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RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Having no faith in the existence of heaven, postmodern secularists dream of a paradise on earth.
This paradise -- to be created and ruled by secularists themselves, since there is no God -- will ensure freedom for all, eliminate oppression, eradicate poverty and guarantee equality. Perhaps most important, it will bury old religious superstitions once and for all and usher in a new era of universal "tolerance." Cue global group hug.
"Society will outgrow doctrinaire [religious] belief systems accepted on traditional 'faith' and inculcated by authoritarian intimidation," one futurist confidently predicts. His forecast is echoed by many others.
Since this brave new world didn't work out so well during the disastrous experiment on humanity called communism, secularists hold up post-religious, democratic Western Europe as a model. There, old cathedrals stand empty and traditional Christianity appears to be dying, but many Western Europeans still enjoy relative political and personal freedom -- at least for now.
In the new, post-religious world promoted by secularists, that's enough. For them, freedom is an entirely material phenomenon, a new stage in the historical evolution of human beings striving to shake off the chains of oppressive institutions, especially religious ones.
Such a view is not only bigoted but reveals historical ignorance verging on amnesia.
Even a cursory study of the West locates the roots of the modern idea of human freedom in the radical Gospel liberation offered by the God of the New Testament. The spiritual revolution begun by the first Christian Apostles and missionaries, while Rome still ruled, was rekindled and powerfully amplified in the emerging modern world by the Protestant Reformation, the printing press and the spread of the Bible to the masses in their own languages. Freed from their spiritual and mental chains, Europeans eventually embraced democracy and the ideals of political liberty.
And what about the rest of the world?
A fascinating cover story in Christianity Today reaffirms a historical reality that will make the secular fundamentalists gnash their teeth: Missionaries have spread freedom and education, aided the poor, worked for the empowerment of women and advanced general human progress almost everywhere they have gone.
Not just any missionaries, mind you, but "conversionary" Protestant missionaries -- evangelical Christians who have gone into the world to spread the Gospel and make disciples.
"The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing Missionaries," by Andrea Palpant Dilley in the January/February issue of Christianity Today, highlights the groundbreaking research of sociologist Robert Woodberry, associate professor and director of the Project on Religion and Economic Change at the National University of Singapore.
As a young grad student in sociology 14 years ago at the University of North Carolina, Woodberry became intrigued with the connection between the spread of Protestant Christianity across the globe and the spread of freedom and democracy. He has made it his life's work.
"In essence, Woodberry was digging into one of the great enigmas of modern history: why some nations develop stable representative democracies -- in which citizens enjoy the rights to vote, speak, and assemble freely -- while neighboring countries suffer authoritarian rulers and internal conflict," Dilley writes. "Public health and economic growth can also differ dramatically from one country to another, even among countries that share similar geography, cultural background, and natural resources."
What he found in country after country was a direct correlation between the historical presence and mission activity of "conversionary Protestants" and the advance of freedom and social progress.
"I was shocked," Woodberry told Dilley. "It was like an atomic bomb. The impact of missions on global democracy was huge. I kept adding variables to the model -- factors that people had been studying and writing about for the past 40 years -- and they all got wiped out. It was amazing. I knew, then, I was on to something really important."
Woodberry "already had historical proof that missionaries had educated women and the poor, promoted widespread printing, led nationalist movements that empowered ordinary citizens, and fueled other key elements of democracy," Dilley reports. "Now the statistics were backing it up: Missionaries weren't just part of the picture. They were central to it."
In 2005, a $500,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation enabled Woodberry to hire a platoon of research assistants and launch a major database to gather more information. Armed with those results, he was able to assert:
"Areas where Protestant missionaries had a significant presence in the past are on average more economically developed today, with comparatively better health, lower infant mortality, lower corruption, greater literacy, higher educational attainment (especially for women), and more robust membership in nongovernmental associations."
Woodberry's findings explode the popular modern myth that most 19th- and early 20th-century missionaries were little more than agents or unwitting tools of Western colonialism. Yes, some fell into that tragic pattern. But many others sided with the people they served in the face of any form of exploitation, local or foreign.
They fought the opium trade in China, defended Africans and Pacific islanders from encroaching white settlers, worked for the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, struggled against temple prostitution and the burning of widows in India. And nearly everywhere they went, they began schools and hospitals, taught people to read and helped the poor to better their lot.
"Pull out a map, says Woodberry, point to any place where 'conversionary Protestants' were active in the past, and you'll typically find more printed books and more schools per capita," Dilley writes. "You'll find, too, that in Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, most of the early nationalists who led their countries to independence graduated from Protestant mission schools."
In most cases, Protestant missionaries of the past did these things not because they were radical social reformers or political revolutionaries, but because their Gospel ministry brought them close to the common people, the poor and the oppressed, whom they sought to serve in the love of Christ.
What is the message for evangelicals in a postmodern age that relentlessly strives to sneer the Gospel out of the public square? Stop apologizing for your missionary roots. Be proud of your spiritual ancestors. Many of them were gutsy heroes who braved all sorts of dangers to take the Gospel far beyond its traditional centers to the ends of the earth.
They changed the world of their day and ours -- and they are worth following.
