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Justice League UNLEASHED
Posted 18 August 2012 - 12:54 AM
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 12:58 AM
Hirk is Grodd or Amazo
Either Yodell is Joker OR Panther is Grodd
If we lynch Framm instead of NK, it might help. Or we just kill one, lynch another and if the game continues, kill the 3rd.
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 12:58 AM
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 02:46 AM
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Some of what makes me me is real, some of what makes me me is imaginary...I guess I'm just complex. ;P
<3 BBC's Sherlock, the series and the man. "Smart is the new sexy."
Chromatic Witch links now on my 'About Me' page! Episode 3 is finally here!
When life hands me lemons, I make invisible ink.
Posted 18 August 2012 - 05:09 AM
How about a new nickname? Framazo!
How about no. (use it if you want, I don't really care)
And trust me, I don't have very good actions so...
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 07:28 AM
Boughs of fog rolled in from the dewy sea. A lone figure sat on the dock, humming an odd tune.
Suddenly a shadow appeared, a dark entity projected onto the mists. It loomed over the hummer.
"Yodell," said a steady, somber voice. "I've found you."
The silhouette came forward, and two glowing green eyes pierced through the fog.
"Oh, it's you, Lantern," Yodell said, continuing to hum under his breath. "What can I do for you?"
"Nothing," Green Lantern replied. "Just that: nothing. I have come to put an end to your evil ways."
Yodell shrugged. "I think you're confused, old chum."
But Lantern was not having it. He manifested a giant green fist with his power ring and swung it at Yodell, who jumped away just in time.
"If you insist..."
Booster strolled down the street, waiting impatiently for Skeets to tally their profits.
"$204,572 from that last deal, Booster," the robot finally said.
"Pff...that's not even enough to buy a decent hover-car," Booster lamented. "We've got to go bigger! I mean...seriously, who cares about teaming up with Elastic Man? No, what we need is something more, like..."
Just then Panther came flying around the side of tall brick building, face set fiercely, zoning in on the intended target.
"...Like that," Booster grinned. "Come on Skeets, we've got ourselves a deal to catch."
Hawkgirl and Flash stood their ground, facing their golden android adversary. "Give up now and we'll go easy on you," Flash declared.
The android's impassive eyes stared at her, and then it's face shifted into a replication of what the humans called "a smile".
Hawkgirl shrugged. "Or not..." She raised her electrified nth metal mace. "I'm fine with doing it this way..." And she swung the mace...
...at the Flash. Taken by surprise, the red speedster barely managed to dodge.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"I can't...control...it..." Hawkgirl muttered through gritted teeth as she struggled.
Amazo looked on with its inhuman eyes. The ability it had learned from Lex Luthor was appearing to quite useful.
Flash dodged another attack...and another...and another. This is useless, he realized, glancing at Amazo. Maybe if I take the android down...
He rushed at Amazo, readying his fist into a vibrating weapon, and thrust a lightning fast blow at the android...
...which missed as Amazo moved itself out of the way just as quickly. It's unfeeling glare challenged the Flash with his own ability.
"Uh oh..." Wally murmured.
As it finished the information from the various satellites it had hijacked, the three glowing circles on the Brain Inter-Active Construct's pulsed and then went dim.
It had seen enough. It was time to finish this.
It turned to activate the device, the electromagnetic disruptor ray which would destroy Earth's magnetic fields and put into motion the irreversible changes that would first overturn the planet's ecosystem, followed by its climate, and finally, the motions of the tectonic plates which would eventually cause the planet to collapse into itself. This tool which had been the annihilator of so many alien civilization would now be Earth's.
"Stop!" A voice cried, as a hole of blinding light seemed to rip through the fabric time and space. Through it stepped a being in a golden helmet and golden cape.
Unflinching, the Brain Inter-Active Construct's eyes glowed and shot out twin lasers at the intruder. The being shimmered out of space-time and back in a few feet and a few milliseconds away.
"I can't let you do this, BrainIAC," said the interloper. "It is not the fate of this planet and the heroes on it to end here."
The sentient super-computer paused to process this new information and this new helmeted variable. A few seconds later, it responded. "Very well, it seems there may be more to learn yet. I will allow this planet to remain as it is...for now."
The other super-being nodded and waved his hand, reviving the feed from the satellites. "Let us watch how this plays out."
"You'll have to do better than that, friend," Aquaman said as he dodged the Lantern Corp soldier's enormous green hammer by diving into the water.
Green Lantern scowled and shifted his manifestation into a giant sieve, dipping it into the water and fishing the fish king out. "How's that?"
"Not bad," the fish man responded, "But what are you going to do about that?"
As he spoke, a dolphin jumped out of the water and rammed into Green Lantern, knocking him back.
Taking only a moment to regain his balance, the soldier prepared to counter-attack...
"Aaahhhgggg..." Suddenly he fell to his knees, clutching his head.
The king of Atlantis dropped into the water, doing the same.
"I said, LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" snarled Wonder Woman, attempting to shake Booster off her tail.
But the entrepreneur was persistent in his pursuit of profit. "C'mon...I watched holo-toons about you when I was growing up, but you're even prettier in live action! We'd be so good together...think of the marketing possibilities...'Beauty and the Booster'...'The Once and Future Hero and Queen'..."
"The Princess and the Pea-brain?" A voice interjected as a green wall appeared in front of them, halting their chase.
Behind it levitated Nanatern, who was also using his ability to levitate Yodaquaman.
"What are you two doing here?" Princess Panther asked.
"Benjon communicated to us with his Martian mind trick and showed us the error of our ways," Nanatern replied. "We shouldn't be fighting each other. Flash and Hawkgirl are in trouble."
The princess glanced at Boojay with disdain and let out a deep, deep sigh. "Fine..."
Panting, Flash Flash Auralution moved out of the way of his own attack from the left as Hawkgirl's mace came from the right. He managed to avoid the strike, but it wasn't a clean dodge, as a gash in the chest of his suit testified to. He winced in pain and felt blood trickle down from the wound. He wasn't sure how much more he could take of this...
"Need some help?" A green force field appeared around him just in time to deflect another lightning fast attack from the android.
The android prepared to launch another attack, but it was knocked off its feet by a geyser of water, courtesy of Aquaman.
Twoahawk screamed, dropped her mace, and crumpled to her knees, clutching her head. A moment later, Martian Manhunter phased in next to her and put his 'hands' on her temples. The tension in her face melted and a serene look flowed over her.
Wonder Woman rushed at Amazo, landing a blow at full force which knocked the android into the side of a building, crashing through it and bringing an avalanche of debris down on it.
"That creature is no stronger than a man," the princess sniffed. She caught the other heroes smiling at her and then added grudgingly, "Well, perhaps not all men are so weak..."
Suddenly, a golden blur exploded up from the pile of rubble and then crashed down onto the pavement, sending out a shockwave which knocked them all back and left a crater on the ground.
From the android's throat came a replication of the laugh it had learned from the fallen villains. "Thank you," it said in replicated tone of smugness. "This saves me the time of finding each one of you myself. Now I have learned all of your strengths."
Immediately, Amazo manifested a green cage around Hawkgirl, shot a geyser of water at Flash, suspended Green Lantern into the air with a red tornado, formed one arm into a mace which it smashed into Aquaman, formed the other arm into a lasso which it ensnared the Martian with, and flooded Wonder Woman's mind with a paralyzing wave of pain.
"You are all now no match for my powers." The android stated matter-of-factly. "I have all of your strengths."
An immense winged shadow appeared from behind the android. Amazo turned its head to an impossible angle and saw a dark figure behind it.
"You may have replicated their strengths," a low, hoarse voice spoke. Suddenly, there was a spark, then a flicker. "But..." The figure emerged into the light of the street lamps, revealing himself to be Batman, holding a lit match. "...you have also replicated their weaknesses."
