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8 out of 8 people found the following review helpful:
What are the pros? large pods with a lot of peas
What are the cons? hard to shell
I planted these the first of April (I am an hour north of Seattle) and they finished their first production by the end of July. They climbed nicely for me, although only about 4 feet tall. Lots of pods with 8 - 12 peas on average. Total yeild from a 4' x 4' patch was about 4 lbs. Toward the end they were all a bit wormy (but my ducks loved them). They will produce a second crop, but it is smaller, so I pulled them out to use the space to plant a fall crop. I will be planting these again next year.
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What are the pros? First to produce,
What are the cons? none
I grew 5 varieties, these were the first to produce, lots of pods with a good flavor,
What are the pros? Great producer.
What are the cons? Germination was a bit off.
Overall very pleased with this pea. Produced large pods with a lot of large peas. This is more of a pea for shelling as the pods were more fibrous than say a Sugar Ann where you can eat the entire pod. Will definitely grow again.
7 out of 8 people found the following review helpful:
What are the pros? Grew fast, large pods.
What are the cons? Low Germination, Won't Climb.
I grew this pea in addition to the Alaska garden pea thinking it might actually be an improvement. It wasn't. The only thing "improved" about this pea is the size of the pods. The plants will not stand on their own and refuse to even climb my trellis, which the Alaska peas like just fine. If you want to tie them to something they might be okay. Very few of them germinated and those that did haven't produced nearly as much their Alaskan counter parts. They may have a slightly sweeter taste though.
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The Orange County Badminton Club was a sea of blues, reds, blacks, yellows, pinks, lilacs, greens, and whites October 17-19, 2008, as the 14th International Friendship Ladies Badminton Tournament took place. Shoes were squeaking, shuttles were flying, screams and shrieks were heard as 471 women in four age groups from Australia, Canada, Korea, the Netherlands, the USA, and Japan determined zone champions, the largest badminton tournament in the United States ever.
After thirteen tournaments in Osaka, the Osaka Ladies Badminton Federation, host of the Friendship tournament, moved the tournament to the USA where the OCBC had been asked to host the competition. The format was a team doubles tournament with 6-8 players on a team. Each team played the best two of three matches in pool play with top teams and/or top two teams moving out to main draw play. Team captains were responsible for submitting rosters to the tournament desk with their line-ups of doubles teams prior to matches.
A and B Zone teams played on Friday, October 17. The A Zone was advanced level for any team wishing to enter the zone with no age requirement. B Zone consisted of all players 55 years of age and under. C and D Zone players competed on Saturday, although a few D Zone matches were held on Friday. C Zone was all players from 56-65 years old, and all players 66 and older were D Zone players.
Friday's play began with Opening Ceremonies recognizing the Osaka Ladies Badminton Federation and staff; the Orange County Badminton Club and staff; Don, Kim and Montri Chew; and Yonex Corporation USA. Matches proceeded with teams furnishing umpires and lineswomen.
Saturday's schedule was the same, but matches were speeded along to accommodate the evening's dinner. Following the matches, the OCBC's ten courts were turned into a 50-table banquet hall. A delicious dinner from the OCBC's Bebe's Café was served followed by thank you's to all those involved with the tournament.
Entertainment for the evening was provided by the players including musical solos; "It's A Small World" performed by Team IBF; a catchy Aussie chorale; a popular Canadian ballad; a hula dance; a Japanese drum team; and a Japanese line dance. But the evening was brought to a close with a surprise performance by OCBC owner and host Don Chew singing, "Dream, Dream, Dream."
Excitement was the rule on Sunday with semifinals and finals on the agenda. Play started at 9AM and continued nonstop until 2:30PM. Which U.S teams prevailed? In the A Zone with six teams, the three U.S. teams took the top three spots: 1st, Pink Ladies (Mesinee Mangkalakiri, Eva Lee, Mona Santoso, Joo Hyun Lee, Grace Peng, Bonnie Wong, Eti Gunawan, and Elie Wu); 2nd, Kawaii (Rulan Yeh, Rulien Yeh, Priscilla Lun, Rena Wang, Susana Zhong, and Beckie Neumann); and 3rd, Mini-OCBC (Panita Phongasavithas, Vimla Phongasavithas, Jamie Subandhi, Joanne Chen, Cee Ketpura, Qiu Ming Wu, and Thuy Hoang). This zone rewarded players with medals and a prize purse-1st, $2K; 2nd, $1,500; and 3rd, $1K.
In the B Zone with 29 teams, three of the twelve U.S. teams came out on top: 1st, PH7 (Joy Kitzmiller, Daphne Chang, MingZi Zhang, Jeannie Yang, Shackerah Cupidon, and Ruilin Chen; 2nd, Team IBF (Monica Ortez, Terry Lira, Wendy Carter, Claire Sharpe, Ann Gonsalves, Mai-Quyen Bui, Gena Fite, and Elke Nijsse-Drews); and 3rd, Super Crew (Sara Vang, Lily Chen, Linda Phan, Connie Hwang, Tanya Lieu, and Elena Dumitriu).
The C Zone with 26 teams had three U.S. or U.S./Canadian teams but the Japanese teams came out on top-1st, Kirakukai; 2nd, O.B.B.; and 3rd, Tokyo B. D Zone with ten teams, 2 U.S. or US/Canada, had three Japanese teams prevail, although Team 66 USA won their way to the ¾ playoff. D Zone winners were: 1st, O.B. Pals B; 2nd, Endless; and 3rd, Freesia. B, C, and D Zone winners were presented medals.
It was three days of smiling faces, making new friends, hand-shaking, photo-taking, gift-giving and receiving, bowing, paper-rock-scissors, cheering, and playing hard. Japanese teams were fit, energetic, well-practiced, and relentless in returning shots. Rallies were long, and points were well-earned. It was a great experience for all those on the courts!
