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i judged the igf this year. it was a frustrating experience. i'm going to try and identify the biggest problems with the igf process and suggest some solutions. that's if the igf is interesting in actually "rewarding innovation in indie games" (its claim) instead of simply being a press spectacle. the competition seems perfectly happy, at present, being a press spectacle.
when you, the judge, click on a game in the igf judge's website, the first thing you see is a field in which to enter your scores for the game. below that is a screenshot of the game, the names of the people who worked on the game, the author's personal description of the game, and a pile of serial numbers (in the case of commercial games) for judges to play the game. underneath all this, tucked at the very bottom of the web page, are the "judge notes": the only avenue the igf provides for discussion of a game's merits and value among judges. note, first of all, that this means a judge can score a game without even seeing what other judges thought of it.
there's a link at the top of the page to the judge notes, yes. it says, "game doesn't work? please leave a noe about it before scoring. we'll check it out!" the judge notes are presented as, AND ARE USED BY MOST JUDGES AS, a way to report technical problems that keep the game from running correctly. this is a valuable function, and it's important to have this function when fair judging is dependent on games actually working on a judge's hardware, but the far more important function that these notes should be serving is to allow discussion to take place between judges so that a game's values, merits and strengths can be assessed, argued, and some kind of consensus among judges can take place. the judge notes section of the site is MISCHARACTERIZED.
what i'd do: put the "judge notes" at the very top of the page, the first thing a judge sees upon clicking on a game. don't call it "judge notes," call it DISCUSSION. make it mandatory for a judge to post there at least once before voting. don't open voting until a week before scores are due. force judges to actually participate in the process. don't make it easy for them to shirk their duty.
i was assigned, at random, fourteen games entered into the competition to play and score. all the other games, though i was permitted to download them, play them, and leave judge notes (and i've explained how effective those are – often mine were the first, sometimes the only, notes on games i wasn't assigned), i was not allowed to contribute to the score that decides their final standing in the igf. which means that whatever shmuck decided super meat boy is a more amazing and revelatory use of audio than AUDITORIUM i had no way of telling "no, you're totally incorrect."
there's no reason to limit the number of eyes that look at a game. the games that are scoring the highest, in fact, are the ones that should be most scrutinized. and if i find value in a game that would otherwise be ignored by the judges, i should be able to express that value in the game's overall score, rather than it being stoned to death for having drawn the wrong straw. if i think don't shit your pants is a valuable piece of satire (certainly at least as much as that game about burning a rope that made finalist last year) or want to point out that, hey, edmund mcmillen (though he is a good friend bless his heart) has ALREADY WON the igf, my only avenue is to leave notes to the mystery judges who were randomly selected to judge those games (and which will probably be ignored).
i understand why judges have games assigned to them at random: so that each game is guaranteed to have at least a few judges look at it, instead of the most well-marketed games getting all the votes. but the ludum dare competition has a similiar system that works a lot better: games are randomly assigned to judges so that each game is guaranteed to have at least a few people play it, but judges are free BEYOND THAT to score any and every game other game in the competition that they play. then again, ludum dare has an advantage in that its judges actually care about the competition and its entries.
igf entries are rated in categories such as: excellence in audio. excellence in visual art. technical excellence. (remember when the categories were "innovation in" rather than "excellence in"? maybe they felt they were being dishonest.) why, as far outside of the big games industry and the enthusiast press as we supposedly are, are we still partitioning games like they do, as though a game's graphics could be judged seperately from its worth as a whole? this is the independent games festival: are graphics and sound really the areas in which small creative authors and developers have the most to contribute?
true, there's the "nuovo" award, the latest hasty attempt to patch the igf so that interesting games can actually have a place in a competition that claims to be about innovation (what was last year's? the introduction of the "excellence in design" award?). why should a special case need to be created just so interesting games can compete on their own terms in a competition that ought to contain only interesting games? suggestion: expand the nuovo award to ten or so finalists. rename it "the igf."
what if judges scored games in terms of actually being interesting instead of having the coolest graphics or gnarliest music? "how provocative is this game?" "how elegant is its design?" "how effective is it at telling its story?" "how well does it facilitate an experience between the players?" (yes, imagine that! an award exclusively for games for more than one player!) this is supposed to be the INDEPENDENT games festival. we can do this! why not? who are we beholden to?
the igf needs more perspectives. NOT more judges – more perspectives. it needs more people who do not share the same mindset. why even have more than one judge if every judge will value the same done-already physics game (joe danger) or bland, polished commercial title (cogs) the highest? why even have a competition?
to the igf's credit, they asked me to recommend people for judges in the hopes of having a more diverse panel. against their credit, they failed to contact any of them. i recommended people like anne-marie schleiner, artist and activist, charles pratt, game design lecturer at nyu, librarian of their games library, and host of the another castle podcast, and scott nicholson, founder of syracuse university's library game lab and published board game designer (and if you're responding that board games have nothing to do with videogames then you've missed the point entirely). these are people with both academic backgrounds and design experience – imagine what they'd bring to the independent games festival.
independent games should have value not just to scene nerds, not just to gamers, but to people and players as a whole. why reward games based on how well they pander to their audience's expectations when we should strive to reward them based on how much they have to contribute to the body and the study of games as a whole? why not? again, to whom are we beholden? what's keeping us from making richer choices?
unfinished games
recognizing, of course, that many games live well after their first release and are continually added to, refined and readjusted based on the experience of their players. they're living works. but if you've never released your game at all, i don't think you have a place in the igf. the igf shouldn't be a place for commercial titles to find publishers or to build their pre-release hype machines. as a judge, i refused to give any unreleased game i played over 75 points out of a hundred (knowing full well as i did that limbo would get in regardless).
the igf is a press event where we trot out our most mainstream creations in an attempt to get the mainstream press excited about them and, by extension, (in theory) about independent games as a whole. i would argue that that doesn't happen, that the press only gets excited about super meat boy, and that the whole event exists only to serve those developers who are already entrenched in the business / marketing cycle. if the organizers of the igf are content with it being this way, then the only problem is that they're dishonest about it, and that's why i was so angry last year.
but my real anger, my frustration with the igf, is that it could be so much more than what it is. a celebration of the diversity of people who make games outside the big industry and outside of the mainstream. confront the people from the offices next door with genuinely interesting, provocative games and ask what's taking them so long to catch up. we could prove, with the right selection of games, the value of our work for now and ever. but we don't. if we're truly independent, why do we settle for mediocrity?


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Published 12:30 am, Sunday, June 5, 2011
I hope the organizers of the Freihofer's Run for Women understand what they did when they offered us non-runners the opportunity to train for the race this year.
They're the reason I suddenly had to pee as I was sprinting down the hill by the state museum and saw I was going to reach my goal of finishing in 27 minutes (26:54).
They're why Ronnie Ippolito, a mom of two young boys who liked to pull the covers over her head, is now a morning person, never having missed any of the 6 a.m. Monday training sessions (or Saturday sessions) and already thinking toward her next race -- a 15K.
