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Name : JB Hi-Fi Whitford Store (Contact Details)
Location: Hillarys, WA, Australia
Category : Retail, Electronics, Hardware, Home Appliances, Mobile Phones, CDs, DVDs, Video Games
JB Hi-Fi Store Address: Westfield Whitford City Shopping Centre, Store MM3, Ground Level, Corner Whitfords & Marmion Avenue, Hillarys, WA, 6025
JB Hi-Fi Store Phone Numbers: (08) 9404 4300
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About: JB Hi-Fi is a popular retailer in Australia. It is a consumer goods retailer in the country who provides videos games, hardware, electronic items, electrical home appliances, mobile phones and Telstra services. It was founded in 1974 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. JB Hi-Fi selling its products both online and offline. The company operates several retail stores at different locations all around the country.


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The New. It's what everyone is talking about, and can't get enough of. It's as if all of us, all of humanity cries out, "What's next?" We want the "NEW"! And I won't lie. I do too. I have this innate desire to try, experience, even help create the "NEW". So when you see Colbie […]
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Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency with a majority Republican House and Senate, what does the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) look like? During the campaign, Donald Trump supported Republican Congressional efforts to "repeal and replace" the law with an alternative health care plan. Will he push through with his campaign pledge?
While health care is not a top priority on the campaign trail and not top of voters' minds this year, who wins on November 8 will impact the health care agenda in Washington in 2017. According to analysis presented in the Business Group's special election year webinar earlier this week, even though Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don't offer many details about their health policy priorities, we can glean enough information from them and from Congress to make some predictions.
A recent federal appellate court decision upholding a 2011 Michigan law that imposes a 1% tax on health care claims raises concerns for employer plans. In the court's view, the Michigan law is not preempted by ERISA, which generally exempts employer plans from similar law.
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On Exhibit: Sandy Shore & Aviary , Monterey Bay Habitats
Animal Facts
Scientific Name
Myliobatis californica
Animal Type
molluscs, crustaceans, small fishes
female wingspan of six feet (1.8 m) and weigh 200 pounds (91 kg); males are smaller
manta rays, pelagic stingrays; Subclass: Elasmobranchii (skates, rays and sharks); Family: Myliobatidae (eagle rays)
eastern Pacific from Oregon to the Sea of Cortez and near the Galapagos Islands
Natural History
Bat rays swim gracefully by flapping their batlike wings (pectoral fins) bird style—a feature that gives these rays their common name and their family name, "eagle rays." They are found in muddy and sandy bottom bays, kelp forests and close to coral reefs.
Those batlike wings also serve in the hunt for food. Bat rays flap their pectoral fins in the sand to expose buried prey, like clams. Rays also use their lobelike snouts to dig prey from sandy bottoms. The resulting pit can be up to 13 feet (4 m) long and eight inches (20 cm) deep—an important source of "leftover" small prey for fishes that can't dig. Bat rays have one to three venomous barbed spines at the base of their long tails, but these docile animals sting only to defend themselves.
Bat ray teeth are fused into plates that can crush the strongest clam shells. The rays crush the entire clam, or other molluscs, inside their mouths, spit out the shells, and then eat the soft, fleshy parts. If a tooth breaks or wears out, a new one replaces it. Rays grow new teeth continuously, like their shark kin.
Because they struggle actively when caught, bat rays are popular with and even sought after by sport fishermen. There are no commercial fisheries along the California coast, but commercial fishing exists in Mexican waters, where bat rays are a food fish.
For many years, oyster growers trapped bat rays because they thought bat rays ate large numbers of oysters. But recently researchers have discovered that bay rays rarely eat oysters, and that crabs were destroying the oyster beds. The oyster growers were actually causing the destruction of their own oyster beds by trapping bat rays, which eat crabs.
Cool Facts
Several bays and wetland areas along the California and Pacific Coast of Baja, including nearby Elkhorn Slough, are important nursery and feeding grounds for bat rays.
Sea lions, white sharks and broadnose sevengill sharks prey on bat rays. Divers have seen a "pack" of juvenile broadnose sevengill sharks attack a large bat ray.
Bat rays reproduce on an annual cycle, mating during spring or summer. After a gestation period of nine to 12 months, females give live birth to two to 10 pups—the number depends on the size of the mother. Pups emerge tail first, with their wings wrapped around their bodies. To protect the mothers, the pups' stinging spines are pliable and covered with a sheath that sloughs off after birth. The spine soon hardens, ready for defense within a few days.
Bat rays usually lead a solitary life, but may be found in groups of thousands. If disturbed while resting on the seafloor, bat rays raise themselves up on the tips of their pectoral fins with their backs arched, ready to swim away if a diver approaches too closely. Rays are known for their ability to jump out of the water and skim along the surface. In aquariums, observers have seen bat rays swim upside down on the water's surface.


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(The Politico) On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized the Washington press corps for failing to report what he believes is unprecedented Republican obstruction.
So Friday afternoon, Reid reached out to the liberal blogosphere.
"You need to keep doing the job you're doing, but you need to move on," Reid said in a Webcast hosted by a handful of progressive bloggers. "We need your help to push back against the Republican harangue ... that we're not allowing votes" on oil drilling amendments.
The Webcast was hosted by meetthebloggers and included bloggers from HuffingtonPost, OpenLeft and thesmogblog.com.
Reid seemed flustered Thursday when addressing congressional reporters, saying they needed to do a better job of explaining that Democrats have offered Republicans drilling amendments but the GOP has refused to make a deal.
The Crypt has extensively covered the back and forth over Senate process on the energy bill, and both sides have muddied the debate. Reid has indeed offered Republicans a couple drilling related amendments on energy, but the GOP wants as many as seven, and perhaps up to 28 amendments on what they believe is a major issue that should be thoroughly debated
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text: James S. MarksJames S. Marks, MD, MPH, senior vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), directs all program and administrative activities of the RWJF Health Group. This includes the Foundation's work in childhood obesity, public health and vulnerable populations. Prior to joining RWJF in 2004, Marks retired as assistant surgeon general after serving as director of the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for almost a decade. Throughout his tenure at CDC, Marks developed and advanced systematic ways to prevent and detect diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes, reduce tobacco use and address the nation's growing epidemic of obesity. A national leader in public health who has been an advocate of strengthening public health systems and services for more than 25 years, Marks has received numerous federal, state, and private awards, including the U.S. Public Health Service Distinguished Service Award, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' Pump Handle Award, the Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Directors' Award for Excellence, the American Cancer Society's Distinguished Service Award, and the National Arthritis Foundation's Special Award of Appreciation. In 2004, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine. He is an emeritus member of the board of directors of C-Change, whose members are the nation's key cancer leaders from government, business, and nonprofit sectors. He has published extensively in the areas of maternal and child health, health promotion and chronic disease prevention, and has served on many government and nonprofit committees devoted to improving the public's health. Marks received an M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He trained as a pediatrician at the University of California at San Francisco, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University, where he received his M.P.H. He and his wife, Judi, a retired high school guidance counselor, live in Princeton and have two children, both pursuing careers in medicine.


