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(Reuters) The Obama administration provided struggling battery maker A123 Systems Inc with nearly $1 million on the day it filed for bankruptcy, the company told lawmakers investigating its government grant.
The company, which makes lithium ion batteries for electric cars, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month after a rescue deal with Chinese auto parts supplier Wanxiang Group fell apart.
That same day, October 16, A123 received a $946,830 payment as part of its $249 million clean energy grant from the Energy Department, the company said in a letter, obtained by Reuters, to Republican Senators John Thune and Chuck Grassley.
In the letter, dated November 14, A123 said the October payment was the most recent disbursement it had received from the government, with an additional $115.8 million still outstanding on the grant.
Thune and Grassley have pressed the Energy Department for more details about its funding of A123 as the company has faltered.
The Department of Energy needs to answer for why it appears to put federal grants on auto-pilot to the detriment of U.S. taxpayers, Senators Thune and Grassley said in a statement. This cant stand.
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What percentage of energy businesses that have received government aid/subsidies have SUCCEEDED, or are making profits...versus those who are failing/bankrupt???
Is that not a question would lend us perspective on this topic? Not that RWNJ-lunatic-fringe types really want sincere perspective...but, still....
HINT: it's not a question that will be favorable to HCF's POV....shocker there, heh.
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A pair of foreign-owned solar companies that benefited from a combined $84 million in Energy Department tax credits have announced they will lay off employees.
One of the companies, German-owned SolarWorld, was integral in the fight for tariffs against the importation of Chinese photovoltaic solar panels. The other, Chinese company SunTech, blamed those tariffs for its own layoffs.
Both companies benefited from the Energy Department's stimulus-funded Advanced Energy Manufacturing (48C) Tax Credit. The 48C credit is worth up to 30% of the cost of manufacturing qualifying green energy projects.
SolarWorld received a credit worth $82 million, while SunTech's was worth $2.1 million.
Both companies announced this week that they will shed some employees. SolarWorld, which announced a 47% revenue decline in the third quarter, blamed a potential 37 layoffs at its Oregon plant on "illegal" Chinese trade practices.
SunTech said the U.S. International Trade Commission's 35.95% tariff on Chinese solar panels was partially responsible for the 50 impending layoffs at its Arizona production facilities.
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George Jahn – Associated Press May 13, 2012
A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that UN inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber.
The computer-generated drawing was provided to The Associated Press by an official of a country tracking Iran's nuclear program who said it proves the structure exists, despite Tehran's refusal to acknowledge it.
The official said the image is based on information from a person who had seen the chamber at the Parchin military site, southeast of Tehran, adding that going into detail would endanger the life of that informant.
The official comes from an International Atomic Energy Agency member country that is severely critical of Iran's assertions that its nuclear activities are peaceful and asserts they are a springboard for making atomic arms.
A former senior IAEA official said he believes the drawing is accurate. Olli Heinonen, until last year the UN nuclear agency's deputy director general in charge of the Iran file, said it was "very similar" to a photo he recently saw that he believes to be the pressure chamber the IAEA suspects is at Parchin.
He said even the colours of the computer-generated drawing matched that of the photo he had but declined to go into the origins of the photo to protect his source.
After months of being rebuffed, IAEA and Iranian officials meet starting Monday in Vienna, and the IAEA will renew its attempt to gain access to the chamber, allegedly hidden in a building. Any evidence that Iran is hiding such an explosives containment tank, and details on how it functions, is significant for IAEA investigations.
Beyond IAEA hopes of progress, that two-day meeting is being closely watched by six powers trying to persuade Iran to make nuclear concessions aimed at reducing fears that it may want to develop atomic arms as a mood-setter for May 23 talks between the six and Tehran in Baghdad.
Warnings by Israel that it may attack Iran's nuclear facilities eased after Iran and the six — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — met last month and agreed there was enough common will for the Baghdad round.
But with Israel saying it is determined to stop Iran before it develops the capacity to build nuclear weapons, failure at the Iraq talks could turn such threats into reality.
In Tehran Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Sunday it was up to the Western countries coming to the Baghdad talks to "build trust of the Iranian nation."
"Any kind of miscalculation by the West will block success of the talks," he said.
The IAEA has been stonewalled by Iran for more than four years in attempts to probe what it says is intelligence from member states strongly suggesting that Iran secretly worked on developing nuclear weapons.
It first mentioned the suspected existence of the chamber in a November report that described "a large explosives containment vessel" for experiments on triggering a nuclear explosion, adding that it had satellite images "consistent with this information."
It did not detail what the images showed. But a senior diplomat familiar with the IAEA's investigation who has also seen the image provided to the AP said they revealed a cylinder similar to the image at Parchin. Subsequent photos showed a roof and walls going up around the cylinder that then hid the chamber from satellite surveillance.
IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said in March that his agency has "credible information that indicates that Iran engaged in activities relevant to the development of nuclear explosive devices" at the site.
Diplomats subsequently told the AP that the experiments also appear to have involved a small prototype neutron device used to spark a nuclear explosion — equipment that would be tested only if a country was trying to develop atomic weapons.
