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Verses 1-8 Christ rose the third day after his death; that was the time he had often spoken of. On the first day of the first week God commanded the light to shine out of darkness. On this day did He who is the Light of the world, shine out of the darkness of the grave; and this day is from henceforward often mentioned in the New Testament, as the day which Christians religiously observed in solemn assemblies, to the honour of Christ. Our Lord Jesus could have rolled back the stone by his own power, but he chose to have it done by an angel. The resurrection of Christ, as it is the joy of his friends, so it is the terror and confusion of his enemies. The angel encouraged the women against their fears. Let the sinners in Zion be afraid. Fear not ye, for his resurrection will be your consolation. Our communion with him must be spiritual, by faith in his word. When we are ready to make this world our home, and to say, It is good to be here, then let us remember our Lord Jesus is not here, he is risen; therefore let our hearts rise, and seek the things that are above. He is risen, as he said. Let us never think that strange which the word of Christ has told us to expect; whether the sufferings of this present time, or the glory that is to be revealed. It may have a good effect upon us, by faith to view the place where the Lord lay. Go quickly. It was good to be there, but the servants of God have other work appointed. Public usefulness must be chosen before the pleasure of secret communion with God. Tell the disciples, that they may be comforted under their present sorrows. Christ knows where his disciples dwell, and will visit them. Even to those at a distance from the plenty of the means of grace, he will graciously manifest himself. The fear and the joy together quickened their pace. The disciples of Christ should be forward to make known to each other their experiences of communion with their Lord; and should tell others what God has done for their souls.
Verses 9-10 God's gracious visits usually meet us in the way of duty; and to those who use what they have for others' benefit, more shall be given. This interview with Christ was unexpected; but Christ was nigh them, and still is nigh us in the word. The salutation speaks the good-will of Christ to man, even since he entered upon his state of exaltation. It is the will of Christ that his people should be a cheerful, joyful people, and his resurrection furnishes abundant matter for joy. Be not afraid. Christ rose from the dead, to silence his people's fears, and there is enough in that to silence them. The disciples had just before shamefully deserted him in his sufferings; but, to show that he could forgive, and to teach us to do so, he calls them brethren. Notwithstanding his majesty and purity, and our meanness and unworthiness, he still condescends to call believers his brethren.
Verses 11-15 What wickedness is it which men will not be brought to by the love of money! Here was large money given to the soldiers for advancing that which they knew to be a lie, yet many grudge a little money for advancing what they know to be the truth. Let us never starve a good cause, when we see bad ones so liberally supported. The priests undertook to secure them from the sword of Pilate, but could not secure these soldiers from the sword of God's justice, which hangs over the heads of those that love and make a lie. Those men promise more than they can perform, who undertake to save a man harmless in doing a wilful sin. But this falsehood disproved itself. Had the soldiers been all asleep, they could not have known what passed. If any had been awake, they would have roused the others and prevented the removal; and certainly if they had been asleep, they never would have dared to confess it; while the Jewish rulers would have been the first to call for their punishment. Again, had there been any truth in the report, the rulers would have prosecuted the apostles with severity for it. The whole shows that the story was entirely false. And we must not charge such things to the weakness of the understanding, but to the wickedness of the heart. God left them to expose their own course. The great argument to prove Christ to be the Son of God, is his resurrection; and none could have more convincing proofs of the truth of that than these soldiers; yet they took bribes to hinder others from believing. The plainest evidence will not affect men, without the work of the Holy Spirit.
Verses 16-20 This evangelist passes over other appearances of Christ, recorded by Luke and John, and hastens to the most solemn; one appointed before his death, and after his resurrection. All that see the Lord Jesus with an eye of faith, will worship him. Yet the faith of the sincere may be very weak and wavering. But Christ gave such convincing proofs of his resurrection, as made their faith to triumph over doubts. He now solemnly commissioned the apostles and his ministers to go forth among all nations. The salvation they were to preach, is a common salvation; whoever will, let him come, and take the benefit; all are welcome to Christ Jesus. Christianity is the religion of a sinner who applies for salvation from deserved wrath and from sin; he applies to the mercy of the Father, through the atonement of the incarnate Son, and by the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, and gives up himself to be the worshipper and servant of God, as the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three Persons but one God, in all his ordinances and commandments. Baptism is an outward sign of that inward washing, or sanctification of the Spirit, which seals and evidences the believer's justification. Let us examine ourselves, whether we really possess the inward and spiritual grace of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, by which those who were the children of wrath become the children of God. Believers shall have the constant presence of their Lord always; all days, every day. There is no day, no hour of the day, in which our Lord Jesus is not present with his churches and with his ministers; if there were, in that day, that hour, they would be undone. The God of Israel, the Saviour, is sometimes a God that hideth himself, but never a God at a distance. To these precious words Amen is added. Even so, Lord Jesus, be thou with us and all thy people; cause thy face to shine upon us, that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Matthew 28:1-15 . GLORIOUS ANGELIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, THAT CHRIST IS RISEN--HIS APPEARANCE TO THE WOMEN--THE GUARDS BRIBED TO GIVE A FALSE ACCOUNT OF THE RESURRECTION. ( = 16:1-8 , Luke 24:1-8 , John 20:1 ).
