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Ecuador politician complains of email hacking
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Electronic documents published by an Ecuadorean state-run newspaper in a report alleging an opposition politician sought U.S. help to undermine President Rafael Correa's leftist government were stolen from her email, she and others affected allege.
The case appears to be the first of an Ecuadorean public figure's electronic privacy being violated for political ends. Press freedom activists called it another sign of eroding civil liberties in this Andean nation.
The victim, Martha Roldos, told The Associated Press she believes someone allied with or in the government is to blame. She said officials are worried about the investigative news agency she hopes to create and are engaging in "character assassination."
TV spots depicting Roldos as an enemy of the state began airing Monday night on a state-owned channel and an article last week in the government newspaper El Telegrafo presented evidence it claimed "exposed" Roldos' effort to get U.S. help for hurting Correa's administration.
Press advocate Cesar Ricaurte of the Fundamedios watchdog group said Tuesday that more serious than the email hacking "is that a government newspaper publishes this information with persecution in mind."
The author of one email cited by the paper, analyst Adam Isacson of the left-leaning Washington Office on Latin America, called the incident an alarming sign that Correa is "stooping" to dirty tricks.
"If indeed it is the government, this is sleazy and anti-democratic in the first order and plainly a violation of human rights," Isacson said.
An Isacson email quoted by El Telegrafo discussing Roldos' proposal was sent to Latin America advocacy coordinator David Holiday of the Open Society Foundation, which funds independent media in countries including Colombia and El Salvador. Isacson suggested he meet with Roldos and copied her in.
Also "exposed" by the newspaper was a document signed by an official of the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, from which Roldos and her team, including investigative reporter Juan Carlos Calderon, are seeking a grant.
El Telegrafo claimed Roldos' news agency is a front for political activity. It called the endowment a front for CIA subversion of unfriendly regimes.
The bipartisan-run endowment, funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars, was created in 1983 during the Cold War and has undergone significant change since. Isacson noted that one recent endowment fellow is a Colombian journalist who has exposed abuses by that country's right.
The AP asked El Telegrafo's editor, Orlando Perez, how it obtained the electronic documents. He would not be specific but said his investigative unit did "its work without violating any ethical norms."
Roldos believes her email account with the Canada-based Hushmail service was broken into in a Dec. 2 "phishing" attack. She said she got an email telling her the account was blocked and she followed instructions by entering her password. She said her computer froze after the apparent attack.
Roldos said she didn't realize until El Telegrafo's report that her email account had been compromised. She said she has no doubt the account was violated because the newspaper also published documents that she exchanged with others only in electronic form while was traveling in the U.S. in June and July.
Two of her partners in the news agency with Hushmail accounts also got phishing emails, Roldos said.
Correa's generous social welfare programs have won him 70 percent approval ratings among Ecuadoreans, but he has long been known as thin-skinned, and opposition activists and international human rights groups say his intolerance of dissent appears to be worsening.
Last month, his administration dissolved by decree the environmental group Pachamama, which was fighting oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon on behalf of indigenous peoples.
It has squeezed independent media by withholding advertising and last June it created two media regulatory bodies packed with Correa loyalists that have the power to levy fines on media deemed guilty of slander or discrimination.
Associated Press writer Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador, contributed to this report.


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Forty-Five Seconds Over Wall Street, AM
So, no sooner do the nation's biggest papers jump on the stocks-rally bandwagon, then stocks start falling. Go figure. It's forty-five seconds over Wall Street for this Tuesday, a.m., Jan. 29, 2013.
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With the end of its 40-year license approaching in 2012, the owners of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth have applied for a 20-year extension. But opponents of the plant, including some local and state politicians, question the reactor's safety after three sister reactors in Japan experienced explosions and likely meltdowns this past year. There also is the lingering issue of a tightly packed spent-fuel storage pool at Pilgrim. Finally, there are concerns about the fact that hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors on Cape Cod would have nowhere to go in the event of an emergency. This WGBH News three-part series looks at these issues and others, while discussing how the context for plant relicensing has changed in light of the ongoing crises at Fukushima in Japan.
Part One: Relicensing Pilgrim Nuclear
The owners of the Plymouth Nuclear Power Station are asking for it to be relicensed for another 20 years of service. But the landscape surrounding nuclear power has changed since the disaster in Fukushima, Japan. As regulators consider the request, the debate in the community is heating up.
Part Two: Burning Out On Fuel Rods
At Pilgrim, about 3,000 spent fuel rods now sit in a pool of water designed more than 40 years ago to hold only one-third that amount. In Fukushima, spent rods placed in what's called "dry cask storage" fared well during the disaster and were safe, while some rods in "wet pools" melted down. Politicians and activists want Pilgrim's spent rods placed in dry storage, thereby reducing the risk. But it is expensive, and so far the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not required it.
Part Three: The Emergency Plan
Officials say there is no plan for how Cape Cod could be evacuated in the event of a radiation release. Many residents and tourists would need to shelter in place, and take pills to ward off thyroid cancer. Only about 10,000 of those pills have been distributed, though — and the Cape has about 200,000 permanent residents and over twice as many in the summer.
Additional WGBH News Coverage Of Pilgrim
Pilgrim Nuclear Turns Back On (Dec. 30) — Pilgrim is returning to service after replacing a leaking safety relief valve, a spokesman said on Dec. 30.
Nuclear Plant Shut Down For Second Time In Two Months (Dec. 27) — The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station was shut down on Dec. 26 because a safety relief valve was leaking steam. The reactor was also shut down in mid-November due to mechanical concerns.
Judges Deny Request To Suspend Nuclear Plant Relicensing (Nov. 30) — Federal regulators will not halt a review of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant's bid to extend its operating license, after a three-judge panel this week denied a motion by Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley's office to stop the process.
New England Nuclear Plants Face Renewed Scrutiny (Sept. 27)
Coakley Warns Feds Of Nuclear Risks (Mar. 23) — Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley is calling on the federal government to help find alternative storage for spent fuel rods.
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I've posted a few times about my son having major attachment issues. I'm back again because it's getting drastically worse. I know this is a breast feeding forum place and while my issues aren't just strictly breast feeding, I am hoping someone out there can help.
My son (4 months) will no longer accept the paci (he hates it now), refuses to nap during the day and is up anywhere between 1 and 3 hours during the night. The ONLY way I can get him to fall back asleep is if I nurse him. Nothing else will work. He will just lay in his crib and cry... scream... cry until I nurse him. He used to be a really good sleeper. Now when we put him down for bed after our routine he will sleep for about 30 minutes then wake up crying and I will have to nurse him again. This goes on sometimes for an hour or two until he finally stays asleep for 2 or 3 consecutive hours.
And now he has developed this awful and I mean AWFUL high pitched scream. If he doesn't get picked up within a few minutes he starts this screaming and it...is...so...loud.... We do not do the CIO method but sometimes I can't get to him at the very first sign of a fuss. Max is 2 or 3 minutes and by then he has gone from fuss to full blown crying / screaming. Again, the only thing that calms him down is nursing. I literally nurse all.day.long. And since I know some of you will ask / mention it: He hates his baby carrier, we've tried co sleeping several times and it doesn't work. I'm just at a loss of what to do. A non sleeping non napping baby is really hard to entertain for 10 hours while daddy is at work. If he does nap, it's for 10 minutes. literally.
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Aerocool XPredator X1 Evil Black Edition Case Review
In the market for a new case? Perhaps that old beige box is finally starting to gnaw at the back of your mind? Founded back in 2002, Aerocool might just have a case for your needs. Today I'll be taking a look at one of its relatively new cases: the Aerocool XPredator X1 Evil Black Edition. How's that for a mouthful? The Evil Black Edition of the XPredator X1 sets it apart from its peers in that it includes orange accents and orange fans - otherwise it is identical to the standard XPredator X1. The X1 is the "mini-me" version of the more well-known XPredator full tower case and is poised to deliver many of the same features in a much smaller package and a lower price point. I will caution you with a word of warning before you read further though - this case doesn't seem to be on sale in the United States at this point in time and the pricing I'm basing this review on is a conversion from the European market. That said, keep reading to see just how "Evil" this case really is!
Closer Look:
When this box showed up on my doorstep my first thought was...what? Why is there a huge tarantula on the side of the box? After a bit of thought I realized that it was supposed to represent the predatory nature of the case (or something like that). Anyway - the box itself is pretty standard fare and shows off an isometric-type view of the case on the front side. It is marked as the Evil Black Edition with a little green sticker and as a fan of the Clemson Tigers I am a bit excited to see some orange accents on an affordable case. Spinning the box around you can see various specs and features of the case that are outlined completely on the Specifications & Features page. Usually by the time you see the box you've checked over all the features already anyway, right?
Opening up the top of the box reveals the XPredator X1 packed away in a clear bag cushioned by a pair of styrofoam packing inserts. One thing to note is that this case is VERY light for a steel case and as such I don't think you'll have any issues with it arriving busted and broken at your doorstep. The packaging is more than sturdy enough to keep this chassis in one piece. You can just see the orange accents peeking through the packing material, so keep reading to see this predator on the prowl!


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Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin, given a choice, would have volunteered for more voluntary workouts.
But the team prefers he take more reps during the regular season than in the spring and early summer, which is why they forced him into some days off during OTAs and minicamp.
Austin has struggled with hamstring problems in recent years, and their hope is that time off now to rest them will help them avoid a repeat.
"It's one of those things where you can't not do it and then do it and tell the difference," Austin said, via Carlos Mendez of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "But I feel good now."
While it might take some stretching, or another cup of coffee, to safely wrap your mind around that quote, the point is simple. They'd rather have him later.
"I want to go," he said, more plainly. "When coach says you can't, you just kind of have to sit there and not go. But it's tough for me, sometimes, just to watch the other guys going and not be out there, especially in this heat and knowing how it is to play wideout. You're out there running. You get tired, and you want at least a few more bodies in there to take some of that load off."
With Tony Romo missing all of the offseason practices recovering from surgery to remove a cyst in his back, it limits what a veteran such as Austin is missing.


