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Memes are a concept that keep popping up in discussions around contemporary media technologies and social relations. Within the field of media ecology, Matt Fuller devotes a large section of a chapter of his Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Technoculture book to memetics, contending that as a neo-darwinian cultural analogy the term may be a useful tool, though he does critique some aspects of the way the term is used. Elsewhere, such as in this article from Paul Mason on the BBC website, memes are identified as a key conceptual tool for understanding the wave of protests and mobilisations which have swept the globe over the past year.
Basically I disagree with both Fuller and Mason's approach to the value of memes. Memetics is not a useful tool for analysing contemporary social practices and technological relations, nor is it key to grasping the way in which protesters have been fighting against the consequences of an economic crisis caused by the financial sector's failure and the governmental decisions to bail out the banks and continue to let the bonuses flow while announcing austerity measures for everyone else. Memes are basically a failed analogy. In 1976, arch-reductionist Richard Dawkins penned the Selfish Gene, a book which sought to reduce complex social behaviours to genetic programming. Dawkins's thesis was basically, that as the smallest unit of biological inheritance, genes were the basic building blocks of behavioural patterns. This of course is philosophy and not science, and a particular brand of reductionist philosophy which seeks to reduce all actions and events to the smallest quantifiable unit, just as atomism had done before we learned that atoms were not in fact the smallest units of matter. And just as we learned that you can't tell everything about matter by looking at what atoms, subatomic particles or quarks it is composed of, we have come to learn that you can't learn everything about a biological organism from studying its genome.
Since Dawkins's wrote the selfish gene, neodarwinian evolutionary theory which posited that the processes of biological evolution were Mendelian inheritance and random mutation has been rocked by the discovery of several modes of evolutionary change which are neither. Horizontal gene transfer, endosymbiosis and co-evolutionary strategies (such as genes behaving in different ways according to environmental variables) all demonstrate that the neodarwinian position in the mid-70's was only ever partially correct, as other evolutionary processes existed but were unknown back then. Indeed, many of these developments signal a move away from reductionism towards the kind of connective, contextual understandings evident in work in contemporary area of inquiry such as autopoiesis, complexity theory, and the ecology inspired perspective of another philosopher/scientist from the 1970's, Gregory Bateson, who argued, 'The unit of survival is not the breeding organism, or the family line or the society… The unit of survival is a flexible organism-in-its-environment.' This kind of connective, ecologically informed, synthetic mode should be where media ecology generates its conceptual tools, not the reductionist (and it turns out erroneous) approach of neodarwinism.
Moving on to memes, Dawkins claims that these are the cultural analogue of genes. So while genes are the smallest unit of cultural inheritance, definite and quantifiable matter which exists in a complex sequence (the genome); memes must be the smallest quantifiable units of ideas. Except of course they aren't. Even positing the smallest quantifiable unit of an idea seems ridiculous because ideas cannot be quantified according to scale. You cannot deconstruct ideas from a complex sequence to their basic units of being.
If memes are such a laughable concept, why then have they proved a popular one? My thinking around this is that alongside the ridiculous aspect of the analogy with genes, memes are used as a way of talking about the way that ideas evolve. The concept of cultural evolution has proved a controversial one with scientists (for example see Gould 1996 for a scathing critique), however if we approach culture and concepts as dynamic complex entities which resemble open physical systems in that they require a certain amount of intellectual energy to survive and propagate themselves, the comparison may seem somewhat more grounded. Gould criticises the notion of cultural evolution as reducing cultural change to neodarwinian principles, which would be bit as foolhardy as trying to ducing ideas to their basic building blocks.
What should be clear however in any discussion of cultural or technical evolution, is that the processes of cultural/technical evolution are not exact replicas of those found amongst living systems. Even within the category of living systems though, there are, as we have better grasped since Dawkins's 1976 efforts, a range of evolutionary strategies which do not apply to all forms of life. Bacteria can swap genetic material (horizontal gene transfer) in ways which afford their particularly rapid mode of evolution, animals such as humans obviously do not display these properties. If I walk near you, we don't swap genes and evolve. Just as there exist different evolutionary processes between different types of living system, you could quite reasonably expect there to be different evolutionary processes between living and non-living systems. Because cultural evolution depends on processes, such as the interventions of powerful commercial agents in their propagation, again the meme/gene analogy appears to be a poor and potentially obfuscatory one, whereas examining and analysing the various processes of cultural, technical or conceptual evolution, and exploring how, where, and under what conditions they occur seems a more productive approach which actually explores the complexity of non-living and non-organic forms of evolution.
Better understanding the processes of cultural evolution, the different dynamic factors which converge to form the attractors and phase space of concepts and technologies is a useful research aim for media ecology influenced research. Exploring what some of these processes are and how they work we can allow actors to better manage their interventions into the networks of mediated discourse, and reveal why certain ethically or factually dubious ideas, climate change denial, islamaphobia, extreme nationalisms etc are so well received. Appropriating poor analogies of dated, reductionist, scientific concepts such as the meme however contributes nothing towards this task, and merely makes media ecology appear to be a somewhat confused mish-mash of bastardised scientific concepts.


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First impressions didn't deter Carol and Ron Ruth from falling in love with their Birge Clark-designed home in the San Juan neighborhood on Stanford Campus.
The home they ultimately purchased in 1999 and restored had a distinctly 1950s modern affect, with its flat roof and linear exterior. And much was obscured by overgrown ivy and opportunistic trees that joined the three ancient oaks in front.
No one would have known it was a Spanish Eclectic Period Style home, built in 1921.
But once they stepped inside, the Ruths saw that the "bones" of the house were untouched, from the large windows to the hardwood floors.
Days after moving in, the Ruths discovered the original plans -- as well as the 1950s remodeling plans -- and knew they wanted to bring their home closer to Clark's vision.
The results of their labors will be on display during the seventh annual Stanford Historical House & Garden Tour on May 1, along with four other homes on campus.
The Ruths' remodel began as a voyage of discovery: When they removed the sleek, modern fireplace mantel, "We had no idea old Batchelder tiles were underneath," Carol Ruth said. "The more we discovered, the more excited we got about restoring it."
Much effort was put into bringing back the luster and richness of the interior moldings and woodwork. Luckily, most were left unpainted, except for the picture railings, which they had refinished. They relied heavily on a family of traditional woodworkers, Matheny Factory, San Leandro.
Carol Ruth tells the story of how their home was Birge Clark's first solo project, although he was working under his father, Arthur B. Clark. He needed help in drawing up the plans and called on the owner's daughter, Lucile Townley. He ultimately married her in the living room he designed.
"We loved Birge Clark's attention to detail," she said, pointing to how many doors are double-faced, with one side quarter oak, facing the living room, and the other in fir, facing the sunroom. Little surprises abound, from the 30-degree angle in a bedroom to the small, hidden telephone closet.
Over time, the Ruths replaced the flying-saucer lighting popular in the 1950s with appropriate 1920s-era chandeliers. They even added overhead lighting where the original outlet had been plastered over.
Outside, they brought back the scrolled detail on the textured stucco walls, as well as an arch over the front door entry, and put back a variation on the original tile roof.
Two years ago they redid the kitchen, tackling the areas "re-muddled" in the 1950s to better match the original house. Using the dining room cabinetry as models, they copied the drawer fronts in cherry wood and added glass knobs and pulls acquired on eBay. The original redwood cabinets were repainted.
A wall had been removed in the '50s and a laundry room added. They replaced that with a marble-topped sideboard and a veggie-washing sink, next to a seating area that overlooks their expansive back yard.
Their new Aga range has three separate sections: an oven, broiler and a separate convection oven for baking. On top are four smaller burners and a large burner in the center, just under the pasta spigot.
Cabinets were built into an L-shaped peninsula, offering plenty of storage, under a soapstone counter. Even the GE Monogram refrigerator has wood-paneling to match. Spices are stored in a cabinet door, which fronts the pantry.
Downstairs, the wooden pocket doors were removed between the living room and old sun porch, creating one large space. The doors were re-used between the living room and entry hallway.
