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Habitat Management for Wild Bees and Wasps
Jones, R and Munn, P (editors), 1998, Softback 38 pp
A compilation of papers from IBRA's First European Workshop. The book is aimed at those concerned about landscape ecology and conservation. It is an essential guide to the process of habitat management with practical advice on surveys, plannning, day to day management and fund raising to support projects
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Pyongyang's Nuclear Logic (Foreign Affairs)
February 14, 2013
With the intention of North Korea's recent nuclear test under debate, two Dartmouth government professors write in a Foreign Affairs opinion piece that "Pyongyang tested a nuclear device for the same reason it has been testing long-range missile designs: to see what works. In truth, the effort was less a signal than an attempt to master the technical capabilities that are vital to its nuclear deterrent."
Jennifer Lind and Daryl Press, both associate professors in the Department of Government, along with a colleague from Georgetown University, write that the current actions of North Korea are similar to those practiced by the United States during the Cold War. "The United States understood then that the ability to conduct nuclear operations was the very foundation of a credible deterrence strategy. Today, a sound strategy for dealing with North Korea should not ascribe ulterior motives to acts that the United States once considered rational and routine," they write.
Read the full opinion piece, published 2/13/13 by Foreign Affairs.

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Every 35 minutes, a woman tests positive for HIV in the United States. How can we begin to act on this sobering statistic? The answer is blowing in blogosphere. It's the driving force behind The Red Pump Project™ and its 2nd Annual "500 in 50: Rock the Red Pump" campaign.
Annually, the United States recognizes March 10 as National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). This nationwide initiative aims to raise awareness about the increasing impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls; and to encourage them to make better lifestyle choices in the face of this epidemic. Though progress has been made in the areas of AIDS prevention and treatment, women still represent 27 percent of all new AIDS diagnoses, with African-American women accounting for an overwhelming 66 percent of that group.
In observance of this day and the impact of HIV/AIDS in our community, we "Rock the Red Pump."
Last year, the goal of 100 bloggers was exceeded as 135 bloggers supported the inaugural campaign. This year, the goal is to have 500 bloggers "Rock the Red Pump" in 50 days. Leading up to NWGHAAD, bloggers are encouraged to display the "Rock the Red Pump" badge on their sidebars to represent the strength and courage of women fighting HIV/AIDS and those directly and indirectly impacted by the disease. On March 10th, those bloggers are asked to write a post explaining the day's significance, including statistics about HIV/AIDS' impact on women and girls; and to encourage their readers to educate themselves about HIV/AIDS and the importance of knowing their status.
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The Red Project Collective™ is a national nonprofit organization that raises awareness about the impact of HIV/AIDS on minority communities (women, people of color, LGBT). Through its initiatives, The Red Pump Project™ (women and girls) and The Red Tie Project™ (men), The Collective is doing work online and on the ground to motivate action and encourage dialogue about the effects of the disease.
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Matadors Community Credit Union (MCCU) was founded in 1963 by a group of Cal State Northridge professors to fill a financial need for the faculty and staff of the university. Over the years, MCCU has expanded its membership base to include individuals affiliated with Cal State Northridge University (students, alumni, athletic boosters, faculty, and staff) or anyone who lives, works or worships in the San Fernando, Simi or Santa Clarita Valleys. MCCU currently has over $120 million in assets and serves almost 14,000 members.
MCCU offers a wide array of financial products and services, including Free Checking, Savings, Certificates and IRAs, and Internet Banking, Bill Payer, and Mobile Banking. We offer several low-rate loan products as well – home loans, auto loans, credit cards and more.
The credit union never took part in any sub-prime lending, nor have we ever been involved in any type of risky lending practices. While we want to help all members, we are very prudent and stringent in our lending procedures and policies.
MCCU is very well capitalized. Our net worth ratio as of July 31, 2012 is at 9.96%. Regulators consider a credit union well capitalized at 7%. Being well-capitalized means the credit union has solid financial strength.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the federal agency that insures savings in federal and most state-chartered credit unions across the country through the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF), a federal fund backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government. All member deposits are federally insured by the NCUA and backed by the U.S. Government up to $250,000 and IRA accounts are insured separately up to $250,000.
MCCU currently has two branches – Chatsworth and Northridge. We consistently earn high ratings from Bauer Financial, an agency that regulates banks' and credit unions' financial safety and soundness. The credit union was also awarded Best Bank/Credit Union for four year, most recently in 2012 – by the readers of the Los Angeles Daily News.


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NY's Cardinal Dolan Pays for Birth Control, Abortion
I spotted a surprising headline while perusing yesterday's edition of the New York Times: "New York Archdiocese Paying to Insure Birth Control."
Being a former Catholic myself — as well as someone who follows and blogs extensively about the political activities of the American Catholic hierarchy on this site and several others — I was already well aware that many Catholic dioceses around the country currently offer insurance plans covering women's reproductive care, including contraception services, despite the Catholic Church officially prohibiting them.
But surely, I thought, Dolan's diocese would be different. After all, he's the most visible Catholic leader in America and the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Not only that, the Cardinal is currently suing the Obama administration over the mandate in the new health reform law requiring employers to offer contraception coverage in their health plans. One would think that Dolan would have found a way to either stop covering contraception in his own diocese or explain the glaring inconsistency before launching such a high-profile assault on the expansion of health care (which, by the way, the Catholic Church supports).
Nope: the Times has just discovered that the Archdiocese of New York currently and "quietly" pays for a union health plan that covers contraception and even abortion services for workers at "affiliated nursing homes and clinics," and has done so for over a decade.
From the article:
…about 3,000 full-time workers at ArchCare, also known as the Catholic Health Care System, receive coverage for contraception and voluntary pregnancy termination through their membership in 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, a powerful health care workers union, according to Dave Bates, a spokesman for the union.
ArchCare, which operates seven nursing homes and a variety of other health facilities, gives its 1199 union employees the same coverage they would get at over 100 other nonprofit hospitals or nursing homes in the New York area, because ArchCare voluntarily belongs to the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes, a multi-employer organization that negotiates with the union every few years for a joint labor contract.
The contraceptive and abortion coverage is provided indirectly: employers like the New York Archdiocese contribute to the union's benefit fund, which then turns around and pays for the insurance. The archdiocese insists that it has "no choice" in the matter, and a spokesman for Dolan's office told the Times that the services are provided "under protest." Yet apart from some grumbling in the mid- to late 1990s when the archdiocese joined the league, the group's president, Bruce McIver, doesn't remember any concerns being raised about contraception coverage in the last dozen or so years of union negotiations. He told the Times, "Eventually, the Catholics just said, you know, we are going to ignore the issue and pay into the fund and people are going to make their own choices about contraception and so forth."
Dolan's archdiocese clearly seems to have found an palatable compromise allowing it to keep a safe distance from contraception and abortion — which the Catholic Church (inexplicably) views as intrinsically evil and immoral — while remaining in compliance with state law. Yet the USCCB, under Cardinal Dolan's leadership, rejected a nearly identical proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services that would have provided reproductive coverage through insurers, rather than through the employers themselves. And Dolan himself has repeatedly assailed the Affordable Care Act as an intolerable, unforgivable, "unprecedented intrusion" on religious freedom that forces the Church to subsidize "grave wrongs in which we cannot participate."
