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You know the economy must be slowing when even the chairman of the Federal Reserve is admitting it to a room full of the world's most powerful people in finance. Just parsing Ben Bernanke's speech to the International Monetary Conference on June 8 reveals a negative outlook for the U.S. economy.
Bernanke said, "U.S. economic growth so far this year looks to have been somewhat slower than expected…A number of indicators also suggest some loss of momentum in the labor market in recent weeks." In Fed-speak, that's pretty bad.
While 2011 began with a salew of positive numbers that had many analysts hopeful that the tepid recovery was gaining steam, more recent numbers have turned those expectations south in nearly every part of the economy. "At the start of the year, the U.S. economy looked like it had pretty much everything going for it," says Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. "Six months into the year, we're back to the situation where the economy is only growing about 2% a year. We've gone from hope that we would see a decent performance, back to general expectations that things are going to be weak for quite a while."
Jim Barrett, senior market strategist at Lind-Waldock, also doesn't see things picking up in the economy any time soon. "People may be a little overly pessimistic about the economy right now, but it's hard to see an uptick that really would threaten note and bond prices," he says. Barrett expects yields on the 10-year to stay below 3%, working down to 2.80% and possibly 2.75% if the stock market really gets bad. That's a trading range of 123-00 to 126-50. He expects the 30-year bond to be a bit more volatile with a trading range of 125-00 to 129-50 through the summer.
Brian Edmonds, senior managing director and head of interest rate trading at Cantor Fitzgerald, expects Treasuries to remain strong despite QE2 ending in June. Edmonds says bonds and notes have rallied this spring because of poor economic numbers and any weakness from the end of QE2 would be offset by the Fed's pledge to continue reinvesting principal payments from its securities holdings.
Edmonds says there is an outside chance of a QE3 if the economy does not improve, but doesn't expect that to happen immediately following the end of QE2. "There will be a lag time," he says.
By nearly every measure of the economy, the outlook has turned negative since the beginning of May. This is true in housing, jobs reports, GDP projections and interest rate expectations. Naturally, many of these are related.


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Get Cooking: Grilled Chicken Pitas
You'll Need:
3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/2 pounds)
3 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice, divided
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 clove garlic, minced
2 teaspoons dried oregano, divided
2 small tomatoes, finely chopped
1 cup crumbled feta cheese (1/4 pound)
1/4 cup olive oil
For the yogurt sauce:
8 ounces (1 cup) unflavored yogurt
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large Vidalia or purple onion, cut into thin rings
6 pita breads
1/2 head romaine lettuce, finely chopped
1 (10.6-ounce) jar kalamata olives, drained, halved, and pitted, or other black olives
12 slices bacon, fried crisp
Alfalfa sprouts
Freshly ground black pepper
How To:
For the yogurt sauce:
Olive oil cooking spray
Rinse the chicken breast and pat dry. Combine 3 tablespoons lemon juice, soy sauce, garlic and 1 teaspoon of the oregano in a glass dish. Add the chicken, turn to coat, and cover with plastic wrap. Allow the chicken breast to marinate for 30 minutes at room temperature or overnight in the refrigerator.
Combine the tomatoes and feta cheese in a small glass dish. Add the remaining 2 teaspoons lemon juice, the olive oil, and the remaining 1 teaspoon oregano, and stir to combine. Allow to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.
For the yogurt sauce:
In a small bowl, whisk together the yogurt, garlic, walnuts, and olive oil. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
Preheat a grill to medium heat.
Spray a grill basket with olive oil. Grill the chicken breasts over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes, until no longer pink in the thickest portion of each breast. Spread the onion rings over the surface of the basket and grill while the chicken is cooking. Turn the basket frequently. The onion rings will blacken as they cook; this will also take 8 to 10 minutes. When the chicken and onion rings are cooked, place the pita breads on the grill for about 2 minutes per side, until grill marks show. Slice the chicken into very thin pieces.
At serving time, put out all of the ingredients and allow each person to assemble sandwiches: Split each pita. Place several slices of grilled chicken, 3 or 4 slivers of onion, a tablespoon of tomato-feta mixture, lettuce, olives, and 1 or 2 slices of bacon into each pita. Top with yogurt sauce and a wad of alfalfa sprouts. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Fold up the sides of the pita and enjoy!
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Raceland bicyclist killed Saturday night, police say
Raceland bicyclist killed Saturday night, police say
RACELAND, La. —
Louisiana State Police say a Raceland bicyclist was killed Friday.
Police say 17-year-old Sergio Sumano-Ortega was riding a bicycle on LA Highway 308 just north of Raceland Junior High School shortly after 8 p.m. without street lights or any kind of illuminated devices.
The bicycle was struck from the rear by a truck driven by Andre Leblanc, police say.
After initial impact, Sumano-Ortega was ejected into the roadway where he was then struck by the truck.
Sumano-Ortega was pronounced dead at the scene.
Leblanc submitted to a breath test and was cleared of any alcohol impairment. Toxicology tests are pending for Sumano-Ortega.


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MP903, New May 2008
Mature seed stalks of big bluestem are copper colored and often grow more than 5 feet tall.
Scott Sudkamp, Missouri Department of Conservation
The clumpy growth of big bluestem allows room for other plants to exist and provides excellent habitat structure for nesting and roosting. Quail hens tend to nest at bases of grass clumps.
Robert N. Chapman, Missouri Department of Conservation
Big bluestem has a small, membranous ligule. Hairs are common along the leaf sheath and blade.
Rob Kallenbach and Greg Bishop-Hurley, University of Missouri
The three-pronged "turkey foot" appearance of the big bluestem seed head is distinctive.
Jim Rathert, Missouri Department of Conservation
Big bluestem is one of the taller native grasses in the Midwest, with seed stalks up to 9 feet tall, more commonly 4 to 5 feet. The seed head typically has three "prongs," giving it the appearance of a bird's foot. Leaves are commonly 1 to 3 feet long and may be either smooth or hairy. Plants take on a bluish-coppery hue upon dormancy in the fall.
A dominant grass in prairies and native grass plantings, big bluestem grows in bunchy clumps that provide good habitat structure for nesting and brood rearing. Nests are made at the base of clumps from the previous year's growth. Burned stands often provide brooding habitat. Coveys frequently roost in fields containing big bluestem. Dense stands may provide escape cover and summer and winter thermal cover.
Big bluestem leaves contain little lignin, which causes them to droop after the growing season. Leaves and seed heads tend to flatten under ice or snow. Thus, pure stands of big bluestem provide poorer quality roosting or spring nesting cover than other native warm-season grasses. This problem can be alleviated by high-clipping or summer grazing that leaves a 10- to 15-inch stubble that is more resistant to flattening. It is best planted in mixtures with other native grasses.
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Session Laws
The six-hundred and ninth volume of the Archives of Maryland series was originally published in 1845 by William McNeir. The Archives of Maryland edition was published in 2003 by the Maryland State Archives. This volume covers Session Laws, 1844.
This information resource of the Maryland State Archives is presented here for fair use in the public domain. When this material is used, in whole or in part, proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives. PLEASE NOTE: Rights assessment for associated source material is the responsibility of the user.
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Chelsea made a complaint to the FA alleging the referee had used inappropriate language, understood to have been interpreted as a racist remark, to midfielder John Obi Mikel. Although the club did not involve the police, the Society of Black Lawyers (SBL) made a complaint to the Metropolitan Police based on media reports of the alleged incident.
Scotland Yard announced on Tuesday night no action would be taken "because no victims had come forward" - and that has prompted criticism of Chelsea and the FA by SBL chair Peter Herbert for not going to the police.
Herbert said in a statement: "It would appear that there is a cosy little agreement between Chelsea FC and the FA not to report these matters to the Metropolitan Police but to have them dealt with solely by the FA.
"The FA have a dreadful record of indifference on hate crime generally; failing to challenge anti-Semitism at Tottenham Hotspur and at other grounds; eventually finding John Terry made a racist remark but remarkably found him not to be a "racist"; whilst the derisory penalty of a four or eight match ban [Luis Suarez] is believed to be a suitable punishment for what in any other industry would be summary dismissal for gross misconduct."
The FA is expected to announce the outcome of its investigation into Chelsea's complaint within 48 hours.
Scotland Yard said an investigation was launched into alleged comments made during a match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on October 28.
Police said in a statement: "Inquiries were made and no victims have come forward. The matter will remain as a recorded incident. Without a victim and/or any evidence that any offence has been committed, the matter cannot currently be investigated.
"If the situation changes and a victim and/or evidence to support an allegation of a crime comes to police attention, then further inquiries will, if appropriate, be made."
Clattenburg, 37, returned to training with the top-flight Select Group of referees last weekend for the first time since Chelsea's complaint to the FA.
Source: PA
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HollandJack necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Yes you have landed on a UNIQUE PROJECT found no where else on 99designs or the internet. It is YOUR chance to add this to your portfolio and show your creativity to the world.
