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Country rock
|Country rock
|Stylistic origins
|Folk rock, country music, country folk, rockabilly
|Cultural origins
|Late 1960s Southern and Western United States
|Typical instruments
|Guitar (acoustic, electric and pedal steel), piano, drums, bass
|Derivative forms
|Roots rock, Southern rock, Heartland rock, cowpunk, Alternative country
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|Other topics
|Country folk - Country pop - Progressive country - Outlaw country - Texas country
Country rock is a subgenre of country music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds and reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists like Emmylou Harris and the Eagles.
Rock and roll has often been seen as a combination of rhythm and blues with country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s rockabilly,[1] and there has been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres, however, the term country-rock is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record rock records using country themes, vocal styles and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitar.[2] According to John Einarson "From a variety of perspectives and motivations, these musicians either played rock & roll attitude, or added a country feel to rock, or folk, or bluegrass, there was no formula".[3]
Country influences can be heard on rock records through the 1960s, including The Beatles' 1964 recordings "I'll Cry Instead", "Baby's in Black" and "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", on the Rolling Stones "High and Dry" (1966), as well as Buffalo Springfield's "Go and Say Goodbye" (1966) and "Kind Woman" (1968).[2] In 1966, as many rock artists moved increasingly towards expansive and experimental psychedelia, Bob Dylan spearheaded the back-to-basics roots revival when he went to Nashville to record the album Blonde on Blonde, using notable local musicians like Charlie McCoy.[4] This, and the subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, John Wesley Harding (1967) and Nashville Skyline (1969), have been seen as creating the genre of country folk, a route pursued by a number of, largely acoustic, folk musicians.[4]
Dylan's lead was also followed by The Byrds, who were joined by Gram Parsons in 1968. Parsons had mixed country with rock, blues and folk to create what he called "Cosmic American Music".[5] Earlier in the year Parsons had released Safe at Home (although the principal recording for the album had taken place in mid-1967) with the International Submarine Band, which made extensive use of pedal steel and is seen by some as the first true country-rock album.[2] The result of Parsons' brief tenure in the Byrds was Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968), generally considered one of the finest and most influential recordings in the genre.[2] The Byrds continued for a brief period in the same vein, but Parsons left soon after the album was released to be joined by another ex-Byrds member Chris Hillman in forming The Flying Burrito Brothers. Over the next two years they recorded the albums The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969) and Burrito Deluxe (1970), which helped establish the respectability and parameters of the genre, before Parsons departed to pursue a solo career.[2]
Country rock was a particularly popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s, and was adopted by bands including Hearts and Flowers, Poco (formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina, formerly of the Buffalo Springfield) and New Riders of the Purple Sage.[2] Some folk-rockers followed the Byrds into the genre, among them the Beau Brummels[2] and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.[6] A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers, whose Roots album (1968) is usually considered some of their finest work; former teen idol Ricky Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band; John Fogerty, who left Creedence Clearwater Revival behind for the country sounds of The Blue Ridge Rangers;[7] Mike Nesmith, who had experimented with country sounds while with The Monkees, formed the First National Band;[8] and Neil Young who moved in and out of the genre throughout his career.[2] One of the few acts to successfully move from the country side towards rock were the bluegrass band The Dillards.[2]
The greatest commercial success for country rock came in the 1970s, with the Doobie Brothers mixing in elements of R&B, Emmylou Harris (a former backing singer for Parsons) becoming the "Queen of country-rock" and Linda Ronstadt creating a highly successful pop-oriented brand of the genre.[9] Pure Prairie League, formed in Ohio in 1969 by Craig Fuller, had both critical and commercial success with 5 straight Top 40 LP releases,[10] including Bustin' Out (1972), acclaimed by Allmusic critic Richard Foss as "an album that is unequaled in country-rock"[11] and Two Lane Highway, described by Rolling Stone Magazine as "a worthy companion to the likes of The Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo and other gems of the genre".[12] Former members of Ronstadt's backing band went on to form the Eagles (made up of members of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco and Stone Canyon Band), who emerged as one of the most successful rock acts of all time, producing albums that included Desperado (1973) and Hotel California (1976).[9]
Outside of these handful of stars, country rock's greatest significance was on artists in other genres, including The Band, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones and George Harrison's solo work.[2] It also played a part in the development of Southern rock, which, although largely derived from blues-rock, had a distinct southern lilt, and it paved the way for parts of the alternative country movement.[2] The genre declined in popularity in the late 1970s, but some established artists, including Neil Young, have continued to record country-tinged rock into the twenty-first century. Country rock has survived as a cult force in Texas, where acts including The Flatlanders, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and California-based Richard Brooker, have collaborated and recorded.[2][13] Other performers have produced occasional recordings in the genre, including Elvis Costello's Almost Blue (1981)[2] and the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss collaboration Raising Sand, which was one of the most commercially successful albums of 2007.[14]
See also[edit]
- ^ B. Horner and T. Swiss, Key terms in popular music and culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999), p. 104.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, All music guide to rock: the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul (Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), p. 1327.
- ^ J. Einarson, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), ISBN 0815410654, p. 1.
- ^ a b K. Wolff, O. Duane, Country Music: The Rough Guide (Rough Guides, 2000), p. 392.
- ^ Leggett, Steve. "Gram Parsons Archive, Vol. 1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 review". Allmusic. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
- ^ P. Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock (Rough Guides, 3rd edn., 2003), p. 730.
- ^ J. Dougan, "Blue Ridge Rangers: Biography", Allmusic, retrieved 9 April 2011.
- ^ Andrew Sandoval, The Monkees: The Day by Day Story of the '60s Pop Sensation (Thunder Bay Press, 2005), p. 118.
- ^ a b N. E. Tawa, Supremely American: popular song in the 20th century: styles and singers and what they said about America (Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 227-8.
- ^ W. Ruhlmann, "Pure Prairie League: Biography", Allmusic, retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ^ R. Foss, "Bustin' Out Pure Prairie League: Review", Allmusic, archived from the original on 9 April 2011.
- ^ Rolling Stone Magazine #194 August 28, 1975.
- ^ P. Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock (Rough Guides, 3rd edn., 2003), pp. 145-6.
- ^ "The Top 50 Albums of 2007". Rolling Stone. December 17, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2007.


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Alright, we got the Rivera Joke out of the way, so now if all you dickbags could get out of my way so I could actually win a game, that would be fucking fantastic.
Seriously, I feel like a second term president. Shit is going wrong all around me, and I don't have a second to just step back and make repairs to try to move forward towards victory. I'm going to lose to Oldy. I already fucking know it. I'm so depressed I can barely get an erection when thinking about choking the life out of Ron Rivera for pussying out on 4th and 1 AGAIN!!! Who am I if I can't even pop a rage boner on command?
My life is shit.
The Crazy 88's owe lunch to Release the Kraken after Arron Rodgers put on a 42 point clinic. 105.30 - 100.74
Keuchly is Beastly saw no interference with passing over Goodell Can't Lose 106.14 - 97.16
Thor's Hammer crushed Wile E's Coyotes like an ACME anvil of the gods 82.36 80.52
Queen City Katz shit in the bed of the Team named after that running backs coach 117.50 - 94.88
Gross Miscalculation Gave the old Double Stick Corndog to Sippin' Ginn N Juice 124.88 - 72.98
Finally, Monster Energy could give some lessons to Monsterz Inc. after dominating Joe Buck Yourself 125.12 - 74.30
Ok Limey, who sucked the most this week?
Pathetic Effort Week 2
Well this week sucked. For pretty much everybody. Even me.
But only one can suck the most. This week it was Sippin' Ginn and Juice with a truly pathetic 72.98…. bhahahahaha – to put this shit score in perspective my bench scored 88.76 – hmmmm…. Maybe I should have played them…. FUCK YOU DREW BREES AND YOU ENTIRE CITY OF WASHINGBALLS. Anyway… when Gano is your third highest scorer then I think it might be time to trade for most of Limey's Bench.
Oh Colin…. The irony…. Alex Smith scores 26.62, Colin Crapernick 5.78. HO HO HO, man that is funny.
