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It struck me this week that the two, I think, most significant events in our nation's modern history juxtapose themselves this week in particular—with COVID, something that's been around for a year and a half, dominating the culture; alongside of that was a rehearsal of all that happened at 9/11, twenty years ago. And it seemed to me that these two events draw up in people's lives an unusual amount of fear. And I understand that politicians use that fear to increase their power. But at the same time the heart of man has normal fear, and by normal fear I don't just mean it's a physical fear; I think it is a common grace, in a sense.
I think God has built His law in us. The Scripture says that. And that law convicts us, and our conscience feels the pangs of that conviction and leads to fear, and particularly to fear of death. It isn't just the finality of death, it isn't just the sense of incompleteness of death, it isn't just the fact that you don't want to suffer when you die; death is called "the king of terrors" for none of those reasons. Death is called the king of terrors because there is in every human heart the sense that there may well be an accounting for the transgressions and iniquities that dominate the human heart.
No human being can escape the knowledge of his or her own sinfulness. We may mask it, may play psychological games with it. We may try to blunt it through drugs or alcohol or a fast-paced life, going from relationship to relationship. But in every human heart the law of God does a convicting work, and that convicting work has an existential element to it. There is naturally the fear of death because of what may lie immediately ahead of that. And even though people would reject Christianity, reject the Bible and what it says—about, "It's appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment"—they cannot escape the consciousness of their own sin, and they cannot escape the lingering reality that justice does exist in the world. We understand the concept of it; we understand right and wrong, and there may well be an accounting yet to come. And therein lies the dominant fear of death.
Fear of death can come from the fear of a virus, it can come from the fear of terrorists; it can come a lot of ways. And again, it isn't just that you have a rational fear of something that's going to happen to you, or there's a high percentage that's going to happen to you. We know with the virus, 99 percent of the people will have no lasting effect. But there is this foreboding reality in the heart of every sinner that there may be a day of accounting, that even though you don't believe the Bible, there's something true about, "It's appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment," Hebrews 9:27. And so people are doing everything they can, and typically so, to prevent the inevitable death. They know they can't stall it off forever, but they work very hard to prevent it.
Two things seem to characterize the culture in which we live. One is fear, a dominating fear. And of course, for those of us who are Christians, there is no fear of death. Death is an entrance into the presence of the Lord. Far better to "depart and be with Christ": to be absent the body, to be present with the Lord. We have no fear about what is coming after death, only joy and anticipation. For the believer, fear is not a virtue; fear is a sin, because we have been told, "Fear not. Fear not, your life is in the hands of God."
Safety is not a virtue. That may surprise you, but safety is never listed in any place in the Bible as a virtue. Life is full of risks. Being born into this world is simply getting a terminal disease called life. And they all end up in the same place; and there is risk in life. Virtues are not self-protective, virtues tend to be self-denying and centered on the well-being of others. And for Christians throughout all of history, the last thing that Christians who were faithful to the Lord cared about was safety. And I don't mean an unreasonable sense of safety, but I mean a kind of preoccupation that you need to be protected, you need to be safe, and if you're not there's an inordinate fear. Safety is not a virtue; it is not a virtue. We who live for Christ live in a world that at its very foundation Jesus defined this way: "If anyone will come after Me," Luke 9:23, "he must deny himself, take up his cross and follow Me."
So the first thing about being a Christian is self-denial. It's not about the preservation of your life, it's not about your safety; it may be about your death. That's what taking up your cross means. That's not talking about some kind of spiritual exercise; that's saying it could cost you your life. Everybody who lives lives with risk. If you try to make safety a virtue, you find yourself in a back room somewhere, staring at the wall, and make no contribution to anything. For Christians that's unacceptable. We have to be out front in the battle, taking the risk that the proclamation of the gospel and living godly lives calls for.
So safety is not a virtue; it's not in any biblical list of virtues. We don't pursue safety as a goal. We're reasonable, but we pursue the proclamation of the gospel and living godly lives and doing the work of Christ. And if there's risk, so be it. "All that will live godly in this present age will suffer persecution." We have no guarantee that we're going to live forever, fortunately. Most of us have had enough of what we've been doing for the last couple of years to check out, if it were an option. We don't live with fear, and we don't live for safety; we live to be faithful. And that's what we've been endeavoring to do through these many, many months.
But for the world, it's a different thing because the fear is existential. It is a profound fear that is not attached to reality. If they reject the Bible and what the Bible says about the future, what it says about the judgment of God, what it says about eternal punishment and hell—if they reject that, then they're just wishing that when they die, it all turns out okay. And since no human being is an authority, you can tell me you believe something about the future, but that has no impact on me whatsoever—you're not an authority. And what you wish to happen is meaningless. You need the truth, and that truth is revealed in the Word of God. For non-Christians in this world, I understand why they're afraid. I understand why they're terrified; I do understand that. I understand why they don't want to die because, again, there are very unsettled realities in their souls about sin and judgment. And it plays out in life in general; they're not ignorant of it.
So when we think about death, how are we to understand death? Is this inevitability something the devil does to us? There's some people who believe that. Turn in your Bible to Hebrews chapter 2, Hebrews chapter 2 and verses 14 and 15. It says in verse 14 that Christ—who is presented here as "He Himself," Christ—"partook of the same"—that is, took our flesh and blood, became human—"that through death"—through His death—"He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil." And wait a minute—that says the devil has the power of death. So is it the devil that kills us? Do we have to somehow avoid the devil? Is he the one that brings about death?
Well look what that says in verse 14: In the death of Christ "He [rendered] powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil." The devil had the power of death—when? In the garden. In the garden the devil had the power of death. I mean when he tempted Eve and when he tempted Adam, he unleashed that power on them because in the day they sinned, they died; and the whole human race died as well.
It was the devil who launched death in the world. And with the launch of death, something else happened, verse 15, the "fear of death" became a slavery throughout everyone's life. The fear of death subjected everyone "to slavery all their lives." And again, this is the reality that the king of terrors is the dominant fear in human society. People are terrified about death, and that's why they're preoccupied with fear. And when you exacerbate the potential of death, and you tell them there's a looming threat that's going to kill them, you can virtually get them to do almost anything, without reason or purpose.
But now wait a minute—Christ "[rendered] powerless the one who had the power of death," the one who brought death into the human race, the one who enslaved the whole of humanity to a lifetime of fearing death. Does that mean that it's the devil that kills us? Is he the one we have to fear, since he had the power of death? No, it says, "He had the power of death."
Go back to the first book in the Bible ever written, the oldest book, Job, back to the first chapter of the first book, chapter 1. Job's family, as you go down through chapter 1, was together. In verse 17 it says they were conversing. And while "still speaking, [someone] came and said, 'The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.'" "Somebody slaughtered all your servants." And "while he was still speaking, another also came and said, 'Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house'"—it was a family event—"'and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to you.'" So Job has had his family all killed in one natural disaster, you could say.
"Then Job arose," verse 20, "tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground and"—did what?—"worshiped." Why didn't he curse the devil? If the devil did it, why didn't he curse the devil? Because the devil didn't do it. Look what he says in verse 21: He worshiped and said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has"—what?—"taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." In the first cataclysm, in the oldest book, in the first chapter, there is a recognition that God is the one who gives life, and God is the one who takes life. Historically, Satan was the instrument that introduced death into the human race. God is in charge of who lives and who dies.
Now with that in mind, go to the twelfth chapter of Luke, as we get closer to the chapter that particularly will be our subject. But in the gospel of Luke, chapter 12, verse 4 and 5 make explicit what is obviously apparent in Job. Our Lord speaking in Luke 12:4, "I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. But I warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!" That's God.
God is the one who kills, God is the one who gives, God is the one who takes life, God is the one who casts into hell—fear Him! The devil doesn't cast people into hell; the devil himself is cast into hell, Revelation chapter 20 and verse 10, by God. God kills, God casts into hell. James says, chapter 4, you shouldn't say, "I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that." You should say, "If the Lord wills, I'm going to do this, or I'm going to do that," because your life is a vapor for a little time and, poof, vanishes away.
One chapter later, in the thirteenth chapter of the gospel of Luke, this issue of death comes up again. And there have been a couple of very interesting incidents in the headlines of the Jerusalem Gazette of that time because some Galileans, in verse 1, were down worshiping God, and Pilate's men had come in and sliced them to ribbons and spilled their blood so that it was mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. And the people asked Jesus, "Why did that happen to them; are they worse than everybody else?" "And Jesus said to them, 'Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.'" "The same thing is going to happen to you if you don't repent."
And then in verse 4 another illustration: Eighteen people on whom the tower of Siloam fell, killed them. Were they "worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?" Is that why they died? "I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." This is Jesus saying, "You're all going to die, and you're not in charge of when it happens. It's in the power of the One who kills and the One who gives life."
