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This is a discussion on Warning - Unintended Consequences cover not family friendly within the Defensive Books, Video & References forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by QKShooter TOPIC: Nudity in Art AUTHOR: Brian K. Yoder Great link, reply #5 nails it IMO......
It's IMPORTANT to be fair to John Ross here since this thread is really about HIS specific book cover and the thread is NOT a justification thread of nudity in general in art and illustration.
First of all the female on his cover is NOT totally nude.
The correct term would be scantily clad and blurred topless as VS fully nude.
She has a lot of one leg showing & there is much detail lacking in other areas as well.
In fact, there is not very much detail to her female form at all.
She is almost impressionistic in the way that she has been rendered.
It's an Illustration (not a photograph) and basically it is a "graphic artish" visual representation of a captive, blindfolded female and the visual insinuation is that she is a "hot babe" but, she is incredibly mild and almost "generically female" in the manner that she has been rendered.
Honestly there are classic movie posters from the doggone 20s 30s 40s & 50s that are more highly detailed and graphically provocative than his dust jacket illustration.
It's also been a key part of the paperback and book industry for many years to do book covers in a style that has been proved to sell books.
Many of the Adventure, Mystery, Romance, & even Science Fiction paperback books have similar type covers.
They pick one event, situation, or happening in the book and visually "spice it up" a bit on the dust jacket or cover to sell books.
That for sure has been a paperback industry thing for a real long time. It's nothing new.
You can judge his book cover for yourself.
Sorry that I can't give you a larger scan right now so I'll just link to this smaller one on the web.
VIEW THE COVER & Be Your Own Judge.
Warning...if you're under the age of 11 years old don't look.
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Wow. I never expected people to get so defensive.
Let me be perfectly clear... I'm not questioning the quality of the writing, the value of the message, whether one should own the book or not. Obviously I felt there was value or I would not have bought the book.
My post was intended as a public service message to fathers with young children or sensitive wives.
You guys can justify the nudity on the cover any way you want, but my original point stands. The average guy opening this book in front of an average wife with young kids around is going to have questions to answer.
They could have put a collage of WWI/WWII images, a man laying under cover with a long range rifle while three helicopters came over the hill towards him, lots of other options. My point was, that would have been a better representation of the book, rather than the Harlequin Romance looking cover it has.
People here have acted like I posted 4 pages railing against the author and his crummy writing, but all I did was note that if you have concerns... open the book away from your little ones and toss the dust cover.
The End.
It's not the end though, as we have already said, this thread will exist to dissuade future potential purchasers of that fine book, and that is a sad state of affairs.
I'm an average guy too, we all are. But some have a broader frame of reference, I guess studying Art History didn't do me any harm. I guess having a wife who drags me to the Hustler store doesn't either...
I respect your decision, but the matter was brought up on a public forum for discussion, not just a one-sided 'warning'. As such, myself and others have defended John Ross and his fine book.
Life is far too short to be upset over breasts.
Pete,This isn't about *me* and that's where your point loses its force. If I came on here and said "my oh my, I saw a breast and I'm offended" then your Art History comments might be relevant. I never worried that adult males hanging out in a gun forum were going to get traumatized by a little nudity.I'm an average guy too, we all are. But some have a broader frame of reference, I guess studying Art History didn't do me any harm. I guess having a wife who drags me to the Hustler store doesn't either...
And maybe I am the total oddball here, but I don't think wives dragging their husbands to the store to buy Hustler is "average."
And my depiction of average served to indicate that although we all deem ourselves average, none of us in fact are - it's all subjective.
Average is as misused as reasonable.
We don't agree, I have no problem with that. But what I do find a problem is the censorship of art in the name of moral superiority.
Let others live how they want, it doesn't need to be your problem. I'm not about to make a thread warning people about the Dillon Press catalogs...
I know you mean well, I am just very wary of 'outrage'. It's what the antis use against us - 'think of the children'...
BTW, you didn't see the cover before you ordered at Amazon? It is impossible not to.
Actually, if you go re-read my first post it was specifically about its affect on someone's wife and children, and whether it's something they want displayed in their home.
I'm also not sure where you are getting my "outrage" from. My exact word was "dismayed," which is a far cry from "outraged."
And I never suggested censoring anything. I didn't say kids might see the cover at the bookstore so the book should be banned. I said people who don't want this stuff around their kids might want to keep that in mind when they open the package.
The only "outrage" in the whole thread has been from those who feel the need to somehow protect John Ross' honor, because some people might not want the dust jacket from his book laying around their house.
Choosing what I want or don't want in my home is not censorship... it's leadership and honor toward my wife and children.