Three bedrooms are on the main floor, with one used as a sewing room. The study, which was added on in the '50s, features simple mahogany paneling. The Ruths added Arts and Crafts-style trim, as well as crown molding. They opted to keep the simple bookcases -- and the three-sided view.
Upstairs the master suite now envelops a series of rooms, including an old sleeping porch (now used for exercising) and a roof deck. Below the paneling, they found the original plaster intact.
For the master bathroom, they chose a claw-foot tub under a large window that overlooks their back yard. Counter tops are marble, as is the basket-weave-designed marble tile floor.
Much of what the Ruths have done is bring back Clark's original ideas: Instead of a flat roof, there's a tile-covered angled mansard roof (flat in the unseen center where solar panels may one day be installed). Arches now greet one at the front door and are replicated in the entry hall and master bathroom.
Outdoors, the Ruths continue to discover remnants of the original home. They've uncovered stone walls, paths and a fireplace, some with old bits and pieces left over after the '06 earthquake. A Stanford archeologist is planning to document these, Carol Ruth said.
Ron Ruth pointed to the "water fantasy" in back, which diverted water from the house. Now it's a sequence of three ponds with a re-circulating pump that acts as a modern drainage system.
Other homes included on this year's tour include two more pre-1930 homes in the San Juan Neighborhood (which are included in the Stanford Historical Society's Historic Houses series); two 1936 residences; and Hanna House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Two of the homes were designed by Charles K. Sumner.
Because some of the paths are uneven, tour goers are advised to wear appropriate walking shoes.
What: Stanford Historic House & Garden Tour
When: Sunday, May 1, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Where: Five homes on campus
Cost: $30
Info: Park at Parking Structure 6, 560 Wilbur Way (with tour registration desk and shuttle stop nearby); Stanford Historical Society

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Et tu macarons?
7 comments:
- cupcakes.gr said...
I love your account of macaron experimenting! I have some eggs whites age-ing on the counter at the minute because I too have determined that I MUST conquer the macaron! (even more so after Bakerella made them look so easy recently!)
- February 11, 2010 at 4:19 AM
- Bret Bannon said...
I too am on a quest to master the macaron. I believe I am on round 5, but I think I lost count. If you figure out how to prevent them from becoming hollow, please let the world know. Best of Luck!
- March 2, 2010 at 9:00 PM
- HollowPeas said...
Cupcakes & Bret -
As we speak I have just finished round 3 of macaron making. I made two batches tonight (so technically rounds 3 & 4) and the second batch was pretty near successful. I will count only a very small hollow space and a 1/4 inch thick cake like bottom a success. I think one more go at it and I will have it down.
These things are addicting huh? Best of luck to both of you, let me know if you conquer these little buggers.
- March 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM
- L.L. said...
I just saw your little copyright policy after I found your macaron picture on google! I had already published my blog post with the picture on it (attributing it to your blog) but when I saw that I thought I had better double check. If you want me to remove the photo I have no problem with that, just let me know. :) Also, I love your recipe and am thinking I am going to have to muster up the courage to try and make it myself one of these days.
- June 14, 2011 at 4:54 PM
- Laura said...
Love your post. "pistachio flavored betrayal" - awesome phrase.
- March 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Love your description about why you like to bake & it's benefits/ addictiveness. I, too, love the tediousness of the process as well as a culinary challenge. I am mentally gearing up for trying my hand at the French Macaron.
Does anybody have a recommendation for any macaron cookbooks? I have read that Macaron Magic was written by a engineer for NASA who loves to bake.. and that her book breaks down EVERY step of the process IN DETAIL. Maybe we should all invest in this book? Happy Baking!!
- June 10, 2012 at 10:23 PM
What is the ricipe?
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Town of Brattleboro, VT
The vibrant town of Brattleboro, Vermont, with a population just over 12,000, is 20 minutes from Marlboro's rural campus. Brattleboro is an eclectic community located in the Connecticut River Valley and a regional center for art, commerce, and technology. It was listed as one of the "20 Best Small Towns in America" by Smithsonian magazine, one of the "10 Best Small Towns in America" by Fodor's, and in the top 10 in the book The 100 Best Art Towns in America, with many galleries, music venues, bookstores, and performance spaces to experience. Among the blocks of historic red-brick buildings you can find cozy cafes and four-star restaurants featuring local fare and international cuisines, including Indian, Thai, Korean, Greek, and Italian. Mother Earth News named Brattleboro one of "Eight Great Places You've Never Heard Of", and its college-town feel was recently highlighted on Vermont Public Radio.
Some of the highlights in Brattleboro include a monthly Gallery Walk, a Friday evening when art venues all over town host exhibit openings and special events, and a lively farmers' market every Saturday during the warmer months. The Latchis Theater is one of several popular venues for music in town, and also one of the few surviving art-deco theaters in New England. In February, there is a world-class ski jumping competition at Harris Hill, the only Olympic-size ski jump in New England and a Brattleboro tradition since 1922. In March, the annual Women's Film Festival showcases documentary and feature films and events all over town, highlighting women's issues and their place in the arts. In June, the town is the site of the Strolling of the Heifers, the world's only parade of flower-bedecked calves led by future farmers, and in October the town is abuzz with the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
Nearby recreation opportunities are plenty: you'll find plenty of hiking, paddling, swimming, camping, caving, nature walks, and the like. Explore local rivers, hundreds of acres of forests and trails, and the lofty Green Mountains to the west. Additionally, Brattleboro is less than two hours from eight of New England's best ski resorts—and a small ski lift at a municipal park right in town.
- Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
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- Marlboro Music Festival
- Vermont Jazz Center
- Yellow Barn Music Festival
- Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery
- New England Center for Circus Arts
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Visiting Brattleboro
There are Marlboro vans and MOOver buses four or five times a day, so you don't need a car to get to town. Brattleboro is great for people who like seeing some cool, local art, biking or window-shopping. Brattleboro is not so great for people who prefer malls and big cities. There's plenty of stuff to check out but it can get a bit boring if you go every day. My favorite part about Brattleboro is its shops. You can find some awesome stuff for cheap if you know where to look. The Brattleboro Co-op is another gem, where you can buy organic and fair-trade groceries to your heart's content.
-Joanna Moyer-Battick '12
Living in Brattleboro
All of the students who live in town form their own off-campus community, as well as finding their own niche in the larger community. Brattleboro offers the comfort and convenience of a small town, but is also extremely progressive. One of my favorite things about Brattleboro is the "gallery walks," where all of the shops and restaurants in town turn into art galleries, often including art from my fellow students. Brattleboro also offers tons of opportunities for outdoor recreation. However, the most important part for me is that the people I find here, the elderly woman sweeping her front porch or the children building forts in the backyard, refresh my perspective on my academic work and on humanity.
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Essential Information for New International Students
Monday 17th – Friday 21st September daily between 16.30 – 17.00 Devonport Lecture Theatre, Portland Square
This session is delivered by the International Student Advice (ISA) team and is an opportunity for new international students to meet the team and learn about the services they deliver. During this session the team will provide you with essential information designed to help you to settle in to living and studying in Plymouth. They will also advise you of your tier 4 visa responsibilities and answer any questions you may have related to your visa. There is no need to book in advance, you can just turn up.
Medical information
As soon as you have completed online enrolment, please ensure that you complete/update the online medical questionnaire. You will find the questionnaire at: https://s3.plymouth.ac.uk/s3 . Alternatively, you can scroll down on the induction web page where you will see a link for the Medical Questionnaire (You must complete online enrolment first). You may have previously completed the questionnaire but must still open and save this even if there are no changes. Opening and saving the questionnaire will be date stamped and we will know that your information is up-to-date. This will be checked by a member of the administrative team and if information is not updated you will be refused entry to laboratories and refused attendance on any fieldwork. The information is required solely to enable organisers of field courses, lab work and other activities you may undertake to be alerted to any special requirements or precautions which may be necessary.
Monday 17 September 2018
09.00 – 10.50 Welcome Meeting – Room 605, Rolle Building
Welcome from the Head of School, Professor Deborah Greaves
Introduction to staff and some general information.
