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Record Store Day's Black Friday is back this year with a number of new releases to support local, independent record stores around the country. Record Store Day is typically held in April, but artists and record stores have put together a number of exclusive releases to help with your holiday shopping. Here's a sampling of what you'll find in stores on Friday, November 25th:
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oday is all about lists.
The first list concerns the name of my modified Spirit Flames deck, which I finished up last week. You all came up with a lot of creative ways on the Message Boards to boil the deck's essence down to a short, catchy name. Of the many suggestions, I had five clear favorites. Keep in mind that in some cases I didn't take the exact name suggested so much as the spirit (heh, I'm so punny) behind it:
Honorable Mention: O Say Kannushi (retardedgoblin) 5. Roaring Twenties (RoBear) 4. Shinenanigans (Landman) 3. Earth, Wind, and Fire (Mr Dark Avocado) 2. Tubthumping (Keradon)
I really do like Tubthumping ("I get knocked down, but I get up again"), but there was one name that surpassed even Chumbawumba references. The winner comes from none other than DoubleNegative, who also received credit for Club Ninja's deckname. Nicely done DoubleNegative! Two for three!
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Honestly, the idea of howling "Soooooouuuuuuuuuul Train!" after winning a game makes me smile.
My "Kamigawa's Commons Review" elicited a nice response, and I find myself linking to it during my deckbuilding experiments as to why I'm adding particular cards to my decks. That said, even as I wrote the article I was aware that the full Kamigawa Block hadn't run its course. Today I'm taking a break from deckbuilding to look at the commons from Saviors of Kamigawa and which will likely make their way into your decks. Since that doesn't seem to fill an entire article, I'll do the same thing with Saviors' uncommons too.
Here was the measuring stick I used in my previous article to figure out the "best" commons: "These are cards you want to have in your collection no matter how tight your budget or how recently you have begun playing. Time and again, in a wide variety of decks, you will find yourself dipping into these cards to complement whatever strategy you're pursuing."
So what I'm looking for here are the generally useful commons, those that have wide application. Inner Calm, Outer Strength is an example of a card that can be useful in decks relying on a full hand, but generally speaking is worse than most of Green's other creature-pumping cards. Instead, use Sakura-Tribe Elder as an ideal for this list, a card that can (and usually should) fit into any deck with Forests.
As I sat down to make my list, I was having a hard time with it for two basic reasons. First, I haven't made as many Saviors decks as I would like (due primarily to my Spirit Flames foray), so I'm judging cards based almost entirely on them being used against me rather than for me. This gives me a fairly skewed perspective, as you might imagine. Second, it turns out that the commons in Saviors are both of higher quality generally than the previous two sets but also with fewer standouts. There is no Kumano's Blessing or Takeno's Cavalry, but neither is there a Sakura-Tribe Elder, Kodama's Reach, Glacial Ray, or Rend Flesh. In fact, many of the commons feel pretty specialized to me rather than ubiquitous.
Luckily, that's what friends are for. I made an initial list, then talked it over with Zed and Chris Romeo, two people very familiar with budget deckbuilding. Based on their feedback and my own pondering, below are the five Saviors of Kamigawa commons I would suggest adding to your collection. Remember, though, these lists are always fairly subjective--and this one more than most. Feel free to jump onto the Message Boards to argue your own list of generally-useful commons from Saviors. Just remember my caveats from the Commons Review article: I'm talking about Constructed (not Limited) and am thinking primarily of Standard and Kamigawa Block Constructed.
Enough preamble! Let's get started.
1. Elder Pine of Jukai
2. Ideas Unbound
Although right now it's really only played in Ire of Kaminari decks, I have a feeling that Ideas Unbound might end up being the most significant common from Saviors of Kamigawa. Drawing three cards for two mana is superb, even if you have to discard three at the end of your turn. In fact, for decks like Ire of Kaminari or for any sort of reanimator (or madness) strategy, the discard can actually be a boon. Other decks--I'm thinking in particular aggressive weenie decks whose cards cost less than three mana--can cast all of their newly-drawn cards without worrying about the discard. The point is that Ideas Unbound can fuel a lot of different strategies, and the fact that it's arcane only adds to its allure. It may have only found a home in one existing decktype right now, but that doesn't mean it's a one trick pony.
3. Glitterfang
4. Death Denied
Few cards outside of the rare slot allow you to return more than one creature from your graveyard to your hand, much less do it at instant speed. For any deck with comes-into-play (Eternal Witness) or leaves-play (Kokusho, the Evening Star) triggers--or simply any deck relying on creatures to win--graveyard reanimation is obviously very good. The fact that early in the game Death Denied can be a quick Reaping the Graves and later in the game can give you access to all of your game-winning cards makes this a card I can see using in my own decks for a long time to come. It's even arcane, which I suppose Hana Kami appreciates.
5. Raving Oni-Slave
Honorable Mentions:
I love "Honorable Mention" sections, because they're a convenient way for me to get around the stress of a Top 5 list. Don't get me wrong: I still think that the above five cards will end up in more decks, on average, than those listed below. That said, there are several other Saviors commons worth considering in your collection:
It turns out that the uncommons are easier for me to rank than the commons. Whereas Chris, Zed, and I discussed the commons a lot, we had a high level of agreement on the uncommons. Again, if you're on a tight budget and looking for an investment, consider picking up four copies of the following five cards:
1. Manriki-Gusari
2. Kiku's Shadow
It's ironic that card #1 usually makes a creature immune to card #2 on this list. Even though Kiku's Shadow is a sorcery--which is often a death knell for creature removal--for two mana it kills almost all opposing creatures. The reason is that most Constructed decks don't use creatures whose power is less than their toughness. Oh sure, the occasional Meloku, the Clouded Mirror and Blinding Angel show up, but these are by far the exceptions. Even more significant, Kiku's Shadow can target black creatures, which is something Black removal often has a hard time doing. Note that Black creatures have gotten a lot better in recent sets, too. I'm not just talking about the Kokusho, the Evening Star and Kagemaro, First to Suffers of the world, I'm also talking Raving Oni-Slave, Hand of Cruelty, Wicked Akuba, and other creatures all along Black's manacurve.
3. Hand of Cruelty
4. Charge Across the Araba
Many people keep wanting Armageddon back to make White Weenie shine again (personally, I've enjoyed Standard without Armageddon, but that's a different topic). Charge Across the Araba is no Armageddon, but it does give White decks that rely on small creatures an "I win" card. Five mana is admittedly a lot, but Overrun is five mana and serves a similar purpose. Add the ability to fill your hand--which in White can fuel cards like Presence of the Wise, Kiyomaro (and his Descendant), and Empyrial Plate--and you have a flexible card that your opponents must consider when doing combat math.
5. Haru-Onna
Haru-Onna is a funny card because on the surface it looks so completely lame. Four mana for a fragile 2/1 body? Yuck. Despite the cost, though, I find myself both including Haru-Onna in my deck ideas and constantly playing against them online. Any card that replaces itself when cast is pretty neat. When you can reuse it by adding some Spirits and/or arcane cards to your deck, the prospect gets even better. This card reminds me a bit of Whispers of the Muse, actually. If your deck can survive long enough to generate a lot of mana, then Haru-Onna is sure to draw you lots of cards over the course of a game. The fact that it can sometimes attack and block is a significant side bonus.
As with the commons, although I like to think of those five cards as the most generally useful, they are by no means the only useful uncommons in Saviors of Kamigawa. I'll briefly touch on a few of the other gems I see.