Andrea Palpant Dilley's Christianity Today article can be read at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/january-february/world-missionaries-made.html. Erich Bridges is an International Mission Board global correspondent. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (
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World Wrap: August 30, 2013
British prime minister Cameron suffers major embarrassment over Syria vote, Rwanda accuses Congo of shelling, and angry farmers converge on Colombia's capital. Today is Friday, August 30, and this is the World Wrap, brought to you by @dwbronner and@clarerrrr.
UK parliament votes down war motion for first time since American independence
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves Number 10 Downing Street to attend Parliament in London, August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
Cameron's Syria shame. UK Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat when the British Parliament voted down a motion to take military action against Syria, the first time a British Prime Minister lost a vote on war in centuries:
Commentators said it was the first time a British prime minister had lost a vote on war since 1782, when parliament effectively conceded American independence by voting against further fighting to crush the colony's rebellion. Speaking immediately after the vote, Cameron told parliamentarians he would not seek to go against parliament's will. "It is very clear tonight that while the House has not passed a motion, it is clear to me that the British parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action – I get that and the government will act accordingly," he said.
France said it would back a strike against Syria despite the UK's decision, and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Washington will continue efforts to put together a global coalition. Any military action is expected to be delayed until after the U.N.'s chemical weapons inspectors leave Syria on Saturday. Meanwhile, Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice has led efforts to convince Congress that the U.S. must act:
Her views on the Syrian conflict have basically mirrored the president's cautious approach of avoiding getting the United States bogged down in another costly war. Obama has withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraq and is winding down the combat mission in Afghanistan… Rice has been active in U.S. efforts to assemble something resembling a coalition of like-minded nations to respond to what U.S. officials say is undeniable proof that the Syrian government of Assad used chemical weapons to kill hundreds in a Damascus suburb on August 21. That effort suffered a big setback on Thursday as close ally Britain said it would not participate in any military action.
Most global leaders, with the notable exceptions of Russia and Iran, believe Assad is responsible for the apparent chemical attack. Reports of another awful incident have emerged after footage showed the aftermath of what appeared to be a Napalm-like attack. Roughly 100,000 Syrians have been killed since the country's civil war started two-and-a-half years ago.
A Congolese armed forces (FARDC) tank fires a shot as soldiers battle M23 rebels in Kibati, outside Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 30, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Break from border violence. Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels withdrew from the frontline on Friday and agreed to a ceasefire in order to allow an investigation of alleged shelling in neighboring Rwanda:
Rwanda accused Congo on Thursday of shelling its territory and said such "provocation" would not be tolerated, raising fears of an escalation in the conflict in eastern Congo where army troops and U.N. peacekeepers have been battling the rebels. The United Nations has thrown its weight behind Congo's government, saying its peacekeepers witnessed the M23 rebels firing shells into Rwanda.
Congo's M23 rebels say the government has not integrated their forces into the army, as per a 2009 peace deal that halted four years of rebellion in eastern Congo.
A student demonstrator holds a sign that reads, "Support the strike because I am the grandson of a farmer" during a protest against the government of President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota, August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez
Farmer fracas. Colombian President Manuel Santos called for military reinforcements on Friday to rein in violent protests in Bogota that have left two dead. Thousands of Colombian farmers have come to the capital to demand changes to policies they say have forced them into poverty:
Protesters wearing typical farmer attire of woolen ponchos, brimmed hats and rubber boots to show their solidarity, marched in 15 columns toward the Plaza Bolivar, where the presidential palace and Congress are located. There were also protests in Medellin, Cali and elsewhere across the nation… The already grueling life of farming families has become harder in recent years since income from harvests has failed to cover costs of fertilizers and transportation. Potato, corn and milk producers complain that free trade agreements with Europe and the United States have made it almost impossible to compete with cheaper imports. Droughts followed by unusually heavy rains have also made farming conditions difficult over the past several years.
Santos has said he will lift import taxes on several products to help lower crop production costs, and that he is working on more permanent solutions to ease the financial burden on farmers.
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A litany of errors - Reuters columnist Hugo Dixon discusses the damage done by Britain's anti-war vote. (Reuters)
V-Rox - Russians rock out during a first of its kind, SXSW-like music festival. (The New York Times)
Putin portraitist out - The artist behind a painting of a scantily-clad Putin flees to Paris. (The Atlantic)
Charges flushed - A Zimbabwean man skirts charges of intending to use an image of Mugabe as toilet paper. (BBC)
Pseudoscience - An Indonesian education chief wants to impose mandatory virginity tests on girls entering high school. (Time)
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Rescued: Mexico's army announced it rescued 165 kidnapped people last week. The kidnapped persons are mostly Central Americans, and include children and pregnant women. They were held captive in a house less than a mile from the U.S. border.
"Everything indicates that these migrants were contacted by human traffickers … and these criminals handed them over to criminal gangs instead of taking them to the border," Mexico government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said.
The group was rescued on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.
The state of Tamaulipas has been plagued by kidnappings and violence in recent years. It is the site of a turf war between two major drug cartels.
In 2010, Mexico's Marines found 72 bodies in a ranch near the U.S. border, thought to be the remains of murdered migrant workers. Mexico's drug war has killed an estimated nearly 75,000 people since 2006.
