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Moonlight Foam Party 2013 to Reunite Top Taiwanese DJsMoonlight Dance Carnival will once again bring the hottest DJs and the most insane foam party to southern Taiwan in April for 3 days straight
The annual Moonlight Dance Carnival will once again bring the hottest DJs and the most insane foam party to southern Taiwan in April for 3 days straight. For 13 years, the carnival has attracted tens of thousands of party goers to sunny Kenting with its incredible live electronic performances, and this year, it will be as amazing as ever. Moonlight Party has announced this year's line-up of Taiwan's top DJs who will be spinning the best beats as attendees rock out in foam.
第一界月光派对,由David Jr. 和泰国的Subin两位音乐达人在2001年主办。诣在将英国流行的电子嘉年以及电子音乐文化华引进台湾,两位制作人在垦丁举办了八天七夜的音乐节。月光派对很快人气大升,每年有上万人潮涌入,享受音乐。
The first MoonLight Party, which lasted for 8 days, took place in 2001 under the direction of veteran music producers David Jr. and Subin. The two visionaries wanted to hold a week-long festival inspired by Britain's psychedelic and electronic music culture. The party's popularity quickly rose as more, with as many as 18000 people attending one year.
This year's impressive line-up will feature an array of top DJs and electronic bands across genre. In particular, the festival will showcase Red "紅樂團", one of the most talked about groups in the Taiwanese electronic scene. What makes Red unique is their ability to fuse elements of the electronic genre and traditional Chinese music, or "Guoyue". The band's mixes feature sounds from traditional Chinese instruments, such as Guzheng, Erhu, and Pipa, making them one of a kind. These two seemingly conflicting genres are somehow melded with the lead vocalist's clear, graceful pitch, producing the pinnacle of Asian electronica. With such a distinctly local flavor to their music, Red can definitely be called a Taiwanese marvel.
当然上场的不只红乐团,其他国际出名的DJ也会参与月光音乐节,例如Ducki DigDoug, D Hookr, Lara, Cougar, Askasksu,你绝对不能错过。
Yet, that is not all. The three-day dance fest will also feature veterans of both the Taiwanese and international music scene, including Duckie DigDoug, D Hooker, Lara, Cougar, Askasksu, and much more. With this exciting line-up, this year's MoonLight Party will definitely be one to remember.
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The FBI investigated whether Anna Nicole Smith was plotting to slay the son of her wealthy husband but determined there wasn't enough evidence to charge the blonde bombshell in his attempted murder.
Smith, who died of a drug overdose in 2007, was probed by the agency in 2000 and 2001 for her alleged role in the murder-for-hire scheme targeting E. Pierce Marshall, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
The son of the wealthy oil tycoon didn't want the Playboy Playmate to get her hands on his father's fortune, which was estimated to be about $550 million in 1992. The stunner married the elder Marshall when she was 26 and he was 89 after they met at a Texas strip club where she was a topless dancer.
"Smith began crying and denied ever making such plans" when agents interviewed her on July 3, 2000, a report said.
It's unclear how the agency became aware of the alleged plot and there is no detailed evidence of Smith's involvement. An April 26, 2001, letter to the FBI from Sally Meloch, an assistant U.S. attorney, said she reviewed the reports but "determined that there is insufficient evidence to establish that there was a murder-for-hire plot by Ms. Smith to kill Pierce Marshall."
"Smith adamantly denied ever contemplating such a crime," an agent wrote, and prosecutors eventually agreed the case could not go forward.
The elder Marshall died of natural causes in 1995. His son died in 2006 at age 67 of an infection and Smith died a year later at age 39 after collapsing in her South Florida hotel room.


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B.o.B spews some psychotic rhymes on "Out of My Mind," his Nicki Minaj-assisted track featured on his forthcoming sophomore album Strange Clouds, due May 1.
The Atlanta rhymer commences the song with his southern-dipped flow. "I'm outta my fucking mind, out of my fucking my mind," he spits. "I'm outta my fucking mind, gee golly, oh my/ I was doing fine once upon a time/ Until my brain left and didn't say bye."
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Tredit, the exclusive provider of tires to Prime Time is now offering the all-new Tredit Care Plus Emergency Roadside Service program as an added benefit when purchasing a Prime Time RV. "Tredit is proud to be the first tire supplier in the industry to offer this ground-breaking program that will ensure tremendous peace-of-mind for Prime Time customers," said National Accounts Manager Missy Rogers in a press release.
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Jeff Rank, president of Prime Time Manufacturing, credits Tredit and their tire supplier for a strong commitment to improve the quality and service of their products. "We've made a careful decision to use Tredit Tire and Wheel because it's critical that our customers aren't stranded on the side of the road. Over the years, we've had very, very few tire problems but when we do, our suppliers are quick to react and stand behind their products 100%. They are the best in the industry and we are excited to roll out these additional benefits to our retail customers."


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The following sermon transcript does not match the video version of the sermon—it matches only the audio version. Here's a brief explanation why.
John MacArthur routinely preaches a sermon more than once on the same date, during different worship services at Grace Community Church. Normally, for a given sermon title, our website features the audio and video that were recorded during the same worship service. Very occasionally, though, we will post the audio from one service and the video from another. Such was the case for the sermon titled "Losing Your Life to Save it," the transcript of which follows below. The transcript is of the audio version.
Well tonight in our continuing look at some unlikely heroes in Scripture, and particularly for now in the Old Testament, we come to a man named Jonathan--Jonathan, the man who would not be king. And in order for us to tell the story, we have to begin in 1 Samuel, chapter 8. So take your Bible and open it. And as you know, if you have been with us, this is a little bit of a different approach than taking a text and dealing with that text. We are sweeping through great portions of Old Testament literature and we will essentially do that again tonight as we look at Jonathan. And this kind of fits a Father's Day, because this is about sons and fathers. And as you will hear, when the story unfolds, all kinds of fathers and all kinds of sons will play roles in this part of the saga of the history of Israel and the purposes of God unfolding through them.
But for a beginning text, if you want to write down a passage, it would be 1 Samuel 23, 1 Samuel 23:16 and 17. We'll use that as sort of a launch point, and then we'll back up from there. First Samuel 23:16 and 17 says, "Then Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand in God and he said to him, 'Do not fear for the hand of Saul, my father, shall not find you, you shall be king over Israel and I shall be next to you,'" 1 Samuel 23:16 and 17.
That picks up the story fairly well down the path when Jonathan has already established a friendship with David and is David's great protector, even though David will be the king that Jonathan might have been had his father's line not been cursed. But let's back up from there.
The last of the Old Testament judges looked in disbelief at the group of Israelite leaders assembled before him. The last of the fourteen Old Testament judges is none other than Samuel. Samuel led the nation with wisdom and with a measure of integrity. Samuel was both God's appointed judge and a prophet at the same time. But now, as we pick up the story in 1 Samuel, chapter 8, he's an old man. And there are no other judges on the horizon, and his sons, according to verse 3, are morally unfit to take his place. They didn't walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, perverted justice. Not the way to behave if you're in a position of authority and overseeing the lives of people and a nation.