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January 25, 2013
Feature Friday - DIY Baby Shoes
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Those are adorable! My sil just found out she's expecting #3 so as a good aunt I've been collecting baby ideas. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I made baby shoes this week too!! they're just so cute and tiny - love them!ReplyDelete
This are just sooooo adorable! And thank you for the link. I'm smack in the middle of shower planning for my SIL and realized I've yet to decide what I'm gifting her with! I know now :) You've got some rockstar big brothers on your hands by the way! Happy Friday!ReplyDelete
So adorable! I used a great Etsy pattern to make my baby girl some boots- here's a link to my blog post and the boots pattern: http://emskyrooney.blogspot.com/2012/11/bootie-licious.htmlReplyDelete
These are amazing!!! Your little girl is totally gonna rock them :)ReplyDelete
So very cute! The many variations you can make with a simple pattern can make so many cute little styles, and they're cheap and made with love! And, oh ya, you're a ROCKSTAR! I love that same amazement that my girls have when I whip something out, or tell them I can make it for them!ReplyDelete
I just have to say...thank you and Delia for such honesty :)
U are a rockstar!!! and they are falling in love with her already!ReplyDelete
SO cute. SO exciting to be able to make itty bitty girl shoes. Good job!ReplyDelete
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The Phillies and pitcher Cole Hamels have reached agreement on the second-richest contract ever given to a starter, according to multiple reports.
The deal is a six-year pact worth $144 million, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.
The contract would be second only to the seven-year, $161 million contract that the New York Yankees gave to CC Sabathia in 2008.
FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal was first to report the contract agreement late Tuesday night.
The deal ends rampant trade speculation that has surrounded Hamels in recent weeks as the Phillies have faded in the National League playoff race.
The team is expected to hold a press conference later today to officially announce the agreement with Hamels.


text: If you need a modern, sleek, and tough backpack or messenger bag, Ful is the way to go. Ful laptop backpacks are extra comfortable and feature a special protective pocket to accommodate your favorite laptop in addition to all your other "on-the-go" belongings. Some Ful laptop backpacks also have a protective tablet sleeve. For those that prefer a messenger bag, Ful laptop messenger bags are always an excellent choice and provide great inner-bag organization.


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NH legislators say conflicts are unavoidableBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 18. 2013 12:06AM
CONCORD - New Hampshire's 424 state legislators come from a host of backgrounds. And with nearly any issue or bill, at least one or even 100 of them might be personally affected.
"Many people in the Legislature have conflicts of interest," said Rep. Neal Kurk, a Republican who has represented Weare since being elected in 1986.
The issue of conflict of interest came to the forefront last week when state Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, accepted a $180,000 job as the head of the New Hampshire Local Government Center. Many critics said Bragdon, by not resigning his role in the Senate, created a conflict of interest by agreeing to head an agency that is in a contentious battle - including a state Supreme Court lawsuit - with the state Bureau of Securities Regulation.
Bragdon on Friday announced he will resign his role as Senate president, but did not resign his seat in the Senate. He said again Friday that he would recuse himself from any issue or debate related to the LGC and said conflicts are to be expected in a citizen Legislature that pays its members $100 a year plus mileage and tolls.
Kurk and Rep. David Campbell, a Democrat from Nashua in his seventh term, each said many issues, such as pensions and tax reform, have broad implications for many House members.
The key, Campbell said, is whether a legislator would be uniquely affected, financially or otherwise, by a bill or debate, rather than it affecting a class of people, such as lawyers, firefighters or teachers.
"Unless you would be individually enriched by it ... then it isn't a conflict," he said.
And even when there is a conflict, "there is nothing that precludes these folks from participating or voting, so long as they disclose," Kurk said.
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If legislators believe they could have a conflict with a particular bill but want to participate in debates and votes, or if they wish to recuse themselves, they must file a declaration of intent with the clerk of their chamber.
This is how teachers can vote on education issues and how doctors, as well as trial attorneys, can vote on changes to medical malpractice laws.
"If everybody had to recuse themselves with every little thing that came along, there would be nobody left to vote on things," Bragdon said.
During his two-year term, former state Sen. Raymond White was by far the most prolific filer of declarations of intent, submitting 48 in the 2011 and 2012 sessions. He outpaced the rest of the Senate members combined during that time and nearly outpaced the 400-member House.
Not including White, senators filed a total of 31 disclosures in the 2011 and 2012 sessions, according to records kept online by the state Legislative Ethics Committee. During the 2013 session, just three senators filed a total of four disclosure forms. House members have filed 69 disclosure forms in the 2012 and 2013 sessions, with members recusing themselves a total of 50 times.
White owns an insurance and financial planning company, Cornerstone Benefit and Retirement Group. Anytime a bill in any way involved one of his clients or the state Insurance Department, he filed a declaration of intent stating his possible conflict and his intention to be involved in the legislation, he said.
"You name the issue, and (conflict) exists (at the State House)," White said. "The answer is disclosure. That's why I filed a gazillion of those things. If disclosure is the intent, then I was going to file a form every time."
Expertise versus conflicts
Rep. William O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon, who for two years served as House speaker, said he would ask all legislators for their resumes so he could place people in committees where their knowledge would be most beneficial.
"It's remarkable the amount of expertise and professional backgrounds of some of these people," he said.
White said the benefit of having a citizen Legislature is that the state "is getting all of this different expertise for $100 a year that they wouldn't get elsewhere."
Campbell agreed, saying the varied experience outweighs the risk of conflict.
"I think one of the great things about a citizen Legislature is that people bring various talents and professional experience to the table," Campbell said. "It's more of a strength of the institution of the House than a weakness."
O'Brien, though, said ensuring against all conflict is difficult, given how broad many bills and debates can be.
"It does make it really difficult to deal with the conflict issue," he said. "We've always relied on the goodwill of individual legislators. It's been left somewhat ambiguous. There are a lot of gray areas."
Campbell said he believes the sheer size of the House membership also helps guard against a class of people - such as lawyers like himself - from being able to dominate legislation for their benefit.
"They're outnumbered by the hundreds of others who are not in that profession," he said.
Ethical check
Should someone wish to complain that a legislator has a conflict that wasn't disclosed, the Legislative Ethics Committee is where the issue is decided. The committee handles all forms of ethical questions, from receipt of gifts to allegations of misuse of power to conflicts of interest.
"The committee is charged by statute with administering laws, guidelines and rules governing ethical conduct of legislators and legislative officers and staff," said committee Chairman Martin L. Gross, a Concord attorney.
Gross said the committee will issue interpretive rulings to clarify statutes and guidelines; provide advisory opinions at the request of individual legislators, legislative officers and staff involving ethics statutes and guidelines; and process complaints accusing legislators, officers or staff of violating ethics rules.
Any adult can lodge a complaint.
Richard M. Lambert, the committee's executive administrator, said the committee has received a total of 66 complaints in the 22 years it has existed. Of those, most were dismissed or informally resolved, he said. Six, though, resulted in recommendations of discipline.
email@example.com. Union Leader staff reporter Mark Hayward contributed to this report.


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Justin Rose earns spot in Grand Slam with U.S. Open win
Before the start of the 113th U.S. Open, many thought that Merion Golf Club -- a short course by U.S. Open standards -- wouldn't be too stern a test for the best players in the world.
Boy, were the critics ever wrong.
When it ended, England's Justin Rose earned his first major victory on a brutal Sunday at Merion. Rose shot a final-round, even-par 70. His 1-over 281 total was two shots better than Jason Day and Phil Mickelson, who tied for second at 3 over.
With his emotional victory -- the first in the U.S. Open for an Englishman since Tony Jacklin in 1970 -- Rose earned the second spot in the field for the 2013 PGA Grand Slam of Golf at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda, Oct. 14-16, alongside Masters champion Adam Scott.
The PGA Grand Slam of Golf features a $1.35 million purse, with the winner receiving $600,000, second place $300,000, third place $250,000 and fourth place $200,000.
TNT's prime-time broadcast of the event reaches a worldwide audience of 88.9 million U.S. homes and international viewers in more than 100 countries.The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is hosted by the Bermuda Department of Tourism, Port Royal Golf Course, and the Fairmont Southampton Hotel.
Established in 1979, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf has grown from an 18-hole, single-day charity event to a 36-hole annual showdown that matches professional golf's best against each other.
The remainder of the foursome for the 2013 PGA Grand Slam of Golf features the winners of the Open Championship, July 18-21 at Muirfield; and finally, the 95th PGA Championship, August 8-11, at Oak Hill.