10.50 – 11.30 A series of short presentations as below. – Room 605, Rolle Building
Simon Taylor
'Civ Soc' (the student Civil Engineering Society)
'Civ Soc' President or representative
Civ Soc is run by and for the students. They organise talks and trips about Civil Engineering, as well as social activities.
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A representative of the Students' Union will outline all the extra-curricular activities you can enjoy, including; sports clubs and societies, volunteering, and how the Union is the hub of social life whilst studying. They provide your student support and representation.
– 12.30 Health and Safety Talk
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Tony Tapp
16.00 – 17.00 - Welcome Party Wristband Collection – Room 605, Rolle Building
You will need to collect your wristband in order to attend your Welcome Party.
Tuesday 18 September 2018
11.00 – 11.30 Module Enrolment Session – Room 003, Babbage Building
Dr Andrew Fox
13.00 Lunch with Personal Tutors – Robbins Foyer, Robbins Building, Robbins SR1, SR2 and SR3
15.00 – 15.30 Campus tour – meet outside Devonport Lecture Theatre, Portland Square Building
Jon Miles
Wednesday 19 September
10.00 – 16.00 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Issue - Room W014, Brunel Building
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14.00 – 15.00 Introduction to the Library and IT – Lecture Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building
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19.00 – 21.30 Welcome Party - Graduation Marquee,
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Thursday 20 September
10.00 – 12.00 Direct Entrants Briefing for Students New to the University – Room B6, Portland Square Building
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Any time between 09.00 – 16.00 University Card Collection - Room 015, Ground Floor, Smeaton Building
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You must complete online enrolment and upload a photo prior to attending this session. You will need to bring identification with you to this session. The preferred form of identification is a valid current passport. Please refer to our University Card Collection web page for further details.
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14.00 – 15.00 Health and Safety Talk – Room W011, Brunel Building
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Beginning with the 2010-2011 season, Kangaroo men's basketball will join the women's basketball team in calling UMKC's Swinney Gym "home court."
Kangaroo Athletics is excited to make this move, as we strive to build an on-campus home court advantage to win more games and create a better atmosphere. For the 2010-2011 season, Swinney will feature new chairbacked seating, improved concessions and amenities, and easy complimentary parking. There is no better way to enliven student participation while, at the same time, showing off our beautiful campus to the Kansas City community.
Why the move on campus to Swinney?
We need to play a bigger role on campus!
A number of factors have come together at this time to make playing at Swinney the right decision for UMKC. First off, with over 1,500 dormitory beds on campus UMKC needs on-campus activities to build up student spirit. Students showed last year that they would support on-campus basketball and we want to make them our highest priority!
In addition, our current basketball student-athletes prefer to play at home. A packed crowd in front of their fellow students shooting on their home goals gives them the best opportunity to win.
Finally, playing a majority of our games at Swinney will both lower expenses to the Athletics Department and keep those expenses that do remain on campus. In times of budget concern like these, Kangaroo Athletics will save over $150,000 and reinvest the remaining expenses within the university.
What about the seating, parking, concessions, the Kangaroo Club, and other fan amenities?
They'll be much improved!
New chairback-style seating will be installed between May and June, giving all fans a comfortable environment with a defined seat – no more general admission, and no more bleachers without backs (see the picture below or PDF at the bottom of the page). Parking on campus will continue to be free. All season ticket holders will receive a special pass for the parking lot on the east side of Swinney (bordered by Rockhill Road) for those busier evening games, should you wish to utilize it. In addition, a golf-cart shuttle will run between the parking lots and Swinney to assist any fans in need. A map of parking is located on the back.
A new and improved concessions stand will feature an improved selection along with additional staffing.
A larger Kangaroo Club will feature plenty of room for family and friends as well as the great comraderie you've grown to expect. This will be the only location in which to purchase beer and wine.
Can I keep my same seat as I had at Municipal?
Everyone will have a chance to personally pick seats!
The Kangaroo Athletics Scholarship Fund staff will conduct a "Seat Selection" event so that every donor and season ticket holder is able to personally select their new seats at Swinney. This event will be held in August, once the new seating has been installed. You will be mailed and emailed your appointment time to select seats or, should you prefer, our staff can select for you based on your preferences.
What do I have to do next?
Renew now or later, your choice!
We invite you to renew your season tickets and your KASF donation at this time, as those paying during the "Early Bird" period will receive an earlier selection appointment. Should you prefer, you're welcome to wait to make your payment until after you've selected your seats.
Please don't hesitate to contact the Kangaroo Athletics Scholarship Fund at 816-235-6018 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Nielsen: Consumer Trust In Traditional Media Ads Fall, While Confidence In Mobile, Social And Online Rise
Word-of-mouth recommendations and reviews, either from someone they know or a stranger's opinions online, are the most trusted sources of information for buying decisions, according to the latest Nielsen's latest Global Trust in Advertising report, The findings speak highly for information gathered through social media or other forms of user-generated content.
Meanwhile, though traditional paid media still are trusted by a great number of consumers, their influence is on the decline. Nearly half of consumers around the world say the trust ads on TV (47%), in magazines (47%) and in newspapers (46%), but those numbers dropped by 24%, 20% and 25% respectively, in a relatively short period of time — between 2009 and 2011.
Still, Nielsen notes that global advertising spend increased 7 percent from 2010 to 2011, driven by a 10% increase in television advertising.
Among the more marketer-driven sources for online information and advertising, company websites and permission-based emails fared well. Fifty-eight percent of global online consumers trusted information they found on a company website, and 50% trust emails they signed up to receive.
Next up on the trust scale are search engine ads, which are trusted by 40% of those surveyed. Thirty-six percent trust online video ads, and 30% believe banner ad messages. Notably, the banner ad number has increased 27% since 2007. Sponsored ads on social networks are trusted by 36% of respondents.
Mobile ads of various types have increased trust levels 61 percent since 2007 and 21 percent since 2009. The most trusted are display ads — both videos and banners — on tablets or smartphones, which are trusted by 30% of global respondents. Text ads on mobile phones are slightly less trusted, at 29%.
Interestingly, Nielsen found that relevance often correlated strongly with trust, suggesting that online marketers could raise trust levels by making ads more relevant.
To conduct its research, Nielsen surveyed more than 28,000 Internet respondents in 56 countries.
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The island of Ireland and the UK mainland already enjoy some grid interconnection. The Moyle interconnector between Scotland and Northern Ireland has 80MW capacity into Scotland and 450MW into Northern Ireland, and the recently completed East-West interconnector links North Wales and the Republic of Ireland with 500MW of capacity in each direction.
Interest in installing new cables under the Irish Sea has been heightened by the requirement for EU member states to meet renewable energy targets by 2020. Written into 2009's Renewable Energy Directive are provisions for countries that expect to fall short of their target to trade with nations lucky enough to have a surfeit of cheap renewables. In other words, the directive encourages renewable-energy deployment where it costs the least. In theory, the potential annual saving across Europe could be EUR10 billion.
Ireland and the UK seem ideal partners for this kind of co-operation. With its enviable wind resource, Ireland is well positioned to export relatively low-cost wind power. At a time when Ireland's own electricity demand is muted by recession and wind-farm development constrained by grid capacity, a new export market could enable gigawatts of greenfield development, generating economic activity and employment.
The UK has a lot to gain from co-operation, too. Irish onshore wind could provide a cheaper - and quicker - alternative to UK offshore wind. As well as reducing the cost of complying with the target, importing renewable power effectively exports the headache of public resistance to onshore projects. New infrastructure connecting north and south-west Wales (via Ireland) may also reduce the UK's need for expensive grid upgrades.
Ireland and the UK also have close political and cultural ties and a history of energy co-operation in their favour. Despite the daunting technical challenges and huge investment needed, co-operation is being taken seriously by policymakers. The Energy Bill currently progressing through the UK parliament acknowledges that projects outside the UK may access future support mechanisms, and a memorandum of understanding between the Irish and UK energy ministries is expected to outline the terms on which these joint projects interact with the UK's electricity market.