Many thanks to the Osaka Ladies Badminton Federation and their staff; the OCBC and its staff; Bebe's Café Thai Restaurant; K&D Graphics; USA Badminton; Yonex Corporation USA; Don, Kim, Montri, and Gus Chew; Tim and May Mangkalakiri; Cai Zi Min; Halim Haryanto Ho; Michiko Watanabe; Monica Ortez; Frances Fujinami; Panita, Vimla, and Anoma Phongasavithas; and Tournament Referee Elaine Kong.
As Miyoko Emura, President of the Osaka Ladies Badminton Federation, stated in her President's Message in the program, "There are no borders in sports, nor does age present a barrier. For those who love badminton, to get together with others from all over the world, have fun, competing at their sport is a wonderful way of making international friends."
Instructions at the Opening Ceremonies were to have fun and make friends. Mission accomplished by all Friendship Tournament players!
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Greg Lasater, a deputy with Wilson County Sheriff's Department and member of Wilson County Board of Education has resigned from both positions.
The Wilson Post was informed around 7 Thursday night by Wilson County Sheriff Robert Bryan that Lasater had resigned from the department. This decision by Lasater comes on the heels of his resignation from the school board Thursday afternoon.
Lasater has been under investigation by the Sheriff's Department regarding his use of the department's credit card.
He had been suspended with pay from the Sheriff's Department as of Wednesday, Bryan said.
The sheriff said it was brought to his attention that Lasater, who also served as a school resource officer at Winfree-Bryant Middle School in Lebanon, reportedly had some discrepancies in relation to gas purchases on the department credit card.
"We review our bills and look for this type of thing. You don't ever want to have to deal with it – you expect to have employees that are honest and trustworthy," he said. "This happens in other professions all the time. We saw something that was not right and we are going to deal with it properly."
Bryan said these discrepancies were first noticed when reviewing bills from last month and that although the amount of money they are dealing with does not appear to be "large," the department is still compiling numbers.
"We have been consulting with the District Attorney, and once we complete this investigation we will turn it over to him. There could be possible criminal prosecution," he added. "As sheriff, I have to protect the citizens of Wilson County."
District Attorney Tommy Thompson said he expects to hear more details regarding the investigation on Friday.
"It will be treated like any other case that we handle. I will review the information and it will be submitted to the grand jury and go from there. I am aware of it, but have not seen any details yet," Thompson told The Post on Thursday.
Attempts to contact Lasater for comment were unsuccessful. His home number listed on the school board's website has been disconnected, and his cell phone voice mailbox was full.
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Topic: Interface RoR with other software - is it possible?
Hello everybody,
I'm working on a specialised/proprietary database. Some time ago, a servlet has been written that implements a (binary) RPC mechanism to access that db's functionality - method calls, exceptions, data are all marshalled through a binary stream to java land..
My question is what chances do I have to implement such a mechanism to interface that db with Rails ... I couldn't find any doc relating to something like that ..
Ideally, I should be using it like this:
[Ruby -land]
db_connector = MyDBRemoteConnector.new()
some_results = db_connector.remote_method(args)
Thanks for any ideas,


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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.
Rezwan Ferdaus, 27, of Ashland, pleaded guilty in July to attempting to provide material support to terrorists and attempting to damage and destroy federal buildings with an explosive. As part of a plea agreement between prosecutors and Ferdaus' attorney, both sides agreed to recommend the 17-year sentence.
Ferdaus, a Muslim-American who grew up in Massachusetts and has a physics degree from Northeastern University, delivered a long, soft-spoken statement in which he offered no apology for his actions but thanked his family and friends for supporting him. He said he has accepted his fate and "can dream of a brighter future."
Ferdaus did not make any direct anti-American statements, but he did refer to "a world filled with injustices."
"Who other than God knows best what it takes to make a good human being," he said.
Ferdaus was arrested last year after federal employees posing as members of al-Qaida delivered materials he requested, including grenades, machine guns and plastic explosives. Authorities have said the public was never in danger because the explosives were always under the control of federal agents.
Prosecutors have said Ferdaus began planning a holy war against the United States in 2010 after becoming convinced by seeing jihadi websites and videos that said America is evil.
Prosecutors say he approached a government informant at a mosque in December 2010 and later met with undercover agents to discuss a plot. Prosecutors said Ferdaus also wanted to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan using improvised explosive devices detonated by modified cellphones.
This pious Muslim planned to shoot individuals as they fled bombed DC buildings.
Ferdaus indicated that his ground assault plan would involve the use of six people, armed with automatic firearms and divided into two teams. Ferdaus described his expanded attack as follows:
…with this aerial assault, we can effectively eliminate key locations of the P-building then we can add to it in order to take out everything else and leave one area only as a squeeze where the individuals will be isolated, they'll be vulnerable and we can dominate.
Once isolated, Ferdaus planned to "open up on them" and "keep firing" to create "chaos" and "take out" everyone. He also provided the expanded plan to the UC on a thumb drive.
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Topic: Retrieve list of all models in your app?
I've finally gotten round to experimenting with rake tasks. What i'd like to do in the one i'm hacking up, is retrieve an array of all the models in my application, and then run a particular method on a subset of those (to be precise, i want to run that method for the models who have a corresponding .yml file in the db directory)
This meta-programming territory is quite unfamiliar to me, is there a way to get an array of all application models within a rake task?
