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Monday, August 5, 2013
Ehrlich, Catholic University, form legal clinic
Ehrlich, Catholic University, form legal clinic
August 05, 2013 07:56 EDT
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich has teamed up with the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law to open a clinic this semester on clemency matters for people with criminal convictions.
The initiative will include a workshop for newly elected governors and their staff on clemency powers.
The CUA Law/Ehrlich Partnership on Clemency will be part of the law school's Innocence Project Clinic. Students will receive clinical experience by preparing pardon applications.
Ehrlich, who became Maryland's first Republican governor in 36 years when he was elected in 2002, made clemency requests a priority of his administration from 2003 to 2007. He says he believes it's an important part of the job description of a chief executive.
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Baltimore City Hosts BronyCon
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Statues Smashed at Halethorpe Church
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Car in the Water Near Boston Street
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Man Shot in East Baltimore
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Record-Breaking Baby Born in Germany
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Ravens Re-Sign Vonta Leach
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Delays for MARC's Camden Line
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Two Alarm Fire in South Baltimore
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Man Stabbed in Downtown Baltimore
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Zimmerman Declines to Testify in Trial
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Victim in fatal California boardwalk hit-run identified as Italian woman on honeymoon; suspect arrested
A vehicle plowed through a group of people near Venice Beach, Calif., killing a woman, in an incident caught on security video cameras. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
By Miguel Almaguer and M. Alex Johnson, NBC News
A California man was held on suspicion of murder after a car plowed through Los Angeles' popular Venice Beach boardwalk Saturday night, killing a young Italian woman in the U.S. for her honeymoon and injuring 11 other people, authorities said Sunday.
Police said Nathan Louis Campbell, 38, of Los Angeles, was being held on $1 million bail after he fled the scene in a dark sedan in an incident that was captured on security camera video.
The video shows a man parking a black car along the boardwalk, watching for several minutes and then speeding into the crowd about 6 p.m. (9 p.m. ET).?It shows the car careening around barriers intended to block automobiles from reaching the boardwalk's pedestrian area.
Alice Gruppioni, 32, of Italy was killed, the Los Angeles County coroner's office told NBC News. Eleven other people, all of them believed to have been pedestrians on the boardwalk, were injured, one of them critically.
The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Gruppioni, of Bologna in northern Italy, was married July 20 to Christian Casadei, an architect from Cesena.
Casadei suffered minor injuries and was at his wife's side when she died, it said, quoting Giuseppe Perrone, the Italian consul general in Los Angeles, who accompanied Casadei to the hospital.
Perrone told ANSA in a telephone interview that Casadei and his new wife were strolling along the boardwalk when the car came barreling through.
"We were walking, we were happy, we were on our honeymoon and everything, and suddenly everything changed," Casadei said, according to Perrone.
"I still can't believe it, and I don't even remember exactly what happened. It's all very confusing."
Perrone described Casadei as "destroyed and in disbelief."
Witnesses said it appeared that the driver took aim at people on the boardwalk.
"All I saw was a car emerging from the crowd driving southbound on the boardwalk just plowing through whomever was in its way," said Scott Levinsky, a vendor at the packed tourist attraction.
"We're never going to forget that moment," he said. "I'm still thankful to God that we are still alive and surviving."
Chelsea Alvarez, who was visiting the boardwalk Saturday night, said the scene was "really bad."
"There was tables, there was people everywhere, blood everywhere," she said. "There was scattered stuff. It was horrible. It was the ugliest scene I've ever seen."
Alvarez told NBC Los Angeles that her grandmother Linda Alvarez, 75, was among those hit, suffering broken ribs.
"She's good. She's just resting. She's sleeping right now," Alvarez said.
Los Angeles City Council member Mike Bonin told the station that the barriers in place at the Venice boardwalk are insufficient. He said he would ask the council to move quickly to install new barriers before the end of the year.
Gruppioni was the daughter of Valerio Gruppioni, president of Sira Group, based in Bologna, one of the world's largest producers of radiators for heating. Bologna FC, a club in the top flight of Italian soccer, confirmed her death in a statement offering condolences to Valerio Gruppioni, a former president of the club.
"President (Albano) Guaraldi and all of Bologna FC are with the Gruppioni family in this time of unspeakable pain," the club said.
