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Author Notes: This is a recipe that needs a little artistic license as you have to eye-ball ingredients as the amount of corn you get off of the cob can vary and I never measure how much corn I get. It is very easy and takes 5 minutes to make after pulling the corn off of the grill. I recommend grilling with wet soaked husks at it will steam the kernels a bit on the BBQ and keep flare-ups tampered. This is a dish that always gets rave reviews well out of proportion to your effort and can easily be scaled up or down. I give it a Spanglish name because this is not your traditional Elote, but is obviously heavily influenced by it. - kirklandj —kirklandj
Food52 Review: After making Merrill's version of elote (which incidentally is also sin Cob) earlier this summer, I was very much looking forward to trying this version. It doesn't disappoint. This version by kirklandj has more tang due to a greater amount of sour cream, giving the dish a brighter, more summery vibe. It also has a great complexity of flavors, thanks to the acidity of the lime, the nuttiness of the cheese, the herbaceous quality of the cilantro, and the heat of the smoked paprika. I grilled the corn with wet husks as the recipe suggested, but next time I would remove the husks to give the corn that distinctive grilled flavor. - forester_lady —duclosbe1
Serves: 6
ears of corn
ounces Cotija cheese
handful Chopped cilantro
cup Honduran Cream (You can substitute crema fresca or sour cream)
Smoked paprika
Chipoltle powder
- Soak corn in water with husks still on for 1 hour or more. Then throw them on the BBQ grill with husks still on until done (approx 30 minutes) I like to get a little char on the kernels through the husks, but you don't want to overcook them and dry the kernels out.
- Cut corn off of the cob and place in bowl. The amounts of the next ingredients will vary depending on how much corn you got off of the cob and how big your cobs were so use some artistic license.
- Mix in juice of the two limes, half of the crema. Add more crema to taste/consistency. Do not make it soupy but let it cover all of the kernels.
- Add spices to taste and mix. A few heavy sprinkles of each should do it.
- Crumble cotija cheese to dice sized pieces or smaller and mix. Finally add cilantro and mix.
- Chill and serve cold as a side or luke warm with a dish (crema will have cooled off the hot corn). My favorite is to add this to a tortilla and top with carne asada for fajitas
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I see where the tabs are calling for Omar Minaya to make a trade. So, what else is new? They are always calling for Minaya to make a trade.
But, which hole do you fill?
Do you go after a first baseman to replace Carlos Delgado and the impotent tandem of Fernando Tatis/Daniel Murphy? Delgado says he'll be back this year, but there are no guarantees.
How about a shortstop to replace Jose Reyes, who apparently isn't any closer to returning now than he was when he was placed on the disabled list? Alex Cora won't hurt the Mets defensively and so far hasn't been a offensive liability. Cora has been a fulltime player, but he won't give them the spark of Reyes.
There's always pitching. John Maine and Oliver Perez are on the disabled list. Mike Pelfrey has been erratic. They've gotten a lot from Livan Hernandez, but how long will that continue? They can't count on big numbers from Tim Redding.
The Mets could contend with what they have at first and shortstop, but not if their pitching collapses. If they make a trade, and I believe they have to, it has to be adding pitching. I just don't know if they have the chips to make a trade.


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Ever since they arrived on a cold, sunny day in April, I worked hard to keep nine broiler chicks alive. The first week of June, I killed them.
People who know my over-the-top affection for all things furred and feathered had bet I couldn't do it, but I didn't even wonder about it. If I'm going to continue eating meat, I have to know that the animal lived well and died humanely. I can vouch for those nine birds.
I kept them warm in a borrowed brooder house until they feathered out enough to move into my garden. Preston built a floorless, A-frame coop so they could glide along the fallow rows, eating insects and a ryegrass cover crop. We watched them chase their first bugs and sample their first blades of tender grass inside their wire condo. Before I knew what was happening my Celtic distaste for penned animals took over, scrapping our plans for their orderly life. I threw open their door to the entire garden, shouting: "Live it up, time's a wasting, life is short!"
Or is it? Maybe lifespan is relative. Perhaps each week is like a decade for a bird that's genetically programmed to mature at two months and self destruct at three. Legs start breaking under the weight. Hearts and lungs can't keep up with the mammoth bodies.
As they approached their eighth week, mine did look elderly. When they spied me coming with their feed bucket they would waddle at full speed on bowed legs, short wings flapping for an extra boost. The roosters still held mock battles, bumping into each other's broad chests like so many Pillsbury dough birds before plopping back down on their rumps. By then the rumps were conspicuously dirty from resting so often in the holes they dug in the soft garden soil. They still sprinted to the compost pile to compete for earthworms lounging near the surface, but the effort made them wheeze.
Watching them grow helped me see my place in the big picture. I can't absorb energy from the sun, but ryegrass can. I can't digest grass, but chickens relish it and then convert it into tasty protein for me. The other links in the food chain have become real.
On a hot June morning, I harvested the life I nurtured in those birds. Working alongside friends from our locavore group made it a celebration instead of the grim chore it would be if I had to do it alone. We recalled Wendell Berry's words in The Gift of Good Land, "To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration."
Dispatching our combined flock of 20 birds took less time than we expected. It was 8 a.m. when Preston and I arrived at J and J Farm. Jim Formby already had two home-made killing cones nailed to trees, a clothesline for strung between two oaks for plucking and a cauldron of water heating over a propane burner. By 11:15, all the birds were on ice; the fresh-air abattoir looked and smelled as if nothing had happened there. Three hours from start to finish, but actual processing time was closer to two hours. Jim and Jayne had spent part of that time teaching the rest of us how to do each step safely and thoroughly.
Even though I raised the broilers for humane reasons, I kept records to find out whether they were economically practical. The nine birds translated into about 60 pounds of chicken in my freezer. The chicks and their feed cost $62, so they cost me about $1 per pound.
When I fried the first chicken for a Sunday dinner, just the fragrance obliterated the memory of all my work and worry. Some pastured poultry connoisseurs say that Cornish cross birds lack the flavor of slower growing breeds, but I'm a typical American who is accustomed to lighter meat. I rate the flavor of these birds perfect for my taste—a more pronounced chicken flavor than commercial birds but not overpowering. The texture is firm enough to chew but not stringy or tough. So far I've had these birds fried, smothered in onions, cooked in gravy and gumbo. Every cooking method has turned out juicy, flavorful meat.
Probably the biggest surprise is how good they are just simmered. I add celery, an onion and, sometimes, a bit of bell pepper to the water, which I save for stock. A half breast will keep me in lunch sandwiches for a week. We also enjoy summer suppers of cold sliced chicken breast, microwaved corn on the cob and sliced tomatoes. Melon for dessert rounds out a delicious meal that didn't heat up the kitchen or the cook.
I will certainly raise another small flock of Cornish cross broilers next spring. Table birds fit well into a diversified small farm. They eat pests and contribute manure to the fallow garden, the pasture or the orchard understory. The Southern Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program has funded more than 100 pastured poultry projects. You can see the entire list at the SARE national project database. Just type "pastured poultry" in the search box.
One recent Southern SARE project led by the American Livestock Breed Conservancy compared heritage turkey breeds and industrial varieties for use in pasture production systems. Researchers found the heritage breeds had lower mortality and better immune response even though the industrial breeds grew bigger in less time.
Ann Fanatico has been conducting research in Arkansas comparing consumer tastes preferences and production characteristics of the Cornish cross and slower growing European types. Among other things, she found out that the European breeds have a higher percentage of dark meat and a stronger chicken flavor, two important considerations when choosing birds for a particular market. For details see the bulletin Poultry Genetics for Pastured Production or Label Rouge: Pasture-based Poultry Production in France. The free SARE bulletin Profitable Poultry: Raising Birds on Pasture is a good resource to help determine whether you'd like to raise pastured birds for your own kitchen or to sell.
