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Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Son of God with a kiss, has become the most despised person in the annals of human history. His personality is the darkest in the chronicles of the world, and the name Judas itself bears a stigma, reflecting the scorn for him that burns within us. The New Testament writers disdain Judas to such a degree that in every list of the disciples given in the Gospels, Judas is listed last, with a note of contempt after his name.
Hatred for Judas was so deep in the years following the closing of the New Testament that several incredible legends about him evolved. They describe bizarre occurrences, characterizing Judas as ugly, evil, and totally repugnant. One, in the apocryphal Coptic Narrative, said that Judas, having betrayed Christ, was infested with maggots. Consequently, his body became so bloated that on one occasion he was trying to ride on a cart through a gate, and being too large to fit through it, he hit the gate, his body exploded, and maggots spewed all over the wall. Obviously, that story is not true, but it shows the high level of contempt for Judas in the early centuries.
When I was in seminary, I wrote my dissertation on Judas Iscariot. During the year that I spent working on it, and since then, I have found it extremely difficult to write or speak on. Sin is never more grotesque than it is in the life of Judas. When we study Judas and his motivations, we are prying very close to the activity of Satan. But there are valuable reasons for examining Judas and his sin. For one thing, to understand Jesus' love in its fullness, it helps to look at the life of Judas, because despite the awfulness of Judas' sin, Jesus reached out to him in love.
Jesus and Judas
In John 13:17-30, Jesus and Judas come head to head. We see clearly at this point the evil of Judas contrasted with the absolute purity of Jesus Christ. The diabolical deed that had been festering in the heart of Judas—the treachery he had already begun to perpetrate—was pushed to its climax, and Judas was unmasked as the betrayer.
Jesus speaks at the beginning of this powerful passage:
"If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against Me.' From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."
When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me." The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. There was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking." He, leaning back thus on Jesus' bosom, said to Him, "Lord, who is it?"
Jesus then answered, "That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him." So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we have need of for the feast"; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.
There we see Jesus and Judas—the epitome of opposites: the Perfect One and the absolutely wretched; the best and the worst. The purity of Jesus and the vileness of Judas, by contrast, became very obvious.
Judas was an ultimate tragedy—probably the greatest tragedy that ever lived. He is the perfect and prime example of what it means to have opportunity and then lose it. He becomes all the more terrible because of the glorious beginnings he had. Judas followed the same Christ as the others. For three years, day in and day out, he occupied himself with Jesus Christ. He saw the same miracles; heard the same words; performed some of the same ministries; was esteemed in the same way the other disciples were—yet he did not become what the others became. In fact, he became the very opposite. While they were growing into true apostles and saints of God, he was progressively forming into a vile, calculating tool of Satan.
For three years, he moved and walked with Jesus. Initially, he must have shared the same hope of the Kingdom that the other disciples had. He likely believed that Jesus was the Messiah. He too, had left all and followed Jesus. Certainly he became greedy, but it is doubtful that he joined the apostles for what money he could get, because they never really had anything. Perhaps his motive at the outset was just to get in on this Kingdom that Jesus would bring.
Whatever his character at the beginning, he gradually became the treacherous man that betrayed Christ, a man who had no thought for anyone but himself, a man who finally wanted only to get as much money as he could and get out.
Greed, ambition, and worldliness had crept into his heart, and avarice had become his besetting sin. Perhaps he was disappointed because of unfulfilled expectations of an earthly Kingdom. Maybe he was tormented by the unbearable rebuke of the presence of Christ. Surely it created a great tension in his heart to be constantly in the presence of sinless purity, and yet be so infested with vileness. Perhaps, too, he began to sense that the eye of the Master could see who he was and what he was. Or it may be that all those things had begun to eat at him.
Whatever the reasons, he ended in absolute disaster, the greatest example of lost opportunity the world has ever seen. On the night he betrayed Jesus, he was so prepared to do Satan's bidding that Satan was able to enter him and take complete control of him. A few days before this in <!—?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" ?—>
Jesus and his disciples (including Judas) were in the upper room. The vile traitor was sitting there, having already made his bargain to betray Jesus for money. He had already initiated the plan, and now he had returned to spend these moments with the disciples, looking for the right moment to betray Jesus' presence to the Jewish leaders.
Jesus had revealed in verse 10 that He knew Judas's heart, saying, "'You are clean, but not all of you.' For He knew the one who was betraying Him" (vv. 10-11). Judas had been sitting there all through Jesus' wonderful lesson on humility and washing of the disciples' feet. Jesus had even washed his feet. He sat there, the wretched hypocrite, letting the blessed Lord wash his feet, while in his head he was plotting the betrayal of Jesus, hardly able to wait until he could get his hands on the thirty coins.
Even though Jesus knew what Judas was about to do, He washed his feet. It was only one example of the marvelous love of Jesus Christ and the way He reached out to Judas. The measures He took to win Judas even at this late hour made His love all the more wonderful. One would think the experience of having Jesus wash his feet would be enough to break any man's heart. But not Judas's, so cold was he. He was determined to sell the Master to the executioners.
The Blessed and the Cursed
Having taught by example a wonderful lesson on humility, Jesus then carefully explained its meaning. He concluded His discourse by saying, "If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them." Blessed, of course, is a synonym for happy. One who learns how to show humble love, who is willing to bow down to the ground and serve another believer, is rewarded with true happiness. When you condescend in that kind of love, when you're willing to do that menial duty for the sake of another, when you don't care about exalting yourself to the predominance of every situation—when you humble yourself—you will be happy.
But Jesus could not speak of blessedness without speaking of the contrast, and what it is to be cursed. He did not think of happiness without thinking of tragedy and unhappiness. While the breath of happiness was coming from His lips, at the same time His mind began to fill with thoughts of the cursed Judas sitting beside Him. And so, He turns in verse 18 from the happy disciples to the cursed one, Judas. From verses 18 to 30 the dialogue centers on Judas himself. This is the final confrontation between Jesus and Judas, leaving only a kiss later on. It is important to understand why Jesus brought up the subject of His betrayal at this point. Unless He had in some way prepared the disciples for what was about to happen, it could have had a serious, adverse affect on them. If Judas had suddenly and without warning betrayed Jesus, the disciples may have concluded that Jesus wasn't all He claimed to be; otherwise He would have known that Judas was like this, and He never would have chosen him. So Jesus said, "I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.' From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He" (v. 18).
It would be very easy to pass by this and miss the point. Jesus wanted to be sure that they did not think He was surprised by what Judas was about to do. In effect, He therefore said to those disciples, "I know I chose Judas. I did it, not by accident, not in ignorance, but in order that Scripture might be fulfilled." He chose Judas because Judas was necessary to bring about His death, which was necessary to bring about the redemption of the world.
Prophecy was clear that Christ would be betrayed by a close friend. Why did Jesus choose Judas, then? He chose him to fulfill prophecy—not only the prophecy specifically about Judas, but also the prophecies of His own death. Somebody had to bring it to pass, and Judas was more than willing. God used the wrath of Judas to praise Him, and through the deed that Judas did, He brought salvation. Judas meant it for evil, but God used it for good (cf. Genesis 50:20).
God's Plan and Judas' Plot
You see, Judas fit right into the divine master plan. Judas' betrayal was predicted in detail in the Old Testament. Psalm 41:9 says, "Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me."
