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For this morning now we return to 2 Timothy chapter 2 and our concluding look at the first seven verses. Last week we began an examination of 2 Timothy 2:1 through 7, this morning we're going to bring that to completion.
This week I happened to be doing a little bit of reading and I came across quite an interesting account. Several years ago on the coast of New Jersey, some engineers were building a bridge over the mouth of a river which emptied into the Atlantic Ocean. And as they were putting down the pilings on their way across the river, they came to a place where they found the massive hulk of an old wooden ship buried deep into the soft sand at the bottom of the river. They realized in order to keep the configuration of the bridge moving along the proper route, they had to remove that hulk. And so they applied every mechanical means they could to pry it up and pull it up, lift it out, all to no avail. At which point a young engineer offered his suggestion. He asked if he might have permission to design a way to remove the old wooden hulk. And what he did was call for barges to be brought in and from those barges to the hulk chains and heavy cords were attached at low tide. As the tide came in to the mouth of the river and the barges begin to move upward, the ship became loosened. When the tide went out, they tightened them down as tightly again as they could, and next time the tide came in and lifted the barges, the ship was loosened a little more until finally it was completely pried free.
And the account went on to say that what the machinery of man could not accomplish, the tides had accomplished. And I thought to myself that what we cannot do in the flesh, God can do by the power of His Spirit. And that essentially is what Paul is saying to Timothy here. Timothy has come to a point in his life where he's functioning really in his human strength. As a result of that, he is weak, he has no courage. He is failing to use his gift in the fullness of its capability. He is fearful of the enemies that he's facing while he's ministering there in Ephesus where he was when Paul wrote him this letter. It's a very difficult time. He seems to be demonstrating a tendency to be ashamed of the gospel, seems to be maybe not even holding to the true faith fully as he should. And so in his time of weakness, Paul says to him in verse 1, "Be strong in...or by means of...the grace that is in Chris Jesus." By virtue of your union with Christ because you're connected to Christ, the moving of the Holy Spirit is the power in your life. And that's really the theme of this epistle.
Timothy was left to minister in Ephesus. It was a very difficult ministry. The church had fallen into ungodly behavior and an unbiblical theology. Christians were under the threat of persecution from the emperor and from Rome. And as a result it was a very hard time. Timothy was young, fighting all kinds of battles in his own personal life, battles of his own holiness and purity. Some were saying he was too young to be a leader. And Paul tells him not to let men despise his youth. He had a lot of battles going on and was falling into a place where looking at his human resources he felt that he was inadequate to do the job.
So, Paul writes this second epistle to him, the last letter Paul ever wrote in his life before his death, and says to him, "Be strong by means of the grace," that is the assistance, unmerited assistance and help, "which is available to you through your union with Christ Jesus." Don't depend on your own strength, get in the flow of the power of God. That's the issue here.
He is calling for spiritual strength and not only on the part of Timothy but on the part of all spiritual leaders and all of God's people. So this is a word to us about how to be a strong Christian. The issue here, the elements of strong spiritual life. That's what we're looking at.
Jesus, after all, had promised in Acts 1:8, "You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you." He had said also in Luke 24:49 that His disciples would be clothed with power from on high. In other words, we should be able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think, Ephesians 3:20 says, according to the power that works in us. The available power of God is at our disposal. And that's what Paul reminds Timothy about in this passage.
It's easy in the ministry to become weary, discouraged, weak, disillusioned, fearful, even shallow in your confidence because the battle is hard. And it's incessant and we're human. And that's where Timothy is and that's where all of us are some of the time and some of us are most of the time. And we need the word about spiritual strength.
It's not something new that a man should call for the spiritual strength of another. I think back to Joshua chapter 1 where Joshua, the successor of Moses, is confronted by God Himself. And knowing the task that awaits Joshua, as it were, to take up the leadership of his people that belonged to Moses, God says to him in Joshua 1:6, "Be strong and courageous." And then again in verse 7, "Be strong and very courageous, be careful to do according to all the law which Moses, My servant, commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success." And in 1 Chronicles 22:13 David said to the one who followed him, Solomon, "Be strong and courageous." And those are only samples of many such exhortations throughout redemptive history.
The Apostle Paul, for example, had that attitude toward the whole of the Corinthian church. In 1 Corinthians 16:13 he said, "Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith. Act like men, be strong and let all that you do be done in love." And so spiritual strength belongs to the greatest of leaders and also belongs to all of God's people.
Paul writing in the Galatian letter in chapter 4 and verse 19 gave his heart cry when he said, "My children with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you." In other words, I want you to be like Christ, strong and mature and powerful. Ephesians 4 indicates the same injunction when the Apostle Paul writes that you would be coming in your spiritual development to the fullness of the stature of Christ. In Colossians 1 Paul says it's my desire to present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. In Ephesians 6:10 he says, "Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might."
So, the call for spiritual strength comes in many ways throughout the Scriptures. And that essentially is what the Word of God is bringing to bear on our hearts in this hour today. Looking back at verse 1 by way of a brief review, the text reads, "You therefore, my son, keep on being empowered by means of the grace that is in Christ Jesus." In other words, put yourself in the position to receive the available power that flows graciously to those who are united with Christ. Live the kind of life that experiences the power of God. Timothy, don't fall into times of weakness, they are unnecessary.
Now how are we to understand what a strong Christian life is like? Well, he gives us four pictures. You remember, I mentioned them to you last week...the teacher, the soldier, the athlete and the farmer. And these four pictures portray for us in very clear terms what it means to be a strong believer. Each of them is intended to convey to us some element of spiritual strength that we need to understand.
Now, first of all, look at verse 2 again. We studied it last time, this is just a brief recap. In verse 2 he says, "And the things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses." In other words, that is the truth of God, the revelation of God which I taught to you, revelation from God attested to by other witnesses, not just my own opinion, the Word of God which I taught to you, these truths you entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. In other words, you're a teacher. I taught you, you teach others so they can teach others. That's the essence. We have to see ourselves as having received a deposit of truth, as he says in chapter 1 verses 12 to 14. We have received a deposit of truth to be guarded and at the same time given away...an interesting paradox. Guard its purity and give it to someone else who also will guard its purity. We have received the oracles of God. We have received the truth of God. That treasure is to be kept clean and pure and passed on to the next generation. And so he says, "Look, Timothy, you can't quit, you can't bail out, you can't drop the baton, you cannot step out of the line. You are a link in a living chain and somebody, namely me, gave the truth to you and there are faithful and competent men waiting for you to give it to them so they can give it to others." That's the living chain of which every believer is a part.
And to whom is Timothy to give the truth? Faithful men, that speaks of their spiritual character, they're loyal, they're trustworthy with the truth. Secondly, able to teach men, competent to teach. That is their skill in terms of teaching. So pour your life into the spiritually trustworthy and the spiritually gifted who will be able to pass the truth on to the next generation. You're a teacher.
That's true of a spiritual leader, that's true of every believer. A strong believer is one who has the truth and guards it and gives it away. So a strong Christian is a diligent student of Scripture. A strong Christian is faithful to articulate that Scripture. A strong Christian is loyal to the intent and content of that Scripture and involved in the training of others who can train others still. So we're teachers...every believer has received truth to be passed on.
Now, if you see yourself as a teacher, that's the first major thrust of your spiritual strength. That's who you are. Then he moves to three metaphors...the soldier, the athlete and the farmer. They are the same three metaphors he used in 1 Corinthians chapter 9. They were very common in that time and place and therefore they are popular teaching techniques for the Apostle Paul. They emphasize certain things that are very important in spiritual strength.
First of all of those three metaphors and the second of the four pictures, let's look at the soldier in verses 3 and 4. This is a call to recognize that you're a soldier, you're in a spiritual war and you are called to be at the forefront of battle. Verse 3, "Suffer hardship along with us, or me," there's no pronoun in the original text, "as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of every day life so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier."
