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Open your Bible, if you will, to the eleventh chapter of the gospel of Mark...the eleventh chapter of the gospel of Mark. With this passage, we come to the final week of our Lord's life and His public ministry. This is the week of the end. The end of this week is the cross and the resurrection. So, in a sense, we only have a week to go in the gospel of Mark. It will, however, take us about six months to preach our way through this week, which is a sad commentary on me. But that's the way I love to plunge into the detail of the text of Scripture. This should be one of the richest, most enjoyable, most profound, wondrous experiences of our lives to go again through the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The week begins with His arrival in Jerusalem. The year is 30 A.D. by the best chronology. The month is the first Jewish month, Nisan, and the arrival is on the tenth and the crucifixion is on the fourteenth and that all matters because God has established a very firm time table.
Importantly, it is the Passover week of that year and Friday will be the day when tens of thousands of Passover lambs will be slain, none of which can take away any one's sin. However, on this Passover, there will be one sacrifice made for sin that will take away the sins of all who have ever believed through all of human history and it will be the sacrifice of the true Lamb.
The week begins with a very strange event. It begins with what would have to be considered a bizarre event. We call it the triumphal entry, but that is really not an appropriate title to capture what's going on. I don't want you to think that this is anything really official. It isn't official in a Jewish sense, it isn't official in an earthly sense, and it isn't official in a heavenly sense. That is why I've titled the message, "The False Coronation of the True King." There really is no question about Christ, that He is the Messiah, that He is the promised King, that He is the Son of David, that He is the one with a right to reign. His lineage checks out, His mother and father both in the line of David. He has all the qualifications. He is the Son of Man. He is the Son of God. He has demonstrated His deity and His full humanity throughout His ministry. He is the true King, but this is a false coronation.
That's why it's such a strange event. It is not a true expression of faith. It is not a true expression of praise. It is not a true expression of a claim. And it certainly isn't God's coronation anymore than it is a true human coronation. What did happen on this day was an odd, bizarre event, not like any other coronation of any king. Let's read the account, verses 1 to 11.
"As they approached Jerusalem at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples and said to them, 'Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter, you'll find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat; untie it and bring it here. If anyone says to you, "Why are you doing this?" You say, "The Lord has need of it," and immediately he will send it back here.' They went away and found a colt tied at the door outside in the street, they untied it. Some of the bystanders were saying to them, 'What are you doing untying the colt?' They spoke to them just as Jesus had told them and they gave them permission. They brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it and He sat on it. And many spread their coats in the road and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields. Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting, 'Hosanna, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father, David. Hosanna in the highest.' Jesus entered Jerusalem and came in to the temple and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the Twelve because it was already late."
That's a rather inconsequential conclusion to a coronation, wouldn't you think? It's because it wasn't really a coronation. Coronations aren't humble, they aren't unexpected. They aren't unplanned. They aren't unofficial. They aren't spontaneous. They aren't superficial. They aren't temporary. But this one was all of those. Coronations are not to be reversed in a few days so that the one exalted and elevated becomes rejected and executed, like this one. This was no real coronation. Let it be said, Jesus is the real King, deserving of all exaltation, all honor, all worship and all praise, so this is the false coronation of the true King.
The true coronation of Christ has two parts. One has already happened and one has not. The first phase of the coronation of Christ, the true coronation occurred at His Ascension, when He left this earth as described in the first chapter of Acts and ascended into heaven. We are told, by the writer of Hebrews, that He took His seat at the right hand of God. This was His first coronation and it was a heavenly coronation. Philippians 2 says that when He arrived, He not only took His seat at the right hand of God, but He was given a name and the name that He was given is the name Lord which is the name above every name and every one in existence bows to that name. He has already had His heavenly coronation. He is reigning at the right hand of the throne of God. He is the sovereign of heaven and the universe. But He's not yet had His earthly coronation.
Philippians 2 describes His heavenly coronation. Revelation 19 and 20 describe His earthly coronation. In the future, the Lord Jesus will return to earth, not riding on the colt of a donkey, but riding on a white horse, according to Revelation 19, coming out of heaven followed by the armies of heaven in white, riding on white horses in a stupendous unleashing of the glorious holy powers of heaven on the earth led by Christ. And when He arrives, He will destroy the ungodly in a massive judgment that will sweep across the planet and then He will establish His throne in Jerusalem and He will reign there for a thousand years in the Millennial Kingdom and beyond that forever and ever because of His Kingdom there will be no end throughout all eternity in the new heaven and the new earth. That's the earthly coronation of Christ.
This is neither the heavenly coronation of Christ, nor is it the earthly coronation of Christ. It is not a coronation of Christ at all, it is a mock coronation. It is a false coronation. It is a fraud. There are no formalities here in this coronation. There are no dignitaries. There is no regalia. There is no fanfare.
This really is very similar to His birth. In His birth, His mother arrives in Bethlehem in humble obscurity riding on a donkey. Here He arrives in Jerusalem riding on a donkey. Yes, He is the true King, King of kings, Lord of lords, Son of Man, Son of God, Messiah, Savior, and no monarch in all human history remotely compares to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is none so magnificent, powerful, wise, sovereign, just, pure and holy and all the elite and all the monarchs of all human history collectively together stacked on top of each other wouldn't go high enough to touch the hem of His all-glorious garment. This is a true King, but this is no coronation.
Verse 1 begins, "And they approached Jerusalem...they approached Jerusalem." That's where we have to start. The ministry in Galilee finished. The ministry in Judea finished. The final ministry in Perea on the east side of the Jordan completed, a few weeks in Perea. He crosses the Jordan near Jericho, comes through the town of Jericho, which is the base of the mountain from Jerusalem down into the area of the Dead Sea. And from Jericho, the road ascends to Jerusalem, so He passes through Jericho, heals two blind men, one named Bartimaeus, saves them spiritually. Brings into His Kingdom the most hated man in town, Zacchaeus, the tax collector. Having gathered those souls to Himself in Jericho, He then ascends the twenty-five hundred-plus feet up into Jerusalem for Passover week. He is accompanied by His Apostles and His disciples. And an entourage of people that has been growing because He is, after all, the miracle worker and He's proven that by what happened in Jericho. He is compressed in the middle of a crowd, they're in front of Him and behind Him and all sides of Him.
The word has circulated throughout that area and will continue to circulate throughout Jerusalem that He raised one Lazarus from the dead. And that is a true miracle because there was plenty of evidence that he was dead. They held his funeral, he had been dead for days and there's plenty of evidence that he's now alive because he lives in Bethany. So the escalation of this information about the miracle worker of Jesus, led by the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead, has this crowd excited and they're following Him. They're enthusiastic as they ascend the hill because the Passover is the great event of the year. And they approach Jerusalem. And that's how Mark begins this final week.
His plan...He laid it out back in chapter 10 verse 32, "As they were on the road going to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking ahead of them, they were amazed. He took the Twelve aside, began to tell them what was going to happen. We're going to Jerusalem, up to Jerusalem from Jericho it's up. The Son of Man will be delivered to the Chief Priests, the scribes. They'll condemn Him to death, hand Him over to the Gentiles. They'll mock Him, spit on Him, scourge Him and kill Him. And three days later, He will rise again." He was not planning a coronation. He was not planning to take His Kingdom. He was not planning to attack the Romans. He was not planning to overthrow the Gentile occupying power and liberate Israel. Those were all the things they would expect their Messiah to do. He was coming to be killed by the leaders of Israel themselves, and to die and rise again.
Why? Verse 45 of chapter 10, "The Son of Man didn't come to be served, but to serve and to give His life a ransom for many." He came to die as a ransom price paid to satisfy the justice of God so that God could offer forgiveness to repentant sinners.
Before He will ever come to reign, which is yet in the future, He had to come to die. So this is a false coronation, a premature coronation.
Now up to this point, Jesus had never allowed such an occasion as this. He had never allowed an open, public demonstration declaring Him to be the Messiah. He had never allowed anything like it. In Galilee on one occasion when there were some people who wanted to press Him in to sort of taking authority and acting like a King, He fled the scene because He knew the implications. And the implications were not positive. It was not the way that He would want to establish His purpose, not by taking authority, wielding power and establishing the Kingdom. That would come and it will come when He returns. This time He came to die.
He didn't allow this thing to happen. And the reason is because it would precipitate the aggressive action of the leaders who already wanted Him executed. Understand from the beginning of His ministry, the Jewish leaders wanted to kill Him. It started out that way because the first act that He did when He got to Jerusalem three years before this was go into the temple and attack the place, dismantle it and discredit their entire religious system. And then He spent three years discrediting their theology and undermining their interpretations, misinterpretations of Scripture. It was an all-out assault on false apostate Judaism. They despised Him. They wanted Him dead.