Hey everyone, remember when one of your team scored negative points? Me neither…. What's that Stroking the Kitty? Kendall Hunter scored -0.70? MINUS??? Phahahaha.
Just to rub salt into the wounds you were also beaten by the biggest margin this week and are one of only 4 teams to be 0-2. All in all… you are undoubtedly deserving of this week's pathetic effort. Congrats.
Thanks Vag-sweat.
Well, now that we got all that out, time to try to rub one out in the employee bathroom.

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Removing the E from "True"
It is a long-known, yet little-acknowledged fact that the English language changes from generation to generation. Now, it is time: there is no longer use for the letter "e" in the word "true". One person alone may not be able to change it, but together, we can.
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The lawyer for ex-Penn State president Graham Spanier is raising new questions over what she called contradictions raised by the grand jury testimony of Cynthia Baldwin, the universitys embattled former in-house lawyer.
Baldwin approached the state Attorney Generals Office about an off the record discussion in exchange for a deal in which the information she provided was not to be used against her, according to documentation released Sunday by Spanier lawyer Elizabeth Ainslie.
Baldwin signed the document, called a proffer letter, on Oct. 19, 2012, and a week later she went before a grand jury. In her testimony, Baldwin said Spanier was not a person of integrity because of lies she thought he told her about his knowledge of abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky.
Spaniers lawyer also released glowing remarks Baldwin made to federal investigators about Spanier that were included in a report about him for a national security consulting job. That interview with Baldwin happened only months before Baldwin went to the grand jury.
Ms. Baldwins testimony was, we believe, created in large part by her own fear of prosecution, Ainslie said in a statement. We believe this chronology showing Cynthia Baldwins remarkable flip-flop speaks for itself.
The letter indicates Baldwin floated the idea of a proffer to state prosecutors and Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina said his office was interested in pursuing this matter.
Although your client may be prosecuted for any criminal involvement, no statements made by you or your client, or other information provided by you or your client during the off-the-record proffer or discussion will be based against your client in any criminal case, Fina wrote to Baldwin and her lawyer, Charles De Monaco.
Ainslie and the lawyers for Spaniers former colleagues, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz, have put Baldwin at the center of their defense strategy.
Ainslie and her co-counsel have asked a Dauphin County judge to dismiss some counts against Spanier, Curley and Schultz based on the issues surrounding Baldwins involvement. The judge said Tuesday he would only consider written documentation, such as court transcripts, and he refused to hear new testimony from Baldwin at a court hearing.
The lawyers say Baldwin misled their clients into thinking she was there to represent them at their grand jury appearances in early 2011.
For instance, newly released court transcripts show Baldwin told the grand jury judge in private that she was solely representing Penn State. But, minutes later, when a prosecutor asked Spanier if he had a lawyer with him, he named Baldwin, who didnt object or clarify her involvement, the transcript shows.
The lawyers say Baldwin violated attorney-client privilege by testifying to the grand jury and that her presence in the grand jury room, if she wasnt representing the men, was in violation of grand jury secrecy.
Baldwins lawyer has said his client, who is a former state Supreme Court justice and Penn State trustee, did nothing wrong. Penn State waived attorney-client privilege for almost all Sandusky-related issues, according to a transcript of a private meeting days after the proffer letter and days before Baldwin took the stand in front of the grand jury.
Baldwin testified for more than two hours, detailing how she kept Spanier informed of legal issues about the Sandusky scandal before the charges were announced and later how Spanier went into crisis mode when the scandal rocked the campus.
In response to Baldwins testimony, Ainslie said Baldwins words are shamefully inaccurate and one-sided, because the defense lawyer could not cross-examine the witness at the grand jury.
Baldwin testified that Spanier lied to her about his knowledge of the Sandusky allegations, saying that email messages in 1998 and 2001 contradict his assertion that he knew nothing about either incident at the time.
In her statement, Ainslie suggested Baldwin testified the way she did because the conclusions were suggested to her by Fina, the prosecutor.
Baldwin also testified that Spanier lied in a news report about his knowledge of the incidents.
Thats a completely different picture of Spanier from the one Baldwin gave to federal investigators during an interview sometime between February and May 2012.
Baldwin had high praise for Spanier, called him a man of integrity and said that his performance as the university president was wonderful.
Baldwin also told the investigators that she thought Spanier was fired Nov. 9, 2011, because he offered unconditional support to Curley and Schultz, whod been indicted days before on charges of perjury and failure to report abuse.
According to the report, Baldwin was asked whether Gov. Tom Corbett put any pressure on Penn States board to fire Spanier. Baldwin said the governor was unhappy that Spanier fought his drastic budget cuts to Penn State and that there had never been a governor as involved in the board as Corbett was when the Sandusky scandal broke.
In response to Ainslies arguments, De Monaco released a statement to the Centre Daily Times on Baldwins behalf.
Cynthia Baldwin, as evidenced by her distinguished career and her impeccable reputation, is a person of the highest integrity, De Monaco said. The suggestion by anyone that Ms. Baldwin did not fulfill her ethical and professional duties to the Pennsylvania State University and its agents and administrators, or testified untruthfully, is untrue. Justice Baldwin testified before the grand jury pursuant to a subpoena and without the grant of immunity and after a hearing before the supervising judge.
Much like the public at large, Justice Baldwin learned for the first time in the summer of 2012 about the conduct of the defendants as a result of documents and e-mails which were discussed for the first time with the release of the Freeh Report in July 2012. For those reasons, Justice Baldwin was asked about these issues when she testified before the grand jury in October 2012.
Nevertheless, Cynthia Baldwin knows the importance of due process and how legal issues need to play out in courts of law and not in the media, De Monaco said. As a result, it is not her intent to publicly address facts, opinions or legal issues that are properly before the court. However, the public should be aware that Justice Baldwin's testimony is not the focus of the legal issues at trial. Justice Baldwin is not a party to these criminal proceedings, and she has not been charged with any crime. Contrary to the positions of the defendants, any testimony by Justice Baldwin will have no impact upon the very serious charges of endangering the welfare of children, failure to report, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy that have been brought against the defendants.
Spanier, Curley and Schultz face counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, endangerment and failure to report abuse. Their lawyers have vowed to fight the case to clear their clients names.


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A couple of weeks back, we reported on an issue with the PlayStation 3 version of Battlefield 3 that many Australian players are claiming has made the multiplayer game nigh unplayable for them for some time now -- citing their connectivity to overseas US and Euro BF3 servers as actually being better than to those supposedly hosted in local Australian data centres.
Much of the frustration being vented on the battlelog forums stemmed from the fact that EA or DICE had not yet even recognised that there was a problem, let alone said they were going to do anything about it. So although it's obviously not resolved just yet, we are happy to let you guys know that EA have at least now acknowledged the problem and assure us that DICE are hard at work on fixing things. Here's the official statement:
"EA are aware of the Battlefield 3 PS3 server issue and are working hard to resolve it. We will provide an update as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused"On a less official note, AusGamers' general impression from the various discussions we've had on the topic lead us to believe that they're hoping to have things sorted within a week or so.
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Advent leading to Christmas
It is a season to be joyful – but for some it does not always quite work out like that – cold and rainy days bring misery for many -but we still can be thankful for many small things – so – just let us be happy with little and stay close to our friends and family.
Here are some painted thoughts in color about the down side of life and some wintry happy pics.
the following are done at a stress loaded time
from top: Now-Soon- From where-Reform——————–Dementia
second row: door open soon………Tonight she walked into the sunset……….Two angel – not visible
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But all in all it will be Christmas soon and with that a new beginning – longer day light hours are just around the corner.
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Bon Appetit
- Address:
150 Marina Plaza
Dunedin, FL 34698Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
Contemporary AmericanPrice: $30 and under
Bon Appetit
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://www.bonappetitrestaurant.com/
- Phone: 7277332151
- Hours of Operation:
Breakfast - Daily: 7:00am - 9:30am Lunch - Daily: 11:30am - 4:00pm, Dinner - Nightly: 4:00pm - 9:00pm (4:00pm - 10:00pm Friday and Saturday) Brunch - Sunday: 11:30am - 4:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Modern European, Seafood, Contemporary American
- Executive Chef: Stephen Farquhar
- Dress Code: Smart Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Dancing, Entertainment, Full Bar, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Takeout, View, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Entertainment: Thursday through Sunday: Piano 6:00pm-9:00pm Listen to pianist Kathy Roberts play a variety of music on our baby grand piano. Requests welcome!
