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No limits to the design possibilities
"As a rule, the more complicated a component is, the more benefits additive manufacturing brings to the production process," explains Hock. "Complexity doesn't automatically result in higher costs – as is often the case with other processes." Conventional processes struggle with complex designs such as interlocking hollow parts, double-walled components with mesh structures or solid elements with integrated cooling coils. They either cannot produce them or can only do it with a huge amount of effort. With additive manufacturing, however, there are no limits to the design possibilities – almost anything is possible. "We are currently focusing intensively on technical feasibility and assessing which of the different processes are best suited to our needs," adds Hock. "At the moment, we are collecting, documenting and evaluating promising ideas and looking to see which plant components are even suitable for 3D printing. It goes without saying that we are also keeping a close eye on technical developments," continues the head of the project's five-person team.
Additive manufacturing object with lattice structure
More compact, more functionality
Additive manufacturing is a particularly effective way of creating delicate structures and lightweight parts – which are not particularly common in plant engineering. Nevertheless, 3D printing could mark a huge advance in the production of heat exchangers, which are at the heart of natural gas liquefaction plants. "We are looking at how elements created using additive manufacturing could improve heat transfer. This could reduce the surface area required for exchanging heat, enabling us to build more compact heat exchangers, which, in turn, would save space, material and costs." In addition to this, the Linde experts are concentrating on plant components that until now could only be manufactured using complicated welding processes. They are also looking to identify process components that could truly harness the benefits of 3D printing; in other words, components where cavities, cooling coils or catalytic structures are already integrated in the design.
However, even supposedly simple plant elements could be promising candidates for additive manufacturing. Tapering pipe components, also known as reducer fittings, are a prime example here. These elements increase or decrease the diameter of a pipe. "It would be a huge benefit if we could manufacture these components ourselves, exactly the way we want them, when we want them," explains Hock. Additive manufacturing could also be used to build components made of different metals. A metallurgically tight Joint would be much too complex for conventional methods – but not for 3D printing. Particularly expensive metals, for instance, could be limited to the interfaces where they are actually necessary.
Driving the industrialisation of 3D printing
Plant elements also have to meet certain standards – usually very exacting ones. In addition, they have to withstand extreme temperatures and pressures. This is why pressure vessels, for example, can only be approved for use if they comply with specific guidelines and regulations. For conventional production processes, manufacturers can rely on references, characteristic values, standard sizes and calculations to establish that a container is in full compliance. "This now needs to be developed for AM components," continues the Linde engineer. "Material properties cannot be evaluated in advance because the material doesn't exist until the element is actually being produced one layer at a time," adds Hock, highlighting one of the key challenges here. The Linde team has therefore joined a working group in Germany's Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) that aims to develop standards for the approval of load-bearing components created using additive manufacturing and thus to drive industrialisation of this process.
3D printing could also bring major benefits to spare parts production. "If we could manufacture parts tailored exactly to our needs then we would be able to replace defective components in our process units much more quickly," enthuses the Linde engineer. Every day that an industrial plant is offline, it incurs losses. By ensuring faster delivery times, 3D printers could save real money and make industrial production more cost-effective.
A new dimension in Additive Manufacturing at Linde: If it's thinkable, we make it buildable.


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Open thread for tonight's show in which we talked about Hamid's misunderstanding of the burden of proof, evolution, arguments from ignorance, and more.
I have a house full of sick cats to take care of, so you guys have fun.
Open thread for tonight's show in which we talked about Hamid's misunderstanding of the burden of proof, evolution, arguments from ignorance, and more.
I have a house full of sick cats to take care of, so you guys have fun.
Fresh from the "Someone Is Wrong on the Internet" files, this message was sent via the contact form on the ACA website.
My understanding about atheism is you claim that because there is (supposedly) no evidence for God existing that this equates to there being evidence for God NOT existing (please correct me if I am wrong about this).
Kind of, but not exactly.
The default position for any positive claim lacking evidence is usually disbelief. "Disbelief" doesn't mean "proof against," and it doesn't mean "dogmatic certainty" — it just means, to put it simply, that you generally don't believe in stuff without having reasons in favor of it.
To give you a small example: Suppose I told you "You know, I died last week, but I rose from the dead on the following morning, so here I am replying to your email." Would you believe me or not?
I think it's safe to say that you would ask me whether I have evidence or not. My failure to provide any wouldn't constitute proof that it didn't happen, but it wouldn't look good for me. Don't you agree?
Or suppose I tried to sell you a car which, by all appearances, seemed to be a twenty year old lemon, but I said "This car has a secret switch which can make it FLY. And I'm selling it to you for the incredibly reasonable price of $10,000." That's actually a great price for a flying car… but I'm sure you wouldn't buy it without evidence.
You see the difference between this position and what you're saying?
My question to you is this:
1) Do you have a brain? You probably think so.
2) How do you know? For the sake of epistomological argument, you could be merely a computer-based machine, akin to a very advanced robot operating on Artificial Intelligence
3) How can you prove this? Given my previous challenge, you probably can't prove the existence of your brain without cutting open your skull to demonstrate the presence of white and grey matter)
Yes, I've heard this one before, there's a popular urban legend chain mail about a student who stumps a professor with it. I have a hard time believing that anyone takes that story seriously.
This line of questioning stems from a total confusion about the difference between "evidence" and proof. You of course couldn't prove with 100% certainty that any particular person has their own brain; after all, they COULD be a very clever robot. However, the evidence that we do have is sufficient to that it's way more likely that you have a brain than any of the alternatives. For example:
4) Do you claim to know everything, as in all possible facts? If not, then what percentage of information about the world do you claim to know? 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 %? Whatever the percentage of information about the world which you have knowledge about, it surely is not a full 100% – if this is correct, then the percentage for which you do not have knowledge could, quite possibly, include existence of supernatural phenomena such as the existence of God.
Sure, the possibility is always there, even if the odds are 10^-googol. You don't need to convince me that a god is possible. I just don't believe that it's true, due to lack of evidence. If you want to change my mind about the likelihood, then find some evidence.
My argument then is as follows:
1) You do not really have logical or rational proof for claiming, with certainty, that God does not exist
And, as I just said, I don't make that claim of certainty.
2) Therefore, you are, by definition, an agnostic, in other words: you are uncertain and do not know the final truth of the matter with regards to God's existence.
You're right. As I've said many times on the show, I'm an agnostic atheist. "Agnostic" because I don't know whether a god exists, but "atheist" because, given the information currently available, I don't share your belief that the god exists.
3) You have therefore been mistaken about calling yourself an atheist, since you actually are an agnostic and are simply in need of getting your terms right before using terms such as "atheist" inaccurately
Wrong. My usage of the word atheist is consistent with the standard definition (as I am not a theist), and also consistent with the viewpoints of many well-established atheists, such as George Smith and Richard Dawkins
Perhaps a more accurate way of describing yourself, as well as your friends and colleagues on your show, could include:
– agnostic
– secular
– lay
Why, because I'm not a scientist myself? Okay, I'm a layperson, but I don't see what that has to do with atheism. You and I are both lay irrespective of our religious beliefs.
– irreligious
– epistemologists
…Sure, if you want.
Now I've agreed to your entire list of alternate descriptions, and I'm also an atheist. If you want to throw some more labels on there, I'm also a computer programmer, a gamer, a father, etc. None of those things are mutually exclusive with atheism.
Atheism, however, with its claim to conclusively "know" that God does not exist, seems about as irrational as the very belief in God which it seems to have contempt for.
Atheism doesn't require such a claim of knowledge. I'm afraid you have been misinformed. Withholding beliefs in the absence of evidence isn't irrational, as is obviously the case in my example of the flying car.
Hope that clears things up.

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Skip to comments.Glenn Beck's New Book: Agenda 21 | Release Date: November 20, 2012
Posted on 09/16/2012 12:56:49 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
Glenn Beck discusses more about his new Agenda 21 book that is coming soon. From the Cover image it appears like this book is a Fictional Thriller and written in conjunction with Harriet Parke and will be released by Mercury Ink on November 20, 2012.
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Release Date: November 20, 2012
Glenn Beck - Agenda 21 [Hardcover]
Why do a fiction book on A21? If Beck really cared, he would publish (or republish) A21 material written by Henry Lamb.
Sounds more like FACTion to me.
I think a lot of this is ridiculous.
Vote at your local level. Get involved in local level politics.
