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Many thanks to the people who have sent me very encouraging feedback after watching the short documentary film and seeing the project page at http://cora-esl.weebly.com/
This is a nice example of how a day-trip can be combined into a media and reading-writing project for adult students.
--from TESOL CALL-IS
Very beautiful project, Cora, in many ways. From the concept of the roof to the educational experience you organized to the filming and the music. Very well done. :) Congratulations and best wishes as you move on to the next project!
--from J.L., Material writer for Longman
The speed of your camera work matched your music selection very well. I enjoyed the content and the overall tone of the video is very relaxing. Bravo!
--from R.D., Founder of eslvideo.com
What a fabulous production. I love it!
--from Dr. B.B., Goethe Institute
Cora, Congratulations on a fine video documenting your field trip to "The Living Roof"!
I admire how you put together the various components - music, narration, original video. Well done!
Your website pictures and student writing are a separate, different and interesting, showing how you integrated the field trip into your curriculum and students' language use. It's informative to read what the various students wrote. Congratulations on your wonderful and successful field trip! Educationally for the students it was surely a memorable and fun event.
--from L.M., ESL instructor
What a fantastic building! And your video was close to perfect, explaining it so well!
--from M.M., Founder of RealEnglish.com & Director and Founder of The Marzio Language School in France
Wow, Cora, this is a fine project. I enjoyed watching your film and am impressed with the collaboration with KQED.
--from C.F., Education Consultant
The whole topic and the video are really interesting and how wonderful to be a part of the KQED's initiative.
--from B.M. OTAN (Outreach and Technical Assistance Network)
What a wonderful video you produced of your visit to the Academy. We certainly enjoyed having you visit the Academy and make such a wonderful tribute to the building.
--from T.D., the California Academy of Sciences
I am dazzled and speechless at your wonderful accomplishment - both the field trip and the video you produced. Congratulations! I hope you feel VERY VERY proud of what you've done. Year after year I feel great admiration for your achievements.
--from E.B., ESL instructor
Your project is WONDERFUL. I am so impressed with your imagination & creativity in approaching your students & lessons.
--from S.L., ESL instructor, The City University of New York
Your class projects are wonderful.
I'll recommend your sites to educators.
Thanks for sharing.
--from K., ELT trainer
Cora--amazing work!
--J.A, ELT educator
Cora, I love your film ! I'm going to show it to my students. Great that you took your students on a field trip too.
Great use of technology !!!
--from D.W., ESL instructor, City College of San Francisco
Cora, Your video is really amazing.
--from R.G., ESL instructor, City College of San Francisco
Nice work on that field trip, Cora.
--from J. B., ESL instructor, City College of San Francisco


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[originally posted on Search Engine Watch]
Before writing a PPC ad, you might find yourself with this dilemma: When should your PPC copy create a powerful mental image of the product or service's end benefit, and when should you focus on establishing credibility and addressing concerns about the path to achieving that benefit?
In normal, longer-form copy, you don't have to make such a stark choice since you can usually highlight both the benefits and prove your product or service's ability to deliver that promised benefit. But that's usually not an option when you're limited to 90 characters.
So which do you pick?
Well, as usual, it all depends on the mindset of the searcher:
- How far ahead are they looking?
- How far along are they in their shopping and buying process?
- Are they already preoccupied with any particularly pressing concerns or anticipated obstacles?
With all that in mind, care to guess which one of these ads achieved a 151 percent boost in click-through rate (CTR) over the other?
Ad 2 jumps to an end benefit of "Watch Them On Any Device You Want," while Ad 1 focuses on the process: "Fast, Free & Easy. No registration or email required."
So which ad won?
Version 1 increased CTR by 151 percent.
Seems that not being able to play a downloaded video on a smartphone or tablet isn't a pressing concern for most searchers, while not having to buy anything or register for anything is a concern (or an anticipated obstacle) for a lot of searchers.
You could argue that Features won this battle. But you'd be ignoring the ads' headlines, because it's pretty clear that Ad 1's headline is a lot more benefit focused than Ad 2's.
Let's take a look at another example:
Which one of these ads boosted CTR by 165 percent?
Well, the ads in this contest are even more clearly divided between benefit vs. feature-focused copy. So which ad do you think won?
Answer: Ad 1
Clearly, "Get Ripped in 90 Days" is a benefit statement, while "Extreme workouts!" and "Special TV Offer" are more feature oriented.
So what's the final upshot?
- It pays to test both feature-focused and benefit-laden copy.
- Even within the same ad, it's still possible to have a benefit-laden headline, but feature-rich body copy, and vice versa. So the balance within the ad is also worth testing.
- Features that address a pressing concern or provide added credibility are the features that typically provide the greatest boost.
But don't take my word for it. Get out and run some benefits vs. features tests on your PPC ads and let me know all about your experience in the comments.


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That was me in the other post.
Door number 2 get's my vote.
Go ahead and use unions if you wish. Some people like them. If installed correctly they could go forever without leaking.
I have to warranty everthing I install. I've been around a long time. I know what leaks and what problems can arise from what.
I'll say it again, it's just one more place for things to leak...
With slip ports yes your only option is to cut the pipe if the whole valve needs replacing.
With threaded ports you can unscrew the valve.
With unions you can have all kinds of problems and leaks. Things in the ground will shift around much more than the plumbing in your house.
This is just my opinion. I didn't read this anywhere. 18 years and counting repairing sprinkler systems is where my insight comes from...
If the unions give you a problem you can always redo it. I say go for it.
I hope other people give their opinions as well.
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Those wanting to create something special and unique of lasting value will need nothing less than the perfect "ingredients". This not only applies to many other areas but especially to our Steiff manufacture, where we only use "ingredients" of the highest quality: for every Steiff animal, from head to paw. Starting with the thread, the filling material, buttons, eyes and accessories and right up to what is so characteristic for every Steiff animal: it's "coat" or "fur", which gives character and form to its appearance. So since 2009 we have been particularly happy to be able to call ourselves the world's only manufacturer of stuffed toys with its own fabric factory.
This natural material from the wool of the angora goat is the classic Teddy bear material. In fact, it was used for the first Teddy bear ever created. The fiber is both beautiful and durable, which accounts for the amazing number of vintage. Steiff creations that appear today in superb condition.
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The philosophy of "gun control" revolves around two primary assumptions:
a) That "average", good, law-abiding people can't be trusted to obey laws (therefore, they must be disarmed for their own safety); and
b) That criminals and the mentally ill can (the whole "Just One More Law" thing).
"Gun control" fails in practice because its primary assumptions are completely and utterly ridiculous.
Covers it….Found here… Go read it all.
This gun control.
Protecting your family and self from a larger stronger attacker..With a gun..
What else wold you have them do? Pee on the assailant? Vomit? Blow a damn whistle?
Or lay back and think England.
Kalifornistan has it..
Not working to well though.
4 Dead, 2 Wounded in California Shooting Spree
Is it?
This is TSA.. I would be planning a hunting trip or I would be kicking ass…Effing government thugs..
Cars, alcohol and stupid people like Frum should also be included..
David Frum: 'Firearm Manufacturers Should Face Tobacco Industry-Like Senate Hearings'
Gun Control, Summarized
Pretty soon you can't get a gun for under $1000 with several hundred $ a year in legal maintenance.
Thus fucking everyone living in poverty from defending themselves, and ensuring that only rich white "liberal" cocksuckers can own them.
Someone tell me why and how one classifies McCain as a Conservative?
McCain to betray conservatives on gun rights
"The Constitution Doesn't Apply During Wartime." How Convenient That the U.S. Is Now Always at War!
The ongoing meddling and skirmishes around the world preclude us from not being at war with someone somewhere on this globe.
This is wrong? I hope like hell this is false!!!
DHS Supplier Provides Shooting Targets of American Gun Owners
Company produces cardboard cut-outs of "non-traditional threats": Pregnant women, elderly & children
Paul Joseph Watson February 19, 2013
A provider of "realistic" shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies has created a line of "non-traditional threat" targets that include pregnant women, mothers in playgrounds and elderly American gun owners.
Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. is a 21-year designer and full service provider of training targets for the DHS, the Justice Department and thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
The company's website offers a line of "No More Hesitation" targets "designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training." The targets are, "meant to help the transition for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the first time."
The targets include "pregnant woman threat," "older man with shotgun," "older man in home with shotgun," "older woman with gun," "young school aged girl," "young mother on playground," and "little boy with real gun."