Gwen's broilers spent their lives in a rye grass cover crop on the unused half of her garden. This photo was taken a week before the chicken harvest.
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length: 9 mm
width: 6.8 mm
thickness 0.16 mm
Part dimensions :
L= 2 mm
H= 2 mm
B= 1.25x0.16= 0.2 mm
C= L+B= 2+0.2= 2.2 mm
If the length of x-axis is greater than C= L+B I want to insert one part automatically
I want to do it in the same way as the y-axis.
I draw the first part into the strip after calculate for the example above.
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Luke's "Sermon on the Plain" is the Gospel equivalent of Paul's chapter on love, 1 Corinthians 13. Here Jesus sets forth his ethic for daily life in detail. The sermon begins with a recognition of the disciples' blessing as a result of God's grace. The rest of the sermon gives the ethical response to being such a beneficiary. Disciples are to live and relate to others in a way that stands out from how people relate to one another in the world. They are to love and pray for their enemies. Righteousness requires that they respond wisely to Jesus' words by building their lives around his teaching. In sum, disciples are to live and look different from the rest of the world, even as they reach out compassionately to that world.
Luke sets up the sermon by summarizing Jesus' ministry activity (4:14-15, 31-32, 40-41). Jesus ministers on a plain. The term topu pedinou refers to a level place, but can refer to a plateau area in mountainous terrain (Mt 14:23 compared to 15:29; Is 13:2 LXX; Jer 21:13 LXX). Beyond this no specific locale is given. Jesus' ministry reflects the compassion and love he claims God has for humanity. So he heals people of disease and exorcises demons. The text emphasizes the power that proceeds from him. Whether they are apostles, disciples or part of the crowd, all sorts of people receive Jesus' ministry. Jesus' teaching and ministry extends beyond insiders. He attempts to reach those outside his new community.
Jesus' authority was not limited to his healing activity. He also taught with authority. Nothing indicates that more than the blessing and woe section of the Sermon on the Plain. It recalls the Old Testament prophets. Jesus thunders the truth with promises of blessing and judgment. The four blessings are followed by four parallel woes. This balance reflects the theme of reversal that Luke has presented elsewhere (1:50-53; 16:19-31): God does not always see things as we do. He looks at the heart, not at externals. He gives promises for those who enter into grace humbly, while warning of judgment for those who remain callous.
The key to the section is found in the remarks about the Son of Man and the comparison to the faithful and unfaithful of old. When Jesus speaks of the poor or rich, he is not making carte blanche statements about people with a certain social or economic standing. His remarks assume both Old Testament and spiritual roots. Jesus is not advocating a political or social philosophy, he is calling people into a spiritual relationship that God imparts to those willing to enter his new community (see commentary on 1:50-53).
Thus the beatitudes and woes serve as a call to be responsive to God in light of his promise of faithfulness to those who are his. The call to love unconditionally in verses 27-36 is a hard one to follow if we cannot trust that God will one day exercise justice. The premise of the sacrificial spiritual life is the promise of God's faithful justice. The beatitudes indicate the kind of person God desires as his child. These blessings are not a works salvation but represent an invitation to let God mold his children into who they ought to be. So God assures those who are needy that he will care for them.
Jesus offers promises to the poor, the hungry, those who weep and those who suffer religious persecution. God sees their spiritual commitment, which has cost them in the pocketbook. To people such as these God promises the kingdom now and blessing later, including enough to eat, laughter and heavenly reward. Unlike Matthew, Luke includes woes, not just blessings. Jesus divides humankind into two camps (3:15-18--the purging Spirit of fire). In contrast to the blessed stand the rich, those who are well fed, those who laugh and those who receive praise. Their fate is sorrow, hunger, mourning and a life like those who followed the false prophets. The contrast is stark.
The term blessed refers to one who is the object of grace and is happy because of it. Those who are blessed do not face an easy life. The mention of poverty and deprivation reflects the reality that many early Christians were poor. In addition, their commitment to Jesus led to their being persecuted like the prophets of old. In Jewish circles the choice to be a disciple would have meant ostracism. The goal of such ostracism was to punish and shame the "defector," or perhaps to persuade the defector to return. Social isolation would bring economic consequences.
But despite such opposition, disciples are blessed, since God promises to care for them. They belong to his kingdom and are under his rule. The poor here are like the Old Testament ` nawm mentioned in the commentary on 1:51-54. They are the pious poor. These beatitudes serve to comfort and reassure those who belong to God. They stand in a long line of the faithful, including the prophets of old. It is often the case that standing up for Jesus and the truth brings ostracism, but God has promised blessing to his children.
The woes also reflect prophetic tradition. A woe warns of condemnation. Here Jesus addresses the judgment of God to the callous rich and others who are comfortable with their state in life while being unconcerned about the needs of others. The lack of a genuine spiritual dimension in their life is seen in the comparison Jesus makes between them and the false prophets. For those who do not engage God on the divinity's terms there looms nothing but the terrible expectation of a day of reckoning. One of the dangers of wealth is that it can lead one to believe a life of independence is possible--a view that Jesus teaches is arrogant and misguided (12:13-21). The world's values are not God's values. The reversal portrayed in the beatitudes and woes reflects the idea that "the one with the most toys" often loses. God's blessing can be found in surprising places. It rests on those who rest in him.
Love is many things in our culture. For many it can be likened to an electric charge: either the zap of the feeling is there or it is not. For others love is an arrangement, almost like a contract, sometimes voluntary, other times imposed by circumstances. Love for family members is not a given; instead, events have necessitated it. Marriages often proceed with this kind of arranged love. As long as the contract works and the zap is present, the arrangement is on. Often such love is managed by performance. Love is to be demonstrated by what is done for me: "If you really cared, you would do this for me."
This kind of arranged or easy love is the foil for Jesus' description of what love is for the child of God. The love Jesus calls for is none of the things described above. Jesus decries our culture's version of love. What is required to possess true love is an understanding of what it is to be loved by God and how God wishes one to love. At the center of Jesus' sermon is a unique concept of love. This love cannot be reduced merely to the "golden rule"; it is love that is golden even when everything around is not.
Jesus does not wait to make his point on the unusual character of such love. Although the righteous will be persecuted and rejected and God will judge the persecutors, Jesus issues a call to love the enemy. In fact, Jesus' call is specific: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. Whether in attitude, action, word or intercession, the enemy is to be loved. Too often many in the church have a "Jimmy Cagney theology" where the message is to those who do not know God: "You dirty rat, you should not have done that." Jesus wants more than condemnation of the outside world. Jesus' call to disciples focuses not on our words to others, though 11:37-54 does issue a stinging challenge regarding our words. Rather, Jesus zeroes in on our actions and attitudes toward others. He offers no platitudes about how outsiders should be viewed. There is no abstract call to divide one's thought by "hating the sin, but loving the sinner." True as this saying is, Jesus is concerned that we follow through on it and show our love in concrete service for the sinner. Our model is God himself: "God so loved the world that he gave . . ." (see also v. 36). So Jesus calls for the performance of love--in action, thought and petition.
How often do we pray for those who hate the church? The very question shows how radically different Jesus' love is from the culture's view of love. This is "tough love" because it is tough on the believer who loves. It is "radical love" because it calls for denying oneself and being continually exposed to abuse. It is a love not of power, manipulation or arrangement but of service and meekness.