So there were no possible leaders coming out of the family of Samuel. There appeared to be none other on the horizon that might take over as the defender and leader of Israel. So the people come up with an idea--they think it's time for them to have a king. All the elders of Israel together in verse 4, they come to Samuel at Ramah; they said to him, "You've grown old, your sons don't walk in your ways, now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations." We want to be like everybody else.
With that one request, the period of the judges came to a screeching halt after 350 years. A divinely appointed judge and a prophet and priests which were the leaders that God had ordered in the theocracy, a theocratic kingdom, a kingdom where God was king, was not enough to satisfy the people. They wanted a king like the surrounding nations had a king. Samuel understandably felt slighted by the Israelites' impetuous request. He interpreted their words as a personal attack on him. While I don't think they necessarily were in all cases, that's how he viewed it.
But the Lord informed him that this was not really an attack on him. Look at verse 7. The Lord said, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them." That is the issue. They're rejecting their true king in the monarchy, the theocratic kingdom, they are rejecting God.
Reaching back a little bit, you remember that ever since the Israelites promised at Mount Sinai back in Exodus 19 to serve God and obey God and love God, that nation from that moment forward had been a theocracy where God rules. The Lord was the only king in Israel, and He governed through a complex of judges and prophets and priests whom He appointed to represent Him among the people, but He was the ruler.
Now when the leaders of Israel ask Samuel for a human king, they are really articulating their discontent with the rule of God. They no longer want a theocracy; they want a monarchy, just like their foreign neighbors. Throughout the previous four centuries, they had repeatedly forsaken the Lord. You remember the cycle of rebellion and disobedience and judgment, and repentance and rebellion and disobedience and judgment, and repentance again and again and again, over and over through that period of the judges.
Now they come before Samuel again, manifesting this cycle of rebellion, having forsaken the Lord, and they request a human king. That in itself is the final expression of their recycling apostasy--rebellion against the true sovereign. "Like all the deeds," verse 8 says, "which they have done since the day I brought them up from Egypt even to this day--in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods--so they are doing to you also." It's just the same thing; it's the latest version of their rebellion against Me.
Samuel justifiably gives the people a warning, and that warning flows down through the remainder of that eighth chapter, and I'll just let you know what the warning involves. He warned the people that if you have a king, you're going to have to have some very clear understanding of what it's going to mean. You don't want to do this in ignorance, so let me tell you what it will mean to have a king. And this is what he tells them. Kings force their people to labor in their fields for their wealth and their prosperity and their gain and their power. Kings, Samuel tells them, force people to fashion their military equipment, their weapons. Kings draft sons into armies and put their lives in jeopardy. Kings also conscript daughters, take them captive to work in their royal enterprises as perfumers, cooks, bakers in their service. Kings, Samuel tells them, seize land for themselves, force escalating taxes and demand payment under penalty. Kings take people's possessions at will. Kings make subjects, servants, and slaves out of the population. In all these ways, Samuel says, you will forfeit your freedom. And you will become abused by your kings.
Samuel's final words down in verse 18: "Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day." You're going to hate what you have chosen, and you're going to turn to God and He will not hear you. The monarchy will bring disaster and the monarchy will bring divine judgment and it certainly did. Still the Israelites stubbornly hold their ground. Nevertheless, verse 19, "The people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, 'No, but there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.'" They are resolute. They will not back down. And so the monarchy is launched.
And the first king is a man named Saul. Saul appears immediately, of course, in chapter 9. And with Saul you have all the worst outcomes immediately that Samuel predicted. It doesn't take very long; the first king begins to manifest the tragic realities that a unilateral monarch can bring to a people.
Now that gets us into our story. The story is about the kings. Now we're in to the kings and the first one is Saul. So we're going to look at this story; we're going to look at relationships, okay? Our first beginning point will be Israel's first royal family. And we're going to be looking at that family, namely Saul, and in particular a son of Saul by the name of Jonathan. He doesn't get introduced till the thirteenth chapter, so it will be a little bit before we get there. But he's going to be our target person. We're going to see the monarchy through the experience of Jonathan.
He grew up not in the house of a king, because Saul was not a king until he was appointed a king. He was a farmer; he was a farmer. He's an interesting person. When he was a teenager, according to the opening verses of chapter 9, several of his grandfather's donkeys went missing, and animals were very valuable. So Jonathan's father, Saul, went looking for his father's, Jonathan's grandfather's, donkeys. An extensive search for the donkeys failed to locate the missing animals and Saul ran into the prophet Samuel while he's looking for his father's donkeys. And we pick this up down in verse 20 of chapter 9, so we're moving rapidly. And Samuel says to Saul, who is a farmer looking for his father's donkeys--nothing more than that--"As for your donkeys which were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's household?"
What does that mean? Samuel is explaining to him that he, Saul, the farmer looking for the donkeys, will be Israel's first king. The desire of Israel for a king will fall to his house and his father's house. He will be that first king. Started out as a low-level hunt for missing donkeys, and it ends up with unexpected elevation and heights--startling promise that the donkey hunter would become Israel's first king. Now we learn from the Word of God that Saul was tall, dark, and handsome. He was even from the warrior tribe of Benjamin. So he from a human viewpoint looked like the perfect choice, judged by external appearances. In reality, his character did not match his physical attributes--tall, handsome, from a warrior tribe--but weak in character, weak below the surface, and that would be unmistakably manifest during his long tenure as king. And in Acts 13:21 it says that Saul reigned for forty years. That is a long time, forty years.
It didn't take very many years for all of his weaknesses to surface, and then the people had to deal with him for four decades. When Saul went home, as we get into chapter 10, he went home from his meeting with Samuel, he shyly kept his coming elevation to king a secret--chapter 10, verse 16 tells us that. And when it was time for him to be brought forward, down in verse 22 of chapter 10, he's hiding in the baggage. This is tall, dark, and handsome Saul who is a coward of sorts--timid-- and that insecurity and cowardice and timidity continually characterized his rule. He was a man full of fear, faltering in his confidence, paranoid of potential rivals, acting rashly as paranoid people do to compensate for his ineptness as a leader and his lack of fortitude.
Into that family comes this young man Jonathan. And one wonders how Saul's family, and especially Jonathan, responded when they first heard the astonishing news, that their father, the farmer, who looked good on the outside but was weak on the inside, was going to be the king--the first king of Israel's monarchy. No doubt Jonathan's mind was spinning as he was thinking what that meant for him, all kinds of expectations for him. Kings were very often killed, killed in battle, even killed by an enemy. People died from illnesses and diseases. Jonathan must have anticipated that, as the prince, he would one day become the king. Aware of his father's weaknesses, familiar with his role as a farmer, and knowing that he was no soldier, Jonathan perhaps thought he would be king soon. And by the way, the same fears, the same weakness, the same lack of fortitude that characterized Saul as a farmer continued to characterize Saul as a king, and Jonathan was never intimidated by his father when he became king. He did not hesitate to defy his father's bizarre orders when he acted in utterly irrational ways.
