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The Pacers will be without four starters when they play Atlanta on Monday night.
David West will miss his fifth consecutive game with a lower back strain. Danny Granger still has not returned from a sore left knee.
And the Pacers have added Lance Stephenson and point guard George Hill to the injury list. Stephenson has a strained right hip flexor, Hill has a strained left groin.
Coach Frank Vogel says it's possible all four could play Wednesday at Houston though team doctors are more concerned about Hill's injury than Stephenson's.
Indiana's revamped lineup will have D.J. Augustin, Paul George and Gerald Green in the backcourt, Tyler Hansbrough at forward and Roy Hibbert at center.
Dahntay Jones is expected to start for Atlanta, which will be without Lou Williams and Zaza Pachulia.
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Australia's largest equipment hire company
Coates Limited is Australia's largest equipment hire company with over 120 years experience in the industry, supplying to a wide variety of markets including Engineering and Building Construction & Maintenance, Mining & Resources, Manufacturing, Government, and Events.
With over 200 branches and satellite locations, our own maintenance and transport capability, Coates Hire is well positioned to satisfy the equipment hire needs of an ever increasing customer base.
Coates Hire overseas operations include Coates Offshore in the UK providing specialised equipment to offshore oil and gas operations, and Coates Hire Indonesia supporting the mining and resource sector.
Today Coates Limited incorporates the following businesses:
Coates Hire provides a range of compaction, access, generator, compressor, welding and general equipment, Portable Buildings, Commercial Buildings, Portable Toilets, Temporary Fencing, and Containers . Coates also specialises in the supplier in the hire of pumps, shoring, dewatering systems, traffic management, confined space and laser equipment.
Coates Indonesia is a response to the strong demand for power generation and a range of other equipment in the mining, oil, gas and civil construction markets in Indonesia.
Coates Offshore serves the needs of the global offshore industry via its operations in Europe and the Asia Pacific, specialising in providing compressed air, power, welding & lighting equipment.
The wide variety of businesses and markets in which Coates Hire participates in provides a sound platform for continued growth both in product range and geographic coverage, thus enabling us to further enhance our service to customers


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This tour comprises visiting the wineries at Yarra Valley. Select your own or leave it to us.
We like to visit The Smaller Wineries
We start at Punt Road Winery a friendly and welcoming Award Winning Winery owned by the Napoleone Family that have been Orchardists in the Yarra valley since the 1940's. They planted their first vineyards in 1983 and since become highly regarded for their Yarra Valley Punt Road label. The have now moved to include hand-crafted cider.
Next Cold Stream Hills Winery founded by Renowned Wine Writer James Halliday in 1985.
Next Yarra Yering Winery one of the oldest and most beautiful vineyards. The wine realeased in 1973 by owner/winemaker Dr Bailey Carrodus gained an international reputation for quality and individuality to great critical and commercial success to date.
From here to Warramate Winery a small family run winery with vines that are dry-grown hand pruned and harvested.
Followed by Dominique Portet Winery a centuries old wine making family. The Portet family holds possibly an unmatched record in the Australian wine industry. Dominique is the ninth generation in his family to be committed to wine making. His family has had links with the wine industry since 1720 in his native Bordeaux.
This is where we stop for Lunch Delicious Mediterranean Platter
After lunch we travel to Sticks Winery one of Yarra Valleys most progressive unique winery with award winning wines that are sold both nationally and in key markets around the world.
Next DeBortoli Winery interesting wine from some of the oldest vines in the valley. Fantastic cheese and wine tastings with Italian style ambience. You can sample taste or buy at your pleasure.
Now if time permits we visit Balgownie Estate Vineyard established by the now legendary winemaker Stuart Anderson in 1969. This vineyard was the first vineyard planted in the Bendigo district more than 80 years ago. This is one of Australia's great small vineyard famed for its long lived Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz.
Last is finishing off. We tour back to Melbourne the back way across Christmas Hills and Kangaroo Ground.
This is where we would like to take you, but its up to you weather you do all these wineries in the time allocated within 7 hours. We do not rush you if your enjoying talking and tasting at a particular winery we leave it to you when you want to move on. Its all about Relaxing and having a Good Time.
Lunch is the only booking we need to be on time for because its pre booked.
ALL WINE TASTINGS ARE FREE BUT LUNCH NEEDS TO BE PAID BY CUSTOMER unless you buy a All Inclusive package.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, some humans discontinued their nomadic hunting and gathering and settled down to farm. Grain was the first domesticated crop that started that farming process. The oldest proven records of brewing are about 6,000 years old and refer to the Sumerians. They had discovered a "divine drink" which certainly was a gift from the Gods....
With this tour we take you to the Major Watering Holes (Of The God Oden) in the Yarra Valley.
We start this tour by travelling the winding roads of Warrandyte to Healesville where we visit Buckleys Brewery named after William Buckley the famous escaped convict. The beers are traditionally brewed, non-filtered and full flavoured. This is Yarra Valleys First Traditional Brewery with Solar Heated Brew. There are 4 beers to choose from. This is where you will be taken through the brewery and shown the step by step production method of making Beer.
Next stop "Innocent Bystander Giant Steps" and the Brewery 'White Rabbit', the guys there are not only Wine Makers but Brewers and have been awarded for "Little Creatures". There is also a personal selection of some of the worlds other great beers.
Next we travel the rolling hills across to Yarra Glen to visit Hargreaves Hill Brewery this is a family owned mico-brewery that brews with rainwater, they make the ales the old fashioned way no preservatives, no chemicals or sugars. They have 3 new beers and 2 guest taps. This is also where we stop for lunch at the Bar and Restaurant. The Chef is known for his delicious modern brasserie style menu.
After lunch we visit Coldstream Brewery which is a mico-brewery that has Rod Williams a renowned brewer for over 25 years. His experience and expertise in establishing the brewery is marked by the unique beer and ales available. There are 4 beers available.
