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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Not Drinking The Kool Aid
Okay kids seeing as my email has been flooded with questions and comments regarding Ron Washam's (The HoseMaster of Wine) taking a leave of absence from the wine blogosphere I figured I had better say something about it here.
Let me first thank everyone for contacting me, very sweet of you all and it seems my relationship with Mr. Washam, our fun little banter and flirtation has forever linked us in many of our shared readers hearts and minds. I am not only okay with that, I'm honored.
Ron and I have never met, our somewhat different wine blogs brought us together and in him I have found a dear friend that I love very much. The HoseMaster's voice was a big one, lots of opinions and a fiercely sharp wit but…it was a voice. The man behind it is very sweet, very gentle and remarkably kind, and he is still very much alive so while I appreciate all the warm wishes and "are you okay?" messages I am beginning to feel like a widow over here. Ron Washam is alive and kicking people and while it is true that I, (and many others) will mourn the loss of a voice that has brought me hours of laughter I have not been handed a Dixie Cup of Kool Aid. No suicide pacts and this blog aint going nowhere!!
I had mentioned in an earlier post that I had been considering shutting Sans Dosage down so I can see why so many people contacted me when they read about The HoseMaster but as for now, right this second…my plan is to keep writing. This blog will be affected it won't be the same without HoseMaster's comments and I too may change a bit, I've lost my partner in this big bad blog world. The HoseMaster left me and I am going to have to get used to kinda standing out here on my own…damn I'm going to miss that voice and big shoulders that I got to stand on but as they say, all good things must come to an end…..and what we are left with is the stupid crap I write here.
I do want to thank everyone for the emails and all the encouragement, it is very much appreciated and I thought it was so damn sweet.
Thank you all
Not going anywhere
You're stuck with me for now…..
17 comments:
- Thomas said...
Why does shutting down his blog have to mean that Ron won;t comment here?
Or has he decided to abandon the "Net?"
No value judgment here--it's been on my mind, too.
- March 18, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I have no idea but I was warned that he would not be showing up here and for me that was like taking two blows...no HoseMaster posts and no love from him here either. I mean, I understand not wanting to write anymore but why you gotta leave me?!
I really couldn't tell ya kid and the whole deal is really just breaking my heart....
- March 18, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
Perhaps we have seen the last of HoseMaster (this happened once before I recall) but I doubt we have seent he last of Ron. Buck up there, Sam.
- March 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
I woke up this morning not wanting to read any blogs. My morning routine has just been knocked catawampus and I don't like it. But there is little question that I am simply going to have to get over it.
The HMW may only have been a fictional character, and it is so very true that Ron Washam, the person is not at all like the HMW when you meet him in person. But that does not change the fact that, even for me who has spent time tasting with Ron, the HMW became a place of refuge in my too frantic life.
I am hopeful that the place of humor in the wine biz has not been irretrievably lost. Maybe it is time for all of us to look for laughs when we post and not just wait for a brilliant satirist to deliver them for us.
Ron has just know posted what I think of the HMW epitaph on that website. " I'm not the HoseMaster in real life. But in real life I need a break from him. As you can imagine, he's a real jerk to live with. I won't miss him at all.
Now, go on, get out of here, you kids. Nothing to see here, no lonely barking poodles. Go home."
So, home I go knowing that Ron Washam is still a great satirist, will, from time to time, appear in emails or whatever. The HMW is dead. Long live the King, for he is still alive, and that is the real story.
- March 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Yeah, I'm with you Charlie...just not feeling the whole blog world right now and as a matter of fact I feel kinda homeless. Sigh. So see John, it's not just me..our little band of crazies has been snapped and some of us are feeling like we are just twisting in the wind.
Well said Puff Daddy...long live indeed.
- March 18, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Ron Washam said...
My Gorgeous Samantha, and Friends,
OK, the real reason I'm taking a hiatus is because Samantha wouldn't interview me. There, it's out in the open.
I am certainly abandoning wine blogs, but for Samantha's, which is an addiction I cannot kick. They were wonderful source material for comedy, but dreadfully dull otherwise. I certainly plan to participate here, with all of my friends, and with Samantha, whose love transcends friendship and is something far more meaningful. If I came back to HoseMaster, it only takes about fifteen minutes of reading almost any wine blog for me to be able to satirize it, so stepping away is pretty easy.
Yup, I disappeared once before, but under far different circumstances. The first time I left because the cheesecake shots dictated I needed to. This time my psyche dictated I needed to.
I'm not sure anyone who hasn't done it his whole life can understand the anger and self-loathing involved in writing comedy and satire. It was tough when I got paid big dough to do it, doing it for free seemed horribly self-destructive. Sure, I need a psychiatrist, but since I don't have insurance I have to self-prescribe. I prescribed a vacation, and maybe a long one, and maybe a permanent one.
There has never been very much humor in the wine business, to its detriment. One guy can't fill that void anyway. It has always been a business filled with wonderful and fascinating and smart people, but very few who can laugh at themselves and laugh at the smugness and self-congratulation and general absurdity and immodesty of the wine business. The blogs are filled with folks who take themselves and wine FAR too seriously. And they win idiotic awards like "Best Wine Descriptions on a Blog." I can proudly say I know I'm full of crap, and laugh about it. Many take that pose, but I can't think of many who actually believe it.
My Gorgeous Samantha,
I'm sorry to have hogged your comment board. Who am I, Puff Daddy Jr?
The gift of our love sustains me every day. No one admires your brilliance and talent as much as I do. No one loves you as much as I do. It is an honor to be part of your life, to know you as well as I've come to know you. We'll meet soon, Love, though I already feel like few know me as well as you do. Our online romance has sickened lots of folks, but you and I know that our blogs were our places to be together. Now those places are down to one. You know I'd never leave you. I'll be here.
I love you!
I'm flattered, and astounded, you all found me amusing, even talented. Charlie, thanks so much. Yes, that was sort of my epitaph, though I've always said that my headstone should quote the great novel "Scaramouche,"
"He was born with the gift of laughter, and the sense that the world was mad."
Thank you everyone. Samantha, Love, you can delete this if you like. I've gone on too long. Sheesh, I should get my own blog.
- March 18, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Delete such a sweet comment, no way no how. You see My Love you just proved my point....sweet and gentle man. Well aside from the giving me shit about the interview.
Cannot tell you how happy I am to hear that we will still have you here Ron. This place would not, could not be the same without you.
- March 18, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- K.Mahoney said...
So happy to hear The Breakfast Club will still carry on daily at Sans Dosage.
- March 19, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Marcia Macomber said...
Ditto all of the above comments, and, as always, Ms. Sans Dosage, you chose perfect photos for your post!
Word verification [serendipity]: "sjokes" Go figure!
- March 19, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
K. Mahoney,
So funny you should say Breakfast Club, I was just watching that a few weeks ago and found myself giggling as I tried to figure which one of those kids each HoseMaster commenter would be! I wanna be Judd Nelson.
