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The feds slink away from a flubbed Internet pharmacy case.
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Attorney Russell Carbone played dirty. How dirty? Try conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury.
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gautam kar Started The Discussion:
Dear Members,
As the circular is initiated from PF office dated 30.11.2012 which in the context of Section 7-A (Determination of money due from employer). clarifies the definition of basic wages, based on which the PF is calculated. Their redefinition seeks to include other allowances made by employers under sundry heads.
The clarification circular, titled 'Splitting of wages', says the basic wage "encompasses all the payments except the specified exclusions which are mentioned as commissions. All such allowances which are ordinarily, necessarily and uniformly paid to employees are to be treated as part of the basic wages."
The circular, however, does not specify any criterion for identifying those allowances which are not excluded from PF.
The contribution envisaged under Section 6 with notification dated April 9, 1997, and para 29 of the EPF Scheme specifies the rate of contribution under the EPF Act as 12 per cent where workers pay 12 per cent of their basic wages as PF and employers are obliged to pay a matching contribution. The clarification is meant to help workers get a higher PF contribution from employers.
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AK CHANDOK - Member Since: Apr 2010
Dear Sir,
The said circular has been kept in abeyance by the Minister of Labour as per latest mail recd. From Labour Law Reporter just now.
Chandok A.K.
RPFC (Retd.)
Advocate Dr. Ashok Chandok
gautam kar - Member Since: Sep 2008
Dear Sir / Madam,
Latest News = Reply from Labour Minister on PF Circular - Guidelines for Quasi-judicial proceedings under section 7A of the EPF&MP Act, 1952
Kindly Acknowledge the receipt of the same and oblige.
Union Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge on 13th December, 2012 said that the Circular November 30th, 2012 pertaining to Guidelines for Quasi-judicial proceedings under section 7A of the EPF&MP Act, 1952 issued by the EPFO on the inclusion of certain allowances etc. for calculating Provident Fund contribution is to be kept in abeyance. So the status quo will continue.
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Kalijanni - Member Since: Jul 2008
Dear Sir / Madam, The labour Minister statement was published in HIndu yesterday PFA is his statement Kalijanni
loginmiracle - Member Since: Aug 2011
Dear friends,
This circular is nothing new. There has been some such instructions & judgments earlier also. In fact many cos. were/are following these instructions. What is funny now is many employees unions are opposing this circular as their take home pay is getting reduced if the instructions are followed by everybody. Also consider a write up on the subject attached.
italentindia - Member Since: Oct 2011
Dear Friends,
I do not see what the hue and cry is about. The maximum of Rs 6500 is still in place. So Rs 780 is still the maximum PF payable by an employer from his side and so for employee. For new employees not enrolled in PF exemption is still allowed for employees if they so choose. So how does this change the situation? Also with minimum wages already at Rs 5000 plus in most cases I do not see what is the issue about.
This can only affect people who are splitting minimum wages into basic wage plus some allowances. For them this will be a issue.
In any case Rs 780 ( employer side 12% of 6500 ) plus Rs 780 ( employee side of Rs 780 ) could be the only PF deduction and the take home should not go less than Rs 1560/- .
If this is not correct please do enlighten me where in the circular it is so mentioned otherwise.
Srikant Sampath
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email@example.com - Member Since: May 2011
Media always create a big problem- media write down heading named ""Pay or more for pf, take home lower salary every month (times of india dated 11th december, 2012) "" - If any employee have Gross Salary equal to or less than Rs 6,500/-p.m. PF will be deducted on Gross Salary amount. If Gross Salary are more than Rs 6,500/- no affect of this circular on that employee.
supreme_1974 - Member Since: Aug 2011
it's not like that know, if gross salary is 25,000/- (which includes basic and so many other allowances.) before we can deduct 12% of basic only, but now it is not possible now according to that circular. now we have to deduct 12% of 25,000/- know.
RUPESH123 - Member Since: Dec 2008
In this context I would like to have a suggestion to you to increase the PF slab also as the current PF slab is Rs. 6500 since long. Now due to the global financial situation it is very necessary to amend this slab because at the time of retirement at the age of 58 employee working in a private sector will get very nominal amount. It will be very hard for a person to run his family with PF amount and pension amount what he will get as per the current slab
As you are aware inflation rates are in upward trend and rates of all the necessary items has increased steeply. How can an average middle class Indian can fulfill his basic requirements from above PF amount when he retires.
I think government should change the policy and take some more effective actions keeping in mind long time inflation rate. You can understand the critical position of a person retiring at the age of 58 especially private sector employees.
Government should think about middle class family. Poor are becoming poor day by day
varghesemathew - Member Since: Jun 2011
There is no need to worry about the new EPFO circular. The definition of basic wages in Sec 2(b) of the Act is clear that all allowances other than those excluded in the definition will form part of basic and attract contribution.The circular is only reiterating it.Still the ceiling of Rs 6500/- pm is existing.
Varghese Mathew
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An Open Letter To All Potential Graduate Assistants
From Associate Athletic Director Jeff Smith
Graduate Assistant Job Description
David Maclutsky enters his sixth year as an Assistant Athletic Trainer in 2012. His primarily focus is on the UMass men's basketball team. He has returned to UMass where he received his Master's degree in exercise science in 2001. He also served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at UMass for two years.
Prior to UMass, Maclutsky was the Director of Sports Medicine at Saint Peter's College after working as a Certified Athletic Trainer at Army Prep for one year.
Before Army Prep, Maclutsky was an Assistant Athletic Trainer at the College of the Holy Cross for four years.
Maclutsky received his bachelor's degree in athletic training from Brockport State University in Brockport, N.Y. in 1996.
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The life of a faithful minister involves suffering.
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People turn to sin—whether it be gluttony, substance abuse, lust, or materialism—seeking some kind of satisfaction.
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One of the ways God tests our faith is by delaying the recognizable answers to our prayers.
- August 28, 2013 |
God is not looking for superstars.
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God listens to those who listen to him.
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Let us step off the never-ending treadmill of striving to please the One who is already pleased.
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The Good Shepherd continues to love and care for those who repent and believe in His saving work and saving Name.
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When a member of the body is hurting from combat in the spiritual war, exhausted from years of imbalanced living, or reaping the consequences of sinful choices that member needs more personalized care.
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Here is a clear, passionate call to leadership that is distinctively Christian.
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Nothing will bring spiritual sanity back to our churches like a return to the preaching of salvation as the new birth.
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Although I had attended church from time to time in my childhood, I'll admit that it never really transformed me in any significant way.
