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Museum Youth Advisory Mission 2613: Write a Want Ad
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The Museum's Youth Initiatives group has been developing a new Youth Advisory, a group to help us think about how to expand digital programs that teach science here at the Museum. To develop the advisory and focus our activities, we are engaging in a user-centric design process, which began in April. It was exciting to meet with a dozen youth, some fairly new to the Museum and some deeply embedded in our programs, all united by their passion for science and interested in helping us understand where their needs align with digital media-infused science learning programming.
At the first meeting we reviewed the results of their first task, Mission 869: Collect Intel, which challenged the youth to carry out a user-camera study, photographing over the course of the day their interactions with digital media and learning. They chose a wide range of methods. All used mobile tools to take the photos (with the exception of one youth, who was proud to share that he used a camera, albeit a digital one). Many kept the photos on their phone. Some used an iPad. One was produced in Voicethread, the tool learned in a Museum program the youth attended.
The youth also used more of the excellent design tools, specifically cards that introduce specific design methods, from Stanford's d.school—Hasso Plattner Institute of Design—provided through the subscription service Quarterly.co. We and others around the country are using these design cards to create awesome experiences for others. For Mission 869: Collect Intel, youth drew on a card that highlighted a method called Journey Map: systematically thinking about the steps of a particular process.
Here are two examples of how youth applied Journey Maps to record how they interacted with digital media:
Journey Map A
- iPhone — Using iPhone in the morning to interact with social media on the train
- iPad — Using anatomy apps on iPad for Anatomy class (dissection, human anatomy)
- Website — (I cannot remember the site) to virtually breed flies and record the results
- Social Media — Using social media to share information about assignments from teachers
- YouTube — Uploading, sharing, and viewing videos on YouTube
- Twitter — Using Twitter and other social media for news (world, local, entertainment)
Journey Map B
- Google Earth — Research, learning new places
- YouTube — Need to do a report on WWI. YouTube is a good source, so I could learn and even receive extra info. YouTube is filled with documentaries and stories
- Television — Resting on a typical day. Why not watch something on TV. Here is Discovery Channel (I think it's "Deadliest Catch")
- Google search engine — Need to do homework on Edwin Hubble. Nowadays it is really easy. Just type it up on Google, and you have everything you need.
- Google Earth simulator — This is a good challenging activity. On Google Earth you can fly on a simulator. You learn the concepts of airplanes and flying.
The youth shared their findings with great enthusiasm and, while time was tight, many walked us through their Journey Map. Afterwards we went around the room looking for patterns and themes of interactions with digital media, such as the frequency of use of mobile phones and the differences between school-based research and the self-directed learning through pop culture.
The structure of this short-term Youth Advisory is to meet in person but also meet online. We asked the youth how they wanted to connect—Facebook, an email listserv, or Moodle—the near-unanimous vote was for Moodle, not because they knew it but because they didn't know it. They were motivated to learn something new. So their next mission, between sessions, can be completed on Moodle. That mission: A Point-of-View Want Ad, based on design card # 23 from Stanford's d.school.
AMNH Youth Advisory Mission 2613: Write a Want Ad
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a Want Ad for yourself. That is, an ad that telegraphs what you want from digital-media infused science programs at the American Museum of Natural History.
Your tool: your words. Think about what you learned in your previous mission, Mission 869: Collect Intel, and through analysis when placed within a Journey Map. What are your "needs" when it comes to digital-media infused science learning? Sell them to us.
Try this format:
(1) A description of yourself followed by (2) the word "seeks" then (3) a description of what you'd want from a science program (it can be something specific, or describe what it would feel like, or anything else).
For example:
"Highly-motivated, multitasking gamer seeks new challenges. Experience must widen social network, knowledge of ichthyology (fishes rock!) and new ways to use a mobile phone. Willingness to put up with question after question a MUST!"


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Radio pioneer built network
He founded Ontario's first French-language radio station in 1951 when his local station denied francophones airtime.
By Randy RAY Special to The Globe and Mail Monday, June 16, 2003 - Page R7
He started in business as a butcher, and later was a soldier and a hotelier, but Conrad LAVIGNE's first love was show business. Whether he was operating the television stations in Northern Ontario that became the largest privately owned television broadcast system in the world, appearing at the staid proceedings of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or at conventions, Mr. LAVIGNE often delighted those within earshot with jokes, stories, witty comments -- even singing.
Like the time he sang grace during the annual meeting of the Association for French Language Broadcasters in the 1970s.
"Members of the head table, including myself and Premier Bill DAVIS, walked into the room and stood behind our chairs," recalls Pierre JUNEAU, chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission from 1968 to 1975.
"Mr. LAVIGNE, who was chairman of the French-language broadcasters group, began singing grace in French, and with his very strong voice. People felt sort of strange with this."
When he was done, Mr. LAVIGNE looked at Premier DAVIS and quipped: "Well, Mr. Premier, this is to show you that when you are chairman, you can do whatever you like."
J. Lyman POTTS, former vice-president of Standard Broadcasting, remembers the time in the early 1960s when Mr. LAVIGNE appeared before the Board of Broadcast Governors -- predecessor of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission -- in support of a radio or television station licensing application.
At the beginning of his presentation, Mr. LAVIGNE expressed his regrets that Board of Broadcast Governors member Bernard GOULET had died at few days earlier. Then, without skipping a beat, he looked toward the ceiling and said: "If Bernie were here today, I think he would vote for my application."
"It broke up the room," says Mr. POTTS. "If ever a meeting got dull he'd liven things up. It was a joy to find him at meetings. He was a unique personality."
Mr. LAVIGNE, who was born in the small town of Chénéville, Quebec, on November 2, 1916, and raised in Cochrane, Ontario, died in Timmins, Ontario on April 16 following a lengthy battle with emphysema. He was 86.
Friends, family and business associates say Mr. LAVIGNE had show business in his blood in his late teens. On many evenings, the young man who moved to Timmins from Cochrane at age 18 to open a small grocery store and butcher shop with his uncle would act in plays in the hall of a local church. But he didn't get into the entertainment business in a big way until after he helped Canada's war effort, got married and started his life as an entrepreneur in the hotel business.
In 1942, he sold his butcher shop and enlisted in the Canadian infantry. He became a commando training officer while stationed at Vernon, British Columbia, and in 1944 headed overseas. While on a furlough from Vernon he returned to Timmins and married Jeanne CANIE. The couple raised seven children.
Mr. LAVIGNE returned to Canada in 1946 and bought the Prince George Hotel in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, which at the time was a booming gold-mining town. He sold the business in 1950.
He entered the world of media and entertainment by founding CFCL, the first French-language radio station in Ontario in 1951, in what, essentially, was his way of ensuring the area's large French-speaking population had a voice in the North.
Michelle DE COURVILLE NICOL of Ottawa said her father launched the station after a group of francophones that he was part of in Kirkland Lake was told by the manager of an English-language radio station that they would no longer be given regular air time to discuss issues of interest to French people.
"He was very proud of being a francophone," says Ms. DE COURVILLE NICOL. " When he was told that his compatriots would no longer be welcome on the local station he said, 'Oh, ya!' and got the idea of starting a French-language radio station. He moved to Timmins, applied for a licence and got it."
CFCL soon attracted a faithful audience, especially in Northwestern Quebec, where it could be heard more clearly than French stations in Montreal.
In a 1988 interview with Northern Ontario Business, Mr. LAVIGNE remembered the time he hired a relative unknown named Stompin' Tom CONNORS to perform live on CFCL. The radio station was located above a jewellery store and the pounding from Mr. CONNORS's size-11 boots caused china to fall off the shelves in the store below.
Radio was his first love until the mid-1950s when, on a business trip to southern Ontario, he saw his first television broadcast, on WHAM from Rochester, New York He fell for the concept of television and he and an engineer friend drove to Rochester and learned everything they could about the magic medium of television.
