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Drag Me to Hell
"DRAG ME TO HELL was quite simply the most PERFECT horror film I've seen in a long, long while. Raimi stirs a delicious witches brew that blends gore, scares and fun into a perfect blend."
**Spoilers follow**
Sam Raimi, where have you been?
It has technically been 16 years since the legendary director has got behind the camera for a horror film. After ARMY OF DARKNESS failed to perform at the box office, the creator of THE EVIL DEAD franchise moved away from horror and into the mainstream fold. Now, after directing three SPIDER-MAN films and becoming one of the biggest names in the industry, Raimi has returned to the genre he started in.
While Raimi returned to horror with Universal Pictures' DRAG ME TO HELL, I can't say I was waiting with open arms. I felt wounded and insulted that we still haven't received our EVIL DEAD 4 and didn't understand why he'd do DRAG instead of another adventure of Ashley J. Williams. Therefore, my expectations were extremely low and I was convinced I'd be disappointed with his big return to horror. I was wrong.
Last night my curiosity got the best of me as I snuck into a test screening of DRAG ME TO HELL in Burbank, CA. To be clear, what I saw was a very early workprint of the film, which featured a temp score, unfinished effects, and was projected on a Digit Beta (yet to be color corrected). To put it simply, it's far from completed. Still, even through all of the rough edges, Raimi proved that he is still a master filmmaker.
DRAG ME TO HELL was quite simply the most PERFECT horror film I've seen in a long, long while. Raimi stirs a delicious witches brew that blends gore, scares and fun into a perfect blend. The flavor of Raimi's directing ability is brought out by masterful editing by Bob Murowski (Army of Darkness) as every scare is perfectly timed, every gag is delivered with a punch and all of the payoffs are perfectly executed.
HELL is like a comic book come to life that is full of color characters, crazy imagery and cheap gags that work every single time. Raimi plays around with the audience by using the gross-out factor to the max. For example, in one scene Alison Lohman starts bleeding from her mouth, and when she goes to cover it, blood shoots from her nose all over the place. Another great gag is the gypsy is constantly is losing her dentures and pushing her disgusting old mouth on things (like Alison's face). Raimi fills the movie with these gross-out moments that keep the momentum burning from start to finish.
And for every bloody, gooey and disgusting scene, Raimi gives us an equally good scare. It has been a long, long time since I've experienced an authentic jump in a movie. Typically a director will have a cat jump on screen or have a character slam a door shut – something cheap to get you to jolt. Raimi hits us with a barrage of punches as I jumped ten feet out of my seat on two separate occasions. He proves that he is a master of horror and suspense and I recommend that any horror filmmaker wannabe (pretty much every horror director out there) watch this work to learn how to do it right.
Quite simply put, DRAG ME TO HELL was a blast and moved quickly from start to finish. Whether or not the acting is top notch, or if the story even makes sense is inconsequential so long as I'm gasping, jumping, laughing and cringing every step of the way. From what I saw, DRAG ME TO HELL is well on its way to becoming an immediate classic (considering they don't f*ck up the finished version). The only question I was left with was, "Why isn't this EVIL DEAD 4?"

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United Nations Report Warns of Dire Effects of Underpopulation, Fertility Decline
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by Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.
March 5, 2010
LifeNews.com Note: Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. This article originally appeared in the pro-life group's Friday Fax publication and is used with permission.
New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) — A recently-released United Nations (UN) report finds that the global trend of fertility decline and population aging will have devastating economic and societal effects on the developing world, particularly on women who are now targeted by UN agencies to further reduce fertility.
"World Population Ageing 2009" was published in December 2009 by the UN Population Division, a statistics research branch within the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
Because fertility is decreasing in the developing world, there will be fewer and fewer workers to support aging citizens, the report found. The ratio of workers to older non-workers dropped from 12 to 9 between 1950 and 2009. By 2050, there will be only 4 workers supporting every retiree: "The reduction of potential support ratios has important implications for social security schemes, particularly for pay-as-you-go pension systems under which taxes on current workers pay the pensions of retirees."
The effects of fertility decline and population aging will hit the developing world hardest, according to the report, because, "The pace of population ageing is faster in developing countries than in developed countries. Consequently, developing countries will have less time to adjust to the consequences of population ageing." Furthermore, "ageing in developing countries is taking place at lower levels of socio-economic development than has been the case for developed countries."
Evidence in the report shows that UN programs aimed at reducing fertility in the developed world will do the most harm to women who will have fewer children to support them in their old age. Since women live longer than men, they make up the majority of older persons.
This is compounded by the fact that "Older persons living alone are at greater risk of experiencing social isolation and economic deprivation and may therefore require special support." Social support, however, is often unavailable in the developing world where women are least likely to have social security from the state. What recourse they have to social safety nets has been diminished by the global economic downturn, which "brought about sharp reductions in the value of pension funds in many countries in the world."
Fertility reduction in the developing world is still pushed by UN agencies such as the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization, as well as non-governmental organizations such as International Planned Parenthood Federation and Women Deliver, a new organization that is garnering significant funding from developed countries to promote fertility control.
The report offered little evidence of a possible reversal of the global aging trend, stating that "Population ageing is unprecedented, a process without parallel in the history of humanity. Population ageing is pervasive since it is affecting nearly all the countries of the world. …and "Population ageing is enduring. …As long as old-age mortality continues to decline and fertility remains low, the proportion of older persons will continue to increase."
The UN Population Division – an entity distinct from UNFPA – has traditionally been regarded as more objective and less agenda-driven than other UN agencies. In its most recent State of the World Population Report, UNFPA called for increased efforts to reduce fertility to combat climate change.


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Does your school follow the FAIR Education Act? California has long required public schools to teach about the contributions of women, people of color, and other historically underrepresented groups. With the FAIR Education Act, the state updated these guidelines to end the exclusion of people with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from history and social studies lessons.
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Photo Caption: Indianapolis native Andre Hall (third from right) is part of the cast of new Oprah Winfrey Network sitcom 'Love Thy Neighbor.' From left, the cast includes Darmirra Brunson, Palmer Williams, Patrice Lovely, Kendra C. Johnson, Hall, Jonathan Chase and Zulay Henao. / Photo provided by Oprah Winfrey Network.
According to The Indianapolis Star, Marian University alumnus Andre Hall has landed a role in the new Tyler Perry sitcom "Love Thy Neighbor." The program debuts Wednesday, May 29 on cable television's Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
Hall is a 2003 graduate of Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis who studied at Purdue University before transferring to Marian University to play baseball. Hall has been working in Hollywood, appearing in a couple of commercials, but this is his first major role. It's also his initial foray into comedy.
Hall plays the character "Danny," an unmotivated college graduate. He will tape at least 26 episodes at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.