They're what prompted Nikki Alcala, who weighed 320 pounds in January and has since shed 35, to look at her racing bib and say, "I'm framing this bad boy" after finishing in 50:24. Her goal was to stay out of last place and do it in an hour or less.
About 400 women attended those first Freihofer's Training Challenge sessions in late March, where we picked up T-shirts and learned to jog in bursts that were shorter than the time it takes to heat up an Eggo for our kids. We worked with trainer Kristen Hislop for 10 weeks, following the Couch-to-5K program, a slow-and-steady workout that promised we could all finish the race.
It's estimated that fewer than half of us made it to race day. But those of us who crossed the finish line crossed into new territory in our lives.
We are runners now.
We will never watch another race and imagine how nice it would be to run it. We know.
We know what it's like to have butterflies as "The Star-Spangled Banner" echoes off the overpass at the state museum.
We know what it's like to self-talk our way through the tough parts, reminding ourselves when we're dragging in Mile 2 that we've gone so much farther in training.
We know how two struggling friends can pull each other to the finish.
"Running is pretty much the only thing she talks about now," Mike Ippolito, Ronnie's husband, said after he and their two boys, 3-year-old Reid and 4-year-old Cole, brought Ronnie flowers to celebrate her 31:40 finish. She's 43, and 10 years ago was smoking a pack a day.
Now she's pushing herself in four-mile training runs hoping to be ready for the Boilermaker, a 15K in Utica, on July 10.
Alcala had stopped going to training sessions after a few weeks because she hated always being last in the pack.
She started doing the workouts on her own and came back to the sessions after her endurance picked up. In the last couple miles Saturday, she looked up at one of the clocks along the course and asked herself, "Is that time right?" because she was so far ahead of her goal.
Me? I still hate running. Unfortunately, I love the high afterward, which means the Freihofer's Run for Women is not my final race. In these last weeks, my ultra-competitive self often forgot how far I'd come. I couldn't have run three miles a year ago. But on Saturday, my 21/2-year-old twins watched me -- the woman who swore she'd never set foot on a treadmill unless it was for a stress test -- finish 695th out of more than 4,000 runners.
There was a point in the first mile when Alcala wasn't sure she was going to meet her goal of staying out of last.
But she told herself, "Even if I am last, at least I started in the first place."
And that's how the race is won.
Thanks, Freihofer's organizers, for giving us a place to start.
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Comedian Al Ernst is proud to say he provides humor for adults — not adult humor.
"I want people to enjoy their evening and not worry that all comedy is dirty," he says. "But I also want folks to know that we are not doing kiddie humor and I'm not dressing up in a clown outfit."
In an April 6 Savannah Comedy Revue show titled "A View from the Cheap Seats," Ernst, creator of the E Man Nation comedy blog, will demonstrate the carefree style of comedy that has brought him the unofficial title of "the Jimmy Buffett of funny." Antonio Scott, winner of the Savannah Comedy Revue Comedy Contest, will open the show, and local comedian Opie Cooper also will perform.
Although Ernst's comedy is clean, it's edgy. His sense of humor blossomed early.
"I was an only child and enjoyed making the adults laugh," Ernst says. "I used humor with other kids to deflect them making fun of me, as I have been heavy all my life."
Others noticed Ernst's ability to make people laugh. "I was always selected to host events through school and career," he says.
"I was director of a YMCA in Baton Rouge," Ernst says. "We took our staff to the local Comedy Club to see Gabe Kaplan from the show 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' He was great, but all the people I was with kept saying that I was better, and needed to do this."
So Ernst went to an open mic. "I did terrible, but was hooked," he says. "I never thought it would be a career, but I just decided that I wanted to see if I could, and that was 22 years ago. Never held a day job since."
Although Ernst is originally from Chicago, his parents were sent to rural Georgia as medical missionaries when he was an infant. "Dad was a doctor and Mom a nurse," he says.
Ernst's father died when he was just a toddler, and the family moved back to Chicago, then Florida. "I went to college in North Carolina and my career in the YMCA took me to rural sections of Georgia, the Carolinas and Louisiana," he says. "The bulk of my life has been in the South."
Most comedians are either joke tellers or storytellers. "I am a total storyteller," Ernst says. "My fourth release is called 'Jesus Take the Wheel, Cause I'm Trying to Text.' I put the funny into that."
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Having worked with comedians from Jay Leno to Drew Carey, Ernst says, "You never know who is going to break as a star down the road."
His own influences include Steve Martin, Bill Cosby and Johnny Carson. "They all are complete comics," he says. "The Big Three in our industry are material, stage presence and showmanship. They all get it."
Ernst loves Savannah so much, he once took a cut in pay to play the long defunct Savannah Comedy House in the 1990s. "One of my most interesting shows was opening for Steve Harvey before he became 'Steve Harvey' in Savannah," Ernst says. "You knew that he was a star back then."
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It's been a busy past few days around here. But, they've also been good days on the whole, so, like the one-legged man: I can't kick.
Saturday, I had the pleasure of going to work to kick a server back into… um… service. It had decided to go belly-up around mid-morning and needed something just this side of percussive maintenance to get it back in gear. The rest of Saturday was, thankfully uneventful. Sunday, Sara!, Team DiVa and I went out for brunch and a trip to The Garden of Sweden. (We went for ONE THING… and left with about eight or nine things. None of which were the one we were after.) Monday, we took the girls for their first trip to Utah's Hogle Zoo:
The trip was a BIG hit. The girls went nuts for the elephants, although seeing the giraffes was a little disconcerting for Vanessa. By the time we were done, they didn't want to leave, despite the fact that it was lunch time AND the fact that they didn't have morning naps. There were parts of the zoo that were closed for construction, but that didn't stop us from seeing a good number of animals. And the girls kept demanding "More! More!" I can see many more trips to the zoo in the not-distant future.
Chew on This – Food for Thought: Black History Month
Once again, playing catch-up for the days I've missed. There's a lot of information here, so let's get to it:
- Eleanor Holmes Norton – Civil rights activist, politician
Born June 13, 1937 in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Antioch College, Yale University and Yale University Law School, Norton worked in private practice before becoming assistant director of the American Civil Liberties Union (1965–70) where she defended both Julian Bond's and George Wallace's freedom-of-speech rights.As Chairman of the New York Human Rights Commission (1970–7), Norton championed women's rights and anti-block-busting legislation. She then went to Washington to chair the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (1977–83), and in 1982 became a law professor at Georgetown University.In 1990, Norton was elected as a Democratic non-voting delegate to the House from the District of Columbia. Currently under scrutiny, the DC Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act (or DC Vote) would give one vote to the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives, but not the Senate. Norton is a regular panelist on the PBS women's news program To the Contrary.
- Floyd Patterson – BoxerFloyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American professional boxer and former Undisputed Heavyweight Champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title. He was also the first heavyweight boxer to regain the title. He had a record of 55 wins, 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by knockout. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Olympic Games as a middleweight.Born into a poor family in Waco, North Carolina, Patterson was the youngest of eleven children and experienced an insular and troubled childhood. His family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where Floyd was a truant and petty thief. At age ten, he was sent to the Wiltwyck School for Boys, a reform school in upstate New York, which he credited with turning his life around. He stayed there for almost 2 years. He attended high school in New Paltz, NY where he succeeded in all sports.(to this day the New Paltz football field is named in his honor) At age fourteen, he started to box, trained by Cus D'Amato at his Gramercy Gym.
