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Co-op student and supervisor of the year namedUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Naomi M Arincorayan, (808) 956-3733
Career Counselor, Career Development and Student Employment
Iris Takushi, 956-4398
Director of Cooperative Education & Internship, Career Development and Student Employment
Career Counselor, Career Development and Student Employment
Iris Takushi, 956-4398
Director of Cooperative Education & Internship, Career Development and Student Employment
Posted: Dec 8, 2009
The 2009 University of Hawai'i, Mānoa Co-op Student of the Year is Kendra Hanagami, a Civil and Environmental Engineering major and Co-op with Engineers Surveyors Hawaiʻi (ESH), Inc.
The 16th annual UH Mānoa Co-op Student and Supervisor of the Year appreciation and awards reception was held on Friday, November 13, 2009 at ESH, Inc.
Cooperative Education is a unique form of education which integrates classroom study with paid, planned, and supervised work in the private and public sectors. It allows participating students to acquire essential, practical skills by being exposed to the world of work beyond the boundaries of the campus, enhancing their confidence, capabilities and career direction.
This annual awards and appreciation event recognizes outstanding student contributions in private industry and government and the unique support of employers who provide avenues for students' professional growth and career opportunities through a cooperative education experience. Each year, a committee comprised of a university faculty member, co-op employer, and co-op student alumnus selects one outstanding Co-op student employee for his/her contributions and commitment to the Co-op program. To recognize all co-op students and supervisors who were nominated, CDSE will virtually recognize nominees and winners on the CDSE website (http://cdse.hawaii.edu).
This is the second year the recognition event was held at the student winners' respective Co-op sites where their co-workers and supervisor were in attendance to celebrate. As the UH Mānoa's Co-op Student of the Year, Kendra will also represent UH Mānoa in the National Cooperative Education Internship Association (CEIA) Student Employee of the year competition to be held in April 2010.
Wendy Sora, Associate Executive Director of Career Development and Student Employment, presented the award, which consists of a $500 scholarship and plaque.
Kendra's supervisor, Chief Engineer Jeffrey Sato, describes Kendra as a "hard worker in pursuit of excellence." He states that "her combination of humility, determination and intelligence enables her to overcome the difficulties and complexities of each task assigned to her" and her "hard work and focus over the past year, surpasses not only her peers, but many first year engineers in engineering ability."
The 2009 Co-op Supervisor of the Year is Jeffrey Sato, Chief Engineer, with ESH, Inc.
Kendra describes Mr. Sato as "an individual with a big heart who always puts others before himself." She describes him as "one of the greatest mentors in (her) life" who "has positively influenced (her) future, with his huge heart, challenging expectations, and deliberate planning to serve as a positive role model who (Kendra) will continue to rely on in the future for inspiration and knowledge.


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The Dallas Cowboys signed free-agent OT Edwan Coughman (Seahawks), G D.J. Hall, Jr. (Jaguars) and undrafted free-agent WR Anthony Amos (Middle Tennessee State). They released G Charlie Bryant, WR Greg Herd and OT Aderious Simmons.
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The Dallas Cowboys have signed WR Anthony Armstrong, WR Carlton Mitchell, WR Jared Green, TE Colin Cochart, OG Ray Dominguez, OT Aderious Simmons, LB Cameron Sheffield, CB Brandon Underwood and LS Charley Hughlett to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|Saints | Make roster moves to get to 53 players
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The New Orleans Saints released WR Greg Camarillo, TE Derek Schouman, LB Kadarron Anderson, DE Braylon Broughton, LB Ezra Butler, QB Sean Canfield, DE Alex Daniels, TE Michael Higgins, CB Nick Hixson, SS Jerico Nelson, OG DeOnt'ae Pannell, OT Aderious Simmons, WR Andy Tanner, OG Matt Tennant and LB Lawrence J. Wilson. The team also placed RB Joe Banyard (undisclosed), SS Jose Gumbs (undisclosed) and CB Marquis Johnson (undisclosed) on Injured Reserve.
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The New Orleans Saints signed undrafted college free-agents WR Malcolm Beyah, DL Braylon Broughton, TE Jake Byrne, DB A.J. Davis, C Brian Folkerts, WR Chris X. Givens, S Jose Grumbs, WR Kevin X. Hardy, OT Dan Hoch, LB Stephen Johnson, S Jerico Nelson, S Laron Scott, OT Aderious Simmons, LB Aaron Tevis, S Johnny X. Thomas and DL Tyrunn Walker.
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The plight facing freshwater fishes was tackled by some of the world's leading conservationists in a week long gathering earlier this month.
Many of the world's 14,000 freshwater fish species are in difficulty because of climate change, over-fishing, pollution, damming and habitat destruction. The effects have already been felt in the Amazon Basin, where 5,000 species are at risk as the basin faces its worst drought in many years.
In a global effort to tackle these problems, Chester Zoo, UK, hosted a five day meeting of the IUCN SSC Freshwater Fish Specialist Group (managed jointly by IUCN and Wetlands International).
Professor Gordon McGregor Reid, IUCN Freshwater Fish Specialist Group Chair and Chester Zoo's Director General chaired the meeting, where experts united to pull together action plans to identify and monitor the situation, publicise the work in progress and develop a global strategy for fish conservation.
"Freshwater fishes are extraordinarily important in worldwide conservation and represent the largest single group of vertebrates on the planet. They support the employment of millions and feed billions," said Professor Reid.
"Living in one of the most threatened environments, freshwater fishes are one of the most threatened classes on the planet, and they need our intervention if they are to survive," he added.
The conservation status of over 500 species was also evaluated, using standard IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, to determine which species would be classified as threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This brings the number of completed and ongoing freshwater fish assessments to over 4,000, and it is hoped that, with additional funding, this will eventual lead to a global freshwater fish assessment of all 14,000 species.
Results will also be used for the development of the IUCN Sampled Red List Index, which is based on a sample of species from a wide range of taxonomic groups. It will measure trends in extinction risk for a wide range of global diversity, providing critical information to guide conservation actions and decisions.
The IUCN Freshwater Fish Specialist Group offers support and advice to governments and wildlife agencies globally on the critical issues facing fishes. The network of members now extends to all the major regions of world including north, central and south America, Europe, the Middle East, south east Asia, north, west and central Africa, Australasia and Oceania as we look at developing action plans to recover the situation. The group endorses selected conservation projects, including a multi-million dollar project in the Congo Basin and another in the Middle East.
Freshwater facts:
• Inland fishes represent about 26 per cent of the world's annual fisheries production (34.2 million tonnes of freshwater fishes are caught or raised in aquaculture annually)
• Over four per cent of the world's annual animal protein supplies are freshwater fishes
• More than 300 kinds of fish species new to science are discovered every year, the majority coming from fresh waters
• At least 27 million tonnes of freshwater fishes are consumed annually for food with another eight million tonnes being used annually for non-food products like fishmeal and oil
• Over 68 per cent of these fisheries are in developing countries
• In the Mekong River alone, 52 million people depend on freshwater fishes for livelihood and nutrition


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We have developed a system of separately operated centerboards that allow you to achieve full directional stability on nearly any course and under any sailing conditions. Simultaneously, we have been working on additional solutions concerning gaff rigging. They increase the HABER 660's ability to sail in heavy storm conditions on the sea.
All these features make HABER 660 a unique, efficient and comfortable yacht with particularly small draught, a yacht which is suitable for longer journeys. It is for cruising on shallow inland waters as well as on the open sea.
