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Drake: Nothing Was the Same (Take 1)
By Thomas Britt / 25 September 2013
Nothing Was the Same
Cash Money
Rap and hip-hop are full of coronations, from perceived kings to classic albums to legendary beefs. Even lesser achievements tend to arrive with grand language. Diddy, always attuned to opportunities to make "history", recently introduced his new "fitness and wellness water" brand with the gem of a sentence, "I am looking forward to making history in the process." Far less common is the acknowledgement that making history is not necessarily a good thing. History also remembers tragedies, commercial and critical failures, and squandered fortunes. But Diddy's rhetorical version of "history" is one that predicts success, using present language to frame future results as predestined achievements. As such, "looking forward" (future) "to making history" (past) "in the process" (present) is the perfect way to articulate his Donald Trump-like approach to business and entertainment.
Aubrey Graham, who releases music under his middle name Drake, projects a similar attitude. Naming new album Nothing was the Same could be perceived as yet another way of framing his own career as a game-changer. An actor who started releasing mixtapes as Drake in 2006, he began his music career already preoccupied with fame. Following the release of debut studio album Thank Me Later (2010), he saw his outlook increasingly validated by good reviews, blockbuster sales, and industry awards. Those fruits, like the opening line of 2011 album Take Care, "I think I killed everybody in the game last year…" were testaments to the success of his ongoing project in self-mythology.
But claiming the crown is different from earning it or fighting for it. In rap, those who don't seem hungry enough for the title (and/or those who lack the skills to back it up) risk being exposed as pretenders to the throne. And each new challenger or claimant that emerges could produce an inflection point, after which nothing would be the same.
Drake has weathered several of these challenges. In 2012, DMX appeared on Power 105 on more than one occasion to criticize Drake for everything from his presumptuous involvement with a posthumous Aaliyah album to "his voice … his face … the way he walks … [and] his haircut". Also last year, Common released a remix of Rick Ross/Drake track "Stay Schemin', " in which he perpetuated an ongoing beef with Drake. What had initially begun as a perceived slight against Drake for being "sweet", escalated to Common's takedown of his rival's unconvincing machismo from "Headlines" and his seemingly conflicted racial identity. This year, Kendrick Lamar used his outstanding verse on Big Sean's "Control" to crown himself the "king of New York"(!) and to state his purpose clearly: "What is competition? I'm trying to raise the bar high." Drake is among the rappers he has "love for" but also targets for lyrical assassination.
Anticipating the release of Nothing Was the Same, David Drake of Complex asked, "Is Drake Really the Voice of the Millennial Generation?" — an analysis of Drake's current dominance in the contexts of social media and narcissism. One of the most interesting observations in the article is the comparison of Drake's brand to "the creation of identity through curation, a new self that leaves less-pleasant realities behind." With that point, the writer offers a possible rebuttal to a common criticism of Graham's choice to play this character called Drake. If the Millennial Generation acknowledges and values the creation of identity through social media, then Graham's former life as a professional actor could make him particularly qualified to shape-shift. Besides, long before social media, authenticity was not all that important in popular music. Tupac was a former child actor. Most of the Beach Boys didn't surf. But the problem with Drake, and a major flaw of Nothing Was the Same, is Graham's continued failure to be convincing in his chosen role.
Previous release Take Care was a messy album, but memorable for its production by Noah "40" Shebib, Jamie xx, and Just Blaze as well as guest contributions by Chantal Kreviazuk and Rihanna. These highlights of Take Care occurred not because of Drake, but in spite of him. On "Headlines", his attempts to position himself as a veteran ("I had someone tell me I fell off") or a man of violence ("You gonna make someone around me catch a body like that") rang false. Yet in the hook of that very song, he doubled down by insisting that "the real is on the rise", unintentionally projecting more insecurity. On "Lord Knows", he complained of the "recreation / To pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations" in the midst of an album wherein he over-shared for most of the running time. Later, he claimed "I'm a descendent of either Marley or Hendrix / I haven't figured it out cause my story is far from finished."
Contrast those lines with "The King", Tree's single from this year's Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out: "How you doing, they call me Tree / They doing the most, I'm just doing me" and "I know who I am, I ain't trying to find me". Both artists are claiming to be the king, but Drake's contradictory, melodramatic king-making seems silly when compared to a rapper whose supremacy flows from his effortless articulation of what it is to know oneself and be truthful.
As a writer of lyrics, Drake spends so much time on characterization that he rarely ever achieves genuine introspection. "Tuscan Leather", the sumptuously produced introductory track of Nothing Was the Same, contains a rare self-aware utterance that positions Drake next to a movie character: "Lately I've been feeling like Guy Pearce on Memento." Assuming he means he relates to Leonard Shelby, the character Pearce played in the movie, the comparison aligns Drake with someone who cannot erase the gaps between the man he once was, the man presently is, and the man he wants to be. Shelby is a character with memory problems. Drake is a character with an identity crisis.
While there's little use arguing over what's real in popular music, ideally the persona one chooses should be a believable fit and bolstered by considerable skills. Much of the Complex article mentioned above concerns the narcissism of pop music and social media. Drake's lyrics reveal an inordinate amount of time spent gazing into the mirror. However, with each successive album, the image staring back at Drake (and reported lyrically to the listener) is both more distorted and unsuccessfully embodied. For instance, look at the dual album covers that adorn Nothing Was the Same. Drake, his present self, stares at a past self, restyled as Baby Biggie Smalls. Graham works so hard to insert the character Drake into a regal rap lineage that the result is all seams and no garment.
As Drake furiously attempts to assert his quite unbelievable character, fatigue sets in. His relentless delivery ensures that words spill out in defiance of the breath required to sustain them. But rate does not guarantee quality, and on Nothing Was the Same, his lyrics are worse than ever. This is a shame, as the efforts of Noah "40" Shebib and other producers are especially admirable this time out. With a production style and song structures that consistently defy expectations, Nothing Was the Same is a great-sounding album. Often quite spare, the beats drop out and then return, having flipped to introduce new sections/directions. In the background, backmasking abounds, vocal pitches change constantly and melodies are elusive but effective in their melancholy. On some tracks, an aural fog hangs in the air, so thick it might be touched. Shebib and the other producers are growing into a distinctive house style that has more in common with releases by artists like Zomby or labels like Hyperdub than it does with contemporary major-label hip-hop.
A few spins in, listening to Nothing Was the Same is akin to putting up with Big Sean in order to get to Kendrick: Drake is just tolerable, and it's tempting to skip through him to get to the good parts, which are instrumental passages and guest spots. The first half of the album features conspicuously bad lyrics. On "Furthest Thing", Drake repeats a litany of thing's he's been up to "on the low" and revisits/regrets past events with a real or imagined female character. There have been so many of these sorts of characters in his discography that an unfiltered picture emerges only rarely. For all we get to know her apart from his Leonard Shelby-like unreliable narration, the Drake Girl might as well be a composite figure.
Single "Started from the Bottom" is aggressively stupid. A fantastic beat is sullied by all of Drake's worst lyrical tendencies deployed in one song. Yes, the concept of "starting from the bottom" seems like a whopper coming from Graham, but "the bottom" is consistent with his recollections about living in the basement and then moving up. Besides, that phrase is the least of the song's problems. Drake routinely curses like a child who is testing out bad words and trying to see what he can get away with. And even worse than his lazy padding of bars with such words when he's in need of syllables, is the acute flagrancy in his overuse of one word in particular.
In June 2013, C. Shardae Jobson wrote an article for The Source called "Should R&B Singers Use the N-Word?" Though the ostensible focus of the article was the R&B context, Jobson covered a range of issues from the Paula Deen incident to the rebellious spirit of rap to "questioning hip-hop's pass". Jobson partially justified the use of the word in rap: "The roots of rap began from a background of undeniable creativity but crumbling real-life surroundings. The N-word's place is more plausible in comparison because the streets were too real for even the most level-headed boy or girl coming of age."