Iran has strenuously denied conducting such work — and any intentions to build nuclear weapons — but has been less clear on whether the structure where it allegedly took place exists.
The senior diplomat familiar with the IAEA investigations said the Iranians have refused to comment "one way or the other" on that issue to agency experts. He and others interviewed by the AP demanded anonymity because their information was privileged, and the official providing the drawing and other details on the structure also demanded that he and his country not be identified in return for sharing classified intelligence.
Attempts to get Iranian comment were unsuccessful. A copy of the diagram was attached to an email sent to Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, with a note that the AP would be asking for reaction. Subsequent phone calls over the weekend went to his voice mail.
The technology used for the suspected multi-point explosives trigger experiments is similar to that employed in manufacturing tiny industrialized diamonds, and the IAEA believes former Soviet scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko — an expert in such diamond-making — helped Iran with designing the chamber.
Diplomats say Danilenko has told the agency that he did not work on such a chamber, but his son-in-law, identified by the diplomats as Vladimir Padalko, told the IAEA that the container was built under Danilenko's direct supervision. Repeated attempts by media organizations to contact the two men have been unsuccessful.
Comment – May 14, 2012
Interesting that Israel's defence minister says that intelligence agencies are already familiar with the drawing of an explosive containment chamber, allegedly at an Iranian nuclear facility.
Call me a cynic but this raises a number of questions.
For how long have these 'intelligence angencies' known about the chamber and why have they chosen to release this information just now, on the eve of the next round of nuclear talks with Iran?
Did they simply employ a graphic artist to draw the chamber based on information obtained by their agents?
Or is the drawing simply more disinformation and its release timed to undermine trust between the participants in the forthcoming nuclear talks?
Either way the drawing will inevitably raise public suspicion over Iran's nuclear program. Just as similar stories about Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction did nearly a decade ago. Will the above story and attendant speculation ultimately prove equally as groundless?
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BALTIMORE, MD - Senior wide receiver Scott Cremens(Finskburg, MD/Westminster) entered Saturday's game against Juniata with nine receptions on the year. He matched that total against the Eagles and punched up a career-high 178 receiving yards and three touchdown catches to lead the 15th-ranked Blue Jays to a 40-20 victory at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon.
The win improves JHU's regular season winning streak to 19 games and its Centennial Conference winning streak to 17 games.
The Blue Jays (5-0, 4-0 Centennial) trailed 3-0 early in the second quarter before Cremens and junior quarterback Robbie Matey(Orlando, FL/Dr. Phillips) connected on back-to-back drives to give Hopkins a 13-3 lead.
Cremens' first touchdown reception covered 40 yards and capped a three-play, 60-yard drive that took just over a minute and gave JHU a 6-3 lead. After forcing a Juniata punt on its ensuing possession, the Blue Jays were pinned back to their one-yard line by Jordan Plymire's 62-yard punt.
For the second time in three weeks the Blue Jays went 99 yards for a touchdown, this time in just seven plays with Matey hitting Cremens from 29-yards out to polish off the drive. The Blue Jays never faced a third down on the drive and Matey also hit junior Bob D'Orazio(Bryn Mawr, PA/St. Joe's Prep) for a 38-yard gain to fuel the seven-play drive.
The 16-point lead held until late in the third quarter, when the Blue Jays went 80 yards in eight plays to push the lead to 26-6. With an even distribution of runs and passes, Hopkins moved from its own 20 to the Juniata eight, where senior Jonathan Rigaud(Pembroke Pines, FL/Pembroke Pines) scored on a tough run up the middle. Matey and Cremens kept the drive alive three plays before Rigaud's touchdown by converting a fourth-and-three with a 13-yard connection deep inside Eagle territory.
The teams traded four touchdowns in the final 10 minutes of the game to account for the 40-20 final score.
Matey threw five-yard touchdown passes to Cremens and D'Orazio to account for the Blue Jays' two fourth-quarter scores, while Udinski added scoring tosses of 19-yards to Julian Valdiserri (Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon) and 27 yards to Dominic Bornman (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cumberland Valley) to close out the scoring.
Johns Hopkins piled up 502 yards of total offense with Matey throwing for a career-hgih 386 yards and a personal-best four touchdowns. In addition to Cremens' effort, the Blue Jays also got four receptions for 75 yards and the one score from D'Orazio, seven receptions for 57 yards from junior Dan Wodicka and three receptions for a career-high 62 yards from junior Brendan Hartman.
Udinski was 24-of-36 for 222 yards with the two touchdowns and one interception. Valdiserri and Bornman both added six receptions and a touchdown catch with Valdiserri's six catches going for 63 yards and Bornman's going for 62.
The Blue Jay defense held the Eagles to just 39 yards rushing on 30 attempts and matched a season-high with six sacks. Five different players posted at least one sack in the victory and senior Taylor Maciow(Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) paced the unit with 11 tackles, two tackles for loss, one sack and one pass breakup. Schweyer, who had twice previously returned blocked punts for touchdowns in his career against Juniata, added six tackles to go along with his interception return for a score.