In a statement Sunday, rival club AC Milan, one of the world's premier teams, expressed its "condolences to former Bologna president Valerio Gruppioni and his family following the passing of his daughter Alice."
Watch US News videos on NBCNews.com
Gil Aegerter and Hasani Gittens of NBC News contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Sun Aug 4, 2013 2:48 PM EDT
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Frugal Family Tree: Missing My Pup
We were at the mall looking around at clothing for the Fall and Summer clearance when my son spotted this display of Boo Dogs. He told me "Mom I miss my puppy Kosha". It made me so sad that he misses our dog. She was not a puppy but to him she was. The two of them were the sweetest pair of boy and dog. As soon as we get a home of our own the first thing I am getting him is a black lab puppy. I can buy him a million dog stuffed animals, and I do lol, but nothing is like having a real dog. I miss that sweet pup too.
We were updated by the people who opened their hearts and homes to our dog and she has found a permanent home with a woman who loves her. They said the woman was feeling lonely and not much made her want to go out and live life but having a dog as sweet as she is made this woman feel loved and a purpose. When I read the email update I was at work and tears started streaming down my face. I am happy someone loves Kosha as much as we did and she is living a good life.
Source: http://www.frugalfamilytree.com/2013/08/missing-my-pup.html
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PC sales still smashing tablets on college campuses
There is absolutely no question at this point that tablets are responsible for the global decline in PC sales. This was an inevitability that top market research firms fought at first in an effort to guard their clients, but the numbers don?t lie: PC sales are falling as tablet sales skyrocket. There are still signs of life for PCs though, and one is that people for whom work is a priority still need the software and multitasking benefits afforded by laptops and desktops. Recent market research from Deloitte found that 82% of college students own computers and 80% own smartphones, but just 18% own tablets. ?The combination of smartphones and laptops makes the tablet redundant for students,? Deloitte?s?Brent Schoenbaum told?MarketWatch. Dealnews.com?s?Louis Ramirez added that ?unless you?re shooting for a degree in Angry Birds, tablets are a horrible back-to-school purchase.?
[More from BGR: WSJ: The FBI can remotely flip on Android phone mics to record conversations]
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pc-sales-still-smashing-tablets-college-campuses-031507738.html
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High court won't delay release of Calif. inmates
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Inmates are housed in three tier bunks, in what was once a multi-purpose recreation room, at the Deuel Vocational Institute in Tracy, Calif. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Inmates are housed in three tier bunks, in what was once a multi-purpose recreation room, at the Deuel Vocational Institute in Tracy, Calif. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
FILE - In this undated file photo released by the California Department of Corrections, inmates sit in crowded conditions at the California Institute for Men in Chino, Calif. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)
FILE - In this undated file photo released by the California Department of Corrections, inmates sit in crowded conditions at California State Prison in Los Angeles. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 California inmates by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates.
A majority of justices refused an emergency request by the governor to halt a lower court's directive for the early release of the prisoners to ease severe overcrowding at California's 33 adult prisons.
The decision was met with concern by law enforcement officials in the state.
Covina Police Chief Kim Raney, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, said the justices ignored efforts already underway to reduce prison populations and "chose instead to allow for the release of more felons into already overburdened communities."
Brown's office referred a request for comment to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where Secretary Jeff Beard vowed that the state would press on with a still-pending appeal in hope of preventing the releases.
A panel of three federal judges had previously ordered the state to cut its prison population by nearly 8 percent to roughly 110,000 inmates by Dec. 31 to avoid conditions amounting to cruel and unusual punishment. That panel, responding to decades of lawsuits filed by inmates, repeatedly ordered early releases after finding inmates were needlessly dying and suffering because of inadequate medical and mental health care caused by overcrowding.
Court-appointed experts found that the prison system had a suicide rate that worsened last year to 24 per 100,000 inmates, far exceeding the national average of 16 suicides per 100,000 inmates in state prisons.
Brown had appealed the latest decision of the panel and, separately, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel the early release order while considering his arguments that the state is making significant progress in improving conditions. The high court refused Friday to stop the release but did not rule on the appeal itself. Corrections Secretary Beard said the state would press on with that, so the "merits of the case can be considered without delay."
However, inmate lawyer Don Specter, head of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office, said the ruling Friday did not bode well for the overall appeal. He said the decision underscores what inmates have been arguing for years.
