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Waka Flocka Flame and Tammy Rivera Are Married — They Eloped!
Surprise wedding alert! Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 3's Waka Flocka Flame — aka Juaquin Malphurs, 27 — quietly married his fiancée Tammy Rivera.
On May 26, Tammy tweeted the news by writing, "Mrs.Malphurs," then thanked fans for their congratulatory replies.
Waka's mom, Debra Antney, told RumorFix the couple eloped. "I was selfish. I wanted to be a part of it," she said. However, "they got a marriage license about two weeks ago without me knowing it." She added that her son "kept his word. He said that he was going to marry her and he did it on his terms. It was very cute to me."
She said Tammy and Waka are still going to have a service and celebration, but the deed is already official. See, Kim and Kanye — it's possible to get married without spending millions across multiple countries! (Then again, maybe that's what they'll do with the service and party...)
Do you think there was extra pressure on Waka to pull the trigger, since Tammy recently talked to Vh1 about his rampant cheating? She said he's a changed man, but still "a work in progress."
Well, now he's a married work in progress. Congrats to the newlyweds! May they have many years of happiness (and faithfulness).
Sources: RumorFix, Tammy on Twitter


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With Round 13 of the NRL now complete, the eyes of the footballing world will be turned upon State of Origin One at Suncorp Stadium Wednesday night.
After two months of media buildup (some stories bordering on the comical in authenticity) and a full week of camp, the NSW Wizard Blues will head to ?The Cauldron? with one goal in mind ? end Queensland?s controversial hold of the Origin Shield.
Even though both teams are playing for the Origin Shield, the real prize the Blues are after is the respect gained from a gutsy victory. Recent NSW sides have been labeled as teams full of style rather than substance and this translates to the bookmakers installing the Blues as favourites as a result. Not this year.
NSW coach Phil Gould, love him or hate him, IS the right man for the job. Don?t think for a second the media hysteria surrounding Gould and Andrew Johns wasn?t in some part orchestrated by the media savvy coach. Even if he doesn?t particularly like some News Limited journalists, he still utilized their pages to get the Blues firmly entrenched as underdogs for the series.
The Johns issue is simply Gould pushing ?Joeys? buttons with the combination sequence Gould believes will win the Origin Series for NSW. Make no mistake, Johns was upset by the tact used by Gould, but the best player in the game also knows he has yet to ?dominate? at Origin level. And as such, Johns will follow Gould?s game plan to the letter.
For Johns, leading NSW to victory accomplishes two things. One, it will help him achieve what he has openly called his last frontier in football, and two, he can prove to Gould that his commitment to the Blues is second to none. Gould of course is revving up his linchpin for one single purpose ? to get Johns playing at the level that will confirm his status as the game?s best.
Queensland players openly expressed their nonchalant attitude to the Johns-Gould circus, and although clearly ready for the series, they will anticipate the ?feud? firing up Johns. Regardless of what Gorden Tallis may say about the issue, the Maroons would have preferred a far less intense Johns playing than the one Gould has helped create.
However, while Johns is pivotal to any success the Blues may have, Gould is pulling a Queensland on Queensland at the selection table. His hand was forced when Trent Barrett, Scott Hill, and David Peachey either succumbed to injury, lack of match fitness or poor form in the lead up to Origin One, and he is taking arguably the grittiest NSW side into battle he has in his current tenure as head coach. Shaun Timmins is no Laurie Daley or Brad Fittler but he is not in the side to be. Anthony Minichiello is 100% effort, 100% of the time, and his no-nonsense approach appeals to the makeup of the side. Bolter Phil Bailey has shed his pretty boy tag with his selection, as it is clear his hard running and committed defence has forced the NSW Selection committee to take notice. These three players particularly show that Gould is not going to carry ANY player into Origin if they are not prepared to work hard for the NSW jumper.
In recent times, there have been players in the side who lacked the necessary intensity to make the step up from club football to state level. Without genuine emotion in Origin, you are a passenger ? plain and simple.
Queensland have excelled in picking the right players for Origin football, they resist the urge to pick players based on club dominance over Origin suitability. This is indeed a harsh method but when you consider the Cane Toads still have the Origin Shield ? it is obviously the right strategy.
Canberra?s Clinton Schifcofske and Penrith?s Rhys Wesser are without doubt two of the form players in the NRL, however Darren Lockyer is simply the best at his position. He was never going to be moved out of position and full credit must go to Wayne Bennett for explaining the selection decisions to Schifcofske especially. While some people may call for Gould to do the same with Braith Anasta, but consider this: Schifcofske has been outstanding for the Raiders week in week out, while Anasta has by his own admission failed to set the world on fire for the Bulldogs. In Origin no player should make the team on reputation alone. Gould may have erred publicly declaring Anasta was the clear replacement for Barrett, but again, Anasta failed to cement his place in the side. Wesser and Schifcofske on the other hand, are simply playing in the wrong era. It?s that simple.
When the NSW starting lineup was announced, one clearly surprising omission was that of Dragons prop Luke Bailey. It was a shock to see one of the stars of last year?s series on the bench, but Gould has made a shrewd selection. Robbie Kearns is a tough nut who is exactly the player Gould needs for his game plan, particularly in the opening 10 minutes of the series when both teams attempt to assert their authority on the series. Kearns will be called on to play the most intense and maybe reckless 10 minutes of his footballing career. Gould needed an experienced man in his pack who would sacrifice himself for the team. The theory is simple, Gould will ask Kearns to play out of his skin early and then insert Bailey after the opening exchanges, thus maximizing both player?s effectiveness over the course of the game. Gould is stressing the team comes above the individual and both Bailey and Kearns will buy into the concept.
NSW will guts Game One out right until the end, they have picked a team to do this and Gould is putting all his faith in Andrew Johns to lead them around the park. It won?t be pretty football but the Blues are going to play to the strengths of their 17-man squad.
Since 2000 the Blues have won the majority of their games by dominating offensively rather than dominating defensively. This time around, Gould realising that he can?t match the cohesiveness of the Maroons, will get his players to buy into the ?hard work reaps rewards? concept and have his team itching to get onto Lang Park ready to smash the Maroons at their own game.
Make no mistake, NSW can score points, but this Series will be built from the hard ground gained up front and a committed defence. Queensland have this model already road tested with an excellent driver in Lockyer, but the difference this year is NSW have copied the model and have an even better man at the wheel in Johns.
Game One is going to be a ripper, and this writer will back Gould to lead the Blues to an extremely tough 3-0 Series win.
Go the Blues!


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John 6:51-59
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Turn in your Bibles to John chapter 6, this morning, verses 51 to 59. This morning we are coming to the passage in John 6 which is the climax to the great sermon in which Jesus claims to be the bread of life. He has claimed that men need food for their souls, true soul food. He has claimed that God had sent such food. And He has claimed that He is that food, that bread. And all of this came out of the feeding of these people on a hillside where He fed them physically and then moved from a physical feeding to a sermon on spiritual food and claimed that He is that spiritual food.
Now as we come to verses 51 to 59, we are again confronted with the theme of John. John recurring...John's recurring theme in this gospel is always that Jesus is God. And the question of the ages is no different. The question of the ages is this, who is Jesus Christ? That is the key question. There is no question that takes over superiority from that question, that is it, who is Jesus Christ? Pilate called Him the man without fault. Diderot said He was the unsurpassed. Napoleon called Him the emperor of love. Strauss said He was the highest model of religion. John Steward Mills said He was the guide of humanity. Leakey said He was the highest pattern of virtue. Beauchant[??] said He was the holy One before God. Martineau called Him the divine flower of humanity. Renan said He was the greatest among the sons of men. Theodore Parker said He was the youth with God in His heart. Francis Cobb called Him the regenerator of humanity. And Robert Owen said He was the irreproachable one.
