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Daughters of Israel's womb;
Weep for yourselves", said Christ
"Not for my cross or tomb".
Structured for Lent, but practical for any time of the year, this new resource examines the lament psalms for their connections to contemporary experiences. The introduction acquaints the reader with Dr. Walter Brueggemann's analysis of the psalms into the categories of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation. A contemporary psalm/poem for each entry discerns the emotional tenor of the psalms and makes it relevant for the challenges of contemporary life and relationships.
read moreI thought I'd pretty well covered the territory in a "musing" I wrote a few years ago called "The Varieties of God", a listing of the many alternatives along the spectrum between traditional theism and atheism. But Ryan Bell has added a new one: provisional atheism. Godlessness for the time being. He's gone public with this status, and I intend to follow his "Year Without God" blog to see how it goes for him.
read moreBeing a child of God – for Jesus and for the rest of us – is a poetic way of describing our direct, personal engagement with Ultimate Reality. It is an artful expression of ourselves as physically integrated with the divine essence of the cosmos. Being the son or daughter of God does not mean that any of us can leap off the cross in a single bound.
read moreThe dry bones raised by Ezekiel are a metaphor for those who died in the service of God's justice: those who died working to restore God's distributive justice-compassion to God's Earth, and who themselves never saw the transformation. The army of dry bones is an army exiled from justice. Fairness demands that if Jesus was resurrected into an Earth transformed into God's realm of justice-compassion, then all the other martyrs who died too soon should also be raised with him. "But in fact," Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:20, "Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died." It is the Christ – the transformed and transfigured post-Easter Jesus – who has started that general resurrection, which restores justice-compassion to a transformed Earth. The transformation has begun with Jesus, and continues with you and me – IF we sign on to the program.
read morePresider: God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Presider: Open your hearts.
People: We open our hearts to God.
A growing number of progressive Christians, for a decade or more, have seen themselves less and less of being a theist, that is as one who believes in a 'God out there' who intervenes with and over rules the laws of nature. Yet many of these are still very happy to use the words Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This Trinitarian descriptor expresses the way in which Christians may encounter or interpret our 'God', but 'God' is much more. For many progressive Christians, the Trinity is an expression of different people and communities living in perfect harmony. Now that really is heaven on earth!
read moreI'd like to invite you into a conversation we've been having at the First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael these last weeks of Lent, a conversation about evolution and faith. We're not talking about a six day creation, with God resting on the seventh. I really, really hope that argument's over and done with. No, we're talking about evolution as the way in which everything unfolds in all of creation. We are looking at a creation that evolves and opens towards unity, or shalom, in the presence of God.
read moreA Lenten tradition in Western Christianity is to meditate upon the journey Christ took to Calvary. These stations or steps are found both in the Scriptures and in the traditions and legends of catholic Christianity. For many this practice is used to participate in the suffering and sacrifice endured by Christ. I encourage you to also take up this journey seeing within each station a calling for the modern, progressive Christian to grow in the ways and love of God. Meditate upon each station considering the questions or thoughts presented with a Scriptural verse to ponder and a brief prayer of the heart. In John 15:12 Jesus tells us, "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." Only by walking with Christ and seeing just how much he truly loved everyone can we begin to love others in the same fashion.
read moreBeatitude Nine: "Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
read moreOur personal journeys through Lent are associated with a symbolic wilderness, but we need not wander there without direction. "The Way" is the title of a poignant painting that hangs during Lent above the altar in the …
read moreBeatitude Six: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."
"No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." (l John 4: 12) It is through the heart that we experience God directly.


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According to an article by the Associated Press, "Police said a Sparks Middle School student was the lone shooter who injured two classmates, killed himself and took the life of an 8th-grade math teacher who tried to stop the rampage Monday. The teacher, 45-year-old former serviceman Michael Landsberry, was being hailed for trying to protect students from a shooting that was witnessed by 20 or 30 children."
The active shooter exercise will be on Wednesday at Cleveland High School beginning at 8 a.m.
The exercise will include a "real life-like" scenario, involving the Bolivar County Sheriff's Department, Bolivar County Emergency Management Agency, Bolivar County Fire Department, the Cleveland Police Department, Cleveland Volunteer Fire Department, Cleveland Public Works, Delta State University Police Department, Pafford Ambulance Service, Bolivar Medical Center, Cleveland High School educators and student actors who will "play" the roles of the students and shooters.
The purpose of this exercise is to find and stop the " shooter " as quickly and safely as possible as well as test the level of preparedness of Bolivar County first responders. This will also be an opportunity for county and city officials to assess the strengths, as well as the gaps, of their emergency response plans and for Cleveland High School to evaluate their plans, policies and procedures to ensure a safe school environment.


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Analysis for Comment - Afghanistan/MIL - A Week in the War - med length - noon - 1 map
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Email-ID | 1812662 |
Date | 2011-06-20 19:03:54 |
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U.S. President Barack Obama met with his national security team and the
outgoing Commander of the International Security Assitance Force (ISAF)
and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, June 15 to discuss
options for the looming July deadline for a drawdown of surge forces in
Afghanistan to begin. The meeting comes at <><a time of rampant
speculation and a broad spectrum of reports about what might be next>.
The Pentagon is reportedly pushing the White House to extend the surge and
keep troop numbers at or close to their current level of nearly 100,000
U.S. and some 40,000 allied personnel in uniform for another 12-18 months
- essentially to see through the 2012 fighting season. Outgoing Secretary
of Defense Robert Gates has already suggested that initial drawdowns
should be <><modest and concentrate on consolidating support `tail'
personnel but remove little, if any, front-line `tooth'>. More troops
means more bandwidth and is therefore desirable from a military
standpoint, it is unclear whether the idea of effectively extending the
surge by another 12-18 months is more a serious request in its own right
or mostly an attempt to frame the political debate in an attempt to block
more rapid reductions. U.S. Marine Corps Major General John Toolan Jr.,
the commanding general of Regional Command Southwest, has voiced concerns
that the 2014 deadline for the end of combat operations will come before
the development of Afghan security forces and particularly the
establishment of governance and infrastructure improvements can be
completed. Last week, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of NATO
Training Mission-Afghanistan, suggested that he does not expect to
complete training efforts of indigenous Afghan security forces until 2016
or 2017.