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John Paul Stevens, Defender of High‐Tech Freedom
I'm saddened to hear of the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. Whatever you might say about his jurisprudence in other areas, one place where Justice Stevens really shined was in his defense of high‐tech freedom.
Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion in some of the most important high‐tech cases of the last four decades. In other cases, he wrote important (and in some cases prescient) dissents. Through it all, he was a consistent voice for freedom of expression and the freedom to innovate. His accomplishments include:
- Free speech: Justice Stevens wrote the majority decision in ACLU v. Reno, the decision that struck down the infamous Communications Decency Act and clearly established that the First Amendment applies to the Internet. In the 13 years since then, the courts have repeatedly beat back attacks on free speech online. For example, Justice Stevens was in the majority in ACLU v. Ashcroft, the 2004 decision that struck down another attempt to censor the Internet in the name of protecting children.
- Copyright: Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion in the 1984 case of Sony v. Universal, the case in which the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the VCR by a 5 – 4 vote. The decision, which today is known as the "Betamax decision" after the Sony VCR brand, made possible the explosion of digital media innovation that followed. When the recording industry tried to stop the introduction of the MP3 player in 1997, the Ninth Circuit cited the Betamax precedent in holding that "space shifting" with your MP3 player is permitted under copyright's fair use doctrine. The iPod as we know it today probably wouldn't exist if Sony had lost the Betamax case. Justice Stevens also wrote an important dissent in the 2003 decision of Eldred v. Ashcroft, in which he (like the Cato Institute) argued that the Constitution's "limited times" provision precluded Congress from retroactively extending copyright terms.
- Patents: The explosion of software patents is one of the biggest threats to innovation in the software industry, and Justice Stevens saw this threat coming almost three decades ago. Stevens wrote the majority decision in the 1978 case of Parker v. Flook, which clearly disallowed patents in the software industry. Three years later, Stevens dissented in the 1981 case of Diamond v. Diehr, which allowed a patent on a software‐controlled rubber‐curing machine. Although the majority decision didn't explicitly permit patents on software, Stevens warned that the majority's muddled decision would effectively open the door to software patents. And he has been proven right. In the three decades that followed, the patent‐friendly U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has effectively dismantled limits on software patents. And the result has been a disaster, with high‐tech firms being forced to spend large sums on litigation rather than innovation.
So if you enjoy your iPod and your uncensored Internet access, you have Justice Stevens to thank. Best wishes for a long, comfortable, and well‐deserved retirement.


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"After making Jimi, the proverbial classic rock poster font, we needed to create another psychedelic font, but this time including a set of lowercase letters. We named it Janice, after Janis Joplin, the popular American 1960s singer and perfect example of hippie spirit.
This font is quite useful not only for reliving the classic rock era, but also for any fun headlines or children book covers."
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Sheriff takes stand on gun regulations
Pine County received some national media attention this past week after Sheriff Robin Cole said he would not be enforcing any new gun mandates from the federal government.
Cole shared his views sent out to over 20 media organizations late last Tuesday explaining his decision. Since that time, the news went statewide and is on large media websites throughout the world. Cole's stance has also received considerable attention on blogs on the Internet, some support his stance while others question how a sheriff can elect not to enforce a federal mandate.
Cole is out this entire week, the Sheriff's Office said. In an interview with another media organization, Cole said support for his stance was going about 50-1.
One reliable website showed that 39 sheriffs are publically on the record opposing President Obama's plan to curb gun violence, but Cole is the only one from Minnesota to publicly state his opposition to it. Last Wednesday, President Obama proposed background checks on all gun purchases, passing a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets.
Cole's full text of his letter sent to media is as follows:
"As Sheriff of Pine County, it is important for residents to know my position as it relates to the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. In the past week I have had several requests and one meeting on this matter. Normally I attempt to remain neutral on matters of politics but this issue transcends political division and I feel it appropriate to state my position.
"I believe that the right to keep and bear firearms is fundamental to our individual freedom and that firearms are a part of life in our county. The Federal Government has a constitutional role in the governance of our republic but the United States of America is a democratic republic of individual sovereign states. Each state has the absolute right to establish laws, within the confines of the constitution which is the supreme law of this republic, to regulate behavior.
"As Sheriff, I swore an oath to follow the Constitution of the United States and to enforce the laws of the State of Minnesota. I believe current state law is sufficient to protect the public safety while providing individuals the right to keep and bear arms.
"If the State of Minnesota desires to change current law, then it must do so through the legitimate process of legislation. In my opinion it is a moral sin to erode freedom through obscure regulation and administrative rules. I believe this is also true for both State and Federal Government.
"I do not believe the Federal Government or any individual in the Federal Government has the right to dictate to the states, counties or municipalities any mandate, regulation or administrative rule that violates the United States Constitution or it various amendments. I would view any such mandate, regulation or administrative rule illegal and refuse to carry it out."
Robin K. Cole
Pine County Sheriff
Richard Hodson, legal counsel for the Minnesota Sheriff's Association, had a different view of Cole's statement.
"He is basically saying, 'I'm not going to enforce something I don't have the authority to enforce,'" Hodson told the Star Tribune. "County sheriffs don't have the legal authority to enforce federal laws. There would have to be corresponding state law."
On Tuesday in a phone interview, Hodson likened a federal rule or mandate this way. The USDA has rules that you can't sell rotten meat. That does not mean the sheriff has authority to cite them for this. "They would have to find a state crime being committed," Hodson said.
Basically, Hodson is saying the federal gun laws would be one in which the sheriff does not have any authority to enforce.
Hodson said a letter was sent out to all state sheriffs regarding this since the issue came up last week pointing out this difference. He is not aware of any other sheriff in the state that has publicly stated their views against the gun control measures.
Rep. Tim Faust, DFL-Hinckley, said he has gotten several calls since there was talk about President Obama issuing executive orders on this issue and all callers said "Don't take my guns away."
Faust said every second year, the legislature looks at more gun control measures, but they typically get 30 votes in the House and fail, with many outstate legislators voting against.
County Commissioner Steve Hallan of Pine City said, "I have received many phone calls from my constituents, far more than I have ever received on any given issue, that are not in favor of the Sheriff's stance against possible federal laws on gun control. Many people are asking what he is thinking and how it is stating how it is harming Pine County. People seem very displeased that the sheriff would use a tactic like he did."
"The sheriff stated 50 to one people are in favor of his stance on gun control. I have not had one person call supporting him," Hallan said.


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Great news: Milledgeville, Ga. has gotten over all those pesky Ben Roethlisberger allegations, or so reports the Washington Post. In fact, if it was a race to forget, the town may have beaten the quarterback.
Suspended by the NFL to start the season, Roethlisberger has made a considerable effort to move past the accusation he raped a young woman in a club here. He's been so congenial and cooperative the Pittsburgh media gave him their annual "Chief Award," citing his forthcoming attitude and willingness to help reporters do their jobs. ...
As eager as Roethlisberger was to get past the story, Milledgeville might have beaten him to it. ...
"We ain't really worried about no Pittsburgh Steelers around here," barber Hayward Jones said. "It's like it never happened. We've been talking so much about the Falcons around here. Everything else takes a back seat. Pittsburgh who? Ben who?"
Milledgeville, Ga., has left Ben Roethlisberger controversy behind [Washington Post]
Big Ben's Night Out In "Millyvegas": What The Bartenders Saw [Deadspin]


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5 tbsp plus 1 tsp Lucini® Premium Select Extra Virgin Olive Oil®
2 cups sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
5 ounces (five squares) unsweetened baking chocolate, finely chopped
4 large eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon instant espresso coffee (regular or decaf)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans, almonds, or walnuts (optional)
Line 8- by 8-inch baking pan with foil and oil with 1 teaspoon Lucini® Premium Select Extra Virgin Olive Oil®. Set aside. Mix together next 4 ingredients and set aside. Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot (not boiling) water, stirring occasionally. Whisk in extra virgin olive oil, then eggs, mixing well. Whisk in coffee and vanilla. With a wooden spoon, blend in dry ingredients and mix well. If desired, add 1/2 cup nuts to batter.
Spoon into prepared pan. (Sprinkle remaining nuts on top.) Bake at 350 degrees, 1 hour, or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out almost clean. (Do not overbake or brownies will be dry.)


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Happe became the third Sun Devil to earn the award in the past five years.
TEMPE – Arizona State University track and field and cross country standout Nick Happewas named the Pac-12 Men's Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the Conference office announced on Saturday at the Pac-12 Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships. The award, which is presented in each of the 22 sports the Conference sponsors, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline.
A native of St. Charles, Mo., Nick Happe finished in the top 25 of the NCAA West Region race to earn all-region honors in 2011. He is the school's indoor track & field record holder in the mile, running in a time of 3:58.78 in 2011, eventually earning second team All-America nods last year. He has also posted the third-fastest indoor times in school history in the 3,000 meters (7:55.08) and 5,000 meters (13:54.15).
Happe earned his first All-Conference honors on Saturday courtesy of an 11th-place run at the Pac-12 Championships, earning second-team accolades in the process and leading the team to a strong fourth-place finish at the event.
A finance major with a 4.09 cumulative grade point average, Happe was a first team Academic All-Pac-12 honoree in cross country in 2010 and 2011, while also earning first team honors on the track and field all-academic squad. He also earned a spot on the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's (USTFCCCA) All-Academic squad in 2011 and 2012, and was voted a third team CoSIDA Academic All-American last year, an award that is voted on by the nation's College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Happe's honor marks the third time in the last five years that a Sun Devil has earned the Pac-12 Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor. Brandon Bethke earned the award in 2009 while Jenna Kingma did so in 2008.
Happe is next slated to compete at the NCAA West Regional Championships in Seattle, Wash., on November 9.