All of those are fine, but none of them are sufficient. He is no mere man. He is not the best of men, He is God in a body, God incarnate in human flesh. He is none other than the divine Creator and the divine Sustainer and the divine end of all creation. He is either God in a body, or He is the sickest mind or the most diabolical fraud that ever lived. Jesus, says John, over and over again is God in a human body. And week by week as we have studied John's gospel, we have heard that same message over and over again. He states his purpose, for example, at the end of his gospel in chapter 20 verse 31 when he says in reflecting on the whole gospel of John, he says this, "These things are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And that believing you might have life in His name, or through His name."
In other words, the theme is the deity of Jesus Christ that He is God a very God, the essence of perfect deity. And John has for now six chapters in our study brought forth witnesses to declare that this is so. First of all, he used the testimony of men. John the Baptist, for example, said, "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." Then Andrew said, "We have found the Messiah." Then Philip said, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, even Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Then Nathanael chimed in and said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God, Thou art the King of Israel." Then we heard from the mouth of Nicodemus, "Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher come from God."
Then the woman at the well said, "Come see a man who told me all things that ever I did, is not this the Christ?" And then the Samaritans themselves having seen said, "We have heard Him for ourselves and know that this is the Christ, the Savior of the world." And of the Canaan nobleman it was said, "He himself believed and his whole household."
And so, John has called the testimony of men to corroborate the fact that Jesus is indeed God. And he didn't even stop there. He called on the testimony of the miracles of Christ. Nicodemus said, "We know that Thou art a teacher come from God because no man can do the things Thou doest except God be with Him." We saw Him make wine at Cana. We saw Him make bread and fish at Galilee. We saw Him raise a nobleman's son. We saw Him beside a man 36 years impotent and He gave that man new life and he stood and walked and carried his bed. We saw the miracles that He did in Jerusalem. We saw the miracles that He did that day on the shore of the Galilee Sea. And miracle after miracle has been echoing the statement of John, Jesus is God, Jesus is God.
And added to that is the testimony of Jesus Christ Himself. For He claimed to be God. Back in John 3 verse 14 He claims to be the definitive character of history. He says in verse 14 of John 3, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up." Why? "That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life." In other words, Christ is the determinating factor between life and death. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Then He says, "For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. And he that believeth on Him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed." In other words, Jesus says I am the deciding character of history.
Then to add to that statement you look at chapter 4 and verse 25, "The woman said unto Him, 'I know that Messiah comes who's called Christ, when He is come He will tell us all things.' Jesus said unto her, 'I that speak unto thee am He.'" What a claim. Then you go to chapter 5 and He's doing the same thing again. In verse 17, "Jesus answered them, 'My Father works hither to and I work.'" In other words, they criticized Him for working on the Sabbath. He said, "That's all right, God works on the Sabbath and I can to," implying that He was God. In verse 18, "The Jews sought the more to kill Him because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father making Himself equal with God." What a claim. Over in verse 39 of the same chapter He says, "Search the Scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and they are they which testify of Me." And over in verse 46, "For had you believed Moses you would have believed Me, for he wrote of Me."
Christ makes monumental claims. And then moving in to chapter 6 He claims again, verse 32, "Verily, verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven. But My Father gives you the true bread from heaven for the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven." And in verse 34...35 He says, "I am that bread."
And that brings us to where we are today. Christ has said to those Jews who were fed the day before, "You don't need to worry about physical food," they had followed Him to Capernaum because their stomachs were growling and it was morning and time for breakfast. And He says, "Don't work for that kind of food, you need to call to attention the fact that your souls are hungry and you need that food that satisfies the soul." Then He says, "God sent that food and I am that food." So in this sermon He's really got three good points...your souls are hungry, God sent you food, I am that food. That's the message of this sermon on the bread of life. Tremendous claim to being from heaven, claim to be deity. He says, "I am the only soul food, the only nourishing, lasting food."
Now we've studied a great part of this sermon already. We're going to come to the climax this morning. And it's very strange because as I read over this so many times, I began to think, "Boy, Christ really belabors the point. He says I am the bread of life. He waits a few verses, I am the bread of life. A few more verses, I am the bread of life." He repeats Himself almost as if He's laboring with the point. And then I began to think about who He was talking to and you know it's very obvious why He belabored the point because their minds were so thick with ignorant unbelief that He couldn't get through. Christ has already spent from verses 30 to 50 saying one thing, your souls are hungry, God sent food, I'm that food. And He said that two or three times. They still don't have the message. You say, when God gives a message that many times and a man refuses that message, I'd hate to be in that man's shoes cause great revelation implies great responsibility. To whom much is given...what?...much is required. So Jesus says, "I am that bread."
Now the Jews have reacted in their normal way, verse 42, they said, "What do You mean You're from heaven, we know You, You're the son of Joseph from Nazareth." Again showing their ignorance in the situation. But instead of explaining all the little things that they had in their mind, Jesus never condescends to unbelief. He'll condescend to ignorance, He'll condescend to misunderstanding, but when its caused by unbelief, He avoids it. He never caters to unbelief. And they were unbelieving. But as we come to our verses today, Jesus moves ahead and explains this doctrine in more detail, and this is thrilling. This is the climax. You're going to see some things this morning that are going to thrill your heart, I promise you that. This is exciting.
Now John, in true homiletical fashion, has three basic areas in these verses 51 to 59. We see the pronouncement, the perplexity and the promises...the pronouncement Christ makes, the perplexity of the Jews in response and then the promises that Christ gives. Notice the pronouncement, that's verse 51 and He begins by making a pronouncement that is exactly a reiteration of verse 33, 35, 47 and 48. The fifth time He says this in verse 51, notice it, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven." Now you have two things there. You have the nature of Christ, living bread. You have the source of Christ, heaven. Very important statement.
Jesus Christ said I came to this earth as living bread for souls that are hungry. I am that bread to nourish your hungry, gnawing, unrelieved soul. And, you know, we live in a hungry world. We live in a world where people's souls are hungry and vapid and void and empty. And Jesus Christ says I'm the only one that can fill that void. You know, it's amazing how self-centered and how man has kind of coated himself with an artificial sense of belonging and meaning when man is really frustrated. I tell you, every time you turn around you see frustrated people. Our world is jammed with them. Man faces monstrous problems and is incapacitated to do anything about them. We just think about the pollution problem, man can't do anything about that. It's hopeless. Man tries to find peace and while the leaders are in the room talking about peace, the people are outside fighting each other. Man can't solve his...you turn on the television and everybody you see is frustrated...everybody is frustrated. You all use the wrong deodorant, the wrong mouthwash, the wrong toothpaste, the wrong hair spray, you drive the wrong car, you wear the wrong clothes, everybody has the wrong detergent, uses the wrong cleansers, everything is wrong. Man is frustrated and he'll solve his problems as soon as he takes an Excedrin. And Mrs. Mallay said one time, "Life must go on, I forget just why."
This last week when we were in Oregon with the college conference for the state of Oregon, the first night I preached on the person of Jesus Christ from John 1 in all of His glorious deity. And there was a psychology Ph.D. from the University of Oregon who came to this thing and he came to psychoanalyze Christianity. He came because he wanted to fit it into a chapter in his abnormal psych book, some kind of a Freudian sex complex. And so, anyway, he was coming with this rather academic view of Christianity. Well the first night God just...bless the Spirit of God...came down on that place and things began to happen. And I'm telling you, this guy was just, you know...whew...trying to write this phenomena down and figure out what was going on. The next night we started a prayer meeting and testimony time at nine o'clock and finished at two in the morning and all that time kids would stand up and tell how much they love Jesus Christ and what a joy it was to live with Him and how they loved His Word and loved each other. And the Lord just turned that thing loose through the Word. And then kids would sit down and they begin to pray, and they pray for about an hour. Then somebody would get up and sing a song and everybody would sing. There was about a hundred and seventy or eighty kids in this little meeting. This guy was just floored and it just didn't fit into abnormal psych anyplace.