Conservatives are always rabbiting on about small government ... well, local politics at the city/county level is about as local as you can get.
Zoning laws have been onerous for decades (at least since the 1950's) and few conservatives complained about zoning laws until zoning laws started to be changed in a way they didn't like. But it was local level politics that set these laws and it's local level politics that are changing them. Why all of a sudden isn't local control good enough?
Of course, taking Federal money to build out your city was fine and dandy as long as you agreed with what was being built. But now all of a sudden it's evil to take Federal money because it's going towards things you may not like?
Not buying it.
There is enough hypocrisy in this Agenda 21 stuff to choke a horse.
Coincidentally, Agenda 21 goes into effect on Dec. 21, 2012.
Isn't Beck a Mormon?
You signed up today to push Beck's book? Tell the Mormon Conservation Christians can think for themselves!
Yes, Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck are both Mormons.
Nice advertisement for Beck's book. Do you get a commission?
In my area, a small group of self-defined Green Marxists (yes, they proudly describe themselves as such), have met for years to plan how to push through A21 goals. New members are subtly discouraged by not informing them of meetings or having meetings in private homes disguised as social evenings.
Several of them ran for County Board and won, but, luckily, they were outnumbered and only a couple got re-elected. These people have several goals, one of which is control of our poor county's budget, which is still in the millions. Another is to push for those Federal loans and grants.
As more and more urban liberals move here, eventually, our local control will be in their hands, as the rest of us age or are forced out by high property taxes.
Get involved? How? Most of us are small business owners. Even getting on the local School Board is a death knell for a business. The whispering campaigns are vicious and go far beyond politics to nasty innuendo that border on libel and slander. Even those who may not believe the rumored lies don't want to get involved. Our local conservatives are often hounded to the point where they choose to quit because the pressure is so great.
Maybe you live in a place where there are rational folks who are majority conservative. Most of us do not. Here, ALL the Federal agency positions are filled with liberals or worse. When approached, they are contemptuous and outright disdainful of any approach that is not Marxist.
My area is targeted as a Green Belt with decreasing human habitation over time. People are pressured to will their land to organizations like Nature Conservancy, which turns around and sells to the Federal Government. The tax base dies and the Federal Government gets more and more say in what happens here. "Local control" has become a joke.
To those hassling the original poster: THANK YOU for posting this information. I found I didn't have time to watch Beck and so, I cancelled my subscription. I will read the book.
To those making not-so-subtle Mormon remarks: who cares? zer0 and the Marxists are killing this nation. Romney is not zer0. Case closed. I just read a post on another forum where some idiot threatened to leave the country if Romney is elected. This is a coordinated trolling attack, because when asked where they would go, they did not reply. I would be happy to help them leave.
Ask Beck to put his new TV programming on Direct TV as well as Dish!
Where did it originate?
The term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages a 1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in 1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the UNs Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21.
He has openly stated on his radio show that he asks folks to contact their providers to ask them to host his network.
Please contact yours.
Welcome, newbie. Can't wait for the book. Thanks for the heads up.
If you want to be on or off the Agenda 21 ping list, please notify me by Freepmail. It is a relatively low volume list in which we have been exploring the UN Agenda21 and related topics. We have collected our studies with threads, links, and discussions on the Agenda 21 thread which can be found here:
Post 128 of the Action Thread is a summary of the history of Agenda 21, what they are doing, what to do about it and a good bibliography for further reading.
Texokie, I'm unable to read post #128 that you recommended because the thread has been pulled. Note from Admin says it belongs in chat instead of activism. Admin has made it no longer accessible. Wonder why Admin couldn't have moved it to chat and then given a heads-up to the poster and participants to put Agenda 21 threads in chat? Whatever.
I used to be a monthly contributor to FR. It's incidents like this caused me to discontinue my contributions. I believe in FR and its mission. I just don't know why there's so much rudeness and snarkiness from the Admins.
If there's somewhere else I can access that post you referenced, please let me know. Thanks.
Thanks for posting this. Got some Christmas shopping done today ... 50% off!! :)
I had not realized the thread was pulled. Will look into it and find out if I can, if the thread is accessible in some other manner. I am rather sad if it is no longer at all available, because we had a lot of relevant information saved up on it. I did not realize I needed to make some kind of back up copy, either.
It appears that the first thread in the thread invitation is still active. It was the thread where I was in a huge learning curve and there were some explorations at times in it that frankly were a bit wild. But when we launched the 2nd thread, we had come down to wanting to figure out how the grapple with the "beast" of the UN working to usurp our national inheritance at the grass roots level.
It's JimRob's living room, and what he says goes, but I do admit to wondering sometimes how decisions are sometimes made.
OMG! I have much to thank you for. Last March we DID have a thread pulled, but the one we started after that IS still viable. I got confused and posted the incorrect URL for the 2nd thread.
Please accept my apologies for the mess-up. I'm hoping that I have now corrected the error.
The A 21 action thread is:
The post 128 of that thread is as follows:
Dear Agenda 21 Warriors,
I have been out of pocket for a bit, but have much to tell you! Following are highlights from notes I took several days ago at a meeting with a presentation on Agenda 21. As most of you know, it is a very LARGE undertaking to wrap your arms around the material. I thought these folks (Art and Sheila Briesch of Edmond, OK) did an amazing job of organizing the material, so I did my best to capture the majority of the information they covered. They went pretty fast, and I know I didnt get all of it, but thought their outline is very useful, and as we study (and act!) some more, we can fill in the blanks that need to be filled in! I apologize in advance for any errors.
I hope soon to compile another summary post. But always remember, as vast as this issue is, there is a LOT being posted and published in other places that I do not see. Please remember you can do a search on the FreeRepublic search engine for keyword agenda21 and lots of articles will pop up. PLEASE ALWAYS feel free to post your findings and your own action reports on this thread! And, of course, I do always welcome your pings and freepmails!
God bless all of you for joining in this fight!
Several days ago, my Darlin and I attended a county Republican meeting here in northern Oklahoma. The speakers were from Edmond, OK, which has been fighting Agenda 21 matters in their city. It is a city on the north of and just bordering OKC. These dear people are just like you and me. They learned about this, and are not professional speakers, but have been researching and educating themselves and their neighbors about the very real and current threat to all of our liberties and property rights posed by Agenda 21 and all the areas and buzzwords associated with it.
Yesterday we also went to a nearby Tea Party meeting. At the meeting were some who also had attended the above mentioned meeting. One of the topics covered was again Agenda 21! Word is getting out.
The first speaker (Art) covered a brief overview history of Agenda 21. Topics only touched on (because it is vast) were:
1) 1848 - was when Communist Manifesto was written, and laid the groundwork
2) 1913 - 16th Amendment, the Income Tax. Prior to that date, government revenues were levies and tariffs.
- 17th Amendment, Senate became ELECTED by popular vote instead of being SELECTED by the various state legislatures, and therefore Senators became vulnerable to lobbying. It destroyed the balance of power between the states and the Federal Government.
- Federal Reserve Act Congress gave away its right to coin money. Constitution does NOT allow the government to PRINT money, only to COIN it. The Fed is a PRIVATE corporation and is not answerable to the People. The only input the People has is that the President appoints the Chairman.
3) 1921 Creation of the Council on Foreign Relations. This was the creation of the shadow government. This is when we begin hearing of The Establishment which is really The Power Elite and is all about the drive toward One World Government.
4) 1945 Creation of the UN. The speakers pointed out that the term, United Nations was actually initiated by FDR in 1939. The UN ignores the existence of God and it declares that IT grants rights. It was founded by such known (at least now) Communists as: Alger Hiss and Dexter White. Both of these men had important positions in government. Of course, there were others....
5) 1972 - Human Environment Document which outlines 26 principles about the environment and the world. The UN is a better steward of the land than you are.
6) 1976 Vancouver Action Plan - UN Habitat United Conference on Human Settlements
Owning land is a holder of wealth, which is a roadblock to social justice. According to these people, land should be used for the greater good.
7) 1983 - the Brundtland Commission - Sustainable Development
8) 1992 More on Development Rio de Janeiro GHW Bush attended
Convention on Biological Diversity
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Agenda 21
AGENDA 21 has 40 Chapters covering ALL repeat that, ALL aspects of life on Earth: plants, animals, land, everything
GHW Bush did not sign on to Agenda 21, but Clinton did. Clinton also created the framework for Agenda 21 implementation. He figured out a way to bypass Congress by using the environment as the key. That is why everything we hear about from city planners, teachers, etc is all about being Green.