Can you argue my choices for both lists? Sure you can. That's part of the fun of these list-thingies (see you in the forums!). The hope, though, is that if you have limited resources I've given you some handholds as to which cards from Saviors of Kamigawa you want to include in your collection. I am a big advocate of making wise long-term investments when it comes to Magic, focusing on cards you're going to use in fifty decks before buying those that are only good in one. Hopefully these occasional set reviews help you make these decisions.
You may recall that way back when in my very first Interlude, I focused on the fact that many budget deckbuilders use "junk rares" as the basis for their decks. We budget-minded folks are a creative, out-of-the-box lot. Thus I don't want to forget that some cards in sets have gold symbols, too. Rather than outline what I think some of the fun, cheap rares are in Saviors, I'm going to make it the basis for my next series of articles.
Usually I start with a preconstructed deck and slowly evolve it over three weeks until I have a fun, respectable budget deck. This will still be the basis for most of my deckbuilding series. In my first article for this column, though, I said that I wasn't going to get locked into one particular formula. What I'm trying over the next few weeks is one of the many such departures you can expect from time to time.
Next week I'm going to start from a "junk rare" and follow the same process of deckbuilding evolution. Once again I'll be making a Kamigawa Block Constructed deck, especially since 9th Edition will be shaking up Standard soon. I'll give more details in my next article, but suffice it to say that today you're picking my feature card and next week you're picking the major theme(s) of the deck.
To pick my line-up of victims, I used these guidelines:
The cards that I chose from these criteria are listed in today's poll. Whatever you choose, I promise to include a full four copies of the card in my forthcoming deck. It should be a fun exercise, so think hard, pick a winner, and of course argue your choice on the Message Boards.
See you next week!
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Penguins' Staal breaks hand in 'freak' incident
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Practice began for the Penguins on Monday with coach Dan Bylsma sharing with players some encouraging words.
Told that center Jordan Staal would play Wednesday night at Dallas, the players tapped their stick blades on the ice at Southpointe Iceoplex.
About 25 minutes later, at precisely 11:44 a.m., a frustrated Staal skated from the surface favoring his right hand — the gloved version of which a puck had caught during an otherwise innocent-looking drill.
"I was at practice, just watching from the stands. Got a text message from (trainer Chris Stewart) and, by the time I went down to the (dressing) room, Jordan had already left," general manager Ray Shero said. "It's a freak injury. You don't expect it. I'm sure it will take a few days to set in."
It could take Staal six weeks to recover from his fractured right hand. He is slated for surgery today by orthopedic hand specialist Dr. Glenn Buterbaugh.
Staal was unavailable for comment. Privately, several teammates expressed dismay at his latest injury — more for him than for the Penguins, who are 6-5-1 and coming off an impressive, 3-0 victory Saturday at Carolina.
Staal's return was to close the book on a trying five months. A tendon in his right foot was severed April 30 during a collision with Montreal defenseman PK Subban, but after surgery the next day Staal missed only Games 2 and 3 of the second-round playoff series.
An infection developed after the Penguins lost that series, and Staal required surgery in mid-June. The infection returned, and he required a second surgery in early August.
Before that, he had never missed an NHL game because of injury.
"I told (Stewart) today, 'We didn't talk about him for four years.' I'm talking never," Shero said. "He played through a lot of things. You took it for granted because he was a constant."
Shero said nobody in the NHL community "will care" about his beleaguered-by-injuries squad. The Penguins have missed 37 man-games because of injuries, and right wing Evgeni Malkin (undisclosed), and defensemen Kris Letang (hand) and Alex Goligoski (rest) did not practice yesterday.
The game at Dallas, the second of four straight on the road, was to feature the returns of Staal and defenseman Zbynek Michalek, who has missed the past nine contests with a right shoulder sprain. Staal will remain on the long-term injury list, meaning his $4 million salary-cap hit will continue not to count.
Before learning of Staal's diagnosis, Bylsma said recalling prospects — left wing Eric Tangradi and defenseman Andrew Hutchinson are candidates — was a possibility before the Penguins left for Dallas. He'll also ask players to stick with a simple game — clean dumps, a fierce forecheck, quick passes and shots — that worked at Carolina.
One bright spot after practice was a consensus among the players that keeping things simple makes the most sense.
"When you have the skill we have and work the way we worked in Carolina, you see the good results," defenseman Paul Martin said. "When you're doing it right, it works."
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
How the Olympic gods must look down in despair. Zeus, Athena, Apollo....one can only imagine them shaking their heads in disbelief at this sordid and sorry display. Indeed, this whole saga leaves Macro Man wondering if the entire Greek pantheon needs a little modernization; religion, after all, has always moved with the times.
And so, dear readers, allow Macro Man to suggest a few updates for inclusion in the next edition of Edith Hamilton's classic Mythology:
ΠΙΓΣ: Descendents of Bacchus, these brothers defy the Olympian mandate of moderation, only to encounter difficulties once the party ends and the hangover kicks in.
Σιυιλ Σερυαντσ: Gods of laziness.
Μερκελ: The Goddess of hard work and rectitude, who is famously unwilling to help those who do not sacrifice to her.
Παπανδρέου: A hapless mortal who is caught in the midst of a deadly combat between Μερκελ and the Σιυιλ Σερυαντσ.
Τιτλοσ: Latter-day underworld where the turds and detritus of the latter-day Hellenes are deposited.
ΙΜΦ: Legendary givers of aid to the needy who demand frequent sacrifices in return for their help.
Γολδμαν: God of good works such as, for example, helping one move loads of dodgy debt off the national balance sheet for only a modest fee.
Τριςηετ: The God of strong vigilance.
Σαρκο: Comic dwarfish character who flits about Olympus, annoying all of the other gods. Also, the god of philandering.
Βέρνάνκε: The God of bailouts, who unfortunately really belongs to another pantheon...and thus does not answer Greeks' prayers.
17 comments:
- Redundant CityBoy said...
Humerous, though slightly leftfield, post! Γολδμαν..... took all my GCSE Greek to decypher that one. Cheers
- March 23, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Manc Trader said...
Nice, needed something to smile about this AM.
- March 23, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Jorge said...
For those with less time in their hands (if I may, no offense if you delete this cheat sheet):
Σιυιλ Σερυαντσ: Civil Servants
Μερκελ: Merkel
Παπανδρέου: Papandreou
Τιτλοσ: Title
ΙΜΦ: IMF (hey, I didn't even have to look this one up!)
Γολδμαν: Goldman
Τριςηετ: Trichet
Σαρκο: Sarkozy?
Βέρνάνκε: Bernanke
Best trading,
- March 23, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- Macro Man said...
One correction: "Titlos" is the SPV used by the Greek Treasury and National Bank of Greece to shunt some of the liabilities off balance sheet....
- March 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- Jorge said...
OK, this Titlos, not Titles. :O
- March 23, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Leftback said...
Nice one. I cracked the code fairly quickly once I got Merkel and Sarko.... another amusement for another day of the markets drifting upwards...
- March 23, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- karen said...
Wonderful amusement! and much appreciated jolt to my lazy, disillusioned, and wondering mind.
- March 23, 2010 at 2:37 PM
- karen said...
wandering! not wondering.. blame that on weak coffee or my accent..
- March 23, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Nemo Incognito said...
Anyone read this CS piece by Dong Tao on the UDICs? Thoughts anyone?
Yup..... I'm absolutely amazed by this upwards drift, especially as housing continues to look ropey. Zions Bancorp - f me.
- March 23, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- Deniz said...
10yr swap spread negative !
- March 23, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- k1 said...
Love the sentiment today, MM.
Regarding the meltup, I'm still looking for a justification for the flows of funds. The market action suggests "liquidity bubble" to me, but I wonder if the deleveraging gnomes are helping as well?
