six years, seeing more than 7,000 high school players participate. Lauren's First and Goal is able to donate all proceeds directly to pediatric brain tumor research and cancer services. To donate, please visit www.laurensfirstandgoal.org
Funding has been dedicated to specific research studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the UCLA Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Brookhaven National Lab and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Duke University Brain Tumor Center through the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the US. The Foundation also funds pediatric cancer services including pet therapy programs, patient advocacy initiatives, and social and support group opportunities, and aids families living with a pediatric cancer diagnosis.


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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
Anfauglir's got the nail on the head, right there...though I don't buy into the Catholic church's miracles or idea of Apostolic Succession, so they're out, to my reckoning, too. My crowd wasn't, and isn't, trying to establish anything new at all, it's trying to get back to the original principles and teachings of Christ and the apostles. That's why we reject anything that's un-scriptural.New translations, etc, may swing one way or the other, but that isn't the demesne of those who originally penned the words. We fairly well know what those New Testament books say, and their meaning and intent is clear enough with an earnest search. (Even the mistakes and errors in the handing down of the New Testament have their own branch of scholarship; see the book "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman.)

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Neymar rules out January transfer
Neymar has ruled out the possibility of moving during the January transfer window by insisting his short-term future remains with Santos.
The 20-year-old has been strongly linked with a transfer to one of Europe's top teams, with Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea thought to be the leading contenders for his signature.
Reports emerged last week that Manchester City director of football Txiki Begiristain had traveled to South America to open talks with Neymar's representatives.
However, the Brazil sensation, who already has 27 senior caps for his country and more than 50 club goals to his name, is keen to remain at his boyhood side for now.
He told TV Bandeirantes: "I am happy at Santos, with my family, son, friends, so it's not the moment to leave.
"That moment will come because I have had the dream of playing in Europe since I was a kid, but that moment hasn't come yet. Today, I don't see myself playing for any other team [but Santos]."
Despite Manchester City apparently having stepped up their pursuit, Neymar is keeping his options open.
He said: "I don't have any preference for a specific club or country."
The end of the current season appears the most likely time Neymar will make his move, but he is adamant it will not be his only priority for the summer.
Brazil are due to defend their Confederations Cup title on home soil in June and their star striker is keen to help his country retain the trophy.
"I would be lying if I said I am not thinking about the Confederations Cup," he said.
"I had two opportunities to play competitions for the national team, one in the Olympics and another in the Copa America, and I feel I am even more prepared now.
"I am very eager and I hope I will do a good job so we can win the title."


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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Pay to Have Your Logo on Google Maps
The Official Google Australia Blog claims that the move is designed to help you navigate Google Maps,
"These easily recognisable logos more closely depict online what the offline world looks like, so next time you're trying to find your way on the map you can navigate more easily using these icons as landmarks."
However, the main purpose of these logos is obviously not to be a navigational aide. If the aim was to improve navigation then businesses wouldn't need to cough up some cash to have their logos appear on Google Maps.
I have no problems with Google using Google Maps as an interactive billboard. Certainly a lot of businesses will benefit by having the locations of their outlets be more easily seen on Google Maps (conversely businesses that can't afford to advertise on Google Maps may suffer).
Just don't try to claim the move is designed to be a navigational aide.
I'd be interested to hear what regular users of Google Maps think of this move. Please give your feedback via the comments below.
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H.R.2397 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014113th Congress (2013-2014)
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|Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-13] (Introduced 06/17/2013)
|House - Appropriations | Senate - Appropriations
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|H. Rept. 113-113
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|Senate - 07/30/2013 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (All Actions)
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|There have been 34 roll call votes
|For further action, see H.R.3547, which became Public Law 113-76 on 1/17/2014.
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- 1. H.Amdt.357 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Description: Amendment sought to reduce funding for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation for the Ohio class Ballistic Missile Submarines by $85 million. Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (Offered 07/23/2013) Latest Action: 07/23/13 On agreeing to the Blumenauer amendment (A014) Failed by recorded vote: 49 - 372 (Roll no. 382). (All Actions)
- 2. H.Amdt.352 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Description: Amendment sought to increase funding for the cleanup and environmental restoration of formerly used defense sites by $25.1 million and to decrease funding for Army Research and Development, specifically the Ground Combat Vehicle Program, by a similar amount. Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (Offered 07/23/2013) Latest Action: 07/23/13 On agreeing to the Blumenauer amendment (A009) Failed by recorded vote: 176 - 242 (Roll no. 380). (All Actions)


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Question: I farm in northeast Arkansas. This is my first year for corn. We have been getting hammered with rain all week. I have been running two 12" relifts all week in order to keep the water off of the corn. The ground has been muddy for 7 days but my corn is up on beds, so it has been doing ok. The corn is in the 4-5 leaf stage. We got 5 inches of rain today, and now it is under water. Some of it is completely covered while the rest is only half under water. Now my question: How long will corn survive under water? I have to decide tomorrow morning whether to try to pump it off again or let it go. We have heavy rain forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The river and ditches are overflowing, but I have a road (levee) around the field so I can still pump some of it off. Will the corn be ok if I can get it out of the water by tomorrow night? The ground will still be muddy for several days, possibly weeks. Am I fighting a losing battle, or do I keep fighting? I have no experience with corn so any advice will be appreciated.
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Even as she lay dying, Sharon A. Healy thought not of herself, but of others. "Her boss was an older man and had some medical issues and every day when I was visiting my mother, she asked me how he was and asked if I could check on him," said Ms. Healy's daughter Kimberly Healy of Amityville. "She was selfless and caring."
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- The Gaucho men and women both dominated in their first and only dual meet of the season against Cal Poly State University.
Notable performances today were highlighted by Barbara Nwaba who competed in the 100m hurdles, high jump and javelin events, and winning all three in clear fashion. In the throws, Irene Kujore had a great performance winning both the shot put and discus events while Alex Umstead lead the men's hammer throw and shot put events. Mitchell Haag captured another victory in the high jump while the vertical jumps were lead by John Walsh in the long jump and Arthur Dyson in the triple jump. In the running events, Ryan Martin highlighted the 400m for a new lifetime best time while Shyan Vaziri lead the men's 1,500m and breaking another PR.
The Gauchos would sweep the first event of the morning in the 3,000 meter steeplechase with Cassie Brooker's winning the event in a time of 10:55.36, a new personal best for her by more than twenty seconds. Ari Selix and Jessica Chadwick finished 11:05.24 and 11:07.43, respectively. Andrew Pilavjian lead the men the steeple with his second place time of 9:19.25 followed by Bryce Rausa (9:22.72) and Austin Goodheart (9:25.18) all of whom ran personal bests.
Christine Cooperstien had an impressive time in the 1,500m run, setting a new personal best time of 4:33.50 and missing first place by a mere few tenths of a second. Shyan Vaziri lead the men in the 1,500m winning first in the event with his time of 3:48.73, almost another personal best. Tyler Brady finished third, crossing the time in 3:54.71.
Sean Johnson led the men in the 110m hurdles with his time wind-aided time of 14.73. In the 400m, Lauren Kodama finished first (57.13) followed closely behind by Camille Petty (57.32) for second. Grace Esslinger crossed the finish line in 12.18 in the 100m dash for second while Evan Walker ran 10.70 for first place, both wind-aided times.