We also stop at Punt road for their Cider 9 Pear and Apple and the new Beer.
We travel back to Melbourne via Warrandyte.
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Kim Terry, Director of Marketing and Communications
Published: June 8, 2011
The Metropolitan Library System's popular Second Sunday series of concerts continues during the summer with three programs, one each in June, July and August.
The series kicks off with Cellist Eman Chalshotori on June 12, followed by master pianist Wayne McEvilly on July 10, and concluding with Gary S. Pratt on August 14. Performances are on the second Sunday of each month at 2:00p.m. in the 46th Star Auditorium on the fourth floor of the RJN Downtown Library, 300 Park Avenue. The performances are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and the doors open at 1:30p.m.
"The three concerts in this series," said Downtown librarian Wendy Gabrielson, "are all wonderfully varied, from the classical piano of audience favorite Wayne McEvilly to the original and traditional country and western of Gary Pratt."
Call the Downtown Library at 606-3876 with questions, or for more information about this or any MLS program, please visit the library website at www.metrolibrary.org.
The Metropolitan Library System of Oklahoma County includes 12 libraries and five extension libraries.ĀLibraries include Belle Isle, Capitol Hill, Ralph Ellison, Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library and Southern Oaks in Oklahoma City, as well as Bethany, Choctaw, Del City, Edmond, Midwest City, Village and Warr Acres.ĀExtensions are located in the communities of Harrah, Jones, Luther and Nicoma Park and include Wright Library in Oklahoma City.ĀYou can also reach us at www.metrolibrary.org.


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What tadpole wouldn't love to fill this case with marbles, coins, or trinkets? We've come up with a trick for attaching the zipper in a snap.
To make the frog shown here, wrap masking tape around the 2-liter bottles about 2 1/2 inches from the bottom. To make the taller frog, place the tape about 3 1/2 inches from the bottom. With a craft knife or scissors, cut each bottle along the tape's top edge (a parent's job).
Using the tape measure, mark 1/2-inch increments all around the tape, about 1/4 inch from the cut edge. Punch a hole through each mark with the pushpin. (Tip: Work on a folded towel to keep the plastic from slipping.) Remove the masking tape.
Close the zipper and wrap it around one bottle, as shown, using small pieces of tape to hold it in place. Thread the needle with 40 inches of floss, then knot the end, leaving a 3-inch tail. Sew the zipper to the bottle, starting from the inside and pulling the thread in and out of the punched holes. Remove the tape as you go. At the end, knot the floss and tie both tails together, then trim off the excess floss. Open the zipper and sew it to the second bottle in the same way.
To make the eyes, use the craft knife to cut the cork in half. Cut a section from each piece, as shown, to make a flat edge (a parent's job). Paint the corks and let them dry, then glue on googly eyes. Glue the flat edge of the eyes to the bottle.


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Speed Test for Nerds
Most people with Internet access in their houses have visited a speed-test Web site to make sure they're getting somewhere close to the speed they're overpaying for. I'm paying more than $100 a month for my business-class connection from Charter, so on a regular basis, I make sure I'm getting the advertised speed. (I seldom get the advertised speed, but the margin of error is acceptable. I guess.)
One of the frustrations with Internet speed tests is that most of them require Adobe Flash to work. Even those sites that don't require Flash do require a rather robust (and frivolous) GUI that I find annoying at best. If you're anything like me, you'd like a simple command-line tool that gives you your speed. If you're truly like me, that last sentence just sparked notions of automated scripts e-mailing results via timed cron jobs at different times during the day. Welcome to the club; we're all nerds here.
Thankfully, my friend Charlie K. (I won't use his last name, because I didn't ask him if I could) posted a link on Google Plus to the speedtest-cli program. The project is on GitHub at https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli, and to get the Python-based program, simply do this:
# wget -O speedtest-cli \
# chmod +x speedtest-cli
Then execute the script
./speedtest-cli to get your results. There are
advanced options as well, but a simple execution of the script will provide
your speed results. You can see the results of my supposed 80/5 business
connection in the screenshot.
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The Assessment: Finance, Law, and Growth
AbstractThis article reviews the development of corporate finance from domestic analyses to international comparisons of financial systems, to comparative corporate governance, to law and finance, and most recently to politics and finance. It describes how both theoretical developments and empirical evidence have guided this research agenda. It considers the lessons that can be learnt from the newly emerging literatures and considers the policy implications that can be derived. It argues that while strong policy prescriptions are frequently proposed, there are many unresolved theoretical and empirical issues which suggest that caution should be exercised in drawing policy conclusions. Copyright 2001, Oxford University Press.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - If someone besides Tiger Woods wins the Masters, then the world's No. 1 player has only himself to blame.
Masters notebook: Father's advice helps Tiger succeed
Read Bill Huffman's golf blog, 'Backspin'
It's well known that Tiger's seemingly invincible persona has created major problems for those who pursue him. But a quick glance at Thursday's first-round leaderboard from Augusta National rings out loud and clear that the competition apparently is getting a clue.
They are young and talented, and mostly overlooked because of Woods. But guys like Justin Rose, Trevor Immelman, Brandt Snedeker, Ian Poulter and defending champion Zach Johnson are doing their best to keep up with Tiger.
Along those lines, Rose and Immelman, who lead this chase for the green jacket early with 4-under 68s, and Poulter, who is two shots back, took a "road trip'' two weeks ago, flying up from Orlando, Fla.
"Kind of like three kids going to their favorite course,'' concluded Immelman of the weekend venture spent at Augusta National. "We had an absolute ball. Any time you play the course, you learn something new.''
Yeah, "kids'' will try anything theses days to catch Tiger, and good for them.
Of those five aforementioned players who all are perched among the top six after Thursday's opening round, three are younger than the 32-year-old Woods — Rose (27), Immelman (28) and Snedeker (27) — while Poulter and Johnson are the same age.
There are others who are young and hungry and also played slightly better than Woods' opening 72, which could have been much worse had Tiger not reversed his fortunes with a chip-in eagle at the 15th hole.
