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Women's Final Four brings Big Easy more big games
After slicing through downtown traffic in the type of motorcade a head of state might expect, Geno Auriemma stepped out of Connecticut's bus, bowed his head to receive a Mardi Gras-style beaded necklace with a Final Four medallion on it and entered the team hotel to the music of a live brass band.
For UConn's exalted coach, the sights and sounds were happily familiar. Once-battered New Orleans, well on its way to re-establishing itself as one of America's premier host cities for major events, is home to a women's Final Four for a record third time - and Auriemma has been to all three.
"I never get tired of coming down here," said the coach, whose team lost a semifinal game in New Orleans in 1991 and won it all in 2004. "It's nice to come down here and get tough guys on motorcycles (leading the motorcade), and they get us anywhere we want to go in about three minutes. You can just feel the urgency of it. This city treats events a little bit differently than any other place where they play these games."
The Final Four - featuring UConn, California, Louisville and Notre Dame - represents the fourth major college or pro championship hosted by New Orleans in the past 15 months, a time during which city leaders worked to showcase how far New Orleans has come since Hurricane Katrina's devastation in August 2005.
The hotel serving as NCAA headquarters was the same one famously shown in TV shots with its floor-to-ceiling windows blown out and shredded curtains billowing in the breeze.
It reopened months before the BCS national championship football game played in the Superdome between Alabama and LSU in January 2012. Next came the 2012 men's Final Four one year ago. The Super Bowl returned to the Big Easy for the first time since 2002 last February, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell left New Orleans making it clear that the league was delighted with the way things went - despite a half-hour blackout caused by faulty power company equipment outside the Superdome grounds.
Doug Thornton, who manages the state-owned dome and arena for SMG, said officials with the power company Entergy told him the faulty equipment has been deactivated, and he added that the arena receives power from a separate set of "feeder" lines anyway.
The blackout "was pretty innocuous overall," said Jay Cicero, chief of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, which organizes bids for high-profile events like Final Fours and Super Bowls.
Cicero said the NCAA and NFL deserve credit for helping drive New Orleans' recovery from Katrina by awarding the city events that combined have brought tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of millions of dollars in spending. The women's Final Four is expected to bring about 30,000 guests and about $20 million in spending, according to officials with the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Yet Cicero stressed that sympathy could not have been the main reason New Orleans landed the events. The people awarding them still had to have faith that the city could pull it off, he said, "or it would have been an embarrassment for everyone."
The city bid on the events around 2008, when considerable rebuilding downtown was underway, including upgrades to the dome and arena, and renovations at some surrounding high-rises.
Since then, a destroyed shopping mall next to the dome has been torn down and transformed into a public plaza hosting pre-game events. Surrounding hotels and office buildings are again occupied.
"We went on a sales mission back in 2008 and 2009 to line up all these events in a shorter time period than we ever have before, and it's been a tremendous success," Cicero said. "New Orleans has definitely returned to the top tier, if not the best city, to host major sporting events."
New Orleans will host its second NBA All-Star game since Katrina in 2014, and has already announced plans to bid on the 2018 Super Bowl. Cicero said the city plans to bid on another men's Final Four, women's Final Four and college football national championship game, all between the years of 2016 and 2020.
All four teams received festive welcomes like the one extended to Connecticut, with everything from beads and brass music to slices of "king cake."
"It would be unbelievable to get to the Final Four no matter where it was held, but I think in particular our entire team has embraced the fact that it's in an incredible city with so much culture, celebration and things to look forward to," Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb said Friday.
Each school's trip from the airport to their downtown hotels on Thursday night included stops at Mardi Gras World, where parade floats are built and stored, for team photos.
Cal center Talia Caldwell took pictures of floats adorned by sculptures of Ray Lewis, Michael Jackson and Jimmy Hendrix. Golden Bears guard Layshia Clarendon said she spent so much time raving about beignets (small, square french doughnuts) that the team's director of operations added popular French Quarter spot Cafe du Monde to the itinerary.
"Oh my god - New Orleans - we're going to eat so good on this trip," Clarendon said. "I'm excited, because we know we're going to play hard. The basketball part of it, it's ingrained, it's who we are, we're going to do that, we're going to take care of it, so we're really excited to take part in the festivities."


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Erisbel Arruebarrena's rehab assignment at Triple-A Albuquerque came to a violent end Saturday night, when the 24-year-old infielder incited a massive brawl in the Isotopes' game against the Reno Aces.
Sunday, the Dodgers activated Arruebarrena from the 15-day disabled list and re-assigned him to Single-A Rancho Cucamonga. The timing of the move, one day after the brawl, suggests this is more than a coincidence.
Arruebarrena had not been performing badly at Albuquerque. He hit his first Triple-A home run Saturday — his slow home run trot might have provoked Reno to begin with — and was batting .351/.410/.486. Albuquerque is playing Reno again tonight and Monday.
A source with knowledge of the situation said there is no precedent for a player on a major-league rehabilitation assignment being suspended by the Pacific Coast League. Nonetheless, the league is reviewing the incident and is expected to discipline Arruebarrena. It's unclear whether or not he would be required to serve his suspension while playing in a different league.


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Napoli deducted two points after two players fail to report match fixing
Captain Paolo Cannavaro and Gianluca Grava hit with six-month bans
Former Napoli goalkeeper Matteo Gianello banned for 39 months
Napoli deny any wrongdoing and say decision has arrived too late
Italian Serie A title challengers Napoli have been deducted two points after two players failed to report match fixing to the Italian football authorities.
Club captain Paolo Cannavaro and Gianluca Grava were both handed six-month bans for failing to flag up former Napoli goalkeeper Matteo Gianello's intention to fix a match between the Naples club and Sampdoria in 2010.
Gianello, who left Napoli in 2011, has been banned for over three years, while the club were fined $92,000.
The points deduction pushed Napoli, who issued a staunch denial of any wrongdoing, down to fifth from third in the Serie A table.
Read: South Africa rocked by match-fixing scandal
"The president Aurelio de Laurentiis, the head coach Walter Mazzarri and the whole team are calm, being confident that no violation could be attributed to Napoli," read a statement from Napoli, which is to appeal the Italian Football Federation's decision.
