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This $750 scholarship will be awarded to a Psychology major of at least junior standing who demonstrates a record of experiences (e.g., RA, TA, honors project, internship) consistent with clear plans to enroll in graduate or professional school upon graduating from UW-Green Bay.
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Advice for the Pop Culturally Perplexed
We live in a world that is saturated with non-Christian popular culture, and many Christians don't know how to respond. Some just enjoy it without giving it another thought. Some try to withdraw into a "holy huddle," avoiding it …Read More
Youth-Driven Culture
Maybe it began earlier than the 1950s and 60s, but those decades seem to mark the rise of the fascination with youth in American culture. The famous line that celebrates all things young, often wrongly attributed to James Dean, declares …Read More
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It's no secret that many Christians harbor deep skepticism of the "liberal media elite." Some have been burned by the media, noting unfair or unfriendly coverage from the past. "I never just accept what newspapers say about people. I …Read More
Ecclesiastical Myopia
Perhaps the most remarkable statement I ever heard a man utter from the pulpit was: "He has a penurious epistemology, which tends to be myopic." I was seated in the balcony of the church when that statement was made, and …Read More
The Old Mission Field
Missionaries from Europe and America took Christianity to the ends of the earth and evangelized Africa and Asia. Now, as Christianity declines in the West, churches from the old mission field are the ones defending historic Christianity and are evangelizing Europe …Read More
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The Bobcats actually had the most first-place votes of any team in the coaches poll at seven, coming just seven points behind No. 1 Barry University. Florida Southern College, the University of North Alabama and Chico State round out the top-five.
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The Bobcats are coming off a title at the PBC Championships April 13. Senior Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) was chosen the PBC Player of the Year, with classmate Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) taking second at the conference championships.
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Residents of forgotten Montville road feel abandoned
Montville - Back in February, when a blizzard dumped 36 inches of snow on the town, residents hunkered down in their homes and waited for the town to plow their roads. Things were different on Maynard Road in Oakdale, where eight families worked in shifts throughout the night to clear the street.
"That was horrible," recalled resident Lynda Jean, who shoveled the snow while her neighbors used snowblowers and four wheelers. "We were at wit's end … you just try to get one path done and (the snow was) right back."
The town's Department of Public Works was praised by local officials for quickly clearing the roads, but the families living on Maynard Road knew not to expect a plow to come through. Their road was abandoned, apparently by mistake, during a five-minute town meeting in 1996.
For more than a decade, Jean has been trying to get the town to admit - and correct - its mistake. And she hasn't gotten very far.
"It blows my mind that something so little has turned into something this big," said Jean, who lives at 8 Maynard Road - or maybe 1538 Bozrah Road, or 1538 Route 163, because she and her neighbors no longer are certain of their addresses.
The narrow, hilly road is near the intersection of Route 163 and Route 82 and is the only way to reach the neighborhood's eight mobile homes.
It's not just the plowing that concerns her - emergency services have trouble locating the road and even when they do, firetrucks and ambulances often can't manage the sharp turn off Route 163.
Once, a neighbor tried to plow with a tractor and toppled over a cliff, landing underneath his tractor. He sat in the snow for hours and emergency personnel had to wade through the snowy road to reach him. When Jean's truck caught fire, the fire department asked for directions. And when her landlord's home was broken into, police gave up trying to find the address and turned around.
Jean wonders what would happen if her mobile home, at the very end of the road, were to catch fire.
"How long is it going to take a firetruck to try to maneuver itself to get in here?" she asked. "And how bad is it going be if it's in the wintertime and it's not plowed? Am I going to lose my home because the town of Montville won't admit that there's a situation here?"
In 1995 when the owners of a small shopping center at the intersection of 163 and 82 filed a request with the town asking to abandon "a small portion" of Maynard Road that abutted the center, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the plan and recommended the abandonment to Town Council.
The council set up a public meeting to consider the issue and placed notices in The Day and The Norwich Bulletin, but they didn't notify the eight families living on the road. No one knocked on doors or put fliers in their mailboxes, said Jean.
The commission had recommended abandoning the southernmost 238 feet of the road, but when the motion was made at the town meeting it was to abandon the entire road. And in five minutes on Feb. 21, 1996, with no public comment, the motion passed unanimously.
Jean and her neighbors had no idea the abandonment was even under consideration until the next major snowstorm hit. That's when she did some digging in the town archives and began talking to local officials about the issue.
"For years, I've felt like it's been falling on deaf ears," said Jean, who now has folders filled with meticulous notes from her research. She'd explain her predicament to mayors and town councilors, and they'd say there was nothing they could do or deliver vague promises to look into it.
"I'm tired of hearing it," said Jean. "The other seven families who live here are tired of hearing it."
She talked to former Mayor Russ Beetham, Jr., who was on the council when the road was abandoned. Then she spoke with Mayor Joseph Jaskiewicz, who is now the Town Council chairman. She spoke with people in the public works department and various other roles, trying to find someone who could help, but the answer was always the same: "There's nothing we can do."
Even though she's been pursuing this for more than a decade, so far to no avail, Jean isn't bitter. She still votes, saying she's an independent voter who chooses the candidates who are good listeners and seem to care about Montville residents.
And she praised Jaskiewicz, saying did "everything in his power to try to help us." But, she said, he missed the critical piece of information: the Planning and Zoning minutes that recommended only a portion of the road for abandonment.
At the time, said Jaskiewicz, he spoke to planning and zoning officials and they told him the road had been abandoned and there was no going back.
"You have to rely on the information you get," he said.
Finally, though, Jean thinks she's getting somewhere. Town Councilor Chuck Longton has taken an interest in her situation and she's optimistic that he'll be able to find a solution.
"Basically, these people got screwed," said Longton, who believes the road was abandoned illegitimately. The town charter and state law say three things need to happen for a road to legally be abandoned, he said: Planning and Zoning approval, a vote by the Town Council in favor of abandonment and then another favorable vote in a town meeting.
In this case, he said, "the town council did not do their job." They didn't take a vote and the motion they sent to a town meeting was wrong.
Longton's eager to reinstate the road, but he said the town attorney is still reviewing the issue because there many legal questions.
Was the town meeting vote actually illegal? Does the town legally have to reinstate the road now if it was? Would the town have to widen the road to allow easier access for emergency vehicles and bring the road up to current standards?