P.S. I did not see (or notice) the cover on Amazon when I ordered. I ordered 4 books at the same time, so didn't go to each book's main detail page. It probably only displayed a very small thumbnail image that I would have ignored.
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Well I think that about sums it up.
Some people don't mind it, and some dont't want it being displayed. Either way is fine with me at this time.
This is getting way to personal. Bobernet put out a friendly advisory, this is not a moral debate, but a friendly heads up to those that don't want that type of material on display.


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As Michael Jacobs, general secretary of the Fabian Society, argued in a recent Fabian pamphlet, Labour has nowhere "presented a simple account of its values and purpose in a form which the public can grasp and recognise. There has been no 'ideological narrative', no 'story to tell' as there has been in other fields." Environmental issues make this government uneasy. Yet stories about BSE, genetically modified crops and food safety, about transport and congestion, about global warming and its possible relation to cyclones and floods around the world, crowd the front pages. Even those who support fox-hunting or oppose monetary union try to persuade us that they are really fighting the environmental cause. Environmentalists have been sounding off warnings about the short-sightedness of government policies and the dangers inherent in them for decades. They have been proved very largely right. The songbirds have gone, but the pigeons are coming home to roost. At the same time, environmental values have become almost a mainstream philosophical topic. Where 50 years ago no "serious" philosopher bothered with the subject, Roger Scruton, perhaps the most widely read contemporary philosopher, has often returned to it. Peter Singer's defence of animal rights has made him about the most famous, not to say controversial, philosopher alive. R M Hare and Bernard Williams have written on it. And when David Wiggins, Oxford's professor of logic and one of this country's more influential philosophers, took over the presidency of the august and fusty institution the Aristotelian Society last year, he launched a heartfelt attack on mainstream thinking about the natural world. Can these philosophers help new Labour to find some kind of environmental direction? It is surely right to start from a rejection of the metaphysics of "deep ecology", the mystical, romantic, Orientalising conceptions of nature, to which environmentalists - including the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess - have often resorted. Such conceptions are just too contentious to form a basis for a serious, influential green philosophy. Instead, as Wiggins has put it in a recent article, we need to start with "the simple secular view that human beings are natural beings and a part of Nature" - albeit "a part that acts more and more as if its destructive and colonising capacities amounted to omnipotence on Earth". But there is a reason why environmentalists have so often been tempted into their foggy metaphysical speculations. They fear that without a belief in "a whole that is greater than us" we have no reason to value nature "for itself". We not only care about the interests of human and other conscious animals but about the conservation of species, of mountain ranges, valleys, lakes, rivers, gems and fossils. "How can a purely secular ethic," the worry goes, "do justice to these concerns?" As Williams and Wiggins have argued, however, this worry is misplaced. True, we are bound to care only about things that matter to us, but that is not the same as caring only about human matters. We just are the sort of creatures who value things for their own sake. "The human scale of values," as Wiggins puts it, "is not human centred . . . Nature simply entrances, moves or disturbs us independently of our concern for our own welfare or contentment." The distinction in question here - between what matters instrumentally and what matters intrinsically - is a central feature, some would say the central feature, of our nature as ethical, valuing beings. As the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has often argued, our valuations fall into two categories, "weak" and "strong". An end is weakly valued when it derives its value entirely from its use to the valuer. It is strongly valued when "we acknowledge that its being an end for us is not just contingent on our happening to desire or need it", when in other words, we allow that we would be lesser beings if we should cease to want or need it. "The ice-cream cone I now desire is weakly valued," as Taylor puts it, "because should I lose my interest in it, it would no longer have any claim on me. But I do not think of my commitment to Amnesty International in these terms. Someone who refused to contribute to this cause because they were not 'into' torture victims this week would seem unbearably frivolous. Their change of interest does not reduce the claim, but rather shows them in a poor light." In Taylor's terms, it is clear we value skylarks, rainforests and unpolluted rivers strongly. None of this is to deny that the natural environment has a vital instrumental value to us as eating, breathing human beings. We are already paying a heavy cost for the policies of the past 50 or 100 years, and prospects for the future are deeply alarming. (The US National Climatic Data Centre, the world's best authority on this, has found for September 1999 average global land temperature up 0.65 per cent on the mean, the second warmest anomaly on record.) It is just that the environment's instrumental value does not exhaust its value. Seeing it this way captures the special place that nature, along with certain other intrinsically important goods, occupies in our scheme of values. It also points to what might be wrong with the orthodox economic approach to the environment: cost-benefit analysis. The idea is that we can fix a monetary value on nature's goods by asking how much we would be prepared to pay to preserve a natural phenomenon, or to accept as compensation for its destruction. The result is then compared with benefits, also assessed in monetary terms, that might accrue from its destruction. So one might weigh the loss of a certain sort of wild flower that results from applying a chemical fertiliser against the gains in crop yields. The approach, its advocates say, offers a value-neutral "scientific" basis to environmental policy. It is hard not to feel that this gets something wrong. Cost-benefit analysis locates the value of things in the wrong place - not in the things themselves, but in us. It accords them, in other words, a "weak" or