But the Catholic Church already participates in contraception coverage, and has — at least in New York — for many years. And the last time I checked, the sky has not fallen in New York City, the earth has not swallowed St. Patrick's Cathedral down into the fiery depths of hell, and the religious freedom of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York has remained completely intact.
No word yet from Dolan about why he thinks the rest of the country will fare any differently, nor has he provided any satisfactory explanation for this latest example of head-spinning hypocrisy.
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After two years of construction, Queens University of Charlotte unveiled the new Levine Center for Wellness and Recreation with a ribbon cutting ceremony on August 19 at 1 p.m. In attendance was Queens President Pamela Davies and legendary local philanthropists Leon and Sandra Levine, who donated an $8 million lead gift toward the facility.
- President Pamela Davies
After opening remarks, the ribbon was cut and students eagerly entered the Levine Center for the first time to try out the basketball and volleyball courts, pool, fitness center equipment and two-lane indoor track.
Located on the southwestern corner of campus, the three-story, 145,000 square-foot state-of-the-art Levine Center replaces the Ovens Athletic Center, which was demolished in 2011 to make way for the new facility. The Levine Center is the latest infrastructure addition to campus and the new home of Queens' NCAA II athletics program.
"For decades, Queens has been an institution of academic excellence in our community," said Leon Levine, chairman of The Leon Levine Foundation. "The opening of the Levine Center will help to build for the future and realize President Davies' vision to set Queens apart as a prominent, well-respected university of the southeast."


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Jan 8, 2014 - by Steve Gerweck
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As of Jan. 8, Kaitlyn (Celeste Bonin) will no longer be under contract with WWE. The former Divas Champion has chosen to pursue other endeavors outside the sports-entertainment world.
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CINCINNATI – You've heard about distracted drivers, but what about distracted diners?
This new trend might not be hurting anyone, but it could cause you to wait longer for a table.
So what are these distracted diners doing? Taking pictures.
"I love to show off my food and my friends and selfies," Cincinnati diner Emily Auvio said.
Auvio is part of the dining dilemma.
When restaurant customers take photos of their food, text their friends and take selfies, it takes time away from, well, eating.
Auvio said she even asks for the restaurant's Wi-Fi password to save on her data plan.
Sometimes people are so into their phones, they don't even notice their server.
"You don't even realize that the server is standing there because you're too busy texting someone," said Robert LeBoeuf, a customer at a Cincinnati restaurant.
Amos Goodwin, a server at Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery on Fountain Square, says he definitely notices the impact.
"Texting is a big reason why we wait for a lot of people, but you just tell them to stop," Goodwin said. "Most people are very, very polite about it."
Research shows that playing on your phone stretches the time it takes to dine out by an extra 50 minutes.
In fact, one New York restaurant was so concerned, it hired a company to review years of security video.
It wasn't a lazy staff. It was distracted diners.
And it's happening in the Tri-State.
"We told our waitress to come back like three times because we were busy chatting and on our phones instead of looking at the menu," said patron Elizabeth Wagler
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When the temperature and humidity rise, this easy, breezy pasta is just the ticket to help you play it cool. —Debbie Verdini, Yardley, Pennsylvania
- 8 ounces linguine
- 4 cups fresh baby spinach
- 1-1/2 cups julienned roasted sweet red peppers
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 can (6 ounces) pitted ripe olives, drained
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- Cook linguine according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium heat, cook the spinach, peppers and garlic in oil until spinach is wilted .
- Drain linguine; toss with spinach mixture, olives, salt and pepper. Serve warm or at room temperature. Yield: 9 servings.
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The Lounge Lizards: The Punch and Judy Tango
The Punch and Judy Tango
The Lounge Lizards
Big Heart: Live in Tokyo (Antilles 314-510089-4)
John Lurie (sax), Roy Nathanson (sax), Curtis Fowlkes (trombone), Marc Ribot (guitar),
Erik Sanko (bass), Dougie Bowne (drums), EJ Rodriguez (percussion).
Recorded: Tokyo. February, 1986
Rating: 89/100 (learn more)
John Lurie's Lounge Lizards were known for injecting their unique brand of humor into their compositions – adding elements of surprise and sideways logic to 'normal' jazz contexts. On "The Punch And Judy Tango," a fairly basic tango is taken 'out' with bursts of squeaky horns, film noir percussion, an argument between the sax and the trombone, and a piano solo that slowly dissolves into a mere shell of the tune's motif. All of this is supported by the song's heart & soul: the surfy guitar of Marc Ribot. From his twangy statement of the head to the skronky outbursts to the busted arpeggios, Ribot plays with attitude and abandon. You can almost imagine the red rose clutched between his teeth.
Reviewer: Mark Saleski
Tags: 1980s jazz
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Behind The Candelabra
Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace: virtuoso pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and television.PT1M55S http://www.theage.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2pbdy 620 349 July 3, 2013
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The pianist known as Liberace is remembered for a handful of things: his spangled suits, his public denial of his obvious homosexuality, and his famous response to critics: ''I cried all the way to the bank.'' Directed by Steven Soderbergh, this account of his later years fills out the picture. Michael Douglas gives a fearless performance that ultimately wins our sympathy, even as he flaunts the cloying camp manner of a woodland creature in a Disney cartoon. The material speaks to Soderbergh's continuing interest in how money dictates terms in both love and art, while the glittering sets and costumes accord with his penchant for images dotted with points of light. But given the subject matter, Behind the Candelabra suffers a little from its own good taste; it would have been fascinating (if potentially horrifying) to see this script tackled by Joel Schumacher or Baz Luhrmann. JW
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French filmmakers Alexandre de la Patelliere and Mathieu Delaporte adapt their own play for the screen in a work that begins with an overextended, stylised voice-over introduction, then settles into a lively, voluble comedy of manners. A family dinner is thrown into disarray when Vincent (Patrick Bruel) announces that he and his wife have chosen a name for the baby they are expecting: they are going to call him Adolf. Vincent insists that it's a homage to hero of 19th-century French literature and should not be seen in any other way but his brother-in-law Pierre (Charles Berling) is appalled and goes on the attack. This unlocks a series of revelations and resentments that affect every member of the group. What's In a Name is a genial work that never loses its air of theatricality, but there are some genuinely surprising twists and turns, both in plot and presentation of character. PH
Selected release
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It would be too much to call The Wolverine a ''classical'' superhero movie, but it's less over-the-top than most recent entries in the genre. Few buildings are visibly toppled, nor is the planet threatened with destruction. Instead, the main stakes are emotional. The film finds the surly mutant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) still mourning his lover, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), but it isn't long before a crimson-haired telepath (Rila Fukushima) brings him to Tokyo for new adventures. Jack-of-all-trades director James Mangold (Walk the Line) may not be an obvious fit for the material, but there's something authentically comic-book about his style, which combines clear, linear storytelling with a discreetly expressionist bent, manifested via an interest in troubled protagonists and distorted perceptions. Logan frequently loses consciousness, allowing the film to explore his psyche through dream sequences (mostly featuring Janssen). JW
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It's been almost two decades since Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise introduced us to Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a young American travelling in Europe, and Celine (Julie Delpy), the French girl destined to become the love of his life. This latest sequel shows the pair in their 40s and on holiday in rural Greece; despite the romance of the setting, the thrill of their first encounter seems far away. Like long-term couples everywhere, they've mastered the trick of shifting from teasing affection to open warfare and back again, while Hawke and Delpy manage to enchant and infuriate the audience as well. As a stand-alone artwork, this is the least successful entry in an ongoing series; the staging is relatively flat, with the countryside often reduced to a pleasant, out-of-focus backdrop. But like its predecessors it's trickier than it appears, particularly when the chatter focuses on topics such as the relativity of perception and the mystery of time. JW
