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Cognitive Skills of Listening Comprehension
Dr. Kuby and Dr. Young-Suk Kim discuss the cognitive skills of listening comprehension.
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Dr. Kuby and Dr. Young-Suk Kim discuss the cognitive skills of listening comprehension.
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Listen to bi-weekly podcasts (available 1st and 3rd Mondays) of interviews with literacy researchers as they discuss the implications of their research. Teachers, parents, principals, and policymakers are invited to listen and discuss ways to improve literacy instruction.
Authors: Drs. Baker, Kuby and Vander Zanden
This season, we celebrate nearly 4.1 million requests by featuring the most popular podcasts of 2010-2012
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How offline reading, online reading, and prior knowledge can help predict students' abilities to understand what they read online
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Vocabulary Instruction: How Students Approach New Words
Dr. Jocelyn Folk
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Using children's literacy skills to differentiate reading comprehension instruction
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October 16
Examining the validity of oral reading fluency assessments
Dr. Sheila Valencia
November 6
Using categories to teach vocabulary to preschoolers
Dr. Susan Neuman
November 20
Black-White Literacy Gap, Adult Literacy, and Implications
Dr. Dale Cohen
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Reading First in Florida: Five Years of Improvement
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Testimony of Jane L. Ross, Deputy Commissioner for Policy,
Social Security Administration
before the Senate Special Committee on Aging
Little Rock, Arkansas
June 1, 1999
Today I will outline for you the importance of Social Security to elderly women and discuss some of the most important features of Social Security that contribute to their economic well-being. Then I will discuss the relationship between Social Security and poverty among elderly women, and the President's framework for Social Security reform. Then, of course, I would be happy to respond to your questions.
Importance of Social Security
For 60 years, Social Security has provided a solid floor of financial protection in the event of a worker's retirement, death or disability. It has allowed the great majority of Americans to retire with the dignity that comes from financial independence, without fear of poverty or reliance on others.
It is impossible for me to imagine a government program that has had a more positive impact on the lives of older women than Social Security. There can be no doubt -- Social Security is a vitally important element in the retirement income security of our sisters, our mothers, our grandmothers, and our great grandmothers.
Let me share some facts with you. In December 1997, there were 19 million women aged 65 and older receiving Social Security benefits, compared to 13 million men aged 65 and older. More than one-third of these women are protected on the basis of their own earnings in Social Security covered employment; monthly benefits average $650 for these women.
Under the Social Security dual entitlement provision, if a retired worker is eligible for higher benefits as a spouse or surviving spouse, then that higher amount is paid. Another third of these aged women were dually entitled to higher benefits as a spouse or widow. Not surprisingly, the average benefit paid to this group is higher - approximately $700 a month. That leaves the remaining third receiving benefits only on the basis of another worker's earnings as spouses or widows. Spouses receive, on average, $400 a month; widows, on average, $730 a month.
Source: Social Security Bulletin, Annual Statistical Supplement, 1998, Table 5.A15.
But these numbers tell only part of the story; they don't tell us how important Social Security benefits are, particularly for nonmarried aged women beneficiaries. This group includes divorced women, widowed women, and women who never married. The facts are astonishing:
Social Security is the major source of income (50 percent or more) for three-quarters of nonmarried aged women beneficiaries.
Social Security contributes 90 percent of income for two-fifths of nonmarried aged women
Social Security is the only source of income for 25 percent of nonmarried aged women.
And we also want to keep in mind that when aged women come on the Social Security rolls, they tend to stay with us longer than men do. Women reaching age 65 this year are expected to live an average additional 19 years, compared to 16 years for men.
Provision of Dependent's and Survivor's Benefits
The provision of Social Security dependent's and survivor's benefits is particularly important for women.
In 1939, in order to improve benefit adequacy, Congress enacted legislation that provided wife's benefits equal to one-half of the worker's benefit and widow's benefits equal to three-fourths of the worker's benefit.
A spouse's benefit is offset dollar-for-dollar against that person's own worker's benefit. The rationale for this provision is based on the idea that women who are eligible for benefits based on their own earnings cannot be considered completely dependent on their husband's earnings for support, and therefore should not receive a full wife's benefit in addition to their own worker's benefit. The same rationale applies to surviving spouse's benefits.
Since 1939, benefits have been added for disabled widows, divorced wives and surviving divorced wives.
Improvements in the Program
In the last 30 years, total income has risen by about 95 percent, after adjusting for inflation, for elderly women. Social Security has played a prominent role in the income increases of older women over the past three decades.
Much of this is due to legislation enacted by Congress to improve protection for certain dependents and survivors. For example, there have been significant changes in widow(er)'s benefits:
In 1961, the widow's rate was raised from 75 percent of the worker's benefit to 82 1/2 percent.
In 1968, benefits for disabled widows were added to improve protection for this vulnerable group.
In 1972, Congress raised the widow's full benefit rate to 100 percent of the worker's benefit.
Benefits for disabled widows were raised in 1983 from as little as 50 percent of the worker's benefit level to 71.5 percent.
Protection for divorced women has been added and then expanded, as well:
Divorced wives and widows first became eligible for benefits in 1965, but there was a dependency requirement and a 20-year length of marriage requirement.
In 1972, the dependency requirements for divorced women were removed.
In 1977, the length of marriage requirement was reduced from 20 years to 10.
Beginning in 1985, divorced spouses could become "independently entitled" to benefits. That is, they could receive benefits based on the earnings of an eligible former spouse even if the former spouse had not applied for benefits or had benefits withheld under the annual earnings test.
Today, divorced women aged 65 or older--who at one time received no Social Security recognition for their years of marriage--receive an average of $400 per month as divorced spouses and $750 as divorced surviving spouses. At a time when one of every two marriages ends in divorce, this protection gains added importance.
And the importance of the automatic cost-of-living adjustments, enacted in 1972, cannot be overlooked when we think about improvements in retirement income security for elderly women. Women's greater life expectancy makes benefit indexing especially important. For example, without indexing, a $100.00 payment that began in 1975 would have declined in value and, 20 years later, would have the same purchasing power as $33.00 in 1975.
Progressive Benefit Formula
I'd also like to take just a minute to discuss the weighting in the Social Security benefit formula. Social Security benefits have been "tilted," if you will, in favor of low earners, since the 1935 Act. The weighting is part of the redistributive nature of the program.
This feature is very important to women, for two reasons. The first has to do with women's paid work patterns. Women, on average, earn less than men. The median earnings of full-time, full-year working women in 1997 was $25,000 compared to $34,000 for men- or approximately 75 percent. Women have historically earned less than men; the gap is narrowing, and we expect it to continue to narrow- but let me be truthful, the gap it is not expected to disappear entirely.
*1997 dollars Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Income Tables - Persons, Table P31.
Also, women have different labor force participation rates than men. The labor force participation rate for people age 25-64 was 72 percent for women compared to 88 percent for men in 1996. More recent cohorts of women have entered the workforce at younger age than in the past and have maintained a consistently higher participation rate. However, women are not expected to reach the same level of participation as men.
So women tend to have shorter careers, and earn less when they do work, than men. And that means that, when it comes time to compute their Social Security retirement or disability benefits, a larger portion of their total average earnings winds up in the bottom, or 90% bracket, of the benefit formula. Therefore, on average, replacement rates (benefits as a percentage of preretirement earnings) are higher for women workers who are more likely to have lower earnings than men. As the chart below shows, workers who had steady low earnings1 have more of their pre-retirement income replaced than workers with high earnings.