Ryan Martin had an incredible 400m performance with a new personal best time of 47.09 followed by Karlon Johnson's PR of 48.53 for second place.
Amanda Rodriguez won the women's 400m hurdles (1:03.42) while Jimmy Martin placed third on the men's side (54.63). Jenn Carey ran a wind-aided time of 24.63 in the 200m and good for second while the men swept the 200m with Michael Aiken in first (21.98), followed by Eric Severiano (22.23) and Jacob Vowels (22.25), all wind-aided times.
Nwaba blazed through the 100m hurdles with a wind-aided time of 13.81, cleared 5-11.5 in the high jump and hurled 129-6.5 in the javelin for a triple win victory.
Rusty Parker won the men's 800m in 1:52.76 for the men and Courtney Lightfoot placed fourth for the women's 800m with her time of 2:13.26
Ali Palmer earned valuable points in the women's 5k run, finishing second (18:03.04) for a new personal best. Bhavik Kanzaria crossed the line in 15:01.0 to finish third place.
In the field events, Mitchell Haag capped off a successful performance in the high jump with his winning clearance of 6-10.5 followed by Mike Larocca's mark of 6-8.5.
The men dominated the jumps with John Walsh's great performance in the long jump (23-7.25) while Arthur Dyson set a new PR in the triple jump with a clearance of 45-0. Veronica Gines had a winning performance in the long jump clearing 19-3 (wind-aided) while Tayler Williams won the triple jump at 40-3.25 and third in the long jump (18-9.75).
Freshman Katie Lee stepped up to the plate to tie the highest clearance of the day at 11-1.75 for a new personal best while Freshman Andrew Curry lead the men with his pole vault clearance of 15-7 and good for third place.
Likewise, the Gaucho men and women took charge of the throws, winning the hammer throw on the men's side and the discus and hammer throw events on the women's side. Irene Kujore had a winning throw of 157-11.25 in the discus as well as the shot put (147-11.5) and Adam Shigem took second (156-11.5) on the men's side and second in the hammer throw (174-11.5). Alex Francis won the women's hammer throw (158-4) and placed third in the shot put (43-0) while Veronica Gines took second (153-5.25) and throwing a new personal record by several inches.
Alex Umstead lead the men's hammer throw with his winning mark of 179-7.5 and placed second in the shot put (55-5.25) In the javelin, Grace Esslinger threw 127-3 while Michael Guerra threw 197-1.75, both athletes earning second place.
The women's and men's 4x400m relay squad both beat out Cal Poly with the women finishing in 3:48.60 and the men in 3:15.80. In the 4x100m relay event, the women's squad beat out Cal Poly while the men crossed the line nine-tenths of a second after the Cal Poly men's 4x100m team.


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Sale items and women
I went to WalMart this afternoon, intending to make a quick trip of it. I needed some of life's basics: laundry soap, trash bags, milk, and bread.
When I got my shopping cart and started into the store, I immediately noticed a long line of piled-full shopping carts. Each cart had a "Sale!" placcard on it. I saw the bait and I took the hook! I pushed my cart right over to those sale buggies and cruised past slowly, scanning to see if anything interested me.
I was soon busily digging through a cart of discounted "designer" socks for women. Several other ladies were looking through nearby carts. One lady was checking underwear sizes and another was asking her friend how a certain wallpaper border might look in her living room.
Something happened then that made us all pause and take notice. A portly man in shorts, about 60 years old, and a chubby little boy in shorts, about 10 years old, walked by the bargain carts. The man looked at us with scorn. "Hmmmph! A women's paradise!" he sneered to his sidekick.
We women, all strangers, looked at each other and snorted. One lady got mad. She started talking about telling off men who make remarks like that. It was a good thing the perpetrator had already left the area.
I wonder. Is it true that only women will hunt through a jumble to find a bargain? When "manly" places like Bass Pro or Home Depot have racks piled high with sale items, do the guys really just ignore them?


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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is seeking the release of a senator who was detained by Malaysian authorities at Kuala Lumpur international airport.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Australian officials were seeking the immediate release of independent Senator Nick Xenophon who was detained Saturday under national security laws as he attempted to enter Malaysia.
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PHY 495 (Senior Seminar) Guidelines
Information for Students and Faculty Supervisors
Course Objectives
- Develop competency in oral communication. [Physics majors use PHY 495 to satisfy the university's Oral Communication Competency requirement.]
- Become familiar with the tools and methods of independent inquiry.
- Gain acquaintance with some of the latest scientific advances in the field.
Procedures for Students
- Prior to the Add/Drop deadline, identify a supervising faculty member and select a topic for investigation, then register for the section of PHY 495 assigned to your supervisor.*
- Meet with your supervisor on a regular basis to report progress updates.
- Become acquainted with techniques and methods of oral presentation by observing professionals engaged in the activity.
- Make a 30 minute oral presentation on your chosen topic. This presentation will be advertised in advance and open to the public.
Responsibilities of Supervisors
- Assist the student in the selection of a topic for investigation. A suitable topic will address some contemporary problem in physics, and be one in which the supervisor has some expertise.
- Facilitate the organization and direction the inquiry will take, provide guidance concerning the level of detail expected, physics principles involved, sources of information, and delivery techniques.
- In consultation with the student, determine a time and date for the oral presentation and oversee proper advertising for the event.
- Assign the course grade, taking account of input solicited from faculty attending the oral presentation.
*All students are strongly encouraged to identify a PHY 495 supervisor during the term preceding the semester in which they expect to register for the course.
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Veterinarians find therapy rich in possibilities
This is the second article of a two-part dvm360 series focusing on regenerative medicine therapies. For part one, on stem cell therapy in dogs, visit http://dvm360.com/SurgerySTAT.
Although there are no universal criteria defining what makes plasma "platelet-rich," the most lenient definition is a plasma preparation that contains a higher concentration of platelets than that found in the whole blood from which the PRP is prepared. The proposed mechanism of action is the provision of growth factors, stored within the platelet alpha granules, which may mitigate inflammation and initiate anabolic processes and tissue healing. Many different growth factors are contained in these alpha granules, but those most commonly cited to facilitate tissue healing include vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), platelet-derived growth factors (PDGF) and transforming growth factors β (TGFβ), among others.PRP preparation
The majority of the commercially available proprietary systems are made for preparing human PRP and are now being sold in the veterinary market, many without published data characterizing the PRP obtained when used with canine blood. This is pertinent because the characteristics of PRP obtained using human blood and canine blood with the same system can differ. Although a comprehensive review of all the characteristics of PRP that a clinician should consider is beyond the scope of this article, the following are several criteria that clinicians should investigate if interested in using PRP:
> What is the platelet concentration, leukocyte concentration, and ratio of platelets to leukocytes in the final PRP preparation using blood from the species of interest? Although all PRP systems are supposed to concentrate platelets, some systems are leukoreductive while others concentrate leukocytes. While the concentration of anabolic growth factors tends to correlate with the platelet concentration, the concentrations of inflammatory cytokines also correlate with leukocyte concentration in human PRP.2 The ideal PRP for a given condition may be a function of platelet concentration, leukocyte concentration or their ratio.3
> How much blood is being taken from the patient for PRP preparation and how much PRP is produced?