Why are top training target suppliers for the government supplying the likes of the DHS with "non-traditional threat" targets of children, pregnant women, mothers in playgrounds, and elderly American gun owners unless there is a demand for such items?
This is particularly alarming given the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has purchased roughly 2 billion rounds of ammunition over the course of the last year, enough to wage a near 30 year war.
In comparison, during the height of active battle operations in Iraq, US soldiers used 5.5 million rounds of ammunition a month.
The DHS also purchased no less than 7,000 fully automatic assault rifles last September, labeling them "Personal Defense Weapons."
The fact that targets of armed pregnant women, children, mothers in playgrounds, and American gun owners in general are being represented as "non traditional threats" "for the first time" is deeply concerning given the admittedpreparations for civil unrest undertaken by Homeland Security as well as other federal agencies.
A leaked US Army Military Police training manual for "Civil Disturbance Operations" also outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest.
This also doevetails with the contuning characterization of Americans who are "suspicious of centralized federal authority," and "reverent of individual liberty" as "extreme right-wing" terrorists by DHS-funded studies.
See the other "non-traditional threats" that are being provided in the form of shooting targets to the DHS and thousands of law enforcement agencies below.


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To show off some of the potential performance difference available, I ported the FishIE benchmark to WebGL. Along the way I discovered some different problems and ways to solve them.
The problem, once the overhead of Canvas 2D is removed, is that FishIE very quickly becomes texture read bound. I noticed that the FishIE sprites have a lot of horizontal padding. This padding was included in the drawImage calls which causes us to do a bunch of texture reads for transparent pixels. Trimming this down a little gave a noticeable framerate boost.
An even bigger cause of texture bandwidth waste is that the demo uses a large sprite to draw a small fish. Fortunately, OpenGL has a great solution to this problem: mipmaps. Mipmaps let the GPU use smaller textures when drawing smaller fish, which can dramatically reduce the texture bandwidth required. They also improve the quality of small fish by eliminating the aliasing that occurs when downscaling by large amounts.
Mipmapping is a good example of the flexibility that WebGL allows. Canvas 2D aims to be an easy to use API for drawing pictures, but this ease of use comes at some cost. First, the Canvas 2D implementation has to guess the intents of the author. For example drawImage on OS X does a high quality lanczos down scaling of the image. Direct2D just does a quick bilinear down scale. This makes it difficult for authors to know how fast drawImage will be. Further, because the design of Canvas 2D is inspired by an API for describing print jobs, it's not well suited to reusing data between paints.
Try out the difference with these two modified versions of FishIE:
Pushing the limitsOnce the number of fish becomes high enough we run into Javascript performance problems. FishIE has some Javascript problems that make things worse than they need to be. First, it loops over the fish with "for (var fishie in fish) {". This can end up using 10% of the total CPU time. The problem with this code is that converts all of the array indices to strings and then uses those strings to index into the array. It also has the problem that any additional properties added to the array will also show up as index values, which is likely not the intent of the author.
Second, each fish object includes a swim() method. Unfortunately, in the FishIE source swim() is a closure inside the Fish() object. This means that the swim() method is different for each Fish which makes things worse for Javascript engines.
Fixing both of these problems, and making the fish really small lets us get an idea of how many sprites we can actually push around. Here's a final version. If I disable the method jit (bug 637878) and run at an even window size (bug 637894) I can do 60000 fish at 30fps, which I think is pretty impressive compared to the 1000 that the original Microsoft demo does.


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AJ Glass said she�s glad the ban on female service members serving in combat roles has been lifted, though she said in reality, females have always served in combat.
�Some women picked up rifles and shot during the Revolutionary War, I�m sure,� Glass said.
Glass is a one-time director of the Alamance County branch of Disabled American Veterans and an Air Force veteran. She served from 1979 to 1995 � retiring as a technical sergeant.
The decision to lift the ban on females in combat was announced Thursday by outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. It�s considered a watershed policy change.
Glass said that while she welcomes the move, female service members have always been in combat � especially in more recent wars. She noted the War in Vietnam had no clearly defined front lines of combat. The situation has escalated with more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
American service members deployed to these war zones, Glass and others say, are pretty much in harm�s way from the get-go.
�The illusion they�re not involved in combat is just that � an illusion,� Glass said.
Still, she said she�s glad the military is lifting its supposed ban on females in combat, the last remaining barrier to a fully inclusive military.
�I think it�s a good thing,� Glass said. �We�ve finally broke through that glass ceiling.�
Michelle Phillips served in the Navy from 1988 to 1993. She was a hospital corpsman and left the military with the rank of petty officer third class. Phillips lives outside Liberty.
She said if a female is interested in serving in an infantry battalion that�s likely to see combat, she deserves the opportunity. But Phillips said as far as she�s concerned: no thanks.
�I saw enough blood and guts while catching babies in labor and delivery,� Phillips said of her own military service.
Still, she said she feels the decision to lift the ban on females in combat roles is a positive.
�If a female is physically and mentally capable, go for it,� Phillips said.
She said her daughter has expressed interest in joining the military and pursuing a job as either an MP or a sniper.
�I�ve told her, �If that�s what you want to do, don�t let anybody stand in your way,� � Phillips said.
Panetta reportedly made the decision to lift the ban on females in combat roles �upon the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.� The Army and the Marines, which make up the bulk of the military�s ground combat force, will present plans to open most jobs to women by May 15.
The Army, by far the largest fighting force, currently excludes women from nearly 25 percent of active-duty roles.
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Amy Schumer can tell a story. Knowing how to craft a short narrative and make it pay off with a laugh has, after all, helped make her one of the hottest comedians on TV and the concert circuit these days.
So, let the star of Comedy Central's "Inside Amy Schumer" explain how it came to be that she finished her work for a bachelor's degree in theater at Towson University in 2003 but didn't receive her diploma until 2007 — in the lobby of Baltimore's Lyric Opera House.
"I say I graduated in 2003 from Towson, but that's not actually true," the 31-year-old New-York-born performer says in a recent interview. "I went to Towson and had the credits to graduate on time, but then I found out I needed to pay $200 to post these credits. And I was like, 'What?' And I was so enraged that you had to pay to post credits that I was like, 'What an arbitrary, made-up thing.' So, I didn't pay the money."
In 2007, Schumer, who left Towson and moved to New York, had just finished a season as one of the final contestants on NBC's "Last Comic Standing" reality competition. A show tour was headed for a stop at the Lyric when Schumer got a call from Jay Herzog, then chair of the school's theater department. Herzog and faculty colleague Robyn Quick had been following Schumer on TV and read an interview in which she mentioned graduating from Towson in 2003.
"So I'm coming to Baltimore, and the chair of the theater department calls and he's like, 'Amy, bring $200 and we'll give you your diploma,'" she says, laughing at the memory. "So I didn't actually get my diploma until 2007 in the lobby of the Lyric — just out of stubbornness."
Stubbornness, or the almost genetic resistance to rules and authority that seems to feed the work of our best stand-up comedians?
"I think it's like things you're not willing to accept that are part of society and you want to speak out about them," she says in answer to the question. "That's a big part of stand-up — for me, anyway."
Make no mistake, there's no problem with Amy Schumer when it comes to speaking out about things.
"You know Amy's been compared to Sarah Silverman," Herzog says. "And I think the point of comparison is that Amy's a risk taker. You know, she steps over the line. And she's willing to go there, and I think that's been her success. She's not afraid to say what's on her mind. She's willing to be dirty. She's willing to be hip."
Her humor, he says, is in keeping with a sensibility that's also evident on Lena Dunham's series "Girls" — on which Schumer has been cast.
"She knows what's going on in her generation really, really well," he says. "When I saw her cast this year in HBO's 'Girls,' I thought, 'How perfect, because that's where her generation's at — and Amy's right there.'"
There's an aggression, an edge and a willingness to cross over sexual boundaries in Schumer's humor.
"I'm celebrating because I finally just slept with my high school crush," she begins in one joke. (Pause as the audience applauds.) "But, I swear, he like now expects me to go to his graduation. [Pause.] Like I know where I'm going to be in three years? [Expletive] kids, right?"
And that's one of the few punchlines or even topics from her stand-up act that can be quoted in this or any other newspaper.
But she can also play the vulnerable and hopelessly needy fool in love.
One sketch on the premiere of "Inside Amy Schumer" begins with her waking up in a bed with a young man she just met the night before. The camera follows her as she fantasizes about their life together and then starts acting on it — from opening a joint checking account to marriage to having graves dug side by side.