Drug cartels are kidnapping migrants and extorting money from them or forcing them to carry drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Infographic: Syria's casualties after two years of civil war
Rebels claim to shoot down Syrian helicopter near Aleppo
Video posted to opposition social media websites Monday purports to show Syrian rebels downing a government forces helicopter at the airport near Aleppo, as shelling continues near Damascus. Mana Rabiee reports.
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At least 2.5 million Syrians are believed to have fled their homes because of civil war, aid groups said on Tuesday, more than double previous estimates.
The figure comes from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, whose volunteers are on the frontlines of the 20-month conflict, delivering aid supplies and evacuating wounded.
"The figure they are using is 2.5 million. If anything, they believe it could be more, that this is a very conservative estimate," Melissa Fleming, chief spokeswoman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing.
"So people are moving, people are really on the run, hiding. They are difficult to count and to access," she said.
Pakistani politician Imran Kahn, a vocal critic of U.S. drone strikes, was briefly delayed and questioned by U.S. immigration officials in Toronto before being allowed to board a flight to New York, prompting his party to demand an apology from Washington.
Khan told his followers on Twitter that he was detained and interrogated Friday about his views on drones.
READ ON: U.S. officials pull Pakistani politician off plane
The U.S. military is expected to announce disciplinary action on Monday in response to two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one over a video depicting Marines urinating on corpses and another involving burning copies of the Koran, U.S. officials said.
The Army was expected to announce that six soldiers would receive administrative punishments over an incident in which copies of the Koran and other religious material were removed from a prison library and sent to an incinerator to be destroyed, a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.
The incident in February touched off several days of rioting and attacks on U.S. troops after local workers found charred copies of the Koran among the trash at the incinerator at the Bagram base north of Kabul.
The Milky Way shines in the sky behind a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle parked at the entry to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Goode near the town of Gardez in Afghanistan's Paktia Province July 9, 2012. [REUTERS/Lucas Jackson]

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text: Posted Online: April 22, 2013, 9:37 am Health digest for April 23, 2013 Comment on this story Photo: More Content Now Photo: GateHouse News Service CHECK IT OUT Number to Know Forty-nine percentof Americans believe carrots are the best food for eye health, according to the American Optometric Association. While carrots do contain nutritional value by supplying beta-carotene, which is essential for night vision, spinach and other dark, leafy greens are the healthiest foods for eyes because they naturally contain large amounts of lutein and zeaxanthin. -- More Content Now TRY THIS Fit health into a busy lifestyle According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the overall quality of the American diet gets a failing grade. According to the Healthy Eating Index, adults ages 19 and older score 50 out of 100 on the quality of their diets. Hectic lifestyles may play a role in this failing grade, and registered dietitian and best-selling author Dave Grotto has a few tips to maintain proper nutrition even when time is tight. -- Eat nutrient-filled meals. Pack healthy lunches with meals such as a salad with grilled chicken or a turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread that provide protein and fiber. "It's vital that we find ways to get the nutrients our bodies need and eating well-balanced meals can do just that," Grotto said. -- Take your vitamins. Quality dietary supplements can fill nutrient gaps. -- Stay active and enjoy the sunshine. Even if it is minimal, find time to move each day while you're at work by taking the stairs or going for a 10-minute walk around the block. An added benefit of being outdoors is the exposure to sunlight, which helps skin produce vitamin D3. -- Don't forget to take time for yourself. Rest and relaxation is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Grotto recommends getting six to eight hours of sleep a night, and suggests keeping to the same bedtime each night. -- More Content Now IN THE Q-C Ovarian cancer awareness meeting planned The NormaLeah foundation will host a Sisterhood of the Teal Tiaras meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at Blue Cat Brew Pub, 113 18th St., Rock Island, to plan TEAL Town September events and other opportunities to raise awareness about ovarian cancer. Men and women are invited to the event, which will include light refreshments and a cash bar. "We need volunteers to help make our September events bigger and better than last year," said Jodie Shagrin Kavensky, executive director of the foundation, in a news release. Last year's efforts during National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month included Tag the Town Teal, TEALlights of several high-profile buildings and more, according to the release. Ovarian cancer has long been considered a silent killer because of its vague symptoms, the release states. NormaLeah Foundation's mission is to create public awareness, promote early detection and support research for ovarian cancer. For more information about the NormaLeah Foundation or the Sisterhood of the Teal Tiaras, call 309-794-0009 or visit normaleah.org.


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In a 4 quart Dutch oven or pot, at high to medium high heat cook the Bacon until crispy. Remove Bacon to reserve for later use. Added Diced Onion, Serrano Peppers, Poblano Peppers and crushed Garlic cook in the left over bacon fat until Onions are translucent. Remove the pepper / onion mixture to incorporate later. Now add the Ground Beef and Pork into the dutch oven, stir and cook until brown. Now add the Chili Power and Paprika stir until well incorporated. Add Beer and pepper / onion mixture back into the pot reduce heat to medium to medium high and while stirring occasionally allow cooking for about 10 minutes. Now add Tomato Sauce stirring until well incorporated then add Cumin, Oregano, Salt, Black Pepper, Cayenne Pepper, White Pepper, Brown Sugar, Liquid Smoke, Diced Tomatoes and now diced up the reserved Bacon and add it to the pot. Stir and incorporated the ingredients thus far and then reduce heat to medium and allow cooking for 1 hour while stirring occasionally. Now add the Heavy Cream, this is to emulsify the grease from the meats back into the chili and also to mellow the flavors. Reduce heat to low or slimmer and cook for additional hour. Serve with garnishes.
