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By ROGER TEEL, 20th Support Command (CBRNE)May 25, 2009
When 30-year Army veteran Command Sgt. Maj. Roger Parker Jr., retires from active duty this month, he will say he has no regrets.
"No regrets at all," Parker said during a recent interview.
Parker's final Army assignment was as senior enlisted advisor, 22nd Chemical Battalion (Technical Escort), Aberdeen Proving Ground. He said he took the assignment to be near his parents, Roger Sr., and Delores Parker of Annapolis, Md.
Parker passed the 22nd Chemical Battalion sword of responsibility for the last time to Command Sgt. Maj. Raymund Dimatulac April 17. Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Matthew Mingus officiated the change of responsibility ceremony.
Parker said the Army has been a guiding light, a force that took hold of him at an Annapolis recruiting station in May 1979.
"I wanted to go into the Air Force, and was waiting for the Air Force recruiter after I took my test. My scores were pretty good, too," Parker, 49, recalled with more than a hint of pride. "The Air Force guy said he'd be right back, and then the Army guy walked by...
"'What are you doing here'' he asked. His name was Wilson. He walked away, then came back and asked, 'Is Roger Parker your father''
"I said, 'Yes sir,' and he started telling me what the Army had to offer. Then he said, 'You the boy [who] played all that basketball' Is that you''"
Parker was a star player on his Annapolis high school basketball team.
"I said, 'Yes sir.'"
"He said, 'Well, why don't you come on back'' I didn't know where the Air Force guy was, so I went with him and we started talking. Come to find out I went to school with his daughter. Then he brought out his books and a video of Soldiers jumping out of airplanes.
"What you gotta do to do that'" Parker asked, looking at photos of airborne Soldiers.
"'Well, you gotta come in and go to airborne school. And we need signal guys,' Wilson said. 'I looked at your scores and you qualify.'
"So I came in as a signal guy and went to airborne school along the way," Parker said.
He converted to the Army Chemical Corps and became a Green Dragon (as members of the Corps are called) at the end of his first hitch.
"I was ready to get out -- one week from getting my clearing papers - when my wife told me she was pregnant with our second child. So I couldn't get out. I went to reenlist and they said they had the BEAR (Bonus, Extension and Retraining) program for the Chemical Corps.
"So as I'm coming into the Chemical Corps, the Corps is being revamped," Parker continued. "I graduate [as honor grad] from Chemical School and I'm all fat, dumb and happy. I go to Korea to the 4th Chemical Company - the first ever chemical E-5 (sergeant) in that company in July 1983. It was just me and all these privates."
While in Korea, Parker found the unit basketball team didn't have a place to practice.
"The company was just starting to get built up at Camp Casey and we had to share the gym - it was crazy!" Parker said. "My team couldn't get in to practice, so I went to my captain, a smart guy, a West Pointer, and he was tight with the engineer guy. And we took this flat piece of land we had next to the club -- and we had a plan.
"Back then we worked five and a half days. We put the word out that everybody needed to be there at zero six hundred hours Saturday with picks and shovels, and we built our own basketball court. The engineer guy made everything right, brought in the bulldozer and set the poles and poured the concrete," Parker explained, pride in the accomplishment.
"Now, when I talk to people coming from Korea they say, 'Yeah, sergeant major, it's still there. People still play on it.'
"We practiced on that court, and we won the post championship. We even beat the post team, and it was because we had a court to practice on," he said.
Parker also takes credit for his unit's nickname.
"I came up with that - Silent Death - while reading a Heavy Metal magazine. The 4th Chemical Company still uses it to this day," he said.
Parker said he holds all leaders, particularly sergeants major, in high esteem. His first brush with one during basic training formed his desire to become one.
"The drill sergeant was the highest I knew at basic training. He put us in parade rest in the chow line, going to the PX, wherever we went - one of the things we never should've gotten away from. Anyway, we knew the first sergeant was God because the drill sergeant would 'snap and pop' when the first sergeant came by. We always saw the drill sergeants and senior drill, and we knew the senior drill was a bad dude, but when the first sergeant came by they'd both pop to parade rest.
"When the command sergeant major came by they like to broke their necks snapping to parade rest," Parker said, smiling his biggest smile.
"Well, we [recruits] didn't know. We'd only been in the Army three weeks. And the drill sergeant came back and said, 'You know who that is''
"'No drill sergeant!' we yelled because we all sounded off back then.
"'That is the man who sits next to God -- that is a command sergeant major!'
"Right then and there I said, 'That's what I'm gonna do. Yep, that's what I'm gonna be,'" Parker continued, chuckling.
"My friends just fell out. They thought that was so funny. 'What'' they all said. 'You're not even an E-2 yet!'
"But I made it. And now when I get a letter or e-mail from those same friends, they tell me, 'You said you were gonna do it, and you did."
Parker reflected on the commitment required to reach the highest enlisted rung.
"When you get to twenty [years in service], you know you're kind of done. But I always wanted to be a sergeant major. I wanted to be one. And I kept going," Parker said.
Keeping his memories alive by talking about them, Parker has many stories and just as many friends. However, as he prepared to put military life behind him, Parker reminisced carefully.
"You ask other sergeants major when they retire and they always say they're gonna miss 'The Power.' Don't get me wrong. If I go to the commander and say this guy needs to be gone, he's gone. And that's power. But I'm not gonna miss that," he said."I'm gonna miss the ability to pick up the phone and take care of the Soldier. That's what I'm gonna miss because that's what I love most about my job," Parker said.
"We had a sharp, sharp, SHARP Soldier who came down on levy for recruiting duty, and she didn't want to be a recruiter. I called up Assignments and they said, 'Sergeant major, we're short. Either she goes or she gets out.'
"Why would they do that'" Parker asked, questioning the impersonal nature of the Army Personnel System. "She was a distinguished honor graduate, had been in the Army four years and was a staff sergeant. Why would we put her out'
"They said, 'We can't do anything for her.'
Parker became philosophical as he continued.
"My theory has always been if you put a Soldier in a job that they don't like, they're just gonna do a job. But if you put a Soldier in a job that they like, they're gonna do a BIG JOB. They're gonna go above and beyond, not because you told them, but because they like the job and they look forward to coming to work every day.