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When a sinner comes to Jesus in repentance and faith he or she finds a tender, forgiving Savior.
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Tagged: wildfires
Congress leaves town without providing funds to fight wildfires – Thanks for nothing!
What you can expect from the Do-Nothing Congress
Congress took a five-week summer break without deciding whether to provide $615 million in additional money to fight wildfires this year, punting the debate into the fall.
Senate Democrats were unable late Thursday to secure 60 votes to advance a $3.6 billion emergency spending bill for a vote.
The bulk of that money was for the Obama administration to handle the influx of unaccompanied minors along the Southwestern border but it also had $615 million for the U.S. Forest Service and the Interior Department to fight fires. That would have eliminated the need for "fire borrowing," or transferring money from other activities including efforts to prevent fires
Senate Republicans blocked the $3.6 billion measure, arguing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!…
The congressional debate came during a week when firefighters grappled with 27 large fires in eight Western states…
Last month, along with requesting emergency money, President Barack Obama asked Congress to add wildfires to the list of natural disasters eligible for disaster assistance. That move would eliminate the need for the government to dip into wildfire-prevention programs to pay ever-increasing firefighting costs.
The right-wing clown show running the Republican Party won't respond to that request until they sort out appropriate guidance from the Old Testament, the ghost of Joseph Goebbels and someone who channels Ayn Rand.
Conservative ideologues contribute as little of use to society as an epoch of plague.
Fire on the Mountain
Click on the picture to get to the story
What we in the Southern Rockies call Fire Season has already begun.
This tale needs no introduction. It is a wonder of American journalism, a superb work of narrative journalism – worth awards. I thank the Atlantic for publishing it and the special skill dedicated to the supplements part of the online edition. I thank Brian Mockenhaupt for his writing.
Thanks, Mike, for the suggestion.
Texas Forest Service watches for wildfires before they burn
Click to enlarge — DoD/Eric Harris
A C-130H Hercules drops a line of fire retardant in West Texas on April 27, 2011
It's around 5 p.m. on a warm Sunday in April 2014, and there is a 1,000-acre wildfire burning in Northwest Texas. The area is under a "Red Flag" warning, meaning that high winds and low humidity are likely to make the fire extremely difficult to fight. By 10 p.m. the fire is just 60 percent contained.
April is near the peak of the region's winter-spring fire season, and the Texas A&M Forest Service is working hard to stay one step ahead of its wildfires. Using NOAA's monitoring tools, the agency's Predictive Services team watches for environmental patterns that signal rough days ahead.
The 14-member Predictive Services department commands about $1.2 million, less than 2 percent of the Forest Service's total budget, but it's a key part of the agency's wildfire response. Its findings underlie many of the preventive and proactive measures the state takes to defend against its sometimes cataclysmic fire seasons…
Predictive Service head Tom Spencer checks in routinely with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, making note of shorter-term weather predictions, longer-term climate models, droughts and other data. NOAA's Fire Weather monitoring tool provides him with detailed forecasts for regions across the United States, including a 7-day forecast and hourly updates on conditions that may influence fire activity. Spencer also relies on NOAA's drought monitors, which track drought outbreaks and provide perspective on drought scope and severity around the country…
On that particular April Sunday the agency was helping tackle at least six infernos, but this fire season has been a fairly moderate one for Texas. Around this time three years ago there were 1.5 million acres burning every day for about three weeks straight.
RTFA for the story of the systems brought to play on Texas wildfires. Understand what fire-forecasting has on offer especially for local and rural fire departments with nothing like the resources needed to fight a major wildfire.
Interesting stuff. Useful – like most real science. So far, most Texas politicians seem to be staying out of the way.
Fire fighting air tanker fleet short of what is needed for growing wildfire risk
With a vast swath of the West primed for wildfires, federal foresters are preparing for the worst with a budget that might run dry and a fleet of air tankers that in some cases aren't ready for takeoff.
A combination of extended drought, warming weather and an abundance of withered trees and grasses have created ideal conditions for fire — more than 22 million acres were blackened by wildfires from 2011-2013, primarily across the West…
In no place is the situation more worrisome than in California, where several years of stingy rainfall have turned forests and scrub into matchsticks and tens of thousands of homes are perched along fire-prone areas.
Firefighters battled a blaze in the mountains east of Los Angeles this week, where temperatures neared triple digits. And states from New Mexico through southern Oregon have been left sere by a lack of rain and snow.
But even as fire risk has increased in recent years, the number of large air tankers dropped.
About a decade ago the Forest Service had more than 40 of the big tankers at its disposal — the draft horses of firefighting aircraft that can dump thousands of gallons of flame-snuffing retardant in a single swoop, far more than a helicopter.
According to federal analysts, the fleet hit a low of eight aircraft at one point last year, depleted by age and concerns over the ability of the planes, in some cases flying since the dawn of the Cold War, to stay in the sky.
Be of good cheer. Contemplate the most reactionary members of Congress in your neck of the prairie – someone as backwards, say, as Steve Pearce in downstate New Mexico. You can guarantee he will shout and rail against Forest Service, state and federal fire-fighters as being Federal agents in practice and policy.
Almost as loud as he and his peers hollered when confronted with legislation in Congress which would authorize spending a few more tax dollars on those air tankers, better salaries and benefits for those first responders. They voted against it of course.
Our states may go up in flames before folks finally toss useless cruds like Pearce off his gravy train based on service to oil companies, mining companies.
Thanks, Mike
Is your state ready for climate disasters?
Whether it's wildfires in the West, drought in the Midwest, or sea level rise on the Eastern seaboard, chances are good your state is in for its own breed of climate-related disasters. Every state is required to file a State Hazard Mitigation Plan with FEMA, which lays out risks for that state and its protocols for handling catastrophe. But as a new analysis from Columbia University's Center for Climate Change Law reveals, many states' plans do not take climate change into account…
While FEMA itself acknowledged this summer that climate change could increase areas at risk from flooding by 45 percent over the next century, states are not required to discuss climate change in their mitigation plans. The Columbia analysis didn't take into account climate planning outside the scope of the mitigation plans, like state-level greenhouse gas limits or renewable energy incentives. And as my colleague Kate Sheppard reported, some government officials have avoided using climate science terminology even in plans that implicitly address climate risks; states that didn't use terms like "climate change" and "global warming" in their mitigation plans were docked points in Columbia's ranking algorithm.
