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Leaders from conservative Hindu organizations, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, are the latest to be embroiled in the controversy over widespread insensitivity to women and sexual assault in India.
Speaking at a political gathering in the northeastern state of Assam, Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the RSS, blamed what he called urban India's inclination to western thought and ideology for gangrape in the country, arguing that cases of sexual violence, seldom, if ever, occurred in rural areas.
"Such crimes hardly take place in 'Bharat' but occur frequently in India," Mr. Bhagwat said, addressing a gathering in the city of Silchar on Thursday.
In his statement, "Bharat," Hindi for India, is a reference to rural parts of the country, while "India" refers to areas inhabited by the English-speaking urban class. His comments were reported by local media.
"You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be no such incidents of gangrape or sex crimes. They are prevalent in urban belts. The Indian ethos and attitude towards women should be revisited in the context of ancient Indian values," the 62-year-old politician said.
An RSS spokesman endorsed Mr. Bhagwat's remarks on national television Friday.
The safety of women in India has been the subject of global interest since a 23-year-old woman was gangraped in New Delhi last month and died of her injuries last week.
In a separate incident Friday, Kailash Vijayvargiya, a BJP minister from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh warned that "women who attempt to cross limits would face repercussions." His remarks were first reported by news agency Asian News International and were confirmed by party representatives.
The BJP, India's leading opposition political party, heads the state government in Madhya Pradesh.
Protests since the New Delhi woman's gangrape have targeted politicians and other public figures who have, in recent months, sought to attribute the crimes against women on, for instance, short skirts or the consumption of spicy food.
A spokesman for the BJP on Friday said the party had asked Mr. Vijayvargiya to publically withdraw his statement.
RSS spokesman Ram Madhav added to Mr. Bhagwat's remarks on television Friday, saying: "The more we move away from our culture and values, the more such wrong mindsets will thrive."
He claimed that traditional Indian values, which promote gender equity, are confined to rural parts of the country.
Indrani Mazumdar, a senior fellow at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, a New Delhi-based think-tank, termed Mr. Bhagwat's comments "irresponsible, embarrassing and degrading."
She added that sexual assaults were "far more prevalent in rural than in urban India," but go unnoticed and are seldom reported to police. (India's National Crime Records Bureau provides annual data for rape cases reported across states but does not provide a rural, urban break-up.)
"Women in villages are offered cash settlements for rapes, sometimes even forced to marry their assaulters," said Ms. Mazumdar.
Others took to Twitter.
"Crimes against women is not an issue of Bharat vs India but Bharat AND India! Because of the broken down policing and justice systems!" Kiran Bedi, a former cop and prominent social activist, tweeted.
Last month, Abhijit Mukherjee, a Congress politician and son of India's President Pranab Mukherjee labeled women, particularly those who had taken to the streets to protest the Delhi gangrape, "dented and painted," an apparent reference to a car that has been damaged and touched up.
In a separate incident last week, a legislator from the western state of Rajasthan proposed that skirts be banned as part of school uniforms and instead be replaced by trousers or salwars (traditional leggings) to reduce incidences of sexual harassment.
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Downtown Cleveland finally gets a music festival and it's going to be DOPE. The inCuya Music Festival is not only a highlight to the Summer but it brings an array of musicians on 1 ticket such as SZA, Cake, Daniel Caesar, Tank and the Bangas, The Revivalists but also Cleveland's own Ezri who is currently signed to Nas' Mass Appeal Records.
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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday defended his comments on Taipei City Government's handling of flooding during the typhoon season, insisting that the flooding of MRT stations in Taipei during Typhoon Nari in 2001 unexpectedly prevented the city from suffering more serious damage.
"Many countries have built water conservancy infrastructure in non-traditional locations, such as in parks or low-lying areas. Of course, we did not design the MRT stations to be used for flood detention. It is just an example of flood detention pools in urban areas effectively preventing flooding," he said when meeting reporters at the Presidential Office.
Ma's comments came amid criticism of his previous remarks on the issue. While presiding over a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Central Standing Committee meeting on Wednesday, he listened to the Ministry of the Interior's report on the government's handling of flooding in the wake of Tropical Storm Trami.
As Taipei mayor at the time, Ma shared the responsibility for the Taipei City Government's handling of flooding when Nari hit Taiwan in 2001 and said while major construction sites were flooded, the MRT stations prevented the city suffering more serious flooding.
"Taipei Railway Station, MRT stations and construction sites were all flooded during Typhoon Nari. It was a serious disaster for the city and it took months to clean up. However, the flooding in Xinyi District (信義) was not as bad as we thought because MRT stations accidentally played a role as flood detention pools," he said in the meeting.
Ma's description of MRT stations as flood detention pools in the wake of Typhoon Nari drew criticism, with the Chinese-language Apple Daily running a story with the headline "Serious flooding in the wake of Typhoon Nari. Ma: Lucky to have MRT stations as flood detention pools."
Ma said he was not indifferent to serious flooding in the city and said the government would devote more effort to flood prevention measures.
"Some people might interpret my comments in a negative way and think I was indifferent by describing MRT stations as flood detention pools. That's not what I meant," he said.
After cities in the south suffered serious flooding in the wake of Trami, the Executive Yuan said it would examine flood prevention infrastructure around the nation before determining whether to invest NT$60 billion (US$2 billion) to build more facilities.
Ma said he supported the Executive Yuan's plan and said that with weather conditions getting more extreme around the world, the government would take other nations' experiences into consideration when building flood detention facilities, while continuing soil conservation work.
The KMT yesterday also blamed the Apple Daily for distorting Ma's comments and said that Ma meant to instruct the related government agencies to enhance flood prevention facilities in urban areas.
Unconvinced, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers lambasted Ma for his remarks, which they said described city residents' plight as a success of his administration.
What happened in Taipei in 2001, which resulted in 26 deaths, serious flooding in half of the downtown area and in adjacent New Taipei City, then known as Taipei County, has been described as one of the worst examples of disaster preparation and relief in history, DPP Legislator Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) said.


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Kira's CARMEN (The Card Song)
"ARIAS & ARABESQUES" was the name award-winning dancer/choreographer Kira Seamon gave to her unique concept of combining live opera with ballet in a concert setting!!!...Hughly popular with a cross-over audience, "ARIAS & ARABESQUES" was developed by Kira further to include more singers and a larger cast...Eventually, her A & A concerts numbered more than 20 in the cast. In the eponymous opera, CARMEN reads her fortune from a deck of cards. Kira incorporated a deck of cards in her choreography. The centerpiece of the choreography is in the latter half of the dance when Kira sprinkles cards along the perimeter of the performance space. She becomes "hemmed in" and unable to escape her destiny when she dances again within the new perimeter. She also isn't in control of her fste, which Kira symbolized when she tossed the cards in the air and had them rain down on her. Finally, she rejects one-by-one the cards until she is only left with one. Her destiny. This section of the dance was considered to be very dramatic and powerful in the performance. She received much good feedback from the audience afterwards. One especially excited person commented to Kira that she looked like: "ISADORA DUNCAN in a drawing room". When asked to elaborate, they explained they weren't comparing dance styles but commenting on performance impact. Choreography, dancing, graphic design, costume design and concept by Kira Seamon.