Aged just 17, Patterson won the Gold medal in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics as a middleweight. 1952 turned out to be a good year for the young Patterson; in addition to Olympic gold Patterson won the National Amateur Middleweight Championship and New York Golden Gloves Middleweight Championship. Patterson turned pro and steadily rose through the ranks, his only early defeat being an eight-round decision to former Light Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim on June 7, 1954, at the Eastern Parkway Arena in Brooklyn, New York. Most people think Patterson did enough to win, and Maxim's greater fame at the time helped to sway the judges.
Although Patterson fought around the light heavyweight limit for much of his early career, he and manager Cus D'Amato always had plans to fight for the Heavyweight Championship. In fact, D'Amato made these plans clear as early as 1954, when he told the press that Patterson was aiming for the heavyweight title. However, after Rocky Marciano announced his retirement as World Heavyweight Champion on April 27, 1956, Patterson was ranked by The Ring magazine as the top light heavyweight contender. After Marciano's announcement, Jim Norris of the International Boxing Club stated that Patterson was one of the six fighters who would take part in an elimination tournament to crown Marciano's successor. The Ring then moved Patterson into the heavyweight rankings, at number five.
Following a series of defeats, Patterson went through a depression. However, he eventually recovered and began winning fights again, including top victories over Eddie Machen and George Chuvalo. Patterson was now the number one challenger for the title held by Muhammad Ali. On November 22, 1965, in yet another attempt to be the first to win the World Heavyweight title three times, Patterson lost by technical knockout at the end of the 12th round, going into the fight with an injured sacro-iliac joint in a bout in which Ali was clearly dominant. Ali called Patterson an "Uncle Tom" for refusing to call him Muhammad Ali (Patterson continued to call him Cassius Clay) and for this outspokenness against black Muslims. Instead of scoring a quick knockout, Ali mocked, humiliated and punished Patterson throughout the fight.
Patterson was still a legitimate contender. In 1966 he traveled to England and knocked out British boxer Henry Cooper in just four rounds at Wembley Stadium. In comparison, Ali never scored a knockdown against Cooper in their two bouts and was nearly knocked out by Cooper in their first fight after he was knocked down near the end of the fourth round, but recovered after his corner used smelling salts on him (which was against British rules) at the end of that round. Ali would go on to score a TKO over Cooper after Cooper was severely cut in the fifth round.
In September 1969 he divorced his first wife, Sandra Hicks Patterson, who wanted him to quit boxing, while he still had hopes for another title shot.
When Ali was stripped of his title for refusing induction into the military, the World Boxing Association staged an eight-man tournament to determine his successor. Patterson fought Jerry Quarry to a draw in 1967. In a rematch four months later, Patterson lost a controversial 12-round decision to Quarry. Subsequently, in a third and final attempt at winning the title a third time, Patterson lost a controversial 15-round referee's decision to Jimmy Ellis in Sweden, despite breaking Ellis' nose and scoring a disputed knockdown.
Patterson continued on, defeating Oscar Bonavena in a close fight over ten rounds in early 1972.
At age 37, Patterson was stopped in the seventh round in a rematch with Muhammad Ali for the NABF Heavyweight title on September 20, 1972. The defeat proved to be Patterson's last fight, although there was never an announcement of retirement.
Floyd Patterson suffered from Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer and had been hospitalized for a week prior to his death. He died at home in New Paltz in 2006 at age 71.
- Queen Latifah – Actress, entrepreneur, music producer, rapper, singer
Queen Latifah was born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970, in Newark, New Jersey. The second child of Lance and Rita Owens, Latifah is best known for her social politics, acting skills and gift for rhyme. When she was 8 years old, a Muslim cousin gave her the nickname Latifah, meaning "delicate and sensitive" in Arabic. Latifah began singing in the choir of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and had her first public performance when she sang a version of "Home" as one of the two Dorothys in a production of The Wizard of Oz at St. Anne's parochial school.
In her first year of high school, Latifah began informal singing and rapping in the restrooms and locker rooms. In her junior year, she formed a rap group, Ladies Fresh, with her friends Tangy B and Landy D in response to the formation of another young women's group. Soon the group was making appearances wherever they could. Latifah's mother was a catalyst; she was in touch with the students and the music. She invited Mark James, a local disc jockey known as D.J. Mark the 45 King, to appear at a school dance. The basement of James's parents' house in East Orange, which was equipped with electronic and recording equipment, became the hangout of Latifah and her friends. They began to call themselves "Flavor Unit."James was beginning a career as a producer and made a demo record of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the demo to the host of Yo! MTV Raps, Fred Braithwaite (professionally known as "Fab 5 Freddy"). The recording captured the attention of Tommy Boy Music employee Dante Ross, who immediately signed Latifah, and in 1988 issued her first single, "Wrath of My Madness." The track met with a positive response and afforded her the opportunity to launch a European tour, and to perform at the Harlem's famed Apollo Theater. The next year Latifah released her first album, All Hail to the Queen, which went on to sell more than 1 million copies.As she began to earn money, Latifah displayed an interest in investment, putting money into a delicatessen and a video store on the ground floor of the apartment in which she was living. She came to realize that she had a knack for business, and realized that there was an opening for her in record production. In 1991, Latifah organized and became chief executive officer of the Flavor Unit Records and Management Company, headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. By late 1993, the company had signed 17 rap groups, including the very successful Naughty by Nature. In 1993, Latifah recorded a jazz- and reggae-influenced album titled Black Reign. While the album sold more than 500,000 copies, the single "U.N.I.T.Y." earned Latifah her first Grammy Award in 1995.
In the 1990s, Latifah branched out into acting. She made her big screen debut in Spike Lee's interracial romance drama Jungle Fever (1991). The following year, Latifah appeared in the crime thriller Juice with Omar Epps and Tupac Shakur. She soon landed a leading role on the small screen, appearing in the sitcom Living Single from 1993 to '98. The comedy, which also starred Kim Coles, Kim Fields and Erika Alexander, proved to be a ground-breaking show. It remains one of the few sitcoms to focus on a group of African-American women.
A talented performer, Latifah continued to tackle both comedic and dramatic parts. She co-starred in 1996's Set It Off with Jada Pinkett Smith and Vivica A. Fox, playing as a lesbian bank robber. Two years later, Latifah teamed up with Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito for the comedy Living Out Loud (1998). She also appeared withDenzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in The Bone Collector.
Perhaps Latifah's most acclaimed film role to date came in the 2002 hit musical Chicago, starring Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jonesand Renee Zellweger. Her portrayal of prison matron Mama Morton gave her a chance to show off both her singing talents and acting skills. For her work in the film, Latifah earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. She lost to Chicago co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Latifah went on to receive strong reviews for 2003's romantic comedy Bringing Down the House co-starring with Steve Martin. The following year, she experienced some disappointment withTaxi, which co-starred Jimmy Fallon. The comedy proved to be a critical and commercial dud. She fared better with Beauty Shop(2005) and her voice-over work in the hit animated film Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006).
