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Now we come to Mark chapter 14 and for tonight, verses 27 to 31. We left off this morning in verse 26 as Thursday evening's Passover event ended, an event that began about sundown and didn't end until after midnight. Six hours or so our Lord spent eating the last Passover and introducing the first Communion. In and around that, all kinds of important events took place and our Lord did extensive teaching to His Apostles, giving them promises, all laid out for us in the wonderful chapters in John gospels, starting with chapter 13 and running through chapter 16. Closed out the evening with a great High Priestly prayer recorded in chapter 17. When the evening was finally done, they sang a hymn, Psalm 136 and they left. We pick up the story at that very moment in verse 27.
"And Jesus said to them, 'You will all fall away because it is written, I will strike down the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered. But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.' But Peter said to Him, 'Even though all may fall away, yet I will not.' And Jesus said to him, 'Truly I say to you that this very night before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times.' But Peter kept saying insistently, 'Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You.' And they were all saying the same thing also."
This is an insight into the weakness of the followers of Jesus. You do remember that our Lord said, as recorded in 8:38, that whoever was ashamed of Him, He would be ashamed of them. Certainly Judas falls into the category of those who were permanently and terminally ashamed of Him. But what about the other eleven? How much different than Judas were they? They didn't betray the Lord, they wouldn't sell the Lord. They wouldn't have turned the Lord over, but they certainly appear to be ashamed to be identified with Him. And before the story ends, of course, no one is more on display as one who was ashamed to be identified with Christ than Peter. The shame of Judas was the shame of unbelief. The shame of the eleven was the shame of weakness. The shame of Judas was irretrievable, without remedy. The shame of the disciples was temporary and could be turned to faith. In fact, their story, really, is ended in terms of how we view them in the fifth chapter of Acts and the forty-first verse where it says, "Of the Apostles, they went on their way from the presence of the council," that's the same Jewish Sanhedrin, "rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name."
Judas went out and hanged himself and went to his own place, the Lake of Fire, because his shame was permanent. The disciples ended up offering their lives in the death of martyrs because they recovered from their temporary shame. The difference is, they belong to the Lord and the resources of the Lord were at their disposal.
So what we learn here is not about the shame of Judas, not about a permanent, damning shame, but about a temporary shame from which the followers of Jesus can and do recover. It's experience that we all have had because there have been times when each of us have been ashamed to identify with Christ because we thought we'd be rejected, because we thought we'd see hostility, because we thought it might bring about negative consequences. It was Martyn Lloyd-Jones who said, "If you have never been ashamed to openly proclaim the gospel, it is not because you are so courageous, it is because you probably don't understand the gospel." Because if you really proclaim the full gospel, you have to confront the sinner in a way that will cause the sinner to reject what you say and you along with it. And that can drive us to silence.
So it will be helpful for us to understand how these men went through that experience of shame and came out bold in the end. And that's exactly what they did. However, this text doesn't say anything really specifically about our Lord. It really is about them, that they will be scattered, that they will be recovered and then the claims of Peter. But what shines through this is the majesty and the magnificence and the glory of the Son of God.
Now if you're looking back at verses 27 to 31 and saying, "Where is it?" That's why I'm here. I want to help you to see what you might otherwise not see. You have here clearly an example of human weakness by believers in Christ. You have here, in a sense, the low for His Apostles. But against that background, what really comes through here is the shining majesty of Jesus Christ.
Now to set the scene one more time, in the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, if you totaled all the chapters and all the verses that talk about our Lord's life from birth through His silent years, it would total four chapters, out of 89 chapters, four chapters on His life up to His thirtieth year when He began His ministry. There would be 29 chapters of the gospels directed at the last week and thirteen chapters directed at Friday, the last day. So all of a sudden, we're dealing with a lot of information because this is the most important time. Now remember, the Passover meal on Thursday night after sunset being eaten, ended with the final Hallel section. Then the fourth cup and then Psalm 136 where every verse ends with "For His lovingkindness endures forever," and then they left. An evening that was full of promise and hope.
John 18:1 says that He left with His disciples and headed for the Mount of Olives. Obviously, starting in verse 27, this is when the incident here occurs, after they have left the upper room and are on their way to the Mount of Olives.
Now on the Mount of Olives, on the slope of the Mount of Olives was a garden called the Garden of Gethsemane where there was an olive press because the Mount of Olives was called the Mount of Olives because it was an olive grove. What was going to happen on that mount in the middle of the night was a rendezvous with Judas and the arrest of Jesus would take place. He would be tried in the morning, crucified later in the morning, to die in the afternoon as the sacrifice as the Lamb.
He will always be known as the Lamb. In the book of Revelation, He is referred to more as a Lamb than any other term. I think 20 times or so in the book of Revelation which gives you the future and heavenly view of Christ, He is referred to as the Lamb. So the Lamb who will be slain in a few hours, leads His little group to the Mount of Olives. Out of the upper room, around midnight, out the temple gate toward the eastern slope of the temple mount, the temple mount being elevated, they would go down the slope out the east side, across the Kidron Valley where the Kidron Brook would be flowing at this time of year in the spring, a time of rain and the water flowing in the brook would be mingled with the blood from all the lambs that were being slaughtered and the blood would trail down the slope into that little stream and Jesus then would cross with them the bloody stream draining out of the temple.
As they made their way that direction, the houses of the city would be lit with candles because they would all be awake, all the exciting events of that weekend and some of them from Galilee would be celebrating that night the Passover meal, others would be preparing the Passover meal for the next day. The temple gates were to be opened at midnight to let any other pilgrims in for the Passover on Friday.
So they would cross the brook and they would climb the western slope of the Mount of Olives, perhaps along the place where He had sat with them on Wednesday night and given them the great message about His Second Coming. The Lord may be reminded as He made this little walk of the fact that He was basically following the same route that David had walked when he was fleeing from the pursuit of Absalom, according to 2 Samuel 15. You remember David went up the Mount of Olives barefoot and weeping.
So as the Twelve leave the throbbing city to find quiet in a very familiar place, they were about to have a confrontation with the Lord in which they affirm their trust and strength and courage and He tells them the truth about what they will do. In this confrontation and exposure of their weakness, you see the majesty of Christ. There's no point in looking at their weakness, we see that and that we can identify with. But what the Holy Spirit has placed in this text which is not necessarily on the surface is what I'm going to show you as we look at our Lord.
First of all, we're going to see His knowledge…His knowledge. We would conclude that they are ignorant. They don't know the future. They don't know what's coming, even what He told them about, they're not sure about. They're not sure they can embrace it. In the midst of their ignorance, they are full of fear and doubt that will become panic, terror, cause them to flee and even deny Christ repeatedly, as in the case of Peter. That's against the backdrop of their ignorance, fear rising out of their ignorance.
In contrast to that is the knowledge of Christ, wonderful, wondrous, supernatural knowledge. Let's look at verse 27. "Jesus said to them, 'You will all fall away.'" Wow. You will all fall away. The Greek verb is skandalizo. You will be scandalized, you will be offended. You will defect. That, dear friends, is indicative of His supernatural knowledge. He knew they would do that. He didn't know it because they gave Him that information, they gave Him the opposite testimony. But He knew because He knew everything, the things that hadn't yet happened were as well known to Him as the things that had happened. He knew the moments ahead. He knew the hours ahead. He knew what would happen this night. Matthew 26 says, "You will all fall away this night." He knew what was coming in the very hours ahead of them. He saw the black clouds. He felt the plot of the Jews coming to its completion. He anticipated the arrival of the entourage of the Roman soldiers and the Sanhedrin and Judas into the Garden, in the midst of the night.
It was all known to Him because, please notice, it was written…it was written. He knew it and it had been written down in Scripture and He even quotes the Scripture in verse 27, the Scripture from Zechariah 13:7, "I will strike down the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered." "It is written" is a common, Old Testament formula. Jesus said, "I know what's going to happen because I know everything, even what hasn't happened. And I know what Scripture says. So He knew…He knew the events of the future and He knew the meaning of the past. He knew what was coming because He knew everything and He knew how to interpret Zachariah 13:7, "I will strike down the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered." He knew. He also knew His own future, that He would be struck down and that that would cause them to be filled with fear and terror and scattered.
If you go back to the thirteenth chapter of Zechariah for just a moment, you get a bit of the setting in which this prophecy is given. Verse 7, "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man, my associate, declares the Lord of hosts. Strike the shepherd that the sheep may be scattered and I will turn my hand against the little ones."
