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TOWSON, Md. – UMBC women's lacrosse's senior midfielder Kristen Bilney (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) registered a first-half hat trick and finished with four goals versus local rival No. 20 Towson, but the Tigers outscored the Retrievers 6-3 in second half en route to an 11-6 victory in Wednesday evening's matchup at Johnny Unitas Stadium.
The Retrievers (0-2) stayed tough throughout the contest, holding a 10-9 advantage in the draw circle and tallying 16 of its 20 shots in the second half, but UMBC was unable to take advantage of its free position shots, connecting on two of eight attempts.
UMBC received a stellar effort in the opening half from red-shirt sophomore goalkeeper Anna Barnett (Midland, Texas/Midland), who registered eight of her career-high nine saves in the period. Despite having 12 turnovers, the Retrievers were able to make the most of their opportunities, with Bilney scoring on three of UMBC's four shots.
Towson (1-0) opened up a two-goal advantage 5:01 into the contest, with Ashleigh Rohrback assisting goals from both Andi Raymond and Taylor Moore.
UMBC sophomore Rachel Benzing (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) gave the Retrievers a chance to cut the deficit in half, pulling in her first of two draw controls in the game. Red-shirt junior Ali Carpenter (Baltimore, Md./McDonogh/Loyola) found an open Bilney in front of the net, who was able to convert for her first score of the season. Bilney tied the contest at two apiece 1:48 later, taking advantage of UMBC's first free position attempt of the game.
Raymond came around the back of the net and bounced in her second of four goals in the contest to regain the lead for the Tigers, 3-2, with 11:31 to go before the break, but a determined Bilney wasted little time in completing the hat trick, receiving a pass from senior Shannon Harkey (Purcellville, Va./Loudon Valley/Florida), escaping her defender and blasting a shot past goalkeeper Kelsea Donnelly.
Towson added a pair of goals within a one minute span, starting with Rohrback's shot over the top of Barnett and following with a goal from Gabby Cha to give the Tigers a 5-3 lead heading into the break.
The Retrievers were more aggressive on the offensive end in the second half, placing 11 of its 16 shots on net, grabbing six draws and turning the ball over just three times.
The Tigers chipped in two more goals to start the half, before Bilney bounced her fourth score of the game past Donnelly and her seventh goal in the last two seasons versus Towson to bring UMBC back within three, 7-4.
While the Retrievers were able to generate scoring opportunities throughout the second half, UMBC had trouble finding the back of the net, allowing Towson's offense to score the next four goals to take a 10-4 lead with 8:10 to go.
Harkey tallied her second point of the game, bouncing in a free position shot with 4:46 to go and junior Abby Wilson (Bel Air, Md./Fallston) followed by chipping in her second goal of the year to bring UMBC within five at 11-6, but the Retrievers ran out of time to complete the comeback.
Bilney added three draw controls and one caused turnovers, while junior Alyssa Semones (Westminster, Md./Westminster/Penn State) finished with a team-best four draws.
UMBC returns to action on Saturday, Feb. 22 when it hosts American at 4 p.m. at the UMBC Stadium.


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BORDEAUX (AFP) - French judges on Thursday grilled ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy about accusations his 2007 election campaign was financed with funds secured illegally from France's richest woman.
In a case that could wreck the 57-year-old's hopes of a political comeback, Sarkozy is suspected of taking financial advantage of elderly L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt when she was too frail to fully understand what she was doing.
Sarkozy's appearance comes with his right-wing UMP party in turmoil after the battle to replace him degenerated into mud-slinging and both contenders claiming victory.
Examining magistrate Jean-Michel Gentil and two other judges were expected to spend most of the day quizzing Sarkozy about how he obtained funding from Bettencourt.
After flying into Bordeaux on a private plane, Sarkozy arrived for the hearing in a dark grey Renault minivan just before 9:15 am (0815 GMT), an AFP correspondent said.
A heavy police presence and many journalists surrounded the courthouse in Bordeaux.
Judicial sources have told AFP that Sarkozy could be formally indicted on a charge of taking advantage of someone in a position of weakness, although the magistrate also has the option of interrogating him as a witness under caution.
Bettencourt is now 90 and has been in poor health since 2006.
The allegation against Sarkozy is two-fold: that the money obtained from her took his campaign financing over legal limits and that it had been secured without her full knowledge or consent.
This latter claim was made by Bettencourt's former accountant, Claire Thibout, in 2010. She told police that she had handed 150,000 euros in cash to Bettencourt's right-hand man, Patrice de Maistre, on the understanding it was to be passed on to Sarkozy's campaign treasurer, Eric Woerth.
Maistre withdrew a total of four million euros in cash from Bettencourt's Swiss bank account in seven instalments between 2007 and 2009.
Investigators suspect some or all of the money could have found its way to Sarkozy or his party.
Claude Gueant, a close ally of Sarkozy who served as his interior minister, said the courts needed to show why his questioning was necessary.
"I would like to be absolutely convinced that this hearing is essential," he told RTL radio, insisting there was no chance of illegal campaign financing because of "extremely rigorous" controls.
Sarkozy, who lost his immunity from prosecution after losing the presidential election to Socialist Francois Hollande in May, is facing a slew of legal inquiries.
As well as the Bettencourt case, Sarkozy is facing probes into contracts for opinion polls, an illegal police investigation into journalists and alleged kickbacks on a Pakistani arms deal used to finance the right in 1995, when Sarkozy was budget minister. Sarkozy has not ruled out another tilt at the presidency in 2017.
Efforts to find a replacement for him within his party have descended into chaos, with ex-prime minister Francois Fillon contesting the result of a bitter leadership election won by party secretary general Jean-Francois Cope.
Despite his legal troubles, a poll by firm CSA for BFM Television showed 52 percent of UMP supporters wanted Sarkozy to run in 2017, against only 24 percent for Fillon and 15 percent for Cope.
Sarkozy has denied any wrongdoing in the raft of probes, but the conviction last year of his predecessor Jacques Chirac has shown that French courts are willing to go after former leaders.

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BEULAVILLE � East Duplin played it short Friday night.
BEULAVILLE � East Duplin played it short Friday night.
The Panthers took advantage of short field position on four of five of their first-half touchdowns as East Duplin defeated South Lenoir 36-16 in a nonconference football game.
East Duplin scored on touchdown drives of 33, 35, 52 and 21 yards before halftime with most of those short fields coming after Blue Devil mistakes.
Nonetheless, East Duplin coach Battle Holley will take them.
�Field position always helps,� he said. �We are not an explosive offense and we are not a score-quick offense. We have to keep the ball.�
And the Panthers (3-3) sure moved the ball well in the first half to take a 33-0 lead at halftime en route to their second consecutive victory entering next week�s open date. East Duplin hosts Northside on Oct. 11 to open East Central 2-A Conference play.
Senior Raquail Murphy got East Duplin on the board just two minutes in on a 3-yard touchdown run that was set up by Jarvious Scarborough�s 56-yard kickoff return to the South Lenoir 33-yard line on the game�s first play.
Just like that, the Panthers led 7-0, although they were far from done as they extended their winning streak over the Blue Devils. South Lenoir has not beaten East Duplin since a 10-8 decision in 1985.
East Duplin�s Ethan Lanier recovered a fumble at the Blue Devils� 35 on South Lenoir�s third play from scrimmage. Moments later, Monquel Baker scored on a short touchdown run to make it 13-0.
Lanier, a junior, then came through again on South Lenoir�s ensuing possession as he blocked a punt to give the Panthers the ball at their own 48.
�I went in hard and I got there faster than anybody could,� Lanier said. �I swatted it down and looked for the ball.�
Eight plays later, Scarborough, East Duplin�s sophomore quarterback, scored on a 6-yard run to give the Panthers a 20-0 lead with three seconds left in the first quarter.