They include Aaron Oberholser and former Arizona State All-American Paul Casey, who both live in Scottsdale and are 32 and 30, respectively. That's seven guys who are Woods' age or younger on the leader board, who all came out swinging despite Tiger being the heaviest of favorites this week.
What's wild about this young and restless stuff is that their common denominator is Woods. Without question, he motivates his generation much like Jack Nicklaus did when he ruled this major championship with six greens jackets from 1963-1986.
Rose, for one, has been chasing Woods since Rose turned pro at the tender age of 17.
"It seems like I've been after him forever,'' said the Englishman of his 10-year odyssey.
Despite his youth, Rose certainly is no stranger at the Masters. He had the lead here after the first round in 2004, and did it again last year after a three-year absence due to poor play and injury. And while three straight first-round leads should tell him something, Rose said the biggest secret he's uncovered about Augusta National actually came last year from somebody else besides Tiger.
"Zach Johnson disproved that theory,'' he said of the modern-day theory that says only Woods, Phil Mickelson and the rest of the bomb squad can win here on a course that rambles on and on for 7,445 yards.
Poulter, whose 70 held the early lead for much of the day, has been chastised in the past month for daring to compare himself to Woods. But the Englishman looked like the world-beater he had imagined in Round 1, especially when his 8-iron from 169 yards at the 16th hole found the cup for the loudest roar of the day.
"Tiger laughs all the time about (the comparison),'' said Poulter, who is ranked No. 24 in the world. "He keeps calling me 'No. 2,' which is nice. So I guess I just got to keep playing better golf and I might get there.''
Whether the road trip helps the three amigos prove that ultimately there is more thanone way to skin a cat remains to be seen. But Immelman and Rose enjoyed it.
"I think what we did was take the pressure off the practice days this week,'' Rose concluded.
"They were an awesome couple of days,'' added Immelman, who said Rose won all the money.


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1 Corinthians 13:7
December 05, 1976
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For our Bible study this morning we are again in the book of I Corinthians where we've been for many, many months. We find ourselves again discussing the perfections of love in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. And the response that I've had from many of you has been so very, very gratifying and I know many of you have really been blessed and God has touched your lives and there has been much much response to this understanding of love that the Holy Spirit has shared with us here. So I am excited about sharing further with you this morning.
Now as we look at again our section for study, chapter 13 verses 4 through 7, the perfections of love, I want to introduce it and approach it this morning from a negative viewpoint, if I can. Sin has effects. I doubt whether any of us would even bother to argue that it doesn't. We know that it does. We know that it has effects by virtue of our understanding of Scripture and of our understanding of our own circumstances. We recognize that when sin is in our lives there are certain things that take place as a result of that. We recognize that the Bible talks about the consequences of sin. And I suppose we could divide its consequences into the most obvious two categories. First of all, sin has a great effect on the soul of a man or a woman. It affects your relationship with God. It... really when you sin, or live in a state of unconfessed sin, you forfeit blessing, you take yourself out of the place of being blessed by God and you put yourself in a place of the loss of joy, so that there's a soul sickness that occurs, there is a languishing of soul that occurs when a believer is sinful. But secondly, sin also has a rather dramatic effect on the physical body. Sin will have results in pain and illness. A good illustration of this would be David.
In 2 Samuel chapter 12 we have the record of a rather terrible sin, David violated Bathsheba and then as a secondary act he made sure that her husband was in a position of losing his life which really was the equivalent of murder. So, he was involved not only in immorality but in murder. And as a result of that, here was a child of God who was entertaining a sinful situation, he not only suffered the soul sickness that came, the terrible blight on his soul, the sense of alienation from God and the anxiety of that sin as he realized he had forfeited the place of blessing, but there came too a rather dramatic impact on his own physical body. And if we would look for just a moment at Psalm 32 we would see how David reacted to the physical‑illness that came as a result of his sin.
In Psalm 32 verse 2 and following, or actually verse 1 and following, he's talking about his sin and how wonderful it would be if he could get out from under it. And the affects of his sin that he mentions in verses 3 and 4 are in the physical area. He says: "When I kept silence," that is when I failed to acknowledge my sin, when I failed to confess it, to deal with it before God, my bones became old through my roaring all day long." Here was actually physical pain, physical consequences, the aching of his bones, deep‑down physical pain. And then in 4: "Day and night, God's hand was heavy on me, my moisture is turned into the draft or draught of summer." The life juices are dried up. Things happened to his blood. Things happened in the secretion of various glands, the fluids that accommodate the muscles were not operating perhaps properly so that there was a creation of certain tension in his muscles, that's the Hebrew significance of that concept of moisture. And so here is a tremendously great physical impact as a result of David's sin.
Now, that leads us to this obvious conclusion. For a Christian or a child of God, sin constitutes trauma emotionally. No question about it. It creates emotional anxiety. It creates emotional alienation from the one anchor that the Christian has. And as a result of that emotional trauma, there can result a debilitating illness and even fatal illness. The emotional center of the brain is a stem from which fibers, nerve fibers, run to every organ in the body and because of such intricate connection to the brain, turmoil in the emotional center of the brain can create impulses that can cause any number of physiological problems. In fact, physicians tell us that usually these problems are created along three lines, physically. One, the emotional center causes a change in the amount of blood flowing to a given organ which can become debilitating to that organ. Two, the emotional trauma can create an effect on the secretion of certain glands which also can effect bodily function... and thirdly, the changing of the tension of certain muscles.
So, that what we see, then, in sin is a two‑fold effect: it is spiritual and it is physical. Sin can affect the body. It makes you sick. In Proverbs 15:17 it says: "It is better to eat vegetables." And that's tremendous concession. I mean, as a boy, I never thought it was good to eat vegetables; I'm still not too convinced, but anyway... David ... or Solomon says, "It is better to eat vegetables with love than a stalled ox with hatred." In other words, a stalled ox is the fatted calf. You take an ox, you put him in the stall and you fatten him up for the slaughter, filet mignon in modern English. It's better to have cauliflower with love than filet mignon with hate. In' other words, the illness that can result from the heart anxiety that sin creates makes you sick so you can't enjoy the best of meals. Again reiterating the physical element in sin.