Well the third day, needless to say, this guy was walking around with his mouth hanging open and couldn't even speak. He was just like this...such phenomena. Finally he came in utter frustration and he said, "I don't know what's going on but...he says...I want to have Jesus Christ." So we got together and prayed with the guy and he opened his heart to Jesus Christ. You see, here's a guy who could psychoanalyze everybody's problem. He knew everything that was wrong but didn't have any resources to fill anybody's problems till he met Jesus Christ. There's only one person, there's only one soul food, there's only one bread in this universe to satisfy the gnawing hunger of a man's heart, that's Jesus Christ.
He says, "I am that living bread, there is no other." Only Jesus can give meaning to life. Then He says in verse 51 in the second phrase, "If any man eat of this bread he shall live forever." Fantastic promise, eat of this bread. Now you'll notice that He's not talking here about divine elective decree that God made in the past, He's not talking about that, He talked about that earlier when He said, "No man comes unto Me except the Father draw him." Here He's balancing it off by talking about human responsibility. He's saying, "If you want to live forever, brother, you have to come and eat of Me. You've got to receive Me. A man must eat." And this is a beautiful parallel, Christ is using a human illustration of eating bread to teach a spiritual truth. We do this all the time. It's called analogy. But the figure of eating has tremendous meaning. Listen, just a few thoughts it gives me.
First of all, eating is necessary if I'm going to get any benefit out of the food, right? I mean, I could have a nice feast in front of me and I could look at it and I could admire it, "Ah, it's lovely." And I could smell it and then I could analyze it. And then I could philosophize about it. Then I could eulogize its quality. Then I could handle it a little bit. Then I could be assured of its excellence. Then I could trust the guy who made it, cooked it up. But if I don't eat it, it doesn't do anything for me. So it is with spiritual food. So many people sitting around analyzing, eulogizing Jesus Christ, so many people going over all the qualities and all the virtues and they never eat. Knowing the truth, speculating about the truth, talking about the truth, believing in its goodness is going to do me no good, I must take it and eat, I must take Jesus Christ into my life.
Another thing about eating, eating is responding to a felt need and that need is called hunger and it's immediately detectable. Some of you get it about two minutes after twelve on Sunday morning. You don't need anybody to remind you that you're hungry, you know when you're hungry, something happens inside of you. And when you're hungry you eagerly eat. You can remember this. If you've ever been stuffed full, not if, I know you have, stuffed full and then you see some food and yik...it's repulsive. You know why? You have no need, you have no need and the very thought of it is nauseating. So it is spiritually. You see, when a sinner loves his sin, when he's stuffed full of the world and the flesh and he thinks he's got all the answers and he's self-satisfied, then the thought of the bread of life is nauseating, it's ridiculous, it's repulsive and he mocks and disdains it. And in his self-satisfied spiritual bloatedness, he pushes Christ away because he has no need. But then when a man is broken, when a man is awakened to his lost condition, when a man faces the content of his purposelessness, when he senses the void and the gnawing hunger in his heart and the desire for reality, for peace, for real love, for meaning, for hope, for security, that man is ready to eat the bread of life. That's what Jesus said, "I can't do anything for you people that aren't sick."
The third thing about eating, eating implies an act of appropriation. You know, when I eat I make the food my own, did you know that? That's true. Whatever you eat becomes you. Like the guy said, "The doctor told me to watch my stomach, so I'm getting it out there where I can see it." Whatever you put in, whatever you put in becomes you. It doesn't matter what it is, it just becomes more of you. There's a wonderful little scientific thing operating in you called amino acids, there are 600 octo-decillion amino acids and whenever you eat it all produces you-type flesh. As I've said before, if you ate nothing but chicken you would never sprout feathers because the amino acids in your body take into combination that which reproduces you. Some of you are living examples of the tremendous potency of amino acids.
Now the food that I eat becomes a part of me. The food that I eat becomes what I am. And so it is spiritually. Christ may be presented to me in all His beauty and glory, I might even respect His perfect life, I might admire His wonderful person. I might be touched by His unselfish love. I might even cry real tears over His death on the cross. But it's only when I take Him in that He comes into me and dwells in me and becomes what I am.
There's another thing about eating. Eating is personal. I've thought a lot often sitting in the office and being very busy or doing something that I call my wife and I say, "Honey, I can't come home for lunch, could you eat an extra sandwich for me?" But that doesn't work. There's no such thing as eating by proxy. That's not going to do me any good. Nobody else can eat for me. If I'm going to be nourished, I'm going to eat. So it is spiritually. It doesn't do any good to sit around and watch other people being nourished. I can't be nourished for you. Listen, if I could receive Jesus Christ for you, for everybody, I'd do it. I can't. You've got to eat the bread of life yourself. It's up to you. "But...says Jesus...if you do eat you'll live forever." You'll live forever...what kind of life am I going to live? Full life, beyond your wildest expectations and imaginations. And so, Jesus says, "Here I am, bread, eat and live." It's amazing how people can refuse such an offer but they do.
Then Jesus takes another step in describing Himself as bread, which is going to be the key to our passage. Watch it, at the end of verse 51. "And the bread that I will give is My flesh which I will give for the life of the world." Now He's describing this bread in a little more detail. This is tremendous. Get this thought, fantastic thought. He's saying, "My flesh is the key." What do You mean? Just this, if all Jesus did was come to this earth, say, "I'm from God, I want you to accept Me, I want you to shape up, I want you to obey God, now get with it," and go back to heaven...we'd be in a hopeless mess. We'd have all the standards but no way to do them. You can't get to God. You can't please God by your works. And so, Jesus didn't just do that. He came to earth, said, "Here's what God wants, here's the requirement, believe in Me." And then in order to make it possible what did He give? His flesh, didn't He? He had to give His flesh to make all of that possible. He didn't just come down and say, "Here's what to do," and then leave again. He gave Himself, He died for the life of the world. But I love that statement, "I will give," because He's talking prophetically about His cross. He's saying, "I'm going to give My flesh." He is soon to be a vicarious sacrifice for sin. He's going to offer His own flesh on the cross, He's talking about His crucifixion.
Now you remember that the Bible says in the book of Hebrews, "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sin." From the very beginning in the book of Genesis with Cain and Abel it was a matter of blood sacrifice. God has always chosen that blood sacrifice be the way of expiation, or the taking away of sin, the covering of sin, the sacrifice for sin. Something has to die because the wages of sin is death.
Now Christ came along and He became that sacrifice, just like as in the Old Testament, the flesh of a lamb was offered day in and day out for the sins of Israel, so Jesus Christ became the final sacrifice and God said, "I'll accept Christ's death as the final sacrifice." And by virtue of His death paying the penalty of sin, we have access to God. You can't go into God with sin in your life. You can't get into His presence. And so Christ had to die, He had to be the sacrifice for sin. It was only a slain Christ that could allow poor sinners to be reconciled to God. That's what Peter meant when Peter said in 1 Peter 2:24, "Who is own self bore our sins in His own body on the tree, on the cross and He did it in order that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness, by whose scars, or stripes, we are healed." And I think that's what Paul meant when he said in 2 Corinthians 5:21, "For He hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." In other words, God could lay out all the requirements in the person of Christ, but unless He died, unless He gave His flesh, there's nothing to cover our sins that we have no way to get to God. So Jesus says, "The bread that I give is My flesh. I'll give it." Remember what Jesus said in John 12:24, I think it is, "Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone, but if it die it...what?...brings forth much fruit." He had to die. There was no way that men could go to God unless He died. And so Christ came and not only showed us God, but He made the way to God possible in His death. So He says...the bread that I give is My flesh...isn't that tremendous? And notice that He says, "I give it," two times in verse 51, "I will give is My flesh...I will give for the life of the world," it's voluntary, folks. Jesus said in John 10:18, "No man takes My life from Me. I...what?...lay it down of Myself." And every time men try to take His life, He just passed out of their midst and they couldn't find Him till the time was ready.