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One reason why America is overweight
RE: One reason why America is overweight
(03-03-2011 10:35 AM)GassyKitten Wrote: I would add that corn is also used to produce ethanol, (burns faster than gas during warm months. Thickens and causes engine wear during cold) which is a huge incentive for farmers to forgo producing other crops, such as wheat. Which is starting to be imported at a more rapid rate and is why brand name wheat bread has skyrocketed in price.
Do you have a source or anything that backs up the idea statement that we are now producing less wheat or are exporting more of it? I'm not challenging you here, btw, but I seriously, seriously question if the rising prices you refer to are the result of production, exports or any other force of supply and demand.
Just curious.
I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.
RE: One reason why America is overweight
(03-03-2011 12:50 PM)Sacrieur Wrote: Corn is a grain, and so should be avoided. Eating healthfully isn't necessarily expensive either. Good quality meats can run up costs though <_<
Depends on who you are and where you live. There is a reason that poor kids tend to be more obese then kids from wealthier families and it has a lot to do with the cost of subsidized foods like pastas vs. the costs of foods like vegetables and quality meats.
There is no reason for me to not eat healthy because a) I can afford to avoid a lot of the crap and b) I have the means and time to properly educate myself on what I should and should not eat. However, that is not true of everyone and the cheapest food on the market is also the least healthy, thanks again to the wonder of farm subsidies dressed up as free market capitalism.
Some days it's really tough to be a capitalist because so many people who claim to be one just are not and you get lumped in with the frauds.
I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.
RE: One reason why America is overweight
Just for the record, grain shouldn't be avoided so much as moderated. Also, eating corn, and I mean actual corn, isn't a bad thing. In fact corn illustrates extremely well WHY it's ok to eat things like grains when they are in their natural form. Much of processing foods is in essence a pre-digestion. It allows our bodies to use things we normally wouldn't. When you eat a cob of corn, what comes out tends to look similar to what went in. That's because the hull of the corn kernel isn't digestible by us. And so it passes through our system, and is eliminated, while the nutrients are digested.
I'm not trying to nit-pick Sacrieur, I just wanted to provide clarity. Grains are unhealthy when they are altered or when they are consumed in excess.
So many cats, so few good recipes.
RE: One reason why America is overweight
(03-03-2011 12:17 PM)Diclonius Wrote: I also said I'm not going to get into the discussion of what we put into our food because that's another topic in itself.
...and I'm comfortable with that. I just hope you don't mind if we DO discuss it. One of the things I like about the way this forum works is that we don't do the whole "Keep it on topic" thing. We let conversations evolve, and it really makes for some great debates. (There's also nothing wrong with bringing the discussion back to your original point. I just don't want you to feel that we are straying from your intended discussion out of disrespect)
So many cats, so few good recipes.
RE: One reason why America is overweight
(03-03-2011 12:25 PM)BnW Wrote:(03-03-2011 10:35 AM)GassyKitten Wrote: I would add that corn is also used to produce ethanol, (burns faster than gas during warm months. Thickens and causes engine wear during cold) which is a huge incentive for farmers to forgo producing other crops, such as wheat. Which is starting to be imported at a more rapid rate and is why brand name wheat bread has skyrocketed in price.
I see no challenge just curiosity and I appreciate your question.
This has been foretold for some years now with regard to all crops invested in the Biofuels industry world wide.
Sunday, September 16, 2006
Corn vs. Wheat: Water, Biofuels, & Agricultural Subsidies *NYTimes Business*
Ethanol could leave the world hungry
One tankful of the latest craze in alternative energy could feed one person for a year (CNN Money Fortune Article 2006)
Excerpt from: A Note on Rising Food Prices (PDF Link) Published by: The World Bank
Development Prospects Group JULY 2008
Abstract: **Bold font is my edit**
(sic)"...The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase in internationally traded food prices since 2002 and estimates the contribution of various factors such as the increased production of biofuels from food grains and oilseeds, the weak dollar, and the increase in food production costs due to higher energy prices. It concludes that the most important factor was the large increase in biofuels production in the U.S. and the EU. Without these increases, global wheat and maize stocks would not have declined appreciably..." (21 pages/PDF Link)
Newer observations:
The Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanol's Hidden Costs (2010 Article)
4 of every 10 rows of corn now go to government mandated Ethanol production.
(Excerpt Wall Street Journal Jan. 2011 Article: "Amber Waves of Ethanol")
(sic)"...The nearby chart, based on data from the Department of Agriculture, shows the remarkable trend over a decade. In
2001, only 7% of U.S. corn went for ethanol, or about 707 million bushels. By 2010, the ethanol share was 39.4%, or
nearly five billion bushels out of total U.S. production of 12.45 billion bushels. Four of every 10 rows of corn now go to
produce fuel for American cars or trucks, not food or feed.
This trend is the deliberate result of policies designed to subsidize ethanol. Note the surge in the middle of the last
decade when Congress began to legislate renewable fuel mandates and many states banned MTBE, which had competed with ethanol but ran afoul of the green and corn lobbies."
RE: One reason why America is overweight
I've read in the past some things on ethanol and food shortages and it was given as one of the reason for the big spike in food prices back in 2008 that caused riots in some countries. We now know, however, that those price spikes were not caused by ethanol production and were largely the result of commodities speculation and the perversion of the market by entities such as Goldman Sucks .. er, Sachs. So, while it certainly stands to reason that pushing all this production towards biofuels would have a negative impact on food availability and pricing, I'm extremely cynical of any claims that it is really the cause of food spikes given that we have seen the price of oil on a steady climb upward for absolutely no discernible reason (it started long before this stuff in the middle east kicked off).
I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.
RE: One reason why America is overweight
(03-03-2011 03:55 PM)BnW Wrote: Thanks.
It's not a bad thing to be cynical about such matters at all. The fear paradigm plays in all things politic. So when fossil fuel is the largest commodity invested in making the world run, it stands to reason the price is going to be at a premium. While the new band wagon or antithesis toward it is that afforded solution in biofuels, which in itself provides an opportunity for market flux as well.
Not to mention the profit in recycling petrochemicals thanks to the marketing afforded in the green movement. So named more for the money rather than the ecology behind it all.
So when it comes to planting and harvesting for food or a new fuel additive there is then provided an opportunity for a new (and profitable) chaos among the markets as well.
Ah hell, I picked a bad time not to have the last name of Getty! But what would I do with all that money? Besides buying happiness and less stress, I mean.
RE: One reason why America is overweight
I wonder what the correlation is between weight and religious identity.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Galileo
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." - Voltaire
RE: One reason why America is overweight
(04-03-2011 02:48 PM)daemonowner Wrote: I wonder what the correlation is between weight and religious identity.
As in Jesus must certainly love the fluffy people, because there are so many of them?
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History of the Supreme Court of Ohio
Welcome to a timeline of Ohio Supreme Court history.
See 50-year slices of history by clicking forward and back in the menu bar above, or by clicking inside the timeline itself.