But there are also reports - including from STRATFOR sources - that the
White House will seek to use <><the killing of Osama bin Laden and the
shift of Petraeus to Director of the Central Intelligence Agency> to
justify (politically, at least) <link to G's Weekly><a more substantive
shift away from the counterinsurgency-focused strategy>. Most recently has
been the suggestion that not only bin Laden's death, but intelligence
collected from the raid in which he was killed has led to a conclusion
that (<><as STRATFOR has argued for years>) the old apex al Qaeda core
that remains straddling the Afghan-Pakistani border is weak and divided,
and can be managed through continued vigilance by a small special
operations and intelligence presence. STRATFOR sees the White House
beginning to reshape the psychology of the war this coming quarter -- the
way in which it is defined and perceived - in order to lay the foundation
for a more significant reduction in forces and resources committed to
An announcement from the White House on this first phase of the drawdown
and an update on the status of the war effort is expected within, at most,
a matter of weeks.
Some manner of political accommodation was always going to be part and
parcel of any viable and sustainable exit from Afghanistan. But a
negotiated settlement becomes increasingly important if the U.S. intends
to accelerate its exit from the war. Thusfar, attempts to bring
`reconcilable' elements of the Taliban over to the side of the Afghan
government and incorporate them into local power structures have seen only
very limited results, particularly in Taliban strongholds in the country's
restive southwest - and those that do change sides are at <><constant risk
of targeted assassination attempts>.
Both Afghan President Hamid Karzai (on June 18) and Gates (on June 19)
confirmed that the U.S. is in talks with the Taliban in an attempt to
reach a more comprehensive settlement - though Gates cautioned that these
talks are only in a very preliminary phase and are not likely to see any
sort of breakthrough anytime soon.
Ultimately, the problem is that <><the Taliban perceives itself to be
winning>, and any indication that the U.S. is looking to further
accelerate its drawdown even sooner and in a more substantive way will
only further enhance that sense of strength. In short, the United States
needs the Taliban to come to an agreement more than the Taliban needs the
U.S. Meanwhile, the <><the United States>, <><Kabul> and <><Pakistan> each
hold a discrete negotiating position vis a vis <><the Taliban>, and so it
is anything but a straight line from a decision to negotiate to a
negotiated settlement.
As the U.S. begins to redefine the war in Afghanistan, so some points of
contention (like removing Taliban leadership from terrorism lists,
particularly <><the classified Joint Prioritized Effects List>) become
more acceptable from the American camp. But others, like the Taliban
interest in dissolving Karzai's government, remain intractable points of
contention. So while the American desire for a negotiated settlement
mounts considerably as it seeks to reshape and accelerate its exit, the
difficulties inherent in it and the Taliban's willingness to negotiate are
another question entirely.
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I've been watching television coverage of the bombings that occurred in Boston. As my mind groped for a way to understand such a horrible event, it occurred to me that I was trying to make sense out of something senseless.
Bombings like this represent the evil actions of people whose thinking has been severely corrupted. It cannot be made reasonable. Our hearts can grow heavy as we ponder these things. We may even have moments of feeling hopeless.
But having watched the video of the explosions numerous times, suddenly I was struck with another impression. I noticed that as soon as the explosions occurred, there were people running toward the carnage. People moved into the chaos, trying to help those who were injured or trapped under debris.
As that impression sunk in, I found myself thanking God for those who respond with compassion, goodness and courage. There are people who do what is right, who act with valor.
Yes, there is ugliness and evil in this world, but I am encouraged by the fact that evil will not prevail. God and His goodness ultimately reigns.
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The problem of violent death among African-American youth in our cities is a national problem rooted in racism, poverty and inequality. It is by no means a problem peculiar to Chicago.
The solution to the senseless violence claiming the lives of so many African-American youth will be found within the community in which these crimes occur. African Americans must assume the responsibility of addressing the problem of youth violence by instituting a program of cultural revolution.
Our youth have been exposed to a culture that negates their history and the group to which they belong. Influenced by the negative images in our popular culture, too many African-American youth are today committing violent acts on an unprecedented scale against other members of their community.
They are now, in a very real sense, carrying on the work of America's oldest terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan.
Charles McGhee
University Park
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In response to the recent discussion surrounding New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on large cups and bottles of pop, I just have one question.
Would this ban get children off the couch and into a park or away from the computer screen and onto the basketball court?
Health starts in the home, and no ban or tax will get people out of their chairs and out the door for a jog.
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The ADIS16223 is available in a +/- 70g dynamic range, across three axes. The 22 kHz sensor resonance and 72.9 kSPS sample rate provide a flat frequency response from DC to 10 kHz, which is desirable for most machine-health applications. With the SPI interface, configuration options include programmable digital filters offering low-pass and band-pass options, condition monitoring /alarm settings, capture buffers configuration control, and embedded self test control. Users can also access serial number and device ID registers. The data capture function has three different trigger modes, allowing in-system adaptation of the sensor to the end-systems product life cycle. Automatic data collection allows for periodic wake-up and capture, based on a programmable duty cycle. Manual data capture mode allows the user to initiate a data capture, providing power and read-rate optimization. The event capture mode continuously updates the buffers and monitors them for a preset trigger condition. This mode captures pre-event data and post-event data and produces an alarm indicator for driving an interrupt. The ADIS16223 also offers a digital temperature sensor, digital power supply measurements, and peak output capture.
