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The rivalry grows.
The Fort Lewis College cycling team extended its national rivalry last weekend with cycling powers Marian University of Indiana and Lees-McRae College of North Carolina at the USA Cycling Collegiate Cyclocross National Championships in Wisconsin.
The Skyhawks finished a close second behind Marian University after Sundays mens national finals.
Marian, winning both the mens and womens team honors, finished with 188 points.
Fort Lewis, second in mens and womens standings, finished second in omnium scoring at 166 points.
Lees-McRae was third at 146. Lindenwood University of Missouri finished fourth in the Division I standings.
Fort Lewis veterans Sarah Sturm and Rotem Ishay led the Skyhawks with their third-place individual finishes.
Ishay finished behind only Kerry Werner of Lees-McRae, the national champion and 2011 collegiate mountain bike omnium winner, and Joshua Johnson of Marian.
Skyler Trujillo of Fort Lewis finished fifth in the national championship race. Teammate Ryan Cleveland was seventh.
Kolby Preble of the Skyhawks was ninth to give Fort Lewis four finishers among the top nine. Robbie Jones of FLC was 13th.
Kaitlin Antonneau of Marian repeated in winning the womens Division I cyclocross championship.
Kimberly Flynn of UNC-Greensboro was second, just ahead of Sturm
Sofia Gomez of the Skyhawks was right behind in fourth place.
Brittany Clawson, who won a downhill national mountain bike championship for the Skyhawks last year, finished 12th in the national cyclocross finals.
Lauren Catlin and Nathalie Krantz of Fort Lewis were 14th and 15th, respectively. Matilda Field placed 10th for FLC.
Brevard College edged Mars Hill College for the Division II omnium in a battle of North Carolina schools. They tied with 177 points with Brevard taking the tiebreaker.
Colorado Mesa University finished third (137 points).


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Located on New York's posh Upper East Side, the stylish yet affordable Hotel Wales is in the historic Carnegie Hill neighborhood, 1 block from Central Park on Madison Avenue between East 92nd and 93rd Streets.
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Resembling its Victorian-mansion neighbors, the Hotel Wales features a rooftop garden terrace with umbrella tables, a sitting room, and a locally popular restaurant.
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Enjoy panoramic views up high at Hotel Wales' rooftop terrace, perched 10 stories above New York's stunning cityscape. Our seasonal Manhattan rooftop terrace is outfitted with teak benches, market umbrellas and colorful flowers, herbs and landscape foliage.
On the second floor of the Hotel Wales, the spacious Carnegie Lounge offers a place where guests can gather, relax, or read.
Valet parking is available for an additional charge. The Carnegie Lounge provides complimentary high-speed Internet service. Hold your next meeting at one of the 4 meeting rooms. Luggage storage is also available.
Ground transportation:
Private cars and shuttle vans of varying prices are available. They can be selected during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost. Rent a bicycle to get around town nearby.
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Rooftop terrace
- Fitness facilities
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- Conference space
- Business center
- Porter/bellhop
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- Meeting rooms 4
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- Limo or Town Car service available
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Free wired Internet
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Luggage storage
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- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 2
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- Total number of rooms - 87
- Number of floors - 10
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- French
- Polish
- Slovak
- Spanish
Valet parking (surcharge)
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- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Free bottled water
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room massage available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
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- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Sarabeth's - Begin a day of sightseeing with a hearty, delicious breakfast from Sarabeth's, or nestle yourself into bed and order room service after a day closing important business deals. Hotel Wales boasts two of the best Upper East Side restaurants onsite at our Manhattan accommodations.
Sarabeth's is an institution, a cozy comfort-food restaurant located on the hotels' ground floor offering mouth-watering homemade jams, fluffy muffins, chewy cookies, incredible soups, brunch items, sandwiches, and a variety of delicious daily specials.
Open Monday through Saturday from 8 AM – 11 PM and Sunday from 8 AM – 9:30 PM, a meal at Sarabeth's is the perfect answer any time of day. For more information, call (212) 410-7335 or visit Sarabeth's East.
Paola's - Paola's, located on the ground-floor eatery among our two Manhattan hotel restaurants, is one of the city's best-kept secrets for dining on the Upper East Side. Paola's Italian trattoria offers fresh house-made pastas, local fish and steaks, homemade desserts including deliciously rich ricotta cheesecake and zesty lemon tart. For more information visit Paola's Restaurant or call (212) 794-1890.
Nearby Things to Do
Central Park, one block from this Upper East Side New York hotel, offers a variety of recreational opportunities, including tennis courts, boat rentals, and miles of trails for hiking, biking, running, and in-line skating. Rockefeller Center's skating rink, 1.25 miles away, opens in winter. Guests of the Hotel Wales receive a discount at the 92nd Street Y health club, two blocks away.
The recreational activities listed below are available near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
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- Breakfast fee: between USD 7 and USD 19 per person (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 59 per day
- Pet fee: USD 25 per pet, per day
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 49 per night
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Well, now we know how the Jets currently regard Tim Tebow in relation to Mark Sanchez.
Per Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, Sanchez will serve as the No. 2 quarterback on Sunday against the Chargers, behind new starter/previously consistently inactive option Greg McElroy. Tebow, in turn, will be No. 3. Which possibly means he won't even dress for the game.
Coach Rex Ryan consistently has declined to comment on the identity of Sunday's backup. Most recently, Ryan dodged the question at a Friday press conference.
"I'm not going to make that announcement now because quite honestly, it's going to be a coach's decision and I'll go ahead and make that decision later," Ryan said. "I've said there's a possibility all three guys will be [active], there's a possibility two will be [active] and I'm not going to make that decision just yet."
The Jets, as we've reported, intend to explore all options with Sanchez in the offseason, Mehta has reported that the options will include an attempt to trade Sanchez. Some believe that, in the end, the Jets will have to keep Sanchez and his $8.25 million guaranteed salary.
These are issues about which Sanchez currently isn't thinking. Or, at a minimum, about which he says he isn't thinking.
"I haven't really thought about it, I'm focused on this game and the game next week and then we'll assess all that stuff at a later date," Sanchez said Friday.
That's easy for him to say. He knows that, no matter what, he'll earn at least $8.25 million in 2013.This video is no longer available. Click here to watch more NBC Sports videos!


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Game Leaders
Team Stats
Passing Yards
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DANVILLE, Va.- Christopher Newport was powered by sophomore quarterback Marcus Morrast Saturday as the Captains downed Averett, 28-13. Morrast threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score as CNU improved to 4-3 overall and remained tied atop the USA South with a 3-1 conference record.
Morrast ended up with 156 yards rushing and 119 yards passing. He scored on a 29-yard run in the fourth quarter to put the Captains up by 21 and help seal the victory.
"Marcus was something special today, he made some amazing plays and really got our offense clicking," Head Coach Matt Kelchner said after the game.
CNU's defense was terrific, allowing just 38 yards rushing on 25 Averett attempts. Christopher Newport's Marvin Mills, senior cornerback, picked off two passes in the endzone thwarting Averett drives.
The Captains got on the board early after a blocked punt and recovery by freshman Arsaiah Robinson. Morrast connected with junior receiver Justin Williams on a 14-yard scoring pass to get CNU on the board. Morrast and Williams would connect again in the second quarter on a 7-yard touchdown throw to put the Captains up at the half, 14-0.
