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Established in 1961, the National Auctioneers Association Hall of Fame recognizes leaders within the auction industry. Bronze-etched portrait plaques of Hall of Fame honorees adorn the walls of the National Auctioneers Museum located at the NAA headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas.
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Marvin E. Alexander, CAI, Martin, TN
Larry Latham, CAI, Las Vegas, NV
*Stephen D. Lewis, Morehead, KY
*Wayne Stewart, Audobon, IA
Gary Ryther, CAI, Lawson, MO
Randy Ruhter, Hastings, NE
John Roebuck, CAI, AARE, Memphis, TN
Spanky Assiter, CAI, AARE, Amarillo, TX
Cookie Lockhart, CAI, CES, GPPA, Steamboat Springs, CO
Larry Theurer, CAI, GPPA, Wellington, KS
Robert G. Frey, Archbold, OH
*George M. Kurtz, Morganfield, KY
Robert A. Doyle, CAI, CES, Pleasant Valley, NY
Donald L. Shearer, CAI, BAS, CES, GPPA,, Kissimmee, FL
Joe Small, CAI, Terrell, TX
William Z. Fox, CAI, Owings Mills, MD
Keith Babb, CAI, AARE, GPPA, Monroe, LA
William B. Kurtz, CAI, Owensboro, KY
Louis "Benny" Fisher, Jr., CAI, Pompano Beach, FL
T. Eddie Haynes, CAI, AARE, Yukon, OK
Rex B. Newcom, CAI, Wichita, KS
Stephen Schofield, CAI, BAS, North Conway, NH
*Byron Dilgard, Ashland, OH
*D.L. Booker, Connell, WA
Robin Marshall, Elm Creek, NE
*Virgil Butts, CAI, Brazil, IN
Wil Hahn, CAI, Bath, PA
*Robert Musser, Cody, WY
Richard Keenan, Cape Elizabeth, ME
*Robert Glass, CAI, Sterling, CT
*James Murphy, Edmonds, WA
Robert Steffes, CAI, GPPA, Fargo, ND
T. Joseph Tarpley, CAI, Rome, GA
*Ralph Zettlemoyer, Fogelsville, PA
Richard J. Moyer, Spring City, PA
*Patrick K. Goggins, Billings, MT
*Dudley Althaus, Fredericksburg, TX
Ronald W. Faison, Zebulon, NC
*Richard T. Kiko, CAI, Canton, OH
Jack Nitz, CAI, Fremont, NE
LeRoy Van Dyke, Smithton, MO
*Earl Brown, Junction City, KS
Haskel "Hack" Ayers, LaFollette, TN
*Ike Hamilton, West Monroe, LA
Forrest A. Mendenhall, CAI, AARE, High Point, NC
Hugh B. Miller, CAI, AARE, CES, Evansville, IN
Sammy Ford, CAI, Mount Vernon, KY
*Richard W. Dewees, Kansas City, MO
*Dean H. Parker, Logan, UT
*Hugh Campbell, Chillicothe, MO
*L.H. "Bing" Carter, Olathe, KS
*Roy Crume, CAI, Kokomo, IN
Vernell Johnson, Lyons, SD
Wally Laumeyer, Cape Coral, FL
*C. Roger Lewis, Morehead, KY
*William J. Josko, Canton, SD
*J.C. "Jake" Horney, Wytheville, VA
William L. Gaule, Chatham, IL
J. Edward Vierheller, CAI, Catoosa, OK
*Ray Sims, Raymore, MO
*Howard Buckles, Keosauqua, IA
*James D. Stevens, Nashville, TN
*Hubert D. Songer, CAI, Murfreesboro, TN
*Lenzie Beck, Sikeston, MO
*Ford Good, Wadsworth, OH
*Archie Moody, Darlington, SC
*John P. O'Connor, CAI, Owensboro, KY
*William J. Wendelin, Henderson, TX
*Troil C. Welton, Wray, CO
*W. Craig Lawing, CAI, Charlotte, NC
*Garth W. Wilber, Bronson, MI
*George Michael, Merrimack, NH
*Charles E. Cumberlin, CAI AARE, Brush, CO
*J. Meredith Darbyshire, Wilmington, OH
Martin E. Higgenbotham, CAI, CES, Lakeland, FL
*J.L. Todd, Rome, GA
Harvey C. Lambright, CAI, AARE, CES, MPPA, LaGrange, IN
*Warren Collins, Pharr, TX
*Clive Anderson, Sr., Nashville, TN
*R.E. Voorheis, Harrisburg, MO
*Joseph W. Donahoe, Darlington, WI
*Russell K. Beebe, West Palm Beach, FL
*Lyle Erickson, CAI, Bella Vista, AR
*Elias H. Frey, Archbold, OH
*John Rhodes, Ottumwa, IA
*Russell T. Kiko, Minerva, OH
C.P. Terry Dunning, CAI, MPPA, Elgin, IL
*B.G. Coats, Rumson, NJ
*Wylie Rittenhouse, CAI, Vanderbilt, PA
*Earl S. Penfield, Lemmon, SD
*Robert F. Losey, Sr., Renton, WA
*Ken Barnicle, Jackson, MO
*Curtis E. Cunningham, Greenwood, SC
*Grover Howell, Houston, TX
*W.J. "Bill" Hagen, Billings, MT
*Morris Fannon, Pennington Gap, VA
*Wendell Ritchie, Marathon, IA
*Richard M. Brewer, Mt. Hope, KS
*Dean W. Fleming, CAI, Atkinson, NE
*Wayne Kessler, Campbellsville, KY
*Romayne Sherman, Goshen, IN
*Jim Messersmith, Jerome, ID
*Timothy E. Anspach, Albany, NY
Robert E. Penfield, Bowman, ND
*Brad L. Wooley, Little Rock, AR
*Ralph W. Horst, Marion, PA
*Rex Young, Plattsmouth, NE
*Albert C. Dunning, Elgin, IL
*Ernest C. Freund, Fond du Lac, WI
*John L. Cummins, Cynthiana, KY
*John A. Overton, Albuquerque, NM
*Fred S. Ramsay, Madison, TN
*Herbert W. Van Pelt, Readington, NJ
*Walter S. Britten, Bryan, TX
*Louis L. Stambler, Honolulu, HI
*Frank E. Fitzgerald, Bismarck, ND
*Leon E. Joy, Ames, IA
*Charles Corkle, Norfolk, NE
*Tom D. Berry, West Newton, PA
*Harris Wilcox, Bergen, NY
*Bernard C. Hart, Lincoln, NE
*Henry Rasmussen, St. Paul, NE
*Dan J. Fuller, Albion, NE
*Guy L. Pettit, Bloomfield, IA
*Herman W. Sigrist, LaGrange, IN* Deceased
*Jack Gordon, Chicago, IL
*Ernest T. Sherlock, St. Francis, KS
*Arthur W. Thompson, Lincoln, NE
International Auctioneer Champions
The International Auctioneer Championship (IAC) was established in 1988. The first IAC Champion was Paul Behr, CAI, of Denver, Colo., in 1988. In 1994, Marcy Goldring of Farmington, Ill., was awarded the first female IAC Champion title when the men's and women's divisions were established. IAC Champions are considered to be "the best of the best" within the auction industry. From livestock and auto auctioneers, to real estate and benefit auctioneers, each auctioneer competes against fellow professionals to be crowned an IAC Champion.