Here's the pseudo code i have so far
desc "Synchronise development and test databases with latest data from svn"
task :sync_db => ["db:migrate","load_data_from_ar_dumps","db:test:clone"]
task :load_data_from_ar_dumps => :environment do
# Get all models in the app and put them in 'models' array
# models.each |m|
# if ... (check if theres a corresponding .yml file in db)
# eval("#{m.to_s}.dump_to_file")
# end
# end
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"Are F2P MMOs just not very good?" I asked myself this very question the other week when I heard the news that, surprise surprise, SW:TOR was going to ditch it's subscription model and go free-to-play instead. Of course, everyone and their donkey had predicted this months ago so it didn't come as much of a shock, aside from perhaps how quickly it happened. I think most of us were expecting it to take a few more months.


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Why do you think that? I would guess that the vast majority of NY style operators use a single flour in their dough.What do you think you can accomplish with a blend that you can't with a single flour?
Gotcha! Thanks for the replies. I've only played with the King Arthurs Bread Flour. I guess it's time to experiment with other flours.
I have mixed flours but not because I wanted a special blend. If I can't find KABF I'll pick up BFB and vice versa. At some point I will not have enough of one to make my pizzas so I just make up the weight with the other. I have never seen or tasted any difference with these two flours.
Tom,It may not matter much for practical purposes but there are differences between the two flours, even though they are both bread flours. For example, the KABF is milled from hard red spring wheat and has a protein content of 12.7 +/1 0.2%, whereas the BforB flour is milled from hard winter wheeat and has a protein content of around 12 +/-0.2%. You can see the specs for the two flours at http://www.kingarthurflour.com/professional/specifications-conventional-bakery-flour.html and at http://www.professionalbakingsolutions.com/product/harvest-king-enriched-unbleached-flour-50-lb/53722000?mct=Flour&ct=general-mills-harvest-king&typ=Brand. In the KA specs, the KABF is called by its name on the professional side, Special. In the GM specs, the BforB is called by its name on the professional side, Harvest King.Peter


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I noticed that there are a lot of Champaign pizza fans on here. Does anyone have any recollection or recipes from Willie's Thick and Cheesy in Champaign? I remember it was on the West side of Champaign, and though they delivered on campus, it wasn't a "discount" pizza like Domino's, and may not have been huge with the students. I think they closed by 1990. The crust was thick, but light, and the sauce seemed very garlic-y, and of course, it was very cheesy with a good consistency.Thanks to anyone that can help!


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MARSHALL – The search for an additional attorney to help meet increasing workloads in the Lyon County Attorney's Office came to a close this week. Members of the Lyon County Board voted to approve hiring Abby Wikelius as an assistant county attorney.
Lyon County Attorney Rick Maes said having Wikelius join the attorney's office will help address a growing number of court cases.
In recent years, Maes said, "It seems like there are more cases coming into the office, and it involves more time."
The number of jury trials being held in the county has gone up, and the county has had to take on more appeals and other cases that would have been addressed at the state level in the past.
With an additional attorney, Maes said, "I think we can provide a more effective and efficient approach, across the spectrum." There would also be less burnout for staff at the attorney's office, he said.
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Wikelius' position will be full time. Maes said she will be working with a variety of court cases, including juvenile delinquency and Human Services cases in addition to prosecuting criminal cases. Lyon County has a small attorney's office, so there isn't as much specialization as there may be in larger counties, he said.
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by John MacArthur
The typical Christian today seems oblivious to the principles established by Deuteronomy 29:29 and 1 Corinthians 4:6 ("that you may learn . . . not to go beyond what is written" ESV). In fact, people seem to be looking for spiritual truth, messages from God, and insight into the spirit world everywhere but Scripture.
Today's evangelicals have been indoctrinated by decades of charismatic influence to think God regularly bypasses His written Word in order to speak directly to any and every believer—as if extrabiblical revelation were a standard feature of ordinary Christian experience. Many therefore think charity requires them to receive claims of "fresh revelation" with a kind of pious gullibility. After all, who are we to question someone else's private word from God?
So when dozens of best-selling authors who profess to be Christians are suddenly claiming they have seen heaven and want to tell us what it's like, most of the Christian community is defenseless in the wake of the onslaught.
Todd Burpo's astonishing multimillion best seller, Heaven Is for Real, [1]Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent, Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Nashville: Nelson, 2010). epitomizes the phenomenal success Christian authors and publishers have had with books about alleged visits to heaven. It also illustrates the danger of basing one's ideas about the afterlife on personal experience rather than Scripture alone.
Most of the familiar features of the genre are included in Burpo's story: conscious out-of-body travel, the ability to see things from an ethereal perspective, visions of angelic beings, sublime emotions, vivid lights and colors, and lots of unexpected but finely detailed trivia about heaven's look and feel. But Heaven Is for Real also includes dozens of biblical references throughout. The entire story is carefully clothed in familiar evangelical language and imagery. And Burpo has clearly succeeded in selling a near-death-experience story to evangelicals as if it were a legitimate source of knowledge about heaven. Droves of Christian readers have heartily embraced his book.
Todd Burpo is the bivocational pastor of a quasi-Pentecostal Wesleyan church in a remote southwestern Nebraska farm community. He is culturally, if not doctrinally, evangelical—a fairly typical middle-American small-town pastor. In his own words, he is "one of those pastors who walks back and forth during the sermon. Not a holy-rolling, fire-and-brimstone guy by any stretch, but not a soft-spoken minister in vestments, performing liturgical readings either. I'm a storyteller, and to tell stories I need to move around some" (Heaven Is for Real, p. 10).
So Burpo is comfortably familiar with evangelical culture and expectations. He says he believes in the authority of Scripture, and he attempts to draw as many connections as possible between his story and what the Bible says about heaven, angels, and the spiritual realm. That's why so many of the details he gives are carefully set alongside biblical allusions and proof texts. In that respect at least, Heaven Is for Real certainly includes more references from the Bible than most in the genre.