Now what he is saying here, first of all, is that we have to see ourselves as soldiers. First we have seen ourselves already as teachers, that's our identity, that's who we are. We have been given truth to protect and pass on. Secondly, we are soldiers and that implies that we are in a war. That's reminded...that's a reminder to us that we mentioned earlier in Ephesians 6...6:10..."Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may stand against the schemes of Satan for we wrestle not against flesh and blood," but he goes on to describe the demon hosts against whom we do battle spiritual conflicts, spiritual war in Ephesians 6, and then describes our armor. In the Corinthian letter, the Second Corinthian letter, chapter 10 verses 3 to 6, he talks about our warfare and he says the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but supernatural, as it were, to the pulling down of Satanic fortresses. We are soldiers. That is the intent that Paul has in mind for us to understand.
Not just soldiers, would you look at verse 3? We are to be good soldiers. That wonderful beautiful word kalos which means noble or excellent. We're not just dutiful soldiers, we are excellent soldiers. We're not just functionary soldiers, we are noble soldiers. If you will, we are heroic soldiers. We are the kind of soldiers who are rewarded, who bear the badges and the medals of valor and honor. You see, Christianity is not a spectator event. Christianity is not a game. Christianity is a war.
It's hard for us to understand that because we live in an environment that while philosophically is hostile to Christianity, legally and politically is not. And so we're not constantly being battered by the system, nor do we have to give our life in standing for the faith. May I suggest to you that it's harder for us to be all that a soldier should be in this environment? Because we tend to fall to the low levels of Christian life that our society allows. Our society does not demand heroism. It doesn't demand martyrdom. It doesn't demand massive sacrifice. Being a Christian won't keep you out of the university. It won't alienate you socially in every area. It won't keep you from getting a good job. It won't restrict how much income you can have. It won't get you thrown in jail. And therefore for you to be heroic in this environment is indeed a difficult thing. It takes a tremendous amount of personal and internal commitment. It would be easier to be heroic in an oppressive persecuted society where heroism was forced on you...than it is to be spiritual heroic in the kind of Christianity we experience. And so we tend not to even recognize that we're in a warfare.
I first knew it was a war some years ago when I was being kicked in the shins violently by a woman full of all kinds of demons that were screaming at me to get out of the room and acknowledging that they knew who I was and they didn't want me around there. That experience, my shins bleeding as I left that night, allowed me for the first time to recognize clearly that I was wrestling against demonic hosts who knew exactly who I was and what I was doing and that I was engaged in warfare and my life has never been the same. There's a sense in which I see the advance of the Kingdom as an eminently serious issue. This is war.
I look back to the times when I have invested in people's lives and in a sense seen the enemy working so hard right before my very face. I remember a UCLA philosophy professor who came here out of a Jewish background and wanted to know Christ. And I presented the gospel. And I gave him six months of my time, one day a week meeting at six in the morning pouring my life into him. At the end of which time he walked away, said, "I don't want to meet with you anymore." Attended a liberal seminary, wound up an Episcopalian rector. I don't know where he is with reference to the faith but he sure isn't where I intended that he should be when I was finished with him. It's a warfare and the battle is for the minds and the hearts and the souls of people.
I have gone into houses to retreat wayward husbands out of places they shouldn't have been. I have called men who were being unfaithful to their wife on the telephone and told them to leave where they were, when I was able to get the number of another woman they shouldn't have been with. You recognize in spiritual ministry, if you've got your eyes open, that you're in a war. If you don't understand that, it only indicates how far away you are from the issue and from the front. Lawsuits against us, threats against our life, threats against the viability of our ministry, accusations. In fact, I have heard lately that you may pick up the Times in weeks to come and they'll be an announcement about the fact that I'm a heretic that someone has decided ought to be made public. And those kinds of things simply point up that this is war. I'm not surprised by that, I expect that. That's just part of the battle.
Now there's a quiet side, yes. Even the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians said, "Study to be quiet." But the quiet times seem to me only to be there so that we can catch our breath for the next wave of battle, because this is war and it never seems to go away. The times of quiet, the times of rest, the times of peace, are only for us to get a new and afresh energy for the war that is out there waiting for us.
Mark it then, a strong Christian understands that his identity is a soldier. He is a soldier. You're a soldier and you're in a war with the forces of hell against whom you wrestle in intimate combat. Now being a soldier involves several things. Look at verse 3. First thing he says is suffer hardship along with...or it could be translated perhaps best, "Endure affliction together...or take your share of suffering...or take your share of rough treatment," as J.N.D. Kelly(???) likes to translate it. In other words, look this is war and you expect that you're going to get your share of suffering. You're going to have your wounds and your pain, it's just how it is in war. You need to understand it.
Boy, that's important for us to understand. I think there are people running around purveying the idea that when you become a Christian everything is just perfect, that all Jesus wants you to do is come to give your life to Him and He'll take away all anxiety, all difficulty, all trial. I don't hear anybody saying, "Come to Christ and pick up your armor and go to the front line and fight a life long war with the demons of hell." But that's the issue...that's the reality. And this kind of cheap approach to salvation that asks people to come to Jesus so that they can eliminate all conflict out of their life is just not true. It piles a lot of false disciples up but is not related to truth. Paul is calling for you to recognize that you're in a war. And that...that provides a lot of very important perceptions that you must have.
First of all, for example, in verse 4 he mentions the word "active service." This is what you're in. There are no people who are in R&R in this army. No people are back at the base, no people are unlisted, undrafted, untrained, ununiformed or uninvolved. You're in the war. And you want to know something else? There's no place but the front line. This war only has a front line. And we're all in it together. And so Paul says since we're all in active service all the time, and we're all always on the battle front, then we all expect hard times. It's a beautiful word, that word sunkakopatheson, it's a long word because it's a combination of several words and it literally means to suffer along with everybody else. You think you should be free from any suffering? You think you should avoid any conflict in your life? Wrong. You take your fair share of difficulty just like all the other soldiers on the front line. And there is nowhere but the front line...nowhere.
You say, "Well, I don't choose to fight." Then you're just lying around to be shot. If you're taking R&R, you're lying on the front line snoozing, and that's a very dangerous place to be. The soldier then is committed to take his fair share of suffering that active duty on the front line brings.
Secondly, not only do we take our fair share of suffering because we're engaged on the front line in active service all the time, and that's going to go on all our life till we leave this world, but secondly, he says verse 4, no soldier in active service entangles or interweaves is that word empleko, interweaves, we get the word implicate from it...no soldier in active service entangles himself in the pragmateia of every day existence, bios, the pragmatics, the stuff, the affairs of life. That's a very very important thought. The practical stuff of life is minimized. Now he's not necessarily talking about evil things, he's just talking about the stuff of our existence. Some people live for that stuff. Some people's entire life is all wrapped up in trivia, things that absolutely don't matter at all. And they're like soldiers on the front line in the midst of a battle playing games with each other. We live on a battle front that demands that we be disentangled from the stuff of life.
In Luke 9, do you remember the teaching of our Lord starting about verse 57? As they were going along the road someone said to Him, "I will follow You wherever You go. I'll be in Your army. And Jesus said, The foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests, the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." Implication by...that's not what I had in mind, and the man left. "And He said to another, Follow Me. And he said, Oh permit me first to go and bury my father." Implication...my father hasn't even died yet, I want to hang around to get my inheritance and bye to number two. "He said, Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the Kingdom of God. And another said, I will follow You, Lord, but first permit me to say goodbye to those at home and Jesus said to him, No one after putting his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of God." You better get the trivia out of your life. Very basic.
A soldier is a soldier and a soldier is always a soldier. You're not a soldier eight hours a day. I mean, you don't say, "Look, you can't shoot me, King's X, this is not my soldiering time." You can't do that. A soldier is a soldier at all times, a Christian is a Christian at all times. A Christian is a soldier at all times, a soldier is in active duty at all times. A soldier in active duty is on the front at all times and it's never any difference and you better disentangle yourself with the stuff of life that occupies you and renders you ineffective. We are to be consumed with our duty and the world may pass by but we're not involved.