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Div I Men's Basketball Player of the Week - No. 1
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Brandon Davis of LSU Shreveport (La.) (photo courtesy of Bill Wood Photography) has been tabbed the NAIA National Division I Men's Basketball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Davis was selected based on his performances from Dec. 31 - Jan. 6 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Davis, a 6-foot-3 junior forward from Pomona, Calif., made a splash in his first collegiate game as a Pilot. In the 115-85 victory over Huston-Tillotson (Texas) on Jan. 5, he finished with 31 points, 20 rebounds, five assists and three steals. He shot 12-of-21 (.571) from the field, including 3-of-5 (.600) from long-distance.
He is just the ninth player in Division I to record 20-or-more rebounds in a single game.
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Nominees: Greg Thomas, Life (Ga.); Dakota Downs, Concordia (Calif.); Alen Hadzimahovic, Culver-Stockton (Mo.); Jeremiah Dunnings, William Carey (Miss.); Denzell Erves, Xavier (La.); Marcel Towns, Great Falls (Mont.); Tyler Morgan, Shawnee State (Ohio); Daniel Armah, William Woods (Mo.); Charlie Shorter, Mid-America Christian (Okla.).
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|Tanya Leighton (Ed.)In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love
Texts by Giorgio Agamben, Ayreen Anastas, George Baker, François Bucher, Jonathan Crary, Serge Daney, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Godard, Gareth James, Thomas Keenan, Ernesto Laclau, John Menick, Haruki Murakami, Jean-Luc Nancy, Mai-Thu Perret, Keith Sanborn
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love takes the distinction that French critic Serge Daney made between the "image" and the "visual" as a starting point for a selection of artworks, films, and discussions. Daney's distinction refers to an "image" that can critically challenge and destabilize predominant models of information, resisting the "purely technical," that which is nothing other than the verification that something functions. Through various strategies of dislocation or slippage contemporary artists and filmmakers stage unsettling tensions that challenge visual conventions in an increasingly mediated culture. The aim of this book is to provide a theoretical and critical framework for examining how contemporary art and cinema can still hold out against an experience of vision and of the "visual." Contributions range from philosophers and theorists such as Ernesto Laclau and Thomas Keenan, to art historians such as George Baker and Jonathan Crary, and to artists and filmmakers including François Bucher, Gareth James, John Menick, Mai-Thu Perret, and Keith Sanborn.
This book was co-produced by Artists Space, New York, and accompanied the same-titled exhibition (November 16 – December 22, 2006).
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour always had plenty of elbow room while soaring around Earth. But to make way for its slow 12-mile (19-km)journey through city streets next month to its final destination at a Los Angeles museum, some trees must fall.
Clearing an unobstructed route for the retired spaceship to take from Los Angeles International Airport to the California Science Center will require cutting down nearly 400 trees in all, and the temporary removal of hundreds of utility poles, street lights and traffic signals, officials say.
But the science center, which is organizing the two-day move, promises to plant 1,000 new trees in place of those taken down. It also has vowed to keep traffic problems to a minimum and avoid disruption of electricity and other utility services.
"It's quite an endeavor," science center president Jeffrey Rudolph said of the project. He told Reuters planning began the day after his museum was chosen in April 2011 as one of four permanent venues for NASA's newly decommissioned space shuttles.
Nothing like it has ever been moved through city streets.
The 75-ton spaceship stretches 122 feet in length, measures 78 feet from wingtip to wingtip and will stand more than five stories tall, lying on its belly on a special rolling platform that will carry it at an average speed of a mile an hour.
The transport vehicle, which can turn at sharp angles, is "driven" via remote control by an operator who walks beside it, Rudolph said. The work is estimated to cost about $10 million and is being paid for through donations.
"This is a national treasure," he said. "It's not just moving something through the streets. It's moving something that will inspire children and adults of all ages."
Added to the shuttle fleet after Challenger was destroyed by an accidental explosion that killed seven astronauts in 1986, Endeavour has flown 25 missions and logged nearly 123 million miles (198 million km) in flight during 4,671 orbits.
Its impending arrival has generated much public anticipation. But tree-removal plans sparked opposition by many residents in neighborhoods through which Endeavour will pass.
Rudolph said the museum has taken pains to limit arboreal impacts as much as possible to smaller or sickly trees, those considered invasive species and those likely to be removed later because of sidewalk damage or future light-rail construction. More than a quarter of them are on airport property.
"We believe we'll leave the neighborhoods with far more trees and healthier trees," he said.
Endeavour was scheduled to travel piggyback on top of a specially modified 747 jet plane en route from Florida to California this week. But its departure from the Kennedy Space Center for the first leg of its final flight was delayed for a day until Wednesday due to bad weather.
NASA said Endeavour is now expected to arrive on Friday at the Los Angeles airport, where the mammoth orbiter will be readied for ground transport to the science center, located in downtown L.A.'s Exposition Park.
Preparations were already under way along its route, which starts by crossing two runways that will be briefly shut down before dawn on October 12 as the shuttle rolls out to the street.
In addition to removing trees and other obstacles, crews have spent weeks raising the height of above-ground power, phone and cable lines that run horizontally across Endeavour's path.
Three sets of high-voltage lines that cannot be permanently raised will instead be removed and replaced one at a time to allow Endeavour to pass. And large steel plates will be laid on the ground in front of the ship to reinforce sections of pavement that might otherwise be compromised.
As for the loss of trees, none slated to be chopped down is a native species or "heritage tree," Rudolph said. Replacements will be boxed trees that already stand 10 to 14 feet tall.
He said museum staff have worked with residents to map out a route requiring the fewest possible tree removals.
If all goes as planned, Endeavour will go on public display at the museum on October 30. Eventually, the ship will be exhibited upright, attached to two actual solid-rocket boosters and a replica of its giant external fuel tank, all connected to a partial replica of a launch tower.
"It will be truly jaw-dropping when you walk in and look in the building," Rudolph said.
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All About Custom Golf Clubs. Just to make a point about custom golf clubs take a look around you the next time you are out on the golf course. Is everyone the same height, weight, sex, and age or are there major differences in appearance? Now, check out everyone's golf clubs. Are all of the clubs practically the same with standard grips, lengths, and the like? So, what does this observation mean? It means that standard golf clubs don't fit the majority of golfers. So if you truly want to improve your game you will customize a set of custom golf clubs, just for you.
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About 1,000 activists rallied in Cairo on Saturday demanding an end to brutality in Egyptian prisons and calling for a ban on torture in the new constitution.
Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was elected in June following 16 months of rule by the army council that took over after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow last year.
During the council's rule, some 12,000 civilians were tried by army courts and many of them were tortured in prisons, according to rights groups.
Aida Seif Al-Dawla, of the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, spoke on a stage on Saturday and told the crowds that the group has documented 150 cases of torture in the 100 days since Mursi took office. "Morsi is following in Mubarak's footsteps," Seif Al-Dawla said.
"Oh martyrs rest in peace, the struggle continues," chanted the demonstrators, who hung up on nearby street walls posters showing the disfigured faces and bodies of torture victims. "No torture - is that too much to ask?" read a poster carried by members of campaign group A Nation without Torture.
The protest, which took place near the Interior Ministry, commemorated the death of Essam Atta, a young Egyptian whose family said he was tortured to death by authorities in October last year while held in Torah prison south of Cairo.
An army court had jailed Atta for two years in February 2011 for offences including "thuggery". His family accused prison officers of torturing him by inserting a hose in his mouth and anus and pumping water and soap into his body causing mass bleeding that led to his death.
