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The Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island has donated more than $12,000, which was raised during its 3rd Annual Casino Night, to the Beacon of H.O.P.E. for their Community Learning Programs.
Casino Night Committee member Scarlett Player said the annual event, which was held at the Tarpon Lodge on April 27, was a great success. She said they raised $12,100 in one night, which is awesome.
"We look forward to doing it again next year," she said.
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The event originally started, Player said, because they had quite a few Kiwanis members who volunteered their time for the Beacon of H.O.P.E. Students Achieving Success (SAS) program. She said it was brought to the club's attention that the program needed funds.
Since the Kiwanis motto is helping one child and one community at a time, they decided to hold the annual event to help the Community Learning programs that houses the Community Learning Center. The center is an umbrella for the SAS program, the GED program, English Speakers of Other Language (ESL) and the Pine Island Teen Succeed (PITS) Program.
"Helping the kids is our top priority as a club," Player said. "All the money goes to those programs, it is earmarked especially for them."
Beacon of H.O.P.E. Board of Director's member Elsie Stearns said the donation is tremendous because they are losing $25,000 in grant money. She said there is a certain length of time the money can be granted to the Beacon before a break takes effect.
The grant money helped the organization supplement such programs as ESL and PITS.
"It enables us to build those programs up more," Stearns said of the Kiwanis donation. "The funding from the Kiwanis is tremendous, the amount is going to supplement and allow programs to expand."
The money will also help the Beacon purchase more Rosetta CDs, CD players, DVD players and a microphone for ESL students. She said it will be nice to have a little bit of technology in the classroom to use with the students.
The funds are also allowing the Beacon of H.O.P.E. with the opportunity to offer a Culinary Camp this summer for middle and high school students through the PITS program.
"The funding is going to help us be able to have that camp for students," Stearns said, adding it will "put more of the students through the Culinary Camp."
The annual Casino Night includes dinner at the Tarpon Lodge with a few hours of casino style gambling with chips and tickets, instead of real money. Player said tickets were awarded, which provided the individuals with the opportunity to participate in a drawing.
"The winner of the gambling portion received a one night stay at Weston at Tarpon Point at Cape Coral," Player said.
The event also included live auctions, silent auctions and raffles.
Player said this year Mel Meo did a live painting during the 3rd Annual Casino Night of the sunset while everyone ate and had a good time.
"She did an amazing painting of the sunset at the Tarpon, while we were eating and having a good time," she said.
The painting was then auctioned off during the event.


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The Dyson DC28 is weighty—weightier than their previous release, the agile Ball vacuums— and continues the Animal line tradition of being super powerful suction devices.
What's new about the DC28 is the "Airmuscle" tech, which does this:
• "Powered Cam" - Only lowers and raises the brush bar instead of the whole head for different floor types
• "Pneumatic Actuator" - Seals the cleaner head to the floor to create more suction
• "High-torque clutch" - More torque on the brush bar to jostle loose more dirt
Other new features include the fingertip controls that adjust the height of the brush bar, four separate head attachments for different areas/environments of the house and a $US600 price tag. Yes, we're counting it being the most expensive of Dyson's uprights as a feature.
We haven't had enough time with the vac to do a long-term assessment of it, but we did try it enough to get a feel for what it can do—a lot. On carpets, it's strong enough to pick up small pieces of debris (as well as lots of dust) in just one pass. It's as good on tile.
What's somewhat surprising to us is that the DC28 isn't not all that much louder than the smaller ball vacuums. It's much heavier and powerful, for sure, but it's more like a gentle giant than a screaming behemoth.
From our quick impressions, the new head with the Airmuscle technology seems to be a at least a step in the right direction. Is it worth $US600? Only if your old vacuum is horrible, or this is your first vacuum, or if you're a really, really dirty person. [Dyson Animal]

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You can get a pretty good glimpse at a lot of open world game Sleeping Dogs' features in this walkthrough led by producer Dan Sochan. Driving, conversing, hacking and more.
But you'll also get some insight into investigations you undergo during undercover police side missions. It seems like you'll be chasing after a serial killer when the game releases on August 14.


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Remember Me
The Que Publishing offer of a 50% discount on their vast selection of books is still running. The selection includes featured titles, phones, tablets, and books for kids.
This 50% discount sale ends on June 16th. Father's Day is this Sunday, so act now!
The instructional videos on the Que - Welcome SeniorNet Members page are enlightening.
See our first newsletter about the sale here for details and suggestions.
Microsoft's Grant, which includes coupons for Free Personal Training at their retail stores, have been distributed to SeniorNet Centers across the United States. Folks interested in seeing, touching, and experiencing the latest technology will want to contact the closest SeniorNet Center to request a coupon. The value of the coupon is $49.00 - but worth more.
The coupon expires June 30th, 2014.
You will want to see the NEW Surface Pro 3.
See our newsletter about this offer.
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Richard James "Dick" Lorenzen
Richard James "Dick" Lorenzen fought cancer for 13 years before it defeated him. He leaves behind his wife of 57 years, Patricia "Pat" (Lasecke).
Dick was born in Racine to Thor and Helen Lorenzen. He was born on Easter morning in 1926.
Dick was born a big boy with a big heart that served him well in athletics and also undergoing chemotherapy later in his 60's when he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
Dick was the first of his family to graduate from high school and he went on to earn a masters degree plus over 30 credits beyond.
He spent two years in the U.S. Navy, and then attended UW-Stevens Point, earning a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and science.
He earned a master's degree from Purdue University.
While at Stevens Point, Dick received the Colonel Hirzy award for scholarship, leadership and athletics, and lettered in three sports (football, basketball and track). Dick taught mathematics as well as coaching four sports (football, basketball, track and baseball).
He taught at: Rollo, Ill., Weyauwega and Juneau before coming to Hartford.
He also taught at Hartford High School for 32 years, coached all the sports and was responsible for introducing computers into the High School.
He was a formidable teacher and is well remembered by his former students.
Dick built his own cottage over two summers at Phillips with the help of his teenage son, David.
Dick was a tremendous fisherman and he has more than 129 legal size muskies to his credit.
Dick figured that he had to 'boat' at least 10 muskies for every legal size one, and he practiced catch-and-release.
At least one of the muskies was over 50" long because Dick (who is over 6'4" tall) held it up in the boat and the tail was still in the water. Most of his fishing was during the summer when he and Pat had a cottage on Wilson Lake near Phillips.
Dick enjoyed that time of his life immensely.
When he finally gave up the cottage, he and Pat took up golfing and spent many days at the Hartford Country Club.
Dick also hunted deer for many years and he and his boys spent time "in the woods" at Phillips and also with a friend, Ron Schultz. They all enjoyed many a meal of venison as well as walleye. Venison sausage was a favorite.
Dick was honorary chairman for the Hartford/Slinger Relay for Life in 2000.
He talked about the many advances in cancer care and his painful experience of losing his son to melanoma.
Relay for Life has been credited with earning many dollars and helping with the fight to defeat cancer.
Dick lived another seven years after; a credit to all the new research being done.
Travel was another passion of Pat and Dick.
Their travels took them to Cancun, Nassau, Russia, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Nova Scotia, The Rock of Gibraltar, Morocco (Dick sat in Winston Churchill's chair), Alaska, Germany, Egypt, Israel, Scotland, England, Hawaii, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ireland and a little bit of France.
Then they continued to Greece, Athens, Santorini, Rhodes, Turkey, Dikili, Istanbul, Bosporus Strait, the Ukraine, Italy, Yalta, Odessa and Rome. Dick's favorite were the rivers of Germany, but he was most inspired with the island of Santorini with the white building which looked like snow from the cruise ship. Russia was the most impressive.
Belonging to the Lions club was an honor for Dick, and he was VP in 2003 and 2004.
He was especially pleased that the Lions donated to many worthwhile causes. He was a former Worshipful Master at the Hartford Masonic Temple No 120. Dick was also a member of the Courtney Carr Milner American Legion Post 19.
His church, The First United Methodist Church, was important to him and he sang with the Men's Choir for many years.
Dick is survived by his wife of 57 years, Patricia (nee Lasecke); one daughter, Kate from Marathon and two sons, Bill (Kari) of Overland Park, Kan. and David (Patrice) of Steamboat Springs, Colo., one daughter-in-law (Susan) of Rochester, Mich., one sister, Dorothy Lloyd, of San Bento, Texas, and six grandchildren, Adam (Eunice), Nick (Abby), Missy, Eric, Kira, and Renee. He was preceded in death by his parents as well as a beloved son, Thomas.
The funeral service for Dick was Monday, Aug. 13, 2007 at First United Methodist Church, with Pastor Brian Kundinger officiating. Visitation was at the church prior to the service.
The family wishes to thank the doctors and nurses at the Vince Lombardi Clinic in Slinger and hospice. Memorials may be made to the Vince Lombardi Clinic or the First United Methodist Church in Hartford.
Shimon Funeral Home in Hartford assisted the family.