"So I remembered my friend Dave, the recruiting sergeant major, and I gave him a call. Dave's an old country boy from Tennessee" Parker said.
"He answered the phone and said 'Hey! Roger! What's going on down there''
"So I told him what was going on and Dave said, 'Well, I don't know if I want somebody in there who don't want to be there. Let me call you back.'
"An hour later the Soldier got an AKO message telling her she was off orders," Parker said. "She was then drafted by the Regimental Sergeant Major to go to Redstone Arsenal and teach at the Chemical School.
"She was good at it. She was passionate about her job. And we would have lost all that experience - she had been deployed twice - if she had gone off to recruiting.
"We took care of that Soldier. She wrote me a couple weeks ago and thanked me again, telling me things are going great. And that's always been my reward - not the stuff you wear on your chest - but taking care of Soldiers and their Families."
Parker said today's Army is losing a lot of good people.
"We [lose] good Soldiers just because of burnout," he said. "We had a Soldier who made sergeant first class in eight years and his wife was a warrant officer. He went to Iraq and his wife had a baby. He came back and she had finished with her recovery and then she deployed to Iraq.
"So while she's gone, the unit he was in went away, and he moved to another unit. So she gets back in May and he moves out in June, back to Iraq.
"He came back after the second tour and his wife had just made W-2 [warrant officer 2] and was getting ready to go back to Iraq. Anyway, it was just too much for them and they both got out.
"Look at the experience we lost with this guy -- airborne, air assault, Ranger school, a good chemical Soldier who had already been a drill sergeant. This guy was a sergeant major just waiting to happen! This kid was rolling...and we lose him," Parker said with a shrug. "So I see it as a major issue with Soldiers I work with," he said.
Parker said he's always tried to keep the lines of communication open.
"When I talk to first termers, I always ask what they expect from their unit and what they expect from me. When I was a young Soldier, we didn't have a two-way conversation with the command sergeant major," he said.
"I ask what they expect from me because I'm gonna tell them what I expect from them. So they tell me -- they expect me to be on time; to be approachable; to set the example for the unit. They don't expect the sergeant major to be getting a DUI or running around on his wife."
"You know," Parker said, "Soldiers will tell you! When you open that door, that flood comes right out.
"And I say to them, 'Okay, that's the same thing I expect of you.' So now we have a common ground, and once you have that, they'll start talking to you," he said.
"The same thing you expect of me I expect of you -- loyalty to your unit, to be physically fit. If you're hurt, I expect you to go to sick call, and if the doctor tells you not to run for two or three months, I expect you to not run. That's what I expect Soldiers to do."
"When I was young, the doc told me not to run, but I had to figure it out the hard way. I had fractured my ankle and I ran on it too early and split it and had to have surgery. All I had to do was stay off it for two months like the doctor told me and it would've healed itself.
Parker's wife, Traci, is from Coverdale, Del. She retired in 2007 as a first sergeant in the medical corps after 22 years. They will retire to the Charlotte, N.C., region.
Parker's youngest daughter, 22, just finished her degree and will soon enter the Air Force to become a nurse. Though she'll be a commissioned officer, Parker says he won't salute her.
"I won't salute anybody whose school I paid for, who I taught how to tie their shoes, or anybody whose butt I used to wipe - and she fits all three!
"I've been doing this for a long time. I think I've given everything I can give to the Army," Parker said with only a hint of pensiveness. "It's time to do something else. I believe I could do three more years, but I don't have it in me. My body just won't stand it, and you can't do it drinking coffee watching them run down the road. Not when you want to be leading from the front."
So, no regrets'
"Well, only sometimes, when my leg hurts," Parker said.


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Directions From I-20 between Atlanta and Birmingham, with approx mileage beginning from I-20, GA Exit 5:
START 0.0 Miles -Take GA exit 5 off I-20, Hwy 100/Tallapoosa exit. Turn north towards Tallapoosa
4.6 miles - Town of Tallapoosa - follow Hwy 100 through zig-zag across RR tracks in Tallapoosa
16.1 miles - Cross county line - Polk County sign on right side Hwy 100
17.2 miles - Turn left onto Casey Rd from Hwy 100 (no street sign here!)
18.2 miles - Follow pavement to right onto Johnson Lake Rd
18.7 miles - Turn left onto Culp Lake Rd at "Y" intersection
21.6 miles - Pavement turns to dirt road
21.8 miles - HIGHLAND PARK RESORT
Directions From Cedartown:
From Cedartown, go south on Hwy 27 (called Main Street in town), and take the right turn onto Hwy 100 south about 2 miles south of Cedartown. Follow Hwy 100 south 2.7 miles and turn right on Lime Branch Rd. Go 1.4 miles to the "T" intersection and turn left on Johnson Lake Rd (no sign!). In 2/10ths mile bear right on Culp Lake Rd. at the "Y" intersection. In 2.7 miles Culp Lake Rd becomes a dirt road, and Highland Park is 1/4 mile ahead on the left.
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Congratulations to actress Gina Rodriguez for winning her first Golden Globe on Sunday, January 11, 2015!
You were so fun to work with on our shoot! Were you always this outgoing and humble growing up?
So you know when you fall in love and all you can think about is whether that person feels the same way as you do? And then, one glorious day, they turn to you and tell you that they do? That's the feeling I just got by hearing this first question! What a way to start off an interview. The feeling was mutual. I fell madly in love with every single artist in that awesome loft space that I worked with. They protected me, made sure I felt beautiful and safe. Is it contradictory to the definition of humility to talk about being humble? Probably. Truthfully, it was my parents and the perspective they gave me on the world. You don't live in this world alone, you are what you are around, help others achieve and you too shall achieve. Be good to everyone and remember to give away your blessings to make room for more. And the Zooey shoot was just that, a big ol, fun and delicious blessing!
You are too kind! So, you went to Columbia University at a very young age. It's hard enough to get accepted into one of the most prestigious schools in the world, so how on earth did you achieve that? Are you a total genius? What did you like about school… college… and Tisch? What's the most important thing you learned from higher education?