My name is Jack and I am partner in a small coffeeshop in Amsterdam the Netherlands. As most of you know smoking the Dutch Buddha, Mary Jane, Ganja, Chronic, Reefer, Cheeba or as we just call it here: Weed and Hasj is perfectly legal in Holland. Together they are called Cannabis.
As we run a business we are always thinking of ways to attract more customers. That is why we are now in the process of setting up a great website to attract more customers and have our coffeeshop "El Guapo" become more known locally as well as amongst tourists.
To set this up we have hired a coder and an online marketing specialist who will help us out with the technical details of the site and its marketing. Not a lot of Dutch coffeeshops have a website so we think we'll have a real advantage here.
You guessed it we are looking for your help in the design department. This design contest is for the homepage AND a sub page with the Cannabis menu.
Please read the full brief for more information and download the pictures!
El Guapo
- This contest is to design both the homepage as well as a sub-page thatholds the cannabis menu. This means you will need to design both a homepage and a sub page with the weed/hasj menu (which are generally piecesof art).
- We are looking for an origional design that reflects our shopsathmosphere (see pictures) and will attract a customer to come andvisit. The site can have an international appeal and its location canbe reflected in the design as well.
- First please download this file (23 MB)http://w1.uploadmb.com/dw.php?id=1218111214&/ElGuapo_Design.zip
- In this zip file you will find:- our company logo (sorry no vector or higher quality available) - - pictures of our shop (during the day)
- - a word document with the website's menu structure
- - a word document with our weed and hasj menu
- - websites.txt: A bunch of ugly websites we don't like but contain some more information about whats available.
- Other than that I suggest you visit: http://hightimes.com/ (NSFW)
Here are a few guidelines:
- Name of coffeeshop: "El Guapo"
- Width: Minimum 975 px, Max 1000 px.
- Height: Not to much scrolling can go on, but some scrolling is not an issue.
- Format: Photoshop or Illustrator, RGB Color
- Website Menu Contents: see word document
- Weed/Hasj Menu Contents: see other word document
- You should be able to find enough inspiration online but preferably don't use copyrighted images of course.
- Make sure that the design holds up to standards of usability.
* No black background
* Not too dark of an appereance
* Colors must make it 1 whole
* Text has to be readable
* Menu has to be on top or left


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BOSTON — Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference has battled the injury bug numerous times over the last couple seasons.
Now it might've bit him again.
Ference did not skate in the third period of Boston's 7-5 win over Philadelphia after taking the last shift of the second period. Head coach Claude Julien said after the game that Ference was being evaluated and the team will probably have an update Friday.
With a plus-18, Ference entered the game as Boston's leader in that department.


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Ellington Financial LLC Announces Fourth Quarter Dividend of $0.77 Per Share and Special Dividend for the Year Ended December 31, 2012 of $0.75 Per Share
Feb 12, 2013, 05:45 EST
OLD GREENWICH, Conn., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellington Financial LLC (NYSE: EFC) (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend for the fourth quarter of 2012 of $0.77 per share and a special dividend for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 of $0.75 per share, both payable on March 15, 2013 to shareholders of record as of March 1, 2013.(1) Subject to the ultimate discretion of the Board of Directors, the Company's management expects to continue to recommend quarterly dividends of $0.77 per share until conditions warrant otherwise. In addition, at the end of any year, the Board of Directors will take into account the Company's earnings and other factors and will consider whether to declare a special dividend. Periodically, management may adjust its quarterly dividend recommendation based on the Company's actual earnings, management's assessment of the Company's long-term earnings prospects, and other factors. The declaration and amount of future dividends remain in the discretion of the Board of Directors.
(1) For U.S. federal income tax purposes, the fourth quarter 2012 dividend and the special dividend will be treated as partnership distributions. Based on information currently available, the Company estimates that, when calculating U.S. federal withholding taxes, the entire amount of these dividends will be treated as portfolio interest income (as described in Section 871(h) of the Internal Revenue Code). As a result, no portion of these dividends should be considered attributable to income that is subject to U.S. federal withholding tax, including U.S. source dividend income or income effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, some portion of future dividends may be considered attributable to U.S. source dividend income, interest income that is not "portfolio interest," or income effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business, and therefore may be subject to U.S. federal withholding taxes.
The Company does not provide advice on tax matters to its shareholders or to broker/nominees who hold the Company's shares on behalf of their customers. The information above is provided for informational purposes only, is subject to change as more definitive information is obtained by the Company, and does not constitute tax advice. Non-U.S. holders of the Company's common shares and broker/nominees who hold shares on behalf of such holders are strongly urged to consult with their own tax advisors with regard to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the dividends paid by the Company. This information is not intended to, and cannot, be used by any taxpayer to avoid penalties that may be imposed under U.S. federal income tax law.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ from our beliefs, expectations, estimates, and projections and, consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements are not historical in nature and can be identified by words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "project," "plan," "continue," "intend," "should," "would," "could," "goal," "objective," "will," "may," "seek" or similar expressions or their negative forms, or by references to strategy, plans, or intentions. Examples of forward-looking statements in this press release include statements regarding the Company's intended dividend policy. The Company's results can fluctuate from month to month and from quarter to quarter depending on a variety of factors, some of which are beyond the Company's control and/or are difficult to predict, including, without limitation, changes in interest rates and the market value of the Company's securities, changes in mortgage default rates and prepayment rates, the Company's ability to borrow to finance its assets, changes in government regulations affecting the Company's business, the Company's ability to maintain its exemption from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and other changes in market conditions and economic trends. Furthermore, forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, among other things, those described under Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 14, 2012 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 9, 2012, which can be accessed through the Company's website at www.ellingtonfinancial.com or at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov). Other risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected may be described from time to time in reports we file with the SEC, including reports on Forms 10-Q, 10-K and 8-K. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
About Ellington Financial LLC
Ellington Financial LLC is a specialty finance company that acquires and manages mortgage-related assets, including residential mortgage-backed securities backed by prime jumbo, Alt-A, manufactured housing and subprime residential mortgage loans, residential mortgage-backed securities for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a U.S. government agency or a U.S. government-sponsored enterprise, mortgage-related derivatives, commercial mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate debt, as well as corporate debt and equity securities and derivatives. Ellington Financial LLC is externally managed and advised by Ellington Financial Management LLC, an affiliate of Ellington Management Group LLC.
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Should Your Child Take Swimming Lessons?
Can your child roll over, float on his/her back, and yell for help? This is the most important technique children can use to protect themselves from drowning while alerting others to their danger.Does your child take refresher swimming classes every year? Rapidly changing skills, different levels of development, and a limited attention span require that a child's swimming abilities be continually updated.Can your child swim above water? Children need to know how to swim on top of the water to get adequate air and to find their way to safety.


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The average sale price for a
residential property in Pinal County rose 22.5 percent in the first quarter of
2013 compared to the same period last year.
While there were only 1,568 homes sold in the first three months of this year
versus 2,104 in the first quarter of 2012, the average sale price went from
$126,170 one year ago to $154,616 for the most recent three month period ending
March 31st.
The average square footage remained relatively similar at 1,945 for 2013 and
1,970 in 2012.
There were 317 residential sales in the city of Maricopa with an average price
of $146,163 during the first quarter. Casa Grande had 135 sales with an average
of $132,240. The average for Apache Junction was $123,372 with 106 sales, the
county assessor's office reported. The Town of Florence only had 36 sales in
first quarter but the average price was $162,670.
"This dramatic recovery in prices is a welcome relief to homeowners who have
been more used to seeing a decline in values," County Assessor Douglas Wolf
"While it is difficult to make predictions too far into the future, our region
appears to be experiencing a recovery in the housing market and a pickup in the
pace of new construction," Wolf added.
The top sale for the period was a 4,200 square foot home backing to the golf
course in Gold Canyon. It sold for $1,100,000 in early March.
Assessed values are based on past trends so the latest sales data will not be
reflected in home valuations until the 2015 notices are mailed out early next
year. Valuations are based on sales history over an 18-month period so the
dramatic rise in prices in the last quarter is not an exact predictor of what
will happen on next year's Notice of Values.
Sales information is based upon data obtained by the Assessor's Office via
recorded Affidavits of Property Value (ARS § 11-1133, Form 82162). Only
residential sales validated by the Arizona Department of Revenue were included
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24-2 run helps Bulls past Irving-less CeltsBy JEFF ARNOLD
The Sports Xchange
December 11. 2017 11:29PM
CHICAGO — Nikola Mirotic scored 24 points in his first start of the season and Bobby Portis scored 23 as the Chicago Bulls won their third straight game with a 108-85 win over the Boston Celtics on Monday.
David Nwaba finished with 13 points for Chicago (6-20), which has not lost since snapping a 10-game losing streak on Friday with an overtime victory over the Charlotte Hornets. Kris Dunn also reached double figures for the Bulls with 12 points.