In 2007, Queen Latifah again delighted movie-goers with her musical talents. She appeared as Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspraywith John Travolta. Her crime caper Mad Money (2008) with Diane Keaton and Katie Holmes received much colder reception. Returning to drama, Latifah gave a strong performance in The Secret Life of Bees (2008).
On the small screen, Latifah has made a number of guest television appearances over the years, including on the shows 30 Rock and Single Ladies. She also co-starred in the 2012 TV remake of Steel Magnolias with Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad and Jill Scott. Latifah branched out in a new direction the following year. She will enter the daytime television market with a new talk show. The Queen Latifah Show will debut in the fall of 2013. The program promises to be a mix of interviews and comedic and musical performances, according to BET.com.
In addition to acting, Queen Latifah serves as a spokesperson for CoverGirl cosmetics. She even has her own line with the company: The Queen Collection.
- Diana Ross – Actress, singer
Diana Ross was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 26, 1944. The second-eldest child of Ernestine (née Moten) (January 27, 1916 – October 9, 1984), a schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. (July 4, 1920 – November 21, 2007), a former United States Army soldier, Ross would later say that she didn't see much of her father until he had returned from service following World War II.
Ross and her family originally lived at Belmont Road in the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Park, Michigan, where she was neighbors with Smokey Robinson, who first met Ross when she was eight. Despite her early life as a "tomboy", upon her teenage years, Ross had dreams of being a fashion designer. She studied design, millinery, pattern-making and seamstress skills while attending Cass Technical High School, a four-year college preparatory magnet school, in downtown Detroit. In her late teens, Ross worked at Hudson's Department Store where, it was claimed in biographies, that she was the first black employee "allowed outside the kitchen". Ross graduated in January 1962, one semester earlier than her classmates. Around this same time, Ross was turned on by the emerging rock and roll music scene, and her early influences included Frankie Lymon and Etta James.
At fifteen, Ross was brought to the attention of music impresario Milton Jenkins, manager of the local doo-wop group the Primes, by Mary Wilson. Paul Williams, then member of The Primes, convinced Jenkins to include Ross in the Primettes, considered a "sister group" of the Primes. Ross was part of a lineup that included Wilson,Florence Ballard and Betty McGlown, who completed the lineup. In 1960, following their win at a singing contest in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, the group auditioned for a spot on Motown Records after Smokey Robinson introduced the young group to Berry Gordy. Upon learning of their ages, Gordy advised them to come back after graduation. Undeterred, the quartet stayed around Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. headquarters, offering to provide extra help for Motown's recordings, often including hand-claps and background vocals.In January 1961, Berry Gordy agreed to sign the young act under the condition they change their name. Each member picked out various names from friends. Eventually they settled on The Supremes, though Ross initially had apprehensions toward the name – she felt the name would mistake them for a male vocal group. But Gordy agreed with the new name and signed them on January 15 of that year. During the group's early years, there was no designated lead vocalist for the group as they had agreed to split lead vocals between their choice of song material; Ross favoring the uptempo pop songs. That changed in 1963 when Gordy assigned Ross, who had already sung lead on the majority of their early singles, as the main lead vocalist, considering that her vocals had potential to reach Gordy's dreams of crossover success. Between August 1964 and May 1967, Ross, Wilson and Ballard sang on ten number-one hit singles, all of which also made the UK top forty. The group had also become a hit with audiences both domestically and abroad, going on to become Motown's most successful vocal act throughout the sixties.
In 1968, Ross started performing as a solo artist mainly on television specials, including The Supremes' own specials such as TCB and G.I.T. on Broadway. In mid-1969, Gordy decided to have Ross leave the group by the end of the year and Ross began sessions for her own solo work that July. One of the first plans for Ross to establish her own solo career was to bring in a new Motown recording act. Though she herself didn't claim discovery, Motown pinned Ross as having discovered The Jackson 5. In November, Ross confirmed a split from the Supremes on Billboard. Ross' presumed first solo recording, "Someday We'll Be Together", was eventually released as a Supremes recording and became the group's final number-one hit on the Hot 100. Ross made her final appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas on January 14, 1970.
After her obligations with the Supremes were fulfilled, Ross signed a new contract as a solo artist in March 1970. Two months later, Motown released her eponymous solo debut, which included the hits, "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," the latter song becoming her first number-one single as a solo artist on the pop and R&B charts, also becoming an international hit reaching the UK top ten, and winning Ross her first Grammy nomination. Ross only released one solo recording in 1972. She reemerged in 1973 with "Touch Me in the Morning," which became her first single to reach number-one in three years. The album of the same name became Ross's first non-soundtrack studio album to reach the top ten, peaking at #5. Later that year, the Diana & Marvin album, her duet album with Gaye, was released, and spawned five hit singles, including three released in the United States and two in Europe, gaining an international hit with their cover of The Stylistics' "You Are Everything." In 1973, Ross began giving out concerts overseas where she immediately sold out at every concert venue she performed at. That year, Ross became the first entertainer in Japan's history to receive an invitation to the Imperial Palace for a private audience with the Empress Nagako, wife of Emperor Hirohito.
Ross's follow-up albums, 1977's Baby It's Me and 1978's Ross, however, both faltered on the charts, mainly due to lack of promotion and a period of growing tension between Ross and Gordy, stemming from an incident in 1975 after Ross struck him after the two engaged in an argument on the set of Ross's film, Mahogany. In 1977, Ross starred in her own one-woman show at Broadway, titled An Evening with Diana Ross. Her performance later resulted in her winning a Tony Award.
After catching the group Chic at a concert where she attended with her daughters, Ross advised to the leaders of the band, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards to work with them in New York on her next album. They agreed and, in 1980, Ross released the Diana album. The album became her highest-charting solo album and her most successful, featuring hits including the number-one hit, "Upside Down," her first song to reach the top position in four years. Another song, "I'm Coming Out," became equally successful; its hook would later be sampled for "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems." Diana would become Ross's final studio album under her Motown contract. She would later work on four songs to complete her contractual obligations for the compilation album, To Love Again, which would be released in May 1981. Though Ross had sought to leave Motown in 1980 shortly after the release of Diana, she discovered, just as she was planning to leave Motown, that she only had up to $150,000 in her name despite helping Motown to earn millions of dollars with her recordings in the twenty years she had been signed to the label. Ross signed with RCA on May 20, 1981, and her $20 million deal in 1981 became then the most lucrative contract of any recording artist at the time. After leaving, Ross achieved her sixth and final number-one hit with Lionel Richie on the ballad "Endless Love" around the same time Ross left the label.
In 1971, Diana Ross began working on her first film, Lady Sings the Blues, which was a loosely based biography on music legend Billie Holiday. Some critics lambasted the idea of the singer playing Holiday considering how "miles apart" their styles were. At one point, Ross began talking with several of Holiday's acquaintances and listened to her recordings to get into character. During an audition to acquire the role, Ross would act on cue to the film's producers's commands, helping Ross to win her part. When Berry Gordy heard Ross perform covers of Holiday's material, he felt Ross had put "a little too much" Holiday in her vocal range, advising Ross to "put a little Diana back into it."