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How many people are there who can wander in and out of churches for years and never hear about the cross? And maybe that's why Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:2, "I was determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." And why the early church preachers always preached on the cross.
And as I thought about that and recognized that we would on this Lord's day be beginning a week in which we will again look at the cross and the resurrection, I thought it would be best for us to go back and look again at the cross. Only this time maybe taking a closer look at the cross than we might have taken before. And with that in mind my heart was drawn to the 27th Chapter of Matthew. And I'd like to have you turn to it this morning because it is the text to which we will give our attention.
Matthew Chapter 27 and I want to draw your thoughts toward Verses 45 through 53. And I believe in these verses we have God's own personal miraculous commentary on the death of Christ. None of these verses deals specifically with the actual crucifixion nor do they deal with an explanation of the meaning of the crucifixion. But I believe as clearly as any explanation or as any graphic Gospel description, they tell us the meaning of the cross. And they do so in a fascinating and unique way.
I believe that we should be continually aware of the centrality and importance of the cross. All of our thankfulness to God is attached to the cross. Last Lord's day you remember the message had to do with a critical spirit. And one of the points was a critical spirit grows out of ingratitude. And if you really focus your life on the cross of Jesus Christ and what His death means to you, how could you ever be ungrateful for anything? How could you ever be caught up in the trivia of things that make us critical and forget the great reality of the provision of Christ on your behalf in His cross?
Frankly today we don't hear much about the cross. It's not really a popular subject for some reason. Maybe we assume that it's all been covered so much. It's not really often preached on I guess in Christian circles. Or at least as often as it used to be. And maybe that's partly reflective of the time in which we live when our focus is more on ourselves than it is on what Christ has done for us. And maybe also this is not a time to make heroes out of people who give their lives for others. This is not a time when our society is interested in those people who give up their lives for people who hate them. That kind of self-sacrificing act is not what makes today's heroes. This is not a day for men to give their lives for others at all. This is a day for people to be applauded for taking someone's life. This is the day when our heroes are those who point their sawed off rifles at someone's head daring them to move and saying, "Go ahead. Make my day." The heroes of our society are the people who take life with vengeance. The Rambo types who come into our world with their blazing arsenal and massacre everybody who is supposedly worthy of their revenging action.
And it isn't just fantasy. It inst' just the Dirty Harrys and the Rambos of our fantasy world of film. It's also reality. In real life one of the newest American heroes is a man by the name of Bernard Hugo Getz. A 40-year-old, thin, frail, bald, timid, bespectacled "wimp" type guy who is unassuming and a very unlikely hero who blasted four would-be muggers in a New York subway with a pistol. He became an instant hero. A real Rambo. A real Dirty Harry. And fug buster t-shirts are out in his honor. And a rock group even wrote a song about him. He's an American fantasy come to life. He did what men want to do. He fought back. He took the interminably long and depressing and inequitable system of justice and trashed it and pulled out a gun and took it into his own hands. And something in all of us deep down feels good about that. He kicked the bully in the face. He blew him away. He embodied I think the passion of a nationwide anger and indignance. The desire for revenge.
I believe we have a culture of people who are frustrated, who are fearful to a boiling point. I believe there's a lot of rage in people and when it comes out, people die. Gang revenge killings are commonplace in our own city. We hear about it almost daily about the gangs where people are killing each other. And it's all revenge. Hired assassins are coming back. That's more common nowadays. As people fight to get back. We're tired of being harassed. We're tired of being intimidated. We're tired of being threatened. We're tired of being bullied. We're tired of dopers and crack peddlers and people with AIDS and serial murderers and rapists and all the rest. And we're tired of a justice system that doesn't do anything about it. And our society is angry and our heroes are people who fight back. We have produced a generation of angry, frustrated, fear-filled people who have a lot of internal bitterness and so we potentiate killers. Our heroes are those who take life in revenge. Not those who give their life in self-sacrificial acts of forgiveness.
So I guess in a sense we would have to say Jesus wouldn't be much of a hero today. He did the opposite of fighting back. He gave his life for the very people who were taking it. And then he forgave them in the process. That's an incredible thing. But dying on the cross he said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." And thereby called on God to give forgiveness to the people that were killing him. That's a far cry from the kind of heroism that appeals to us today.
But I want us in spite of the fact that the cross may be minimized and that the kind of heroism that the cross demonstrates to us - and it demonstrates far more than just that. In spite of all of that I'd like us to take a closer look at the cross to see the significance of it. And as I said there will be many ways to approach it but I'd like to approach it from Verses 45 to 53 in perhaps a little bit of an unusual way. Because here you have a sequence of miraculous things that occur in which I believe God the Father makes commentary on the significance of the cross. I believe the meaning of the cross at its deepest point is made very, very clear in these wonderful verses.
And I want to give you several features as we go along. Let me give you the first one. And we'll call it supernatural darkness. Supernatural darkness. As we approach Verse 45, Matthew has recorded for us that Jesus has been tried and sentenced and is now crucified, suspended between earth and heaven on a wooden cross. His feet are nailed to it. His hands are nailed to it. His head has received a crushing crown of thorns and He is hanging there naked before the gazing eyes of the soldiers, the religious leaders and the passersby in the crowd. We pick it up in Verse45.
"Now, from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land," or all the earth (gay in Greek) "until the ninth hour." Darkness. Supernatural darkness. I want you to focus on for a moment. Obviously when Christ came into the world the Bible says that light had come. Luke Chapter 2, Verses 9 to 11 talk about Christ being light to the world. The Gentiles. The nations. He was by His own claim - John 8:12 - "the light of the world and whoever followed Him would never walk in darkness." He came to bring light and He said in John 12, Verses 35 and 36, that men needed to come to the light while the light was available before the darkness came when there would be no more light. Light was associated with Christ. But not with His death. With His death, we see darkness.
Notice please Verse 45 says from the sixth hour until the ninth hour. By Jewish calculation that's from 12:00 noon to 3:00p.m. Mark 15:25 says he was crucified at the third hour. Since their day began at 6:00 a.m. that's 9:00 a.m.m. So it was 9:00 a.m. when they got Jesus on the cross suspended up in the ground for all to see. Three hours passed and we now find it the sixth hour or noon. He has been hanging on that cross for three hours. The soldiers have placed a sign above His head. He has been hanging there naked before the crowd as they have mocked Him and spit on Him and thrown insults at Him.
During that first three hours from 9:00 a.m. until noon He had uttered three things. First he said, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." As recorded in Luke 23:34. And He said that I think to the soldiers primarily who had crucified Him.
Secondly, he said to the thief on the cross, "Truly this day thou shalt be with me in paradise," recorded in Luke 23:43. That was sent to a repentant robber hanging there in need of salvation. And the third thing that He said was, "Woman, behold thy son." And He pointed Mary towards John who was then to become her son as it were to take care of her. And to John He said, "Behold thy mother." And He gave those two loving people to each other to care for each other. And that recorded in John 19:26 was the way He cared for John and Mary.
So three hours of silence broken by three statements. "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Today thou shalt be with me in paradise. Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother." In each of those statements in the first three hours is revealed the grace of the Son of God as he reaches out to give mercy to someone in need. To the soldiers, he gave the mercy of forgiveness. The thief, the mercy of the promise of the hope of salvation. To His mother and John, the mercy of the entrusting of one to the other. Ever and always is He the gracious Savior. And even in those first three hours as He hangs on the cross, while you would think He would be bitter and retaliatory and somewhat avenging, He is gracious. Gracious enough to forgive the soldiers. Gracious enough to save the thief. Gracious enough to bring His mother and His dear friend John together.
As the second three hours begin, the sun has reached its zenith in the bright mid-eastern sky. In that part of the world the sun can shine ever so brightly as it does here on a windswept, clear, summer day. But in the midst of that most tragic occasion of Christ dying on the cross, an astounding thing takes place. It is high noon when the sun would have reached its zenith between noon and three. And it says in Verse 45 that darkness fell upon all the land. Or all the earth. I take it that this probably refers to all the earth. Half of the globe would have already been in darkness anyway. And if God wiped out the light of the sun there it well was true that he wiped it out everywhere.
Origin writing against Salsas in Volume 233 alludes to a statement by the Roman historian Phlegon who mentioned the darkness. That is to say it's in Roman history. Tertullian also wrote some pagans mentioning this darkness and saying, "Which wonder is related in your own annals and is preserved in your own archives to this day." An apocryphal writing known as the Gospel of Peter says, "Many went about with lamps supposing it was night." In the so-called report of Pilate to Tiberius the governor it assumes that the emperor is aware that in all the world "they lighted lamps from 12:00 to 3:00." So there is some evidence that perhaps the whole world at the time knew of the darkness.
God had interfered with the sun in the past and apparently he interfered with the sun again. Joshua Chapter 10 talks about the sun standing still. 1 Kings Chapter 20 talks about the sun moving backward on a sun dial. In Exodus Chapter 10 you will remember that when God was bringing plagues upon Egypt he darkened the sun. You remember that the prophet Joel and he is also quoted in the book of Acts by Peter when he preaches speaks of the sun being darkened. Yet in the future Revelations 6 talks about a darkened sun and a bloody moon coming at the time when the Lord takes back the earth. So whenever God wants to touch the sun for his own intention, He can do that.
Some have suggested that this darkness was the result of a sirocco which is an east wind that blew up a lot of dirt and dust and created such tremendous clouds that the sum was unable to be seen as normal. Others have said many heavy clouds came in and sort of blocked the sun. But Luke tells us commenting on the same occasion in Luke 23:45, Luke says, "The sun was darkened." And he uses a verb eclepo which means to utterly fail. Or to just diminish. The sun just failed. It was not clouds apparently. It was not dust. It was that the sun failed. It was not an eclipse in a technical sense since that would have been impossible. Passover was in the middle of the month and it was Passover at this time and it always began - each month always began with a new moon. So that by now the moon was full and at the opposite side of the earth from the sun so you couldn't have an eclipse.
What is certain is that it was supernatural darkness. Whether it was local or worldwide, it was supernatural darkness. There is no natural explanation. God simply made it night in the middle of the day. And the God who made the sun can do anything He wants with it any time He wants. And you read Revelation and you're gonna find out that He has yet to do some astounding things with the sun and with the moon. And with the planets and with the stars as well. They're all gonna fall out of heaven when the time comes. The Babylonia Talmud says that the Rabbis used to teach that the sun would fail at times of great crimes. That's from the German translation of the Babylonia Talmud. The sun would fail at times of great crimes. Well here was a time of a great crime. And the Rabbis were right. Here it was.
But why? Why did it go dark? Was God throwing a veil over the sufferings of Christ to hide him from the mocking scorn? To veil his nakedness? Was this an act of sympathy to cover the horror of his public display of death? Was this a divine protest by God on what was going on? What was God saying in the darkness? I think the best understanding is simply to know this. Darkness in Scripture is always a symbol of judgment. It's always a symbol of judgment. Had we time we could go back to Isaiah 5, Isaiah 13, Isaiah 60, Joel Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Amos Chapter 5, Zephaniah Chapter 1, even Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, Acts 2. And in all those places we would find darkness associated with divine judgment. God's salvation is seen as light and God's judgment is seen as darkness. Sinai was full of darkness. Revelations 6:12 to 17 in the time when the Lord comes to punish the earth, darkness. 2 Peter 2 Verses 4 and 17 at the second coming, darkness. Darkness, then, seems to be the symbol of judgment. And here I believe that God turns out the sun as it were to symbolize in very graphic terms for the world to see that this is a time of divine judgment.
What is the meaning of the cross? It is a time of divine judgment. And that's what God is saying in the darkness. This is a time of judgment. Now God only judges one thing. What is it? Sin. That's all there is to judge. You can simplify it all by saying God only judges one thing. Sin. So this is a divine judgment on sin that's taking place on that cross. As you look at the cross of Christ, then, it is not just a good man making a noble effort to sacrifice himself for a cause he believed in. It is the judgment of God. God is at work here. And God is judging sin. That's why Romans 4:25 says, "Christ was delivered to death for our offenses." That's why 1 Corinthians 15:3 says, "Christ died for our sins." That's why 1 Peter 2:24 says, "Who in his own self bore our sins in His body on the tree." That's why 1Peter3:18 says, "Christ also has suffered for sins. The just for the unjust." 1 John 4:10 says, "He sent His son to be the atonement for our sins." Galatians 3:3 says, "He was made a curse for us." And Jesus knew this was the reason why he came. He said he came to die. He came to bear sin. And though Hebrews 4:15 says, "He was without sin of His own, He yet became sin taking the sins of all mankind upon Himself." So Jesus here was being judged by God's wrath. God's fury was being poured out on Him as he bore in His body all the sins of all men. He tasted death. Hebrews2:9 says, "For every man." The darkness I believe then symbolizes the wrath of God unleashed on Christ in your place and mine for your sins and mine. This is the judgment of God on one who is bearing sin. And since Christ was absolutely sinless, the sin must have been ours.
The first miracle then was the miracle of supernatural darkness and it speaks of the fact that Christ was being judged for our sin. That's the meaning of the cross. It was a judgment on your sin and my sin. He was paying the penalty for our sin. And God was unleashing it on Him.
The second thing I want you to notice let's call sovereign departure. The first was the darkness. The second the sovereign departure. This is a fascinating miracle. Almost as sort of a negative miracle of sorts. An explicable phenomena. One which perhaps we will never be able to understand.
But notice Verse 46. "And about the ninth hour," that's 3:00 p.m. in the midst of this darkness, "Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' That is, 'My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?'" Now there is a monumental miracle. A reality of truth beyond human reason. How can God and Christ be one and be forsaken? How can they be one and be separated? Notice Verse 46 says it was the ninth hour. 3:00 p.m. The darkness reigned from noon to 3:00 so the darkness has come to an end. And just at the ending of the darkness is also the ending of the life of Christ. The fury of God is spent. The judgment ends in death. His life is about to come to a close.
And it says in Verse 46, "Just at that time Jesus screamed," is the term. He screamed with a loud voice. For six long hours he had been enduring immeasurable agony. Not only in the physical dimension. And it's hard to conceive the pain of having nails hammered through your wrists and hammered through your feet. And then to be in that position for six hours while you are slumped in a position that suffocates your internal organs and your muscles are taut and cramped and you're unable to move. And thrones have crushed into your brow and blood runs down your face. There's a cloak of flies and you can't scratch or move in any direction at all. Except to perhaps slightly reposition your anatomy because every one of your extremities is suspended by a nail. Hour upon hour of excruciating physical agony.
To say nothing of the nakedness, the reproach, the mockery, sarcasm, hatred, and the venom being poured out upon Him. But far more than that physical and emotional trauma was the spiritual pain. Of feeling God's furious anger over sin poured out totally on Him. It was as if God accumulated all of His anger against all of the sins of all of the ages and poured it all out on Christ. But as that sin-bearing judgment comes to a climax, He gathers His strength enough to cry out from His heart and He cries out about a profound sense of alienation from God. Of separation from God. Too deep for us to understand. "'Eli, Eli," - the Hebrew for My God. Mark says, "Eloi, Eloi." Uses the Aramaic. Matthew preserves it as Jesus said it and then gives a translation so that we will understand it. "My God, My God," and there's intimacy in that. And there's tenderness in that. And there's pathos in that. My God. My God. And He is saying in effect by the personal possessive pronoun, "Your Mine. Where did You go?" And then says it in lama sabachthani? Why have You left Me? Why have You departed from Me? That statement by the way is an exact duplicate of Psalm 22, Verse 1 where the psalmist predicted that the Messiah in death would say that. And that's exactly what He said.
The cry demonstrates that He was separated from God. That's a miracle in reverse. That's a supernatural negative kind of miracle. You say well how was it? What happened? What is the mystery of the separation? I for one do not know. And theologians have discussed and debated this through the centuries and will never be able to explain this because we cannot explain what the essence of the union in the Trinity is so how could we explain what the separation was? You say did Jesus cease to become God? No. Did Jesus get cut off from the nature of God? No. But did Jesus cease to have fellowship with God? Yes. Did He get cut off from the communion with God? Yes. Did He die physically? Yes. Did He die spiritually? Yes. He was separated from the fellowship of the Father though not the nature of the Father. He was still God. He did not cease to be God. Or He would have ceased to be anything. Or anyone.
There is no way to explain it. Maybe we're helped a little bit to understand that even in His incarnation there was a separation. Did you know that? Because in John 17:5 He says, "Father, Father, return Me to the glory I had with You before the world began." So there was some kind of relationship that He had before his incarnation that He wanted back. So in the incarnation there was some degree of separation and now in his sin-bearing death there is another degree of separation. He is separated from God.
And when He cries out to God about the separation that's cause for the crowd to mock Him. They laugh at that. They knew perfectly well what He said. They know the difference between Eli and Elijah. But notice what their response was in Verse 47. "Some of those who were standing there when they heard it began saying this man is calling for Elijah." Now I don't believe for a moment that they really thought He was doing that. This was mockery. He screamed it says. His voice was loud, no doubt clear. They knew what He meant. They knew what He meant. But this was their malicious sarcasm. Because Elijah was believed to be the deliverer and the forerunner of Messiah and the one who would announce Messiah's work and assist him in establishing the kingdom. Malachi 4 Verses 5 and 6. He would come along as the associate of Messiah. And so they say, "Ah, He must be calling Elijah to now proclaim Him Messiah, to deliver Him, to set up His kingdom. Ha, ha, ha." Mockery. And oh, how fearfully did man treat the lovely Son of God dying for the very sins they were doing at the foot of the cross.
He died for their mockery. He died for their sarcasm. Matthew doesn't point us to Psalm 22. He knew the Jews all knew Psalm 22. He didn't need to bring up the fact that this was a direct quote of Psalm 22. He focuses on the response and the mocking crowd. So there was Jesus separated from God and the crowd were mocking Him. And they were sinning sins which He Himself was paying the penalty for right at that moment.
It was at this very point when He said this and the crowd was mocking Him that according to John 19:28, 29 Jesus said, "I thirst." Matthew doesn't tell us He said that but Matthew tells us what happened in response. Go to the next verse. Verse 48. And immediately after His saying I thirst as recorded in John 19, one of them, probably referring to a soldier, who had the sour wine called Oxos that was used for the soldiers to drink and also to quench the thirst of their tortured victims, one of them ran and taking a sponge filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed probably no more than 18 inches long. Which tells us the cross was not too high above the ground. But the 18 inches was needed to extend it all the way to his mouth. And gave him a drink.
