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James chapter 2, and I want to speak to you tonight on the subject of dead faith. Now looking at James chapter 2, verses 14 through 26, I want you to notice just three verses which highlight the thesis of this passage. First of all, verse 17, "Even so, faith if it has not works is dead being alone." Then verse 20, "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" Then verse 26, "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." Three times in the passage, James refers to a faith without works being a dead faith. Now this introduces to us a very important subject: the matter of dead faith. Faith that has no product, that gives off no evidence. And it is my constant fear, frankly, that many, many people within the framework of Christianity and involved to one degree or another in the church, possess nothing more than that kind of faith...dead faith. And I also believe that not only are there many people who have nothing but dead faith, but I also believe that modern evangelism fails to recognize that. It seems to be willing to overlook that. And if need be, redefined saving faith to include dead faith...rather than deal with it honestly. We can only hope and pray as I frequently do that the church today will confront dead faith as James confronted it.
Now dead faith, as we will see, is a form of non-saving belief. It is a belief that does not save. It is a belief that brings a person up short of regeneration, redemption and the new birth. It is religion without reality. And the distinguishing mark of dead faith is the absence of something, and that is the absence of righteous works.
Now let me mention to you just by way of contrast so you'll understand what we're talking about, that there is a non-saving kind of works, there is a non-saving, I suppose we could call it a kind of faith, a kind of belief, there is a non-saving faith that works legalistically. In other words, there are people who do a lot of what appear to be good works. In Matthew chapter 7, "Many will say, Lord, Lord, have we not done this and done that and prophesied in Thy name, cast out demons, done many wonderful works? And He will say, Depart from Me, I never knew you." Now there is a non-saving faith. They believe in something and they do some works that appear on the surface to be good works. There is a non-saving faith that does works in the flesh. That's the legalist. That's the spiritual phony. That's the one who appears to be a believer but is a false believer. The one who wants everybody to believe that the works they do are done by the Spirit but in fact they're done in the flesh. But here in James, we're not talking about a non-saving faith that does works in the flesh, we're talking about a non- saving faith that doesn't have any works. Here is the presence of...or the absence, I should say, here is the absence of any evidence of salvation. So what you have here is a person claiming to be a Christian without absolutely no evidence. There are people who claim to be Christians and there's enough sort of religious activity going on to make us think that's evidence, and that's why we can't always separate the wheat from the tares, right? But, there are also people who claim to be Christians and we look at their lives and we see nothing to give us any evidence that they're truly regenerate.
So, what James has in mind is not legalism, but antinomianism, or lawlessness. Not the false faith of the legalist who cranks out certain religious deeds in the flesh, but the false faith of the antinomian who thinks it's just enough to believe and if you believe you're okay and you can live any way you want to live. That's the dead faith that James has in mind. This person feels he believes in God. He believes in the facts about God. He may believe in the facts about Christ. He may believe in the facts of the gospel. But he feels no compulsion to live righteously. He feels no strong inclination to do the works of true goodness. He has no hunger for godliness.
So, we could conclude, looking at these two kinds of things, legalism and antinomianism, that the legalistic kind of non- saving faith would be the presence of some external good works. And we therefore conclude that the presence, and mark this carefully, the presence of external good works does not necessarily mean a person is a true believer, right? The presence of external good works does not necessarily mean the person is a true believer. People can falsify that. But, the second kind of non-saving faith which James deals with does tell us that the absence of any good works proves a person is not really a Christian. So the presence of good works may not prove they are, but the absence of good works proves they aren't. To that person, then, James gives the attention of his text.
Now this is not a subject that James introduces in chapter 2. In fact, he introduces it in chapter 1. Let's go back to chapter 1 and at least get a little bit of an insight into the fact that this is a concern with James, so much so that it occupies a great portion of this epistle. In chapter 1 verse 22, James says this, "But ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."
Now where there are no deeds, where there is not a doing of the good works, if you're not a doer, then you are deceived if you think you're a Christian. Where there are no deeds of faith to prove genuine spiritual life, the person is deceived. By the way, the word "hearers" here is a very interesting word. In the Greek it is the ancient word used for auditors. Do you know what it means to audit a class? It means you just go, you don't really participate. You don't necessarily do the study. You don't do the work. You don't officially belong. You don't get a grade. You have no sense of accomplishing. You're just auditing. And that's what he says. If you are not a doer of righteous deeds, but if you're just auditing Christianity, you're not saved. If you're just auditing the course, you're not redeemed. Faith for them is no more than a carnal glance, a very brief acknowledgment of God, a brief acknowledgment of Christ. Look at verse 23 and 24, "If any man be an auditor of the words, (not really seriously involved) and not a doer, he's like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror." And mirrors in those days, by the way, were made out of polished metal and no matter how well it was polished there would be because it was basically made by hand, there would be a lot of wrinkles and so forth and so on and you wouldn't see yourself nearly as clearly in a mirror made of metal as you would today in a glass one. And so, the only way you could really see what you'd look like in a mirror was to get very close, look very carefully and rather at long length at the mirror. Move it around a little bit to make sure it was really you were seeing and not a reflection of the imperfection in the metal. A casual glance at that kind of mirror would leave you with an incomplete picture of yourself.
So, the one who is an auditor of Christianity, of the Word of God, rather than a real doer whose made a full commitment is like a man who casually beholds his natural face in a mirror. He looks at himself and he goes on his way. It's a quick glance. It's a casual look. And immediately forgets the kind of man he is. This is the person who just glances at truth and moves on, never really understands the full desperation of his condition. He never really makes anything more than a shallow contact with the truth. He thinks everything's well. He likes what he sees and he walks along. He thinks he's religious.
Verse 26, "If any man among you thinks he is religious and doesn't bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, the man's religion is empty." He's a deceived man. He takes a quick glance--oh, yeah, I believe that. Goes on with the same pattern of life, doesn't give any evidence at all of a transformed life. His religion means absolutely nothing. It is absolutely useless.
Now look at verse 25, backing up a verse, "Whosoever looks intently and in a prolonged way, continuing to look into that mirror which is called here the perfect law of liberty--another term for the Scripture--and he continues to look in it, he's really going to get a view of himself, he will not be a forgetful auditor of the truth but a doer of the work and this man will be blessed in his deed."