Al Horford led the Celtics (23-6), who played without Kyrie Irving, who missed Monday's game with a quadriceps contusion. Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart and Terry Rozier each scored 13 points for Boston, which finished off the back end of a back-to-back. Aron Baynes also scored 10 points for the Celtics.
Mirotic started in the place of Bulls rookie Lauri Markkanen, who missed Monday's victory with back spasms. Mirotic made his season debut on Friday after missing 23 games with facial fractures and a concussion sustained in a fight with Portis in practice in October. He finished the game by hitting 9 of his 14 field-goal attempts and was 3-for-7 from 3-point range. Portis also hit all three of his 3-point attempts.
The Bulls took control in the second quarter when they used a 24-2 scoring spurt to turn a four-point deficit into an 18-point lead. Chicago led 56-42 at halftime and never allowed its lead to drop under double digits during the second half.
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NOTES: Irving scored 16 points in Boston's victory over Detroit on Sunday, but took a knee to his quad Sunday and experienced discomfort on Monday morning. ... F Marcus Morris missed his second straight game with a left knee injury. Coach Brad Stevens said the injury will be re-evaluated today in Boston. ... Horford, who had a knee-to-knee collision with another player Sunday, started despite being classified as questionable during the day Monday.


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When it's late at night, and middle school students are fast asleep, Helen Pu '10 switches on her computer and mentors them. She shares her love of writing, encourages their creativity, and offers a helpful suggestion or two. When the children awaken, they go online and delight in knowing that someone at Bowdoin is interested in the work they do.
Pu is one of seven "Blogging Buddies," Bowdoin students who volunteer to regularly log on to a Web site created by Maine School Administrative District 75 and critique the work that students post there. Most of it is creative writing, but some students post videos, artwork or other projects.
"Most of these students have very good imaginations," Pu says. "There's no limit to what they can say. There's a lot of fantasy. That's what I was into when I was younger."
The Web site was designed by the coordinators of the MSAD 75's Gifted and Talented Program as a way to connect the 120 gifted and talented students from the far-flung communities of Topsham, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham and Harpswell.
Last spring, they sought help from Bowdoin's Community Service Resource Center, which already runs mentoring programs involving 133 Bowdoin students in six MSAD 75 schools. Nearly 200 Bowdoin students volunteer in 12 mentoring and tutoring programs in MSAD 75, Brunswick and Portland. This, however, is the only program that is strictly virtual.
Libby Barton '09 (above) and Katy Shaw '11, two mentors in the Blogging Buddies volunteer program, and AmeriCorps VISTA employee Bobby Guerette '07 were interviewed by a crew from NECN, the cable television news station that serves much of New England, for a story that aired Thursday, March 6, 2008.
"Our challenge is that all our other mentoring and tutoring programs operate on a fixed schedule," says Bobby Guerette '07, who runs the mentoring programs as this year's AmeriCorps*VISTA employee. Bowdoin students meet one-on-one with children at their local school at the same time each week. The parents of children in two programs — those who are awaiting a Big Brother or Big Sister and a group of students with specials needs — take their kids to campus, but that also occurs on a set schedule.
"Blogging Buddies is a great option for people who can't make that time commitment," he says. "It is something they can do from anywhere, from home, while they're on vacation, maybe they can continue it all year."
In September, Steve Ciembroniewicz, consulting teacher for the MSAD 75 Gifted and Talented Program, trained the Bowdoin volunteers to give constructive criticism to school-aged children. He taught them to suggest ways that students may "change" their work rather than "fix" it, a distinction that encourages them to try harder and take risks. He also introduced the mentors to the idea of a "feedback sandwich," which starts and ends with specific compliments sandwiched around constructive criticism.
Each week, over 350 Bowdoin students volunteer in local community organizations on a regular basis, including serving meals at a homeless shelter, taking calls at a volunteer lawyer's project, working in the emergency center at Mid Coast Hospital, and performing at senior centers as part of the singing group The Bowdoin Minstrels. Each semester, over 100 students address community needs through service-learning classes, where they apply academic coursework to real problem-solving in the community. Learn more.
In November, Emma Etnier, 10, a fifth-grader from Harpswell, posted this descriptive piece called "Boston Apartment":
The rank of the city melts away when you walk inside the Boston Apartment. The new smells overwhelm you with ease and relief, relief that you are here and nowhere else and that your family is all around you. The windows are small but give you the most enchanting view of streets that twist and turn all over the city. The rooms in the Boston Apartment are crammed together but their walls seem to never end. Its hallways lead to nowhere and its stairs neither go down or up. I love the Boston Apartment for everything it is and everything it isn't. It's just a great magical place.
Katy Shaw '11 praised Emma for her inventive descriptions, and for the way she used seemingly contradictory images to create an understanding in the reader's mind. She recommended that Etnier use the first person where she had written "you," then offered the highest praise: "The level of detail you include in this piece is something I am still working on even in college!"
Etnier loved it, because she was worried that her descriptions had been "a little overboard. It's pretty cool," she said, "because sometimes I write a story, and I think it's good, but I like talking to an older person about it because they're more experienced."
In a later post, Etnier thanked Shaw for her comments and said she would use the first person more in future stories. She also mused about her own writing, saying that her favorite phrase was the one she wrote about the stairs. "I'm not sure it makes sense, though, I mean, 'the stairs neither go up or down.' I really don't know what that's supposed to mean but I like it!"
Shaw sometimes struggles with knowing exactly what kinds of changes to suggest to the students. For her, the goal is to empower them to express themselves.
"Do I want to explain where an apostrophe goes, or how you structure dialogue?" she ponders. "The most important part is that these kids are writing, and they're proud of it, and they're showing it to college kids. That's secondary to telling them what I appreciate about their writing."
Guerette notes that Blogging Buddies can have spillover effects, depending on the individual needs of students.
"One of the purposes of mentoring is to offer positive role models to local kids," he says. "But this is part tutoring, too, because hopefully we're helping to develop their writing skills."
"The most important part is that these kids are writing, and they're proud of it, and they're showing it to college kids. That's secondary to telling them what I appreciate about their writing."
— Katy Shaw '11


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We are born with a great dream for our lives. After your roots have gone deeply into this world, it is time to resurrect this dream . . By reclaiming your life dream -- by refusing to stay down-- you 'lift up your heart to heaven' and make all things possible. --Angeles Arrien
When we complete a journey through the land of shadow revelation, our greatest reward is the awareness that we are beginning something new. The word "resurrection" means "to rise up," and this is what occurs emotionally and psychologically when we become conscious of how we have been hurting ourselves through our universal belief in suffering.
To begin a new phase of self-awareness requires much courage because we are so conditioned to repeat what we know over and over again. So it is through the gift of resurrection that we become able to begin anew, to make a fresh start, and to begin having something new. We must willingly let go of the familiar in order to experience the new.
Resurrection As Breaking The Cycle of Abuse
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the Will of God -- what is good, and acceptable, and perfect. -- Romans 12:2
Every time we experience a hurt, a wrong, an injustice, a disappointment, a betrayal, or a loss, we can choose to remember and practice the lessons of Resurrection. We can choose to accept that only pain-filled people do painful and harm-filled things. And we can choose not to engage with their belief systems. And we can choose not to take on their pain. And we can choose to allow the experience to release more of our own pent up primal pain. For the less pain we unconsciously carry, the less we will unconsciously tranfer it to those we love and to those on whom we depend for support in our three dimensional existence. To break free from abuse in all of it's visible and invisible forms, we can choose the "death" of our own reactionary beliefs. And through that dying we can access a new level of the truth of who we are.
Resurrection as a Celebration of the Human Spirit
This world will change through you. No other means can save it.-- "Deciding for Peace" from Gifts from A Course in Miracles
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When the cafeteria staff members at Eugene Field Elementary School sponsored the annual Fancy Lunch event before Christmas, the children had a golden opportunity to demonstrate their best manners.
The Fancy Lunch has been provided to the children in the past, under the direction of cafeteria manager Charlotte Iman. The cafeteria is transformed into a restaurant with table decorations, low lighting, soft music and parent servers.
This year, the students also had the opportunity to show off the manners they have learned in the "Courtesy Cafe," which is led by counselor Amy Auwarter.
The Courtesy Cafe began this school year, at the suggestion of school principal Christine Harper. Auwarter visited a similar program at Hawthorne Elementary School, and researched what other schools have done to improve student manners.
"I looked at other programs, and then set up a room next to the office area," she said. "The room has softer lighting and seasonal decorations."
She takes one classroom of students in grades 1-5 per day to the Courtesy Cafe. The students carry their trays from the cafeteria, and then receive lessons on courtesy and bully prevention as they eat.
"The students seem to enjoy the quiet setting," Auwarter said. "In the cafeteria, most of the students talk at the same time and it is much louder. Here, students spend their time eating and listening. I also tell them that our taste buds change, and that it is important to try new foods."
Auwarter says she teaches the basics: no hats and gloves on the table, chew with mouths closed, say please and thank you, food to the face, not face to the food, etc.
