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These state parks tend to be smaller than national parks, and relatively modest in comparison, but they form the backbone of our park system and enjoy fierce loyalty from families who visit year after year.
During the hottest days of summer, sometimes you just want to escape the tourist throngs, bustling sights, and crowded beaches.
The air is so dirty, sometimes people can't see the building next to them.
Like New York City's Hudson River, Paris' Seine is pretty to look at, but not exactly a body of water you want to jump in.
The 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland grounded thousands of flights, stranded passengers (including myself) for days, and cost airlines almost $1.5 billion.
This Memorial Day, take advantage of the long weekend—plus some of the lowest airfares in recent history—and get out of Dodge.
Travel + Leisure readers rank the best cities around the U.S. for a summer getaway.
The bison calf was reportedly euthanized after two tourists, who thought they were doing a good deed, put the bison in their vehicle and drove it to a ranger station.


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Is there or does any have a how to for intergration with BES Express?
Is there or does any have a how to for intergration with BES Express?
You need Zimbra Network Edition for that integration.
Acompli: A new adventure for Co-Founder KevinH.
I have Zimbra Network and this post is in the Zimbra Network section
Acompli: A new adventure for Co-Founder KevinH.
Ok I iwll update my profile can you email me the doc's? or provide a link?
You can use BES Express.
Also, we're working to get all the docs up.
I wan't to do it as soon as yesterday :-)
Just managed to get BES working with Zimbra today, downloaded the Small Business Version of BES which comes with 1 CAL took some tinkering to get going and even though you get 1 free support incident with RIM don't bother, once they ask you an Exchange questions and you say your using Zimbra they stop listening....
Got a 5 user license arriving tomorrow so I can test with PC and Mac users so far looks like the link between BES and the Zimbra server is good, the link between Server and Mac on the other hand is as good as ever... (still not sure iSync works out all the changes correctly)
Anyway BES + Zimbra == Happiness....
Can you outline the steps you took to get it running. I have installed a copy of win 2k3 server to run it on what services or roles do I need to install?
the requirements of using ZCB against a BES instance are no different than running BES against Exchange....except for all the Exchange related requirements. in terms of the Zimbra server, you would need an adminstrator account that can sync data on the behalf of other users.
there will be a self service site up soon that will allow people to download and try ZCB shortly. the site would have links to the ZCB download and the documentation on the installation process and requirements. we are not going to go too much in depth regarding BES installation since you can refer to the RIM docs for that. our docs will outline how to get ZCB installed on a system that has BES and other prerequisites already installed.
but in terms of the first post in this thread. i'm really curious what the "tinkering" was because if there are some global changes that we are going to need to make to the installer...then we should probably get that in our bug system or at least in the release notes.
currently, there is one installation issue (that is is already captured in bugzilla) that indicates that we need to update the installer to better detect the error situation where there is another process on the machine that is using MAPI.
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Winston-Salem, NC-- A Triad woman is December's 2 Those Who Care, simply because she remembers the reason for the season.
"I just collect a lot of something... and as I tell my neighbors, I put stuff in bags," says Joanne Zakon as she's stuffing paper bags with Christmas presents.
Joanne Zakon is making Christmas dreams come true at an annual luncheon at the Enrichment Center for special adults.
"We have some sweat shirts, candy, underwear, toiletries and just so that the day of their luncheon, that's their Christmas and they have something to leave with."
For the past seven years, students at the center, located in Winston-Salem, have gone home with a little something special. They get gifts that Joanne starts collecting in the fall.
Cindy Wrenn works at the Enrichment Center, "It's hours and hours that it takes and it's not just from 8 to 5... she's out on the weekends looking for things... wherever she needs to go, she's there."
Joanne found out about the needs here because of her son who lives with disabilities and attends the center.
"His life has given me this life, you know, it's just a lot through him," says Zakon.
Wrenn is appriciative of Cindy's kind heart, "without her, they would not be able to get the gifts that they get.... because we don't have the money to do it. We don't have the time to make the calls and do the pickups."
Joanne says the students can teach us life lessons about appriciating what you have.
"You can just make somebody so happy and there's not... the gratification is unbelievable."
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After finally being cleared to compete, Rafael Nadal began his season-ending effort arriving in Beijing today for the China Open.
Boy, it's like deja vu: Rafa, Beijing, striped polo. But at least this time he's smiling. Last year, not so much.
More images of his arrival along with Tommy Robredo + Ivo Karlovic here.
(Photo: chinaopen.com.cn)
Friday, October 2, 2009
SIGHTING: Rafa arrives, smile in tow
Labels: Beijing, Rafael Nadal, tennis
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- AnonymousOctober 2, 2009 at 2:02 PM
what a cutie...as always. not sure that top suits him...a bit too brown and boringReplyDelete
And when his home country lost their Olympic bid, too. But he's already encouraging them to try again for 2020!ReplyDelete
I know - Hugo Boss? Really? The Nike one actually looked and fit better on him.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2009 at 3:19 PM
He's sooo sweet! Can I take you home, Rafito? Good luck to Beijing, win the tournie!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2009 at 4:57 PM
He looks emaciated.And the shirt.Big YAWN!ReplyDelete
I actually quite like the top, especially because it is a bit big at the bottom so that I could easily sneak my hands underneath and...mmm. ;)ReplyDelete
Love Rafa forever. Please don't go proposin' to Xisca...ReplyDelete
Rafa looks absolutely adorable in those pics! I swear, you would've never guessed he just had a 13-21 hour flight! Drop.Dead.Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I flove the shirt on him and I flove the hair. He is such a natural. You'd think that was a photo shoot and he was modeling!
I also love his luggage. The camoflouge print..he's such a BOY! No LV for him unlike Hairdasco.
Vamos Rafa! Gulluck in Beijing! You can do it! <3
Freaking adorable.
"Hairdasco", LMAO Mim! :DReplyDelete
I doubt we'll ever see Rafa with LV bags. Thank God.
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM
He does look cute but I hate his hair!ReplyDelete
"He does look cute but I hate his hair!"ReplyDelete
*gasp!* HOW can you *gulps* HATE....his hair? Surely your not talking about Rafa and your referring to Hairdasco's hair?
HOW, I repeat, HOW can you hate this?! O_O
And this:
And this:
And this:
And this *bonus Rafadorable expression included*:
THIS is the expression I am giving you right now:
The list could go on really...
Anonymous, you are one tough cookie...just...HOW? I forgive you...HOW?


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Aggressor nation
Tehran's combativeness toward Israel and the West, and its aggression against its own people on the street, have been well-advertised. Less noted is increasing aggression against its neighbors.
On Dec. 18 Iranian troops crossed the border into Iraq, took control of well Number 4 in the al-Fauqa oilfield near its southern border, and raised an Iranian flag. Iraqi authorities sent troops to within a half mile of Iranian forces. Iraqi Gen. Zaser Nazmi claimed that Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well and dug trenches, but later withdrew after several hours' standoff. A U.S. military spokesman confirmed that the incident took place in what is historically a disputed border area, and he told Agence France-Presse that "there has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran." Oilfields in the area have an estimated 2.5 billion barrels of reserves, according to Stratfor.
There have been other incursions. Iran is reportedly supporting Shiite rebels in Yemen by shipping weapons via Eritrea and Hezbollah. Those rebel fighters are staging increasing incursions into Saudi Arabia-so much so that in December the Saudi defense ministry requested, and the U.S. supplied, $177 million in new missiles, armor, night-vision systems, and spare parts. This is in addition to enduring Iranian support for Hezbollah's terror campaign against Lebanon and Israel.
These, taken against the backdrop of brutality in the streets of Tehran, where at least a dozen died on Dec. 27-may appear to be feints rather than headblows. But consider: 2010 marks a sober landmark when experts have long predicted that beginning between now and 2015 Iran will acquire a nuclear weapon. Short of sanctions, which the Obama administration may reluctantly consider, or other intervention, Iran faces only technical hurdles on the way to that goal. And its growing aggressiveness suggests it isn't likely to hesitate to exploit the ultimate weapon to its advantage. - by Mindy Belz
Record movie-going
Director James Cameron has done it again. Following his record-grossing Titanic in 1997, his newest film, Avatar, propelled U.S. box-office sales to their biggest take for a single weekend in Hollywood history. The $400 million sci-fi film, a decade in the making, opened a week before Christmas and garnered $75 million over the holiday weekend, leading sales that totaled a record $278 million. Other new releases contributed to the largest weekend of movie revenue and proved that a blizzard up the Eastern seaboard wasn't enough to keep people at home.