This is amazing…amazing. Zechariah has been talking about false prophets. He's been talking about false prophets who would be wounded in their idol houses, the houses where they worship idols. But now he turns to the true shepherd and he says, "God's Shepherd, My Shepherd, My associate," declares the Lord of hosts, "that Shepherd, that true Shepherd will also be wounded." And Jehovah here is the speaker and Messiah is the one of whom he speaks. This is a messianic prophecy.
Jesus again was afflicted by God. "Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd." God is calling His own sword against His own Shepherd. It is God who strikes Messiah. "O sword, strike the Shepherd." Then again I say, it isn't Judas who led Him to the cross, although he played a role, it isn't the Sanhedrin, the Romans, it isn't Pilate, Caiaphas, or Herod. It is God, My Shepherd. God's personal representative. My Associate, My fellow, say some texts. Literally the Hebrew is "The Man of My union, the Man who is united with Me, My equal." And the word for "man" here is not the normal Hebrew word for man, it's the word for a strong or mighty man. All of these are messianic references not only to the Messiah but the Messiah who is the Son of God.
So the prophet said that God Himself with His own sword will slay one who is His personal representative, who is His equal. This is a statement to the nature of Christ as bearing the same essence as God Himself. The result of the Shepherd being smitten by God will be the scattering of the sheep…the scattering of the sheep.
Some see this as referring not just to the Apostles, some would extend it to the scattering of the whole nation, the worldwide dispersion of Israel after their rejection of Jesus Christ. But it certainly refers to the Apostles primarily because that's how Jesus applies it. If He is the exegete of Zachariah 7 and applies it to the Apostles, it certainly must be applied primarily to them. And it could be extended to the fact that Israel in its rejection was also scattered. But the primary emphasis here is to the Apostles because that is how our Lord interprets it. The Twelve, or the Eleven become the first casualties, in a sense, to His death. There will be more casualties, do you see how Zechariah 13:7 ends? Zechariah 13:7 has a quite interesting ending. I'll just point it out to you again because it refers, I think, beyond the Apostles. "I will turn My hand against the little ones."
What is that? "I will turn My hand against the little ones." That probably refers to the fact that God is going to allow His own to be persecuted…to be persecuted. For the sake of the purity of the early church and the purity of the gospel, there will come persecution. It came first to the Apostles and then to the early church, as we know, and continues through history.
The point here is simply this. Jesus knew the future. He knew what was coming. He knew what was going to happen to the disciples. He knew what was going to happen to the nation. He knew the persecution was going to follow against them and against believers, even beyond them. This was all prewritten in the scriptures of the Old Testament. He knew all that was going on with Judas, all that was going on with the Jews, how it would all come into focus in a few hours and what would happen. This is no mere man, this is the Messiah, the Son of God. The best, the most devout, the truest of the true in Israel were these Eleven Apostles. They were true believers in Christ. They had confessed Him as Lord and God and Messiah. They had been given salvation. They were the devout. They were the best. But the truth about them was really sad.
Why would the Lord assume that that would happen to them? Because He knew and because it was written. This is so important, I think, for them to learn a lesson, that no one can know the future but God and no one can predict what is coming but God, and He did.
David Thomas wrote, "Christ knew well all that was coming upon Him that night. He not only saw all the clouds that would blacken His heavens, but knew every peel of thunder, every flash of lightning, every drop of rain they would send upon His Spirit that night. All was foreknown and forearranged. The very prospect of all our life trials would crush us long before they came, but Christ had that sublime magnanimity that enabled Him to look at them in all their enormity in the distance, approach them without a faltering step, enter them with a Spirit of unconquerable loyalty to heaven and pass through them with the moral energy of God," end quote.
If we knew everything that was going to happen to us in the future, we would be traumatized into a paralysis. Our Lord knew every detail, every move that would come upon Him and His followers. The disciples thought they knew themselves, they didn't. They didn't.
So we see, first of all, His knowledge coming through in this incident. Secondly, we see His courage…His courage. He says, go back to the text, "You will all fall away. You will all fall away." That's a prophecy. You will all be caught in a trap. That's what that word means. The fear of man brings a snare, Proverbs 29:25 says, "You're all going to be trapped by your fear." You're going to end up being disloyal. You're going to be lured into the sin of unfaithfulness by the fear of persecution. You're going to leave Me. Just like Zechariah said, "You're going to scatter." And that's exactly what happened. When the pressure was on and Christ was taken captive to be killed, the inseparable Eleven separated. It blew that little group that had been together for three years apart.
They continued with some connections, Peter and John are seen together. But the group essentially dissolved. This explains, for example, the absence of Thomas on the Sunday night after the resurrection. This explains why you have two disciples just wandering off the road to Emmaus. These men who had been inseparable for three years are now fragmented. This explains why in Galilee when the Lord came to appear to them, there are only seven of them together when the Lord meets them by the lake. And it was only some time later, Matthew 28:16, that all eleven of them, minus Judas, of course, came back together. They were brought back together for His Ascension. They were brought back together for the sending of the Holy Spirit. But on the day of the Lord's death, their little group fragmented out of fear. You will all fall away, "Because of Me….Because of Me."
Our Lord meant that being identified with Him would be threatening to their lives. It would become dangerous to be associated with Christ. That's how they perceived it. They were set to kill Christ and they did it. The disciples could only interpret the fact that their close connection with Christ could mean they were next. And they were not willing to pay that price of being associated with Jesus. They were not ready to give their lives.
In Matthew 26:56 says, "All this took place to fulfill the scriptures of the prophets. Then all the disciples left Him and fled." They ran for their lives. They couldn't face the danger.
What shallow love they returned for His perfect love. That is so cowardly…so cowardly. Admittedly, identifying with Jesus Christ can be dangerous. It can be dangerous today. It has been dangerous through all of church history. Hebrews 11 talks about how Moses was willing to bear the reproach of Christ even in his day, rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, he was willing to put his life on the line.
But on that night, the price was just too high, the moment was too scary and they fled to safety and scattered. The sudden event literally dissolved them. Peter sneaks around in the darkness on the fringes at a distance, trying to deal with the tension that he feels between his love for Christ and his fear for his own life. And they're weak and cowardly.
And in contrast to that, what do you see? The amazing courage of Christ. And this again is why I say, this passage puts Him on display without even saying it. He has courage beyond any mortal, to bear the hatred, to bear the pain, to bear the indignity, to bear the betrayal, to receive the betrayer's kiss, to face death, death on a cross, to bear sin willingly for the sake of men who forsook Him in His darkest hour, men who not only scattered at the cross, but slept in the hour of His agony in the Garden.
His knowledge is perfect, and it's set against the background of their ignorance. His courage is magnificent and its set against the background of their cowardice. He stands apart from the ignorant cowards who were the best of men but no match for His character. He is majestic in contrast and His defective disciples cannot diminish the majesty and dignity that we see in His person. Hard to really fathom the disappointment that our Lord must have felt. They were ashamed of Him, ashamed to be identified with Him and yet in Hebrews it tells us that He is not ashamed to call them and us brothers.
Paul rises above this, doesn't he?, in Romans 1:16 and says, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto salvation." He says to Timothy, "For I am not ashamed to suffer for Christ."
Why should we be ashamed? Apparently Timothy was struggling with this, even later. And Paul writes to him in that same chapter, 2 Timothy 1, "Do not be ashamed of the Lord." Peter sends the same message in 1 Peter 4, "Don't be ashamed of Christ."
All of this indicates that we're not impervious to the very same kind of temporary momentary shame that comes on us out of fear. So we see the ignorance…they don't know what's coming, and the cowardice, they fear for their lives, the disciples against the beautiful backdrop of the magnificent knowledge of Christ, supernatural omniscience and His wondrous courage as He steps into the vortex of this hurricane of divine wrath which is about to break on His head and take His precious life. And in it all, He'll be absolutely deserted by those who should have stood by Him.
We also see here His power, verse 28. "But after I'd been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee." Our Lord sees beyond the cross to…what?...to the resurrection. After I have been raised. That's another indication of His omniscience. He knows He will die. He knows they will scatter, but He also knows that He will be raised from the dead. He has said it again and again. He will die and rise again. It's recorded that He has said that specifically three times already in the gospel of Mark. He believed what Abraham believed. Hebrews 11, verses 17 to 19, that if God took the life of Isaac, He would raise him from the dead. Well Jesus not only believed in His resurrection, He knew it would happen because He knew everything. He knew He had power over death, He had displayed that power in raising others from the dead, most recently actually raising Lazarus from the dead.