IAC Champions 2017
IAC Champions 2016
IAC Champion 2015
IAC Champions 2014
IAC Champions 2013
IAC Champions 2012
IAC Champions 2011
IAC Champions 2010
IAC Champions 2009
IAC Champions 2008
IAC Champions 2007
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IAC Champions 1997
IAC Champions 1996
IAC Champions 1995
IAC Champions 1994
IAC Champion 1993
IAC Champion 1992
IAC Champion 1991
IAC Champion 1990
IAC Champion 1989
IAC Champions 1988
International Junior Auctioneer Champions
The International Junior Auctioneer Championship (IJAC) was established in 2007. Young Auctioneers between the ages of 12 and 18 compete for the title each year at the International Auctioneers Conference & Show.
IJAC Champion 2017
IJAC Champion 2016
IJAC Champion 2015
IJAC Champion 2014
IJAC Champion 2013
IJAC Champion 2012
IJAC Champion 2011
IJAC Champion 2010
Justin Schultis, Fairbury, NE
Jacob Barth, Moses Lake, WA
Trev Moravec, David City, NE
President's Award of Distinction
The NAA Board of Directors established the President's Award of Distinction in 2002 to honor those members whose conduct has distinguished the auction profession or the National Auctioneers Association. The award is bestowed on recipients during the annual International Auctioneers Conference and Show.
Doak Lambert, CAS, Decatur, TX
Thomas W. Saturday, CAI, Portland, ME
Traci Ayers-Dower, CAI, AARE, LaFollette, TN
Chris Pracht, CAI, AARE, CES, Anderson, SC
Hannes Combest, CAE, Overland Park, KS
*Kurt Kiefer, CAI, Fargo, ND
Jane Campbell Chambliss, CAI, AARE, CES, MPPA, Annapolis, MD
Robert A. Hamilton, Fuquay Varina, NC
Pat Vredevoogd Combs, Grand Rapids, MI
Joe R. Wilson, Hot Springs, AR
Jane Aumann, Nokomis, IL
Carl J. Radde, CAI, Cologne, MN
Martin J. Higgenbotham, CAI, Lakeland, FL
Larry Theurer, CAI, GPPA, Wellington, KS
National Auctioneers Foundation, Overland Park, KS
John Roebuck, CAI, AARE, Memphis, TN
*John Stephen Proffitt, III, Staunton, VA
Chris Pracht, CAI, AARE, CES, Anderson, SC
Thomas W. Saturley, CAI, Portland, ME
Thomas M. McInnis, CAI, AARE, Rockingham, NC
C.P. Terry Dunning, CAI, GPPA, Elgin, IL
Kurt Aumann, CAI, ATS, Nokomis, IL
Forrest Mendenhall, CAI, AARE, High Point, NC
*Larry A. McCool, CAI, Madison, MS
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First Network Specifically for Dogs Selects RRsat as Media Services Partner to Enable Channel to Focus on Core Content Creation
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2014) - RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a leading provider of digital content management and global content distribution services to the broadcasting industry, announced today the signing of a three-year contract with DOGTV, the first and only television network scientifically developed just for dogs. The partnership allows DOGTV to focus on its content creation, channel programming and marketing while RRsat provides the full range of extended media services, including content preparation, management, playout services and global distribution.
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RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) provides global, end-to-end, digital content preparation and management, as well as content distribution services to the rapidly expanding broadcasting industry, covering more than 150 countries. Through its Global Network, composed of satellite, terrestrial fiber optic capacity and the public Internet, RRsat provides high-quality and flexible global content distribution 24 by 7 services to more than 630 channels reaching multiplatform operators, Internet TV and direct-to-home viewers worldwide. In addition, the company offers worldwide content management and distribution services for sports, news and other live events. More than 130 channels use RRsat's advanced production and playout centers, comprising of comprehensive media asset management services. Visit the company's website www.rrsat.com.
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Yesterday I saw a strange phenomenon is the sky. It was 5.00 pm and very bright out. The sky was blue and there were a lot of clouds. My four year old daughter said mom there is the moon, (a crescent very small) and she said what is that white thing beside it. I had said oh clouds sweetheart, she said No there is something there.
I looked and saw what appeared to look like a star, a pin prick of light. This was not a plane, it was not a balloon, because one. there was no way a balloon was up that high and two. The movement of the object. The UFO moved right away from the moon, stopped, came back left, stopped again for a few minutes then progressed back to the right again where it then went into a cloud and vanished. I watched this for fifteen to twenty minutes. My daughter saw it as well as my next door neighbor. We could not identify it as a plane, balloon, anything. The possibility of a UFO is all we could come up with. Have you received any other reports such as this?? Also it was very bright out and we could see this is the sky looked like a star but weird movements, stops and then gone. I know it wasn't a satellite as I know the movements of one.
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Category Archive: Bible – NT – Mark
John's Baptism
When John the Baptizer begins his work, Jerusalem sends a fact-finding committee to to inquire about his identity and about his baptism. In particular, the Pharisees ask why he's baptizing since he's not the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet.
But you'll notice that they don't say, "What is this curious ritual you're performing down here at the Jordan? Why are you scooping up water and pouring on all these people's heads?"
They know about baptism already. They just wonder why he is doing it. What does it mean when John appears in the wilderness, by the Jordan, and starts calling Israel out to be baptized there — at that spot, in that river — by him.
What does baptism mean in the Gospels? Joel Garver, in this old essay, "Baptism in Matthew and Mark," gives the most helpful answer I've seen.
The Old Temple and the New
In his Study in St. Mark, Austin Farrer shows how Mark 13 parallels Mark 14. Jesus pronounces judgment on the old temple in Mark 13, but he forms his disciples into a new temple, a true house of prayer. But he cautions us not to misconstrue the contrast between the two temples:
The contrast is not between a temple which is overthrown, and a temple which abides; both temples are overthrown, for the one falls in the fall of the other; but the one rises the third day, and the other does not. Nor is it a contrast between a temple of murderers and a temple of saints, for in the supper-chamber it is said, One of you shall betray me. When the spiritual house falls, its stones also are scattered, not one of them shall remain upon another; not even that Stone whom Christ himself had named. Protest as he may, the word applies to him, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.' But the stones of the old temple will lie, and not be gathered; the shepherd, being risen again, will draw his flock after him into Galilee.
The prediction about the scattering of the sheep holds the same place as the prediction about the scattering of the stones: Christ says the one thing as he comes forth from the temple, and the other as he comes forth from the supper room. And both goings forth lead to the same place — the Mount of Olives (133).
Isaiah 56 describes the good news of coming salvation in terms of the inclusion of eunuchs in the house of God. Formerly, they were excluded from the assembly of Yahweh; they could not draw near to God (Deut 23:1). But why were they excluded?
As with many other exclusions from the assembly — for instance, the exclusion of those who have an emission or who have touched someone who is dead — the reason is symbolic, symbolic of something in the Old Creation so that when Christ comes and we enter the New Creation these exclusions no longer apply. Death results from sin, and if you touch someone dead it spreads so that you yourself are symbolically dead, and you may not bring that stench of death-as-a-result-of-man's-sin into God's presence. So too with the eunuch.