> Is addition of calcium chloride, thrombin or some other step used to activate the platelets with the given PRP system of interest? Such treatments can prompt a rapid and abundant release of growth factors from the platelets. This may be beneficial or it may preclude more extended release if activation were allowed to occur naturally in vivo.3


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I think it will fit/screw in any nikonos bulkhead (just like any nikonos cord will fit in any nikonos bulkhead) with a double waterproof seal (the nikonos typical seal plus one more o-ring on the top). As for the length, I will have to measure it but you can get an idea from the third picture, around 3mm or so (equal or less than the electronic cables)...
Makes sense that it would be a standard Nikonos sync cord screw thread.
Looking at the Hugyfot housing the Nikonos bulkhead appears to be much taller than the one on my Sea & Sea housing. That's why I'm querying about the length from the top o-ring to the end of it. I suspect it may protrude out a bit more than in a Sea&Sea housing than on the Hugyfot.
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Troop 444: First Class
First Class Scout Rank
When the First Class rank is attained, a scout has learned all the basic camping and outdoors skills of a scout. He can fend for himself in the wild, lead others on a hike or campout, set up a camp site, plan and properly prepare meals, and provide first aid for most situations he may encounter. A First Class scout is prepared.
NOTE: These requirements, and those for Tenderfoot and Second Class may be worked on simultaneously; however these ranks must be earned in sequence.
- Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.
- Using a map and compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)
- Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight. Demonstrate the principles of Leave No Trace on these outings.
- a. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner
and that requires cooking at least two meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food
pyramid and meets nutritional needs.
b. Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed
to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.
c. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
d. Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs,
vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans,
plastic containers, and other rubbish.
e. On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building
a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement 4a. Lead your patrol
in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.
- Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. citizen.
- Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.
- a. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings. Then demonstrate tying the timber hitch and
clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves
b. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
- a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.
b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle. and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the
c. Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person:
* from a smoke-filled room
* with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards.
d. Tell the five most common signals of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR).
- a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
c. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and rescuer. (The practice victim
should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.)
- Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts, or an inactive Boy Scout, about your troop's activities. Invite him to a troop outing, activity, service project or meeting. Tell him how to join, or encourage the inactive Boy Scout to become active.
- Describe the three things you should avoid doing related to use of the Internet. Describe a cyberbully and how you should respond to one.
- Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13 and Second Class requirement 11) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.
- Complete your board of review
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Marian Wright Edelman | 2/17/2014, 9:36 a.m. | Updated on 2/17/2014, 9:36 a.m.
(NNPA) – We're used to making a big fuss over children's birthdays, but this week child advocates and families across the country are celebrating the Children's Health Insurance Program on the fifth anniversary of its reauthorization. One family who lives in the working-class Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia with their 6-, 4- and 3-year-old children told us they celebrate and are grateful for CHIP every day. The husband is a talented freelance videographer and the wife cares for the children.
CHIP has been a lifeline for the family, providing stability with health and dental coverage for the children. With CHIP coverage, she gets regular phone calls reminding her it's time for appointments or letting her know a dental van is in the area. CHIP has opened doors to high quality child-appropriate providers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Health System when needed and provided peace of mind for the hardworking father, whose income can vary wildly from month to month and year to year. CHIP has given him security knowing his children are getting the care they need without breaking the bank. The wife says, "The kids wouldn't have had health insurance if it wasn't for CHIP."
There are more than 8 million children with stories like this. To survive and thrive, all children need access to comprehensive, affordable health coverage that is easy to get and keep. Unmet health and mental health needs can result in children falling behind developmentally and having trouble catching up physically, emotionally, socially and academically. And it can mean life or death for children from preventable disease and illness.
CHIP has strong bipartisan roots. It was created in 1997 when Democrats and Republicans, led by Senators Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., came together to create a system of health coverage for children whose families earned too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to be able to buy health coverage that today costs on average more than $16,000 a year for a family of four in the individual market. CHIP continues to provide crucial support for millions of working families: 92 percent of all children enrolled in CHIP had at least one parent employed during the last year. Since its creation CHIP has helped cut the number of uninsured children in half, to the lowest level on record, while improving child health outcomes and access to care.
By preserving and strengthening CHIP and Medicaid and creating new coverage options for parents, access to health coverage is now available for 95 percent of all children in America. But eligibility and access to coverage do not guarantee enrollment. While 42 million children are enrolled in CHIP and Medicaid, more than 8 million in CHIP alone, more than 7 million children under 19 are still uninsured. Nearly 70 percent of these uninsured children are eligible for but not enrolled in CHIP or Medicaid.
We know health-related problems can lead to poor academic performance and that uninsured children are more likely to perform poorly in school than children with coverage. CDF has partnered with AASA, The School Superintendents Association, to link uninsured children with health coverage by adding a question to school enrollment forms asking whether children have health coverage and helping connect uninsured students with coverage.


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Perform this procedure if your configuration requires dual-string mediators.
Become superuser on the node that currently masters the disk set to which you intend to add mediator hosts.
Run the metaset(1M) command to add each node with connectivity to the disk set as a mediator host for that disk set.
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Needless to say, it's weird...
There's a lot to be said about a movie that goes down the same path as dozens of other horror films and still manages to keep the viewer entertained. "Creature" happens to be one of those movies. It's chock full of gore, a ridiculous back story, tons of nudity and Sid Haig. Within the first 10 minutes you're seeing so many similarities to the "Hatchet" films that you start to get a little dizzy. The film does a good job of keeping you entertained though, seriously there's a ton of nudity, and really only seems to fault when it tries to differentiate itself from the pack.
I have literally wanted this to happen at every wedding I've ever been to. Sid Haig usually isn't there, but I agree with the filmmakers that it makes the fantasy even better. "Devil in My Ride" is hitting the festival circuit this summer.
A lot of Hollywood directors have their "stable" of go-to actors. For instance, Adam Sandler casts Rob Schneider in everything, presumably because they touched swords once at summer camp and he doesn't want him to tell anyone. Rob Zombie has gone in... a different direction.
I have no idea why anyone would want to visit Russia when their greatest commodity is already dancing at Private Eyes up on 45th and 8th, but the movie "The Darkest Hour" tells the story of a group of travelers stuck in Moscow during an alien invasion. A new poster for the flick has popped up online and it looks like all hell is breaking loose in Mother Russia. I hope this doesn't make people lose their place in line for bread.
Everybody hates clowns. Unless they're slutty clowns on Halloween, most people are on board with that. But an undead clown, that changes everything. The movie is titled "Stitches" and it tells the tale of a clown who returns from the grave to take out his vengeance on a group of teenagers who caused his death some years ago. It's a horror comedy and it's British so that means there's going to be a lot of bad teeth gags and Spam jokes. I assume. Most of what I know about the UK comes from Austin Powers and Monty Python.
"Hatchet" director Adam Green has confirmed "Killer Pizza", a new romp about a teen who takes a summer job at a pizza parlor that turns out to be the front for a monster hunting agency. The good people at MGM will be putting out the film so it might actually have some money behind it. God willing that doesn't mean they'll leave out the Kane Hodder sex scene.
If there's one thing Rob Zombie's witch revenge flick "The Lords Of Salem" has been missing it's sex appeal. Well good news you ornery little skanks, Sid Haig has officially joined the project as one half of a witch hunting duo. Boner time!