Psalm 41 had historical, as well as prophetic, meaning. It was David's lament over his own betrayal by his trusted adviser and friend Ahithophel. David had a wayward son named Absalom. Absalom decided to start a rebellion, overthrow his father, and take over the throne. Ahithophel turned against David and joined Absalom's rebellion. The picture of David and Ahithophel in Psalm 41 is fulfilled in a greater sense in Jesus and Judas. The phrase "lifted up his heel" portrays brutal violence, the lifting of a heel and driving the heel into the neck of the victim. That is the picture of Judas. Having wounded his enemy, who is lying on the ground, he takes the giant heel and crushes his neck.
Psalm 55 contains another clear prophecy of Judas and his betrayal. Imagine Jesus speaking these words:
For it is not an enemy who reproaches me, then I could bear it; nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me. Then I could hide myself from him. But it is you, a man my equal, my companion and my familiar friend. We who had sweet fellowship together, walked in the house of God in the throng.
He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has violated his covenant. His speech was smoother than butter, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. (vv. 12-14; 20-21)
Zechariah contains a prophecy about the betrayal of Christ by Judas in even more detail. It gives the exact price he was paid for his treachery, just as it is recorded in the New Testament. Zechariah 11:12-13 prophetically gives the words of Judas, talking to the Jewish leaders:
I said to them, "If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!" So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages. Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them." So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
That describes to the letter what Judas did after the death of Jesus Christ. He took the thirty pieces right back to the house of the Lord and threw them down. Matthew 27 says that the thirty pieces were picked up and used to buy a potter's field, exactly fulfilling the prophecy of Zechariah 11.
Jesus' choosing Judas was no accident. Long before Judas was ever born, his hatred of Jesus Christ was planned by divine design—predestined in the plan of God from eternity past. In John 17:12, Jesus, praying to the Father, says of the disciples, "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, that the Scripture would be fulfilled."
Divine Sovereignty and Human Choice
Understand, Judas's part was not apart from his own will. Even though God ordained that Judas would be the one of the Twelve who would betray Christ, it was not apart from the desire of Judas. Judas was no robot. Our Lord did not simply allocate to an unwilling Judas the part of the villain in the crucifixion. Such a thing would be inconsistent with the character of Jesus Christ. It is also inconsistent with the historical record. Throughout the ministry of Jesus, He endeavored to drive Judas to repentance, time and time again, with His love, His pleas, and His rebukes. So although Judas's treachery fit into the plan of God, God did not design him as a treacherous man. He became a traitor to Christ by his own choice. God merely designed his treachery into the divine plan. He took Judas, wretched as he was, and fitted him into His plan. If God was responsible for making Judas what he was, Jesus would have pitied him rather than rebuked Him.
Judas Iscariot, then, was the chosen instrument of God, not apart from his own will, to betray Christ and bring about His death. This wretched man—evil as he was, by his own desire—was designed into God's plan. And to show that it was not God's will apart from Judas's will, all the way along and at every opportunity, Jesus gave him warnings and pleas to bring him to repentance and salvation. And at every point he turned it down. We see that clearly in John 13.
Walking with Jesus and Following Satan
Judas, through his life of treachery, supplies sinners with a solemn warning. We learn from the example of Judas that a person can be very near to Jesus Christ, and yet be lost and damned forever. Nobody was ever closer to Christ than the Twelve. Judas was one of them, and he's in hell today, because while he may have given intellectual assent to the truth, he never embraced Christ with heartfelt faith.
Judas wasn't deceived; he was a phony. He understood the truth, and he posed as a believer. Furthermore, he was good at it—the cleverest hypocrite we read about in all the Scriptures, for no one ever suspected him. He had everyone fooled except Jesus, who knew his heart.
And mark it, wherever God's work is done, there are impostors like Judas. There will always be hypocrites among the brethren. The favorite trick of Satan and those he employs is to "disguise themselves as servants of righteousness" (2 Corinthians 11:15). The devil is a master at making his work look good—and he is busily at work among the Lord's people.
Truth and Consequences
Prior to this time Jesus had maintained secrecy about Judas's hypocrisy. Now He determined to reveal the truth, knowing that if the other eleven disciples were taken by surprise, their faith might have been undermined. He wanted them to know that He was not being taken by surprise, that God is never any man's victim. He wanted to ensure that when He was gone, their faith would be strong.
In revealing to them the truth about Judas, He also irrefutably affirmed His deity. In verse 19, He says, "I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am." (The 'He' in that verse is not in the original Greek text.)
"I am" is God's name (cf. Exodus 3:14). Jesus is in essence saying, "I want you to know that I am God, and I knew this would happen." Thus He affirmed His name and established His omniscience. Nothing is hidden from His sight. He knows what goes on in Christians' hearts, but more than that, He knows what goes on in the hearts of unregenerate people as well. In John 5:42, Jesus, talking to unbelieving Jews, says, "but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves." He knows the heart of every man, believer, or unbeliever. He reads it like an open book.
The Apostles and the Betrayer
In John 13:20, after affirming His deity, Jesus, still speaking of His imminent betrayal, says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me." Initially, that statement doesn't seem to fit the context of what Jesus is saying. But a closer look reveals that it fits beautifully.
We don't know what went on in the gap between verses 19 and 20. But you can imagine that when the disciples found out about the betrayal, they might have all assumed that because of the failure of one of them, credibility would be destroyed for the rest. They might have assumed that a traitor among the disciples would lower the standing of them all. If Jesus went to the cross, they must have thought, the Messianic hope would be gone. Their ministry would be over. They might as well forget about the Kingdom. And, remember, Jesus had just been stressing the importance of humility. Perhaps they were beginning to think that He was telling them to forget about their high calling.
So what Jesus was saying is this: "No matter what happens, it doesn't lower your commission, and it doesn't alter your calling. You are still my representatives. Although there's a traitor among you, that doesn't affect your high calling. The treachery of Judas must never lower your estimate of apostolic responsibility." It's a tremendous lesson. He's saying, "When you go out there and preach, if they receive you they are receiving Me. And if they receive Me, they're receiving the Father who sent Me. Your commission is that high. You represent God in the world."
When Christ was crucified, Judas turned out to be a rotten hypocrite, and the whole world seemed to be collapsing, it was easy to hit bottom spiritually and emotionally. So Jesus took the opportunity to elevate them and encourage them to keep their eyes on their calling and on their ministry, where they belonged.
We need to be aware of that truth as well. No matter what Satanic opposition we run into, no matter how frustrating the work becomes, nothing can lower our commission. I recently talked to a discouraged man who is in the Lord's service. He was facing so much opposition that he was beginning to wonder if he was in the right place.
Opposition is to be expected, I told him. Anything we do for God is going to meet with opposition. If every missionary looked at a mission field and said, "Oh, they might not believe me over there;" we'd never get anything done. Just because it's going to be difficult, and just because there's going to be opposition doesn't lower your calling. We are Christ's ambassadors in the world. Those who reject us reject Christ, so regardless of what happens, we stand with Him. That's as high as you can get.
When a believer moves out into this world, he represents Jesus Christ. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:20, "Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." In Galatians 4:14, the apostle Paul says, "You received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself." And that's the way everybody ought to receive a believer. When a man rejects our witness for Christ, he rejects Jesus and he rejects God. That's how strategically important believers are. And that is Jesus' point in John 13:20. Notice that He uses the word "whomever." That refers to ambassadors of Jesus Christ in every age, including those of us who represent Him today.
Have you ever heard someone use hypocrites as an excuse for not following Christ? People often say, "There are too many hypocrites in the church for me." Or, "Well, we don't go to church, because we went when I was nine and we saw a hypocrite. Haven't been back in forty-two years!" That will be a pathetic excuse when they rattle it off to God in the day of judgment.
But it is true that there are too many hypocrites in the church. They're everywhere. And one hypocrite is one too many. But the fact that some are hypocrites does not diminish the glory of God or lower the high calling of every true child of God. One betrayer among the apostles did not tarnish the commission of the rest.