So, when Paul writes to the Corinthians and tells them to love and tells them that love is the thing they need, it isn't just for the healing of the soul, but it no doubt had great consequence for the body. Let me show you why I say that. Look back at chapter 11 of I Corinthians. In chapter 11 and verse 29, in reference to the way in which they were partaking in the Lord's table, in a manner that was definitely sinful, Paul says in 11:29: "For he that eats and drinks unworthily, in an unworthy manner, eateth and drinketh judgment, or chastening, to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."
In other words, if you eat this way you're going to get chastened. "For this reason, many are weak and sick and many sleep." They had had sickness, severe illness and they had had death.
Now, it isn't so much, I think, the idea that when anybody did this God came down and supernaturally, miraculously killed them or gave them a supernatural illness. But what happens here is in the Corinthian assembly you have a whole bunch of people living in sinfulness. And sinfulness has physical ramifications. So that when the Apostle Paul in chapter 13 is saying to them, "Love each other," he is not simply saying, "This is a soul issue," he's saying, "This is a body issue as well." For the wholeness of your assembly, for the wholeness of your own body, for the wholeness of all of these things, you need to love.
Now remember, and this is the key point that I want to use to tie the thing that I just said with the things I'm going to say, remember, all sin is a violation of love... all of it...all of it. So that he is simply saying, "You are sinning so you are sick spiritually, so you are sick physically and here is the answer--love and all of these things will disappear.
You say, "Well, John, what do you mean that love will eliminate all sin?"
Look at Matthew chapter 22 ... Matthew 22 verse 34, "When the Pharisees had heard that He had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together." They were always trying to prove themselves better than the Sadducees, they figured that the Sadducees had got flattened by Jesus, they'd move in and flatten Jesus and they'd gain a little of the upper hand in their society, so they came Kong and they prompted one particular lawyer to ask Jesus a question, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? The most significant one." Of course, they had the idea that you had to keep the law to be saved but they were smart enough to realize that that way nobody's going to get saved because nobody could keep the law. So they decided that, at least some of them did, that if you could just find one good law and keep that one law you'd be all right. And so, they were simply saying, "Which is that one law?" And Jesus said, "Here it is, Thou shalt... what's the next word?...love..." and here we introduce to the concept of love in relation to this law. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, this is the first and great commandment and the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, and on these two commandments hang all the law and prophets."
Now listen, if you love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, if you love your neighbor properly as yourself, you will never sin because you will do nothing to violate God, you will do nothing to violate your neighbor ... that takes care of it. Love then fulfills it all.
In Romans chapter 13, a familiar word in verse 8, he says: Love one another, he that loves another has fulfilled the law. It says, "Thou shalt not commit adultery, not kill, not steal, not bear false witness, not covet, and if there's any other commandment, it can be briefly comprehended in this one saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, love works no ill to its neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." You don't need a commandment that says, "Thou shalt not kill your neighbor," if you love your neighbor.You don't need a commandment that says, "Don't covet," if you love the person who possess what you don't have.
So, you see, both of those passages say this: To simplify all of living, love God, love your neighbor, and you won't have to worry about anything else.
Now the Corinthians were equally loveless. Like David, they had chosen to violate each other, they were loveless. And their lovelessness was actually the common ingredient in every sin. For example, we started in the book of I Corinthians and we started reading about their division and their faction. And the reason they were fighting with each other was lovelessness. They had split into parties over philosophy. They had fallen into little spiritual groups over different human teachers. And there was friction and anxiety and carnality and strife and division because they were loveless. Their lovelessness is further seen in the fact that they committed immorality and were sexually violating each other. Their lovelessness is seen in the ugly kind of pride and conceit that in chapter 4 Paul discusses when he says you're anything but a servant. You think you're something great. They were in love rather with themselves than with God and others.
Their lovelessness is seen in their suits. They were constantly suing each other. The reason they did that was because they were loveless. The reason there were problems in the home, chapter 7, because of the lack of love. The reason they were stepping all over the neck of the weaker Christians in chapters 8 to 10 was simply a lack of love. The reason they violated the Lord's table because they were indifferent to love, they were indifferent to the communion and the fellowship of one another, they were indifferent to God and His Son. The reason they had made hogs of themselves at the love feasts was because they didn't love each other enough to save some food for the people who didn't have anything.
You see, lovelessness characterized at the core every'‑single sin they were committing. And so, when Paul gets to this place, he is really saying, "Love is the answer to everything...it will bring to you spiritual wholeness and it will bring to you physical wholeness." And I can promise you, it's an exciting thing to say, but if your life is full of love you're going to be healthy spiritually and the chances are, unless God has some very, very specific purpose for you, the promise: is you're going to be healthy physically. And that's why the Bible calls us to love...again and again and again. There's no Christianity without love. There's no church without love. There's no ministry without love.
First Timothy 1:5 is a verse we ought to remember. It says this: "The end of the commandment," in other words, the reason, the objective, the sum of it all, the point of it all, the end of the commandment is "...love out of a pure heart." First Timothy 1:5, "The end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart." God is trying to get us to love.
In 1 Corinthians 16:14, we'll get to this verse in the future as we study, it says this: "Let all your things be done with love." Let all your things be done with love. Proper theology is no substitute for love. Activism and service is no substitute for love. Selective affection, that is attraction to certain people, is no substitute for a wide‑spread love. Immaturity, ignorance is no substitute and it is no excuse for love, I Thessalonians 4:9 says: "You don't need to be taught of love because God has taught you how to love." Romans 5:5 says, "He's put His love in your heart." God wants Christians to be happy. God wants Christians to be healthy in their soul. God wants you to know what it is to be blessed and not feel His chastening, even in the area of physical illness that comes about because of the trauma of willful sin. And the real key to all of it is to learn to love. This is the indispensable reality for the Christian. God is love and if God is to be seen in us it is going to be when we are loved as well.