What then to make of Graham/Drake, who utterly lacks those qualifying conditions? On Nothing Was the Same, he spits the word out more than two dozen times in just the first three tracks. He uses the word arbitrarily and delivers it with relish. There's no getting around the enjoyment he seems to derive from saying it, and that's a disturbing reality of listening to his music. One scenario Jobson described was to hear the word "casually spewed from a Caucasian youth in all Pac Sun gear with their friends in the streets". Let's face it — that describes a key target market for Drake's music, and I wonder if he's ever considered the effects of that influence? His affection for the word might be less jarring if he devoted some time to discussing it, like Wale did on "The Kramer" in 2008. Earlier this year, Dangeruss made a case for his pass on "I'm Poppin", a song that isn't as smart as "The Kramer" but at least acknowledges the issue and lets the listener reach his or her own conclusions.
Another puzzling aspect of "Started from the Bottom" is the line "we don't like to do too much explaining". Given that Drake spends so much time explaining his persona that he never gets around to existing in a convincing way, the line contributes to a feeling that many things Drake says on the record are the exact opposite of true. Perhaps creating such statements is a way to bait his detractors. After all, the video for the single features him boxing with snowflakes — not exactly a rational defense against accusations of being soft. He seems to thrive on inviting and anticipating negative responses.
An additional possible instance of baiting is "Wu-Tang Forever", a song that links the Drake brand with one of the most beloved hip-hop groups of all time. The track samples Wu-Tang Clan's "It's Yourz", but apart from that connection the song has nothing in common with the talent or muscle of that legendary group. Rather, Drake chooses to invoke Wu-Tang on a song concerned for another girl from his past and one in which he preens in a fantasy standoff with a rival (possibly a remembrance of his club scuffle with Chris Brown).
The rest of the album's first half is plagued with posturing towards women and self-affirmations. "Own It" begins as a lifeless song about wanting to take a romantic relationship to the next level, and it switches halfway through to an angry song about how people talk too much (specifically about Drake). Once again, to enjoy the song would require overlooking a massive contradiction — in this case the fact that foremost among those who can't stop talking about Drake, is Drake himself. "Worst Behavior" is a triumph of production, but the lyrics are hollow. A full two minutes go by before Drake expresses a proper sentence/thought, and that one involves some fantasy he has of living up to ODB's ability to shake down women for money. Eventually, there's a characteristic mid-song flip, but the subsequent self-mythologizing is actually offensive in its empty posturing.
Without a single track to fully recommend, the first half of the album is an endurance test. If the listener makes it to track seven ("From Time"), there is a brief reward in the form of Jhene Aiko's voice. She is to Nothing Was the Same what Rihanna was to Take Care, and like Rihanna she provides an assist that outshines the main attraction. Juxtaposed with Aiko, Drake's entrance to the song is at first a vocal stink bomb. Nevertheless, he does attempt to create a narrative with his lyrics, cycling through a thematic retread of the first half of "Own It", followed by a detour about his relationship with his Dad, and then a comparison of his girl to his Mom. A later verse concerns his ascendancy despite females' lack of faith in him. Sure, it's all overly emotional and confessional, but those are Drake's best modes and here he succeeds in them.
"Hold on We're Going Home" is another song that works, showcasing Drake's suitability for soft pop/rock. If he could merge the attention to melody and the delicate tone of this song to the "hard" moments he never manages to achieve elsewhere, then he might be onto a good formula. Rittz and Mike Posner achieved such a hybrid earlier this year on "Switch Lanes", providing a lead Drake would be smart to follow in order to find his own way forward. Alas, the good moments are short-lived. Like "Worst Behavior", "Connect" finds intriguing orchestration marred by inane lyrics, this time about his (and his lady's) sexual prowess. Drake is conflicted enough when using the microphone to talk to women from his past. He's thoroughly lost when trying to talk on behalf of them.
"The Language" is a showcase for Drake's relentless flow, but he does himself no favors by failing to explore any interesting lyrical territory. He rhymes "platinum" with "platinum". Such laziness might be acceptable were the song not about language. "305 To My City" offers more of the same, as Drake rhymes "customs" with "customs", failing to vary the meaning between uses. At this point in the album, it's clear that in addition to largely sidestepping storytelling, Drake cannot or does not want to use insightful lyrics.
The final two songs on Nothing Was the Same are emblematic of its overall strengths and weaknesses. "Too Much" is the best song on the album, thanks to the contributions of Sampha Sisay. The hook gives an emotional weight to Drake's corresponding lyrics about thoughts that trouble him. But "Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2" undoes that authenticity of feeling by trying to turn a spoken word Jimmy Smith sample into a "Giorgio by Moroder" moment. Earlier in 2013, Daft Punk did it first and best, so the technique here pales in comparison. Then Drake and his producers return to the Wu-Tang well by sampling "C.R.E.A.M.". By the time Jay-Z appears for his verses, the cumulative impression is an attempt to harness classic tracks and acts in order to set up one final variation on Drake's origin story. He ends the album by stating how far he's come, but simply being able to afford access to the classics isn't sufficient to become a legend.
In the end, Nothing Was the Same might be best understood as a way of summing up the difference between Aubrey Graham and Drake — at once the most self-conscious and least self-aware presence in pop music. The man and his character are at odds, staring each other down and narrating the process. While that might make Drake the ideal pop brand for the social media set, nothing in his musical output so far suggests that he's the artistic pinnacle of a generation. He says in "Tuscan Leather" that he is "on a mission trying to shift the culture". Yet he never specifies a new direction. Like his lyrics, the mission remains insular and under-developed. To paraphrase R.L. Sharpe from "A Bag of Tools", Drake has given the culture a "stumbling block" disguised as a "steppingstone".
RATING 2 / 10
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You've read the news--how in very 'blue' Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin won the governor's race, and Winsome Sears and Jason Miyares will be be the next lieutenant governor and attorney general.
This is a great victory for conservatives, and a model to follow across the country. What was the secret? In part, families and suburban moms. Youngkin traveled the state talking about how schools are teaching kids to be racists with curriculum like 'critical race theory,' forcing them to hate their race and gender, and even having pornography in school libraries, and all the ways schools are pushing socialist ideology on our children.
Youngkin's opponent, radical Democrat McAuliffe, admitted what more careful leftists don't dare: "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." It's all about parental rights and school choice.
A Harvard poll shows Americans don't want their kids taught hatred: "On schooling and education, another sleeper issue, 61% do not believe students should be taught that America is structurally racist and is dominated by white supremacy."
The lesson is that citizens should demand that candidates pledge to remove all anti-American and hateful curriculum from local and statewide schools.


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NJ judge releases accused child rapist and lets him go on vacation
David Matthau
David Matthau Published: November 22, 2019
Contributing Authors: Sergio Bichao
Union County Courthouse in Elizabeth. (Google Maps)
ELIZABETH — A man accused of repeatedly raping a 7-year-old girl has the state's bail reform law and a Superior Court judge to thank for releasing him from jail — and even letting him travel out of state for a summer vacation with his teenage son.
Despite protests by a Union County assistant prosecutor, Judge Lara DiFabrizio sprung 36-year-old Daniel Williams from the slammer this July without any provision for house arrest or electronic monitoring. The judge allowed the Franklin Township man to continue working on a garbage truck in residential neighborhoods despite being charged with the most serious sex crime felony on the books.
Williams is not the only suspected sex predator that DiFabrizio has released before trial.
In October, she freed and imposed house arrest and ankle monitoring for Edward Giles, an East Orange police sergeant accused of spending decades raping and molesting victims he knew as a foster parent of more than 50 children and as a youth coach who's interacted with hundreds more.
Prosecutors in Union County have bristled at DiFabrizio's decisions regarding pre-trial detention. The judge has accounted for half of the eight appeals that prosecutors in this county have filed against judges since the state's bail reform law went into effect in 2017. At least two of her decisions have been overturned by fellow judges.
The law, which effectively did away with cash bail, has resulted in thousands of defendants being freed before trial. Despite initial complaints by some law enforcement officials and bail bondsmen, crime and arrests have trended downward.
And while the system may be far from perfect, criminal justice advocates say the law allows prosecutors to appeal judges — something prosecutors chose not to do in the Williams and Giles cases.
Williams and Giles have remained out of trouble and have followed the conditions of their release — perhaps affirming DiFabrizio's judgement that the men did not pose flight risks or threats to their communities. But that has been cold comfort for prosecutors and terrified victims left on tenterhooks.
Williams was arrested July 15 and charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault, and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged victim — the daughter of Williams' ex-girlfriend — came forward with the allegations when she was 12 years old.