Michael Gerrard said he wasn't surprised to find more attention paid to climate change in coastal states like Alaska and New York that are closest to the front lines. But he was surprised to find that a plurality of states landed in the least-prepared category, suggesting a need, he said, for better communication of non-coastal risks like drought and heat waves.
The Koch Bros and their tools in the Republican Party got one thing right. Americans are such a political lazyass nation that the easiest lie to sell is one that concludes we needn't do a damned thing.
Between lying about climate change, ignoring the effects of climate change, staking absolutely NO claim either for causing climate change or taking responsibility to reverse climate change – reactionary politicians have charted the perfect course for American voters.
Just imitate the Do-Nothing Congress!
Scientists expect wildfires to increase as climate warms – air quality will continue to degrade
As the climate warms in the coming decades, atmospheric scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and their colleagues expect that the frequency of wildfires will increase in many regions. The spike in the number of fires could also adversely affect air quality due to the greater presence of smoke…
Previous studies have probed the links between climate change and fire severity in the West and elsewhere. The Harvard study represents the first attempt to quantify the impact of future wildfires on the air we breathe…
Using a series of models, the scientists predict that the geographic area typically burned by wildfires in the western United States could increase by about 50 percent by the 2050s due mainly to rising temperatures. The greatest increases in area burned (75-175 percent) would occur in the forests of the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains.
In addition, because of extra burning throughout the western United States, one important type of smoke particle, organic carbon aerosols, would increase, on average, by about 40 percent during the roughly half-century period.
"By hypothesizing that the same relationships between meteorology and area burned still hold in the future, we then could predict wildfire activity and emissions from 2000 to the 2050s," explains Jennifer Logan.
As a last step, the researchers used an atmospheric chemistry model to understand how the change in wildfire activity would affect air quality. This model, combining their predictions of areas burned with 2050s meteorology data, shows the emissions and fate of the smoke and other particles emitted by the future wildfires. The resulting diminished air quality could lead to smoggier skies and adversely affect those suffering from lung and heart conditions such as asthma and chronic bronchitis.
It's important to understand these computer models only contained one qualitative factor that changed. Temperature. Everything else is presumed to function as normal. It only takes that one change to screw all of us in the Rocky Mountain West and the Pacific Northwest.
Firefighters struggle with major blazes in Western U.S. states — Congress fiddles!
Firefighters in Western U.S. states struggled to contain out-of-control wind-stoked wildfires on Saturday as summer temperatures mounted, and a fresh blaze consumed more homes in Colorado even as Utah allowed 2,500 evacuees back for the night.
Colorado firefighters remained unable to halt the spread of the High Park Fire, a growing 81,190-acre blaze in steep canyons west of Fort Collins. The fire jumped containment lines on Friday and roared through a subdivision, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents…
As firefighters focused on that monster blaze, a fire that erupted 18 miles away in a cabin near the Rocky Mountain National Park ripped through 21 vacation dwellings and full-time residences in Estes Park, the area's fire chief said…
In Denver, a dense canopy of gray smoke could be seen drifting east from the fire zone over Colorado's high plains, at times blocking the view of the mountains, and the smell of burning timber wafted through the city.
The High Park fire is blamed for the death of a 62-year-old grandmother who perished in her mountain cabin. It is already the state's most destructive and the second-largest on record in Colorado.
As of Friday, there were 15 large, uncontained wildfires being fought across the country, most in six Western states – Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona – the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, reported…
The biggest by far was the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire in New Mexico, that state's largest on record, which has charred almost 300,000 acres. That blaze is nearly 90 percent contained.
Suspected arsonists sought as wildfires rage in Texas
Dropping water one bucket at a time
One of the dozens of massive blazes that have torched rain-starved Texas was set by arsonists, police say.
Cops in Leander are hunting for two teenage girls and two teenage boys suspected of starting a fire Monday night that gutted around a dozen houses and forced hundreds of people to evacuated their homes…
The teens were spotted running through a wooded area where the fire started, police said. The city was offering up to $2,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the arsonists.
Local reports said the blaze ripped through at least 300 acres, destroyed 11 homes and damaged at least eight homes around Leander, about 22 miles northwest of Austin…
Investigators say one of girl suspects was wearing a pink shirt and blue jeans, and she had black hair that may have been dyed. The other girl was described as having dirty blond hair in a white T-shirt and jeans. Both boys had dark, shaggy hair and were dressed in jeans, police said. All four teens are white, cops said.
More than 150 different wildfires have ravaged hundreds of thousands of acres and destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Texas this week.
One fire, in Bastrop, southeast of Austin, was described as the most devastating wildfire in more than a decade. That fire raged for a fourth-consecutive day on Wednesday, consuming 45 square miles and forcing 7,000 to evacuate the area. More than 600 homes were said to have been destroyed, and four people have been killed.
Murder is murder is murder. If they catch these kids and they are proven to have started fires – throw away the key.
In a related story – a DC10 air tanker ain't flying and dropping water on fires because the state of Texas in their infinite wisdom [which means Rick Perry] was too cheap to hire a backup pilot. The only one they hired has exceeded maximum consecutive hours for a pilot to be allowed to fly.
Yes, there are safety reasons for that – the maximum flying hours, not the cheapskate part.
idiot governor calls for prayers to halt wildfires
Mr. Mouth calling for state sovereignty
Texas Governor Rick Perry called on Texans to pray for rain as cooler temperatures on Thursday helped firefighters contain wildfires that have charred more than 1.5 million acres across the state.
Perry, a Republican, sought increased federal help in combating the blazes last weekend and urged Texans to ask the same from a higher power over the Easter holiday weekend.
This is the same buffoon who endorses secession and states' rights when his butt isn't burning.
"Throughout our history, both as a state and as individuals, Texans have been strengthened, assured and lifted up through prayer," Perry said in a statement. "It is fitting that Texans should join together in prayer to humbly seek an end to this ongoing drought and these devastating wildfires."
A wave of moisture and cooler weather had already helped the roughly 1,800 firefighters and support crews contain nine fires and make headway against many more by Thursday morning. Mother Nature generally accomplishes more than ideology.
But conditions fueling the fast-moving wildfires that killed two volunteer firefighters and destroyed 200 homes this month would not ease for good, officials warned.
This silly-ass Kool Aid Party Republikan whines most of the year about Big Government. Except when he needs a hand-up or a hand-out.
Like most of the hustlers who currently own the Republican Party he's a national-class hypocrite. That he calls upon his dimwit followers to exercise their fundamentalist superstitions to assuage the natural results of administrative incompetence – follows as night the day.