"All I ask of our new president is to treat Essam as though he were one of his own children and seek justice for him and for the other martyrs," cried Enaam Youssef, Atta's mother, who was present at the event with her daughters.
Rights groups have compared Atta's death to that of online activist Khaled Said, whose disfigurement and killing at the hands of police in Alexandria in 2010 was one of the factors that helped ignite the revolt that toppled Mubarak.
Human rights groups have demanded that Egypt's new constitution, which is being drawn up by a 100-strong assembly, explicitly ban torture.
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My Literary Passions/Anna Karenina
I COME now, though not quite in the order of time, to the noblest of all these enthusiasms, namely, my devotion for the writings of Lyof Tolstoy. I should wish to speak of him with his own incomparable truth, yet I do not know how to give a notion of his influence without the effect of exaggeration. As much as one merely human being can help another I believe that he has helped me; he has not influenced me in æsthetics only, but in ethics, too, so that I can never again see life in the way I saw it before I knew him. Tolstoy awakens in his reader the will to be a man; not effectively, not spectacularly, but simply, really. He leads you back to the only true ideal, away from that false standard of the gentleman, to the Man who sought not to be distinguished from other men, but identified with them, to that Presence in which the finest gentleman shows his alloy of vanity, and the greatest genius shrinks to the measure of his miserable egotism. I learned from Tolstoy to try character and motive by no other test, and though I am perpetually false to that sublime ideal myself, still the ideal remains with me, to make me ashamed that I am not true to it. Tolstoy gave me heart to hope that the world may yet be made over in the image of Him who died for it, when all Cæsar's things shall be finally rendered unto Cæsar, and men shall come into their own, into the right to labor and the right to enjoy the fruits of their labor, each one master of himself and servant to every other. He taught me to see life not as a chase of a forever impossible personal happiness, but as a field for endeavor toward the happiness of the whole human family; and I can never lose this vision, however I close my eyes, and strive to see my own interest as the highest good. He gave me new criterions, new principles, which, after all, were those that are taught us in our earliest childhood, before we have come to the evil wisdom of the world. As I read his different ethical books, "What to Do," "My Confession," and "My Religion," I recognized their truth with a rapture such as I have known in no other reading, and I rendered them my allegiance, heart and soul, with whatever sickness of the one and despair of the other. They have it yet, and I believe they will have it while I live. It is with inexpressible astonishment that I hear them attainted of pessimism, as if the teaching of a man whose ideal was simple goodness must mean the prevalence of evil. The way he showed me seemed indeed impossible to my will, but to my conscience it was and is the only possible way. If there is any point on which he has not convinced my reason it is that of our ability to walk this narrow way alone. Even there he is logical, but as Zola subtly distinguishes in speaking of Tolstoy's essay on Money, he is not reasonable. Solitude enfeebles and palsies, and it is as comrades and brothers that men must save the world from itself, rather than themselves from the world. It was so the earliest Christians, who had all things common, understood the life of Christ, and I believe that the latest will understand it so.
I have spoken first of the ethical works of Tolstoy, because they are of the first importance to me, but I think that his æsthetical works are as perfect. To my thinking they transcend in truth, which is the highest beauty, all other works of fiction that have been written, and I believe that they do this because they obey the law of the author's own life. His conscience is one ethically and one æsthetically; with his will to be true to himself he cannot be false to his knowledge of others. I thought the last word in literary art had been said to me by the novels of Turgenev, but it seemed like the first, merely, when I began to acquaint myself with the simpler method of Tolstoy. I came to it by accident, and without any manner of preoccupation in "The Cossacks," one of his early books, which had been on my shelves unread for five or six years. I did not know even Tolstoy's name when I opened it, and it was with a kind of amaze that I read it, and felt word by word, and line by line, the truth of a new art in it.
I do not know how it is that the great Russians have the secret of simplicity. Some say it is because they have not a long literary past and are not conventionalized by the usage of many generations of other writers, but this will hardly account for the brotherly directness of their dealing with human nature; the absence of experience elsewhere characterizes the artist with crudeness, and simplicity is the last effect of knowledge. Tolstoy is, of course, the first of them in this supreme grace. He has not only Turgenev's transparency of style, unclouded by any mist of the personality which we mistakenly value in style, and which ought no more to be there than the artist's personality should be in a portrait; but he has a method which not only seems without artifice, but is so. I can get at the manner of most writers, and tell what it is, but I should be baffled to tell what Tolstoy's manner is; perhaps he has no manner. This appears to me true of his novels, which, with their vast variety of character and incident, are alike in their single endeavor to get the persons living before you, both in their action and in the peculiarly dramatic interpretation of their emotion and cogitation. There are plenty of novelists to tell you that their characters felt and thought so and so, but you have to take it on trust; Tolstoy alone makes you know how and why it was so with them and not otherwise. If there is anything in him which can be copied or burlesqued it is this ability of his to show men inwardly as well as outwardly; it is the only trait of his which I can put my hand on.
After "The Cossacks" I read "Anna Karenin" with a deepening sense of the author's unrivaled greatness. I thought that I saw through his eyes a human affair of that most sorrowful sort as it must appear to the Infinite Compassion; the book is a sort of revelation of human nature in circumstances that have been so perpetually lied about that we have almost lost the faculty of perceiving the truth concerning an illicit love. When you have once read "Anna Karenin" you know how fatally miserable and essentially unhappy such a love must be. But the character of Karenin himself is quite as important as the intrigue of Anna and Vronsky. It is wonderful how such a man, cold, Philistine and even mean in certain ways, towers into a sublimity unknown (to me, at least) in fiction when he forgives, and yet knows that he cannot forgive with dignity. There is something crucial, and something triumphant, not beyond the power, but hitherto beyond the imagination of men in this effect, which is not solicited, not forced, not in the least romantic, but comes naturally, almost inevitably from the make of man.—From "My Literary Passions"


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Kidney cancer, diabetes linked
A new study of local kidney cancer patients shows a strong link to diabetes, with the most advanced cancers found in those with the worst control over their blood sugar.
"We need to tell people with diabetes to control your blood glucose," said Samy Habib, assistant professor of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, who led the study. "They need to frequently check their hemoglobin A1c, and they need to keep glucose levels as normal as they can."
The study, published in the Journal of Cancer this month, examined the medical records of hundreds of San Antonio patients with the most common form of kidney cancer and found a quarter of them also had diabetes.
Bexar County has a higher rate of kidney cancer than the rest of Texas, with a five-year average of 20.9 cases per 100,000 population, compared with 17.8 statewide, according to the Texas Cancer Registry.
Diabetes is one of many risk factors for kidney cancer, the others being obesity, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, kidney transplants, a family history and exposure to certain chemicals.
How big a role diabetes plays in kidney cancer has been a bit controversial, but an analysis last year by Swedish researchers that included nine studies and 5.8 million patients worldwide found that diabetics had a 42 percent higher risk of developing kidney cancer than nondiabetics.
Both that study and the local study found that women with diabetes were at much higher risk of kidney cancer than diabetic men. In general, more men than women develop kidney cancer.
Dr. William Lowrance, assistant professor of oncology at the University of Utah, led a similar study last year that found a link between obesity and kidney cancer. He said it's yet unclear whether either condition is causing kidney cancer, or pointing to some other underlying cause.
"There's something here," Lowrance said. "Whether it's obesity, whether it's diabetes, whether it's chronic kidney disease, it certainly seems like a lot of things are lining up to tell us there's something that's either associated with or potentially causing an increased incidence of kidney cancer."