What is a eunuch? A eunuch is a man who is physically unable to beget, a man who by reason of damage to his organs of generation barren and fruitless. His fruitlessness symbolizes those who do not bear fruit to God's glory, and, as Jesus teaches, those who do not bear fruit will be cut off and burned (John 15).
But now associate that with Mark 11:12ff. and the cursing of the fig tree. In my previous blog entry, I noted that Jesus, in his temple action, quotes from Isaiah 56 about his house becoming a house of prayer for all nations. This is not a statement about how it was always supposed to be, but about the salvation that was still future in Isaiah's day. And Jesus makes it clear that that time of salvation is now here. But the context in Isaiah 56 also talks about the eunuch who is not to see himself as a withered tree. The fig tree that represents the fruitless temple and those who take refuge in it withers under Jesus' curse, but when Jesus comes, eunuchs are no longer fruitless; they may enter God's house and have a fruit better than sons and daughters and a name that will never die.
One step further: What's the first reference to fig trees in the Bible? Genesis 3, where Adam and Woman sew fig leaves into garments with which they hide their genitals from each other. (Not from God: When he comes, they want something bigger to hide behind and so they hide behind the trees of the Garden.) Specifically, then, the first appearance of fig leaves is as garments that cover the source of man and woman's fruitfulness.
The temple and those who use it as their hideout have fig leaves but no fruitfulness toward God. They are Adam and Woman, covering their fruitlessness. But Jesus exposes their fruitlessness. They are eunuchs who are banned from His house.
Withered Trees … and Unwithered
I have read many, many commentaries on Mark 11:12ff. All of them mention that Jesus quotes Isaiah 56:7: "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." But none of them mention what is in the context.
They focus on the "all nations" and point out that the "son of a foreigner" will be welcome in the temple (Isa 56:3a, 6-8). But in the same context, we have this: "Let not the eunuch say, 'Here I am, a withered tree'" (Isa 56:3b). In the Septuagint, the Greek word translated withered here is exactly the same word that Mark uses in this context to describe the fig tree that Jesus curses.
He sandwiches Jesus' temple action between two accounts of that fig tree — the cursing and the result — so that we will read what Jesus does in the temple in light of what he does to the fig tree and vice versa. The temple that rejects Jesus and has become a hideout for robbers is a barren, fruitless fig tree and Jesus' curse will make it wither. But the eunuch who trusts in Jesus is not withered; he's fruitful, and he will have a place in Jesus' house and an everlasting name that will not be cut off (Isa 56:4-5).
Preaching the Text or Preaching the Event?
When you're preaching the narratives in Scripture — and this is particularly true when you're preaching the Gospels — you have to answer the question: Am I preaching a particular text or am I preaching the event described in that text?
Here's what I mean: At a certain point in his earthly ministry, just as he leaves Bethany one day on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus sends two men out to get a colt for him to ride on. That's an event and it is recorded in all four Gospels.
But it isn't recorded in exactly the same way; it's not as if Mark, Luke, and John all say what Matthew says, word for word. Rather, each evangelist tells the story in his own way. Matthew and John cite Zechariah 9:9, which speaks of the king coming to Zion, lowly and riding on a donkey, but Mark and Luke don't. Matthew tells you that the disciples brought two animals, a donkey and its colt, but the other evangelists mention only the colt, and Mark and Luke don't even indicate that the colt was a donkey (which, I submit, suggests that they expect you to know that from reading Matthew). Mark and Luke make the point that the colt must be one on which no one has ever ridden, but Matthew doesn't say that. Mark says that the crowds shouted a welcome to the kingdom of David, but the others don't; Luke says that they shouted "Peace in heaven and glory in the highest," but the others don't. And there are a host of other differences, too.
So what do you do when you preach this passage? One approach is to preach the event, perhaps attempting to include (and harmonize) all the details from all four Gospels. The event actually happened and all the details of it (though accepting that the various details do harmonize and being able to show that they do are two different things).
This is sometimes a valuable thing to do. For instance, in John's Gospel Jesus comes to the temple and overturns tables and drives out the sacrificial animals, and he does something similar in the other three Gospels. But there is a huge difference. John is describing an event that takes place early in Jesus' ministry, but the other three Gospels report something that happened just before the cross. For a number of reasons, I take these to be two distinct events, one at the beginning and one at the end of Jesus' ministry. No one Gospel reports both, but it wouldn't be improper for a pastor to preach a sermon on both texts, perhaps showing how Jesus inspects the temple twice, just as a leprous house is inspected twice in Leviticus.
Preaching the event in that way has its place, just as a topical or thematic sermon has its place (e.g., a sermon on infant baptism that draws on a number of texts). It seems to me that this is what Klaas Schilder does in the meditations (not sermons) in his magnificent Christ in His Sufferings trilogy, often with breathtaking results. But here's the problem: A sermon like that — preaching the event of the "triumphal entry" — isn't preaching what any one Gospel actually says.
By trying to focus on the event and drawing in all the details from all the Gospels, such a sermon fails to say what a particular Gospel says. Matthew has a reason for drawing attention to Zechariah 9:9, but Mark and Luke have a reason not to. Mark is interested in Jesus as the son of David and his kingdom being the restored Davidic kingdom, but that's not Luke's point; Luke is interested in showing how the crowds shouted something similar to (and yet different from) what the angels shouted when they appeared to the shepherd, but that's not John's point. Each one is doing his own thing, drawing attention to one detail or another in order to make his own point, and if you preach the event, you miss that distinctiveness.
That said, there's also a ditch on the other side, namely, preaching one particular text while ignoring what other texts about the same event say. And so I read commentaries on Mark 11:1-11 that say, for instance, that the colt could have been a horse. Not according to Matthew. Or they say that it wasn't the same crowd that shouted "Hosanna" and later on "Crucify him" because the ones shouting "Hosanna" were the Galilean pilgrims traveling with Jesus and the ones who shouted "Crucify him" later were the people of Jerusalem. Except that where Mark tells us the people traveling with Jesus shouted "Hosanna," John 12 says that there was a crowd shouting the same thing that came from Jerusalem to meet Jesus — and some of them may have been shouting "Crucify" later. (Mind you, so may the Galilean pilgrims who traveled with Jesus, since, after all, they were still in Jerusalem at that time!). I read a commentary last night that talked as if these acclamations were offensive to Jesus, but Luke 19 says that Jesus refused to rebuke the crowds and told the Pharisees that if they kept silent even the stones would cry out, which certainly doesn't sound like disapproval. In each of these cases, it appears that commentators have so focused on Mark that they have forgotten that Mark is describing an event and that he isn't the only one to do so.
Now it's not necessary for your sermon to include everything the other accounts say. If you're preaching Mark 11, you don't have to mention what John 12 says about there being a crowd coming from Jerusalem to meet Jesus or what Matthew 21 says about the colt and its mother being brought to Jesus. You may simply talk about the crowd with Jesus and the colt. But you do have to avoid saying something in your sermon on Mark 11 that would contradict those other passages.