"While not entering into the obsolete and outdated principle of objective responsibility, and reserving any comments on legal action for the appropriate forums, Napoli does not agree with the decisions of the national disciplinary committee, considering that they should not be able to irretrievably alter championships that are already in progress.
"Any decision must be made before the start of a tournament or at the end of it. There has been enough time to evaluate and make a decision since the 2009-10 season. We are confident that true justice can be applied to the separate decisions, based on law and equity."
Cannavaro, the younger brother of Italy's 2006 World Cup winning captain Fabio Cannavaro, has started all but one of Napoli's league matches this season.
Prior to Tuesday's punishment, Mazarri's team sat eight points adrift of leaders Juventus, but will now slip behind Lazio and Fiorentina into fifth and out of the three qualification positions for next season's European Champions League.
Match-fixing has long been the scourge of Italian football.
Juventus coach Antonio Conte recently returned from a 10-match touchline ban imposed for failing to report match-fixing while coach at Siena.
In 2006, Juve were stripped of two league titles and relegated to the third division of Italian football – before later being reinstated in the second tier – for their part in the "Calciopoli" scandal.
Juve, AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio were all implicated in a wide-ranging police investigation which discovered a network of phone calls between club officials and refereeing organizations.
In 1980, Italy striker Paolo Rossi was out of the sport for two years following his involvement in a match-fixing scandal. He has always maintained his innocence.
Rossi later returned to help Italy clinch glory at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, finishing as top goalscorer at the tournament in Spain.
UEFA punishment
It is not the first time that Napoli have been punished this season.
In October the club were fined $198,000 for "inappropriate conduct by fans, insufficient stadium organisation and non-respect of UEFA directives" regarding a Europa League match against Swedish club AIK in September.


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My better half turned 31 on July 14. We just stayed home the entire day. MIL and I weren't able to cook anymore. And then we had dinner with my brothers at Burgoo Rockwell using some of my blogging money. That's it. No gifts hehehe. We need to save badly.
And then on July 16, we brought food to the courts so we can share it with some of our friends. We initially planned to serve Buddy's Pansit and Pichi-pichi from Arny and Dadings's. Buddy's is in Pasig and delivers to Greenhills minimum of P1000. Since they have nothing else to offer and P1000 is too much for pancit alone, we decided to look somewhere else. Before looking, we drove to A&D's in Katipunan, but we came later in the afternoon, they only had 12pieces left. I was craving pichi-pichi so we bought twelve pieces and enjoyed it while we think of another place to get Pancit. Then I remembered a post by Donna -- they buy their pancit from Orchids Motel in Pasig, hehehe. So we called the place and realized that they also offer BBQ. There we were on a bed-weather late afternoon driving through a motel, LOL! The bellboys readily pointed us to a garage and we just had to wave them off. I opened my window to ask where we can order pancit hehe. We ordered two kinds, Pancit Sotanghon and Pancit Bihon good for 5-7 pax, P450 each. It's kinda steep but when we saw the bilao, one can serve 10 or more pax! Super sulit! And they're yummy too. I liked the Bihon better though. The toppings include fried chicken! Their BBQ is a different story altogether. For P160 and only three sticks, we found it too expensive, so we bought two jumbo lechon manok from Andok's instead.
We waited more than 30 minutes for the pancit and enjoyed "sight-seeing", hehe. I tell yah, cars and cabs come and go, I realized having a motel for business is lucrative, LOL! If you aren't too bold to drive through inside, they deliver in Pasig area for free. If you're not working or living in Pasig, you may call ahead and pick it up outside (Orchids Tel 9100164 or 6712233).
Anyway, even if there was no big bang on Ane's birthday, we are still thankful that we are so blessed in many other ways. Belated Happy Birthday, Hun. I love you! ;)


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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
NEW DELHI -- India has issued a request for proposals for 56 cargo aircraft to replace its air force's aging fleet of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.-built Hawker Siddeley 748M Avro aircraft, according to a defense ministry official.
Under the deal, the first 16 aircraft will be directly procured from the chosen foreign vendor, which will then have to partner with an Indian firm that will manufacture the remaining 40. Out of those 40, 16 must have 30% indigenous components, while 24 must have 60% locally procured parts, the official says.
The Indian air force (IAF) is looking at several options including IL-114 variants from the Russian Ilyushin Aviation Complex, Ukrainian An-148 Antonov, the twin-turboprop European EADS Casa C-295 and Italian Alenia C-27J Spartan medium-sized military transport aircraft.
"The RFP made it clear to foreign players that they will have to select an Indian partner for this project," the official tells Aviation Week. The first aircraft is expected to be delivered in the next four to five years, after an official agreement is signed. The entire deal is estimated to be worth $2.5 billion to $3 billion.
The program is expected to boost manufacturing of transport aircraft in the country and bring in new business opportunities for Indian private players in the aviation market.
The twin-engine aircraft is planned to have a 6-8 ton payload capacity, cruise speed of 800 kph (500 mph) and a range of 2,500-2,700 km (1,600-1,700 mi.).
The IAF is estimated to be operating around 30 vintage Avro HS-748 aircraft, capable of carrying loads of up to 7 tons. The aircraft were inducted during the 1960s to transport both personnel and equipment.
State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) will not participate in the project because it is busy with the licensed production of Su-30MKI fighters and upgrades of the Mirage, MiG-29 and Jaguar aircraft for the IAF, the official says. HAL also will be involved in the licensed production of India's Multi Medium Range Combat Aircraft, once the deal for 126 jets is signed with France's Dassault.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. House passed legislation Wednesday that would exempt the trading of derivatives from federal oversight if it occurs outside the United States.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers supported the carve-out on a 301-124 vote.
Supporters say the exemption is necessary to allow U.S. firms to remain competitive in foreign markets. But opponents say the regulations outside the U.S. tend to be weaker and the exemption would put the broader financial system at risk.
Derivatives are investments whose value is based on some other investment, such as oil and currencies. The market was largely unregulated around the globe before the 2008 financial crisis and contributed to the meltdown.
The legislation's prospects in the Senate are uncertain. The White House has signalled it would veto the legislation.
Opponents said its passage could pressure regulators to take a more lenient approach in writing rules for oversight of foreign derivatives trading.
The White House said in a statement Tuesday that House passage of the bill "would be premature and disruptive" to the regulators' ongoing efforts to write the rules.