Now, it is so important that we love that the New Testament just keeps hammering away at it. For example, Colossians 3:14 says: "Put on love." First Corinthians 14:1 says: "Follow after love." Philippians 1:9 says: "Abound in love." Hebrews 13:1 says: "Continue in love." First Thessalonians 3:12 says: "Increase in love." First Peter 4:8 says: "Be fervent in love." Philippians 2:2 says: "Be consistent in love." Hebrews 10:24 says: "Provoke each other to love." Second Corinthians 8:8 says: "Be sincere in love." And on and on it goes. This has always been the pinnacle of life. It's the pinnacle of wholeness for the Christian. And the healthy, happy, positive glowing, useful Christian is the one who loves.
You say, "Oh, that's great, John, but how does it work? How does love function?"
Well, look at these verses again. First Corinthians 13:4 to 7 and we'll see. I've tried to say all along love is not an emotion and I hope you're getting that.
The first three verses we discussed the prominence of love, Verses 4 to 7, the perfections of love...verses 8 to 12, the permanence of love...verse 13, the preeminence of love. We'll be getting to those two in the future.
Now, remember the first eleven that describe love? If we are to love we ought to know what it means to love. Let me just run them by you very briefly. Verse 4, "Love suffers long." We found that that meant love is patient with people. "Love is kind." That means it's useful to others, its highest privilege is to serve. And perhaps those two are the title and the rest of the thirteen are sort of subtitles for love.
Number three, "Love envies not." It is never jealous, it desires nothing but to give.
"Love vaunteth not itself." That is it is not boastful. It isn't always shooting off its mouth in order to make others feel inferior.
"Love is not puffed up." That is it inwardly has not an exaggerated opinion of itself.
Sixth, "Love does not behave rudely." It never acts selfishly in behavior. It considers what is essential to the happiness of others.
"Love seeks not its own." This is really the key to all of it. Love is totally unselfish. It is the very opposite of self‑centeredness.
Eight, "Love is not provoked." And that means love doesn't get upset, irritated or angry.
Nine, "Love thinks no evil." We saw that that was an accounting term. Love doesn't keep books on offenses that have been done against it, it forgives and forgets. It never makes memories out of wrong doings.
Ten, "Love rejoices not," verse 6 now, "in iniquity or unrighteousness." Love has no pleasure in hearing or repeating unrighteousness. It never is happy about sin, its own or anyone else's because sin wounds God and certainly wounds the one who commits it and the others against whom it is committed.
Eleven, the end of verse 6, "...love rejoices with the truth." Love rejoices when the truth is lived and love rejoices when the truth is taught.
All right, there are the eleven that we've talked about. Now comes the crescendo in verse 7, look at it. These are the final four elements of love and it's just kind of like Paul is really flying by now as he gives these and they really kind of gather up some of the others as well as he peaks out in a crescendo of definition of love. "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And then he caps it off by saying, "Love never fails."
Now, let's look at these four in verse 7. They're hyperbole... that is, they are statements of exaggeration: Love bears all things... all things... all things... all things .... four times. We have to understand that when he says "all things" he doesn't mean "all things in a universal sense." Love certainly has to make some discrimination. We have to try the spirits to see if whether they're of God. We don't believe the devil, do we? It doesn't mean all things in the general total universal sense. What it means is all things within the limitations of proper biblical boundaries...proper Christian discrimination...proper Christian sensibility. All things that come into the divine framework.
Now, these four are ascending and we're going from one to the next and they're probably close ... more closely tied than any of the other eleven. They just really go together, now watch as we go.
Let's look at the first one. Number 12 of the 15, "Love bears all things." Now this is a tremendous word... and I want you to see the depth of it. It's a glorious truth. The word "bear" although it is used in various shades of meaning in the New Testament, primarily means "to cover with silence," to cover with silence. Or if you want one word "to suppress." To suppress. That's the basic meaning. It doesn't mean that love puts up with anything and love can be shoved around because it doesn't have any dignity, but what it does mean is that love out of a regard and a respect and an honest concern for the real value of another person, love will do everything it can to cover up and suppress the sin of that person. Genuine love is reluctant to drag a scandal in front of anyone. When it says it "bears all things," it's not in the sense of "Oh, I'll put up with that some more," or "I'll endure this trial," it means it is disposed to cover over the ugliness in someone else's life.
You know, you can illustrate the fact that this is a normal human behavior pattern by looking at yourself and your own children. It is normal for depravity to want to uncover everybody's evil. There's no question about that. Go to the newsstand and check out the latest magazines.... True Confessions.... Secrets of Mr. So‑and‑So ... The Secret Marriage of So‑and‑so and So‑and‑so. And all the books ... I'm telling you, the bookstores are jammed with exposes. You see, depravity is always looking to find the skeleton in somebody else's closet because it gives a sense of self‑righteousness...always. Your children are a good illustration, so are mine, just so you realize I'm on the same wavelength you're on... the come into the world depraved. And one of the first manifestations of their depravity is the eagerness with which they want to tell ontheir brothers and sisters. And you... that's one thing you have to discipline out of them. Our's will come in andsay: "You know what Matt's doing?" And I'll say: "I don't know what Matt's doing and I'm not interested." That's one way to deal with it. And then when they're gone I go find out what Matt's doing.
One of them will run down the stairs: "So‑and‑so's jumping on the bed." You know, that's typical. Why? Because depravity is always trying to uncover somebody else so it can gain a sense of self‑respect and righteousness and look good in your eyes.
You know, it's kind of sad, but some people never grow out of that. Some people spend their whole life tattling. You know, I always question people who are married and all they can do is talk about the errors and the faults and the sins of their partner. I question whether they know the meaning of love because love throws a blanket over somebody else's faults. That's what the word means.