For those of you who have been awaiting to release of "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D" get excited because it's only a month and a year away! The fun little flick that follows the two witch murders 15 years after their original story left off will begin filming soon and is set for a March 2nd 2012 release. Let's go camp out for tickets!
There's no arguing that Haylie Duff is in the top 2 of people's favorite Duff sisters and now she's signed up for "Home Invasion" which I assume will be direct to DVD and hurt your eyes. The movie follows two mothers who accidentally murder a home intruder and sign up for a support group to cope with their guilt. But wait a second, is the dead robber's girlfriend in the group too? She is, the imdb page say she is so it's no real surprise.
Two words my friends, dream cast. Sasha Grey, who gets spit roasted for money (look it up, just not at work) and Hailey Glassman who use to lay with Jon Gosselin (you should be ashamed if you look it up at work) has signed on for a new film from the writers of "Cabin Fever" titled "Hallow". Some good news though, filming will take place in Canada, where this kind of crap belongs.
A new clip of the low budget, surprise surprise, Sid Haig flick titled "Blood is Blood" has hit the tubes and it's hot to trot. I don't know what that means but I couldn't think of anything else. The movie revolves around a family who faces a monster on their way to New Orleans in a town where the beast is seen as a God.
Carlos Fresnadillo, the guy who brought you "28 Weeks Later", my second favorite of all the "amount of time later" films, is now the latest name being bounced around to direct the on again off again "The Crow" reboot. Eric Draven is also being rumored to take the lead role but since nothing is confirmed I'd like to announce that I am officially the front runner to take the role.
A few years back I got all excited when I found a "Night of the Living Dead" remake done in 3D staring Sid Haid in Target. I bought it, brought it home and watched a big giant disappointing turd, in 3D. Well they made a sequel titled "Night of the Living Dead 3D: Resurrection" and Andrew Divoff has been confirmed as playing the lead in the film. Learn from my mistakes people.
Not going to lie, I thought "11-11-11" was the dumbest name for a movie ever but now there's a teaser for the film, which has yet to be completed, and it looks pretty damn creepy. It's also got giant shrubs trimmed into cool shapes and I'm a sucker for clever landscaping. I've never hidden that fact.
Get ready kids because March 5th "Re-Animator the Musical" hits Los Angeles. Not some crappy art student knock off either, Stuart Gordon is producing and directing the stage version and what's better is the theater has a splash zone. I assume that means blood might be flying and not that there's a dolphin show going on. Maybe a bloody dolphin show, that would be awesome. PETA would throw a fit though.
Here's some good news. Some jackass thought it would be a good idea to make a full length film based on the video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and now there's a bidding war going on. I hope this starts a trend, because I always wanted to see what happened to the couple in the "Take On Me" video. I hope those crazy kids got married.
Here's some hot new details on the story line for the next season of "True Blood". Cage fighters, crappy palm readers and me still feeling like less and less of a man with each passing episode.
Darren Aronofsky has set "Machine Man" as his next project. The movie will focus on a man with a talent for robotics who finds a way to upgrade his own body, with sexy results. Alright I don't know about that last part but if I was writing the script that's how it would go.
Karen Black, Sid Haig, Bai Ling and Traci Lords are set to star in a new horror flick titled "Go Straight to Hell". The movie will focus on the four strangers who have to confess the one sin they didn't repent for while on earth or be sent to hell. I'm just guessing Ling's has something to do with rolling around like a sex doll on TV and Lords' will most likely have to repent for that while underage porn thing.
In writer and director Jack Hill's cult classic "Spider Baby", we are introduced to the three Merrye children, Elizabeth (Beverly Washburn), Virginia (Jill Banner) and Ralph (Sid Haig), who suffer from a genetic condition that causes its victims to mentally, socially and physically regress into p


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Sharks vs. Kings: 10 things to watch
It's not the SoCal Showdown a lot of hockey fans were hoping for, but one NHL squad from the Golden State is guaranteed a spot in the Western Conference final.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings and northern neighbour San Jose Sharks will meet in the second round of the playoffs. The fun starts Tuesday at the Staples Center.
Here are 10 things you need to know about this West Coast clash.
There hasn't been a repeat winner of the Stanley Cup since 1998, when Steve Yzerman, Sergei Federov and the Detroit Red Wings successfully defended their title. The Kings have made only minor tweaks to their roster since winning it all last year and are once again considered among the favourites despite being the fifth-place finisher in the Western Conference. The sixth-seeded Sharks are seeking their first championship in franchise history.
Don't expect many — or any — blowouts in this series. Of the past 10 meetings between the Kings and Sharks, a half-dozen have been one-goal games and four have required overtime. The Kings posted a 2-1-1 record against the boys from NoCal in the regular season and were the victors in the most lopsided matchup, a 5-2 triumph over the Sharks in mid-March.
The Kings made NHL history in the opening round, becoming the first team to win five consecutive playoff series while starting away from home, a spree that dates back to their Stanley Cup run as an eighth-seed last spring. This time, they have home-ice advantage, and that's not a bad thing. The Kings have won 10 straight at the Staples Center, including three in their first-round victory over the St. Louis Blues.
San Jose doesn't necessarily stick out as a hockey hotbed, but it can get nooooiiiiissssy in HP Pavilion. The Sharks had a 17-2-5 record on home ice during the regular season and finished off their first-round sweep of the Vancouver Canucks with back-to-back wins in the Silicon Valley. If they can manage a split at the Staples Center, their building will be rocking when they get back home.
Both of these teams have netminders who've seen the view from the top. Jonathan Quick backstopped the Kings to a Stanley Cup parade last spring, claiming the Conn Smythe Trophy after posting a 16-4 record and a sparkling 1.41 goals-against average. Goaltending was supposed to be the Chicago Blackhawks' weak spot in 2010, but Antti Niemi silenced his critics during the playoff run. His thanks? The Blackhawks balked at his arbitration results and he signed with the Sharks.
The Sharks certainly don't seem to mind logging extra time. In fact, they notched two overtime victories in their opening-round dismissal of the Canucks, with Raffi Torres and Patrick Marleau providing the heroics. The Kings, meanwhile, split a couple of overtime sessions with the Blues. In their crucial victory in Game 5, rearguard Slava Voynov scored the deciding goal.
It's that time of year that nobody shares much information about injuries, but we'll tell you everything we know about the status of San Jose's Martin Havlat. Um, he's hurting. The talented winger has missed three games and although he has resumed skating, his return from a groin injury is uncertain. The Sharks will be without gritty forward Adam Burish for this series, while Kyle Clifford is questionable for the Kings.
Nobody is complaining about his five assists in the opening round, but the Kings need centre Mike Richards to also find the back of the net. Skating on a line with Jeff Carter and Dwight King, Richards didn't score a single goal against the Blues. In fact, only four Kings — Carter, Dustin Penner, Voynov and Justin Williams — had multiple tallies in a tight-checking series with St. Louis.
Jumbo Joe and Little Joe — aka, Joe Thornton and Joe Pavelski — were both offensive forces for the Sharks in the first round. Pavelski tied for the team lead with four goals in the opening series, while Thornton shared the lead with five assists. Forwards Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau and defenceman Dan Boyle also averaged at least a point-per-game against the Canucks.