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Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785 to establish a uniform system for surveying the western lands of the republic. The land was divided into ranges and townships, like a checkerboard. Each six-square mile township had 36 sections. Each section contained 640 acres and was one-mile square. When homesteaders filed a claim, they filed for 160 acres or a quarter of a section in a township. The income from section 16 was reserved for public schools.
1. Locate Beatrice, Nebraska, and Homestead National Monument of America on a state map of Nebraska. Where is the Big Blue River? How far is the river from the town of Beatrice? Why might people have wanted to homestead and farm in this area?
2. Locate section 16 on Map 1. Is there a school located in that section?
3. The side of a section is equal to one mile. If children lived in section 1 on Henry Fleshner's property, what is the shortest distance they would have to travel to get to the school in section 16? What would be the daily round-trip distances these students would have to walk?
4. Would it have been practical to locate the township's only school in section 16? What weather conditions might make the distance too difficult or dangerous for children to walk?
5. Locate the other schools in Blakely Township. In what sections are they located? Offer a reason why there are so many schools in Blakely Township.
6. Locate the school in section 22. Name the four landholders closest to the school.
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Clementi, Muzio [Clementi, Mutius Philippus Vincentius Franciscus Xaverius]
- Alan Tyson
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[Clementi, Mutius Philippus Vincentius Franciscus Xaverius]
(b Rome, Jan 23, 1752; d Evesham, Worcs., March 10, 1832). English composer, keyboard player and teacher, music publisher and piano manufacturer of Italian birth.
Leon Plantinga
The oldest of seven children of Nicolo Clementi (1720–89), a silversmith, and Magdalena, née Kaiser, Clementi began studies in music in Rome at a very early age; his teachers were Antonio Boroni (1738–92), an organist named Cordicelli, Giuseppi Santarelli (1710–90) and possibly Gaetano Carpani. In January 1766, at the age of 13, he secured the post of organist at his home church, S Lorenzo in Damaso. In that year, however, his playing attracted the attention of an English traveller, Peter Beckford (1740–1811), cousin of the novelist William Beckford (1760–1844) and nephew of William Beckford (1709–70), twice Lord Mayor of London. According to Peter Beckford's own forthright explanation, he 'bought Clementi of his father for seven years', and in late ...