Source: 1999 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, Table III.B5
Relationship between Social Security and Poverty
We can be proud of the fact that more than 40 percent of the aged are kept out of poverty by their Social Security benefits. With Social Security, only about 9 percent of beneficiaries are poor. Without Social Security, half of all beneficiary families would be poor. Here in the great State of Arkansas, it is estimated (by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) that 79,000 elderly women are lifted from poverty by their Social Security benefits.
Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1999
Even though Social Security does a good job of keeping most elderly families above the poverty threshold, poverty rates vary greatly between different groups. For example, poverty rates are higher among nonmarried women than married women beneficiaries.
Only 5 percent of aged married women are poor; in contrast, 22 percent of divorced, 20 percent of never-married, and 18 percent of widowed women age 65 and older are poor.
Widows account for the largest proportion (68 percent) of poor aged beneficiary women. There are 1.4 million aged widows who receive Social Security benefits and have family incomes below the poverty line.
We realize that income security remains an elusive goal for many elderly women. We are constantly striving to improve our programs in order to better serve those who depend on them.
Pensions and Assets
Even though Social Security benefits are at historically high levels, women often lack other sources of income that they need to supplement their benefits. Asset income is the most prevalent supplement to Social Security benefits for the aged as a whole, but aged women are less likely to have such income at all. In 1996, 76 percent of married couples aged 65 or older had asset income compared to 55 percent for nonmarried women and men. In addition, the value of this asset income for women is less than that for married couples or nonmarried men. The median income from assets was $2,663 for these married couples, compared to only $1,146 for nonmarried women and $1,202 for nonmarried men.
Pensions are also an important supplement to Social Security benefits. And there is good news and bad news. On the one hand, women's coverage rate has increased substantially; on the other hand, the coverage rate among men has suffered a slight decline. For full-time private sector employees, in 1972, women had only a 38 percent coverage rate; by 1993, their coverage had increased to 48 percent. During this same period, the coverage rate for men decreased from 54 to 51 percent.
The increase in women's pension coverage has coincided with further increases in women's labor force participation rate. Thus, not only are more women working, more working women are securing their own pension protection.
While we are seeing improvements in pension coverage, aged women today are less likely to receive a pension in addition to Social Security. In 1996, 54 percent of married couples aged 65 or older had pension incomes compared to 30 percent for nonmarried women and 41 percent of nonmarried men.
Furthermore, pensions (and assets) are an insigificant source of income among lower-income elderly. Although pensions provide about one-fifth of all income among the aged, the great bulk of that money goes to higher-income couples and individuals. According to one recent study, 84 percent of all pension income among the aged goes to those in the top two-fifths of the income distribution; only 4 percent goes to those in the bottom two-fifths.
President's Framework
Before I close today I'd like to talk just a little about Social Security solvency. As you know, the program faces a long-range deficit of 2.07 percent of taxable payroll under the intermediate assumptions of the 1999 Trustees Report. Ensuring the long-range solvency of the Social Security program must be our number one priority as advocates for improving retirement income adequacy for elderly women. We have seen today that Social Security is fundamental to the economic well being of our aged population. That is why the President's framework to preserve and strengthen Social Security is so very important. The President has proposed three distinct actions to address the long-range Social Security deficit:
First, the President's framework provides for transferring amounts equal to 62 percent of projected federal budget surpluses over the next 15 years-about $2.8 trillion-to the Social Security system, and using the money to pay down publicly-held debt.
Second, part of the transferred amount, but never more than 15 percent of the trust funds, would be invested in the private sector to achieve higher returns.
Third, the framework calls for a bipartisan effort to take further action to ensure the system's solvency until at least 2075.
The President's first two proposals would resolve more than half of the long-range funding problem and would extend program solvency through 2059.
USA Accounts
The President also has proposed a system of Universal Saving Accounts, which we call "USA's," outside of the traditional benefit structure, that would strengthen the savings and pension legs of our retirement programs.
The USA tax credit would be a progressive, voluntary retirement savings incentive that targets the largest incentives to lower and moderate income working families, who often find it hardest to save. Lower and moderate-income participants would receive an automatic government contribution, in the form of a refundable credit, deposited directly into their USA accounts to help them begin saving for retirement. Participants would receive a government match on their voluntary USA contributions (or 401 (k) contributions), with the largest amounts going to lower and moderate-income participants.
Given this progressive structure, women would tend to benefit more than they would in an account system based on a fixed percentage of earnings. In addition, the USA accounts would not divert funds from the existing Social Security program, a program of guaranteed benefits which protect women's retirement security. Conclusion
The President is committed to helping elderly widows who typically have higher poverty rates than other elderly. Again, using Arkansas as an example, 48,000 elderly women are poor, despite their Social Security benefits. In his State of the Union address, the President made it clear that he wanted to address their situation as part of the effort to close the long-range deficit in Social Security.
As President Clinton has said, now is the time for action on retirement issues. If we take action now, when there is no crisis, when we enjoy the first budget surplus in a generation, we can prevent a crisis from ever occurring. If we delay action for a generation, the size of the financing problem would double. We now have an historic window of opportunity to meet the challenge we face today...and we can't let this opportunity slip away.
Again, I applaud the Subcommittee for raising public awareness of this issue. For its part, the Social Security Administration will be studying many of the questions being raised today, and we will keep the public apprised of our findings. Thank you.
1 Low earnings are equal to 45 percent of average ($12,342), average earnings are equal to the national average wage ($27,426), and high earnings are equal to 160 percent of the average earnings ($43,882).


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nevinx needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 85 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Nevco Rental LLC
We rent out tools and equipment mostly to small size contractors.
We do target home owners for home yard work too.
The business card (Nevco Service Co. LLC) is a Logo we presently use for a different business. We want cross recognition for this new rental business. Clean Simple Look. Please minimize but include the LLC.
Not cluttered but sharp.
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In the past, we southern Californians managed periodic water shortages by temporarily cutting back on our water consumption. But we are now in a new era. Due to PERMANENT reductions in imported water supplies, periodic droughts and our growing economy and population, the number and severity of shortages will increase in the future UNLESS all of us treat water as the precious commodity that it is.
The good news is water conservation provides multiple benefits: reducing water bills, yard maintenance and the urban runoff polluting our Long Beach coastal waters, creating more functional, livable and sustainable landscapes, protecting up-stream rivers and wildlife habitats and, of course, helping to sustain the reliable water supply essential to our families and economy.


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Corvettes for Breakfast
It turns out Mother Nature is a car chick with an appetite for horsepower. In the wee hours of the morning on February 12, eight Corvettes were devoured by a giant sinkhole that appeared beneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Victims included a '62 Vette, an '84 pace car, a '93 ZR1, a 40th Anniversary Vette, an '01 Mallet-modified Z06, and an '09 ZR1. As if that's not tragic enough, the other two losses—Corvettes No. 1 million (a '92 model) and 1.5 million (an '09 model) to roll off the production line—are truly irreplaceable one-of-a-kind cars. Due to Kentucky's vast underground cave network, sinkholes tend to pop up from time to time. Immediately after the 40-foot-wide by 30-foot-deep sinkhole showed its ugly face, structural engineers began working out plans to clean up the mess, which will involve reinforcing the fragile ground and removing sections of the museum's domed roof to make room for a crane. Once the cars are extracted, they will be shipped to GM for repair. The museum will remain open to the public during the entire recovery process. —Stephen Kim
Garage Find:
The Last GT40!
Stories of stumbling across priceless cars hidden for decades under dust and rubble seem to be more common. Most of the time we hear about them stowed away in barns far away from civilization, but every now and again there is one sitting smack dab in the middle of suburbia sitting under an endless accumulating pile of junk.