So, the character of this man that looks very briefly and takes a glance is delineated here by virtue of the fact that he's in contrast to someone who takes a long look and continues looking to really understand God's truth, to really understand who He is and that's the key. So here you have James, in chapter 1, introducing then the guy or the gal, the man or the woman who makes a casual overture to Christianity and moves along and never really sees the picture truly or clearly or carefully. So, James then in chapter 1 introduces to us the reality of non-saving faith.
And he's very concerned about this because he realizes that in the church there are people who can be self-deceived, self- deluded and ultimately damned. And I believe that this must always be a concern of anyone in evangelism. And you know me well enough to know that it is a concern because I bring it up very often in the text of Scripture. We must warn people about dead faith, about that casual glance toward Christianity that's nothing more than that. Multitudes, believe me, multitudes of people have gone to hell who believed there was one God, who believed in Jesus Christ, who believed He died, who believed He rose, who believed there was a salvation, but they never genuinely believed in that God. They never gave their life to Christ. They never appropriated His death and resurrection and they never received personally the gift of His salvation. There are many people who possess that casual glance of dead faith. And I want you to know, and I'm going to share my heart with you a little bit, that my life personally has been marked by those kinds of people. I can't tell you about all of them but I'd like to tell you about some of them in my own life.
When I was a high-school student, I had a very close friend. In fact, in my days in high school, he was closer to me than any other friend that I had, with maybe one or two exceptions...very, very close. We spent a lot of time together. I spent time at his home. He spent time at my home. We participated in athletics together. And we had a great friendship.
On several occasions, as deeply as two high-school students could ever do it, we discussed theology. He came from a family that proported to be Christian. His father was in the car business. I even was employed by his father for a time. He and I in the summers were the repossession team of the car dealership. Which is a very interesting job, by the way. But we were very close.
I can remember in my mind very vividly an occasion when we went out as high-school seniors because we felt the compulsion in our hearts to do some witnessing. And so we decided that a really good place to do that would be in Pershing Square down in Los Angeles. And we decided that since everybody else down there got their soapbox and preached, we'd get ours. And we were full of holy zeal, you know, and went down there and we began to evangelize Pershing Square.
And, you know, there are all kinds of soapbox orators down there and we were just another in the parade. But for us, it was a very important time. And then we had opportunity, I remember, to share personally with some people about faith in Jesus Christ. This young man came to our church where my father was the pastor. I never really had much discernment, as look back on it now, but I never for a moment thought he was anything less than a Christian. We separated when we went to college. Two years later I happened, on an occasion, to run into him, I think it was some kind of a school reunion. I can't exactly remember and he informed me that he in the intervening two years had become an atheist. And I want you to know that I was absolutely shattered. Not only was I shattered personally, but I really didn't have a sophisticated enough theology to know what to do with him. I didn't have a category to put him into. But to this very day, that young friend of mine has a very vivid face in my mind and I have been unable to set him aside. And it has plagued my heart that through all those years he possessed a dead faith which ultimately manifested itself, but I was never discerning enough to know that. And so, in a very real sense, he went right through my fingers without my ever confronting that.
I remember when I went to seminary, I had another friend, a very close friend. This young man had everything going for him. He was an exceptional young man in every way...in every way, just stood out in a crowd. If there was anything that anyone could do, he could do it better...outstanding student, musician, athlete, you name it...incredibly gifted young man. And I thought, "Boy, what success he'll know in the ministry. If I can ever...if I can ever come up to his shoe tops, it will be a remarkable thing." Very, very gifted, all the finest background, family, education, everything. And there he was in Talbot Seminary studying for the ministry and getting excellent grades. And we had so much fellowship together and we had a lot of fun together. And seminary is not all fun, we also had a lot of grief together...battling through our courses. In those days you went to seminary in three years and you were done in three years and that was the way it was. And so it was very intense. And it was sort of like being in combat together, your lives really got knit together. We were taking 16 to 19 units a semester and all of us working in church ministry at the same time and some of us courting our wives to be and it was a wonderful and busy time.
And then after we graduated and looked ahead to all the hopeful things in life, and began to go our separate ways, we had a little group of about five of us and God has so singularly blessed those...four of those, that it's really amazing...amazing. Four of them are being used in really marvelous ways in the service of God. But, not this young man. In fact, he rejected completely the faith. I was told that there was introduced into his home a Buddhist altar. And as I thought back on that, I don't understand that. At that time I couldn't understand it. I wonder why I couldn't see the...the fact that that faith was dead faith, that there wasn't anything there. Oh maybe he was legalistic, and maybe the masquerade was so good I couldn't see it but I experienced that and it was painful. And then I came to Grace Church. And I remember a girl coming forward at the end of a service over in the chapel and she...she was so excited to receive the Lord Jesus Christ. And everybody was talking about what a sorted life she came from and isn't it wonderful that she is now a Christian. And within the next month we were hearing her give her testimony at various places and it was really wonderful, in home Bible studies and that kind of thing. And then all of a sudden a young man came to me one day and said, "By the way, do you know this girl is going around here soliciting sex from our young men in the college department?" I couldn't believe that. I said, "Well, you know, she's a new Christian and maybe you're thinking of before she became a Christian." So, I got a hold of her and I asked her to come to the office and I called her on the phone and I said, "If you have been a professional prostitute as you have given testimony to, I want you to come and see and I want you to bring your little book with all the names and addresses of the men you serve."
And I think at the time she was somewhat shocked by it all, so she brought her book. And I said, "I want you to demonstrate to me the genuineness of your salvation by giving me that book." That's the last I ever saw of her. For a young pastor, I think maybe my first year of ministry here, that was a very painful experience. The cumulative effect of these things has made me very, very aware of dead faith. You see, I am not like a traveling evangelist. I don't blow into town, unload my gospel message, count the hands and leave. I have to stay. And I see who drops through the cracks. I mean, I'm not into numbers. I'm not into statistics. Because if you stay long enough, you're going to find out usually where there's living faith and where there's dead faith.
I had a young man come in, I think maybe in the third year of my ministry. He said, "I'm a homosexual. Can you help me?" You know, at that particular time, there's a certain amount of invincibility in a young man, I figured I can help him. I've got the Word of God and the power of God and I can help him. So I had the privilege there of giving him the gospel and praying with him and he opened his heart and he prayed a prayer. And I thought it looked so good. He said, "Now what am I going to do about my homosexuality?" He said, "I'm so tempted I can't control it. It's just...it's out of control to the point where it's a multiple experience every day for me, every day of the week." And he said, "I want to change that."