The Kings have adopted the identity of their captain Dustin Brown, meaning they're a testy, talented bunch that occasionally crosses the line. That last part could be problematic against the Sharks. The crew from San Jose had seven power-play goals against the Canucks, including six in two outings on home ice. The Kings are at their best when they're banging, but the Sharks will make them pay if they put on a parade of penalties.
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We're going to be talking about the subject why Jesus must return to earth. Why Jesus must return to earth. And this, I think, should form the basis or the justification of all the things that we shall say in the weeks to come. It is said that prophecy occupies one-fifth of the Scriptures and that the second coming of Christ occupies one-third of that one-fifth. For example, there are over 660 general prophecies. Half of them are concerning Jesus Christ. Of these 333 prophecies concerning Christ, 109 of them were fulfilled in His first coming. Which leaves 224 yet to be fulfilled in his second coming.
Of the 46 Old Testament prophets, less than ten of them speak of events in Christ's first coming while 36 of them speak of events connected His second coming. There are a total of 1,527 Old Testament passages referring to the second coming. There are 7,959 verses in the New Testament. And 330 of those or 1 out of 25 refer directly to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Next to the subject of faith, the subject of the second coming is the most dominant subject in the New Testament. For every time in the Bible the first coming is mentioned, the second coming is mentioned eight times. For every time the atonement is mentioned once, the second coming is mentioned twice. The Lord refers to His return 21 times. And 50 times plus men are exhorted to be ready for the return of Jesus Christ.
Now that is an overwhelming indication that the Bible majors on the second coming of Jesus Christ. This week I read an interesting article reporting on a convocation of church delegates that met in Evanston, Illinois. A national magazine reported that 10% of the American Protestant clergyman question at that convocation found any significance at all in the doctrine of the second coming. Ninety percent saw no significance in it at all in spite of the fact that the Bible mentions it 1,527 times.
Peter said in the end times the scoffers will say where is the promise of His coming. Mocking the fact that Jesus is said to be returning, but believe me and believe the Bible, whatever men say Jesus is coming. At this point, even the scoffers are admitting that the whole world is in a state of rather fearful expectation. And men walk on eggs at best aware of the possibility of doom and people are prophesying the destruction of the world through many, many different ways and they're not too sure how it's going to come, but they're afraid it's going to come. Books and articles and pamphlets and studies are being written in an endless chain of warnings that if man doesn't change the way he's living, he's going to go out of existence.
And some would say that pollution is going to get us and we'll gag to death. Or earthquakes will get us and we'll topple into oblivion. Or population growth will get us and we'll crush each other to death. Or bombs will get us and we'll burn in death...burn to death in nuclear fire. Or famine will get us and we'll starve to death. Or war will get us and we'll kill each other or maybe materialism is our doom and we'll just spend ourselves out of existence. Or loneliness will get us and we'll kill ourselves.
And so it goes. And there doesn't seem to be much comfort for even the scoffers. And Lamentations 1:16, we find what may be a fitting description. It says this, "For these things I weep," Jeremiah, "mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water because the comforter who should relieve my soul is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy prevailed. Hopelessness, doom with no possibility of alteration." And the words of the Psalmist in Psalm 44:19 seems somehow fitting. The Psalmist said "You have covered us with the shadow of death." And even the scoffers who would never agree that Jesus is coming will all agree that if something doesn't change the world is coming to the end and they're not too sure how, but there are at least 15 good viable options. How will it all end? How will the current system of the world end? Can we know? Yes, we can. The Bible gives a very clear and a very direct answer.
The present system, the present world as we know it will end in the return of Jesus Christ. The history of the world will climax and the literal bodily, physical return of Jesus to the earth. In Acts Chapter 1, you'll remember that an angel, two angels appeared when Jesus ascended into heaven. And the angels spoke unto those gathered at the Mount where He ascended. And the angels said, "Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing into heaven. This same Jesus who is taken up from you shall," what, "so come in like manner as you've seen Him go."
The promise is that just as He physically and literally left, he will physically, literally come. The same Jesus in the like manner. The same person in the same way. Now the return of the Jesus Christ includes many features. And we have just kind of put them up here for you and we'll following a little bit of a study as we go that will keep relating to this chart. Just look at it and see if you can focus your attention as I kind of talk my way through it very, very briefly.
The green area is the church age in which we live. The church age comes to an end with the rapture of the church. Following the rapture of the church...incidentally, the word rapture from the Latin rappera to catch a way, the catching away of the saints, following the rapture there will be a terrible time on earth known as the Tribulation. A world government will be set up during those seven years. Satan's man, known commonly as the antichrist will rule. He will make a covenant with Israel and for half of that time Israel will live in peace, the peace will come to an end.
The antichrist and his kingdom will exert control over the whole world. In fact, he gets so enamored with his own control that he announces to everybody that he's god and demands the whole world worship him. Those who refuse to worship him during this period of time will be killed. Now at the same time that he is doing this, that this political scene is going on, there will be catastrophic judgments coming down from God. These are recorded in Revelation 6 through 19 that during that seven year period, God is going to be judging the world in a way that the world has never even dreamed possible.
And if it was ever any longer than three and a half years the Bible says no flesh would survive. The whole thing culminates, the seven year period in a final expression of the battle of the Armageddon. At the end of that battle or really just when that battle gets going, they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus returns and sets up His glorious kingdom. During the kingdom Satan is bound. At the end of the kingdom, he's loose, the rebellion is put down and the great throne, the great white throne appears and the glory of God and He judges and many either go into heaven or in to hell forever.
All of this period of time people, all of this, with all the events involved makes up what we mean when we say the second coming of Christ. It involves all of that. When we say the second coming of Christ very precisely we're talking about this moment when He comes to set up His kingdom. Very generally, we're talking about everything from the rapture to the end of the kingdom age. And we're going to start tonight just beginning in the end of the church age and by the time this series is over, we'll either be here or we'll be talking about it.
And I don't know about you, but I'd rather be there. It's nice to be with you. Far better to go and be with him. And that's Paul said and I'm with him. And you're nice people and you're going with me anyway. Now that's just an overall view of how it all ends and I just want you to focus on it and we'll go into it in more detail as we go along. Now all of these things are classified then as we said under the term the coming of Jesus Christ or the return of Christ. The next event then on God's clock is the coming of Jesus Christ. Now the coming of Jesus Christ begins with the rapture. The first event is the rapture. The church age exists and Jesus catches away the church. When that happens, it is the beginning of the end. Now tonight, I want us to consider just one feature. In weeks to come we're going to look at the rapture and we'll take it in great detail, but tonight I want us to consider one feature. And I believe it's very necessary at the beginning, because before we explain the second coming of Jesus Christ, we've got to have a reason that we ought believe He's even coming, right?
Why should I want to know all the details of the coming of Christ if I don't know that He has to come? Now most men today can see the end of man's day out on the horizon somewhere. Some scientist say we won't make it to the year 2000. And people are scared and they're not too sure it's going to end we are announcing to the world it's going to end with the return of Jesus and the scoffers are saying not so. Jesus is not going to come, He doesn't need to come. That's all old wives tales.