Meanwhile, the object of her romantic obsession has a hard time remembering who she is when she calls. And the camera shows him masturbating while looking at the heavy-set, make-believe "mama" figure on a jar of pasta sauce.
That contradiction is at the core of her onstage persona. She uses a sweet, friendly, nice-girl look to make her raunchier, nasty and politically incorrect punchlines all the more laugh-out-loud shocking.
For the record, Herzog remembers the dollar amount that Schumer owed Towson as being $90 — not $200 — and believes it was a fee for a test she took to post out of certain curricular requirements — like Advanced Placement.
But no real matter. It's all love and kisses between Schumer and Towson today.
"We've all agreed to refer to the thing that kept Amy from getting her diploma in 2003 as a minor administrative matter,'" says Quick, the current chair of Towson's theater department, who adds how proud Schumer's former professors are of their one-time student.
The theater department's pride is easy to understand. Her climb from a college grad in 2003 who had never tried stand-up comedy, to concert headliner and TV show star is anything but an overnight success story. It included waiting tables and bartending in New York and then working her way up from the bottom of the bill in comedy clubs often populated by hecklers and drunks.
In addition to "Last Comic Standing" in 2007, she got some excellent TV exposure on Comedy Central roasts of Roseanne and Charlie Sheen. One joke she made at the Sheen roast in 2011 about Steve-O of "Jackass" went viral, resulting in death threats, she says. Stand-up is a rough business, if you didn't know. And Schumer, who can dish with the best of them onstage, can take the blowback.
But in the last year or so, she has been on one of those blessed pop-culture rolls where one success seems to feed another, and she can now look up in Times Square and see herself on a billboard 30 feet high in a famous Marilyn Monroe pose. Schumer is this season's buzz in TV comedy. No one on any network sitcom comes close.
Her weekly show debuted at 10:30 p.m. April 30 on Comedy Central to some of the highest ratings the basic-cable channel has ever enjoyed for a new series, drawing 3 million viewers. The show was No. 1 in its time period with men 18 to 34, a notoriously elusive demographic coveted by advertisers. And that was for cable and network TV.
Meanwhile, on a 30-city "Inside Amy Schumer" comedy tour, she's selling out concert halls four and five nights a week.
"There's a new energy around me, and I am definitely getting recognized more," Schumer says.
"Tonight, I'm a doing a 1,600-seat theater that's sold out," she adds. "And, yeah, that's the most people that have ever come out to see just me. On 'The Last Comic' tour, we did a couple 3,000-seaters or whatever. But this is completely amazing. … I can feel the energy and the buzz, and people are really responding to the show. It's only aired for a few weeks now, but, God, I can just feel it."
While she's happy about being such a strong TV draw with young men, Schumer says the crowds she sees at her concerts are "50-50 men and women" — a fact supported by her TV show also finishing first among cable channels in its time period with all viewers 18 to 49.
But, she adds, "I really want women to watch the show. And I'm noticing women are saying stuff on Twitter like, 'Oh, my gosh, Amy Schumer's writing my story.' Or, 'That has happened to me so many times.' And that's the stuff that feels really good. And, you know, I'm trying to sneak in some lessons I learned or some injustice about society. But, hopefully, people are laughing hysterically and they don't even realize it."
Schumer goes for the laughs rather than lessons in explaining how a Long Island girl wound up at Towson University.
"I wanted to play volleyball in college," she says. "I played real competitively in high school. But then I realized they recruited these chicks from Stockholm who were, like, towering over me. I'm 5-7 and an outside hitter, and they were like, 'You could maybe try and play back row.'"
So, she says, she decided maybe college volleyball wasn't in the cards. And since she had been a "performer" in high school, maybe she should look for a school with a "great drama department like Towson."
While she never tried stand-up at Towson, Schumer did in her senior year co-star in a production of Diana Son's drama, "Stop Kiss," on the school's Main Stage. Baltimore's City Paper described the performances of Schumer and her co-star as the "strong suit" of the production.
But, Schumer says, in the end, the theater department wasn't the ultimate reason she chose the school.
"Truthfully, when I visited the campus, I had a great run at a beer pong tournament,' she says. "And I made out with a boy. And if you make out with a boy and you win at beer pong, I'm like, 'I'm going to school here. I belong here.' "
There have been lessons learned along the way as well — powerful ones.
"I think comedians all value control," she says. "That's a big chunk of why we get into it, which isn't the sexiest of thoughts. But I think what I've learned is that ultimately you have no control. I can't control what the crowd is experiencing or thinking."
And that insight, Schumer says, has been liberating.
"People have thrown things at me. They've come at me. They've yelled things that are mean. I just don't have any fears left," she says. "And letting go of things I don't ultimately have control over — there's a real freedom in that. That's the biggest lesson. You want to control life and not be hurt and not feel pain. But that's not possible. You do the best you can, and then it's out of your hands."
About Amy
Age: 31
Middle Name: Beth
Born: Manhattan
Raised: Long Island, N.Y.
Education: B.S. theater, Towson University
TV: Star of "Inside Amy Schumer" on Comedy Central, which airs at 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays
Guest-star TV: "Girls," "Louie," "30 Rock," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Favorite Baltimore places: Camden Yards, Mount Vernon ("I love the architecture"), the Brewer's Art, Federal Hill, the Belvedere Hotel.
Best Baltimore quote: "It's a cool kind of manageable city. I loved being there. You're below the Mason-Dixon line, but you're not in 'Deliverance.' "


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ICD-10 Code S62.155A
Nondisp fx of hook process of hamate bone, left wrist, init
Diagnosis Code S62.155A
Short Description: Nondisp fx of hook process of hamate bone, left wrist, init
Long Description: Nondisplaced fracture of hook process of hamate [unciform] bone, left wrist, initial encounter for closed fracture
Version 2019 of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code S62.155A
Valid for Submission
The code S62.155A is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)
Information for Medical Professionals
- 814.09 - Fx carpal bone NEC-close (Approximate Flag)
Information for Patients
Also called: Broken bone
A fracture is a break, usually in a bone. If the broken bone punctures the skin, it is called an open or compound fracture. Fractures commonly happen because of car accidents, falls, or sports injuries. Other causes are low bone density and osteoporosis, which cause weakening of the bones. Overuse can cause stress fractures, which are very small cracks in the bone.
Symptoms of a fracture are
- Intense pain
- Deformity - the limb looks out of place
- Swelling, bruising, or tenderness around the injury
- Numbness and tingling
- Problems moving a limb
You need to get medical care right away for any fracture. An x-ray can tell if your bone is broken. You may need to wear a cast or splint. Sometimes you need surgery to put in plates, pins or screws to keep the bone in place.
- Broken bone (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Closed reduction of a fractured bone (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Closed reduction of a fractured bone - aftercare (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Wrist Injuries and Disorders
Your wrist is made up of eight small bones known as carpals. They support a tube that runs through your wrist. That tube, called the carpal tunnel, has tendons and a nerve inside. It is covered by a ligament, which holds it in place.
Wrist pain is common. Repetitive motion can damage your wrist. Everyday activities like typing, racquet sports or sewing can cause pain, or even carpal tunnel syndrome. Wrist pain with bruising and swelling can be a sign of injury. The signs of a possible fracture include misshapen joints and inability to move your wrist. Some wrist fractures are a result of osteoporosis.
Other common causes of pain are
- Sprains and strains
- Tendinitis
- Arthritis
- Gout and pseudogout
- Colles wrist fracture - aftercare (Medical Encyclopedia)
- De Quervain tendinitis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Wrist arthroscopy (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Wrist pain (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Wrist sprain - aftercare (Medical Encyclopedia)
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ICD-10 Footnotes
General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.
Present on Admission
The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement.


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Recently, one of the elders came to me and said, "You know, I was listening to your tapes when you were preaching in New York." I was back in New York doing a series. And I was sort of surprised that this elder had gotten hold of the tapes from that entire series. Nothing I say anywhere escapes the scrutiny of the elders, by the way. Which I'm excited they want to hear it. But anyway, he said, "I feel like I've been cheated because often when you go away, you share things with other churches and other people that were very foundational in the ministry here, very basic, very important things that you taught at Grace before I ever came. And I feel like I've never heard those things. And there's sort of another whole ministry of John MacArthur elsewhere that the folks who've come recently to Grace never get involved in because those were things you did early in the ministry here." And so he encouraged me to reach back and do some of the very most important and foundational things that we've ever done at Grace Church. And I thought about that and meditated on it and felt that that's really what the Lord would have me to do, as I share with you today. And what I want to do is reach back to some of the very basic things that we have learned here, relative to this whole matter of spiritual growth and the theme of glorifying God. And I'll show you how those relate as we get started. But just to sort of establish a point, I'd be curious to know how many of you, here this morning, have come to Grace Church within the last five years? Lift your hand up high. Okay. That is really ... what happened to all of our people from before? Amazing! And so, I need to be aware of the fact that many of the things, as I say, that were very foundational in the life of our church, need to be reiterated and reaffirmed so that all of us can get a handle on some of the very, very basic things. And I want to share with you along that line this morning and then again tonight. And probably two weeks from tonight, I'll just pick up what I don't get to finish. But I'm very, very anxious to share with you in the matter of glorifying God and how it relates to spiritual growth.
