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"Anyone interested in science can come to these talks and take something away," said Rusty Gonser, assistant professor in the biology department, who recently discussed the series with local television personality Alexis King on the "WTWO Today" program.
The series, sponsored by the ISU department of biology and St. Mary-of-the-Woods College science and math department, brings in internationally, recognized research scientists to speak to students and community members. All seminars begin at 4 p.m. in Science Room 12 and are open to the public.
The series set a record in attendance last year, and Gonser hopes this year's series brings even more students and members of the community to hear these noted researchers from throughout the United States and Canada speak. There also is a new series speaker that will focus upon ecology -- the Robert H. MacArthur Ecology Speaker.
"It's to round out the areas in biology," Gonser said about the ecology speaker addition. "We have DNA, microbiology, Darwin, life science initiative, the Tri-Beta which is the honor society, women and diversity in science to represent minorities and Earth Day is global for everyone."
The series begins on Jan. 13 with the Diversity in Science Speaker, Scott Edwards from Harvard University, who is scheduled to speak on "Using Genomics to Study Evolution, Biodiversity and Diseases in the Wild." Edwards earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard before going on to earn his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. During his post-doctoral work at the University of Florida in Gainesville he began studying the evolution of genes involved with disease resistance in wild birds. Such genes play an important role in many aspects of avian biology, including parasite resistance, plumage color variation and mate choice.
Two speakers will take on forensics during the series. Richard Li with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York plans to speak on forensic biology on Jan. 20 while the following week Roland Kohr, the Vigo County coroner, plans to give his "Top 10 reasons I Hate CSI" on Jan. 27.
In conjunction with Darwin Day, the movie "Inherit the Wind" about the Scopes trial is scheduled to be shown in the Cunningham Memorial Library on Feb. 9. Then on April 13, as part of Earth Day, the movie "The 11th Hour," which explores the ecological state of the planet, will be shown in the library.
Other speakers are:
- Feb. 3 -- Tri-Beta Speaker, Craig Nelson from Indiana University on "Evolution, Creation or Both' Big Macs, Double Elimination Tournaments, and Bowling Isn't Football: The Scientist's Lot Is Not a Happy One - Or Is It'"
- Feb. 10 -- Darwin Day, Tom Seeley from Cornell University on "Honey Bees and Effective Decision Making."
- Feb. 17 -- Tiffany Knight from Washington University - St. Louis on "Rodent Predation and Hybridization Increase Extinction Risk of the Endangered Plant."
- Feb. 24 -- Jennifer O'Connor of Rose-Hulman Institute on "Viruses in Amphibian Populations."
- March 3 -- inaugural Robert H. MacArthur Ecology Speaker, Jonathan Newman of the University of Guelph on "The Nature of Climate Change Impacts: Philosophical, Statistical and Ecological Considerations."
- March 17 -- Rosemary Knapp of the University of Oklahoma on "Behavioral Endocrinology of Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Bluegill: Correlated Characters in Physiological and Evolutionary Time."
- March 24 -- Life Science Initiative Speaker, Mervin Yoder of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
- March 31 -- Women in Science Speaker, Amy Parish of the University of Southern California on "Bonobos: A Female Dominated Society."
- April 7 -- Hans Christian Gram Microbiology Speaker, Stephen Blanke on "Helibacotor: Cause of Ulcers"
- April 14 -- Earth Day Speaker, John Bickham of Purdue University on how environmental pollutants affect genetics.
- April 21 -- Double Helix Speaker, John Avise of University of California - Irvine.
Funding for the series comes from the Lilly Endowment, ISU Office of Enrollment Management, ISU Library, College of Arts and Sciences, McNair Achievement, women's studies program, Center for Science Education, School of Graduate Studies, criminology department, and the Office of Diversity.
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FYI, this only needs to be done with the "photo" folder. The others don't seem to be affected.
Should also be noted that this is still happening even with the lasted DSM 5.0+ version.
I've been tweaking little things here and there with my Synology Diskstation DS 409 NAS server, more recently expanding its storage without upgrading the entire array (read about it here). One of the things I finally did was upgrade from DSM (Diskstation Manager) 2.2 to DSM 3.0, which adds a completely new interface and fixes many UPNP issues I was having with my Patriot Box Office (read the preview).
There are so many new features to DSM 3.0 that you really owe it to yourself to explore every icon. The sleek interface uses so much AJAX to the point that it runs virtually like a PC desktop, all within a web browser. One of the things I came across while exploring the Resource Monitor was that my NAS's CPU usage was constantly at 100%. The 1GHz processor has a lot to do since it runs so many services and even calculates RAID parity in software, but there was no way that it should be pegged that much. Because the CPU was constantly used, the NAS would not enter into any power-saving modes when not in use.
CPU usage back down to 5% after implementing this fix. Notice how 'convert' is no longer in the list
After futher investigation I discovered what was causing the problem, and how to resolve it. I clicked on the CPU graph to open up a sub-window that contained information about all the running processes. You can also get CPU usage statistics from a terminal window (read how here). It appeared that the "convert" command was using up 99% of the CPU's time. The "convert" command is used in Linux to convert photos between formats.
Location of the Photo Station applet in Control Panel
It appears that the Diskstation is creating thumbnails of my photos in the system-created "photo" share for use in its Photo Station application. I had let the system run for several weeks, and the convert application was still chugging away on my meager 150GB of photos. Since I don't use this application, I opened up the DSM Control Panel and clicked on the Photo Station and disabled it. This did not affect CPU usage, even after a hard reboot.
Even disabling Photo Station did not prevent convert from running
On the next page I show you how I fixed it…
FYI, this only needs to be done with the "photo" folder. The others don't seem to be affected.
Should also be noted that this is still happening even with the lasted DSM 5.0+ version.
Thanks a lot. It worked on my DS112!
Great post. It helped me. Thanks for write-up!!!
I just got a Synology NAS a few months ago and it's going to be my last from them not because I don't generally like my unit, but because the company continually ignores their customers. We don't need this 'feature', but are happy to have it in there as an 'OPTION'. I've struggled with this idiotic problem since day 1, as have thousands of others.
Great selling feature for QNAP, though.
I have the same problem with may DS212J but solve it in a different way : I fallow this post http://www.markinthedark.nl/news/ubuntu-linux-uni…
Thanks for this article! I just got a DS410 and ran in to this issue with DSM 3.1
THANKS the great advise. It works!
After 2 years of frustration, you are the one who solved it.
I never got any direct / useful reply from Synology support, that's really bad.
(DS210j on DSM 3.0)
Thanks mate!!!
Great fix!!!
Wow, this is crazy. I recently bought the DS411, latest drivers, and there is this really annoying bug. Kinna disappointed at Synology. As described, moving your photos from the Media Server share (photo) solves the problem. But big thanks to Alan!
I have the same issue on a DS211+. I have combined the suggestion from Joost with the procedure from Alan (btw THANKS A LOT!). Now I see the CPU under 10% most of the time. Too bad how Synology keeps struggling with this release after release.
(Synology DS211+, DSM 4.1 – 2636)
I discoverd the same problem. After disabeling Photo Station and Mediaserver, the problem was over.
Yes indeed: a strang bug.
(Synology DS212+, DSM 4.0 – 2228)
dammit, I also have this blasted photo conversion process hogging 100% of my CPU …I dont need this sucker to convert my damn photos (who in their sane mind would want this) !?!?!? – have a new DS212 with latest software…first time user of Synology
Come on Synology, sort it out as this has been going on for a long time dragging myself through Forum after Forum
Has any of you reported this to Synology? Just to make sure that we are not just sitting here complaining about the problem without actually raising a support case with Synology so they can do something about it… :-)
Hi. This "bug" (more a Synology's typo) is still underway… A shame =[
Very good post.
Same problem for me with my DS209. DSM 3.1 – 1748
Removed all of the files from "phone" share and CPU went down from 100% to 25 %
I had the same problem, and your fix worked for me on my DS211.
the reason to use the linux mv command compared to the file browser is that the linux command is instant. So all your files are instantly in your new folder
had the same here on my Syno 207+ after upgrading to DSM 3.1
moved all pictures: CPU is down form 100 to 15 to 20 average
noticed while moving dirs that convert remains high cpu user until the last file is deleted from photos even if the last files where no picture files
anyway, everything back to normal now
thanks for the advise
I had the same problem on CS407e
I moved all my photo files into another share and convert went away.
Thanks for sharing this information.
Thanks a lot !