Back in Timmins, Mr. LAVIGNE bought a hill in the north end of the town, named it Mont Sacré-Coeur, built a road to the foot of his hill, and began blasting rock and working in earnest to put a television station on the air. By 1956, CFCL-television was a reality.
"There was always the fear of failure because of the sparse population," Mr. LAVIGNE said at the time. "But we had an engineer with us named Roch DEMERS, who later became president of Telemedia, and together we started putting up rebroadcasting stations between 1957 and 1962."
Kapuskasing's rebroadcasting station was the first such facility in Canada, and it added another portion of the sparsely populated northeastern Ontario market to the growing station's network. Eventually, Mr. LAVIGNE built rebroadcasting stations in Chapleau and Moosonee, Ontario and Malartic, Quebec, and by the time expansion was completed, CFCL-television served 1.5 million people. Eventually, he built the station into the world's largest privately owned system.
For many years he appeared on a very popular CFCL program known as the President's Corner, during which he would sit on camera in a comfortable chair and read and respond to letters from viewers.
Between 1962 and 1970, Mr. LAVIGNE's television network entered the world of high technology with its own microwave network. Mr. LAVIGNE had the northeastern Ontario television market virtually all to himself for about 20 years until the Canadian Television Network (CTV) arrived on the scene. He reacted by building new stations in North Bay and Sudbury with a rebroadcasting station in Elliot Lake to serve Manitoulin Island. Expansion continued in 1976 with the purchase of a bankrupt television station in Pembroke, in the Ottawa Valley. Eventually, Mr. LAVIGNE's private network stretched from Moosonee to Ottawa, and from Hearst to Mattagami, Quebec
"When we first started we had the market all to ourselves," he told Northern Ontario Business. "We had 20 hours a week of local programming, and it was beautiful. We gave the North a unified voice. One time, during a forest fire near Chapleau, our messages arranged for accommodations for 1,000 people in Timmins."
Mr. LAVIGNE divested himself of his broadcasting holdings in 1980, primarily because he was refused permission to operate a cable television service in the North. He remained a director of Mid-Canada Television, the network that grew from his little Timmins station in 1956, and was chairman of the board of Northern Telephone Ltd. For a number of years, he served on the board of the National Bank of Canada, and for 10 years served on the board of ICG Utilities (formerly Inter City Gas.)
His life after broadcasting also included 20 years as a property developer in the Timmins area.
"He was always a physically active person," says Ms. DE COURVILLE NICOL. "In the years he was setting up his television stations he would often go out with the engineers. He was not as happy sitting behind his desk."
Mr. LAVIGNE was elected to the Canadian Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1990. His wife died in 1995. He leaves Ms. DE COURVILLE NICOL and six other children, Marc, Andrée, Nicole, Jean-Luc, Pierre and Marie-France.
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JUNOD, Donaldson Isabel Elizabeth,
87, a Toronto native, died Monday, March 10, in Rhode Island. Mrs. JUNOD was born March 7, 1916, in Toronto to the late E. Victor and Isabel DONALDSON. She and her family moved to New York in 1930. She was married on October 28, 1939, to Charles F. JUNOD Jr., who died in 1975. Mrs. JUNOD is survived by three sons, Charles of Cranston, Rhode Island; Joseph of Arlington, Viginia; and John of Seabrook, New Hampshire; eight grandchildren eight great-grandchildren, and several cousins in Toronto. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., March 22, at Saint Thomas' Episcopal Church, Greenville, Rhode Island. Arrangements are by Tucker and Quinn Funeral Home, Greenville, Rhode Island. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Mrs. Junod's memory to Habitat for Humanity, 121 Habitat Street, Americus, Georgia 31709.
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Asian Piracy
Sebastian R. Prange
Piracy has been an important and persistent feature of Asia's maritime history. In fact, the largest pirate organizations in all of history were found in Asia. Although often regarded as the antithesis of trade, piracy is actually closely related to the world of commerce. Pirates were themselves often traders (or smugglers) and relied on merchants to outfit their ships and sell their plunder. Despite the obvious and primary economic dimension of piracy, pirates were also political actors. This observation is significant because piracy has traditionally been distinguished from other forms of maritime predation (especially privateering, but also naval warfare) by stressing its supposedly inherently private nature. In Asia, however, the history of piracy is very much defined by its political contexts. Pirates themselves formed polities, whether as part of established coastal communities or in their endeavors to build their own states. What is more, as was the case in Europe, pirates often colluded with territorial states that used them as an instrument of state power, in order to harass and weaken their rivals. The political dimension of Asian piracy has long been overlooked due to the preponderance of European concepts and sources, which tend to depict all Asians involved in maritime predation as mere criminals. More nuanced studies of Asian pirates, especially when based on non-European sources, promise fresh insights into the commercial, social, and political worlds of maritime Asia.
Chinese Ceramic Production and Trade
John Miksic
Ceramics are the most abundant types of artifacts made by human beings in the last 12,000 years. Chinese potters discern two types of products: earthenware (tao), which is porous and does not resonate when struck, and wares with vitreous bodies (ci), which ring like a bell. Western potters and scholars differentiate stoneware, which is semi-porous, from porcelain, which is completely vitrified.
The earliest ceramics in the world are thought to have been made in China around 15,000 years ago. By the Shang dynasty, potters in China began to decorate the surfaces of their pottery with ash glaze, in which wood ash mixed with feldspar in clay to impart a shiny surface to the pottery. The first ash-glazed wares were probably made south of the Yangzi in Jiangnan.
In the 9th century, China began to export pottery, which quickly became sought after in maritime Asia and Africa. Pottery making for export became a major industry in China, employing hundreds of thousands of people, and stimulating the development of the first mass-production techniques in the world. Much of the ceramic industry was located along China's south and southeast coasts, conveniently located near ports that connected China with international markets. Chinese merchants had to adapt their wares to suit different consumers. For the last 1,000 years, Chinese ceramics provided an enormous amount of archaeological information on trade and society in the lands bordering the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, contributing a major source of data to the study of early long-distance commerce, art, technology, urbanization, and many other topics. This section presents statistics from important sites outside China where Chinese ceramics have been found.
Chinese Charting of Maritime Asia
Timothy Brook
Navigation played a major role in the integration of East Asian polities and economies prior to and during the arrival of European traders in the 16th and 17th centuries. That arrival stimulated an increase in the volume of intra-regional trade in East Asia as Chinese merchants organized exports on a large scale to meet European demand, yet the history of the production of nautical charts in China has been little studied, due in no small part to the poor survival of sea charts and other documentation. The most important new addition to maritime charting in the past decade is the rediscovery of the Selden Map in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This map of navigation routes throughout East Asia is unprecedented, and may be seen as marking the beginning of the transformation of Chinese cartography under the influence of European mapping techniques.
India and Africa
Edward A. Alpers
Connections between India and Africa have existed for thousands of years, with the intensity of linkages varying over time. The earliest known relations involve the anonymous exchange of food crops and domestic livestock, which date to the second millennium
The consolidation of a British Empire in the Indian Ocean intensified these relations, giving rise to the movement of migrant labor to both South Africa and the East African Protectorate (eventually Kenya Colony). During the high colonial period an Indian merchant class developed from Ethiopia to South Africa. Indian nationalism played out in various ways in South Africa, Tanganyika, and Kenya. In turn, African nationalism and independence had its own reciprocal, sometimes violent, impact on Indians residing in East Africa, while Afrikaner nationalism and the creation of formal apartheid differentially affected Indians and Africans in South Africa. In the post-colonial era, state relations between India and the independent states of Africa focused on questions of both national and human development. Finally, Indian residents continue to seek their place in independent Africa, while African students in India face prejudice there.
Islam, Insurgency, and Port Cities in Southeast Asia
Joshua Gedacht
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Please check back later for the full article.