Boy, that's not easy in our society. Very difficult. So he says you're a soldier, a soldier accepts his fair share of rough treatment, he expects it. A soldier realizes that he is in active duty at all times on the front line engaged in battles with demons of hell. And as a result of that he's not entangled with worldly things that's going to do nothing but make him vulnerable.
Thirdly, at the end of verse 4 he says, "He does what he does so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier." The soldier really does what he does to please the commander in chief. The one who enlisted him here is the commander in chief, that's what the writer has in mind, Paul. He does what he does to please his Lord, he is loyal to his Lord. Like Paul said, "Serving the Lord with all humility of mind." And then in verse 24 he said, "Look, I know you keep telling me bonds and afflictions await me, but I don't care. I just want to finish the ministry the Lord gave me." That's the spirit...that's the spirit. I want to be a faithful steward, I want to discharge my responsibility. Christ, of course, was the perfect example of whom His Father said, "I am well pleased." And the greatest joy of the soldier would be to hear from his commander in chief, "Well done, good and faithful soldier."
If you're a soldier you do what you do to please your commander. I never had a commander. I was not drafted. I was not in the service because I had involvement in athletics and at that time when you were a college student involved in athletics you could be deferred. And I probably lost out on a lot of lessons but I did learn a little bit about commanding from some of my athletic involvement. I remember as a sophomore when I was prepared to play my first college football game, it was a great moment in my life. We were playing this game at the famous Rose Bowl, it wasn't the Rose Bowl Game, but we were playing there. And I was excited to go into that first game. We received the kickoff and our opening play was what we call a "27 power blast right" which is basically an off tackle run. I was a back and I was to lead through and knock out the linebacker, that was my job.
Well the first...this is the first play in college football for me and I was nervous, to put it mildly. I never hit anything but bags and dummies and guys on my own team. And sometimes there was little difference between the three. But now everything was for real...now everything counted...now everything mattered. And I'll never forget, it's as vivid to me as it perhaps was a week after, that hole opened up beautifully, it was a double team on the tackle and end and I went through that hole and I really did not want to throw away my entire life on this huge linebacker. You know, linebackers are not nice people. I think basically the world has come to recognize that truth. But anyway, and this was one who had a reputation. So I decided that I wasn't going to throw myself away on him and I just kind of nudged him a tiny bit. And he flattened me on the ground, went through and we had about a six, seven yard loss. That's not the way you want to establish your running game in an opening series.
Well, there's a pile of bodies lying all over the ground, including myself. And I figured nobody knew what happened. Later on, I scored a touchdown, we won the game and I thought that's the end of that little episode.
Well Monday we went to the gym to prepare for practice and the sign said "Report to the film room." And I was about to get my first exposure to the film room. So we went in there and they started to get everybody together and I thought, "Well, they won't get the first play...surely they won't get the first play, they'll get the camera going, you know, it takes a little time." But they did. They got the first play and the camera was on my side of the field so I was full screen, you know, I was right there where you could see and I went through and gave this guy a little tap with my elbow and he flattened me. And I'll never forget it. The coach said, "Stop the projector. Let's watch MacArthur, men." He said, "Run that again."
He backed it up and ran it five times in a row. And he said to me, "You won't do that anymore, will you?" I said, "No sir, I won't do that anymore." And I didn't. And I learned a great lesson. I didn't care about the cheerleaders, my parents, the fans, I was out there on that field the rest of my football career for one person that I had to stand before every Monday in the film room. And I wanted more than I wanted anything in the world the commendation of that man. That's a simple illustration but it's stuck with me through all my life. I mean, I'm happy that people are gracious and appreciate ministry, but I'll tell you one thing...there's only one person in my heart and mind who matters when it comes to the affirmation of what I do...and that's the commander in chief.
Some reporter said to me one time, "For whom do you prepare your sermons?" He says, "Newspapers are written for eighth graders." I said, "Well it might surprise you but I prepare my sermons for the Lord, to be honest, because He's the one who knows whether they're on target. And if I can go at the end of a Lord's day and pillow my head and fall asleep with the confidence that I offered the Lord the very best, then I'm a totally content person." Cause He's the one who affirms the validity of what I offered. You live to serve the commander. You don't ever want to get trapped into being a men pleaser. You remember Paul's letter to the Galatians, "Am I men pleaser?" They had accused him of being a men pleaser, and after the opening few verses of Galatians he says, "There, does that sound like a men pleaser?" You don't want to do that. Oh, you want to be all that you can be, even all things to all men, but never compromising your commitment to the commander.
There should be instant intuitive eager delightful obedience to the commander out of loving respect and awe because of who He is. You're a soldier, and what does it mean then in summary? Well, you've heard the Lord's call to battle, you've joined the fight, you're always on the front lines and you're willing to take your fair share of what comes. Not only that, but you're separated from all the unnecessary entanglements in this world, all the pragmata of life, the web of activities and interests the world throws at you for the expressed purpose of debilitating your usefulness. And you're totally consumed with receiving the approval of the Lord Himself.
Then Paul goes to a third picture, a second metaphor in verse 5, that of an athlete...the athlete. He refers elsewhere to athletes. In fact, in Ephesians 6 he refers to wrestlers. In 1 Corinthians 9 he refers to boxers and runners. But here it's kind of generic, it's just the verb athleo in general. So he says, "If anyone competes as an athlete he doesn't win the prize unless he competes according to the rules." So he says you're not only a teacher whose primary job is to guard and pass on truth, but you're a soldier and you must understand you're in a war. Furthermore, here's another picture, you're an athlete. So and also connects his list of metaphors. And then he says, "If anyone competes as an athlete..." The verb athleo means to compete in a contest. He says if you're going to be an athlete, there's a basic principle that you must adhere to. He says you cannot win the prize unless you keep the rules. And the statement is loaded with instructive information.
First of all, the very essence of athletics is effort. What separates the winners from the losers is not always talent but it is always effort. And not just the effort of the event itself but the effort long before the event ever began. If anyone is going to compete as an athlete there is a tremendous price to pay in terms of discipline, in terms of preparation. Just very basic. An athlete wants to win the prize. I mean, who wants to basketball on a court with no hoops, just dribble around till you're tired and leave? Somebody's got to win. You don't want to run in a race without a finish line, well you run till you're tired and people applaud your effort. There has to be a winner. There has to be a goal in mind.
The strong believer then is a competitor who strives to win. That's the picture. It's the picture of self-discipline. It's the picture of self-denial and self-sacrifice and tremendous effort.
How many times have we seen an athlete run a race and literally at the very peak of their speed come across the finish line and then having totally exhausted all their human faculties fall into a faint and hit the ground, having expended every ounce of available energy? That's the athlete. But his effort is always controlled by one thing. If he's going to win the prize, the stephanos, the runner's crown, it's the word for the runner's crown, not diadema which is the king's crown, if he's going to win the prize he has to keep...what?...the rules.
Now that goes beyond just the rules of the event, let me give you a little idea of what it means nominoth alethes(??), what does it mean he has to keep the rules? What is he really saying here? Well, in the Greek games, Olympian games, Isthmian games, whatever games there were and they had many of them, there were three prerequisites that every athlete had to fulfill. Number one, he had to be a true-born Greek. He had to be a true- born Greek. Number two, he had to prepare for ten months and stand before a statue of Zeus and swear that he had prepared for ten months. And if he had not, then he gave Zeus the liberty to take his life. Thirdly, he had to stay within the rules of his event. And if he was found not to be a true-born Greek, if it was found that he had not prepared for a full ten months, if it was found that he had in any way violated the rules of his event, he was disgraced and instantly disqualified.
It is that picture that Paul has in mind in 1 Corinthians 9:27, by the way, when he says that he as a runner and as a boxer had a fear that in ministering to others he himself would be disqualified. Those Greeks had to keep the rules, the rules of training, the rules of birth, and the rules of competition. Now this describes a professional athlete, not an amateur. This is one who for ten months was professionally involved in training for his event.