A word from Bon Appetit
This landmark Dunedin Restaurant offers casual waterfront dining in a sophisticated but relaxed setting; stunning waterfront views of St. Joseph Sound, Honeymoon and Caledesi Islands. Chef Stephen has created a menu to showcase weekly specials, comfort food creations, and seasonal temptations to tantalize the most sophisticated of diners, all in addittion to the regular menu. Enjoy alfresco dining at the Marina Terrace Café with the same menu and phenomenal views and sunsets. Please visit us for our All New "New Orleans Bistro Brunch." Inspired from the city that started the brunch movement. Enjoy classic New Orleans food and drinks while listening to jazz played on our baby grand piano.Continued
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- Diners' Choice WinnerBest Ambiance
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Bon Appetit reviews from OpenTable diners
99 reviews since May 5, 2014
- Food4.1Service4.3
- Ambiance4.5Noise LevelModerate
scenic view (89)special occasion (62)great for outdoor dining (60)romantic (47)great for lunch (31)neighborhood gem (30)great for brunch (23)fit for foodies (23)good for groups (22)vibrant bar scene (16)notable wine list (15)late-night find (10)hot spot (8)kid-friendly (6)Show More
- Beautiful view, great lobster roll!OpenTable Diner Since 2005Dined on 8/31/2014I love Bon Appetit! We go for a beautiful sunset dinner on the outdoor patio. They are dog friendly outside. We also go for lunch occasionally indoors, the interior is pleasant, service is great and the waterfront, marina location always makes me feel as though I'm on vacation even when I'm not.The lobster roll is outstanding and beautifully presented..Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Don't waste your moneyOpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 8/30/2014This restaurant has a nice view, the food however was the worst I have had in many years. I really believe if it wasn't for the view this restaurant would not be in business. The waitress was very nice and accommodating.
- Peter has created a Gem!PatCVIPDined on 8/24/2014Since we live in Tampa, we do not make the 24 mile drive to this gem of a restaurant very often, but when we do, it is always a very special treat! I celebrated my birthday here as a change-of-pace from my usual Tampa restaurants (after all, my husband and I frequent Tampa's best often) and it was worth the drive through a calamitous thundershower. I had the beautifully but simply prepared lobster tail and my husband enjoyed a delicious lobster cocktail followed by his favorite dish in all the world: sole meuniere, which he declared as sumptuous. We shared a nice bottle of white burgundy that worked perfectly with the dishes we enjoyed. This is truly a wonderful restaurant and Peter Kreuzinger should be commended for this Gem!Special Features:
- Wonderful restaurant & scenic viewPamphockDined on 8/18/2014This restaurant offers wonderful food at a moderate price. Add to it the outstanding location, especially the outside dining, looking at a gorgeous sunset, and you have the makings of a terrific night out. From the creamy honey salad dressing on the house salad to the delicious shrimp or chicken dishes to the pecan tart for dessert, each course provided an appetizing meal. Would certainly return when I am in the area again.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Jo1235J0Dined on 8/18/2014I have been to Bon Appetit many times, and I always enjoy the food, the service and the atmosphere. I especially like the seafood entrees and the lobster salad with the fruit. The dinner rolls are delicious !Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Nice brunchBaltimoreCTADined on 8/17/2014A gorgeous day, nice breeze and we were lucky enough to get a table along the deck overlooking the water. The server was efficient albeit not the fastest and the food was very good.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- bigwally11VIPDined on 8/16/2014the food, wine, and service were amazing, a truly great placeSpecial Features:
- Bon AppetitEFFBDined on 8/13/2014Thanks to Schatzee, we had an excellent evening at Bon Appetit.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- WonderfuljamalquaDined on 8/9/2014Everything about the place was fantastic. The food was excellent, our waiter Dominic saw to our every need without hovering, the ambiance, and the scenic views were spectacular. I highly recommend this restaurant.Special Features:
- Disappointed Lobster Dishmeal2disappointDined on 8/9/2014We have enjoyed Bon Appetite for many years, always bringing our visitors to this little gem of a restaurant. However, our latest experience did not live up to standards. The menu offered Lobster Extravaganza and the waiter spoke highly of the Lobster (removed from its' shell) over angel hair pasta. The Lobster was very tough and small.....for the $25 cost it was not at all worth it. We absolutely love Bon Appetite and will certainly return because we love the ambience of the restaurant but will stick to Steak or Salmon which never disappoints.Special Features:
- Friday Lunch BunchjudyDined on 8/8/2014Everything was wonderful for our group of ladies for our Friday Lunch Bunch. We have come several time to Bon Appetit for lunch and will return soon. Thank you Judy SpiridellisSpecial Features:
- Wonderful!PatCVIPDined on 8/7/2014Our small group of four had lunch here after the Purple Heart Day ceremony and were treated to a lunch without equal - - - what a joy for the residents of Dunedin to have this superb gem in their neighborhood! I ordered a cold shrimp dish (it was a very, very hot day) that was so refreshing, it cooled me down. My husband had a dish that he loves - the sole meuniere - and that was expertly boned tableside by our charming waiter, Bill. One of our guests had the strawberry fields chicken salad that was so scrumptious, she declined desserts in order to clean the plate; the other guest had the same cold jumbo shrimp platter that I enjoyed. My husband chose a wonderfully fruity white Burgundy that complemented all our dishes. Wow!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- My first timeFoodiemikeDined on 8/2/2014Food was mediocre at best. We ordered the fixed price menu. My filet mignon did not have a good sear on it, The potato puff they served was tasteless and dry. Salad was over dressed. Desert looked like it was from Costco. My dates dinner wasn't much better. Chicken medallions were breaded and fried chicken - two huge pieces that tasted more like batter and breading rather than a tasty chicken dish.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 8/2/2014Everything was great, except our whole lobster (mine was boiled and my husband's was broiled)....very tough,.......and chewy. Would not recommend this item of food however everything else was great.Special Features:
- Romantic MealOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/1/2014We decided that this was the best place for a romantic meal after our wedding. We had a lovely meal with great service. They made sure that the flowers on the table were fresh. I enjoyed the salmon and the unusual vegetable combinations. Ken had a succulent lamb chop.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- ElliotDined on 7/27/2014Service was good. Food was bland with little imagination. We had rack of lamb and red snapper.Special Features:
- Great food and serviceFoodie7Dined on 7/26/2014The food and service at bon appétit was excellent. Our server was extremely nice and attentive, and our filet mignon was cooked perfectly. My daughter and I enjoyed our time there very much. The view of the sunset was spectacular.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Excellent RestaurantFalconDined on 7/25/2014My wife and I had heard great things about Bon Appetit and found what we heard to be true. The location and atmosphere is great - one of the best we've found in the Tampa Bay area. We had a cocktail at the indoor bar before dinner - the bartender was very friendly and provided some great menu tips. The wait staff was excellent - prompt, courteous, and had excellent knowledge of the menu.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great place to watch sunsetspamelaDined on 7/23/2014The sunsets and rack of lamb are my favorites at this place. Great view of the water from just about any set. Nice to also sit outside at outdoor bar before dinner to listen to local talent. Inside, Kathy provides wonderful entertainment on the piano.Special Features:
- Good food, nice outdoor scenic viewCarmencitaDined on 7/21/2014Had dinner there with my husband, son and his friend who were visiting. It was a bit pricey and the cocktails were watered down, so they switched to drinking beer. The food was great though. We had a great time.Special Features:
- Great Pianist, Great GoodHungryHarperDined on 7/20/2014Bon Appetit is SUPERB - we have dined here many times and each time exceeds the time before. Kathy, the fantastic pianist, has been playing beautiful music for 14+ years and you will totally enjoy her!Special Features:
- Great restaurantfvehornDined on 7/19/2014This restaurant has it all - great drinks, great food, and great service and atmosphere. It is the perfect 10.Special Features:
- NonepelicanparadiseDined on 7/19/2014I was very happy with my dining experience at Bon Appetit as usual. I would recommend Bon Appetit to anyone. You won't be disappointed.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Absolutely outstanding!!PoogieDined on 7/19/2014Bon Appetit is by far a five star restaurant in every category. The food selection is outstanding and everything is excellent in taste and presentation. The service is impeccable and the view of the water is beautiful.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Food & View OutstandingKmilDined on 7/18/2014We had a great experience including great window seats to view the Gulf and sunset. The food was outstanding to go with the experience. Our waiter was very attentive to top it off.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- If you arrive by boat.OrlandoishomeDined on 7/18/2014We had called ahead to inquire about using their dock to arrive by boat. When we attempted to dock, servers came out to tell us we couldn't dock there after some of us were already off the boat. It was very frustrating and made us late for our reservation. If would have been helpful to have signage that directs restaurant patrons to the correct dock. Server was extremely helpful and worked hard to take care of our large group. Food was great. I would go back.I would recommend this to a friend.
