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The case for cloud-seeding
It is quite evident that most states in the world now conduct cloud seeding.
Cloud seeding is not all that new, in my youth it was common in the apple growing districts to shoot skyrockets above possible hail formations to disrupt the coalsecence of hail stones and reduce their impact on the crops. I believe the active chemical used was silver nitrate.
The more common chemical seen in modern cloud seeding is silver iodide. This nucleates rain drops which then gather electrostatically into cloud.
You will recognise them for their whispy-feathery appearance, which may or may not form into rain clouds - depending on the ambient humidity.
The presence of cloud seeding was first noticed by conspiracy theorists as "chemtrails", agianst which no official refutation was poffered - because no public agreement was sought for the practice.
I can think of some good reasons for cloud seeding - wildfire mittigation, cachement optimisation (water-supply dams) or even mittigation of global warming.
We don't know the justifications because we were not consulted. And the debate was never undertaken.
Let's have the debate now.
To kick it off, i will opose the practice and state as my opening arguement that: cloud seeding is vandalism of the sky.
Please state and argue your case:
For and against.
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Dec 11 2012: Doiuble post because got some more to say. Existentialism argues life is random and chaotic and we each construct belief systems based partly on nature and partly on nurture. Linking to Damasio 3 levels of self, now in talking therapy there is a way of working which asks people to listen to their hearts and stomachs as well as what their mind is telling them. The Enlightenment meant the mind became the so-called centre of our intelligence but now people talk about emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence as well. It seems as soon as one person demonstrates some kind of advantage in the utilisation of local resources, other people want to take advantage of it and somehow whatever that advantage is becomes a distinct commodity. So on one level my arguement is messing around with the atmosphere is really bad news because the results locally may be advantageous short term but disasterous long term. Agree it is in the other sources of news like the internet and the scientific journals that evidence-based scientific discussion is found rather than every day media. Now global communication used to be through cables laid along the sea bed and now it is via satellite relays. If the electron balance in the sky is altered by practices such as cloud seeding, what might the effect on the internet 'cloud' be ?
Dec 11 2012: well .. at the risk of being called a conspiracy theorist again (lol - I've also been accused of being the Illuminatii!) it goes like this:
current energy state(entropy gradient)-->senses-->perception-->potential agency-->decision-->agency-->changed energy state(inflected entropy gradient) --> repeat loop until collapse. Everything between perception and agency(inclusive) is the self - it can have any number of arcane levels but has survival at its root.
The potential agency bit is divided into 2 parts - potential advantage and potential disadvantage. If teh self chooses disadvantage, the negentropic inflection which houses it will collapse - so it has to choose the advantage. Potential advantage can have a lot of stuff in it - evolution does not care - it's survival of teh fittest, so all advantage qualifies. However, if the highest advantage(supremacy) is always chosen, then the tower of Babel starts building up to its ultimate fall. In humans it is a little more complex - because the field pf potential agency is not just divided into advantage/disadvantage - it is also divided into individual and community - thus one can choose a potential action that is advantageous to the person, but disadvantage to teh community - this is called sin. If one chooses potential actions that are advantage to both self and community it is called morality, if one chooses action that is disadvantage to self and advantage to communty, it is called martyrdom. If on habitually chooses sin, the benefit of community is destroyed - it's ripple collapses - and the individual with it. Evil is where the individual brings the community to the brink of collapse and keeps it there - this also initiates the tower of Babel.
Existential life is, indeed chaos, but chaos is not disorder - chaos creates the filaments of existence - like curls of smoke - the arabesque of the fields of super-entropy surrounding the selves of negentropy which are created by the existential loop which ripples in entropy.
Dec 11 2012: (second post)
The conspiracy bit:
Communities can be no larger than about 200 individuals - we simply don't have the cranium-space to accomodate more. So when you get 7 billion people it is really just an agregation of communities.
So the communities try to maintain their coherence by having a ruling class. In the democratic model, the ruling class is "elected" to "represent" the collective - which never actually happens. THe instant any group becomes defined by a membrane of closure - it becomes a self and will cycle acording to the existential loop in the interest of its own survival. Since it is a meta-self, it has no connection with the physical biosphere and does not see it. These artificial community selves then begin to harvest the entropic potential from teh "citizens" they become evil by the definition stated above.
So, it was asked elsewhere "where do conspiracies come from" they come from communities that get too large. This spawns meta selves that act as parasites on humans. There is no formal cabal - it just happens. They give themselves names and flags later to fortify and close teh membrane surrounding them.
The membrane is very important - it must be porous - if it is hermetic, it will close the system resulting in exponential tensions around the membrane. The trick is to have a membrane which is restrictive enough to inflect the entropic gradient into negentropy - and not so closed that it isolates from it's own super-entropic field. That field will flatline - at the point it flatlines, the entropic gradient supporting the negentropic envelope collapses. You can tell when this is about to happen because the negentropic envelope becomes very narrow and higher - a tower. When it collapses .. it does not tumble-down - it simply becomes infinitely thin by virtue of teh exponents going vertical at the singularity - it then burns-out (often explosively - rupturing the membrane). The universe will not venture beyond a singularity.
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GETTYSBURG, PA – Gettysburg's Alex Zurn had game-bests 23 points and three steals en route to a 69-53 victory over visiting Washington College at Bream Gym in Centennial Conference men's basketball action on Saturday afternoon. The Bullets improve to 6-7 overall and 2-4 in the conference, while the Shoremen drop to 0-13 and 0-6 respectively.
The Bullets led 17-12 with 10:26 remaining in the first half on a Zurn layup before the Shoremen scored the next six points to grab an 18-17 lead with 8:53 left in the first half on a three-pointer by freshman forward Pat Morgan (Havertown, PA/Haverford). After Gettysburg retook the lead at 19-18 with 8:10 left in the first on a Derek Brooks lay-in, Washington scored the next five points to take a 23-19 lead with 7:18 to go in the half on a three-pointer by sophomore guard Stephen Poarch (Middletown, DE/Sanford School). The Shoremen led 28-25 with 5:07 to go in the first on a layup by junior guard Kevin Cunningham (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape) before the Bullets scored the next six points to take a 31-28 lead with 3:36 to go on a Zurn lay-in and would not trail again. After a three-pointer by Morgan evened the score at 31-31 with 2:42 to go in the first, Gettysburg closed out the frame on an 8-0 run to take a 39-31 lead into intermission. A Zurn triple with 28 seconds closed out the scoring in the opening half.
In the second half, the Shoremen got the deficit within four at 42-38 with 16:50 left in the game on a layup by senior forward Charlie McShane (West Deptford, NJ/West Deptford), but that's as close as WC would get. After a McShane triple cut the Bullets lead to 52-47 with 12:41 left in the contest, the Bullets answered with a 12-0 run to take a 64-47 lead with 5:34 remaining in the game on a Zurn trifecta. The closes WC, who trailed by as many as 20, would come the rest of the way would be 15 points.
Brooks added 12 points and Connor Poston chipped in with 10 points for the Bullets. Sango Amolo handed out seven assists to lead all players, while Poston and Zurn each grabbed a team-high six rebounds. Gettysburg shot 63% (27-for-43) from the floor, 50% (4-for-8) from three-point range and 65% (11-for-17) from the foul line. The Bullets held a 33-21 edge on the boards.
McShane scored 22 points to lead the Shoremen, one point off of his career-high. Sophomore guard Sean Flanigan (Wilmington, DE/St. Mark's) handed out a career-best four assists. WC shot 35% from the floor (19-for-55), 32% from behind the arc (8-for-32) and 54% (7-for-13) from the foul line.