The girl told her mother and authorities that Williams first kissed her and touched her private parts when she was 7. On more than one occasion until the following year, he sexually penetrated her while he was living with the family in their Linden home, the girl told investigators.
Prosecutors say Williams threatened to hurt the girl or her mother if she ever told anybody about what he did. Prosecutors said Williams also sent his ex and the girl sexually graphic and violent text messages.
Williams' attorney, Thomas Mirigliano, argued during a July 26 hearing that his client denies all the charges and the attorney cast doubt on the words of a "12-year-old little girl who is coming out with these things."
"We don't know what this girl's life has been in the past five years … we don't know what's happened to her since then. We don't know why she would make these allegations," Mirigliano told DiFabrizio. "It would be extremely unfair and simply punitive to keep my client in jail until he's able to defend himself at trial. That's not the purpose of detention."
Mirigliano also argued that his client would lose his job and income if he were kept locked up or under house arrest.
"He's never been in this position before and he intends to fight these charges all the way to the end because he did not do it and he adamantly maintains his innocence," he said about Williams.
DiFabrizio — a Seton Hall graduate from Scotch Plains who was appointed in 2017 by then-Gov. Chris Christie — concluded that Williams was a candidate for release because he had no criminal record, had no other accusations against him, was employed and his brother and several friends showed up to the hearing to support him.
The judge also gave little weight to the threatening text messages because the girl's mother responded with an "lol" and called the sender of the texts "pathetic," indicating that she was not really in fear for her life.
She OK'd his trip to North Carolina this summer as long as his visit with his underage son was supervised. He also was barred from contacting the victim or her family and was ordered to check in with the court by phone and in person every other week and surrender his passport.
A spokesman for Union County Acting Prosecutor Lyndsey Ruotolo's office declined to react to the judge's specific decisions but said in a written statement that "we strongly believe that defendants charged with serious criminal offenses of this nature should be detained pending the adjudication of their cases – and if they are released, the strictest conditions allowable under the law should be put into effect, in order to protect the community at large and preserve the integrity of the prosecution."
The New Jersey Criminal Justice Reform Act was created with strong bipartisan support to ensure that all defendants would not be held behind bars for months or years until their trials simply because they could not afford to post bail.
The system was also designed to make sure wealthy individuals accused of serious crimes that posed a risk to the community or a flight risk would not be able to post bond and get out of jail before trial.
Alexander Shalom, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, said the system is a step forward but it's not perfect because in some cases the wrong people are detained or released.
But, he added, "That's exactly the same problem we had under the old system. What we've done is we've reduced the number of those errors."
A study released this month by the The MDRC Center for Criminal Justice Research found that arrests have declined since the law's implementation.
Shalom said judges have the authority to take multiple factors into consideration when deciding whether someone will remain incarcerated.
"If a party thinks the judge got it wrong, we've built in a system that allows appeals of those decisions. Prosecutors both can and do appeal decisions made by judges about detention all the time. The appellate court will also look at a host of factors to determine what to do," he said.
Judges also have to explain and justify their decisions.
He said the system isn't perfect but we're not replacing a perfect system.
"Let's never make the mistake of comparing the system we have today to some ideal of perfection," he said. "Let's be responsible and compare it to the failed system that we had before."
You can contact reporter David Matthau at David.Matthau@townsquaremedia.com
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The Junior Medals continue to be poorly attended with some medals having no entrants at all, while the most that played in any medal was eight (8). Hopefully these figures will improve over this coming season.
On the 9th May, we had a meeting Scottish Golf Regional Officer, Martin Ritchie, to give us ideas to increase junior members.
Entries to the Junior competitions were sadly lacking in numbers ranging from 1 to 6 Juniors playing. The Junior Convener intends to hold off for a few weeks into the new season hoping numbers will improve before considering an alternative course of action.
The Junior Convener was thinking of running a new 6-hole Competition on the back nine on selected Sundays at around 2.30pm to encourage juveniles to play. This would require adult players to start at the 10th Tee for those days. After some discussion regarding frequency of this event and its timing, it was agreed by Club Council to trial a monthly 6-Hole Competition on Sunday's for Juniors/Juveniles commencing at 4:00pm. A commencement date is still to be set.
We had mixed fortunes with our Pennant League Team this past year. Our Club like many others had difficulties raising a team on some occasions. We had wins over Deeside GC and Murcar GC, lost to Portlethen GC, got one point when our match with Newmachar GC was cancelled due to an unplayable course (theirs) and had a match conceded to us when Kemnay GC were unable to raise a team.
On 29th June, Junior Club Championship match between C. High & L. Watt was played to a very high standard. C. High had a really hard task in this scratch match over 36 holes, playing off a 22 handicap against 3 handicap player in L. Watt, nonetheless, he gave a good account of himself but in the end the gulf was just too much and L. Watt eventually won 12 & 11.
The numbers playing in the Rotary Junior Open in June were considerably down on previous years with only 5 home players and 23 Visitors. The club recorded a small profit of £284.00 once all prizes were paid out. L. Watt won the Scratch Prize with a 71. A Catto was 2nd in the 13 – 36 Handicap section. The Club would like to thank Ellon Rotary Club for their continued support of our Junior Open.
Junior Champion has completed his final season as a Junior with an impressive list of achievements;
He finished 9th in Scottish Boys Junior Tour Final at the Renaissance Golf Course, East Lothian. Was 1st in the following competitions, Ellon Gents Open (Scratch), Ellon Junior Open (Scratch), Murcar Junior Open (Scratch) and the Portlethen Junior Open (Scratch). He was also a creditable 5th in the Scottish Boys Junior Tour at Duff House and 10th in the Scottish Schools Championship played at Murryashall GC. In addition, he made the cut at the Paul Lawrie Junior Jug Competition at Pollock GC, he was 5th when playing for the North East District in the District Triangular Boys Match at Dunkeld &Burnum GC. He won the Dawson Trophy, the Norco Shield, the Gillanders Trophy, the Strachan Trophy, the Kestrel Trophy and the Winter Eclectic.
In Clubgolf, although numbers were down, it is still a successful venture for the Club due in no small part to the drive and commitment from M. Keith and the volunteer coaches who give their time up to coach the boys & girls, hopefully they will progress into our junior section.
The Paul Lawrie Flag day at McDonald Golf Club was yet another example how junior event numbers are in decline, with only 9 under 15's playing and only 19 in the flag event itself. We can only hope thinks do improve for Junior golf in the next few years.
In the Felicity Trophy although our team won on the day, the deficit from the first match at Duff House Royal was too much to overcome and we exited the competition.
The Murray Trophy for under 14s was held at the same venue and A. Hunter finished in 1st place with 45 points.
In September L. Watt qualified to play in the final rounds of the Spence Trophy at Murcar GC. Unfortunately, he lost 4 & 3 to C. Black of Royal Aberdeen GC, the eventual winner of the competition.
All the Juniors who represented the club in various competitions enjoyed the experience which will hopefully be of benefit for them in 2020.
For this year we have registered an interest in taking part in the new Golf Sixes Leagues being run by Scottish Golf Ltd., with 16 clubs taking part in three leagues here in the Northeast.
In conclusion although junior membership within the club continues to be a cause for concern, the Club is open to any suggestions from the membership who have any ideas on how to address the downturn.
I would like to thank Iain Campbell for standing in for me at Junior events when I was unable to be there in person, and to the parents of the boys for taking them to the various events saving the club transport costs.
And finally, I wish to thank Sandra Brockie for all the invaluable help she has been to the Junior Section and myself.
Author: Mitch Cabel, Junior Convener


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IV. GOD'S ANGER AGAINST THE WICKED.
"God is angry with the wicked every day." -- Psalms 7:11.
I. The Bible divides all the human race into two classes only, the righteous and the wicked.
Those are righteous who have true faith in Christ, whose spirit is consecrated to God, who live a heavenly life on earth, and who have been renewed by the Holy Ghost. Their original selfishness is subdued and slain and they live a new life through the ever-present grace of Christ Jesus.
Right over against them in character are the wicked, who have not been renewed in heart; who live in selfishness, under the dominion of appetite in some of its forms, and it matters not in which, out of all possible forms, it may be, but self is the great and only ultimate end of their life. These are, in the scriptural sense, the wicked.
