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Open your Bible now to the sixth chapter of Revelation. Revelation chapter 6 and we'll be looking at verses 12 through 17. As I noted for you earlier in the service, I don't believe we can get all the way through these verses in tonight's message, there's just too much here. So we're not going to press for that. But I want to read this text to you, Revelation 6:12 through 17.
"And I looked when He broke the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. And the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
Here we have recorded the description of the sixth seal out of seven. If we were to title the message, we might title it "Scared to death." The sixth seal opens another force. Now remember, there is a seven-sealed book, or scroll, that contains the information about Christ taking over the universe. As each seal is broken, another scene develops. These seven seals unfold in a seven-year period yet to come in the future that we know as the time of tribulation, the time of Jacob's trouble, Daniel's seventieth week. And during this period of time, the Lamb, the Son of God is unrolling the scroll because He has both the authority to do so as the heir of everything and the power to do so as God a very God.
So, the Lamb of God, the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ here in this vision that John sees is unrolling this scroll which describes the events as He takes over the universe from Satan and the demons and sinners who occupy it and control it. The first force we saw was false peace. The second force we saw was war. The third force we saw was famine. The fourth force was pestilence which could also include natural disasters, as described by the Lord, including an earthquake. The fifth force we saw was vengeance, which is articulated in the fifth seal as those who have been martyred for the sake of Christ, pray that God would bring about vengeance.
The force being exemplified and described in the sixth seal is fear...fear. Fear is a powerful emotion, powerful enough in this scene for people to begin the world's largest prayer meeting, only they don't pray to God, they pray to the mountains and the rocks. And they pray for the mountains and the rocks to fall on them. A prayer for suicide, a prayer for destruction. They're so afraid, they would rather die than face the wrath of God, the wrath of the Lamb.
Fear is a powerful emotion. Sometimes it is an overpowering feeling that takes control of the mind and makes one desire what is irrational. It takes control sometimes of the will and makes people behave in ways that are inexplicable. Fear, frankly, can create all kinds of responses, everything from cowardice to heroism, from strength to weakness, aggression to passivity, reason to confusion, clear thinking to total panic. Fear can strengthen the heart and make it beat faster. Fear can stop it dead. Fear can lead a person to have a total change in what he thinks and feels and does.
Fear is certainly a part of the human factor. It's a part of life. There are normal fears that all of us have, and God has given us the capacity to fear certain things for the sake of self-preservation and the protection of others. Normal fears that everybody has like the fear of disease, the fear of injury, the fear of the loss of family or the loss of love, the loss of a job, the loss of money, fear of death. And then as some tests have indicated, the most dominant fear, the fear of public speaking. Such common fears are usually handled somewhat adequately by most people.
If a person can't handle normal fear, we say that person has a phobia. By phobia we basically mean an abnormal response to a normal fear, or the invention of an abnormal and bizarre fear. A phobia is fear exaggerated. It is fear that disables a person. It is fear that is uncontrollable and unconquerable, it is fear that totally takes control of a person so that they cannot function normally. Such phobia leads to paranoia, panic attacks, and various kinds of deviant and anti-social behavior.
When you look at people and examine what they're afraid of, it's quite amazing. Ann Landers, interestingly enough, through all the years accumulating her mail, has listed what people are afraid of. She's got a list of the things people fear most. She says, "First of all, there are very bizarre fears about which people have written me, such as the fear of falling into the toilet, the fear of certain colors, the fear of being buried alive, or the fear of calling someone by his given name. But the most common fears, according to my mail...she said...are the following: animals, bees, being alone, being stared at, blood, blushing, cancer, cats, choking, corpses, crowds, darkness, death, deformity, demons, dirt, dogs, dreams, elevators, enclosed space, flying, germs, height, horses, illness, insanity, insects, lightning, mice, nakedness, noise, pain, poverty, pregnancy, robbers, school, sexual intercourse, sleep, smothering, snakes, spiders, strangers, surgical operations, syphilis, thunder, travel, vomiting, work and worms."
Frankly, that list is a list of fairly normal things, just stuff that's part of life. But it is amazing how people have phobias about normal things as well as inventing bizarre things like fearing certain colors and so forth. People all fear all kinds of things. They fear normal things abnormally and they fear abnormal things. But rarely are they afraid of what they really ought to be afraid of...rarely.
In Hebrews chapter 10, let me read you a verse, you don't need to look it up, Hebrews 10:31. "It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God." The prior verse says, "God said vengeance is Mine, I will repay, the Lord will judge His people." Now that is something people ought to be afraid of. Cats and dogs and mice and lightning and noise and pain and pregnancy, those are minimal, those are the normal issues of life. If people are going to have a phobia, if they're going to have an uncontrollable, debilitating, disabling, exaggerated, unconquerable fear, let it be the fear of falling into the hands of the living God.
In Luke chapter 12 there is a familiar statement that follows this same thought. Luke 12:5, "I will warn you whom to fear." Jesus is talking. I want to tell you who to fear. In the verse before He said, "Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, don't be afraid of anything that could harm you physically, let me tell you who to fear. Fear the One who after He has killed has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him." Who's that? That's God. Fear God. With all of the phobias and all of the fears that people have, here's one they rarely have, but should have.
And, in fact, I sometimes wonder if the church isn't busy today trying to make sure they don't have it. Trying to make them feel that God is a benign grandfather who is this all time, ultimate, cosmic good guy. Jesus knew His Father well, He said fear Him. Because after He's killed, He has the authority to cast you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him.
Let me tell you something. We just read, you can go back to Revelation 6, we just read about a day when everybody will have that fear. They'll have it to the phobia category. It will be the ultimate paranoia, it will be the universal panic attack. There is coming a day when the world will all have the same debilitating, uncontrollable, disabling, unconquerable phobia, a fear so overpowering that they will be scared to death.
What do you mean by that? Jesus said of that coming day, in Luke 21:26, you want to write that down, Luke 21:26, Jesus said, "Men will faint from fear." Men will faint from fear. The word "faint," apopsucho in Greek, appears only in that verse. You know what it means? To die...to literally breathe out their last. When that day comes there will be such fear that people will be scared to death. Some will die on the spot. They will die from sheer terror because they will realize they have fallen into the hands of the living God, it is His day of wrath and that is so terrifying it will stop their hearts. And those who survive the initial fear will cry for the rocks to crush them to death before they have to face God, as if that could be a means of escape.
What is it that could cause this level of panic? It is the sixth seal being opened. And the dominant force you see here is fear. Now at least for tonight I want to speak to you about the reason for fear. Why are they so afraid? And the answer comes in verses 12 to 14. Then we'll talk about the range of fear, and then we'll talk about the response of fear.
But first of all, the reason for fear. Let's see the reason for their fear, verse 12, John, you'll remember, is in a vision. God is revealing these things to him. And he sees visions that dramatize the future scenes. "I looked when He broke the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair and the whole moon became like blood and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind, and the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up and every mountain and island removed out of their places." Absolutely unbelievable scenario.
Let's start at the beginning, "I looked when He broke the sixth seal." The Lamb who has the seven-sealed scroll, you'll remember, the scroll first appeared back in chapters 4 and 5 when we were in heaven with John. The scroll showed up in the Father's hand, the end of chapter 5, He hands it to His Son in chapter 6 saying to Him, "The world and the universe is Yours, unroll this scroll, it gives You the title deed to it, and describes the action that must take place as You take it back."
As each of the seals have been broken we have seen what is to come. First there is a false peace, orchestrated by false prophets and false christs, led by the Antichrist, leading the world to an imaginary utopia which is immediately shattered by the second seal which is war, worldwide war, war all over the globe, followed by famine, the very obvious result of war, the scarcity of food, followed by death through pestilence and disaster so that one fourth of the population of the whole world perish in a very brief time. And then we saw the fifth, the breaking out of persecution. And then we saw the martyrs praying for God's vengeance.
All of those first five, mark this, had an element of human agency. There were human agents in orchestrating the peace. There are human agents involved in the war, the famine, the death that comes through pestilence. There are human beings involved even in the vengeance as there are believers praying for this to come. They, of course, are men and women, even though glorified at that point.