instrumental value. There is, indeed, something wildly inappropriate, not to say grotesque, in any attempt to put a price on a rare species or a natural landscape. It is essential to our understanding of unspoilt moorlands and unpolluted lakes and the like that they are priceless, by which we mean not that we would never sacrifice them (we might have to in a desperate situation), but that they are not ordinary commodities to be traded on a market. Wiggins puts this by saying that human and non-human values are "incommensurable"; the claims they make upon us are utterly diverse, so that there is no fixed "degree of preference" between them. That is why the appropriate response to destroying a valued natural object in the cause of some greater good is not the feeling of a job well done, a rational decision made, but of ineliminable regret, or, in the extreme, of inconsolable loss. The environment is not ours to preserve or destroy. It is not a commodity. I think this argument accords with secular common sense. It is when environmentalists, including Wiggins, want to go further that I part company with them. They suggest that the claims of conservation should trump all but the most urgent of other claims. They would like to see us put a fence around nature - place it out of bounds, except in emergencies. We are not to take anything that we cannot replace, or institute any changes that are not in some sense reversible. We need, Wiggins suggests, to recover a properly humble sense of nature as an extremely sensitive, volatile and dangerous thing. Indeed, Wiggins (despite his strictures against metaphysics) ventures a little into cosmology, arguing for the resuscitation of a Roman sense of Religio or "holy dread" - a "God fearing" awe that sees nature as some sort of limitation on our will. This too might, at least at first glance, sound reasonable enough. Its implications, though, are far from commonsensical. Humankind has always "interfered" with nature and on a daily basis. The crops and breeds farmers use now are the product of centuries of cultivation. Many of the landscapes we value - for example, the stonewalls of the Lake District - have been improved by human artefact. Beautifully constructed buildings can add to a grim or drab landscape. Just image Venice Lagoon without Venice. Perhaps environmentalists will say, with Prince Charles, that in these cases human beings have worked with the "grain of nature", but there are many aspects of nature that, rather than cultivating, we quite reasonably try to annihilate. Cancerous tumours, malaria-carrying mosquitoes or the HIV virus are obvious examples. An earlier philosopher of nature - and one of the profoundest - J S Mill, put it neatly when he observed that "nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to one another are nature's everyday performances. Killing, the most criminal act recognised by human laws, nature does once to every being that lives, and in a large proportion of cases after protracted tortures such as only the greatest monsters whom we read of ever purposely inflicted on their living fellow creatures . . . Nature's explosions of firedamp are as destructive as human artillery; her plague and cholera far surpass the poison cups of the Borgias." Those who want to defend the principle of nature's inviolability will say, no doubt, that they don't mean to rule out any, or at least most, of these sort of "interventions". Perhaps not (although I note that it might be hard to justify many of them as being necessitated by "emergencies", "dire vital needs" and the like). But if not, then talk about the sanctity of nature risks becoming rather empty. There is, however, a greater problem still. Too many greens, including Wiggins, assume that what is generally at stake in decisions that affect the environment is a simple choice between "rather trivial benefits" to human beings and profound environmental imperatives. Yet this is not generally how the decision appears to us. There are things we value for themselves, other "ultimate goods", such as human health and life and artistic expression, and it is these that often are, or at least seem to be, in conflict with the preservation of a natural good. Cost-benefit analysis is rather too profane a discipline, but we are polytheists, not monotheists. Many things are subject to "strong" evaluation other than valued natural objects - political principles, for instance, or personal projects, works of art and familial relationships - and we often have to sacrifice one for another. The decision to limit the building of homes on greenfield sites at first looks like the defence of an ultimate good against "a trivial benefit". But that is just too simplistic. The high cost of housing in south-east England, which might be relieved by building ecologically designed new towns on greenfield sites, places strains on families and weakens the economy. This in turn affects spending on health, education and the arts. Likewise, a new bypass may save lives. Wind-turbines might destroy a beautiful piece of countryside by providing environmentally friendly fuel. Genetically modified crops might offend against "nature" but they might also contribute to the fight against malnutrition, or offer a better way of treating burn victims. To acknowledge that these sorts of value-conflicts are endemic to politics is not to concede anything to the partisans of cost-benefit analysis. The only way to arrive at decisions when "ultimate" goods conflict is on a case-by-case basis, after a thorough and collective exploration of the issues at stake. It is, however, to insist that nature can't simply be fenced off. It might seem counter-productive to attack those like Wiggins - or, for that matter, Prince Charles - who want to render nature absolutely inviolable. They are dismayed by the terrible damage done by industrialised farming, thoughtless town planning and the senseless promotion of the car - and rightly so. The issues at stake, however, are important. Though Blair's government has not, alas, embraced environmentalism, there is no reason why it should not. As Michael Jacobs and others have argued, environmentalism, properly conceived, is adaptable to mainstream political concerns. Most green values and goals matter to everyone. Green policies are not necessarily detrimental to the economy. The Labour Party claims to care about inequality, or at least "social exclusion", but many of the worst sorts of inequalities in our society result from the way the poor are forced to suffer the effects of environmental degradation in the form of pollution, noise and squalor. 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That's not good, and a black eye on the CHL community if it's true. Thoughts and prayers to the officers family.
