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DENVER—Gun-rights activists in Colorado turned in petition signatures Monday to set up the first recall in state history of a state lawmaker after he backed some of the strictest gun control measures to become law in the U.S. this year.
The opponents of Democratic Senate President John Morse said they turned in twice as many signatures as needed Monday to put Morse back on the ballot. Carting white paper boxes of petitions, the gun-rights advocates said Morse will pay for backing a series of gun control measures that were signed into law earlier this year.
"This shot will be heard around the world," said Bill Adaska, a retired engineer from Denver who volunteered to gather recall signatures in Morse's Colorado Springs district. "This is the race, right here, that's going to show Washington and Chicago that when you come after our guns, we're going to take you out."
Adaska is referring to a gun-control package that made Colorado the first state outside the East Coast to significantly ratchet back gun rights after last year's mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Mass. The Colorado package included expanded background checks to include private and online gun sales, plus a 15-round limit on most types of ammunition magazines.
Morse backed the gun control measures, and sponsored an even stricter measure to gun owners liable in some cases for damage caused by their weapons. Morse scuttled that liability measure when it appeared it didn't have enough support to clear the Senate.
A defiant Morse responded Monday to the recall petition by insisting he won't resign and that national gun groups have targeted him in an effort to scare politicians nationwide away from addressing gun control.
"This turns into a national race," Morse predicted.
Even if he loses his seat, Morse said, the gun measures were too important not to adopt after a bloody 2012. He insisted that he's never aspired to another office and wouldn't mind losing his political career over the gun bills.
"Keeping Coloradans safe from gun violence is very worth your political career," Morse told reporters.
Talking about last year's Connecticut school shooting, Morse added, "We had 20 6-year-olds shot in the face, and we have the other side arguing we should do nothing, and I'm sorry, that doesn't cut it."
The National Rifle Association sent a political mailer in support of the Morse recall effort. However, recall supporters insisted the effort was home-grown and conducted without national support. They hired petition gatherers, and local gun shops contributed firearms and ammunition to reward people who volunteered gathering petition signatures.
"I ran this campaign. The NRA did not run this campaign," said Rob Harris, organizer of the recall effort. "We the people are making a stand against the people who refused to represent their constituents."
Morse, a former police chief, is term limited and has one year left in office. If Republicans pick up his seat, Democrats would still control the Senate, in addition to the House and the governor's office.
The Colorado Secretary of State has 15 business days to verify signatures. After that, Morse has a period of time to challenge signatures before a recall election is set. The latest possible date for a Morse recall vote would be early October.
No state lawmaker in Colorado history has ever faced a recall vote. The special election would ask whether Morse should be recalled, and if so, who should replace him. Voters would answer both questions, though the second wouldn't be counted if Morse holds on.
Any candidate with 1,000 signatures could make that second part of the ballot, except the incumbent, opening the door for a Democratic candidate as a replacement. Democrats hold a narrow registration advantage in the district.
Gun-rights activists are still working to recall another Democrat, Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo. Signatures in that effort aren't due until next week.
Recall efforts against two other Democratic lawmakers who backed gun control have already fizzled for lack of support.
If this year's efforts against Morse and Giron succeed, they would be the first lawmakers to face recall votes since Colorado adopted the recall in 1912, said Joshua Spivak, who tracks recall elections nationwide at the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College in New York.
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They say nothing happens by chance. In 1779, fire broke out in the Eszterházy Castle in Fertőd. The Chinese ballroom and the famous theatre hall both burned to the ground, but, in a manner verging on the miraculous, the fire did not reach Haydn's living quarters. The fateful event occurred just a few weeks before the premiere of The Deserted Island. Had the fire done more damage, we would never have known about this royal Robinson Crusoe tale of misunderstanding, along with who knows how many other works.
Haydn. When we hear his name, we think of symphonies, string quartets, and perhaps oratorios. Operas do not come tomind so much, even though he wrote 15 of them. This season, audiences will be able to watch the fourteenth of these, performed on the mini-stage on the Royal Staircase in a production by the Moltopera under the direction of a young talent, Zsófi Geréb.
"Abandoned by the traitor Gernando, Costanza lived and died here alone, on this deserted shore. Lost traveller! Unless you be a tiger, avenge me or weep over my fate with me!" - reads Costanza's epitaph, written in her own hand, at the start of the work. Thirteen years earlier she had stopped off at the uninhabited island with her husband, Gernando, for a rest. The husband then disappeared along with the ship, and ever since she has lived alone with her younger sister, Silvia, entirely cut off from civilisation. Costanza has nearly gone mad from grief and regards all men as hated enemies. Silvia, however, arrived on the island as a tiny infant and does not feel herself to be lonely or attracted to the modern world. One day "something floating" appears on the horizon, something fast and large that Silvia had never seen before: a ship bearing with Gernando, who has returned after thirteen years, along with his friend Enrico...
For Silvia, everything outside the uninhabited island is so alien that she does not even know what kinds of beings she is watching step on to the shore. She has never seen a man, and furthermore, her elder sister has portrayed men to her as "filthy infernal pigs" who are to be feared and hated. The discussion between the strangers reveals that it was not through his own free will that Gernando had abandoned his wife, but rather he was "abducted in a surprise attack by 'savage northern pirates'." He lived in slavery for years, and now free, is searching for his loved ones. The two men split up to cover the island more quickly, with Sylvia glimpsing Enrico and immediately "falling into the power of a sweet feeling... that [she] does not know" – her first love.
Gernando soon finds Costanza's unfinished gravestone with its epitaph and concludes that his wife is no longer alive. Enrico commiserates with his friend and suggests that they board the ship together. Gernando, however, decides that he will not leave the island, but instead will spend the rest of his life as a hermit, watching over the grave of his beloved. He deflects Enrico's attempts to make him see reason with the words: "Do not disturb my suffering! Dear friend, do not disturb my mourning!" Finally Enrico decides, in Gernando's own interest, to have the crew seize him and take him home by force. They lay a trap for him by the freshwater spring, which is when they accidentally run into Silvia.
Three things become immediately clear from their encounter: first, that Costanza is alive, and Gernando's torment is therefore unnecessary, second, that Enrico also feels attracted to Silvia at first sight, and third, that Enrico – is a man. Silvia grows terrified at this (since "men are worse than wild animals!") and starts to plead for her life. Enrico convinces her of his benevolent intentions and asks her to find Costanza, so that she can be reunited with her "long absent husband". Of their encounter, Silvia sings the words "like mist covering the ground turns to thick fog, fire is engulfing my heart".Costanza has only one wish left: to finish her epitaph as soon as possible so she can die. While she continues with her work, she is discovered by Gernando, who has returned to his beloved's graveside in order to commence his new life as a hermit. Upon glimpsing her husband, Costanza faints dead away. Seeking some fresh water to revive her, Gernando rushes off to the spring, where the crew's ambush is waiting for him.
Enrico also stumbles onto Costanza. He describes how her husband had been carried off and how he has now come back to rescue her. With this, Silvia arrives with the news that Gernando has been abducted (again). The despairing Costanza hurries to aid her spouse, but presently all is resolved, and a minute later Gernando takes her hand. Enrico and Silvia also find each other, and the two couple board the ship together to cast off from the desert island.