Two ideas leading me this way. First, Annaly's analysis (posted on PragCap yesterday) showing decreasing loan levels at commercial banks. Though I get conflicting information out of the Fed data when I go look, their chart shows delevering going on. Second, Merkel's discussions of reaching for yield. (And gotta give props to folks on this blog for similar weighty observations).
I propose the mechanics are these: the Fed's money pump appears to be going entirely to excess reserves, which themselves are going into treasuries. So the reach for yield works its way into riskier stuff as each tier of investor gets priced out. In addition, ordinary borrowers chip away at their debt, forcibly retiring investments in securitized loans and similarly driving the reach-for-yield forces.
My point? This reach-for-yield thing could go on as long as ordinary folks feel the need to pay stuff off, long after the Fed stops the pumps.
Disagree? It's just a hypothesis, please prove me wrong. I'd love to short this market big big big, but that seems to be unwise so far.
- March 23, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Brian said...
Funny stuff! Love the references to Greek mythology. Didn't see the God of war in there. Hopefully that's a good thing :)
- March 23, 2010 at 5:32 PM
- Leftback said...
k1: Reaching for yield is a powerful force and can certainly continue indefinitely, until an event occurs that reminds investors defaults and bankruptcies can occur and haircuts and losses are possible. Remember haircuts and losses?
Agreed with all your points - until someone is allowed to take losses and experience write-downs, the equity market is a massive game of chicken. Bond markets and FX reflect a more balanced view, although the reach for yield is still evident in the AUD etc..
- March 23, 2010 at 5:36 PM
- Nic said...
Vολδεμoρτ - another one who did not answer the Greek prayers ...
- March 23, 2010 at 7:25 PM
- Maximum maximorum said...
MM i am a long time lurker but since i am Greek also let me make some minor punctuation corrections to your wonderful as always post.
Σιυιλ Σερυαντσ -> Σιβιλ Σερβαντς
Τιτλοσ -> Τιτλος
ΙΜΦ -> actually it's ΔΝΤ in Greek
Τριςηετ -> Τρισετ
Σαρκο -> Σαρκοζι
Βέρνάνκε -> Μπερνάνκε.
Apart from that my scenario for "The Plan" is that:
A "committee" of some kind from EU is about to undertake the Greek solution.Eurogroup is about to provide 15 billion and IMF 10 billion but not directly to Greece but to the above committee. Greece will attempt by the end of the month to borrow 10 billion and depending on the spread < 6 or 6.20 will decide if it enables the above package of 25 billion.
Everybody is relatively happy (even Μερκελ).
What do you think is the market reaction to such a plan?
Opinions are very welcome.
- March 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- deke said...
It is starting to look like the whole curve may move below treasuries... corporates are swapping to try to take advantage of low rates and those looking for wider spreads are being hammered, but it is starting to look like the markets are downgrading US debt to AA.
SPX 1172 is the 89 month MA... 1172 was also the final hurrah in January 2002, the headfake in 2004 with final breakout in May 2005, retested in October of the same year, and was resistance in October 2008
- March 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- 지호 said...
This is hilarious
- March 24, 2010 at 11:10 PM


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Pros: "safe, reliable, economic, gas mileage"
Cons: "engine flaw, rust, cheap plastic parts, cup holder"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 1
"I bought my 2002 Toyota Corolla new off the lot in 2003. For several years I have not had any problems out of this car. I gave it routine maintenance, and that's all it needed. It has only been in the past year that I've had a problem with the engine. This was around 140k miles. The engine consumes a completely abnormal amount of oil, and it's burning off through the tail pipe. You can put your finger in the pipe and it will be pitch black like a diesel engine. Come to find out, this is the only model that has an engine flaw with the pistons and rings causing engine oil consumption and eventual engine failure. Other years of Corollas don't have as bad of an issue as the 2002. The only two solutions is to rebuild the engine with the modified pistons and rings from Toyota, or replace the engine. Both will set you back around $3k, easily. If you're out shopping for a used car, avoid the 2002 Corolla like the plague. Go for a different year. Rust has been a nightmare for this car, too. The clear coat started peeling off years ago, and rust has overtaken the top of the car. The driver's side power window stopped working in 2012. The interior plastic molding has cracked away significantly around the doors. The dash is fine. The cup holders are broken. The trunk lock refuses any key that was cut from the original, which is long gone now. Also, if the key wears down, the ignition will not accept the key. Maybe that's true for all cars, but it has happened more than a few times with this car. With all of the negative stuff being said, I have to be fair and admit that this car had never left me stranded, save for the occasional blown tire, and once when the engine drank all the oil and shut itself down, which is how I found out about the excessive oil consumption issue. I have treated this car very badly, and it has still held up at almost 150k miles. The a/c and heat still work very well. Back in 2003, the same year I bought this car, I almost totaled it on ice on the highway. Everyone walked out unharmed despite rear ending an idling car at 50mph. The front end took the brunt. The accident didn't feel very bad, no injuries whatsoever. The airbags didn't employ, though, but I wonder if it's because the impact wasn't harsh. We fixed the car up and it was back on the road with no problems at all. Well, not until last year now that it's old. It's been a good ride, but it's time to retire."
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I own this car - My approximate mileage is 155,000overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "reliable"
Cons: "a bit noisy and not the most comfortable ride"
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"The summary says it all. I purchased this car new. It has been used primarily as a commuter--30 to 70 miles per trip. It has never failed to start and get me to my destination. The most expensive repair it has required is replacement of the tensioner for the serpentine belt. Not bad for 150,000 plus miles."
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It was The Fart Heard 'Round The World — for a few minutes, at least — delighting children and adults alike and reminding all of us that even Tiger Woods is human. But video footage of Woods letting one rip at the Buick Open on Sunday lasted on the Internets about as long as the flatulence itself, as nervous PGA officials immediately yanked it off of YouTube.
(Dangerous carbon emissions from Buick)
If you were one of the lucky ones who saw the video before the PGA tossed its big, wet blanket, you heard Woods blast one on the final hole (so to speak), as he won the tournament by three strokes. Woods and caddy Steve Williams can immediately be seen laughing (photo above), and in my opinion Woods should have been penalized a stroke for failing to provide a courtesy cough. But if history has taught us anything, it's that it's never the fart itself that causes the problem. It's the ensuing coverup.
Like the LeBron James dunk video before it, the lost video of Tiger Woods farting will grow to mythic proportions by virtue of it being withheld from the public. The YouTube video is seemingly everywhere, but every time you click on it you get the stern announcement:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by PGA TOUR.
But it has spawned many hilarious headlines, including this one from FOX:
Tiger Woods farts, wins Buick Open
Just as in the LeBron video-confiscating incident, it's up to us to get this Tiger video released. It's your move, Photoshop enthusiasts. I'm sure that you can do better than my crude efforts below.


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The Pearson's coefficient of correlation rests on two assumptions. First is that a large number of independent contributory causes are operating in each of the two series correlated so as to produce normal or probability distribution? We know that such causes always operate in chance phenomena like tossing of coin or throw of a dice. They also operate in other types of data.
The second assumption is that the forces so operating are not independent of each other but are related in a casual fashion. The height of an individual during the last ten years may show an upward trend and" his income during this period may also show a similar tendency but there cannot be any correlation between the two series because the forces affecting the two series are entirely disparate with each other.


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by Kieren McCarthy | 22 Nov 2011 |
The real measure of accountability is not when an organization provides you with information it has no concerns over, but rather when it doesn't wish to provide the information but feels obligated to do so.
Here are some facts:
- On Thursday 11 August 2011, the ICANN Board met in full and in secret to decide the future of its current CEO.