The exhortation is underlined by three concrete examples. First, if someone strikes you on the cheek, then offer him the other. Probably, given the context of religious persecution, the slap refers to exclusion from the synagogue (1 Esdras 4:30; Didache 1:4; Stahlin 1972:263 nn. 23-24; for conceptual examples of such violent actions, Acts 18:17; 21:2728, 31-32; 23:2). Such a slap would be delivered by the back of the hand, though the context here suggests any action that communicates rejection. Jesus' point is that even in the midst of such rejection, we continue to minister to others and expose ourselves to the threat of rejection. The ministry of Paul among the Jews in Acts is a clear example of such love. Love is available and vulnerable, subject to repeated abuse.
Second, Jesus gives the example of someone stealing one's outer garment. He advises letting them have the undershirt too! The point is that one should not seek revenge but remain exposed and be willing to take even more risks. Luke may well be thinking of the danger of missionary travel in the first century or the risk of violence against those who professed Christ. The situation of Sosthenes in Acts 18:17 comes to mind, as does Paul's risk when he was left for dead in Acts 14:19. Despite such danger, he continued to preach to those who rejected him (1 Cor 4:9-13; 2 Cor 11:21--12:10). As the parable of the good Samaritan shows, travel in Jesus' and Luke's day could be dangerous. In the face of such hostility, the call is to keep loving the enemy.
Third, one is to be generous and not keep account. Disciples should be marked by a genuine readiness to meet needs. To the one who begs, give. From the one who takes, do not seek to get it back. Begging here probably refers to almsgiving (Mt 6:1-4; Guelich 1982:223). Resources are not to be hoarded, but generously dispensed. Paul reflects a similar attitude in 1 Timothy 6:8-18. In the case of theft, there is to be no pursuit of retribution. Such self-denial is the essence of love. The consummate example is the cross. Jesus gave to those who had taken.
The sheer difficulty of these commands has led to discussion of how literal they are. Marshall (1978:261) points out correctly that the illustrations are somewhat figurative, since to follow Luke 6:29 literally would lead to nudism! Yet Jesus' life makes it clear that he took these standards seriously. When his opponents took his life, he did not seek retribution but prayed for their forgiveness. He was more interested in giving something that would build than in retrieving what had been taken. The three illustrations picture the kind of action that manifests radical love. The world's standards of love should be surpassed (6:32-34). But we can only accept such a standard if we believe that God will see and reward the faithful. Without a theological view to build on, Jesus' ethics wilt into futility and foolishness.
So Jesus offers what became known in the sixteenth century as the "golden rule": Do to others as you would have them do to you. The verse has Old Testament roots (Lev 19:18). In addition, numerous such ethical statements existed in ancient Jewish and Greek culture. Jesus' formulation of the rule, however, is the least self-focused. Jesus is not saying, "Do good deeds for others so they will return the favor." Instead he is calling for actions of love regardless of how the other responds. Nor is he saying, "Think of what you like, then do that for others." Rather, we are to be sensitive to the needs, feelings and concerns of others and seek to meet them. Sensitivity in love means listening and serving. This does not mean ignoring moral limits, as Jesus' own ministry makes clear, but it does mean caring enough to be concerned about how others feel. The old adage "walk a mile in my shoes" may fit here: look at things from another's perspective and then act with concern.
In the modern world, this would mean not just protesting against abortion but being prepared to care for the child that is born to a mother who has chosen not to abort. More than this, we are called to continue to love those who go ahead with their intention to abort. It means not just talking about ethnic oneness in the church but acting out oneness in community, like Paul's crossing ethnic lines to raise funds for believers in need. Even more, this passage calls us to show tangible concern for unbelievers in need, so when someone tells them that God loves them, they will have seen evidence of such love.
Jesus repeats his examples in verses 32-34 but adds one more point: If we love only those who give us love, what is so great about that kind of love? It is like the love sinners give. If we do good only to those who do good to us, what is so special about that? It is like the love sinners give. If we lend money only to those who will respond in kind, what is so honorable about that? It is the ethics sinners have. The clear implication is that the disciples are not to live and love like sinners. The love of believers is to be different from the love displayed by the culture. As children of God, believers have been transformed to live in contrast to the way of sinners, modeling the sacrifice of radical love.
So Jesus summarizes: love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. When we give, it should not be with strings attached. When we serve, it should be to meet needs, not to give tit for tat. True service involves a giving that does not demand a giving back. The essence of relationship for the child of God is to love and serve.
But Jesus also attaches a theological dimension of promise to the exhortation: your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. God does notice when we reflect who he is to the world. In such faithful, imitative service, promise and identity merge. He will honor us for reflecting our Father's values. God will reward our love, and our love will reflect our identity as God's children. Children of God, Jesus says, are called to imitate their heavenly Father. We are to be an audiovisual of him. For God is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. The call of the disciple to radical love is "like father, like child." As Plummer (1922:189) notes, "Moral likeness proves parentage." Jesus' ethical call to love is nothing more than a call to imitate the Father. And to love is to have mercy.
Jesus develops his description of mercy by highlighting its relationship to forgiveness and judgment. Two ideas dominate Jesus' remarks on judgment. First, the measure we use to judge others is the standard that will be applied to us. Jesus suggests that God responds to us similarly to the way we treat others. The attitude expressed here is not unique to Jesus. In the Jewish Mishna, `Abot 1:6 reads, "When you judge, incline the balance in his favor." In the same Jewish work, Sota 1:7 reads, "With what measure a man metes, it shall be measured to him again." Negatively, Jesus says we should not judge or condemn. Positively, we are to forgive and give generously. Jesus illustrates the last point with the everyday example of measuring out grain for purchase. The seller would take a measuring container and pour the grain in it. After getting it about three-quarters full, he would shake it to level out the grain so more could be put in. The goal was to get as much in the measure as possible. In the same way God promises to give grace abundantly to those who are gracious.
Second, being merciful means being quick to encourage people toward restoration after they fall. Mercy does not gloat over sin or take pleasure in pointing it out; it roots for the sinner to find a way home to spiritual health. Often after someone falls we are anxious simply to cut him or her off to keep the church body from being leavened or to show that we will not associate with deeds of darkness. The church is to be concerned about moral purity. But we also should be quick to help set up opportunities for repentance and restoration. We should be discerning about the presence of sin but not judgmental in dealing with it. To be judgmental is to rejoice in pointing out sin and to refuse to reach out to the sinner to restore him or her to spiritual health. Rather than leaving the sinner to wallow in sin and the pain of moral failure, we should encourage the sinner to find the right path. Perhaps no picture of this commitment is clearer than the career of Hosea. He called sin by its name but always stood ready to receive the sinner back, even after gross sin.
It is no accident that Jesus' words against judgmentalism come right after the call to be merciful as God is. An unwillingness to be judgmental is almost a requirement for those who face persecution. Without it, lines of battle would become hardened and the ability to love the enemy would be destroyed. God is interested not in polemics but in offering the hope of restored relationship to the lost.
This exhortation needs to be set in the framework of Jesus' entire teaching. Jesus does not mean that we should close our eyes to sin and wrongdoing. Jesus' rebuke of his opponents in 11:37-54 shows that being merciful does not mean suspending moral judgment and responsibility. But we are not to hold judgment against the person in such a way that ministry and reconciliation become impossible. Disciples are to bear good news, not hold grudges.
The sermon closes with a series of pictures showing us that Jesus' teaching is to be taken seriously. The first image deals with the importance of choosing the right teacher and looking carefully to oneself before offering criticism (vv. 39-42). The second image has to do with producing the right kind of fruit (vv. 43-45), while the third shows the wisdom of holding fast to Jesus' teaching (vv. 46-49).