Preaching the event is certainly permissible, sometimes particularly valuable. But it isn't the same thing as preaching the text with its distinctive focus. And on the other hand, preaching the text allows you to say what the Spirit inspired a particular author to write, but it isn't helpful if it focuses on the text to the exclusion of the actual event and the other accounts of it.
Deaf, Dumb, and Demon-Possessed (Mark 9)
In his wonderful A Study in Saint Mark, Austin Farrer notes some of the patterns that converge in Mark 9:14-29. Here's one:
Exorcism of child at parent's request (Mark 7:24-30); Healing of a deaf-mute (Mark 7:31-37)
Healing of a blind man (Mark 8:22-26)
Exorcism of deaf-mute child at parent's request (Mark 9:14-29)
Healing of a blind man (Mark 10:46-52) (Farrer, 41).
Later, Farrer points out that Mark has four healings in connection with family relations:
(1) A mother(-in-law) is healed at the request of a son(-in-law) (Mark 1:29-31)
(2) A daughter is healed at the request of her father (Mark 5:21-43)
(3) A daughter is healed at the request of her mother (Mark 7:24-30)
(4) A son is healed at the request of his father (Mark 9:14-29)
Interestingly, the first two involve opposite sexes (son and mother, father and daughter) while the last two involve relatives of the same sex (mother-daughter, father-son). I'm not sure what the significance of all of this might be, but Farrer points out that the sequence culminates in the healing of a father's son, a son moreover who first falls down "as if dead" and then is raised up and arises — using two words associated with resurrection in the rest of Mark's Gospel:
The healing of the "son of the father" prepares our minds most directly for what the climax of the Gospel is to reveal, the resurrection of the Father's only Son. It is directly after being proclaimed Only Son by the Father's voice that Jesus descends the mountain to heal the son of the father (Farrer, 51).
In fact, Farrer goes further:
It is indeed the function of the healing at the mountain's foot to draw together all the themes of healing in the previous signs. To begin with, it fuses exorcism with restoration of sensitive powers [i.e., hearing, seeing, speaking], for the demon exorcised is a spirit of deafness and dumbness. It completes the theme of parental intercession, and revives the theme of resurrection. For the boy being exorcised falls as dead, and must be raised by the hand like Jairus's child before he can enjoy his new and purified life (Farrer, 51-52).
Later in the book, Farrer returns to this story:
The exorcism beneath the mountain which Christ comes down from glory to perform is an enacted parable of his coming passion. In face of scribal hostility and unbelief, and of weakness in disciples who cannot pray, Christ masters the devil, but only through a falling dead and rising up again (Farrar, 152).
Then, toward the end of the book, Farrar draws together several patterns, showing how Mark's Gospel starts with distinct exorcisms, healings, and cleansings and then begins to combine things so that the same event is both a healing and a cleansing (e.g., the woman with the flow of blood) or, as in Mark 9, an exorcism which is also a healing. About this story in Mark 9, Farrer says:
The last healing in the series … seems perfectly expressive, it seems to have everything. It is the expulsion of Satan, it is the quickening of the spiritual powers, it is health through falling dead and rising again, it is the salvation of the son of the father. But still it is a mere symbol, a mere foreshewing; we must go forward into the passion and resurrection of Christ to find the substance of salvation (Farrer, 315).
Sons of Thunder
Everything I wrote about the characterization of Peter goes double for the characterization of James and John, who seem to be taken as a couple of hotheads on the basis of one — count it: one — incident in which they asked Jesus if he wanted them to call down fire on an inhospitable Samaritan village (Luke 9:54).
Oh, yes. There's also the name Jesus gives them: "Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder" (Mark 3:17). Some people immediately link that name up with the later event in Luke 9:54 and say, "See? That's why Jesus gave them that name. They were rash and impetuous and hotheaded." And since Luke 9 happened after Mark 3, they have to add either the claim that Jesus foresaw that they would say what they did in Luke 9 and named them on the basis of that foresight or the claim that the behavior exhibited in Luke 9 was characteristic so that they were already displaying that sort of hotheadedness at the time Jesus named them.
But there's no reason at all to see Luke 9 as the basis of the name "Sons of Thunder." In fact, there is no reason to take "Sons of Thunder" negatively at all, let alone to understand it as a reference to rashness or hotheadedness. Going further, there is no reason to take that name as referring to anything in James and John's character at the time that Jesus named them.
Jesus gives new names to only three of his disciples and he does so at the same time. Simon he names Peter, not because Simon was already such a solid rock but because Jesus intended to make him into a rock who would be a foundation stone for the church. Just as by changing Abram's name to Abraham and changing Sarai's name to Sarah, Yahweh was making them into new people, the parents of the child of the promise, so by naming Simon "Rock" Jesus was making him into a rock, revealing in the name the plan he had for Simon.
But if that's true of Simon's new name, then the parallel suggests that it's also true with James and John's new name. "Sons of Thunder" is not a description of who they already were, nor is it a description of some foolishness or wickedness in their character that Jesus would have to change. Rather, it's a description of who Jesus was going to make them to be.
What the name exactly means is disputed by commentators, but many associate it with God's thunderous voice and with his judgment (Ex 9:23, 28, 29, 33, 34; 19:16; 20:18; 1 Sam 2:10; 7:10; 12:17, 18; 22:14; Job 26:14; 36:29, 33; 37:2, 4, 5; 40:9; Ps 18:13; 29:3; 77:18; 81:7; 104:7; Isa 29:6; Ezek 3:12, 13; John 12:29; Rev 4:5; 10: 3, 4 [this Angel is Jesus]; 11:19; 14:2). So it seems possible that Jesus is identifying James and John as two witnesses whose speech will be thunderous like God's speech and will administer God's judgment, for salvation for his people but destruction for his enemies.
That said, what James and John suggest in Luke 9 — fire from heaven, like lightning associated with thunder — could be seen as a perversion of their name. Just as Simon is supposed to be a rock, but is anything but when he rebukes Jesus, so James and John are supposed to be sons of thunder but are in danger of abusing their calling. Luke 9 is not the time and place for that sort of judgment to come from the sons of thunder, and James and John need to learn from Jesus the right way of responding — and the right time and to call down God's fire from heaven.
Jesus in the Wilderness (Mk 1:12-13)
The Son of Man must suffer, for is he not the Son of Man? Christ takes Man upon him where he finds him, not in immortality, but in corruption, not in paradise, but expelled and in the wilderness. Adam is tempted in paradise, and then driven forth; Christ is first driven forth, then tempted, for he begins where Adam is, not where Adam was…. It is not enough that Christ should suffer Adam's temptation and vanquish it; he must suffer Adam's death besides, and vanquish that. — Austin Farrer, A Study in Saint Mark, 280.
Who's Standing Outside?
Mark 3:20-35 is one of Mark's typical sandwiches, in which a story starts, gets interrupted by a second story which relates to it in some way, and then finally comes to its conclusion. Here, we are told that, having heard about Jesus' behavior, some of "His own people" come to seize him, saying, "He is out of his mind" (3:20-21). Then we have the second story, Jesus' confrontation with the scribes from Jerusalem who claim that he casts out demons by the ruler of the demons (3:22-30). Finally, we return to the first story, when Jesus' brothers and mother come and send for Jesus and when Jesus identifies those who are doing God's will by sitting around him as his brother and sister and mother (3:31-35).