Such is true for this recently uncovered Ford GT40, arguably one of the most desirable American racing cars of all time, buried under piles of personal belongings in a Thousand Oaks, California, neighborhood since the late 1970s. Attending a car show called The Friends of Steve McQueen, car collector Thomas Shaughnessy caught wind of this rare piece of automotive history rotting away in a garage.
Given that this is chassis P/1067, it makes this '66 Ford GT40 the last one ever produced, and it was sold in 1967 sporting a MK II rear clamshell, just one of three cars known to have that particular rear. To make this car an even rarer gem, this Ford GT40 is the only car known in existence to still retain the MK II rear.
This particular Ford GT40 was raced until 1977, when engine failure sent it into early retirement. The owner began repairs, but an injury hindered the process, and ever since this sleeping beauty has been waiting to be rescued. Now that this special car has been uncovered and saved, it can now be restored to original factory specifications or brought back to life with its '60s racing livery. —Scott Parker
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Muscle Car of the Year 2014
I have a Ford that I am in the process of final assembly on, a '64 Falcon Sprint convertible. A brief list of the components is enclosed. All of this is wrapped up in a car with over-the-top paint, interior, and detailing. All built in a two-car garage. (Hey, a guy needs something to do in the winter in Wisconsin.) If it absolutely has to be a Mustang, I have included a picture of my 1966 that I autocross.
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The Engine Apprentice
Who says you have to be an Engine Masters competitor to build a 600hp 409? This is a '65 block, bored to 4.325. I've had it since the '70s, outfitted with some ported Edelbrock heads, Edelbrock dual-quad intake, and Edelbrock 600 carbs with their valve covers and water pump. It has an Eagle 4.00-inch stroke crank swinging 6.385-inch Eagle rods and JE pistons pushing it to 470 ci and lit by a MSD ready-to-run distributor and wires. Valves are lifted by a Bullet/Ultradyne solid-roller cam with only 251/251 (at .050 duration) and COMP lifters, pushrods, and stainless rocker arms. Oiling by a Stef's pan. Exhaust headers are 2-inch step tri-Y by Jardine. We made over 20 pulls testing timing, carb spacers, 600- versus 750-cfm carbs, and 1.8 rockers to find the best combination of power and throttle response. It will eventually make its way into a '64 Impala SS.
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Skip—sounds like you should enter your 409 into the AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge! It's one thing to drop an engine on a dyno and call it a day—it's another thing altogether to do it on the exact same dyno as 29 other competitors at the same time and place. Your accomplishment is noteworthy, but until you go up against a real field of contenders, you'll never know if you're an Engine Master, or just an apprentice!
Prove It!
Hi, my name is Terry Fritsch. I am developing new heads for 455 Olds engines. I was wondering if you would be interested in doing an article on an engine I am doing. It is a 455 at 506 ci. I am projecting between 1,100 and 1,150 hp naturally aspirated. I feel this is the most high-tech Olds engine ever built. Includes a six-stage dry-sump, roller cam bearings, fully coated, bottom-end girdle, and valley girdle. The heads are approaching 450 cfm, new FCR design shaft roller rockers in 1.9 ratio, etc. Thank you for your consideration.
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Omaha, NE
Terry, we'll tell you basically the same thing we told Skip with his 409—bring that badass bullet to the AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge. We'll even up the ante: We love Olds motors so much, we promise you that if you enter your Olds into the AEMC, we'll do a full tear-down photo shoot on it. (You'll have to do some tweaking to be legal for the rules though.) We promise that overnight, you'll be the darling of the Olds world. Just go to Engine Masters (found here) , and download the rules and an entry application.
Readers' Rides
Though I loved the 42 Readers' Rides in the Jan. '14 issue, I do have two questions: Was the number of submissions really so low that one person with two entries had both printed? Did no one from Canada enter?
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Glad you asked that, Paul! When it comes to crowd-sourced stories, we really are at the mercy of what readers send us. As things move more into the digital realm, people in general are increasingly less likely to do anything in the actual world—like go outside and take a photo. But there is hope. Like last year, we're giving away a killer prize—$800 in Auto Meter Custom Shop gauges—so we're optimistic that everybody will pitch in with their own ride. Can we count on you to represent Canada, Paul?


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Funny how things change in politics. By the time voters cast ballots for president, the label Obamacare went from a pejorative to a point of pride.
Americans saw the 2010 Affordable Care Act making changes in their lives, and any enthusiasm for repeal was eroding.
Republicans eventually gave up trash-talking the health reforms because they had nothing to offer the 30 million Americans without insurance or those who were delighted with the improved coverage the law provided them.
The elimination of industry gimmicks to deny or limit coverage and the inclusion of young adults on their parent's policy to age 26 were a huge hit.
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State Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Kent, returned last week from a series of legislative briefings in Washington, D.C., with a determined optimism that the new health-care law would be launched as planned in January 2014.
Keiser chairs the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee. She and her counterpart in the House, state Rep. Eileen Cody, D-West Seattle, have worked for years to improve access to health care for Washington residents.
Washington and a handful of other states, including California and Maryland, sped ahead with establishing the exchanges that will begin enrolling consumers in October 2013, with coverage to start in January.
Washington's exchange picked up a new name last month. It will operate as the Washington Healthplanfinder, which will offer online guidance and side-by-side comparisons of coverage and costs.
The federal law mandates coverage, but also requires a list of essential health benefits: inpatient care; emergency services; maternity and newborn care; mental-health care; prescriptions; rehabilitation; laboratory services; prevention; and wellness and outpatient care.
Keiser was struck by the absolute determination of key federal players to get everyone started. She heard from Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, and Cindy Mann, director of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Service.
Cohen will oversee implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which will, among other things, subsidize health-insurance coverage for small businesses.
Mann's piece will cover insurance for those under age 65 whose incomes are below 133 percent of the federal poverty line. States will be subsidized at 100 percent for three years, and 90 percent thereafter.
Lots of states have been in ideological paralysis for the past two years. Some legislatures would not budge, even as governors expressed interest in Obamacare. In other places lawmakers wanted to move ahead and governors balked.
A few Republican governors have said they will simply let the federal government set up the whole system in their state. Keiser muses about the possibility of a federal plan for recalcitrant states becoming a template for a national health-care system.
Keiser's legislative instincts are already looking ahead to the next set of challenges: cost controls, and transparency for services provided and their expense. Vendors and hospitals are on notice.
"We must get our arms around what we are paying for," Keiser said. "We do not get accurate information."
She blames arcane accounting systems, and looks to savings with standardized billing procedures and the spread of electronic record keeping. "This issue of cost will explode," Keiser said.
Washington's early preparation was rewarded with federal grants to create its insurance exchange, help doctors, clinics and hospitals install electronic medical records, and encourage colleges and universities to train health-care professionals.
Insurance companies are not complaining about the flood of new business they will get or the chance to recover the costs of preventive care over the course of healthier lives.
Keiser and Cody helped get Washington ready to benefit from a plan even its former political foes are quietly lining up to use.
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Lillian Warren Smith, 82, of Havelock, died Saturday, December 28, 2012 at CarolinaEast Medical Center.
She was a member of First Baptist Church, Havelock and a civil service retiree. She is predeceased by her husband, Hyman �L� Smith, Jr.
She is survived by one son, Sheldon L. Smith and wife Holly of Beaufort, one daughter; Gwen S. Holt and husband Bob of Havelock; three sisters, Inez Johnson, Patsy Boyd, Darlaine Ciesko all of Washington; seven grandchildren, Justin, Kimberly, Brandon, Casey, Melissa, Danny, Jr. and Staci and five great grandchildren, Danny III, Jackson, Jillian, Bentley and Kylie.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, December 30, 2013 at Cotten Chapel with Dr. Donald Hadley officiating. Burial will follow at Greenleaf Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.
Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the charity of one�s choice.
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Ben Roethlisberger's alleged sexual assault victim is at home with her parents after dropping out of school, TMZ has learned.
Multiple sources tell us the 20-year-old woman dropped out of Georgia College & State University over the weekend.
We're told her folks picked her up in Milledgeville and brought her to the family home outside Atlanta.
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TAMPA -- It was nearly a cat-astrophe, but thanks to a woman visiting Tampa Bay, a cat that took a dive in the downtown river is now safely in a new home.
It happened Saturday and was captured on video by Josh Page. Tampa police were trying to get to a cat that was in a tight spot on the bridge above the water. Just as an officer tried to grab it, the cat appeared to slip off the bridge and into the water below.
Amy Marie, who was visiting from Michigan, was below the bridge on a water bike. Instinct kicked in and she jumped in after the cat.
"I was like, 'I just need to jump in,'" she said. "There's no question. I just had to get it. I don't know how it would have got out if I didn't."
She managed to save it and bring it to her water bike, but then the cat jumped off again!
Again, Amy went after it and then pulled the feline to safety. The cat was adopted by a couple boaters who helped in the rescue. Fittingly, the cat's new name is 'Lucky.'


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Gallery: 10th anniversary of SunSmart IRONMAN Western Australia.
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Jurkiewicz, who spent a month in Australia with his family, shared the early lead with Australian Luke Bell, but when the Victorian withdrew midway through the bike, the Frenchman took over and withstood all challenges to win in 8:08.15.
In the women's race, Lyles waited to unleash on the run, coming from eight minutes back off the bike (behind German Mareen Hufe and local star Lisa Marangon) to storm through the field.
The American, who only turned professional last year, ran a three hour flat marathon to win in 8:59.43, just 19 seconds outside the race record.


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Morry Taylor, CEO of Titan Tire, promoting a golf tournament, and updating us on his political views. Emmett McGroarty, National Director of Preserve Innocence and Iowa's new director, Eric Goranson, want to hold the system more accountable to virtue.
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Ed Hardy Shop on line Store From USA
In 2002, Hardy licensed Ku USA, Inc. to produce a line of clothing based on his art. Within two years, the collection had drawn the interest of Saks companies. Hardy and Ku USA formed Hardy Life LLC, which holds the trademark ownership as well as the copyrights to all his images.
In 2004, Christian Audigier licensed the rights to produce the Ed Hardy clothing line, which is based on Hardy's imagery. Prior to the Ed Hardy clothing line, Audigier was the Head Designer at Von Dutch Originals, which marketed the imagery of Kenny Howard. Audigier has attempted to replicate the marketing techniques employed by Von Dutch Originals, by marketing directly to celebrity clients and by opening stores in high profile fashion districts. Ed Hardy stores are located in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Honolulu, Tucson, Dubai, Kuwait, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Mumbai.
In May 2009, Iconix Brand Group announced that the they had acquired a 50% interest in Hardy Way, LLC, the owner of the Ed Hardy brand and trademarks. The Company paid $17 million for its interest in Hardy Way, consisting of $9 million in cash and $8 million in stock. In addition, the sellers could be entitled to receive an additional $1 million in stock pursuant to an earn-out based on 2009 royalties received by Hardy Way. Hardy Way estimates that 2009 royalty revenue will be approximately ˇę10 million.


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New York City landmark Guastavino's was the elegant setting for this year's annual Scholarship Dinner & Auction on April 29. In addition to raising money for the College's scholarship fund, the event honored two alumnae and a beloved professor. For his exemplary distinguished career, Dennis Dalton, professor emeritus of political science, was honored with the Margaret Mead Award, named for the famed cultural anthropologist and 1923 Barnard graduate. Honored with the Frederick A. P. Barnard Award for their dedicated continued service to the College were vice chair of the board of trustees Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald '81, who has served as co-chair of the event since 2005; and Helene L. Finkelstein Kaplan '53, Barnard trustee emerita and chair emerita, who with her husband, Mark, endowed Barnard's first chair in the physical and natural sciences. Kaplan's family and friends also set up the Helene L. Kaplan '53 Scholarship Fund.
Emceed by ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts, the event was attended by more than 500 friends and alumnae, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and chair of the board of trustees Anna Quindlen '74; entrepreneur Martha Stewart '63; singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega '81; founding editor of CosmoGIRL! and former editor-in-chief of Seventeen Atoosa Behnegar Rubenstein '93; philanthropists Cheryl Glicker Milstein '82 and Philip Milstein; and Lisa Sprung Cohen '80 and James Cohen, president and CEO of Hudson Media.
The benefit featured both silent and live auctions, the latter conducted by the energetic and unflappable Harmer Johnson. A third online auction also contributed to the proceeds of more than $1.7 million. "With the difficult economic situation facing families of all income levels today, the financial aid program is more important than ever," said President Debora Spar. "We are grateful that our alumnae and friends have responded with such remarkable generosity."
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After years of talking about new parking meters and more aggressive enforcement of the Downtown and Medical Center on-street parking governed by the meters, city leaders thought it best to bring out the new meters as proof that the change is actually about to happen.
Memphis City Engineer John Cameron demonstrates new parking meters that begin being placed around Downtown and the Medical District this week.
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So city engineer John Cameron stood last week flanked by one of the new single-parking space meters that city crews begin installing this week and one of the kiosks to be installed and operational by the first week of December that motorists will use to pay for multiple parking spaces.
"We had to order new parking meters anyway," Cameron began as he explained in detail how the new meters work and the old ones no longer do to Memphis City Council members and then again at a press conference in the lobby of City Hall.
The $1.6 million project is a five-year lease-purchase agreement between the city and the Parkeon and IPS companies who will manage and maintain the technology for the city.
The 485 single-space parking meters will start to become operational this week as they are installed by city crews. There also will be 135 multiple-space kiosks installed.
Both types of meters are battery powered and the batteries are recharged from solar panels on them that will affect how they are positioned.
Meanwhile, initial city plans to extend the hours of enforcement for the parking meters won't be a part of the changes. Parking in a metered spot is still free after 6 p.m. on weekdays, at least for now.
The meters for individual spaces allow someone pulling into that space to see how much time is left on the meter.
But that's not possible in the multiple spaces covered by a kiosk.
Those using the kiosks also have to remember to take the receipt they get and put it on the passenger side of their dashboards for those checking the meters to see.
For the first two to three weeks of the transition to the new multi-space kiosks, city employees will be stationed at them to help those parking use them correctly.
"It's a little bit of a change," Cameron said of the system that New York City has been using for 15 years and which other major cities have also adopted.
Both types of meters allow motorists to use credit or debit cards. Those parking have to buy at least a half hour of parking time at 50 cents for the half hour and $1 for an hour. The maximum time a motorist can buy could be adjusted if city leaders want a higher turnover in parking places. The rates are set by city ordinance.
"We're trying to get folks in the mode of paying for parking," Cameron said.
The city will have "occasional enforcement" after 5 p.m. weekdays, he added. Technicians in the engineer's office who write tickets will rotate on shifts that go later than their 4:30 p.m. quitting time and Memphis police also enforce the parking meter hours.
The new meters come with some growth in the number of metered parking spaces. There will be 300 new on-street metered parking spaces, according to Cameron – most of them north of Poplar Avenue in the Uptown area.