"The conditions are still overcrowded," he said. "The medical and health care remain abysmal."
Lawyers representing Brown had argued to the high court that releasing 10,000 more inmates would mean letting violent criminals out on the streets and overwhelm the abilities of law enforcement and social services to monitor them.
"No data suggests that a sudden release of inmates with these characteristics can be done safely," the state said in its filing. "No state has ever done it."
The panel of federal judges has consistently rejected that argument. The judges, prisoners' lawyers and others say other states have marginally reduced inmate sentences without sparking an increase in crime.
The governor said the state has already transferred thousands of low-level and nonviolent offenders to county jails, but that local officials in turn have been forced into releasing some inmates early to ease their own overcrowding issues.
The Supreme Court's ruling rejected Brown's plea over the objections of Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who all said they would have granted the state's request.
Scalia, in a dissent joined by Thomas, wrote that the previous order by the three-judge panel was a "terrible injunction" that threatens public safety. Scalia said the state's evidence shows it has made meaningful progress and that such reductions in the inmate population are no longer necessary.
The legal battle goes back years. In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that California had to cut its inmate population to deal with unconstitutional prison conditions caused by overcrowding. It said that further delay in reducing prison overcrowding would further the substandard delivery of medical and mental health care and, by extension, lead to more inmate deaths and injuries.
In recent years, the special panel of federal judges accused Brown of attempting to delay and circumvent their orders. They previously threatened to cite the governor for contempt if he did not comply.
The judges waived all state laws in June as they ordered Brown to expand good-time credits leading to early release. They also directed the governor to take other steps, including sending more inmates to firefighting camps, paroling elderly felons, leasing cells at county jails and slowing the return of thousands of inmates now housed in private prisons in other states.
If those steps fail, the judges ordered the state to release by year's end enough inmates from a list of lower-risk offenders until it reaches the maximum allowed population.
In its latest filing with the Supreme Court, the state argued that no governor has the unilateral authority to take the steps ordered by the three-judge panel. That would require approval by the Legislature or judicial pre-emption of California's core police powers, the administration argued.
Brown has said the state is spending $2 billion on new or expanded facilities for inmate medical and mental health treatment. That includes seven new centers for mental health treatment and the opening last June of an $839 million prison hospital in Stockton that will treat 1,722 inmates requiring long-term care. The state also has boosted hiring and salaries for all types of medical and mental health professionals.
The state has already reduced the population by 46,000 inmates since 2006.
More than half of the decrease that has occurred so far is due to a two-year-old state law ? known as realignment ? that is sentencing offenders convicted of crimes considered nonviolent, non-serious and non-sexual to county jails instead of state prisons.
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AP Writer Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this story.
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From soybeans to baseball, Henry has had success
BOSTON (AP) ? John W. Henry took a backward ballclub in a dilapidated park and transformed it into a two-time World Series champion that is one of baseball's model franchises.
As the owner of The Boston Globe, he will try to turn around a newspaper that ? like many other major metro dailies ? is shedding staff, subscribers and advertisers as it makes the transition into the Internet age.
Henry agreed to buy the Globe along with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the Boston Metro for $70 million, a fraction of the $1.1 billion The New York Times Co. paid 20 years ago. Henry apparently made this deal without his Red Sox partners, though he said in a statement that more information will soon be available "concerning those joining me in this community commitment and effort."
The son of southern Illinois soybean farmers now worth an estimated $1.5 billion, Henry was a minority owner of the New York Yankees and the sole owner of the Florida Marlins when he led a group that bought the Red Sox for $660 million in 2002. (The original group included The New York Times, which sold the last of its 17.5 percent ownership last year.)
They soon set out to preserve Fenway Park while taking a wrecking ball to most everything else that had mired the franchise in failure for more than eight decades.
Henry, who made his money by taking a mathematical approach to the commodities markets, brought a similar method to the baseball diamond, hiring the statistically savvy Theo Epstein, then 28 years-old, as the youngest general manager in baseball history. They hired statistical pioneer Bill James as a consultant, putting the Red Sox at the forefront of the revolution that had just begun to take hold in front offices long dominated by old-time and hidebound scouting types.
But, perhaps more importantly, the new owners turned what had long been a stagnant family business into a revenue spigot.