The Resurrection Announced to the Women ( Matthew 28:1-8 ).
1. In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn--after the Sabbath, as it grew toward daylight.
toward the first day of the week--Luke ( Luke 24:1 ) has it, "very early in the morning"--properly, "at the first appearance of daybreak"; and corresponding with this, John ( John 20:1 ) says, "when it was yet those dear lovers of the Lord Jesus.
came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary--"the mother of James and
to see the sepulchre--with a view to the anointing of the body, for which they had made all their preparations.
And, behold, there was--that is, there had been, before the arrival of the women.
a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, &c.--And this was the state of things when the women drew near. Some judicious critics think all this was transacted while the women were approaching; but the view we have given, which is the prevalent one, seems the more natural. All this august preparation--recorded by Matthew alone--bespoke the grandeur of the exit which was to follow. The angel sat upon the huge stone, to overawe, with the lightning--luster that darted from him, the Roman guard, and do honor to his rising Lord.
3. His countenance--appearance.
was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow--the one expressing the glory, the other the purity of the celestial abode from which he came.
4. And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men--Is the sepulchre "sure" now, O ye chief priests? He that sitteth in the heavens doth laugh at you.
5. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye--The "ye" here is emphatic, to contrast their case with that of the guards. "Let those puny creatures, sent to keep the Living One among the dead, for fear of Me shake and become as dead men ( Matthew 28:4 ); but ye that have come hither on another errand, fear not ye."
for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified--Jesus the Crucified.
6. He is not here; for he is risen, as he
Come--as in Matthew 11:28 .
see the place where the Lord lay--Charming invitation! "Come, see the spot where the Lord of glory lay: now it is an empty grave: He lies not here, but He lay there. Come, feast your eyes on it!" But
7. And go quickly, and tell his disciples--For a precious addition to
that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee--to which those women belonged ( Matthew 27:55 ).
there shall ye see him--This must refer to those more public manifestations of Himself to large numbers of disciples at once, which He vouchsafed only in Galilee; for individually He was seen of some of those very women almost immediately after this ( Matthew 28:9 Matthew 28:10 ).
Lo, I have told you--Behold, ye have this word from the world of light!
8. And they departed quickly--Mark ( Mark 16:8 ) says "they fled."
from the sepulchre with fear and great joy--How natural this combination of feelings! See on a similar statement of Mark 16:11 .
and did run to bring his disciples word--"Neither said they anything to any man [by the way]; for they were afraid" ( Mark 16:8 ).
Appearance to the Women ( Matthew 28:9 Matthew 28:10 ).
This appearance is recorded only by Matthew.
9. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail!--the usual salute, but from the lips of Jesus bearing a higher signification.
And they came and held him by the feet--How truly womanly!
10. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid--What dear associations would these familiar words--now uttered in a higher style, but by the same Lips--bring rushing back to their recollection!
go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me--The brethren here meant must have been His brethren after the flesh (compare Matthew 13:55 ); for His brethren in the higher sense before He went to Galilee, which they would have missed if they had been the persons ordered to Galilee to meet Him.
The Guards Bribed ( Matthew 28:11-15 ).
The whole of this important portion is peculiar to Matthew.
11. Now when they were going--while the women were on their way to deliver to His brethren the message of their risen Lord.
some of the watch came into the city, and showed unto the chief priests all the things that were done--Simple, unsophisticated soldiers! How could ye imagine that such a tale as ye had to tell would not at once commend itself to your scared employers? Had they doubted this for a moment, would they have ventured to go near them, knowing it was death to a Roman soldier to be proved asleep when on guard? and of course that was the only other explanation of the case.
12. And when they were assembled with the elders--But Joseph at least was absent: Gamaliel probably also; and perhaps others.
and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers--It would need a good deal; but the whole case of the Jewish authorities was now at stake. With what contempt must these soldiers have regarded the Jewish ecclesiastics!
13. Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept--which, as we have observed, was a capital offense for soldiers on guard.
14. And if this come to the governor's ears--rather, "If this come before the governor"; that is, not in the way of mere report, but for judicial investigation.
we will persuade him, and secure you--The "we" and the "you" are emphatic here--"we shall [take care to] persuade him and keep you from trouble," or "save you harmless." The grammatical form of this clause implies that the thing supposed was expected to happen. The meaning then is, "If this come before the governor--as it likely will--we shall see to it that," &c. The "persuasion" of Pilate meant, doubtless, quieting him by a bribe, which we know otherwise he was by no means above taking (like Felix afterwards, Acts 24:26 ).
15. So they took the money, and did as they were taught--thus consenting to brand themselves with infamy.
and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day--to the date of the publication of this Gospel. The wonder is that so clumsy and incredible a story lasted so long. But those who are resolved not to come to the light will catch at straws. JUSTIN MARTYR, who flourished about A.D. 170, says, in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, that the Jews dispersed the story by means of special messengers sent to every country.
Matthew 28:16-20 . JESUS MEETS WITH THE DISCIPLES ON A MOUNTAIN IN GALILEE AND GIVES FORTH THE GREAT COMMISSION.
16. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee--but certainly not before the second week after the resurrection, and probably somewhat later.
into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them--It should have been rendered "the mountain," meaning some certain mountain which He had named to them--probably the night before He suffered, when He said, "After I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee" ( Matthew 26:32 , 14:28 ). What it was can only be conjectured; but of the two between which opinions are divided--the Mount of the Beatitudes or Mount Tabor--the former is much the more probable, from its nearness to the Sea of Tiberias, where last before this the Narrative tells us that He met and dined with seven of them. ( John 21:1 , &c.). That the interview here recorded was the same as that referred to in one
place only-- 1 Corinthians 15:6 --when "He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remained unto that day, though some were fallen asleep," is now the opinion of the ablest students of the evangelical history. Nothing can account for such a number as five hundred assembling at one spot but the expectation of some promised manifestation of their risen Lord: and the promise before His resurrection, twice repeated after it, best explains this immense gathering.
17. And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted--certainly none of "the Eleven," after what took place at previous interviews in Jerusalem. But if the five hundred were now present, we may well believe this of some of them.
19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations--rather, "make disciples of all nations"; for "teaching," in the more usual sense of that word, comes in afterwards, and is expressed by a different term.
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost--It should be, "into the name"; as in 1 Corinthians 10:2 , "And were all baptized unto (or rather 'into') Moses"; and Galatians 3:27 , "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ."
20. Teaching them--This is teaching in the more usual sense of the term; or instructing the converted and baptized disciples.
to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I--The "I" here is emphatic. It is enough that I
am with you alway--"all the days"; that is, till making converts, baptizing, and building them up by Christian instruction, shall be no more.
even unto the end of the world. Amen--This glorious Commission embraces two primary departments, the Missionary and the Pastoral, with two sublime and comprehensive Encouragements to undertake and go through with them.
First, The MISSIONARY department ( Matthew 28:18 ): "Go, make disciples of all nations." In the corresponding passage of Mark ( Mark 16:15 ) it is, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." The only difference is, that in this passage the sphere, in its world-wide compass and its universality of objects, is more fully and definitely expressed; while in the former the great aim and certain result is delightfully expressed in the command to "make disciples of all nations." "Go, conquer the world for Me; carry the glad tidings into all lands and to every ear, and deem not this work at an end till all nations shall have embraced the Gospel and enrolled themselves My disciples." Now, Was all this meant to be done by the Eleven men nearest to Him of the multitude then crowding around the risen Redeemer? Impossible. Was it to be done even in their lifetime? Surely not. In that little band Jesus virtually addressed Himself to all who, in every age, should take up from them the same work. Before the eyes of the Church's risen Head were spread out, in those Eleven men, all His servants of every age; and one and all of them received His commission at that moment. Well, what next? Set the seal of visible discipleship upon the converts, by "baptizing them into the name," that is, into the whole fulness of the grace "of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," as belonging to them who believe. your work, which in its own nature is temporary, must merge in another, which is permanent. This is
Second, The PASTORAL department ( Matthew 28:20 ): "Teach them"--teach these baptized members of the Church visible--"to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you," My apostles, during the three years ye have been. with Me. What must have been the feelings which such a Commission awakened? "WE who have scarce conquered our own misgivings--we, fishermen of Galilee, with no letters, no means, no influence over the humblest creature, conquer the world for Thee, Lord? Nay, Lord, do not mock us." "I mock you not, nor send you a warfare on your own charges. For"--Here we are brought to
Third, The ENCOURAGEMENTS to undertake and go through with this work. These are two; one in the van, the other in the rear of the Commission itself.