Now to begin with this morning, I want you to open your Bible to 1 John chapter 2 ... 1 John chapter 2. And we need a sort of a launching point. Now by the way, the message that I'm giving this morning, we have the material in print in a little study note set called, Nourishment for New Life. Those are available this morning on the patio. We only have about 500 left. I don't know how many are left now since the first service. But they will give you in printed form, the things that I'm saying to you this morning and tonight with a few different emphases and so forth. But basically the same Scriptures are dealt with. And if you'd like a copy of these very essential, basic things for your spiritual growth, get a copy of Nourishment for New Life on the patio after the service this morning.
All right, 1 John chapter 2 and verse 12 introduces to us our subject. John writes, "I write unto you little children," and he uses a word that simply means "children" in a very general sense. In the sense that anybody is a child of their parent, it has no age identification. "I'm just writing unto you because you're children, because your sins are forgiven you, for His name's sake." John says, "I'm writing unto because your sins are forgiven for His namesake." And may I suggest to you that what he means by that is for the glory of the Lord. We are forgiven for His sake, not ours. I think you have a little bit of an idea of how I feel about much of contemporary Christianity. But I continue to be rather appalled, almost on a daily basis, at the burgeoning cult that is growing in and around Christianity, a cult that I call a "cult of human exaltation". I mentioned to you a few weeks ago about a parade I saw of Christians, each riding on their own float, to the applause of the people watching them. And I told you how distressed I was to see Christians being paraded around as if they were some kind of celebrities. I pick up yesterday, the latest edition of Newsweek magazine and read a two-page spread about the current rock music mania that's hit Christianity. And some of the comments of these supposed Christian artists. I saw one group that looked like they were demonic, as demonic as any other heavy-metal group might look. And yet, they're supposed to represent Jesus Christ. And at the end of their concerts they throw New Testaments at the audience. I read about another female singer who comes out, and machines pump great amounts of smoke, and she comes out through all of this smoke and these flashing lights. And she's got some drapery on or something. And she throws it off to reveal her spandex skin-tight white pants and goes on in a comment about the fact that she is both sacred and sexy. Went on to read about certain bumper stickers that are associated with this kind of thing, the sayings on which I would not repeat. And again, I saw in mind this incredible perversion of Christianity to the point where it is now trying to compete with the world's exaltation of its own. And has almost, on a wholesale basis, lost sight of the fact that we are redeemed, not for our own selves, but for God. Not for our glory and not for our exaltation, and not for our success and our promotion and our prosperity, but for God's glory. And all of this really is the byproduct of an abhorrent theology that teaches that salvation is primarily for me, to make me feel good. There are no limits on what I might do because God wants me to have a good time. God wants me to be prosperous. God wants me to be successful. God wants me to be me to do my own thing. I was saved for me. That is the underlying abhhoration behind so much of contemporary Christian perversion.
And all the people who are now teaching doctrine of affluence and the doctrine of prosperity and, I like to call it, the doctrine of fame, really have come up with little else than another form of idolatry. But we have, who are Protestants historically, taking a rather sad and severe look at the Roman Catholic Church because of its idols. And yet we, in Protestant Christianity today, are creating idols of another sort which if anything are even worse than the ones you might see in a local Catholic church. But we have lost sight of a basic truth. And that is that you are saved for the glory of God, not for your own blessing and not for your own prosperity and not for your own ego satisfaction and not for your own healing and not for your own self-aggrandizement. You were saved for the glory of God and anything which does not point to His glory is a perversion of the intention of God's redeeming work. And the self-consumption of contemporary Christianity, to me, is absolutely frightening. I mean the old word was "worldliness". But we are for the sake of His name, for the sake of His glory. And the idea of for His namesake, the concept of name means all that He is. And all that He is, is His glory. And we have been forgiven for His glory.
Now within the family where all of us have been redeemed for His sake, all of us have been forgiven for His sake there are three levels of spiritual growth. We find ourselves somewhere around these three different levels, beginning in verse 13. The first level that he identifies is fathers. And he writes to fathers, and he's not talking about physical fathers, or earthly fathers, or human fathers. But spiritually mature people who have reached the highest level of maturity. The level where they are actually reproductive, they are fathers, they are giving life to others, they've reached the level of maturity that identifies them as "those who have known Him that is from the beginning". Then he also, writing to this group of Christian, says, "I also write to some of you who are young men." And he's not again talking about physical young men, he's not talking about earthly age, but he's talking about a level of spiritual maturity. And he says, "You are young men because you have overcome the wicked one." "And then I write unto to you who are babies," and here he uses a different word for children than in verse 12, he uses the word for infants, "and I write unto you who are spiritual babies because you have known the Father."
Verse 14 repeats, "I have written unto you fathers because you've known Him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you young men because you are strong and the Word of God abides in you and you have overcome the wicked one." Now we see then that there are three levels of spiritual growth: there are spiritual babies, spiritual young men, and spiritual fathers. All of us, within the family of God, are set for the glory of God which process takes us through those three areas. We start out as spiritual babies. And you'll notice at the end of verse 13 how they are identified, "You have known the Father." In other words, you now have a relationship with God; you're in the family. Like an infant who knows Ma-Ma and Da-Da and not a lot more, unable to make proper judgments, unable to be discerning, as Ephesians 4 says, "tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine." So they are vulnerable, they are defenseless, they need protection and care and nurture. And so it with spiritual infants, they know the Father. They have an intimate relationship with God. They are in the family. The have parental recognition but very little else. They are highly vulnerable to the encroachment of false teachings, false teachers, cults, and sins of all sorts. And they need insulation and protection and care. That is why in Matthew chapter 18, the Lord says, "You better be careful how you receive one of these little ones who believe in Me. Because how you receive them is how you receive Me. You'd better not lead them into sin," He says, "or you'd be better off if a millstone were hanged around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea. And if one of them goes astray," He says, "you go and get that one and bring it back." Why? Because little children have those tendencies. So when we come to faith in Christ, we have parental recognition and we're like children. But there's no strength there and we tend to be vulnerable to everything around us. So we don't want to stay at that level. Spiritual growth pulls us then to a second level, identified in both verse 13 and 14, called young men. And he says about young men, "I write unto you, young men," verse 14, "because you are strong." Now the mark of a young man is strength, virility. How did they get strong? "The Word of God abides in you." Strength in spiritual growth comes from internally knowing, understanding, and holding to the truth of the Word of God. The Word is our food, is it not? The Word is that upon which we feast. "Man shall not live by bread alone," said Jesus, "but by every word proceeds out of the mouth of God." So the Word of God is our spiritual food that takes us from being an infant to being a young man. And a young man is identified as one who is strong because the Word of God abides in him. And both verses tell us, "He has therefore overcome the wicked one." Now you can actually say as a Christian, that you reach a point in your life where you have overcome the wicked one. Now what does that mean? The wicked one is Satan. In what sense have you overcome Satan? In the sense that Satan is primarily disguised as an angel of light teaching false doctrine, teaching lies. I told you last week about an encounter I had with one who was under the control of Satan. Who was teaching lies and teaching false doctrine. Now there were spiritual babes who were very vulnerable to him. When I confronted him, I was not vulnerable to him. I was not susceptible to his attacks of lies and false doctrine because I had reached the point in my own life of knowing what I believe out of the Word of God. And there's a certain strength that comes in that when you encounter the lies of the enemy. So being a spiritual young man is: understanding doctrine, understanding Biblical truth, coming to grips with what the Scripture teaches. But there is even yet, another level of spiritual growth to which every believer should attain, and that is identified as being a father. Growing all the way up to being one who has known Him that is from the beginning. And it emphasizes there, the eternal God. Not just His fatherliness, not just the doctrine, but to actually come into an intimate communion with the living God Himself. The epitome of spiritual growth then, and carefully mark this in your mind, is to come to the point where you go beyond what it says on the page, to know and commune with the God who is revealed there.