9) 1996 Habitat II
Settlements, sustainable cities, sustainable energy, redistribute wealth of industrial nations to others, Cap and Trade, land management
At this juncture, the speaker discussed the 1848 Communist Manifesto philosophy regarding private property and outlined the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto which most Freepers are familiar with, and of which we are dangerously close to fulfilling.
10) 2005-2014 - UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development
A short film was shown, and its information was flashed SO QUICKLY that I gave up trying to capture it with my notes.
The second speaker (Sheila) picked up with:
Such things as:
1) Wild Lands Project
2) Smart Growth
3) Stakeholder Councils
4) Public/Private Partnership ie, think of GE and Lightbulbs. - is actually fascism
Discussion ensued with audience members noting that Houston and OKC have had different councils working to regenerate the city cores, and it is these very councils with little input from citizens which have been making the major decisions.
5) World Heritage Treaty and Biosphere Reserves (1970s)
Convention of Biological Diversity http://gelok.org/8.html Link shows the Biodiversity Map
Such things as :
NGOs - Non Government Organizations
ICLEI - http://iclei.org/index.php?id=about
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives became ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability with a broader mandate to address sustainability issues. (This is a quote from the iclei.org website.)
SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL For example, Edmond, OK is sister city to Engels, Russia. The speaker noted that Engels is named after Frederich Engels. OKC has at least 10 sister cities. What is the purpose of the Sister Cities? To share information. We should be asking what can we actually learn from them??
UN AGENDA 21 Being fought by a number of local groups. There are links posted at gelok.org
SMART METERS These are being installed in some Oklahoma communities. These meters are capable of SHUTTING OFF your power. Appliances have been developed that will talk to the meter and will shut you down if it decides you are using too much electricity. They are laying the infrastructure. Guess what they will be requiring us to do in the future? Thats right...buy those appliances. Some who were at the meeting urged that if they try to put you on a smart meter, GET LEGAL ADVICE, hire an electrician, and tell the electricity company to come and get their meter.
EASEMENT And LAND TRUSTS This is big in rural areas especially. There are tax incentives for the land owner to deed the property over to the land trust or enter into an easement agreement. Your ownership will be retained, but you lose all control over your property. The trust will tell you if you can grow plants or animals and if so, which ones...or not at all. AND you will STILL BE PAYING TAXES FOR OWNERSHIP. An Easement agreement is PERMANENT. You cannot withdraw once you enter into it. No recourse.
In Oklahoma there are 7 Land Trusts.
Three of the ones mentioned:
Land Legacy
Civil War Preservation Trust
American Farmland Trust One of the nations leading Trusts. Founded by the wife of David Rockefeller. David Rockefellers thesis at Harvard was, The Fabian Socialist. Another fun factoid is that David Rockefeller worked with Alger Hiss.
WILDLIFE FEDERATION an example of how this works: People who were shooting predator wolves etc, are told that they cant do that anymore...and the WF has been reviving the wild wolf population where ever it can.
RURAL COUNCIL recently created by President Obama
NATIONAL ANIMAL ID SYSTEM recently the USDA stated that program had been abandoned, but many are not trusting that. It would make all farm and domestic animals have a chip, and enforcement would be multi-jurisdictional. With Google maps and drones, enforcement would be greatly facilitated for all these various strategies.
SUSTAINABLE FARMING no fossil fuels basically progressive farming is going back to using plows pulled by oxen. They are teaching this in colleges. There are now Sustainable college degrees offered in some schools.
LIGHT RAIL goes along with herding the people into the urban areas no cars etc.
Endangered Species Act 1973
Scenic Rivers/Byways
American Heritage Rivers Initiative 1997
WHAT CAN I DO? (Some of the following are not only from the meeting, but also some things we have learned about in our studies for the past year on these threads.)
Contact representatives (at ALL levels) on a regular basis
Go to meetings - local municiple, county, state, and congressional town hall meetings. Look for city planning and other similar types of meetings. Tea Party meetings. Be there. If you attend planning meetings, go prepared. Learn about the Delphi Technique - http://icuhollis.org/?page_id=641
Read the newspapers and your city and county web sites and look for some of the buzzwords - Sustainable, Stack and Pack, Green anything, Carbon Calculator, NGO. Land Trust. Etc.
Educate yourself.
Educate your neighbors talk to them. Write letters to the editor. Send information to your email list. Organize your own meeting!
Take the next step in front of you even if it is only a small one.
http://icuhollis.org/?page_id=641 on the Delphi Technique
The speakers were Art and Sheila Briesch of Edmond, OK. They can be reached through www.gelok.org, or by email, email@example.com .They stated the they would be willing to go to states surrounding Oklahoma to speak on the topic.
http://gelok.org/ is a local group in Edmond, OK fighting Agenda 21.
From the www.gelok.org site:
Diversity http://gelok.org/8.html The Diversity Map
Michael Shaws video on UN Agenda 21 and sustainability
Shadows of Power by James Perloff
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Americanpolicy.org by Tom Deweese
Behind the Green Mask by Rosa Koire
United Nation Agenda 21 (Look it up on your computer) Make sure it is the UN website
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The United Nations Exposed by William Jasper
The American Heritage Series by David Barton DVD series (10 DVDs)
(For Oklahomans) http://www.oklegislature.gov/
(For all of us) http://www.senate.gov/
Federal US senate web site. Can look up federal bills that affect you.
American Majority www.AmericanMajority.org firstname.lastname@example.com
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The concept is being tested in Miami-Dade, Broward and Pinellas counties, and will likely be expanding across the state.
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Asian Braised Pork Shoulder
By á-25
- Ingredients
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- One 3-pound pork shoulder, cut into 4 to 5 pieces
- Kosher salt
- 5 cloves garlic, smashed and finely chopped
- One 2-inch piece ginger, peeled and grated
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
- 3 to 4 cups chicken stock
- 1 cup oyster sauce
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sambal oelek
- 3 star anise
- Zest and juice of 1 orange, zest removed in wide strips with a peeler
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Coat a large wide ovenproof pan or Dutch oven with olive oil and bring the pan to high heat. Sprinkle the pork with salt and brown it on all sides. Remove from the pan and reserve.
Ditch the fat from the pan and add a few drops of fresh oil. Toss in the garlic and ginger and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the soy sauce and rice vinegar and reduce by half. Add the 3 cups chicken stock, oyster sauce, brown sugar, sambal, star anise, orange zest and juice. Stir to combine, bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Taste to make sure it is delicious and adjust the seasoning if needed.
Return the pork to the pan, cover and put in the oven. Braise the pork for 2 hours, turning it over once. If the liquid reduces too much during the cooking process, add the remaining 1 cup chicken stock. Remove the lid for the last 30 minutes of cooking.
When the pork is VERY tender, remove the pan from the oven. Remove the pork, place the pan over medium heat, bring the liquid to a simmer and cook until the liquid reduces to a sticky sauce consistency.
Serve the pork draped with the sauce.


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The Apostle John is known to us because of his proximity to Jesus Christ in the gospel accounts. He's one of the inner circle of three, Peter, James and John, the brother of James, as you well know. John is a familiar figure in most of the scenes with Jesus and the disciples. We have sort of an image in our minds of what John is like. I think that's pretty typical of most people but the truth of the matter is, the image of John that most people have is probably not anywhere near what he was really like. I think when we think of the Apostle John, we have images of somebody who's somewhat meek, somebody who's maybe almost effeminate because this is the way he's been depicted in so many medieval paintings, somebody who is pale skinned, quiet, depicted as sort of leaning on Jesus' shoulder looking up with some kind of a dove-eyed stare into the face of Christ. The image of John is a far cry from what he's really like.
It was about a year ago that we were doing a series on the Apostles and in that series I gave a message on John. And I'll go back over a little bit of that as we get to know this one who is the writer of these three amazing epistles. But let me just say, to start with, that John was a very outgoing and almost volatile person. In some ways he is the very opposite of the way he is depicted...highly emotional, somewhat demanding.