And then He said in verse 6, here's another parable: "A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; he came looking for fruit on it and didn't find any. Said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'" The man represents God, and God is saying, "This is fruitless humanity; bring judgment." But "he answered and said to him, 'Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer; and if it bears fruit next year, fine; if not, cut it down.'" Jesus is saying we're all living on borrowed time, we're all living on borrowed time. Everybody who dies is an illustration of what's going to happen to everyone. And if you're still alive, you're living on borrowed time.
I remember when 9/11 happened, on a Tuesday, and obviously all of us were trying to figure out the realities of it. It became apparent soon, and I decided to scramble and see if I couldn't give a sermon the following Sunday to bring some clarity to it. I gave that sermon, and it came out as a book called Terrorism, Jihad, and the Bible—this is probably the fastest-printed book I've ever written in my life. 9/11, and it was published by December—that's pretty fast for publishers. Because people wanted to know what was going on. And perhaps the most important chapter in the book is "Where was God [on September] 11?" What's going on? I'll tell you where God was: He was doing His work of giving and taking away. God is the one who takes life, just as God is the one who gives life.
And then a few days later was my first venture into CNN with Larry King, and subsequent to that we were together many times on his program. But I'll never forget that first program, when he sat across from me about three feet away from my face, and he said, "What is the lesson of 9/11?" I said, "The lesson is you're going to die, and you're not in charge of when or how; that's the lesson."
It's the lesson of the Tower of Siloam. It's the lesson of going to worship and being sliced up by Pilate's soldiers for no apparent reason. Everybody else is living on borrowed time, "because the wages of sin is"—what?—"death," and "the soul that sins, it will die." And you will all die. And I said to Larry King that day, I said, "Nobody died that wasn't going to die." We all die.
Now for us as Christians, that's a glorious anticipation, a glorious anticipation because our eternity is settled, and is far better. But as we saw last time in Ephesians 2:12, unconverted people are without Christ in the world, without the commonwealth of Israel or citizenship in God's kingdom. They're without God, and they're without hope. What creates dread facing death is having no hope for what is coming next. And you can play pretty smugly about it; you can act like you're confident. But there is profound agony down in the heart of every person who thinks rationally about the reality that death could introduce something horrible, because everybody knows their sinfulness.
You know, hope is a common grace. Hope is a common grace. People can't live without hope. And I'm not even talking about eternal hope here, I'm just talking about hope. Everybody hopes. I mean you hope next week will be better. You hope next week your boss will treat you better; you hope sometime you'll get a raise. You hope sometime somebody will thank you for what you've done. You hope to meet a life partner. You hope to have children. You hope to get well. That's a common grace. It's deposited in human DNA so that we can survive the moment.
And along with hope is ignorance of the future, which aids our hope because if we knew what was coming we wouldn't have any hope—because we would know what was going to happen, and that would define it all. So fortunately, we can't know the future, and so we can live in hope. And I'm not talking about eternity, I'm just saying life itself; you've got to be able to say something is going to get better. People need that.
And "hope deferred," says Proverbs, "makes the heart sick." When people lose hope, it's anxiety, it's depression, it's fear, it's suicide. You can't live without hope. People survive life's troubles by hoping it'll get better. And when there's no sense of hope that it's going to get better, despair takes over. People can't live in despair.
We're living in a time in our culture and our world when the hopelessness is exacerbated at a massive level. Fear is propagated endlessly. This adds to people's anxiety and has added to the number of suicides. Most people, most people in our culture expect heaven; you can find that in a survey. "But everybody talkin' about heaven ain't going there," as the old spiritual says. This life—you want hope in this life. But if you have hope only in this life, the Bible says, you're of all people most miserable. You have to have hope beyond the grave, beyond death, or death is just totally paralyzing; and that is what the Christian faith provides. The worst thing is not to live in this life without hope, it's to end up in the next life without hope eternally.
Now with that in mind, look at the sixteenth chapter of Luke, verse 19. This is Jesus giving us a story about a man in hell. This is the worst of all possibilities. This is the most terrifying of all parables Jesus ever told. This is a disappointment that is gut wrenching and permanent.
The main character is a rich man. He's the feature, and he expects heaven, he expects heaven. He's very likely part of the Pharisees, who have been discussed back in verse 14; you see them mentioned there. So this would be a Jewish man, perhaps a Pharisee, but a very religious man whose theology was sort of like Job's friends. He was rich, which in their ideas was God's affirmation—if you're rich, you're good; if you're rich, you're righteous. Job's friends told him when he had trouble, "You've got sin somewhere in your life," because that was the theology. "If you're living a wretched life, you're a wretched sinner; if you're living a full, rich life, you're a very righteous person."
So here is this "righteous" man, this rich man. Let's see what happens to him, verse 19, "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom," or Abraham's side, "and the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades," or hell, "he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus" by his side. "And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'
"But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.' And he said, 'I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house—for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.' But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!' But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'"
The drama of this is obvious. This is a man, this rich man, who obviously was religious. He believed in heaven and hell, we can assume. He believed in sin and righteousness, he believed in judgment. But he also believed he was headed to heaven. That is the delusion of self-righteous, religious people: He deserved heaven, and so did everybody in his family, and God had validated that belief by making them rich, which they saw as God's stamp of approval on their righteousness.
It's a shocking story. In fact, it's so shocking that you wonder why Jesus would even tell such an agonizingly sad story. The answer to that is as a warning. And any warning is both merciful and compassionate, to teach people who expect heaven but end up in hell what went wrong. How vital is that?
Now the whole story is just loaded with contrasts and reversals. Go down to verse 25; that's the heart of the contrasts and reversals: "During your life"—the rich man—"you received your good things, likewise Lazarus bad things; now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony." This is a great reversal. It looked like Lazarus was the most wretched of all beings because life was so horrible for him. Surely that is evidence of how much God had cursed him; the rich man must have become rich because God honored him. But Jesus says just the opposite is true. The rich man had everything in this life and hell in the next; the poor man had nothing in this life and heaven in the next.
The contrasts are constant. Story starts with the poor man outside, the rich man inside; it ends with the rich man inside hell and the poor man in heaven. The poor man at the beginning of the story has no food, the rich man has food; it ends the poor man is at a feast, and the rich man can't even get a drop of water. It starts with the poor man with all kinds of needs and the rich man with no needs, and then it ends with the poor man having all his needs met and the rich man having nothing. The poor man is being licked by dogs, and the rich man is sumptuously feasting. And then the poor man is standing by Abraham, and the rich man is alone in hell without relief. Starts with the poor man being the one who suffers and the rich man satisfied, and it flips to the rich man being the one who suffers endlessly and forever and the poor man satisfied. The poor man wants a crumb from the table, the rich man is a feaster; at the end the poor man is at Abraham's feast, and the rich man has nothing.
This is our Lord's way of attacking that theology that goes all the way back to the book of Job. The story starts with the poor man seeking help and the rich man needing none, and it ends with the poor man having no need for help and the rich man having all kinds of need for help but none to help. Story starts the poor man is a nobody, the rich man is well known; but it ends up with the poor man having a name, and the rich man having no name. The poor man had no dignity in death, the rich man had dignity in death; the poor man had dignity in heaven, and the rich man had no dignity in hell. The rich man had hope, but it was a false hope; the poor man had no hope, but in the end he was in the kingdom of God, and the rich man was not.
The poor man never speaks in the story. He's silent; he's only there for contrast. He does have a name, and that's because everybody in heaven has a name, and nobody in hell has a name. Rich man never had a name, even though he's the main character; it's a story about a rich man without a name. He had a burial with honor, but no name. The poor man had a terrible end; he was thrown in Gehenna, the dump, the Jerusalem dump, to be burned with the trash; but he ended up standing beside Abraham in heaven.
So the man says in the parable, "If somebody came back from hell and warned us, we wouldn't end up there." Well, here in Jesus' parable is a testimony from hell. This is the reality of hell. Even though Jesus invents a parable, He invents a parable that is related to reality.
Now it has three parts: life, death, and life after death. So look at the beginning of it: life, verse 19, "There was a rich man, and he was habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day." Extravagant, habitual, lavish; he would be on the television program The Filthy Rich. He's got it all, and all the time. This is as extreme as riches can be: "habitually dressed in purple and fine linen," very costly, and "joyously living in splendor every day."
On the contrast, there's "a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores." This is a poor man, ptōchos— it means essentially "extreme poverty." Some places translate it "worthless"; he's worth nothing, he has nothing. He's got sores, no doubt ulcers and oozing lesions because of his disability. He is a disabled man, because it tells us he was laid at the gate of the rich man; the word "laid" is a strong word, ballō. It means "to throw." Somebody got sick of this guy; theoretically, somebody was tired of this guy begging in his neighborhood, so he somehow picked this beggar up and threw him down in the front of the gate of the richest man in town. A gate—the word for "gate" here is a large, wide gate. This is an estate. And his name is Lazarus. Why does he have a name? He has a name because that name means "whom the Lord has helped," "whom the Lord has helped." It's the same as the Old Testament Hebrew name Eleazar. So the rich man has no name because no one in hell has a name, which is to speak to the issue of no relationships in hell that have any value or any meaning or in any way alleviate torment.