Morrast would throw his third TD late in the third quuarter, a 61-yard connection with sophomore receiver Rudy Rudolph that put the Captains ahead, 21-7.
Junior defensive end Justin Navarro led the Captains with 9 tackles and also posted a sack. Junior linebacker Evan Moog also contributed 9 tackles, while seniors Tyshawn Harris and Daniel Lewis each made 8 stops.
"This was a big win for us," Kelchner continued. "After what happened last week we knew we had to bounce back, and we did in a big way. Our defense was outstanding and we made some big plays."
CNU (4-3, 3-1) plays its final road game of the regular season next Saturday, traveling to Rocky Mount to take on North Carolina Wesleyan. Game time is set for 1 p.m.


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It is almost expected at this point. Any time a new gaming system is released, you hear the inevitable calls of how amazing the launch lineup will be. It is almost a given that inevitably the company releasing the new gear will utter something along the lines of "this is our best launch lineup ever." Unfortunately it rarely works out that way anymore and launches are typically plagued by an anemic selection.
This is a lesson that Nintendo knows well. The 3DS was plagued by a meager selection of games at launch, and still hasn't managed to offer a library that impresses. Several prices drops of the hardware have helped make the system somewhat successful and a few big releases have helped, but the lack of major titles continues to hamper the handheld's potential. Judging by the launch lineup of Nintendo's new console, that won't be a problem for the Wii U.
So far Nintendo has unveiled 51 titles that it is considering launch titles. Some of these will be available on November 18 when the Wii U is released, while some will be part of the "release window," meaning they will be available sometime between the Wii U's launch and March.
Part of the reason for the robust selection is the ported versions of titles that have been, or will soon be released on other consoles. While games like Mass Effect 3 and Madden 13 probably won't get anyone to buy the console on their own (especially if they have those games on other consoles already), it will give die hard Nintendo fans that are Wii users the chance to play some of the best games of this year and last.
Below is a list of all 51 games Nintendo has confirmed:
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2K Sports
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- 007 Legends
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- Wipeout 3
- Skylanders Giants
- Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013
- Rapala Pro Bass Fishing
- Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
- Rise of the Guardians: The Video Game
- Ben 10: Omniverse
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Disney Interactive
- Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Electronic Arts
- Mass Effect 3
- Madden NFL 13
- EA Sports FIFA Soccer 13
- Frozenbyte
- Trine 2: Director's Cut
- Gaijin Games
- Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
- Majesco Entertainment
- Zumba Fitness Core
- Maximum Games
- Jett Tailfin
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2
- Tank! Tank! Tank!
- Nintendo Land
- New Super Mario Bros. U
- Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
- SiNG Party
- Lego City: Undercover
- Wii Fit U
- Game & Wario
- Pikmin 3
- The Wonderful 101
- Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
- Shin'en
- Nano Assault Neo
Tecmo Koei America Corporation
- Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper
- Darksiders II
- Wheel of Fortune
- Jeopardy!
Two Tribes
- Toki Tori 2
- Assassin's Creed III
- Just Dance 4
- Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth
- Rabbids Land
- Sports Connection
- Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013
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- Rayman Legends
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- Scribblenauts Unlimited
- Game Party Champions
- Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
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Addiction and Substance Abuse
What Are the Side Effects of Cocaine Use?
I have been addicted to IV cocaine usage for a bit over a year now. I have had horrible gastrointestinal problems as a result. Can you please provide additional reading?
Cocaine addiction is pretty hard on several organ systems of the body, including the stomach and intestines. People often develop marked weight loss, loss of appetite, and irritable bowel or colitis symptoms.
Rarely cocaine binges can cause actual ischemia (lack of blood flow) to areas of the small or large intestine and thus intestinal damage up to and including gangrene and bowel necrosis. This all tends to be related to the huge surges of adrenaline caused by cocaine use and the spasm of "smooth muscle" (the muscle that makes up the lining of blood vessels and the GI track).
Even though the GI symptoms of cocaine addiction are impressive and at times life threatening, by far and away the most devastating area of life affected by this addiction is the area of self respect, self image, close love relationships, and family relationships. These are the earliest and most personally painful areas where all addictive disease, and especially fast progressing addictions like IV cocaine addiction, tend to affect people.
So for the sake of your GI track ... and especially for the sake of the rest of your person-hood, I hope you get as much help as necessary for you to get sober.
Ted Parran, MD
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Case Western Reserve University


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This view is looking to the Southeast. You see on the left side of the picture the original 1934 Sheriff's Quarters and offices, and the middle would be the actual 1934 Jail building that held a maximum of 24 detainees. The remaining building is what is referred to as the "78 addition", as it was the result of a bond issue approved by the City of Columbia, to construct a 48-bed addition on to the jail, for housing of municipal prisoners as well as county prisoners. This "arrangement" allowed the City of Columbia to close their existing Municipal Jail located on the upper floor of the present Columbia Police Building at 601 Walnut. You can note the "officer entrance" to the right of the sign and the "public entrance" to the left of the sign. The basement of jail maintained the control room, property storage, visitation, holding, kitchen, and emergency generator. A garage door located right of the existing photograph was intended for a vehicular sally-port, however it was never constructed large enough to practically use and was merely a port of deliveries to the jail for the duration of the building's use.
This is the view towards the interior officer entrance from the control room of the jail. You notice the row of camera monitors on the right and the board of control buttons on the counter. Basic jail staff included one control room officer, a supervisor, and one to two roving officers assigned to the floor. All movement by detainees had to be monitored and assisted by officer supervision. There were no computers, no lap-top units, and all reports were hand written; the only typed report was the 0700 report which chronicled the day's arrest for the preceding 24 hours period. In the 1970s, staffing was significantly less, with only one officer in the jail. Jail checks had to be accomplished by the road officers who came into the jail specifically for that purpose. In the early 1980s greater responsibility and staffing was exhibited by Sheriff's and the jail become a more self-sufficient model of administration and operation
This is a view into one of the 12-man housing units located in the 1978 addition to the old jail. Six two-man cells placed in an "L-format" around two metal tables. No real room to exercise, or have much personal space. An exercise yard was established with the 1978 renovation, however, the fencing was never secure enough to allow actual exercise and staff was never in place to supervise that process as well. Female detainees were generally housed in the 1934 section of the jail, however, from time to time, one of the 12-man tanks were taken over by an exploding female detainee population. Due to the open view into the cells, blankets were hung on the cell fronts to afford the female detainees some privacy when that occurred. You will notice there are no phones in this cell block. Phones were dialed by officers, who handed the receivers to the detainee through the bars. This was very staff intensive and small privileges like phone calls to family enjoyed by today's detainees were rare in the old jail. )


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by The Latin KitchenJanuary 16, 2014
Every January 1st, we step on a scale a heave a collective sigh. With holiday indulgences behind us but still showing up on our bellies, New Year's Resolutions immediately turn to weight loss. But how do you shed the weight on a Latin diet?
We've gathered the best good-for-you and deliciuos recipes from The Latin Kitchen, complete with an irressistible lunch recipe (tacos de jicama), a great one for dinner (chile relleno) and even a cocktail to finish it off (skinny margarita). It's time to enjoy getting healthy!
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A 300 metre wide asteroid with the potential to strike earth in 2036 will fly overhead this evening.
Apophis, aptly named after an evil Egyptian mythological demon of destruction, will today come within 14.4 million kilometres (nine million miles) of our planet.
