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If someone was looking for a single day that captures the kind of season Wil Myers had this year, July 8 wouldn't be a bad place to start.
Before he had done anything in a game that factored into his statistics and from a fan base he had yet to actually play for, Myers found himself on the receiving end of a standing ovation.
It was the Futures Game in Kansas City, and Royals fans watched their top prospect step to the plate in person for the first time.
He grounded out to second, bringing in a run from third. On his way back to the dugout, they cheered for him again. When he singled to right field in his next at-bat, they cheered a bit louder.
When he lifted a fly ball to center in the sixth, Royals fans took on the immediate hush, the kind that a Buster Posey fly ball elicits in San Francisco or Miguel Cabrera can command in Detroit. When it landed in Oscar Taveras' glove for a sacrifice fly, they cheered for his second RBI.
And when he punched a single to left in his final at-bat, bringing in yet another run, he got perhaps his loudest cheers since the initial standing O.
That day, perhaps better than any other that Myers had this season, serves to highlight one point: People in Kansas City are very excited about Wil Myers.
They have every reason to be.
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The only man to finish with more home runs in the Minors than Wil Myers this year was Double-A Reading's Darin Ruf. The 26-year-old first baseman belted 38 for the Phillies while driving in 104 runs. Ruf also led the Eastern League in on-base percentage (.408), slugging percentage (.620) and finished second in batting average (.317). The huge year earned him a September callup with Philadelphia, where he hit .333 with three homers and 10 RBIs in 12 games. Voting results »
Within the context of Wil Myers' Minor League statistical record, 2011 immediately stands out as the glaring anomaly.
In 2009, he hit .369. In 2010, .315. This year, .314. But in 2011, he hit just .254 in 99 games for Double-A Northwest Arkansas. His on-base percentage from that season ranks 34 points lower than in any of his other three Minor League seasons, and his slugging percentage stands 113 points lower than his next-worst mark.
In April of that year, he tripped running out to his car in the rain. He banged his knee up and it later got infected, requiring minor surgery that caused him to miss a few weeks in May and June. It was a fluky injury, the kind that won't keep you off the field but does just enough to throw you off your game.
An anomalous injury for that kind of season.
"I really think that 2011 was just one of those years where a guy doesn't get off to a good start -- he gets injured. And any time you get hurt and try to get back into the flow of that league, it's just a difficult thing to do," said Scott Sharp, Kansas City's director of Minor League operations. "He really missed a solid five weeks in the middle of a season, and now the pitchers are in midseason form and you're trying to shake off the rust. It's really difficult to do.
"[This year], he really more than anything got back to 2010 form. And then he just made a conscious effort to hit for some power."
It took him, in fact, all of one series to regain that 2010 form and show off that power he would turn into his calling card in 2012.
In Northwest Arkansas' first three games of the year, at Corpus Christi, Myers went 4-for-12 with a walk and homered in back-to-back games, kick-starting a remarkable one-month stretch that earned him his first promotion to Triple-A.
The 21-year-old quickly cast off any doubts that might have been lingering after the down year he had just battled through. In 35 games with the Naturals, he hit .343, posted a .414 OBP and slugged .731 with 13 homers, 11 doubles and 30 RBIs.
"The only real difference I did this year was stand more upright in my stance," Myers said. "That came a couple of weeks into the season. I was kind of lower in my stance, hitting a lot of line drives, and standing upright helped me have more leverage.
"I wanted to hit more home runs, but I was expecting maybe, like, 20. Luckily, I got more."
Quite a bit more, in fact. Myers, MLB.com's No. 3 overall prospect, debuted for Triple-A Omaha on May 17. By the time he took the field to that standing ovation for Team USA in the Futures Game, he'd belted 14 homers -- giving him 27 for the year by early July -- nine doubles and four triples for the Storm Chasers, good for a .636 slugging percentage in his first 48 Pacific Coast League games. He was hitting .315 and had 42 RBIs, and even smacked a grand slam off Roy Oswalt while the former All-Star was rehabbing with Round Rock on June 7.
"[The way he transitioned] was really impressive. He wanted to prove he deserved to get out of [the Texas League], and he did. He got into the Omaha lineup and from Day One was hitting third," said Sharp.
After the All-Star break, Myers ran into the first thing resembling a speed bump he'd seen since 2011. He hit .169 in his first 15 games following the break.
"I struggled after about 40 games [in Triple-A], with the way they were pitching me a little bit," he said. "When I first got there, it was a lot of fastballs and they really adjusted after I played a little while. They were behind me, pitching backwards a lot -- offspeed stuff, sliders early in the count. I had to become patient at the plate and get my pitch."
Like the pitchers he faced, Myers adjusted, going 9-for-16 with four home runs over the final four days of July. Like that, his one tough stretch of 2012 was over. It lasted two weeks.
By the time the 2012 season ended, with Myers' Storm Chasers bowing out in the PCL Championship Series to Reno, the native of High Point, N.C., had ammassed an impressive body of work.
He finished second in all the Minor Leagues in home runs with 37. He drove in 109 RBIs, fourth-most in the Minors. And with a .387 OBP and .600 slugging percentage, he also owned the fourth-best OPS (.987) among anyone to play at Double-A or higher, while being the youngest in that group by more than two years.
His .314 average also essentially duplicated the .315 mark he posted two years ago. In a lot of ways, it was like 2011 never happened at all.
"I'm impressed with somebody that age making the conscious effort to do something and being able to execute the plan. I think that speaks volumes about him," said Sharp.
"[This season] was big. I struggled in 2011 but came back in the fall, had a good Fall League, carried that into the offseason with the workouts and came into Spring Training really confident. Had a good Spring Training and really just rebounded," added Myers.
He won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award as the Topps Minor League Player of the Year, and obviously, was Kansas City's organizational player of the year. He was named the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year and the USA Today Minor League Player of the Year as well.
And he's our MiLBY Award winner for Best Offensive Player in the Minors.
It's not difficult to see why the fans in Kansas City are so excited.
Jonathan Raymond is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Financial FAQs
It's becoming evident that rather than political gridlock, such as the congressional supercommittee's obsession with spending cuts, we need to worry about economic growth and jobs. And there are some very good ideas on how to do that, such as in President Bill Clinton's newest book, "Back to Work". And economists such as Christina Romer, former Chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, in a recent New York Times Op-ed are pleading with the Fed's Ben Bernanke to actually target a growth rate that will both create jobs and keep inflation within a manageable range.
What? You mean the Federal Reserve's QE-1, 2, and 3 buying of securities wasn't doing just that? Well, no. It has accomplished the goal of keeping both short and long term interest rates low, but that hasn't done anything for setting expectations of higher growth. In fact, the Fed just downgraded its own predictions of future growth. If anything, such low interest rates reflect deflationary expectations, which is the real problem. Companies won't hire if they can't raise prices, while consumers' incomes fall in such an environment, stifling demand.
Dr. Romer and other major economists are beginning to insist the Fed should actually set what is called 'nominal' (i.e., before inflation accounted for) Gross Domestic Product growth target at the long term growth rate of around 5 percent. That way, expectations are raised for economic growth, without abandoning an inflation target of say, 2 percent, the current Fed inflation target.
How else can we boost demand for goods and services that is the actual driver of economic growth? We have discussed in a prior column how necessary it is for consumers—who power 70 percent of growth—to spend more, which in turn creates greater demand, which in turn creates more jobs in a virtuous circle. But they won't if their confidence remains low, which surveys show causes them to spend less.