Now when you come to the sixth seal, God acts without men. You've come to a level of intervention by God that is holy and solely His own. And the paralyzing terrifying act is inconceivable and devastating. Obviously by this time, as we have learned in chapter 6, the world has been filled with ongoing violence. The world has been filled with disaster after disaster, with death everywhere since the false peace was shattered.
This thing is moving rapidly, faster and faster, more intense with greater and greater holocaust, as the birth pains increase toward the big event. All through this time believers have been proclaiming the Word of God. They have been telling the world what you're seeing and what you're experiencing is written in the Scripture. It's all in the Scripture. They've also been preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ because it was for the testimony of Christ and the Word of God, verse 9 says, that they were killed in the first place. So as all of these events are unfolding, those who believe are explaining to the world, this is in the Scripture, this is in the Scripture, we can show it to you, see what's happening, see what's going on, and here is the saving gospel of Jesus Christ that can deliver you.
But what does the world do? It does everything it can to massacre the Christians and massacre the preachers and all who follow Christ. And the world follows Antichrist. They are deceived by Satan, they follow the deception, they disbelieve the Bible, they disbelieve the gospel, they believe the Antichrist. Even though they've heard the preaching of the testimony of the witnessing martyrs that they have killed, they will not believe. And they will believe Antichrist.
Look at chapter 13, for a moment, so that you can see how this happens. In verse 5 of 13 it says that the Antichrist speaks arrogant words and blasphemies and he operates for forty-two months, that's the last three and a half years of this time period. "He opened his mouth in blasphemies against God to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, he blasphemes even those who dwell in heaven. He makes war with the saints. He overcomes them. He has authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation." Verse 8, "All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain." The whole world follows this guy. They all go after him.
He has a partner, another beast in verse 11 comes along. In verse 13 he performs great signs, fire comes down from heaven. And verse 14, "He deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given to him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life." Here comes one known as the false prophet and he does these wondrous things and calls the whole world to worship the Antichrist and they buy the deception. In spite of what is going on all around them, the terrors, the judgments, in spite of all of this, they believe the Antichrist, they believe the false prophet and they just carry on business as usual. In fact, there are prophets running all over the place, even at the time all of this starts to happen, at the time of the war and the famine and the pestilence and death, at the time that all of that persecution and slaughter is going on of believers and of Jews and they're crying out the gospel, in the midst of all of this stuff these people will be just going along, life as usual.
You say, "How do you know that?" Because Jesus said it in Matthew chapter 24, listen to what He said. "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man, they will be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and they didn't understand it till the Flood came and took them all away. So it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." Just like in Noah's day, no matter what he said, and he preached righteousness for 120 years, no matter how many warnings he gave them, no matter what he told them, they just went on eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, like life as usual and they didn't know until it hit and they were drowned. And that's how it's going to be at the coming of the Son of Man. In spite of all of this, the world is going to be deceived, they're not going to believe what Christians are saying. The deception will carry right to the end.
Kind of exacerbating that deception is going to be a plethora of false prophets, false christs Jesus says will be all over the place. One will be saying I'm over here, and another will be saying I'm over here and another will be saying I'm over here, I'm the true Christ, I'm the true Christ, they'll be all over giving answers and telling what's happening and explaining it and giving their opinions and their message is going to be pretty much the same. Verse 3 of 1 Thessalonians 5, "While they're saying peace and safety." They're going to say, "Listen, folks, we're going to work this out, peace is coming, the utopia is around the corner, don't worry about this, we're going to take care of it." And you know what they're going to be saying? "As soon as we have massacred all these Christians, we'll get our utopia." Right? We just got to get rid of them. And then peace and safety. And while they're saying it, 1 Thessalonians 5:3 says, "Destruction will come on them suddenly like birth pains on a woman with child and they shall not escape." The final birth pains will come excruciating and sudden.
And when it hits, back to Revelation 6, when it hits for the first time the world knows the Christians were right. You say, "How do you know that?" Because in verse 16 they say, "Hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come." What does that tell you? It tells you the whole world has been told that the wrath of God and the wrath of the Lamb is coming. They've heard it. They've heard it. And they've heard the gospel because it will be preached to the ends of the earth, Jesus said in the Olivet Discourse. And that everlasting angel will make sure everybody hears as he flies through the sky, but not until the sixth seal, after they've tried to silence all the Christians by massacring them will they suddenly wake up to the fact that what those Christians were saying was true. And what hits is unavoidably attributable only to God. And a more frightening scene and realization couldn't even be imagined.
By the way, as a footnote, this sequence in Revelation 6 also fits exactly with the sequence in Matthew 24 because it follows the same chronology. You come through Matthew 24, you come to verse 29. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, all the things they've been suffering," I don't take it there the tribulation is some technical term, "even after all that they've been suffering, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, the powers of the heavens will be shaken and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky." It's the same event. And the phenomena described in Revelation 6 about the sky is similar to the phenomena Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24, it's the same sequence. You'll notice just prior to that in verse 24 of Matthew 24, the false christs and the false prophets come along again and they say, "Here I am, Here I am, Here I am," and, of course, they're promising the utopia if we can just continue to get rid of the believers and along with them the Jews. Luke 21 follows the same pattern, the same sequence, and that's verse 25 that says, "There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars and upon the earth dismay among nations, perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves," and then it says, "men will die from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming on the world for the powers of the heavens will be shaken and then they will see the Son of Man coming." Same pattern.
Joel the prophet saw it. Take the time to go back and study Joel chapter 2, looking clear from the Old Testament, Joel saw it. In Joel 2 he described this day as a day of darkness, verse 2, a day of gloom, a day of clouds, thick darkness. Down in verse 10, a time when the earth quakes and the heavens tremble and the sun and the moon grow dark and the stars lose their brightness. Verse 30, wonders in the sky, wonders on the earth, blood, fire, columns of smoke, the sun turned to darkness, the moon to blood before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. Same event and Joel saw it.
Isaiah saw it. He writes about it in chapter 29 in just a brief statement in verse 6, "The Lord of hosts will come and you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, whirlwind tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.
Now, this particular scene really cannot be described. We can make an attempt at it. And I believe that we should because the Scripture outlines six frightening features, and the detail here is given by the Lord in order that we might understand something of the horror of this day. Let's take the first of the six and maybe we won't even go beyond this one.
Verse 12, "I looked when He broke the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake," stop there. First of all, he says there was an earthquake. There have always been earthquakes, they come now and then, here and there. Even in the first half of this time of tribulation, the time known as the beginning of birth pains, according to Matthew 24:7, there were to be earthquakes. So they've experienced some earthquakes, more than they would be used to. But this isn't really talking about just an earthquake. I know that's the way the word is translated, and interestingly enough it's probably as close a translation as you can get because there isn't really an English equivalent.
The cataclysm that comes here as the Great Tribulation has begun, the second half, is more powerful and more intense and more destructive than all the earthquakes of all time put together. It is a single massive final event, God's wrath at full operation. Now God at His own discretion likes to shake the world now and then. He shook it at Sinai when He gave the law. He shook it when Elijah called on Him. He shook it when Jesus, His Son, was murdered before Him. He shook it when He wanted to release Paul and Silas from jail. And He shakes it now and then through history for His own purposes. But this is more than any earthquake, like any of those that God Himself did, this is something beyond that. You'll be interested to know that the Greek word is seismos from which we get the English word seismograph which is an instrument to measure shaking. It means a quaking, a shaking, an agitating. But the word "earth" is not here. The word "earth" is not here.
It would have been better to translate it "and there was a great shaking," because frankly it isn't just the earth, the first thing he mentions is the sun and then the moon and then the stars careening out of the sky, and then the sky splitting apart like a scroll and only then does he say every mountain and island start to move. This is a shaking more than an earthquake, this is a seismos in the universe.