What sets the book apart, however, is that it is based on the experience of a not-quite-four-year-old boy. It is the story of Pastor Burpo's eldest son, Colton, who as a toddler nearly died from a burst appendix. Four months after the medical crisis, when Todd's wife, Sonja, asked little Colton if he remembered being in the hospital, he answered, "Yes, Mommy, I remember. . . . That's where the angels sang to me" (p. xiii).
Todd Burpo's response to that comment was breathless amazement. In fact, the level of awe and stupefaction he describes seems quite out of proportion to the significance of such a statement from a typical four-year-old. He writes, "Time froze. Sonja and I looked at each other, passing a silent message: Did he just say what I think he said?" (p. xiv). As Pastor Burpo himself recounts the story, he was easily, immediately, and utterly convinced that Colton had indeed had some kind of out-of-body experience:
Colton said that he "went up out of" his body, that he had spoken with angels, and had sat in Jesus' lap. And the way we knew he wasn't making it up was that he was able to tell us what we were doing in another part of the hospital: "You were in a little room by yourself praying, and Mommy was in a different room and she was praying and talking on the phone." (p. 61)
Colton said that he "went up out of" his body, that he had spoken with angels, and had sat in Jesus' lap. And the way we knew he wasn't making it up was that he was able to tell us what we were doing in another part of the hospital: "You were in a little room by yourself praying, and Mommy was in a different room and she was praying and talking on the phone." (p. 61)
That same unhesitating credulity sets the tone for the entire book. Showing little understanding of how fertile the imagination of a barely four-year-old boy can be, Pastor Burpo embraced Colton's testimony with implicit faith. He instantly decided to subjugate his whole understanding of heaven to little Colton's instruction. "If he had really seen Jesus and the angels, I wanted to become the student, not the teacher!" (p. 62).
Many of the things Todd Burpo interprets as irrefutable proof that his son was given special revelation are clearly little more than standard Sunday school stories with a typical preschooler's slightly distorted slant. Pastor Burpo recounts this conversation that took place shortly after Colton began talking about heaven:
"Did anything else happen?"
He nodded, eyes bright. "Did you know that Jesus has a cousin? Jesus told me his cousin baptized him."
"Yes, you're right," I said. "The Bible says Jesus' cousin's name is John." Mentally, I scolded myself: Don't offer information. Just let him talk . . .
"I don't remember his name," Colton said happily, "but he was really nice."
John the Baptist is "nice"?!
Just as I was processing the implications of my son's statement—that he had met John the Baptist—Colton spied a plastic horse among his toys and held it up for me to look at.
"Hey, Dad, did you know Jesus has a horse?"
"A horse?"
"Yeah, a rainbow horse. I got to pet him." (p. 63)
"Did anything else happen?"
He nodded, eyes bright. "Did you know that Jesus has a cousin? Jesus told me his cousin baptized him."
"Yes, you're right," I said. "The Bible says Jesus' cousin's name is John." Mentally, I scolded myself: Don't offer information. Just let him talk . . .
"I don't remember his name," Colton said happily, "but he was really nice."
John the Baptist is "nice"?!
Just as I was processing the implications of my son's statement—that he had met John the Baptist—Colton spied a plastic horse among his toys and held it up for me to look at.
"Hey, Dad, did you know Jesus has a horse?"
"A horse?"
"Yeah, a rainbow horse. I got to pet him." (p. 63)
Pastor Burpo seems to think Colton's perspective on John the Baptist and heavenly rainbow horses is full of profound insight. In reality, precocious preschoolers make imaginative remarks that sound like authoritative observations all the time. Art Linkletter made a career of eliciting unintentionally witty commentary on profound matters from kids on live daily television.
Remember, Colton had lived his entire life in a pastor's home, overhearing conversations, listening to stories, and being exposed to teaching focused on biblical themes. At one point, Pastor Burpo acknowledges that he had read countless Bible stories from picture books to Colton (p. 66). And yet when Colton mentions in passing that "Jesus has markers" (meaning, evidently, the nail prints in his hands and feet), Todd Burpo's breathless response is, "He saw this. He had to have" (p. 65–67).
And thus the book continues. When Colton says something farfetched, heterodox, or unbiblical, Todd Burpo finds a way to accept it as true just the same. At one point, for example, Colton says he was sitting in a little chair next to the Spirit of God. So Todd asks his son what the Holy Spirit looks like:
"Hmm," Colton replies. "That's kind of a hard one . . . he's kind of blue." (p. 103)
"Hmm," Colton replies. "That's kind of a hard one . . . he's kind of blue." (p. 103)
Obviously, a remark like that begs for a follow-up question or some kind of explanation. "Blue"? Does Colton envision the Holy Spirit as Papa Smurf? Is he describing a bluish cloud of haze? Blue? What is he talking about?
At first, Todd seems to be pondering similar questions. ("I was trying to picture that. . . .") But Colton immediately changes the subject, and no further explanation is ever given. The only hint we get about what is in Colton's mind comes more than twenty pages later, when he tells his father that Jesus "shoots down power" from heaven while Todd Burpo is preaching. This time Todd presses for an explanation: "What's the power like?"
"It's the Holy Spirit" (p. 126). Evidently Colton envisions the Holy Spirit as being like the electrical discharge from a Tesla coil, and he pictures Jesus with the ability to fire blue lightning bolts of power from His fingers directly into preachers.
Todd Burpo is dumbfounded: "If there were comic-strip thought-bubbles over people's heads, mine would've been filled with question marks and exclamation points right then." Clearly, however, Todd is already a firm believer in Colton's vision of heaven. Recollecting that he had always said a prayer for God's help every time he preached, he writes, "To imagine God answering it by 'shooting down power' . . . well, it was just incredible" (p. 126).