Safer America
National crime rates for the first half of 2009 dropped to the lowest in four decades, according to the FBI. And the national murder rate dropped 10 percent, despite high unemployment and a bad economy. Car thefts have dropped 19 percent, while violent and property crime fell by lower rates. New York City's crime rates dropped to the lowest since record keeping began in 1963, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg attributed to the "broken window" approach where law enforcement is aggressive in addressing minor offenses. According to the FBI, New York is now the safest major city in America. Meanwhile the homicide rate in both Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles fell by about 20 percent.
Out with the old
WORLD asked key culture mappers, "What are you looking for in the new year?"
"Getting more congressmen and senators elected who get it." -Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
"Respect for conscience . . . the inner voice that insists we do good and avoid evil, and that, when properly educated, referees which is which. Respect for conscientious objectors to government mandates, whether they concern abortion, same-sex marriage, or something else, is under assault as never before." -Kevin J. "Seamus" Hasson, president of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
"There's no more important work we can do here than to show Americans what the Democrat plan for healthcare would mean for them. . . . We need to stop this bill and start over with the kind of step-by-step reforms Americans really want." -Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
"My prediction is that Christians in Pakistan will experience worsening religious based violence . . . China will continue to resist and even increase its resistance to U.S. influence on religious freedom and human rights issues. If the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-il, dies, his fourth son who is currently favored to succeed him may be more brutal to keep control in the country." -Ann Buwalda, director of Jubilee Campaign
"2010 will be another key year for marriage, look for political movement in Iowa and especially New Hampshire. . . . Gay marriage advocates believe they have blocked the people of D.C. from using the initiative and referendum process. . . . It will take a court fight to give the people of D.C. the right to vote guaranteed by their charter, but I predict it will happen. Nationally, the big question is: Will President Obama try to deliver on his promise to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act?" -Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage
Out of a 1984 UN population conference in Mexico City grew a U.S. policy limiting the work of abortion advocates that receive federal funds. That policy ended with the start of the Obama administration, but a new "Mexico City policy" may be taking its place. One year after Mexico's Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City law allowing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy-a decision abortion advocates expected to bring greater access to abortion across Mexico-the opposite has happened. In 17 states, pro-life groups have won changes to local constitutions declaring that life begins at conception and explicitly granting legal rights to the unborn. When Veracruz last month became the most recent state to do so, it also called on the Mexican Congress to consider a similar amendment to the national constitution.
Healthcare recap
'Twas the morning before Christmas, at 7 a.m., when U.S. senators began their 25th day of debate on healthcare overhaul. In the first Christmas Eve vote in nearly 115 years, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accidentally voted against the very bill he'd been driving through the Senate. Reid quickly changed his "nay" to "aye." Other confused Democrats headed home for the holidays with their stockings sufficiently stuffed in exchange for their votes: Senators from 11 states got billion-dollar goodies for also voting "aye." The Senate and the House next meet to iron out significant differences in their two versions. The government-run insurance option (House-approved, Senate-rejected) is likely on its way out. But the abortion issue remains unsettled: Pro-life House Democrats succeeded in inserting tough abortion restrictions while pro-abortion Senate Democrats engineered a compromise that, despite support from Catholic hospitals, still leaves the door open for taxpayer-funded abortions and fails to protect medical professionals who refuse to perform certain procedures on moral grounds.
North Korea
Korean-American Robert Park's disappearance in North Korea on Christmas Day is just the first part of a new campaign aimed at drawing attention to conditions in the closed communist nation, according to activist leader Norbert Vollertsen. "Flooding North Korea with more human right activists coming from China, crossing the DMZ at the inner Korean border, hunger strikes in front of every NK mission worldwide" are some of the follow-up efforts Vollertsen mentioned in a Dec. 29 email. Park, 28 and a Tucson resident, crossed a poorly guarded stretch of the frozen Tumen River that separates the North from China around 5 a.m. on Dec. 25, according to a member of the Seoul-based group Pax Koreana. "I am an American citizen. I brought God's love. God loves you and God bless you," Park reportedly said in Korean as he crossed over the border near the northeastern city of Hoeryong, according to onlookers who watched his crossing and filmed it. "We Refuse to Allow the North Korean Holocaust to Continue Any Longer," he wrote to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and other world leaders in a letter distributed to media outlets (including WORLD) prior to his disappearance. No information emerged in the days following the crossing. North Korea's state-run media was silent, and the U.S. State Department said it was aware of the incident but had no details.
Changing sides isn't easy
Just before Christmas, Blue Dog Democrat Parker Griffith announced he was switching parties to join U.S. House Republicans. The pro-life congressman said he wanted to be in a party that is "more in tune with my beliefs and convictions." Sen. John McCain won 61 percent of votes in the Alabama district in the 2008 presidential campaign, so Griffith should have a good chance of reelection as a Republican. But as 2009 came to a close, contenders from his new party began lining up and lobbing tomatoes. Republican challenger Les Phillips released mailers attacking Griffith's donations to Howard Dean and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Another Republican, Mo Brooks, plans to challenge Griffith as well. While Republicans try not to cannibalize each other, Democrats are still casting about for a strong candidate after the state agriculture commissioner Ron Sparks, who is running for governor, declined to enter the race.
Walk out
Sudan's two main political parties averted a crisis on Christmas Eve, saying that parliament would review a hastily passed law that favored the North and drew international criticism. Officials in the country's Northern-based National Congress Party in mid-December passed a referendum on the South's 2011 vote on independence. The problem: Southern officials had just walked out of the meeting in protest of the referendum's provisions.
After harsh criticism from U.S. officials, Sudanese officials announced the parliament would revisit the law, with both parties present. But the country's peace remains fragile three months ahead of nationwide elections that could affect the stability of the entire region (see "Countries to watch," Jan. 16, 2009).
Follow that star
They call its star GJ 1214. Astronomers who say they discovered the planet last month call it the closest planet to Earth ever discovered-outside our solar system. "This probably is not habitable, but it didn't miss the habitable zone by that much," said David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the team that discovered the new planet and reported its findings in the journal Nature.
Approximately three times the size of Earth and 6.6 times as massive, the new planet takes 38 hours to circle a dim red star, GJ 1214, in the constellation Ophiuchus-about 40 light years from Earth.
In the 15 years since the first extrasolar planet was found, more than 400 have been detected. Planet-hunting instruments like NASA's Kepler satellite are making the search more productive, with another batch of planet discoveries expected later this month.
Play it again
Last year's Hope Award for Effective Compassion contest was such a big hit that we plan to do it again, with readers again nominating worthy organizations.
The goal is the same: To learn about and honor remarkable expressions of Christian compassion in the U.S. Among last year's finalists were groups that minister to prisoners, to orphans, to parents of disabled children, to women leaving the sex trade, to the ill who don't have health insurance, and more.
The procedure is the same: Email the name of the organization you wish to nominate (one per person) to WORLD executive assistant June McGraw (firstname.lastname@example.com) or write to her at WORLD, P.O. Box 20002, Asheville, NC 28802-9998. Please include the director's name and the organization's phone number, address, and web address. Deadline: Jan. 31.
Organizations nominated should be explicitly Christian, with ample use of volunteers and a track record of creating bonds between helpers and helped. What they're doing in one place should be doable by others elsewhere. Our staff will take your recommendations and investigate further.
Here's a change from last year: We will have one winner and two other finalists in each of four regions-Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. The American Bible Society, co-sponsor of this contest, will give $5,000 to each regional winner and $5,000 more to a national winner, but we also plan to publish feature stories on all finalists. Such coverage spotlights their work and suggests to others the opportunity to go and do likewise.