Matthew 8 translates this same word, seismos, tempest, to describe what happened on the sea of Galilee. It's a shaking, an agitation, a severe agitation. Joel 2 uses this same word in the Septuagint, which is the Greek version of the Old Testament. In the prophet Haggai, that small little prophecy, chapter 2 verse 6 and 7 describes the same event, listen to what it says, "For thus says the Lord of host, once more in a little while I'm going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land and I will shake all peoples."
Earthquakes frighten people. They create phobias, believe me. We constantly are being told about the big one out here in California. We've been told for years that one day we're going to shake right off into the ocean. And we have a sort of fear of that. I mean, our population fears that. Every time there's a little shake, all the appointments in the psychological, psychiatric offices go up as people run there to deal with their phobias and their fears. But whatever little shakings we experience are nothing to be compared with this, this is more erratic a shaking than anything imaginable.
But you have to understand, these people have already been through so much, this is really going to be a devastating thing. They've been dragged in the last few years through global wars, worldwide famine, worldwide plagues and pestilences, and some other natural disasters, including earthquakes, that have killed one fourth of the population of the world and it all happened just at the time they thought they had reached world peace. And the false prophets are still crying, "Peace, peace, peace and safety, we're nearly at utopia, as soon as we get the Christians massacred, utopia will come, they're the problem." And also, through this time period remember 2 Thessalonians 2 says the restrainer is removed. That's the Holy Spirit, most likely, who holds back sin. And so sin is unrestrained, immorality unrestrained, wickedness, vice, godlessness, Christlessness rampant, Satan is running the world, Antichrist is demanding that everybody worship him in his deceptive wickedness. The world is plunged into deep sin and all the time while it's literally following all of its lusts and impulses being promised utopia to come out of the chaos that exists, a great host of people are being saved, according to chapter 6 verses 9 to 11, they're under the altar praying for God's vengeance. According to chapter 7 verse 9, they're so many of them converted during that time period they can't even be numbered. So there will be a great revival, a great host will be saved. But the rest of the world goes on in sin and deception following Antichrist and killing the Christians.
Then in a moment, while some sleep and others are awake, while some are driving their car down the freeway and some are flying in an airplane, and some are walking, and some are jogging and some are at work and some are reading the paper in their dens and some are watching television and some are playing tennis and some are at home and others are in a hotel, some are in an auditorium, some are at a sporting event, some are at school, the whole universe starts to shake...a seismos from God that no seismograph could ever measure. And, you see, this is such a frightening thing because man always counts on the stable universe. He always counts on dawn and darkness, on the cycle of the rotation of the earth and the seasons, as it moves in orbit. Man demands uniformity in his world. And that's what evolution tells him. It always goes on the same way, remember Peter's words about the scoffers, all things continue as they have from the beginning, it all goes on the same way. In a moment that theory is utterly exploded and the seismos hits.
The first thing that John describes is the second element, the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair. Sackcloth is what people wore to a funeral. Sackcloth was a rough garment that you wore when you wanted to mourn somebody. You put it over you like a robe and it went all the way to the floor so that none of you was seen. You wouldn't want to draw attention to yourself while mourning the death of someone. Black sackcloth of hair, simply means that the sackcloth was woven most likely out of black goat's hair. It was very dark, very black. And that's how the sun will be, as black as a black mourner's robe woven out of black goat's hair.
The upheaval, the shaking shakes everything and the upheaval is so enormous that it blackens out the sun. What does blacken out the sun? Why does the sun go black? Dr. Henry Morris, a wonderful scientist, creationist, writes this, "The seismos described here is worldwide in scope for the first time in history. Seismologists and geophysicists in recent years have learned a great deal about the structure of the earth and about the cause and nature of earthquakes. The earth's solid crust is traversed with a complex network of faults, with all resting on a plastic mantle whose structure is still largely unknown. Whether the crust consists of great moving plates is a current matter of controversy among geophysicists so the ultimate cause of earthquakes is still not known. In all likelihood the entire complex of crustal instabilities is a remnant of the phenomena of the great Flood, especially the break up of the fountains of the great deep. In any case, the vast network of unstable earthquake belts around the world suddenly begin to slip and fracture on a global basis and a gigantic earthquake ensues. This is evidently naturally accompanied by tremendous volcanic eruptions, spewing vast quantities of dust and steam and gases into the upper atmosphere. It is probably these that will cause the sun to be darkened and the moon to appear blood red."
That fits what the prophet said...fire and smoke, doesn't it? Blackness and darkness is often associated with judgment. When God judged Egypt, He brought thick blackness. When God came to Mount Sinai to lay down the law, it was shrouded in black smoke. When God judged His Son, you remember, on the cross for our sins, from noon till three o'clock the world went black. And Isaiah looked at this judgment time and he saw this blackness. It was revealed to him in Isaiah chapter 13 and verse 9, "Behold the day of the Lord is coming, cruel with fury and burning anger to make the land a desolation. He will exterminate its sinners from it. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not flash forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises. The moon will not shed its light. Thus I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud and abase the haughtiness of the ruthless." Down in verse 13, "I will make the heavens tremble, the earth will be shaken from its place, at the fury of the Lord of hosts in the day of His burning anger." A blackness, a darkness comes over the universe.
The third thing that he notes is that the moon becomes like blood. Literally the text says, "the whole moon," you have a total eclipse. Whatever it is that causes it, it's vivid. The blackened sun, of course, then hides the moon because it only reflects the sun. Joel the prophet said, "The sun and the moon grow dark." And as I read you earlier, Joel said...God said, "I'll display wonders in the sky and the earth, blood, fire, columns of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness, the moon to blood before that great and awesome day of the Lord."
Now you understand that when this begins to happen it effects everything. It effects daylight and darkness. There will be no daylight. It effects plant life, it effects man, it effects the animal world. All the cycles by which animals function, plants function, humans function thrown into total chaos. And then a fourth feature, out of that blackness, verse 13, the stars of the sky fell to the earth. Fiery balls come careening out of the darkness, and I guess you might say if you remember the fairy tale, Chicken Little's fear comes true.
The word "stars," would you note, asteraes(?), it can refer to any celestial body, large or small, not limited to what we know as a star. It could be a star, a star that is millions of times larger than our sun, as some are. It also could refer to an asteroid, meteor. Perhaps that's the best understanding of it here. The earth is going to get showered by asteraes plummeting out of the sky. Obviously if that meant stars, it would burn us up long before it ever got here. So this is probably an asteroid shower or a meteor shower. Scientists, by the way, have speculated for years what a massive asteroid meteor shower hitting the earth would be like, the unbelievable destruction that it would create. Certainly the stars are involved as the whole universe shakes and they begin to move out of their orbits. And they begin to function in a random way...spinning and whirling around in space as the whole collapsing universe begins to disintegrate. The earth is then plummeted with fiery balls coming out of the sky. It's analogous, he says, to make it vivid, to a fig tree casting its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. A fig tree can be covered with figs and when the wind hits it, they just come down in mass.
Where are people going to go? Where are they going to go in the panic of this all over the globe? Where are they going to go? No way can they escape.
Zechariah chapter 14 looks at the same scene. And it says, verse 6, "I will come about in a day...in that day there will be no light, the luminaries will dwindle," verse 6. "It will be a unique day...verse 7...which is known to the Lord, it's not day and it's not night." It's the same time.
Then in terms that John can't even describe, verse 14, "The sky was split apart like a scroll when it's rolled up." A couple of times in my life I've had an opportunity to see a scroll, I mean a really old scroll. I've seen the Dead Sea Scrolls, the actual ones in Jerusalem. I have held ancient scrolls. And one of the interesting things about a scroll is that as it's unrolled and rolled and unrolled and rolled, and unrolled and rolled it wears and ages. And as it sits it dries out. And it's frequently the case that when you unroll a scroll and you get it out at its tension point, because it's been rolled up so long and dried in that position, it will crack. And John says it would be like rolling out a scroll and having it just rip in the middle and then "ballipt," roll up in two separate places. It says the sky was split apart in John's vision, literally ripped apart. It pictures the whole of the sky, like a scroll held open at tension. And all of a sudden it's just ripped down the middle and the whole sky disappears, it's all gone. The stars are flying all over the place careening. The whole universe is shaking. No sun, no moon and the earth is being blasted with asteroids, meteorites plummeting out of the sky as the universe breaks up. The heaven that was so familiar to us is ripped to pieces.