The Corinthians didn't know the meaning of that. They were exposing anybody. Chapter 6, if somebody offended one of them they dragged them into court and sued them publicly before a pagan judge. But love throws a kindly mantle over the faults and weaknesses and sins of others.
First Peter 4:8, Peter put it this way, beautiful, he said: "Love covers a...what?...multitude of sins." Love is a big huge blanket that runs around throwing itself over people's faults...not exposing them.
Proverbs 10:12 says: "Hatred stirs up strife but love covers all sins." Have you ever noticed how easily you dismiss the faults of those you love? Think of the person you love the most, and they do something wrong‑‑"Ah well, there's so much good about them, I mean, everybody makes a mistake." Now think about the person you don't like, don't think too long it will be a sin, or imagine that you didn't like somebody‑‑ha‑ha, that's better, and they do something wrong and you love it, see. Because you really wish it. But love dismisses the sins of the one it loves and the one it doesn't love, pounces on them, see.
Love will warn, yes, and love will exhort and love will rebuke and love will discipline but love will cover, not expose. It's a beautiful characteristic of love.
I'll give you a good illustration of it, the best illustration I could think of, the cross of Jesus Christ. Love has a redemptive quality. You know, God loved us. God didn't sit up in heaven with the trinity and say: "You know, those human beings are gross ... what do you angels thing about them?" "Oh yeah, especially that MacArthur one, he is bad." And they didn't have an internal discussion about US. We are not the subject of heavenly gossip, isn't that nice to know?
He is the covering for our sin. You see, God is not in the business of exposing ultimately, He's in the business of covering rather than sit in a righteous resentment and gossip with the trinity and the angels about the sins of men, God just came to a cross, threw a mantle over man's sin and bore their sin in His own body.
Now, let me tell you something about love. Love throws a' mantle over sin because love has a redemptive element. Love is always after redemption. Love wants to redeem... it wants to buy back. Love is not judgmental, love is not condemning, love is redeeming.
Listen to this. "He carried our griefs, He bore our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities, our chastisement was on Him." Isaiah 53‑‑that is love. Now let me tell you something. Love will actually go beyond throwing a blanket; love is so empathetic that love will feel the pain. Love will actually endure the agony. Love will bear it. Love will feel the pain when a brother or sister sins, and I love that person, I hurt. I don't want to expose, I'm willing to bear the pain. And then love will redeem and forgive.
The redemptive character of love is willing to take and throw a blanket over sin, to feel the pain of that sin and I'll go a third step, it is willing to take on the consequence of that sin. True love is. On the cross, God didn't just throw a mantle over sin, He didn't just feel sympathetic about it, He did ... what?... He bore our sins in His own body... Genuine love is never quick to exploit or expose or gloat or condemn, it throws a blanket over sin, carries the burden of it, even takes the blame for it, even accepts the punishment.
In Cromwell's time, a soldier was condemned to die by execution. He was to die at the ringing of the curfew bell. He was engaged to be married to a beautiful young girl, the girl pleaded with the judge. With tears she pleaded with Cromwell to spare his young life all in vain. All the preparations were made for the execution. The city awaited the signal from the bell at curfew. The sexton who was old anddeaf, threw himself against a rope, as he had for years, he pulled it and pulled it and pulled it and he didn't know it but no sound came out. The girl had climbed to the top of the belfry, reached out, caught and held onto the tongue of the huge bell at the risk of her life and as he rang it, she was smashed against the side but the bell was silent. At length the bell ceased to swing and she managed to get back to the edge and came down, descended wounded and bleeding. Cromwell was waiting and everybody was waiting at the place of execution and he wanted to know why the bell had not rung. And the girl arrived and told him the story and a poet recorded it for all time, and this is what he said:
"At his feet she told her story, showed her hands all bruised and torn; and her sweet young face still haggard with the anguish it had worn; touched his heart with sudden pity, lit his eyes with misty light, 'Go, your lover lives,' said Cromwell... curfew will not ring tonight."
Here's somebody who was willing to go where love goes. Throw a mantle over sin, feel sympathy for sin and take punishment for sin... somebody else's. That's redemptive love. It is always, always the quality of love, that love suppresses someone else's sin, sympathizes with someone else's sin, suffers for someone else's sin if it can.
To what extent do you bear the pain? To cover someone's sin? It's a fair question. Do we really cover other people's evil? Love does ... love bears all things. And there's a second, let's ascend a little more. Number 13, verse 7: "Love not only bears all things, love ... what? ... believes all things." This is great. Love bears all things and then love believes all things.
Instead of suspecting, instead of being eager to denounce the offender, instead of saying, "Oh well, probably got exactly what he or she deserved, this is probably the way it should have worked out," and, "Well, he's gone so far now, he'll probably never change," love believes in the best in someone else. It sees the wrong. It sees the weakness. It throws a mantle of silence over the weakness. It suppresses the sin and then it believes the best. Love doesn't go through life cynical. Love doesn't go through life suspecting, suspicious of everybody and everything. And suspicious that every time somebody does a wrong thing: Oop, that proves it, they were rotten to begin with. Love isn't cynical and suspicious. Love always believes the best.
You know, you see this particularly, I think, in the heart of a mother. Sometimes a son, a daughter, drifts away from the Lord. We were in Ohio with some dear people that we came to be acquainted with who took us to this conference and they were telling us about a daughter who had drifted away, who was a source of great heartbreak. And they recognized her sins, they recognized the faults. They recognized all the problems but they had thrown a mantle of love over her because they cared so much.And they said: "She'll come back." "We believe with all our hearts she'll come back to the Lord."