Had this problem on DS411j DSM 3.0-1354
Thanks for this article! I just got a DS410 and ran in to this issue with DSM 3.1. I simply renamed my 'photo' share to 'pictures'. Hopefully this can be fixed without the need for this workaround.
I had this problem to with DSM 3.1. convert was running for over a week until I moved my photos to another map "Photo".
@totoro: Hmmm… I guess I could have done that and saved myself some trouble. I didn't think of that, but it was so obvious!
Why did you have to use putty to move the directory? Too much of a linux fan to use the DSM file browser? :)
had the same here on my Syno 207+ after upgrading to DSM 3.1
moved all pictures: CPU is down form 100 to 15 to 20 average
noticed while moving dirs that convert remains high cpu user until the last file is deleted from photos even if the last files where no picture files.
anyway, everything back to normal now
thanks for the advise

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My favorite photos.....and MORE tips!
You push the button on your camera to focus, and it indicates you do not need a flash. Hey it is a sunny day out hiking, why on earth would I use a flash? If I had not forced my flash to fire, my boys would be dark in the shadow of this cave. And I would have gotten home and been disappointed with the shot. Instead I got this shot and it is one of my favorites.
Get down to their level:Hot over-cast day. Kids doing slip-n-slide (nakie I might add!).No flash needed. But I did bend down to make better eye contact and to able to capture the popsicles undistorted.
Tilt it!
Now this tip (or 'trick) is a real secret of commercial photographers. Take portraits at a slight angle. Now in this particular case...I didn't- I took a regular ol'boring straight up and down photo...but when I cropped it, I also turned it a little to give it this effect. So you can go play around with photos on your computer right now! It is obvious in this shot if you look that the palm tree in background. Something about angles makes the subject feel more engaged with the viewer. And this tip can turn a boring photo into a winner.
Get off Center:
Get out of the habit of having your subject dead center of each photograph. Move them to the right or left. Put them down at the bottom of an image and capture a beautiful sky behind them. Mix it up. Take the same photo as many ways as possible. This photo won me a little award on Photo.net years ago. And can you tell I had just said to my then 2 year old Tucker "Do NOT pick the poppies!".....and yes, I clicked...and he picked!
So those are a few photos I really love. And some tips I like to teach to others (some you have heard in my other posts- but I wanted to really nag you about them!) These photos are my favorites because they capture such happy memories of times with my boys. And that is the real purpose of great photography. It is not just about making something 'frameable' but it is about capturing what you FELT and not only what was SEEN. Now go on...get off this blog and go shoot something! Hey, let me know how it goes will ya?
The Universe gives me a do-over.
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When the lens was turned on me....
I was living across the bay from San Francisco. I enrolled in a summer class at Cal State Hayward to hone some of my digital photography skills. As I was waiting in the assigned classroom, because of course I was early, a young college boy walked in and asked if I was the instructor. That was the first time I realized- I might be the only 'old' person in this class. The young college boy was then followed by even younger college girls. Until the room filled up completely. I eyed the door. I considered bolting. But I paid for the class already- and my husband had agreed to babysit so I reconsidered and waited for the instructor. Eventually he came in- also young, disheveled and because I judge and asses people immediately...I decided he was unorganized and unprepared. I was right.
I attended those Saturday classes for 6 weeks. I learned very little. And second to the last week we were put on teams (the very concept of a creative team makes me cringe) to.....get this.....photograph each OTHER. This put me in a tail spin of panic. I am really only comfortable BEHIND the camera. And I was sporting about 40 extra lbs at the time. So my self image was pretty darn low. SO the following week arrives and all the little young co-eds arrived in the skimpiest, tiniest and sexiest outfits they owned. You know- to be in their own fabulous 'photo shoot'. Obviously they were hoping to parlay the photos of themselves to use on their MySpace profile. I however, arrived with a coat. A huge coat. and A scarf. A hat. And a big ol flower. Time for my close up? I decide to block the majority of my face with the flower. I got an A+ in the class. But certainly not for my modeling choices....those need a lot of work.
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I finally figured it out!
As you have always suspected.
CAKE is the answer.
It really doesn't matter what the question is does it?
Rock'n and Roll'n in OC. Not in a good way.
My Oxy Moron moment
Will I ever stop giving advice????
A talented man....
Dinner at the beach & my big mouth....
My first Award! Yippeee!
I won an award people! This is the first blog-award I have won and it means a lot to me. Lit and Laundry gave it to me! In case you are new to this whole thing- there are a few awards that sorta float out in the blogosphere...and are awarded by fellow bloggers. Once you receive you are to select new winners (in this case 7). Generally it means someone thinks your blog is pretty neat.....and well, that is just darn flattering. Okay so here are my 7 folks to pass it on too...so hard to pick. Since I think everyone on my blogroll is worth reading and I just sorta promoted some of my favorites here. But here are 7 more!
Yes, I am fearfully and wonderfully the maid, Shamelessley Sassy, From under the Laundry Pile, One Crazy Chick, Blah Blah Blog, Always Home and Uncool, Lisa Mertins Life Illustrated
If you don't know these blogs- take a peek today. All are entertaining and worth the price of admission! Thanks again Lit and Laundry for this award!
Reasons not to clean out your cabinets
Bail for my kids....
Letter to High School Marcy
I dream big.....
If Noah Had a Pantry on the Arc
My people...my tribe
Happy Birthday 1980 style
Football is my part time job...
Well, I can hardly believe it Internet- but Pop Warner Football training season is upon us. And my baby boy is playing this year even though I did everything but pay him not to. Today he is attending a Tackling Camp (yes, you heard me TACKLE). So I am paying like $500 for my kid to be TACKLED weekly. The practices begin officially August 1st and get this...they are EVERY DAY for 2 hours. Here are a few photos from last season as I was the team photographer and will be again this year to I am afraid. It was flag only-thank god, and he is #23.....can you tell HE LOVES IT? Why oh, why couldn't I have had little pink, glittery, wimpy GIRLS??? (oh I know I am totally sexist with that comment. deal)
Here is to another great season. Hope I survive.
Hope my kid survives too...
Go Bulldogs!
I blame Spiderman...
I gave birth to a deadly weapon...
How to be an efficient blog reader...
Ask Marcy! .....go on ASK ME!
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The longest post over fries ever written....
Life Instructions
The Rule breaker
"He travels a lot"
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Question of the day....
Came across this while walking around Avalon on Catalina Island. This sign was found in front of a garden nursery-which made it so much more odd to me. So my answer? About 37. Yes, that is right folks- I feel exactly my actual age. I don't feel younger..I don't feel older. I feel 37 years old....and that is okay with me. and if given a choice-I would pick this age to be as well.
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Sadly, one of my client's kitchens looked the same as it did ten years ago when her and her husband bought the house. Everything was outdated, including the paint on the walls, and to be honest, she actually hate inviting her friends over to visit. She told me that she would really love to be able to renovate her kitchen, but since her full-time job has become a part-time job, money is an issue for her. What she really needed were some great kitchen design ideas that are to put it bluntly, not inexpensive but cheap, cheap, cheap! After breezing through a few magazines and watching the Home Improvement channel, she had uncovered a collection of easy on the pocket, kitchen design ideas that even Jack Benny would love.
1. Traditional or modern kitchen sink - whether you are renovating or having a brand new house one thing you must consider is what type of kitchen look you want and what will blend in with the other areas of your house.
This will open up the middle of the floor for you as well as provide unrestricted access to the sink, stove and dishwasher. In order to preserve kitchen space and have a more spacious look, built in cabinets are another kitchen design idea. Wall cabinets are in a location that is easily accessible, yet they are not in the way or taking up any excess space. If you have cabinets that have space above them, small baskets can be used to hold some of the loose items that lay around taking up counter space.
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- Apple CEO Tim Cook this year bemoaned the extensive litigation in the technology industry
- Apple accused HTC smartphones of infringing its patents around the type of scrolling
- Terms of the deal, which included current and future patents held by both companies, were not disclosed
Apple has settled its first patent battle over smartphone makers using Google's Android platform, agreeing a 10-year licensing deal with HTC, the struggling Taiwanese manufacturer.
On Sunday morning in Taiwan, HTC and Apple announced a "global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits".
Terms of the deal, which included current and future patents held by both companies, were not disclosed, but mean that both companies are spared the threat of products being barred from sale as disputes work through the courts.
Industry analysts say the move will allow Apple to concentrate its legal and competitive efforts against Samsung, which it accuses of infringing many aspects of the iPhone's designs in a range of cases around the world.