He is really a man for our times. His writing is very bold, it is very direct, it is very dogmatic. I don't think there's another New Testament writer that is as dogmatic as John is. He is authoritative in his writing. He is committed to absolutes. He is black and white. He is a very exclusive preacher much needed in a very inclusive time. These, as you know, are great days in the life of the church. These are days when Christian thinking is loose, if there's any Christian thinking at all. It is accepting, it is tolerant, it is inclusive, it is uncertain, it is lacking in doctrinal clarity, it is lacking in dogmatism, it is lacking in conviction. It is given to tolerance, it is given to compromise. This is a perfect time to hear from John, this black and white, dogmatic, exclusive, absolute, authoritative Apostle. His epistles provide for us a powerful message for a compromising, conviction-less, open-minded, permissive and liberal thinking church. He's really the perfect writer to address the church today.
If John the Baptist had written any epistles, we would be well served to study those because John the Baptist is a man, I think, like John the Apostle. But John the Apostle is the writer of choice and he is a man for our time to confront the laxity in the church, the shallowness among the professed people of God and the lack of conviction about what is really true and what is not. John writes with simple words. He writes in clear certainties. Nothing in John's writing is vague, nothing is ambiguous. He is firmly committed to establishing the absolute truth in the mind of his readers. And I really do believe that our study of John's letters will...will bring, I think, a new sense of certainty to all who hear and understand. And if there's anything lacking in modern evangelical thinking, it is certainty...it is certainty. If we're already certain, he'll make us stronger in our certainty.
Now just a few interesting notes. John never identifies himself as the author in any of these three letters. As you read through them, 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John, you don't find his name and that brings up the question: How do we know he wrote them? And the answer to the question can be given in a, I think, understandable way.
We know he wrote them, first of all, because that is the strong and consistent, universal testimony of the early church. There were people in the early church who knew John and they knew what John wrote and they knew John wrote these epistles and they told their friends and fellow believers that John wrote them. They passed that down to the next generation and the next generation and the next and it kept passing down. The universal, strong and consistent testimony of John's authorship can be traced all the way back to those people who knew John. These epistles have a universal attribution to John, this disciple, this apostle, this brother of James, well-known, a dominate figure in the apostolic band. Also, John lived the longest of all apostles. He lived till almost the end of that first century, probably dying in the year or around the year 98 A.D. And so his life overlaps many in the generation following the apostles. And so when there is a universal attribution of these epistles to John, and that tradition goes way, way back to the church fathers, that is a solid foundation to believe in his authorship. There is even one early church writer by the name of Papias in the generation after John who knew John personally and called John, "A living and abiding voice for God."
Also, the very fact that John doesn't name himself argues for his authorship. Since only a well-known, only a prominent, in fact only a singularly preeminent Apostle would venture to write epistles that he intended would have divine authority, divine impact and not use his name. For an Apostle to write a letter demanding submission, demanding obedience from his readers without identifying himself could only be done if he were in fact a singular Apostle. All historical evidence leads us to conclude that John's writing period in his life was at the end of his life, that it was in the nineties of that first century that John did his writing, including the book of Revelation which is usually thought to have been given to John around the year 96 A.D. By that time, John is virtually the last man standing, the last remaining Apostle. And so when he writes it's almost unnecessary for him to identify himself, he being the only one left, everyone knew who he was.
It was also consistent with John not to refer to himself by name. In his gospel, for example, he doesn't use his name. He refers to himself by descriptive phrases. He refers to himself, for example, as the Apostle whom Jesus loved. He refers to himself as the one who reclined near Jesus at the Last Supper. He does this a number of times when wanting to identify his presence at an event, he doesn't use his name but describes himself in another way. There's a measure of humility in this. Apparently he was a self-effacing man in that regard. But I think even more than that, he described himself not just in humble ways, but in ways that portrayed this magnificent, overwhelming reality that he was an intimate and beloved companion of Jesus. You could call yourself the Apostle who was sitting next to Peter, but how much better to call yourself the Apostle or the disciple whom Jesus loved? Every opportunity that John had to make reference to himself seemed to be an opportunity to celebrate his intimacy with Christ. And so when you don't see his name in his epistles, you're not surprised because you don't see his name in his gospel and most students of the New Testament would assume that the gospel and the epistles were written around the same time. There are a number of reasons for that, not the least of which is very similar vocabulary which is consistent with the develop of language through periods of time. Both the gospel and the epistles also combat a single heresy that later became known as Gnosticism. It eventually developed into that a century or so later, but the seeds of Gnosticism had begun to infect the church in the time of John's life, at the end of the first century. Already by the end of the first century, a few decades after the death of the Apostle Paul, the seeds of false doctrine had taken root that developed into this future Gnosticism. That is addressed in the gospel of John and it's addressed in the epistles of John, again arguing for common authorship confronting a common problem at a common time. Again causing us to believe that both the gospel and the epistles were written at the latter third of the first century. That also, as I said, is the time when God gave him the revelation, the apocalypse.
It is also thought by some scholars that the gospel of John and the epistles of John were written before 95 A.D. because in 95 A.D. there was this massive persecution by Domitian, a massacre of believers. And the reason some scholars believe these were written before that is because there is no reference to that in these epistles.
From 90 to 95 or so, John was in charge in particular of the churches of Asia Minor, modern Turkey. John was probably an overseer of the church at Ephesus which had been founded, as you know, by Paul and out of the church at Ephesus other churches were established that we know as the seven churches of Asia Minor, to whom letters are written in the first section of Revelation. John had responsibility as an Apostle and as an overseer, over the churches of Asia Minor during that period of time. Although he was an old man at the time, he was still a fiery proclaimer of truth, he was still a preacher and a teacher and a pastor and a shepherd. And for that preaching and for that teaching he was taken prisoner, probably around the year 95, and he was condemned to die in exile on an island out in the Mediterranean called the island of Patmos. It was on that island of Patmos around the year 96 A.D. in exile that he was given the apocalypse and the apocalypse was to encourage a very discouraged Apostle...very discouraged. We know he had reason to be discouraged, he was persecuted, he was put out of circulation, he was exiled to the island. But even more compelling than that in his discouragement was the churches over which he had leadership were beginning to turn away from the truth. And that is manifest in the seven letters to the churches in which two letters have a positive message to a church that's doing well, and five letters have a negative message to a compromising sin-riddled church. So God gave him the Revelation to encourage him that there was a glorious future, even if the present was tragic. He was in exile. Jerusalem had been destroyed in 70 A.D. The land of Israel had been massacred, 985 Jewish towns and villages had felt the slaughtering power of Rome. Didn't look good for God's promises to Israel, didn't look good for Christ's promises to the church, the church was in disarray and even after John's best efforts, the seeds of compromise and iniquity and sin had found their way into the church and here he was in exile himself.
All of this writing then is crammed into a few years at the end of the first century. This last man standing, this last Apostle alive has a great burden to bear as he unfolds the truth of God for the last time as an Apostle to wrap up the writing of the New Testament. He's very old at this time, but until he was put in exile he was still preaching, still teaching, still evangelizing, still overseeing and most importantly, he was writing...he was writing. It must have been pent up, you know. All those years before that other Apostles were writing. Peter was preaching and John...we don't even hear John preach in the first thirteen chapters of Acts, Peter does all the preaching. John doesn't even say anything. Paul comes on the scene and he's preaching and teaching and writing and the other Apostles in various places having opportunity to preach and on some occasions to write or to assist the writers who are writing, but John hasn't preached a sermon, there isn't one of his sermons recorded anywhere in the New Testament. And finally after all these years as he comes to the end of his life in a flurry, an explosion of revelation he pens the gospel of John, three epistles and the book of Revelation. And truly as Papias who had direct contact with John said, "He was a living and abiding voice for God's truth." He was the last contributor to divine revelation. He was the last to add the record that God wanted written to the Scriptures.
So John was in Ephesus at the time and there was his ministry being carried out. Turn to Acts chapter 20 for a moment before we look at 1 John, I just want to show you something I think is kind of an interesting prophecy. We don't normally think of the book of Acts as a book of prophecy but there is an indication here of a prophecy that John lived to see fulfilled. Paul is the speaker here. He is in Ephesus. He has founded the church at Ephesus. He has established the elders there. And he now comes back to meet with them. They are meeting at a place called Miletus which is near Ephesus. Paul is meeting with his own elders that he has established, he has been away, he's come back and he's meeting with the elders of the church at Ephesus. And in verse 28 he says, "Be on guard for yourselves, and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood." He says, "Gentlemen, I want you to be on guard, I want you to get in a protective mode. You are overseers and you are shepherds. You have been entrusted with the church of God that is precious because it has been purchased with His blood, be on guard."
