This time span before the Passion (traditionally called Easter, which we will refer to as The Passion) is important to find depth of meaning in a tradition spanning thousands of years. A tradition of this kind runs the risk of becoming stale and clichéd, even if the significance of the event it commemorates reverberates over many centuries. It is our own passion to seek renewal in the old, to learn more in the known and to experience the power in the familiar.
It is easy to fall into complacency while upholding tradition. Our goal is to know God more in every feast when we rejoice in the goodness and grace of our Father.
The nation of Israel heard the sound of the trumpet when they gathered around the mountain where God manifested his presence.
This is the goal. We are praying to hear the trumpet and tremble at the sound. This is the time of year to fall down on your knees in awe and reverence for the great work Christ has done on the cross.
Jesus and his disciples sat down for the Passover meal, according to the tradition of many centuries. It felt ordinary, but it was uniquely special and never to be repeated.
Look out for the extraordinary in every feast.
This meal began in an unexpected way. It was not customary for the host to wash the feet of the guests. It was done by either the guest himself or a slave. Jesus is comfortable in 'breaking the laws'.
Peter's pride excluded him. He wanted to dictate and control. He felt uncomfortable with the change. Jesus insists on doing it his way. Baptism is arrival in the Kingdom. Thereafter only a washing is necessary to get rid of the grime of the world in which we have to travel.
To receive Jesus, is to submit to his way of doing. Obedience is our worship, even if it feels awkward in the context.
Judas's betrayal was foremost in Jesus' mind. Judas acts normal. If the other disciples might have grasped the full implication of the situation, they would have prevented him to go ahead.
On the host's left was the place for the guest of honour. That place was reserved for Judas. It was yet another appeal from Jesus to Judas to reconsider his actions.
Again and again the appeal came. The darkness and own agenda in Judas' heart won him over. When Judas received the morsel from Jesus (an invitation to communicate) the devil entered him. He was so set on his own plan that he could not respond to Jesus' many appeals.
John mentions that when Judas went out, it was night. This is very significant. Deeds of darkness take place in the dark. Leaving the presence of Jesus is darkness. Leaving Christ to follow your own plans is your soul's night.
Some wealthy friend of Jesus probably gave Him the key to this walled garden outside the city gates to use whenever He needed peace and quiet. Jerusalem was too crowded for gardens and ceremonial rules forbade soil or manure in the sacred city. The garden that is shown to tourists comprises of about eight olive trees, so old they look like rocks.
Judas knew that Jesus planned to go there and that is where he planned the arrest to take place.
John states there was a company of soldiers plus the officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. The officers were the Temple police. The Temple had police to keep order and the Sanhedrin (Jewish Council of 70) had police to carry out their decrees. There was also a band of Roman soldiers. The Greek word used is speira. It had three meanings: a Roman cohort, which means 600 men or auxiliary soldiers of 1000 men (240 cavalry and 760 infantry). It is sometimes used for a detachment of 200 men.
Even the word in the last meaning indicated an overwhelming force to arrest a simple Galilean carpenter. The authorities were clearly very scared of Jesus and His influence and expected a small war. They sent an army to grab Him!! Just think how surprisingly simple the arrest took place – in surrender and peace – fully under the control of Jesus himself.
Peter was willing to fight, even against an overwhelming armed force.
He cut the soldier's ear off.
When the church draws the sword, it cuts the people's ears off. Their ability to hear the Gospel is taken away. Only a touch of Jesus can heal their ears. The Gospel only penetrates with a touch of Jesus himself.
Jesus is before Annas. Only John mentions this. Annas was the power behind the throne of the high priest. The high priest was a collaborator with the Romans and lived in ease, comfort, prestige and power. The family of Annas was very rich and he was the power behind it all – knowing how to play the game. The shops inside the Temple were called the Bazaars of Annas. He was notorious and of course very angry that Jesus had upset his comfortable flow of money at the cleansing of the Temple court.