In 2029 it is expected to return to earth, shaving past at 30,000 km. That is less than one-tenth the distance of the moon and inside the orbit of some communication satellites.
When the asteroid was discovered in 2004, scientists calculated that there was a one in 45 chance that it would strike earth in 2029. Improved predictions later lifted the threat.
Scientists say there is still a remote chance it may collide with earth in 2036.
According to NASA, if Apophis were to strike earth it would generate a blast around 100,000 times more powerful than the nuclear strike over Hiroshima in 1945.
Most asteroids are found in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. Apophis, however, belongs to the Aten family, which are usually found between earth and the sun.
Space enthusiasts will be able to view Apophis' approach online via Slooch Space Camera. The images will be provided by a robotic telescope located in the Canary Islands beginning at midnight GMT.
Employing a battery of optical, radio and infrared telescopes, scientists hope to use today's encounter to gauge the asteroid's threat. Both the asteroid's mass and the way it is spinning are vital to make precise calculations about the Apophis' trajectory.
In October the Russian space agency announced plans to land tracking beacons on the asteroid in 2020.
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Whenever servants of the Lord come together and examine what it is that they need to be, there must be a vision of Christ. He is our model; He is the perfect servant, the perfect minister, the perfect shepherd, pastor, leader.
And so, as I thought and prayed about what I might bring to you in these wonderful days, I was drawn by the Holy Spirit to this passage in Matthew, Chapter 12, which extols the virtues of Christ in a very unique setting.
Let me begin reading at verse 14, "But the Pharisees went out and counseled together against Him, as to how they might destroy Him. But Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed Him and He healed them all and warned them not to make Him known, in order that what was spoken through Isaiah, the prophet, might be fulfilled; saying, 'Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my Spirit upon Him and He shall proclaim justice or righteousness to the Gentiles. He will not quarrel or cry out, nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets. A battered reed, He will not break off and a smoldering wick, He will not put out until He leads righteousness to victory and in His name the heathen will hope.'" There are many titles that are given to the Lord Jesus Christ in the Scripture. Perhaps, none is more wonderful than the title granted by Jehovah God in this text. In verse 18, He calls Christ, "My servant, my beloved." The word "servant" is pais in the Greek and sometimes it's translated "servant" and sometimes it's translated "son". And in Christ's case, it then becomes the perfect word because He is the servant's son. His Sonship was associated with His servanthood. This word appears, for example, in secular Greek to refer to an especially trusted servant, a noble servant. It is used in the Septuatant, the Old Testament Greek text, in Genesis 24, to speak of Abraham's Chief servant. It is used, for example, of those who attend the King at his court; in Genesis 41, a royal servant. It is even used in the Old Testament forum to refer to a supernatural servant, namely an angel. So, here the Father calls Christ, my pais, my servant son; trusted, chief, royal, supernatural servant.
Then He says, "My beloved". The term used is that term for love that we identify as the supreme representation of love, "agape". He is the supremely loved one. It is the same term that is used in Colossians 1, which we read before we sang the hymns, in which it says, "That God has translated us out of the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved Son." Elsewhere, God calls Him, "My beloved gios, my beloved Son," here, "My servant, my beloved. It is a reference to the intimate bond of love that exists between the Father and the Son and beautifully describes the reality of the incarnation. How, that Christ, having that love with the Father, face to face, gave it up to come into the world but was restored to it and exalted highly, as we noted in Philippians 2 earlier. So, in this passage, Matthew is introducing to us, under the Holy Spirit's inspiration, a picture of the servant Son, the Beloved, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. And as you flow down through the passage from verse 14-21, you will note a number of characteristics of the Messiah. There are at least nine of them.
Now, I realized that is not homiletically acceptable, to have nine points in a sermon, but my homiletics are suspect anyway, so I shall lose no ground. As we look as these verses, we want to note the characteristics of the Beloved Servant Son because they become the characteristics that should be true of those who serve Him. He is our model.
The first characteristic that comes out in this passage is this; the Beloved Servant Son was condemned by false servants. The Beloved Servant Son was, first of all, condemned by false servants. This whole description of Jesus Christ here, is set in a context of Jewish hatred, Jewish rejection.
The Jews had reached a point where they had deemed Jesus Christ to be functioning under the power of Satan. That's right. They said, "What You do, You do by the power of Beelzebub." They say that later in this very chapter. "You are satanic." And thus, these Jewish religious leaders had concluded the exact opposite of the truth. And it really reveals how far from God they were. The one they were seeking to kill, God was seeking to exalt and so, the text begins with their plot to kill Christ. And it ends with the Father affirming the ultimate triumph of Christ. They were trying to destroy Him, God had Him set for exaltation. Verse 14, "The Pharisees went out and counseled together against Him, as to how they might destroy Him." There was a progression here, if you go back in Chapter 11 and you study the first 15 verses, you will find doubt. The people expressed some doubt about Christ. In Chapter 11, verses 16-19, the doubt turns to criticism. In Chapter 11, verses 20-24, the criticism turns to indifference. And then you come to Chapter 12 and the indifference becomes rejection. And then starting in verse 22, the rejection becomes blasphemy. The rejection is open now. They had some doubts, the religious leaders did, but they settled them and they attacked Christ, they were critical. And then there's a certain measure of indifference, after all, "If He's not anybody special, let's not get too excited about it." That indifference, seems to flow into rejection and rejection ultimately ends up in blasphemy, for which, Jesus pronounces upon them damnation, and tells them basically, "You'll never be forgiven." Luke adds, in the comparative text, to the text of Matthew, that the Pharisees, when they met together in this council, were quote, "filled with fury." They were in a rage; they were at a white hot level. They would have murdered Jesus Christ on the spot if it hadn't been for the Roman government or if it hadn't been for some spectators who were enamored with Jesus Christ.
The verb here, to take council, shows the ideal of reaching a conclusion. It isn't as much a verb that focuses on the discussion, as it does the decision. It means, literally, to come to a conclusion. It wasn't much to deliberate, they had already, pretty well, set the deliberations in motion. They knew where they were going with this thing. They had been offended, greatly, once before because Jesus did some things on the Sabbath and the plot to kill Him had already been hatched and that now, it's just moving along collecting momentum. The only discussion they really needed to take was regarding when and where and how they killed Him. The killing was a given. Mark tells us, interestingly enough, as he writes on the same incident, "That they drew into their plot and their council, the Herodians." The Herodians were their enemies, they hated them. They were basically irreligious secularists. They were unholy, worldly members of a political party that supported the dynasty of a non-Jewish king by the name of Herod, who was a thorn in the side of the Jews.
The Herodians were their enemies but at least, on this they could agree; they both wanted Jesus dead. He was obviously intimidating, religiously, to the Pharisees, He was intimidating politically to the Herodians. They could agree on killing Jesus and so, the legalists and the antinomians got together. The religionists and the secularists got together and the common cause was to destroy Jesus, to preserve the role of religion and preserve the place of Herod. As you well know, they ultimately carried their plot to conclusion, killing Christ, sealing their own destruction and at the same time, the salvation of the elect. So, as we come into this chapter, we're finding ourselves at a peak of rejection. The King is now openly rejected. What we read in John Chapter 1 has now come to pass, "He came unto His own and His own received Him not." All that is left to follow is blasphemy.