Obviously in a hot place there was some need to drink. The kind of wine that they drank was very cheap wine and highly diluted with water or else it would make them drunk and be costly. And so it was this diluted wine used to quench the thirst of soldiers, a cheap wine, and also for the victims that Jesus was given. On the one hand this would quench a momentary thirst but over the long haul it could extend the torture by bringing the kind of refreshment that allowed a person to live a little bit longer. And so on the one hand while it met a momentary need it could have extended the pain even more.
This one soldier proceeded to be giving him something to drink. And while this was being done, Verse 49 says, "The rest of them kept up the mockery. Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him." Here the Jews keep up their joke about Elijah. Playing off of His crying out, "Eli, Eli."
Lensky says, "Every time these Jews speak of Jesus being saved they gloat over the fact that they now have Him beyond all saving at a point where He must certainly die and with such mocking ringing in His ears, Jesus goes to His end." He died with a mockery ringing in His ears. Mockery about Elijah is gonna come now and deliver You and set up Your kingdom. Ha, ha, ha.
Well, what is the great truth that we see in this picture? This miracle of separation from God? What is the great truth? What do we learn here? I believe it's found in the Psalm 22:1. Psalm 22:1. Just listen. You don't need to turn to it. It says, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Far from My deliverance are the words of My groaning. Oh, My God I cry by day but Thou dost not answer. And by night that I have no rest." Verse 3, "Yet Thou are holy." And the Psalmist is saying I know why You're not around. You're holy. And Habakkuk said it in Chapter 1, Verses 12 and 13, "You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on iniquity." You're too holy to be here.
And the holiness of God is the issue in the separation. On the one hand God pours out His wrath in judgment on sin while on the other hand He turns His back on sinners. Because he has to protect His perfect holiness. He had to turn away from Christ because Christ it says in 2 Corinthians 5:21, "became sin." And so God turned His back. "Because God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5. He cannot behold evil.
And, beloved, the lesson is that those who are guilty sinners are cut off and separated from holy God. And God had to forsake Jesus because God was holy and Jesus was sin personified at that moment.
Fellowship was broken and a gulf existed between the Father and the Son when the Son bore sin. And the point that I want you to grasp is so powerful. The point that I want you to understand is the fact that God separated himself from Christ indicates that Jesus did indeed become sin. That's the second great truth about the cross. The first great truth is that God was punishing sin. The second great truth Jesus became sin and was our substitute. As proven by the Father's departure.
One can see the divine perfection in Jesus. Who even though He was engulfed in sin so that He literally became sin itself still cries out for His God. Even now He is a lamb without blemish and without spot. There is no sin of His own. And from His own heart He cries, "My God, My God, why?" So on the one hand He is fully sin. On the other hand He is still without sin in His own person. The mystery of His substitutionary death. He bore sin. He bore sin. But not for a second did He desire it. And not for a second was it really His own. His desire was God. Always God. And even while He's bearing the curse and even while He is engulfed in all the sin, He thirsts for God. He thirsts for communion with God. Because that's the truest part of him.
So the first miracle, the miracle of supernatural darkness, shows God's judgment on sin. The second miracle of sovereign departure shows that Christ was personally bearing sin and fully bearing sin and that's why He was cut off and separated from God. So we learn here that God punished Christ for sin and that Christ fully bore our sin.
There's a third feature I want you to see in Verse 50. So let's call it self-giving death. Self-giving death. So we look at the cross and Christ hanging there and it says, "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up the spirit." Or His spirit. Immediately following the last cry and the subsequent mockery and as the darkness faded back into the 3:00 p.m. sunlight, all this is happening in just moments of time, Jesus cried out again and then died. That's what Verse 50 says.
But this very way in which He died is another miracle in which God makes commentary on the cross. Please notice, "Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice." Is that important? Yes. What did He say? Two things. The two things that he said are recorded in John's Gospel and Luke's. First He said in John 19:30, "It is," What? "Finished." Pea tellesty in the Greek. And then he said, "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." As Luke 23:46 records it. So, He cried out with a loud voice, "It is finished." The sin-bearing, atonement, substitutionary sacrifice. And then commended His spirit to God whom He knew would receive Him for His perfect work. He cried with a loud voice.
He said those things not with a whisper. He didn't mumble those things. He literally screamed them at the top of His voice. Now, what is important to note is that He was still strong enough to do that. Because most people assume that crucifixion comes about by suffocation. Your final end is suffocation. The organs and the lungs are finally compressed in the slumping form of the body that cannot suspend itself so that suffocation takes place. Suffocation of all those internal organs. Drawing air into the lungs and expelling it out to scream would be very difficult. It is also true that usually people lingered for days when they were crucified. They would not die nearly this fast. Not in six hours. And when you stop to think that Jesus Christ was the most perfect human that had ever lived. Sin had never touched His body. Until He bore sin there in a spiritual sense. His body was never impacted by sin. Therefore, He must have had the strongest, most marvelous human mechanism of any human that ever lived. Stronger than any other. That well could have endured not perhaps days but even weeks. Who knows? But He died in six hours. And just before He died He could still scream.
You say what's the significance of that? The significance of it is what you read at the end of Verse 50. "He yielded up His spirit. He yielded up His spirit." The Lord wasn't gonna slowly fade away. He wasn't gonna let His life ebb out. He was still strong enough to crodzos. Cry out. To scream loudly. He is not gonna die of exhaustion. He makes that clear. He is going to yield up His spirit. That is a unique phrase in the Greek. Used here and in John 19:30. And it is unique to the very act of Christ.
There was usually in looking at a person dying the idea that they expired or they just breathed out their last. When you see someone die if you've had that experience, they breathe out one last time expelling the air and they're dead. Or they die and then that air is expelled almost simultaneously.
But here in John it's not the term for just expire. It's a different term. Afeame. It means to send away. To send away. He sent away His spirit. The point being that He was in control of His death. His life was not ebbing out. He had said earlier, "No man takes My life from Me. I lay it down of Myself." In fact it was impossible to believe that He was dead according to Mark15:44 and 45. And Pilate sent word back to try and get the information and be sure that He was actually dead already. But that's what He said. And that's what Isaiah said when he said, "He poured out His soul unto death." Now, we don't want to make too much out of Isaiah 53:12 but the idea was that He not only gave His life but He controlled that very giving. And the miracle He performed here was the willful, voluntary dismissal of His spirit. He literally called His spirit outside of His body. And let that body die. No one killed Jesus. He yielded up His spirit. He sent His spirit away. He dismissed His own spirit.
So what you have here is not some victim. What you have here is a self-giving sacrifice. He gave His life. He gave His life. He gave His life. He commended His love toward us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us and He died for us not as a victim but He gave His life.
What does this tell us about the cross? It tells us that He loves us. It tells us about His grace. It tells us about His mercy. So you look at the cross and you see supernatural darkness. That means God is pouring out judgment. You look at the cross and you see divine separation. That means that He has truly become sin and is bearing sin, our sin, our substitute. And then you see Him voluntarily giving His life. And that speaks of God's love and mercy and grace. And there is the true and supernatural heroism of one who does not take lives of those who offend Him but who give His own for them.
And then at the very moment of His death a fourth phenomena. In Verse 51. "And behold the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." We'll stop at that point. Here is a miracle that took place at the moment of the Savior's death and in which God again makes commentary on the cross. God again speaks to the significance of the cross. The darkness was gone. The light was back. Jesus' lips are silent in death. He has dismissed His spirit. The body is slumped without His presence in it. On the cross. And then God makes some commentary on the cross that is absolutely astounding. And He proclaims the significance of the death of Christ.
First of all, "Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom." The word temple - maos - means sanctuary. There was the Holy of Holies into which the high priest could only go once a year and sprinkle blood for the atonement of the people and the nation. On the day of atonement, Yom Kippur. And he had to be sure he was purified before he went in or he could die. That inner Holy of Holies represented the throne of God, the presence of God. And no one ever had access to it. A huge, heavy and very large veil according to Josephus or a curtain, hung over that separating it from the holy place where priests could minister. And when Jesus died on the cross that curtain was ripped from top to bottom. Very importantly not from bottom to top as if men did it. Top to bottom. God did it from the top down.
That inner curtain that hung between the holy place in the Holy of Holies in Herod's temple was symbolic of the alienation between men and God and them not having access to God's presence. God had designed it that way. It was a symbol of the fact that God was holy and men were sinners. And there was no way that men could have access to Him. There was nothing that could provide that access no matter how many millions of sacrifices under the old covenant. The veil was never opened for men to come in. God dwelled in the Holy of Holies and men dwelled outside. It shut men out of God's holy presence. Full access to God was never possible until Christ died.
And when Christ died God ripped that thing from the top to the bottom and exposed the Holy of Holies to everybody. And you gotta understand what this is. This is Passover Day. And this is when all the lambs are being slaughtered and the temple is jammed with tens of thousands of people and the full blown priesthood is in operation. And this is the high point of the religious season. And they're all into their sacrificial system. The place is flowing with blood and sacrifices. It's all happening. And in one split second the whole system is destroyed. As to the horror and shock and fear of the people the Holy of Holies is instantaneously exposed to everyone. The place where no one would go for fear of their life.
And even today if you visit Jerusalem you will see on the Temple Mount where the temple once stood walled off now and signs to the Orthodox Jews forbidding them to ever go in that area. They don't know where the Holy of Holies was when the temple was there and they don't want any Jews up there who might step inadvertently on what was the Holy of Holies. They're afraid of that.
They're in fear of ever coming into the presence of God. By entering the Holy of Holies. And here the whole thing was exposed. To everybody. Three in the afternoon on Passover. The temple would have been jammed with people. And in one moment no more priesthood. No more temple. No more sacrifices. No more barrier between God and man. Salvation completed. Symbols done. Reality is present. The old covenant is over. The temple has no place. And soon was trampled by the Gentiles.
The devastation of that den of thieves which Jesus himself had begun when he cleansed it was about to be completed. And so from top to bottom miraculously God ripped open the way to Himself. And what do we learn by what God did here? That the cross opens the way to God. That's the simple truth. Sin is finally judged. Atonement is finally and fully made. No more sacrifices. No more priesthood. No more veil. No more Holy of Holies. The way to God is open.
Read Hebrews 9, Hebrews 10. How that the perfect sacrifice made by the perfect priest has provided perfect access to a perfect God. Redemption is accomplished. You see the cross? You see there supernatural darkness which means God is judging sin. You see there the sovereign separation between Father and Son which means that the Son has literally become sin and the Father must turn His back. He, therefore, if our substitute. He's dying our death in our place. And then you see that self-giving death where He gives of His own life and you see the mercy and the grace and the love in that sacrifice. And now in the ripping of the temple curtain the way to God is made open. The sanctuary is devastated. The system is ended.
And then comes the fifth point. Soil disturbance we'll call it. It says in Verse 51, "The earth shook and the rocks were split." Now, earthquakes aren't anything special for us. We're kind of used to little rumblings here and there. And they have been a part of God's economy, too. God in the past has moved through earthquakes. You can read Exodus 19, 1 Kings 19, 2Samuel28, Psalm 18, Psalm 77, several illusions in the Old Testament and direct statements. Isaiah 29, Jeremiah 10:10, Nahum writes about God moving in the earthquake. Chapter 1, Verses 2 and 5.
God has moved through earthquakes. You can also read if you look ahead to the future that God is gonna move ahead in the future. Isaiah Chapter 13 and Isaiah Chapter 24 Verse 18 following very graphic Scriptures which speak about the end time when God begins to shake the earth. I might just read those two in Isaiah so you'll identify with them. Isaiah 13:13 says, "Therefore, I shall make the heavens tremble and the earth will be shaken from its place at the fury of the Lord of Hosts in the day of His burning anger." There is coming a day of God's judgment when He will shake the earth.
Then in the 24th Chapter starting at Verse 18 he says, "The foundations of the earth will shake," at the end of Verse 18. "The earth is broken asunder. The earth is split through. The earth is shaken violently. The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard. It totters like a shack for its transgression is heavy upon it. It will fall never to rise again. So it will happen in that day that the Lord will punish the host of heaven on high and the kings of the earth on earth and they shall be gathered together like prisoners in the dungeon. And will be confined in prison. And after many days they will be punished. And then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed for the Lord of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and His glory will be before His elders." That seems to indicate the millennial time period when the Lord comes to set up His kingdom. He's gonna shake the earth. I believe there will be a renewed earth going into the millennium and then a new heaven and a new earth in the eternal state at the end of that 1,000 year period. Read Revelation 6. Read Revelation 8:5. Revelation 11 I think around Verse 10, 12, 13. You're going to see there more of the future earthquakes in God's judgment.
What does this miracle mean? I believe this is a preview of judgment on the earth. When that earth shook that day I believe that God was saying, "This is My Son who is king who will some day shake the earth." There will come a day when the whole earth will be destroyed and a judgment and an earthquake and I believe at that time the Lord Jesus will take back from the usurper the title deed to the earth as indicated in Revelation 6 and reign as the ruler of this world. The earthquake on that day was a taste of the fact that Christ had just bruised the serpent's head, Satan, and would be taking back the earth in a devastating, cataclysmic judgment yet to come in the future described in detail in Revelation 6 through 19.
And so what God was saying was this was just a preview folks. The earth is gonna shake. My Son has died but My Son is king. And here's a taste of the shaking that's gonna come when He takes over His kingdom. So you see in the act of God here the hope, the promise of the future reign of Jesus Christ.
But there's more to it. Look in Verse 52. Here's another point. Subduing death. Subduing death. The last of these several features. It says, "And the tombs were opened." And let me read it to you the way it makes most sense - from the original. "And the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints that slept were raised and came out of the graves." So, to read the sentence right the flow goes into Verse 53 and stops after the word graves or tombs. The graves were opened. An earthquake could have done that. An earthquake can split caves, split rocks, roll stones away. But an earthquake can't raise the dead. And so God acts. Many bodies - somatof - physical bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep that were co mi oh mi is used mainly of death though occasionally of sleep. Many of the dead are resurrected. Literal, bodily, physical resurrection. Did you get that?
Did you know that happened? Did you know that at the very moment in time when Jesus died the earthquake hit and graves split open and dead - Old Testament, old covenant saints - came out? In bodies. This is a real resurrection. It's my personal belief that they came out in their glorified bodies. They came out in resurrection bodies. They sure didn't come out in the original one. A real resurrection. And what is this saying? This is saying you may have thought you killed the Son of God but all you've done is crack open the graves because He will rise just like these. You may have thought that this is a victory for death but this is a victory for life. And God makes another commentary on the cross. The immediate effect of Jesus is a mini resurrection. Actual bodily resurrection of certain selected saints who received their eternal immortal and glorified form right on the spot. Their spirits came from heaven, were joined with their bodies and they were alive. This is a pre-enactment of the final resurrection.
And the reality of it is unanswerable. Unmistakable. Look what it says. "After His resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many." People saw them. They went and talked to people. They went in and said, I'm so and so's great, great, great, great grandfather. I just came out of the grave. That is incredible. That must have been some interesting discussions going on. Actual visible, physical resurrections. They didn't appear until the Lord was resurrected. He being the first one risen from the dead. The chief one. 1 Corinthians 15:20 says, "They stayed out of the city until Jesus arose," and then He sort of led the parade. Out of the grave. And here was God's testimony to the fact that killing Jesus Christ opens the graves. Why? Because the sin penalty's paid. And that gives life to all who were dead. No one would ever rise from the dead if Christ hadn't paid for sin. The resurrection began then at the moment Jesus died.
What an incredible scene. Jesus dies. In that split second the veil of the temple rips from top to bottom. In that same split second the earth begins to shake. The rocks are split. And the tombs open. And out of the tombs come resurrected people. And God is saying this is a victory for life. Not death.
Is the meaning of the cross clear now? Do you see it? The wrath of God against sin is depicted in the supernatural darkness. The holiness of God in turning away from sin is depicted in the sovereign departure as He separated Himself from the sin-bearing, substitute Christ. The loving grace and mercy and tenderness of the Lord is seen in the self-giving death of God incarnate as He gives up His own spirit. Dismisses it. Not that it's taken from Him. The open arms of God who calls the saved sinner to Himself is seen by the sanctuary being devastated and the curtain being ripped and the Holy of Holies opened to all. The coming promise new glorious kingdom with blessing and joy is promised as God shakes the earth. And the hope of resurrection is guaranteed as death is subdued in the case of some saints who are raised to glorious life. That's the cross.
The meaning of the cross? God has to punish sin. Christ becomes the substitutionary sin-bearer who takes that punishment. And because He loves you and wants to be merciful and gracious to you, He gives up His life. He is no victim. He gave His life for you and me. And as a result of that, access to the presence of God is wide open to all who will come through Christ. And entering the presence of God means that we receive with Christ the kingdom yet to come, the glorious blessing and joy that is promised as Christ rules and reigns over His own redeemed community. And we shall enter into the hope of resurrection. That's all right there. These things that happened around the very moments of the death of Christ speak to the significance of the cross. Do you see it? What does it mean to you?
What does it mean to you? Do you understand it? Have you received the Lord Jesus Christ? Have you followed in obedience embracing Him as Savior? Can you look at the cross and walk away? Is it nothing to you all you who pass by? Do you wag your head at it? Do you mock at it? Does it draw you irresistibly to it? The cross. The cross. God forbid that you should exist in any church for any length of time and not understand the cross.
Let's pray together. Father, we do thank you for the cross. The death of your dear Son. We thank you for making so clear the commentary on its meaning that we might understand it. Lord God, make us grateful. Turn the hearts of any here who have not yet come to the foot of the cross to receive Christ toward Him. Save sinners Lord today. Save sinners. Apply the work of Christ to every life here.