So the contrast in life is extreme. The rich man has family, friends, wealth, lifestyle, feasting, splendor, honor—needs nothing; the poor man alone, rags, disabled, sores, repulsive, hungry, humiliated. In fact the rich man would have disdained the poor man. And that's the implication here, because he would have thought this man is what he is because he's been cursed by God. He would have no interest in him whatsoever. In fact he would say that, "If I did anything for the man, I might be acting against the will of God who has cursed him, because he's so wretched." So he offers no hope, he offers no compassion and no mercy. And the man who's been thrown down at the gate and can't move himself just lies there.
Verse 21, he wanted "to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores." That's a very interesting verse. In ancient times you used a lot of bread at a meal. And they would take older stale bread and put it on the table as a kind of a napkin. Your hands got oily because you were dipping bread in some kind of sauce, and you were eating. And how did you clean your hands? You took some of that stale bread, and you used that stale bread to wipe the oil off your hands, and then they would throw it under the table or off to the side where the dogs would be able to eat it. This rich man wouldn't even give this poor man the filthy crumbs with which the wealthy at the feast washed their hands. And we know there were dogs around because when the dogs were finished with the crumbs, it appears they went to lick the poor man's sores. This is roadkill, nothing else. The rich man is completely indifferent, smugly self-righteous. So that's their life.
Now secondly, death, verse 22: "Poor man died"—everybody does—"was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side." This is just beyond shocking. The Jewish people who were listening to this, certainly Pharisees, they would have gagged immediately; they would have choked. They would not be able to accept the fact that such a wretched, vile person under such a curse would stand beside Abraham, the father of the faith, the father of Israel, the father of the faithful, the greatest of all Jews, the first Jew, the one who started the entire race. This wretched beggar is standing next to Abraham?
When he died, it doesn't say anything about a funeral. He died, he was "carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom." That means his soul. His body would have gone to the dump, Gehenna, would have been thrown in the dump outside Jerusalem. The word Gehenna, from which we get the idea of hell—where fire burned continually as the picture of hell. No funeral, final disgrace: Throw his body in the dump; throw him in hell for a hellish life.
On the other hand, "The rich man also died and was buried"; he had an appropriate funeral. Both died because we all do. But what the Jews would have thought—the rich man would be next to Abraham, and the poor man would be in hell—was the opposite of the truth. This is a death blow to self-righteousness, and it's a death blow to the fact that the circumstances that you may have in your life are no indication of God's favor on you. There are wretched people who are poor, and righteous people who are poor; and there are wretched people who are rich, and righteous people who are rich.
The issue here is the third category. First life, then death, and then life after death, verse 22: "Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom." This is impossible. The angels? Shocking, inconceivable. God sends His angels to bring this man into the presence of Abraham? Now we know why he had the name Lazarus, the one whom the Lord helps. The poor man is taken to the father of the faithful. In this world he was an outcast; in heaven he stands right next to the greatest Jew of all time, and that is the ultimate place of heavenly honor. It's just so stunning. On the other hand, "The rich man also died and was buried. In" hell, or "Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment." Here is somebody who thought he was going to heaven, who ended up in hell. The rich man was buried, but the rich man wound up in hell and in torment.
And by the way, hell is a conscious place, not soul sleep. Our Lord makes sure that we understand that, because when he "died and was buried, in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said . . ." He's very conscious of his surroundings. He knows he's there. He knows he's there—are you ready for this?—forever because he doesn't ask to be given a release. He doesn't say, "Get me out of here." All he can say is, "Have mercy on me." He knew he was where he was going to be forever.
So the merciless one wants mercy, and he cries out to father Abraham. When he says, "Father Abraham," he's sort of connecting the Jewish line; "Hey, I'm one of you, I'm one of your children generations later. You owe me this. I'm a Jew. Have mercy on me, and send Lazarus." Oh my, he still thinks Lazarus is inferior to him. "Send Lazarus," like Lazarus was just a messenger, "that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool of my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame." This is hell, and he knows he'll never be anywhere else, and all he wants is a moment of mercy and a drop of water to relieve the agony of the flame of hell.
Jesus talked about hell as fire, darkness, torment, weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth. No crumbs for the poor man, and no relief for the rich man now. Why? Because everything has changed, verse 25: "Abraham said, 'Child, remember during your life you received good things, and likewise Lazarus had bad things. Now he's being comforted here, and you're in agony.'" That's how it is. You may be very successful in this life. "What does it mean to somebody if you gain the whole world and lose"—what?—"your soul?" Heaven reverses that.
So he wants Lazarus to serve him—because he sees Lazarus as somebody beneath him—and to come and give him some relief, so cries to Abraham to send him. And Abraham says in that verse, 25, he said no. No, things are different now. You expected heaven, you got hell. You might expect it of him that he would be in hell, but he's in heaven. This is the great reversal.
And hell is conscious, and hell is forever, and hell is agonizing, and hell is torment. And then father Abraham in the parable, verse 26, says, "And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed"—stērizō in the Greek; it means something set fast. There is a concrete chasm that can't be moved, a great chasm "so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able; none may cross over there to us." Nobody goes back and forth from heaven to hell. Hell is forever, hell is agonizing, hell is torment, and there's no relief. You don't even get a drop of water; you certainly don't get a messenger from heaven to come and comfort you.
That's the story. But what's the point? The point is this: Why did that rich man end up in hell? Why did that happen? Why do people go to hell? The answer comes in verse 27: The rich man says, "I beg you, father, send him to my father's house." "OK, if you won't send him here, if you won't send him here to give me a dip of water, send him to my father's house"—"for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment." "If you won't send him to me, send him to my brothers." This is one more request, one more complaint. "Our family lacked information. We didn't know about hell; no one ever came back from hell to warn us. We would have believed if somebody had come back from hell. We just needed more information. If we'd have known that hell was like this, we would have done whatever it required to avoid it. We didn't know."
And Abraham says, "You can't claim ignorance." Verse 29: "They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them." "Moses and the Prophets" is just a title for Scripture—they have Scripture. That's the whole point of the story. You want to avoid hell, go to the Scripture. You're not going to find somebody who's been to hell and back. There are a lot of fraudulent claims like that, crazy people. If you're waiting for somebody to come back from hell and give you an eyewitness account, it's not going to happen.
There is one who, in His death on the cross, showed up in hell—and that's the Lord Jesus Christ—and declared His triumph over the demons; and He came back from hell and was raised from the dead. Scripture is the only thing that gives you the truth that allows you to escape hell and enter heaven. It's not your good works; Scripture has the revelation that provides the way to escape hell. And it's in the Old Testament; salvation is by grace through faith—we see that in Genesis. Substitutionary death of Christ in Isaiah 53. "The just shall live by faith," Habakkuk 2:4.
So the Scripture gave you all you needed. And verse 31 is the capstone: "He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'" And He did that; and He had been to hell and back. The only way you'll ever escape hell and enter heaven is by believing the Scripture. "Faith comes by hearing the word concerning Christ." It is the Scripture that gives us life and salvation. We're begotten again by the Word of truth. Believe the gospel; that's the only hope of heaven, that's the only escape from hell.
The world is filled with people who expect heaven and will get hell. How do you know that? Because at the judgment you have a scene in which Jesus says this: "Many will say unto Me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we do this and that?' 'Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity; I never knew you.'"
People without Christ need to be afraid. They need to be afraid; they need to be terrified. They need to see death as the king of terrors. And they need to understand this: that it's death and then the judgment. There's no purgatory, there's no waiting place, there's no soul sleep. Conscious and everlasting, unrelieved, eternal punishment in a no-name environment without any relationships. The only way you can escape hell is simply stated in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not"—what?—"perish, but have eternal life."
And Christ went to hell and declared His triumph over the demons and Satan. It was Christ who took the power of death away from Satan. It is God who gives life, and it is God who kills, and it is God alone who judges. Let's pray together.
Sooner or later, Lord, when we come to Your Word, we have to face the harsh reality of eternal punishment. If we have any love in our hearts, if we have any compassion, if we have any tender-heartedness, if we have any mercy, if we have any lovingkindness, if we have any care for souls, we have to talk about this. People are afraid of death; they're afraid of it, and they don't know what's coming. Once they find out what's coming—eternal, unrelieved punishment and torment in hell—they ought to be even more terrified, and that terror ought to drive them to You to confess their sins and acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the one who died for our sins, the one who rose to give us eternal life.
Lord, I pray that there will be some even in this hour today who will fall down and worship You, and cry out for forgiveness and salvation from sin and hell. May this parable have profound impacts on all who hear. Those without Christ have every reason to fear, and they don't fear even enough. Lord, we know most people fear only what they think is going to happen in this life, and they have no sense of this eternal punishment. When they understand that, and their fear and dread comes over them, Lord, by Your Holy Spirit draw them to Yourself for grace and mercy and forgiveness. That's our prayer. Amen.