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TLC's "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" Receives Primetime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Structured Reality Program
TLC's WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? was honored with its second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Structured Reality Program for the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. The series takes some of the most well-known names in America on a journey into their personal family histories, mining their surprising pasts to reveal unknown details about themselves and their families. The featured celebrity contributors share how the eye-opening revelations they uncover about their backgrounds impact their lives today.
"We're all so thrilled to have WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? recognized with another Emmy nomination. It was our first season on TLC, and every department was truly wonderful to work with. We're thrilled with every episode we get to shoot, taking someone on a historical trip through their ancestral past, so this is a much appreciated nod to all the people who worked so hard to make it happen. We are thrilled that our audience has found the show and continued to appreciate it in our new collaboration with TLC," said Executive Producers Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky.
A brand new season of the series premieres July 23 at 9/8c on TLC. This year's line-up of participants includes Valerie Bertinelli, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kelsey Grammer, Rachel McAdams and her sister Kayleen McAdams, and Cynthia Nixon.
The series is produced for TLC by Shed Media US and Is or Isn't Entertainment. Executive Producers are Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky, Alex Graham, Pam Healey and Al Edgington. For TLC Executive Producers are Howard Lee, Timothy Kuryak and Amy Winter.


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With a population of about 1,500, the 2-square-mile town of Summerland, Calif., epitomizes the cliché "Blink and you'll miss it." Do your best not to blink as you drive through because this sleepy beach community six miles from Santa Barbara is home to an array of mom-and-pop antiques shops, a handful of local eateries and the sorts of views that make you want to do the good kind of nothing all day. The tab: a king bed at the Inn on Summer Hill begins at $249. Lunch for two can be had for less than $30 at Café Luna and for about $20 at Stacky's Seaside. Parking at the beach is free; the antiques, alas, are not.
The bed
Walk to the entrance at Inn on Summer Hill (2520 Lillie Ave.; [805] 969-9998, http://www.innonsummerhill.com), then turn around. What you'll see are the Pacific Ocean and Santa Cruz Island. That's the same ocean and the same island you'll see from the balcony, patio or deck of each of the B&B's 17 rooms. Assuming you tire of the view, this inn also includes morning meals featuring local ingredients, a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception every afternoon, desserts at night and rooms with fireplaces, spa tubs, canopy beds and dining tables.
The meal
The diverse menu at Café Luna (2354 Lillie Ave.; [805] 695-8780; no item more than $28) includes pizzas cooked in an outdoor wood-fired oven, smoothies, wraps, pastas, chicken and fish entrees and sandwiches served in a Bohemian setting. If your meal comes with a side, order the salad with fresh, ridiculously delicious greens from the eatery's on-site garden. If you desire a nautical-themed restaurant, head to Stacky's Seaside (2315 Lillie Ave.; [805] 969-9908, http://www.stackysinsummerland.com; no item more than $15.99) for breakfast burritos, milkshakes, hamburgers, salads, pulled pork sandwiches, French dips and fish and chips and marvel at the décor, which features outdoor seating designed like boats. For the drive home, stop at Cantwell's Market & Deli (2580 Lillie Ave.; [805] 969-5893, http://www.cantwellsmarket.com) for a sandwich, produce or a bottle of wine. The market also sells items that are vegan, gluten-free and sugar-free.
The find
It's too easy to say that the view of the ocean is the best thing about Summerland, but it is. That said, the area's shops are also worth the trek north. For example, there's Botanik (2329 Lillie Ave., [805] 565-3831, http://www.botanikinc.com), a 1920s vintage home operating as a business selling candles, pillows, fragrances and books inside and planters outside. A stone's throw from Botanik is Pine Trader Antiques (2345 Lillie Ave., [805] 845-2618, http://www.pinetrader.com), where tables, cupboards, armoires and chests from Ireland, England and France make you forget you are on the California coast.
Lesson learned
Sometimes, a two-hour drive can feel like a world away.


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Every busy #Botkier Babe should carry her daily essentials in style!
At the Botkier office we asked our sales director Dayna what she carries in her Blair satchel in gold.
1. Apple: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
2. Yogi Throat Comfort Tea: "Being in sales requires a lot of talking! Having soothing tea helps my throat."
3. A card from my dog: "A card my boyfriend wrote to me from my dog. It makes me happy every time I see it."
4. Keys: "Office keys incase I stay late at work. Apartment keys to get home, of course!"
5. Brush/Mac powder/Nars lipstick/Nars eyeliner: "I am always in a rush! I carry my makeup around with me if I don't have time to do it at home."
6. Floss: "Since I don't carry a toothbrush, floss is the next best thing after lunch!"
7. Kiehl's hand cream: "Who doesn't love soft hands?"
8. Botkier business cards: "You never know if you are going to run into a potential customer."
9. 5 Rain gum: "I love having minty fresh gum"
10. Matcha Green Tea: "I love this tea, it's full of anti-aging antioxidants."


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Sales Engineer
Intermediate (3-6 years)
Technical Skills
- Marketing
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Negotiation
- Sales
Job Description
Sales Engineer
Location: Tsuen Wan
Job Description
- Identify & develop market/product business in the region; well-known Carrier/Telecom Market a must.
- Prepare and follow up with End customers.
- Establish & maintain favorable work relationships with agent/customers.
- Keep abreast of the latest market trend.
- University Degree or diploma in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 3-7 years of relevant experience in Optical Transmission Platform, Ethernet Networking & Fiber optic cabling and related industry.
- Sales & Marketing experience with existing network in the market an advantage.
- Strong analytical scene, able to work independently and excellent negotiation skills.
- Familiar with MS office, Word and Excel.
- Need to travel within Asia or other countries for business support & promotion.
- Fluent in English and Mandarin.
The right candidate may have an attractive remuneration package included 5-day work week, annual double pay, medical insurance and other fringe benefit.
Interested parties please send your resume with expected salary to [email redacted, apply via Jobable]
Application not showing expected salary will not be considered.
|Employment Type
|Career Level
|Intermediate (3-6 years)
|Education Level
|Higher Diploma / Associate Degree
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You see the following error code and message when you try to connect to Xbox Live on your Xbox 360 console:
Can't retrieve information from Xbox Live. Please try again later.
To resolve this problem, try the following solutions.
Solution 1: Make sure that the Xbox Live service is up and running
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Solution 2: Check your account and billing information
This error can occur if your Xbox Live account or billing information is not up to date. To check your information, see How to change or update Xbox Live billing account information.
Solution 3: Delete your profile, clear the system cache and then redownload your profile
The system cache contains temporary files that are used by the Xbox 360 console. Deleting your profile and clearing the system cache may fix this problem.
To do so, follow these steps:
You should now be able to sign in using your Xbox Live profile on the console.
Important If you downloaded your profile to another console and you chose Remember Password, you have the option to remotely remove the password so that your profile can't be accessed by someone else on the other console. To learn how, see Manage your sign-in preferences on your Xbox 360 console.
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Recently, Mad Momma came up with an uncharacteristic post on songs that became massive hits despite non-entity actors and/or flop movies. Needless to add, she got 711 comments on her post. So, taking the discussion forward, I thought of adding some favourite songs of mine - which meet the criteria defined above. However, knowing my tendency to ramble, there is fair possibility that this post might degenerate into a reminiscing post about songs I liked, but ones that did not become adequately successful…
Confession: I have not read the comments so there are bound to be many repeats. Anybody who has read all the comments are advised to stay away!
According to me, Neele neele ambar par (from the film, Kalakaar) is the biggest hit from a flop film. Kunal Goswami's turn as a guitar-toting singing sensation did not make any impact as he behaved like his father in Kranti (which I am told, was Kunal's first movie as a child star). I vaguely recall the song being sung in a college-picnic / bonfire kind of setting in which Sridevi falls in love with Kishore Kumar's voice and had contend with Kunal's wooden looks.
Maula mere maula from the UFO called Anwar has suddenly emerged as a strong contender for the above title. A lovely song in the sufi style, it had taken over all the FM channels in the last few months while its film had a blue-faced Krishna-type character gracing some posters, which I saw in multiplexes. The film also apparently released but sank without such a lack of trace that it is ranked alongside Atlantis and Hoffa among the greatest disappearances in world history. On the other hand, Shootout at Lokhandwala with Ganpat did not vanish as cleanly.
Sili hawa chhoo gayee from Libaas made it to the top of every countdown show in town despite having two major disadvantages. One, it had no jhankaar beats. Two, the song was filmed on Shabana Azmi and Raj Babbar, who are not exactly teeny-bopper favourites. They are not quite pushovers either but in the context of Divya Bharti in the days of Superhit Muqabla, they were quite unknown. Come to think of it, the film never flopped because it never found a theatrical release! Probably the last film of the RD-Gulzar combine, the music had everything except for distribution.