Thanks lady! I adore that picture of Ron, so freaking him....
- March 19, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Ron Washam said...
My Gorgeous Samantha, and K.,
Considering the nature of HoseMaster, it probably should be the Lose Your Breakfast Club.
And I'm certain that an awful lot of bloggers are happy I've hung up my keyboard. There's a party at WineHarlots bordello! All the free samples you can drink!
- March 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- Thomas said...
Well, I'm glad there's still a place where I can throw a few spitballs at Ron.
Yes indeed, humor sorely lacks in the wine world, but that's only because most people in it aren't in it for anything loftier than their own edification; but what's new in business?
Still, I don't think that lacking humor or personal edification describes the majority of bloggers. They aren't in the wine business, never will be, and never should be. From my perch, they appear not to have much of a clue--not about wine, I mean. But they do know their hit stats.
- March 19, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Good to see the Little Rascals back together. Have you ever noticed that Carmen Miranda looks like Ron?
That's why I don't like blogs. I'm actually in the business, so I hope we keep laughing at and with each other.
- March 20, 2010 at 12:48 AM
- Thomas said...
I'm not a blogger either. vinofictions happens to be the brainchild of my evil twin, but I think I am slowly persuading him to shut up.
Did you see the baboon post yet?
- March 20, 2010 at 6:13 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I read the baboon post, very touching really. If you do silence your blog I hope like Ron you don't pull the plug. Leave it open just in case the mood strikes you or that "Shit I just have to say it" thing comes back.
Little Jimmie,
Yeah a very cool guy sent me a hilarious pictorial that pointed out how much Ron looks like Carmen. Made me laugh my ass off then I sent him a Dear John letter....just too soon after the HoseMaster's death, made me feel like I was cheating to laugh with another man....
See now I really do have a reason to keep this blog going, got to so everyone can come here to visit with one another. Now we just have to get Anon 1 to post over here from time to time. Not sure what its going to take but I draw the line at showing him my bananas.
- March 20, 2010 at 6:45 AM
You have bananas? What do you do with them?
- March 20, 2010 at 10:07 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Gasp! Sir Charles...what I do with my bananas is really none of your business! Do I ask you what you do with yours? Okay, if you wanna show me, or tell me yours I'll show and tell you mine....
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Well what a great joy and privilege it has been for us to be studying the book of Revelation. Wherever I travel, and I've been traveling a little bit in the last few months, people always ask me, "What are you preaching on at your church?" And when I tell them well we're doing Revelation on Sunday night, they become very envious. There is a new interest in the book of Revelation all across the country and it's been wonderful for us to be enjoying this great book and distributing tapes as we preach them here all across the country. There are so many people who just are eager to understand this tremendous, tremendous book.
Now tonight we come into chapter 11 and it's been a while since we looked at the text, the first part of the chapter. I want to give you just a brief sort of overview and feeling of it so you can recapture the essence of it. This is part 3 in a series from verses 3 to 14 on the subject of "My two witnesses," actually from the beginning of the chapter on.
In order to get in to chapter 11, and you can stay where you are, I need to read you some words from the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 11, just listen to them because I think they are a very important background. Paul in Romans 11:25 says, "For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And thus all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, the deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob and this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins. From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
Now what Paul is saying there is really a promise to the nation Israel of their ultimate salvation. Their hardening is only partial and it is only temporary. The day will come when all Israel will be saved. This is God's covenant with them when He promised to some day take away their sins. This is a matter of God's choice and the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable.
That little phrase there, "so all Israel will be saved," is a very important one. There will be a marvelous fulfillment of God's unbreakable promises to the fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And many, many times the Lord reiterated this promise. The Lord again and again reminded His people Israel that their day of salvation would come.
In Leviticus, way back in the Pentateuch, chapter 26 and verse 44, it says, "Yet in spite of this when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations that I might be their God, I am the Lord." Nothing is going to change God's unbreakable promise.
In the prophets, Jeremiah chapter 31 again reiterates this promise. These are not the only places but samplings of them. In Jeremiah 31 and verse 35, "Thus says the Lord who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, the Lord of host is His name, if this fixed order departs from before Me, declares the Lord, then the offspring of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever. Thus says the Lord, if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out below, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the Lord."
In other words, that is God's way of saying there is nothing that is going to cause Me to turn My back ultimately on Israel. That promise is as sure as the fixed order of the universe and the immeasurable immensity of the heavens and the secrets of the depths and foundations of the earth.
In Isaiah's prophecy, right toward the end of that great prophecy, in chapter 62, first of all, we read in verses 6 and 7 similar affirmation. "On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all day and all night, they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord take no rest for yourselves and give him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth." What he is saying is you just keep petitioning God until God acts and restores and redeems Jerusalem and makes them a praise in the earth.
Over in chapter 66 beginning in verse 8, "Who has heard such a thing, who has seen such things, can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons. Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery, says the Lord? Or shall I who give delivery shut the womb, says your God?"
In other words, am I going to come right up the moment of Israel's glory and not let it happen? No. Verse 10, "Be joyful with Jerusalem, rejoice for her all you who love her, be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her that you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, that you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom, for thus says the Lord, Behold, I extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. And you shall be nursed, you shall be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees as one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem." That is great, graphic, prosaic language to describe Jerusalem, a redeemed nation, a redeemed city that suckles the whole world, giving them, as it were, the milk of truth and righteousness in the day of her own restoration. The day will come when Israel will be born, born in a day. Has God cast away His people? The answer is no, no, no, a thousand times no. The time of Jacob's trouble which is known as the Tribulation time will become the time of Jacob's salvation. This is the comforting truth of Revelation chapter 11. This is the theme of this great chapter, at least the first part of it.
Now as we have reminded you from messages in the past, between the sixth and seventh trumpet that blow during the time of the Tribulation to announce cataclysmic judgment, between the sixth and seventh trumpet, there is a pause. And that pause which we have been studying began there in chapter 10 and runs down through verse 14 of chapter 11, that pause is to assure all that God will be gracious. In spite of the unrelenting judgment, in spite of all the disaster, the demon activity, the satanic effort, in spite of Antichrist's terror, in spite of the judgment, the fury, the vengeance and the wrath of God during that time, still God will be gracious. In chapter 10 we noted that truth will be preached, saving truth will be preached, according to verse 11. There will be the responsibility of some not only to write but others to preach, so that people can believe. And then in chapter 11, even during that time Israel will be saved.
I believe that it's during the Tribulation that Israel will be saved and the last events of the Tribulation will be the great movement of God that causes the most immense reaction in Israel to saving truth. Already we know a hundred and forty-four thousand Jews have been saved and they are a hundred and forty-four thousand witnessing missionaries all over the globe. They've been sealed to witness during the seven-year period. They are protected from death and they go about the world proclaiming the gospel truth. Already we know that they have had an effect. Gentiles have believed. Jews have believed. But in this scene in chapter 11 we meet two other preachers and they are the ones who really are used by God as the instruments of the final harvest of the nation Israel, right before the very end of the day of the Lord. They are identified for us as two witnesses and I believe that there have been Jews being saved since the hundred and forty-four thousand started preaching, but now there is going to be a tremendous response and we will note it as we finish this great section tonight. And it will be at the prompting and the preaching and under the power of these anointed two witnesses.