And I submit to you that this is a characteristic of the Beloved Servant Son, that He was condemned by false teachers. The Pharisees prided themselves on the fact that they were the sons of God, they made that claim in John 8; Jesus said, "You're not, you're the sons of the devil." They prided themselves on the fact that they were the servants of God, who served God more nobly than anyone else. They surely believed that they were God's beloved, they saw themselves as the beloved servant sons; they were not, nor did Jesus let them think they were.
But always, the true Servant Son, the true Beloved, will be condemned by the false. That's how it always is; the true prophet of God was always attacked by the false prophet, the true shepherd by the false shepherd, the true preacher by the false preacher. The war inevitably comes at that level because Satan wants to counter the true with the false; ultimately, Anti-Christ, the ultimate deceiving false Messiah. The Jewish leaders were nothing more than false shepherds. False shepherds controlled by Satan, deceived and setting out on a plot to kill the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. So, the first we see about the Beloved Son Servant is that He was condemned by false servants. The second thing, He was devoted to God's plan; He was devoted to God's plan. Look at verse 15, and this is a wonderful truth, "But Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there and many followed Him." Verse 16 says, "He warned them not to make Him known." This is interesting. Jesus knew what they were thinking, He knew what they were talking about, He knew what they were plotting. How did He know? The text just says, "Jesus, aware of this," literally. Omniscience? John 2, He says, "Nobody needed to tell Him what was in the heart of a man, He knew what was in the heart of a man." John 3, Nicodemus had a question in his mind, Jesus answered the question in his mind, not the question on his lips. He has omniscience and therefore, the power to know what people think. He hears conversations, obviously, other than through His ears, at this point. And so, He withdrew. He knew they were attending to a plan to kill Him. The problem was this was two years too soon.
You understand that the apex of hostility and hatred and blasphemy against Christ reached this pinnacle two years before they killed Him. And from then on, it just escalated. But from then on, He had to be protected, as it were, from an untimely execution. He withdrew Himself.
The real reason they were after Him was fear and jealousy and guilt. As you look as those words, "Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there," you have to have a certain sadness in your heart. As Donald Grey Barnhouse said many years ago, "From God's point of view, their clocks stopped," there was nothing left for them but tragedy. Oh, some day in the future, before Jesus comes, the clock will start ticking again for Israel, but it stopped; tragic.
The pattern, pretty simple; Jesus preaching, positive response, opposition, withdrawal, a new place, He preaches, response, opposition, withdrawal to a new place, He preaches, response, opposition, withdrawal. That cycle went on and on and on over this two year period. Why? Because God had a plan that couldn't be violated. Daniel had even predicted, to the very day, a period of 69 weeks, of seven years, until Jesus Christ would come as King. That had to happen. Every other prophecy had to be fulfilled. The divine timetable must be kept. There couldn't be a revolution now, there couldn't be some great battle between Jews and Romans and have Christ get caught in the middle of that. He couldn't be killed by a mob, there had to be a cross and it had to be on God's timetable. Everything had to be fulfilled to the letter because that's how God planned it. And Jesus, realizing the time was not then, moved away.
And then He does an interesting thing, He says, "I warn you," there's a threat in that verb, "I threaten you, don't make me known. This thing has to cool, I've got to go away, don't tell where I am." He was totally committed to the Father's will; He would only operate on the Father's timetable. He said, "My food is to do the will of my Father who sent Me." Many, many times He said, "My hour is not yet come." The time was not right, it wasn't to happen yet. He was completely committed to the plan of God, devoted to God's timetable. That's characteristic of the Servant Son, the Beloved One.
First of all, yes, He will be condemned by false teachers. Secondly, He will be devoted to God's plan at all costs. He stays on the timetable that God has set. He's willingly submissive and obedient. If you wonder what He was doing night after night after night after night when He retreated to the Mount of Olives and fell on His knees before the Father in prayer, you may understand that He was communing with the Father and part of that communion was to know the mind of God concerning the timing. He wanted to be on God's timing not His own. He would offer Himself as the willing sacrifice at the right moment. He would die when death was appropriate. But He was committed to God's plan and He didn't want that disturbing, exacerbating activity that could somehow thwart the plan to happen, so, He said to these people, "Don't make me known."
Some people have asked, "Why He said this?" and this isn't the only time He said it, there were other occasions where He said, "Don't tell anybody what I've done, don't spread this around." Obviously, He didn't want such a massive publicity campaign, that it would cause some glitch in the Divine plan. In Chapter 8 and verse 4, "See that you tell no one," He said, after having healed a man. "Don't spread this around." Again, in Chapter 9, verse 30, "Their eyes were opened and Jesus sternly warned them saying, 'See here, let no one know about this.'" Kind of hard for two blind guys who just got their sight, to keep their mouth shut. But Jesus was doing everything He could, on a human level, to prevent an early and untimely execution. He wanted to work on God's timing, God's plan. There's a third element that we see in the character of this Beloved Servant, He was compassionate toward the needy. He was compassionate toward the needy. Would you notice in verse 15, it says, "And many followed Him when He withdrew." Those were the ones He warned, "Not to make Him known, not to tell the religious leaders where He was or where He was going." And it says, "He healed them all."
This is a fascinating look at the compassion of Christ. Here, He is basically, moving away to save His own life, here He is preoccupied with a massive transcendent eternal plan, of which He is the focal point, here He is concerned about he burden of blasphemous rejection which He is bearing; and yet, in the midst of all of that, He concerns Himself to heal them all. Inclusive language, nobody got left out.
This sets Him apart, decidedly, from the Jewish leaders who devoured the poor and the widows, who trampled on the sick and the infirmed and those who made no major contribution, from their viewpoint. They despise people, they bound on them heavy burdens, which they were unable to bear and Jesus condemned them by saying, "And you don't even do so much as lift a finger to relieve those oppressive burdens." What were those burdens? Laws, man made laws which they poured out on the backs of people endeavoring to earn salvation with God by achieving the unachievable and they never helped to life the burden. That's why Jesus said in Matthew, Chapter 11, "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden." What did He mean by that? Those of you who are sick and tired of trying to earn your salvation by carrying around a massive burden of laws, "and I'll give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you shall find rest for your souls, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
They had little or no concern for the people, He had deep concern. He showed the compassion of God. Back in Chapter 9, verse 36, it says, "And seeing the multitudes, Jesus felt compassion for them." He looked at the crowds of Jewish people and His heart broke because they were distressed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd. The word "distressed" means skinned, flagellated and the word "downcast" means thrown down. He looked and what He saw was sheep lying around as if they were dead because they had been abused, flagellated and lying dead. The Jewish leaders were slaughtering the people, trampling them, despising them. Jesus Christ was the true shepherd and the simple statement, "He healed them all," tells you of His compassion. Nobody got left out who needed help. That is an insight into the heart of God. I've often thought that when Christ came into the world, there would have been a number of ways He could have demonstrated His supernatural character. If He wanted to prove to the world that He was God, there would have been a number of ways He could have done that. He could have just flown. He could have just taken off and flown up in the air and circled Jerusalem a few times and landed and I think they would have said, "He's not a man." Or He could have said, "See that building over there? It's over here," and relocated it instantaneously. Or He could have said, "See that crowd?" And sent the whole crowd into space, had them fly around Jerusalem for the afternoon and land. There would have been a number of things He could have done, why did He use healing? Why did He do that? Because it not only showed His power, it showed His compassion. It demonstrated the loving heart of God, the tenderness of God toward those that are poor and needy, those who are in pain. Peter said, "Cast all your care on Him, for He"...What?..."He cares for you." That's the heart of God. The heart of God is especially toward those who suffer. The Old Testament says, "The Lord heals, the Lord lifts up, the Lord raises up the poor out of the dust and the Lord lifts up the beggar from the garbage pile." The Lord cares about the people who suffer and Jesus exhibited the heart of God. When John the Baptist was in prison, back in Chapter 11, he sent word to Jesus with a question, are you the Expected One or should we look for somebody else? Are you the Messiah? Are you the Messiah? John the Baptist just wanted to be certain. And Jesus said, "Here's the answer, the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the poor have the Gospel preached to them, does that sound Messianic?" It does if you believe the Messiah will have the character of God and you know that God is compassionate.