They took NESN, which had been almost exclusively an outlet for Red Sox and Boston Bruins games, into a full-fledged sports network. (Not every effort ? like the sports-themed dating show "Sox Appeal" ? was a success.) And they spent more than $285 million turning the once-doomed Fenway Park into a modern ? well, as modern as a 100-year-old ballpark can be, anyway ? sporting venue.
With seats above the Green Monster and a roof deck in right field, a high-tech scoreboard and new concourses and concessions, Fenway sold out 820 consecutive games ? by official count, anyway ? the longest such streak in professional sports history. Thousands more file through the turnstiles 12 months a year, paying up to $16 just to see the park when it is empty.
Though fans sometimes chafed at the team's new businesslike approach, the initiatives helped pay for a player payroll that grew from $75.5 million in 2000 to more than $130 million by 2004. That year, the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, ending one of the longest title droughts in sports.
They won again three years later.
Henry was also a different kind of owner than Bostonians had grown accustomed to.
While most owners of the local franchises had treated their teams like family fiefdoms or corporate cash registers ? or both ? Henry engaged with fans, chatting with them on Internet message boards (he would also became an early adopter on Twitter). He spent less time in his luxury box and more in his dugout-side seats, and was once seen running the bases on the Fenway diamond with the woman who is now his wife.
And Henry kept looking beyond baseball.
Through a sister company, the Red Sox owners bought into NASCAR as co-owners of Roush Fenway Racing; soccer, by purchasing the Liverpool FC of the English Premier League; and basketball, through a sponsorship deal with LeBron James. Their business offshoot, known as New England Sports Ventures, has also dabbled in marketing for college sports and professional golf.
In buying a newspaper, Henry enters an industry in turmoil and joins a progression of publishers who have tried to figure out how to balance the free-flowing information of the internet with the costs of quality journalism.
While providing no clues, Henry vowed to try.
"The Boston Globe's award-winning journalism as well as its rich history and tradition of excellence have established it as one of the most well-respected media companies in the country," he said in his statement. "This is a thriving, dynamic region that needs a strong, sustainable Boston Globe playing an integral role in the community's long-term future."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/soybeans-baseball-henry-had-success-212324397.html
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U.S. Air National Guard pilot rescued at sea after mid-air collision
By Gary Robertson
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - A pilot was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of Virginia after two Air National Guard fighter jets collided when their wings came in contact in mid-air, authorities said on Friday.
The F-16C Falcon jets from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland were on a routine training mission late on Thursday when they "clipped wings", the National Guard said in a statement.
They were about 35 miles southeast of Chincoteague, Virginia, according to the Coast Guard.
One of the pilots ejected and his ejection seat sent a satellite-aided distress signal that alerted the Coast Guard to the crash at 10:28 p.m. on Thursday, the Coast Guard said.
The pilot, who had minor injuries, used an emergency raft to stay afloat until he was rescued by an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at about 12:30 a.m. Friday.
The other pilot was able to fly his jet back to base.
The pilots, who were not identified, are attached to the 113th Wing D.C. Air National Guard.
"We are extremely fortunate to have lost only metal, and not the life of one of our Airmen," Brigadier General Marc Sasseville, the 113th Wing Commander, said in a statement.
The Air National Guard said on Friday that salvage operations were under way to retrieve the damaged jet, which was in water 100 feet deep.
The cost of an F-16C Falcon jet is $18.8 million, according to the U.S. Air Force website.
(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Gunna Dickson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-national-guard-pilot-rescued-sea-mid-175825592.html
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Will the e-book judge give DOJ the Apple remedies it asked for?
FORTUNE -- In another context -- or another courthouse -- the remedies the Justice Department and 33 states proposed Friday to address what they call Apple's (AAPL) "illegal conduct" in the e-book market might seem like an unreasonable intrusion by a government agency into a private company's business practices.
Among other things, the DOJ is demanding that Apple let Amazon (AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (BKS) sell their e-books on Apple's online store for two years without paying the 30% commission Apple has charged pretty much every other content provider since it launched the iTunes Music Store in 2003.
The proposed remedy also ties Apple's hands in future negotiations, prohibiting the company from entering into agreements to sell any digital content -- e-books, music, movies, television shows etc. -- that are, in the eyes of a court-appointed monitor, likely to increase the prices at which Apple's competitors might sell that content.
Will the DOJ get what it wants?