The legislation's primary authors were House Republicans, who opposed the 2010 financial overhaul legislation, but many Democrats endorsed it. A key thrust of the 2010 overhaul was to put new regulatory reins over derivatives, traded in a $700 trillion global market that has largely escaped supervision until now.
Derivatives are often used to protect an investor against future price fluctuations of an underlying commodity or security. But they also are used by financial firms to make speculative bets, and they have grown increasingly complex and risky.
Five of the biggest U.S. banks — JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley — account for more than 90 per cent of total derivatives contracts. A large proportion of derivatives are traded outside the U.S., estimated by regulators at around 40 per cent to 45 per cent of the total.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed putting under its supervision all derivatives trading, including trading overseas. But the Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a narrower approach, allowing overseas derivatives trades to escape U.S. regulation if the country in which they occur has a rules system that is roughly equivalent to that of the U.S.
The bill would require the two agencies to issue a joint rule. And trading in the nine biggest foreign markets for derivatives would be exempt from U.S. regulation.
That would "drag that activity back into the shadows," said Rep. Maxine Waters of California, the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, in debate before the vote.
"We'll be put in the position of bailing out failed institutions all over again," Waters said. "We shouldn't have to rely on foreign regulators to protect us."
Opponents pointed to the $182 billion federal bailout of American International Group Inc. at the height of the financial crisis — the largest for any company. AIG nearly collapsed because of its massive derivatives bets on the housing market. It has since repaid the bailout.
The new legislation would undermine the 2010 financial overhaul and "create a loophole big enough to drive an AIG truck through," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat.
But a supporter, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, said the bill would "bring some certainty to a very uncertain process."
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, the Financial Services panel's chairman, said the nine countries where trading would be exempt from U.S. regulation have systems of rules for derivatives that are closely equivalent to the U.S.
Having certainty in the rules would help companies that use derivatives to hedge against risks, Hensarling said, naming Coors, Southwest Airlines and John Deere as examples. That would help economic growth and jobs, he said.


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Letters to the Editor for Jan. 16
Saying goodbye to Joe Lieberman
A controversial lawmaker has left the U.S. Senate. He was our senator for 24 years, our attorney general before that, and a member of our legislature before that.
In most of those years, he served our country with honor and distinction with no more controversy than is inherent in the beast we call "politics."
But there is a double irony in the visitation of controversy into the political career of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.
It came at the highest point in his political career, and probably by the failure of his political party.
If Al Gore had won his home state of Tennessee in the '06 presidential election and the Democrat "on the ground" forces had gotten more of the vote out in Florida, Joseph Lieberman would have been the first Jewish American vice president in American history; his visceral understanding of the Middle East, his connections with Israel, and as vice president, sitting president of the Senate, after 911 would have made him the perfect liaison between a president and Congress in a time of war, or any other response to a terrorist act against the country, and we could have probably avoided the partisanship that blocked a substantive debate on Iraq.
This was not to be; instead he found himself, first, in the unenviable position to have to rise above the cacophony of the "stolen election" claquers, having passed the Connecticut Bar Exam, knowing that the Constitution had provisions for close, and even tied elections.
But political passions trump rational thought especially when directed by overpaid handlers whose flawed formulas for victory fail; they will never forgive you for their failure.
Back in the Senate after the election of George Bush, Sen. Lieberman attempted to maintain a statesmanlike posture, a posture that states that strong, even if partisan, political debate is conducted before American troops are committed to the field, that the president as commander in chief can be approached through channels within Congress that do not alter war efforts, and that those who one day would like to hold it, should not disparage the "office" of the presidency for political reasons.
The senator chose statesmanship and was punished for it. Four years after the Gore/Lieberman loss, he lost again in the '04 primary to John Kerry, who took a partisan position on the war that the American people didn't buy. Two years later, the Democrat Party turned its back on the senator, and he had to fight for his political life, with only his friends beside him to regain his senate seat. And so goodbye, Man of Stature.
--Bill Battle, Torrington
Re: Malloy breakfasts with Chamber of Commerce in Torrington
In Nikki Treleaven's recent piece (Re: "Malloy breakfasts with Chamber of Commerce in Torrington," Jan. 11, 2013), she writes that Gov. Malloy believes "education and funding" are key to economic development in the state of Connecticut.
Gov. Malloy is right.
Education and funding are key if we want to ensure a stronger economy, and make certain that our kids get the education necessary to compete in an increasingly competitive, global marketplace.
Last year, the nation watched as Connecticut signed into law a groundbreaking piece of education reform legislation.
The landmark law - which was championed by the governor and passed through the General Assembly with overwhelming support - includes an increase in charter school funding, the creation of a "Commissioner's Network" aimed at turning around failing schools, a new educator evaluator program, and enhances our state's ability to create additional high-quality public schools of choice.
These reforms, if allowed to be implemented and funded, will be game-changing for the students of the Constitution state.
Unfortunately, during a special legislative session last month - aimed at tackling our state's fiscal woes -nearly half of the education cuts were to key measures in last year's groundbreaking law.
The education cuts included a multi-million dollar reduction for charter schools, talent development, and the Commissioner's Network.
Policymakers cannot dial back their efforts to ensure great teachers, principals, and public schools for every child.
Our economic prosperity depends on the effective implementation of a strong set of reforms, and our students cannot afford further cuts to these vital programs.
If we are serious about investing in our children - and closing our state's shameful achievement gap in our lifetimes - our state leaders must protect and sustain crucial reforms aimed at ensuring all students have access to high-quality public schools.
--Jennifer Alexander, CEO at ConnCAN, New Haven


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Happy birthday, Tippi Hedren! 'Marnie' is a marvelous yarn
By Mr E Man
Marnie/1964/Universal Pictures/130 min.
In honor of Tippi Hedren's 86th birthday on Jan. 19, we are running a review of "Marnie." In 1983, Hedren, a Minnesota native of Scandinavian descent, founded the Roar Foundation to support abandoned exotic felines at the Shambala Preserve in Acton, Calif.
Most cynics have romantic souls and if there's one Hitchcock film that works on this premise it's "Marnie." Though the legendary auteur frequently featured redemptive, romantic endings, here a pair of feuding lovers must work through many an issue before they hit happily ever after. It's also a portrait of a wayward woman struggling with a tortured psyche, stemming from an unresolved childhood trauma.
