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Puppet is a "Server automation framework and application" that it utilized by people worldwide and even Fortune 100 companies (according to Puppet's website) to manage part of their devops work. It is also one of the key projects that "powers Github."
Puppet is written in Ruby and unit-tested using the BDD framework Rspec.
Given Puppet's popularity and utility, one would expect its quality to be sky-high. The reality, however, shows that its quality, as reflected through its tests, is simply average and seems to be on par with the average quality of other open-source projects, thus supporting previous research results in this area. In other words, Puppet's quality is: meh.
I'll present my analysis in two posts. The first post will analyze test duplication. To a certain extent, test duplication is a smell — an indication of poor test quality. By measuring how certain areas of an application are over-tested, it also measures the degree to which other areas in an application have been left under-tested or even completely untested. The second post will explore the results of performing mutation analysis on Puppet's tests. Mutation analysis is a measure that subsumes code coverage and more accurately represents the actual quality of tests.
Please keep in mind that my intent is in no way to negate the utility of Puppet. Indeed, the fact that many people have found Puppet useful is great! The analysis does provide, however, an objective measure of what to expect in terms of Puppet's quality according to the quality of its tests.
Preliminaries on Test Duplication
There has been extensive research done on the benefits of reducing test redundancy for the simple goal of speeding up tests. Interestingly, except for the seminal research done by Ortask, there has not been any research focused on how redundancy impacts the quality of tests. This is partly due to the fact that almost all proposed solutions for test redundancy detection have invariably required excessive amounts of work that prevents them from scaling freely to arbitrary projects and languages. For example, some proposed solutions require multiple phases of time-consuming processing in the form of runtime profiling, static code analysis, and execution of machine learning algorithms[1]; others require instrumenting the SUT (system under test)[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] or even instrumenting the test code itself[2]. Finally, most proposed solutions necessitate repeated execution of tests[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] which would completely undo any time-savings!
Such requirements result in solutions that are excessively heavy-weight, time-consuming and convoluted. What's worse, such solutions only produce so-so results that cannot transfer to other projects[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. These severe limitations of such proposed solutions naturally preclude their adoption by the software industry.
Using novel algorithms and key observations, Ortask was the first to develop a super light-weight solution that does not require executing tests to perform accurate redundancy analysis. Such a light-weight, cross-language solution allowed Ortask to research the effects of test redundancy on the quality of code, linking high redundancy in tests with lower code quality.
Test duplication analysis on Puppet, therefore, was performed using Ortask TestLess — the light-weight, cross-language solution to detect test redundancy.
TestLess is great at detecting duplicate tests, but since it's a classifier, it also produces some false hits (more on that below). To assert that only actual duplicates were detected and removed from the suites, mutation analysis (with Mutator) was used in tandem with test redundancy analysis.
Mutator was used as follows: for each test suite, 1000 1st-order mutants were created and the final mutation score was recorded. Test redundancy analysis was then performed and the detected duplicates removed. Then 1000 more mutants were generated, also recording the new final mutation score. The original and new mutation scores were then compared. Finally, if removing tests resulted in a mutation score lower than m – 0.05, where m is the original score, then the removal was considered harmful and no tests were removed.
For more details about why 0.05 was chosen as the threshold, see the paper on the effects of test redundancy on the quality of code.
Now on to the results!
Test Duplication analysis on Puppet
The analysis utilized Puppet version 4.4.0. The total number of test suites in this version was 656, from which 220 (33.5%) were selected for test duplication analysis. The sample was extracted to contain as randomly a population of unit tests as possible so as to capture variations in size and code areas from the project.
The following histogram shows the size distribution of the suites in the sample.
By the PDF (probability density function) below, we can also get a probabilistic sense of where the bulk of test suites are located in terms of size.
In this version of Puppet, the average test suite contains 19.45 tests while the median suite contains 12 tests. As the histogram shows, there are several big suites containing more than 100 tests, including a huge suite containing 256 tests.
Using the default settings, TestLess correctly identified the duplicate tests from 74% of the suites in the set — including tests that were originally identified as duplicates by the test writers themselves!
Here is an example of a duplicate test found by TestLess that was also marked as such by contributor Luke Kanies (github username "lak").
In effect, TestLess found that almost 3 out of every 4 suites in the sample contained some degree of duplication ranging from subtle to clear copy/paste actions — all using default (out-of-the-box) settings. The following image shows a copy/paste duplicate test for suite module_spec.rb that TestLess found.
Given that TestLess is a classifier, some number of false positives and false negatives were expected. Such false hits required fine-tuning the detection parameters and re-analyzing. This was done on the remaining 26% of suites to yield a total accuracy of 98% correctly identified suites.
The histogram below shows the distribution of duplicate tests found in the complete sample after this re-analysis was performed.
The chart below shows the distribution of duplicate tests, as a density function.
From the histogram and the probability density function, it is noteworthy to observe that test suites contain 25% average duplication, while some suites contain an excessively high amount of duplicate tests. In one suite, for example, 91.67% of its tests are duplicate and, therefore, entirely redundant!
The full test duplication statistics for the sample are shown next, along with the 95% confidence interval.
As the confidence interval describes, there is a very high probability (95%, in fact) that the average test duplication amount for a given test suite in Puppet will fall between 22.5% and 27.3%, with a very low likelihood of outliers (5%). Stated differently, while there is 5% probability that, on average, test suites might have less than 22.5% test duplication in Puppet, its test suites will most likely have an average test duplication within that confidence interval. An analogous argument holds for the "greater than" case (i.e. greater than 27.3%)
It is interesting to observe how close the statistics are between previous research results and this study. In particular, the previous study showed that one out of every 4 tests in a suite were totally redundant. In this investigation, the test suites in Puppet achieved equivalent amounts of average redundancy, in agreement with that research.