- The CEO's contract was up for renewal, and he had made it clear, both publicly and privately, that he wished to stay in the job.
- The Board organized a teleconference independently of ICANN staff because it wanted to be able to be candid and felt they could not do that with either ICANN staff or the CEO on the line.
- The Board took a poll at the end of call and a majority decided they did not wish to renew the CEO's contract.
- ICANN's chairman relayed the results of that discussion to CEO Rod Beckstrom on Monday 15 August.
- Beckstrom told his inner circle and had his communications chief, Barbara Ann Clay, draw up a press release and a list of his achievements in the job.
- On Tuesday 16 August, Beckstrom tweeted (at 4.20pm) that he had "decided to wrap up my service". One hour later a press release, accompanied by a three-page "notable accomplishments" handout was published on the ICANN website.
- Subsequent to this announcement Beckstrom told ICANN staff that the decision to leave was his, and it was due to his refusal to accept an unspecified clause in a new contract.
We wrote a story about the exit on 16 August where we highlighted the fact that there had long been concerns about Beckstrom's performance and noted that it was not a voluntary exit.
- On 20 August, when information about the 11 August Board meeting – or even its existence – still had not appeared on the ICANN website, we used ICANN's Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (DIDP) to ask for details of it.
- On 25 August, at a regular Board meeting, CEO Beckstrom used his report to the Board to complain about reports he had been fired and promised to "focus on getting accurate information to the public on his decision and communications with staff".
- In Executive Session i.e. without ICANN staff present, at the end of the meeting, the Board specifically discussed our article and DIDP request for information and agreed not to acknowledge the secret meeting it had held two weeks earlier.
Since the 11 August ICANN Board meeting, .Nxt has filed four DIDP requests to see whether ICANN is willing to live up to its claims of greater accountability and transparency.
Our contention is this:
If ICANN is serious about maturing from a secretive, insider organization into an accountable and transparent one, it should be prepared to provide information that may be politically inconvenient at the time but which demonstrates a greater commitment to openness for the organization.
After three months of requests, an unequivocal answer has come back: ICANN is accountable and transparent – but only when it suits us.
Over the course of the four DIDP requests we have filed, ICANN has grown increasingly dismissive and defensive, refusing in the final response to provide any information at all, simply listing a series of legalistic clauses for why it wouldn't answer our questions.
You can read the full DIDP requests yourself, but in summary this is what we have discovered:
- ICANN will only provide information that has already been compiled.
- ICANN will not provide you with the raw material to compile it yourself.
- Even if it has compiled the information you have specifically requested, ICANN will not provide it to you if it does not wish to
- ICANN will not tell you whether it has actually compiled the information you've requested
- ICANN will not tell you why it can't tell you if it has the information you requested
- ICANN will not tell you how it decides whether to tell you about the existence of information that it won't provide you with
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Our requests
Initially we requested [pdf] any information regarding Board meetings between 29 July and 16 August. We were provided (after the maximum 30 days) with a list of three public Board and Board Committee meetings and a link to the Board meeting minutes page.
So we asked [pdf] how staff had compiled the list and whether they had spoken to or requested any information from Board members. We received a legalistic response about what designated a Board meeting and a note that the DIDP could not be used for "the creation or compilation of information".
In response, we noted that the question about whether Board members had been asked about any other meetings had not been answered. Additionally, we asked [pdf] whether emails sent through an "icann.org" email address was within the bounds of the DIDP (it is) and if so, to provide any emails relating to meeting of the Board held between 8-12 August that were sent between 28 July and 12 August.
We were told that our question about whether Board members had been asked about other meetings has not been answered because we had not asked for documentary information.
And so we asked for documentary information. And we were told that that information was confidential.
As to the emails sent through icann.org between 28 July and 12 August relating to a meeting of the Board between 8-12 August, that request was, apparently, "broad and undefined" (we would argue it is clearly neither), not in the public interest (we would argue it clearly is), and internal information. So we couldn't have any of it.
And so we requested [pdf] any documentary information about the processes used to make DIDP determinations – in particular that a very precise request was "undefined" and that a decision about the future CEO of the organization that has in its bylaws that it acts in the public interest was not in the public interest.
We also asked an even more refined question: any emails sent through an icann.org address between 1 and 11 August concerning a meeting of the ICANN Board held on 11 August.
The answer? All of that information is confidential, subject to attorney privilege, internal information and/or in draft form.
In other words: we don't want to tell you we held a secret meeting; we don't want to tell you that we decided not to disclose that fact, even when asked about it; we don't want to tell you that we do not have a due process for deciding DIDP requests; and there is nothing you can do to make us.
There is no appeals system for the DIDP.
The need for change
It comes as no surprise that ICANN would not provide any information it does not wish to. The DIDP system was drawn up by ICANN's legal department, is run by ICANN's legal department, and it is beholden to no-one but ICANN's legal department.
The brothers of the DIDP are the three accountability measures introduced by ICANN several years ago when it was last under sustained criticism for its failure to be open, accountable and transparent.
Those three measures (Ombudsman, Reconsideration Committee, and Independent Review Process) were each drawn up by ICANN's legal department and each has come under considerable criticism for failing to do what it was designed to do.
All three have been designed to give the appearance of accountability without ever being in a position to force ICANN to act. The Ombudsman has fewer powers than any comparable Ombudsman; the Reconsideration Committee is made up a subset of Board members tasked with reviewing their own decisions; and the Independent Review Process has written into it that it is not binding.
In 2009, an in-depth review of ICANN's accountability and transparency called "Improving Institutional Confidence" recommended (recommendation 2.7) that ICANN put together an independent team of experts to restructure the three review mechanisms. It was ignored.
A second independent review into ICANN's accountability and transparency (ATRT) last year again singled out these three accountability measures as requiring a major overhaul and made no less than four recommendations (23-26) under its own heading: "Review mechanism(s) for Board decisions", on them.
That review process has, according to the Board at its most recent meeting in Dakar, now begun (we have filed a DIDP asking for more information).
What the ATRT failed to notice was that the DIDP process – the system by which the Internet community can request information from the organization - is similarly flawed and reflective of an outdated internal culture.
When an organization can draw up its own systems, run and implement those systems, and has to report to no one but itself, it is hardly surprising that it ends up not fit for purpose.
Currently, even when faced with the facts, ICANN denies them.


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Proposed gaming legislation raises concerns for Speaker Brian Bosma
House Speaker Brian Bosma said he has reservations about legislation headed to his chamber that he calls a significant expansion of gaming.
Senate-approved legislation includes tax breaks for casinos, adding live table games to racetrack casinos and allowing riverboats to move their gaming facilities completely on land. The bill aims to steel the state's wagering facilities against pressure from gaming in all surrounding states. Speaker Brian Bosma said he understands that the state already essentially ignores the requirement that casinos be on water, but he has concerns about what he calls, in his words, "dropping the façade."
"Because then I don't think you can say no to anyone and you could have a casino here in downtown Indianapolis, you can have it in all of our urban areas and there's no real means of saying, 'Gee, that's not our current public policy,'" said Bosma.
Lafayette Republican Senator Ron Alting, one of the bill's sponsors, said the legislation only allows riverboats to move onto land adjacent to the water.
"That whole footprint already is legalized gaming. So there's no special permits, there's no additional permits. The entire footprint is legal to operate gaming on," said Alting.
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Danbury students who live on Kelleys Island prepare to return home aboard a Griffing Air Service plane at the Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport on Friday afternoon. The were dropped off at the airport by a private limousine service.