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NewDeveloper06 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
I require a logo for a new company that i am forming. The company is called Blueprint Software ltd. I'm not a designer and not very good with this kind of thing so feel free to create whatever you think would be appopriate and i'l provide feedback asap
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Not much more to say really. The logo will be attached to letterheads, the website and if I decide to go more exposure the side of my car! But that last one you can pretty much ignore as it's primarily for the first two and the car only if appropriate!
A bit about the company - never traded so small but hopefully will grow. We offer business software both off the shelf and custom made. a basic example is a piece of hotel software which deals with bookings, accounts, marketing etc etc. Or a touch screen EPOS system in a store.
I'm really looking forward to an submissions as you guys come up with some amazing designs!
Please help me make my company a success!!
Thanks in advance guys.
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Intrigo: Death of an Author
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
It is the best of the three films, offering in some odd ways a corrective to the prior installments.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's series on underrated films heads into the 2020s with a Tony Scott classic.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
Theo Angelopoulos' Landscape in the Mist is a work of art that comes from the feelings, the dreams, the sorrows, and the flashes of life…
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho pens a letter to Roger about Michael Apted's 63 Up.
A tribute to the late, great Terry Jones.
A dispatch from the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, featuring reviews of Kourosh Ahari's "The Night" and Andrew Davis' "Mentors—Tony & Santi."
Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done" is a splendid example of a movie not on autopilot. I bore my readers by complaining about how bored I am by formula movies that recycle the same moronic elements. Now here is a film where Udo Kier's eyeglasses are snatched from his pocket by an ostrich, has them yanked from the ostrich's throat by a farmhand, gets them back all covered with ostrich mucus, and tells the ostrich, "Don't you do that again!"
Meanwhile, there is talk about how the racist ostrich farmer once raised a chicken as big as, I think, 40 ordinary birds. What did he do with it? "Ate it. Sooner pluck one than forty." Knowing as I do that Herzog hates chickens with a passion beyond all reason, I flashed back to an earlier scene in which the film's protagonist talks with his scrawny pet flamingoes. Is a theme emerging here? And the flamingo who regards the camera with a dubious look, is it doing an imitation of the staring iguana in Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant?"
For me it hardly matters if a Herzog film provides conventional movie pleasures. Many of them do. "Bad Lieutenant," for example. "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done," on the other hand, confounds all convention and denies all expected pleasures, providing instead the delight of watching Herzog feed the police hostage formula into the Mixmaster of his imagination. It's as if he began with the outline of a stunningly routine police procedural and said to hell with it, I'm going to hang my whimsy on this clothesline.
He casts Willem Dafoe as his hero, a homicide detective named Hank Havenhurst. Dafoe is known for his willingness to embrace projects by directors who work on the edge. He is an excellent actor, and splendid here at creating a cop who conducts his job with tunnel vision and few expected human emotions. It is difficult to conceive of a police officer showing less response to a madman ostrich farmer.
His case involves a man named Brad McCullum, played by the inspired Michael Shannon as a man with an alarming stare beneath a lowering brow. He kills his mother with a wicked antique sword, as she sits having coffee with two neighbors. He likes to repeat "Razzle Dazzle," which reminded me of "Helter Skelter," and yes, the movie is "inspired by a true story." His mother (Grace Zabriskie) is a woman who is so nice she could, possibly, inspire murder, especially in a son who has undergone life-altering experiences in the Peruvian rain forest, as this one has--and why, you ask? For the excellent reason, I suspect, that Herzog could to great difficulty to revisit the Urubamba River in Peru, where he shot part of "Fitzcarraldo" (1982). Perhaps whenever he encounters an actor with alarming eyes, like Klaus Kinski or Shannon, he thinks, "I will put him to the test of the Urubamba River!"
Detective Havenhurst takes over a command center in front of the house where Brad is said to be holding two hostages (never seen), and interviews Brad's fiancée Ingrid (Chloe Sevigny) and his theater director, Lee Meyers (Udo Kier). Both tell him stories that inspire flashbacks. Indeed, most of the film involve flashbacks leading up to the moment when Brad slashed his mother. Ingrid is played by Sevigny as a dim, sweet young woman lacking all insight and instinct for self-protection, and Meyers is played by Kier as a man who is incredibly patient with Brad during rehearsals for the Greek tragedy, Elektra. That's the one where the son slays his mother.
The memories of Lee Meyers inspire the field trip to the ostrich farm run by Uncle Ted (Brad Dourif). If you've been keeping track, the film's cast includes almost only cult actors often involved with cult directors: Dafoe, Shannon, Sevigny, Kier, Dourif, Zabriskie, and I haven't even mentioned Oscar nominee Irma P. Hall and Gabriel Pimentel. Havenhurst's partner is played by Michael Pena, who is not a cult actor but plays one in this movie. Little jest. For that matter, the film's producer is David Lynch, one of the few producers who might think it made perfect sense that a cop drama set in San Diego would require location filming on the Urubamba River.
There is a scene in this movie that involves men who appear to be yurt dwellers from Mongolia, one with spectacular eyebrow hairs. I confess I may have had a momentary attention lapse, but I can't remember what they had to do with the plot. Still, I'll not soon forget those eyebrows, which is more than I can say for most scenes at the 60% mark in most cop movies. I am also grateful for two very long shots, one involving Grace Zabriskie and the other Gabriel Pimentel, in which they look at the camera for 30 or 40 seconds while flanked with Shannon and another one of the actors. These look like freeze frames, but you can see the actors moving just a little. What do these shots represent? Why, the director's impatience with convention, that's what.
I have now performed an excellent job of describing the movie. Can you sense why I enjoyed it? It you don't like it, you won't be able to claim I misled you. I rode on an ostrich once. Halfway between Oudtshoorn and the Cango Caves, it was.
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The Anti-Conservatives
That George W. Bush would seek to embed the Iraq War in the higher cause of global democracy was to be expected. That is the way of wartime presidents.
By late 1863, Lincoln's war to crush Southern secession was about whether "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall … perish from the earth." By 1917, the European war whose causes Wilson professed not to understand in 1916 had become "the war to end all wars" and to "make the world safe for democracy."
Leaders alchemize wars begun over lesser interests into epochal struggles for universal principles because only thus can they justify demands for greater sacrifices in blood and treasure. But Bush has gone Wilson one better. He is not only going to make the world safe for democracy, he is going to make the world democratic. Where Lincoln abolished slavery in the South, Bush is going to abolish tyranny from the earth: "So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world."
A conservative knows not whether to laugh or weep, for Mr. Bush has just asserted a right to interfere in the internal affairs of every nation on earth. Why? Because the "survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands." But this is utterly ahistorical. The world has always been afflicted with despots. Yet America has always been free. And we have remained free by following the counsel of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams and staying out of foreign quarrels and foreign wars.
Who is feeding the president this interventionist nonsense?
The president now plans to hector and badger foreign leaders on the progress each is making toward attaining U.S. standards of democracy. "We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and nation—the moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right." This is a formula for "Bring-it-on!" collisions with every autocratic regime on earth, including virtually every African and Arab ruler, all the "outposts of tyranny" named by Secretary Rice, most of the nations of Central Asia, China, and Russia. This is a prescription for endless war. Yet as Madison warned, "No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
Who and what converted a president who came to office with no knowledge of the world to the idea that only a global crusade for democracy could keep us secure? Answer: 9/11—and the neoconservatives.
In his inaugural address, Mr. Bush calls 9/11 the day "when freedom came under attack." This is sophomoric. Osama did not send fanatics to ram planes into the World Trade Center because he hates the Bill of Rights. He sent the terrorists here because he hates our presence and policies in the Middle East. He did it for the same reason FLN rebels blew up cafes in Paris and Hamas suicide bombers blow up pizza parlors in Jerusalem.
From the Battle of Algiers to the bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, from the expulsion of the Red Army by the mujahideen of Afghanistan to the expulsion of Israel from Lebanon by Hezbollah, guerrilla war and terror tactics have been the means Muslims have used to expel armies they could not defeat in conventional war.
The 9/11 killers were over here because we are over there. We were not attacked because of who we are but because of what we do. It is not our principles they hate. It is our policies. U.S. intervention in the Middle East was the cause of the 9/11 terror. Bush believes it is the cure. Has he learned nothing from Iraq?
In 2003, we invaded a nation that had not attacked us, did not threaten us, and did not want war with us to disarm it of weapons it did not have. Now, after plunging $200 billion and the lives of 1,400 of our best and bravest into this war and killing tens of thousands of Iraqis, we have reaped a harvest of hatred in the Arab world and, according to officials in our own government, have created a new nesting place and training ground for terrorists to replace the one we lately eradicated in Afghanistan.
Among those who have converted President Bush to the notion that without Arab democracy there can be no Mideast peace is Natan Sharansky, and much of what the famed Soviet dissident writes is undeniably true. Even inside the darkest despotism, people yearn for freedom. They hate tyranny and love liberty. They wish to live in lands that allow them to choose their own leaders. And as democratic rulers must return to the people for renewal of their mandates in free elections, they are more likely to seek the peace and prosperity their people desire. Thus, only democracy can pave the way to true peace and security. This is the message of Sharansky's Case for Democracy, which the president has embraced and encouraged all to read.
But what is often true is not always true, and U.S. foreign policy, which is to protect U.S. vital interests and the peace and freedom of Americans, cannot be rooted in the idealism of an ex-Soviet dissident or the ideology of neoconservatives who promised us a "cakewalk" in Iraq and assured us we would be welcomed with flowers. Sharansky notwithstanding, democracy is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition of America's peace and security, nor even of Israel's.
In 1967, David Ben-Gurion told Richard Nixon and this writer he hoped Nasser would survive Egypt's humiliation in the Six-Day War because only Nasser had the prestige to lead the Arabs to accept peace with Israel. Sadat was no democrat when Israel gave him back the Sinai and signed a peace. Arafat was no democrat when Rabin and Peres agreed to the Oslo Accords and shared a Nobel Prize with him. Assad was no democrat when Israel negotiated a truce with him on the Golan Heights. That truce has held. Nor was Khadafi a democrat when Bush agreed to lift sanctions imposed on Libya for the massacre of Pan Am 103 if Khadafi would surrender his weapons of mass destruction. Khadafi did, and Bush rightly claims this as a diplomatic success of his first term.
While it is true that the dictatorships of Franco, Pinochet, and Marcos gave way to democracies, that was not true of Batista, Somoza, or the Shah. When Carter undermined the Peacock Throne, we got the Ayatollah.
Urging Bush not to press Israel into making peace with the Palestinians until Palestine embraces democracy is a clever way to postpone peace indefinitely and let Israel expand its settlements and consolidate its hold over the West Bank and East Jerusalem. That may be in Israel's interest. But it is not in America's interest. Sharansky's idealism just happens to coincide with Sharon's agenda. Can President Bush not see this?
America has old friendships and important interests in the Middle East that cannot await the dawn of democracy in the 22 Arab states where it currently does not exist. We cannot make the best the enemy of the good. And if democracy means rule by the people, how enthusiastic should we be about its introduction into the Middle East? In 1991, Algerians were given a democratic vote—and elected an Islamist regime. The army intervened, igniting a civil war that left 100,000 dead. President Bush might ask his father why he did not speak up for Algerian democracy then.
Unlike Eastern Europe, where communism was imposed on Christian countries with traditions of self-rule, democracy never took root in the Arab lands of the caliphate. Thus King Farouk's ouster gave us Nasser. King Idris's ouster gave us Khadafi. And King Feisal's ouster gave us Saddam Hussein. How certain are we that if the kings of Morocco, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia fall, democracies will arise?
Given that the neocons were wrong on every count about Iraq, does Bush truly wish to gamble the Middle East on their confident predictions that, once the Arab monarchies fall, Western democracy will flourish among people who seem to revile Bush and revere Osama bin Laden?
After the shocked reaction in many quarters to the president's inaugural address, the White House, George H.W. Bush, and later the president himself hastened to explain that there was nothing new or radical in the speech. Perhaps a sense of reality has already begun to manifest itself.
We are simply not going to stop buying Saudi oil or cut off our $2 billion in annual aid to Egypt or sever relations with Musharraf or sanction a China that could sink the dollar because these regimes refuse to make the reforms Bush demands. It is not going to happen. President Bush will either wind up eating his overblown rhetoric or following it over the cliff and taking us with him.
America "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy," said John Quincy Adams, "She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." Under the tutelage of Jacobins who call themselves idealists, Bush has repudiated this wise core doctrine of U.S. foreign policy to embrace Wilsonian interventionism in the internal affairs of every autocratic regime on earth. We are going to democratize the world and abolish tyranny.
Giddy with excitement, the neocons are falling all over one another to hail the president. They are not conservatives at all. They are anti-conservatives, and their crusade for democracy will end as did Wilson's, in disillusionment for the president and tragedy for this country.