The new study reviewed the medical records of 473 local patients who underwent surgery for clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer, between 1994 and 2009. Of those, 120, or 25.4 percent, had a history of diabetes. Three-quarters of the diabetics were Hispanic and tended to be younger than nondiabetics.
While the diabetics were more likely to be diagnosed with small, local tumors, the study found those with the highest A1c levels, which show long-term control of blood sugar, had the most advanced cancers. Those with Stage 3 and 4 cancer, indicating cancers that have spread to other parts of the body, had A1c levels of 7.7 and 8.2 respectively. Doctors advise diabetic patients to aim for an A1c of less than 7.


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Migrating Landscapes
Thursday, November 3, 2011 to Sunday, November 27, 2011
Architectural design competition display of models from emerging architects.
Take in the creativity of emerging architects as the MOV plays host to an exhibit of the Migrating Landscapes Competition. Architectural models are created by young Canadians to reflect on how cultural memory plays a role in our way of thinking about space and home. Homes and dwellings will be designed to fit a wooden landscape created by the Migrating Landscapes Organization, and their very structure will offer a unique view into Canada's past, present, and future.
Canada's official entry at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture.
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Migrating Landscapes slideshow
BC entries to Migrating Landscapes - Vimeo entries
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Migrating Landscapes and other showcase venues across Canada
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I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but in American tradition, Easter music runs a far second from Christmas music. We think of Christmas and Easter as the two great sort of quasi-religious holidays in our country. We can hardly count the music that is written around the Christmas season and the Christmas theme. But when it comes to Easter music, it's much more limited.
Perhaps the most familiar traditional Easter song goes like this, "Put on your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, and you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade."
And as if that's not enough of musical genius, there is another classical Easter expression that says, "Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail. Hippety, hoppity, Easter's on its way."
Well, so much for the world's Easter hymnology. Thankfully, we don't have to sing those trite songs. We could sing Beethoven's and Wordsworth's great hymn, "Alleluia, Alleluia, hearts to heaven and voices raised, sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise. He who on the cross as Savior for the world's salvation bled, Jesus Christ the King of Glory now is risen from the dead. Now the iron bars are broken. Christ, from death to life, is born. Glorious life and life immortal on this resurrection morn. Christ has triumphed and we conquer by his mighty enterprise. We with Him to life eternal by his resurrection rise."
Or we could sing Charles Wesley's masterful hymn as we did earlier. "Christ the Lord is risen today, sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high. Sing ye heavens and earth reply. Lives again our glorious King where all death is now thy sting, dying once He all doth save where thy victory, oh grave. Love's redeeming work is done. Fought the fight, the battle won. Death in vain forbids Him rise. Christ has opened paradise."
We could sing Christian Gellert's rich lyrics, "Jesus lives and so shall I. Death! Thy sting is gone forever. He, for me, hath deigned to die lives the bands of death to sever. He shall raise me from the dust. Jesus is my hope and trust."
But beyond all of these, there is another Easter song. I want it to be the substance of our message today. You'll find it in your Bible in 1 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16. Here is an Easter song and by the spirit of God, through the Apostle Paul and sung by the early church, though in English it loses some of the lyric and some of the lilt of the Greek. It nonetheless puts us in touch with maybe the first Easter song, the first Resurrection hymn.
Listen to it's words, 1 Timothy 3:16, "He who was revealed in the flesh was vindicated in the spirit, beheld by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world taken up in glory." Simple yet profound. This hymn stands, as it were, above all other hymns. Six lines affirming the centrality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ even though the word resurrection doesn't appear. It is still the resurrection that is the essence of the hymn and the heart of the Christian faith.
This hymn has a prelude to it. The prelude is at the beginning of verse 16. It says this, "And by common confession, great is the mystery of Godliness." That phrase "common confession" in some Bibles is translated without controversy. It is a Greek word homoleguminous, from which we get homo, which means the same. And it means to say the same.
And so what it says is everyone says the same thing. All of us agree. There is no debate here. There is no controversy here. Everyone affirms this. It is beyond all question, all discussion and all query. The whole redeemed church confesses this is true. It is the unanimous conviction of all believers. Here is a truth that every Christian on the face of the earth who has ever lived will confidently confess.
You say, "Well, what is it?" It is this: great is the mystery of Godliness. Every Christian who lives, has lived or ever will live will affirm the truthfulness of that statement. It is common confession to all true Christians. Great is the mystery of Godliness. If you don't say that, you're not a Christian. If you don't believe that, you're not a Christian.
Now, that is a cry, in some ways. May well have been a cry that Christians gave back and forth when they greeted one another. "Great is the mystery of Godliness." Maybe they even began a worship service, "Great is the mystery of Godliness."
It is recorded for us in Acts chapter 19 that in the city of Ephesus where they worshipped Diana, the Celtic cry of the pagan worshippers was, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians. Great is Diana of the Ephesians." And the cry of the Christian is, "Great is the mystery of Godliness."
You say, "Well, I'd like to cry that but I'm not sure what it means." Well, what is it? What is the mystery of Godliness? The very word in this resurrection hymn tells you. The first word is the word He. The mystery of Godliness is not a doctrine. The mystery of Godliness is not a creed. The mystery of Godliness it not a theology, it is not a principle. The mystery of Godliness is a person. It is He. Great is the mystery of Godliness.
Who is He? The word mystery means to reveal what was hidden, to unfold what was not disclosed. Godliness means holiness. In whom was perfect holiness revealed? Jesus Christ. He is the mystery of Godliness. He is holiness revealed. The secret, the veiling of God's holiness, was revealed in Jesus Christ.
Christianity, then, is not a system of ceremonies. Christianity is not trust in a creed. It is not just belief in a system of doctrines or theology. It is not a plan for how to do good deeds. Christianity is the affirmation by common confession that God, Holy God, perfect God, righteous God, came into the world revealed in a person. That's the heart of Christianity.
Great megain the Greek. Great is the truth that Holy God is revealed. That is Christianity. That is the most astonishing thing in all the realm of religious truth that God should become a man. That Holy God, that Godliness, as borne by God, would be revealed, manifest, unveiled, demonstrated in a person. He is that person.
We are here on this resurrection day to sing this hymn with Paul, with Timothy, with the early church about the fact that Jesus is God revealed. He is the mystery of Godliness unfolded.
And the testimony to that truth is given in this six line hymn. Each of these lines proves this confession to be true. It is one thing to say that Holy God is revealed in Jesus and great is that revelation, it's something else to verify it. And so the Holy Spirit has written a hymn of verification, a hymn of attestation, a hymn of evidence, a hymn of proof that indeed He is the secret of holiness unveiled.
Line one: He who was revealed in the flesh. He who was revealed in the flesh. Simply stated, beloved, the evidence that Jesus Christ was God in a human body is obvious if you look at his life. The mystery of Godliness was revealed through human flesh. It was apparently in the way He was born of a virgin. It was apparent in the way He lived an absolutely sinless, perfect life.
It was apparent in the amazing and astounding and unbelievably profound timeless words which came out of his lips. It was apparent because of the inexplicable grandeur and power of the works which He did, including raising the dead. It was apparent from the amazing knowledge which allowed Him to say, "You don't need to tell me what's in the heart of a man. I know what's in his heart. I can see it. I can hear his unspoken words. I can feel his unfelt emotions and I can see his unthought thoughts."