As a note, in Ohio you don't get a permit for a specific firearm.
This is a discussion on Ugly: CHL holder kills an officer within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by GLOCK_27 My prayers and thoughts go out to this officers family. WKYC.com | Cleveland, OH | Judge: $5 million bond for man ...
CUYAHOGA FALLS -- A judge in Cuyahoga Falls has set bond at $5 million for the man charged in the shooting death of Twinsburg police officer Joshua Miktarian early Sunday morning.
Ashford Thompson, 23, of Twinsburg, is charged with aggravated murder.
According to a published report on cleveland.com Thompson's defense attorney Larry Zukerman claims his client acted in self-defense. Zukerman had asked for a bond of $50,000.
Police say Miktarian had pulled over Thompson for loud music and suspicion of driving under the influence early Sunday morning.
On Monday, the Cuyahoga County Coroner said Miktarian died after being shot four times in the head. His death has been ruled a homicide.
Twinsburg's police chief says Miktarian's gun was still holstered when he was found.
Bedford Police arrested Thompson shortly after the shooting.
He was reportedly still wearing the handcuffs that Miktarian had placed on one of his hands during the traffic stop.
According to Twinsburg Police, the police cruiser Miktarian was using had an in-car 'dash cam' that was inoperative, meaning that there is no recording of what happened during the traffic stop.
Thompson reportedly has a Concealed Carry permit but police say it's not clear if the weapon he had the permit for was the one used in the shooting.
Thompson remains in the Summit County Jail.
That's not good, and a black eye on the CHL community if it's true. Thoughts and prayers to the officers family.
As a note, in Ohio you don't get a permit for a specific firearm.
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Ugh....not enough details, but if he shot the cop to avoid getting arrested....sheesh...horrible. More than a black eye, its a festering open wound that the anti-gunners will point to to show everyone how "dangerous" we all are.
I dont why a CHL holder that kills a cop is any more a black eye to the gun culture than a drunk driver that runs over a cop on a traffic stop is a black eye to drivers everywhere.
Its not the gun,its the man behind the gun...just like its not the car, but the driver behind the wheel.
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Well then, he's not thinking clearly.... the prosucutor said about the shooter having a CHL "... that, in my opinion, empowered him, and thats the problem I have with the concealed carry law."
The problem is with THIS ONE GUY who became a murderer, of course, and NOT the concealed carry laws as such.
The damned least-common-denominator approach of such anti-gunner folks does nothing but leave upstanding people at the mercy of criminals.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
A valid point Hotguns, and anytime a LEO is killed it is a tragedy.
But especially in a state that is somewhat new to CHL's (Ohio has had it for under 5 years IIRC), CHL holders are held to a much higher standard, especially by the media.
He needs to be held accountable for his actions, and punished accordingly.
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Tragic, horrible, horrifying, angering.
Of course, this doesn't change any of that... except in public sentiment, which is, sadly enough, the only real safeguard for CCW laws. Should that be the case? Of course not. But it is. And while this probably shouldn't be a black eye for CCW holders, it will be seen as such.
"War necessarily brings with it some virtues, and great and heroic virtues too. What horrid creatures we men are, that we cannot be virtuous without murdering one another?" -John Adams
Awhile back I arrested a CCW holder for abusing his spouse. He lost his permit over the deal and I doubt he will ever get it back. Do I see that as a slap for all CCW holders? No. I just see it as some yahoo that got stupid and abused his wife. No more, no less.