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2017 is here, but before we turn the page on the new year, RT is taking a look back at our top articles published in 2016. The following is a list of the 10 most-read articles on RTmagazine.com from January 1st through December 31st, 2016. (To be included in the list the article must have been published in 2016.) Click on the headlines to read the articles.
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#1 / New CPGs for Discontinuing Mechanical Ventilation in ICU
The guidelines aim to help clinicians determine when patients with acute respiratory failure can breathe on their own and to provide clinical advice that may increase the chances for successful extubation.
#2 / Study: Noninvasive Ventilation Tied to Increased Intubation, Mortality
Noninvasive ventilation was associated with increased intubation and death in critically ill immunocompromised patients with acute respiratory failure in a randomized trial.
#3 / Inhaler Misuse is Rampant in COPD
According to a new study, when COPD patients don't receive adequate training on how to use inhalers, it may lead to a higher rate of misuse and higher healthcare costs.
#4 / Managing the Patient on Mechanical Ventilation
With more than half of all ICU patients intubated within 24 hours of admission, careful monitoring of these patients can help reduce time on the ventilator and prevent the risk of adverse events.
#5 / E-cigarettes Have Immediate Effects on Pulmonary Function
Measurements of airway obstruction and inflammation were worse after e-cigarette sessions, and these findings were more severe in asthmatics.
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"The time has come," said AARC President Frank Salvatore, for the respiratory therapy profession to advance it's education level, specifically by shifting to bachelor's degrees.
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The findings of a new Weill Cornell Medicine study show that excessive iron buildup in the lungs may be a major cause of COPD.
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Led by patient safety organizations such as The Joint Commission, calls for continuous monitoring of non-critical care patients, especially those taking opioids, are consistently growing louder.
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A new device called The Bloom Inhaler, which is approximately the size and shape of a credit card, could one day become a replacement for traditional inhalers.
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# Retirement
'I didn't want to go chasing it in France or England, being away from family'
Eoin Griffin retired from rugby last year at the age of 28, after playing for Connacht over 100 times.
JUST OVER A year ago now, Eoin Griffin's retirement from rugby was confirmed without too much in the way of fanfare.
At the age of 28 and having played for his native Connacht just over 100 times – as well as spending two seasons with London Irish and representing Ireland at U19, U20 and Emerging levels – the centre decided he was finished with rugby.
Connacht's press release said Griffin's progress "has been hampered by injury this season" and while that's certainly true, he could have played on. There was contact from a French club and he could very well have looked elsewhere, but he was done.
James Crombie / INPHO Eoin Griffon [left] with Craig Ronaldson at the end of last season. James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO
Since then, Galway man Griffin has been away travelling with his girlfriend, Ellen, for six months in Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina and the US before returning home to Galway for a proper Christmas.
He recently secured a new job with Accenture in Dublin which will start once the lockdown is over. In short, life is good and Griffin has no regrets about his decision to move on from professional rugby.
Speaking on the phone from sunny Galway, Griffin explains that his final season with Connacht was a frustrating one. He played just six times due to unfortunately-timed injuries and the strong form of others in midfield, so with his contract running down, he began to consider life beyond the game that had been his job for over a decade.
He spoke to former team-mates who had moved on with their lives post-rugby. Some players struggle, of course, but Griffin heard plenty of happy tales too.
"Often, there's quite a lot of uncertainty for rugby players," explains Griffin of his decision to retire. "Your contract is finishing up and you don't know what's next or where you're going to go.
"Speaking to those guys, a lot of them were very happy in what they were doing and some of them were quite recent retirees.
"Sometimes, some players maybe keep going as long as they possibly can just because they don't know what the next step is. Chatting to guys who had retired gave me a little bit of confidence that there is plenty more to life once you finish rugby.
"Rugby has been a huge part of my life and there are obviously things you would have liked to have done, but I felt I had given it everything I had and probably been a little bit unlucky, especially in my last season with injuries at bad times, inopportune moments. I had been frustrated and maybe it was seeping across into my mood in general. But that's life.
"I just thought, 'I'm happy enough to walk away now.' I didn't want to go chasing it in France or England or wherever else, being away from family.
"Ellen is a doctor here and she wouldn't have been able to come over with me. It just didn't sound overly appealing to me and I was happy to retire."
James Crombie / INPHO Griffin in Connacht colours in 2010. James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO
Griffin has plenty to be proud of. He showed talent as a youngster with Corinthians RFC and The Jes in secondary school, getting identified by prolific talent-spotter Nigel Carolan and making his way through the Connacht ranks while also playing underage rugby for Ireland – helping the Ireland U20s to the 2010 Six Nations title.
A try-scoring senior debut for Connacht as a 19-year-old in 2010 boded well and Griffin became a key man over the following four seasons – memorably helping them win away to Toulouse in 2013 – while also playing for Emerging Ireland in three Tbilisi Cup campaigns.
He didn't manage to muscle his way into contention for senior Ireland caps, however, and, at the age of 24, made the move to Premiership side London Irish in 2014.
"It was a bit of a change," says Griffin. "If I think back now, I hadn't really been around for years but it felt like I had been in Connacht for a long time.
"I was probably a bit frustrated that I hadn't kicked on a bit more within the Irish set-up. I wasn't really involved in many squads or anything, just the Emerging squad, but I wasn't sure where I stood.
"It was a really tough decision and I was over and back with it. Eventually, I just thought in terms of the life experience and getting out of my comfort zone that it would stand to me most. I did learn a lot about myself and how things are done in different places."
Griffin's second season of the two-year contract with London Irish was hindered by injuries and he returned to his native Connacht in 2016, playing out what proved to be the final three seasons of his career.
"I wasn't always the quickest or strongest but I always worked as hard as I could and I'm very competitive," says Griffin. "Playing for Connacht was an honour and I really enjoyed it.
"There were tough times in there and some disappointments but I've made really, really great friends who I've been leaning on since I finished or who I met while we were travelling."
Billy Stickland / INPHO Griffin in action against Munster. Billy Stickland / INPHO / INPHO
Indeed, it's those friends that Griffin values most from his time in rugby. While travelling, he and Ellen stayed with ex-Connacht wing Liam Bibo in Perth before meeting up with Dan Parks and Dave McSharry in Sydney.
Purely by chance, they bumped into his ex-London Irish team-mate, Myles Dorrian, on a ferry to Manly, while they stated with another former Exile, Chris Noakes, after their campervan trip around New Zealand.
While he stresses that rugby players are the last people looking for sympathy, Griffin does say that a pro career is not all glamour.
"It's definitely up and down. Early in my career, it was great and I was playing every week, hitting the expectations I had put on myself.
"It was frustrating that Connacht and then London Irish weren't making as much progress as we felt we should be, but you enjoy putting in that hard work and sometimes seeing those results.
"But then injuries… being part of the rehab group, the tedious exercises to try and get back on the pitch – it's great craic at times too, but it can wear on you sometimes when you're doing a Q&A rather than being out on the pitch.
"If you're in the changing room afterwards, you still feel part of it but it's not the same as being battered and bruised after the win and feeling you really earned that beer.
"Only once it stops do you realise you really weren't enjoying all those early-morning rehab sessions. You have to be diligent but it can really wear on you, especially after 10 years."
While Griffin reflects that he could have benefited some other work experience outside the game while he was a pro rugby player, he did have one eye on what was coming next.
Having completed a commerce degree in his early years with Connacht, he took on a part-time master's degree in Leadership Development in NUIG during his closing three seasons as a pro.
Ryan Byrne / INPHO Griffin makes an offload versus Ulster. Ryan Byrne / INPHO / INPHO
Griffin's thesis in the final year of that degree involved Connacht, as he examined "how the theories of leadership actually look in real-life in a professional rugby environment."
Griffin was part of Connacht's six-man leadership group during his final season, allowing him ideal access and involvement in the process. Some of Connacht's workings went along with the textbook theories, but others went against what the literate suggested.
"One of the big things we were keen on was keeping all of the players engaged at all times for every session," says Griffin by way of insight into things Connacht focused on.
"The quality of your training depends on the quality of opposition in training. If you're pissing through and scoring tries for fun because the other lads have no motivation, there's no point."
There was a concentrated effort to make sure players never felt neglected, understood how important they were, how they needed to be ready for opportunities when they arrived, and generally promoting a mentality that everyone in the squad mattered.
All in all, Griffin feels ready to move into his new role in The Dock, Accenture's innovation centre in Dublin. He says Rugby Players Ireland have been "brilliant" in helping him and others transition out of the pro game.
His rugby career is behind him now but Griffin carries forward many fond memories and good friends.
"Playing for Connacht was just the biggest privilege. We had great times, great wins, the great fellas you get to know over the years. You do get very tight with them and when I was travelling, I got to catch up with the lads in far-flung places.
"Those are the things that have stuck with me."
- This article was updated at 8.28pm to correct 'McKeon' to 'Griffin' in the third last paragraph.
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Q: How to resize or apply style for the specific text in option I wanted to resize the the text in option, but not all the text. The following will is my code.
<select>
    <?php foreach($dataholder as $key=>$value): ?>
        <option value='<?php echo $value; ?>' ><?php echo $key; ?> (Max: <?php echo $max[$value]; ?>) </option>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</select>