Jesus Christ in the flesh was God manifest. Even the people around said never a man spake like this man. There was no way to explain His words. There was no way to explain His works other than He was God. The word revealed funarowain the Greek. It means to make visible. And what that tells us is that Jesus Christ was not created but that He preexisted. He always was the second member of the Trinity but took on flesh. He was made visible.
Prior to that He was invisible. He was the second member of the invisible God -- the Trinity. And this simple, profound statement presupposes His preexistence. God, who already existed, became revealed or made visible in his human flesh. Jesus Christ then made the invisible Holy God who is transcended spirit visible in human form. In the form of the man, Jesus God, the Holy One appeared.
In John chapter 1, "In the beginning was the word," speaking of Jesus Christ. "And the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God." Verse 14. "And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld His glory." We could see it. "And we could see that it was the glory of God, full of grace and full of truth." We could see it.
In Romans chapter 1, the Apostle Paul speaking again of the same great thing. He says that, "God sent his son, born of a descendent of David, according to the flesh." God comes into the world in a Jewish body as a descendent of David that He might be the true king.
In Galatians, Paul says in chapter 4 in verse 4, "When the fullness of time came, God sent forth His son, born of a woman. The Son was already there. He sent Him forth to be born through the body of a woman and born under the law and order that He might redeem those that were under the law." He came to redeem men. God sent His son into human form. That is at the very, very first point of Christian theology.
In the book of Hebrews chapter 1, it says, "He is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of God's nature." Jesus Christ, by His own life in the flesh, revealed that He was the mystery of Godliness. Look at His life. Look at His words. Look at His works, the things He did. Follow the pattern of His living from His birth to His death and you will see there's no other explanation than that this is God. This is God.
Even a Centurion, a pagan Roman, watching Him die says, "Truly, this was the Son of God." There is no other explanation for His life. The divine revelation offers no clearer evidence than the life of Christ to anyone who is watching to know that He was God.
H.R. Brawley'shymn is fitting. He titled it, "The Great God of Heaven has Come Down to Earth." These are its lyrics, "The word and the bliss of the Godhead remaining. Yet in flesh comes to suffer the keenest of pains. He is that He was and forever shall be but becomes that He was not for you and for me. God, Holy God, revealed in flesh to die for the sins of man. What condescending grace, what compassion, what mercy.
"It isn't just His works, it isn't just His word that prove He is God. It is His love, his compassion, His humiliation. The fact that He would stoop to redeem sinners but speaks of a kind of grace and love and mercy that is at a level that we cannot comprehend." The hymn says, "Proof enough is available in that He was revealed in the flesh."
But there's a second line to the hymn. It is this: "He was vindicated in the spirit." What does this mean? Now, remember Jesus made all the claims to being God. He said if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. He said, "I and the Father are one." He said, "You can't condemn me for what I do on the Sabbath; I am Lord of the Sabbath."
He said, "If I wish, I can call down all the heavenly hosts to my aid." Which means I am commander in chief of them all, a role reserved for deity.
Jesus, over and over again in His life said He was God one way or another. He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." He said, "My kingdom is not of this world." Those great claims to deity were vindicated. They were justified by the spirit.
You say, "How? How did the Holy Spirit affirm them? How did the Holy Spirit confirm them? How did the Holy Spirit remove any question about whether or not they were just claims? How did He do that?
Romans chapter 1 again. And it says very simply in verse 4 that He was declared to be the Son of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Holy Spirit, the spirit of holiness. When the Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead, the Holy Spirit was therefore saying He is who He claimed to be, the sinless God in human form. His incredible, perfect, sinless life revealed He was God.
But not everybody could see that life. Not everybody was close to Him. Not everybody was around when He lived. Perhaps not everybody was finally and fully convinced having varying degrees of personal evidence. And so the Holy Spirit came along and confirmed all those claims by raising Jesus from the dead. He demonstrated a vindication of every claim Jesus ever made.
You have to remember that while Jesus was living a perfect life and some believed, there were people who were condemning Him and condemning Him and condemning Him at a rapid and pervasive rate. Finally, it got into the cross and He died under a cloud of sin and guilt. Hanging on the cross in the middle of two criminals, He was identified with criminals as a criminal. He was treated by the Romans as a insurrectionist and a rebel, a rabble-rouser, a troublemaker and one who wouldn't bow the knee to Cesar. He was treated by the Jews as a heretic and a blasphemer and one who would have overturned the purity of their religion.
Not only did He have that artificial guilt put upon Him but He had put upon Him the real sin of all the world and so He died under the weight of the sentence of sin. He died in a cloud of condemnation and not all understood His perfect holiness. And so the Holy Spirit raised Him from the dead which removed forever the cloud. Jesus' resurrection was the declaration by the Holy Spirit that He was righteous. When the father said twice, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased," the Spirit affirmed it by raising Him from the dead.
What it says in Romans 1:4, the word declared. He was declared to be the Son of God, declared to be the mystery of Godliness, declared to be God in human flesh, declared to be Holiness Incarnate. It says He was declared to be so by the resurrection. Now, the word declared is horidzoin the Greek from which we get the word "horizon". Horizon has a very clear definition. Horizon means the clear line between earth and sky, the clear boundary between earth and sky. That is the horizon. It is very clear.
So the Spirit of God, in raising Jesus from the dead, drew a clear line, marking out or distinguishing that this human life was indeed the mystery of Godliness, Holiness Incarnate, God in flesh. Sin kills and sin kills permanently and sin damns to hell. But Jesus rose from the dead because He had no sin of his own. He was raised to demonstrate His absolute perfect sinlessness.
The words of Theodosia Garrison, "Look at the glory of the resurrection in a fresh way; listen to them. We doubted our God in secret. We scoffed in the marketplace. We held our hearts from His keeping. We held our eyes from His face. We looked to the ways of our fathers, denying where they denied. And we said, as He passed by, He is stilled at last. A man is crucified. But now I give you certain news to bid a world rejoice. You may crush truth to silence. You may cry above His voice. You may close your ears before Him lest you tremble at the word. But late or soon, by night or noon, the living truth is heard."
Further she says, "We buried our God in darkness. In secret and all affright, we crept on a path of silent spherical things in the night. We buried our God in terror, after the fashion of men, as we said each one, 'The deed is done.' And the grave is closed again.
"But now I give you certain news to spread by land and sea. You may scourge truth naked, you may nail Him to the tree. You may roll the stone above it and seal it priestly wise but against the morn, unnamed newborn, the living truth will rise." And He did. And He did because the Spirit was giving testimony through the mystery of Godliness.
The third line in the hymn is yet a third line of evidence. He was not only revealed in the flesh, evidence enough of the mystery of Godliness. Vindicated in the spirit, evidence enough of the mystery of Godliness. But He was beheld by angels." Beheld by angels -- to what does this refer? Angels had, frankly, been infrequent visitors in His life.
Do you remember that in Matthew 26:53 and 54, He said, "If I wanted, I could have called legions of angels?" But He chose and was willing to live and die without angelic intervention. Only two times during His life did angels come. Once in his temptation when Satan had tempted Him 40 days they came and ministered to Him. Once again at the garden, when He was tempted, an angel came and strengthened Him. Those are the only two recorded times that angels gave any attendance to Christ.
But now, all of the sudden, in connection with the resurrection, He was beheld by angels. The first line of the hymn took us to the cross. The second line of the hymn took us through the resurrection. And the third line, "Beheld, thy angels," takes us after the resurrection.