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Deion Sanders had some not-so-nice things to say about Eagles fans tonight after the team's 48-20 win over the Cardinals.
Donovan McNabb arrived at the NFL Network's set at the Linc for a post-game interview. Many fans stayed in the stands to applaud McNabb, who threw four touchdowns in the victory.
As fans chanted McNabb's name, Sanders interrupted.
"Can I tell them something for you?" he said. "First of all, I would like to tell all these idiotic fans to shut-up. Don't get on his bandwagon now. You're the same guys who booed him on his first incompletion."
Host Rich Eisen then asked Sanders what he thought of the Philly fans.
"I can't stand them. I really can't. It's not because I was a former Cowboy because I didn't give a darn about any fans. They all hated me because I performed well," Sanders said. "But they way they treated this man from Day One, it's not justifiable. They will not treat any other quarterback in the NFL, like we said, Peyton Manning don't get treated like that. Tom Brady. And I know you [McNabb] can't say it, but I would really like on your behalf, you can take this...God bless you guys. ... "


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by Michael Caruso
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, was the site of two very different musical events over the final weekend before Christmas. On Friday evening, Dec. 20, Donald Nally and The Crossing presented "The Crossing @ Christmas." Then, on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 22, the parish itself celebrated the Festival of Lessons and Carols for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, under the musical direction of organist & choirmaster Zachary Hemenway. Both events drew an audience that truly packed the house.
As it has for many years with all the various seasonal incarnations of Choral Evensong, St. Paul's Church flawlessly followed the traditional Anglican service of Lessons and Carols. After a 20-minute organ prelude of music by Ireland, Liszt, Oxley, Sumsion and Daquin played by organ scholar Joseph Russell, a solo treble placed up in the loft intoned the first verse of "Once in Royal David's City" just as though you were sitting in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge University. Then the 60-member adult choir and the 20-member children's choir joined in, singing the carol's second and subsequent verses as all the choristers processed down the aisle from the back up to the chancel, where extra chairs had to be placed to accommodate the full ensemble.
Unaccompanied by the church's mighty Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, Hemenway led the choir in Boris Ord's setting of the anonymous 15th century text, "Adam Lay Ybounden." Employing a quick tempo that flowed across the lines of the poetry, Hemenway elicited singing that was warm in tone yet clear in texture. Russell returned to accompany Martin Peerson's "Blow out the trumpet." Here, Hemenway's deft hand at blending the three kinds of soprano voices in his choir (boy trebles, young girls and adult women) into an immaculately colored timbre was impressively on display.
In a gesture that recalled the historic ties between the Church of England and the Russian Orthodox Church, Hemenway led a gorgeous unaccompanied rendition of Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos (God-bearer)," sung in Russian with a sense of reverence that would have impressed the Patriarch of Moscow enthroned in Christ the King Cathedral. No less impressive was the performance given "God is with us," composed by the English-born but Russian Orthodox convert John Tavener.
As the service came to its conclusion, Hemenway took to the organ console to accompany the choir of 80 and the congregation of about 550 in "O Come, all ye faithful" and "Hark! The herald angels sing," the traditional final pair of carols of Anglican Lessons and Carols – a tradition both honored and enlivened.
I found "The Crossing @ Christmas," however, inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying. The problem wasn't the singing of the choir or founder/director Donald Nally's conducting. Rather, the culprits were two unappealing pieces of music that dominated the concert.
I found Wolfgang Rihm's "Astralis" to combine the two worst possible aspects any score can boast. Lasting a tedious 20 minutes, it is the most boring piece of choral music I have ever heard. Problem number two is its lack of meaning. Set to a text that defines gibberish, it proceeds to offer a seemingly unending line of shapeless harmonies. They'd put you to sleep if only you were lucky enough not to be hoping for something better, as I was throughout its length, due to Nally's exemplary record of presenting excellent contemporary choral music.
As though rising to the challenge on the negative side, Gabriel Jackson's "Ave, regina caelorum" came in a close second for the title of most off-putting music of the evening. Whatever possessed the composer to accompany a choral setting of a traditional sacred Latin text lauding the "Queen of Heaven" with a booming electric guitar? And what was Nally thinking when he programmed and performed the resultant cacophony? I'll never know, but both their decisions were regrettable.
Perhaps the most distressing point of it all was that there were some lovely works on the program, most notably Will Todd's "My Lord has come," composed in 2011 and sung from the back of the church at both the start and conclusion of the concert. It was sung with all the technical perfection and expressive intensity with which devotees of Nally and The Crossing such as myself have come to expect from them. Eriks Esenvalds' "O Emmanuel" and "O salutaris hostia" were also noteworthy for their beauty and the beauty with which they were sung. If only they hadn't been overwhelmed by two scores not worthy of their places on the program.