II. God is angry with the wicked.
Our text explicitly affirms this. The same truth is affirmed and implied in numerous other passages. Let the sinner remember that this is the testimony of God himself. Who should better know the feelings of God towards sinners than God himself does? Who on this point can gainsay what God affirms?
But this truth is also taught by reason. Every man in the exercise of his reason knows it ought to be true. If God were not opposed to the wicked, he would be wicked himself for not opposing them. What would you think of a judge who did not hate and oppose lawbreakers? Would you think him an honest man if he did not take sides against transgressors? Everybody knows that this is the dictate of reason and of common sense. Sinners know this, and always assume it in their practical judgments. They know that God is angry with them, and ought to be -- though they may not realise it. Sinners know many things which they do not realise. For instance, you who are in sin know that you must die; but you have more reason to be assured that God is angry with you than you have to be sure that you must die; for it is not necessarily so certain that you will die as it is that God is angry with you for your sin. God may possibly translate you from this world to another without your death, as he has some others; but there never was, and never can be, any exception to the universal law of his anger against all the wicked. You know this, therefore, with an absolute certainty, which precludes all possibility of rational doubt.
Sinners do know this, as I have said, and always assume it in their practical judgments. Else why are they afraid to die? Why afraid to meet God face to face in the world of retribution? Would they have this fear if they did not know that God is angry with them for their sin? It would be gratuitous, therefore, to prove this truth to the sinner. He already knows it -- knows it not only as a thing that is, but as what ought to be.
III. The nature of God's anger.
1. It is not a malicious anger. God is never malicious; never has a disposition to do any wrong in any way to any being. He is infinitely far from such feelings, and from any such developments of anger.
3. God's anger cannot be in any sense a selfish anger; for God is not selfish in the least degree, but infinitely the reverse of it. Of course his anger against the wicked must be entirely devoid of selfishness.
1. An entire disapprobation of their conduct and character. He disapproves most intensely and utterly everything in either their heart or their life. He loathes the wicked with infinite loathing.
3. God's anger involves also strong opposition of feeling against sinners. Undoubtedly God must have feelings of anger against the wicked. We cannot suppose it possible that God should behold sin without feelings of anger.
In our attempts to conceive of the mental faculties of the divine mind, we are under a sort of necessity of reasoning analogically from our own minds. Revelation has told us that we are "made in the image of God." Of course the mind of God is the antitype from which ours was cast. The great constituent elements of mind, we must suppose, are therefore alike in both the infinite and the finite. As we have intellect, sensibility, and will, so has God.
From our own minds, moreover, we infer not only what the faculties of the divine mind are, but also the laws under which they act. We know that in the presence of certain objects we naturally feel strong opposition. Those objects are so related to our sensibility that anger and indignation are the natural result. We could not act according to the fixed laws of our own minds if we did not utterly disapprove wrong-doing, and if our disapproval of it, moreover, did not awaken some real sensibility in the form of displeasure and indignation against the wrong-doer.
4. God is not angry merely against the sin abstracted from the sinner, but against the sinner himself. Some persons have laboured hard to set up this ridiculous and absurd abstraction, and would fain make it appear that God is angry at the sin, yet not at the sinner. He hates the theft, but loves the thief. He abhors adultery, but is pleased with the adulterer. Now this is supreme nonsense. The sin has no moral character apart from the sinner. The act is nothing apart from the actor. The very thing that God hates and disapproves is not the mere event -- the thing done in distinction from the doer; but it is the doer himself. It grieves and displeases Him that a rational moral agent, under his government, should array himself against his own God and Father, against all that is right and just in the universe. This is the thing that offends God. The sinner himself is the direct and the only object of his anger.
So the Bible shows. God is angry with the wicked, not with the abstract sin. If the wicked turn not, God will whet his sword, he hath bent his bow and made it ready, not to shoot the sin, however, but the sinner -- the wicked man who has done the abominable thing. This is the only doctrine of either the Bible or of common sense on this subject.
5. The anger of God against the wicked implies all that properly belongs to anger when it exists with good reason. We know by our own experience that when we are angry with good reason, we have strong opposition of will, and also strong feelings of displeasure and disapprobation, against wrong-doers. Hence we may infer that under the same circumstances the same is true of God.
IV. The reasons of God's anger against the wicked.
His anger is never excited without good reasons. Causeless anger is always sinful. "Whoever is angry with his brother without a cause is in danger of the judgment." God never himself violates his own laws -- founded as they are in infinite right and justice. Hence God's anger always has good reasons.
Good reasons exist for his anger, and he is angry for those reasons. It is not uncommon for persons to be angry, under circumstances, too, which are good reasons for anger, but still they are not angry for those good reasons, but for other reasons which are not good. For example, every sinner has good reasons for being angry with every other sinner for his wickedness against God. But sinners are not angry against other sinners for those reasons. Although these reasons actually exist, yet when angry at sinners, it is not for these good reasons, but for some selfish reasons, which are not good. This is a common case. You see persons angry, and if you reprove them for their anger as sinful, they seek to justify themselves by affirming that they are angry with the man for his sins -- for his wrong-doing against God. Now this is indeed a good and sufficient reason for anger, and the justification would be a good one if the anger were really excited by this cause. But often, although this reason exists, and is pleaded by the man as his excuse for anger, yet it is no excuse, for, in fact, he is not angry for this cause, but has some selfish reason for his anger. Not so with God. God is angry with the wicked, not irrespective of his sins, but for his sins.
Now we all know that, by a fixed law of our being, nothing can be a greater temptation to anger than to see persons act unreasonably. This is one of the greatest trials that can occur, and one of the strongest incentives to anger. So when God looks at the unreasonable conduct of sinners, he feels the strongest indignation and displeasure. If they were not rational beings endowed with reason, no anger would be awakened and called forth. But since God knows them to be endowed with reason, and to be capable of true and noble-hearted obedience, he cannot fail of being displeased with their transgression.
2. The course of the wicked is utterly ruinous. No thanks to the sinner if his influence does not ruin the whole world. By the very laws of mind, the sin of any one man tends to influence other men to sin, and they spread far and wide the dreadful contagion of his example. It may truly be said that the sinner does the worst thing possible to him to ruin the universe. He sets the example of rebellion against the supreme government of all worlds. And what influence can be more potent than that of example? What worse thing, therefore, can the sinner do to destroy all good than he is doing by his sin? No thanks to him if every man who sees his sin does not imitate it to his own ruin, and throw the power of his own example broadcast over all his associates. No thanks to any sinner if his own influence for ruin does not run like fire on the prairies, over all the world, and then over every other world of moral beings in the universe of God.
Think of the father of a family, living in his sins and exerting his great influence over his household to make them all as wicked as himself. Who can estimate the power of his influence over his wife and his children? Does he pray with them and seek to lead them to God? No; his example is prayerless. It proclaims every day to his family, "You have no occasion at all to pray. You see I can live without prayer." Does he read the Bible to them or with them? No; his constant example before them sets the Bible at naught, And continually suggests that they will be as well off without reading the Bible as with. His whole influence, therefore, is ruinous to the souls of his family. No thanks to him, if they do not all go down to hell along with himself. If they do not scream around him with yells of mingled imprecation and despair, cursing him as the guilty author of their ruin, he will have other agencies to thank besides his own. Surely he has done what he well could do to secure results so dreadful as these. Has not God good reason to be angry with him? Why not? Would not you feel that you have good reasons to be angry with a man who should come into your family to destroy its peace -- to seduce your wife and daughters, and to entice your sons into some pathway of crime and ruin? Certainly you would. Now do not all families belong to God in a far higher sense than any man's family belongs to him? Why, then, has not God as good reasons for anger against a wicked father as you could have against a villain who should plot and seek to effect the mischief and ruin of your family? Is it wonderful to you that God should be angry with every wicked father? Just consider what that father is doing by his bare example -- even supposing that his words are well-guarded and not particularly liable to objection. Who does not know that example is the very highest and strongest moral power? It does not need the help of teaching to make its power felt for terrible mischief. The prayerless husband and father! The devil could not do worse -- nay, more, not so bad; for the devil never had mercy offered him, never stood related as this wicked father does, to offered pardon and to the glorious gospel. If, then, God would have good reason to be angry at the devil, much more has he for anger against this wicked father.