Certainly not the game the Blue Devils (1-5) wanted entering their open date next week. South Lenoir visits Goldsboro on Oct. 11 to open Eastern Carolina 2-A Conference action.
�In the first half, we just didn�t play very well,� South Lenoir coach Kenneth Grantham said. �We did not play very well and we did not do the things we are capable of doing and it showed.�
East Duplin�s field position advantage continued in the second quarter.
After being stopped on third and nine from their own 24, the Blue Devils lined up to punt, but the snap was poor and punter Kyle Huffman was forced to tuck it and run. He was stopped at the 21.
That set up a 1-yard touchdown run by junior Kenneth Arrington, who finished with 104 yards rushing on 14 carries.
�We wanted to let them (Panthers� offense) to move the ball as less as they needed,� Lanier said. �We just kept it short.�
And for good measure, East Duplin recovered the second-half kickoff at the SLHS 45 after an attempted squib kick bounced off a Blue Devils player. It set up a 28-yard field goal by Mason Albertson that gave the Panthers a 36-0 lead.
�They made it a lot easier,� Arrington said of the Panthers� short scoring drives. �It gave the offense a lot of confidence.�
But while most of the Panthers� points came on short fields, East Duplin still showed it was capable of moving the ball deep and quick.
Already leading 26-0, Scarborough threw a 45-yard touchdown pass to Dauviea Anderson with 13 seconds left in the second quarter. The drive started on the Panthers� own 29 with 37 seconds left.
�They were playing cover 3 the whole time and we have worked on it (passing game), but we haven�t used it a whole lot in games,� Holley said. �He (Scarborough) threw some good balls. He�s young and this is only going to boost his confidence. This is his first year ever playing quarterback and he�s getting better every week.�
East Duplin held South Lenoir to just 39 yards of total offense in the first half. The Blue Devils didn�t score until the fourth quarter when the game was already decided as Huffman and Dion Jones each scored touchdown runs. The second half used a running clock.
�We were looking to stop their No. 25 (Noah Stroud) because he�s got good footwork and he can really run the ball. He runs hard,� Lanier said. �We focused a lot on him and their quarterback (Huffman).�
South Lenoir 0 0 0 16 � 16
East Duplin 20 13 3 0 � 36
First Quarter
E � Murphy 3 run (Albertson kick) 10:00
E � Baker 2 run (run failed) 6:47
E � Scarborough 6 run (Albertson kick) 0:03
Second Quarter
E � Arrington 1 run (run failed) 7:51
E � Anderson 45 pass from Scarborough (Albertson kick) 0:13
Third Quarter
E � FG, Albertson 28 7:49
Fourth Quarter
S � Huffman 1 run (Jones run) 7:53
S � Jones 4 run (Stroud run) 2:53
First downs 9 18
Rushes-yards 42-97 46-224
Passing 18 78
Comp-Att-Int 1-3-0 4-9-1
Punts-Avg. 3-33.6 1-27
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 1-1
Penalties-Yards 1-15 3-30
RUSHING�S: Jones 19-80, Stroud 14-59, Huffman 8-(-43), Cauley 1-1. E: Arrington 14-104, Murphy 4-36, Baker 6-31, Anderson 8-34, E. Lanier 2-11, Scarborough 2-14, Albertson 1-(-1), McCoy 1-0, Outlaw 7-(-4), Jones 1-(-1).
PASSING�S: Huffman 1-3-0-18. E: Scarborough 4-9-1-78.
RECEIVING�S: Stroud 1-18. E: Baker 1-12, Miller 1-10, Blizzard 1-11, Anderson 1-45.


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Well, thank you, Kent, very much for ministering to us this morning from the heart. That was a great blessing. I like that...Great is Thy faithfulness...to another melody. You know, in past history, if you get any old hymnals from Scotland or Ireland or England, you don't find any tunes in them at all, they're just words. And at the bottom it will give you a number that indicates a tune and a lot of hymns were sung to many, many different tunes anyway, so we can have a little bit of freedom there.
We've been talking about this issue of sexual purity and started on Wednesday and I want to draw you back to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 this morning and just kind of work our way through this a little bit. As I said last time, I'm very limited in what I'm able to do. I know that, I've known that all through my life. I can only help you understand what the Word of God says. That's all. I have no power. I have no cleverness. I have no particular insights that are going to change your life. I can't move you to another place. Spiritually I can't contribute to your holiness. I can't do anything to change your life, your behavior, your thought patterns. I understand my limitations. All I can do is tell you what the Word of God says.
And one of the things I'm so grateful for when I teach the Word of God, and obviously I've been doing this a long time, but one of the things I'm so grateful for is that the Bible is not ambiguous. I find myself today, nowadays, using the word ambiguous a lot. I've never lived in a time when evangelicalism was as ambiguous as it is now. It's really hard to figure out what anybody is saying. It's hard to figure out what the gospel is. Hard to figure out what the Christian life is about. Hard to figure out what anybody's theology about anything is. The ambiguity that is being spread in the name of Jesus Christ today is just astonishing. And in some cases it even gets beyond ambiguity and becomes basically betrayal of biblical truth. I guess, in one sense, I feel the divine mandate in the direction of precision when it comes to the Word of God, to be diligent and study, to show myself approved unto God, a workman not needing to be ashamed. I think to be ambiguous about the Scripture, to misrepresent the Scripture, misinterpret the Scripture or just sort of lightly toe dance around with selected portions of Bible verses and thus to proliferate ambiguity and in many cases compromise and in some cases distortion and in other cases heresy is to bring upon oneself shame. The Bible is not ambiguous. It is not unclear. It is a very clear message. And in the realm of morality, it is absolutely precise.
And we see a little bit of that precision in 1 Thessalonians 4:3, "This is the will of God, your sanctification, that is that you have abstained from sexual immorality." Abstinence is biblical. Total abstinence is biblical and that is the command. It is God's will that you be sanctified, that is separated, separated from sin. Meaning that you abstain from sexual immorality.
It's kind of an interesting thing to get a big picture here. Starting in chapter 4 of 1 Thessalonians verse 3 and running all the way to the benediction at the end of chapter 5, that entire section is about how we are to conduct ourselves. The whole thing is about how we are to live within the will of God, to what God wants from us and how we are to respond to that. And it's launched here in verse 3. The whole section is launched here with this call for separation and the first thing that he brings up is that you abstain from sexual immorality. It's very much a parallel to the statements that are given in 1 Timothy and Titus with regard to the qualifications for a pastor or an elder, an overseer in the church. It says they are to be blameless, that's the sort of generic description. And the first thing it said is a one woman man, that is to say not someone who is unfaithful to his wife. It's as if immorality leads the parade in qualifying us with regard to what it means to be sanctified. God knows that this is obviously an issue.
It was an issue, as I told you last time, in New Testament times. First Thessalonians is one of the earliest books written in the New Testament, probably written before most of the gospels was written. So you're talking about a letter to people who are at the very beginnings of Christianity. They didn't come from Christian families. Didn't have any Christians parents and grandparents. They weren't raised in a Christian environment. They weren't raised in a church. There was no such thing as a church before one was planted in Thessalonica. This is the first church. This is first generation believers. They're all young in the faith. They're all new. They all have come out of a life of paganism. They've all come out of a corrupt perverse sexually deviant culture, which we described to you a little bit on Wednesday. The Greek language, as I pointed out, has immense concern about immorality and it shows up in the vast number of words that are used to describe the various kinds of immoral behavior. That was a part of their culture. It was so bad that there was a functioning in the Greek and Roman world, a law called "The Patria Potestus(??)" and that law simply meant that the father had the right of life or death over his child. At any point with no recourse by the society, a father could kill his child. That's how base that society was. And we talked about all the other areas of sexual misconduct that were characteristic of the world in which the New Testament landed. That, to me, is, of course, one that is just beyond understanding and yet a father had the right to kill his children and most of the time kill girl babies and let boy children live. It was a very vile world. There were no Christian schools. There were no Christian institutions, Christian organizations. There was no library of Christian books. They didn't have the New Testament yet. You can imagine how excited they must have been when the early books of the New Testament began to show up and they could read exactly what God wanted them to know, inspired by the Holy Spirit. It was a very difficult world. And they had all come out of this, it was a no-shame culture, it didn't really matter what you did, it didn't matter how you lived There wasn't any shame. You could kill your children.