Ajay Devgan and Sonali Bendre are not exactly flop stars though they have acted in innumerable flop films. One of their biggest flops is undoubtedly Diljale. Produced and directed by Harry Baweja (of Love Story 2050 fame), this came on the back of a reasonable hit called Dilwale, causing Nilendu and me to speculate if Mr Baweja is on a Dil**le series. Dilwale starred Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty and Raveena Tandon among others and is famous for a romance brewing between Ajay and Raveena on its sets because of which Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor had a showdown in Bombay airport causing Ajay to dump them both and hook up with Kajol while Raveena Tandon went ahead with Akshay Kumar. Damn, my asides are longer than my main points! Anyway, Diljale had one song (a moderate hit, picturised on Ajay Devgan) which was played all over but I have forgotten by now. It had an even better song - Kisse poochhoo us ladki ka naam - picturised on Parmeet Sethi, which was never played on the music channels because he was a non-entity. Anu Malik redeemed himself of his early 90's crap with this one song, lovingly written by Javed Akhtar.
Another example of a hit song from a flop film needs unravelling of a very dark chapter from my past. In college, I hung around the fringes of the Calcutta quizzing circuit, which is unquestionably the toughest (and also, the most sarcastic!) circuit of the country. But in a strange snobbery, the Bollywood questions asked in Calcutta quizzes were terribly easy because it was still unfashionable for the Bangali bhadralok to admit that he derived pleasure from Govinda's pelvis... okay, that sounded a little odd but you know what I mean, right? In one such quiz, they played the music video (starring Anupama Verma) Boom Boom and asked us to name the original film the song was from. The other participants - who were used to questions like 'what is the full form of DDLJ' - froze. My team relaxed because they knew I would get it. Nilendu was in the audience and again wondered all is not well with the world. I, of course, forgot the name of the Kumar Gaurav starrer (of which Nilendu owned a LP record in a dog-eared cover). It was from a movie called Star and my inability to answer that caused me more embarrassment that my flunking Engineering Mechanics in the first semester! As a footnote, one may add that most (if not all) of Kumar Gaurav's songs can feature in hit-gaana-flop-hero list. He acted in a reasonable large body of musically competent but cinematically crap films.
How many of you have heard / remembered a film called Don II? However, most of you would remember the Hawa Hawa (e hawa, khushboo luta de) song from the album, performed by one Mr Hassan Jehangir who was supposed to be a Pakistani star. The album had some eight or ten songs, all of which were quite good and some of them were runaway hits, despite the rather poor quality of recording. Enthused by the success of his album, Hassan landed up in India and made a film (which looked worse than a music video) to fit in all his songs and dreamt of having an affair with Raveen Tandon but all his fans vanished in a puff of smoke the moment they say his hennaed hair and pot-bellied figure! No, the film never released. In fact, I don't even know if the full film ever got made.
But then, it is probably unfair to put Hassan Jahangir's shoddy music video as a film. Nevertheless, in the same breath of music videos, one must fit in a quick nod to Altaf Raja – who sold a platinum disc of platinum discs with his song – Tum toh thehre pardesi, saath kya nibhaoge / Subah pehli gaaaaaaadi se, ghar ko laut jaogaaaayyyy. His success was so stupendously mind-blowing that it was Mithun Chakraborty – and not multiplex darlings like Karan Johar – who offered him a guest appearance in one of his films. I stand ashamed before GreatBong and his cohorts as I completely fail to remember the name of the film which has the landmark song – "Thoda intezar ka mazaa lijiye…"
At one point in the early 1990's, the most powerful man in Bollywood was not Amitabh Bachchan, it was not Yash Chopra, it was Gulshan Kumar. The T-Series baron - with a little bit of help from Nadeem-Shravan, Kumar Sanu and Anuradh Paudwal - churned out hit album after hit album, clocking massive sales of the tapes irrespective of the movie's box office fate. But as Hindi film villains keep on saying, "Har insaan ki koi kamzori hoti hain...", Gulshan had a brother called Krishan who had ambitions to become a film star. Among his assets was an ability to wear heavy leather jackets in summer (including beach scenes), extremely bushy & expressive eyebrows and of course, his brother's undying love. Armed with this, he acted in a series of devastating flops (which would have sunk many a lesser producer but not Gulshan!), almost all of which had decent soundtracks. Particularly nice is the title song from the film Aaja Meri Jaan (which was a teen-romance-murder-mystery on the lines of Khiladi), which also starred his eventual wife - Tanya Singh. The wound of the posters - "Starring Dashing Krishan Kumar and Cute Tanya" - on my memory is still raw. Another movie of his (with another hit-but-hated song Achha sila diya tune mere pyaar ka / yaar ne hi loot liya ghar yaar ka) was called Bewafa Sanam (not to be mistaken with Sanam Bewafa, starring Salman Khan and Roshni) - in which his best friend framed him, got him jailed and married his childhood sweetheart. Something like what Nadeem did to Gulshan Kumar.
At this point of time, it would be advisable to take a couple of steps backward and land in the 50-60's. For example, Pradip Kumar Batabyal is a total non-entity as far as my wife and sister are concerned, his film Taj Mahal is a flop in their eyes but even they cannot deny the power of the brilliant Jo wada kiya wo toh nibhana padega. Just as people would be hard-pressed to remember the stars of Saraswati Chandra (which was a moderate success, at best) but Retro Café on Radio City (9 PM, weeknights) would have folded up long time back if they were not allowed to play Chandan sa badan, chanchal chitwan.
Does Joy Mukherjee qualify as a non-entity? A lot of youngsters would probably agree but I would join my mother in protesting very strongly as the 1960's scion of the Mukherjee family was a big star and a string of hits like Love in Tokyo, Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon and most importantly, Shagird.
So, I would leave the discussion here. Ever since I saw an Indian Idol contestant (incidentally, a Bengali) whose life's ambition was to meet Aftab Shivdasani and Nauheed Cyrusi, I realized that it is futile to classify success and failure according to conventional wisdom.
After all, Pran singing Yaari hain imaan mera along with a non-entity hero in Zanjeer could well have been part of this list.


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Let's share together in a word of prayer. Father, we thank You for the great day we've already had. I thank You because my own heart is so full; I feel overwhelmed with all of the events of today, yesterday, and the past week. I pray, Lord, that I may somehow be able to be faithful to fulfill the expectation of these people who are so gracious to me and to my wife and family. Thank You, Father, for the high calling that You have given to all of us, and to me, especially to teach and present Your Word. Bless us tonight with Your Word; fill our hearts with joy as we share together, and also with conviction and insight, that we might understand what it really means to be salt and light in the world. May we really hear You speak.
Let's look at Matthew 5:13-16. Here, our Lord, in the Sermon on the Mount, directs His attention away from the multitudes to the group of disciples gathered closest to Him. He says to them, "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."
A magazine once carried a series of pictures that depicted one of the saddest stories imaginable. The first picture was of a vast wheat field in Kansas; it was a farm in Western Kansas. From horizon to horizon, all you could see was the wheat waving in the wind. The second picture was of a mother in distress inside her farmhouse in the middle of that wheat field. She had a small boy who had somehow wandered away from the house into that wheat field. The little fellow was so small that he couldn't be seen; she couldn't find him. She had called for her husband, and the two of them had searched all day long for that little boy, and they finally decided that they should call the neighbors, who began to search frantically all over the wheat field with no success. They knew the boy was too little to see above the wheat and find his own way out, so the picture showed her in great distress. The third photo depicted all the people who had heard of the little boy being lost. They gathered in the morning, joining their hands, hand-to-hand, and in a great, long line of humanity, linked only by their hands, swept from one end of that wheat field to the next. The last picture was a heartbreaker; it was a picture of the father standing over the body of his little son. They had finally found him, but he was dead. It was too late. A cold, cold night had claimed its victim. Underneath the final picture of a weeping father were these words, "Oh, God, if we had only joined hands sooner."
What a heart-searching story that is. Listen, people, Jesus said, as He looked out over the fields, "The field is white unto harvest, but the laborers are few." I really believe there is a world of lost men, lost women, lost boys and girls, way out in the field of the world. They can't find home, they can't find the Father's house, they can't see above the wheat of the world. They are perishing in the night of sin, and when the cold morning dawns, it will be too late. I believe the Lord Jesus Christ, here in Matthew 5:13-16, is saying to us, "Join hands. Be salt and light; sweep through the field of the world to find all of those who are desperately in need of your influence and your message." I don't think one or two can do it, I don't even think a handful can do it. I think the whole church has to join hands and be collective salt. Salt is useless as far as one grain is concerned, and light is a combination of fluorescence. We've got to take hands and sweep through the world, and that's the message that Jesus is giving us right here. We are salt and light to reach the lost with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and this is the vital message contained in our Lord's words. He has followed up the Beatitudes. In the Beatitudes, He says, "Here is the character I expect you to have, and if you have this kind of character, then you are a child of My Kingdom. If you have this character, and are a child of my Kingdom, here is your job: sweep through the world as salt and light and make a difference." Jesus is calling on us, as we saw in our last study, to influence the world for His glory, to find the lost before it's too late. The key is what has gone on in the verses before. Having magnificently come to know the principles and the qualities that render us effective for God, that bring us into His Kingdom, that make us distinct from the world, He now tells us, "Move out into the world with that marvelous distinctiveness, find those that are lost, and bring them to Christ." The supreme matter in the Kingdom is character; character is the issue. The character described in the Beatitudes makes it possible for us to affect the world. You know, I really worry a lot in my own heart about Grace Community Church in this regard. I think we can get to the place where we are so in love with each other, if you will, where we are so thrilled about everything that goes on here. We can be so happy about it all, and sit in little groups and disciple each other, pray with each other, counsel each other, talk to each other, but the fact is, we're always in danger that we won't link hands and sweep through the world. We are in danger of never crawling out of our ivory tower of the bliss of our Christian fellowship. The Lord is saying that's something that we have to do. The emphatic is here - we are the only salt and we are the only light the world will ever know. Notice that the final Beatitude is transitional. The final Beatitude is in verse 10. "Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake." Verse 11. "Blessed are you when men revile you, persecute you, say all manner of evil against you falsely." In other words, the world is going to hate us, and persecute us. We expect that to happen; we don't expect it to be easy. I believe it will get harder and harder all the time. It isn't going to get easier.