- Location
- Opera House - Royal staircase
- Date
- Oct. 11, 2015
- Start time
- 11:00
- End time
- 12:30
- Conductor
- Csaba Tőri
- Silvia
- Renáta Göncz
- Costanza
- Eszter Balogh
- Enrico
- László Ágoston
- Gernando
- József Csapó
- Introduction
- Librettist
- Pietro Metastasio
- Translator
- László Ágoston
- Director
- Zsófi Geréb
- Set designer
- Virág Pázmány
- Costume designer
- Szilvia Nagy


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On July 4, 1828, President John Quincy Adams turned over a spadeful of dirt during ceremonies at Little Falls, Maryland, and therefore began construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It was officially the work of the C & O Canal Company, which raised about $3.6 million from private and public investors. Included among its stockholders were the federal government, the states of Maryland and Virginia, and the cities of Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria; all of them hoped the waterway would bring trade and therefore jobs to the region. As it turned out, events that day would affect the C & O in another way, because it was also on the 4th that work began on America's first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio (B & O).
From the start, problems slowed progress on the canal. An acute labor shortage forced the company to recruit workers from other states and abroad. Disputes arose with landowners who resisted efforts to purchase necessary land. A long legal battle with the B & O involving the right-of-way between Point of Rocks and Harpers Ferry slowed construction of both the canal and the railroad until about 1832. Inflation increased the cost of labor, materials, and land during the late 1820s and 1830s until they far exceeded the original estimates. Labor unrest among the predominantly Irish workers and the financial panic of 1837 added more difficulties, and between 1842 and 1847 construction stopped entirely. The canal was finally completed in 1850 at a total cost of $11 million, the original plan to extend the waterway over the Allegheny Mountains having long since been abandoned.
Boats began to appear on the canal soon after the first short section was completed in 1831 between Little Falls and Seneca. Trade increased as other segments opened in western Maryland, and cargoes of flour, grain, building stone, and whiskey began to move down to Georgetown. Not until the canal reached Cumberland, however, did the tonnage increase substantially. Large quantities of coal from the Cumberland region began to be shipped, and by 1871, the peak year, some 850,000 tons were carried down the canal. Trade was so busy that at times more than 500 boats were in operation on the canal.
Coal traffic then began to decline, however, as mining companies shifted more of their business to the B & O Railroad. A major economic depression in the mid-1870s and major floods in 1877 and 1886 put a severe strain on the C & O's finances. In 1889 another serious flood forced the canal company into receivership, at which point the B & O Railroad bought up the majority of C & O's bonds. The railroad had captured almost all of the canal's trade by 1924 when another devastating flood struck. This time no repairs to the canal were made, and its operation as a trade route came to an end.
In 1938 the railroad sold the entire canal to the U.S. Government for $2 million, which placed it under the supervision of the National Park Service. The Park Service did some restoration under the emergency work programs of the 1930s, and other repairs took place in the following decades. In 1961 President Eisenhower proclaimed the canal a national monument. In 1971 Congress declared the C & O Canal a National Historical Park, thus conserving its historic and natural features for all to enjoy. Today, visitors can examine how the locks work, take rides in canal boats pulled by mules, and bike and walk along much of the canal's 185 mile route.
Questions for Reading 2
1. Why did governments at the local, state, and even federal level help pay for the canal?
2. What kinds of troubles plagued the builders of the canal?
3. What kinds of products were carried on canal boats?
4. What natural disasters hastened the closing of the canal?
5. Why do you think shippers chose to use the railroad rather than the canal?
Reading 2 was adapted from the National Park Service's official handbook to the C & O Canal National Historical Park, 1991.


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The Portland State Institute for Asia Studies announces the establishment of
The Institute for Asian Studies Scholarship.
This award provides up to $5,000 for 1-2 student scholarships to be awarded for the 2014-2015 academic year, beginning summer or fall 2014.
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Coming into Dark City, the heroes hear a battle between two rival forces: Yas and Kaz Gyms, who want to be promoted as the official Gym from the Pokémon League. The battles get more and more violent, so Ash, Misty and Brock decide to stop both forces before they destroy the town.
Episode Plot
Ash, Misty, and Brock arrive in Dark City. They are surprised when they see a parent taking her child away from the area because of Pokémon trainers. Ash and his friends wonder what's going on, and Pikachu gets hit on the head with a rock thrown from the roof of a building. Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt in the direction the rock was thrown from. The Thunderbolt hits three kids. Ash and his friends apologize to the three kids, but they tell them to get out of town. The kids are about to throw more rocks at them when a restaurant owner stops them. He then invites Ash and his friends to his restaurant.
At the restaurant, while eating (here, Pikachu eats Ketchup from a bottle and loves it), the owner tells Ash and his friends and a mysterious patron who overhears that Dark City has two rival official Gyms, the Yas Gym and the Kaz Gym. Both Gyms want to become official and the league inspector is supposed to come any minute. Both Gyms are recruiting trainers to eliminate the other gym. At that moment, fighting between the gyms breaks out outside the restaurant. Ash and his friends notice that the fighting is not like a Pokémon battle but like a gang war. The Kaz Gym's Electabuzz and the Yas Gym's Scyther are sending out new trainers to fight every minute.
Team Rocket, who have been hired by the Kaz Gym as elite bodyguards, invade the restaurant and demand food. The owner refuses because the Kaz Gym has a large tab. Ash and Misty have Pikachu and Starmie protect the restaurant owner and try to make Team Rocket leave. Brock has Vulpix force Team Rocket to leave by using Flamethrower. Vulpix's attacks have been noticed by a Yas Gym recruiter, who tries to get Ash and his friends to join the Yas Gym. To protect their identities, Ash introduces himself as Tom Ato, Misty as Ann Chovy, and Brock as Caesar Salad. After Brock agrees for Ash and Misty to join the Yas Gym (since the recruiter was a pretty girl) The Yas Gym recruiter takes them to the Yas Gym.
At the Gym, the Yas Gym leader is introduced to Ash and his friends. The Yas Leader shows how strong he is by having his Scyther suddenly attack Pikachu. Scyther's Cut attack is blocked by the ketchup bottle that Pikachu is still holding. The ketchup squirts Scyther in the eye and Scyther accidentally attacks the Yas Gym Leader. The Yas Gym Leader is surprised, recalls Scyther, and asks Ash to join him. Ash asks him why he wants the gym to become official and he says he wants to earn more money quicker. Ash doesn't like this, so he refuses the Yas Gym Leader's offer. The Yas Gym Leader is mad and he tells his followers to beat up Ash, which they do by sending out a Hitmonchan, a Hitmonlee, a Mankey, and a Machoke. to beat him up.
Ash and his friends quickly leave the gym. Back at the restaurant, Ash checks the Pokédex and it says that Scyther and Electabuzz both hate the color red and will start fighting if they see it. Ash and his friends make a plan to defeat the Yas and Kaz gyms at once using this knowledge.
Soon, fighting on the streets breaks out again. Scyther, using Swords Dance and Cut destroys Kaz buildings easily and Electabuzz does the same to Yas forces by using ThunderPunch. Ash tells Misty, Brock, the restaurant owner, and the kids from earlier to dump barrels of ketchup on the trainers from the rooftops. Scyther and Electabuzz start attacking their own trainers. Ash ends the fighting by having Bulbasaur dump ketchup on Electabuzz and Scyther. The two start attacking each other and they knock themselves out.