The disciples feared death, that's why they ran. They feared death, that's why they scattered. They feared death, that's why they disappeared into the darkness and into the crowd, as it were, filling up Jerusalem. All of this because they feared death. Our Lord had no fear of death. He looked death in the face, it wasn't death that He feared, the horror that came upon Him in the Garden wasn't death, although He had never died, of course, and it was only a physical death, but He feared the horrors in a normal way of the wrath of God and He feared being the sin bearer cause He had never been touched by iniquity. That's why He cried out necessarily, "Let this cup pass from Me." He had no fear of death itself because He knew that He, as Revelation 1 puts it, had the keys of death and hell.
Scripture makes a strong emphasis about His resurrection power. The beginning of His ministry in John 2 verses 19 to 21, He said, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." In John 5 He said that John had given Him the power delegated to Him, all authority and all power for the resurrection and He would raise people, some unto life and some unto damnation. In John 6 He said, "All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me and I will lose none of them, but raise them up." He said, "Because I live, you will live also." He said, "I am the resurrection and the life, whoever believes in Me will never die." Over and over again He repeatedly expressed His power of resurrection.
The writer of Hebrews says that He shattered the power of Satan who had the power of death temporarily. So Jesus here says, "After I have been raised." No doubt He knew He would be raised, as I said, He said it repeatedly.
And then He said, "I will go ahead of you to Galilee." Literally, I will lead you forward, that's what that means. It doesn't mean I'll…I'll…I'll go there and sometime you'll show up. I will lead you there, personally, I will shepherd you into Galilee.
He makes a promise then to return after His death and personally, listen, bring together the scattered sheep, personally bring them together. And that's what He did. He brought them together.
It didn't take long. Matthew 28, Jesus met them, greeted them, brought them all together as the twenty-eighth chapter of Matthew goes on, "Do not be afraid. Go and take word to My brethren to leave for Galilee and there they will see Me." He brought them together there. The eleven proceeded to Galilee, verse 16, to the mountain that Jesus had designated and when they saw Him, they worshiped Him as some were doubtful. And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority is given to Me in heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.'"
He got them all together at the end. They were all together when He ascended from an area near Jerusalem, again they were all together. They were all together in the upper room and the Holy Spirit came. He recovered them all. He restored them all. This was not an irremediable kind of defection, like that of Judas. This is not apostasy, this is a momentary failure, weak faith, weak love, cowardice. But our Lord recovered them all. He promised He would and He did. So we see here His knowledge as against their ignorance, against their cowardice, His power against their weakness.
There's something else, I guess, to say here about the contrast, let's just call it His humility. And, in a sense, it's contrasted against their pride. Verse 29, "Peter said to Him," here's the proud confidence of Peter who speaks and they all agree, as it says at the end of verse 31, "Even though all may fall away, yet I will not." This is the proud confidence of Peter. This is really very, very persistent pride. Why? Because if you go back to the upper room, let's go back a little while, maybe a few hours earlier in the evening, and Jesus is sitting at the table in the upper room, having the Passover, and Simon Peter in John 13:36 said to Him, "Lord, where are You going? And Jesus answered, 'Where I go, you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.'" And He's referring to going back to heaven, that's in the future for you. Peter said to Him, this is in the upper room, hours earlier, "Lord, why cannot I follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You."
Wow! "And Jesus said, 'Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.'" He said that to Peter hours earlier, sitting at the table in the upper room. Now here we are in the Mount of Olives and Peter is still making the same insistent claim, "'Even though all may fall away, yet I will not.'" In other words, Lord, You're wrong. Don't you think he had thought about those words of our Lord? If I had been sitting in the upper room, and Jesus looked into my eyes and said, "I'm telling you, you will deny Me three times before the cock crows." That would have been indelibly pressed upon my mind. Peter's response should have been, "Lord, how can I avoid doing that?" But he is so insistent about his imagined strength, that he comes off as proud. "I will never do that. Everybody else might, I will not."
"And Jesus said to him, 'Truly I say to you, this very night before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times.'" And Jesus gives him the same warning, the second time.
Well, Peter didn't buy that. Verse 31, "He kept saying, insistently, vehemently…is another way to translate that. He is stubbornly rejecting our Lord's knowledge of his own weakness. Peter really reveals his pride here.
The conversation gets a little more extensive. Look at Luke 22, you'll remember this. It's not just what we have in Mark, we have to add what happened in Luke 22, and this is very familiar. Verse 31, "Simon, Simon," called him by his old name because he's acting like his old self. "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat." Wow! "But I've prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when once you've turned again, strengthen your brothers. But he said to Him, 'Lord, with You I am ready to go both to prison and to death.'" And He said, "I'm telling you, Peter, this is the third time, the rooster will not crow again until you have denied Me three times, you will deny Me on three separate independent occasions, you will deny that you even know Me."
That's the third time he told Him he would deny Him on three occasions. And by the way, on those three occasions, there were multiple denials. And he says, "This is a severe trial, Peter, this is a satanic trial, Satan wants to sift you." This is the business that Satan is in, trying to disprove the character of the faith of Job unsuccessfully, trying to disprove the character of the saving faith granted to Peter unsuccessfully, even though there's a momentary failure, trying to disprove the saving faith of the Apostle Paul by pounding him with the satanic messenger ramming a spear through his flesh, as Paul refers to it in 2 Corinthians. Satan is in the business of attempting to shatter saving faith, and he can't do it. He needs permission and the Lord gives him permission so that when Peter is recovered, he can help strengthen other brothers because he's been through the most dire of temptations coming from Satan himself.
But when He says, "Satan has desired to sift you like wheat," He uses a plural "you" in Luke 22, meaning not only Peter, He uses the plural, humos, but all of you. Peter thought he was strong. He even thought he was a match for his enemies and he would rise above their threats. Peter even thought he was a match for Satan, more than a match. That's pretty treacherous ground. He was near to Judas in serious danger, proud, he sought prominence, willing to stand alone. He put himself in a very vulnerable place, on very dangerous ground.
And by the way, Satan had messed with him before. Remember in Matthew chapter 16 where he said, "No, no, Jesus, You're not going to die, You're not going to die." And Jesus said, "Get behind Me, Satan." And you also remember that Satan entered into Judas, John 13:27, right there in the upper room and Judas left to carry out his betrayal. Now Satan is after Peter and he's after the rest of them.
How could they be so bold and so proud when they were sinners who are weak and they were going to go through a satanic attack? Peter and the rest who joined in this, and they all joined in it, all of them were saying the same thing, verse 31 says. They all lived with an illusion about their spiritual strength. Three really serious, proud sins, they contradicted the Lord who said they would do this, they denied it. Peter sinned secondly by claiming to be stronger than the rest and by, thirdly, trusting in his own strength. "I will die before I will deny You."
He is not just proud, he is emphatically proud…emphatically. And Jesus is just as emphatic in verse 30, "Truly I say to you, this very night before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times this very night." Peter will disown Christ. He will with an oath and a curse deny Christ in a matter of hours and he'll do it with the same vehemence and the same emphatic attitude that he displays here. Proverbs 29:23 says, "A man's pride will bring him low." When pride comes, Proverbs 11:2 says, "Shame follows."
Now what's this about a rooster crow? The Jews divided nighttime into four segments. Remember this? From six in the evening till six in the morning was the night. The first was called evening, six to nine. Nine to twelve was called midnight. Twelve to three was called the rooster crow. And three to six was morning. Peter, before three in the morning, you will have denied Me three times. Before the rooster crows twice, you will have denied Me three times.
And he did. We know the rest of the history and we'll get to that. And when he heard that rooster crow, what did he do? Matthew tells us, Luke tells us that he went out and wept bitterly. They all had the same illusion. Peter says, "Even if I have to die with You, I'll not deny You," they're all saying the same thing. They are proud to a very, very ugly degree. So proud they contradict the Lord. So proud they overestimate their own spiritual strength. So proud they are unprepared for what is to come. And against that ugly pride is this amazing humility of Christ who humbly faces the cross. Forsaken by them, hated by His own nation, rejected, He is magnificent in humility against the contrast of the ugly, boastful pride of the Apostles.