Not a total brainiac, but I'm definitely an over achiever. I have 2 older sisters; one is an investment banker and the other is a doctor! So you can imagine where I get the hustle from! I love school; education is the one of the greatest and most powerful things to own that no one can take away from you. Yes, student loans and bill collectors can take your dough, but they can't take all the amazing knowledge you have obtained. Tisch gave me a tool belt as an actor. It didn't just give me a fishing pole... it taught me how to fish in this crazy industry. I feel prepared and confident when it comes to stepping foot on set and that's due to Tisch and the 4 grueling years of acting conservatory, shit was real!
You're in a very innovative new show on CW's "Jane the Virgin." What drew you to this script? It's so interesting… very different.
It was just that; how extremely different the premise was and how incredible the writing complimented the very bizarre nature of this story. Jennie Urman, our creator, is not only an amazing human being with the biggest heart, but so incredibly brilliant that you can't wait to hear the stories that come out of that big brain of hers. Brad, our director brought naturalism and foundation to heightened situations and the cast is stupendous. I believe I am the first American Latina lead on the CW and that is a huge milestone for the 50 million plus Latinos that live in this country. They say CW is taking a risk, but honestly they are just doing something that should have been done a long time ago, which is have new faces tell the same stories. My personal story is like anyone else's: born in Chicago, crazy rebellious teen, goes off to college in NY to pursue her dream. Anyone can relate. Jane, even in her bizarre circumstances, is relatable. She wants love, she wants to fulfill her dreams, do better than her parents had done and live a happy life and I get to play that girl. A relatable girl on TV who just happens to have caramel skin. I thank God I get to tell a wholesome story and so many girls will finally see there face on that screen in a positive light. That is the greatest blessing I have ever been given.
If what happened to "Jane," happened to you in real life… How would you react? Is that a lawsuit waiting to just happen?
Most definitely and very quickly I would consider suing the Gyne that did this to me... or would I? Jane's circumstances are that her insemination is the last chance Rafael (played by Justin Baldoni who is terrific and a darling) will ever have at having a child. That's a very serious thing to take into consideration. Who knows what I would do all I know is, is that I don't care to find out anytime soon! Lol. Let's keep that conversation to "Jane" and the awesome writers we have on the show!
So besides your own show, what show are you looking forward to watching? Anything on your radar? Any other actor on your radar?
There are so many shows I am excited to watch! Obviously our brother show, "The Flash," looks freaking stellar and Grant is such a sweetheart and hard worker I'm sure he will kill that role! I'm excited to see "Cristela" on ABC, with Cristela Alonzo. She has been on my radar for awhile, I love my fellow Latina actresses. We have the same obstacle, which is trying to live in a country and industry that sees us differently because of our skin color and our ancestors native tongue (Spanish) yet we see ourselves just like any of our American friends. Just plain normal! Lol. I'm excited about "Empire," because well I love music and Terrence Howard. I want to see "Fresh off the Boat;" that show looks hysterical and for anyone who has parents who speak a different language or moved to the States from somewhere else can totally get it! This fall is going to be filled with innovative, breaking the mold type shows and I pray ours is one of them!
Who are you dying to work with? Any childhood crushes you'd love to meet?
I am dying to work with Robert Rodriguez, Guillermo del toro and Christopher Nolan. Some of my top directors. I'd love to act across from Meryl Strep, Demian Bichir, Alfred. Molina, Rita Moreno, Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Taraji P Henson, um... Kate Blanchett... the list goes on. Childhood crushes definitely include Tom Hardy and Ryan Gosling. Yikes, I'm already perspiring.
Aside from acting, what are you wanting to pursue?
Outside of acting I want to produce good films that expose new talent. It would be a dream of mine to help others achieve goals they are working toward. I want to start a clothing line that innovates the idea of size and instead celebrates the bodies we have been given. I want to change the social constructs of beauty and the images we enslave others with and instead liberate. I want to work in education and inner city youth (this I have done for awhile now but pray Jane can give me a bigger platform to do so). I want to create positive role models. Ok, if I don't stop I'll go dizzy! Let's start with that.
What do you love doing in your downtime? What can someone find you doing?
During my downtime I love to travel. Meet new people, see new things, try new foods, listen to new music and dance to it, learn new cultures and religions. I'm a very curious lion. Someone can find me doing something adventurous, something playful, and definitely something that scares me.
Now that you're in LA, do you miss Chicago? How much does it differ from home? Are your family still in Chicago?
I left Chicago when I was 17 to go to college in NY and have never gone back to live, only visit. I love the city that formed this tough kid, but to be honest my home is where ever my feet land. I miss no place, no possession, no home, because I make sure to make the most of what I have right now. One sister lives here in Santa Monica with me so that's really nice and she has three kids so I have family with me. My other sister is in Chicago so the visits are for her and my parents moved back to Puerto Rico, so I have a pretty awesome place to visit for Christmas!
Well, the world is always facing so many issues… What do you think women like yourself need in times like these?
Support; someone unafraid to speak up and do something about these injustices. I single handedly wish I could change lots of things in our world, but I can not. Without the strength of God and my fellow man, I am unable to do most. Unity is needed and hopefully I can create an army to help those in need. If only I could be the vigilante I am in my dreams... one day though.
Lastly, where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 15 years? You're still so young… So maybe it's not in your mind yet. But we just have to ask!
In 5 years, I would be blessed to be wrapping up a 5th season on "Jane" and the life it gave me. I see films, blockbusters, labor of loves and films I produced done in between each season. In 10 years, I see a charity/organization I have started for underprivileged youth, a free clinic I have started for my sister to run, a successful clothing line, shoe line, and beauty products. In 15 years, I see a family of my own (adopted or both) if God deems me worthy and to look back and thank Him for the past 15 years of making this life such a special one to live.
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I got this recipe off breadnet.net as I could not find the book for my mixer. This is a wonderfully easy recipe and my bread has turned out great every time. Times do not include rise times.