In the opening scene we meet impeccably dressed, raven-haired career girl Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren) carrying a citron-colored handbag that's as covetable today as it was in 1964. (Hedren starred in Hitchcock's "The Birds" one year earlier.)
Marnie has just finished doing what she does best: stealing from her employer, then donning a new disguise so she can pull the same scam at another company.
Besides her sizable clothing and hair-color budget, Marnie wants money to give to her poor frumpy Mama (Louise Latham), telling her: "That's what money's for. To spend." (Especially when it's someone else's cash.) But despite these handouts, which Marnie personally delivers, Mama's uptight and hard to please, preferring to lavish her attention on a little girl from the neighborhood (Kimberly Beck) instead of on her daughter.
At her next job, Marnie sports auburn up-do's and sensible shoes. It's here that she meets devastatingly handsome businessman Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). Intense and domineering, Mark is quickly smitten but ice-queen Marnie has no interest in him or in any man, though she does weaken long enough to kiss him.
Not so impressed with Marnie is the sharp and sassy Lil (Diane Baker). Packed with interesting women, the cast also includes Mariette Hartley as Marnie's office colleague and Melody Thomas Scott as young Marnie.
Marnie's coldness just makes Mark more determined – he is used to getting what he wants – and once he finds out about her criminal past, he uses this info to hasten their marriage.
The fact that Marnie can't stand his touch doesn't make for the most romantic honeymoon. Perhaps if he were a tad less controlling …
Will Mark help Marnie confront her past before her spate of Dior-collar crime catches up with her? That's the movie's source of suspense. It's loosely based on a novel by Winston Graham but Hitchcock typically used the literary source material as merely a starting point to create a tension-filled, sometimes terrifying, reality and render his unique vision. The script came from Jay Presson Allen, a former actress and writer, who also worked with Sidney Lumet.
Hitchcock enjoyed exploring psychosexual theory in his films, sometimes with a smirk, sometimes not. In this case, Dr. Hitch diagnoses frigidity, rescue fantasies, control issues bordering on obsession, repressed memories and of course a major power struggle.
The movie was trashed upon its release. Critics called Hitchcock sloppy and unfairly pounced on Hedren's acting. The editing is occasionally choppy, some of the backdrops look fake, the screen goes red when Marnie sees the color red, there are thunderstorms aplenty. Though they might seem flawed or slightly old-hat, these noirish devices reflect Marnie's off-kilter world, her confused and anguished psychological state.
And Hitchcock's personality was too controlling and perfectionistic to have coasted through this movie. Conscious of every detail of every frame, he sometimes shopped for and selected accessories like hats and handbags because even these seemingly minor visual elements affected the color palette of each shot. He also wanted classic lines for the clothes so that in years to come they wouldn't look dated.
Always engaging, sometimes thrilling, "Marnie" is a complex, thoughtful and satisfying story.


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I'm seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in New Hampshire's 1st District to give voters a choice. I believe that the GOP should stand for limited, responsible government. And yet my opponent for the nomination has routinely supported unlimited, unaccountable government. The choice is clear.
Frank Guinta toed the party line in Congress, and I expect he'd do so again if we sent him back to Washington. He and Carol Shea-Porter keep passing each other through the revolving door, electing one in Republican years and the other in Democratic years. And each can be counted on to continue to support the Washington, D.C., status quo.
There are several issues currently before Congress that demand real reform. The unchecked growth of the federal government's surveillance powers is one of them. And on this important issue Frank Guinta and I disagree.
The shocking revelations of the National Security Agency's breathtakingly broad data collection operations have shown how far the federal government will stretch its authority when Congress is unwilling to rein it in.
Under the current regime, the NSA cannot only collect the time, place, length and details of our phone calls, without any probable cause or court oversight, but it has obtained untold email and social networking communications from companies such as Facebook and Google. It has used "national security letters" to obtain confidential client information and gagged companies from even letting customers know that their data has been breached.
The original Patriot Act, and its follow-on bills, were designed to give the U.S. intelligence community better tools to track and stop foreign terrorists organizations. But these programs have been co-opted and abused to the point that they allow the federal government to avoid almost any limits on its ability to spy on American citizens.
You don't even need to be connected to a foreign intelligence target to be subject to "backdoor surveillance." If you call someone who emailed someone who knows a target, you are subject to surveillance under the "Three Hop" Rule. This could quite literally trap every American citizen in the NSA's surveillance web. I simply reject the premise that such sweeping data collection authority enhances our national security. I don't think we make it easier to find the needles by giving the NSA authority to search through a bigger haystack.
President Obama has allowed the NSA surveillance programs to continue even as he called on Congress to limit them. But his proposal does little to actually cut down on the NSA unchecked power. Court review would be delayed until after data have been collected, time limits on when unneeded data would be destroyed are left undefined, and the government could avoid going to a judge entirely simply by declaring an "emergency situation." Limits on government that can be waived at the government's discretion are no limits at all.
As New Hampshire's next representative, I will work to help pass real reforms that protect both our nation and our Constitution. Meanwhile, my opponent's record in Congress suggests that he will not.
In 2011, Frank Guinta voted to reauthorize several provisions of the Patriot Act, even as critics such as Sen. Rand Paul sought to offer amendments to curb warrantless wiretaps and unlimited searches of business records.
In January 2012, Guinta showed some promise, coming out against SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act, which would have given the federal government sweeping new power over the Internet. The bill would have allowed federal regulators to shut down websites merely because big media companies alleged a copyright claim. This clear violation of due process would have limited our First Amendment rights and stifled competition.
Yet just three months later, Guinta flip-flopped on protecting the Internet from government regulation, voting for CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. This bill would also have allowed broad federal authority to regulate Internet traffic. It was opposed by a broad coalition of conservative and libertarian groups, including Americans for Limited Government, FreedomWorks, the American Conservative Union, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, as well as the ACLU.
If we really believe in limited government, we need to elect representatives willing to stand up even when broad government powers are popular. For Guinta, support for limited government is a "sometime thing." I'm seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in New Hampshire's 1st District because I believe support for limited government should be an "always thing."
Dan Innis is a Republican primary candidate for Congress in New Hampshire 1st District, and the former Dean of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. He can be reached at www.InnisForCongress.com.