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Re: Who ya got Demaryius Thomas vs. Jermaine Gresham
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Re: Who ya got Demaryius Thomas vs. Jermaine Gresham
I'd go with Gresham, but that's partly because I watched several of OU's games in 2008 and saw him in action. He's a hard man to bring down and fast for a 260-pounder. All I have to go on with Thomas are highlight reels, which of course look good but don't scream out that this guy is more special than the dozen other guys who have nice highlight reels.
My main concern about Gresham is whether he comes out with a clean bill of health after missing the entire 2009 season with a knee injury.
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Re: Who ya got Demaryius Thomas vs. Jermaine Gresham
This wasn't hard for me at all. It's Jermaine Gresham all the way. It's been so long since the Rams have had a viable and dangerous tight end that a lot of us don't know what kind of impact a guy like Gresham can have.
I know I've all but forgotten myself, too.
The thing I don't care for about Thomas is that he's a product of a wishbone offense. That is, he is almost always single covered as the defense stacks more people in the box to cut down on the running option plays.
Also, I can't remember the last WR from an option type team to really make a difference in the NFL. Much like the wishbone style QBs never amounted to much so have the WRs from that system.
That being said if Gresham is taken in the first as I suspect, Thomas will have to be a consideration in the 2nd, but, like another poster opined, I believe the Rams already have enough young WRs and I really don't think I would want another that early in the draft.
Heck at this point I am more interested to see what Brooks Foster can do when he gets healthy.
Let's fill other holes in this draft and look to re-eval the receiver position after next year.
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Lincoln High star Chris Bosh: I'm not treating Dallas like home; 'garbage, junk food and room service'
Heat forward Chris Bosh might be taking things to extremes, but he insists the NBA Finals are not a homecoming — even though he was born in Dallas and starred at Lincoln High School.
"Just to keep my edge," Bosh said, "I've been treating this like I'm on the road, which we are. I try not to have a home feeling.
"I think somebody asked, 'Are you getting a home-cooked meal?' I was like, 'Absolutely not.' I want to eat all garbage, junk food and room service, just to get that road feel."
Bosh scored 13 points and in the first half of Game 1, but had 25 points on 7-of-34 shooting in the next eight quarters.
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How We Taught This Lesson in the Past: Lesson 33: Sharing the Gospel with the World
The current manual combines the mission accomplished by Jonah (not his time in the belly of the fish, but his fulfilling of his mission afterward) with the mission of latter-day Israel (interpreted as the Latter-day Saints) prophesied by Micah. These lessons from 1944 survey the full known stories of Jonah and Micah with emphasis on the same points stressed in the current manual.
Jonah – The Prophet Who Tried to Run from God
Our Knowledge of the Prophet. – We know little of the life of Jonah, but that little is more than we know about some of the other prophets. In the first verse of the book under his name Jonah is said to be "the son of Amittai." The book of Jonah is not the only Old Testament book in which he is mentioned. In II Kings 14:25 we are told that Jeroboam II, king of Israel,
Restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which He spoke by the hand of His servant, Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
There can be little doubt, therefore, that Jonah was an historical person and was engaged in prophetic activities. The prophet's home, Gath-hepher, according to Joshua 19:10-13, was located I the territory of the tribe of Zebulun. According to monastic tradition, it was the same as the present Arab village of El-Mesed some three miles northeast of Nazareth, where one of the many Moslem tombs of Nehi Yunus, the Prophet Jonah, is pointed out. St. Jerome (circa 400 A.D.) also speaks of Gath-hepher as being situated two Roman miles from Sepphoris toward Tiberias.
Jonah's name means "dove" and that of his father, "truthful."
Since Jonah lived during the reign of Jeroboam II, it is possible to date him at approximately 788 B.C.
The Book and Its Literary Form. – The Book of Jonah consists of only four short chapters, but contains the most profound religious message in the Old Testament. In reality it is not a prophecy but a story about a prophet. The obvious intent of the book is to drive home a religious lesson whether or not we agree that its details are historical.
In relation to its literary form the book has been classed as simple religious history, a myth, a prophetic parable, an allegory, and a Midrash. A Midtash "was the expansion, doctrinal or homiletic, of a passage of Scripture, and frequently took the form, dear to Orientals, of parable or invented story about the subject of the text." due to the problems that arise concerning the book, few people seem to be able to agree on its literary type. But whatever the type, the significance of its teaching can in no wise be affected by the diversity of opinion. We can agree, however, that most of the little book is prose, remarkable for its simplicity of style. The only poetry is found in the prayer continued in chapter 2:3-9, which possesses considerable spirit and force. the text of the book has been preserved in very good order.
Jonah Refuses God's Call to a Mission. – a call on a mission! And direct from the Lord1 it was no surprise to the prophet to be called, for he had probably carried out many missions for the Lord in Israel before. His surprise lay not in the fact of the call but in the kind of call, and rebellion arose in his heart. It was a call to go to Nineveh, "the great city" of Assyria, and preach to its heathen inhabitants, for their wickedness had come up before the Lord.
Jonah had bitter recollections of Assyria. Not that she, indeed, had been a serious menace to Israel in his lifetime, but because her cruelties were proverbial and her inhabitants given to idolatry and every manner of wickedness. A generation or so before his time, Assyria had defeated a coalition of kings including Ahab, king of Israel, at the battle of Karkar (853 B.C.). Some years later, 841 B.C., Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria, forced Jehu, king of Israel, to pay tribute humbly to him. These defeats of Israel did not help Jonah's temper any, for even prophets are human and subject at times to recriminations. Then the prophet's mind went back to Abraham's day, and he recalled that God had sent the Father of the Faithful out of the general region where the hated Assyrians lived. The emotions that arose in his heart were hot and defiant. Why should the Lord select him, of all men, to go preach to these idolatrous and corrupt heathen who were not worth saving1 There were plenty of backsliders in Israel who needed preaching to without one's going to Nineveh. Jonah had an intuitive feeling that if he did go to Nineveh God would do something to save her inhabitants. Past experience had taught the prophet something of the Lord's patience and tender mercies toward all men.
"I knew that thou are a gracious God, and compassionate, long suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repentest thee of evil." (4:2.)
Such was the prophet's statement at a later time.
Jonah was torn between his loyalty to God and the whip of his emotions. The latter were at a fever pitch and in the end determined his actions. He couldn't face the mission call, so he determined to flee the country and get away from the responsibilities of it. He did not intend to lay down his prophetic office, he merely wanted to absent himself without leave for a time until an unpleasant situation adjusted itself.
"Jonah arose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down unto it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord." (1:3.)
Herein Jonah displayed his human weakness. Let us not judge him too harshly. Remember how many folk at this critical period in our own history are already to let their emotions rise to the exploding point when the Germans, Italians, or Japanese are mentioned. Let the Assyrians be substituted for these people and we have a situation closely analogous to the one in which Jonah found himself. Modern Christians can hate as fiercely as the Hebrew prophet in his worst moments. Men often become irrational and devoid of brotherly feeling in times of stress. all the more reason, therefore, why the Book of Jonah should be carefully evaluated and reconsidered by the world of today.
Jonah learned what so many of us learn sooner or later – God is not mocked, neither can we get away from His power and influence. God "hurled" a great wind into the sea, and soon both ship and passengers were in trouble. Note that the mariners, despised heathen also, did something about. First they prayed to their gods, then set about throwing the ship's tackling into the sea to lighten her. but Jonah slept through it all. The ship's master called upon him to wake up and pray.
"What meanest thou that thou sleepest? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." (1:6.)