So, I say, in this experience here, while we see the ugly side of it, we see the ignorance and the pride of the Apostles, we also see a majesty of Christ in wonderful and beautiful contrast.
I need to tell you that what I said at the beginning is very important. This was not a terminal defection. This was not an apostasy they were restored. They were actually restored after the resurrection on that very night. With Thomas missing, they were collected together again the following Sunday, the first day of the week, when they were all there with Thomas. They were collected together finally in Galilee, they were all there when Jesus ascended and they were all there on the Day of Pentecost. They were restored.
And then, as I told you, in Acts 5:41, they were subsequent to this, willing to suffer for Christ and to be killed, if need be. They were unashamed, Acts 5:41.
What made the difference? I'll tell you what made the difference. What made the difference was the coming of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:8, "You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you." You remember that Jesus promised them in the upper room in John's gospel, the Holy Spirit has been with you, that's an Old Testament concept, but He shall be in you. It is not a matter of whether the Holy Spirit was with the people in the Old Testament. Yes, He was with the people in the Old Testament. But in the New, there is a dimension that is unknown in the past because our Lord says He has been with you, He will be in you. And the power will be accelerated, and they were never ashamed after the Holy Spirit came upon them in Acts chapter 2 on the Day of Pentecost. They never were ashamed again. They went out and boldly preached Christ. Peter, by tradition, was crucified upside down, all the others were martyred until John, the last of them was exiled to Patmos and died in exile there for the cause of Christ. And throughout history, this is what believers have done. They have been faithful to the end. The history of martyrdom starts with these men, the Apostles, goes through human history, some of us are familiar with the history of those who gave their lives for the gospel. We all know about Foxe's Book of Martyrs and what happened in England and other places. We know that history even comes down to our time today.
When Christians are confronted with Christ, as so objectionable and so hated that if they do not deny Him, they will lose their lives, the history is that believers will lose their lives rather than deny Christ. They will be truthful.
I was reading this week about Islam and there are some very interesting things about their theology. One of them is that if your life is threatened, you can lie about being a Muslim. You can lie about anything. You can lie for two reasons. Reason number one, to protect your life. And number two, to advance the cause of Islam. This is in the their writings. Consequently you can't really believe anything they say because they can lie to protect themselves and advance their cause. Allah will forgive those lies on the basis that it protects a Muslim and advances Islam. That is quite different from Christian testimony. Believers tell the truth even if it means death.
How are we empowered to such strength? How are we empowered to such resolve, such courage? It is by the power of the Holy Spirit.
You say, "Well I don't know if I could do that? I don't know if I could stand up to that."
You know, I believe we all should have that kind of distrust, that wholesome kind of distrust and not over estimate what would be our commitment in that kind of hour. But having said that, at the same time, do you remember the words of our Lord? And this is a good place to end tonight, let's look at John 15. "If the world hates you," verse 18, "we know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you are of the world, the world would love its own, but because you're not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. Remember the word I said to you. A slave is not greater than his master. If they persecuted you, they will also persecute Me. If they kept My Word, they'll keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My namesake because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sinned. But now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me, hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sinned. But now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But they have done this to fulfill the Word that is written in their law, they hated Me without a cause." Taken from the Psalms. When the helper, the Holy Spirit comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me and you will testify also because you've been with Me from the beginning. These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling. They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me. But these things I have spoken to you so that when the hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I didn't say to you at the beginning because I was with you. But now I'm going to Him who sent Me."
In other words, Jesus says it's appropriate to tell you now that this is going to come. He goes on to talk about this and it all wraps up, I love this, in verse 32, "Behold, an hour is coming and has already come for you to be scattered, each to his own home and to leave me alone and yet I'm not alone because the Father is with Me. These things I've spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace in the world, you will have tribulation but take courage, I have overcome the world."
It's going to come. Be ready. You have the Holy Spirit and you have the promise of triumph.
And then He did something that sealed us. He prayed the prayer of John 17. Verse 15, "I do not ask, Father, that You take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil one."
"I do not ask," verse 20, on behalf of these alone, but for these also who believe in Me through their word, all who follow the Apostles in faith, that they may all be one, even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You that they also may be in us that the world may believe that You sent Me." Verse 24, "Father, I desire that they also whom You have given Me be with Me where I am, that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world."
We are protected from an ultimate defection by the will of our Savior who in this intercessory prayer prays according to the Father's will that nothing…nothing will separate us from Him…nothing.
If you ever were to face the kind of thing that these men faced, the kind of persecution and martyrdom that believers through the years have faced and some face today, I can promise you confident in the prayers of our Savior, that in that hour the grace that you need and perhaps even the words that you need to speak would be granted to you. And as a true believer, your faith would not fail.
In the meantime, let us rise above ever being ashamed of Christ, right? Let's pray.
We never want to be a disappointment to You, our Lord, we know You love us perfectly, You love us consummately, completely. We never ever want to be ashamed of You. In some acts of self-protection, self-preservation, not for the sake of our lives, but for the sake of eliminating conflict, for the sake of being accepted, we are ashamed to speak the truth. May we, like the Apostle Paul, be able to say I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because I know it's the power of God to salvation. May we never be ashamed of You. May we rise above our own weakness in Your strength. May we overcome our tendency toward failure and self-protection by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, who enables us and empowers us to be all that we can be. May we stand in the long line of those who have lived and even faced death faithful to You. You are worthy of that faithfulness and that kind of integrity and we want to give that to You. Enable us, Lord, we would say very unlike Peter and the rest, we are not in our own strength able, but in Your strength we can be unashamed even to the point of death and all points short of that as well.
Give us then that boldness that we should have to speak Your glorious gospel. And we thank You again for a picture of the majesty of our Savior in His knowledge, in His humility, in His power, that even shines through this huge disappointment at the crucial hour of His life. Help us to always give Him honor and never be a disappointment. That's our prayer and that's our desire because that's His will for us. We thank You, Lord, for the promise of enablement and power available to us if we willingly are obedient. We thank You in Your Son's name, Lord. Amen.
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Pat Robertson - Alzheimer's - Reaction
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Botched Recording Big Problem In Moscow Hearing
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — A judge is calling Moscow Police detectives' decision to record over a key portion of an interview with a man accused of killing his wife a "pretty big oversight." Magistrate John C. Judge said during a preliminary hearing Wednesday that a district judge would have to address the lost statement if the two men are bound over for a criminal trial. Charles Capone is facing murder charges in the disappearance of his estranged wife, Rachael Anderson.


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That deep seeded need to write found its way to the public eye in 2011 with the launch of SAHM.
Fast forward 4 years and a few thousand articles Jody has fulfilled her dream of being published in print.
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Oasis claims to be Australia's Number 1 Free Dating Site, with 100% free to contact and chat with other members.
It has over 1.6 million members and is focused on the younger more 'upwardly mobile' set.
With the 2014 launch of Once a Month Cooking and 2015's Live Well on Less, thanks to Penguin Random House, Jody shows no signs of slowing down.
They have cheeky adult personals, webcam chat rooms and seek to hook up like-minded members looking for casual sex. For the over 40's set – a very old fashion, easy to use website that seems priced well. Got some bad press in the past, more for the 18 – 25 market.Online dating gives you an alternative way to meet new people outside of the typical bar and club scene.So if you secretly dread going out to loud bars and clubs on the weekends, online dating may just be the answer you've been looking for.You can do it early in the morning, late at night or even during your lunch hour. The best part about online dating, many people say, is that you can get a pretty good idea of whether you'd actually have a connection with someone before meeting them.Your online profile gives you an opportunity to express yourself, what you're all about and what you're looking for.
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So Exai dropped Valentine's Day, didn't hear anything about it and was surprised a thread hadn't been started here.
One of the greatest electronic duos of all time, this band basically paved the way for my love of electronic music today. Incunabula - Amber - Tri Repetae has got to be one of the greatest run of albums in music history.
What are peoples thoughts on Exai? I'm about to listen to it for the first time now. A little over 2 hours, so it takes some dedication.
Lets talk about Autechre.
its great
like, really good.
I really like it
It`s probably my favourite of their`s since LP5.
absolutely agree
It's a truly fantastic album. And yes there was a small thread about it. P4K are well off the mark with their review.
think LP5 is probably my favourite.