The odds are good that it will. Although there will be a separate trial to determine damages, the decision is entirely in the hands of U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, the same judge who ruled against Apple in the original antitrust case.
Despite her promise at the start of that trial to view the case with fresh, unbiased eyes -- setting aside the evidence presented when she supervised settlements with the five so-called publisher co-defendants -- in the end she rejected all of Apple's defenses and issued a decision that might as well have been written by the government's lawyers.
Having covered that trial, I don't expect anything different from Judge Cote this time around. Apple's best chance for an impartial hearing is in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals or -- if it comes to that -- the U.S. Supreme Court.
Link:?Department of Justice Proposes Remedy to Address Apple's Price Fixing
See also: The view from the hard benches.?
Source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/02/apple-ebook-doj-remedy/
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Poll: What Do You Think About Google Glass?
Ever since Google announced it would have a contest for ?Google Glass Explorers,? early adopters who would pay $1,500 for the privilege of getting wearable computers, the tech and media world have been agog with the possibilities. First-person viewpoints for breaking news! Instant photos and video on the scene! A heads-up display that will give context to everything we see! But at the same time, there came a deluge of skeptics and haters who started the ?Glasshole? movement opposed to scenesters with Glass pasted onto their faces 24 hours a day. While most people have never worn them, Google Glass has insinuated itself into society because of their potential, what they could be, what they shouldn?t be. Where do you stand? Do you think Glass will change journalism and broadcasting? Or is it an annoyance that will go away like previous hyped technologies before it? Share your thoughts in the comments below and vote in our poll. And check out a great discussion by early Glass adopters like Robert Scoble, Sarah Hill, Robert Hernandez and Jeff Jarvis.
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PC sales still smashing tablets on college campuses
There is absolutely no question at this point that tablets are responsible for the global decline in PC sales. This was an inevitability that top market research firms fought at first in an effort to guard their clients, but the numbers don?t lie: PC sales are falling as tablet sales skyrocket. There are still signs of life for PCs though, and one is that people for whom work is a priority still need the software and multitasking benefits afforded by laptops and desktops. Recent market research from Deloitte found that 82% of college students own computers and 80% own smartphones, but just 18% own tablets. ?The combination of smartphones and laptops makes the tablet redundant for students,? Deloitte?s?Brent Schoenbaum told?MarketWatch. Dealnews.com?s?Louis Ramirez added that ?unless you?re shooting for a degree in Angry Birds, tablets are a horrible back-to-school purchase.?
[More from BGR: WSJ: The FBI can remotely flip on Android phone mics to record conversations]
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pc-sales-still-smashing-tablets-college-campuses-031507738.html
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Eldorado profit falls, plans less generous dividends
(Reuters) - Eldorado Gold Corp
Eldorado, which links its dividend payments to the price of gold, cut its targeted payout per ounce sold for some gold prices.
Earnings attributable to shareholders fell to $43.3 million, or 6 cents a share, from $46.6 million, or 7 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue rose to $266.9 million, from $244.2 million.
(Reporting by Allison Martell; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eldorado-profit-falls-plans-less-generous-dividends-123843540.html
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NEWS: Monster Hunter Frontier G Coming to Wii U in Japan
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Monster Hunter Frontier G is being ported to the Wii U. Frontier G is an online-only version of Monster Hunter 2 with additional content added.
The game's service will become available in Japan on November 20 for Wii U, and players will be able to take part in a free beta test for a week before the game releases.
Producer Kazunori Sugiura stated that they're "discussing something fun that [they] could do with the Wii U GamePad or Nintendo 3DS." The MMO-style game originally launched for the PC in 2007, and there is currently no word on whether or not the game will release outside of Japan.
Source: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/35062
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Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church: A Response to Rachel Held Evans
In a recent column for CNN, Rachel Held Evans offers some thoughts on ?why millennials are leaving the church.? Her post struck a chord with readers. She is addressing a perennial topic of conversation among church leaders and church goers: what will happen to the next generation.
Like Rachel, I?m 32 ? right on the border of the millennials, and many of the questions and doubts I hear from the millennial generation resonate with me too. But my analysis differs somewhat from?Rachel?s.
Rachel?s Analysis
Rachel thinks?millennials are leaving the church due to the perception that evangelicals are
?? too political, too exclusive, old-fashioned, unconcerned with social justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.?