And so before we even begin discussing the features of the second coming, we've got to discuss whether it has to happen don't we? And so tonight, I want to give you what I've called the reasons Jesus must return to the earth. And if you doubt the return of Jesus, you'll have no basis to doubt after tonight. And let me tell you something else, if like the liberal theologians you have decided that you'll explain it away spiritually, you're going to find that you're even in worse shape to say that. At least the first guy can be ignorant of Scripture.
If you're a theologian and should know Scripture and have concluded that Jesus doesn't have to return and just spiritualized it all the way, you're in even worse trouble. Now why does Jesus have to return? And I'm going to give you these, so just jot them down as we go.
Number one, the promise of God demands it. The promise of God demands it. Throughout the Old Testament, God made promises regarding the coming deliverer. And this morning in the book of Acts we saw a great number of these prophecies that were fulfilled when Jesus first came, right? We saw there were just many prophecies fulfilled in the first coming of Christ when He was living in Israel. When He was humiliated. When He was crucified. When He was resurrected. All that time fulfilled many Old Testament prophecies.
But listen, many more Old Testament prophecies, 224 as opposed to 109 in his first coming, many more Old Testament prophecies have to do with His second coming. And so you see the word of God is at stake. If Jesus does not come, if Jesus does not return, then God is a liar. Then the credibility of God is invalidated. All the prophecies regarding Christ must come to pass. Not some of them, all of them. If God ever said something would happen that didn't happen, then God messed up. And if God messed up once then we're in real trouble, because there's no guarantee that it was only once. And it shows a flaw in the character of God and God says He never makes a mistake and He never does wrong and He never lies and that in itself indicates that even that is a lie if one prophecy doesn't come to pass.
Oh I know the liberals come along and they say oh yes, Jesus is going to come. What that means is He's going to come into your life. The Spirit of Jesus is going to descend on you. That's what's known as spiritualizing the second coming. And that's what a lot of people do. Well, that's ridiculous. The reason it's ridiculous is because every one of the prophecies relating to the first coming of Jesus Christ weren't spiritual. They were what? Literal. If all of the prophecies related to His first coming were literal, then if God is consistent all the ones related to His second coming will also be what? Literal, and nobody has the right to have a dual hermeneutic or a dual principle and say well those are literal, these will be spiritual. The Scripture never makes that distinction. If the Bible says Jesus will be born in Bethlehem, and He was, and then the Bible says at the time of the kingdom he'll reign in the city of Jerusalem on the throne of David. Why would say that the first time Bethlehem is literal, but the next time in Jerusalem is figurative.
Who gives you the right to say that? The first time Jesus came, He fulfilled Old Testament prophecies literally. Isaiah 7:14 said, "He'd be born of a virgin." He was literally. Micah 5:2, "He'd be born at Bethlehem." He was. Hosea 11:1, "He'll be called out of Egypt." He was. Remember where He descended into Egypt after the time when they were going to kill the babies and then He went to Nazareth. Isaiah 11:2 "Anointed with the spirit." Literally, He was. Zechariah 9:9, "He entered Jerusalem on an ass," said the prophet. Literally that's what He did.
"Betrayed by a friend," said Psalm 41:9. It happened literally. "Forsaken by His disciples," Zechariah 13:7. It happened literally. "Sold for thirty pieces of silver," Zechariah 11:12. It happened, literally. Zechariah 11:13 says, "A potters field would be bought with the money." It happened literally. A literal potter's field was bought with real money.
Isaiah Chapter 50, verse 6 said "The Messiah would be spit on and scourged?" Was He? Literally, actually, physically. Psalm 22, "He would be crucified." Literally He was. Psalm 34:20, "Not of a bone of His body would be broken." That's exactly what happened. Psalm 69:21, "Gall and vinegar would be given to Him to drink." That's exactly what He received. No figurative language at all, it's all literal.
Psalm 22, "His hands and feet would be pierced." They were literally. The scars were still there when He showed them to Thomas, right? Psalm 22 says, "His garments would be parted and lots would be cast for them," and it was and they were that's literal. Psalm 16 said, "He be resurrected," and was He? Literally, bodily, and He showed Himself alive. Now all of the prophecies regarding the first coming of Jesus Christ were literal. How then can we say the rest are just spiritual ideas. That the return of Jesus is a vague kind of thing where the spirit of Jesus kind of descends on you. Garbage. The character of God is at stake. The consistency of prophecy is at stake. God has promised certain things for the Messiah to fulfill. Jesus didn't fulfill them the first time, then believe it people, Messiah must return, right, to fulfill them.
Some examples, Genesis 49:10, and in this passage there is just one statement I want to pull out. Genesis 49:10, listen to this, "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, the tribe of Judah," that is the king will come to the tribe of Judah, "nor a lawgiver from between His feet until Shiloh come," that's the messianic promise. Shiloh means the one who is right it is or the one to whom it belongs. There's going to be a king and He's going to hold the sceptre and He'll be from the line of Judah. Now watch the end of the verse, "unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." Listen to me, the first time Jesus came was the gathering of the people to Him. No, John says He came unto His own and what? His own received Him not. He was in the world, the world was made by Him and what? The world knew Him not. That prophecy has not yet been fulfilled beloved. Therefore He must return.
The credibility of God's prophecy is at stake. Let me take you up to another prophecy in the Psalm 2. Psalm Chapter 2, verse 6, the prophecy is this, "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion, I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I shall give thee the nations for thine inheritance. And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
God says, Messiah's going to come, He's going to be a king, He's going to reign on the throne and all of the nations of the world are going to be subject to Him. He'll rule them with a rod iron. Did that happen the first time Jesus came? Of course not. If it didn't, what has to happen? He has to come again. Let me take you over to Isaiah Chapter 9, verse 6. "For unto us a child is born, unto to us a Son is given." Did that happen the first time He came? Yes, He was born. Listen to this, "And the government shall be upon His shoulder." Did that happen? No, who is the prince of this world? Satan. Verse 7, "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David." The first time came did He sit on the throne of David? No, they crucified Him as a criminal. The second time "He'll sit on the throne of David and upon His kingdom to order it to establish it with justice and righteousness from hence forth even forever."
My friend the government has never yet been on the shoulders of Jesus Christ. I'll never forget a sermon I heard a guy preach on this passage and he preached on is the government of your life on the shoulders of Christ? That is not talking about the government of anybody's life. That's talking about the government of the world.
It hasn't happened yet, and it says...look at, it says "Of the increase of His government and peace, there shall be no end." The first time Jesus came did He bring peace? No, He said "I came not to bring peace, but," what "sorid," to divide families, to chop up, to sever relationships because some would come to Him and some would not. No, He doesn't have any government of this world yet. Satan's still the prince. There is no peace yet brought by Jesus Christ. If He didn't fulfill it the first time, believe He'd better come again or God is a liar. And God's prophecy does not come true.
It says, He's going to be seated on the throne of David. Is He? No. That would be in the city of Jerusalem on the rightful throne belonging to David. That's future friends. Let me quote you a verse. Matthew 25:31, listen to this, "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory," that's which coming? Second one, "And all the holy angels with Him," listen to this one, here's the next word, get it, "then, then shall He sit on the throne." Not the first time, but what, the second time.
Let me take you to another prophecy, Micah Chapter 4, verse 3, and there are just many. This is just a smattering of...very brief sampling. Micah 4:3, if you haven't got it, don't worry about it. "And He shall judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar off." Did Jesus do that the first time He was here, rebuke strong nations afar off? No, "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore."