There is a little house next door to our church, and we had our special people in our house, handicapped people. They'd go in there for a few hours on a Sunday morning. But some judge somewhere ruled that a house cannot be used for religious purposes without a permit, even if you own the house. Sam Erickson, on our staff, called the city to find out about that and he said this, "You mean, if I want to have some people over to my house to study the Bible, we have to have a permit?" They said, "Yes." He said, "What if I want people to come over to my house to drink beer and watch pornographic movies, that's fine? But if we decided to talk about the Bible, we have to have a permit?" They said, "That's right." I don't know what that means for the future, but I don't think it's going to get any easier. I think the price will be paid.
I think God wants us to confront the world. Just because the world persecutes us, reviles us, and says all manner of evil against us falsely, just because it seems impossible that, in a country where the Constitution says no law could ever be passed that takes away any of the freedom of religion at all from anybody, we're facing the fact that you can't have a Bible study in your house without a permit. I really don't think that it will get any easier. I don't think that just because the world makes it tough on us that we should crawl in a hole or keep our mouths shut or hide. We should be like verse 13, salt and light in the world.
To better understand this concept, I told you last time that there are four great truths that you need to grip. First, the presupposition, then the plan, then the problem, then the purpose. I want to give you these quickly tonight; I know you heart is already full from so many other things today, and we've already had such a wonderful time, I don't want to just drag it out. I'm going to fire them at you quick, and I want you to get them.
The presupposition in this text is the decay and darkness of the world. The very text presupposes decay and darkness. Where you need salt, you have decay, and where you need light, there is darkness. Our Lord is saying, "Here is the presupposition: we are living in a decadent, dark world." That's what I was trying to say to you this morning - we've got to be different. We can't affect the world unless we are different. Our lives and relationships and homes have to be different. God could look at our world as He looked at that antediluvian, that pre-flood world. It says, "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." We live in a dark and decadent world; that is the presupposition to what Jesus says. Our world is a desperate world, and just because they make it hard on us, we can't stop preaching, because there is someone lost out in that field, and we have to sweep through the world no matter what the price.
The second thing we talked about last time was the plan. The presupposition is the darkness and decay of the world; the plan is the dominion of the disciples. We've got to move in the world and dominate it. Notice in verse 13 that we are the salt, in verse 14, we are the light. In verse 16, "Let your light so shine." What is God's plan to deal with this darkened, decaying world? His plan is us! It's us. There is no one else. It isn't going to be given to anyone else. It doesn't belong to famous evangelists. They'll never touch the people you touch. It doesn't belong to great preachers, or people on the radio or television, or people who write books. It belongs to all of us. This is God's divine plan.
The pronouns in verses 13-14 are emphatic: "You only are the salt. You only are the light. If you don't do it, there is nobody to do it." Look closely at the symbols. Last time, we studied salt. Salt speaks of influence. Salt is the silent testimony, it is our moving through the world and affecting it with our very life. We said that salt has five basic functions: purity, flavor, sting (in a wound), thirst (it creates thirst), and preservation. We are to be pure, glistening white against the darkness of the world. We are to flavor life with the wonder of God's presence among us. We are to sting and convict the sinful wound of the world. We are to create a thirst for Christ by the very way we live, as Israel is to be provoked to jealousy by the church. We are to be a preservative, we are an antiseptic in the world to retard the spread of its corruption. If it weren't for Christians in the world, it would be far more corrupt that it is now; we preserve it. By the way, notice that it says in verse 13, "You are the salt of the earth." This covers the whole earth; we are the only salt the whole earth will ever know. Jesus is saying, "The earth is like a carcass, slowly but relentlessly deteriorating, rotting and in great need of some power to restrain that corruption, to create a thirst for God, to sting sin's wound, to flavor life, and to bring purity to some dark and decaying soul." We are that salt. This is our witness as the silent impact of a godly life. Listen, the way to change the world isn't to change it politically, it isn't to rewrite the laws, or march, or to try and use technical paraphernalia for altering society. The way to change the world is to infiltrate it with godliness, righteousness, and holiness, and affect it from the inside out. Those other things aren't wrong, but they will be powerless unless our lives are what they ought to be. Think about it this way: never has the church been more involved in social action in recent history in our country. Never have we been so preoccupied with endeavoring to see Christianity in government, and what is the result? A society that is more immoral than it has ever been, because that's not the way to do it. The way to do it is the influence of a godly life. Martin Lloyd-Jones says this, "Most competent historians are agreed in saying that what undoubtedly saved England from a revolution such as was experienced in France at the end of the 18th Century was nothing but the evangelical revival. This was not done because anything was done directly, but because masses of individuals had become Christians and they were living this better life. They had this higher outlook. The whole political situation was affected, and the great acts of Parliament which were passed in the last century were mostly due to the fact that there were such large numbers of individual Christians found in the land." What he's saying is that they dominated the land by the power of their testimony.
It's wonderful to think of the fact that God can turn around a whole nation, a whole world, by using us. God uses simple things, you know that. He uses simple, mundane, everyday, routine, common things for the most amazing purposes. When He made man in the Garden, He didn't use gold, silver, or even iron; He used dirt. That ought to give you an idea of how He works right from the start. When He called David to deliver Israel from the Philistines, He didn't want Saul, the great king, and He didn't want Saul's massive armor. He used a shepherd and a couple of stones, that's all. When He came into the world, He didn't enter the family of the wealthy and noble, He didn't find Himself born in a castle; He simply chose a peasant girl and a stable. When He chose the Twelve, He didn't choose the elite, educated, and affluent. He just chose a group of ignorant Galileans. The Bible says, "Not many mighty, and not many noble." That's the way it always has been, because God gets the greater glory in the humbleness of the one that He uses. So He uses us, grains of sand, to influence a corrupting world. But it doesn't stop with influence. We now come to the second thing, light. Verse 14. "You are the light of the world." We're moving to another thought here. Salt and light balance each other in this sense. Salt is hidden; you don't see it at all. It just melts away into whatever it flavors or preserves. It works secretly to preserve from the inside, but light shines on the outside, and light is open and working visibly. In other words, salt is the influence of Christian character; it is quiet but powerful. Light is the communication of the content of the Gospel. So there are two sides; on one hand, we live it, on the other hand, we preach it. On one hand, from the inside, we affect society's thinking and living by the power of our lives. On the other hand, we turn on the light so that everyone can see the message we want to give. It isn't just in our words, but in our very overt, open godly conduct. We are not to be just a subtle influence like salt, but we are to be a very open and blatant influence like light. You see, salt can't change corruption into incorruption. Salt can only retard the corruption. That's only a negative function. Salt only holds back the corruption; we have to turn on the light of the Gospel to transform that corruption into incorruption. Of course, our light is primarily indicated in verse 16, "Let your light so shine before men that they will see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven." That implies, first of all, that they see our good works. Secondly, they glorify our Father in Heaven; that means they've heard something about our Father in Heaven. It implies both a life and a message lived and spoken.
So here we are as salt, retarding the things of corruption in the world. But at the same time, as light, we speak the truth of the light and live the truth of the light, so there is an overt and positive testimony as well.
You'll remember that in Acts 1:1, where Luke writes, "The former letter have I made unto you, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to do and to teach." Ever and always, those two things go together - the living and the speaking. Our light is a matter of living the righteous life and uttering the righteous content, the truth. If you study the Bible, you'll find that light is related to the true knowledge of God. Just a couple of Scriptures for an example, Psalm 36:9 says, "For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light." So the first thing we need to realize is that God is light (I John 1). In Him is the fountain of life, and in His light will we see light; God is light. So if we are to be light, then we must manifest God. Psalm 119:105 says, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." God is light; the Word is light. In the New Testament, our Lord Jesus Christ says, "I am the light of the world. He that follows Me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life." So we see that God is light. The Bible, the Word of God, is light. Christ is light, and that is the light that we are to shine on the world. We are to tell them about God, God's Word, and God's Christ. That's letting the light shine. It has to be spoken and then supported by a life that is consistent, right?
Remember I read to you Psalm 27:1, "The Lord is my light and my salvation." So the fact is, if you want to know what light is in the Bible, it's the comprehensive term referring to all of God's revelation; the revelation of Himself, His Word, and His Son. That's light. So we are to proclaim the message of light in a dark world, as well as to be salt in a decaying one.