Former President Clinton has much more to say in "Back to Work" that directly addresses how to put Americans back to work, and he should know. "..during my administration we had four surplus budgets and began to pay down the national debt," he says; we eliminated sixteen thousand pages of federal regulations; we cut taxes on the middle class, working families of modest means, and income from capital gains; we reduced the size of the federal workforce to its lowest level since 1960, and the economy produced 22.7 million new jobs."
How did he do it? By emphasizing cooperation rather than competition between government and the private sector. "I believe the only way we can keep the American Dream alive for all Americans and continue to be the world's leading force for freedom and prosperity, peace and security," said Clinton, "is to have both a strong, effective private sector and a strong, effective government that work together to promote an economy of good jobs, rising incomes, increasing exports, and greater energy independence."
Why is strong government so important? It is what engenders both business and consumer confidence, which are still at record lows. And without that confidence, consumers won't spend to keep up demand, as we said, and businesses won't hire in anticipation of higher growth.
Confidence from both the Conference Board and University Michigan surveys has remained at recession levels since 2008, really. And we know it a major reason for such low confidence is both political gridlock, and the S&P downgrade of U.S. Treasury bonds to AA+. This is what it means to lose confidence in our institutions, readers. Also, the subprime debacle that brought on the housing bubble caused a major loss of confidence in our Too Big To Fail financial institutions, which were allowed to gamble with their investors' monies, and then be bailed out by taxpayer money.
But the confidence measures have stood in contrast to strength in consumer spending. If recent gains for confidence can be extended in the weeks ahead, the economic outlook as well as expectations for holiday shopping will improve. Some thawing in the jobs market may be helping with sentiment, says Econoday.
So confidence has to be restored in all of our institutions if we want to bring back economic growth. "What's the smart, effective way to do that?" asks Clinton. "With a strong economy and a strong government working together to advance shared opportunity, shared responsibility, and shared prosperity? Or with a weak government and powerful interest groups who scorn shared prosperity in favor of winner take all until it's all gone?"
Studies have shown that only by sharing prosperity can we really create strong economic growth. And right now we rank near the bottom in income inequality, according to the much cited CIA World Factbook. So there is a lot of work to be done to restore confidence in Americans' future.
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Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
With Formula One and NASCAR having ended their seasons in recent weeks, the live racing scene is starting to look a little sparse as we head into the cold, cruel winter. Fortunately, there's lots of good stuff on the reruns, and some of it was never broadcasted live in the U.S. in the first place.
Also, the Australian V8 Supercars Sydney Telstra 500 is this weekend. Anybody got a good live stream?
Here's what's on tap this weekend. Let us know what you'll be watching, and as always, tell us if we missed anything.
Photo credit Getty Images
All times Eastern.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Pro2 and ProLite
Miller Motorsports Park
Salt Lake City, Utah
4 a.m. on SPEED (Race from June 23)
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Pro2 and ProLite
Wild West Motorsports Park
Sparks, Nevada
12 p.m. on SPEED (Race from Aug. 25)
Porsche Supercup Race Highlights
Hungary, Belgium, and Italy
1:30 p.m. on SPEED
FIA World Touring Car Championship Italy
Autodromo Nationale de Monza
Monza, Italy
5 p.m. om SPEED (Race from March 11)
British Touring Car Championship Round 1
Brands Hatch Circuit
Kent, England
6 p.m. on SPEED (Race from April 1)
Australian V8 Supercars Round 14
Winton Motor Raceway
Winton, Australia
8 p.m. on SPEED (Race from Nov. 19)
Australian GT Championship Round 6
Gold Coast Street Circuit
Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
Streaming online at SPEED 2
FIA World Touring Car Championship Shanghai
Shanghai International Circuit
Shanghai, China
Streaming online at SPEED 2
Sunday, Dec. 2
German Touring Car Masters (DTM) Round 1
Hockenheim, Germany
12 p.m. on SPEED (Race from April 29)
FIA GT1 World Championship Round 1
Circuit Paul Armagnac
Nogaro, France
6 p.m. on SPEED (Race from April 9)


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- Militant group Ansaru says 7 foreign workers are dead
- Ansaru is believed to be an offshoot of Boko Haram, U.S. officials say
- The victims are from Italy, Greece, Lebanon and Britain
- The foreigners worked for a construction firm in northern Nigeria
A Nigerian militant group on Saturday announced the deaths of seven workers from a construction company who had been taken hostage last month.
The group, Ansar al-Muslimeen (widely known as Ansaru), released video stills of some of the bodies and blamed the deaths on a joint Nigerian-British military operation intended to free the hostages. Neither of those governments confirmed the purported operation.
"We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Nigeria and are urgently investigating," according to the Foreign Office. "We urge the media not to speculate at this extremely sensitive time."
The militants on February 18 claimed responsibility for the kidnappings of the seven construction workers taken from their office in northeastern Nigeria.
At the time, in an e-mail sent to reporters, Ansaru said it taken the hostages two days earlier because of "transgression and atrocities" against Islam in Afghanistan, Mali and other locations.
Those kidnapped included workers from Italy, Greece, Britain and Lebanon.
Gunmen took the workers from the offices of Setraco, a construction company in Jama'are, in Bauchi State, police said. The company is based in Abuja and is involved in many major road construction projects in northern Nigeria.
The gunmen first attacked a prison, burning two police trucks, public service broadcaster Voice of Nigeria reported, citing state police spokesman Hassan Muhammed.
They then killed a guard at the Setraco workers camp before kidnapping the workers, Muhammed told the broadcaster.
In December, the group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a French citizen near the border with Niger and for an attack on a prison in Abuja in November.
U.S. officials say Ansaru is an offshoot of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which Nigerian authorities say is behind a recent rash of killings and kidnappings in the country.
Boko Haram -- whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" -- has killed more than 2,800 people in an escalating campaign to impose strict Islamic law on largely Muslim northern Nigeria, according to Human Rights Watch.
Incidents have included the killings of three North Korean doctors in northern Yobe and the killings of nine people working for a government polio vaccination program in the northern city of Kano this month.


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Article asserts real estate trouble in Incline Village
Nevada Appeal News Service
Incline Village/Crystal Bay is the No. 1 most troubled luxury neighborhood in America, according to an article at forbes.com that is set to be featured in the July 13 biweekly edition of Forbes Magazine. It's an honor some local Realtors said is undeserved.
"The housing crash is finally hitting the most expensive neighborhoods," the article proclaims.
Some of the article's assertions are based on the idea that in a healthy housing market, the number of homes for sale is less than six times the monthly transaction rate. That ratio has been near 10 months' supply, according to the article.
The rankings are based on expensive zip codes found by Forbes where data on the number of current listings and sales for the most recently reported 90-day period from Trulia.com show the ratio is still at 30 or higher.
Incline Village got the nod over communities such as New Vernon, N.J., and Alpine, N.J., listed at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, in a photo slideshow of the top 10 communities flooded with East Coast towns, although the article itself doesn't mention the list.
"This village at the northeast end of Lake Tahoe has been home to Michael Milken and other wealthy businessmen. Trulia reports there are 26 homes for sale here but no sales in the past three months," according to the article.
The 26 homes, according to Trulia, are lakefront properties in Incline.
The slideshow lists the 10 communities' zip codes and average home listing price – for Incline, it's $4.6 million.
Kerry Donovan, broker with Chase International Distinctive Properties of Incline Village, said the article is misleading, because there have been 13 home sales this year above $2 million.
So far this year, one lakefront home has sold – at 865 Lakeshore Boulevard – Donovan said.
"I don't think we're in trouble. It's more like things are just stalled," Donovan said. "I think we are just a microcosm of the nation. Sure there are foreclosures, and sure there are short sales … prices have depressed."