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any one know how to get print spooler back up and running without downloading any programmes please let ne know
any one know how to get print spooler back up and running without downloading any programmes please let ne know
Left Click "Start Menu"
Right Click "My Computer"
Left Click "Manage" option
In Computer Management Window expand left window cascading tree in the following manner
Computer Management (Local)
>Services & Applications
Left Click Services
In the right hand panel a list of Windows Services should be listed.
Scroll this window down to "Print Spooler".
Left Click and then Select blue Link to "Restart" OR Right click and choose "Restart".
You may also try "Stop" and then "Start".
This may require a computer reboot.
While here, Right click and select Properties.
Select the "General" tab at the top.
In the center of the screen, the drop down menu "Startup Type" should be set to Automatic.
You may also need to return to the "Services" list and restart the "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" Service, as the Print Spooler references this service.
You can also do a:
Start - Run
NET STOP "Print Spooler"
and a
Start - Run
NET START "Print Spooler"
You can also create a batch file with these lines in it:
NET STOP "Print Spooler"
NET START "Print Spooler"
A batch file (in this case) is simply a text (Notepad) file with the extension changed from .txt to .bat
thanks outofeden and noelie for your replies , but neither have worked. outofeden yours all came back with error msg. so im back to no printer.thanks again guys.
What were the error messages?
Do you have enough disk space?
If may be that you've got a corruption in the spool file.
Go to:
and delete any files in there while the spooler service is stopped.
Get back to me.
hi noelie error 1068 came back when trying to start print spooler
My question is do you NEED print spooling?
I have it disabled.
Hi getstoseven - you don't need the print spooler service if you don't print and if you think you'll never print from your PC - I wouldn't disable it though just set it to manual as you never know when it might jump up and bite you in the ass and then it takes you two hours to figure out why something else isn't working.
Hi dav123,
A 1068 is a service dependency error. Print Spooler can't start because a service it depends on is not running (probably).
Do this:
Double click print spooler and click the dependencies tab. See if there are any other dependencies besides the RPC service. If so find them and make sure they are running (and are preferably set to automatic). Check that the RPC service is running also.
Try to start the "Print Spooler" service then.
If that doesn't work do this:
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
Try to start the "Print Spooler" service then.
If that doesn't work do this:
1. Click the Start button on the desktop
2. Click Run
3. Type in REGEDIT
4. Click on HKEY_LOCAL _MACHINE
5. Click on System
6. Click on Current Control Set
7. Click on Services
8. Click on Spooler
9. Click on Depend On Service on the right hand side
10. This should open a Edit Binary Value window
11. Delete everything else except RPCSS and then select OK
12. Reboot the PC
Be very very careful with your registry - one false move and you could kill your Windows installation.
If you get the spooler started you may have to reinstall your printer software (drivers).
noelie..........I have spooling disabled and "print directly to the printer" enabled.
Perhaps on a network spooling MUST be enabled?
Nope - you've bypassed the spooler by printing dirctly to the printer getstoseven (most people don't do that). The possible problem with that is that if your printer hasn't enough memory to deal with a large job (pdf files and images etc.) then you'd end up with a buffer issue and/or garbled output that's why the sprint spooler 'spools' (feeds) the job to the printer.
noelie...........thanks for that!
I don't do large volume printing so I can get away with it...........
However when I just checked my settings I notices the dialogue said the printer will print more quickly by spooling documents.....................SO.................. SPOOLING it is............
wow, this turned into quite the technical thread. Dav, it sounds like you may have a complex problem that might need someone more professional than me. If it was me I would fiddle with it until it worked, but I'm not comfortable doing the same with someone else's stuff. usually.
thanks guys but i think it is all a bit too technical for me .as i am not the most computer literate person. will have to get someone to fix it for me. thqanks again for all your help dav 123


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Toby Keith headlines First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, 19100 S. Ridgeland Ave., Tinley Park, at 7 p.m. June 30. Kip Moore opens. $20-$84.75. Visit livenation.com.
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While we are excited about all of the book seeding that we've been doing the last couple of weeks, we'd love to expand a bit into some Guerrilla Storytimes. I think that we could do this as a kind of fundraiser for the whole project if we wanted to go that route. I don't know if that kind of fundraising is really something that I want to do though. Before I start thinking about all of that, let me explain my idea more.
I attribute the idea of Guerrilla Storytimes to one of the crew members of the Story Sailboat, Katie Brothers, who has been my friend since highschool and is now an aspiring librarian! For the last couple of years, Katie has been volunteering as a storyteller at Roseville Public Library. In fact, I've seen her give her storytime and she's pretty good. So, I thought about how we could combine her love of doing storytimes with the project itself. We talked about it for a while and she said she could give storytimes in parks or other places out in the community.
To be fair, I've also thought about doing storytimes in the community. Here's the problem. I'm a man. Can you imagine what would happen if I showed up at your kid's park and started gathering children for a storytime? Only slightly creepy. It's a sad bias in our country, but that's ok, I'm over it. Katie is going to do the storytime and I'll get to help out and supply the boat.
If you've been following this blog or project, you know that we typically sail into Pier 39 in San Francisco as the port for the distribution of books in San Francisco. What's great about this area is that there is so much going on that there are literally hundreds or thousands of people walking around the area. There are a ton of street entertainers and other people out there already. Why not hold our storytimes there? In fact, if we wanted to raise some money, we could just put out a hat!
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The 2014 Nissan Altima is a midsize family sedan slotting above the compact Sentra and below the full-size Maxima in Nissan's lineup. Four-cylinder models are sold in 2.5, 2.5S, 2.5SV, and 2.5SV trims while V-6 variants are available in 3.5S, 3.5SV and 3.5SL grades.