What does He have in mind? What does He have in mind? Someone suggested maybe He had in mind when Jesus' body was in the grave, His spirit descended into the pit, according to 1 Peter 3:19 and 22, where demons, fallen angels are bound. And He showed up at the party the fallen angels were holding for a crucified Savior. And in the middle of their celebration that He was dead, He arrived. And He was beheld by fallen angels. But I don't think that's the intent of this text.
Though it is true that they experienced His presence during the time that His body was in the grave, His spirit alive went into that place and announced the triumph that was about to come into resurrection to those fallen angels. That's not what we have in mind here. I think it's something beyond that.
The beheld is the word harao. It means also to watch and to witness. And it must refer to the holy angels. He was seen and witnessed by the angels in His resurrection. Surely the holy angels were collected around that tomb. Surely they were watching with whatever capacity they have to see this.
You say, "Why do you say that?" Because 1 Peter 1 says that they have a craving and a longing to look into the matters of salvation, to understand them, to see them. And this is the climax of redemptive history. And you can believe that the angelic host was watching.
You also even have the opportunity to meet some of the angels. Do you remember in Hebrews 1:6 and when it says that when God brought Christ into the world, it says let all the angels of God worship Him. When He was born, the angels were poised, weren't they? And they were in heaven and what were they saying? Hosanna. They were singing the praises -- or saying, literally, the praises of the King born.
And as Hebrews 1:6 says, at His birth, all the angels worshipped Him. You can be sure that at His resurrection they were all collected ready to worship when He came out of that grave. But there's more than that. There was some special angels chosen for some very, very special participation in the resurrection. One angel rolled the stone away. Two angels sat on the palette where His body was: one at His feet and one at His head after He was already gone.
The angels were around the scene. And it is recorded that the angel said, "He is not here." What? "He is risen." And so you can add to the testimony of Christ Himself in his incarnate life and the testimony of the spirit of God through the resurrection, the testimony of holy angels. And it is angelic testimony that He is not here. He is risen. He is alive. He is gone. He does not occupy the grave.
And you can be certain that there was celebration among the angels. After all, if they rejoiced, according to Luke 15, over the salvation of one soul, you can only imagine what heaven was like when Jesus came out of the grave. The unbelievable rejoicing and celebration of the whole population of angels.
And they said, "He's not here. He is risen." And you have the testimony of holy, angelic angels; the testimony of fallen demons in a pit would be meaningless. Holy angels confirmed the glory of Christ. Holy angels affirmed the mystery of Godliness. Holy angels would sing with the church, "Great is the mystery of Godliness." Angels who witnessed the creation; angels who witnessed the giving of the law; angels who witnessed the birth of Christ; angels who will witness the Second Coming, glory and establishment of the Kingdom. Those angels were there at the resurrection, some few with special duties.
Holy creatures they are. Permanently holy, forever holy, devoted to God. They worship God night and day, all the time, forever. They were there to give testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Men may have been confused, the angels weren't.
As I read in John 20, the disciples didn't fully understand; the angels did. And they might have identified with a familiar hymn, if it went like this, "Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace. Hail the Son of Righteousness. Light and life to all He brings, risen with healing in His wings. Mild He lays his glory by, born that man no more may die. Risen to raise the sons of earth. Risen to give them second birth. Hark the herald angels sing. Glory to the risen King."
There's a fourth line in the hymn that takes the testimony one step further. The fourth line says, "Proclaimed among the nations." After the death of Jesus Christ, the disciples folded their tents. They were said, cowardly, disappointed, fearful, scattered, helpless, weaklings. They were left with severe doubt, major depression thinking their Messiah, their leader, the one they loved, was dead.
How in the world could they go from that attitude to proclaiming Him among the nations? The thing that turned them around was what? The resurrection. The resurrection. After his resurrection, He appeared. You can see the scene reminded by the text we read earlier this morning. There came Peter and John and faith began to well up in John's heart. "He's not here. And look at the grave clothes. Could it be a resurrection?"
And then there was Mary. And she heard Him say, "Mary."
And she said, "Rabboni." And she knew He was alive. And then that night there was the upper room and He was there. And then a week later He was there again so Thomas could see.
And He said, "Touch me and see that it is I." And they knew and they believed. And then there Galilee and in Galilee there was the appearance to 500 at one time. And the confidence began to grow and grow. And in Galilee He made them breakfast and He confirmed His resurrection to them. And He spoke to them. And He re-commissioned Peter. And He discussed what John would do. And they knew He lived. And they knew He lived.
And they were instantaneously transformed into powerful preachers. And they went roaring back into the city of Jerusalem, praising God, preaching Christ. And they tried to stop them and silence them. They went to the temple and they did it. They went everywhere and did it. They turned the whole city upside down. They grabbed them and they took them in as prisoners and they told them, "Don't do that again." And they went out and did it all the more and counted themselves joyful to be worthy to suffer for the risen Christ.
If there was no resurrection, they never would have proclaimed Him among the nations. They would have gone away and they would have died in unbelievable disappointment. If some fools come along and say they stole His body, they never would have died as martyrs, as most of them did, for a stolen body. Give them more credit than that.
They would never pull off a hoax and then die for it. If someone pulls off a hoax, it is to make money. It is not to become deprived and rejected and hated and despised and martyred. The very fact that they went to all the world and preached the gospel as Jesus told them to, the very fact that they went and made disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them all things whatsoever I have commanded you, the very fact that they did that is indication enough that they had seen the risen Christ.
They had seen Him. And they had touched Him. And they had eaten with Him. And they had walked with Him. And so when you hear that marvelous line, "Proclaimed among the nations," it's full of resurrection truth. They never would have preached his name. They never would have proclaimed His name. They never would have lived to die had He not risen from the grave.
And so Jesus Himself through His life said, "Great is the mystery of Godliness."
The Holy Spirit, through his resurrection, says, "Great is the mystery of Godliness."
The angels join in as they watch Him rise and say, "Great is the mystery of Godliness."
And here come the apostles, once disappointed, and now highly motivated to give their life for the risen Christ and they say, "We will proclaim Him among the nations, suffering whatever may come for His sake." Such proclamation speaks of confidence in resurrection.
George Frideric Handel wrote the words to a great hymn that speaks of proclaiming the risen Christ. It might be a hymn the apostles could well sing. "Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son. Endless is the victory, thou or death hast won. Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, kept the folded grave clothes where the body lay. Lead His church with gladness; hymns of triumph sing. For her Lord now liveth and death has lost its sting."
Oswald Smith wrote a hymn that says, "He rose triumphantly in power and majesty. The Savior rose, no more to die. Oh let us now proclaim the glory of His name and tell to all He lives today."
Those transformed disciples who went out preaching Jesus Christ among the nations, who were persecuted, imprisoned and martyred for their faith, confirmed that Jesus indeed is the mystery of Godliness. He is God revealed.
The fifth line of this resurrection hymn says, "Believed on in the world." And what has it been through all the preaching of the apostles down to now that ultimately convinces people that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be? It is the fact that they believe in His resurrection. How can one be saved if you confess with your mouth? Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart -- Romans 10:9 and 10 -- that God has what? Raised Him from the dead. That's the heart of the Christian message.