Let's look again at verse 3. "And I will grant authority to My two witnesses and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days clothed on sackcloth." Now let me remind you that this tells us about their duty, they will prophesy. These two men will preach warning. They will preach judgment. They will explain the coming wrath of God. They will explain what is going on at the present time since judgments have already been going on through the first of the seals and then the first of the trumpets and are about to break out in the final bowl judgments. They will be calling for repentance. They will be calling for belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Their duty, they will prophesy. Their attitude, verse 3 says they are clothed in sackcloth. The garments of sorrow, mourning, humility and penitence. Their identity, verse 4, they are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. I told you that the imagery here with the olive trees and the lampstands parallels Zechariah's prophecy chapters 3 and 4 where two olive trees and two lampstands represent Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the ruler. They were the two men that God used in ancient Israel with the power of the Spirit to rebuild and revive Israel after their captivity. God raised up those two olive trees, those two lampstands, Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the ruler, so be His instruments to bring revival and rebuilding to Israel. They were then the agents...the human agents of God's divine and ancient restoration of Israel physically and spiritually. They were the, you remember, the golden pipes through which the Holy Spirit's power flowed. Like them there will be in the end time two witnesses, two other men through whom God will flow in Holy Spirit power to bring about renewal, salvation, restoration of Israel. And the bringing in of the glorious Kingdom. He used two men in ancient Israel, He will use two men in the future.
The question always comes...who are they? We don't know. The best guess is they are Moses and Elijah come back to earth. That is a real possibility, we can't be dogmatic about that. We can't be certain. But they will be two very powerful servants of God. So their task, their attitude and their identity is made clear.
We come in verses 5 and 6 to their power...their power. Obviously if they're going to impact the world, if any two men were going to impact the world just two men, they would have to be very powerful, especially in the midst of what is going on. All of the horrifying things with demons that have been belched out of the pits of hell running loose all over the earth, two hundred million more demons loosed to not only sting man with stings that don't let them die, but to massacre men so that they are literally killed. Adding to that Antichrist and all the armies of the world in war. Adding to that the fury of the cataclysms that come on the earth by the judgment of God as the heavens collapse, you've got a horrifying scenario going on in the world, as I noted for you a few weeks ago the environmentalists ultimate nightmare as everything is collapsing.
In the midst of that, if two men are going to have any impact, they're going to have to be powerful men. And verse 5 says they are. "If anyone dares to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies." If anyone desires to harm them, and believe me, they will because they will be violently hated for preaching judgment, preaching wrath, preaching vengeance, preaching repentance. Some will repent at their preaching at first, but as the Great Tribulation, you remember, moves on to the sixth trumpet, people don't repent. The end of chapter 9 verse 21, they do not repent of their murders, of their sorceries, of their immorality or of their thefts. And when they refuse to repent, they will curse the preachers of repentance.
But God is merciful and just before the final blowing of the seventh trumpet which contains the seven bowls which is the final rapid-fire holocaust at the end of the day of the Lord, leading up to Christ's return and the establishment of His Kingdom which involves the destruction of all the ungodly, before that happens the Lord sends two final powerful witnesses. Like Enoch and Noah before the Flood, like Moses in Egypt before the judgments, like John the Baptist before the Messiah and the destruction of Jerusalem, God mercifully sends preachers to warn.
Now people are going to try to harm them. I mean, I think we're moving very fast in our own nation and the world around us to the place where Christian preachers who preach forthright messages of repentance and the gospel are going to be harmed. A very real possibility. By this time you can only imagine what they'll want to do to them. However, verse 5 says, "If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies." Now just imagine watching that on the evening news because that's where it's going to be seen. Somebody will come along and take a gun and fire the gun and the response will be "Haaa." The word devour, consumes. I think this is as literal a fire as it needs to be to burn up a literal body. If anyone, verse 5 says, would desire to harm them in this manner, he must be killed. It is necessity, it is absolute necessity. Why? Because they have to be invincible. And the message has to be sent loud and clear, you better not fool with those guys. People have done that and they've been incinerated instantaneously.
Now, folks, that's power. They are to be invincible because God doesn't want their preaching stopped. It is very important to the salvation of the nation Israel and to others. I believe many are going to die that way. I believe there's going to be effort after effort concocted to try to get rid of them. But everybody who tries will be instantly ignited and turned into ashes. I think many are going to want them dead. I think the world will endeavor to find strategies that can do the job and they will be unsuccessful because these two are absolutely invincible.
Now verse 6 tells us some more about why people are going to want to kill them. In order to demonstrate that they're from God and that they have power, it says, "These have the power to shut up the sky in order that rain may not fall during the days of their prophesying." That's an interesting thought. They have the power to shut up the sky in order that the rain might not fall during the days of their prophesying. We just read they're going to prophesy for how long? Three and a half years. We could conclude by that that it's not going to rain in the second half of the Tribulation. It may mean that it's not going to rain in the given place where they are doing their prophesying. It may mean that it's not going to rain for the duration of their prophecy, three and a half years. Perhaps that's a more likely understanding of the text because that seems to fit the experience of Elisha, doesn't it? Elijah rather. Elijah shut up the heavens for three and a half years. And they are going to be able to do that. You can only imagine with all of the disasters that are going on all over the globe, all of the horrifying destruction that is going on, when they shut the sky like it says of Elijah in Luke 4:25, James 5:17, when they shut the sky up and there's no water to quench the thirst, there's no water to water the animals, no water to water the plants, no water period, for forty-two months, for three and a half years while they're preaching and it doesn't rain and they're the ones doing this to the world, this is going to exacerbate the hatred that is already there from the impenitence who can't stand their preaching. The hatred will escalate as the crops die, whatever crops remain, as the people starve to death, as the world is in a three and a half year drought.
Whatever waters still exist, notice the middle of verse 6, they have the power over those waters to turn them into blood. Just like Moses did again in Exodus chapter 7 verse 20. Now remember, the waters have already been devastated. The second and the third trumpets just devastated the waters. Back in chapter 8 verse 8, the sea has already had a third of it destroyed. A third of it became like blood. A third of the rivers and springs, chapter 8 verse 10, became bitter like wormwood which meant they were no longer useful to drink. The waters have already been devastated, and now it hasn't rained. And now whatever water there is left, if they want they can turn into blood. And then the end of verse 6 says they'll smite the earth with every plague as often as they desire. Plague here, plague there, plague here, plague there, wreaking absolute and utter havoc all over everyplace. Certainly not a user-friendly duo. Their power is awesome. They make Samson look like a weakling. They preach repentance, they preach salvation, they preach grace, they preach forgiveness, they preach judgment to come and they are absolutely unstoppable. And everybody in the world knows about them. Every night on the news it will be there constantly...they're at it again. They spoke and there's a plague in this city. They spoke and there's a plague in this city. They spoke and all of the fresh water in this area of a certain country is turned into blood and can't be consumed and there's no water for the people. The drought is severe and people are dying of thirst. They're at it again.