The questioning before Annas was a mockery of justice, done in secret and haste under the cover of night. Jesus had no hope of a fair trial. He knew how things would go. He went through the motions. In a reading of all four accounts of the trial, found in the four Gospels, it is obvious that Jesus was in control and conducted his own trial.
Peter's denial has been the subject of many sermons and comments over the years. Peter's desire to support Jesus is undeniable. He drew his sword in the garden and he was present in a situation where he could have been dragged off and imprisoned just for being where he was. Yes, he failed in courage, but only because he was in a situation which the others did not even face.
Peter loved Jesus – that is a fact. He was in that courtyard because of love and loyalty.
Peter was redeemed. One must realize that the story of his denial would get around and he would suffer great humiliation with a sense of profound failure. But Peter did not flee from his family in Jesus, the other disciples. He found refuge in their company and somehow found his way back behind the closed doors where the disciples waited in fear after the crucifixion.
Jesus saw his courage, his loyalty, and his love. Jesus looked at him, not in reproach, but in love.The eyes of Jesus that night preserved Peter's soul. Jesus saw his dear friend buckle under the pressure of vicious judgment and overwhelming odds of heartless and brutal authority. He communicated His love and redemption to Peter and that preserved Peter in a night of bitter regret and breakdown. It was notthe look of "I told you so".
Keep in mind that Peter had the revelation from the Father that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God (Matthew 16: 13-20).
Judas went back to the leaders, threw the money down and said: I have betrayed innocent blood. He died by his own hand, full of guilt, lonely and broken without ever realizing with Whom he had to do.
Revelation knowledge made Peter brave. His courage is amazing; his defeat diminishes in the light of his leadership in the church later on.
The Jewish leaders twisted their charge against Jesus. To them He was blasphemous (Matthew 26:65). Pilate would not act on a charge like that and would dismiss it as a religious quarrel. They made it political with the hint of rebellion in. They accused Jesus of claiming to be a king.
They denied every principle they had in order to get the death penalty. They suddenly confessed they have no king but the Caesar.
Samuel said to the people God is their king (Samuel 12:12). When the Romans first instituted taxes, there was almost a bloody revolt. The declared God to be their king and only to Him they wanted to pay tribute. Now they claimed Caesar as king – a shameful about-face. Pilate must have gasped in astonishment.
PILATE, on the other hand, behaves very strangely. He most certainly realized that the trump up charges of the Jews were a series of lies. He was deeply impressed with Jesus. He did not want to condemn Him to death – yet he did.
Jesus is the majestic conductor of His own trial. Pilate recognized that Jesus is actually in control. He is not a pathetic victim of cruelty. Pilate treated Him with respect. He knew Jesus was different and special.
Jesus speaks directly about His kingdom. He does not try to explain. He states the truth. He knows He is about to die and gets the message out straight and undiluted.
He makes it clear that His kingdom is in the hearts of men, not of this earth and that the conquest would be love.
Pilate says: See the man. The word Pilate uses is ho, the normal Greek word for human being, but the Greek thinkers often used it for the ideal man, the heavenly man. Pilate is surprised that the torture has not finished Jesus off.
Pilate says he has the power to release Him or execute Him. Jesus is clear that Pilate has no power at all except what is given to execute God's plan. Jesus is in a triumphant procession on His way to the cross.
BARRABAS: The choice of the people stayed with them forever. They chose the man of bloody force and violence and rejected the man of love and gentleness. Throughout the centuries this choice was made again and again.
It was the death most dreaded in the ancient world.
When a verdict was pronounced the execution took place immediately after. The convicted had to carry his own cross and after scourging it was a bloody procession of lashing and mocking to get the staggering prisoner to the place of execution. In front of him was a soldier with a placard stating his crime and he was led through as many streets as possible to serve as a warning to all watching. There was another reason for the long detour to the cross. If any person could bear witness in his favour, he might come forward to do so. In this case the procession stopped and the trial repeated.
The placard for the Cross was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. It was three of the great nations of the ancient world. The culmination of their talents could have been great. The Romans taught law and good government, the Greeks taught philosophy and art and the Hebrews had access to the one true God.