I said, "All right, I want you to take a notebook and every time you do that, every time you do a homosexual act this week, I want you to write down what you did specifically and then you can turn all those sheets into me at the end of the week when we meet." He said, "Okay." He came back a week later and he said to me, "Guess what? I don't have anything written down." I said why? He said, "I didn't do anything." He said, "I can't believe it, but just having accountability to you and not wanting to tell you I did that and bear the shame of that caused me not to do it."
I said, "Let's do this every week." I never saw him again. There was never any fruit so whatever he professed to believe was nothing but dead faith.
I remember a man in our church very active, a teacher in our church. We decided to meet for prayer every Tuesday morning at six o'clock and we met for a year and we prayed, the two of us, and sometimes someone else. At the end of which time he walked away from everything. I remember chasing him down in the night, going in to a home other than his own home where from which he had left his wife and family. And awaking him in the middle of the night, I think Jerry Mitchell was with me that time, and saying, "What in the world are you doing turning your back on everything that we have taught and known and shared and prayed for through a year?"
You see, these kinds of things stick in your mind. I told the people of this congregation some years ago about a plane trip from St. Louis where I was seated next to a young man. And this young man leaned over to me and said, "I don't want to bother you, sir..." He didn't know me, he just sat down next to me. But he said to me, "Ah, you wouldn't know how I could have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, would you?" Absolutely unbelievable. And my first reaction was..."Ha-ba-ha-ba-da, this can't be happening." He says, "I just need to know Christ." He said, "I'm on my way to Los Angeles." He was a football star from the University of Kentucky, just graduated, coming to Los Angeles to work for a man who was an elder at Grace Church at that time. They've since moved away.
I couldn't believe that would sit down next to me a guy who was coming out here to work for one of my close friends, an elder at the church and the guy wouldn't even know who I was, he just asked me that question. I gave him the gospel and we prayed together on the plane. We got here and I baptized him the next week. I went off to preach a week's meetings in Palm Springs and he said, "Could I go with you so you could disciple me?" And he..we spent a week together, or a portion of a week. He had dinner with Patricia and I and all of our kids for several weeks and then he disappeared and haven't seen him in all the years since.
I could go on and on. Let me tell you about someone who showed up at our church not long ago...some time last year, really. He came...he called me on the phone one Sunday. He said, "You've got to help me." I said, "I can't believe it's you." He said, "It's me." I said, "Where you been?" He said, "I'm a drunken bum." I said, "I can't believe it." Because you see, this young man had been a pastor, a pastor of a church. He had been student in seminary, tremendous promise, great mind but he had become a drunken bum, left his wife, left his church, left his kids, drank himself into oblivion over a period of about three years and became a hobo, destitute. But he said, "I've got to have some help." I said, "You show up Sunday and I'll help you." So he came to church that Sunday, I couldn't believe it when I saw him. He showed all the scars and all the marks of broken bottles over his face...some of you met him. His name is Mitch. And he said, "I don't have anywhere to go." He had everything he owned in the world on his backpack. And he said, "I don't have anywhere to go." I said, "Come to our house and you can live with us."
So, Patricia is always gracious, welcomed him into our home with our little family and we took him in. And it wasn't easy. Sometimes he got blasted drunk. And Rich Hines got involved and sometimes he had to sleep in Rich's camper. And we moved him into a house down here and he smashed all the glass and pounded through the doors and beat up his roommates and it was tough, very tough. But we hung in there and I went down there a couple of times when he was finally moved in with some guys that were going to support him and help him. And every time I found a bottle, I took him in the bathroom while I poured it down the drain. And we tried and he came along and he began to share and we employed him at the church and he began to give his testimony. And he started to preach at the mission and he said, "I'm back where God wants me and I'm repentant and all the years are past, the years of sin."
And then it started all over again. And he told me it was over. He was leaving. He was going back to drink. He was found in a gracious man who took him in to live with him for a little while, he came home one night and he was in bed with some street walker. We put him in a detox center. We did everything we could possibly do. And he knew the truth. He could have stood in this pulpit and preached a sermon you never would have forgotten...tremendous power as a preacher, great gifts. But he left to go back to his bottle and to go back to a woman that he wanted to live with who was in the occult. Believed all the right things, dead faith...absolutely dead.
We have to take that into account, beloved. And that's the thing that James is concerned about and that's the thing that I'm concerned about. Those are only a few samples. I could give you many, many more...I don't need to, you understand. And if you ask me why this is of grave concern to me, this is why...my life has been dotted with a long history of those kinds of people and I want to at least have the honesty to admit that there are many, many more people like that who give an initial acquiescence to the facts of the gospel but there's never any product. They may carry on a masquerade for a while but when you really look closely there's nothing there. And these are the people, and others like them, that have given me a strong passion for this matter of dead faith because these are people who were so intimately involved in my life and I didn't even discern as I ought to have discerned in all cases.
So, you see, I'm not into the "hit" and "count heads" evangelism, okay? I"m not into that. I'm not into how many hands were raised, how many cards were signed kind of stuff. I can't just accept that on the surface because I have to live with the heartbreaking reality that there are people who do make some kind of overture to the gospel but that thing is dead, produces nothing. And James speaks to this matter with a bold practicality.
Now the background of the text at least we'll introduce tonight. The background of the text is this, chapter 1 verse 1, "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered abroad." Now we know at the very outset that he's writing to Jews...twelve tribes scattered abroad. He is writing to Jewish people who have now identified themselves with the Christian faith. In fact, if you'll notice in chapter 2 verse 21, he says: "Was not Abraham our father justified by works?" And the word "our" embraces not only James but all the Jews to whom he writes who were also the children of Abraham by race. He's writing to Jews.
Now you have to understand this. Here are Jews who have embraced or become attached to the Christian faith. Now I want you to understand what the attraction was for some of them. Some of these Jews had really had it up to here with legalism. They had been lifelong sort of engulfed in a system of works righteousness. It was a heavy, heavy guilt system. They were told they had to do works and earn their own salvation. They couldn't do them. They knew they broke the law of God. The laws that were heaped upon them were a burden that was beyond description. Jesus identifies them in Matthew 23 as a very heavy weight, hard to be carried. And so here they've lived lifelong within the confines of Judaistic traditional legalism, in bondage to a works' system of religion and here comes the gospel of grace wafting along on the wind. God loves you, He sent His Son to die for you. He wants to free you from your sins. He wants to free you from the bondage of the law. He wants to free you from guilt. He wants to set you free in Christ. Boy, does that sound good.