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Since 1948, Direct Relief has worked to help people who confront enormous hardship to recover from disasters and improve the quality of their lives. The tradition of direct and targeted assistance, provided in a manner that respects and involves the people served, has been a hallmark of the organization since its founding.
In 1945, William Zimdin, an Estonian immigrant who had amassed significant wealth in prewar Europe, began sending thousands of relief parcels containing food, clothing, and medicines to relatives, friends, and former employees who were rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of World War II.
He established the William Zimdin Foundation on August 23, 1948, as a California-based non-profit corporation. Having witnessed the impacts of unchecked power, Zimdin dedicated his life's fortune to the oppressed, shunning the fascism that had caused him to flee Hitler's Europe for his life.
After Zimdin's death in 1951, Dezso (Dennis) Karczag, a Hungarian immigrant and Zimdin's close business associate, assumed management of the organization.
In 1957, the organization changed its name to the Direct Relief Foundation, and in 1982, renamed again and became known as Direct Relief International.
Direct Relief provided postwar assistance to enable people to help themselves. In 1950, a revolving loan fund was established to provide refugees with small grants to establish new lives. Repaid funds provided capital for subsequent grantees. While the individual grant program ceased in the early 1960s, the underlying notion remains integral to current programs.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Direct Relief received many requests for assistance related to health issues beyond Europe. The organization's leadership decided that providing medical assistance to indigenous facilities would achieve the greatest overall impact. Direct Relief's mission was refined to serve disadvantaged populations living in medically underserved communities throughout the world.
In 1962, Direct Relief became licensed as a wholesale pharmacy to secure prescription medicines for use abroad. This experience in handling pharmaceuticals led to the development of strict internal protocols regarding the suitability of types of products, inventory controls, and the qualifications of trained health professionals on the receiving end of aid shipments. This focus also established strong ties to U.S. healthcare companies, which have long supported our efforts with donations of high-value pharmaceutical and other medical resources allocated through our assistance program.
Since its inception, Direct Relief has provided aid in response to emergencies and to refugee populations. Beginning with postwar refugee assistance in Eastern Europe and Greece, Direct Relief has also provided support for more than 40 years to Tibetan refugees and has consistently responded with targeted medical aid following major emergencies since the 1970 Peru earthquake.
Today, Direct Relief provides appropriate and specifically requested medical resources to community-based institutions and organizations throughout the world and across the United States.


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Justin Bieber has won a multi-million dollar legal battle with a woman who claimed to have suffered permanent hearing damage at one of his concerts.
Stacey Betts filed a lawsuit against the Baby star last summer (12) alleging she was left suffering from tinnitus because of the loud screams of Bieber's fans when she attended his show in Portland, Oregon in July (12).
She demanded $9 million in damages.
However, last week (ends13Jan13), Betts filed legal papers asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed and the case was dropped the same day, according to TMZ.com.
Betts reportedly decided against moving forward with the case because she didn't have her own legal representation.


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The (#2) University of Michigan men's basketball team played two games last week, and they won them both. At the same time, (#1) Duke got hammered on the road by (#25) Miami (FL), so it sure looks like Michigan is going to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll this week!
The two games that Michigan played last week were good, solid wins against middle-of-the-pack Big Ten teams. On Thursday (01/24/2013), they beat Purdue 68-53 in Crisler Arena, then on Sunday (01/27/2013), they beat Illinois 74-60 in Champaign. The two wins raise UM's record to 19-1, 6-1 in Big Ten play. They are tied for 1st place in the Big Ten.
In both games, Michigan fell behind early, but didn't panic. In fact, Purdue actually had a 1-point lead (33-32) at halftime, the only time UM has trailed at halftime at home this season. However, in both games, Michigan slowly but surely erased the deficit and built a lead, then protected it. In the Purdue game, Michigan was still behind (40-39) with 15 minutes left, then they went on a quick 10-0 run to get a lead that they never lost. In the Illinois game, Michigan led for most of the game, but it was close (2-4 points) for most of the 1st half. In the 2nd half, UM pushed the lead out to double digits, and mostly kept it there. They did let Illinois get within 4 points (41-37) with 16:41 left in the game, but that's when Michigan pulled away.
The stats for the Purdue game are much nicer than the ones for the Illinois game. In the Purdue game, Michigan shot pretty well overall (27-for-55 = 49.1%), and pretty well from 3-point range (7-for-16 = 43.8%). They shot free throws pretty well (7-for-10 = 70.0%), and they won the rebounding battle (35-29) and the turnover battle (10-12). Michigan shot pretty well overall in the Illinois game (31-for-59 = 52.5%), but not so well from 3-point range (5-for-15 = 33.3%). They were mediocre from the free-throw line (7-for-13 = 53.8%), they lost the rebounding battle (35-36), but they won the turnover battle (12-15). Overall, they played well enough to win, but not up to the level they set in some of their more impressive victories. Still, a win is a win. Just ask Duke.
Individually, 3 players hit double figures in both games:
- Trey Burke – 15 points vs. Purdue, and 19 vs. Illinois.
- Tim Hardaway Jr. – 13 and 12 points.
- Glenn Robinson III – 12 and 10 points.
- Nik Stauskas – 12 and 16 points.
The 5th starter, Jordan Morgan had 6 points vs. Purdue, but 0 points vs. Illinois. He only played 91 seconds in the Illinois game before he injured his ankle. He didn't return to the game. His status isn't known at this time.
The bench players had mixed success scoring:
- Spike Albrecht – 0 and 0 points.
- Max Bielfeldt – DNP and 4 points. Max had to play a lot more minutes in the Illinois game, with Morgan out, and he did fine.
- Jon Horford – 2 and 7 points. Jon also had to play a lot more minutes in the Illinois game, with Morgan out, and he also did fine.
- Caris LeVert – 2 and 0 points.
- Mitch McGary – 6 and 6 points.
Michigan only got 10 points from the bench in the Purdue game, but they got 17 points vs. Illinois, which is more like it.
This Week
After a couple games against lower-division teams, Michigan has one more relatively easy game, then they start a brutal 4-game stretch. This week, they play Northwestern on Wednesday (01/30/2013, 6:30 p.m., BTN) in Crisler Arena, then on Saturday (02/02/2013, 9:00 p.m. EST, ESPN) they play at (#7) Indiana. They should beat Northwestern fairly easily, but the game at IU will be Michigan's toughest test yet. If they can win that one, they'll be in the driver's seat for the Big Ten title.
Check back next week to see what happened, and why.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the world's largest banks are set to win a rollback in final Dodd-Frank Act rules intended to transform the swaps market by increasing competition.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's five members are scheduled to vote in Washington today on rules determining how buyers and sellers must trade credit-default, interest-rate and commodity swaps in a $633 trillion global market. They plan to weaken a proposal by reducing the number of price quotes buyers must seek on swap-execution facilities after banks said a five- quote requirement was onerous and would impair trading.