When the apostles went out day of Pentecost, first sermon after the resurrection, Peter preaches the resurrection. And He preaches that Jesus, whom you killed, is alive. And the people were devastated and 3,000 believed. The evidence was overwhelming. The evidence was overwhelming. Empty tomb, grave clothes, testimony of transformed apostles. No other explanation. And they believed.
In Acts chapter 4, 5,000 believed. And now the whole city of Jerusalem is being overturned. And then they begin to move out and more believe and more believe and more believe. And all over the world, they begin to believe. And the message goes into Samaria and they believe. And then the message goes to a gentile named Cornelius and he believes. And then the message begins to go out of that very land of Palestine and it begins to move with the Apostle Paul and everywhere he goes they believe, and they believe, and they believe, and they believe, and they believe, and they believe, and they believe, and they believe, and they believe. Why did they believe? Because the evidence of the resurrection is so absolutely overwhelming.
I say to you, people who deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ have not studied it, have not studied the account of Scripture. Or two, they rejected it because they refused to accept the implications of it. When you see these liberals who come along and deny the resurrection of Christ, that has absolutely nothing to do with theology. That has nothing to do with their great skills to deal with Scripture. That has to do with their desire to live an immoral, Godless life, to continue in their sin without any accountability to a Holy God that's going to make demands on the way they live. They refuse to accept that and so the will deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a moral issue. It is a moral issue.
The evidence is absolutely overwhelming. Everywhere they went they people believed. It's still going on even today. And you know something? The human heart cries out for that. Nobody wants to look at death as a black end, as eternal nothingness. The human heart hungers for life after death. And it's only offered in Christ. It's a message people want to hear. It doesn't run contrary to the desire of the heart. The heart longs for justice. The heart longs for a better world, a better life, equity, fairness, hope, the elimination of sin and pain. The human heart longs for that.
In World War I, they found a body of an unknown soldier. And in his pocket was a poem he had written. "If it be all for naught, for nothingness, at last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across the western hills and light the silver lamp of eve? Why give me eyes to see and soul to love so strong and deep? Then with a pang, this brightness stabs me through and wakes within rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity to gnaw my heartstrings through if death ends all? If death ends all then evil must be good, wrong must be right and beauty, ugliness. God is a Judas who betrays his Son and with a kiss, damns all the world to hell if Christ does not rise."
The human heart screams that there must be a resurrection. All this can't be meaningless. And there is, and I believe and you believe and people in the world have been believing ever since the message was preached. And there's an old gospel song we have sung through the years. "I serve a risen Savior. He's in the world today. I know that He is living no matter what men say. I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer. And just the time I need Him, He's always near. He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me, He talks with me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. And if you ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart."
Faith. Belief. The testimony to the risen Christ given by believers is added to the testimony of the apostles, the testimony of the angels, the testimony of the Holy Spirit, the testimony of Christ Himself. There's a final testimony; the last line. And that's a testimony of God the Father taken up in glory. That's the climax of the hymn.
This refers, in part, to His ascension in Acts 1:9 to 11. It says He was taken up to heaven in clouds. But it's not so much just looking at his ascension as an event. It really is looking at Hebrews -- the concept in Hebrews. Where it says when He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.
It's looking at the fact that God, in Philippians 2, has highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow.
It's looking at Hebrews chapter 2, which talks about the fact that Jesus Christ has been exalted and lifted up to the right hand of God the Father. And it says He is crowned with glory and honor.
It looks at the thought of Hebrews chapter 8 verse 1 which says He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens.
Chapter 12 of Hebrews verse 2, Jesus the author, perfector of our faith, sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. See, it's picturing the fact that God exalted Him. And God exalted Him because His work was perfect. So God says, "Yes, this is the mystery of Godliness. Great is Jesus Christ. Great is Jesus Christ. I, Holy God the Father, affirm it by exalting Him to my right hand and giving Him the kingdoms of this world. And I, Holy God, am writing my own hymn for all of you to sing to Christ."
This is how it goes, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing. Sing it now, sing it then and sing it forever." The very heart of Christianity reduced to a hymn -- an Easter hymn. The incarnate life of Christ confirms He is the mystery of Godliness. The resurrection by the Holy Spirit confirms He is the mystery of Godliness. The experience and testimony of holy angels confirms it. The preaching of apostles confirms it. The believing of sinners confirms it. And the exaltation by God confirms it.
And we say it -- say it with me, "Great is the mystery of Godliness." Say it with me, "Great is the mystery of Godliness." Yes, Jesus Christ, who is the heart of our faith, the one to whom we give all praise. Let's pray.
Father, we have been awed by the majesty of this six-line hymn which exalts Christ. That is why we have gathered, to lift Him up. We hear the testimony so powerful amassed to affirm that great confession of all Christians that holiness, Holy God, was revealed in human form in our Lord Jesus Christ. We confess it. We confess it with joy on this resurrection day. Amen.
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Thank you for integrating real world scenarios into your core curriculum. "Teaching to a test" in no way prepares todays students for what they will ultimately face in life. Too many professors are crippling their students before they even get out of the starting gate; which, in turn, handicaps their future employers by saddling them with employees that do not know how to fully utilize available resources, conceptualize and effectively implement solutions and to be valuable contributors to an organization from the outset...in short, practical application of theory is necessary to successfully navigate in today's market and should be an integral part of our education process.


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Aug. 23, 2002
Every few days, a player from the U.S. Under-19 Women's National Team will send out an e-postcard from Canada, where the U.S. is playing in the FIFA Under-19 Women's World Championship. The USA swept through Group C going 3-0-0 while scoring 15 goals and giving up just one and will play Denmark in its quarterfinal match on Sunday, Aug 25, at Centennial Stadium in Victoria, B.C. Kickoff for the match is 7 p.m. PT and fans can follow the action live on www.ussoccer.com's MatchTracker presented by Phillips Electronics.
Today's postcard is from midfielder Leslie Osborne
Height: 5-8
Born: May 27, 1983
Hometown: Menomonee Falls, Wis.
College: Santa Clara University
We've been in Victoria, B.C. for 12 days now and we love it. It's a perfect place for us to spend two weeks. The city has some great energy to it, but it's also peaceful and quiet and certainly beautiful. We couldn't have asked for a better place to play a world championship. There are just enough things going on to keep us occupied, but not enough to distract us from our focus for the games.
Our second group game against Australia was an all-out war. It definitely helped them that almost all of the fans at the game were cheering for them. But we had a small pocket of parents and friends who were yelling just as loud. My nickname on the team is Ozzy, as is Oz, as in Osborne. At the beginning of the game, I heard a chant go up from the crowd that sound like the fans were yelling "Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy!!" over and over. I was kind of embarrassed for second until I realized that they were chanting "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!! for the Australians. I later found out that everyone on the bench had a good laugh about it in first couple of minutes as well. Unfortunately, somehow, Megan Kakadelas missed the joke. About 15 minutes into the game, during a lull, she said to no one in particular, "hey, how come they are still cheering for Ozzy?" But that's just Megan. Everyone on the team calls her Phoebe, as in Phoebe from "Friends." Now you know why.
The day after the Australia game we didn't practice and instead took a nice, leisurely team jog through the streets of Victoria. Well, it wasn't so leisurely for me. We were running on the sidewalk and I swear a big, scary monster jumped out of a crack and grabbed my ankle because somehow I ate it and ended up skinning my knees on the ground. Everyone on the team saw and it burst out laughing, temporarily halting our jog. No one seemed surprised that I was the one who fell, though. After I recovered gracefully, we ate lunch on the beautiful big lawn outside the Legislative Building here in the capital of British Columbia. A couple of the girls were throwing the football around before a cop came by and told us to stop. Apparently, you can eat there, but they don't want anyone getting pegged with a football. And the way some of our girls throw, we were a bit dangerous.