We plan to run stories about regional winners and finalists in April, May, June, and July. In August we plan to take a look at compassion abroad, and then report our national winner in September. Those who nominate winners will receive a one-year WORLD subscription or extension. - by Marvin Olasky


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Natomas man suspected of killing son, 9, in hatchet attack | Crime
NATOMAS, Calif. - Sacramento police detectives are investigating the grisly death of a 9-year-old boy in his south Natomas home Tuesday night.
The Sacramento Police Department received two emergency calls from a residence on the 2200 block of Atrisco Circle at 11:52 p.m.
According to police reports, officers arrived at the scene and found the lifeless boy inside the home, suffering from blunt force trauma to his head.
Officers established a large perimeter around the residence while speaking with relatives at the scene. Within 15 minutes, the victim's father, 36-year-old Phillip Hernandez, was located walking in a nearby neighborhood and arrested.
Sacramento police Officer Michele Gigante said the ensuing investigation revealed Hernandez had gone into the backyard of his home, grabbed a hatchet, broken through the sliding glass door and found his son asleep on the couch. An adult relative heard the glass break and went into the living room to find Hernandez standing over the boy with a hatchet in hand. The relative attempted to stop Hernandez, but was pushed aside and witnessed the brutal attack on 9-year-old Matthew Hernandez.
Officers found the hatchet at the scene.
According to Gigante, Hernandez also had a 12-year-old son at the residence, but that child was uninjured.
The victim's mother was out of state and arrived back in Sacramento Wednesday.
Police are still working to determine a motive for the attack, said Gigante. Child Protective Services was also involved in the investigation.
Hernandez had convictions for corporal injury, domestic abuse and felony attempted kidnapping and served prison time.
Wife Jessica Hernandez filed for divorce from Hernandez in 2004 and Yolo County issued a 3-year restraining order against the suspect to protect Jessica Hernandez in 2005.
Court documents also show the boys have been living with their father since 2009 after their mother willingly gave up custody. But other documents show Jessica Sanchez wrote in 2008 "He (Phillip) is a dangerous man and I am terrified to leave my sons in his care."
Later, in 2009, Phillip Hernandez accused his ex-wife of being "unstable in all areas of her life . . . And due to the fact she is a stripper, she has been known to leave the boys days sometimes weeks at a time."
Last fall, Jessica Hernandez tried to get her sons back. She asked the court to allow the boys to live with her in Las Vegas. The documents read, "there is nothing personal towards their father. I am now in much better position both financially and quality of life in general and am certain I could provide for them better for the time being."
The judge denied her request and gave Phillip Hernandez primary custody in November. The judge was expected to review the custody order again in July.
A relative said the two boys in the home were also in the custody of the great-grandmother.
Family members gathered at the home on Atrisco Circle Wednesday afternoon to help make repairs to the damage in the back of the home where the sliding glass door was broken.
Phillip Hernandez's stepfather, Richard Luna spoke to News 10 about his grandson, Matthew.
"He was just the fun-loving kid. When he would come home from school over at Grandpa's house, at my house, he would climb the tree, and I would tell him, Matthew get down from that tree. You're gonna hurt yourself. You're gonna fall and break your leg, but every day after school, he would pull that bench over to the tree or the garbage can up to the tree and climb that tree every day," Luna said.
Asked about his stepson, Luna said he never saw Phillip Hernandez even spank his children or do anything that could have foreshadowed an attack.
"We all go through situations in our life where we struggle in one area or another, and Phillip was just going on some hard times at this moment, and I don't know what triggered it or what caused it, but obviously something happened, and he wasn't able to control."
The Natomas Unified School District issued the following statement Tuesday:
We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of one of our students (in 4th grade). Our hearts go out to the family and friends. Additional counselors, psychologists, District Office leaders and Police chaplains are available to help staff, parents, and students process the loss of this student. Additionally, the school is calling the parents/guardians of each of the student's classmates to make sure parents are aware and have access to support services.


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When You're Hungry in Hungary
Arguably the most famous restaurant in all of Hungary, Gundel-located near Heroes Square and the Budapest Zoo in the center of the city-has been wowing visitors and locals for generations. It serves stunning, mostly traditional Hungarian dishes in an elegant and charming Old World atmosphere.
Established in 1894, Gundel has a reputation as the place for visiting monarchs, politicians, pop stars and tycoons. Its interior dark woods, spectacular china and highly professional waiters are classic-you could be dining with panache in the 1890s, 1920s or 1960s.
Perennial favorites include the prototypical gulyas (gulash) soup and delicate whole-baked baby balotoni fogash (pike-perch) with lemon-butter sauce, potato with parsley and braised vegetables. Gundel's amazing array of goose liver pâtés-another Hungarian delicacy-should not be missed. Though artery clogging, the Goose Liver Trio-consisting of truffle-scented goose liver pâté, Gundel's goose liver torte and smoked goose liver-is a rare treat.
The restaurant's palacsinta's (dessert crepes) are exquisite. Try the Gundel Palascinta, a Hungarian staple featuring a succulent walnut filling in a sinful chocolate sauce.
Visitors to Gundel will waddle away impressed and sated, with timeless, sweet Hungarian paprika-flavored memories.-Bob Ecker
Gundel Restaurant, Állatkerti út 2, District 14, Budapest, Hungary, +36 (1) 468-4040, www.gundel.hu.
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It's sad that dreadful little weasels like this man seem to be the ones who succeed in DC nowadays.
Really Funny!!
I hope it is being passed around all the DOJ computers.
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I would disagree. A brand new Yamaha V star 950 cc on sale for 7000.00, is just a tad more than the UCE. A lot more power, reliability and good styling. Sure they dont look retro. Besides, the UCE is available for almost half the price in India, which makes it overpriced, under reliable , but good looking bike.
My bike is utterly reliable, and if I need to explain the riding experience you'll never understand.
What do you ride?
Yes on sale it's that price..what does it normally list for? I found a price of 8100-8300 hundred on it. Kind of an unfair comparison. You could throw lots of machines into that price range. But at list you'd have to use the 650 Yamaha. A lot of this bikes allure is it's history. If you want Japanese/European reliability you have to go that way. I have a rock solid '81 Honda Silverwing with 45000 plus miles on it. Love the bike but it's still a plastic laden, uninspired model, cookie cutter from Honda. And every manufacturer has it's growing pains..ever hear the saying never buy ANYTHING the first year it's produced? I say give Enfield the time to work out the bugs on the Uce. Have to admit they did the right thing when the transmission had a problem..didn't wait to be forced into a recall. They just did it..no media hype..no delays.I know Yamaha was having valve train problems a few years back, can't say they were quite as responsive as Enfield. Vmax owners were not happy. Guess it's all in what you want out of life. I know the limitations of all the ponies in my corral..from the Sachs Moped to my 1500CC Drifter. I still prefer the relative simplicity of the Enfield. Will it ever be a Honda Silverwing?..No. Is that what I wanted?..No. Will.
Forget what the head says sometimes..use your Zen here. Karma man, karma. I can't wait to have the funds set aside for a G5 military. Does trrue passion make sense? In any situation you can think of 100 negatives to 1 positive, go with that the rest is a non-issue. Will.
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Bull Durham
A League of Their Own
Best In Show
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White Men Can't Jump
The Sandlot
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Teen Wolf
Happy Gilmore
Tin Cup
Talladega Nights
Necessary Roughness
The Longest Yard
Kicking and Screaming
Since its a slow news day for ISU sports (while we're waiting for recruit info to roll in), I thought it might be fun to start a thread asking everyone what you think the funniest sports movie ever is. I tried to think of all of the funny sports movies I could I can add to the list if anyone can think of anything that deserves a spot in the polls. I was going to do this as a blog, but you cant put polls there hope its okay w/everyone to put it here in Off-Topic.
The Candidates:
Bull Durham Despite the fact that Kevin Costner kinda sucks these days, a wonderful film. Pretty common consensus as one of the top 5 best sports movies, but is it your pick for funniest?
Caddyshack Chevy Chase. Rodney Dangerfield. Bill Murray. Bill Murrays brother (who is in all of Bills movies). Classic lines, and a sweet Kenny Loggins soundtrack.