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Malachi was the last of the prophets, and is supposed to have prophesied B.C. 420. He reproves the priests and the people for the evil practices into which they had fallen, and invites them to repentance and reformation, with promises of the blessings to be bestowed at the coming of the Messiah. And now that prophecy was to cease, he speaks clearly of the Messiah, as nigh at hand, and directs the people of God to keep in rememberance the law of Moses, while they were in expectation of the gospel of Christ.
The ingratitude of Israel. (1-5) They are careless in God's institutions. (6-14)
Verses 1-5 All advantages, either as to outward circumstances, or spiritual privileges, come from the free love of God, who makes one to differ from another. All the evils sinners feel and fear, are the just recompence of their crimes, while all their hopes and comforts are from the unmerited mercy of the Lord. He chose his people that they might be holy. If we love him, it is because he has first loved us; yet we all are prone to undervalue the mercies of God, and to excuse our own offences.
Verses 6-14 We may each charge upon ourselves what is here charged upon the priests. Our relation to God, as our Father and Master, strongly obliges us to fear and honour him. But they were so scornful that they derided reproof. Sinners ruin themselves by trying to baffle their convictions. Those who live in careless neglect of holy ordinances, who attend on them without reverence, and go from them under no concern, in effect say, The table of the Lord is contemptible. They despised God's name in what they did. It is evident that these understood not the meaning of the sacrifices, as shadowing forth the unblemished Lamb of God; they grudged the expense, thinking all thrown away which did not turn to their profit. If we worship God ignorantly, and without understanding, we bring the blind for sacrifice; if we do it carelessly, if we are cold, dull, and dead in it, we bring the sick; if we rest in the bodily exercise, and do not make heart-work of it, we bring the lame; and if we suffer vain thoughts and distractions to lodge within us, we bring the torn. And is not this evil? Is it not a great affront to God, and a great wrong and injury to our own souls? In order to the acceptance of our actions with God, it is not enough to do that which, for the matter of it, is good; but we must do it from a right principle, in a right manner, and for a right end. Our constant mercies from God, make worse our slothfulness and niggardliness, in our returns of duty to God. A spiritual worship shall be established. Incense shall be offered to God's name, which signifies prayer and praise. And it shall be a pure offering. When the hour came, in which the true worshippers worshipped the Father in Spirit and in truth, then this incense was offered, even this pure offering. We may rely on God's mercy for pardon as to the past, but not for indulgence to sin in future. If there be a willing mind, it will be accepted, though defective; but if any be a deceiver, devoting his best to Satan and to his lusts, he is under a curse. Men now, though in a different way, profane the name of the Lord, pollute his table, and show contempt for his worship.
Malachi 1:1-14 . GOD'S LOVE: ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDE: THE PRIESTS' MERCENARY SPIRIT: A GENTILE SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD SHALL SUPERSEDE THEM.
1. burden--heavy sentence.
to Israel--represented now by the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with individuals of the ten tribes who had returned with the Jews from Babylon. So "Israel" is used, Ezra 7:10 . Compare 2 Chronicles 21:2 , "Jehoshaphat king of Israel," where Judah, rather than the ten tribes, is regarded as the truest representative of Israel (compare 2 Chronicles 12:6 , 28:19 ). the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, in order to enflame His people with the more ardent desire for Him, the great antitype and fulfiller of prophecy.
2. I have loved you--above other men; nay, even above the other descendants of Abraham and Isaac. Such gratuitous love on My part called for love on yours. But the return ye make is sin and dishonor to Me. This which is to be supplied is left unexpressed, sorrow as it were breaking off the sentence [MENOCHIUS], ( Deuteronomy 7:8 , Hosea 11:1 ).
Wherein hast thou loved us?--In painful contrast to the tearful tenderness of God's love stands their insolent challenge. The root of their sin was insensibility to God's love, and to their own wickedness. Having had prosperity taken from them, they imply they have no tokens of God's love; they look at what God had taken, not at what God had left. God's love is often least acknowledged where it is most manifested. We must not infer God does not love us because He afflicts us. Men, instead of referring their sufferings to their proper cause, their own sin, impiously accuse God of indifference to their welfare [MOORE]. Thus Malachi 1:1-4 form a fit introduction to the whole prophecy.
Was not Esau Jacob's brother?--and so, as far as dignity went, as much entitled to God's favor as Jacob. My adoption of Jacob, therefore, was altogether by gratuitous favor ( Romans 9:13 ). So God has passed by our elder brethren, the angels who kept not their first estate, and yet He has provided salvation for man. The perpetual rejection of the fallen angels, like the perpetual desolations of Edom, attests God's severity to the lost, and goodness to those gratuitously saved. The sovereign eternal purpose of God is the only ground on which He bestows on one favors withheld from another. There are difficulties in referring salvation to the election of God, there are greater in referring it to the election of man [MOORE]. Jehovah illustrates His condescension and patience in arguing the case with them.
3. hated--not positively, but relatively; that is, did not choose him out to be the object of gratuitous favor, as I did Jacob (compare Luke 14:26 , with Matthew 10:37 , Genesis 29:30 Genesis 29:31 , Deuteronomy 21:15 Deuteronomy 21:16 ).
laid his mountains . . . waste--that is, his territory which was generally mountainous. Israel was, it is true, punished by the Chaldeans, but Edom has been utterly destroyed; namely, either by Nebuchadnezzar [ROSENMULLER], or by the neighboring peoples, Egypt, Ammon, and Moab [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 10.9,7; MAURER], ( Jeremiah 49:18 ).
dragons--jackals [MOORE] (compare Isaiah 34:13 ). MAURER translates, "Abodes of the wilderness," from an Arabic root "to stop," or "to abide." English Version is better.