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The win was the eighth-straight at home for the Lady Bucs, who have won nine of ten contests while playing in Brooks Gym this season. ETSU improves to 16-9 on the year, while the Panthers fall to .500, at 13-13.
"We really love playing at home in front of our crowd," said ETSU head coach Lindsey Devine. "We really build momentum in our locker room and bring it onto the court. I'm pleased with the win."
ETSU swung an impressive .430 for the match, including a .483 performance in game one, for its best hitting percentage of the season. The Panthers were held to just .116 for the evening. Sophomore Callie Kiselich (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and junior Sarah Buhr (Stockton, Calif.) led the way with 12 kills apiece, hitting .563, and .500, respectively.
Junior Crystal Palmer (
The Lady Bucs shot out to a 7-2 lead early in game one, before the Panthers battled back within one, at 12-11, capped off by a kill from HPU's Jamie Kaufman. That would be as close as
"We've taken our experiences from the road and used them in our gameplay," said Devine, whose squad dropped a pair of contests on the road this past weekend. "We were definitely more mentally focused than we have been."
A ball handling error by Kessel would bring the Panthers within three, before the Lady Bucs rattled off seven-straight points, making the score 23-13. Kiselich belted three of her five kills in the frame, during the run. HPU's Sabrina Wahid was just as hot in game one, smacking five kills of her own. Both Kiselich and Wahid hit .833 for the stanza. Wahid led the Panthers offensively, with eight kills for the match.
Game two was all Lady Bucs once again, as ETSU held the Panthers at bay for the 30-20 win. Palmer and Buhr both tallied four kills in the frame, while HPU's Ashley Mellott posted five. Game two was
The Lady Bucs closed out the evening with an easy 30-11 win, behind four kills from both Kiselich and Buhr. ETSU hit .450, while holding
ETSU has a pair of crucial A-Sun matches in Brooks Gym this weekend with Mercer on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m., and Stetson on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 12 p.m. The Lady Bucs will also hold Senior Day festivities on Saturday.