Ash asks the Yas and Kaz leaders if they will stop fighting. They do, but they team up to fight Ash. Ash has Pikachu use Thunder on them and both leaders are stunned. The mysterious patron from the restaurant appears and says that she's from the Pokémon League Inspection Agency before throwing a Poké Ball, which releases a Chansey. Upon seeing this, Brock instantly realizes who the patron must be, and the patron agrees right before taking off the disguise they're wearing. Much to the surprise (as well as dismay) of Kaz and Yas, the patron happens to be none other than Nurse Joy. She says that neither gym deserves to be official because using Pokémon for street fighting won't be tolerated. Nurse Joy says she will give them a second chance and tells them that Ash would be a good teacher on how to be good trainers and unite the Yas and Kaz gyms. Ash isn't sure what to do, but he convinces the leaders to pay for all of the damage they caused.
When Ash and his friends leave Dark City, they see the kids again. They have become fans of Pikachu and have decided to become trainers themselves.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket, covered in ketchup, run out of town chased by Scyther and Electabuzz.
- The town style makes it look like an old Western era town.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Scyther.
- Pikachu's shown to have a strong fondness for ketchup in this episode.
- The name that Ash, Misty, and Brock came up with are all food. Tomato (Tom Ato), Anchovy (Ann Chovy), and Caesar Salad (Caesar Salad) respectively.
- Ash broke the 4th wall by saying, "Well, Pikachu IS the star."
- In one of the Ketchup scenes, Pikachu's red cheeks are missing.
- There is an error on the location type name. The location is called Dark City. However, the Narrator says that it's a town.
Dub differences
- During the ketchup scene, Pikachu was voiced by Rachael Lillis because the lines are muffled by the human conversation.
- "We don't care who you are! If you have your Pokémon, you get out of our town now!" - Child
- "Why? What's wrong with Pokémon?" - Ash
- "Stop it, boys!" - Restaurant owner
- "I apologize. These children won't cause you any trouble. Come to my restaurant and I'll explain everything." - Restaurant owner
- "Well, okay." - Ash
- "I'm... Ketchup." - Ash
- "Ketchup?" - Yas Gym Recruiter
- "Uh, no. My name is Tom Ato." - Ash
- "Well, my name is Ann Chovy." - Misty
- "And my name is Caesar Salad." - Brock
- "Brock just can't say "No" to a pretty girl." - Misty
- "Hold it right there." - Restaurant patron to Kaz and Yas
- "What?" - Yas
- "And who are you?" - Kaz
- "I am the official inspector for the Pokémon League." - Restaurant patron while holding up a Poké Ball
- "Aaah!" - Kaz and Yas
- "Poké Ball, go!" - Pokémon League Inspector
- "Chansey, Chansey!" - Chansey
- "Chansey? That must mean..." - Brock
- "That's right. My true identity is... Nurse Joy!" - Nurse Joy
- "Aah.." - Brock (who blushes at seeing her)
- "I could never allow people who use Pokémon for nothing but street fighting to open an official Pokémon Gym." - Nurse Joy to Kaz and Yas
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Return of the Neo‐Malthusians
This Earth Day we heard various commentators bemoan the growth in population, consumption, and carbon emissions driven by fossil fueled technologies. Once again we are told that this is unsustainable, that we are running out of resources, prices are inevitably headed up, and, worse, such consumption reduces both environmetal and human well‐being. In this worldview, industrialization and economic development were fashioned in the Devil's crucible, and that de‐industrialization and de‐development will be our saviour.
I have started a series of posts at Master Resources that compares the above Neo‐Malthusian view of industrialization, economic growth, and technological change against empirical data on human well‐being from the age of industrialization. The first post revisits the bet made in 1980 by Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich on the direction of commodity prices, and examines long term trends in the prices and affordability of various commodities. Specifically, for metals, I look at trends going back to 1800, while for food I examine trends from 1900 onward. Parts II and III will compare long term trends in population, consumption, economic development, and carbon emissions against trends in human well‐being for the world (from 1750 onward) and the United States (from 1900 onward). Finally, Part IV will provide an explanation as to why empirical data is at odds with the Neo‐Malthusian worldview.
Part I, which examines the Simon‐Ehrlich Bet in the context of long term trends in the prices and affordability of various commodities, is here.


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I've always wanted to write up a little article about how this web site got started. I'm afraid if I wait too much longer, I'll start to forget some of the details. Most of you probably haven't heard these stories before, so hopefully you will enjoy learning how this site got started.
In The Beginning
I brought home my first QP in 1995. One was offered to me for free. Before saying yes, I set off to do some research to make sure a Quaker would be the right bird for our home... just like anyone should do, right? Except that information about QP's was very hard to find. There were no books on Quakers at that time.
In fact, if you picked up a general book on Parrots, it was hit or miss whether there would be any information at all about Quakers in it. The most I found was 2 pages about the Quaker in one book, and most of one of those pages was taken up with a picture. It seems amazing to think about today, but that's pretty much all I was able to find at the time.
I brought Alex home anyway and started learning how to be a Quaker parront "on the job." I'd been online on the Internet for about a year and a half at that point, even though most of the population hadn't even heard the term "Internet" yet. There were less than half a dozen web sites devoted to pet birds and just one or two Listserv mailing lists dedicated to them. Needless to say, Quakers weren't exactly a hot topic on those either.
Getting Things Started
Still, I did meet a few other Quaker owners, and I offered to set up a Listserv just for us. In December of 1995, the Quaker Parakeet Mailing List was hatched. We had less than 10 members, and I remember telling my mailing list host that I seriously doubted we'd ever have more than 25 - so the list was set up with a limit of 25 members.
The mailing list was an active one from the very start. Even with less than 10 members, it was obvious that Quaker owners LOVED to talk about their birds! (Now there's one thing that hasn't changed in 15 years - LMAO!) To my surprise, the list began to grow. I had to go back to my list host again and again to raise the subscriber limit... 50, 75, 100! Then 200, 300, 400 and up to 700 at one point.
The Amazing Power of the Internet
And then something incredible began to happen. The list had brought together a community of Quaker lovers for the first time ever, and information and understanding of this species began to increase. If you were a new Quaker owner and had access to the Internet, suddenly there was a place to go for information and to have your questions answered.
You know, it's so easy to take that for granted today... and it's nearly impossible to imagine a time when this type of help wasn't available. But I was there, and I can tell you that EVERYTHING changed for Quaker owners back in 1995 and 1996 because of this little mailing list.
And you wanna know the best part? It wasn't because of any so-called expert on Quakers or parrots. This all happened because a small group of regular, every day people came together and shared the little they had learned from their own experience with Quakers... and adding up all the "little bits" of knowledge, suddenly we had a great collection of knowledge about the Quaker Parrot!
QuakerParrots.com is "Hatched"
In 1997, I registered the domain QuakerParrots.com and began to build this web site. In addition to articles, I added a simple, web-based forum to the site. In 1998, I moved the forum to DelphiForums where it was hosted until the fall of 2004 when I began hosting it on this web site again.
The old Delphi forum is still there (click here). I moved it because Delphi had started to bombard members with ads which slowed down the pages to a crawl. You could remove the ads by paying a fee to Delphi, but I wanted the information on the forum to remain free for everyone.
And here we are today... thousands upon thousands of members later and far surpassing the original 25 members that I had first envisioned.
Cool Facts about QuakerParrots.com
Here are some other "factoids" related to the mailing list and forum:
- In 1995, I wrote the Quaker Parrot FAQ. It was the first article about Quakers to be written and published on the Internet.
- The first two books written about Quakers were written by people who were early members of the Quaker mailing list (Theresa Jordan and Mattie Sue Athan).