4. Whereas--"But if" Edom say [MAURER]. Edom may strive as she may to recover herself, but it shall be in vain, for I doom her to perpetual desolation, whereas I restore Israel. This Jehovah states, to illustrate His gratuitous love to Israel, rather than to Edom.
border of wickedness--a region given over to the curse of reprobation [CALVIN]. For a time Judea seemed as desolate as Idumea; but though the latter was once the highway of Eastern commerce, now the lonely rock-houses of Petra attest the fulfilment of the prophecy. It is still "the border of wickedness," being the resort of the marauding tribes of the desert. Judea's restoration, though delayed, is yet certain.
the Lord hath indignation--"the people of My curse" ( Isaiah 34:5 ).
5. from the border of Israel--Ye, restored to your own "borders" in Israel, "from" them shall raise your voices to "magnify the Lord," acknowledging that Jehovah has shown to you a gratuitous favor not shown to Edom, and so ought to be especially "magnified from the borders of Israel."
6. Turning from the people to the priests, Jehovah asks, whereas His love to the people was so great, where was their love towards Him? If the priests, as they profess, regard Him as their Father ( Isaiah 63:16 ) and Master, let them show the reality of their profession by love and reverential fear ( Exodus 20:12 , Luke 6:46 ). He addresses the priests because they ought to be leaders in piety to the rest of the people, whereas they are foremost in "despising His name."
Wherein have we despised, &c.--The same captious spirit of self-satisfied insensibility as prompted their question ( Malachi 1:2 ), "Wherein hast Thou loved us?" They are blind alike to God's love and their own guilt.
7. ye offer, &c.--God's answer to their challenge ( Malachi 1:6 ), "Wherein have we despised?"
polluted bread--namely, blemished sacrifices ( Malachi 1:8 Malachi 1:13 Malachi 1:14 , Deuteronomy 15:21 ). So "the bread of thy God" is used for "sacrifices to God" ( Leviticus 21:8 ).
polluted thee--that is, offered to thee "polluted bread."
table of the Lord--that is, the altar ( Ezekiel 41:22 ) (not the table of showbread). Just as the sacrificial flesh is called "bread."
contemptible--( Malachi 1:12 Malachi 1:13 ). Ye sanction the niggardly and blemished offerings of the people on the altar, to gain favor with them. Darius, and probably his successors, had liberally supplied them with victims for sacrifice, yet they presented none but the worst. A cheap religion, costing little, is rejected by God, and so is worth nothing. It costs more than it is worth, for it is worth nothing, and so proves really dear. God despises not the widow's mite, but he does despise the miser's mite [MOORE].
8. Your earthly ruler would feel insulted, if offered by you the offering with which ye put off God (see Leviticus 22:22 Leviticus 22:24 ).
is it not evil?--MAURER translates, "There is no evil," in your opinion, in such an offering; it is quite good enough for such a purpose.
9. now . . . beseech God that he will be gracious--Ironical. Think you that God will be persuaded by such polluted gifts to be gracious to you? Far from it.
this hath been by your means--literally, "hand." These contemptible offerings are your doing, as being the priests mediating between God and the people; and think you, will God pay any regard to you (compare Malachi 1:8 Malachi 1:10 )? "Accept thy person" ("face"), Malachi 1:8 , answers to "regard your persons," in this verse.
10. Who . . . for naught--Not one even of the least priestly functions (as shutting the doors, or kindling a fire on the altar) would ye exercise without pay, therefore ye ought to fulfil them faithfully ( 1 Corinthians 9:13 ). DRUSIUS and MAURER translate, "Would that there were absolutely some one of you who would shut the doors of the temple (that is, of the inner court, in which was the altar of burnt offerings), and that ye would not kindle fire on My altar in vain!" Better no sacrifices than vain ones ( Isaiah 1:11-15 ). It was the duty of some of the priests to stand at the doors of the court of the altar of burnt offerings, and to have excluded blemished victims [CALVIN].
11. For--Since ye Jewish priests and people "despise My name" ( Malachi 1:6 ), I shall find others who will magnify it ( Matthew 3:9 ). Do not think I shall have no worshippers because I have not you; for from the east to the west My name shall be great among the Gentiles ( Isaiah 66:19 Isaiah 66:20 ), those very peoples whom ye look down upon as abominable.
pure offering--not "the blind, the lame, and the sick," such as ye offer ( Malachi 1:8 ). "In every place," implies the catholicity of the Christian Church ( John 4:21 John 4:23 , 1 Timothy 2:8 ). The "incense" is figurative of prayers ( Psalms 141:2 , Revelation 8:3 ). "Sacrifice" is used metaphorically ( Psalms 51:17 , Hebrews 13:10 Hebrews 13:15 Hebrews 13:16 , 1 Peter 2:5 1 Peter 2:12 ). In this sense the reference to the Lord's Supper, maintained by many of the fathers, may be admitted; it, like prayer, is a spiritual offering, accepted through the literal offering of the "Lamb without blemish," once for all slain.
12. Renewal of the charge in Malachi 1:7 .
fruit . . . meat--the offerings of the people. The "fruit" is the produce of the altar, on which the priests subsisted. They did not literally say, The Lord's table is contemptible; but their acts virtually said so. They did not act so as to lead the people to reverence, and to offer their best to the Lord on it. The people were poor, and put off God with the worst offerings. The priests let them do so, for fear of offending the people, and so losing all gains from them.