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How about the millions of ignorant and semi-ignorant folks who just see that a cop-killer was given permission to get the drop on an LEO?? Again, that's uninformed illogic, but it should matter to us because public sentiment and opinion matter. Things like the VCDL picnic are a huge boost; things like this are a hurdle.
"War necessarily brings with it some virtues, and great and heroic virtues too. What horrid creatures we men are, that we cannot be virtuous without murdering one another?" -John Adams
R.I.P. Officer Joshua Miktarian.
Honestly this is the first time I've read a story like this one.
It's a such microscopically rare tragedy.
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I too hope this guy gets what hes got coming,he was apparently driving drunk and was about to get arrested for same ,I don't think the fact he had a CHL license had anything to do with the fact he committed murder,Most concealed permit holders are upstanding law abiding citizens but every now and them somebody slips through the cracks,I really hope this guy gets the death penalty
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No one turns into an angel just because he gets a CCW /or/ a badge.
I have a bunch of questions about that dash cam, and the longer it was out of order, the worse it looks for the officer. Those things are supposed to clear officers of wrong doing.
"Four to the head" does not sound like self defense, though.
Don't really have any good words. Sucks. Thank you for your service, Officer. Scumbag: Rot in Hell.
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I'll wait for more details...the accused claims self defense, the deceased buddies investigated the crime scene, and the dash cam is conveniently not working...
I do agree with Harding, 4 to the head seems a little overboard.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Who is John Galt?
If it were up to me, then I'd make sure another CHL holder was to one who threw the switch on this O2 waster.
But it ain't up to me and that's the headline the media is putting to the public, a public with a LOT of people sitting on the fence WRT gun rights/control.
I agree with Kerbouchard, need more info.......and I hope the press has it wrong.
With that said, my heartfelt prayers to Officer Miktarian's family and fellow officers.


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A 36 year old Fayetteville man has been arrested on an outstanding Baxter County bench warrant after he turned himself in on April 10th. A warrant had been issued for JAMES RAY DEAN after Baxter County Sheriff's Investigators used a cooperating individual to purchase approximately .50 grams of methamphetamine from DEAN for $50.00 on April 21, 2012. A cellular phone was utilized to facilitate the transaction, which took place in the immediate vicinity of a church.
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In an effort to better evaluate and track the quality-of-life (QOL) for patients undergoing hernia surgery, CLASP physicians developed and patented the Carolinas Comfort Scale® (CCS).
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Looking for a change-of-pace burger? Try these pretty sandwiches from C.A. Hedges of Clarence Center, New York. Instead of beef, the burgers are filled with spinach and turkey for a succulent switch to the usual grilled fare.
Recommended: 34 Incredible Burgers to Grill This Summer
- 1 cup stuffing mix, finely crushed
- 1/3 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 4 sandwich buns, split
- Cheese slices, lettuce leaves and tomato slices, optional
- In a large bowl, combine the stuffing mix, broth, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper and half of the spinach (save remaining spinach for another use). Crumble turkey over mixture and mix well. Shape into four 3/4-in.-thick patties.
- Grill, uncovered, over medium-hot heat or broil 3-4 in. from the heat for 3-4 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 165° and juices run clear. Serve on buns with cheese, lettuce and tomato if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Spinach Turkey Burgers in Simple & Delicious July/August 2006, p48
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Originally released in October 1985, and coming hot on the heels of the global smash single '(Don't You) Forget About Me' , 'Once Upon A Time' was to prove the album that propelled Simple Minds to stratospheric heights of artistic and commercial success. Containing the classic hit singles 'Alive And Kicking', 'All The Things She Said', 'Sanctify Yourself', and 'Ghostdancing' the original era-defining Number 1 album now comes as part of this incredible 5CD / 1DVD box set…
This new 4CD / 1DVD Super Deluxe Box Set version comprises a host of bonus material including; B-sides and extended mixes; BBC sessions; a previously unreleased Glasgow Barrowlands concert; promo videos; Top Of The Pops and Oxford Road Show footage; a booklet containing sleeve notes and interviews plus track by track annotation and a reproduction concert programme…
Super deluxe six disc edition boasts an abundance of material. Disc one features a 2016 remaster (by Andrew Walter at Abbey Road) approved by Charlie Burchill and the second disc gathers 12-inch remixes and instrumentals of the singles, a few of which enjoy their CD debut. Various edits and B-sides can be found on the third CD in the set while disc four features previously unreleased BBC John Peel and Kid Jensen radio sessions, recorded in February and August 1982. All ten tracks on disc five are previously unreleased; made up of alternative mixes and demos and the icing on the cake is the sixth and final disc which is a DVD, featuring Charlie Burchill and Ronald Prent's 5.1 surround sound mix, first released on the now long out-of-print DVD-Audio in 2005. This mix of the album is a unique 'full duration' mix which is different to the standard version. DVD also includes promo videos and a few Top of the Pops performances. Note, this is a DVD-V unlike the DVD-A/V disc from previous Simple Minds box sets.