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But this is not the whole story, and more than just electricity would pass between the UK and Ireland. Co-operation under the Renewable Energy Directive will mean that assets built on Irish soil receive UK financial support. Also, buying renewable power from overseas removes an important pillar of renewable energy policy for the UK - the development of industries that can drive economic growth and create jobs. UK bill payers could be seen to subsidise Irish jobs. In Ireland, the isolation of the wind farms from the domestic grid could undermine the energy security benefits that are typically associated with interconnection projects.
Fundamentally, it is this broader set of costs and benefits associated with renewables that will determine whether the UK-Ireland joint projects receive the necessary financial and political backing, and also whether co-operation is likely to happen between other EU member states. The redistribution of industrial and other benefits when trading renewable energy may preclude significant use of co-operation mechanisms.
Other than the balancing of unexpected overand under-performance against targets in the short-term, it seems likely that co-operation will be confined to cases with significant, long-term "spin-off" benefits. It is surely telling that a leading example of co-operation is the joint green certificate scheme between Sweden and Norway - which already have harmonised electricity markets and so more to gain than most from co-operation. More generally, improving interconnection to enhance system security tends to be a key benefit. Joint projects between maritime neighbours such as the UK and Ireland or the Baltic nations fit the bill nicely.
As member states strive to benefit from domestic renewables deployment, co-operation under the directive before 2020 is likely to fall short of realising the full potential efficiency savings. The number of factors that need to align for co-operation mean it might happen more often than once-in-a-lifetime - but not much more.
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Alright, first I didn't want to reveal this, but… (just kidding!).
The other day, June posted a handbag on our site that made us all 'melt', literally! We melted like ice creams in the dessert, and that is because we saw the NEW Chanel Wallet on Chain. (honestly, we do not know whether its new or not, but we've never see this version before).
Oh my, talking about quilted handbags, try to compare it with the Chanel Classic Quilted WOC. Ask me, I think this version is so-much more intriguing.
We named it the Chanel Hampton WOC, because it looks like it's inspired by the Hampton Bag Collection.
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It's detailed with beautifully crafted stitches and finished with a black CC logo. If you want something modern, but then also timeless, there ain't no better Wallet on Chain than this one.
Oh yes, it also comes with a thin interwoven chain links.
June posted on 18-10-2014: 'I saw this in Chain store in Seoul last week, I thought this is the 2014 Hampton WOC or is this from 2011 Collection?'
This shoulder bag should be still available in store right now, so its time to run to your nearest boutique and ask your favorite SA for more details.
One more thing, Chanel WOC's are priced around 1450 euro's, this one too.
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Norma Zimmer, 87, the "Champagne Lady" of television's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer, died Tuesday at her home in Brea. Her son, Larry, did not give the cause of death.
Zimmer performed on Welk's network and later syndicated show from 1960 to 1982 as the "Champagne Lady," the title Welk traditionally gave to his orchestra's lead female singer. Zimmer sang solos, sang duets with Jimmy Roberts and waltzed with Welk to the strains of his effervescent dance tunes tagged "champagne music."
Norma Zimmer: A brief obituary of singer Norma Zimmer in the May 12 LATExtra section said her son did not give the cause of death. That reference should have been to Larry Welk, son of the late orchestra leader Lawrence Welk. —
She appeared on the orchestra's public TV specials that have aired (along with repeats of the series) since 1987. Zimmer took part in a tribute to Welk and his show held earlier this year at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.
Welk, who stopped performing in 1989, died in 1992.
Zimmer, born in 1923 in Larson, Idaho, grew up in Seattle. The petite blond sang with the Girlfriends, a quartet that performed with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Bing Crosby, including on Crosby's famous recording of "White Christmas."
Zimmer made several film and TV appearances and was the voice of the White Rose in the 1951 Disney film "Alice in Wonderland."
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Dick Walsh, 85, a sports executive who served as vice president of stadium operations for the Dodgers in the 1960s and general manager of the Angels from 1968 to 1971, died Friday at his home in Fullerton of natural causes, family spokesman Brent Shyer said.
Walsh also had a stint as commissioner of the North American Soccer League from 1966 to '68 and was general manager of the Los Angeles Convention Center from 1973 to 1997. He later managed convention centers in Hawaii, Alaska and Ontario.
Richard Bishop Walsh Jr. was born Oct. 30, 1925, in South Bend, Ind., and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1937. An All-City third baseman at Los Angeles High, he enlisted in the Army in 1943 and served in the Pacific during World War II. After his discharge, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers as a front office employee in the team's farm system.
When the Dodgers moved west to Los Angeles in 1957, Walsh was assistant general manager overseeing baseball operations at the Coliseum and then supervised construction of Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine for owner Walter O'Malley. He eventually rose to vice president.
In September 1968, Angels owner Gene Autry hired Walsh to replace Fred Haney, the team's general manager. Three years later Walsh was fired as general manager and executive vice president after a lackluster stretch of mid-division finishes.
He became general manager of the Los Angeles Convention Center in 1973 and resigned in 1997 after clashing with the City Council and then-Mayor Richard Riordan over plans for construction of Staples Center and revelations by The Times that Walsh had been moonlighting as a consultant for the Hawaii Convention Center Authority.
He then went to work full time for the Honolulu center and later for others in Alaska and Ontario. He retired in 2005.
He and his wife of 62 years, Roberta, had three children.
Robert F. Ellsworth
Former congressman and aide to Nixon
Robert F. Ellsworth, 84, a former Republican congressman from Kansas, U.S. ambassador to NATO and advisor to President Nixon and Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, died Monday at a hospital in Encinitas of complications from pneumonia and organ failure. He and his wife, the Rev. Eleanor Ellsworth, lived in La Jolla.
Ellsworth was born June 11, 1926, in Lawrence, Kan., and attended the University of Kansas. He also received a law degree from the University of Michigan.
A Navy veteran, Ellsworth served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1961 to 1967. He was appointed to be Nixon's ambassador to NATO in 1969 and served in that capacity until 1971. Ellsworth was also deputy secretary of defense in the 1970s.
He later served as a close advisor to Dole, a fellow Kansan, and helped lead Dole's 1988 presidential campaign.
"Bob Ellsworth and I were close friends since we came to Congress in the early '60s," Dole said in an emailed statement. "As an expert on defense and foreign policy he was helpful to me over the years. On a more personal note, he was 'Best Man' at our wedding in 1975. He had a keen intellect, a warm personality and a moderate conservative approach to politics."
Ellsworth had recently served as chairman and founding director of Hamilton BioVentures in Solana Beach and was on the board of directors of the Nixon Foundation in Yorba Linda.
Robert Traylor
Former NBA player
Robert "Tractor" Traylor, 34, a 6-foot-8, 300-pound former NBA and University of Michigan basketball player, was found dead Wednesday at his apartment in San Juan, Puerto Rico, police said.
Police and Traylor's team, the Bayamon Cowboys, said he had been missing for a few days and apparently died of a heart attack. He was injured and had not been playing, the team said.
Traylor was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks with the sixth pick in 1998, but they traded his rights to Milwaukee in a major deal that sent Dirk Nowitzki to Dallas. Traylor played for the Bucks in the first two seasons of a seven-year NBA career that included stops in Cleveland, Charlotte, N.C., and New Orleans.
A Detroit native, he got his "Tractor" nickname in high school for his girth. Doctors had operated on his aorta in 2005.
Burt Reinhardt
Television pioneer helped launch CNN
Burt Reinhardt, 91, one of CNN's first presidents and a television pioneer who is credited with helping to build the global news network in its formative years, died Tuesday at his home in Marietta, Ga., after suffering a series of strokes, his family said.
"Without Burt Reinhardt, it is doubtful that CNN would exist today," said Tom Johnson, the former Times publisher who in 1990 succeeded Reinhardt as the 24-hour network's chief.