The vote on the rules represents "the start of a process that could eventually lead to a seismic change in trading of over-the-counterderivatives," Richard Repetto, an analyst with Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP in New York, said in a telephone interview yesterday. "It is a switch from an opaque, bilateral market to something where there is some price transparency and a more open and automated market."
The trading regulations are the latest step in efforts by the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission to curb risk and increase transparency in the swap market. Largely unregulated trades helped fuel the 2008 credit crisis that led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and a U.S. rescue of New York-based American International Group Inc.
CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler has pushed for rules to improve competition by shifting the "information advantage" away from Wall Street banks.
'Lower Costs'
The final rule "will lower costs to the American economy and also lower risks," Gensler told reporters on a telephone news conference yesterday. "It lowers risk because when assets and derivatives are priced real-time in competitive marketplaces, it's easier to know what's happening inside your company and inside those large financial institutions."
Five Wall Street banks dominate the U.S. swaps business with JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley controlling 95 percent of cash and derivatives trading for U.S. bank holding companies as of Dec. 31, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
The rules may erode bank profits by reducing their current ability to trade directly with other banks or clients in the bilateral market. The trading, clearing and other rules may cost JPMorgan $1 billion to $2 billion in revenue, according to a Feb. 26 presentation by the bank.
New Platform
The rules represent the final definition of a new type of trading platform set up under Dodd-Frank that is intended to serve as an alternative to exchanges operated by CME Group Inc. and Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange Inc. Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, has filed a lawsuit challenging a separate CFTC rule that the company said will harm its planned swap-execution facility. Tradeweb LLC, Icap Plc and GFI Group Inc. have said they plan to set up so-called SEFs.
Dodd-Frank would have most swaps traded on SEFs or exchanges that let buyers and sellers interact with multiple participants. About 80 percent of interest-rate swaps will be guaranteed at clearinghouses and traded on SEFs, Credit Suisse AG analysts Ira Jersey and Michael Chang estimated in a May 2 note.
CFTC commissioners changed the proposed quote requirement after talks faltered late last year over the plan to mandate five quotes. JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank AG and other swap dealers lobbied against the five-quote requirement, telling regulators that it is unnecessary, will increase trading costs and reduce liquidity on facilities using request-for-quote systems.
The final rules up for a vote today would let buyers request two quotes initially and then three quotes after a phase-in process, according to a CFTC official who briefed reporters yesterday. Gensler agreed to the quote compromise after failing to persuade Republican and Democratic commissioners that five were needed. The three-quote requirement would begin in around October 2014.
"It is going to be perceived as a win for the dealers, especially the two included in the RFQ," Sunil Hirani, chief executive officer of the trueEX Group LLC swap-trading platform, said in a telephone interview yesterday. "I see it as a capitulation for those who wanted a higher number."
The final rule would allow companies that execute trades through the telephone or any form of technology to operate as SEFs, according to a CFTC official. Brokers such as GFI and Icap, which facilitate trades between banks, lobbied the agency to permit trades conducted by voice and not require electronic- only methods.
'Voice Broking'
"We've got a very strong electronic initiative so if the outcome is heavily supportive of electronic solutions we have covered that base," ICAP Chief Executive Officer Michael Spencer said on a call with reporters as the London-based inter- dealer broker reported full-year earnings on May 14. "If on the other hand the status-quo of voice broking remains unchanged, we obviously have a big voice-broking business."
A separate rule also scheduled for a vote today would set the threshold for when trades are large enough to be traded off the platforms in transactions known as blocks. The rules for blocks also allow for a phase-in process. rules for blocks also allow for a phase-in process.
Under the rule, a trade would be considered a block if it is larger than the 50th percentile for notional value in a given category of swaps. Starting in April, the threshold would rise to the 67th percentile. About 14 percent of interest-rate and credit swaps might be traded as blocks until the higher threshold takes effect, a CFTC official said.
"These are short-term gains for the status quo," James Cawley, CEO of Javelin Capital Markets LLC, said in a telephone interview yesterday. "The market is moving to cheaper and more electronic trading of swaps. The argument that the products are bespoke and too complicated to be traded on a screen are unfounded."
The commissioners are also scheduled to vote today on on interpretive guidance and policies on disruptive trading practices.
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* Earnings of 74 cents a share beat 70-cent Wall Street view
* Sales rise nearly 5 percent, exceed analysts' estimates
* Company raises full-year sales and profit forecasts
* Shares rise more than 4 percent
By Martinne Geller
Nov 13 (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc raised its full-year outlook on Tuesday, even before considering any future sales lift from superstorm Sandy, as the retailer benefited from a recent uptick in the U.S. housing market.
The nascent recovery in housing has encouraged professional contractors to buy more in recent months. Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement chain, has also gained from its own efforts to improve distribution, cut costs and localize marketing and merchandising.
Janney Capital Markets analyst David Strasser said Sandy "will certainly help the home improvement sector in the next few quarters". The fact that Home Depot's new forecast does not include those benefits was helping to push up the stock, he said, along with "further evidence of a company running on all cylinders."
Shares of Home Depot, which also beat analysts' quarterly earnings and sales estimates, were up 4.2 percent at $63.72 in midday trading.
"Sales were considerably higher than we had anticipated," said Chief Financial Officer Carol Tome in an interview. "The whole store performed better than expected."
"We believe we're on a path to recovery. We're not there, but we're on a path," she said.
The U.S. housing market, which is being buoyed by low interest rates and falling inventories, is becoming "an assist to growth, rather than an anchor," added.
Rising sales are pushing down the stock of unsold properties on the market, lifting prices and giving builders more confidence to take on new projects.
The company said it had rung up $70 million in third-quarter sales to consumers who stocked up on flashlights, batteries, generators and extension cords before Sandy slammed into New Jersey on Oct. 29, the day after the quarter ended. Home Depot expects a bigger sales boost ahead because of rebuilding efforts, but could not pinpoint its magnitude or timing.
Home Depot raised its full-year sales growth forecast to 5.2 percent from 4.6 percent.
The company said it expected earnings of $3.03 a share, excluding an 11-cent charge for closing stores in China. Its prior full-year forecast, given before news of the China closures, called for a profit of $2.95 per share.
The new forecast implies fourth-quarter earnings of 62 cents per share, according to Janney Capital Markets analyst David Strasser. That is one cent higher than analysts' average estimate, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Home Depot derived about $360 million in incremental sales from Hurricane Irene last year, whose strong winds tore off roofs and caused trees to fall on homes.
So far, estimates are pegging property damage from Sandy at around $20 billion, Tome said, versus about $16 billion from Irene.
"With Sandy sadly, this is structural. Homes are destroyed," said Tome. "It's more like Katrina, and if you think about Katrina, the rebuilding continues in New Orleans."