Notice this, He says He gave His life for the world. I believe in an unlimited atonement. I believe 1 John 2:2 says He's not only the propitiation for our sins, or the covering, or the Mercy Seat for our sins, but the sins of the whole world. He died for the world, all types, classes, strata, intellects, cultures, the whole world. Listen, this living bread, this one whose flesh was sacrificed on the cross is so full of salvation that all the world may come and eat and live forever. And so Jesus makes the pronouncement, "I am living bread, eat and live forever, and the bread I give is My flesh which I will give for the life of the world." The world can't have life unless He takes our place in death.
Then the perplexity. Naturally with a statement like that in the Jewish frame of mind we see a perplexity in verse 52. "The Jews therefore strove," and this is the idea of a battle going on, a hassle, not a whisper this time, they're talking out loud, "strove among themselves saying, 'How can this man give us His flesh to eat?'"
Now here we meet the standard Jewish response. Every time Jesus gave them a mishal[?]or a veiled saying, or a physical illustration of a spiritual truth, they always got hung up on the physical. They only see the physical. Remember Nicodemus? Jesus says, "You must be born again." He said, "How can I get in my mother's womb and be born again?" The woman at the well, "I'm going to give you this water and you'll live forever." And she says, "Where You going to get it, You don't have a bucket?" See? They never got pass the physical interpretation of everything. And then He said to those Galileans, "I have the bread of life," earlier in the chapter and they said, "Oh, give it to us." And here He says, "You've got to eat My flesh," and they say, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?" They're thinking of cannibalism. In their minds is the idea of their teeth masticating the very flesh of Jesus. They don't understand anything. And they're right on schedule. Some of them are probably thinking, "Wow! This guy is really something else. Not only is this the most maniacal ego we ever met, but He's crazy. He's saying we ought to eat...what are we, cannibals?" They were actually thinking about that. This kind of ignorance is the ignorance of unbelief because it's so obvious what Jesus said, the end of verse 51, He says, "I'm going to give My...give this bread, or My flesh, for the life of...what?...of the world." Now did they really think that the whole world was going to feast on Him? What were they assuming, everyone was going to take small bites? They can't be that stupid. He said, "I'm giving My life for the life of the world." And yet they're still zeroed in on that physical thing. And they have said that the participants...they have said, in their own minds, that the one of them that would do that would be a cannibal. Of course this is their attitude.
Before you condemn them though, you might recall that this is also the basic text for the Catholic, the Roman Catholic Mass in which the Roman Catholics teach that the blood and body of Jesus Christ is literally there and consumed by the one who involves himself in the Mass and the Eucharist. They have said that the person who is involved actually eats the flesh of Jesus literally and drinks His literal blood. And each Mass is a new sacrifice to Christ in which His body and blood are separated and eaten literally. Ott, Catholic theologian, quote, "The body and the blood of Christ together with His soul and His divinity are therefore...and therefore the whole Christ are truly present in the Eucharist," end quote. Ott says in his book, which is a rehash of St. Thomas Aquinas that when the participant partakes of the Mass, he literally eats the physical body and blood of Jesus. That's exactly what the Jews thought and that ignorance has still remained even today. Jesus is not talking about that. Incidently, the Catholics face some serious problems. If in the context of the Mass that Eucharist is turned into the very essence of Christ literally, what happens to the part that's not eaten and put back in the box or in the refrigerator? Is that Christ in the box and the refrigerator? Well if you've got that theology, you've got to work with that problem. And Ott spends no less than about five pages on it. What about the uneaten wafers? Is Christ there? The answer is, He has to be there, that's the literal flesh of Christ lying around in the icebox.
And so this cannibalistic physical interpretation is still with us. That's not what Jesus is saying. He's saying, "Take Me, accept My death." Do you see? So the pronouncement and the perplexity followed by the promises, verses 53 to 59, and here Jesus gives some promises and we'll go through these rapidly because they're repetitious of things and yet, oh, I'm going to show you some thrilling things.
Now Christ doesn't clear up their problem and say, "Wait, wait, wait, I want to straighten this out." No, no, no, you know why? Listen to me, He never caters to willful unbelief...never. If a person really wants to know, if you seek Me with all your heart you will surely...what?...find Me. God always responds to a seeking heart. He never responds to unbelief, willful ignorance. And in the case of Israel, that willful ignorance became judicial blindness and they couldn't see and they couldn't hear and they couldn't be converted. So it is that this judicial blindness is creeping over all of Israel in their rejection of Christ because it is willful. So Christ never entertains willful ignorance, never. He doesn't even...doesn't even deal with their problem. He moves on, and in fact, I told you a few weeks ago that He may say things that even confound them more and that's exactly what He does here. He says things now that really...they must have been tearing their hair out at this point.
Verse 53, "Then Jesus said unto them, 'Verily, verily I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.'" Now it was bad enough He just said eat His flesh, but now to add to a group of Jewish people that they had to drink His blood...oh my golly. Well if you know anything about the Old Testament, you know that the most repulsive possible dietary thing could be blood to the Jew and rightly so. And because...well that's exactly what God told them back in chapter 17 of the book of Leviticus and verse 10 it says this, "And whatsoever man there is of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you who eateth any manner of blood, I will even set My face against that soul that eateth blood and cut him off from among his people." Verse 12, "Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, no soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourn among you eat blood." Verse 14, "For it is the life of all flesh, the blood of it for the life thereof," and incidently William Harvey didn't corroborate that until 1700 and something. "I said unto the children of Israel, you shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof, whosoever eateth it shall be cut off." They were right. God told them don't eat blood, that was a sanitary thing to keep them healthy. That was a provision of God's sovereignty and God's omniscience to let them know that they needed to be aware of this because it could be poisonous and detrimental to their health and God gave them those rules. And now for Jesus to say to them "you've got to drink My blood" must have been the most nauseating thought imaginable. And so instead of solving their problem, Jesus compounds it and you see the move from willful blindness to judicial blindness. Do you see it? And instead of catering to them, He carries them into deeper mystery.
Now obviously He's not talking of drinking His blood literally. That would be idiotic. But He's talking about His analogy. You say, "Well why does He make it so specific?" Just listen to this, here it comes, are you ready? If you're not willing...and I'll put it in the phraseology, if you're not willing to swallow the shed blood of Jesus Christ for sin, you can't come to Him. You say, "What do you mean by that?" Just this, for a man to come to Jesus Christ he must be willing to accept Christ's atoning shed blood on the cross. That's what He's saying to these Jews. He's saying you not only have to take My person, you've got to be willing to swallow My sacrifice. Now I don't mean swallow literally. You've got to be willing to accept the fact that I have to die and shed My blood. Can a man come to Jesus Christ other than believing in the shed blood of Jesus Christ? No...no. That's exactly what the Jews wouldn't do is believe in His blood. You know the greatest stumbling block to Israel's belief in Messiah, Jesus Christ? What is it? His death...His death, a dead, blood-splattered Messiah just doesn't fit the Jewish concept. Doesn't work. That's why Paul in Acts 17 when he was preaching to the Christians at Thessalonica for three Sabbaths said this, "He reasoned with them why Jesus must need have...what?...suffered and die." They didn't understand that shed blood and Jesus is saying to them, "Not only do you have to accept My person, My flesh, you've got to be ready to accept My bloodshed." When He said "Drink My blood," He wasn't talking about literally drinking His blood, He was saying to them, "You've got to be willing to accept My shed blood for you." Listen, nobody no time receives Jesus Christ without accepting His death and shed blood. You must be willing to see the need of the shed blood. As bread He nourishes, but as blood He cleanses. But a bloody Messiah was a joke to them. Still is to Israel.