So they were asked to live in a situation that was immensely difficult. They had come out of idolatry. They had come out of patterns of worship which involved sexual immorality, temple priestesses in which somehow they believed contact was made with the deity by getting involved in an orgy, a drunken orgy. It was a really base culture. I only say all that to let you know that you're not the first people who lived in tough times. I know we have a difficult time because of media blitz of these things. It wasn't just media. They weren't looking at this kind of stuff on a flat screen somewhere, this was their life. They lived it. And to come out of that and then try to direct your life toward sanctification, separation, holiness, purity...tremendous challenge. Their flesh had been pandered to and indulged all their lives until this point. And now the will of God is not ambiguous, abstain from immorality, sexual immorality, stay away from it. A very hard thing to do.
He goes on, and I'll pick up where we left off on Wednesday, to give you three principles that will help you implement this. Three things you need to know. Number one, we started with last time, verse 4, "Each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor." Every one of you needs to know how to possess...it's a word that means to gain control of, to gain the mastery over his own vessel, skeuosbody in sanctification. The first principle is get control of your body...get control of your vessel. That is critical. You cannot just follow all the impulses. You cannot even feed them. Paul says your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit so glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9:27, "I beat my body into submission, lest in my preaching to others I myself become akokimos, tested and found unqualified. It really is about that old thing called self-control, harnessing your flesh. The key to self-control is to walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5, if you walk in the Spirit you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. That's a pretty good guarantee, isn't it? If you walk in the Spirit, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Somebody says, "How do you avoid sexual sin?" You walk in the Spirit. Now that may sound a little bit mysterious to you. What does it mean to walk in the Spirit? Pretty simple, the key to walking in the Spirit is being filled with the Spirit. Ephesians 5:17 says, "Be not drunk with wine which is excess but be being kept filled with the Spirit." If I'm going to walk in the Spirit, in other words, if I'm going to go down the path the Spirit wants me to go down, then I need to be energized by the Spirit. He knows that path and if I'm energized by the Spirit, if I'm fueled by the Spirit, then He'll take me where I need to go. But what does that mean? What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? Well, the key to being filled with the Spirit is to let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. Ephesians 5 says, "Being kept filled with the Spirit." The parallel, Colossians 3:16 says, "Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly." Those are identical realities. If you compare the two passages in Ephesians 5 and Colossians 3, I won't take time to do that, you see that those are absolutely parallel passages.
So what does it mean to walk in the Spirit? It means to be filled or fueled by the Holy Spirit. What does that mean? That means to let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, absolutely parallel. To be fueled by the Spirit, to be energized by the Spirit is to be directed by that which the Spirit has revealed and disclosed in the Word of God. It's not just to know the Word of God, but to let it dwell, let it dominate you in all its richness. I mean, we're right back to where we always come, aren't we? We're all back to the point of letting the Word of God into our minds and our hearts as the controlling factor.
And what drives that? Well I think the thing that drives that is loving the Lord. The first and great commandment is to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Because I love the Lord, because I long to love the Lord even more, I want His Word. Because I love Him, if you love Me, He says, you keep My commandments, if you love Me you love My Word, and if I really love Him, love His Word and I want His Word and when I take in His Word because I want to know His will, then the Spirit of God begins to take control of my life because my mind is controlled by what the Spirit has revealed. I mean, that's the positive side of it, taking in the Word of God. And you have to be very careful about that, you know, you can get very used to hearing the Word of God and doing nothing about it and train yourself right in to disaster. The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay, just a different process. And the Word which will shape you into Christ's likeness can also harden you into a kind of fixed resistance to the purposes of God. Don't ever train yourself to be indifferent toward Scripture. Don't train yourself to be disobedient, that is a deadly process.
And that takes me down one other level, and I talked about this. Some of you...were some of you at the Resolve Conference we had a few months ago? I talked about the issue of the conscience. Let me take you to that point for just a moment. I don't want to belabor that, but God has given you a device and all of us have it, it's called a conscience. It's...and I suppose for the most part, most Christians have really no idea what it's about. I mean, it was sort of a general, vague idea. But if you study the New Testament and even the Old Testament on some occasions, but primarily the New Testament, and most particularly maybe 1 and 2 Timothy, you will find an awful lot is said by the...about the conscience. The conscience is a mechanism that every human being is given. Romans chapter 2 describes the conscience as that which excuses or accuses you. It is a device, it is a warning device, it is a warning system built into every human being. Now you basically have two warning systems, everybody does. The first one is called pain and the second one is called conscience. Pain is God's way of protecting you from destroying yourself. If you have pain somewhere, you have a problem physically. Most of us think of pain as a bad thing, pain is a gift from God. The best illustration I know of that is Hansen's Disease which is often called leprosy. They used to believe that people who had leprosy had some kind of disease that ate away their extremities, ate their fingers, ate their noses, their ears, their chins, ate away their toes and their feet and their legs. They found out later that leprosy doesn't eat away anything, that form of it called Hansen's Disease doesn't eat anything. What it does is destroy the nerves, you can't feel anything and you rub off all your extremities and you rub it all the way down. You saw pictured probably sometime in your life of these horrific lepers, nothing was eating them, they just couldn't feel anything. And without the ability to feel the pressure, you literally wear off your nose, your ears, your chin, your forehead, you scratch your head and put big gouges in it without even knowing that you're doing it. It's pain that protects you.
From a spiritual standpoint, conscience does the same thing. Conscience screams to you about a violation of a moral law. Conscience is not the moral law. It is only a mechanism, it is only a warning device. It has to be informed by reality. Listen, Moslems have consciences, but the conscience of a Moslem says, "Kill the infidel." Why? Because that's the law that he has been raised to believe that informs his conscience. And if he doesn't do that, then he's violating his conscience. The conscience of a Mormon we heard about today, dictates to that Mormon that they need to be sure they keep all the ceremonies and rituals of Mormonism in order to earn their salvation. That's not how you get saved. But once the conscience is informed, it reacts as a warning device telling that person whether they are abiding by their moral ought, their moral constraint or whether they're not. It accuses or excuses.
So two things have to happen. One, you've got to listen to your conscience. Two, you have to inform your conscience correctly...correctly. A few years ago MTV did a study of the mortal sins that basically were the major sins developed in medieval history by the church, things like greed and lust and anger, and they had a whole list of them. So they interviewed a whole lot of people in the MTV generation, people like Ice T, Queen Latifa, you know, great theologians. They interviewed all these people and they said, "What do you think about this? And what do you think about that?" It was amazing. They even interviewed Michael Douglas, the actor, because he had just made a movie about greed and his basic character in the movie says greed is good, it's what drives all of businesses in the world. And they asked about immorality. And they turned morality completely on its head. As Isaiah 5 says, they substituted sweet for bitter and good for bad and right for wrong.
And you have a whole generation of people now whose conscience can't function. Their conscience cannot function as a conscience should function because it's so ill-informed. They've bought into it damning morality and all the conscience can do is react. Conscience is not the Law of God, it only reacts to whatever your law is, whatever your moral structure is your conscience will react to. So it's amazing to think of this, but it is really possible that a person is going to feel guilty if they don't engage in sin. A person is going to feel guilty if they don't do what is contrary to Scripture but is consistent with what they think is a true value system, or moral system. So the terrorists who kill people are doing what their conscience tells them to do because it's so ill informed.