Top Review by Lady Westphal
Wow! I love this bread! I have used different flours like yesterday I used 1 1/2 cups of Whole Wheat Flour, 1 1/2 cups of Dark Rye Flour and 2 cups of Multigrain Flour and it turned out awesome. It is such a wonderful airy bread and it isn't heavy like whole wheat breads tend to be. I have been making this bread for months now and don't get tired of it. Wish I had an industrial size mixer so I could make a bigger batch! So recommend this recipe if you want a beautiful loaf of bread.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 5 1⁄2 cups bread flour
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons fast rising yeast
- 16 ounces very warm water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons honey
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- When measuring the flour, fluff it with a spoon and then spoon it into the measuring cup and level but DO NOT PACK. This is the most important thing for getting consistency.
- Place flour, salt and yeast in the mixer bowl but don't turn on mixer. In a separate container, place the warm water and add the oil first and then the honey, using the same measuring spoon, as the oil will keep the honey from sticking to the spoon.
- Stir the liquids together and stir them, then turn on the mixer with dough hook installed to low speed for 15 seconds. Then add the liquid mixture all at once and turn the mixer to its lowest speed for about a minute and a half—until ingredients are pretty well together and shut it off. Let it rest this way for 10 minutes.
- Turn the mixer to the second speed and let it run 3 minutes. Remove the dough hook and turn the dough onto a floured board or table. Knead 3 or 4 times to get the air bubbles out.
- Place it in an oiled bowl (you can put it back in the mixer bowl) and put it in a warm place, like your oven with a cloth draped over it for 1 hour. At the end of the hour, punch it down and turn it onto the floured surface and knead another three or four times. Form loaves and put into 2 loaf pans.
- Put them in the same warm place with a cloth draped over them and let them rise 45 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until crust is the color you like. If you put a small pan of water on the rack below the bread, it will make the crust softer and chewier. Remove from pans and let cool at least 30 minutes on a wire rack.
- I usually brush the tops with olive oil because it softens the crust a bit and makes the loaves look nice.
- This bread has a wonderful flavor and keeps very well.


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Author | exchange4media News Service | Thursday, May 20,2004 7:27 AM
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is likely to be among the foremost areas of attention for the new information and broadcasting minister. Sources close to the Left parties, though they'll only support the government from outside, have indicated that several issues related to Prasar Bharati would be under scanner once the new set-up is in place.
When contacted, Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma said: "I have no comment to make on the issue at this point of time."
Prasar Bharati or the Broadcasting Corporation of India was established in 1997, to make Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) autonomous, during the tenure of the then I&B minister S Jaipal Reddy. Seven years later, when Mr Reddy is expected to be part of the new government and is even among the names doing the rounds for the I&B minister, the very basis of Prasar Bharati is being questioned.
A source in Prasar Bharati told eFE that the corporation was set up with lofty objectives. It was meant to be on par with UK's state broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). But, over the years, it has been misused by various governments and grants are also getting slashed for it, he said.
Although things may not improve drastically for Prasar Bharati under the new government, there may be a move to get greater funds for the corporation, it is believed.
CPM leader Somnath Chatterji, who heads the Parliamentary Committee on information technology, which includes I&B, has been vocal on better management of Prasar Bharati. He's not in favour of Prasar Bharati treading the middle path - neither autonomous, nor government-run.
Constitution of the Prasar Bharati board is yet another aspect that is likely to be looked into, said a government source. The board members with saffron leanings may get a hard look, he added.
But, it's difficult to change the members of the board, in a direct manner, as they are appointed by a selection committee headed by the Vice-President of the country, and have "statutory protection."
The current board includes Prasar Bharati chairman MV Kamath, CEO KS Sarma, Bhupen Hazarika, ML Mehta, Chitra Mudgal and DPS Lamba.
Doordarshan's news channel, DD News, which was re-launched last year during the Assembly elections, is also likely to undergo scrutiny. Even as the outgoing I&B minister Ravi Shankar Prasad claims to have revived the news channel, editorial appointment for DD News may come under the scanner, government officials indicated.
The ongoing battle between the recently appointed contractual staff at DD News and the sidelined Indian Information Services (IIS) employees has already surfaced, ahead of the formation of the Congress-led government, it is learnt.
Among the various projects over which the government thinking could change include the Rs 500-crore North-East package for DD and AIR, a Prasar Bharati official anticipated.
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It is also being rumoured that Surface Pro 5 may launch with a rechargeable Surface Pen and dock. The rumour lends itself to a patent filed by Microsoft in January which detailed out how the AAA battery in the Surface Pen can be replaced with a rechargeable one. Also rumoured are the facts that a USB Type-C port pay replace the USB 3.0 port while other ports like a MicroSD one, a DisplayPort and an audio jack may remain unchanged.
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Apart from these minor details, the rumour columns are largely empty as far as Surface Pro 5 is concerned. We haven't had access to any leaked images as well which could explain why most reports are sceptical about a June launch. The more realistic ones are placing their bets on a January 2017 launch though.
We haven't heard much about the Kaby Lake processor in action as yet but what tech analysts are saying is that it is a 64-bit chip based on 14nm process technology. However, it will not be an upgrade but merely a platform refresher until Intel launches its new 10nm processors which will reportedly be named Common Lake next year. If this is true, then the performance of the Surface Pro 5, processor-wise, would be hardly any different from that of the Surface Pro 4. This leads us to another question- why is Microsoft in such a hurry to release it?
Even though rumours about a possible launch of the Surface Pro 5 in June can be found in a lot of forums, it can be the work of those who would like to pit the device with Apple's upcoming MacBook Pro which may launch at Apple's WWDC next month. It is also a fact that none of the rumours owe themselves to any leaked images, statements from Microsoft or any FCC filings. However, given the limited updates we have heard so far, we would rather see Microsoft launching a truly formidable hybrid tablet in the future rather than launching one just for the sake of it. To read about our in-depth comparison of the Surface Pro 4 with the Surface Book, click here.


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Dad had his pressure-gradient test today, and either passed or failed, depending on how you look at it: at any rate, he's still a candidate for the study, and will meet with two doctors tomorrow who will, I gather, decide if he's in or not. He's very cogent and seems to be in decent spirits.