Washington had just 14 turnovers, while Gettysburg coughed it up 20 times.
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Today, we will be studying I Corinthians 14:20-25, which is the heart of this particular passage. In this chapter, we have another in the long line of issues with which the Apostle Paul deals in Corinth. Here, he is correcting the carnal Corinthians on the basis of their misuse and perversion of the gift of tongues, or languages.
I apologize to those of you who were here last time, because it is so difficult to get any part of this chapter without getting all of it, but I'll do the best that I can to bring you into the context.
In the New Testament era, the true gift of tongues was the ability to speak a language which was unknown to the speaker but known to someone present. God had a very definite purpose in it, which we'll see later on in this lesson, but in the Corinthian assembly, they had taken the true gift and had twisted it for an untrue use. They also had added a counterfeit gift to the true gift.
It was common in the pagan mystery religions of that day, and I've supported that to you on multiple occasions, for the people to believe that they could enter into a state of frenzy or ecstasy. Consequently, they believed they could slip out of their body and commune on another level with a deity. And when they did that, they would speak to that deity in an unknown language; they would literally be talking the language of the gods. They believed that this ecstatic, self-edifying, supernatural phenomenon was a great act of devotion toward that god.
As was the case of the Corinthian church all the way through the book, every part of the world's system that they knew had come into the church. This area was no different. So basically, what we have in chapter 14 is Paul saying to them, "Number one, you are misusing the true gift, and two, you have brought in this counterfeit thing and doubly confused the issue." They were actually believing that the gift of tongues was speaking in ecstatic speech, ecstatic babel, gibberish, or whatever term you want to use. They were supposedly communing with God in a private prayer language.
So, the Apostle Paul writes this chapter, number one, to dispel the idea that the true gift is that kind of ecstatic gibberish. Number two, he wrote to make sure that when the true gift was exercised, it was exercised properly in the right context to accomplish the right purpose.
I Corinthians 14 is a very urgent chapter for us today because Charismatics are telling us all the time that it is necessary for us to have this experience in order to realize the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit, the full expression of His power in our lives. They're loudly crying out to us to have this experience, so we need to understand exactly what Paul is saying here. The Corinthian church, then, had taken the true gift and twisted its use. They had added to it a counterfeit gift, which just confused everything all the more. So Paul writes this chapter as a corrective, as he has the 13 prior chapters.
Last time, we talked about the position of the gift of tongues. It was secondary, and Paul makes it very clear that the position of the gift of tongues is secondary. Secondly, the purpose of the gift of tongues (which we'll look at today) is as a sign. Thirdly, the procedure for the gift of tongues is systematic. In other words, there is a very careful system in which God has designed this gift to function. We'll consider that next Lord's Day morning.
The second point: the purpose of the gift of languages, or tongues, is as a sign. Now, this is an exceedingly vital area of study, because if we can once and for all determine the purpose of the gift, then we will be very easy to evaluate what's going on today, or at any time in history, relative to this gift. It either fits the biblical purpose or it does not. Consequently, we can determine whether it's legitimate or not.
Now let me begin by reiterating what is often offered as the purpose of tongues, particularly today among our brothers and sisters in Pentecostal and Charismatic fellowships. They tell us that the purpose of tongues is primarily for personal edification and devotion. In other words, they say that it is to be used as a private prayer language because it builds you up and allows you to have devotions with God in a supernatural way, communicating in a language that is your own private language with God. We saw from our last study that that was exactly what the pagans thought about their ecstatic speech: that it was a private, self-building act of devotion to a god. That is precisely what Paul is denying insofar as the true gift is concerned. In a sense, he indicts them for that.
Donald Gee, a well-known Pentecostal, said, "The revealed purposes of the gift of tongues are chiefly devotional, and we do well to emphasize the fact." Larry Christenson, who is a more modern Charismatic Lutheran, says, "One speaks in tongues, for the most part, in his private devotions. This is by far its most important use and value."
They are saying, then, that speaking in tongues is a new way to have your devotions, a new way to edify yourself, a new way to build yourself up, a new way for you to have communion with God and experience something deeper and more meaningful than you could in any other manner.
In I Corinthians 14:1-19, Paul has shown that this is not true. In fact, he chides them for this. I showed you last time the most interesting Greek distinction between the singular use of glossaand the plural use. I showed you why I believe that when it is singular in chapter 14, it references the gibberish of ecstatic speech, and when it is plural, it has reference to languages, the true gift.
So in verse 2, we saw that Paul says, "He that speaks in gibberish, ecstatic speech, like the pagans, speaks not to men but unto a god," which is the literal Greek translation, "And in his spirit he is speaking mysteries." He is saying to them, "You are doing what is done in the mystery religions by people who are speaking to their gods. This is not the design of any spiritual gift, because all spiritual gifts are designed to speak to men or to serve others." In I Corinthians 12:7, Paul says that the gifts were given to profit all. So, they had misused this gift. All gifts are for others; my gift is for you, not me.
All the gifts are to be used to edify one another. The idea of self-edification is a perversion. It is nothing more than speaking religions to a deity, to a god, and not speaking to men, as the gifts of the spirit are designed to do. In I Corinthians 14:4, he again uses the singular (and I'm sure that's why the King James interpreters put 'unknown' in, because they recognized that difference - wherever it is plural, they do not put 'unknown'), "He that speaks in gibberish [the jargon of ecstasy] edifies himself."
Now, he is not telling them to do it for that purpose. We discussed how this concept of edifying, very often in the Corinthian letter, is bad. In other words, it's a bad, self, ego-building edifying. "He that prays this way is just building himself up," is what Paul is saying, and that's wrong. Because no gift is ever designed with the intention of selfish use. My gifts are for you, that's the point.
He says, "You are actually speaking in this gibberish for the purpose of building yourself up. But the truth of the matter is that your understanding is unfruitful, totally fruitless (verse 14), and nobody who hears you can even say, 'Amen' (verse 16). You are totally ignoring the people around you, you are selfish, your own mind is unfruitful, the people around you can't say, 'Amen.' As a result, I'd rather speak five words that others can understand, than 10,000 words in a foreign language" (verse 19). 10,000 isn't literal, it's murio, which is the largest number in the Greek numerical system that had a name. It would be like saying 'quintillion'. He is saying it had no point; self-edification isn't the point here. They were doing it for that, but that isn't his point. He almost seems to agree with them in verse 4 that they are edifying themselves, but that's only kind of tacit, taking them where they are. Then he takes them where they ought to be.
It's like in I Corinthians 6:12, where he says to them, "All things are lawful," and he's quoting their own phrase. In their liberty, they were going around saying, "All things are lawful! All things are lawful! I'm in grace; I can do whatever I want!" He's saying, "Well, all things are lawful," that's where they are. But by the time he gets to verse 18, he says, "Flee fornication." That's where he wants them to be. They may be concluding that all things are lawful, but God isn't. They may be feeling that this thing is edifying them, but God says, "That's not its point." That's the approach he's using.
So he has already dealt in great detail with the fact that tongues were never intended for the purpose of edification. I showed you last time that tongues can't edify the church in any way because the members don't understand what's being said. And even when they are interpreted, it is the gift of interpretation that edifies, not the gift of tongues. Further, tongues can't edify an individual because his mind is unfruitful. It can't edify the church, because no one knows what is being said. If someone is there who speaks that language, and it had its intended use and purpose, it would have to be translated so that it wouldn't be unedifying, so that the church would gain some benefit. But then again, it would be the gift of interpretation, not tongues, which edifies.