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Moccona Coffee in Quest for Romance
Moccona in Australia presents its special blend of coffee in a TV advertisement oozing with romance. In a sequence clearly borrowed from Cinderella, a suitor walks from door to door on a quest to find the woman who has the jar to match his glass lid. The handsome suitor walks from door to door, holding his Moccona jar, looking for the woman with the right glass lid. "Moccona – never settle for less than special."
Click on the image below to play the video.
The Quest was developed at M&C Saatchi, Sydney, by creative director Ben Welsh, art director Michael Jones, copywriter Lizzie O'Hara-Boyce, agency producer Rod James.
Filming was shot on location in Montevideo, Uruguay, by Noah Marshall via The Sweet Shop, with director of photography Ian McCarroll, and producer Tony Whyman.
Post production was done at Digipost and Fin Design in New Zealand.
Music was composed for the spot by Elliott Wheeler via Nylon Studios, Sydney. Copies of the sheet music can be obtained by visiting the Nylon Studios site and emailing Mark.
Moccona is a brand of coffee produced by the Dutch corporation Douwe Egberts and popular in Australia and New Zealand. The coffee is regarded as one of the superior brands in the market. In my household Moccona jars are kept to store nuts and confectionery. The lid does look as though as it could have been formed by the sea.
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Tagged: Ben Welsh, Digipost, Elliott Wheeler, Ian McCarroll, Lizzie O'Hara Boyce, M&C Saatchi, Michael Jones, Noah Marshall, Nylon Studios, The Sweet Shop
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Letters | Road crews, treasurer's office, Creationism
Frightful weather
"Oh, the weather outside is frightful!" But thanks to all the hard-working Metro road crews, driving is not so much. They have done a wonderful job in keeping the streets open and drivable. They work long hours and drive on roads when the snow and ice is at their worst and would make most of us shiver and cringe.
So far this has been a terrible winter, with more to come. So when you are on a road that is clear of ice and snow give a thought to those who have made it that way.
Louisville 40242 –
Treasurer's office
I would like Sen. Chris McDaniel to explain how moving a group of people from one agency to another will save $600,000. It seems to me to cut costs you have to cut employees, not move them around like chess pieces. I wonder where he got his economic education, but nothing state officials tell the public surprises me.
Louisville 40241 –
Creationism debate
The debate over creationism vs. evolution brings up another controversial issue, and that is Common Core. Columnist George Will, state Sen. Ernie Harris, R-Crestwood, and their ilk would have you believe that this is an attempt of big government to control the local education systems. Not surprisingly, we didn't hear a single objection several years ago when the Common Core standards for Math and Language Arts were finalized.
But, when the newer science standards mandate that students look at all interactions that affect climate or the evidence of evolution, a government conspiracy plot is devised and promoted by Will, Harris, et al to obfuscate the influence of big money and radical religion. There was another time in history when science was disparaged by religious zealots.
Galileo was branded a heretic for using his telescope to prove Copernicus' observations that the universe did not rotate around the Earth. After years of forced belief in biblical interpretation, the observed facts of a heliocentric universe were finally taught as scientific reality. How many years are we going to deny scientific observation this time? Why are we holding education hostage to the will of a radical few? Hopefully the House and the Senate will back Gov. Steve Beshear and adopt the Common Core standards the have been established by the educators in many states.
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County offers loans for first-time homebuyers
The El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency is offering low-interest rate deferred payment loans to first-time eligible homebuyers in the unincorporated areras of El Dorado County.
The First Time Homebuyer Loan Program recently received approval for $800,000 from the State's Home Investment Partnerships Program fund. Funding for the program is provided through the California Department of Housing and Community Development State's Home Investment Partnerships Program and the county's revolving housing loan fund.
Eligible applicants must provide a downpayment, the greater of $2,500 or 2 percent based on the purchase price of a home. Individuals must also qualify for a fixed-rate 30-year first mortgage through a commercial lender and have a total household income at or below 80 percent of the local median income based on household size. With a few exceptions, eligible applicants cannot have owned a home or been on title to real property within the last three years. Current annual maximum household income limits are: one person, $42,650; two persons, $48,750; three persons, $54,850; four persons, $60,900; five persons, $65,800; six persons, $70,650; seven persons, $75,550; eight persons, $80,400.
The county's First Time Homebuyer Loan Program is designed as a gap financing program for applicants who would not qualify for a bank loan sufficient to purchase a home due to limited income. The loan program includes loan amounts up to $80,000 at 3 percent interest with payments deferred for 30 years. Loans are available while funding lasts to eligible buyers on a first-come, first-served basis after completing an application process.
For more information, visit edcgov.us or call the El Dorado County Housing, Community and Economic Development Block Grant Programs at 530-642-4864.
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School starts on Monday, and with it comes a brand new set of graduation requirements for all first year students. The new requirement that most affects me is the required Argument and Inquiry seminars that all first year students take in their first term at college, and this seminar includes the first cross-curricular mandatory information literacy requirement we've ever had.
Obviously I'd think this is a good thing. But what I hadn't realized was what I'd find most good about this good thing: the major pay-off of this new requirement may be the conversations I've had with several faculty in the last couple of months as they develop their A&I seminars for this fall. Just the fact that the seminars are new and that they're a little intimidating to teach means that we've felt at liberty to completely mess with "normal."
"What if we do away with the 'library class,'" I ask, and they don't look at me like I'm growing horns. They say, "What would that look like?"
Another professor came to see if I thought she was completely bonkers for wanting me to come in 4 or 5 times for 15-20 minutes each rather than just once, and I could say "Not at all! Here are the kinds of ways we're doing that with these other classes."
And these are professors I've never worked with before and professors I've worked with consistently over the years — creative and thoughtful professors, all — but it feels totally different because we're both pretty uncertain about how we'll make these seminars work. We're brainstorming and upending the status quo with wild abandon, and nothing feels taboo. And sometimes we settle back on a format similar to the more normal class: assignment-specific instruction for 50 minutes. But when we do, we do so with more confidence that this format suites the course's learning goals rather than just being What We've Done Before.


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"I Pledge to Be of Service to Barack Obama"
Michelle Malkin beat me to this story, but it bears repeating. So too does the accompanying video, especially at about the 3:15 mark. This is almost certainly not analogous to what the president will ask for in his address to students, but as you read the guidance given to schools by the U.S. Department of Education, it seems a heck of a lot closer than anyone should ever be comfortable with.


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While a day late (I'm always running late), I thought this would be an appropriate post for National Running Day. These are just some of the thoughts that go through my mind as I run.
To run or not to run
Sitting on the couch, outfitted in my running clothes, I have visions of Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. "He'll keep calling meeee….I'll go.I'll go….I'll go"
Trying to motivate myself, I pull my sluggish body off of the couch, "I'll go. I'll go….I'll go!"
Slowly I walk to the end of the block to my starting point – the stop sign. I bargain with myself, "One lap; that's all you need to do. Just get through one lap. One point eight miles – you can do it. Easy."
Ipod shuffle. Check. Shoes laced. Check. Deodorant. Check. Let's go.
0.5 miles
The weather is great today. That rain really cooled things down. Nice breeze going, lightly blowing against my face. Ohhh… here comes a guy running the other way. OK, pick up the pace a bit. Look like you know what you're doing here. Look like you're an avid runner. Wave back. Smile and head nod. OK, he's gone. Slooowww back down. Back to the agony.
1.0 miles
I hate the first mile. Man, this hurts. Where is that runner that was training for the half marathon? I liked her. She was smooth, strong, … confident. Where did this jiggly, spastic stride come from? Awww, what a cute dog. THEY won yard of the month? Would fajitas be good for dinner?
1.5 miles
OK, now I'm finding my stride! This isn't so bad. I am an efficient running machine! Breathe in, breathe out…breathe in, breathe out. Relax your arms and shoulders. Ohhh…I like this song! I think I'll speed up the pace a bit.
1.8 miles
OH MY GOD – that's the longest song EVER! I hate that song! Fast forward. OK, coming up on one lap. How do I feel? Should I go for one more? Lungs, how're you holding up?
"We're a little tight, but holding on! Keep going!"
"Still pumping away! Keep going!"
"We're just getting warmed up down here! Keep going!"
All right, knees you're the weak link in the system. How are things with you guys?
"Wee'r givin' 'er all she's got Capt'n but I don' know how much longer she'll hold."
(Why my knees sound like Scotty from Star Trek I don't know, but it makes me smile.)
Consensus – Keep going!
2.0 miles
Here comes the guy again. Head nod. Smile. I wish he would quit passing me! It's hard to keep this pace up.
2.5 miles
I'm really finding my stride today. This actually feels great. How about adding a little speed work? Ok, sprint to the end of the street. Ready…Go!
2.7 miles
Ouch. That hurt.
3.0 miles
I'm rounding the last corner. Only half a mile to go. Relax the arms and shoulders. OK, time to trade out my tired legs for "NEW LEGS". Commence with Operation New Legs.
3.4 miles
Bring it on HOME. Strong finish…The stop sign is only a few feet away now. I think I can, I think I can!
3.5 miles
Wow – what a high! I feel amazing! The runner's still in there – I just had to dig a little for her. I feel like I could conquer the world right now! All right stop-sign, same time tomorrow. See you then.