There was a (small) thread
haven't heard it.heartworms this'd this
Not sure yet...
As with any Autechre album, they take a while to fully get into. However, after initial listens I can't help feeling thus: Quaristice and Oversteps were these fully-formed, very distinct soundworlds, very different to their earlier music but brilliant, whereas this sounds a bit muddled, takes a bit of both the previous albums, and a bit of their early stuff, and tends to chuck it all at the wall. It's certainly impressive in places but I wonder whether it has enough of its own identity. But as I say, this could change in a few months' time!
I think that Quaristice and Oversteps...
...might be my two favourite albums of theirs.
I'm really really liking it
think the p4k review is a bit wankjontosh2001 this'd this
Listening to '1 1 is' through headphones
is making the inside of my head feel itchy
So basically
the Japanese bonus track is the best track on the album.
Fucking hell.
The question is...
...will ever Autechre return to their early (and best) sound from Incunabula/Amber/Tri Repetae/EPs? Or they will continue with this really abstract, mechanized and hard to understand music?
hopefully not
i dont want them to
not sure what the question is
I like better albums..? by autechre.. or someone else..? either way not sure if its possible. wouldnt want them to waste 15 years trying to recreate that though
I meant if you like more
(the question was quite poorly written)
yes, i enjoy everything theyve released.
Those are some of my favourite albums
but I feel like they shouldn't really touch on something they've already perfected? I quite like where they're going, it's a bit more difficult, but it's a nice progression from their earlier work. I like Exai because it's nowhere near as difficult as Confield, but at the same time shares some of the ambient elements of their earlier stuff underneath the mechanical sounding rhythms.
It is difficult to listen to it as a full album though because of how long it is, and how it can be slightly jarring, but then again I've had this problem with most Ae records. Small doses seems to work quite well with this kinda thing. 'T ess xi' and 'deco Loc' are highlights for me so far.
It's very good, but it's definitely too long
The last four tracks are absolutely magnificent, it would be better to get to them a bit quicker.
Aside from Bladeloris [which has quite a lot in common with their 90`s albums] it`s a pretty dark album lacking melody and warmer moments. But somehow it`s very addictive and enjoyable and the 2 hrs go by pretty fast. Takes quite a while to get your head and ears round it though, but it`s worth it I reckon.
I'm really enjoying T ess xi
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Just two days after the Pella golf team took the crown at the Knoxville Invitational at Pine Knolls, the Panthers fought back to win a duel with the Dutch at the same site Monday.
Local boys golf teams took three of the top four spots in Monday's Pella Christian Invite. Using the knowledge of their home course and the meet's individual medalist to their advantage, the Pella High boys took first place with a 323 at the Bos Landen Golf Club in Pella; putting them in front of host Pella Christian, who was runner-up with a 332. The PCM boys were defeated for the first time this season, placing fourth and shooting a combined score of 338 – two strokes behind third-place Williamsburg.
Despite the minor setback, Mustangs' head coach Michael Smith says a tournament this challenging at this point in the season is good for his team.
"It's always good to go up against the best competition. There's a lot of teams here that have already moved on out of their Sectionals and are going to Districts. So it's not like we're playing some cupcakes or anything. We get to see a bunch of really good golfers, and it puts our kids in situations that they're going to run into [during the postseason]," said Smith. "Playing a course like this, to me, is still always beneficial – even though the kids struggled today. You've got to play tough courses. It helps make you want to improve, and I think it's beneficial."
A short-staffed Knoxville boys team finished in 15th place with a combined score of 420. Individually, Pella High's Sean Rennich had the low round, as his 18-hole score of 75 led three Little Dutch golfers in the top ten.
This is really the first year I've started scoring and the first time I got a first place [finish]. It feels awesome just to know that all of your time and effort put into it is starting to pay off," said Rennich. "With three of us shooting in the 70s and three of us in the top ten, I think we'll have a lot of good thoughts coming away from today and I hope it can continue into Friday so we can go to State."
PCM's Hunter Van Veen was meet runner-up with a 77. Several of the squads that made up the 19-team field took part in the meet in the midst of postseason tournament play. Pella Christian head coach Jim Dingeman said his team's performance was an important step in building their confidence before the next round of the postseason.
"This is the first time we've gotten six scores in the 80s or lower – no other team did that today – yet my guys are still not quite satisfied," said Dingeman. "Every guy was telling me 'you know, I had a three-putt here' or ' I hit a bad shot there' and 'I need to get a little bit better' and the fact that they continue to shoot to get better makes me really happy. We've got two days to get better before Districts and hopefully take a trip to State."
Pella Christian and PCM will face each other once more at Thursday's District Meet at Lake Panorama, while the Pella High boys will return to action for their District Meet on Friday.
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Nick launching sports awards show
March 13, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Nickelodeon is looking to slime some athletes.
The network plans to announce Thursday that it's starting a sports award show this summer. The show will be modeled after Nick's popular Kids' Choice Awards that honor the highs and lows in entertainment. The first sports show will be held in Los Angeles in July, with former football star and daytime talk-show host Michael Strahan as host.
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Rich Rodriguez
Position in 2011: Fired by Michigan (after Randy Edsall's hire)
Position in 2012: Arizona head coach
Arizona's previous five seasons: 2007: 5-7; 2008: 8-5; 2009: 8-5; 2010: 7-6; 2011: 4-8 (32-31, .508 combined)
Arizona's past two seasons: 2012: 8-5; 2013: 8-5 (16-10, .615 combined)
Rivals.com recruiting rankings: 2013: No. 37; 2014: No. 16
Attendance: 2012: 47,931 (82.92 percent); 2013: 47,619 (84.98 percent)
Skinny: So certain was Rodriguez's end at Michigan that Maryland officials reportedly met with him during their coaching search while he was still in charge of the Wolverines. The writing was already on the wall, and Rodriguez's pink slip came two days after Randy Edsall was introduced as Maryland's head coach. Unperturbed by his raft of NCAA violations or combined 15-22 record in Ann Arbor, Arizona inked Rodriguez to a five-year deal in November 2011. The first two years have gone pretty well: Led by star running back Ka'Deem Carey, the Wildcats have looked less like the mismatched, square-peg-in-a-round-hole Wolverines teams and more like the inventive West Virginia outfits with which Rodriguez helped popularize the spread option.


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Linux Fund has raised money to build an initial ten OGD1s for open source developers. Their fund-raising has exceeded the initial fundraising goal of $5000; does this mean that additional cards will be produced?
Our initial estimate of $5000 was based on a combination of hope and
assumptions. Our original estimates were based on a 100-board production run. However, there are costs that remain
fixed when you scale down the quantities, more than we had anticipated.
Fortunately, the nearly $8,500 we have raised has allowed us to go
ahead with a production run of 25 boards and Linux Fund has loaned the
effort the additional funds needed to complete it. We are counting on
selling at least 10 boards to break even and will have them available
for purchase when the first boards are available to volunteer
Can you please give us an estimate of your progress thus far?
Besides the physical hardware, being build and undergoing testing and flashing, we have a sizable library of logic blocks (hardware vendors sometimes call these "IP blocks") that we've developed. This includes things like controllers for PCI, DDR memory, SPI PROMs, video, and even a simple MIPS-like microcontroller. Using those, we've developed working VGA emulation for OGD1. VGA isn't trivial since it requires a text mode where characters are rendered into pixels on the fly as they're being scanned out to the monitor. Instead of implementing that directly, we use our microcontroller (named HQ) to convert VGA text into pixels in the background, continuously scanning and reconverting the text buffer. This approach was much less invasive than hacking our video controller, and we were going to require a microcontroller anyhow to support DMA (at a future date). This also required a VGA BIOS. All of this can be found in the Open Graphics Subversion repository.
The svn head of the firmware needs some additional work to make it
ready for release, and we could use some help with that. Meanwhile, we
have a slightly older release that
does work, which we will be programming into the shipping boards.
It is important these cards get
into the hands of active developers.
What will happen to a card if its developer withdraws from the project?
Linux Fund owns these boards. Although OGP and Traversal Technology people are involved in the work, the financial and legal situation is that Linux Fund licensed the designs under the GPL and paid for the production. For developers who are given a board for free, the boards are technically on loan. If a developer decides to no longer be involved, they can either buy the board or they can help us to pass it on to another developer. Moreover, Linux Fund should be able to recall a board at any time if they determine that it is not being used for the intended purpose.