The questions Todd Burpo asks his son betray a strange fixation on the physical appearance of things. Todd's peculiar inquiry about what the Holy Spirit "looks like" is by no means the only example of this. When four-year-old Colton first began to talk about seeing people in heaven, Todd immediately began pressing for visual descriptions. He writes, "All I could think to ask was: 'So what did the kids look like? What do people look like in heaven?'" (p. 72). Later, when Colton informed his dad that he saw the devil in heaven, Pastor Burpo's first question was, "What did he look like?" (p. 134). And of course, Todd Burpo persistently asked his son questions about the physical appearance of Christ, too.
Most of the details Todd Burpo recounts about Colton's near-death experience came to light months after Colton's release from the hospital, and even then the story did not spill forth unprompted in a coherent account. Fragments and anecdotes arose here and there over a long period of time—usually in response to tenacious parental questioning. Thus new details were unearthed from Colton's memory on a fairly regular basis for years. In every case, without fail, Pastor Burpo concludes that Colton's knowledge of the afterlife could not have been gained through any means other than firsthand experience, and therefore he is easily convinced his son's account of heaven is fully reliable, accurate, and authoritative.
In a pithy review of the book, Tim Challies observed this motif:
Every one of Colton's experiences, or very nearly every one, follows a pattern. He tells his father some little detail. His father experiences a gasp or feels his heart skip a beat. "I could hardly breathe. My mind was reeling. My head was spinning." A Scripture verse comes to dad's mind that validates the experience. Colton gets bored and runs off. Repeat.[2]Tim Challies, "Heaven Is For Real," blogpost March 28, 2011, at http://www.challies.com/book-reviews/heaven-is-for-real.
Every one of Colton's experiences, or very nearly every one, follows a pattern. He tells his father some little detail. His father experiences a gasp or feels his heart skip a beat. "I could hardly breathe. My mind was reeling. My head was spinning." A Scripture verse comes to dad's mind that validates the experience. Colton gets bored and runs off. Repeat.[2]Tim Challies, "Heaven Is For Real," blogpost March 28, 2011, at http://www.challies.com/book-reviews/heaven-is-for-real.
If you needed to remember a recipe for dinner, an accurate record of your phone messages, or trustworthy driving directions, perhaps the last place you'd turn is the foggy memory of a small child. And yet many believers consider that a reliable and even authoritative source of revelation about God and His heavenly kingdom. What can explain this illogical departure from the authority and sufficiency of Scripture? We'll consider the answer next time, as we look at the idolatry of experience.
(Adapted from The Glory of Heaven.)
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I probably shouldn't be laughing but the title of this blog is funny. This nonsense is just another reason why the state of this country eerily resembles Isaiah 3. Particularly Isaiah 3:4 in regards to a tale like this. We see children preaching from pulpits and gathering large crowds and now masses of people looking for truth in the account of a child instead of the source of truth itself, the Word of God.
Has God began to strike us with confusion in the way that He promised to do to Israel in Deuteronomy 28:20?
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Quite honestly, this fabrication called, "heaven is for real", (which we know is not biblical but rather anti-biblical) i believe has been carefully put together by the editor and father. Whatever the son saw was indeed his imagination but since this book wasn't written until years later i truly believe they put a lot of extra 'wow factor' stuff in it to excite the readers. Years from now you will probably hear this kid come out and say that this book was made up by dad, or admit at least to not seeing most of the stuff that has been written in this book. Lets not forget on an interview where they asked Colten about heaven he said it was a neat place so to speak, and had such a bland regular look on his face as if heaven was little more than his back yard. Once again, and as we already know, this is an attack on the sufficiency of Scripture, and a money making ploy on top of that. Dad and Colten's words have usurped the Bible or been deemed equal to it for a lot of people who do not quite get the gist or believe in a 'closed canon'. Where their is no closed canon, their is room for every false teaching and private revelation, a breeding ground for false doctrine.
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What a contrast between young Colton and Samuel. Samuel who had not yet known the LORD was discerning enough to know His voice was not his own intuition or a subjective feeling. After receiving counsel from Eli, he later delivered an accurate prophecy; and through his life the LORD let none of his words fall to the ground.
Dear GTY,
Love the title you came up with; made me laugh. I do recognize the seriousness and point you are making. I had someone recently ask me about the one of these movies, but it was from a person I speak to from time to time who is always looking for "an experience" or "a sign" and I always come back to what God meant by what God said. I deal with this by encouraging people to read the word of God in order to know Jesus Christ. I also, encourage as many as will listen to come to GTY.org to supplement their reading and to clarify what they do not understand.
I have listened to literally hundreds of sermons from John MacArthur and it is always a blessing to hear accurate preaching. Sermons preached 15, 20 or 30 years ago often come with implications & warnings from God and because they are not heeded, we see truth "right in our faces" now. We do not need to depart from the truth and we are warned about adding or subtracting from His word. (i.e. Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:6, or Revelation 22:19 )
One example is a sermon titled "Is the Doom of the World Near" (code 1211) http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/1211
When you listen to what was preached here over 40 years ago and see what is happening in America & around the world; the outcomes mentioned in the sermon based on the exposition of God's world are both remarkable & predictable.
Thanks Dr. MacArthur and GTY; we thank the Lord for your ministries!
In reading the biblical accounts of men who actually saw heaven (Isaiah, Paul, John), I was struck by the difference between them and what most of the bogus 'trips to heaven' seem to portray. The biblical travelers don't see their relatives welcoming them, they don't feel all that comfortable there, and they are overwhelmed by the splendor and glory of God, so much so that they are nearly rendered speechless. If we don't manage to get the message here, we'll certainly get it when we arrive there: it's not about us, our desires, our experiences or our perceptions. It's about God and God alone. As Spurgeon put it, we will desire nothing more than to 'plunge [ourselves] into the Godhead's deepest sea and be lost in its immensity.'
A) you grossly misunderstand the meaning Burpo places on revelation.