I wanted the resize or apply style for the text that containing in the  .
Below is my original html copy from the browser.

<select class="select form-control col-md-4" id="renewal_period_flag" name="renewal_period_flag" style="width:320px !important;height:32px;">
                                                                                <option value="1">Weekly (Max: RM6.00)                                         </option>                                                                           <option value="2">Monthly (Max: RM6.00)                                           </option>

</select>

A: For add sub text to option text Refer this url : https://silviomoreto.github.io/bootstrap-select/examples/#subtext
Need to use Bootstrap.
Select Box Code is
<select class="selectpicker" data-size="5">
  <option data-subtext="Heinz">Ketchup</option>
</select>

Output is

A: You can achieve by adding css like:
[this code is originally from https://codepen.io/ericrasch/pen/zjDBx]

/* -------------------- Page Styles (not required) */

div {
  margin: 20px;
}

/* -------------------- Select Box Styles: bavotasan.com Method (with special adaptations by ericrasch.com) */

/* -------------------- Source: http://bavotasan.com/2011/style-select-box-using-only-css/ */

.styled-select {
  background: url(http://i62.tinypic.com/15xvbd5.png) no-repeat 96% 0;
  height: 29px;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 240px;
}

.styled-select select {
  background: transparent;
  border: none;
  font-size: 14px;
  height: 29px;
  padding: 5px;
  /* If you add too much padding here, the options won't show in IE */
  width: 268px;
}

.styled-select.slate {
  background: url(http://i62.tinypic.com/2e3ybe1.jpg) no-repeat right center;
  height: 34px;
  width: 240px;
}

.styled-select.slate select {
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  font-size: 16px;
  height: 34px;
  width: 268px;
}

/* -------------------- Rounded Corners */

.rounded {
  -webkit-border-radius: 20px;
  -moz-border-radius: 20px;
  border-radius: 20px;
}

.semi-square {
  -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
  -moz-border-radius: 5px;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

/* -------------------- Colors: Background */

.slate {
  background-color: #ddd;
}

.green {
  background-color: #779126;
}

.blue {
  background-color: #3b8ec2;
}

.yellow {
  background-color: #eec111;
}

.black {
  background-color: #000;
}

/* -------------------- Colors: Text */

.slate select {
  color: #000;
}

.green select {
  color: #fff;
}

.blue select {
  color: #fff;
}

.yellow select {
  color: #000;
}

.black select {
  color: #fff;
}

/* -------------------- Select Box Styles: danielneumann.com Method */

/* -------------------- Source: http://danielneumann.com/blog/how-to-style-dropdown-with-css-only/ */

#mainselection select {
  border: 0;
  color: #EEE;
  background: transparent;
  font-size: 20px;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding: 2px 10px;
  width: 378px;
  *width: 350px;
  *background: #58B14C;
  -webkit-appearance: none;
}

#mainselection {
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 350px;
  -moz-border-radius: 9px 9px 9px 9px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 9px 9px 9px 9px;
  border-radius: 9px 9px 9px 9px;
  box-shadow: 1px 1px 11px #330033;
  background: #58B14C url("http://i62.tinypic.com/15xvbd5.png") no-repeat scroll 319px center;
}