My mother's less cogent, and according to my sister isn't a reliable narrator right now; this morning, Mom told me that a doctor told her she'd be dead within a year, but my sister has learned that no one said that. Evidently Mom told my brother-in-law that every morning she wakes up on a ranch, and asks the people there if Liz will be able to find her, and they say yes. I'm intrigued by this, because to the best of my knowledge, Mom's never spent any time on ranches; she grew up in cities and suburbs. Did she maybe take riding lessons when she was a kid, though? I'm straining to remember this, and will have to ask my sister.
On the medical side of things, her echocardiogram shows "moderate" aortic stenosis. There's talk of an angiogram to see whether she's a candidate for open-heart valve replacement. The last time I talked to Mom, she was learning towards the angiogram but leaning against the surgery, which would be my impulse too (although I'm not sure why she'd even want the angiogram if she doesn't want the surgery, especially since I gather that stents aren't an option -- but maybe angioplasty is?).
I'm confused. My sister's confused. My mother's confused.
The weather's not confused. The weather's still very snowy: it's been chains-over-the-pass all day, and at one point, I-80 Eastbound was closed because of an accident. I didn't leave the house today, because we have quite a bit of snow even down here in Reno, and I hate driving in the stuff. We thought there might be a break in the storms on Wednesday, but now Gary tells me that snow's predicted then, too, with another big storm rolling in on Thursday.
Well, I'll fly if I have to. The first step is to find out what happens at Dad's meeting tomorrow. If he gets bounced from the study, he'll be coming home, and we'll be staying here.
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Wow, Susan, more snow! Only having experienced it once in my life I can't imagine living in the amount of it and temperatures that you do. Flying sounds like a chance to get more knitting done.ReplyDelete
Prayers for your Dad's success with the doctors, and also for your Mom. Hope your sister and the doctors figure this out quickly.
Hi Susan, stents are a type of angioplasty. I don't know what type they'd consider if stents were not an option. With her non-heart-related lung issues I can see why you and she would be leery of open heart surgery, you could win the battle and lose the war. Are they watching her closely for urinary tract infection? That can be a huge cause of confusion in elderly folks. It seems she has become markedly less oriented and cogent since going into the hospital. I'm so sorry you and all your family are going through so much right now. Prayers continuing...ReplyDelete


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Other signs of a comeback: restaurants busy with holiday parties, hotels already booked for summer and more tourists from Japan hoping to see Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui.
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At the end of 2002, New York City faced its worst budget crisis in 30 years and a $6.4 billion deficit for the coming year. As a result, Mayor Michael Bloomberg pushed through an 18.5% property tax increase. Now the city's economy has improved enough that Bloomberg wants to give New York homeowners a $400 rebate on property taxes to offset the increase.
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What hasn't come back: big-spending tourists from overseas. Foreign tourists have yet to return in the same numbers as before Sept. 11. But the weak dollar is helping attract foreign travelers again, says Cristyne Nicholas, head of NYC & Co., the city's visitors bureau. They are sorely missed. Foreigners account for only 18% of the nearly 36 million visitors to New York annually, but they spend 40% of tourism dollars.
The Yankees and Mets, the city's baseball teams, are helping draw overseas visitors. After the Yankees signed Matsui, one of Japan's top players, last year, the number of Japanese tourists increased to see him play.
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Transforming such abstracts into television images was one of many hurdles for the makers of the movie, which was directed by John Kent Harrison and stars Katie Stuart as Meg; David Dorfman as her brainy little brother, Charles Wallace; Gregory Smith as their friend Calvin; and Alison Elliott, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard as, respectively, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which and Mrs. Whatsit, a trio of celestial guides. Production started in 2001, resulting in a mini-series that was broadcast in Canada, Australia and Germany last year. In 2003, after being reshot and re-edited into a full-length feature, ''A Wrinkle in Time'' won the best feature film award at the Toronto International Film Festival for Children, and this Monday it will have its television premiere at 8 p.m.
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The novel's age complicated matters. ''The book was written before 'Star Wars,' before the big explosion in science fiction movies,'' Ms. Shilliday said. ''Now you have a very different audience looking at a science fiction movie with very different expectations. In the book, the ultimate evil is a static brain, but a big static brain just isn't the same on the screen as it is on the page.''
Mr. Harrison also found the process formidable. ''Every complicated film is daunting, but this was daunting in a different way,'' he said by telephone from Los Angeles. ''I found the book to be an inspirational work rather than a great narrative book.''
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Ms. L'Engle herself, now 85 and living in Manhattan, preferred not to comment on the movie but agreed that the conformist symbolism of Camazotz had remained intact. ''Just look out the window,'' she said. ''It's still going on.''
But the book's openness to individual interpretation presented its own set of challenges. Everyone involved in the film, Ms. Hand said, ''knew exactly what it was about and how to make it into a movie.'' The problem, however, was that everyone's ideas were often different. Although the task was ''to channel Madeleine's version,'' she said, ''in the movies you have to make choices.''
Mr. Harrison, who called the process of screenplay development a kind of ''script soup,'' based some of his directing choices on bringing up his two daughters, who, he said, ''were my best friends one minute and the next minute slamming the door.'' Meg, whom he described as ''close to cynical, but not all the way there,'' was not unlike the adolescents who grew up in his own home.
''Do you follow the tune of pop culture or sing your own song? That's what I saw my own daughters going through, and that problem doesn't go away,'' he said. ''What you thought was real is up for grabs, and you have to figure out who you are. That is the job of adolescence. I expect every teenager will have a dark night of the soul.''
Ms. Shilliday, who also has two daughters, admired the book's message about the value of Meg's anger. ''That was where her strength came from, and that was central to me,'' she said. ''Madeleine L'Engle was able to say it at that time: Hold on to your anger. Hold on to yourself. It's what makes you strong.''
''I feel privileged and frightened to have worked on this,'' she continued, ''because I know there are a lot of people devoted to the book, and I know not everyone will feel it's right.''
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I was walking along the waterside when he started to fly, I knew that I had a macro lens on.
But I took a shot anyway
But I took a shot anyway
The white is so crisp and sharp!
very beautiful........!!!
And it came out Great!