In Luke 1:77, it says the purpose for which Christ came was, "To give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high has visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death." That's why He came, to give light to them in darkness. So what our Lord is saying here is that, collectively, we manifest the light. He's the sun, we're just moons. He is the real light, the essence of light; we're reflectors. That's all. John 1:9 says that Christ is the light that lights every man that comes into the world. He's the only true light, but we are reflectors of that light. He is the sun, and we're the moons. Beloved, I think this is the primary duty of the church, to be light in the world. We are to spread the message of salvation, not just to sit around talking to each other. That is wonderful, and having fellowship is wonderful, and it's rich and exciting. But sooner or later, we have to be light in the world and salt in the earth. We've got to get out from being wrapped up in ourselves. Let me give you a free rendering of II Corinthians 4:6. God, who first ordered the light to shine in the darkness has flooded our hearts with His light. We now can enlighten men only because we can give them knowledge of the glory of God as we have seen it in the face of Jesus Christ. Let me read it again. God, who first ordered the light to shine in the darkness has flooded our hearts with His light. We now can enlighten men only because God has given us the knowledge of His glory as we have seen it in the face of Christ. So God passes the light all the way down through us. It's so important.
The Jews in Romans 2 claimed to be light. The Apostle Paul denies that. Their light had gone out. They weren't lights anymore. The Jews used to say that Jerusalem was a light to the Gentiles. In fact, a famous rabbi once called the city of Jerusalem 'the lamp of Israel.' But it wasn't true anymore when Jesus spoke these words that day on the hillside; Jerusalem wasn't any light. God's light wasn't there anymore, it was no lamp. The world was in darkness, so Jesus says, "It isn't Jerusalem that is the light anymore, it isn't Israel anymore. It isn't the Jewish people anymore that are light, but you only are the light." The church would be the light, the ones who followed Jesus Christ would be the light. So it has been all along: we're the light. Philippians 2:14 puts it this way. "Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless children of God without rebuke." That's it folks. You have to live the life. The life has to be there; a blameless life. A life that is harmless, blameless, and without rebuke. If they're going to criticize us, let them have to make up something because there is nothing they can use. If we have to be hated, let us be like Christ - hated without a cause. Why? Because we are to be blameless, harmless children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom we shine as lights in the world. We are the lights, holding forth the Word of Life. Jesus illustrates this thought right here in Matthew 5; He says we've got to be visible, folks. We can't just be secret influences, we have to be visible. The light has to shine openly. Verse 14. "A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." If you had traveled in the Holy Land during Jesus' time, or perhaps even today, you would be impressed with the fact that the villages are built on the tops of the hills. I'll never forget going through Galilee and it seemed like every village I saw kind of sat up on a little hill. I remember going to Caana, and seeing Caana against a hill. Further up a little ways, to the north, I saw Nazareth up on a hill. All the villages were up on hills, and could be cooled by the breezes that blew in the day. They could be more easily defended, and when night came, it was a very common custom for them to light a lamp in the house. It just made the little village sparkle, and anyone who was walking through the night could easily find his way to the village because he could see the lights sparkling on the hill. So the point is a city couldn't be hidden. Everyone knew that light was for the purpose of manifesting. It's amazing to think about the fact that a Christian would say, "I know God's light has shined in my heart, but I don't see that I have any need to shine anywhere else." You're light, my friend, and light isn't supposed to be hidden. You're a city on a hill. The point is conspicuousness. We're not just subtle salt; we're very conspicuous light. Every traveler knew where the refuge was; every traveler knew where the little village was, because the lights sparkled like diamonds in the sky. We're not Masons in a secret society. We're not pagans, with mysteries only for the initiated. We don't have a cult known only to the few; we're a city set on a hill. The whole world ought to see us. By the way, that's why I love these doors that you can see through. I just love people to drive up and down Roscoe Boulevard and say, "Look at all those people. What are they doing?" We're a city set on a hill. We've got to be salt before we can be light; we have to have the character and the influence before we have a message that is believable. So that's the divine plan. The presupposition: a dark and decaying world. The plan: the dominion of the disciples as the dominate the world by their influence as salt, and by their message and content as light. Thirdly, the presupposition and plan also include a problem. There is a problem, folks. If the presupposition is the darkness and decay of the world; if the plan is the dominion of the disciples, then the problem is the danger of failure. There is that danger. With this tremendous responsibility, there is an attendant danger. We are salt and light, but we need to be warned because if sin enters our lives, and if we don't walk in the Spirit, then we will stop being effective as salt and we will be useless as light. Look again at verse 13. "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, what good is it?" Non-salty salt has absolutely no use. "It is thereafter good for nothing, but to be cast out and trampled under men's feet. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house." The point is this: salt is only good when it has saltiness. Light is only good when it is conscious. There is no place for a secret disciple; there is no place for a secret Christian.
Let's look at the concept of salt. Our Lord said that the danger is that salt can lose its saltiness. Moraino in the Greek, it means 'flat and tasteless,' if you become flat and tasteless. There have been many explanations of this. Some say that the salt we have today doesn't lose its saltiness, and that, for the most part, is true. But in that day, it wasn't nearly as refined. The Dead Sea was and still is a tremendous repository for salt. You can go to the Dead Sea and lay flat on your back and just bob - it's incredible. I've done that. The salt from the marshes, lagoons, and the rocks around the Dead Sea is in abundance. But it easily acquired, in that time, and still, because of its impurity, a stale or alkaline taste, because it was mixed with gypsum, which was also there. So that kind of salt would lose its capability to salt and would become very alkaline and stale, and the only thing it was good for was to throw out on the road where people walked. They didn't want to throw it in the field, because it would kill everything growing there. So they threw it on the road, where all that would happen is that it would be trampled.
By the way, natural salt is impure in many cases, and mixed with other chemicals, can become unsalty. William Thompson, in his classic book The Land and the Book, which deals with the nation of Israel, tells about a merchant who rented several homes in which he stored salt. The merchant, however, forgot to cover the dirt floor before he put the salt down, and simply unloaded the salt on the dirt. When he returned later, he discovered that his salt had lost its flavor from being next to the earth. The whole supply he threw into the street, where men walked on it.
So we know that the kind of salt that they had at that time had the capacity to lose its saltiness, and that is to what our Lord is alluding. Something that they would no doubt understand, that salt could lose its saltiness. I just want you to understand that. In Luke 14:34, it says, "Salt is good. But if the salt has lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor for the dung hill, but men throw it out." So it is the same statement there in Luke.
We don't need to argue, and it's amazing how many commentators argue, that Jesus was wrong here because salt can't lose its saltiness. But if anyone knows about salt, He does. Just like He knows about everything else. So we just find another explanation, as I've just given to you, which is very simple. What He's saying is not that you lose your salvation; He's not saying that, if you're not careful, you'll lose your saltiness. No, what He's saying is that you'll lose your influence. If sin enters a Christian's life, he will lose his influence. If sin is in your life, you have no influence; you can't retard the corruption of the world because you're in it. You can't be purity against an impure background because you're impure too. You can't be stinging in the wounds of other people's sin because you have your own. You're not going to create in someone a thirst for God, because there is nothing there to make them thirsty for what you have. You are just like them in behavior.
The point here is not that you lose your salvation, but like I Corinthians 9:27, you become a castaway; you forfeit your influence and lose your impact. When a Christian loses his saltiness, it's a sad situation. You can lose it; just be sinful at work and you'll lose your reputation. If you're sinful at school, listen to the things that people say that aren't right, go along with the dirty talk, be involved with the things they do that you know aren't right. You'll lose your saltiness, and make no contribution to retard their corruption. You'll make no pure statement against an impure background. You'll create no thirst in anyone for God. The point is, God needs your influence and you are to be salt. But to be salt, you have to stay away from that which corrupts you. They say that perfectly pure salt never loses its flavor. I like that. You want to know something? None of us is perfectly pure salt; we won't be until we get to glory. As long as we're in this life, we will have impurities and the potential for losing our saltiness is always there. God help us to so live the kind of life that will influence the world!
Let's talk about light for a minute. He says a light is something set on a hill, put on a lampstand. It gives light to everyone in the house. You certainly don't light a lamp and stick it under a peck, which is literally a shaped basket. He says, "You don't stick it under a basket. You don't take a lamp and put it under a basket, that's absurd." The little lamps they used were terracotta. I don't know if you've seen one, but they have a spout on one end and a little handle on the other end, with a little floating wick in the middle. The would fill them up with oil and it would burn, three to four inches wide, two inches high, six inches long. They would leave it to light all night. In fact, in Proverbs 31, the lady who gets up and doesn't let her lamp go out by night is probably the kind of lady who makes sure there is always a lamp in the house, so that anyone who needs to find his way around can. She has enough oil to make sure that is done, and she is conscientious enough to get up in the middle of the night to relight the lamp so that there will always be a light in the house. Jesus is saying, "How foolish it would be to get your lamp trimmed, the wick clipped, fill it up with oil, and stick a basket on top of it so no one could see it." It would be silly. Christians, you know what is amazing? Some of us have within us the treasure in earthen vessels, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, only no one knows. Someone has said that most Christians are like an Arctic river - frozen at the mouth. I don't know if that's totally true, but there are a lot of us who haven't shared Jesus Christ with anyone in a year, five years, ten or fifteen years. We have a light alright, but we've just got a modios over it, a peck basket. Listen, if you're going to light, you have to get your light where people can see it. It's kind of interesting to look at verse 15 and see that it says, "Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but put it on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house." Some feel that is a reference to Israel, that it specifically refers to them. The statement 'all that enter in' would refer to the Gentiles. I don't know that we can push that too far, but the point is that whoever it is, whether it's Israel, the Gentiles, or whoever it is, we want to make sure that the light is lit and visible. That's what Jesus is saying.