- A Suprise GemBucdcsDined on 7/13/2014Had a recommendation from a friend to dine at Bon Appetit! The food was outstanding - from the appetizer - seared tuna to the entrees - Crab cakes - outstanding and grouper - excellent! Our server was on top of her game and made the dining experience wonderful. The portions were above normal, I actually took a to go portion because I could not finish the whole entrée. To top off the evening the sunset was picture perfect, great for photos and a pianist playing a nice selection of music.Special Features:
- AdequateSJB1Dined on 7/13/2014Was a bit surprised by the advanced age of the clientele - maybe it was just a Sunday evening thing. The food was adequate - nothing special. There wasn't anything wrong with it, it just wasn't anything I would bother seeking out a second time.Special Features:
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- Always GoodLunchladyDined on 7/5/2014We love this place for lunch. We always eat outdoors. No matter if it is mid summer, the real "dog days", it is always pleasant on that deck. We took our daughter and grandchildren for their first time. They loved it. Food is always good to excellent. Service has always been great but was Very slow this time. I highly recommend Bon AppetitSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- SeafoodlovaDined on 7/4/2014Giving a two for ridiculous wait on food and failure of manager to make it right. Nice view and food was good once we got it. It took well over an hour to get our meal. Manager (who looked about 19) did very little to make it right, which was disappointing. Our server , Lida,was good and kept checking on food but the kitchen was extremely slow. Be prepared to wait!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
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A lot of good can come from a competitive spirit. This Good Day Grad has plenty of it.
Cody Walling is a Polk County standout who won't stand for second place.
There is a mix of brain and brawn in him.
He's had a great experience at Auburndale High School -- involved in a little bit of everything.
"You're here for a certain amount of time," he said, "and you got to make the most of it on this earth while you're here."
He's worked hard to get to this moment.
Just months from graduation, the 18-year-old finds himself in the running for class valedictorian.
It's down to the final three.
"It's a really honorable experience for me. It's something cool and not many people get to do it," Cody told FOX 13.
And he's finding out some cool things about himself.
New things he's good at, like singing with chorus.
"Oklahoma" was the play he liked best.
"I've always been really music-minded," he said, "music soothes me, so it makes me feel good inside to produce something like that."
He looks back on his years with the football team, chemistry club, student government, honor society and a countless list of other accomplishments as the things that shaped the person he is today: driven, dedicated and determined to be No. 1.
"I love competition," he said. "Competition is really what gets me going."
So that dream to be top in his class is just within his reach, and he has no intention of giving up.
"It's down to the thousandths of a GPA, so I mean however it comes out, it comes out," he said, then pausing and smiling, "but it would be great to be No. 1 as well."
Whatever happens after graduation, Walling plans on staying close to home. He's heading to USF where he'll pursue a degree in engineering.
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Virginia's gay marriage ban is the latest to be overturned in court. Here's a look at the path same-sex marriage has taken across the country.
Connecticut began issuing same-sex marriage licenses in 2008 following a state Supreme Court decision in favor of eight gay couples who were denied marriage licenses.


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Is localism delivering for climate change?
Faye Scott, senior policy adviser for Green Alliance, discusses the effects of the localism agenda on approaches to climate change in local authorities and the opportunities it offers, drawing on the findings of the recent Is localism delivering for climate change? report.
Green Alliance is an independent think tank working to bring environmental priorities into the political mainstream.
Local authorities have a key role to play in tackling climate change. Their efforts to reduce emissions are vital contributions to meeting national targets. Beyond that, they can pursue energy efficiency housing and sustainable transport through their planning powers, help to secure low carbon jobs and opportunities for their local economy, develop adaptation plans to ensure their communities and local environment are resilient in the face of climate change, and engage their citizens in green living.
Some local authorities are well aware of the potential that taking a lead on climate change offers them. Many understand the economic benefits of reducing their impact and the clear growth opportunities of the low carbon economy. Others are committed to action because they recognise the costs and impacts of dealing with severe weather events and want to avoid them in future. But can we assume that all local authorities will take this far sighted view?
The new reality
Local authorities face a new reality in which they are dealing with significant budget cuts and a localism agenda that promises them the freedom to set their own priorities. Without direction from the centre, and with local authorities no longer subject to national indicators, it is important to understand what this new context means for action on climate change.
Green Alliance's new report, Is localism delivering for climate change?, examines this question. Our local authority survey found that:
- 37 per cent are deprioritising climate change or state that it was never a priority;
- 35 per cent remain firm in their commitment to climate change and believe that action could even increase in the context of localism;
- 28 per cent are narrowing their ambitions to focus on reducing emissions from their estate and ceasing work on wider environmental issues.
Taken together, the results suggest that climate change work has narrowed, is very weak or absent in 65 per cent of local authorities.
Action is being encouraged, so climate change hasn't fallen off the agenda entirely. But in keeping with the localism agenda, the encouragement is very hands-off and relies on voluntary engagement. The Nottingham Declaration is being revamped and will support local authorities signing up to voluntary targets, the money-making potential of opportunities like the Green Deal are being promoted, and 'permissive guidance' will set out what local authorities could do on climate change. All of these are important, but they will only reach those already committed or interested in taking action. They will fail to reach those opting out.
On the positive side, there are opportunities. Localism has created new entities which have the potential to strengthen local action on climate change, as long as they are properly supported and resourced.
Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) are tasked with securing local growth. They bring local authorities and businesses together and many have identified low carbon growth as an area to focus on. Around a third have detailed plans in place that set out how they aim to seize its opportunities. But their ambitions will be hard to realise without specialist expertise and support. And not all LEPs will see the low carbon economy as relevant. To avoid their growth ambitions having a detrimental impact, all LEPs should be tasked with accounting for the climate change impacts of their work programmes.
Neighbourhood plans bring communities and local authorities together in a new way, with the chance to pursue sustainability at the very local level. Emerging evidence from neighbourhood plan 'front-runners' suggests that communities will integrate sustainability into their ambitions. As with LEPs, there are significant resource questions about the expert support that would help communities do this effectively. And they must also be allowed to set out greater ambition on sustainability than their local plan.
These opportunities are welcome, and the freedom of localism may see committed local authorities go further, faster than they did before. But local authorities opting out remain a significant problem to address. The freedoms of localism must still come with responsibility for acting on shared challenges like climate change. Without this, the government may find it needs to intervene from the centre further down the line in order to secure the action needed to meet national targets. This will be wholly at odds with their localist ambitions. They can avoid it by developing an approach that allows localities the freedom to tackle climate change in different ways, but is underlined by clarity about the responsibility that each has to act. Green Alliance will be working on what this approach could look like in the coming months and welcomes thoughts from stakeholders.
Further reading
- Is localism delivering for climate change? – full report and executive summary available to download.
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Texas continued at the Top of my Top 25 for the third straight week, while Miami fell 4 spots to number 7 after their loss versus Georgia Tech.
Top 25 November 19
l. Texas
3. Penn State
5. Ohio State
6. Virginia Tech
7. Miami
8. Auburn
9. Notre Dame
10. Oregon
11. Fresno State
12. West Virginia
14. Georgia
15. Alabama
17. Louisville
18. Texas Tech
19. Boston College
20. Florida
21. Michigan
22. Georgia Tech
23. Wisconsin
24. Clemson
25. Iowa State
Games I watched:
USC-Fresno State, Cal-Stanford, Washington State-Washington, Ohio State-Michigan, portions of Auburn-Alabama, portions of Penn State-Michigan State.