The android tilted its head, uncomprehending.
The Dark Mike turned his head and cried "Now, Booster!"
From the side, the 25th century "hero" appeared with his robot. A hole opened up in Skeet's front panel and orangish liquid squirted out onto the android. Batman tossed the match at it, and Amazo burst into a blazing ball.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" The android cried as the Martian's crippling fear of fire overwhelmed his systems. Its limbs jerked around as it struggled in vain to put out the 25th century chemical enhanced flames. It catapultedinto a building, then into the ground, growing more frantic and hotter by the moment. Finally, it let out one final agonizing scream and shot into the air like a rocket.
A moment or a minute or an eternity later, who knew, the shooting star exploded in the sky like the most beautiful firework the heroes had ever seen.
The group, dirty, scratched, but not all that much the worse for wear, gathered together to watch the colorful show of lights. Then they turned towards each other, their eyes attesting to their unspoken comradery. Maybe this team thing wasn't so bad after all...
"Aw...are we too late to join the party?" A man in a robin hood costume appeared behind them, followed by a pretty blonde woman wearing a black jacket with a black choker around her neck and an attractive brunette in a tailcoat and top hat.
The members of the newly formed team shared a look and a long moment of silence. Then the Flash flashed between the two females, taking one in each arm with a huge grin. "The more the merrier."
Hawkgirl rolled her eyes but couldn't keep the corner of her mouth from lifting up. The rest of also broke out in smiles as well.
"Welcome to the Justice League."
...or is it???
Thanks all for playing. Really bad luck and bad timing (in terms of RL stuff) for the Villains, ridiculously good luck for the Justice League. This is the most one-sided luck I've seen since ABR1, where the heroes lost every single coin toss (no, I'm not exaggerating...every...single...coin toss).
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Some of what makes me me is real, some of what makes me me is imaginary...I guess I'm just complex. ;P
<3 BBC's Sherlock, the series and the man. "Smart is the new sexy."
Chromatic Witch links now on my 'About Me' page! Episode 3 is finally here!
When life hands me lemons, I make invisible ink.
Posted 18 August 2012 - 07:39 AM
Night 1: Flame Off
Day 1: Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
Night 2: Joke's On You
Day 2: Lantern's Light Extinguished
Night 3: Carried Off By the Curr3nt
Day 3: Smallvillain
Night 4: The End and the Beginning
I'm really proud of the ending post .
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Some of what makes me me is real, some of what makes me me is imaginary...I guess I'm just complex. ;P
<3 BBC's Sherlock, the series and the man. "Smart is the new sexy."
Chromatic Witch links now on my 'About Me' page! Episode 3 is finally here!
When life hands me lemons, I make invisible ink.
Posted 18 August 2012 - 08:12 AM
The baddies did have luck on n1 killing Superman, I never would have guessed that one. But losing 2 on n2 and then another d2, wow.
I thought Marq and Panther had hinted at being Hawkgirl on d1, and it turned out to be Twoaday.
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 09:19 AM
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 10:53 AM
Final links:
Night 1: Flame Off
Day 1: Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
Night 2: Joke's On You
Day 2: Lantern's Light Extinguished
Night 3: Carried Off By the Curr3nt
Day 3: Smallvillain
Night 4: The End and the Beginning
I'm really proud of the ending post .
You should be .. you know you could write novels for a living .. and earn big by it !!
Edited by Yodell, 18 August 2012 - 10:53 AM.
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"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain
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Exonerated death row inmate embodies gaps in justice system
A former death row inmate's tale culminated a group of lectures held at 7 p.m. at the Cline Library on Thursday, Oct. 16.
These talks brought up problems with the death penalty, governmental procedures and potential changes that could limit wrongful accusations. This served to give people in attendance different perspectives on the legal process.
One perspective was that of Ray Krone, a man wrongfully convicted of murder in 1992 and forced to spend over 10 years in jail, three of those on death row.
Accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a bar manager in late 1991, Krone was freed in 2002 with the release of DNA evidence exonerating him of the crime. During his presentation, Krone compared the wrongful accusations he faced to that of receiving the blame for a sibling's misdeed, only worse.
"Magnify that by 100 times," Krone said of the comparison. "If it happened to me, it could happen to anyone."
Robert Schehr, president of the Northern Arizona Justice Project, said there is an error rate of 80 percent when it comes to the death penalty, and that Arizona is no exception to the problems.
"We have our own issues in Arizona," Schehr said. "(They're) structural issues."
Krone was immediately accused of the crime by Phoenix police officers, thanks in part to teeth marks found on the victim's body.
As a result, the prosecution brought in a "tooth expert," as Krone called him, who allegedly matched the marks on the victim's body with a cast taken of Krone's mouth, marking Krone as the perpetrator of the crime.
This turned out to be the only evidence against Krone. All other evidence presented, including fingerprints and DNA, went unmatched.
Despite this, and Krone's pleas of innocence, he was eventually sentenced to death. Krone said the prosecution tried their hardest to break him and his family, to make them admit to a crime Krone was innocent of.
"They're willing to go to all extremes," Krone said. "I couldn't believe it, but it happened."
Krone sat on death row for more than three years before going to trial once again, in part due to the lack of evidence presented. Once again, he was found guilty due to the "lingering residual doubt" because of his teeth. This time, however, Krone was given a sentence of life in a maximum-security prison.
"I was in the worst of the worst," Krone said. "I knew I wasn't going to like a whole lot of people, including the inmates."
There, Krone sat for 10 years, believing his life was over, until a DNA test was done in 2001 with blood found on the victim's clothing.
The results of the test did not match Krone's DNA, but did match a man who was already in custody, Kenneth Phillips.
Thanks to an attorney willing to fight for Krone, the charges were ultimately dropped.
Jennifer Garcia, a federal public defender, said it was determination like this that inspired, and ultimately defined, her current role. Krone's case motivated her to take on others who have been wronged by the system.
"(You have to) go out and fight the good fight," Garcia said. "Not sit in an office fighting over money."
As a result, Krone was promptly released from prison on April 8, 2002, becoming the 100th person in history to be exonerated from death row. Since then, countless media and schools have contacted him in order to hear a first-hand account of his story.
"I started life over at the age of 45," Krone said. "Maybe it's what I have to do the next 10 years."
Krone has also gone on to work for the Witness to Innocence program, which helps promote awareness of a "flawed" justice system, sending innocent people to death row.
The organization also helps reacquaint prisoners to normal life once released, something Krone feels is necessary.
"When you're released, (there's) no preparation for when you come out," Krone said. "We gotta take that meanness out of them."
Earlier in the evening, Schehr said roughly 2 percent of the people incarcerated are innocent, according to conservatives. He said given that 2.2 million people are currently incarcerated in the United States, an estimated 40,000 of them are innocent.
Twenty-three people have been executed in Arizona since 1973, but Garcia said things have lightened up a bit. Three reversals have already taken place this year, with her office being one of those centralizing factors.
With these modifications, Krone himself acknowledges how much the justice system has changed. Despite this, he knows problems still happen within the legal system, and urges people both in and out of jail to "have some little flame of hope."
"Remember my story, find strength in that," Krone said. "Be strong, have faith (and) keep this system fair and just."