And ultimately, you know when Jesus came, he says even in the eighth Chapter of Matthew that, "In the cross there is the provision for all our diseases." Not necessarily in time, does He cure all our diseases but ultimately in eternity He does. Some day disease will be eliminated and in the New Heaven and the New Earth there will be no more sickness, no more sorrow, no more crying, no more tears and no more death. The work that banishes that, ultimately, was done on the Cross. So, Jesus was giving us a taste of glory and I believe if He were here today, His attention would be to those who are suffering. He feels their pain, He understands their infirmity; their sickness finds a place in His sympathetic heart.
So, when you look at the Beloved Servant Son, you see one who was condemned by false servants, one who was solely and totally devoted to the plan of God and one who was compassionate toward those who are in need. Then would you notice verse 17, as Matthew then moves into the further description, he wants to draw from Isaiah, so it says, "In order that what was fulfilled through Isaiah the prophet, might be fulfilled saying." In other words, everything that is true about the Messiah, he says, "flows out of what Isaiah said." And then verses 18-21 include that text from Isaiah. It's from Isaiah 42:1-4.
Now, I want to mention to you that Matthew does not quote it verbatim but under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he gives us an interpretation of it. He takes Isaiah 42:1-4 and wanting to be sure we don't miss any of its significance; the Spirit of God leads him to an inspired explanation of it, almost a paraphrase.
Now, remember the Jews are expecting the Messiah to be a great political leader, a great military conqueror. They're expecting the Messiah to be a war like individual. They're also expecting the Messiah would be recognized by all of the religious leaders who, supposedly, are the servants of God and who best know His word. And Jesus is the opposite of all of this. He's condemned by the religious leaders, they're plotting His death. He seems to be operating on a timetable that involves a long time of humiliation and rather than being strong and war like, He is gentle and compassionate. So, then Matthew moves into the prophecy of Isaiah, which further enriches our understanding of the Beloved Servant Son and gives us a fourth characteristic. That is that He is both chosen and cherished by the Father. He is chosen and cherished by the Father. Verse 18, "Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased." It's an obvious use of personal pronouns; "MY servant, whom I have chosen; MY beloved, in whom MY soul is well please."
And this leads us to an understanding, again, of the intimacy between the Father and the Son. Here is the Father, lovingly affirming that He has chosen the Son and not only has He chosen Him but He is pleased with Him. He is then chosen and cherished by the Father.
"I have chosen," a very interesting verb but somewhat unusual one, used only here in the New Testament; it seems to indicate great firmness of choice, significant firmness of choice. In fact, in secular Greek, as well as the Septuatant, this verb is sometimes used of an adoption, where you have a firm and permanent kind of choice. "I have chose Him as My servant Son," pais, "My beloved servant son."
Numerous times in Scripture Christ is called the Elect. There is a wonderful text in Isaiah 49, that I wish we had the time to explore in detail but sufficient to read it to you, "The Lord called me from the womb; from the body of my mother He named me. And He has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow if His hand, He had concealed me. And He has also made me a select arrow; He has hidden me in his quiver. He has said to me, 'You are my servant.'" And while that may have a fulfillment in the nation of Israel, its ultimate fulfillment is in the Messiah Himself. The Chosen One became then, the Messianic title that is used of Christ in Luke 23:35, 1 Peter 2 and verse 4, "Christ, Mine own Elect," 1 Peter 2:6, "He is chosen by God."
The Father then chose the second member of the Trinity to be the Servant Son. And He says, "Not only is He chosen but He's cherished. My soul is well pleased with Him." God said that at His baptism didn't He? "This is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased." God said that at His transfiguration, both in Matthew 3, at the baptism, Matthew 17 at the transfiguration, "This is my Son, in whom I'm well pleased. He has done everything I've asked Him to do, He pleases Me." The one who is the servant of Christ, the Beloved Servant is chosen and pleasing.
So, the Beloved Servant, condemned by false servants, faithful to the plan of God, compassionate toward people, chosen and cherished by the Father; a fifth element comes out about the character of the Beloved Servant and that is that He was empowered by the Spirit, empowered by the Spirit; verse 18, "I will put my Spirit upon Him."
My, this is such a wonderful truth. It is such an overwhelming truth and you might ask the question, "If Jesus Christ, the Beloved Servant Son is the second member of the Trinity, why in the world does God need to put His Spirit upon Him? If He is God, the very God, in human flesh, then what does endowing Him with the Holy Spirit do? If He is already God and without sin, and already God and with the power of God inherent in His very nature, then why does He need the Spirit?
And in asking that question, you have come to some understanding of the depth of His condescension. Because now you know He has plunged Himself into the depths of condescension to the degree where He has set aside the use of His deity and he is, in effect, saying, "I yield Myself to the Father's will and the Spirit's power." That's the depth of His descent. We know that He yielded Himself to the Spirit's power because He says that. We know because the Spirit descended upon Him at the time of His baptism and there was a unique anointing. The Lord Jesus Christ was so lowly, He stooped so far, that he yielded up the independent operation of His own attributes as God, and said, "I will be the Servant and I will yield to the power of the Spirit."
In Luke 4:18, He said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me and therefore, I serve." He carries out His Messianic ministry, He carries out His preaching ministry under the power of the Spirit, He carries out His miracle ministry under the power of the Spirit. That is why, when they say, "You are of Satan," He doesn't say here in Chapter 12, "You have blasphemed Me," He says, "You have blasphemed"...Whom?..."the Holy Spirit."
You say, "Well, now wait a minute, even John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb. Well, yes, and Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit. But what we understand by this, is simply that He voluntarily set aside His own deity and yielded up, from the moment of His incarnation, to the Spirit of God in some unusual way; some way, which we may never understand. But Acts 10:38 says this, "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power." In His condescension, He gave Himself to the Father's will and the Spirit's power. George Smeaton said, "The Holy Spirit formed the link between Christ's deity and humanity. Perpetually imparting the full consciousness of His person and making Him inwardly aware of His divine Sonship at all times. What a fascinating thought. Could it be that His consciousness, even of Himself as God, was diminished in the depth of condescension, so that the Spirit was, not only working through Him, but affirming to Him, His own identity. That's humiliation. He humbled Himself, He condescended and He was empowered by the Spirit. That's a wonderful truth because it makes Him, in some way, like us, doesn't it? For, we are in the same need of the Spirit of God. Not because we have condescended from being who we are but because in the very beginning, we are desperate and without power. But there's a sense, in which, in the way He needed the Spirit. He's a model for us, who desperately need the Spirit. There's a sixth point in defining the one who is the Beloved Servant Son, not only was He condemned by false servants and devoted to the plan of God totally and compassionate for those in need, and chosen and cherished by the Father and empowered by the Spirit but sixthly, He was faithful to the message. He was faithful to the message.