First Encouragement: "All power in heaven"--the whole power of Heaven's love and wisdom and strength, "and all power in earth"--power over all persons, all passions, all principles, all movements--to bend them to this one high object, the evangelization of the world: All this "is given unto Me." as the risen Lord of all, to be by Me placed at your command--"Go ye therefore." But there remains a
Second Encouragement: "And lo! I am with you all the days"--not only to perpetuity, but without one day's interruption, "even to the end of the world," The "Amen" is of doubtful genuineness in this place. If, however, it belongs to the text, it is the Evangelist's own closing word.


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I didn't think they were going to clinch last night and sadly, I was right. I think the men in orange and black have trouble with expectations. They were expected to win last night, so they lost, of course. I also think last night's game was influenced by the FOX people. They may not have been in town yet, but you know, the evil spirit of Chris Rose may be far-reaching. The crew also might have had voodoo dolls of Matt Cain, or something. This is, of course perfectly planned for them.
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The yard is loud, these days, by all accounts. Which is why I think this is just the time for me to pitch my new promotional day idea: Meditation Day. This might not catch on for other MLB teams, but I think it would work really well here in San Francisco. It would be a game where cheering is strictly prohibited and talking too, for the most part. There would be no PA and little or no scoreboard stuff, so that there would be minimal distraction from the subject at hand. It would offer the opportunity to center oneself and remember what baseball games are really about: the game. Pumped crowds are fun for the first few innings, but not so much fun after God-knows-how-many beers in the late innings and in the parking lot afterwards. I think a meditative crowd at an important game would be fascinating to see. Some would argue that the team would have trouble playing without the vocal support of the crowd, but I think the silent, mental support would be very powerful. Security would escort you out if you start cheering. What do y'all think?
The other thing I want to talk about is, you know, food. At the game. These next few games may get pretty tense and if we get into the playoffs, that will for sure be tense. And what do we all do when games get tense? We buy more french fries. Not me, actually. I've sworn off all ballpark food, except a warm hot dog when I can't feel my toes anymore. But I could lose my life savings if I bought all my food there and it's also not, you know, tremendously healthy. So here's what I usually bring to a game:
-Broccoli (cooked and drained)
You can say that I should just let go and eat whatever's there, but if you've never munched piece after piece of celery at a ballgame, you seriously need to go do it. It rules. Never mind if you feel like a donkey.
Okay. I'm going to go patronize the satan-worshipers. FOX it is, today. Clincher? Maybe. Torture? For sure.
Honestly, I think it could be the clincher. As I tweeted earlier, "A day may come when Zito will fail at his goal… but it is not this day! The words of Aragorn transcend time and universes."
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Every winter I find myself searching for snacks that do double duty: warming and filling me up! This means copious consumption of soup! It can be cheap, hot, filling and (more often than not) quite yummy. I have seen the single serve Campbell's Soup at Hand sitting on my grocers shelf for a couple of years now, so I figured I would finally give them a try. While I usually skip canned soups due to the INSANE sodium amounts, the single serving, microwavable, convenient product grabbed my attention and demanded that I try it . So, I decided to let the sodium police off for the day, purchased a can of the Vegetable Beef and made my way home for a taste test.
The soup is very user friendly. It can be made in minutes and even features a sipping top allowing you to drink it straight from the can. Since I was at home (and prefer to eat my soup with a spoon) I poured it into a bowl, but I did appreciate the creativity of the folks over there at Campbell's. This soup is good. It's flavorful and surprisingly thick. While there were minuscule chunks of beef and veggies in it, it was mostly a thick broth. Also, I was pleasantly surprised at how generous the serving size appeared when dumped into a bowl (the can made it look like less). Overall this was a good snack. Lots of flavor, easy to make and sufficiently filling.
One can of Campbell's Vegetable Beef Soup (Soup at Hand) contains 60 calories (the website says 70 calories though), 1 gram of fat (0.5 of which is saturated), 10 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber and 3 grams of protein. But there is also 930 mg of sodium into each 10.5 ounce container. That's almost 50% of the daily allowance! And Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) makes an appearance in the ingredients list (as does HFCS).
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In Chicago, human trafficking is a growing problem that hides in plain sight.
On the night of January 27, a thin teen dressed in skinny blue jeans and a white jacket walks west then south, east then north, circling the same two-block stretch on Chicago's West Side.