There's also the question of whether the road Jean lives on was even a town road to begin with. It was a dirt road at the time it was abandoned, and Assistant Planner Tom Sanders said he believed it was just a private road off Route 163. It was being plowed, said Sanders, because it connected to the 238-foot stretch of road that connected to Route 82, creating a through road.
No one in Montville seems to have clear answers to these questions. Mayor Ronald McDaniel said there was a "disconnect in the process" and that the town is working toward solving the issue.
Jean's neighbor Ken Evans, the one who was trapped under his tractor for hours, isn't sure things will ever change. He said the town councilors "butt heads" and won't be able to work together to fix the problem.
Jean doesn't show any signs of ending the fight, though.
"It's not just for me. It's for all eight of us," said Jean.
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Sword Art Online - Game Mechanics and Technology [Speculation, NO Spoilers]
The purpose of this thread is for anime viewers of Sword Art Online to discuss and speculate about the various game mechanics and technologies shown in the Sword Art Online anime.
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What do we know/have we been told about these systems and issues? Do the explanations given make sense? Are there plot holes or seeming flaws? What are the drawbacks of the approaches described, and how could they be addressed?
If you wish to ask questions about the systems shown, please use the Q&A Thread. This thread is to speculate and discuss about the systems, how they are portrayed to work, and whether they are feasible in reality.
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I bit curious about a trivia feature in SOA which is guild emblem, usually we draw it on separate image editor application (gimp, mspaint, pothoshop, coreldraw, etc) and upload it to the game. But ppl in SOA won't be able to do because they can't switch to another program, so SOA has a full sophisticated system for drawing I guess.
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1) It intercepts signals from your brain to the rest of your body.
2) It sends signals to your brain.
This seems much more plausible as a virtual world technology than Star Trek's holodeck.
A fantastic part is where is kills you. Microwaves need time to fry your brain just like a real microwave needs time to heat your food. I can't see NervGear killing you in the "forced removal" scenario. It's definitely possible for it to kill you in the "you die in the game" scenario because there is no one "outside" to help you remove the NervGear (while it kills you).
Another fantastic part: These people are in-game for months or even years. Are they all on IVs for food? Maybe the game has some kind of time dilation mechanism?
I believe the game's creator was arrested or jailed shortly after the incident because:
1) He created the game
2) Everyone who played it is dead or in a coma
It would be hard to prove though.
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Also, the fact that he'd given specific instructions in RL and in-game means that he's thought his idea through.
10 minutes disconnection... any attempt to tamper... it's all quite concise.
No one dumb could think of more specific words to ensure that no one cheats their way out of the game.
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He'd have a couple of options. Hiding somewhere would give him the most freedom, and most options further on down the line, but he'd have to run risks of getting caught to get food if he hid anywhere in country, and out of country he'd risk being cut off from his ability to watch his game at work.
If he doesn't care about being free after the dust settles, he could lock himself in with all the players, and leave a note for the authorities that if something happens to him, all the players would die. He'd then get to sit around as Admin watching things from floor 100, while the authorities care for his body along with all the captive player's bodies. Arrest would be certain once the game is cleared, but by then he'd have already accomplished his goal.
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Although I posted this in the episode 5 thread, it quickly got buried. I thought it was at least useful since this is the first time we the viewer got 'info' about a weapon's stats in-game and how appraisal works.
If anyone else wants to try and decipher the appraisal info, the scene with Egil happens around 13:45-13:54 during Ep5.
Here's the screen cap. Sorry for poor quality.. but it required me to flip the image and apply a lot of zoom since Egil sat pretty far back from the camera's PoV. I've managed to figure out most of it, except for a few parts that stump me. Here's what I got so far, words that I don't know/am unsure of will be placed in (parenthesis):
Appraisal Guilty Thorn Short Spear / One hand Range: Middle Type: Pierce Attack: 180-225 Durability: (410, 460?) Weight: 65 (Sharpness??): 32 Equip (+?)7 Night (Saving, Slashing, ???) made by (Grimrock, blocked out by menu button)
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Appraisal Guilty Thorn Short Spear / One hand Range: Middle Type: Pierce Attack: 180-225 Durability: (410, 460?) Weight: 65 Requires: 32 Equip: +7 Night (Saving, Slashing, Soving, ???) made by (Grimrock, blocked out by menu button)
EDIT: Speaking of which, how could the NervGear and the basic conditions Kayaba applied be designed to avoid people trying to take off the <<NervGear>>?
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People in-game can't take off the NervGear because it is interrupting their brain's signals to their body. Most of them anyway. I don't really understand why you would die if someone outside the game forcibly removed your NervGear. You would only die if the NervGear was given time to kill you (with no one around to help you).
An interesting thing to note is that there are no level requirements to equip gear. You probably need to specialize in certain weapons to be able to use skills with them - like a player who specializes in one-handed swords is still going to be able to wield a spear, they just can't use spear skills. The thing is, you could still learn these skills "the hard way" from a user who specializes in spears. High level skills are probably impossible for any human to actually pull off, though. I still want to see someone dual-wielding shields just because they can (a la Demon's Souls).
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What kind of sensor is placed on the NervGear? I can't think of an automatic sensor that can be placed there that is completely fail-proof of false alarms.
Also, if NervGear could fry your brain in an instant, I guess it means that NervGear's microwave is that much stronger than household microwave. However, I'm guessing that means our head would outright explode rather than fried. (even chicken eggs explode in your normal microwave)
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Gangsta modernism: Actor and rap icon Ice Cube tours the Eames House, the landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture designed by husband and wife design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames. The sleek and functional home is built into the side of a bluff in the Pacfic Palisades.
Says former architecture student Ice Cube: "In a world of destruction where McMansion are taking up every available square inch, the Eames made structure and nature one. This is going green 1949 style beoytch!"
That's Ice Cube in the iconic "Eames Chair" below. Via John Keene, watch the short clip AFTER THE JUMP ...
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Double Awake – Lost Word (Slow Blood)
Double Awake (Will Mayo) has a new tape and a new label. As Slow Blood, he's been booking amazing noise/psych/drone shows at Great Scott & O'Brien's. Now Slow Blood is officially a label with Foundlings being its number one. And this thing is a fucking synth massacre. All live and done entirely on a Realistic MG-1, these tracks are insane. The first is a side long piece sounding like guitar feedback loops, repeated & echoed in a slightly tense/disturbing way, taking a long time to build but once it does, its a dense swirling cloud of black dreams. The B side has a couple of tracks that are fucking bonkers. One starts out all innocent and New Agey, old school warped & jumbly synth melodies and then flies into the heart of the storm where it drops out and goes pure red, grit & static bursts of the most pleasurable variety. The tape finishes off with a piece that's weird even for DA. He blurs vocals and synth on here, making sounds that seem like you're in a factory with gurgling air pipes screaming hot steam, almost like industrial beat boxing or something, super awesome, bizarreness abound, ends with him turning into a howler monkey and yelling like a madman while the world crumbles around him. It's called "War Poem (For Tristan Tzara)" so it kinda makes sense. Kind of. Best of all, pay what you want for this sucker. Or drop a mere $6 for the physical embodiment of Slow Blood's hard work.