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said: "We are glad to have reached a settlement with HTC. We will continue to stay laser-focused on product innovation."
Apple has previously struck patent licensing agreements with Nokia and Microsoft but remains engaged in a variety of suits around the world against Samsung, Google's Motorola unit, and others.
As HTC loses market share in the Android market to Samsung, the Taiwanese group has been developing more devices using Microsoft's Windows Phone software.
"HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so [we] can focus on innovation instead of litigation," said Peter Chou, chief executive of HTC.
Apple accused HTC smartphones of infringing its patents around the type of scrolling known as "rubberbanding" and data detection -- for instance, making addresses in emails into clickable links. HTC alleged that Apple's latest iPads and iPhones violated its intellectual property around 4G or LTE high-speed wireless connections.
The licensing agreement may also mean both companies have access to patented technologies, in wireless transmission or user-interface design, that rivals such as Samsung do not, giving their future products a potential advantage in the competitive and fast-moving smartphone market.
HTC said its licensing payments to Apple would have "no material impact on the finances of the company".
HTC, whose speedy rise from relatively unknown contract manufacturing to leading Android phonemaker is now being matched, some analysts fear, by an equally speedy fall back to the status of minor player.
Although the company's phones are generally well-reviewed, analysts say its marketing efforts and ability to promote its phone through retail channels fall far short of its two larger competitors.
HTC has previously lost cases in the US against Apple at the International Trade Commission.
The settlement follows Apple's victory against Samsung in the US courts over smartphone designs, in which a jury awarded more than $1bn to Apple in damages.
Mr Cook this year bemoaned the extensive litigation in the technology industry over so-called standards essential patents. "It's maddening," he said. "I wish we could settle this stuff."
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Aurora City Councilman Bob FitzGerald has switched his mayoral endorsement and now backs Ryan Frazier.
A FitzGerald spokesman announced at the Cherry Creek Republican Women luncheon today* that the councilman no longer supports Steve Hogan for mayor. FitzGerald told others about it Monday in a letter:
I no longer support the Hogan campaign for Mayor. A $10,000 "Donation" from an Arapahoe water developer, Robert Lembke, and his affiliated business has become a poison pill for me. The only candidate in the field qualified to be mayor is Ryan Frazier. I have always believed that Ryan could lead our city and help Aurora to become a regional economic leader.
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When it comes to the new health care law, the question on Drew Calloway's mind is: What about me?
The Dumfries, Va., resident thinks the annual premium he pays for his family to be on his employer's health insurance is "abnormally high." He wonders whether he's eligible to buy a new plan through the exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act.
There's no easy answer for Calloway, who works in the information technology field. Due to what the Kaiser Family Foundation's Karen Pollitz calls a "drafting error," the law only addresses people with self-only plans with annual premiums that exceed 9.5% of their modified adjusted gross income — not those with family plans. This would rule out most employees other than minimum wage workers.
This kind of convolution is keeping information providers known as navigators and call-center employees hopping. They are rushing to familiarize themselves with the law's nuances so they can guide consumers through the process.
The hotly contested health care reform measure may not help Calloway, but it will make insurance affordable to millions of other Americans who otherwise couldn't pay for it. The uninsured will have a choice of plans available through exchanges run by their states or the federal government (or both in states where the exchanges are operated jointly). Here's a look at who is running each state's exchange.
Enrollment begins Oct. 1. Everyone who isn't currently enrolled in a private insurance plan or Medicaid must sign up or face penalties.
It can be hard to see the substance through all the ongoing mudslinging over the law. Here are some of the key questions and answers to keep in mind:
Where do I start?
A: At HealthCare.gov. That's the federal government's portal for the health insurance marketplace, and it will help you find the exchange for your state. You answer questions, plug in your state, and your exchange will tell you whether you can buy insurance this way and if subsidies or tax credits are available. More complicated scenarios can be discussed with call-center employees at the federal exchange, 800-318-2596.
What am I shopping for?
A: Exchanges will offer a selection of plans that are classified as bronze, silver, gold and platinum, representing the different levels of cost-sharing between insurers and consumers. Bronze plans have the highest deductibles; cost-sharing and platinum plans have the lowest. All insurers participating in an exchange have to offer at least the silver and the gold levels, but most will also offer bronze and possibly platinum plans, Pollitz says. Midlevel silver plans will tend to have deductibles of about $2,000 a year before coverage kicks in.
What's my deadline?
A: The new state-by-state health insurance marketplaces, or "exchanges," will begin enrolling customers Oct. 1. Coverage begins Jan. 1 for those who sign up by Dec. 15. Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, advises consumers to begin looking into their options soon after the Oct. 1 enrollment kickoff, but notes that with six months to decide, there's no need to fret — yet. "There's time to go slow, absorb and really understand it," she says.
What happens if I don't sign up?
A: Beginning in 2015 for the 2014 tax year, those who don't have any health insurance (or Medicaid) will be subject to a $95-a-year penalty on their taxes, or 1% of income, whichever is greater. The amount of the penalty will gradually increase each year until you sign up.
How much money will I save?
A: It depends, but most uninsured Americans will be eligible for some form of financial help either through tax credits or increased access to Medicaid. The level and availability of low-cost or free coverage such as Medicaid is based on a state-by-state calculation of where your household income is in relation to the Federal Poverty Level. The Kaiser Family Foundation has a subsidy calculator that will tell you the amount of money available to you or your family. If your income is less than 250% of poverty, you may also qualify for cost-sharing subsidies, which would reduce deductibles and co-pays. These are only available with silver plans.
How do I get the money?
A: The tax credits can be sent directly to your insurer to offset your premiums or you can claim them in a lump sum when you file your taxes.
What if I've been denied coverage before?
A: Worry not. Those whose health problems kept them from getting insurance in the past may benefit the most. Studies show one in every two Americans has what could be characterized as a "pre-existing condition." If you have anything from arthritis to cancer or are simply obese, insurers can no longer deny you coverage.
Who's most affected:
1) Those whose employers don't offer insurance.
2) Some who can't afford their employer's coverage.
3) Those who are between jobs.
4) Those whose health problems kept them from getting insurance.
5) The self-employed.


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Because smoked dead animals are at least as tasty as BBQed dead animals, we need to have a nice smoker. While the BigGreenEggBBQ can act as a smoker as well, it has a fairly limited capacity. Furhtermore, it can not be electrically operated, which makes temperature control more tricky.
So enter RevSmoker.
The idea is to use a steel drum to build something like this but over 9000 times cooler, with electronics and blinkenlights.
Design ideas :
Mechanical and electrical parts
- steel drum that used to hold pineapple juice
- a wood chip box
- one or two grids to hold the dead animal parts being smoked
- a cover with a handle
- a electrical stove, for heating the wood chips
- extension cord
Electronic parts
- a thermometer keeping track of the temp.
- an arduino to measure the temperature, display it on a small LCD screen and control the heater using a relay
- a 220V relay
- a TMP36 temp sensor
- a SED1531LCD display to show the current / target temp
- a turn knob to adjust the temp


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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said the $700 billion economic rescue plan passed by Congress on Oct. 3 is just the first step federal lawmakers and the next president will have to take in shoring up what has become a global economic crisis.
Welch, running for a second term as Vermont's lone U.S. representative, discussed the rescue plan and his legislative priorities during an interview at the Addison Independent on Thursday.
Welch on Sept. 29 voted against the first, ill-fated rescue plan fielded by the U.S. House, saying it lacked proper oversight and that he was pressing for the best possible taxpayer safeguards while always embracing the need for government action.
Welch and a majority of his colleagues shifted gears and supported a second version of the plan that passed on Oct. 3, after a few changes had been incorporated into the bill. Welch said that version earned his vote because:
• It increased federal insurance of people's bank deposits from the current $100,000 to $250,000.
"That is something I have been advocating for a while," Welch said.
• It requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to have banks use "mark-to-value" accounting, not just the current "mark-to-market" accounting, when it comes to assessing real estate mortgage values. Welch explained that a mark-to-value accounting system reflects a property's cash flow to the bank at the time of assessment, whereas the mark-to-market accounting system does not.
"Mark-to-market is a one-size-fits-all approach that results in oftentimes a number that does not reflect the actual value of the asset," Welch explained. "That means the bank's balance sheet is lower and it means they have to build up more reserves (before they can) lend more money."
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — Talk of a congress and "community organizers" might bring to mind national politics — but for the planners behind this year's Addison County Conservation Congress, a daylong summit slated to take place later this month at Mount Abraham Union High School, those words ring true a little closer to home.