One of the resources she uses is the book "Chicken Fingers, Mac and Cheese, Why Do You Always Have to Say Please?"
"I urge the students to practice their manners at home, also," Auwarter said. "I think it's very important to reinforce what the parents have taught."


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jim Calhoun is watching the Connecticut Huskies at this Final Four, not coaching them. That's a little bit of a problem.
"My wife said, 'You don't cheer during games,'" Calhoun said on the eve of Connecticut's national semifinal against Florida. "I said, 'I'm not a cheerleader. I'm a coach.'"
Calhoun won three national titles in four trips to the Final Four, the last coming in 2011. He retired before the start of the 2012-13 season and is now a special assistant to athletic director Warde Manual.
He won't be on the bench — that job belongs to Kevin Ollie now — but it won't make much difference to Calhoun's insides.
"Do I get nervous before games? My stomach will be flopping," Calhoun said. "Before the game, somewhere around 4 o'clock, I'll get that coach's look, which means miserable, grumpy, whatever word you want."
Calhoun seemed to enjoy his new role, though, stopping for interviews several times and never being at a loss for words. He described his hands as "soaking wet" during the regional final victory against Michigan State last weekend.
"A good line I heard one time is by Bill Parcells," Calhoun said. "I see too much, meaning I can see the play coming, I can see the sub coming. I see too much sometimes."
— Schuyler Dixon — https://twitter.com/apschuyler
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Well we're going to have some time for question and answer again as we did the last time and many folks said, "Well, we need to do this again because questions didn't all get answered." And I just want to encourage you to ask questions that you feel are relevant and important and be as direct as you can. As I did last time, maybe a point of departure, and I get questions, believe me, I spend a great portion of my life answering Bible questions. I generate questions constantly. I think I'm answering them but what I'm really doing is just creating them, I think. But one question that was handed to me this morning, what does "hate" mean when God says He hates Jacob. Does He actually hate the person or does He hate what the person does?
You remember in Romans chapter 9 God says, "Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated." It doesn't say He hated Jacob as the question indicates, but He says I love Jacob and I hate Esau.
Now the question is, does God hate the person or does He hate what the person does? Well, what does John 3:16 say? "For God so...what?...loved the whole world." So we know that everyone falls under the general category of the love of God. But there are a number of times in Scripture when God is expressed as hating. I was thinking of Psalm 5:5 where it says the boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes, Thou dost hate all who do iniquity. And then over in Psalm 11 verse 5 the Lord tests the righteous and the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. And then over in chapter 26 or Psalm 26 I think it's also verse 5, "I hate the assembly of evildoers."
In Proverbs even more extensive statement is made in that familiar text of chapter 6 verse 16, there are six things which the Lord hates, seven are abomination to Him; haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utter lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers. And then, of course, in Proverbs 8:13 you probably have something which makes it very clear, it says the fear of the Lord or true worship of God is to hate evil, pride, arrogance, and the evil way and the perverted mouth I hate.
Now in all of these cases you can see clearly that what it is that God hates is not the individual, but what? The sin, He even lists the sins that He hates. When a person persists in those sins it is the sin in the sinner persisted that God hates. Even God says I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. The New Testament says that the Lord does not desire that any should perish. And so it is the sin that He hates.
In Jeremiah, I was just thinking of chapter 44 verse 4 it says, "I sent all My servants, the prophets again and again saying, O do not this abominable thing which I hate." It is the deed of the sinner that the Lord hates. It is the act of sin that the Lord hates. But it is also true that the sinner who does not repent, who continues in the sin will feel the fury of God's hatred. And in Malachi 1:4 it says that the Lord toward people who sin is indignant forever. So God hates the sin but if the sinner persists in the sin, then the sinner feels the hatred of God.
With regard to Esau, I just might say as a footnote, no where in Genesis does it say that God hated Esau. It doesn't say anywhere that He hated Esau. It was only after Esau had chosen sin and abandoned God for many, many years, over a thousand years before God would look back and say, "Esau have I hated." By that time it was clear to all where Esau stood. So once the sinner is inexorably and finally identified with the sin, then the sinner feels the hatred of God. Okay?
Now that kind of gets us started. So I think we'll ask if you if you want to step up to a microphone, there should be somebody there from our pastoral staff to help you. Yes, give us your name first.
RAY: Hi, John, my name is Ray. Forgive me, I need to read this question to you, so how would you reply to a believer in the Charismatic Movement who agrees that revelation cannot be added to Scripture but would still argue that God still gives words of knowledge in the church for direction as long as it falls in line with Scripture?
JOHN: Well, I think in answering a charismatic there are a number of ways. My book on the charismatics goes in to that in some detail. But revelation is revelation and if a person says I am getting direct words of wisdom, knowledge, revelation from God then that equates with Scripture in the sense that it is the pure unadulterated true revelation of God. And so it confuses the issue. We have, according to what Jude said, a faith once for all delivered to the saints. We have, according to what John writes in Revelation, a revelation which does not permit addition. If anything is added, it shall be added to the person the plagues that are written in the book. The idea that God is giving revelation and that it is somehow not equal to Scripture or not on a par with Scripture poses some difficulty. If it is absolutely true and divine and from God, then it is divine revelation. God reserved divine revelation for special times which were encompassed in the written Word. And since that time revelation has ceased.
Let me give you an illustration of that. At the end of the Old Testament era there was a 400-year period in which there was no revelation and then God spoke again the New Testament. So having that time period in which there is no revelation is not new. When God completed the Old Testament He stopped speaking. And then He spoke again in His Son, Hebrews 1 says. And I believe when He completed the New Testament He ceased to give revelation and we have the once-for-all, delivered-to-the-saints faith.
Furthermore, I would say to a charismatic the same thing that they say to me all the time whenever I've talked to them, how do you know it's from God? And inevitably they will say, "Well, we think it's from God," because they can't know. Why? Because it was very, very clear in the New Testament era who the prophets of God were, who the apostles of Christ were. And the Word came through recognized authorities. Today anybody and his brother might get a revelation from God. And on what basis are we to assume it's from God? Is it attendant with signs and wonders? Can they heal the sick? Can they raise the dead? Can they cast out demons at a word authoritatively like Jesus and the apostles did? Those were the signs of an apostle.
See, anyone who had the ability to give revelation had to be accredited. And the accreditation was, according to 2 Corinthians chapter 12, the signs of an apostle. And it was known to all who these people were or the fact that they were apostles or they were those who were associated with the apostles. So I think it's very, very important to understand that one, revelation ceased; two, even when it was being given not everybody got it and it never was something that God just passed out indiscriminately to all kinds of people. So I think that those would be the approaches that I would take.
I remember reading a book that was published by one of the Pentecostal presses in our country in which it said, this pastor was pleading for people to stop standing up in churches and saying, "I have a word from the Lord." And he said that it is either from the Lord or it isn't but we don't know how to know which. It's very confusing. And this pastor gave an illustration of a church that was in the process of calling someone to be their pastor and some lady stood up and said, "I have a word from the Lord, this is the man." And immediately it threw the church into chaos because they didn't know whether it was from the Lord or not. That's very typical.
I know very well a man who took me into his office, a very well-known charismatic pastor and said God had given him a vision. And he showed me on a board the vision that God had given him for an area of the city which the Lord had set aside for him. Within five year that vision was gone, that board had disappeared in the trash barrel somewhere and he had a new one. So, and this would be a man that everyone would assume if anybody was going to be able to know when he got a revelation he might. Again it's very whimsical.
It's very frightening also to say you have a word from the Lord. In the Old Testament if you said you had a word from the Lord and it was tested and found to be not from the Lord, you were killed, and that's how important the issue is because you can't have people running around loose saying God told them this and God told them that. And so before anyone would ever say anything like that they would want to take very careful stock of the issues at hand.
Furthermore, are we to assume that somehow the Spirit of God can't do His work unless He gives revelation to some people, unless He gives revelation indiscriminately to all kinds of people? I think not.
Furthermore, it seems to me of grave concern that those people who are getting revelation tend to be in a movement which is the most biblical illiterate, to be real honest with you. They don't know theology. They don't know doctrine. They don't know how to interpret the Scripture very well. And because of that lack of content they fall into a mystical category because they're not able to really carefully exposit the Word of God. Without that content orientation they fall into the category of looking for an experience.
I'll give you an illustration of it. I was watching the television program today from Church on the Way. And there was a guy singing a song and the song went like this, "When there are no answers, there is Jesus." And he went on to say, "When there are no answers, there is Jesus." And I thought to myself, "What in the world does that mean? Does that mean that you can either go with a cognitive approach and find answers to questions, or you can just junk that and grab Jesus?" See, that is a very mystical approach to truth. Where there are no answers, there is Jesus. Wait a minute, that's abandoning the search for an experience. The song should say, "When you're looking for the answer, Jesus has it...the Bible has the answer." But there's a very experiential milieu in which many of those dear people exist. And I think they substitute those revelations very often for understanding.