Ross also talked with doctors at drug clinics in research of the film, as Holiday had been a known drug addict. Ross would later make a crucial decision when it came to interpreting Holiday's music: instead of flatly imitating Holiday, she only focused on Holiday's vocal phrasing. "Lady Sings the Blues" opened in theaters in October 1972, becoming a major success in Ross's career. Ross's role in the film won her Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. Alongside Cicely Tyson, who was nominated for her role in the film, Sounder, they were the first Black actresses to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress since Dorothy Dandridge. The soundtrack to "Lady Sings the Blues" became just as successful, reaching #1 on the Billboard 200 staying there for two weeks and breaking then-industry records by shipping 300,000 copies during the first eight days of its release. At nearly two million in sales, it is one of Ross's best-selling albums to date.
After the film, Ross returned to her music career, reemerging with another film in 1975 with Mahogany, her second film, in which she starred alongside Billy Dee Williams and whose costumes she designed. The story of an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a runway model and the toast of the industry, Mahogany was a troubled production from its inception. The film's original director, Tony Richardson, was fired during production, and Berry Gordy assumed the director's chair himself. In addition, Gordy and Ross clashed during filming, with Ross leaving the production before shooting was completed, forcing Gordy to use secretary Edna Anderson as a body double for Ross. While a box office success, the film was not well received by the critics: Time magazine's review of the film chastised Gordy for "squandering one of America's most natural resources: Diana Ross."
In 1977, Motown acquired the film rights to the Broadway play The Wiz, an African-American reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film initially was to include the stage actors who had performed on the play. However, the role of Dorothy, which had been performed onstage by Stephanie Mills, would be given to Ross after she convinced film producer Rob Cohen to cast her in the role of Dorothy. This decision eventually led to a change in the film's script in which Dorothy went from a schoolgirl to a schoolteacher. The role of the Scarecrow, also performed by someone else onstage, was eventually given to Ross's former Motown label mate, Michael Jackson. The film adaptation of The Wiz had been a $24 million production, but upon its October 1978 release, it earned only $21,049,053 at the box office. Though pre-release television broadcast rights had been sold to CBS for over $10 million, the film produced a net loss of $10.4 million for Motown and Universal. At the time, it was the most expensive film musical ever made. The film's failure ended Ross's short career on the big screen and contributed to the Hollywood studios's reluctance to produce the all-black film projects which had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early to mid-1970s for several years. The Wiz was Ross's final film for Motown.
Ross had success with movie-themed songs. While her version of Holiday's "Good Morning Heartache" only performed modestly well in early 1973, her recording of "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" gave Ross her third number-one hit, in late 1975. Three years later, Ross and Michael Jackson had a modest dance hit with their recording of "Ease on Down the Road." Their second duet, actually as part of the ensemble of The Wiz, "Brand New Day," found some success overseas. Ross scored a Top 10 hit in late 1980 with the theme song to the 1980 film It's My Turn. The following year, she collaborated with former Commodores singer-songwriter Lionel Richie on the theme song for the film Endless Love. The Academy Award-nominated title single became her final hit on Motown Records, and the number one record of the year. Several years later, in 1988, Ross recorded the theme song to The Land Before Time. "If We Hold On Together" became an international hit, reaching number-one in Japan.
In 1984, Ross's career spiked yet again with the release of the million-selling Swept Away. This featured a duet with Julio Iglesias, "All Of You," which was featured on both the albums they had then released—his 1100 Bel Air Place as well as her Swept Away. It and the title selection both became international hits, as did the chart-topping ballad, "Missing You," which was a tribute to Marvin Gaye, who had died earlier that year. Her 1985 album, Eaten Alive, found major success overseas with the title track and "Chain Reaction," although neither of the songs became the best-sellers she was once accustomed to in America. Earlier in 1985, she appeared as part of the supergroup USA for Africa on the '"We Are the World"' charity single, which sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Ross's 1987 follow up to Eaten Alive, Red Hot Rhythm & Blues, found less success than the prior album. In 1988, Ross chose to not renew her RCA contract. Around this same time, Ross had been in talks with her former mentor Berry Gordy to return to Motown. When she learned of Gordy's plans to sell Motown, Ross tried advising him against the decision though he sold it to MCA Records in 1988. Following this decision, Gordy offered Ross a new contract to return to Motown with the condition that she have shares in the company as a part-owner. Ross accepted the offer.
Despite its heavy promotion, Diana's next album, Workin' Overtime, was a critical and commercial failure. Subsequent follow-ups such as The Force Behind the Power(1991), Take Me Higher (1995), and Every Day Is a New Day (1999) produced similarly disappointing sales. Ross had more success overseas with the albums than she did in America. In 1994, Ross performed at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup, hosted in the USA. Her performance has become a running joke in football circles due to her obvious miming and for missing the goal from close range. On January 28, 1996, Ross performed the Halftime Show at Super Bowl XXX.
In 1999, she was named the most successful female singer in the history of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. Madonna would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK.
In 2004, after spending several years away from the spotlight and after a stint in jail for committing a DUI, Ross returned to live touring, first in Europe and then in the United States all within the same year. In 2005, she participated in Rod Stewart's Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV recording a duet version of the Gershwin standard, "I've Got a Crush on You". The song was released as promotion for the album and later reached number 19 on the Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary chart, marking her first Billboard chart entry since 2000. Ross was featured in another hit duet, this time with Westlife, on a cover of Ross' 1991 hit, "When You Tell Me You Love Me", which repeated the same chart success of the original just fourteen years before.
In June 2006, Universal released Ross' shelved 1972 Blue album. It peaked at #2 on Billboard's jazz albums chart. Later in 2006, Ross released her first studio album in seven years with I Love You. It would be released on EMI/Manhattan Records in the United States in January 2007. EMI Inside later reported the album had sold more than 622,000 copies worldwide. Ross later ventured on a world tour to promote I Love You which garnered rave reviews. In 2007, she was honored twice, first with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards and later was one of the honorees at the Kennedy Center Honors.
In 2010, Ross embarked on her first headlining tour in three years titled the More Today Than Yesterday: The Greatest Hits Tour. She dedicated the entire concert tour to her late friend, Michael Jackson, who died in June 2009. Ross has garnered critical success as well as commercial success from the now two-year tour. In February 2012, Diana Ross received her first ever Grammy Award, for Lifetime Achievement, and announced the nominees for the Album of the Year. In May, a DVD of Ross' Central Park concert performances, "For One & For All", was released and featured commentary from Steve Binder, who directed the special.