Reinhardt joined CNN in 1979 as the start-up network prepared to launch. Turner Broadcasting founder Ted Turner named Reinhardt as president in January 1982. During his tenure, he oversaw the beginning of "Larry King Live," which ended its run late last year, and much of the network's expansion. Reinhardt stayed with the network until retiring in 2003.
Reinhardt was born April 19, 1920, in New York and began his journalism career as a World War II combat photographer in the Pacific. He later became managing editor of Fox Movietone News, which screened news at movie theaters.
He also spent time as executive vice president of UPI Television News and supervised the establishment of UPI's global television operations in the 1960s.
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As we began this morning, we're continuing tonight, to talk about the spiritual attitude of self-discipline...self-discipline. Let's go back to 1 Peter chapter 1 and very, very briefly review what we said this morning. In 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 13 Peter writes, "Gird your minds for action, keep sober in spirit." And I noted for you this morning that there are a number of very similar commands throughout the New Testament and they're all calls for spiritual discipline, self-discipline. We are to pull in the loose ends of our lives.
As we have been studying, for you that are guests with us, we've been over a number of months now looking at the anatomy of the church, how a church functions. And we're looking at the internal systems in the body of Christ, as it were, the very things that carry the life of the church the way the organs in the body carry the life of the body. And those things that carry the life of the church are certain spiritual attitudes. And we've looked at a number of spiritual attitudes that are essential for the health of the church. And this morning we began to look at another in our list, namely that of self-discipline, pull in all the loose ends in your life and establishing priorities and then living according to those priorities. That's what that term "keep sober" means, sober not in the sense of drunkenness but in the sense of becoming intoxicated by all the allurements around you that pull you away from what is most essential and most important.
We could sum it up by saying we're talking here about having clarity of mind, spiritual steadfastness, balanced priorities, self-control, moral decisiveness, mental alertness rather than a kind of a whimsical reckless meandering through life or careening through life bouncing off of all kinds of emotional impulses and falling victim to a myriad of temptations. It's absolutely essential as Christians that we maintain an inner self-discipline.
Now what are the components of that self-discipline? We already addressed three of them this morning, I'll just mention them again. If you desire to be a self-disciplined person, a spiritually disciplined person, there are some very important attitudes that you must maintain. One is to remember who owns you. That is to say you're not really in charge of your life so you can't follow your own impulses, you can't follow your own dreams and desires and wishes. All that you are and all that do, the direction of your life must come into submission to the purposes of God which are unfolded in the Word of God and by the leading of the Spirit of God. So you must remember that you are not your own, as Paul put it to the Corinthians, for you have been bought with a price. You must bring your life into harmony with the one who owns you who is your Father and you are an obedient child; who is your Lord and Master and you must be an obedient servant.
Secondly, self-discipline comes when you look back to the covenant of your salvation...when you look back to the covenant of your salvation. That is to say when you remember that at the point of your salvation you made a promise to submit to the Lord. You made a pledge at that time to be obedient to Christ. You confessed Him as Lord...and Lord means that He is above all. In fact, that is exactly what Philippians 2 says, God has given Him a name which is above every name. And what is that name? What's the name above every name? Lord. That's a supreme name and at that name every knee must bow.
It's essential then as believers to remember that we made a covenant of obedience when we confessed Jesus as Lord. We were saved unto obedience which God had before ordained that we should walk...and obedience characterized by good works...and obedience to God's Word. That pledge was inherent in salvation. God at the time you came to Him for salvation promised you forgiveness and eternal life and all the grace necessary to fulfill His will, and the Holy Spirit, and you pledged obedience. And you need to go back and remember that and have the integrity to be faithful to your original promise...quite unlike Israel, you will remember. They said, "All this will we do." Unanimously when they heard the Law of God spoken to them, and when they heard it read to them, they had the same response, we will obey all of this. And they preceded immediately to disobey it, and to disobey it flagrantly and persistently until finally they were under the judgment of God, which judgment still exists today. You probably don't think about it as much in terms of modern times as you would in biblical times. You read the Bible, you can see how God judged Israel. But Israel even to this day is still experiencing the judgment of God because of a failure to fulfill a promise to obedience. And as a believer you should mark it out that God will keep His promise to you to chasten you if you are not obedient to Him.
So essential to self-discipline is to remember who owns you and that you're not in charge of your own life and to remember the covenant of salvation which was a covenant of obedience and keep that covenant. Thirdly, and I think this is essential if you're going to be a self-disciplined person, and that is that you recognize all sin as a violation of a relationship. And we spent some lengthy time this morning talking about that so I won't go over it all tonight. But it's a very, very important matter for us to recognize that sin is primarily a violation of our relationship to God. It is a violation of the intimacy that which we share with a loving Lord and a gracious Savior.
When you understand sin that way, it takes it to another level. You are not simply violating God's law, you're violating your relationship to Him. You're trading on His love. You're abusing His kindness, His mercy, His compassion and His grace. He who paid the infinite price of the death of His own Son for you, who did that in order that He might come into personal and intimate fellowship with you is violated greatly by your sin. That violation not only wounds the Lord but wounds you. And you remember David prayed, "Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation." He didn't lose his salvation when he sinned, but he certainly lost the joy of fellowship.
Now I want to take you to a fourth principle in this matter of self-control, spiritual self-discipline that is very, very important and a lot could be said about it and should be and I'm not going to...I'm not going to string this out, I'm just going to give it to you as one of the points in this series of points tonight, but it could stand alone and perhaps should in your own thinking, and maybe it's a good subject for you to pursue on your own. But suffice it tonight to sum it up and say this, if you're going to be self-disciplined, you have to learn to control your imagination... you have to learn to control your imagination.
Now Peter alludes to this issue in verse 14 of 1 Peter 1 when he says, "Do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance." Before you were a believer you really were subject to the whimsy of your own lusts. You had no real ability to control your heart, your mind, and your desires, no ability to control your imagination.
Now imagination is a good word because I think we understand basically in our society what that English word means. Unfortunately most of the modern translations of the Bible replaced the word "imagination" with some other words and so we lose the value of a biblical understanding of this matter of imagination. Very little is said about it today but it is absolutely crucial. Let's begin to understand our imagination by going all the way back to Genesis chapter 6... Genesis chapter 6. And here in verse 5 we read this, "Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth." This, of course, after the fall of man, wickedness escalates to massive proportions and the stench of that wickedness rises, as it were, to the very throne of God. And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth. And then this statement, "And that every...and the Hebrew is...imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." As I say, more modern translations have opted out for different ways to express that word, but I like the translation of the King James, the word imagination.
When God looked down at man He saw that his imagination was evil continually. Over in the eighth chapter of Genesis we find a second reference to this, in verse 21, this having to do with Noah building an altar and making a sacrifice. And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and the Lord said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man for thee...and here's the same word again...the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." Again God diagnosis man as having an evil imagination.
Now the Bible talks about the heart and when the Bible talks about the heart it means the mind, particularly the Old Testament. The heart is the idea of the mind. The heart of man is desperately wicked, it's deceitful...that's the mind. You can equate generally with the mind.
Now in the mind is a place, I suppose we might call it that although it's not an actual location, but in the mind is a capacity for imagination...for imagination. And imagination is the place where sin is conceived, where is fantasized and where sin is energized. And if we are going to control sin, it has to be controlled in the imagination. It's very difficult for us to eliminate from our lives every thought about sin because sin is ubiquitous, I mean it is everywhere. You can hear sinful words, you can sinful things, they're all around you all the time. And people thrust them in your face. It would be very difficult to remove the thought of sin, the fleeting thought, the passing thought, the awareness, the sensitivity to sin that is initial. Now where you really have to go to work is in your imagination where that initial exposure to sin develops and elicits your involvement and ultimately results in your iniquity. The imagination is where lust is activated.
Let's turn to James chapter 1 as we think about this important point. In James chapter 1, very, very insightful portion down in verses 14 and 15, very definitive and helps us as Christians in the battle with sin. First of all, in verse 13, "When you're tempted you can't say I'm being tempted by God." Somebody might say, "Well, look, I mean, I live in a fallen world and sin is all around me, what do you expect? All this stuff is there and I see it and it moves in and it captures my interest and away it goes and I didn't ask to be here, and God put me here and God let the world fall, and God let sin show up, and what am I supposed to do about it?"