So I think there are a lot of ways to approach that. I don't say that with unkindness, I say it because I believe that it's true and it's correct. Thank you for asking.
QUESTIONER: I've been reading, or I've read in the past, where Spurgeon and Luther and Whitefield were all drinkers. They were imbibers of the fruit of the vine, if you will. And I've always been taught to pattern my life after godly men and so on.
JOHN: Well I would suggest you try the living, not the dead.
QUESTIONER: Right, right, I'm kidding. My question is, and I've heard a lot of...heard this and that about what you believe on this issue, but I'd like you to answer the question in light...in light of this, and that is Psalm 104 and Deuteronomy 28 and Proverbs 3 all talk about wine and it's in the context of a blessing. And what I understand is that the same Hebrew word in Psalm 104 and Proverbs 3 and Deuteronomy 28, that same Hebrew word is the same Hebrew word used for the wine that Noah drank and that Lot drank. And so you're really thinking that's all grape juice, just sort of throw it out.
JOHN: No.
QUESTIONER: But it's...the way I understand it, at least the way I do, is that it's wine, it's real wine and it's a blessing and it's from God. And wine makes glad the heart of man and God. What do you...where do you stand on the wine issue and why?
JOHN: Well, first of all, I don't know about Spurgeon, Whitefield, and who else?
QUESTIONER: Luther. Well actually the book you recommended, Spurgeon At His Best, you put a recommendation on the back of it. And he quotes...and he says, "Although I'm not a total abstainer," in the column of drunkenness.
JOHN: Right...Right, yeah, all I'm saying is I don't know what the source is and I don't know how accurate it is. I don't know what they did but what they did was between them and the Lord and their understanding. Personally there's a lot of involved in this, let me see if I can give you just a couple of brief statements.
First of all, I don't drink wine. I don't drink anything with alcohol in it, the simple reason is I don't need to so why would I put myself in a position to be controlled by something when it's not necessary. In other words, I live in a culture where it doesn't have to be that way. The reason there are so many strong warnings about drunkenness in the Bible is because they were living in a society where everybody drank the fruit of the vine and without refrigeration process everything fermented. And so in biblical times when you talk about wine, you're not talking about grape juice, all of it would have been wine in effect because it wouldn't take very long for it to ferment. So the process of fermentation, and I don't want to go into all of this, the process of purging and separating out the vinegar and pouring it from bag to bag to bag to bag and all of that, bags of skin, to get as pure a wine as possible, did not preclude the fact that it could be alcoholic. But the best indications and the best evidence continues to be that there were two kinds of drinks, one was called strong drink and one was wine and you will see those distinguished words in the Old Testament.
Strong drink was unmixed and strong drink is not commended. Wine was mixed, strong drink unmixed. And the mixture of wine with water was the common...the common means of dilution of the alcohol so that that which had to be drunk would not make you drunk. Now if you're living in a culture like Palestine where it's hot and you have this very dry and arid kind of climate, obviously there would be a major thirst problem and if you're working in the heat of the day you just keep drinking straight wine all day because you can't drink water because there were not the purification processes necessary and in those days bodies of water tended to be bodies of sewage as well. And they had problems with that.
The mixture of water with wine did two things. One it diluted the wine, and two, it also purified the water because the alcoholic content of the wine would act in a disinfectant way on the water to purge it from whatever might be there. So it was common, and you can check all kinds of historical sources on this. The best one was an ad...was an article in CT a number of years ago on this very issue, Christianity Today, in which the historical data was pretty well pulled together and the resource material was given, but the bottom line was they mixed their wine anywhere from three, four to one to eight to one so that it was greatly diluted so that you could not hold enough of that liquid to be drunk. And that's...but the warnings against drunkenness are repeated in the Old Testament and the New Testament because it was so easy to fall into that pattern because that was basically all you could drink was the fruit of the vine. There were no, I suppose what we would call, artificial drinks, you know, there were no Coca Colas and Seven Ups and that kind of thing.
So I believe out of necessity they would drink real wine which would ferment but they would mix it with water so that it would not be full strength. After all, a glass of wine has the same basic alcohol content as a can of beer which has the basically the same alcohol content as a shot of whisky. The reason you get drunk faster on whisky is because you can consume so much more of it than you can the volume even of wine or beer. But I believe that...what the Scripture was indicating was that you want to avoid anything that can have an undo influence on you. Certainly drinking mixed wine for the quenching of your thirst and drinking a pleasurably tasting drink would bring pleasure, would bring joy to you, and joy to God just as God would rejoice when you ate the food that He created in the world. But I don't think that there was any joy on the heart of God at all for a person who drank something that affected their thinking and that is really made clear in Proverbs 31 where He says, look, when it comes to the role of leadership, spiritual leadership, there has to be a different standard. It says in verse 4, "It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink, lest they drink and forget what is decreed and pervert the rights of all the wicked. Give strong drink to somebody who is perishing." Give strong drink to somebody who is in such physical pain they need some anesthetic and give wine to one whose life is bitter. Not to get him drunk but to give him a little of the joy of what God has provided in the good things of life.
So, when you come to the New Testament it talks about elders and deacons, it says an elder...well, let me just point you to the text, 1 Timothy chapter 3 and it says that he is not addicted to wine or not to be beside wine, that's true of an elder, that's true of a deacon, he is not someone who is beside wine, who sits and consumes wine for obvious reasons, because in positions of spiritual leadership it would be too easy to become skewed in your judgment. So I think that God knew the danger of it, the system of mixing it with water took care of that danger. But we live in a time when wine is not mixed today and can cloud someone's thinking and someone's judgment and I don't want to have part in anything that does that.
Furthermore, the principle of Romans 14 and 15 enters in, I don't want to do anything in my life that makes somebody else stumble. And I'll tell you right now if I drank wine somebody would say...a lot of people would say...John MacArthur drinks wine, I can drink wine. And they would become alcoholics and destroy their lives. I don't want to set that kind of pattern. So I think that from the standpoint of making sure you don't set a pattern that others follow and stumble, that I would abstain from that as well.
So, that's my own position. Recently somebody at a certain institution in this country announced to the students that John MacArthur...they don't think John MacArthur drinks, but a lot of his staff members do, a lot of the pastors do. And I would just affirm to you that none of our pastors or elders do and we collectively take the same position on that. So in case anybody wonders about that, that is the case. So I hope that gives you a little bit of input into that.
QUESTIONER: Right, and so you would say, if you saw somebody drinking wine you wouldn't...you couldn't actually point your finger at them if they're drinking it in moderation, you couldn't point your finger at them and say you're in sin. Is that correct?
JOHN: Ah...
QUESTIONER: Because, I mean, actually it...
JOHN: Yeah.
QUESTIONER: It was diluted, I mean, it had some alcohol in it so obviously you can't say somebody is in sin for drinking some alcohol because they did it then if they're doing it in moderation now, then...
JOHN: I think...I think there are compelling reasons not to do it. I wouldn't say that if a person happens to drink a little wine that they have committed some kind of sin unless...unless they have done that...
QUESTIONER: To make somebody stumble...
JOHN: Knowing that someone seeing that would stumble.
QUESTIONER: Right.
JOHN: But I think the greater part of discretion is abstinence, that's the better judgment. Okay?
QUESTIONER: Thank you.
JOHN: Good question.
QUESTIONER: One thing I remember from your sermon on that, John, is that there was either a Greek or a Roman writer who even considered most of the wines we have available today, people who would drink those would be called barbarians.
JOHN: Barbarians, right.
QUESTIONER: Even by them.
JOHN: Right.
QUESTIONER: I'm going to save my heavy theological question for you some other time, what I have on my mind today...
JOHN: Okay.
QUESTIONER: I've been here at this church for quite some time and I remember back when we used to call the Sunday that Jesus rose from the dead Resurrection Sunday, and I'd like to know why we went back to using the name of a pagan goddess?
JOHN: That's a good question, let's call it Resurrection Sunday. I buy that. That's good. Put that in the bulletin, whoever does the bulletin, I don't know...thank you for asking. We always called it Resurrection Sunday. In fact, we used to give out little tags you could put on your lapels that say, "He is risen," have everybody wear them for a week. And a...we might do that now but it's a little more complicated. In those days we didn't have quite as many people, but it is Resurrection Sunday, let's call it that. Good point.
QUESTIONER: Yes, John, I'd like you to explain on the last chapter of 1 Corinthians...
JOHN: You just want me to explain the whole chapter?
QUESTIONER: Well no, no, the whole book, actually.
JOHN: The whole book...
QUESTIONER: I know it is the disciplinary to the people of Corinthians, but...in what...why would Paul will say in verse 22, "If anyone does not love the Lord let him be accursed?" I mean, I get the point, the idea, but did you understand what I'm trying to say? What..I mean, if he's talking to Christians...
JOHN: Oh...well,
QUESTIONER: But it is disciplinary ??????