13. what a weariness is it!--Ye regard God's service as irksome, and therefore try to get it over by presenting the most worthless offerings. Compare Micah 6:3 , where God challenges His people to show wherein is the "weariness" or hardship of His service. Also Isaiah 43:22-24 , wherein He shows that it is they who have "wearied" Him, not He who has wearied them.
snuffed at--despised.
it--the table of the Lord, and the meat on it ( Malachi 1:12 ).
torn--namely, by beasts, which it was not lawful to eat, much less to offer ( Exodus 22:31 ).
thus . . . offering--Hebrew, mincha; the unbloody offering of flour, &c. Though this may have been of ordinary ingredients, yet the sacrifices of blemished animals accompanying it rendered it unacceptable.
14. deceiver--hypocrite. Not poverty, but avarice was the cause of their mean offerings.
male--required by law ( Leviticus 1:3 Leviticus 1:10 ).
great King--( Psalms 48:2 , Matthew 5:35 ).
my name . . . dreadful among . . . heathen--Even the heathen dread Me because of My judgments; what a reproach this is to you, My people, who fear Me not ( Malachi 1:6 )! Also it may be translated, "shall be feared among," &c. agreeing with the prophecy of the call of the Gentiles ( Malachi 1:11 ).


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The straw purchasers: 'Don't let this happen to you'
BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter email@example.com August 27, 2012 7:54PM
Ohmari L. Sengstacke (inset) was sentenced to five years in prison after he was stopped near the home of then-Sen. Barack Obama with a .40-caliber gun and bulletproof best in his car. His wife, Shantella Spencer, later admitted she was a "straw purchaser" for the gun. | AP
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Presidential candidate Barack Obama was resting in his Kenwood home on the morning of Sept. 23, 2008, after a fund-raiser the night before in Chicago.
Outside, a drama was unfolding as police stopped a BMW at the security barriers protecting his house. Officers found a Fabrique Nationale Herstal .40-caliber handgun and a bulletproof vest in the car.
They learned the man behind the wheel was a felon barred from owning a firearm. And when federal agents conducted an urgent ownership check on the gun, they discovered his wife bought the weapon earlier that year at a suburban store.
Shantella Spencer later admitted she was a "straw purchaser."
Straw purchasers like Spencer have clean records that allow them to get an Illinois firearm owner's identification card. With a FOID card, they can purchase guns for people banned from owning them. They sign a federal form saying they're the "actual" buyer when they really aren't.
Authorities say straw purchasers are a key source of guns for the felons who've driven up Chicago' murder total 28 percent above last year's, wreaking havoc in neighborhoods and bringing national attention to the city.
But the odds of straw purchasers getting caught aren't high — unless you buy a gun that gets confiscated outside the home of the future president of the United States.
Spencer's case, among a dozen adjudicated straw-buyer cases reviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times, shows how easy it can be to circumvent the laws that bar felons from getting guns. The Sun-Times could not reach Spencer for comment, nor most of the defendants in the other straw-buyer cases.
'I don't like guns'
Many straw purchasers are women like Spencer, authorities say. Women make up nearly one-fourth of the people who bought guns that were recovered in crimes in Chicago within a year of purchase, according to a University of Chicago Crime Lab study of Chicago Police crime-gun traces.
A gun used in a crime within a year of being bought is a strong indicator the weapon was obtained through a straw purchase, police say.
Spencer bought the .40-caliber handgun on Feb. 23, 2008, at Chuck's Gun Shop & Pistol Range in south suburban Riverdale — seven months before her husband was caught with the weapon.
Between 2008 and March of this year, 268 guns bought at Chuck's were recovered in crimes in Chicago within a year of purchase, according to the crime lab study.
Chuck's was the single biggest source of crime guns over that period, the study found. Police suspect Chuck's is a hotbed of straw purchasing. The owner, John Riggio, has declined to comment.
In a written statement to police, Spencer admitted her husband couldn't buy a gun at Chuck's because of his "bad background."
"Even though I don't like guns, I bought one for my husband," Spencer wrote. "He and I went to Chuck's to look at guns. Three days later, he gave me $1,100 to buy a gun. He waited a block away from the store so no one would see us together."
Spencer said she walked into the store with a piece of paper her husband gave her, specifying what kind of gun to buy.
She also bought bullets, a gun-cleaning kit and an extra ammunition magazine.
Seven months later, her husband, Omhari Sengstacke, the grandson of late Chicago Defender publisher John Sengstacke, drove his BMW to the concrete walls outside Obama's house and was shooed away by police. But he soon returned.
Sengstacke appeared intoxicated and said he wanted to talk to Obama about a job, police said. He was arrested after officers searched his car and found the gun, even though he didn't make any threats toward Obama.
Sengstacke was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon — a gun possession charge. Spencer received probation in Cook County criminal court for selling a firearm to someone who didn't have a valid FOID card.
The Mississippi connection
Spencer's illegal gun purchase didn't end tragically, but many others do.
In recent years, Chicago Police officers and young children have been among those shot to death with weapons supplied by straw buyers.
A Smith & Wesson .45-caliber handgun that came from a straw buyer killed Thomas Wortham IV — an off-duty Chicago cop and Iraq war veteran — on May 19, 2010.
Wortham was outside his parents' South Side home when gang members tried to steal his motorcycle and shot him.
Authorities discovered that Quawi "Red" Gates, a South Side college student, was the leader of a gun-trafficking ring that supplied the weapon used to murder Wortham.
Gates' ring is an example of the "iron pipeline" that feeds guns to Illinois from other states such as Wisconsin, Indiana and Mississippi — primarily through straw purchasers. Besides the Cook County suburbs, those states are the biggest suppliers of crime guns to Chicago.
Gates was enrolled at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., where he recruited fellow students and other acquaintances to buy guns for him in 2007 and 2008. He would take a bus from Memphis to Chicago and sell the guns to Gangster Disciples members on the South Side.
Among Gates' straw purchasers was Jacquisha Denise Sims, a Rust College student. Two of the guns she bought for Gates wound up in gang-related shootings in Chicago, authorities learned.