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Restaurateur and caterer Yvette van Boven's popular cookbook "Home Made," first written in Dutch in 2010, was translated into English, German, and French the following year. While the author appreciated her work going global, writing recipes for a worldwide audience presented some concerns as she penned her follow-ups, "Home Made Winter" and her latest, "Home Made Summer." "It is important to me to find ingredients that everyone should be able to find in shops because I always find it very disappointing to try to make a recipe from a book and then you find out that you can't get your hands on a special ingredient very easily," says van Boven. "Because I didn't know that the books were being translated into all these different languages, I'm not really sure if everything is really available in every shop over the whole world. But I have looked at that very carefully and also with my American editor, we look at substitutes for Dutch ingredients to make sure that everything is easily available."
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Campus activities: Editor-in-chief of The Preface (campus newspaper), writer and editor for Aspire (our school of the arts' magazine), member of the IU South Bend Honors Program.
How do you see the evolution of the newspaper in the next five years?
Only newspapers that seriously embrace digital and Web distribution will remain. Some print-centric (i.e. stubborn) papers are hanging on by a thread right now, but in five years, digital and Web news consumption will become so ubiquitous that any newspaper that doesn't keep up will be completely unsustainable.
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1. It's small, so my friends and professors feel like family.
2. Our student newspaper is tight-knit, full of great writers and we get a good deal of creative freedom. Our adviser Ken Klimek is a pro!
3. We have a lot of connections to and involvement with the broader community, which is great for network-building.
4. It's affordable.
5. In South Bend, we're nestled among a cluster of private and more … "financially endowed" universities. As a small public university, this just throws fuel onto the fire of our feisty underdog spirit.
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I'd choose the power to never have to sleep. There are not enough hours in a day.
Who's your favorite person to follow on Twitter?
Weird Al Yankovic. He is consistently hilarious.
If you could travel to any country, where would you go?
New Zealand. The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed there. Enough said.
What is the most interesting article you've ever written?
One of the first articles I wrote for my student newspaper was about our Engineering Club's plans to build a singing Tesla coil. I don't think the plans ever came to fruition, but that story made me realize that one of the most rewarding parts of journalism is that you're constantly learning about topics you never would've stumbled upon otherwise.
One of the most quirky things about you is…
I have two pet rats. They're brothers named Hank and Wilson and they can usually be found hanging out on my shoulders, eating oatmeal or boxing each other on their hind legs like a couple of weirdos.
What was the last (non-required) book that you read?
Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang.
What was the first thing you wanted to be when you grew up?
A fiction writer. I've since decided that writing about reality is far more fascinating than anything I could cook up on my own.


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To the Editor: The public health consequences of disasters are often thought of in terms of death toll, physical injury, and epidemics. However, the comprehensive view of health taken by the World Health Organization (WHO) (1)—"a complete state of physical and mental well-being"—suggests that mental health requires postdisaster attention throughout the "disaster community" (2), including the mental health of aid workers. However, the extent to which international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) implement mental health programs remains unknown.
A survey was conducted to determine the extent to which international NGOs involved in health care provide comprehensive mental health care after emergencies or as part of development projects. Such care is defined as including a history of implementing mental health relief or development programs, the presence of within-agency mental health professionals, procedures for implementing disaster-related mental health services, and the availability of mental health services for staff.
NGOs were identified by using the United Nations' Web site (www.reliefweb.int). Data from NGO Web sites were compiled between June and July of 2004. Agencies were eligible for the survey if their Web site was in English and their mission was consistent with providing health care-related services that could reasonably be expected to encompass mental health. Of 196 NGOs with an English-language site, 119 were included in the analysis.
Fewer than half of the surveyed NGOs (55 agencies, or 46 percent) reported engaging in mental health programs. Among these 55 agencies, 47 (86 percent) had engaged in at least one long-term mental health development project, 16 (29 percent) had launched at least one emergency mental health relief program, and 11 (20 percent) reported both development and emergency programs. Twenty-six of the 119 NGOs (22 percent) indicated that they used mental health professionals. It is thus unclear how programs at the 55 agencies were staffed. Twelve NGOs (10 percent) reported existing protocols in emergency or disaster mental health response. Of the 119 NGOs, eight (7 percent) reported that they provided mental health support for their own staff or volunteers. Only four NGOs (3 percent) met the ideal of having a comprehensive international mental health care program as defined above.
These findings suggest that the emergency and long-term mental health needs of stricken communities worldwide, as well as the emotional needs of humanitarian aid workers, receive inadequate attention from NGOs as part of their health-care-related efforts.
A major limitation of this study was its reliance on Web sites as a primary information source. Future studies should seek to elaborate on these findings by more in-depth collection of information, including in-person interviews or mailed surveys. Given the literature on the short- and long-term mental health impact of disasters (3) and WHO's broad definition of health, future studies should also focus on identifying both the mental health care needs of populations served by international NGOs and the obstacles that prevent NGOs from engaging in emergency and long-term mental health programming.
Ms. Sanchez is a medical student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and Dr. Katz is with the department of psychiatry at the school. He is also a cofounder of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach.