Chris Plastiras, owner/broker of Lakeshore Realty in Incline, said he doesn't read too much into Forbes' view, considering the article makes comparisons of well-off communities nationwide.
"It doesn't really address the overall picture of Incline Village – you can't really compare Manhattan to Santa Monica in just one article and still do the proper amount of analysis," Plastiras said. "Sure we've only had one house sold this year, and things aren't the greatest, but I think it's a little too soon to start calling us the worst – I think Incline Village is a far cry from the most troubled luxury community in America."
Tom Bruno, a Realtor with Chase in Incline, shared similar thoughts.
"My thoughts are that with reports like Forbes it presents a very inaccurate portrayal of the Incline market," he said. "The numbers thrown out have no meaning. What irritates me is the garbage that is being published makes the job of the Realtor much harder and it severely negatively impacts those who would like to sell their homes."
The number of Lake Tahoe home sales during the first half of the year was down about 2 percent from year-earlier figures, Chase announced last week in a recent press release.
The lake-wide median sales price of $540,125 was down 24 percent from a year ago, and the Incline Village median of $747,500 was down 36 percent, according to the same report from Chase.
"I don't see the market rebounding any time soon; you can't control that, but there are great opportunities out there, and there are buyers out there," Donovan said. "They just may be a little more apt to wait a few years or buy differently."


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Eight foreign actors on TV now who have mastered the American accent
Amy Carlson Gustafson
While more and more foreign actors are being cast as American characters on TV these days, there are some who are so good at what they do you might have no idea they could never run for president. Here are just a handful of our favorites who have mastered the American accent.
Andrew Lincoln (English)
"The Walking Dead" (Season finale, 8 p.m. Sunday, March 31; AMC)
Lincoln plays former Georgia deputy sheriff Rick Grimes who's attempting to lead a pack of zombie apocalypse survivors (that is, when he's not seeing the ghost of his dead wife) as they navigate a grim new world full of walkers and an evil man named the Governor.
David Morrissey (English)
"The Walking Dead"
Remember that evil Governor who wants to make life hell for Rick and his gang? That's the deliciously wicked one-eyed dictator played perfectly by Morrissey.
Sam Palladio (English)
"Nashville" (9 p.m. Wednesdays; ABC)
Palladio is moody singer/songwriter Gunnar Scott, who doesn't smile much. Thank goodness he's even handsome when he grimaces, plus he's got some sweet pipes. While we're at it, we should mention Clare Bowen, who plays his musical partner/love interest Scarlett O'Connor, is from Australia. We're not high on her Southern accent, but her singing is heavenly. And together, the pair sound stunning, proving they're "Nashville's" star voices.
James Purefoy (English)
"The Following" (8 p.m. Mondays; Fox)
Purefoy's Dr. Joe Carroll is a charismatic serial killer obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe and cult followers who will do anything -- even give their lives -- to deliver on their leader's orders.
Matthew Rhys (Welsh)
"The Americans" (9 p.m. Wednesdays, except March 27; FX)
A KGB operative living undercover in the suburbs with his Russian wife (also an operative) and kids, Rhys' Phillip Jennings keeps us wondering how much he will sacrifice for the motherland. And that's right -- he's a Welsh guy playing a Russian who's imitating an American.
Alan Cumming (Scottish)
"The Good Wife" (8 p.m. Sundays; CBS)
Loyal, conniving, brilliant. Cumming's Eli Gold is a political campaign manager you definitely want on your side. And while we're talking about "The Good Wife," we should mention Archie Panjabi's seductive private investigator Kalinda Sharma. We know Panjabi's English, but her character is so mysterious we're not quite sure where she calls home.
Damian Lewis (English)
"Homeland" (Season three premieres Sept. 29; Showtime)
Lewis' Emmy-winning role as prisoner-of-war-turned-politician Nicholas Brody is one of the most intense on TV. We can hardly wait to see what happens to the former Marine in
Season 3.
Georgia King (Scottish)
"New Normal" (Season finale, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2; NBC)
In her role as the adorable Goldie Clemmons, King plays a sweet, somewhat naïve waitress from Ohio, who moves to California and becomes a surrogate.


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Fujitsu introduced an Android tablet that accepts hand gestures. Voice input has also gone mainstream. And now Tobii is attempting to bring eye-tracking into the fold, demonstrating its technology on laptops and arcade games.
Tobii makes a device with infrared lights and sensors. The lights illuminate the user's eyes, creating a reflection on the surface and on the back of the retina, and then the sensors take rapid images of the eyes to build a 3-D model of them. Company representatives said that this process can get the eye tracking within one millimeter of precision--that is, it can pretty much track the user's eyes exactly.
It's not easy to pick up all of the nuances from the demonstration in the video embedded below, but the idea is that with a combination of a laptop's touchpad and your eyes, you can point and select items in Windows 8 (when it's available), and even expand or zoom in on items--say an image on the Web.
[ Find out what to expect at CES. Read CES 2012 Preview: 16 Hot Gadgets. ]
The technology also works with other versions of Windows; one of our BYTE reviewers took Tobii's PCEye tracking technology for a spin recently, and found it relatively easy to set up and use. In fact, our reviewer combined PCEye with speech recognition technology and used his laptop hands free.
There are a variety of ways to interact with applications, including the use of a sustained blink to create a selection action, for example.
The target market is primarily users who are disabled, although company representatives talked about the use case for surgeons, who may want to click and zoom while their hands are otherwise occupied. Tobii GM Barbara Barclay said that eye tracking has been used for research on things like autism and attention deficit disorder.
The Tobii system runs several thousand dollars, but the company is hoping for a bit more mass appeal, and eventually sees its technology being built into standard laptops, cars, and medical devices.
Ready to catch the Metro? Windows 8 is a major shift, with features borrowed from desktop gadgets and mobile devices, and it brings a slew of new paradigms for developers. Our report, IT Pro Impact: Windows Developer Road Map, shows you what you need to know. (Free registration required.)


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John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor
- W. Robert Godfrey Author
- 2009 14 May
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor by W. Robert Godfrey (Crossway).
Introduction: The Importance of Calvin
July 10, 2009 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (1509–1564). Today for many people the name of Calvin is known only in a vague sense and has become a label for attitudes that are negative, judgmental, and joyless. Historians, by contrast, know that John Calvin was one of the most remarkable men who lived in the last five hundred years and that his influence on the development of the modern western world has been immense. Calvin and Calvinism have been linked to the rise of such diverse phenomena as democracy, capitalism, and modern science. Theologians and biblical scholars know him as a writer in theology and biblical studies whose work must still be carefully considered today. Church historians remember him as the principal theologian of Reformed Christianity—an expression of the Christian faith that over four and a half centuries has attracted millions of adherents in countries throughout the world. He was indeed a leader and writer whose work affected the life and worship of countless congregations and has inspired thousands of pastors, theologians, and biblical scholars.
The life and work of John Calvin have always been controversial as well as influential. Some have loved him, and some have hated him. All would agree that he was a man with a brilliant mind and a powerful will who had a profound impact on the development of western civilization. But was that impact positive or negative?