It is important to stress that test duplication is not a problem in and of itself. Sometimes, test redundancy is harmless, perhaps even desired. For instance, in the practice of treating tests as "executable documentation", developers might decide to document several different cases (tests) to record a fix for a single bug. Another instance might arise when different edge cases are recorded in separate tests for the same function area of the SUT.
As long as test writers intentionally and carefully keep such redundant tests in check, and as long as they understand that redundant tests do not increase the coverage of their code, then it's okay to leave redundant tests in suites for documentation. In other words, duplicate tests might very well increase how well we (humans) can read and understand the tests, but they will never improve their quality or that of the system they test.
It is therefore important to keep in mind that by definition (as well as empirically):
Redundant tests do not increase the quality of the tests nor of the system under test
On the other hand, test redundancy can become a smell if it is not managed appropriately, and it can become a big problem if it gets out of control. One problem might arise when, for instance, developers unknowingly create redundant tests thinking that they are actually testing different parts of the code or exercising different constraints/conditions.
For instance, the latter case appears to have happened with one of the test suites in Puppet that contained 80% test duplication, yet practically 0% mutation score (more on mutation score on the next post). In other words, it seems that only one test would have sufficed to exercise the code that was exercised by all 5 of them. Indeed, analyzing the code coverage[6] yields practically the same amount (36.58% using the original suite, versus 36.56% using the reduced suite).
Test Speedups
In terms of test runtimes, the simple action of removing duplicate tests results in an average speedup of 15% in the sample. The chart below shows the runtime comparison between the original set of tests and the tests without duplicates.
One can clearly see a stark difference in terms of runtimes.
For this comparison, each set of tests was executed 500 times to get good values, according to the central limit theorem. You can see that the probability density functions show where the runtimes cluster the most, thus forming the expected distribution of the runtimes for each set of tests.
Because the speedup is proportional to the amount of duplicate tests removed from the suites, it can naturally be extrapolated to the whole set of suites in Puppet (i.e. the whole population).
For instance, running the entire set of original tests takes 396 seconds, yet running the same set of tests without duplicates would take around 60 seconds less. That might not sound like much, but compound that runtime for every time the C.I. runs, and the one-minute-savings adds up to around 3.6 hours gained just for one day! In other words, the entire suite of tests would be able to run 39 more times than before, thus enabling higher turnaround of fixes and features thanks to the more frequent testing.
Talk about an easy speedup, and all without having to re-architect Puppet!
Data Relationships
Moving on to relationships between duplication and other properties of the tests, it is interesting to note the pattern between the size of the suites with respect to their test duplication.
Observe that the data seem to follow a curiously non-linear, inverse pattern. Visual inspection suggests that smaller test suites in Puppet tend to contain higher amounts of duplicate tests. Indeed, a linear regression seems to agree, but this conclusion is called into question by the fact that the Pearson correlation coefficient is -0.22, a rather low value.
However, recall that the PCC only applies to linear relationships. To get an alternative perspective, I plotted some regressions based on a machine-learning device called Support Vector Machines. Results of the support vector regressions are shown in the chart below.
Indeed, with the exception of the outlier and notwithstanding the low PCC, the SVRs also seem to agree with the linear regression, indicating that smaller suites tend to have higher test duplication in Puppet. The fluctuations in the SVRs, however, are a bit puzzling.
As a final attempt to clarify the data — especially in the presence of the outlier — I scaled the y- and x-axis logarithmically using base 2. This is shown in the next chart.
The chart appears to somewhat clarify the patterns in the data, seemingly reiterating the interpretations explained above. That is, to a certain degree, it seems that smaller test suites in Puppet tend to have higher amounts of duplicate tests.
These findings might be very surprising and perhaps counter-intuitive because one would assume that, having more tests, bigger suites have more "chance" of duplication. But recall that duplication is not strictly a result of chance. As I explained above, duplication might exist intentionally (say, as a result of intentionally writing duplicate tests for the sake of documenting equivalent scenarios) or as a result of the (mis)guided focus of the test writers stemming perhaps from a poor understanding of the underlying code being tested.
Going back to the chart showing the SVRs, the fluctuations in the regressions might also be signs of such a phenomenon (possibly inherent) of test writing in Puppet. In other words, the peaks and troughs of the SVR might indicate the non-stochastic nature of test writing in Puppet.
Nevertheless, more investigation is needed to determine the root cause of the test duplication pattern for Puppet with respect to suite size. Additionally, further investigation is required to see if this same pattern generalizes to other software projects.
At this point, it is also important to emphasize that simply having "low" amount of duplicate tests with respect to the suite's size does not necessarily indicate higher quality, or that tests were written carefully and judiciously, or that no test duplication management is needed for them. In other words, the amount of test duplication in suites might simply be too high or unacceptable, even for smaller-sized suites that achieve "low" or average test duplication.
Consider the example of the huge suite containing 256 tests. Such a suite ended up having a whopping 75 (29.3%) totally redundant and unnecessary tests. One has to wonder: how much effort and energy went into creating those 75 tests that ended up simply duplicating others in the suite? How much time was wasted on those 75 tests? Minutes? Hours? Days?