Any kind of massive demonstration that made them think His popularity was expanding would then be a threat to the leaders and would only hurry up their act of murder against Him. So He never let it happen. But here He lets it happen. Here the real planner by divine providence is God because this is the week He must die and therefore, their desire to kill Him must be escalated to its fever pitch. They weren't really prepared to execute Him on the Passover. In fact, the New Testament tells us they didn't want to arrest Him and execute Him on the Passover because they were afraid of the people. But they didn't have a choice. They were so fearful of His escalating power that they sped up their murderous intent, which is exactly the way God wanted it so that on Friday on the Passover, He would be the Passover Lamb.
This is a false coronation for a purpose that none of them would ever have understood. It is strangely designed by God, not as a legitimate exaltation but to inflame His enemies at exactly the precise time to get things moving so there would be time for a trial and an execution at exactly the right day. He wanted this display with the greatest possible mass of people, the largest crowd possible so that His enemies would be severely threatened and would execute Him on the divine schedule.
It is estimated that as many as two million people would be in Jerusalem at a Passover even in ancient days. And one of the ways we get at that is ten years after this, 40 A.D., there's a record in Jewish history that two hundred and sixty-thousand lambs were slain at that Passover, over a quarter of a million. Usually there was one lamb per ten people. That would put it at two-point-six-million people possibly. It was a massive crowd.
The crowd around Him must have been in the hundreds of thousands. This was the time and this was the place to allow this to agitate His enemies so that He would die in God's perfect timing.
Let me give you a little of the chronology. It's Saturday and Jesus arrives in Bethany. Bethany is two miles east of Jerusalem, over the top of the Mount of Olives, a little village. I've been there, I was there one time many years ago. An Arab lady tried to sell me her baby cause I was a rich American, she thought.
Jesus went in to the little town of Bethany because He had some friends there, Mary, Martha and Lazarus, who is now alive from the dead. By the way, Bethany is no longer called Bethany, it's called Al-Azariyya, it's named after Lazarus.
It was Saturday when He arrived, according to John 12, because it's six days. It says, "Six days before Passover, He arrives." Six days before Passover is Saturday. He comes into the home of Mary, Martha, Lazarus.
It was an interesting experience in the house because Mary anoints His feet, you remember that in John 12? And who objected? Who had trouble with her anointing His feet with rich perfume? Judas did because He held the bag and he was ready to get out and he wanted to get as much money as he could, and he couldn't imagine such a waste of expensive ointment. So that was Saturday.
The next day would be Sunday. And the next day, according to John 12...and by the way, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all record this event of His entry. But in John 12, it says, "A large number of Jews came to Bethany the next day." So on Sunday, a large number of Jews came to Bethany. And it says, "They came to see Jesus and Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead." Now you get the story. The city is swelling with Passover pilgrims. The word is spreading about this guy that was raised from the dead. He is a curiosity. So people are walking the easy two miles because they want to see this man and they want to see Jesus.
This is a problem for the leaders. So John 12 tells us the Chief Priests took counsel, get this, to kill Lazarus. I mean, how hard-hearted are you when you don't even deny that the guy was raised from the dead, you just try to kill him again? That might seem like a feudal thing to do. So, it's on Sunday that all these Jews come to Bethany, to the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, to see Lazarus, to see Jesus. It is now Monday, the next day after the crowds came to Bethany, that Jesus approached Jerusalem, that's Monday. I don't want to mess with tradition, bit it's Palm Monday, okay? Palm Monday.
And by the way, that is really a very, very important chronological note because if you have Him coming in on Sunday, you have one day in the middle of the week where there's no information about anything. They call it Silent Wednesday. I don't know about that.
You mean the last week of the life of our Lord and you've got a whole day and there's no comment about anything that goes on there? You take care of Silent Wednesday if you get the right chronology of His coming in on Monday. Furthermore, I love the beauty of this, according to the Mosaic Law, a sacrificial lamb for Passover was to be selected and set apart on the tenth of Nisan...the tenth was Monday and that's when the sacrificial lamb arrived. And the sacrificial lamb was to be crucified on the fourteenth and that's Friday when He was crucified. So both in accord with Mosaic Law, and according to the calendar He came on Monday, He returned to Bethany Monday night, came back in to Jerusalem on Tuesday, cursed the fig tree, cleansed the temple, went back to Bethany. On Wednesday He entered in to controversy with the leaders of Israel, gave His sermon on His Second Coming and Judas planned his betrayal. On Thursday His disciples prepared for the Passover. He spent time in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was arrested, He was tried. Friday He was crucified. Saturday He was in the grave and Sunday He rose again. And that's the week and that's our schedule for what's ahead.
Now I have about twelve minutes to take you through this account. You know, if you learn anything from me, you learn that I love to give you the background, right? So now you kind of know where we are and what's going on. Let's see if we can get through this.
I want to just give you the first thing to think about...the faithful arrival...the faithful arrival. I'll sometimes give you a little outline just to help you follow the flow...faithful arrival.
"He approached Jerusalem at Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives. He sent two of His disciples...stop to say Bethany is that town, that village two miles east, down the slope from Jerusalem. The old name they think means "House of Dates." Bethphage, on the other hand, is a smaller little tiny village, we don't know anything about, some people think it means House of Figs, but it speaks of the agricultural life of the area. Both of them very near the Mount of Olives which is directly east of the temple mount in Jerusalem. You come up from those villages, over the Mount, and then you see Jerusalem. When you're behind the Mount, on the down slope, you can't even see the eastern part of the city, or any of the city for that matter. So these little towns near the Mount of Olives are the location for this event.
He sent two of His disciples. He was in Bethany at the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, and what it likely means is He sent them to this neighboring place called Bethphage, go into the village opposite you, opposite Bethany, and immediately as you enter it, you'll find a colt tied there in which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.
And you ask the question: how did He know that? He knows that because He's God. This is omniscience. He knows every donkey, every colt, every post, everything that can be known, everything that exists He knows, and He knows everything there is to know all the time unless He for His own purposes restricts His knowledge, as He did on occasion in His incarnation. This is an evidence of His omniscience here. Go find that animal.
Verse 3, there is to be expected that when you go to take somebody's animal, there's going to be some kind of response. If anyone says to you, verse 3, "What are you doing? Or why are you doing this?" you just say the Lord has need of it.
Well that's not a very good explanation, but it does assume one thing, that Jesus knows that whoever is in charge of this animal or owns this animal knows who the Lord is. This must be a believer. This must be someone who has put His trust in the Lord. He doesn't even give them an explanation, just say, "The Lord has need of it." And immediately he'll send it back here.
He knows he'll respond. He knows where the animal is. He knows who the man is. He knows what the man believes and He knows what the man will do. That's divine omniscience. That's miraculous. And he'll send it back.
You know, the disciples need to know that because it's a little awkward stealing somebody's animal. Verse 4, "They went away and found a colt tied at the door, outside in the street, and they untied it. Some of the bystanders were saying to them, 'Look what he's doing, untying the colt.' And they spoke to them, just as Jesus said. They said, 'The Lord has need of it.' And they gave them permission."
I mean, that must have...did that register at all with them, what had just happened? They brought it back. Verse 7, "They brought the colt to Jesus, put their coats on it and He sat on it." That would be like a blanket on the back of the animal to provide a little bit more comfort for the Lord riding it.
Why is this here? Is this just to give us a little tiny footnote on the deity of Christ? This just a little final illustration of His omniscience? It is that. It is beautifully that. And didn't David ride a mule and wasn't Solomon riding a mule even in 1 Kings chapter 1, on his coronation? Is this supposed to connect Jesus with Solomon and David as a son of David?
Well maybe, but that's not the main point. Mark doesn't really tell us why this happened, but Matthew does. Okay? Turn to Matthew 21, Matthew's parallel account. Matthew tells us why it happened and it's not vague.
Verse 4, Matthew 21, verse 3 says, "If anyone asks you anything, just say the Lord has need of it." Then verse 4, "This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet." What prophet? Zachariah, 500 years before Zachariah 9:9, Zachariah said, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold your king is coming to you gentle and mounted on a donkey, not even a donkey but even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden...the foal of a donkey.'"
He will come in fulfillment of prophecy. That's why I love to call this a faithful...a faithful arrival...a faithful arrival. He comes faithful to the prophet's words, 500 years, as I said, before the prophet had said, "The people of Jerusalem will hail their Messiah riding on a donkey's colt." This is...this is not His true coronation. But this is that event that happened that day in Jerusalem. He comes humbly on a donkey's colt because He comes not to reign, He comes to die. He comes not as a sovereign but as a suffering servant and a Savior. And His disciples didn't get it. Did they get the omniscient part? I think they did. Did they get the prophetic part? No. John 12 says, in writing of this very event, John 12:16, "These things His disciples didn't understand at first, but when Jesus was glorified after His Ascension, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that they had done these things to Him."