His critics have been many. In his own day they sometimes railed at him—naming their dogs after him—and sometimes laughed at him, some suggesting that his wife died of boredom. Some modern critics have been savage. Will Durant wrote, ". . . we shall always find it hard to love the man who darkened the human soul with the most absurd and blasphemous conception of God in all the long and honored history of nonsense."1
On the positive side, Calvin's friend and colleague Theodore Beza (1519–1605) wrote a brief biography of Calvin to answer the critics of his day. Beza's admiring work breathes a spirit of affection and warmth, observing that "in the common intercourse of life, there was no man who was more pleasant."2 He concluded his biography, "Having been a spectator of his conduct for sixteen years . . . I can now declare, that in him all men may see a most beautiful example of the Christian character, an example which it is as easy to slander as it is difficult to imitate."3
The real Calvin was not in the first place a man who lived to influence future generations. Rather he was a spiritual pilgrim finding anew the apostolic Christianity expressed in the Bible and serving as a faithful minister of that Word in the church of his day. The influence that Calvin would have regarded as most important was as a purifier of the Christian religion and a reformer of the church for his day. The essential Calvin was a pilgrim and pastor. From that reality all his influence flowed.
Calvin saw the importance of his life as a pastor in his own day and did not focus on his influence in years to come. When his friend William Farel urged him to publish his study of Genesis, he replied, "As to my observations on Genesis, if the Lord shall grant me longer life and leisure, perhaps I will set myself about that work, although I do not expect to have many hearers. This is my especial end and aim, to serve my generation; and for the rest, if, in my present calling, an occasional opportunity offers itself, I shall endeavor to improve it for those who come after us. I have a mind to set about writing several things, but as my wife is now in ill health, not without danger, my attention is otherwise engaged."4
In his own day he was above all else a pastor who had a passion for the gospel of Christ. It was that gospel and that passion that ultimately moved millions. He communicated faith, hope, and confidence in God. A Roman Catholic Spanish soldier in the Netherlands observed some years after Calvin's death that he would rather face a whole army than one Calvinist convinced he was doing the will of God. Reformed Christianity was not a mild and innocuous religion. It was moving and powerful.
This book is an introduction to the life and thought of John Calvin. It aims at communicating Calvin's passion and faith through extensive quotations from his works so that something of the force and eloquence of his language can be experienced by the reader.5 He moved millions not through the power of his personality but through the power of his biblical ideas and words. This book focuses on the essential Calvin, a man who lived out his Christian faith as a pilgrim and a pastor.
Chapter One: Calvin in Strassburg
In July 10, 1539 John Calvin reached his thirtieth birthday. In many ways his future did not seem very promising. He had shown his intelligence and scholarship in two books he had written, but his life had been very troubled. He had fled from his native France after his conversion to the Protestant faith and had ended up in the Swiss city of Geneva. After less than two years of pastoral service there, he was exiled from Geneva along with other ministers because of their insistence on moral discipline in the church. A discouraged and embittered Calvin traveled to Strassburg, an independent, German-speaking city state in the Holy Roman Empire near the border with France. There he became the pastor of a small congregation of a few hundred French refugees. Calvin's years in Strassburg were a relief for him as he enjoyed a less conspicuous life than he'd had in Geneva, pastoring, studying, and writing. At the age of thirty, in his second exile, his body was beginning to show its tendency for weakness and illness. (In fact he had less than twenty-five years to live.) No one could have predicted that from these modest and uncertain circumstances Calvin would rise to be one of the most influential men of his age and of the modern era.
Yet 1539 was a turning point for Calvin. In that year he completed the first of his commentaries on books of the Bible, a commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans. He also published the first major revision of his Institutes of the Christian Religion, moving it from being an introduction to basic Christianity toward being a full systematic theology. Both of these works pointed to his developing interests and insights. But a third work that he wrote that year is the most important as an introduction to the life and thought of Calvin. This work is his famous treatise known as "Reply to Sadoleto."
Calvin's treatise was a response to a sharp attack on the Reformation written by Jacopo Sadoleto. Sadoleto was a bishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a distinguished scholar. After hearing of the exile of Calvin and other pastors, he wrote to the Genevans in 1538 urging them to return to the old church. While the Genevan authorities did not regard Sadoleto's letter as a real threat to the Protestant establishment in Geneva, they did want a strong and effective response written to it. After careful consideration they finally realized that their former pastor Calvin, whom they had exiled, was the best equipped to write the answer they wanted.
Calvin must have received their request with some amusement and satisfaction. Their recognition that they needed him surely made Calvin feel vindicated. He saw the importance of the task and quickly set to work writing his "Reply to Sadoleto." He completed the treatise in six days. Theodore Beza wrote that the work was full of "truth and eloquence."1 More recent scholars have evaluated the treatise as one of the most powerful defenses of the Reformation ever written.
Calvin's "Reply to Sadoleto" is important for more than its brilliant defense of Reformed Christianity. It is also a window into Calvin's soul. Calvin was usually very reticent to write much about himself, but in this work there is a remarkable personal quality that reveals a great deal about him.
By nature Calvin was a very private person. In few of his works does he write about himself. Even in his letters he does not become introspective or discuss the events of his personal life in much detail. But in "Reply to Sadoleto" he reveals indirectly a good deal of his own experience of the Reformation and the key motivations of his life. These experiences and convictions of his life are also key elements of the religion he taught as a pastor.
The character of Sadoleto's appeal to the Genevans provided several incentives for Calvin to show something of his own experience in his reply. First, Sadoleto made a very personal attack on Calvin and the other ministers, saying that they had been motivated in their reforming work only by a desire for fame and money. Second, Sadoleto argued that only the Roman Catholic Church possessed truth, certainty, and salvation—issues of deep personal significance for Calvin. Third, Sadoleto had created several prayers in his treatise that he had put in the mouths of an imagined person to illustrate some of the points he was making. These prayers written in the first person evoked from Calvin a response written in the same language. This literary device was well known to Calvin who was acquainted with it from the writings of Quintilian, the ancient teacher of rhetoric, and had been commented on by Calvin in his early commentary on Seneca:
. . . prosopopoeia, by which it is pretended that the emperor is talking with himself, and so to speak entering into meditation. . . . And these words are more appealing through a pretended person, than if conceived as from the person of the author. So Quintilian [Institutes of Oratory, 9.2.29] teaches. For they are effective to arouse the reader, to stir feelings, to vary the discourse. Some call this figure not prosopopoeia but ethopoea, because the former invents persons who nowhere exist, whereas the latter fits these words to definite persons.2
Calvin was not being intentionally autobiographical with these prayers, but they inevitably reflected something of his own personal experience of spiritual things.
Calvin's "Reply" began with a vigorous rejection of the idea that he was motivated by a desire for fame or money. He could more easily have found those in the Church of Rome. What motivated him, he insisted, above all was a concern for the glory of God. Where Sadoleto had declared that the Christian should first be concerned for his own salvation, Calvin maintained that the Christian must first be focused on God and his glory: "It is not very sound theology to confine a man's thoughts so much to himself, and not to set before him, as the prime motive of his existence, zeal to show forth the glory of God. For we are born first of all for God, and not for ourselves."3 Calvin always intended his life and thought to be God-centered.
For Calvin, once the Christian saw the glory of God as central, then a proper discussion of salvation could follow. Only when we see God as truly glorious can we see the true nature of salvation and its importance. He wrote to Sadoleto, ". . . you have a theology that is too lazy, as is almost always the case with those who have had no experience in serious struggles of conscience."4 Laziness and self-indulgence are not the path to true theology. Calvin believed that such attitudes had dominated the old church in which he had been raised and produced a church life filled with formalism, indifference, and superstition.