Explaining some of my deviations from the AP:
Ohio State (+2) - Since I am more impressed by Texas and Penn State than the AP poll, it only makes sense that I consider Ohio State's close losses to them less harshly.
That Tennessee loss is looking worse and worse every week. Auburn did better against Bama than LSU did on both offense and defense.
Miami (+3)
Georgia Tech has shown this year twice that it will occasionally rise up and beat a top 10 team.
It's hard to hold that against Miami as much as the AP voters did considering their strong resume otherwise. at Virginia Tech 27-7. I find it hard to imagine too many other teams doing that.
Notre Dame (-3)
Notre Dame got too much credit for early season wins against overrated competition and then voters seemed to have an aversion to correcting that and moving them down when they didn't lose.
I have no such aversion. Notre Dame could not hold Virginia Tech to 7 points. No chance.
Oregon (-2)
Their best win is against Fresno State. They lost a lot of power on offense when Kellen Clemens went down. They may have put this behind them against Oregon State. A solid bowl win would prove it and could get them into my top 5.
Fresno State (+5)
I suspect the voters didn't watch Boise State at Fresno State or Fresno State at USC. Fresno State's 42 points against USC is the most ever scored against Pete Carroll. Holding Boise State to 7 points is the best defensive performance against the Broncos since Boise State opened the season at UCLA in 1991.
UCLA's best win is against Oklahoma, which I have just outside the top 25. UCLA's loss, well, it is much, much worse that Miami and Auburn being edged out by Georgia Tech. To be a top 10 team, you have to be better than 114th against the run.
Georgia Tech (-2)
Good job against the Top-10 teams, but could you please beat the rest of the ACC?
Florida State (NR)
They look like they have completely lost it since they clinched their division. They got spanked by Clemson, and I have a feeling that Florida and Virginia Tech will continue the trend.


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Michael Dean
Marriage, as a legal and cultural institution and as it has historically been known, is under attack in America. The purpose of this article is to address the legal definition of marriage and draw conclusions concerning how the Christian should respond to the attempts to modify the traditional and biblical definitions of this institution.
Law and Culture
I will begin with several general observations about law and culture.
First, every relatively coherent society reflects some belief system or world view which a critical mass of its individual members (or at least of its influential members) holds generally in common. Not everyone engages in systematic reflection on reality, life, and meaning, of course, but most still hold more or less similar conceptions about the nature of things upon which they base their thought and conduct: what is "true," how to tell right from wrong, how things "ought" to be, and so on.
Second, such conceptions are matters of quasi-religious faith, adopted and held for reasons beyond strict logic and experience, the customary modes of legal proof. For example, even though no propositions are more fundamental to American law and culture than the notions that all men are created equal and have inalienable rights, some of the most brilliant minds in history never attempted to "prove" natural rights or the equality of man, much less define them with legal precision. The Founders simply asserted that they were "self-evident."
Third, though such conceptions are not susceptible to legal "proof" in the ordinary sense, they nevertheless govern, or at least guide or inform, the approaches our legal system takes and the conclusions it reaches when confronted with broad social issues.
Fourth, societies change over time, more or less in concert with changes in the fundamental cultural conceptions that cohere and guide them. Competing perspectives emerge to challenge the dominant world views, and because law is a function of culture, as world views change, legal perspectives change with them, sometimes as effect, sometimes as cause.
Finally, I am not attempting a technical, academic exercise in either philosophy or jurisprudence. Instead, this is a general overview about Christian world view, how it was incorporated in early American judicial decisions about marriage, how that world view was replaced over time by a radically secular vision, and how legal perspectives on marriage changed accordingly.
Battle for the Mind
War of World Views
One of the best resources addressing "world view" in non-technical terms from a Christian perspective is Dr. Del Tacket's DVD series The Truth Project. "Ontology" is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of things, and Dr. Tackett boils down 2,500 years of it into a single statement, "Truth is what is real." Obviously, there is a profound dispute in culture over what is real.
Classical/Christian View
At the risk of being grossly overbroad and misleading, there is critical common ground between some strains of classical pagan, natural law philosophy, and Judeo-Christian theology. From Socrates to Plato to Augustine to Aquinas to C.S. Lewis, and countless others in between, if there exist such things as reason and ideas – if they are real – then there must be a kind of being, a kind of stuff, that is different than mere matter.
Admittedly, because man is not omniscient, reason alone is circular – "tautological." Nevertheless, reason is self-evident, and we believe in reason because it is reasonable. It is more reasonable to conclude that something should follow from something than from nothing, that reason comes from reason rather than from non-reason, that life comes from life rather than from non-life, effect comes from cause, self-awareness from self-awareness rather than from non-awareness, sentience and foresight and choice from sentience and foresight and choice rather than from their absence, and so on.
In sum, it is more reasonable to conclude that we and the world around us are the result of some purposeful, incomprehensibly powerful and intelligent first being, than to conclude that we are the result of nothing at all. It is not reasonable to believe that, once upon a time, when there was no time, suddenly there was time. That over time nothing somehow became something, that something somehow blew itself up, and that after blowing itself up it somehow came miraculously alive, and that after becoming alive, again for no reason at all, it began breathing and reproducing and thinking, finally turning itself into movie stars, second basemen, and evolutionary biologists.
Naturalist/Secularist View
In contrast to the Christian view, it has become stylish to declare one's self atheist or agnostic – a free thinker, master of your own fate, captain of your own soul, with no religious crutch, and guided by reason alone.
That all sounds quite grand, but the atheist and agnostic assert their dogma in much the same way as Christians. They insist that being consists of self-existent time and matter (the "time-space continuum"), that time and matter have somehow always existed, or somehow came into being ex nihilo nisi causa ("out of nothing, and without reason"), and that their present form – including you and me – is not the result of intelligent cause, but is merely the product of the big bang plus time – and nothing more.
Often called "secularism," or "scientific naturalism," this view is that nothing exists except what normal human beings can perceive by means of the physical senses, augmented by whatever observational tools we may invent. Ideas and self-awareness are nothing more than particularly sophisticated mechanical events; there is no ghost in the machine after all. Yahweh declares, "I AM, and that's all"; the naturalist and secularist declare, "Matter (or energy) is, and that's all."
My characterizations of secularist and naturalist thought are not caricatures. To begin with, they are nothing new. Shortly before Christ, for example, the Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius wrote De Rerum Natura, "On the Nature of Things." Advocating the view of the Greek philosopher Democritus 400 years earlier, Lucretius asserted that there is no Supreme Being, that being, even consciousness, is ultimately nothing but "atoms in the void," operating according to physical "laws" somehow inherent in the atoms themselves.
Almost twenty-five hundred years after Democritus, Stephen Hawking, perhaps the world's most acclaimed living cosmologist, reprises him in The Grand Design. He writes, "It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ten million times the width of the Milky Way."He explains that if you go far enough back in time, the universe was a "singularity" – a "Planck size" speck measuring "a billion-trillion-trillionth of a centimeter." He declares, "Because there is a law of gravity, the universe can and will create itself out of nothing."
Hawking might protest that he is not reviving Democritus, but instead has identified gravity as the antecedent being from which time and matter followed. He observes correctly, "It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe," but concludes, "if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God."
Concluding that a Planck size singularity is the first being and gravity its first cause does not avoid atomism, however; it just kicks the antecedent can a bit further back up the causal road. Being forced to ask "Who created God?" no more refutes God's existence than being forced to ask "Who created singularity?" refutes the existence of Hawking's "law of gravity" or his seminal speck.
Put differently, how is an incomprehensibly infinitesimal dot of dumb matter less a "deflection" than an incomprehensibly intelligent First Being? How is it less an act of faith to conclude that the irreducible "being" from which consciousness and intelligence and all else followed was uncreated law and matter, than to conclude that it was uncreated Consciousness and Intelligence? How is it more a blind leap to conclude that Being created being, than to make, as Hawking does, the absurd statement that the universe not only "create[d] itself," it did so "out of nothing"?