It's important to do two things then. First of all, it's important to inform your conscience accurately so you don't put yourself in a position to be living under guilt for not doing evil, or living under guilt for not following heresy. Critical...but once the conscience is rightly informed, as it is by the Word of God, then you must respond to that conscience because it's a God-given warning device to keep you from disaster. When Paul was being accused of a secret-hidden life of shame by the Corinthians who had been subject to the false teachers, he wrote the letter 2 Corinthians and this is what he said in 2 Corinthians 1:12 and it's so basic, he said, "Look, my testimony is the testimony of our conscience. You can accuse me of anything you want, but the testimony of my conscience is that in holiness and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God we have conducted ourselves in the world and especially toward you. You can accuse me of anything you want and I will say my conscience is clear...my conscience is clear." That's the way I want to live. I don't want to live with an accusing conscience. David said in Psalm 51 and Psalm 32, he was bearing terrible guilt before he confessed his sin, he said, "My life juices are drying up." It was affecting his blood flow, it was affecting his saliva, it was affecting his nervous system. Literally he was in physical collapse over the anxiety that was ripping and tearing at him because he had hidden sin in his life. You want to keep that conscience clear, that well-informed conscience and the...you've been blessed to have a conscience that's rightly informed, you want to make sure you don't deny what it says. You don't want to train yourself to ignore it. It's good to feel guilt. It's good to feel shame. It's good to feel remorse and to feel it strongly because that's God's gift to you so you don't destroy your soul.
In 1 Timothy 1:5, the goal of our instruction, Paul says, this is what I'm after is love from a pure heart and a good conscience. I want your conscience to be noble. I want your conscience to be affirming you. That's where the battle is fought. Down in verse 19 he says, "Keep faith, keep the faith, the content of truth and a good conscience. Some have rejected that and suffered shipwreck." You want to wreck your life? Then misinform or ignore your conscience. Again in chapter 3 of 1 Timothy he says, "Hold fast to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience." Chapter 4 verse 2 he describes false teachers as being seared in their conscience, their conscience isn't functioning, it's like scar tissue, it doesn't sense anything anymore. You don't ever want to get your conscience like that. And repeatedly rejecting your conscience gets you there.
I told a story at the Resolve Conference about an aircraft of an Avianca Jet in Europe, flew straight into a mountain with 200-plus passengers, everybody dead instantaneously. And when they recovered the Black Box they wanted to hear what was said and what happened before the crash, the tape said this, the computer warning device went off as they got close to the mountain because radar was giving them reality. Reality was, you're flying right into a mountain. And the computer box said, "Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up," which you'll hear in any airplane, any jetplane today, that device. Sometimes when you're getting ready to take off you'll hear it from the cockpit because they're testing the system, "Pull up, pull up, pull up." Inexplicably the pilot says, "Shut up, Gringo," flipped off the switch and within minutes they hit the mountain. Conscience says, "Pull up, pull up, pull up," and conscience for you as a Christian is well informed, it knows reality. And if you say, "Shut up, Gringo," you're going to make shipwreck or plane wreck out of your life.
That's where the battle has to be won, people. And I know that because that's where I have to win the battle. As I told you last time, you can be surrounded by all kinds of people who want to hold you accountable, you win or lose that battle where no one knows. Do you know this is a challenge to think about, your conscience fights all alone...all alone...all alone. But you lose a battle in there and eventually it will show up on the outside, your sins will find you out. Keep that conscience sensitive. Respond to the first impulse of that conscience. Don't train your conscience to ignore reality. Titus 1, "To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, both their mind and their conscience are defiled." That's the world. They're going down the path to hell on a grease slide because their mind, that is what they believe, their system of belief is corrupt and their conscience is also corrupt. The world misinforms and then it tells you don't feel guilty, I'm free I can do what I want, it's me...this is the new buzz now...it's me, hey, this is me, you've got to take me as I am, this is me, I'm being true to myself. What nobility. But we're not like that. Our minds are informed by the Word of God. In fact, if I can take it even deeper, you have the mind of...whom?...Christ. And your conscience is sensitive, you don't ever want to do anything to silence it. So, first of all, let's go back to our text, it is imperative that we get control from the inside out.
Just quickly, I'll give you two other points here that he makes. Two, don't act like the godless, pagans. Verse 5, "Don't operate in lustful passion like the pagans who don't know God." They don't set your standard for you. Your...you're the very opposite of that. You know, we're called to holiness, I don't know how we can get this message across to what is called evangelicalism today, you would think that all we need in life is satisfaction, fulfillment, purpose, whatever. We're called to holiness. We're absolutely called to holiness. I just don't hear that. We're not to act like the world acts, not in the lustful pathos, the excited emotion of our evil desires, epithumia, lustful passions. Don't act like non-Christians. We act in an opposite fashion.
I'm going to give you a third point. Verse 6, and this is really critical, "And that no man, or no one, transgress and defraud his brother in the matter." What is that? Three simple things, control your body, don't act like the godless world, three, don't take advantage of other people. Do not transgress, step over the line and defraud someone in the matter of sexual conduct.
What are you talking about defrauding? Pleonektan(?),it means to selfishly, greedily gain something at another's expense, that's what fraud is. It means to take advantage of someone. And the issue here is sexual sin. Do not take advantage of another person for your own sexual fulfillment. Let me tell you something, ladies, if a guy comes along and tells you he loves you and then wants to steal your purity, that's not love, that is defrauding you, that is stepping over the line to defraud you, to take something valuable from you for his own gain. The same with girls. You go over a guy, you tell that guy you love him, you do whatever it takes to get him to some degree committed to you and then you start to take away his purity, that is fraud, that is fraudulent love. Listen, if a guy really loves you, he is going to hold you up and do everything to sustain your purity. That's what love does, love doesn't defraud, love doesn't rob, love doesn't steal, love doesn't plunder. And I'll tell you this, people say, "Well what's wrong with having a little sex, we're going to get married anyway?" You don't have any guarantee that if he would do that without being married to you that he's not going to do that with somebody else he's not married to because he's already proven that he's willing to defraud.
I understand grace operates in this. But gratification outside God's plan is a kind of fraud. In Matthew 18 Jesus said this, "You'd be better off drowned than to cause one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble." Pretty serious, that's the most serious statement that the Lord Jesus ever said to His church, be careful how you treat My children, if you ever cause one to stumble into sin, which would include this kind of defrauding, you'd be better off if a millstone were put around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea." That's pretty serious. You'd be better off dead than defrauding one of these little ones who believes in Me. He's not talking about babies, He's talking about believers.
Get your body under control by the power of the Word and the Spirit. Keep your conscience clear. Don't act like the world, act the very opposite. And do not defraud one another. Nothing vague about it, nothing ambiguous about it. That's how you abstain.
Now let me close with giving you a reason. Reason number one, verse 6, "Because the Lord is the avenger in all these things just as we told you before and solemnly warned you." That's pretty clear, isn't it? The Lord is...what?...the avenger. I don't know about you but I'd rather have His blessing than His vengeance. The Lord is the avenger. Please notice, the Lord is the avenger in all these things. It's inescapable. What that means is the Lord is the one who exacts judgment. That's the first reason.
Second reason is verse 2...or verse 7, it's a positive reason, "For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity but in sanctification." This is the effectual call to salvation, God didn't save you to be akatharsia, filthy. A catharsis is a cleansing, and a-catharsis is something that's filthy. He didn't call you to filthiness, that's, by the way, how it's described, how sexual sin is described by the Bible. But He called you in sanctification. So one, you do this because the Lord is the avenger. You do it because God saved you unto sanctification.