Brandon Felus (Columbia, PA/Columbia) was one of three Juniata players to register eight tackles in the loss and he counted three tackles for losses and 1.5 sacks to his credit as well.
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, October 13 when the Blue Jays travel to Dickinson. The Red Devils dropped a 36-28 decision to Franklin & Marshall on Saturday.
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Tom Hiddleston steps out to support his pal James D'Arcy at the gala screening of Cloud Atlas held at the Curzon Mayfair on Monday (February 18) in London, England.
The guys were joined by James' co-stars Hugh Grant (making his first appearance since the birth of his new son), Jim Sturgess, and Ben Whishaw, as well as the film's directors Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and Andy Wachowski.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A Christian legal organization is urging the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Ga., to lift its ban on religious music in public patient areas.
The week before Christmas, the federal facility prevented a group of high school students from Augusta's Alleluia Community School from singing to its veterans a number of traditional holiday tunes that honor and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, such as Silent Night and O Come All Ye Faithful.
Hospital spokesman Brian Rothwell said the students were offered the option of performing in a private chapel or day room where they could sing specific songs that might make veterans of other faiths uncomfortable. But he said the VA wants to protect veterans "from unwelcomed religious material."
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Once upon a time, I needed a replacement for the word 'elation.' Instead of using my brain, or my husband, I used the thesaurus, and one of the listed synonyms was 'transports of delight.'
Transports of delight?
Has anyone heard of this before? I think it's dumb. Also, I love it.
Lots of things give me the transports of delight. Like peppermint patties and pulled pork sandwiches, and when toddlers have dirty faces and then they cry and then their tears dry but leave those two clean streaks on both sides of their faces. I love that. And cake, too. Cake never fails to give me transports of delight. Except for red velvet cake, which gives me transports of stupid, and that gives me transports of sad, because plenty of people like red velvet cake, and that makes me think that there is something wrong with me, which gives me transports of worry.
Enough of this depressing talk. Let's get back to what transports me to delight: these spicy pickled carrots.
What? I'm posting about pickles? If you know me, you know that I hate pickles. You know that if pickle juice runs into my hamburger bun, I screech. Loudly. Whoever burgers with me knows that he/she must be extremely vigilant so that he/she can pick the pickle right off my plate before the server sets it down and the picklejuicepuddle runs into my fries and I am transported to agony.
Please tolerate my abhorrence of pickles; in my defense, I do try them on a semi-annual basis to see if my taste buds have evolved. They haven't, sadly.
But even my stubborn palette could not prevent me from making these carrots when I saw the recipe in Liana Krissoff's Canning for a New Generation. I knew this recipe would be different from traditional pickles. For one, the recipe calls for cider vinegar, which has a flavor with more depth than that of white vinegar. Secondly, the mixture of pickling spices is very different from that of traditional pickles. Thirdly, they're carrots! Not pickles! I figured it was worth a try. If they were gross, I could always give them to someone I didn't like. Heh heh.
But I wasn't wrong. They weren't gross. Thank goodness I made two pounds of them so I can get my transports of delight on whenever I please. Oh my oh my oh my oh my. So flavorful! So vinegary! So spicy! And they keep getting spicier and spicier and spicier as the brine absorbs more heat from the chiles.
You really should try these. I processed mine with a water bath canner, but don't have transports of disappointment if you don't own canning equipment! Just store them in the fridge, where the vinegar will keep them tasty for at least a month.
As if these carrots weren't delicious enough just eaten straight from the jar, they are even better when enjoyed alongside a grilled cheese sandwich. Krissoff includes a recipe for a grilled fontina sandwich on sourdough. I followed her advice, and the pairing was divine. The creaminess of the hot cheese perfectly balanced the acidity of the carrots and made my mouth dance crazier than Robyn in a faux-fur half-shirt and leggings.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand. Even when your spicy pickled carrots are all gone, the joy they will bring you is not. Do NOT dump the pickling brine down the drain!!! You can use it to add a tart, spicy note to vinaigrettes for salads and cole slaws. You could add it to marinades. As for me, I am quite happy sneaking tiny, delicious, heartburn-inducing sips straight from the jar.
Spicy Carrot Pickles
~Recipe from Canning for a New Generation, by Liana Krissoff
2 lbs. carrots, trimmed and scrubbed
5 1/2 cups cider vinegar (5% acidity)
1 tablespoon pure kosher salt
3 tablespoons sugar
3 cinnamon sticks
3 bay leaves
8 dried hot chiles, stemmed
4 cloves garlic, peeled
4 sprigs thyme
1 to 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes, to taste
1/2 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
1/2 small white onion, thinly sliced lengthwise
Peel the carrots, if desired, and cut larger carrots into sticks no more than 1/2 inch thick. Cut into 4-inch lengths to fit upright in pint jars. Set aside in a bowl of ice water.
Prepare for water bath canning: Wash the jars and keep them hot in the canning pot, and put the flat lids in a heatproof bowl.
In a wide, 6- to 8-quart preserving pan, combine the vinegar, 1 cup water, the salt, sugar, cinnamon sticks, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 5 minutes. Add the carrots and cook until just crisp-tender, 8 to 10 minutes.