Wheat and Tares
In Matthew 13:24-30, Jesus gave this parable:
The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away. But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.
The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, "Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?"
And he said to them, "An enemy has done this!" The slaves said to him, "Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?" But he said, "No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may root up the wheat with them. Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, 'First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
In other words, it was hard to tell the difference between wheat and tares before they were ready for harvest. And while there may be some telltale signs, we can't always tell the difference between the true people of God and the hypocrites. If we knew which was which, we could go to every hypocrite individually and warn him of the danger of his hypocrisy. But we can't read people's hearts. But someday Jesus is going to reveal who is true and who is false, and He will divide accordingly.
The Troubled Heart and the Hardened Heart
Unmasking Judas betrayal must have caused deep anguish within the heart of Jesus. "When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me'" (v. 21). What troubled Him? Possibly a number of things: He was troubled because of the unrequited love of Judas; He was troubled because of the ingratitude in Judas's heart; He was troubled because He had a deep hatred of sin, and sitting at the same table with Him was sin incarnate; He was troubled because of the hypocrisy of the one about to betray Him; He was troubled because He knew Judas faced an eternal destiny in hell; He was troubled because He could see with His omnipotent eye Satan moving around Judas; He was troubled because He sensed all that sin and death meant. But perhaps most of all He was troubled because He had an awareness that Judas was a classic illustration of the wretchedness of sin, which He would have to bear in His own body on the next day.
In His anguish, He says, "One of you will betray Me." Imagine the shock that must have rattled through the disciples. Their hearts must have raced. One of those at the table; one whose feet Jesus had just washed; one of their own, close group was about to betray the Master. One of them was plotting to use his intimacy with Christ to guide the enemy to Him so that they might kill Him. It must have been difficult for them to fathom that one of their own group could have such hardened treachery in his heart.
In fact, the disciples couldn't imagine whom He could be talking about. John says they "began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking" (v. 22). Matthew says they all said, "Is it I? Is it I?" And Judas, the hypocrite, even said, "Surely it is not I, Rabbi?" (Matthew 26:25).
Love and Treachery
It is noteworthy that the disciples were so perplexed. It shows that Jesus had shown love to Judas for three years, even though He knew Judas would betray Him in the end. If Jesus had ever treated Judas any differently from the way He treated the other disciples—if He had been more distant, or shown resentment—they would have known immediately that Judas was the betrayer. If Jesus had harbored any bitterness for what He knew Judas would ultimately do, it would have come out in the way He talked to him. But, evidently, for three years He had been gentle, loving, and kind to Judas, treating Him in exactly the same manner He treated the other eleven. They thought of him as one of the group, and no one suspected him.
In fact, they must have had a great deal of trust in him. Judas was treasurer of the group. And hard-hearted Judas had just played his game, all the way along. He had the behavior of a saint but the heart of a sinner. He must have come to hate Christ deeply.
The hatred of Judas and the love of John make an interesting contrast. Try to picture the scene around the table. The table itself would have been U-shaped. In accordance with the customs of that time, the disciples were not seated on chairs, but rather reclining on couches. The table would have been a low, solid block with the couches around it, and the host would sit at the center. On each side of him would be guests of honor, and others would be positioned all around the table. They would lie on their left sides, resting on their left elbows, using their right hands to eat. Thus the one who was on the right of Jesus would have his head very close to the heart of Christ. From a distance, it would appear that he was reclining on the breast of Christ. John, who wrote this account, often referred to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (21:20; cf. 21:24). It was not that Jesus loved him more than He loved the others, but rather that John was completely overwhelmed with the concept that Jesus loved him at all. Also, John was consumed with love for the Lord. He loved Jesus as much as Judas hated Him.
John was reclining next to Jesus: "There was reclining on Jesus' breast one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore gestured to him, and said to him, 'Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking'" (John 13:23-24). Peter silently motioned to John to ask Jesus who the betrayer would be. So John leaned up and whispered, "Lord, who is it?" When he turned to speak with Him, Christ would be very close.
"Jesus then answered, 'That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.' So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot" (v. 26). Jesus' answer to Peter and John was really a final appeal of love to Judas. "The morsel" was a piece broken from some of the unleavened cakes that would be on the table as a part of the Passover feast. Also on the table would be a dish called cheshireth, filled with bitter herbs; vinegar; salt; and mashed fruit, consisting of dates, figs, raisins, and water—all mixed together into a pasty substance. They would eat it with the unleavened bread like a dip.
It was very special for the host to dip a morsel into the cheshireth and give it to the guest of honor. And Jesus, kindly, in a gesture of love toward Judas, dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas, as if Judas were the guest of honor. One would think that all Jesus had done for Judas that night would have broken his heart, but it didn't. Judas was an apostate. His heart was hardened, and nothing Jesus could do for him would break it. Salvation for him was now impossible. He had become the classic example of the kind of person spoken of in Hebrews 6, who has "once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away" (Hebrews 6:4-6). He had seen and experienced and tasted all those things, but he had never embraced them with true faith.
The writer to the Hebrews says of those like Judas, "It is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame" (v. 6).
Judas was so confirmed in his apostasy that he literally became possessed by Satan. Verse 27 says, "And after the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Jesus therefore said to him, 'What you do, do quickly.'" Judas had been duped by Satan; he'd been flirting with Satan. The enemy had already put it in his heart to betray Christ, and now, the devil simply moved in and took over. In that awful moment, the evil will of Judas overcame the last and most powerful offer of Jesus Christ's love, and the sin against the Holy Spirit was finalized. In that moment, Judas was damned to hell forever. He had spurned the love of Christ for the last time and his eternity was sealed.
Day and Night
Jesus' attitude toward Judas immediately changed. He was through with Judas. Judas had crossed the line of grace, and no more could Jesus reach out to him. The difference was immediate, radical—like day and night. Jesus had been reaching out to Judas in love, but Judas was confirmed in his stubborn apostasy. All Jesus wanted now was to get rid of him.
Notice that Satan and Jesus were now giving Judas the same direction. Satan said, "Betray Him." Christ said, "Do it quickly." Judas was clearly determined to betray Christ, Satan was determined to try to destroy Him, and Christ was determined to die for the sins of the world. But Jesus would shatter Satan's plan by rising from the grave.
None of the disciples caught the significance of what was occurring. "Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, 'Buy the things we have need of for the feast'; or else, that he should give something to the poor" (vv. 28-29). They thought he was going shopping, or out to dispense some charity at the Passover season.
"And so after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night" (v. 30). There he went, a solitary figure, leaving the room, to enter into the eternity of hell. The Bible doesn't say where he went, but evidently he went to finalize his deal with the Sanhedrin. And when he went out, it was night. For Judas, who had walked with Jesus and yet stayed in darkness, the hours of daylight and opportunity were over. It was more than mere physical night, it was eternal night in the soul of Judas. It is always night when a man goes out of the presence of Jesus Christ.
There are Judases in every age. Perhaps they are more common than ever today. The professing church is full of people who are selling out Jesus Christ, "crucify[ing] to themselves the Son of God and put[ting] Him to open shame" (Hebrews 6:6). There are many who have eaten at His table, and then lifted their heel against Him. And the greatest tragedy still is only their own ultimate disaster. A poem I once read includes these few poignant words:
Still as of old,
By himself is priced.
For thirty pieces Judas sold
Himself, not Christ.
Be sure that you make the most of your opportunities. Be sure you're not a hypocrite. If we learn anything from the life of Judas it is that the greatest spiritual privileges might be neutralized by illicit passion. A life that is lived in the face of the unclouded sun may yet end in a night of despair.