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Jared Leto pulled off a stunning transformation to play a 1980s transsexual with AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club. Leto dropped 30 pounds for a performance that's garnered the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman much Oscar buzz. Leto, however, doesn't really want to talk about it.
When the topic was raised by E! News , Leto avoided the question by replying, "It's nice, but I think they should put some underwear on him," referring to the coveted golden statue. Laughing, he continued, "He's a freeballer. And he's got a very big sword so there are lots of Freudian things happening right here."
Leto did go so far as to say, "It's nuts. They don't give Oscars to people like me!" Still, the 41-year-old appreciated the fact that many loved his performance as Rayon. "It's surreal," he said. "It's so great. I'll tell you what -- anybody that has anything negative to say about the process needs to see a doctor. There are much worse things to do than have your film supported and celebrated."
Leto said the recognition is especially great given that Dallas Buyers Club is the first film he's made in years. "I hadn't made a film in so long, I'm lucky I remembered how to act, to tell you the truth," he added. "I just dove in deep and did that best that I could."
Dallas Buyers Club, which also stars Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner , is playing in select theaters across the U.S.
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ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- Now that the A&E network has ended its suspension of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, it would be wise for Christians and conservatives to consider the well-worn adage that "it is easier to be wise after the event."
You're likely aware of the flap between A&E and DD, unless you were one of the 74 global warming scientists whose ship became stuck in thick ice off east Antarctica.
That said, allow me to briefly recap the situation. A&E announced it was removing Robertson from its hugely popular reality-based TV program when the homosexual activist group GLAAD reacted negatively to an interview Robertson did with GQ magazine. During the interview he paraphrased a Bible passage that declares homosexuality a sin and expressed his negative opinion about homosexuality in general.
A&E reacted swiftly and announced Robertson's suspension posthaste. But when hundreds of thousands of fans rose to the defense of Robertson, A&E rescinded the ban.
Looking at the situation in the rear-view mirror, one has to wonder why so many rallied so quickly to Robertson's defense? What triggered the passionate response?
The homosexual activists' pattern of protesting "homophobic" remarks and aggressively confronting a company or advertiser to insist that action be taken against the offender is nothing new. Quite a few media personalities and companies have been intimidated into silence by groups like GLAAD, usually with little pushback from conservatives or Christians.
This time was different. When GLAAD expressed outrage over Robertson's views and confronted the self-professed redneck, people reacted. When A&E announced the suspension, the masses responded quickly with phone calls, e-mails and Internet petitions -- one petition garnered more than 250,000 signatures -- all calling for the cable network to reverse its decision.
I think the response was due in part that many people in America hold the same view of homosexuality as Robertson. They believe it is unnatural, illogical and is clearly deemed a sin in the Bible. Though they may not articulate it in the way Robertson does, they agree with his basic premise.
While it is true that some recent polls in the U.S. indicate a slim majority are not opposed to homosexual marriage, I believe these polls reflect a live-and-let-live attitude that pervades America and not necessarily an endorsement of a lifestyle that is aberrant.
People with a truly live-and-let-live attitude understand tolerance should go both ways. If I tolerate your behavior, even though I believe it is immoral, then I expect you tolerate my civil expression of disagreement.
Homosexual activist groups have shown they have no tolerance for those who refuse to accept their lifestyle as natural, normal and healthy. When GLAAD confronted A&E over Robertson's views, many in America perceived the activist group was trying to silence someone with whom they agree as well as someone to whom they relate.
The Robertson clan featured on DD are hard-working, hard-playing people who love their country and espouse traditional biblical values. They shun pretense and make no bones that God is a part of their lives. They are not perfect, but they are as real as you can get on reality TV.
Many people in America know a family just like the Robertsons. Some even have family members who resemble those in the redneck clan. Many have an Uncle Si, Miss Kay or Phil in their own families.
When GLAAD employed its modus operandi against Phil Robertson to aggressively confront anyone they deem a homophobe, it was seen as getting in the face of anyone and everyone who holds the same beliefs and values. People took the attack personally and an unprecedented groundswell of support emerged in support of the Duck Dynasty star.
Could it be the recent dust-up involving Duck Dynasty, A&E and GLAAD has revealed a silent majority exists in the U.S.? Could it be there are many more Americans who hold traditional biblical values than previously thought?
If so, what might happen if the millions of citizens who have heretofore been tolerant of the rising tide of immorality chose to be silent no more? What might occur if the silent majority began to take personally the twisted liberal view of life being foisted upon our country?
Perhaps, as in the case with Phil Robertson, if the silent majority spoke with one voice concerning the filth that saturates the entertainment industry, the political correctness that infects public policies and the immorality that is accepted as normal, it could effect change.
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It's a memorable part of parenthood -- when your child gets to meet their favorite character at an amusement park. But a family in San Diego says they were robbed of that special moment because a Disneyland employee was racist.
This family has been battling with Disney since last August because they say the amusement park employee was racist -- and now they just want to make sure no other children go through this.
"I was going to hug him but he turned his back," said 6-year-old Jason Black.
"How'd that make you feel?"
"Sad," replied Jason.
The 6-year-old was shunned by his favorite character from Alice in Wonderland. All he wanted was a hug -- and his older brother Elijah just wanted to hold the rabbit's hand.