Marysville fire survivors return home – to what remains
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Six weeks after fires devastated parts of southern Australia, residents of one of the worst-affected towns have finally been allowed to go
Marysville was almost completely destroyed by bushfires on 7 February. It has been sealed off ever since by the police, who have been searching for the remains of victims and investigating suspicions of arson.
Forty-five people died when fires tore through Marysville, north-east of the Victorian state capital, Melbourne. The destruction of the picturesque town became a symbol of the bushfire disaster, the worst in Australia's recent history…
Victoria's Deputy Police Commissioner Kieran Walshe says the forensic work in Marysville is over.
"It's in excess of 4,000 buildings and structures that we've searched in the last couple of weeks, so it's been a massive exercise to get that done," he said. "We're comfortable now that we've located and recovered all human remains," he added.
Now, folks must begin that terrible long journey back to normalcy. I'm afraid that for some, that's never going to come.
You can sit around and make up existential one-liners every day. Losing everything you possess means losing a lot of memories, a great deal of the history of your life.


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Kenyatta and Tracey Brame will receive a national award from the Boy Scouts of America.
"Voice of the Scout" offers an opportunity for you to give your input about the Scouting program to ALL levels, from local all the way up to National- We're listening!
Check out the many opportunities for training available to you!
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After year delay, Jersey City chromium contamination lawsuit to proceed
Lawsuit calling for PPG Industries to clean up 17-acre site along heavily populated Garfield Avenue will go forward, thanks to a New Jersey federal judge's decision.
Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:39 PM
In mid-2009, several environmental groups including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit in Newark Federal District Court regarding "the largest remaining Jersey City site riddled with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium." The lawsuit calls for Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries, the main entity responsible for the contamination, to clean up and decontaminate the approximately 17-acre site and surrounding contaminated areas "located in a densely populated area along Garfield Avenue."
The chromium contamination is a byproduct of the chromate chemical production facility which operated on the site from 1924-1963. "Although Cr is an essential element for humans, the hexavalent form is toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic." A 2008 federal study "found that city residents living closer to chromium-contaminated sites have significantly higher incidents of lung cancer than those living farther away." The contaminant has been shown to not only cause cancer but also respiratory, liver and kidney damage. The hexavalent chromium is also toxic to animals.
The real problem is that hexavalent chromium "has a high solubility in soils and groundwater and, as a consequence, tends to be mobile in the environment." The possibility of the contaminant seeping into the water supply of a densely populated area (such as Jersey City) could prove disastrous. Already, "tests also reveal that chromium contamination has migrated off the site to surrounding areas, including inside homes, and schools in the densely populated African American and Latino community." Experts anticipate the contamination spreading "until the site is cleaned up."
However, the lawsuit and any following clean-up "had been on hold since last summer when the responsible party for cleaning up the 16.6-acre site along Garfield Avenue, PPG Industries, argued that a cleanup agreement it negotiated with the state and city barred the case." Fortunately, on March 29 a federal judge ruled that the lawsuit will be allowed to proceed.
The lawsuit claims that PPG has known of the contamination for over 25 years and is guilty of negligence. If that is true, the fact that PPG watched quietly as the surrounding area grew more and more populated can only be described as atrocious. One must also ask if the developers of the land surrounding the area are also guilty of negligence, especially if they knew about the contamination.
Now that the contamination is common, public knowledge, the city and the state should take action to make sure no new residents come in and are exposed until serious action has been taken regarding the clean-up. So, when I found out the site itself "is slated for 4,000 housing units and a new Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Station," I was naturally disappointed.
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Cheesecake Factory
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LongHorn Steakhouse operates 350 restaurants in 33 states. For over 29 years, LongHorn Steakhouse has proudly served steaks, ...
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PITTSBURGH (93-7 THE FAN) — Steelers Hall of Fame defensive lineman Joe Greene joined Vinnie and Cook.
Greene talks about how difficult it is for him to be in Indianapolis without the Steelers involved.
He also discusses the fines and suspensions for hits. Greene says that football is a game of contact, and the game cannot be changed to minimize injuries.
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This is well.. Appalling. JadaKiss and Styles P take a stab a Kanye's So Appalled instrumental.
Download: Jadakiss & Styles P – So Appalled Freestyle
niggaz killed it… i dun fuck wit kanye he a bitch so this track was better than his.
kanye cant rap these niggaz is ill… i dare a nigga to say kanye harder than d-block
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I heard that, P and Jada been in this basement long before soft A** kanye. They rep real rap.
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Bakery equipment manufacturer Unifiller's robot can frost and decorate a cake much more efficiently than you. (via Laughing Squid)
Scientifically kinda-accurate Earth cake, with molten core of raspberry jam
Behold the splendid "Earth Cake" baked and decorated by Redditor Clatence. "The cake is a mixture of chocolate and red velvet cake mixes," Clatence explains. The core is raspberry jam. Nicely done!
Business Software Alliance accused of pirating the photo they used in their snitch-on-pirates ad
The Business Software Alliance -- a proprietary software industry group -- has pulled a controversial ad that promised cash to people who snitched on friends and employers who used pirated software, after they were credibly accused of pirating the image used in the campaign.
The ad used a photo of a pot of gold, captioned with "Your pot of gold is right here baby. Report unlicensed software and GET PAID." The photo used in the ad was of a cake baked by Cakecentral user Bethasd (the cake itself is pretty amazing! "St. Patrick's Day Pot O' Gold - Chocolate Guinness cake with Bailey's Irish Buttercream").
The BSA has refused to comment on its use of the photo, or to confirm that it was licensed prior to use, but they immediately pulled the ad after being asked about it. Meanwhile, Torrentfreak "encourage[s] 'bethasd' to get in contact with the software industry group, and demand both licensing fees and damages for the unauthorized use of her photo. Surely, the BSA will be happy to hand over a pot of gold to her."
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Printable Haunted Mansion tombstone templates
Spoonful's Haunted Mansion Cupcake recipe comes with a set of printable tombstone templates that you can print to cardstock and use to garnish your carb-delivery-vehicles. But they'd also be great for other projects: graveyard dioramae, lapel badges, etc and so forth.
Haunted Mansion Cupcake Tombstones
OMG Nipple! cake in honor of Amanda Palmer's Daily Mail song
A sugary-sweet coda to Amanda Palmer's song for the Daily Mail with its climactic "OMG NIPPLE!" Some of Amanda's fans in Minnesota baked her a nipple-cake [link NSFW, especially if you W at the DM] sporting "5 different skin tones, 2 piercings, 2 tattoos, a mastectomy scar, a tan line, freckles, and a birth mark."