In this and succeeding passages there is most delicious irony. Instead of Jonah's preaching to the heathen, God preaches to Jonah by means of a heathen. Imagine one of these despised people calling upon a Hebrew prophet to pray! The watchman on the tower of Zion has fallen asleep at his post. Lots are cast and it is determined that Jonah is the cause of the trouble to the ship. Jonah's conscience smites him and he asks to be thrown into the sea – all will be quiet then. Like the Prodigal Son he "came to himself" at last – at least in part. What a fine thing it is when men find their better selves! "The awakening of the conscience," says Victor Hugo, "is the grandeur of the soul." But the seamen, out of fear, reverence, pity, and respect, refused to sacrifice one of their fellow men. they rowed hard to bring the ship to land, but to no avail.
Only when all measures to save Jonah and the ship had failed did they finally consent to throw the Hebrew prophet overboard. The miraculous cessation of the storm seems to have convinced the sailors further that Jonah's God was the true "God who hath made the sea and the dry land." They were ostensibly converted to Him for the record says:
"Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows." (1:16.)
Jonah Accepts God's Second Call to a Mission. – Through bitter experience Jonah learned that life is much sweeter and better if one runs with God rather than from Him. God repeated the call to Jonah and this time he accepted by going to Nineveh.
In this great district Jonah began to preach and apparently relished the message he delivered.
"Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." (3:4)
Presumably, the prophet had learned the letter of the lesson recently taught him, but had not imbibed its spirit, for when the king and the people of Nineveh received the prophet's message – greatest miracle of all – and repented of their evil deeds with God's blessings and approbation. "It displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.' (4:1.) Therefore the Lord had to teach His representative another lesson.
God Teaches Jonah a Profound Lesson. – Jonah went out of Nineveh and sat in a safe place on the east side of the city, sulking and still hoping that God's judgments would descend upon the repentant heathen. So God appointed a gourd to shade Jonah from the sun. Soon, however, a worm cut down the plant and Jonah fainted by reason of both a hot east wind and the sun. He requested that he might die. The Lord gave the famous answer:
"Should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?" (4:11.)
It is apparent throughout the story that Jonah could not stand to see God's love, so much promised to Israel, and cherished by her, bestowed on others, particularly her heathen oppressors.
The Abiding Lessons of Jonah. – Many competent critics think that Jonah "stands preeminent as the noblest, broadest, and most Christian of all Old Testament literature."
The greatest lesson of the book is that God's divine grace is universal. In it is conveyed the lesson that all men are precious in God's eyes but acceptable to Him only if their hearts turn toward Him. Jonah as the representative of the Chosen People had the responsibility of being the bearer of salvation to all men, but by reason of his unrighteous antipathies and irrational lack of love, he was put to shame by the Lord. The loving providence and heartfelt sympathy of God is shown to embrace even the countless heathen, "so that for the sake of their many children, who have done no wrong, and their cattle, which are irresponsible, He does not desire their death, but that they may turn and live." This is the type of teaching so frequently driven home by the New Testament. Another and obvious lesson of the book is that of obedience. To this may be added the lesson that prophecy is conditional. "Judgment, indeed, through repentance may be exchanged for salvation." Finally, another lesson lies in the spirit of higher patriotism which pervades the book.
In this day when the clash of arms and the engines of war are heard in the nations, in an hour when narrow loyalties and hatred are rampant in the world, the Book of Jonah stands like a beacon in the darkness showing that God is loving and merciful and that all men are brothers.
Micah – Prophet of Judgment, Comfort, and Salvation
Some Facts about Micah. – From the opening verse of the Book of Micah it is apparent that the prophet's ministry was during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. His preaching, therefore, took place during the years from approximately 740 B.C. to 607 B.C. We may assign to him an approximate date of 725 B.C. This date reveals Micah as a contemporary of the great Isaiah and possibly also of Hosea and Amos.
The name Micah is an abbreviation of Micaiah, as the prophet is called in Jer. 26;18, which in turn is probably a contraction of Mikayahu, "who is like unto Jehovah?" The prophet is to be distinguished from the leader prophet Micah the son of Imlah (I Kings 22:8 ff.), as well as from ten other persons of the same name in the Old Testament. The fact that Micah is called the Morashtite would point strongly to his being a native of Moresheth-Gath, which is mentioned in the text. the name of the town means Territory or Property of Gath and seems to have been located in the Shephelah or low hill region of Judea some twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem. Micah was, therefore, a product of the open hills and valleys and seems to have had no special love for the cities.
Since Micah was a contemporary of Isaiah, Hosea, and Amos, the problems he faced were much the same as theirs. Micah was not a statesman like Isaiah; consequently, he was not so much concerned about his nation's political sins. The prophet was more like Amos in that his grievances were social in character. He was especially concerned with the attempts of the nobles to build up large estates by ejecting small property owners. Corrupt judges assisted their greedy friends in robbing the weak; even widows and orphans without means of defense were deprived of their goods by force and ofttimes sold into slavery. The common people were kept in bondage through high taxation and creditors were unmerciful with their victims. Micah held the nobility to be responsible for the terrible moral and social corruption among his people. He likened the nobles to cannibals, who eat the flesh of the people and chop their bones in pieces for the pot. There was no end to their greed and rapacity, and decisions were given to those who paid the largest bribes.
The Content and Literary Style of Micah. – The Book of Micah divides quite naturally into three sections. 1. Chapters 1;2 to 2, deal with coming judgments upon Israel and Judah – whose capitals were Samaria and Jerusalem respectively – their sins and punishment, and a brief promise of eventual restoration of the remnant of Israel. 2. Chapters 3 to 5 have to do with the sins of the two nations' leaders, the destruction of Jerusalem, the glorification and blessing of Zion and Jerusalem in the latter days, the restoration of Israel to her former dominion, the Babylonian captivity and subsequent rescue, the birth of the Savior in Bethlehem and, finally, the beneficent and terrible power of the remnant of Jacob among the nations in the latter days. 3. In chapters 6 to 7 the Lord shows Israel the way to salvation by the expedient of a very dramatic controversy or law-suit. She has repaid His loving care and benefits with ingratitude, her worship is mistaken if not insincere, and here social sins point to her doom. The Lord will again have compassion on His people and show forth His marvelous works to the nations if Israel will but confess her sins and turn to Him.
Each of these sections begins with the words "Hear ye." A beautiful prayer and doxology conclude the book.
With the exception of the superscription (1:1), all of the Book of Micah is in poetic form. The prophet had the ability to write excellent Hebrew, and his thought and language amply justify his statement that he was full of power by the spirit of the Lord (3:8). His style very often equals that of Isaiah in boldness and sublimity; it is concise and yet perspicuous, nervous, vehement, and forceful. Rapidity of movement, vivid description, picturesque phraseology, and directness are characteristic of the prophecy. Micah is rich and beautiful in the varied use of figurative language, indulges in word plays, is regular in the formation of his parallelisms, and exhibits greater emotion and tenderness when administering threats and conveying promises. He has keen insight, clearness of vision, and ability to give logical development to his discourses. The later chapters in Micah, especially four to six, possess a greater variety and unevenness of style than do chapters one to three. The prophet's description of the gracious character of the Lord (7:18-20) is unrivaled by any contained in the scriptures.
An Apostrophe of Judgment to the Nations of the Earth. – In vivid language reminiscent of the opening lines of Isaiah, Micah commences with a sublime apostrophe of judgment to the nations of the earth. (1:2-4.)
These lines are preliminary to a more specific announcement of the Lord's coming judgments.