The picture then is very clear. The strong believer must be a true born Christian. The strong believer must have trained in the matters of self-denial, given over himself full time to spiritual training. He must be eager to compete. He must be compelled to win. He must be motivated by reward. And when those things are in place, he's going to be a disciplined competitor. The victory belongs to the disciplined. That's right. You know, most people never reach their goals, never reach their dreams, never accomplish what they could accomplish with the gifts that God has given them because they never learned to discipline themselves to the hard years of effort that it takes to be the best. And, beloved, I want to tell you, discipline is the mark of spiritual maturity. The disciplined person has control of his affections, he has control of his emotions, he has control of his moods, he has control of his priorities. That's the disciplined person.
There was a study done of delinquent and non-delinquent young people in Philadelphia. One line out of that study fascinates me. They said, "The difference between the delinquent and the non-delinquent young person was the pause between the temptation and the act." Isn't that interesting? The difference between a delinquent and a non-delinquent was the pause between the temptation and the act. What you do in the pause is the issue. The delinquent young person followed the impulse. The non-delinquent made a right choice. Self-discipline acts in that gap and the disciplined person in the pause between the temptation and the act makes a right choice. That's a disciplined life. He says no to things that harm his competitive edge. He says no to things that take away his strength. And so this calls for self-restraint. This calls for self-denial and self-sacrifice and those kinds of things that belong in the athletic metaphor.
So, Paul says, "Timothy, you're a teacher. Your job is to pass on truth. You're a soldier. Recognize you're always in a war and don't be surprised when you suffer, expect it. Thirdly, you're an athlete, Timothy, and it's going to take self-denial, hard work, great effort for a long time and a will to win and gain reward." Finally, Paul gives him a third metaphor, a fourth picture, verse 6, he talks here about the farmer, or actually the tiller of the ground. He says the hard working farmer. It's a verb, kapeao,(?) but here it appears as an adjectival participle modifying the word farmer. And the verb form here means to work to the point of exhaustion, to wear yourself out, to sweat, to strain. He says, "Timothy, you're a farmer."
Now what's the issue here? Well, the teacher sort of has a built in joy of teaching his students. The soldier has the thrill of victory. The athlete has the moment of crowning. What does the farmer metaphor picture? It pictures a man who works to the point of total exhaustion in perpetual hum-drum duty. Not like a soldier who wears the badges of his courage, who knows the glory of victory. Not like an athlete who carries the crown on his head and ascends the place where he receives the plaudits of men. The farmer, he plows and sows and tends and reaps. Early and late, he fights the frost, he fights the heat, he fights too much water, too little water, bugs, weeds. Patiently, patiently waits, works to see the crop come in and mostly does it all by himself. No great excitement, no great thrill, perpetual hum- drum routine, duty, that's another part of ministry.
I understand these pictures. I know what it is to teach and pour your life into others who will teach. I know what it is to be on the edge and in the battle and to see the fury of the battle and to bear the scars and suffer the hardship. I understand that. And I understand what it is to win and wear the crown and know the thrill of seeing victory. I understand that. But I'll tell you something, mostly I understand that ministry is perpetual hum-drum, it's routine, it's duty. You plow, you sow, you tend, you reap, you wait, you pray, you hope. There's no exhilaration to speak of. There's no competition to get your adrenalin moving. It's just hard work. That's right.
I hear young men say, "Ah, I don't want to go that ministry. Boy, there's a lot of problems there." All the more reason to go there. A lot of people afraid of hard work. I've said to so many young men, the thing you have to be committed to be successful in the ministry is a lot of exhausting hard work. Toil, by yourself, all alone. And sometimes the crop comes in the way you hoped, and sometimes it doesn't. And nobody's going to clap when it does, and nobody's going to come help you when it doesn't.
Well, why does he do it? Verse 6, that kind of hard-working farmer, then he uses the particle dei(?), it is necessary for him to be the first to receive his share of the crops. In other words, what Paul is saying is, "Look, the guy who worked the hardest gets in line first to get the fruit." That's why he does it. Blessing waits the one who works the hardest. You want God's blessing on your ministry? And I'm not talking about future, I'm talking about now and future. You want God's blessing on your ministry? Work hard at it. Be diligent. I would venture to say that very few people, very few people know what it is to literally exhaust themselves in the work of the Kingdom. And as a result, few people know what it is to share the great fruitfulness that the Lord would bring. I don't want to go beyond the Scripture, but I'll tell you, all other spiritual things being equal, I believe the greatest rewards come to those who work the hardest. That's right. There are always those people sitting around waiting for their ship to come in. It never comes. It never comes. Then there are others who are all their life building it.
And I'm not...as again I say...I'm not saying this is future reward. I'm talking now. You want to have a life and a ministry that is blessed of God now and will be also eternally rewarded? Then work hard. Work till you're exhausted. Pour your life into it. So the strong Christian then sees himself as a farmer, willing to work hard, exhausting himself to see results, patient until success comes, filled with anticipation of the joy of the fruit now and forever. I'll tell you, ministry is so exciting because you can share the fruit. And then when you think that some day the Lord will reward us and we can cast those rewards at His feet in adoration, what a privilege.
Well, the imagery is very vivid. Listen, let me sum it up, listen carefully now. Each one of these, in a sense, has the idea of self-denial. The teacher who spends his life to produce other teachers...the soldier who give his life in the duties of battle...the athlete who restricts his life for the sake of maximum effort...and the farmer who literally expends his life to produce the crop. The Lord is calling for us to give ourselves away here.
To look at it from another viewpoint. There are some things we have to endure in giving ourselves away...suffering, discipline, exhaustion. There are some things we have to avoid, all the entanglement of the world and breaking the rules, unholiness, sin. There are some things we have to obey, and that is the rules that God has set down and the orders of our commander and the laws of sowing and reaping. And there are some things that we are to enjoy, victory, fruit. And so we are called to be strong in the Lord. It's a rich picture here and there's no way that Paul wants Timothy or us to miss it, so he comes to a conclusion in verse 7. Look at it.
"Consider what I say," stop at that point for a minute. Very rarely does this kind of verse occur in the New Testament. Noeo means to think over, to ponder or understand. Do you understand what I'm saying, Timothy? Think it over. Think it over. Now let me have you do that for a moment. Will you do that with me? Ponder this. Look at your own life and ask yourself, am I a strong Christian? Do I devote myself to safe guarding and proclaiming the truth like a true teacher? Am I consumed with that? Think about it, are you? And then ask yourself this, do I deny myself to serve my commander and give my life as a true soldier at any cost? Am I always on the battle front? Think about it. Are you? Am I disentangled with the trivia of this world? Think about it. And then in terms of an athlete, ask yourself this, do I discipline myself to succeed in winning the spiritual race? Do I understand self-denial? Do I understand self-sacrifice? Do I understand the effort? Do I understand that I must obey the Word of God and keep the rules lest I be disqualified? Am I an athlete who runs to win? Think about that. Am I a hard-working servant of Christ? Do I sweat in producing a spiritual crop like that true farmer? Ask yourself that. That's what he means when he says consider what I say. Consider it. How do you match up?
And then comes this word, verse 7, "For the Lord will give you understanding in every respect," is what he means. You think about it and the Lord will give you the answer. You sit back and contemplate it and He'll show you where you are. Listen, I'm through at this point, it's up to you. If you have the spiritual integrity to do an inventory on your life, the Lord will show you right where you are. He'll give you understanding. He'll open your mind. Psalm 119:73, the psalmist said, "Give me understanding that I may learn Your commandments." Think about it and take a look at yourself and the Lord will show what is there.
The common thread through all of these, really wonderful, really wonderful, it's reward. The teacher is rewarded in discipleship. The soldier is rewarded in victory. The athlete is rewarded in winning. The farmer is rewarded in tasting the fruit. And so implied in all of these, "Timothy, there's something wonderful out there." It's reminiscent of Hebrews 6:10, "For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints." Isn't that wonderful? The Lord will not forget your labor. The Lord will not forget your ministry if you're a strong Christian. He'll reward you for that.