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We watched with a straight male this time! Alex M. fills us in on his thoughts. With LC, street fashion expert extraordinaire, plus the usual suspects.
9:00 pm Now, just catch the hottest women in the world.
What is this Black Swan revamp? It's like last year is over again.
I believe these girls are supermodels in the only sense that supermodels exist right now. It is like the '80s again.
9:01 pm And the ballet theme continues. Molly: Is this happening right now?
A mad yell about Bey is heard 'round the world!
They are blurring out the first models ass! Let me know if the internet has a pic, I couldn't find it. I believe she was wearing some sort of yellow bottoms.
9:03 pm
True Blood is here. Don't worry, this show is now officially sexy.
They are editing like they have ADD.
LC: Can you imagine being orlando bloom BTW?
9:06 pm Model: "The moment I stood on the runway, I felt like I became a woman."
9:07 pm Karlie Kloss, 19-year-old first timer, is the American Dream y'all. AND THEN SHE SAYS THAT SHE'S LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM. Karlie, you and I = same mind.
9:09 pm Kanye talks about how he was supposed to be here in 2007 to sing this Daft Punk song. A. That was a really long time ago. B. Way to make it a downer.
Superheroes is a cool choice. Molly: This is like a retro little boys dream.
LC: Love Chanel's ombre hair.
9:16 pm "Seductive latin spanish references."
LeeAnn Rimes what? Where is Eddie? Did Brandi have him for the night?
Alex: All the guys behind the scenes are bald black guys with British accents.
It's whats his face from the Britney video and the other movie where he maybe died? Stephen Dorf?
9:20 pm Oh my gosh pictures of us when we didnt have these tits! Alex M.: I had no idea how hot I was going to become.
Alessandra wanted to be a doctor and an astronaut. Don't worry, you basically made it.
"It seems like another life, these pictures."
9:22 pm Anne v. and Maroon 5 sex it up AGAIN. To be coming.
This slower commerical is really sexy in a different way. And this CBS happy holidays commercial is super cute.
9:28 pm "It's just like a beautiful fantasy." My beautiful dark twisted fantasy?
This flashback of previous years is just making me miss previous years.
Why am I so attracted to Adam Levine; he has a tattoo of los angeles on his arm. And his girlfriend looks like she has no neck with this outfit, I would sue.
9:33 pm I would have worn the shit out of this outfit when I was a kid.
9:40 pm Jay Z. thanks for bringing the a game two-thirds of the way through the show.
Alex: Are they going to show Beyonce here? I draw lifeforce from her.
I love Kanye's leather leggings.
"There's more to meet the eye" with VS.
Alex: Yea, just look down.
9:44 pm ERIN the angel is extremely intelligent so we'll put her in glasses and with an iPad that says "I Heart Geeks."
Steamy sultry turn of the century New Orleans meets antebellum mixed with boudoir.
9:46 pm I love those pink leather gloves.
9:52 pm NEON. PINK, despite the fact that they insist on calling it "Club Pink", is always the best, plus they have Nicki Minaj, who is definitely hungover, because these vocals are not their strongest.
9:57 pm Of course they end on Gaga "Born This Way."
LC: I mean, it's so unfair that they were born that way. Not to ruin it.