Port cities have long played a critical role as nodes in nascent processes of globalization and in the circulation of peoples, commodities, and ideas within and across the maritime spaces of Southeast Asia. Although port cities had been an indelible component of the islands and archipelagos of this region since at least the 15th century, the rise of global empire in the 19th century rejuvenated these communities by the sea, giving rise to thriving metropolises from Rangoon to Singapore, Bangkok to Penang. These ascendant cities served as "imperial bridgeheads" connecting the products and peoples of the Southeast Asian hinterlands to world markets. Yet, the idea of "cosmopolitanism" arguably pervades our understanding of these port cities; bustling docks, diverse populations, and lively scenes of popular culture take precedence over the imperial coercion unfolding within and beyond its shores.
Port cities and urbanization were also intimately intertwined with the violence of conquest and Islamic insurgency wracking the countryside beyond their borders. When armed conflicts such as the bitter Dutch-Aceh War in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) and the Moro Wars in the southern Philippines engulfed venerable Muslim sultanates, maritime metropolises emerged as critical nodes, sites for the dissemination of weapons and smugglers, spies and diplomats, contentious ideas and theologies. These circulations were facilitated not just by Muslim networks or colonial agents, but by the very cosmopolitan nature of port cities. Chinese, Arab, and German, Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian, all became drawn into the whirling vortex of "Islamic insurgencies." By highlighting the integral position of port cities in the conduct of various armed conflicts, it will become possible to gain new perspectives and suggest reconfigured research paradigms for understanding the connected histories of colonial conquest.
Maritime Archaeology of the Indian Ocean
Himanshu Prabha Ray
The interface between the sea and the land and the communities that have historically traversed the Indian Ocean form the focus of this article. Maritime communities have been sustained by a variety of occupations associated with the sea, such as fishing and harvesting other marine resources, pearling, salt making, sailing, trade, shipbuilding, piracy, and more. The communities of the sea negotiate land-based issues through a variety of strategies, which are evident in the archaeological record. Fishing as an adaptation dates to the prehistoric period, and fish remains have been found in abundance at several coastal prosites dating from the 5th millennium
A significant factor facilitating the integrative potential of these communities was their large cargo-carrying vessels, which not only facilitated transformation of the local settlements into centers of commerce and production, but also linked the local groups into regional and trans-regional networks. Underwater archaeology has contributed to an understanding of the boat-building traditions of the Indian Ocean, further supplemented by ethnographic studies of contemporary boat-building communities.
Monumental architecture along the coasts served dual functions. Not only did they provide spaces for the interaction of inland routes with those across the ocean, but the structures themselves were also used as major orientation points by watercraft while approaching land. The larger issue addressed underscores the need to include coastal structures such as wharfs, forts, shrines, and archaeological sites as a part of the maritime heritage and to aid in their preservation for posterity.
The Ottoman Empire and the Indian Ocean
A. C. S. Peacock
With its conquest of the Arab lands in the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire (1300–1923) came to control some of the major entrepots of the Indian Ocean trade in the west. This expansion, however, also brought the Ottomans into confrontation with the Portuguese, who were seeking to establish a monopoly of the lucrative spice trade. In the first half of the 16th century, Ottoman involvement was limited to the western half of the Indian Ocean, but in the later 16th century, the Southeast Asian sultanate of Aceh forged an alliance with the Ottomans, which, if short-lived in practice, was to attain considerable symbolic importance in later times. Ottoman involvement in the Indian Ocean resumed in the 19th century, again as a reaction to European colonial activities. In the meantime, both commercial and religious links, in particular the hajj, meant that the Ottomans had a prominent role in the Indian Ocean despite only controlling limited littoral territories.


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Tallahassee, FL (WAFB) - LSU wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has been named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list.
The award recognizes the outstanding receiver in college football and is selected by the Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee.
Last year Beckham Jr. caught 43 passes for 713 yards.
He has averaged 12.9 yards every time he touches the football and he's accounted for 1,784 all-purpose yards on 138 attempts in his two previous seasons.
Beckham is one of 14 SEC receivers on the watch list.
Je'Ron Hamm of Louisiana-Monroe and Ryan Grant of Tulane also made the award watch list.
The 2013 Biletnikoff Award winner will be presented live on December 12, 2013, on The Home Depot College Football Awards Show to be broadcast from 7:00 - 9:00pm on ESPN.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Calvin Pace has seen a lot of Tom Brady over the years.
Too much, as far as the New York Jets linebacker is concerned. And, way too many losses to the New England Patriots quarterback.
"Blame Shaun Ellis," Pace joked on Wednesday. "If Shaun didn't get that hit on the sideline, they might have somebody else at quarterback. But things happen like that sometimes."
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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose; or, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
In 1960, Protestant Americans were afraid that a Kennedy election would mean that the Pope would have a say in American politics.
In 2014, with the Pope having been anointed (inaccurately) as a pro-Choice, pro-gay marriage savior, Progressive Americans are worried that American Catholics are giving him too little say in American politics.
The result is that now, as in 1960, we're once again seeing explicit anti-Catholic bias. [Link error corrected.]
UPDATE: I forgot to add that today's Progressives also love the Pope because they think he supports a redistributive economy (and they might be right about that, even though they're wrong about his views on abortion and gay marriage).


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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Imagining Toronto
I'm sorry I've been offline. My son-in-law kidnapped me to Toronto so I could attend my daughter's book launch--you can imagine my pride!
When I arrived back home, ready to pimp, my computer took fits. I just got it back last night. I need a new one but this one kinda/sorta works for now.
Quoting from the back cover:
"In Imagining Toronto, Amy Lavender Harris ventures deep into the imagined city--the Toronto of fiction, poetry and essays--where she dowses for meaning in the literature of the city on the lake as its inhabitants understand, remember and dream it.
By tracing Toronto's literary geneaolgies from their origins in First Nations stories to today's graphic novels, Harris delinates a great city's portrayal in its literature, where the place of dwelling is coloured by the joy and the suffering, the love and the sorrows, of the people who have played out their lives on the written page.
Through tales of the city's neighbourhoods and towers, it ravines and wild places, its role as a multicultural city, as a place of work and leisure, Harris reminds us that the realty of Toronto has been captured by its writers with a depth and complexity that goes far beyond the reductive cliches of Toronto as either a provincial 'Hogtown' or a pretentious 'world class' city.
Michael Ondaatje once noted that 'before a real city could be seen it had to be imagined.' Imagining Toronto shows just how richly and completely it has been, if only we would look."
There was standing room only at the launch.
23 comments:
- laughingwolf said...
yaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, b's back... if only kinda/sorta!
grats on amy's launch, you have every right to be proud of her, mama :)
wv: perpl - ok, close enuff to lavender, no? ;) lol
- November 16, 2010 6:49 PM
- Tina said...
Another literary talent in the family! Congratulations!
- November 16, 2010 10:57 PM
- fairyhedgehog said...
Congratulations to your daughter! I'm glad you were able to get to her book launch. You must have been bursting with pride!
I hope we get to see more of you now; I've missed you.
- November 17, 2010 3:02 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
That's very cool! Congrats to you both.
- November 17, 2010 9:43 AM
- Angie said...
Congrats! Sounds like everything's going really well. :)
- November 17, 2010 9:57 AM
- Natasha Fondren said...
You must be so proud! Congratulations!
- November 17, 2010 1:14 PM
- BernardL said...
Glad you're okay.
- November 17, 2010 4:36 PM
- raine said...
I can imagine how proud you must be.
Congrats to both you & Amy!
- November 17, 2010 9:48 PM
- writtenwyrdd said...
Yay! I'm glad it's out and it's doing so well already.
I hope your back is doing better, too.
- November 18, 2010 8:09 AM
- Frank Baron said...
Congrats to all! I hope the book does very well.
- November 18, 2010 12:45 PM
- Heather said...
I love books, which are specifically bound to the enviroment I know. It is always the same after reading some stories taking place in Toronto, for weeks I am walking around and seeing characters and scenes from the book everywhere. Thanks for making the city magical!