And I can see these kind of patterns in the life of people as they progress in their spiritual development. Now we, who are redeemed and who have been forgiven for His namesake and are to live to His glory, are then to proceed on a path from knowing who He is to knowing what He says, to in a deep and profound way, communing with Him in a real and rich relationship. That's the process of spiritual growth.
Now the question is how do we get there? How do we move on that path? Let's look at 1 Peter 2 for a moment, and we're laying a foundation now, 1 Peter 2. It says, "Wherefore," verse 1, "laying aside," as if you were taking off old clothes, get rid of them, "all evil," the word is cocchia means evil, "and all galas, deceit that's used for fishhook," nothing is more deceitful than a fishhook, a fish thinks it's going to have a meal and turns out to be one, "so you lay aside all evil and you lay aside all deceitfulness, and all hypocrisy, and envy, and concellaliah," backbiting evil-talk about other people. In other words, you set aside your sin. Now if you're going to start with your spiritual growth pattern from being a baby to being a young man to being a father, the first thing that is necessary is to set aside the sin in your life.
Frankly, the churches are full of people who read the Bible. And maybe they read the Bible because they want God to think that they're devoted to Him. Maybe they read the Bible because they think it'll put them in a place where God'll have to bless them. Maybe they read the Bible because they want to impress their spouse or their children or their friends. Maybe they read the Bible because there's a certain sort of, I don't know, power that comes when you know the Bible and you can rattle off at a Bible study or answer questions and it gives you a sort of an ego trip. There are people who read the Bible, and maybe they have a sincere heart. They read it, but by not applying it and not dealing with the sin in their life, they train themselves to read Scripture without application. And that then, becomes the habit of their life. And the Scripture then, is thin and ineffective because it's not applied.
So to begin with, you lay aside the evil. It begins with a confession and a repentance from sin. And then verse 2 says, "As newborn babes desire the pure milk of the Word that you may grow by it." The first thing, if you're going to grow by the Word, is you got to lay aside the evil. The second thing is there has to be consuming desire like that of a baby for milk. That's this point. Now how strongly does a baby desire milk? Very strongly. In fact, a baby really doesn't desire anything else. Babies are only interested in the fact that you give them milk and deal with the consequences. That's the beginning and the end of the cycle of their life. They don't care ... there's never been a baby who woke up in the middle of the night screaming because there were yellow booties or her feet rather than blue. No, they don't care. They don't care about the curtains, or the carpet, or anything. They don't care about anything except that bottle. I mean that is the beginning and the end for them. And that is what Peter has in mind when he says if you want to grow, the first thing is the setting aside of evil. The second thing is that consuming desire. And the point of it is, verse 3, "so be that you have tasted that the Lord is gracious," now listen to that. It isn't that in studying the Bible, you get a taste of information. It is that in studying the Scripture you get a taste of the Lord from the very beginning. The purpose of Bible study is not to gain information. The purpose of Bible study is to commune with the living Christ. I mean that's the bottom line. And anything short of that misses the point.
So that what you're doing then is: like a baby, you're desiring the milk. You want to be strong in the Word. But your real goal is to go beyond the Word to enter in to a communion that is profound and rich with the living God. That's the pattern. That's the essence of spiritual growth. Now when you look at the Word, how do you do that? How can I so study the Word that I'm not just getting information? How can I so study the Word that I don't just say, "Well, I read my Bible today therefore I'm a spiritual hero and God has to bless me." How can I study the Word so that I plumb the depths of the God it reveals? 2 Corinthians chapter 3 will answer that question ... 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18. Every time I sign my name, I suppose over the last 15 years, I've autographed a book or something, I always put this verse under it. People say, "Is that your life verse?" I say, "I don't have a life verse. This is just one that I think everybody ought to read and become familiar with. It's a powerful one." Now it says in verse 18, "But we all," and that means all believers, all of us as believers, "we all with an unveiled face." Now earlier in this text, he's been talking about Moses. And he's been talking about the old covenant. And he's been talking about what it was like to live under the law. And the fact was that in the time of the law, the face was veiled in the sense that you couldn't fully see all that God had planned. Right? Even the Old Testament writers, for example, when they wrote about the Messiah, "Look," Peter says, "at their own writings to see what person and what manner of time they were writing about." In other words, they didn't fully understand everything of which they wrote. Those who were under the old covenant had a certain veil over their face. There were certain things about the power of the Spirit that were unrevealed. There were certain things about, of course, the work of Jesus Christ that was as yet unrevealed. There were great mysteries of the Kingdom, Jesus call them. There were great mysteries of the new covenant, as Paul identifies them, that they were as yet unrevealed. And so there was, in a sense, a veil over the face of those under the old covenant. "But as we have come into the new covenant," verse 16, "the veil is taken away." Now that we've come to the Lord, the veil is away. "And we," verse 18 says, "can look as we were looking in a clear glass. And we see there, the glory the Lord." Now, I want to just stop at that point. Now, when you with the veil off your face by the work of Jesus Christ in the presence of the Holy Spirit, lift up the pages of Scripture, you can understand fully the Scripture, right? There were many in the Old Testament time, and there are people still today, Jewish people who try to read the Old Testament without the New Testament, and they have a veil over their face, don't they? They can't understand it. They can't make sense of it. Because there's too much unrevealed, there's too much they haven't understood. But we take the veil off and read the New Testament. And not only does the New Testament make sense, but so does the Old. But as we gaze at the Scripture, what is it we are looking at? Notice that in verse 18, "we are gazing as in a clear glass," not foggy but very clear, "and we are seeing the glory of the Lord." And beloved, may I suggest to you that that is that pursuit which must occupy your heart when you study the Scripture. Spiritual growth, yes, it's a matter of desiring the Word. But when you look in the Word it is a matter of focusing on the glory of the Lord, not simply on the truth itself. Not the flat words on the page but what is it about the God behind the page that is being revealed. It's what was the cry of Paul's heart in Philippians 3:10, when he says, "That I may know Him and the fellowship of His sufferings, and the power of His resurrection," see. In other words, you might to say to Paul, "Hey, you know the Lord. You're saved. Hey, you know the Lord; you know doctrine." It wasn't enough for him to be saved and be in the family and be a spiritual baby. It wasn't enough for him to be a spiritual young man who knew doctrine. He wanted to see the glory of the self-revealing God in the pages of Scripture that he might become a spiritual father who really knew the One who was the eternal God. So that to go to the Bible, with an almost sort of evangelical legalism, and just read it for the sake of reading, or just read it for the sake of knowing it, or just read it for the sake of being able to throw it around in groups that study the Bible, or read it to pacify a friend or a life partner or whatever, isn't the point. The point is to study the Scripture to understand the revelation of God that is in it. Now watch this.
"As you do that," back to verse 18, "as you focus on the glory of the Lord, clearly seeing it, you are transformed into the same," what? Image. Is the goal of a Christian to be like Christ? Is the goal of spiritual maturity to come to Christ's likeness? Obviously it is because 1 John 3:2 say, "When we shall Him, we shall," what? "Be like Him." And obviously, "We are redeemed," Romans 8 says, "to be conformed to the image of His Son." And that's why that whom the Lord justified, He also glorified because He brings us to be like Christ.
Now if we want to move along the path of being like Christ, as we gaze at the glory of the Lord in the Scripture, we will be transformed into that same image. Moving from one level of glory to the next level of glory, ever ascending into Christ's likeness. And who does that? It is done by the ... what? Spirit of the Lord. Spiritual growth isn't that complex. It's me taking the Word of God, confessing my sin, 1 Peter 2, getting it out of my life, turning from it, and then desiring the Word with a passion like a baby desires milk. Hungering and thirsting after the Word, but not the Word for its own sake, not the Word for the sake of the Word, but to know behind the Word, the self-revealed God who wants me to know Him through His Word. And as I gaze beyond the words, if you will, into the glory of the Lord who is revealed there, the Spirit of God, then taking that heart attitude, moves me from one level of glory to the next, closer to the very image of Jesus Christ. Now that's the essence of spiritual growth. And what a marvelous and thrilling thought it is.
Now, the master key then to all spiritual progress is learning to focus your life on the glory of the Lord. Seeing His glory and living to His glory. And those of you who've been here for any time know that many years ago, I shared with you that this was the most life changing truth I ever learned: was learning to live to the glory of God. It becomes the bottom line in everything. Every decision you have, all you have to do is ask yourself the question: is this to the glory of God? And given the options I have, will doing this give Him the greatest glory? That's the question. Or, will I be seeking my glory and my satisfaction and my comfort and my joy and my happiness and my self-esteem and my prosperity? See, that's where the conflict comes right down to the very nexus. Life is either lived for the glory of God or for the glory of me. It's that simple.