The end of verse 18 says, "He shall proclaim righteousness to the nations." He was a preacher of righteousness. Jehovah's Beloved Servant Son would bring the message of righteousness. That's the truth about man, about his sin, about his guilt, about his judgment and about the righteous standard of God and the provision of Christ. That's the Gospel, that's the message of salvation and He'll preach it to the world because He's the Savior of the world.
This, He was faithful to do. He was gonna reach out to the world with the message of salvation. This, you could contract also, with Pharisees, who hated the thought that Gentiles might get converted; like Jonah hated it. Even Peter had a problem with it when he was reporting on the conversion of Cornelius and he said, "Look, I couldn't do anything about it, God gave them the same Holy Spirit, in the same way that He did to us; how was I gonna stop Him?" What a strange way to approach it. Almost as if you wanted to say to them that, "If I could have stopped it, I would have but I couldn't." And they all agreed that God had granted repentance to life to the Gentiles. Kind of hard for them to swallow because they always thought of themselves as God's favorites, but the Messiah, when He comes, He'll preach righteousness and He'll preach it to the whole world. He'll come with the right message, He won't equivocate it and He'll give it to the world.
The seventh characteristic, He was characterized by humility. He was characterized by humility. Verse 19 says, "He will not quarrel nor cry out, nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets." This is quite interesting. The word is used here to speak of the barking of a dog, of a screeching raven, of a bawling drunk or of the uproar of an angry crowd and what he is saying here is, "Look, Jesus isn't going to quarrel and screech and scream and bawl and harangue and get into a shouting match and brawl with all of you." Wrangle, might carry the idea.
The Pharisees and the Sadducees were forever wrangling with people in public, debating and shouting and screeching; our Lord was never engaged in that. He would never engage Himself in rabble-rousing, in harangue; He never indulged in the ravings of a fool. He spoke with wisdom and He spoke with dignity and He spoke with force and authority and sometimes He spoke loudly but it was never a shouting match, it was never an argument, it was never a debacle, it was never some kind of rabble-rousing. No riotous screaming, no nasty public wrangling, no boisterous fuming. Zacharias said, "He would be meek and lowly; and He was." Ecclesiastes 9:17 says, "The words of wise men are heard in quiet, more than the cry of him that rules over fools." The Lord would never seek to secure His rightful place, He would never seek to secure His preeminence through carnal force, through harangue, through shouting matches, through public debate; to put it simply, He probably wouldn't be on the Donahue Show or go to a political convention today. His method was the opposite of violence and the opposite of harangue. He would not shout down the opposition, He was not a turbulent agitator, He would proclaim righteousness in meekness. They were in a fury, He was quiet. They were frantic, He was composed. His meekness, His humility is evident.
There's an eighth characteristic, this is magnificent. The Messiah, when He comes, the Beloved Servant Son, said Isaiah and confirms Matthew, encourage the weak. He encouraged the weak. Verse 20, "A battered reed, He will not break off and a smoldering wick He will not put out."
That's interesting. "A battered reed He will not break." What is that? I suppose every member of the human race has a trait of destruction in him. You see it in childhood, don't you? A little boy walks down the street, sees some ants; he'll stop for two or three minutes to exercise his immense power over these tiny little creatures; crushing them, perhaps, one by one and then walk on.
A little further in his walk, he passes by a tree with a low hanging branch and he snatches the trees branch and rips it off and runs his little hand down the twig until the leaves are gone and spinning the stick in his hand, cuts the tops off of flowers as he passes by the garden. One of the flowers is a rose and it pops into his hand and so, he removes the petals. This is a reflection of human nature, a broken reed; he'll break it in a minute. The prophet was trying to tell us that there is something within the character of Jesus Christ, not just that preserves nature, because, after all, He is God, created it all and when He looked on it, He said, "It's all,"...what?..."it's good." But it's not so much that, as it is that this is a metaphor for the fact the He will never further injure those that are already injured. He will not extinguish those who are already flickering.
Another way you might look at it, very often reeds were used to make flutes and a shepherd would frequently make a flute out of a reed and he would play little tunes on his flutes to while away the hours, comforting his own heart. But eventually, as he blew and blew and blew into that little flute, the moisture from his own mouth would cause the rigidity of the reed to break down and it would get soft in a few spots and it would start to crumble and leak and it wouldn't make music any more, so, he would just break it and throw it away and get another one.
But Jesus isn't like that and surely, these people who heard the truth about Messiah would understand that simple little illustration because they were familiar with shepherds who made little flutes. And when it looked like the little flute was useless, they would break it and throw it away; Jesus wasn't like that, He could take what was bruised and make it sing again. And then there were those little wicks that were already almost at the very end and you know what a wick does that's almost gone, it doesn't do anything but make smoke. It doesn't give light, it gives the opposite; it gives black smoke. And somebody would come along and say, "That wick has such a small tiny little bit of burning capacity and all it's doing is making smoke, let's put it out." But it was not like the Lord to do that, the Lord would come along and find the little wick that was smoldering and try to fan it to a full flame.
This is His compassion; this is His tenderness toward the weak. This is what, I believe, God is calling elders of the church to do in James 5, is they come along side those that are broken and those that are spiritually weak and hold them up in prayer.
The Pharisees crushed, trampled, despised, devastated, treated with contempt, not Jesus. Human conquerors, they destroy the weak and play to the strong, not Jesus. One hymn writer put it this way, "Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, feelings lie buried that grace can restore, touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, cords that were broken will vibrate once more." The Lord can do that, the Lord does that.
He treats the broken people with profound and genuine concern, sympathy. He gives strength to the weak, He lifts up the fallen, He helps the flickering to burn brightly, He heals the sick, He saves the tax collectors, He loves the prostitutes, He comforts the mourners, He cheers the fearful, He reassures the doubters, He feeds the hungry, He forgives the sinners; because He is Emmanuel, He is God with us, He has the heart of God.
This is the Beloved Servant Son. Condemned by false servants, yes; devoted to God's plan, yes; compassionate toward those in need, yes; called and cherished by the Father and empowered by the Spirit and faithful to the message, characterized by humility, encouraging the weak and one more; enjoying the victory. The end of verse 20 says, "Until He leads righteousness to victory." "Until He leads righteousness to victory."
"He will overcome all obstacles," the Scripture says. He will overcome opposition; He will ultimately establish God's word and God's kingdom and win the victory. He will bring righteousness to its triumph. Sin will be banished forever. As Amos said, "The righteousness of God or the justice of God will roll down like waters." And Isaiah said, "The earth will be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea." The world, literally, will be drowned in righteousness some day.