One thing we have learned here at the world championships is that because our games are being shot for broadcast, the camera could be on you at anytime. After I scored against England in the first game, they had a field-level camera on me as I was running back up the field and you can clearly see me say a profanity. It was so embarrassing to watch on the tape because it's pretty much a close up of my face. But hey, I was excited! You don't get to score a goal in a world championship to often. But I got off lightly as compared to an unnamed U.S. assistant coach who was caught picking his nose for like five seconds and then looking around to see if anyone had seen him. Little did he, umm... I mean it could be a she, know that Sportsnet Canada had a camera on him the whole time. Let's just say we'll see that clip in a few team meetings.
We found out last night that we play Denmark on Sunday in the quarterfinals. We've never played them before, but from our tour of Europe a few months ago, we know how tough all of the European teams are. We have a lot of respect for all of those teams because they are great soccer countries, but right now, we are mostly focusing mostly on ourselves and what we need to do to get ready. Knowing these girls, we will be.
Bye for now,
Leslie Osborne has been a member of the U.S. Under-19 National Team for two years. She was a key member of the USA's CONCACAF Qualifying team in Tobago, where she scored her first international goal. Osborne doubled her goal total in the first two games of the 2002 FIFA Under-19 World Championship, scoring against England and Australia. A midfielder for the national team, she played mostly forward during her freshman year for the Santa Clara University and scored 13 goals with 17 assists to help the Broncos to the 2001 NCAA Championship.


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How can investors benefit from climate change action?
With the UN Climate Change Conference under way in Paris, Simon Webber discusses how investors can benefit from the drive to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
China climate progress
December's climate change negotiations are expected to result in the most significant international agreement yet about how to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
The most important thing to focus on is the extent to which countries are willing to push themselves to "stretch" reduction targets and show a serious commitment to the cause.
Another key outcome of the talks will be the mechanism to review countries' mitigation efforts every five years to ensure that emissions goals are constantly evolving to keep global reduction targets on track.
Tackling pollution
Encouragingly, we have seen some good momentum for change from the world's largest emitters, the US and China.
China is making some progress in heading down a cleaner path by, for example, committing to tackling air pollution in its major cities while US companies are leading the charge in creating some of the technological solutions we will need for a greener world.
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This can only be a good thing. Improvements in battery technology and lower battery storage costs are helping drive a shift to the electric vehicle, to the benefit of Tesla, which has seen its share price rise by more than 90% (annualised) since the end of 2012.
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There is no better time than now for U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton to step out of their tightly planned schedule of meetings in Pakistan and make a trip to the home of human rights activist Asma Jahangir.
Jahangir, a lawyer who formerly chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, has been a staunch advocate of media freedom and journalists' rights. She has long been the target of Pakistanis of many different sorts who resent her criticism of the social and political imbalances that mar Pakistan's society.
Now Jahangir has revealed what she considers genuine threats to kill her. Those threats came from "a responsible and highly credible" source, according to public comments that Jahangir made Monday and to a statement released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which was signed by 44 prominent members of Pakistan's civil society.
On Monday, Jahangir went public with the threats on some of Pakistan's many political talk shows. She said government agencies were threatening her because of her critical remarks on the brutal tactics used to suppress the widespread ethnic unrest in Baluchistan. (See CPJ's recent "Rising violence in Pakistan's warring Baluchistan.")
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay will be in Pakistan until June 8. During her four-day mission, she is slated to meet Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and other government ministers, as well as the Supreme Court chief justice, members of Parliament, lawyers, and civil society organizations. The EU's foreign policy chief, Ashton, is in Pakistan until June 6, where she is launching the Pakistan-EU Strategic Dialogue. As she explained in an interview with the English-language daily Dawn, she is there to convince Pakistan that it "must invest further in what I have called 'deep democracy': accountability, respect for the rule of law, and protection of human rights. Elections are important, and civilian government is a prerequisite for democracy. But in themselves, these are insufficient conditions for democracy to be established and stability to develop. As we have done before, the EU will continue to offer support in building a deeper Pakistani democracy."


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FilmLOC Inc. and KNAPP Logistics Automation, Inc. have joined the Reusable Packaging Association, broadening the types of reusable solutions and services represented by the association. FilmLOC offers a patented, silicone-free placard holder for labeling and re-labeling reusable containers and totes, racks, and other items. KNAPP provides reusable management solutions, including a comprehensive system solution for sorting all types of containers automatically.
"We became members because our values are consistent with those of the RPA's," said Shirl Handly, President of FilmLOC. "We have been long time supporters of environmental causes – supporting local farms and businesses, and reusing and recycling whenever possible. We hope that we can contribute to the Association and learn from the other members. We also hope to expand awareness of our products."
"KNAPP offers automation and services for all aspects of reusables sorting and management that complement the products and services of other members of the RPA, making the overall supply chain more effective and cost efficient, all the way through to the end user," said Jerry Johnson, Marketing Manager, KNAPP. "By bringing our 10 years of experience in the European market and working collaboratively with other members, we can build the market for reusables in the US. We believe the RPA is the best forum to share experiences, discuss market trends, and develop solutions in cooperation with pooling providers, food/retailers, and pallet/tray manufacturers."
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FilmLOC manufactures and sells Intelli-Plac, a patented silicone free placard holder for labeling and re-labeling reusable containers and totes, racks, shelves, skids, pallets, equipment, manufactured goods in process, shipping crates and other items. Intelli-Plac is made from a single layer film that is manufactured without any coatings, thus making Intelli-Plac ideally suited for environments where silicone contamination would cause serious problems, such as paint shops, clean rooms or other sensitive applications. Intelli-Plac is durable even in difficult applications and can be re-used more often than other placards, thus reducing the amount of resources used. Intelli-Plac contains no silicone coating or other non-recyclable chemical coatings so it can be recycled while still applied to HDPE or PP containers or after removal from other types of containers. This equates to saving resources and saving money. FilmLOC products are manufactured in the US.
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- American International Group Inc., the New York insurer, said late Sunday that the U.S. Treasury priced an offering of 163.9 million shares of the company at $30.50. AIG AIG, +0.29% shares closed Friday at $32.83. The Treasury also has offered the underwriters an option on 24.6 million more shares if demand for the offering requires. AIG said it has agreed to buy 65.6 million shares from within the offering for around $2 billion. Before the offering, the Treasury owned just under 1.25 billion, or 70%, of the insurer's shares. In fall 2008, the U.S. government lent the company $182 billion to prevent it from collapsing. Seven firms are jointly underwriting the offering, including Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced on March 3, 2014, that Carnegie Science Center is one of 30 finalists selected from among more than 100 nominations nationwide. The National Medal, the nation's highest honor conferred on museums and libraries for service to the community, will be celebrating its 20th year of saluting institutions that make a difference for individuals, families, and communities. Finalists are chosen based on their significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. Carnegie Science Center previously won the IMLS Medal in 2003.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Its mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement.
IMLS is encouraging community members who have visited Carnegie Science Center to share their story on the IMLS Facebook page and learn more about how these institutions make an impact.
National Medal for Museum and Library Service winners will be announced April 24.