Ladle boiling water from the canning pot into the bowl with the lids. Using a jar lifter, remove the hot jars from the canning pot, carefully pouring the water from each one back into the pot, and place them upright on a folded towel. Drain the water off the jar lids.
Working quickly, divide the chiles, garlic, thyme, red pepper flakes, and peppercorns among the jars. Using tongs or a slotted spoon, transfer the hot carrots to the jars (do not pack them too tightly) and fill in empty spaces loosely with slivers of onion. Ladle the hot pickling liquid into the jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace at the top. Use a chopstick to remove air bubbles around the inside of each jar. Use a damp paper towel to wipe the rims of the jars, then put a flat lid and ring on each jar, adjusting the ring so it's just finger-tight. Return the jars to the water in the canning pot, making sure the water covers the jars by at least 1 inch. Bring to a boil, and boil for 15 minutes to process. Remove the jars to a a folded towel and do not disturb for 12 hours. After 1 hour, check that the lids have sealed by pressing down on the center of each; if it can be pushed down, it hasn't sealed, and the jar should be refrigerated immediately. Label the sealed jars and store.
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The summer is over. The streets are filling up with the families returning from summer vacations. The activities of summer, running, playing and swimming, have given every child a healthy glow. They have built up their muscles and grown taller and leaner as they spent many hours outdoors. These boys and girls have gained a little head start in the race against childhood and even adult obesity. Now is the time to think about how we can give our children the ability to hold on to the gains of the summer.
As school begins the younger children are going to be spending full days in school buildings with very little play space. The older girls and boys will be studying until almost bedtime, with very little time for physical activity. Many mothers report to me that the first few weeks after the summer the children are moody and irritable. The freedom of outdoor play is no longer possible. The physical energy that was burned off each day during the active vacation days becomes pent up causing an emotional letdown.
There are certain steps we can take to help our boys and girls adjust to the school routine, remain leaner and at the same time, maintain the healthy bones and muscles developed during the summer.
Exercise is not a luxury. It is a requirement. Every one needs it for both physical and emotional health to be maintained. As a child's body grows, the stress and strain put on the muscles and bones during activity makes them grow straighter and stronger.
Did you ever see a leg right after a cast was removed? It is much skinnier and weaker. This loss of muscle, called
, is caused by lack of use. The same thing happens, in a more subtle way, when children do not get enough physical activity during the school year. Within a few weeks the inactive child becomes weaker, flabbier, and more likely to put on excess weight. The health gains of summer are lost.
The easiest and best exercise is walking. Instead of riding buses, they should walk to school and back if they live within a mile of school (the new knapsacks on wheels could be used to lighten the book load). Even the little kids could be walked by older kids or walking monitors. They should also walk to friends and shopping. The walk will be refreshing and invigorating, helping the kids to burn off energy in a healthy way.
The parents and the school administrators should consider giving higher priority to providing the students with time and opportunity for active play during the school week. More time could be set aside in the curriculum for organized play and exercise. In addition to playgrounds and play space in schools, there are some games and activities that can be played in a limited space like a lunchroom, hallway or even an empty classroom.
Dancing, foot races, ball games, jumping games like Belts and jump rope, are all very good. The boys can play running games like various tag games, snatch the club and even tumbling. The teachers could help to encourage all of the children participate in these games. Some could even teach them how to play and make up new games to keep everybody's interest. After a really active play period the children will go back to the classroom energized and much more relaxed and able to focus. Regular vigorous activity will keep the children strong and healthy throughout the school year. Another big bonus is that the children will return home at the end of the day much happier and less likely to act out and fight with each other. They will also sleep better. Weekends are also good times to get the children moving with planned activities that they can look forward to, such as swimming and gym programs.
As our children begin the school year, this would be a good time to reassess the daily diets eaten during the school day. Some teachers have taken upon themselves to limit at least some of the snacks to "healthy" snacks in the very young students.
This is a very good idea.
It is also very important to make sure that the meals prepared and eaten in school are well balanced. There should be salads, lean meat or chicken, fish, low fat dairy foods, whole grain breads, in addition to the standard noodles and potatoes and fish sticks.
Many mothers tell me they must send packaged snack to school with their kids because all of the children at school bring them every day. They should try to give popcorn and pretzels more often than greasy chips and "super snacks." It is very important that the number of packaged snacks be limited to one portion for each snack time allowed.
At home the real junk food should be put away for special parties. If they don't have the snack foods available the children will be more amenable to eating wholesome foods such as fruits and vegetables, string cheese, chickpeas, grape tomatoes, rice cakes and whole grain crackers when they are hungry.
This kind of attention paid to the quality and quantity of the food our families eat will go a long way to fighting obesity. Healthy eating habits, learned in childhood, will last a lifetime.
As we settle in for the coming school year, we must stop and think now how we are going to keep the physical and emotional gains our children have made. Exercise and proper eating habits must be continued all year. The children's health and well being are our responsibility. By encouraging them to eat right and exercise we will give them a chance for a healthier future. We adults must also set a good example since children learn by watching their admired adults.