"The rabbit was turning his back on him like he didn't event want to touch him, I went up to try to hold his hand but he kept on flicking my hand off," said Elijah.
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What they saw led them to believe that the person playing Rabbit was racist.
"This white boy. He started hugging on the little girl and kissing... then hugging the boy and they were white," said Elijah Black.
"There were two other kids that came up and the rabbit showered them, hugged kissed them, posed with them, meanwhile that made my kids feel horrible," said Black Sr.
The family immediately showed the photos to management and filed a complaint. Management offered VIP passes -- but the family turn down that offer, asking for an apology and termination of the employee instead.
"It's about the principle and what are you going to do to make the situation better so this doesn't happen to another family."
After months of battling with Disney, the family has been asked to sign a confidential waiver in exchange for $500. They hired an attorney and now demand that the company look at surveillance video of the interaction.
Disney has not yet responded to the family's request. Our affiliate in San Diego contacted Disney for comment and they emailed a statement saying "We cannot comment on something that we are not aware of -- and that we carefully review all guest claims."
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Farmers, Indigenous people and rural communities around the world celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity last week. But casting a long shadow was the news that big funders and new NGOs are teaming up with the pesticide-biotech giant, Syngenta, in a renewed effort to push genetically engineered rice forward in Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Nicknamed "golden rice," this untested, highly controversial GE crop threatens biodiversity across the region and risks bringing economic and ecological disaster to Asia's farms.
My mom hackles are up. GE toxins are turning up in umbilical cordblood and the blood of pregnant women, according to a study by independent Canadian doctors. And what might be the effect of these toxins on developing fetuses? No one really knows. Let me tell you why this is big news.
All this time, Monsanto has based its assertion that crops engineered to contain the bacterial toxin, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), are harmless on an assumption that the toxin breaks down in the digestive system and so never enters the rest of the body. Regulators have been repeating this to us for over a generation. Now it turns out that the Bt toxin is not only surviving in our guts, but is making its way on into our bloodstreams — and if we're pregnant, into the soon-to-be-babies in our bellies.
Looks like the Obama Administration has a second chance to get it right on food and agricultural research. Last week, the director of the relatively new National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Roger Beachy, announced his resignation. Previously, Beachy had served as president of Monsanto's de facto nonprofit research arm, the Danforth Plant Science Center.
The abrupt resignation leaves open an influential public research post — one that could this time be filled by a scientist without deep ties to corporate agribusiness, but who might instead prioritize sustainable, agroecological and organic food and farming systems.
Since 2008, Brazil has held the dubious distinction of spending more on pesticides than anyplace else on earth. But what has the country's farmers, public health professionals and environmental advocates even more worried is Brazil's corresponding rise in planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops, engineered to tolerate mega-doses of herbicides like glyphosate (Roundup). And these crops are driving emergence of herbicide-tolerant "superweeds".
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Attorneys representing James Anderson's family announced they were filing a civil suit. In that suit, Deryl Dedmon who is charged with Capital Murder, and John Rice who was charged with assault are named, along with five other people who they say were at the Metro Inn the night the murder occurred.
They are Sarah Graves, Shelbie Richards, William Montgomery, John Blaylock and Dylan Butler. Attorney Winston Thompson says it was their duty to call police or make an effort to help James Craig Anderson, when the others began to assault him.
The five additional teens named in the lawsuit are not facing any criminal charges.
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About two dozen people were rescued overnight from high water at a campground and RV park in Posey County.
We're told when firefighters arrived on the scene, water was up to the doors of campers at Rocky Falls.
Crews used inflatable boats and a dive team was on hand to check on people.
Several campers had to be rescued by raft from the back lot.
"People still could've been sleeping didn't know that the water was rising. So we knocked on trailer doors and the dive team had walked in was about waist deep in about four feet of water," said Dale Wilzbacher, District Chief, Marrs Township.
The Red Cross is helping up to 12 people who were displaced.
There were no injuries.
A family of four was also stuck in their house nearby.
Crews were able to rescue them as well.
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Recently, I examined various online maps for their ability to provide data in the country of Georgia, a Caucasus state which was recently invaded by Russia.
Google left a lot to be desired, but today comes an announcement that more data has been added to their Georgia Maps. Notice in the screenshots below how more cities are visible upon a search for Tskhinvali today than a few weeks ago.
Still, upon a search for Abkhazia, Google takes me to a business listing in for an institute dedicated to policy in the Georgian region.
What do you think of this update? Is Google still lagging behind on data for this region of the world? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Captain Alastair Cook expects Stuart Broad to take his place in England's line-up against India at the Oval on Friday.
England captain Alastair Cook said he was relieved to make a significant contribution despite falling short of a ton.
Alastair Cook will lead England once again for the third Test against India, which starts on Sunday.
Alastair Cook will still be England captain next week unless he decides otherwise, according to his predecessor.
Alastair Cook's poor form continued as England were reduced to 105-4 chasing 319 on day four against India at Lord's.
Alastair Cook says he thinks the Indian complaint against fast bowler James Anderson may be a tactical move.
England coach Peter Moores says struggling captain Alastair Cook must "stay strong" and battle through his barren spell.
England captain Alastair Cook says wicket-keeper Matt Prior is "99 per certain" to be fit for the first Test.