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The latest from one-man Hong Kong entertainment factory Johnnie To is a vastly enjoyable caper that takes the familiar premise of an eccentrically brilliant sleuth to new extremes. The versatile Andy Lau operates in all-out burlesque mode as Johnson, the blind detective of the title, whose upright posture, immaculate suits, constant smirks and frequent tantrums all suggest a justifiably high opinion of himself. His Watson is Ho (Sammi Cheng), a brash but accommodating junior cop keen to learn what happened to her missing childhood friend. A bit like the BBC's Sherlock, the film zips from one case to another, with room for absurdist gags and macabre revelations alike. Johnson's unorthodox methods centre on re-enactments where he and Ho take turns assuming the roles of criminal and victim, inflicting as much violence on each other as possible - a cleverly indirect way to bring out the romantic tension at the story's core. JW
Cinema Nova
(87 minutes) MA
Rufus Norris' Broken is a version of To Kill a Mockingbird, set in a suburban English cul-de-sac. It is adapted from a novel explicitly inspired by Harper Lee's novel, but it creates its own world without feeling indebted to its source. And its young central character, Skunk (Eloise Laurence), is as strong and vulnerable and independent as Mockingbird's Scout Finch. Norris, a stage director making his film debut, gives Broken a bleak context, but a yearning, blurred, playful visual style. He conjures up love and violence, fractured families and flawed intentions, in a film framed by dream narratives that bear a close relationship to moments in the real world and express emotional truths. Some events take place out of sequence, so that a lead-up to incidents of brutality happen after the violence erupts. There's a sense that the worst often happens, combined with an element of cautious optimism. PH
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Thom Fitzgerald's Cloudburst is a road movie with what seems like an obvious destination, but it has a few small and diverting surprises along the way. It's the story of a lesbian couple, Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and Dotty (Brenda Fricker) who have been together for more than 30 years; this seems to count for nothing when Dotty's granddaughter contrives to have her now-blind grandmother moved to an aged care facility, ostensibly for her own good. Stella's response is characteristically dramatic: she breaks Dotty out one night, and they head for Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal, in an attempt to exert some control over their lives. There are predictable aspects to Cloudburst, but the strength of the film is in its central performances: the two actresses fix the essence of the characters and convey the closeness of their relationship, in ways that are both funny and moving. PH
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James Wan's The Conjuring is a haunted-house horror movie that's an intriguing blend of elegantly evoked domestic unrest and straight-up, almost standard fright elements. It is a female-centred horror tale: women and mothers are the main figures, the focus of vulnerability and the source of danger. And it's a film with strong performances across the board. Vera Farmiga brings a strong sense of fragility and conviction to the character of a paranormal investigator, and Lili Taylor, as a woman living in a house seemingly haunted by the past, establishes a warmth and resilience that makes later developments all the more unnerving. Wan (Saw, Insidious) is good with simple, time-honoured staples, such as games of hide-and-seek and the conviction that there's someone else in the room. These, in fact, are often more unsettling than the more explicit scenes that come into play later in the film. PH
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Directed by the Paris-based team of Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, this computeranimated comedy chronicles the further adventures of Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), an exotically-accented former super-villain who once made a successful bid to steal the moon. Since his redemption at the end of the first Despicable Me, his focus has shifted from world domination to more innocent pursuits, such as caring for his adopted daughters and marketing a range of "jams and jellies". But he's back to his old tricks, after a fashion, when he's persuaded to help track down another villain who happens to be hiding out in the local shopping mall. It all moves along smoothly enough, with a few inspired moments of 3D slapstick, including a mock shootout that neatly avoids spilling blood. The real stars of the show are Gru's minions - chittering creatures who resemble walking earplugs and instantly adapt themselves to their master's schemes. JW
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With all the money in the world to spend on computer animation, the producers of Epic could surely afford a writer capable of thinking up a better title. That they didn't bother tells you everything you need to know about this scenic but boring 3D adventure, based on a book by William Joyce. After the death of her mother, stroppy teenager MK (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) moves to the forest home of her eccentric dad (Jason Sudeikis), who believes the ecosystem is maintained by tiny ''Leafmen''. This crackpot theory turns out to be correct, as MK discovers when she's magically minaturised by the dying forest queen (Beyonce Knowles) and joins a quest to save the forest from the evil Boggans. There are a few inventive touches, but in general Epic is as routinely whimsical as it sounds, a waste of the talents of actors and animators alike. JW
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Benoit Jacquot's costume drama suggests a French riposte to the American vogue for films in which nobodies get up close and personal with celebrities: the celebrity here is Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger), while the nobody is the fictional Sidonie Laborde (Lea Seydoux), a loyal young serving girl tasked with reading to the queen in the days before the fall of Versailles. Rarely moving outside the palace gates, the film luxuriates in a mood of sinister eroticism, and seems less concerned with actual history than with fantasy, both individual and collective: Sidonie's cult of the queen is merely an extreme version of a general faith in the arbitrary line between those born to rule and those who must obey. The film's complex irony lies in the demonstration that this system offers something for everyone: after all, what could be more comforting than knowing your place? JW
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This version of The Great Gatsby is clearly the film that its director, Baz Luhrmann, wanted to make, even if it satisfies neither as cinema nor as an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's subtle, ambiguous Jazz Age novel. The most madly aspirational of Australian cineastes, Luhrmann heralds the arrival of Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) with a trumpet fanfare and a fireworks display. For all this, he sticks closely to Fitzgerald's cunningly constructed plot, in which Gatsby, a self-made millionaire of dubious reputation, becomes a figure of legend as the host of extravagant parties at his mansion just outside New York. For all his bravado, Luhrmann isn't much of a director; still, there's no denying the strength of his identification with a jumped-up pretender dedicated (in Fitzgerald's words) to ''the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty''. JW
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This feeble comedy from Catalan writer-director Cesc Gay consists of a series of talky vignettes about the foibles of men: how they cheat on their wives, cling to failed relationships, struggle to express their emotions, and generally mess things up. The intended tone is one of civilised amusement, though the broadest segment, with Eduardo Noriega as a nervous would-be seducer, is one of the more successful. A coda brings all the male characters together, before trailing off so weakly it hardly seems worth the trouble. Gay concentrates almost entirely on his actors, who are usually seen engaged in one-on-one conversations in static medium shot. Whether an encounter takes place in an apartment lobby or at an office party, the settings remain so abstract that virtually all of this material could be transferred to the stage with nothing much lost (or gained, for that matter). JW
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The Heat is a buddy movie comedy about a pair of mismatched officers of the law that would seem wildly familiar, apart from one thing - its odd-couple cops are women. Sandra Bullock is Ashburn, a driven, uptight, know-it-all FBI agent; Melissa McCarthy plays Mullins, an obnoxious, unorthodox Boston cop who has all her male colleagues thoroughly intimated, none more so than her boss. She has the best and worst of it, in that her character is the most clearly delineated. Mullins is a foul-mouthed force of nature who's never seen a taboo she couldn't violate, or a politically incorrect epithet she couldn't utter at least 17 times, with themes and variations. Bullock is left a little stranded by comparison. Her single-minded character becomes a self-deprecating straight woman - and there's a skimpy detail about her background that is meant to add a bit of emotional depth, but just seems gratuitous. PH