In quick time, a black Dodge Durango stops at her side. The teen approaches the window. She strolls around the SUV and enters the passenger seat. The car travels a half-mile before the driver, a man in his 60s, steps out, opens the rear driver's side door and lays the back seat flat. He returns to the wheel and slithers away. A half-mile later, he settles into an alley with a lone working streetlight. The nose of his SUV faces a dumpster; the girl disappears from view.
Sitting in a minivan, Chicago Police Officer Hope McKeown watches the scene unfold. She wishes she could say this was a new experience for her, an event she was tracking with her eyes and soul for the first time rather than the thousandth.
But she cannot.
For nearly 20 months, nights like these consumed Ms. McKeown, a 42-year-old native Chicagoan who pairs a wide, warm smile with sincere eyes.
Though many see human trafficking – the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of forced labor or sexual exploitation – as an international issue, one only making guest appearances on the Chicago area stage, reality tells otherwise.
Human trafficking thrives in The Second City, largely driven by Chicago's status as a transportation hub, tourism and convention business, hefty immigrant population, already thriving commercial sex industry and entrenched gangs with an entrepreneurial bent. The U.S. Department of Justice lists Chicago as a "high intensity" area for human trafficking, while Illinois sits among the top 10 states reporting calls to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
While firm numbers are difficult to grasp given the underground nature of the trade, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless estimates that more than 6,000 at-risk children are trafficked each year in Cook County; in metropolitan Chicago, an estimated 16,000 to 25,000 women and girls are involved in the commercial sex trade annually. One third of those girls enter prostitution at age 15, and 62 percent by the age of 18, according to a 2008 study by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and DePaul University College of Law.
"The public needs to accept this reality and be aware that human trafficking is a local issue," Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez confirms.
A Thriving Enterprise
Human trafficking, particularly of the sexual exploitation variety, is growing in the Chicago area, as pimps and even older female prostitutes – who curry favor with the pimp by bringing a new recruit into the stable – target high schools, malls and the streets, preying on vulnerable girls.
"The pimps have their fishing holes and know where the susceptible girls are," says Nick Roti, head of the Chicago Police Department's (CPD) Organized Crime Division.
Many girls have a history of sexual abuse, unstable home lives and uninvolved parents. Many carry long-neglected mental health issues, such as depression or bipolar disorder. Nearly all desire attention. Often, the pimp is the girl's first lover – a bond he can later exploit.
"We frequently see young women develop these relationships because this is the only man caring for them," Ms. Alvarez says.
Human trafficking happens throughout Chicagoland. It extends into tree-lined suburban streets and middle-class neighborhoods, where the Internet and social media provide the dirty business a sliver of professionalism, a slice of discretion.
In Chicago's most downtrodden areas, however, human trafficking resides in plain view.
Standing under viaducts or at bus stops, walking down streets with darkened factories and boarded-up homes, a girl rarely escapes her pimp's sight. Action intensifies after midnight, when the girls and their suitors both rise in number. It lasts, Ms. McKeown says, "until the sun comes up."
The girls are trained, by mental coercion if not physical force, on how to act. If approached by law enforcement, the girls know the script. The pimps prey on the girls' insecurities, sometimes hooking them to drugs to enact further control.
"It's classic brainwashing," Mr. Roti says. "One day, this guy loves his girl; the next, he's threatening her with pit bulls."
Among Chicago's increasingly sophisticated street gangs, sex trafficking is a lucrative business and a safer play than the drug trade. Frequently running girls through underground social clubs – main street storefronts that serve as denizens for the sex trade – some gangs will even share girls and profits.
"You can sell a pack of dope and it's gone, but you can sell a girl over and over," says Sergeant Traci Walker, supervisor of the CPD's Human Trafficking Task Force.
Operation Little Girl Lost
In the Chicago Police world, where every day can seize a piece of an officer's soul, Operation Little Girl Lost threatened to take a chunk.
Little Girl Lost began in January 2010 when a 14-year-old Chicago girl unloaded her misery upon a Chicago Police patrol officer. A habitual runaway, the girl was pulled into the life as a 13-year-old and encountered abuse, discord and danger on a daily basis. The officer, unsure where to turn, contacted Ms. McKeown, his former colleague who was now working vice.
Though Ms. McKeown had encountered her share of unsavory characters dabbling in the sex trade throughout seven years on the job, her first meeting with the teen was something different. The teen recounted her recruitment, her daily, despair-ridden routine. She offered names and relayed experiences unfit for any 14-year-old to hear, let alone live.