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HOWTO bake nested, hemispherical cakes
Cakecrumbs, who created the amazing Jupiter Cake and Earth Cake, has posted a tutorial (with video) explaining in detail how to bake nested, hemispherical cakes so you can create your own.
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Haunted Mansion-themed wedding
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Back in 2010, Jason and Melissa -- a pair of haunters who got engaged in their Hallowe'en front-yard haunt -- had an amazing Haunted Mansion-themed wedding, with elaborate props and keepsakes and centerpieces, each finer than the last. Naturally, they held the wedding at the Forest Lawn Cemetery chapel, a Gothic confection; and they served a 3D Haunted Mansion wedding-cake.
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Ne plus ultra of retrogamer wedding cakes
This amazing retro-gamer wedding cake was made by Wedding Cakes By Nicole of Bunbury, Australia. The cake pays homage to many of the arcade greats:
I created a 3 tier square cake, with each of the sides representing a popular retro platform game. Topped off with a game off Pong, with the score depicting Stephen's "30" years. The board had a joystick, buttons and coin slot. Pacman (my favourite), Donkey Kong, Frogger & Tetris
Dimity asked me to create a cake for her Fiance, Stephen, who loves "old school" computer games. (via Geeks are Sexy)
Cell model cake
Canadian artist/photographer NicoleWilliam created this cell model cake for her BIOL330 class in 2010. I hereby grant her a retrospective A+. It even comes apart!
Skull wedding cake
Baker Anna at Eat Your Heart Out Bakers made this astounding skull wedding-cake.
Food artist Annabel de Vetten, also known as Conjurer's Kitchen, created this incredible skull wedding cake for the Eclectic Wedding Extravaganza in Birmingham this weekend. Her theme being " 'Til Death Do Us Part".
It features solid chocolate skulls of 16 carrion crows, 12 domestic kittens, 3 Vervet monkeys, and 4 barn owls, all of which the artist sculpted by hand. Made from White Chocolate Mudcake, the cake took her over 100 hours to complete in total. There are two options of toppers: a chocolate conjoined kitten skull, or dried flowers from an actual wedding bouquet (ones shown here from her own).
The Ultimate Skull Wedding Cake (Thanks, Emma!)
Would you eat the saddest Cyberman (if he was a cake)?
What has a shiny exterior, is three feet tall, devoid of human emotions... and also edible? That would be this Cyberman cake, designed and available to buy (in the UK) from Truly Scrumptious Designer Cakes. Look at this thing. It's adorable. You would never guess, by looking at this cake-face, that this is a creature born from evil alien takeovers and the extermination of the human race. This Cyberman looks like a sweetie pie to me. Sorry -- sweetie cake. As cute as it is, it doesn't come cheap (£790, about $1,260). But it does come in a variety of flavors: sponge, toffee, chocolate, and lemon. I dare you to find a dalek cake with a face this cute. I triple-dog dare you. (via That's Nerdalicious)
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Cake or snake?
Gareth Branwyn of MAKE says: "Francesca Pitcher from North Star Cakes in the UK created this amazingly realistic Burmese python cake for her daughter's birthday. She posted it on her Facebook page and it's gone viral from there. Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes even tweeted about it."
Screaming black female circumcision cake controversial
Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth cut into an unusual cake at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm this Saturday, and found herself at the center of a controversy some might say could have been predicted.
The remarkable cake design--featuring a edible black torso and the artist's head screaming as guests tucked in--was intended to draw attention to female genital mutilation in Africa.
Campaigners, however, say it is itself an unacceptable caricature. From Sweden's The Local:
"In our view, this simply adds to the mockery of racism in Sweden," [said] Kitimbwa Sabuni, spokesperson for the National Afro-Swedish Association."This was a racist spectacle."
... the culture minister began cutting a large cake shaped like a black woman, symbolically starting at the clitoris. Makode Aj Linde, the artist who created the installation and whose head is part of the cake cut by the minister, wrote about the "genital mutilation cake" on his Facebook page.
"Before cutting me up she whispered, 'Your life will be better after this' in my ear," he wrote in a caption next to the partially eaten cake.
Minister in 'racist circumcision outrage' [The Local]
HOWTO make a novice-baker TARDIS cake
Bruce sez, "How Stella made her own Doctor Who themed TARDIS cake at home on her own with no previous experience. Includes pictures throughout the process."
I wanted a TARDIS cake that actually had the shape of the police box. I didn't want to just draw a TARDIS on top of a cake. The TARDIS is vertical, not horizontal, so I knew I would have to stack cakes to make it work. Without wanting to make it too impractical or large, I decided to make a flat cake and cut smaller square pieces until I got to the right height. This would be my TARDIS, and then I'd put this on top of a second cake to make a scene featuring the TARDIS landing on a grassy field, which would also ensure I'd have enough cake for the guests, since the TARDIS itself might not be big enough.
Geeky Homemade Doctor Who TARDIS Cake (Thanks, Bruce!)
Romantic Death Star cake serving suggestion
If you're looking for serving suggestions to accompany yesterday's post on how to bake a Death Star cake, have a look at this groom's cake that @paulblomdahl's wife made for him.


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Why John Wesley flopped on the Atonement and maybe more
Joel Tiegreen
The work that Christ accomplished on the cross for our salvation is a vital doctrine in the Christian faith that is usually called the atonement. John Wesley was adamant that this doctrine was of the utmost importance, and he vigorously detested what he thought to be misuses of it. Wesley clearly saw that all of a Christian's doctrinal armor hangs on that divine person's work whose name is Christ. If one's armor were sagging, drooping, or dented, he would not be an effective soldier in the ranks of Christ's army. But was Wesley's amour dented or even missing? To know Wesley's view on the atonement it is important to look at his thoughts and the opposing viewpoint to see what the similarities and differences are. Also very important to this endeavor is to see what the implications are of the differing views and why John Wesley and George Whitfield got into such a scuffle.
Wesley believed that, "nothing in the Christian system is of greater consequence than the doctrine of atonement."[1] In this doctrine Wesley understood that Christ died to satisfy the wrath of God. Wesley held that the purpose of Christ's death was the restoration of man's relationship with God. In the acquisition of this restoration, Wesley believed that Christ broke our enslavement to sin and death and reclaimed the possibility for man's felicity with God. This restoration of man to God's presence should produce a growing in divine likeness in the life of the believer.[2] Since, Wesley rightly valued the work of the atonement, we can see why he would so strongly oppose a viewpoint that allegedly would hinder the effects of its work.