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Tweet After undergoing a major re-branding from BT Commercial to NAI BT Commercial a few years ago, BT is making a move again. This time, it is joining up with some firms formerly associated with Colliers to create a new one named Cassidy Turley. BT Commercial is joining Cassidy & Pinkard Colliers, a D.C.-area real estate services […]Read More >>
The Invisible Hand: 18% of Personal Income From Handouts
January 5, 2010
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January 4, 2010
Tweet Credit Suisse is being sued in Montana for allegedly making loans based on inflated appraisals, so that it could take over when the debts couldn't be repaid. Classic. This would set a pretty gnarly precedent if the lawsuit goes anywhere. Blixseth is suing for losses from his property at the Yellowstone Club in Montana, […]Read More >>
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WSJ on San Francisco Real Estate
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December 23, 2009
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Chuck Pagano: 'We do not want to lose Bruce Arians'
Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano said offensive coordinator Bruce Arians –a candidate for the Bears' head coaching job –still is in a Baltimore hospital and is in good spirits but will not be released until his blood pressure is "under control."
Arians was admitted to the hospital Sunday with an undisclosed illness and missed the Colts' 24-9 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in an AFC wild-card game at M&T Bank Stadium.
"[He's] expected to be back any time — any time real soon," Pagano said at a season wrap-up press conference Monday at the Colts' practice facility in Indianapolis. "Every test they ran on Bruce — and obviously they put him through a battery of tests from A to Z — all have been negative.
"He's doing well. They would have let him come home early this morning. But whatever he's dealing with has affected his blood pressure and they're not going to release him until they get the blood pressure under control. Which they will. But we expect him here any time. I talked to his wife through texts this morning. And he's doing well and in good spirits and all that stuff. We'll be glad to get him back."
When Arians returns, he might not stay for long. The Bears, Eagles and Browns have received permission to interview him for their head coaching vacancies. And the Chargers also have expressed interest.
"We do not want to lose Bruce Arians. We do not want to lose Bruce," Pagano said with emphasis. "He is so valuable to this organization — what he means to this organization and what he's done.
On the other hand, Pagano, who became a head coach for the first time at 52 after 28 years in football, knows it will be difficult to keep Arians if the Bears or other teams offer him a head coaching job.
"I want the best for Bruce," Pagano said. "I want the best for his family. I want him to achieve and reach any goals he's had for himself throughout his coaching years. It's a hard spot. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
Arians, 60, has been an assistant coach in the NFL for 20 years. He was let go by the Pittsburgh Steelers after the 2011 season before being hired by the Colts. Pagano, who was the Ravens' defensive coordinator for four years prior to getting the Colts' job last year, said Arians "is more than qualified" to be a head coach in the NFL.
"Absolutely," Pagano said. "We were together in Cleveland. Obviously played against him for four years in my time spent in Baltimore [when Arians was with the Steelers]. I just know throughout the league that he's very well respected.
"Everybody has a window. And there's going to be a time and a place that opportunity presents itself. Bruce has all the qualities to be outstanding head football coach. Great technician. He knows the game. He's great with players. Good leader. Good motivator. I'm not surprised that people would be interested [in] Bruce."


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Food Truck Rally
at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Head to Grand Army Plaza on the first and third Sunday to sample treats from New York's best food trucks.
Category: Food
Plover Day!
at Beach 59th St & Boardwalk (in Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk), Queens
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Discover one of New York City's endangered species: The Piping Plover!
Category: Birding, Nature, Festivals, Kids
Basic Canoeing
at Burnett Street and Avenue U (in Marine Park), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Our trained Urban Park Rangers will lead you on canoe adventures that range from the gentle waters of protected lakes to the challenging open waters of rivers and bays.
Category: Nature, Kayaking and Canoeing, Waterfront
Pier Kids: Wildlife Theater
at Pier 6 (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
The Central Park Zoo Wildlife Theater brings Amazing Adaptations: The Dinosaur Adventure packed with singing, science and fun!
Category: Arts & Crafts, Education, Kids
Birding: Shore Birds
at Orchard Beach Nature Center (in Pelham Bay Park), Bronx
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Our Rangers will guide you to the best wildlife viewing spots in New York City.
Category: Birding, Nature
Brooklyn Bridge Park Tour
at Pier 1 (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Learn about the park's design, history, and ecology, and how the park came to life.
Category: Nature, History, Tours, Waterfront
Central Park Tour: West Side Stories
at 81st Street and Central Park West (in Central Park), Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
Visit an area of the park off the beaten track for most visitors, but well-known to Upper West Siders.
Category: History, Tours
Family Performance Festival: Musical Adventures in Central Park
at Peter Jay Sharp Children's Glade (in Central Park), Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Discover more about the Park and the finely "tuned" way in which mother nature works with George Steele as you sing along with him.
Category: Education, Nature, Kids
Conference House Tours
at Conference House Museum (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Come to The Conference House in Tottenville for guided tours through an historic house where Benjamin Franklin, Edward Rutledge, John Adams and Lord Howe met in an attempt to end the…
Category: Education, History, Tours
Nature Exploration
at Visitor Center (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
On Nature Exploration hikes we will discover the plants and animals that inhabit that urban forest.
Category: Nature, Tours
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Minn. reservation's wild rice harvest limitedThe centuries-old practice of harvesting wild rice at the end of summer is open only to Fond du Lac band members this year on the Minnesota reservation's five ricing lakes.
By: Jane Hollingsworth, Forum News Service
The centuries-old practice of harvesting wild rice at the end of summer is open only to Fond du Lac band members this year on the Minnesota reservation's five ricing lakes.
The season opened Sept. 6, and the decision was made Sept. 4, says Reginald DeFoe, resource management director for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
"There are concerns about protecting the rice and making the season last longer," DeFoe says.
Because of last year's flood, there was no crop last fall. And this year's crop is roughly half — about 400 acres — of what a good season would be for the five lakes, DeFoe says. The new rule will be reviewed yearly going forward, based on the abundance of rice.
It didn't sit well with some husband-and-wife teams that include a spouse who isn't an enrolled band member, some of whom have riced for decades on the reservation.
Debra Topping is a Fond du Lac member, but her husband is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. They rice for their own meals and to give to their children and grandchildren.
When Topping went to pick up a license for her husband Sept. 5, she was told he wasn't able to go on any of the reservation ricing lakes, but could rice on ceded territory off-reservation.
"For 30 years, that's what we do," she says, of ricing on Fond du Lac Reservation land. "That's our food. That's what led the Anishinaabe here. I collect whatever I am able to get in a year; whatever the Creator gives. Last year there wasn't (any) so this year we're scraping the bottom."
She was told she could pair up with another member to collect rice, but to her, that meant splitting her harvest in half. She preferred going with her husband, she says, who has always been her partner.
Fond du Lac member and author Jim Northrup and his wife, Pat, who is Mdewakanton and not enrolled with Fond du Lac, also have riced together for decades on the reservation. The couple, known for their birch-bark baskets and maple syrup, sees ricing as a spiritual ceremony and a way of life.
Jim Northrup compared the Perch Lake crop to a "lush jungle." His family has riced it for 100 years, he says, and did not wish to leave the reservation to rice other lakes.
"In my observation, it's the best it's been in 20 years," he says. "We can do without the micromanaging by people who don't know what a good crop looks like."
Perch Lake was open only to enrolled elders on the first day. Despite the new rule, Pat Northrup, an elder, wasn't stopped from ricing, Jim Northrup says.
There are also fewer days for subsistence ricing this year. Those days are for ricers who don't plan to sell the rice, which the band buys at $4 a pound.
Some members are ready to sell on day one, DeFoe says, and some want four days of subsistence ricing, so two days was a compromise.
Jim Northrup says when the band increased the price from $2 a pound a few years ago, inexperienced ricers took to the lakes using tools such as pool cues to harvest.
"They get a lot of rice, but they ruined it, beating on it," he says.
The band buys several tons from ricers to donate to funerals, ceremonies, festivals, colleges and pow wows. The most it has purchased is 16 tons.
DeFoe says he expects five to 10 tons this season, which will begin to replenish the reservation's down reserves.