Has there been a cessation of war since Jesus came? Afraid not. Afraid not. You say well, Messiah didn't fulfill the prophecy. That's exactly what I'm saying. If He didn't fulfill it the first time, He must come again to fulfill the second time. The credibility of God is at stake. Look at Isaiah 11:10, as long as we're doing this. Might as well give you the whole thing. Isaiah 11:10, "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse," and you remember Jesse was the father of David, so he was just saying his lineage will come through Jesse, "who shall stand for an ensign of the people," listen, "to Him shall the nations seek and His rest shall be glorious."
When Jesus came the first time, did the nations seek after Him? Was there any rest at all let along a glorious one? No, that hasn't happened. That can't happen. Go to Isaiah 33, verse 20, he says, "Look unto Zion, the city of our solemnities, thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation." Has Jerusalem been a quiet habitation? Afraid not.
Jerusalem has never had peace. And what is it that the Jews of Jerusalem are always praying for? Peace of Jerusalem. He has to come back. Isaiah 35, verse 1, "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing the glory of Lebanon shall be given under the...unto to it the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord and the excellency our God." Has Israel seen the glory of the Lord and the excellency of God? No, not even recognize the Messiah. He says, "their nature is going to change." Has nature made a great transformation? I was just over there. Those deserts, some places, are looking good, some places they're not looking too good at all. You know what Paul said in Romans 8, "The whole creation groans, waiting for the great day when the earth is going to be redone." Look down in verse 8, same chapter, "And a highway shall be there and a way...it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. That it shall be for those the wayfaring men, though fools shall not err therein."
What he means is salvation is going to dominate and saved people and holiness. "No lion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not found there, but the redeemed shall walk there." Is that true of Jerusalem today? Of course not. Verse 10, "And the ransom to the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
There is not a Jew in existence who would tell you that that's a description of 1973 Israel. He has to come back and bring it all to pass. Isaiah 45, verse 23, messianic prophecy, listen, "I have sworn by myself." There's no higher authority than God so He just swears by Himself. "The word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return." What word? "That unto me every knee shall bow." Has every knee bowed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ? Of course not.
No, it hasn't happened. Men weren't made to bow the first time. Well, I can't leave old Jeremiah out. Jeremiah 23:5, "Behold the days come, saith the Lord that I'll raise unto David a righteous branch and the king shall reign and prosper." Jesus came the first time and said He was a king and they said we will not have this man to, what, reign over us. He didn't prosper. "And shall execute justice and righteous," where, "in the earth." This isn't talking about some...people say well, that's a heavenly kingdom. What does it say? In what? In the earth. The millennial it says there's never any earthly kingdom. Oh, it says "In the earth." I wonder what that means? Jesus Christ doesn't reign in any kingdom in the earth now. He's going to have to come back again. That's the point. "And in those days Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely." That hasn't happened yet. Israel doesn't dwell safely do they? You see Messiah must come again. Well, we can't leave out Ezekiel Chapter 21:25, you know, demons control governments don't they? And even in Israel apart from God, apart from the belief in Messiah, Satan's forces control the country.
Verse 25 of Ezekiel 21, "Thou profane wicked prince of Israel," the demon behind them, "whose day has come when iniquity shall have an end." God's going to get back to the situation when iniquity's run its course and deal with them. "Thus saith Lord God remove the diadem and take off the crown." You've been ruling in that land, but it's over.
Verse 27, "I will overturn, overturn it and it shall be no more until He comes whose right it is and I'll give it to Him." God says I'm going to take back that whole thing and give it to the one who it really belongs to, Jesus Christ.
Has God done that yet? Has God turned over the land of Israel to the rule of Jesus Christ? Not yet, not yet. That's why He must come. Same prophecy as in Daniel Chapter 7, verse 13, "I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought Him there before Him and there was given Him dominion." Messiah is "going to have dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."
In verse 18 "And the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, possess the kingdom forever even forever and ever." Has Jesus Christ returned to have world dominion given to His saints an eternal kingdom? Not yet. It'll come in the earth in the future when Jesus comes.
The great prophecy of Zechariah closes out our little look at the Old Testament. Zechariah 14:4, listen to this, I just love this prophecy. Oh I hope I'm there when it happens. I know I will be because the Bible say we shall appear with Him in glory. I just want to be in front so I can see it all. "And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives." When Messiah comes, He's going to come at His second coming with His saints, not for us, the rapture then seven years, then we come with Him and His feet are going to hit the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east and I just couldn't help but think about that as I stood on a Mount of Olives. "And the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst towards the east and towards the west and there's going to be a valley created there." That fast, "and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south." Did that happen the first time He came? No, obviously not. "And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains and the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal, yea you shall flee as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and the Lord my God shall come and all the saints," what, "with Him." See. "It shall come to pass in that day the light shall not be clear nor dark, but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not day nor night, but it shall come to pass that in evening time it shall be light. And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward hinder sea, and summer and winter shall it be and the Lord shall be king over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and His name one."
All religions of the world wiped out in one fell swoop. That didn't happen the first time did it? You see what I'm trying to say? None of those things happened when Jesus came the first time. Therefore, what? He has to come again. They must be literally fulfilled.
Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man that He should lie." Did you know that that's a good definition of men. They are the ones who lie. God does not. Romans 3:4, what does Paul say? "Let God be true if every man is a liar." Titus 1, "God who cannot lie." God doesn't lie. When God tells us something it's true. And God said His Messiah would do all of these things. If He didn't do it the first time, believe it, He'll be back and do it the second time.
Let me give you a second reason. Jesus must return not only because of the promise of God, but because of the statements of Jesus Himself. His own statements demand a second coming. You see during the days of Jesus' life and ministry He made frequent statements regarding His return. Most of His parables, for example, are related to His return. And there are several whole chapters in the gospels connected with His second coming.
Let me give you some examples. Turn for a moment to John 13. Now here we have Jesus in the upper room in preparation for His leaving. And He is talking to the disciples having a wonderful time sharing with them. And He knew it was the end and I love verse 1. "Now before the feast of the Passover when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father having loved His own which were in the world who loved them unto the end." And He knew they were going to be lonely and they were going to be shaken. They were going to be apprehensive and it was going to be tough to handle His leaving.
In verse 21 and 22, He announces that He's even going to be betrayed. "One of you is going to betray me." Everything is going to crumble in the eyes of the disciples and they're going to see the end of everything they put their dreams in. And so He wants to make an announcement that'll encourage their hearts. And He does it at the beginning of Chapter 14. And I just love it and I know you do, look at it. He says this, fellows, and they must have been troubled, they must have just been so troubled, "Let not your heart be troubled. Do you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many dwelling places, if it were not so I would have told you." Watch this one, "I'm going to get it ready for you." Now watch, "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will," what, "come again."
You want to hear something people? Not only is the credibility of God at stake in the second coming, but so is the credibility of Jesus. Did you hear that? If Jesus doesn't return, He's a liar, right? "I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am," what, "there you may be also."
Listen, He'll be back. Let me give you a footnote that just blesses me. Oh I get excited about this, verse 3, watch, "I will come again and receive you," what are the next two words, "unto myself." Have you ever thought about that? We're not waiting for an event, we're waiting for a person. You like that. I'm not waiting for a great eschatological epic. I'm waiting for Jesus personally to gather me into His arms and take me to the Father's house.