Calvin's criticism of Sadoleto at this point certainly implied that he himself had had serious struggles of conscience. What kinds of struggles? We can see echoes of those experiences in Calvin's discussions of justification. He had struggled with the great question of how to be right with God. Calvin stressed that a correct understanding of justification was fundamental. He wrote to Sadoleto that justification was "the first and keenest subject of controversy between us."5
Calvin presents his thought on justification in his "Reply" in terms of several steps. The first was self-examination. The sinner must come to recognize his own plight: "First, we tell a man to begin by examining himself. He must not do this in a superficial or perfunctory way, but must call his conscience before the judgment seat of God. When he is sufficiently convinced of his iniquity, then he must reflect on the strictness of the judgment pronounced on all sinners. When thus confronted and amazed at his misery, then he prostrates and humbles himself before God. He casts away all self-confidence and groans as if given up for final destruction."6 The conscience of the sinner must come to see profoundly his lostness and helplessness. Calvin made this same point in his Institutes: ". . . no man can descend into himself and seriously consider his own character, without perceiving that God is angry with him and hostile to him."7
This theme of very serious and searching self-examination was not an incidental matter for Calvin. Rather it was absolutely central to Reformation theology and spirituality. In many ways the Reformation was born out of the sense of the hopelessness and spiritual powerlessness of sinners. For Calvin the complete lostness of man was not only a teaching of the Bible and of all sound theology since the days of the church father Augustine (354–430)—it was also part of his own experience. Scattered throughout the "Reply" are indications that Calvin had personally struggled with his own sin and the terrible judgment that awaited him apart from Christ.
Calvin preserved something of this struggle before coming to faith in his final edition of the Institutes in the very first section of the first chapter: ". . . every one, therefore, must be so impressed with a consciousness of his own unhappiness as to arrive at some knowledge of God. Thus a sense of our own ignorance, vanity, infirmity, depravity, and corruption, leads us to perceive and acknowledge that in the Lord alone are to be found true wisdom, solid strength, perfect goodness, and unspotted righteousness."8
For example, in the "Reply" Calvin elaborates on this theme of struggle in one of the prayers he puts in the mouth of his average Christian: "I expected a future resurrection, but hated to think of it, since it would be a most dreadful event. And this feeling not only had dominion over me in private, but had its origin in the doctrine that was then everywhere delivered to the people by their Christian teachers."9 Further the prayer speaks of efforts to satisfy God with works of righteousness: "When, however, I had performed all these things, though I had some intervals of quiet, I was still far-off from true peace of conscience; for, whenever I descended into myself, or raised my mind to you, O God, extreme terror seized me—terror which no expiations or satisfactions could cure. And the more closely I examined myself, the sharper the stings with which my conscience was pricked, so that the only solace which remained to me was to delude myself by forgetfulness."10
Although these prayers are not strictly autobiographical, they are so intense and personal that they must reflect something of Calvin's experiences in his own conversion only six or seven years earlier. He had come to see for himself his desperate condition and had come to see it as essential for all sound theology and religious experience.
To Sadoleto Calvin insisted that after this self-knowledge the next necessity was a knowledge of God's way of salvation. The sinner could hope only in God and his work since the work of man is utterly futile. Again Calvin puts words in the mouth of his representative Christian: "I was exceedingly alarmed at the misery into which I had fallen, and much more alarmed at the eternal death that threatened me. As in duty bound, I made it my first business to find your way, condemning my past life, but with groans and tears."11 That way of God is the way of Christ.
A knowledge of the work of Christ as God's way of salvation is the second step of justification. Calvin, writing as a pastor and teacher, said, "Then we show that the only haven of safety is in the mercy of God, as shown in Christ. In him every part of our salvation is complete."12
For Calvin, Christ displayed all the promises of God concerning the Savior who would fully bear the sins of his people on the cross and impute the saving benefits of his work to them. These promises brought salvation to the sinner when they were received through faith alone. Faith was the link between Christ and the sinner. "Paul, whenever he attributed to faith the power of justifying, restricted it to a free promise of the divine favor, and keeps it far removed from all works."13 Faith rests alone in the promise of salvation in Jesus.
Calvin showed Sadoleto that the result of the faith that rests in the justifying work of Christ is great peace and assurance for the Christian. "He has nothing of Christ, then, who does not hold this basic principle, that it is God alone who enlightens our minds to perceive his truth, who seals it on our hearts by his Spirit and who by his sure witness confirms it to our conscience. This is, if I may so express it, that full and firm assurance commended by Paul."14 Calvin stresses the "confident hope of salvation both commanded by your Word, and founded on it."15 Struggles of conscience drove Calvin to faith in Christ, and that faith brought a settled assurance and confidence to his soul.
Calvin challenged not only Sadoleto's understanding of the way of salvation, but also of the final authority on matters of religion. They both knew that the issue of authority was foundational to the religious and doctrinal disputes of the Reformation era. For Sadoleto, sound doctrine came from the absolute teaching authority of the inerrant Roman Church. As part of that authority he claimed the Holy Spirit, the church, the universal councils, and his ancestors as the basis of the doctrine that he followed.
How did Calvin approach the issue of authority in answering Sadoleto? He began by recognizing the need for an absolute authority that stands above anything doubtful or human: "Christian faith must not be founded on human testimony, not propped up by doubtful opinion, not resting on human authority, but graven on our hearts by the finger of the living God, so as not to be obliterated by any coloring of error."16 Authority must be sought from God alone and the means that he uses.
For Calvin, Christians could only find this certain authority in the Scriptures. He fully embraced the sola Scriptura standard of the Reformation and eloquently presented it. The Word of God alone contains certain truth and clear direction for faith: "We hold that the Word of God alone lies beyond the sphere of our judgment." All other claims to authority must be evaluated by the Scriptures. He insisted that ". . . Fathers and Councils are of authority only in so far as they agree with the rule of the Word."17 The Scriptures stand as the judge of the church and all human thought.
Calvin did not treat the authority of Scripture simply as a sparring point with Sadoleto. The Bible was at the heart of the life and experience of the Christian community. Calvin had personally wrestled with the question of authority. He was long attached to the authority of the church and only in his conversion accepted the authority of the Scriptures in all religious matters.
For Calvin, a faithful pastor could only nourish and develop the people of God with the Word. Calvin asked those who would call themselves pastors and teachers to examine themselves on this point: "I will only exhort these men to turn for once to themselves, and consider with what faithfulness they feed the Christian people, who cannot have any other food than the Word of their God."18 Calvin lived his life as a pastor who sought to nourish and guide both himself and his flock with the Scriptures.
Calvin did not dismiss Sadoleto's concern for the authority of the church in a cavalier or individualistic fashion. He made clear that he loved the unity and harmony of the church. But that church must honor the Word of God above itself. "May ours be the humility which, beginning with the lowest, and paying respect to each in his degree, yields the highest honor and respect to the Church, in subordination, however, to Christ, the Church's head. May ours be the obedience which, while it disposes us to listen to our elders and superiors, tests all obedience by the Word of God. Last, may ours be the Church whose supreme care it is humbly and religiously to venerate the Word of God, and submit to its authority."19 In this same vein, he presents a prayer: "My conscience told me how strong the zeal was with which I burned for the unity of your Church, provided your truth were made the bond of harmony."20 The Word must be the power of life and peace within the church. True unity and peace are in the truth of the Scriptures.
Calvin acknowledged that asserting the authority of the Word was not a simple solution to all problems. The Word itself was sometimes misunderstood. But whatever the problem or difficulty, the Word was a better and clearer and safer guide than some supposed inerrancy in the church. He has the Christian in his "Reply" pray: ". . . the only thing I asked was that all controversies should be decided by your Word."21
For Calvin the Holy Spirit taught the truth of justification through the Scriptures in the church. Calvin's great concerns for justification, the Word of God, and the church were united and energized by his belief in the Holy Spirit. For this reason he reacted sharply to Sadoleto's improper appeal to the Spirit as a guide for the church apart from the Word. "The Spirit was promised not to reveal a new doctrine, but to impress the truth of the gospel on our minds. . . . And you, Sadoleto, by stumbling on the very threshold [of theology], have paid the penalty of that offense which you offered to the Holy Spirit when you separated him from the Word. . . .The Spirit goes before the Church, to enlighten her in understanding the Word, while the Word itself is like the Lydian stone [a touchstone], by which she tests all doctrines."22 Only the Spirit could open the eyes of Christians, including leaders of the church, to the truth of God's Word.