© 1983 by John MacArthur. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise identified, all Scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, and 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, and are used by permission.


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Dual Source CT (DSCT) is new CT medical application, in which three sets of image data can be obtained by two independent X ray tubes to achieve a better tissue differentiation. In the present work, the noise, low contrast and high resolution behavior is measured for the Siemens DSCT system Definition and then compared with other model of the Somaton series. The modern 64-slices detector technology implemented within the Definition produces a relatively large scattered radiation that affects significantly the distinction of low density difference regions and increases the presence of noise. An non uniform illumination anomaly is found in the images obtained in the dual mode of the scanner. Although the z-axis resolution has strongly improve, the noisy character of the DSCT brings a step back in terms of xy-resolution. The use of this of type of scanner is therefore recommended for high speed and thin slice studies.
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When the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to unlimited campaign contributions in the 2010 Citizens United case, most experts and advocates said it would lead to an overwhelming flood of donations from corporations and wealthy individuals.
In the first election cycle since that decision, business money indeed poured into so-called "independent expenditure" groups in Alaska, including $115,000 alone from one business group in Washington, D.C.
But state labor organizations doubled down. Their affiliated Super PAC, the Putting Alaskans First Committee, raised nearly twice the combined amount of the two main business Super PACs operating in the last election, The Accountability Project and We Are Alaska.
"People thought it was going to be 'Katie bar the door' for corporate money, and as it turns out, organized labor has taken advantage of Citizens United to a degree that at least equals, and in a lot of cases exceeds what the business community has," said Scott Hawkins, chairman of The Accountability Project and a businessman with ties to the oil industry. "That's not what the water cooler narrative was."
Vince Beltrami, chairman of Putting Alaskans First Committee and president of the Alaska AFL-CIO, the umbrella organization for most of the state's labor unions, said the effort was deliberate and sustained.
Unions were expected to maintain their superiority in the "ground game" -- the phone banks and door-to-door, get-out-the-vote effort that requires organization and volunteers. But outspending the company bosses?
"It was a conscious effort to get more active than we've ever been," Beltrami said in a recent interview in his midtown office, which doubles as a studio for making message videos. "Frankly, while we always have had a good ground game, you know the Citizens United decision that allows you to spend unlimited money? We built a Citizens United-compliant organization."
The money from both sides went primarily into the battle for the state Senate, which for the past four years has been tied 10-10 between Republicans and Democrats. The Democrat-dominated bipartisan coalition that ran the Senate last session blocked an oil-tax cut pushed by the Republican governor, Sean Parnell, and the Republican House.
Parnell said the cut was necessary to encourage oil companies to drill in Alaska. The Senate coalition agreed with that goal, but said Parnell's plan would have given away up to $2 billion a year in revenue with no requirement that producers do anything for their windfall.
The issue is of great interest to organized labor in Alaska, which is dominated by state and local public sector employees and by trade groups that benefit from state-fueled construction projects. If a billion dollars or two were to suddenly vanish from the state treasury, the budget crisis could be far-reaching, with unknown but likely effects on state workers, teachers, police and others, not to mention road pavers, steel workers and electricians.
Beltrami said unions feared that a big loss in the Senate would lead to Wisconsin-style legislation in Alaska to gut the rights of organized labor in the public sector.
Some businesses also benefit from capital projects. But one of the state's most active business groups, the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, solidly supported the tax cut. Its members are the contractors, transportation companies, service providers and others doing business with the major oil producers.
The Alliance's Citizens United Super PAC, We are Alaska, reported raising $135,000. Hawkins' Accountability Project reported $152,500 in contributions, including $115,000 from the Republican State Leadership Committee of Washington, D.C., a super-PAC dominated by the insurance, pharmaceutical and oil industries.
Putting Alaskans First Committee reported raising $536,500, of which $411,500 was from Alaska unions. Most of the rest came from two wealthy Alaskans, Barney Gottstein, the retired food wholesaler who has long backed Democratic politics, and Bob Gillam, an Anchorage financial manager and staunch opponent of the proposed Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay region. Gillam gave $49,000, Gottstein $43,000, according to reports filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.
Citizens United was a groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court decision that equated money with free speech rights, and corporations and unions with individuals. The court ruled the corporations and unions could make unlimited expenditures on politics, but only for independent campaigns. They could support or oppose candidates, but couldn't coordinate their activities with the candidates themselves.
Like the federal law, Alaska had banned corporations and unions from making campaign contributions. Citizens United changed that.
Alaska got its first taste of the new order in Lisa Murkowski's 2010 write-in campaign for U.S. Senate after she lost the Republican primary to tea party insurgent Joe Miller. Citizens United allowed a Super PAC led by Alaska Native corporations, Alaskans Standing Together, to spend more than $1 million on her behalf over three weeks leading up to the election. She pulled off the upset victory.
There was plenty of money spent in Alaska in the 2012 election even without the independent-expenditure Citizen United groups. The candidates themselves raised fortunes.
Another kind of organization, Make Alaska Competitive Coalition, was also able to raise unlimited funds in support of its "educational" campaign in favor of oil-tax cuts. Unlike the Super PACs, the coalition didn't have to report its sources of money because it didn't directly support or oppose individual candidates.
Several smaller independent expenditure groups had limited activity, such as one in Fairbanks named, Oh No, Not Ralph Again! It was organized to defeat conservative car dealer Ralph Seekins in the Republican primary, and of its $9,100 in contributions, $2,000 came from unions. Seekins lost.
In federal campaigns, unions have increased their fund-raising activity, but not to the degree of business groups and individuals, said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Washington campaign watchdog nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics.
But companies, in particular retailers, have been discovering risks in those activities. In 2010, Minnesota-based Target stores contributed $150,000 to a Citizens United group that backed a conservative Republican for Minnesota governor, Krumholz said. Target supported the candidate's position on business issues, but the donation led to a boycott of Target stores because of the candidate's opposition to same-sex marriage -- a position that ran afoul of the store chain's own policy on equal rights.
Alaska businesses are similarly concerned that a political donation could backfire, Hawkins said.
Putting Alaskans First spent heaviest on behalf of two losing incumbent Democrat senators in Fairbanks: $99,600 supporting Joe Thomas, a former union official, against John Coghill; and $94,375 in support of Joe Paskvan against Pete Kelly. In Anchorage, it backed two Democratic winners facing tough opposition, Sen. Bill Wielechowski ($72,602) and Sen. Hollis French ($75,146), and two Republicans from the bipartisan coalition with weak Democratic opponents, Sen. Lesil McGuire and Sen. Kevin Meyer ($45,000 each). It spent another $45,000 on the losing campaign of Sen. Bettye Davis.
Republican Bob Roses said the union money turned what he believed would have been a close race against Wielechowski into a sound defeat.
"There was just a massive amount of money that they spent, and they spent it attacking (French opponent) Bob Bell and myself combined," said Roses, himself a former teacher union head.
Unofficial results show French won by just 53 votes.
Beltrami, the AFL-CIO head, said all the money raised by Putting Alaskans First came from voluntary contributions by Alaska union members, not dues. IBEW members, for instance, are asked if they want to contribute $7 a pay period or 7 cents and hour, he said.
Despite the results, Beltrami said, it was money well spent. He said redistricting by the Republican-dominated state redistricting board was the biggest factor in defeat of Democrats.
"They were predicting much worse beat-downs in a lot of these seats. We held on to some that we shouldn't have, some were closer than they were expected to be," he said. "While the result isn't what we ideally wanted, the effort that we put in was really rewarding. I don't think we lose, I don't think it's ever a waste of money to go into something like this, particularly when it has such huge ramifications for the state of Alaska."