And then finally in verse 8, you obey not only because of God's vengeance and because of God's calling to sanctification, but thirdly, because of God's great gift. "Consequently he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you." I mean, that's a pretty amazing statement. He says, "How good is God to you? He gave you His Holy Spirit. He gave you His Holy Spirit." That is to say the Spirit of Christ. That is to say the Spirit of God. That is to say the Holy One Himself has taken up residence in your life. You have all that God could give, Himself. Will you join Him to a harlot? Will you dishonor Him?
This is again very clear. You have to deal with the vengeance of God. You have to reject the purpose of God which is to call you into sanctification. And you have to disdain the gift of God, His Holy Spirit who is in you and who desires to produce in you holiness. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
I'll close with this. My friend Ralph Keiper(?) many years ago went to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and went over to the shrine, took his friend because his friend was Catholic and his friend went too. He said, "I want to go to the shrine of St. Joseph, my patron saint." He went to St. Joseph's Shrine and he wanted to light some candles to have St. Joseph pray for somebody. And he went up and all the candles were gone and all the lights were out there and there was a sign around St. Joseph's neck and it said, "Do not worship here, shrine is out of order." And Ralph Keiper said, "My friend was very disappointed." But he said, "I walked out of there and wondered to myself if there aren't times in my life when I ought to have a sign hanging around my neck, 'Do not worship here, this shrine is out of order.'" If I am going to be the shrine or the temple of the Spirit of God, then I want to manifest the Spirit and do that in gratitude to the God who has given me His Spirit. Let's pray.
Father, thank You for a great morning. Use us this day for Your glory, we pray. And keep us pure that Christ might be honored, in His name we pray. Amen.
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Dear Ari,
In honor of tomato season, I've been experimenting with various forms of the BLT. I've tried adding avocado, hot peppers, cheese, ranch dressing, mustard and other logical players. Do you have any words of wisdom in this department?
Well yes, I do have a few thoughts on the BLT. First and foremost, the BLT is nothing without mayo, which interacts with the tomato in a very special way. And my preferred premade mayo is actually fake mayo: grapeseed oil Vegenaise, made by Earth Island.
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It's summer in Burque and myriad patios await your presence. Snap the kids out of their bought air-and-video game trance for an outing that culminates in the joyful consumption of healthful and delicious paletas—no, really!—or invite some colleagues and comrades out to smash the swanky local rooftop bar scene with you. If you're looking for a more pastoral vibe, get your farm-to-table on in Albuquerque's resplendent North Valley. Here are a handful of our favorite patios in The Duke City. Don't neglect to slather on some sunscreen and install a rideshare app (such as Uber, Lyft or zTrip) on your smartphone ... in case you over-hydrate.


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Ah, looxury. That's us.
Another tourism trophy landed on the Kiwi mantelpiece last week with New Zealand named the World's Best Luxury Destination for 2013.
This accolade comes our way courtesy of the Chinese Luxury Travel Awards - a gala event that might have previously escaped our attention, but as we do upon hearing that a locally made Pale Ale has won big at the Tunisian Beer Awards, we'll take the bow thanks very much. Anyway, this luxury honour is a fitting award (this is a choice place) and it indicates the direction in which our tourism should proceed.
That direction is top end.
Forget all those backpackers who slide into the country with 1000 bucks in their pocket and muck about in freedom campervans, picking fruit to make ends meet before sliding out again with about $900 in their pocket. We want the fat cats on these shores (apologies to Gareth Morgan).
We want loaded Americans - and increasingly loaded Chinese - who buzz in first class and drop a couple of grand in a top-end Auckland restaurant before flying down south to spend a few nights in the sort of luxury lodges that are beyond the reckoning of the average Kiwi. And certainly beyond our means.
China is now our second-biggest source of visitors, and it's great to be their idea of luxury.


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It's Flipmode bitch! Categorize my word as gospel
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While I give you the nourishment I put niggas on punishment
Y'all niggas is trash but I offer the streets the supplements
Takin over the block now I'm tryin to control the government
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Now I'm back from L.A. all access
It's that nigga back from the Oscars after fuckin some actress-es
While I give you the seasonin and there recipes
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While sippin 'nac that make niggas hiccup and spit for centuries
Of course the ratchet they click up and my enemies
The way I flood the streets you know the flava good
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I'm only in the streets to feed a nigga
Regardless what you think the game will always need a nigga
(Yeah! Might as well mortalize me into a statue nigga!)
Yeah, let's go love...
I wear a MEAAAN dark pair of shades
Janglin bats back in the days, I wore braids
Runnin with solicitors, grizzlies, monkey business prisoners
Livin Uptown with scales inside wall ridges
Y'know we network our ass off
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Blowin sellin dope, runnin to the vault pass off
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Fishin for riches, mission is to dig bitches (yep)
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Kirk Rohle compiled 232 all-purpose yards and scored five touchdowns in Hampden-Sydney College's 63-49 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) football win at Guilford College Saturday.
Rohle, a senior running back, rushed 22 times for 139 yards and four touchdowns and added five receptions for 93 yards and a score. He ran for three touchdowns in the decisive second quarter, which saw Hampden-Sydney (7-1, 4-0 ODAC) rally from a 14-0 deficit with five touchdowns in six possessions. Rohle's two-yard score with 6:51 left before halftime broke a 21-21 tie and gave the Tigers the lead for good.
Hampden-Sydney overcame a sluggish start and a career-high seven touchdown tosses by the Quakers' Zac Halbert. The sophomore southpaw completed 30-of-60 passes for 396 yards in the 11th-best passing day in school history. His seven touchdown passes rank second all-time at Guilford (1-7, 0-4 ODAC). Ben King caught three of the scores, which also stands second in school history.
Guilford made early statements on both sides of the ball. The Quakers opened the game with an on-side kick, which the Tigers recovered, but forced recovered a Hampden-Sydney fumble on the Tigers' first offensive play. On Guilford's first offensive play, Halbert hit King from 41 yards out and the hosts had a 7-0 lead 20 seconds into the game. Halbert's 15-yard touchdown pass to Lawrence Blake (9 rec., 77 yards, 2 TD) later in the quarter capped a 17-play, 86-yard drive and opened a 14-0 edge. At the end of the first quarter, Guilford had limited the Tigers to three first downs and 18 total offensive yards.
The bulk of Hampden-Sydney's first-quarter offense came on its final drive of the period, which marked the start of its recovery. Senior quarterback Travis Lane righted the Tigers' ship in the second quarter, during which time Hampden-Sydney outscored Guilford, 35-7. Lane crisply directed five scoring drives in the period, none lasting more than five plays or 92 seconds. He threw for 165 of his 303 passing yards in the frame and scored on a 22-yard keeper early in the period.
For the game, Lane completed 20-of-37 passes and did not throw an interception. Kyle Vance (8 receptions, 133 yards, 1 TD) was his favorite target among five receivers.
The teams traded touchdowns for most of the second half, before Guilford's defense held on a fourth-down play from the Quakers' 32-yard line. Guilford took over trailing 56-42, but Hampden-Sydney's Mark Poydence ended any comeback hopes by collecting a batted pass at the line of scrimmage and returning it 48 yards for a clinching touchdown.
Hampden-Sydney's win sets up a showdown next Saturday (11/5) when Washington and Lee University (8-1, 5-0 ODAC) visits the Tigers for a meeting of ODAC unbeatens. Guilford visits league-rival Catholic University at 1:00 p.m.
NOTE: The 112 points scored by the two teams rank second in Guilford history. Clemson defeated Guilford, 122-0, in 1901, which marks the highest combined point total in school history.


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Here's a top 10 from our recent tasting of Zinfandel.
The Best Zinfandel
Top 10 Wines from a Recent Tasting
Here's a top 10 from our recent tasting of Zinfandel.
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I don't know if I could ever qualify any aspect of cigarette ash as a positive quality describing a wine. Intriguing though, because I will look for it if I get a chance to sample this wine.