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If the genealogy indicates that Joseph descended from King David, this narrative explains in what sense this son of David (1:20) became Jesus' legal father by adoption. In this brief narrative Matthew provides not only an account of the virgin birth but reinforcement of the Christian view of Scripture and of Christ along with various principles of Christian ethics. Because this is Matthew's opening narrative, I treat it in rather extensive detail as a sample of the kinds of applications we can draw from Matthew's accounts. I must first, however, respond briefly to the skepticism with which some have challenged this account.
Arguments raised by more skeptical scholars against the virgin birth account are open to challenge. Whether this account makes historical sense rests largely on one's presuppositions. Would anyone whose logic was not shaped by Enlightenment thought doubt that of all the miraculous births of history, the Messiah's should be the most miraculous? One cannot deny testimony for a miracle by dismissing it on the grounds that miracles cannot happen; that is circular reasoning (see Craig 1986; compare Borg 1987:33-34; Meier 1994:11, 519-21; R. Brown 1994:143-44; on the historical context of modern skepticism, see Kee 1983:3-16; Bockmuehl 1988). Further, the proposed parallels to the virgin birth are inadequate (see Davies and Allison 1988:214-15).
We must evaluate the function and reliability of the virgin birth story by tools more reliable than philosophical presuppositions. On the one hand, ancient writers did like to recount miraculous births when possible. Greco-Roman biographies, or "lives," frequently included birth narratives (Aune 1987:65), including miraculous signs such as dreams when appropriate (Schuler 1982:94). Thus it is not surprising that Matthew would focus on such events, although his birth narratives do not perfectly fit this genre, since they lack the typical structure of miracle stories (see Theissen 1991:123).
Yet on the other hand an inclination to report a kind of event does not render evidence for that event unhistorical. The basic account of the virgin birth is earlier than either of the Gospels that describe Jesus' infancy; neither Gospel is clearly dependent on the other (see R. Brown 1977:162; pace Drury 1976:123-25). Reliable sources also stand behind the account; Jesus' birth is likely one of the stories whose reliability Luke investigated (Lk 1:3), since he had direct access to a younger son of Mary (Acts 21:18; see introduction). Members of Jesus' family remained in positions of prominence in early Christianity (1 Cor 15:7; Gal 1:19; 2:9), when this pre-Matthew tradition (shared with Luke) was circulating.
But Matthew is less concerned to prove the virgin birth to his audience, which both accepted Jesus as Messiah and acknowledged the miraculous. Matthew is more interested in teaching, and an important lesson his narrative teaches is that Jesus' birth fulfills Scripture (1:22-23).
Matthew affirms the inviolability of God's plan promised in Scripture. Theologians debate why Jesus had to be born from a virgin, sometimes suggesting, for instance, that God sent Jesus through a virgin so he could escape the sin nature. Yet for whatever other reasons God incarnated Jesus through a virgin, the only reason Matthew states is that Scripture might be fulfilled (1:22). Thus Matthew trusts the authority of Scripture.
This basic point is clearer than the actual nature of Matthew's argument from Isaiah, however. Because the Hebrew term `almah in Isaiah 7:14 need not always mean virgin, most Jewish interpreters reject the messianic interpretation of this text (Berger and Wyschogrod 1978:41). Yet Matthew knows the context. In context, the child of Isaiah 7:14 was an urgent sign to Ahaz and would still be young when the kings oppressing Ahaz were carried into captivity (Is 7:7-25); Isaiah probably thus referred to his own son "Quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil" (Is 8:1, 3 mg), who would perform exactly the same function as Immanuel (8:1-4). But because Isaiah's children were for "signs" (8:18), Matthew was right to recognize in Immanuel (compare Is 8:8) a sign pointing to the ultimate presence of God and triumph for Judah in the Davidic Messiah who would be born to Israel (Is 9:1-7; Blomberg 1992:60; Keener 1993:48). Matthew recognizes that Scripture reveals the divine plan, and those who trust its authority need doubt no miracle it promises.
At much greater length, Matthew provides us various lessons from a righteous man's obedience. Matthew emphasizes Jesus' purity by recounting the obedience of the family who raised him, and in the process teaches us much about how we should live (Mt 1:19, 24-25). One of Matthew's purposes in his Gospel is to transmit Jesus' ethics (28:19); here he portrays a righteous young man and woman as models for Christian living. Luke focuses on God's revelation to Mary; Matthew focuses on the revelation to Joseph.
In this passage Matthew may work from an assumption that some people, both in his day and in ours, would challenge: the ability to obey God does not depend on age. Many modern cultures could learn from the valuable emphasis in Matthew's culture on respect for the aged; yet Matthew's culture, and sometimes our own, made seniority too great a criterion for such respect. (In the whole of Matthew's Gospel he praises not only young adults the age of Mary and Joseph but also children-18:2-6; 19:14; 21:16). Jewish men in Joseph's day generally married around the age of eighteen or twenty, after working to save some money (see, for example, m. 'Abot 5:21; N. Lewis 1983:55). Jewish women could marry as young as twelve or fourteen, upon reaching puberty (Jeremias 1969:365), though, like Greek and Roman women, they could be married much older.