B) you grossly misunderstand the authority Burpo attributes to Scripture.
C) your claim that it is a fabrication must have resulted from an extra-biblical revelation... unless of course you were present to refute these claims, which, naturally, would be experience.
Jim, contradictions of Scripture are proof enough.
I've seen no contradictions of scripture in Heaven is For Real. You say the contradictions of scripture are proof enough, but the only contradiction is to the distorted doctrine of sola scriptura MacArthurites are so quick to turn to.
I wonder if any effort was made on the part of the Johns or David to speak with the author. I seriously doubt it. If there indeed was no attempt the verse Proverbs 10:19 that lies as an admonition above the submit button comes to mind as a proper rebuke for them.
John, I think this book or Movie should be titled "Heaven is for real... in my mind" and now there new Book should be "Money is real" with nearly $52 million from the Movie as of this week , and the book sales alone will be in the Millions also, all of this off a testimony of a "out of the body experience of a 3 years 10 old child!" Amazing isn't it? . I have gone through all the reading and what not of what this child seen chatted with etc. and what Amazes mw more than any thing is that he says that the Jesus he seen was the same Jesus that another little Girl 8 years old seen when she also has the same experiences as Colton had, and she drew a pic of what she saw in the description in Christ, Typical GQ look for A handsome Jesus, when in Isaiah 53:2 says "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him." .....I am sorry John and the rest of you folks this Book and Movie has nothing to do about advancing the Kingdom of Christ but everything to do with the worldly adage phrase of "show me the money".
And also I am dead sent against any one in the faith or out to display their 4 year old child out in front of the worldly sharks, we are to protect our children keep them out of the lime light for obvious reasons , many Great Doctors that study the Brain tell you that we know only very little on how the brain works and things like this Boys experience are truly what many have dealt with when on certain medications, if they are unsaved they dream they were in hell if they are from a Christian background they dream they went to heaven.
Heaven is a beautiful place I'm sure but our aim should be to Honor and serve Christ here on earth that should be our main objective, and Heaven is what our reward is, to say that one is working hard to get to heaven, is on the wrong track in my Christ like way if thinking ...Matthew 7:21-27 ESV "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
Regardless of this Boys experience he had at 3 years 10 months old ...he will still have to come to a point in his life where he accepts his Lord as The Savior of his sins and repents ..or he will never be where he once went , in his mind at 4 years old.
Darrel, those are bold claims. I certainly hope you are one hundred percent certain of the accuracy of your claims otherwise you are bearing false witness either out of ignorance or malice, neither of which are valid excuses.
Is this experience any different than dealing with any local tarot card and palm reading shop on any random street corner? Their claim to fame is that they can tell you things about yourself that you didn't know. This then validates the experience of the patron and business is commenced. Did your grandmother have blue eyes and live in Nebraska, why yes she did.
Here we have a four year old claiming to have seen visions in a way eerily similar to how a medium would operate. This child then uses words like God and Jesus and now somehow we're to make the leap from pagan mysticism to God's revelation.
Really? This faithful minister of the gospel is on the same level of a medium? I trust you can back that claim up, unless of course you spoke without consideration of your words.
Who the source is that's propagating this is of little relevance. What's being asked is that people believe in a revelation being put forth in much the same way a medium would.
Not only is it relevant, it is key to trusting the source of information you are choosing to believe. Have you properly vetted John MacArthur?
Perhaps Paul's visions were the same as a medium's?
The information being put forth is not verifiable and it is not consistent with scripture, therefore it must be rejected. Let's say for the sake of hypothetical discussion that everything this boy described was in fact consistent with scripture. It still doesn't change anything. What would be the point in believing it? God's word is sufficient for everything we need to know to have saving faith. If we're needing encouragement, where do we go? If we need hope, where do we go? If we need a stronger faith, where do we go? To suggest we go outside God's word to another source, in this case a 4 year old child, is contrary to what God's word teaches us.
Then I highly suggest you turn off your radio and open your Bible instead when John MacArthur or anyone speaks. I also highly suggest you stay home on Sundays or at least tune out when the preacher gets up to preach.That is, only if you truly believe what you are saying.
Before we go down a rabbits trail here let's back up a bit. How many authors of the supernatural are there in the Bible? 2 right? God and Satan. Does Satan have the ability and permission to cause people to see images? Think Biblically here.
False Christ's, false prophets... They wouldn't be false if they didn't look like the real thing. Does not Satan disguise himself as an Angel of light? False religion always speaks which is not according to truth. That's what makes it FALSE, that's what makes it Satanic. Something false means it CANNOT BE VERIFIED. How do we verify truth? God's word alone is our source for verifying truth. So now we are to believe that God would orchestrate all these heaven and hell near death experiences because He wanted people to know the truth? If we buy that we are buying a lie, period. Let's wake up from our slumber people.
2 Thess 2:11 - "For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false."
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West Side Boxing Club
Kincaid-Godhard Promotions
Boxing Returns to Cleveland with "Battle in the Ballroom"
10+ Great Bouts, Including a Women's Title Bout and 3 Feature Bouts.
WHAT: Live Amateur Boxing
WHEN: Sat. May 8, 2010
WHERE: "Historic" Slovenian Nat'l Ballroom
(6417 St. Clair Ave. / Cleveland, OH 44103)
Cleveland, OH – April 15, 2010 - Boxing returns to Cleveland with "BATTLE IN THE BALLROOM", on Saturday, May 8 at the "Historic" Slovenian Nat'l Ballroom. 10+ great bouts, including a women's title bout and 3 feature bouts, are scheduled.
The West Side Boxing Club, in association with Kincaid-Godhard Promotions, is bringing old-school boxing back to the fans, showcasing hungry fighters in action-packed, competitive bouts. The West Side Boxing Club's trio of Golden Glove champions will be in action at "BATTLE IN THE BALLROOM".