So, what you have then is the Jews who have lived lifelong under the system of works now welcoming grace and saying, "Hey, all we have to do here is believe. In Judaism we have to do this and do this and do this and do this and keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing as long as we live, here you just believe." And this is a gospel that sounds really inviting to them. This is a joyous alternative to the guilty-producing burdens that came from Judaism. And so, tired of the legalism and tired of the weight of failure to comply the unbearable pressure to perform for approval, the high fear factor that they lived under, they had run to the message of Christianity, a message of freedom and faith...just believing. It sounded too good to be true to some of them. And some of them, obviously, misunderstood the freedom. They went too far. They supposed that there was nothing to do but believe the facts. And since works were not efficacious for salvation, the gospel made that clear, they just figured works weren't important at all. So they just eliminated that and figured you just believe and go on with your life and that's it. And you want to know something? There are people today who still teach that. "Just believe, don't worry about the rest. And just believing in God and believing in Christ was sufficient to make them right with Him." All this flows out of their oppressive legalistic background, so the new message of Christian freedom, the new message of grace and faith, it looked so good. It looked like total relief from any required duty. And I want you to understand the psychological phenomena here. I've seen it many times. I've seen it...I've seen it with people that I've known personally...even within the context of the church.
Let me give you an illustration. I know a young man, he's a basketball coach now. This young man was raised in a very strong legalistic church environment. And it confined him. And then he was exposed to some teaching that said, "Hey, don't worry about your sin. Hey, you don't have to confess your sin...why, that's all taken care of, just believe, don't worry about your sin, don't confess your sin." I remember sitting down with him one evening after a basketball game which he played. We were sitting, drinking a chocolate milkshake, I'll never forget the scene. And he said to me, "Wow, man, I have just discovered the greatest truth." I said, "What is it?" He said, "I don't have to confess my sin. I don't have to be concerned with my sin, man. It's all under the blood...Wow!"
Sad. Let me tell you, it wasn't uphill spiritually from then on. I remember a young couple that came to this church. And they came out of a very legalistic church experience where everything was prescribed to them, the way they cut their hair, the way they put their clothes on, what they believed, what they thought about politics in general and economics and everything else in the world, every thought, every action, every attitude was prescribed. Everything was very legalistic. It was a very negative environment. And they came over to Grace Church--lovely young couple. And they couldn't believe it because we were enjoying our Christianity. We were happy. We were enthusiastic. We were loving Christ. And we weren't confined to a whole bunch of Christian tradition, you know, bondage not biblical bondage. And they started to enjoy that freedom and they enjoyed it right into drinking, right into adultery, and right into liberalism.
It all looked so good and it was an overreaction to everything in the past. It's heartbreaking. And I think with all the vision for ministry that was in their hearts at one time, lost. The Lord knows whether they belong to Him, I don't really know where they are now. But that helps me to understand what's going on here. See, these Jewish people see this as so good and they run to it only because it's a relief from their legalism and they don't understand the reality of it. So you have to understand that context.
So, here are these people who say, "Hey, we believe." But you look at their life and there's nothing. There's no fruit of righteousness. You remember the song, I used to sing it as a kid, "Only believe, only believe?" I don't like that song. Maybe that just reflects a dead faith.
Well, now you know what the passage is going to be about. Come back in two weeks and I'll try to explain it to you. Let's bow in prayer.
We just sense, Lord, that You've been with us, tonight. What a wonderful fellowship we've enjoyed. Thank You for letting us sing the songs we sang. We thank You that the songs are not just songs but they're truth...how wonderful. Thank You for the testimonies we've heard of Your grace. We thank You for Your Word. Even though we've just begun, we just ask, Lord, that You'll help us to understand this passage and help us in this matter of evangelism, to be concerned that faith be living faith, that's producing righteous deeds as a pattern of life and not dead faith that belongs to someone who just took a casual glance at the truth and said, "Oh yeah, I believe that," and thought that was enough. Help us, Lord, in leading other people to Christ, to have the thoughts of James in our mind and warn about dead faith, to remember the words of our Lord Jesus who said, "If you continue in My Word, then are you My mathetes alethos, My real disciple...if you continue in My Word." Help us to remember the Lord's words about those false prophets when He said, "By their fruits you shall know them." Help us, I ask You, tonight, to examine first our own hearts to be sure ours is a living faith, not perfect but a faith that's producing righteous deeds, love for You, for Your people, for Your Word, fruit of the Spirit, so many things. And then, Lord, help us as we've been sensitive to our own heart and the faith that we possess to become very sensitive to the faith of those around us. I thank You, Lord, through the years that You have allowed me to learn lessons from these people in my life, lessons that make me sensitive to this and make me hesitant to legitimize someone's faith until I've seen the fruit. And I pray, Lord, that You'll be glorified because in this congregation the people bear much fruit for Your glory. We'll thank You in Christ's name. Amen.
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HOPEWELL � For the past 40 years, Kathy McNamara has received a Christmas card from the same friend who always mails it out the last week in November.
This year was different, said the resident of Smith Road in Hopewell.
�I never got that Christmas card,� McNamara said. �I thought it seemed strange.�
That wasn�t the only odd pattern McNamara said she has noticed recently about mail delivery in her area. She said no mail was delivered to her home on the Saturdays of Nov. 23 or 30; and her daughter, who lives across the street, had not received movies from Netflix that she was expecting in the mail. McNamara said she spoke with neighbors who were also concerned about their mail delivery, and she reached out to the United States Postal Service earlier this month about the issue.
Scott Balfour, special agent and public information officer with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, said the office is investigating a report it received last Thursday, Dec. 12, of U.S. mail found on Swamp Road in Hopewell. He said that special agents with the office, as well as investigators with the Ontario County Sheriff�s Office, responded and recovered about 65 pieces of first-class mail, 65 pieces of standard-rate mail and 100 periodicals.
Investigator Eric Woehr with the sheriff�s office said that some of the mail was found off the road, and some was found submerged deeper in the swamp.
The special agents and investigators interviewed a postal employee they believed was responsible, Balfour said. A search of the employee�s home yielded a few other pieces of mail that should have been delivered, he said.
Woehr said the employee was a substitute mail carrier. The mail that was found was to be delivered to residents of the area, he said, adding that there were incidents from June until December.
Woehr, who said he lives in the area, said he learned there might be an issue when his neighbors started calling him, saying, for example, that they had not received checks in the mail.
�I know, some days, I didn�t receive (mail),� Woehr said.