It isn't possible, then, that we can conclude that tongues can be defined as a self-edifying prayer language to God. In fact, if you study prayer in the New Testament, you will never find a verse that tells you to pray to God in an unknown language. In fact, when Jesus laid out the model for prayer in Matthew 6:9-13, He said, "Pray this way," and He told them how to pray. There wasn't any gibberish or ecstatic language involved. I certainly don't think that we can come up with a better model than that of our Lord Himself. People say, "But speaking in tongues is a method of praising God in a marvelous, new, free way." My response is this: the greatest time of praise, the greatest amount of praise will be offered in Heaven. Why, then, does I Corinthians 13:8 say that tongues will cease? If it's such a great way to praise, and praise is the very character of Heaven, why would this cease?
So, we can't conclude that the gift of tongues is for self-edification or devotion. That's just a thumbnail sketch of what we discussed last time.
Secondly, others suggest not that it's edification, but that it's for evangelism. Some people say that the gift of tongues in the New Testament was to enable somebody to preach the Gospel in another language. That sounds like a good idea, and I wouldn't deny that somewhere on a mission field, God may have given somebody the ability to speak a language he didn't know in order to give the Gospel to somebody in a very critical situation. However, that doesn't support the idea that the gift of tongues in the New Testament was to preach the Gospel to people who didn't understand. Do you know why? Because there are no illustrations of the gift of tongues being used like that in the whole New Testament.
You say, "What about in Acts 2 on the Day of Pentecost when they all spoke and everybody heard them in their own language?" Yes, but do you know what the multitude heard? They heard them speaking 'the wonderful works of God.' That phrase comes out of Judaism and simply means that they went over the great, historic things that God had done in the Old Testament. Why? To draw the attention of the Jewish crowd so that Peter could stand up and preach the Gospel to them in their language. So, rather than saying that the purpose of the gift of tongues was useful evangelism, you might say that it was a kind of pre-evangelism. It gathered the crowd and then the Gospel was preached.
So, Charismatics have suggested that the gift of tongues is for edification, while others have suggested that it's for evangelism. But those don't really fit the New Testament pattern. Thirdly, it has been suggested that the gift of tongues is the proof of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
In our study of I Corinthians 12, we discussed this at length, the view that the gift of tongues is the proof of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. There are several problems with that. Number one, look at I Corinthians 12:13. Paul writes, "For by one Spirit were we all baptized." How many were baptized? All. Look at verse 30. "Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?" What's the implied answer? No. The Greek form of this verse implies a negative answer; that's not a guess on my part, it's the Greek construction used here. Now notice, all are baptized, but all do not speak in tongues. You cannot equate those two.
Further, I would add this. In Acts 2:38, after Peter preached, he said, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." 3,000 people responded to Peter's sermon that day. Do you know how many of them spoke in tongues? The Bible doesn't say that any of them did.
In Acts 4:31, Luke writes, "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit." Does it say they all spoke in tongues? No! "They spoke the word of God with boldness." In Acts 2 and Acts 4, people were filled, people received the Spirit, but there were no tongues. You can't equate those two. It just doesn't fit.
You say, "John, if speaking in tongues isn't a sign of Spirit baptism, and if it isn't for the purpose of actually proclaiming the Gospel, if it isn't for evangelism, and if it isn't for the purpose of building myself up in a private way, what is the gift of tongues for?" Well, let's look at the text and find out.
Verse 20. "Brethren, be not children [stop being children] in understanding; however, in evil [kakia, general evil] be you children [infants], but in understanding be men." The word 'infants' is a younger word than the first word for children. The first word he used would mean a 5- to 10-year old, the second would mean a 1-year-old or less. "Brothers, stop being children in understanding. However, in evil, be infants. In understanding, be men."
Now this is a rather strong indictment, so Paul starts by calling them 'brethren' to conciliate them a little bit before he hammers them. The admonition, here, suggests that because of their misuse of tongues they were really evil. Let me show you what I mean.
Paul says that the Corinthians were 'children in understanding.' In other words, they hadn't really grown up to understand solid doctrine. They were like Ephesians 4, "Tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine." They didn't use their minds, their minds were unfruitful, just as it says in I Corinthians 14:14. They were not thinking through the right things, the biblical things, the things that they had received out of the revelation of God. Consequently, the Corinthians were 'children in understanding' rather than mature men with minds that grasped the truth.
The Corinthians should have been infants in malice and evil, but they weren't. You say, "What do you mean by that?" Well, a little infant has no evil thoughts or malice toward anybody. A little infant is full of love, gentleness, kindness, tenderness, care, and sensitivity. So Paul is saying, "Why don't you treat each other like that? Why don't you be little infants when it comes to the way you act with each other and be mature in your thinking, instead of being infants in your thinking and mature in your evil?"
You see, because of their selfish exercise of these gifts for the purpose of self-edification and selfish ego-building, they were ignoring the rest of the family of God, they were ignoring the congregation. There was total confusion; there was no room for any real teaching of the Word of God. The people who visited their congregation thought that they were insane; the people who were there couldn't get anything out of it. It was total chaos because everybody did his own thing.
What it really boiled down to was anti-intellectualism in favor of an existential experience, which is basically what we see happening today. A pervasive kind of anti-intellectualism has allowed the Charismatic movement to sweep into the area that the world has provided, the spirit of the age, and accommodate that kind of thinking. Paul says, "Stop being children and treating people unkindly, and start thinking like adults." After having said that and calling them to attention, Paul gives the purpose of tongues. If we can decide what this is, it would really solve our problems.
Verse 21. "In the law it is written, 'With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me,' saith the Lord. Wherefore, tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not. But prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them that believe."
Now if you never learn anything else about tongues, you can be sure about one thing: tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe. You know that. That statement alone is the heart of this chapter. That statement, in and of itself, should call any current so-called tongues to task, to deal with the reality of that statement. It couldn't be any more simple. "It is to them that believe not."
Now basically, the purpose of tongues as a sign is threefold. They are a sign of cursing, a sign of blessing, and a sign of authority. Let me show you number one: a sign of cursing. This is the primary thing. Maybe you've never thought about it this way, but this is, as I see it, what the verses here indicate. Let's look at verse 21 again.
"In the law," which can refer to the Pentateuch or the entire Old Testament, as it often does in Psalm 119, and also in Romans. "In the Old Testament, it is written," then he begins freely quoting Isaiah 28:11-12, "'With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people [referring to Israel]; and yet for all that will they not hear me,' saith the Lord." Then, having stated that Old Testament prophecy of Isaiah to Israel, Paul applies it. "Therefore," he says. "If that was true then, if that was the use in the time of Isaiah, then therefore tongues are," not were, but still are, "For a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not."
So, Paul draws a conclusion from the Old Testament text. The conclusion is that tongues are not for believing people, they are for unbelieving people. Notice this. It says in verse 22, "Tongues are for a sign." Notice the three little words 'for a sign.' In the Greek, that's hosteand hosteindicates purpose unto. The word is not saying that incidentally they are a sign, it is saying that tongues' purpose is as a sign to unbelievers. It is not an incidental thing. That particular expression 'for a sign' appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament, and every time, it means 'purpose.' So the purpose of tongues is for a sign to unbelievers. What unbelievers? Well, the phrase 'this people' in verse 21 is referring to Israel, so tongues are specifically a sign to unbelieving Israel. That is carried right into the Corinthian situation.