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French director Francois Ozon's In the House is a teasing, alluring hybrid. It is a thriller, a comedy, a sly examination of the boundaries of fiction. And it demonstrates, to its final, deftly resonant scene, the very qualities it explores. Fabrice Luchini plays Germain, a middle-aged English teacher, a sardonic man with low expectations of his pupils and the institution where he works. He's gratified to find a new student, 16-year-old Claude (Ernst Umhauer), with a gift for writing. What's more, Claude has, in an intriguing, disconcerting fashion, a tale to tell, one in which becomes increasingly implicated. In the House is crisp, clever and cool, but it also has moments of warmth, when it brings us close to its characters and their emotions and desires. Ozon has often explored the nature of narrative, the act of writing, the power of projection. Here, it's with a heady mixture of wit and subversion. PH
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Director Gore Verbinski reunites with his Pirates of the Caribbean and Rango star Johnny Depp in a mixed-up action-adventure extravaganza that draws on a long-running western tale (a radio serial and a TV series) about the enigmatic title character and his Native American sidekick Tonto. This version is in many ways a disenchanted vision: broad comic moments and hectic action sequences amid spectacular scenery are embedded in a bleak origins story about the west and the Lone Ranger-Tonto partnership. Surprisingly, Depp's stolid reading of Tonto is one of the less successful aspects of the film. But Verbinski certainly knows what to do with trains and horses. In its most successful scenes - particularly the extended chase finale - The Lone Ranger draws on the energy that characterised what's arguably his best film, the manic Mousehunt. PH
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Zack Snyder's bombastic but often exhilarating Superman reboot gives the ultimate do-gooder an edgy makeover. The ''perfect'' good looks of star Henry Cavill are slightly more angular than expected; his permanently knit brows hint at unspoken torment. This is the first Superman movie to propose that being the strongest force on the planet might be both lonely and terrifying - but however grim things get, Snyder's great advantage is that he never seems embarrassed by silliness. That's a blessing for Michael Shannon, who as mad baddie General Zod gets to march around in a pepper-and-salt goatee giving orders such as ''Release the World Engine!'' The political issues here are strategically muddled, just as they tend to be in Christopher Nolan's work: though this Superman shows libertarian tendencies, he qualifies as progressive, at least by comparison with the ultra-reactionary Zod, who views his most ruthless acts as the price for saving Krypton civilisation. JW
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This may be heresy, but the Joss Whedon brand of cutesy banter can get cloying fast. On the other hand, he's a whiz at negotiating tricky shifts of tone and working with actors to find the emotional spine of a scene. So it's no surprise that his modern-dress version of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing ranks with his best work yet - a romantic comedy that brings back the simple pleasure of watching glamorous, brilliant people making themselves into fools for love. It's literally a home movie, with Whedon's own house standing in for the estate of Spanish governor Leonato (Clark Gregg); Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof play wisecracking romantic antagonists Beatrice and Benedick, leading a cast mainly composed of veterans of Whedon's TV shows. Shakespeare's language remains intact, and Jay Hunter's cinematography is in shimmering black-and-white, enhancing the sense of an impossible, enclosed world. JW
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The third feature from writer-director Jeff Nichols has been conceived as an all-American fairytale, set in a region where no one uses computers or mobile phones, and where Ellis (Tye Sheridan), 14, and his friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) roam free. Mud (Matthew McConaughey) is a grizzled fantasist who seems to have drifted from the sky, and claims to be awaiting the arrival of his true love (Reese Witherspoon). By design, the character is both a deluded buffoon and a mythic hero. Nichols is a divided personality in his own right: the former art-house director appears to be moving mainstream, and while his style sweeps us along, the film is built on contradictions scarcely acknowledged, let alone resolved. JW
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Set in a reddish, womblike Bangkok that resembles an upmarket suburb of hell, the latest revenge thriller from cult Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn is a film for all those who felt the problem with his ultra-mannerist Drive was an oversupply of human interest. The twinkling lights, symmetrically placed figures, luxuriously slow camera movements and broad swaths of colour have a trashy pomp that suggests an Italian horror movie or (at worst) the later work of Zhang Yimou. Ryan Gosling plays the nominal main character, a stone-faced American drug pedlar, but most of the redeeming humour and energy comes from Kristin Scott Thomas as his mother, a bottle-blonde, bile-spewing monster. The film is wildly pretentious and unpleasant, but as a bizarre fever dream it holds attention to the end, even if half the scenes seem devoted to Gosling silently brooding in between the bursts of gore. JW
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A few years into the future, giant monsters - known as ''kaiju,'' the Japanese term for creatures in the Godzilla mould - start emerging from an extra-dimensional cleft in the ocean's floor. Earth's last line of defence consists of vast battle robots, operated from within by pairs of telepathically linked pilots. In his first film as director since the 2006 arthouse hit Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro has taken on the challenge of building a better Independence Day and, largely, the director succeeds. Even in this multiplex setting, he remains some kind of aesthete: he's in love with textures, staging one battle in the rain on the neon-lit streets of Hong Kong, another underwater with bubbles drifting by in 3D. Aimed at the 12-year-old inside us all, the film tells an essentially optimistic story: for once, we humans manage to set aside our differences, pool our resources, and work towards a common goal. JW
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(107 minutes) MA
At the movies, the end of the world is big this year. And it's big in a very particular kind of shambling yet stylised way in this celebrity-apocalypse buddy comedy. A bunch of Hollywood actors playing versions of themselves are blindsided at James Franco's house-warming party by what appears to be the end of days. The movie is written and directed by Seth Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg. Rogen plays himself, the amiable guy whose friendship everyone is fixated on. The cast includes Franco, Jonah Hill and Jay Baruchel, but despite some over-the-top special effects, this Los Angeles apocalypse takes an almost petty turn. It's a story of vindictive squabbles, rampant egos, competitive anxiety, compulsive dick jokes and fretting over who gets to eat the Milky Way bar. There are also sentimental moments of male bonding, and tiffs over who is closer to whom, and some rare moments of rueful self-deprecation. PH
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The saga of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks increasingly resembles a five-act Shakespearean tragedy, by which reckoning we're probably somewhere near the end of act three. As the world knows, Assange remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, while his opposite number, the luckless whistleblower Bradley Manning, faces probable life imprisonment in the US. Alex Gibney's documentary recaps the story with clarity, occasional wit, and at least the appearance of fairness. The film guardedly supports WikiLeaks' role in revealing horrors, while in effect accusing Assange of turning the organisation into a personality cult. Perhaps there's a mild irony in the fact that Gibney, as a storyteller, does better with personalities than with broader political themes - feeding a curiosity that could be described as voyeuristic or simply human. It's undeniably a ripping yarn. JW
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The first zombie film that could conceivably be nominated for an Oscar, Marc Forster's dour techno-thriller stars Brad Pitt as a retired United Nations investigator drafted to help find the source of a plague sweeping the planet. Adapted from Max Brooks' best-selling novel, the script retains traces of a cynical view of authority, as if catastrophe simply reinforced the existing gap between the wretched mass of humanity and the privileged few. Yet Hollywood convention creates a similar hierarchy - encouraging us to sympathise first with Pitt's character, second with his family, and hardly at all with disposable minor characters, let alone the zombies themselves. Even as Forster asks us to associate the zombie crisis with real-world horrors - terrorism, the plight of refugees and so forth - his overhead tracking shots and jitteryBourne-style chase sequences (in 3D) serve as nudging reminders that a zombie movie is supposed to be grisly fun. JW


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Cork Bits: ideas for your Napa Valley weekend
Believe it or not, the final weekend of January is just a couple days away.