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|A healthy diet and regular exercise are the keys to preventing obesity and type II diabetes. Both diet and exercise require a commitment from the parents and the kids. But the time and effort are well-spent, because the results are healthy, happy kids brimming with life.
Be sure to serve protein and carbohydrates at every meal, and keep the portions moderate. Eat a variety of protein sources and a variety of fruits and vegetables. Fats are usually parts of the foods you're eating regularly. Supplements of special fats, such as omega-3 fatty acids, may be necessary. Good omega-3 sources include salmon, spinach, and walnuts.
Healthy kids do at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day. Every day. Walking, swimming, bike riding, and playing individual and team sports are all important activities. Your kids will naturally select the types of exercise that appeal to them the most. As parents, we want to be sure we're exercising regularly, too!
Like Scylla and Charybdis, the twin sea monsters of Greek mythology, diabetes and obesity are the twin medical monsters confronting America's children. Diabetes and obesity have even been featured as the story line in a recent episode of Law & Order, a show well-known for focusing on issues that matter.
What's going on? Diabetes and obesity are twin raging epidemics endangering the health and welfare of our nation's young people. In New York City, by the age of 4, there is a one in three chance that the child will be obese. More than 40% of children are at an unhealthy weight at ages 2 and 3.1 National statistics are similar.
Type II diabetes, long known as "adult-onset diabetes", is now being recognized as a significant juvenile disorder. Up to 45% of the children diagnosed with diabetes have the type II form.2 And the numbers keep increasing.
Type II diabetes and obesity are closely related - being overweight is one of the two major risk factors for developing type II diabetes. The other major risk factor, not surprisingly, is lack of exercise - not being physically active.
Why be concerned? Both diabetes and obesity contribute to additional severe health issues. Obesity is the leading cause of pediatric high blood pressure and increases the risk of coronary heart disease. Uncontrolled diabetes, over time, can lead to heart disease, kidney disease, neurologic disorders, and blindness.
So we are very concerned for our children's well-being. The good news - and it is very good news - is both conditions are lifestyle-related. Bad diet and lack of exercise cause both conditions. This is well-known. It is also well-known that maintaining a healthy diet and getting regular exercise prevents obesity and prevents or delays type II diabetes.3,4
As parents, it's up to us to set the standards. If we're eating healthy, balanced meals, our kids will do the same. If we exercise regularly and keep ourselves fit and trim, our kids will exercise regularly, too.
1"Child obesity picture grim among New York City poor", The New York Times, April 6, 2006.
2Fagot-Campagna A: Emergence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children: Epidemiological evidence. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism 13(Suppl 6): S1395-S1402, 2000.
3Hamman RF, et al: Effect of weight loss with lifestyle intervention on risk of diabetes. Diabetes Care 29:2102-2107, 2006.
4Knowler WC, et al: Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. New England Journal of Medicine 346(6):393-403, 2002.


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What's the Value of Macro X?
Frequently, Makefile debugging requires getting the value of a Make macro. Because Make doesn't have a debugger, it's hard to find out the value of a macro without a great deal of searching through Makefiles for macro definitions.
Look at this example Makefile:
X=$(YS) hate $(ZS) Y=dog YS=$(Y)$(S) Z=cat ZS=$(Z)$(S) S=s .PHONY: all all: @echo done
If you follow the definitions of X, Y, S, YS, and ZS, you can discover that X has the value dogs hate cats. In a real Makefile, unwinding the definition of a macro is next to impossible. The simplest way to find out the value of a macro in a Makefile is to use the $(warning...) function. When GNU Make encounters $(warning...), it prints the message contained in the warning along with the name of the Makefile and line number. $(warning...) is GNU Make's printf-style of debugging.
Just adding $(warning X is $(X)) as the last line of this Makefile causes GNU Make to print:
Makefile:11: X is dogs hate cats
But the printf-style is just as inflexible in Make as it is in other languages. The Makefile has to be constantly modified and rerun while digging down to discover the cause of a problem. What's needed is a more interactive approach.
You can add a GNU Make pattern rule that enables the name (or names) of the macros to be printed to be specified on the GNU Make command line. This approach is more flexible than modifying the Makefile; all you need is a single pattern rule to print the value of any macro. Adding this line to the previous example Makefile means that it's possible to type make print-X to get the value of X, or even make print-X print-XS print-Y to get the values of a number of macros:
print-%: ; @echo $* is $($*)
This works because GNU Make attempts to build the goals specified on the command line. If you type make print-X, the print-X goal matches the print-% rule, with % matching the name of the variable (in this case, X). The part matched by % is stored in the GNU Make automatic variable $*; $* is used twice in the command for the print-% rule: First it's used to print the name of the variable, then it's used to get that variable's value by writing $($*). When $($*) is seen, GNU Make expands $* (for example, to X), then expands the resulting macro reference (for example, $(X)).
There are two problems with the print-%-style:
- If the macro's value changes inside a Makefile (which is an unusual, but not impossible, event), print-% only gives the final value of the macro (the value of the macro once all the Makefiles have been parsed). The only good solution to this is to revert to the $(warning...) style.
- Also, GNU Make lets macros have local scope in the form of target-specific macros. The example Makefile can be modified to include a target-specific value for the X macro in the scope of the all rule:
.PHONY: all all: X = $(ZS) love $(YS) all: @echo done
If all is being built, then X has a different value in that rule than anywhere else in the Makefile. The print-% method can be extended to print the value of target-specific macros:
print-%: ; @$(error $* is $($*)) $(filter-out print-%, $(MAKECMDGOALS)): $(filter print-%, $(MAKECMDGOALS))
First, the print-% rule has been modified so that when it runs, it prints the same message as before, but stops GNU Make with an error. This is required because to get the target-specific value of the macro you need to tell GNU Make to build those targets, and since you don't actually want GNU Make to build (you just want the target-specific macro scope to be set up), the fatal error created with $(error...) stops GNU Make once it has printed the value of the macro requested.
To get the target-specific macro scope, the improved version specifies that the print-% rule is a prerequisite of the target for which there may be a target-specific macro. This is done using normal GNU Make syntax. For example, if you want to print the value of X as it's seen from within the all rule, type make all print-X. The second line in this improvement translates to:
all: print-X
The $(filter-out...) first removes everything on the command line (stored in the GNU Make variable MAKECMDGOALS) that doesn't match the pattern print-% (for example, just the all in all print-X); the $(filter...) does the opposite: It just keeps the things that do match print-% (for example, just the print-X in all print-X).