This is the scene. Certainly Isaiah again had it in mind in chapter 34, "The Lord's indignation is against all the nations, His wrath against all their armies, He's utterly destroyed them, given them over to slaughter. Their slain will be thrown out, their corpses will give off their stench, the mountains will be drenched with their blood, all the hosts of heaven will wear away and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. All their hosts...that's the stars...will wither away, like a leaf withers from a vine or as one withers from the fig tree, for My sword, He says, is satiated in heaven." I'm going to strike the heavens. Why? Because that's been the domain of Satan, the prince of the power of the air. The whole universe is coming down.
So this kind of a quaking isn't just the earth. He gets to the earth in the sixth feature of it. Verse 14, "And every mountain and island were moved out of their places." This is hard to conceive...every mountain and island. The whole unstable crust of the earth begins to move and shift, and the faults split and the volcanic gases come out. Dr. Morris further says, "The earth's crust highly unstable ever since the great Flood will be so disturbed by the impacting asteroids, the volcanic explosions and the earthquakes, that great segments of it will actually begin to slip and slide over the earth's deep plastic mantle. Geophysicists for many years have been fascinated with the idea of continental drift. Several have published series of a past naturalistic catastrophism involving what they call the earth's shifting crust. Some such phenomenon may actually be triggered under this judgment of the sixth seal, dwarfing the damage occasion by all the mighty earthquakes of the past. Those who reside in regions above such shifting crustal plates will observe the heavens appearing to move in the opposite direction," he says. Everything shaking.
Can I stop here and give a word to the environmentalists? Can I give a word to the "Save the Earth" group? If you think man has messed up this earth, wait till you see what God does to it? This is a disposable planet, my friend, it was made disposable by sin. You wait till you see what its Creator does to it. He made it, sin devastated it, and He'll destroy it. It's a throw-away world now, it's a throw-away universe. The cosmos that came out of the chaos is going back to chaos and out of the chaos will come a new cosmos...the new heavens and the new earth. Peter wrote about that in 2 Peter chapter 3.
Well Jesus summed all of this up that we've just seen in those verses when He said in Luke 21:11, "And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven." And when it happens, people will die of fright. They will be scared to death. Can you understand that? Of course you can.
I say to you then in bringing this to a conclusion tonight, people are afraid of a lot of things, aren't they? They're afraid of a lot of things they shouldn't be afraid of. And usually, commonly, normally, they're not afraid of the one person they should be afraid of. Romans 2:5 says that sinners are accumulating...are accumulating sin that some day is going to feel the wrath of God. And those who have never feared Him will fear Him then.
But you don't need to be afraid. We don't have fear, we who are Christians, do we? Because we have escaped the wrath of God. We have been delivered from the wrath to come through Jesus Christ. You heard some people give testimonies in baptism tonight and they talked about how Christ has changed their lives, that's true. Let me also tell you, He has changed their future destiny from wrath to blessing, from hell to heaven, from terror to rejoicing. We're not looking for this wrath, we're going to be caught up to be with the Lord before it ever hits, amen? Amen. If you put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will escape the wrath to come. "Fear Him who after He has killed has the authority to cast you into hell. Yes, I say, fear Him." Let's pray.
Lord, this is so powerful, so frightening and yet the world is so deceived. This kind of truth often rolls off without even a conviction, may it not be. For those who hear this word tonight, may they feel the terror of the Lord and may they know that there is a God of wrath and vengeance who is some day going to hit the deceived world with reality and then it's too late. And may folks know that they only have their life time to come to Christ to escape the wrath to come. We thank You that we as Christians are waiting for Christ to come from heaven, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. We thank You that we're looking for Christ. We don't fear You anymore, as a God of vengeance and a God of wrath because we've put our trust in Christ who has felt Your wrath for us on the cross. I pray, Lord, that any here who don't know Christ would come to Him now as Savior and Lord so they will feel nothing of Your wrath but all of Your goodness. And for those who are Christians, Father, may we first of all be thankful and secondly, may we warn the world as those dear saints will some day who lose their lives because they stand for the gospel. Help us to be willing in our time to warn sinners of Your wrath. Make us faithful, in Christ's name. Amen.
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This conversation about how brutal the legal market is reminds me a lot of what I heard before pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. As hard as it is, the legal field is not more competitive than entertainment. From my experience, if you cultivate your talents, work hard and know the right people, you will most likely be marketable. Turn that frown upside down and keep hustling
In response to the entertainment industry comment I think the analogy does apply. The reality is no easy career path exists. Ask a doctor, nurse, pilot, lawyer, CEO, professional athlete, firefighter, police officer, etc how competitive it was for them to get where they are. I imagine all of them will say it was very difficult and all of them started at the bottom and instead of complaining about how unfair everything was worked to succeed. This is proven by Cher's story 28k a year is nothing, but you have to build experience. When I started out I was in a similar position doing mind numbing doc review, but I kept getting more experience, meeting people, and not giving up. It was not fun starting out and honestly the first two years out were terrible, but I paid my dues and really enjoy my career now. In almost every career you have to pay your dues that is simply the way the world works. To elaborate on Chers point the debt is expensive, but again look outside the legal profession and you will see degrees in other professions are just as expensive. I just googled NYU tuition and the school of social work popped up. NYU is 41k per year for a social work degree. That is very expensive and if you go to nursing school, medical school, social work school, a police academy, etc they are all expensive. In the end no matter what educational/career path you choose it will be expensive, time consuming, and there will be no guarantee of a job at the end of it. You are also going to have to pay your dues in any profession.
But I honestly do want to be an attorney more than anything, and have always wanted to.
I'd say the way to go is to go to law school if you must. Do your best. Then vote Democrat until the day you die because Republicans are the a-holes who made student loan debt non-dischargable in bankruptcy.
Quote from: FalconJimmy on May 25, 2012, 08:08:12 AM I'd say the way to go is to go to law school if you must. Do your best. Then vote Democrat until the day you die because Republicans are the a-holes who made student loan debt non-dischargable in bankruptcy.Yeah, those a-holes. The very idea of thinking that the government shouldn't let intelligent adults blithely off the hook after they have signed contracts to pay a price they agreed to pay in exchange for something they wanted. Fuckers.

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I was reading today's NYT article on Google+'s new redesign and found myself continually puzzled by the key metric Google continues to report as the success of their new social product: Registered Users.
In the very first sentence, Vic Gundotra writes:
More than 170 million people have upgraded to Google+, enjoying new ways to share in Search, Gmail, YouTube and lots of other places.
The use of registered users is a vanity metric, and reflects how easily Google can cross-sell any new product to their core base of 1 billion uniques per month. What it doesn't reflect, however, is the actual health of the product.
Ultimately, this misalignment of metrics is due to the curse of instant distribution. Because Google can cross-sell whatever products they want against their billion unique users, it's easy to grade on that effort. Plus it's a big number, who doesn't love a big number?
Google+ should be measured on per user metrics
Here's what metrics are more important instead: Given the Google+ emphasis on Circles and Hangouts, you'd think that the best metrics to use would evaluate the extent to which these more personal and more authentic features are being used. These would include metrics like:
- Shares per user per day (especially utilizing the Circles feature)
- Friends manually added to circles per user per day (not automatically!)
- Minutes of engagement per user per day
And if there's too much noise with all the millions of user onboarding to Google+ recently, then create a new bucket of "activated" users who comprise your best and more engaged user base, and just calculate for those guys.
Point is, the density and frequency of relationships within small circles ought to matter more than the aggregate counts on the network. As I've blogged about before, you use metrics to reflect the strategy you already have in place, and based on the Google+'s focus on authentic circles of friends, you'd think the metrics would focus on the density of friendships and activities, and not the aggregate numbers.