Effort after effort after effort must be made to destroy them. And every time anybody gets near them, they are consumed by fire from their mouths until verse 7, "And when they finished their testimony," that's a very important statement. They're immortal. They are death defying and they are deadly, but only until their allotted time is done. As it comes down to the end, near the end of the three and a half years, the beast that comes up out of the abyss, by the way this is the first mention in the book of Revelation of the beast, there will be thirty-five more mentions, this is the first one, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them and overcome them and kill them. He's been at work for all the three and a half years, I'm sure trying to do this. This beast is none other than the Antichrist who made a pact with Israel at the beginning of the seven years, desecrated the temple at the midpoint, set himself up as God, and has been ruling the world since...as much as he could be ruling the world with it being overrun by demons and the wrath of God. Revelation 13 later will recapitulate his career through the Tribulation, we'll see the whole deal as we saw it in 2 Thessalonians some months back.
But the beast who is Antichrist comes up out of the pit, his home, the origin of his passion and character is hell. He is demon possessed. He is Satan empowered. He is a man. He is human. But he is empowered by the pit, the abyss, hell itself. And the Antichrist is victorious over these two preachers. The world is so glad that they're finally dead, verse 8 says, "Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified." The great city is Jerusalem.
The great city is Jerusalem. That's what he has in mind. It is called in chapter 21 and verse 10 the holy city, here it is called the great city. It is Jerusalem, there it is the heavenly, here it is the earthly. He also identifies it as Sodom and Egypt. The two most wicked places. Sodom a city, Egypt a nation, synonymous with wickedness, immorality, oppression, violence, godlessness. How sad. How sad that these men are killed in the city which was God's city, the city of God's people but it has become really better titled Sodom and Egypt.
You say why were they killed there? What's the point? I believe the reason they were killed there is because that is the place where the great majority of their preaching goes on because I believe they're the instruments that God uses to proclaim the saving gospel to Israel in the end that causes Israel's ultimate belief in their Messiah.
By that time Gentile power under the Antichrist will have overrun Jerusalem. The temple will have been desecrated. The Antichrist will set up his satanic rule there. Godlessness will reign so that that place is no different than Sodom, it is no different than Egypt, both terms being synonymous with the ultimate in pagan wickedness.
And then he identifies it clearly as Jerusalem because at the end of the verse he says, "Where also their Lord was crucified."
Preaching there they are, remember now, the Jews will still be in their land and they will still be there in that city and that's where they're preaching when their death comes. Please notice they're not buried. It says their dead bodies are in the streets. That city once holy, once again in the future to be holy, is now vile and in the streets of that city their bodies lie. Verse 9, amazing, "And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations," that's a familiar technical term for the Gentile world, the whole world, "will look at their dead bodies..." How will they do that? How will they do that? Television. That couldn't have been true before the invention of television. The whole world will look at their dead bodies. "For three and a half days and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb." They'll watch them decay. Three days is enough to see some severe decay. When Lazarus had been in the tomb only a few days, you remember the comment was, "By this time he stinketh." The unrepentant, unconverted masses will gloat with the Antichrist and give the Antichrist glory because He was able to kill these two whom no one could kill, but by whom many died. The morbid ghoulish display of hatred shows how hardened they are as they let those bodies just lie in the street decaying.
By the way, that was done in ancient times. When pagan people wanted to dishonor their enemies, they would leave their corpses lying in the street. That was the ultimate dishonoring, the ultimate denigration of someone. In Deuteronomy 21:22 the Bible says, "If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, he's to be put to death, you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, you shall surely bury him on the same day so that you do not defile your land." God says you bury him the same day he dies.
But here is a celebration, a wild celebration. The beast has killed these two preachers. And the world has a party. Look at verse 10, "And those who dwell on the earth," and they're all joining it by satellite, "those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry...get this!...and will send gifts to one another." Hey, here's your present, Happy Dead Witnesses Day. I mean, this is...this is the ultimate Christmas experience. There will be a wild party. Now do you see how deep the world has plunged into hellishness? Demons, two hundred million of them, running all over the earth. The pit has belched out bound demons who have been bound for centuries, to join the ones that have been loose. Cataclysms on the earth and in the heaven, the wrath of God, the wrath of Antichrist massacring any and all who oppose him. And in the midst of all these horrors, the devastation of fresh water, salt water, plants, animals, people, in the midst of all of this, what the world is really angry about are two preachers of truth. And when they're dead, the party is on.
Those who dwell on the earth, by the way, is a technical term for the unconverted. It's used twelve times in the book of Revelation. It's a technical term referring to the unbelieving. So the whole world by satellite TV joins the party and they make merry, the literal Greek word means to be of a jolly mind. How can they be happy in that mess? They are happy because these men who confronted them about their sins and iniquities and the judgment of God are dead. Their emotional response certainly parallels their spiritual condition. Amazingly they start giving presents to each other because of the relief.
Verse 10 says, "Because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth." The ungodly rebels, the unrepentant sinners, followers of Antichrist are so sick and so weary of the power of these two that they put on a party like the world has never seen. This has got to be the biggest party the world has ever known. This has got to be the ultimate Mardi Gras. They don't hate Antichrist, they don't hate Satan, they don't even hate the demons destroying them at the same time as much as they hate these two.
So we see their task, their attitude, their identity, their power and their death...now I want you to see their resurrection. I love this. Verse 11, this party doesn't last very long. Verse 11, "After the three and a half days...God understates things, doesn't He?...the breath of life from God came into them and they stood on their feet." Can you imagine some reporter standing there? He's got a microphone in his hand, and he's standing by the bodies and the camera is rolling and he says, "Well, ladies and gentlemen, they're dead and we're having a worldwide party to celebrate the death of these...they're getting up!! They're up!" The breath of life from God came into them, they stood on their feet right in the middle of the party. And again, with such understatement, the end of verse 11 says, "And great fear fell upon those who were beholding them." They went into an immediate paralysis. That's putting it mildly. The party, folks, is over. Here they come again. Unimaginable panic, unimaginable fear and they stand on their feet. They're not going to preach again, verse 12 says, "They heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, `Come up here!' And they went up into heaven in the cloud and their enemies beheld them."
Can you imagine just the panic worldwide as that is replayed on television over and over? They stood up, a voice said, "Come up here," and they just went up. It's a personal two-man Rapture. It is. And I think they'll be smiling as they go.