3. Again, God is so good and sinners are so wicked, he cannot help being angry at them. If he were not angry at the wicked, he would be as much worse than they as he is wiser than they. Since, in his wisdom and knowledge, he knows more fully than they do the great evil of sin, by so much the more is he under obligation to be displeased with sin and angry at the sinner. We sometimes hear men say, "God is too good to be angry at sinners." What do men mean by this language? Do they mean that God is too good to be opposed to all evil? too good to be displeased with all evil-doers? This were indeed a strange goodness! God too good to hate sin -- too good to oppose sinners! What sort of goodness can this be?
I have sometimes heard men say that if God should be angry with sinners, he would be as bad as the devil himself. Now this is not only horrible language on the score of its blasphemy, but it is monstrous absurdity on the score of its logic. The amount of its logic is that God would be himself wicked if he should be displeased at wickedness. So wrong it must be to hate the wrong-doer! Pray, who is it that holds such doctrine? Is it not possible that they feel some interest in sustaining wrong-doers even against God himself?
Really there is no force, no plausibility even, in this language about the wrong of God's being angry at sinners, except what arises from misconceiving and misrepresenting the true idea of the divine anger in this case. If God's anger were in itself sinful -- as is the case often with man's anger -- then, of course, nothing more can be said in its vindication. But since his anger is never sinful, never selfish, never malicious, never unholy or wrong in any degree whatever, nothing can be more false, nothing more sophistical, nothing more ungenerous and vile and Satanic, than to imply that it is. But this is just what men do when they say that for God to be angry at sinners is to be himself wicked.
The true view of this case is not by any means abstruse or difficult of apprehension. Who does not know that good men are, by virtue of their goodness, opposed to wicked men? Surely all wicked men know this well enough. Else why the fear they have of good and law-abiding men? Why do all horse-thieves and counterfeiters keep dark from good men, dread their presence, commonly feel a strong dislike to them, and always dread their influence as hostile to their own wicked schemes?
So wicked men feel towards God. They know that his goodness places him in hostile array against themselves. This fact seems to be implied in the Psalmist's expostulation, "Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endureth continually." God is always good; how can you be proud of your wickedness? God is too good and too constantly good to afford you any scope for sin, any ground of hope for peace with him in your iniquity.
V. The degree of God's anger against sin.
It is plain that the degree of God's anger against the wicked ought to be equal to the degree of their wickedness, and must be if God is what he should be. The times of heathen ignorance and darkness "God winked at;" the degree of their guilt being less, by as much as their light is less, than that of such cities as Chorazin and Bethsaida. God does not hold them innocent absolutely; but relatively they might almost be called innocent, compared with the great guilt of sinners in gospel lands. Against those who sin amidst the clearest light, his anger must burn most intensely; for example, against sinners in this place and congregation. You may be outwardly a decent and moral main, respected and beloved by your friends; but if you are a selfish, impenitent sinner, the pure and holy God loathes and abhors you. He sees more real guilt in you than in ten thousand of those dark-minded heathen who are bowing down to idol gods, and whose crimes you read of with loathing and disgust. Think of it. God may be more angry against you for your great wickedness than against a nation of idolators whose ignorance he winks at, while he measures your light and consequent guilt in the balances of his own eternal justice. Oh! are you living here amid the blazing sunlight of truth; knowing your duty every day and every day refusing to do it; do you not know that in the eye of God you are one of the wickedest beings out of hell, or in hell, either, and that God's hatred against your sin is equal to your great guilt? But you say perhaps, Am I not moral and honest? Suppose you are moral. For whose sake are you moral, and for what reason? Is it not for your reputation's sake only? The devil might be as moral for such a purpose as you are. Mark, it is not for God's sake, not for Christ's sake, that you are a moral man, but because you love yourself. You might be just as moral if there were no God, or if you were an atheist. Of course if so, you are saying in your heart, Let there be no fear of God before my eyes, no love of God in my heart. Let me live, and have my own way, as if there were no God. And all this you do, not under the darkness of heathenism, but amid the broadest sunlight of heaven's truth blazing all around you. Do you still ask, What have I done? You have arrayed yourself against God, rejected the gospel of his Son, and done despite to the Spirit of his grace. What heathen has ever done this, or anything that could compare with this in guilt? The vilest heathen people that ever wallowed in the filth of their own abominations are pure compared with you. Do you start back and rebel against this view of your case? Then let us ask again, by what rule are we to estimate guilt? You pass along the street and you see the lower animals doing what you would be horrified to see human beings do, but you never think of them as guilty. You see those dogs try to tear each other to pieces; you will perhaps try to part them; but you will not think of feeling moral indignation or moral displeasure against them; and why? Because you instinctively judge of their guilt by their light, and by their capacity for governing themselves by light and reason. On nearly the same principle you might see the heathen reeking in their abominations, quarrelling, and practising the most loathsome forms of vice and selfishness; but their guilt is only a glimmering taper compared with yours, and therefore you cannot but estimate their guilt as by so much less than your own as their light is less! Your reason demands that you should estimate guilt on this principle, and you know that you cannot rightly estimate it on any other. For the very same reason you must conclude that God estimates guilt on the same principles, and that his anger against sin is in proportion to the sinner's guilt, estimated in view of the light he enjoys and sins against. The degree of God's anger against the wicked is not measured by their outward conduct, but by their real guilt as seen by him whose eye is on the heart.
VI. The duration of God's anger against the wicked.
It manifestly must continue as long as the wickedness itself continues. As long as wicked men continue wicked, so long must God be angry at them every day. If they turn not, there can be no abatement, no cessation, of his anger. This is so plain that everybody must know it.
Look then at the attributes of God. Who and what is God? Is he not a Being whose wrath against you is to be dreaded? You often feel that it is a terrible thing to incur the displeasure of some men. Children are often exceedingly afraid of the anger of their parents. Any child has reason to feel that it is a terrible state of things, when he has done wrong and knows it must come to the knowledge of his father and his mother, and must arouse their keenest displeasure against himself -- this is terrible, and no wonder a child should dread it. How much more has the sinner reason to fear and tremble when by his sin he has made the Almighty God his enemy! Think of his state! Think of the case of the sinner's exposing himself to the indignation of the great and dreadful God! Look at God's natural attributes. Who can measure the extent of his power? Who or what can resist his will? He taketh up the isles as a very little thing, and the nations before him are only as the small dust of the balance. When his wrath is kindled, who can stand before it, or stay its dreadful fury?
Think also of his omniscience. He knows all you have done. Every act has passed underneath his eye; and not every external act, merely, but, what is far more dreadful to you, every motive lying back of every act -- all the most hidden workings of your heart. Oh, if you were only dealing with some one whom you could deceive, how would you set yourself at work to plan some deep scheme of deception! But all in vain here, for God knows it all. If it were a case between yourself and some human tribunal, you might cover up many things; you might perjure yourself; or might smuggle away the dreaded witnesses; but before God, no such measures can avail you for one moment. The whole truth will come out, dread its disclosure as much as you may. The darkness and the light are both alike to him, and nothing can be hidden from his eye.
O sinner! do you ever think of God's perfect holiness -- the infinite purity of his heart? Do you ever think how intensely strong must be his opposition to your sin? to those sins of yours, which are so bad even in your own view that you cannot bear to have many of your fellowmen know them? How do you suppose your guilty soul appears in the eye of the pure and holy God?
You often hear of God's mercy. You hope for some good to yourself, perhaps, from this attribute of his nature. Ah! if you had not spurned it, and trampled it under your feet; if you had not slighted and abused its manifestations to you, it might befriend you in your day of need. But ah, how can you meet insulted mercy! What can you say for yourself in defence for having sinned against the richest mercy the world ever saw? Can you hope that God's injured mercy will befriend you? Nay, verily; God has not one attribute which is not armed against you. Such is his nature, and such his character, that you have nothing to hope, but everything to fear. His dreadful anger against you must be expressed. He may withhold its expression for a season, to give the utmost scope for efforts to reclaim and save you. But when these efforts shall have failed, then will not justice take her course? Will not insulted Majesty utter her awful voice? Will not the infinite God arise in his awful purity, and proclaim, "I hate all wickedness, my anger burns against the sinner to the lowest hell?" Will not Jehovah take measures to make his true position towards sinners known?