The details all recorded in the Old Testament, they didn't understand at the time. But later they understood. This is a faithful arrival. He is fulfilling prophecy. It's more than just that, although it is that, He fulfilled another prophecy. In Daniel 9 we're given a really important prophecy, Daniel 9:24 to 27, that it will be 483 years, 69 weeks of years, 69 times seven...four hundred and eighty three. Four hundred and eighty-three years from the decree of Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem which was in 445 B.C., 483 years to the arrival of Messiah. If you do the calendar work on that, 483 years from the decree of Artaxerxes lands you on this day when Jesus came into the city. God's timing is perfect, down to the clearest detail. It was a faithful arrival, faithful to the divine purpose, prophecy and timetable.
Secondly, though it was a faithful arrival, it was a faithless approval. Verse 8, "And many spread their coats in the road and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields."
Why would they spread their coats in the road? That was an old, ancient gesture, a custom that showed submission. "You can walk on me, you can step on me, I'm below your feet." Kings were always elevated and people were under their feet. And this was a way to symbolize that. You can...you can walk all over me, I am submissive to you. You see it in the coronation of Jehu in 2 Kings chapter 9. We place ourselves under your authority. This is an affirmation, at least superficially, You're our King, You're our sovereign.
Their hope for the Kingdom was really high, but they had their own view...attack the Romans, throw out the Romans, give us our place in the world and fulfill all the promises of the Old Testament to us. And they were all superficial and earthly.
This entourage coming up the hill is massive by now. The crowd is swelling. The enthusiasm is growing. Luke says, "As soon as they reached the Mount of Olives, at that point they could see the city, the whole crowd and the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice that they just broke loose when they crossed the crown of the Mount of Olives, they could see Jerusalem."
What had caused that? Because, writes Luke, of all the miracles they had seen . Plenty of evidence that He was the Messiah. Their escalated enthusiasm expected Him to do what they wanted Him to do. They show their fealty to Him by spreading leafy branches under Him. John 12:13 says, "They were palm branches," and palm branches in the Scripture can be symbols of salvation joy as they are in Revelation 7:9. Throwing down these branches was a symbol of joy. You are our deliverer. You are our source of joy. Matthew 21:9 says, "Jesus was in the middle of the crowd, they're all around Him surging with this emotion." The Chief Priests had already said, "If you see Jesus anywhere, report to us and we're going to arrest Him." They had long forgotten that warning. They were caught up in the drama and the emotion and the hysteria of the moment.
Those who went in front, verse 9, those who followed were all doing the same thing. They were praising Him. "Hosanna" They were shouting. This is not indiscriminate rabble. This is not just blank verse. This is not noise, specific things, hosanna...that's an exclamatory plea that means, "Save now...Save now...Deliver us now." And they're talking about an earthly, political, military deliverance. They're shouting Psalm 1:18 verse 26, a Psalm of salvation sometimes called "The Conquerors Psalm," which a hundred years before, the Jews shouted at Maccabeus because he was triumphing over the Syrians.
Matthew adds, they said, "Hosanna, save now to the Son of David." That's the most common messianic title, so they were identifying Jesus as the Messiah. "Save now, Messiah. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." That's the Psalm 118 verse 26, "Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord." They said, "Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father, David. Hosanna in the highest." All these are messianic accolades and they're shouting at the top of their voice. Luke adds that they even said, "Peace in heaven and glory in the highest."
This is mob hysteria. They know that these things relate to the Kingdom. The Kingdom will be a Kingdom of salvation. The Kingdom will be a Kingdom over which the Son of David rules. The Kingdom will be the Kingdom promised to David with all those promises fulfilled. The Kingdom will be a Kingdom of peace and the Kingdom will be a Kingdom of glory. Everything shouted is true, scriptural, borrowed out of the Old Testament, accurate. This is God's King, but this is not God's time.
In reality, this is a faithless approval. The crowd is fickle the next day when He attacked the religion by attacking the temple. When He didn't do what they wanted, they began to turn on Him. And by the end of the week, they're screaming, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him, we'll not have this man reign over us." Just a few days later they completely reversed their sentiments.
Why? Because He didn't do what they wanted Him to do. They wanted Him to attack the enemy, He attacked them. Definitely a faithless approval.
That brings us to a final point, a final thought. I guess we could call it the fateful appraisal in verse 11. Jesus entered Jerusalem. Came into the temple. Then after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the Twelve since it was already late. Boy, that's a really blah ending to a coronation. Go out of town and go back to where you came from.
This isn't a true coronation. And He's not really their King. What is this telling us? He entered Jerusalem, came into the temple, and looked around at everything. What's He doing?
I'll tell you what He's doing. He's casing the place. He's planning a strategy for the next day. And what happened on the next day? Verse 15, "He entered the temple began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, overturned the table of the money changers, the seats of those selling doves. He wouldn't permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple. He began to teach and say to them, "Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations? You have made it a robber's den."
"The Chief Priests head this, began seeking how to destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching." They've got a problem now. He's attacked them at the very heart and He's got this massive crowd all stirred up. All this by God's design to precipitate His death on Friday. No, He's just checking it out. He's developing the strategy for the next day when He goes in and assaults the place.
When Jesus came to Jerusalem, they were ready to hail Him as their Messiah if He did for them what they wanted. Okay? And when He didn't, they turned on Him and cried for His blood. He left the end of that day and He went back to His friends, at the time of dusk because once it was dark, there was nothing to be done and it was late in the day, and He left. But He had made His appraisal of the horrific corruption of the temple religion.
Do you remember John 2 describes the beginning of His ministry when He did the same thing, attacked the false system, dismantle the temple? Three years later He's back and He's going to do it again. It wasn't the Romans He would attack, it was the Jews. It wasn't pagan idolatry He would attack, it was the worship of Judaism whose religion had been corrupted, whose praise was selfish and superficial.
Did the people know He had the credentials of Messiah? Yeah, born of the line of David, miracle worker, heal sick people, cast out demons, raises dead people. How could they possibly decide to crucify Him?
I'll give it to you real simple. If Jesus doesn't do what the sinner wants Jesus to do, the sinner will turn on Him. Can I tell you something? False coronations like this go on every day, all the time. Just turn on your television to some Charismatic TV station and watch all the hoopla about Jesus and watch all the swaying and groaning and moaning and singing and praising and then listen to the people say, "Jesus will make you rich, Jesus will heal you, Jesus will give you all your dreams, Jesus will fulfill all your desires and I will tell you all the praise and hoopla will go on until Jesus doesn't deliver the goods that the fallen sinner wants they'll turn on Him. That's a very deadly thing to do and very dishonoring to the Lord. That's why the prosperity message is so dangerous, it lies. It promises the sinner what the fallen sinner already wants in his corrupt condition. What a true believer wants is what will glorify God, honor Christ and increase His attractiveness to the people around him.
The sinful heart can be very interested in Jesus. The sinful heart can be very, very religious until Jesus attacks that false religion. I remember some years ago, one of the famous, most famous of the TV prosperity preachers said after I had denounced that stuff, he said, "If I had my way, I'd take my Holy Ghost machine gun and blow his brains out." He said that on the air. So I knew I was exactly where I needed to be and had said exactly what I needed to say. You never have seen people turn so fast when you try to expose the truth.
Well, false coronations of Jesus go on all the time. This was one, but this had a divine intent and purpose. Didn't justify it, didn't make hypocrisy right, but God used this to escalate the timetable to bring about His purpose to be crucified on Friday. God's in charge of everything. His timetable is perfect. And when you crown Christ the true King, when you put your trust in Him, you will as a true believer say, "Lord, give me what You would want me to have. Reign in my life according to Your will, not mine," right?
Father, we thank You for Your truth. We thank You for the Word. We thank You for the Scripture and it lives, it breathes, it moves, we're there. What an experience this morning we've had. How precious, blessed. Thank You for the folks that are here. Clarify things in our lives that we may love You more and serve You more faithfully. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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Like many a craft beer fan, when I learned that the 2011 National Homebrewers Conference champion (winning this award earns one bragging rights as the best homebrewer in the country) Paul Sangster and fellow standout homebrewer Guy Shobe were teaming up to go pro, I got excited and, despite my best efforts, couldn't help but have high expectations. And like many beer fans, I beat a trail straight to their Rip Current Brewing Company (1325 Grand Avenue, #100, San Marcos) as soon as it opened to taste their early offerings.