That structure is obvious even in an English translation. But a look at the Greek reveals an interesting play on words. At the beginning, when Jesus' "own people" say that he is "out of his mind" (3:21), the word used literally (or, rather, etymologically) means "standing outside." (Perhaps that's roughly equivalent to our English expression "beside himself.") But at the end of the story, Jesus' "own people" turn out to be his brothers and mother, who come and, "standing outside," call him (3:31; cf. 3:32, which stresses again that they are "outside").
So Jesus' "own people" think Jesus is the one "standing outside" (in the sense of "crazy"). But Jesus' family members turn out to be the ones literally "standing outside," while Jesus identifies those who are sitting inside as his true family, those who, in obedience to God's will, are "sitting around him" (3:32, 34). To be his true family — his true mother and brothers — his natural mother and brothers must come inside instead of calling him out.
Jesus does indeed belong with his family. But at this point, in spite of their natural relationship with Jesus, Mary and his brothers are not that family. They are seeking to take him away from the ones who sit around him in obedience to God, away from the ones he identifies as his mother and brothers and sisters, in order to take him into their protective custody, as if Jesus would be safe with them instead of they themselves being safe with him. And therefore, though they did later trust in Jesus, they are acting at this moment in unbelief. For Mary to become Jesus' "mother and brother and sister" now, she must join those who are with Jesus; she must come inside. Otherwise, she will be left outside his family.
Furthermore, in a sandwich story, the middle story also relates to the story that frames it. And so here it is not just the frame story that involves standing (and sitting). In 3:24-25, Jesus says that a divided kingdom or a divided household cannot "stand." And in 3:26, he speaks of "the satan" as "standing up" against himself.
The reference to the divided household that doesn't "stand" might resonate with the frame story: Jesus' natural household won't stand if his mother and brothers are divided against Jesus. While Mary and Jesus' brothers are not saying, with the scribes from Jerusalem, that Jesus is in league with the ruler of the demons, they are still opposed to him, still acting in unbelief, and therefore still in danger. Their natural family relationship to Jesus will not keep them safe. Mary is not saved through giving birth to Jesus, and she is not blessed apart from her faith. If Mary and Jesus' brothers continue to "stand outside" instead of "sitting around him," then their household won't stay standing.
What about the reference to Satan's "standing up" (a term for both resurrection and insurrection) against himself (3:26)? I'm not sure how — or if — it relates to the frame story, though it does provide one more verbal echo in this passage. For that matter, Mark's Gospel is full of references to "standing": in every healing, people "stand up," until at the end the same terms are used for Jesus' resurrection.
But the repetition of the word "stand" and especially of words having to do with "standing outside" sets up this question: Who is really "standing outside"? If Jesus' family thinks Jesus is "standing outside" in the sense of being insane, then their household won't "stand." And if you think Jesus is "standing outside" in that sense, then you end up "standing outside" yourself, here literally but, as Jesus' words make clear, also in a deeper sense.
The family is sitting inside, sitting around Jesus and with Jesus. While not everyone has to be crowded into the room where Jesus is sitting, everyone must be with him and not against him. That's God's will. Only Jesus' family is safe, only the mother and brothers and sisters who stick with him. You'd have to be insane to be "standing outside."
What the Son Doesn't Know
In Mark 13:32, Jesus says, "Of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (cf. Matt. 24:36). That's somewhat puzzling. Is it a limitation on Jesus' omniscience, as if God the Father knows things that God the Son doesn't? That can't be. So is it saying that Jesus as a man doesn't know things that God the Son knows? Even so, that's still puzzling.
A friend of mine argued once for a different approach: When Jesus says that even the Son does not know the day and hour, he said, he is speaking of knowing something in order to pass it on to others. Neither the angels nor the Son has been given the knowledge of the day and hour in the sense that neither is commissioned to reveal it and make it known to us.
I haven't studied this passage and so I won't claim that this is the right interpretation. But the other day, I was reading Augustine's exposition of Psalm 10 (Psalm 9, part 2, for Augustine). In that exposition, he mentions those passages in Mark 13 and Matthew 24. Lo and behold, he says exactly what my friend said:
What, then, is so hidden as that which is said to be hidden even from the judge himself, not as far as his knowing it is concerned, but as regards his revealing it? (Expositions of the Psalms, 1:158, emphasis mine).
The Bride and the Satan
Klaas Schilder on Jesus' suffering when Peter rebuked him when he was preaching about his upcoming suffering, rejection, and death:
And for the Saviour, fully aflame as He is with love for mankind, it is far worse suffering to meet a satan of flesh and blood than to confront that one great Devil who is sheer spirit. Jesus Himself is human. He called Simon Barjona a friend. And a friend's opposition to the task which God placed upon the Son of man is a burden outweighing a thousand times the enmity to Him and the Father breathed out by the Demon of the pit.
Hearing His bride speak and act satanically, seeing a human being, one of those for whom He is giving His life, become an instrument of Satan, observing the flesh in Simon Peter assert itself to take exception to heaven's law of atonement through fulfillment, and all that, mark well, at the moment of Christ's prophesying — that must have been Jesus' severest suffering up to this time. For He knows all the while that this same rebellion of flesh against spirit will presently nail Him to the cross. — Klaas Schilder, Christ in His Suffering, p. 20.
Return to Your Rank! (Mark 8:33)
I have been preaching through the book of Mark and recently preached on Mark 8, where Jesus begins to teach his disciples that he must suffer many things, be rejected, die, and rise again. Peter scolds Jesus and Jesus, in turn, scolds Peter: "Get behind me, Satan."
A study of the way "behind me" is used in Mark's Gospel suggests that it is the language of discipleship. When Jesus called Peter, the same words are used: "Come behind me" (1:17). And in the very next verse, after Jesus rebukes Peter, he uses the same words again: "If anyone wants to come behind me" (8:34).
In that light, it appears that what Jesus is saying to Peter is not "Go away and don't come back." Rather, it is "Get back behind me. Return to your proper place as a disciple, not confronting me satanically to tempt me to step off the way, but following behind me on the way."


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Official Washington doffed its cap Sunday to six titans of the performing arts at the 31st annual Kennedy Center Honors. Presented with the center's prestigious life achievement awards were multihyphenate Barbra Streisand, thesp Morgan Freeman, country singer George Jones, choreographer Twyla Tharp and British rockers Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.
A weekend of festivities for the honorees concluded, as usual, with a gala variety show attended by President Bush and other luminaries. The ceremony airs Dec. 30 on CBS. The Honors and surrounding events create a coveted opportunity each year for political and showbiz titans to mingle — and that opportunity was clearly cherished this time as D.C. prepares for a new administration.
"Yet this is the one occasion in Washington where partisan politics is set aside," said George Stevens Jr., who created the Honors program and now produces with his son, Michael.
The show began with toasts to Freeman by Denzel Washington and Clint Eastwood and included entertainment by blues singers B.B. King and Koko Taylor. Washington discussed Freeman's difficult road to stardom, which included years of bit parts and even a gig dancing behind Chita Rivera at the 1964 New York World's Fair. He said the actor's memorable role in "Driving Miss Daisy" persuaded Hollywood that Freeman "could give truth to any character he played."