When Simple Minds released Black and White in 2005, it was obvious they'd been doing some creative soul searching in light of the success of bands clearly influenced by them, namely, the Killers and Manic Street Preachers. 2009's Graffiti Soul saw the return of drummer Mel Gaynor to the fold. He brought a familiar, tight, propulsive foundation to Charlie Burchill's guitar playing and Andy Gillespie's imaginative synths. Jim Kerr's alternately whispering and soaring vocals were still at the fore, but were showcased inside more economical songwriting, and Jez Coad's production celebrated the band's pop identity. Big Music finds Simple Minds coming full circle – going all the way back to 1979 for inspiration. They've rediscovered the urgent, keyboard-driven post-punk futurism of recordings such as Empires and Dance and Sons and Fascination.
One of Scotland's finest imports, Simple Minds deliver a strong synth-reared release on New Gold Dream. This album harks the darker side of the band's musicianship, and such material alludes to their forthcoming pop-stadium sound which hurled them into rock mainstream during the latter part of the '80s. They were still honing their artistic rowdiness, and Kerr's pursuing vocals were still hiding. But Simple Minds' skill of tapping into internal emotion is profound on songs such as "Someone, Somewhere in Summertime" and the album's title track. But the dance-oriented tracks like "Promised You a Miracle" and "Glittering Prize" are lushly layered in deep electronic beats – it was only a matter of time for Simple Minds to expound upon such musical creativity which made them a household favorite through the 1980s.
"Good News from the Next World" is Simple Minds' tenth studio album, released in 1995.
"Real to Real Cacophony" is the second studio album by Simple Minds, released in 1979.


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It's a gorgeous day here in Oshawa as Australia and England get set to square off for the bronze medal at the FIL World Cup. A storm came in yesterday afternoon, bringing in a ton of rain and lightning, but also cooling things off significantly. After blistering heat and humidity through the quarterfinals and wind gusts during the semifinals, today is a perfect 75 degrees, low humidity and sunny.
Australia had its sights set on gold entering the tournament, looking to capture its first World Cup championship since 2005. The Aussies came up short, losing to host Canada 11-7 in the semifinals. England put up a great first half against the U.S., trailing by just two at halftime before the U.S. went on a run and eventually took a 21-8 win.
Going to try and provide some in-game reporting and analysis throughout the game, but giving you a heads up from the start that the internet here has been extremely slow this morning. Hoping things get better, but I would anticipate more people getting here throughout the day since the hosts are playing in this afternoon's gold medal game.
First Half
30:00: Stacey Morlang for Australia going against Rachel Kirchheimer on the draw. Australia gets the first possession. They try to feed across the 11, but the pass is high and goes out of bounds. England clears and gets on the board first as Lucy Lynch feeds Sarah Taylor on the doorstep for a quick stick score. 1-0 England.
England makes it two in a row as Laura Merrifield at the top of the 15 finds Taylor inside for a score. Taylor doing a great job so far of getting open inside and getting off a quick finish. 2-0 England.
25:14: Australia possession. England has Taylor on Hannah Nielsen and Merrifield matched up on Sonia LaMonica. Marlee Paton dodges in from the top and is cross checked. Her free position shot goes wide. On the restart, Mollison at X draws the defense looking like she's going to roll the crease and instead feeds Marlee Paton cutting in for the Aussies' first goal. 2-1 England.
Long Aussie possession here. They've gotten some looks inside, but the England defense is doing a good job of crashing the 11 and preventing the Australians from getting a good shot off. Lyndsey Paton is fouled on the far side and scores on the free position to knot the game at two.
19:02: England wins the draw and scores immediately as Ruby Smith finds Emily Gray for a goal. England back on top 3-2.
Australia answers. They move the ball around up top. LaMonica passes off and then cuts in, getting open for a feed from Nielsen. Tied at three. Really nice finish by LaMonica, who was getting pressured in traffic.
15:12: England with the ball, working with Keely Watt and Sophie Brett down low looking to feed. Merrifield up top gets a pass and dodges in. An Australian defender got her stick on it and Merrifield couldn't get the shot off. Watt gets open inside and is D-ed up by Alicia Wikens, who is whistled for a yellow card. England will work a man up.