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A paparazzo was killed by oncoming traffic Tuesday after he tried to snap pictures of Justin Bieber on a highway off-ramp.
The unnamed photographer, who saw the pop star's Ferrari parked on the off-ramp, left his car to take pictures and was hit by oncoming traffic as he tried to return to his vehicle, CNN reported Wednesday morning.
He later died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
"He was just a kid. People misunderstand what's going on here," a friend of the photographer told KTLA 5. "He was just like any of you guys — a reporter. Maybe it was a different field. He was specializing in celebrity news because that's where he thought the money is."
Bieber wasn't actually in the car at the time of the incident.
However, the pop star did release a statement saying his thoughts and prayers were with the photographer's family.
"Hopefully this tragedy will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of celebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders, and the photographers themselves," Bieber said in a statement, according to CNN.
Unfortunately, Tuesday's incident wasn't necessarily a surprise for Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine, who worried in July the paparazzi's pursuit of celebrities would end in disaster.
This summer a pack of paparazzi caused mayhem on the a California freeway while they chased Bieber's car down the road.
"He [a paparazzo] was coming up behind me, making abrupt lane changes, not giving signals, cutting off cars," Zine told CNN at the time. The photographers were driving "at a rapid speed, all of them."
Paul Raef, one of the photographers, was prosecuted under a California law that allows for additional penalties for paparazzi who drive recklessly in pursuit of celebrities, according to CNN.
However, a judge said the statute was too broad and dismissed the anti-paparazzi counts filed against the photographer, The Associated Press reported in September.
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One of the properties of the Lebesgue outer measure is that it is subadditive and not countably additive. In fact, I have read that even when the sets A_i are disjoint, there is still generally strict inequality.
I was just wondering if anyone can give me an example of this, any set of disjoint real number intervals that I can think of always lead to a equality (hence countable additivity).


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Connecticut Man Arrested For Writing Obscenity On Traffic Ticket Payment Form
from the when-free-speech-costs-quite-a-bit dept
As someone who uses obscene words the way most people use commas, I always take a special interest when cursing butts up against free speech rights. After all, I certainly don't want to live in a world where I can't call some obnoxious jerk a [removed by editor] or a [removed by editor]. Such acts are the spice of life. Yet not everyone agrees, such as when courts rule against fantasy stories as obscene, or when the American public is forced to endure a half-a-second glimpse of a single nipple-less breast. Even Christmas has been rendered unsafe for the holy masses. But in none of those cases was the purveyor of salty language directing it squarely towards those who could levy judgement against them.
That honor goes to Willian Barboza, who was issued a speeding ticket last year in the Catskills town of Liberty, and chose to send a bit of a message while mailing in his guilty-plea fine when he wrote "F@#$ your sh#*$y town b&$#@es." The court decided that Barboza's admittedly witless prose was worth rejecting his payment altogether and charging him for aggravated harrassment, a strange state law that says it's a violation when someone:
"Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or delivering any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm …You can see the problem already. This is about as unconstitutional a law as you could possibly write, one which seems to think that the whole first amendment doesn't exist. Hell, if annoying someone anonymously via written communication was illegal everywhere, the courts would be full of a certain percentage of Techdirt commenters. That, fortunately, is not the case (you're welcome, trolls), which is why the NYCLU filed suit on behalf of Barboza for pain, suffering and humiliation. The courts, thankfully, listened.
A municipal judge on March 22, 2013 finally dismissed the charge against Barboza, stating that while his words were "crude, vulgar, inappropriate and clearly intended to annoy," that the First Amendment protects Barboza's speech.I don't believe the decision renders the law inactive, but it seems pretty clear that it is untenable in its own jurisdiction when judges are unwilling to rule for it. Whatever process it takes to get that clearly unconstitutional law off the books needs to begin immediately, or else Fallsburg might just be the shitty town Barboza alledges.
"No citation is necessary for this Court to determine that the language under the circumstances here, offensive as it is, is protected," stated Town of Fallsburg Justice Ivan Kalter.
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In Hebrews chapter 1 we read earlier a great testimony to the person of Jesus Christ. As most of you know, we are studying the gospel of Luke on Sunday mornings and we find ourselves in chapter 2 in the gospel of Luke. And we've just concluded the section on the birth of Jesus Christ. At the conclusion of that section I took a bit of a digression away from Luke's gospel, which we'll return to next Sunday. I wanted to digress to the first chapter of Hebrews for a few weeks because I can't just pass by the birth of Christ without a complete understanding of its significance, and that means a complete understanding of the very nature of the child that was born in Bethlehem.
Of course Luke gives us great insight as the narrative in the gospel of Luke unfolds the history of the birth of Jesus Christ. We are given information that tells us about the parents of Jesus, the earthly parents, Joseph and Mary, the mother, Mary, His actual Father being God the Holy Spirit. We're introduced to the forerunner of Jesus, the last of the Old Testament prophets, John, who will announce His arrival. We're introduced to the parents of John, the wonderful old priest, Zacharias and his wife, Elizabeth. And we are introduced to the angel Gabriel and we're actually introduced to a host of angels who celebrate the birth of Christ and announce His birth to shepherds out on the field. And we've gone through all of that. We...we have seen the history of the birth of Christ unfold on earth. We have learned from Luke how it links with Old Testament prophecy and how it links with Old Testament covenants. And we have been blessed by all the richness of Luke's gospel. But I didn't want to just leave the birth of Christ without a look at Hebrews chapter 1 because here you have what amounts to really a heavenly commentary. Here is looking at the birth of Christ not so much from the earthly side, not from the vantage point of Joseph or Mary or the people who were in Bethlehem, or even from the vantage point of reading Luke's history and getting the scene as it unfolded. I wanted us to look at the birth of Christ a little more deeply in terms of who Jesus Christ is, who that child was that was born because that, of course, as we've been saying, is the essence of the Christian faith, the identity of Jesus Christ the Son of God. And we've gone through the first three verses, as you know, in which God's Son is introduced to us in verse 2 as the one who has been appointed heir of all things, the one through whom God made the worlds, the one who is the brightness of God's glory, who is the exact reproduction of God's person, the one who upholds all things by the word of His power, that is He is not only the creator but He's the sustainer of His creation. He is the one who by Himself purged our sins and He did that by dying on the cross and rising again. And accomplishing that, sat down by God at His right hand and He sits now on the right hand of the Majesty on High.