Now, let me give you a little bit of background. In Isaiah 28, we find ourselves in the southern kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Hezekiah. The year is approximately 705 B.C. In 722 B.C., seventeen years earlier, the northern kingdom of Israel had been taken and destroyed by the Assyrians as a judgment of God on Israel's unbelief and apostasy. God had come in terrible judgment against the northern kingdom in 722 B.C.
Now in 705 B.C., the southern kingdom of Judah was also behaving in a terrible, disobedient manner. So God spoke to them through the prophet Isaiah to warn them that the same thing that happened to the northern kingdom is going to happen to the southern kingdom because of their unbelief and apostasy. That is the message of Isaiah 28:1-15. It is a warning from the prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah, that they are going to receive the same kind of judgment that the kingdom in the north received. In fact, it will be the Assyrians, or the babbling Babylonians, if you will, who will come in judgment against them.
Now, let's see how Isaiah approaches the problem. In verse 7, he finds the leaders of Israel, the prophets, and the priests, in a drunken stupor. "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way." They had failed to fulfill their function as leaders because they were drunk. Verse 7 continues, "The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink, they err in vision, they stumble in judgment."
Look at the ugliness of verse 8. "For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean." Isaiah finds them at some party in a drunken stupor, having vomited all over the tables. So he unloads his message of terrible rebuke and of coming judgment.
Do you know what their reaction is? They mock him, scorn him, chide him, and deride him. Look at what they say in verse 9, "Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?" In other words, "Who could he ever teach? Babies!" Why? "Because he always goes, 'Precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.' He must think we're babies. He keeps repeating the same simple stuff over and over again."
So, they mock him. They don't appreciate his attitude, so they begin to sneer at the prophet and call his teaching simple and childish. Does he think they're babies, that he's got to repeat this same stuff over and over? But they never heard him. So, in verses 11-12, Isaiah speaks for God, and says, "For with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people. To whom He said, 'This is the rest by which you may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing; yet they would not hear.'"
In other words, God says, "You wouldn't hear the simple, repeated, childlike message of Isaiah, so I'm going to talk to you in a language you'll never understand." He was referring to the babbling Babylonians who had already encompassed their city, who would take them out of their land, destroy them, slaughter them, and burn them. And when they began to hear that unintelligible language of Babylonia that they couldn't understand, they would know that the judgment of God had fallen. It happened in 588 B.C. Because of Judah's unbelief and apostasy, God brought a terrible judgment.
This wasn't the only time they had been warned. Back in the fifteenth century before Christ, Moses gave the following warning in Deuteronomy 28:49: "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand." I believe that this warning could most likely have reference to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
So, in the fifteenth century, God warned them that when they heard a strange language it would mean judgment. And in the eighth century, God warned them through the prophet Isaiah that when they heard a strange language it would mean judgment. There was also a similar warning in the sixth century by Jeremiah, that great weeping prophet, "'I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel,' says the LORD; 'it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.'" Jeremiah 5:15.
In the Old Testament, God had clearly pointed out to the people of Israel that when they were going to be judged there would be a sign. That sign was that they would hear a language they couldn't understand. Do you see?
When Paul quotes Isaiah 28 in I Corinthians 14, he is saying, "Look, just as when Moses, Isaiah, and Jeremiah said it, those languages are a sign to the unbeliever that God is about to act in judgment." That's what he's saying. "But what did it mean in Paul's generation?" you ask. Well, when they began to speak those languages on the Day of Pentecost, every Jew should have known that the judgment of God was eminent. Only 30 years later, in A.D. 70, the Roman Emperor came in and wiped out Jerusalem. And with it, the sacrificial system of Judaism, which ceased when the temple was destroyed and has never been restored. They should have known the judgment of God was going to fall.
If the judgment of God fell on the unbelief and apostasy of the northern kingdom in 722 B.C., and if the judgment of God fell on the unbelief and apostasy of the southern kingdom in 586 B.C., then believe me, it will certainly fall on a nation that turns its back on and crucifies its own Messiah in the first century. It did. It seems to me that once the destruction of Jerusalem came in A.D. 70, the whole purpose for the gift of languages ceased. That's what the text says; that's not just my opinion. The gift of tongues was never intended to be something for a Christian, it was for a Jew who didn't believe, so that he might know God was going to act in judgment.
In Luke 13:35 Jesus said, "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." And in Luke 21:20, He carried it a step further. He said, "And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that its desolation is near." Then in verse 24, "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shalt be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles." In other words, Jesus was saying, "Hey, judgment is coming!"
All throughout the ministry of the apostles, judgment was coming on Israel. Jesus preached it; and the sign of languages again showed it. I think that is why Paul refers to Isaiah 28. In spite of that, at the end of verse 21, he says that they wouldn't listen. They wouldn't listen.
This purpose for the gift of tongues can be traced and verified in the book of Acts. In Acts 2, many unbelieving Jewish people were present. And later on in the book of Acts, when speaking in tongues occurred (in chapters 8, 10, and 19), even though in each case, those people become believers, yet the occurrence of this same phenomenon becomes a reinforcement of the reality to the Jews who saw and would tell their countrymen what had happened. Because in Acts 8, 10, and 19, where tongues occurred, there were always believing Jews present who would come back and report that they had seen the same thing.
So it was not only to link those new elements of the church with the Pentecost occasion and with the Jews there, but also to reinforce to the Jewish nation that indeed, God was going to judge. So first of all, the gift of tongues is a sign of cursing. I want to add something to that. It's also a sign of blessing. This is what I call a residual benefit of number one. Number one is the primary purpose for this gift: cursing. I haven't given you all the study on this, but just some of it.
The tongues of Pentecost were saying, "Look, God is not going to work through just one nation any longer. God is no longer going to speak just one language. God is no longer going to favor just one people. God is going to go to the world, and through the world, build His church." The Kingdom for all nations. You know, the very fact that they spoke in all those languages was God's way of saying, "It's all over for the uniqueness of Israel. I'm going to speak in the world's languages and build that church that is hidden in the Old Testament."
So tongues speak primarily as a sign of a curse on Israel. But notice, no sooner do I say that than I have to say they speak, too, of the blessing that is going to come to the whole world. You see, as Christ turned away from a rebellious people, He opened His arms to the world. So the gift of tongues becomes a sign of blessing, residually. Paul speaks to this issue in Romans 11:12 when he talks about the fall of the Jews becoming the riches of the world. Jerusalem was destroyed and Israel was temporarily set aside and yet, in their being set aside, we became beneficiaries as God reached out to us.
God's New Testament apostles and God's New Testament prophets suddenly burst out, spontaneously declaring the wonderful works of God in every language. Read Acts 2. This was an unmistakable sign that a transition had come - a curse on one hand, but a blessing on the other. Because even Jews could still come, couldn't they? 3,000 Jews were saved on the Day of Pentecost. So in a sense, while being a judicial sign of a curse, residually it was also a sign of blessing.
Thirdly, it was a sign of authority. This is tied up in it as well. Who were the great messengers who preached this transition? Who were the men of God who spoke of the curse and the judgment? Who were the men of God who spoke of the blessing to come to all nations? They were none other than the apostles and the prophets. And it was to them that God gave the ability to speak these languages as an authenticating, validating sign that what they were saying was indeed the truth. Because to the Jewish mind, the idea that God would act this way would be so shocking, so shattering, so incomprehensible, so stupendous, that there must be some kind of reinforcement that what they were saying was true. So God gave them the ability to speak these languages.