JOHN: Yeah, he's talking to Christians with the recognition that in the Corinthian assembly there always is the reality that some may not know the Lord.
QUESTIONER: Yes, okay.
JOHN: And you have that in many, many places. I mean, I would stand in this pulpit and say to you...you're the church, you're my church. But I would say if any of you do not love the Lord Jesus Christ you're going to be cursed. That's...I mean, he's speaking to a wider audience. And obviously there were people in the Corinthian church...for example, if you look at...all through Corinthians, the Corinthian letter, I mean, it's apparent that they had a lot of problems. There were people obviously who were claiming to be Christians but one could make the argument that if indeed they were making the claim, they were lacking the reality. I'm thinking particularly of chapter 10 comes to mind, where he says in verse 12, 1 Corinthians 10:12, "Let him who thinks he stands take heed...what?...lest he fall." Some of them were acting immorally. Some of them were in idolatry. And he's saying, you know, you better make sure your heart is right and he uses the illustration of Israel, people destroyed in the wilderness, never entered the promised land, sort of an analogy. So I think...I think also in chapter 12 verse 3 it's indicating that some people under some satanic influence were cursing Jesus and he's saying if people are standing up cursing Jesus, it's certainly not by the Spirit of the Lord.
So, there must have been an awful lot of confusion in the Corinthian church. There obviously were people confused about spiritual gifts, confusing all kinds of pagan ecstasies. So that it was very likely that what Paul is saying at the end is, I don't care what your claim is, if you don't love the Lord Jesus Christ you're going to be cursed. I think that's the best way to understand that.
And that could be true of any church, or any congregation. You don't make the assumption that because people are there in that congregation they necessarily all know Christ.
QUESTIONER: Yes. Is he warning the Christians here? I mean, let them be accursed, and the last thing is maranatha...well, that's kind of what...
JOHN: Well what he is saying is if anybody doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ let him be cursed, that just reiterates God's...God would say that. And then he says maranatha to indicate Jesus is coming, so whatever you do you better do because there's an inevitability when the Lord comes.
QUESTIONER: Thank you.
JOHN: Judgment. Sure. Good.
QUESTIONER: Hi, my question is three fold, and the first one is how can the Bible be read to teach limited atonement, and how can the Bible be read to teach unlimited atonement, and what do you believe that it teaches and why?
JOHN: Okay. Let me qualify this cause this is a little bit of a theological question. There has been through the years a debate about the atonement and the debate basically is...did Jesus Christ die for everyone? In that sense His atonement was unlimited. In other words, He died to pay the penalty for sin for the whole world and then the gift of salvation is generally offered to the world.
The second viewpoint is that Jesus Christ died only for the elect, that it is more logical to assume that if only the elect are saved that Jesus died only for the elect otherwise Jesus died for people who He knew would never be saved and what's the point of that?
So this particular debate rages hot at this particular time in history. There are some who believe in a...in a total redemption, that is that Jesus Christ provided a full redemption for all human beings. And there are some who believe in what is called a particular redemption, that He died providing redemption particularly, that is only or specifically for the elect.
I find in my own mind and my own study of Scripture a strong case for a general atonement, for a universal atonement, for an all encompassing provision, for Jesus dying for the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but the sins of the whole world. Tying it in particularly with John chapter 3, "God so loved...what?...the world," not the elect. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." It seems to me that the giving of the Son was in response to the loving of the world. And that the propitiation which Christ was was sufficient for the sins of all the world. And so I would say that I believe, and I think this is maybe one way to understand it, I believe that the atonement of Christ was sufficient for the world but is efficient for those who believe. I believe in, I guess, what you could call a limited and unlimited atonement. It is unlimited in the sense that it was sufficient to cover the sins of the whole world, it is limited in that it is applied only to those who believe. And I don't like to get pushed beyond that but I don't like to just take the title of believing in limited atonement, or particular redemption, that Jesus died only for the elect because I think that has some exegetical problems. I think you have problems explaining certain passages of Scripture. But I admit to you it is a very difficult issue because there are many passages that apply His redemptive work only to the elect, only to those who believe, but I believe when compared with other passages His redemption encompasses in its sufficiency the world.
It is no more a contradiction than many other things that appear to be contradictory. Like how is it that people are saved by the election of God and damned by their unbelief? I mean, I think there are other issues in theology that are very difficult for the human mind to resolve and that have passages apparently on both sides. For example, you have passages in the New Testament on eternal security that say God keeps us. You have passages in the New Testament that says you'll be saved if you persevere to the end. So I think we can't get too threatened by the fact that with regard to theological issues, particularly in the realm of salvation, we may not be able to harmonize everything. You can read some Scriptures which appear to be limited, some Scriptures which appear to be unlimited. The better way to understand that is in somewhat paradoxical terms. In some points it is limited, in some points it appears to be unlimited. Okay? Thank you.
JEFF: Yeah, my name is Jeff.
JOHN: Hi, Jeff.
JEFF: I saw Dan Korum(?) at the Master's College and it really opened up my eyes to a lot of things Wednesday night. And I had a question going away from that that I was going to write to you about and I was wondering in the Bible in the Old Testament he was referring to the Baal worshipers wanting to call down fire if they could, and say wanting to do that but it didn't happen. And then also in Egypt as Moses did the miracles, the magicians counterfeited some of those. And my question was and especially a lot of areas in the Old Testament talking about witchcraft and all that and stoning those type of people, how do you discern between that and just a regular magician who does acts of delusion like Dan does. And as a Christian, you know, most magicians who aren't Christians, of course, will claim that it's powers from whatever. So I was just wondering how we as Christians are supposed to discern that, whether it's all delusion or whether there are some real stuff and how are we supposed to discern that?
JOHN: Well, yeah, you're asking a very significant question, Jeff. I'm not sure I can discern that so I'm not sure I can always give you the answer. I...what you're asking me is how to you tell the difference between a guy who has a technique and a method and a guy who has satanic power, right?
JEFF: And whether...okay, even, you know, a Christian was asking me should we even have Christian magicians, you know? I don't know if it's lumped in the whole thing or whether it's going to...
JOHN: Well, yeah, it depends on what you're doing. Magician is the wrong word, in a sense, because that conjures up the occult and mysticism and all of that. And what we know today as magicians are not functioning with supernatural power, they have technique, they have just mastered a certain technique and they deceive you with that technique as Danny Korum can illustrate to you. I mean, he can stand there and tell you, you know, your name and your grandmother's name and what it's done...it's what called cold reading(??). He actually gets you somehow to say that and you don't even know you said it and neither does the audience. He is...it's the power of suggestion and so forth, that kind of cold reading is a technique. When they do tricks with cards, that's all a technique. When they do disappearing tricks, that's all a technique. It's all that kind of stuff.
When you're talking about satanic activity and how much power Satan has, that's a very difficult question for me to answer. We know that during the time of the end, certainly 2 Thessalonians talks about it, that there's going to come certain powers. Jesus in the Olivet Discourse talked about Antichrist who would deceive and even deceive the whole world. You know, Revelation we find the Antichrist with an amazing ability to deceive people. Just how extensive and how that functions and so forth from a satanic perspective, I'm not sure I really know. The Bible doesn't really give us watch you could call a breakdown of how that works. But I really think for the most part, what we're dealing with magicians is just merely technique, it's just deception by trickery. They...there's a way they do them. In fact, Danny has told me in a number of private conversations that he knows how they do those things, it's just a technique. But they want you to believe that it's supernatural.
JEFF: Do you think the magicians in Egypt were doing it by technique or by...by satanic power?
JOHN: Well, Scripture doesn't day...Scripture does not say. But I would tend to think that they would be able to do it by some trickery, that they had learned how to deceive, that they were bright, smart people. After all they were further back the genetic trail toward perfection than we are so they were more clever than we think they were. And if we can come up with that kind of stuff, they probably could have also. Again, I don't know to what extent Satan can counterfeit. There's no real indication, for example, in Scripture that Satan can raise the dead which is a divine act. I don't think there's any indication that Satan can raise the dead. I don't see any...any evidence in Scripture, and I'm trying to think this through, of Satan actually performing great wonders that were identified as such, I don't know that there's a catalogue of that in Scripture. In fact, I don't know that Satan ever healed anyone. Do you in Scripture, Dick, ever come across that? So we don't have any indication of when he does what he does what he does. So I would be hesitant to say that, you know, Satan is making an ace of spades appear in somebody's back pocket, you know, when some magician does a trick. I think it's pretty much entertainment.
But it spills over, just further, Jeff, it spills over into the occult at the point at which they claim supernatural power. For example, these ridiculous Filipino healers who reach into a body and start pulling out big pieces of bloody flesh, and Danny Korum has pretty well debunked that stuff. You know, it's sleight of hand. They've got all kinds of bloody animal parts and they're there doing all this bloodless surgery and throwing out, you know, a cow's liver and all this stuff that they've got up their sleeve or whatever. It's all just deception. The guy that he unmasked on national television who was supposed to be able to make objects move and wave and bend nails and all of that and showed how that was all just a deception.