So far, they've not only lived up to my early expectations, but have gotten a bit better with each batch they brew. My early favorites include a nutty brown ale and several India pale ales, including Lupulin Lust, one of Sangster's most famous homebrews produced on a professional level. But the most surprising beer I've encountered at the Rip Current tasting room is a roggenbier called Rail Grab German Rye. What's a roggenbier, you ask? Don't feel bad. It's a pretty much extinct German beer style that Sangster spent years searching out, but only found once while turning over rocks looking specifically for it in Berlin.
Roggenbiers are crafted in the manner of traditional hefeweizens, with rye utilized in place of wheat. Sangster suspects the style came into being because rye malt was more cost-effective than wheat in certain parts of Germany. The resulting beer includes the bready, spicy notes brought on by rye malt in a sessionable and refreshing package. Rip Current's Rail Grab is 5.4% ABV and, though the rye in Sangster and Shobe's recipe accounts for just 40 percent of the overall malt bill, it brings on nice pumpernickel character and a spiciness that matches up with yeast-borne clove esters to make for a profile akin to nutmeg-, and allspice-fortified holiday ales.
I take my hat off to Sangster and Shobe, not only for resurrecting a style that's largely unknown, low alcohol, and not exactly in keeping with San Diegans' typical penchant for light, hoppy, brawny beers; but for brewing up a full-sized batch of this rarity. That takes courage and faith in one's brewing chops, and I'm happy to report that their confidence is well founded. The beer tastes delicious and offers a richer yet plenty refreshing summer drinking option. Go outside the ordinary and give it a taste.
Your next best opportunity to do so will come on June 7 and 8 when Sangster and Shobe hold their official grand opening party, which falls, not coincidentally, during Rip Current Awareness Week in the US. For $25, attendees at any of the celebration's three sessions, will get five samples of beers of their choosing in the stylish new limited edition glass pictured above. Tickets will be available soon on Brown Paper Tickets. Hey, it beats the cost of a trip to Berlin!
More from SDReader
- More stories by Brandon Hernández
- San Diego homebrewers pace the nation — June 20, 2016
- Rip Current is not so very small anymore — Oct. 12, 2015
- Belgians and barrels — June 20, 2014
- Beer of the Week: Rip Current Caught In A Rip IIIPA — April 12, 2014
- Rip Current Awareness Week — June 19, 2013


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One Woman's View
Local elections matter
Contributing writer
Although it was important to get out to vote in the presidential election last fall, the elections coming up April 2 may have at least as great an impact on your daily lives. That is when cities and towns will elect mayors and city council members, and school districts will fill positions on local boards. In small towns and rural areas, these are often unsung heroes who struggle with policy decisions and budget issues that are important to citizens.
The men and women who shoulder these responsibilities do it for very little pay (or none) and sometimes very little credit or appreciation, but often with a full quota of blame if anything is amiss. Last month just seeing that the town streets were cleared of snow was a major undertaking. Then there is an endless stream of decisions regarding upkeep on streets, parks, and city buildings. What needs to be done, and how can the city pay for it? Sometimes this involves working on grant applications to try to find funding. Other times it is simply a matter of setting priorities and hoping residents will accept them.
I hope the other towns and cities in Marion County have been as fortunate as Tampa in finding dedicated people who are willing to give their time and effort to all of these necessary tasks. Tim Svoboda is doing an excellent job as mayor. During the years I have lived in the Tampa community, his predecessors, Jim Clemmer, Lloyd "Butch" Mueller and Paul Gooding, all left their mark on Tampa in their own individual ways. Since he did not have another "day job," it often seemed Clemmer worked almost full-time at being Tampa's mayor, and the community benefited from his efforts.
Our present council members are Paul Backhus, Wilbert Backhus, Russel Kerbs, David Rziha, and Ty Peterson. They also are generous with their time and effort and often go far beyond the call of duty in serving the community. Kerbs is a second generation council member; his father, Rueben Kerbs served for many years. I have seen too many council members come and go to give them all credit here, but their service has been of inestimable value to Tampa.
Most citizens do not hesitate to criticize the mayor or city council when they are not happy with a decision or feel something important is not being done. Certainly, it is all right to let them know your thoughts; they are our elected representatives, after all. However, such comments and criticism should be directed to them, preferably at a council meeting. Try not to interrupt their meals with phone calls or, worse still, air your views behind their backs.
Here is a novel concept — perhaps these hard-working, underpaid civil servants deserve a thank you or a pat on the back every now and then. My mother used to say you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Come out and vote in upcoming local elections. If you have visions and goals for your city or school, the next time elections come around, you might even consider running for one of these positions. The people who have willingly taken them on deserve our deepest respect and appreciation.


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The series finale of "Futurama" airs Wednesday — and no, you're not having déjà vu. There have been four "series finales" for the cartoon that refuses to die.
"It feels like it's really the end to me this time. I think we're done," executive producer David X. Cohen tells The Post. "However, people don't seem to believe me when I say that, because I did say the same thing two or three times before."
The series began in 1999 on Fox. And after winning an Emmy in 2001 for Outstanding Animated Program, it was canceled in 2003.
It was brought back to life in 2007 when there were four direct-to-video films made. Comedy Central ran those in half-hour increments as a 16-episode fifth season. And, finally, Comedy Central went ahead and ordered a sixth and then a seventh season.
In April, the network announced they wouldn't be renewing the sci-fi cartoon.
"It's taken us 13 years to get seven seasons of shows out there," Cohen points out. "But that's the difference to me. We have a greater body of work behind us now. Before it was like, 'If we only had one or two more seasons.' "
Central character Fry, the New York City pizza delivery man who was cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, and his motley crew of robots and humans were conceived by Cohen and Matt Groening, the famed creator of "The Simpsons." The two have talked a lot about the possibility of reviving Fry & Co. one more time.
"An Internet series seems more likely than [a theatrical film] because we've talked about a film a few times and haven't been able to drum up enough interest from Fox," Cohen says.
But no formal discussions have happened and Cohen has taken a vow to take some time off, get some R&R and regroup later this fall.
Wednesday night, Cohen and Groening will host a live chat with fans on Comedy Central's Web site.
"I'm excited for fans to see this episode," Cohen says. "It's my favorite of the series finales."


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On October 31st*, Matador will release a charity 7″ from Philadelphia's TV Casualty.
This is the first recorded document to be released by a collective made up of Brian Sokel (Franklin, AM/FM), Andy Nelson (Ceremony, Paint It Black), Atom Goren (Atom and His Package) & Chris Wilson (Ted Leo & the Pharmacists). Over the past few years the group has played out in and around Philly for different charitable events, assembling as The Ramones (with Rodney Anonymous), Black Flag (with Dan Yemin) and Minor Threat (with Mike McKee). Here, Ted Leo joins the band as Glen Danzig, in what else but their take on The Misfits (watch some past performances here)!
As part of Matador's famed ELO- catalogue series (confused? consult the discography), this blood-red 7″ features covers of Children In Heat, Angelfuck, Teenagers From Mars, We Bite, Who Killed Marilyn, Some Kinda Hate. All proceeds collected on sales of this release will be donated on behalf of TV Casualty & Matador to The Attic Youth Center, Philadelphia's only LGBTQ Youth Center.
TV Casualty's next live date is on October 28 at The Florida Theater as part of The Fest in Gainesville, Florida. Money collected at this show will go to Occupy Philadelphia.
Pre-order the single at the Matador store now.
*The band will have copies for sale on their 10/28 show in Gainesville and you should be able to find the 7″ in your local stores around then. You can also buy the tracks digitally starting 10/31.


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National Council on Techer Quality places Pitt-Bradford secondary education program on top-ranked list
BRADFORD, Pa. – The National Council on Teacher Quality has given the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford's secondary education program "Top Ranked" status – a distinction awarded to only 81 secondary programs nationwide – in its second annual Teacher Prep Review.
The council surveyed 1,668 programs at 836 institutions before awarding top-ranked status to 26 elementary programs and 81 secondary programs.
The council ranked secondary programs primarily on their selectivity, content knowledge for middle school and high school, and student teaching experience. Other considerations were instruction in classroom planning, secondary methods and assessing outcomes.
Nationwide, Pitt-Bradford's secondary program was one of 21 tied for the 57th place ranking. It was one of six Pennsylvania schools given top-ranked status.
"We are proud of how our secondary education prepares students to be effective leaders in middle and secondary schools," said Dr. Wayne Brinda, associate professor of education and coordinator of secondary education at Pitt-Bradford.