The tunic woven in one piece was described exactly as the one the High Priest wore. The function of the High Priest was to be the connection of the people to God. The Latin for priest is Pontifex, which means bridge-builder. This is exactly what the cross did. Jesus was the perfect High Priest, the bridge-builder to the presence of God.
The other Gospel tells of Jesus dying with a great shout on His lips. They do not say the words (Matthew 27:50; Mark 15:37; Luke 23:46). John tells us what He said. He said these words not in weary defeat, but in a voice that one does not expect from a dying man.
The words: it is finished is one word in Greek = tetelestai. It also means great shout.He died when the price was paid and God said enough. He leaned back His head and gave up His spirit as if He rested after the work is done.
To make sure that Jesus was dead, a soldier thrusted a spear into His side and out flowed water and blood. It was a sure sign of death, but also the sign of a very sick man.He literally took our sickness on Him on the cross. Another prophecy was fulfilled: They look on him whom they have pierced – Zechariah 12:10.
Joseph and Nicodemus stepped out boldly after the death of Jesus. Joseph fearlessly approached the Romans for the body of Jesus. In His death he drew men unto Him just as He prophesied (John 12:32).
Death has meaning. It is never wasted. Through Jesus God showed his presence in death. After he died secret disciples stepped forward – the worst has happened. Now the tables are turned.
It was customary to visit the tomb for three days after the burial. They also believed that the spirit of the person hovered for three days but then departed. The body would then become unrecognizable through decay.
Jesus' friends were not allowed to make the journey on the Sabbath – they would break the law. Sunday morning Mary came early. Greek= proi, which means the last of the four watches between 3-6am. Still dark grey – she couldn't wait any longer.
Mary might have thought the Jewish leader took the body, but it is unlikely that they would touch a dead body or have anything to do with the dead over the Sabbath.
Peter was still acknowledged as the leader – it was to him that Mary went. Peter was amongst his brothers in his failure, defeat and heartbroken state of bewilderment.
John ran faster, he was younger. John looked in but Peter ran right on and in – typical of his nature. Peter was amazed and still, but John's mind started working. If somebody stole the body why did they leave the grave clothes?
The clothes were not disarranged. The clothes were where the body had been and exactly in the shape of the body – in their folds. The grave clothes told a whole story of their own. They looked as of the body has just evaporated from them. The napkin for the head was folded neatly. The sight spoke to John and he believed. He saw with his own eyes and believed.
Love was the foundation of faith. Love brought Mary to the tomb, love made John believe. Love opened his eyes and mind.
The scene in the garden where Mary recognizes Jesus is probably one of the most dramatic moments in literature. Mary was the first to see the risen Christ. Her love is the driving force of all her actions. She brought the news to the disciples, was probably left behind in the race, but comes back to the garden. They have already left again, running to the others with the news. Mary stood weeping. She didn't know where to now, what to make of things. She was confused and bewildered. She could not recognize this man talking to her through her tears. Her sorrow blinded her. In loss we weep for ourselves. The loved one is with God, no need for tears there. But we feel the sharp pain of loss. As long as our tears are lifted up to God so that we do not miss the glory.
Mary's eyes were on the tomb.It is looking in the wrong direction. Our eye must be on heaven and God with us where we will know that our loved one is in His presence. Tears are good, cry, grieve – but do not despair and keep your eyes on the tomb.
Greatness of this event – truly the greatest in history– transcends time.
Jesus was on His way to enter heaven triumphantly as described in Revelation 5. He was the first fruit of the church(sheaf of wheat) to wave before the Father, just like at the Feast of the Firstfruits.
Our Easter is all about the resurrection– the first fruit of the church.
Thomas refused to be dragged into something he did not understand. He was strong and wanted to come to his own conclusion. Jesus respected this and invited him to investigate. Thomas is honest to the bone. He had to be sure. His faith was established on truth, not on stories of others and things that didn't make sense.
When he received his confirmation, he surrendered in victorious worship.His faith was based on full revelation and worship flows spontaneously.
The Gospels were not meant as biographies. The aim of the words is not to give information, but to communicate life.