Since creating tests takes a non-trivial amount of work, the same consideration must logically be applied to suites of any size. Even for suites having only a handful of tests but containing a high amount of duplicates (such as the one mentioned above with 5 tests and 80% test duplication), the test writer could have spent several minutes, hours, or maybe days trying to write those tests — tests that ultimately ended up representing a waste of time.
Do not be fooled into thinking that a "low" or average test duplication amount is okay or even acceptable
To reiterate: even when the duplication amount is considered "low" with respect to the average amount, or the suite size, keep in mind that writing tests takes time and effort, and such energy that goes into creating the tests in the first place might be partly wasted on duplicates.
Stay tuned for the next post to see how duplication affected the quality of tests in Puppet, as well as more fascinating relationships.
[1] V. Vangala, J. Czerwonka, and P. Talluri, "Test Case Comparison and Clustering using Program Profiles and Static Execution," Microsoft.
[2] M. Greiler, A. van Deursen, and A. Zaidman, "Measuring Test Case Similarity to Support Test Suite Understanding," 2012.
[3] N. Koochakzadeh, V. Garousi, and F. Maurer, "A TesterAssisted Methodology for Test Redundancy Detection," 2009.
[4] N. Koochakzadeh, V. Garousi, and F. Maurer, "Test Redundancy Measurement Based on Coverage Information: Evaluations and Lessons Learned," 2009.
[5] T. Xie, D. Marinov, and D. Notkin, "Rostra: A Framework for Detecting Redundant Object-Oriented Unit Tests," 2004.
[6] Using simplecov.


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Profiting by the Grace of God
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Who does the "saving"?
Ps 3:8
8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. (KJV)
* Salvation is of God and only God. He did it, it is his. We had no part in it.
Who should we trust to save us?
Ps 37:39-40
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him. (KJV)
* If we can't trust the Lord to deliver us, what business have we in trusting ourselves?
* We can not add to or help Gods plan of salvation nor take away from it.
Ps 62:6-8
6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
* This rock is like the cement foundation of a house that we can stand on, build on and established our only rightness the righteousness of Jesus where by we may have a relationship to God as sons then we can fellowship with God . It is not a slipper rock! We can not move this foundation! We can build on it.
Ps 51:10-14
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. (KJV)
* Here David ask God to "restore unto me the joy of thy salvation", not restore my salvation???
John 3:14-36
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
* All they had to do to be saved was to have enough faith to look upon the brass serpent and they were saved . This brass serpent of course was (as you may know) a type of Christ. See: Num 21:4-9 the ref *3) on last / bottom of this page.
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
· Have eternal life, this is present tense. (it's a done deal, we are not involved in the making of the deal
once it's made.) Sin after you are saved is not of ourselves,*1) and has no effect on this done deal.
How can that be you ask. Well because we have a relationship with our God. Sin does not effect our
Relationship! We are son's of God no matter how we act. We are still son's of God, were by we cry
Abba by adoption! The adoption process in the Jewish law was more permanent than a blood relationship.
A natural son could be disowned, but an adopted son could not be disowned for any reason! They really didn't even have a word for adoption and thus Paul used the Greek word to describe what was a Roman custom. see: Romans 8: 15 (highlighted reference at bottom of this article) and *2) on last / bottom of this page.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
To place one's trust in God's truth; one who takes God at His word and trusts in Him for salvation.
Mere assent to God's truth is not saving faith, according to the Bible <John 8:31-46; Acts 8:13-24; James 2:14-26>. Neither is total commitment of oneself to Jesus as Lord a form of saving faith. Such a view places too much emphasis on the act of belief, as opposed to the object of belief-- Jesus Christ. This view also goes beyond the biblical evidence of faith as reception of a gift <John 4:1-42; Eph. 2:8-10>.
A belief that saves is one that rests in the finished work of Christ; it trusts God alone for salvation <John 3:16>. Believers are those who have trusted God with their will as well as their mind <Rom. 1:16; 3:22; 1 Thes. 1:7>. Some of the classic New Testament references dealing with belief, or faith, are <John 3:16,36; Acts 16:31; Rom. 3:21--5:1; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2:8-10>; and <1 John 5:1>.
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary)
(Copyright (C) 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
* Saved (past tense) again we are not to be saved by his act of obedience unto death & our life lived in obedience. Every time it is past tense or present tense did the writers not understand the difference. They very well new the difference and used the past tense because they meant it! Once you believe and confess unto salvation by Jesus Christ you are sealed by the Holy Spirit the contract is sealed by God and he can not break his promise even if we break ours! See: *4) on last / bottom of this page.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ..... This we accept that he that believeth not is condemned already so why do we have a problem with He that believeth on him is not condemned...?
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. (see *3 on last page)
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (KJV)
Heb 11:1-40
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
A good report, but not salvation. What was better? Wasn't their works and their Faith enough to finish this perfection. Who finished this work of perfection?
Heb 12:1-10 CHAPTER 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
If he finished it, what are we doing?
We should be resting in it!
That's our rest, in him. That is the true Sabbath!
That is the true Sabbath!
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. (KJV)
Rom 8:14-23
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. see *2) ref on last page
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (KJV)
John 6:35-40
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. (KJV)
* Now that sounds so simple even a child could be saved. You see the Son and believe on him.
* Can we claim, God I came looking for you? No, not even that, for God draws us!
John 6:44-58
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternale life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (KJV)
* If there is anything else that man can do to help God save us, what is it and why did Jesus say
" it is finished " when what he meant (according to others ) was I did my part, now you do yours?