You say, "Wouldn't that be a perfect opportunity to preach? Why didn't the voice say...Now preach!...and maybe they'll listen? I mean, they've just risen from the dead." Jesus said this in Luke 16, "If they don't believe Moses and the prophets, they won't believe even though someone is raised from the dead."
Signs and wonders don't make the gospel believable. The Holy Spirit does. So they were raised and at the perfect moment when everybody into the signs and wonders concept would say...now preach. They just smiled and left with everybody watching. And God punctuated their little two-man Rapture with what we'll call the impact, verse 13. Here's the punctuation, "And in that hour there was a great...what? and when it says a great earthquake, it means a great earthquake, not just an earthquake, a great one, I mean another one. They've been having them for seven years, basically, and this is another one. "And a tenth of the city fell and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake."
The term that is used here in the Greek could refer to men of name, or men of note, or leaders, people of distinction. And there are some who believe that it could be an earthquake that devastates all the important buildings that house the leaders of Antichrist's operation and they're all destroyed, it's a very select earthquake in the sense that it kills the right seven thousand people. This may be the devastating destruction of his whole coterie. And the rest, verse 13, were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven...gave glory to the God of heaven. What does that mean? It's hard to be absolutely dogmatic, but the best approach is to see it, I believe, as the last of the Jews who are then living coming to faith in their Messiah. I believe it is an appropriate point for them finally to fulfill Zechariah, to look on Him whom they have pierced and mourn for Him as an only son, and for a fountain of blessing and salvation to be opened unto Israel. There it is, in Jerusalem. And certainly the dominant population of Jerusalem is Jewish. It is an appropriate way, I believe, at the end of verse 13 to describe Israel's salvation. I mean, the rest of the world, back in chapter 9 verses 20 and 21, don't repent when the sixth trumpet comes. They're beyond it. They're hard. But here these who were terrified gave glory to the God of heaven. The others refused to do that. They refused to glorify God. And they blasphemed God.
I think the Jews in that moment do what the Gentiles have been asked to do throughout the whole period. In Revelation 14:7 he said with a loud voice to all of the tribes and tongues and nations, "Fear God and give Him glory, fear God and give Him glory." I think that is tantamount to believing, to saving response...fear God and give Him glory. Chapter 16 verse 9, "But the men were scorched with fierce heat, they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues and did not repent so as to give Him glory." You see it. So giving in glory was responding with fear and repentance. I believe then at the end of verse 13 when it says they gave glory to the God of heaven, that was a saving response. They were fearing God, worshiping the true God, repenting of their sin because that is how glory is given to Him...and those references in chapter 14 verse 7 and 16 verse 9. Giving glory to God is an appropriate response. They had heard the preaching of these men for a long time. They had heard the preaching of the hundred and forty-four thousand. The gospel was available to them. Finally in that moment the remaining remnant of Israel, I believe, is described as believing.
If you go back to the gospels in to Luke 17, you certainly remember the cleansing of the ten lepers, only one of them came back. And He says, "Your faith has made you well," literally sozo, your faith has saved you. But He says this in verse 18, "Where are the nine, was no one found who turned back to give glory to God except this foreigner?" And He defines giving glory to God as your faith which has saved you. In John chapter 9 and verse 24, that same concept of giving glory to God is associated with salvation. A second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, "Give glory to God." The Jews were saying to him you need to respond to God in a proper and appropriate way.
In Acts 12, that most remarkable account, verse 23, "Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him...that is Herod...because he didn't give God the glory, he was eaten by worms and died." Giving God glory is the proper worship, the proper response, the proper fear, the proper repentance. And I believe here we can see it as a descriptive of true faith. I believe at this point you have that culmination then of Israel's salvation. The interlude ends. Verse 14, "The second woe is past, the third woe is coming quickly." The second woe was the sixth trumpet, the first woe the fifth trumpet, the last woe will be the seventh and final trumpet. I believe he's saying Israel will believe. And after that comes the rapid-fire bowl judgments which compromise the seventh trumpet that make up the end. And then the Lord returns.
We have come then to a climactic point when we see the belief of Israel. In Acts 3, I want you to notice three verses, verses 19, 20 and 21. Acts 3:19 Peter says, "Repent therefore," he's speaking to the Jews, "Repent therefore and return...that is to God...that your sin may be wiped away...then follow...in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus the Messiah appointed for you whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things, about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time."
What is Peter saying? He's saying when you repent and you return to God, the times of refreshing will come, that's the Kingdom, the Messiah will come and He will institute the period of restoration promised in ancient times. IN other words, you repent, the King will come and set up the Kingdom. And I believe what you have indicated in that very subtle little statement at the end of verse 13 of Revelation 11 is the final expression of the faith of the nation Israel. They are regathered, restored, converted. Final judgment comes in rapid succession and the King arrives, destroys the nations of the world and all the ungodly and sets up His Kingdom just as the prophets said.
Now as we come then to the seventh trumpet, we come to the very end. You say, "Why does the book go on and on from there?" Because it recapitulates and goes back and describes the career of Antichrist, describes the one-world church, describes the one-world economy, goes back historically in ways that fill in that seven-year period, and we'll be looking at that in the future. Next time, in a few weeks, we will look at the seventh trumpet that is blown starting in verse 15. Father, we thank You tonight for this tremendous portion of Scripture which gives us such great confidence and hope in the fact that You are a God who keeps His Word. You made Your promise to Israel and You will indeed fulfill it. We bless Your name for that. We praise You for that. We thank Your for this glimpse of the future redemption of Your people who will one day give glory to You as You have pleaded with them to do. Lord, until that day and in the light of things to come, may we be faithful to call many sinners to righteousness. May we be faithful to proclaim the saving gospel that will deliver men from the holocausts in the time of the Tribulation in which many will die, few will reach the end. Father, help us to know that the wrath is on the horizon. We need to be faithful to call men and women to righteousness. We do pray for Your nation Israel, we continue to pray that You will be gracious to them and ultimately You will redeem them as You've promised. And until that great day of redemption that You may continually be gracious to a remnant, even in this age, and bring them to Christ. We thank You that You've given us Your Word which leaves us with such a clear understanding of the past, the present and the future. May we live in the light of it, knowing Your terror to come may we persuade men to come to You, even as the two witnesses will, preaching salvation and deliverance from judgment to come. We thank You for our fellowship again tonight. We commit it all to You in the Savior's name. Amen.
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Hi Everyone,
Well I am back and had such a great time, Lee and I spent some quality time together. I got up at 04:00 on Sunday morning and we left the house at 06:00. He said I needed to make myself comfortable because I had a long journey in front of me so off we set.
I was so shocked when we will pulled up at Birmingham Airport I said to him where am I going. Well he still wouldn't tell me he carried on pulling the case and then we got to the check out and that's when I saw I was going to DUBLIN I just couldn't believe it.
We had a great time, I did have to keep checking to see if Alex was ok but he was fine. He is now back home with me and into everything but I have missed him so much.
It's just the case now that Lee will be 30 next year and I have to arrange something for Lee's Birthday.