Men sometimes say, If God is angry with the wicked, he is worse than Satan. They seem to think that Satan is a liberal, generous-hearted being. They are rather disposed to commend him as, on the whole, very charitable and noble-hearted. They may think that Satan is bad enough, but they cannot be reconciled to it that God should be so hard on sinners.
Now the facts are that God is too good to be otherwise than angry with sinners. The devil is so bad himself that he finds no difficulty in being well enough pleased with their vileness: it does not offend him. Hence, from his very nature, God must hate the sinner infinitely more than Satan does.
2. If God were not angry with sinners, he would not be worthy of confidence. What would you think of a civil governor who should manifest no indignation against transgressors of the law? You would say, of course, that he had not the good of the community at heart, and you could have no confidence in him.
3. God's anger with sinners is not inconsistent with his happiness. Why should it be, if it is not inconsistent with his holiness? If there were anything wrong about it, then it would indeed destroy all his happiness; but if it be intrinsically right, then it not only cannot destroy his happiness, but he could not be happy without anger against the wicked. His happiness must be conditioned upon his acting and feeling in accordance with the reality of things. Hence, if God did not hate sin and did not manifest his hatred in all proper ways, he could not respect himself; he could not retire within the great deep of his own nature, and enjoy eternal bliss in the consciousness of infinite rectitude.
4. God's opposition to sinners is his glory. It is all-glorious to God to manifest his anger towards wicked men and devils. Is not this the fact with all good rulers? Do they not seize every opportunity to manifest their opposition to the wicked, and is not this their real glory? Do we not account it their glory to be zealous and efficient in detecting crime? Most certainly. They can have no other real glory. But suppose a ruler should sympathise with murderers, thieves, robbers. We should execrate his very name!
5. Saints love God for his opposition to sinners, not excepting even his opposition to their own sins. They could not have confidence in him if he did not oppose their own sins, and it is not in their hearts to ask him to favour even their own iniquities. No; where they come near him and see how he is opposed to their own sins, and to them on account of them, they honour him and adore him the more. They do not want any being in the universe to connive at their own sins, or to take any other stand toward themselves as sinners, than that of opposition.
This is an unwarrantable latitude of interpretation. Suppose we should apply the same principle to what is said of God's love. When we read, "God so loved the world as to give his only begotten Son," suppose we say, this cannot mean real love, such as we feel for each other -- no, nothing like this; the language is only used by way of accommodation, and really has no particular sense whatever. This sort of interpretation would destroy the Bible, or any other book ever written. The only sound view of this matter is that God speaks as sensible men do -- to be understood by the reader and hearer, and of course uses language in its most obvious sense. If he says he is angry against the wicked, we must suppose that he really is.
It is indeed true that we are to qualify the language, as I have already shown, by what we absolutely know of his real character, and therefore hence infer that this language cannot imply malicious anger, or selfish anger, or any forms of anger inconsistent with infinite benevolence. But having made the necessary qualifications, there are no more to be made, and the cardinal idea of anger still remains -- a fixed eternal displeasure and opposition against all sinners because of their great guilt.
7. God's anger against the sinner does not exclude love -- real, compassionate love; not, however, the love of complacency, but the love of well-wishing and good-willing; not the love of him as a sinner, but the love for him as a sentient being, who might be infinitely happy in obedience to his God. This is undoubtedly the true view to be taken of God's attitude towards sinners. What parent does not know what this is? You have felt the kindlings of indignation against the wickedness of your child, but blended with this you have also felt all the compassionate tenderness of a parent's heart.
The sinner sometimes says, It cannot be that God is angry with me, for he watches over me day by day; he feeds me from his table, and regales me with his bounties. Ah, sinner! you may be greatly mistaken in this matter. Don't deceive yourself! God is slow to anger indeed; that is, he is slow to give expression to his anger, and himself assigns the reason, because he is long suffering towards sinners, "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." But take care that you do not misconceive his real feeling towards you. Beware, lest you misinterpret his great forbearance. He waits, I know; but the storm of vengeance is gathering. How soon he may come forth out of his place and unlock suddenly all the whirlwinds of his vengeance! Ah, sinner! this once done, they will sleep no more.
8. It is plain that sinners do not realise God's anger, though they know it. If they do both know and realise it, they manifest a degree of hardihood in iniquity which is dreadful. But the fact is, they keep the thought of God's anger from their minds. They are reckless about it, and treat it as they do death. Sinners know they must die, but they do not realise this fact. They do not love to sit down and commune with death -- thinking how soon it may come, how certainly it will come; how the grave-worms will gnaw the flesh from their cheek-bones, and consume those eyes now bright and sparkling. These young ladies don't love to commune with such thoughts as these, and realise how soon these scenes will be realities.
So you don't love to think of God's anger against sin, of his reasons for his anger, and of his great provocations. You probably don't like to hear me preach about it, and yet I preach as mildly as I can. You can't bear to hear the subject brought forward and pressed upon your attention. Tell me, are you in the habit of sitting down and considering this subject attentively? If you were to do so, you could not contemn God and treat him as if you had no care for him.
9. Are you aware, sinner, that you have made God your enemy, and have you thought how terrible a thing this is? Do you consider how impotent you are to withstand God? If you were in any measure dependent on any one of your fellowmen, you would not like to make him your enemy. The student in this college is careful not to make the faculty, or any one of them, his enemy. The child has the same solicitude in regard to his parent. Now consider what you are doing towards God -- that God who holds your breath in his hands, your very life, in his power. Let him only withdraw his hand, and you sink to hell by your own gravity. On a slippery steep you stand, and the billows of damnation roll below! O sinner! are you aware that when you lie down at night with your weapons of rebellion against God in your very hands, his blazing eye is on you? Are you well aware of this?
You may recollect the case of a Mr. H., once a student here. For a considerable time he had been rebellious against the truth of God as presented here to his mind, and this spirit of rebellion rose gradually to a higher and yet higher pitch. It seemed to have made about as much head as he could well bear, and in this state he retired to bed, and extinguished his light. All at once his room seemed full of dazzling splendour; he gazed around; there stood before him a glorious form -- with eyes of unearthly and most searching power; gradually all else disappeared save one eye, which shone with indescribable brilliancy and seemed to search him through and through. The impression made on his mind was awful. Oh! said he, I could not have lived under it many minutes if I had not yielded and bowed in submission to the will of God.
Sinner, have you ever considered that God's searching eye is on you? Do you think of it whenever you lie down at night? If you should live so long and should lie down again on your bed, think of it then. Write it down on a little card, and hang it where it will most often catch your eye, "Thou God seest me." Do this; and then realise that God's eye is penetrating your very heart. Oh that searching, awful eye! You close your eyes to sleep -- still God's eye is on you. It closes not for the darkness of night. Do you say, "I shall sleep as usual -- I am not the sinner who will be kept awake through fear of God's wrath. Why should I be afraid of God? What have I to fear? I know indeed that God says 'Give me thy heart,' but I have no thought of doing it. I have disobeyed him many years and see no flaming wrath yet. I expect he will feed me still and fill my cup with every form of blessing." O sinner! for these very reasons have you the more cause to dread his burning wrath. You have abused his mercy well-nigh to the last moment of endurance. Oh how soon will his wrath break forth against thee! and no arm in all the universe can stay its whelming floods of ruin. And if you don't believe it, its coming will be all the more sure, speedy, and awful!


Canon's all-new large-area CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensor captures images with exceptional clarity and tonal range, and offers the most pixels in its class. This second-generation APS-C-size sensor (22.5 by 15.0mm) has the same 3:2 ratio as film cameras, enabling an effective angle of view that is 1.6 times the normal EF lens focal length. The EOS 20D has an extensive ISO range (from 100 to 1600 plus ISO 3200 in extended mode), and the sensor features a newly developed set of narrow-gap microlenses and noise-reduction circuits to improve performance at high ISOs and optimized photodiode configurations for improved performance at all ISOs. This results in larger, clearer, sharper, and more detailed photographs right from the start.