Now all of that define the nature of Christ as God. But there's one other element to this definition of the nature of Christ, and it would be very important for us to understand and it really is the main theme in this chapter. As wondrous as it is to identify Jesus Christ, the child born in Bethlehem, as the heir of all things, as the one who made the world, as the brightness of the glory of God, the exact reproduction of His person, as the sustainer of the universe, as the one who purged our sins and is seated at the right hand of the Majesty on High, there's one other remaining question that would exist in the mind of a Jew and it's to that question that all of that leads up.
You'll notice there's a sort of a single sentence that just sort of flows from verse 1 and doesn't end till you come to the end of verse 4. And the culmination of that sentence is this, having become so much better than the angels. Apart from God the Jewish people would have recognized angels as the highest creatures. If you go any higher than angels, you're God. There are no other created beings than angels and humans. And they would have seen angels, of course, as higher than they because angels dwelt in the presence of God. Angels are immaterial beings who serve the purposes of God. And so they saw angels as the loftiest of all of God's creation. In fact, to be above angels would be to be equal with God, and that's precisely the point the writer of Hebrews wants to make. And so he wants to place Christ in the right...the right location, as it were, in terms of the thinking of people, namely the Jewish people. And so he says this one who is the Son of God is better than the angels, not just better, but so much better...so much better than angels.
Angels are wonderful beings. Angels were created by God, created by God probably at about the same time, although there was no such time in eternity prior to God instituting time in creation, but from a human viewpoint at about the moment of the creation of the rest of the universe, God must have created the angels. We could say they were there for the creation. They might have been created just prior to God actually creating the material universe. They must have been soon before the material verse because...before the material universe because they frankly occupy the heavens which God created in Genesis 1. They, according to Job, could be defined as the morning stars who sang together at the creation, so they may have been around to praise God as He was doing the creation work described in Genesis 1. But they were created by God some time near the occasion of His creating the rest of the universe.
Now they had a very important part to play in God's plan. Holy angels were used by God in many ways. You find throughout Old Testament history that they appear, sometimes the angel of the Lord appears. You remember there was a wrestling with an angel from the Lord indicated in the book of Genesis. The angels of the Lord served the divine purpose of caring for the nation Israel on some occasions. The angel of the Lord served a number of purposes in the Old Testament. An angel was sent by God to assist the prophet Daniel. You remember the angels were seen by Isaiah on the occasion that he was given a vision of the glory of God and the cherubim came out, the angels who apparently guard the holiness of God and said, "Holy, holy, holy," it's very likely that in the vision of Ezekiel he was allowed to see some angelic beings described there who were very parallel to angelic beings being described in the book of Revelation. So angels played a prominent role and they were viewed as spirits who were righteous and holy and dwell in the presence of God and serve God.
No more important duty ever given to angels from a Jewish viewpoint than the responsibility to aid God in disseminating His holy law which they came to know as the Mosaic Covenant, or the Sinaitic Covenant or the Old Covenant as we call it. Angels were the angels by which God was assisted in the dispensing of His law. And so they were connected then to the law which is holy, righteous and good and which is the wholly expression really of the nature of God because that which expresses His perfect will expresses His perfect nature. And so the Jews saw the angels as very elevated beings...the holy angels. It is then incumbent of the writer of Hebrews in establishing the primacy and the superiority of Jesus to identify how He relates to those angels. And that's precisely what he does in verse 4 when he says that the Son who was born is so much better than the angels. You can only go one step up from there and you arrive at absolute eternal deity and that is an important consideration for the writer to make.
We want to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ as we come to His table and I think as we look at the cross the tendency is to see the humanity of Jesus more than anything else, to see His suffering even through life, the ridicule, the mocking, the rejection that ultimately led to the swelling of the crowd against Him to cry for His blood, His painful humiliation at the hands of the Roman soldiers, the travesty of a trial, a mockery of a trial. I'm going to come out with a new book in a few months called The Murder of Jesus, the trial of Jesus was the greatest travesty of justice in all of the annals of human history because you have the most innocent person ever tried found guilty of the most serious crime. But Jesus Christ is seen so much in His humanity around the events of His death and then the betrayal, the humiliation by Judas, the humiliation by the priest, the humiliation by the Roman soldiers. And then that severest of all humiliations when He's naked and hanging on a cross and literally being executed by God for sins He didn't commit and willingly substituting Himself for sinners. You look at the cross and you see the humanity.
But as you look at Hebrews, we want to balance that out and see who it was that was there. It was one who was much better than the angels, though, as Hebrew 2 says, for a little while He was made lower than the angels. He was for a little while made lower than the angels in His self-emptying when He came down to earth to suffer and to die. But in His nature, in His person, His character, His essence He was so much better than angels because He was God.
This is a very important point to make with Jewish people who have great reverence and respect for angels and so the writer patiently makes the point. And I'll just give you five ways in which he shows the superiority of Jesus to the angels.
In the scene in Bethlehem, Gabriel might appear as a superior to the babe lying in a manger who is wrapped in cloth and the heavenly host appearing in the field announcing His birth to the shepherds might appear as superior to the humble child, not recognizable lying in a feed trough as God, but God nonetheless. It might appear in the birth narrative that the angels sort of occupy the prominent place. But the fact of the matter is, Jesus Christ is so much better than the angels.
First of all, by virtue of His name...first of all, by virtue of His name. In verse 4 it says, "He is so much better than the angels because He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." Angel is a good name, angel, angelos in the Greek means messenger, that's essentially what the word means. That's a good name. But He has a better name, a name which He has received by inheritance. That is to say He has a right to it. He has a right to it, He can claim it because of His essential nature. He has a legitimate claim on that name. And it is a more excellent name than angel. What is it? Verse 5, "For to which of the angels did He, God, ever say, 'You are My Son, today I have begotten You and again I will be to Him a Father and He shall be to Me a Son,'" to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are My Son?" Answer: none. In the general sense you could say angels are sons of God if by that you mean they were created by God, and they are so designated in Genesis 6, just as you can say of humanity that mankind, men and women, are sons of God by virtue of the fact that He created them. But to no single angel did God ever say...You are My Son who proceeds from Me...I am Your Father, You are My Son, has never been said to an angel.