As to Hawking's declaration that the universe created itself because there is a law of gravity, how is it more rational to believe that intelligence results from the irreducible "being" of "gravity" than from an irreducible "Being" of "Intelligence"? In psychological terms, how is comfort in the certainty of mathematical "law," in which all mysteries dwell, any more justified than comfort in the certainty of God, in Whom dwells all wisdom and knowledge, including mathematics? And as to the very idea of gravity creating matter, how is it "scientific," much less "rational," to stake everything on a non-material "law" that is somehow creating material different than itself? How could such a law even exist prior to the matter Hawking thinks it created? I suspect that by "law" Hawking means nothing more than "how things behave." But if that is so, then how did law exist when nothing existed to behave, when there was nothing for law to inhere in or operate upon? In fact, how is it legitimate even to say "when" nothing existed? Hawking would say time is a different special dimension of the same basic stuff as everything else, but it is still something, so by his premises the phrase "when nothing existed" is a contradiction in terms. It is nonsense.
In the end, when Hawking claims that the "law" of gravity is the irreducible "being" from which all else follows, his naturalism is a philosophical assertion no less arbitrary than Yahweh's "I AM," and his atheism ends the same place as the village boor's – proclaiming himself God.
Again, this is not caricature. Hawking posits an incomprehensibly large number of possible universes (10500). He declares that "mental concepts are the only reality we can know. . . . It follows that a well-constructed model creates a reality of its own." Our universe is only "one of many," each with its own history, which means that, "We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us."
Hawking's view is the same old naturalist paradox. In a truly Laputan fit (where is Jonathan Swift when we need him?) Hawking really does reduce man to a "well-constructed model." He says, "One can define living beings as complex systems of limited size that are stable and that reproduced themselves."We are "mere collections of fundamental particles of nature." Human conduct is pre-determined by laws of science, and "free will" is just an "effective theory" necessitated by "our inability to do the calculations that would enable us to predict [human] actions." Man is nothing but the biggest ant in a robotic anthill, nothing but a pre-determined finder of keys in an arbitrarily operating cosmic asylum.
Choice to Believe
As Hawking's logical blind alleys demonstrate, the certainties of atheism and agnosticism break down as a matter of reason. An atheist knows that God does not exist. That, however, is a universal negative – something you cannot know, unless you are omniscient yourself, in which case you have made yourself god. This is what atheism is about – Hawking creating reality by his own observation, for instance. Further, a universal negative is tautology without modesty. How does a naturalist know that nothing exists but what he can see? Simple – he cannot see it.
An agnostic sounds more modest than an atheist. Instead of saying, God does not exist, he says only, "You cannot know whether God exists." However, agnosticism is no less tautological than atheism, because that too is a universal negative. You cannot know that you cannot know unless, again, you are omniscient. How does an agnostic know for sure that he cannot know for sure? Again very simply – he knows it.
Thus, like Christianity or any other faith, atheism and agnosticism are decisions based on something less than and other than omniscience. They are choices. God has created us to choose. We cannot escape it. We can only hope to make as informed and reasonable a choice as possible, somehow enlightened, drawn and enabled by the Holy Spirit.
But choose we must. In Matt 6:24, Christ said that you will serve a master. Hate one, love the other. Hold to one, despise the other. In Rom 6:16, Paul says, "[T]o whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are, . . . of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness."
Belief is a matter of how one chooses to think. 2 Cor 10:5 describes how Christians think: "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." 2 Peter 2:19 describes how naturalists think: "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage."
The question is not "whether" you will choose, the question is "which." Man's greatest act of worship is the free choice to love and serve God for no other reason than because of Who and What he is. That is what the book of Job is about. That is what Christ told Thomas: "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed" (John 20:29).
Capture the Mind
Now think about that conflict of world views in relation to marriage. Let's begin with a question. "Are you opposed to same-sex marriage?" This, of course, is a trick quick question. It assumes that there is such a thing as "same-sex" marriage – that marriage is not some pre-political or a-political reality between a man and a woman created by God or a reality existing in the world of ideas or in the nature of humankind or the nature of things in general. Instead, it is an instrumental legal construct – something that can be created, changed or revoked by law the same way we create or change or revoke speed limits or the legal drinking age.
In any debate, Rule 101 is always, "Capture the language." If you repeat the terms "gay marriage" and "same-sex marriage" long enough, most people will never think about whether there can even be such a thing, much less whether marriage is anything except what some judge says it is. And once the working cultural assumption becomes that government creates marriage to begin with, the debate then is simply a question whether government should create for same-sex couples the same legal rights and privileges that it already created for opposite-sex couples.
That assumption – that government creates marriage – is an instance of the idea of legal positivism, the secularist and naturalist's logical conclusion that law is not the mind of God or some set of first principles existing in the world of ideas or the nature of things. Rather, it is whatever those who make the law say it is.
Legal realism takes that proposition a step further – that law is made by whoever has power and is nothing more than what the powerful say it is. Justice Holmes once wrote in the Harvard Law Review, "I used to say when I was young, that truth was the majority vote of that nation that could lick all others." To our question, "What is real, what is the nature of things," realism answers that things are whatever the powerful say they are. Thomas Hobbes wrote about it in Leviathan, and George Orwell in 1984.
The Christian view is that reality includes the physical universe, but is not only that universe. Those who have not misspent their youth reading idealistic and solipsistic philosophy may not be aware that there have been very serious people who believe this world is not real, but is instead an illusion or perception of the mind. Christianity rejects that view out of hand as nonsense. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
But Christianity assumes that reality also includes the super-natural or extra-natural. God and the Logos exist prior to and apart from creation and are knowable in an incomplete but still meaningful way. Put differently, Christianity asserts that Truth is Truth, regardless of what the powerful may say. Robert Bolt wrote about this in A Man for All Seasons, where Thomas More, talking specifically about marriage, refuses to concede that Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon is null and void, even though the king has the power to declare it so and to behead More for disagreeing. More says rhetorically, "Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?"
I once put it this way in a legislative hearing. "A law declaring that marriage is between one man and one woman does not deny equal protection to same-sex couples any more than a law declaring that 2 + 2 = 4 denies equal protection to 5 and 6."
Christian View of Marriage
Genesis Design:
Marriage as a Divinely Created Institution
Genesis establishes the Judeo-Christian view of marriage. God said, "Let us make man in our image. . . . [M]ale and female created he them" (Gen 1:26). The man and woman were each blessed by the other. "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet [or 'appropriate'] for him" (Gen 2:18). And having created them, God said, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth" (Gen 1:26-28).
Thus marriage between one man and one woman is inherent in human nature, created by God for two complementary and inseparable purposes: (1) the happiness of the man and woman who comprise it, and (2) the production of children as the natural consequence of its most intimate expression. Marriage is not created by the state. It is only recognized and regulated by the state, if at all, in a manner consistent with its nature.
In sociological terms, this is the "conjugal" view of marriage. In most cases actually, and in all cases symbolically, marriage is not just about gratification of the partners and fulfillment of their psychological and physical needs. It is, inherently, also about the perpetuation of the race – the procreation of children and the fulfillment of their happiness and psychological and physical needs.
Holy Trinity (U.S. 1892)
The conjugal understanding of marriage existed in early American law as part of a general Christian world view. In 1892, in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, federal authorities acting under federal immigration law prohibited an American church from hiring a pastor from England. Writing for the Supreme Court, Justice Brewer cited dozens of state constitutions, statutes, and court decisions invoking the Bible, the Trinity, and Christianity, and described them as a "mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation. . . ." Justice Brewer, therefore, concluded that the Free Exercise Clause protected Christianity, and Congress could not prohibit a Catholic Church from hiring Cardinal Manning, an Episcopal Church from hiring Canon Farrar, or a Baptist church from hiring Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
19th Century Case Law
Given that the United States was a Christian nation, the Christian view of marriage and its inherent purposes were also legal givens. Following are samples of dozens of early state law cases which explicitly track the nature of marriage and its purposes given in Genesis 1 and 2.