A typical season lasts roughly five days. The five lakes get between 100 and 150 boats, with two people per boat. Band Chairwoman Karen Diver says there was lengthy discussion about the policy between the governing body of the band, which is the Reservation Business Committee, and the resource management staff.
"It was a difficult decision," she says. "The primary motivation is about conservation of the wild rice."
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August 8, 2011
Phil Vettel: Steaks, seafood and a $15 deal all part of Capital Grille's appeal
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January 9, 2012
Out to lunch: Terzo Piano, 159 E. Monroe St.
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January 30, 2012
Oysy decor is fresh, and so is sushi
Who eats: Businesspeople, tourists and River North office workers.
December 12, 2011
Koda brings French country dining to Beverly
Why eat: The French bistro offers a seasonal menu and a cozy dining room decorated in soothing bronze and gold and lots of light.
January 23, 2012
Phil Stefani's 437 Rush is a congenial place to conduct business
Who eats: Businesspeople and others who make their way to lower-level Rush Street.
October 31, 2011
Bombay Spice Grill & Wine offers escape with nontraditional fare
Why eat: Even meat-and-potatoes folks are unlikely to balk at nicely grilled tandoori chicken wings. The dish may not sound so Indian — neither do chickpea ceviche and baked samosas — but Bombay Spice isn't going for traditional preparations.
December 5, 2011
Lao Hunan builds on Chinatown empire
Ambience: The Chinatown restaurant is small and by no means fancy, with basic wooden tables, simple padded chairs and a tiled floor. What it lacks in comfort, it more than makes up for in funkiness.
October 24, 2011
Miller's Pub a comfortable, authentic, filling experience
Why eat: Miller's Pub, around since 1935, has become a Loop institution, drawing big crowds from the nearby federal buildings and offices.
December 19, 2011
Mexican fare from ordinary to adventurous at Cafe Laredo
Why eat: This recently opened Near North outpost of the Dallas-based chain draws big crowds at lunchtime by serving up moderately priced, upscale Mexican food.
November 28, 2011
River North's Sunda has exotic yet cozy vibe and hearty Asian offerings
Why eat: Off the beaten path of bustling River North, Sunda provides an exotic yet comfortable atmosphere with big portions of tasty Asian fare.
November 7, 2011
Phil Vettel: Rosewood in Rosemont holds its own against the heavy steakhouse hitters
Who eats: Business types; conventioneers on break from the nearby convention center.
November 21, 2011
Sayat Nova an exotic setting for tasty Eastern Mediterranean food
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October 3, 2011
Native Foods Cafe offers plenty of vegetarian, healthy options
Who eats: This new vegan chain from California is drawing more hipsters than hippies, along with Wicker Park shoppers and a handful of suits at lunchtime.
October 17, 2011
Rhapsody presents rustic Italian in magazine-worthy style
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September 19, 2011
Phil Vettel: Fixed-price lunch at Blackbird great deal
Who eats: This West Loop dining room pulls in business types, a surprising number of students and the occasional mild-mannered reporter.
September 26, 2011
Ceres Cafe a laid-back experience near CBOT
Who eats: At the top of the Board of Trade is Ceres, the goddess of grain. At the bottom is Ceres, the cafe, where traders mingle with other fans of '70s diner food. Rice pudding, anyone?
September 5, 2011
Jon Yates: Chicago Cut a hot spot for big steaks, big stars
Who eats: The lunch crowd in this popular River North restaurant is predominantly businesspeople.
August 15, 2011
Fred's at Barneys is not your ordinary department store cafe
Who eats: A mix of creative business types, Gold Coast shoppers and tourists
September 12, 2011
Mity Nice a place worth finding
Why eat: The location, hidden behind a food court in Water Tower Place, is a less obvious choice than the go-to restaurants on the Mag Mile, which makes it a great spot for confidential business conversation.
August 29, 2011
GT Fish & Oyster, a tasty pairing of Pottery Barn and Nautica
Who eats: The River North restaurant caters to businesspeople, couples and hard-core foodies.
August 1, 2011
Sushi Samba Rio offers overseas dining without leaving the city
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July 24, 2011
Phil Vettel: Sam & Harry's Steakhouse offers sumptuous surroundings in northwest suburbs
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August 22, 2011
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Ambiance: A reasonably priced American fare in a casual, comfortable oasis for the cognoscenti.
July 4, 2011
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July 11, 2011
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July 18, 2011
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June 20, 2011
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Ambience: Clubby and masculine; cherry-wood paneling, thick carpets, double white tablecloth. Bar/lounge is sunny, less formal, popular with leisure diners and after-5 crowd.
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With everyone talking about the Disney World Moms Panel over the last few days, I finally did some research and found out what the lowdown on the panel.
Disney Parks announced Monday the fifth annual Walt Disney World Moms Panel search has officially begun.
Every year, Disney moms/dads/aunts/uncles across the country who want to spread their Disney knowledge clamor for the chance to join the Walt Disney World Moms Panel. The "moms" are chosen for their love of Disney and their Disney knowledge to help families plan their vacations. Now, for the first time in the panel's history, the call for new park-savvy panelists to lead the online trip-planning forum has expanded to include Disneyland.
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Benjamin Fleury-Steiner talked about his book Disposable Heroes: The Betrayal of African American Veterans. As a military veteran himself, he knows the difficulty some veterans have integrating back into society after a tour of combat duty. He became particularly interested in how African American […] full post
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Rob Bell, 40, is an author and the pastor of a church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reported to have 10,000 attendees each week. Over the years Bell's writings and teachings have attracted a number of theological inquiries, too. But no previous controversy compares to the recent firestorm over his new book Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. The book has sparked a new discussion about universalism, exclusivism, the love of God, the gospel, and the nature of heaven and hell.
Love Wins was released on Tuesday as the fourth most popular book on Amazon.com. But although the book is new, the controversy around the book has been developing for a while.
This is not another review of the book. In this post I'll briefly explain the history of the debate, explain why it matters, and point you to an important panel discussion scheduled for this afrternoon.
The most recent controversy around Bell began on February 23rd when Bell and his publisher released this promotional video for Love Wins, which prompted Justin Taylor to ask whether Rob Bell was a universalist. (According to theologian J.I. Packer, a universalist "believes that every human being whom God has created or will create will finally come to enjoy the everlasting salvation into which Christians enter here and now," a belief that is motivated by "revolt against mainstream belief in endless punishment in hell for some people.") Taylor's post generated over 1,500 comments in response, many of them heated.
Denny Burk, the dean of Boyce College, followed with a more detailed analysis of the message of the short video and arrived at the same disturbing conclusion. But was the criticism premature, given the book was still unpublished? Kevin DeYoung said no, and added a number of other discerning thoughts to the whole debate.
Albert Mohler jumped into the discussion to write that Bell's promo video "can only be described as universalism." At this point the debate gained national news coverage from CNN, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Good Morning America, and others.
On March 8, CNN reported that Zondervan, the publisher of four of Bell's previous books, had refused to publish Love Wins because, in their words, "This proposal doesn't fit in with our mission." Love Wins was published by HarperCollins.
So what about the book itself? Is Bell really a universalist?
Reviews and direct quotes from Love Wins began surfacing online last week. On Wednesday the first quotes from an advance copy of the book verified the theological suspicions. Bell's theological commitment to universalism was apparent even from the opening pages.
Other reviews soon followed.
On Monday DeYoung published an excellent, thorough, and devastating review of the book. He writes, "There was a lot of discussion about whether Bell is or is not a Christian universalist. After reading the book, I see no reason why the label does not fit." DeYoung's review raised a number of other concerns and made clear that Bell's book was actually worse than expected.