Rom 1:16-19
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written,
The just shall
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 9:13-16
4 But when the fulness of the time was come,
God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
23 Now there have been many of those priests,
since death prevented them from continuing in office;
17 Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."
17 Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."
This is confusing to me and I assume to most anyone so let us
look at the New International Version .... it too is confusing so I
added a few more verses that I think helps:
This is confusing to me and I assume to most anyone so let us look at the New International Version .... it too is confusing so I added a few more verses that I think helps:
Rom 7:15-20
Rom 7:15-20
Rom 7:21-25
Rom 7:21-25
Num 21:4-9
Num 21:4-9
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must keep their priorities right.
I try to keep God first because the Bible tells us if we
put him first all the rest will be provided.
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John 3:16-17
16. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but to save the world through him. NIV
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Black Draught, famed laxative known throughout the Appalachians and Ozarks during the late 19th early 20th century. My grandpa mentioned having it in the cabin when he was growing up. Dolly Parton even sang a jingle about the medicine:
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But what exactly is Black Draught and why is it called that? Well, there are lots of old recipes and copycats out there, one common recipe was from Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management:
2587. The Common Black Draught.– Infusion of senna 10 drachms; epsom salts 10 drachms; tincture of senna, compound tincture of cardamums, compound spirit of lavender, of each 1 drachm. Families who make black draught in quantity, and wish to preserve it for some time without spoiling, should add about 2 drachms of spirits of hartshorn to each pint of the strained mixture, the use of this drug being to prevent its becoming mouldy or decomposed. A simpler and equally efficacious form of black draught is made by infusing 1/2 oz. of Alexandrian senna, 3 oz. of Epsom salts, and 2 drachms of bruised ginger and coriander-seeds, for several hours in a pint of boiling water, straining the liquor, and adding either 2 drachms of sal-volatile or spirits of hartshorn to the whole, and giving 3 tablespoonfuls for a dose to an adult.
The common element in all the recipes for Black Draught is senna, either the commercialized Senna alexandrina which was commonly used in both Europe and America, or the less used but still somewhat common wild senna which is generally identified as Senna hebecarpa.
Senna acts as an effective and gentle (somewhat) laxative, commonly used among the white settlers and indigenous peoples of America. In Cherokee the name for the wild senna is gv:hnáge? ú:dhan(a) according to enthnologist Jack Frederick Kilpatrick, or u?agéi according to James Mooney in The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. Both have their origin in the Cherokee word gvhnage ᎬᎿᎨ (or gvhnagei ᎬᎿᎨᎢ) meaning "black". It's possible that the plant got this name because of it's seed pods that turn pitch black when mature, but there's also another theory which goes back to a set of Cherokee diseases known also by the name gvhnage ᎬᎿᎨ. According to Kilpatrick there are four types of gvhnage ᎬᎿᎨ or "blacks" which can fall upon a person, the greatest of these is gv:hnáge? ú:dhan(a) which shares its name with the botanical cure for the sickness, wild senna. It seems that the main cure for the "black" in all its forms is the use of certain laxatives, at least partially consumed by the patient, but also blown by the healer onto their naked body (as per traditional Cherokee healing techniques).
Taking this association into consideration it's not unfounded that the patent medicine known to whites as Black Draught might in fact take its name from the Cherokee word for senna, which is always at least one of the active ingredients in the formula. It's interesting to see in this association the important interaction between traditional indigenous medicines and those of the colonizing population.


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I'll be blunt with you, heroes and heroines. I wasn't sure what inspired this team when DC announced it for the new 52. With Roy Harper, once Green Arrow's drug addicted sidekick Speedy (this addiction came later, he was just called Speedy to unfortunately coincidence), changing later to Arsenal and then Red Arrow, and Teen Titan veteran Starfire on the team, I thought this might be something like Nightwing's old universe team, the Outsiders.
No, that couldn't be right, not with Red Hood in the lead over there. Jason Todd, the guy under that helmet/mask/
not a hood was once Batman's most unfortunate Robin, having been a street rat that Bruce took in after finding him stealing the wheels from the Batmobile. No, REALLY. Jason was enjoying life as Robin until later when he was brutally murdered by the Joker, and event that was actually voted for by readers back in1988, which is kinda messed up. 17 years later had the poor bastard come back to life in his casket. Understandably pissed that Joker was still running around free after Jason clawed his way out, he ironically took on the mantle of the Red Hood, the Joker's old alias, and went on a revenge fuelled bender to kill Joker and force Batman to confess to the sin of letting a serial killer live to take more lives in turn.
So THAT guy, with the basics of his backstory intact to my knowledge, is now leading a team. I don't know what to expect from here, but Wasusa and Funky Panda have tracked down Jason Todd and the Outsiders to find out. Join us now for:
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Roy looks pretty beat up. He tried to do a good(ish) thing, helping some people overthrow a guy. Didn't really work out for him and he got locked up. He gets a visit from a priest, who brings him a bow, isn't a priest, is called Jason Todd and has a bat symbol planted on him. Anyway, they make their messy and violent escape, then run into some tanks which Starfire promptly melts. But only because she doesn't like soldiers, and really, really likes Jason.
Then someone spooky and magical turns up, there's a case of mystical missing organs without people being dead, or even cut open meaning some force called "The Untitled" are back, and that this is serious. Then Starfire says sex has nothing to do with love and jumps Roy, who jumps straight back. Jumping back to spooky magic, there's a group called the All Caste, who apparently protect against the Untitled. Except they all appear to be dead. Todd walks in on the aftermath of Starfire and Jason, grabs his mask, then heads to the All Caste monastery to kill some things.