A League of Their Own A personal favorite, and baseball is even my least favorite sport of the big three! Avoid the clap, Jimmy Dugan Tom Hanks is just awesome in this. When he throws the baseball glove at Stillwells face, I laugh every single time. Even Rosie ODonnell cant screw this up.
Best In Show Yeah, its about dog shows. I personally dont consider that a sport, but a lot of people (including the programmers at ESPN once upon a time) apparently do. Whether its a sport or not, it is hilarious. Makes every dog owner out there feel 1000x more normal.
Bad News Bears Im going to qualify this and specify that I mean the Walter Matthau version here. You know, the funny one. And just the first one not the one where they go to Japan, or any of that. Why is it so entertaining to watch little kids swear? Maybe Im not meant to be a parent
Jerry Maguire Maybe not technically about sports so much as a sports agent, but has some awesome cameos. I cant think of another movie that has more sports star cameos in it. One of Tom Cruises finer performances back from when he wasnt crazy.
Slap Shot Ive personally never seen this one, but can only imagine that hearing Paul Newman drop f-bombs and beat people up has to be good watching.
White Men Cant Jump I dont know how many times Ive watched this film. I think I can now name all foods that start with the letter q. The trash talk in this movie is priceless I watched it with my grandmother once, though, which made the profanity usage count a little awkward
The Sandlot How can you not love this movie?? Its so cute!! Best exchange:
Phillips: Tomorrow, noon, at our field. Be there, buffalo-butt breath.
Ham: Count on it, pee-drinking cr**-face!
Major League Wild Thing! There are way too many funny scenes. Bob Uecker is just hilarious, and there are so many great lines (Hows your wife and my kids?). May not have won any Oscars, but too funny.
Teen Wolf I am putting this on here to amuse myself. However who didnt want to pull a Styles on the top of a friends van?
BaseKetball This one may compete with Jerry Maguire for cameos. It really is in a league of its own (not the Madonna kind). Final sequence is perfect.
Happy Gilmore The only movie where you can witness Bob Barker beating the cr** out of someone. The price is wrong, b****. Absolutely beautiful.
(Dis)Honorable Mentions: Space Jam, Slam Dunk Ernest, Air Bud, Mighty Ducks, Ladybugs
Originally Posted by Firefighter4Cy
I got 99 problems but angie isn't one.
No doubt this vote should only come down to Major League, Slapshot, and Caddyshack!!! I can't choose.
Harry: "Monte, anything to add?"
Monte: "Uh, no."
Harry: "He's not the best colorman in the league for nothing."
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BaseKetBall is one of my favorite movies.........
Everyone knows Shaq made all of his money in college
[to a dying boy]
What is your last wish?
A date with Chelsea Clinton?
uh, you would have a better shot with Bill.......
How about hunting endangered animals?
You really aren't getting the point here are you?
Last edited by Cybone; 01-15-2007 at 04:32 PM.
What about Tin Cup??
Originally Posted by Cybone
BaseKetBall is one of my favorite movies.........
Everyone knows Shaq made all of his money in college
Interesting. I thought Shaq made his money from starring in the movie Kazam.
--Luck of the Cyrish--
Originally Posted by borc4cy
What about Tin Cup??
I'll add it!! Totally forgot it!
Madona and Rosie = Horrible.
If that movie did not have Tom Hanks and Jon Lovite it would be the worst movie ever made. Right up there with Gigli
Originally Posted by Knownothing
Madona and Rosie = Horrible.
If that movie did not have Tom Hanks and Jon Lovite it would be the worst movie ever made. Right up there with Gigli
I have to admit that I just fast-forward through anything that doesn't have those two in it. I'm not a fan of most of the women (Geena Davis has kind of a horse-face, at the risk of sounding awful). I do like that a young Tea Leone (sp?) is in it.
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So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Originally Posted by Angie
(Dis)Honorable Mentions: Space Jam, Slam Dunk Ernest, Air Bud, Mighty Ducks, Ladybugs
SIDENOTE: The Space Jam Soundtrack was the FIRST CD I ever had.....
Originally Posted by MidwestZest
SIDENOTE: The Space Jam Soundtrack was the FIRST CD I ever had.....
I really feel a little bad putting it as a "(Dis)Honorable Mention" - I honestly have never seen the movie. Nor Air Bud.
Janice: I hear baseball players make awfully good salaries nowadays.
Jake Taylor: Well it all depends on how good you are.
Janice: How good are you?
Jake Taylor: I make the league minimum.
Well, when I was in 5th grade and still infatuated with Michael Jordan, and still young enough for cute cartoons, it was the bomb.
Some of the songs that made me cooler because they were on the soundtrack that i had:
Space Jam (obvioiusly)
I believe I can fly
Fly like an Eagle
Basketball Jones
Grandma: Sir, can I trouble you for a warm glass of milk? It helps me go to sleep.
Nursing Home Orderly: You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name tag. You're in my world now, grandma.
I would rank my favorites from this list:
Slap Shot
Happy Gilmore
White Men Can't Jump
Teen Wolf (come on, even the stuff they didn't mean to be funny is hilarious)
Major League
The Sandlot
You can't really go wrong with any of those.
I liked Best in Show but I wouldn't consider it a sports movie.
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"'One Long Frightening Climax': Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and Lacan's The Other Side of Psychoanalysis." E-rea 2014 (Special Issue: "Reading English/Language Arts and Literature with the Later Lacan"). http://erea.revues.org/?lang=en. Web.
"'Shame, thas a shame': The Anti-Sentiment of Sapphire's Push and The Kid." The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film, and Television. Ed. Jennifer A. Williamson, Jennifer Larson and Ashley Reed. New York: McFarland, 2014. 134-50. Print.
"'Nothing Hangs Together,' or Using American Pastoral to Teach Literary Theory." Cercles 33 (Spring 2014): 145-63. (Special Issue: "Philip Roth, American Pastoral"). http://www.cercles.com/somma.htm. Web.
"Split Skin: Adolescent Cutters and the Other." Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis. Eds. Sheila Cavanagh, Angela Failler, and Rachel Hurst. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 188-214. Print.
"'A Transference of the Most Fortuitous Kind': Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and the Freudian Transference." Psychoanalysis in Context. Ed. Alvin Henry. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013. 203-24. Print.
"'Every Word She Spoke Was a Bomb': Merry Levov's Anamorphotic Stutter." New Readings of Philip Roth's American Pastoral. Ed. Velichka Ivanova. Toulouse, France: Presses Universitaires du Mirail (PUM), 2011. 127-36. Print.
"Nip/Tuck and the Literal Unconscious." Nip/Tuck: Television that Gets Under Your Skin. Eds. Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy. New York and London: IB Tauris Books, 2011. 37-65. Print.
"Fate, Commodification, and Identity in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace." General Themes inLiterature. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple. Vol. 1. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2011. 408-11. Print.
"Illness, Love, and Alienation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night." General Themes in Literature. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple. Vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2011. 442-5. Print.
"Künstlerroman Revised: Doubleness and Catharsis in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark." Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark. Eds. Debra Cumberland and Michael J. Meyer. New York: Rodopi Press, 2010. 39-65. Print.
"Female (Mis) Identifications: From Uncle Tom's Cabin's Jealousy to Beloved's Shame." Women Writers January 2010 (Themed Scholarly Issue: "Psychoanalysis and La Femme"): n. page. http://www.womenwriters.net. Web.
"Stowe's Suspicious Sentimentalism: Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin in the 21st Century." Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 4.3 (Spring 2011): 12-28. http://cpcc.edu/taltp. Web.
"Teaching Fun Home as Narrative of Trauma in the English Classroom: Psychoanalysis in Fun Home and Are You My Mother?" Approaches to Teaching Bechdel's Fun Home. Ed. Judith Gardiner. MLA Press. Print.
"The End of Alice, Not the End of the Oedipus Complex." We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family, and Popular Culture. Eds. Roberta Garrett, Tracey Jensen, and Angie Voela. Print.
Selected Conference Presentations:
"Truth-Telling: Exposing Transgenerational Trauma and Native American Loss in August: Osage County," American Comparative Literature Association, Annual Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2016.