The Announcement of Judgment Upon Israel and Judah. – Micah proceeds to disclose the reasons for the Lord's anger (1:5). The prophet identifies the sources of apostasy or transgression of Israel as the capital cities of the Northern and Southern kingdoms respectively. The reference to the "high places" is an allusion to the sinister and immoral Canaanite religious practices adopted by Israel and put into operation upon high or elevated spots on mountains and hills. The prophets constantly attacked these foreign elements in Israel's religion. And what will be God's judgment upon Samaria? The answer comes forcefully and without equivocation (1:6). In the process of Samaria's destruction the prophet is very careful to note the end of certain religious equipment and practices taken over from the Canaanites (1:7). How are Canaanite religion had penetrated Israel the reader may judge for himself. The lesson to modern Israel is obvious.
A Lament Over the Coming Devastation of Judah. – Nor does Micah spare Judah and Jerusalem. In a lament the prophet wails over the coming devastation of Judah that shall reach the gates of Jerusalem itself (1:8, 9).
From this point Micah continues with a dirge containing an ominous series of puns or word plays on Judean towns (1:10-16).
Woe Upon the Haughty Nobles Who Oppress the People. – We are today in the midst of a world revolution. It is due in part to social wrongs that have constantly beset the poor and innocent in every country. Micah felt keenly the social injustices that plagued Israel in his own day. Coming as he did, from the country, he no doubt felt these wrongs more acutely than he would had he come from the city. He could not help but cast his invective at the wealthy, greedy land grabbers, who descended upon the rural districts and made the poor their debtors. Even today, the agricultural communities in our own nation could well take a leaf from Micah's note book and beware of letting their properties go into the hands of money lenders (2:1-5).
Micah was not so much concerned about the taking of mere chattels. What ground his soul and made him righteously indignant was that unscrupulous men were allowed to commit wrongs so easily and put human beings in their power. personal independence was lost and the security of home and family was put in the hands of a few capricious men.
The Prophet's Censure of Those Who Cannot endure the Truth. – The prophet's words meet with violent opposition on the part of corrupt men in high places as well as from false prophets. Micah replies (2:6-11) by showing that these men abuse the patience and mercy of the Lord; that by defrauding or robbing the poor, the widows (women of My people), and the orphans, they are bringing about the inevitable captivity of the land. Such preaching on the part of Micah does not please the corrupt great men, for they imagine that his threats are irreconcilable with the goodness of the Lord. Micah interposes (verse 7) by pointing out that God is not wrathful and has no love for chastening, but that he is stirred up to anger by the nation's sins and is obliged to punish. When the prophet has overthrown (verses 7-9) the objections to his prophecies by pointing out the transgressions of the people, he repeats the prediction of punishment in the form of a summons to Israel (verse 10) to depart out of the land because it cannot bear uncleanness and abominations. To this Micah adds the point that the people only want to hear predictions of good, that they would rather hear the lies of false prophets who pursue the wind (i.e. emptiness and nothingness) than to be impelled by the Spirit of the Lord.
Promise of Eventual Restoration of the Remnant of Israel. – The thought of the prophet suddenly shifts from his own wicked generation to the distant future. He still has in mind his own people, but his eye is especially upon the righteous remnants of their descendants in the latter days – the dispensation of the fullness of times – when the gospel of Jesus Christ is to be restored to the earth for the last time. He comforts the righteous people of his own time by showing them that although God shall bring dire punishment upon both Israel and Judah for their sins, still, at that great future time, their descendants shall be gathered and blessed in order that God's promises to Abraham may be fulfilled. The Lord had long ago decreed that through Abraham's descendants should all nations be blessed with the Gospel. (See Abr. 2:8-11.) Micah knows that all of Israel should not be destroyed in the coming punishments otherwise the Lord's predictions to the Father of the Faithful could not be fulfilled. The predictions of Micah regarding the remnant of Israel are of special interest to all Latter-day Saints since many of us are descendants of men and women who were gathered out of the nations for the Gospel's sake. (s:12, 13.)
Condemnation of Israel's Civil Rulers. – At the beginning of the next section of his discourse Micah turns back to the immediate situation confronting him and threshes Israel's civil rulers with one of the bitterest denunciations to be found in all prophecy. They do not know justice. They hate good, love evil, and in their administrative capacities are like cannibals eating up the people instead of acting as their servants. (3:1-4.) What Micah said in his day often applies with equal force today.
Micah Denounces the Hireling Prophets. – We have already noted I the reading of the Book of Amos that the prophet of Tekoa protested he was no "prophet nor a son of a prophet"; that is, he was not a professional or hireling prophet. Micah also makes reference to the hireling prophets. It seems that in the generation of Amos and Micah the leaders of Israel – tyrants would be a better name – used professional prophets and seers to cloak their misdeeds. Religion, unfortunately, lends itself, or rather its cloak, very easily to the uses of the hypocrite. So the rich and unscrupulous leaders of Israel found it easy – for a price – to hire professional religionists to cover their actions by flattery and falsehood. the hireling prophet depended upon his rich clients for a living. He could not, therefore, be independent in his thinking and in his judgment. He was high-pressured into siding with the rich, and consequently shut his eyes to the real conditions among the people. Naturally he could not attack the sins of the day that made it possible for his clients to exploit Israel's common people. Micah exposed the pseudo-prophets vigorously. (3:5-7.)
On the other hand, Micah shows that he as a true prophet has the spirit of the lord with the accompanying insight, vision, and courage to tell the people of their sins. (3:8.)
The Glory of Zion and Jerusalem in the Latter Days. – After denouncing Israel's leaders (3:9-12), Micah makes another sudden transition in his thought and looks once more to the glory of his people in the latter days. Many nations at that time are to come up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob, to be taught divine law. Micah has practically the same views in this respect as are to be found in Isa. 2:2-4. As a result of divine judgments, nations shall not learn war any more, and every man shall sit in security under his own vine and under his own fig-tree with none to make afraid. Latter-day Saints believe this glorious prediction of Micah is now in the process of fulfillment. Eventually the law and word of the Lord shall go forth to the earth from two capitals, Zion (the New Jerusalem) in America and Jerusalem in Palestine. (4:1-5.)
The Mormon people think that in the past one hundred and twenty years they have assisted the Lord greatly in the work which was foreseen by Micah and that in the future they shall take an ever increasing part in bringing to pass peace and righteousness in the world.
Micah also sees the Lord reigning over his people and the restoration of Israel to her former dominion. (4:6-8.)
The Power of Gathered Israel in the Latter Days. – After foretelling the invasion of Judea, the Babylonian captivity, and the subsequent liberation of the Jews (4:9, 10), Micah points out that the nations who are enemies of Zion shall be threshed as sheaves on the threshing floor by Israel, the daughter of Zion.
The metaphor of threshing is often used by the prophets to denote the complete destruction of a people. (See, e.g., Jer. 51:33.) The time when this shall take place is in the latter days when Israel is to have power over her enemies. The prophet continues the metaphor by indicating that Zion's horns are to be of iron and her hoofs of brass. The allusion is to animals used in beating out grain on the threshing floor. The horn was a symbol of power exercised in subduing and punishing enemies. (4:11-13.)
That the interpretation given above to this passage is correct is attested to in the Book of Mormon and by no less a personage than the risen Savior Himself. After explaining the gathering of Israel in our dispensation He went on to point out to the Nephites that if the Gentiles do not repent, the remnant of Israel shall have power over them. The Savior even quotes portions of the passage from Micah under consideration. (III Nephi 20:17-21.) The statement of the Savior is for all practical purposes a perfect commentary on a part of Micah ofttimes misunderstood.
The Prediction of the Coming of the Messiah. – Micah now rests for a moment from his predictions concerning Israel in the latter days and turns back in time to the little village of Bethlehem. Out of this village, one of Judah's smallest, he sees coming one who is to be ruler over all Israel. This is to be the Messiah, or Savior of His people. His works, Micah sees, reach back into eternity. He shall stand and feed or shepherd His flock. Moreover, His power and influence shall be great to the ends of the earth. (5:2-4.)