In I Corinthians 14:18, Paul said, "I speak with tongues more than you all." The gift of tongues authenticated Paul's position as an apostle, as well as the other sign gifts that he had. He even said, in II Corinthians 12:12, that he had, "All the signs of an apostle: signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds." So, the gift of tongues was a sign of authority to those who preached the message of transition.
A good way to remember this threefold purpose of the gift of tongues is to remember it as the ABC's of the purpose of tongues: A (authority), B (blessing), and C (cursing). The purpose of tongues is not private devotions, evangelism, or a proof of Spirit baptism. The purpose of tongues was unique. Once the event came, the transition was made, and the church was born, the sign was no longer necessary.
When I take a trip somewhere, I rely on signs to tell me how close I am to my destination. For example, if I'm driving north from L.A. to Sacramento, the first sign I see may indicate that I have 300 miles to go. The next sign may say, "Sacramento, 200 miles," then, "Sacramento, 150 miles," then, "Sacramento, 30 miles." Once I arrived in Sacramento, however, the signs stop. Why? Because the purpose for the signs, as they pointed ahead to something, ceased once the destination was reached. Well, tongues were a sign. They weren't a thing in and of themselves, they were a sign. A sign is to point to something. They pointed to a curse of God upon Israel. And once the curse came, the sign was no longer necessary.
Beloved, I don't have an axe to grind. I'm just trying to understand this the best I can. In verse 22 he says, "But prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them who believe." Boy, this is a long-range thing here. This isn't just for an unbelieving nation, this is for believing people through all the years of the Church Age.
In fact, the New American Standard Version has the phrase, "Prophecy is for a sign," in verse 22. They put it in italics, indicating that it's not in the original, but it's an unfortunate translation. Prophecy is not a sign! Prophesying isn't pointing to something, it is something in itself. Prophesying is the thing which edifies. Verse 3 says, "But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort." Verse 4 says, "He that prophesies edifies the church." And verse 1 says, "Seek that you may prophesy." You say, "What does it mean to prophesy?" It simply means 'to proclaim the Word of God.'
The Corinthian church was characterized by hysterical, selfish, self-centered, ego-building confusion. So Paul says, "Cut all that stuff out. Tongues have a specific purpose, for a specific time, to accomplish a specific thing. But when you meet together, seek to prophesy and proclaim the truth." It's far more important to preach the Word.
Did you know that there is absolutely no record in the entire Bible of anything ever said by anybody in tongues? Do you know why? Because it was a sign that was meant to pass away. It had no lasting value, even in a revelatory sense. But on the other hand, Peter calls the entire Bible 'a more sure word of prophecy.' You see, there's just no comparison between something that's a sign and something that is the reality.
So, tongues are a sign to unbelieving Jews, attached irretrievably to one point in redemptive history. They served well to show that Christianity was not to be distinctly Jewish, but worldwide. They served to corroborate and authenticate the speakers and the messengers who brought that message. And they served to show Israel that they had again rejected God in unbelief and apostasy.
People say, "Well, don't you think that tongues could have a purpose today?" We don't need to say that again today. If tongues were around, they would still have to have the same purpose. And what point would there be in signifying today that God is moving away from Israel to open the Gospel to the nations? He did that 2,000 years ago. That's fairly clear to us, isn't it? We don't need more information on that. It's already done.
Now, having stated the purpose of tongues, watch how Paul relates it to the assembling together of the Corinthians in verse 23.
"If, therefore," and what is the 'therefore' there for? To take you to the next step based on what was just said. Since this is the whole purpose of tongues, "The whole church be come together into one place," and I would just like to mention that there are some people who think the church shouldn't meet together except in homes and little private groups. This verse indicates that the church does come together in one place. "And all speak with tongues," and this is the true gift; it's plural here. If everyone used the true gift of languages, do you know what would happen? "There would come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?"
Why would an unbeliever coming into the Corinthian assembly think that they were mad? Well, there are two reasons. Reason number one: if the person was a Gentile, he wouldn't understand the sign of tongues. Reason number two: even if the person was a Jewish unbeliever, the true gift of tongues wouldn't make any sense to him because of the chaotic way in which it was exercised. I tried to point out to you last time that that gift was used in Acts 2 when someone there understood the language. In verse 27, Paul states that when the true gift is used correctly, there would only be two or three people in the entire church who would speak in tongues, and each one would do it in order, not all at the same time.
So, when an unbelieving Gentile came into the Corinthian assembly, he said, "These people are mad!" The Greek word is mainomaiand it is a word that means 'frenzied.' Plato used this word to describe the ecstatic experiences that were involved in pagan worship. In other words, an unbelieving Gentile would enter the Corinthian church and say, "Hey, this is no different than the temple of Diana." And an unbelieving Jew who entered the church would say the same thing. You say, "But tongues were supposed to be a sign to the Jews." Yes, but if it was done in a chaotic fashion where everyone did it, it wouldn't mean anything to them, even if it was the true gift used in the wrong way.
So, the gift of tongues was a specific gift, to be used at a specific time, in a specific way, with a specific person in mind, with a specific intent. Apart from that, its significance is nonexistent. "On the other hand," says Paul, "instead of speaking in tongues in your assembly, prophesy."
Look at verses 24-25. "But if all prophesy [proclaim, prophemi, speak before others, speak the Word of God], and there comes in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all. And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth."
Tongues are useless to edify either the church or an individual, and they're useless to evangelize. They were simply a pre-evangelism sign to a nation that it had been cursed. So Paul says, "Rather than speaking in tongues, make sure that you are proclaiming God's Word to edification, exhortation, and consolation. Then, when an unbeliever comes in, first, he will be convicted, he will feel guilty. Then he will be judged. The verdict will be rendered that he feels guilty because he is guilty. Then, all of a sudden, the secrets of his heart will be made manifest; his sin will become apparent. It will be unmasked. So then, in humiliation, with a sense of self-condemnation and self-hatred, he will bow on his face and worship God, and say, 'I have found the true God here in your midst.'"
In other words, "You're going to get results if you prophesy." He will see God, and say, "God is here." Beloved, don't we want that to be the case in our fellowship? Don't we want the people who come into our fellowship to see God? We don't want confusion. We want to be obedient to God's pattern. This is a thrilling promise to a church that exalts the proclamation of the Word of God. The impact will be tremendous. But a service of tongues will produce sterility in the congregation and confusion among the visitors.
The gift of tongues was very limited and very regulated, for a day and time that has long since passed. And what we're seeing today, I'm afraid, and I say this with love, but I'm afraid we are seeing the Corinthian perversion all over again. Now, I'm not questioning their motives, I'm just saying that they have the same approach to an individual, private prayer language that was characteristic of the pagan mystery religions. Beloved, I want to exalt the Word of God and lift it up, for therein lie the answers to everything. It is the more sure word of prophecy.
I hope you're devoted to the truth. Someone who I've been patiently discipling for three years called me recently and said, "John, I just had the greatest spiritual breakthrough I've ever had. Something just happened in my life that has dramatically transformed me. I finally understand what you've been saying to me for three years. I want the Word of God so much that it's consuming me." Of course, I was ecstatic on the other end of the line. Then he said, "I just want you to know that if somebody told me I would have to choose between my Bible and food and water, I would tell them to take the food and water and leave my Bible. That's the sustenance that I must have to live." Well, that's great, isn't it? God help all of us to be people of the Book - not seeking the experience but seeking the truth; fruitful in our understanding; and ministering to each other that which edifies and builds up. Let's pray.