The question whether a blind man can lead others is rhetorical, and the point is not developed explicitly. Of course when Jesus asks if the blind are able to lead the blind, he expects a negative answer, as the Greek particle meti indicates. He expects the blind man and his followers to fall into a pit, as the particle ouchi indicates. In fact, a disciple will be like his teacher. Jesus does not explain the remark or develop the picture, but he is warning us to watch which teacher we follow. If we follow someone who takes in no light, we will stumble. So we are to consider carefully who our teacher is. Religious opposition is the setting for Jesus' remarks. Jesus' own offer of authoritative teaching in the sermon suggests that his disciples should not follow the religious leadership but him--a point he will make more explicitly in verses 46-49.
Given the plethora of options available today, we can sense the importance of Jesus' remarks: Choose your instructors wisely, since you will become like them. To build solidly on a firm foundation, follow the teaching of those who teach God's Word, not tradition or feeling (two alternatives often on offer today). Jesus' message commends itself as worthy of being heard and followed. Those who reflect his message also are worth listening to. In a time when reflection and thought are often given low priority, we ought to give high priority to reflecting on Jesus' teaching.
In fact, there is a reason we should be slow to judge and be careful whom we follow: we all have huge faults that we must deal with before we are in a position to help others. A judgmental spirit often reflects a self-righteous, unreflective, insensitive heart.
Jesus continues to work with the imagery of sight, only here he uses humor. Imagine, Jesus says, trying to see with a plank of wood sticking out of your eye. Just try seeing with a two-by-four as bifocals! A plank would prevent clear vision. How could you complain about dust in someone else's eye when a two-by-four was protruding from your own? Jesus' point is clear. It is important to clean up one's own act before offering advice to others. In fact, one way to examine ourselves for self-righteousness is to consider how often we are interested in correcting others rather than correcting our own attitudes and actions.
Jesus does not say we should not examine the lives of others. But we should do so only with a careful eye cast toward ourselves. Galatians 6:1 is similar in tone. Jesus wants disciples to be a moral encouragement to one another, but there is a proper way to go about it. There is a crying need for humility, an awareness that all of us are learning to walk more closely with God. To help another see clearly, we need to wash out our own eyes first.
In the end, disciples are to reflect good character. Our relationship with God is to produce good fruit. The fruit reveals the nature of the root, for each tree is recognized by its own fruit. Bad trees do not produce good fruit, nor do good trees produce bad fruit. To judge a tree's fruit, we don't look at one particular moment but at a period of production. The product of the life reflects the heart. The product of our discipleship reflects our inner character, what Jesus calls the treasure of the heart. The value of our speech and actions is determined by the quality of the soul that produces them. In other words, works are a snapshot of the heart.
Often the church avoids talking about "works" because people could begin focusing on externals or putting good deeds in the place of faith. But the tree image can help us steer clear of such problems. Jesus says that works are a product of something deeper. By linking the heart and the fruit, Jesus ties together motive and action. Works are ultimately a matter of the heart: the product can never be entirely divorced from the motive, and the presence of fruit does not mean the absence of faith!
In fact, the major issue in the life of a disciple is faithfulness. So Jesus issues a challenge in verse 46: "Why do you call me, `Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?" The rhetorical question raises the issue of faithfulness. A good heart is faithful, while a hypocritical one is not. Obedience is not a matter of rule keeping but of faithfulness. How can one recognize Jesus' authority and call him Lord and then not follow through on the commitment to walk with him?
With this question Jesus turns to the issue of his authority. He is not formulating some ethic that we could follow independent of relationship to him. Having a relationship with him is at the base of faithfulness. This is why the parallel to this verse in Matthew 7:21 makes knowing him the key. Luke does not emphasize the end-time judgment as Matthew does, but for both consistency and faithfulness are central. Jesus says, If you wish to be wise, you will love as I have taught, follow me as Teacher and Lord, and walk in my way with faithfulness. The implication emerges more clearly in light of the parable that follows.
Jesus concludes his sermon with the parable of the two houses. In a subdivision there are two homes. One is built on rock, the other on sand. Luke's imagery is detailed. One builder dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. A secure foundation takes work. The hard work is worth it, because in the storm this house stands strong and secure. Nothing shakes it. Obeying Jesus will mean being able to stand up in the trials of life. In contrast is the man who quickly builds his house on the top of the earth. There is no depth to his building, only a surface structure. Without a strong foundation, the house cannot hold up when the river floods. The use of multiple terms to describe the house's collapse accentuates the note of tragedy in the image. Translated precisely, the end of verse 49 reads, "Immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of that house" (NRSV). Everything this man had is lost. Jesus offers no editorial comment, but lets his sermon end with the echo of the collapsing house.
The parable gives a sober warning: How tragic not to respond to Jesus' teaching. How foolish not to build on the rock that can weather the storms of life. What a tragic waste when we fail to heed Jesus.
So Jesus preaches promise-judgment in the beatitudes and woes. He calls on disciples to love in imitation of their Father in heaven. He warns them to follow him as teacher and watch their step when they criticize others. He calls on disciples to be faithful and obedient, because that is the path of wisdom, endurance and strength. The product of the life reflects the heart's true nature. Spiritual strength grows out of obeying the Lord Jesus. It is like fixing a foundation deep in the earth. Jesus' sermon reveals the ethics of the disciple, but behind the ethics stands the authority of the commissioned agent of God. Jesus preaches not as a philosopher-teacher but as the revealer of God's wisdom. As the voice from heaven will say later in this Gospel (9:35), we should "listen to him."
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USMMA-Kings Point 5
Farmingdale State 3
Freshman midfielder Fabian Santibanez (Oyster Bay, NY/Oyster Bay) tallied two goals and an assist for the Rams on Wednesday night at Captain Tomb Field in a 5-3 conference loss against the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy-King's Point. Farmingdale State falls to 2-3, 0-1 Skyline, while King's Point improves to 4-2, 2-0 Skyline.
The King's Point scoring came courtesy of two goals each off the feet of freshman Chris Flanagan (Yaphank, N.Y./St. Anthony's) and sophomore Kyle Flynn (Poughquag, NY/Arlington). Flanagan scored first for King's Point at the 10:17 mark, but Farmingdale evened the score at one goal apiece with an unassisted goal from Santibanez from 15-yards out. King's Point answered back with two more goals in the first half and a quick goal at the start of the second half, for a 4-1 lead.
The Rams would strike back 14 minutes into the second, as Thomas Mueller (Babylon, NY/Babylon) scored on a give-and-go fastbreak pass from Santibanez to cut the USMMA lead to 4-2. Santibanez scored off a free kick in the waning seconds for Farmingdale's third goal.
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Chris Byrne necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Hyper is a series of youth run events and projects which includes a major all ages music festival with headlining bands, DJs and hip hop artists from across the country, a regional art exhibition of young people's works, and local community projects. Hyper is planned and run by young people, while supported by a local government and a range of business and arts sponsors.
Key features of Hyper are:
Major all ages music festival
Regional art exhibition - featuring graf art, digital art, new stuff
Festival isrun by young people (management team)
Celebrates youth cultures / talents
Supported by local govt and other sponsors
Big, funky, exciting, fun, and on the edge!!
Young people - 11 to 25 yo
Music industry promotions (for bands for the festival events)
Arts / events organisations and sponsors
We want it to be eye-catching. Steer away from squares and corporate looks. Aim more for organic artwork + interesting shapes.
* CONTENT SECTION in the middle of the page will include slide show of images which hyperlink through the site. The slideshow box will be fixed height – ie no content below the slideshow box.
Textured or simple artwork/wallpaper but not to upstage the content; so the eye is drawn to the content rather than background art.
* RIGHT-HAND COLUMN will contain 4 image-links (buttons), to be developed by us.
* LEFT-HAND COLUMN will be a sub-menu w/ text links. The colour and any menu dividers are up to you to design.