Calvin's "Reply" in 1539 was shaped by his passion for the glory of God and by the peace with God that he had experienced in Christ after his recognition of the seriousness of his sin. He was convinced that only through the Bible and the work of the Holy Spirit had he come to know this peace in Christ. He was certain that the old church had gravely distorted the truth and needed thorough reform.
These certainties that guided the life and work of John Calvin developed out of his own experience. They met needs in his life that were theological but were also deeply personal. For him personally his struggles of conscience were relieved by the certainty of the gospel of grace. Theologically the certain church of the Middle Ages was replaced by the certain Scripture of the Reformation. These certainties to which Calvin had come gave him a clear focus amidst the anxieties and changes of his life. One scholar called Calvin "a singularly anxious man."23 While such a statement may be somewhat exaggerated, Calvin did have anxieties that emerged both from his personal experiences and from the rapid changes that society was undergoing in the sixteenth century. In response to these anxieties Calvin found great certainties in religion reformed by the Bible. Those certainties brought a stability to his life that is reflected in the clarity of his thought and his great productivity as pastor and theologian. Calvin lived out the faith about which he had written to Sadoleto, a faith that was "that full and firm assurance commended by Paul, which leaves no room for doubt, and does not hesitate and waver among human arguments about which party to join. Rather it maintains its consistency though the whole world oppose it."24
Introduction Footnotes:
1. Will Durant, The Reformation (The Story of Civilization, Part VI), (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957), 490.
2. Theodore Beza, The Life of John Calvin, in Selected Works of John Calvin, Vol. 1, ed. H. Beveridge and J. Bonnet (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1983), xcvii. 3Beza, in ibid., cc.
4. John Calvin, "Letters," July 28, 1542, in Selected Works of John Calvin, Vol. 4, ed. H. Beveridge and J. Bonnet (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1983), 339.
5. In order to make Calvin's eloquence clearer to the contemporary reader, his commentaries and treatises have often been modernized.
Chapter One Footnotes:
1. Theodore Beza, The Life of John Calvin, in Selected Works of John Calvin, Vol. 1, ed. H. Beveridge and J. Bonnet (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1983), xxxv.
2. John Calvin, Commentary on Seneca's De Clementia, trans. F.L. Battles and A.M. Hugo (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969), 29.
3. John Calvin, "Reply to Sadoleto," Selected Works of John Calvin, Vol. 1, ed. H. Beveridge and J. Bonnet (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1983), 33, translation altered.
4. Ibid., 52, translation altered.
5. Ibid., 41.
6. Ibid., translation altered.
7. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. John Allen (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of
Christian Education, 1816), II, 16, 1.
8. Ibid., I, 1, 1, altered.
9. Calvin, "Reply to Sadoleto," 61, translation altered.
10. Ibid., 62, translation altered.
11. Ibid., 64, translation altered.
12. Ibid., 42, translation altered.
13. Ibid., 42ff., translation altered.
14. Ibid., 53, translation altered.
15. Ibid., 57, translation altered.
16. Ibid., 53, translation altered.
17. Ibid., 66, translation altered.
18. Ibid., 65, translation altered.
19. Ibid., 50, translation altered.
20. Ibid., 60, translation altered.
21. Ibid., translation altered.
22. Ibid., 36ff., translation altered.
23.William J. Bouwsma, "The Quest for the Historical Calvin," Archiv fuer Reformationsgeschichte, 77 (1986), 53.
24. Calvin, "Reply to Sadoleto, 53, translation altered.
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Copyright © 2009 by W. Robert Godfrey
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After a career spanning more than 40 fights, UFC veteran Jason MacDonald is hanging up his gloves.
"The Athlete" on Thursday told Sportsnet in Canada that he was retiring from the sport. MacDonald (25-16 MMA, 6-8 UFC) leaves MMA as one of the most successful fighters to come out of Canada.
MacDonald last fought this past May, suffering a first-round knockout loss to Tom Lawlor at UFC on FUEL TV 3. Prior to that, he was submitted by Alan Belcher in the first round at UFC Fight Night 25 in New Orleans.
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But a four-fight win streak in 2006 got him a call from the UFC, and he submitted Ed Herman with a first-round triangle to win "Submission of the Night." He followed that up with another bonus for a guillotine choke stoppage of Chris Leben.
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"I've had a great MMA career," MacDonald told MMA Fighting. "I have traveled, met great people and have done things I would have never dreamed of through MMA. It's been an honor to be with the UFC over the years, but it's now time to move on. I'm getting older, my four kids are growing up fast. I'm going to focus on my family and my CrossFit gym."
MacDonald said he would return to the cage after his loss to Lawlor this past May, and the UFC's Canadian office even took to Twitter after that loss to assure fans "The Athlete" was not going to retire. But that didn't turn out to be the case.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Notre Dame isn't looking for excuses.
In the aftermath of the Irish's 42-14 drubbing at the hands of Alabama in Monday night's BCS National Championship, Notre Dame leaves Miami humbled and bruised.
But not broken.
Central to the message Brian Kelly conveyed to his troops after the game was this: This isn't the end. It's just the beginning.
"We've got another step that we have to take in the development of our program, and it'll be left up to those who have been led by these seniors," Kelly said. "That'll be the challenge moving forward."
Among others, the Irish will lose Mackey Award-winning tight end Tyler Eifert, Heisman finalist linebacker Manti Te'o, and electrifying safety Zeke Motta – who finished his Notre Dame career with a personal-best 16 tackles against Alabama.
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And these returners, guys like redshirt quarterback Everett Golson, receivers T.J. Jones and DaVaris Daniels, and defensive end Stephon Tuitt, will bring something invaluable to the table when Notre Dame next takes the field again.
"The best thing about this experience is it creates fire," said Te'o. "It creates fuel for both the guys staying here, and the guys leaving. And everybody here, everybody here tonight will be better because of it."
As Kelly emphasized, despite Alabama's wide margin of victory, there are positives to be gleaned from the game.
Down early and forced to take to the air, Golson made strides as a passer, finishing 21 of 36 for 270 yards. His one interception proved costly – as Alabama methodically marched 97 yards the other way and scored off Golson's mistake. But he also made up for it with a touchdown to Theo Riddick at the end.
The 115 receiving yards from Daniels, and 90 from Jones, went vastly unnoticed amidst the carnage of the evening, and even though the defense didn't play as well as it has for most of the season, nose guard Louis Nix managed to at least slow down Alabama back Eddie Lacy on several series' midway through.
Kelly said he was proud of the way Golson had led the team to the very end, and prouder still of the fact that his team never quit on him.
The silver lining in the defeat to Alabama is that the Irish got a first-hand look at what it takes to be a multiple-championship winning football team.
"It sets a bar for your entire program," Kelly said. "We all now know what we have to do to move from where we are – which is a 12-0 football team, pretty darned good football team, but not good enough.
"So it's clear what we need to do in the offseason, it's clear what we need to do in player development, it's clear what we need to do to continue to coach better and recruit."
So what's the next step for a team that finished undefeated but imploded under duress against college football's marquee program?
"We've got to get physically stronger, continue to close the gap there," Kelly said.
But more importantly, defeat brought a glimpse of what victory could look like on college football's biggest stage.