We jump to a flashback. Todd was a Robin, but was then killed, and somehow resurrected, and is extremely pissed off about the whole ordeal. He was taken to the All Caste by a Talia Al Ghul, probable relation, who apparently shacked up with Batman. Anyway, he meets Ducra, who is 3000 years old and she knocks him out cold. Apparently he came back without a soul during his resurrection, so it had to be reinstated by a magic pool.
Anyway, we then jump back to a plane ride before the killing things in the monastery happens. Apparently they decided Red Hood shouldn't just ditch everybody. They fly, they land, Todd visits a safe house, runs into some people who are probably significant somewhere but not here, and kills them, then they get on more aircraft and finally reach the monastery. We have the Dying Mentor Speech, then they kill everyone else there who happen to have been corrupted in an unexplained way.
We then jump to a four millennia old bald child. He steals their most treasured memories in exchange for some passage through escher-esque dimensional space. He then watches Starfires memory, which is of one of her slave-owner-race people being kind to her, then her brutally murdering him. Back to Escher-Space, they fight a giant spiky head giant thing. Back to memories, Roy fights a Crocodile. Suicide-By-Croc, because apparently he got screwed over by Oliver Queen (Green Arrow). But Croc sympathises, and tells Roy to pull his head in. Back to Escher, they reach a snowglobe in Escher Space, which is apparently a clue. Then they leave, get their memories back. Except Todd doesn't take his back. We then watch it. Todd is sick, wants to go out but can't. Batman Sidelines him, Todd goes upstairs, sulks at Alfred, then is surprised to be joined by Bruce on the couch for a relaxing night in. With Popcorn.
We then jump to the gang in a town. They get in a bar fight, go to the police station. Meanwhile, someone called Rhux attacks starfire. Ostensibly human, but looks more like a giant mutant reptile bat thing. Back at the cop shop, turns out the Cop is the Untitled they've been looking for. They believe the All Caste broke their truce… implying there was one. Anyway, Fighting. Jump back to Korra, sobstory from Rhux, unlimited family resources, genius… blah blah genetic alterations. Then he tricks Starfire into a… Tamaran Substation, and it forces her to release all her energy? Kind of unclear Anyway, she's a human with orange skin now. Back to the police station, Todd and Roy Run, then turn and prepare to fight.
We jump to Rhux being shot down by Roy. Rhux doesn't understand why he cares about Starfire. Back to the other fight. Oh no! they've both been tricked by some other Untitled, or All Caste. We jump a lot, so to simplify I'm going to streamline the stories. Todd jumps into the water, we have a flash back involving Ducra, Todd being stubborn, and a talk about how all the training in the world cannot make someone mentally perfect or stable, but can merely provide the means to do so. Then he jumps out of the water and slices the Untitled with "All-Blades", fed by his own blood. Don't ask, I don't know. Then a mob turns up, so he runs off. Back at Starfire, Rhux turns up, there's fighting, arguing about how aliens are/aren't evil, some minor scuffling, Starfire still has her powers because reasons, then Roy shows up so they fly off, with the now unconscious Rhux in tow.
…We now interrupt the plot for a prequel issue, that takes part a month before the first issue. The summary is, Starfire has few memories, Jason chills on an island with her crashed ship and technology for a bit, and calms down slightly from the angry person he was.
And back to the plot. Strange magical girl from the first issue is called "Essence". They dump Rhux in Arkham. But they take his spaceship first. It's full of magical spacetechmagic, with ridiculous powers for reasons. Then essence magics onto the ship, saying "word on the shadow wall is you killed the Untitled responsible for slaying the all caste". There's some history of betrayel here, so Jason draws a blade that can only be drawn in the presence of evil. Scuffling, "I can't believe you, no I can't believe you!" then it turns out Ducra was an Untitled, and Essence is her daughter and one as well. Her goal is to wipe out the rest of the Untitled. There's fighting, she can't be harmed by anything made by man… but they're on an alien spaceship full of alien junk. They find something, zap her, then the arc ends. The hook is Jason calling then hanging up on a flight attendant, and the really fat unimportant person from the apartment way back when in Hong Kong waking up in hospital in Gotham.
Kenneth Rocafort is the artist this time around, and to be honest? I'm not really impressed with his art style. The line art is mostly scratchy, which oftentimes isn't bad, but with it also being very sketchy, it just seems as if a lot of the artwork looks unfinished. Some parts you don't even know what is supposed to be what because the scratchy lineart blends everything in too much. Detailing is left out in parts, case and point, on the alien towards the end of issue 7, with the encounter with essence, the insides of the spaceship doesn't look like a professional drew it, with some panels looking no better than a kindergardener.
I'm not a fan of the design of Red Hood's helmet in this. The whole point of having a helmet was to hide the face of the wearer, Jason Todd (who looks like Peter Petrelli from Heroes) but the helmet he has shows EVERY facial expression he has. I understand that you need to show some aspect of personality and it works when it's just the eyes moving, but the rest of the face too is out of place to me. The rest of him is cool though
Starfire's character design to me was also questionable. Sure, she looks great, but seeing as she's a character I mostly know from Teen Titans, it's very off putting to see a character mostly innocent being overhauled into what I can only describe as a Pornstar body. However on the flip side on the coin the tattoo's and baseball hat combo on Roy wasn't too bad though.