Hand made hull and deck made of glass reinforced plastic
Deck - sandwich
Gelcoat in white color
Slidable hatchway at the entrance to the cabin
Profiled centerboard - laminate - operated from the cockpit
Inner permanent ballast - laminated
Stainless steel towing eye
8 plexi windows
Aluminum / plexi hatchway
Vent grates and stainless steel mushroom vent
Anchor storage locker
Ventilated compartments with inside-locking system
Vertically sliding 3-part companionway (plexi)
Stainless steel flagpole
Shelves in cockpit - 2 pcs
Bracket for fixing an outboard engine, for engines up to 37 kg of weight
6 cleats with stainless protection plates
Steering device with a liftable rudder plate
Removable helmsman seats on the stern
Bow counter with wooden step
Stern counters - 2 pcs
Complete guard rail - single line
Stainless steel folding stern ladder
Rubrail PVC - grey
Interior furnishing: oak wood
Galley: 2 cupboards, 2 drawers, stainless sink with outlet, one-burner ORIGO 2000 spirit cooker in galley plate
Folding table - part of the bunk
Complete upholstery - mattresses. Broadened mattresses next to companionway - berth in the cabin
Flexible drinking water tank - 50 l
Electric water pump
Bilge pumps: manual and electric
Head with wash-basin and cupboard under, chemical toilet Porta Potti 365 with movable fastening
Carpet in the cabin
Electric distribution board Philippi STV 108, 8 automatic fuses
Interior lighting: 2 x forepeak, 3 x cabin, 1 x head
Positional lights corresponding to IMO requirements (without BSH)Battery 110 Ah
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Main sail 12,4 m2
Genoa 9,00 m2
Mast, boom and gaff - aluminum, chromate and powder coating - grey
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Lowering mast system with mast prop on the stern
Mainsail and genoa made of Dacron in white color
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Jackson Academy beats PCS 21-12
Weather delays game more than 2 hours
Jackson Academy beats PCS 21-12
Weather delays game more than 2 hours
After more than two hours of delay time due to inclement weather in the Hattiesburg area, Jackson Academy got their first win of the season.
The defending MAIS Academy AAA champs defeated Presbyterian Christian School 21-12 on the road on Thursday night.
JA's top three quarterbacks on the depth chart were out of the lineup due to various injuries.
Fourth string passer Nick Conley got the nod and held down the fort for his team.
He threw an early interception in the second quarter, but responded in a positive way by throwing a touchdown with 11 seconds remaining in the first half.
Jackson Academy plays host to Northeast Lauderdale next week.


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As popular as the course itself, The Castle Course Clubhouse is well worth a visit, even if just to drink in the stunning views over St Andrews Bay.
A constant hub of activity, the Eden Clubhouse offers a friendly and inviting atmosphere for golfers playing the Eden, Strathtyrum and Balgove Courses.
The town today is a vibrant, bustling hub of colour with an eclectic mix of independent shops, restaurants and galleries all set against the stunning background of this medieval Royal Burgh.


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This week, the PGA Tour pays a visit to a true classic - Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Hogan's Alley. By PGA Tour standards, Colonial is far from the longest course on Tour. What makes Colonial so special, along with the history, are the tight, tree-lined holes that require supreme shot-making.
Before the tournament teed off, we caught up with Colonial PGA Head professional Dow Finsterwald, Jr. for a little Q&A.
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PGA.com: Thank you for joining us again this year, Dow. Colonial is a breath of fresh air each year. It's one of the few places left on the PGA Tour were bombing it doesn't mean you have an advantage. It's all about placement at Colonial, which puts a premium on shot-making. Do you think that's a nice change of pace?
Finsterwald: Even by increasing the yardage by 200 yards two years ago, distance is not essential at Colonial due to all of the doglegs. Most holes require a player to put the ball in a certain position in the fairway to have the best shot at attacking the pin. Therefore, regardless of what club the player chooses to reach that position, most will be playing from roughly the same yardage taking the advantage away from the tours longer hitters (which is about all of them). I think the players enjoy playing a traditional course as much as the fans enjoy easy access to the entire course. This year we are expecting breezy conditions which will play havoc with club selection in accessing some of the smallest greens on the PGA Tour.
PGA.com: Speaking of shot-makers, your defending champion is Zach Johnson. Zach famously won the Masters a few years back by laying up to all of the par 5s and trusting his wedges. How difficult do you think it is for players at the highest level to, "lay off the gas pedal," so to speak and dial back on club selection?
Finsterwald: This is the second year of the groove change rule. Many players were bombing their drivers with little care about hitting their ball in the rough. Now they must think a little more about playing from the short grass where the predictability is greater especially when accessing Colonials small greens.
PGA.com: It's a question I feel like I ask you every year, so we'll keep the tradition going -- any chance we see a Texan win Colonial this year? If so, who do you like?
Finsterwald: For some reason it is always hard to play at home. We do, however, have several Texans that are playing well that I feel have a good chance for a Colonial victory, Rod Pampling played a few days last week with some of the members and is playing well, Chad Campbell has continued to play better every week, Jason Day is as hot as anyone on the tour, Ryan Palmer is a Colonial member and a local favorite and his caddie is a former club champion. My pick is Chad Campbell.
PGA.com: What impresses you most about the younger generation of players on Tour today?
Finsterwald: The younger generation is a large group of great players who have all the facets that make a complete golfer: length, accuracy and a deft touch around the greens. On top of all that, they are not afraid to win. Regardless of their size they all hit the ball 300 yards in the air and are highly experienced. We are in the midst of a generation change of prominent golfers, so I am excited to see who becomes the next Tiger, or Phil.
PGA.com: Final question, Dow. Come late Sunday afternoon, can you describe to us what you would see as an ideal finish at Colonial?
Finsterwald: An ideal finish at Colonial for me would be an 80-degree, sunny day that has the dramatics of a playoff between a couple of the local favorites and a nationally prominent player.


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New custom signatures are out!
They display a list of games you play and you can use them for your posts on www.lgdb.org or anywhere else, of course do they get automatically updated if you play a new game!
You find your very own signature on your My account page, i also provided some sample code for BBCode and HTML for your convenience.
Start using them today! hehe.
What do you think? Any suggestion what i should change? A different background or layout?
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Really, awesome :D
Why so much emphasis on player though? Are you planning on adding different classes (dev, contributor etc.).
The background is nice too, but it would be really cool if we could support theming (Wesnoth theme etc.)
Also, a real-time update would be an end all feature, but that would be difficult.. Maybe once the new generation of linux game managers come out, heh
right, i was thinking of introducing a new role, (well i have done it already but it doesnt really mean anything for now.)
the name of the role is [i]Creator[/i] and it can be used for every one who is the author of or a contributer for a game. maybe you had something more fine grained in mind?
custom themes for the signatures is a nice idea, i will look into it, if the usage increases :)


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As Commander of USSOCOM, Admiral William H. McRaven oversees the readiness of Joint Special Operations forces and, as directed, conducts military operations worldwide. McRaven graduated from UT Austin with a degree in journalism and has gone on to command at every level within the Special Operations community, including assignments as commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), commander of Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), and the first director of the NATO Special Operations Forces Coordination Center. He has commanded SEAL Teams and served in numerous leadership and staff positions in combatting terrorism.
Learn more about Admiral McRaven and the other alumni at http://utsystem.edu/chancellorscouncil/


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(Vatican Radio) – Pope Benedict XVI has announced a consistory for the creation of six new Cardinals. To the joy of pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square for the weekly audience with the Holy Father, he made his announcement at the end of his catechesis. Emer McCarthy reports:
The new cardinals come from three continents: America, Africa and Asia, and they are:
Archbishop James Michael Harvey, Prefect of the Pontifical Household, who will be appointed Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, His Beatitude Bechara Boutros Raï, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon), His Beatitude Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro- Malankara (India), Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja (Nigeria), Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez, Archbishop of Bogota (Colombia), Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila (Philippines).
"The Cardinals - said the Pope - have the task of helping the Successor of Peter in the performance of his ministry of confirming the brethren in the faith, and that of being the principle and foundation of unity and communion of the Church." The new cardinals - he added - "fulfil their ministry in the service of the Holy See or as fathers and pastors of particular Churches in various parts of the world."