Brinda commented on how Pitt-Bradford measured up to the council's criteria, "Rigor begins with the criteria for acceptance and extends throughout the program in the classroom and in the field, where students observe and are actively involved with teachers and students in middle and secondary classrooms from their sophomore year on."
Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said, "Given the increasing knowledge skills expected of teachers, it is indeed disappointing that we could not identify more exemplary programs in Pennsylvania."
Secondary education majors available at Pitt-Bradford are biology education 7-12; business, computer and information technology K-12; chemistry education 7-12; English education 7-12; environmental education K-12; health and physical education K-12; mathematics education 7-12; and social studies education 7-12.
Recent graduates of Pitt-Bradford's secondary education program are teaching in many school districts in the region and beyond including Bradford, Port Allegany, Otto-Eldred, Kane, Smethport, Warren, Oswayo Valley, Austin, St. Marys, Brookville and Butler in Pennsylvania and Elmira, Olean, Portville, Little Valley and Ellicottville in New York state.
The university's elementary education K-4 program was ranked in the top third of programs nationwide – 242nd nationwide.
The complete report is available on the council's website, www.nctq.org


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Thomas Riney, a sophomore music performance and natural science double major in the honors program at Xavier University, will be performing at 7 p.m. tonight, Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Springfield Opera House.
The program, entitled "Evening with the Arts," also features Brazilian pianist Priscilla Dickson. She is a full-time accompanist at Campbellsville College.
The Springfield Main Street District will soon be considered by the Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
An informational meeting to discuss the designation with property owners took place on Tuesday at the Springfield Opera House.
Nell Haydon, the director of Springfield's Main Street / Renaissance program, said that she wants residents to know that there are no limitations placed on the property if listed on the national register.
Mackville is one of many post offices across the country that could be closed.
The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will conduct studies of about 3,700 retail offices, including the one in Mackville, to determine customer needs.
In an economy when times can be tough, there's nothing like saving money. That's what has driven the recent coupon craze across the country, and Washington Countians are no stranger to it, either.
Amy Willis clips coupons and saves money for her family budget, and she said she sees some drastic savings with her trips to the grocery store.
Regionally-based cellular provider Bluegrass Cellular is now offering a text-only plan for customers who are hearing-impaired.
The new plan began on July 1 and provides text-only service to the Bluegrass Cellular network.
When the eighth annual African American Heritage Festival gets under way in Springfield on Friday, Aug. 5, it will feature a special theme.
This year's festival will address the needs of hungry children in Washington County. Nell Haydon, director of Springfield's Main Street Renaissance program, said the idea was brought up by members of the festival committee.
Local residents may have the comfort of knowing that one of their own is caring for them in the event of an emergency.
Andrea Hale, a Washington County native, is currently going through orientation to work for Air Methods at the Springfield-Lebanon Airport.
Air Methods is the company with a critical care flight team based at the airport.
Washington County will have a carryover of $287,569.73 from the 2010-11 fiscal year budget.
During the regular scheduled meeting this week, the Washington County fiscal court voted to amend the budget to allow for the carryover into the 2011-12 fiscal year budget.
The county brought in nearly $10,000 more than anticipated in real property taxes, and roughly $42,000 more than anticipated in occupational tax fees.
The county began the 2011-12 fiscal year with a budget of over $5.6 million.
Road slide repair
With severe heat in the area last week, several teams and organizations were fighting Mother Nature in order to get in practice time.
High school athletics resumed on July 11, only to be hit by a heat wave.
With heat indices in the 100s, teams had to take caution.
The Washington County School District has stressed the value of a high-school education in recent years, and the creation of a program called The Commander Academy is reinforcing that importance. The proof of that value can be found in a much-improved dropout rate.
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Dorri Olds, a 50-year-old writer, graphic designer and social-media consultant, works out of her apartment in Chelsea. But even though she has a flexible schedule, she often finds herself trapped behind her computer for 12 hours at a time.
The retired gym rat — and self-proclaimed workaholic — wanted to get exercise back into her daily routine, without returning to the gym. "It just got really exhausting and obsessive," she says.
So she got a dog, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who forces her to take exercise breaks. "My dog has a built-in clock, and after a few hours he'll come get my attention and tell me it's time for a walk," Olds says. She takes him on three brisk 20-minute walks a day around her neighborhood, and usually goes for an additional longer stroll.
"I was never heavy but I was a little pudgier than I wanted to be. Now Buddy and I strut our stuff while we have a great time exercising together," Olds says. "And I am able to maintain a healthy weight."
Joy Bauer, an NYC-based nutritionist and "Today" show contributor, would approve. In her new book, "The Joy Fit Club: Cookbook, Diet Plan & Inspiration," Bauer promotes daily exercise as one of her "winning weight loss rules."
Exercising every day is a tall order for busy New Yorkers, whose schedules are so booked, they barely have time for a Starbucks run.
Besides, for the typical multitasking Manhattanite, going to the gym or running laps in the park can get . . . boring.
But a key way to drop pounds — and look smoking in that DVF dress — is to get 30 minutes of physical activity a day, so Bauer suggests finding creative ways to do so.
"Busy New Yorkers are the people who need
to exercise every day, because it will help them tackle the gazillion balls they're juggling," Bauer tells The Post.
"It revs your metabolism, inspires you to make smarter food choices and increases your productivity."
Thankfully, Bauer, a busy New Yorker herself, defines exercise as "moving continuously," which makes fitting in that daily half-hour less daunting.
"It doesn't even have to be 30 minutes at a time," she says, noting that three 10-minute breaks are perfectly acceptable.
To help you stick to your daily regime, put your exercise plan on your calendar as a scheduled appointment. "When it's written down, it becomes more formal, so you plan for it and make it happen," says Bauer.
That's the approach taken by Tara Nugent, a 31-year-old associate director at Omnicom. Nugent, who lives in Gramercy, routinely attends work events and entertains clients after hours, so she maps out a week's worth of workouts on Sunday nights, figuring out when to take classes at Physique 57 or hit the elliptical at the gym.
When she doesn't have an open slot, she combines work and working out — bringing a sales rep to a class and getting a drink afterward, instead of sitting down for a gluttonous business dinner. "It's a great way to network and check exercise off the list simultaneously," says Nugent.
Still, you don't have to take an expensive class to meet your daily exercise quota.
"Instead of saying to yourself, 'I don't go to the gym enough,' you should be saying, 'I don't move enough,' " says Alex Zimmerman, national training manager at Equinox. "If you compare someone who works out three hours a week [in installments of] 30 minutes at a high intensity and a waitress who's on her feet working shifts five days a week, I'd put my money on the waitress in terms of overall caloric expenditure."
One of the biggest challenges is avoiding an exercise rut.
"You don't want to view exercise as humdrum, because then it becomes a negative thing," Bauer says. "Exploring all the cool classes New York has to offer is smart because it keeps things fresh and takes away from the torture aspect."
Alexandra Perakis, a 33-year-old account executive at Theatermania.com who commutes from Union City, NJ, says: "I always try to keep working out fun and mix it up. I sign up for 5Ks and mud runs, I take spinning classes and I recently started kickboxing, which I've been dragging my boyfriend into."
Perakis and her boyfriend also regularly take swing-dance lessons. "It's fun to have someone to go with, and helps me stay motivated."
On the days when she doesn't have time for dancing or kick-boxing? Perakis does what New Yorkers do best: She walks — to and from Port Authority to her office in Midtown — fast.
YOUR 7-DAY PLAN: Want to squeeze in 30 minutes of exercise a day without spending it at the gym? Mix it up with a week of activities from Joy Bauer.
* Monday Odds are you can't fit a treadmill into your apartment. So when your favorite TV show cuts to commercials, jump off the couch and march in place, or do a set of lunges or crunches. During each two-minute break, you can burn an extra 20 calories. That could add up to a total of 100 calories during an hourlong program.
* Tuesday Take two 15-minute walks during your workday: Go to the Chop't five blocks farther away for lunch, and take a stroll with your co-worker to catch up on office gossip.
* Wednesday Avoid elevators and escalators for the entire day, if possible. If you're going up five floors or fewer, take the stairs. If you live or work on a high floor, get off five floors early and take the stairs. Ten minutes of climbing can burn up to 80 calories.
* Thursday Get off the subway one stop early and finish your commute on foot. Both ways.
* Friday You don't have to spend big bucks on fancy fitness classes. Taking a donation-based yoga class is an affordable way to fit in a few sun salutations. Visit yogoer.com for a list of studios.
* Saturday Be a tourist in your own city: Walk one of NYC's fabulous attractions, such as the Central Park Zoo or the High Line, or take a stroll over the Brooklyn Bridge — just skip the stop at Grimaldi's Pizzeria after!