/* -------------------- Select Box Styles: stackoverflow.com Method */

/* -------------------- Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5809186 */

select#soflow,
select#soflow-color {
  -webkit-appearance: button;
  -webkit-border-radius: 2px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  -webkit-padding-end: 20px;
  -webkit-padding-start: 2px;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  background-image: url(http://i62.tinypic.com/15xvbd5.png), -webkit-linear-gradient(#FAFAFA, #F4F4F4 40%, #E5E5E5);
  background-position: 97% center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  border: 1px solid #AAA;
  color: #555;
  font-size: inherit;
  margin: 20px;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
  width: 300px;
}

select#soflow-color {
  color: #fff;
  background-image: url(http://i62.tinypic.com/15xvbd5.png), -webkit-linear-gradient(#779126, #779126 40%, #779126);
  background-color: #779126;
  -webkit-border-radius: 20px;
  -moz-border-radius: 20px;
  border-radius: 20px;
  padding-left: 15px;
}

  <select>
    <option>Here is the unstyled select box</option>
    <option>The second option</option>
    <option>The third option</option>
  </select>

  <select>
    <option>Here is the first option</option>
    <option>The second option</option>
    <option>The third option</option>
  </select>

  <select>
    <option>Here is the first option</option>
    <option>The second option</option>
    <option>The third option</option>
  </select>

  <select>
    <option>Here is the first option</option>
    <option>The second option</option>
    <option>The third option</option>
  </select>

  <select>
    <option>Here is the first option</option>
    <option>The second option</option>
    <option>The third option</option>
  </select>

  <select>
    <option>Here is the first option</option>
    <option>The second option</option>
    <option>The third option</option>
  </select>

  <select>
    <option>Select an Option</option>
    <option>Option 1</option>
    <option>Option 2</option>
  </select>

<select id="soflow">

  <option>Select an Option</option>
  <option>Option 1</option>
  <option>Option 2</option>
</select>

<select id="soflow-color">

  <option>Select an Option</option>
  <option>Option 1</option>
  <option>Option 2</option>
</select>

A: What you want to do is not possible with a native <select>, you can't add anything else than text inside an <option> tag.
You will have to implement a custom select or use a library. There are plenty of solutions for different frameworks, but check this one: http://selectize.github.io/selectize.js/

A: You can simply do it by adding style:font-size in your option like this.

<select class="select form-control col-md-4" id="renewal_period_flag" name="renewal_period_flag" style="width:320px !important;height:32px;">
    <option value="1">Weekly (Max: RM6.00) </option>
    <option value="2" style="font-size:10px;">Monthly (Max: RM6.00) </option>
    <option value="2" style="font-size:10px;">Monthly (Max: RM6.00)</option>
</select>

A: i found this,

select {
    -webkit-appearance: button;
    -moz-appearance: button;
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -webkit-padding-end: 20px;
    -moz-padding-end: 20px;
    -webkit-padding-start: 2px;
    -moz-padding-start: 2px;
    background-color: #F07575; /* fallback color if gradients are not supported */
    background-image: url(../images/select-arrow.png), -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #E5E5E5, #F4F4F4); /* For Chrome and Safari */
    background-image: url(../images/select-arrow.png), -moz-linear-gradient(top, #E5E5E5, #F4F4F4); /* For old Fx (3.6 to 15) */
    background-image: url(../images/select-arrow.png), -ms-linear-gradient(top, #E5E5E5, #F4F4F4); /* For pre-releases of IE 10*/
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Q: Unable to extract fields form log line containing a mix of JSON and non-JSON data using grok in Logstash I am running a couple of Spring Boot applications in Docker containers. Since I don't want to log to files, I am instead logging to the console and then using logspout to forward the logs to Logstash. I am using logstash-logback-encoder to log all logs from the application in JSON format.
Apart from these, there are also some logs (console outputs) which are made by the docker container before starting the Spring Boot application. These are not in JSON format.
To both of these, Logspout appends metadata (container name, container id, etc) before sending to Logstash. Below are my example logs in both formats.

*

*Direct from container (no JSON)

<14>1 2016-12-01T12:58:20Z 903c18d47759 com-test-myapp 31635
  - - Setting active profile to test

*Application logs (in JSON format)

<14>1 2016-12-01T13:08:13Z 903c18d47759 com-test-myapp 31635
  - - {"@timestamp":"2016-12-01T13:08:13.651+00:00","@version":1,"message":"Some
  log message goes
  here","logger_name":"com.test.myapp.MyClass","thread_name":"http-nio-8080-exec-1","level":"DEBUG","level_value":10000,"HOSTNAME":"903c18d47759"}

Below is my Logstash grok configuration.
input {
  tcp {
    port => 5000
    type => "logspout-syslog-tcp"
  }
}
filter {
  if [type] == "logspout-syslog-tcp" {
    grok {
      match => {
        "message" => [
          "<%{NUMBER:syslogPriority}>1 %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:eventTimestamp} %{BASE16NUM:containerId} %{DATA:containerName} %{NUMBER:containerPort} - - %{DATA:jsonLog}",
          "<%{NUMBER:syslogPriority}>1 %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:eventTimestamp} %{BASE16NUM:containerId} %{DATA:containerName} %{NUMBER:containerPort} - - %{DATA:regularLog}"
        ]
      }
    }

    json {
        source => "jsonLog"
        target => "parsedJson"
        remove_field=>["jsonLog"]
    }

    mutate {
      add_field => {
        "level" => "%{[parsedJson][level]}"
        "thread" => "%{[parsedJson][thread_name]}"
        "logger" => "%{[parsedJson][logger_name]}"
        "message" => ["%{[parsedJson][message]}"]
      }
    }
  }
}
output {
  elasticsearch { hosts => ["localhost:9200"] }
  stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}

Based on this, I was hoping to have each field in JSON available as a filter in Elasticsearch/Kibana. But I am not able to get the value of those fields. It shows up in Kibana as below:

I am not sure what I am missing here. How should I go about extracting the fields from JSON? Also, is the grok filter correct for handling both JSON and non-JSON logs?
Thanks,
Anoop

A: The problem is with the %{DATA:jsonLog} part. The DATA pattern, .*?, is not greedy (see here), so it won't grab anything and won't create the jsonLog field. You'll need to use the GREEDYDATA pattern instead.
See http://grokconstructor.appspot.com/do/match#result to test your patterns.


HOUSTON, TEXAS (November 23, 2012) Playing a much better brand of basketball than they have in their first four games of the season, the Houston Cougars eked out a close win over a tough Northeast Missouri University squad 61-44 in the first game for both schools in the David Jones Classic at Hofheinz Pavilion.
Senior guard Porsche Landry without a doubt had her best game of the young season, scoring 19 points with six of them coming from three-point range to raise the Cougars record to 1-4 for the season.
The Houston native played in her 100th game as a Cougar and played in all but six minutes of the contest.
Houston was a dismal 37.7% from the floor but did tally a healthy 61.5 % from the free throw line.
The Cougars led the floor with rebounds, tallying 40 with 19 of them coming from the offensive side.
Freshman guard Alecia Smith and junior center Yasmeen Thompson contributed with 14 and nine pints, respectively.
Thompson also led all players with 10 rebounds.
For Southeast Missouri, Bailie Roberts scored 17 points, followed by Jordan Hunter with 10 and Allyson Bradshaw with eight.
Southeast Missouri fell to 2-3 with the loss and will face UT-Pan American on Saturday.
Houston will next face Northwestern State with a 12 noon tip-off.
Those fans with tickets to the Houston-Tulane football game will be admitted free-of-charge with their football ticket.
Junior College Athletic Association national tournament.
WEST PLAINS, MO (November 19, 2012) The San Jacinto College volleyball team finished the 2012 season with a third place finish at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) volleyball tournament held this week at the West Plains Civic Center in West Plains, Mo.
San Jac (36-3) entered the tournament as the fourth seed, and went 3-1 at the three-day national tournament. San Jacinto College knocked off 13th-seed Casper College 3-0 (25-13, 25-13, 25-19) and fifth-seed Tyler Junior College 3-0 (25-18, 25-13, 25-23) on the opening day, Thursday, Nov. 15.
San Jac then fell to the top-seed, College of Southern Idaho, in four sets (25-23, 27-25, 14-25, 25-20) on Friday evening, before rebounding for a 3-1 win over No. 3 Iowa Western Community College (22-25, 28-26, 25-23, 25-22) Saturday afternoon.
It is the seventh-consecutive top-10 national finish under 11th-year Head Coach Sharon Nelson. Last season, San Jacinto College finished fourth, and in 2010 it was the national runner-up. For more information about San Jacinto College volleyball, visit www.sanjacsports.com.
HOUSTON, TEXAS (November 17, 2012) The Houston Cougars climbed to 3-0 for the season Saturday night with a 87-47 win over the Grambling State Tigers in front of 3,178 fans at Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston.
The win gave the Cougars their second consecutive 3-0 start under head coach James Dickey.
Three Cougars score in double figures, with sophomore guard Joseph Young coming off the bench to lead the team with 23.
Sophomore forward TaShawn Thomas contributed 14 points, with freshman forward Danuel House adding ten.
Young was efficient from the floor, contributing with five assists and two rebounds in only 21 minutes of play.
The Cougars hit 62.1% from the free throw line and 46.3% from the field.
Houston also controlled the defensive end of the court with seven take-a-ways, seven blocked shots, and 12 steals.
Rebounding was a bit better than the previous two games with the Cougars totaling 45 rebounds, but was limited to 15 coming on the offensive end of the court.
Thomas led the Cougars with eight rebounds, seven defensive and one offensive, along with two blocks and two steals.
Young also was perfect from the free throw line, connecting on eight-of-eight shots.
With the loss, Grambling State fell to 0-5 for the season.
The Cougars will have a quick one day turn-a-round as the face Louisiana College on Monday evening with a 7:00 p.m. CST tip-off at Hofheinz Pavilion.