- New phrases and slogans were created on the mailing list referring to Quakers. Did you know that the term Little Green Chicken (LGC) first appeared on the QP mailing List? And that the slogan "A Lotta Parrot In A Little Package" was coined by Ellen Krueger? It was the winning entry from a slogan contest that I held on the list in 1996!
- In 1998, Bird Talk magazine published "Quaker Parrots: Terrific Talkers for a Tiny Price" by Mattie Sue Athan. The article was largely based on a survey answered by members of the QP Mailing List. (You can read this article here.)
- In 1999, some members of the QP mailing list (including myself) founded the Quaker Parakeet Society, the first and only 501©3 non-profit organization dedicated to Quaker care, education and research.
- QPS Rapp (Rescue and Placement Program), the first rescue program for Quakers only, was started by me and a few others on the mailing list as a program of QPS. It is still helping Quakers find new homes today.
- The longest running publication dedicated to Quaker Parrots started at the same time that QPS was founded. The editor and all of the original writers (including myself) were members of the mailing list. The QPS Sentinel is still being published today.
- In 2001, I donated the Quaker Parrot mailing list to the Quaker Parakeet Society, and it is still in existence and managed by them today. It is the longest running mailing list dedicated to sharing information about Quaker Parrots.
- If you are still reading this, congratulations. You are a member of the longest running web-based forum dedicated to sharing information about Quaker Parrots IN THE WORLD!
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On the endless topic of my unpacking...I still need showcases for my Tiny Kitty and Madame Alexander 10" dolls. They are all hanging around into open boxes waiting for their chance to shine.
Today, after I put away my dolls' Christmas decorations, I pulled out a few TKs that I had never photographed as they arrived during the packing/moving era last year.
|Little Empress
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Bally collaborated with the French band 'Singtank' on their promotional video 'Coming Down'. The short film by Emmy Award nominated director Francesco Carrozzini showcases Singtank's Joséphine de la Baume and Alexandre de la Baume. Creative Director Francesco Carrozzini, was inspired by the Louis Malle 1962 film 'Vie Privee' featuring Brigitte Bardot. The song 'Coming Down', isan ethereal track from Singtank's new album 'Ceremonies', which was recently released by their label, Warner/Parlophone. The Singtank duo both wear the Bally Spring Summer 2015 Collection throughout the video which showcases Bally's expression of newfound aesthetics and common values with Modernist design. To celebrate this collaboration, Bally hosted a private screening of the Singtank film 'Coming Down' at The Golden Age Cinema in Sydney Australia on the 23rd March 2015.
Attending the event and wearing Bally Australian Actresses Abby Earl and Marta Dussledorp.


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I have never, in my years of collecting Fashion Royalty dolls, seen an established dealer selling FR dolls at a discounted price. I'm not talking about the play line dolls from IT. I'm talking about Jason Wu's Fashion Royalty and NuFace Premium Dressed Dolls.
Starting tomorrow, Cherished Friends will be selling off a varied selection of IT 16" and 12" dolls. I've seen them and the prices are excellent. Mary T already has a sale on Gene dolls running. I'm guessing other dealers will follow suit. Marlbe has some FR dolls on sale.
As far as the playline ITBE dolls, MFD is dumping them for $15. each. Makes you wonder how much they cost to make in the first place.
They have also reduced the prices of dolls and fashions from the Gene Marshall line.
MFD's prices on these dolls is very good. You will have to go to the specific sites to see for yourself.
In my opinion, now is also the time to buy older Fashion Royalty dolls...especially Veronique. I just scored an original close-up blonde Vero fully dressed with shoes still in their package, mint box and shipper for $50 including shipping. That was a very good price. This is my third original Vero. They come and go but I will be keeping this one. I want to try putting eyelashes on her. I have several tall bodies and she will be getting one. Her straight arm body is in excellent condition! They're not all falling apart as some say they are. I think it depends on on the climate and environment where it is stored. The quality of the garment is so fine it makes me pine for the olden days. This doll was $29.99 when it was released in 2001-02 in an edition of 1000 along with a redhead version and an Adele.
Here is the most informative link and I go to this reference site all the time for my archival info on Integrity Toys and Fashion Royalty products. Collect the earlier dolls! Their faces are gorgeous and timeless. These early 2001-2003 dolls would make a great foundation in any Fashion Royalty collection either nude or in original clothing:
Véronique Perrin Silver Society
Véronique Perrin Lush Life
Adèle Makeda Close-Up
Véronique Perrin Close-Up Redhead or Blonde
Véronique Perrin Midnight in Monaco
Adèle Makeda Purple Factor
Véronique Perrin Mauve Absolue
Véronique Perrin Paradise
Véronique Perrin Chic Escape
I have re-bodied all of my dolls who were originally on straight arm or 1st generation articulated bodies. I was not worried about affecting the value as I debox everything anyway. For resale purposes, 99% of the people want the latest body type.
Oh well. Everything changes. Time to look ahead to good things and take care of precious old things. Time to weed out the mediocre and to make decisions not to buy unexceptional stuff. It's not easy because so much looks so good.


text: Its not a small thing to have the opportunity such as I have tonight to try to put a little bit of perspective and focus on the issue of praying for our nation. There are so many things that could be said and probably should be said and I certainly dont intend to say them all, by any means. But trying to kind of funnel down our thinking a little bit so that our prayers can be direct is really helpful. I remember one of our kids, I used to go from room to room when the kids were little and pray with them. And one of my daughters, I got into the habit of just because she was sleepy, I think, saying, And God bless the whole wide world. Amen. And I thought that was a little unspecific, I guess you could say. Needed a little more targeting in her prayers. And if I can tonight, I want to try to target our prayers a little bit as to how we can direct our prayers in what, I believe, is the most needful way...not to the exclusion of any other things, but this, I think, has to be the primary focus. And it may take me a little while to get to that point, and you need to kind of stay with me and youll see how this unfolds and hopefully it will be helpful. That certainly is my prayer.One of the most tragic scenes in the Bible and yet one of the most familiar to us is the scene of the strongest man who ever lived, a man by the name of Samson, finding out he had no strength. Judges chapter 16 records this. When Delilah saw that he had told her all that was in his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines saying, Come up once more, for hes told me all that is in his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands and she made him sleep on her knees, called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his hair. Then she began to afflict him and his strength left him. And she said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson, and he woke from his sleep and said, I will go out as at other times and shake myself free. And heres the telling line written by God the Holy Spirit. But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him. So the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, brought him down to Gaza, bound him with bronze chains and he became a grinder in the prison. Sad. He didnt know that the Lord had departed from him. I cant imagine anything worse than being abandoned by God.To the sons of Israel earlier in the book of Judges in chapter 10, God said this, You have forsaken me, you have served other gods, therefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your distress. This was God saying to Israel, Im done with you, abandoned by God.Proverbs chapter 1 records a similar sentiment. Because I called and you refused, I stretched out My hands and no one paid attention. You neglected all my counsel, you did not want my reproof, I will even laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your dread comes, when your dread comes like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind. When distress and anguish come on you, then they will call on Me but I will not answer. They will seek Me diligently, they will not find Me because they hated knowledge, did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would not accept My counsel, they spurned all My reproof, so they will eat of the fruit of their own way and be satisfied with their own devices. Again being abandoned by God, turned over to the inevitable consequences of sinful choices.A haunting line is found tucked away in the little prophecy of Hosea chapter 4 and verse 17, and it refers to Israel by the name Ephraim and it says this, Ephraim is joined to idols, so says God. The next line, Leave him alone. Sounds out of character for God, doesnt it? Ephraim is joined to idols, bring him back, might sound a little more