"It's disappointing we lost the football game. But it's going to make my job very easy when it comes to talking to players about how you win a National Championship," Kelly said.
For Golson and all the returning players, the experience itself was invaluable.
"You can't duplicate it if you're sitting home or playing in a bowl game," Kelly said. "When you're playing for a National Championship, that stuff doesn't leave you."


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Seventeen turn-overs against a zone defense, without any pressure? That's enough to drive a coach crazy, and enough to lose a game.
Edon used it to their advantage Friday to give Fayette a 62-48 league loss. After an 11-11 tie at the end of the first quarter, the Bombers outscored Fayette in each of the final three quarters to take the win.
And with North Central downing Pettisville that night, it was a very costly loss, said Eagle coach Todd Mitchell.
"Our league is still pretty wide open," he said, but Fayette can't slip up again like that if they want at least a share of the title.
He was disappointed with the level of play shown by his squad at Edon.
"We made some horrible passes and some bad decisions," he said. "Turn-overs killed us again."
When the Eagles applied pressure, the Bombers were able to split the press and run for fast breaks.
Darrell Randall was tops on offense for Fayette with 16 points. He also collected six rebounds. Tyler Keefer added 10 points and eight rebounds. Keefer shot four for five from the line.
Edon's Wells scored 24 points.
HOLGATE—Fayette knew what it was in for with a trip to Holgate—a slow, deliberate pace with a low-scoring outcome.
The Eagles came close to matching the Tigers' game, but finished a little short, 29-24.
"We fought back and tied it up, then we turned it over three times in a row," Coach Mitchell said. "One turn-over against Holgate is like two turn-overs against any other team."
Each possession takes on extra significance in such a low-scoring contest.
Trevor Cox shot five for six to lead with 10 points. Keefer added eight. Randall and Jason Rodriguez each collected four rebounds.
JVs: It wasn't a great game, said Fayette's JV boys coach Matt Maginn, but it was a league win.
The Eagles survived too many turn-overs and weak rebounding to stay on top of Edon, 30-27, for the BBC victory.
The two teams were tied after three quarters and free throws helped carry Fayette to the win. They connected on only six of 14 tries, but those six points were the key to their success.
Edon went to the line only five times for the entire game.
Jerry Minzey led scoring with 13 points and also collected three rebounds and four steals. Kruce Miller grabbed seven rebounds to go along with his nine points.
Chase Hookstadt scored three first-quarter buckets to get the Eagles off to a good start Saturday at Holgate, but Fayette ended up on the short end, 34-32.
Fayette gave away too many second-chance shots on missed rebounds and made some late turn-overs to aid the Tigers.
"If we would have had all five players boxing out in the second quarter, we would have had a lead at half-time," Coach Maginn said.
Minzey scored 12 points. Miller and Hookstadt each collected six rebounds.
It looked as though Fayette's girls were going to pull off a victory against BBC foe Edon at home Thursday—then came the fourth quarter.
To be more specific, then came the final four minutes.
The Eagles finally gave up their lead for good with four seconds remaining in the third quarter, but they still stayed close for half of the fourth.
When Edon hit a three-pointer with 4:08 remaining, it signaled the beginning of the end for Fayette. After four consecutive turn-overs and a charge, the Bombers were on top by 11 and Fayette was running short of time.
Heather Cuff hit a bucket to make it 40-31 at 2:02, but Fayette managed only a pair of free throws after that while Edon cleaned up at the line to win 50-33.
After playing close for the first half, Fayette took a five-point lead on a bucket by Katelyn Downing in the middle of the third quarter. A free throw by Leah Brinegar made it a five-point game later in the quarter, but the lead vanished with missed shots and a turn-over.
Downing led scoring for the Eagles with 12 points and Cuff added eight.
HICKSVILLE—At Hicksville Jan. 19, the Aces led by eight at half-time and went on to claim a 38-29 non-league win.
Fayette's scoring was spread among seven players, with Tori Lichtenwald's seven points leading the way.
JVs: Weak from the field, weak from the line. The result was a close loss Thursday to Edon for Fayette's JV girls.
The Eagles managed to trim a couple of points off the Bombers' lead in the final quarter, but Edon finished on top 25-21.
It seemed like one of those nights where nothing went right, said coach Matt Schaffner.
"We made eight of 41 from the field, and shot only two of 10 from the line," he said. "We ended the game with 14 turnovers."
Ashtyn Baker scored 11 of the Eagles' 21 points.
At Hicksville Jan. 19, each team came through with one big quarter, but it was Fayette who turned in the most points at the end to win, 28-19.
In the second quarter, eight steals helped lead the Eagles to a 14-4 advantage, but the Aces turned things around with a 12-3 third quarter. Hicksville was held to only two points in the final period.
Fayette finished with eight steals and five of seven shooting from the line. Baker led the way on offense with 13 points.
MORENCI BOYS: Morenci's varsity boys helped make history last week at Whitmore Lake, but they were on the wrong side of the historical moment.
Whitmore Lake, the team that already holds the state record for the most three-point shots in a season, now has a new state record: the most three-pointers in a single game.
The Trojans employ the strategy made famous by Grinnell College—rotate four or five players off and onto the court every 35 or 40 seconds, apply a full-court press and fire up those long-distance shots.
It doesn't always work—Whitmore Lake has five losses on its record this year—but it sure looked good Thursday. The Trojans connected on 29 of 78 three-point tries and won the TCC contest 117-80.
That isn't a TCC scoring record, by the way, because Morenci set that in 1989 against Madison with 124 points—on only 10 three-pointers.
Early on, there was no hint of what was to come since the Trojans connected on only two of the first 15 shots beyond the arc. But eventually they started falling.
Morenci trailed by just 12 at half-time, said coach Tim Bovee, and that was with eight missed lay-ups by the Bulldogs and a school record 37 points by the Trojans.
"We left a lot on the table," Bovee said.
The potential to keep pace was there, he said. The Bulldogs handled the press well and came through with some beautiful fast breaks.
But too many easy shots didn't go in and too many rebounds went back into the hands of Whitmore Lake.
It seems as though it might be an easier task to stop the Grinnell offense, Bovee said, but he sees it only twice a year and it takes some concentration to fight it.
"You have to do some things that you aren't normally taught," he said. "We didn't stay disciplined enough to remain with the box because the rebounds are going to be long."
It was extra tough with the Bulldogs' eight players going against the frequent substitutions.
"The kids' effort was good, but you have to keep pace," Bovee said. "It's just a frenzy. The kids get tired and frustrated and the pace of the game continues."
Summerfield made it work recently by topping Whitmore Lake 109-103, but that included another record-breaking performance—this time by Summerfield's Eric Cogan who scored 54 points.
Morenci's Clayton Wolf couldn't match that amazing feat, but he notched his season high game against the Trojans with 31 points.â¨
JVs: Morenci's JV boys got off to a slow start Thursday at Whitmore Lake, and with the pace of the game the Trojans play, that's a bad way to start.
Whitmore Lake padded their lead in each of the following quarters before finishing on top 72-56.
"We played extremely hard and made a really good effort," coach John Craig said. "The level of play by my kids was outstanding."
The Bulldogs had some difficulty with the Trojans' press and three-point barrage.
"You can simulate it in practice, but that's not quite the same," he said. "By the time you adjust to it, you're buried."
Morenci did a much better job handling the press after the first quarter and the Trojans took only a 16-14 advantage in the second period and a 17-14 in the third.
Lucas Hollstein led the Bulldogs' scoring with 19 points and Brad Funchion added 14.