"I invite everyone to pray for the newly elected, requesting the maternal intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that they will always love with courage and dedication to Christ and his Church."
This is Benedict XVI's fifth consistory, and with the consistory of November 24 he will have created 90 cardinals.
On that date, the College of Cardinals will be composed of 211 cardinals: 120 are eligible to vote in conclave being under the required 80 years of age.
In a geographical breakdown of current Cardinal-electors Europe counts 62; Northern America 14, South America 21; Africa 11; Asia 11; Oceania 3.


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We're continuing to study First Corinthians and coming now to the fifteenth chapter. There's only 16 in the book so it won't be long and we'll be finished. But we come to this marvelous fifteenth chapter for this morning. It's going to take us some weeks to get through it because of the great depth and significance that it holds for us.
A Christian was walking through an art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland and he came upon a small boy gazing at a particular painting of the crucifixion. He stood and watched the little fellow for a moment and then he walked up and laid his hand on his shoulder and he said, "Son, what is that a picture of?" "Why, Sir," said the lad, "don't you know? That's our Lord dying on a cross and bearing our sin." The man patted the boy on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, Son." And then he walked on and continued to look at the remaining pictures in the gallery. Suddenly he felt a little tug at his sleeve and he looked down and there was the same little fellow. The boy looked up and said, "Pardon me, Sir, I forget to tell you one thing. He's not dead anymore, He arose."
And that is the message of the gospel. He's not dead anymore. He arose. And that basically is the heart of the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians. And just as the heart pumps life blood to the body, so the resurrection is the very heart of the gospel pumping life into every other area of truth. The resurrection is the pivot on which all of Christianity turns. Take away the resurrection, Christianity comes out as wishful thinking and just another useless human philosophy. Christians down through the ages have banked their destiny, have banked their life, have banked their hope on the fact that the shameful death of Jesus Christ was not the last word, but that He arose and triumphed over death and that when He said, "Because I live, ye shall live also," He granted to anyone who comes to Him by faith the same resurrection hope. And it was this belief and this belief alone, frankly, that turned the heart broken followers of a crucified rabbi into the courageous martyrs of the early church. It was the resurrection that gave birth to the fellowship of the saints that became the church.
And they found in those early years that they could imprison them and they could chastise them and they could beat them and they could verbally assault them and they could invent ways to persecute them and they could even kill them but they could never make them deny the reality of the resurrection. It has always been and will always be the cornerstone of the Christian faith. And because that is true, the most fierce blows struck at Christianity in its history have been struck at the point of the resurrection. Because if you wipe out the resurrection you get rid of everything. You eliminate salvation, you eliminate the deity of Christ, you eliminate eternal life, you eliminate the consequence of death, you just wipe it all out. And so the resurrection is always under attack.
Some of you picked up the morning Times on Monday after hearing our message on the resurrection last Sunday. On the front page you saw that article which stated that all Christian scholars agree that there is no resurrection. L.A. Times, and that this is something that's just the wishful thinking of a few ancient fundamentalist fuddy-duddys who have long since lost touch with the reality of the truth. You know how come people define fundamental, no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental. Well that's all of us, that's all of us who want to hold to the resurrection. But when somebody attacks the resurrection of Jesus Christ, whether they come from a theological seminary, a church, a denomination, or whatever, they are tearing down the very cornerstone of the Christian faith.
Now this wonderful chapter, the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, is really the singular chapter in the whole book that confronts a doctrinal issue. All the other ones are really practical issues, although they have doctrinal bases, but this is purely a doctrinal issue that has arisen in the Corinthian church to which Paul must address himself. And thank God he did because he gave us the greatest statement on the resurrection ever penned in this chapter. And by the time we're finished, you and I and everybody who knows anything about us is going to know where we stand about the resurrection. Not only the resurrection of Christ but the anticipated resurrection that you and I and every person who has ever lived in the history of the world, both just and unjust, will experience. And frankly for us it comes down to the simple reality that the entire destiny of man hinges on whether Jesus Christ is simply a crucified rabbi whose body lies long rotting in some forgotten Palestinian tomb, or whether in fact He is God as proven by His resurrection.
Now the resurrection is the core of the Christian faith. The Apostle Paul said, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." In other words, salvation is predicated on the confession of the Lordship of a resurrected Christ. And if there is no resurrection of Christ confessed, there can be no salvation. So people who deny the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ may call themselves Christians, they are not. They may say they reflect the Christian tradition or the Christian position, they do not. They could not be Christians and deny the resurrection. According to Romans 10:9 you are saved by confessing that God has raised Jesus from the dead.
Now, there never has been any question about that in Christian circles. True Christians have always believed in the resurrection because they had to to be saved. Anybody who doesn't isn't a Christian. That's the line. That's the bottom line. And in the Corinthian church they were not denying the resurrection of Christ, what they were denying was the bodily resurrection of the saints. That's where they had their hang-up. And so 1 Corinthians 15 is written primarily not to prove the resurrection of Christ to Christians, listen, you're not a Christian if you haven't already come to that conviction. And it isn't written to try to convince the unbeliever that Jesus really rose. It is written to try to prove to the Christians that because He literally rose, they too will literally physically bodily personally rise from the dead. That's the thrust of the fifteenth chapter. It's for us, folks. This is all about you coming out of the grave. This is all about me coming out of the grave. Now that makes it kind of interesting. By the time we're done, you will know every detail of what's going to happen when you come out of the grave. That's fascinating.
Now the Corinthians were having a problem at this point. They weren't having a problem believing in the resurrection of Christ, they were already Christians, they believed that. But they had never seen the ramifications. And what Paul says in the fifteenth chapter is this, look, verses 1 to 11 he says, you already believe in the resurrection, right? Right. Therefore realize this, Christ is just the firstfruits of all them that slept, so if you already believe in the resurrection of Christ bodily and physically and literally, why are you hung up on your own resurrection? That's the issue of the fifteenth chapter. That's it basically.
Now you say, "Where did this problem come from?" Well, you see, it came from this particular point, now watch. As I've told you all the way through 1 Corinthians, the Corinthians had allowed themselves to be victimized by the beliefs of their time. Right? They had fallen prey to every goofy philosophical bent in their society. They had allowed the sins of their society to enter the church. They were really the world mixed with the church. They had sucked in just about everything there was. And it was...watch...it was denied among the Greeks that there was such a thing as bodily resurrection. They denied that. So even though the Corinthian Christians had accepted the bodily physical resurrection of Christ, their pagan background, the influence of powerful Greek philosophy had convinced them that there was no physical resurrection for anybody else and so they drew the line after Christ. They were like Hymenaeus and Philetus in 2 Timothy 2:17 and 18 who said the only resurrection that's going to happen already happened. They were teaching the resurrection as past and they were ruining the faith of people. They were saying, "Oh yes Christ rose bodily, but, oh no, there's no resurrection for us." Because that's what Greek philosophy believed.
To illustrate that that is in fact what Greek philosophy believed, look at Acts chapter 17 and let's see Paul at the very core of the philosophical center of the Greek world, the city of Athens. And he comes to the city of Athens in Acts 17 and immediately he begins to preach about Jesus. And naturally when he preaches about Jesus he talks about His bodily physical resurrection from the grave. And that immediately creates a problem for the Greeks. Verse 18, Acts 17:18, "Certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him and some said, What will this babbler say? What is he dribbling on about? Others said, He seems to be a center forth of strange gods." Now watch. He seems to be introducing some new kind of religion. He seems to be saying something we think is very strange, very different, we've never heard of this. Why? Because he preached to them Jesus and...what?...the resurrection. You see, they had no place for a literal physical bodily resurrection and when he came preaching that they said, "What kind of babble is this?" And others said, "Who is this guy with this new religion?"