Tharp's impressive talents were praised by Lily Tomlin, along with Kennedy Center prexy Michael Kaiser, a close chum and former colleague. Kaiser saluted Tharp's integrity and "puritanical work ethic." American Ballet Theater dancers Marcelo Gomez and Luciana Paris performed for the honoree.
A mini rock concert was offered in the tribute to the Who's Daltrey and Townshend, introduced by Jack Black. The Rob Mathes band performed a medley of the rock group's hits, accompanied by singers Joss Stone, Chris Cornell and Rob Thomas. In an especially touching moment, the two rockers were honored by a chorus of 150 New York City policemen and firefighters in recognition of the Who's participation in the Gotham concert following the attack on the World Trade Center.
The tribute to country singer Jones was hosted by a surprise guest, first lady Laura Bush, marking the first time a member of the first family has directly participated in the event.
"You don't have to be a country music fan to hear the sound of musical greatness in George Jones," she said.
Singers Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, Brad Paisley and Shelby Lynne performed.
The show's finale was the Streisand tribute, hosted by Queen Latifah. Glenn Close praised Streisand's passion while acknowledging her well-known reputation as a perfectionist, especially during her musical TV specials, "driving many devoted colleagues crazy in the process." Streisand was honored musically by singers Beyonce, Idina Menzel, Ne-Yo, Kelli O'Hara and Nathan Gunn.
D.C.'s official salute to the honorees began Saturday evening at the Artists Committee dinner at the State Dept., hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Previous honoree Eastwood emceed that evening's highlight, the presentation of the colorful awards worn by each recipient. In addition, each honoree was lauded by a close colleague, including "Daisy" author Alfred Uhry for Freeman, songwriter Marilyn Bergman for Streisand and CBS anchor Bob Schieffer for Jones.
Prior to the gala, President and Mrs. Bush greeted honorees at a White House reception.


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Synthetic peptide conjugated to KLH derived from within residues 50 to the C-terminus of Human Sumo 2+3.
(Peptide available as ab13760.)
Our Abpromise guarantee covers the use of ab3742 in the following tested applications.
The application notes include recommended starting dilutions; optimal dilutions/concentrations should be determined by the end user.
|1/1000. Detects a band of approximately 15, 18 kDa (predicted molecular weight: 11.6 , 10.8 kDa).
|1/800. Perform heat mediated antigen retrieval before commencing with IHC staining protocol.
Left-hand images show uninfected cells and the co-localization of SUMO-2/3 with PML (red) in control (upper rows of each block of 4 images) and PML depleted (low rows of each block of 4 images) HepaRG cells. Right-hand images show typical examples of recruitment of the indicated proteins to sites associated with HSV-1 genomes (ICP4; red) in cells at the edges of ICP0 null mutant (ΔICP0) plaques in control and PML depleted HepaRG cells. Scale bars indicate 5 µm.
Cells on glass coverslips were fixed with 1.5% formaldehyde in PBS containing 2% sucrose then treated with 0.5% Nonidet P40 substitute in PBS/10% sucrose. SUMO-2/3 was detected with ab3742. An Alexa-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG was used as the secondary antibody.
Lanes 1 & 3: Sumo 2+3 antibody (ab3742) at 1/500 dilution
Lanes 2 & 4: Sumo 2+3 antibody (ab3742) at 1/1000 dilution
Lanes 1-4: HeLa nuclear extract at 20 ug
Lane 1: as above
Lane 2: as above
Lane 3: Sumo 2+3 peptide (ab13760) at 1 ug/ml
Lane 4: Sumo 2+3 peptide (ab13760) at 1 ug/ml
Goat polyclonal to Rabbit IgG H&L (HRP) (ab6721) at 1/2000 dilution developed using the ECL technique
Performed under reducing conditions.
Exposure time: 1 minute
Predicted band sizes : 11.6 & 10.
ab3742 stained in HepG2 cells. Cells were fixed with 100% methanol (5min) at room temperature and incubated with PBS containing 10% goat serum, 0.3 M glycine, 1% BSA and 0.1% triton for 1h at room temperature to permeabilise the cells and block non-specific protein-protein interactions. The cells were then incubated with the antibody ab3742 at 5µg/ml and ab7291 (Mouse monoclonal [DM1A] to alpha Tubulin - Loading Control) at 1/1000 dilution overnight at +4°C. The secondary antibodies were ab150120 (pseudo-colored red) and ab150081 (colored green) used at 1 ug/ml for 1hour at room temperature. DAPI was used to stain the cell nuclei (colored blue) at a concentration of 1.43µM for 1hour at room temperature
Image courtesy of Human Protein Atlas
ab3742 staining Sumo 2 + 3 in Human skin. The paraffin embedded human skin tissue was incubated with ab3742 (1/800 dilution) for 30 mins at room temperature. Antigen retrieval was performed by heat induction in citrate buffer pH 6. Ab3742 was tested in a tissue microarray (TMA) containing a wide range of normal and cancer tissues as well as a cell microarray consisting of a range of commonly used, well characterised human cell lines.
Further results for this antibody can be found at www.proteinatlas.org
Immunofluorescent imaging of human cells (U2OS) with ab3742 confirms the specificity of this antibody. Antibody signal is localised exclusively to the nucleus, with diffuse background staining of the nucleoplasm. Intense foci of staining are also evident, corresponding to SUMO-2/3 accumulation in nuclear subdomains such as the PML body. This image is in exact agreement with several published reports (see for example Saitoh H et al.).
IF was performed with a standard paraformaldehyde technique (fixed in PBS buffered PFH 4% for 5 minutes, permeabilised with 0.5% triton-PBS for 5 minutes, blocked with 5% milk / 0.2% tween for one hour. Primary antibody used at 1/100 in 5% milk / 0.2% TWEEN for one hour, secondary antibody for 30 minutes. All blocking and incubation steps carried out at 37 degrees. Nuclei are stained with Hoechst stain.
ab3742 staining Sumo 2+3 in Xenopus laevis oocyte cell by ICC/IF (Immunocytochemistry/immunofluorescence). Cells were fixed with formaldehyde, permeabilized with NP-40 0.1% in PBS and blocked with 3% BSA for 60 minutes at 23°C. Samples were incubated with primary antibody (1/250 in PBS + 3% BSA) for 1 hour at 23°C. An undiluted Alexa Fluor®488-conjugated Goat anti-rabbit polyclonal was used as the secondary antibody.
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Military veterans are having better luck finding jobs, outpacing their civilian counterparts in many states, but younger former troops who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan still lag behind.
Veterans in North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky are faring relatively well, while those in California, Idaho and Mississippi are having less success finding jobs.
Nationwide, the average unemployment rate last year for all veterans was 6.6 percent vs. 7.3 percent for the country as a whole, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
However, 9 percent of military personnel who served since the Sept. 11, 2011, terror attacks were without jobs, and in that group the unemployment rate leaps to 21.4 percent among veterans 18-24 years old.
Jim Reed, who grew up poor on an Arizona cattle ranch and now lives in Pinehurst, N.C., served nine deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq as a military nurse anesthetist. Now 48, he retired from the Army in 2011.