"'Is Freud still part of the Program?': Post-Oedipal Family Dynamics in The End of Alice," Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Annual Conference: "Border Tensions," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 2015.
"'One Long Frightening Climax': Gone Girl and the Psychoanalytic Act, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Annual Conference: "Activism," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 2014.
The Universal Humanity of Louise Erdrich, Panel Organizer. Humanities Conference: "Humanities 2.0," Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, February 2014.
"'Shame, thas a shame': The Anti-Sentiment of Sapphire's Push and The Kid," Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Annual Conference: "Change," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 2013.
"Mentoring Marisol: Composition Pedagogy and the Gateway to Professional Identity," SUNY Council on Writing, Annual Conference: "Building Cultures of Writing for Tomorrow," Buffalo, NY, March 2013.
"Split Skin: Adolescent Cutters and the Other," The Psychoanalysis Reading Group, Cornell University, Annual Conference: "What Can a Body Do? Psychoanalysis and the Logic of the Symptom," Cornell, NY, April 2012.
"'This Ain't Real Estate': The Commodification of Tradition in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace,"College English Association, Annual National Conference: "Fortunes," St. Petersburg, FL, April 2011.
"Taming Timed Writing through Composition and Teacher Education," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Annual National Conference: "The Remix," Louisville, KY, March 2010.
"Smashed in Freshman Composition: Students Enjoying Reading," National Council of Teachers of English, Annual National Conference: "Once and Future Classics: Reading Between the Lines," Philadelphia, PA, November 2009.
"'They Tell a Story': Cutting and Linguistic Representation," English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Annual State Conference: "Making Our World: Language, Literacy, and Culture," Shippensburg, PA, October 2009.
"Themed Sections of Freshman Composition: A Pedagogical Approach," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Annual National Conference: "Making Waves," San Francisco, CA, March 2009.
"Decoding without Translating: Notes from a Student Teacher Supervisor and College Professor on the Decline of Traditional Texts," Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, Annual State Conference: "Just Teaching Them to Read and Write: Trusted Approaches and Innovative Strategies for 21st Century Literacies," Lancaster, PA, October 2008.
"Double Encryptment: Impossible Mourning and Faulkner's Southern Mothers," Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Annual Conference: "Psychoanalysis and Democracy," Columbia University, New York City, October 2004.
"Female (Mis) Identifications: From Uncle Tom's Cabin's Masochism to Beloved's Shame," Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Annual Conference: "Emotions," University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 2002.
Courses Taught:
Practicum in Teaching (ENG-599)
Seminar in Teaching English/Lang. Arts (ENG-525)
Seminar in Composition and Rhetoric (ENG-512)
Student Teaching (EDU-495)
Seminar in Literary Theory: Psychoanalysis (ENG-466)
Seminar in Major Author: Louise Erdrich (ENG-464)
Teaching English in Secondary Schools I (EDU-421)
Teaching English in Secondary Schools II (EDU-422)
Studies in 20th Century American Literature (ENG-383)
Studies in 19th Century American Literature (ENG-381)
Ethnic Literature in America (LIT-360)
Research & Report Writing (WRT-350)
Reading & Writing about Trauma in the English Classroom (ENG-336)
Literary Criticism: Psychoanalysis, Desire, and Contemporary Literature (ENG-304)
Introduction to English/Language Arts Education (EDU-290)
American Short Fiction (ENG-251)
Introduction to Short Fiction (ENG-251)
Introduction to Literature (ENG-250)
American Literature II: (1865-1945) (ENG-234)
American Literature I: (1650-1865) (ENG-233)
Advanced Writing 1 (ENG-201)
Analytical Writing (WRT-200)
Literary Studies II (ENG-111)
Writing-Intensive First-Year Seminar (ENG-106)
Writing 2 (ENG-102)
Writing 1 (ENG-101)
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Increasingly, art is becoming either so esoteric as to be irrelevant or so commercial as to be reduced to a consumer commodity. But we can recover the foundation for true aesthetics
"STEALING BEAUTY" Continued...
Christians, it is often said, are not interested in the arts. The same can be said of most ordinary Americans, who want to leave that sort of thing to the elite culture, to the upper-class patrons of the galleries and museums. But even those who profess no interest in the arts watch TV, go to the movies, listen to music, go shopping, and live in a cultural environment saturated with design and aesthetics.
Artists are the makers of culture. They express their worldviews in ways that shape the worldviews of others. Because they specialize in making their expressions appealing, their visions and values are uniquely persuasive to others. Their works are artifacts that embody the ideas, the emotions, and the philosophies of their time.
In our postmodern times, aesthetics has, in many circles, taken the place of knowledge and morality. Questions of truth are resolved according to what people "like." Moral issues are considered simply a matter of personal "taste." These are aesthetic categories, which people now use to determine the most important dimensions of their lives.
Aesthetics drives contemporary popular culture. Entertainment has become the ultimate value, not only in Hollywood but in education and even religion. People define themselves according to the music they listen to and the aesthetically packaged products they buy.
But while aesthetics are very powerful today in influencing the way people think and-what has become almost the same thing-what they buy, creating objects that are beautiful and meaningful in themselves seems out of place. The arts, in fact, are in a state of crisis, as the rejection of absolutes undermines their own nature and value.
There was a time when the arts supported culture, bringing values and meaning to bear on everyday life, and, while this can still be found, the arts today often are instead subversive of cultural values-and, ultimately, subversive of themselves.
Art has increasingly become either so esoteric as to be irrelevant, or so commercial as to be reduced to a consumer commodity. Both extremes devalue art, making it lose its potential to exalt and edify and enrich. When beauty is cut off from the true and the good, to the point of trying to take their place, beauty itself suffers, and truth and goodness are diminished.
Christians used to be the leaders in aesthetic pursuits, and the Bible gives a foundation for the arts that affirms their value, while preventing them from distortion. Putting the culture back together must involve reclaiming and restoring the arts.
Something for nothing
The Turner Prize, given in England each year, is one of the world's most prestigious awards for the very best in contemporary art. One year, the winning work of art consisted of the dead bodies of mutilated animals pickled in formaldehyde. Another year, the winner was the artist's unmade bed.
In 2001, the best contemporary work of art was deemed to be an empty room. Viewers of the work by Martin Creed titled "Lights Going On and Off" went into a gallery and there was nothing there. The lights would occasionally go on and off. That was the work of art.
Presumably an art consisting of nothing would be the low point of contemporary art, either its end or a turning point to something more. The most recent candidates for the Turner Prize were a step up from nothing. In 2002 the winner was an artist whose works included lead castings of the items on a Kentucky Fried Chicken menu.
Those on the short list for the 2003 prize, which comes with $36,000 cash, included Anya Gallaccio, who makes works of art out of rotten fruit. Another was Willie Doherty, who showed a video of someone running without being able to get anywhere. Another finalist was the work of brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, whose works included "Sex," which was a sculpture of dead bodies being eaten by maggots, and "Death," a bronze of blow-up sex dolls engaged in a sex act.
The winner of the 2003 Turner Prize was Grayson Perry, who makes traditional-looking pottery pieces on which are illustrated what he calls inversions of a happy childhood-whimsical cartoons showing child abuse and dead babies. Mr. Perry is also a transvestite with a wife and daughter who exhibits his dresses.
The Turner Prize shows that we have come a long way from Giotto, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh. The issue is not just a move away from realistic, mimetic art. There is even a decline away from the highly formalistic aesthetic standards of the abstract art of the early 20th century.
The main reason for the change in art was a shift in worldview. The slide away from the Christian faith and biblical assumptions about life meant a draining of meaning and beauty from the world. Those who believe that there is no objective meaning in life and that there are no objective values can hardly be expected to create works that have objective meaning and objective value.
And as other ideologies have rushed into the cultural vacuum left by Christianity, those ideologies are expressed in the arts. For example, many of today's artists of the high culture have given up on the concept of "beauty," which, according to the current ideologies, is either an imposition of oppressive power or an arbitrary personal construction. Instead, they are concentrating on "transgressive" art, work purposefully designed to shock and outrage.