So far in November, sales have been "quite good," Tome said, with strength in the southern and western parts of the country, which the storm did not affect.
The company's outlook reflects plans to buy back $700 million in additional shares this quarter, which would bring the total value of repurchases for the year to $4 billion.
Net earnings rose to $947 million, or 63 cents per share, in the third quarter from $934 million, or 60 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding a charge for closing seven stores in China, Home Depot said earnings were 74 cents per share. On that basis, analysts were expecting 70 cents.
Sales rose nearly 5 percent to $18.13 billion, topping analysts' estimates of $17.93 billion.
Sales at stores open at least a year increased 4.2 percent globally, including a 4.3 percent rise in the United States.
Edward Jones analyst Robin Diedrich was expecting same-store sales growth of just above 3 percent.
"Things are going pretty well for them, with sales remaining strong," said Diedrich, who has a "hold" rating on the shares due to their valuation. "The stock has done extremely well and trades at quite a premium to the rest of retail."
Home Depot has been taking market share from rival Lowe's Cos Inc with the help of better pricing and customer service, analysts have said. Lowe's, which has lagged Home Depot in same-store sales for 13 straight quarters, plans to report its results next week.


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After a century of repressing or deriding Woman as a symbol of beauty, high culture in the West has suddenly gone over. Victorian fairies, Pre-Raphaelite nymphs and sirens, Edwardian fashion plates and modern-day pinups smile down from the walls of major museums, and novelists such as Andrei Makine, Philip Roth and Penelope Fitzgerald examine female beauty as a central metaphor for value. Oblivious to Kant, evolutionary psychologists do not hesitate to collapse beauty into feminine allure, which they consider a powerful reproductive adaptation. Meanwhile, feminists excoriate Madison Avenue for reducing women's faces and bodies to commodities. For aestheticians, these are heady, if complicated, days.
The latest entrant in the field of female beauty only increases this euphoric unease: the New Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition "Picturing the Modern Amazon" (until June 25). The picturings in question are paintings, photographs, sculptures, comic books, videos and jewelry representing female bodybuilders, those women for whom working out turns symmetry, balance and proportion into weapons of liberation. As the bodybuilder Nathalie Gassel states in My Muscles, Myself, "My muscle has been built to assert its power and presence: its movement indicates my life's fundamental principles which are to be, to do, to show."
According to this exhibition, to be a "hypermuscular woman" is to re-create one's body as a work of art for public display and self-realization. "You are an artist creating a sculpture," claims Heather Foster. "You put on muscle like clay." This process involves a double role for bodybuilders that is reflected in the title of Phyllis Bramson's painting Being Both Object and Subject. Many people would argue that in this respect the female bodybuilder is just a special case of all women, who willy-nilly design an appearance that is taken as their identity. Several images in the show play up the parallel between bodybuilders and more conventionally "designing women," for example, Deborah Willis's Untitled, Bodybuilder #14, which suspends the red salon-sculpted nails of Nancy Lewis against the pattern of veins in her gym-sculpted thighs.
"The female masquerade" in the case of bodybuilders, however, is more literal, for it involves an erasure of "natural" femininity and the addition of a synthetic variant. With body fat reduced to 5 percent for competition and steroids coursing through their blood, it takes silicone to give female bodybuilders breasts and "big hair," makeup and sexy lingerie to signal their femininity. The crudeness of the signs employed inevitably suggests brothel scenes (as in James Salzano's Hannie Van Aken, NYC) or transvestite parodies (as in Susan Meiselas's Evolution F)–an off-color aesthetics of nude muscle accented with fetish.
The exhibition stages a curious paragone between the picturers and the pictured as to which, in effect, is the controlling artist. Several of Andres Serrano's gorgeous photographs of the spectacular Lesa Lewis, for example, cut off her head at the jawline, as if Serrano were appropriating agency for her art to himself. The hypermuscular women at the exhibition opening, in their turn, upstaged the art with their extraordinary presence in the flesh. The curators of the show are old hands at subject-object competition: Laurie Fierstein, a champion bodybuilder who writes about the sport; Joanna Frueh, a professor of art history who is also a feminist performance artist and gym enthusiast; and Judith Stein, a distinguished curator whose sense of empowerment from lifting and pumping gave rise to the exhibition in the first place.


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Exeter Township Police were joined by the Pennsylvania State Police and over 330 municipal agencies to conduct targeted aggressive-driving enforcement Wednesday, July 16 during the busy morning commute on Route 422.
Officers and Troopers made in excess of 75 contacts and issued over 85 aggressive- driving related citations during the enforcement period. The enforcement wave focused on red light running, tailgating and speeding. Motorists exhibiting other unsafe behaviors such as driving too fast for conditions, following too closely, or other aggressive actions were also cited.
The enforcement was part of the Pennsylvania Aggressive Driving Enforcement and Education Project and is funded by part of PennDOT�s $2.5 million investment of federal funds from the National
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Early morning fatality
The driver of a semi-truck died early Friday morning in an accident near mile marker 112 on the eastbound side of Interstate 30. The vehicle traveled off the highway, crossed the service road and hit a pine tree approximately 40 feet into a wooded area. The semi was towing a small pickup truck at the time. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the driver had not been released at press time. The cause of the accident is under investigation by the State Police.


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I will be running the Run for Diabetes 2012 The North West Company Half Marathon on September 3rd. This run will be in support of my son Colin that has Type 1 Diabetes.
It has been just over a year now since Colin was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The year has been smooth and for an eleven year old kid Colin is showing tremendous strength and resilience. He receives insulin 3 times a day and has even started to self administer the needles.
Colin however does go through some periods of "Why Me". He has always been a healthy child and is active and looks after himself. He sees his twin and older brother with no issues and sometimes struggles wondering why he was chosen to be the child with "health issues." This is tough for a kid. Strangely enough of my three children Colin has always been best suited to coping and dealing with challenges. This year Colin will continue to play competitive basketball and soccer and run track. Diabetes does not stop kids from being active it just requires new routines and awareness of when your body needs insulin or sugar.
For the most part as a family we have helped Colin lead a normal life and have controlled his blood sugar levels properly. Sometimes we do miscalculate and his numbers either go down or up substantially. We have been blessed and lucky that this first year has gone so smoothly. That being said Jackie and I still wake up every morning and check to see that he is breathing normally and not in a Diabetic Coma (when the blood sugar dips very low over night). Every morning we go into his room watch his breathing and breath a sigh of relief. While giving insulin is some what mathematical the body is constantly changing. We are always vigilant about Colin's growing and changes and hope our calculations are correct.
Thanks for your time and I hope you can support my run this September. If you are unable to pledge online I would gladly come by and pick up your donation.