And David had it right. In Psalm 16, such a marvelous verse, he said, in verse 8, "I have set the Lord always before me." What did he mean? He meant he gazed into the glory of the Lord. He had set the Lord always before me. In other words, right out front where I see Him first. It's as if I look at the world through God-colored glasses; everything is filtered through Him so that all I do and all I say and all I decide and all I think and every act that I engage in, is with a perception to giving the glory to God. That's the only way a Christian can live. That's the only way that growth takes place. Because when you live in the soil of a life set to glorify God, then the Spirit of God moves you from one level to the next.
The result of that, in Psalm 16, David said, "Therefore my heart is glad." He knew joy that can only come through that perspective. Now there are people who say they're Christians. And they think the way to get joy is to fulfill their own desires. And so they live a self-consumptive kind of life. And they're under this abhorrent theology that says: Jesus wants you rich; and He wants you to have diamonds; and He wants you to have gold; and He wants you to have big cars and big houses; and He wants you to be a star, and all of this kind of thing, at one degree or another. And they're under that illusion that God saved them for their sake, primarily. And as a result, they chase the elusive happiness at the lowest level and never know the ultimate happiness that comes from God to those whose whole life is spent glorifying Him. That's the true gladness.
Now let's think about it. God made everything for His glory, did He not? I mean let's think about the creation itself. Psalm 19:1 says, "The Heavens declare the glory of God and firmament showeth His handiwork." In other words, everything that's created in the universe declares the glory of God. You say, "How?" Well, it's obvious if you look at the universe, an endless universe, and you study all of the stellar bodies and all the things that are going on in space, you're going to conclude that God is a fairly astounding Being. He really is on display. His genius is on display. His power is on display. His majesty is on display. His love of beauty is on display. His order is on display. God is glorified in His creation. And as Isaiah 43:20, He says, "The beasts of the fields shall give Me honor." You can take a sort of a lower look, come out of space if you will, and down to the earth, and you look at the creation here and even the animal kingdom, and you're in absolute awe of the creative genius of God, the majesty of God.
Our family was down in San Diego and we went to the Wild Animal Park. And we were riding around on this tram all over these miles and miles. And there lions and there were all these animals jumping around and bouncing around. And there were rhinoceros and hippopotamus and little birds. And I was in awe of the fact, when you see it all in one big gob like that, that God has such a mind. I mean God doesn't want to be bored for one thing. I mean He has created such an infinite. Just sit at the bus stop for half-an-hour, you can tell that. But God has an infinite capacity for variety that staggers your mind; it's absolutely unbelievable. And you say to yourself, "Why? Why does that thing exist? Look at it. It's ridiculous. It doesn't do anything." But God has this astounding capacity for creation that boggles the mind. The genius is inconceivable. So we understand that everything that was made was made to put Him on display. And you remember in Luke 2:13 and 14, of course, when the Savior was born, the angels said, "Glory to God in the highest." And that's the angelic chorus, Glory to God in the highest. The firmament gives Him glory. The earth creatures give Him glory. The angels give Him glory. And the apostle Paul calls, in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 17, "That great benediction now under the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory, forever amen," and so forth. And in so saying, he is saying in effect, that all men should be giving Him glory. You see everything was created by Him and for Him, Colossians says. Everything is created through Him and to Him, Romans 11:36 says. It's all for His glory. It's all for His glory. And everybody on the face of the earth has the responsibility to glorify Him, to glorify Him. And can't you see how essential it is that we as Christians do that for which we have been redeemed?
Look at Romans 1, for a moment. Romans 1:21, here you have the chapter in which Paul delineates the condemnation of the human race for its sin. Verse 18 talks about the wrath of God being revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. And why is God going to judge the world? What have men done to deserve such judgment, to deserve hell, to deserve punishment forever? What have they done? Well, in the first place, verse 20 at the end says, "They're without excuse." They have absolutely no excuse because God revealed Himself to them. Verse 19, "That which may be known of God is manifest in them." God has put the knowledge of Himself in the conscience of men. Verse 20, the creation itself reveals Him. So there's knowledge of God from the inside. There's a knowledge of God from the outside. Man is absolutely without excuse if he rejects that and what precisely has he done? Verse 21, this is what men have done, When they knew God that is by conscience and creation, they could know God. But instead of coming to God, instead of glorifying Him, they did not glorify Him as God. And they weren't thankful. But they, in their empty imaginations, with their dark and foolish hearts, thought they were so smart, verse 22 says, but really became fools. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image. They had idols of their own making which is to say they became God. Listen if you create your own gods, then you're god over your own gods. So man, then, competes with God just as Adam and Even. They said, we'll be like God; we'll take our own chances; we'll make our own decisions; we'll rule our own lives. All of humanity fell. And the bottom line was they failed to glorify God. Man rejects the glory of God. He refuses to let God have His rightful place.
I was reading yesterday in the paper that the homosexual community in West Hollywood has now banned Christmas and Yom Kippur from that city. They don't want any remnant of God present in their society. They want God, altogether, out of their society. It's understandable that people who live like that would want to get rid of God 'cause God would be a very difficult problem for them to deal with in that kind of lifestyle. But the ultimate rejection of God is the refusal to give Him the glory He is due. Now we expect the world to do that. What hurts me so deeply is when I see Christians who seem to be, well they say they're Christians, only God knows, but who seem to be living for their own glory and self-fulfillment. Now God has always called for recognition of His glory. When God made Adam and Eve in the garden, they walked and talked with God in the cool of the day, His glory was there, present in the Shekinah, in that great light, that cloud of light, that was the visible presence of God, representative of His great glory, His wonderful person. But when they sinned, they were thrown out of that place because no longer could God tolerate them in His presence and He just put them out. But then God, in wonderful mercy, set out to bring men back to see His glory.
Let me give you some illustrations of how He did it. Look at Exodus 33. Exodus chapter 33, we're going to move quickly because I want you to get this in a condensed form. Now remember, man has sinned against God. Has lost that intimate fellowship with the presence of God and glory of God. But God wants man to see His glory. And so He selects a nation, that nation Israel. And He sets out to show that nation Israel, His glory. How does He do it? He does it with a leader, Moses. In chapter 33, Moses comes to God and says I want to see Your glory, verse 18, show me Your glory. Lord, I have to know You're here. I have to know You're present. And so the Lord says all right. I'll pass all My goodness and I'll proclaim the name of the Lord, in other words, His glory, all His attributes. And I'll be gracious and I'll show mercy and so forth. So, I'll show you My glory. I'll show you all My attributes revealed in a light. He said, in verse 20, you can't see it all. Nobody could see Me and live. I mean you can't even look at the sun without going blind, you can only imagine what it would be like to stare into the face of the One who created all the whirling suns in all the universe. He would be consumed. And so He says you can only see a part. So He puts him a rock and hides him a little bit and veils him. And then lets him see His glory a little bit. And Moses gets the glory all over his face. It's transferred to Moses. So Moses now becomes the agent of God's glory. And Moses goes down the mountain, in chapter 34, and he gets in front of the people and they see His glory on his face, starting in verse 29 of chapter 34. Even Moses didn't know the skin of his face was shining, verse 29 says. But he talked with the people with the glory on his face.
Now what's the point? The point is this: God was saying by using Moses as the instrument: here is My glory; will you see My glory; will you acknowledge My glory? You say, "Why was it important to do that?" Because they were very busy worshipping a golden calf, they were busy turning their back on the true God and fashioning gods of their own making. They were doing exactly what Romans 1:21 said men would do, "They would not glorify God as God," then in verse 23, "They were making images and idols by which God's glory was stolen." So God sends Moses down, his face is shining, that the people might see the glory of God.
The sad fact is they never really had any lasting response. Do you realize that even Moses, who had had the glory of God on his face, was told by God to speak to the rock and it would bring forth water. And instead of that, wanting to show off, as if he were the source of the power, he hit the rock with his rod. And as a result of that, though the water came out, Moses was never allowed to enter the Promised Land. He had stolen the glory from God for himself. So even Moses failed to give God the glory and sought it for himself.