So that's an introduction to the first sort of relationship between Saul and Jonathan. I want to follow that a little bit further, the relationship of Jonathan and Saul as it kind of develops. Going back to chapter 8 for a moment, we got ahead of ourselves but we're going to be doing this. Israel's primary expectation for its new king was that he would protect them--chapter 8, verse 20--he would be their great protector. He can go out before us and fight our battles. That's what they expected.
Well, no sooner had Saul been put into place--go over to chapter 11 and you can try to find your way as we move--the Ammonites are engaged in a battle, in a war; 1 Samuel 11:13, Saul led the Israelites to a God-given victory, a God-given victory, over the Ammonites. "The Lord has accomplished"...verse 13 says..."deliverance in Israel." So this is what kings do, and it started well with a victory.
A greater challenge, however, came less than two years into Saul's reign when he was accompanied by a standing army of three thousand men and he found himself in a dangerous conflict with the Philistines. Now remember, Samson had earlier already dealt a devastating blow to the Philistines. You remember--Samson the judge that brought down the house on the Philistines and massacred several thousand of them? But they had continued to gain some force and escalated in their animosity toward Israel. So they present a military threat to Israel again. They're back, you might say, in Saul's day.
However, Israel's king, Saul, has no need to fear because, according to chapter 9, verse 16, the Lord promised to deliver Israel from the Philistines. It is in the context of this conflict with the Philistines two years into Saul's reign that Jonathan first appears, probably a teenager, maybe at most in his early twenties. Old enough, however, according to chapter 13; look at it: "Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel," and then, "one thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin." Jonathan as a teenager, or at most in his early twenties, is in charge of a thousand men, a thousand soldiers in the army of Israel. Saul is waiting at Michmash in the hill country of Bethel, and he's waiting.
Jonathan, however, doesn't wait. While Saul waits, Jonathan with his men attacks the Philistine garrison at Geba and captures it. Geba's about three miles from the original capital in Israel called Gibeah. We don't know whether Saul ordered this attack or not, or whether Jonathan acted independently. It seems as though he acted independently. It was Jonathan, however, who gained the victory. It was Jonathan who initiated the critical military action. It was his plan; it was his triumph. But that conflict escalated into full-scale war, which gave Jonathan more opportunity and more opportunity to prove himself courageous, prove himself a capable leader--much more so than his apprehensive father who would rather sit and wait until something good might happen.
The Israelites perhaps expected only a small retaliation, a measured retaliation from their enemies. But instead the Philistines were furious at this assault and victory at Geba, and so they came back with thousands of chariots, thousands of horsemen, and infantry men. According to chapter 13, if you look down at verse 5, they numbered 30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance--an unaccountable number to rain vengeance on the Hebrew army for the success of Jonathan's campaign at Geba. And Israel's army was massively out-numbered. Saul's men reacted not in faith and courage but in total fear. Look what happened to Saul's men. Verse 6, "The men of Israel saw they were in a strait (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, and thickets, and cliffs, and cellars, and in pits." Those people hiding themselves are the soldiers. That's the army. More of them crossed the Jordan River and just went AWOL, fled.
So many of them fled, down in verse 15, "Saul numbered the ones that were left, and there were six hundred." They've all fled with the same kind of cowardice and fear that was characteristic of their king. And so there sits Saul waiting in mortal fear in Gilgal with nothing left but 600 men.
And by the way, he had no reason to be so paralyzed and traumatized. He had no reason to fear a massacre because Samuel had earlier said to him, and I quote from chapter 10, verse 8, "You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and surely I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and make sacrifices of peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait till I come to you and show you what you should do." You are going to be at Gilgal. You stay there, wait seven days and I will come. And so there sits Saul at Gilgal waiting, knowing the Philistines are amassing the army of vengeance. On the seventh day, then, Saul collapses in fear. Samuel had not arrived. In desperation he could wait no longer. His enemy is getting stronger and bolder. His own forces are dissipating in cowardice. And so he decides not to wait for Samuel, who was an authorized offerer of sacrifice, and to do it himself. Chapter 13, verse 9: "Saul said, 'Bring to me the burnt offering and the peace offering.' And he offered the burnt offering."
He invaded the priesthood and that was a tragic thing to do. He sought blessing through disobedience; blessing doesn't come through disobedience. And like a scene from some classic comic sketch, as soon as Saul offered the sacrifice, the next verse says Samuel showed up. As soon as he finished offering the burnt offering in verse 10, "Samuel came." Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. But this was no comedy. The old indignant prophet was not amused. This egregious invasion of the sacred priestly office was going to bring down judgment. Way back in Numbers 3:10, back in Numbers 18:7, the warning had been given by God against those who usurp the role of a priest--that was strictly forbidden. A later king, by the way, of Judah named Uzziah did that and God took offense at that (2 Chronicles 26) and hit him with leprosy and he died. And he's the one that Isaiah refers to when he says in Isaiah 6, "In the year King Uzziah died."
Saul is soon to be severely condemned for this intrusion into the sacred office. So Samuel says to him, "What have you done?"...in verse 11..."What have you done?" And it rocks Saul's conscience like God's question to Adam in Genesis 3:9. Samuel's words to Saul were a stinging indictment. There's no adequate answer; there's no valid excuse; there's no defense.
But that didn't stop Saul from trying to explain it away. And here comes the blame shifting, the kind of thing that Adam did as well. He blames Samuel for coming late. He blamed his troops for running away. He blamed the Philistines for the ominous threat that they presented. But this blame shifting only intensified his disobedience. Samuel's devastating response to his blame shifting is given to us as well in this section, and it's in verses 13 and 14. Listen to what Samuel said: "You have done foolishly, you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever, but now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for himself a man after His own heart and the Lord has commanded him to be a commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you."
Samuel's command to Saul to stay there in Gilgal for seven days was a test of whether or not he would be obedient to God, because that command was from God through Samuel. Earlier Samuel had warned the Israelites that even under their new monarchy, if they failed to obey the Lord, they would be swept away in judgment along with their king. That's in chapter 12, verse 25. Obedience is always the way to blessing, disobedience always the way to judgment. And so Saul was disobedient, thinking in his foolishness that his disobedience could bring about victory. He could somehow elicit the help of God by disobedience, and he would be replaced. The monarchy then passed from him to a man after God's own heart. We've grown to love that phrase, haven't we--somebody who worships God, loves God, obeys God.
Now evidently when Saul is disobeying God, and doing this sacrificing in Gilgal, Jonathan's not there. As we put the story together, apparently Jonathan was not there. Saul is dishonoring the Lord. Saul has doomed his dynasty. No son of his will ever reign. Jonathan doesn't know that. He will never be king; he doesn't yet know that. In fact, you would assume that the realization that he would never be king would kill some long-fed expectations that a young man might develop and be devastatingly disappointed. Yet, as we will see, Jonathan's response was completely different than that, which is what makes him such an unlikely hero.