She?s right to decry a vision of Christianity that reduces repentance to a list of do?s and don?ts. I too have noticed that many millennials desire to be involved in mercy ministry and support justice causes. And I couldn?t agree more when she says ?we want churches that emphasize an allegiance to the kingdom of God over an allegiance to a single political party or a single nation.?
The Church?s Response
How has the church responded? Rachel sees church leaders trying to update their music or preaching style, and thereby running up against the ?highly sensitive BS meters? we millennials have. We?re not fooled by consumerism or performances when churches cater to what they think we want.
Rachel writes:
?What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.?
I agree with that sentence for the most part, although I would tweak the last line to say ?What millennials really want from the church is substance.? Not a change in substance, necessarily, just substance will do.
Too often, our churches have offered a sanitized, spiritualized version of self-help therapy, and Jesus has been missing.?And that?s the problem. Like every generation, she says, ?deep down we long for Jesus.?
Here?s where Rachel and I part ways ? on what communities following Jesus look like in our culture.
The Biblical Jesus
When I read the Gospels, I?m confronted by a Jesus who explodes our categories of righteousness and sin, repentance and forgiveness, and power and purity.
I meet a Jesus who doesn?t do away with the Law of the Old Testament, but ramps up the demands in order to lead us to Himself ? the One who calls us to life-altering repentance and faith.
I see a King who makes utterly exclusive claims, and doesn?t seem to care who is offended.
I see a King who didn?t hold back anything from His people, and who expects His people to hold back nothing from Him.
Is the Church Obsessed with Sex, or is it the Culture?
Following Jesus leaves no part of our life unchanged.
That?s why it strikes me as odd that Rachel sees ?obsession with sex? as one of the biggest obstacles for contemporary Christianity to overcome. I visit lots of churches, and I find that sexuality is not a frequently discussed subject from most church platforms or Bible studies. In fact, one could make the case that Christians haven?t talked enough about Jesus? radical zealousness when it comes to sexuality. The fact that cohabitation, premarital sex and pornography are often overlooked among our congregations betrays the vision of sexuality Jesus put forward ? a vision of the sacredness of a man and woman?s covenant for life, one that excludes even lustful thoughts from God?s design.
When it comes to sexual obsession, we ought to take a look at pop culture. One can hardly watch a TV show or a popular movie without being assaulted with sexual innuendos, crude jokes, or overt displays of all kinds of sexuality. Pastors and church leaders go on news talk shows and are badgered about their views of sexuality, as if nothing else matters but that the church join in and celebrate our culture?s embrace of Aphrodite in all her warped splendor.
Challenged to Holiness
Rachel says millennials want to be ?challenged to holiness,? but the challenge she appears to be advocating is one on our own terms and according to our own preferences. That?s why I find it ironic that she decries the catering churches that alert our ?BS meters,? while simultaneously telling church leaders they should do a better job catering to our generation?s whims and wishes. (She has since clarified this as not a list of demands, but desires and dreams.)
Truth be told, I don?t want a church that serves my preferences. I want a church that gives me Jesus and makes me want to serve His.?
Counting the Cost
One sign of Jesus? Spirit is He convicts the world of sin (John 16:8). The sign of the spirit of this age is that the world is coddled instead of convicted. And those who marry the spirit of this age will always be widowed in the next.
Perhaps that?s why millennials have left the churches that most resemble the type of community described by Rachel at rates far greater than evangelical churches. When the counter-cultural message of Jesus is softened or tweaked, or the raging idols of this age (such as money, sex, and power) are overlooked or ignored, the cost of Christianity disappears. Christianity without a cost is Christianity without the cross. And Christianity without the cross isn?t Christianity at all.
What Kind of Millennial Christian Will We Be?
Some millennials, like many from generations before us, want the church to become a mirror ? a reflection of our particular preferences, desires, and dreams. But other millennials want a Christianity that shapes and changes our preferences, desires, and dreams.
We?re eager?to pass the gospel on to the next generation, to live in ways that call into question the idolatries of our age, to stand in a long line of believers who have been out of the mainstream, constantly maligned and misrepresented, but who love Jesus, love people, and aren?t afraid to call everyone to repentance.
That?s a Christianity this millennial believes is worth dying for, but also one that?s worth living out in a local church with other believers from all generations.
Copyright ? 2013 by the author listed above. Used by permission.
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