Some postmodern artists have embraced the pop culture, with its mass production, its purposeful shallowness, and its money-grubbing. With the loss of beauty, coarser pleasures, such as pornography and sensationalism, take its place. Others embrace the hope of radical politics, whether that of feminism or gay rights or environmentalism, turning their art into in-your-face propaganda.
We live in an age that claims "there are no absolutes." The classic absolutes, according to the old thinkers, are truth, goodness, and beauty. For people today, truth is relative; goodness is relative; and beauty is relative. They are all connected, and they have all been dragging each other down. The lack of belief fuels moral relativism, and beauty is distorted to serve what is false and what is bad.
In contrast to secular nihilists, Christians have a basis for art, beauty, and aesthetics, one which has inspired the arts for centuries. They also have a rich heritage of artistic expression, extending back from the modernist Rouault, a devout believer known for his brightly colored expressionistic religious works, through the innovative Van Gogh and Turner, through the Dutch Masters, and every major movement in the Reformation, Renaissance, and Middle Ages, on back through the Byzantines and the tiles on the catacombs.
But today's Christians often remain impoverished when it comes to the arts, buying into the same hedonism, commercialism, and subjectivism of their nonbelieving neighbors.
Christians are in a position, though, to recover the arts. This is important because the arts are valuable in themselves, as gifts of God, and because the arts are a powerful means of shaping the culture and influencing the human heart. At a time when current ideologies are undermining what is most valuable in the arts, the Bible can restore them.
What would Bezalel do?
The Bible has much to say about the arts. A good part of the Old Testament is taken up with God's detailed commands for human beings to make things, specifically, the designs for the Tabernacle, the Temple, and their furnishings and decorations.
The most direct and explicit biblical passage about the arts has to do with the calling and the equipping of Bezalel, the artist in charge of making the Tabernacle:
Then Moses said to the people of Israel, "See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.
"And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver-by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
"Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded." And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work (Exodus 35:30-36:2).
This is the first text of Scripture that directly teaches the doctrine of vocation: Bezalel has been "called by name." Bezalel, also the first to be described as having been filled with the Holy Spirit, is given a task by God, who has called him not into some prophetic office, but to work with his hands, to serve God and his neighbors by being an artist.
Those to whom God has given a calling, He also equips, by giving people distinct talents, interests, and abilities. Thus, God has given Bezalel specific gifts to enable him to do the work that God requires to make and to adorn the Tabernacle. These are the same gifts necessary for the making of every kind of art and are fundamental to every artist's vocation. "Skill" must refer to the artist's innate talent, described here as a gift of God. "Intelligence" underscores that a true artist not only works with his hands but with his mind, in contrast to current views that consider artistic inspiration to be nonrational or even anti-rational. "Knowledge" as a gift for the arts means that artists must know things, from the properties of their materials to the ideas that their art can convey. "Craftsmanship" refers to the artist's technique, the difference between a work of any kind being poorly executed or well-made.
These gifts with which God "filled" Bezalel are so comprehensive that they can almost be used as criteria for evaluating any work of art, which may exemplify or fall short in some measure when it comes to skill, intelligence, knowledge, or craftsmanship.
That these gifts are not limited to Bezalel only but describe more generally the abilities associated with the vocation of the artist is indicated in the same passage. They are also given to Oholiab, and both artists are given the further gift-actually, in a significant term for education, the inspiration-to teach. The implication is that others will find their own callings and their own gifts through the process of education. The passage explicitly says that the calling extended not only to Bezalel and Oholiab but to "every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill." Not only did the Lord's gifting extend to them all, but those who were called knew it by their own inclinations: "everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work."
The art of the Tabernacle and later the Temple entailed "every skilled craft," featuring textiles, castings, woodwork, sculpture. Some of the work was representational, with depictions of plants and animals; some was symbolic, as with the Ark of the Covenant. But the main purpose of the lavish and elaborate adornment of the place where God would meet His people seems to have been purely aesthetic. The garments of the priests were to be made "for glory and for beauty" (Exodus 28:2). The splendor of it all would glorify God and would offer a glimpse of the glory of the courts of heaven. As such, beauty is an end in itself.
But as Bezalel was receiving his commission on Mount Sinai, down below another artist was at work, using art not for glory and beauty but to construct a false god. Aaron's golden calf exemplifies the Bible's major theme of the misuse of art in idolatry.
The essence of idolatry is explained in Romans 1:25: "They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator." To worship an idol is to have as one's religion, to use postmodernist jargon, a "construction," whether of stone or of ideas, a humanly devised faith rather than the objectively true God who reveals Himself in His Word.
Idolatry is associated with paganism, of course, and also with greed (Colossians 3:5). Today, it has been observed that, for many people, art has taken the place of religion. Contemporary aestheticism looks to art as the source of meaning and values and transcendence, rather than to their own Creator.
The Ten Commandments contain an explicit prohibition against worshipping works of art: "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God" (Exodus 20:4-5).
What is forbidden here is idolatry. The prohibition against making "any likeness of anything" does not rule out every kind of representational art, since God's commands for the Tabernacle and the Temple include the depictions of pomegranates, palm trees, lions, and even cherubim. Still, the prohibition of "likenesses" has been taken very literally by the ancient Hebrews, by Muslims, and by many Christians. Even its most extreme application, however, does not forbid art; rather, it channels art in a particular direction, toward pure aesthetics.
For the Greeks and other ancient pagans, art was seen as "mimetic," an imitation of the external world. Art without likenesses, though, could instead be "creative."
The kind of art favored by the ancient Hebrews-as we see in their pottery and artifacts-could be described as abstract. Intersecting lines, geometric forms, swirling colors, and interlocking shapes depicted no "likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth." It was nonrepresentational, a rendition of pure form.
Art that is nonrepresentational includes also music-universally praised in the Scriptures-and what would later develop as fiction and fantasy.
What was problematic was art that pretended to be true when it was not, art that presented itself as a sacred object, conveying a meaning that brought people away from the true God into a domesticated, pleasurable, man-made kind of spirituality that was a counterfeit for the real thing. The artfulness of art, though-the product of skill, intelligence, knowledge, and craftsmanship that was for glory and beauty-was not problematic at all.
Nor was the problem in a particular work of art. One of the objets d'art cited in the Bible is the brazen serpent, an artifact made to communicate God's judgment against sin and to prophesy the cross of Jesus Christ (Numbers 21:4-9; John 12:31-32). When the children of Israel plagued by poisonous snakes looked to the brass snake lifted up by Moses, they were healed, a type of the Atonement, when Christ would be "lifted up," bearing in His body the sins of the world. Later, this great evangelistic work of art would be turned into an idol, its gospel-bearing meaning effaced by those who would superstitiously turn it into a cult object, and it would be destroyed in the reforms of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:1-4). The point is, the danger comes not from the art but how it is used.
But looking at art for its form and its beauty, rather than as a cult object, was made possible by the Bible. The early Christians rejected the religious content of Greek mythology and its mimetic artistic tradition, and what was left was aesthetics. According to historian Werner Jaeger, "It was the Christians who finally taught men to appraise poetry by a purely aesthetic standard-a standard which enabled them to reject most of the moral and religious teaching of the classical poets as false and ungodly, while accepting the formal elements in their work as instructive and aesthetically delightful."
The biblical heritage of the arts is, perhaps ironically, not one of preaching or moralizing, as is often thought both by the critics of Christianity and by many Christian artists. Although art can indeed preach and moralize-as with the brazen serpent-it does not have to and can become problematic when it does. Art, above all, is to be artful.
Far from mandating that all art must be religious art, the Bible tends to be suspicious of religious art. Art that is "secular" is almost safer. The Tabernacle and the Temple were adorned not with images of deities but with depictions of nature-pomegranates, palm trees, lions-not as beings to be worshipped as in the pagan temples, but as beings that have been created.
The Bible liberates art. It no longer has to be narrowly "religious," though it would be more accurate to say that ostensibly secular subject matter-portraits of individuals and families, natural landscapes, nonrepresentational abstractions-is actually religious after all, in that it all testifies to its Creator and Lord.