Whenever you shoot the EOS 20D, you can choose to have it record RAWs or JPEGs alone, or in RAW plus JPEG formats simultaneously. The JPEG recording format is ideal for purposes such as Internet image transfers that require reduced file sizes. Canon's proprietary RAW (.CR2) format, on the other hand, employs lossless compression to ensure the highest possible image quality, and is recorded at 12 bits per pixel to provide a wider range of tones and superior detail in bright highlights and deep shadows when compared with JPEG files. RAW files must be processed before they can be opened in your computer's image-editing software. This conversion process typically takes only a few seconds using the dedicated driver software, which will convert the RAW file into a standard 8-bit-per-channel JPEG or TIFF file, or for maximum tonal range, a 16-bit TIFF. There are six selectable settings for in-camera JPEG image quality, when CF card space is at a premium.
The Canon EOS 20D 8.2MP Digital SLR Camera 17-85mm has a newly developed high-precision nine-point AF system for speedy and accurate focusing in any situation. An improved focusing screen with precision matte finish enables brighter and easier manual focus. A newly developed multicontroller, conveniently located on the back of the camera for thumb-controlled action, allows the photographer to instantly choose any of the nine focus points or direct the camera to choose them automatically. Focusing points are positioned in the viewfinder in a wide diamond-shaped array, allowing the user to achieve focus quickly in numerous compositions and situations.
Photographers will find their options for color settings greatly expanded in the new EOS 20D. Taken directly from the EOS-1D Mark II, the white-balance compensation function utilizes the new multicontroller and a nifty LCD monitor display to tune any white balance setting up to +/-9 steps in blue, amber, magenta, or green hues to ensure spot-on color. The new white-balance bracketing feature produces a series of three files varying white balance from magenta to green or blue to amber, depending on the lighting situation.
Images can be processed directly for the industry print standard Adobe RGB or standard sRGB, and are compatible with DCF 2.0 and Exif 2.21 standards for greater flexibility. A range of in-camera image processing parameters can optimize JPEG files for direct printing or post-processing, or can be customized to the user's tastes and needs.
The EOS 20D also features a built-in monochrome mode, a first in Canon digital SLRs, which uses digital processing to re-create the effects of a number of different black and white filters and toning effects. These features help to take the guesswork out of black-and-white photography, reducing the need for post-processing by delivering the desired detail and contrast of a black-and-white image from the start.
The EOS 20D feels solid and rugged in your hands, ensuring stable, easy handling. Its rigid chassis combines engineering plastic with stainless steel and is covered by strong, lightweight magnesium alloy panels on the top, front, and rear. Controls are ergonomically shaped and positioned to sustain the EOS tradition of ergonomic excellence and sure-fire operation. The newly designed grip, shutter button, and rubber skin contribute to this excellent holding comfort, and the camera's high-profile built-in flash is compact and hides itself neatly into the top of the body. A newly refined finish adds to the elegance of the camera body.
While viewing recorded images on the camera's 1.8-inch, high-definition TFT color LCD, you can enter enlargement mode and enlarge them up to 10 times in 15 stops for detailed analysis of lighting, composition, camera movement, focusing accuracy, facial expression, and more. The new multicontroller enables horizontal and vertical scrolling, while the main dial enables viewing of the previous or next image stored in the CF card at the same enlarged view. In the maximum reduced view, nine images are displayed simultaneously on the screen, making them quicker to find. The camera can be set to automatically rotate vertical images so they can be viewed easily on the monitor and also after downloading to your computer.
The EOS 20D lets you print beautiful photos with minimum time and effort–directly from the camera. Simply connect the camera to any PictBridge-compatible printer via the high-speed USB 2.0 port to print images stored on the CF card. You can even set the EOS 20D to trim the image, add a surrounding "frame," superimpose a date, or print multiple copies. The EOS 20D's direct-printing feature complies with Exif v2.2 (Exif Print) and DPOF v1.1. With a host of portable and home printers available from Canon, including the new PIXMA iP4000 and PIXMA iP3000 photo printers, getting tangible results from the camera has never been faster or easier.
The EOS 20D comes bundled with three software CDs: Canon's Digital Photo Professional 1.1, the EOS Solution Disk 8.0, and Photoshop Elements 2.0. Each application is designed to optimize captured images and streamline the digital workflow.
The Canon EOS 20D 8.2MP Digital SLR Camera 17-85mm is compatible with all Canon lenses in the EF lineup, ranging from ultrawide-angle to super-telephoto lenses, and including Canon's new EF-S series lenses, manufactured specifically for the 20D and Digital Rebel. The EF lineup employs advanced optical know-how and micron precision engineering to deliver unprecedented performance in all facets of the photographic process. Aspherical optics and fluorite elements, for example, are featured in the universally acclaimed L-series lenses. Canon's image stabilization feature minimizes the effect of camera shake. Through Canon's EF lenses, photographers can truly maximize the quality and liberating performance of the EOS 20D.
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HomeZamboangaDSWD grants financial aid to former NPA rebels
DSWD grants financial aid to former NPA rebels
Citra January 15, 2023
SEVEN former New People's Army (NPA) rebels have received financial assistance from the government to improve the quality of their life while integrating back to mainstream society.
Major Cyril Noel Ates, Army's 44th Infantry Battalion (IB) executive office, and Social Welfare Officer Cledelou Zaragoza of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) facilitate the distribution last week at the 44IB headquarters in Lower Baluran village, Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay.
The 44IB said in a statement that each of the former rebels received P3,000, or for a total of P21,000 financial assistance to sustain their daily needs.
"Team 44IB sustains its support to former rebels to improve their quality of life and ensure peace and security in Zamboanga Peninsula," the 44IB said.
The financial assistance was granted in line with Executive Order 70, or the "Whole of Nation Approach" in attaining inclusive and sustainable peace. (SunStar Zamboanga)
Source: SunStar (https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1950888/zamboanga/local-news/dswd-grants-financial-aid-to-former-npa-rebels)


My boys sports bags have taken over my clean car smell. I love candles and really love fresh apple and citrus scents. This fun DIY idea can bring those scents to your car! They are very simple to make. The supply cost is minimal and your passengers will thank you!
STEP 1: Start with a nail, mason jar with lid, wax (scent of your choice) and a hammer. Yes, my hammer has my name on it. With loads of boys and living on a farm, my hammer tends to disappear often. The wax packs are sold at most major stores. I purchased this fresh apple scent for $1 at Walmart.
STEP 2: Next take the nail and hammer a bunch of holes in the metal mason jar lid. The more holes the more yummy scent will escape the jar and fill your car with awesome goodness.
STEP 3: Fill your jar with your wax squares and seal lid to jar. Next place in your car where the hot sun will heat your car and release your scent. These make great gifts for friends, family, teachers, coworkers and so many more.


!BIRTH: 3 months old on 1880 North Carolina Census.
20 years old on 1900 North Carolina Census.
!CENSUS: North Carolina, Henderson Co., Henderson Twp., 18 Jun 1880.
MARRIAGE: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1740-1868.
Dalton, witness William M. Ellington. Married 10 Jul 1862 by L. H. Shuck.
!BIRTH/DEATH: Copy both Birth and Death Certificates.
3 years old on 1880 Virginia Census.
23 years old on 1900 Virginia Soundex.
23 years old on 1900 Virginia Census.
Virginia, Alexandria Co., Alexandria, 3rd Ward, 2 May 1900.
!SOUNDEX: Vol. 59, Ed. 94, Sh. 23, line 51, 114 N. Fayette, Alexandria Va.
!ORDINANCE: BESP ref: 5014841 04 S/N 00016-9 056 08.
Brush and Josephine Elizabeth Sullivan, 1982, Lib. of Congress # 82-125413.
On the 1900 census, it shows that Annie's real name was Johanna.
Kramer Dunbarr birth and death year.
Cheri Wilson has copy of both birth and death certificate for Annie Kramer.
Annie resided at 119 N. Columbus St. Alexandria VA, when she died.
Va., dated 23 Jan 1926.
recorded Book 31 page 531.
Copy of Will of Annie Dunbar, dated 24 Mar 1954, recorded Book 31 page 344.
1903 - Kramer, Annie, clerk, h. 114 N. Fayette.
1904 - Same as 1903.
1905 - Same as 1903.
1906 - Same as 1903.
1907 - Kramer, Annie M. (The Mrs. F.J. Kramer Floral Co., h. 114 N. Fayette.
- Kramer, F.J., Mrs., Floral Co. (The), Charles and Annie M. 114 N.
Dunbarr, 822 King and 114 N. Fayette.
1911 - Same as 1910.