To the people He was saying it to, He was really calling for something new. He was saying, "You're a part of a religious system that is fouled up. If you live according to Kingdom character in the Beatitudes, then you really have to be different. You have to be light so that they can all see it, and that isn't easy, because they're not going to like what they see." It's always the fear of persecution that makes us hesitant; we're always a little afraid. So after the Beatitude 'blessed are the persecuted,' He has to reinforce that we not put our lights under bushels. He wants us to put it where everyone can see it, so that the whole world will know the truth of God. Verse 16 personalizes it. "Let your light so shine before me that they will see your good works." He's saying, "Let it shine." That's all; it's a simple message. Let your good deeds, kalos, good in terms of beauty, the manifest beauty. It is not that they are just good in and of themselves, but they have a beauty and attractiveness about them, they are winsome. In other words, "Let men see your winsomeness; let them see your beauty and attractiveness, your quality." It isn't just the good deed itself, it's the beauty that it manifests. I want to add a little footnote. The beginning of verse 16 says, "Let your light shine." You don't have to trump it up; you don't have to light it, crank it up, worry about getting it started, all you have to do is let it go. You can't stop the light, and you can't light the light, you can just stick a bushel on it. The light is there. If Christ lives in you, He is the light and you can't change that. Remember the song? Nobody can blow it out. That's right! There isn't anybody who will blow it out, because the light is there. But you can put a bushel basket on top of it so nobody will ever know. It may be the basket of fear, or wanting to be acceptable, not wanting to offend or make waves, or whatever. But whatever it is, it needs to come off. You don't have to light it and you can't put it out, you just have to let it shine by the way you live and the things you say.
Let it shine before men, in the presence of those who hate you and would kill you, reject you, and deny you. Let it shine and let them see the beauty of your works. You know, when you hide your testimony, you're not doing anything but preventing someone from seeing the beauty of God Himself. When you don't testify, you're just withholding from someone that which they desperately need to see if they're ever going to come to God.
What do we see, then? The presupposition our Lord gives is the decay and darkness of the world. The plan that He gives is the dominion of the disciples, the dominion of the Christians. The problem that He talks about is the danger of failure. We can hide that light and lose that saltiness, and if we do, we are losing our hands. And when we go through that field, we aren't going to find anyone that is lost. We've seen the presupposition, the plan, the problem, and now the purpose. If the presupposition is the decay of the world, and the plan is the dominion of the Christians, and the problem is the danger of failure, then the purpose is the dignity of God. It's at the end of verse 16, and I don't need to say much about it because I've preached on it so many times. The reason for all of this, the one single reason that over arches the whole universe. There is one single reason why you should be salt that is salty and light that is manifest, and it is this: that you might glorify your Father who is in Heaven. If you don't do it, then you are more concerned with your reputation than His glory. That's always the issue. "I don't know if I should stick my neck out. I might lose my job or reputation." Then you have just ascended the scale and what you have and attain and get is more important than the glory of God. You see?
"Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us but unto Thy name give glory," said the psalmist. Can you lose yourself? Can you be salt that is salty? Can you be light that is lit and manifest? You can if you only care about the glory of God, but if you let your own personality and popularity, and prestige, and reputation get in the way, then the glory of God is dragged down, your flag goes up, and you say, "I reign. I'll do what appeals to me." "Glorify your Father who is in Heaven." Notice that He uses the word 'Father,' I think because He wants to emphasize the beautiful tenderness and intimacy of God. Yet He says, "In Heaven," and there, He speaks of the majesty. On the one hand, God is a tender, loving Father. On the other hand, He is a majestic, sovereign God in Heaven. So He says we are to glorify God.
That is good news. That is the reason we live; there is no other reason but to glorify God. That's all. Dr. Robert Murray McShane was one of the saints of the last century. His face, they used to say, was sometimes lit up with a hallowed expression, so that people who came to see him fell on their knees to accept Jesus Christ when they saw his face. Others were so attracted to the indescribable beauty of holiness manifested on his countenance that Jesus became, to them, irresistible. Isn't that fantastic? Influence.
It is said of Fenelon, the great Christian of ages past, that his, "Communion with God was such that his face shown. Lord Peterborough, a skeptic, was once compelled to spend a night with him in an inn. In the morning, he hurried away saying, 'If I spend another night with that man, I'll be a Christian in spite of myself.' Fenelon's manner, his voice, and his face reflected so perfectly the glory of Christ that he was irresistibly attractive to even the worldliest and vilest of humanity." What about you? Are you the kind of salt that retards corruption and the kind of light that attracts in the beauty of holiness, as the shining of your goodness and beauty, the power of God released in you, touches the people around you? Do you never mitigate it, cover it, do you let it shine so that God can be glorified? Let's pray.
Salt and light, Father, a simple message. It needed to be, because this was just part of the first sermon You gave. They needed to hear the basics, and so do we, 2,000 years later. We who know the Bible so well need to hear again the same old story. There is a wheat field out there and the wheat is too tall for the people who are lost to see the Father's house. We have to join our hands and go from one end of the field to the other before it's too late and we come to one whom the cold of the night has taken to a Christless grave. God, help us to join hands before its too late for some. We know that, even today, some passed into eternity. Tomorrow, more will pass to eternity. You've told us to take the Gospel to every creature. Help us to be willing to influence the world like Helen Ewing did, wherever we walk, may we leave Christ behind. Help us to change conversations so that, when we show up, they say, "Shhh, he's coming," or, "She's coming." If we were to die tomorrow, would it be said that we made a difference in the world? Oh, Lord, may we be salt that is salty and light that is manifest. May we be a city set on a hill, may we let our lights so shine that men will see our good works and glorify the Father in Heaven. Deliver us from the sins that would render us tasteless and useless but to be thrown on the road and walked on. Deliver us from the fear and pride and exaltation of self that make us put our lights under a bushel. Help us to live the way that You want us to live, to make a difference in the world. We expect that the world won't like it, but even though there may be a reaction against it, there will be some who will come to Jesus Christ through our lives. May we be useful in the world's wheat field, to find those that are lost. We think of our Lord Jesus, as He looked over the city of Jerusalem and wept and said, "You will not come to Me that you might have life." Father, help us not to cause even more tears because we too have been unfaithful. May we so live to fulfill this marvelous command of our Lord Jesus Christ. We who have Kingdom character, may we let it influence the world in which we live. Make us different, Lord, that the world may be different because You are.
While your heads are bowed, let me say this. I think God is going to call on us in days ahead to stand up and be counted for His cause. I think we had a little taste of it in recent days, but that was nothing. I think of Hebrews 12, "We have not yet suffered unto blood." We certainly haven't been martyred yet. I don't know what the future has for us, but I think we need to come to grips with our lives right now. Where are you investing your time? Where are you investing your life, your money; where are you placing these things? You only have this one life, that's all, just one shot. You've claimed Christ, you love Christ; are you salt that is salty and light that is manifest? Let's make a difference in the world; the world really needs us. We're the only salt and light. Let's be different and make a difference. Will you covenant in your heart with me before God that that is what you want to do? Father, we thank You tonight, for how, again, in the simplicity and beauty of Your Word, You have penetrated our hearts. Make us different. We know there is a price to pay, and that's OK. You payed the supreme price for us, You bore the blows that should have been borne by us. Surely we can take the blows that the world means for You. Help us to be faithful, and may this community of believers make a difference in the world, not for our sake, and not for the sake of Grace Church, John MacArthur, or any individual, but for the glory of God the Father who is in Heaven. It's His glory alone that we seek. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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When oil started leaking from Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, did you know that you were paying BP and Halliburton to contribute to the disaster?
If you are a US taxpayer, you certainly did. From undeserved tax breaks to direct payouts, the oil industry in the US is receiving all sorts of subsidies, while at the same time raking in billions and soiling beaches.
A New York Times article has outlined just how deep those subsidies go, and asked an important question: why do they even exist?
It seems to me that subsidies are justified, to put it very simply, in the rare times when an economic sector essential for the well-being of a nation is under extreme financial difficulties (and if you disagree with this definition, feel free to explain in comments).
Looking at soiled beaches, destroyed fisheries and a dying gulf of Mexico, I find it hard to see how oil drilling can be essential for anyone's well-being. I fully agree that we need to get our energy from somewhere, but there are real alternatives out there that won't do that kind of damage. So half my criteria is gone. Regarding the other - I don't think any oil company out there is in real economic danger - except maybe BP now, since it's becoming obvious that the White House won't let them get away with destroying Louisiana's marches (but unlike some people, I'm not going to start feeling sorry for them).