Morenci's varsity girls had some trouble keeping a comfortable lead Friday at Summerfield, but they had it when it mattered most. The Bulldogs finished the game on top 58-52 to raise their TCC mark to 3-4.
"We started off with a 9-0 run, then it became 11-9," said coach Tim Yatzek. "We went back on top by 10 or 12, then let them have another run."
Morenci was on top by 10 at half-time and by 11 after three quarters. Summerfield came through with a 20-point fourth period, with a little help from the Bulldogs.
"We were fouling near the end of the game when we were ahead," Yatzek said.
Overall, he said his squad played really well, but some lapses gave Summerfield some opportunities to get back in the game.
Summerfield went to the line 16 times in the fourth quarter, but the free throws went both ways. Brooke Bovee was given 13 tries in the final quarter.
The freshman emerged from a two-game scoring slump to finish with a season-high 25 points. Tia Tompkins added 12.
Morenci converted 20 of 35 free throws and Summerfield hit 17 of 32. Tompkins scored on five of her six tries in the second quarter.
Chanler McCaskey collected 10 rebounds while Tompkins and Mercedez McCaskey each finished with eight. Bovee gave six assists.
ADDISON—The final score showed one thing at Addison, but Coach Yatzek saw another.
"I was actually impressed with how the girls played at Addison," he said. "We were right with them up until the final four minutes."
The Bulldogs were down by six after a quarter, 22-16, and often stayed within 10 to 12 points. They fell out of range in the final few minutes and lost 74-53. Addison improved to 10-2 for the season.
"We played really hard and got gassed at the end," Yatzek said about his small team.
Chanler McCaskey fouled out early in the fourth quarter after she played a sharp defensive game.
"We can't afford to be in foul trouble," he said, with so few people on the bench.
Tompkins gave a season-high offensive showing with 20 points, including six for nine from the line. The Bulldogs scored 17 points from free throws, but Addison finished with 19.
Tompkins and Meghan Smith each collected 10 rebounds and Chanler McCaskey added eight. Bovee grabbed four steals.
JVs: Summerfield's JV girls pushed hard in the fourth quarter Friday, but Morenci prevailed. The fourth-quarter come-back attempt failed and the Bulldogs went home with a 41-38 victory.
Morenci outscored their opponents in each of the first three quarters, but the lead stood at only 30-24 going into the final period.
Chelsea Phillips scored 18 points and Matea Garcia added 10.
A sluggish start at Addison Jan. 18 put Morenci in a hole too deep to dig out. The Panthers soon took a 20-6 advantage, and even though Morenci won the last three quarters, it wasn't enough to catch up. Addison won the contest 35-29.
Garcia was the top scorer with 13.
MORENCI WRESTLING: One Morenci wrestler succeeded Saturday at the Quincy invitational. For the rest of the squad it was one long day.
Senior Dustin Roller (19-3) scored a pair of pins and one decision on his way to a second-place finish in the 130-pound weight class.
Roller lost to a ranked wrestler from Dowagiac in the finals when he was pinned at 4:46.
"It was a pretty good match," coach Scott Clark said. "It was 4-6 going into the third period."
The pin came when Roller was desperately trying to put some points on the scoreboard.
Roller opened the day with a 19-second pin against a Lapeer East wrestler and followed that with a 2:14 pin against Union City. He scored a 5-1 decision against an Addison foe.
Jordan Bach (189) was the only other Bulldog to win a match Saturday. He scored a 13-7 decision against a wrestler from Coloma.
"There were some good matches," Clark said, "but we just kept coming out on the short end."
MORENCI POWER-LIFTING: Morenci's powerlifting team competed Saturday in the MHSPLA Regional Powerlifting Meet in Lake Orion.
In the women's competition, junior Jasmine Dillard placed first in the 220 weight class with a squat lift of 125, bench lift of 85, and dead lift of 165 for a 425 pound total.
Three lifters came in second place in the women's competition. Junior Cortney Lockwood (145) had a 125 squat, a 95 bench and a 190 dead lift for a total of 485 pounds. Freshman Gwen Iffland (165) had a squat lift of 130, a bench lift of 80 and a dead lift of 165 for a 455 total. Eighth grader Makiha Lockwood (198) had a 125 squat lift, an 85 bench lift and a 165 dead lift for a total of 430 pounds.
In the JV men's competition freshman Kyle Wilson placed third in the 275 weight class. He had a squat lift of 220, a bench lift of 200, and a dead lift of 245 for a total of 780 pounds.
First through third winners place automatically qualify for the state meet.
Junior Josh Namyslowski competed in the 165 weight class in the varsity men's competition. He had a 225 squat lift, a 175 bench lift, and a 295 dead lift for a total of 735 pounds.
Saturday was the first time any of these lifters competed in a full powerlifting meet.


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A serious security flaw has been discovered in Cyberoam Deep packet Inspection (DPI) devices, which Cyberoam uses to intercept SSL packets. The device functions in a simple manner. It cloaks its presence by forcing users to install a fake CA in their browsers, and then using this CA to issue fake certificates for websites. The certificate contains a public key, and is quite easy to spoof. furthermore, the user's consent to install the certificates makes the handshake possible. Cyberoam is extremely popular in corporate organizations, educational institutions and government agencies for varied reason, ranging from blocking access to websites to spying on users.
Cyberoam subverts the original CA and plants its own faux CA instead. But what are the implications of this? A TOR user in Jordan has found something interesting. Cyberoam uses the same fake CA across all devices, but the problem with their implementation, is that there is no intermediate key which the CA signs. Thus, all Cyberoam devices have the same private key and this opens a wide array of possibilities for tinkerers.
But the worst part is yet to come. The key from one device can be extracted, and can be used to intercept traffic from any other Cyberoam client. This is embarrasing for Cyberoam, and it has not responded publicly on this matter yet.
The Tor media page reports this, saying,
It is therefore possible to intercept traffic from any victim of a Cyberoam device with any other Cyberoam device – or, indeed, to extract the key from the device and import it into other DPI devices, and use those for interception. Perhaps ones from more competent vendors.


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Lindsay Lohan, mom in reported dispute at NY home
Police were called to Lindsay Lohan's childhood home in suburban New York on Wednesday morning after a report of a fight between the troubled actress and her mother.
It was the third run-in involving the actress and New York police officers in the past several weeks.
Nassau County Police Insp. Kenneth Lack said officers were called around 8 a.m. Wednesday to the Merrick, Long Island, home where the 26-year-old starlet grew up. Her mother Dina lives in the home with some of her other children.
An investigation revealed "no criminality," according to Lack. Police did not release details on the subject of the argument.
Celebrity website TMZ first reported the dispute.
Lohan publicist Steve Honig declined to comment.
She was involved in a New York City police investigation about two weeks ago. She alleged a man had assaulted her in a New York hotel, but charges against the man were later dropped.
In mid-September, she was accused of clipping a pedestrian with her car outside a nightclub and driving away. She was given a ticket and was scheduled to appear in court Oct. 23.
Honig said previously he expects those allegations to be proven false.
The actress was also involved in a car accident in California this summer that sent her and an assistant to a hospital, but didn't result in serious injuries for anyone. The accident remains under investigation.
In May, she was cleared of allegations that she struck a Hollywood nightclub manager with her car.
Lohan remains on informal probation for taking a necklace from a jewelry store without permission last year. That means she doesn't have to check in with a judge or probation officer but could face a jail term if arrested again.
Lohan recently filmed "The Canyons," an indie film written by "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho" author Bret Easton Ellis.
Dina Lohan made tabloid headlines of her own last month when she appeared on the "Dr. Phil" television show and appeared incoherent at times.