The curse of instant distribution
Every new product for a startup goes through a gauntlet to reach product/market fit, and then traction. In the real world, product quality and the ability to solve a real problem for people ends up correlating with your ability to distribute the product. Google+ is blessed, and cursed, with the ability to sidestep this completely. They are able to onboard hundreds of millions of users without having great product/market fit, and can claim positive metrics without going through the gauntlet of really making their product work.
Adam D'Angelo of Quora (and previously CTO of Facebook) wrote this insightful commentary regarding Google Buzz a while back:
Why have social networks tied to webmail clients failed to gain traction?
Personally I think this is mostly because the social networking products built by webmail teams haven't been very good. Even Google Buzz, which is way ahead of the attempts built into Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, has serious problems: the connections inside it aren't meaningful, profiles and photos are second class, comments bump items to the top of the feed meaning there's old stuff endlessly getting recycled, and the whole product itself is a secondary feature accessible only through a click below the inbox, which hasn't gotten it enough distribution to kick off and sustain conversations.
I'm pretty sure that if Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo had cloned Facebook almost exactly (friends, profiles, news feed, photos) and integrated it well into their webmail product, that it could have taken off (before Facebook got to its current scale; at this point it will be hard for any competitor, even with a massive distribution channel pushing it).
So I think this question is really, why are social networks that webmail teams build always bad? Here's my guess:
- The team building the social network knows that they're going to get a huge amount of distribution via the integration and so they aren't focused on growth and making a product that people will visit on their own.
- Integrating any two big products is really hard.
- Any big webmail provider is going to have a big organization behind it, and lots of politics and compromises probably make it difficult to execute well.
- Teams that work on webmail products have gotten good at building a webmail product, and haven't selected for the skills and culture that a team that grows around building a social network will have.
(The bolding is from me). I couldn't agree more with this answer. I think a key lesson behind the recent success of products like Instagram and Pinterest is that there's still a lot of room in the market for great social products to take off- but the emphasis has to be on the product rather than the superficial act of onboarding a lot of new users into Google+.
Ultimately, it comes down to how realistic the Google+ folks are in looking at their metrics. If they drink their own kool-aid and think they have product/market fit when it's in fact the traction is solely dependent on the power of their distribution channels, they may never get their product working.
On the other hand, if they have a balanced view on their metrics and know they don't have product/market fit yet, then they have a fighting chance. Unfortunately, I think the changes they've made to the product recently are more efforts to optimize, rather than fundamental improvements to the product. I think Google+ needs much bigger changes to make it as engaging as the best social products.
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Possible typo: According to the 2010 edition (2nd printing) of the Academics and Sports Program Guide, (I have the hard copy in front of me and have confirmed with BSA that it is the most recent release as of 1st quarter 2011), the Family Travel pin requirements are 5 of 11, not 6 of 11.
- The Academics Pin Requirements section still needs to be fixed to read "five of the following requirements" not "six of the following requirements". —nicouds 23:20, September 18, 2012 (EDT)
- Fixed.scouterdennis 14:55, September 23, 2012 (EDT)
In process of a Webelos completing the Traveler Activity Badge, they could earn this belt loop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby30224 (talk • contribs) Apr 8, 1010. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
Requirements 9/10
Aren't there 2 more pin requirements? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gm471 (talk • contribs) December 7, 2010. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
- Actually, three... it's fixed, now. Thanks, —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:52, December 7, 2010 (EST)
Guide to Safe Scouting, chapter XII, "Transportation"
In pin requirement #3, while the A&S guide cites "chapter XII" of the Guide to Safe Scouting as the chapter for "Transportation", it should say "chapter XI" as that is the chapter for "Transportation" and refer to this link: http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/HealthandSafety/GSS/gss11.aspx. Nicouds 23:48, May 27, 2012 (EDT)


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From saving the world's most threatened species of sea turtle to bringing unusual amphibians back from the brink of extinction, no conservation challenge is a lost cause if knowledge, dedication and strong partnerships are put into play. This is the message being championed by ARKive to celebrate its tenth anniversary this year.
Through its unparalleled collection of wildlife imagery, ARKive – an initiative of wildlife charity Wildscreen – has become a platform to inform, and a place to encourage conversation for conservation. To mark a decade spent highlighting the importance of biodiversity and educating and inspiring people to care about the natural world, ARKive is flying the flag for conservation by featuring ten species which are set to improve in status over the next ten years should positive action continue.
ARKive's chosen species, which were selected in consultation with experts from IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC), represent a variety of taxonomic groups and reflect the fascinating array of organisms with which we share our planet. From Juliana's golden-mole (Neamblysomus julianae), one of Africa's oldest and most enigmatic mammals, to the Asian white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis), a bird which has suffered a 99.9% population decline in just over a decade, this selection of species aims to raise awareness of the myriad threats faced by wildlife, and demonstrates how targeted conservation action can truly make a difference.
"ARKive is working with the world's leading wildlife filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists to promote a greater appreciation of our natural world and the need for its conservation," said Wildscreen CEO, Richard Edwards. "In this our tenth year, we wanted to celebrate not only the great diversity of life on Earth, but also the vital conservation work that is being carried out around the world, and highlight that by working together to raise awareness, share knowledge and take positive action conservation can and does work."
One particularly impressive conservation story is that of the Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis), a large, flightless invertebrate endemic to Australia. Once common on Lord Howe Island, this unusual insect was almost driven to extinction following the accidental introduction of rats to the island, only surviving in an area of 180 square metres on a large rock to the southeast of its original habitat. Without detailed scientific knowledge of the reasons behind its decline, this fascinating species might by now have been added to the ever-increasing list of extinct species. However, thanks to scientific exploration and understanding, and with the invaluable application of appropriate conservation measures, it is believed that the Lord Howe Island stick insect could be reintroduced to its native habitat in the next few years.
Another species on the road to recovery as a result of targeted conservation action is the Kihansi spray toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis), a rare dwarf amphibian found only in a two-hectare area of habitat in eastern Tanzania's Kihansi River Gorge. In addition to catastrophic population declines due to a devastating amphibian fungal disease, the Kihansi spray toad has suffered the effects of habitat loss. The construction of a dam on the Kihansi River in 2000 caused the diminutive toad's wetland habitat - which relied on being moistened by waterfall spray - to dry out, leading to the amphibian's dramatic decline and its listing as Extinct in the Wild on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
By working in partnership, zoos and conservation organisations were able to set up successful captive breeding programmes for the Kihansi spray toad, boosting an initial captive population of 499 individuals to an incredible 6,000. Conservationists also took the unusual step of setting up an artificial sprinkler system, which by 2010 had restored the Kihansi spray toad's habitat. By December 2012 an international team of experts – including scientists from the IUCN SSC Amphibian and Re-introduction Specialist Groups – had reintroduced 2,000 toads to Kihansi. This marks an incredible achievement – an amphibian classified as Extinct in the Wild has now returned to its native habitat.
"The state of the natural world is increasingly worrying, with many species teetering on the brink of extinction," said Dr Simon Stuart, Chair of IUCN's SSC. "However, conservation does work and we should be greatly encouraged by success stories such as the re-introduction of the Kihansi spray toad. Many other admirable conservation achievements also show that the situation can be reversed thanks to the dedication and determination of experts and scientists worldwide. With continued effort and support, there is much we can achieve."
The Kemp's ridley turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) is considered to be the most severely endangered marine turtle in the world, having declined dramatically in the 1950s and 1960s due primarily to the overexploitation of eggs and adult turtles. However, the population is now showing signs of recovery after a series of conservation efforts were put in place to protect the species, including a ban on international trade in the turtles and the introduction of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) fitted to shrimp nets to help prevent bycatch.
"Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity have made a commitment, through the Aichi Targets, not only to prevent the extinction of threatened species but also to improve their conservation status – ARKive's tenth anniversary campaign is a perfect opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of conservation and show that it really does work," said Dr Jane Smart, Director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. "Along with our extensive network of scientific experts, we look forward to working even more closely with ARKive, an IUCN Red List Partner, to strive towards achieving the important goals the world has set."