Father, it's not easy to talk about these things, because so many dear people don't see this the way we do. In love and kindness to them, we don't accuse them of loving you or not seeking the best, but maybe just not knowing how because they've not been taught properly. Father, we pray that You would somehow use us to help those who are confused in this area. Help us, most of all, to be a loving blessing to all those who are in Your family. Thank You for the great love we've shared this morning in this hour: great music, fellowship, and the truth of Your Word. Thank You for every dear person here - every mom, dad, husband, wife, young person, single person, child. Father, I pray that in each life, the Spirit will bear fruit that remains, that Jesus may receive the glory. It's in His name that we pray, Amen.
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Good night. Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite.
That saying is a reminder that there's no guarantee of a good night's sleep just because you're ready to hit the sack.
Which is unfortunate, because you need sleep to recharge your body and your mind so you can feel good the next day.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, the average person requires seven hours of restful sleep every 24 hours.
Those Sleep Foundation people need to wake up!
The hard reality is your sleep is full of interruptions. And even when you can piece together what fragmented sleep you manage to get, seven hours is almost impossible.
The first of many problems is that the three basic sleeping positions are flawed:
The "dead body" position has the sleeper lifeless on their back — until they're awakened by their own ear-shredding snore from the stuttered air intake across their flapping tonsils.
The "blade" position has the sleeper on their side — until they're awakened by a numbed arm having lost circulation under the weight of their body.
The "belly flop" position has the sleeper face down — until they're awakened by a painful crick in their neck.
Then, if you sleep next to someone else, you have to contend with their disastrous sleeping habits:
And then there is the notorious "bad dream" that wakes you up wondering whether you really did forget to complete that high school math class, whether you really did just talk to a dead relative or whether you really did just have sex with a family friend.
What a nightmare!
Plus, let's also not leave out the thunderclap that rocks the house, the frightened child who climbs into your bed or the neighbor whose booming stereo assaults your ears.
Yes, it may be bedtime. But someone or something is going to crash your slumber party.
Rob McKenzie is a professor of communication studies at East Stroudsburg University.


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Following the announcement of her supporting role in the anticipated Entourage film, Nina Agdal is now back on our radar courtesy of this set of images which were recently posted to Terry Richardson's diary. Shot in the photographer's New York studio, the Danish model can be seen above in a casual black tank top, pink bra and some very, very nice jean shorts.
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Ground is being broken next week at two parks that will offer new amenities to Hallandale Beach residents.
B.F. James Park, at 101 NW Ninth St, will undergo a $5 million renovation that will have as its centerpiece a "walk-in, beach-style swimming pool" that includes swim lanes and a "five-foot deep section for exercise," according to a news release from the city government.
In addition to the pool, there will be two new basketball courts, an open play area, exercise stations, and a covered playground. The swimming and basketball areas will be lighted for evening use.
The new B.F. James Park is expected to open in June 2014.
The renovation at Joseph Scavo Park, at 900 Three Islands Blvd., will cost $2.6 million and will include two off-leash dog parks to separate large and small breeds, a walking trail with exercise stations, and a covered playground and sitting areas.
The new Joseph Scavo Park is expected to open in March 2014.
Back-to-back kick-off ceremonies will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday at B.F. James Park, and 6 p.m. Wednesday at Joseph Scavo Park.
The two will be the first parks to be renovated through Hallandale Beach's Citywide Parks Master Plan, which was first adopted by the city in 2010.


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Utah occupancy levels and the average daily room rate for hotels and motels were both up slightly in 2011.
According to the Utah edition of the Rocky Mountain Lodging Report, the occupancy rate was 62.7 percent, up from 59.7 percent in 2010.
"It was absolutely a better year," said Michael Johnson, executive director of the Utah Hotel and Lodging Association. "We were up in almost every segment. Almost every community saw a better occupancy and better rate."
He said corporate travel and incentive travel programs were improving, which has benefitted lodging owners.
"We're not seeing enormous growth, but it is going in the right direction," said Johnson.
The average daily room rate was $95.69, compared with $93.29 for 2010. Revenue per daily room rose, as well, to $60.04 for 2011, compared with $55.70 in 2010.
Salt Lake City hotels and motels fared the best in 2011, with a 69.6 percent occupancy rate and average daily room rate of $93.65.
Ogden occupancy was at 60.7 percent, Cedar City at 53 percent, St. George at 60.1 percent, Logan and Utah County at 58.1 percent, and other Utah cities and towns at 61.2 percent.
By comparison, Utah mountain resorts struggled a bit, although they were still up from 2010. The occupancy average was 47.4 percent in 2011, compared with 43.3 percent in 2010, while rates moved up only slightly, to $167.53 from $166.53.
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AAA gives diamond awards for hotels, restaurants
The Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City and The Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City have earned Five Diamond Awards from AAA.
The diamonds are awarded to establishments that AAA says provide refined, stylish and upscale physical attributes to guests, as well as extensive amenities and services. Restaurants are chosen for the distinctive dining experiences that feature creative chefs, complex menus, fresh top-quality ingredients and expert staffs.
The ratings are based on the evaluations of professionally trained inspectors using published guidelines to conduct unannounced property evaluations.
Four Diamond hotels in Utah are Midway's Blue Boar Inn, Invited Inn Bed and Breakfast and Johnson Mill Bed and Breakfast; Midway's Zermatt Resort and Spa; Moab's Sorrel River Ranch Hotel and Spa Resort; Park City's Goldener Hirsch Inn, Grand Summit Resort Hotel, Hyatt Escala and St. Regis Deer Valley Resort; Salt Lake City's Hotel Monaco, Little America Hotel and Marriott City Center; and St. George's Green Valley Spa and Resort.
Utah restaurants given the AAA Four Diamond Award are Midway's Blue Boar Inn; Orem's Chef's Table; Park City's Goldener Hirsch, Grappa Italian, River Horse on Main, The Glitretind, and the Mariposa; Sundance's The Tree Room; Salt Lake City's Bambara, Forage, Log Haven and Paris Bistro; and Sandy's La Caille.