There are some great events on tap (mustard, mustard, mustard) and the sun should be shining once again, so get out there and enjoy it!
Friday, January 29th
- From 5pm – 8pm downtown Napa's Back Room Wines will host Back Room Blow out XXXV. For a $15 per person tasting fee (with a $5 credit back for each bottle of Blow Out wine purchased) you'll be able to take part in a walk-around tasting with three local winery owners and/or winemakers and one wine importer. Among those slated to participate is Kate Chomko of Larkmead Vineyards in Calistoga, who will be pouring two vintages (the 2006 and 2007) of Larkmead "Firebelle" Bordeaux-style red blend, which goes for $50 per 750ml bottle. Call 707-226-1378 for more information
Saturday, January 30th
- From 12pm – 4pm ZD Wines will host a 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon release event featuring cabernet (of course) and chocolate. Cost is $25 per person ($20 for 'First Taste' members) and walk-ins are welcome. Weather permitting, we highly recommend you make your way out to back porch for some beautiful westerly views of the valley. Call 800-487-7757 for all the details
- At 7pm the grand opening event (aka Mustard Magic) for the 17th Annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival will take place at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena. The event includes food, wine, music, dancing, live art and a live auction. According to the festival's Twitter account, you can get an Internet special on tickets through January 30th by visiting the website an entering the promo code "magic". Otherwise, tickets are $150 at the door and you can call 707-938-1133 for further details
- From 7pm – 10pm at Merryvale in St Helena the 21st Annual 'Naked Vine' wine and art auction will take place. Tickets are $55 per person and will get you into the event that will include food, wine tasting from local wineries such as Baldacchi Family Vineyards, Ehlers Estate, Jocelyn Lonen Winery and more. View the auction lots here and if you have questions, call 707-963-8770
Happy Weekend!
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Would you refuse to pull the trigger on the execution of someone convicted of rape/murder (a common combination)?
What about when the French decided to execute some men for cowardice in order to stiffen up the rest and the men picked for conviction and execution were not necessarily guilty of anything but being in the wrong unit in the French military?
A lot going on there.]]>
Given all those factors, I think the bishop was exercising unrighteous dominion.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I am probably a bit oversensitive on this issue, having seen several people I'm close to subjected to Church discipline without any justifiable cause. That is not to say that the discipline was an overreaction to minor sins, but that their "sins" weren't actually sins at all. "Behavior unbecoming a Latter-day Saint" is an extremely convenient category if you're a priesthood leader with a god complex or an axe to grind. Eventually––years later––GAs got involved and rectified the situation, but ever since then, anytime somebody uses the phrase "Judge in Israel" as some kind of honorific, I want to blow raspberries at the pulpit.)]]>
LdG, I agree that the bishop probably overreacted, but if the guy was bragging about this behavior, it seems extreme to start calling him names over trying to get the guy to realize that his actions were wrong.]]>
I can't think what it is you're calling him.]]>
That Bishop? What a t**t.]]>
Those of us who are not in the military, however, can still understand some military principles. One of those is military discipline, which requires that orders be followed, with rare exceptions.
But the fact that he didn't follow the order he was given is not the worst part, for me. I think it's much worse that he hid that fact. That's deceptive and wrong whether you're in the military or not.
Imagine that you're in a workplace. Your boss gives you a job to do. You don't like the job and have moral objections to it, but instead of voicing those objections, you just pretend to do the job, while in reality you intentionally make sure that your part of the job does not get done.
Then later you brag about the fact that you didn't do your job and made others pick up the slack for you.
Still think there's nothing dishonest or immoral going on here? Still think there's something to be proud of in this behavior?]]>


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I appear before you again on the affirmative side of this question. In the first place, before we proceed further, there is a question of veracity at stake as to what I said during this discussion concerning the heathen. I want to state to you what I said in substance. I have stated it time and again. I drove Brother Potter, and he knows it, from the second chapter of Romans. I told him what I believed about the heathen—that those whop are without the law, but do the things that are in the law, are saved; and therefore there are very few of them saved, with the light they have. God's Spirit operates upon the mind everywhere through the means employed; and when the revelation comes, that influence is upon all alike. He gives the opportunity to all. I will ask the reporter to read what I said upon that subject.
REPORTER READS: Thursday afternoon—" I never have made the impression intentionally that any would be saved in the heathen world without character or without living up to the law they had—the best light they had—doing the things that were contained in the law, though they were without the law, as spoken of in the second chapter of Romans."
MR. YATES: Now you hear it.
Mr. POTTER: You say that was Thursday evening. My impression is that a note I took was on Monday.
Mr. YATES: I will risk the book when it comes out, and I will say to the short-hand writer not to change that—that I never made any such statement in it.
Mr. POTTER: I have a note here, and I think it was on Monday I took it.
Mr. YATES: We will risk the short-hand writer about that; if you can bear it I can. I have stated that as my position time and again. My brother is aware of that, and he says I am honest and he loves me. He says I never drove him from any authority. I am going to talk a little about that. He came here before this people, and in order to balance my argument that civilization is the result of Christianity he set up the Greek civilization side by side with it, and told us about Cecrops being its founder. Then I told him he knew nothing about it, and that Solon was really the founder of the civilization that gave to Greece her glory and greatness. Then he came before these people as an intelligent man, and talked about Nimrod as the founder of Egypt. Any man that knows any thing about the history of the civilization of the past knows the origin of Egypt's civilization is lost in the antiquity of the past. He quoted a certain historian, leaving the impression upon this people that for several centuries those who had carried the gospel, and taught the gospel, and suffered persecution were Baptists. That was the inference of his historian, Jones, who has been exposed as a falsifier, in his statements about the Waldenses. And I exposed his statements in regard to the missionaries who performed the great gospel work in Northern Europe in the early centuries being Baptists, from a better work than Jones has ever written. So we will see how much his authorities are worth. I wish to spend a moment or two on what he told you about my saying there were no Baptists who suffered as martyrs in the massacres of the Protestants during the reign of Charles IX. In commenting upon these terrible scenes he made the impression that all these martyrs were Regular Baptists, and triumphantly exclaimed: "We, as Regular Baptists, have the identity of the gospel line of work; for our people here, like the saints of old, were martyred for their devotion to the gospel." I spoke to my brother while he was speaking, in order to keep from talking so much in this debate about his Church, and I asked him if these martyrs were all Baptists. And he reluctantly said perhaps there may have been some other sects who suffered. Here is Buck's Theological Dictionary; I want to read a few words from it. On page 438 he says: "Numerous were the persecutions of the different sects from Constantine's time to the Reformation, and when the famous Martin Luther arose and opposed the errors and ambitions of the Church of Rome"—I never have said there were no Baptists among them; I have said the Baptists were good people, and I love them—"and the sentiments of this good man"—Luther—"began to spread, the pope and his clergy joined all their forces to hinder their progress."