* MIDDLE COLUMN is a CONTENT area. This can vary in height, will include images and text - the 'background' of the page will expand with text area
BANNER/LOGO - both pages
Banner is to incorporate the existing Hyper logo (attached). This ia a generic banner that sits as a placeholder (no functionality required).
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ITP Law
We are a technology savvy, professional services company, providing the skills of senior lawyers on a consultancy basis. We help clients with large outsourcing projects, technology services procurement, intellectual property commercialisation and complex contract negotiation.
We are looking for a combined 'ITP Law Consulting' mark, but like the current ability to use just 'ITP Law', and just 'ITP' where situationally appropriate - see the Word Doc attached for further detail. Note:
1. 'itp' part of logo MUST be in lower case
2. overall logo must include the word 'consulting'
3. use sans serif fonts
4. main color should be dark blue, possibly supported by pale blue - use of black only minimally if it enhances the design
5. strong preference for 'lower case' text throughout
6. 'itp' and possibly 'law' part can be highly stylised / even constructed out shapes (but MUST still be clear and legible) - whereas expect 'consulting' to be a standard font
7. no 'legal scales', gavels or other legal cliches in the logo please
8. please review the attached word doc carefully
and many thanks for your participation
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The title of this sequel to the 2008 "Journey to the Center of the Earth" gets points as marginally clever. Since the center of the earth doesn't figure into the new film, the filmmakers have retained the word "journey" and branded it with the numeral "2" to drive home the connection; at the same time, it reads aloud as "Journey to the Mysterious Island."
The film itself can likewise be regarded as marginally clever. It employs the same conceit as its predecessor — that 21st century characters can rediscover the world within Jules Verne's novels, because the novels themselves were only disguised as fiction. This time, it's revealed that Robert Louis Stevenson and Jonathan Swift were playing the same game, allowing director Brad Peyton and the writers to combine Verne's "Mysterious Island" with a few minor elements from "Treasure Island" and "Gulliver's Travels."
Sean, the surly 13-year-old from "Journey to the Center of the Earth," is now a surly 17-year-old — certainly good news for actor Josh Hutcherson ("The Kids Are All Right"), who appears to have grown about six inches in the interim. If Sean was troubled before by the absence of his late dad, he's troubled now by the presence of a new step dad. Hank (Dwayne Johnson) can't seem to break down Sean's resistance until they collaboratively translate a coded radio message, which pinpoints an uncharted island not far from Palau, New Guinea. Sean is convinced it's a distress call from his grandfather, Alexander (Michael Caine).
This is pretty much Hardy Boys-level plotting. ("Gee, Frank," Joe said, rescuing a shred of ancient parchment from the gutters of their American small town, "Do you think it might have something to do with the long-lost pirate treasure that strange old man told us about yesterday?") But Sean manages to bully Hank into accompanying him to Palau to investigate. The script then conveniently introduces the comic relief character (Luis Guzman) and the teen romantic interest (Vanessa Hudgins). In no time, the four are stranded on the titular island, which is full of scenery and action ideas that seem like "Avatar" knockoffs.
You know the rest: prehistoric animal attacks, giant insects, Grandpa, Atlantis, Captain Nemo, the Nautilus, chases, adolescent Tracy/Hepburn bickering, and like that. It's cute and it's PG and it moves right along. The 3D effects are subtler than in the first "Journey" — no gratuitous yo-yo tricks.
Many sequels are thinly disguised remakes, but this one, oh no. Instead of an unadventuresome kid won over by daredevil adult, we've got an unadventuresome adult won over by a daredevil kid. The kid, not the adult, gets the romantic subplot. The elder hero is a stepfather, not an uncle. The gigantic, scary dinosaurs aren't the same ones as before. See? No similarities at all.
Like its predecessor, it feels more juvenile than, say, the 1959 version of "Journey to the Center of the Earth," but back then I was more juvenile too, so it may be just me. Its virtues rest mainly in the casting. The kids are indeed all right, and the always-welcome Caine gets points by now just for being Caine.
Johnson continues to project a lot of charm and even to surprise: In one of the few restful moments amidst the almost nonstop action scenes, he whips out a ukulele and sings a lovely version of "Wonderful World." And he appears to be actually playing, not finger-syncing, which adds to the effect.
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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I've also discovered where all the lowbie toons are: Eversong Forest.
I kid you not.
When I crossed the Elrendar into Eversong, I was stunned by the sheer number of toons running about. Yes, I'm aware of the cross server zones, but this was the first time I'd seen a cross server zone not called Elwynn Forest work as intended.* Players were everywhere. I even found a pair of toons working away by the eastern coastline, which tends to be overlooked as a questing area.
In the age of Panda, Blood Elves are still popular. Go figure.
There were a few other trends I noticed: a significant number of toons were Hunters and Mages, with Warlocks a distant third. More interesting was that about half of the toons had titles already attached to them, indicating that a lot of these toons were alts. And perhaps the most interesting item of all was that the ratio of female to male Blood Elves was on the order of 7:1. I'd read somewhere that there were actually more female than male Sindorei played on the servers, but I don't recall the discrepancy being so wide.
One big surprise was that there weren't any Sindorei Monks around. I know they exist, because I see them in Battlegrounds all the time, but there weren't any in Eversong. I checked both Eversong and the Ghostlands, but nary a Monk could be found.
The few paladins I saw, however, were busy working away in the Ghostlands, fighting the Scourge.
Being a Rogue means that you occasionally scare the hell out of opposing players, even when you don't intend to.
For some reason, I really like the Ghostlands. The eerie feel to the place, coupled with the fight of the Blood Elves against the twin fronts of the Scourge and the Amani Trolls, gives a new Blood Elf player a laserlike focus on the threats at hand. The fact that the Forsaken have shown up to assist Tranquilien in holding the line on the Scourge, even before the Sindorei officially join the Horde, adds to the conflict.** There's also the enjoyable interplay at the entrance to Zul'Aman, put in place in Cataclysm, between Ranger General Halduron Brightwing, Silver Covenant Ranger General Vereesa Windrunner, Chieftain Vol'jin, and a messenger from Silvermoon. Finally, I really do like the elite abominations, Luzran and Knucklerot.***
I was sneaking around in the general direction of the Dead Scar when I saw a pair of L18 Blood Elves --a Blood Knight and Mage-- run up to take on Luzran. Remembering how rough it used to be to kill him at level, I loitered around. I'm not one to gank lowbies, but I figured if it looked like Luzran was going to win I could give them an assist.****
The Paladin charged Luzran, and the fight was on.
Luzran kept up a steady stream of attacks, gradually sapping the Pally's strength. His healing simply couldn't keep up with Luzran's damage. I made a quick mental calculation and began to maneuver into position. If that Pally didn't have Lay on Hands available he was sunk, and that Mage was going down soon after.
Just as I reached Luzran's backside I saw the telltale flash of light. The Pally had finally used Lay on Hands.
I pulled back to wait.
The abomination wasn't going down so easily, and he very nearly killed the Paladin again before he finally dropped.
Using emote, I said "Well done. Not bad for a pair of Hordies."
The two Blood Elves froze, and one said something (in Orcish) out loud.
After a few seconds, I realized they thought they were going to be ganked.
"Don't mind me," I emoted. "I'm heading to the Plaguelands."
The pair began to move around again, and I slunk away. The Scourge surrounding Stratholme needed some thinning out.
*Why don't I count Elwynn? One word: Goldshire. It attracts toons for, shall we say, other reasons.
**If you play Alliance, go take a Horde toon into Tranquillien and watch the interplay between Dame Auriferous and High Executioner Mavren. Let's just say that Mavren is a lecher, and the Lady is not amused.