"This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a young girl forced into the life," Ms. McKeown says. "I was numb."
The more Ms. McKeown learned about the local human trafficking landscape, the more she urged Brian Hawkins, her sergeant in vice control, to open a formal investigation. They did, soon realizing the depth of the issue and politicking for additional CPD resources.
In April 2011, with the help of the Cook County Sheriff's Department, various suburban police agencies and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, the team began recording conversations. The investigation accelerated.
When Little Girl Lost concluded in August 2011, 10 offenders were charged with Involuntary Sexual Servitude of a Minor and Trafficking in Persons for Forced Labor. Now in the courts, the felony cases carry prison sentences of six to 30 years.
According to many involved, however, Operation Little Girl Lost merely touches the surface.
"This runs deep," Mr. Hawkins says. "Real deep."
Taking Action
Upon her election in 2008, Anita Alvarez identified human trafficking, and specifically the sex trafficking of children, as a priority. It marked a decided turn for the office, which had never previously charged a human trafficking case.
Within a year, Ms. Alvarez formed a first-of-its-kind Human Trafficking Initiative and drafted the Illinois Safe Children's Act. The legislation defines any minor's participation in the commercial sex trade as an act of human trafficking. Furthermore, the law views the children as victims rather than criminals and assesses more significant penalties to human traffickers.
"What good did it do us to charge the teenage girl with prostitution, when the person pimping her wasn't getting convicted?" Ms. Alvarez asks. "We had to get the bad guy."
The legislation also grants law enforcement better tools to combat human trafficking, specifically the ability to use wiretaps, such as those employed in Little Girl Lost.
In just over two years, the State's Attorney's Office has charged 51 defendants across 31 cases with human trafficking-related offenses. Ms. Alvarez's team earned its first conviction last July when Troy Bonaparte of Chicago was sentenced to 18 years for forcing women to prostitute themselves.
Criminals, however, are but one side of the human trafficking landscape.
The Salvation Army's STOP-IT program is the area's foremost advocate for human trafficking victims. The agency helps individuals escape the life of exploitation and fulfils needs for housing, education, job training or medical and legal services.
Unfortunately, few of the human trafficking subjects consider themselves victims, STOP-IT program manager Erin Knowles notes. While STOP-IT handled 70 cases in 2011, another 108 individuals declined services or eluded follow-up.
"With the psychology of trafficking being what it is, not all of the victims are ready to leave the life or talk about what's happening," Ms. Knowles says.
Ms. Alvarez, in fact, recalls one girl refusing to testify against her pimp because he regularly purchased her Subway sandwiches.
In spite of the challenges, many embrace an unrelenting spirit to battle human trafficking's rise.
In that West Side alley on that January night, her CPD colleagues confronting the john, Ms. McKeown ushers the blue jean-wearing teen to the side of the covert police vehicle. She looks the teen in the eye; she flashes a smile.
"Hello," Ms. McKeown says, "I'm Hope. What's your name?"
Read more:
A Walk Across the Sun: New Novel Exposes the Global Human Trafficking Industry
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I am disappointed that this tablecloth is so wrinkled. The colors are pretty and blend well with my kitchen. I hope Miles Kimball fixes this problem.
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Really like this as well. Using it on my living room table, which is wooden. It needed a covering, due to some water spots it developed over the years. The colors of the flowers in the print work perfectly in my living room!
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bought 3 different ones love them all.great use for working tables to protect & look preety. use it for our computer table .
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Very nice table cover to use for everyday protection. Went on easily.
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The tablecloth itself is very fine but the internet and catalog portray this particular oneas having a white background. Flowers are pretty but the overall look is green and dull. Totally not what I expected when ordering this one.
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This item was even prettier than the picture. It looks great on my table and is protecting it from all spills and various other potential damage.
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Beautiful, but hangs down on both ends of the table.
Durable but overpriced.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:42 pm
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No, because remember, she had to go learn how to create an Eve from the elder planets. (From the Genesis chapter, I think)
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:28 pm
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had to be the first to do it. Who did
ask? Unless the alphas got the knowledge from the Sidera (and even then, maybe), it must be possible, if difficult, to create an Eve without asking them.
Anyway, our own question: given that Willow isn't a soulstone bearer who will later get sent back to the place and time she left, does this mean she can age and die as normal? Or is the time-stoppage a function of Earthsong's surface, rather than of being a bearer?
Hey, maybe that's Willow's power! Time-warping.
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Eh, it seems a little overpowered. Lady wouldn't unbalance the story like that.