Fan favorite, Brian "THE KOREAN BRAWLER" Park (West Side BC/Lakewood) takes on an opponent TBD in a 152-pound scrap. Park, the 2008 Golden Glove champion, is returning after a year off.
2-time Golden Glove champion, Greg Gilbert (West Side BC/Sandusky) takes on an opponent TBD. Gilbert has earned a reputation for his toughness and bringing his exciting "all-action" style to the ring.
And Golden Glove champ Derrick Moss (West Side BC/Cleveland) takes on an opponent TBD in a 132-pound bout. Moss is leaving the amateur's to pursue his trade in the professional ranks after this bout.
In an "OHIO WOMEN'S LT. WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP" bout, Jessica Eye (Strong Style MMA/Independence) puts her undefeated fight record on the line. Eye, the 2009 National Amateur Women's MMA champion, takes on accomplished boxer Lauren Cooney (PAL Thurogood/Cleveland).
An exciting undercard featuring other top regional talent is scheduled, including: Heavyweight Jason Chisar, featherweight Eve Santiago, middleweight Matt Brown, and lightweight Ashley Barnett.
Doors on the evening of the event will open at 6:30PM with the first bell at 7:30PM. The "Historic" Slovenian Nat'l Ballroom is located at 6417 St. Clair Ave. in Cleveland, Ohio.
A limited number of tickets for "BATTLE IN THE BALLROOM", starting at $15, can be purchased through the Kincaid-Godhard Promotions box office at 440-223-7409 or online at http://www.ProBoxingOhio.com.
West Side Boxing Club is a nonprofit 501C tax-exempt club that works with underprivileged teens and young adults to use boxing as a tool to build character, enrich social development, and gain athletic achievements.


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For some people, flying a cross-country trip is no big deal. Check the weather, file a flight plan, and off they go. Sometimes I envy those people.
For me it's usually a huge production involving much gathering of gear, checking and re-checking the weather, and making sure I have contingency plans in place for every aspect of the flight.
And still things don't always go as planned, and I come away with valuable lessons learned. Here are a few, gleaned from my most recent trip in my Cherokee 140 from Maryland to Wisconsin and back:
- iPads don't like heat. I knew enough not to put my iPad on the glareshield, but just having it sit in the right seat in a hot cockpit was enough to make the thing crap out.
- Flight planning programs suck up a lot of battery on an iPad. A three-hour leg used up all the juice in my fully charged iPad, putting it out of commission for the second three-hour leg of the day. (I had paper charts for back-up.)
- Noise fatigue is a real thing. Try flying two three-hour legs with a passive noise reduction headset, then come back and tell me it's not.
- Crosswind landing proficiency comes in handy when you least expect it. A planned fuel stop in Ohio presented a 15-knot direct crosswind. I coached myself through it and landed, but kept an alternate airport in mind just in case the winds proved too much of a challenge.
- Watch the weather, always. At that same ground stop in Ohio, I spent an hour on the ground, just trying to rest and recharge a bit before launching on my second leg. A bit of bad weather was off to the north, but I didn't think it would be a problem—until it reached the vicinity of the airport before I was ready to leave.
- There's nothing quite as satisfying as traveling the country by GA. All of these minor glitches aside, the planning and (eventual) successful execution of my flights was a fun and fulfilling experience, something that certainly can't be matched in Seat 34A, Aisle 12 of a Boeing 737 or riding in the relative comfort of a car.—Jill W. Tallman
Tags: cross-country, crosswinds, flight planning, iPad, navigation


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Local man pleads not guilty to hate crime
SARANAC LAKE – A local man pleaded not guilty to a hate crime after being indicted on charges Thursday.
Bernard McCormick, 29, entered a plea after being indicted by a Franklin County Grand Jury on the charge of assault in the third degree as a hate crime, a class E felony. McCormick was listed as living in Vermontville at the time of the crime, but the county District Attorney's Office called him as a Saranac Lake resident this week.
He allegedly took part in a racially charged assault outside a local bar in late October. The Enterprise published two letters from witnesses to the incident who described the men attacking at least one black man. One of the writers, Rikelmy Williams, said her husband, who is African-American, was jumped by several people and had to be taken to the hospital to get five stitches on his face.
Saranac Laker Monroe F. Gladd III was given the same charge in November, and Saranac Laker Eric D. Ryan was charged with disorderly conduct.
On Thursday, McCormick was remanded to Franklin County Jail in lieu of $2,500 cash or $5,000 bond. He is due back in court in early April.


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Event Details: Diversity in Research and Practice Conference
Description: The Teachers College, Columbia University Black Student Network (BSN) and the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) invite you to join us at the 4th Annual Diversity in Research & Practice Conference (DiRP). DiRP seeks to influence the progression of diversity in education research and practice by assembling students, scholars, and community leaders concerned with critical issues in education.
The 2013 conference theme "Changing the Game: Expanding Discourses in Research" is representative of the changing landscape in education research and practice. More specifically, this year's conference theme will provide a space and the contexts to expand the existing discourses about the research on and practices within our schools and communities. This year's conference will challenge participants to think about innovate ways to advocate for and promote students and scholars who are "game changers" in their respective areas.
The 2013 conference committee is currently seeking proposals for presentations, roundtable discussions, panels, and school- or community-based work related to this year's conference theme.