What is the target price you would like to sell the consumer version of your card at?
Originally, OGD1 was a fund raiser, and we were going to sell them at $1500 apiece. Even today, $1500 is a competitive price for a board of this complexity, but we will be selling it at half that with the goal of breaking even.
I just want to make it clear that our goal here is not necessarily to make a profit. What we want is to build "open" (Free-Design) hardware products. One way to do it is to create a self-sustaining business. Linux Fund came along with an alternative. Nobody is making any profit from this now, but if we're successful with getting developers on board to make interesting stuff using OGD1 boards, this may attract more donations in the future that we can use to create hardware products that Free Software users can really take advantage of.
To Free Software users, the biggest challenge is hardware whose vendors won't release docs on their products. Without them, we can't make free drivers that allow us to use the hardware we paid for. For some people, the answer is to pressure the hardware vendors into releasing docs. For us, the answer is to create our own hardware with designs that are free to begin with. Going forward, we hope for opportunity for commercial development because quite a large number of us would love to design hackable and Free-Software-friendly hardware as our day jobs.
Companies that are enthusiastic about supporting Free Software are something our community really needs. Are there plans to develop a PCI express version of the open graphics card? If so, what time frame will this be in?
This all depends on the community. Before OGD1, we didn't have any real hardware to show people, so we weren't taken seriously. With OGD1, perhaps now people will feel we've proven ourselves and decide to get involved. To make a PCIe version of OGD1 will require community expertise and community funding. Please note that OGD1 isn't strictly a graphics card. It's an FPGA-based prototyping platform that can be made into a graphics card. But it can also be made into innumerable other things. I'm interested in doing things ranging from recording-studio quality audio processing to wireless networking.
All of the 25 boards we produced need to be tested for manufacturing defects and overall serviceability. Once they pass this testing, FPGA and BIOS PROMs will be flashed with with the latest working firmware. We hope to have the first few boards tested and ready for delivery by OSCON.
You've put out a call for developers, but do you have a date that you're looking at for an official launch of sorts? Any shindigs planned (virtual or real)? How soon will the developers and the purchasers have their boards?
We don't have any firm dates yet and we are patiently waiting for the first batch of tested and flashed boards. This whole project has been an exercise in patience given the nature of hardware. Unlike software, you can't just tar it up and e-mail to the team. If we have boards by OSCON, we will definitely raise a toast to the project!
Are you hoping to build more OGD1 boards after these initial 25? How soon do you think this could be accomplished-- or what needs to happen before this can be accomplished?
We would love to build more boards if the academic or private demand exists. A second run certainly wouldn't take as long as this first and it is largely a question of money. No one wanted to take any risks with this first run and we are fortunate that Linux Fund was willing to front the extra money we needed.
It sounds like it's been a rough road for the Open Graphics Project to accomplish its goals; has it been harder than initially expected? What were/are some of the major roadblocks throughout the project?
Given that the to-do list was always clear, it was more a question of frustration than difficulty. Speaking from Linux Fund's perspective, the first challenge was raising enough money to comfortably begin the manufacturing process and then minor component-availability issues. For one of the chips, the price in the US had gone from $5 to over $15 was officially unavailable during the fundraising process. We found ourselves nervously buying from an overseas vendor using a combination of Skype and PayPal. Luckily, we didn't end up with a box of expensive chopsticks. Aside from those challenges, our general dependence on volunteer help has led to a few delays given that we're competing with personal lives. We'd like to congratulate one project member on the birth of their daughter during the project!
That said, everything they say about the challenges of hardware are true: it is a moving target thanks to component pricing and availability and the countless physical variables. We're still not out of the woods until we're sure that every surface-mounted pad is correctly soldered in place and that no other defects have emerged.
In the big picture, while the OGD1 has relatively good longevity, any volunteer-driven open hardware project runs the risk of being obsolete before ever reaching production.
In addition to Linux Fund and the selling of some of the OGD1 boards to create sources for funding, have you considered other community-funding routes such as Kickstarter.com?
While we admire the PR that Kickstarter.com is receiving, we are concerned that they are neither a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit nor rely on actual funds received. Linux Fund has operated its capital projects since 2008 and feels it has a better, albeit lesser-known model.
How many people have really been at the core of the Open Graphics Project? Are there any people who especially stand out for their work and contribution?
Howard Parkin and Andy Fong get most of the credit for the printed circuit board, with some help from various others along the way. Timothy Miller developed most of the FPGA logic. Petter Urkedal is primarily responsible for the HQ microcontroller, along with a lot of its programming. Mark Marshall is primarily responsible for the VGA BIOS code. Mark Marshall is the official maintainer of the FPGA code for the Lattice XP10. Patrick McNamara is the official maintainer of the FPGA code for the Xilinx Spartan III 4000. Howard Parkin, Mark Marshall, and Petter Urkedal did a vast amount of simulation and hardware testing and debugging all of the FPGA and BIOS code to get it to work to the point you see in this video.
Is there any room for a newbie to contribute to this project? What would he/she have to learn to work on drivers or firmware? Is there an ODG1 101 to help people interested in the project but with a limited skill set?
On the Open Graphics Project wiki, there are some Verilog tutorials we've written for people who would like to get started on learning how to design chips. Even for those who don't have hardware in their hands, a lot of FPGA work can be done just in simulation, and there is Free Verilog simulation software (e.g. Icarus Verilog). Plus there is a ton of software work to be done. Right now, we have a working BIOS and microcode for VGA text mode, but we'd like to improve it, adding things like VGA graphics mode.
Finally, one of my dreams is to make the hardware equivalent of GCC. We really need a fully free chip design toolchain. Such a thing would lower the barrier to entry for those who want to design hardware, and it would also be a huge benefit to hardware vendors. FPGA vendors sink a lot of money into their synthesis tools. Most are pretty good, but they can also be very expensive. Developing a free toolchain would allow the hardware vendors to focus on hardware and give everyone Free and potentially better tools. I'd say that the cost of proprietary FPGA synthesis tools is the biggest barrier to entry for someone wanting to get into FPGA hacking. I have the background in both chip design and AI necessary to help design these tools, but we'd need a team of developers to complete the project.


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California navel orange growers are in the midst of an optimistic 2008-09 harvest, according to Joel Nelsen, president of California Citrus Mutual.
In his report to the 27th Annual Agribusiness Management Conference in Fresno in mid-November, Nelsen said this year's shorter crop should translate into better navel prices.
"Exterior and interior quality dynamics are also positive," Nelsen reports. "It appears that plenty of fruit will be available for the holidays."
Seedless mandarin tonnage is expected to double this year; however, Nelsen does not expect prices to fall since "demand will continue to outstrip supply with more fruit available over a longer period of time."
Overall, the California citrus industry is in an "economically healthy state," even though some producers did not fare well last year due to weather problems, fruit quality and marketing issues.
"But with more acres in the ground than ever and producers of other commodities planting citrus, we must acknowledge that something is working right," says Nelsen.
Seedless mandarin acreage has increased tremendously and even navel acreage has gone up. Additional new shippers and marketers are also coming into the industry, often from other commodities, which are not faring as well as citrus.
There is a fear that the mandarin acreage will cannibalize the navel market. "The task of the industry is not to swap facings at retail, but to expand the amount of shelf space for the category."
Maximizing per acre revenue for growers is always the goal of the industry. In that vein, growers recognize older groves need to be renovated and sub-varieties may not be as attractive now that so many choices are available.
"Smaller sizes cannot be sold as they once were. The export market is more competitive than ever. It is one thing to produce volume; it's another to sell it," Nelsen notes.
California regulatory costs continue to "chew into profits," and fees are driving the family farmer out of business, creating fewer, but much larger producers.
While the industry is in an overall good state, the "elephant in the room" is the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP).
Recently discovered in San Diego County and bordering Mexico, ACP is a vector for Huanglongbing, or HLB, that has ravaged citrus production worldwide.
In Florida, 300,000 acres have been removed due to HLB. "Florida discovered the problem too late," Nelsen notes.
California authorities believe they are out in front of the onslaught and have strategies to successfully battle the infestation and prevent the disease from being introduced, according to Nelsen.
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Before we begin: Russell Brand, we like you. We know you understand how to assemble coherent, dapper outfit. Heck, in 2010, we crowned you as one of the most stylish men on the planet. But early this year, you stopped wearing shoes and started dressing like your alter-ego, who we like to call Evil Gandhi.