JEFF: Would those kind of people in the Old Testament be stoned though for being false prophets or dealing in that kind...?
JOHN: Well they would if that was associated with a false prophecy, or if it was a competing power to the power of God, yes. But I'm sure if a Hebrew father figured a fun way to play a trick on his kids God wouldn't stone him because he, you know, he made three stones look like two, you know. So it would...it would have to be some kind of spiritual deception sort of built into the thing.
JEFF: Right...right...right...right. Okay.
JOHN: I'm sorry, the Bible just doesn't say anything specific about how Satan does what he does. I think he's much more limited than we think he is.
MARK: Okay, hi. My name is Mark, my question is this. In Genesis 1:28 it says that God gives Adam the command that says be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. In Genesis 9 he tells Noah to multiply and fill the earth. There's no indication of subduing it, why is that no mentioned and is that part of the whole kingdom?
JOHN: Well, I think when Adam in his innocence was created he could rule the whole creation, he was king of the earth. And it was a question simply of having access to the whole of God's created environment and he could be fruitful and multiply and the earth he could sort of oversee that replenishing and he could subdue it in the sense that he harnessed all of its assets and powers and all the things it yielded, he was the king and he could do that because the earth was a willing servant. But as soon as you have the Fall then immediately thorns and thistles and man in order to control a tiny little piece of ground has to work by the sweat of his brow to even eke out a living.
So by the time you come to Noah, Noah can multiply children and replenish the earth but it's impossible to imagine that he could totally control it because it's cursed. I think it has to do with the curse, okay?
MARK: Okay, thanks.
JOHN: Thank you.
VINCE: John, I have more than just a comment than question and I've discussed this with close friends of mine as well.
JOHN: Just get to the question real quick, okay? We're running out of time.
VINCE: Okay, I ride the buses quite frequently.
JOHN: Pardon me?
VINCE: I ride the buses...
JOHN: You ride the buses.
VINCE: And what I'm about to say is separate from what I've told you in other times. I see on these buses these advertisements for this guru, have all your spiritual needs answered. And in light of 1 Peter 3, Romans 13, I tear them down because I cannot, you know, get my being of beings allow this to influence other people on a bus. And I would like your comment on that because it's something that I feel...if I have to pull a verse out it would be John 2:17 about you're my zeal for the kingdom of God.
JOHN: Well...
VINCE: And I would just like your comment with regard to those actions in light of such things as Operation Rescue etc.
JOHN: If you feel that that's a blasphemy to the true God and you tear it down in good conscience, then you have to be ready to pay the consequence.
VINCE: And I am.
JOHN: And if you're willing to do that which I think is part of your good citizenship to accept the consequences for that, then that's your prerogative I mean, I don't think it's...if you are offended, if I am offended by something that blasphemes God and I feel that I need to react to that offense, then I can react to that offense in good conscience recognizing that whatever the consequences are I must bear. Okay?
VINCE: Thank you.
JOHN: You're welcome.
CHARLES: Hi, my name is Charles. In the Bible St. John chapter 3 verse 3 through 5 it says here, "You must be born again to see the kingdom of God." And then in 5, after Nicodemus questioned some it says, except...Jesus answered, "Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." I always understood that to mean it's like accepting the Word...accepting the Word of Jesus and of the Spirit, being born of the Spirit, being baptized by the Holy Spirit. I'm curious, like the church teaches ceremonial sacraments, the seven sacraments, plus the Catholic Church I think does nine, something like that. How do you relate that to the holy sacraments?
JOHN: Let's look at that chapter again, okay just look there now for a minute. Did you say your name was Charles?
CHARLES: Yes.
JOHN: Okay, Charles, good question. Jesus is approached at night by a man named Nicodemus. If you'll notice verse 1 it says he was a ruler of the Jews and he was a Pharisee. He was therefore an expert in the Old Testament. He was not only an expert as a Pharisee but he was so expert they had made him a ruler, it probably meant he was a part of the Sanhedrin which was the 70 most knowledgeable men in Israel. So he knew the law. He knew the Old Testament.
He came to Jesus at night probably because he couldn't near Him in the daytime because of the crowd, and because he wasn't too sure he wanted to be exposed himself to the other Pharisees. So he came at night. And he says...Look, we know you come from God as a teacher, nobody can do the signs you do unless God is with him, and I've got to ask you a question.
Well before the guy could even ask the question Jesus answered it because Jesus could read the question before he spoke it because He could read his mind. And his question was...how do you get into the kingdom? And so Jesus said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again he can't see the kingdom of God."
Now what must have been the question in his mind to something like this? Now I've...I've kept the law, I am a Pharisee which means I'm devoted to legalism, law keeping, obedience. I'm a ruler of the Jews which means I live by the highest standard. And his question might have been...what more do I need to do to get in the kingdom?
He obviously had a vacuum in his heart, didn't feel he had arrived at the kingdom, didn't have the peace of God in his heart. He didn't have that confidence that he was really the child of God, that he had been redeemed, that his eternity was secure. So his question was probably like...now what more do I need to do? What one more step? I've done all these good works, I've kept all these laws. Now what else do I need to do? And Jesus reads his mind and says, "I'll tell you what you need to do, you need to junk it all, go all the way back and start all over again and be born again. All you've done up to this time doesn't count, go be born again, start all over." Which was a real jolt. What He was saying was you're accumulation of good works means absolutely nothing. You know, Jesus didn't come to add one little touch to your good life. He says you have to go back and start all over again from the very beginning.
And Nicodemus says...Wait a minute, verse 4, "How can a man be born when he's old?" He...he understands the analogy. He's not talking about physical birth, he says how am I going to do that? How in the world can I go and start all over again? I mean, how am I going to go way back and begin again.
And Jesus answers, and here's verse 5, I want you to look at it, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he can't enter the kingdom of God." It's not what you do, it's not your good works, you must be born of the water and the Spirit. And the immediate question is what is He talking about? Is He talking about baptism? What is He talking about?
Well let's find a context. Nicodemus was a Jew. He was a ruler of the Jews. He knew the Old Testament so Jesus was talking to him on Old Testament terms. And what Jesus has in mind in verse 5 takes Nicodemus back in to the Old Testament. And where it takes him, and let's go together, take your Bible and turn cause this is a great, great and important matter, back to the prophet Ezekiel, back to the prophet Ezekiel. And it was in the prophet Ezekiel that God originally laid down the conditions of the New Covenant in Ezekiel.
Now let me just read this, you can just listen, Charles, if you want. Listen carefully. In Ezekiel's prophecy verse 25 of chapter 36, Ezekiel 36:25, did you find it?
CHARLES: Yes.
JOHN: Okay. "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and all your idols. Moreover I will give you a new heart and put a new Spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh and I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes."
Now stop right there. What God said through Ezekiel is this, in the future there will be a New Covenant. It will be a covenant of water, I'll sprinkle clean water upon you. What water? The water of cleansing. And what is the agency of cleansing? We have been washed by the water of the Word.
CHARLES: The Word and accepting Jesus...
JOHN: All right, so the water there is the washing of the Word that washes the heart. And the Spirit is the Holy Spirit that He plants within. So what He was saying to Nicodemus was...Look, Nicodemus, you don't need to just add a few things to your life. You need your whole life washed and you need the Spirit of God in you. That's what He's saying.
CHARLES: Okay.
JOHN: It has nothing to do with water baptism or with any other of the ordinances or the sacraments.
CHARLES: Well I mean, what I was trying to relate this to...bring about was that if you have accepted this 3 and 5, you really...is it necessary to go through like the holy sacraments which I have done?
JOHN: Let me tell you something. There are only two ordinances that the New Testament gives. One, baptism. Acts 2:38, "Repent and be baptized." Very clear.
CHARLES: Isn't that being born of the water? I always understood it as being baptized by water, accepting the Word of Jesus and then...
JOHN: No, it means...to actually publicly step into the water and make your faith known, because on the day of Pentecost three thousand people were baptized in water. So that was exactly what they were doing. Jesus Himself went to John the Baptist and let him baptize Him in the Jordan River. And you remember the eunuch who met Philip? And after he came to Christ he said, "What prevents me from being baptized?" And Philip took him down into the water and baptized him. It is an outward symbol of an inward response. It's the way you publicly confess Christ. There's nothing in that water that's going to save you. There's nothing in that water that's going to wash your sin away. But it does give you the public opportunity to declare your obedience.
The second ordinance that the Lord gave us was communion, the Lord's table. Jesus said, "Do this till I come." And the early church did it every day and every Lord's day and it's the cup and the bread by which we remember the death of Christ.
So the only two ordinances the New Testament gives to us, one when you've come to Christ be baptized in water to declare your faith publicly. Number two, take the Lord's table. Those two symbols are the symbols that the Lord has left us. Okay? Apart from that the rest aren't necessary. They're fabrications of the church. Does that help?
CHARLES: Well I was just trying to relate it to the Bible. Thank you.