Taking care not to infringe on his personal views of the means by which Christ accomplished his work, Wesley apprehended a view of atonement that was universal in nature and pardoning in purpose. Some have called this apprehension, universal atonement. Wesley asserted that Christ died to alleviate the wrath of God so that it would no longer be directed toward men. He used Bible verses such as, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life,"[3] and, "All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation,"[4] to proclaim that Christ would pardon all men. [5]
Wesley's adversaries (the Calvinists) held to the view that Christ's death was a substitution for our sins. For the Calvinist, Christ's death was for our sin. It was our sin that had deserved God's wrath, and so Christ died in our place to satisfy the wrath of God that we accumulated by our sin. The Calvinists believed that our sin was imputed to Christ and Christ's righteousness was imputed to us. God's wrath against our sins was infinite and so the satisfaction of the wrath on our behalf must also be infinite.[6] However, Wesley was clever enough to see that this view was not compatible with his understanding of Christ's work.
Wesley rejected the Calvinistic view of substitutionary atonement because it leads to the unavoidable conclusion that Christ's righteousness is imputed to the sinner and the sinner's sin is imputed to Christ. Wesley believed that Christ's death was wrath satisfaction rather then wrath substitution. In a letter to James Hervey concerning the imputed righteousness of Christ, Wesley wrote , " the metaphysical doctrine of Imputed Righteousness leads not to repentance but to licentiousness."[7] Later in the letter Wesley replies to Hervey on the matter of the substitution of Christ's righteousness in our stead, Hervey asked, ""If He was our substitute as to penal sufferings, why not as to justifying obedience?"(page 135). Wesley responded with, "This is not expressly asserted there (in the Scriptures).""[8] Wesley obviously had a little animosity toward the imputed righteousness of Christ, but one can see why Wesley had made this objection.
Wesley did not want people to believe that the blood of Christ saved them so they could then go live like the Devil. This is obviously a genuine and valid concern. Being concerned for the holiness of people's lives is good, but that will never validate going against scripture and God's means that he has instituted; at least that is what Whitfield would have probably said. Calvinists trust that believers are chosen and called by God; the believer will become righteous through Christ's sanctifying work because he has already been declared righteous by God because of Christ. For the Calvinist, a believer will grow without manipulation because they are new creatures. The problem is that if Wesley was right about his view of God and of man's will in salvation, then the Calvinist view would certainly lead to antinomianism.
Part of the concern that Calvinists have with Wesley's denial of imputed righteousness is that it effects justification. Wesley wrote in his Doctrinal Minutes that justification is "to be pardoned and received into God's favor; into such a state, that if we continue therein, we shall be finally saved. Faith is the sole 'condition' of justification".[9] Although this definition highlights many foundational truths that were accomplished in Christ's work, it leaves out the imputed righteousness of Christ. This of course was intentional on Wesley's part, being that he denied imputation. But why did Wesley adjust the Reformers view of the atonement, justification, and imputed righteousness?
Wesley believed that the Reformers view of imputation and justification hindered the believer's motivation for sanctification. Since Wesley was a synergist he believed that sanctification was, "the ability to cooperate with God, and thereby to prosper and grow in grace, but also the obligation to do so."[10] The cooperation of God and man in salvation that Wesley believed in was the reason why he held that substitutionary atonement lead eventually to imputation and then to antinomianism. Hervey makes another statement and then Wesley quickly retorts. Hervey asks, ""How must our righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees? Not only in being sincere, but in possessing a complete righteousness, even that of Christ." (page 197.) Wesley replied, "Did our Lord mean this? Nothing less. He specifies in the following parts of His sermon the very instances wherein the righteousness of a Christian exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees."" [11] We see here that Wesley believed that Christ's atonement was the beginning of sanctification, making it possible that we may actually become righteous. Maddox writes, "For Wesley, the value of justification was precisely its contribution to the higher goal of sanctification—our recovery of the Likeness of God."[12] This shows that Wesley's denial of imputation led him to an obscure view of justification and sanctification. Daniel Crowe asked the right question: "Which came first in Wesley's ordo salutis, justification or sanctification?"[13]
It seems that Wesley held a view of justification that was similar to that of Rome even though he stated it was a prerequisite to sanctification. Wesley's sermon, "Justification by Faith" vividly displays his view:
Least of all does justification imply that God is deceived in those whom he justifies; that he thinks them to be what, in fact, they are not; that he counts them to be otherwise than they are. It does by no means imply that God judges us contrary to the real nature of things; that he esteems us better than we really are, or believes us righteous when we are unrighteous…[or]…judge that I am righteous and holy, because another is so.[14]
The statement by Wesley that God does not "judge us contrary to the real nature of things" is a direct denial of substitutionary atonement, imputed righteousness and possibly justification by faith alone. If God does not judge us contrary to the nature of a thing then all men will be damned unless "the thing" that God judges is Christ's righteousness. But Wesley says that the nature of the man is actually righteous before God; he adds that it is by Christ's power of course, but this does not fix the problem. In Wesley's view our righteousness is enabled by Christ and given by his grace, but it is not Christ himself. Maddox explains,
Our very capacity for growth in Christ-likeness (New Birth) is contingent upon God's gracious pardoning prevenience (initial justification), while the continuance of God's acceptance (final justification) becomes contingent upon our responsive growth in Christ-likeness (sanctification). [Thus] Justification is…a facet of God's saving grace permeating the entire Way of Salvation.[15]
When Wesley adds this doctrine of final justification he nullifies the initial justification because our salvation is then contingent on our cooperation. This means that our salvation is really resting on our cooperation (even if Christ enabled) to be sanctified and holy. This means that our justification is not from Christ's righteousness that was granted to us in the atonement, but in the root of our own inward righteousness. Wesley would say that our righteousness was enabled by Christ and is our righteousness, not his.[16] So for Wesley, our justification is based on the fruit of our choices. For Whitfield (and God) this was a problem, because he believed that our justification was based on Christ alone and was not contingent on our works. The Reformers believed (like Whitfield) that good works are the fruit of justification and not the root of justification. As Luther himself wrote:
A Christian is righteous and holy by an alien or foreign holiness- I call it this for the sake of instruction-that is, he is righteous by the mercy and grace of God. It is a divine blessing, given us through the true knowledge of the Gospel, when we know or believe that our sin has been forgiven through the grace and merit of Christ. Is not this righteousness an alien righteousness? It consists completely in the indulgence of another and it is a pure gift of God, who shows mercy and favor for Christ's sake.[17]
It is this alien or imputed righteousness that Whitfield held and Wesley rejected. Granted, Wesley's doctrine of Atonement and justification are not the same in modus operandi as Rome, but in substance they seem to be rather similar. The implications of this distinction could be devastating to Wesley and his view of the atonement. Luther again writes:
If the article of justification is lost, all Christian doctrine is lost at the same time. And all the people in the world who do not hold to this justification are either Jews or Turks or papists or heretic; for there is no middle ground between these two righteousnesses: the active one of the Law and the passive one which comes from Christ. Therefore the man who strays from Christian righteousness must relapse into the active one, that is, since he has lost Christ he must put his confidence in his own works. [18]
Hopefully Wesley was just wrongly articulating these terms and could rightly explain his distinction if asked, because this sure sounds like Rome.