Yet aside from his background assumptions, Matthew also provides clearer lessons in this narrative. First, he affirms, against any possible misinterpretations of the virgin birth, that Joseph controlled himself, practicing sexual restraint. By calling Joseph righteous (1:19) Matthew invites us to learn from Joseph's character about fidelity, discipline and preferring God's honor above our own. This paragraph assumes the principles of sexual fidelity and discipline that both Jesus and his Jewish contemporaries demanded (see 5:27-30).
Like most first-century Jewish people, Joseph was faithful to his future spouse in advance, awaiting marriage, and he expected the same in return. So clearly does Matthew want his audience to understand that this was part of Joseph's character that he points out that even once he and Mary were married, they refrained from marital relations until Jesus' birth (1:25). This would have taken considerable self-control; in many Middle Eastern societies observers simply assume that "if a man and woman are alone together for more than twenty minutes they have had intercourse" (Delaney 1987:41). The self-control of this young couple challenges those today who doubt their ability to control their passions.
Second, Matthew implicitly teaches about the nature of commitment in marriage: infidelity is always unjust, whereas divorce is just under some circumstances. Because Matthew wrote his Gospel as a whole, his narratives often illustrate principles that he teaches more explicitly in other contexts, and this is one such case (see 5:32). Some modern readers of the Gospels have treated divorce as sinful regardless of the reason, including cases of adultery, abandonment or abuse. This text challenges that prejudice, inviting readers of Matthew's divorce teaching in 5:32 and 19:9 to remember Joseph's righteousness and the exception that Matthew's Jewish audience would have understood permitted Joseph divorce and remarriage (see Allison 1993a).
For Joseph to "put Mary away" (1:19, literally) meant for Joseph to divorce her (NIV). Ancient Mediterranean fathers generally arranged their daughters' marriages through a custom called betrothal. Betrothal was much more serious than our modern practice of "engagement": it left the survivor of the man's death a widow, and if both partners lived it could be ended only by divorce (for example, m. Ketubot 1:2; Yebamot 4:10). Yet though Joseph was preparing to divorce Mary, the text calls him righteous.
At the same time we should observe that the circumstances under which Joseph was planning to divorce Mary were hardly light. Unlike today, Joseph had no option of giving Mary a second chance, even if he wanted to. Jewish and Roman law both demanded that a man divorce his wife if she were guilty of adultery (Keener 1991a:31, 156). Roman law actually treated a husband who failed to divorce an unfaithful wife as a panderer exploiting his wife as a prostitute (Gardner 1986:131-32; Richlin 1981:227).
Further, Joseph had another reason to divorce her. Because others would assume that Joseph himself must have gotten her pregnant unless he divorced her, his reputation was at stake for the rest of his life. Joseph probably also did not know Mary as well as we would expect of engaged couples today and had little reason to trust her innocence; if our sources are reliable, Galilean couples apparently enjoyed no privacy together until the wedding (Safrai 1974-1976b:756-57; Finkelstein 1962:1:45; though Matthew, unlike Luke, does not clarify at this point that the family already settled in Galilee). Joseph hence experiences the pain of betrayal, the breach of a contract more binding than a business deal in his culture (unfortunately our culture has less respect for commitment and fidelity). Because a wife's adultery could imply the husband's inadequacy or his family's poor choice of a mate, Mary's apparent unfaithfulness shamed Joseph as well (compare 2 Enoch 71:6-11).
Under these circumstances, Joseph would be righteous in divorcing Mary; to fail to do so would violate law and custom, would bring enduring reproach on his household and would constitute embracing as wife one who had betrayed him in the worst manner conceivable in his culture. Modern Western society offers little sympathy for Joseph's pain. Our culture encourages marital betrayal that wounds trusting hearts, devastating homes where children should be nurtured in love and crushing whole families with the despair of abandonment. Unfortunately our churches often understand such pain no better than the culture does, counting as "unrighteous" those who legally divorce an unrepentantly unfaithful spouse. Unlike Matthew, we treat all kinds of divorce harshly yet often excuse adultery. Some of the same Christians who clamor for greater punishment for violent crimes or drug dealing counsel betrayed or abused spouses to be perpetually patient as if no consequences were appropriate for the betrayers or abusers.
By calling Joseph righteous Matthew challenges both our culture and our church in their lax views of sexual fidelity. The evil of divorce is in the breaking apart of what God has put together, but a person who abandons, betrays or abuses his or her spouse has already done just that. Matthew thus does not permit us to punish the innocent party in a divorce (in cases where one exists) any more than we should punish the innocent party in a rape (Deut 22:25-27) or any other crime. Yet for Joseph and for Matthew the exception remains a last resort, not a rationalization for a dissatisfied spouse to seek greener pastures.