Memphis City Council member Bill Boyd asked Cameron if "any of these meters are subject to catching fire," a reference to claims about utility Smart Meters made by fellow council member Janis Fullilove, who was sitting across from Boyd when he asked the question.
Fullilove didn't respond to the remark as Cameron said there have been no fires and problems with other parking meters.
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Let's bow our heads together in just a moment of prayer as we look together to the Word of God. Father, we thank You tonight...for the reminder of Your unique design in every one of our lives. We thank You for the testimony that has been brought to us of the grace of Christ to every one of us no matter what may be our physical situation. We thank You for the reminder again that what is in the soul is the real issue. We're reminded of the words of our Lord, who said, "Fear not those that destroy the body, but fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." And, Father, we thank You that You in Your wonderful love have given the Lord Jesus Christ to love every one of us, no matter who we are, no matter what our abilities or disabilities might be. We thank You for the grace of salvation that reaches down to even the chief of sinners to offer redemption. We thank You for the hope of Heaven in our hearts, that someday we will, in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, be as perfect as He is. And, Lord, we thank You, too, for Your great truth, the precious Word of God. And as we look to it, if even briefly tonight, open our hearts, open our minds. Give us understanding, and we'll give You the praise and the thanks for the privilege of communing with You in Your Word for the Savior's sake. Amen.
Lemme ask you, if you will, to open your Bible tonight to John chapter 6. I'm only gonna introduce our look at this chapter. I intend, really, only to kind of do an overview of the chapter, and we'll just get that started a bit tonight. Trust that the Spirit of God will bring us back again next Lord's day evening with great expectation as to what He has for us...
If I were to give a sort of general theme to the 6th chapter of John, I might call it "Divine Sorrow Over Spiritual Defection." "Divine Sorrow Over Spiritual Defection." The heart of God is greatly grieved when people make a superficial commitment to Christ, a superficial commitment to the Lord, and then bail out. It's a common thing, not only today, but ever since the Lord began His ministry.
Just saying the word "defection" leaves kind of a bad taste in my mouth. I don't know how the word "defection" sits with you, but it's a very ugly word. The dictionary defines defection as "desertion from allegiance or loyalty." I'm a strong believer in allegiance. I'm a strong believer in loyalty. I believe if a person commits himself to something, that there oughta be some teeth in that commitment to make him stick with that. I believe in loyalty. I believe in commitment. I believe in allegiance.
And when I think of the word "defection," all I can think of is a traitor or someone who ran in the midst of a struggle... Frankly, I'm sure all of us, to one extent or another, have experienced that. There have been maybe times in our own lives when we have defected from a duty that was given to us. We ran the other direction. There have been times in all of our lives when we have experienced the painful hurting...experience of someone who feels treacherously against us. Someone we loved. Someone we invested in. Someone we poured our life into. Someone we thought was our own familiar friend. But there was a betrayal.
Frankly, nothing is as painful as that in human relationships. No pain is as deep as the wound of one who defects from an intimate relationship of any kind. In thinking about that kind of defection, only thinking about it in Biblical terms, I was reminded this week that the Apostle Paul had such lonely experiences. And I would confess to you that I don't think in my life I have ever experienced the loneliness that comes to the heart...any more greatly than when someone I believed to be a friend has defected from that friendship. Someone I trusted has demonstrated that the trust was not put in the right place. Someone in whom I had invested much love and much of my own heart has proven to be a traitor to that investment.
That, as far as I'm concerned, in my own personal life, is the deepest pain I have ever experienced. And I think the Apostle Paul understood that even more deeply than I understand it. I think he knew what it was to have someone into whom he'd poured his life...abandon him. In Philippians, for example, you can just listen to a few verses. In Philippians chapter 2, listen to what he says, verse 20. He refers to Timothy, and then after mentioning Timothy, he says, "I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. But you know the proof of him...that is Timothy...that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the Gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently."
Here is the Apostle Paul...at a crisis point in his own life and ministry in relation to the church at Philippi. And he says, "I'm sending you Timothy, because I have no one else who cares like he cares. Everybody else...seeks their own things." Now, I don't know how that verse hits you, but it hits me with a deep sense of pain, because I think I can feel what he was feeling to some extent in his heart. But imagine the tremendous, tremendous depth of investment that the Apostle Paul had made in the lives of so many people. And to come to this point in his life when he says, "I have no one but Timothy whom I can send, because everyone else...seeks his own." Even worse, in 2 Timothy, the last epistle that Paul ever wrote at the end of his life, he says in chapter 1 verse 15, "This thou knowest, that all they who are in Asia turned away from me." Really, an unbelievable statement. "Everybody in Asia Minor turned away from me. People like Phygellus and Hermogenes. They all abandoned me."
In chapter 4 of the same epistle, the last chapter Paul ever penned, he says, "Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world." And then down in verse 16, "At my first defense, no man stood with me, but all men forsook me. But I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge." There were a lotta people who identified with Paul until he got into difficulty, and then they were gone. They left.
I think about Jesus...who, with His disciples, was in the Garden on the Mount of Olives when the soldiers came, and the Bible says in fulfillment of Zachariah's prophecy, that when they took Jesus, "the disciples all forsook him and fled." How lonely the heart feels when it's been forsaken. And the deeper the spiritual investment in the person who leaves, the greater the pain. And I want you to understand that the heartbreak that can be experienced by any Christian over someone's spiritual defection, the heartbreak that was experienced by Paul, the heartbreak of our Lord in His earthly ministry about those who defected from Him, has even reached to Heaven. And I believe that the heart of God is very often broken by spiritual defectors. People who follow for a little while, but are very shallow. Their commitment is superficial and self-seeking. And when it turns out that they're not going to get everything they think they ought to get, they want out...
In the Old Testament, we find many people who were, on the surface, identified with the children of Israel. Outwardly, they belonged to the nation. But, inwardly, they had defected from worshipping the true God. In Exodus 32, the...tragic story of the golden calf is told, how that while Moses was up in Mount Sinai getting the Law of God, Aaron led the people in idolatry. And in verse 7 of that 32nd chapter of Exodus, it says, "The Lord said to Moses, 'Get thee down, for people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made a melted calf and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto and said, 'These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' And the Lord said unto Moses, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people. Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may burn against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.'"
There is a most amazing statement. On the one hand, God is saying, "I will burn them up," and on the other hand, He says, "I'll make them a great nation." And that is the ambivalence of wounded hearts that first wants to cry out in judgment against the one that has wounded, but because of the love relationship, wants also to reach out in pity. And so the heart of God, on the one hand, will consume, and on the other hand, will be merciful to that people that defected. There, we get a glimpse of the sorrow of God. He says, "Go away, so I can be alone." Sorrow needs its lonely moments, and even God feels that sorrow.
In Psalm 18 verse 21, we read this. The Psalmist writes, "For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God." And what he is really saying in the writing of this Psalm is that, "I'm not like so many other people. I have not departed from my God." Now, if you were to read the story of Israel in the Old Testament, you would find that it is a story of defection. It is a story of spiritual desertion. It is a story of temporary shallow commitment...It is a story of heartbreak. It is a story that brings sadness to the heart of God and sadness to the one who feels the heart of God.
In Isaiah chapter 16 and verse 9, God said to Moab...Moab was an adjacent nation that had an understanding of the true God. God says to Moab, in speaking about the judgment He will bring, these interesting words. Verse 11 of...verse 9 through 11, that whole section there in Isaiah 16. He says, "I will water thee with my tears...how interesting...I will water thee with my tears. My heart...he says...will sound like a harp."...In other words, it'll play a melancholy tune. I want you to understand that God is a person; and God, as a person, like you're a person, feels the pain of desertion. The sadness of God over a wayward nation caused Him to...to weep and to play, as it were, a melancholy song.