Whitfield suspected Wesley was promoting salvation by works and Wesley supposed Whitfield was promoting antinomianism. It is easy to see how their friendship was strained. Randy L. Maddox writes, "tensions with the Calvinist Methodists on the concept of imputed active righteousness was used against Wesley as a defense for why Christians are already seen as perfect by God."[19] Wesley's friend George Whitfield gave a clear response to Wesley's objection that imputed righteousness led people away from good works,
Justification not only signifies remission of sins past, but also the federal right to all good things to come. As the obedience to Christ is imputed to believers, so his perseverance in that obedience is imputed to them also. Never did more absurdities flow from the denying of any doctrine than will flow from the denying of Christ's imputed righteousness. You say because we preach this we deny good works; this is the usual objection against the doctrine of imputed righteousness. But this is a slander, an impudent slander.[20]
The tension in Wesley and Whitfield's relationship can certainly be felt in this letter. The matter of imputed righteousness was definitely one of the key doctrines in the dispute between Wesley and Whitfield. This doctrine of imputed righteousness was also directly tied to the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. Substitution meant that Christ was our substitute. He took our sins and we took his righteousness. This is why Wesley opposed the Calvinists in the matter of substitutionary atonement.
First, he supposed that if Christians thought themselves already righteous then there would be no motivation to move on to perfection.[21] Being that he thought this way, Wesley engendered a view of the atonement that fit his doctrinal thesis and procured a foundation for his views on the work of Christ. In another place Maddox writes that, "these rejections (of substitutionary atonement) led to occasional charges that he had given up the atonement per se."[22] But this was not the case. Wesley was not as clear on some of his doctrinal distinctions as one might desire. John Deschner reiterates well, "It is true that Wesley's theology was not a settled system of doctrine, as Calvin's was."[23] While Wesley may not have had exquisite perfection in his beliefs, he did give us enough to understand his thought.
Another reason for the quarrel over substitutionary language was the nature of the atonement. As noted previously, Wesley saw that substitutionary atonement was the first link in a chain. It was followed by imputed righteousness and limited atonement; Wesley would not stand for that definition or comprehension of atonement. For Wesley, the atonement was representative of humanity and not substitutionary for humanity. As Maddox puts it, "Christ did not take our place in punishment, his death took the place of our punishment." [24] This small distinction may sound minute, but for Wesley it was the difference between God being the devil and God being God. Wesley was wise enough to perceive that if substitutionary atonement was true then it would lead to one of two things: Universal Definite Atonement or Limited or Definite Atonement. That is, either Christ died for all men and therefore all would be saved, or Christ died only for those who repent and believe.[25] Wesley clearly did not believe that all humans would eventually be saved and so he emphatically denied Universal Definite Atonement. How could Christ be one's substitute and then that person go to hell? This was impossible. Wanting to avoid the Calvinistic notion of election, Wesley also denounced Limited/Definite Atonement. Since Wesley believed that this was not scriptural, he advocated his position against substitutionary atonement with much enthusiasm. What Wesley probably did not know is that Calvinistic election does not have to be directly correlated to the atonement. In other words, Christ could have died for all and still ordained to only save the elect. This viewpoint is demonstrated in such persuasions as Amyraldianism or Hypothetical Universalism. However, most Calvinists consider this view to be incoherent and contradictory.
Wesley's greatest defense against the notion of substitutionary atonement was biblical texts with phrases such as for all and the world that he associated with Christ dying for all men. Peering into a few of the key passages in this debate will help us better understand the foundations of the differing parties.
Wesley commonly advocated verses like the following in his assault on limited atonement.
"Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died," (Rom. 14:15,) — a clear proof that Christ died, not only for those that are saved, but also for them that perish: He is "the Saviour of the world;" (John 4:42;) He is "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world;" (John 1:29;) "He is the propitiation, not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world;" (1 John 2:2;) "He," the living God, "is the Savior of all men;" (1 Timothy 4:10;) "He gave himself a ransom for all;" (1 Tim. 2:6;) "He tasted death for every man." (Heb. 2:9.)[26]
John 3:16 was prime battling ground, stating, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."[27] Wesley would interpret this verse quantitatively to mean that Christ died for every man in the world.[28] A Calvinist would answer that if Christ died for these people then it would be unjust for God to send them to hell.[29] Calvinists typically look at this passage in light v19 and interpret world in a qualitative sense rather than a quantitative sense. That is to say, that God sent his Son to die for this evil world that did not deserve his sacrifice.
Calvinists such as George Whitfield would present verses to Wesley such as,
"The righteous one, my servant, will make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. He was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities."[30] "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."[31] "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."[32] "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."[33] "Care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood."[34]
In response to verses like these that show the particular redemptive nature of the atonement, Wesley stated:
Whatever that Scripture proves, it never can prove this; whatever its true meaning be. This cannot be its true meaning. Do you ask, "What is its true meaning then?" If I say, " I know not," you have gained nothing; for there are many scriptures the true sense whereof neither you nor I shall know till death is swallowed up in victory. But this I know, better it were to say it had no sense, than to say it had such a sense as this. It cannot mean, whatever it mean besides, that the God of truth is a liar. Let it mean what it will, it cannot mean that the Judge of all the world is unjust.[35]
Besides the stark disagreements between Wesley and Calvinists like George Whitfield, there were areas of agreement as well. Wesley even said that, "His theology came within a hairs breadth of Calvinism."[36] Although this should probably be taken with a large grain of salt, it is fair to say that Wesley and the Calvinists share some of the same ground. Both sides believe that Jesus died to save. Both sides believe that Christ's death was defending God's justice and showing love simultaneously. And both Wesley and the Calvinists believe that the atonement of Christ is a necessary and key Christian doctrine. But, the differences between Wesley and the Calvinists do matter and should not be thrown to the side.