But, oh He says...and gives them the first promise, we said these were promises, here's the first promise, verse 53, "Except ye eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you." Turn it around. If you eat of His flesh and drink of His blood, you have...what?...life. What kind of life? The life that's in you. What kind is that? Jesus said, "I am come that you might have life and have it...what?...more abundantly, rich, real, thrilling, abundant, exciting, invigorating, purposeful, love life." That's the kind of life. He says if you'll eat My flesh, accept My person, drink My blood, believe the shed blood on the cross to cleanse your sin, if you'll accept that you'll have real abundant life. You that have accepted Jesus Christ, do you have that kind of life? I have, it's real, it's abundant life. And this guy I was talking about earlier, this psychologist, he had it. Right after he received Jesus Christ his whole personality changed. Just turned into a joy and an exuberance in that abundant life that he got through Christ.
Second promise, not only abundant life, but look at verse 54, here's the second promise, eternal life. "He who eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood hath...what?...eternal life." Tremendous promise. This is not only abundant life, folks, but it lasts forever. You say, "You mean you're never going to die?" Well my body may roll over and die, that's no problem. I'm just going to go to heaven and be with Jesus and some day I'm going to get a brand new one. It will be a lot better looking than this one and it will be eternal. My body might die, but I won't. No, the one who eats Jesus Christ's flesh and accepts His blood atonement has not only abundant life but eternal life.
Some people think this talks about communion service in this passage. Here's a little footnote. I don't think so at all for four reasons. Number one, the Jews don't understand communion. Number two, it's not for an unbeliever, it's for a believer. Number three, it hadn't even been instituted yet. And number four, it says in verse 54, "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life," if you make that mean communion it says anybody who took communion automatically has eternal life. This isn't communion, folks, that doesn't come till later. This is the analogy of receiving Christ.
And so He says abundant life and eternal life. Then He gives another promise, terrific, end of verse 54, "And I will raise him up...when?...at the last day." What last day is this? Well it's not the Rapture of the church. Why? Because the church hasn't come up yet. It's got to be the last day of God's dealing with Israel, right? Sure. You say, "Well wasn't the resurrection promised to Israel?" Absolutely was promised to Israel back in Daniel and chapter 12 in the tremendous promise that Daniel gave. He says this, "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." Daniel says some day is coming a resurrection. The Jews knew of that and they knew about the last day, the prophets all talked about the last day. And He says to them, "If you eat my flesh and drink My blood there's going to be a bodily resurrection." What a tremendous promise.
Look at the end of verse 39, "But should raise it up on the last day." Look at the end of verse 44, "I will raise him up at the last day." There's a last day...what is it? It's not at the Rapture. When is the last day in God's dealing with Israel? At the end of the Tribulation. The resurrection of Israel comes at the end of the seven-year Tribulation, that's the last day for Israel. And so He says, "For the one who feasts on Christ there is abundant life, eternal life and bodily resurrection." Incidently there's also a bodily resurrection for the church. Some day bodies are coming out of the grave in the Rapture. If you want to know what your glorified body looks like, read 1 Corinthians 15, it gives a detailed description.
So we see tremendous promise...abundant life, eternal life, and a bodily resurrection. Then in verse 55 He adds this thought, "For My flesh is food indeed, My blood is drink indeed." Now the word "indeed" means real. It could be read this way, "For My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink. I'm not talking about artificial stuff, this is the real stuff," He says. It's so good and so real that it gives abundant life, eternal life, bodily resurrection. That's some kind of food. And I'll tell you, that destroys the idea of works because the power is not in the eating, the power is in the food, right? There's nothing glorious about my faith, brother, there's only something glorious about the object of my faith.
So He says you get abundant life, eternal life, and bodily resurrection. Any more promises? Right, 56...I don't mean 56 more, I mean verse 56, "He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood," here comes a promise, oh do I love this, do I love this, "dwelleth in Me and...what?...I in him." Oh I'm telling you, that's exciting. Do you realize that when you receive Jesus Christ you become one with Him? Oh, what a fabulous thought. "And the life which I now live is not mine," Paul says, "it's Jesus Christ living in me." Oh tremendous!
John 14, I think it is, verse 20, I hope. "At that day you shall know...watch this...that I am in My Father and ye in Me and I in you." What a...what a triangle that is. That's one love triangle I want to be in, all wrapped up with God the Father and Jesus Christ. Oh that's too glorious to even put into words, just to know that I am one with Jesus Christ. That's almost incomprehensible. This is not my life, it's His life. I often ask myself, "Lord, what do You want it for? There's nothing there." The beautiful mystery of union with Jesus Christ. We go through this world, we are living lives of Christ...one with Him. He dwells in me, I dwell in Him. The Bible says, "In Him I live and move and have my being." Tremendous...tremendous! He's there in me, part of me, just like that food turns into me, Jesus Christ and I are mingled in some kind of mysterious, divine relationship. I'll tell you, folks, that's thrilling...that's thrilling. This is not my life, it's His life in me.
Verse 57, where did He get all this life to give us? This is what He said, "Well as the living Father has sent Me and I live by the Father, so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me." See. In other words, Jesus says God gave Me temporal life to come here and I'm giving you spiritual life to go back there, see. It's a circle. As the Father gave Me life here, I give you life to go there. That's the whole point. Christ...God sent Christ to bring us back, it's just a circle. God longs for our fellowship and love.
So, Jesus says the Father gave Me life, I came here to give you life. I became what you are that you might become what I am. So Christ is bread from heaven, sent by God. If we eat, we get back to God where we belong. Oh what promises. Abundant life, eternal life, bodily resurrection, union with Christ in an individual oneness. I'll just have to preach on that subject sometime. And that's for all those who eat Christ's flesh and drink His blood.
Then in a great climactic summary in a nature of an invitation He closes out in verse 58 and He says this, "This is the bread," and I can see Him and I believe He's pointing at Himself, that's just MacArthur, that's all. I believe He was pointing at Himself and saying, "This is the bread which came down from heaven," not that stuff that they got back there in the desert, that manna, they ate that and they're dead. "He that eateth of this bread shall...what?...live forever." That's an invitation to those people. A dynamic reminder. Oh what a statement. "And these things, said He in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum."
Did you hear that invitation? He alone has the power to transform lives. He is alone the bread that can fill the hunger of the heart. He can change your life. He took Saul the bigot, Saul the murderer and He turned him into Paul the Apostle, the greatest preacher that ever lived. He took a man, for example, like John Bunyan, the drunk, the foul mouth, touched his heart so that he penned the classic Pilgrim's Progress. And He's done it a multiplied million times. And I'll tell you, it takes somebody more than a man to do that.
What is the question of the ages? Who is Jesus Christ? What is the answer? He is the Son of God, the Savior of the world. And if you want abundant life, eternal life, bodily resurrection and union with Him, then you must eat His flesh and drink His blood.
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August 28, 2003
Is P.A. Taking Steps Against Terror?
Israel is skeptical about the Palestinian Authority's tentative measures against terrorism -- and is following up by conducting anti-terror operations of its own.
Both Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Israel's army chief of staff, Moshe Ya'alon, said this week that the measures the Palestinian Authority is taking in the Gaza Strip are not substantial.
Ya'alon and others said that the Palestinian Authority's arrests of weapons smugglers and the closing of arms-smuggling tunnels from Egypt into the Gaza Strip are not the beginnings of a true crackdown on terrorism. They said the moves were a tactical ploy to reduce American pressure on the Palestinian Authority and ward off further Israeli military operations.
That move apparently failed.
On Tuesday, a Palestinian bystander was killed in a failed Israeli missile attack in the Gaza Strip. More than a dozen people were wounded in Tuesday's strike near the Jabaliya refugee camp that targeted a member of Hamas' military wing, who reportedly was traveling in a car that was hit.