A second way, in which God endeavored to reveal His glory, in the fortieth chapter of Exodus, was the building of the tabernacle. We remembered that when the Lord gave them instructions to build this tabernacle, it was to be a place of worship, a place in which He, Himself, would dwell. They would set up this tent during the 40 years of their wilderness wandering, and all tribes would sit in their proper places around the tent, all facing in because that was focusing them on worship and on the glory of God. Now when they finished building the tabernacle, chapter 40 describes how they got it all put it together. Over in verse 34, we see what happened. "Then a cloud," and here is the glory of God, "covered the tent of the congregation. And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle." Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because the cloud "abode thereon and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle." And then it says that when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys. If the cloud wasn't taken up, they stayed. And the cloud was a cloud by day and it turned into fire by night. And it led the children of Israel through those 40 years. Now what God saying? "I want you to see My glory." First: symbolically on the face of Moses; secondly: in this tabernacle, as it dwells in the tabernacle, as it rises in the sky as a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. They were to watch and see the representation of the glory of God to be reminded that God received the glory. They were to focus on the glory of God. That was to be their preoccupation. But you remember what happened, don't you? They focused on their own problems, their own complaints, their own grumbling, and the entire generation died in the wilderness really refusing to give God glory. By God's grace, they did receive the opportunity to go into the Promised Land. When they got into the Land, God said, "I want you to build a permanent place where My glory can dwell." So 1 Kings chapter 8 is the next stop. And there in 1 Kings chapter 8, Solomon had built a great temple, a temple unto the Lord, a temple like no other facility in the history of his people, before or since. And in that temple would the presence of God in glory. And again, it was so that the people would see His glory. That they would look to Him. That He would be their preoccupation.
And down in 1 Kings chapter 8 verse 10, it says, "It came to pass when the priests would come out," they had finished it, they came out of the Holy place, "there came the cloud again," the same one in the tabernacle, the same one on the face of Moses, "filled the House of the Lord," the priests couldn't stand to minister because of the cloud because the glory of the Lord had filled House of the Lord. And now here the temple is filled with the glory of the Lord. And again God is saying to all of His people in Israel please see My glory and then disseminate the message of My glory to the world. They were to be a witness nation. You know the sad result, don't you? Did they? Look at Ezekiel, the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 8, and Ezekiel the prophet gets a vision of the temple. So sad. He goes in the temple, in verse 9, and wicked abominations are there. He went in and he said, "I saw every form of creeping thing," verse 10, "abominable beasts," there are you are, Romans 1, "snakes and beasts, images, idols. All the idols of the house of Israel painted on the walls round about. I found 70 men of the ancients of the house of Israel, 70 elders, 70 older men. And in the midst of them, a man named Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, and they each had a sensor in his hand." They were men who were usurping the role of a priest without credentials. They were men who were acting as priests of God when they had no right. They had invaded the priestly office. And he said, "That's not all there is. Turn around," verse 13, "and look at some more abominations. And there were women weeping for Tammuz." Tammuz, of course, is another name for Baal and they were weeping for Baal. Baal worship. And then in verse 16, "25 men are worshipping the sun." Sun worshippers. "Pointed toward the east with their backs to the temple of God." And so, in the next chapters we read about the glory of God departing. The glory of God goes into the air, chapter 10, and it goes away in the distance and finally it's gone. And God writes "Ichabod" on the temple. You see, God's glory was in the garden and man refused it. God's glory came on the face of Moses and they rejected it. God's glory came in the tabernacle and they ignored it. It came in the temple and they desecrated it and blasphemed it. And always there was a small remnant of people who accepted and faced the glory of God. But it's been the same sad pattern through all of history: the glory of God has been rejected. You say, "Did God ever send it back?" Yes. John 1:14 ... In John 1:14 comes the next appearance of the glory of God and it is in human flesh again. This time it's a man, not like Moses, but like no other man. The God man Jesus Christ. And verse 14 describing Christ with these words, "And the Word," meaning Christ, "was made flesh." "The word Christ was made flesh and dwelled among us and we beheld His," what? "His glory." And what glory was it? Human glory? No. It was the glory as the One who proceeded from God Himself, the Father, full of grace and truth, the attributes of God. It was divine glory. And you remember in Luke 9:28-36, Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration let them see His glory. And they wanted to die, they were so afraid. So God sent His glory to a world that was refusing to give Him glory. It came on the face of Moses. It came in a tent. It came in a tabernacle, in a temple. And finally it came on the face of Jesus Christ. And they did with Jesus Christ essentially what they'd done with all other times God revealed His glory. There was a small remnant that believed, the majority did not and they killed Jesus to eliminate it. The fact is, the glory of God will be back again, by the way. In Matthew chapter 24 verse 30 it says, "He'll come with power and great glory," doesn't it? Chapter 25 it says, "He comes in glory with His holy angels." There's going to be a day when the glory comes back. Only this time the glory is going to be so consuming that the Bible says in Revelation, "Men will cry for the rocks in the mountains to fall on them to hide them from the Face," from the face. When He comes it won't be just the back parts. It won't be veiled glory. It'll be the blazing face of His glory. His glory will consume all those ungodly people. His glory will fill the earth. And He will rule and reign supreme.
So the glory of God came in the past. The glory of God will come in the future. But what about the present? If the world is to see the glory of God, the glory of the Lord today, where are they going to see it? Where are they going to see it? Well, they're going to see it in us or they're not going to see it at all. There's no man with a shining face. There's no presence of a cloud and a pillar of fire at night. There's no cloud dwelling in a building anywhere. There's not incarnate Christ walking this earth. And that is why it tells us, and so importantly, in Ephesians chapter 3, that "It is now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all we can ask or think according to the power that works in us, unto Him be glory," here it is, "in the church." See that? It's kind of like Colossians 1:27, "Christ then knew the hope of glory." If the world is to see the glory of the Lord they're going to see it in us. Can you imagine? Can you imagine what it must be like for the world to look at Christianity and see us consumed with our own glory? With our own ease and our own comfort? With our own schemes and our own enterprises? If the world is to see the glory of the Lord, they'll see it in the church. 2 Corinthians 4, I think it's verse 6, "For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shown in our hearts, the glories in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. We have this treasure in," what? The next verse says, "earthen vessels." So we are the agents of the glory of God. You say, "You mean I'm the tabernacle and I'm the temple?" That's right. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit, right? 1 Corinthians 6, what? "Know you're not that you're body is," what? "The temple of the Holy Spirit which you have of God." You're not your own; you're bought with a price. You as a church, collectively, have become, Ephesians 2 says, "the habitation of the Spirit." He dwells in us. And if the world is to see the glory of God they're going to have to see people who focus on the glory of God, who live to the glory of God.
Now beloved that is the soil in which spiritual growth occurs. And the world wants to destroy that. We get so torn and so distracted and so pulled apart and so shredded and split into such a myriad of motives, that somewhere along the line we have to come back to this bottom line that I will live my life to the glory of the Lord. And I will gaze on His glory and I will study the Word to see Him revealed. And as I reach deeper and deeper into who He is, and as I know Him more intimately and more intimately, I will allow the Spirit of God, thereby, to transform me from one level of glory to the next toward being like Jesus Christ.
We've got to get away from filling our own needs. I worry about all this preaching today that's relational. It sort of strokes everybody. Makes you feel good about yourself. Always purporting to solve your problems. Always trying to salve your hurts. Always trying to make you feel better. Now I'm not one for making people feel miserable all the time, some of the time. Because you have to feel bad before you can know what the source to feel good. But I think we've gone way overboard, where in a very subtle way, we have well-meaning people who are constantly preaching and teaching relational stuff that, in effect, is saying to people: the most important thing is that you feel good. The most important thing is that you solve your problems. The most important thing is that you'll be happy. The most important thing is that you have friends, and on, and on, and on, we go. That is not the most important thing. You live to the glory of God, focus on His glory, enter into a deep relationship with Him, and He'll give you more of that than you every dreamed possible. Because your heart will be glad, says the Psalmists, when you set the Lord before you.