Third, Matthew exhorts us to temper justice with compassion, a central principle in his Gospel (9:13; 12:7). Joseph was righteous not because he was divorcing Mary (although, as noted, this did not make him unrighteous); rather, Joseph was righteous for divorcing Mary quietly or privately-that is, for not bringing unnecessary shame on her. He knew suffering already awaited her: her premarital pregnancy had likely already ruined any chance of her ever marrying (see Delaney 1987:42), a horrible fate in an economically and honor-driven male-centered society. (Deut 22:21-24 mandated execution for this offense, but that penalty could rarely be carried out in this period; see, for example, Jos. War 2.117; Sherwin-White 1978:32-45.)
Yet Joseph could have profited by divorcing Mary publicly. By taking her to court, Joseph could have impounded her dowry-the total assets she brought into the marriage-and perhaps recouped the bride price if he had paid one at betrothal. By simply providing her a certificate of divorce in front of two or three witnesses, he would forfeit this economic reimbursement-simply to minimize her public dishonor (see m. Gittin 2:5; 9:3, 4, 8). Even though Jewish tradition ruled that a wife could lose her dowry for infidelity or for as little as scolding her husband (m. Ketubot 7:6), in normal divorces where the wife was not charged she kept her dowry (N. Lewis 1983:56). Joseph would have to enlist the help of a village scribe or elders to get the money, and this would increase Mary's public shame.
I have known of some churches that publicly shamed a young woman who became pregnant, usually leaving the less obvious father of the child concealed from public reproach. Joseph's "justness" or "righteousness" reminds us that justice is not merely a matter of punishment and shame but also a matter of mercy. Joseph was going to divorce Mary, but wounded though he felt, he would do everything in his power to minimize her shame.
Fourth, Joseph values commitment to God above his own honor, another principle Matthew articulates elsewhere (compare 7:21-27; 23:5-11). When God reveals the truth to Joseph, he immediately believes and obeys God's will, unbelievable as the truth would seem without a deep trust in God's power (compare Lk 1:37). (By contrast, many unmarried men today refuse to take responsibility even when they are the father!)
Joseph trusted God enough to obey him. Yet such obedience was costly. Because Joseph married Mary, outsiders would assume that he had gotten Mary pregnant before the wedding. Joseph would remain an object of shame in a society dominated by the value of honor. This was a stressful way to begin a marriage! By waiting to have intercourse (1:25), hence failing to provide the bloody sheet that would prove Mary's virginity on the wedding night (Deut 22:15; p. Ketubot 1:1, sections 7-8; Eickelman 1989:174), Mary and Joseph also chose to embrace shame to preserve the sanctity of God's call.
Joseph's obedience to God cost him the right to value his own reputation. Many Christians today, probably much older than Joseph and claiming the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives, have yet to learn his lesson.
Matthew also emphasizes that Jesus is the Savior (1:20-21). At times when I have preached principles of sexual fidelity and betrayal from this passage, many hearers have been moved to repentance. At that point I am happy to turn to the other main character in the passage. Not only does Matthew teach us about the authority of Scripture through Isaiah and about fidelity, commitment and obedience through Joseph, he also provides teaching about salvation from sin through Christ. Even while Jesus is in Mary's womb, the angel declares that his name will be Yeshua (here in its Greek form Iesous, translated "Joshua" in the Old Testament and Jesus in the New), which means "salvation." Jesus would bear this name because he would save his people from their sins (1:21). Jesus' other acts of "salvation" (8:25; 9:22; 10:22; the Greek term is broad in meaning) point to his ultimate redemption of his people. One who expounds this paragraph in public thus may want to echo Matthew's call to accept Christ's salvation.
But Matthew speaks of more than personal repentance; he evokes the Old Testament hope of the salvation of God's people, including the justice and peace of God's kingdom. For Matthew, and for us, salvation from sin cannot end with a prayer. Matthew promises salvation not only from sin's penalty but also from its power. Christ's followers are not merely heirs of his coming kingdom but servants of the King, committed to exemplifying the values of that future world in the midst of this present evil age.
More than anything, Matthew's narrative of the virgin birth, like every other event in Matthew, explains and exalts the character of his Lord. Many Bible readers today want to hear the Bible made "relevant" and "practical" to issues like those Matthew teaches through the example of Joseph, but nothing Matthew tells us is more practical than the way he reveals the heart and character of our Lord. As we get to know Jesus better through the Scriptures, we get to know Scripture's author and our character becomes more like his (see 2 Cor 3:14-18).
In view of Matthew 18:20 and 28:20, Matthew clearly understands God with us in Isaiah 7:14 to mean that Jesus is truly God (Mt 1:23). But as God "with us," Jesus is also the fully human one who save[s] his people by the cross. Matthew thus invites us to consider and worship the God who accepted the ultimate vulnerability, born as an infant to poor and humiliated parents into a world hostile to his presence. Oppressors must hate such a God, for his abandonment of power for love is contrary to everything they stand for. But the broken and oppressed find in him a Savior they can trust in a world where trust is generally dangerous. Of all the world's faiths, only Christianity announces a God who embraced our pain with us.
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A 2011 CareerBliss survey says that four out of the ten most hated jobs are IT-related.