like God. Let him alone?People and nations, even the covenant nation Israel can come to a point where they are abandoned by God. Jesus reiterated this in Matthew 15 when He confronted the Pharisees and then described them to the disciples. He said this, Theyre blind leaders of the blind. Let them alone. When God lets you go, its serious. When Jesus pronounces over you abandonment, its serious.Now Im going to say something, youre going to have to hold on to your seat a little bit. Im convinced beyond doubt that in this same sense, God has abandoned America. I know thats a strong thing to say and Im going to show you why I believe you can see that clearly in Scripture.Open your Bibles to Romans 1...Romans 1. Dont be surprised, by the way, by that statement because while youre turning there, Acts 14:16 says this, this is from the Apostle Paul, In the generations gone by, thats past history, God permitted all the nations to go their own way. This is not the first nation God has abandoned, nor if Jesus tarries is it the last, or is it now the only. This is the cycle of history and it is this very cycle of history that Paul describes in Romans chapter 1. Here in Romans chapter 1, beginning in chapter 18 running to the end of the chapter, you have the most clear presentation of God abandoning a nation, what that looks like, what happens and why He does it. This is the most graphic and the most detailed and the most comprehensive discussion of what it means for a people, a society to be abandoned by God. And it perfectly describes the moral chaos in our own nation today.It starts with very familiar words. Verse 18, For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven. Now let me stop you there for just a moment. Were talking about the wrath of God and I need to just let you know that in the Scripture and in reality there are five different manifestations of Gods wrath. Okay? And you will recognize them. There is eternal wrath. That is that wrath which God unleashes on the unbelieving dead in hell...eternal wrath, suffering forever eternal punishment. Thats eternal wrath.There is also in the Bible eschatological wrath, that is the unfolding of divine wrath at the end of the age described in detail, for example, in Revelation 6 through 19, the pouring out of Gods wrath in the breaking of seven seals, the blowing of seven trumpets, and the dumping of seven bowls of wrath...eschatological wrath, that wrath is yet to come as is eternal wrath for all society, yet right now there are many experiencing eternal wrath, all the unbelieving who have left this world are experiencing.The third kind of wrath is what I guess you could call calamitous wrath. That is that wrath of God which produces calamity in the world and the most notable illustration of that is the Flood which drowned the entire world, only eight people were saved. Massive wrath on the part of God against sinful man.Fourthly, there is consequential wrath, thats sowing and reaping wrath. Thats the natural end of patterns and choices of sin. Whatever a man sows, he...what?...he reaps...thats consequential wrath.But theres one other kind of wrath that is usually overlooked. We all understand eternal wrath, eschatological wrath, calamitous wrath, we all understand the...in the calamity of the Flood or God destroying Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, etc., etc. Throughout history these calamities continue to even happen and they all fit in the category of Gods judgment of sin. But theres this other category of the wrath of abandonment, it is a form of Gods wrath in which He lets go of a society and lets it catapult full speed without restraint in the direction of its own sinful desires and devices and choices. Thats the wrath being described here. This is the cyclical reality of this wrath that has defined human history and will always until Jesus comes. As Paul said, in all the generations gone by, God permitted the nations to go their own way.I dont believe were waiting for Gods wrath in this society. We havent had a massive calamity such as the destruction of an entire city, we certainly dont want that to happen, pray that does not happen, but it could happen and God would be just in any calamity that He brought upon us. We have not entered into eschatological wrath that comes in the end times, we are experiencing, all of us do, consequential wrath of sin. But this massive concept of the wrath of abandonment Im convinced is now at work in our society. Wed like to talk about the fact that America was founded on Christian principles and God was at the center of it, and all of that, whatever it might have been in our founding, its no longer the way it is and I want to show you how you know that has happened.Go down to verse 24. You see in verse 24 the first word therefore, this means were now going to see a description that connects to what has been said. If you go back to verse 18, The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, and we could stop at that point. The wrath of God is revealed. And then it goes on to talk about the wrath of God and the reasons for the wrath of God. And then in verse 24 it then describes the wrath of God and heres the description. Therefore God gave them over, or God gave them up, in the lust of their hearts to impurity that their bodies might be dishonored among them, for they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions, for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural. In the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman, burned in their desire toward one another, men with men, committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do the things that are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, envy, full of...or evil full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, gossip, slander, haters of God, insolent arrogant boastful inventors of evil, disobedient to parents without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful. And although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, and not only do them, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.Now let me break that down for you a little bit. Three times the verb gave them over is used...three times. The wrath of abandonment is when God gives a nation over. This verb, paradidomi, can have a judicial sense. Its used often in Greek literature in terms of law courts and criminal courts. It comes down to handing a prisoner over for punishment. Its even used in the case of Jesus being handed over for a crucifixion. Each of these uses of the verb in this text express the fact that the wrath of God has acted to hand over a society to sentence...to hand them over. As the historian Schiller(?) said, years ago, The history of the world is the judgment of the world. There comes a time in a nation when God has had enough and He literally lets go and turns them over to the sentence that they have passed upon themselves by their incessant sinful choices. To see it another way, they are deprived of restraining grace.Now how do we know when this has happened? Note the progression. Verse 24, God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity that their bodies might be dishonored among them. Impurity speaks of sexual sin. The first thing that happens in a nation when it is abandoned by God is a sexual revolution. Moral, sexual perversion, pornographic desire describes the general character of the culture. You cant even count how many million pornographic web sites there are. When a society is abandoned by God, it operates out of its own perverse sexual passion without restraint. You can go back to the 60's and the sexual revolution of the flower children, or Hugh Hefner in the Playboy world and it has gone like a flood since then. It is characterized by, as you look at verse 24, lust coming from inside as Jesus said, What comes out of the heart of a man is what defiles him, leading to impurity, this means sexual impurity, and to the dishonoring of their bodies. The heart is wicked and the bodies demonstrate it. The body follows the heart. Lust conceives in the heart, James says, and brings forth sin and sin brings forth death.The first thing you look for in a society youre trying to discern whether God has abandoned that society is whether or not that society has gone through a sexual revolution so that illicit sex, adultery, every form of immorality is accepted as normal in that society. And were there.The second step in the progression, verse 26, God gave them over, not just to passions that are explicable because theyre men and women, but to inexplicable degrading passions for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural. You know a society has been abandoned by God when it celebrates lesbian sex. God has given them over...gross affections, unnatural, unthinkable.So you follow a sexual revolution with a homosexual revolution, and homosexuality becomes normalized. Verse 27 adds the male part, In the same way the men abandon the natural function of the women burned in their desire toward one another.. And by the way, it is a burning that is just hard to comprehend. There was a man named Halpern(?) who was the coroner for the city of New York and he did, I think, 26 or 28 thousand autopsies in his day. He said we can look at a corpse that had been murdered and tell you whether a homosexual killed that person by the multiple wounds. Hes not a Christian, hes a Jewish guy and he just said, Theres something about the passions of that kind of involvement that are not explicable.But interestingly enough, the Holy Spirit puts the women first here and the men after. Why? The Holy