Similar in style to Red Lanterns, which you may recall I savaged for its art. We're once again saddled with inconsistency on inconsistency, even if it does tend to get a nice backdrop. However, unlike Red Lanterns, enough care is payed to the important details – Facial structure, costume layout, shadowing from scene to scene- that I can just about forgive any other artistic sins the comic could throw up. Though I should probably make the point that it's easy to be consistent when they're kept to a minimum. The overall style is simplistic: Key facial features (eyes, nose, mouth) are always well defined, while the rest of the face is mostly left to shades and shadows. The rest of the world fares the same: Only hard edges get ink. I appreciate this, probably more than I should. I also quite like how they've handled character hair. More than anything else, it feels dynamic. This is not the golden age of perfect, fixed unmoving hair. Here there is life, movement, and chaos.
I would give them credit for matching the dynamic of the story, but I can't go that far.
When I heard that Scott Lobdell wrote this I got a bit excited, as his writing made Superboy's New 52 reboot one of my favourites in this series. Unfortunately as it may have it's great moments it didn't quite live up to the Lobdell standard that I know of.
The story of Red Hood and the Outlaws follows Red Hood, Starfire and Red Arrow/Arsenal as they traverse to where Jason Todd was taken in by a tribe of monks called the All Caste. This is where he met his old mentor, Ducra, and in turn Essence as well. Apparently an Untitled has killed all his fellow monks and the spirit of Ducra leads them in the direction to help discover and solve what happend. With a little vengeance on the side.
The other two characters of the trio seem like they don't have much to do except for being fan service to fans or comedic relief. They're there just the fill the gap. They could've definately have been used more in this story, and while I get that this first story is a Red Hood centric arc, they could have tried a little bit better to make those two seem like the belong there other than old "My friend's on a mission, not gonna ask me to come, but I'll go anyway" trope.
It was fine, the basic premise was quite decent but the back and forth between memories and flashbacks could've been utilised better in my opinion. On a lighter note however I did enjoy the banter between the three, expecially Todd and Harper. My favourite is still the first issue when Todd says "If something happens to you, I become the worst former sidekick ever" and in their respective thought bubbles go "Too far?" "Too far". Was comedy gold.
Overall? Reasonably solid. We have some solid foreshadowing, and the writing leans towards shown exposition rather than told exposition, which as you should realise by now is one of my biggest gripes. The flow of the story itself is a little bit clunky… most of the time. Their attempts to weave simultaneous events together felt jarring, rather than the suspense building I'm sure they were going for, and their jaunts into the past were poorly timed in respect to the main story. I can understand for plot reasons why they needed to be covered before the main story continued, but opening an issue with a flashback, when the end of the previous issue was primed with an unrelated hook is not the best policy.
I also need to take issue with the revisionism that happens between issues one and two. At the end of issue one, Red Hood is clearly seen leaving without his companions, as he sneaks in and leaves them while they're asleep and ends up in a situation where he's shown to be alone, and in a fight. In the next issue, after a poorly timed flashback we're several hours before the first issue ends, and we've now got the gang back together. Either someone wanted to make a point a point about betrayal and snuck it in, or it was meant to be a dramatic first issue end, but it just doesn't fit with what happened next. It was clunky, and they should have just handled it properly. Can you tell it's jarring? I've written more on this part than the rest of the writing.
You get a feel for these characters half way throguh this when S'aru the Protector goes through all backstories of the main characters, and all of a sudden These characters that are quite literally the bottom of the bottom, all of a sudden have depth to them, you feel sorry for them, and you start to care about the characters more which is rare in comics now.
I mean with Roy, you know you've hit rock bottom when Waylon Jones, aka Killer Croc is your voice of reason, to talk some sense into him but hey, Roy was pretty much desperately low enough to kill himself via Croc's hands. Flashbacks aside he is the comic relief of the comic. Nothing more, which isn't bad, a few of his lines are brilliant "found a new favorite memory, not even kidding, this is awesome!"
It is interesting to me how they did Jason Todd's character, how they changed and tweaked his character a bit. I thought it was a nice touch how starfire had all these outfits from Dick Grayson in her ship just lying around and he just puts one of them on to go with the Jacket. He's pretty much a young Bruce Wayne. During the day can be as charming as ever when unwillingly getting a flight attendant's number, but at night that goes out the window and he's calculating, dark, intelligent and no nonsense about everything.
And finally I've left Princess Koriand'r from the planet Tamaran, aka Starfire. Princess sold into slavery to free her people. I left her last because well, let's address the elephant in the room. She's gotten hot since teen titans. At first glance you see her as a woman with short term memory, (she cannot recall any of her teamates from the Titans) sees humans as sights and smells, and communicates via assimilating knowledge and language through intimacy (one way at least). But deep down I feel she's using all that as a facade to sheild from the real her that's no doubt going to be brought up in the future.
Jason and Roy are pretty well rounded out by the time they burst onto the page. Our introduction by fire tells us they've spent a lot of time together, happily trade banter and will more often than not just get on with whatever they're doing, damn most of the consequences. We do get a few more pieces from flashbacks and "most treasured memories", telling us just how screwed up they are (Hint: despite having died, Jason is the most normal one of the group) and overall I'm pleased with how much backstory we're given for the two. We're given where in the universe these two come from and nothing (apart from resurrection) jumps out as unreasonable or overbearing.