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Bulldogs Seeking Third Straight Winning Ivy Season
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The regular season comes to an end with visits from Princeton and Penn this weekend. The Bulldogs host the Tigers on Friday and the Quakers on Saturday. Both games begin at 7 p.m.
Princeton (9-2 Ivy) is in first place in the Ivy League, a half-game ahead of second-place Harvard (9-3). The Bulldogs, who knocked off the Tigers 69-65 on Feb. 9, have a chance to sweep the season series for the first time since 2008. Yale also has a chance to win both games against Penn for the first time since 1967.
The Bulldogs (12-17, 6-6 Ivy) are tied for third place with Brown. Yale has placed fourth or better in league play in each of the last 12 years and is looking to finish with a winning league record for the third straight year and for the fifth time in the last seven years. The Bulldogs were picked to finish sixth in the preseason media poll and seem poised to place higher than projected for the sixth time in the last eight years. The future looks bright as well. The Bulldogs have seven freshmen or sophomores averaging at least 14.1 minutes per game, and players who return next year have scored 1,341 of Yale's 1,929 (69.5 percent) points.
Austin Morgan remains third in the nation in free throw percentage (.908, 89-of-98). Davidson's Nik Cochran (.955) is the Division I leader. The Bulldogs continue to lead the league in rebounding margin (+3.6) and offensive rebounds (12.2 per game).
Three Yale seniors will be making their final appearance in the John J. Lee Amphitheater this weekend. Michael Grace, Sam Martin and Austin Morgan have all made outstanding contributions to the Yale basketball program over the last four years. They will be recognized prior to Saturday's game. Combined, they have played in 319 games, scored 1,770 points and helped the Bulldogs to nearly 50 victories.
• Matt Townsend, who has been named to the Ivy League Honor Roll the last two weeks, is averaging 14.7 points and shooting 65.4 percent from the field in his last three games. He scored a career-high 19 points in last Saturday's victory over Cornell.
• Brandon Sherrod also had a career night against the Big Red. He had 13 points, nine rebounds and five blocks, all career highs.
• Sam Martin is shooting 53.3 percent (16-of-30) from three-point range in Ivy games.
The Bulldogs have swept the Princeton-Penn home weekend four times during James Jones' tenure as head coach at Yale, including last year.
Yale is 3-2 in its last five home games with Princeton, including a 58-54 victory last year. Overall, the Bulldogs are facing the Tigers for the 227th time. Princeton holds a 144-82 advantage in the series.
The Bulldogs have won two of the last three games with the Quakers at Lee Amphitheater, including a 60-53 victory last year. Penn, though, leads the all-time series 146-71.
Javier Duren scored 13 points to lead three players in double figures as the Bulldogs knocked off the Tigers at Jadwin Gym. All nine Yale players that saw action scored and all but one had at least one rebound. Sam Martin was a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point range and finished with 11 points. Austin Morgan also scored 11, and Justin Sears contributed nine points. Nick Victor and Jeremiah Kreisberg each had seven points. Yale's bench outscored Princeton's reserves 34-10. The Bulldogs shot 54.8 percent from the field.
Yale went to what it does best to earn a victory at the Palestra on Feb. 8. The Bulldogs grabbed 21 offensive rebounds and turned them into 19 second-chance points. Yale shot just 33.9 percent from the field in the game, so the performance on the offensive glass was much-needed. Armani Cotton scored 15 points to lead four players in double figures. Matt Townsend added 12 points and Javier Duren and Sears scored 11 each.
The Tigers (16-9, 9-2 Ivy) are led by Ivy League Player of the Year candidate Ian Hummer. Hummer is second in the Ivy in scoring (16.3 ppg), fifth in rebounding (6.6 rpg), fourth in field goal percentage (.532), third in assists (4.0 apg), eighth in free throw percentage (.721), ninth in steals (1.3 spg), seventh in blocks (0.8 bpg), 10th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.4:1), and seventh in minutes (33.7). Princeton leads the league in scoring defense (57.0 ppg.) and field goal percentage defense (.415).
The Quakers (8-20, 5-6 Ivy) play at Brown on Friday. Miles Cartwright (13.4 ppg.) leads the team in scoring. The Quakers are coming off a 75-72 victory over Harvard last Saturday. Tony Hicks, who averaged 23.5 points in two games last weekend, was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the second consecutive week. Hicks has led the Quakers in scoring in four straight games.
The 2013-14 schedule is starting to take shape and it looks to be another challenging one for the Bulldogs. Tentatively, Yale is set to play at UConn, Rutgers, Mercer, Lafayette, Hartford, Providence, Albany and Saint Louis in non-league play. The season will kick off with the Connecticut 6 Classic on Nov. 9. Yale's home opener will be Nov. 20 against Sacred Heart. The Bulldogs also have home dates with Bryant, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Two Yale graduates are playing professional basketball overseas. Edwin Draughan '05 is averaging 15.1 points for Fribourg in Switzerland. He is second on the team in scoring. Draughan started all 113 games of his Yale career and scored 1,413 points. Greg Mangano '12 is with Forca Lleida in Spain's LEB Gold League. After signing in January, Mangano has played in seven games and is averaging 8.1 points and 5.3 rebounds. He was a two-time first team All-Ivy selection for the Bulldogs. The two are part of a long list of players that have earned professional opportunities during James Jones' tenure as the head coach at Yale. Ted Smith (England), Matt Minoff (Israel), Paul Vitelli (Italy), Dominick Martin (Spain), Paul Nelson (England), Matt Kyle (Portugal), Caleb Holmes (Iceland), Ross Morin (Switzerland), Alex Zampier (Argentina) and Eric Flato (England) have all played overseas. Zampier (NBA D-League), Travis Pinick (NBA D-League), Reggie Willhite (NBA D-League) and Neil Yanke (tryout with Los Angeles Lakers) had opportunities in the United States.
The Yale Athletics Department is hosting a raffle and silent auction during Saturday's game with Penn. Proceeds from the fundraiser will be donated to the Newtown Park and Recreation's Dickinson Memorial Playground Gift Fund in honor of the children of Sandy Hook.
The silent auction will take place, before and during the game, on the concourse of Lee Amphitheater.
Silent Auction items as of Monday, March 4th:
• Two (2) seats and a parking pass to the 2013 Yale Harvard Football game
• Two (2) seats and a parking pass to the 2013-2014 Yale men's hockey game vs Harvard at Ingalls Rink
• Two (2) seats and two passes to the Ivy Lounge for the Yale men's basketball game vs. Harvard at JLA
Courtesy of Yale Athletics
• A round of golf for (4) four, carts included during the 2013 Yale Golf Season
Courtesy of The Course at Yale
• Four (4) tickets to a 2013 Red Sox Game Courtesy of Coca Cola, game TBD
• Four (4) tickets to a 2013 Mets game
• Section: 121 Row:9 Seats 13-16
• Game: TBD
• Two (2) tickets to a 2013 Knicks game courtesy of Anheuser Busch, Game TBD
• Overnight accommodations at the Study at Yale for two (2)
• Two (2)Tickets to the May 3rd Performance of American Idiot at New Haven's Shubert Theater
• Dinner for two at the Heirloom, located inside The Study at Yale
Package courtesy of the New Haven Register & The Study at Yale
• Two (2) gift baskets Courtesy of The Shops at Yale


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If you can get over your giggling at the fairytale premise of ABC's"Once Upon a Time"(7 p.m. Sunday, ABC; 2.5 stars out of 4), you're probably going to delight in the new drama from the writers of "Lost."