Thanks alot!!, a macro lens is something strange you know!!
that s beautiful frank


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A plisagraph is a sensor instrument, similar to a tricorder, designed specifically for the study and examination of Trill symbionts and similar lifeforms. (DS9 - The Lives of Dax short story: "Sins of the Mother")
In the year 2376, Ezri Dax used a plisagraph to scan for Senator Rylen Talris after he'd been taken hostage in the Trill Senate Tower in Leran Manev. (DS9 - Worlds of DS9 novel: Trill: Unjoined)


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Virginia "'Ginny" Foxx is a staunch conservative who can outspend anyone - anyone - and sling more mud than anyone - anyone - to be your Republican Representative for Lesser Carolina's 5th Congressional District.
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- 'Ginny is not named after a woman's nasty place, but after her mother's favorite beverage!
- Despite being unmarryable herself, 'Ginny is a self-appointed protector of America's Definition of Marriage
Issues 'Ginny Protects Like A Toothless Hillbilly With A Shotgun From Her PorchEdit
- America's Definition of Marriage
- not killin' old folk with socialism
|This article is a stub of a Congressperson who does not have the balls to be on "The Colbert Report".
Until Virginia Foxx gets the balls to get nailed by Stephen, help America "Better Know" Virginia Foxx by unloading your gut onto this page.


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Actually there is a little truth in this, followers of Jesus' teachings existed before the Romans made it into roman catholism, but if you want to go there then you must acknowledge that the roman church is the only reason you know who Jesus is today and that before they got their hands on him and the New Testament he was just an intelligent man. He did not rise from the dead at ester (pagan celebration of spring) and was not born at xmas (pagan celebration of the days becoming longer). He was crafted to suit there needs but maintain pagan holidays and traditions....
Your Jesus is no more a god than you and I... His words were teachings ( if you can find the real ones, unadulterated by the church), wonderful teachings if you get he meaning, but no more important that any other intelligent being that understand how this world works.
The Wiccan simply alters the golden rule slightly but outcome is the same,
due unto others as you would have them do unto you, every true religion states it in some way...
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world."
Buddha 600 BC
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Jesus 30 AD
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will."
Aleister Crowley 1904 (Similar to Wiccan saying from earlier time, he claimed to have received it from an Alien, rolls eyes)
All these are? The Natural Law of CAUSE & EFFECT.
Really very simple. If people would only just "get it." What a truly amazing productive world this could be. No need for greed or power over others. We could all just be and be happy, healthy and what HUMANS were meant to be. Instead MAN messed it up for greed and power.
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idealistic thinking, but it can never be... not here on earth, or anywhere in this galaxy...
it is wise to understand - physical existence is flawed by design... the intention is not to continue the game - it is to recognize the game for what it is, recognize who you are, complete your experiences, and move on...
simple to understand, challenging to do...
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Until you recognize the golden rule you will never move on, life is a "game" of experiences and challenges and whatever journey your sould has chosen for you in this existence, it is your challenge to overcome all greed, hatred lust materialism fear poverty oppression etc... When you can live by the golden rule in every moment you breath you can take the next step...
Simple concept, incredible challenge!
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what is your definition of the "golden rule" ?
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text: AstraZeneca says the Department of Justice is ending its investigation into PLATO, a clinical trial with its heart drug Brilinta, and is not planning any further action. It began investigating the PLATO trial, which studied more than 18,000 patients in 43 countries, last October after suspicions were raised that the clinical trial numbers may have been manipulated. In a statement, AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said, "We have always had absolute confidence in the integrity of the PLATO trial and we are proud of the important benefit Brilinta offers to patients around the world suffering from acute coronary syndrome."


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The Visions and Oracles of the Prophet Ezekiel (4)
Biblical Research Monthly, January 1947 thru September 1950 — by Dr. David L. Cooper
- Some Preliminary Observations
- The Call and Commission of Ezekiel
- The Beginnings of Ezekiel's Ministry
- The Final Collapse of Judah Under the Babylonian Siege
- Jehovah's Withdrawal from the City and it's Downfall
- The Flight and Capture of the King Symbolically Represented and Warning Against a Wrong Attitude Concerning Prophecy
- Prophecy and Idolatry
- Israel, the Burnt Vine and the Unfaithful Wife
- The Riddle of the Two Great Eagles and the Messianic Reign of Christ
- God's Reply to the Proverb, "The Fathers have Eaten Sour Grapes, and the Children's Teeth are Set on Edge"
- The Young Lions and the Rods of Judah
- Israel's Past and Future Experiences
- The Sword of Jehovah
- Sinful Jerusalem and Her Punishment
- The Lewdness of Oholah and Oholibah
- The Boiling Caldron
- Oracles Concerning Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia
- The Oracle Concerning Tyre
- The Oracles Concerning Egypt
- The Watchman on the Wall (Chapter 33)
- The Untrue Shepherds of Israel
- The Flock of Jehovah and its Shepherd
- The Judgment upon Edom
- The Curse Removed from the Land of Israel
- Israel's Restoration to the Land of the Fathers and Her Conversion
- The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones
- The Scattered Nation of Israel Reunited under King Messiah
- The Overthrow of the Russian Forces that Invade Palestine (Chapter 38)
- The Overthrow of the Antichrist's Forces Invade Palestine (Chapter 39)
- The Millennial Jerusalem
- The Millennial Temple
- The Prince and the Glorified Millennial Temple
- The Land of Israel in the Millennium
The Final Collapse of Judah Under the Babylonian Siege
This month's study in the Book of Ezekiel will consist of chapters 5, 6 and 7. These chapters are comparatively easy to understand and need very little interpretation or special notice. But, in order that the reader might get the most out of the explanation, I am asking each one to read these three chapters carefully. In doing this, one will be well repaid for the effort. — D.L.C.
We have already seen in Ezekiel 4:1-4 that the destruction of Jerusalem was portrayed by the prophet on a piece of tile. Following this graphic representation of the coming calamity were the symbolic acts of the prophet, who lay upon his left side for 390 days and upon his right side for forty days. In doing this, he was symbolically representing himself as bearing the iniquity of the northern kingdom and of the kingdom of Judah. Following these symbolic acts is a description of the horrible conditions that would exist during the final stages of the coming war against Judah. This last prophecy is found in 4:9-17. These symbolic acts are completed in the action of the prophet in having his head and his beard shaved as set forth in 5:1-4, to which we now turn our attention.