You know why they believe that? Because they love her and love has to believe that. Love has to believe it because love cares too much not to believe it. And what love wants so bad it turns into faith, you see? That Mom and Dad want that girl back so badly and they love her so much that their wish becomes a belief. That's how hard love pulls, see. But when somebody goes wrong and you say: Awk! They reveal their true character, proves you don't love them, cause love doesn't let go like that. There's the wife of a husband who 25 years, 30 years, has never come to Christ and she's always saying, "He'll come some day." And you know when she says that what I know? She loves him. And her love for him makes her wish that he'd come and her wish is so strong it turns into a belief that he will.
Yes, love sees wrong and love sees weakness and love rebukes it and love deals with it, but not to expose it. Love throws a mantle over it.
And if you're going to make a mistake about somebody's character, do a favor to yourself and the Lord and everybody else. Err on the side of love. Make a mistake in the fact that you...you trusted them too much, you believed in them. One of the things that we've tried to integrate in our ministry here is the fact that all of our staff and the working and the elders and everything, it's all based on one thing, we believe in you. We believe you're totally dedicated to Christ. We believe you're diligent. We believe you're the best kind of person and so on that basis we trust you. And if somebody doesn't fulfill that trust once in a while, it's all right, we err on the side of love and that's how to be healthy and happy. And most of the time it puts people under a kind of emphasis that makes them want to give the best they have.
The Corinthians‑‑they were anxious to suspect, be cynical, believe what is bad, assume nobody was every telling the truth. Be like Job's friends, "We know what your problem is, Job, you're evil, you're a bad egg, Job, face it, fess up. That's why you have all this problem." And Job listened to all of that palaver about as long as anybody could. He knew in his own heart he wasn't and finally there's a statement in, I think it's 21:27, "Behold I know your thoughts and the devices you wrongfully imagine against me." He says: "You know, I've had it with you guys, all you do is think evil about me." And what does that prove? They don't love him because if they had loved him they'd have said: "But he's a good man, oh, maybe he's made mistakes here and there and maybe he's sinned, but he's good. There's something redeemable about him. I don't understand why...." But that's not the way they thought. Look at this one, Matthew 9, notice... you want to know how the Pharisees felt about Jesus? This is probably as clear an indication as you'll ever get. Jesus had met a man sick of the palsy, in Matthew 9. And saw that he was a great believer and He said: "Son, your sins are forgiven." Gave him salvation, no doubt physical healing as well. And certain of the scribes said within themselves: "This man blasphemes." Now this is interesting. Jesus heals a man and says your sins be forgiven. And they said ‑ This‑‑inside they said, not out loud‑‑this man blasphemes. Why did they say that? Well, because they had a predetermination that He was evil. You say, "Is it evil to forgive sins?" No. "Is it evil to heal the sick?" No, but they had a predisposition that He was evil so whatever He did had to be evil. They were cynical and suspicious. And I love the next verse: "Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?" Boy, that must have been something. They didn't even say it. He answered the thing they were thinking. He says ‑ Why think ye evil in your hearts? That was the indictment of the scribes. They had an evil attitude toward Jesus which was proof positive that they didn't love Him cause if they loved Him they'd have thought the best about Him.
When you love somebody you think the best and even when something goes wrong, you think the best. I often say to my wife again and again, "Honey, I know our kids aregoing to turn terrific. I know they're going to turn out great. I believe they're going to be the best kids when they get to be adults." You know why I think that? I have to think that, I believe that, I believe that because I wish it, I wish it because I love them. That's how love works.
But you see, in the case of hate like this, even when they couldn't find a fault in Him, they kept looking for them because they hated Him. You start hating somebody and you'll start finding faults. You start loving somebody and you'll start covering them. It's the difference.Love is a harbor of trust for those who are doubted by everybody else. So love believes. And as soon as somebody wants to get it right again, boy, love is Galatians 6:1, love is Johnny‑on‑the spot to restore the fallen brother.
To give you an illustration of love, just about Jesus and the disciples. They were...they weren't anything too hot, frankly. The ones that are the most well‑known in the New Testament; Peter, James and John, were sinful. Peter was a notoriously faithless‑character who continually fell on his face.James and John had a pride problem, and a sort of pseudo spirituality, sent their mother along to ask if they could have the chief seats in the kingdom. Now the rest of the guys we don't know anything about, to speak of much. They were sinners too. Jesus could have scratched His head and said: "Father, I don't know what to tell You but this whole deal isn't going to work out. I got twelve losers. If You think I ought to come back to heaven and turn this whole thing over to them, I'll do it but it's a little spooky."
But you know, Jesus knew the sins of the disciples like nobody else and yet He believed the best about everyone of them, didn't He? And He said: "They can do it." And He gave them the task and sent them into the world to do it and they did it. Hmm. You know what I think? I tend to think you make the best out of the people you believe the most in. He believed the best of them and He put His whole plan on that basis and they carried it out.
You say, "But, John, what happens if you throw a mantle over their sin and then you say, But I'm going to believe there's good there and love is redemptive and it's going to get straightened out and you're going to come back, I'm believing that ... and they don't? And you find your faith begins to fade and you say, Well, I thought they'd come." You say about that wayward son or daughter, "Well, I thought they would but it's been fifteen years." Or about that husband, "I thought he would but, boy, I just don't know anymore. I don't know if I believe it anymore." Then what does love do? The third one listed in verse 7, "Love ... what? ... hopes all things." Hope is the long line, the long cord that they never get disconnected from. It's long...you say, as long as the grace of God is operative, human failure is never final. And the thing that I always go back to is the promise, is anything too hard for God? I think back a few years, some people that we disciplined in the church, had very sinful situations and they've gone. It was a great desire in my own heart because of love to throw a mantle over their sin and never talk about it, or discuss it or anything except with those who prayed. And then there was a great desire in my heart to believe that something would change, they'd be back, they'd come back. I just believed that and believed that. And I guess maybe in a couple of cases now my faith has gotten a little small and so you know what I do now? I hope that. I hope it. And it's like they're out on a long rope and every once in a while that rope pulls at my heart and I pray for them. And I hope. And I keep hoping.