text: Plaid / tartan patterns have seen many an adaption since we first penned guides to it in 2009 and 2010. Like so many trends from that period, the pattern gets a whole new lease of life amongst fall 2013's fashion trends, stemming on from the trend it was in spring and evolving further to embrace bold new styling choices. To find out how to wear plaid, in the most fashion-approved manner, continue reading after the break. Don't forget that if you'd like to keep up to date with all of the fashion trends and inspiration on how to wear them, to subscribe to Fashionising.com's newsletter or follow us on Facebook. Click the thumbnails for full pictures Pictures: More > Plaid in fall 2013: what's new. Plaids have been carrying on as a trend for several years running, through both the cold seasons and spring / summer. So where have the patterns evolved to for the rest of this year? The laundry bag check. Louis Vuitton ventured into sending a laminated check-print laundry bag down the runway back in 2007, and while that fact is largely forgotten, Celine's repurposing of the woven plaid into skirts, funnel-neck tops and outerwear won't be. At least, not until well after the season ends. Vuitton's bag was a little too literal (read: too much like the ones you could pick up at a dollar store) but Celine's fabric oozes minimalistic luxury. Plaid at Celine, F/W '13. Grungy plaids. The revival of grunge as a fashion trend hasn't left plaid unaccounted for. In spring it was all about plaid or checked shirts layered over or tied around the waist. While that'll hold true for fall / winter 2013, on the runway it was more of a refined, wintery take with a grungy twist. Plaid shirts or coats paired wither leather and slouchy sweaters aught to do it. Grungy plaids at 3.1 Phillip Lim & Saint Laurent, F/W '13. Cosy plaids. Stella McCartney's autumn / winter collection epitomised another key way of wearing tartan this fall: cosy and blanket-like. Oversized coats and fluffy knitted wool and mohair sweaters couldn't feel more right for staying warm on winter days. Plaid knits at Stella McCartney & Jil Sander, F/W '13. Head to toe plaids. Another evolution of tartan patterns for fall / winter 2013 is the willingness to go all out. Head-to-toe plaids were spotted on a number of runways, and the strongest looks were always the ones incorporating blocks of different yet complimentary patterns. Go for plaids in different size checks but in a similar colour palette for a harmonious overall look. All over plaids at Emilia Wickstead & Tommy Hilfiger, F/W '13. Plaid mix: expect the unexpected. Other than the overriding themes above, the key to wearing plaids in fall 2013 is to wear them in unexpected ways. A school girl skirt still works wonders, for example, but doubly so when paired with something entirely contrasting. Try: Experimenting with print mixing, like tartan mixed with floral (see Emilia Wickstead below) or tartan clashed against leopard print (as seen at Blugirl – you'll find examples in the gallery above.) Contrasting a classic, sophisticated check-print tailored piece with a neon bright colour or loud graphic print. As seen at Karen Walker. Clashing soft plaids with contrasting textures like sequins, metallics or embellishments. Plaid contrasts at Emilia Wickstead, No. 21, and Karen Walker, F/W '13. Tartan & plaid: more inspiration. For more ideas and inspiration of how to style plaid in fall 2013 (and beyond), click on the thumbnails and peruse the gallery. You'll find looks from various designers who used tartan on the runway this season. Houndstooth ahoy, it must be Hilfiger: street style gallery (13 Feb 2014)Tilda Lindstam and the tartan mini Grunged up layering Clemence Poesy cosy at Chanel Red and black check: Gizzi Erskine Eniko layers up in studs & plaids for AnOther Magazine Herchcovitch Fall 2010: embellished tartan Coco Rocha for Liz Claiborne Fall 09/10 Campaign Plaid trend street style: Stockholm, Sweden Street Style: more of the Plaid/Tartan trend Street Style: Plaid/Tartan Trend 2009 Katie Holmes wears the tartan/plaid trend Mischa Barton wears the plaid trend Kate Moss in Balmain tartan, skinny pants Plaid: the trend in the past Here's what we said about the plaid clothing trend last season: Changing the way the Scottish staple is worn, plaid / tartan in spring / summer 2012 comes with a huge dose of the vintage along with sensuality, layering and colour. Forget the red and black checks of 2009 / 2010, as this spring tartan / plaid is all about testing the waters with new fabrics and colour palettes all the while paying homage to femininity. Plaid from Marc Jacobs Take a look how it was presented across the runways. First up in New York, Marc Jacobs showed his love for the Scottish kilt and drop-waist via his spring / summer collection, where plaid-printed sheers with a modernist shine layered over chemise and crop tops. The play between a traditionally winter pattern and a summer weight is to be expected – there's a large winter-cum-summer motif playing through fashion this season – and so it comes as no surprise that Rachel Comey's also continued the see-through meets plaid by way of kaftans. For Comey it was less about the vintage, 1950s appeal of Jacobs and more about loosely fitted maxis which give you options should you wish to approach the plaid / tartan trend with a relaxed twist. Plaid from Jil Sander Jil Sanders' collection was another to play to 2012's love of all things vintage, introducing a figurative Grace Kelly to plaid in a modern world where feminism meets quintessential sophistication. Sheer and crisp chiffon in summery shades of lilac, blue and mint green plaid became the highlight of the collection. Tartan clothing from House of Holland For those of you not wanting to wear the trend with a strictly vintage twist you still have options. An overdose of pastel-hued tartan was seen in House of Holland's spring / summer 2012 collection, adding a rock heritage to a label still relatively young and with the attitude to prove it. But here the real symphony of spring trends was seen on a single outfit. The cheeky layering of A-line skirts over tapered pants was all in tartan. Elsewhere it was teamed with a see-through mesh top and a visible metallic bra with animal print collars. You see what's happening here – plaid / tartan is being styled through a whole mix of trends. It doesn't have to be vintage and some interpretations might not translate 100 per cent across your wardrobe, but there are certainly elements you can still adapt. The tartan / plaid trend for your spring / summer 2012 wardrobe is more to do with the fabrics and how you layer it, as opposed to the cuts. You want something light, verging on sheer, for the summer months. Colour wise, look for pastel shades and steer away from the clichéd red and black checked combination. Plaid for autumn / fall 2012 When the days get shorter and the mercury drops, tartan / plaid will remain dominated by one idea: vintage revivalism. Looking at the autumn (fall) / winter 2012 collections, Corrie Nielson presented plaid by way of midi-length tartan skirts and pyjama pants in a collection of shades of red, green, black and white. There's definitely an air of the vintage to it, but Nielson's collection sits differently to those of spring / summer 2012. In spring / summer 2012 tartan has a 50s / 60s air, Nielson instead gives it a much earlier vibe. And she's not alone. Plaid dress from Ruffian Ruffian also made a statement with their countryside adaptation of plaid. Wide-legged trousers, A-line coats and immaculately tailored wide-legged pants highlight the collection, but the use of plaid is discreet. It has been panelled with plain-woven fabrics and strips of red, copper and military green performing a 'peek-a-boo' with the otherwise repetitive prints. With tartan / plaid for autumn / fall 2012 , the change in fabric is a given alteration, but the change in the silhouette for the season is what is most prominent. As 2012 closes and 2013 opens, tartan / plaid moves away from its mid-20th century overtones, looks to an earlier period, and weaves in a spark of femininity and the season's soft androgynous silhouette. This pattern trend is most viable here, as plaid is essentially an adaptation from the men's wardrobe. For fall 2012, don't just wear a thick plaid button shirt with skinny jeans and a trench coat. Reinvent with the way you include plaid in your wardrobe. Go bold with plaid print pants or accessorise with tartan scarfs, shoes, collars or bags. Layer with heavier tartan items and don't be afraid to wear print on print. One plaid for all seasons The curated wardrobe allows for trend pieces to be carried from one season to the next. So how to do that with tartan / plaid? The tartan pantsuit, see Jil Sander for an example, can be an ideal for both summer and winter; wear it in solidarity for summer and layer with heavier plaid overcoats, capes or wraps in winters. While the plaid / tartan silhouette evolves away from 50s / 60s vintage, that's not to say that you can't continue to wear the look into 2012 – it mightn't dominate the trend, but the appeal of all things vintage will remain. For example, plaid high-waist skirts, '60s-style dresses and tapered pants are the amongst the looks that can travel with you for the next 12 months. Some tips then; When buying plaid for your wardrobe, keep in mind the fabric you're choosing and its wearability. Sheer silk, chiffon and other transparent fabrics are great for the heat, but if you spend the majority of your time in wet and cold regions, you might consider looking at heavier cloths as an option. Layering, be it in spring or fall, is a huge supplement to this trend. See our guide to summer layering for more ideas. Plaid pencil skirts are worth an investment, irrespective of what season you're in. The look can always be updated by pairing it with other trends from that particular season. 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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Jurickson Profar has homered in his first career at-bat for the Texas Rangers.
The 19-year-old hit a 2-1 pitch from Cleveland starter Zach McAllister an estimated 388 feet over the right-field wall as Texas' No. 9 hitter in the third inning on Sunday.