The reason...because it is a designation of essential nature, it is a designation of essential nature. That's how the Jews understood it. They understood the solidarity of this kind of expression, to say that Jesus is the Son of God who is the Father is to say they share the same essence, they share the same nature. When the Jews would look at a family and they would speak of a son, that would identify that one as sharing the same nature as his father. He possessed the same characteristics, the same like principle, the same essential nature. That's exactly what this indicates.
Furthermore, the Jews understood that the son had the right to all that the father possessed. They understood family. They understood tribes. Families went back a long way. They could trace their genealogy, there were genealogical records. You see them unfold in the Bible as the Bible opens, immediately into the Scriptures in the book of Genesis genealogies appear. And passing down inheritances from generation to generation was a very important part of life. They put a premium on family. Just imagine trying to do that in our modern society. Imagine with all the divorce and all the illegitimate children, and all the chaos that's going on, trying to pass down anything to a...to a succeeding series of generations. But in ancient times, that's how life was lived and people made commitments to marriage and family within the framework of long-standing families. And generation after generation shared the same life, the same character and the same possessions, inheriting from one generation to the next what belonged to the fathers.
When Jesus came along and said He was the Son of God, the Jews interpreted that only one way, they interpreted that to mean that He shared the same nature with God. That's why they said when He claimed that He was blaspheming because He was claiming to be God. It was clear to them what He was saying when He said He was the Son of God. They didn't read it as if He was something that I simply am a servant of God, I am simply one who believes in God. They understood it to mean He was claiming to be equal with God and that's exactly what they said and therefore accused him of the severest kind of blasphemy and therefore violation of the first commandment which is to have no other God but the true and living God.
So, Jesus was, however, in spite of their misinterpretation of who He was, the Son of God. And He is thus given the name "Son" which is a name that expresses His eternal generation from the Father. I don't know how to explain that. There never was a time when the Father brought the Son into existence. The Son is as eternal as the Father. There never was a moment in all of eternity when the Son did not exist, but in some way Father/Son terminology is used to express a shared nature that they both share the same divine essential nature and the right to the same inheritance, that is to possess all that exists in the entire created universe, be it material or immaterial. No angel has that name. Angels are messengers. Jesus is the Son of God.
Secondly, the writer of Hebrews wants it clear that Jesus is superior to angels on the basis of His rank, not just His name. Notice in verse 6. When he again brings the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship Him." Let me just briefly say this. The word "firstborn," prototokos is not a word of chronology, it's a word of preeminence. It really could be translated "the premier one, the prominent one, the highest ranking one, the preeminent one, the highest one." It wouldn't be necessary to identify the Son of God with a number because there aren't any more. It wouldn't be necessary to say He was the firstborn Son of God to distinguish Him from the second or third born son of God since there is only one. The firstborn is not a numeric term. It is not a chronological term to indicate some kind of sequence in birth. It is a term meaning preeminence, prototokos, the premier one, the preeminent one, the most prominent one, the highest of all. And that indicates the rank of Jesus, that He is the ranking one, He is the supreme one.
In Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 it says this, "He is the image of the invisible God, He is the prototokos, the preeminent one over all creation." That is His preeminence is established not within the...not within the trinity, as such. Not that He is the preeminent one within the trinity or that He is the preeminent one of some other...some other elements, or some other deities that have come in procession from God, but rather He is the supreme one of all over all creations. Or it's simply identifying His rank. To prove that, in verse 6, he...and by the way, you'll notice if you have a Bible that identifies quotes, there are seven quotes from Old Testament passages here, I don't have the time to go into those this morning. And you'll see another one in verse 6 because there were two in verse 5. And here it is, verse 6, taken from Psalm 89, "Let all the angels of God worship Him." That establishes His rank. He is the premier one over all creation. Angels are created beings, therefore He is superior to them and all the angels of God worship Him.
Now, of course, there is to be no worship offered to any created being, all worship is to be offered only to God. This therefore again establishes that He is God. This "let all the angels" actually comes from Deuteronomy 32, the point here being the angels are commanded to worship God. That's what they do as an occupation. That's...that's their primary function, to worship God and part of that worship, obviously, is to serve God. To say "to have to worship Jesus" then is to equate Him with God.
Now there's a third identity here that the writer makes to show the superiority of Jesus to angels with equates Him with God. First, His name...second, His rank...and thirdly, His nature, verse 7, and I won't spend a lot of time on this, just to make a couple of comments makes it very clear what he's saying. "Of the angels he says," and again there's a quote out of Psalm 104, "Who makes His angels spirits," we'll stop at that point. Also says His ministers a flame of fire in that passage. But here the identifying is that angels are spirits...they are spirits, they are immaterial spirits. They are created. It says He makes them spirits, God created angels as spirits. They are seen sort of metaphorically as a flame of fire.
An angel is a spirit, a created spirit made by God. Notice the contrast in verse 8. "But to the Son...He says...Your throne, O God, is forever and ever." Angels are created spirits, the Son is eternal God, that's the distinction. That's the distinction in nature.