Why? "I know..." there is the language of Revelation, there is the language of certainty, Paul has received divine revelation, "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock." That is a prophecy. "And from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore, be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish each one with tears. And I am telling you, I have to commend you to God and to the Word of His grace as your only protection." Now that is...be on guard, be alert, stay with the Word because I have been told, I know from God Himself that when I leave, wolves will come in from the outside and perverse men will rise up from the inside leading you astray as much as is possible. Decades earlier that prophecy was given by Paul and John writes his epistles to combat the very fulfillment of that prophecy. False teachers did come in. They came in to Ephesus. They started by attacking first love, as we find out in the letter to the church at Ephesus in the book of Revelation. They also were sowing the seeds of what later became known as Gnosticism, questioning the fundamentals of the Christian faith, the true relationship between the deity and the humanity of Jesus. And they were questioning who really is a Christian, who is a genuine believer. They wanted some inclusiveness. They wanted to open it a little wider to include some other people. John living to see the fulfillment of Paul's prophecy writes these letters to cry out for the truth of the gospel, the narrowness of the gospel. John is writing from Ephesus to the church, the church, first of all, in Asia Minor, but of course the Revelation of God was then distributed to the whole church warning them about the insidious inroads of false doctrine. And he calls for this exclusive kind of perspective and he does so in terms that are absolutely clear and unambiguous.
Now before we look at the letter itself, let me just help you to kind of regrip John a little bit so you understand what makes John tick. There are two major realities in the spiritual realm, two inseparable, essential, irreplaceable realities that are most critical to all effective ministry. Those two realities are truth and love...truth and love. Ephesians 4 talks about evangelists and pastors who were preceded by Apostles and prophets. And whether you were an apostle or a prophet, whether you are an evangelist or a teaching pastor, that passage in Ephesians 4 says we are to speak the truth in love. And at the end of the day those are the two most compelling realities in all ministry. The priority is the truth, proclaimed in love. That's the balance. That's the divine balance...sound doctrine and the graciousness, the love of the Spirit. It's not enough to have the love and the gentleness and the graciousness and leave out the truth. You have to have the truth. The ignorant and the deceived need the truth. And it's not enough to love them, that is to leave them in error, leave them in shallowness. It's not enough to come to people clothed in tolerant sentimentality which is a poor substitute for genuine love. There must be the truth.
But it's not unloving, self-exalting orthodoxy either. It's not good when love is missing and the truth is just cold facts stifling and unattractive. Ministry must possess truth and love for that is the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Christ was the perfect image of truth and love in balance. If you're seeking to minister, these are the two things you seek. You seek to know the truth as God has revealed it, and you seek to love as Christ loves. And there all, as always in every era, lots of imbalance with respect to these two virtues. Plenty of shallow teaching, plenty of tolerance of error in the name of love, and there's always plenty of hard, harsh, brash, self-righteous, cold orthodoxy. Sentiment and superficiality on the one hand, and orthodox indifference on the other. Critical mix and the critical balance is what God desires.
The perfect example of that, of course, is Jesus Christ. But John is a marvelous example of that as an Apostle. He may be the best New Testament model to look at, although it's hard not to see Paul as at least his equal. If you understand those two things, you understand John. Eventually he became humble. It wasn't that way in the beginning. Jesus called him a "son of thunder." He didn't manifest humility at the start, he manifested a bold, self-promoting ambition. And even, along with his brother James, asked his mother to ask Jesus if he and his brother could sit on the right and left hand of Jesus in the Kingdom. He had a volatile personality. He had a fervent passionate personality. He was intolerant, very ambitious. He was anything but that dove-like person he's often painted as being in those medieval paintings. In fact, when James one time wanted to bring down fire and burn up all the Samaritans, that's a little less than the desirable evangelistic love, when James wanted to call down fire from heaven and just burn up all the Samaritans, John was in agreement. John agreed. John wasn't the passive brother, they were both sons of thunder. When James' mother went to Jesus to ask for special privilege and honor from the Lord, John was there too. They were explosive, ambitious, driven.
You may think, "Well it was just John tagging along with James." Well you might think that till you turn to Mark chapter 9. Turn to Mark chapter 9 for a moment because here in the gospels is the only time when you see John alone. In the first ten verses is about the transfiguration, Peter, James and John, verse 2, are going up to the mountain, Jesus is transfigured, that is in a miraculous way the veil of His flesh is pulled away and they see the glory of God shining through. His garments became radiant, exceedingly white as no launderer on earth can whiten them. Elijah appears along with Moses, they're talking to Jesus and you remember the amazing experience there. A cloud formed in verse 7, overshadowing them. This is God appearing and out of the voice...out of the cloud comes the voice of God, "This is My beloved Son, listen to Him." All at once they looked around, saw no one, that is Moses and Elijah disappear, God is gone, only Jesus. They have seen a glimpse of the glory of God in His Son. Unique privilege...unique privilege.
And while it was a glorious privilege, it also had the ability to appeal to their ambition, didn't it? Make them think that they were better than everybody else because they had been given such a privilege. Over in verse 33 of that chapter, Mark 9, "They came to Capernaum, Jesus was in the house and they went into the house at Capernaum and Jesus asked them a question. He said, 'What were you discussing on the way? What were you guys talking about while we were coming over here?' But they kept silent for on the way they had discussed which of them was the greatest." Boy, there is a sad discussion. The whole way over there they're like a bunch of kids arguing about which of them is the greatest. And you can know what James and John were saying, "Na-na-na-na-na-na...you weren't up there during the transfiguration, only Peter and we were there."
"Sitting down He called the Twelve and said to them, 'Anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.' Taking a child, He set him before them and taking him in His arms He said to them, 'Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me doesn't receive Me but Him who sent Me.'" Boy, what a rebuke. You need to be humble. You need to be last of all. You need to be the servant of all. You need to be like a child. They are convicted. They are embarrassed. They are silent. They are indicted for their personal ambition. And particularly Peter, James and John were rebuked. And then John speaks for the only time, verse 38, the only time it's recorded that he spoke, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name and we tried to hinder him because he was not following us."
"But Jesus said, 'Do not hinder him, for there's no one who shall perform a miracle in My name and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me, for he who is not against us is for us.'"
You know, why did John bring this up? Well his conscience was bothering him. In light of Jesus' rebuke, John's conscience bothered him. Jesus said, "You need to stop trying to be in charge, stop trying to be in control. You need to start being last. You need to be a servant. You need to be like a little child who opens his arms to somebody." John's feeling guilty. He says, "Well, Lord, I didn't do that. I saw somebody casting out demons in your name and I should have received him like a little child like You said, but I didn't, I tried to stop him because he wasn't following us, he wasn't one of the group."
That's the only thing John ever says and he feels guilty about being stubborn, obstinate. He feels guilty about being narrow. He feels guilty about being prejudice. He feels guilty about being sectarian. He's wired like that. Yeah, burn up the Samaritans. Yeah, we want to be in the chief seats. Yeah, buddy, you're not in our group, shut up! This is John. He had a real competitive spirit. It showed up in condemning this man who was trying to minister in the name of Jesus, whether he was actually doing it or not, he was trying to do it. John shut him down. Jesus rebukes John for that sectarian attitude.
So John has the ability to be narrow. He has the ability to be dogmatic. He has the ability to be exclusive. He has the ability to be prejudice. He has the ability to isolate himself and draw a hard line. He has the ability to be black and white. You want to know something? That's usable if it's for the right things. Why would God choose a man like that? Why would the Lord Jesus make him an Apostle? Because this is the kind of man that can be shaped into strength. He had the potential to be hard for the truth. What the Lord had to do was make him loving. And perhaps it was that critical rebuke there in Mark 9 that catapulted John toward being loving. He had that kind of personality of conviction, of narrowness, uncompromising, intolerant devotion to what was true. He was very black and white, he had a clear-cut view of spiritual realities. There was nothing vague in his world. And that was good and God needed it but it had to be tempered with love.