1912 - Same as 1910.
1914 - Dunbarr, Annie, Mrs, home 119 N. Columbus, Apt. 1.
1916 - Dunbarr Floral Co., Gustave G. Wolt, 725 King.
- Dunbarr, Thomas M., Dunbarr Floral, h. 2 Fairfax Apts.
1917 - Dunbarr Apts listed.
1918 - Dunbarr Floral & Apts.
1954 - Dunbar, Annie, 119 Columbus St.
12 years old on 1860 Florida Census.
!BIRTH: 28 years old on 1900 North Carolina Census & Soundex.
8 years old on 1880 North Carolina Census.
!CENSUS: North Carolina, Henderson Co., Green River Twp., 1-2 Jun 1900.
North Carolina, Henderson Co., Green River Twp., Jun 1880.
Arminter (Mintie L.) was a Thompson (dau).
On the 1900 census, Minter L. is single, living at home.


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Halsey opens up about her plans for a baby following struggle with endometriosis
8 July 2019, 17:05 | Updated: 8 July 2019, 17:13
Halsey opened up about her plans to become a mother in an interview with Rolling Stone.
Halsey has had some great news about her fertility following an an agonising battle with endometriosis. The 'Nightmare' singer has been extremely honest about her condition, which has caused her chronic pain. She has also donated and raised over $300,000 for endometriosis research and support.
Endometriosis is when tissue similar to the lining of the womb starts to grow in other places, like the ovaries and fallopian tubes. Endometriosis can have a significant impact on a woman's day-to-day activities and, according to the NHS, can cause difficulty getting pregnant. Research from Endometriosis UK suggests that the condition affects 10% of women world wide.
Halsey has always thought she would struggle to have children because of the condition and had plans to freeze her eggs this summer. She has also previously spoken about how endometriosis could have caused her three miscarriages and it's possible it could have stopped her from ever carrying a child full term.
Halsey attends the MTV MIAW 2019. Picture: Getty/Instagram:@iamhalsey
Thankfully, Halsey (who has previously admitted to having had four surgeries for endometriosis) revealed that following surgery and some lifestyle changes her health has drastically improved and she no longer dreads her periods, that have hospitalised her in the past.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Halsey said that her doctor has advised that she doesn't even need to freeze her eggs when she wants to conceive.
innocence is not lost 🕊 @rollingstone @paolakudacki @dendoll @florido
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"I was like, 'Wait, what did you just say? Did you just say I can have kids?' It was like the reverse of finding out you have a terminal illness," she explained. "I called my mom, crying."
Halsey, who is currently dating musician YUNGBLUD, has previously said in a since-deleted Instagram post she's "dying" to have her own baby after spending some time with her manager's adorable daughter. In the interview, she then joked with her assistant Maria that they had a "pregnancy pact" which means they have to get pregnant together.
She continued: "Never mind. I don't need to put out a third album. I'm just going to have a baby."
If any of my fans or followers have #endometriosis 💛 having a rough time today. laying in bed thinking of you. pic.twitter.com/LOQVn5BsSg
— h (@halsey) January 29, 2016
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Ceres standouts among WAC's elite
Central Valley sophomore Anthony Bonales and Ceres High junior Ian Couture finished first and third, respectively, in the Western Athletic Conference individual standings.
Anthony's dominant play helped him earn his second straight league MVP award.
"I'm glad I was able to win it again," Bonales said. "People's expectations of me always keep me going. I have tons of room for improvement."
Anthony had a 34 point lead over Couture and WAC runner-up Tyler Alldrin (Central Catholic) heading into the conference's year-end tournament. Bonales totaled 92 points.
"I haven't seen anybody dominate a league like that," Hawks head coach Mike Holliday said. "That's a huge gap. He's just a perfectionist out there. He's very demanding of himself. He's self-motivated. His physical strength gives him a huge advantage. I'd be real surprised to find any other golfer in the state who is as strong as him. He overpowers golf courses."
Bonales secured the WAC MVP award prior to competing at the league tournament.
"He could have stayed home and won by 30 points," Holliday said. "He had a really big lead over them (Alldrin and Couture)."
Barring injury or major collapse, Anthony should be in good position for a three-peat next season.
"He has room to improve but it's not because he's not playing at the highest level right now," Holliday said. "He's put in more time than anyone out there. He rarely has a bad day. If he does have a bad shot, he manages to save it."
Couture was named to the WAC First Team. Ian tallied 46 points.


The most attracting spot is the Forbidden City (Chinese 故宫 Gù Gōng) lying at the center of Beijing.It is also known as the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The southern section, or the Outer Court was where the emperor exercised his supreme power over the nation. The northern section, or the Inner Court was where he lived with his royal family. Until 1924 when the last emperor of China was driven from the Inner Court, fourteen emperors of the Ming dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing dynasty had reigned here. Having been the imperial palace for some five centuries, it houses numerous rare treasures and curiosities. Listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987, the Palace Museum is now one of the most popular tourist attractions world-wide.
How to get there? By subway, No.1 get off in the station of Tian An Men West or Tian An Men East.
By bus: the bus station in the same name for line 1,4,52 and 728 is also convenient for catch in the Chang An Street. Alternatively, the bus station of "Gugong" for line 101,109 and 810 is sitting in the north gate of Forbidden City. Night Bus: No. 202 and 211.
Tips: 1. You can rent an audio guided tour which explains certain temples and their uses for ¥40 with a ¥100 deposit (Available in several languages including Chinese, Cantonese, English, French, Japanese, German, Korean, Russian, Thai, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic and Italian).
2. Chinese, English and Japanese-speaking tour guides are available.
3. Tourist souvenirs, books, food and drink as well as a post office are all available.
4. Bags can be deposited free of charge at the Meridian Gate (Wumen) and Gate of Divine Might (Shenwu Men) from 8:30 to 18:00. If desired, bags can be carried between the two gates after going through a security check.
5. Wheelchairs & Strollers are available from the tour guide service at the Meridian Gate (Wumen) and Gate of Divine Might (Shenwu Men), free of charge.
6. Tourist Service Center located at the Arrow Pavilion (Jianting).
Temple of Heaven(Chinese 天坛 Tiāntán), it is another worthwhile visiting place in Beijing. It is much bigger than the Forbidden City and smaller than the Summer Palace with an area of about 2,700,000 square meters. The Temple was built in 1420 A.D. during the Ming Dynasty to offer sacrifice to Heaven. As Chinese emperors called themselves 'The Son of Heaven' ,they dared not to build their own dwelling,'Forbidden City' bigger than a dwelling for Heaven. The Temple of Heaven is enclosed with a long wall. The northern part within the wall is semicircular symbolizing the heavens and the southern part is square symbolizing the earth. The northern part is higher than the southern part. This design shows that the heaven is high and the earth is low and the design reflected an ancient Chinese thought of 'The heaven is round and the earth is square'. The most magnificent buildings are The Circular Mound Altar (Yuanqiutan), Imperial Vault of Heaven (Huangqiongyu) and Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest (Qiniandian) from south to north.
How to get there? By buses 2, 7, 17, 20, 110, 120, 803, 814, 826 to the West Gate (天坛西门 Tiāntán Xīmén); or buses 35 and 106 to the North Gate (天坛北门 Tiāntán Běimén).
Summer Palace (Chinese 颐和园 Yíhé yuán) situated in the western outskirts of Haidian District, the Summer Palace is 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from central Beijing. Having the largest royal park and being well preserved, it was designated, in 1960 by the State Council, as a Key Cultural Relics Protection Site of China. The Summer Palace is the archetypal Chinese garden, and is ranked amongst the most noted and classical gardens of the world. In 1998, it was listed as one of the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Composed mainly of Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, The Summer Palace occupies an area of 294 hectares (726.5 acres), three quarters of which is water. Guided by nature, artists designed the gardens exquisitely so that visitors would see marvelous views and be amazed by perfect examples of refined craftwork using the finest materials.
How to get there: Take bus No. 907, 375, 801, 808, 732, 394, 718 could get there.
Lodge: Beijing is a travel city and millions of travellers from all over the world come there whole year. Then book a hotel in advance is a wise choice. Especially during the golden season autumn. Make your reservation by Hotels Combined and click the city Beijing. You could make your hotel choice which is most convenience for you.