* Sunday Pick a restaurant at least 20 blocks away, and walk there and back for dinner. You'll burn two miles' worth of calories by the time you get home.


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Thanks for abortion coverage
Thank you for running the article about the new Planned Parenthood Center that opened recently on Hydraulic Road [July 12: "RU Ready? Abortion options widen with Jones"].
Women have the right to all of the myriad health care options available to them as well as safe contraceptive options and needed abortion services.
It's a very confused system indeed when many health care plans pay for Viagra but not for contraception. It's also very telling that the majority of protesters of women's health clinics are men who will never once in their lives have to deal with an unplanned pregnancy.
As Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is quoted as saying, "No woman can call herself free until she can decide for herself whether and when to become a mother."
Our reproductive rights are not negotiable.
Jenny Robinson
Vice Chair, Albemarle County Democratic Party


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A couple years ago I took a class on Pro Tools and studio production techniques. I took it at a little community college, but it was a good class. My teacher needs music for a new class on podcasting and broadcasting, music he can give his students to use without fear of getting sued, so he sent out a mail to all his students - and I'm in the difficult position of figuring out which of the songs on my music/art site are legal.
Think about that question, because it's a question many musicians and artists have been asking for the past twenty years or more: which of my artworks are legal? Anybody who's ever heard sampling in hip-hop and electronic dance music, or seen graffiti on the side of a wall, knows that some art is legal and some art is criminal.
It's an insane distinction. Art is a way of communicating. If some forms of communication are legal and others are illegal, does that mean some thoughts are legal and others are not? Could the rise of police states be tied to this idea? Is it a good idea to raise children who all take for granted that some ideas are legal and others are inherently wrong?
This is not how things always were. This is a side effect of bad laws.
Lessig's well-known on the Web and copyleft is a cause célèbre here. What he doesn't mention, and what a lot of people don't seem to remember, is that this fight began before anybody ever bought a modem. It began in the music industry, with artists asserting a new form of artistic freedom.
The new freedom: sampling. The artists won the fight in Europe, and lost it in the United States.
After Public Enemy released It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back in 1987, every kid in England sold their guitar and bought a sampler instead. In 1988 England discovered house music, and all those samplers were right there ready to use. Europe in general and the UK in particular experienced a musical Cambrian explosion. The ubiquity of sampling in electronic music created a gigantic industry and a staggering range of subgenres.
Meanwhile, in the States, the record industry staffed up on lawyers, and set up a system for licensing music which basically requires that whoever owns the copyright on whatever you sample A) likes you, B) likes your new song, and C) charges you what you can afford. In practice, this doesn't happen often. Albums like Nation Of Millions or the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, which used abundant samples to create a new sound, would be legally impossible today.
The discussion usually centers on laws, but that's only part of the picture. In the US we have a very important law protecting free speech and freedom of assembly. In the UK, the government enacted a law which criminalized anyone playing "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats" on any kind of sound system with more than one person in attendance. Yet it's the US where artists lost the fight, and the UK which created an entire subgenre based around just one sample, and a flourishing industry around that subgenre, including magazines, superclubs, and weekend-long parties in Amsterdam with all-expenses-paid travel packages.
It's good for the economy. It's good for the artform. It's good for the country. And most important of all, it's just good. Restricting artistic freedom is bullshit.
This is why I support graffiti - not just as an artform, but as a political act. If you throw up paint on somebody else's property - or better yet, government property - you're saying that your right as an artist is more important than a property-owner's right to their property.
That's where the debate has to start. The property-owners - especially the corporate ones - should have to fight just to have their rights to property recognized at all. Saying property matters but artists count too is exactly the cowardly, begging-for-leftovers bullshit that lost us all the sampling and innovation in hip-hop while Europe was building whole industries on a new artform which we discovered and created. Property doesn't matter. Art matters.
Anybody who ever joined a debate team (or dated somebody that did) will notice my argument that property is less important than art invokes the economic benefits of this attitude. I'm not going to bother clearing up that contradiction - anybody who opposes graffiti or drum and bass just doesn't deserve the effort it would take for me to make sense - but I will tell you it's at the core of a fantastic book I highly recommend.
The Pirate's Dilemma, in a nutshell, is that punk rock, anarchist attitudes drive successful capitalist enterprises. This is something Thomas Frank observed from another angle in The Conquest Of Cool - anti-establishment attitudes drive the founding of new businesses much more successfully than they do the overturning of actual establishments. The Pirate's Dilemma goes one step further, saying that if you've got a great idea, there's no point waiting for the law to catch up. The only way the law knows how and when to change is when it starts punishing artists and entrepreneurs for creating new things, and then people vote against the laws these artists and entrepreneurs violate.
Laws expire. There are laws on the books in Massachusetts which state it's legal for a man to beat his wife as long as the cord - that's the piece of tree he's beating her with - is no thicker than his thumb. This law is no longer enforced, and newer laws contradict it. In an ideal world the legislatures repeal every law that expires, but in an ideal world, the legislature is qualified to make laws in the first place.
(Relevant but probably doomed link.)
In the real world, there's a constant battle to define what laws we should have, and part of that battle is proving how some laws we already have are just plain wrong. Copyright law is just plain wrong. To have a literate population, we need to destroy it. To have artistic freedom, we need to destroy it. To enable many forms of internet commerce, we need to destroy it, or at least give up the idea of protecting it. It's the job of artists and entrepreneurs to destroy copyright law before it causes any more harm. Laws restricting what ideas the population can express threaten democracy.


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MIDC will have a vote at this historic event and we want to offer an opportunity for everyone to have their voices heard. We are having a conference call tomorrow night (Tuesday) to update anyone interested in the process of the convention, and answer as many questions as we possibly can.
Montana Indian Democrats Council Conference Call on Special Nominating Convention
Message us on Facebook, or email us at mtindiandemocrats.org for call-in information.
Please click on the actblue.com link and help the MIDC this election year.
We will be helping our native candidates and allies this eleciton year and we need you to stand with us.
We want to offer James Steele, a warm welcome as our interim President. He has the experience to help lead our organization.
He served as Chairman of the Flathead Nation for 4 years and of the Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders for 2.
In his service, he fought for the indian people of Montana in Helena and in Washington, DC and will contiue to fight for the rights of our indian people in the Montana.
Congratultions President Steele!
"Standing up for Indian Country is a responsibility I never take lightly.That's why,earlier this month, I stepped foward to become the Chairman of the U.S. Senate's Indian Affairs Committee" Senator Jon Tester
Please check out this link for the full article.
Today, 229,178 ballots were mailed to absentee voters. 34% of Montana's registered voters received ballots. Are you one of them?
Any registered voter may vote absentee by signing up for an Annual Absentee List or filling out an Application for Absentee Ballot at the county election office, or downloading one from the Secretary of State's website at sos.mt.gov/Elections. The Application must be received at the county election office by noon the day before the election. The voted absentee ballot must be received at the county election office by the close of polls on Election Day (8:00 pm.)
Vote early and take a friend with you!
Montana Indian Democrats around the state are working hard to make sure our voices are heard.
We have created a new council to build a grassroots movement to protect our independence.
We can build stronger communities by making our voice heard.
The MIDC will support the candidates that defend our sovereignty by getting out the vote in the next election.
Our movement is made of people just like you: Indian Democrats who are willing to work together to elect candidates who share our values.
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Guthrie Park
Longview, Texas 1 course · 18 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
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+0 votes Tyler "Shanko" Raemhild › February 18, 2011
Not too bad of a course considering it is the only one within a 40 mile radius. somewhat filled with trees and a creek comes into play on the front 9.
+0 votes Sam Carpenter › October 6, 2011
For a beginner course it's pretty good. Quite a few water hazards and lots of trees in some parts. Over all good for a round.
+0 votes Izzy Dedjet › October 6, 2011
It's a good course for beginners. No real terrain changes, or challenges, but any hyzer shot just may end up with you wading in the creek.


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FOOD- THE DISH- The joy of cooking: BBQ-ers say good-bye to Adkins
Pig Daddy's owner Steve Adkins, seen here in 2005, will be missed in the BBQ community.
Last week, friends, family members, and BBQ lovers around town mourned the loss of Stephen Douglas Adkins, 39, who died suddenly on November 11. Adkins owned Pig Daddy's BBQ on Avon Court, just off Avon Street Extended, and his concoctions have been a familar presence at UVA football games as well as at places like the Bellair and Shadwell markets.
"Steven was very passionate about his style of BBQ," says champion BBQer John Atkins, owner of the BBQ Connection. "He once related to me that cooking BBQ gave him great joy in pleasing his customers."