And so, that's why...that's why when the medieval artist starts to paint John, he starts to paint a lover because it was eventually true of John. And it shines through the gospel that he wrote and it shines through the epistles that he wrote. For in the gospel of John you see this unwavering regard for the truth. Everything with John is absolute, there is light and darkness in the gospel. There is life and death, there's the Kingdom of God, and there's the kingdom of the devil. There are the children of God and there are the children of the devil. There's the judgment of the righteous and there's the judgment of the wicked. There is salvation and there is damnation. There is receiving Christ and rejecting Christ. There is a vine and it has some branches with fruit and some with no fruit. There is obedience to His commands and there is disobedience to His commands. And that's the way it's always portrayed by John. And when you get to the epistles, it's the same thing. There are those who are in the light, and those who are in the darkness. There are those who confess their sin and those who deny their sin. There are those who are disobedient to Christ and those who are obedient to Him. There are those who love others and those who don't, those who love God and those who don't, those who are righteous and those who are sinful, those who keep the commandments and those who don't, those who believe and those who don't, and it's just that simple.
In the second epistle, 2 John, calls for complete separation from all those people who aren't faithful to the truth. And the third epistle says essentially the same thing. The one who does good belongs to God, the one who doesn't hasn't seen God. John gives us a fundamental understanding of Christianity in its absolute sense, but he does it in these epistles as we will find with a tenderness and a love of a pastor. Somewhere along the line, this man had been tempered. Jesus wanted his strengths, He wanted his resolution, his commitment, but He needed to get rid of all the hints of selfish ambition and pride and He needed to turn him from being a sectarian to being a lover who could embrace while calling them to the truth.
And so, this is John. And what we're going to get is vintage John in these epistles, vintage John...a man who had been transformed literally into one that church history calls the Apostle of love, the Apostle of love. In fact, his theology of love appears in his gospel. John writes in the gospel that God is a God of love, that God loved His Son, that God loved Christ's disciples, that God loves the world, that God is loved by Christ, that Christ loved the disciples in general, that Christ loved them as individuals, that Christ expected men to love Him, that Christ taught that we should love one another and that love is the fulfilling of the whole law. That he writes in the gospel and in 1 John chapter 3. But John's love never slid into some sentimentality. It was never sentimentality and tolerance masquerading as love. Until the end of his life as the last Apostle to die at the end of the first century, he never, never tolerated deception, he never tolerated lies, he was always committed to the truth. He never tolerated sin of any kind.
And I think the Lord knew that the most powerful advocate of truth, the most black and white Apostle had also to be the most powerful representation of love, or that truth would come across harsh. And so isn't it interesting that the most clear-cut, black and white, authoritative, absolute writer of the New Testament is known in history as the Apostle of love? Not a love that takes you down the road of tolerance, but a love that takes you down the road of truth, for telling the truth is the most loving thing anyone could ever do. John was a lover of the truth more than anything and he loved the truth and the God of the truth and the Christ who is truth incarnate so much that he would tell people lovingly the absolute truth. And so we're going to learn the truth in no uncertain terms from a man who is committed to it but also with a heart of love.
And, you know, this to me...this is what kind of pushed me over the edge on doing 1 John because this is so desperately needed today. And the assumption today is that if you hold to the truth without ambiguity, without vagueness, if you hold to the absolute truth of Scripture, you're somehow not loving. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth.
Turn to 1 John for just a moment and let me show you three things that are going to happen to you in this study. Three things are going to happen to you. The first one appears in chapter 1 verse 4, "These things we write...says John...so that your joy may be made complete." That's the first thing, that is the reason John wrote. That is his intent in writing. Yes he wrote in a time of crisis. Yes he wrote because he was seeing the living fulfillment of a prophecy made by the Apostle Paul decades earlier about error coming into the church and tearing up the church doctrinally and in terms of conduct. Yes it was a dangerous, dangerous time. Yes there was a crisis of the truth. But he had a bigger purpose than just saying I want to give you the truth, he says, "I'm writing these things so that your joy may be full." That's the real goal. It's not just the truth, it's the joy that the truth produces. It's the joy that the truth produces.
He learned that, I think, from the Lord Himself. He learned that the Lord did what he did, said what he said, taught what he taught that men might have joy. Listen to what Jesus said in John 15:11 in the upper room at the Last Supper, Jesus said, "These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be made full." The Lord had taught John that truth is for the purpose of producing joy, lasting, full, complete joy. The straightforward, unambiguous, exclusive, black and white, dogmatic, authoritative, absolute, certain truth that Jesus taught was to bring joy. And so John would approach his ministry the same way. The first thing that's going to happen for you then is this study is going to increase your joy. Sound good? All right.
Second thing, turn to chapter 2. And again this is typical of the unambiguous John. If you want to know the reason he wrote, you just read it because he says it. Chapter 2 verse 1, "My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin." Not too hard to interpret, is it? Here's the second purpose. His first purpose is joy, his second purpose is holiness. "I'm writing these things so you don't sin," and he launches into a discussion of matters that are concerning that very thing. He had heard his Lord say, "Go and sin no more." He learned from his own Lord that the Lord wanted men and women full of joy and He wanted them holy. And so he said my purpose is the same as my Lord's purpose, I want to bring you joy and holiness.
And then he has a third purpose, chapter 5 and verse 13. "These things I have written to you," isn't he straightforward? "I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God in order that you may know that you have...what?...eternal life." I want you to have full joy, I want you not to sin, and I want you to know that you have eternal life. I want to eliminate your sadness, your sin and your doubt. This is assurance. I want to bring you joy. I want to bring you to holiness. I want to bring you assurance. I want you to know that you have eternal life. I don't want you to live in fear and doubt. I learned that from my Lord, too, he could say because He said, "Whoever believes in Him," John 3:15, "may have eternal life." "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
I'm an instrument, John is saying. There are three things that God wants in your life; joy, holiness and assurance. And I'm the agent of God to write a letter to you that will grant you these three blessings. And I can tell you this, when this study is over I believe God will honor the intent of these words. Your joy will be full. You will turn more readily and eagerly from sin. And you will have assurance of your eternal life. That's the purpose for which the Spirit of God inspired this letter.
Does that interest you? Good. Then you'll be back. Let's pray.
Father, as we just kind of start tonight, we can already feel the anticipation mounting and building as we sit at the feet of this beloved, blessed, old man who picked up his quill and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit wrote to believers to teach them truths that would give them full joy and holiness and assurance. And here we are as have many, many generations since, sitting at the feet of that old man who was as far as humanly possible the best illustration of truth and love in balance and we eagerly await his instruction, as well as the power of the Spirit of God to implement this truth in our lives. Grant to all this precious church family the happiness and the holiness and the security that this letter is intended to bring, for that we say thank You in our Savior's name. Amen.
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By now you've undoubtedly seen the iconic image of Earth, taken by the Cassini spacecraft from the vicinity of Saturn, on June 19.
On that day many of you waved back at Saturn, and NASA says people from 40 countries and 30 U.S. states shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission.
The photos were assembled into the following mosaic, which is pretty darn cool.
The Cassini photograph of Earth is notable as it is only the third time ever that Earth has been imaged from the outer solar system.
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An Editorial in the Feb. 27 Tomahawk Leader:
There's no doubt that a lot of Harley-Davidson employees and their families are breathing a sigh of relief that the York, Penn., plant's strike has ended, laid-off employees are called back and production is starting again.
On Jan. 31, 2,722 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local 175 union in York rejected a contract with the company. Ninety-eight percent then voted to strike
Feb. 1. The contract had several concerns: Annual wage increases would have been contingent upon workers paying more for health care; new hires would have earned considerably less; and retirement benefits would have been cut.
In a ripple effect, more than 240 Tomahawk Harley-Davidson employees were laid off for the last two weeks while other plants around Wisconsin also experienced layoffs and a decrease in production as they waited for York to settle.
Harley-Davidson was established in 1903 and today has more than 9,600 employees worldwide and operates seven U.S. production facilities. The legendary motorcycle company has become a U.S. Fortune 500 company and, for the last 20 consecutive years, enjoyed year after year of record growth and profit. Last year, Harley-Davidson reported $5.8 billion in revenue and an increase in profits by $1.04 billion from 2004, an 8.7 percent increase. The company returned significant value to shareholders, with 19.3 million shares repurchased at a cost of $1.6 billion in 2006.
The motorcycle-maker was not always so successful, however. As tenured employees – from plants in Tomahawk to York and beyond – will tell you, it was a joint effort between Harley-Davidson and its workers that pulled the company through tougher times in the early 1980s.