Despite his skills and background, Reed has been laid off from hospitals twice since leaving the military, most recently in December. He's currently working about half-time pulling temporary shifts in his specialty.
"I risked my life routinely over there (in the two wars)," Reed told McClatchy on Thursday. "I was a lieutenant colonel in the Army with tons of experience and boatloads of combat experience. I thought that might give me some advantage, but it hasn't because people don't understand the military."
Rosalinda Maury, research director with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, said veterans who are women or belong to ethnic minorities also face more difficulties finding work.
"Age is a big thing," Maury said. "We know that younger veterans have a higher unemployment rate compared to their non-veteran counterparts. Gender and race are factors as well."
Dan Goldenberg is executive director of the Call of Duty Endowment, a Los Angeles-based group that funds nonprofit programs to help veterans find jobs.
"There's no question that vets make great employees, and over the long haul they do well," he said. "The problem is with the post-9/11 vets. It's these young vets who are suffering. They ostensibly have more skills than their civilian peers, yet their unemployment rate is higher."
The problem will get worse, Goldenberg said, if the Pentagon follows through on its plans to cut the Army by 80,000 and reduce the Marine Corps by 20,000.
Frederick Wellman, a former senior aide to retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former top military commander in Iraq, is now CEO of Scoutcomms, a Fredericksburg, Va., firm that works with businesses and nonprofit groups to develop employment programs for veterans and military families.
"There has been progress, and companies are doing good things," Wellman said. "But we still have a challenge with younger and new vets coming out of service finding employment. We need to keep our eyes on the ball and help these younger vets match their skills with jobs in their areas."
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley hailed the news that her state's 2013 unemployment rate for veterans was 4.1 percent, the sixth-lowest in the nation and down from 6.9 percent in 2012. Its overall unemployment rate last year was 7.6 percent.
"Taking care of our veterans is a major priority in South Carolina, and providing them opportunities to use their valuable skill sets in the workplace is a big part of meeting that responsibility," Haley said in a statement. "This is about making sure South Carolina is the most military-friendly state in the country and letting our veterans and their families know we value their sacrifice."
Derek Bennett served two tours in Iraq before leaving the military as an Army captain. He's now chief of staff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonprofit advocacy group. Bennett said that military people who join the civilian workforce generally don't get full credit for the experience and skills they acquired while serving their nation.
"When you transition out of the military, the difficulty is trying to convince civilian hiring managers that you're worth the investment," Bennett said.
He said that military and business people often have difficulty understanding each other because they speak so differently and use specialized jargon that doesn't overlap.
"(The phrase) 'I'll meet you at rally point for a FARP (Forward Area Refueling Point)' is very different from (the phrase) 'We need to monetize back-office synergies for this deal to work,'" Bennett said. "It's two different languages talking past each other. Both sides have to make an effort to understand the other."
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The opening round of the awards season has confirmed the prevailing Oscar buzz, at least as far as the two films perceived as frontrunners are concerned.
This week, at the Bifas (the British Independent Film Awards), The King's Speech was crowned in five categories – Best Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter) and Best Screenplay (written by David Seidler).
Though the Bifas may give a hint of what to expect in the Baftas, they are not regarded as an indicator of likely Oscar success. But then Slumdog Millionaire was a big winner two years ago, ahead of its remarkable Oscar-night glory, and, if The King's Speech had flunked badly, it might have set alarm bells ringing.
Bonham Carter, joking about the rapidly burgeoning success of a film that hasn't even been released yet (it's out on January 7), said: "It will be a huge disappointment when people actually see it! They're going to go, 'Oh, it's not that good!'"
Well, that simply won't happen. Director Tom Hooper's account of how George VI (Firth) overcame his stammer with the help of unorthodox speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush) is extraordinarily good, and it will be astonishing if it doesn't feature in the nominations (announced on January 25) for most of the major Oscar categories.
Although Firth (Oscar-nominated last time for his performance in A Single Man) has to be favourite to win Best Actor, things aren't so clear-cut in the other awards – as the selections of America's National Board of Review demonstrate.
The NBR placed The King's Speech among the 10 best films of the year (along with Another Year, The Fighter, Hereafter, Inception, Shutter Island, The Town, Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter's Bone), but it did not feature in any of the award categories.
Instead, The Social Network, an account of the genesis of the Facebook website, picked up Best Film, Best Director (David Fincher), Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg) and Best Adapted Screenplay (by Aaron Sorkin). An impressive haul, but who will have the most friends come Oscar night?


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Recipe of the Month: Thai Rice Noodle Salad with Fish Balls by Chef Zola Nene
This tasty Thai Rice Noodle Salad with Fish Balls recipe is loaded with delicious Thai flavours, from curry to garlic, fresh coriander, spring onions, mint, chilli, sesame and just a touch of fish sauce. You can also serve these fish balls with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce. Perfect finger food for any occasion.
Thai Rice Noodle Salad with Fish Balls Recipe
Author: Chef Zola Nene
Cuisine: Thai
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Serves: 4
For the Fish Balls:
- 500g hake fillets
- 1 Tbs green curry paste
- 2 Tbs corn flour
- Handful fresh coriander
- 2 spring onions, chopped
- 2 Tbs coconut oil
For the salad:
- 100g vermicelli rice noodles, soaked in hot water then drained and cooled
- 1 cucumber, sliced into ribbons using vegetable peeler, then sliced lengthways to form long cucumber noodles
- ½ small red cabbage, finely shredded
- 1 red pepper, fine julienne
For the dressing:
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- 1 Tbs honey
- 1 tsp crushed garlic
- 1 tsp finely grated ginger
- 1 Tbs finely chopped fresh mint leaves
- 1 red chilli, finely chopped
- 10ml sesame oil
- 10ml fish sauce
- Place fish, curry paste, corn flour, coriander and spring onions into a food processor and blend until mixture forms a paste.
- Wet your hands, then form mixture into small balls.
- Pan fry the balls in coconut oil until golden and cooked through.
- Toss together the noodles, cucumber, red cabbage and peppers.
- Whisk together dressing, then pour over the salad and toss well to coat.
- Serve salad on a platter, then top with the fish balls.
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Corn futures are steady to fractionally higher in most nearby contracts at midday. The USDA reported a private export sale of 123,000 MT of 17/18 corn to Unknown Destinations through their daily reporting system this morning. The weekly EIA report showed that US ethanol plants produced 1.016 million barrels of ethanol per day during the week of Feb 9. That was down 41,000 bpd from the previous week. Stocks of ethanol fell 604,000 barrels during that week to 22.885 million barrels. Analysts estimates for Thursday's USDA Export Sales report are running 1 – 1.5 MMT for old crop sales during the week of Feb 8, with 0-100,000 MT seen for new crop.
Mar 18 Corn is at $3.67 1/4, up 1/2 cent,
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Farmers' Concern Over Livestock Virus
Schmallenberg Virus: DEFRA Reaction and Advice
DEFRA Says Deadly Livestock Virus is "Worrying"
After more cases were confirmed of the European Schmallenberg virus, DEFRA has said animals that died as a result of the disease would not be going into the food chain - but that meat from affected farms is still safe.