The other quotation he gave: "A general council of the clergy was called. This was the famous Council of Trent, which was held for nearly eighteen consecutive years, for the purpose of establishing Popery in greater splendor, and preventing reform. The authors of the reform were anathematized and excommunicated, and the life of Luther was even in danger, but at last he died on a bed of peace." So much for his point on that. Now we will dispense with that much of it.
He said Brother Darby set me right. He has got to take Brother Darby's word for that, and Brother Darby says that he did not. I will tell him, just to be candid with him, that I believe my brethren thought me competent, or they would not have signed the documents endorsing me. I believe they are honest. I may not be so nicely situated as Brother Potter is, so as not to need any aid. I take all the aid I can get for the advancement of my cause. He says he is one man that does not progress. He says I said it would take six days to prove my proposition. I think he should have had a short-hand writer present. I thought I told him that I wanted the subject thoroughly sifted, and wanted the great facts brought before the people.
Now, about the heathen. He gave us another lengthy talk about how many died per day, and that there was no justice in condemning these men who are without the gospel; yet he has been arguing for the last five days that God has a right to damn whom he pleases, or to save whom he pleases. How much better is it when a man who is not one of the Lord's sheep is damned here in Owensville, under the sound of the gospel, because he was not put in the election list? And yet Brother Potter says God does not reprobate souls. But when he ran from the proof-texts I gave him he said, "Brother Yates has been giving me these proof-texts on the responsibility of man, and I believe it." You do? What •is responsibility? God has given me a law, and I cannot keep it, and he will not help me to do so. If he helps my neighbor, that is no advantage to me. He just sends me to the dark place, and that is the last of it. Brother Potter says that is the reason he does not believe in Foreign Missions. He does not damn many of the babies, but he puts in a great many of the big folks.
Now, about that potter; was not that a beautiful thing? I am glad he took that position. He said that I was mistaken. Look at his logic. He said I put the clay over on one side and the wax on the other; but he said there was no wax there. He thinks it would have been a good thing for me if there had been. I will give attention first to the potter and the clay, after which I am going to give him some quotations. He handed me a book; I knew he did not understand Madagascar when he said he did. I will read that after awhile, for fear, as well as he loves me, he might misread it. Now let me quote from the ninth chapter of Romans: Hath not the potter power over the clay"—in some instances he has, and in some he has not—"of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?" He says that the potter is God. So do I. According to his doctrine God has to make of this lump damned sinners as well as redeemed souls. O what a God that is! I did not claim that there was wax in this passage that speaks of the potter and the clay. I simply alluded to it in connection with the clay to show the different effects of the same sunlight upon each, to illustrate the different effects produced upon men by the very same divine influence. I thereby demonstrated that it is the state of men's hearts, or their attitude toward God, that causes the softening or hardening of their hearts, or the divine shaping of their natures to- honor or dishonor; that the cause is not absolutely God's sovereign, arbitrary choice.
The idea of the apostle in this figure of the potter and the clay was to present the fact that God, in dealing with men as moral subjects of his divine government, whether as individuals or nations, requires conformity to his divine ideal of character upon moral choice in order that they may realize the blessings and honors of the molding and shaping of his divine providences. To live in violation of this requirement is to he shaped in dishonor and to be rejected and destroyed as unworthy for the Master's service. This the apostle was picturing as the case of the Hebrews as a people. They had become vessels of dishonor by rejecting the true Messiah, Christ, the God-sent Saviour of the world. This is clearly taught at the close of the chapter, in the 31st and 32nd verses. This lump of clay represents both the Jewish and Gentile worlds, in this representation the fulfillment of two prophecies, concerning the Hebrew and Gentile worlds, meet. If the lump of clay, as my opponent claims, represents the whole human family, from the beginning to the end of time, and if the vessels of honor shaped from it represent God's elect, thus made by his absolute choice from eternity, then, since the dishonored vessels are also represented as being absolutely shaped by him, without their choice, would not these latter- have a right, according to the principle of equity, to demand of God, "Why hast thou made me thus?" The apostle rebukes the questioning, by these dishonored vessels, of God's right to shape them. But he does riot do this on the grounds that my brother claims—that God had an absolute right thus to make dishonorable vessels of men, regardless of merit or demerit on their part. The potter must have respect to the condition of the clay, in order successfully to shape a vessel according to the designed ideal. So the apostle would teach us that God, in the moral and spiritual order of things, in shaping either men or nations into honorable or dishonorable vessels, has respect to the attitude they sustain to him; and whether or not men or nations are made honorable vessels depends upon their moral choice, in conformity to the requirements of God's ideal of character. Then the Jews, as a people who rejected Christ, the Divine ideal and actual Saviour of men, had no right to question the equity of God's dealings with them in depriving them of their honored trusts and blessings as his peculiar people. Paul, in Romans ix. 22, 23, pictures God's long forbearance with these vessels of wrath, made up for destruction, in order to show God's anxiety to have the Hebrews, these vessels of dishonor by unbelief, to repent and become vessels of honor. This same idea is presented by the Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy ii. 20, 21,where he speaks of it being possible for one who is a dishonored vessel to he purged and cleansed, and thereby changed to an honored vessel. The same view is presented in Jeremiah xviii. 4—8, inclusive. The prophet here represents Israel as a lump of clay, shaped into a vessel by the hands of the Lord as a potter, but marred on account of sins, thus becoming a vessel of dishonor. Jeremiah, by the authority of the Lord, declares unto Israel that if they will repent God will reshape them from a dishonored into an honored vessel. This completely blots out Brother Potter's doctrine of absolute election from eternity, and knocks the props from under him in regard to his sheep being saved from eternity, without regard to any agency on their part. It everlastingly destroys his objection to the Foreign Mission work as wholly unnecessary in propagating the gospel for the salvation of souls. It proves on the contrary that foreign missionaries are operating according to the very principles of the divine economy of salvation— viz., individual responsibility in salvation, and combined cooperation of the divine and human agency in prosecuting the work of the world's evangelization.
Brother Potter says of the advocates of Foreign Missions that his objection to their doctrine is, they damn all the heathen, roll them up by the wholesale, and just turn them over to eternal death. We do not teach it. If we did, it is a better doctrine than yours, which makes God damn men without their choice in order to manifest his power. That is your teaching. Now, if we had that big-nosed man here, and that boy to look at him we might raise a laugh! I have heard all those anecdotes all my life, but I am willing to listen to them if it will keep Brother Potter in a good humor. I am in sympathy with men in hard places.
He said if 1 should live fifty years from today, and hear of him or Brother Hume preaching, I would be calling them missionaries. I wonder if he was ever over in Africa or Madagascar. I love Brother Hume and Brother Potter, as far as that is concerned, but do not think he ought to put a quotation into our Confession that is not there. Let me see if he did that. John xii. 32 is the text. The Confession of Faith says: "And when he is come he will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment." The text: "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
MR. POTTER: Is not that the proof-text of that section?