- Dred Scott – Civil rights activistDred Scott was born in sometime around the turn of the century, often fixed at 1795, in Southampton County, Virginia. Legend has it that his name was Sam, but when his elder brother died, he adopted his name instead. His parents were slaves, but it is uncertain whether the Blow family owned them at his birth or thereafter. Peter Blow and his family relocated first to Huntsville, Alabama, and then to St. Louis Missouri. After Peter Blow's death, in the early 1830s, Scott was sold to a U.S. Army doctor, John Emerson.In 1836, Scott fell in love with a slave of another army doctor, 19-year-old Harriett Robinson, and her ownership was transferred over to Dr. Emerson when they were wed. In the ensuing years, Dr. Emerson traveled to Illinois and the Wisconsin Territories, both of which prohibited slavery. When Emerson died in 1846, Scott tried to buy freedom for himself and his family from Emerson's widow, but she refused. Dred Scott made history by launching a legal battle to gain his freedom. That he had lived with Dr. Emerson in free territories become the basis for his case.
The process began in 1846: Scott lost in his initial suit in a local St. Louis district court, but he won in a second trial, only to have that decision overturned by the Missouri State Supreme Court. With support from local abolitionists, Scott filed another suit in federal court in 1854, against John Sanford, the widow Emerson's brother and executor of his estate. When that case was decided in favor of Sanford, that Scott turned to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In December 1856, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech, foreshadowing the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, examining the constitutional implications of the Dred Scott Case.
On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued, 11 long years after the initial suits. Seven of the nine judges agreed with the outcome delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney, who announced that slaves were not citizens of the United States and therefore had no rights to sue in Federal courts: "… They had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." The decision also declared that the Missouri Compromise (which had allowed Scott to sample freedom in Illinois and Wisconsin) was unconstitutional, and that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery.
The Dred Scott decision sparked outrage in the northern states and glee in the south—the growing schism made civil war inevitable.
Too controversial to retain the Scotts as slaves after the trial, Mrs. Emerson remarried and returned Dred Scott and his family to the Blows who granted them their freedom in May 1857. That same month, Frederick Douglassdelivered a speech discussing the Dred Scott decision on the anniversary of the American Abolition Society.
Eventually, the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution overrode this Supreme Court ruling.
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Tears for dead children
"Do you think he was faking it?"
"I don't know for sure. One thing I do know, when I heard about Newtown first thing I thought was that they'd use it to try to push gun control."
"You thought that right away?
"First thing."
"First thing I thought was, why the hell would anyone shoot a bunch of little kids?"
"Well, I thought that too, but it wasn't the first thing."
That's the conversation I overheard in the cafeteria today. The background, for those who don't follow these things, is that during President Obama's announcement of his (extremely limited and common-sense) Executive Orders on gun control he was listing some of the more notorious mass killings during his term in office, and when he got to the Newtown massacre, in which twenty first-grade schoolchildren were shot dead, he teared up a little on camera.
American conservatives seem to be facing a growing shortage of verbal filters. I'll admit I think some inappropriate thoughts myself sometimes, but I try to keep the ones that make me sound like a total psychopath on the inside, mostly. I'm at least embarrassed by them.
Okay, that's just one guy in a cafeteria, admittedly. Maybe he just has a truly warped sense of humour (though he was completely deadpan about it). It wasn't a random oddity that he thought the President might have been faking being upset by the memory of twenty children being shot dead for no reason, though. It was proposed by several public conservatives, for example these Fox News television hosts:
I find it bizarre that anyone would have a hard time believing a father of two daughters would shed tears thinking about children being killed, but it does not seem like it's remarkable among the people who make up the right wing commentariat, or as far as I can tell among their audience.
Is it that they don't believe the President is an actual human being, who has tears for dead children in him to shed? Or is it that they have no empathy of their own, and project their emptiness on others?
I don't know, but I worry when attitudes like that are normalised. I don't want to live in the kind of society that leaps to those conclusions.
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The Cowboys, who Lamar will play Sept. 4 in Lake Charles, La., used four quarterbacks Saturday in a preseason intrasquad scrimmage at the McNeese practice fields.
Based on this account from the Lake Charles American Press newspaper, 25-year-old senior Jacob Bower appears to have a leg up on the competition to replace 2009 Southland Conference co-player of the year Derrick Fourroux.
Bower, a 6-foot-4 graduate student who transferred from Tulsa, completed 6 of 10 passes for 77 yards and helped the Cowboys to four running touchdowns. All told, McNeese scored nine touchdowns, but six of them came when the ball was put on the 25-yard line going in, according to a report at McNeeseSports.com.
At Lamar, former West Orange-Stark player Andre Bevil has all but sewn up the starting quarterback job. He threw for two touchdowns in Lamar's intrasquad scrimmage Saturday.


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Skip to comments.Why Most Postmortems of Virginias Gubernatorial Race Are Wrong
Posted on 11/13/2013 5:52:03 AM PST by 1010RD
The dust has settled (mostly) from last weeks elections, so I thought it time to present a very different assessment of what happened in Virginia than the snapshot Ive seen from others.
For example, Democracy Corps and Womens Voices, Women Vote Action Fund distributed a wholly self-serving and unconvincing memo titled Unmarried Women Cast Deciding Votes in Virginia Election. Its unconvincing, of course, because Republicans always lose unmarried women, regardless of an elections outcome. Unmarried women are more liberal than most voters and are not part of any winning Republican coalition.
NBCs Domenico Montanaro and The Washington Posts Jonathan Capehart credited African-American turnout for Democrat Terry McAuliffes victory, as did Jamelle Bouie of The Daily Beast. Wrong as well, Im afraid.
Others have noted, quite incorrectly, that the partisan makeup of the 2013 electorate wasnt very different from the makeup of the 2012 electorate in Virginia, suggesting that Democrats have found some formula for turning out key voting groups in lower turnout elections that could help them offset what most expect to be a less Democratic-inclined electorate for the 2014 midterms.
While these assessments tell a part of the story and certainly should force Republican voters and strategists to take a clear-eyed look at the long-term prospects of the current GOP coalition, they dont explain last weeks results in Virginia, nor do they offer meaningful insights into 2014.
While African-American voters made up one-fifth of the Virginia electorate in both 2012 and 2013 and Democrats held a partisan advantage in both contests (7 points in 2012 and 5 points in 2013), McAuliffe did not win because of the makeup of the electorate or the GOPs weaknesses with black voters.
He won because Republican Ken Cuccinelli failed to get the same level of support from the normally Republican voting groups that Mitt Romney had a year earlier. And any complete comparison of the 2012 and 2013 electorates in the commonwealth suggests turnout problems for Democrats in next years midterms.
The 2013 Virginia electorate was older, wealthier, more married and, surprisingly, more male than the Virginia electorate during the presidential race just a year earlier. In other words, it was a measurably more Republican-looking electorate than the one that turned out in the commonwealth for President Barack Obamas re-election, even with the impressive black turnout.
In 2012, the Virginia electorate, according to exit poll data on CNNs website, was 53 percent female and 47 percent male. This year, the exit poll showed an electorate that was 51 percent female and 49 percent male.
Voters age 18-29 constituted a strong 19 percent of the electorate in 2012, but made up only 13 percent of this years electorate. On the other hand, voters 65 and older were 18 percent of this years Virginia electorate, 4 points more than the 14 percent they constituted in 2012.
This years electorate was also much wealthier. In 2012, 34 percent of voters made $100,000 a year or more, but this year 40 percent fell into that income category.