Balfour said Swamp Road was on the employee�s delivery route. He said the majority of the mail is from County Road 47 in Hopewell; also affected were County Road 4, County Road 46, County Road 48, Route 247, Freshour Road, Swamp Road, Stoddard Road, Smith Road and County Complex Drive in Hopewell.
Bernard Romeiser, who lives on East Avenue in Hopewell, said that his home received mail last Saturday, Dec. 14, but did not receive mail the previous couple of Saturdays.
�We never even saw or heard the mailman,� he said, adding that he receives magazines in the mail, but wasn�t keeping track of when they were arriving.
McNamara, who is the court clerk for the Hopewell Town Court, said the court recently received calls from two people who said they had mailed in payments. The court � which is located in the town hall on County Road 47 � did not receive them, she said.
�That�s scary because they sent them in with credit card information,� McNamara said.
Balfour said the employee is currently suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. He declined to comment on a possible reason for the undelivered mail.
Romeiser said it makes no difference what the reason was.
�I think it�s quite a big deal,� he said. �Even if someone monkeys with a mailbox, it�s a federal offense.�
The case will be presented to the United States Attorneys� Office for consideration of criminal prosecution in the near future, Balfour said.
�Situations like this are very rare,� he said in a prepared statement. �The vast majority of the postal service�s 500,000 employees are hardworking, dedicated individuals who work around the clock to deliver the mail.�
Balfour said the mail that was recovered was frozen and waterlogged. It is being held as evidence until it is dried and catalogued, at which time the prosecutor will determine if it is deliverable and can be released from evidence, he said.
Any mail recovered in a deliverable manner will eventually be delivered, Balfour said. If people believe they may be missing mail, he suggested they contact the sender.

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Mayor Chris Beutler and Lancaster County Commission Chair Deb Schorr today commended City and County employees for donating $25,072 and more than 4,575 pounds of food and personal items to the Food Bank for Lincoln. Food Bank Director Scott Young said the annual City-County Food Bank Drive is a key part of the annual Campaign Against Hunger.
"The Food Bank of Lincoln is so grateful to the faithful workforce and leadership of Lancaster County and the City of Lincoln," said Young. "Again this year, the City-County Campaign Against Hunger is leading the way to alleviate hunger in southeast Nebraska. The food and dollars gathered during this year's campaign give us great momentum going into what should be our busiest fall ever. Their support will enable us to feed thousands of individuals and families in Lincoln and Lancaster County."
The City-County campaign was coordinated by Minette Genuchi in the County Commissioners Office and Elaine Severe at the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department.
"It was great fun to see the creativity and synergy displayed by the various City and County departments this year," said Severe and Genuchi in a joint statement. "From donating food to attending department fundraisers, we could not achieve the success we do without the support of our department directors and elected officials. Even during the downturn of our economy, monetary contributions continue to increase."
Genuchi and Severe said the numerous fundraisers included bakes sales, a silent auction, bingo, ice cream sundae sales, an employee picnic and a rummage sale. Lincoln City Libraries held a competition to see who could build the most creative sculpture from the donated food items.
More information on the Food Bank of Lincoln is available by calling 402-466-8170 or visiting lincolnfoodbank.org.


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From the famous Pelican Fleur De Lis, we've made a brand new design using the Louisiana state bird. This pelican will come on hand cut leather and sized to fit any wrist. If you want a specific color please let us know and we will do all we can to make that happen.
These cuffs are interchangeable meaning you could buy 4 different leather cuffs and put the bronze pelican on any one of them. This means you can have a different cuff with all of your outfits. The Pelican is very easy to take on and off of the leather. Very versatile.
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In 1958, the pelican was made the official state bird of Louisiana. This act was amended on July 26, 1966 to specifically designate the brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis. The National Basketball Association's New Orleans Pelicans are named in honor of Louisiana's state bird.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -Lipscomb softball coach Kristin Ryman is still waiting for her team to put in a complete effort this fall, but the bottom line is they are winning so she is reluctant to complain too much.
Saturday night the Lady Bisons beat Middle Tennessee 6-3 and 2-0 in a doubleheader at Draper Diamond, where fans got the opportunity for the first time to sit in the new chair-back seats behind home plate.
The Lady Bisons are 6-0 this fall with one doubleheader remaining Oct. 18 at Trevecca Nazarene.
"We are still trying to put that full effort together as far as every part of our game being there consistently," Ryman said. "Some people say that is a negative right now that we haven't seen that.
"But we are winning games right now, and we are winning games even though we still haven't put it all completely together yet. So, from that standpoint, I would say it is a huge positive that we are winning even though this team still has a lot of room to grow. The new people that are here are really making an impact."
Both games were eight-innings with the Lady Bisons batting in the bottom of the eighth in each game despite having the lead.
The games were a contrast with Haley Elliott and Kristen Sturdivant each slamming solo home runs. In game two the Lady Bisons speed on the base paths produced both runs in one inning.
"That's what I am excited about," Ryman said. "Everybody sees our power presence, but there is more speed on the team than maybe we have ever had.
"That is fun to me to be able to punch a ground ball and find a way to beat it out and get on base. It constantly keeps pressure on the defense."
The pitching trio of Ashley Anderson, Tanner Sanders and Heather Parker continue to make progress under the direction of new pitching coach Paige Cassady.
"All three have shown the ability to do well, get outs and control games," Ryman said. "We have seen so many positive things out of Ashley. She has been working hard and she still has a lot of room to grow.
"She earned the opportunity to start against Middle Tennessee and on Thursday against Tennessee State. That is a credit to what she is doing in practice right now."
Sanders continues to make progress as a freshman. Parker, a junior college transfer, is also making an immediate impact.
"Parker throws strikes," Ryman said. "She is pitching with a lot of confidence right now.
"Tanner is still so young. She has so much to learn. But her raw ability is incredible."
Ryman likes the fact that the three pitchers each offer a different look on the mound for opponents to deal with.
"Tanner is going to be more up in the zone," Ryman said. "Ashley's pitches are going to be more down. Heather is going to be more in and out.
"That is what is going to make them successful is that they are different from each other. Paige is working on their strengths, but she also trying to make their weaknesses stronger too so we have even more options with them."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations for Athletics.


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Quaint Spanish-Style Cottage
Built in 1933, this 740-square-foot Spanish-style cottage has been beautifully restored, yet it's still loaded with original details.