Further in verse 32 it says, "When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, which he undoubtedly preached, that not just Christ but all the dead would rise, some mocked and others said, We ought to hear this guy again." You'll notice that nobody believed. And so Paul left town. They were so steeped in their philosophy that was anti-physical, bodily resurrection that they couldn't really believe the message of Paul in Athens. Corinth was a suburb of Athens, so you'll understand the impact that Greek philosophy headquarted in Athens had on Corinth.
Now some of you have studied philosophy. And you're like me you wasted a few years doing it. But you will remember something from your basic philosophy class and that is something that came out of Greek society called "philosophical dualism." Now philosophical dualism is basically attributed to Plato. And philosophical dualism dominated Greek thinking. Philosophical dualism says on the one hand matter you have and it is evil, on the other hand, spirit and it is good. That's dualism. Matter is evil, spirit is good. That's what the Greeks believed. So when they died, the body which was evil sloughed away, the soul which was good went into immortality. They didn't want anything to do with the body. Plato said the body is a prison that binds the spirit and the man waits to be released from his prison. To Plato a resurrection with the body, a rejoining to a body would be like a second hell. So he denied it and Greek culture went along with it. In fact they had a proverb. Their proverb said, "The body is a tomb, I am a poor soul shackled to a corpse." They thought only of the fact that the body was evil, the body was matter, the body was flesh, it would just die and you would flee away to be united with immortality.
Seneca, a famous Greek, said, "It pleased me to inquire into the eternity of the soul. Nay, to believe in it. I surrendered myself to that great hope." Now notice, Seneca believed in the immortality of the soul. We find that all the Greeks did. They didn't have any problem with the immortality of the soul, it was the resurrection of the body they didn't believe in. Seneca goes on to say, "When the day shall come which shall part this mixture of divine and human, here where I found it I will leave my body and myself I will give back to the gods." Now that was the typical Greek view that there was a dualism, that your spirit just went on to eternal life, your body never did. In fact Seneca said the spirit went to be resolved into its ancient element. And its ancient element would be God.
I'll look at it from another angle and show you what I mean. There was another group called the Stoics, mentioned in Acts 17. And they were a very interesting philosophical group. Let me tell you basically what they believed and you'll recognize this as modern liberal theology, it's the same old stuff. They believed that God was a spirit but that He was fire, okay? He was fire. He was a fire spirit...whatever that is. That's what they believed. And they believed that every man when he was born, God somehow sent a little spark of that fire to live within the flesh and that's what man is, he is a spark of deity in flesh. That's exactly what liberal theology teaches today. Every man has in him the spark of deity. So we're a whole lot of little pieces of this fiery spirit of God and running around in flesh. And the Stoics said that when the body dies it goes into the grave, it dissolves into the ashes, goes back to the dust and the spark goes back and rejoins with the big spark who is God. And so it's lost in the immortality of the universal deity. That's Stoic philosophy. That was pretty much the Greek thing.
So you put all of that together and there's no way that a Greek in his culture or in his philosophy or the religions in which he had been trained would have ever tolerated or understood a resurrection of the body. To him it was a strange message to be mocked and to be disbelieved as occurred in Acts 17. But here comes the Corinthian church and in the midst of the Corinthian church they're a whole bunch of people who believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. They have to to be saved. But now they are denying that the rest of the people are going to rise.
Now Paul points this problem up in verse 12 of 1 Corinthians 15, he says, "How say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? Why are you saying this?" And then the first part of verse 12, "If Christ is preached that He rose from the dead." I mean, if you've already admitted that Christ rose bodily and physically, why can't you believe that you will also? Now there may have been another or other contributing factors to this. There were a group of Jews running around loose at that time known as the Sadducees. And the Sadducees did not believe in bodily resurrection, that's why they were so sad, you see because they had absolutely...they had...you like that...they had absolutely no hope. They had nothing to anticipate, they had nothing to look forward to. They did not believe in the resurrection. They didn't believe in angels or the resurrection it says in acts. So they may have influenced the Corinthians. And further, there were some people who made a joke out of bodily resurrection by saying, "Can you imagine some stinking rotting decayed thing coming out of the ground to house the immortal divine soul? Yuk." You know, that's how they'd look at it. Reject that. Even as late as 220 A.D. a man named Celsus(?) attacked Christianity with the idea of a bodily resurrection in these words, "That is the hope of worms," he says, "for what should a man...what soul of a man would any longer wish for a body that had rotted?" So maybe they were a little confused. And in fact that's why Paul spends a great portion of the fifteenth chapter describing the resurrection body. So any of the skeptical rotted body fanatics wouldn't have any more fuel for their fire. He really ends that discussion when he describes the body at the end of chapter 15.
So now here's what Paul is trying to do. He's trying to say, "Look, there is a physical resurrection. It is validated or proven by the resurrection of Christ which was physical and don't worry about the rotten body theory, let me tell you the kind of body you're going to get." And he starts to do that in verse 35 and following.
So he really is dealing with a very specific situation in Corinth. But while he deals with it, as so often occurs in Scripture, he lays out for us the most tremendous statement ever penned on the resurrection in this chapter. This is it.
Now remember Paul's purpose is not to deal with the immortality of the soul. The Greeks didn't have a problem with that, they believed in that. Paul's purpose is to deal with the resurrection of the body. So this is all about the body. Now here's the reasoning of the chapter. I'll give you just this little vignette that will help you to understand it. The first eleven verses he never discusses the problem. The problem is introduced in verse 12. Because before he even needs to deal with the problem he wants to establish some common ground. So his common ground is we all believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ bodily and since we all believe in that, what's the hang- up with believing in our own bodily resurrection? Now that's the flow of the chapter right there and he moves that way through the chapter.
Now for today and next time we're going to look at the first eleven verses and we're going to see a restatement of what we already believe...the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He rose bodily. He came alive out of the grave physically and literally. That's the basis. And he doesn't even bring up the problem here, he just restates what they already all believe or they wouldn't be Christians. Now in so doing as we go through this, I want to just pull out five little points and I call them testimonies to the resurrection. The first eleven verses have five of them. As we listen to Paul restate the gospel and restate what the Corinthians and you and I who are Christians already believe that Jesus rose physically and this is the basis of his later statements about our physical resurrection, but as we go through this statement of the gospel there are five testimonies to the validity of the resurrection. We'll cover the first two this time and the next three next time.
Let's go to number one and as Paul begins in his restatement of the gospel, he first of all gives us...it's an implication rather than explicitly stated here...the testimony of the church. Let me begin by reading you the first two verses then I want to add a couple statements from three and four. "Moreover, brethren," now moreover is a Greek term that separates this chapter from the last chapter. This has no connection to the last chapter. This is a new subject all together. He throws brethren in there as a term of love and affection. He says, "I make known," and it's emphatic here, very strong statement. "I want to remind you of the gospel." Now let's go back to basic, and some Corinthian might be scratching his head saying, "For goodness sakes, Paul, why? What are you doing here? Why are we going through all this again?" Well he slugs his way through the resurrection, the first eleven verses, and then he hits them with the thunderbolt in twelve, "Listen, if that's true of Christ, why can't it be true of you guys? And why do you have some who deny it?" See, which is a great way to set up an argument. You get everybody agreeing on the same thing and then ask them how come if they all agree on that they have a problem with this. That's what he does. So he says I have something firmly to declare. I want to make known to you. And what he winds up doing is restating the gospel. He says nothing new, it's what I preached to you, it's what you received, it's what you stand on, it's what you are saved by.
Well what is it? Verse 3, it is this, that Christ died for our sins. Verse 4, that He was buried and that He rose again the third day. Now stop there. Paul says let me recite to you the gospel. I want to declare the gospel. And what is the gospel? It is that which I received and delivered to you, Christ died, He died for our sins, He was buried, He rose again the third day. Paul says let's go back to the basics, we're almost done with this letter, I want to remind you of the basics. The gospel...an interesting statement here, he says, "I declare unto you the gospel," the Greek says, "I declare unto you the gospel which...with which I gospelized you...with which I preached to you." And what gospel is it, Paul? Well it's the gospel of the death, the substitutionary death, the burial, the resurrection of Christ, that gospel. Paul says let me remind you of it.