In 2012, only 62 percent of the electorate was married. This year, 67 percent said they were married.
So, in many important demographic categories, the 2013 electorate was much different than the one that showed up to the polls last year. And the differences should have favored the Republican ticket. That wasnt true of race and partisanship, of course, but there is no reason to pull out only two categories for examination, especially given the richness of the exit poll data.
The survey data are pretty clear on why Cuccinelli lost. He lost because he was unable to match Romneys percentages with key demographic groups that almost always vote Republican. Those voters showed up at the polls, but too many Romney voters crossed over to cast ballots for McAuliffe or Libertarian Robert Sarvis.
The Republican nominee for governor won a plurality of male voters (48 percent), but well below the 51 percent that Romney won in the state last year. Cuccinelli would have gained an additional 48,000 votes if he had matched Romneys percentage, much of which would have come from McAuliffe, thereby completely erasing the Democrats 55,100 victory margin. (See Virginias total vote here.)
Add in white women (Romney won 59 percent of them in the state in 2012, while Cuccinelli won only 54 percent this year) or wealthy voters (Romney won 51 percent of voters earning at least $100,000 a year in Virginia in 2012, while Cuccinelli drew just 43 percent of them and lost the category to McAuliffe) and the Republican would have had a comfortable victory last week.
And if you dont want to focus on gender, the marital status numbers tell the same story. Romney won 55 percent of married voters in Virginia last year, while Cuccinelli won only 50 percent of them this year. Thats about 75,400 fewer married voters than a Romney-like Republican gubernatorial nominee should have drawn.
Though you hear a lot about the changing face of the electorate, both nationally and in Virginia, thats not why Cuccinelli lost last week.
The Virginia election in 2013 was one where the Republican nominee would have won merely by attracting the votes of the same people who voted for Mitt Romney. The partys candidate for governor did not need to improve his showing among young voters, African-Americans, Hispanics or unmarried women. He just needed to get white guys and their wives.
That conclusion, which is based on an evaluation of all of the data, not on merely cherry-picking one or two variables, ought to be little comfort for Democratic strategists worrying about the makeup of the midterm electorate.
Correction Nov. 12, 12:49 p.m.
An earlier version of this post misstated one reference of the income range of wealthy Virginia voters who supported Mitt Romney in 2012. Romney won 51 percent of voters earning at least $100,000 a year in Virginia in 2012.
I think a lot of republicans were really mad that the VA GOP gave them a choice between Romney and Ron Paul in the presidential primary. I recall many folks saying that was the last straw for them.
The rats poured 20 million into terry's coronation... voter intimidation, voter fraud, stealing votes, buying votes and a republican party aligned with terry and the rats... and their absolute abandonment of Cuch... this is what cost Cuch a Victory.
These "wealthy" Virginians for McAwful are the U.S. government employees surrounding D.C.
The govt. shutdown did affect NoVa, and Kooch.
Third party probably didn't help, but I did hear mixed results. Knowing now that the fake libertarian was bought and paid by liberals tells me his intention (if not result) was to hurt Kucinelli.
My take hasn't changed. The GOPe made little effort to GOTV of their country club GOPer set. That's why KC lost. KC wasn't their guy and they didn't have much desire to carrying him over the finish line.
What I find interesting is that the VA gov race was much more important to the Dems than the GOP. That's why they won.
The GOP basically admits they'd rather have a Democrat win than a Tea Partier.
OK, so the voters demography turn out seemed to favor Republicans.
Yet the article barely mentioned if the votes Cuccinelli supposedly lost went to the libertarian candidate. Is there a demography break-down of what the 3rd candidate attracted?
Black thugs outside white polling places? Seriously?
Another thing I should point out. This article relied heavily (if not solely) on the exit poll numbers.
Even if (bold) we assume the exit poll numbers are correct, this does not account for the 'unseen' votes Democrats almost always get.
To base your next campaign strategy on the faulty analysis is risky.
As far as I could discern, Cucinelli lost because he was so busy appealing to the base that he failed to sell his ideas to the center. The ads I saw were terrible. Frankly, I put this loss at the feet of the DC consulting class, which is RINO to the core, IOW, it was a classic RINO backstabbing, as they did to any number of TEA Party candidates. The GOPe will not suffer challenge, because their status is more important to them than are the ideas the Party supposedly exists to advance.
Even if (bold) we assume the exit poll numbers are correct, this does not account for the unseen votes Democrats almost always get.
I don't think you have to fall back on anything nefarious here.
The bottom line is the Dems made this race a priority and the RNC/RGA did not. In a close race that is enough to win. The Dems did what they frequently do. Pull a lousy candidate over the finish line and into the winners circle. Until the GOP has a similar mindset they will continue to lose many winnable contests.
I've read the GOP was very very stingy on the funds for him.
yes... third party = Dem win
The GOP was the reason, they did nothing to counter the former clintoon goon...
Yea... I read the same kind of crap when Perot gave Clinton the win over Bush Sr. I don't believe it for a second.
For those of us in Virginia, any pretense that the GOP would play ball with Conservatives has been wiped away. It WAS that bad. It will only get worse..
I agree with your first two sentences, but fail to see how they mesh with the rest of what you wrote. Virginia is still a center-right state, as it has been for 25 years, but any Republican must pick up most of the independents and moderates in the center to win a state-wide election.
Fortunately, the Virginia legislature is still mostly conservative and will be able to limit the damage that McAuliffe can do in four years.
While there were many factors that came into play, fundamentally Ken lost because of Ken.
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60 Years With The Bible - The New Century
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AT the close of the Nineteenth Century I had been engaged for a decade in the work to which my life had led me. My method of using the Bible had been longer than a decade in practice, and through practice had only grown clearer and more consistent. I had had no wish to go back from it, and could not have gone back if I had desired. It had been attained through one of those movements of growth that cannot be revoked. Consequently the years of the new century have not recorded any great changes in my attitude toward the Bible. Nevertheless, I must say a few words about these years. The due result of my previous experience has appeared in them in a manner that I must not leave unmentioned.
In this last period I have not been working upon my Bible nearly so much as I was in the Seventies or the Eighties, but I have been working with it, by means of it, in the light of it, in a manner that was then impossible. From being mainly an object of study, the Bible has passed on to be more and more a means of study; and such it has continued to be until the present time, and will be through the remainder of my life. I am glad to report that this has come to pass, for I am sure that this accords with the will of God for his children.
The story that I have told illustrates this double use of the Bible, first as an object of study and afterward as a means of study. In the late Seventies, when without will of my own I was plunged all at once into investigation of the atonement, the keynote of my later work was sounded. I have described the change by saying that I then passed on from using the Bible in the Iight of its statements, to using it in the light of its principles. Not that the later method was then first introduced, or the earlier then abandoned. Both enter into all sound study, and both have been with me more or less from first to last, or I should have no experience with the Bible worth recording. But the two periods were unlike, in that attention to statements was characteristic of the earlier, and attention to principles of the later. Once it seemed sufficient to inquire what the Bible said upon a given subject, and to analyze and classify the answers. Afterward it became necessary to inquire not merely what the Bible said, but what it taught, upon a given subject—to ascertain what light it gave, by means of its great revelation of God and life. What it teaches through its large revealing may be something different from what it says in its various statements. Certainly what it teaches in this large way is different from what it says in some of its statements. In my later years I have had to look beyond the sayings to the teaching.