While the work of conservationists and scientific experts is a vital component in the fight against species extinctions, ARKive is also keen to highlight the role that members of the general public can play in the future survival of Earth's incredible biodiversity. By learning more about the natural world around them and understanding its importance, it is hoped that people will be inspired to take action in their daily lives to safeguard our invaluable species and ecosystems. From recycling and limiting plastic usage to making wiser seafood choices and supporting some of the many hundreds of organisations and scientists who devote their lives to conservation, we can all strive towards building a healthier planet.
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According to Berman of the NY Post:
Knicks owner James Dolan is frustrated the lockout rages on and the club's season opener tomorrow against the Heat at the Garden has been wiped out. But Dolan, part of the owners' negotiating committee, is content about one of the agreed-upon aspects of a new collective bargaining agreement: the size of the salary cap will not go down.
More than any team in the NBA, that will benefit Dolan's big-market Knicks the most, ironically.
According to multiple sources, one of the resolved issues in a new CBA is the 2011 salary cap will remain at the level as it was in 2010 — $58 million.
Ironically, Dolan has been seated across from Paul, who is the Knicks' top priority, during many of the labor bargaining sessions because Paul is on the union's negotiation committee.
According to a players source, Dolan has been the least combative of the owners and often serves as a mediator during contentious moments.
"He's tried to keep the parties on point,'' the source said. "He's trying to make a deal, seeing a positive spin. He's been, in a word, productive.''
This does not surprise me in the least because Dolan is a strong business man. His basketball IQ and decision making are what I have always criticized but the man does know how to do business. This NBA labor dispute is a business, not a basketball, dispute. This is why a deal has yet to get done because emotions have interfered with rational decision making. Dolan is a smart business man and he clearly understands the economics of his team as it pertains to this lockout. He understands that his Knicks are one of the premier products the NBA has to offer. Dolan's team is coming off its first playoff appearance since 2001, he has acquired two of the league's superstars onto his roster, his team plays in the biggest market in the country and he has a new arena to unveil. No team has more to lose from a missed season than the New York Knicks. Dolan realizes this. He also realizes that by working to keep the cap at 58 million he will have enough money to sign one more max contract. Dolan is a business man. What will bring in more revenue than having 2 superstars on his team. Having 3. While I still question Dolan's overall intelligence in terms of rational decision making (not trusting Donnie Walsh, trusting Isiah) and in terms of his basketball IQ (do you really need an example?), it has never been in question that Dolan is a strong business man. Therefore this article by Berman does not surprise me although I do wish some of Dolan's business smarts would carry over into his basketball IQ.Follow @tarmosino


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Clearwater, Florida (USA TODAY) -- What do you get when you use Hooters employees as ballgirls at spring training games? It's not just forced, flirtatious conversation, a name that probably ends in "i" and a personalized message on your check written in Sharpie and featuring numerous bubbly hearts. You also might get some interesting moments in foul territory.
Click on the video to see a young Hooters girl makes a fine play on a fair ball hit by the Tampa Bay Rays during this weekend's spring training game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
In her defense:
1. She made a fine play on the ball, bringing back memories of a young Scott Rolen dressed as a young Kellie Pickler.
2. She immediately handed the ball to a child in the second row of seats, thus creating a memory he'll never forget: The first time a Hooters waitress acted like she was interested in him.
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Leaders commit to conservation measures at Polar Bear Forum
The commitments were made at a forum in Russia supported by WWF.
"The Arctic States' response goes some way toward guaranteeing a future for these magnificent animals," says Jim Leape, WWF International Director General. "The states have built on forty years of good conservation planning. I urge them to redouble their efforts to ensure we meet the challenges of the next forty years - by implementing the circumpolar action plan for the bears and taking action on climate change."
Another key commitment made in the Forum Declaration is that the five states responsible for polar bear populations - Canada, Norway, Denmark and Greenland, Russia and the United States - will work on managing the polar bears' home in ways that will take into account the Arctic's shrinking ice, and increasing industrial interest.
"We welcome all the commitments made today," says WWF polar bear lead, Geoff York. "But we will also be watching to see that they are backed by action. WWF will track the activities of the states in an annual report card. We will also continue to support critical polar bear work across the Arctic, contributing our resources and expertise to assessing the health of populations, identifying and managing key habitats, and reducing conflict between bears and people."
While the Forum commitments will help with managing polar bear habitat and with direct threats to the bears, these can only go so far. At the current rate of warming, climate change will ultimately erode the sea ice habitat on which the bears rely. Addressing this longer-term threat will require investment from the range states and beyond in renewable energy.


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|My notes from the Dinosaurs' performance in Oakland on December 31, 1982
Robert Hunter and The Dinosaurs
Robert Hunter had returned to live performance in late 1975. He had had two bands, Roadhog in 1975 and '76, and Comfort in 1977 and '78. Hunter then scaled back to tour as a duo with bassist Larry Klein, and from 1979 he had toured as a solo artist, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. Comfort, a fine live band, had opened some Jerry Garcia Band shows in the Spring of 1978, and Hunter had opened some Jerry Garcia Band shows as a solo act in 1980. On a 1980 swing through the East Coast, Hunter had not only opened for Garcia, but each night he joined the Garcia Band for two of his own numbers, "Tiger Rose" and "Promontory Rider." Yet Hunter had never performed with or even performed on the same stage as the Grateful Dead. Given that the Grateful Dead didn't have many opening acts in the 1975-82 period, perhaps that is not at all surprising.
In July of 1982, Barry "The Fish" Melton, formerly of Country Joe and The Fish, invited former Big Brother and The Holding Company bassist Peter Albin to play a one-off gig in Marin County. In response to some kind of good natured heckling from the crowd, Melton remarked from the stage that the band was just "a bunch of old Dinosaurs." Although both Melton and Albin were under 40, they felt a long way from the Avalon and Woodstock, when their bands headlined and their albums were bestsellers. This inspired Melton to form a group of players from that era to play occasional gigs in the style that brought them to fame in the first place. Their first show was August 13, 1982, at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco. The initial lineup of The Dinosaurs was
- Barry Melton-lead guitar, vocals (ex-Country Joe and The Fish)
- John Cippolina-lead guitar (ex-Quicksilver)
- Peter Albin-bass (ex-Big Brother)
- Spencer Dryden-drums (ex-Jefferson Airplane)
By December, Robert Hunter had returned from a solo tour of the East Coast, and he threw in his lot with The Dinosaurs. Hunter's presence gave the Dinosaurs a connection to perhaps the five most iconic San Francisco bands of the 60s. The Dinosaurs played another show on November 21, at the Inn Of The Beginning in Cotati. I don't know if or how many friends dropped by, but Cotati was a nice safe place to figure out what they were doing. The Dinosaurs "re-debuted" with two shows on December 10 at The Old Waldorf, then San Francisco's most high profile rock club.
Since many of the older San Francisco musicians were hardly working anymore, it turned out that they were very available for guest appearances. One of the perhaps unexpected dynamics of The Dinosaurs was that the concept was a perfect platform for old friends to get together on stage, since the fan base of all those groups was by now largely the same. Although the five Dinosaurs, now including Hunter, were the core group, both Old Waldorf shows featured numerous guests who each sat in for a number: Merl Saunders, Country Joe McDonald, Mickey Hart, David Nelson, Greg Elmore, Dave Getz (Big Brother drummer), Sam Andrews (ex BB guitarist, now playing saxophone) and Michael Wilhelm. Nicky Hopkins sat in on piano for the entire late show. Old friend Dan Hicks (an ex-Charlatan himself) opened the shows. Given that almost none of the band members or guests had record contracts or current albums at the time, there was a fair amount of attention given to The Dinosaurs. When it was announced that The Dinosaurs would open for the Grateful Dead on New Year's Eve, for some Deadheads at least, certainly including me, there was a fair amount of interest. It was also a strangely appropriate throwback to the New Year's Eve concerts of the 1960s.