If you don't live in the US, don't start thinking it's not happening to you either. Fossil fuels live on a nice cushion in a lot of places. Even if extracted fossil fuels don't end up causing a monster oil spill, they cause a lot of damage - and as long as we continue paying people to cause climate change, we're in the wrong paradigm. Anyone up for changing it?
UPDATE July 6th: Well, that didn't take long. The American Petroleum Institute has announced they will start running TV ads to protect their soft cushion.
Juliette is a Digital Mobilisation Specialist at Greenpeace International. She likes chocolate, narwhals, and is slightly obsessed with the Arctic.
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I feel like I was one of the last few people among my friends to jump on the Pinterest bandwagon. The last thing I thought I would need is yet another computerized distraction to keep me from getting real work done. That being said, I finally broke down and joined the pinning community. I had no idea I would find so many useful tips, tricks, quotes, or workouts to help with my training — or simply to get my butt off the couch and out the door!
Last Saturday, I was facing my first 6-mile run of this training program. I felt overwhelmed by my fear of failure. The little voice in my head was trying to talk me out of it. I was tired. I had an essay to write for class. The weather would be better the next day. All of these excuses flooded my brain as a result.
I was procrastinating, which is usually what happens when I'm faced with a challenge that I'm not sure I'm ready to tackle. I found myself browsing Pinterest, and wasting time. Thankfully, the fitness category was chuck full of motivating tidbits that managed to tune out the negative self-talk. Before I knew it, I was double knotting my tennies and strapping on my Garmin — ready for the challenge. Before I left the house, I grabbed a pen and wrote, "6-miles. Don't quit and don't stop," on the back of my hand, just for good measure.
The first 3-miles seemed to breeze on by. I didn't check my pace as I went, but instead listened for the beeping of my Garmin to tell me when I completed another mile. I thought that sneaking a peek might psyche myself out. By the last stretch, I could tell I was getting tired and my legs felt heavy. I was almost within view of my house, and kept up the pace. I rejoiced when I heard the final beep telling me that I had reached my goal for the day!
The sense of accomplishment was amazing. I can't imagine what I will feel like when I cross the finish line in an actual race! I'll probably laugh, cry, fall over from exhaustion, and be looking for a snack all at the same time.
I have to say, my attitude toward Pinterest has certainly changed. It may be a weird way to find motivation, but it worked for me that day and it has worked for me since. I guess anything to get me out the door!
The week after that infamous 6-miler was pretty easy, and this Sunday my long run was only 4-miles. But from here on out, the training will become more grueling and those 6-mile runs are going to feel like a drop in a bucket compared to what lies ahead. Can't wait!
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Chrissy Teigen, who never wears underwear, recently posed in some new bridal bikinis and swimwear for Beach Bunny. And now there is a behind the scenes video. Want to see it? I thought you might. Especially if you saw some of the pictures that resulted from this photo shoot by Beach Bunny Swimwear that we shared a couple of weeks ago. As nice as they were, and they were nice, nothing beats a video of a smoking hot model like Chrissy Teigen modeling bikinis. Well, I supposed a few things do, but nothing that I can share with you here. (Unless you count stills from a bad sex tape as one of those things. Then we've got you covered.)
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We're looking at every NBA Playoff series through the eyes of both Free Darko. Here's Free Darko's look at the Boston Celtics-Detroit Pistons series. Your author is Bethlehem Shoals.
Ring the alarm and call in the ponies: Starting now, these Celtics are no longer playoff disappointments. They've spent long enough confounding and outraging us — from this moment on, they're underdogs.
See, that's one advantage of this damn near eternal postseason. It doesn't matter if you start it off as most likely to fo, fo, fo, fo. Enough turmoil, and rounds distended by a series that refuses to die, and there's plenty of room for narrative revision. You can change your face. You can change your whole fucking life.
Remember when this historic lineup saw its first game together? It was supposed to bring about 82 gargantuan nights of smart, sleek basketball that showed off these three stars in all their glory. They were instantly put on television more times than Portland and Seattle combined. Then the season started, and it became clear that toughness and discipline were the intended consequence. Still, a team for the ages. Then the playoffs, where this proud bunch was hapless away from home. Against the Cavs, they got nothing from Ray Allen, less than they would've liked from Garnett, and only advanced by imitating Cleveland's groundbreaking offense — with Paul Pierce playing the King James role.
(Sidenote: After this series, I can say for certain that Doc Rivers isn't letting Ray Allen be the Ray Ray we all knew and loved. That might be part of the problem. It's like, in the interest of streamlining the offense, he decided he had Steve Kerr, not an honest to God shooting guard. If I sound bitter, I am. That's exactly the kind of decision that got us so far from the Celtics team I once imagined seeing out there).
We've come a long way from those dreams of eye-popping play and non-stop, full-body sentimental orgasm. Here's the new party line: These guys were older than we thought. Mavs redux? Nah son, Garnett, Pierce and Allen gave it their all throughout the season because they couldn't help it, and now it's caught up with them. Lack of poise, or chemistry, or old postseason ghosts come back? Of course not. These are craggy warriors who refuse to quit. It's all about resolve once the wheels fall off, when regrouping has long ago disappeared in the rear view.
Look what's happening around them. The bench is uncertain. The role players are yanked quick, not nurtured. Doc Rivers, once the guru of unity, now has to improvise a rotation each game. These are times for real heroism. Anyone can win 60 when things click. Adversity, though, is what brings out the best in people. A little desperation makes you reach way deep down and flourish. This isn't a well-oiled march toward the championship these players deserve, it's the fight of their lives. Ironically, these scrappers and survivors, veterans of meaningless excellence and long springs of envy, are now being asked to conjure up their former selves. It's their only hope.
Or maybe they've just become Detroit. Balanced, grouchy, and always hovering somewhere between underachieving and surprising. The Pistons get here like clockwork. They always have some ups and some downs, some moments of arrogance and those of gut-wrenching humility. Sometimes they coast, others they work like hell. It's a mishmash of moods and styles that doesn't lend itself to easy characterization, and in part accounts for the indifference about them.
But the Pistons are here every year, while the Celtics, they've had to fight back from the depths of hell to get here. This has been in the making since they lost Bias and then Lewis. They're imperfect, but on a mission. The Pistons are the regulars who just fuck around every year and make it deep into the playoffs. They're an institution today, while the Celtics are struggling to live up to the weight of their own monumental past. Detroit has nothing to lose; they already got their ring. These Celtics, they need one to justify this team's existence. And yes, these are the times when knowing you're Hall of Fame-bound can keep you up nights.
Celtics, I believe in you. And when you lose to Los Angeles in the Finals, I'll be the first to jump on the message boards and say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SEASON IT'S SO AMAZING WE EVEN GOT BACK IN THE FINALS AGAIN.


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It is easy to install a stainless steel chimney liner and a chimney liner insulation kit by following these instructions.
Proper installation of rigid chimney flue liners and stainless steel flex chimney liners is critical; insulation is also highly recommended and is possibly required in your local code.
Ok, let's get started:
Preparing the liner for installation
-Remove the liner from the packaging and straighten it out on a flat surface.
-Attach the bottom termination connector (tee or appliance connector).
-Tighten the hose clamp on the connector to the liner. Do not over tighten.
-Find the exact length of the liner needed by measuring from where the bottom termination will stop to the top of the chimney crown. Add one foot. Now cut the liner using a saws or a good heavy duty pair of tin snips. Be cautious as to not leave jagged pointed edges on the liner. Make sure to leave a clean edge (for safety reasons).
Insulating the liner using insulating blanket wrap
-Make sure the bottom termination connector is installed. The liner should be insulated all the way to the bottom of the connector.
-Determine the length of insulation needed and cut.
-The insulating wrap must overlap along its length by a minimum of 1 inch. To ensure you have the proper width of insulating wrap multiply the liner diameter by 3.14 plus 1 inch for overlap. You may trim the width of the insulation to this amount but is not necessary. If the overlap is more than 1 inch you may have difficulties with clearance.
-With the foil side of the insulation facing the ground, lay it out on the ground.
-Set the liner in the center of the insulation.
-Begin wrapping the insulation around the liner leaving at least a 1 inch overlap on the seam. You can use the spray adhesive to help keep the insulation in place. Use the foil tape to secure the seam at 1 foot increments.
-Once the insulation is in place lay one continuous vertical length of foil tape on the seam.
-Now unroll the wire mesh and encapsulate the full length of liner including the bottom connector. The stainless steel mess protects the insulation wrap from damaged as the liner is place in the chimney flue. Use the provided hose clamps to secure the mesh to one end of the liner. Now on the other end of the liner, pull the wire mesh until it retracts and fits tightly on the liner. Use the provide hose clamp to secure the mesh on the pulling end. Cut away excess mesh.
-The liner is now ready to install.
Installing the liner
-Make sure you have the available manpower in order to handle the liner. Always make safety precautions when doing any work on the roof.