- November 21, 2010 9:57 AM
- Lana Gramlich said...
Congrats on your daughter's launch. I'm sure you had a great time. :)
- November 21, 2010 10:14 PM
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TORONTO (AP) — Indians left-hander Scott Kazmir was placed on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with a strained ribcage muscle, retroactive to April 2.
Rookie right-hander Trevor Bauer is expected to start in his place against Tampa Bay on Saturday.
Kazmir felt sore after playing catch on flat ground during a team workout Monday. He threw a 30-pitch bullpen session Wednesday before returning to Cleveland for tests, which confirmed the injury. He's expected to miss two or three starts.
Kazmir hasn't pitched in the majors in almost two years. A two-time All-Star with Tampa Bay, he was released by the Los Angeles Angels in 2011 and pitched in the independent Atlantic League last year.
Acquired from Arizona last December as part of a three-team trade, Bauer is a former first-round draft pick who went 1-2 with a 6.06 ERA in four starts with the Diamondbacks last season.
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Ford is celebrating the Mustang's 50th anniversary in style. In addition to the cross-country tour and events across the world, Ford will repeat the feat it used to introduce the Mustang convertible 50 years ago — setting it on top of the Empire State Building for the New York Auto Show, April 18 through 27.
So, you might guess Ford F, +0.72% would use one of those super cranes to get the car up there, but even the best portable units can only go up 50 stories or so; the observation deck at the Empire State Building is on the 86th floor. Your second guess is probably a helicopter, but you'd be wrong there too. The building has a narrow deck, making that impossible. The only way to go is up the elevators.
Of course, since the building was built in 1931, the elevators aren't equipped to handle a modern car. When it accomplished the feat with a 1965 prototype convertible, Ford chopped the car into three main sections. This one, we're semi-sad to say, will go up the same way.
"Like all good craftsmen, our team is measuring twice and cutting once to make sure we can get this Mustang up in the elevators," said Dave Pericak, Mustang chief engineer. "Like the team that did this in 1965, the current crew visited the Empire State Building before starting and took careful measurements of its new elevators and doors before cutting up the car."
Check out the new Mustang by the numbers on Autoweek.
Visitors to the Empire State Building observation deck will be able to see the new Mustang convertible from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., April 16-17.
The story "2015 Ford Mustang will perch atop Empire State Building" originally appeared on Autoweek.com.
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Coffee giant Starbucks should stop aggressively promoting its sense of corporate responsibility if it plans to continue using tax strategies that help the company avoid paying high taxes in the U.K., a European lawmaker told CNBC Thursday.
The world's leading coffee brand faces a growing backlash over having paid little to no taxes at all on its British sales — which exceed 3 billion pounds ($4.8 billion). (Read more: Backlash as Starbucks UK Tax Avoidance Revealed.)
Nigel Farage, a leader of the populist U.K. Independence Party and a member of the European Parliament, told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" that the coffee chain should "stop trying to have it both ways."
Farage, a relentless critic of Europe's bureaucracy, faulted burdensome European rules that encourage corporations to play "tax arbitrage" as part of a bid to shelter income in Europe's economies with more favorable corporate taxes.
In a statement to CNBC, Starbucks insisted it has done nothing wrong. The company said that it has paid over 160 million pounds "in various taxes, including National Insurance contribution for our 8500 UK employees and business rates."
While Starbucks' actions are questionable, Farage said, "actually here in Europe they're encouraged to do it." The European Union has "deliberately set up a corporate tax structure that says that [a company] can buy, sell or make profits and trade in 29 countries, but you only have to pay tax in the country where you're brass-plated."
Nonetheless, Farage blasted Starbucks for a double standard. CEO Howard Schultz often touts the company's sense of corporate responsibility, with its social initiatives nearly as ubiquitous as its shops.
"You can't on the one hand say, 'We're the good guys, we're clean, we adopt a very, very good corporate social responsibility model' and on the other, do what the European Union has encouraged you to do," said Farage, whose periodic outbursts against the European political establishment have made him near legendary on YouTube. (Read more: Euro Divides, 'Violent Revolution' May Loom: Critic)
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• Mission Bay High School's annual Talent Show will be held Friday, Feb. 21 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the MBHS auditorium. There will be cash prizes and celebrity judges, including Jen Smith, national longboard champion; Nicki Carano, jazz dance instructor and vocalist/drummer for several local bands; Dan O'Hara, owner of Solid Surf Boards and shaper for South Coast; and Jack "Mr. Frostie" Conca. These judges will cast their votes for the most original, polished and entertaining acts. Come and see the crazy talented students of Mission Bay High. Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased in advance in the school office or at the door on the night of the event. Join your neighbors and friends and be entertained by the amazing talent at the MBHS annual Talent Show!
• Friday, Feb. 28, 7:30 a.m., coffee with the principal.
• Broad Prize Scholarship: $5,000 to $20,000 for students of the San Diego Unified School District with a 2.75 grade-point average. Visit www.scholarshipameri-ca.org/broadprize to apply. The deadline is March 3.
• A trip to China for MBHS students takes place from July 15 to Aug. 1. Spend up to two weeks in China living, studying and exploring a culture different from your own. Activities will include learning Chinese in a Mandarin classroom, exposure into Chinese lifestyle and touring renowned local tourist attractions. The 2014 Chinese Bridge Summer Camp Program will take you on a journey to Beijing and other parts of China you'll never forget. Participants must be American citizens, grades 8-12, and have less than three years of Mandarin Chinese language knowledge. Responsibilities include paying for international airfare, purchasing international travel insurance and paying the Chinese visa application fee. For more information, visit confucius.sdsu.edu, or email Anne Chu at firstname.lastname@example.com. This program is sponsored by Hanban (Headquarters of Confucius Institute), 2014 Chinese Bridge Summer Camp Program.
• It is never too early to plan for college, even at the middle-school level. Come join other parents and students who will learn about admissions for universities and colleges and how to prepare now for the college process. We will also review the new high school graduation requirements. The Pacific Beach Middle School counseling department will host "The Road to College, College: Making It Happen" on Thursday, Feb. 20 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the media center. If you have any questions, contact Mrs. Blankenbeckler or Mrs. McDearmon.
• Top musicians and artists from China performed for a packed house at Pacific Beach Middle International Baccalaureate on Feb. 13. In the U.S. for the Huain Cup Chinese International Instrument Competition — and through the sponsorship and coordination from Hanban Organization in China — these talented artists in all aspects of the musical fields arrived in San Diego after their competition for the only show in the U.S. "I can't tell you how honored and excited we at Pacific Beach Middle International Baccalaureate feel about this special engagement brought to us by the Confucius Institute at San Diego State University, our San Diego Unified School District partner in education," said Ernie Remillard, principal at the award-winning middle school. "We are so proud to offer cultural events to our staff and students as we continue to grow our new Mandarin Chinese course." Welcoming and recognizing the visiting artists, as well as dignitaries and officials from China, were San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts and San Diego Unified School District board member Scott Barnett, who presented the guests with proclamations from the city and district.
• Thank you to Baked Bear for hosting our Family Fun Night on Feb. 12. A great time was had by all. The next Family Fun Night is on Feb. 27 at Big Kahuna's. Enjoy another fun community dining-out event while raising money for PBE.
• The Taste of North PB is coming up on Wednesday, March 12, and tickets can be purchased now in the front office. Invite family and friends to dine on delicious food from local restaurants, view artwork from local students and listen to the sounds of our own Pacific Beach student musicians.
• Save the date for our biggest fundraiser of the year — PBE's Auction Gala on April 25 at the Soledad Club from 5 to 10 p.m. More details to follow.
As an International Baccalaureate school, the mission of Kate Sessions Elementary School is to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. It makes sense that students at Kate Sessions participated in the national Great Kindness Challenge from Jan. 27 through Feb. 1. Teachers submitted the names of students who demonstrated exceptional kindness. As a result, third-grader Quinn Seminoff and first-grader Lucia Fowler and their parents will attend a celebration at the Children's Museum. We know that any action that is repeated over and over and over becomes a habit. So join Kate Sessions Elementary in spreading kindness.