New Years Eve at The Fillmore and The Avalon
On December 31, 1966, the first full year of psychedelic rock in San Francisco, Bill Graham Presents had put on a legendary show at the Fillmore, featuring the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The poster bragged that the event would run from 9pm until 9am, including breakfast. A dozen blocks away, at the Avalon, Chet Helms held a similar extravaganza, featuring Country Joe And The Fish, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels. Big Brother and The Holding Company put on their own New Year's Eve concert at the Kezar Pavilion in Golden Gate Park. New Year's Eve was thus established as a night when the psychedelic crowd raved all night, all over town, or so it seemed.
Of course, not a soul remembers a thing about any of these New Year's concerts. There is a brief tape fragment of a jam from the Fillmore, but other than that I know of no tape, no review and no first-hand eyewitness account of any sixties New Year's show in San Francisco, save a Hot Tuna tape from 1969. Once I was at an Avalon reunion, in April of 1994, and Barry Melton and Jerry Miller led the Dinosaurs through a great version of Moby Grape's "Murder In My Heart For The Judge." After the song, Melton fondly reminisced from the stage, "I remember doing about a 63-minute version of that with Moby Grape one New Year's Eve." After pausing to let that sink in, Melton wryly added, "it as probably about 4 minutes, but it seemed like 63." All the participants seemed sure they had a good time, even if they are not certain what it actually consisted of.
Although the action had moved to Winterland by 1967, there was always a blowout show in San Francisco on New Year's Eve, headlined by a couple of major bands: the Airplane, Big Brother and Quicksilver in 1967, the Dead and Quicksilver in '68, the Airplane and Quicksilver in '70, with appropriate supporting acts. No one remembers anything about any of those shows either. By 1970, the New Year's Eve franchise was effectively bequeathed to the Grateful Dead, and in some form or another the Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia had performed on New Year's Eve in the Bay Area ever since.
By 1982, The Grateful Dead were the last of San Francisco's psychedelic squadrons still riding the range. Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother were gone, and after a brief and interesting reunion in 1978, Country Joe and The Fish were emeritus as well. Jefferson Airplane had morphed into the Jefferson Starship, but although a few old Airplaners were still on board (Grace Slick, Paul Kantner and David Freiberg), the music that Starship was very far from anything that used to get played at the Fillmore. That left the Dead, still exploring the path they set out for themselves 17 years earlier, long after their peers had faded away or stepped off. In that respect, the Dead were very much like a coelacanth, a prehistoric fossil still living in modern times, so it was appropriate that the Dinosaurs were opening for the Fillmore's only non-fossilized life.
The Dinosaurs
The Dinosaurs were a fun, lively band. Melton and Cipollina were both excellent lead guitarists, and Albin and Dryden were a solid rhythm section. Hunter and Melton shared most of the lead vocals, with Cipollina and Albin taking an occasional turn. The Dinosaurs made no specific effort to have a 60s San Francisco sound, because they didn't need to. They just played their music, and it just so happened to remind you of the Fillmore and the Avalon. Given that the New Year's Eve concert with the Dead was the highest profile the band had ever (or would ever) play, they invited a few of their friends to join in. Of course, those friends had pedigrees as well, but that too was simply a byproduct.
As far as I know, the Oakland New Year's Eve show was the Dinosaurs fifth booked date, although some of the dates had featured early and late shows. Now, saying it was their fifth show is slightly misleading, since all of the band members except Dryden and Hunter had other ensembles, and sometimes they played together, so some members had played together many times. As a result, given the standards of psychedelic blues in general, the band members were pretty comfortable with their material. While a few connected tapers had heard some recordings (it's not impossible that I had, too, by that time), in general the experience of hearing the Dinosaurs was quite new to the audience.The Dinosaurs came on stage some time after 8:00pm and played about an hour.
Dinosaurs Setlist, Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 31, 1982
"Who Makes The Moves"-Melton and Hunter shared vocals on this original song.
"One Way Out"-Hunter sang lead on this venerable blues song, made famous by the Allman Brothers. Hunter didn't really have the voice for it, but that didn't really matter. For this song, the Dinosaurs were joined by Nicky Hopkins, looking healthy and playing a Yamaha electric grand piano, similar to the kind Keith used to play (no mirror for Nicky this time). Hopkins was living at least part time in the Bay Area, and playing regularly with John Cipollina in one of his many bands. Hopkins, too, had played New Year's Eve in San Francisco (in 1969 with Quicksilver). Hopkins played throughout the rest of the show.
"Love"-This was an old Barry Melton song from the Country Joe and The Fish days, I believe from their debut album.
"Promontory Rider"-Hunter sang one of his more recognizable electric songs, recognizable not least because he had performed it with the Jerry Garcia Band in 1980.
"I Can't Dance"-Melton sang another old song from his own career. Melton in particular said later that he never had any intention of writing new songs for the Dinosaurs.
"Save The Whales"-Country Joe McDonald came on stage to sing his biggest solo hit.
"Street Life"--Hunter sang a song that would turn up on his Amagamalin Street album a few years later. Hunter, unlike Melton, used the Dinosaurs to try out all sorts of new songs.
"Level With Me"-Melton sang this one. I'm not sure of its provenance.
"St. Louis Blues"-Hunter sang this blues song. I think it was a traditional blues tune that was lyrically modified by Hunter, but I'm not sure.
"How Blue Can You Get?"-Kathi McDonald, one of the lead singers for Big Brother and The Holding Company in the early 1970s (after Janis), came out and belted out this standard to close the show. McDonald was very high energy, and with both lead guitarists wailing away, it was an appropriately high octane ending to the set. For this song and the encores, the band was joined by Steve "Teenage" Douglas on tenor sax, a legendary session man who had played on many Phil Spector hits.
"San Francisco"-Melton sang lead on this high energy boogie celebrating San Francisco music.
"D.I.N.O.S.A.U.R.S."-Hunter sang the Dinosaurs sort of theme song, which he had written. It was a slow, ironic ballad that ended the set on a suitably nostalgic note, given that it was a band of a bunch of old guys opening for the last of the breed.
Although there was a conscious element of nostalgia applying to the Dinosaurs opening for the Grateful Dead, the music was energetic and enjoyable. There was no effort expended to make the music "modern" or "relevant," To some extent it reminded me of seeing traditional music in its native habitat, like seeing The Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans. Even though the Dinosaurs were an amalgamation of members of bands who had once been booked themselves for New Year's Eve in San Francisco, they were proud representatives of a past musical style, rather than apologetic or bitter.
Robert Hunter was making his first New Year's Eve live appearance ever, as far as I knew. Other members of the Dinosaurs, however, had appeared many times on December 31. Just limiting myself to the sixties, John Cipollina had played New Year's Eve all four years from 1966 to '69 with Quicksilver (first at Fillmore, then three at Winterland). Barry Melton and Joe McDonald had headlined New Year's Eve shows at the Avalon in 1966 and '67. Peter Albin, as a member of Big Brother, had played New Year's Eve in 1966 at Kezar Pavilion and '67 at Winterland. Spencer Dryden, as a member of the Jefferson Airplane, had headlined New Year's Eve shows in 1966 (at the Fillmore), '67 and '69 (at Winterland). The Dinosaurs's appearance on New Year's Eve with the Grateful Dead was a true encore, when a quorum of Veterans of the Ballroom Wars gathered together to stand with the regular forces of the Grateful Dead.
Robert Hunter continued to perform with the Dinosaurs for another year-and-a-half. He wrote and performed a number of interesting songs with the band, while continuing his solo career. However, Hunter found himself at friendly odds with Melton and the others, as the sole songwriter in a band full of jammers. Hunter stepped aside, and Merl Saunders took his place from late 1984 onwards. The Dinosaurs continued in various forms until the mid-90s, including membership and numerous guest appearances by many of the band's peers and friends from the good old days. Hunter participated in the Dinosaurs's studio album, released in 1988. However, Hunter never opened for the Grateful Dead again, making New Year's Eve 1982 a singular event.


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Nokia's exclusives a good thing?