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Sartorial Sin #542: Not having shoes. In the street. On purpose.
Sartorial Sin #316: Leg warmers.
Dude! We can see your nipples! Also, you know your chain is too long when you can wrap it around your scrotum.
Brand's alter-ego going feral. And yes, we get he's probably going to yoga class, but plush sneaker slippers?
This pose. Also, everything else.
Presented without comment.
It is impossible to tell if Brand is hot or cold. Scarf, beanie, paisley-barf sweatpants = cold. Anthropomorphic cat tank top, glasses, sandals = hot. WHICH IS IT? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US??
Evil Gandhi returns. The biggest offense here: Wearing socks _and _beach sandals. It's unnatural.
This outfit is kind of badass in that he looks like a soul-eating master of dark arts. But then you notice what's on his feet.
Last year, we played a game called, "How much of Russell Brand's wardrobe comes from the little girls' section of Forever 21?" Time to go full circle. Here, the Week in Style's GQ Mark weighs in:
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LITTLE ROCK, AR. (July 30, 2012) - Children whose families aren't able to consistently secure safe and stable housing are at a higher risk of poor health, according to data collected in the Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) Emergency Department over the last decade.
A sample of 5,000 families who sought care at the Emergency Department at Arkansas Children's Hospital revealed that about 51 percent of them lacked reliable housing. Children in these homes were 34 percent more likely to be underweight - one indication of malnutrition - and they were also found to be at risk for poorer health outcomes and developmental delays. The data were compiled in partnership with the non-partisan pediatric research center Children's HealthWatch as part of a national study that was published in the American Journal of Public Health ( AJPH).
"Every day we see children in the ACH Emergency Department who could thrive if only they had the advantage of a safe and healthy place to call home," said Patrick Casey, MD, director of the Medical Home Clinic at Arkansas Children's Hospital and an author of the AJPH manuscript. "Many of their parents are trying so hard to change their situations, but it's not something that happens overnight. The high cost of housing and the poor availability of affordable housing in the current economic times make it very challenging for many families to locate adequate housing."
Children's HealthWatch provides parameters for what qualifies as housing insecurity: families who move twice or more in a 12-month period; have a residence that is crowded with more than two people sleeping in each bedroom or are living with another family because of financial issues; or were unable to meet rent payments at any point in the preceding 12 months.
The high cost of housing often pushes Arkansas families with young children to a point where they are also unable to pay for food, utilities like heat, air and water, or healthcare services and insurance. All of this puts their children's health at risk.
The family of 10-month-old Za'khiya Callery of Little Rock understands this plight all too well. Za'khiya's mother, Latasha Weaver, had to go on bed rest in her third month of pregnancy, sacrificing a steady income at a store in Texarkana, Tex., and resulting in the loss of her apartment lease. Her baby girl was born about four months early, and has spent most of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care and Infant Toddler Units at ACH.
"We had to choose between moving to another city in Texas - where we didn't know the doctors but could get housing easier since I have a child with a disability - or moving to Arkansas, where I knew the team at ACH, but wasn't sure if I could get an apartment," Weaver said. "I chose what I thought would be best for her."
Today Za'khiya faces all kinds of health challenges, including hydrocephaly and brittle bones, which require her to her to be held very carefully and in a specific pose. Weaver, who has taken college classes and dreams of becoming a social worker, qualified for three months of financial housing assistance. She worries about what will happen, though, if she's unable to find someone to care for Za'khiya while she's working to pay for rent.
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The research conducted by ACH and Children's HealthWatch indicates that families are making difficult sacrifices to afford the housing they are able to obtain for their children.
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|Game 6
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|Oct. 12, 2012 at 8:00 pm ET
|Mount Pleasant, Mich. | Kelly/Shorts Stadium (30,255)
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Setting the Stage
• Navy and Central Michigan will meet for the third time on the gridiron when they square off Friday night at Kelly/Shorts Stadium (30,255). Kickoff is set for 8:00 pm.
• Navy, who leads the series, 2-0, won a thrilling 38-37 decision over Central Michigan in 2010 when the Chippewas were unable to capitalize on a two-point conversion with four seconds remaining in the contest. The Mids also beat the Chippewas in 2003, 63-34.
• Friday night's game will be Navy's first trip to Central Michigan. Furthermore, this will be the Mids' first trip to the state of Michigan since 2006 when Navy defeated Eastern Michigan, 49-21, at Ford Field.
• Friday's game will be televised nationally by ESPN2 with Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore and Jemele Hill calling the action.
Navy Quick Hitters
• Opening the year against Notre Dame in Dublin and at Penn State was the toughest opening two games in school history.
• In the last 40 years, Navy has started the year with two BCS opponents just eight times and only twice (2005 and 1982) did the Mids go on to have a winning record.
• Navy's three losses this season (Notre Dame, Penn State and San Jose State) have come at the hands of opponents that are a combined 13-3 on the year (.813). Notre Dame (5-0) is currently ranked seventh in the country, while San Jose State (4-1) and Penn State (4-2) are both receiving votes.
• Navy has been the dominant Service Academy over the last decade going 18-2 against Army (10-0) and Air Force (8-2).
• Navy will join the BIG EAST for football only starting in 2015.
• Senior outside linebacker Keegan Wetzel scored a perfect 1600 on his SAT and is believed to be the only current FBS player in the country to accomplish such a feat. He carries a 3.89 GPA in systems engineering and is an Academic All-America candidate. Wetzel has also been a force on the field, recording 23 tackles, four tackles for a loss, three sacks and a fumble recovery this season.
• Sophomore punter Pablo Beltran is off to a great start in 2012, averaging 45.4 yards per punt (19 punts). He stands 12th in the country in punting, while Navy is 20th in net punting (40.1).
• Freshman Nick Sloan is one of just 16 true freshman kickers starting in the FBS this year. He is 5-for-5 on field goals and 9-for-9 on extra-points. He is one of five kickers in the FBS that has yet to miss a kick.
• Over the last 11 years, Navy has consistently been one of the top rushing teams in the country, never finishing lower than sixth.
• Navy owns a 6-3 record all-time in overtime games and has won six of its last seven games that went to overtime.
• The Mids are ranked 19th in the country in red zone defense, allowing 11 scores in 16 opportunities. Last week against Air Force, the Navy defense did not allow a score on three Falcon opportunities.
• Navy owns a 77-43 (.642) record over the last 10 years after posting a 3-30 (.091) mark from 2000-02. The 77 wins are tied for the 22nd-most wins in the country during that span.
• Senior guard Josh Cabral and slot back Gee Gee Greene have started 30 consecutive games for the Midshipmen.
• The Mids have been shut out in the first quarter in nine of the last 13 games dating back to last year and have not scored a touchdown in the first quarter in 12 of the last 14 contests.
• Navy has been outscored, 37-3, in the first quarter this year and 89-23 in the first quarter over the last 14 games dating back to last year.
• Navy is 27-4 (.870) under Ken Niumatalolo when scoring first and 7-20 (.259) when the opponent scores first.
• Navy has turned the ball over 12 times this season (nine lost fumbles and three interceptions) after committing just 15 turnovers in 2011 (nine lost fumbles and six interceptions). Junior quarterback Trey Miller has been responsible for 10 of Navy's 12 turnovers (seven fumbles and three interceptions) with five of those turnovers coming inside the opponent's 30-yard line.
• Under Niumatalolo, the Mids are 21-3 (.875) when leading after the first quarter and 13-21 (.382) when trailing or tied after the first stanza.
• Navy has been held under 300 yards rushing in 10 of its last 17 games and the Mids are just 2-8 (.200) in those games (Army in 2011 and Air Force in 2012 are the two wins)
• The Mids are 18-5 (.783) under Niumatalolo when rushing for 300 yards or more and 16-19 (.457) when the offense is held under 300 yards rushing.
• An opposing running back has rushed for over 100 yards in a game against Navy in 10 of the last 17 contests. In the previous 40 games, Navy surrendered only nine 100-yard rushing games to opposing running backs.
• Navy is tied for 107th in the country in red zone offense, scoring on just 10 of 15 chances. The Mids did score on all four opportunities in the red zone the last time out against Air Force.
• The Navy offense has lost nine fumbles this year after losing just nine fumbles in 12 games a year ago. The Mids are tied for the fourth nationally for most lost fumbles.