MR. YATES: Yes, but that is not the text you quoted. John xii. 33 is the verse you quoted. His memory was short. Jesus is going to draw all men unto him. Brother Potter is a Universalist. That is their main text. That is one of the strongest Universalist texts. "And I, if be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." He says I am mistaken on that. Well, I will take the mistake, and I will say yet his theology is the same. "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." Now, let us go farther. I want to look at those contradictions of the Confession of Faith, page 2.7. I will read: God the Father, having sent forth his Son Jesus Christ as a propitiation for the sins of the world, does most graciously vouchsafe a manifestation of the Holy Spirit with the same intent to every man, the Holy Spirit operating through the written word, and through such other means as God in his wisdom may choose." I want you to note that. First, it is through the written word the Holy Spirit operates, and then through such other means as God may choose, or directly without means. I do not suppose the brethren meant that there was no means at all. We believe the Holy Spirit operates independently of the Word, and yet in the Word. And we believe farther, just what Paul taught in that second chapter of Romans, yet it may be so interpreted or looked at as to leave this other part of God's dealings with the human family where the gospel is not, with God, and we are not willing to take an stand that we have not a "thus saith the Lord" for. So moves upon the hearts of men as to enlighten, reprove, and convince them of sin and of their lost estate, and incline them to come to Christ." Paul helps us out on that in Romans i. 20, and we stand with Paul right there: I do, and I believe the denomination does. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" They have had the light. And further than that, Paul tells us in the 2d chapter, 12th verse, "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." That is it. As many as sinned without law shall perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. Then he goes on to say, "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves." That is, those that act up to the best light they have. But very few of them do that. If men in this enlightened land do not, what about the heathen in that benighted land? So you can see my position in regard to the heathen.
Now, I want to say this: that the gospel is the common ordained means in the work. I am not here to defend any particular individual as air individual, or any particular creed, hut only the proposition under discussion—"Resolved, That the gospel work carried on by the different denominations in heathen lands or foreign countries, known as the Foreign Mission work, is authorized in the Scripture and blessed. and owned of God." I have asked him time and again to show us a passage in accordance with his teaching. Now, he knows that we believe in the operation of the Holy Spirit just as strongly as he does, and that the uplifted Christ is a crucified Christ, and the crucified Christ an uplifted Jesus. Now, I think I have explained myself far enough not to be misunderstood upon this heathen question. I am far from throwing all heathen into hell, but I believe thousands of them are lost without the gospel. Look at the results. And yet Brother Potter says God has a right to do as he pleases. He says that he does not believe in Foreign Mission work—a work that has to be backed by an army. He has given me his own book, Appleton's Cyclopedia, and I want to read it to you and see how much there is against Foreign Missions. Perhaps he will say to you, after I read it, that Paul did not have the backing of civil government. He did not. He did not have the civil government behind him. What gave to us our civil government? It was Christianity. The United States is under obligations to protect their citizens anywhere. There is not a word said in this article claiming that religion was forced upon the people with the bayonet. This is an account given of that star of light, Madagascar, where many suffered martyrdom that they might propagate the gospel there. Appleton's Cyclopedia, page 814, Madagascar: "In 1818 the London Missionary Society sent a number of missionaries, accompanied by artisans, to instruct the people. The native language was reduced to writing, a grammar prepared, and the Bible translated and printed. In the course of ten years about 15,000 of the natives had learned to read, and a large number were converted to Christianity. Mr. Hastie, an Irishman sent by the British Government as its agent, resided several years at the capital, where he had great influence. His counsels, which all tended to promote civilization, had mi-much weight with Radamna, who was strongly imbued with the love of truth and justice, and was humane and gentle in character. The king gave all the encouragement in his power to the missionaries, and great advances were made in civilizing the kingdom. Infanticide and other cruel customs were abolished. and rapid p1-ogress was made in the useful arts and in education. The premature death of Radama. in 1828, put a stop to the advance of Madagascar. He was succeeded by his widow, Ranavalona, who exerted herself to undo his work. The schools were closed amid the missionaries driven from the island in 1835. The influence of the idol-keepers and
of the supporters of divination and other superstitions was restored to its former supremacy. The profession of Christianity by any of the natives was prohibited and violent persecution of the native Christians commenced, in which many suffered martyrdom with heroic fortitude. The French were expelled from their settlements on the east coast by Radama in 1825, and again by the queen's troops in 1831. In 1845 the English and French cruisers in those seas undertook to humble the Hovas, and, after fruitless conferences and attempts at negotiation, bombarded and burned Tamatave and landed to attack the fort, but were repulsed with considerable loss. From this period all amicable intercourse between the French and English and the Madagascans ceased for eight years, till in 1853 commercial relations were renewed by the payment of an indemnity to the queen of the island. In 1846 the queen's son, then seventeen years of age, embraced Christianity, and through his influence Christian doctrines were more widely spread than ever; but in 1849 a fresh persecution broke out, and more than two thousand persons were arrested and punished for their faith, some of them with death. In 1857 a conspiracy organized by French emissaries for the overthrow of the queen's government led to another persecution of the Christians, in which two thousand persons were put to death. In 1861 Ranavalona died, and was succeeded by her son, Radama II., who proclaimed liberty to all religions, released the Christian captives, and forbade sorcery and the ordeal by poison. The English missionaries returned, and Christianity made rapid progress. On May 12, 1863, he was murdered, and his widow, Rasoherina, made sovereign. She was a heathen, and the patron of the idols, but preserved liberty of worship. In 1867 a large church was erected in memory of the Christian martyrs. Rasoherina died April i, i868, and was succeeded by her sister, who took the name of Rasoherina II. She publicly professed Christianity on February 20, 1869, and has exerted her influence for the advancement of education. Three printing-presses are established at her capital, and during 1869, 36,243 books were issued, and in the first six months in 1870, 81,000 tracts, Bibles, Testaments and other books." So there was no force at all, only in the attempt to protect the subjects, just as the United. States would do for any man or woman as a citizen that was imposed on, or as any Christian nation would do for its missionaries. And even the effort of the French and British Governments in this direction was a failure, and neither gave force nor security to the Foreign Mission work in Madagascar, but aggravated its surroundings and increased its obstacles. So in spite of the cruel persecutions of the Malagasy, the missionary work has accomplished its grand achievements among the Hovas, by its own agencies and means, and the Divine aid by which it has been guided and blessed. So says Mr. Appleton, whose work my opponent intended to draw upon me as a witness against the Foreign Mission work; but this authority proved to be a very strong witness in favor of missions, and as authority it must be first-class, or my worthy opponent would not have selected it.