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Joel R. Primack is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. Primack[…]
Joel Primack: Dark Matter Reveals the Structure of the Universe
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We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe.
Joel Primack: Dark matter is the vast majority of the mass of the entire universe. It's the mass that holds all galaxies together, and in fact, led to the formation of galaxies. And it also holds clusters together and it made the most important contribution to the organization of the structure of the universe.
We already know that the dark matter is cold. I invented this terminology back in 1983, calling the dark matter hot, warm or cold depending on how rapidly it's moving in the early stages of the Big Bang. Hot if it's moving at nearly the speed of light, cold if it's moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters, and warm is an intermediate case. We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold, but it could be a little bit warm. And that would make a great difference to what we call small scale structure, the amount of satellite galaxies and things like that. We don't yet know the real nature of the dark matter beyond that it's pretty cold.
Being pretty cold is enough to allow us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe, the organization of the galaxies and to some extent the satellites of the galaxies. But the small scale structure of the universe really depends in more detail of the nature of the dark matter. Also, the dark matter can possibly interact with itself and annihilate and two dark matter particles come together and then make a lot of other stuff. And this could have played an extremely important role in the early universe, and it could still be producing effects that are sensitive detectors in space and on the ground can find experimentally.
We haven't yet seen clear evidence for any of these things, although there are a number of experiments that are reporting tentative detections. So, it feels very much like we're on the verge of major breakthroughs in trying to understand the nature of the dark matter. If we finally do figure out the nature of the dark matter, we will then have a single unified picture of the origin and evolution of the entire universe. One that scientists all over the world have contributed to and that can become the basis for a shared origin story that could possibly solidify the bonds of humankind. We've never had a single picture, thoroughly supported by scientific evidence, and we're coming close to it now.
So I think we scientists are feeling very hopeful that we're about to cross this threshold and have a complete understanding of the origin and the evolution of the universe. And of course, we're also coming to a much better understanding of the evolution of life. So these last decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century are a real turning point, I think, in our understanding of how we got here.
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Pliocene hominin biogeography and ecology.
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Cyperus papyrus
Ecoloty
Hominin Engergtics
Papio
Authors: Macho, Gabriele A
Journal: J Hum Evol
Pagination: 78-86
Date Published: 2015 Oct
Australopithecus bahrelghazali, its origin and palaeobiology are not well understood. Reported from only one location some several thousand kilometres away from East African Pliocene hominin sites, it appears to have predominantly fed on C4 sources. Yet, it lacks the morphological adaptations of other primate C4 consumers like Paranthropus boisei and Theropithecus oswaldi. Furthermore, although considered to belong to Australopithecus afarensis by most researchers, A. bahrelghazali appears to differ from the former in a key aspect of its morphology: enamel thickness. To assess the phylogeny and palaeobiology of A. bahrelghazali, I first evaluate the dietary adaptations and energetics of A. bahrelghazali using empirical data of the feeding ecology of extant baboons, Papio cynocephalus. Information published on A. bahrelghazali morphology and habitat preference is used to select C4 foods with the appropriate mechanical properties and availability within the environment to create the models. By altering the feeding time on various food categories, I then test whether A. bahrelghazali could have subsisted on a C4 diet, thus accounting for the δ(13)C composition of its dental tissue. The effects of body mass on the volume of food consumed are taken into account. The outcomes of these simulations indicate that A. bahrelghazali could have subsisted on a diet of predominantly sedges, albeit with limitations. At higher energy requirements, i.e., above 3.5 times the BMR, it would be difficult for a medium-sized primate to obtain sufficient energy from a sedge-based diet. This is apparently due to constraints on foraging/feeding time, not because of the nutritional value of sedges per se. These results are discussed against the backdrop of A. bahrelghazali biogeography, palaeoenvironment, and phylogeny. The combined evidence makes it plausible to suggest that Northern Chad may have been a refugium for migrating mammals, including hominins, and throws new light on the deep history of A. bahrelghazali.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724841500161X#
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.009
Alternate Journal: J. Hum. Evol.