Federal agents interviewed Sims. Initially, she lied, saying she bought the guns for herself and that they were later stolen from her truck — a common alibi for straw buyers.
Then, she cracked. She admitted buying guns for Gates. He'd give her the cash for the guns, she'd buy them and he would slip her $100 to keep after the deal was done, she said.
A straw buyer wears a wire
Sims agreed to help the federal agents catch Gates. Soon, she discovered the dark side of the gun-trafficking world.
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents asked her to wear a wire and she agreed.
But when she met with Gates to record him talking about the ring, he smelled a rat.
He lured her into a library where he ripped open her blouse and tore out the recording device she was wearing. Gates stuffed the device in his pocket and told Sims not to say a word to authorities, according to court testimony.
The ATF agents arrested Gates after he left the library, and he eventually pleaded guilty to running the gun ring. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Sims received probation.
On the witness stand at Gates' 2010 sentencing hearing, ATF agent Russell Johnson explained why Chicago gun traffickers choose Mississippi as a shopping ground for guns.
"First is familial ties," Johnson said. "It began several decades ago. They went up to Chicago for work and left behind family in Mississippi. They come back for holidays, special events, school."
Firearms also are cheaper in Mississippi, Johnson said.
"And one of the last reasons is that firearms laws in Mississippi are a lot more lax than the firearms laws in the state of Illinois," he said.
In Mississippi, gun owners are not required to go through a state background check to obtain a permit, as they are in Illinois. They only have to present a valid driver's license or state ID to a gun store, which still must perform a federally required background check.
The gun that killed Officer Wortham
The .45-caliber handgun used to shoot Wortham started its journey to Chicago in 2002, when Smith & Wesson shipped the weapon from its Massachusetts factory to an unknown customer. The gun wound up at Ed's Pawn Shop in Byhalia, Miss., a short drive from Rust College.
In May 2007, Gates persuaded Michael Elliott, a man he knew from playing basketball on campus, to buy three guns for him.
Elliott, whose record was clean, went to Ed's with Gates and bought the guns for him. In exchange, Elliott made $100. He was later sentenced to six months in prison.
The investigative trail went cold with Elliott.
Gates refused to identify his Chicago customers who bought the straw-purchased guns, including the Smith & Wesson used in Officer Wortham's slaying three years later.
Wortham's murder clearly disturbed U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper Jr., who sentenced Gates at a courthouse a year ago in Greenville, Miss.
"I can't — it's inconceivable to me that someone of your intelligence would intentionally put — there is no — put a firearm in the hands of people who are going to kill other people," Pepper said. "And Mr. Gates, you had to know it. You had to know it."
Keeping the lights on
While gunrunners like Gates can make a lot of money, their straw purchasers generally don't. For straw buyers, it's often a way to make a quick buck, not a career path.
Take Dwan Ryals, a reputed Mickey Cobras gang member with a clean record. He was caught buying guns for felons in 2010. Ryals pleaded guilty in Cook County criminal court and was sent to state prison for four years.
When he was caught, he told police he once sold a felon a Smith & Wesson handgun because he was worried his electricity was going to be shut off.
He gave the police a simple motive for buying guns for convicted crooks: "I lost my job."
How a straw purchase works
Anthony Garner provided a step-by-step snapshot of a straw purchase in his testimony against a suburban gun store owner in 2000.
Garner was a Marine deserter who admitted buying guns for gangs on the North and West sides in the late 1990s.
He pleaded guilty, agreed to cooperate against Donald Beltrame, owner of Suburban Sporting Goods, and was eventually sentenced to 15 months in prison.
A federal jury, however, acquitted Beltrame of knowingly selling firearms intended for a felon after a trial in 2000.
The authorities busted Garner after one of the guns he bought was used to kill an 18-year-old boy on a Chicago sidewalk in 1998. Another gun he purchased was used to shoot at an off-duty Chicago Police officer, who wasn't hit.
The Chicago Police Department submits every gun recovered in a crime to the ATF for ownership tracing — and those two guns came back to Garner as the original buyer. The tracing showed Garner bought a total of 14 guns, which he admitted purchasing for gang members.
On the witness stand in Beltrame's trial, Garner said he was the frontman for a gang member named "Ronnie." He said he met Ronnie in Rogers Park, where they both lived. But he said he didn't know Ronnie's last name and lost his telephone number.
He said Ronnie picked him up on Aug. 25, 1998, and handed him cash to buy guns.
Garner purchased guns at two other suburban stores before they walked into Beltrame's business, he testified.
Garner gave this account on the witness stand of how the deal went down:
† Beltrame "asked us how we were doing and if he could help us. I said, 'No, we're just looking right now.' " Ronnie "was mentioning how he liked the price" on a Jennings 9mm handgun "and it was a nice gun. [Beltrame] mentioned, 'Yeah, it was a nice price on it.' "
† Garner took out his Illinois FOID card because he wanted Beltrame to let him inspect the Jennings. "I said, yeah, I want to get this one."
† Then Ronnie tapped Garner on the leg. "I said, 'That's what you want, right?' [Ronnie] said, 'Yeah, but I want more than one.' "
† Beltrame was still at the counter and Garner "got scared." At that moment, Ronnie turned to Beltrame and said: "What kind of deal or what kind of play could we get it we get four or five of them?"
† Garner didn't have enough money for five guns, so Ronnie reached into his own pocket to make up the difference. The total was $800 for five Jennings 9mm handguns. Ronnie later paid Garner $400 for doing the straw purchases.
At Beltrame's trial, prosecutors said he "joined the charade to make the sale."
On the witness stand, Beltrame testified that no straw purchase ever took place. Garner came into the store alone, Beltrame said. "Ronnie was a figment of Anthony Garner's imagination," Beltrame said.