Nokia has done a lot for Windows Phone, there's no denying that. But some consumers are becoming slightly concerned at the number of exclusive apps that have been, are currently, and will be restricted to Lumia hardware. Apps have been coming to all other Windows Phones, but are the exclusives a good thing?
Forum member sniffs believes it's out of control:
"I'm getting annoyed by the fact that when apps are coming out for WP, they are timed Nokia exclusives. This isn't making me want to leave my 8X for a Lumia.. it's making me want to leave the entire platform. Nokia needs to stop buying exclusives, it's getting annoying and it's hurting the platform in general. Exclusives for an entire platform is one thing (360/Ps3), but exclusive apps between phone manufacturers is just out of control."
What are your thoughts? If you don't own a Lumia Windows Phone, do you want to see Microsoft doing more instead to bring apps to all devices? Head on over to the "Anyone else getting annoyed that apps come out as "Lumia" exclusives?" thread and voice your opinion.
Potential Windows Phone UK Meetups
Forum member Paladinleeds is planning a UK meetup for Windows Phone enthusiasts. There have been a number of events such as this hosted by members of the Windows Phone Central community in different locations. The plan is (should enough interest build up) to have the meetup in York, this coming April.
"Hey guys, I'm looking to try and get the ball rolling with some UK meetups. As this is in the UK, we'll be hovering between Scotland, Wales, and England. The first one, I am planning to host not too far away from my home, in a lovely city called York. It is planned to be held in April of this year."
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Joseph James Norman
b. 1 May 1861, Alabama
d. 12 Jun 1924, Lamasco, Fannin, Texas
& Martha King
b. 5 Sep 1865, Arkansas
d. 3 Jun 1949, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX
|--Letha Christian Norman
|----b. 28 Jan 1883, Arkansas
|----d. 17 Nov 1958, Snyder, Scurry, Texas
|---& Maron Don Clement
|----b. 28 Sep 1876, Texas
|----d. 22 May 1967, Precinct 1, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX
|----m. Jun 1898
|--Emma E. Norman
|----b. Feb 1885, Arkansas
|--Joel Thomas Norman
|----b. 15 Apr 1887, Pike, Arkansas
|----d. 14 Aug 1959, Sherman, Grayson Co., TX
|---& Linda Ellen/Helen Jones
|----b. 1 Oct 1894, Missouri
|----d. 6 Jun 1983
|--Mary Cordelia Norman
|----b. 12 Sep 1889, Arkansas
|----d. 1978
|---& Joseph Riley Williams
|----b. 12 Nov 1887, Beebe, Arkansas
|----d. 11 Apr 1952, Denison, Grayson Co., Texas
|----James Alford Norman
|----b. 26 Jan 1892, Arkansas
|----d. 1962, Houston, Harris County, Texas
|---& Tennie Moody
|---b. Jan 1893, Texas
|--Rebecca Norman
|----b. Aug 1894, Arkansas
|--Sallie/Dolley L. Norman
|----b. Dec 1896, Arkansas
|--Ola M. Norman
|----b. Apr 1900, Arkansas
|--Joseph Madison Carroll Norman
|----b. 17 May 1903, Texas
|----d. 11 Oct 1970, Bonham, Fannin Co., TX
|---& Susie Lee Martin
|----b. 7 Sep 1908, Fannin Co., Texas
|----d. 5 Jan 1969, Tyler, Smith, Texas
|--Betsey Norman
|----b. 1905, Texas
|--Wylie Norman
|----b. 1907, Texas
Joseph James Norman, a son of Joseph Madison Carroll Norman and Rebecca Monk, was my great-grandfather William Henry Norman's brother. This family also ended up in Texas, but based on the states of birth of the children, somewhat later than the other Norman families who ended up in Texas – some time between 1900 and 1903.
There are quite a few gaps in my information, mostly that I do not know what happened to a number of the children. I would love to share information with anyone related to/researching this family; you can contact me at my e-mail address, which can be found by going to my profile page (there is a link to that page in the About Me section to the left).
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Surname Saturday: Family of Joseph James Norman and Martha King
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Sarkozy told France Info radio "there will be no agreement with the National Front and no [National Front] ministers," the BBC reported.
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Sarkozy, Radio France Internationale said, also told France Info FN voters had cast "a crisis vote, a vote of anger" and promised to "listen to them."
Le Pen Wednesday called on Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement and the party's leader, Jean-Francois Cope, to "clearly state if they would call for a Socialist vote in constituencies where the FN faces the Socialists" in legislative elections in June.
The National Front holds no seats in France's National Assembly.
Socialist candidate Francois Hollande won 28.6 percent of the vote to Sarkozy's 27.1 percent.
Hollande also said he wanted to know where Sarkozy's party would stand on the parliamentary election.


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BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc. is testing the safety and effectiveness of LibiGel, a testosterone gel for women designed to combat declines in sexual arousal associated with menopause. There are currently no drugs available in the U.S. specifically approved for pumping up lackluster libido in women.
The Lincolnshire, Ill.,-based company is conducting two trials, comprising 1,000 women, to test the effectiveness of the gel, which is applied to the upper arm. The company will also test the gel's safety in a trial of as many as 3,100 women using LibiGel or a placebo.
If the trials go well, the drug could be available by prescription by 2011, says BioSante chief executive Stephen Simes.
A testosterone gel for menopausal women makes sense medically, says Dr. Richard Paulson, professor of reproductive medicine and chief of reproductive endocrinology at USC's Keck School of Medicine.
Both men and women produce the female hormone estradiol and the male hormone testosterone, but in different quantities. When women go through menopause, they lose almost all of their estradiol production and most of their testosterone production. Estrogen (either taken orally or topically applied) helps keep the vaginal tissue strong and elastic, but it doesn't enhance libido.
A testosterone gel, Paulsen says, could restore libido and reestablish the pre-menopausal balance between testosterone and estradiol. It could be especially beneficial to women who have had their ovaries surgically removed and lose even the small amounts of testosterone that ovaries produce after menopause. This population "is particularly susceptible to symptoms attributable to the loss of hormone production, such as hot flashes and loss of libido," he says.
Currently, the only option postmenopausal women have for boosting testosterone is off-label use of products developed for men, says Sheryl Kingsberg, chief of Behavioral Medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. "We know that it works -- not for everybody -- but it works," she says. "And we know that about 20% of all prescriptions for testosterone are for women."
But safety, particularly the possibility that testosterone could increase the risk of breast cancer, is still a concern. "We haven't seen serious adverse effects" from use, says Kingsberg, a psychologist and sex researcher, "but we need more data."
The first LibiGel trial was launched in December 2006. About 500 healthy women ages 30 to 65 across the U.S. and Canada who had had their ovaries removed and reported distress over low libido applied LibiGel or a placebo for 24 weeks. Using diaries and questionnaires as measurements, the women documented quantity and quality of sexual events, including intercourse, oral sex and masturbation.
Following treatment, the women using LibiGel reported a significantly increased number of satisfying sexual events compared with baseline measures and compared with the placebo group. Participants reported no serious adverse effects. A second, identical trial will begin in the spring to ensure that the findings can be replicated.
The data have been presented at meetings of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health and North American Menopause Society.
A third, 12-month study will track cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, among women taking the drug, and compare them with those of a control group. Participants will be surgically or naturally menopausal women at least 50 years of age, with at least one cardiovascular risk factor, such as hypertension or diabetes.
"The FDA is asking us to study the safety in potentially a higher-risk population in order to prove that, in fact, testosterone is safe for all women," Simes says.
The study will also track the women for breast cancer for an additional four years.
Side effects associated with excessive testosterone in women include oily skin and hair growth in undesirable places, including the face and chest.
Paulson cautions that anyone hoping for an elixir of love is in for a disappointment. "Western society is replete with stories of magical potions that will cause women to become sexually ravenous," he says. "These stories of course are nonsense."
Human sexuality is complex, he adds, and testosterone level is only a small part of the overall picture. "For people who think that they are going to be able to sneak it onto their date's arm while she's not looking -- they should forget it."