It is to give life to the image of Jesus so that the reader can meet Him personally to learn from Him directly and experience true life through Him.
We read to know God, not history.
137. The cross and the grave.
There was no death more terrible than by way of crucifixion. Even the Romans trembled by the thought and found it despicable. No Roman citizen could be crucified. For a Roman, execution was mostly beheading or forced suicide by drinking poison. Crucifixion was for slaves and criminals. The cross was originally a Persian method of execution. They argued that a criminal could not defile the earth while dying and should be lifted up. The Carthaginians in North Africa took it over from the Persians. Through them it came to Rome.
Jesus died the death most dreaded in the ancient world.
Execution took place immediately after a verdict was pronounced. The convicted had to carry his own cross. After scourging it was a bloody procession of lashing and mocking to get the staggering prisoner to the place of execution. In front of him was a soldier with a placard stating his crime. He was led through as many streets as possible to serve as a warning to all watching, but also possible leniency. If there were any person who could bear witness in the prisoner's favour, he was allowed to come forward. If so, the procession stopped and the trial was repeated. Nobody came when Jesus walked the Via Dolorosa.
In Jerusalem the place of execution was called the Place of the Skull (Hebrew = Golgotha). Calvary is Latin. A criminal could not die in the city so it was outside the city walls.
The name could have come from the shape of the hill as a skull, but others suggest that the Romans never buried the body of the criminal. They simply let it lie on a "rubbish" heap of bodies until it rotted away. Death by crucifixion could last for days. The Jews, however, buried a body by nightfall. They would never have a place for dead bodies just outside the city walls.
Bleeding, in shock of the cruel beating, Jesus carried His cross to Calvary.
The placard for the cross was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. They were the three great nations of the ancient world at the time. The culmination of their talents could have been great. The Romans taught law and good government, the Greeks taught philosophy and art and the Hebrews had access to the one true God.
The inscription on the cross was to irritate the Jews. Pilate did it on purpose. The Jewish leaders asked him to remove it and he refused saying: What I have written, I have written. Stubborn about his words, he yielded to them condemning an innocent man to death.
The soldiers received the clothes of the victim. Crucifixion needed four soldiers. There were probably five items – shoes, turban, belt, tunic and outer robe. They threw a dice to divide the items and the outer tunic was left. It was seamless, woven in one piece and they could not cut it in a way that each one would have something of value. They probably carried dice with them to while away the hours below a cross waiting for death. They had to guard the body lest any of the friends would cut Him down. The soldiers could have been intoxicated. Usually they had alcohol with them to dull their senses in carrying out such cruelty.
Their indifference to the agony of the dying man is shocking.
The dividing of His clothes is foretold in Psalms 22:18.
There were four women at the cross. Jesus' mother Mary, her sister, Salome, Mary, the wife of Clopas and Mary of Magdala. It was always dangerous to be associated to anybody on the wrong side of Roman authority. Their love overcame their fear. They had to be with Him, in His presence until He died.
His mother's presence was natural and expected, although risky. There was Mary's sister, Salome, the mother of James and John (Mark 15:40; Matthew 27:56). She is the one who asked about her son's positions in the Kingdom and received a correction from Jesus. Even after being reprimanded by Jesus, she is here at the cross, which demonstrates His perfect love in correction.
Mary of Magdala is the woman mentioned in Mark 16:9 and Luke 8:2. Jesus cast out seven devils from her. He rescued her life. The third Mary, wife of Clopas, is unknown and only mentioned in John.
In a beautiful concern for the immediate future Jesus committed the care of His mother to John, his cousin and trusted disciple. As her eldest son He cared for her and He never failed in His duty as a son.
John's presence also speaks of love that overcomes fear. He took a great risk to join the woman and be present at a time when most other criminals would be completely alone. Jesus was no ordinary criminal.
Jesus expressed His thirst. It emphasizes the agony of the cross. Many people believed Jesus to be a phantom-like godly figure. Here John underlines His humanness. He felt the pain of the cross. Jesus became fully man to redeem man.