In Isaiah chapter 5, as the prophet takes the Word of God again, God says to him, "I have a song for you. It is a funeral song. It is a song about a vineyard in a very fruitful hill." And He goes on to describe all that He'd done for Israel, and how Israel had defected. And it was a funeral song expressing the sadness of the heart of God. In Isaiah 22, a very pensive portion of prophetic literature. Isaiah 22. Let me just read you three verses there, beginning in verse 12. "In that day did the Lord of hosts call for weeping and mourning and baldness and sackcloth. And, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen, killing sheep, eating flesh, drinking wine, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!' And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts: 'Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die,' said the Lord God of hosts." God said, "I called for weeping, and you had a party...You ignored identifying with the heart of God." God calls for weeping over a defecting nation.
In the 59th chapter of Isaiah in verse 13, we find the people there are guilty of departing from...it says, "Departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt." And, again, the implication is the sadness of the heart of God. But if Isaiah speaks of the sadness of God, then Jeremiah speaks even more of the sadness of God. He is known to us as the Weeping Prophet. God is a Spirit. God does not have a body. God, as a Spirit without a body, cannot weep. And so in a very real sense, the tears of Jeremiah were the tears of God over defecting Israel.
Turn to Jeremiah for a moment in chapter 2 and verse 13... And this is what God says to the Prophet Jeremiah, "For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and then they have hewed out cisterns - broken cisterns that can hold no water." Very graphic language. "Here am I, the source of water, and they have rejected the source of water for water pots that can't produce water and can't even hold water." The note that you wanna see there is, "They have forsaken Me." Again, the sadness of spiritual defection.
Down in verse 19, "'Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou has forsaken the Lord thy God, and that My fear if not in thee,' said the Lord God of hosts. 'For of old, I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, 'I will not transgress.'" He's referring to letting them out of the land of Egypt. He freed them from slavery. "'When upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Yet, I had planted thee, a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?'"
"How did it all go wrong," God says. "How did you become so polluted?" In chapter 3 verse 20, "Surely...He says...as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,' saith the Lord. And a voice was heard on the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God. 'Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.'"
In chapter 15 of Jeremiah and verse 6, again He says similarly to them, "'Thou hast forsaken Me,' saith the Lord, 'thou art gone backward; therefore will I stretch out My hand against thee and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. How many times do you think you can backslide, forsake Me, say you're sorry, and do it again? I'm weary of your repentings.'"
Chapter 17 verse 13, "O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake Thee shall be ashamed. 'And they who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.'" Again, you see Jeremiah's whole theme was the matter of spiritual defection, forsaking God.
Then in chapter 32 in verse 38...here is the hope that God has for them in the future. "And they shall be My people...God is saying...The day will come in the new covenant, the day will come in the future after the work of Christ, that they will be My people, and I will be their God, and I'll give them one heart and one way that may fear Me forever, for the good of them and of their children after them, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, and they shall not depart from Me, and I will rejoice over them." God says, "There's going to come an end to all this sadness when the new covenant comes, and true and eternal redemption takes place in the hearts of My people." But until that time, there was defection...
We find if we go back in Jeremiah now and just touch a couple of very, very poignant passages. We'll see the response of God to this defection. Listen to chapter 9 verses 1 and 2. "Oh...says the prophet...that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!...the sadness of it..."Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them!" The prophet is saying, "I wanna go away alone, and I wanna weep in my loneliness."
Chapter 14 and verse 7...the people cry out, "O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for Thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many. We have sinned against Thee. O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why shouldest Thou be like a sojourner or stranger in the land, and like a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay only for a night? God, why do we treat You as if You're a stranger?" Then in verse 17, in response to that, "Therefore thou shalt say this word to them: 'Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.'" And, again, the weeping and the sadness of the heart of the prophet represents the weeping and the sadness in the heart of God.
In Lamentations chapter 2, I would call your to look at verses 11 and 12. "Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, 'Where is grain and wine?' when they swooned like the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.'" All through the prophecies of Jeremiah, we see the tears of God because of the defection of the people Israel.
And what I want you to understand is that this kind of spiritual defection reaches the very heart of God...To take it at even a stronger perspective, turn in your Bible to Luke chapter 19. Luke chapter 19 and verse 41. And this is Jesus, God in human flesh. "And when He was come near, near to the city of Jerusalem, He beheld the city and He wept over it." It's a strong word. It's a word that implies not just a gentle tear flowing down the cheek, but a great heaving of his heart and soul. He wept. And he said, "If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that belong to your peace!" In other words, "If you only knew what you had, if you only knew what I came to do, but it's hidden from your eyes." And then he thinks about the judgment. "The day will come when your enemies will cast a trench about you, and compass you around, and keep you on every side and lay you even with the ground and your children with you; and they shall not leave in you one stone on another, because you knew not the time of your visitation. You didn't know when God came and the judgment is going to be greatly severe."
Now, the point that I want you to understand is that the heart of God is grieved over those who defect. And the prophet of God feels that grief, and the Apostle feels that grief, and, of course, supremely, our Lord Jesus feels that grief. And we who've experienced that, feel that grief. I confess to you that there is in my heart, and I mentioned a few weeks ago something of this, a little list of people...who are sort of my spiritual defector list. And they have a...a very big place in my heart in the fact that every time I think of them, I feel a sick feeling in my stomach. When I think about the investment in their life, when I think about the relationship, when I think about the fact that they claimed to know Christ and love Christ and walk with Christ, and to love His church and to love His people and to love me and to be loved by me, and...then they just walked away...
That's the saddest, most tragic thing of all. I can only imagine that it could be worse than it is if it were someone in my own family. I have worked with husbands who have had wives who just denied the faith and walked out. Mystery of mysteries. Inexplicable, perhaps, from a human viewpoint. I have talked to wives whose husbands have turned their back on everything they claimed about Christ and walked out. I have talked to heartsick parents whose children have turned their back on Jesus Christ and walked away. And all of us in the ministry have had to deal with those kinds of things...
I don't personally feel that there is any portion of Scripture that more deeply penetrates the heart of Christ in this matter than John chapter 6. And I want you to turn to it, and I just want to introduce it to you briefly...I believe in John 6, we see the pain of Jesus over spiritual defection...Let's's go to the end of the chapter so that we understand where the chapter is leading...Verse 66 is the key verse. It says this: "From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him." What did He do to deserve that? Absolutely nothing...Many of His disciples? You say, "I thought a disciple was a lifer. I thought a disciple made a long-term commitment." Some people are teaching today that a disciple is a second-level Christian who has reached the point of full commitment...total surrender, complete yieldedness. I thought a disciple was someone who really loved Christ...
From that time, many of His disciples left and walked no more with Him...And what was Jesus' response? Look at the...the pathos of this, verse 67. "Then Jesus said to the twelve, 'Will you also go away?'" The twelve, you see, had made the strongest commitment of all outwardly. They were the closest. The most intimate. And He says to them, "Will you do that, too? Will you leave Me?...Will you go away?"..."Simon Peter answered, and said, 'Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.'" That's wonderful, isn't it? Don't you think that blessed the heart of our Lord to hear that testimony from Peter? "I'm not going anywhere. You couldn't get rid of me if You tried. I may stumble and bumble, but I'm staying. And we believe, and we're sure that You are that Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus says, in effect, don't overstate your case, Peter. I know you mean well, and I know you think all the disciples mean well, but I wanna remind you of something. I have chosen twelve of you, and one of you is...what?...a devil, a defector." "And He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for he it was that would betray Him, being one of the twelve."