Creative stewardship
The conceptual framework for a biblical view of the arts and aesthetics is the doctrine of creation. God created the universe ex nihilo. He did not imitate preexisting ideal forms, as in the classical tradition, nor did He rearrange existing matter, as in the pagan creation myths. Rather, He created everything that exists. God, therefore, is the ultimate artist. The universe is God's work of art.
Not only the physical creation but its underlying laws and properties-including the aesthetic dimension of life and the human ability to perceive it-are the work of the Creator.
Human beings were created in His image, which means, among other things, that we too are creative. Adam was given dominion over what God had made, which includes the obligation to work in and with the created order. He was given the capacity to "name" what God has created (Genesis 2:19). Although the Fall ruined and corrupted human nature, traces of this creative stewardship remain. We make our living, according to the old theologians, by the interaction of "art" and "nature," applying the human "art" of farming to the natural order and thereby growing our bread. Every creative human activity, from shoemaking to medicine, is an "art" by which human beings make their living and serve one another in vocation.
Human beings can therefore be "subcreators," to use Tolkien's term. Our little creations are nothing next to God's, both in magnitude and in depending on what He has already made, but they testify to God's design and to the powers He has bestowed.
This biblical way of looking at art gives back what Scripture seems to have excluded: representational art. If the creation is God's art, painting what God has created becomes a way of honoring Him.
This is the way the Reformation, with its new biblicism, influenced the arts. Reacting against the practice in medieval Catholicism of using art to represent or even to embody spiritual beings, something that smacked of idolatry, the Reformers channeled art into another direction.
Luther insisted that art could indeed point to Christ and to the historical truths of the Bible, inspiring major artists such as Dürer and Cranach and having the Bible he translated illustrated with woodcuts. Calvin was more iconoclastic, but in a way that, ironically, would inspire the arts. "I am not gripped by the superstition of thinking absolutely no images permissible," he wrote, since irrational fear of art is as superstitious as irrational adoration. "But because sculpture and painting are gifts of God, I seek a pure and legitimate use of each." Teaching directly that art is a "gift of God," he then laid down a principle that would shape Protestant art for centuries: "Therefore it remains that only those things are to be sculpted or painted which the eyes are capable of seeing."
Instead of painting idealized representations of angels, saints, and God Himself, artists would focus on the visible realm: historical events, scenes from daily life, and natural landscapes.
Leo Jud, an even more radical iconoclast than Calvin, said that artists should not presume to paint images of God made by human hands. Rather, they should paint the images of God made by God Himself: that is, human beings. Thus began the tradition of portraiture that would culminate in Rembrandt, in whose art one can discern traces of the image of God in a human face.
The realism of the Dutch Reformed artists-in their portraits, landscapes, and still lifes-grew out of their particular biblical view of the arts and of God's creation.
In America, the Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards explored how nature was God's creation and thus, in some measure, God's self-expression. Earthly beauty, he showed, derives from the "beauty of holiness" (Psalm 29:2) and from the character of God Himself.
The 19th-century English critic John Ruskin, building on the notion that God is the source of every beauty and that "every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights" (James 1:17), developed a comprehensive biblical aesthetic that would prove enormously influential both for artists and for their audiences.
"It is necessary to the existence of an idea of beauty," he wrote, "that the sensual pleasure which may be its basis, should be accompanied first with joy, then with love of the object, then with the perception of kindness in a superior Intelligence, finally with thankfulness and veneration towards that Intelligence itself." The very perception of beauty entails love, thanksgiving, and praise.
Furthermore, Ruskin argues that God is the source of every pleasure, so that what gives us pleasure, apart from the distortions of sin, testifies to the nature of God. For example, one powerful aesthetic experience comes from evocations of the infinite, as in the sublimity of mountains, the ocean, or other awe-inspiring landscapes of seemingly never-ending space. Though such scenes can be terrifying, making us feel small and insignificant, they are nevertheless aesthetically pleasing, because they evoke in us a sense of the infinite, which testifies to the infinity of God.
Likewise, an aesthetically satisfying work of art displays at the same time both unity and complexity. The Triune God too is both unified and complex, an absolute union of three distinct Persons. Some art is unified but simplistic; other art is complicated but chaotic. In the best work, the complexities form a perfect unity without sacrificing the individuality of their parts. This is aesthetically pleasing because it reflects the attributes of God.
Ruskin does something similar with other aesthetic qualities: repose (a type of the permanence of God); symmetry (a type of God's justice); the purity of light (a type of God's energy); liberty and self-restraint (a type of God's Law); craftsmanship, technical skill, attention to detail (a type of God's artistry).
Although Ruskin has been accused of turning art into a religion, it is more correct to say that, in his original intention at least, he was exploring the aesthetic implications of a biblical worldview. This was certainly how he was taken by Christian artists such as the American landscape artists who constituted the Hudson River School, the first distinctly American artistic movement, known for their awe-inspiring landscapes which, in their minds, testified to the glory of God.
One concept that the whole range of theologians from Thomas Aquinas, the medieval scholastic, to Jonathan Edwards, the American Puritan, agreed on is that beauty is connected to love. When we see a beautiful object-a tree, a waterfall, a painting, even a person-what we feel is a pang of love for that object. Aesthetic experience is a type of love.
For example, watching or reading a tragedy creates, as Aristotle said, a catharsis of pity, that is, of compassion, a species of love. Love goes deeper than the surface, so that we can love those with, as we say, "inner beauty." The more we know someone the more we can love that person, as is true also for our aesthetic response to nature or art. We can love things that, superficially, are homely (a pet bulldog, a run-down cottage, a caricature).
Love can be misdirected, just as beauty can lead us astray, but in its nature, love is profoundly moral. We are to love God, which must include His works. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves. Aesthetic experience can make us more sensitive to our neighbors, giving us compassion for the human condition and empathy for those other than ourselves, as well as greater appreciation for the universe that God has made.
According to the classic thinkers, love is what ties the absolutes together, the common bond in the good, the true, and the beautiful. Beauty and truth and morality are to serve each other, and the person who loves in a genuine way has them all.
A Way out, and in
The problem with so much of today's contemporary art, such as the Turner Prize winners, is that it is so empty, so nihilistic, that it fails as art. "Beauty" does not have to mean "pretty," and shocking or self-consuming artifacts have a rich tradition in Christian art, as is evident in Dante's Inferno and Grunewald's Crucifixion. But today's art of mutilation, pornography, and minimalism is depthless and one-dimensional. It has unity but no complexity. It lacks infinity. It displays little skill, intelligence, knowledge, and craftsmanship. Above all, it lacks love.
As a way out of today's aesthetic dead ends, many artists are rediscovering classic forms and styles. Others are highly contemporary, while managing to convey beauty and truth. Christians have the opportunity to take up what God has given them once again, to use the arts to remake the culture along God-pleasing lines. Many Christians are, in fact, finding callings in the arts, and they need the support of their fellow believers.
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is an example of a work of art that conveys the faith in a nonsentimental, even shocking way, in a film that is a masterpiece of cinematic art. It is controversial and provocative, and it is having an impact on the culture.
God is still distributing the gifts of Bezalel, and He is still calling people in whose mind He has put skill, whose hearts stirred them up to come to do the work.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested in New York on Tuesday for riding his bicycle in the wrong direction on a one-way street and acting "in a violent, threatening manner" toward police officers, officials said.
The Emmy-award winning actor was taken into custody by two officers who spotted him riding his bike against traffic in lower Manhattan around 10 a.m., police said. He was issued two summonses, one for the bicycle violation and another for disorderly conduct.
"He was acting in a violent, threatening manner towards the police officers," Sergeant Lee Jones of the New York Police Department told Reuters.
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Baldwin, who portrayed Jack Donaghy in the hit TV comedy "30 Rock," was taken to the 13th Precinct for processing and was released by late morning, said an NYPD spokeswoman.
Earlier this year, Baldwin said he was considering leaving the city, due in part to press accounts last year that portrayed him as a hot head and a homophobic bigot.
"I probably have to move out of New York," Baldwin said in a New York Magazine article in February. "I just can't live in New York anymore."