The Oct. 25 event, sponsored by the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACoRN) and Vermont Family Forests (VFF), aims to bring together anywhere between 150 and 300 county residents to dig into this year's theme: "Addison County in Transition: Visioning Our Community in 2020 and Mapping the Next Steps to Get There."
The day aims to do exactly what its title calls for: dream up a portrait of the county in 12 years, and begin work on the roadmap necessary to make that vision a reality.
That lofty goal is a departure from the country conservation congresses of the past, which started in 1992, explained David Brynn, a forester with VFF. After five annual meetings, organizers took a hiatus from the project — a break that ended up lasting 10 years.
Brynn and other planners revived the meetings last year. But according to Brynn, this year's congress signals a paradigm shift for the event.
"The first six were about finding controversial conservation issues that we could deliberate and argue about in a supportive setting," Brynn explained. "The idea was really to debate them and not necessarily to reach any consensus but to get things out in a respectful environment."
This year's congress, the seventh, focuses more on the human community, and the future Addison County's residents can create for themselves in the face of three major challenges: peak oil, climate change, and the financial crisis.
ADDISON COUNTY — Look for parents in Addison County and around the state this week sporting buttons that declare "This employee made possible because of daycare" and "Support Vermont's economy, support quality childcare."
These parents, along with other allies of early child development programs, are doing their best to draw attention to the necessity for up-to-date subsidies for families struggling to meet steep childcare costs, as well as the importance of available quality childcare in the state.
Organizers are calling the weeklong event a "virtual strike" — a sort of "what if" question. What if early childcare and education programs weren't available? What if these programs, on which hundreds of parents in the county depend, were to close for the day?
The strike, coordinated by the Kids Are Priority One Coalition, kicks off Tuesday and runs through Saturday. According to Susan Hackett, the local coordinator for the strike and the regional director for a children's advocacy group called Building Bright Futures, almost 1,000 buttons have been distributed to parents and allies around the county.
Organizers hope that the buttons will raise awareness about the link between childcare and economic development, as well as draw attention to subsidy eligibility guidelines that some childcare advocates say are out-dated and insufficient.
"There is childcare assistance," said Ginny Sinclair, a referral specialist at Addison County Childcare Services. Sinclair helps families find childcare with one of the roughly 60 local home childcare providers or one of the county's three state-licensed centers.
Subsidies are based on a family's income, she explained, as well as a "service need" demonstrated if a parent is working, attending school full-time, or medically incapable of caring for a child at all times.
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The Fallacy of Western Love | Meriam Al Khalifa/
Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-ChiefLast Modified: 02:12 a.m. EDT, 15 June 2011
BAHRAIN - This post is about Meriam Al Khalifa who is a young Bahrani woman who eloped with an American serviceman and left her home in Bahrain during the night without the consent or knowledge of her family.
The picture to the right is of another beautiful Arabic woman Fathima Kulsum Zohar Godabari, who unlike Meriam Al Khalifa, has comported herself with the dignity expected of a woman of her station within the confines of her society and Islamic faith.
Her photo is used to both illustrate the nature of the wealth, lifestyle, and religious nuances that doomed Meriam and Jason Johnson's relationship from the beginning, as evidenced by their divorce filing on November 17, 2004 after five years of marriage. Several news programs featured the story of her 'escape' from Bahrain with her loving boyfriend when his tour of duty ended. As I watched the interview and how they interacted together, waves of emotions came over me.
First, the American media glorified the enormous disrespect Meriam displayed toward her family in allowing the exuberance and headiness of new love override common sense and propriety. The portrayal of this story was subtly propagandist in the assertion that despite the odds Western ideals can vanquish Middle Eastern tradition. Ultimately, their story demonstrated nothing more than youthful naiveté and indiscretion.
We have all been young and even as adults we can become intoxicated by the powerful and euphoric feeling of new love. During this time we can't bear to be separated from our new romantic partner, in our eyes they can do no wrong and the exuberance that we feel seems as if it will never dissipate.
Second, it didn't work for Romeo and Juliet, and in general it doesn't work in real life either. As I watched the interview during which they chronicled her journey to the States and her subsequent meeting with her in-laws, it became almost unbearable to watch. Meriam came from a very privileged background and as she sat a picnic table in a tiny back yard it was clear from her reaction that this was not the life that she thought she would have when she fled Bahrain.
In Bahrain, Meriam lived in an extremely affluent neighborhood that is home to families associated with the Royal Family and other high-ranking government officials. Her family's compound as depicted in the interview was a mansion worthy of a Palm Beach estate. Although, some would classify her existence as that of a beautiful bird in a gilded cage; she was nonetheless cared for like a bird whose wings have been clipped. Because of this and other reasons, it became apparent that she was ill-equipped to live as the wife of a hardworking, family-oriented, blue-collar serviceman.
Finally, there was the issue of faith. Unfortunately, in all faiths the pull of the world is often too strong to resist and thus religion becomes loosely worn by many of its practitioners. Unlike Islam, Orthodox Judaism and Christianity with which most people are familiar, Jason is an observant Mormon.
The fact that he is Mormon was less emphasized in the interview than the fact that Meriam is Muslim. Having grown up within a very patriarchal Islamic family, I know that the formative years and the nuances of culture, society, and faith which are inculcated at that time are not easily sublimated. I suspect that this may have also played a part in the demise of their relationship.
In Orthodoxy it is the responsibility of the a wife to take her husband's family as her own and to accept their ways as her ways. This would be nearly impossible for an Islamic woman to do, especially if the faith to which she would be subject is vastly different in its understanding and core beliefs. For a Muslim one of the basic tenets is that there is only one true God, and there were no other prophets after Muhammad.
This would, from a Muslim's perspective, disqualify members of "The Church of Christ Latter Day Saints (LDS)," who believe that the true, restored church was founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr., who is considered a prophet. Through religious revelation, he embarked upon the literal restoration of the early church, which included the re-establishment of the Church of Christ and later propagated by Brigham Young who is also known as the Modern Moses. (Source: Wikipedia)
I am not normally in favor of divorce, nor am I happy at the dissolution of someone's marriage, but in this case I differ. I feel that this marriage should have never occurred, and I believe that by its dissolution a whirlwind affair was revealed for what it was, a Western fairytale.
Though fairy tales often dispense cautionary wisdom, the lesson here is that illicit love adversely impacts more people than intended, and in the end little more than sexual pleasure is gained and often with regret and recrimination.
I could glean nothing more about the outcome of Meriam Al Khalifa's life upon her return to Bahrain, but I hope that this youthful indiscretion does not mar her life forever, nor render her unsuitable for a future marriage or motherhood.Follow Nahmias Cipher Report on Twitter Twitter: @nahmias_report Editor-in-Chief: @ayannanahmias
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Evidence was given by Police-constable Abbott, that the bones were found by a man named Dunk about two feet under the ground. The police had made extensive inquiries in the district, but could not form any conclusion as to how the bones came to be there. A German prisoners internment camp was in a meadow adjoining the pit in 1917 and 1918, but Police records showed no prisoners as having escaped from this camp, and two who escaped from a similar camp near by were recaptured. They could not ascertain that any prisoner had died and been buried there, and no person had been missing and unaccounted for in the neighbourhood for the last 40 years, one man who disappeared having been found a week later. There was no information available as to how the remains came to be buried.
Dr. W. O. Pitt, who examined the bones, said they were the remains of two human beings, probably a man and a woman. Their state showed that they could not have been buried for more than ten years, because had they been ancient bones they would have been well preserved or would have crumbled on being handled; actually, they only partly crumbled. One of the jawbones had been fractured, and he believed it to be an old injury, which might have been caused by a blow.
Dr. Pitt added that it would be interesting to have the view of an expert like Sir Arthur Keith.
The Coroner said there was nothing to show the cause of death, or how the bones came to be buried, and made an order for burial. This, it was stated, would probably take place in Sompting Churchyard."
(Worthing Gazette, 5th March 1930)


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I want to encourage you to open your Bible to the twenty-seventh chapter of Matthew and I want to take you back to Calvary tonight to set our thoughts on the suffering of our Savior on our behalf. Back to Matthew chapter 27 and right to the very heart of Matthew's treatment of the cross, starting in verse 27 of chapter 27. And as we read through this narrative and make some comments on it, I want you to focus on one theme tonight, and that is the wickedness of Calvary...the wickedness of Calvary.