Indeed, Adkins expressed that joy to Dish in a 2005 column ["Avon calling: Pig Daddy's moves BBQ indoors," June 9, 2005]. Atkins' landscaping career did include a couple of run-ins with customers that were written up in the Hook's "Fearless Consumer" column, and after the 2002 drought put the kibosh on that business, he started cooking BBQ full time. He never looked back.
"No one ever told me, 'This is the best mulch job I've ever had,'" he said, "but they do say it about my barbecue."
Guestbook entries on the Teague Funeral Home's website (teaguefuneralhome.com) and on the Daily Progress website (dailyprogress.com) describe Adkins as someone who could always make people laugh, could imitate the lion in the Wizard of Oz perfectly, and could make some awesome hush puppies. Family members could not immediately be reached for comment, so we're not sure yet if Pig Daddy's will keep making its fab BBQ, but we'll keep you posted.
"He will be truly missed in the Charlottesville BBQ community," says Atkins.
Localvores rejoice!
Along with Fleurie, Hamiltons' at First and Main, Ivy Inn Restaurant, L'étoile, Mas Tapas Bar, OXO, Palladio Restaurant, Petit Pois, Revolutionary Soup, and many other restaurants in town, Basic Necessities in Nellysford is part of the local slow food revolution. Now owners Kay Pfaltz, Keith Dix, and Bev Lacey have upped the ante by hiring one of the area's original slow-fooders, Chef Gail Hobbs Page, who'll be guest-chefing at the little Nelson County eatery several nights a week.
"Gail is one of Charlottesville's original 'localvores'," says Pfaltz. "For the past 12 years, she's been a leader in our Eat-Local movement. She passionately embraces the philosophy that if it can be trucked in from somewhere else, it can be produced right here in Central Virginia!"
The idea is that locally produced food– produced within a 100-mile radius of where you live– is the complete package when it comes to eating healthy, protecting the environment, and taking a stand against the corporate, government-subsidized farm industry. (Unfortunately, it appears the government is taking its own stand against local foodies. Recently, local farmers Richard Bean and Jean Rinaldi were arrested for mislabeling their pork products. Perhaps that's why so many refer to the movement as a revolution.)
Page was recently featured on the PBS series Endless Feast, which focused on chefs across the country who "cook locally." She also owns Caromont Farmstead Chevre and makes goat cheese with milk from her herd of 60 Nubians, Alpines, and La Manchas in southern Albemarle.
Pfaltz, a writer who teaches in Mary Baldwin's adult degree program and leads food, wine, and literature tours to France, opened Basic Necessities in 1997 with her partner, Judy Nelson (yes, of Martina Navratilova fame) after living in Paris for 10 years.
"I felt rural Nelson County needed the basic necessities of life," says Pfaltz. "... good wine, fresh bread, real cheese and chocolate, the things found on every street corner in France."
While Pfaltz admits their cuisine isn't really French, it's fresh, homemade, and local and/or organic when possible.
"We try to stay far away from factory farmed meats and the big food companies such as US Foods, Sysco, and the like," she says.
Pfaltz describes the atmosphere as provençal or Mediterranean. With only six tables out back on a screened porch, and a working fireplace in the winter, it could also be described as a unique, cozy little getaway.
"We're small, casual, and kind of funky," she says.
Dinner to go at Café LaJoi
Amy Bishop at Café LaJoi, which opened in the old Baggby's Gourmet Sandwiches Forest Lakes location in September, reports that the eatery will now be open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until 7pm for dinner, and will offer delivery service in Forest Lakes subdivision and surrounding areas. As we've reported before, Café LaJoi is a family affair, run with the help of Bishop's husband, Lee, and her mother, Vicky Branham, as well as other family members. And as readers may recall, the Bishop/Branham clan also opened Hoo's Brew– next door to Dürty Nelly's on JPA– back in February.


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The best place for an artist is to not be beholden to anything but the work. Well, that's the ideal. What is often forgotten is that in the continuum of creation to curation to collection only creation is production. Dealers, A&R people and publishers tend to be more aware of this than the people at either end of the process and keeping that in mind helps one understand the minds and actions of the middle-men who usually end up with most of the capital generated. An artist who is going to enter into that dance has to treat these arbiters as employees. For those who don't, alternative possibilities are multiplying rapidly.
Yes, public arts funding has been in the sights of politicians here in the US for decades, and in the UK for at least the last ten years. There is much hand-wringing onm some circles, and in the circles in which I move there is certainly an awareness of what's going on, but for most of us, this funding being available or institutions existing never made a difference.
For funding individual projects and fundamental organizational efforts one may consider taking it to the crowd. It is not uncommon for even labels to take pre-sale orders for CD releases, though it varies from situation to situation how much of that pre-sales are needed to fund production and manufacturing. Smaller labels rarely give anything for production these days, with the relative affordablility of DAW's and even digital mastering tools. Another that is becoming more common among independents is crowdfunding through sites like Indiegogo, Wefund, music specific entities like Pledgemusic and Kickstarter.
The latter option presents a two-pronged opportunity for artists, film makers, musicians and cultural organizations. On one hand, appealing directly to their audiences for support diminishes the need to shape the work to fit tastes and agendas of the people holding the money or massage those grant writing skills. And a successful campaign engages thoso who already love the work early in the process even while expanding their reach to new supporters.
The March Violets surely could name their price at any of the larger indie labels for their new release, but they are opting to let the fans help and in return people supporting their effort are let in on the process, through frequent communication from the band and access to free dowbn load of tracks well before anyone gets to hear them. With the two already given to their Pledgtemusic supporters, they are richly rewarded indeed.
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We have always been fiercely independent, and the music industry has changed beyond recognition since the days of "Grooving In Green", "Snake Dance", "Walk into the Sun" and Rebirth Records. But WE haven't really changed, we may be older and wiser and indeed wider, but we still have the desire to push the sonic envelope and show everyone that we are unique and even more relevant now the political climate has gone full cycle back to when we began.
And there are now so many more ways of connecting with our loyal fanbase and indeed making new friends. So we've teamed up with PledgeMusic to do just that; to welcome you into our twisted little world and offer you the chance to get your hands on some amazing exclusive offers. There's signed and hand designed merchandise, exclusive stuff old and new, the chance to spend time with us in the studio and even get drunk with us. We are excited! Join us on this continuing adventure.
Part of the reward for artists is to be part of a direct general cultural dialogue that would be harder to initiate. In the case of The Yes Men Fix the World, there is no way any of the media companies that are essentially mouthpieces of our owners would ever support such a venture. They went to Vodo, which has the advantage of the crowdfunding and expands that with a distribution platform that allows for streaming and bittorrent downloads. And filmmakers are taking to crowdfunding in greater numbers since the major studios dissolved their «independent» subsidiaries.
Art careers traditionally depend on either appealing to the small group of people holding wealth or creating somthing innocuous enough for millions of people to want to buy prints for their living rooms. Alternatives for ennabling creation are dveloping and continued innovation is sure to develop. The next step is creating a distributed culture including dialogue, dissemination of work and support systems outside the establishment. As the real economy is being abandoned and working and middle classes are thrown out as no longer necessary within the developing infernal economic alchemy, the artists and thinkers who haven't been relevant to their Brave (no longer) New World are there to welcome them. Interesting times lie ahead, and the bits falling off the decaying monolith may be a great place to start gathering building materials.
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Rask, Bruins shut down Penguins to snag Eastern finals edge
Pittsburgh, PA – Tuukka Rask stopped all 29 shots he faced for his first career playoff shutout, while David Krejci notched a pair of goals to send the Boston Bruins to a 3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals from CONSOL Energy Center.
Nathan Horton added a goal and the primary assist on Krejci's two markers for the Bruins, who produced the franchise's first postseason whitewash on the road since a 4-0 result in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals at Vancouver nearly two years ago.
"This certainly wasn't easy, because they still had a lot of chances; we were just able to keep them off the scoreboard," Rask said.
Tomas Vokoun suffered the loss despite making 27 saves for the Penguins, who rolled into the semifinal round thanks to a five-game decision over the Ottawa Senators.
Pittsburgh, which hadn't been held scoreless in any contest since February of 2012, will look to even the series at home in Game 2 on Monday.
Boston assumed a 2-0 edge just after four minutes elapsed in the third period. Krejci managed to squeeze off a shot from the right side that deflected into the air off Vokoun's glove, and he outmuscled a Pens defender to poke in his own rebound from atop the crease once the disc settled onto the ice.
"That's just how I play. I don't know. I can't explain it," Krejci offered when asked how he was able to keep his cool in pressure situations.