"No one can say when he is tempted I am being tempted by God for God cannot be tempted by evil and He Himself doesn't tempt anyone." Listen, the fact that you live in a fallen world and that you're exposed to sin around you all the time through personal contacts and through the media and through what you read and all of these things is not an excuse for you iniquity. It's not that initial exposure in a fallen world that is a problem.
Go back to verse 14, "Each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by...what?...his own...what?...lust." The problem is not environment, the problem is not exposure to something. The problem is not that it's there in the world. The problem is you and me. We are the problem. And here's how it works, verse 15, "When lust has conceived it gives birth to sin and when sin is accomplished it brings forth death."
You see, what produces sin is not something outside of us but something inside of us. Something that takes that sinful image, that sinful circumstance, that sinful situation, that sinful thought, word, concept, whatever it might be, or action that's in the world around us, and begins to internalize it. That's when the real problem develops. We are tempted when we are internally carried away by our lust and lust begins to conceive and it brings forth the child and the child is sin.
Now what is the imagination? It's the place where lust conceives. It's the place where the sin is entertained, where the temptation is entertained and the fantasies begin to develop. This is the imagination. Sin works in your imagination.
Imagination is a wonderful thing. It's a creative source inside of us. It's where artists conceive their great art. It's where...it's where musicians cultivate the music that eventually shows up on a sheet and is played by an orchestra. It's where those people who have a dream for some achievement in human life begin to cultivate that dream that ultimately comes to fruition in their life. It's a wonderful thing. We talk with children all the time about the importance of stimulating their imagination in the right way because God has given you a tremendous faculty to dream and to plan and to invent and to conceive things that you can bring to pass with great benefit and great blessing. But it is sadly in that same imagination, that same mind, that capability in the human mind where one conceives and fantasizes and develops that which ultimately issues in iniquity.
In Luke we have also a reference to the imagination, chapter 1 vs. 51, in the Magnificat of Mary where she is praising the Lord having been told she would be the mother of the Messiah.She says about the Lord in vs. 51, "He has done mighty deeds with His arm and He has scattered those who were proud in the imaginations of their heart." Here again imagination is mentioned.
Now imagination is somehow more profound than thinking. It is what energizes the thought into fantasy, what activates the emotion and the will to produce the action. The thought comes, it's energized in the imagination, that moves the emotion, the emotion moves the will, the will creates the action and in the case of sin the action creates death...as James says. It is in the imagination that your flesh comes to consciousness. It is in the imagination that the pictures outside become the pictures inside. It is in your imagination that you play out your sin before you ever commit it. It is in the imagination that you feel the heart and the anger that could issue in murder if you were not restrained and it's why Jesus said you're not obeying the law just because you don't kill someone, I'm telling you if you hate your brother you've violated the law. It's where you commit adultery in your heart, it's in your imagination. It's in that imagination in the words of James where lust conceives.
And as your imagination as a Christian functions, it has to battle...it has to battle because you know what is right and you're tempted with what is wrong. And so there are usually two thoughts engaging themselves in your imagination. One thought is this sin will bring satisfaction. This sin will bring me something I want. The other thought is, this sin will dishonor God. Both thoughts are in the mind and both thoughts have an element of truth, sin will bring you some momentary pleasure, if it didn't you wouldn't be interested in it at all. So both thoughts in a sense are true. Sin does bring satisfaction to fallen flesh, that is true, it is momentary and the price is high, and it is not an equal satisfaction to obedience, but there are, as the book of Hebrews says, the pleasures of sin for a season. It is also true that that sin dishonors God, displeases God, violates the relationship with God and brings chastening on the one who commits it. And so therein lies the battle. Which is going to triumph? Which principle? Which is going to move your emotion? Which is going to move your will to do what is right? Which is going to control your imagination? That's the battle.
That's why it is so critical to hear the words of Joshua 1:8, for example, "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, you shall meditate on it day and night."Why? "So that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it." You lay the weight in the battle on the side of righteousness because the Word keeps you from sin. That's why Psalm 19:14 says, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer." It's very, very important how you feed your imagination...very, very important. Very important what you put in there.
Back in 1 Chronicles, and this will be the last passage we'll look at on this particular thought, chapter 29. David blessed the Lord in sight of all the assembly, and this, of course, was at the time when Solomon was being made king and David was making collections for the temple which was to be built by Solomon. And David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly and David said, verse 10, "Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of Israel, our Father forever and ever, Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty. Indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth, Thine is the dominion, O Lord, and thou dost exalt Thyself as head over all, both riches and honor come from Thee and Thou dost rule over all, and in Thy hand is power and might and it lies in Thy hand to make great and to strengthen everyone. Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee and praise Thy glorious name." t's just exultant joyous praise. He thanks the Lord.
And then in verse 17, "Since I know, O my God, that Thou tryest the heart and delightest in uprightness, I, in the integrity of my heart, have willingly offered all these things. So now with joy I have seen Thy people who are present here make their offerings willingly to Thee. O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, our fathers preserve this forever in the imaginations of the heart of Thy people and direct their heart to Thee and give to my son, Solomon, a perfect heart to keep Thy commandments."
This was a...this was a monumental moment in the history of Israel. This was a glorious high point. And David says, "Preserve this forever in the imaginations of the heart."
Lord, if this is to go on, if this marvelous love toward you and expression of worship and this level of devotion is to continue in the future, You're going to have to preserve the imagination, the place where sin is conceived and where it brings forth its deadly child.
Beloved, that's where the battle is fought. And as I taught you some many months ago now when we were talking about the conscience in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 and verse 12, we discussed the fact that Paul said his conscience was clear. When you are fighting sin on the inside in your imagination, your conscience is battling alone. No one outside knows it. No one outside. The most important battles that you will fight alone in your imagination and your conscience will be in there ringing its bell and beating its drum and calling out to you in response to the choices you are making as Romans 2 says, either accusing you or excusing you. That's what conscience does.
And you need to be aware that the battle has to be won there. You win the battle there and you'll win the battle on the outside. You lose the battle there and you'll lose the battle on the outside. When somebody falls into iniquity, falls into sin, That's the product of a fantasizing imagination that has conceived of sin and consequently brought it forth. Win the battle inside. The issue is you. The issue is not the world you live in, it's you.
I suppose it would be probably true that the world in which Paul lived was at least the equal of our world today in its debauchery. And I'll go beyond that. Let me tell you something. After having spent all these many months going through the Old Testament to write all these notes and to go through all of this material on the Old Testament, I don't know that I could conceive a more debauched culture than that which surrounded the nation Israel and which encroached itself upon them until even the Jews began to commit the same kind of debauchery as the nations around them. The result of that was the Assyrian captivity in 722 B.C. when the ten northern tribes were taken into captivity from which really they never came back, but were scattered. And then in 586 B.C. the southern kingdom, Judah and Benjamin, hauled off into Babylonian captivity. And when you read the Old Testament and why this happened, it happened because of the wretchedness and the wickedness of the people of Israel...prostitution, greed, murder, child sacrifice, I mean just horrendous kind of behavior back in Old Testament times. When you read the story of the world around the New Testament, you get very accustomed to Israel and to what was going on there and Pharisaism and an external kind of morality. But when you get out into the Gentile world where Paul was, it was debased and debauched to the degree that we know today. The only difference is that we can put it on forms of media that the ancient world didn't have.
So the battle has always been fought at the same point. There has always been the external influences. You can't run and hide from that, that's not the problem. The problem is the internal lust that is generated in an imagination that is not subject to the truth. Self-discipline then begins with our theology, knowing who owns us, knowing the price that was paid for us, remembering the covenant we made with the Lord when we came to Him, the recognition of all sin as a violation of our relationship. And then it moves out of our theology into our own personal spirituality and self-discipline becomes a matter of controlling your imagination. And if you are to do that, you must hide the Word of God in your heart so that it comes ringing loud and clear and activates your conscience.