By foolishly offering sacrifices, Saul violates the sanctity and uniqueness of the priestly office. He fails to obey the Word of God through Samuel. He fails the test that God gave him. The consequences are severe, and he is removed from the monarchy.
On the other hand, Jonathan decides to attack the Philistines. Remember now, he doesn't know about this as you come into chapter 14: "Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man carrying his armor, 'Come let us cross over to the Philistines' garrison that is on the other side,'" but he didn't tell his father. So he wasn't with his father. He doesn't know about the curse that's come on the family. He and his armor bearer are going to attack the Philistines. This is a risky plan. Two people? This is an irrational plan. And if you look at the entire story, this involves a free climb up the craggy face of a cliff and a surprise attack by two men on a Philistine garrison that is holding up there. In fact, verse 4--it's so interesting--between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the Philistine garrison, there was a sharp crag on the one side and a sharp crag on the other side. And the name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other Seneh. Bozez means "slippery" in Hebrew, and Seneh means "sharp, pointed, thorny." So he and his armor bearer have to scale some cliffs that are both slippery and sharp, slippery rocks and sharp edges, to get access into an enemy garrison. This is a suicide mission. Two men?
But notice verse 6: "And Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, 'Come, let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.'" That famous statement came from the lips of Jonathan. He is fearless because he has placed his faith firmly in the promised will and power of God, who has declared that God will deliver His people from their enemies. And Jonathan will put himself in a position to see God fight for them. The Lord will honor Jonathan's faith. They scale the cliff, he and his armor bearer, they come into the garrison and, according to verses 13 and 14, they are very successful. The slaughter involves twenty men; the two of them basically kill twenty Philistine soldiers.
Even Josephus, the Jewish historian, writes that this attack, according to tradition, took place early in the morning, and the element of surprise was increased by the fact that the Philistine soldiers would never have expected this because they thought they were in a place where they couldn't be assaulted or attacked--who's going to scale a cliff? And they may well have been asleep, and if not, barely waking. The Lord gave Jonathan and his armor bearer power over twenty of the men who were killed.
When the Philistine army began to realize what was happening, fleeing soldiers from the garrison, going every direction, struck with fear, began to scatter. At that point, according to verse 15, the Lord struck further terror into their hearts by bringing an earthquake--an earthquake, a great earthquake, a great trembling (verse 15).
And then what happened? Verse 20: "Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and came to the battle; behold, every man's sword was against his fellow and there was very great confusion." By the time Saul arrived the Philistines had killed each other. Same thing that happened with Gideon. The Lord was able to deliver with many; the Lord was able to deliver with few.
Now back before the battle began; remember now, Jonathan is acting independently. Saul had been losing his troops. They had been defecting. The desperate king didn't know what to do. So the desperate king makes a really stupid statement. That's chapter 14, verse 24: Meanwhile, back at Gilgal, we would say, Saul places his men under an oath: "Cursed is the man who eats any food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies." Saul says, "You're going to be cursed if you eat anything before we triumph over our enemies." He's down to 600. They number in the multiple thousands. He's going to try to motivate them that way?
"You're not allowed to eat until we win this victory." Well, guess what? As we follow the story in chapter 14, his troops are hungry so they don't fight very well. They're less and less effective. Eventually God grants them a victory and when they are allowed, finally, to eat, they gorge themselves 'cause they're famished and they eat meat mixed with blood. That's from Leviticus 17 that forbids that eating meat mixed with blood.
So his small-minded oath is a stupid thing, it makes his troops weak, it prolongs their ineffectiveness. When victory finally comes, they gorge themselves, violating another command of God. Everything this guy does is wrong, is wrong. He finally goes to a priest to seek some divine help, does Saul, and the Lord refuses to answer. Again Saul takes no responsibility for his part in the actions. He blames this and that and the other.
And he finally comes to this point. He says, "The problem with this difficult battle is that somebody broke the rule, somebody ate, somebody ate." And he says, "I don't care who it is, whoever ate is going to die; whoever ate is going to die."
Well, this is just another stupid idea on his part. It just so happens that Jonathan is in his army, though he wasn't there. Jonathan hadn't heard the edict. Jonathan was running through the woods in the fourteenth chapter here, and he saw some honey on the ground and he stooped down, scooped up the honey, and ate the honey. Only at that moment did some soldiers come to him and say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, you just violated your father's curse and you could be killed."
Go down to verses 29 and--29 and 30. Listen to what Jonathan says. "My father has troubled the land. See now, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey?" This gave me some energy. "How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great." It was not nearly the victory that it could have been if we had been fed.
Well, the word comes back to Saul that Jonathan, ignorant of his father's edict, had broken his father's edict--his ridiculous oath--and Saul determines to maintain his puny pride by killing his son, killing his son. Down in verse 43, Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done."
"So Jonathan told him and said, 'I indeed tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die!'" Is that it? But Saul was dead serious. In the face of this idiocy, the people begin to intercede on Jonathan's behalf. And if not for that intercession, the king would have executed his own son.
All of this crazy intrigue is simply a kind of an insight into the kind of person Saul was. In his first major skirmish with the Philistines, it is chaotic and ridiculous, ridiculous. Highlighting extreme differences in the family between father and son, they're poles apart. The king is fearful, indecisive, reactionary, disobedient, reckless, proud, heavy-handed. Jonathan, just the opposite. He took initiative, showed courage, acted humbly, purposefully exposed his father's folly, exhibited trusting confidence in the Lord. By God's power, Jonathan, not Saul, was the one who set in motion Israel's victory. He is the one who launched the victory with his thousand men.
The weakness of Saul continues to be made manifest. The contrast between him and Jonathan, more pronounced. And that contrast becomes crystallized into clarity when a young shepherd arrives on the scene by the name of David. And now we move from the relationship of Saul and Jonathan, to the relationship of Jonathan and David. This is where we come to know and love the story.
By failing to trust the Lord and offering sacrifices before Samuel arrived, Saul proved and there were other ways that demonstrated that he was an incompetent leader who turned everything into a royal mess. He only accelerated his own self-destruction as his reign continued. God commanded him to completely destroy the Amalekites, including all their livestock. Again he disobeyed. He left captured King Agag alive and allowed the troops of Israel to take the best of the sheep and the oxen and keep them--again, disobeying the Lord. And the consequences were very severe. Samuel again shows up, confronts Saul, and he says in 15:14, chapter 15, verse 14: "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?" You know God told you to kill all of the Amalekites and all of the their animals.
And then those amazing and very memorable words of Samuel. Go down to verse 22 of chapter 15, if you're catching up with us, 15:22. "Samuel said, 'Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices?'" Why does he say that? Because Saul's fallback position is he tells Samuel, "Oh, oh, I was going to use them all for sacrifices to the Lord." And it is at that point, Samuel says, "Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offering and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king."