And then let me remind you this, look at the end of verse 1, "You received it...you received it." Now what happens when somebody receives the gospel? First chapter of John verse 12, "To as many as received Him to them gave he the right to become sons of God, even to them that believe on His name." So they received it. And remember it? You received the fact that Christ died, that He died for our sins, that He was buried and that He rose out of the grave, you received that. Second point, you stand on that...perfect tense...you took your stand and you continue to stand on it. You haven't changed. This is the permanent state in which you exist.
Not only that, he says you not only received it and you not only stand on it but you are being saved by it. In other words, because of your commitment to this truth of the death and resurrection of Christ, you are the possessors of salvation.
Now you can see the impact of this statement to them only when you understand the point here. He is reaffirming that they already believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ as the basis for everything he's going to say in the rest of the chapter. That's the starting point. Sometimes people will say, "Do you have to believe in the resurrection to be saved?" I said it before, I'll say it again...yes. Absolutely yes. And so these are saved people. Now he says look, this is true of you already you believe in this bodily resurrection. But he adds an interesting footnote at the end of verse 2. "If you keep...and I'll read you the Greek rendering so you'll get the thrust of it...if you hold fast what I preached to you, unless your faith is worthless, or unless you have believed without effect, or unless you have had empty faith."
Now I want to talk about that phrase for a minute cause it's very important.
You say, "Whoa, boy, they received it, they stand on it, they're being saved by it." Yes, if they hold fast to it. You say, "Oh no, you mean you could lose it if you didn't hold fast to it? I thought you believed in the security of the believer?" I do. "Well what about this believing in vain? You mean somebody could believe and God could say I'm sorry, you believed in vain? I haven't responded to it." What is it saying here?
Let me show you what it's saying. In the New Testament there is always a balance between assurance and presumption, always. There's always a balance between what God does to secure the believer and what the believer does to persevere in his faith. One is looking at it from the divine side and one is looking at it from the human side. Now remember, Paul wrote this, all right? That will help you. The same Paul exactly who wrote this, listen as I read it, "For whom He did foreknow He did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate He called. Whom He called He justified. Whom He justified He glorified. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect, shall God that justifieth? Who is He that condemneth, shall Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again? Who shall separate us or what shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, distress, or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword? For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creation shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Now Paul there says if you've been called it's because you've been predestinated. And if you've been predestinated and called you'll be justified. And if you'll be justified you'll be glorified. And nobody but nobody at no time will ever be able to make a change in that. Who will lay any charge to God's elect? It is God that justifies. If God says you're just, who is going to condemn you? If Christ declares you're His, who is going to condemn you? What is going to separate you? Nothing. Paul says in Romans 5:9 and 10 if the death of Christ can justify us, imagine how the life of Christ interceding for us can keep us. That's Paul's faith. He believes in the security of the believer. He believes that God holds His own.
But on the other hand, looking at it from the human standpoint, Paul also says that a true Christian is known by the fact that he continues to believe. And somebody who goes along for a while believing and then changes to unbelief gives evidence that he never was saved to begin with. He has believed in vain. What do you mean? He has had a worthless faith, a useless faith. To put it another way, a non-committal faith. How many people do you know who believe Jesus died and rose again but aren't Christians? I know a lot of them. In fact, I meet people some times and I'll say, "Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Do you believe He died? Rose again?" Oh yeah, I believe it. They're not Christians. Why? Because that's a useless faith. It has no commitment to it. It's like James says in James 2:17 to 20, "The devils believe in tremble." And James says you tell me about your faith, let me see its evidence. And what is it evidence? Continuance in the manifestation of faith in the life.
Now when you go to a city to have an evangelistic meeting, you know that there are going to be lot of people who respond to the gospel but not all of them are going to be legitimate. Right? It's very true. Jesus told the parable about the man who scattered the seed, he put it on four soils. How many of the four were legitimate? Really born again? One. There's always an emotionalism, there's always a profession made by certain people and at Corinth there was a great great evangelistic movement. Paul came in and hit that city and people were saved and the church grew and fantastic things happened and no question about it, there were some people who hung on, there were some people who were emotionalized by it and joined the bandwagon. You know, got in on the deal. But their faith was worthless. It was without effect. It was empty, that's what vain means. It was empty faith. It was empty because there was no commitment in it.
For example, in John 2 it says of Jesus, "Many believed on His name." You say terrific, it's a great revival. The next verse says, "But He never committed Himself to them because He knew their hearts." You see, it was a superficial empty faith with no commitment to it. That's the point. That's why in Romans 10 it says you're not only to believe God raised you from the dead but you're to confess with your mouth Jesus as...what?...Lord. You see, there's the commitment that goes along with the faith. In John chapter 8 and verse 30 a text that frequently comes to mind in this regard, it says, "And as He spoke these words many believed on Him." And again it looks like a great evangelistic harvest. But the next verse says, "Then said Jesus to those Jews who did believe on Him...watch...If you continue in My Word then are you My real disciples." In other words, there's all kinds of people who initially jump on the bandwagon. In John 6 there were disciples who believed for a while, superficially, and then when things weren't going the way they thought it says His disciples turned away and walked no more with Him, and that's John 8:31 too. Jesus said if you continue in My Word, then you're My disciple for real. So from God's standpoint a true believer is kept, but from our standpoint a true believer is manifest to us because he is one who continues in the faith. The one who departs give evidence of never having really been saved. Luke 8:13 says the same thing, it says this, the parable of the soil, "They that fell on the rock are they who when they hear receive the Word with joy." Oh, it's so wonderful. "And they have no root and for a while they believe but in time of testing they fall away." And their faith was empty, vain, useless, worthless, without effect. It had no real commitment.
In Hebrews chapter 10 verse 38 it says, "Now the just shall live by faith." You can tell a just man because he lives by faith. He doesn't have a bang moment of faith, he doesn't have an experience of faith, he has a life of faith and he continues in that life and he follows it out. The just shall live by continual faith. But if a man draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But he says we Christians are not of them who draw back but of them who continue to believe to the saving of the soul. So you can tell a false Christian, one with empty faith, vain faith because he falls back to perdition.
Now James speaks of the same truth in James 1:22. "Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." Now there are plenty of people who hear and they say, "Oh, this is so wonderful." "If a man is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he's like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and he beholds himself and then he goes his way and he forgets what manner of man he was." He looks in the mirror and he sees himself and he walks away and he forgets. "But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty...watch...and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed." It's the one who continues, not the one who looks and says, "Isn't it wonderful?" and walks away and forgets. True Christians are evident by their continued faith.
Colossians 1:21, "And you that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works has He now reconciled." The saved. "And the body of His flesh on the cross through death and He's presenting you holy, unblamable, unreprovable in His sight." Okay, that's a statement about salvation. Christ in His death has saved you. Watch 23, "If you continue in the faith, grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel." So you see, if you move away from the hope of the gospel you give evidence that it never really took, that you believed in vain, your faith was empty, worthless, useless, faith with no commitment to the lordship of Christ.
In 1 John 2:19 it says, "They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us, but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." You see what he's saying? When you see somebody leave the fellowship, they don't continue in the faith. John says they went out from us because they were not of us. If they had been of us they would have continued with us. And so the upshot of all of this, beloved, I say to you the words of the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 13:5, "Examine yourselves whether you are in the faith, prove yourselves." You better look and see that your faith is not empty, uneffectual, useless, worthless faith with no commitment. Emotionalism.
So Paul opens up then with this...and that was all an aside really in Paul's thinking and in mine...back to 1 Corinthians 15, Paul opens up then by reminding them that if they are true Christians and they give evidence of it by continuing to believe, then they're the ones who've already received the gospel, they already stand on the gospel, they are being saved by the gospel and the gospel is a gospel of a bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. So they're already resurrection believers. And, you know, by this time in the verse they're saying, "Amen, Brother Paul, amen, amen. Oh, we believe it." And later one he'll say, "How come if you believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ you're so hung up on your own bodily resurrection?" That's the point.