"And in His name the nations will hope." Literally, the Hebrew says, "And the islands shall wait for His law." Islands refer to nations, waiting refers to hope, law refers to His name and so, this is essentially what it means. Is it any wonder that the world puts its hope in this person, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Beloved Servant Son? Now, apart from just the glimpse of Christ, in and of itself, what does this say to us? I look at my own life, I say, "I too, am a son of God. I too, have been called to be a servant and I am His beloved, by His love having been set upon me before the world began and been given to me and granted to me in Christ, through salvation. I too, am a beloved servant son. I have been called to preach, I have been called to lead and if that is the case in my life; then here is my model. Here is my model." If I am faithful to attack the Kingdom of Darkness, to penetrate the Kingdom of Darkness with the light of the Gospel of Christ, if I am faithful to preach the truth of God, I too, will be condemned by the false servants. If I am to be a faithful servant of God, then I also, just must be compassionate toward people and I must be concerned about their hurts and pains and sufferings and sorrows. I must be devoted to God's plan, faithful to do His will in His timing and that makes me a person of prayer. I must recognize that I have been called and chosen by God and am cherished by Him in the duty that He's given me to do. That I am to be empowered by the Spirit; that I am to be faithful to communicate the message of righteousness to the widest possible shore. I must be committed to humility, gentleness and meekness. I must be an encourager of the weak. I must not spend my time building up the strong but strengthening those who are weak. And in the end, if I am faithful, I too, will know the victory and the triumph. So, the Beloved Servant Son is, not only, my Savior but my model. Father, as we come into your presence in a moment of prayer at the end of this study, we want to thank you for Christ, who gave His life for us, to redeem us, to save us. We want to thank you for the fact that He died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin and rose again, to provide eternal life. But more, Lord, more than that, more than just the work of redemption He did on the Cross, we want to thank you for the kind of person He was. Because He has given us the standard of the kind of people we are to be, particularly those of us who preach and teach and lead Your church. Make us like the Beloved Servant Son.
And then for all of the congregation, Lord, we know too, that we are to be like Him and like our leaders who are like him, even as Paul said, "Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ Jesus." May our devotion to truth, our devotion to Your will, our subservient obedience to Your purposes, our concern and compassion for those in need, our faithfulness to the true message, our humility, our moving in the Spirit of God; all of these things, Lord, may they be characteristics of our lives, in order that all the congregation of God may follow. May it be true of all of us, then, that we enter into the triumph and the victory of the truth of righteousness, as it prevails; even today, through the salvation of souls. To this end we pray, Lord, and that we might be faithful in Christ's name. Amen.
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Disasters of War
So here we are, facing a global economic collapse and an election where both candidates represent the lesser of another evil. It's time to turn to Kurt Vonnegut, whose unique blend of bleak humor, genuine outrage, and dark surreality seems more relevant than ever, and more cogent than a cadre of political and economic analysts. Armageddon… READ MORE >
God is Godard
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The Same Man?
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Roth's Wrath
It's not quite a twist on the level of The Sixth Sense (I read dead people?), but you may raise an eyebrow fifty-or-so pages into Indignation: our narrator is not only unreliable, he may not be corporeal. Philip Roth's idea of the Afterlife is apparently similar to his idea of Old Age: mourn lost youth, nurse grudges, and rage… READ MORE >
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Joanna Olmsted to Lead Search Committee for New River Campus Libraries Leader
Katie Clark and Michael Bell, both senior library leaders at the University of Rochester, have been tapped to serve as Interim Co-Deans of River Campus Libraries. Their terms begin July 1.
The pair will lead the libraries during the national search for a successor to Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of River Campus Libraries, who is leaving to lead the Yale University library system.
"Katie Clark brings to the position a thorough knowledge of library management and the deep admiration of her colleagues; Michael Bell brings a wealth of technical know-how, command of finances, and creative energy," said University Provost Ralph Kuncl. "Together they form an outstanding team, and in fact for some time they have already demonstrated that they are an effective team in day-to-day operations."
Kuncl has designated Professor of Biology Joanna Olmsted, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, to chair the search committee. She will be supported by Kim Weems, assistant to Chief Information Officer David Lewis. Other members of the committee will be named shortly and will include key constituencies. The search committee will be aided by consultant Jean Dowdall, senior vice president of the Witt/Kieffer Global Search Group.
Clark, a professional librarian who worked at Texas A&M, Penn State, and the University of Houston before coming to Rochester in 1999, has been involved in the library's leadership for the past decade. She was originally hired as the director of the Science and Engineering Libraries and since 2008 has served as the associate dean for public services and collection development. Clark has master of library science and master of science degrees from the University of Hawaii.
Clark was part of the innovative team that in recent years studied the research habits of University students and faculty using anthropological methods, as part of the ongoing effort to keep the library relevant in the digital age. She has authored numerous articles in library journals about these path-breaking methods and how they have helped shape more user-friendly library service, from social media outreach and online resources to the redesign of physical space and the extension of library hours.
Michael Bell, as head of information technology in the libraries most recently as assistant dean has spearheaded the development of many of those new online services. He led development of the Medical Center's Blackboard® website that provides online learning and training for more than 10,000 employees and students, and he supervised development of UR Research, the online repository for faculty and graduate student research. Bell also oversaw the eXtensible Catalog, a new tool for simultaneously searching multiple academic databases.
As Interim Co-Dean, Bell will draw on more than 15 years of experience working in University libraries. Before joining River Campus Libraries in 2005, he served as manager of information systems at the Edward G. Miner Library in the Medical Center for eight years and as computing manager for two. Bell earned both an M.B.A. and a B.A. from the University of Rochester and is currently completing his master of science in library and information science from Drexel University.
For the next several months, Bell and Clark will guide a library system that has earned a national reputation as a trendsetter. Libraries around the country (at Cornell, Syracuse, Rice, Wesleyan, Harvard, and Yale) and internationally (in Paris, Cairo, Budapest, and Beirut) are learning the "Rochester method" of employing anthropological studies to better respond to their patrons. Thanks to a Mellon Foundation grant, institutions worldwide can now download the eXtensible Catalog's open-source software. The University's online repository for storing and sharing research, IR Plus, is likewise an open-source software and freely available.
Along with these advances in cyberspace, Gibbons and her predecessor, Ronald F. Dow, led the transformation of physical spaces in Rush Rhees Library, fashioning them into attractive and supportive work environments for students and faculty. The Martin E. Messinger Periodical Reading Room, the Welles-Brown Room, the Great Hall, and the Roger B. Friedlander Lobby were all remodeled, and the Hawkins-Carlson Room, the Gleason Library for undergraduates and the Messinger Graduate Study rooms were created from reallocated space.


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In most industries, beginners work on simple, short projects, using only the most basic concepts that they have learned. The experts in those industries, meanwhile, work on things that are very large, complicated, difficult to manage, and require lots of time, energy and resources. The end result is that the experts produce results that are very complicated, while beginners produce results that are very simple.
For example, take an architect. A beginning architect might design a simple house. You might look at the plan for the house and say, "it's basic, simple, easy to understand ... clearly the work of a beginner." An expert, meanwhile, designs a sky scraper, or an airport, or a sports stadium, that boggles the mind in it's complexity. You would look at the plan for the sky scraper and not even begin to comprehend it -- you truly would recognize that it must be the work of a professional and you'd admire and be intimidated by its complexity.
Yet, in programming, it's the beginners who end up creating large, complicated, unmanageable projects that require lots of resources. Instead of using only the basic concepts, they usually completely disregard them! Looking at a beginner's code, it is often amazing at how much work and complexity they forced upon their project, and how much harder they worked than they needed to. Someone might look at a 1,000 SQL statement with 5 levels of nested cursors that requires 2 1/2 hours to run and think "clearly, this is advanced, complicated stuff written by an expert! It requires a super-computer to run!"