Here is a reiteration of the fact that this man not only will not have an heir on the throne, he doesn't have long on the throne himself. Well, Saul's sad about that, so he tears his robe, but I love what Samuel did. Samuel, that old man, that old prophet, picked up a heavy sword (verse 33) and hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal. Splattered with blood and flesh, Samuel showed Israel's rebellious king what obedience looked like, what it looked like. Then that famous statement from the Lord in chapter 16, verse 7: "The Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.'" And that is the rejection of Saul. First his house is rejected; then his throne is rejected; then he is rejected.
But while he is still hanging on to the throne for a while, David's royal training begins. It is in chapter 16 and verse 12 that we begin to meet David. In fact, his name appears in verse 13; that's the introduction that we have to David. When the king was terrorized, you remember, by an evil spirit, David, already a gifted musician, was chosen to play the harp for him; that's from verse 14 on down to verse 23. David becomes the official royal harpist, still living in Bethlehem, by the way. He would go to the palace and he would soothe the king with his music. When the Philistine giant, Goliath, threatens the Israelites in the seventeenth chapter, this young boy goes from being a musician to being a killer--great soldier who brings down Goliath with a slingshot, cuts off his head, secures the victory. David had the opportunity to be in the palace then on a permanent basis, to learn the elements of royal life. But most importantly, to prove that he could be used powerfully in the hands of God. And sparked by the incident with Goliath, a deep friendship develops between Jonathan and David. Let's pick that up in chapter 18. We're moving fast, I know.
"It came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, Jonathan loved him as himself." This is just an amazing thing. Here is the one chosen by God, anointed by Samuel—David--to be the king that Jonathan will never be. Jonathan's love and loyalty is amazing. He loved him as his own soul. Jonathan means "gift from the Lord." And he would prove to be that for David.
David is a victorious leader, as indicated in his great victory over Goliath. And after that, because he is now the giant killer, Saul invites him to come and live at the palace. Then he gives him his daughter to marry, a girl named Michal (M-i-c-h-a-l in the Bible), and he marries her.
So now he is a leader in the army. He has royal musician duties in the palace. And he has married the king's daughter; so the king's his father-in-law and the prince is his brother-in-law. And to add to that, the story begins to tell us that David is immensely popular with the people. And Saul becomes more and more threatened with David. His dynasty is cursed. His throne is cursed. He is cursed. His kingdom will not last. And he continually grows suspicious of this young, powerful champion, and he decides he needs to murder him. And this is where we say the plot thickens.
Verse 3, again of chapter 18: "Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. He stripped himself of the robe that was on him, gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword and his bow and his belt." He wanted to do anything he could for his friend and brother-in-law. He knew that David would have no human capability of surviving unless he had some friend in the court, somebody to warn him, somebody to protect him. And he had an ally in the royal court, his friend and brother-in-law, Jonathan. Their hearts had been knit together because they made a covenant of loyalty to each other.
And do you know how that story plays out? When Saul threatened to kill David, the prince would warn David, the prince would come to David so that he could escape Saul. When first Jonathan told David that Saul wanted him dead, he was really surprised. But he wanted to be sure of the evil king's intention, so go down to chapter 20 and we're skipping a lot, I know. "And David says to Jonathan," down in verse 5 of chapter 20, let's have a simple test here to remove any doubt; David has a hard time believing that this king really wants him dead. And so David says to Jonathan, "Indeed, tomorrow is the new moon, I shall not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide in the field until the third day at evening. If your father misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly ask permission of me that he might run over to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family,'" which was true, "If he says thus, 'It is well, your servant will be safe. If he's very angry, be sure that evil is determined by him.'"
David has a simple plan. There's a big dinner, there's a big feast. David is supposed to be there. David says, "Let me go and not be there; say that you gave me permission to go. If it doesn't matter to Saul that I'm not there, then I have nothing to fear. If he is very angry, then I will know that evil has been determined by him on me."
The plan is set in motion. Go down to verse 30, "Where is David? Why is he not here?" Verse 28, "Jonathan says, 'He has to go to Bethlehem.'" Verse 30, "Saul's anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, 'You son of a perverse, rebellious woman.'" (That has a modern equivalent, by the way.) "'Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and the shame of your mother's nakedness? For as long as a son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Therefore now, send and bring him to me, for he must surely die.'" This exposes the venomous hatred of Saul for David. That's the test that validates Jonathan's warnings to David. And David says, "Okay, I get it, I get it."
Jonathan defends his friend's honor and it infuriates the king even more. Do you remember what happened? Saul grabs a spear and in a fit of rage, launches it across the dinner table at his son Jonathan's head, narrowly missing. And Jonathan made a fast exist.
Now everybody knows that he wants David dead. And you remember how the story goes from here. Jonathan goes out into the field now to tell David how the test went. Takes a servant; shoots some arrows. Remember, they had a little code? If the arrow goes beyond the servant--David's hiding--he shoots an arrow, goes past his servant. David knows that if it goes past the servant, that's code for Saul is angry and set to kill you. The servant heads back to the city. David emerges from hiding, says good-bye to Jonathan. Two men wept, and they wept out of this amazing love and affection that they had for each other.
Verse 42, Jonathan said to David, "Go in safety, inasmuch we have sworn to each other in the name of the Lord, saying, 'The Lord will be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.' Then he rose and departed, while Jonathan went into the city."
David went back into hiding, Jonathan back into the city. Listen, Saul spent the rest of his life hunting David, the rest of his life. Why this irrational passion? 'Cause he knew the Lord had chosen David to be the next king of Israel. David spent that same amount of time fleeing, hiding, surviving until Saul finally died. You know the story; Saul nearly captured him on several occasions. The Lord always protected David, and all of this activity made him an even greater general, a greater military man in the future when he took his throne.
During those same years with Saul trying to kill David and David trying to escape, Jonathan found ways to meet his friend, to encourage him, to reiterate his loyalty, his love. Chapter 23, verse 17, the prince once explains to David, "Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Even my father Saul knows that."
This is the character of Jonathan, willingly giving up his own claim to the throne 'cause he understood that the Lord had chosen David instead of him. No jealousy; this is a rare character quality, is it not? Jonathan's character is evident most clearly in his attitude toward David. Jonathan was a mighty warrior, a noble prince, loyal friend. But it was unwavering faith in the purpose and word of God that makes him an unlikely hero. Jonathan didn't just merely accept his non-kingly role--he embraced it with all his heart and became the friend and protector of the one who was put in his place. This is a man of great character, great character.
And that brings us to a final relationship. We've seen him up between Saul and Jonathan, Jonathan and David, and now David and Mephibosheth. The inner action that I just talked to you about in chapter 23, verse 17--the last conversation that we have recorded there between David and Jonathan--is all we hear until a catastrophic battle with the Philistines. And we don't hear anything from Jonathan; but all the way into chapter 31--Saul, Jonathan, and two of his brothers are killed in a battle with the Philistines (chapter 31, verse 2). The slaughter produces a broken heart in David, shatters him. And David gives a tribute to his friend, and that's how the book of 2 Samuel begins with that tribute. Second Samuel 1:25, "How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places. I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women. How have the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"
This is melancholy, the melancholy driven of the, by the affection of David in saying that their friendship surpasses the love of women. What does he mean? What is he saying here?