England are waiting on the fitness of captain Alastair Cook ahead of Wednesday's third one-dayer against Sri Lanka.
Eoin Morgan will be excited to face his England team-mates when Middlesex host the first T20 Blast double-header.
England captain Alastair Cook hit 71 against Sri Lanka as Essex won their rain affected match via the D/L method.
England captain Alastair Cook insists Andy Flower will have no influence in the rebuilding of the national team.
Alastair Cook says there are reasons to be optimistic about England's future without Kevin Pietersen.
England batting coach Graham Gooch has offered his support to under-fire captain Alastair Cook.
Alistair Cook has confirmed he will not be going on England's limited-overs tour of West Indies in February and March.
Alastair Cook spoke of his relief after ending a nine-match losing streak against Australia at the WACA.
Alastair Cook acknowledged England were beaten by "an astonishing innings" from James Faulkner in Brisbane.
Alastair Cook told England they would need to show courage to lift themselves from "rock bottom" after 5-0 Ashes defeat.
David Collier has offered his support to beleaguered England team director Andy Flower and captain Alastair Cook.
Alastair Cook says he has no plans to quit the England captaincy but accepts his position will come under scrutiny.
David Lloyd has his say on the Cook conundrum, the Ryder Cup and, er, 'The David Lloyd Story'.
James Taylor's prolific form in domestic cricket fully justifies his England recall, says Nick Knight.
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WACO- The Lampasas County Commisioner's Court has ordered that all outdoor burning is banned for 90 days beginning one minute past 6:00 p.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008.
The exceptions to this burn ban are household trash burned in a barrel with a screen on top and barbeque pits for cooking. The only other exceptions are for agricultural purposes with prior approval from the Lampasas County Fire Marshall and outdoor burning activities related to public health and safety that are authorized by the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality for:
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MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - Prosecutors in Milwaukee are considering charges in the death of a seven-day-old boy who was suffocated by his sleeping mother.
The medical examiner's office has ruled the death an accident.
Officials said the mother drank vodka and took pain pills on Sunday night – and she didn't remember putting the baby back to sleep after he was fed at 1:30 a.m. on Monday.
The boy's father found the infant dead around 4 a.m. He was lodged between his mother and the back of a couch where the two were sleeping.
The child was born on New Year's Eve. He's the first baby to die in Milwaukee in the New Year because of an unsafe sleep environment.
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Following his death the front of the Bond Street shop of the late fashion designer - Lewisham-born and Stratford-raised - was made over to resemble a memorial tombstone. My photo is of its inscription in the dark, reflecting glass. Today, the Guardian has coverage of his final collection.
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Organizers announced today that the Dubai Film Market, the industry platform that runs alongside the tenth annual Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has already exceeded all records set in previous years in terms of requested meetings between attending film professionals, days before the festival is set to start.
The Dubai Film Connection, DIFF's project market, which matches projects originating in the Arab world with international funding and production partners, has already attracted 332 pre-booked meetings for its projects, against 271 that were booked during the duration of DIFF 2012. Organizers anticipate that the number will increase by at least 20 per cent during the festival.
DIFF Managing Director Shivani Pandya said: "The Dubai Film Connection meeting figures are a litmus test for the effectiveness of our Dubai Film Market, the purpose of which is to bring together industry professionals from the region with their counterparts from around the world. Over the past ten years we have been steadily designing and implementing initiatives that will help to build the film industry in the UAE and the broader Middle East region, and facilitating international partnerships is a core part of that mission. The results of the meetings at the Dubai Film Market will hopefully be seen in innovative new films at future editions of DIFF."
Samr Marzooqi, Manager of Dubai Film Market, expanded on what the figures mean for the festival: "The Dubai Film Connection is a major part of the Dubai Film Market activity, but these numbers represent only the officially booked meetings. There are hundreds of film professionals attending the seminars and networking events over the week at DIFF, and they are able to reach out to each other directly through our special market guide and by word of mouth introductions. This means that in reality there are thousands of meetings taking place at the festival grounds. It is a hive of activity every year, and this year promises to be the most active yet."
DIFF 2013 is the festival's decennial edition. Information on the Dubai Film Market, the DFC projects, and seminar timings can be found on the festival website on www.dubaifilmfest.com.


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I have been working on several versions on the balaclava head sock thing boba wears under his helmet and this is what I have come up with. bear in mind this is my prototype and as with everything the more you make the better they get.
It's sized to fit my rather large head so I know it will fit anyone else yet not be too big for others. It's made from tackle twill.
It's not a good fit on the foam head but fits well and fills out on my head.
Tell me what you think. Would anyone else like one?
Now the question of price. I know it goes under the helmet and cant be seen but if you want to be they guy who has ALL the components to your suit then you need one. Right?
There is alot of work to make one of these, it has taken 2 days to sew this one. There are alot of pieces to it. I will have to charge $95 shipped anywhere at least to cover the time and labor.
I hate to ask so much for something that wont be seen but there is really so much work in it that I cant do it for less. I dont have to do a run I can do just one at a time so if you want one just post your comments and shoot me a PM.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 65 | Rotten: 2
Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 2
Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
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In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the Ugly (Eli Wallach), a Mexican bandit. Though dubbed "the Good," Eastwood's character is not much better than his opponents -- he is just smarter and shoots faster. The film's title reveals its
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All three arrive at the cache at the same time. Who gets it? Director Leone doesn't seem to care very much, and after 161 minutes of mayhem, audiences aren't likely to either.