Those of us who are familiar, of course, with the execution of Jesus Christ, the murder of Jesus as it truly was, are very much aware of how wickedly He was treated. But this narrative in Matthew allows us to get a little more deeply into this wickedness to do a little bit of a study of the elements of wickedness, perhaps, if you will, the pathology of this wickedness that murdered the living Lord Jesus. And the wicked treatment of Jesus didn't start at the cross. It pursued Him from His birth. It was wickedness that tried to kill Him when He was an infant. It was wickedness that tried to discredit Him in His teaching. It was wickedness that tried to tempt Him and cause Him to fall victim to the wiles of Satan. It was wickedness that tried to destroy Him as a miracle working prophet of God by pushing Him off of a cliff. And finally, it was wickedness that secured His condemnation by death by violating every standard of justice and truth, equity and honor in both Jewish and Gentile law. It was wickedness that betrayed Him. It was wickedness that kissed Him hypocritically. It was wickedness that arrested Him, framed Him, denied Him, slapped Him, punched Him, spit on Him, mocked Him, and finally nailed Him to the cross. Wickedness...profound wickedness as deep as the pit of hell, and temporal wickedness as wretched as the heart of man, it was wickedness. Wickedness fastened Him finally to a cross on four nails, suspending Him in humiliation and torture. And this is the final act of wickedness perpetrated against Jesus in His life, and its greatest work.
And in a sense, I suppose you could say it's the culmination of all the wickedness of human history. For thousands of years wickedness had been growing. It had wrought deeds of impiety and crime that had wrung the ages with agony and often roused the justice of the universe to roll her fiery thunderbolts of retribution through the world. But now wickedness had come to its full maturity. Wickedness is there at the foot of the cross in such gigantic proportions as it has never before been seen. It works in enormity before which the mightiest of its past exploits dwindles...dwindles into insignificance, fades into dimness. It crucifies the living Lord of glory.
And wickedness did not just kill Him. Wickedness tormented Him. He was not allowed to die quickly or easily. He was not even allowed to die just with the agonies of the cross as fierce as they were. No, He had to be lashed and until His last breath, He had to be tormented by His enemies who filled with wickedness endeavored to torture Him with intensity by heartless insulting blasphemies. His sufferings being aggravated by all those around the cross and it seems to be Matthew's particular poignant insight to show us these cruel agonies that surround the agonies of crucifixion because Matthew presents the groups of wicked people who are involved and demonstrates a kind of wickedness that takes many forms. They were all there at the foot of the cross, all the wicked of all kinds.
First of all, there were the ignorant wicked. Those who were wicked, in fact those were the actual executioners of Jesus, the callous Roman soldiers. But their wickedness was best defined as a kind of ignorant wickedness. Verse 27 begins, "Then the soldiers," and there we meet them. "The soldiers of the governor, Pilate, took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him." Pilate had already sinned against the dictates of his own conscience. Pilate had already sinned against conviction, against justice, against truth, against integrity, against character. Pilate was a miserable, heartless, shrinking man who sold out the truth to save his job rather than release Jesus whom he knew was innocent, whom he pronounced innocent repeatedly. He had Him scourged hoping to satiate the blood-thirsty mob with just a scourging. And that didn't do it. And Jesus has endured the scourging and is now brought back inside the praetorium which was under the rule of Pilate and placed in the custody of the Roman soldiers. They are the first group of the wicked who reject Christ. Roman legionnaires they were and Roman legionnaires, for the most part, weren't Romans, that is, they weren't Italians. They were recruited...they were recruited from many, many places. Wherever the Roman Empire extended, they recruited legionnaires. And they used them as occupying soldiers. They very likely were Syrians. They would choose Syrians because Syrians could speak Aramaic, Italians could not. And the Aramaic was spoken by the Jews.
They were not then Romans and they were not Jews. The Jews, we know, were exempted from military service and none but a traitorous Jew would serve an occupying army. And if they were the troops brought by Pilate from Caesarea, they weren't normally stationed in Jerusalem. They may well have had no knowledge of this Jesus, what was going on around Him, or who He was, or who He even claimed to be. What they did, they did in ignorance. They saw Jesus as a strange, pathetic character, A Jew hated by His own people. They saw Him as perhaps mentally deranged. They saw Him as a clown to be mocked and scorned. And since He never said anything, He never spoke in all the circumstances they were involved in, they may well have questioned His intelligence, or even His sanity. And, of course, the indictment against Him was that He was claiming to be a King, if nothing else that would make Him play out as an idiot. And so they treated Him as you would treat an idiot boy in the street. He was a mentally deficient faker, worthy nothing more than to be the butt of their jokes. So they fully enjoyed Pilate's personal torture in sending Jesus down there when He knew He was innocent. And they joined in the mockery that was coming from the Jews on Jesus and mocked Him themselves. What they did was likely under Pilate's eye as he emerged later with Jesus to face the crowd. And so they took Jesus, it says in verse 27, into the praetorium.
Pilate wanted Him scourged. And then Pilate also wanted to have Him look like a King in jest, like a joker king. And then to bring Jesus out as this ridiculous joker king to show the Jews how stupid it was for them to think of Him as a threat to them or to Rome. And thus he might not have to kill this pathetic innocent man, who would kill such a pitiful claimant to be a king? By the time Pilate had Him whipped, and by the time the soldiers had created the mockery, and they brought out Jesus, surely that would be enough to satiate the crowd. Already bleeding from the scourging which had opened up His flesh to reveal His internal tissue, blood flowing, by now coagulating profusely, agony in every nerve, His whole body quivering in tortuous pain, He became the object of ridicule by this ignorant group of wicked soldiers. And it says in verse 28, they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. This wasa speira, it says in verse 27, a cohort of as many as 600 soldiers. We don't know actually how many were there handling Jesus, but they were part of a cohort, could be anywhere from 400 to 600 men. No Jews are there. They stay outside to prevent defilement at the Passover season by stepping into a Gentile area. So the soldiers have Jesus to themselves and their wicked minds.
It isn't that they reject Him as God, or reject Him as Messiah. They have no such knowledge. They treat Him the way rough, hard-nosed men used to death, used to prisoners, used to execution would treat any man. Only maybe they see Him even as a lesser than most. They have no interest in alleviating His agony. They have no concern for His suffering. They have no interest in healing His wounds. They are bent on the fun of aggravating His agony and mocking His foolish claims. Trained they are to torture. Trained they are to kill. Thirsty they are for blood and evil. They express the wickedness of the human heart in the definition that we could call ignorant wickedness. They had no personal reason to dislike Jesus. He had never been in conflict with them. He didn't interrupt their goals or their ideals or their prejudices, or their ambitions. He didn't get in their way. Yet they found great joy in His devastating pain. Their hearts were without kindness and without sympathy. And so they stripped Him. They literally undressed Him.
After the scourging, they stripped Him down and then they put on Him a scarlet robe. Over the exposed, tender, bleeding flesh, they placed a soldier's rough outer coat, the Greek word chlamus, rough against the tender wounds. It would have created increased pain. Scarlet, it says here, John says purple. Romans wore scarlet cloaks, that was kind of the color of the Roman soldier's garment. This one, having been in the sun, had faded to purple. John identifies it as purple, a faded scarlet, maybe purple because that was the color of royal robes. They picked one that had faded significantly so that they could carry out the mockery that He had claimed to be a king. If that isn't enough, to add that irritation to His wounds, verse 29 says, "They were weaving a crown of thorns and put it on His head. Cheap imitation of a royal wreath worn by Caesar, familiar to everybody because such a wreath was on the head of Caesar in his image imprinted on the coinage. They put a reed in His hand as a mock scepter and they began to kneel down before Him and mock Him saying, "Hail, King of the Jews." Sarcasm and ridicule intended to humiliate. And if that isn't enough, in verse 30 they spat on Him. This is the ultimate indignity, the most severe sign of disgust that can ever be given, I suppose, in almost every society, to spit on someone. This is nothing but a fool to spit on.
They have no idea of who He claimed to be. They have no idea what His message is. And then to continue the mockery and the scorn, they took the reed and began to beat Him on the head repeatedly, brutal amusement to show that any idea of this fool being a king was absolutely a joke. Pilate, by the way, finally stopped the fun and took Jesus out before the people, hoping that they would say, "That's enough." Hoping that they would look and say, "There's no way that a man like that could ever be taken seriously as a threat to us or to Rome." But when Pilate took Him out, according to the nineteenth chapter of John, the people just screamed for His blood. Verse 31, after they had mocked Him, and after the scene before the crowd who screamed for His execution, He came back in. The soldiers took His robe off, put His garments on Him and led Him away to crucify Him. The procession begins.