The next step will be watching the Legislature and the next oil-tax debate, Beltrami said. The AFL-CIO message that "It's Our Oil" continues to resonate with the public and may prevent the kind of tax cuts that were passed by the House in 2011, he said.
"We like the oil companies, we want to see more production, we want to see Alaskans hired, but what the governor proposed did nothing to guarantee any of that. That's why we got active," Beltrami said.
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Most married couples envision growing old with their spouse -- sitting in the proverbial rocking chairs on the porch, playing with the grandkids, and maybe dancing on their 50th wedding anniversary if they're lucky. One lucky couple did that ... 30 years ago. Then they kept on keeping on, and recently celebrated their 80th anniversary.
Eighty years is a long time to live, but to make it to 80 years of marriage is something special. John Betar and Ann Shawah tied the knot on November 25, 1932 in New York, the same year that FDR beat Herbert Hoover in the presidential election and gas cost 10 cents a gallon.
Eight decades later, the couple will be honored this Saturday for having the longest union in the U.S.
It was the wedding that almost didn't happen though -- 17-year-old Ann was engaged to be married in a pre-arranged union to a man 20 years her senior! Her immigrant parents felt that he would be a good provider for her, but she took her chances with John and the two eloped.
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Both from immigrant families, the couple met growing up in the same Syrian community in Bridgeport, Connecticut. After grammar school, John took a job as a fruit peddler, but took the time to drive Ann and her friends to high school in his Ford Roadster. "I fell for her right away," he says, all these years later.
These two have truly lived the American dream. John turned his fruit peddling into entrepreneurship, opening his own grocery store, Betar's Market, in 1938. Ann stayed home and raised their five children, and the couple claims that the 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren they now have "bring new life" and light into their lives.
So how did they make it 80 years and still in love? Ann says, "There are so many things in a lifetime that can make you very, very happy and very, very sad, but if you can do it together, then it's happiness." John wisely adds, "Get along. Compromise. Live within your means and be content ... and let your wife be the boss."
The couple continues to praise God for their many blessings and good times together. They still live independently and actively at the ages of 97 and 101. They like to cook together, take outings looking for the best produce, read, and keep up with the news.
What an awesome couple. We should all be so fortunate.
Does this couple make you look forward to growing old with your mate?
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According to APR, these side rocker extensions for the 2005 and later Lotus Elise/Exige are the logical next step in aerodynamically tuning the cars' handling characteristics. Made of lightweight and durable carbon-fiber composites, these panels are designed to help reduce lift at high speeds by preventing air at the sides from rolling underneath the car itself. This reduced lift helps to stabilize the car during high-speed cornering and helps to increase traction for faster lap times.
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Runway Recap: The Coolest Beauty Looks to Hit the Runway in 2013
We hate to get all Devil Wears Prada on you, but that famous cerulean speech rings true: what you see on the runways now will be hitting beauty counters within a year. Take this year's wealth of blue liner, shadow, and mascara, for example—it was all the rage on runways a year or two ago and hit drugstores en masse this summer. So what can you expect in 2014? These are the runway looks we loved most in 2013.
Makeup artist Diane Kendal is known for creating flawless skin backstage, but at Jason Wu's S/S14 show she got to go wild—sort of. She used Lancome's Color Design Eye Brightening All-in-One Five Pan Shadow ($49) in Bronze Amour and loose gold glitter to build the most sophisticated glitter look we've seen.
You'll need to find a few dozen Swarovksi crystals to pull off the rhinestone lips Pat McGrath whipped up for Dior's S/S13 Haute Couture show, but it'll be worth it.
No-mascara was the surprising trend at F/W13 fashion week last February, as seen here at Theyskens' Theory.
Hair stylist Guido Palau used Redken's Guts 10 Volume Spray Foam ($19) to score major volume at Marc by Marc Jacobs F/W13 show.
The secret to the perfect red lips at J.Crew's F/W13 presentation? Hourglass' Opaque Rouge Liquid Lipstick ($28) in Icon layered over Maybelline's ColorSensational Lip Pencil ($7) in #50 Red.
White eye makeup was one of the biggest trends to emerge from S/S14 New York Fashion Week, like the shadow Joan Smalls wears here at Altuzarra's show.
Hair stylist Luigi Murenu pin-curled every strand of hair and pinned the swirls against the girls' heads before painting them pink, orange, blue, purple, or black at Givenchy's F/W13 show.
Chanel's S/S14 show was a take on art fairs, so Peter Philips went bright and bold with graphic eye makeup in a rainbow of colors.
Makeup artist Lucia Pica gave eyelids a glossy sheen before filling in the corner of each eye with M.A.C.'s Glitter ($21) in Pink and Fuchsia at House of Holland's F/W13 show.
You'll notice an increasing number of celebrities already trying Prada's wet hair look on the red carpet, the genius work of Guido Palau.
We've already done our part to make sure that the gold brows Pat McGrath created for Dior's S/S14 show hit the mainstream.
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Sophia Loren-meets-Italian royalty at Dolce & Gabbana's F/W13 show thanks to makeup artist Pat McGrath.
Who needs nail art when you can wear nail rings? Another genius idea from Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel's F/W13 show.
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ALSC Happy Hour
Friday, July 10 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at The Weather Mark Tavern
1503 South Michigan Ave, Chicago
Stop by to grab a drink with friends, old and new! Drinks and meals are not sponsored by ALSC, but we would love to see you there. Check out the Weather Mark Tavern Web site for drink specials and location information: http://www.weathermarktavern.com. The Weather Mark is conveniently located on Michigan Avenue three blocks south of Roosevelt. It is also located on the #3 bus route of the Chicago Transit Authority. The northbound bus picks up in front of McCormick Place and heads north on Michigan Ave.
VRT Dinner
Please join us for the Video Round Table dinner at ALA Annual in Chicago on Friday, July 10 at 7:30pm.
Restaurant: Giordano's Pizzeria
Date/Time: Friday, July 10, 2009, 7:30pm
Address: 730 Rush Street, Chicago, IL
RSVP to Johan Oberg (VRT Chair-elect, email@example.com) by July 7th , 2009.
STARS (RUSA) Happy Hour
Friday, July 10 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm at the Exchequer, 226 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Meet with us for authentic Chicago-style pizza, drinks, and fun! Check out the Exchequer web site at http://www.exchequerpub.com/. It's buy-your-own for food & drinks, but the company is free! See you there! Brought to you by the STARS Membership Committee
ACRL Instruction Section Soiree
The Instruction Section is excited to welcome you to Chicago, and the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, at the annual IS Soirée, sponsored by Oregon State University Libraries' Library a la Carte project. Thank you for planning to join us on Friday, July 10th, from 5:30 - 7pm at the Elephant & Castle Pub, convenient to the conference venues. To more information and to RSVP, please go to http://tinyurl.com/09soiree.
GLBTRT Social
Saturday, July 11, 2009 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sidetrack Bar
3349 North Halsted St., Chicago, IL
Everyone is welcome to the GLBTRT Social. You don't have to be a member or registered for the conference. It's a party! Please note the change from our usual day. Website for the bar: http://sidetrackchicago.com/ As always, donations to help cover expenses are welcome, but not required.