The Power of the Remnant of Jacob among the Gentiles in the Latter Days. – After making a brief allusion to the Savior as the one who would eventually deliver his people from the power of Assyria (5:5, 6), Micah turns once more to proclaim the power that the gathered remnant of Jacob shall have against its enemies in the dispensation of the fullness of times. It is to be as a dew from the Lord, as a lion that stealeth among the flocks, as a power able to cut off all enemies. The Gentiles at that day, except they repent, are to have their power of resistance shattered, their false and idolatrous worship abolished – in short, God will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the nations. It so happens that ths passage (5:7-15) was also quoted and commented upon by the savior while explaining the great events of the latter days to the Nephites. the reader is urged to study the statements of Micah and compare them with the Savior's comments. (III Nephi 21:12-21.)
The attention paid by the Savior to Micah's prophecies is remarkable, and its importance to this generation is – or should be – obvious to every Latter-day Saint.
The Lord's Case Against Israel. – We come now to the third and concluding division of the Book of Micah. It is like entering calmer waters after a heavy storm. The prophet is not so bitter in his invective and the tone of this division is much more peaceful than the preceding ones. The Lord pleads His case with Israel in a mood reminiscent of court procedure. The mountains are summoned to be present; the Lord presents his complaint and appeals to his past mercies. (6:1-5.)
The Answer of the People. – Because of these loving acts of God, which cannot be questioned, the audience replies (in the first person singular) in a sincere but mistaken way. (6:6, 7.)
This answer, of course, betrays the lack of comprehension on the part of the people of what constitutes the inner demands of true religion. It is true that under the Law of Moses the Lord required sacrifice and other ritualistic practices, but they were all symbolic of principles that were to lead His people to higher and better things. But Israel's worship had become formalized and the wickedness of the people had rendered their ritual unacceptable to God.
Micah conveyed to the people the fundamental requirements of true religion in an answer that is one of the noblest of all time.
"It hath been told thee, O man, what is good,
And what the Lord doth require of thee:
Only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." (6:8.)
In these few lines Micah has summed up the essence of the teachings of the prophets.
Micah Prays for the Lord's Fulfillment of His Promise. – After promising Israel's restoration (7:11-13), Micah prays beautifully for its fulfillment. the prayer is distinguished for the poetical elevation of its style and the appropriateness of its petition. Like many other Old Testament prayers it is prophetic in its spirit. (7:14-17.)
A Doxology or Ascription of Praise to God. – Micah ends with a doxology. He revels in the prospect of Israel's glorious future and breaks out into a strain of sublime praise and admiration for the divine attributes of loving-kindness, faithfulness, and compassion to be manifested by God in her deliverance. (7:18-20.)


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The Cozy Corner was a hotel clerk's solid barbecue recommendation for dinner in Memphis. / By Dave Bangert/J&C
Recommendations, please. Thanks.
Heres your chance to play hotel desk clerk. What would your two local dining recommendations be? Go to jconline.com and click on this link to this story to share your tips.
Heres a local color/vacation scenario.
Youre working a hotel desk here in town. A guest comes to the counter and says: Were here for two nights. Give us the best two local places to eat.
And you say ...
Sure, thats a pretty complicated request that requires a few follow-up questions to get a sense about what sort of mood your guests are in, whether they want a drink or are open to an ethnic place, whether price is an issue, and even how much time they have to blow.
I bring it up, though, after a great bout with local color on a trip to Memphis two weeks ago, where we went specifically to eat barbecue and fried chicken and then do as much of nothing as we could fit into a few days.
After getting a rundown of the tourist places to eat on Beale Street from a shuttle driver at the hotel, the night manager at the front desk, a woman by the name of Tongela Fleming, said she knew what we really wanted. Its up around the way, just north of downtown, she said. Called the Cozy Corner on North Parkway a place she said shed been going to for years and where she took friends and family when they were back in town.
Later, looking on an Internet driven by the advent of Yelp and other smartphone guides, it was clear we werent the first to stumble onto the tiny, blue and white block building, with a glass front that looked as if it just as well could have held a small dry cleaner instead of a barbecue joint. The cross-country motorcyclists at the next table taking pictures of their food, served on paper plates, should have been our first clue.
Still, it was a place you had to know was there. Youd never stop there on your own.
Later, after a four-bone plate, a Cornish hen and sides, we made a point to thank Tongela Fleming personally.
It might not be a direct line, but it is a short throw from that Memphis experience to home and the Community of Choice process that Greater Lafayette is putting itself through. The idea in that exercise is to figure out what were doing right and what we need to do better from attitude to amenities in terms of quality of life. Make those right, the theory goes, and well be a more attractive place to stick around.
And in a town that likes its night out at the restaurants, why not consider the menu when it comes to local color and who we really think we are?
Culinary tourism is big money, spawning its own cottage industry fueled by the Food Network, Travel Channel and other food stars and their not-so-distant kin.
Youve got Alton Brown riding along the Mississippi River and eating his way down the Great River Road. Adam Richman taking on ungodly and gargantuan challenges on Man vs. Food. Touring behind Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was enough to land Guy Fieri a seat in an Indianapolis 500 pace car this May. And Tony Bourdains been eating and traveling well, wherever he damn well pleases and whatever people there tell him is worth trying.
Along the way, theyve played parts in making stars out of menus found off the beaten path, where locals know to go after church, for lunch downtown or when the parties wind down near campus.
We know there are people who get off I-65, take (Indiana) 26 all the way through town to Purdue, get a burger at Triple XXX and drive right back out on 26 all because of Diners and Drive-ins, said Jo Wade, president and CEO of the Lafayette-West Lafayette Convention and Visitors Bureau. Fieris show featured the West Lafayette and Purdue landmark in a June 2007 episode.
Thats a powerful recommendation, Wade said. She noted the extra boost of good fortune slathered on the Triple XXX when the Indiana Office of Tourism featured the restaurants peanut butter-topped Duane Purvis All-American burger in its Super 46 Sandwich playoff, tied to this years Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
It was great, Wade said. It also meant we had to be careful not to put everything on one place. We have these other great places, we were telling people.
To that end, the Convention and Visitors Bureau actually sets up visits to local sites and walking tours to take in clusters of restaurants for hotel staffs local color for the local concierge.
Those front desk clerks, they cant recommend it if they havent tried it, Wade said. We know here in our office that we arent doing all the sales. The people of our community are doing the sales. ... This whole Community of Choice thing is all about being positive about the community. So when someone stops you and says, Where would you go to eat? You can say, This is our favorite place.
Thats what visitors are really looking for that corner place where theyll see locals eating and hanging out.
So back to that local color/vacation scenario for you: Two nights, two best local places to eat.
Ive been asking that wherever I can since getting home. The list is strong, including high end, low end, family friendly, date night, carryout, downtown, near Purdue, near the interstate, international and purely Greater Lafayette: McGraws. Kokoro. The Other Pub. Hunters Pub Down Under. D.T. Kirbys. La Scala. Brunos. Mountain Jacks. Nine Irish Brothers. Dog n Suds. South Street Smokehouse. Khana Khazana. Bistro 501. The Black Sparrow. Maru. Thai Essence. Green Leaf.
And thats the short list.
Mine? It starts with beer. If you dont go to Lafayette Brewing Co., then head somewhere that serves Lafayette-brewed Peoples on draft. That opens a lot of doors, a lot of menus and a lot of local color.
Then again, two nights barely cover it. Next time someone asks, be ready to be an ambassador for Greater Lafayette dining. And choose wisely.
Bangert is a columnist with the J&C. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow on Twitter @davebangert.