In Psalms 69:21 the thirst of Jesus and the vinegar drink were foretold: They also gave me gall for my food,and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
The other Gospels tell of Jesus dying with a great shout on His lips. They do not say the words (Matthew 27:50; Mark 15:37; Luke 23:46). John tells us what He said. He said these words not in weary defeat, but in a voice one does not expect from a dying man.
The words: it is finished is one word in Greek = tetelestai. It also means great shout. He died when the price was paid and God said enough. He leaned back His head and gave up His spirit as if He rested after the work is done.
The Romans left a body on a cross for days. After they have taken the body down, it would be left to the crows and dogs get rid of it. The Jews buried by nightfall (Deuteronomy 21:22-23).
In this case the next day was the Sabbath. The burial had to take place before sunset. Every so often the Roman soldiers finished a criminal off by smashing their limbs. It was done to the two criminals crucified with Jesus, but Jesus was already dead. In Numbers 9:12 it is said that not one bone of body of the Passover lamb shall be broken.
It is said by some commentators that Jesus died of a broken heart. When the heart ruptures the blood mingles with the fluid of the membrane around the heart. The spear was thrusted towards the heart. Blood and water flowed.
John was the eyewitness to all this. It is a symbol of water-baptism and the blood that saves.
The disciples were poor and a proper burial was expensive. Two men came forward.
Joseph of Arimathaea was a member of the Sanhedrin and a disciple of Jesus. He kept his discipleship secret but now came forward. Nicodemus was the nightly visitor of Jesus (John 3), a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin.
It is said that both of them were left out of the meeting with the High Priest when the nightly trial was conducted. The Sanhedrin never met at night. The High Priest could therefore say it was out of the ordinary and for some members only. He probably realized he would face opposition from Nicodemus and Joseph. The dark workings of the Jewish council had to take place under the cover of darkness.
Joseph and Nicodemus stepped out boldly. Joseph fearlessly approached the Romans for the body of Jesus. In His death he drew men unto Him just as He prophesied (John 12:32).
Two prominent leaders cast their hesitation and reputation aside and honoured Jesus with their leadership and wealth.
How often does death confront with the deep issues of life? People get caught up in everyday life with little regard to the profound questions of truth, humanity and life after death. Death itself compels the mind to focus on more than the superficial.


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Q: A curious clinical trial design - What is the type / name of this rare methodology? There is this split-mouth randomized clinical trial, in which one side of the mouth receives a particular treatment, and the other side receives another treatment (usually used as the control treatment); (we do this after randomization of the left/right sides of the mouth to treatments A and X [most likely X is a control treatment]).
This is a very good type of randomized clinical trial, because the two sides of the mouth are almost perfectly matched with each other in terms of almost every variable.
Now imagine that we combine three of these split-mouth clinical trials into one single study: We have three groups of subjects (randomly assigned to each group): In each person, one side of the mouth is assigned to the shared control treatment, and the other side is assigned to the experimental treatment. But we have 3 different experimental treatments in the three groups.
All of the three intervention groups have the same control treatment; but each of the 3 groups has a different experimental treatment.
Like this:
Group 1: Side 1: Experimental treatment A -------- Side 2: Control treatment X
Group 2: Side 1: Experimental treatment B -------- Side 2: Control treatment X
Group 3: Side 1: Experimental treatment C -------- Side 2: Control treatment X

What will be the name of this strange and rare type of randomized clinical trial?
And by the way, subjects are randomly assigned to the groups 1, 2, and 3.

A: The split-mouth design is an example of a within-subject study design. Your extension is a study design with an additional between-subject factor. You don't need to give it a name. From statistical perspective, a "split-mouth" design is exactly the same as a study where two different conditions are tested on the same subject.
The primary endpoint $Y$ of such design is the within-subject difference between experimental side and control side. This is sweet as it removes one of the two experimental factors.
Since your research hypothesis has multiple aspects, it is recommended to care about multiple testing. One possibility is to apply a hierarchical testing approach (see e.g. pdf in https://www2.cscc.unc.edu/impact7/system/files/Bretz_Slides.pdf, Bretz is the reference for hierarchical testing).