So what's at stake? DeYoung writes, "If Bell is right, then historic orthodoxy is toxic and terrible. But if the traditional view of heaven and hell are right, Bell is blaspheming." The stakes are high because the gospel is at stake, DeYoung says. Later in his review he writes:
Bell categorically rejects any notion of penal substitution. It simply does not work in his system or with his view of God. "Let's be very clear, then," Bell states, "we do not need to be rescued from God. God is the one who rescues us from death, sin, and destruction. God is the rescuer" (182). I see no place in Bell's theology for Christ the curse-bearer (Gal. 3:13), or Christ wounded for our transgressions and crushed by God for our iniquities (Isa. 53:5, 10), no place for the Son of Man who gave his life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45), no place for the Savior who was made sin for us (2 Cor. 5:21), no place for the sorrowful suffering Servant who drank the bitter cup of God's wrath for our sake (Mark 14:36).
"The theology is heterodox," DeYoung concludes. "The history is inaccurate. The impact on souls is devastating. And the use of Scripture is indefensible. Worst of all, Love Wins demeans the cross and misrepresents God's character."
Download DeYoung's 21-page review as a PDF here: "God Is Still Holy and What You Learned in Sunday School Is Still True: A Review of "Love Wins." (Two days later he contributed a few additional thoughts on the debate.)
Also on Monday, Burk contributed an eleven-page chapter-by-chapter book review.
On Tuesday, Russell Moore responded with a pointed and provocatively titled blog post: "The Blood-Drained Gospel of Rob Bell."
On Wednesday morning Albert Mohler published his own review titled "We Have Seen All This Before: Rob Bell and the (Re)Emergence of Liberal Theology." He writes,
H. Richard Niebuhr famously once distilled liberal theology into this sentence: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross."
Yes, we have read this book before. With Love Wins, Rob Bell moves solidly within the world of Protestant Liberalism. His message is a liberalism arriving late on the scene.
Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity Today, agrees.
Meanwhile on Monday night, Bell's book tour landed in New York City, where he answered questions before a live audience. It's no stretch to say that his answers were quite evasive. Bell insisted that he is not a universalist and that he is an evangelical. "Do I think that I am Evangelical orthodox to the bone? Yes," he said without hesitation.
On Tuesday morning Bell was interviewed by Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos and the book publicity tour steamed ahead, even bumping into MSNBC's Martin Bashir who straightaway told Bell, "You're creating a Christian message that's warm, kind, and popular for contemporary culture." (Incidentally, Bashir voiced more criticism of Bell's book two days later.)
The tour and the debate continue on.
In addition to the written responses, two important panels have been planned.
Early in the debate, The Gospel Coalition promptly added a panel discussion at their national conference in Chicago that will begin at 7:30 a.m. CST on Thursday, April 14. The event will open with teaching from Don Carson, followed by a panel with Carson, DeYoung, Tim Keller, Crawford Loritts, and Stephen Um.
Today (March 17), from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. EST, Southern Seminary is hosting a panel discussion featuring Albert Mohler, Justin Taylor, Russell Moore, and Denny Burk. Video will be live streamed at sbts.edu, or if you're in the area, you can attend the event in Heritage Hall. [Update: Recordings of the panel are now avaliable here: video, audio.]
So why should we care about this debate in the first place?
"There are a number of reasons this is important," C.J. Mahaney says. "First, removing the doctrine of God's eternal punishment undermines multiple texts of Scripture. It also undermines the holiness and justice of God. Ultimately it undermines the Savior's redemptive work on our behalf! So this couldn't be a more serious matter. These severe theological errors are not new with Rob Bell, and they are not uncommon throughout church history. But now these theological errors have been adopted by a man of influence and published publicly and broadly. Sadly, given the scope of his platform, these errors are sure to influence many people. This is a moment for pastors to take note, and to humbly and courageously contend for the faith (Jude 3–4)."
This is not the first time Bell's theology has raised concerns. Three years ago a previous debate led C.J. to write and post some reflections on biblical discernment, why pastors should be concerned with Bell, and how to pray for him. That post remains remarkably relevant three years later.
In conclusion, here are a few other resources that surfaced (or re-surfaced) in the recent debate.
The first is a book published by Zondervan in 2004: Hell under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment. It includes valuable contributions by Mohler, Greg Beale, Sinclair Ferguson, Douglas Moo, J.I. Packer, Robert Yarbrough, and others. Most helpful is how this book addresses important questions about eternal judgment with clear exegesis of Scripture.
Also, it's worth noting a trio of messages by Sinclair Ferguson titled "Universalism and the Reality of Eternal Punishment."
Ligon Duncan's new article "Speaking Seriously and Sensitively about Hell" is valuable tool for preachers.
And don't miss DeYoung's recent blog post "To Hell with Hell" on why we need the doctrine of eternal punishment.
The Pastor's Teaching from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo.
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching commitment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant. (p. 11)
The gospel is good news. In fact it is "the best news ever" because it addresses our human condition appropriately, pertinently, and effectively as nothing else has, does, or can—and in generation after generation, culture after culture, and life after life. Little wonder that the Christian faith is the world's first truly universal religion and in many parts of the world the fastest growing faith, and that the Christian church is the most diverse society on planet earth, with followers on all continents, in all climates, and under all the conditions of life and development. Of course, Christians can make the gospel irrelevant by shrinking and distorting it in one way or another. But in itself the good news of Jesus is utterly relevant or it is not the good news it claims to be. (p. 13)
Without God, our human knowledge is puny and perverse, limited on the one hand by finitude and distorted on the other by sin. That said, and that said humbly, three things can help us cultivate the independent spirit and thinking that are characteristic of God's untimely people. In ascending order, they are developing an awareness of the unfashionable, cultivating an appreciation for the historical, and paying constant attention to the eternal. Each is crucial for effective resistance thinking. (p. 96)
Mere lip service to the importance of history will not do. We each have to build in a steady diet of the riches of the past into our reading and thinking. Only the wisdom of the past can free us from the bondage of our fixation with the present and the future. C. S. Lewis counseled, "It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." (p. 104)
How then do we lift ourselves above the level of the finite and the mundane to gain an eternal perspective on what is true and relevant? The biblical answer is blunt in its candor. By ourselves we can't. We can't break out of Plato's cave of the human, with all its smoke and flickering shadows on the wall. We can't raise ourselves above the level of the timebound and the earthbound by such feeble bootstraps as reason. But where we are limited by our own unaided efforts, we have help. We have been rescued.…God has broken into our silence. He has spoken and has come down himself. And in his written and living Word we are given truth from outside our situation, truth that throws light on our little lives and our little world. (p. 107)
The role of the church in influencing and shaping contemporary American culture is a topic generating much interest, discussion, and disagreement. Gauging from the many books on the subject, there is a lot that can be said, but I especially appreciate what my friend Mark Dever has said.
Today I want to draw off another excerpt from my 2007 interview with Mark. Mark lives, works, and pastors a church four blocks from the U.S. Capitol and three blocks from the U.S. Supreme Court. Mark is geographically—and in his thinking—on one of the front lines where the church and contemporary culture meet.
C.J. Mahaney: Elaborate more on the priorities of 9Marks.
Mark Dever: Well, what we want to see are communities of people that reflect the character of God, and by doing so are distinct from the world around them. As I travel around I see so many evangelical churches trying to "break the code" of how to look as much like the culture as possible and yet keep the gospel, assuming this will maximize the evangelistic impulse.
I'm not sure that's true.
I think there is a lot of peril in this. And it seems to be that even from the very earliest chapters of Acts, what strikes people are not thoughts of, "Hey, they speak Hebrew too," but rather, "Hey, look at how they love one another in a way that is different from the way we are loving or being loved."