"I remember back in the 80's when the company was struggling to stay in business they told us that if we took some concessions to help them out they would take care of us when times got better," said a 36-year Tomahawk operations employee on IAM's web site. "I didn't know that this is what they meant by taking care of us," he added of the then-proposed contract.
The flip side of the coin has some in the industry worried that the smooth ride Harley has been enjoying won't always be there. There are skeptics of Harley's current growth plans, wondering what will happen as baby boomer customers continue to age. Others don't want Harley to experience the same downfall that hit some of the ill-prepared in the auto industry.
Fred Gates, general manager of Harley-Davidson's York operations, said, "The proposed contract was structured to help manage future costs that could be detrimental to our business over the long term."
Had Harley-Davidson not pulled down millions in profits during the last two decades, perhaps employees would be more willing to accept cuts and concessions. But that isn't the case. Huge profits and large stock options going to top executives leave the 40-hour-a-week employee working hard on the assembly line wondering about the balance and "potential, future costs." Tenured, unionized employees like one 36-year Tomahawk Operations veteran employee just saw it as an effort to "take away the benefits that our unions have worked hard to earn."
A settlement has been reached, and many of the concessions asked of employees seem to have been put on hold. Time will be the test. In the meantime, we'll join our community in celebrating that hundreds are back at work. That, we know, is a very good thing.
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The most commonly seen snake in this region, the southern black racer is also one of the most common in Florida. One reason for the frequent sightings is that the black racer is a diurnal hunter, so it is out at the same time when most people are working in their yards, biking, or doing other activities that might bring them into contact with this snake. The black racer has one of the most extensive ranges of any North American snake, extending to the Canadian border, west to Washington, and east to Maine.
The black racer is nonvenomous but will inflict a nasty bite if grabbed. It will rattle its tail in the grass or dry leaves when cornered or threatened, imitating the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. It cannot be domesticated and should not be kept as a pet. It will continue to bite its captors throughout its life span and repeatedly bash its head against a glass enclosure until it seriously injures itself.
Despite its scientific middle name (constrictor), the black racer is not a true constrictor. It tends to chase down, bite, then suffocate or crush its victims on the ground rather than coiling around them in true constrictor fashion. Its diet includes brown and green anoles, insects, moles, birds, frogs, eggs, smaller snakes, and rodents. It is preyed on by red-shouldered hawks, owls, and larger snakes.
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The black racer is extremely quick and agile, making it difficult to catch. When spotted crossing a trail or road, it vanishes into the understory with amazing swiftness.
This is an excerpt from Living Sanibel-A Nature Guide to Sanibel & Captiva Islands by Charles Sobczak. The book is available at all the Island bookstores, Baileys, Jerry's and your favorite online sites.
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Southern Black Racer
(Coluber constrictor priapus)
Other names: black racer, racer
Status: FL=stable, IUCN=LC
Length: 2-4.5 ft (0.61-1.4 m)
Weight: 0.75-1 lb (340-453 g)
Life span: to 10 years
Reproduces: deposits its eggs (7-22) in old logs, stumps, and sawdust
Found: All Counties, coastal, near coast, inland
Months found: JFMamjjasOND (lower case indicates nesting season).


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COMSOL in a New Tensorial Formulation of Non-Isothermal PoroelasticityA. Mario-Cesar Suarez[1], and V. Fernando Samaniego[2]
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BlogWorld's NMX and BusinessNext Social Sets Impressive Lineup of Over 170 Speakers; Set To Break Attendance Records
Concurrent conferences marrying content and commerce to hear from Winkelvoss Twins, Guy Kawasaki, UFC CEO Dana White and many other thought leaders in social business and new media
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LAS VEGAS, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BlogWorld announced today a lineup of over 170 business and new media leaders speaking at 2013's New Media Expo (NMX), the first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference and media event for content creators; and BusinessNext Social, the world's premier conference for social business, marketing and IT executives. Featured speakers include venture capitalists Cameron & Tyler Winkelvoss and Alltop.com Founder Guy Kawasaki, who join previously announced keynoter Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White.
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Record attendance is expected for the conferences opening January 6, 2013 in Las Vegas, just prior to the Consumer Electronics Show. Passes are available starting at $77 at http://nmxlive.com/2013-lv/registration, including an All Access package that assures admission to every presentation at both conferences.
The agendas for NMX and BusinessNext Social embody the mix of newsworthy announcements and thought leadership that have made them the conferences of choice for new media content creators and forward-looking marketers. Highlights include:
- Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss, whose story was immortalized in the award-winning 2011 film The Social Network, will discuss the future of social communities and announce a new investment in social networks.
- Lin Humphrey, Jr., Mobile Marketing Association's 2011 Global Mobile Marketing Academic of the Year, will release surprising research on the psychoprofile of today's connected consumer, including social and mobile marketing best to encourage consumers to express themselves about their personal lives.
- Backplane CEO/Founder Matt Michelsen, the architect of Lady Gaga's Little Monsters, one of the largest and most active digital fan communities, will talk about creating a new social web corridor backed by brands to unite people around interests, affinities and movements.
- Leo Laporte, the founder and host of TWiT.tv, will keynote and also host the 8th annual Podcasting Awards.
Other speakers slated to appear include Jay Baer, President, Convince & Convert; Vala Afshar, CMO & Chief Customer Officer, Enterasys Networks; Jeff Ragovin, Chief Strategy Officer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud; and Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs. A complete list is available at http://nmxlive.com/2013-lv/speakers/
BlogWorld CEO and Co-Founder Rick Calvert said, "We couldn't be happier with our incredible lineup of speakers that brings together content and commerce thought leaders from new media and marketing. NMX's agenda addresses offers essential advice for bringing bloggers, podcasters and web video creators to bring their business to the next level, while BusinessNext attendees will have a rare opportunity to hear from an impressive group of marketing leaders that has never been assembled anywhere else. This year's event strengthens our conferences' positions as the must-attend shows for anyone interested in the intersection of digital content and commerce."
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New Media Expo (NMX), formerly BlogWorld & New Media Expo, is the first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference and media event geared specifically for content creators including Bloggers, Podcasters, Web TV & Video seriesproducers, and is dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of new media. Thousands of leading content creators, representing more than 50 countries, come to network and learn about Content Creation, Distribution, Monetization and Social Media Marketing strategies, including step-by-step techniques and leading-edge tools from the most successful and influential new media pros. Additionally, NMX features a resource-packed trade show, the industry's only comprehensive new media exhibition for finding solutions and making important new media technology, service and product purchase decisions.
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Honors: NCAA Champion (Heptathlon - 2012, 2014)...Outdoor First Team All-America (Decathlon - 2011, 2013)...Indoor First Team All-America (Heptathlon - 2012, 2014)...Indoor Second Team All-America (Heptathlon - 2011)...Outdoor Second Team All-America (Long Jump, 800 - 2012)...NCAA Indoor Championship Participant (Heptathlon - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)...NCAA Outdoor Championship Participant (Decathlon - 2011, 2013)...Heptathlon 1,000m World Record Holder...USTFCCCA Field Athlete of the Year (2014)...USTFCCCA Southeast Region Field Athlete of the Year (2014)...Indoor ACC Champion (Heptathlon - 2012, 2014)...Indoor All-ACC (Heptathlon - 2010, 2011, 2014)...Outdoor All-ACC (Decathlon - 2011, 2012, 2014)...Outdoor IC4A Champion (Long Jump - 2011)...Indoor ACC Field Performer of the Year (2014)...Academic All-America (2012)...Indoor Academic All-ACC (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)...Outdoor Academic All-ACC (2011,2012, 2013)...Indoor ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year...ACC Academic Honor Roll (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)...Indoor Team MVP (2010, 2011, 2014)...Indoor Team Freshman of the Year (2010)...Outdoor Team MVP (2011)...No. 1 All-Time ACC Performance List (Heptathlon - 2012)...No. 1 All-Time Duke Performance (Heptathlon - 2011, 2012, 2014; Decathlon - 2011; 200 - 2013; 400 - 2013; long jump - 2013; 4x400 - 2013; 4x800 - 2013)
2013-14: Concluded college career as the most decorated multi-event student-athlete at Duke…Indoors, earned the second national heptathlon title of his college career after winning the event at the NCAA Indoor Championships (3/15) with a school record point total of 6,190 in front of a hometown crowd in Albuquerque, N.M….also won the conference heptathlon title, amassing a conference meet record point total of 5,987 at the ACC Indoor Championships (3/1)…opened the 2014 indoor season with a first-place finish at the Dick Taylor Challenge (1/24) in the heptathlon…set a school record in the 500m dash, placing first at the Armory Collegiate Invitational (2/7) in a time of 1:01.50…clocked the third-fastest 60m hurdle time in Duke history, 8.12, in the heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (3/15)…anchored the fifth-fastest 4x400 in school history, helping the relay place fifth at the Virginia Tech Invitational (1/18) in a time of 3:16.97…posted the second farthest long jump mark in program history, 25-2.00 (7.67), while competing in the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships (3/14)…Outdoors, season cut short due to elbow injury…served as a member of the school record setting 4x400 that clocked a time of 3:11.74 at the VertKlasse Meeting (4/5)…qualified for the ACC Outdoor Championships (4/17), placing third with a point total of 6,977.