After the attack, dozens of people gathered around the car's remains, calling for revenge.
On Sunday, however, Israel hit its target.
Missiles fired from Israeli helicopter gunships at targets in Gaza City killed four. Two of those killed were Hamas officials, including Ahmed Shatiwi, a senior member of Hamas' military wing, who was commander of the terrorist group's Kassam rocket operators.
Late last week, before Shatiwi was killed, Palestinians fired a barrage of rockets at Israeli targets, including one that reached an Israeli beach south of Ashkelon.
The other two people killed in Israel's missile strike on Sunday were members of Force 17, P.A. President Yasser Arafat's personal security detail.
Hamas vowed to avenge Sunday's strike.
"Our response will be painful and quick," the group said in a statement broadcast on Al-Jazeera television.
Meanwhile, P.A. President Yasser Arafat appointed his former loyalist and security chief, Jibril Rajoub, as the Palestinian national security adviser. The move is seen as another attempt by Arafat to redirect power away from P.A. Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
On Wednesday, Arafat called for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to return to a cease-fire. Israel dismissed the statement as "empty rhetoric."
Rajoub, the former head of P.A. security in the West Bank, told The Associated Press that his main goal would be to reorganize the Palestinian security forces, but did not say whether he would crack down on terrorists.
On Tuesday, the United States criticized the appointment, saying it undermined both Abbas and the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan.
White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said the United States believed that the Palestinian security services need to be consolidated under Abbas and Security Minister Mohammed Dahlan.
"That is the way forward," Buchan said.
Under the threat of a massive Israeli operation in Gaza, Palestinian police forces were deployed Saturday night in the Beit Hanoun area to prevent the firing of Kassam rockets toward Israeli targets.
Nevertheless, on Sunday, Hamas managed to fire an improved version of a Kassam that reached an Israeli beach south of Ashkelon. No one was hurt in the attack, which demonstrated a five-mile firing capability. Before the recent "cease-fire" gave the terrorists time to rearm, Palestinian Kassam rockets had a range of about three miles.
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Mustang to Provide Service for Heartland Pipeline
Mustang Engineering has been selected by Heartland Gas Pipeline LLC (Heartland) to perform the full scope of engineering services on the proposed installation and operation of a 40 Km, 406 mm diameter natural gas pipeline in southwestern part of the United States state of Indiana. The new pipeline will allow Heartland to provide gas supply diversification alternatives to Citizens Gas & Coke Utility (Citizens) in Indianapolis, Indian, U.S.A., and will permit better utilization of the existing underground storage fields and facilities owned by Citizens in Greene County, Indiana. Services to be provided by Mustang will include project management, engineering design, right-of-way and permit acquisition, environmental permit acquisition, as-built survey, mapping and drafting, procurement and material control, construction management, and construction inspection. The project is scheduled to be in service November 2005.


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John C Abell
Sometimes the most important ideas in tech are hiding in plain sight. In that spirit, here are three predictions for 2013 that are just waiting to happen. No 3D TVs, wearable computer or jet packs for meat least not this year.
The Kindle offer
Demand is rapidly shrinking for e-ink e-book readers. IHS iSuppli predicts that when the books close on 2012 some 15 million will have been solddown 36% from 2011. And why not? Tablets are getting cheaper. Sure, you can pick up an ad-supported Kindle for as little as $70. But why shell out even that when $200 gets you an e-reader, and a media player, and a gaming machine, and everything else?
Dedicated e-ink readers arent falling out of favour because the technology has been surpassed. Theyre losing out because the value proposition has changed. Theres a simple solution. Make them inexpensive enough so that it becomes an offer you cant refuse. That will happen at $50. At that price, buying a niche item you might use only occasionally is a relatively easy decision. It would be a no-brainer for students. A stocking stuffer for pre-teens that might even tear them away from their gaming consoles. An afterthought.
Nobody but Jeff Bezos & Co know what Amazon needs to make (or, more likely, can afford to lose) on even a bare-bones Kindle, though it is generally accepted wisdom that the Kindle line has value to the company as a loss leader for the sale of booksrazors to blades, as it were. Amazon also has a history of pushing price barriers: it experimented with universally-priced $10 e-booksselling them below cost, to the consternation of publishers.
Amazon started the digital book revolution. E-ink technology was life-altering, and remains far too worthy to disappear. The only thing wrong with it is that its too expensive. Amazon is uniquely positioned to fix that and breathe new life into this still-revolutionary device.
Netbook strikes back
E-readers managed to survive a metaphysical threat from tablets. Netbooks, not so much. Netbooksbare-bones, inexpensive, portable computerswere poised to change the world. But just as they burst on the scene, full-powered computers got just as small and just as light, like Apples MacBook Air. And then the iPad sucked out whatever air was left in the room.
Conditions have conspired again to make netbooks attractive. Advances in cloud computing make productivity activitiescollaborating on and sharing documentspainless. That in turn makes hard driveslocal storageless


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A Beginner's Guide to Pregnancy Pilates
Pilates has become increasingly popular in the fitness world with both men and women. Pilates is a fitness system developed by Joseph Pilates in the early 20th century. It focuses on core postural muscles, as well as proper breathing and correct spinal alignment.
The most common machine used for Pilates is the "reformer," which was designed to provide finely tuned resistance exercises for the body as a whole. It focuses on proper alignment, core stability, and total body flexibility.
Pilates is great before, during and after pregnancy. It is beneficial during the pregnancy process due to the isolation of the core.
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continuous gas analyzer Companies in Norway
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IMR Environmental Equipment, Inc.
based in St. Petersburg, FLORIDA (USA)
IMR Environmental Equipment, Inc. is one of the leading manufacturers worldwide for portable flue-gas analyzers and stationary flue-gas analyzers using electro-chemical and NDIR technology. Furthermore, the product range includes leak detectors (HC, refrigerant), thermometers, manometers and anemometers. IMR has almost 30 years of experience designing, manufacturing and ...
Codel International Ltd
based in Bakewell, UNITED KINGDOM
CODEL are world leaders in the design and manufacture of systems for continuous emissions gas monitoring (cems) and combustion control analysers, such as in-situ and extractive flue gas emissions analysers (analyzers), pollution sensors, dust monitor/particulate monitors, opacity/smoke monitors, flue gas analysers (analyzers), road tunnel atmosphere sensors and velocity ...
Environnement S.A
based in Poissy, FRANCE
Environnement S.A is the leading company in the field of instrumentation for the environment. Ever since its creation in 1978, Environnement S.A has been dedicated to the study, development, manufacture and supply of advanced on-line gas, particulate and water analyzers, using the most recent technologies. Environnement S.A proposes a comprehensive range of continuous ...
NEO Monitors AS
based in Skedsmokorset, NORWAY
NEO Monitors is one of the leading suppliers of gas analysers and dust monitors based on tuneable diode laser (TDL) technology. Our instruments are the preferred choice for a broad range of applications within process and emission control. Laser based Gas Monitors for Environmental Monitoring or Process Control. NEO Monitors supply state of the art LaserGas gas monitors ...
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Cinemas Green movement extends also to popcorn-farming which, as implied, is easier on the environment. Norm Krug, of Nebraska-based Preferred Popcorn, outlines some of the behind- the-scenes benefits of 'no-til' farming, making popcorn derived from it the responsible choice for exhibitors.
While our popcorn is not organic, it is naturally produced with minimal tillage, and there are many Green advantages in minimizing tillage - or even in eliminating it altogether. The good news is that there are no losers. The environment benefits first by leaving organic matter undisturbed, and the farmer wins through lower production costs and a healthy natural plant that produces high quality, great-tasting popcorn. Minimum tillage also means reduced:
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Working in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean in 2001, scientists and crew aboard the maiden voyage of the U.S. icebreaker Healy successfully—and surprisingly—were able to perform 200 dredge operations along the Gakkel Ridge, collecting some 4,000 seafloor rock samples. (Henry Dick.)