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Parkdale Elementary School's annual music program will be held Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m.
At the concert students will be singing songs with Thanksgiving and harvest themes like the traditional "Over the River and Through the Wood," "Circle of Seasons" and the Raffi song "Thanks a Lot."
The program will also honor veterans with the students singing a Veterans Day song, "In Service to Our Country."
Students are asked to wear fall colors such as red, orange, brown, yellow and gold to the performance.
"Please put this date on your calendar," said music teacher Kathy Hannen-Smith. "We look forward to seeing you at our music program."
Everyone in the community is invited to attend.
Students at Parkdale School will be learning about the science of water during the creative process of writing a story and film-making when "A Pirate's Quest" is presented at the school by Sisbro on Monday, Nov. 18.
The sister and brother creative team of Laura and Robert Sams create quality books, music and education media that help children discover the natural world and laugh along the way.
The Parkdale PTO is sponsoring the program, touted as an "extraordinary, interactive, music, nature and fun-filled assembly.
If other children in the community would like to attend, please call the school at 541-352-6255 for assembly times.
A Family Holiday Photo Event will be held Thursday, Nov. 21, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 23, from 9 a.m. to noon at Parkdale Elementary School.
Hart's Images of Parkdale, along with the Parkdale Elementary PTO, are teaming up to give all local families the opportunity to have a holiday family photo taken.
The first image is $20, printed on site and 50 percent of the proceeds will go to the school's academic and art enrichment programs.
Families also have the option of placing an order for Christmas cards and more print packages at that time.
Sign-ups are available at the school and portrait times are first-come, first-served.
A "Happy Human Holiday Ornament" fundraiser is a combined effort of Parkdale Elementary School and May Street and Westside schools in Hood River.
Handcrafted ornaments made by local steel sculpture artist CJ Rench will be sold and proceeds will be split 50/50 between the schools and local FISH Food Bank.
A Happy Human "Ta-Dah!" red steel ornament is $10 and a crafty wood ornament that children can decorate is just $5.
Students will be taking orders for the ornaments until Dec. 3.
To learn more about CJ Rench's artwork, go to djrdesignstudio.com.
For more fundraiser information contact Parkdale School at 541-352-6255 or Sarah Wilson at 503-819-4092, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Upper Valley OSU Extension Family and Community Education Study Group will be holding its monthly meeting Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Parkdale Grange starting at 10 a.m.
Chronic illness can affect every part of our lives and those we love.
Disease Self-Management is the topic for this month's presentation and discussion and will explore the skills that can help people manage their conditions and share information about local community resources that can make a positive difference.
The Upper Valley Extension Study Group supports Helping Hands Against Violence and is accepting donations of everyday household goods for the program at the meeting that is open to the public.
You'd better watch out … Santa is coming to town … for cookies!
The jolly guy in the red suit will be visiting the Mount Hood Town Hall on Sunday, Dec. 8, from 1-3 p.m. to enjoy cookies with the kids.
The free event is a thank you to the community from the Town Hall board and includes craft activities, cookie decorating, lots of fun and a visit with Santa.
Parents can visit and enjoy activities with their children and enjoy Christmas treats and hot cider.
Local photographers Hart's Images will be on hand to photograph children with Santa for a minimal charge.
For more information contact Marie Pickering at 541-352-6702 or email@example.com.
The Mount Hood Town Hall has been awarded several grants that will help benefit the community.
The Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission has approved funding for a new playground and plans are now under way to improve the playground area and install new equipment in May 2014.
This will provide Upper Valley kids new and safe play options and is another major step in restoring the Town Hall and grounds.
One requirement of the grant is to have significant volunteer contribution during construction, so residents who wish to contribute should watch this column for requests for help at that time.
Hood River Parks and Recreation and Hood River County were instrumental in helping to obtain the playground grant.
The Leos, a youth service group connected to the Lions Club, has also contributed $500 to the Mount Hood Town Hall for work associated with the playground.
In addition, the Hood River Cultural Trust has awarded the Town Hall $1,000 for scholarships so low-income youths can take part in the ceramics classes being offered there.
The funds provide the opportunity for kids not normally able to attend classes because of the cost.
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For the past decade, in contrast with the 1960s, political and cultural dissidents have occupied largely separate worlds. Antiglobalization activism, for example, inspired little music and art of significance, and with a few notable exceptions, the cultural underground–indie rockers, hip-hop performers and visual artists–stayed out of politics. Protest art was becoming an oxymoron. As New York City's preparations for the Republican convention show, George W. Bush is changing all that.
Artists, musicians and other creative types, most unaffiliated with activist organizations, are planning numerous ways to "welcome" the Republicans. A No RNC Poster Project is attracting stunning talent. The Bowery Poetry Club will be open twenty-four hours throughout the convention. Visitors to the city at the end of August may see illegal murals with political messages, and the city itself may become a giant art installation. Don't be surprised if, say, you're crossing the street and a traffic light flashes "Beat Bush" instead of "Don't Walk." Some visual interventions may even be visible from the air, greeting the right-wingers as they fly into the city (since we don't want to spoil such plans, that's all we're going to say about them). One People's Project, a New Brunswick, New Jersey, antiracist group whose website offers free "Ronald Reagan Rots in Hell" buttons, plans to hold a punk rock and hip-hop concert along with Punknite.com, MediaClectic and Ever Reviled Records in Tompkins Square Park on September 2.
Of course, standard-issue protests are planned, too, and not insignificant ones: While organizers won't say how many people they expect, considering the strength of the coalitions and the rank vileness of the Republicans, 1 million people could easily show up. United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) hopes to hold a march and rally on August 29. A coalition called Still We Rise will lead a Poor People's March & Rally for Justice the next day.
The city is desperately trying to prevent these actions from happening. The G-8 meeting in Georgia set a bad example, as protesters were banned from Sea Island, and the surrounding area was practically under military occupation–Humvees, police and military uniforms were everywhere. As a result, only a few hundred protesters showed up. In New York City it would be impossible to prevent protest, but local officials are doing their best. So far, only the Labor Day march, which is organized by major unions, has been granted a permit. The Parks and Recreation Department has refused to issue UFPJ a permit for a rally in Central Park, ostensibly out of concern for the vegetation. Every major city newspaper, including the right-wing New York Post, has objected to the city's decision. Most New Yorkers agree with UFPJ spokesman Bill Dobbs, who says, "It is a public park. It's not a grass museum!"