Let's bow together in prayer.
Father, if we're going to be strong in all these ways, then we must be conformed to the building standard that You have designed and that Paul has presented to us here. I'm reminded of the words of the poet who said, "Be strong, we're not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle, face it, tis God's gift. Be strong, say not the days are evil, whose to blame and fold the hands and acquiesce, O shame. Stand up, speak out and bravely in God's name. Be strong, it matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on, tomorrow comes the song." Reward, the song, the day when we sing in Your presence. Help us to be faithful teachers, soldiers, athletes, farmers who look beyond the moment's pain to the eternal weight of glory, knowing that no difficulty in this life has come our way, no sacrifice made here will be forgotten, no trial through which we have endured to Your glory shall go unrewarded. Father, give us that eternal perspective. Help us to know the joys of victory, the sweet taste of fruit and the anticipation of eternal reward. And be pleased with us as You are with Your Son who served as the supreme teacher, the greatest soldier who never lost a battle, and who destroyed the enemy completely, the truest athlete who ran the purest race and won the greatest prize, and the true farmer who brings in every crop. May we be like Him. In His name we pray. Amen.
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Law enforcement agencies utilize the principles of traffic crash reconstruction for analyzing the dynamics of collision events. We've traditionally employed a range of dimensional measurement techniques for traffic crash reconstruction. These include the roll wheel, steel tape, and more recently the electronic distance measuring total station. The total station has resulted in more comprehensive scene measurements and better diagrams than traditional methods employed in the past. However, often times, delays in getting the total station to the scene will extend the road closure time. Even with quick response, the time from incident occurrence to completion of both the traditional baseline tape method or the total station, can often be over two hours and as high as four, or in some cases even more. It's clear that no measurement tool is "perfect" in crash reconstruction and it's equally clear that a "tool kit" of devices is best utilized to perform the task.
In 2002, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) agreed on goals of opening Florida highways within 90 minutes from the time the first officer arrived at the crash scene. This new course of incident management was identified as the "Open Roads Policy."
Goals of the Open Roads Policy include improved officer safety in crash investigation by reducing the amount of time the roadway is closed and to reduce traffic delays, including concerns of secondary crashes.
To support these objectives, FDOT and FHP representatives researched and attended numerous incident management presentations offered by other successful state police agencies around the country that had implemented a technology called "close-range photogrammetry." During the 2002 FDOT / FHP investigation, the teams consensus was that close-range photogrammetry allows troopers to reduce their on scene time by photographing the crash and later "mapping the crash" using a computer back in the office.
While the Florida Open Roads Policy does not apply to homicide scenes, the FHP has felt the need to quickly process the crash scene and begin opening highway lanes as soon as possible. Regardless of the severity of the crash scene specifics, motorists are generally impatient in 'long backups' and expect the roads reopen as quickly as possible. This situation is exacerbated by the need for more accurate scene documentation for the integrity of the investigation, and successful prosecutions. As a result, FHP investigators now find themselves having to collect more comprehensive and accurate data in a shorter period of on scene time.
Utilizing a digital camera on scene, as a measuring and mapping tool, the FHP has found that photogrammetry is value-added in supporting the Open Roads Policy, resulting is less time on the road verses other measurement methods used in the past.
The term "photogrammetry" is derived from three Greek words; photos meaning light, gramma meaning to drawn, and metron meaning to measure. It is the science and technology of generating 3D information from 2D measurements, nowadays mostly from digital camera images. The process entails taking pictures (either analog film or digital camera images) from different overlapping view perspectives. These multiple image perspectives are imported into a PC-based photo- grammetry software program where the same entity, using two or more images, are marked i.e., "cross referenced" to each other.
The photogrammetric process solves for the camera positions and 3D coordinates, as well as offering the capability called photogrammetric bundle tri- angulation, where the 3D points are computed automatically without operator intervention.
The technology also offers the capability of computing lines and non-contact measured polylines. The operator can add point names to the measured entities, scale the project units, assign a specific coordinate system and 'mathematically level' the coordinate system to gravity. The result of the image-based measurement work is typically exported in the Drawing Interchange Format (DXF) for diagramming use in a CAD drawing program.
As part of the implementation process, the FHP had tried different low-cost commercially sold close-range photogrammetry software systems and ultimately selected the iWitness program.
Although the FHP has successfully demonstrated that photogrammetry can be used on scenes that are tens of meters in overall length, the following example illustrates a two-car crash at night that blocked a busy intersection. The incident involved a violation of right-of-way,
where one of the drivers involved was arrested for driving without a valid driver's license. This case was later resolved in a conviction and the "scene mapping" was important in the litigation.
This crash scene comprised largely of measuring photogrammetric "natural feature points," such as crosswalks, signage, vehicles, tire markings, and other critical scene evidence.
Photogrammetric "markers" were also used in the measurement process. The markers can be used to "measure evidence," however, if the officer can photograph discrete points of interest, those features can be 3D measured by natural feature point marking. The markers assist in fast and accurate orientation of the cameras from where the pictures were physically taken from.
It took the FHP trooper 13 minutes to acquire the pictures of the crash scene that was 193' long by 127' wide. In addition to "imaging time," it took another 5 minutes to set the photogrammetric markers in the scene before the imaging. Following the crash scene work, it took 3 hours of office time by one trooper to do the photogrammetry and CAD diagram computer work.
All night images were taken with the tripod-mounted camera, using time exposures on average of 3 seconds each, which produced good image exposure. Seventeen images were used in the photogrammetry work on a PC back in the office. Two hundred and two 3D points were measured in iWitness to an accuracy of ¼" RMS, as verified by scene check distances as well as the program's auditing tools.
The iWitness work was then exported into the Crash Zone diagramming software where vehicles and other symbols were also added to complete the crash scene diagram.
Close-range photogrammetry has proven to be a value-added tool for the Florida Highway Patrol's mapping capabilities. And although the traditional baseline approach, as well as the total station is still employed within the FHP, it is noteworthy that over 200 FHP troopers have been trained in the iWitness image-based photogrammetry technology, where it is used as an accurate, fast and easy-to-use "tool" in crash scene mapping investigations.
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The Hope Health Clinic opened in September to serve the underinsured residents of Oldham, Henry, Trimble and Carroll counties.
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Three months ago, a hundred days after the oath, one afternoon after school, the school radio came Hackberry song: "When you are still still fantasy / your tomorrow, it will be okay or worse for me, Another day / I have ruined my everything, I just want to leave forever / I have fallen into endless darkness, want to struggle can not extricate themselves / I used to like you like him like wildflowers / desperate desire, cry also laugh Ordinary with ... ... "I walked more slowly, went to the school gate suddenly tears ran, that day I simply cried in the lake like a dark faint black hero, crying I quietly back to the classroom late study hall. Mom, this is what you do not know.
Some people criticized the contemporary Chinese education, saying that the education of genius, and the so-called genius education results most of the people is not an ordinary qualification to become a genius, but he twisted into a low-grade deformed children. I asked myself I was not a deformed child, mother, I feel lucky, but I am disturbed that I was like in the volume of education in this, I do not know is my tomorrow, it will be okay? Our tomorrow, will it please?
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>> Friday, May 29, 2009
With the program we told you about last tuesday our 'decoding team' has created high definition versions of some original Hotel Mario cutscenes! That's a cool homebrew project for CD-i which has big potential for me! What better can we preserve for the future than these original high resolution versions! Even more special is the before unseen cutscene we posted a shot about, which have been reproduced now as the original never-used cutscene as well! I'd love to see this happening to other CD-i games too. Luigiblood: "I have tried this on Zelda CDi, and FlashBack, for the Zelda CDi, it's working, but the audio data just cuts the Image Data like Hotel Mario, and FlashBack, somehow, i can't say it's working, but i can see some frames in garbage of colors."
opt_fr_ adds: "It's tedious to reproduce these cartoons because sometimes it's hard to determine where, when and what frame is stored in the file. Every time you solve a problem another one comes out. Instead of making the pattern matcher (that finds the images) more complex I'll try to find these data by block, to avoid being surprised when audio come at the middle of the frame." - We can imagine the hard work this must take, but the result is great! Find below the unseen and unused cutscene found in Hotel Mario!