• On Saturday, Feb. 22, the Seaside Farmers Market and DonorNation.org will put the principal of the school selling the highest amount of Seaside Farmers Market Beach Bucks vouchers on Donornation.org into the money-blowing machine, where they will have the potential to grab $1,000 for their school. Support Kate Sessions Elementary, the Seaside Farmers Market and DonorNation.org and buy your Beach Bucks today.
• On Feb. 7, Crown Point Junior Music Academy (CPJMA) celebrated the school's new look on Ingraham Street. Matthew Cavanagh, a local Pacific Beach mural artist, created an amazing "Music Opens Minds" mural for the school and its community. To CPJMA, this mural represents the hard work and dedication parents, staff and the community have put forth in not only fighting to keep the school open, but also in supporting the various music programs CPJMA has to offer. Pacific Beach Middle School string students, Pacific Beach Middle School music director John O'Donnell and PBMS principal Ernest Remillard, partnered with CPJMA's Steve Luch and his string students in this important celebration as both schools put on a performance for all students and families. Also in attendance was VAPA director Mark Nicholson and Deputy Superintendent of Business Support Services Phillip Stover. "This was such a great event to be a part of. I enjoyed all the great compliments parents, staff and students had to say about my work," said Cavanagh. "During the time I was painting the mural, a lot of cars honked. Pedestrians passing by gave me the thumbs-up and told me what a great job I was doing. I enjoyed helping Crown Point."
• Congratulations to CPJMA's string students Luna Wiederkehr, Lily Adaska and Joshua Nguyen for being selected to the 2014 SDUSD Elementary Honor Orchestra. They will perform with the SDUSD Elementary Honor Orchestra on Friday, March 21. Luna and Lily are the youngest students to perform and all three students will represent CPJMA for the second consecutive year. Great work, Luna, Lily and Joshua!
Vision 20/20 meeting for District C is set to take place Feb. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the MBHS auditorium. Hosted by Superintendent Cindy Marten, the meeting will involve providing input regarding what the Mission Bay Cluster of schools need to support its goals. Other clusters will be in attendance, including La Jolla, Kearny and Point Loma, so come and share your priorities to keep the Mission Bay Cluster of schools strong.
• The Taste of North PB Art & Restaurant Walk is right around the corner on Wednesday, March 12 from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for kids (5-10 years) and can be purchased at Pacific Beach Elementary School, Pacific Beach Middle School and Mission Bay High School. The walk features more than 18 restaurants, displays of artwork by local students and music by the MBHS Preservationists, PBE musicians and local duet Mad Colony.
• This year's largest fundraiser for Pacific Beach Middle School and Mission Bay High is the School Yard Dash 5K Run on April 26. Join friends and family for a healthy morning of fun along beautiful Mission Bay at De Anza Cove. Race time is 9 a.m. for the Kids' One-Mile Dash, followed by the 5K Run and the 5K Walk. There will be a vendor village, delicious brunch, prizes, music and more. Registration is only $30 until April 1 and proceeds raised will bring academic enrichment to our community schools. Register/Sponsor/Learn more at www.schoolyarddash.org.
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Because the way he played toward the end of the season I truly believe RW & he could make magic like BradyGronk this next season if healthy... hopefully he will get it sorted at least 80%.
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Motorcycle officer Gregory Maloney, 44, died while on patrol a week earlier, on April. 1. He was a 17-year veteran of the Plymouth force.
PLYMOUTH – The rain fell heavily, then lightly, then heavily again Tuesday morning as thousands of police officers and state troopers from across the state gathered on Court Street outside St. Peter's Catholic Church to pay their final respects to Gregory Maloney.
Then the rain stopped long enough for them to give a silent salute to the Plymouth motorcycle officer, who his patrol buddy, officer Jason Higgins, called "the guy you wanted with you on a dangerous call."
"Even the bad guys liked him," Higgins said in his eulogy during the funeral Mass that followed the salute to Maloney's funeral procession.
Maloney died April 1 from injuries he suffered in a crash while on patrol on Samoset Street. He was 44, a 17-year veteran of the Plymouth force, and the lead member of the department's motorcycle unit.
Mourners inside the packed church included Gov. Deval Patrick, Attorney General Martha Coakley, U.S. Rep. William Keating and state Senate President Therese Murray of Plymouth.
As an estimated 2,000 police officers and troopers listened to the funeral from sidewalk speakers, Higgins and Police Chief Michael Botieri struggled at times during their eulogies – a mark of the shock they said the department is still feeling.
"Many have said, 'It feels like a dream,'" Higgins said of Maloney's sudden death.
"To others on the motorcycle unit, he was the most skilled operator on the team," Botieri said. "And there's no way to know the number of lives he touched every time he went to work."
Higgins said Maloney had that effect on his fellow officers, too.
"If you had a bad day, he would be the first one to look you in the eye and make sure you were OK," Higgins said.
Higgins then gave mourners a lighter moment, praising Maloney's well-known passion for cars and motorcycles.
"He would take apart an engine and put it back together, and then from the back seat he'd tell you how to drive it," Higgins said.
Hours before the service, even before columns of police, troopers and honor guards formed along the street, Maloney's fellow officers were already silently saluting his love of motorcycles.
A Plymouth police motorcycle stood parked on the grass outside Memorial Hall, across from St. Peter's. Just up Court Street, dozens of police motorcycles from other towns lined the curb.
When the funeral procession slowly made its way up the street shortly before 11, a Plymouth police officer walked in front of the hearse, bearing Maloney's blue motorcycle helmet in his gloved hands. The low growl of the motorcycle escort engines was the only sound then, and the only sound two hours later, as the procession started on its way to Vine Hills Cemetery.
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Let's look together at the Word of God in the fifth chapter of Romans, as we continue looking at the heart of the book of Romans. We started in chapter 3 and we're going to get at least into the middle of chapter 5 which really grips the soul of the gospel, and we'll get as far anyway as chapter 5 verse 11 in the next week, tonight and next Sunday.
The subject that is addressed in the opening eleven verses of Romans 5 can be summed up in the notion of the security of our salvation. There are many gospel themes in this section. In fact, you can take just about any verse and expand it almost infinitely, "Be justified by faith," that statement in verse 1, there could be an almost endless series of discussions and instructions on that. The idea of peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the idea of faith that enters us into grace in which we stand, the idea of hope, tribulation, perseverance, proven character. Verse 5, the love of God, the work of the Holy Spirit, and then in verse 6, the marvelous realization that while we were helpless at the right time Christ died for the ungodly, brings to us the whole essence of in the purposes of God at the right place at the right time, Christ came to be a sacrifice for sin, and it goes on. The demonstration of love at the cross in verse 8, and on and on. This section of Scripture, verses 1 through 11, is loaded with gospel truths, gospel realities.
And in one sense, you might even conclude that you can sort of build this text around a whole lot of different themes. But it seems to me that the core of all of this is in fact as we noted for you, the security of our salvation. All the truths that are here connect back to the fat that we have a secure salvation. Peter said in 1 Peter 1:5, "We are kept by the power of God. We are kept by the power of God." That really says it all.
By what means does God wield that power in our behalf? Well that is what is delineated in these eleven verses. And I think without question this is the most comforting doctrine in the panoply of salvation doctrines. It is most comforting to me and to you to know that our salvation is forever, that our salvation is a secure salvation. This takes away the fear and brings joy. The believer's joy, the believer's comfort, the believer's sense of well being, certainly the believer's hope is anchored to this great security of salvation. And the security of our salvation is not dependent on us, it is basically dependent on the unchanging character of God and the absolutely limitless power of God to overcome all things for the accomplishment of His own purpose. So, this most hopeful, helpful, encouraging of all doctrines that we are secure in our salvation is the theme of these eleven verses.