But...I want you to notice just one thought that's sort of is implicit here and that is this, in my mind the greatest subjective proof of the resurrection is the very existence of the church. The very fact that the Corinthians had received it and stood in it and continued in it is evidence that Christ was alive because they were a mess. Who else could have changed them but a living Christ? Who else could have taken all these extortioners and thieves and homosexuals and fornicators and liars and adulterers and all of those gross things listed in the sixth chapter and transformed them into the community of the redeemed but a living Christ? I doubt seriously that a system of ethics could have literally transformed that entire population of Corinth in a period of eighteen months, and that's what happened according to Acts 18. It had to be a living Christ. Christ had to be alive. And here they are some years later still believing, still standing, still committed, still holding. And, beloved, let me add to that, here we are 2000 years later still believing in the resurrection. And I think we are the greatest subjective proof in the world of the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. Do you realize that for those 2000 years while we've been continuing in the faith the skeptics of the world have done their best to disprove the resurrection and never been able to prove...to disprove it at all to the true saved community? In fact, the longer we live, the greater the resurrection evidence is. And we are literally living evidence that He is alive.
H. D. A. Major(?) from Ripon Hall at Oxford writes in his book, The Mission and Message of Jesus, "Had the crucifixion of Jesus ended His disciples experience of Him it is hard to see how the Christian church could have come into existence. That church was founded on faith in the Messiahship of Jesus. A crucified Messiah was no Messiah at all. He was one rejected by Judaism and accursed of God. It was the resurrection of Jesus as Saint Paul declares in Romans 1:4 which proclaimed Him to be the Son of God with power," end quote. He's right. He's saying if there was no resurrection the church would have died right there because the whole thing was predicated on that.
Kenneth Laterette(?), great historian writing in The History of Expansion of Christianity says, "It was the conviction of the resurrection of Jesus which lifted His followers out of the despair unto which His death had cast them and which led to the perpetuation of a movement begun by Him. But for their profound belief that the crucified had risen from the dead and they had seen Him and talked with Him, the death of Jesus and even Jesus Himself would probably had been all but forgotten." The very existence of the Corinthian church was proof of a physical resurrection of a living Christ. They still believed it. We still believe it. The resurrection faith is unique to Christianity. Buddhists don't claim it. In the Maha Parena Bowna Suta(????) which is some kind of book written by somebody advocating Buddhism, we read the first account of Buddha relative to his death and it says this, "When Buddha died it was with that utter passing away in which nothing whatever remains." Mohammed died June 8, 632 A.D. at Medina where his tomb is annually visited by literally tens of thousands of devout Mohammedans and nobody has ever claimed that he came out of the grave. All the millions and billions of Jews and Buddhists and Mohammedans and all the other religions in the world agree that their founders have never come up out of the grave. The Jews have never claimed that Moses did. But the church continues to celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead. And every time the church baptizes another believer, they portray His resurrection, into the water and back out again. That's the heart of our faith and the church alive today is great evidence that we still receive and we still stand and we are still being saved if in fact we hold to the gospel by the reality that Jesus died, that He died for our sins, that He was buried and that He rose again the third day.
Now quickly a second. The testimony not only of the church is given here by Paul to refresh them in the gospel but the testimony of the Scripture. And you'll notice that at the end of verse 3 he says this all according to the Scriptures and the end of verse 4 again, according to the Scriptures. In other words, the gospel of the resurrection was not some late edition. It was not some "Oh hey, we've got a new thing to drop on you, folks," no. All predicted in the Old Testament. Paul says look, I delivered to you that which I received. Now every good Apostle, every good minister of God is a delivery boy, nothing more. All God expects out of us is to get the right message to the people. Paul says I delivered what I received. And by the way, Paul received it first hand.
So he says I received this from the Lord, first hand stuff. You know, Paul fought a battle in his life, he was often accused of being a Johnny-come-lately. Later in the next section he calls himself a dead fetus. It's really a statement of humility. It's in the King James it says, "One born out of due time," it means an abortion. And so he was...and apparently, and I'll tell you this next week a little more about it, but apparently that's what he was called, "Paul the abortion," or "Paul the dead fetus." And people were always condemning Paul. He was born at the wrong time. He was sort of a spiritual miscarriage. And he didn't really rank with the rest of the sharp Apostles, boy, the front line guys. And so very often when Paul gives a message he will say, "I am delivering to you what I received from the Lord. I'm a first hand Apostle, not second hand."
I remember when he was writing Galatians, in his mind he's thinking they're probably prone to think that I'm just a second hand operation here so he says in verse 11 of Galatians 1, "I make known to you, brethren," now watch, "that the gospel which was preached by me is not from men. I neither received it from men nor was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." And then he says, "When I got saved I never even went to Jerusalem to talk to those guys at all. I never went down there to get the straight shot from the big shots." Never did. Went off in Nabatea in Arabia, came back, the person who gave me this is the Lord Himself. In 1 Corinthians 11:23 where he talks about the communion, he says, "Which I have received from the Lord I give to you that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread..." Again, I got it from the Lord, I give it to you. So here he says the gospel I gave you is the gospel I have from the Lord. And notice the phrase there in verse 3, first of all. And what he means by that is the principle things, I delivered to you the principle things that I received and the principle things are Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose the third day. And he says I got it from God and I gave it to you.
But he says, "Listen to this, people, it isn't just my idea, it is according to...what?...the Scripture." And that refers to the Old Testament. Paul says this is Old Testament prophecy...Old Testament prophets saw Jesus dying and rising from the dead the third day. In Luke 24 Jesus after His resurrection is walking along the road to Emmaus with two of the disciples. He says to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken, ought not Christ to have suffered these things and then to enter His glory?" He says you didn't believe the prophets or you would have known they said He would die, you would have known they said He would rise to be glorified. That it was all in the Old Testament. At the end of the book of Acts, chapter 26 verse 22, Paul talking to Agrippa he says, "Having therefore obtained help from God I continue this day witnessing to small and great saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come." I just repeat Moses and the prophets so the Jews if they're upset at me ought to call up Moses and tell him. And what is it the prophets and Moses said? That Christ should suffer and that He should be the first that should rise from the dead and show light to the people and the Gentiles. First there the primary one of all who have ever raised from the dead.
So he says what did Moses and the prophets say? That Christ would die and rise. And you know as well as I, you can study the Old Testament and find prophecy after prophecy after prophecy about the death of Christ, can't you? Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, the marvelous prophecy of Genesis 22 in the type of Isaac who is laid as a lamb on the altar to be sacrificed, that is a picture of the death of Christ because a ram comes and takes the place. And the ram is Christ. And Hebrews 11:19 says that when Isaac went off the altar to live again, he became a picture of the resurrection of Christ. So it was there in Genesis 22 even. And again in Psalm 22. And again in Isaiah 53. And every single sacrifice in the Old Testament spoke of Christ prophetically. We'll see a chapter tonight when we meet to study Zechariah chapter 11, one of the most unbelievable prophecies you've ever seen. In Zechariah 11 it details everything Judas would do in the betrayal of Jesus Christ leading to His death, hundreds of years before Judas was ever born. So His death was prophesied, clearly prophesied in the Old Testament.
Psalm 22 talks about the fact that He'll say, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Talks about the fact that His bones will all be out of joint, that He'll be thirsty, that He'll be pierced with a spear, that the crowd will compass Him about. That they'll cast things at Him and mock Him.