It was a three-goal spread for the Bruins at 7:51, when Horton snapped home a Gregory Campbell rebound from a sharp angle on the left wing. Vokoun made the initial pad stop but the puck sped directly to the goal scorer for the easy put back.
Seconds later, Rask dove from left to right to deny Sidney Crosby a chance at what was originally a half-open cage. That proved to be the finest of his seven saves in the final 20 minutes and the last quality chance the hosts threw at the visiting net.
"It's just one game," Vokoun said. "It's a best-of-four series. We're going to regroup."
In a preview of things to come for the hosts, Crosby hit the post on a backhander to the left of Rask on the game's second shift.
The momentum quickly shifted to the Bruins, and Krejci's blistering drive from between the circles off a Horton dish managed to squeeze between Vokoun's pads and over the goal line with 8:23 played in the first period.
Evgeni Malkin narrowly missed tying the game on a backhander which slid through traffic in the crease and out the other side in the final seconds. The Pens were down a goal despite a 12-7 shot edge.
Things took a testy turn when Penguins forward Matt Cooke forced Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid from the contest at the 1:32 mark of the second period, when he hit his defenseless opponent from behind into the end boards while both pursued a puck behind the Boston net.
Cooke was given a major for checking from behind and a game misconduct for his effort, but the Pens escaped with only a three-minute short-handed situation after Boston's Chris Kelly was given a retaliatory roughing minor.
Pittsburgh successfully checked away the opportunity, and dodged another bullet on its subsequent power play as Patrice Bergeron was in alone on Vokoun but lost control of the puck before releasing a shot.
Rask was helped by the left post on two rapid-fire chances from Malkin during a late second-period penalty to Brad Marchand for pushing James Neal from behind.
"We played with a lot of speed and generated a lot. I think we're pretty confident if we play that same way the pucks will go in for us," Crosby admitted. "We hit the post and had some pretty good chances. We had some bounces and unfortunately they didn't go our way."
Game Notes
Boston's victory snapped an eight-game playoff losing skid to Pittsburgh, which dated back to a 4-1 loss in Game 3 of the Wales Conference finals on May 5, 1991. The Penguins won four straight in that series to erase an 0-2 deficit and then swept the Bruins in four straight in 1992, the clubs' last postseason matchup ... The Bruins' win also put the brakes on a five-game skid in the Steel City during the playoffs, dating back to an 8-3 win on April 13, 1980 ... Tim Thomas authored the last Bruins' playoff shutout, a 1-0 overtime decision over Washington on April 12, 2012 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals... Pittsburgh's last home playoff shutout defeat occurred on April 27, 2011, a 1-0 defeat to Tampa Bay in Game 7 of an Eastern quarterfinal ... Bergeron and Malkin tussled at the second-period buzzer, with both players drawing coincidental fighting majors.


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SAN LEANDRO — The city and its redevelopment successor agency have agreed to pay $7.75 million to a private family trust to settle a dispute over a more than decade-old deal that sought to bring a movie theater to the Bayfair Center.
The estate of Douglas M. King and members of the King family had sought $46.8 million from the redevelopment agency in a lawsuit filed in January 2012. The suit claimed that the center's former owner, Bayfair 580 LLC, had not made lease payments after 2011 for use of a 3.7-acre parcel in the center's parking lot.
The redevelopment agency had been trying to bring a movie theater to the then theater-less Bayfair Center, and use at least a portion of the parcel. The redevelopment agency in 2000 signed an agreement guaranteeing that the lease payments would be made to the family, city staff said. The Century 16 Bayfair movie theater was built in 2001 on property owned by the center.
When Bayfair 580 defaulted on the lease in 2011, the Kings looked to the redevelopment agency for payment, and then to its successor agency after redevelopment agencies were dissolved by the state last February.
The tentative $7.75 million settlement announced this week must be approved by the successor agency's oversight board, the Alameda County Superior Court and the state Department of Finance before it becomes final, a process city staff said could take 60 days. The oversight board is scheduled to consider approval of the deal Feb. 13.
The settlement will be paid over five years beginning in July with tax dollars previously collected by the city's redevelopment agency, not the city's general fund, Mayor Stephen Cassidy said.
The leftover redevelopment funds to be used are separate from the more than $6 million the city and successor agency are seeking to protect in court in a lawsuit against the state Department of Finance and county, which had ordered the funds be handed over to the state, said Jayne Williams, attorney for San Leandro. The city and successor agency will not seek funds from Bayfair 580 LLC because the company "has filed for bankruptcy and has no assets," Williams said.
Under the terms of the deal with the Kings, the family will dismiss all other claims against the city and successor agency once the settlement is finalized. The settlement also calls for the King family, the city and successor agency to make their best effort to develop the property in the future.
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We've seen scrimmages, exhibitions, and 2K Sports Classic games throughout the past month, but today just FEELS like the start of college basketball. There is a full slate of games across the nation, including seven Pac-12 affairs. Washington and Oregon State will get their regular season started tomorrow, while Utah and Washington State will wait until Monday night. Arizona is already 2-0 on the season and will play again Sunday afternoon.
Oregon @ #7 Vanderbilt – 7:00 PM PST on Fox Sports South (***)
The Pac-12 game of the weekend will take place in Nashville tonight, where the up-and-coming Ducks will take on national power Vanderbilt. Oregon has caught some breaks in the past weeks in their quest for an upset, mainly with starting VU center Festus Ezeli out due to a suspension/injury. That means Vandy will rely on Jeffrey Taylor to do the scoring down low. UO big men Tyrone Nared and Tony Woods will be charged with handling Taylor on defense. In the backcourt, the Commodores are led by junior shooting guard John Jenkins. Jenkins averaged 19.5 PPG last year and will be held down by double-teams from Jabari Brown and Garrett Sim. Those doubles will leave players like Dai-Jon Parker and Brad Tinsley open, so if those two are able to knock down their open shots the Commodores will win easily.
If the aforementioned Duck players (Nared, Woods, Brown, and Sim) all step up, Oregon should keep this one close for the first half and some of the second. But with a hostile crowd right on top of them and all of the size and talent that the Commodores bring in, I can't see Oregon pulling this upset. Read the rest of this entry »


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A female former executive at Tinder, the popular dating app, alleges in a lawsuit that two male superiors sexually harassed her through frightening text messages and disparaging comments, then later demoted her because of her gender.
Whitney Wolfe, 24, filed the sexual harassment and sex discrimination suit against Sean Rad, 28, and Justin Mateen, 28, in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday. Mateen and Rad, who have said they became friends during a math class at USC, were among several people involved in launching Tinder, a well-known Los Angeles start-up.
Tinder lets users rate photos of potential mates, and when two people greenlight each other, they can communicate through the app. More than 10 million matches are made each day, the two-year-old start-up said in June.
In the lawsuit, attorneys for Wolfe said that Rad, the chief executive, and Mateen, the chief marketing officer, allowed Wolfe to label herself as co-founder where it appeared beneficial, including when she appeared in female-focused media reports.
In other cases, Rad and Mateen left Wolfe out of their co-founders' list and described her solely as vice president. According to Wolfe's lawsuit, Mateen explained that naming her as a young, female co-founder of a company otherwise built by several men "devalues" the firm and makes it seem like a "joke."
Wolfe and Mateen dated for a time, according to the lawsuit. As that relationship soured, she alleges, Mateen barraged her with "sexist, racist, and otherwise inappropriate comments, emails and text messages."
In some text messages allegedly sent by Mateen, he tries to exert control over Wolfe's social life, the lawsuit alleges.
Her frustration reached a breaking point at a company party in April, the suit states. There, Mateen, in Rad's presence, called Wolfe a "whore" and "a gold digger" according to the suit. He also called her "a disease" and "disgusting," the suit says.
Rad ignored Wolfe's pleas for help and then pressured her to resign, according to the lawsuit. After leaving, she raised concerns about her treatment to Sam Yagan, chief executive of Match.com, whose parent company IAC Inc. holds a majority stake in Tinder. Yagan also dismissed her claims.
IAC, named as a defendant in the lawsuit, said that Mateen has been suspended while Wolfe's claims are investigated. IAC confirmed that Mateen sent inappropriate messages to Wolfe.
"We unequivocally condemn these messages, but believe that Ms. Wolfe's allegations with respect to Tinder and its management are unfounded," IAC said.
Mateen and Tinder didn't respond to requests to comment.
Wolfe is seeking damages, including lost wages and stock options, according to her attorneys David Lowe and John Mullan.
Jonathan Badeen, Chris Gulczynski and Joe Munoz are the others who have held the title of Tinder co-founder. None of the men is named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
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