Do you remember what I said about conscience when we taught this some...it's been now probably two years ago? Conscience is not in itself a moral law, it is merely a device that reacts to moral law. You could describe it as a skylight. It is not in itself a light. It is merely a skylight that lets the outside light in, the outside light is the truth of God, the conscience is the skylight that lets it in. And you remember, Paul said keep that clean so that the light comes in.
You could also describe conscience another way, and I did this in the book on The Vanishing Conscience. There was an airplane crash in Spain. It was a tragic crash. A plane flew right into the mountain and everybody on it was killed, Avianca Airlines. And when they got back the flight recorder this is what they heard, just a matter of minutes before the crash the synthesized-computer voice in the voice box said, "Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up." Inexplicably the pilot said, "Shut up, Gringo," in English and flipped off the voice box and in a matter of minutes crashed into the mountain.
Now the voice box is like conscience. Conscience says, "Pull up, pull up, stop, don't do that." And it's simply reacting to information given to it...like that airplane. A little voice box was being informed of reality. And what was informing the little voice box? Radar. And radar was reality, radar sends out a beam that bounces back and radar recognized that that plane was headed for a collision with a mountain. Radar was reality, reality informed the box and the box spoke. Now that's how conscience works. Sound doctrine is reality. Biblical understanding is reality. And if you have reality, reality informs the conscience. And where you have sound doctrine informing a clear conscience, you're going to hear...Pull up, pull up, stop, don't do this, don't do this...and you definitely want that.
Now we live in a culture which assaults that two ways. First of all, our society wants to change the moral code. So let's take the Bible and get rid of it. Let's just get rid of it. We don't want this for our moral law, so we'll invent a new one and we'll let MTV invent it. We'll come up with a brand new morality. We'll let the sexual revolution invent it and the gay and lesbian groups, we'll have them invent a new moral code. Now what? Now conscience has a problem because conscience is not a moral law, conscience is merely a device that reacts to what you believe. Muslims have conscience. Buddhists have conscience. They don't know the truth of God, but there's...the conscience is a human mechanism that reacts to your belief system.
So what happens in our society is you invent an erroneous, deceptive, lying, hellish, damning, moral system. And now what you've got is misinformation going to the conscience. So the radar doesn't work, it's non-functioning. In addition to that we have the psychology world. And what is the goal of modern psychology? The goal of modern psychology is to train people to ignore their conscience. Your conscience is making you feel guilty? That's wrong. You're not a bad person, you're...what?...you're good, you lack self-esteem. In fact, you're so much better than you think you are that it's really troublesome and most of your problems are because you don't know how good you really are. So when conscience says you're guilty, you're guilty, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, you silence that conscience.
So, on the one hand the culture develops a completely new moral system and on the other hand, it trains people to ignore their conscience. So you have a whole civilization of people flying stone blind and crashing and burning all over the place. Here we are in the midst of this as Christians who have the Word of God, who know the Word of God with a fully informed conscience and a conscience that is told what is right and we are also told to listen to that conscience. And when the conscience says, "Pull up, don't do this, stop, do what's right," that is a God-given gift. I mean, it's paralleled on the physical side in human beings by pain. You might not think pain is a good thing, but it is. Pain is a good thing because pain tells you your body has a problem. If you don't feel any pain, you'd eventually just die because you wouldn't remedy your condition.
I remember years ago doing a study of leprosy because I was interested in what the Bible said about lepers. And so I got involved in the medical side of things and I always assumed that leprosy was a disease that ate you, cause every time I had seen a leper and I had seen a few, and every time I'd seen pictures or read about lepers or seen photos in medical books about lepers, their fingers were all gone and their noses were gone and their ears were gone and big holes were in their face and in their arms and their feet and some of their feet were completely gone and all they had was stumps. And I just assumed this is some disease that starts at the extremity and eats you. And when I studied it I found out it's not that at all, it doesn't eat you at all. What it does is kill all of your nerves so you can't feel anything and you wear off all your extremities. People who are lepers who have no nose have rubbed it off because they can't feel how hard they're rubbing and they literally rub off their extremities...rub off their ears, rub off their noses, rub off their fingers their toes, rub holes in their faces. And some of the pictures are very grotesque, you see, they can't feel anything and when you can't feel the pain of something, it's a self-destructive mode.
When pain comes, it's God's way of saying...stop doing that, you're hurting your body. And when conscience starts yelling at you, it's God's gift to you saying stop that, you're hurting your soul. And it's at the level of conscience that you have to do the battle of controlling your imagination. So keep your conscience highly informed.
You know, that's one of the wonderful benefits of being in a church and having been taught and trained the Word of God, it's wonderful for those of you who know the Word of God and know it soundly and solidly. Why? Because your conscience is fully informed and it's very important that you not believe the psychological lies today of those who want to dispossess you of any guilt and make you feel completely exonerated from any guilt of any kind. That is a very, very devastating way to silence a God-given warning system in the souls of men and women. And it's a very effective campaign, believe me. But here we are as Christians with a fully informed conscience, a fully sensitized conscience and we know enough to listen when it speaks, listen to your conscience, its built upon the Word of God and that's how you control your imagination.
All right, let me give you a fifth point and there could be many more and probably should be, but for sure I want to give you a final one and then we'll close. If you're going to be a self-disciplined person you must focus on a noble cause outside yourself...you must focus on a noble cause outside yourself. Maybe I could say it like this, people whose lives matter to God don't matter to them. You know what I mean by that? People who are lost in divine purposes have little regard for their own success, comfort, achievement.
In Acts 20, a good place to look at that, that chapter has so much in it, it's one that we all ought to know well, but in Acts 20 Paul says in verse 22, "I'm going to Jerusalem." And he said, "I'm bound in the spirit. I mean, I'm compelled, I'm driven, I have to go. I'm on my way to Jerusalem and I don't know what will happen to me there. I know I'm going right back into the lion's mouth, I know that. I know how they feel about me, I know it could result in tragedy, imprisonment, death, I know that. Additionally...verse 23 says...I know that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city saying that bonds and afflictions await me." Everywhere he went the word of the Holy Spirit was coming to the leaders of the church. Tell Paul that when he gets to Jerusalem and it's going to be chains and prison.
But I'm going anyway...I'm going anyway. Why? Verse 24, "I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself in order that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God." You see, the point was there was something far beyond Paul that drove him...far beyond Paul. I don't consider my life of any account as dear to myself. And that's why I said what I did. People whose lives really matter to God don't matter to them. They really don't. They are committed to a noble cause outside themselves.
Now that is true in just the simplest sense in the world. Somebody who writes masterpieces in music has a transcendent commitment to that process which causes them to be able to go on and on sleeplessly, to deny themselves all kinds of things for the greater good of achieving this noble end. Those people who have a great desire to excel in some endeavor or some academic field or some realm of science or whatever it might be in human achievement, make immense sacrifices because there's some...some noble cause beyond them. They make great sacrifices. Certainly many of the things we enjoy today were pioneered by people who sacrificed everything, in some cases their lives. And sometimes the noble cause is pretty dumb, like getting to the top of Mount Everest. Who cares? Or something like that. But it is a transcendent cause beyond them that makes people sacrifice at a level that is sometimes hard to understand. And certainly the same thing is true of us as Christians. You will begin to pull the loose ends of your life together when you aren't living for yourself anymore, when you're way beyond that. When you discipline yourself because it's the only way you can get to the goal which is beyond you. You know you can't get there with a half effort, you can't get there with a three-quarter effort. You can only accomplish that with the whole effort of everything you have, and that was the Apostle Paul, "For to me to live is not Paul, Christ."