ALA Facebook After Hours
Saturday, July 11 from 10pm til 2am at the Billy Goat Tavern - The Original (Underground), 430 N. Michigan Ave, Lower Level , 312-222-1525
RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=122307208008
Join hundreds of other library friends for the 3rd annual "ALA Facebook After Hours" on Saturday night during Annual Conference. The world famous original Billy Goat Tavern (underground) at 430 N. Michigan Ave, Lower Level, will be our venue. They are open 'til 2am and we hear they serve food. http://www.billygoattavern.com/home.html
If you are looking on Michigan Ave., the entrance is down the stairs. On the lower level, the cross street is Hubbard. There is no cross street on Michigan. As the old saying goes "Complexity before beer, you're in the clear. If beer then complex, it's quite a mess."
Hosted as always by Trevor Dawes and John Chrastka. John's cell is 708-819-0352 if you can't find it. See you there, then. And bring a friend.
2009 Video Round Table Gala: PBS: AMERICAN MASTERS Series.
The VRT will host their annual gala at the Gene Siskel Film Center featuring directors from the AMERICAN MASTERS series. This award-winning PBS series is a celebration of creativity in America, examining the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists. Directors Nancy Porter and Laurie Block will provide insight into the art of filmmaking as biography and share recently produced film on Louisa May Alcott and a work-in-progress on Helen Keller.
Location: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago. [1] 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Tickets: $25 for VRT members and students; $30 for non-members.
Registration: Tickets on sale via your ALA 2009 Annual Conference registration or fill the form at the bottom of the Gala flyer[2].
NOTE: Seating is limited to 200 attendees.
GO-GO CHICAGO Meet and Greet Happy Hour
The GO-GO's are an informal network of library people with a Georgia and/or Ohio connection. If you currently work in a Georgia or Ohio library or if you previously worked in a Georgia or Ohio library, this is the group for you! It was formed when it became clear there are many people-connections between the two states. The "S" in GO-GO's stands for six degrees of separation. In other words, the more the merrier. Come for the cool GO-GO name tag and stay for the fun! We're on Facebook, too: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=86509269143
When: Sunday, July 12 from 5:30-7:15 pm.
Location: BIG Bar (mezzanine level) @ Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Dr.
Questions? Call Lace Keaton at 912-660-4473 or Pat Carterette at 216-978-2322.
Indiana University, SLIS:
5:30pm to 7:30pm - Westin River North, Promenade Ballroom
All SLIS faculty, staff, alumni, and students are invited. You do not have to attend the conference to attend the SLIS reception. You may bring a guest, but please RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com
University of Wisconsin--Madison, SLIS
Reunion! Join your SLIS colleagues past and present on Sunday, July 12, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Brasserie Jo in downtown Chicago, 59 W. Hubbard Street. (http://www.brasseriejo.com/ ) We'll have hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. All SLIS alumni, students and friends are welcome to attend. If you have questions, please contact SLIS alumni reunion chair Geoff Morse at firstname.lastname@example.com
GODORT Happy Hour
Drinks, Amazing views & GovDocs talk!
Sunday, July 12 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm
The Roof (27th floor of the Wit Hotel)
201 N. State St., Chicago, IL
Just a few blocks from the GODORT Hotel, and 27 floors up, you'll be able to enjoy fabulous views & great drinks while catching up with old friends and making new ones! Meet outside if the weather is nice, or inside if it's not! See: http://roofonthewit.therestaurantsatthewit.com/ for more info on the location.
Michael L. Printz Program and Reception (Ticketed Event--$29, Monday, 8-10pm. The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by Booklist magazine. Come listen to the winner and honor book authors speak about their writing, followed by a dessert reception.
Reception for a Cause
A Fundraiser for the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund
Monday, July 13 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm at the Hilton Chicago, DuSable Suite (2567, 720 S. Michigan Avenue
At each American Library Association Annual Conference, the Leroy C. Merritt Fund holds a reception and fundraiser in the Presidential Suite. The event is a wonderful chance to meet other librarians who support intellectual freedom and fair employment. The Merritt Fund provides direct financial assistance to librarians who are denied employment rights because of their defense of intellectual freedom or due to discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or place of national origin. All proceeds go directly to the Merritt Fund and help librarians in need. There is a suggested contribution of $25.
RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=88655062057
Drexel University
iSchool Alumni Networking Reception at ALA. Free Appetizer & Cocktail Reception.
Monday, July 13, 2009, Gioco Restaurant (http://www.gioco-chicago.com/)- Speakeasy Room, 1312 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Please R.S.V.P. to Jennifer Lally by Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at email@example.com or (215)895-1077.


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Business Charts
Presupuesto $30-100 USD
I need around 30 (total) bar charts and pie charts. You will receive Word document and will be requested to build these charts in Adobe Illustrator. I will provide you with exact example how it should look. Colors, fonts will also be provided. I will need these charts to be ready by Saturday night (my time, of course). PC platform is preferrable.
If I choose you, I will ask to send files (ai) once in a while to see your progress and to be sure that you're in the right direction. Probably I will need some revisions, probably not. There are more charts like that to come, so it can become long term relationship.
If you're interested please contact me and I will send you one Word file to evaluate your abilities, this work must be very clean and accurate.
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Ready to start immediately on your project, as we are the experts in such things. Waiting for your selection. Thanks!
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Dear Sir, The bid is for 10 charts. Please send the file, so that I can upload a mock for aiding in your selection, as well as to evaluate my expertise. Regards,Jhinook Ghosh.


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cynthia+ needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Logo needed for new PR and branded events company, cynthia+. This is a new type of business - an nimble and independent resource for companies who need smart PR and marketing work and need it fast. cynthia+ is creative, dynamic, proven and affordable. cynthia+ works with strategic partners (that's the + part) and custom builds teams for each project.
Logo will be used two ways, offline and online so the base design should be adaptable. The business premise is that cynthia has deep experience and taps strategic partners to custom build a senior team for clients so they don't have to pay the overhead. Fresh, clean, simple but bold will be the winner.
Vector format like that produced by adobe illustrator of photoshop. Prefer bold colors. Please develop logo for cynthia+ and as an alternate, lucy+.
not cute nor overly formal
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Forget about Japan going all in as they put off QE Infinity off until next year. In the mean time they still will buy $13 trillion yen ($146 billion) in assets per month, but the commitment to go all-in with unlimited purchases was surprisingly put off. The lack of commitment failed to inspire oil, which now seems more focused on weather than massive changes in monetary policy.
Winter has come with a vengeance as we go into a deep freeze. Heating oil prices have been supporting products just as it seemed we were getting ready for our seasonal correction. Still NOAA is looking for a warm up in the six to ten day forecast, so don't get too weather crazy.
Of course we did see the biggest jump in production since before the civil war. The Energy Information Administration reported that historic fact, yet for WTI that may be short term bullish as we start to move more oil down to the Gulf Coast. Still the energy industry has done what some have said was impossible, which goes to show you not to underestimate the mind of human kind.
Natural gas is running on the cold and the Energy Information Administration is warning that, "Since November, New England has had the highest average spot natural gas prices in the nation. Average prices at the Algonquin Citygate trading point, a widely used index for New England natural gas buyers, have been $3 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) higher than natural gas prices at the Henry Hub, and more than $2 per MMBtu higher than average spot price at Transco Zone 6 NY, which serves New York City and has historically traded at prices similar to those in New England. Full pipelines from the West and South limit further deliveries from most of North America, while high international prices and declining production in eastern Canada pose challenges in making up the difference from the north and east, except at higher prices. As a result of these market conditions, New England natural gas and electric power prices this winter could be volatile at times. During November and December, spot natural prices in the northeastern United States, seesawed in relation to weather-driven pipeline constraints. This price volatility has continued into January 2013 to date."
Golden slumbers! The physical gold market is heating up in Asia as Lunar New Year festivities are getting ready celebrate with golden gifts on February 10th!