SUBMIT A PRESENTATION PROPOSAL before MARCH 1, 2013 @ bit.ly/DiRP2013
Alana Miles (2013 Chair), Shakealia Finley (2013 Co-Chair), Malik Boykin (2013 Co-Chair)
Questions? Contact the Conference Planning Committee at firstname.lastname@example.com
Type: Conferences & Seminars
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University
Date & Time: From 4/19/2013 8:00 AM To 4/20/2013 6:00 PM
Website: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHBSTHdvekVlanJiU2g5YzVYc3I2MWc6MQ
Contact: Alana Miles


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AT HOTEL DE ROMEGet directions
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Hotel de Rome, Behrenstrasse 37, 10117 Berlin
What's nearby
Fizzing with the energy of a reborn city, Berlin is a European capital like no other. At its heart, on the historic Bebelplatz, lies the Hotel de Rome. Perfectly placed to explore, we're just moments away from the boutiques of Friedrichstrasse. Nearby historical landmarks include Museum Island, the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie and the Jewish Museum. A host of nightclubs, bars and restaurants can be found on our doorstep and in the nearby quirky neighbourhood of Friedrichshain. Our Berlin Concierge will help you discover plenty more city secrets too.
The Corner
The Corner is Berlin's most stylish concept store. Find the freshest mix of established labels and young designers, alongside an exciting selection of perfumes and accessories.
The Berlin Wall Memorial
Discover the fascinating history of Berlin's most famous landmark. Learn how the city was divided in August 1961 and how its people lived separate lives for 28 years.


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Taeniura lymma is found on sandy bottoms around coral reefs. These rays like to bury themselves just underneath the sand where they will feed on various invertebrates. They usually are found on shallow continental shelves; however, they have also been observed around coral rubble and shipwreck debris at depths of 20-25m deep. Divers and snokelers will often detect this ray by its distinctive ribbon-like tail poking out from a crack in the coral. These rays are most abundant inshore. (Allen, 1996; Taylor, 1997)
Habitat Regions: Tropical; Saltwater or marine
Aquatic Biomes: Benthic; Reef


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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ½ of recipe
Calories 271
Total Fat 12 g
Saturated Fat 2.5 g
Sodium 523 mg
Total Carbohydrate 14 g
Dietary Fiber 2 g
Protein 27 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Low-sodium soy sauce 2 teaspoons
Sesame oil ½ teaspoon
Rice wine vinegar ½ teaspoon
Sugar 1 teaspoon
Salt ¼ teaspoon
Canola oil 2 teaspoons
Lean boneless pork loin, visible fat removed, and cut into cubes ½ pound
Onion, sliced into strips 1
Yellow bell pepper, sliced into strips 1
Poblano chili pepper, chopped ½
- Whisk together soy sauce, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, sugar, and salt in a small bowl.
- Heat oil in a wok (or large nonstick skillet) over medium-high heat. Add pork and stir-fry for about 5 minutes. Remove from wok.
- Add the onion, bell pepper, and chili pepper and stir-fry for 3-4 minutes. Then add the pork back in, and also add the soy sauce mix. Stir-fry for another couple of minutes.


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The generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself, "Now what is this thing doing?" -Children of Dune
yeah i dont remember that line either, maybe its from a movie?
Goku never said it, it's the same voice actor, lines from a different show. derp derpa der jk, but srs
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well now we see king kai......
any 1 else notice king kai has his planet back?
Maybe they gave him a new one after Goku beat Buu, with Goku and everyone else alive back on Earth he doesn't really have anything to do on Grand Kai's planet.
Last edited by McGrubbin; 2012-12-12 at 08:34 PM.
goku and vegeta gangnam style... this pleases me
@ over 9000 scene: *vomits* BLLEEEEEGGHHHHHHH.
I may need to take back the positive things I said about the live action movie.
two people not impressed with a reference
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the true omega shenron.... WHY DID THIS NOT HAPPEN
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soooooo much surprise from this guy
Speaking of surprise
Edited: I thought mentioning Goku/Cell yaoi was funnier than a surprise butt sex reference.
Last edited by Letmesleep; 2012-12-13 at 07:57 AM.
suprise butt sex? naaah that surprise mutha fucka guy just be surprise all of us.


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Churches cooperate on Feed a Neighbor drive
ISHPEMING – Wesley United Methodist Church in Ishpeming is launching its fourth annual Feed a Neighbor program Saturday.
Volunteers will drop off bags at west Marquette County residences Saturday with a tag on them with directions. Residents of Ishpeming, Negaunee, Republic, Michigamme and Champion will be asked to fill these bags with nonperishable food, paper products and hygiene products and put them on the curb in the morning on April 27.
"There will be 7,000 plastic bags distributed door-to-door on Saturday," said Dick Derby, Feed a Neighbor organizer.
In previous years this program only targeted the Ishpeming area, but this year's drive was expanded to the other areas, Derby said. Mitchell United Methodist Church in Negaunee is now helping to expand the program to their area. The Pioneer Kiwanis of Ishpeming has volunteered to cover the Republic, Michigamme and Champion area.
"The purpose of this program is to restock the food pantries of the Salvation Army and what amounts to three St. Vincent de Paul stores," Derby said.
The program is planned deliberately for this season when it's known the pantries are low on supplies, Derby said. The donation from Feed a Neighbor will carry the pantries into the fall, he said.
"The need is always great and the drive is specifically timed for spring because the food pantries are empty from the big Canathon drives in the fall and Christmas times," Derby said.
Last year Feed a Neighbor collected more than 6,000 pounds of donations and the hope is to do even better this year with the expanded areas, Derby said. In Republic and surrounding areas, about 500 bags will be handed out to area churches and business.
"The houses are just so spread out that we can't get to all of them," he said
Residents in that area can pick up bags and drop them off at St. Augustine Church, Republic United Methodist Church, Bethany Lutheran Church, Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Summer Place in Champion or any St. Vincent de Paul store.
For more information on Feed a Neighbor call Wesley United Methodist Church at 486-4681.
Adelle Whitefoot can be reached at 906-486-4401.


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