Visiting Santa Rosa soon. Thanks for the shopping list!
I'm a big fan of Rombauer zins but don't get a chance to compare wines very often. Can you recommend others which are similar to these (rich and jammy)?
You can always play it safe with the three R's (and I don't mean Readin' Ritin' and Rithmetic!) - Ravenswood, Ridge and Rosenblum; and do your due diligence in web research for best value wines available before you throw your money wildly away on untasted and unproven zins. There are certainly enough of them out there to flush your cash away on.
My wife and I are tremendous fans of Zinfandel. I must admit, however, that we haven't had much of it lately. This article should inspire me to spend a little more time in the Zin aisle next time we're out purchasing wine. I did notice you didn't mention the Hook & Ladder Russian River Valley Zinfandel in your article. It's another jammy, fruit-forward Zin that absolutely overwhelms your palate in a blackberry and currant flavor outburst—and I mean that in the best possible wine drinking way.
What happened to Ridge? They make some fabulous zins
MercedesC: Nothing happened to Ridge. Yes, I agree, they do make fabulous wines. One could get along very well in life living off, among others, the likes of Ridge: Monte Bello, Lytton Springs, Ponzo and/or Geyserville - tastebud dependent, ofcourse. ...what's the other one - Pagnani _______, something or other (help)?
I discovered Sausal Zin at the recommendation of a sommelier this summer and am SO glad I did. It is fabulous! This coming from a usual white wine drinker. Since I was visiting Santa Rosa at the time I made a point to visit their nearby winery the next day. Everything was wonderful and I immediately joined their wine club. Cause for celebration? The latest shipment arrived this week! They haven't let me down. Definitely my new favorite winery.
Champagne-Ricky, you mean Pagani Ranch? Was very lucky on my recent trip to taste Ridge's 1999 Geyserville and Lytton Spring. SO good. Very keen on Lambert Bridge's offering of Maple Vineyard's fruit too. Super elegant.
Do like Dashe and Sausal! Well done!
I am very surprised that you have missed out the very good Zins from Ridge. Their Lytton Springs and Geyserville cannot be overlooked. They also have the Lytton Springs Estate Zin (which they keep on site and do not sell, I think). Generall the boutiquey Napa, Sonoma and areas around, wines can be pricey. Not so with Ridge. Even in the UK we only pay about $40 for a bottle
Wild Hog was a sommelier recommendation and one I heartily pass on to all zin fans who like some depth and subtlety. Not cheap here in the UK but worth seeking out!
We have long been fans of Ray Courson @ Elyse. Does his Morisoli Zin
compete with this list?
You need to broaden out beyond Napa Valley/Sonoma region and get over to Amador County - Some GREAT Zins there- same with Paso Robles area.
Zins are my favorite wine, I've found some of my favorite at Biale Winery in Napa.
Ah, Zins. Good information, but frustrating in that I can't find most of the zins you mention. I am forced to find solace in 4 Vines Biker, Ridge Litton Springs, Macchia Adventurous, etc. etc.... God bless Zinfandel!
Knock out Zin is Klinker Brick's Old Ghost Zinfandel (Old Vines)!!!
Big fan of Dry Creek Valley zins from Nalle and A. Rafanelli!
Love all the suggestions!
I'm in NYC.
I would love to try these all, and have tried many in the past, love Ridge, Nalle, Rafanelli, Carlisle, Elyse, G D Di Arie, Sobon, I could go on.
Here is an older article on Sierra Foothills Zins http://www.snooth.com/articles/wine...
Sonoma Zinfandel http://www.snooth.com/articles/wine...
A few great Zins http://www.snooth.com/articles/wine...
Ravenswood's Single vineyard Zins http://www.snooth.com/articles/peop...
And an early Snooth Blind tasting http://www.snooth.com/articles/wine...
Thanks for the great suggestions! Most of these I've not heard of before, and I look forward to getting my hands on a few. I noticed in your complete list of wines tasted that you had one from Paso Robles, which is known for its Zins (in fact, there is a Zin festival in March of every year). Unfortunately, the one you tried, EOS, is not representative of the region. Mountain, Summit Creek, or Reserve are all great choices from Opolo, and Zin Alley makes a wonderful Zin, not to mention an out-of-this-world Zin port, just to name a few. Thanks again, and keep up the great articles!
I was told on a visit to Croatia that DNA established that Zinfandel originated
from the Adriatic region .Is this true ?
while you´re at it, how about one of the oldest Zins in Napa (Mt Veeder): Sky Vineyards! Hand-crafted on 14 acres - it doesn´t get any better than that!
Yes seagirl. It is a clone of the Croatian grape Crljenak Kastelanski,
Read more: http://www.snooth.com/articles/wine...
I guess, out of that dreary pack o' Zins, those would be the best ten. Having tasted all of those, however, I wouldn't put any but maybe - MAYBE - the Scott Harvey on my list. It's always instructive to remember that any list you read of "The Best Of..." anything is always the tastes of ONE person or ONE group of people and the validity of the list depends entirely on how much cred you're willing to invest in that opinion. As a wine writer in Seattle, I routinely caution my readers that what they read are simply MY opinions; worth no more or less, really, than their own. You have to live with a critic, wine steward, sommelier, or even a friend's tastes for a while before deciding whether theirs are aligned with yours AT ALL. Obviously, the author's list here isn't worth much to me. If you get a resonance and can trust him, good on ya. But this is otherwise just some guy's fave Zins.
I live in Sonoma County and a bunch of my friends got together for a blind zin tasting and the top 3 wines were all Lodi wines.
Don't forget Storybook, the best elegant zins in California by far in my view.
Agree with your choices but I tried a Zin from Klinker Brick winery in Lodi, Cal. Was the 2008 Old Ghost....blend of 2 old vines zinfandel...wine has exotic spices on the nose,infused with black cherries. on the palate it is rich, well rounded,and full-bodied with a long lingering finish. Really old vines like 80 years or more. Should be rated in your top 3.
Great, Great article Greg. Thank you
As you know, I am a huge Zin fan, and lately have been drinking nothing but Dasche. Its fast becoming my favorite, so I was happy to see it on your list. There are quite a few on that list that I have not tried before - im looking forward to seeking them out, and hope they stack up.
Thanks again
TO: Pour Fool. I think the underlying assumption that ALL avid SNOOTH members have is the notion of "like what you like and dont let anyone tell you any different" (said more times by Greg, by the way, then anyone else on here) - so your comment was probably taken as an insult to many of us. Greg has been that "critic, wine steward, and sommelier" that you mentioned to many of us (and safe to say "friend" to some others") - so he is "preloaded" with the right to print whatever he wants here - and, as you say - its "good on us"
Its somewhat ironic to me that a someone vehemently sells the notion of "this guy is a writer, dont listen to writers, you should have your own opinion" then turns around and credits himself as a "wine writer from Seattle" who tells his readers just that. So, please tell me then, what makes you any better of a "wine writer" then any other clown off the street that swigs Carlos Rossi, or Barefoot Pinot Grigio - by your own logic? Who should care what YOU think is "dreary"?
i'm a big fan of layer cake - it does not say zin on the label - but 'primitivo' - why? has anyone else tried it?
You should have Vineyard 29 Aida zin on your list! Definitely not the least expensive out there, but IMHO worth the premium. Better than Turley, very age worthy, brilliantly crafted.
no mention of Seghesio, which has a range of delicious zins. I agree with Tommy Jay the 4 vines biker is also yummy.
try pedroncelli. good wines, great value.
Karat: It seems both the Zinfandel and the Primitivo stem from the Crljenak grape. See http://www.winegeeks.com/articles/36 and http://www.winepros.org/wine101/gra... .
It seems that most of the comments have not experienced a great Zin.