So I think that God's character, as it is reproduced in a community of people, must be one of the most powerful witnesses to the truth of the gospel, both for evangelism and the edification of those already converted. So I would like to see evangelical churches— while not becoming unsophisticated in how they interact with culture—keep cultural interaction in perspective, and realize that the life-blood of your church continuing is not your contextualization (your similarity to the culture), but how you are blessedly distinct from the culture. The church is full of people who are born again.
So our distinctives are what we want to hold out, and trust that God will make them attractive and will commend the gospel to other people.
So sometimes I feel like I am being called to tar the ark before the flood. Our world is increasingly secular. And churches that are trying to be as much like the world as possible, I fear, are very leaky arks. And churches that are trying to be like the world are often unselfconsciously nothing more than part of their culture. I fear they are just going to sink and become spiritually worthless spiritual tombs.
So I think the rise of secularism will itself cut down on nominal Christianity. It will actually encourage the clarity of what truly is the gospel and the effects that it has, because the cache, the worth, the value of nominal Christianity will just continue to decline in the culture broadly, so that you won't want to be known as an evangelical Christian because that means you hate various groups of people or you believe these weird things. (As opposed to in the 50s it meant you were a respectable, upstanding citizen.) So as the general cultural perception turns on evangelical Christianity, I think we are just seeing all the more clearly our need to have a positive vision for the church as distinct from the culture.
CJM: And so what would you say to a pastor who is attracted to models of the church that aren't distinct from the culture and aren't distinctly proclaiming the gospel?
MD: Well, when you are not distinctly proclaiming the gospel, then you are not talking about a healthy church in any way whatsoever.
I want to be careful here. Not every church is going to be exactly alike. For example, there are churches that deliberately dress differently, or have a different kind of music, or different order of their services. But as long as they are preaching the gospel, preaching the Word, the things they are saying are true, they are reading Scripture, they are praising—as long as they are doing the things we are commanded to in Scripture, I am prepared to believe there are a number of different ways, and that in different settings one can be better than another.
But I would be very careful if these things are what a church begins majoring on. If the adverbs overtake the verbs, the adjectives overtake the nouns, the how you do it becomes more important than what you are doing, well then I think you have surely lost your way.
For more on this topic, consult Mark's T4G'08 message ("Improving the Gospel: Exercises in Unbiblical Theology"), The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World by David Wells (Eerdmans, 2008) and Christ and Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson (Eerdmans, 2008).
The audio recording of C.J.'s message at the 2008 Dwell Conference in New York City is now online.
Dwelling in the Cross
C.J. Mahaney
1 Timothy 4:16; Galatians 5:17
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
New York City
43:55 run time; 9.6MB MP3
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Together for the Gospel 2008 begins here in Louisville today. Over 5,000 men (mostly pastors) will be assembling in the Kentucky International Convention Center, celebrating the glorious atonement of Jesus Christ.
During the conference attention will be directed to a new book titled In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement by J.I. Packer and Mark Dever (Crossway, 2008). Not long ago, C.J. explained how this book and T4G are closely connected (here).
The discerning content of this book is a gift to all Christians and pastors in particular. Here is one excerpt from the epilogue.
The cross of Christ is the heart of the apostles' gospel and of their piety and praise as well; so surely it ought to be central in our own proclamation, catechesis, and devotional practice? True Christ-centeredness is, and ever must be, cross-centeredness. The cross on which the divine-human mediator hung, and from which he rose to reign on the basis and in the power of his atoning death, must become the vantage point from which we survey the whole of human history and human life, the reference point for explaining all that has gone wrong in the world everywhere and all that God has done and will do to put it right, and the center point for fixing the flow of doxology and devotion from our hearts. Healthy, virile, competent Christianity depends on clear-headedness about the cross; otherwise we are always off-key. And clear-headedness about the cross, banishing blurriness of mind, is only attained by facing up to the reality of Christ's blood-sacrifice of himself in penal substitution for those whom the Father had given him to redeem.
Why then is it that in today's churches, even in some professedly evangelical congregations, this emphasis is rare? Why is it that in seminary classrooms, professional theological guilds, Bible teaching conferences, and regular Sunday preaching, not to mention the devotional books that we write for each other, so little comparatively is said about the heart-stirring, life-transforming reality of penal substitution? Several reasons spring to mind.
First, we forget that the necessity of retribution for sin is an integral expression of the holiness of God, and we sentimentalize his love by thinking and speaking of it without relating it to this necessity. This leaves us with a Christ who certainly embodies divine wisdom and goodwill, who certainly has blazed a trail for us through death into life, and who through the Spirit certainly stands by each of us as friend and helper (all true, so far as it goes), but who is not, strictly speaking, a redeemer and an atoning sacrifice for us at all.
Second, in this age that studies human behavior and psychology with such sustained intensity, knowledge of our sins and sinfulness as seen by God has faded, being overlaid by techniques and routines for self-improvement in terms of society's current ideals of decency and worthwhileness of life. It is all very secular, even when sponsored by churches, as it often is, and it keeps us from awareness of our own deep guilty and shameful alienation from God, which only the Savior, who in his sinlessness literally bore the penalty of our sins in our place, can deal with.
Third, in an age in which historic Christianity in the West is under heavy pressure and is marginalized in our post-Christian communities, we are preoccupied with apologetic battles, doctrinal and ethical, all along the interface of Christian faith and secularity—battles in which we are for the most part forced to play black, responding to the opening gambits of our secular critics. Constant concern to fight and win these battles diverts our attention from thorough study of the central realities of our own faith, of which the atonement is one.
Fourth, heavyweight scholars in our own ranks, as we have seen, line up from time to time with liberal theologians to offer revisionist, under-exegeted accounts of Bible teaching on the atonement, accounts which in the name of Scripture (!) play down or reject entirely the reality of penal substitution as we have been expounding it. The effect is that whereas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century evangelicals stood solid for penal substitution against unitarianism (Socinianism) and deism, and taught this truth as no less central to the gospel than the incarnation itself, today it is often seen as a disputed and disputable option that we can get on quite well without, as many already are apparently doing.
What in the way of understanding our Savior and our salvation we lose, however, if we slip away from penal substitution, is, we think, incalculable.
Taken from In My Place Condemned He Stood by J.I. Packer and Mark Dever, pp. 150-151, © 2008. Used by permission of Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, www.crossway.org.
As part of a younger generation of Christians today, we can give thanks to God for gifted mentors faithfully preaching the cross, men whose ministry began before many of us were born. Theologically, we reap the fruit of seeds sown in the life and ministries of mentors like John Stott, John Piper, and C.J. Mahaney. For decades these faithful men (and others like them) have written books, trained pastors, and planted churches to lay a theological foundation we enjoy. At times you can hear the direct impact of these mentors on a younger generation of Christians. Listen closely and you'll likely hear a distinctive language used by young Christians and preachers. Our mentors have captured these truths in phrases—"the cross-centered life," "gospel-centered parenting," "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him," and "Don't Waste Your Life"—each, when used by a young Christian, is a giveaway to the continuing influence of older, faithful teachers. In the language of some younger Christians, the influence of these teachers is subtle and less immediately noticeable. But in others the influence is obvious and pronounced. In the case of hip-hop artist shai linne and his new album—The Atonement—the immediate influence of men like Stott, Piper, and C.J. is obvious and pronounced. This album reveals a man eager to learn and to apply that learning to his life and his work. One track off the new album ("Were You There?") is built from C.J.'s message on the Garden of Gethsemane. Listen to the track (and especially how the sermon excerpt ties the song's message together at the end).
Throughout The Atonement, shai linne weaves lyrics and sermon excerpts together to reinforce the content of the songs. Here is a video explaining why he uses sermon excerpts in his music. It's not for background noise (forward to the 3:03 mark).