Here is the electronic pledge information. You have been invited to pledge for Chris Harbeck in support of Canadian Diabetes Association. Secure online donations can be made at the Running Room Events web site with your credit card. An electronic tax receipt will be sent to you by email. Please click here to make a secure online donation.
For more information about the Run for Diabetes 2012 The North West Company Half Marathon, or to join us on Monday September 3, 2012, please visit this link.
Some facts about Diabetes
- Over 300,000 Canadians live with type 1 diabetes.
- The incidence rate of type 1 diabetes is rising by three to five per cent in Canada; the greatest rise occurs in five to nine year olds.
- Living with type 1 diabetes requires approximately 1,460 needles a year (based on four injections per day) and 2,190 finger pokes a year to test blood sugar levels.
- The World Health Organization indicates five to ten per cent of a nation's health budget is spent on diabetes.
- Diabetes and its complications cost the Canadian economy more than $17.4 billion a year.


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Resource Center for Community Health Assessments and Community Health Improvement Plans
The Resource Center for Community Health Assessments and Community Health Improvement Plans (CHA/CHIP Resource Center) provides practical, customizable tools; resources, including CHA and CHIP examples and case studies; and webinar trainings to LHDs to assist them in completing a community health improvement process and is updated regularly. More »
The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) launched its voluntary national accreditation program for public health departments in September 2011. This program requires local health departments (LHDs) to submit three prerequisites, developed within five years prior, as part of the application process: 1) a community health assessment (CHA), 2) a community health improvement plan (CHIP), and 3) an agency strategic plan.
NACCHO is committed to assisting LHDs in successful accreditation applications, and from July 2011 - December 2012 coordinated the "Accreditation Preparation: Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan" (CHA/CHIP) project, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Focused on two of the three PHAB prerequisites, the effort aimed to:
The cornerstone of the CHA/CHIP project was to support a community of LHD demonstration sites (representative of LHDs across the country and with varying levels of experience) that developed CHAs and CHIPs. The 12 demonstration sites can be found here. Moreover, NACCHO is working with national public health partners to facilitate CHA and CHIP work in collaboration with LHDs among their respective constituencies.
NACCHO is committed to supporting all LHDs in their CHA/CHIP efforts by making the tools, resources, CHAs and CHIPs, and case studies of the CHA/CHIP demonstration sites available in a public, online resource center. Visit the CHA/CHIP Resource Center here.
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Remember when we told you that Paul Daley was scheduled to slaughter some poor Polack at Cage Warriors 57 last weekend? Well, as luck would have it, he all but slaughtered some poor Polack at Cage Warriors 57 last weekend. Crazy, right?
To his credit, +800 underdog Lukasz Chlewicki didn't seem too afraid to stand and bang with "Semtex," which when you look at Daley's highlight reel, is akin to sticking your foot in a bear trap and hoping to win the Boston Marathon. Unfortunately, Chlewicki's persistent clinch work would turn out to be the cause of his demise, as the visibly larger Daley would use the opportunities to put on a Muay Thai clinic. Punishing elbows and vicious knees befell Chlewicki until a Marvin Eastman-esque goat vagina was opened up on the right side of his shiny, bald head, forcing the ringside physician to call the fight between the first and second round.
Chin up, Lukasz. You might have had your ass kicked by one of the best ass-kickers outside of the UFC, but let's look at the positives:
1) You ended the fight in the same state of matter as you began it in.
2) You were able to chew solid foods the next day.
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A few words on the death of Elwin Wilson.
He passed last week in a South Carolina hospital at age 76. Wilson had endured heart and lung problems and had suffered a recent bout with the flu.
There is little reason you would know his name, but as a young man, Wilson made a virtual career out of hatefulness. He was a Klan supporter who burned crosses, hanged a black doll in a noose, once flung a jack handle at an African-American boy. In 1961, he was among a group of men who attacked a busload of Freedom Riders at a station in Rock Hill, S.C.


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Washington's Williams Named USA Softball Player of the Week
March 2, 2010
Courtesy of ASA
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America is pleased to announce that Washington's Niki Williams (Mission Viejo, Calif.) has been named the USA Softball Player of the Week for the week of Feb. 22-28. Williams helped lead the No.1 Huskies to a 5-0 record at the Cathedral City Classic, with three wins coming against ranked opponents.
The sophomore batted .588 (10-for-17) with four home runs, 11 RBI and seven runs scored in five games. She had at least one hit and one RBI in all five games, extending her career-high hitting streak to 11 games. Williams, who homered in each of the final four games, was also perfect in the field in 17 chances, playing first base, left field and right field.
"It's just exciting as I've never won something prestigious like this before. To see that the hard work you put in can lead to some success is exciting. I struggled at the beginning of the season, but I made some adjustments and started seeing the ball better and hitting the ball harder," said Williams. "The experience of being here last year and knowing what it's all about and just being more comfortable in the box has been huge. I have the mindset now that no one is going to beat me and thinking positively like that has made a big difference."
Williams started the weekend with an RBI double and RBI single in a 8-0 win over No. 25 BYU, then helped UW beat No. 9 Oklahoma with a three-run home run that ended up being the difference in the game. On Saturday, Williams went 4-for-7 with two home runs and four RBI, hitting a home run off Fresno State All-American Morgan Melloh in a 10-2 win over the Bulldogs and hitting a two-run home run and adding an RBI single in a 9-4 win over Oklahoma State. Williams wrapped up her big weekend on Sunday by going 3-for-4 with a two-run home run to put the UC Davis away.
"Niki continues to put the time in to get better every day," said Washington Head Coach Heather Tarr. "We are proud that her hard work paid off last weekend."
Williams joins teammate Danielle Lawrie as Washington players who have earned Player of the Week honors in 2010.
About ASA
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation's largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 76 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 210,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com.
About USA Softball
USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men's, Women's, Junior Boys' and Junior Girls' National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women's National Team is one of the only two women's sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won eight World Championship titles including the last six consecutive as well as claimed two World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit www.usasoftball.com.


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Finding inspiration in a French house built in 1912, the interior designer has created something original that was built by local artisans.
The uniqueness of this property lies in its contrasts: while inspiration for the overall architecture was drawn from a distant France, the materials were all locally sourced. Lapacho wood, a sacred tree for the Incas, overlays alpaca wool furnishings, bringing a softness to the hushed atmosphere of the property. Organic food is also present: over 50% of the vegetables come from farms around Buenos Aires that work using organic production methods. The kitchen emphasizes sophisticated Mendocinean-style cuisine, and has been celebrated for distinctively complementing the wines and local products of Argentina's wine region. This includes Algodon's own handcrafted premium and icon wines that are featured prominently on the menu.


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Humble Bundle made its jump to the Android platform last January, offering 4 games at the price of your choice. The team has decided to bring back the deal; there are 5 new games offered on the same business strategy. You can still pick your price, and the money will be divided among the Humble Bundle team, the developers and the Child's Play Charity. You pick who gets the money and how much.