I'm not waiting for a cataclysmic event. I'm waiting for a loving Savior. I like that. Let me show you another one. Matthew 24, those little things in the Bible that just devastate me, that you just could pass over so easily and they're so rich. Incidentally Matthew 24 and 25 are two whole chapters where Jesus says He's coming back, right? In Matthew 24, let me just show you a couple of verses 24:27. I like this. "For as the lightening cometh out of the east fast and shineth even unto the west so shall also the," what, "coming of the Son of Man be." He says, I'm coming. And He tells them how.
Verse 30, "Then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. He shall send His angels with a great sound of the trumpet and they shall gather together, the elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other." Go over to Chapter 25, verse 31. And this is Jesus talking. He's doing all the speaking. "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit on the throne of His glory." Listen people, Jesus said I'm coming and it He said it over and over again. And the credibility of Jesus Christ is at stake. For somebody to come along and say oh yes, I believe in the deity of Christ, but I don't believe in His second coming is a paradoxical statement that makes no sense. If you believe that He is God, then you believe that He spoke the truth. And the truth is "I am coming again."
Luke Chapter 19, verse 11, "And as they heard these things, He added and spoke a parable because He was near Jerusalem, because they thought the kingdom of God should immediately appear." These disciples were so anxious for the king, they thought He was coming any minute. Listen to this. "He said therefore," oh this is powerful, "a certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom," what are the next three words, "and to return. And He called his ten servants and delivered them ten pounds and said unto them occupy until I come." He went in there to get the kingdom, said now you occupy, but the citizens hated him and sent a message after him saying "we'll not have this man reign over us." Do you see who He's talking about? Himself, he came to over a kingdom, right? And they rejected Him.
"And it came to pass that when he was," what, "returned having received the kingdom." We'll stop there. He came the first time, offered a kingdom, we don't want you, He went back, but then He did what? The nobleman returned. You say what happened the second time?
Verse 26, "For I say unto you," this time He comes back and takes the kingdom, "he says unto everyone who hath shall be given and from him that hath not even that which he hath shall be taken away. That those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them bring here and slay them before me."
You know what the parable says? It says the nobleman came, they rejected him, he returned in judgment. Jesus came, they rejected Him, He'll do what? He'll return. He says He will. Both by direct statement Matthew 24 and 25, John 14, by inference of a parable, Luke 19.
And you know something, do you know that even after Jesus got back into heaven, He yelled through the clouds several times that He was coming back? Did you know that? You say really? Really. You know where He did that? You say where was that? The book of Revelation, six times. You know what He said? What'd He say, "Behold I come quickly." Six times, we ought to get the message.
I always think of the guy who was preaching on that and couldn't remember his next lines and he smashed the pulpit thinking it'd bring it to memory and finally hit it so hard he fell on a ladies lap after he said "Behold I come quickly" for four times. He apologized. She said it's all right, you warned me four times.
But He said even after in heaven, He said I'm coming. Told John on the Isle of Patmos six different times in the vision that He'd back didn't He? You know something? All through the book of Revelation He not only said it to His friends, He said it to His enemies. And in the parable in Luke 19 He was telling His enemies wasn't He? "I'll be back. I'll be back."
You want to hear something people? The credibility of Jesus is at stake in the second coming. He cannot lie. John 14:6, He say, "I am the way," what's the second one, "the truth," he can't lie. So the character of God is at stake, the character of Jesus is at stake. Let me give you a third one. Third reason Jesus must come and this will be the last one. The third reason that Jesus must come, there are six more for next week. The third reason Jesus must come is this, the guarantees of the Holy Spirit demand it. The promise of the Father demands it, the statements of the Son demand it, and the guarantee of the Spirit demands it.
Just as God is truth and Jesus is truth, when Jesus promised the Holy Spirit, He said, "I'll send unto you the spirit of," what, "truth." Spirit can't lie either. "The Spirit will come, John 14:26, "and lead you into all truth." You know what the Spirit did when He got here? The Spirit started saying Jesus is coming. You say well when did the Spirit say that? When did the Spirit announce the coming of Christ? Who wrote the New Testament? The Holy Spirit. Who inspired them? The Holy Spirit. You want to hear what the Holy Spirit told Paul to write? 1 Corinthians 1:4, "I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ that in everything you are enriched by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you so that you come behind and know gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
The Spirit says Paul tell them Jesus is coming. Does the Spirit ever speak anything independent of the Trinity? No. Absolutely not, in John 16, the Spirit speaks only those things which the Son tells Him to speak, right? "He shall speak of me."
Over in Philippians 3, the Spirit said Paul tell them Jesus is coming again will you? "For our citizenship is in heaven from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." Then Paul sat down to write the Colossians and the Holy Spirit says Paul, tell them Jesus is coming will you?
Colossians 3:4, "When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory." And Paul was going to write the Thessalonians and he got the same message. The repetition of the coming of Jesus Christ in Chapter 4, verse 13 to 18, he just describes it. "The Lord shall descend from heaven to shout the voice of the archangel, the dead in Christ shall rise, we that are alive caught up to meet the Lord in the air and all the description of the coming of Christ," in 1 Thessalonians 4, "in total detail." The rapture.
You know that even our friend the writer of Hebrews was plugged in to the second coming. Remember this one Hebrews 9:28, "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time." Isn't that good? Without sin into salvation. And James, James knew Jesus was coming. Chapter 5, verse 7, "Be patient therefore brethren under the coming of the Lord. And then in verse 8, he says, "The coming of the Lord draws near." And Peter, he knew. He talked about the revelation of Jesus Christ in 1:13. In 5:4, he says, "When the chief shepherd shall appear you shall receive a crown of glory." And John, oh John knew. The Spirit told him, 1 John 3:2, "Beloved now are we the children of God. It doesn't yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him."
Do you know that everyone of those men look for the coming of Christ? Why? Because the Holy Spirit kept telling them. The Bible was written by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit testified repeatedly that Jesus was coming. My dear friends the credibility of the Trinity is at stake in the second coming. And that's only the beginning.
I close with a little story. Father was leaving home and his little boy, as little boys will do, said "how long are you going to be gone dad?" He was going to be gone for several months. But it wouldn't do any good to say well, his three year old son, I'll be back in September. September didn't mean anything to him. So he says, "Son when you see the leaves turning red and brown and beginning to fall to the ground then you can be sure that I'll be home soon." Father was gone for months, the little fellow ever morning up and peaked out the window. Still green. But without knowing it as he became less and less aware they began to turn every so slowly. And he didn't see it, and all of a sudden on night a storm swept through the little town and he woke up in the morning and all over every where red and brown leaves. He jumped up and down and said daddy's coming, daddy's coming.
Want to know something, I think if you look the leaves are brown and the leaves are red, and I think Jesus is coming. Let's pray.
Father you said look around and when you see the signs begin to come to pass, the Son is coming. Father it looks like the fall. It looks like man's day the leaves of the achievements of man are crumbling and turning into ashes. We know that Jesus is coming because You said so, the Son said so, and the Spirit said so. And you are the Trinity of truth. And we know that You're coming soon Jesus, because the signs are all there. Thank you for that promise. God may we be ready for that day in Jesus' name. Amen.
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