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Geneva Kayak Center
Geneva Kayak Center is a paddlesport school and adventure travel company that's proud to be recognized as a ACA Pro School and offer both whitewater and sea kayak instruction. Their goal is to promote the sport of kayaking through safety and education. In addition to local offerings, they offer spectacular Adventure Paddling Trips for beginner to advanced paddlers, to amazing locations. Whether you want to enjoy an afternoon on the river or are preparing for a two-week expedition, Geneva Kayak Center believes the sport of kayaking should be fun, and enjoyed by all.
Bicentennial Riverfront Park
Bicentennial Riverfront Park is a five-acre community park on the south bank of the Fox River. Bicentennial Riverfront Park makes optimum use of the river, with abundant fishing, plus canoe and kayak access to the white water chute. There is also a beautiful view of the Glenn Palmer Dam as you follow the trail along the river and the picnic area, playground and river-side pavilion are popular community gathering spots in the summertime.
Marge Cline Whitewater Course
The Marge Cline Whitewater course is located in Yorkville at Bicentennial Riverfront Park on the Fox River, just 60 miles southwest of Chicago. The paddling community is all a dither about this course. Whether you're a novice or an avid canoeist or kayaker, you're sure to have a great experience.
Raging Waves Waterpark
Aussie-themed Raging Waves is Illinois' largest outdoor waterpark! Sitting on more than 40 acres, this family-friendly waterpark features 19 water slides, a separate kiddie pool area, wave pool, lazy river, 24 private cabanas, a giant sandbox and more. Open Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Lyon Farm & Village
Features 15 historic buildings that trace the history of Kendall County plus an 1819 Chicago Burlington & Quincy caboose, a fully-stocked general store, an 1840s schoolhouse, town hall, a working blacksmith shop, the Plano Train Depot, (c. 1850s) and Yorkville Firehouse (c. 1888).
Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area
A pool of clear bubbling water which sparkles like silver on sunny days provides the basis for the name of Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area. Even on extremely cold days, this pool does not freeze, and visitors marvel at the bordering beds of watercress. Majestic oaks and prairie grasslands provide a panorama of natural beauty to park visitors. The Fox River runs through this picturesque area which is also home to several small manmade lakes. A natural prairie restoration project gives visitors a feeling of the original landscape with native wildflowers, songbirds, waterfowl and upland game. Picnicking, fishing and hiking are popular pastimes in summer, with ice fishing, sledding, ice skating and cross-country ski trails available for the winter sports lover. For relaxing, exercising or just enjoying nature, Silver Springs is the perfect get away location.
Whitetail Ridge Golf Club
This premier public golf course was designed by architect Greg Martin on the farmland locally known as "The Ridge" in 2007. The front nine plays as a links-style course, while the back nine features elevation changes and spectacular views of the surrounding countryside. 18 holes, par 71. Distance: 6,604. Whitetail Ridge offers the perfect venue to host your wedding or golf outing. The 24,000 square foot clubhouse features a beautiful restaurant and bar that seats 100 people, with a balcony that overlooks the front nine. The elegant Ballroom accommodates parties of up to 350 people, and is complimented by the Terrace Room, with a private balcony, that can host business meetings and smaller events such as wedding and baby showers, and business meetings. The lower level of the clubhouse features the 19th Hole with a private bar, and seating for up to 50. The patio and outdoor party area provide an ideal place for your outdoor wedding, party, or post-outing summer fun and socializing. Three-time winner Bride's Choice Award and 2014 Couple's Choice Award winner.
Waters Edge Golf Club
This course was chosen as one of Golf Digest's Best Places to Play.
Woodridge Town Centre
A multipurpose open play area, Woodridge Town Center hosts a variety of festivals in Woodridge.
Seven Bridges Ice Arena
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Includes three ice surfaces, public skate 7 days a week, learn-to-skate and hockey classes, observation area, off-ice training center, party/conference rooms, arcade and a pro shop.
Wilmington Dam
Home to catfish, walleye, northern pike, bass, pan fish, picnic and recreation.
Des Plaines Conservation Area
This site's 5,500 acres make up one of the largest and most used hunting and field trailing areas in the state. It also offers camping, picnicking, boating, fishing, two small natural areas and 12 miles of equestrian trails with cross-country jumps.
Midewin Tall Grass Prairie
Largest open space in northeast Illinois.
Gemini Giant
The Gemini Giant is a landmark statue on U.S. Route 66. The 30 foot tall statue is named after the Gemini space program and holds a silver "rocket ship" in his hands, while sporting an astronaut's space helmet that looks more like a welding mask.
Arabian Knights Farms
Ten-acre horse farm offers hayrides and riding lessons, plus a petting zoo, exotic animals and even a monthly line dancing event.
Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center - Willow Springs
Forest preserve nature center designed to educate the public about the importance of wildlife and our environment.
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Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center
Nature center with 3 miles of walking/hiking trails through woodland, wetland, and prairie. Exhibit building displays local wildlife. Educational activities year round.
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Columbia Woods Forest Preserve
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Columbia Woods Forest Preserve
Offers places to fish and picnic. Canoe access. Biking. A host for "A River Thru History" each September, where you can step back 200 years into Chicago's past with a festive gathering of fur trappers, settlers, craftsmen, and entertains along the banks of the Des Plaines River - www.ariverthruhistory.com.
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Palos Park
An easy 30-minute drive from downtown Chicago places you squarely in this sprawling forest preserve. With 78 miles of wide and singletrack trails at an intermediate level of difficulty, you should expect the unexpected, starting with plenty of hills, fast descents, meandering paths and more.
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Cemetery Hill Trail
Cemetery Trail in Palos lives up to its name with narrow tracks that snake through dense foliage. A must ride for any thrill-seeking trekking enthusiast.
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Cantigny Park
This 500-acre park offers vast formal gardens, picnic grounds, a top-ranked public golf course and two museums: Robert R. McCormick Museum and First Division Museum. Enjoy a wide variety of programs and events throughout the year, such as festivals, lectures, concerts and workshops.
Danada Equestrian Center
Danada Equestrian Center welcomes visitors of all ages to learn about riding and horsemanship through hayrides, group barn tours, riding lessons, summer camps for kids and its annual Fall Festival.
Kline Creek Farm
A "living history" farm depicting life in the 1890s DuPage County. Original structures, authentic recreations and livestock combine to make a realistic 1890s working farm.


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The 6-time Grand Slammer took some time out from his tourney preparations to crack some groundies with champion wheelchair tennis player Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands.
But don't be fooled people: the Dutch lady baller has been ranked World No.1 since 1999 and has been unbeaten since 2003. Take that Rafa (and pretty much anyone who plays a pro sport)!
Seriously, Esther's 360 moves are def scary. I don't think I'd want to face her on court. EVER.
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Local racer featured at Wakarusa Car Show
WAKARUSA — A local celebrity will make an appearance at the 10th annual Wakarusa Car and Motorcycle Show.
Late model race car driver and local resident Corey Ryman will be in attendance, and his new car will be on display.
Ryman, who is from Nappanee, has been racing since 2004, and joined the late model circuit in 2006. He won his first race in just his career fourth start in 2004, on the way to one of his two rookie of the year awards. Ryman is also the owner of one championship so far in his young career.
Ryman's No. 17 car will be on display near the downtown square, along with more than 100 other vehicles Saturday. The show will be an opportunity to view the new paint scheme on Ryman's car before his first race of the season at the end of the month.
The show will begin at 9 a.m. and will also include competitions like tire changing and a creeper race. Nelson's Chicken dinners will also be available for $8 in the downtown park.
The Wakarusa Lions Club's Steak in the Park event will follow from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday in the downtown park.
For more information, visit wakarusachamber.com or call 862-4344.


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It is planning time again...my attention has gone to the Sixes area for an archery elk hunt. The courteous and helpful
biologist at the Charleston field office has offered up some advise. To increase my knowledge I'd ask if any fellow bow
hunters have experiences they'd wish to share? Any information on elk population densities, campgrounds near good
hunting areas and suggested maps to study...anything would be useful as I begin this study.
It's sure a plus to be able to fish the salmon runs in that area too.
Are there any outfitters that provide drop camps in this area?
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