***You used to have to get a group of 3-4 L17s to take out one of them, but with the changes to the game since Wrath you can take them out with two. A word of advice: if you're out questing in the Ghostlands, watch your back. Those two have an annoying habit of sneaking up on you when you're not paying attention.
****Besides, I like the sound that an abomination makes when you hit it hard.


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Before founding the company he runs today, Ubiquiti Networks Inc., 34-year-old Robert Pera worked at Apple Inc., where he was a hardware engineer.
Robert Pera, Memphis Grizzlies chairman and controlling owner, and CEO Jason Levien were introduced to the city during a Monday morning press conference at FedExForum.
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As such, he said, it made him more or less like the "last man on the bench."
It was perhaps fitting that Pera reached for a basketball team image to describe his motivations and his ambition. Pera did so Monday, Nov. 5, during what were his first public remarks in front of fans, civic leaders and the media since closing on the $377 million purchase of the Memphis Grizzlies.
"I knew I couldn't do a lot (at Apple) and wouldn't get the opportunity to, but I could do a lot more on my own," Pera said about the creation of his technology company, which provides a variety of high-end wireless networking products.
Through Ubiquiti, Pera is attempting to disrupt a marketplace, break down barriers, empower engineers and connect millions of people around the world. Ubiquiti's latest quarterly earnings presentation comes later this week.
Closing the loop on that image – as a back-bencher at Apple who wanted to strike out on his own, fueled by imagination and drive – Pera said: "When I look at Memphis, I kind of have the same feeling as I had with my company."
The good feeling appears to be mutual. Pera and new Grizzlies CEO Jason Levien got a standing ovation Monday before beginning their remarks, which came a few hours before this week's Grizzlies home opener against the Utah Jazz.
Pera described Levien as a cross between Jerry Maguire and Ari Emanuel, the turbo-charged, fast-talking Hollywood super-agent on which Jeremy Piven's character from the TV series "Entourage" is based. Most recently, Levien was a co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team.
Counting Pera and Levien as his new right-hand man, the new Grizzlies ownership includes two dozen partners. For that group, Pera and his lieutenants handpicked prominent business leaders and a few celebrities – and plenty of locals.
"This ownership group will take the Grizzlies to the next level," said Edward Dobbs, one of the new partners who's also CEO of Memphis-based Dobbs Management Service. "Our team is going to thrive in Memphis for a long time."
Levien described himself as "best buddies" with former Memphis congressman Harold Ford Jr., who also is among the new minority partners in the Grizzlies. At Ford's wedding recently, Levien also met local businessman Billy Orgel, another Grizzlies partner.
At Monday's official public rollout of the team's new leadership, a few names of new partners also were made public. They include AutoZone Liberty Bowl executive director Steve Ehrhart.
Steve Kaplan, a principal and portfolio manager at Oaktree Capital Management LLC, was introduced as the Grizzlies vice-chairman. Pera, who will be the controlling owner of the team, has the title of chairman.
The full group met at fellow Grizzlies partner and AutoZone founder J.R. "Pitt" Hyde's home Sunday night.
As of mid-Monday, the new Grizzlies leadership was keeping information on ownership percentages and how Pera is financing the team, including what debt might be part of the mix, close to the vest.
University of Memphis men's basketball coach Josh Pastner was in the crowd at Monday's press conference, as was Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace.
Pera was represented in the sale of the team by Levien Sports, David Carlock and Jeffrey Pollack, who collectively put the team's limited partnership group together.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP provided legal counsel for Pera in the sale. McDermott Will & Emery LLP represented Hoops LP on the other side of the deal, which was signed in June and closed Oct. 29.
Pera said he'll be involved in decision-making for the team at a high level and that Levien will handle the day-to-day.
Speaking of high-level, when asked whether fans would get to see Pera, who's something of a basketball player himself, do any dunking on court, the new owner smiled and said simply, "Yeah."
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The Wabash cross country team finished 12th out of 16 teams in the Gold Division of the 2010 Notre Dame Invitational Friday afternoon in South Bend, Indiana.
Senior Seth Einterz posted the fastest time for the Little Giants, finishing 30th overall with a time of 25:50. Donavan White was 65th, crossing the finish line in 26:31. Justin Allen was 67th overall with a time of 26:37. Kevin McCarthy was 76th (26:47), while Brian David finished 80th (26:54).
Wabash scored a total of 302 points in the team competition. Eastern Michigan won the team competition in the Gold Division with a total of 47 points.
"We're disappointed," head coach Roger Busch said. "I think we learned as a team we can't just show up and run and hope to do well. We have to prepare and plan for the race. We have to know how we want to run.
"Now we have to rebuild from scratch. We'll run against some very strong competition at the pre-nationals in Iowa next weekend. We've got five weeks to put everything together so we are ready to compete as a team."
Wabash will split its team next weekend. A portion of the Little Giant squad will compete at the Gibson Family Invitational, hosted by Rose-Hulman at the Indiana State University Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana. The rest of the Wabash team will compete at the pre-national race at Wartbarg College, hosts of the 2010 NCAA Division III National Championship meet in November.


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Mary Louise Phillips was found by firefighters Wednesday morning, after they extinguished the flames in her home on Heather Lane, police officials said.
More than 30 firefighters responded to the fire, which was reported at 10:40 a.m.
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1956 JeepFC 150 - Jeep Autopsy: Forward ControlPosted in Project Vehicles on April 10, 2007
"Maximum payload on minimum wheelbase" is how Jeep pushed the Forward Control. That, and its visibility, maneuverability, and stationary power from three separate take-off points. The motto back in the late 1950s was, "A Jeep for every job," and this was the work truck in the CJ lineup. The vehicle's appearance and cab-over-engine style were deemed forward-thinking at the time. After all, you could "see the road six feet from the front bumper." Ah, yes, "forward-thinking"- the design equivalent of "butter face."
|Wheelbase: 81 in.
|F-head four-cylinder
|Overall length: 146 in.
|Displacement: 134.2 in.
|Overall width: 74.42 in.
|Bore x stroke: 3.12x4.37 in.
|Overall height: 78.02 in.
|Compression ratio: 6.9:1 (high-altitude option: 7.4:1)
|Curb weight: 3,141 lbs.
|Horsepower: 72 @ 4,000 rpm
|Torque: 114 @ 2,000 rpm
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The History
The Forward Control (better known as the FC series) debuted in 1956 (for Willys Motors) and was euthanized in 1965 (by Kaiser Jeep). Its quirk was that the cab was forward of the engine (creating extra cargo space), right smack over the front wheels. That made it an equal competitor for cargo-carrying abilities (other than spare tire/wheelwell issues), but it was nimble too (a turning radius of 18 feet). As you might suspect from looking at it, the FC was a wee light in the front-end loafers-therefore, on the 150 model, its real quirk had to do with a problem of tipping on its nose when heading down hill (a cast-iron weight was later added behind the rear axle).
The Model/The Body
The FC-150 was the first in the series to arrive, a no-brainer launch because it used the CJ-5 chassis. A year later came the FC-170, built off a widened Willys utility-wagon chassis. It was wider (76.94 inches), longer (181.47 inches), and taller (79.41 inches) than the 150, and its turning radius measured in at 21 feet. What made the cab-over unique was the payload-to-weight ratio-on the 170, it maxxed out at 3,510 pounds in a 45-cubic-foot box on that 103.5-inch wheelbase. The 81-inch FC wheelbase could carry 1,635 pounds in the stake body, 1,727 as a pickup. The '59 FC-170 added a heavy-duty model, with a beefier rearend and dualie rear tires. That same year, the FCs saw a slight redesign of the cab (a more level tunnel, for example) for better cooling.