I mean, the man approached life with one great goal, the advancement of the glory of Jesus Christ. And that transcendent noble goal beyond himself catapulted him beyond personal thoughts of comfort and created in him an immense capacity for self-discipline and self-sacrifice to achieve what was so noble. He said that everything he did he did for the glory of God. And he encouraged us whether we eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. I mean, that's the way he lived. He said, "If I live, I live unto the Lord. If I die, I die unto the Lord. So whether I live or die, I'm the Lord's." If I go there and they put me in chains, fine. If they put me in prison, fine. If they take my life, fine. If I have to go without food and if I have to be a night and a day in the deep and sleepless nights and hunger and danger as he lists in 2 Corinthians 11, if I have to be beaten with rods and whipped and stoned and left for dead and shipwrecked. Fine. Because there is something so great and so compelling that those sacrifices are nothing, absolutely nothing. And that is the honor of the Lord Jesus Christ, the advancement of the gospel, the hope of some day hearing, "Well done, good and faithful steward. Enter into the joy of your Lord."
Paul could pray with full commitment, "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy will be done, Thy kingdom come." Because that's what consumed him. It was the advancement of God's kingdom. It was the fulfillment of God's will. It was the glory of God's name. That was it.
It's a matter of living for the great cause. It's a matter of getting beyond yourself. And that too is not easy in our world when we have the most selfish society perhaps...well certainly in the history of America and maybe in the history of humanity. Our level of selfishness is beyond description. And living in that kind of society where everything is supposed to focus on you makes it very difficult to lose your life for the cause of Christ.
As we talk about current trends in evangelicalism, this is one of the most tragic trends, this new kind of preaching that is all built around human fulfillment, this new kind of evangelizing where the whole appeal to the unconverted person is personal fulfillment, that the Lord will personally fulfill your life. Because when that's the reason for you to come to Christ, then that becomes the reason you came to Christ. And then that becomes what you expect Christ to do for you and you set people up for an utterly reverse process of sanctification. "Well, here I am, Jesus, fulfill me....Here I am, Jesus, satisfy me...Here I am, Jesus, plug up all the holes in my life, give me perfect relationships, bring me happiness, success." When, in fact, a proper attitude is, "Lord, save me for Jesus' sake, I'm not worthy of anything and somehow make my life useful to You for the advance of Your Kingdom, even if it costs me everything." That's living for the noble cause. That's getting beyond yourself and that's absolutely essential.
You see, the matter of self-discipline is a matter of right thinking, it's a matter of the battle on the inside. It's a matter of remembering who owns you, remembering the covenant you made when you promised to be obedient and maintaining the integrity of that promise, recognizing sin as a violation of your relationship to the Lord and learning to control your imagination, that part of your mind where lust conceives and produces sin and that is controlled by the profound knowledge of the Word of God and being instantly responsive to a sensitive conscience. And then finally in our list of five, living your life for a noble cause that's far beyond you.
Criticism all of a sudden doesn't matter, personal failure doesn't matter, personal reputation doesn't matter, personal comfort doesn't matter. Only one thing matters and that is the advancement of the glory of God and the honor of Jesus Christ in His Kingdom. And that's all there is to live for. And when those things begin to compel you, then you are motivated to spiritual self-discipline. And I thank the Lord with all my heart that so many of you are and it's evident in your life and it's evident in this church. Let's bow together in prayer.
Lord, our hearts are encouraged with the truth, so encouraged because You've shown us how to live, how to order our life. But we're at the same time discouraged because knowing what we know we seem to fail so often. Help us, Lord, to be strong in the inner man, to have spiritual self-discipline that causes us to win the battle on the inside and therefore to be triumphant on the outside. Give Your church this discipline. May we all see the reality of these patterns in our hearts and when we fail to see them, may we repent and ask Your Spirit to renew us because we want to be disciplined because it honors You and it makes us useful and fruitful. And what else is there in this life but that we should bear fruit for eternity? So help us, Lord, to tie up all the loose ends, to nail down everything that's flapping in the breeze, to establish our priorities on Your Word and maintain them for Your glory until Jesus comes, in His name we pray. Amen.
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Dr. James Zoetewey of Holland, a long-time member of the Hope College political science faculty who retired in 2007, died on Saturday, May 11, 2013, at age 75.
Zoetewey joined the Hope faculty in 1966. During his 41 years at the college, he taught nearly every course his department had to offer, several within his field of American government but also including international relations, comparative government focusing on Europe, and religion and politics, among others. He was department chair for 17 years, beginning in 1971 when he assumed the mantle from department founder Al Vanderbush. He also led the college's spring Washington Honors Semester six times, and led eight of the department's Washington May Terms.
Through the years he expanded his knowledge of his discipline through National Endowment for the Humanities and Project '87 summer study awards on university campuses around the country. His own scholarly work included the instructor's manual for the textbook "American Government: Essentials and Perspectives," and co-authoring the book's third edition with colleagues Dr. Robert E. Elder Jr., Dr. Jack E. Holmes and Dr. David K. Ryden as well as Dr. Michael J. Engelhardt.
After Vanderbush retired in 1972, Zoetewey was also the college's coordinating pre-law advisor, guiding hundreds of Hope students in their quest to gain admittance to law school. He was correspondingly active in pre-law advising professional associations, his service including a year as president of the Midwest Association of Pre-law Advisors and a year on the Pre-law Advisors' National Committee.
A native of Colorado, Zoetewey initially came to West Michigan to attend Calvin College, from which he graduated in 1960. He completed his doctorate at the University of Colorado in 1971.
He was a member of Faith Christian Reformed Church.
He was preceded in death by an infant grandson, Jacob Zoetewey, and a brother, Alvin Zoetewey.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Karen; children, James E. and Kristen Zoetewey of Grand Rapids, Mich., Lisa Zoetewey of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Derek and Meredith Zoetewey of Tampa, Fla.; three grandchildren, Abby, Becca and Henry Zoetewey; a brother and sister, Loreen and Leo Shuart of Cole Camp, Mo., and Gary and Valerie Zoetewey of Denver, Colo.; brother and sisters-in-law, Jan and Ted Boers of Grand Rapids, Jack Terpstra of Rockford, Ill., Lois and Paul Kats of Highland, Ind., and Louise and Don Hoogstra of Wyoming, Mich.; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visitation will be on Tuesday, May 14, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Faith Christian Reformed Church, 85 W. 26th St. in Holland. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, May 15, at 4 p.m. at Faith Christian Reformed Church, with Pastor James Boer officiating.
The family is being served by the staff of Lakeshore Memorial Services in Holland, and www.lakeshorememorial.com may be visited to leave a message or memory for the Zoetewey family. Memorial contributions may be given to Hope College – Department of Political Science or Holland Christian Schools.


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There's almost no end to the variations in flavors that can be added to white basmati rice, but there really couldn't be anything much simpler than cooking up a pot on its own to enjoy its unique lightly sweet and popcorn-y taste, as I frequently like to do. If you're of the same mind, this slight variation on the ordinary cooking method should be guaranteed to appeal — not least for the rich warm aroma of hot buttered popcorn as the rice is first sautéed for a couple of minutes in butter, but also for the fresh but mellow piquancy which the lime juice adds. Taken from Yamuna Devi's indispensable Lord Krishna's Cuisine, this is an astonishingly good way to enjoy basmati rice for the extra minute it takes in preparation.
|Buttered Lime Rice
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking
Cuisine: Indian
Published on February 7, 2009
A simple way to add buttery flavor and a little fresh zest to rice
Other rice dishes from Lisa's Kitchen:
Mushroom Pulao Rice
Green Tea and Curry Rice
Cashew Rice with Diced Potatoes


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Feb. 12, 2011
WALTHAM, MA-All three members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team finished in the top ten on the first day of action at the two-day, New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association Championships at Bentley's Dana Center Pool Saturday. One-meter competition was held Saturday, and three-meter competition is scheduled for Sunday.
For the women, sophomore Cecilia Rius (Rockville, MD/Richard Montgomery HS) placed seventh with a score of 319.15 points, and freshman Chelsea Hopkins-Pottle (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) was 10th with 252.65 points. For the men, freshman Christian Francia (Hampton, NH/Winnacunnet HS) was sixth with 338.25 points.
"It was a very long day, and our divers all pulled through," said UMass Dartmouth Diving Coach Danielle Morley. "They were fantastic, all three of our divers did well." The competition will conclude Sunday.