And you say, "How serious is this?" Very serious. The world is divided into two kinds of people. My grandfather used to call them the "saints" and the "ain'ts". But those two kinds of people can be defined this way: those people who live to the glory of God and those people who don't. That's the dividing line. And those of us who are Christians are those who live to the glory of God. The unbelieving world does not; they refuse to give God glory. You say, "Well, is that serious?" Yes. Let me tell you how serious. In Jeremiah chapter 13, Jeremiah beginning in verse 15, says, "Hear and give ear. Don't be proud." Pride always gets in the way of glorifying God. Don't be proud. "The Lord has spoken." Now listen to this, verse 16, just listen to it, "Give glory to the Lord, your God." That's the command: give glory to God, live to the glory of the Lord, live to His honor, His majesty. Live for Him. Give Him glory. Before He ... what? "Before He caused darkness, before your feet stumble on the dark mountain and while you look for light, He turned it into the shadow of death and make it gross darkness." Well, that's pretty serious stuff. All of those are words about death and judgment. You'd better give glory to God before He judges you. There's an illustration of that in Daniel. There was a king of the Babylonian empire by the name of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was under the illusion that he was king by his own skill and power. And so, in verse 30 of chapter 4, it says, "The king spoke," and listen to his speech, "is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty." Aren't I something? Look at this great thing that I have built to demonstrate my majesty and my might and my power. And while that word was in the king's mouth, a voice out of Heaven said, "O King Nebuchadnezzar. To thee it is spoken, the kingdom is departed from thee." That is enough. So what happened to him? Well, he had to learn a lesson. Verse 32 says the lesson he had to learn is that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men. He was taking glory, so you know what God did to him? Verse 33 says, "He was driven from men and did eat grass like oxen, his body was wet with the dew of Heaven till his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers and his nails like bird's claws." God turned him into a raving maniac. For seven years he lived in a field like an animal until he learned. And verse 34, "At the end of days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes into Heaven, my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His Kingdom is from generation to generation." After seven years of that, he said now I understand who gets the glory.
It may just be that there are still people who are raving maniacs because of a refusal to give God the glory. There was another incident like that in the twelfth chapter of Acts, a man named Herod who was enamored with his own power. And he declared a special day in which he could put on his royal robes and go out and parade around and have everybody applaud him. And so he gave a speech, Acts chapter 12 describes the situation. "And he made an oration," in verse 21, he had on his royal apparel and all that, "and the people were shouting." And you know what the people were saying? They were saying about him, it is the voice of a god and not a man. Listen to him; he's a god! And he loved it. And he was taking glory that belonged to the true God and the next verse says, "Immediately an angel of the Lord smote him because he gave not God the glory and he was eaten by worms and died." I don't think that was the planned ending for Herod Day. But that's how it ended. God wants the glory and He's worthy of it. And He will judge forever those who refuse to give Him glory. Now, when you become a Christian and you come to Jesus Christ and you give Him your love and you embrace Him as your Savior, it seems to me that basic to your identity is that you should live to the glory of God. So let's go back and just briefly summarize. You are a child of God. You have been forgiven for His namesake, not yours. Now, how am I going to grow through the process of spiritual development so that I'm not an infant but a young man and then a spiritual father? By getting the sin set aside, by having a great desire for the Word, and by more than that, looking into the Word, not to see the Word itself, but the revelation of the God who is there, so that I gaze at His glory. And as I focus in the Word on His glory, communing with Him, the Spirit of God moves me from one level to the next. The key then is that if I would reveal His glory, I must focus on His glory. All other things are set aside. Now how do you do that, specifically? I mean nuts-and-bolts, one-two-three is what we're going to talk about tonight. I don't want you to miss it, if you have a heart desire to glorify God, be here tonight, very, very important life-changing truth. And you can pick up the little booklet on the way out, if it would help you. Father, we've tried to cover some very basic things today. And Lord, we know simply what it is You ask. Whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. So said Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:31, and we agree. That is to be the focus of our life. Help that, Lord, to be that which causes us to make every decision. That when a myriad of choices face us, as to what we should say, what we should do, where we should go, how we should act, may it be that the overriding and ever-present question is: will this glorify the Lord? Is this, of all the options, that which will most bring Him glory? And save us from seeking self-glory so that we who are the agents for the glory of God to be revealed in this generation, may indeed reveal that glory by the Spirit to the watching world. That they may not have to wait until the glory comes in judgment before they see it.
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Stephanie Stuber
Former Curatorial Fellow
BS Environmental and Forest Biology (Plant Science concentration), State University of New York—College of Environmental Science and Forestry
MPS Public Garden Leadership, Cornell University
I have been fostering my passion for public garden curation for the past few years at Mt. Cuba Center, Quaker Hill Native Plant Garden, Cornell Plantations, and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Recently, I graduated from the Cornell Plantations Graduate Program in Public Garden Leadership where my research culminated in a published book on how to integrate and curate living collections of mosses in a garden environment. The book, The Secret Lives of Mosses: A Comprehensive Guide for Gardens, is currently available in digital formats through various online retailers.
At the Arboretum I will be working with the curatorial staff on field inventories, voucher collecting, nomenclature verifications, curatorial reviews, updating plant database records, and other tasks. Many independent projects will soon be in the works, with a strong possibility that they will involve mosses, Larix, and Amelanchier.
- Stuber, S. 2013. The World of Mosses. Arnoldia 71(1): 26-35. [pdf]
- Lim, G.S., S.T. Gunner, M.R. Carvalho, S.M. Stuber, & J.L. Reveal. In press. Proposal to conserve the name Pleiarina Raf. (1838) against Opodix Raf. (1817) (Salicaceae). Taxon.
- Lim, G.S., M.R. Carvalho, S.M. Stuber, S.T. Gunner, & J.L. Reveal. In press. A reconsideration of the typification of the Rafinesque generic names allied to Salix L. (Salicaceae). Rhodora.
- Stuber, S.M., G.S. Lim, S.T. Gunner, M.R Carvalho & J.L. Reveal. 2012. Proposal to reject Oisodix fulva Raf. (Salicaceae). Taxon 60(1):257.
- Carvalho, M.R., G.S. Lim, S.T. Gunner, S.M. Stuber & J.L. Reveal. 2012. Typification of various western North American species of Juglans (Juglandaceae). Phytoneuron 2012-00:1–10.
- Gunner, S.T., S.M. Stuber, M.R. Carvalho, G.S. Lim, & J.L. Reveal. 2011. Proposal to conserve Malaceae, nom. cons., against Amygdalaceae, nom. cons. (Magnoliophyta), a "superconservation" proposal. Taxon 60 (6): 1776–1778.


text: Henry Morrison Flagler, born Jan. 2, 1830, was an American oil tycoon, hotelier and railroad developer. He played a key role in the growth of Florida's eastern coast and was the founder of the Florida East Coast Railway, which eventually extended from Jacksonville down to Key West and connected the state. Born in New York as the son of a poor minister, Flagler went on to make his fortune as an oil tycoon in Ohio. He partnered with John D. Rockefeller to create the Standard Oil Company. Henry Flagler is also very well known for his resort hotels and railroads in Florida. In 1878, he traveled to Jacksonville for the winter with his sickly first wife Mary (Harkness) Flagler. Two years after she died in 1881, he married Ida Alice Shourds. The two traveled to St. Augustine after their wedding. This visit was when Flagler realized Florida's potential as an out-of-state visitor hub. However, hotels and transportation were seriously lacking. In 1885, Flagler began building his first hotel, the 540-room Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine. Completed three years later, this project sparked Flager's interest in creating a new "American Riviera." His first step was to create a better transportation system in the state. Flagler bought the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax Railroad, the first railroad in what would become known as the "Flagler System" or the Florida East Coast Railway. By 1894, Henry Flagler completed the 1,100-room Royal Poinciana Hotel - the largest wooden structure in the world at the time -- in Lake Worth and extended his railroad to service West Palm Beach. A couple of years later he built the Palm Beach Inn, which would in 1901 become The Breakers Hotel. By this time Flagler's railway reached all the way to Biscayne Bay, and, in 1897, he opened the exclusive Royal Palm Hotel in Miami. In the following years Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a point 128 miles past the end of the Florida peninsula. Henry Flagler's life took a turn for the worse when he fell down a flight of stairs at his Palm Beach estate, the famous Whitehall mansion, in 1913. He never recovered from the fall and died in Palm Beach of his injuries on May 20. He was 83 years old. Flagler was buried in St. Augustine alongside his daughter, Jenny Louise and first wife, Mary Harkness.


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print the most recent proof attempt from inside the proof-checker
Major Section: PROOF-CHECKER-COMMANDS
Example and General Form: sp
Print the most recent proof attempt from inside the proof-checker, assuming
that you haven't left the proof-checker loop and subsequently saved output
(see set-saved-output). This includes all calls to the prover, including
for example proof-checker commands
split, and
in addition to
prove. So for example, you can follow
(quiet prove)
pso to see the proof if it failed.
See documentation for the similar proof-checker command
pso! for
including proof-tree output. Also see set-saved-output for a general
discussion of the output-saving mechanism.