And as they were coming out, verse 32 says, out of the Praetorium to go up the way of the cross to the hill of Golgotha, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon whom they pressed into service to bear His cross. Executions, by the way, were always done outside the city, outside the city gates so the procession of humiliation went through the main streets of Jerusalem with a sign in front of the procession, or perhaps around the neck of the victim. A sign, of course we know what the sign said, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews." The sign was intended to contain the indictment against Him, and that was the indictment for which He was to be executed, that He claimed to be the King of the Jews. Execution also, by the way, was not only always done outside the city, but always done on a main highway. It was done on a main highway so the rotting flesh of the corpse could be seen and people could be warned as to what it means to violate Rome. Israel's roads were lined with as many as 30,000 crucified people during this period of time, agonizing testimony to the severity of punishment against crimes perpetrated on the Roman power.
Along the way they found a man of Cyrene named Simon who has become famous in history. Cyrene is an old Greek settlement in what is modern Lybia, North Africa, along the coast west of Alexandria, Egypt. This was a man of Cyrene named Simon. Simon is a Jewish name, a Jewish man from North Africa who had come to the city of Jerusalem for the Passover. There was a large settlement of Jews there. In fact, on the Day of Pentecost when the Apostles and the Christians, the 120, were given the ability to speak the wonderful works of God in many languages, there were people gathered, it says in Acts 2, from Cyrene. And so, Simon provides some relief by carrying either the whole cross or the crosspiece, pressed into service to bear the cross of Jesus. Verse 33, "When they had come to a place called Golgotha, which means place of a skull." Golgotha is an Aramaic word. The New Testament is written in Greek because it was inspired by God and they penned it in Greek, but the conversational language of the New Testament age was Aramaic in Israel. And this is the Aramaic word for skull. We talk about Calvary because Calvary is the Latin word for skull. They were headed to Skull Hill, a hill identified as Skull Hill probably because it looked like a skull. And they took Him there. And when they got Him there, verse 34 says, "They gave Him wine to drink, mingled with gall." Gall was a narcotic and gall was used to bring about a certain kind of restfulness on the victim of crucifixion. You say, "Was it for mercy?" No. It wasn't for mercy. It wasn't to alleviate pain. It wasn't to minimize pain. It wasn't to diminish suffering. It was for one reason, they gave it to the victim before they crucified him so that they could crucify him. Because any...any power left in the person would cause him to fight, to prevent what was happening from happening. And in order to be...in order to be able to lay that victim down and drive those nails through his hands and feet, they had to put him in some kind of a more tranquil condition. And it says there, "After tasting it, He was unwilling to drink, He spit it out."
He would bear the pain. He would not resist. It was not only by the wickedness of men, but Acts 2 says, "By the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God that He was crucified." He was going as a lamb to slaughter. He was going willingly to die for our sins and the sins of all who would ever believe. They didn't have to fight Him to nail Him there. He didn't need any calming agent because no one took His life from Him, He laid it down of His own will in obedience to His Father and for our redemption. And so verse 35 says, "And when they had crucified Him..." We have to stop there for just a moment.
It doesn't even describe the crucifixion. It doesn't tell us about the nails tearing through His hands and feet. It just says, "When they had crucified Him." It was nine o'clock on that Friday morning. It was routine for them. They had done it hundreds of times. And there was a little ritual that they went through. They divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots. This is prophesied in Psalm 22 verse 18. Every Jew had five articles of clothing...shoes, a head covering, a belt, or sash, an inner garment, and an outer cloak. And those would be equally divided. And there must have been four of them, I suppose, in this crucifixion operation. Somebody got the shoes, somebody got the head covering, somebody else got the belt, somebody else got the outer cloak. But there was that inner cloak and it was seamless, so they gambled for it, casting lots to see who got the extra garment. And verse 36 is really the sort of definitive look at the ignorant, wicked, "Sitting down they began to keep watch over Him there."
What a statement. They just sat there, utterly indifferent to who he was, utterly unmoved. They watched the fool they had mocked with cruelty and morbid sensation. They were just making sure that nobody came to take Him off the cross. And verse 37 says, "They put up above His head the charge against Him which read, 'This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.'" This was cynicism at its best, sarcasm for sure. Sarcasm directed back at the Jews. This was Pilate, and when they said, "We don't want that up there," Pilate said, "Whatever I've written, I've written, I'm not changing it." It was a blast at the Jews who had blackmailed Pilate to kill an innocent man and so Pilate identified Him as their king. They wanted him to put up, "He said he was the king," Pilate said, I'm not going to change it." There we meet the ignorant wicked.
Guilty of crucifying the Son of God? Yes, but ignorant. There are many like them today who reject Jesus Christ out of ignorance, a culpable ignorance, an ignorance for which God which God will hold them accountable. For had they had hearts opened to the truth, they could have known, they couldn't have known, they could have known.
The second group of wicked are not the ignorant wicked, but the knowing wicked, illustrated not by the callous soldiers, but by the crass robbers. Look at verse 38. "At that time two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right, and one on the left." Here we meet two more who fall into the category of wicked, but they're different. They're identified here as robbers. And the word used to describe them, robbers, is the word lesti which isn't simply a word for robbery, it's a word for bandit, klepti from which we get kleptomaniac is a word for thief. But these are really bandits. These are plunderers. They may well have worked with Barabbas since Barabbas was on the dock to be the one on that cross, not Jesus, and Pilate wanting to force the people to let Jesus go thought if he offered them Barabbas and his two cohorts, who were plundering bandits, they would certainly want to have Barabbas and his henchmen out of their lives because they had done so much deadly damage. So it's very likely that these two were somehow associated with the kind of crimes, if not the very crimes, of which Barabbas was guilty.
So on one side and the other side of Jesus are these two plundering bandits. And verse 44 says, "And the robbers...dropping down to verse 44...also who had been crucified with Him were casting the same insult at Him." It was a mockery event. It was a cynicism and sarcasm and scorn and blasphemy event. These were secular Jews who lived for the loot without thought of what was right or what was moral or what was good or what was noble. They would just as soon steal and kill from their people as look at them. They knew about Jesus. They were Jews. They wouldn't know the buzz about Jesus in their own country. They don't care about Jesus. They don't care about the Kingdom of God. They care about the money. They don't care about truths. They don't care about right and righteousness. They care about self-indulgence. They know about Jesus because it says in verse 44 that they were casting the same insult at Him that is in verse 42 and 43, He saved others, He can't save Himself...ha-ha...He claims to be the Savior of the world...He claims to be the Savior of sinners...He can't even save Himself...He claims to be the King of Israel...then let Him come down from the cross...He says He trusts in God, let God deliver Him. He said, "I am the Son of God, let God show that He is. So they repeat the same insults. They know what they are. They know Jesus made claims to be the Savior, to be the King, to call men to believe in Him. They know He said that He was the Son of God. And they throw those same claims in a mocking fashion right back in the face of Jesus.
They're worse than the soldiers. The soldiers were ignorant, they're not. They know the truth. But they're not interested in the truth. The soldiers mocked Jesus out of ignorance. They mocked Jesus with knowledge. They are materialists, caring nothing for spiritual matters.
And then there's a third group of wicked that appear in the scene, I guess we could call them the fickle wicked. They're not the ignorant wicked and they're not just the knowing wicked. They're the fickle. They're not the callous soldiers and they're not the crass robbers, they're really the careless passers-by, I guess. Look at verse 39, back up to 39, "And those passing by," they're just people milling along, going down the road and what are they doing? Hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and built it in three days, save yourself if you're the Son of God, come down from the cross." Down the road they go with but a glance at another crucified man. They have seen hundreds, if not thousands of them. They are a fickle group, these passers by because you remember, it was Monday of that week when Jesus came into Jerusalem and they had hailed Him as Son of David, they had hailed Him as Messiah at His triumphal entry, what we call Palm Sunday really was a Palm Monday.