I. Message Regarding Jerusalem
The siege of Jerusalem, which occurred in the ninth year of Zedekiah and continued until the eleventh, is set forth graphically by the prophet's shaving his hair and his beard, by his taking the hair and dividing it into three equal parts, and then by his disposing of it as follows: One-third he burned in the city; the second third he smote with the sword round about the city; the final third he scattered to the winds and drew out a sword after it. But he was to take a part of that last third and to wrap it in his garment. Even a part of this small portion he was to cast into the midst of the fire and burn.
The third of the hair that was burned within the city was to represent the population that would be destroyed by famine and other events incident to the war; the second third was to set forth those that would be destroyed in the fighting round about the city; and the final third was to represent those that would survive and would be scattered among the nations, some of whom would be killed in various ways.
In verses 5-17 the prophet set forth in a most vivid, graphic manner this final siege of Jerusalem. He, however, prefaced his description by telling the cause and showing why God had to deal with His ancient people thus. In verse 5 the Lord declared: "This is Jerusalem: I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her. 6 And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have hot walked in them" (vs. 5,6). Palestine, as we learn from Ezekiel 38:12, is the center of the earth. God gave this strategic position of the nations to His Chosen People in order that they might hold aloft the torch of His revelation to the nations round about. When God dispersed the nations at Babel and directed by His invisible hand the people to those parts of the earth that were to be their future homes, He did this with reference to the children of Israel; that is, He gave the ancestors of the Chinese people that country which is now known as China. The ancestors of the Hindoos were directed by God's overruling providence to the country that is now known as India. What is true of these two nations is correct concerning all others. When God was thus allocating the earth to the various races and tribes, He did this with reference to the children of Israel; that is, He related all nations to the people of Israel; for it was, and continues to be, His plan to bless all nations in and through the Jew. The Lord's calling attention to Israel's being in the midst of the nations is an echo of the strategic position which she occupies in world history in the plan of God. Israel has been called the hub of the nations. All movements of the nations throughout the centuries have revolved around the Jewish people. They are doing the same thing today. Palestine and the Jew are foremost in the eyes of the people today and will continue to be more and more as the days pass.
With increased light come added responsibilities. God gives us advantages and opportunities and expects us to use them in the forwarding of His plans and His purposes. When, however, we do not measure up to these responsibilities, the punishment for delinquency is commensurate with the failure. The Lord spoke of Israel's being more turbulent than the nations round about her. In reality she did not do worse than they had done; but when we take into consideration the opportunities and advantages that the people of Israel had enjoyed, they actually had acted worse.
In Ezekiel 5:8 the Lord said: "Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations." It is an awful thing for anyone to be in such a position that God has to array Himself against him. But God, being a holy, moral Being who cannot countenance sin, must take this attitude whenever His people sin against light and refuse to live up to their advantages and opportunities.
According to 5:9,10 the Lord stated that He would do in Israel what He had never done in any nation. Here He declared that the fathers should eat the sons in the midst of the city and the sons should eat the fathers; that is, during the siege famine would stalk on every hand and, in the dire extremity to which the people would be brought, the populace would turn to cannibalism. Josephus tells us of things like this that occurred during the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D. 70. But it is clear that Ezekiel was talking about the siege of Jerusalem when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Palestine. But we may be certain that history duplicates itself.
The reason that God would pour out His punishment upon Israel to such an extent is that she had defiled His sanctuary with her abominations — idols and idolatrous practices. According to the symbolic representations only one-third of the people of the city would survive the final collapse and would be taken into captivity. They would be followed by the sword because of their wickedness.
The Lord indicated to the people through Ezekiel that He would let His wrath and anger burn against them until His holiness should be satisfied and rest. He could not do otherwise. Holiness cannot tolerate sin. Every sin and transgression must receive a just recompense of reward.
In the latter part of chapter 5 the prophet declared that the city of Jerusalem should be destroyed, forsaken, and become a reproach, a hiss, and a by-word among the nations who lived round about. This prediction was literally fulfilled.
II. The Message to the Mountains of Israel
In chapter 6 we have another graphic illustration of a prediction that was made against the mountains of Israel, that is, the land of Palestine. The prediction found in 6:1-7 is very easily understood. The language is addressed to the mountains of Israel as if they were persons, that could understand a message from God. On the tops of the mountains, when Israel entered the land of Canaan, were the high places in which the idols of Canaan were worshiped. Israel was commanded by the Lord to destroy all of these places. She, however, disobeyed the Lord and went after idolatry as she had done in Egypt. The prophets constantly hurled their invectives against this paganism. During the great reforms of Kings Asa, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah the high places were broken down, as a rule. In some of these campaigns, however, they were not. The reforms under Josiah were more thorough-going and systematic than those under his three predecessors in this fight against idolatry. The language of these seven verses shows that idolatry was to be swept from the land of Israel by the final collapse of the kingdom of Judah under the blows of the Babylonians. We are constantly told that Israel was cured of idolatry from the time of the Babylonian Exile until the present. This statement, roughly speaking, is correct. Yet Israel has not been purged entirely of idolatry in every shape, form, and fashion. A person can erect an idol of most anything and can worship it. There are certain systems of philosophy which men practically revere. Many worship at the shrine of education and scholarship. They give the devotion of their souls to these things just as Israel rendered her homage to pagan idols. We learn, however, from various predictions, especially those in Isaiah and in Revelation, that in the end time idolatry will spread all over the world; and the Israelites, as well as all other peoples, will fall down and worship the works of their own hands. This will occur, as we learn from various passages, in the time of the Tribulation. At that time, however, the great world-wide revival will take place. This campaign will be conducted by the 144,000 Jewish evangelists, and multiplied hundreds of millions of people will turn from their idolatry to the true and living God. Then, and only then, will Israel, as well as all other nations, be purged from all idolatry.
In Ezekiel 6:8-10 the Lord, still speaking to the mountains of Israel, declared that there would be a remnant that would survive the sword and escape the trying ordeal of the siege. Moreover, this remnant that would survive would be scattered among the nations. By the dire experiences through which the nation would be caused to pass, the people would learn something of how God's heart had been broken by the lewd heart of His delinquent, disobedient people. This portion of the prophecy concludes with the prediction that she would be brought to the point where she would loathe herself in her own sight because of the evils which she had committed. Finally, Israel will learn the truth that Jehovah is God, and that He has not spoken in vain to His ancient people.