"His own familiar friend," the prophet said, "who lifted up his heel against Him. His own familiar friend who planted a kiss on His cheek. His own familiar friend who sat with Him at the table and dipped the sop and said, 'Is it I? Is it I?' His own familiar friend, so trusted that he carried the money for that little band of nomads. His own familiar friend."
I believe the pain of the defection of Jesus, though it fit into the sovereign plan of God, was so deep that it wounded continually the heart of Christ. Now, I say all of that just to give you the broad picture of what spiritual defection does to the heart of God. And that's only the introduction. But let it be an encouragement tonight...that none of us wants to grieve the heart of the One who loved us and gave Himself for us, right? Let it be the commitment of our hearts that our discipleship will be genuine, our affirmation of faith in Christ will be real. Our faith will be saving faith, not dead faith. And we will fully and truly enter into a life of obedience with God and not be that shallow, transient, sham disciple who, when things don't go the way he thinks they should go, defects and grieves the heart of God...
Now, next time, we're gonna look at this chapter in detail, as much detail as we can in the hour that will be allotted to us. But before we do that, between now and next time, I want you to read the chapter. In fact, I'd like to ask you to read it every day, so that it's well set in your mind, and as we get into it on Sunday evening, it will unfold to you some of the most profound insights in to the heart of Christ that I think you'll ever have.
Let's bow in prayer...We love You, Lord, and we thank You and praise You for this wonderful day. For the many ways in which we have expressed our worship and our praise. For the joy of this evening, the exhilaration, the happiness, and the fun that the children drew into our lives, for the seriousness of Your Word, as well. And, Lord God, we pray that because You have promised us such joy and such fulfillment, we will be obedient to place ourselves in the circle of blessing to fully enjoy what You have for us. May there be no one in this place who turns and walks away from Christ, but may all of us be those true disciples who, with Peter, can say, "To whom shall we go? You alone have the words of eternal life." And we are sure that You are that Christ, the Son of God. May we be so sure and may we live that surety every moment of every day. Thank You that You abide with us and we belong to You. Until we meet again, we ask for the unction of the Spirit of God. We pray in the name of the Savior, and everyone say it. Amen. God bless you.


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Friday, February 17, 2017
Single mom, Eisley Barrett, prefers to keep romance safely housed within a centuries-old mystery, but when she travels to England to unearth the secret, an actor with a sordid past offers her reluctant heart a very different type of discovery.
Wes Harrison has a past he's ashamed to confess. Suspicious and cyncial, he's managed to avoid romantic entanglements since a tragedy upended his career and life, that is until American Eisley Barrett comes along. Her authenticity and kindness upend his bitter assumptions and send his heart into unscripted territory.
When his past threatens to ruin a second chance at love, can some Appalachian matchmaking and letters from the grave salvage their unexpected romance?
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One step into the massive, glass-walled waiting area was all it took. In a cataclysmic chain of events, someone bumped into Eisley Barrett, sending her purse and all of its contents skittering across the glossy floor of Heathrow International Airport.
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I love that book so much!
My first line today comes from the first book in Tamara Leigh's medieval 'Age of Faith' series, The Unveiling:
~~Lincolnshire, England, October 1149~~
A nightmare seized him from sleep, turned around his throat, and filled his mouth so full he could not cry out. Desperate for air, he opened his eyes onto a moonless night that denied him the face of his attacker.
The Elusive Miss Ellison
Carolyn Miller
And the first line is...
St. Hampton Heather
Gloucestershire, England
June 1813
"'Why, Livvie! Whatever are you doing?' Lavina Ellison placed down her gardening trowel, swiped perspiration from her brow, and smiled up at her friend. 'Good Morning, Sophy.'"
Happy reading and happy Friday!
Pepper's books are just so delightful, aren't they!
Sam wouldn't lose another kid on his watch.
Rescue Me by Susan May Warren
It's so good!
Tamara Leigh is a favored author. Great line! Happy Friday friend!
They are! Susan May Warren is a favorite too! I have this on my kindle to read.
Happy Friday!
I didn't request to review this one because I was already booked. Lol
Sounds good though.
I CAN"T WAIT TO READ Pepper's new book!!! My first line is from an old book that, although I don't have it's publication date, it was a present in 1908 to someone. "It appears to me, looking back over a past experience, that certain days in one's life stand out prominently as landmarks, when we arrive at some finger-post pointing out the road that we should follow." But my very favorite line is: "The heart knoweth its own bitterness, Phoebe, and it may be that in your place I should fail utterly in patience; but if we will not lie still under His hand, & learn the lesson He would fain teach us, it may be that fresh trials may be sent to humble us." from Uncle Max by Rosa Carey
I'm so excited about Pepper's new book!!!!
My first line comes from The Divine Romance by Gene Edwards.
He was alone.


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HAVELOCK -- The Havelock High School library was the place to be on Wednesday, and not just for the scholarly offerings on the book shelves.
HAVELOCK -- The Havelock High School library was the place to be on Wednesday, and not just for the scholarly offerings on the book shelves.
Dozens of students, staff and parents came out to watch five Rams sign to play collegiate sports on national signing day.
Running back Derrell Scott had always been popular. After all, he was recruited by just about every major college football program in the country.
But when he announced his decision last week to attend Tennessee, the four-star recruit became an instant hit on social media sites.
�Coach (Butch Jones) told me once I committed how crazy it would be, but I never believed him,� Scott said. �Like an hour later. I had like 3,000 more followers. Once I committed, I had like 2,000 retweets. It�s crazy. I got some fan mail the other day. Some fan sent some mail to my house. I don�t know how he got my address.�
But, it�s that rabid fan base, along with the Tennessee coaching staff, that he said sealed his decision to become a Volunteer.
�The people there really got me,� he said.
Scott ran for 6,096 yards at Havelock and never missed a start, helping the Rams to three consecutive 3A state championships. And after signing with Tennessee on Wednesday, he called his football experience �a dream come true.�
On top of that, he was excited to see his teammate and fellow running back Taylor Woods sign with James Madison on Wednesday.
�Taylor, that�s my boy right there,� Scott said. �We�ve been playing together forever. He did a lot for me. Sometimes, I get a lot of the recognition that he doesn�t really get, but without Taylor, I wouldn�t have been able to have a lot of the runs and a lot of the holes that I was able to have this year and the years before.�
Woods admits that James Madison was a late comer to his recruiting party. But when he visited the campus last month, it didn�t take him long to commit to the Dukes.
�It was the campus and the coaches, especially coach (Everett) Withers. He sold it to me,� Woods said. �He told me that I could come in and play as a freshman, and that was a big thing for me.�
He called signing day special.
�It�s once in a lifetime,� he said. �It�s a great opportunity to get a full-ride scholarship, and it�s great knowing my parents don�t have to pay for anything, so I can be successful in life.�
James Madison will soon be joining the Mid-American Conference, and Woods said he was excited to be on the ground floor as the Dukes build their program to a Division I level.
�They�re on the rise right now,� he said. � ... It�s a great opportunity to play for them.�
Woods ran for 1,001 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2013, ending his career with a third state title and by signing with James Madison.
�It�s like a movie,� he said.
Natalie Johnson is believed to be Havelock High�s first women�s Division I soccer player, something of which she was unaware on signing day Wednesday.
�I didn�t realize that, but it feels pretty good,� she said.
Johnson, who has been named to the all-state team the past two seasons, had 20 goals last year as a junior, leading the Rams to a 15-7 record.
She said Old Dominion just felt like the right place to be.