Now, I want to notice this claim that I have failed to show that there is an identity between the Foreign Mission work of today and the primitive Church. Now, I have shown you, if you remember, that the very same spirit that actuated the Christian workers in the primitive Church actuate the missionary workers of today and that they comply with the very same principles in the mission work. I have also shown you that as the foreign missionaries of the first century suffered martyrdom in the advancement of the gospel, so also the missionaries of the Foreign Mission work of today have laid down their lives in like manner in prosecuting the gospel work in heathen lands. I have also shown the identity of the energizing and guiding power of the Holy Spirit, and of its design as manifest in the gospel work of the New Testament, with that of the Foreign Mission work of today as exhibited by its laborers both in the home and foreign field. The design of the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church is to enable its members to witness for Christ to the world. Let me read that to you in regard to the Holy Spirit: "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." By the baptism of the Holy Spirit they were to be prepared to become witnesses unto the uttermost part of the earth; that was their mission. Jesus said, "Go preach the gospel to every creature "—go take the gospel. I have given proof-text after proof-text. I have shown you that the object of the mission work today and the mission work then are the same—to "preach the gospel to every creature." I have shown that the end to be sub-served is the same exactly; I have shown further, that they were sent forth of God. The members of the primitive Church, in their preparation to carry out the great commission given by Christ, assembled together and prayed until they were baptized by the Holy Spirit and endued with power for the work. Then the Church went forth to witness for Jesus unto the uttermost parts of the earth, and God blessed the work. So it was with the Church in the seventeenth century. When its members went to God for the baptism of power by the Holy Spirit to fit them for the work, their spiritual life was wonderfully revived. The Church was so revived that it sent forth witnesses for Jesus to the remotest parts of the earth—to the heathen lands. The laborers and witnesses have since been wonderfully blessed by God in their labors. That the apostles were slow to learn is seen in the fact that they did not at first comprehend the full meaning of the commission, for up to the revival at Antioch they directed their labors to the Jews only. When Peter went down to Joppa, in order to induce him to go from thence to Caesarea to preach the gospel to Cornelius, the Gentile, he had to have testimony from both the human and divine side, as I have shown in my former speeches. True, it is said of the Church at Jerusalem that they continued in the fellowship and doctrine of the apostles—that is, they entertained the same doctrinal views and had sympathies in common with the apostles in the work. This does not conflict with the statement I made, that the apostles in the beginning of the work did not realize the full extent of the commission. Peter certainly did not, as I have already 'said, for the Lord had to give him a vision removing his national prejudices, to prepare him to preach the gospel to Cornelius, the Roman Centurion. That was as great an undertaking for Peter, with his Jewish prejudices, and as grand a sacrifice, as for one today to give up his native land to go to the foreign field to preach the gospel of Christ to the heathen. The disciples at Jerusalem, who were scattered abroad by persecution, had gone everywhere preaching the Word. Some of them went to Antioch and had a great revival. The apostles at Jerusalem sent Barnabas to examine the nature of the work. He reported that the work was blessed and owned of God, though it was a Foreign Mission work among the Gentiles. You see the fire was spreading everywhere. Those burning hearts, filled with life, working for Jesus, constrained by the love of Christ, went everywhere, laboring for the salvation of souls. What was the result? The Gentiles were coming in; the brethren who where sent to see whether the evidence justified the report that came to them reported that the work was of God. What was a farther result? We find Paul and Barnabas sent out by the Church through the Holy Spirit. God's church is his temple; he dwells in it. They were sent out into Asia Minor to preach the gospel, to tell the glad tidings of salvation. What more or farther? Now, we will read concerning it. We will take this very city we were talking about this morning, and see the results. Why, Corinth was one of the most corrupt cities of that day. It was a city noted for licentiousness as well as for glory and greatness—in fact, it was noted for every sin that the heathen are guilty of today. You remember this morning what I read to you in 1 Cor. vi. 9—the description of what they were before Paul went there: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you "—such "were," it is in the past "but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." Then in i Corinthians 1. 21: "For after that in the wisdom of God the-world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." Now, here (pointing to the map) I have quoted to you from the very best authors in regard to the fruits in these islands in Oceania, and have shown you how wicked and depraved these men and women were, They were cannibals, they often feasted upon their enemies, they buried their children and enemies alive, they engaged in every thing that was brutal and low. We do not need to show, the Scripture connection between the gospel and Foreign Mission work in the-heathen lands, except to show the identity in spirit and in fruit. History shows that the Church has success just in proportion as it possesses the missionary spirit' and manifests it in the work. And in the same proportion as it loses this spirit does it lose power and decrease in growth. When the Church succeeds it shows the missionary spirit. Here (pointing to the Foreign Mission fields on the map) we see the results of the gospel work. They are just the same as the results of the gospel preached by Paul and others at Philippi and Corinth and in all those cities where the gospel secured a hearing in the first century. Hence the fruits are identical. Now, I would like to read a quotation from Harris in his "Great Commission," pages 151—154. I have not time to read it now, but I will just say, and make it good in my next speech, that in this apostolic period, when the Church depended too much upon worldly things and did not heed spiritual things, as guided by the Holy Spirit, it lost power and became only nominally Christian. But just in the proportion that: the missionary spirit prevailed did the Church prosper.
The gospel was sent to the nations of Northern Europe, and though in this the Church was not as spiritual as we would desire, yet amid all the chaff there were grains of wheat which fell here and there all over that country. The early Church did a good work also in preserving the manuscripts of the New Testament. Then there came the age of darkness, when there were only a few fruitful souls here and there. The life of the Church was not sufficient to carry out the work in sending the word abroad, for it was all that it could do to keep itself alive at home. Then came another great revival. The first impulse of revival life came through Wycliffe, who lived and labored from 100 to 200 years before the Reformation. During these intervening centuries there lived here and there such earnest, active gospel teachers and workers as John Huss, who further developed the already partially revived spiritual life of the Church. But the Roman Catholics crushed out Wycliffe and Huss, and all other leading evangelical spirits in the revival work. Yet the fire was burning and smoldering, until at last it burst out into the glorious Reformation, out of which came our great civilization, which my brother confesses is the fruit of Christianity. Following the Reformation came a season of great apostasy to the Protestant Church. Following this came the great revival of the general religious work of the seventeenth century. Out of this grew the revival of the Church life which gave birth to our present marvelous epoch of the Foreign Mission work. Now, my friends, Brother Potter says he believes in civilization. He believes there are better homes and better society where the Bible is sent than where it is not. Now, if Christianity has given us our civilization, is not the civilization produced among the heathen by the gospel like it? Then they must be identical. Can a man live a pure and beautiful life, the reverse of the corrupt and debased life of the Corinthians, or the reverse of the debased and brutal lives of the heathen in the lands I have called your attention to on the map, without that transformation of character wrought by the influence of the Holy Spirit?
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Why are there no single-celled terrestrial organisms? Part 1
In this post I discussed what its means for an animal to be terrestrial. All animals (Kingdom Animalia) are, by definition, multicellular, while the unicellular organisms belong to the Kingdom Protista. As far as I know there are no terrestrial protists.
In the present post I will give some reasons why I think there can be no terrestrial protists.
1. Unicellular protists tend to be very small for the obvious reason that they consist of but one cell. The ratio of the surface area to volume of an object increases as the object gets smaller. Therefore, a unicellular terrestrial organism would have a very large surface area to volume ratio and consequently great difficulty to prevent water loss thru its membranous boundary with the external environment. An impermeable coat could prevent water loss, but it would then be difficult for the protist to receive the required oxygen and food.
2. How would a unicellular terrestrial organism reproduce? Division or the production of any propagule would further decrease size and increase the surface area to volume ratio and the rate of water loss.
3. It would actually be quite difficult for a microscopic unicellular terrestrial organism to free itself from water droplets that it might come in contact with. Water tension would probably be an insurmountable force at such tiny dimensions.
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