The Atonement is an excellent album, not only for its content and quality, but for modeling how one hip-hop artist is diligently transferring what he learns about the cross from his theological mentors into his work. I take from this album a challenge to listen more carefully to the mentors, to let the truths of the cross settle into my own heart, and then to strive toward transparency in faithfully passing these biblical teachings to others.
Update: The Atonement is available through iTunes as well.
Today's pastor is given the challenging task of discerning error that comes published in hip packaging from Christian publishers, authored by professing Christians.
So many errors, so little time.
In executing this responsibility, pastors must discern whether the influence of the individual and the gravity of their error necessitate research and evaluation by a pastor. Today I want to explain one particular concern and give you an inside look at how I approach this difficult task.
Now, because this short post limits what I can say, I recommend listening to one the finest messages on this topic—Mark Dever's message from New Attitude 2007 ("Discern Your Doctrine").
Gilbert on Bell
Today I want to draw your attention to Greg Gilbert's critique of Rob Bell's NOOMA videos. Greg serves as director of theological research for the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In prioritizing what materials concern us as pastors, I believe Rob Bell's writings, videos, and influence cannot (and should not) be ignored. I think we should carefully consider Greg Gilbert's reviews, which demonstrate a commendable combination of humility of heart and theologically informed discernment about matters of primary importance.
Within this pastoral task of discernment, I'm reminded of four biblical priorities.
1. Protect Your People
A pastor's role includes protecting the flock from error. This is no easy task today, especially when so many of the popular books and videos published by professing Christians who appear to have serious theological deficiencies. Yet pastors cannot simply ignore the prevalence and influence of these materials; they have the responsibility to protect those entrusted to their care.
This discernment is especially important when the issues are of primary importance and not secondary, when—as carefully noted by Greg Gilbert—matters of the gospel are in question.
It's worth noting that acting to protect the flock from published teachings that depart from Scripture is handled differently than steps taken privately to confront a brother in sin (i.e. Matthew 18:15-20). Let me state clearly that I don't assign sinful motivation to Rob Bell. Actually, I assume he is sincere. But sincerity doesn't exempt any of us from the appropriate evaluation of what we teach.
2. Prepare Your Heart
When required to critique the writings and teachings of another, I must pay careful attention to my heart. Scripture calls us to correct those in error with gentleness, avoiding quarrelsome attitudes, showing kindness to everyone, and enduring all evil (2 Timothy 2:24-25).
Whenever it's necessary to critique erroneous content, I find it helpful to remind myself of the mercy of God. Any insight I have learned has been learned from others, and ultimately, this discernment has been graciously revealed by God. In no way does my critique indicate intellectual or moral superiority on my part. We must critique erroneous content, but our critique must be humble and not self-righteous.
If we accurately perceive God's mercy, this will become an occasion of thanking God for his mercy in our lives rather than an opportunity for self-righteous communication.
Whenever we take up this task of critiquing and addressing error, we must guard our hearts and pursue the task with humility and gentleness.
3. Preach Sound Doctrine
The most effective way to protect your church from error is by a steady diet of gospel-centered, sound doctrine. For this reason I don't recommend that pastors repeatedly and consistently make public references to erroneous books or media.
Only on a few particular occasions do I think it's wise for a pastor to make specific reference to an individual in the context of a sermon. However, a pastor must be aware of what is popular and influential, because he will be asked these questions by church members in private conversations. So I draw a distinction between what a pastor addresses in a sermon and what he should be prepared to address in private conversation when approached by a member of his church.
You need to be prepared for these conversations, and that's why I believe Greg Gilbert's reviews will help prepare you for when you are asked about Rob Bell.
4. Pray for Rob Bell
We must pray for those who are in need of correction and who teach erroneous doctrine. Even those classified as our "opponents" should be addressed kindly, out of concern for their souls, praying that God will lead them to a knowledge of the truth (2 Timothy 2:25). How much more care should be taken with a professing brother in Christ?
Specifically, I pray for Rob Bell in the following ways:
Prayer is an effective way to examine our motives in correcting others. When I pray for someone I find it more difficult to be self-righteous in my attitude toward him. Correction without concern for the corrected leads to self-righteousness. Correction with sincere concern for the welfare of the corrected is a display of genuine humility and love.
In all instances of critique, we must carefully research the details in private to avoid misrepresenting the position of the one we critique. I think you will agree that Greg Gilbert's reviews of Rob Bell's NOOMA videos have been carefully researched. But the reviews also display character we can learn from—a careful humility of heart and a theologically informed discernment about matters of primary importance (those related to the gospel).
C.J. Mahaney serves as the senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville. He has blogged here on pastoral ministry, Christian living, and (from time to time) sports.
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Scotland beat Kenya by 152 runs in their ICC Intercontinental Cup clash at Mannofield Park, Aberdeen.
The home side led by 260 runs with six wickets remaining at the start of play on Tuesday. Their second innings saw them extend that lead to 341 with Ewan Chalmers making it to 106 --his maiden first-class century--before falling to the Hiren Varaiya and Irfan Karim combination which took four Scottish wickets. Gordon Goudie hit 21 off 29 balls, with two sixes, before James Ngoche claimed the final three wickets as Scotland finished 230 all out. The Kenyans made just 101 in their first innings and although captain Collins Obuya made 91, Kenya could only reach 189 all out and the Scots claimed all 20 points as they wrapped up victory with a day to go.
Goudie, Ali Evans and Majid Haq all took two wickets apiece for the home side. Scotland's 230 set Kenya a target of 342 for victory and--despite some resistance from Obuya--the win was sealed with three overs of the third day remaining. At one point , It looked as if Kenya might subside as they had in their first innings when Duncan Allan was caught behind and Gordon Goudie held a return catch to remove Tamnay Mishra and reduce Kenya to 12-2.
However, Alex Obanda and Obuya led the counter-attack in a partnership of 68 before Evans uprooted Obanda's off-stump for 36.
Majid Haq then trapped Rakep Patel in front before Obuya was joined in a 49-run stand by Irfan Karim.
Scotland, though, continued to chip away and Obuya, having reached 92, with two sixes and six fours, was left stranded when Richie Berrington claimed the final wicket.
Earlier Chalmers, continuing on 79 not out progress to three figures became a much more fraught affair as cricket's infamous "nervous nineties" took over. Chalmers had reached 91 when he edged an Elijah Otieno delivery to first slip where a difficult chance went down. On 98, Chalmers had an even bigger let-off when Tanmay Mishra put down a slip catch off Varaiya. He managed to reach his maiden century from 210 balls.
With Chalmers' departure, Scotland went into a collective shell during a session which yielded just 54 runs from 31 overs and also saw the loss of Calum MacLeod and Moneeb Iqbal, the latter hitting a six-over long-on but also facing 76 balls for his 13. As the last three wickets fell in quick succession, their total of 230 was the highest of the match.


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Date posted: November 15, 2013
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categories into racially based behavior appears to occur after the preschool years (Hirschfeld, 1994). The early development of perceptions and attitudes about race (both one's own and that of others) is a highly sensitive concern in a pluralistic society. This critical issue, which was not addressed by the committee, demands extensive, multidisciplinary investigation.
Notwithstanding the absence of clear definitions of race and ethnicity, they persist as prominent demographic markers for categorizing children and families, even as the blending of cultures increases and the racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population grows. Over the past two decades, the proportions of Asian and Hispanic children in the United States have increased while the young black population has remained stable and the percentage of whites has declined. Much of this growing diversity of young children is the result of increased immigration and higher birth rates among immigrants and their descendants, who represent more than 100 different ethnic and linguistic groups (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 1998a). These trends are projected to continue, if not accelerate, through the early decades of the 21st century, such that current notions of majority and minority groups will become less meaningful for children and, as they age, for adults as well.