�I went on a couple of official visits, but none of the schools felt the same as Old Dominion,� she said. �On the official visit, I had a lot of fun. I enjoyed the school a lot. The recruits, getting to meet them, we all clicked very quickly, and they definitely helped me make the decision.�
George Mason had everything Noah Kemble could want in a school � a top-notch music program located near the nation�s capital with relatives close by and an improving soccer team that made the NCAA tournament last season.
�It just felt like home,� he said of the Fairfax, Va., campus. �They have a great soccer program and the coaching staff is fantastic, and with what they�ve done previously I felt like they would prepare me for the next level. ... It�s just a great school overall.�
Kemble becomes Havelock High�s first men�s Division I soccer recruit after scoring 20 goals last season and leading the Rams to the playoffs.
�Being in a football town, it�s kind of different for me being a soccer player and kind of under the radar,� said Kemble, who also kicked on the football team.
He called signing day a feeling of relief.
�It�s been a long road up to here, but I�m looking forward to improving at the next level,� he said.
Pitcher Josh Little is excited about the future after signing with Pitt Community College.
�It�s a big stepping stone in my life,� he said.
He has plans to transfer to a larger school but wants to contribute at Pitt first.
�I�m coming in hoping to win and hoping to go to the JUCO (junior college) World Series,� he said.
Little was 4-6 with a 1.75 ERA last season, striking out 74 and walking just 14 in 68 innings.
He said he appreciated the chance to continue playing.
�I feel blessed and honored and I thank God every day for it,� he said.
Ken Buday is the editor of the Havelock News


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Developer William L. Huntress has won a $3 million jury verdict against the Town of Amherst after a four-week trial in state court.
Huntress sued the Town Board after it voted in 2006 to rescind a previous approval for an office park at 2190 Wehrle Drive.
During the trial, his lawyers argued that the board's about-face on the project was due to opposition from neighbors and then-Supervisor Satish B. Mohan.
"The jury recognized the naked political conduct of the Town Board," said Matthew D. Miller, a lawyer for the Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf, Cunningham & Coppola firm who represented Huntress and his company, Acquest Development.
Acquest bought the land on Wehrle in 1998 without any knowledge of a 50-year moratorium on the parcel or the $5 million in federal funds the town had received to maintain it as wetlands.
Miller said the town never informed Huntress of the moratorium at the time of his purchase and waited years before alerting him to it. The town had actually lost the moratorium documents, according to Miller.
The town initially agreed to help Huntress seek a waiver of the moratorium but changed its mind in 2006 when the Town Board voted to withdraw that offer.
"They were 99.9 percent of the way to approval when that meeting took place," Miller said of Acquest's progress on the office park project.
A series of lawsuits followed in which Huntress accused the town of violating his property rights and his constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.
"They took my property rights away," Huntress told The Buffalo News in 2006. "It's like the town taking away the water and sewer lines to your house. But it's just a matter of time. The town is either going to pay me for my investment, or I'm going to develop the whole thing."
Town Attorney E. Thomas Jones said Amherst was "disappointed" in the verdict and plans to appeal. "We believe that when we have the court hear it, it will be reversed," Jones said. "We don't believe we'll have to pay anything."
The town had previously appealed other parts of the case, and the latest appeal will be added to those pending in the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court. That process could drag on into next year, he said. "The issues are pretty fundamental, whether he has a property right to begin with," Jones said.
Supervisor Barry A. Weinstein, who was not on the Town Board at the time of the dispute, said that "perhaps it's a reflection of the way the previous Town Board did business in those days."
Weinstein said he was not worried about the town having to pay the $3 million verdict because he was confident that it will win on appeal. Jones added that the town is "nowhere near" its borrowing limit of more than $300 million.
The verdict is the second legal victory for Huntress in recent months.
In March, a federal judge dismissed a seven-count criminal indictment against the developer because of prosecutorial interference with the grand jury that indicted him.
The indictment centers on Acquest's development of a 97-acre parcel of land at 10880 Transit Road in Amherst.
Prosecutors contend that Huntress cleared the site in 2008 and, among others things, illegally filled in wetlands and removed trees.
Huntress has countered with his own lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and what his lawyers call its "overzealous" handling of Huntress' case.
Multiple calls to Mohan's Amherst residence were not returned.
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Bobby Curlings enjoys seeing his former New Bern colleagues have success when they leave for a position at another school.
Bobby Curlings enjoys seeing his former New Bern colleagues have success when they leave for a position at another school.
Bubba Williams, a New Bern High graduate and former Bears' assistant football coach, is head coach of the undefeated Eastern Wayne Warriors.
Williams, son of longtime coach Chip Williams, holds a 5-0 record following last week's 34-28 win over South Central. On his coaching staff is Philemon Gray, a former New Bern football assistant, head cross country coach and head girls' basketball coach.
New Bern (4-2), riding a four-game win streak, travels to Eastern Wayne on Friday. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
�We knew all along that Bubba was going to be a head coach somewhere and be a good one,� said Curlings, in his eighth season as New Bern's head coach. �He has gone down there and had success at a place where a lot of people had a tough time at.
�He has Philemon down there who is one of the hardest workers I have ever been around. It's good to see them doing well. I pull for them every week except for this week.�
New Bern trounced C.B. Aycock, 72-7, last week with junior quarterback Michael Hughes leading the way with 247 passing yards and four touchdowns.
Through six games, he has 834 passing yards with six touchdowns to one interception. Hughes also has 507 rushing yards with 13 scores.
�He is doing great. He leads by example,� Curlings said. �When he has to talk, he will talk. He is usually where he is supposed to be, doing what he is supposed to do.�
The Bears opened the season with back-to-back losses to Durham Hillside and Havelock. However, since then, the offense has been difficult to stop.
Over the past four games, they've scored an average of 46 points per game.
Senior running back Cody Purdie has gained 634 yards on the ground with five touchdowns. Senior wide receiver Deauntae Grimes has 24 catches for 305 yards.
�After we went 0-2, we weren't very good at anything on offense,� Curlings said. �We were determined that the following two or three weeks, we were going to find something we were good at, and we started with the run game.
�Now that we feel confident in the run game and our offensive line has come on strong, we expanded it last week and focused on the passing game.�
Eastern Wayne's offense is scoring at a 38.8 point-per-game clip and the defense is yielding 16.8 points per game.
Mitch Pike is a dual-threat quarterback. His top target is wide receiver Malik Richards with running backs K.K. Best and Lavoris Vick lining up in the backfield.
�They do multiple things on offense,� Curlings said. �If you spread out with them, they are going to run it and if you pack the box, they are going to throw it.
�They run a version of the triple option, but he can throw it.�
The Warriors' defense lines up in the 3-4 formation. Jamal Barrett, Xavier Nobles and Romello Hamilton each have five sacks.
�They are a team full of good athletes that fly around and get after the football,� said Curlings. �They bring pressure from all over the place. The offensive line and everybody really has to communicate.�
Following their game against Eastern Wayne, the Bears return home to play South Central on Oct. 11 at Caruso-Coates Stadium.
New Bern Bears at Eastern Wayne Warriors
When: Friday; 7:30 p.m.
Where: Eastern Wayne (in Goldsboro)
Coaches: New Bern � Bobby Curlings; Easern Wayne � Bubba Williams
Key Players: New Bern � QB Michael Hughes, RB Cody Purdie, WR Deauntae Grimes, LB Sha'mond Squires, DB James Fields, DB Cypress Borden. Eastern Wayne � QB Mitch Pike, WR Malik Richards, RB K.K. Best, RB Lavoris Vick, DB Romello Hamilton, DT Jamal Barrett, DT Xavier Nobles.
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