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Lady Chiefs, TR battle on Pink night
White Pigeon hosted a Dig Pink quad Tuesday night.
The Lady Chiefs hosted Three Rivers, Berrien Springs and Watervliet Grace Christian.
Berrien Springs won all three Matches.
Three Rivers opened with a loss to Berrien Springs 25-16, 25-9.
"Berrien Springs is a tough team," Wildcat coach Brandy Stalhood said. "They are a good all around team and we had our struggles."
The Lady Cats rebounded to defeat Watervliet Grace Christian 25-14, 25-13 and ended the night with a win over White Pigeon 25-20, 25-16.
"Everybody contributed for these wins, we ended the night better than we started," Stalhood said.
Teagan Reeves had 16 digs, 12 kills, seven blocks and six aces.
Carly Nichols added 12 kills and five blocks, Kalie Cole had 27 assists, Marissa Wyngarden added 11 digs and Taylor Schultz had three aces.
White Pigeon opened their night with a 25-23, 25-19 win over Grace Christian.
The Lady Chiefs fell to Berrien Springs 25-13, 25-10 and Three Rivers 25-20, 25-16.
Kayla Mishler had 25 assists and five aces.
Bethany Hagner added 11 kills and eight digs, Danielle Chantrenne recorded 11 kills, Rachel Brock had 20 digs and four aces, Nicole Prouty had four aces and six digs.
Ashley Miller added eight digs and Danielle Hochstetler had eight digs.
"We were up and down all night," coach Tony Hooley said. "We played a little more efficiently against Three Rivers at the end of the night.
"Our lack of ball control limited our offense, especially thru the middle," Hooley added.
The Three Rivers JV team won their quad meet Tuesday night.
The Lady Cats defeated Berrien Springs 25-20, 25-20, White Pigeon 22-25, 26-24, 15-7 and Watervliet Grace Christian 25-14, 25-18.
"Tonight was a great team effort," coach Wendy Skrzypek said. "The girls pulled together to finish each match. I cannot say enough about the hard work our team has displayed all season. Tonight was a great way to finish a successful season."
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I just came back from Vietnam a few days ago, on a fish sauce immersion trip with Red Boat Fish Sauce, which produces the best fish sauce in the market now. I had so much great foods in Vietnam and the journey was truly amazing…stay tuned for my complete report soon, here on Rasa Malaysia. Anyway, the fertile land in Vietnam produces some of the best, juiciest, and sweetest tropical fruits. I had a variety of fruits there, including ripe, succulent, beautiful mangoes. Sticky rice is also widely available in the markets there, or sold by many street food vendors. The toppings could be lentils, beans, or fruits such as mangoes.
Mango sticky rice is a popular dish in the Indochina region (or in French "Indochine") of Southeast Asia, in countries such as Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It's precisely a dessert dish where sticky rice is cooked by steaming, and sweetened with coconut milk and sugar. The sticky rice is then served with freshly cut mango cubes. It's such a great delight!
In Malaysia, we eat a similar dish but our fruit of choice is none other than the king of fruit durian. The key to a very good mango sticky rice is the sticky rice. Make sure that the sticky rice is perfectly cooked so it's soft yet retain a good bite, and not mushy (you don't want to eat sticky rice porridge). The coconut milk and sugar should be in the perfect ratio so it's not overly sweet and overwhelm the sweetness of the fruit, in this case, the mangoes. There are lots of mangoes in the market now, so try out this mango sticky rice recipe and enjoy!
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Outdoor Idaho: "Let Me Be Brave" chronicles the experience of four area athletes as they prepare for and compete in the Special Olympics World Winter Games, held in Idaho in February, 2009. The Games were the largest sporting event ever held in Idaho.
Sarajevo was the original host, but when that city pulled out, supporters in Idaho decided to bid for the Games. After winning the bid, they had only two years instead of four to put together the event, which included seven events spread out over six venues.
The economic recession forced organizers to ask for governmental support from Congress and the Idaho legislature. In the end, the Games received Congressional appropriations of $10.1 million and an Idaho legislative appropriation of $3 million, along with private and in-kind donations totaling at least $28 million.
Kirk Miles, Vice President of the World Winter Games, said the public monies were essential to the success of the event, and were less than what other countries spend to subsidize their Games.
Eventually, more than 2,000 athletes from 95 countries would make their way to Idaho, with a staff of 60 and 4,000 volunteers working to make their visit as fun and life-changing as possible. CEO Tim Shriver welcomed the participants at the opening ceremonies in Nampa, Idaho.
One unique component of the event was the more than 50,000 blue and white scarves knitted by supporters all over the country to give out to athletes and volunteers.
The Special Olympics movement was started by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of John, Bobby and Ted Kennedy. Another sibling, Rosemarie, had been born intellectually challenged. After a failed lobotomy, she had to be institutionalized, but Eunice took up the cause of other people like Rosemarie, so that they could lead fuller lives.
A lifelong athlete, Eunice felt that sports could provide a bridge between the disabled and non-disabled. She started a summer camp for mentally disabled children at her home outside of Washington, DC, and then expanded the program into what is now the Special Olympics.
Not many people attended the first Games, held in Chicago in 1968. Now, thousands attend the World Games, and millions more around the world participate in ongoing events put on by local affiliates such as Special Olympics Idaho.


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Big, Bold, Memorable Art in Kids' Rooms
You've heard the expression "go big or go home." Well, why not go big in your home, specifically in your kids' rooms. These parents chose artwork that is big and not necessarily targeted at kids. We love the results.
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Gray Rooms Aren't Just for Eurobabies
Pretty in Pink
Harriet's Apple Green Getaway
Dee's Delightful Technicolor Nursery
A Look Inside The Novogratz Home
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Inspiration: From Magazine to Real Life
Nursery Tour: Sara's Shared Nursery
Nursery Tour: Frances' Atypical, Camel-Clad Room
Mini Nursery Tour: A Thrifty Blue Nursery
Mini Room Tour: Raffaella's Pink Peacocks


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January 16, 1943 - August 21, 2013
Walden, NY
Lorraine Ford, 70, of Walden died Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, NY.
Lorraine was born January 16, 1943 in New York, NY, the daughter of James and Louise (Medlin) Bitsolli.
Lorraine was the Dog Control Officer for many years for the Town of Hamptonburgh and was a Cashier at the Grand Union, Goshen, NY.
She is survived by her son, Michael W. Ford; sisters, Sylvia Wilochka and Arlene DeSantis; grandson, Michael C. Ford; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her son, James E. Ford and her sister, Jeanette Greco.
Memorial Visitation will be Thursday, August 29 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Donovan Funeral Home, Inc., 82 South Church Street, Goshen, NY, with the Funeral Service beginning at 1 p.m. in the funeral home. Burial will follow in Hamptonburgh Cemetery, Campbell Hall, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Lorraine's name to a charity of one's choice.
Arrangements are under the care of the Donovan Funeral Home, Inc., Goshen; to leave the family a personal condolence, please visit www.dononvanfunerals.com


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L-L needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 319 designs submitted by 50 freelance designers.
YoodleFish Communication
YoodleFish Communication is a one man band Swedish company that helps people and corporations write better texts. Products include web texts, newsletters, management updates, brochures, blogs, etc. We also give existing texts a helping hand by editing them to improve flow, focus and headlines.
One of our core beliefs is that you can write interesting about anything. It is not the subject that makes the text interesting, it is how you express yourself. Another main idea is that is that people prefer short, clear and humorous texts also at work.
The audience is really everybody; from first time website visitors to people who check the visiting card for the 10:th time.
The logo will be used in all contexts; web site, visiting cards, pens, T-shirts, ínvoices, Christmas presents, you name it.
The main point to convey is that YoodleFish helps you getting your message through. We do this by expressing the message short and clear and interesting to the reader. Whenever suitable, it should be funny too.
Five requirements:
1. The logo should give a warm, happy, creative and easygoing feeling.
2. The logo should ALSO give a focussed, qualified, clean and effective impression.
3. The important part is Yoodle and Communication. The Fish is just a funny(?) add-on.
4. The logo will probably be colourful and possibly shaded, but it must also be shown in an all black version.
5. The background should be transparent
A few thougths just to get the thought process going:
- I prefer wide logos as opposed to tall ones.
- The transmission symbol ))) in the Spotify logo could be used.
- Some favourite colours are lime green and orange. Black text is better than grey.
- The corporate fonts are Calibri and Cambria. For this purpose I think a font with serifs, such as Cambria, Georgia or
Times New Roman woould be best.
- The current website (in Swedish) can be found at http://www.YoodleFish.com
The above -points are not requirements, so please feel free to be creative.
Good luck!
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