11:02: Australia kills off the penalty and gets a great look to Courtney Hobbs right on the doorstep, but her shot rings off the crossbar.
Marlee Paton is fouled and with a lot of red jerseys near her, passes off instead of taking the shot, finding Nielsen on the corner of goal line extended and the goal circle. Nielsen finishes to Cat Gaunt's off stick side high. Australia has their first lead of the day at 4-3.
7:08: What a set up by Australia as Morton dodges and pumps, and passes to Mollison cutting up from GLE. Would have been a beautiful goal as Mollison had time and room, but there is a whistle for shooting space. Morton scores on the free shot and it's 5-3 Australia.
Marlee Paton scores to continue the momentum for Australia. That makes it 6-3 and the Aussies.
2:41: Asha Niven, guarding Nielsen, gets called for a block that took out Nielsen. Nice gesture of sportsmanship by Niven, offering her hand to help Nielsen up off the ground. Nielsen scores on the free position shot from the first inside hash and it's 7-3 Australia.
Sarah Mollison adds to the lead with less than a minute left in the half.
With just 18 seconds remaining in the frame, Merrifield dodges in from the top for a score, really using her height to her advantage and keeping her stick high on the dodge before shooting low. 8-4 Australia.
And that's how the half ends. Australia had one more opportunity as time wound down, but a pass from Mollison at X was a little high. Aussies lead 8-4 at halftime.
Second Half
30:00: Australia adds to their lead right off the bat in the second half as Mollison scores.
The Aussies are dominating possession so far in the second half. Off the next draw, Marlee Paton takes a pass from Morlang and takes a few quick steps to goal, throwing in a stick fake to freeze Sally Keogh and score. 10-4 Australia.
Merrifield gets England's first goal of the half. England won the draw and got her the ball at the top of the 11. Good move by Merrifield through traffic. 10-5 Australia.
22:12: England comes within four as Alexandra Bruce feeds Sophie Brett for a score. Australia gets possession off the next draw, but Merrifield causes a turnover, picks up the ground ball and is headed to the races. Going full speed down field, she finds Kirchheimer, who draws a free position on a shooting space call. She passes to Gray on the crease, but the Aussie defense recovers and Gray cant't get a shot off.
Taylor makes a great play on the ride, trail checking an Australian player — it might have been Nielsen, but I didn't see — and picks up the ground ball. She gets wrapped up with one of the officials and falls down. The official, also on the ground, whistles the play and gives the ball to Taylor, much to the dismay of Nielsen, who picked it up as it trickled out of bounds off of Taylor's stick.
14:51: England gets the ball inside to Lynch, but it's knocked down and rolls to McSolvin in the crease. Australia clears.
11:19: Australia puts together a nice transition and converts on the other end as LaMonica goes behind GLE and around the back of the goal circle, feeding Nielsen on the other side for the goal. Aussies lead 11-6.
3:06: Nice defensive play by Keogh, coming out of the net and picking off a pass by Hobbs to start the transition for England. Australia causes a turnover on the ride and converts on the break as Morlang finds Marlee Paton cutting in from the midfield. That makes it 12-6 Australia.
The Aussies hold England off on a couple attempts and comfortably win this one 12-6 to capture the bronze medal.


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Faculty Activities
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- I/I Mentoring
- The Pastor & the Fringes
- Book Reviews
- Dean's Column
- Alumni Focus
- Campus News
- Faculty Activities
Faculty Speaking, Teaching, and Ministry
Dennis Dirks attended the Association of Theological Schools Biennial Meeting, Montreal, in June. While representing Talbot in the institutional accreditation business of the conference, he also served the association in two roles: member, Task Force on Revision of the Standards and Procedures (2008-present); member, Committee on Reference and Counsel (2010).
Jason McMartin was a participant in the Calvin Seminars in Christian Scholarship, presenting "Seven Deadly Sins (Capital Vices) in the Christian Tradition," Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (June 20-July 2).
Scott Rae was the plenary speaker at Acton University, June 15, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was the plenary speaker at the "Christians in the Public Square Conference," July 20-23, Melbourne, Australia. He also presented lectureships at the Presbyterian Theological Centers in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, July 24-30.
Michael Wilkins The War Within: Finding Hope for Post-Traumatic Stress (a Day of Discovery television documentary) aired May 23 through June 13 on the Ion Network. The documentary was filmed in Viet Nam and the United States, with the goal of helping veterans find healing who return from war with PTSD. Available as a DVD from Day of Discovery.