That's a big "if."
Here's the idea: Characters from a fairytale world that includes Snow White, Prince Charming, Seven Dwarfs, Gepetto, Jiminy Cricket and Rumpelstiltskin have been magically transported by the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) to modern Storybrooke, Maine, without memory of their original identities. Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), for example, becomes Mary Margaret Blanchard, a teacher on her way to becoming a spinster because she just can't find her Prince Charming, until he comes along in the form of an unidentified coma patient (Josh Dallas).
The Evil Queen has now taken the form of the town's evil mayor, who adopted a child, Henry (Jared Gilmore), who reads a book a fairy tales given to him by Mary Margaret like it's a crystal ball. It tells the story of all the townfolk's real identities and can be used as a roadmap to expose his adopted mom's wicked ways. He seeks out—oh, wait, spoilers!
Anyway, Mayor Regina/the Evil Queen feels her grip on the town and her control over the fairytale folks are threatened by bounty hunter Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison). When Emma, Henry and Mary Margaret meet up, they begin to unravel the mystery in hopes of getting everyone back to their fairytale home.
You can tell a couple of "Lost" writers—Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis—created the series, and that "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof was a consulting producer, whatever that is. The story slingshots back and forth from the fairytale world to Storybrooke, and the mystery and intrigue seem like they will build and build and... You get the idea; resolutions could come slowly.
Yet Horowitz and Kitsis are clever and playful in how they insert the fairytale characters into the present day, which kept my interest even when, as I said earlier, I was chuckling. But maybe that's a good sign the show will remain enjoyable. "Once Upon a Time" is just as charming as a prince.


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Locals: Marathon 'will never be the same'
Boston, a highlight for Bay Area racers, now forever marked by death
Jo Anne Rowland of Concord was 20 seconds from the finish line of the Boston Marathon - and the finale of her marathon career - when she heard the first boom.
"It was big, it was loud. Everyone knew right away it wasn't fireworks," said Rowland, a 65-year-old retired television technician with 20 marathons to her name.
It was, she said, the moment when the world changed - possibly forever - for the hundreds of thousands of people who each year run 26.2-mile races through Boston, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and scores of other U.S. cities.
"You watched the planes hit those towers, and you knew nothing would ever be the same again," Rowland said Monday. "That's what this was like. The Boston Marathon will never be the same."
Boston is a dream destination for amateur long-distance runners, the only city marathon where most participants need a qualifying time to enter. The bombings Monday that killed three people and injured more than 140 introduced an element of danger and fear that had never crossed runners' minds.
"People work so hard every year to qualify for Boston. It's something I've been trying to do myself," said a tearful Carol Valdez, an employee at the See Jane Run store in Danville who was attempting to reach a half-dozen friends who ran the marathon.
"To think," she said, "that something like this would happen at an event where people come together for the love of the run - it's just devastating."
Valdez was far from alone in trying to reach friends and loved ones. According to a list of marathon entrants, hundreds of people from the Bay Area were among the 23,000 runners in Boston.
There were 26 from Berkeley, 20 from Palo Alto, 15 from Fremont, five from Santa Rosa.
Urgent messages
All afternoon, people sent out frantic text messages and Facebook posts - like one to runner Ethan Veneklasen of Danville: "Ethan, say something! Are you OK, brother??"
Another person posted: "Ethan please check in."
And Veneklasen, 43, finally did.
Turns out, when the bombs went off, Veneklasen was a few blocks away, nursing tender legs and refueling in a Mexican restaurant.
An hour earlier, he had crossed the finish line to complete his first Boston Marathon. His wife, Emma Winfield, had looked on - cheering his accomplishment from what would later become the blast area.
"That was exactly where she had been standing," Veneklasen said in a telephone interview from his hotel. "I'm glad I trained as hard as I did, and was as fast as I was, so we got out of there before it all happened."
'Amazing' event
Before the explosions, the marathon had been an "amazing" event, he said, with fans and supporters from around the world packed 10-deep along the course in the last couple of miles. Runners urged each other on, he said, saying, "C'mon," and, "Keep going."
"I don't even know what to say about this - it's still kind of an unbelievable shock," Veneklasen said. "It's just dreadful. For rational people, we can't wrap our heads around it."
Sam Roake, a 77-year-old retired engineer from San Francisco, was less than a mile from the finish line when he heard two booms. He said it sounded like a starter's pistol or a cannon, which didn't make sense.
"Race officials jumped across the track and said, 'We've been given orders to stop the race,' " Roake said. "Then all of a sudden all these ambulances headed toward the finish line."
After runners sat in the street and talked for more than a half hour, the word came down that the race was over.
"They said our medals would be mailed to us," said Roake, who stayed warm thanks to a stranger who lent him a coat. "That's the way it ended."
Roake said that he loves big-city marathons and all that they represent - and that people should keep running.
'Can't let our lives stop'
"One, these people are terrible," he said of whoever set the bombs. "Second, we can't let our lives stop because of them."
But there was a sense that something fundamental was lost because of Monday's bombings.
"It's a really special thing to run the Boston," said Wendy Newman, 63, of San Francisco, who ran the marathon in 2010. "The energy in the days before and the spectators are amazing. It's something you want to do at least once in your lifetime. I soaked it all in.
"Nobody's thinking anything bad. Everyone's got a smile on their face - and then this - the juxtaposition. It's horror."
Karen Toste, director of the Bay Area chapter of Team in Training, a running organization that raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, said, "The bottom fell out of my stomach when I heard the news.
"We train people for these endurance events, something where they'll have a truly meaningful experience, where they raise money to save lives," she said. "To have that greatness sullied by a tragedy like this, it's just awful. You think nothing like this could happen to you, especially at an event like that. It's just very jarring."
San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Nanette Asimov contributed to this report.
Boston Marathon blasts
Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, an apparent terror attack that prompted President Obama to vow that those responsible will "feel the full weight of justice."
Fatalities: At least three.
Injuries: More than 140 people were hurt, including victims with lost limbs, broken bones and shrapnel wounds.
Detonations: Two blasts, about 10 seconds apart and about 100 yards from each other.
Investigation: The motive remains unknown, there has been no claim of responsibility, and police have no suspects in custody.
See story, A9
Demian Bulwa and Carolyn Jones are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Office of Vital Statistics keeps records of all births and deaths that take place in Onondaga County. The Office provides birth and death certificates by request and can also perform genealogical research.