-Some installations may require you to use a rope connected to a pulling cone or directly to the bottom connector. A second person may be needed to pull the rope from the bottom or top of the chimney while the person on the other end roof guides the liner down the chimney.
-Keep the liner centered in the chimney opening to avoid causing damage to the insulation and/or liner.
-Once the bottom connector or top connector has reached the desired position, cut the top of the liner if required. Be sure to add 4 inches to the height that is equal to the crown.
Completing the top termination
-With the bottom connector held in place- put a heavy bead of silicone caulk around the chimney crown or top of clay flue tile. Place the top plate over the liner and press firmly into silicone caulk.
-Tighten the quick connect clamp / band around the liner. This secures the liner to the top plate. Optional: The Top plate flashing has four pre drilled holes, which can be used to screw the top plate to the crown with tap-con screws.
-Install the cap by fitting it over the collar of the top plate. Tighten the hose clamp band of the cap onto the top plate collar. Your top termination is now complete.
Completing the bottom termination
-Locate the point where the connector pipe / removable snout will pass through the chimney wall to the tee body. Or if connecting vertically simply connect the appliance connector to the the liner and bottom termination point.
-If insulated - cut away a hole in the insulation and mesh where the tee snout will connect to the body of the tee if using a tee vs a vertical connection. If using a vertical connection this step will not be required and you will need our liner kit with the appliance connector vs a T & T Cap.
-Secure the snout to the body of the tee using the attached metal band, which wraps around the backside of the tee body.
-If insulating and you have our kit with the Tee & T Cap wrap the snout of the tee with insulation.
-Fill in the hole around the snout with brick and mortar
-Complete your connection to the heating appliance following all applicable codes.
Congratulations, you have successfully completed installing a flexible chimney liner!
More facts and tips
-The liner protects the house from heat transfer to combustibles. In the NBS tests, unlined chimneys allowed heat to move through the chimney so rapidly that the adjacent woodwork caught fire in only 3 1/2 hours.
-Liners protect the masonry from the corrosive byproducts of combustion. In the tests it was determined that if the flue gases were allowed to penetrate to the brick and mortar, the result would be a reduction in the usable life of the chimney. The flue gases are acidic in nature and literally eat away at the mortar joints from inside the chimney. As the mortar joints erode, heat transfers more rapidly to the nearby combustibles and dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide can leak into the living areas of the home.
-Liners provide a correctly sized flue for optimum efficiency of appliances, keep in mind the fuel source / heating unit dictates your what sze your flue should be. The existing flue in most cases does not detrmine the liner you require. Your chimney was not built to the size of the unit you are most likely planning on venting into your chimney. Your chimney was built to the size of what ever it was intended to be used in conjunction with years ago. For example if you have a masonry fireplace and now you are planning on using that chimney for a wood burning stove. The current flue size of the chimney most likely is to big for the wood stove, it was built to specifications of the original brick fireplace, not a wood burning stove with a 6 or 8 inch exhuast. Modern wood stoves, fireplace inserts, pellet stoves, gas furnaces, wood boilers, oil furnaces require a correctly sized flue to perform properly. The chimney is responsible for not only allowing the products of combustion a passage way out of the house, but the draft generated by the chimney also supplies combustion air to the appliance. An incorrectly sized flue can lead to excessive creosote buildup in wood burning stoves, and the production of corrosive acids and carbon monoxide with conventional fuels.
-While most replacement chimney liners are installed by pulling up from the top of the chimney up, some require you pull the liner down from below. A pulling nose cone can be attached to the top or bottom of the liner, and the liner is pulled or winched up the chimney through the smoke chamber. Sometimes the liner needs a little coaxing, and you may have to play with it depending on the pathway in your flue. See our specialty's page for pulling cone options.
-Caution: Metal edges can be sharp; make sure to wear protective gloves when handling the liner and liner components. Also make sure your chimney has been cleared of all debris before installing the liner.
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This project looks pretty straightforward to me except for one area. My existing 5" pipe that passes through the wall into my chimney. It looks like its cemented into the wall. How do I go about removing the pipe so I can install the tee snout for the liner system without doing too much damage to my basement wall?
Also anyone have any suggested vendors for buying a system for an oil furnace? I'm in the Philadelphia area for local retailers but I'll buy on-line if you have any suggestions.
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Removing bottom snout
You should be able to remove the snout from the basement wall just by pulling on it. If a portion of the hole breaks away that is not a big deal. Once the pipe is removed, you now have access to install the new snout onto the tee body that came down the flue with the chimney liner. Once everything is secure, if there is a gape around the new tee snout, it can be sealed with a high temp caulk or furnace cement.
You can go on line to rockfordchimneysupply.com and order these components. Just make sure you order the 316ti liner, 304 is just for a wood burning application.
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I plan on knocking this project out before the fall hits.
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Cash from website fund helps pay for George Zimmerman's living expenses
ORLANDO, Fla. – A lawyer for George Zimmerman says some of the money raised by a defense fund website is paying for Zimmerman's security and living expenses while he stays in hiding before his trial in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, said on his website that just under $50,000 of the more than $200,000 raised by Zimmerman's now-defunct Internet page is being used for his security and setting up his living arrangements in hiding. Zimmerman has about $15,000 in cash.
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PSF: Southampton 2 West Ham Utd 2 (01/08/08)An archive of match day threads originally posted in the General Discussion forum.
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If you take a look at this link it may help with the pubs in and around Southampton /www.upthesaints.com/pubGuide.asp
We're going down by train as well from London Waterloo and need a pub to drink in,i read on another site that some away fans drink in The prince Of Wales,The Bevois Castle and The Station but i dont know where these are,i might just wait untill i get there
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After spending for years in this craphole (3 as a uni student), I can give the following advice...
The town centre has quite a few pubs/bars in. Probably the best would be the walkabout, which is in the bottom end of town - near town quay. Ocean Village used to be nice until they built flats upon flats in this area. You've also got other bars in the town centre, but its pretty small. The stadium is about a 15/20 minute walk from the walkabout.
I'd recommend getting the train to southampton central from waterloo rather than driving down, as parking can be quite hard. Not sure how busy the car parks will be around the cinema.
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sounds like a plan-thats what we're doin!
is there a bar called the orange rooms or the like-- i rem getting kicked out of there a year or two bak i think!?
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There parking should'nt be to much of a prob now as they have built a new multi storey near the ocean village cinema, it has always been pretty empty when i have been near it. but even so as it's an evening game u should be ok , just don't park in any roads near the ground as u will get a ticket!
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personally i would be happy if we decided on a pub in the ocean village cinema area as that is where i will be parking
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I've never found it a major problem parking near the ground on the Industrial estate...as for drinking you usually find The Victory right outside the station busy as there is a free bus from there to the ground although it wont win any awards for its decor.
If you walk to the ground from the station you pass quite a few pubs and have to walk across the nice park...should imagine a pub crawl in this weather will be a reasonable idea. The area around the ground is sh!te though..
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is there still tickets avaliable? tryed on thursday but couldn't get through?
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[quote="Romford"]I've never found it a major problem parking near the ground on the Industrial estate.
Unless u have paid to park there already i wouldn't recommend it. Have heard of many people getting tickets and they do generally close the area off.
Oh it says we have sold all of our tickets on the saints website, but it does also say we only had 2000.
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Park just over the toll bridge and you can have a nice drink on the river and a stroll up to the ground
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Few of us coming up from Bournemouth. Will be drinking in Squares before game and wander up to St Marys at about 7.15pm
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Where abouts in Bournemouth you at ^? I'm rolling up with the old boy and my bro...also got a few saints "fans" travelling up from here...*****!
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Any ideas about Internet viewing would be much appreciated ??
I could have swore i just posted this but it dissapeared..
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suicyde - live down near Castlepoint - great for the wife, not so for my credit card
Normally go to the Broadway or Richmond when we're on the box.
I'm coming up with 5, and alas some scummers from where I work coming up too
Soton friendly - Away tickets on the door
Well we sold out our alloc but apparently theres going to be some tickets available on the gate
http://www.clubfanzine.com/southampton/ ... p?id=12554
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I am really looking forward to this game. With the amount of people we are taking and the team that I expect we'll put out, should make for a very good evening!
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Good stuff ^ I'm just over the way by Bournemouth Uni...but moving to Canford Heath in the next couple of days...from then, I'm officialy a p****.
You don't know any of the boys who play football for the Spire Broadway do you? I played a couple of friendlies with them...and know a few of the chaps in there...some horrible customers! haha all mates though.
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im going down from Gatwick by train,
Anyone got any idea which station to head to?
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you want southampton main station its about 2 mile away from the ground though
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any one buying the tickets on the day from st marys??
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Major Section: PROGRAMMING
The form
(must-be-equal logic exec) evaluates to
logic in the ACL2
logic but evaluates to
exec in raw Lisp. The point is to be able to
write one definition to reason about logically but another for evaluation.
Please see mbe and see mbt for appropriate macros to use, rather than
must-be-equal directly, since it is easy to commute the arguments
must-be-equal by accident.
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(must-be-equal x y) is
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