Now, as we noted last time, as Paul moves into this, it is in the flow of the argument of the book of Romans. He has been telling us that all men are under the wrath of God for their sin, that all men are sinners. The only way to be delivered from the wrath of God is by faith in Jesus Christ. We can't earn it, can't gain it by merit, or ceremony, it comes by grace through faith in Christ alone. The whole message of salvation by grace and faith is illustrated in chapter 4 in the life of Abraham. He is the model that shows us that throughout all of redemptive history, salvation has always been by grace by faith.
The question now that would come into the mind of someone hearing this message would be the question, "Is faith enough? Is faith alone enough? What if we sin? Does faith waver? Does faith secure for us at some point in time a relationship with God that is unchanging. These are very normal questions.
As I told you in our last message, the debate about whether salvation is eternal has raged through all of the history of the church, and there are still people on both sides of that issue today. And so it's not without reason that we assume that Paul recognizes, this question will arise immediately. All right, I put my trust in Jesus Christ, I have been delivered from my sin, I have been forgiven by the provision of Christ on the cross. Is that enough? What if I sin? Is my faith enough to secure permanently this relationship with God until the final day, the final judgment and will it hold me all the way to the end and lead me into heaven? Paul's answer here is absolutely yes...absolutely yes.
And it is not because of something we do. While it is true that we persevere in faith, while it is true that we persevere in obedience, while it is true that we persevere in love for God and love for one another, our faith is not perfect, our obedience is not perfect, our love is not perfect. And those imperfections could raise the question about whether or not we are actually able to hang on to our salvation. And so it's wonderful for us to know that even though we do not have a perfect faith, or a perfect obedience, or a perfect love, we are kept by the perfect power of God. And in this chapter, Paul lays out six elements of the keeping power of God. You might say six great links in the spiritual chain that secures us forever to God.
Now we looked last time at the beginning in verse 1 and verse 2, and we saw the first two secure links...the first two realities that anchor us, the first two that are promised truths that chain us everlastingly to Christ.
Number one, peace with God. "Therefore having been justified by faith," that drags all of chapter 3 and 4 into chapter 5, that's what he's been talking about. We have already been justified by faith. Here's what secures us. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now you remember last time we said that prior to coming to Christ, prior to salvation, every human being is an enemy of God and God is an enemy of every human being. God is at war with sinners and sinners are at war with God. Psalm 7:11 says, "God is angry with the wicked every day." Whether people are conscious of it or not, whether they think they have respect for God, admiration for God, worship God, believe in God apart from believing the gospel of Jesus Christ, they are at war with God and according to Ephesians 2:3, "All men are children of wrath, sons of wrath, headed for eternal judgment."
However, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that relationship has changed. Peace has been made. God's anger over our sin has been satisfied because Christ paid the penalty for our sin, justice being satisfied, anger is satisfied. Christ, according to Ephesians 2:14, is our peace. He is the one who has made peace for us with God. Now we have a new relationship with God. We are no longer at war with God, we are no longer enemies of God, we have a permanent peace because what angered God was our sin and His anger has been satisfied in the perfect suffering of Christ on our behalf. We are secure then because of this relationship of peace with God.
Secondly, Paul introduces us to another very important concept that secures us, standing in grace. Verse 2, "Through whom," that is the Lord Jesus Christ, we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand." Again, through Christ, through His work on the cross, through His atonement and through His ever constant intercessory work on our behalf, we have obtained our introduction. Or better, our access into grace, we have entered the realm of grace, we live in the sphere where grace operates. We do not live in the sphere Law dominates, we are no longer under the Law. We are in a place where grace operates fully. And even though sin exists in our lives, where sin abounds, grace much more abounds. Access, by the way, or introduction as the NAS has it, is the regular word for ushering someone into the presence of royalty. That is exactly what has happened to us, we have been ushered into the presence of a gracious God. We not have peace with that gracious God and His grace is abundant, His grace is constant, His grace is limitless on our behalf.
Whenever we fail, whenever we fall short, whenever we sin, grace operates in our behalf. We never step out of the realm of grace back into the realm of Law and under another judgment, or another punishment, or another threat. Our Lord Jesus opened the door to God, ushered us in to His presence, and in His presence, grace dominates. We stand in grace.
Now the third link is the hope of glory, and we see that at the end of verse 2, down through verse 4, let me read it to you. "And we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulations brings about perseverance and perseverance proven character, and proven character hope...and hope does not disappoint."
Three times the word "hope" is mentioned here and this is the third in the chain, or the links of the chain that tie us everlastingly to our God. Hope, we live in hope. We have a relationship with God that is permanent peace. We live in a realm of grace which operates immediately whenever we sin, and therefore we have hope. Hope looks to the future. The believer has a secure salvation, going forward because we have been promised glory. We have a pledge from God. And that is exactly what verse 2 at the end is saying. "We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. We have been given a promise upon which we can hope and that is for eternal glory. We have present peace with God. We have present grace and we have present hope in a glorious future.
Now you notice the word "exult" in the NAS, it's the word kauchaomai, it means to rejoice, but it's more than that. It's more than rejoicing, it's kind of a confident boasting. It's kind of an exultant boasting. It refers to joy at its highest level, a kind of a confident joy, not a superficial one, not an emotional one. Knowing that we're at peace with God, knowing that we stand in grace. Both of those things being true because of the work of Christ. We have no fear for our future. What could go wrong? Our relationship with God is permanent peace, the realm in which we now exist is permanent grace, what could go wrong? We could confidently boast in the security of our eternal glory. We live then with hope in the confidence of heavenly glory. First Timothy 1:1 says, "Our savior and Lord Jesus Christ who is our hope." He is our peace. He is the source of our grace and He is our hope.
Our hope in future glory is based on Him, as is everything else. If you go to 1 Peter 1:18 it says, "You are not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ, for He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you who through Him are believers in God who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory so that your faith and hope are in God."
You cannot have a salvation without hope. You cannot have a salvation without grace. You cannot have a salvation without peace.
You remember in Jesus' high priestly prayer in John 17:22 He prayed to the Father that, "The Father would give to His own the glory which He gave Him." He said, "Give them the glory which You gave Me, I have passed it on to them. Father, fulfill it by bringing them to glory." He prayed that we would all be with Him where He is, that we would see His glory and the glory of the Father. Whatever the Lord Jesus prays, He receives. Whatever He prays, He prays as does the Holy Spirit according to the will of God. Whatever He prays will be answered.
And so, later on in Romans in the eighth chapter, familiar words, and verse 18, a good place to start, "I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us." Paul says, "No matter what goes wrong in this life, no matter how much you suffer, you can't compare it with the glory that is to be revealed to us." This again is that confident assertion, confident assertion.
Down in verse 24, "In hope we have been saved. Hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he has already seen? But if we hope for what we do not see with perseverance, we wait eagerly for it."
We have this hope. It is not a groundless hope. It is not an unreasonable hope. It is a hope anchored in the promises of God and anchored in the power of God and anchored in the nature of our salvation.
So the confident affirmation of all believers is that we will enter into heavenly glory. And borrowing again the familiar words of John 6, "All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me, all who come to Me I will not turn away, I will keep and I will raise on the last day." The great fulfillment of our salvation then will be brought to manifestation in the glory that is to come...the consummation of our redemption. This is the hope of glory.
Look at Romans 8 again and verse 29, just to tighten down anything that might be loose at this point. Verse 28, you heard quoted by someone in the baptism, "We know that God causes all things to work together for good. All things to work together for good, to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose, to those who are effectually called, savingly called according to the eternal elective purpose of God, to those who consequently love Him, all things work together for good."
If you could lose your salvation, then that couldn't be said, could it? It could be said that most things work together for good, or some things work together for good, but it would have to be a caveat if it was possible for something to work for bad, but nothing does, consistent with the purpose of God, the calling of God, the transforming of the heart of the believer to love God, all things work together for good.