Requests for certified copies of birth and death records can be made by mail, fax, online or by visiting the office. Proper ID is required. The fee for a birth or death certificate is $30.00. Additional copies of the same certificate are $15.00 each, when ordered at the same time. Regular mail requests will take about 7-10 business days. Express shipping is available for an additional fee.
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BAFTA nominations!!
We are delighted that 2 of our directors have been nominated for a BAFTA award! Announced this morning, both Kieran Evans (director of Kelly+Victor) and Scott Graham (director of Shell) have been nominated in the category of Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer.
We are very proud of our directors and their films, and wish them both good luck.
The EE British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday 16 February 2014 (the Awards will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One). For full listings of the awards, please click here.
Kelly+Victor Shell
Kelly + Victor is a haunting, candid depiction of a young couple embarking on a passionate and transgressive love affair, from the acclaimed novel by Niall Griffiths.
When Kelly (Antonia Campbell-Hughes Bright Star) meets Victor (Julian Morris 24, Once Upon a Time) on the dance floor of a Liverpool nightclub, the attraction is instant. After wandering through the night they find themselves at her flat, making love with a passion and urgency that neither had experienced before. Both Kelly and Victor are struggling to get by as best they can, while the people around them are choosing illegal lifestyles; she is escaping a brutish former lover, while he is being dragged into a world of drugs. Its when they make love that their darker instincts take over.
Directed by Kieran Evans, Kelly + Victor is a devastating story of obsessive love anchored by two complex but tender performances.
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Shell is a 17-year-old woman who lives and works at a petrol station in the desolate Scottish Highlands. Apart from the occasional customers who call by for fuel, and a few regulars who acknowledge and catch up with her, Shells only company is her reserved and softly spoken father Pete (Joseph Mawle), to whom she is devoted.
A young girl trying to find her place in the world, she is on the cusp of womanhood, struggling to re-imagine her role within her own family and life in general. Pete, meanwhile, is damaged goods. He still keenly feels the absence of his wife, who ran away when Shell was four, while his connection with his daughter is both difficult and disturbing.
An assured debut feature starring Joseph Mawle and newcomer Chloe Pirrie, Shell marks the arrival of Scottish writer-director Scott Graham as a distinctive new voice in British cinema.
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Over the course of about five years, Sarah and I managed to pay off two car loans, replace both of those cars, pay off several student loans, pay off seven credit cards, pay off three or four additional consumer loans, and buy a house and pay for it in its entirety. We're debt free because of those moves.
Don't get me wrong, we were aided by the fact that Sarah and I both had strong jobs and The Simple Dollar and my computer consulting work were both notable revenue streams for our family. However, you don't pay off $280,000 or so in debt over five years without other serious changes in your life.
Along the way, we made a lot of sacrifices.
We made our own laundry detergent, our own window cleaner, our own bread, and countless other things.
We strived to make every meal at home, and strived to make as many of them under $10 as possible (with enough food to feed the five of us with leftovers).
We gave up many of our older forms of entertainment (like going to the movies and going to live baseball games) and sold off many of our collections, some in their entirety.
We strung up lines in our basement to hang up clothes so we could save the fifty cents or so it would cost to run the dryer.
We made most of our Christmas gifts from scratch.
We would spend long stretches – more than a month at a time – not engaging in any entertainment with additional cost. That meant no going out and no buying of new entertainment material.
A large portion of our wardrobes came from secondhand stores.
On top of that, Sarah and I both devoted a lot of our time to earning as much as we reasonably could. Together, we built up The Simple Dollar and the computer consulting work and Sarah was able to take advantage of a few additional professional opportunities as well. These choices ate up a lot of our remaining free time for years.
These decisions (and many others) were not ones we had to make. They were decisions we chose to make. We achieved our goal of debt freedom so quickly because we made a lot of sacrifices along the way.
Naturally, we could have rejected any of these things. If we had listened to the siren's call of "we deserve this" or "oh, this treat is just a part of my morning routine" or "it sounds like too much work" or "I want it and I want it now" or countless other excuses to open up the wallet, we would have never achieved our goal this quickly.
Trust me, I know. I make similar excuses when it comes to working out and eating a healthy diet. There's always a reason not to do it.
That means I know firsthand how those excuses result in not achieving what you want and not making progress toward your goal.
If you want something in your life, you're going to have to give up something else to get there. You can't have everything. It doesn't work that way.
What are you going to give up to achieve what you want? It really comes down to how important financial freedom is in your life. For us, we finally came to the realization that it was paramount.
For others, it might be a high priority, but not the highest. For yet others, it might be pretty low on the priority scale (but, honestly, those folks aren't reading The Simple Dollar).
The higher the priority you give it, the faster you will achieve it. Keep that in mind every time you're faced with a tough decision when it comes to your financial goals or other big goals you have in your life.
As for me… I think I'll go jogging now.


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Far back in the Prospect Cemetery at Glasnevin you will find this sort of 'island' of graves. You must cross a bridge over a 'moat' of crypt doorways in order to get to the graves. As you walk through the cemetery, observing fields of graves row upon row, this 'island' set apart seems a strange find.
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ATLANTA, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/29/13 -- Holzer Holzer & Fistel, LLC has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of purchasers of Yum! Brands, Inc. ("Yum!" or the "Company") (NYSE: YUM) common stock who purchased shares between October 9, 2012 and January 7, 2013, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that YUM! knew but failed to adequately disclose that: (a) slowing economic trends in China were stronger than reported and could not support the forecasted sales results for the Company's China Division nor the Company-wide increased EPS growth; and (b) the Company's own food safety inspections had already found that Chinese chicken supplier Shandong Liuhe had sold the Company chickens with high levels of antibiotics and other illegal drugs and/or chemicals. On November 23, 2012, reports in the Chinese media revealed issues with toxic chemicals being fed to chickens sold to KFC China. On January 7, 2013, Yum! announced it was lowering its sales forecasts for its China Division in part due to the "adverse publicity associated with a government review of China poultry supply." The price of Yum! stock declined significantly following these disclosures.
If you purchased YUM common stock during the Class Period, you have the legal right to petition the Court to be appointed a "lead plaintiff." A lead plaintiff is a representative party that acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Any such request must satisfy certain criteria and be made no later than March 25, 2013. Any member of the purported class may move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. If you are a Yum! investor and would like to discuss a potential lead plaintiff appointment, or your rights and interests with respect to the lawsuit, you may contact Michael I. Fistel, Jr., Esq., or Marshall P. Dees, Esq. via email at email@example.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com, or via toll-free telephone at (888) 508-6832.
Holzer Holzer & Fistel, LLC is an Atlanta, Georgia law firm that dedicates its practice to vigorous representation of shareholders and investors in litigation nationwide, including shareholder class action and derivative litigation. More information about the firm is available through its website, www.holzerlaw.com and upon request from the firm.
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