Spirit refers first to the degradation of women because theyre usually the last to be affected in the decay of morals because their hearts are so naturally inclined toward a husband and toward the responsibility of nurturing children. But when they lead the parade, God has removed His restraint. And the amazing thing of it is this, verse 27, The man abandoning the natural function of the women, burning in their desire toward one another, men with men, committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. Right into this wrath of abandonment comes the wrath, the consequential wrath and even though it generates venereal disease and AIDS, they keep doing it. This is what step two looks like and we know this has come like a flood. But its not the final step. The final step comes in verse 28, the middle of verse 28, God gave them over to a depraved mind.Now the version of the Bible you have, Im reading the New American Standard, might have a different translation for depraved, so let me tell you what the word means...non-functional. It doesnt work, useless, cant think, cant reason, cant comprehend. And you look at this world and you say, Rampant sexual immorality, out of control, destroying people willy-nilly even in the church, even in the leadership of the church. Homosexuality, same thing, rampant, out of control, demanding to be accepted as normal and the society rushing to affirm that acceptance. Isnt there anybody in the system who would stand up and call this what it really is, a massive, moral disaster? Cant they see it? Cant they figure it out? No...no. First Corinthians 1 says, Man by wisdom knew not God. Human wisdom just on its own doesnt get there. Then you add that the god of this world has blinded the minds of them that do not believe and youve got a compounding blindness. And then you add the fact that they are blinded by virtue of the sweeping, dominating elements of their culture and youre just not going to get anybody to rise up and take that position and have people rally around it. Youre going to have more people in leadership in the country outing themselves as homosexuals. If you think youve seen a lot of that, you havent seen any of it yet as it becomes more and more accepted.A depraved mind in the original language is one thats tested and found useless, therefore disqualified for its intended use. The reasoning faculty has been corrupted by the influences that surround it. MTV did a survey on morality. Boy, theres a...(laughter)...switch. And they took, you know, they took the Middle Ages idea of the seven deadly sins, you know, lust, greed, all those things, and they surveyed their audience about what they thought about that. And basically they thought all those things were virtues. Now they thought they were all virtues. Yeah. And when that happens and your entire sense of morality is warped, then your conscience is ill-informed and it doesnt function. So you have unconscionable behavior. And then you laugh at the Jerry Springer Show instead of falling on your face and weeping at the aberrations. A depraved mind, reasoning faculty so corrupt that it must be rejected as non-functioning. And as a result of that, what happens? God gave them over, verse 28, to a depraved mind. So as a result, they do the things that are not...what?...proper, fitting, sensible, reasonable.What do they do? Theyre filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, envy, murder, deceit, malice. Whats that? Thats the nightly news. Its the local newspaper. Slanderers, haters of God, and on and on and on and on it goes. Theyre unconscionable. Conscience can only function...conscience is a sky light, okay? Conscience is a device that reacts to your moral code. If youre a Muslim, conscience tells you to blow up infidels because conscience is not a set of moral laws. Its not a set of moral rules. Its a mechanism, like pain. Pain is a mechanism God gave you that responds to your physical condition. It says to you something is wrong with your body. Pain is simply the device that tells you that. And its a good thing, isnt it? Its a good thing cause it tells youve got a problem with your body you need to deal with. Thats what conscience is, its a mechanism God gave you that accuses you or excuses you, Romans 2 says, but only functions if it is morally informed accurately. And if you have a culture that has developed an aberrant morality, then you have consciences that function off of that aberrant morality. And you get all the stuff, all the inexplicable behaviors. And thats why in verse 32 it says, Although they know the ordinance of God, all they know...all they know inherently in them, Romans 2, what is right and what is wrong, they who practice such things are worthy of death. They know that. They do them anyway and they give hearty approval to those who practice them.You know what that reminds me of? Bill Clintons approval ratings went up in the middle of the Lewinsky affair. Why? Because a culture like this approves of somebody like that, perfect fit. Thats our kind of guy.So they are without reason, without conscience. This is what it means when God abandons a society.Sexual revolution, down one more step; homosexual revolution, down one more step; you cant ever get your way out of it because the mind, the cultural mind is gone...its gone...its gone. And I would put it this way, maybe simply, theres no surer indicator of a corrupted, wicked and abandoned society under Gods wrath than when that society does not tolerate anger against sin. This society will not tolerate you standing up and displaying righteous indignation against sin. How long is it going to be before if you preach against it in your pulpit the government is going to come in and tell you, you cant do that? Theyve done it in Canada.One night Larry King said to me, off the camera, he said...he said, You know, he said, I like you a lot but...he said...youre all...youre all caught up in the words of the Bible and you miss the message. So I said, Well, whats a message with no words? I dont think we miss the message.It was C.S. Lewis who said, The last experience of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he desired.So, Paul is unfolding for us this picture of what a society looks like when its abandoned. Its not my description. Now you see why I said I think America is here going through the cycle of Romans 1.Why does it happen? Lets go back to verse 18 and find out. Why does it happen? Im going to give you the short version. Heres why it happens. Verse 18, The wrath of God is revealed from heaven in this form of abandonment against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men that makes up this society. Verse 18, Who suppress...what? There it is, thats it...they suppress the truth...they suppress the truth. Thats why I wrote the book The Truth War, its always about truth, always about truth, always. From the Garden, it started out as a war of truth, right? God says you eat the fruit, youll die. Satan says, no you wont, you shall not surely die. There it is. Adam and Eve believed Satan. They thought God was lying to them. That started the truth war, its going on today. Its always about the truth. Simple, this happens when you suppress the truth.What truth? Real truth. As Francis Schaeffer used to say, the true truth...biblical truth. You suppress this, thats where you go. Take the Word of God out of the place of its supremacy and you suppress the truth. Deny that its true, deny its veracity, deny its authenticity, deny its inerrancy, deny its inspiration, deny its sufficiency, deny its clarity...thats the latest one that nobody really knows what the Bible means anyway, its a wonderful book, we believe God gave it to us but we have no idea what it means. Thats convenient. I mean, you can divide my life, my life up into attacks on the Bible coming from every imaginable angle...the truth is always under assault. This nation has succumbed to that. There are even churches that have decentralized the truth cause they think it offends, its divisive. Its all weve got, folks. Its all we have. God saves through the truth. Youre begotten again, Peter says, by the Word of truth. Youre sanctified by the word of truth. Jesus said, Sanctify them by Thy truth, Thy word is truth, John 17:17. Thats all we have.Of course its being assaulted by Satan. Of course the critics come along and say its not inspired, its not true, you cant believe it. Of course the mystics come along and say no, its fine, but we have more revelation over here and more over there, and more over there. And the cults all develop out of extrabiblical revelation. And then there are others who come along and say, Well, the Bibles fine, its just not sophisticated. You need to add philosophy and other kinds of things to the Bible to fill it out. And now there are those who come and say, Well, it lacks clarity. And thats an attack on the old perspicuity, the doctrine of perspicuity, that Scripture is clear, that God intended it to reveal not to hide. So the truth is diminished in its place, its denied, its rejected. Its amazing how people mock biblical truth today...amazing.Oh, you can figure out a way to make it so smooth and soft, take out all the hard parts so it doesnt have the sting. But if you give the unadulterated, unexpurgated, pure Word of God, it will generate a negative reaction in many environments. You need to speak the truth in love, but all weve got is the truth. Suppress the truth.Let me expand that a little bit. Give you four things to think about, four reasons for wrath that have to do with the suppressing of the truth. Number one, revelation. Weve been given the