This time around, Humble Bundle is offering 5 games. More importantly, these are games that have not been released in the Google Play Store. Humble Bundle is bringing them exclusively. The games include the titles Zen Bound 2, Canabalt, Cogs, and Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Just like last time, there's a trick to get the last title. If you pay more than the "average" you get the 5th game – Swords & Soldiers. The average now sits at $5.80, but it will continue to increase. Make sure you get your games soon if you want the 5th title!
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BLUE BELL — Last Thursday night very large men in suits tested their tailors' skills and walked onto the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York during the NFL Draft when their names where announced.
Joe Migliarese, a graduate of La Salle High School and the University of Rhode Island, was working for his friends' landscaping company. The draft concluded on Saturday without his name being called. However, the road to the NFL has a few different paths.
"I had hoped the chance would come through free agency," said Migliarese.
At home at his parents' house in Blue Bell over the weekend, Migliarese received a phone call from his agent, Marty Magid, informing him he was invited to the Baltimore Ravens mini camp.
"My grandmom was with me and she gave me a big hug and kiss when I told her. My parents were out to dinner and I called them and they came right home. I have a great support group," said Migliarese, who received many texts over the weekends from friends and former teammates checking for status updates.
The Super Bowl champion Ravens rookie camps run Thursday through Sunday.
The 6-foot-4, 244-pound Migliarese has been preparing for his lifelong dream by training about six hours a day. During his recent time home, La Salle opened up its facilities to him for his workout sessions that include strength, conditioning, and football drills.
Migliarese played for the Explorers from 2003-2007, earning two varsity letters. During his breakout junior season, he registered 60 catches for 699 yards and a team high 13 touchdown receptions.
Migliarese played a key role in La Salle's Philadelphia Catholic League Championship in 2006.
His most memorable moment was hauling in the game-winning touchdown catch in overtime against Cardinal O'Hara to punch La Salle's ticket to the title game. In the championship game against St. Joseph's Prep he also caught the game-winning touchdown.
Named one of the Explorers captains as a senior, his 2007 campaign ended after six games due to injury.
As a wide receiver he finished his career with 91 receptions for 1,063 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Migliarese garnered All-Area honors as a junior and senior. In 2006 he claimed the Tex Flannery Award, which is given to the Outstanding Junior Class player. While at La Salle, Migliarese was a three-year starter for the basketball team.
His gridiron achievements drew attention from a number of colleges, including Murray State, Maine and Northeastern. He chose Rhode Island for the coaching staff and academics.
"I'm a realist. I know football isn't going to last the rest of my life," said Migliarese who graduated in the fall with a degree in Kinesiology.
At Rhode Island Migliarese appeared in 37 games, starting in 28. His career stats include six touchdown catches.
"He's a gentleman, a scholar and a great person to have on your team," said former Rhode Island teammate Louis Feinstein. "He has your back through thick and thin."
To prepare for the draft and free agency signing period, Migliarese trained in Hiram, Ga., for the past four months. After his pro-day at Villanova, he was invited to the Baltimore Regional Combine where his performance was good enough to garner an invitation to the Super Regional Combine at Cowboys Stadium.
"It was an awesome, nerve-wracking experience. Afterwards I felt I deserved to be here and could compete with the players from Division One Schools."
From his football beginnings at Holy Saviour CYO as a seventh grader, Migliarese will find himself on the cusp of his dream when he dons the Raven's purple and black for a long weekend he has worked a lifetime for.
"I always believed I could play as a professional and I am in pursuit of completing that goal," said Migliarese.


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The Effect of Hypocrisy, Part 1
Dishonoring God
But if you bear the name "Jew" and rely upon the Law
and boast in God, 18 and know His will and approve the things that
are essential, being instructed out of the Law, 19 and are
confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to
those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher
of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and
of the truth, 21 you, therefore, who teach another, do you not
teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you
steal? 22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you
commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You
who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you
dishonor God? 24 For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE
GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written.
Warning Against Anti-Semitism
I want to begin this morning with a caution. Anti-Semitism has been a great sin in the world, acted out by Christians and non-Christians throughout the centuries. By this I mean that there has been terrible mistreatment of Jewish people for no reason other than their Jewishness. Just one horrible glimpse from 1919, during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:
There were bands of Ukrainian bandits. The most fearsome was under the command of an anarchist and anti-Semite called Makhno. Makhno's men delighted in "drying the herrings," as they called the process of hanging Jews. They would suspend several between posts on a loose rope; as the rope tightened the victims tried to cling on to each other in their death-agonies, the Makhnovtsi sitting around laughing, drinking, and betting on who would survive the longest. (D. M. Thomas, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life [New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998] p. 31)
And in Christian England, the Jews were expelled from the island in 1290 and not allowed to enter England again for 365 years, until Oliver Cromwell gave freedom of religion to the Puritans and other non-conformists in 1655. The story of anti-Semitism is a terrible story and I mention it as a warning.
It is true that God reigns over such terrible things, and even uses them at times to bring about his own judgments (as the prophets make very clear, Deuteronomy 28:20-68; Jeremiah 9:16; 24:10; 25:16; Ezekiel 5:17), but never does that make the hatred or the persecution less sinful. Remember the word of Jesus in Matthew 18:7, "It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!" In other words, even if there are judgments in the world on Jew and Gentile, woe to Christians (or any others) who presume to usurp the Lord's vengeance (Romans 12:19-20).
I mention the danger of anti-Semitism because Paul is now, in this text, continuing his indictment of the Jewish world as sinners. Verse 17: "But if you bear the name 'Jew' . . ." and so on. How easy it would be to turn this passage into an ethnic slur. It is not that. Paul himself was a Jew, all the apostles were Jews, and Jesus was a Jew. And in Romans 9:3, Paul was ready to be accursed for his unbelieving Jewish kinsmen. In Romans 10:1 he said, "Brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation." Paul loved his Jewish kinsmen who were not Christians, and he risked his life over and over for their salvation.
Both Jews and Gentiles Need the Gospel
The point of these verses is not an ethnic slur, but an argument that Jews -along with the entire Gentile world - are sinners like us, and in need of the gospel, in spite of having so many advantages in the Law. Remember where Paul is coming from and where he is going in this book. He is coming from the great gospel statement of Romans 1:16-17, "The gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith." In other words, the righteousness that God demands from us - but that we do not have and cannot produce in our depravity - he now makes available to us through faith in Christ (see Romans 3:21-24).
Then in Romans 1:18, Paul begins the explanation why this gospel is so desperately needed by both Jew and non-Jew. First he treats the morally corrupt world of the Gentiles in Romans 1:19-32; and then he treats the more moral world of people with higher standards to show that they too are sinners, and Jews are among those with the highest standards of all in the ancient pagan world. So he must show that even they are in need of the gospel of Christ for salvation. He is aiming toward Romans 3:9, "What then? Are we [Jews] better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin."