2012-13: Outdoors, earned first team All-America honors in the men's decathlon with a seventh place finish and point total of 7,989...qualified for the men's decathlon at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a first place finish at the 2013 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, earning a season-best 8,011 points March 27-28…set a Duke record in the long jump with his best leap measuring 25-7.5 (7.81) and a personal-best in the pole vault by clearing 16-8.75 (5.10)…qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field East First Round in the long jump and pole vault…member of Duke's 4x400 relay that set a new school record while finishing third at the ACC Championships by combining for a time of 3:12.78…member of Duke's 4x800 relay that set a new school record while finishing fourth at the 2013 Penn Relays with a time of 7:20.97…broke the school record in the 200 with a time of 21.30*w at the Joe Hilton Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C…owns six different school records (200, 400, long jump, decathlon, 4x400, 4x800) and sits on 11 institution top-five performance lists…Did not compete during the indoor season.
2011-12: Highlighted an outstanding junior campaign by earning an NCAA indoor title in the heptathlon in record breaking fashion...final point total of 6,138 set a conference and school record and ranked third on the all-time national collegiate list...after trailing by 236 points heading into the final event, turned in a world-record-breaking performance of 2:23.63 in the 1,000 meters for the come from behind victory... broke six personal records throughout the seven-event competition...earned first ACC title in the heptathlon with a point total of 5,862...Duke's top indoor performer in the 60m dash, 1,000m, 60m hurdles, long jump and heptathlon...earned numerous national and conference awards for his athletic and academic achievements...outdoors, earned second team All-America honors in the long jump and 800m by finishing in 15th and 16th place at the NCAA Championships...Duke's top performer in the 100m dash, 400m dash, 800m, 110m hurdles, long jump and decathlon...finished the season at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials where he placed 11th in the men's decathlon.
2010-11: Duke's best finisher in the 60m hurdles, long jump and the heptathlon during the indoor season...was the lone collegiate athlete competing against some of the world's best at the Millrose Multi Challenge in January...at that event, cleared a personal-best 6-8.75 in the high jump to tie for first and register the No. 5 performance on Duke's all-time list...helped the Blue Devils capture their second consecutive title in the DMR at the Armory Collegiate, running the 800m leg in 1:49.5...at the ACC Indoor Championships, broke his own school record with a 5,816-point performance in the heptathlon, placing second and collecting All-ACC honors...at the ACC's, established a new personal best with a leap of 24-1.5 in the long jump, which also ranks third on Duke's all-time list...advanced to the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships for the second-straight year...finished 13th in the heptathlon at the championship meet, scoring 5,637 points to earn second team All-America honors...capped an impressive outdoor season with a second-place showing in the decathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, scoring a school-record 8,084 points to garner All-America accolades...posted the second-fastest time ever in the 1,500m at the NCAA's, clocking a personal-best 3:59.13 for a new NCAA record...also at the NCAA Championships, won the 400m in 46.90, which ranks as the No. 2 performance on the Duke all-time list...won the long jump at the IC4A Championships with a leap of 24-3.5, the third best all-time among Blue Devil athletes...at the ACC Outdoor Championships, placed third in the decathlon to garner All-ACC honors...cleared 6-8 in the high jump at the ACC's for a season-best performance...was part of a 4x800m relay squad that established a new program record, 7:25.20, at the Penn Relays...closed the season as Duke's top performer in the 100m, 400m, 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, long jump and the decathlon.
2009-10: Indoors, one of Duke's top performers as a freshman...began the season with an IC4A qualifying 23-6 leap in the long jump at the Carolina Classic...a week later, helped Duke capture its second win in program history at the Armory Collegiate, running the 400m leg in 47.7 on the championship DMR squad...on day two at the Armory, ran an impressive 1:47.9 on the final leg of the 4x800m relay to propel the Blue Devils to first place as Duke set an Armory Track & Field Center record for the event...at the ACC Indoor Championships, broke the school record with a 5,579-point performance in the heptathlon, earning a third-place finish and All-ACC accolades in the process...became the first Devil male individual track & field athlete to make the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship field since Bryan Allf in 1982...finished in 12th at the national championship meet with 5,533 points...also at NCAA's, ran a 2:27.88 for 1,000-meters to set a world record in the men's heptathlon run...outdoors, recorded Duke's top time in the 400-meters with a 48.73 showing at the Arizona State Invitational...turned in the Blue Devils' top mark in the 110m hurdles as well, clocking 14.67 at the same meet...missed the remainder of the outdoor season due to injury.
Prior to Duke: Five-year letterwinner at Albuquerque Academy...named the 2009-10 Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year...won a gold medal at the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships, finishing first in the decathlon with a score of 7,377...earned 17 state championships during his high school career, including four 110m hurdles, three long jump, three 300m hurdles and two high jump state titles...set the national high school record for the decathlon with 7,907 points as a senior...at the 2009 National Indoor Championships, scored 4,127 points in the pentathlon for the second-best mark in high school history...selected the 2007 and 2008 Gatorade New Mexico Runner of the Year...indoor national champion in the pentathlon in 2007, 2008 and 2009 ... also received Academic All-America accolades.
Personal: Son of Jeana King-Beach and David Beach...father lettered in basketball at San Mateo Community College...born July 22, 1990...has one brother, AJ...majoring in psychology with a minor in evolutionary anthropology.
Indoor PRs
60m Dash- 7.03 (3/9/2012)
60m Hurdles- 8.12 (3/15/2014)
500,- 1:01.50 (2/7/2014)
1,000m- 2:23.63 (3/10/2011)
High Jump- 6-9.00 (2.05) (2/24/2012)
Long Jump- 25-2.00 (7.67) (3/14/2014)
Pole Vault- 16-0.75 (4.89) (3/10/2012)
Shot Put- 42-0 (12.80) (3/3/2012)
Heptathlon- 6,190* (3/15/2014)
Outdoor PRs
100m Dash- 10.66 (6/5/2013)
400m Dash- 46.72 (4/19/2013)
800m- 1:47.75 (5/25/2012)
1,500m- 3:59.13 (6/9/2011)
110m Hurdles- 14.42 (5/5/2013)
400m Hurdles- 58.24 (4/23/2011)
High Jump- 6-8.75 (2.05) (6/5/2013)
Pole Vault- 16-8.75 (5.10) (3/28/2013)
Long Jump- 25-7.5 (7.81) (6/5/2013)
Shot Put- 42-3.5 (12.89) (6/5/2013)
Discus- 128-1 (39.03) (3/29/2012)
Javelin- 158-10 (48.41) (6/9/2011)
Decathlon- 8,084* (6/8/2011)


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Taylor Charles Steak & Ice -- Authentic Philadelphia Cheesesteaks via the Taylor Gourmet team -- is opening next Wednesday, December 12, at 1320 H Street.
The space is designed to give the feeling of "bringing the streets inside." In Philadelphia, most of the legendary Cheesesteak shops are walk-up shops, outside. Steak & Ice brings the walk-up, sidewalk feel inside with its design. The floors resemble asphalt with manhole covers installed. There are street lights, large picnic tables and original street art throughout.
They'll be open daily for lunch starting at 11 am, closing weeknights at 9 pm, and staying open late til 3:30am Fridays & Saturdays. Carryout is available with local delivery coming soon.
In addition to cheesesteaks how you like them, they'll have a vegetarian option, kid's menu, 1/2 lb hot dogs, italian water ice, custard, ice cream sandwiches, and more. The mouthwatering menu follows after the jump