The Son of God sits on a throne that is eternal...forever and ever. That's the first distinct difference in the nature of angels and the nature of Christ. Angels are created spirit beings, created immaterial beings. The Son is eternal God. Furthermore, in verse 8 indicates a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom. Verse 9, "You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness." That's an interesting statement drawn from Psalm 45, Isaiah 61. What that's saying is this, it is characteristic of the Son who is eternal God that He is marked by righteousness which means He loves righteousness and hates lawlessness, which are two sides of the same holiness. Now we know that that, sad to say, is not the case with created spirits. God created angels, some of them chose to love righteousness and hate lawlessness. But Lucifer, son of the morning, anointed cherub, one of the originally created angels, chose to hate righteousness and love lawlessness. And he was able to lead a rebellion, including one-third of all the angels who joined him in his mutiny against God. Angels, initially, were not impeccable, that is they had the capacity to sin and some did and were cast out of heaven and they constitute the demons who serve the purposes of Satan in his kingdom of darkness today. But the eternal God, not created, the eternal God is perpetually carrying a scepter of righteousness and forever loves righteousness and hates lawlessness. Because of the difference in nature, angels are created spirits, He is the eternal God, a difference in character, angels could make the choice to love lawlessness and hate righteousness. But the Son could not. There is a great difference in essential nature. And verse 9 concludes, therefore, God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions. They may attend to You, men and angels, but You are far above them by Your nature. Number four, as the writer endeavors to exalt Jesus Christ above angels and to equate Him with God, he does it by His name, His rank, His nature, number four, and we've already gotten a glimpse of this in verse 8, His eternality...His eternality. Building on the fact that He is God forever and ever which looks to the future, verse 10 says, "You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of Your hands." He views the Son as THE creator who was here before there was anything created because He was the creator. He cannot be a created being, therefore His eternality stretches not only forward, but backward. He is THE creator. And we all know John 1, "Everything that was made was made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." This wonderful testimony here in verse 10 comes from Psalm 102. "And the creation that He makes, verse 11, will perish but He will remain. The creation will grow old like a garment, like a cloak. You will fold them up, perhaps better, roll them up. They'll be changed but You are the same and Your years will not fail." This is the eternality of the Son. Angels were not eternal, but the Son is eternal. Angels were created, as I said, some time around the creation of everything else. Christ Himself was THE creator. Angels could change and some did. He cannot change. The creation will dissolve. The heavens and the earth will be uncreated. But God will never ever change. Jesus is God by virtue of His name, by virtue of His rank, by virtue of His nature, by virtue of His eternality, and finally, by virtue of His destiny. In verse 13, the writer says, "But to which of the angels has He ever said, 'Sit at My right hand till I make Your enemies Your footstool?'" To what angel did He ever grant ultimate eternal sovereignty? Answer...none. No angel was ever so promised. The promise of Psalm 110 is to the Son. No angel was ever taken to sit at the right hand of God and have all enemies made his footstool. The destiny of Christ is to rule all, every knee in heaven and earth and under the earth is going to bow to Him. All His enemies are going to come under Him. You see that unfold in the rest of the New Testament, particularly in the book of Revelation where He finally subjects all His enemies to Himself...takes His seat as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. No angel is ever given sovereignty. The angels are not sovereign. Angels don't rule over everything or anything. In fact, verse 14 makes the distinction clear. They aren't sovereign, they are serving. "Are they not all serving spirits, ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?"
You know, I know we talk about how angels minister to us and they do. I'm sure they're involved. I'm sure they're involved in protecting cause the Scripture indicates that. I'm sure there are angels unaware, at least we're unaware of them, serving the purposes of God according to Matthew 18, He uses His angels to care for His own. We don't see them but God dispatches His angels for the protection and the care of His people. But I think there's something beyond that in this verse that is true. But there's something beyond that because it's talking about these angels being ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation. And the future use of the verb here indicates that this must be looking at the full future inheritance of our salvation which indicates to me, and here's the wonder of wonders, that in the glory of heaven, in the glory of heaven the Son will reign over us and we will give Him homage and adore Him as our King but the angels, even in the glories of eternal heaven, will continue to serve us.
You say, "You sure about that?" Well that's what it says here and there aren't any exceptions and there isn't any limit on it. Furthermore, the Apostle Paul says when we go to heaven and are made like Jesus Christ, we will become joint...what?...heirs with Him. And therefore we will inherit all that He possesses. Not only that, repeatedly in the New Testament it tells us that we will reign with Him, doesn't it? We will reign with Him. We will receive crowns and we will reign with Him. We will sit with Him on His throne on the Father's throne, it says in Revelation. And this is the wonder of wonders, that in the saga of redemption as God plans a redeemed humanity to be given as a bride to His Son, unfolding the purposes of God, He brings that redeemed humanity to glory, gives that redeemed humanity to the Son. The Son embraces that redeemed humanity as His bride. That redeemed humanity then reflects His glory, becomes a joint-heir of all that He possesses and forever and ever worships and honors the Son while reigning with the Son to be served by the angels. So that the angels are created by God not only to serve the bride, as it were, in time but to serve the bride in eternity. Their destiny is service. His destiny is sovereignty.
And so, when you go back to the scene in Bethlehem, you see the angels, they look prominent when compared to the child, but He was so much better than they.
Father, we thank You for the glimpse of the Son in the majesty of the language of this great chapter. We honor Jesus Christ as the Son, the One who eternally...eternally generates from You, the One who is eternally God, whose name is above every name, the One who is the premier, preeminent, prototokos before whom all must bow and worship, the One who is not a spirit created but the creator of spirits, the One who is perfect righteousness and who perfectly hates lawlessness, the One who is eternal before and after creation, and the One whose destiny is sovereignty. What wonder of wonders that we should know You and Your Son and participate in the glory of what You've prepared for Him. What immense privilege that we should sit with Christ in His throne, be identified as His beloved bride, love Him, serve Him and then share His inheritance forever and be served by the holy angels. And for all of this, we worship You, it all being made possible because He, being Christ, purged by Himself, purged our sins by dying on the cross in our place. And so do we worship Him today.
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TOPSAIL ISLAND � The recent cold spell has kept area aquariums and the sea turtle hospital on Topsail Island busy helping cold-stunned sea turtles from North Carolina and other locations along the East Coast.
TOPSAIL ISLAND � The recent cold spell has kept area aquariums and the sea turtle hospital on Topsail Island busy helping cold-stunned sea turtles from North Carolina and other locations along the East Coast.
Ten live, cold-stunned juvenile green turtles were found last week on the beach south of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse.
According to information from Cape Lookout National Seashore, park volunteers Dallas and Marjorie Spruill rescued the stranded turtles and contacted park officials. Rangers Wade Keeler and Kerby Price responded and carried the turtles back to the park offices on Harkers Island.
Dr. Matthew Godfrey, state sea turtle biologist and representative of the N.C. Sea Stranding and Salvage Network, picked up the turtles. The turtles were given an initial assessment by a veterinarian and then transferred to the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center on Topsail Island.
They join a number of other recent admissions to the hospital from the Cape Lookout area.
Jon Altman, a biologist with Cape Lookout National Seashore, said the strandings are the first they�ve seen this winter.
�This is the time of year when we get a cold spell and water temperatures drop and any turtles left in inshore waters get hypothermic. They are alive, but they are non-responsive; and their temperatures cool so much they can barely function,� he said.
Jean Beasley of the sea turtle hospital said that as of Monday they were caring for 22 turtles due to cold stunning and were expecting another that evening. The new admissions are in addition to the 18 or so patients they already had.