The resurrection is also prophesied in the Old Testament. It can be seen in Leviticus 23 in the offering that is given there which is a picture of the resurrection. It can be seen in Psalm 16 where the psalmist said, "He will not let His holy one see corruption." But in the next verse it says, "He will show me the path of life." In other words, the holy one will be buried but His flesh will never see corruption but will come out of the grave to life. That's a clear prophecy of the resurrection. And in Acts chapter 2 verses 30...25 to 32 and in Acts 13:34 to 37 both of those sermons there quote that passage in Psalm 16 as explicit prophecies concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Then you have Jesus' own words. Our Lord said, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, so shall the Son of Man be in the earth." Jonah was a prophecy of Jesus. In Isaiah 53 you have Christ dying and at the end of the chapter you have Him reigning in the earth in the Kingdom. Well you've got to have a resurrection. So the Old Testament speaks of the resurrection. Nothing new. The living church testifies to the resurrection. Now, beloved, we are committed to that resurrection, are we not? Not only as the staple truth of our salvation, but as the hope of our own resurrection which we await when God comes to take His own. Well let's pray. We'll cover the rest of those verses next time.
Father, thank You for our time this morning, for the patience of these who come to hear and study Your Word. Thank You for the great hope of resurrection. Thank You for what the Scripture says about it, for what the living church says about the living Christ. Father, we pray that we might live like resurrection people that the world might see Christ living in us and through us. And we'll give You the praise in the name of the one who lives and because He lives we shall live also, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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The exhibition Fashioning Expo 67 invites visitors to enter the world of Expo 67 and experience the effervescence of Montreal's fashion moment. The exhibition will feature over 60 outfits —hostess uniforms from various pavilions, clothing by Quebec designers— and products from every sector of the Canadian fashion industry, including hats, gloves, umbrellas, purses, jewellery, and even fur.
The different sections of the exhibition will also display drawings, photographs, archival film footage, and documents. In addition, there will be videos of interviews that the Museum conducted with several designers from the era.
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26 May 2017 – 21 January 2018
The exhibition will take on the period of magic shows' golden age and its advertising and promotional mechanisms that relied on phantasmagoric imagery. A selection of breathtaking posters, mostly dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, will retrace the social history of this still active phenomenon. These posters, halfway between art and advertisement, are magnificent, large format chromolithographs that immortalise the magicians and the acts that marked the world of modern magic.
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8 September - 12 November 2017
Focusing on the theme What Does the Image Stand For? proposed by guest curator Ami Barak, MOMENTA | Biennale de l'image presents Jayce Salloum – location/dis-location(s): beyond the pale in collaboration with the McCord Museum.
The installation location/dis-location(s): beyond the pale consists of photographs extracted from archives that Salloum has been building since 1979 from his travels around the world. Mixing quotidian collecting with personal and public documents he takes on questions of conflicted territories, states of nature and being, the nation state, social manifestations, and crises of modernity.
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Wearing our Identity. The First Peoples Collection
Permanent Exhibition
The rich culture and heritage of the First Peoples seen through the importance of clothing, reflecting the social, cultural, political and spirituals identities of First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.
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Your ticket will give you access to all the current exhibitions on view.
Please consult our website to learn about upcoming exhibitions and cultural activities at the museum.
Monday: Closed
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m to 9 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Adult $20
Senior (65+) $17
Student 18-30* $14
Student 13-17 $13
Child** Free
Family*** $40
Museum Member Free
Wednesday Evening Free****
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**12 and under / Maximum 5 children per adult.
***2 adults and 3 children 17 or under, or 1 adult and 4 children 17 or under
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Patients: Fifty-three patients (23 men and 30 women, mean age: 31+/-7 years) with CFS under 50 years were studied.
• Slender build (body mass index <20 kg/m(2)) was common (47%).
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HTC may well have manufactured its last QWERTY keyboard phone after admitting it has no plans to revisit the form factor.
Pocket-lint attended the Frequencies event in Seattle where HTC's design team spoke candidly about moving away from phones with physical keyboards, with emphasis very much being on touchscreens.
As one of the pioneers for Android – an operating system that works far better with a larger screen - HTC has predominantly concentrated on touchscreen phones.
However, only last year we saw the HTC ChaCha, a QWERTY keyboard-sporting handset.
Yet even one-button access to Facebook wasn't enough to convince consumers and the HTC ChaCha received a lukewarm reception.
Whether it was the ChaCha's underperformance that has caused HTC to re-evaluate its road plan it's hard to say, but Pocket-lint for one still feels there is a place for HTC QWERTY phones.
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Red Eclipse is a Free and Open Source game, using SDL and OpenGL which allows it to be ported to many platforms.
The game is a single-player and multi-player first-person shooter (arena style), built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of agility in a large variety of environments ("maps"). The game has also some focus on parcours skills since some special moves like walljumping are possible. Parcours skills are helpful to dodge shots and reach otherwise hard-to-reach places.
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- defend-and-control: Control points are scattered through the arena, both team have to own them by standing near them and holding position. Score points by owning control points and keeping them
- bomber-ball: A ball drops in the middle of the arena. Take it and throw it into the enemy's goal to score
- race: Complete as many laps in a parcours as possible
Note: All game modes can also be played with 2 or 4 teams.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google, Facebook and other U.S. technology companies have been given a wake-up call with moves by Europe to impose stricter rules on data protection, but have nothing to fear from them, one of the architects of the legislation said.
The European Parliament's civil liberties committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tougher data privacy regime on Monday, including fines of up to 100 million euros for companies that violate the rules, which limit how data is shared with non-EU countries, among other things.
The decision means negotiations with member states should move ahead in the coming months, with the aim of having a new code of conduct agreed by May next year, the first fundamental updating of Europe's data protection laws since 1995.
As well as stiff fines for companies that break the rules, the new regime would oblige companies to seek consent before using personal information, would block data-sharing with non-EU countries unless approved by an EU data protection supervisor and establish the "right to erasure" - the ability for consumers to request the deletion of their digital trace, including photographs, emails and Internet postings.
Jan Philipp Albrecht, a 30-year-old German from the Greens party, who was the lead parliamentary negotiator on the legislation, said it should serve as a wake-up call for how Google and others use the data they collect, especially in light of the leaks from U.S. data analyst Edward Snowden about U.S. surveillance activities at home and abroad.
"They've had a learning process for a long time and now we need to say clearly what the rules are and how they will be applied," Albrecht said of Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and others that had been compelled to share data with U.S. authorities.
"I think the wake-up call really came with the Snowden revelations. But the new rules don't just apply to U.S. companies, they apply to companies everywhere around the world, including in Europe, handling European data," he told Reuters.
Asked if Google and the others had anything to fear from Europe, he replied: "No, I don't think so. They will be able to do their business as they do today.
"But if they retain data for longer than is necessary, or if they don't inform consumers about how their data is being used, they will be in violation of the rules.
"If Google just tries to involve consumers in the process and doesn't hide its intentions or the extent to which personal data are involved, then it will be okay."
All the major technology companies have lobbied hard against the data protection regulation since it was unveiled in early 2012, concerned that the rules will damage their business model by imposing a costly burden on how they handle data, and their ability to target products and services at consumers.
U.S. authorities are also worried that if Europe establishes a tough new data regime, the tendency will be for countries in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa to drift towards Europe's standards so as not to fall behind.
That would leave the United States either having to promise the same level of data protection or lobbying to get countries to lower their standards. An uneven regulatory playing field would make it harder for U.S. and other firms to compete.
Albrecht, one of the youngest members of the 766-seat parliament, said he felt partially responsible for representing a younger generation that has a different attitude towards their personal data and how it should be used or shared.
"We have a different perspective on how we communicate and live together in a globalised digital environment," he said. "We need to safeguard certain fundamental principles and rights because governments haven't been engaged on that."
He sees the United States, which has been the leading advocate of open access to data, a cultural norm that has in many respects helped fuel the growth of companies such as Google and Facebook, slowly changing its attitude.
"There is a move in U.S. society as well about the protection of data and consumer self-determination in the market. We need to reassess the relationship between consumers and companies and the way citizens' data is used."
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Nothing helps me understand just how quickly life is going, than when I look at how long it has been since I last blogged.