More specifically:

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*Use e.g. Wilcoxon's signed rank test on the pooled data to see if the primary endpoint $Y$ tends to be positive/negative at level $\alpha$.

*If 1. is significant, use e.g. a Kruskal-Wallis test on $Y$ to see if the three experimental treatments are systematically different. This is also done on the level $\alpha$

*If 2. is significant as well, use e.g. pairwise Wilcoxon rank-sum tests to see which experimental treatments are systematically different from each other, using a Bonferroni-Holm adjustment to stick to a family-wise error rate of $\alpha$.

If done in this sequence, your overall composite research question mentioned in the comment will stick to an overall error rate of $\alpha$. Important is that the steps are done conditional on the previous step to be significant. So if e.g. the first test fails, you could not check the second step without inflating the error probability of the first kind.
A problem that I often see in practice is how to handle partial dropouts? I.e. patients with only one side measured.
Edit: naming
If I would need to give the design a specific name, I would probably go for something like "randomized three group split-mouth study" and then explain what it means.

A: Randomized Blocks Design, with two experimental (or treatment) units in each block. People are the blocks. Sides are the treatment units.
A very similar design is used in experiments with sheep, since sheep are one of animals that have twins. Twins have similar or identical genetic makeup, so it is natural to take advantage of this property in doing experiments on sheep.
Mouths differ from sheep in having a left side and right side, but sheep just come in pairs. The left and right sides should be balanced over treatments, that is, half the treatments should be on each side. Exact balance makes the analysis easier.
It is unclear whether the treatments, A, B, and C, are meant to be compared, but it seems desirable or these experiments would just be analyzed separately with paired tests of treatment vs. control.
If the treatments are meant to be compared then it would be efficient (use fewer subjects and get the answer faster with less expense) to think of this as four treatments, A, B, C, and X (the control). Divide the subjects (mouths or blocks) into six groups according to every possible pair of the four treatments: treatments A and B, treatments A and C, treatments B and C, treatments A and X, treatments B and X, and treatments C and X.
All the comparisons can be made among the four treatments, A, B, C, and X (control) with an omnibus ANOVA and then with appropriate comparisons among A, B, C, and X. A book on Design of Experiments can be consulted for the appropriate analysis.
The analysis of the design as described might be given in the literature on experimental design or in agriculture.
There is another factor, Side (Left and Right) that presents an interesting twist and could be tested if desired. One expects the test for this to be insignificant, but some people are sided for chewing and dentists can usually (or often) identify this on examination. If each group of subjects, A, B, and C, is balanced, with an equal number being treated on left and right then an aggregate test of left versus right should be simple and informative.

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Sidney North Saanich Library open house this weekend
Celebrate the season and the good work of the Friends of the Sidney North Saanich Branch of Vancouver Island Regional Library.
Dec. 3, 2014 6:00 a.m.
SIDNEY — Celebrate the season and the good work of the Friends of the Sidney North Saanich Branch of Vancouver Island Regional Library at an Open House and wreath making event.
On Saturday, Dec. 6, the Friends of the Library will host an Open House from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Sidney North Saanich Library (10091 Resthaven Drive).
Meet the Friends while enjoying refreshments and the music of singer/guitarist Marcelina Stanton who will perform Spanish and Chilean favourites and seasonal songs.
A special holiday wreath making class with Friends of the Library's Louise Boutin will also be held Dec. 6 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Make a beautiful and unique wreath from up-cycled discarded books and festive supplies.
Tickets may be purchased at the library. All funds raised support the Sidney North Saanich Library.
The Friends of the Library are keen library supporters who volunteer their time, energy, and ideas to support the library and help make it a great place to be. The Friends hold an annual book sale, host special events, and assist with delivery of library materials to homebound customers.
Funds raised by the Friends enabled the library to purchase an information monitor, literacy kits for preschoolers, colourful and fun furnishings for the children's area, and more.
The Friends welcome new members and you can learn more about joining the Friends at the Open House, or call the library at 250-656-0944.