• Navy ranks 106th in the country in third down offense, converting just 18 of 56 tries (.321).
• The Navy defense ranks 111th in third down defense, giving up 32 conversions in 63 attempts (.508). Opponents, however, are just 2-for-7 (.286) when going for it on fourth down against the Navy defense.
• Navy owns a 16-7 (.696) record in games played at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium under Niumatalolo and is 18-17 (.514) away from home.
Scouting Central Michigan
• The Chippewas are 2-3 on the year with victories over Southeast Missouri State (38-27) and Iowa (32-31) and losses to Michigan State (41-7), Northern Illinois (55-24) and Toledo (50-35).
• Quarterback Ryan Radcliff has completed 105 of his 179 pass attempts for 1,286 yards with nine touchdowns and six interceptions.
• Radcliff's favorite target is Cody Wilson, who has caught 33 passes for 394 yards. Titus Davis has four touchdown catches among his 19 receptions on the year.
• Zurlon Tipton leads the Chippewas in rushing with 447 yards and six touchdowns on 72 carries..
• The defense is led by Justin Cherocci, who has recorded 47 tackles on the year. Shamari Benton has been in on 40 tackles.
The Last Time …
Navy 38, Central Michigan 37 Nov. 13, 2010 | ANNAPOLIS, MD.
• Quarterback Kriss Proctor, making just his third-career start, rushed for 201 yards and a touchdown on just 20 carries to lead Navy to a thrilling 38-37 victory over Central Michigan in front of 34,333 fans at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
• In a game that featured little defense, the two teams combined for 75 points and 965 yards of total offense as Navy clinched a winning season for the eighth-consecutive year.
• The Mids trailed 24-21 at the half, but outscored the Chippewas 14-0 in the pivotal third quarter.
• Proctor put the Mids up for good with a four-yard touchdown run on Navy's first drive of the third quarter (28-24).
• The Mids made it 35-24 on their next drive as John Howell scored his first career rushing TD from six yards out.
• Defensive end Billy Yarborough stopped a Central Michigan fake punt on the next series and the Mids would convert it to points when Joe Buckley made a 35-yard field goal with 7:27 left in the contest.
• Central Michigan answered Buckley's field goal with a 10-play, 72-yard drive with Zurlon Tipton scoring from the one-yard line to trim the Navy lead to 38-31 with 3:04 remaining.
• The Mids would pick up just one first down on their next possession with the Chippewas stopping Gee Gee Greene for a loss of two yards on third-and-three from the Navy 38.
• After Kyle Delahooke's 49-yard punt, Central Michigan took the ball over at its own 20 with just 1:04 left.
• After Central Michigan quarterback Ryan Radcliff threw incomplete on first down, he hit consecutive passes for 16, 24 and 25 yards to move the ball down to the Navy 15-yard line.
• After a spike and an incompletion, Radcliff hit Carl Volny for eight yards on third down and then found Cody Wilson in the end zone for a seven-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-two to pull CMU within one point. Chippewas head coach Dan Enos elected to go for the win and Radcliff's pass in the back of the end zone was high, giving Navy a 38-37 victory.
Navy Scores Final 15 Points To Beat Air Force For The Eighth Time In The Last 10 Meetings
• Freshman quarterback Keenan Reynolds came off the bench for an injured Trey Miller and led the Mids to 15 consecutive points as Navy rallied for a 28-21 overtime victory over Air Force in front of 38,927 fans at Falcon Stadium.
• The Mids trailed 21-13 with 9:03 remaining when Reynolds came on for Miller, who had reinjured his left ankle on the previous series.
• Reynolds hit senior wide receiver Brandon Turner for seven yards on first down and 10 from his own 25 and then threw a swing pass to senior slot back Gee Gee Greene for 35 yards to move the ball down to the 33.
• After sophomore fullback Noah Copeland picked up three yards on first down, Reynolds hit junior wide receiver Casey Bolena for 13 yards and a first down at the Air Force 17.
• Copeland ran for two yards on first down and then Reynolds ran it in from 15 yards out on second down to pull the Mids to within two points.
• The Mids went for two and Reynolds pitched to Copeland, who broke one tackle before diving into the end zone to tie the game.
• Navy got the ball first in overtime where it moved the necessary 25 yards in seven plays, scoring the go-ahead touchdown when sophomore guard Jake Zuzek fell on a fumbled snap between Reynolds and sophomore centerTanner Fleming in the end zone for a touchdown.
• The Navy defense, which had forced three turnovers in the first half, stood strong again in overtime as sophomore outside linebacker Josh Tate dropped Cody Getz for a gain of two on first down, senior safety Tra'ves Bush and senior linebacker Brye French stopped quarterback Connor Dietz for a gain of three on second down and then senior linebacker Matt Warrick tripped up Dietz for a loss of one on third down. On fourth-and-six from the 21, senior defensive end Wes Henderson knocked down the Dietz pass as the Navy bench stormed the field.
• Miller led the Mids with 110 yards on 18 carries, while Copeland rushed for 84 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries. Greene ran for 58 yards on nine carries.
• Bush led the Mids in tackles with 12 and recovered a fumble, while Warrick had 11 stops, including two for a loss. Junior linebacker Cody Peterson recorded a career-best 10 stops and a tackle for a loss.
• Senior outside linebacker Keegan Wetzel and freshman corner Quincy Adams each had a fumble recovery.
• Freshman kicker Nick Sloan was perfect on the day, making all three extra-points and going two-for-two on field goals (39 and 41 yards.) His career-long 41-yard field goal into the wind with 9:03 in the game cut the Air Force lead to 14-13.
Starting A Freshman At QB
• Starting quarterback Trey Miller injured his left ankle in the fourth quarter of the Air Force game and it is unknown at this time if he will be available for the Central Michigan game.
• If Miller is not available, Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo will turn to freshman Keenan Reynolds, who came off the bench and rallied Navy to a 28-21 overtime victory over Air Force with the Mids scoring the game's final 15 points.
• If Reynolds gets the nod, he would be the first freshman to start at quarterback for Navy since 1991 when Jim Kubiak started five games.
Perfect Passing
• Navy was a perfect 6-for-6 passing for 74 yards against Air Force (both Trey Miller and Keenan Reynolds were 3-for-3).
• It marked just the second time in program history that Navy has had a perfect passing day. The only other time was in 2010 when Navy was 2-for-2 in a 35-17 whipping of Notre Dame at the Meadowlands.
• The Navy offense has lost nine fumbles this year after losing just nine in 12 games a year ago.
• The Mids are tied for the fourth-most lost fumbles in the country.
Third Down Troubles
• Navy has struggled all year to keep drives alive on offense and to get off the field on defense.
• Navy ranks 106th in the country in third down offense, converting just 18 of 56 tries (.321).
• The Navy defense ranks 111th in third down defense, giving up 32 conversions on 63 attempts (.508). Opponents, however, are just 2-for-7 (.286) when going for it on fourth down against the Mids.
Offense Struggling In The Red Zone
• Navy is tied for 107th nationally in red zone offense, scoring on just 10 of 15 chances. The Mids did score on all four opportunities the last time out against Air Force.
• Navy has scored six touchdowns, kicked four field goals, lost the ball once on downs and turned it over four times (three lost fumbles by quarterback Trey Miller and an interception by Miller).
Defense Playing Well In The Red Zone
• The Mids are ranked 19th in the country in red zone defense, allowing 11 scores on 16 opportunities. Last week against Air Force, the Navy defense did not allow a score on three Air Force opportunities.
• The opposition has scored seven touchdowns, kicked four field goals, missed a field goal, turned it over on downs twice, lost a fumble and threw an interception against Navy's defense.
Warrick And Sloan Named Independent Players Of The Week
• Senior linebacker Matt Warrick was a physical presence in Navy's 28-21 overtime victory at Air Force. Warrick's 11 tackles included two tackles for loss, the last of which forced the Falcons into a final-snap 4th down-and-6 that the Midshipmen stopped to cement the comeback win. Warrick reached double-digit tackles for the sixth time in his Navy career. This is the third time in his career that he's been named Independent Defensive Player of the Week.
• Freshman kicker Nick Sloan had a perfect day against Air Force, kicking field goals of 39 and 41 yards, and made both of his PAT attempts, helping the Midshipmen take a step toward securing the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy for the eighth time in the last 10 years.


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