In Overseers of Poor of Town of Newbury v. Overseers of Poor of Town of Brunswick (Vt. 1829), the court observed that marriage is "one of the natural rights of human nature, . . . ordained by the great Lawgiver of the universe."
In Gentry v. Fry (Mo. 1835), the court stated, "Bacon defines [marriage] to be: 'a compact between a man and a woman for the procreation and education of children.' Rutherford declares it: 'a contract between a man and a woman . . . for the purposes of their mutual happiness and of the production and education of children.' It requires . . . masculine and feminine . . . a man and a woman. Two men cannot make it. Two women cannot – only one man and one woman . . . [for] their mutual happiness, and the production of children . . . the propagation of the human species, and the happiness of man."
In Baker v. Baker (Cal. 1859), the court noted the same two purposes: "Again, the first purpose of matrimony, by the laws of nature and society, is procreation. . . . The second purpose of matrimony is the promotion of the happiness of the parties by the society of each other."
The courts also recognized that marriage was essential to the existence of society. In Stevenson v. Gray (Ky. App. 1856), the court explained that marriage is founded in nature, is ordained to perpetuate the human race, and is "the foundation not only of all social order and refinement, but of the continued existence of society and of nations."
In the late 19th Century, the Supreme Court rejected the Mormons' argument that the Free Exercise Clause entitled them to practice polygamy. Reynolds v. United States (1878), like the Kentucky court earlier, discussed that monogamous marriage – between one man and one woman for life – was vital in maintaining a free society, and that polygamy leads to despotism in societies that tolerate it. In other words, monogamy requires self-restraint and self-discipline, but polygamy, by sanctioning the habits of mind that a man can have whatever he wants and has the power to get, leads to tyranny.
In Davis v. Beason (1890), the Court declared that polygamy was not protected under the Free Exercise Clause because "the general consent of the Christian world in modern times" recognized it as a crime.
Positivist, Naturalist Construct
In contrast to the Christian view of man created in God's image, the naturalist necessarily conceives of man as an accident of nature bent on his own survival and gratification. Marriage is created, not by God, but by the powerful, for their own ends, as they see fit.
In sociological terms, this is the "relationship" view, in contrast to the "conjugal" view. In the "relationship" view, marriage is an instrumental construct of positive law, created to meet the needs of the partners, in which production and education of children for perpetuation of the race is an incidental, not essential, purpose.
Disestablishing the Foundations
In the 20th century, the relationship view of marriage largely displaced the Christian view of marriage in the law, an inevitable consequence of disestablishing the general Christian worldview on which marriage is grounded. In law and culture, it is always the foundations, the presuppositions, which erode first. Traditions like marriage stagger on for a time out of inertia, but once the rationale is gone, traditions and habits eventually collapse, because in the end, mere tradition is never a sufficient justification for anything.
In Lynch v. Donnelly (U.S., 1984) the Court noted that the Establishment Clause prohibited a Rhode Island town from displaying a crèche by itself at Christmas, because that might show special endorsement of Christianity. It was permissible to include it in a larger display with a wide variety of holiday claptrap, because that would show it only as part of America's history, without endorsing religion generally or Christianity in particular.
Even that was too much for J. Brennan, who described in dissent the disestablishment of Christianity from American law that had long since taken place. "By insisting that such a distinctively sectarian message is merely an unobjectionable part of our 'religious heritage,' . . . the Court takes a long step backwards to the days when Justice Brewer could arrogantly declare . . . that 'this is a Christian nation.'"
The recent "Intelligent Design" case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (Md. Pa., 2005), is a striking illustration of how far the concomitant disestablishment of Christianity and the substitution of secularism and scientific naturalism in its place have gone.
It is readily apparent . . . that the only attribute of design that biological systems appear to share with human artifacts is their complex appearance, i.e. if it looks complex or designed, it must have been designed. This inference to design based upon the appearance of a "purposeful arrangement of parts" is a completely subjective proposition, determined in the eye of each beholder and his/her viewpoint concerning the complexity of a system.
In essence, the judge declared, as a matter of Constitutional law, that while the inference is obvious from mere appearance that a two-car garage or a slice of toast was made by someone for some reason, it is impermissible to infer from appearance that a turnip or a frog or a person – or anything else biological – was also made by anyone, for any reason at all. In fact, the judge noted that the Establishment Clause requires the courts and public education to assume that there is not "anyone," that there is not a reason or design (even if it looks that way) and that it violates the Constitution for any government agent to teach young people that such inferences may be permissible or rational.
20th Century Supreme Court Case Law
As the general Christian perspective in law was dis-established, the Christian view of marriage fell, too.
In Griswold v. Connecticut (U.S. 1965), a married couple challenged a state statute prohibiting the sale of contraceptives. The Supreme Court held the statute unconstitutional. It speaks volumes that only half a century ago, such laws were still common. At one point in our history, the American people and their governments understood that the connection between gratification and children was so essential to marriage and culture that they made it illegal to sell the means to intentionally break that connection. The Supreme Court, however, concluding itself wiser than the people, discovered in the Bill of Rights an unwritten right of "privacy," which included the right to separate gratification from procreation. Besides the actual legal effect, the Court's holding had a powerful symbolic effect, communicating to the nation that gratification alone was a sufficient justification for breaking the inter-generational covenant of procreation on which culture is based. The Court would no longer allow government to prohibit the intentional severance of the natural connection between act and consequence, gratification and responsibility, comfort and commitment, present and future, love and children. This is not an article about birth control, but it is important to have some idea of historic Christian understanding that children are inseparable from the very idea of love and marriage.
In Eisenstadt v. Baird (U.S. 1972), the Court affirmed its holding in Griswold, except this time, the plaintiffs were not even married. Far beyond Griswold, the Court sent the message that marriage was not essential and that individual gratification was more important than any social purpose that requiring the commitment of marriage as a precondition of sexual gratification or having children might serve.
In Roe v. Wade (U.S. 1973), the Court held that "privacy" includes the right to abortion. Beyond Griswold and Eisenstadt, "privacy" now included not only the right to sever the natural connection between gratification and responsibility and act and consequence, but also the right to destroy the consequences and avoid responsibility for them when they occur.
In Planned Parenthood v. Casey (U.S. 1992), the Court finally arrived where it was headed all along – the complete substitution of world views. In declaring that the right of "privacy" trumped all but the most limited regulation of abortion, Justice Kennedy wrote that "liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment includes "the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life." Essentially, the Court said that because every mother has the right to define existence, life, meaning, and the universe for herself, not only can the king declare that the earth is flat, everyone else can, too. There is no fixed truth about whether an unborn child is a person or deserves legal protection simply because of its nature as a human being. The child is whatever its mother decides. And it will live or die depending upon that decision.
Finally, in Romer v. Evans (U.S. 1996) and Lawrence v. Texas. (U.S. 2003), the Supreme Court effectively treated homosexual acts, by which children are impossible, as having equal legal status with heterosexual acts, by which children are, actually or symbolically, inseparably connected.
20th Century State Courts
State supreme courts have taken the Supreme Court hand-off and run it to the logical end zone. Accepting that the essence of marriage is personal gratification and fulfillment, not responsibility or children, Massachusetts, Iowa and New Jersey supreme courts, among others, have declared that same-sex relationships are the legal equivalent of opposite-sex relationships.
Those decisions break the inter-generational covenant. They turn on its head the inviolable understanding that children need both mothers and fathers, and that mothers and fathers, being more mature and disciplined, will subordinate their own indulgences for the good of their children. They subordinate the child's needs for mother and father to the adults' needs for gratification with someone of their own sex.
This is what the Rosie O'Donnell interview argued several years ago, when she said she would explain to her son that he did not have the kind of mommy that needed a daddy. He had the kind of mommy that needed another mommy. In the ultimate infantile role-reversal, the parent no longer sacrifices and subordinates her needs to those of her child out of her love for him; she demands that the child sacrifice and subordinate his needs to those of his mother, out of her love for herself.
In Wisconsin, we are presently litigating the meaning of marriage in the case Appling v. Doyle. Despite the Wisconsin Defense of Marriage Amendment, Gov. Doyle and the legislature later enacted legislation under which same-sex couples become domestic partners in exactly the same way that opposite-sex couples become spouses. They apply for licenses, take oaths, have their licenses signed by civil officers, and file them in county offices, which then send them to the state registrar of vital statistics for recording in the same data-base as marriage records.