Because target-specific macros are inherited by any prerequisites of a target, writing all: print-X means that the print-X rule (which is handled by the pattern rule print-%) will have any target-specific macros defined for all. That's exactly what you want, and typing make all print-X on the aforementioned example outputs:
Makefile:12: *** X is cats love dogs. Stop.
The target-specific macro-aware version of print-% can still output the global value of a macro by omitting any targets on the command line. For example, typing make print-X outputs the global value of X:
Makefile:12: *** X is dogs hate cats. Stop.
In addition to the value of a macro, it can also be helpful to find out where it was defined (for example, was it defined in a Makefile, from the environment, or perhaps overridden on the Make command line?).
GNU Make provides the $(origin...) function that returns a string describing how a macro was defined. A modification to the print-% rule makes it print this information in addition to the value of the macro:
print-%: ; @$(error $* is $($*) (from $(origin $*)))
And so make print-X now prints:
Makefile:12: *** X is dogs hate cats (from file). Stop.
The (from file) indicates that X was defined in a Makefile. If X had come from the environment, it would read (from environment). If X were overridden on the Make command linefor example, by typing make print-X X=fooyou would see this output:
Makefile:12: *** X is foo (from command line). Stop.
One final enhancement to print-% is to get it to print the definition as well as the value of a macro. GNU Make's confusingly named $(value...) function does just that:
print-%: ; @$(error $* is $($*) ($(value $*)) (from $(origin $*)))
Now typing make print-X gives this useful debugging output:
Makefile:12: *** X is dogs hate cats ($(YS) hate $(ZS)) (from file). Stop.
For more about GNU Make macro debugging, see my article "Makefile Debugging: Tracing Macro Values" (www.jgc.org), which shows how to make GNU Make divulge every place a macro is used in a Makefile.


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Stewart's injury shows Superman could get hurt
Aside from a minor arm injury in the 2006 Chili Bowl, and a banged up shoulder that required a relief driver in a NASCAR race later that same season, Tony Stewart has walked away unscathed from many harrowing wrecks.
It was something everyone around him had seemingly taken for granted until Monday night, when the three-time NASCAR champion broke his right leg in a sprint car race in Iowa.
"He's run so many of these races and flipped in those things, I think me and him and everybody around us didn't think Superman could get hurt; this is his day," Greg Zipadelli, his longtime crew chief and the current competition director at Stewart-Haas Racing, said Wednesday.
Zipadelli has never been the biggest fan of Stewart's extracurricular racing and was his crew chief both times Stewart ran the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 double on the same day. But he's understood Stewart's passion to drive anything at any time, and doesn't try to interfere.
And for 15 years, 521 races, 48 wins and three NASCAR championships, none of Stewart's extra activities interfered. But now the star of the organization is in an Iowa hospital, recovering from surgery to stabilize and clean a Grade 2 break to his tibia and fibula in his right leg, and awaiting a second surgery that will give the team a better indication of what his recovery time will be and what the organization will need to do for the coming weeks.
For now, all Zipadelli knows for sure is that road course ace Max Papis will drive the No. 14 Chevrolet this weekend at Watkins Glen, where Stewart is a five-time winner, and that they'll need to find another replacement driver for at least the next few weeks.
But what the future holds for the organization, for how much extra racing Stewart does in the future, all of that is for later conversations. Stewart was scheduled to race more than 100 times this year.
"We all know Tony loves to do those races. We know that that's his golf game, that's his hunting, his fishing, all the things that the rest of us do," Zipadelli said. "You know, there is a difference in the amount of responsibility we have and obligations to other people, and that's where I think that's kind of where it gets sticky.
"I think it makes him better at what he does here, but it obviously leaves the door open for a situation that we're in now. I think that as many races as he's run in the past, we're probably lucky that this is the first time we're dealing with this, to be perfectly honest with you. We'll do our best at Stewart-Haas to put pieces together and sit down and evaluate it. That doesn't mean anything other than we will talk about it, we'll discuss it and we'll try and do what's best for Stewart Haas and our partners in the future."
Zipadelli and many SHR crew members were already in Atlanta on Monday night preparing for a Tuesday tire test at Atlanta Motor Speedway when they got word Stewart was injured. Stewart has always been diligent about texting Zipadelli after every single heat race or qualifying run to give him an update, the updates had become routine after all these years.
From there it became a scramble _ cancel the test, get planes organized to get the team back to North Carolina and make contingency plans for Watkins Glen.
In the chaos, Zipadelli spoke by phone to a remorseful and uncomfortable Stewart.
"He was worried about what everybody thought and apologetic and feels like he's letting everybody down here," Zipadelli said. "At the end of the day, the reason we're all here is because of him, so I know he'll get back in it and make it up to us."
But like the older brother and mentor he's always been to Stewart, he didn't let him off so easy and didn't give him a chance to talk about getting back in a car.
"I told him to hurry up and get his butt down here because I was going to break his other leg, like some of my ancestors used to do, old school, and maybe beat him with it," Zipadelli joked.
Zipadelli's most serious task is pulling SHR together and keeping the focus on getting Ryan Newman in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
It was just two weeks ago that Newman won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to move into position to earn a wild-card berth into the 12-driver field, and Stewart left Pocono Raceway on Sunday ranked 11th in the standings holding the first wild-card position. It had SHR in position after a poor first-half of the season to get two of its three drivers in the Chase.
Now Stewart's chances are over, but Newman has a very real opportunity to get into the field.
"Obviously it's a huge letdown to everybody at Stewart-Haas, knowing that we were making some great strides," Zipadelli said. "I think we've had some drastic improvements in the performance on the race track. I felt like we were peaking at the right time with two race cars having an opportunity. It's a huge disappointment. But we'll try to do our best to take that disappointment and turn it into a positive push for (Newman)."


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I thought there might be some interest? Anyone out there?
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Martin has published several papers recently that are pretty coherent and I think offer some very good points and thinking about the way our economy and money system work, and don't work. Again, his strong point is his read on history and his ability to put it into an economic context.