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Among the things that happened this past week in the American Restoration Heritage history:
April 26
April 26, 1885 – Two months after her death at the age of fifty-three, a women's missionary society in the Restoration Heritage today honors the memory of the first female editor of a paper within our tribe. Over the course of 20+ years, Marcia Melissa (Bassett) Goodwin had edited several papers: The Christian Monitor (the first paper among us designed exclusively for women), Mother's Monitor, Ladies Christian Monitor, Christian Companion, and Missionary Tidings.
Marcia was married twice. Her first husband, Orson Rodolphus Colgrove, a sheriff, was murdered in 1869, the chief suspects in the case being the Ku Klux Klan. Her second husband, Elijah Goodwin, was a quite influential pioneer evangelistic preacher in our heritage in Indiana, well known for his skills in persuasion. And yet, Elijah struggled with how a lack of deep unity among us often impaired our witness. He once put it like this:
"We have said more on this subject than any other people during the last quarter of a century, and yet we do not exhibit to the world any more of that union than we ought."
April 27
April 27, 1865 – Today, the worst maritime disaster in the history of the United States takes place on the flood-swollen Mississippi River and it's all about greed. Some of those killed are of the Restoration Heritage, as are some of those who survive, and it is a family with deep roots in the Restoration Heritage that is instrumental in saving the lives of no small number of the survivors.
The U.S. government is offering money for safe passage of every Union soldier recently liberated from Confederate POW camps in the South to Northern soil. The amount offered is five dollars per enlisted man and ten dollars for each officer. The greed of a Union officer with a strong say as to the transport of the men, Lt. Colonel Reuben Hatch, and the Captain of the steamboat Sultana, J. Cass Mason, leads to the placement of 2,350 people (2,150 of them ex-POWs) on a craft rated to safely ferry less than 400. On this trip, literally every available square foot of room on the ship is occupied by human flesh.
During the trip up river, just a few miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, one of the Sultana's boilers, hastily patched up recently rather than truly repaired, explodes. The explosion of that boiler is quickly followed by the explosion of two more. As a result, whether due to the effects of the explosions, the ensuing fires, or by drowning in the waters of the mighty Mississippi, 1,800 of the 2,350 aboard die. Captain Mason is among the dead.
The vast majority of the ex-POWs aboard the Sultana are from states in which members of Restoration Heritage churches are numerous: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Consequently, a number of the fatalities, as well as the survivors, are of our tribe. For example, we know that John C. Maddex of the U.S., 54th Indiana Infantry is one of those who survives today's disaster and it is Maddex, who, years after the war, is a founding member of a Restoration Heritage church in Paynesville, Indiana.
While rescue efforts come to pass through the efforts of many, no small number of those who survive are saved through the efforts of members of a well-known Restoration Heritage family in that area, the Bartons, who are also married into another Restoration Heritage family, the Edmunds.
April 28
April 28, 1772 – Abner Jones, a man born today in Royalton (Worcester County), Massachusetts, reminds us to not be too smug about our religious ancestors. Those who comprised the leadership and membership of the Stone-Campbell Movement are anything but alone in attempts in the United Sates in the 1800's to "restore primitive Christianity." To leave man-made traditions and to seek Scripture alone as guide does not mean people will arrive at the same understanding of Scripture or the same practice of expression of Christian faith. The ministry of Abner Jones, an associate by the name of Elias Smith, and the "Christian Connection" alone is proof enough of the point.
In 1791, years before the Stone-Campbell Movement grows legs and in an entirely different neck of the woods (New England), Abner Jones takes up preaching. However, as he preaches, he seeks to be "just a Christian," totally free and independent of denominational creeds, doctrines, and ties. In his quest to do such, Jones jettison's his Calvinist upbringing, including such matters as unconditional election and predestination. He plants several churches and these churches establish ties with each other, becoming known simply as the "Christian Connection." Elias Smith assists in the development of this ministry, but will eventually leave the Christian Connection in 1817 to join the Universalist faith.
In years to come, Christian Connection churches often sprout up in the same fields that Stone-Campbell churches are often found growing. However, while those of the Christian Connection share a number of things in common with the Stone-Campbell churches, matters both great and small, they differ enough that they do not unite. They both seek to be independent of man-made teaching and to be guided solely by Scripture, but they approach the process differently and so, arrive at different conclusions One example of difference is that Christian Connection churches are not minded to practice weekly communion, practicing quarterly observance instead, something Stone-Campbell churches cannot abide.
As time rolls on, the Christian Connection evolves. Ultimately, it merges with the Congregational Church in 1931 and then later with the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957, and so, comes to form the group known today as the United Church of Christ.
April 29
April 29, 1820 – Today, a man is born in New York who will come to offer the church a unique evangelistic tool, and it is the very production of this tool that perhaps reveals to us some of the state of mind of not just that man, but a large portion of a movement. The man's name is Montgomery C. ("M.C.") Tiers and he will become a preacher within the Restoration Heritage.
Remarkably, it is during the third year of the American Civil War (1864) that Tiers edits and publishes a 289 page book entitled The Christian Portrait Gallery: Consisting of Historical and Biographical Sketches and Photographic Portraits of Christian Preachers and Others. Of course, given the war, there would be no chance for such a work to originate in the South, much less for it to acquire any real success in terms of circulation there. This work is published in the North, in Cincinnati, Ohio, with expectations of its widest circulation being in the North.
Close to forty pages of text open the work and attempt to sketch with words something of what Restoration Heritage churches are about; what life as member of such a church is like. For example, the work contains the following snapshot of precisely how, as we say today, people "officially place membership" with a specific congregation:
"New Members
"As soon as expedient after immersion, the new disciple is expected to present himself to some particular congregation for membership; and he is received into the communion of the Church by the right hand of fellowship, presented by either one of the elders in behalf of the congregation, or by the entire membership in person. The latter is the usual method, but there are some exceptions in favor of the former."
The textual portrait of Restoration Heritage church life is followed by pictures and textual abstracts of sixty preachers, none of whom are under the age of forty. Who to include, and who not to include, in such a work? Some of the preachers who make appearance are people we would expect to see, their names still instantly recognized by many today (e.g. – Alexander Campbell, Sr., Thomas Campbell, Walter Scott, Barton W. Stone, Sr., etc.). Naturally, others are figures not nearly so well remembered now (e.g. – A. Chatterton, George Elley, Almon B. Green, Eleazar Parmlay, etc.). Doing so politely, without naming names, Tiers notes in the book's preface: "One or two well-known brethren, whose prominent positions and increasing influence are highly appreciated by the writer, as they are by brethren at large, have, after repeated importunities, 'respectfully declined' representation among 'distinguished brethren.'"
I find Tiers' book intriguing. Not so much for its content, but for its approach … and what it might be saying about the times in which the book appeared. Is it possible that Tiers' book includes more pictures than Tiers intended to share? That is, is it simply an evangelistic tool best used in the hands of those who are a bit more well-to-do with those who, being yet to believe, are also a bit more well off in society (i.e. – a tool the well-heeled and/or prosperous can use to reach the skeptical prosperous)? Or does this book's very existence also portray a growing desire on the part of Restoration Heritage members for more respectability in society, representing a distinct turn from standing against culture to a stance seeking more acceptance by it? Is there a growing restless in the Restoration Heritage, at least in the northern half of the country at that time, to make sure that those with whom they interact know that they are not composed of merely – to borrow a phrase from the KJV in Acts 4.13 – "unlearned and ignorant men?"
The work is clearly at pains at times to "dress up" the Heritage's preachers in finer duds. For example, while "Raccoon" John Smith is included among the sixty, his nickname is not published, but reads instead (perhaps in our eyes today even worse!), "R***** John Smith." And, in several remarks in the preface, Tiers is quite revealing, the following serving as an example:
"… this work is written with reference to its influence on the 'uninformed' world, rather than of the Church. I have desired to let the 'world' know, what I am entirely conscious is the fact, that the Gospel which we preach has not been received simply by the ignorant, illiterate, and rude of this generation, but that many of the highly-gifted and influential of our age have been constrained, by the weight of the evidence, to yield assent to its claims, and to devote themselves to ministry. Feeling conscious of this, I am willing and desirous that the character and extent of our success as a people shall be made known everywhere through the persons, lives, and characters of those who have been the instruments."
Is such an approach a good one? Or is it one of the reasons some "well-known brethren … respectfully declined" to participate? We're left to wonder, but it is not at all difficult to imagine the possibilities.
And so, we're moved to ask today: can efforts to extend the good news of Christ to others actually be motivated by, and morph into, the bad news of the church seeking the world's acceptance … and the church being utterly blind to it in all in the process? And if so, when and where exactly is the tipping point reached, and how can we discern its placement, lest we possibly go past the point of no return?
April 30
April 30, 1863 – Today, a preacher preaches a strong word that still needs to be heard.
"The rude and denunciatory style of political discussion, the irreverent and oft-times slanderous attacks on our rulers – such as the Bible will not allow to be employed against the devil himself* – ought to be religiously discountenanced. Prayer, earnest and affectionate, should be constantly offered for those in authority, particularly in these perilous times."
So preached Isaac Errett today – a Thursday – to all assembled in a Restoration Heritage church building in Detroit, Michigan. Errett's sermon is entitled "The Claims of Civil Government" and the occasion is the fact that today, by resolution of the U.S. Senate and by proclamation of the President, Abraham Lincoln, is a day "set apart … for National prayer and humiliation." The proclamation reads:
"Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
"And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
"And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
"It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
"Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
"All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
"In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. …
"By the President: Abraham Lincoln
"William H. Seward, Secretary of State."
It must be remembered in our time, that at that time, in many quarters, not merely the South, Lincoln was anything but popular. Indeed, he was despised by many in the North. That revulsion and hatred will grow all the more bitter and intense the following year (1864) as Lincoln signs off on "total warfare" (i.e. – General Sherman's infamous "March to the Sea"). Even the one who signed this proclamation with him, William Seward, frequently and vigorously – some might say viciously – disagreed with him and opposed him. One need only peruse the political cartoons of the time to get a feel for the sort of speech that was common on the street … the very sort of speech upon which Errett took careful aim and fired.
Wouldn't you like to know how Errett's words were received and if they drew any return fire? What sort of personal price, great or small, did Errett pay to say such, if any? I don't know, though I do know his sermon is still in publication in paperback today. And wouldn't you really like to know if anyone really changed their words and ways as a result of Errett's sermon? But, God alone knows. I like to think that even if Errett had known ahead of time the worst possible scenario, that these words would fall on deaf ears and no one would make any change at all, he would still have proclaimed them.
And so, three questions come to mind. (1) Are we preachers today as quick, clear, and courageous as Errett to confront similar sin from our pulpit when we know that many of our people daily mock and revile President Barak Obama, and/or other government authorities? (2) If we heard such words in a sermon, could/would we truly hear them deeply, and then go on to change our spirit and speech? (3) Would we strongly encourage and support our preacher in speaking to us words of truth forthrightly, in love, on every subject, including this one?
May 1
* May 1, 1866 – The founding editor of what is to become the flagship publication of our heritage tells us why the paper exists.
Today, Tolbert Fanning reveals to us the driver behind the publication of the Gospel Advocate (GA). Fanning founded the GA and served as its editor from its start in 1855 until November 1861, at which time the Civil War caused it to shut down for a time. When the GA resumed publication in 1866, Fanning co-edited the paper with David Lipscomb. In the GA, Fanning tells us:
"The fact that we had not a single paper known to us that the Southern people could read without having their feelings wounded by political insinuations and slurs, had more to do with calling the Advocate into existence, than all other circumstances combined."
* May 1, 1870 – Church raffles, lotteries, and auctions are innocent, harmless affairs, actually even helpful, to a church, right?
"Wrong!" says "C.C.L." in an article appearing in The Millenial Harbinger under the title "Religious Fairs." After a lengthy quotation of condemnation of such by a secular paper, C.C.L. adds his own remarks, some of which read:
"It is sad to think that with many Christian people, and in many churches, the scandalous exhibition of raffling, lotteries, mock auctions, or real ones, selling things often utterly useless or ten times their sale value, together with the endless, ridiculous maneuvers, chicaneries and trumperies, – are not in themselves sufficient to show the utter unfitness of such practices in the church, or for the purposes of the church of Christ. …
"It is the old strategy of the temptation in the wilderness over again – evermore repeated through the ages. Every ingenious device is to be borrowed from the world and used to make up for the deficiencies of the divine arrangements, in order to make religion more attractive and more successful than the New Testament order makes it. We see this all around, and often very near us. – We will not 'assist,' as the French say, that is, give our presence and countenance, at the unlawful marriage of the church and the world … or pray over it. We find daily more and more, that what is needed – we say we feel it, – is a strong, vigilant resistance against the besieging temptation of worldliness around the gates of the church."
Who is C.C.L.? The man Alexander Campbell considered to be the finest student/scholar with whom he ever had dealings in his school, Bethany College: Charles Louis Loos.
May 2
May 2, 1611 – Which translation of the Bible is a preacher or teacher to use, and should its acceptance, or lack thereof, help determine the selection? Is there "a right one" and just who is to hold court to decide the matter?
Today, the version of the Bible that those of us with a few gray hairs have heard some of our fellow church members say "was good enough for Jesus and the apostles and so, should be good enough for us today," makes its publishing debut.
One of the factors that helps the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) to ascend to dominance in the field is that it is deliberately translated for how it will sound when read aloud. That is, one of its translators' foremost concerns is that it is worded in such a way as to strongly appeal to the ear. Further, the translators choose to utilize many words no longer commonly in use during their time (e.g. – "thou," "sayeth," etc.). Why? So as to help convey the impression that the Bible is indeed an old authority, lest their fresh rendering of it be perceived as "some new thing" and be rejected.
However, the KJV is largely rejected during its first few decades of existence; the older and well-established Geneva Bible is perceived as better than this new creation. However, the KJV eventually ascends to the translation throne and secures it from any potential rivals. Its reign is measured not in decades, but centuries.
Now language is a very fluid thing; it is constantly changing. And by 1826, the English language has changed a great deal since the time of the KJV's first publication. Those of the Restoration Heritage are not immune to the effects of this change and so, when Alexander Campbell edits and publishes the New Testament known as the Living Oracles (LO), he does so largely out of frustration with how the KJV's language has come to obscure the meaning of Scripture. But, similar to the KJV, the LO is not widely adopted by the rank-and file members of the Restoration Heritage, even though it is often utilized by preachers and respected church leaders. No small number of folks in the crowds and in the pews are somewhat suspicious of, even rebellious against, any change in which version of the Bible appears to hold sway.
One example will suffice. John Augustus Williams, an early chronicler of the experiences of pioneer preacher "Racoon" John Smith, tells us of some of the trials Smith faced – literally – because he dared to make use of something other than the KJV:
"For the mere reading of that book [LO] John Smith was arraigned before the North District Association in 1827. He was formally charged not only with reading it in his family, but actually quoting it from the pulpit. During the discussion of that serious charge, some of the good old preachers present declared King James' Bible to be the only true word of God. John Smith in reply expressed his deep sympathy for the poor Dutch, who consequently had no word of God among them, and could not read it if they had. A prominent clergyman had, just before this, obtained a copy of the book, and, having read it, atoned for his offense by piously burning it to ashes."
Some things never change – including the natural tendency to resist change.