A expert programmer, meanwhile, uses those basic, simple fundamentals to write very short, compact, clear code. That same 1,000 line SQL statement will end up being a simple 1 line SELECT. Looking at that code, one might say "that's it? Seems too simple ... it runs in only a few seconds ... clearly, it was written by a beginner!"
Programming is kind of backwards compared to lots of professions, isn't it?
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So, now, before you and your loved one can cozy up at home beside a romantic fire, you have to say, "Excuse me, darling. I have to call the air board."
So, now, before you and your loved one can cozy up at home beside a romantic fire, you have to say, "Excuse me, darling. I have to call the air board."
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District imposed a few no-burn days on home fireplaces years ago. New rules may ratchet up the days to 47. One out of three winter days. You find out if it's OK to have a fire by calling (800) BIGBROTHER or by visiting the air board's website, www.reallyintrusive.com.
OK, not really. But when you learn where Valley air regulations are going, you'll be shocked.
The trend, as far as fireplaces go, is toward total abolition. The center of human habitation for millennia is an endangered species. Might that be a bit ... much?
The problem, of course, is the Valley's sickening air. According to a 2008 study, cleaning the air to federal standards could prevent:
� 23,300 asthma attacks;
� 188,000 days of school absence;
� 3,000 worker sick days;
� 460 premature deaths;
And produce other health gains. But the question is not whether the air should be cleaned - it should - but whether it can be cleaned by other means. Is it really necessary to sacrifice fireplaces?
Banning home fires on certain days will reduce the "particulate matter" (unhealthful tiny soot) in the air by ... wait for it ... one microgram per cubic meter.
Uncle Sam wants the Valley to reduce that stuff from today's 65 per cubic meter to 35.
Tiny as it sounds, the Valley can't get across the finish line of federal standards without the one-microgram reduction of home fires, said Seyed Sadredin, executive director of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
We've tried everything else, Sadredin said.
"We've been regulating businesses, ag and dairies for about three decades or so," Sadredin said. "Going after fireplaces was not the first thing that we tried."
Seventy percent of home fires are burned not for heat or cooking but for "the aesthetic experience," Sadredin pointed out. Traditional fireplaces lose 90 percent of their heat.
But what about new cleaner-burning fireplaces and woods? The new models are up to 75 percent more efficient.
"Wood stoves and wood stove inserts, and pellet stoves, and pellet inserts ... are cleaner-burning and even getting better," said Leslie Wheeler of the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association. "The San Joaquin air board ought to understand the products today and how they are cleaner."
Banning cleaner-burning fireplaces, too, would seem to punish people who invested in cleaner air.
Sadredin conceded the point. A rule change is in the works to exempt them, he said.
Sadredin freely admits the Valley may be headed for a total fireplace ban, plus a ban on barbecues. And even unimaginable bans if the feds keep tightening pollution standards.
"I think if the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) continues down this path, ... in my view, it will set the maximum where our natural ozone layers are."
Whoa. In other words, Uncle Sam is on the way to saying the ozone that occurs naturally in the Valley is the maximum allowable - meaning man-made forms, such as fossil fuels - cars, trucks, etc., would either have to run on as-yet nonexistent zero-emission gas or be banned!
"Exactly," Sadredin gloomed. "If that standard comes into being, don't worry about climate change regulation - that comes into being at 2050 - with this standard, the only option for us to comply is to ban fossil fuel."
The air board's illiberal regulation of fireplaces, it turns out, is just the canary in the coal mine of federal air pollution regulation that is not realistic for the San Joaquin Valley. "The current system is setting up for failure," Sadredin said.
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Search engine trouble codes.
Example: P0120
B0550 Steyr G-series engine code seems a kind of body problem, we try to show one by one the meaning and the solution.
Brief explanation of the B0550 Steyr G-series code and definition of B0550 Steyr G-series is the bottom side.
Body Code
Problem is antilock brake system, electronic suspension and steering systems.
|SAE - Generic
|Computer And Auxiliary Outputs
|TP Sensor Learn Not Complete
|Transmission Engaged At High Throttle Angle
SAE - Generic codes, which have a '0' as their second digit to indicate they are common to all makes and models of vehicles. These are the codes that are required for basic emissions fault diagnosis.
The oxygen (02) sensors on your car measure the oxygen in the exhaust to determine how rich or lean the ratio of fuel and air are in the cylinders. Optimizing this mixture means better fuel economy and fewer exhaust emissions.
Deactivation of cylinders is achieved by releasing a synchroniser pin that normally interlocks the cam follower and rocker arms. B0550 code resolves the synchroniser pin is released using hydraulic pressure which is controlled by a dedicated solenoid. When you see B0550 Steyr G-series engine fault code on your engine code reader this description will help you.
|B Codes
|List of all Body codes.
Final Step: In the definitions listed below, there is a test drive recommended after you've completed any repairs to see if the condition is fixed. Before you take a test drive after a repair, always erase the B Code(s) first. This will turn the check engine light off and then you will know if the check engine light returns, you've got further diagnostics to complete.
This engine code information is presented for information purposes only. This is not intended as repair advice and we are not responsible for any actions you take on any vehicle.


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A hobby can become a business, but a business is not a hobby. When you register a business, when you start taking money from individuals or businesses in exchange for a product or service, get with the program. Get serious about keeping you and your business out of trouble with your customers and the government.
A hobby can become a business, but a business is not a hobby. When you register a business, when you start taking money from individuals or businesses in exchange for a product or service, get with the program. Get serious about keeping you and your business out of trouble with your customers and the government.
We tease, no matter our age, "When I grow up, I want to be ..."
Starting a business is an official step into the world of grown-ups, even if you have been an adult for a decade or more. Part of getting with the program is knowing how much money, if any, you need to pull from the business to live. This requires preparation of a personal cash flow. Whatever that number, it needs to be bumped up to cover Social Security and Medicare taxes, plus state and federal income taxes.
Next, create your business cash flow to determine feasibility of your brilliant idea. If it looks like a go, think about the persona of this new endeavor. Do some research and chat with your accountant to decide whether to structure it as a DBA (sole proprietorship), LLC, S Corp, C Corp or partnership.
Before settling on a name, make sure you can get an Internet domain name to match it. You should also check with the United States Patent and Trade Office at uspto.gov. A trademark is national, and you do not want to spend money to register a name in your county or state that is trademarked.
Business responsibility means opening a separate checkbook for the business. Label all deposits properly and pay only business bills, which can include paying yourself a draw or a salary, from the business account.
One of the most serious responsibilities you will have involves "baby sitting" tax money. If you collect sales tax or deal with payroll taxes, be a good steward, a good caretaker of the state and federal governments' money. Sales tax and payroll tax money does not belong to you or your company even though it may reside in your checkbook or a set-aside savings account until the due date. The government does not smile on overdue tax money, and interest and penalties can grow like rabbits. In severe cases, the government knows how to empty your checkbook and padlock the door.
Read books, listen to audiotapes and talk to friends and advisers to learn about what you know you don't know, and discover more of what you didn't know you didn't know.
If you go into business with other individuals, make sure everyone knows and follows best accounting practices.
Hobbies are fun. Businesses can be fun, too, even though they have a serious side.
-- Charlene Maurer Finerty, owner of Plans and Profits, LLC, edits, teaches and writes custom business plans. See PlansAndProfits.com. She also offers a Write-Your-Own-Business Plan class on DVD at BusinessPlanWritingClass.com. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com anytime or 343-1515 from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Her column appears alternating Mondays.