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Scientists had predicted that the Gakkel Ridge was spreading far too slowly to promote volcanism, but an expedition in 2001 found surprising evidence for active volcanoes and hydrothermal vents.
The new U.S. icebreaker Healy performed splendidly on its maiden voyage to the Arctic Ocean in 2001 to explore the Gakkel Ridge—the deepest and slowest-spreading ridge on Earth. (Henry Dick.)


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Bob Diaco of Notre Dame has been named winner of the Broyles Award as the nation's top college football assistant.
The Fighting Irish defensive coordinator helped sculpt a defense which has allowed the fewest touchdowns in the country and is sixth overall in total defense. ND ranks No.1 in fewest points allowed followed by Alabama.
The Irish and Crimson Tide will meet Jan. 7 in the BCS championship game.
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Rjd2 was first noticed producing tracks for his group MHz, but it was when he hooked up with Def Jux that his brilliance started showing. "The F Word remix" for Cannibal Ox got him a lot of attention, but it was his 12" with Copywrite that really got people on. "June," which is featured on "Dead Ringer," is a track that defies description, it just must be heard.
The art form of sampling will be held in a new regard when Rj is through; you think DJ Shadow is impressive? Rjd2 will blow you away. Don't let his affiliation with Def Jux be misleading, while is capable of creating the unique Def Jux sound, this album is nowhere near it. The album starts with "The Horror," which sounds like it could be the theme song for a James Bond villain. While it is very well put together and undeniably catchy, it does not indicate the direction of the album at all. That is really the only fault of the album; it is not as cohesive as it could be. Rj takes you from the remarkably melodic and soulful "Smoke & Mirrors" to the up-tempo 70's throwback, "Good Times Roll Pt.2." The latter is a great track but does not follow up the previous all that well.
The pinnacle of the album comes on "Ghostwriter," which is one of the best beats that my ears have ever heard. It is very rare that an instrumental track will have me hitting the repeat button, especially more than once. Just when you think the song is over, you can hear the horns coming in again, I cannot describe how incredible it sounds. Other standouts are "The Chicken-Bone Circuit" which features Rj going bezerk on the drum machine and the turntable blessed "Cut Out To FL." He brings the vintage vibe on a number of tracks, the aforementioned "Good Times Roll Pt.2," "2 More Dead," and "Work." Some may be scared off the their lack of hip hop vibe, but like I say, good music is good music.
Not every track is on the instrumental tip though; Rj forms "Soul Position" with Blueprint for a taste of their upcoming LP together. "Final Frontier" is a terrific display of what each artist offers as an individual and as a duo. His MHz counterparts also lend some rhymes to a couple tracks. Copywrite, as mentioned before, and Jakki represents lovely on "F.H.H." Jakki talks shit like few others over a simple yet dope beat. Be sure to let the last track run, as there is a bonus track. "Here's What's Left" is so well constructed it is unbelievable. While most of the album's songs are not meant to be rhymed over, it nonetheless exposes just how rushed and careless so much production is today. I am not just talking hip hop, but all genres of music.
Genius is one word that is thrown around far too much in the music industry. It is a label that should only be given to the truly extraordinary talents. After listening to "Dead Ringer," it is the only word that comes to mind. Track after track, each sound is so intricately woven together and placed at the right spot, it sounds like he spent an hour on each minute of the song. Rjd2 is a musical genius, no more, no less.


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"Thank you Neil Gaiman"
I decided to buy this title because it was selected by Neil Gaiman, and I am so glad that I did. I love the fact that even though the main character is flawed, he is still likeable, and draws the reader deeper into the story. I love the twists that the plot takes, many totally unexpected. Thank you again, Neil Gaiman, for introducing me to this author.
I am a 65-year-old psychologist, married for 25 years, with two sons who are 25 and 22. I love reviewing the books and the feedback I get.
"Odd. A writer's grandiose fable."
This book begins well enough. It is the story of a teacher and writer named Thomas Abbey and his girlfriend Saxony. Tom takes a sabbatical year in which he decides to write a biography of his favorite author, a man named Marshall France. For the first half or so, the book is a well-written story, narrated by the always wonderful Edoardo Ballerini, which makes it a delightful experience just for that. However...(isn't there always a however?)... our heroes drive to the town of Galen, Missouri, and this is where the story escalates into a fable of delusional proportions. If you knew that this was going to be some variety of science fictionish work, that would be one thing. But, not having known that, the book becomes pretty preposterous. I can't help revealing the spoiler here, as it takes up almost half the book, and is, I suppose, the grand idea of Mr. Carroll's. The conceit here is that Marshall France has written a magnum opus in which he has created the entire town: all the people who live in it, precisely what they do, when they die, etc. He (France) also has the superpowers available to himself that he can make people die at his whim, or turn into dogs, etc. At first Tom and Saxony do not believe the tale, but they are fiercely sold on it by Anna, the author's daughter. Soon Tom is sleeping with Anna as well as Saxony. Since science fiction requires us to suspend our usual assumptions about life, the only way to enjoy this experience, I think, is to just not try to think too carefully about the entire conceit, as it will fall down like a house of cards on the briefest examination. France becomes a version of God. He apparently has written so voluminously into the past and the future of Galen that ordinary mortals would have taken lifetimes to do this alone, not to speak of writing work that will be marketed and sold to the public. (France's writing about Galen is a Big Secret.) Some of it has a Wizard of Oz quality: children might be mystified, but the outfits are made of cardboard, and pay no attention to that man...
I love Edoardo Ballerini as I love no other narrator. He does the absolute maximum with this material that he can. However, nothing can protect Tom from being the wimpy, passive academic that he is. He bounces from Saxony to Anna, begging each of them to make the decisions in his life that he is too paralyzed by OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) to make. By the end, you really are considering the possibility that it all really WAS a dream, a thing which worked in literature about 100 years ago.
I would only cautiously recommend this book, primarily for fellow lovers of Ballerini. His skills are so marvelous that they can elevate a lot of writing way above where it actually "deserves" to be. What a guy.
"Fictional Reality"
The best books, both fiction and non-fiction, create a world in the mind of the reader that is as real as the world in which the reader actually lives. If that is the case for the reader, it can only be more so for the author who has become totally immersed in the world he/she is creating.
Neil Gaiman is a connoisseur of literature that skirts along the edge separating the world of the mind and the world around us. While I haven't been thrilled with every NGP selection, this one does not disappoint, as it follows the career of a young aspiring writer, Tom Abbey, who wants to write a biography of the author whose books created an imaginary world into which Abbey retreated as a child. That author's adopted home town turns out to be a very strange place, indeed, a place existing on the border between reality and fiction. A story that is both fun and thought-provoking.
"Enchanting story, exellent reader"
Land of Laughs was mystical and surprising story and there are lot's of things going beneath. Now, when I know the story and how it ends I certainly gonna listen it again, maybe there are more surprises..
It reminded me a little bit of Ray Bradbury stories. Nothing is like it seems.
I loved his female characters, but the Italian undertaker was my favorite. Overall Edoardo Ballerini was my one of my favorite narrators and I surely gonna find is there more books narrated by him.
"A Disappointing Marathon"
Shorten it by half! Make at least one of the characters likeable.
Pruning. It went on and on even when it was obvious where the whole thing was headed something like having one's head beaten against a brick wall. The central idea was good but was hideously overworked until it died of sheer exhaustion.
He made a great job of some very tedious material, no complaints there.
What is it about American writers which makes them feel they have to bludgeon their readers senseless in order to get their message accross? Is the American reading public slow or something?I bought this book mainly on the recommendation of Neil Gaiman, for whom I have great respect, but I will be looking at his opinions on other writers much more critically in future. What were you thinking Neil?