Then he spells out what that means. Verse 29, "For those whom He foreknew, He predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son." This is the heart and soul of predestination. Before time began God predestines the elect to be conformed to the image of Christ. Not to start, not to go part of the way but to go all the way to conformity to Christ. The doctrine of election is not election to salvation, it is election to glorification. If you understand that, then you understand the security of salvation. Those who were chosen before the foundation of the world were not chosen to believe the gospel only, they were chosen to be eternally glorified. The doctrine of election speaks to the end, not the process. Yes, He foreknew them, that is He predetermined to know them in an intimate way. He therefore predestined them to become conformed to the image of His Son. And then the process is broken down in verse 30, "Whom He predestined, He called." That's the saving call. "Whom He called He justified and whom He justified He glorified." That is unalterable, verse 31. "What shall we then say to these things, if God is for us, who is against us? No one can thwart the purposes of God," that takes you back to verse 28 again, that's why all things work together for good.
So we live in a secure and confident hope. And having that hope we can basically endure anything that happens in this life because we know we are kept not by our own ability but by the power of God. Listen to Jude, the benediction at the end of Jude verses 24 and 25. "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy." Wow? God is able, again it goes back to His power, not ours, to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless. How is it possible that you will one day stand in the presence of God blameless? Because you live in the sphere of grace and in the sphere of trace, sin is constantly being forgiven, constantly being covered. It never accumulates. That is why the relationship can never be breeched, or violated, or altered, or ended. "To the only God, our Savior, He is the one who can do this, to Him be glory, majesty, dominion and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen."
Now that doxology, that benediction comes at the end of an epistle on the devastating impact of false teaching, corrupt teachers teaching damning lies. And the language of the book of Jude is very, very strong against these evil teachers. "They are," verse 12, "like hidden reefs in your love feast; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea casting up their own shame-like foam; wandering stars for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever." Very graphic language describing these false teachers.
But even though false teachers pose a massive threat to the church, even though they come into the church driven by lasciviousness, lust, evil desire, they cannot overthrow the hope of true believers.
They will confuse the unconverted and divert the church away from its full blessing, but they cannot overturn the salvation that God has provided.
Now back to 1 Peter chapter 1, I commented on 1 Peter to begin with, kept by the power of God, or protected by the power of God. I want to go back to that for a minute because somebody is going to raise the question at this point, "Well, look, when we go through our Christian life and we fail and we have trouble and we struggle and all of that, is it any wonder that we have doubts?
Well certainly we have doubts because doubt is a temptation and a sin. You could be tempted to doubt and consequently doubt and therefore it becomes a sin. You start avoiding the sin of doubt by getting our theology right, correct? I mean, that you could lose your salvation, then doubting that you lose it is consistent with your beliefs. That's not going to feel like a sin. But if you know what the Bible teaches, that you could never lose it, then you understand t he doubt becomes a temptation and succumbing to the temptation becomes a sin. So you have to start with a sound theology. Let's go back to 1 Peter 1:3, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to His great mercy...listen to this...has caused us to be born again to a living hope."
Part of what God gives you in your salvation is hope, a living hope, an undying hope and it comes through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This hope is that we will obtain an inheritance...an inheritance. An inheritance and what is the nature of that inheritance? It is imperishable. That is it is impossible to eliminate this inheritance, it is undefiled, it will not fade away, it is reserved in heaven for you who are, verse 5, protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Now the language is explicit, isn't it? It's unmistakably clear that we have been born again at the moment of salvation into a hope that cannot die, that hope secured by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead which was the stamp of approval on His work on the cross. We have an inheritance, it cannot perish, it cannot be defiled, it cannot fade away, it is reserved for us and we are protected by the power of God through faith until the final revelation of salvation at the last time and a final revelation is glorification.
Now, you say, what about all the trials in life? Follow, verse 6, "In this you greatly rejoice. Do you not rejoice in that? Do you not rejoice in your living hope? Do you not rejoice in the security of your eternal salvation? Yes, in this you greatly rejoice even though now for a little while if necessary you have been distressed by various trials."
The Scripture recognizes that you're going to have various trials. And in the midst of those trials, you may be tempted to doubt the kindness of God, the goodness of God, the protection of God. But on the other hand, for a little while if necessary, you've been distressed by various trials not for the purpose of destroying your faith, not for the purpose of ending your faith, weakening your faith, breaking your faith, but just the opposite, verse 7, "So that the proof of your faith, or so that your faith can be proven."
Now this brings up an issue that is so important. The greatest gift that a Christian can have is confidence in the permanence of salvation. I've said this before. I don't know how people live in those systems that say you can lose your salvation. As I've said to you many times, that would be the most debilitating, discouraging, distressing of all possible notions, to think that I had to keep myself saved. Well I couldn't do it, I know that. But to live in the fear of that, in the fear of losing it, or having Satan steal it, the demons do something to me that would cause it to diminish and that I would go below the line and lose my salvation. Talk about depression. I mean, people get depressed for a lot of things far less significant than that. I could understand depression. I could understand heart palpitations, panic attacks on the part of those people who believe you can lose your salvation, to live in that kind of mortal fear, that kind of eternal possibility.
But on the other hand, trials come not to break our faith, trials come to prove our faith. And the greatest gift on the other side that a true believer can have is to know that nothing can break faith, nothing can destroy true saving faith because that faith is a gift from God, it is a supernatural thing as Ephesians 2:8 and 9 indicates.
So what happens is the opposite, verse 7, "The proof of your faith comes through trials." What do you mean? You have a severe trial, maybe a physical trial, maybe a family trial, who knows? There are many that come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.
What happens in the midst of those trials is going to test your faith. If you come through the trial, no matter how severe the trial is, with your faith intact, still believing, still trusting, still hoping, still rejoicing, still praising God, then your faith is the real thing. If you go through a child and you get angry at God, you get mad at God, you abandon the church, you go off in another direction, your faith was never the real thing to start with. The gift that God gives you in your trial is the proof of your faith. That's why you thank God for the trial because out the other side you can say this is the real thing. I looked cancer in the eye, I looked death in the eye, I looked massive disappointment in the face, I looked fear in the face and I came out with a faith that was unwavering. And so you have the gift that Peter talks about, the proof of your faith, verse 7.
Then he says this, "Being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire." Pure gold, the purest gold refined in the fire isn't as valuable to a person as the confidence that their faith is the real thing. That's how you can live your life.
There wouldn't be any way to compensate for that. If I thought I could lose my salvation, there would be no amount of money, no amount of earthly goods, no amount of earthly experiences, no amount of adventures, no amount of anything this world has to offer that would compensate for the fear that I could lose my salvation. You can take all the rest of that, just give me a living, undying hope and the assurance through trial, after trial, after trial, after trial, seeing my faith strong and stronger, and I will tell you then I know it's not me, it's a faith that comes as a gift from God. It's a supernatural faith that endures, more precious than anything. And it will be that same faith, end of verse 7, that will result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you haven't seen Him, you love Him. Though you don't see Him now, you believe in Him. You greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of that kind of faith the final salvation of your soul's eternal glory. We live in hope.
Now what I showed you in Peter is essentially what Paul says. Let's go back to Romans chapter 5 for a minute. We'll build on what Peter says. The end of verse 2, where we are, Paul says, "We exalt or we confidently rejoice in the hope of the glory of God." This is the glory that will be given to us from God, His glory which we will share in heaven. And verse 3 he follows the same line that Peter did, and not only this but we also rejoice in our...what?...tribulations...we also rejoice in our tribulations, thlipsis, our pressing together, pressure...very often applied in the New Testament to human suffering, crushing. We rejoice in this.