truth. Suppress the truth in unrighteousness because that which is known about God is evident within them for God made it evident to them for since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes, eternal power, divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made so that they are without excuse.What is this? This is not even talking about the Scripture. This is talking about the fact that God has inlaid His truth into the fabric of mans being. He is not without a witness to the truth. Look at chapter 2 for a moment, drop down in to verse 14, The Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these not having the Law are a Law to themselves in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness. Part of being human like all the other parts of being human, be able to think and to make relationships, to speak and to act in the ways that humans act, those kinds of things are the familiar components of what it means to be human. But another one is, the Law of God written in the very fabric of mans nature so that he cannot plead ignorance. In fact, it says in verse 20 that he has enough of the Law in himself, enough of reason to be without excuse. You cannot plead ignorance, that which may be known of God. What is knowable regarding God. What man can know, what of the light that lights every man that comes into the world, John 1:9, is written in the heart. It is evident in them. Two ways, one, in reason...in reason. Where does reason inevitably take you? Reason inevitably takes you to an ultimate cause. Reason is simply a cause and effect device. Reason is simply thinking our way through patterns of cause and effect. This leads to this, this leads to this, this leads to this, and thats how reason works. And eventually you get back to the first cause of the massive universal effect of creation, so reason is a device given by God to all human beings that leads them directly back to Him...directly back to Him.Any thinking person knows that. You cant have an effect without a cause, right? I mean, how simple do we have to be? You ask me where this watch came from, if I say, well theres a bunch of tin floating in a box and pulled it out and it started to tick and this is it...is ridiculous. Well how can you explain the universe that way? Its an absurdity. Nobody times nothing equals everything? Thats totally irrationality.Ill give you a little thing to think about. There was a scientist by the name of Van Noimen(?) And VanNoiman invented, or conceived of an invention called the ultimate machine...the ultimate machine. Okay? Called the VanNoiman Machine, all engineers and scientists know about. The VanNoiman Machine, he said, this is the ultimate machine, it is self-perpetuating. It has the capacity within itself to sustain itself. Wow! Secondly, it is self-repairing. Anything that ever goes wrong with it, it can fix. It has within itself the ability to fix itself, to generate whatever new parts it needs to reassemble them so that it functions. And then thirdly, it reproduces itself. It multiplies itself. This would be like having a car that generated its own fuel, fixed itself, and when you came out in the morning there were three little cars sitting next to it. (Laughter) Okay? This is a VanNoiman Machine. The complexity of this machine is staggering. And so it cant be built, its way too complex. It becomes exponential, almost...almost to infinity to put something together like this, it cant be done. And yet that is exactly what every single organic cell in existence in the biological world does. Its a factory of perfect self-generating, self-repairing, self-reproducing machinery. Dont tell me that one time there was a pile of protoplasm and it decided to become this. My reason tells me there has to be a Creator. And do you know the whole world believed that until Darwin came along? Jonah out on a boat, and the sailors, pagan sailors say to him, Why is this going on? He says, Its my God, Hes doing it cause Hes punishing me. And so its my God. And they say, Well whos your God? He didnt say, Well, lets see, Hes the Hebrew God, Hes the God of the Hebrew people, thats who He is. He didnt say that. He said this, he said, Well, Hes the God who made the earth and the sea. Oh, thats a natural assumption...natural assumption. Go to Mars Hill, Pauls up there, they have a deal there for the unknown god. Paul says, I want to tell you who this unknown God is. He doesnt say, This is...this is the Christian God of New Testament. He says, This is the God who created everything. This is the God in whom we live and move and have our being. Everybody got it. Only in the modern world do we not get it.You go back to God, the massive first cause of everything. So thats in the fabric of being human. And you know, you have to work hard for a couple of hundred years to convince an entire society that thats nonsense and that what makes sense is nobody times nothing equals everything. And though it doesnt make sense, it works in a totally immoral culture because if theres no Creator, theres no judge. So reason is the first thing that shows you God. The second thing is morality which is built into the fabric of all of us and has again to be cultivated to the point where youve got a society of people whose reason doesnt need God, and whose sense of morality has been totally perverted.Here we are. Here we are. Even though since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power, divine nature clearly seen, clearly understood so that were without excuse, this society has rejected God. Thats our second point. Point one, revelation, God has revealed Himself to every person. Second, rejection, men have turned away from the truth. Verse 21, interesting, Even though they knew God, that is humanity, that is society in any given period of time by Gods creative design have the knowledge of moral law and reason that leads them back to a moral law-giver and a judge and a Creator, even though they know that innately, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but instead of doing what was reasonable and moral, they became empty in their speculations and their foolish heart was darkened. And the bottom line is that they dont like the God their reason leads them to and they dont like the God that their innate sense of what is right and wrong leads them to and so they abandon that God and the lights go out. And then you come up with stuff like a rock is a rat is a dog is a boy. Life is random. Truth is relative. People are basically free to do whatever they want. Its all good. Everyone ought to be free to do whatever he wants. The goal of life is self-satisfaction. Live it up and dont let anybody tell you, you cant do anything.So they didnt honor Him as God. They werent thankful to Him for what He had given. And the lights went out. They became empty in their speculations, their thinking, their patterns, their ideologies, their foolish heart went black. Empty human ideas, now you cant know God, cant know the truth.But you think youre smart. Look at verse 22. Professing to be wise...professing to be wise, they became fools. Thats the third step. You go from revelation to rejection to rationalization. Men insist theyre doing fine, never did better. Were very advanced. Professing to be wise...reminds me of the guy lying in bed in the nut house, pounding his chest saying, Im Napoleon, Im Napoleon, Im Napoleon. And the guy in the next bed saying, Well, Im God, Im God, Im God. Just that kind of insanity. Or the lady who came to the psychiatrists office with a duck on a string and said, Youve got to help my husband, he thinks hes a duck. This is no perception of reality. In fact, it says, Professing to be wise, they became fools. The word is moraino from which we get moron, proud morons giving each other PhDs (Applause).And finally, it comes down to...goes from revelation to rejection to rationalization to religion. Yeah, religion. Thats right. Verse 23, They exchanged the glory of an incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible men, birds, four-footed animals and crawling creatures. What religion is that? Oh how about environmentalism where you worship...what?...the creation, not the Creator. Wow. Yeah, this is man at his...you say, Isnt this man at his highest? Hes worshiping? No, this is man at his lowest. False religion is man in the pit. Hes gone so far down, hes created the fantasy of false religion. Religion is not man at his highest, it is man at his lowest. The ultimate insanity is to worship any other than the true God, right?And so we see what happens in a society when God turns them over and we see why He turns them over. And that was just a quick overview. So we look at our nation, our hearts are broken, the mind is depraved, they think theyre smart, theyre morons. They cant get to the truth, the mind is completely gone. They invent bizarre religions. They become religious. And today they like to talk about being spiritual, right? Im very religious, Im very spiritual.What in the world does that mean? What does that mean? As if you can invent your own worship and your own religion. Thats man at his lowest. Thats all the way at the bottom, total complete rejection of the true God and the true faith. Thats where we are. Now the question is...how do we pray?Turn to Psalm 81...Psalm 81. And I want the Holy Spirit to give you direction here as we think about this. See if this doesnt sound familiar, verse 11, Psalm 81 verse 11, But My people did not listen to My voice or My word. Israel did not obey Me. So verse 12, I...what?...gave them up. Wow. If He would do that with Israel, a covenant people, what do you think is