Right, just like she didn't give a character the power to use anyone else's powers.
Let's give her credit. If anyone can do it believably, it's teh Lady.
True enough. After all, she made the rest of the story believable, and it's... well...
at it. Does any of that look real? Nope, but she makes us
in it.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:58 pm
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Well, Nanashi doesn't seem to have physically aged at all during her stay on Earthsong.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:00 pm
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ooooo Wonderful reveal, m'Lady! I can't say it was completely unexpected but it was awesome nonetheless
I wonder if it's possible for Earthsong to have started creating her Eve, and then for the Eve to finish itself somehow?
ES had been trying to form her Eve at the council meeting thing (Genisis chapter)... I think she probably abandoned the task with the arrivals of the soulstone bearers but had done enough to initiate an eventual birth.... Or, maybe Bel came and finished creating the Eve? That would explain Willow being so close to the badlands when she was found, but personally, I don't think it works. >,<"'
... random question: Why didn't Tristram do anything?
oh, and thank you Tyris for answering my question about Nanashi in the other thread
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:05 pm
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@Talps Tamir has it right. Sorry people, but maintaining that Bel created Willow is ilogical given that he neither had her to begin with, did not recognize her when they met, and especially, that he appeared surprised at the revelation that she was in fact ES eve.
@Tyris Already theorized it
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:17 pm
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So, how was Willow created? Well, to know that we have to actually know a bit more about how were eves actually created in the first place. I see only tree wiable explanations:
1) The sideran thaught the elder planets.
2) The elder planets found out by experimentation
3) The elder planets stumbled upon the process by accident
#1 I shall disregard for now, because, frankly, it gives me nothing to go upon.
I disagree. ES has siderian element on her surface, it is a possibility that this gave her the power to create an Eve. I would say that, since it is not mixing directly with her element (I believe), it might go into her subconscious, and ES appears to want an Eve. So if she had the knowledge subconsciously and wants to, it is possible that she did some thing(s) 'randomly' that ended up creating an Eve. We know her surface was aready prepped for it, it may well be that that is the hard part and the rest is just a little unintuitive.
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... random question: Why didn't Tristram do anything?
Tristram is terrified of Bel. And he might also be so freaked out at what's happening to Willow that he's not moving and/or looking.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:39 pm
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I don't really see anything Trissy could do. Not without getting pointlessly killed on the spot. He probably feels horible, though.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:46 pm
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@Talps Tamir has it right. Sorry people, but maintaining that Bel created Willow is ilogical given that he neither had her to begin with, did not recognize her when they met, and especially, that he appeared surprised at the revelation that she was in fact ES eve.
@Tyris Already theorized it
In what way does he look surprised? He just looks... scheming. In Tamir's words...
And Bel in the last panel is so saying "ehhhhhhhxcellent". x)
If he thought he had failed to complete the Eve and abandoned it, how would he know what it would look like?
This theory that Earthsong created the Eve doesn't work in my opinion. It's already been suggested that without being given the knowledge, the only way a planet could work out how to make an Eve would be trial and improvement; how could Earthsong do that without realising?
My belief was that the way to make Eves was taught to the Elder Planets by the Siderean: the creators teaching the created the secret of creation!
And if Earthsong started creating her years ago, why did she mention nothing of it in the meeting in Genesis? All she says is that she had prepared her surface. How did the Eve get completed if Earthsong needed knowledge to create her and never received it? Why would she tinker with her unborn Eve when it would risk her given task and her adopted children? Why would the Eve lie dormant for however long it's been? And why would she appear as a forming Soulstone?! The same question asked about the created-by-Bel theory!
Maybe Bel tried to create Earthsong's Eve (we know that
has the knowledge of how to do it) but didn't have enough of her Element, and so it didn't work, so he sent away the unfinished creation. Mayb she attracted more of Earthsong's element independantly as it escaped naturally until she had enough and 'formed' as a Soulstone would. Bel wouldn't know his work had finished; he wouldn't recognise her because A) he never saw her finished and B) He simply wasn't expecting to see her 'cus he thought she had never finished forming!!!
His reasons for creating her? Already we see she's given him a way to hurt Earthsong, to control her physically and emotionally, to tempt her out of hiding. And she also is a weapon against Earthsong; if Willow has babiez, there comes the risk that Earthsong could start forming soulstones, meaning she is no longer suitable for her task of looking after the other soulstone children.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:23 pm
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Lady, you must have been tickled pink by all the wild theories, especially when the real answer was
so darn simple
. And when everyone talked themselves out of the real answer so quickly! No wonder you cackled.