Why do we care about that? Because when the state gives what we call the imprimatur of official approval, or "secular sanctification," to same-sex relationships in exactly the same way it approves and sanctifies marriage, it communicates to the public, and educates society to believe, that there is nothing unique about marriage, and that there is no essential difference between the two kinds of relationships. For example, several Wisconsin public schools that use life-skills games in their curricula are now instructing students to pick same-sex students to role play as their life partners.
Christian Education and Culture
In closing, why is a trustee writing not just about the Bible, but about history and philosophy and apologetics and law and sociology and language and literature and a half dozen other subjects?
There has been a good deal of discussion over the years about what kind of school Maranatha really is, because besides the training in Bible and ministry characteristic of a traditional Bible college, we offer a strong program in the liberal arts and sciences.
Are we a Bible college, or are we a liberal arts college? The answer to that question is an emphatic "Yes."
Several years ago, the board revised the college mission statement. It currently states: The mission of Maranatha Baptist Bible College is to develop leaders for ministry in the local church and the world "To the Praise of His Glory."
We included the phrase "and the world" because instead of an insular fortress mentality of withdrawing from life, hunkering down in a religious bunker, treating the church like a support group and Bible study like a personal growth seminar, coping and surviving while we wait for the rapture to rescue us, we as a board hope to inculcate a mission mentality, one of going into the highways and byways, engaging individuals and culture where you find them, conducting the battle on the enemy's turf. If you like academic metaphors, we seek a mentality that is enriched and empowered, not debilitated, by what Augustinian scholarship and the social sciences call the "inward turn."
The arts and sciences do not detract from ministry; they are complementary and essential to it. The term "liberal arts" has become somewhat of a decapitated idiom, a spontaneous lexical twitch. But it has a history, an etymology. From Alcuin's seminal enterprise for Charlemagne, the trivium and the quadrivium were formalized by classical scholars as those studies which were appropriate and necessary for free men. The original Latin expression literally meant, "Arts befitting a free man." As originally conceived, the liberal arts encompassed all of life, preparing scholars for leadership in theology, philosophy, law, culture, politics, and commercial enterprise.
A few months ago Dr. Marty Marriott, President of Maranatha Baptist Bible College and Seminary, gave me a copy of Robert Marsden's Reforming Fundamentalism, which is a history of Fuller Seminary written against the broader backdrop of 20th century evangelicalism and fundamentalism. Near the end, Marsden writes that in the 70's and 80's, the seminary was engaged in struggles to break with the past, including "the effort to free itself from the dominance of 'the mind of excellence,'" an effort that "involved a reappraisal of the role of the clergy."
Marsden explains that Fuller was originally organized on the "Princeton" model, following "the American Puritan and Calvinist tradition [in which] the preacher was expected to be an intellectual leader of the community as well as a spiritual leader. The assumption was that intellect was one key to cultural and hence spiritual influence." In that tradition, seminaries were to be "theological graduate schools, fostering the general enterprise of intellectual leadership." But by the 1980s, "the once-conspicuous theological emphases were now overshadowed by programs for practicality and service."
What does that mean? Regardless of Marsden's characterization of Fuller in particular, American higher Christian education has drifted pedagogically from its Puritan origins, de-emphasizing over time the academic model and institutional expectation of preparing pastors and graduates for intellectual leadership in culture, not just the church. It means that while Christian colleges and universities were losing confidence, backing away from cultural leadership, competing secular viewpoints were replacing Christianity in law, education, government, the military, business, entertainment, media, communications, political parties, library boards, museums, arts councils, publishing houses – every conceivable social institution that molds thought and directs culture, burying even the memory of a Christian culture, changing what "normal" even feels like.
Why are we concerned with culture? As dispensational, premillennial Baptists, we do not accept old Princeton's covenant theology, the replacement theology from which it came, nor the reconstruction theology to which it led. Notwithstanding, from a theological basis founded in texts like Matt 13:33 and 1 Cor 7:21, we do agree with the proposition that higher Christian education is about "fostering that general enterprise of intellectual leadership."
The more culture rejects Biblical structure, the more it dishonors God and destroys the people within it. As our culture eradicates the mores and even the memory of Christianity, the church becomes less and less a base camp for teaching and training and staging to reach the lost, and becomes more and more a spiritual and psychological triage unit.
It is not my place as a board member to tell administration, faculty, or even students how specifically to think or exactly what to do. It is, however, a Board function to establish an institutional vision, to authorize programs designed to achieve it, and to encourage you to reflect on that vision and act accordingly.
I encourage you to seriously consider Maranatha's mission statement. Without diminishing one whit the primacy of the local church, when you come to that phrase, "and the world," then lift up your eyes, because the fields are white with harvest – a harvest that, but for the mercy of God, seems soon to perish in a cultural collapse, the likes of which the world has never seen.
Think about our mission. Pray and act accordingly. To the Praise of His Glory.
This article is based on a chapel message given April 13, 2012 at Maranatha Baptist Bible College, by alumnus Dr. Michael Dean. Dean is an attorney who litigates in defense of Christian liberties and the vice-chairman of Maranatha's Board of Trustees. At the time of the chapel message, he was part of a legal team litigating the definition of marriage in Wisconsin. The closing remarks regarding Maranatha's mission also appeared in the Maranatha Advantage, http://more.mbu.edu/advantage/.
For more information on this conflict, see Thomas Sowell, The Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (New York: Basic Books, 2007).
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (New York: Bantam, 2010), 129.
Ibid., 131.
Ibid., 180.
Ibid., 172.
Ibid., 118.
Ibid., 172.
Ibid., 140-43.
Ibid., 178.
Ibid., 181.
Ibid., 178.
An interesting study is the relationship between polygamy and despotism from David to Solomon to Rehoboam.


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2 tablespoons butter, melted
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1 (15-ounce) can sweet potatoes (yams), drained and mashed, or 1 cup fresh mashed cooked sweet potatoes
2 eggs, divided
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3. In mixing bowl, blend together yams, 1 egg, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg. Spread evenly on bottom of pie crumb crust.
4. In mixing bowl, beat together remaining egg, egg whites, corn syrup, sugar, vanilla until mixture is creamy. Stir in pecans.
5. Carefully spoon over yam layer. Bake 50-60 minutes or until filling is set around edges or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean. Cool, serve.
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Patrols were called to the street, close to its junction with Noctorum Avenue, after a man wearing a crash helmet was seen getting out of a silver car and firing shots at the window of a property.
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In the wake of Atlus parent company Index Corporation's bankruptcy and subsequent worries about games-in-progress, Atlus Japan previously reached out to reassure fans that "the development and sales of the Atlus brand as well as the consumer business will continue."
That's all well and good (and this matter didn't impede the release of Dragon's Crown), but we've yet to see hide or hair of Persona 5, the long-awaited followup to the very best game on PlayStation Vita. Again, it seems fans can rest easy--the games Atlus is currently developing, of which Persona 5 is a confirmed member, are coming along swimmingly.
That's according to Katsura Hashino, the game director on Persona 3 and Persona 4, and the closest thing to divine authority for fans in need of a Social Link fix. Dualshockers translated a blog post Hashino published to comment on the upcoming Persona Music FES 2013:
"I'm sorry for the concerns caused by the recent circumstances, and I apologize. Next year is set to bring many announcements as part of the 25th anniversary of the Atlus brand, but there are a few things I'd like to share before that. All the unannounced titles we are working on are 'under zealous development.' The challenge, for the time being, is how good they will be. We have spent days full of problems and worries, but we work strenuously so that it doesn't break our focus."
". . . as long as we continue to think about you that love our games, about the creativity, the know-how accumulated, the challenges and the expectation of results, I believe that the future of the series will be something great, full of fun and stimulating."
Wonky translation aside, it's abundantly clear what Hashino is saying: Persona 5 is doing just fine, and we'll hear something about in 2014, or even later this year. That's a very good thing, but it makes me wonder--where will I be, and what will I be doing, when Persona 5 gets announced and my joyous tears commence?
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