Starfire is a little different. She's an approximately all powerful alien entity who was a slave, has liberal views on love, and can more or less do as she pleases. Her progression is ok… except for a few minor details. The biggest of which is she seems to pick up a new backstory trait every time something comes up that could impede her. Seeming more relatable and human like? Show a backstory involving her killing someone showing her kindness and sympathy. Powers stripped in a foolproof manner because of technology targeting her races DNA? Nope, turns out she was genetically modified while a slave. She also receives the least amount of world relevant backstory: we know she's run into Nightwing, but that's about it.
Non-core characters are referenced briefly, framed, then moved past. The Untitled are an interesting concept who look like they're going to get more attention as the arcs progress, but as of yet they've only been briefly covered.
Before I mentioned I was excited to do this book because of Scott Lobdell as a writer. That was one reason. The other reason being that the Red Hood is perhaps my favorite anti-hero in all of comics, and the Death in the Family, is one of my favorite (and I know I'm not alone) graphic novels as well. The story of the one robin Batman couldn't save. The murder at the hands of the Joker via crowbar, and the brutal resurrection via Lazarus pit to bring him back rabid, and angry, and filled with vengeance.
This is an interesting take on Jason Todd's storyline though, as the New 52 rebooted that to say he didn't, and Talia took him to the monks to better his potential, and hopefully sway from his aner to those that did him harm.
I enjoyed the story, and enjoyed the character interaction as well. The banter, the one liners, the backstories, the character developments, it was all there, and was all great. The one thing that deterred me with this comic is infact, the art.
Don't get me wrong, I admit I may have been a bit harsh critiquing the art earlier, as there are very beautiful panels throughout the comic, it's just a shame that such a sketchy art style is used to express this and the bad outweighs the good with this. I believe it needed a better artist for this, like Joe Bennet from the Deathstroke, or hell i'd even take the artist from Resurrection Man or even Stormwatch (that last one may be pushing it too far) My point being, I don't mind Scratchy art, it just shouldn't be used as a majority of the style as it has been done here, because it just looks unfinished in parts.
All in all though, I really enjoyed this. And do look forward to where it goes in the next couple issues.
My view on this comic went through a few stages. First: I could read this, seems like it could have a good progression. Second: what the shit, why are you revising things which happened in your first issue. This could mean problems. Third: TELL ME MORE ABOUT THESE UNTITLED THINGS. Fourth: Stuff it, I'm going to keep reading.
The story is compelling, the art is adequate, and there are no real dealbreakers in terms of content. It's a solid comic which I intend to finish, and would happily recommend to anyone.


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The Diagnostic Centers Inc. has partnered with two new sales professionals to help build its team. Frank Molak will head up the new sales and marketing division and provide support to its employees and guidance. Frank helped launch the pharmacy discount card company WaterTree Health that is now a nationally recognized pharmacy discount program.
We also added Josh Booty who not only played in the MLB for several years including playing third base for the 1997 World Series Champion team the Florida Marlins, but also played in the NFL for the Seahawks, Browns and Raiders. "His commitment to excellence is what attracted us to hiring this individual," stated Douglas McKinnon, CEO of AppYea. After Josh's playing days, he has excelled in business development and consulting for many companies including Athletes 1st, a football sports agency. Josh has also worked with FoxSports, FOXSports.com, ESPN, ESPN Radio, SiriusXM, GridironNow.com, CBS Sports and MLB Network as a radio, internet and TV personality.
Formerly the spokesperson for TrueMRI in Beverly Hills, California, his focus now is to use the contacts that he has developed in both sports and business to drive sales and marketing to this national medical laboratory services marketing company.
Doug McKinnon stated, "I am pleased to welcome these talented individuals to our sales and marketing team as the company takes on exciting new developments with its subsidiary."
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AppYea Inc., founded in 2012, and is engaged in mobile applications for iOS, Google Play, and Amazon platforms and marketing certain products and services to healthcare providers. The Company operates its own titles as well as provides strategic partnerships with promising mobile app developers. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Diagnostic Centers, Inc., AppYea markets comprehensive diagnostic testing services to physician offices, clinics, hospitals, long term care facilities, healthcare groups, and other healthcare providers. Visit website: http://appyea.com/about/
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Well, it has been far too long! I've been so deeply nestled into movie season that I keep forgetting to write about movies. That changes...now. I know I told you last time that I planned on writing about "Kate & Leopold." And I tried. For like 45 minutes. Here's the 7-word blog post about "Kate & Leopold": It is really boring and not cute.
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I somehow made it through Heigl's 2007 takeover of Hollywood without seeing "27 Dresses," and guess what? It's pretty good! Much like The Wedding Planner -- in fact, exactly like it -- the film opens with a little girl full of hope and stereotypical societal expectations who just *loves* weddings. Little Jane (Heigl) says her purpose in life was helping others on their special day. Golly, what a purpose!
Fast-forward to today, and adult Jane is hustling as #1 bridesmaid. She hops back and forth between two weddings. Each bride repeats the oft-used reasoning that the bridesmaids' dresses can be shortened and reworn. (No joke, I said that to myself about my own wedding dress. It's currently festering in the back of my closet. Free blue wedding dress! Size 8, small beer stain, likely cursed.) Heigl crushes it as an ace bridesmaid at both weddings, although she misses the bouquet. HMMM, TELLING?!?
At one of those weddings, Jane passes out, and dashing James Marsden is the only one who tends to her. Uh, does she not have any other friends at the wedding where she is a bridesmaid?
"Let's get you into a cab," he says ickily. AND THEN HE GETS INTO THE CAB WITH HER! I don't live in New York but that's not a thing strangers do, right? Like, locate spacey women, and then isolate her from her friends and then insist on going home with her? That seems...illegal.