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Friday, April 20, 2012
What's up buttercup?
Well, I was supposed to have today off too but I've been called to fill in so I've gotta keep this post short and sweet.
I put this little card together pretty quickly yesterday as I was finding it hard to pull myself away from my reading. Is anyone else like that when they get really into a book? I kept telling myself, just one more chapter... just one more chapter...
So anyway, when I finally sat down to create I knew that one of my little Fairwees would be a very fast color but still perfect for a cute card. Emaline ended up being the little sweetie to flutter down and take up residence amidst all the bright flowers. The colors may be a bit more summer looking rather than spring but that's ok. :)
Alrighty, time for me to run. TGIF all my crafty peeps!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press it
paper- Lily Bee Designs (Double Dutch)
stamps- Sweet November (Fairwee Emaline), Lily Bee Designs (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and rich cocoa, Colorbox creamy brown
Martha Stewart border punch and butterfly punch
Prima flowers
kaiser craft pearls
Papertrey Ink twine
Copic Spica glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- Y11, Y21, YR23, YR24
clothes- B0000, B00, B02, B37, B39
wings- YG0000, YG00
10 comments:
- Heidi Brawley said...
ooh this is soooo Sweet!! love all your flowers and cheery paper too! She is a cutie!!! Have an Awesome weekend too!
Hugs, Heidi & Brooke
- April 20, 2012 at 5:23 AM
- Nancy Thomas said...
Loving all the colors and of course a Fairwee pretty much fits anywhere.
- April 20, 2012 at 6:09 AM
- Shazza said...
this is adorable x
- April 20, 2012 at 9:31 AM
- Rhonda Miller said...
Soo cute.
- April 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM
- Amsing Family said...
Cute! I have not stopped by your blog for awhile and have enjoyed going through your last few posts. Your comment on the Miss Anya (with the basket)made me laugh, about how hard it was to not have everything linear... I can totally relate. But it looks great!
- April 20, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- Maria Therese said...
So cute ♥♥
- April 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- Leanne said...
Cute card Amy! She is one of my faves to color too. Nice set of flowers and the layout is fun. I adore that sentiment too.
Have a great weekend!
- April 20, 2012 at 9:02 PM
- Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä said...
So pretty and cheerful! Love it!
- April 20, 2012 at 11:44 PM
- Marianne said...
This is so sweet Amy!
Marianne x
- April 23, 2012 at 5:53 AM
- RiNNE said...
After all these years, you are getting better and better with your choice of papers, Miss Paper Queen!! This card is a great example, I just love the one with circles!!!
- May 4, 2012 at 2:34 AM


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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich kisses his wife Callista after a Republican presidential candidate debate at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, N.H., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
The graininess of the photo indicates this was taken with a long lens, and that makes sense because –ew– who wants to get too close to that? *Shudder*
The close-up:
In other news, there is no other news! A Google News search indicates that journalists have completely given up on finding out more about Callista. They all dutifully filed their "what the hell is this?" pieces weeks ago, and there's nothing left to report. This indicates that Team Newt has totally circled the wagons around Goddess Callista, or that there's simply no there there, simply an empty hairdo with beak attached. But that's what we love about her!


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Oh, hi! My name is Jermaine van Wijhe, but you can call me Dviate. I'm a graphic/web designer & developer from The Netherlands with over 15 years of experience.
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Hooker's place in history
According to his son in law, William Thiselton-Dyer, Hooker was 'five feet eleven inches in height and spare and wiry in figure' (there are portraits of him at the Royal and Linnean Societies and numerous photographs and drawings at Kew) and 'in temperament he was nervous and high-strung'.
Thiselton-Dyer also attested to Hooker's capacity for hard work, a claim borne out by the full list of his publications, which fills twenty pages (Huxley 1918: 486–506). Some of the more important later ones include: Outlines of the Distribution of Arctic Plants (1862); the Student's Flora of the British Isles (1870); Genera Plantarum (with George Bentham, 1860–1883); the Flora of British India (1855–1897); editing the Journal of Joseph Banks (1896); completing Trimen's Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon (1898–1900); and, finally, writing 'a sketch of the life and labours' of his father (1902).
As well as writing, he continued to travel and visited Syria (1860), Morocco (1871) and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Utah (1877).
Hooker was highly-regarded in his lifetime and received numerous honorary degrees including ones from Oxford and Cambridge. He was created C.B. in 1869; K.C.S.I. in 1877; G.C.S.I. in 1897; and received the Order of Merit in 1907. The Royal Society gave him their royal medal in 1854, the Copley in 1887, and the Darwin in 1892. He received numerous prizes and awards from both British and foreign scientific societies; the full list of his honours runs to ten pages (Huxley 1918: 507–517).
Although botanists have long-recognised Hooker's taxonomic skills and his pioneering work on distribution, his wider reputation has been somewhat obscured by his close relationship with Darwin. When Hooker appears in histories of 19th century science, it is almost invariably as a minor character in Darwin's story and his own work, attitudes and opinions have been neglected as a result.
However, recent scholarship has begun to recognise that Hooker's preoccupations – especially taxonomy, botanical distribution and the disciplinary status of botany – are central to understanding the material practices of 19th century natural history, particularly in its imperial context.
Hooker's correspondence with his colonial collectors illustrates how the practices of 19th century natural history need to be seen as a complex series of negotiations, rather than in terms of straightforward metropolitan dominance; much existing historiography has assumed that those in the colonies were passive servants of imperial science, and as a result their interests and careers have been neglected.
Hooker's career also casts doubt over standard accounts of the professionalisation of British science, particularly the assumption that he and the other young professionalisers (especially those in the X Club), were determined to replace institutions based on patronage with those based on merit: Hooker inherited Kew from his father and bequeathed it to his son-in-law – and the role of patronage in these transitions is unmistakable.
Likewise, Hooker's equivocation over Darwinism undermines the assumption that it functioned as a unifying ideology for the professionalisers. While he welcomed and embraced natural selection as allowing naturalists to form 'more philosophical conceptions', he also stressed that both Darwinists and non-Darwinians, 'must employ the same methods of investigation and follow the same principles' (Hooker 1859: iv). This apparent ambivalence probably resulted from his need to maintain good relations with his diverse collecting networks, whose members were often deeply divided over the species question. As is illustrated by the Ayrton controversy, conflicts over Darwinism were potentially dangerous to a man in Hooker's position.
Hooker died in his sleep at midnight at home on 10 December 1911 after a short and apparently minor illness. He was buried, as he wished to be, alongside his father in the churchyard of St Anne's on Kew Green. His widow, Hyacinth, was offered the option of burying him alongside Darwin in Westminster Abbey, but perhaps she understood that – despite the importance of his relationship with Darwin – it was botany, Kew Gardens and his father who should determine his final resting place.
Text by Dr Jim Endersby. Reproduced with the permission of the author and Oxford University Press. Full biography also available free online on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography website.


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Have you ever watched how other moms interact with their children? Sure you have.
Today a young mom in a grocery store stepped over her son while he laid flat on the floor in the cereal aisle having an all- out screaming tantrum (been there done that). As I passed slowly and smiled sincerely, she apologized profusely with sheer desperation and tears in her eyes. My heart immediately went out to her. Here is where things got interesting. There were two other women in the aisle and an older gentleman. One of the women had three small children with her and the other woman was carrying a baby in a Moby Wrap. It was as if we all had the same thought simultaneously. There was a connection. We stopped and walked toward the frazzled mom and asked if we could help. She began to cry. Now, I don't know about you but I have been down that road before and so had the other moms. Her first comment was "What am I doing wrong?" The Moby mom immediately responded. "You are not doing anything wrong. He is just expressing his anger...that is what 3 year old's do they don't get the cereal they want." We all smiled. I told her that she did the right thing by telling him that she would talk to him once he calmed down. She showed empathy without giving in to his demands to get his way. She also did not lose her temper. His temper tantrum lasted about one minute (in mommy years that seems like one hour). After the hysteria, the boy walked over to his mom and rested his tired head against her leg. She calmly explained to him that his behavior was unacceptable as she rubbed his back.