An assault weapon for him or her?
Authorities say it's hard to convict someone for a straw purchase — and even harder to convict a store owner for "knowingly and willfully" selling a gun to a straw buyer.
Sometimes, though, a gun dealer tips off the authorities about a suspected straw purchaser.
A south suburban gun dealer notified ATF after Keith Cantore and a female friend walked into the store saying she wanted to arrange to buy a TEC-9 assault weapon from a private seller in Indiana.
"Yes, I told her what gun to buy," Cantore said in an interview with the Sun-Times. "The gun shop asked me, 'She's not buying these for you, is she?' I said, 'I'm a convicted felon. I can't own firearms.' "
About a week later, Jill Sartori, a former high-school classmate of Cantore, picked up the weapon at the store. ATF agents arrested her and Cantore for participating in a straw-purchasing scheme.
Sartori pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation. She also agreed to cooperate against Cantore, who pleaded guilty and received a 40-month federal prison term.
Cantore said the gun dealer who tipped off the ATF about their conversation in the store was under the wrong impression that he was plotting to commit a crime.
Cantore said he was helping Sartori buy a gun that she needed for protection against someone who was harassing her. Sartori was pressured into cooperating against him, Cantore insisted, and he cut his losses by accepting a guilty plea, even though he now contends he was innocent.
Later, the authorities made an example of the two.
They distributed fliers of Cantore and Sartori with the word "Convicted" across their mug shots and the headline "Don't Let This Happen to You!"
"I am no saint — I have been in a lot of trouble," said Cantore, who was originally barred from owning a gun because of a 2001 felony conviction for delivery of marijuana.
"This was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but the best life lesson," he said.


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Game 9: New Jersey Devils vs. New York Rangers
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Your New Jersey Devils (4-1-3) will face-off against the New York Rangers (4-4-0) Tuesday for the first of four times this season, and the first time since the Now-Classic Game 6 of the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals. Chances are, if you're reading this, I don't need to tell you how that game went down. During the regular season last year, the Devils split the season series with the Rangers (3-3-0) going 2-1-0 at the Prudential Center. Patrik Elias led the Devils in points (2G, 3A) while David Clarkson led the team in goals (3). After a 6-game series with the Rangers in the playoffs, the Devils finished 2011-12 with a 7-5-0 record against their cross-river rivals.
New Jersey Devils
The Devils are coming off a much-needed 3-0 win over the New York Islanders on Sunday afternoon. While the Devils continued to take more penalties than they wanted to, their special teams really warmed up to the task and killed all 7 of the Islanders power-play opportunities. The offense had some great chances, and did a much better job of maintaining offensive-zone pressure than they had in their previous two outings. The defensive effort also looked a lot more confident than they had recently, and played a much more controlled game. Johan Hedberg (1-0-1, 0.48 GAA, 0.980 Sv%) played extraordinarily well, making his biggest stop of the afternoon on a Grabner breakaway early in the third. The Devils will look for a repeat performance from all of their players (minus the penalties) against the team's biggest rival on Tuesday.
New York Rangers
The Rangers played their most recent game on Saturday, defeating the red-hot Tampa Bay Lightning by a final of 3-2. The game was a big bounce-back for the Rangers after they had been shutout 3-0 to the Penguins. The Lightning had won their previous 5 games before falling to the Rangers. Martin Biron got the call in net against the Lightning, giving Henrik Lundqvist a break after the tough outing against Pittsburgh. In 7 starts in 2013, Lundqvist has a 3-4-0 record, a 2.78 GAA, and a 0.904 Sv%. Biron (1-0-0, 1.96 GAA, 0.942 Sv%), has started one game, and filled in for Lundqvist 29 minutes into a 6-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. While the .500 start isn't what the Rangers and their fans were hoping for, they're always a dangerous team, and will come to play against the Devils come Tuesday evening.
What to Watch For
A Devils-Rangers game doesn't need any build-up. Chances are, you know what you're in for come Tuesday night. You know you're going to get one of the best goaltending matchups one can ask for in today's NHL in Brodeur vs. Lundqvist. You know you're going to get a hard-fought game complete with bone-crushing hits and the occasional fight. And after last season, there's probably a good chance DeBoer and Tortorella will scream at each other at some point in time during the game. To bad Pierre McGuire won't be there tomorrow to be the awkward third wheel in their conversation…
According to the Devils website, Tuesday's game is already a sellout, so expect The Rock to have a playoff hockey atmosphere to it, reminiscent of Game 6 last season. While some fans are questioning why the red-hot Hedberg isn't getting the start against the Rangers, the answer is simple: It's the Rangers. This is the stage Marty loves to be on and he always plays his best against the Team-in-Blue. The Devils will look to do a much better job of staying out of the penalty box. Even though the Rangers' power-play is only 10% on the season (29th in the NHL) any time spent short-handed against a rival like the Rangers is dangerous. The Devils third line of Carter-Gionta-Bernier was deadly in the Eastern Conference Finals last season, and has been on fire to start this season, so expect another great performance from them. The Rangers will look for some more production from their offense, which has only tallied 19 goals so far this season, with 5 of those goals being scored by Gaborik. While their team total is only 1 goal fewer than the Devils after 8 games, the Rangers were hoping to have a much more high-powered offense with the addition of Rick Nash (2G, 5A).
The Rangers will be without their captain Ryan Callahan (shoulder) and the speedy Chris Kreider (foot), while the Devils appear to be fully healthy at this time. On Monday, the Rangers traded one former Devil for another, as they sent Mike Rupp to Minnesota, and picked up Nick Palmieri and Darroll Powe. Powe is expected to start on Tuesday, which Palmieri was assigned to the AHL.
Needless to say: It's going to be a good game.
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