In this piece he correctly states that a gold standard is bunk and he offers some good insights on the movement of currencies and what to expect (generally the opposite of what the majority thinks will happen). If you look at his model, it does have a major turn date that occurs before the mid-point of next year – the last turn did occur close to the March '09 low point in stocks, but it could also mark a major turning point in the dollar.
At any rate, this is an interesting read, it will make you more aware by reading it, but I would caution anyone about taking his predictions too seriously. Remember, predicting the future is pretty much a fool's errand unless there is mathematical certainty involved – and in this case there most certainly is, the debt is completely mathematically impossible to ever repay and thus you know that events are coming. When predicting market events, the easiest thing to predict (which is not easy) is direction, the next hardest to predict is the depth, and the hardest to predict is timing. Thus you should always take people's read of the future with a many grains of salt.
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A long-time critic of Republican fiscal policies, economist Paul Krugman takes on the GOP tax overhaul in Friday's New York Times, asking, "Why Was Trump's Tax Cut a Fizzle?" Krugman notes that the tax cuts failed to provide a political boost for Republicans in the midterm elections and appear to be failing to provide the long-term investment boom that was promised by President Trump's economic advisors. The reason, Krugman argues, is that "business decisions are a lot less sensitive to financial incentives — including tax rates — than conservatives claim." Here's how Krugman sees the underlying economic dynamics:
"It's a dirty little secret of monetary analysis that changes in interest rates affect the economy mainly through their effect on the housing market and the international value of the dollar (which in turn affects the competitiveness of U.S. goods on world markets). Any direct effect on business investment is so small that it's hard even to see it in the data. What drives such investment is, instead, perceptions about market demand."
The other part of the GOP tax plan – the big jump in growth to be delivered by the repatriation of billions in corporate profits held overseas – fares no better in Krugman's analysis. As many critics have argued, Krugman says that repatriation is largely a matter of accounting transfers that have little effect on real investment:
"[T]he money U.S. companies reported moving home after taxes were cut hasn't shown up in jobs, wages and investment: Nothing really moved. Overseas subsidiaries transferred some assets back to their parent companies, but this was just an accounting maneuver, with almost no impact on anything real."
The failure of the tax cuts to produce the promised results is nothing less than an indictment of Republican economic doctrine, Krugman says:
"[T]his doctrine keeps failing in practice. President George W. Bush's tax cuts didn't produce a boom; President Barack Obama's tax hike didn't cause a depression. Tax cuts in Kansas didn't jump-start the state's economy; tax hikes in California didn't slow growth. And with the Trump tax cut, the doctrine has failed again."


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MICAH J. Vernon McGee
MICAH WRITER: Micah His name means Who is like Jehovah? The word has the same derivation as Michael, which means Who is like God? There are many Micahs in Scripture, but this one is identified as a Morasthite kjv@Micah:1:1) since he was an inhabitant of Moresheth-gath kjv@Micah:1:14), a place about twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem, near Lachish. He is not to be confused with any other Micah of Scripture. TIME: Micah was a contemporary of Isaiah and prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah kjv@Micah:1:1). He was younger than Isaiah, and his prophecy might be called a miniature Isaiah or Isaiah in shorthand, since there are striking similarities. Ewald and Wellhausen attacked the unity of this book. It is the same attack that has been made against Isaiah. The ministry of Micah was directed to both Jerusalem and Samaria kjv@Micah:1:1), and he evidently saw the captivity of the Northern Kingdom. THEME: The judgment and redemption of God, kjv@Micah:7:18. Who is a God like unto thee, who pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. God hates sin, but He loves the souls of the sinners. STYLE: For many this is the favorite of the Minor Prophets. The writing is pungent and personal. Micah was trenchant, touching, and tender. He was realistic and reportorial — he would have made a good war correspondent. There is an exquisite beauty about this brochure, which combines God's infinite tenderness with His judgments. There are several famous passages that are familiar to the average Christian. Through the gloom of impending judgment, Micah saw clearly the coming glory of the redemption of Israel.
STRIKING STATEMENTS: 1:6-16 — Assyria destroyed Samaria, a miniature of the great destruction of the last days kjv@Micah:4:11-13). 2:12 — The future regathering of the remnant. 3:6-7 — The end of prophecy. kjv@3:12; 4:9-10 — Coming destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon and not by Assyria. Jeremiah's life was preserved because of kjv@Micah:3:12 (cf. kjv@Jeremiah:26:18). 4:1-8 — The coming kingdom over the entire earth (one world). 5:2 — The birth of Christ (quoted in kjv@Matthew:2:5-6). 5:7-8 — The future ministry of the remnant. 6:6-8 — "One of the most sublime and impassioned declarations of spiritual religion that the Old Testament contains" (Dean Stanley). 7:18-19 — Micah lived up to his name in exalting God. Dr. Pierson calls it, "A little poem of twelve lines in the Hebrew.…One of the most exquisite things to be found in the entire Old Testament." COMMENTS: Micah pronounced judgment on the cities of Israel and on Jerusalem in Judah. These centers influenced the people of the nation. Micah condemns urban problems that sound very much like our present-day problems: violence, corruption, robbery, covetousness, gross materialism, and spiritual bankruptcy. He could well be labeled "the prophet of the city." OUTLINE: The more natural division of the prophecy is to note that Micah gave three messages, each beginning with the injunction, "Hear" (1:2-3:1,6:1). The first was addressed to "all people"; the second was addressed specifically to the leaders of Israel; the third was a personal word of pleading to Israel to repent and return to God. "WHO IS A GOD LIKE UNTO THEE" IN: I. Proclaiming future judgment for past sins, Chapters 1— 3
Prophet's first message, directed against Samaria, reaches to Jerusalem, Chapter 1 Prophet's second message describes specific sins, Chapter 2 Prophet's third message denounces leaders for sins, Chapter 3
II. Prophesying future glory because of past promises, Chapters 4, 5 A. B. Prophecies of last days, Chapter 4 Prophecy of first coming of Christ before second coming and kingdom, Chapter 5