"Left me feeling empty and hurt"
There was a horrible twist at the end, and then it just trails off without any resolution.
No, just made me more wary of Neil's list. I love Neil Gaiman's work, but I'm now questioning his list.
"Wierdly compelling and haunting."
I'm not entirely sure that this book warrants a 4 star review, but if I rate it any lower, I'm afraid you'll pass it over. If you like stories where you know from the beginning that there is something that we're not being told, this is for you. Someone put this in the category of the "unreliable narrator" story, but I'm not sure that even quite describes it. I finished this book weeks ago, and i cant get it out of my head. Definitely worth the credit!
"Definitely a Disappointment"
The author chose a challenging concept
He could have endowed his characters with a generosity of spirit.
Mr. Ballerini's presentation was excellent. I have not heard anything else by this performer.
This book is long on a sense of the inadequacy of the central characters and short on magic. However, some people might enjoy the underlying aura of malevolence.
I love reading and listening to books, especially fantasy, science fiction, children's, historical, and classics.
"Funny and Disturbing Metafictional American Gothic"
Thomas Abbey is a burnt out prep-school English teacher (who's heard one too many vapid book reports about ???The Fall of the House of Usher???) with an extensive collection of well-oiled masks but no lover. And don???t ask him about his deceased movie star father! Since childhood, the one thing that he has unreservedly loved is the work of Marshall France, a mysterious author of popular children???s fantasy books, of which Thomas??? favorite is The Land of Laughs. As Jonathan Carroll???s novel opens, Thomas has decided to go on a leave of absence, during which he plans to write the first biography of France. Will he succeed? Will Saxony Gardner, a young woman who also loves the books of France, be able to help him? Will France???s eccentric daughter Anna hinder them? How did France create such real characters and wonderful stories? Why do the people of Galen, Missouri remind one of The Wicker Man and Inkheart?
I chucklingly enjoyed the first third of the novel! It is quirky and funny, and I care a great deal about Thomas and Saxony and their biographical quest. But by the last third it becomes disturbing and by the ending disappointing, perhaps because Carroll abandons the attraction of children???s fantasy books for the creepiness of creation, and because the d??nouement is abrupt and unpleasant. Though The Land of Laughs is largely about the life and work of an author of children???s books, Carroll???s novel is not for children.
The reading by Edoardo Ballerini is well paced and varied for the different characters and situations (though a few times I confused his Saxony and Anna) and balances emotion and restraint.
Carroll???s novel is about many things: America (popular culture, gothic, small towns, big cities, etc.), writing, reading, biography, fame, fans, love, family, fantasy, reality, and the relationships between them. Is it a horror novel? An urban fantasy? A metafiction? A romance? A father and son novel? It???s a little of all of those. It is surely unpredictable and memorable.
"Clever plot, well performed"
This is a very entertaining mix of the mystery and fantasy genres, and translates well to audio format.
The most memorable moment comes when the protagonist, Thomas Abbey, realizes that the small town of Galen, Missouri, is not as it appears. The plot, which had been developing in an apparently predictable course, as Abbey struggles to write his first book, the biography of his favorite childhood author, suddenly takes on unexpected
This is the first of Edoardo Ballerini's performances I have heard. I was deeply impressed. None of his characters are annoying, they are all clearly identified as he read his way along. It reminded me of an old radio play more than listening to someone read a book out loud.


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Always one for grabbing attention, Serena "ReRe" Williams has swiftly moved past her disappointing loss to Justine Henin, and injuries to her calf and left hand, at Wimbledon last week.
ReRe made a grand entrance on The ESPY's red carpet tonight, looking quite regal in her cream spaghetti-strap dress with empire waist (empire waists must be a theme - Maria Shriekapova was working the same style at The ESPY's pre-party the night before.)
The headband is an elegant touch. But can we talk about the bling? The diamond-laced bracelet and strappy heels hit a hight mark.
It's good to see she's putting that injured left hand to use now that she's pulled out of this weekend's Fed Cup semifinal against Russia and next week's The Western & Financial Open.
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State law leads to workers' comp drops for NEPA firefighters
Insurers are pulling workers' compensation coverage from cash-strapped municipalities in response to a 2011 law linking firefighting with increased cancer risks.
Dubbed the Firefighters Cancer Presumption Act, Act 46 of 2011 recognizes every form of cancer found in a firefighter as a work-related illness. The onus to prove otherwise is on the municipality. Before the law, a claim could be filed going back 300 weeks. The law doubled that to 600 weeks.
Anticipating an onslaught of claims, insurers are pulling out, including MRM Trust, which provided Clarks Summits' volunteer firefighters with workers' compensation, Borough Manager Virginia Kehoe said.
"They were anticipating so many claims," Ms. Kehoe said. The borough turned to the State Workers' Insurance Fund and is now paying roughly $19,000 a year. Before Act 46, the borough was paying $14,000 a year.
Courtney Accurti, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs said she has heard from multiple municipalities that have been dropped by insurers as claims rise. Elam Herr, assistant executive director at the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors said private carriers and insurance trusts have been dropping workers' compensation for firefighters or substantially hiking premiums.
Scranton's firefighter workers' compensation falls to the city as the city self-insures, business administrator Ryan McGowan said. The city pays claims out of a dedicated account. No claims have been filed since the law passed, so the law has not affected the city so far, he said.
Dunmore also has not been affected, Councilman Paul Nardozzi said. The borough's firefighter workers' compensation provider is still on board, but Mr. Nardozzi said officials have raised concerns over potentially higher premiums with the provider. So far, the line is holding, he said.
Honesdale and its volunteer fire department contacted at least four insurance providers since being dropped, said Scott Smith, chairman of the borough's finance committee. Each provider contacted said they no longer provide workers' compensation for fire crews.
"Because of the financial risk to the companies suddenly having all these claims, they are choosing not to do the workers' compensation," Mr. Smith said.
Many are choosing the State Workers' Insurance Fund for firefighters workers' compensation because it is deemed the most cost-effective way to provide the state-mandated coverage. Using SWIF for firefighter coverage allowed Clarks Summit to keep MRM coverage for everything else, Ms. Kehoe said.
Clarks Summit recently received $33,000 from two dividend rebate checks from MRM. If the borough had dropped MRM all together, it might not have been able to secure a comparable deal, Ms. Kehoe said. This became clear when the borough began shopping for quotes from other providers.
"We actually had one quote come in a little bit lower (than MRM)," she said. "But when you take into account the rebate check, it didn't even come close."
Robert Anspach, director of Insurance Services with PennPRIME Workers' Compensation Trust, raised providers' concerns at a Nov. 14 hearing before the House Veteran Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee.
"Every insurance entity has a reserve that is based on past experience and actuarial estimates of future costs for claims that will be discovered and reported later," he said. "Premiums are collected with an understanding that, based on the history of the trust or company, losses will be paid out generally within a range of expected outcomes.
"The increase of the reporting time from 300 to 600 weeks means there were 300 weeks for which no cancer claims were anticipated and, therefore, no premium was collected."
Fewer claims were filed prior to law because medical proof was required without a presumption, Mr. Anspach said.
"No reserve, therefore, was set aside for these Act 46 claims. The modeling we were seeing did not bode well for keeping losses at a level that were manageable."
Lawmakers who support the law have balked at talk of making modifications.
"I support the measure in its entirety and would not support tweaks to the statute that protects our paid and volunteer firefighters who in turn protect our communities," said Rep. Kevin Haggerty, D-112, Dunmore. "To say that those who are charged with protecting public safety are too costly for insurance carriers is an insult; especially those who volunteer to keep our families and communities safe and in doing so, have contracted cancer."
Don Konkle, executive director of the Pennsylvania Fire and Emergency Services Institute, said lawmakers have a responsibility to look out for firefighters.
"We believe that protecting firefighters from financial ruin for doing their job is just good policy," he said.
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