The first cold-stunned turtle came in late last month from the Brunswick area. A loggerhead to arrive Monday evening is from Manteo, and a bulk of the others has come in from the Cape Lookout Bight area and north.
She said there may be others out there and she encourages people to call the stranding network as the turtles may still be alive even if they don�t appear to be.
�We ask people to keep an eye out. They may be floating on the water or be very lethargic, and they may be up in the marshes or on the beaches,� Beasley said.
Beasley said they aren�t in their new building yet and their space is limited but they are doing whatever they can to help.
�We�re warming them up gradually, getting them eating and getting them on the road to recovery,� she said.
North Carolina�s aquariums have also been busy helping with the rehabilitation efforts, taking in turtles recovering from the effects of the icy New England waters. The New England Aquarium in Boston has received a record 223 cold-stunned sea turtles so far this winter.
The aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores is caring for five loggerheads and two Kemp�s ridley that were among more than 200 sea turtles rescued in Massachusetts since November.
�They are all on antibiotics to stave off pneumonia and other potential infections common in cold- stuns,� said Wendy Cluse, the aquarium�s conservation and research coordinator, via a news release. �We will continue their antibiotics, as well as provide good food, vitamins, clean water and a warm place to recuperate. Once they are off antibiotics, eating well and appear to be in good health as per our veterinarian, they will be released. That could be as soon as two weeks, but may be much longer.�
A few cold-stunned turtles from North Carolina are also recovering at the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium, including a green sea turtle found near Shackleford Banks and another found near Cedar Island.
If the sea turtles recover before local water temperatures moderate, the sea turtles will be taken to the Gulf Stream for release.
Contact Jacksonville Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-257 or email@example.com.


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It's a relative luxury to go to a proper festival and end up in your own bed at the end of the night rather than, say, sleeping in a too-small sleeping bag in a damp tent. It's definitely preferable. And maybe even desirable, especially when the festival in question's bill contains some of the finest bands in the land.
This year's Offset took place, as always, in Hainault Forest and it would have been rude to turn down the opportunity to see the likes of Let's Wrestle, Damo Suzuki, The Horrors, Future of the Left, Pulled Apart By Horses, Wild Beasts, The xx and about a hundred or so others, even if the trek back to South-West London wasn't exactly quick...
The Chapman Family
The worst way to start things off. That said, the only way is up after such this lot. They fall into categories "dreadful" and "dreary" but thankfully for us not quite into that of "dire". At times the lyrics seem sub sixth-form poetry and the music rises, every now and then, just above that level. Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh on the band - the lead singer did his best to try and liven things up with some techniques straight from the 'classic rock moves' textbook to some effect, but the overall impression left by The Chapman Family matched the Saturday sky – grey. Probably would've been better off another half an hour with noiseniks Cementimental.
Gyratory System
Here with have a three-piece with much promise but not quite as much to deliver. Phrases and riffs from a lone trumpeter, bassist and sticksman evolve slowly into something substantial and foot-tap inducing more often than not but the limitation comes in the development – in that there isn't much of it. Sure, when it sounds like backing for a particularly extravagant and experiment a brand of Japanese pop it works but it seems to never end. There is something, for some reason, that reminds me of cult slash band Causey Way albeit without the over earnest and oft misplaced intensity CW displayed. The introduction of a lunatic vocalist dressed in white would have improved them by approximately one third.
Pulled Apart By Horses
Their spitting, throwing and all-out rockin' antics are really hard to beat or match. I found myself the beneficiary of their beer-throwing escapades early on – cheers, lads. In Pulled Apart By Horses we have are a band who just make you wanna fuck shit up. Badly. How they manage to maintain a level of ferocity only matched by a recently-bereaved bonobo on its period is mightily impressive. The masses - the biggest crowd on the main stage I've seen so far - clearly enjoy the rollicking and why not? The greatest attraction for PABH must be the half-speed, double weight break downs. Or maybe in the live show overall – they're probably only matched by Dananananaykroyd for this all weekend. 'E = MC Hammer' may be a bit of a populist cheap shot as a title but, hey, it's markedly better than some pseudo political nonsense AND it makes you want take up bare-chested wrestling as a part-time hobby. Are these guys the future of British hardcore music in the UK? If they aren't they bloody well should be.
Male Bonding
Despite describing the DiS forum as a hate-filled, rancid forum or thereabouts, I'm finding there's a great lot to like about these guys. With the Americans doing the lo-fi/no-fi thing fairly damn well it's nice to get a bit of English representation in that area. Regardless of who they sound like, talking and writing about a band's influences, direct, obvious or otherwise 'til you're blue in the face, arms, legs and toes is absolutely no fun. Maybe it should be a compliment than it rarely happens to bands who happen to be lacking in quality. Their show today is rabble-rousing in the most literal sense as thirty or so fresh-faced fans clamber onto the stage attempt to dance but actually get in the way in the disorganised and apologetic way we Brits do things. If Vivian Girls were boys, they'd be Male Bonding.
Drum Eyes
DJ Scotch Egg fronts a band and it's brilliant! He also plays bass! Doomy improv is what they specialise in! It possibly goes on for too long but, hey, it's a wonderful noise! They have two drummers! One of the drummers used to be in The Boredoms! Sometimes the drummers play similar beats! Sometimes they have a little drum-off! They make a noise of the most righteous variety! Damo Suzuki comes on for the final song! Awesome show!
The Slits
There's absolutely no doubt that Cut is one of the finest albums ever made. No doubt at all. Sadly there was no doubt in my ears and eyes as to how much of a shambles this Slits performance ended up. This was a show of heart-crushing proportions. First, Ari spends at least six hours trying to get the sound to desired levels (not her fault, we all want clarity...), second, the sound never actually becomes even half-decent with people as far away as Barking being able to hear the guitar. The problem worsens when Ari decides to yelp on about this every thirty seconds. Poor ol' Tessa Pollitt looks totally fed up for the most part and Hollie Cook slowly slips from being endearingly energetic to as irritating as a repetitive pin-prick in the anus. 'Typical Girls' lasts for a horrible eternity before the mother of all stage invasions starts during 'Shoplifting', upon invitation from Ari. The ratio of fans to self-important attention seekers is probably at 50-50 on stage. Personal shout outs? No, ta, get off the stage please. The persistent combination of general arsing around plus a stage riot leaves the Slits short on time and me even shorter on patience. The perfect argument for why once legendary bands should never reform.