The third in the Clint Eastwood series of Italo westerns, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is exactly that -- a curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.
Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
Sergio Leone's grandiose 1966 western epic is nothing less than a masterclass in movie storytelling, a dynamic testament to the sheer, invigorating uniqueness of cinema.
Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.
Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can be truly appreciated only on the big screen.
Leone's liberal use of widescreen shots in conjunction with extreme close-ups gives the movie an epic quality that is matched in scope by a skeletal narrative structure that breathes with a poker-faced mood, tone, and personality.
A unique vision of the American West as place of desolation and ruin on a truly epic scale.
The defining spaghetti western pits a charismatic Clint Eastwood against partner and nemesis Eli Wallach and perpetual enemy Lee Van Cleef.
Sergio Leone's dramatic directing style is powerful and well delivered, even by today's standards.
The fellas in Leone's films are seething cesspools of hatred and frustration whose only satisfaction-however fleeting-is found in pursuit and acquisition of money
The sublime film music, now-iconic situations (like the climactic ghost town shootout), and sure visual style add up to a pitch-perfect genre pic that ongoingly influences generations of hip filmmakers. [Blu-ray]
Leone created a phenomenal film but also created some of the most memorable shots in film history. The extreme close-ups are still impressive to this day.
It still looks a treat and a bold and largely successful attempt to recast the traditions of the genre in a new, sometimes critical, almost operatic way.
The visuals are eye-popping, the score (by Ennio Morricone) magnificent, the Civil War set-pieces both stunning and haunting. If you're going to end a trilogy, this is the way to do it.
The new length gives a clearer view of the civil war context: a nightmare of panic as the south flees before the Union's advance.
Re-released movies are forever claiming to be iconic, but few can hold the title as easily as Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Sergio Leone's masterpiece is as enduring as the scorched desert in which it is filmed. Also receives props for most effective use of whistling ever.
Amid the endless homages and the sheer adoration meted out to Sergio Leone's ambitious, pricier finale to his Spaghetti Western trilogy, it's easy to forget just how damn good the film is.
Leone also endows the film with a clever visual style. His sense of scale is especially inspired.
Audience Reviews for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While canonical, this film is oddly structured with its inciting incident pushed to an hour and fifteen minutes into its three-hour run time. What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or badness) is unclear as the "good" is just as bad as the "ugly," but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing through this film on their way to another.
Beautifully shot and operatic in scope, the filmmaking is remarkable even if the story-telling is perplexing.
Overall, this classic western isn't bad or good or ugly, just moderately interesting.
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I freely admit it. I am not a scientist. I am not a water manager. I don't know the alphabet soup of acronyms of Everglades restoration or the names of the canals and water control structures.
But I am a South Florida property owner and businessperson, directly affected by water issues. And it doesn't take an advanced degree to understand why environmentalists are so concerned about funding water management district budgets.
As a property owner, confidence in water management is a necessity.
South Florida abounds with waterfront properties — not just on the beach but also on canals, rivers, and other waterways. A gorgeous waterfront view increases a property's value. But it is also a risk. When storms hit, we depend on the water management district to quickly flow water off the property for flood control. As our region copes with sea level rise in the future, there will be even more threats from flooding. Alton Road in South Beach already floods regularly from rising tides.
As a property owner, one of the other things you fear is having the water shut off. During the 2011 dry season, West Palm Beach was 22 days away from running out of water for its residents. With increased pressures on our water resources through a growing population, we might be out of water before we are under water. We depend on our public agencies to support adequate water supplies for development in the future.
Fortunately, there is a large public agency that is supposed to manage flood control and water supplies, along with ecosystem restoration. It is called the South Florida Water Management District.
But in recent years there have been deep cuts to its budget — under the guise of cutting out wasteful spending to lower taxes for . . . property owners. This week, the district's Governing Board is considering decreasing their revenues even more.
OK, I get it if an agency is spending freakish amounts of money on things not essential to its mission — like lavish conferences in Las Vegas or even golf carts to shuttle people 20 feet in the parking lot.
But the cuts in the last few years have been so deep that they are threatening our way of life. The SFWMD created a spend-down plan from its reserves, but it is quickly being depleted and will be running on fumes. And because of a quirk in the system for assessing property values in Miami-Dade through the Value Adjustment Board, last year there was a shortfall of almost $5 million. This year there will likely be a shortfall of over $3 million.
Do we really want to force a public agency to choose between updating levees to hold back flood water or completing a restoration project that supports our future population's water supply? Is it really a bright idea to significantly deplete funding water conservation programs and alternative water supply projects? SFWMD is even considering selling off lands acquired for conservation purposes to help fill in the budget gaps. They shouldn't have to be in this position.
The ironic thing is that budget cuts are supposed to help property owners from paying more taxes. But instead, it exposes property owners to heightened risks from flooding, water shortages, and long-term loss of value. The difference in property tax for the average homeowner is minimal — less than the cost of a slice of pizza. That is a small price to pay for certainty in water management.
Lida Rodriguez-Taseff is a lawyer in Miami and Audubon Florida board member.