The significance in a man's life of this change is evident. It needs no proof that this change of method is in effect the same as that which was mentioned just before it. When I viewed the Bible as a body of statements, it was natural that I should use it chiefly as an object of study. I was seeking to know what the statements meant. When I came to view it as an expression of principles, the principles of divine religion, it thereby became to me a means of study: then I sought to know whither the principles led. The book thus became to me an instrument of advance, an opportunity for the obtaining of. further light upon the matters of which it treats. The significance of these last years is that in them I have more and more used the Bible as the divine guide and inspiration for my own study of the things of God. It seems to me that this change must correspond to God's intention for a man advancing from youth to age. In youth he must wish me to master the statements of the Bible. In later life it must be his will that I seize upon the principles of the revelation that it brings me, and use them in exploring the heights and depths of his truth.
In these years of the new century it has been my lot to be doing such work as this in connection with the Christian doctrine of God himself. Having been intrusted with the task of giving expression to that supreme doctrine, I was both entitled and required to follow the method that I have now set forth, and to explore the bound-less field in the light which the Christian revelation affords when its full contents have been brought out. The task is too great for man, but no other task does a man undertake when he endeavors to exhibit the Christian doctrine of God. Exactly this has the Bible been to me in this great research-the bearer of the light that guided mind and heart to the vision of the divine reality. In my endeavor to see God in the light of Christ, the Revealed in the light of the Revealer, the Bible has ministered to me the Christian truth that illumines all the great realities, human and divine. In using it in this manner, I conceive myself to have been seeking knowledge of God in a way that he must approve.
It is evident that in putting the Bible to such use as this a man needs to be confident, and sure of his ground. If I had been afraid that my Bible was slipping away from me and likely to be lost, I should not have been able to employ it thus. Many do fear that it is slipping away, and are not sure that they are entitled to trust it simply. There are so many open questions about it-so much about it is unsettled and liable to change it seems so certain that open questions will continue to embarrass our efforts after knowledge sure and clear: how can it be put to highest uses with such unquestioning confidence as my purpose requires ?
With regard to open questions about the Bible, I can say that within recent years some of them have been settled for me. On various points that were doubtful I have come to a sense of certainty that I believe to be well grounded. Many perplexities have thus been done away. But by this I do not mean that the era of open questions is closed, or closing. It is equally true that within the same period some new questions have been opened for me, and that some, both old and new, remain open until now, and seem likely to remain open, I do not know how long. I fully expect, too, that other questions may be opened in time to come. But in all this there is nothing to be wondered at. In our knowledge of the Bible, as in all other knowledge, open questions are to be expected to abide with us. No knowledge is without them, or ever will be, any more than any knowledge has ever been without them in time past. With reference to the Bible, we have reached a time when we are more aware of them than before: that is all. In this field, as in every other, we must count upon them as ever-present companions of our thought. If we cannot have confidence in our Bible in the presence of questions that we do not know how to answer, confidence we cannot have. If strong and happy use of the Bible is incompatible with waiting for light upon a multitude of points, we shall always be helpless.
For my part, there are many points about the Bible on which I have no certainty, and many on which I expect future light to alter present judgment. Many of these open questions may remain open for a long time to come, and I have no doubt that others, equally important with these, may be opened here-after. But to say this is to tell no strange story. It is only to say that knowledge of the Bible is increasing and destined to increase. New understanding always opens new matters that are yet to be understood, and new light always brings the certainty of future changes. It is very true that if I were still using the Bible in the method in which I was reared, this condition of things might be very troublesome, and my confident: freedom might be greatly impaired. My release from that method was a necessity. But in my present attitude the existence of open questions does not distress me, and I have no fear that the questions outstanding will be settled in such manner as to destroy the value of the Bible. My confidence in it rests on a securer basis.
The ground of my confidence is this. By this time in the history of the world the quality of the Bible as the book of divine religion is so established that we may think of it with serene confidence. It is certain that the Bible gives us knowledge of Jesus, and that Jesus gives us knowledge of God, and that God as Jesus reveals him is the true light of life. Our sacred book is thus our guide to Jesus, to God, and to life divine. This fact has been established in long human experience, and can be trusted. We are not to be deprived of it: it will stand. For some minds it may be obscured, but it is a steadfast certainty, on which we are entitled to rest in peace. In this view of the Bible I hold it, and use it, and expect to use it as long as I live, and commend it to the generation following. I beg my fellow-Christians not to distrust it or fear for it, as if open questions were to be settled to its destruction or even to its weakening. The question of its religious value is not an open question, and we must not act as if it were. It is a gift of God that will abide.
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Since these pages began to be written, I have listened to a sermon that left me rejoicing in more ways than one—rejoicing in so strong and winning a presentation of a searching truth, and rejoicing again that I did not fall under its condemnation. The text was, "Now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things," and the theme was the impossibility of maintaining a satisfactory adult religious life on the basis of ideas received in childhood. For illustration the preacher took the conceptions of the Bible and of God that childhood can apprehend. He showed how full these conceptions are of worth and beauty, and how genuine a religion of childhood they may support, but he showed also how inadequate they are to support the religious experience that is normal to adult humanity. The childish ideas are too light and small to bear the strain of advanced life: they need to yield their place to ideas that have been, grappled with and made one's own by the powers of maturity. And yet, the preacher said, the childish ideas are exactly what thou-sands of Christians are endeavoring to live upon all their days. The weakness of much life in the church he attributed to this unfortunate combination of adult needs and infantile supplies. To his hearers, or as many of them as the accusation suited, he said, in effect: "You went out from the Sunday-school in your teens, with such ideas of God and the Bible as you had then been able to receive, and you have been living your religious life upon them ever since. In the world's work you have bent your powers to large undertakings, and have grappled with the enterprises of adult humanity. But upon the Bible and the thought of God you have never made strenuous exercise of your maturer faculties : you have never done man's work in seeking a more adequate knowledge of these realities, but have tried to live along nourished by no larger or richer conceptions than you made your own when your powers were those of children. No wonder that your adult minds cannot more than half believe in the Bible and the God of your infancy: no wonder that your religious life is narrow and poor, your minds are perplexed by the hard questions of the day, and your energies are repressed or misdirected. You need to put away childish things, and to make your own the Bible and the God of men." I approved the message with all my heart and was glad that I was able to listen to it without remorse. I might, I said to myself, have tried to live until now upon the ideas of the Bible and of God to which I had attained at the end of the Fifties of the Nineteenth Century—true ideas and not unworthy then, but too small, too unreasoned, too ill-supported, too unspiritual, for the needs of my later years; and I was glad that I could say to God and my own soul that I had spent the lifetime of a man in enlarging, deepening, and correcting the ideas that as a child I had received, and in seeking better foundations for a better faith. Thanking God for this, I thanked the preacher for his message, and wished that his sound words might go forth to all the Christians in the world.


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