Now it's life back to normal, a week or nearly a week, five days have passed since then. Life has gone back to the usual. Jesus hasn't done anything with His opportunity, they were ready to name Him king, they were ready to hail Him as Messiah. What did He do with it? Now look at Him. Certainly this was not the Messiah they hoped He would be. There's no miracle here. There He is, the laughing stock. The clown, the fool, and they joined the mockery. They too were hurling abuse at Him. Well they had already screamed for His blood, already demanded that He be executed from early that same morning. Now this dying, unrecognizable mass of bloody flesh executed by the very Romans they hoped He would overthrow. They were wrong on Monday, they concluded, this isn't the Messiah, kill Him. They had heard Him teach, seen His miracles, knew He raised Lazarus from the dead, but now they're hurling abuse at Him...imperfect tense, they were blaspheming Him continuously. Jesus didn't give them what they wanted when they wanted it, how they wanted it. They wanted freedom from Rome. They wanted prosperity, not forgiveness and not the salvation of their souls. Their souls were fine and so they add to the abuse being hurled at Jesus by the soldiers and the robbers, and it says wagging their heads. That's also a fulfillment, by the way, of Psalm 22. That's just a sign of mockery and scorn, just a way to show your abusive attitude. And they remembered that He had claimed to be able to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days and that He was speaking of the temple of His body. And they were mockingly saying to Him, "Oh, so you're the one who can save yourself. Really? Then let's see you do it. You're the one who is able to rebuild the temple and you can't even get off that cross?"
This is the fickle crowd. Boy, there are so many people like them even now, passers by who know about Jesus, at some time they identify with Him, but soon they blaspheme Him. They have heard they're better than the ignorant, they're better, I guess, in a sense than the robbers. They have a more complete knowledge. But they've all come to the point where they've said, "Yeah, you're Him, you're the Lord, you're the Messiah." But they turn against Him.
There's one last group of wicked people that appear in this amazing scene. They are the religious wicked. And they are the worst of all, illustrated by the corrupt leaders. Verse 41, "In the same way, in the same way that the soldiers had mocked Him, the robbers had mocked Him, the passers by had mocked Him, "In the same way the chief priests also along with the scribes and elders were mocking Him and saying, 'He saved others, He cannot save Himself, He is the king of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross and we shall believe in Him. He trusts in God, let Him deliver Him now if He takes pleasure in Him, for He said, I am the Son of God.'" And the mockery reaches its pinnacle in these religious wicked.
So, I say there was the torturous, physical suffering of crucifixion, but added to that was the horrendous blasphemy, mockery, scorn and ridicule coming out of the mouths of these wicked people, running on a spectrum all the way from ignorant wickedness to the religious wickedness of those who knew all the messianic prophecies backward and forward and had no reason to conclude that this was any other than the Messiah. But in their wretchedness they too blasphemed, chief priests, scribes, elders...that made up the Sanhedrin, the ruling body of Israel. They were the experts in the Old Testament. They were the ones that knew every Old Testament promise and every Old Testament prophecy. They had all the truth at their disposal and they knew everything Jesus taught, everything He said, everything He was, everything He did, every miracle. They knew He raised the dead. They knew He raised Lazarus from the dead. They knew it. There was no argument. It's common knowledge.
And they didn't talk to Him like the passing crowd did. The passing crowd were hurling abuse sort of at Him. They talked about Him, not to Him. "You, who are going to destroy the temple," that's one thing, that's talking right to Him. The crowd did that. But they talked about Him. "He saved others. He cannot save Himself." They spread their mockery and their abuse among the others.
And so, this is how Jesus is treated. And I think it's the same today. You have the ignorant people who reject Him. You have the knowledgeable people who reject Him. You have the fickle people who affirm Him for some time or superficially and then turn against Him becoming blasphemous apostates. And then you have the religious wicked who scholastically, theologically, interpretively reject the true Jesus of Scripture. It's like I said to that Catholic priest that night on the Larry King program. I said, "You keep talking about YOUR Jesus, there's only one Jesus and that's the Jesus of the Scripture." You can't invent your own Jesus. You're no different than the Sanhedrin, blaspheming the true Jesus.
So it was that He endured this wickedness. And He endures it to this very day, the callous, the crass, the careless and they hypocritical, the corrupt leadership. He endures it all. He endures it all. But you remember, hanging on the cross He said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." And a Roman centurion was saved, right? He rescued one from among the callous soldiers. And a thief was saved, right? He rescued one from the crass robbers. And some in that crowd were saved, by the time you get to Pentecost, thousands of them bowed the knee to Christ. And Acts 6:7 says, "Some among the priests were saved." And so the very fact of the grace of God is on display as the Lord reached in to that very crowd that day and redeemed some from each category of wickedness, and He's still doing it today...still. He is the friend of sinners. And we are here to give testimony to that, are we not? We come to this table from among these wicked people. Some of us come from the ignorant world. Some of us come from a knowledgeable past, having known the gospel and finally having believed. Some of us come from a fickle approach to Christ in the past and now we've made a full embrace of who He is. Some of us come out of false religion to the truth. And we're here to celebrate the cross where Jesus on our behalf said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
Father, as we think about this suffering of Your dear Son and our Savior, our hearts are filled with gratitude. We're not worthy of such grace whatever category or combination of categories might be a part of our background, our history. We thank You that Your heart cries out, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they do." We don't understand the horror of ignorant wickedness, or knowledgeable wickedness or fickle wickedness or religious wickedness. We don't understand what we do when we fall into those patterns and so You rescue us by grace. Some of us come right out of the worst kind of wretched ignorance. Some of us come out of a knowledge of the truth. Some of us come out of a background where we have tampered with the cross in the past and come and gone to and fro whether to commit to Christ or not. And some of us come from religions that would damn us. And we've all come to the foot of the cross and the wicked have been made pure through this sacrifice and Your grace. And so we come to thank You in this way which You have prescribed for us by remembering the Savior's body and blood given for us.


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Farm Grown
In April of 2012, the Fresno Grizzlies and the Grizzlies Community Fund released its new community program called Farm Grown.
The mission of Farm Grown is to promote the agricultural heritage and philanthropic vitality of the Central San Joaquin Valley through the building of meaningful partnerships in support of education and healthy living.
The vision of Farm Grown is to provide agricultural awareness, while strengthening knowledge of the farming tradition in the Central San Joaquin Valley. Through private and public partnerships, Farm Grown serves to promote education to children and adults, encourage healthy eating and exercise, and recognize leaders in agriculture who give back to their communities.
Why Farm Grown?
Farm Grown is important to the Grizzlies and Fresno because it captures the two most important elements featured in the organization. Fresno is rooted in a strong agricultural background, with one out of every five jobs in the Central Valley related to agriculture (source: Great Valley Center). Fresno County alone produces more than 350 commercial crops, worth nearly $5 billion.
Meanwhile, the Fresno Grizzlies are the farm team of the Houston Astros. These future major leaguers fine tune their skills during their time with the Grizzlies as they try to reach the Major League level. Stars such as Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner and many more played for the Grizzlies before becoming the MLB Stars of today.
How Will Farm Grown Be Put Into Action?
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With the purchase of each Farm Grown merchandise item in the Grizzlies Team Store, 10% will be donated back to the Grizzlies Community Fund as part of the Farm Grown efforts to fulfill its mission.
Learn more about this program with our brochure.
To read the Farm Grown Magazine click here.
Farm Grown also awards scholarships to outstanding high school seniors who pursue a degree in an agriculturally-related field. To read more about the Farm Grown scholarship visit here.
Learn More
Farm Grown was featured on California Bountiful, a 30-minute weekly program that airs stories on people, places and lifestyles that influence California. Watch the 30 minute segment on our Farmer's Market.
Read more about The Fresno Grizzlies Farm Grown Program in the following articles
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Aurora has been providing family-owned funeral homes with high quality caskets and other funeral products since 1890. We are proud to be a family-owned company that still maintains manufacturing facilities right here in the United States.
Homesteaders Life Company, founded in 1906, is a market leader. Homesteaders, a mutual insurance company, is dedicated to ensuring the security of policyholders' funeral funds and has maintained an excellent reputation for honesty and integrity for over a century.
Aurora and Homesteaders seek to help you take control of your business's future. We cannot prosper unless you do. Our two companies have been strategically aligned since 1998 in an effort to foster customer loyalty and create long-term partnerships with family-owned funeral homes. We continually seek a shared commitment to create future value for funeral homes through smart business planning.
Over 100,000 Homesteaders policies are tied to an Aurora casket, and the number is growing as funeral directors see the value in this partnership.
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Are science fiction literature authors correct when they write about solar flares causing Earth's communications to fail and causing catastrophes worldwide or is this simply a convenient plot device? The year 2013 has seen the most solar flares since 2003 because the Sun's magnetic field cycle is reversing polarization, as it does every 11 years. This reversal causes larger and more frequent solar flares, which explains why this year has seen a large number of these impressive solar weather occurrences in many years. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials say "the sun's normal 11-year activity cycle is ramping up toward solar maximum, which is expected in late 2013" (NASA News, 2013, found below).