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While I've never even seen an Internet clip of his high school highlights, I get the feeling that adding safety Terrel Smith (5-feet-10, 185 pounds) to Colorado's football recruiting class more than two weeks after signing day will turn out to be a feel-good story.
Smith, from Passaic (N.J.) County Tech, has a bio that leads me to believe he is a ballplayer – having recorded 100 tackles and three interceptions on defense as a senior, along with rushing for 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns on offense.
For defense, he earned third-team all-New Jersey honors. Those that believe those are rather modest credentials should know that New Jersey has become an absolute hotbed for football talent.
Did you know that the Garden State produced seven first-round selections in the 2009 NFL Draft? Yes, seven. One of the players from New Jersey high schools that went in the opening round was none other than Denver Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno (No. 12 pick, from the University of Georgia).
Others were Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle Eugene Monroe (No. 8, Virginia), Green Bay Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji (No. 9, Boston College), New Orleans Saints cornerback Malcolm Jenkins (No. 14, Ohio State), Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing (No. 15, Southern Cal), Indianapolis Colts running back Donald Brown (No. 27, Connecticut) and Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt (No. 30, Rutgers).
Smith joins another New Jersey native in CU's 2010 recruiting class, running back Tony Jones of Don Bosco Prep.
"I am going to Colorado and bring that 'New Jersey attitude,' '' Smith told Rivals.com.
Smith believes he did not receive any offers on national signing day from major-college schools because his high school typically is not recruited heavily. Often, when a defensive back is overlooked it's because he lacks top-level speed, although Smith did run track. (New Jersey also is underrated in producing track athletes. Anybody remember Carl Lewis?).
We'll see what happens with Smith. My guess is he becomes a contributor, maybe even an impact player. I just get that feeling.


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Alibaba IPO Could Spark E-Commerce Investment Surge
Apr 17, 2014 6:45 AM PT
Whether Alibaba launches its IPO on April 21 or in the following days, it clearly will be a major event for Wall Street. By any measure, it will be a blockbuster.
The company will raise up to US$15 billion in the offering, which would place its value at $200 billion, based on investor community scuttlebutt. These are not unrealistic numbers. The company reportedly posts more revenue and net income than Amazon and eBay combined.
Yahoo, a partial owner in Alibaba, provided a glimpse into just how robust Alibaba is in its latest quarterly report.
Alibaba posted $1.4 billion in profit for its fourth quarter, doubling what it earned in the same period the previous year. Its revenue rose by 66 percent, reaching close to $3.1 billion.
Who Wins?
Wall Street, understandably, is salivating at the impending event.
Other highly interested players include Yahoo, which owns a 24 percent stake in the company and is obliged to sell about half of that, or 10 percent of Alibaba's shares, in the IPO.
"The impact will be huge for Yahoo shareholders," Charles Sizemore, a portfolio manager on Covestor, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Subtracting its cash in the bank and its Alibaba stake, the market is awarding Yahoo a valuation of close to zero. Why? Outside of Alibaba, Yahoo's revenues are skimpy. Yahoo commands about 4 percent of the online ad market, vs. over 50 percent for Google," he pointed out.
There could be a renaissance of sorts in e-commerce investment if the Alibaba IPO does as well as it is expected to.
"There's been a waning interest and enthusiasm from the investment community in e-commerce businesses and marketplaces," Jerry Jao, CEO of Retention Science, told the E-Commerce Times. "Fab.com is a good example, as is eBay, which hasn't grown much in recent years. Similarly, flash sites have plateaued because the lack of financial successes and the overall market glut."
If you think about it, Jao continued, other than Zulily, there hasn't been much momentum in the e-commerce sector since Zappos.
"Alibaba's IPO may just turn that around," he said, "by helping to build excitement and a renewed confidence among the investment community that extends down the line."
The Competition
On the other side of the spectrum are Alibaba's would be competitors -- eBay and Amazon, as well as numerous small and middle-tier companies.
Will Alibaba take away marketshare from these companies? Or will it lead to greater innovation and competitiveness on the part of Alibaba's U.S. counterparts? The answer may hinge on whether Alibaba get past its lack of name and brand recognition among U.S. consumers.
It most likely can -- but not right away and not without a lot of effort, suggested Michael Harvey, Chief Operating Officer at Corra.
"Merely pointing out that Alibaba's sales trump those of Amazon's and eBay's misses the point," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Amazon and eBay have tremendous brands built up over a long period of time. With the IPO cash in its pocket, Alibaba certainly will have resources to invest in building a brand in the U.S. and Europe, but it will take time."
Alibaba will have to compete on price to grab marketshare from Amazon, Harvey said.
"This will undoubtedly put downward pressure on online prices, which will in turn continue to put pricing pressure everywhere else in the retail landscape," he predicted.
Ironically, the winners in this scenario likely will be large players like Amazon and Walmart, as well as companies that have very strong brands sold to loyal customers -- Alibaba's competition, in other words.
Alibaba's greatest potential weakness may be that it lacks the chops to compete in the U.S. market.
"They've had the wind at their back with a huge-protected market," noted Harvey. "They will now need to innovate, not just imitate."
A Global Play?
Not everyone sees the Alibaba IPO as an event of biblical proportions, however.
"The IPO will help Alibaba to strengthen its position in China, but unless Amazon and eBay are planning a huge expansion there, the biggest effect of the Alibaba IPO will be to enrich Alibaba shareholders," said Peter Cohan of Peter Cohan & Associates.
On the other hand, "Alibaba's interests in China are much wider than eBay's," noted Usha Haley, a professor at West Virginia University and co-author of The Chinese Tao of Business and Subsidies to Chinese Industry.
They "include banking, maps, cloud computing [and] online music, as well as TV and film production," she told the E-Commerce Times. The Alibaba IPO could well become a global play with ramifications in multiple industries.


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