I seem to remember something about the Planet Manifests controlling their planet and surface by willpower. It seems to me that if Earthsong yearned so desperately for an Eve, yet consciously knew she couldn't have one, she would bury the thought and try to forget about it. But in her subconscious she would still be turning the idea over, imagining what it would be like to have one, thinking the process through, wishing and wanting. For her to create an Eve unknowingly in a moment of weakness, especially if she was already expending a large amount of power, makes perfect sense. The apparent nonrecognition can be explained again by her conscious knowledge that she shouldn't create an Eve, and therefore wouldn't be looking for it to happen. People have a remarkable ability to not see what's right in front of their faces (See: forumers and the Eve theory), and I think the same could apply to innocent, naive Earthsong.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:43 pm
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Hmmm... I think the real question is what Willow can do. She doesn't have a soulstone power perse, but don't Eves choose how their elemental powers manifest? Each other character already had their power decided by their respective Eves, but Willow is in the unique position of choosing a power. So what will she choose? Will it be an epic battle power? My vote's on telekinesis.
Btw, how does an Eve's power compare to the power of someone with a soulstone?
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:20 pm
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LadyYates wrote:
~Appearance: [/b]The ends of their hair (or hair in Earthsongs case) curls exactly the same way. Willows eye colour is the same as Earthsongs manifest stone (vol.II, 71). She looks like a lavender skinned, white haired human (vol.II, 77) - Nanashi is Earthsongs closest child, and Earthsong even modeled her manifest form after Gaias (see print edition character gallery) it makes sense then that her Eve should look relatively human.
I read through the beginning last weekend again for old times sake, and was suddenly struck right
. At first glance I thought Willow's eye in the side panel was Earthsongs! The color, the lashes, they are pretty much identical. As I read on the evidence tallied up, but I held my excitement in long enough to verify.
sinesdex wrote:
So, how was Willow created? Well, to know that we have to actually know a bit more about how were eves actually created in the first place. I see only tree viable explanations:
1) The sideran thaught the elder planets.
2) The elder planets found out by experimentation
3) The elder planets stumbled upon the process by accident
#2 is my personal favorite. It seams plausible to me, and I can even find an example in primates of Gaia, as a sort of a proof. It also means that there is no 'secret component' to making an eve. Every planet is fully capable of doing it with no outside assistance if it follows some kind of process. A process that I'm sure is convoluted and complicated to the extreme, so to ease it to their younger brothers and sisters, the elder planets took it upon themselves to instruct them. But, to follow a process, one does not actually have to be aware of it. It might take a mightily long time to complete (evident in the case of the Willow, if we accept this theory), and the results might not be what was actually intended, in the end, like it or not, you get the eve.
#3 mostly everything said for #2 is also applicable here
I'm feeling confident with myself so I throw my lot in with the second
third possibilities.
One elder planet accidentally made an Eve. S/he then told the other planets, and they began to experiment to see if they could replicate the results. Eventually they discovered a concrete process which they could teach the other planets allowing them to create their own Eves.
That, of course, would mean that any planet is more than capable of creating an Eve by accident, if no one bothers to explain the process to them...
(It'd be kind of like an "unplanned" pregnancy. If you do what is necessary to have children, even if you haven't been educated on the mechanism, you still get the kids!)
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:36 pm
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Never bothered to re-register in the new forum till now (lurker).
BOOYAH! I was right!
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:17 pm
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inked.silver wrote:
... random question: Why didn't Tristram do anything?
Well, it's not as if there's much he CAN do. If he attacks Bel (or even just interrupts him, at this point) he'll get swatted. Which won't help Willow. If he were fast enough he might be able to reach her and pull enough energy out to render her unconscious, thereby ending the torture for now. But that's ony a temporary solution, Bel would be VERY unhappy with him, and he'd never get a second chance to do that again. He could cover his ears with his hands and run out of the room; but I think Tristram is too much of a man to do that. He got Willow into this, he's going to stay no matter how bad it gets until it's over and maybe pick up the pieces if he can. Frankly, if the Guard burst into the place and started beating everyone up, I think he'd be the second happiest person in the room at this point.
eee, who is turning today's revelations over in his mind before commenting on them. There's something here that doesn't quite add up...
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:10 pm
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I get a suspicion from Bel's comment that maybe what he was trying to do was to induce EarthSong to create her Eve. He wants EarthSong's position, right? And wasn't part of the reason ES was given the power and position the fact she didn't have an Eve? So now that she does, is Bel the only one left who could have the position?
Oh, it's hard to think like an evil villain ...
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