He's not demeaning the love that a man has for a woman. The Bible exalts that. Not demeaning the love between a husband and a wife. But he is emphasizing the fact that his love for Jonathan was a love without any physical attraction. It was a love without any physical element. It was a love without any physical interest. It was a love without any physical fulfillment. It is altogether unlike the affection shared between a man and a woman, which is a physical attraction. Jonathan had a manly commitment with no physical components. It was noble, loyal, selfless friendship--a camaraderie born out of confidence on the part of both men that God's Word was to be fulfilled. They were two men who obeyed God. And their common obedience gave them a common friendship.
Well, Jonathan died. Saul killed himself. Jonathan's two brothers were killed. Years before, David had sworn to Jonathan...Remember?...that they would, that they would be friends permanently, that they would support each other's families forever. David wanted to fulfill that. And he sets out to do that.
In 1 Samuel 20:14 to 16, we read, "You shall not only show me the kindness of the Lord while I live, that I may not die, but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever. No, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth. So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, 'Let the Lord require it at the hand of David's enemies.'" In other words, we have a covenant that transcends death. David's love for Jonathan transcended his death. He wanted to honor that covenant beyond the death of his friend. How does he do that?
Jonathan had a son. He had only one son and his name was Mephibosheth, Mephibosheth. When he was five years old, Jonathan was killed. So he was without a father at the age of five. His nanny was carrying this little five-year-old. She heard the horrible news. She was afraid that whoever killed Saul and killed Jonathan and killed the brothers would come to kill the child. So she clutched him and began to run. In her mad dash, according to chapter 4 of 2 Samuel, she dropped him and broke both his legs. Without the benefits of modern medical care, Mephibosheth was permanently crippled as a result of the accident. So, many years later when David seeks to keep his covenant with Jonathan after his death, he seeks out Jonathan's only child, sole descendant; and the wonderful, wonderful story, 2 Samuel chapter 9, he invites him to the palace, this disabled man, welcomed him as one of his own sons, and had him sit with the royal family at all the meals. Then he gave Mephibosheth the land that had previously belonged to his grandfather Saul, and then he instructed Saul's former servants to work the land for the benefit of Mephibosheth. David's kindness to this son of his friend was motivated by nothing more than gracious love, nothing more than covenant faithfulness. And this is where we see a beautiful analogy of God's unmerited love for sinners. Let me just give you some thoughts.
With regard to Mephibosheth, David took all the initiative. He sought him out. He welcomed him to the palace. He did so even though he was the grandson of Saul, Israel's cursed king and David's greatest enemy. Mephibosheth could do nothing to repay David, could not offer him any significant service. Nevertheless David brought him into his family, invited him to his table, granted him an inheritance of land to which he was not legally entitled, and in grateful response Mephibosheth became a lifelong loyal servant to David.
What a picture of God's love for sinners, God's love for sinners. Though the lives of most of Saul's descendants were taken, David was careful to protect this one son because of the Lord's oath that was between David and Jonathan. And Mephibosheth had a son named Micah who sustained the lineage of Jonathan's house for many generations, and through that crippled son came many, many noble warriors, according to 1 Chronicles chapter 8.
As the prince, Jonathan had protected David. Now as the king, David had honored his covenant promise to Jonathan by embracing his son as a member of his own family. This is the kind of character that is so rare, so rare.
What is Jonathan's legacy to us? What makes him an unlikely hero? Selfless, humble obedience to God, and love toward one who fulfills what he had hoped would be his own life ambition. Jonathan's first recorded words evidence his faith in the Lord when he said to his armor bearer, these are the first words the Bible gives us from his lips, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine's garrison that is on the other side....let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us for nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or by few." And his last recorded words, "Do not fear for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you, you shall be king over Israel and I shall be next to you, even my father Saul knows that." Noble prince, humble, loyal, loving, eager to obey God, giving up all personal honor, personal power, position for a friend because he knew that was God's will.
If jealousy is the ugliest of human virtues, its absence is the most beautiful. Let's pray.
Father, we thank You for journey through an awful lot of history and for the lesson of the life of this remarkable man, Jonathan. What a privilege it is for us to have the story in so much detail, and this is only a portion--a small portion--of it. Not only is it a story about Jonathan, but it's a story about Your faithfulness to Your people, to Your covenant, to sustain Your people even in horrible times, even in a disastrous monarchy that became more and more troubled and brought more and more judgment. You have remained faithful to the promise of Your people, and we know that You are a God who keeps covenant forever and You will fulfill all Your promises. We rest in that for the promises that came to us through Christ. We're so thankful that You are seen in Scripture presented as a faithful God who honors covenant faithfulness, even among Your people. Make us a community of Jonathans: selfless, humble, loving, loyal, and grateful when someone else is elevated in a place we thought might belong to us. Thank You again for Your Word and its glory. It shines every time we open it up--has again tonight, and we're grateful for it in the name of Christ. Amen.
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Summer research takes students abroad
June 14, 2012
This summer, three undergraduate students and two alumni will research alongside Associate Professor of Biology Greta Binford in the Dominican Republic. The work focuses on engaging community scientists in comparing the biogeographic histories of different local lineages of arachnids.
The researchers are sharing their experiences on a blog and welcome people to follow their work on Twitter (@CaribbeanBio). "Day one was a success! With a single afternoon of collecting we have found an estimated 23 of 54 focal lineages," said a recent tweet.
Alumni Trevor Bloom B.A. '12 and Anne McHugh B.A. '10, and students Ian Patterson '13, Alex Nishida '13, and Katy Loubet-Senear '13 will be abroad for two months. Binford, who was named the 2011 Oregon Professor of the Year, has gained much recognition for her research on spiders; she even has a species of spider named after her.
The Lewis & Clark team will sort and categorize the specimens they find alongside students and researchers from University of Puerto Rico, University of California at Berkeley, and the Natural History Museum of Cuba.
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Chooch is Back
Chooch is back on the active roster and Lou Marson has been sent back to Lehigh Valley where he'll catch every day. Ruiz has been missed. He has a way of handling the pitching staff. Whatever he adds with the bat is a plus.
Phillies continue to lead the league in home runs, runs per game and runs after the seventh inning. But, falling behind early will catch up to a team no matter how good the offense.
Starting pitching still hasn't settled in. The bullpen has a 2.61 ERA over the last 11 games which is excellent.
Defensively, the Phillies are the best in the NL They committed their fourth error last night, a questionable call on Chase.
Pitching and defense are keys to winning. We just need to get the pitching straightened out. We know we'll score runs.
Raul continues to impress with the bat (and in the field and on the bases). As a reader pointed out, Raul replacing Burrell ranks up there with Carlton/Wise, Schilling/Grimsley and Abreu/Stocker. The latter three were trades.
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The error on Chase was a bad call…he never even touched the ball.