Talbot Faculty Papers to be presented at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) and Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS), November 17-19, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia: Tom Finley "A Fresh Look at the Aramaic of Daniel"; Moyer Hubbard "Kept Safe Through Childbearing: Justification by Faith and Maternal Mortality in 1 Timothy 2:15"; Kevin Lawson "Learning the Faith in England in the late Middle Ages"; Tom Sappington "Reexamining Common Assumptions regarding Demonic Influence and the Ministry of Deliverance in the Synoptic Gospels"; Garry DeWeese "St. Paul, Second Adam, and Theistic Evolution"; J.P. Moreland "Graham Oppy on the Argument from Consciousness"; Alan Hultberg "tba"; Rob Price "Divine Obedience and the Trinity of Revelation in Barth"; John Coe "Spiritual Consolation and Desolation: Evangelical Musings on Dark Nights of the Soul," and "Temptations in Reading Spiritual Classics"; Ken Berding "Who Searches Hearts and What Does He Know in Romans 8:27?"; Steve Porter "Why Read Spiritual Classics?: Three Theological Rationales for the Practice of Spiritual Reading"; Bill Craig "Van Inwagen on Other Gods and Other Uncreated Beings"; Robert Saucy "Is Christ the fulfillment of national Israel's prophesies? Yes and No!"; Jason McMartin "Reassessing the Biblical Case for Anthropological Dualism: A Response to Joel Green"; Dave Horner "Too Good Not to Be True: A Call to Moral Apologetics"; Andy Draycott "The politics of hearing: teaching Christians to hear for a missionary theology of preaching as public speech"; Rick Langer "Points of Unease with the Spiritual Formation Movement"; Jason Oakes "The task of Evangelical Philosophical Theology in light of Analytical Theology." Jon Lunde will be on a panel reviewing and responding to Jesus the Messiah: Tracing the Promises, Expectations, and Coming of Israel's King, by Darrell Bock, Herb Bateman, and Gordon Johnston (Kregel, 2010).
Moyer Hubbard Christianity in the Greco-Roman World: A Narrative Introduction (Hendrickson: January 2010).
Klaus Issler "Learning from Jesus to Live in the Manner Jesus Would If He Were I: Biblical Grounding for Willard's Proposal Regarding Jesus' Humanity" in Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care (Fall 2010); "Six Themes to Guide Spiritual Formation Ministry based on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount" in Christian Education Journal (Fall 2010).
Jon Lunde edited the book The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission, by Christopher Wright (Zondervan, 2010).
Jason McMartin "The Role of Suffering in Human Flourishing: Contributions from Positive Psychology, Theology, & Philosophy," co-authored with M. Elizabeth L. Hall (Rosemead School of Psychology) and Richard Langer (Talbot), in Journal of Psychology and Theology (Summer 2010); "Human Flourishing: The Context for Character Development in Christian Higher Education," co-authored with Richard Langer and M. Elizabeth L. Hall, in Christian Higher Education (Summer 2010).
Scott Rae The Virtues of Capitalism (Northfield Press, May 2010), co-authored with Talbot MA Philosophy graduate, Austin Hill.
Michael Wilkins Matthew, NIV Application Commentary, Korean translation (Solomon Publishing: Seoul, Korea, 2009).


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Ross Hurt by Home in 3Q
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The sale of home goods at Ross Stores was down in the mid-single digits during the third quarter and will take some time to rebound, stated executives during the company's third quarter conference call.
In another challenge, employees found their productivity hampered as they grappled with a new merchandising system implemented in April. The learning curve, in turn, had an effect on the company's lackluster third quarter numbers.
"We suffered lower-than-expected productivity as our associates learn the new technology," Balmuth said. "There are new procedures and processes, and we will have new standards coming from IT."
But tough times don't mean the company is backing off on growth plans. Ross grand-opened 10 of its new dd's Discounts stores this month in California.
dd's Discounts is an off-price concept targeting lower income consumers. The stores look to offer values on brand name fashions carried in moderate department stores.
The 25,000-square-foot stores carry apparel, footwear and accessories, as well as large sizes for both men and women, at discounts of 20 to 70 percent. dd's also offer bargains on an assortment of fashions and necessities for the home.
The stores, Balmuth said, "Are performing to our expectations," adding that he sees the potential for adding 500 dd's locations over the next five to 10 years.
In terms of traditional Ross Stores, Balmuth said the company plans to open 85 to 90 net locations and 10 dd's locations in the second half of next year — or 1,000 stores by the end of 2008.
"Our long-term goal is 15 percent or better annual earnings per share growth," he said.
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