Farmers lose sheep to Schmallenberg virus
This lamb on a farm near Rye in Sussex was born healthy just minutes after the ewe gave birth to a stillborn lamb, a victim of Schmallenberg disease. Another lamb was born deformed as well this morning. So far the farm has had 50 cases, either dead, deformed or re-absorbed by the ewe.
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New XBOX Live Deal – Free Games!
For anyone out there new to the XBOX 360, or online gaming, here is a deal that may just tempt you to take your black (or cream!) box online. Microsoft have announced that for anyone signing up for XBOX Live for the first time for a minimum period of 6 months, will qualify for a mighty fine free games package.
We aren't talking poor games here either! In fact the bundle Microsoft are giving away is very impressive. The Five free games are Fable III, Halo Reach, Toy Soldiers, The Gunstringer and Kinect Sports. Once you sign up, codes to download the titles are sent out within four to six weeks (why so long?).
A nice mix of retail and digital titles then, although Kinect Sports would only be of any use obviously if you had invested in a Kinect, but nonetheless a tempting offer and one which compares favourably with the Playstation Plus offering. With this being targeted at new owners however, will Microsoft offer anything to their core gamer audience? We wonder …
Either way, if you do want to take advantage of this deal, be quick as it runs out next Tuesday. The offer is definitely available in the UK, and as of now its availability in other territories is unknown. So check out your dashboard new 360 owners!


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There comes a point in every season when fans of "bubble" teams fighting desperately for a playoff spot will ask themselves: "Are we just not good enough to make the playoffs?"
That time may have come for Bears fans on Sunday in St. Louis, following the Bears' embarrassing 42-21 loss to the Rams.
The Rams are a below average football team, folks, and I'm not even talking about their record. They have some talented players, sure, but not enough to be a playoff contender, especially not on offense. But somehow, led by quarterback Kellen Clemens and running back Benny Cunningham — right, who? — they destroyed the Bears defense.
So, if the Rams are a below average football team and were dominant in their victory … what does that make the Bears?
I was saddened and disappointed by what I witnessed from the Bears defense on Sunday. Did the offense play perfectly? No. In fact, Matt Forte's lost fumble on the Bears' first offensive play of the game wound up setting the Bears back 14 points, a deficit too much to overcome for a defense so bad. But the Bears offense played well enough to win. The Bears defense did not.
Hence, the entirety of this column will be focused solely on the defense. A defense that gave up 406 yards of total offense, 258 of which came on the ground. That's right, the Bears got gashed for 258 rushing yards. By the St. Louis Rams. That Rams offense led by journeyman Kellen Clemens? Yes, that Rams offense. Most of those rushing yards came from Benny Cunningham. Yes, Benny Cunningham. Who? I don't know.
I'm going to be fair to the Bears and say that they have had some devastating injuries to their defense this year. They were without Henry Melton, Nate Collins, Stephen Paea, Lance Briggs, D.J. Williams, and Charles Tillman as they made Cunningham an instant fantasy football sensation.
But still. Benny Cunningham? Really?
From the game's very first drive, you could tell the Bears were in for a long day. On the Rams' third play of the game, wide receiver Tavon Austin took a pitch 65 yards down the sideline for the game's first score.
First, the credit: Austin has game-breaking speed and he's a good player. The blocking was set up nicely for him. And it was a clever piece of trickery whereby all the action was going to one side of the field and it got the defense to over-pursue, Austin then pivoted and reversed field and outran everybody.
Now, the reality: A good, disciplined defense does not let that play go for 65 yards. The Bears failed. Shea McClellin lost containment on the end of the line of scrimmage and Chris Conte and Khaseem Greene failed to keep their heads on swivels as they absorbed brutal, blindside blocks.
Of course, Forte fumbled on the very next play and gave the ball back to St. Louis. Three plays later, Stacy punched the ball in the end zone and the game-long battle of climbing out of a hole began.
Forte put that fumble behind him and on the Bears' ensuing possession, Josh McCown led the Bears on an 11-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Martellus Bennett. Being down by 7 points with three and a half quarters to play meant the Bears were back in the game, right? Well, I certainly thought so. But we didn't expect the Bears defense not to show to play.
The Rams matched that Bears drive with one of their own, spanning 9 plays and 80 yards capped off by a 6-yard touchdown reception from tight end Jared Cook, thrown to him by quarterback Kellen Clemens — yeah, that guy.
Two Bears drives later, McCown engineered another successful drive, this one a 12-play march covering 68 yards ending with a McCown-to-Brandon Marshall three-yard touchdown.
The Bears were once again within one score thanks to their offense. But was that enough to keep them in the game? Nope. Because on the next drive, the Bears defense was gashed again as the Rams answered right back with a field goal drive.
To open the second half, McCown led the Bears on a 14-play drive right down the field. That's when Marc Trestman used his guts to go for a touchdown on fourth and goal from the 1-yard-line. With the Bears trailing by 10 points, should Trestman have sent out the field goal unit? He'll be second guessed all day about that. Given how poorly the defense was playing, it didn't matter either way. But Trestman was trusting his offense, which was playing exceptionally well up to that point.
But, Michael Bush — the Bears' supposed goal line and short-yardage back — was stuffed for minus-4 yards on the play and the Bears turned it over.
Under normal circumstances with at least a competent defense, turning the ball over that deep in the opponent's end of the field isn't a big deal, right? With the Rams taking over at their own 5-yard-line, there was a good chance the Bears would get the ball back with good field position, right?
We know better by now.
The great Kellen Clemens led the Greatest Show on Turf down the field on 11 plays, capped off by another field goal.
The Bears offense had a couple more successful drives as the Rams had no answer for them, but they were in a hole they simply could not climb out of due to a defense that couldn't stop anything.
How is it possible the Bears defense has gotten so bad? Well, part of it is the injuries I previously mentioned. Another part of it is the rapidly aging bodies of many of the veterans on that side of the ball.
But the most discouraging thing is that the Bears finally have a Top 10 offense, one of the best units in the NFL, and it's being squandered by a defense that can't hold up its end of the bargain.
McCown had a magnificent game on Sunday. He completed 36 of 47 passes (76.5%) for 352 yards, two touchdowns, one interception, and a 102.4 passer rating. This coming from a guy who just a year ago was no better than Kellen Clemens. But with weapons all around him and with Trestman's successful offense, McCown looks like a capable NFL quarterback.
But does it matter? Not if the Bears can't play defense.
So, are the Bears really a playoff team at this point? They're on the bubble, but I just can't see them winning too many more games with a defense that has trouble playing defense. The Detroit Lions have control of the NFC North, but they're trying to give it away like they do every year, in Detroit Lions fashion. The Lions have now lost two games in a row — two games they've had no business losing, to the Steelers and Buccaneers — and probably should have lost a third in the row to these Bears. They're actively trying to give the Bears and Packers a chance to stay in the divisional race.
Let's be honest. The wild card is pretty much off the table at this point. It's not mathematically impossible, but it's highly improbable. The Bears' best chance to make the playoffs is by taking the NFC North crown. But to do so, they have to win more games than the Lions in the final five weeks of the season.
That starts this coming week against Minnesota — a team that with a healthy Adrian Peterson could legitimately rush for over 300 yards against this Bears defense.
It'll be quite the game.