going on in America, were not a covenant people? So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their own heart to walk in their own devices. I let them go, I let them go to the consequences of their choices. This is God, Hes abandoned them. But look at verse 13, and heres the heart of God that I think we have to grasp in America in this hour, heres God, His words, O that My people would do...what?...?...yeah, there it is...that they would listen to Me, listen to Me. That Israel would walk in My ways. Right there, folks, is your mandate to pray.What do you have to pray for? You have to pray for the Word of the living God to be proclaimed across this nation. And if its not being proclaimed in churches, its not going to be proclaimed anywhere else. This is not a time for weak men in weak ministries preaching weak messages. This is a time to call on God to raise up a generation of passionate faithful gracious loving preachers of the Word so that a nation can listen to God. Thats the answer. Think God might react? He said...I love this, verse 14...I would quickly.. you like that word? Isnt that a good word? I dont get the picture Gods dragging His heels here. I would quickly subdue their enemies, I would turn My hand against their adversaries and it would be so great that even the people who hate Me would pretend to obey Me. And then I love this, I love verse 16, And I would feed you with the finest of the wheat and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you. Thats metaphoric, I would just drown you in blessing.God only wants one thing out of a nation. Listen and believe this book. I really get grieved even when I hear evangelical people in the media and the public eye kind of equivocating about the clarity of the gospel. Its all weve got. Or about the clarity of what Scripture says. Your prayer and mine has to be that God would raise up faithful preachers and people who would proclaim His Word across this land. Pray for this generation of young men that God will call and shape and send, pray for pastors everywhere. Pray for lay people, for Christians to be bold. Theres only one solution and thats the truth...the truth by which God saves, by which God sanctifies, and if this nation will respond and listen to His truth, God will open the flood gates. We might be the greatest recovery story in history. But theres no other way than that people listen to Me and walk in My ways. Its not going to happen if theres a famine of the hearing of the Word of God. Pray that the Word, as Paul said, would have free course and that it would run with all its power across this land. With all its beauty and magnificence, all its power and grace, that people would hear and believe and be saved and be obedient, all that to the glory of God. I dont know what Gods plan is, I just see here what His heart is. O, that My people would listen to Me, thats the heart of God.Our Father, we thank You for simplifying things, as You always do even in the midst of what is so profound. It all comes down to the truth again, the truth...the truth...the truth...the truth. Make us people of the truth. May we trust the truth, unleashing it in all its power, knowing that we...we have no..no other weapon but the sword and it is sharper than any other. So, Lord, we just plead with You that Your Word in all its saving and sanctifying and transforming power would explode across this nation, that the truth would replace the lies that abound everywhere, not for us but for Your own glory. This we ask in the name of our Christ. Amen.


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CHICAGO — Jaromir Jagr is like an NHL time capsule.
He is a man from another era, when the hair was longer, the goals were more artful, and tweeting was something you did when you tried to talk after you had a few teeth loosened.
History has a way of repeating itself.
The last time Jagr laced 'em up for a Stanley Cup Final — as he will do on Wednesday night for the Bruins against the Chicago Blackhawks — was June 1, 1992 in Chicago. He scored the opening goal in Pittsburgh's 6-5 win at now-defunct Chicago Stadium that completed a four-game sweep and gave the Penguins their second straight Cup.
He was 20 years old. One of his teammates was Hall of Famer Bryan Trottier and one of his opponents was Jeremy Roenick, who is now a studio analyst for the NBC Sports Network.
Jagr is 41 now, dying his beard to disguise the salt and pepper. They should play Elton John's, "I'm Still Standing" when Jagr takes the ice.
"Are you guys still surprised I'm alive?" said a playful Jagr Tuesday as he took to the podium for NHL media day at the United Center. "Yes, I am."
The Bruins' rent-a-right-wing finds himself back in the Final in the same city where he last skated for the Cup, when current teammate Tyler Seguin was 4 months old. That 21-year gap between playing for championships is the longest any player has endured in any of the four major North American sports.
It's a testament to Jagr's genes, longevity, and adaptability that he's still playing.
"I know it's not easy to be 41, but I don't think that age matters," said Jagr, seeking his third Cup title. "As long as you love the game and you like to work hard every day, more than the other guys you can play."
Jagr hasn't lost his sense of humor over the last 21 years, which included a three-year stint in the Kontinental Hockey League in Russia.
He joked that in the old Chicago Stadium, which closed in 1994, you knew what kind of shape you were in before you hit the ice because you had to climb the treacherous and vertiginous 20-plus steps to get to the rink.
"You got tired before you went to the game because you have to go to the steps," said Jagr.
When asked about the Stanley Cup, one of sports' most iconic trophies, he deadpanned, "It's pretty good, heavy."
He also joked that hockey-hair mullets will make a comeback in 10 years or so.
The mind is just as keen and the hands are still capable of puck prestidigitation. But Jagr, who ranks in the top 10 on the NHL's career list for goals (681, 10th) and points (1,688, eighth), now runs on regular instead of premium unleaded. He is more of a Prius than a Porsche.
Still, Jagr has been effective for the Bruins, particularly since coach Claude Julien moved him from the third line to the second line, with left wing Brad Marchand and center Patrice Bergeron, for Game 7 of the Bruins' first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
He hasn't scored a goal this postseason, which is more bad luck than lost skill, but he has seven assists, three coming in the Eastern Conference finals against the Penguins.
Having Jagr on the 2012-13 Bruins is a bit like having Tom Seaver on the 1986 Red Sox. Seaver was a wraith of his former transcendent self, but still talented enough to make an impact. Coincidentally, Seaver was also 41 when he was acquired by the Red Sox from the Chicago White Sox midway through the '86 season.
In his glory days, Jagr, a five-time NHL scoring champion, regarded defense as an unnecessary evil.
However, the times are a-changin' in the NHL and Jagr had to change with them when he changed teams in an April 2 trade that delivered him from Dallas, the Bruins' consolation prize for losing out on Jarome Iginla.
"Jags, he's done a great job at adapting. He's come in and played a different style, a different system," said Marchand. "It's not an easy thing to do partway through the year, especially when there is a shortened schedule."
Jagr had some reservations about joining the Spoked-Bs. Jagr asked Bruins management three times, "Are you sure you want me?"
"I just want to make sure. I don't want to go somewhere where they don't want you," Jagr said. "I don't want to be somewhere where I'm kind of useless. I would rather not play at all. I wanted to make sure three times before I said, 'Yes, I'm coming.' You just don't know what they're looking for or all that. How they want you to play. That's why I asked."
Jagr has endured so long that some of the players he's playing with and against this series grew up idolizing him.
Bruins defenseman Matt Bartkowski grew up a Penguins fans, as did Blackhawks forward Brandon Saad. Chicago captain Jonathan Toews declared Jagr was one of his favorite players growing up and that he wore his number in summer league and used Jagr's brand of stick.
In athletic terms, he's so old you might need carbon dating to place him.
Jagr has waited a long time for the opportunity to skate for the Stanley Cup again.
"When you're young you don't really think about how tough it is," said Jagr of reaching the Cup Final.
Time dulls a lot of things, but it enhances appreciation of a grand opportunity.
Christopher L. Gasper is a Globe columnist and the host of Boston Sports Live. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cgasper.


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Personally, I find it a bit hard to understand what Sisko does that is so terrible in this episode. Okay he bribes Quark, but he has bent the law numerous times before for the Ferengi. He is an accessory to several killings, but he doesn't even know about them until after they happen! And he does get clearence from Starfleet for the operation - we've seen before that Starfleet is willing to authorise lethal force against others on intelligence missions. Picard and co. killed several Cardassians in "Chain of Command" during an invasion of Cardassian territory, for instance. Okay Sisko's actions may be a little less than spotless, but they hardly seem like the great moral burden around his neck that he makes out they are.
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