In conclusion, we have seen that Wesley views the atonement of Christ as an immeasurably central doctrine to the Christian faith. Wesley believed that the atonement of Christ was the only way for God to pardon our sin and reconcile us back to himself. Wesley held that Christ died to satisfy God's wrath so that God would not have to satisfy his wrath on our sin. Also he asserted that the atonement was universal in its nature. This was quite different from the biblical teaching of the Calvinists whom he opposed. They held that Christ died for our sin to relinquish the wrath of God. Christ's righteousness was imputed to us and our sin was imputed to him. They believed that Christ's atonement was for his bride, the church, and not for the world that rejects him. Wesley saw that these views did not fit with his picture of God and advocated against them. Wesley went into dangerous territory with his view of the atonement that led him to throw aside imputed righteousness and possibly justification by faith alone. If this is the case should Wesley be considered apostate along with Rome? Luther would say so!
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- - - Sermons of John Wesley: The Lord our Righteousness. (Nov. 24, 1765)
- - -. A letter to James Hervey. (Oct.15, 1756).
- - -. Letter to John Newton, 14 May, 1765
- - -. Works of John Wesley: (Works of John Wesley). New York: Abingdon Press, 1987. Print. Sermon 7 The Way To the Kingdom
- - -. Works of John Wesley: Sermons IV : 115-151 (Works of John Wesley). New York: Abingdon Press, 1987. Print.
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[1] Wesley, John. A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Law (6 Jan. 1756).
[2] Maddox, Randy L.. Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology (Kingswood Series). Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1994. Print. P. 97
[3] Holy Bible: English Standard Version. Leicester, England: Crossway Books, 2009. John 3:16
[4] ESV 2 Corinthians 5:19
[5] Wesley, John. Works of John Wesley: Sermons IV : 115-151 (Works of John Wesley). New York: Abingdon Press, 1987. Print. Sermon 128 Free Grace
[6] Calvin, John. Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 Volume Set). 1559 translation ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. Print.
[7] Wesley, John. A letter to James Hervey. (Oct.15, 1756).
[8] Wesley, John. A letter to James Hervey. (Oct.15, 1756).
[9] Thomas Oden, John Wesley's Scriptural Christianity: A Plain Exposition of His Teaching on Christian Doctrine. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994), 201—Quoting Wesley's Minutes, June 25, 1744.
[10] Kenneth J. Collins, The Scripture Way of Salvation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997) 154.
[11] Wesley, John. A letter to James Hervey. (Oct.15, 1756).
[12] Randy L. Maddox, Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994), 172.
[13] Crowe Daniel, Wesley on Justification.
[14] Wesley, John. "Justification by Faith." No Pages. 1999.
[15] Randy L. Maddox, Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994),172.
[16] It is Christ's righteousness only in the sense that he gave us the grace to go and work it out ourselves.
[17] Luther, Martin, What Luther says, 710-11.
[18] Luther, Martin, What Luther says, 710-11.
[19] Maddox, Randy L.. Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology (Kingswood Series). Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1994. Print. P. 104
[20] Select Sermons of George Whitefield With an Account of his Life by J. C. Ryle (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1958 with Ryle's Life written in 1873), p. 129
[21] Maddox, Randy L.. Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology (Kingswood Series). Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1994. Print. P. 104
[22] Maddox, Randy L.. Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology (Kingswood Series). Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1994. Print. P. 102
[23] Deschner, John. Wesley's Christology: An Interpretation. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1960. Print. P. 17
[24] Deschner, John. Wesley's Christology: An Interpretation. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1960. Print. P. 17
[25] Maddox, Randy L.. Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology (Kingswood Series). Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1994. Print. P. 104
[26] Wesley, John. Works of John Wesley: Sermons IV : 115-151 (Works of John Wesley). New York: Abingdon Press, 1987. Print. Sermon 128 Free Grace
[27] ESV John 3:16
[28] Wesley, John. Works of John Wesley: (Works of John Wesley). New York: Abingdon Press, 1987. Print. Sermon 7 The Way To the Kingdom
[29] Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology - 3 Volume Set. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1968. Print. V.3 P.329-330
[30] Isaiah 53:10,11,5
[31] ESV Mark 10:45
[32] ESV Ephesians 5:25
[33]ESV John 10:11
[34] ESV Acts 20:28
[35] Wesley, John. Works of John Wesley: Sermons IV : 115-151 (Works of John Wesley). New York: Abingdon Press, 1987. Print. Sermon 128 Free Grace
[36] Wesley, John. Letter to John Newton, 14 May, 1765


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Going into Thursday's game against the Milwaukee Brewers, I knew what I was hoping for out of Pittsburgh Pirates starter Francisco Liriano, but I wasn't quite sure if that would actually match up with the result on the field.
This wasn't the New York Mets he was facing, it was the team that has been a thorn in the Pirates paw for quite some time now. While Lirinao got into and also got bailed out of a few jams, he hung in there on a night when he didn't quite have his best stuff and only gave up one run. While he didn't go as deep into the game as Clint Hurdle may have liked him to, he kept the Bucs in the game until the offense did its thing.
It was absolutely beautiful to see they Pirates kick the ever-loving crap out of the Brewers. It was a long-awaited and much-needed victory, especially in the fashion the Pirates did it in. You could tell the players were enjoying it just as much as the fans were.
Going into Friday night's game with the Astros, the Pirates should come into the game with a little extra swagger. A good team walks on to the diamond each night knowing they are going to win. They will do whatever it takes to accomplish that. At 24-17, the Pirates are proving that they are a good baseball team.Each night, someone different is stepping up to help the Pirates win ball games. They are winning games with Andrew McCutchen not yet up to full speed as far as his offensive stats go, but he is hitting the ball hard and I think ready to bust out.
I also have to say this: not only should the Pirates win this series, they should sweep it. That's what good baseball teams do.
The Astros are the worst team in baseball. Now I also know anything can happen in this sport, but the Pirates need to send a message out to all the talking heads. They need to sweep this series which would put them on a six-game winning streak and force the national media and the rest of baseball itself to realize that the Pirates are nobody's doormat anymore. Teams need to have the respect that when they play Pittsburgh, they better be at their best or they are in trouble.
The Pirates have not had this good of a record at this point of the year in a long time. Yes, there is a lot of baseball left to be played and a lot can happen over a long season as we all painfully know. This year just feels different. The Pirates can prove it by sweeping a team that should be swept. It's time to move on.
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