Profar became a surprise starter at second base when Ian Kinsler came up with a stiff back before the game.
Profar is the first player born in 1993 to play in a major league game. He hit .281 with 14 homers and 62 RBIs at Double-A Frisco. He homered in the Futures Game in July in Kansas City during All-Star week.
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A pleural effusion is a buildup of extra fluid in the pleural space, which is the space between the edge of the lungs and the chest wall. About half of people with cancer develop a pleural effusion. More than 75% of people with a malignant pleural effusion have lymphoma or cancers of the breast, lung, or ovary. Although a malignant pleural effusion is treatable, it can be a serious, potentially life-threatening condition.
Cancer growing in the pleural space causes a malignant pleural effusion. This condition is considered a sign of metastatic cancer, or cancer that has spread to other areas of the body. Therefore, most people with a pleural effusion are referred to hospice care.
Relieving side effects, also called symptom management, palliative care, or supportive care, is an important part of cancer care and treatment. Talk with your health care team about any symptoms you experience, including any symptoms of malignant pleural effusion or a change in symptoms.
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- A chest x-ray (a picture of the inside of the body), which shows the buildup of fluid
- Computed tomography (CT or CAT) (an imaging test that creates a three-dimensional picture of the inside of the body with an x-ray machine).
- Ultrasound (an imaging test that uses sound waves to create a picture of the inside of the body).
- Thoracentesis (the removal and analysis of fluid from the pleural cavity with a needle)
A pleural effusion often requires treatment in a hospital or clinic. The most common treatment is to drain the malignant pleural fluid. This may be done in several ways:
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- The insertion of a catheter (a small tube placed temporarily into the pleural space) that allows you or your family member to drain the fluid into a bottle as needed or directed, or shunt (a device used to bypass or divert fluid from one place to another) to drain excess fluid.
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MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - Over 100 people attended a memorial service in Milwaukee Sunday for Zina Haughton.
She and two others were killed a month ago Wednesday when her estranged husband Radcliffe stormed into the spa in Brookfield where she was working.
Her brother, Elvin Daniel, said he would meet soon with state legislators to push for a bill which he calls "Zina's Law." It would require domestic abuse suspects to wear GPS bracelets, so police and victims can track their movements.
A judge had ordered Radcliffe Haughton to stay away from his wife under a restraining order issued 3 days before the slayings. And even though the judge ordered Radcliffe to give up his weapons, he bought a gun from a private dealer the day before the shootings.
Two days after that, two Democratic state lawmakers called for tougher gun laws against domestic abusers – even though advocates on both sides of the gun control debate said it would not have stopped the killer from obtaining his weapon.
Radcliffe Haughton killed his wife Zina, Cary Robuck, and Maelyn Lind on October 21st – and he wounded 4 other women in the spa before turning the gun on himself.


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Do you have current reasons for living?"
"I hope I'll get better. You can't get better if you're not alive ..."
"Do you have doubts things are going to improve?"
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"Do you believe your doctor when he says you'll get better?"
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In a small windowless office in Baltimore's VA Medical Center, study coordinator Aaron Jacoby took notes on the state of Laura Riley's emotional well-being. The 28-year-old doctoral student, with his Palm Pilot efficiency, and the 46-year-old veterinarian, with her faded jeans and penchant for irony, were determined but awkward partners in a scientific duet. Week after week, they worked from the same set of questions. Week after week, they labored to determine whether the patient was getting better.
It was July 2001. Laura Riley suffered from bipolar disorder, a deadly mental illness that had caused her to give up her veterinary practice in large animal medicine the year before. Now she was trying extreme therapy: A pocket-watch-sized generator, surgically implanted in the upper left side of her chest, was sending regular stimulation to the part of her brain controlling mood. Dubbed the "brain pacemaker," the vagus nerve stimulator was being studied in clinical trials. Researchers hoped it would help stabilize the moods of patients for whom other treatments had not worked.
Laura's illness first appeared in 1997 after she stopped drinking. In the four years since her diagnosis, she had tried more than 30 medications and a course of electroconvulsive therapy. She had spent more than 100 days in psychiatric hospitals fighting suicidal depression.
Any improvement in her condition seemed worth the risk of serving as a medical guinea pig.
While all study participants were implanted with vagus nerve stimulators, only certain devices were activated during the acute phase of the trial. Jacoby did not know whether Laura was among the participants whose vagus nerve stimulators had been "turned on." Officially, Laura did not know, either. But a strange new sensation coursing through her throat eliminated any doubt. Every few minutes, when the device went off, Laura felt electrical impulses roll up her neck like a "million little air bubbles." They prickled, made her feel like coughing. It didn't hurt, but it wasn't pleasant. She supposed it felt like those buzzers people use for surprise handshakes.
The stimulator also made her voice quiver periodically, like a bad connection on a telephone. Before the interviews with Jacoby, protocol required Laura's device to be turned "off" by another researcher to eliminate any tell-tale signs that might bias the study. After the questions, she would be switched "on" again.
Laura realized having the device in her body was a crap shoot. It was like tinkering around under the hood of a car, trying to pull the right wire or bang the right component, until the engine started. Were the charges frequent enough? Did they last long enough? Were they too strong? No one knew. It was possible that the stimulator could even make her illness worse.
Once again, she was navigating uncharted waters. But this time the season was on her side; unlike the short, dark days of winter, summer was usually kind.
Laura began each research session tackling a lengthy list of questions ranging from the banal to the painfully personal. Clipboard on her lap, she checked off little boxes that described the severity of her aches and pains, her sad feelings and panic symptoms, her irritability and hopefulness during the previous seven days. Did she wake up too early? Sleep too late? Eat too much? Too little? How well could she concentrate, make decisions? She pondered her vision of the future and her ability to feel pleasure. She tried to remember how frequently she had thought about death, about suicide, about sex.
In their interviews, Jacoby would go over similar material in greater depth. The questionnaire he used, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, was developed in 1960 by British psychiatrist Max Hamilton. It was still considered a "gold standard" for assessing subtle mood changes in depression trials.
Laura couldn't remember some things, like how many times she sighed each day. And there were other topics -- like how often she thought about suicide -- that she didn't want to discuss. It was hard enough to talk about those things with her psychiatrist, Mark Crandall, who knew her intimately. Here, she was a color-coded binder in a clinical community of individuals known to posterity only by their numbers.
When she could, Laura chose to look at the bright side.
Finding the light in the shadows
Facing down the 'Black Dog'
The devastating illness that altered her life also gave Laura Riley new resolve - and skills - to do battle with it.
Laura Riley, who suffers from bipolar disorder, has found that the changing seasons deeply affect her, and she dreads the long, dark winter months that can put her in the hospital. (Sun photo by Jed Kirschbaum / June 2, 2002)


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The Human Connectome Project: Progress and Prospects
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David C. Van Essen is Alumni Endowed Professor in the Anatomy and Neurobiology Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Along with Kamil Ugurbil, he is principal investigator of the Human Connectome Project, a $30 million NIH grant to map brain circuitry in a large population of healthy adults using cutting-edge neuroimaging methods. Van Essen's physiological and anatomical studies of macaque visual cortex provide many insights into functional specialization within this distributed hierarchical system. He has pioneered the use of surface-based atlases for visualizing and analyzing cortical structure, function, development, and connectivity and for making comparisons across studies and across species. His tension-based theory of morphogenesis accounts for how and why the cortex gets its folds. His studies of human cerebral cortex provide insights regarding normal variability, abnormalities in specific diseases and patterns of cortical development.
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