So the point here is not to isolate the Jews as uniquely defective. The point is that even their higher standards of morality - even their possession of God's Law - does not exclude them from the need to hear and believe the gospel of Christ. They are under the power of sin, just as the rest of the world is. Paul aims to show that all of us - us, not just them - are sinners and in need of salvation that comes through the gospel of Christ alone. This is an act of love toward Jews and Gentiles, even when it is interpreted as arrogant or demeaning.
"Do You Dishonor God?"
What, then, is the specific point of today's text, Romans 2:17-24? The main point is found in verse 23: "You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?" The answer to that question is, Yes. We know this because verse 24 assumes a "yes" answer. Paul puts it in a question to help his readers be honest with themselves: You ask and answer this question. You search your own heart. Is this not so?
So verse 23 really means: "You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, you do dishonor God." The main point of this passage is that the Jewish people, along with all the world, dishonor God. I say, "with all the world," because of what we saw back in Romans 1:21 - that all the Gentile world was guilty of the same thing: "For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks."
Jewish people and Gentile God-fearers might have heard that and said, "That's right, those godless, irreligious pagans dishonor God. But Paul has been at pains now, since Romans 2:1, to say, "It isn't any better among the people with high moral standards, even the Jews. They, too, dishonor God.
So the great issue in these chapters is the honor - or the glory - of God. This is crucial to see. If we want to think Biblically - think the way the apostles thought and the way God thinks, we do not merely talk about everybody being a sinner; we get more specific than that and ask, "What is sin?" What is at the heart of our corruption and our depravity as human beings? What is wrong with us? Why is there so much evil in the world and what is the essence of this?
The Essence of Evil - Dishonoring God
Given what we have seen in Romans 1:21 (pagans dishonor God) and Romans 2:23 (Jews dishonor God), we get the message that the essence of evil is dishonoring God. Evil is the feeling and thinking and acting that treats God as less than infinitely valuable and satisfying. So when we get to Romans 3:23 and Paul gives his own definition of sin, this is what he says: "There is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." The essence of sin is falling short of the glory of God, that is, not treating the glory of God for what it really is - the most valuable reality and the most satisfying treasure in the universe.
This is why we all need to be saved. This is why we need a gift of righteousness that is not our own. We have fallen short of God's glory. Or as Romans 1:21 says, we have "not glorified him or thanked him as God." Or as Romans 2:23 says, "Through your breaking the Law, you dishonor God."
O how we need to hear this today, because almost all the forces around us urge us to think of sin - if at all - as an offense against man, not God. Evil is when man is hurt, not when God is dishonored. Evil is when I am abused, not when God is dishonored. Evil is when I am threatened, not when God is dishonored. We need to hear Paul's unrelenting witness to the God-centered understanding of sin and righteousness. Only this will prepare us to understand and receive the gospel of the gift of God's righteousness. And that is Paul's goal in these chapters - to prepare Jew and Gentile to understand and receive the Gospel.
Now we ask, how was God dishonored among the Jewish people? Next week we will answer that question from verses 17-22. We will ask, How can Paul really claim that the Jewish people were thieves and adulterers and temple-plunderers, when this was not their main reputation? We will come back to that.
Ruining God's Reputation
But today we ask: How was God dishonored according to Romans 2:24? Here Paul quotes an Old Testament prophet to explain and support his statement in verse 23 that the Jews "dishonor God." He says, "You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? (24) For [and here he quotes Isaiah 52:5] 'THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU,' just as it is written." In other words, the dishonor Paul has in mind is that the reputation of God among the nations is contaminated. The nations look at God's people and think little of their God. The quote from Isaiah referred to the derision that the nations gave Israel when Israel went into captivity. We know it was Israel's sin that brought the captivity on them. So in their breaking the law, as verse 23 says, they dishonored God. They brought contempt on the name of God.
This was exactly the opposite of why God had chosen Israel. "'I made the whole household of Israel . . . cling to Me,' declares the LORD, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory.'" They were created (Isaiah 43:7) and chosen for the honor of God - to display his worth and value and beauty and greatness and trustworthiness and all-satisfying excellence. But instead, they lived as if their God were worthless and the world was valuable instead. And God handed them over to their enemies. The result was that God was ridiculed and his reputation was belittled.
The point of all this is that sin is "falling short of the glory of God" (3:23), and that Jews, as well as Gentiles, are under the power of sin (3:9). Both of them - all of us - dishonor God. That is our situation. That is our danger and liability. That is our curse and our guilt and our bondage. We don't love the glory of God. Or, as Romans 1:23 says, we "exchange the glory of the incorruptible God for images."
The Good News
The Gospel is the good news that God has sent his Son, Jesus, into the world to set this condition right - in three ways. 1) Jesus came to vindicate the worth of God's glory by living for it with all his might (John 17:4) and by dying to show that it is worth the greatest possible sacrifice (John 12:27-28; Romans 3:25-26). 2) Jesus came to rescue us from the wrath of God against all that dishonors his glory. He did this by dying in our place and by becoming for us a righteousness that we could never achieve on our own (Romans 3:24; Philippians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21) - the righteousness that we have in union with Christ by trusting him (Romans 3:21). 3) Jesus came to change us into the kind of people who value the glory of God above all things and who live to show his worth (Matthew 5:16; 1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Peter 4:11).
For example, turn with me to Romans 15:8-9. Why did Christ come? Why is there a Christian Gospel? Why a book of Romans? Why a Bethlehem Baptist Church? Why a saving of your soul? Here's Paul's answer, and it is in direct response to the problem of God's dishonor in the world and in our lives: "I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision [=the Jews] on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers, and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy."
So he mentions a purpose of Christ's coming in relation to the Jews and a purpose for Christ's coming in relation to the Gentiles. For the Jews it is to confirm God's trustworthiness. To vindicate his truthfulness. In other words, to confirm and restore God's honor and integrity. And for the Gentiles, verse 9 says, Christ came so that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. In other words, Christ came to reestablish God's honor - God's glory - for Jews and Gentiles, that is, to repair what Romans 1:19-3:20 says was ruined.
All Have Fallen Short
That is where we are this morning. No one in this room loves the glory of God the way he should. We have all fallen short. We have dishonored God. We have exchanged his glory for images. He is not cherished and treasured and admired and loved with a fraction of the fervor that he deserves. So we have fallen short. We are under the power of sin. And we are guilty before God.
Our only hope is that Christ came to change that. To vindicate the God we have belittled. To clothe us with a righteousness that we cannot provide on our own. And to change us into the kind of people who delight in the glory of God and the honor of God above all things.
So I want us to end with a time of prayer that God would come and save us from the unbelief that makes other things look more attractive than God.