Ugh, and he's a WRITER. Of course! This joke of an anti-romantic waxes some BS about being anti-marriage which, of course, I agree with, but he is too smarmy to be agreeable. Then poor Jane leaves her agenda in the cab. (Teens: an "agenda" is like an iPhone on paper.) James Marsden snoops because he's a dumb jerk.
This beautiful lonely spinster can't even keep closed the doors of her closet of horrible bridesmaids dresses, but she settles into reading the Vows section of the newspaper because she is still a wedding fiend.
TWIST! James Marsden's character writes that very vows section! He wants to write more about the wedding industry, like artificial price inflation and the exploitation of workers who make it all possible. While I agree with him, he still sucks.
Jane, meanwhile, goes into her job at a magazine. She is a thin white woman in the Big Apple, so obviously she works in publishing. Jane is in love with her dashing boss, George (Ed Burns), who immediately falls in love with Jane's little sister, Tess (Malin Akerman, from the sorely missed "Trophy Wife.") Pathetic, beautiful, financially stable Jane, the pitiable spinster. She'll never find love! She may as well be wearing glasses.
While dream guy is falling all over the hot sister, creepy James Marsden is being creepy up all in Jane's agenda. He sends flowers. Jane: "Please find somebody else to be creepy with." Men: This means stop.
Jane stumbles into the restaurant where dream guy George is proposing to her hot little sister Tess. Jane stands around like a miserable dummy while all the romance goes down. Get out of there, Jane! Stop torturing yourself! There are doors!
This bruise to Jane's tender heart weakens her into accepting a date with James Marsden. She's sad because she loves Ed Burns and also because she knows she'll have to do everything for her little sister's wedding -- the wedding she wants to have. And there's only three weeks to make it happen! Jane is very conflicted when she learns that James Mardsen's character writes pretty things for the vows section.
"Are you a cynic who knows how to spin romantic crap for girls like me? I feel like I found out my favorite romantic song was written about a sandwich." (Note to musicians: Please write a love song for a sandwich.)
James Marsden asks to see some of Jane's horrible dresses. Outfit trying-on montage! This is worth the $2.99 amazon prime rental fee right here. Man, would I be exhausted to have that many friends! I've been a bridesmaid a precious few times, and while I cherish each memory, it is tiring. 27 times?! No, thank you! Not being very popular pays off.
Jane's awesome slutty best friend, Casey, is played by Judy Greer. Judy Greer was criminally wasted in lame movies in the aughts. Casey and Jane hit up yoga together and get reprimanded for gossiping too much. Correct me if I'm wrong but this also happened like five times in "Sex and the City," right?
James Marsden reveals that he was married before but his wife was bad news so that's why he's jaded. Logically, this leads to him and Jane taking a road trip. At least he had a reason to be mad aside from just being a generic a-hole? Then they kiss, then they bang.
Alas, James Marsden had written a story about career bridesmaid Jane that got published before he gave the green light, which left Jane even more humiliated than she was when she was just a washed-up professionally successful and beautiful woman in her 20s. Jane slaps James Marsden. We know just where we are on that rom-com story arc? Whatever could happen next?!
Jane's idiot sister Tess has cut up their mom's wedding dress to make something terrible for her doomed wedding, and Jane has HAD IT. Let it be known that Katherine Heigl and her wide-set eyes are really, really beautiful. She gets a lot of shit. Too much, if you ask me. I find her charming.
But her character, Jane, is less of a doll. She puts together a really scathing slideshow (yes, a scathing slideshow) to humiliate her silly sister in front of crunchy dream man George. So the wedding is off. Because that's how mad some people get about other people eating hot dogs sometimes.
James Marsden congratulates Jane for "doing something" because he's maybe a sociopath and encourages others to get on his crazy train. Then he gives her a cell phone. OK, I like him. Even though it's some shitty phone from like 2008. (This film was released in 2008.)
Jane and Tess have a big blowout where it's revealed that they're both jealous of each other. Jane has no choice but to tear up all of her ugly bridesmaids dresses. Reverse fashion montage!
Dreamboat George calls Jane to be his date to a benefit. "You never say no." So she does! Then she quits! Then they KISS! What the hell? I thought she was falling in love with James Marsden? (I keep forgetting the name of his character, that's why I keep having to use the full actor name. I could just say "cynical writer" but that wouldn't give you enough of a visual.)
Obviously, the next thing that happens is that Jane gets on a mic at some fancy event and calls James Marsden cranky and says "There's a very good chance I'm falling in love with you." UGH, NO. Girls, stop with these dramatic fighters! They'll argue about everything. But in this implausible movie, it works as well as anything can. Kiss kiss, clap clap.
One year later: another wedding. Tess is the maid of honor and designs handbags, which is what every woman who was too pampered to work in publishing did in New York in the early 2000s.
"I put on my 28th dress," said Jane. "Everything was perfect and I didn't care." Um, clearly she does care. She cares a lot. Too much. That's her whole deal. And she marries James Marsden. And they'll probably argue a lot. THE END.
Well, while my harpiness may not make it apparent, "27 Dresses" is so much better than I thought it would be! Yeah, this write-up is pretty dang salty, but compared to other stuff I've seen, and my horrible expectations, I am pretty happy. It beats time travel by a mile, that's for sure.
So. What did we learn?
And in closing: Jane and Tess's dad owns a hardware store in New York and sold weed-whackers to Manhattanites. Can somebody please explain this to me?
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