The Engine
The FC-150 sported the CJ-familiar four-cylinder F-head Hurricane engine, which made 72 hp and 114 lb-ft of torque. The 170 had the 226-ci High Torque Super Hurricane six-cylinder for 190 lb-ft of torque at 1,400 rpm and 105 hp at 3,600 rpm. It had a compression ratio of 6.86:1 (although 7.3:1 was the optional ratio) and a bore-and-stroke of 3.312x4.375 inches. And, yes, the engine was pretty much accessible from inside the cab. A Cerlist three-cylinder diesel was also available, but only on some military models. It pumped out 85 hp and 170 lb-ft.
The Transmission
The standard transmission was the floor-shift, synchromesh three-speed Borg-Warner T-90A, although the heavier-duty synchromesh Borg-Warner T-98 four-speed was also available a few years later.
The Transfer Case
Both the FC-150 and FC-170 came equipped with the two-speed Spicer Model 18 T-case with 2.43:1 low ratio.
The Suspension/Axles
The FC-150 started off with a Dana 25 frontend, but in about two years made the leap to a closed-knuckle Dana 44 (this helped with stability). A Dana 44 brought up the rear on the 150. Meanwhile, the FC-170 ran with a 44 up front and a 53 rear (out back was a semi-floater that had a capacity of 4,500 pounds). The 170 had 4.88 gears; the 150 used 5.38s. In addition to the axle upgrade to try to keep the 150 upright, a year later there was a switch to a wider track (57 inches front and rear; the 170 was at 63 inches), and the leaf springs were moved outside the frame (matching the 170).
Also in 1959 came components that could bump the 170 from its 7,000 GVW class to 8,000- and 9,000-pound grouping. Opting for the modified platform stake model's heavy-duty rear springs equaled nine leaves rated at 672 pounds per inch and a capacity of 7,500 pounds, plus a Dana 70 dualie rearend or stronger Dana 53. Bigger rear shocks and 12- and 13-inch drum brakes (front and rear, respectively) could also be had.


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Nevada is the only major college football job open at the moment — Oregon could be added to that list soon, but a plan involving offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich is reportedly in place in the event that Chip Kelly leaves for the NFL — and while the Wolf Pack have already interviewed a handful of candidates to replace longtime coach Chris Ault, another supposed candidate has withdrawn his name from consideration.
Washington State running backs coach Jim Mastro told Footballscoop.com on Saturday that he was not interested in becoming Ault's successor. CBSSports' Bruce Feldman also tweeted the news, adding later that Texas A&M assistant Brian Polian is expected to take over the Wofl Pack.
Here's what Mastro told Footballscoop.com:
"I'm very grateful to the University of Nevada for their interest in me becoming their next head coach. However, I made a commitment to my good friend Mike Leach and I intend to honor that commitment. I love working for Washington State University. I have provided my input to members of the committee and trust they will make a wise selection."
Mastro spent 11 seasons at Nevada (2000-10) as an assistant and was instrumental in helping Ault develop the Pistol offense. When Ault retired late last month, Mastro's name was one of the first to pop up as a potential replacement.
Nevada announced that they would like to identify a finalist for the job and present him to the Board of Regents for approval at a Jan. 11 meeting.
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Today is the birthday of Ivar Pavlov, a Russian physiologist born in 1849 who is best known for his studies of the conditioning of dogs. Between 1890 and 1900, Pavlov investigated the secretory mechanisms of digestion in animals. In his most famous experiment, he fitted dogs with a tube on the cheek to measure their saliva production. Each time Pavlov showed the dogs food, he rang a bell, a neutral stimulus with no natural meaning for the dogs. He discovered that if this association was repeated enough times, the bell ringing alone would trigger salivation. Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1904 for his 1897 work, "Lectures on the Work of the Principal Digestive Gland," which summarized his research findings.
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WESTMINSTER – A man suspected of striking a pedestrian then driving away as the victim died in the street was arrested Wednesday after turning himself in to police.
Officers responding to reports of a man lying on Beach Boulevard south of 23rd Street shortly before midnight Monday found Brennan Solt, 24, suffering from multiple injuries.
Solt, a Copperopolis resident, was pronounced dead at the scene. Debris found at the scene led police Tuesday to seek the public's help in tracking down a late-model Toyota Rav4.
Click here to watch a video about the incident.
On Wednesday morning, a man who authorities identified as Khuong Pham, 44, came to the front counter of the Westminster Police Department and told police that he was the driver who had fled the accident scene, Westminster police Sgt. Cameron Knauerhaze said.
Traffic investigators interviewed Pham, who led them to his vehicle. The Toyota Rav4 was parked at Pham's Westminster home, minutes from the accident scene, Knauerhaze said.
Pham has been booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of felony hit-and-run involving death and vehicular manslaughter, authorities said.
"The Westminster Police Department would like to thank its media partners for publicizing this tragic incident. Moreover, we want to thank the media for personalizing and humanizing this story in an effort to appeal to the public for help in solving this case. Mr. Solt was more than just a 'pedestrian;' he was a father, a husband and a son," Knauerhaze said in a written statement.
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31243, Hymns, When Faith Endures, no. 128
I will not doubt, I will not fear;
God's love and strength are always near.
His promised gift helps me to find
An inner strength and peace of mind.
I give the Father willingly
My trust, my prayers, humility.
His Spirit guides; his love assures
That fear departs when faith endures.
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Okay, the race... it was at Pineland Farms and was 10.6 kilometers long, featuring a 5.3 kilometer loop that was done twice. The race would start in intervals, meaning skiers started one at a time and 10 seconds apart.
The conditions were surprisingly awesome. They had to truck in snow from other parts to cover bare patches and did a great job in getting everything in order (we've been in a snow drought, and a warm rain several weeks ago obliterated our snow pack). I had anticipated a lot of ice, but there really wasn't any. Conditions were simply fantastic.
My friend Jeff was the RD and some other runner friends Val, Rick and Kevin were also volunteering. Dr. Jamie and Floyd (another Trail Monster runner) were also competing. It was nice to see so many familiar faces.
My attitude was lax. I know I'm not fast, so I didn't feel any pressure there. I just wanted to be sure I stayed out of the fast folks' way, and not finish the race last. Missions accomplished.
So, it came to my turn at the starting line and I was off. Lots of fast skiers had started behind me, so this meant one of them zooming past me every 10 seconds, give or take. I was very mindful to stay out of their way, and admired their technique and ability to fly that fast with confidence.
About a third of the way into the first loop the faster folks had all passed me and I had some breathing room. Then, as I got closer to the end of the loop, the front of the pack was lapping me and heading in to finish. Man, those dudes (and dudettes) can book it!
Ah, the second and final loop. Now I could really relax as there were no real worries about anyone coming up behind me. As a result, I did this loop a few minutes faster. I never was really pushing my pace, but was still trying to keep things moving at an okay lick and it was still a lot of work. Eventually got to the finish line and was done.
Very fun race and I'm grateful for the experience. It really was a nice reminder of how much I have to learn and improve on, and I'm looking forward to the challenge. Just got to practice more and keep at it. Can only really move up from here.
Skate skied 10.3 kilometers @ 12.51 kph/avg.
Total time: 50:54
Overall place: 63rd out of 66th.
Fast trails, packed and well groomed.
Moderately hilly.
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ST. MARYS — A local school district went into cautionary mode after being informed of a "potentially dangerous" situation by the Auglaize County Sheriff's Office Friday morning.
Superintendent Jerry Skiver noted the district received a phone call informing it of the situation.
"We had information of an issue off campus that could potentially be dangerous to the kids at school," he said. "We went into controlled access."
Controlled access, he noted, involves extensive monitoring of visitors.