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NH DOT to remove 50 dead pine trees in Newport
NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) � The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is planning to remove about 50 dead pine trees in Newport as part of a cleanup effort.
The work is scheduled to start Monday and will take three to four days.
The removal requires closing Corbin Road daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Traffic will be rerouted around the work area via Oak Street.


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Ahenkorah, J. and Hottor, B. A. and Davis, N. and Byrne, S. and Waugh, J. and Bosio, P. and Ockleford, C. D. (2007) Differential expression of cytokeratins 7 and 18 in villous and extravillous trophoblast cells: a confocal laser scanning microscopy study. Journal of Anatomy, 210 (5). p. 612. ISSN 0021-8782
BYRNE, S and AHENKORAH, J and LOCKWOOD, C and Ockleford, Colin Douglas (2007) Nano-gold immuno-electron microscopic localization of caveolin-1 in human placenta. Journal of Anatomy, 210 (5). p. 613. ISSN 0021-8782
Brewster, Liz (2007) 'Medicine for the soul':bibliotherapy and the public library. Masters thesis, UNSPECIFIED.
Byrne, Simon and Ahenkorah, John and Hottor, Bismarck and Lockwood, C. and Ockleford, Colin D. (2007) Immuno-electron microscopic localisation of caveolin 1 in human placenta. Immunobiology, 212 (1). pp. 39-46. ISSN 0171-2985
Cholangitas, E. and Quaglia, Alberto and Samonakis, D. and Mela, M. and Patch, D. and Dhillon, A.P. and Fanshawe, Thomas and Burroughs, A.K. (2007) Transjugular liver biopsy in patients with diffuse liver disease:comparison of three cores with one or two cores for accurate histological interpretation. Liver International, 27 (5). pp. 646-653. ISSN 1478-3231
Convery, Ian and Mort, Margaret and Bailey, Catherine and Baxter, Josephine (2007) Role Stress in Front Line Workers during the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic: the value of therapeutic spaces. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 2.
Diggle, Peter J. and Farewell, Daniel and Henderson, Robin (2007) Analysis of longitudinal data with drop-out: objectives, assumptions and a proposal (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 56 (5). pp. 499-550. ISSN 0035-9254
Diggle, Peter J. and Farewell, Daniel and Henderson, Robin (2007) Longitudinal data with dropout:objectives, assumptions and a proposal (with Discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 56 (4). pp. 499-550. ISSN 0035-9254
Diggle, Peter J. and Gomez-Rubio, Virgilio and Brown, Patrick E. and Chetwynd, Amanda G. and Gooding, Susan (2007) Second-order analysis of inhomogeneous spatial point process data. Biometrics, 63 (2). pp. 550-557. ISSN 1541-0420
Diggle, Peter J. and Ribeiro, Paulo J. (2007) Model-based Geostatistics. Springer Series in Statistics . Springer, New York, USA. ISBN 0387329072 978-0387329079
Diggle, Peter J. and Thomson, M. C. and Christensen, O. F. and Rowlingson, B. and Obsomer, V. and Gardon, J. and Wanji, S. and Takougang, I. and Enyong, P. and Kamgno, J. and Remme, H. and Boussinesq, M. and Molyneux, D. H. (2007) Spatial modelling and prediction of Loa loa risk: decision making under uncertainty. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 101 (6). pp. 499-509. ISSN 1364-8594
Dudderidge, Tim and McCracken, S.R. and Loddo, Marco and Fanshawe, Thomas and Kelly, J.D. and Neal, D.E. and Leung, H.Y. and Williams, Gareth and Stoeber, Kai (2007) Mitogenic growth signalling, DNA replication licensing, and survival are linked in prostate cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 96 (9). pp. 1384-1393. ISSN 1532-1827
Emery, Jon and Morris, Helen and Goodchild, Rebecca and Fanshawe, Thomas and Prevost, Toby and Bobrow, Martin and Kinmonth, Ann-Louise (2007) The GRAIDS trial:a cluster randomised controlled trial of computer decision support for the management of familial cancer risk in primary care. British Journal of Cancer, 97 (4). pp. 486-493. ISSN 1532-1827
Emsley, Hedley and Tyrrell, Pippa J. (2007) Inflammation and interleukin-1 in clinical stroke. In: New Developments in Stroke Research. Nova Science Publishers, pp. 1-48. ISBN 1600212956
Emsley, Hedley C. A. and Smith, Craig J. and Gavin, Carole M. and Georgiou, Rachel F. and Vail, Andy and Barberan, Elisa M. and Illingworth, Karen and Scarth, Sylvia and Wickramasinghe, Vijitha and Hoadley, Margaret E. and Rothwell, Nancy J. and Tyrrell, Pippa J. and Hopkins, Stephen J. (2007) Clinical outcome following acute ischaemic stroke relates to both activation and autoregulatory inhibition of cytokine production. BMC Neurology, 7. ISSN 1471-2377
Goodwin, Dawn (2007) Upsetting the order of teamwork: is 'the same way every time' a good aspiration? Sociology, 41 (2). pp. 259-275. ISSN 1469-8684
Kulkarni, Anjana and Loddo, Marco and Leo, Elisabetta and Rashid, Mohammed and Eward, Kathryn and Fanshawe, Thomas and Butcher, Jessica and Frost, Alison and Ledermann, Jonathan and Williams, Gareth and Stoeber, Kai (2007) DNA replication licensing factors and aurora kinases are linked to aneuploidy and clinical outcome in epithelial ovarian carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research, 13 (20). pp. 6153-6161. ISSN 1078-0432
Leatherbarrow, A. J. H. and Griffiths, R. and Hart, C. A. and Kemp, R. and Williams, N. J. and Diggle, Peter J. and Wright, E. J. and Sutherst, J. and Houghton, P. and French, N. P. (2007) Campylobacter lari: genotype and antibiotic resistance of isolates from cattle, wildlife and water in an area of mixed dairy farmland in the United Kingdom. Environmental Microbiology, 9 (7). pp. 1772-1779. ISSN 1462-2912
Martindale, Jane and Smith, Jane and Goodacre, Lynne and Grennan, David and Goodacre, John (2007) Sustained Disease Activity in AS. A prospective Study. In: American Society of Rheumatology, 2007-11-012007-11-04.
Martindale, Jane and Smith, Jane and Sutton, Chris and Grennan, David and Goodacre, Lynne and Goodacre, John (2007) An investigation of the associations patients make between changes in disease status and the impact of change on their psychological health. In: British Society of Rheumatology, 2007-05-082007-05-11.
McHanwell, S. and Atkinson, M. and Davies, D.C. and Dyball, R. and Morris, J. and Ockleford, Colin and Parkin, I. and Standring, S. and Whiten, S. and Wilton, J. (2007) A core syllabus in anatomy for medical students:Adding common sense to need to know. European Journal of Anatomy, 11 (Supple). pp. 3-18.