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Bright, Contemporary Bathroom With Sea Green Wall Paint and White Fixtures
If you're looking for a spa-like feeling, try muted greens with more gray undertones than white. This color is fresh, understated and really evokes a feeling of cleanliness. Skip popular kid tones like pink and blue, and instead try shades of aloe which work well in spaces for boys and girls alike.
Tennis Ball Cord Organizer
Use old tennis balls to keep cords organized and within easy reach.
White Chef Kitchen With Gray Pendant
A long kitchen island runs down the center of this renovated kitchen, an easy place to prep and sit or to lay out food when a larger event is under way.
Breakfast Nook With Yellow Banquette
A breakfast nook is its own ray of sunshine with a lemon-lime leather banquette.
Dining Area With Green Banquette
A citron banquette aims to please with its bright pop of color and casual mood. Sconces: Urban Electric Co; Banquette: Jerry Pair Leather
White Kitchen With Lettuces
Gauzy cafe curtains make the most beautiful light in this fresh white kitchen, the perfect filter!
Contemporary Breakfast Nook With Tulips
A citrus-colored leather banquette infuses this breakfast nook with energy. The bright artwork is a fun match!
White Kitchen With Two Sinks
White marble is a luxurious backsplash in this bright kitchen. Double sinks ease the chore of washing dishes and there's a large window flooding the space with light.
China Cabinet and White Kitchen Cabinets
New cabinetry allows for china plates, crystal and silver to be stored in a way that's both beautiful and functional.
Gold Art Deco Dining Room With Tulips
Kelly Wearstler designed the knockout wallpaper in the home's renovated dining room. Artwork by Sara Bost Fisher lets the wallpaper's pattern shine. Dining Chairs: B&B Italia
Gold Art Deco Dining Room With Black Table
The dining room is ready to party with dazzling gold Art Deco wallpaper and an ebony dining table. Over the table, a crystal chandelier glitters with unique green dewdrops.
White Chef Kitchen With White Canisters
This historic Tulsa home was beautiful, but its kitchen was especially in need of some modernizing. Now, chef-grade appliances like the Wolf range make hosting large meals so much easier.
White Chef Kitchen With Root Vegetables
For homeowners who entertain a lot, a long kitchen island can be used as a buffet or add bar seating and it becomes a hang out spot.
White Kitchen With Green Bottles
Silver accents pick up the gray vein of the marble backsplash, a subtle, elegant way to add depth to this kitchen's all-white palette.
White Chef Kitchen With Yellow Banquette
This Tulsa home was originally designed by renowned architect Charles Faudree. But as the years passed, its kitchen needed modernizing, especially for homeowners who love to entertain. A bright white palette and lots of gourmet details checked off all the boxes.
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Appliances are stainless steel; the backsplash and cabinetry bright white. All combine for a kitchen that's as accomplished as it is lovely.
Comfortable Sitting Area With Yellow Chairs
This corner of the guest house is especially comfortable thanks to two plush yellow armchairs and a woven area rug. When they're not curled up with a book, guests can switch on the TV and catch a movie before bed.
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Isolation is dangerous because we understand people better when we understand the things that make each of us different. In turn, we have a better chance of getting along with them, despite their differences. That builds community.
Election Day has passed, so you can uproot campaign signs, peel off bumper stickers, watch the news for pundits pounding each other and � apparently � engage in Facebook flame wars and cut off childhood friends and classmates because they typed impassioned status messages.
Status messages you disagreed with, that is.
Facebook users unfriend, block or hide friends one-fifth of the time due to politics, according to a Pew Internet and American Life Project survey.
A statistic like that speaks volumes about this country�s political tension and underscores the hypocrisy of self-proclaimed tolerant citizens.
Is it very tolerant to sever ties with someone due to their stances on hot button social issues?
How �united� is this country, or our local community, if we can�t bear the mere sight of differing views � whether they�re Democratic or Republican, or deal with, either way, abortion, gay rights or gun laws. A sight, I might add, that we can easily scroll through and move past, in Facebook�s case.
What does it say about someone who freely gets on a far-reaching digital soapbox and spouts his or her own views willy-nilly, and expects dissenters to ignore the conversation � not weigh in? Someone who, in the worst-case scenario, bans different-minded friends from giving input.
Certainly, many Facebook friends aren�t our close friends at all; they�re former coworkers, friends of exes, high school or college classmates we never spoke to and even some strangers find a way in. However, I have friends whose extended family members and close friends have unfriended them � a symbolic, digital excommunication � based solely on political postings.
It might sound silly, but unfriending someone, especially in Facebook Land, is a big deal. Complex psychological issues � and, ironically, political consequences, if you�re networking � relate to rejection, of course, but we won�t get into that right now.
Unfriending someone over politics is just petty.
After all, who wants to live in an echo chamber? I�ve always actively sought out different opinions. I watch Fox News, MSNBC and CNN to get the whole story and hear interesting opinions from all sides. Reasonable people, whether they lean politically right or left of center, know that contributing to the proverbial marketplace of ideas, and allowing the free flow of information, regardless of its source, only helps things.
Isolation is dangerous because we understand people better when we understand the things that make each of us different. In turn, we have a better chance of getting along with them, despite their differences. That builds community.
Isn�t it funny how children sometimes know more than adults? They can give nicknames like �know it all� and �smarty pants� � or whatever the slang terms are these days � to those who, essentially, are close-minded.
If only their parents, who too quickly call different-minded people backward, pigs, Nazis or even Taliban members, would remember that they, too, are myopic and ultimately ignorant when they stick their heads in the sand.
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Ariana Akhavan - Care, General Care Projects in Ecuador
Meeting my host family
I was collected from San Cristobal airport on a sunny Tuesday afternoon by a Projects Abroad staff member. To say I was apprehensive would be an understatement, but I was initially made to feel at ease surrounded by friendly faces and big smiles.
I was taken straight to my host family and introduced to everyone – my new mom, dad, a brother and sister, plus an auntie and cousin. It was nice to be part of a family so similar to my own with extended family just around the corner! Another volunteer from Germany also lived in the house and had been there for 4 weeks already!
I was instantly struck by the helpfulness of each member of the family to carry my bags, get me a drink, and offer their seat to me. I was still apprehensive but it was slowly fading! After a tour of the town, seemingly a sea-lion's playground, and an introduction at the office, I was returned to my host family and spent the afternoon getting to know them and playing the first of countless card games with the children! They quickly became of the best things I brought with me!