We enjoyed Pi Day and we are about to have a lovely St. Patrick's Day. Q1 has been interesting with so many career changes for dear friends. It is like starting over again and staying the same. Maybe it is time to read "who moved my cheese?" again?
On the subject of books, reading the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It is a little dry at times, but very important topic. Medical advances have cost some American's their privacy, and others their lives. It is not fiction, although while reading it I have to keep telling myself it is real. It is so unbelievable.


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Swansea City 4-1 QPR
Spanish stars Michu, Angel Rangel and Pablo Hernandez completed a rout for Swansea City against Harry Redknapp's Queens Park Rangers at the Liberty Stadium.
The Swans had triumphed 5-0 at Loftus Road on the opening day of the season and early strikes from Michu and Rangel set them on their way.
Substitute Bobby Zamora pulled a goal back for the Rs, only for Pablo Hernandez to restore Swansea's advantage with an excellent finish.
QPR were then denied a clear penalty as referee Neil Swarbrick failed to spot a blatant handball by Ashley Williams, and Michu rubbed salt into the wounds when he added his 18th of the season.
The only downside for the Swans was the loss of Chico Flores to an ankle injury just past the half-hour mark.
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The centre-half is set to have a scan to check if he suffered any ligament damage, just two weeks before the Capital One Cup final against Bradford at Wembley.
But QPR, without the injured Loic Remy, have bigger problems as a sluggish start which belied their perilous position at the foot of the table proved very costly.
The visitors had conceded just once in their last five league games, but they were 2-0 down inside 19 minutes after a woeful start.
The opener came in the eighth minute. Nathan Dyer took advantage of the space in front of him to get away a shot, and when Julio Cesar could not hold it Michu was on hand to guide a looping shot in off the outside of his boot and end a run of six games without a goal.
Cesar kept out the forward's low shot from Flores' incisive pass a few minutes later, but it proved a brief respite as Rangel doubled the lead.
Wayne Routledge played the full-back into plenty of space and he slotted his second goal of the season after Cesar could only parry his initial effort.
But Swansea were dealt a blow when they lost Flores in the 33rd minute. The centre-half went in low to make a header and appeared to turn his ankle as he did so and required prolonged treatment before being carried off, with Kyle Bartley his replacement.
The injury did not unsettle Swansea and they continued to have things their own way, with keeper Michel Vorm a spectator throughout the first half.
Clint Hill had a lucky escape when Michu caught him dawdling in possession, as the Swansea man's touch found team-mate Dyer offside.
Adel Taarabt summed up QPR's annoyance when he picked up a needless booking for kicking the ball away when conceding a free-kick, the Moroccan then started a spat with Jonathan de Guzman and Ki Sung-yueng.
Redknapp, deeply unimpressed with the first 45 minutes, sent on Esteban Granero and Zamora for Shaun Derry and Jamie Mackle, and within three minutes his side had a lifeline.
Swansea left-back Ben Davies gifted the ball to Taarabt, and when Vorm could not hold his shot Zamora was on hand to tap in.
But QPR's joy was shortlived as Hernandez struck Swansea's third just two minutes later.
Michu picked out the winger in space on the left, and the former Valencia man did the rest, outfoxing Nedum Onuoha before getting away a shot across Cesar to find the net courtesy of the inside of the far post.
It got worse for QPR when they were denied a clear penalty in the 56th minute.
Swansea skipper Williams clearly handled Andros Townsend's cross, but Swarbrick and his assistants inexplicably missed it, to the fury of the Rangers' bench.
Bartley cleared Stephane Mbia's shot off the line in the confusion, and Swansea piled on the pain when Michu got his second at the end of a sweeping move.
Vorm, Rangel and Kemy Agustien linked to find Hernandez in space, and his slide-rule pass got Michu goal side of Christopher Samba to finish.


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Change is hard. NetApp's Innovation Awards are about recognizing people with the courage to think differently about how IT can drive business. These role models show what is possible, and hopefully they will inspire others to follow.
This year, during the 8th annual awards program, we honored organizations from around the globe that are using IT in new and exciting ways no one ever dreamed possible.
Congratulations and thank you to the 7 Innovation Awards winners this year:
Innovators of the Year: Iowa Workforce Development (USPS); Mercy Healthcare System (Americas); Oxigen Services India (APAC); T-Systems Austria (EMEA)
Efficiency Innovation: ING Direct
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Occupy to Protest Mackinac Center
A group calling itself "Occupy the Tri" from the Tri-Cities area of mid-Michigan plans to protest the Mackinac Center's headquarters during non-business hours Saturday, according to The Saginaw News.
Michael Jahr, vice president for communications, told The News that the "Occupy Movement should find a lot to like in the Mackinac Center's work," in reference to the protestors' dislike of bailouts.
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"We routinely highlight the unfairness and negative impact of cronyism and government favoritism," Jahr said. "And we have long called for an even playing field and equal treatment under the law for everyone who lives and does business in Michigan."
The Center for a quarter-century has been a lone voice in Michigan calling for an end to corporate welfare and a government system that attempts to pick winners and losers in the marketplace.
Mackinac Center analysts have called for an end to rent-seeking and have exposed the failures of central planning in major critiques of both the Michigan Economic Growth Authority and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. Investigative work has focused on taxpayer dollars being misused to prop up everything from film producers to electric car battery makers to sporting goods stores to alternative energy producers.
Given that body of work, one would expect the Occupiers to cheer, rather than protest. The organizer of Saturday's protest, however, told The News he sees our work "differently."
That's because Center analysts couple their research with calls for less intrusive government and less spending. They realize it is better for the people the Occupy movement claims to represent to keep more of their own money and decide how best to spend it. The protesters prove as much — albeit unknowingly — because aside from demonstrating in front of our headquarters they also plan what they call a "cash bomb" to support the various small businesses along Midland's Main Street.
Ultimately, the Occupy movement isn't about getting rid of crony capitalism and government favoritism; they just want to shift the spending to their own agenda.
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World Digital Signage Systems Market
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Samsung's Premiere 2013 event is coming up, and they're doing their best to keep people excited. And people should be excited, because we'll be seeing some pretty cool devices there–some Android related, some not. The image is simple and quite attractive, but really doesn't say much about the event. Luckily, we know quite a bit already.
Samsung should announce a few new Galaxy S 4 variants there, as well as show off some that were already announced. We've heard that the Galaxy S 4 Mini will launch at the event. Plus, they'll be showing off their newly announced Galaxy S 4 Active and Galaxy S 4 Zoom to the public. They'll also have some ATIV products running Windows or Windows Phone, which might interest some of you. It'll be a good time!
But the star of the show just might be Samsung's new smart camera, the Galaxy Camera NX. Unlike the first iteration of their Galaxy Camera, this one will have a mirrorless design. Samsung's JK Shin confirmed this himself. However, some leaked photos of it floating around have demonstrated a DSLR-like body with an APS-C sensor and interchangeable lenses, making this camera look a lot more professional. The biggest complaint with the original Galaxy Camera was poor image quality for the price, so this just might be their solution. We can't wait to see it.
As always, Samsung will stream the event, so head to Samsung's YouTube page come June 20! The event starts at 19:00 BST, which is 2:00 PM EST or 11:00 AM PST. Keep your eyes peeled for some cool new stuff, and stay tuned to Android and Me for some sweet, sweet coverage. Is there anything you're excited to see at the event?
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South Side rapper Chief Keef was released from Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center Thursday afternoon after completing his 60-day sentence for violating his probation for a gun conviction.
Chief Keef, whose real name is Keith Cozart, violated his probation when he was filmed holding a rifle at a New York gun range.
The 17-year-old rapper was sentenced to probation last January after pointing a gun at a Chicago police officer in 2011.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Chief Keef walked out of the detention center red diamond-studded coat. He was greeted by about two dozen family members and supporters as he exited and handed him his baby.
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