Regular readers of this blog know that I'm always a little leery of survey results. For one, the people who do surveys are not always specific as to who was surveyed. The CareerBliss survey, for example, claims to have surveyed "hundreds of thousands" of people but I can't find anything on their site to indicate the demographics of the people. Where was the survey done, for instance? At a table set up outside CES? And were there no porta-potty maintenance workers around to cast a vote?
Anyway, here's the breakdown of the results:1. Director of Information Technology
2. Director of Sales and Marketing
3. Product Manager4. Senior Web Developer 5. Technical Specialist
6. Electronics Technician
7. Law Clerk8. Technical Support Analyst
9. CNC Machinist
10. Marketing Manager
What's striking about the list is that most are well-paid positions and fairly high up in the corporate infrastructure. The issues with the IT positions in particular, however, seem to be with the way their companies are run.
The Web Developers say their "employers are unable to communicate coherently, and lack an understanding of the technology."
Technical specialists reported that for all their expertise, they were "treated with a palpable disrespect" and their input was not taken seriously by senior management.
Information Technology Directors — although they hold almost as much sway over the fate of some companies as a chief executive — reported the highest level of dissatisfaction with their jobs. Why? "Nepotism, cronyism, disrespect for workers."
And I think we can pretty much isolate the pain points for Technical Support Analysts as crazy end-users.
So let's hear from some of you. Do you concur that your jobs are among the worst?
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Toni Bowers is the former Managing Editor of TechRepublic and is the award-winning blogger of the Career Management blog. She has edited newsletters, books, and web sites pertaining to software, IT career, and IT management issues.


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Wednesday, 18 September 2013 10:04 AM
BOGOTA — Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson urged Colombia's FARC rebels to free a former U.S. Marine they kidnapped in June as he hiked in the jungle, saying the move would help peace talks between the guerrillas and the government.
Kevin Scott Sutay, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, was captured by the FARC after being warned by police not to trek through what they called a hazardous "red zone" for rebel activity. He had been backpacking through Central America and South American countries.
Kidnappings were once common in Colombia until the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, pledged last year to end kidnapping for ransom, but reserved the right to take war prisoners.
"If anyone in the jungle hears this message, please tell his captors that when prisoners are liberated, a door always opens for dialogue," Jackson said. He was attending an international conference of Afro-descendant mayors and government officials in Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
"It would be a stimulus for the peace process in Cuba if we could achieve this liberation," said Jackson, referring to talks between the Colombian government and FARC that began last year in Havana and have proceeded slowly.
The FARC looked ready to release Sutay to the International Committee of the Red Cross in July, but hardened its stance after President Juan Manuel Santos refused some of their conditions and said he would not let the FARC make an ostentatious "media show" of the event.
The rebels then began accusing Sutay of having come to the country as a mercenary. The FARC has made no further mention of plans to release him.
The left-wing FARC and their smaller counterpart, the National Liberation Army, have been trying to overthrow the government of the Andean nation for five decades.
The FARC's ranks have been halved to about 8,000 fighters by a decade-long U.S.-backed government offensive, but its continued deadly attacks against the armed forces and country's infrastructure show it is still a force to be reckoned with.
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WWE Smackdown Results
By Bill Pritchard for Wrestlezone.com
June 28th 2013
Dublin Street Fight
Sheamus vs Damien Sandow
Sandow punches Sheamus a few times and hits him with a kendo stick, then he knocks him out of the ring and follows him. Sheamus comes back with a forearm strike, then he throws him into the barricade and the beer tap. Sheamus clubs his chest on it and throws him across the floor, then Sandow comes back with some strikes and whips him into the ringpost. Sandow sends him into another beer tap, then Sheamus pulls out a keg and throws it back at him. Sheamus finds a sack of potatoes and hits Sandow with it, then he dumps them on Sandow before trying to bring him back inside. Sandow trips him and smashes his face on the steps, then he punches him a few times before kicking him as we go to a break.
We get back to see Sandow knock Sheamus down with a shoulder block, then he stomps him a few times before bringing some chairs in the ring. Sandow wedges one in the turnbuckles but Sheamus gets a barstool, then he hits Sandow in the face with it and follows it with the Irish Curse. Sheamus hits a few forearm shots and a running kneelift, then he goes for White Noise but Sandow rolls outside. Sheamus follows him and drops him with a rolling senton, then he rolls Sandow back in and hits a Battering Ram for two. Sheamus grabs a kendo stick but Sandow hits him with a chair, then he picks Sheamus up and drop toe holds him into the chair legs.
Sandow gets him with a side Russian legsweep for a near fall, then he grabs a kendo stick and hits Sheamus in the back. Sandow hits him several times and makes a cover, but Sheamus kicks out and throws a chair at him before going for a kendo stick. Sheamus unloads on Sandow in the corner, then he grabs two chairs and sets them in the middle of the ring before trying to hit White Noise through them. Sandow floats over and kicks him back, but Sheamus hits him with a kendo stick to knock him on the chairs, then he Brogue Kicks him and makes the cover.
Winner – Sheamus


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