At the Care project
The following day I was taken to my Care Project and introduced to the teacher - a wonderful lady called Gina and her class of beautiful three and four year olds. I had been a secondary school teacher in the UK working with teenagers so a room full of energetic - and rapidly-Spanish speaking toddlers - was a shock to the system!
I spent some time with them, learning names and the routine of the day. Gina (a teacher) was so friendly and so appreciative of my help and really made me feel welcome. I attended every day for 4 weeks thereafter and loved every minute!
Every morning I was greeted with a kiss and hug from Gina, and over the course of my time there, the children were more responsive. We played games, learnt numbers - in Spanish (Gina) and English (me); read stories, planted seeds, made bread, completed puzzles to the extent that when the day ended I was disappointed and already looked forward to the next morning. Gina would again kiss and hug me goodbye and thank me profusely. She really did all the hard work but I was glad I could help in some way!
Travelling on the weekends
There was so much to do on San Cristobal Island that I was rarely bored from a beautiful beach at Puerto Chino to the sea-lion covered Playa Mann to diving at Kicker Rock (Leon Dormido). I took advantage of all of it! I was also able to visit three other Islands during my time in the Galápagos - Isabela, Santa Cruz and Floreana - all of which were unique and interesting in their own way!
Using the weekends to explore was something I was keen to do before I arrived and would definitely recommend. Isabela is a stunning island with beautiful beaches and amazing scenery. Santa Cruz felt touristy but equally had some incredible places to visit, such as Tortuga Bay! Floreana is interesting purely for the islands' intriguing history! But there's lots of wildlife to see as well! Nothing is too far away and with the option of flights or boats, it's also not too difficult to get anywhere! The staff at the Projects Abroad office was helpful and friendly so can help with recommendations if you're stuck!
My impressions of The Galápagos
The people on all the islands were also incredibly friendly and welcoming and so I always enjoyed my walk to and from my placement or simple wandering around the town!
I also had a few hours of Spanish lessons, but still had to listen carefully when people spoke! Food was a big part of my stay in the Galápagos Islands as my host mum was an excellent cook from empanadas to amazing soups to ceviche!
My host family also only ever seemed to eat with a spoon which was alien to me but something I soon adopted! As well as my Care Project I was also able to take part in some community work. For example Projects Abroad organised "Dirty Day" where we cleaned a neighbourhood of all the rubbish. I have never done before and although it was hard work, it was very rewarding!
The most lasting impression I will have of the Galápagos is the abundance of wildlife! On my first afternoon I saw a sea lion lounging in the street and was, of course, amazed but I almost became normal as they were everywhere! I spotted countless species of birds, including the famous blue-footed boobies. When diving I saw more sea lions, sting rays and sharks! When swimming in Isabela, I saw penguins and pelicans! I was surrounded and loved it!
My final thoughts
I have many memories from my time in the Galápagos Islands from my wonderful host family and how they completely welcomed me into their home; spending time in a different education system which always interests me as a former teacher; travelling in one of the most incredible parts of the world - the whole experience was beyond my expectations!
I decided to volunteer as an addition to a longer trip I had already planned in South America and I'm glad I added the Galápagos on! I feel very privileged to have been able to not only travel but fully immerse myself in the culture of these stunning islands and spend time with their people. It was a unique experience to the way I had travelled before and definitely something I would love to do again! I already miss the sea lions!
Ariana Akhavan
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2016 Trans Am SE Bandit Edition Comes Back
If you're a big lover of Smokey and the Bandit, then listen up. Trans Am Depot has built an iteration of one of Pontiac's most beloved line of cars—the Trans Am.
The Trans Am SE Bandit Edition, as it was aptly called, is the modern interpretation of the 1977 Trans Am SE featured in the movie "Smokey and the Bandit." Based on the source, there will only be 77 units built of this car, but they will all come packing the signature features of the original car. It will also be endorsed by Burt Reynolds himself.
This year, the American auto industry saw the discontinuation of such historic brands as the Chrysler's Plymouth, the GM's Oldsmobile, and Pontiac's GTO, Firebird and Trans Am models. Fortunately, Trans Am Depot was founded in 2011, and was given the rights to restore or build iterations of the Pontiac Trans Am and GTO from the fifth generation Camaro.
The Bandit Edition will have a V-shaped nose with the Pontiac badge, twin grille, and two horizontal vents in the bumper. But instead of square units, it would have round quad-headlamp configuration.
The similarities don't stop there. Both cars have the Trans Am lettering and honeycomb wheels with gold highlights, a big trunk lid spoiler, a wraparound bumper, wide taillights with three horizontal clusters with reverse lights on each side of the license plate recess. They also have a shaker hood and T-top roof, both of which are essential features of a Trans Am.
And to further prove this is the "same" car as the one in the film, the Bandit Edition will have gold accents on the nose, rear fascia, and waistline. Of course, it will feature the "screaming chicken" decal on the engine hood.
The Trans Am Bandit Edition didn't scrimp on the drivetrain, too. Under the 840 Extreme Performance Package, you will find a 7.4-liter LSX V-8 engine and a 2.9-liter twin-screw supercharger. It also includes a bespoke cold air intake, performance spark plugs, 80cc injectors, a 79mm pulley and belt, and performance 8mm plug wires and boots.
The Trans AM SE Bandit Edition will have a starting price of $115,000.


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B&B or bed & breakfast accommodation is one of the most popular modes of accommodation in Edinburgh. Every visitor whether a business man or a holiday maker can find the choicest accommodation in a B&B guest house that too at an affordable price than a luxurious hotel. Hotels are usually congested and cannot provide the comfort and space of living as well as the guest homes can do. The guest homes are independent and spacious homes containing several rooms in various formats. The types of accommodation one can find in a guest house include the individual stay for the business men, family or a group accommodation, accommodation for couples and also for the individual holiday makers. Selecting a guest house offering bed and breakfast accommodation as per your spacing needs and purpose of visit in Edinburgh would be the right choice for you so that you get maximum satisfaction for your stay. Never select an accommodation because of its affordability. Priority should be the satisfaction of your stay. Look out the guest home that can offer you the most comfortable and cheap accommodation in Edinburgh as per your needs for space and luxury.