And the umpiring behind the plate was awful last night! And we know this guy well; Adrian Johnson was the same ump who called what was clearly a foul ball a home run last year and then tossed Charlie from the game. Everytime we get this guy, he is a disaster. I know sometimes minor league umps have to get called up to help out, but why stick them behind the plate? Geez…ugly.
To all you fans that knocked the Raul signing this winter, as a Mariner fan, we will take him back anytime. Actually I'm really glad to see him doing so well. I have been a huge fan of his since he came up with the Mariner's in the mid 90's. Besides I have him on every fantasy team I have, and got him cheap. Good luck guys, and see you in the World Series.
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Lke you say, whatever he can give us offensively is a bonus. Another stellar defensive play by Werth and Chooch to cut down the go-ahead run in the eighth inning yesterday. That's winning baseball.


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More like a quote I heard ages ago, the subject of which I can't even remember. An old poet was sent a letter asking "How old <poet's name>?" His reply; "Old <poet's name> well. How you?" Tickled me.
Fine, borrowing someone else's wordplay then. Same thing.
Who came up with that line? Surely not Dickinson, I'm guessing Corrin.Nanny nanny, poo poo, we've got more spinners than you
How much linkage and how much of your own material do you lads plan on doing during the blog? I don't mind the linkage at all, saves me time looking for good articles.
I like linking, though. Cricinfo's 'The Surfer' is fantastic.
Just posted a detailed breakdown comparison of the sides.
I promise I'll do something more fun next time.
^^Spent the whole time thinking of Bjork while reading that article.
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UC system banning smoking from all campuses
The University of California is banning cigarettes and all other tobacco products from its campuses over the next two years, in a move designed to both protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and prevent young people from developing the bad habit.
Students and staff alike will be prohibited from smoking anywhere on a UC campus - including outdoor spaces, parking lots and private residences. There won't be any designated smoking areas.
The main impetus for the policy is to reduce people's exposure to secondhand smoke, UC officials said. But a major benefit, they hope, will be an overall reduction in smoking among those who work or study on the campuses.
"Our young students who come here as freshmen, who don't smoke but come to college and start experimenting, maybe they won't choose to smoke now. That would be a huge gain," said Trish Ratto, manager of UC Berkeley's Health Matters wellness program and a member of the committee that is developing the UC-wide smoking ban.
Smoking has been forbidden at the UC medical centers, including UCSF, since November, and at least seven state university or community college campuses outlaw smoking.
The policy change was revealed this week in a letter from the UC President Mark Yudof to campus leaders. Details such as the exact date that the policy will take effect and how it will be enforced are still not known. Ratto said she expects UC Berkeley and other campuses to beef up programs to help staff and students stop smoking.
"This is a very important milestone in California," said Colleen Stevens, chief of the tobacco control branch of the California Public Health Department. "In other states, most young people start smoking in their teens, but in California, that start date is getting older. This policy will help protect the next generation from suffering the horrible impacts of tobacco."
California has some of the most stringent antismoking laws in the country, and has among the lowest rates of smoking. About 12 percent of Californians smoke, compared with 19.6 percent of people nationwide, according to state and national public health reports.
Smoking rates are even lower in the UC system - about 10 percent of employees and about 8 percent of students smoke regularly, according to a UC Office of the President report. Another 11 percent of students report that they smoke occasionally, or less than once a month.
Student smokers should be a focus of the new smoke-free policy, public health experts said. Multiple studies have shown that the fewer places people are able to smoke, the more likely they will be to quit.
If young people can stop smoking, or never start smoking, before they reach their late 20s, they will be unlikely to ever develop the habit as older adults, said Dr. Stanton Glantz, director of UCSF's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.
"Virtually nobody starts smoking after age 24 or 25," Glantz said. "If you can get people through the college ages and a little bit past, and they've either not started or they've stopped, then they're pretty well taken care of."
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Ole Miss, Utah both get letters of intent from D.J. Law
OXFORD, Miss. — Both Ole Miss and Utah are claiming it received a National Letter of Intent from Florida athlete D.J. Law.
Ole Miss first announced the signature at 8:23 a.m. today. Utah announced at 3:36 p.m. (central) that he had signed with it.
An Ole Miss spokesman said the school is looking into it. His counterpart at Utah said that she published he had signed as soon "as I was told I could." But, she said, she thinks the school received the letter of intent earlier in the day.
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Adding more weirdness to the story is this video from local TV news station Bay News 9, in which Law is clearly choosing Utah and is seen wearing a Utes hat.
In at least one frame a woman behind him is wearing an Ole Miss t-shirt.
Whatever school had its NLI verified and recorded by its conference office is the one who would likely have a claim on the player. It could also go to what the time stamps on the respective forms say (all letters of intent on National Signing Day have to indicate when exactly it was signed).
The most likely scenario at this point is that Ole Miss effectively releases Law from his scholarship, especially since he is considered a sign-and-place player that is destined to end up playing junior college football.
Law actually triple-signed: He also has inked with East Mississippi Community College. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound athlete from Haines City, Fla. is a three-star prospect that scored 20 total touchdowns last season.
"That was another midweek decision that we had to make, whether we were going to go all-out on him, stay in it with another guy that was very similar and we made the decision to go with D.J.," coach Hugh Freeze said. "Really fell in love with him on his trip here. He's a kid from a very humble background, has had several hardships in his life and I'm totally convinced this kid wants to make something of himself. He's going to have some academic challenges also because of the issues he faced as a ninth-grader. Hopefully he can overcome those and get with us this fall. We're thrilled."


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The 33-turbine project will install Gamesa's 2MW G97 turbines and will be Iberdrola's fourth wind facility in Mexico.
The Pier II development was designed using a supercomputing system called Sedar, a high-resolution wind power simulation. It was developed by the Spanish utility with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre.
According to Iberdrola, Sedar can calculate wind power output across the project's lifecycle and determine the best exact location for the turbines. The model can provide wind simulation at a high-resolution scale measured in square meters, rather than tens of square meters as in the case of other models. It also predicts stress and fatigue on turbines from turbulence and crosswinds.
Iberdrola said it expects to use the supercomputer programming to design all of its wind developments.
Once the project is commissioned, Iberdrola will have 296MW of wind capacity installed in Mexico, all of which has been supplied by Gamesa.


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The vehicle is essentially a single chassis truck with a closed cargo area at the back (with swinging doors at the rear). The truck is of an original design, with a truck cab that assumes a more 1920s-1940s truck design.
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On January 25, 1927 Blue Licks State Park became Kentucky's fifth state park. Judge Samuel Wilson of Fayette County, chairman of the Blue Licks Battlefield Monument Commission, presented a deed for thirty-two acres to the Kentucky State Park Commission on behalf of local citizens who had donated the land. Located north of the Lower Blue Licks Crossing in present day Robertson County, the site of the Battle of Blue Licks enshrines the memory of the men who died in one of the worst military defeats of the American Revolution.