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FDA Rejects Covaxin EUA for Kids
Bharat Biotech, Children, Covaxin (Bharat Biotech and ICMR), COVID-19 Vaccinations, Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), FDA, India
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration turned down Malvern, Pa.-based Ocugen's Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) request for Covaxin in children ages 2 to 18 years. Covaxin is a Covid-19 vaccine the clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company is co-developing with India's Bharat Biotech.
March 4, 2022 /by BioSpace
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Ocugen/Harris Poll Finds Americans Want More COVID-19 Vaccine Options
Bharat Biotech, Biotechnology Companies, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, COVID-19 booster shots, COVID-19 shots, COVID-19 Vaccines, Harris Poll, Parents, Polls, Surveys, United States
More than one year after the first COVID-19 vaccination was administered in the United States and more than 545 million doses later, new data from a survey conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults on behalf of Ocugen Inc. show a majority of Americans want more COVID-19 vaccines options to choose from.
February 15, 2022 /by GlobeNewswire
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Indian home-grown COVID-19 shot wins WHO emergency use approval
Bharat Biotech, Covaxin (Bharat Biotech and ICMR), Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), India, World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) granted approval for Indian drugmaker Bharat Biotech's home-grown Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use listing, paving the way for Covaxin to be accepted as a valid vaccine in many poor countries.
November 3, 2021 /by Reuters Health
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Ocugen Hopes to Launch U.S. Phase III Trial of Covaxin
Bharat Biotech, Clinical Data, Clinical Trials, Coronavirus Vaccines, Covaxin (Bharat Biotech and ICMR), Investigational New Drug (IND) applications, R&D
Malvern, Pa.-based Ocugen submitted an Investigational New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to run a Phase III trial of India's Covid-19 vaccine BBV152 (Covaxin).
October 27, 2021 /by Andrew Humphreys
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Pfizer and BioNTech Lead Globally with COVID-19 Vaccine
Argentina, Bharat Biotech, BNT162b2 (Pfizer and BioNTech), Brazil, CDC, COVID-19 booster shots, COVID-19 Vaccines, Cytokine Storm, FDA, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine (J&J), Johnson & Johnson, Messenger RNA (mRNA) Vaccines, Moderna, mRNA-1273/Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (Moderna), The Wall Street Journal, Vir Biotechnology
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the preferred Covid-19 shot globally is the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
October 12, 2021 /by BioSpace
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Bharat's Intranasal Vaccine Speeding into Phase II
Bharat Biotech, Business, Clinical Trials, Covaxin (Bharat Biotech and ICMR), Covid-19 Data, India, Intranasal vaccines, Novel Coronavirus, R&D
Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid-19 vaccine candidate is expected to enter the Phase II portion of a Phase II/III study within the next few weeks. BBV154 marks the second vaccine against the novel coronavirus developed by the India-based company.
September 10, 2021 /by BioSpace
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The biggest benefit of living the freelance lifestyle is the freedom it affords you. You can take holidays whenever you want, take time off to visit friends and family and splash out the enhanced profits you receive from being your own boss on cars, clothes and whatever else takes your fancy.
It's important to remember, however, that if you want to be a freelancer in the long-term then it's only logical that you make long-term investments too. The initial waterfall of cash when you start up as a freelancer can be difficult to splurge on short-term rewards and luxuries, but it's important to plan for the future too with some sensible investments that are going to benefit you in the next 10, 20 and 30 years. Read below to find out a few of them.
Your website is the first thing that people are going to see when they're looking to hire your services, and as such it's essential that you continually invest in it to make yourself an attractive option.
If you haven't already invested creating a super-slick mobile friendly website then do so now; mobiles are increasingly being used across the UK to browse the web, whether on the go or at home. A whopping X of people say that they turn off immediately when a website isn't mobile optimized, and who can blame them?
You never know what type of work is around the corner, and in order to equip yourself for every opportunity, it's vital that you expand your knowledge and skillset. Whether you're investing your cash in courses that can expand your service offerings or simply investing your time in research that can enhance your capabilities, improving and widening your skillset is a sure-fire way to ensure long-term freelance success.
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Rusty Denney of Craftmasters, Inc. spreads ice melt in the parking lot of Crossroad Square Shopping Center as snow falls in Westminster Saturday evening, Feb 17, 2018.
All Carroll County Public Schools sponsored after-school activities scheduled for Thursday evening, Jan. 17 will be canceled due to the impending snow forecast, as of a CCPS notice sent via email around noon Thursday.
Non-CCPS sponsored activities in public school facilities are also canceled.
Snow showers will dust Carroll County overnight Thursday, only to make way for a "significant storm" Saturday evening, which will be followed by a steep temperature drop Sunday, forecasters say.
Winter is here, and it's preparing to pack a punch.


Performing to RJ Naveed's soul-stirring hoax call on abortion, the seven-member group of all boys left people in tears as they raised their voice to make the world a safe place for girls.
The evocative performance by this Mumbai group has left people emotional.
A poignant performance by a young dance troupe from Mumbai – called Feel Crew – on sexual abuse women face mesmerised judges and the audience at an audition for the show Dance Plus 4. And the video of their performance is now going viral.
Set to RJ Naveed's stirring hoax call on abortion, the seven-member all boy group left many in tears with their performance. Their emotional performance struck a chord with people in the audience, and viewers online as well. The video is going viral, with over a million views on the video they uploaded on Facebook, and plenty of views on other platforms as well.
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package cache

import (
	"fmt"
	"regexp"
	"strconv"
	"strings"

	"go.ligato.io/cn-infra/v2/datasync"

	nodemodel "github.com/contiv/vpp/plugins/ksr/model/node"
	podmodel "github.com/contiv/vpp/plugins/ksr/model/pod"
	vppnodemodel "github.com/contiv/vpp/plugins/nodesync/vppnode"

	"github.com/contiv/vpp/plugins/crd/api"
)

// Resync sends the resync event passed as an argument to the ctc telemetryCache
// thread, where it processed in the function below (resync)
func (ctc *ContivTelemetryCache) Resync(resyncEv datasync.ResyncEvent) error {
	ctc.dsUpdateChannel <- resyncEv
	return nil
}

// resync is an internal function that processes a data sync re sync event
// associated with K8s State data. The function executes in context of the
// ctc telemetryCache thread. The cache content is fully replaced with the received
// data.
func (ctc *ContivTelemetryCache) resync(resyncEv datasync.ResyncEvent) error {
	err := error(nil)
	ctc.Synced = true

	// Delete all previous data from cache, we are starting from scratch again
	ctc.ReinitializeCache()

	for resyncKey, resyncData := range resyncEv.GetValues() {
		for {
			evData, stop := resyncData.GetNext()
			if stop {
				break
			}

			key := evData.GetKey()
			switch resyncKey {
			case vppnodemodel.KeyPrefix:
				err = ctc.parseAndCacheVppNodeData(key, evData)

			case podmodel.KeyPrefix():
				err = ctc.parseAndCachePodData(key, evData)

			case nodemodel.KeyPrefix():
				err = ctc.parseAndCacheNodeData(key, evData)

			default:
				err = fmt.Errorf("unknown RESYNC Key %s, key %s", resyncKey, key)
			}

			if err != nil {
				ctc.Report.LogErrAndAppendToNodeReport(api.GlobalMsg, err.Error())
				ctc.Synced = false
			}
		}
	}

	if ctc.Synced == false {
		retErr := fmt.Errorf("datasync error, cache may be out of sync")
		ctc.Report.AppendToNodeReport(api.GlobalMsg, retErr.Error())
		return retErr

	}
	return nil
}

func (ctc *ContivTelemetryCache) parseAndCacheVppNodeData(key string, evData datasync.KeyVal) error {
	pattern := fmt.Sprintf("%s[0-9]*$", vppnodemodel.KeyPrefix)
	matched, err := regexp.Match(pattern, []byte(key))
	if !matched || err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("invalid key %s", key)
	}

	vppNodeValue := &vppnodemodel.VppNode{}
	err = evData.GetValue(vppNodeValue)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("could not parse node info data for key %s, error %s", key, err)
	}

	ctc.Log.Infof("parseAndCacheVppNodeData: node %s, id: %d", vppNodeValue.Name, vppNodeValue.Id)

	id, _ := strconv.Atoi(strings.Split(key, "/")[1])
	if vppNodeValue.Id != uint32(id) {
		return fmt.Errorf("invalid key '%s' or node id '%d'", key, vppNodeValue.Id)
	}

	if vppNodeValue.Id == 0 || vppNodeValue.Name == "" || len(vppNodeValue.IpAddresses) == 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("invalid nodeInfo data: '%+v'", vppNodeValue)
	}

	err = ctc.VppCache.CreateNode(vppNodeValue.Id, vppNodeValue.Name,
		vppNodeValue.IpAddresses[0])
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to add vpp node, error: '%s'", err)
	}

	return nil
}

func (ctc *ContivTelemetryCache) parseAndCachePodData(key string, evData datasync.KeyVal) error {
	pod, namespace, err := podmodel.ParsePodFromKey(key)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("invalid key %s", key)
	}

	podValue := &podmodel.Pod{}
	err = evData.GetValue(podValue)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("could not parse node info data for key %s, error %s", key, err)
	}

	ctc.Log.Infof("parseAndCachePodData: pod %s, namespace %s, value %+v",
		pod, namespace, podValue)
	ctc.K8sCache.CreatePod(podValue.Name, podValue.Namespace, podValue.Label, podValue.IpAddress,
		podValue.HostIpAddress, podValue.Container)

	return nil
}

func (ctc *ContivTelemetryCache) parseAndCacheNodeData(key string, evData datasync.KeyVal) error {
	node, err := nodemodel.ParseNodeFromKey(key)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("invalid key %s", key)
	}

	nodeValue := &nodemodel.Node{}
	err = evData.GetValue(nodeValue)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("could not parse node info data for key %s, error %s", key, err)
	}

	ctc.Log.Infof("parseAndCacheNodeData: node %s, value %+v", node, nodeValue)
	ctc.K8sCache.CreateK8sNode(nodeValue.Name, nodeValue.Pod_CIDR, nodeValue.Provider_ID,
		nodeValue.Addresses, nodeValue.NodeInfo)
	return nil
}

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