Parisi, Andrea (2007) Consequences of acoustic emission on crack speed and roughness exponent in brittle dynamic fracture. In: Earthquakes and Acoustic Emission. CRC Press, pp. 89-94. ISBN 9870415444026
Pope, C. and Mort, Maggie and Goodwin, Dawn and Smith, Andrew F. (2007) Anaesthetic talk in surgical encounters. In: Discourses of Hospital Communication and Organization: Tracing Complexities in Contemporary Health Care Organizations. Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 161-181. ISBN 9781403998484
Read, Jonathan M. and Keeling, Matt J. (2007) Stochasticity generates an evolutionary instability for infectious disease. Ecology Letters, 10 (9). pp. 818-827. ISSN 1461-023X
Rissech, C. and Black, S. (2007) Scapular development from the neonatal period to skeletal maturity:A preliminary study. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 17 (5). pp. 451-464. ISSN 1047-482X
Sala, Evis and Watson, Chris and Beadsmoore, Chris and Groot-Wassink, Thomas and Fanshawe, Thomas and Smith, J.C. and Bradley, A. and Palmer, Chris and Shaw, A. and Dixon, Anthony (2007) A randomised controlled trial of routine early abdominal computed tomography in patients presenting with non-specific acute abdominal pain. Clinical Radiology, 62 (10). pp. 961-969. ISSN 1365-229X
Schaefer, Maureen and Black, Sue M. (2007) Epiphyseal union sequencing:aiding in the recognition and sorting of commingled remains. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 52 (2). pp. 277-285. ISSN 0022-1198
Scheuer, Louise and Black, Sue (2007) Osteology. In: Forensic human identification. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 199-219. ISBN 0849339545
Smith, K. and Ockleford, C. D. (2007) Changes in muscle cells and caveolin-3 immunofluorescence labelling during skeletal muscle cell differentiation. Journal of Anatomy, 210 (5). p. 613. ISSN 0021-8782
Solis-Trapala, Ivonne L. (2007) Contribution to the discussion of "Longitudinal data with dropout: objectives, assumptions and a proposal" by P.J. Diggle, D. Farewell and R. Henderson. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 56 (5). p. 544. ISSN 0035-9254
Solis-Trapala, Ivonne L. and Carthey, J. and Farewell, Vernon T. and de Leval, M. R. (2007) Dynamic modelling in a study of surgical error management. Statistics in Medicine, 26 (28). pp. 5189-5202. ISSN 1097-0258
Tang, Tjun and Walsh, S.R. and Fanshawe, Thomas and Gillard, J.H. and Sadat, U. and Varty, K. and Gaunt, M.E. and Boyle, J.R. (2007) Estimation of physiologic ability and surgical stress (E-PASS) as a predictor of immediate outcome after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery. American Journal of Surgery, 194 (2). pp. 176-182. ISSN 1879-1883
Tang, Tjun and Walsh, S.R. and Fanshawe, Thomas and Seppi, V. and Sadat, U. and Hayes, P.D. and Varty, K. and Gaunt, M.E. and Boyle, J.R. (2007) Comparison of risk-scoring methods in predicting the immediate outcome after elective open abdominal aneurysm surgery. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 34 (5). pp. 505-513. ISSN 1532-2165
Thompson, Tim (2007) Forensic human identification:an introduction. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.. ISBN 0849339545
Thompson, Tim and Black, Sue (2007) Body modification. In: Forensic human identification. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 379-399. ISBN 0849339545


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Man with drone grapples with Obama
FAA fined him $10,000 for capturing photos, video of university
A judge in Denver has terminated the Obama administration's plan to fine a model airplane controller $10,000 for a flight over the University of Virginia in 2011 in which he captured photo and video images that he then sold to the university.
National Transportation Safety Board Judge Patrick G. Geraghty wrote in this opinion that at the time of the model aircraft's operation, there was "no enforceable FAA rule" or regulation applicable to model aircraft or for classifying model aircraft as an unmanned aircraft system.
His decision created a speed bump for the federal government in its attempt to follow through on its "Order of Assessment" against Raphael Pirker of Zurich, Switzerland. Pirker was told he was being assessed a "civil penalty" of $10,000 for the Oct. 17, 2011, flight of a Ritewing Zephyr powered glider aircraft in the vicinity of the University of Virginia."
Aviation Week reported the Federal Aviation Administration immediately announced it would appeal Geraghty's ruling.
The case has developed as the use of drones has engendered controversy. The Obama administration has used them to target hundreds of terrorists overseas in missions that also have taken innocent lives.
In the U.S., the concerns primarily have focused on privacy.
The FAA claimed Pirker was acting as pilot in control without having a pilot's certificate.
According to Aviation Week, the FAA "further charged that the UAS was operated 'in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another.'"
Pirker argued that there was no valid rule in the Federal Aviation Regulations that covered his excursions.
Responding to the government's contention that his model plane is "by definition" an aircraft, Pirker argued that the definition would also put "a paper aircraft or a toy balsa wood glider" under FAA regulations.
The judge wrote that "historically, in their policy notices, modified the term 'aircraft' by prefixing the word 'model,' to distinguish the device/contrivance being considered."
"By affixing the word 'model' to 'aircraft' the reasonable inference is that Complainant FAA intended to distinguish and exclude model aircraft from either or both of the aforesaid definitions of 'aircraft,'" the judge wrote.
"To accept complainant's interpretive argument would lead to a conclusion that those definitions include as an aircraft all types of devices/contrivances intended for, or used for, flight in the air. The extension of that conclusion would then result in the risible argument that a flight in the air of, e.g., a paper aircraft or a toy balsa wood glider, could subject the 'operator' to the regulatory provisions of FAA Part 91, Section 91.139(a)."
The FAA has issued a separate advisory regarding "Model Aircraft" that notes the rules are voluntary. And the agency encourages operators to not fly near people, airports and other fixtures.
"It is concluded that, as complainant: has not issued an enforceable FAR regulatory rule governing model aircraft operation; has historically exempted model aircraft from the statutory FAR definitions of 'aircraft' by relegating model aircraft operations to voluntary compliance with the guidance … respondent's model aircraft operation was not subject to FAR regulation and enforcement."
Pirker's request for the case to be dismiss was granted.
But the FAA, in confirming it was not satisfied with the decision and would appeal, said the judge's conclusion underscored "the immediate need for a regulatory framework for small UAS."
Michael Toscano of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International said: "Our paramount concern is safety. We must ensure the commercial use of UAS takes place in a safe and responsible manner, whenever commercial use occurs."


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The book that catapulted Maynard into the spotlight at 17. J'adore that bob
Miss Maynard charmed me immediately. She has an unassuming je ne sais quoi about her; a combination, I think, of a pixieish face that belies her 50-some-odd years, a slightly nervous energy (one that I understand from experience), and a seemingly natural talent for engaging storytelling. She mesmerized the audience--an attentive room-full of plastic-wine-cup-clutching bibliophiles wedged into sturdy Danish Modern chairs--with a riveting recount of the day's drama at the Musee d'Orsay. There, beside a bridge linking the left bank to the right, a team of gypsy pickpockets relieved her of her wallet using that Oh-Here's-The-Ring-You-Dropped scam. The combination of pity, anger, and laughter that her story provoked totally won me over.
The remainder of the evening was no less confessional, and equally spellbinding; with disarming earnestness, Maynard shared intimate details of her topsy-turvy life with us strangers. This was an oral autobiography punctuated with dramatic bullet points--alcoholic parents, an affair with a famous (and bitter, and controlling) old man--and equally interesting but more mundane details about her development as a writer, parenting, collapsing relationships, and travel. We had a bit in common, I thought.
I left the event empty handed (the book I was most interested in had sold out already), but felt full with that warm-and-fuzzy feeling you get when you realize you're not alone in the universe--that there are kindred spirits within our own orbit who share similar experiences and express those similarities with vivid language.
What was I thinking? A yearlong experiment in blondness that lasted roughly 364 days longer than it should have
Right now, I'm preoccupied with whether or not to whack my hair off. I've been growing it long for about two years now, and it hits my upper back right about at bra-strap level. I think I thought that having long hair again would make me feel pretty. I realize I've never felt pretty, long hair or short, so that's not really a valid reason to schlep around a tangled mess of boring brown tresses. Perhaps, subconsciously, I also harbor a fear that men will no longer find me attractive if I snip of a few inches.