Early in October the Earth was treated to a wonderful display of Northern Lights, illuminating the sky with brilliant dancing colors throughout the Northern United States and Canada. A solar flare directed at the Earth sent a larger than average stream of magnetized radiation at the Earth, which reacted with the Earth's own gravity and magnetic field, creating Northern Lights. This particular flare was a class M, which was not strong enough to disrupt any satellites or space stations orbiting the Earth but is still considered impressive by NASA's standards.
The question remains: how will these solar flares affect technology and are they dangerous to the Earth? Below are some informative links explaining what solar flares are, how they affect technology, and how they are studied.
What are solar flares and why are they important:
Solar Flare Theory Educational Web Pages (find it on the ipl2)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the Heliophysics Science Division offers a detailed look at solar flares, explaining what a solar flare is, why it's important to study solar flares, and what impact solar flares have. Additionally, this site reviews current research projects in the field of solar flares, such as the RHESSI Spacecraft.
NASA News (find it on the ipl2)
On June 8th, 2013, NASA announced that a class M solar flare had occurred on June 7th. NASA explained effects such as moderate radio blackout are common with class M solar flares. NASA officials also stated that increased solar weather activities, like flares, were likely to occur more frequently in 2013, as the magnetic field was likely to reach "solar maximum." The United States Space Weather Prediction Center with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association predicts that the solar flare activities are likely to increase late in 2013.
The Sun Also Flips: 11-Year Solar Cycle Wimpy, but Peaking (New!)
University of Wisconsin-Madison's Terry Devitt provides an in depth explanation of the solar flare and of solar maxes, explaining that the Sun's magnetic field reverses direction every 11 years, causing sunspots, solar flares, auroras, and geomagnetic storms. Devitt also discusses the effects of superflares and their potential global threat to the Earth.
The not-so Northern Lights: Solar Flare Slams into Earth to Display Majestic Aurora as Far South as Kansas, Maine and Donegal (New!)
The Daily Mail Online explains how a powerful solar flare brought the Northern Lights as far south as Kansas, Main, and Donegal (a town in Ireland). The site explains the phenomena and includes many lovely photos from Paul Cyr illustrating an Amish family experiencing the Lights for the first time. The Daily explains what a solar flare is, why it occurs, and that in December of 2013 this solar flare cycle will reach its peak, undoubtedly creating more Northern Lights.
How do they affect technology on the Earth:
The Effects of Solar Flares on Technology (New!)
eHow explains the Effects of Solar Flares on Technology in a manner that is clear and easy to understand. eHow explains the Sun's 11 year magnetic energy cycle and its effect on the rate of solar flare as it changes. The site additionally outlines the effect on the power grids, GPS technology, and mobile devices.
Could an Extremely Powerful Solar Flare Destroy all the Electronics on Earth? (find it on the ipl2)
In Jonathan Strickland's article with HowStuffWorks.com, he explains the nature of the sun, solar flares, and the potential for damage for our planet when a solar flare happens. Strickland explains that the majority of flares are absorbed in our atmosphere, creating Northern Lights and leaving the majority of people unharmed, but for people in space or at high altitudes skin cancer or irritation is a risk depending of the flare's classification; additionally Strickland explains the vulnerability of satellites and electronics. The last super-storm from the Sun happened in 1859, when a flare so powerful occurred that Cubans saw the Northern Light. Strickland explains that if a similar flare happened today, it would take months to repair the damage.
Solar Flare Warning Issued by NASA (New!)
On August 21st NASA issued a Solar Flare Warning as a storm hurtled toward the Earth at 3 million mph, interrupting some satellites used for GPSs and airline communications. The article from Inquisitor explains that 3 million mph is an average speed for solar storms. Additionally the Northern Lights is an extraordinary side effect of the these storms. When the solar radiation from the the flare hits the Earth's magnetic field, the radiation breaks up in the atmosphere creating the Northern Lights in the sky, which are brightest at the poles of the Earth where the magnetic field is the strongest.
Solar Effects (find it on the ipl2)
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Space Weather Predictions Centers (SWPC) offers detailed descriptions of solar effects, including solar cycles, solar-terrestrial effects (the solar weather's effects on earth), and a look at SWPC's other solar weather operations. The table provided on this site is particularly helpful in laying out the specific effects that solar weather has on the Earth.
How do we study the sun:
Scientists have High Hopes for Japan's Solar-B Mission Which has been Launched from the Uchinoura Space Port (find it on the ipl2)
Here the BBC's Jonathan Amos discusses Japan's new mission to study solar explosions. In September of 2006, Japan sent the spacecraft Solar-B into space carrying a probe, which will find out more about the Sun's magnetic fields that cause solar flares when their 11-year cycle changes, flinging radiation into space. Amos explains that the probe will act as magnet to study the sun, giving scientists the hope that with finer detail they will be able to predict solar flares more accurate and avoid disaster in the future.
The Classification of X-ray Solar Flares or "Solar Flare Alphabet Soup" (find it on the ipl2)
SpaceWeather.com gives a unique look into the science of classifying solar flares. By analyzing strength of wattage, or the measurement of light admitted from the Sun, in a measurement called an Angstrom, scientists are able to determine the classifications; for example 10^-5.5 watts measures up to a class M solar event. The site then explains how class X could lead to lasting radio blackout and radiation, class M would cause radiation in the Earth's magnetic field and radio blackouts around the pole, and class C are unnoticed by the public.
Strongest Solar Flare in Months Unleashed by Sun (find it on the ipl2)
NBC's Denise Chow offers a clear explanation of the class system for solar flares in a report of the event on October 9th, 2013, when at 9:48pm EDT one of the strongest solar flare in two months occurred. Chow illustrates the role of Earth's magnetic field and how the flare could disrupt communications on Earth.
Our Sun (New!)
This children's site illustrates the fundamentals of solar astronomy, highlighting key points like x-ray classification of solar flares, convection, thermonuclear fusion, and sun spots and winds. This site is particularly helpful because it offers HD video from NASA and the Kids Know It Network.
NASA Canyon of Fire on the Sun (find it on the ipl2)
Nasa's YouTube Channel offers look at an eruption of solar material that occurred in late September. The video illustrates how the Sun is actually made out of plasma, and as magnetic fields change cycles, eruptions, like solar flares, can happen. This video demonstrates that by analyzing the eruption at different wavelengths, as demonstrated by the multiple colors, scientists are able to study the magnetic field around the Sun.


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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has some great advice regarding heat-related issues
Often, the thrill of an outdoor activity, such as a camp, concert, hike or festival, overshadows heat-related illness concerns — until it is too late.
Every year, 90 percent of recorded heat stroke deaths occur during a football practice, reported the National Center of Catastrophic Sport Injury Research in March 2017.
"Since 1995, 61 football players have died from heat stroke (46 high school, 11 college, 2 professional and 2 organized youth)," the study found.
Cleveland Clinic warns each summer of the dangers of heat-related illnesses. Some of the most common are cramps, exhaustion and stroke.
Cramps occur when a body becomes dehydrated and lacks electrolytes, says Cleveland Clinic; the result is painful muscle tightening and spasms.
Heat exhaustion is worse in that feelings of fatigue, weakness, lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting and profuse sweating happen if a body has undergone prolonged exertion without proper hydration and electrolyte replenishment.
The most life-threatening is heat stroke, which means the body's natural heat regulation system is shutting down. Heat stroke is evident if someone is disoriented; stops sweating in a hot environment; has warm, red, dry skin; or loses consciousness. Immediate medical attention is needed if heat stroke is suspected.
For heat cramps and exhaustion, which can lead to heat stroke if not tended to, rehydration, rest, stretching and cooling are necessary.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advice regarding heat-related issues includes:
— Stay cool: Wear lightweight, loose-fitting clothing; stay in air-conditioned or shaded areas; limit outdoor activities to mornings and evenings on days when heat and humidity is especially high; and refresh with or in cool water when possible.
— Stay hydrated: Drink more fluids throughout the day instead of waiting until thirsty, avoid sugary drinks, and replace salt and minerals lost in sweat with a sports drink.
— Stay informed: Check weather conditions, know the warning signs of heat-related illnesses, and learn how to condition and protect the body to handle summer outdoor sports and activities.