Finally, the last paragraph of chapter 6, consisting of verses 11-14, renews the threat against Israel because of her idolatrous practices. In order to emphasize the gravity of the situation, the prophet was commanded to smite with his hand and stamp with his foot and say:
Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath upon them. 13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols. 14 And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Jehovah." (Ezekiel 6:11-14)
III. Dirge Over the Downfall of The Kingdom of Judah
Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me saying, 2 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah." (Ezekiel 7:1-4)
In these verses God announced that an end had come upon the four corners of the land. This judgment was due to the fact that Israel had sinned. The situation had developed to the extent that God declared that He would neither pity nor spare the nation, but would bring upon her the ways of her evil actions. A person or a nation may continue in the practice of sin until he or it reaches the point beyond which there is no possibility of escaping the severest judgments of God. The psalmist, in Psalm 119:126, declared: "It is time for Jehovah to work; For they have made void thy law." This is exactly what had occurred in Israel. The Lord is long-suffering and is kind, refusing to deal drastically with any situation until He is actually forced to do so. As proof of this proposition I simply need to call attention to the statement found in Genesis 15:16: "And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." The Lord revealed to Abraham that his seed should sojourn in a land not their own and that his seed should serve the people of that land. They would have to remain there for four generations, until the Canaanites in the land of Palestine would have filled up the cup of their iniquity to overflowing. Although God had given the land of Palestine to Abraham and his descendants, He would not let Israel come forth out of Egypt to take possession of the country until after the original inhabitants of the land had gone so very far that they were beyond reach of the truth. When they did fill up their cup of iniquity to overflowing — when they had gone beyond all possibility of recovery — the Lord then brought Israel out of Egypt into the land and permitted her to destroy the people who had sunk so low into sin that nothing could reach them and bring them back to God.
Zedekiah and the nation of Judah had continued to sin against light and to plunge to the depth of rebellion against God until it was impossible to reach them. A summary statement of the condition of the nation is set forth in the following passage:
Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. 15 And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place: 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy." (II Chronicles 36:14-16)
In Ezekiel 7:5-9 the Lord reiterates the thoughts that are presented in the first four verses. Following this paragraph, in verses 10-13, the prophet continued the same dirge over the nation:
Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11 Violence is risen up unto a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them. 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life."
In verses 14-27 we have a picture of the dissolution of the state and of the terrible havoc that would be wrought in the final downfall and collapse of the nation. According to verse 14, when the enemy invades the country, the trumpet is sounded, but the people have no heart for the war. The reason for this apathy is stated in these words: "... for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof." In verse 15 the prophet portrays the siege of Jerusalem. Fighting is being carried on outside of the city of Jerusalem and pestilence and famine are raging within. Those living in the open country are killed with the sword, and those in the cities of the land die with pestilence and famine. The helpless and hopeless condition of the nation is set forth in verse 16. Those who are not killed by the famine and the sword are seen as doves of the valleys upon the mountains, who are lamenting and mourning the national situation. Then in verse 17 he describes the people as having hands that are feeble and knees that are weak as water. At this time the people gird themselves with sack-cloth in a half-hearted attitude of repentance. They stand dazed at the situation, being unable to analyze and to evaluate their situation before God. Being in the slough of despair, they lose all interest, even in material things. They cast their silver in the street and their gold is considered as an unclean thing. At times Israel had purchased immunity to invasion by giving large sums of money to an aggressor nation. For example, she paid ransom money to Assyria. But on this occasion they are not able to do this. Their silver and their gold, according to verse 19, shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath. Neither their souls nor their stomachs, according to this prediction, will be satisfied with that which is available. Everything that has been considered of value and prized by the people is seized and destroyed. The people, instead of accepting God as their Sovereign and Lord, have made their images and abominable things and are worshiping them. On account of these things, God turns His face away from the nation and declares that "... they shall profane my secret place," namely, the sanctuary.
In the final paragraph, verses 23-27, we seen an invincible conqueror, ruthless and cruel, being brought by the Lord against the nation. The people of the land are puffed up with pride, and bloody crimes are the order of the day. The condition of the people, spiritually and morally, has deteriorated to the very lowest level. The die is cast; the Rubicon crossed. Nothing can now avert the complete catastrophe. In their extremity the people seek for a vision from the prophet of God. But it is too late. The law has perished from the priest and council from the elders. The king and the royal family mourn over the desolate condition. The people of the country are troubled. National collapse and disintegration are inevitable. All of these catastrophes are the judgment of God upon the impenitent nation. After the collapse and fall the people in their sober moments, in reflecting over the national disaster, will recognize that Jehovah is God and that He is the one who has punished the nation for its evils.
Next: Jehovah's Withdrawal from the City and it's Downfall


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Wasp vs. Lizard: An Epic Battle in Photos
You're sitting in your backyard, sipping a coffee or beer, utterly unaware that nature is surrounding you with tenacious drama along the food chain.
Photographer Barry Sigman noticed one such epic battle Sunday, when a lizard and a wasp faced off over who would get to enjoy the great feast of a dead dragonfly.
Photos by Barry Sigman
6. Uh-oh "Got this great juicy dragonfly, taking it back to my lizard lair, getting ready to -- what the hell? Back off, dude, it's mine."
5. The body shield Defensive move by the lizard -- makes a u-turn to put his body between the wasp and the prize. Good boxing-out technique.
4. "You forget I can fly, lizard" Boxing out doesn't work too well when your opponent can soar over you. Another big turn for the lizard, but he's trapped.
3. On like Donkey Kong It's go time. Wasp and lizard grab an end of the dragonfly, and the battle begins.
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2. Got a piece of the wishbone The wasp succeeds in gnawing off a good-sized chunk, much to the dismay of the lizard, who looks like he can't believe this turn of events.
1. A look of pure hatred If looks could kill, this wasp would be dead. Too bad the lizard's not one of those toads with the spitting-poison eyeballs.
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