My hair last week. It doesn't look too bad when freshly washed, but it's still time for a change
"Men don't like short hair," a friend tells Maynard knowingly in "The Kindest Cut." Maynard isn't deterred. "Should my hairstyle be dictated by the desire to please men or myself?" she asks herself in response. Now, I have to ask myself that same question. I hope I'll be brave enough to heed the desire to please myself, and not feel resigned to sporting a head of hair that's boring and unflattering.
On our way to Copenhagen a couple of weeks ago, I made a pre-flight pit-stop at the Relay store at Charles de Gaulle. Quickly rifling through the magazines, I spotted a fashion feature showing magazine editors (aka "real people") wearing the latest designer duds. The clothes weren't nearly as compelling as one of the editor's hairdos. I hadn't seen anything so fun and interesting in a long time. Her slightly messy, long bob hit about shoulder length, with eye-grazing blond-and-brown bangs funking it up in a mod way. I loved it, and thought, "I wish I could have hair like that."
So, why not?


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New feel at Old Erie golf course
DURHAMVILLE >> Although its name would suggest otherwise, there's a lot new at Old Erie Golf Club.
For starters, the nine-hole Durhamville course, formerly known as Foster Ponds, is under new ownership after Dave Nieman and John Stewart purchased it last October.
"We've always wanted to do this," said Nieman, a Vernon-Verona-Sherrilll graduate currently living in Fayetteville. "It had to be close and not many come up for sale close by. So when this came up we said we'll give 'er a shot."
The duo has good credentials, working at and around golf courses for years. Nieman was the course superintendent at Rogue's Roost in Bridgeport for 30 years and he and Stewart also sell golf carts.
However, owning and operating a course is new territory for both and they immediately began putting their own touch on the course. In December 150 trees were planted around the course, the most notable being the 48 red maples planted around the perimeter.
"They're to designate that it's a golf course," said Nieman. "(It's a) good aesthetic. They'll look brilliant in the fall."
The trees weren't the only change to the course. The pond that borders the second and ninth holes was expanded and a new pond was added to the ninth hole. A new tee box was also added to the third hole and another new tee box is being put in on No. 8.
The clubhouse also got an upgrade, with new wood paneling and new pictures hung around the inside.
The pictures go hand-in-hand with the new name, depicting scenes from the Erie Canal era in Durhamville and Oneida.
"Durhamville was historically well known for the Erie Canal," said Nieman. "That's why it's called Old Erie."
Nieman added that there are more changes to come. Currently there are plans to reroute the course, adding two new greens and two new tees. The fourth hole, a 460-yard par five that borders Foster Corners Road, is expected to be converted to a driving range with the addition of a practice green with bunkers to chip out of.
Nieman expects those renovations to start this fall and be completed by next summer.
Most importantly, he noted, golfers will still be able to play the course while the refurbishments are going on.


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Published March 17, 2005, in issue 0411 of the Hook
In addition to "chicken little," Janice Jaquith's self-description of her essay ["Forget birds: We could all die from this flu," March 3], your readers might also be interested in hearing from a voice in the wilderness on the threat of the global bird flu pandemic.
Dr. Paul W. Ewald, author of two influential books on infectious disease, thinks it is unlikely that bird flu (H5N1) will become a 1917-style death-flu plague.
According to Dr. Ewald, the kinds of evolutionary pressures that helped create the 1917 pandemic are not currently in play. In 1917, trench-warfare conditions, which provided large numbers of sick and wounded immobile hosts for the virus, generated the natural selective pressure that helped the bug evolve extreme virulence. (New York Times health science reporter Gina Kolata believes the death toll may have been as high as 100 million.)
Because no such conditions currently exist in Viet Nam, the bird flu epicenter, the disease likely to emerge may turn out to be nasty, but not lethal.
Since the late 1970s, WHO officials have been warning of the imminent recurrence of a 1917-style flu plague, but Ewald has consistently counter-argued that such warnings are unfounded as long as evolutionary pressures favoring virulence are not at work. So far Ewald has been right.
Ewald is part of a revolutionary movement in medicine that approaches health threats from the perspective of evolutionary biology. If the evidence supports this approach, then our understanding of not only viruses such as the flu but also big killers such as heart disease and cancer may have to undergo radical change. Solutions will likely involve bolstering the immune system, which has evolved over the eons to help us deal with disease organisms.
Tinkering with minute chemical factors, the basis of modern pharmacological medicine, is unlikely to contain the evolution of infectious disease. So if you want to be prepared for disease in general, find ways to strengthen immunity.
John AltonUnified Fitness, LLCCharlottesville


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Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks business, has unveiled plans to invest over £1billion in Scotch whisky production over the next five years to meet growing global demand for its brands.
A major new malt distillery will be built as part of the investment, alongside a programme of major expansion at a number of Diageo's existing distilleries. Detailed plans will also be developed for a second new distillery which will be built if global demand for Scotch is sustained at expected levels.
The company also plans to invest in substantial new warehousing capacity to house the millions of additional litres of Scotch whisky which the distillation investment will produce.
Announcing the investment Diageo Chief Executive, Paul Walsh said: "This is a pivotal moment in the development of the Scotch whisky category for Diageo. Over recent years our brands have achieved remarkable, sustained global growth. Scotch whisky is Scotland's most celebrated manufactured export, led by brands like Johnnie Walker, resonating with consumers from Boston to Beijing.
"We expect that success to continue, particularly in the high growth markets around the world, which is why we are announcing this major investment in Scotch whisky production, committing over £1billion in the next five years, to seize that opportunity for global growth. This builds on the foundations we have already laid down over recent years through sustained investment in both production assets and in maturing Scotch inventories. "Scotch whisky is a significant manufacturing export industry in the United Kingdom, driving domestic investment and job creation through our success in exporting to high growth markets around the world. We look forward to working with both the UK and Scottish Governments to realise the full potential of our investment plan, and to continue growing global Scotch exports.â€Â
Across Scotland the investment will create over a hundred new Diageo jobs, largely high value jobs in rural areas of Scotland. It is also expected the investment will create an average of 250 construction jobs for each year of the investment period and in wider Scottish economy there will be a knock on effect which will generate around 500 further jobs. Diageo also intends to make its contribution to efforts to tackle youth unemployment by taking on around one hundred apprentices and graduate trainees over the term of the investment, and the company will also encourage its suppliers and construction contractors to focus on youth job creation and apprenticeships.
The investment programme will be underpinned by Diageo's commitment to reduce its environmental impact, with a programme of bio energy solutions planned to be implemented over the same timescale as the distillery expansion projects.
Mr Walsh added: "I'm particularly pleased our investment will generate significant numbers of new Diageo jobs, as well as boosting the local construction sector and stimulating job creation throughout the Scottish economy. We are determined to use this investment to make a contribution towards helping people into training and work through our apprentice and graduate placement scheme and by using the opportunity to encourage suppliers to take on apprentices to work on the investment projects.â€Â
In the last five years Diageo has reported 50% growth in net sales of its Scotch brands with total net sales approaching £3billion this financial year. Scotch represented 23% of Diageo's volume, 27% of net sales and a third of gross profit in the financial year 2011. In the first half of financial year 2012, Diageo's Scotch category saw 8% volume growth and 14% net sales growth.
Over the five year period Diageo plans to invest over £500 million in the construction of the distillation and warehousing capacity. This increased production capacity also requires Diageo to commit £500million in working capital for the maturing spirit which will be laid down over the next five years. The exact total investment figures may vary over time depending on the progress of specific projects, but the overall commitment is expected to total over £1billion over the five years.
Supporting this investment, Diageo also plans to commit £5 million over five years towards community initiatives as part of its sustainability and responsibility programme in Scotland. Priority areas for the community investment programme will be: leadership in the environment; responsible drinking - improving the night economy and safety at local level; and socio-economic development, including youth employment and entrepreneurship. This will involve an integrated approach across Diageo's production, commercial and brands heritage businesses, including The Gleneagles Hotel, host to the Ryder Cup 2014. Full details of this programme will be announced in due course.