You must visit Amador & El Dorado county of Northern Ca. Near Sacramento in the "Gold Rush" foothills and the region of Fair Play.
Suggest you try Karly, Latcham, and Sobon winerys. Also Story, Windwalker, Perry Creek and Oakstone. All within 15 miles of each other.
These are some of the best old vine Zins with 14 to 16 % full bodied dry finish wines of all California... Treat yourself to the downhome friendship and great food parings during weekends and harvest time.
Used to visit Glen Ellen regularly where I got the Zinfandel bug.
Mayo family winery had some nice Zins but I do agree that Lodi region have some great wines. Seem to remember a great Philips from that area.
Here in Australia Zinfandel has a small but increasing interest. I found a great Zinfandel from Hilltops near Young in NSW and a local winery near Geelong is selling one as a Primitivo.
We have a lot of Croatian and Italian immigrants in this region so the Primitivo/Croatian grape is well liked.
Ray Nadeson at Lethbridge winery also tried his hand with a Zinfandel but he is such a perfectionist it didn't make it to market....
I like the Mountain Zin from Oppolo Vineyards in Paso Robles. It's very nice!
...Hy Greg, many articles aroud the web says the same thing (that is wath i've always knew) , Zinfandel and primitivi are the same thing....have you ever tried something good in Puglia?
Like this http://www.feudisanmarzano.it/ita/s...
Ok, so back to my previous question...
Since we all have different taste buds one man's wine may be another man's crap. No offense intended, I'm just making the observation that recommendations are usually subjective. My dilemma is in finding "similar" characteristics to a wine I like without having to purchase and taste several hundred of them and deplete my retirement fund.
If I have a favorite (Rombauer Zin, for instance) is there a chart/app/site that say "these wines will be similar to that one"? Sometimes it's difficult to find a specific wine, and most of the time it's out of my price range anyway. It would be great to see a list of similar alternatives given a single wine from which to compare them.
TL NJ has it "write" on the comment to Pour Fool. Drink what you like, share your enjoyment, and don't beat up on other's - proof is in the glass. Been to Amador county a few times with many favorites mentioned except for Villa Toscano. Other side of the state - Rafanelli, Unti, Robert Craig, Quivira, Neyers, Kokomo, Kunde, and Biale.
A fourth R is Rombauer. The 2007 Zin is killer!!


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"I Belong to Jesus" reads the t-shirt that the former FIFA World Player of the Year and the European Confederations Player of the Year wears under his jersey. As is the custom in soccer, he rips off his jersey when he scores a goal — and there, the whole world sees his testimony.
Born in Brazil, his legal name is Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, which nobody except Brazilians can begin to pronounce. So, he's known to the soccer world as Kaká.
He became a Christian at age 12, just about the time that he got serious about soccer — and is a faithful member of the Evangelical Rebirth in Christ church in Brazil.
As a 12-year-old, he remembers, "I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not."
After he led Brazil to the 2002 World Cup championship, he removed his jersey and did all the media interviews in his trademark "I belong to Jesus" t-shirt. He openly thanks God on camera — dropping to his knees and triumphantly pointing to heaven at the final whistle of Brazil's 2002 World Cup victory as well. Playing for Milan, Italy's soccer squad, he did it again as the refs sounded the whistle in Milan's 2004 and 2007 triumphs.
His soccer cleats are embroidered "I belong to Jesus." During the postmatch celebration following Brazil's 4–1 win over Argentina in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, he and several of his teammates yanked off their jerseys revealing t-shirts that read "Jesus Loves You" in various languages.
How good is he? Madrid paid him $79 million to leave Milan last year and come play for Real Madrid — in English, "the Madrid Royals." He's been the Italian league's Player of the Year twice, Europe's top scorer of the year twice, and FIFA's World Player of the Year. Some would argue that he is the world's best midfielder. Last year, he didn't score the most goals, but was named the FIFA World Cup Top Assister since as playmaker, he set up the winning goals more than anybody else. Time Magazine named him one of the top 100 Most Influential People in the world.
And he takes his opportunities to influence the world very seriously.
"To those who already have Jesus: you have made the best choice and are in the best team," he once told a magazine interviewer. "Go ahead. Do not give up. The fight is great, but we can only win being on Jesus' side.
"To those who have not yet surrendered their lives to Jesus: What are you doing being outside of this team?! Come to learn the Word of God, come to know who God really is. Stop eating cookies, while God offers us a banquet."
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Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa and Marc Gené inaugurate the first Ferrari Store in Spain
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ATLANTA - Authorities say graves at one of Georgia's oldest cemeteries have been desecrated and they are trying to find whoever removed a child's casket and dumped a soldier's uniform on the ground.
A reward of more than $2,000 is being offered for clues about the desecration of graves at the Old Church Cemetery, which dates to 1758 and is located in the east Georgia countryside near Waynesboro.
Leroy Bell Jr., commander of the American Legion post that cares for the cemetery, discovered the damage Saturday. He said a small iron casket containing the remains of a 14-month-old girl buried there in 1884 was removed and its contents strewn about.
"They took it completely out and dumped everything out," Bell told The Associated Press. "I just can't understand it, other than the fact they were wanting some kind of trinkets."
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Burke County sheriff's Sgt. Sean Cochran said the bones of at least one soldier were left exposed.
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"American Idol" champion turned accused homewrecker Fantasia Barrino says her overdose was neither an accident nor a cry for help, it was a serious attempt to end it all.
"I didn't have any fight in me. I didn't care about anything. I just wanted out," the 26-year-old singer tells VH1 in a new "Behind the Music" interview set to air tomorrow night. "At that moment, I wanted out. I wanted it to be over with – all of it, all of that s---.
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Barrino can thank her manager Brian Dickens for saving her life after the Aug. 9 incident. Dickens knew his star was depressed about her name and even a sex tape coming up in the divorce proceedings of her married boyfriend. But a message from her seemed alarmingly grim.
"Her emotions were extremely low," Dickens said. "She'd been crying all day. Fantasia was just numb. Fantasia texted me, saying 'I love you.' I wrote back, 'I love you more.' Then it hit me."
"I wrote, 'You better not do anything or think about doing anything stupid.' And I left it at that. About 10 minutes later, Fantasia texted me back, and she said, 'Already did.' I went into Fantasia's room and saw her on the floor, and my heart just dropped."
On the 911 tape, Dickens can be heard telling a North Carolina emergency operator he moved Fantasia to the shower. He was told to get her out of the shower while EMTs made their way to the house. Fantasia spent two days in a hospital before being released.
"I was tired of people doing me wrong, constantly, over and over again, dealing with my family – my father, dealing with men and their [expletive] – I was tired," Fantasia recalled in the VH1 interview. "My head was hurting me. I was over it."
Although she's healthy again, the problems that drove her to the brink have not gone away. Barrino is now facing a possible suit from Paula Cook, the wife of Antwaun Cook. She has said she thought Cook was separated from his wife during their on-and-off yearlong affair.
It's unclear of Fantasia, who won season 3 of the Fox hit, is still involved with Cook. But he said through his lawyer that the marriage wasn't doomed by Fantasia.
"The failure of his marriage can in no way be blamed on anyone except the two people that were a part of the union - Paula and Antwaun," Cook's lawyer, Nicole Sodoma, said in a statement.
Cook's wife, however, stated in court documents that the couple split on June 16, 2010.
Fantasia, 26, was been spotted with Cook at a park near her home in North Carolina, with a camera crew for her VH1 reality show, "Fantasia for Real" reportedly in tow, according to People magazine. She has acknowledged dating Cook on and off for nearly a year, but says she thought he was separated from his wife.


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Crop insurance debate grows
Direct payments are dead. Long live King Crop Insurance.
If there's a single theme to the farm debate before Congress, it's this transition from cash subsidies to an ever-expanding risk-management system that requires producers to put some skin in the game but can still cost taxpayers dearly.