By the year 2030, children in families of European origin will make up less than 50 percent of the population under age 5 (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 1998a). These demographic realities suggest both promising opportunities and potentially sobering challenges. The opportunities offered by a multicultural society that is cohesive and inclusive are virtually limitless—including the richness that comes from a broad diversity of skills and talents, and the vitality that is fueled by a range of interests and perspectives. The challenges posed by a multicultural society that is fragmented and exclusive are daunting—including the wasted human capital that is undermined by prejudice and discrimination, and the threat of civil disorder precipitated by bigotry and hatred.
The changing demographics of the early childhood population in the United States present both the opportunity and the challenge of a great social experiment. The outcome of this experiment will be influenced to a large extent by how human diversity is addressed in the rearing of children. The foundations of relationships and the fundamentals of socialization are culturally embedded and established during the early childhood years (see Chapter 9). Consequently, further research on how young children learn about and develop attitudes toward human differences will help to elucidate both the roots of categorical discrimination and the origins of social inclusion.


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Masi wines are modern, attractive, well-balanced and easily identifiable; characteristics which have earned Masi recognition for having "revolutionized the art of wine-making in the Venetian region." Hugh Johnson defines Masi as "a touchstone for Veronese wines." View all Masi Wines
About Friuli-Venezia GiuliaView a map of Friuli-Venezia Giulia wineries (free-oo-lee veh-netz-ee-ah gwee-yee-ah)
Notable FactsSuccessful grapes of the Friuli include Pinot Bianco, Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon Blanc. Then of course, there's the famed local variety, Tocai Friulano (not any relation to Tokay d'Alsace or Tokay of Hungary), which produces wine that is floral and nutty in character but light-bodied. Ribolla Gialla, another white grape making wine with the floral notes and acidity common to the region - it is a delicious alternative to the international varieties of the area. Reds are not to be forgotten, although found less often. Merlot is the most planted, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and few indigenous varieties. Most exports are white.
About Italy
A little ditty about Italy...This country has about as many wines as its had governments. With 20 different regions, hundreds of DOCs and even more indigenous varieties, the amount of wine made in Italy is mind-boggling. Most of the juice, however, remains in the country for thirsty Italians. Wine is food in Italy and its rare that a meal is consumed without a glass of vino. That said, it's not common to find many folks drinking wine without food either. In turn, it's a match, and a mighty good one at that. In fact, it's safe to say that Italian wine is a foodie wine – one that goes on the table for a myraid of meals.
For regions, the most popular are Tuscany (home of Chianti), Piedmont and the Tre-Venezie, which includes Veneto, Trentino Alto-Adige and Friuli. Other communes of note are in Southern Italy, and a few good wines are made elsewhere in the country. The islands of Sardinia and Sicily are members of the Italian winemaking community as well.


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Veteran musician Lon Van Eaton has devoted much of his life to charitable causes since his dreams of rock stardom faded in the 1970s, so it's no surprise that, just months after moving to Bucks County, he's already spearheading a project to benefit Give A Christmas.
Van Eaton, who once recorded alongside George Harrison while he and his brother, Derrek, were signed to the Beatles' Apple Records label in the early '70s, has produced a 20-song holiday CD titled "Christmastime Has Come to Town." The album includes songs from local artists, as well as national acts such as Jill Sobule and the late Paul Butterfield.
Half of all proceeds from sales of the CD, which costs $15.98, will go toward the Courier Times and Intelligencer Give A Christmas funds. The CD can be purchased from Van Eaton's website, www.imagineabetterworld.com.
Van Eaton, a Trenton native who moved to Bucks County from Colorado with his wife, Consti, earlier this year, produced the CD in less than a week from his home recording studio, Holicong Studio-Blue Door, in Buckingham. All but one of the tracks were previously recorded, but Van Eaton worked diligently on the remastering so the songs, which he said came from "unbelievably different sources," would sound the same.
The lone new song was the title track, performed by Levittown musician Amy Duckett Wagner. She's also credited as an associate producer on the album.
"It just so happened that (Duckett Wagner) had this Christmas song, and I had the rights to some other people's songs, and even though it was really late in the year, I thought, let's see if we can release a Christmas record, and who could we benefit?" Van Eaton said. "Marianne Speiser (his publicist) suggested Give A Christmas."
Speiser, a singer herself, contributed a pair of her own decades-old songs, "Magic Melvin" and "Play With the Stars."
Other noteworthy tracks include legendary blues singer Butterfield's recording of "Merry Christmas Baby," The New Johnny's Dance Band version of Lieber and Stoller's "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" and Derrek Van Eaton's cover of John Lennon's "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)."
For a short time, the Van Eaton brothers were closely associated with members of the Beatles and other famous musicians. Harrison produced their single -- "Sweet Music" -- for Apple Records in 1971, and they played percussion on Ringo Starr's 1973 No. 1 single, "Photograph." They also did session work on recordings by Harrison, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, Art Garfunkel and Andy Williams.
Their success in the music business didn't last, but Lon Van Eaton has long maintained the spirit of giving epitomized by Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.
"It's a joy being able to help some families — that's really the push behind this," Van Eaton said. "It's the same idea as George and Bangladesh. It's really wonderful to be able to put something like this together."
To purchase the CD or for more information, visit www.imagineabetterworld.com
Andy Vineberg can be reached at 215-949-4135 or email@example.com. Twitter: @ADVineberg


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Robert G. Bass
Robert G. Bass, age 90 of Walnut, Illinois died Thursday, February 14, 2013 at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, Illinois.Bob was born on November 18, 1922 in Hamilton Township, Illinois, the son of Leo and Katherine (Spencer) Bass. He was united in marriage to Betty Paden on December 3, 1943 in Bloomington, Indiana. He served in the Combat Engineers of the United States 3rd Army under General George Patton in the Battle of the Bulge. Bob was a longtime poultry farmer. Bob is survived by his wife Betty Bass of Walnut, Illinois; one son George Bass of Loves Park, Illinois; one daughter Anna (Ed) Donnelly of Walnut, Illinois; 5 grandchildren Seth (Nicole) Bass, James ( Jennifer) Donnelly, Erin (Matthew) Davis, Laurie (Diego) Pascual, Katherine Donnelly; 5 great grandchildren; one sister Janice Watkins of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia and numerous nieces and nephews.He was preceded in death by his parents, one son Charles in infancy, one granddaughter Bridget and one sister Marilyn.Funeral services will be conducted on Monday at 10:30 a.m. at the Garland Funeral Home with the Rev. Eldon Cook, pastor of the Walnut Community Bible Church, officiating. Burial will be in Walnut Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Garland Funeral Home in Walnut. A MEMORIAL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN HIS MEMORY. Condolences may be sent to: www.garlandfuneralhome.com.
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Punished Heroines has released a new Superiorgirl video involving a date gone horribly wrong for everyone's favorite superheroine. The premise is pretty simple: Superiorgirl is on a date with a guy who seems fairly normal… until he slips Superiorgirl a drink with a curiously green hue. She drinks it, becomes weakened, and then you can imagine what happens next. Unlike Rye's work with The Battle for Earth and SHG-Media, this is truly a return to the Punished Heroines style, with lots of physical and sexual abuse.
The model who plays Superiorgirl (a newcomer, from what I understand) is really hot and does a great job with the role. It's a very low budget video, but fans of this kind of material should enjoy it. There are two versions available, one in which Superiorgirl dies, and one in which she doesn't. So take your pick and enjoy the screenshots below!
(Note: There's a ton of sexual abuse in the video that isn't included in the family-friendly screen shots below, so check out the links for more info and more images)
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