— Submitted by the Sidney North Saanich branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library
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Mar 16 Storm wreaks havoc on campus
News, On-Campus
By Jessica Lewis, News Editor
Campus was flooded, left without power and the landscape torn apart by 75-mile per hour winds as a storm traveled up the east coast on Long Island Friday, March 12. Several students are still dealing with the repercussions of the storm, as their windows leaked and belongings were water damaged. In some cases, their cars were struck by fallen trees.
As the storm carried into Saturday, the men's lacrosse team had a 14-minute delay in the first quarter of their game against Johns Hopkins University, due to power failure. "There have been about 257,000 service interruptions to customers [of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA)]," said LIPA spokesperson Mark Gross. "This is one of the worst storms we have seen since 1992."
In Alliance Residence Hall on Saturday afternoon, "the wind blew the sliding doors open and shattered the glass in one [of the doors] and blew out a ceiling tile inside…then the fire alarm went off twice," the Resident Safety Representative Matt Spirko said. "We saw wind gusts up to 75-miles per hour on some parts of Long Island," Gross said.
Also in Alliance Residence Hall, the Chronicle's graphic designer Mary Ashlyn Moore woke to the Fire Department knocking on her door. "They took out a chunk of my wall and ceiling to try and find the pipe it was leaking from then they patched it all up and mopped and cleaned," Moore said. Her room leaked throughout the day, and upon returning in the evening, "there was standing water from wall to wall." She responded by calling Public Safety, but no one came, Moore said. On Tuesday, when she went back to her room after classes at 2:30 p.m. she found a yellow note saying that they had been there.
As the heavy rain and winds steadily continued throughout the day, the Netherlands residence complex experienced a power outage that caused students to have to leave their rooms.
Due to the storm, Hofstra Concerts was forced to cancel their scheduled show that night featuring Wale, projected to start at 8 p.m. "When we first found out that morning [Saturday] that Wale's flight from Miami to JFK was cancelled, both his team and Hofstra Concerts immediately began looking into alternative flights," said Hofstra Concerts president Brian Shoicket. "We were trying to accommodate as much as possible to still have the concert."
"On Saturday night, there was a lot of rain and wind, you know we have all seen this before. Then the power goes out at 8:30 p.m.," said Freshman Jimmy Sia, "then the Resident Assistants started banging on our doors and herded us all into the [Netherlands] Core like cattle and told us to sleep there. I went to a hotel with seven other people."
Though the storm has subsided, students are still cleaning up the mess it made. "This past weekend was the fifth time and worst time my room has leaked…It's a shame that the University hasn't done anything about the leakage problem…" said sophomore and Constitution Hall resident Lizz Conway.
"This was not the first time that my room has leaked and also not the first time that nothing was done about it," said sophomore Nick Carrara, "the only thing that was done to try and help this problem was to put my room number on a list that was already pretty long and I haven't heard from any university offices as of yet."
"We relay that information [calls from students] to different parts of the Plant Department, depending on what it was reported," said John O'Malley, the Director of Public Safety. After multiple calls, the Plant Department could not be reached for comment in time for publication.
A tree falls on a car on the South Campus following a major storm that wreaked havoc on east coast over the weekend of Friday, March 12. The campus was flooded and certain sections were left without power, forcing students to seek temporary housing elsewhere. (Photo courtesy of Geoffrey Roth)
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The Gegensteine are crags near the town of Ballenstedt on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains in Germany. There are two: the Großer Gegenstein and Kleiner Gegenstein ("Great Gegenstein" and "Little Gegenstein"). They are striking, free-standing rock pinnacles and outliers of the Teufelsmauer. They lie within the Gegensteine–Schierberg nature reserve.

The Großer Gegenstein () can be ascended by means of ladders and steps carved out of the rock. A cross was erected on its summit in 1863 by order of the Prince of Anhalt; it was replaced in 1993. From the summit there are extensive views over the Harz Mountains and its northern foreland.

Near the Kleiner Gegenstein () there used to be a site used for driver training purposes by the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik during East German times.

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