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"The farmer gets a bill, not a check," is the way Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) puts it. But on average, the government absorbs 62 percent of the premium cost and, in the case of one new product for the cotton industry, that subsidy rate will be as high as 80 percent.
Indeed, the annual cost of the crop insurance program is expected to run near $9.2 billion under the Senate bill — more than double the old commodity title that was once the mainstay for agriculture. And as the dollars have moved, the same activists who spent years trying to kill direct payments are turning their guns on crop insurance.
All this helps explain a series of floor skirmishes Thursday that gave a taste of more battles to come when the Senate returns from its Memorial Day recess on June 3.
Tobacco growers were first singled out by an early amendment seeking to deny them any premium subsidies under the crop insurance program. This failed 44-52, but minutes later, the Senate voted 59-33 to substantially cut the subsidy rate for wealthy farmers with incomes over $750,000.
In the wings are proposals requiring much greater disclosure from the Agriculture Department on who benefits from the program. And there is a bipartisan proposal to bar any farmer from getting more than $50,000 in premium subsidies per year.
"I don't know how we can means-test Medicare and not look at this," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). And at a time when Republicans are attacking the level of subsidies allowed under health care reform, the 62 percent subsidy rate for crop insurance premiums is far more generous than what many middle-class families will enjoy.
"You can be among the wealthiest people in the world and you qualify for a taxpayer subsidy of your crop insurance — and actually quite an extensive one," said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). "I don't know how that is defensible."
For crop insurance advocates, all this criticism follows a year in which they would argue the program proved its worth by helping farmers survive the fierce drought of last summer and fall. In the 2012 crop year, $17.2 billion in indemnities were paid out without Congress having to resort to an ad hoc disaster aid bill. And in a broader sense, insurance for the farmer is also insurance for the nation by helping to maintain a safe and viable food supply system.
Perhaps most important is the question of how to apply means-testing without driving larger participants out of the risk pool.


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LAGUNA BEACH – A team of experts assembled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is looking into radiation from Japan's nuclear disaster as one of several possible causes of the ongoing sea lion stranding along Southern California beaches.
The federal agency announced the team's formation during a media conference call Thursday. The team was assembled after the agency last week declared the massive stranding an "unusual mortality event."
In three months 1,100 sea lions pups, born on rookeries in the Channel Islands last summer, have washed ashore on beaches in five counties from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Only 83 sea lions have been found off the northern part of California's coastline during that same time, said Sarah Wilkin, NOAA's California stranding coordinator. In past years, about 132 pups have been stranded on average along the Southern California coast. In Orange County last year there were 20 stranded pups; this year there have been 239 in the same time frame.
Sea lions keep washing ashore, many in more critical condition than in the weeks before. Wilkin said the pups likely have more difficulty finding food and are weaker now. Rescue centers are overwhelmed, leading some sea lions to be triaged on the beaches, waiting for a spot to open. Signs are posted to alert the public to stay away from the animals. Some sick sea lions at higher-traffic beaches have been moved to more remote locations. All sea lions present similar symptoms, including dehydration and starvation. Some are also showing secondary infections. In Ventura County, mammal centers are finding a high amount of lice.
The research team includes biologists, veterinarians, clinical care experts, infectious disease experts, National Marine Fisheries Service biologists and oceanographers. Public health officials will also be included to determine if there is any risk to the public. Some well- intentioned people have been bitten trying to help the stranded animals, Wilkin said.
Work will include necropsies on sea lions found on beaches. The group will first focus on its lead hypothesis of prey depletion. Wilkin said the current sea lion population is considered healthy and growing. But for some reason the mothers have been weaning pups born last summer earlier than normal. These young pups are finding less of their normal prey: sardines and anchovies.
"It makes sense to us that they would be more impacted," Wilkin said. "Older animals would be better able to switch and take advantage of other food sources. They can swim farther off shore and dive deeper."
They will also consider fungal and viral diseases as well as radiation and other environmental impacts.
"The radiation event could be a potential cause," Wilkin said. "We need to look at what's different in 2013 as compared to 2012, 2011 and 2010. "We will work with lab tests that look at radionuclide signatures. Scientifically, we don't think radiation is the cause but without testing and data we can't say for sure. We need to rule it in or out."
Diagnostic testing is expected to be done quickly. Results may help re-direct the investigation. In the end, a full summary will be released.
"Marine mammals are sentinels of the eco system," Wilkin said. "We can get a lot of information as we take care of them. It gives us information about what is happening and it might in the future lead to policy changes."
The Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach has taken in and treated more than 250 sea lions this year. In the last two weeks the number of animals in critical condition has spiked. Since the weekend, 16 more sea lions have come in from beaches from San Clemente to Huntington Beach.
Fort McArthur in San Pedro has taken in more than 400 sea lions this year, compared to 36 taken in last year. Since the end of January, 214 sea lions were reported stranded in San Diego County, 108 in Santa Barbara County and 42 in Ventura County. Centers in those areas are also struggling.
NOAA established the marine mammal unusual mortality event program in 1991. It has formally recognized 57 unusual mortality events in the U.S. involving a variety of species; each event included dozens to hundreds of marine mammals.
These events have occurred along the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coast and the coasts of Alaska and Hawaii. The state with the highest number of unusual events is California, followed by Florida.
Demoic acid that affected sea lions in 2009 along the Central coast was also called an unusual mortality event.


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Having cut his teeth on buttoned-down fare like "Pride & Prejudice" and "Atonement," director Joe Wright takes a sharp turn with "Hanna," the story of a girl raised to be the perfect killing machine. It's a fantastic fairy tale framed as high-octane chase film, one that lives up to its reputation as "The Bourne Identity" meets "The Professional."
Saoirse Ronan first worked with Wright on "Atonement," playing a 13-year-old girl responsible for her sister's lover being sent off to war. In "Hanna" it is Ronan who goes to war, diving head first into the battle. Trained her whole life to survive in the wild, Hanna is a well-tuned assassin.
But as she nears adolescence, she begins to chafe at the solitude of life with just her father (Eric Bana) in the wilds of Finland, and so literally "flips the switch" that will beckon the mysterious Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett), whom Hanna is eager to meet. What follows is a race across Scandinavia, Northern Africa and central Europe.
Ronan keeps a tight hold on Hanna, shifting from wide-eyed wonder to bloodlust without a hitch. Unfortunately, the script, by David Farr and Seth Lochhead, lacks Ronan's discipline. One minute she's overwhelmed by a room full of fluorescent lights, ceiling fans and remote controls, the next she's Googling with such lightning speed that she's able to get the secrets to her past all but unraveled. Either moment could work, but the two together are incongruous.
Blanchett's Wiegler is a hopelessly repressed monster so committed to her mission that she's blind to her own humanity. With her saccharine-y Southern twang and her perfectly coiffed red hair, she's like the Big Bad Wolf in grandma's nightie. Tom Hollander is skin-crawlingly creepy as a bleached-blonde pansexual sadist whom Marissa brings on board to hunt down Hanna. Between his tennis short-shorts and incessant whistling, one shudders to think what he'd do if he got his hands on your kid.
Throughout the action, the pulsating soundtrack from The Chemical Brothers dovetails with the pop-pop-pop of gunfire, the wail of sirens and thunderous beat of helicopters to great effect, and is often appropriately disorienting.
For a man who's made his bones crafting English melodramas, Wright's direction here is remarkably assured--it's at its best, its most natural, when he tries the least. The fights are clean and quick, the footraces down side streets and between shipping containers are crisp and exciting. It's when he does things like sends a merry-go-round spinning just for the sake of watching it spin that he loses control.
An action movie with brains and a heart, "Hanna" is a righteous good time punctuated by great music, some awesome locations, great acting and quite a bit of humor.


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