JOHN: Does that help?
CHARLES: Yes.
JOHN: Good.
QUESTIONER: My question is realizing that every church has its problems and realizing the importance of unity in the church, could you give some guidelines on when you should...you should really work to preserve the unity in a church as a member and when the problems get too great you should...you ought to leave it. And secondly, like how...how you can leave a church if it gets into that situation in the most godly manner?
JOHN: Misty, so many people ask me that question and I really...I really know what's on your heart and that is a very difficult question to answer because it really depends upon how the Spirit of God leads you. You can struggle for the unity of the church for a long time and sometimes you'll see the fruit of that and sometimes for some people they never do. Some people stay it seems too long, some people might leave too soon. But again that's so dependent on the Spirit of God's leading. I would say there are several things to keep in mind. One, if the leadership of the church, the pastor, and the spiritual leaders of the church are part of the solution, stay. If they're part of the problem, then you have to really prayerfully consider whether you need to stay. Because a people cannot rise higher than their leadership. And if the leadership is the problem, it's very difficult to overcome that. That's why when people say to me, "I'm not happy in my church," the first thing I tell them to do is go to the pastor and share your heart with him. Try to get him to see the concerns you have. Because if he doesn't understand the issues and seek to resolve those issues, you're going to have an uphill battle all the way because he's going to be totally defensive and you're going to be fighting really a very, very difficult war.
If the spiritual leadership of the church, if the godly person, those in leadership are seeking to be part of the solution and you really feel they're on target, then maybe you can stay and be a part of the solution. But if they're not, if the fight is against them, then you have to evaluate whether or not maybe in time they'll leave and there will be new leadership and you want to stay and ride that out or if you feel that maybe that's not what's going to happen and the Spirit begins to move your heart, you need to move.
Another factor. If the issues are doctrinal, if the issues are a misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or misrepresentation of the Word of God, then you have to be very serious about whether you stay because we as Christians are responsible to be under the sound teaching of the Word of God. And if you're in a place where you are not getting the sound meat of the Word of God and it is available to you somewhere else, then you need to be where that available Word is being provided for you.
MISTY: Are you talking about a mis-teaching, or omission of certain teachings?
JOHN: Either...either. Either teaching error or omitting truth because we're responsible for the truth and our life is lived in light of the truth. I function in response to what I know to be true. So...but again, it's a matter of your own prayer and your own discernment in allowing the Spirit of God to direct you in His own time. And if your heart is open He'll really do that. He'll give you a release, you'll have a sense of release and you can just walk out.
I would say many, many of the people sitting in this church tonight have been through that very experience. How many of you went through that experience and came to Grace Church? Put your hands up. Do you feel like you're among friends? Thanks, Misty. God bless you.
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Jhoulys Chacin did not allow a hit until there were two outs in the seventh inning and hustled for a crucial RBI to help the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 Wednesday night.
Vying for the second no-hitter in franchise history and second ever at Coors Field, Chacin (13-7) tied a season high with nine strikeouts. Brandon Crawford's single to center field was the only hit Chacin allowed in seven innings. He also yielded an unearned run.
The crowd of 27,268 gave Chacin a standing ovation after Crawford's hit.
Troy Tulowitzki and Wilin Rosario had two hits each for Colorado, which built a 5-1 lead through six innings.
Giants starter Madison Bumgarner (11-9) was effective until the sixth. He allowed just three hits — including Nolan Arenado's RBI double in the second before Colorado tagged him in the sixth.
DJ LeMahieu led off the inning with a single, Tulowitzki walked and Rosario hit a bloop single to center to make it 2-1.
Jean Machi entered and got Arenado to hit a comebacker, but Crawford dropped the throw to second to load the bases. Yorvit Torrealba's ground-rule double made it 4-1, and after an intentional walk Chacin beat out a potential double-play ball at first for another run.
The Giants nearly left Chacin with a no-decision when they rallied for three runs in the eighth. Brandon Belt hit an RBI double, Buster Posey drove in another run with a groundout and Pence singled to make it 5-4.
Rex Brothers worked the ninth for his 14th save.
While Chacin was baffling the Giants, the defense behind him was suspect.
Rosario, starting at first base for the third time this season, mishandled two straight grounders to start the third. Chacin got Bumgarner to pop up a bunt attempt, struck out Gregor Blanco and got Marco Scutaro to ground out to end the inning.
The Giants capitalized in the fourth. Belt walked and went to third when Tulowitzki fumbled Posey's potential double-play grounder.
Pence hit into a double play to score Belt and make it 1-all.
NOTES: It's the deepest a Colorado pitcher has taken a no-hitter at Coors Field. John Thomson didn't allow a hit for 6 1-3 innings against Pittsburgh on May 2, 2002. ... Ubaldo Jimenez pitched Colorado's only no-hitter, on April 17, 2010, in Atlanta. Hideo Nomo has the only no-hitter at Coors Field on Sept. 17, 1996, while with the Los Angeles Dodgers. ... Giants OF Andres Torres had surgery to remove bone spurs in his left Achilles. Carolina Panthers orthopedist Dr. Robert Anderson performed the surgery. Torres is expected to be sidelined for six months. ... Rockies OF Dexter Fowler (left knee bruise) was out of the lineup for the second straight day. Manager Walt Weiss said he could be sidelined for part or all of the weekend series against Cincinnati. ... Colorado OF Carlos Gonzalez (sprained right middle finger) has begun taking batting practice and could go on a rehab assignment as soon as this weekend. ... Rockies RHP Tyler Chatwood (elbow inflammation) threw 75 pitches in a rehab start in Triple-A on Tuesday. He is on schedule to be activated to start Sunday.


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Collected articles on Deng Jiaxian, 1986-2003 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
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Scope and Contents: The Collected articles on Deng Jiaxian (1986-2003; 0.1 cubic feet) document some of the press releases after Deng Jiaxian's death. One is an article by Jack Alkire, writer for the Journal and Courier, which details Jiaxian's connection to Purdue and the link to China. The other article is from the Beijing Review, a "Chinese Weekly of News and Views," the content of which details why Jiaxian is considered China's "Father of the Atomic Bomb". The collection also contains the publication: Xu, Luxi, (2003). Deng Jiaxian tu pian zhuan lüe (biography of Deng Jiaxian), Anhui jiao yu chu ban she: Hefei Shi.


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NEW YORK – A Florida man has pleaded guilty in New York to smuggling dinosaur fossils into the United States, admitting that he lied to U.S. customs authorities.
Eric Prokopi entered his plea Thursday in federal court in Manhattan. The plea deal requires the 38-year-old fossils dealer to give up claims to a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton the government seized earlier this year.
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In return for his cooperation, prosecutors say they will recommend leniency. The charges carry a potential penalty of up to 17 years in prison.
Prokopi pleaded guilty to conspiracy, the fraudulent transfer of dinosaur bones and making false statements to customs authorities.
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Filmmaker Jason Wise has worked as an underwater photographer as well as a bartender, so quite naturally Wise's first feature-length documentary involves massive quantities of liquid. In "Somm," a slick, easygoing feature debut, we follow four male friends and colleagues, wine obsessives all, as they prepare for the exam that qualifies a lucky few (201 worldwide to date) for the distinction, title and prestige of becoming a master sommelier.
Wise shoots "Somm" like an extended vineyard infomercial — gorgeous-looking close-ups of fermented grape juices, sloshing around big wine glasses in slow motion — combined with the competitive vibe of a reality TV series. Call it "Top Sniff." As we meet Ian Cauble, Brian McClintic, DLynn Proctor and Dustin Wilson and hear from their wives, girlfriends, relatives and various wine experts, the language of "Somm" confirms every satiric jab ever aimed at aficionados. One man notes the odor of "freshly opened can of tennis balls" describing an Australian riesling. Another, tasting and smelling a different varietal, notes a "chalky limestone minerality." Whitney Fisher, vintner, says with a smile that one of her favorite descriptors for riesling is "pool toy."
Jokey, competitive, arrogant, driven, these men (who call each other "dude" a lot) are undeniable "egomaniacs" (says one girlfriend). Studying for the master sommelier exam, says another, has turned her man into "a shell" of his former self. It's fun to hear what these folks have to say, although in "Somm" the central quartet never really seems to behave or speak as if they'd forgotten a camera was running. Also, composer Brian Carmody's jazz-inflected musical score may be charming, but it rarely pauses for a breath.
Like most docs about any competitive scenario, "Somm" comes down to simple matters — in this case, one candidate in a room, with three whites, three reds and four master sommeliers at the table, ready to judge the candidate's detective skills. By the end, despite the surface-y quality of the treatment, you're caught up in the suspense, the horse-race aspect of a very particular pursuit of knowledge and excellence. But I probably could've done without the close-ups of the contents of the spit bucket.
'Somm' -- 2 1/2 stars
No MPAA rating (some language and tremendous amounts of high-quality alcohol)
Running time: 1:33
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