Selecting a room for your stay depends on factors like number of persons, the purpose of your visit, your choice and last but not the least, your budget. You could find a superior luxury room like super deluxe as well as ordinary and basic facilitated rooms available for budget accommodation in these B&B guest homes. If your priority is luxury at any cost then super deluxe rooms will serve your purpose better but affordability is what you consider at a little compromise of luxuries then deluxe rooms can be a good choice. Depending on the number of persons to be accommodated, one can either go for single, double, triple or family rooms. If you are an individual traveler, go for a simple single room while a family room will do good if you are out on a family trip to the city. A family room would be more spacious and would be provided with extra beds and facilities so that the family members can have a relaxing stay during their visit to the city. On the other hand, couples can go for double bed rooms or rooms with double bed while the businessmen can opt for single rooms. Especially the businessmen who are on a short stay in the city for business tasks, should opt for single room in bed & breakfast guest home that has single rooms equipped with all the basic facilities to satisfy the needs of the business men. Visit http://www.bencraig.co.uk/rooms.html to learn about the rooms for accommodation in one of the best B&B guest homes in Edinburgh.
Therefore one should always select a room in B&B depending on the persons to accomodate, budget and facilitations you require. Before selecting a room for accommodation always examine the facilities in the room to assure that they are the way as promised because many accommodation service providers fail to provide the comforts as promised to the visitors who are the ultimate sufferers who end up paying more amount for less luxuries.


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9to5Mac reports that the next iPhone -- rumored to be released in September -- has hit final testing stages, with variations of 'N93' and 'N94' models suggesting a possible release on Sprint or T-Mobile.
The next generation iPhone has reached the final testing stage (aka "AP" stage [Thanks, Chronic!]) and is now being carried around by high level Apple and carrier executives [...] While snooping around the iOS 5.0 SDK we located references to "N94″ and "N93."
Verizon previously let slip that the next iPhone will be a world phone, supporting GSM+CDMA on a single chip and thus cutting out the requirement of Apple producing separate devices for the two carriers. With N93 and N94 variations in play, this further indicates T-Mobile as a likely candidate for carrying the next iPhone which is rumored to be an iPhone 4 packed with the new A5 chip.
In addition, they were told Apple and Verizon are still in negotiations to bring FaceTime over 3G while the next iPhone will keep the same 5MP camera sensor, most-likely due to production delays with Sony.
If true, is that a deal breaker for anyone? And if Apple adds a US carrier, would you rather it be T-Mobile or Sprint?


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They are ether lying to steer you away from leasing, or are just misstating the truth: that Nissan's financing arm, NMAC, gets the credit but passes it on in the form of a down payment on the lease.
Still, I bought a 2013 Leaf right off lease, 35000 miles and it's basically perfect! Just under $10,000 cash.
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Macy's, J.C. Penney go to court over Martha Stewart
NEW YORK — Let the pots and pans fly.
Two of the nation's biggest department store chains — J.C. Penney and Macy's — are set to duke it out in New York State Supreme Court over the right to sell Martha Stewart merchandise.
At the heart of the case, slated to begin Wednesday, is whether Macy's has the exclusive right to sell certain Martha Stewart products, such as some of its cookware, bedding and bath items.
Company founder Martha Stewart, J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson and Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren could be called to testify during the trial, which could last three weeks.
Shares of Macy were modestly lower Wednesday, while Penney shares jumped 4.7%, and the stock price of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia was up 3.4%.
In December 2011, J.C. Penney announced a partnership in which it would open Martha Stewart mini shops in most of its stores, beginning this spring. It also announced that it had acquired a 16.6% stake in Martha Stewart's company.
Martha Stewart's deal with J.C. Penney's is part of the struggling retailer's plan to revive under Johnson's leadership. He became CEO of the Plano, Texas-based company in November 2011 and is known for helping create the iconic look and feel of Apple's retail stores.
Macy's sued Martha Stewart's company almost immediately, arguing that Macy's had exclusive rights on certain Martha Stewart products until 2018 under the terms of pact dating back to 2007.
"J.C. Penney wanted to rob Macy's of market share and destroy the competitive advantage that it enjoys as a result of its existing exclusive agreement with (Martha Stewart Living)," Macy's said in its lawsuit.
Macy's, based in Cincinnati, has claimed substantial damages and said J.C. Penny's marketing maneuver "threatens to inflict incalculable further harm on Macy's. Billions of dollars of sales are involved."
Macy's is also trying to stop Martha Stewart from providing designs to J.C. Penney even if J.C. Penney doesn't use the Martha Stewart moniker on products made by her company that it sells. Penney has said it plans to open its Martha Stewart mini shops May 1.
Last summer, Macy's won a preliminary injunction against Martha Stewart's company, preventing the sale of her housewares and other exclusive products at J.C. Penney.
Supreme State Court Judge Jeffrey Oing said J.C. Penney could open its Martha Stewart mini shops, as long as the items under exclusive contract with Macy's are not sold in them. Judge Oing, not a jury, will decide the trial's outcome.
One of the big issues in the lawsuit is whether the mini shops meet a stipulation that allows the home maven to sell her goods in Martha Stewart Living stores.
According to Martha Stewart, the Macy's agreement doesn't say that goods under dispute can be sold only in "stand-alone" Martha Stewart stores.
She and J.C. Penney argue that the mini shops do not fall under the exclusivity clause in the Macy's-Martha Stewart contract.
Macy's disagrees.
According to a memo J.C. Penney filed with the court, Macy's rights to Martha Stewart aren't nearly as sweeping as Macy's suggests. Under Macy's interpretation of the contract, according to J.C. Penney, Martha Stewart Living is "little more than an in-house designer for Macy's."
"Macy's should stop competing in the courtroom and start competing in the marketplace," says Penney's memo.
In court documents, Martha Stewart Living said it will prove that it was Macy's that breached their contract because it didn't "use commercially reasonable efforts to maximize net sales of Martha Stewart Collection products."
The stakes are high for both retailers as well as for Martha Stewart.
Martha Stewart Living is trying to fatten merchandising revenue as it struggles to offset declines in its broadcast and publishing business, a segment that accounts for more than 60% of its business. The New York company is downsizing its magazines and cutting publishing jobs as it increasingly focuses on online video and other digital content.
Penney continues to combat mounting losses and sharp sales declines since early last year after shoppers were turned off by a new strategy that eliminated most sales in favor of lower prices every day.
The retailer began adding mini shops featuring new hip brands last year and plans to overhaul the home department this spring with well known designers, such as Jonathan Adler and Michael Graves.
Martha Stewart, however, is at the center of the retailer's home products revamp.
As for Macy's, having another major department store sell Martha Stewart towels, pots and other merchandise could dilute its business.
Burt Flickinger III, president of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group, says that if Penney doesn't prevail legally, it could hurt the chain tremendously.
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