To watch this band with the sun high in the sky with a slight cross-breeze and plenty of smoke on stage and in the air is exactly how it should be. That's once you get over the size of the singer's trousers, which are pretty much full-on pantaloons of a truly a breathtaking fit. Maybe the inherent sense of doom present in their sound doesn't quite fit in with the sun making a relatively rare appearance but I don't think anyone gave the proverbial two measurements of excrement. Thomas Cohen's mumblings mixed with heavy delay and apocalyptic riffage precede a slow swaying back and forth. Comparisons with the Horrors will probably stick for a while, especially given the familial ties between the two bands but, really, S.C.U.M offer something different, a variation on a theme, but The Horrors aren't exactly godfathers and guardians of this genre, are they?
Die! Die! Die!
Die! Die! Die! are nothing short of an antipodean riot. If ever a band were reminiscent of the At The Drive-in circa El Gran Orgo, Die! Die! Die! are it. Clashing cymbals and discordant guitar interspersed with the odd drawling lyrical verse is what's on offer, as ever. During the rapidly squawked 'A.T.T.I.T.U.D' frontman Andrew Wilson runs at least half-way to the crepe stand, has a little sing-song and then goes back again. This is much appreciated by all those in the vicinity, except those who fear he may knock the hot-dog out of their hands on his way. Just the right amount of regard is shown for melody as well as for their instruments as they are thrown about, up, down, left and right in a fury. It's at this very point that you realise why the exclamation marks in the band's name are necessary. Perhaps song titles in ALL CAPS might be an idea, too.
Let's Wrestle
Let's Wrestle are a lot of fun. Despite some on stage bickering between Wes and Mike they deliver a rip-roaring if slightly out-of-tune 40 minutes. From start to finish you realise just how jam-packed In The Court of Wrestling, Let's actually is. Every song could be a single and invites everyone to howl along with the band. If only the record buying public realised how much they need a band like Let's Wrestle...Whilst 1640 on a Saturday on the main stage was never likely to draw a gigantic crowd, the masses begin to grow slowly as the slacker guitar-pop resonates around centre of the site. 'I'm In Love With Destruction' is probably the perfect showcase of their talent; an overly active and near-fiddly bassline plays underneath slowly but surely struck chords in the verse whilst in the chorus both guitars take a more percussive and destructive approach to matters, all the time when a trademark strained vocal line dances atop at full volume. It's still a wonder how Wes – who looks about 15 – sounds so much like a man of senior years. In 'Tanks' they may have written the song of the year but today's triumphant if ragged performance even gets me moving my feet - an achievement in itself, honestly. Perhaps changing the title of 'We Are The Men You'll Grow To Love' to 'We Are The Men You'll Grow To Love The Second You Hear Us, Honest' would be a top idea.
The xx
This may not really have been the time and place for a band who have produced such a fine, yet so evidently nocturnal album - it was, well, a bit early in the day, i.e the sun was out. The album is itself a beautiful thing and best consumed in the death throes of night or the dewy dawn of a new day. It'd be a mildly inaccurate and incredibly harsh to describe this performance as anodyne or flaccid and lifeless but that's how it feels as I stand about 90 per cent of the way back. Things would be greatly improved if they smiled a bit but, you suspect, all dressed in black, moody and melancholic, gaiety times joy it isn't exactly what they're aiming for. A cover of Womack and Womack's 'Teardrops' is part-highlight part-lowlight, evoking memories of my time as a wee bairn, listening to my mum's mixtape in the family car. How I now long for my booster seat. My friend remarks "The xx? More like the zz, right?". Maybe today, at least.
How can you NOT like this band? I mean, even if you absolutely detest the music – which, if not your particular brew of choice, can be a bit SHOUTY and inyerface – their stage presence and engagement with anyone within approximately three miles is purely astonishing. I'm not entirely sure if it's best to describe Calum and John as dual vocalists or duel vocalists but I'm pretty certain they team up more than they conflict tonight. Despite being a massive fan of the EP but less so of the album, there was never any doubt as to Dananananaykroyd's quality once they hit the stage. In the time from that EP to the debut album they moved from understated and energetic with moments of unbridled power to full-time fantastic fireballs and the latter exactly sums up tonight. A wall of cuddles instead of a moshpit? Genius and awe-inspiring.
Connan Mockasin
Significantly gutted I didn't get to see more than three songs of "second best Kiwi" on the bill Connan Mockasin, whose high-pitched childlike brand of weird-out pop sees me beaming within about half a minute. The appeal doesn't lie in the fact that Mockasin is a fellow whose performances, appearance and sound are out of the ordinary or in the way he aimlessly blows the trumpet but in the simplicity and obviousness of his songs. They just stick. 'Sneaky, Sneaky Dog Friend' is an unadulterated bundle of joy and his cover of the Teenagers' 'Starlett Johansson' is the definition of twee, all without a glockenspiel or melodica in sight.
Wild Beasts
The reception of Wild Beasts' second LP Two Dancers has been nothing short of exceptional. It's also been richly deserved. For my money, it's up there with the best of the year, if not decade – several hundred others who have filled into the Clash tent at its fullest seem to agree. It's all very much a team effort for Wild Beasts – each person brings something unique to the front. Benny's icy guitar phrases, the pounding bass of Tom and Hayden and the vocal exchanges between the aforementioned pair as we see in 'All The King's Men'. Yet, for all this, Chris Talbot sits at the back beating the kit and occasionally tapping the bongos, going almost unnoticed, despite the fact that this time (and the previous time) the stick work is the standout aspect of the translation of Two Dancers from record to performance. Tom doesn't seem entirely clear just how much this record is loved; he seemed to almost apologetically introduce the band's name early on but almost the very second every near-perfectly crafted and performed song finishes, cheers and hollers erupt from all corners. How much has changed in a year.
Despite having to miss The Horrors for fear of not getting home within about three hours, the general consensus for Offset would be "more of this kind of thing, please", except the part whereby you can't take unsealed bottles on site...
See our In Photos coverage of Offset festival here.
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The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 requires the UK Statistics Authority to:
prepare, adopt and publish a Code of Practice for Statistics,
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assess against the Authority's Code any official statistics not currently designated as National Statistics that are proposed by Ministers as candidate National Statistics.
Only those statistics that are assessed as compliant with the Authority's Code of Practice will be designated as National Statistics.
Version 1.0 of the Code was published in January 2009.