Why? "Because tribulation brings about perseverance. Perseverance brings about proven character and proven character then produces hope." It's the same exact pattern. Tribulation comes into our lives, in the midst of tribulation we respond with endurance, hupomone, we stay under it. We endure, we remain under the tribulation, we persevere, and out of that experience of perseverance comes proven character, June 12, 2009dokimane(??), something put to the test and proven. This is exactly what Peter said and it is our proven character that sustains our hope.
You know, one of the benefits of getting older is that you have accumulated these experiences through life. I don't know that there's any trial that I haven't experienced personally or if not in a personal sense, first-person sense, vicariously through many, many others that you minister to through the years. We've been at every conceivable kind of tragedy in the years of ministry, gone through every disappointment that one can go through in one's own life and then all the lives of the people that surround us. And faith gets stronger and stronger and stronger, and as it does, so does hope...hope burns ever brighter.
Now those of you who are young, and there are many of you, our church is full of young people, it's going to take you a while to enjoy the living kind of hope, the kind of shining hope, the kind of expanding hope, the kind of all-encompassing hope that somebody who has been around a long time gets to enjoy. But you'll get there. Just look for those trials, be thankful through the midst of those trials for the faith that endures, perseveres, demonstrates proven character and leads to increased hope.
Now, there's another thing to say about this hope, verse 5. This hope makes not ashamed. Or literally, does not disappoint, as the NAS puts it. You never have to be ashamed of it. It will never disappoint you. The idea is of someone who is ashamed because something they trusted failed them. You're not going to have that. If your faith is real and you're a genuine believer, at peace with God, standing in grace, the hope that you have will never be disappointed, never.
There are people in the world without hope, Ephesians 2:12, the whole world lives without hope. There are people, according to Proverbs 11:7 that have a deceptive hope. We have a hope that will never disappoint. There are lots of people who have hope in the wrong things, right? Put their hope in another person, put their hope in the money, put their hope in their career, put their hope in their popularity. We have our hope anchored securely in Christ, double anchored, according to Hebrews, we are at peace with God, we stand in grace, we hope for promised glory and we have a hope that will never disappoint.
There's one other than I might mention to you, the fourth in these links that chain us ever-lastingly to our Lord, let's just call it the reality of love, or the possession of love. Verse 5 says, "Because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who is given to us." One hymn writer said, "Ever since by faith I saw the stream, Thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die." This verse really escapes word to describe its grandeur. I certainly can't find them, even Paul couldn't find them, the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
What this verse is saying is this, your salvation is secure because God loves you eternally and He proved it by giving you the Holy Spirit to take up residence in your heart. This is Ephesians 1, isn't it? In Ephesians 1 there is the confidence of our hope. Verse 14, "The Holy Spirit of promise," the end of verse 13, "who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession to the praise of His glory."
The Holy Spirit is the down payment, the Holy Spirit is the arrabon, the engagement ring, the first installment, the promise, the guarantee. This isn't talking about our love for God, this is talking about God's love for us. The reason our hope doesn't disappoint is because God's love is eternal. The love of God has been poured out within our hearts. How has God poured out love in our hearts? By giving us the Holy Spirit, simply stating another way, by God Himself in His Spirit taking up residence in us.
What love is this? What love is this. Shed abroad in our hearts, or poured out within our hearts speaks of lavish, profuse, copious love, literally filling us is this love that is described in chapter 8, again, in verse 35, "Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword? Is that going to separate us?" Verse 37, "In all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. I'm convinced that death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depths or any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
We have this Christ Jesus literally, profusely, lavishly, copiously poured into us by the presence of the Holy Spirit and we are the temple of the Spirit of God. He lives within us and there is nothing that can ever reverse that...nothing....nothing. In the eighth chapter which we just read earlier in the chapter, verse 9, we're reminded that having the Spirit of Christ means belonging to Him. "If anyone doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he doesn't belong to Him," conversely, if you belong to Him you have the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit living in you.
In Ephesians 3, again emphasizing this same wonderful point, verse...well, you could start in verse 13, but go down to verse 19, he says, "We can know the love of Christ," Ephesians 3:19, "which surpasses knowledge, how do we know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge?" Because earlier he says, "We've been strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man," verse 16. We have received the very third person of the Trinity take up residence in us. This is the expression of God's love for us.
And this, you say, would perhaps be possible to forfeit if we did something wrong. Well in answer to that, you have verses 6 to 8, look what it says, "While we were still helpless...verse 6, or literally without strength, powerless, impotent...at the right time Christ died for the...what?...ungodly. For one would hardly die for a righteous man though perhaps for the good one someone would dare even to die." People don't die for evil people. They might die for good people. "But God...verse 8...demonstrates His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." Here's the point. He loved us enough to die for us when we were His enemies. That answers the dilemma of well, maybe He loves us now but maybe we could do something and He would decide not to love us.
Look, He loved us when we were unlovable. He died for us when we were ungodly, when we were His enemies. Christ died for the ungodly. This love is so staggering. He demonstrates His own love for us in that while we were yet sinners, He died for us. If He loved us when we were sinners, believe me, He can love us when we are sons. If He could love us when we were enemies, He can love us when we are friends. This is the security of our salvation. It is, as I said, the most marvelous of all biblical doctrines to the believer. He has given us the greatest of gifts, peace, grace, hope, love. All of these are things that are anchored in His person, His power, His promise, not dependent on us and thus does He secure us everlastingly to Himself.
Father, we thank You tonight for the time we've had, it seemed to go so rapidly as we are thinking about these great spiritual realities. We rejoice in all the things that are part of our salvation. We never get enough, we never learn enough, we're never tired or weary of hearing of these glories. May we always wear the helmet of salvation to deflect any attempted blows against the security of that wondrous salvation You have given to us. We thank You that we're secure. We live in hope. We live in love. We live in grace. We live in peace. We will ever be at peace with You, we will ever receive Your grace, we will ever be hopeful for we have an inheritance that cannot change and all of this because You love us and You've loved us before we ever loved You, and now that we love You, that love is forever secure. Thank You for this promise, we rest in it, we rejoice in it. We thank You for this great gift. Amen.
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The English Premier League season is three weeks old, and the traditional Big Three – Chelsea, Manchester United, and Arsenal – are all off and running. Between them, they have seven wins and two draws. The scores include Chelsea over West Brom 6-0, Chelsea over Wigan 6-0, Man U over Newcastle 3-0, Man U over West Ham 3-0, and Arsenal over Blackpool 6-0.
Three of the brightest stars so far – Joe Hart, Theo Walcott, and Adam Johnson – were narrowly and controversially denied action at the World Cup for England. But many of the more established stars who did perform at the World Cup have also started the season strong.
Watching these stars play such high quality soccer raises this question: what happened in South Africa?
It wasn't just the big-name English boys – Wayne Rooney, John Terry, Frank Lampard, etc. – who so badly underperformed at the World Cup. Foreign Premier League stars like Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka, Patrice Evra, Robin Van Persie, Ferenando Torres (Spain's only bad player in the tournament), Nemanja Vidic, and Steven Pienaar were also among the EPL's under-achievers in South Africa. Americans Tim Howard and Clint Dempsey likewise failed to produce their best form.
In fact, only four of the 33 players I rated as the best World Cup performers played in the Premier League last season – Ryan Nelsen, Landon Donovan, Carlos Tevez, and Ricardo Carvalho. And Donovan played only for about three months, on loan from MLS.
Why such a poor EPL showing? The answer that comes to mind first is the arduous nature of the regular seaon schedule that the big English clubs play. Indeed, many of the EPL flops were playing hurt to one degree or another. But clubs like Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, and Bayern Munich played brutal domestic and European schedules. Yet most of the stars of these teams – the likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Sneijder, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Muller, Robben, Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Maicon, and Pique – excelled.
Perhaps, the EPL is that much more physically challenging than the Spanish, Italian, and German leagues. Perhaps the EPL and its stars are overrated. Or maybe this World Cup was a fluke.
Whatever the explanation, I'm just glad that big-time European club soccer is back and, unlike much of what we witnessed in South Africa, as attractive as ever.
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