"That means we're going to — anybody coming into the building — we're going to walk with them to wherever they're going and escort them to their car when they leave," Skiver said. "We also would meet the buses and make sure everything is OK."
He said the controlled access lasted approximately 30 minutes, until law enforcement notified them that the "concern was contained."
"Once the individual was contained, we were contacted and controlled access was lifted," Skiver said.
All of the district's buildings were notified, as well as the board of education members.
"And as soon as the threat had been diminished, they were all notified," Skiver said.
Regarding the situation itself, he noted the district did not "know enough information as to what kind of threat or threats it may have been" to the district until after the threat was contained.
Skiver noted he was already at the high school Friday morning for a meeting, when high school Principal Dave Lewis informed him of the situation.
"So we said we need to control the access to the building," he said.
Skiver noted it would be better for the district to "not take any chances" in the situation, regardless of the severity.
"It's better to err on the side of caution because I didn't want any of our kids in danger," he said.
Skiver said at his previous position in Portsmouth, Ohio, his district went into lockdown because of a bank robbery in the area.
"We didn't want to put the students in harm's way," he said.
"You never know when something is going to happen; however, there's good communication within this district. Law enforcement is really good about their cooperation with the schools."
Skiver commended those from the district involved in the situation.
"Everybody did a really great job," he said. "All the individuals involved — Mr. Thornsberry, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Pohl, Mr. Steinbrunner was at the elementary building, Mr. Adams — all the individuals in the district pulled together and made sure that everyone was taken care of, so I'd have to commend everyone involved."


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BOZEMAN, MT — A doctor prescribed Montana Democratic Sen. John Walsh medication for symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder after he returned from an Army deployment in Iraq, but he was not formally diagnosed with PTSD, the senator confirmed to Yahoo News following revelations this week that he had plagiarized a paper to receive his masters degree at the Army War College in 2007.
The New York Times revealed Wednesday that Walsh had plagiarized major portions of a research paper he wrote while he earning degree, a charge Walsh initially responded to by saying that he was suffering from PTSD at the time. But in an interview with Yahoo News here Friday, Walsh said that PTSD "in no way" contributed to him breaking the Army War College's honor code.
"I met with VA doctors, came back, went to the VA hospital here for a process period," Walsh said when pressed on whether he had been formally diagnosed with PTSD. "When I came back, I had private insurance, I went to my personal physician in Helena, Montana and talked about what I was dealing with. He prescribed medication for me. …He said there were symptoms of PTSD."
A Walsh aide told Yahoo News that the doctor prescribed Paxil, an antidepressant commonly used to treat PTSD.
According to the Times report, Walsh's paper, "The Case for Democracy as a Long Term National Strategy," borrowed heavily from a 1998 paper published by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a 2003 paper published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
As the Times report showed, Walsh's plagiarism was far more egregious than just a few forgotten citations. In some cases, Walsh copied long section from the sources word-for-word without attribution. When asked if he had plagiarized other papers during his time at the Army War College, Walsh called the paper in question "an isolated incident."
"I don't believe that they would" find other instances of plagiarism, Walsh told Yahoo News. On Friday, the Army War College announced that an analysis of the paper following the Times report had determined "reasonable cause to refer the case to the US Army War College Academic Review Board."
Walsh is facing a tough race against Republican challenger Montana Rep. Steve Daines. Walsh's campaign on Thursday released a defensive memo calling the plagiarized paper "an unintentional mistake" and announcing that Walsh would not step down from the race.
Other Democrats rose to his defense this week, saying that academics weren't Walsh's strong suit. "Look, Walsh is a soldier, he's not an academic," Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester told the Los Angeles Times. "And I just think if a person bores down below the surface, it's not near as big a deal as it appears right now."
A page from Walsh's 2007 Army War College yearbook obtained by Yahoo News — the only photographic evidence available to this point of his time there — shows him smiling and playing golf with friends under the caption, "H20, Beer, H20 Break" and "You think they will miss us at seminar?"
Walsh retired from the National Guard in 2012 and was sworn in as Montana's Lt. Governor the next year. He was appointed to the Senate earlier this year when Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus stepped down to become the U.S. Ambassador to China.


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Beaver Stadium should be burned down and the ground salted so nothing ever grows there again. Joe Paterno is, well, it's not worth repeating.
That's what I heard on the radio Friday morning. And those were the more sedate calls.
People want to punish a corpse. They want justice. They want the NCAA to put Penn State football out of business.
The outrage is justified. The death penalty isn't.
It would bring all sorts of practical implications. I don't expect hearing about them will change your mind. Not if you're stuck on the point death penalty advocates keep repeating: If the NCAA punishes schools over free tattoos, how can it let Penn State get away with its crime? SMU got a one-year death penalty for buying players. Relatively speaking, what does child rape warrant?
Ten years? Fifty years?
This is unexplored territory for a reason. The acts are so obscene that NCAA sanctions trivialize them. That doesn't matter to the angry masses. They say the program must be destroyed to save itself. Hasn't that already happened?
The school president was fired. The administrators who allegedly aided the cover-up are facing jail.
The head coach was fired. Now he's dead and his legacy is ruined. Jerry Sandusky is reviled and will die in prison. The university has suffered incalculable damage. And we're not even talking about the tens of millions it will pay to Sandusky's victims.
NCAA sanctions are designed to punish and deter. When it comes to punishment, Penn State will have an unprecedented amount without the NCAA getting involved. When it comes to deterrent, what's the next potential Sandusky gang going to think?
"Let's see, we're all going to jail and our school's become an international disgrace. That's OK as long as the NCAA doesn't ban us from the GoDaddy.com Bowl."
It's generally assumed university employees know not to commit rape in the shower. So what happened at Penn State did not violate any specific NCAA rules, other than the nebulous "lack of institutional control" statute.
The NCAA could act on that, but it would be a slippery first. In his November letter to Penn State, NCAA president Mark Emmert cited Bylaw 19.0.2 and the responsibility of coaches to set a proper example.
He cited 11 previous cases where schools were punished for violating it. But in every case, there were also the standard violations like improper benefits, contact and academic fraud. Those things alter the level playing field the NCAA is charged with maintaining.
You could argue that covering up Sandusky aided the team. But it just allowed Penn State to conduct football business as usual. Harboring a pedophile did not give the Nittany Lions a recruiting advantage.
Penn State would be the first school sanctioned solely because its representatives broke the law. That may sound dandy, but it would set a prickly precedent.
Police arrested 30 Florida football players during Urban Meyer's tenure. Would that now rise to "lack of institutional control?" Just this spring, Montana fired its football coach and athletic director after two football players were accused of sexual assault. Does Emmert need to act?
What would the new standard be to initiate sanctions? And do you trust the Inspector Clouseaus at the NCAA to administer them fairly? And the Penn State lynch mob acts as if the violations happened last season. The smoking gun was fired in 2001. Incoming recruits were in second grade.
Recall cases like USC, where Reggie Bush cashed in and Pete Carroll waltzed to the NFL. The NCAA comes down, leaving Matt Barkley and other innocents to pay for old Trojan sins. If you want the death penalty in Happy Valley, don't ever rail against such injustice again.
About 99.9 percent of the people there are as sickened by Sandusky as you are. Critics say they still need to be sent to timeout for loving their coach, donating their money and being slavishly loyal. Yes, they are guilty of being part of a runaway football culture. If that alone warrants the death penalty, there should be no games this fall in Tuscaloosa, Austin, Columbus and a lot of other places.
Penn State's lack of institutional control warrants far more severe punishment than the NCAA could ever dispense. What we need now is a little more emotional control.
Would giving Penn State the death penalty deter what isn't already deterred?
Would it punish the guilty?
Would it please the outraged masses?
But that hardly makes it justice.


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