The Battle of Blue Licks has the combined drama of frontier warfare and the Revolutionary War. On August 19, 1782, nearly seventy Kentuckians died in what some historians have called the "Last Battle of the American Revolution." While that claim is debatable, the struggle at Blue Licks embodies the conflict between the American Indian, Kentucky settlers, and the British Crown.
Although Lord Charles Cornwallis had surrendered British forces at Yorktown, Va. on October 19, 1781, bringing to a close the major hostilities of the American Revolution, isolated conflicts between the Americans, British, and Indians still occurred. The Kentucky frontier experienced some of the bloodiest British and Indian raids of the war. With the surrender of Cornwallis, many Kentuckians hoped that the attacks on their homes and settlements had come to an end. Unknown to them, a large force of British and Indians had gathered at Old Chillicothe, Ohio, to prepare for a raid on the frontier settlements.
The British invasion force, made up of an estimated 1,100 men, included a number of Butler's Rangers from Canada, along with Shawnee and Wyandot Indians. Their invasion plans had targeted Wheeling, West Virginia, but on their way there they received word that George Rogers Clark and the Americans had planned a possible attack on Shawnee territory. The majority of the Shawnee decided to return home to defend their homes. British commander William Caldwell and Captain Alexander McKee, along with sixty Canadians and 300 Indians, some Shawnee, Delaware, Chippewa, Mingo, Ottawa, and mostly Wyandot, changed their plans and decided to attack some of the Kentucky outposts. They chose Bryan's Station, north of Lexington. On August 15, 1782, Caldwell's force surrounded the fortified settlement. Seeing that Bryan's Station had stronger defenses than anticipated, the British and Indians withdrew and began their journey home.
When word of the attack on Bryan's Station reached other Kentucky settlements, groups of militiamen prepared to come to their neighbors' defense. Col. John Todd, commander of the Fayette County militia, raised a force of 180 men comprised of about 130 men from Lincoln County under the command of Lt. Col. Stephen Trigg, and about 45 men from Fayette County under the command of Lt. Col. Daniel Boone, to help repulse the enemy. Col. Benjamin Logan and a large force of militia were also on their way to assist their beleaguered fellow Kentuckians. By the time Todd and his militiamen arrived at Bryan's Station the enemy had gone. Instead of waiting for Logan and reinforcements, Todd decided to pursue and overtake the British and Indians. His decision would be disastrous.
The retreating invasion force left Todd and his men an excellent trail to follow. On August 19, the Kentucky militia caught up with the British and Indians at Blue Licks. The night before the battle Todd's men had debated whether they should wait for Logan or engage the enemy at once. According to legend Major Hugh McGary insisted that the militia attack immediately. Boone warned of a possible ambush from surrounding ravines, but to no avail. On the day of the battle McGary supposedly rode his horse into the waters of the Licking River, waving his hat and calling out, "All those who are not cowards, follow me!" His fellow Kentuckians charged after him.
As they reached the north shore of the Licking, the Kentuckians began to ready for an attack. An advance column of Kentuckians then proceeded up a hill where some Indians had been spotted, followed by three groups of the main force. Todd commanded the center; Trigg led the right flank, and Boone the left. As the advance party reached within 50 yards of an area of ravines, the British and Indians who had been lying in wait launched their attack on the Kentuckians.
Within 15 minutes the Kentucky militiamen had been defeated. The British and Indians inflicted heavy casualties on the surprised Kentuckians, forcing them to flee for their lives. Both Todd and Trigg died in the battle, as did Daniel Boone's youngest son, Israel. A few of the Kentucky militia stood their ground, trying to provide cover for their retreating comrades. The Indians pursued the routed Kentuckians for about two miles, and then came back to the battlefield to scalp and mutilate their victims. The Kentuckians had lost some 70 men. The British and Indians suffered about two dozen casualties with only 10 killed. Logan's force of 500 men met some of the fleeing survivors about five miles from the battle site. Logan and his men arrived at Blue Licks and buried the grisly remains of their fallen comrades.
The Battle of Blue Licks did not have an effect on the Revolutionary War. It did, however, cause Gen. George Rogers Clark to lead another military expedition against the Indians in Ohio. He destroyed Chillicothe and five other Indian towns in his reprisal for Blue Licks. The power of the Indians in the Old Northwest had been weakened.
With the deaths of Todd, Trigg, and others, the Kentucky frontier lost some of its most prominent leaders. The Battle of Blue Licks had again proven the vulnerability of the Kentucky settlements to attack. Not until the end of the War of 1812 would Kentuckians feel secure from Indian raids from across the Ohio River.
On August 19, 1928, the 136th anniversary of the battle, Federal Judge A.M.J. Cochran of Maysville, chairman of the Blue Licks Battlefield Monument Commission, called to order an estimated audience of 10,000 people for the formal dedication ceremonies of the Blue Licks Battlefield State Park. Judge Cochran then introduced the secretary treasurer of the Commission, Judge Innes Ross of Carlisle. Ross related to the audience the efforts of those who had worked for over 42 years for the establishment of a state park to commemorate the men who died in the battle of Blue Licks.
In 1928 the Kentucky General Assembly appropriated money for the erection of a granite monument inscribed with the names of those who died on August 19, 1782. At the base of the monument would be the names of the Indian tribes that fought in the battle. That same year the Commission employed the famous landscape firm of Olmstead Brothers of Brookline, Mass. to design the entrance parking section and roadway of the new park. In 1930 the legislature appropriated another $20,000 for expansion of the park. The appropriation provided funds for the construction of a museum and more landscaping. On August 19, 1931 officials dedicated the museum and new road that accessed the park. The museum housed the T.W Hunter Collection of prehistoric animal bones and the W.J. Curtis Collection of guns, Indian artifacts, and other items.
The Kentucky General Assembly appropriated $22,500 in 1934 to build a new museum and continue with other park improvements. With the Great Depression causing economic havoc throughout the nation, the federal government set up a transient workers camp at Blue Licks. Under the oversight of the U.S. Army the transient workers supplied both skilled and unskilled labor for various projects within the park. Improvements to Blue Licks continued through 1938.
In 1950 the holdings of the Blue Licks State Park increased in size by 68 acres to a total of 100 acres. Efforts to add more land to the park had begun in 1943. The permanent acquisition of the W.J. Curtis Collection that had been on loan greatly enhanced the park's artifacts holdings. Between 1960 and 1968, the state gave an additional $200,000 for renovations and improvements to the park.
Blue Licks now has 148 acres and over 50 campsites with water and electricity. Each August, the park hosts a reenactment of the Battle of Blue Licks. One unique feature of the park is the existence of a rare plant. The Short's Goldenrod is the first plant in Kentucky placed on the endangered species list of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The plant is named after amateur botanist Dr. Charles W. Short.
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I used lovely dark brown thread so you could see both seams.
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This part is purely optional!! Now, if you want to get really technical, here is a pressing method where four seams intersect, to make it not so bulky where all that fabric overlaps each other in the middle. Once again, this is purely optional. So if this sounds confusing, don't stress about it.
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