III. Pleading present repentance because of past redemption, Chapter 6 IV. Pardoning all iniquity because of who God is and what He does, Chapter 7 COMMENT: I. Proclaiming future judgment for past sins, Chapters 1 — 3 A. Prophet's first message, directed against Samaria, reaches to Jerusalem, Chapter 1
v. 1 — Samaria is the capital of the Northern Kingdom. One of the golden calves is there. Micah prophesies to both kingdoms, but primarily to the Northern Kingdom. 5:2 — "All ye people" is a call to all the world to hear how God is going to judge Samaria. 5:3 — The Assyrian is God's instrument of judgment. 5:4 — This prophecy, as well as the remaining prophecies, look beyond the local fulfillment to the personal return of Christ to the earth in judgment. 5:5 — Jerusalem, with its temple and service, is the appointed place of worship, but now it has become just another high place of heathen worship. Even today going to church can become an evil. 5:6 — The remainder of the chapter describes prophetically the
destruction of Samaria by Assyria, as recorded historically in kjv@2Kings:17:3-18. vv. 8-16 — A lamentation of Micah. The meaning of names reveals a play upon words: Gath (v. 10) — weep-town ("Weep not in weep-town," cp. 2 Samuel kjv@1:20) Aphrah — dust-town Saphir (v. 11) — beauty-town Zaanan — march-town Maroth (v. 12) — bitterness Lachish (v. 13) — horse-town Achzib (v. 14) — lie-town The Assyrian came to the gate of Jerusalem but did not enter (v. 12). B. Prophet's second message describes specific sins, Chapter 2 5:1 — They spend their time in bed plotting and planning to do evil the next day. 5:2 — Covetousness, violence, and oppression are the sins of Samaria, also of Jerusalem. vv. 3-6 — The Lord responds by stating that He, too, is plotting evil (i.e., what they would call evil, because it is judgment against them). 5:7 — God's word will be received by His people who obey Him, and it will be rejected when they do not obey. 5:8 — They oppress the poor. 5:9 — They have problems of the slums. The landlords are heartless. 5:11 — They want to hear false prophets approve and applaud drunkenness. vv. 12, 13 — The Lord will ultimately regather the remnant. C. Prophet's third message denounces leaders for sins, Chapter 3 vv. 1-4 — (a) Sins of princes: Injustice — they love evil and hate good.
vv. 5-8 — (b) Sins of prophets: They declare peace — cause people to err. Micah is declaring God's word by the power of the Spirit (v. 8). vv. 9-12 — (c) Sins of leaders of Jerusalem: Injustice of rulers and love of money of prophets. Frightful judgment coming to Jerusalem (v. 12). II. Prophesying future glory because of past promises, Chapters 4, 5 A. Prophecies of last days, Chapter 4 vv. 1-3 — This is a prediction of the millennial kingdom, with Jerusalem as the center of worship and government. At that time swords will be beaten into plowshares (v. 3). 5:4 — This is the millennial kingdom (see kjv@Zechariah:3:10) and pictures the security of Israel. 5:5 — The American Standard Version gives a better understanding of this verse: For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever. vv. 6-8 — Israel is to be regathered. vv. 9, 10 — The Babylonian captivity was also in the future at the time of this writing and would intervene before the regathering of Israel. 5:11 — This part of the prophecy looks beyond to the time of Armageddon, which ends the Great Tribulation in the coming of Christ to the earth. B. Prophecy of first coming of Christ, before second coming and kingdom, Chapter 5 5:1 — This verse probably belongs to the last chapter, as it is in the Hebrew text, and awaits future fulfillment. Or it could apply to King Zedekiah ( kjv@2Kings:25:7). 5:2 — This was quoted by the scribes to Herod when the wise men came, looking for "he that is born King of the Jews" kjv@Matthew:2:2; see
also kjv@Matthew:2:5-6). In His humanity Christ came from Bethlehem; In His deity Christ came from eternity. vv. 3-15 — Christ is a shepherd to both Israel and the church. This bridges the gap between the first and second comings of Christ — and beyond the second coming. It covers both the period of the church and the kingdom. III. Pleading present repentance because of past redemption, Chapter 6 vv. 1, 2 — This is the beginning of the third and final message of Micah to the nations of the world and to Israel in particular. Jehovah has a contention with His people, Israel. 5:3 — Jehovah pleads with His people to bring a charge against Him. 5:4 — He recites their past history — how He redeemed them out of Egypt. 5:5 — God did not permit Balaam to curse His people. vv. 6, 7 — These were the things that Israel was doing that displeased (not pleased) God. 5:8 — The condition of the heart and its relation to God are the primary considerations in the Old Testament religion. The externalities of religion were only of value in ratio to the condition of the heart (see kjv@Matthew:7:21-23 kjv@Matthew:23:25-26; kjv@Romans:10:9-10). vv. 9-12 — God cannot overlook dishonesty, violence, crookedness, lying, and deceit. vv. 13-15 — God would judge them then and now. 5:16 — They follow in the way of Omri and Ahab. These two kings, father and son, were set aside and judged severely. IV. Pardoning all iniquity because of who God is and what He does, Chapter 7 vv. 1-9 — The prophet confesses that God is accurate in His complaint against Israel.
vv. 10-17 — Judgment is coming in spite of past and future blessings. The land shall also be judged. It shall be desolate. vv. 18, 19 — There is no one or no thing to which God can be compared. He has no equal. He is greatest when He pardons sins. He alone can forgive sin kjv@Mark:2:7). He made the supreme sacrifice so He could forgive sin. kjv@John:3:16 belongs with this section. He delights and yearns to forgive sins. Sinners must come His way kjv@John:14:6). 5:20 — God will perform His promises to Abraham and Jacob because He is the truth, and He can show mercy.
These notes, prepared by J. Vernon McGee, are for the purpose of giving assistance to the listeners of the THRU THE BIBLE RADIO program. They are to be used with the Bible and will be more meaningful as you look up all the Scripture references. Due to the necessary brevity of both notes and broadcasts, a list of recommended books is included for those wanting a more detailed study. These books may be obtained from a Christian library or bookstore or ordered from the publishers.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS: Feinberg, Charles L. The Minor Prophets. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1976. Gaebelein, Arno C. The Annotated Bible. 1917. Reprint. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1971. Ironside, H. A. The Minor Prophets. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, n.d. McGee, J. Vernon. Jonah and Micah. Nashville, Tennesse: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991. Tatford, Frederick A. The Minor Prophets. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Klock & Klock, n.d. Unger, Merrill F. Unger's Commentary on the Old Testament, Vol. 2. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1982.
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