I noticed the older gentleman still standing in the aisle pretending to read labels on boxes of cereal. He walked over to us and said he thought it was great how we took time to support one another.
His was right..THAT IS HOW FAB MOMS ROLL.
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I loved hearing that you and several mom's stopped to help. Most people would have kept walking.
That was wonderful. It's so awesome to hear about other mothers supporting each other!


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Police: Dropout calls in graudation bomb thrests to avoid disclosure
HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A 22-year-old woman called in bomb threats to a Quinnipiac University's commencement in Connecticut in a bid keep her family from learning that she wasn't graduating despite taking money for her education from her mother, according to police.
Danielle Shea of Quincy, Massachusetts, was wearing a cap and gown she'd purchased when she was arrested Sunday, Hamden police said. Police said she gave a detailed confession.
Shea was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Meriden Superior Court. Shea is being held on $20,000 bond. It was unclear whether she has an attorney. Messages were left at her mother's home.
Police said Shea didn't attend the university this year, but her mother paid thousands of dollars she thought was for her daughter's education. When graduation arrived, Shea panicked when relatives didn't see her name on the graduation roster and tried to have the ceremony canceled, they said.
According to police, Shea made two calls to the university's public safety department. In the first, about 20 minutes before the start of the 6 p.m. graduation ceremony, she stated there was a "bomb in the library," said police. In the second call, about 20 minutes later, police said Shea warned that "several bombs are on campus" and noted, "You haven't cleared out graduation. That's not a good idea."
Hamden and university police identified Shea using the telephone number she'd called from and then found her at the arena.
Shea was arrested at the indoor campus athletic arena, the TD Bank Sports Center, where the commencement for the university's College of Arts and Sciences was moved because of the threats.
She is charged with first degree threatening and falsely reporting an incident.


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Brick City Catering, versed in international cuisine, will develop and prepare menus for a series of wine/food pairing events in 2014.
Casa Larga Vineyards announced Wednesday it is expanding its partnership with Brick City Catering, a independent dining service at Rochester Institute of Technology. The partnership formed at the 2013 New York Ice Wine and Culinary Festival pairs Casa Larga wines with dishes prepared by Brick City chefs.
A six-part wine seminar and international dinner series in 2014 will pair Casa Larga wines with menus developed and prepared by the chefs with cuisines from Croatia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Macedonia and Turkey.
Brick City will also develop recipes and samples for the 2014 New York Ice Wine and Culinary Festival.
Brick City Catering is versed in international cuisine as it regularly prepares a variety of dishes for the community on the RIT campus and in the Rochester area. Executive Chef Stephen Kingston developed a menu for the first seminar on January 20, where guests will taste the wines and foods of Croatia. That seminar will take place at 6 p.m. at the Bella Vista Event Facility, 2287 Turk Hill Road, Perinton. Tickets are on sale at the Casa Larga wine shop, on the Casa Larga website, or tickets by calling (585) 223-4210, Ext. 2. Tickets are $55 per person or $45 for Wine Lover Club Members.


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WASHINGTON - In his decade as an NFL offensive lineman, Derrick Dockery has never had such a challenging schedule.
His three young children — ages 5, 3 and 2 — rouse him out of bed by 7:30 a.m. He and his wife, Emma, get them dressed and take them to school. Then the couple makes the one-hour drive from their Virginia home to George Washington University in the nation's capital, where they spend eight hours trying to absorb a week's worth of material in pursuit of a master's degree from one of the most prestigious business schools in the country.
Some nights there's a three-hour study session tacked on. Otherwise, it's back home to get the kids in bed and then two hours or so of homework.
Sure, there are plenty of stories about NFL players going back to school to finish a degree or start a new one. Few of them go about it quite like this.
"It's pretty intense," said Dockery, a free agent who spent the last two seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. "Our time is limited with each other. Our time with our kids is limited. But we feel like it's a sacrifice for a larger reward long-term."
More than 40 current and former players — including Shawne Merriman, Will Witherspoon, Marques Colston, Antwaan Randle El, Samari Rolle and Stephen Bowen — are doing the extreme cram degree, attempting to earn a full MBA from GW by taking a series of two-week courses over two offseasons.
This is no free ride, in every sense of the phrase. The athletes are responsible for the roughly $110,000 for tuition, travel and lodging, and the program — which include non-athletes — has a dropout rate of about 10 per cent. Emma Dockery said the financial markets class is taught by a professor known as "Mr. C." in the graduate business school "because his highest grade typically is a C."
"I want to break down those stereotypes," said Dockery, who admits he wasn't exactly the most motivated of students when he was on his athletic scholarship at the University of Texas. "Especially all those negative ones, the bad ones. NFL, athletes in general.
"When I walk into a room, I want to be one of those guys who's engaging and knows what he's talking about. This gives me an opportunity to garner those skills and get that information that I need, so when I do walk in that meeting I'm prepared, I know what I'm talking about. I'm a better student now because I take it more seriously."
In theory, Dockery and his wife should already be set for life. He signed a pair of free agent contracts that guaranteed him more than $26 million in 2007 and 2009, but he's also seen firsthand the teammates who waste their fortunes and have no plans for life after football. He's involved in a political action committee and can give his own analytical argument for solving the country's budget deficit. If he doesn't play another down, he's ready to move on and will have quite the resume to do so after graduation day on May 17.
"We always try to plan for worst case scenario," Emma Dockery said. "We've been very blessed financially and we are thankful to be where we are right now, but you just never know."
The Dockerys started the program last spring. Two weeks at GW. Then a two-week online course. Then two weeks at Columbia in New York. Then two weeks at UCLA over the summer. The cycle repeats itself this year, except for an optional trip to Shanghai in May instead of the stint at UCLA. It would have been almost impossible to get it all done a few years ago, before the NFL's new collective bargaining agreement limited the amount of time that teams can hold off-season workouts.
Classes meet Saturdays and Sundays, although a rare Thursday off gave the Dockerys and Tennessee Titans linebacker Witherspoon a chance to talk about their endeavours over lunch. Witherspoon owns a 500-acre cattle farm in Missouri and was educating the table about the benefits of all-natural probiotic fertilizer and what to look for in various types of beef.
Witherspoon, who splits his off-season home between Nashville and the farm, is staying in a hotel, so his schedule for these two weeks isn't as frenetic as the Dockerys'. Unlike Derrick Dockery, Witherspoon was a high-octane student at the University of Georgia, getting an atypical football player's degree in housing and community development with minors in horticulture and landscape architecture.
"I'm programmed to do something all the time," the 11-year veteran said.
Witherspoon believes there is a "silent majority" of NFL players who do plan responsibility for the future, but they get overshadowed by the attention given to the spectacular failures who waste everything. Even so, the GW program is a step beyond the norm, and it's not for everyone.
"Some people have found it a little overwhelming and are moving on," Witherspoon said.
Until it was mentioned to him, Witherspoon didn't realize one irony of the situation: After getting free tuition at a major football school, he's now paying lots to attend one that doesn't even play the sport.
"Well, that's kind of good," he said with a chuckle. "It means you're focused on education."
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