You see, love is hopelessly, if we can do a play on words, optimistic, it never stops hoping. You say ‑ God is still God and He can do it and I've got to hope in that. Love refuses to take failure as final. God wouldn't accept it from Israel. Jesus wouldn't accept it from Peter and Paul wouldn't accept it from the Corinthians. I will not tolerate failure as final. And many loving wife has held on to a husband with nothing but that rope of hope. And many a parent to a child, and many a friend to another friend, just holding on to hope.
When all your faith gets clouded in, you have to hold on to hope. But you know, it's amazing, sometimes we make the worst judgments at that time and think they're the best. Don't give up on hope. Love doesn't. You might say, "Well, I've lost faith in them totally, they're out of it, there's just no way, no hope, I give." Love doesn't. That s like going to a village beneath the Matterhorn in Switzerland and having people say, "This is the most beautiful...you've got to see the Matterhorn on a sunny day." And you arrive and it's fog. And you sit on the ground and say, "Liar, there's no Matterhorn. I'm right here and there's no Matterhorn." And you think in the foggiest moment you've made the clearest judgment. But love doesn't do that. When all of faith gets clogged up and fogged in, love still hangs on to hope. When doubt and despair steal faith, love still has hope.
There's a dog in an airport in a large city. He's been there for over five years. Somebody was telling me about it this week. His master and he were traveling somewhere and his master got on the plane without him. He's been there over five years. He waits in the same corner. People at the airport give him water and food every day and he hopes. If the love of a dog for a master, whatever love that from kind of love is, if the attachment a dog to a master could allow that kind of faithful hope, certainly love could produce it in us if we really loved. Love, you see, doesn't run, bail out and leave as soon as the first mistake is made, the first sin is committed. Love waits and waits. And there are enough promises in the Bible to make hope work.
You say, "But, John, if you bear all things and you believe all things and you hope and the rope gets further and further out and further out and further out and you just are losing hope, then what?" Okay, then the last one, verse 7:"Love endures all things." When it has borne and it has believed and it has hoped and it's still disappointed, it hangs in there anyway because the next verse says it: "Love never ... what? ... fails," that sums it up. It never dies, you can't kill it.
Now, the term here, "love endures" in verse 7, the fifteenth on the list, it is a military term and it has to do with being positioned in the middle of battle in a very violent situation. It isn't that love can handle little minor annoyances. No, no. It means that love is standing there against incredible opposition and still loving. It is Stephen lying on the ground and his life being crushed out with stones and saying, "Father, lay not this sin to their charge." He wanted to throw a mantle over the sins of his people, he believed, he hoped so he preached with the belief that some would listen and he hoped that they would come to Christ. And when he'd run out of faith and he'd run out of hope, all he had left was endurance and they crushed him and as they were crushing out his life he was simply enduring, wasn't he? Cause he loved them and so he said don't blame them for this, Father. It's Jesus, Jesus on a cross, bearing, throwing a mantle over their sin, believing, knowing that out there there were those that would believe, hoping that they would come to Him and enduring in the end while they spit on Him with the words, "Father,... what? ... forgive them." You see, love never dies. You can't kill it. It never fails. Even when that love for the rejecting child goes year after year after year and you get back hatred and bitterness and rejection, you never stop loving you endure. That's the crescendo of love. Love bears all hurts and wounds. That's what Paul said in this verse, and sins and disappointments. And it covers them with a blanket of silence. And then it feels sympathetic and then it feels redemptive and then it even bears the pain, if it can. And after it is borne, it believes, love goes on believing the best about somebody, the very best about them, it's never cynical and it's never suspicious in spite of the way its been wounded. And when love's believing is betrayed, then love turns to hoping because God is still God and He still rules and He can do anything. And even when hope grows thin and all hope seems lost, love endures. It endures the deep hurt that seems so final with a triumphant confidence that the God who gives His children peace is still on the throne. You see, love is never overwhelmed. It cares too much to give up. It will die caring. It will die being spit on and say, "Forgive them." That's love.
But tragically in the Corinthian church there wasn't any love. They were like the church that Reinhold Niebhur spoke of when he said; "The church was like Noah's ark, if it weren't for the storm outside, we couldn't stand the stink inside.'' That's like the Corinthians but that isn't the way God wanted it. He wants us to be characterized by love, He wants the church to be a community of love. He wants to see these things in operation.
Well, you say, "John, I know now that love is important. It's important because of the fact that it brings spiritual wholeness and physical wholeness. It's important because it's a characteristic of our Lord Jesus Christ and we are to manifest Him. And I see what it is now, I see what it does and how it behaves but how can I get that going in my life? I mean, how can I begin to see that in my life?"
Let me give you five things, and I'll close, I'm just going to list them. These are the five keys to loving. Now if you get these things going, you're going to experience this love.
Number one, acknowledge it is a command...acknowledge it is a command. Acknowledge that loving is commanded, that it isn't something you can pick and choose about. That it isn't an option. Acknowledge it is commanded by God that you love. So we're not dealing with something that's whimsical here, we're dealing with something that is absolute ... Romans 13:8 to 10... it is an absolute. You are commanded to love.
Secondly, acknowledge that you have the power already... acknowledge that you have the power already. Romans 5:5, "The love of Christ is shed abroad in your heart." It is not only a command, but it is a possible command because you have the power.
Thirdly, acknowledge it is the norm ... acknowledge that this is only normal, basic, bottom‑line, human, Christian activity. First John chapter 4 verse 7 to 10 tell us that God is love and so should we be. It's the norm. So you acknowledge it is commanded, it is possible, it is normal.
Fourthly, acknowledge it is the Spirit's work. That's so you don't try to conjure it up in canned form. Galatians 5:22, "The fruit of the Spirit is love...." So acknowledge it is the Spirit's work.
Now, when you really have gotten down to brass tacks and you've acknowledged that it's a command, you've made a commitment. All right, Lord, it's a command, I'm committed to love. Get on your knees sometime today and say, "God, I'm committed to love." Second, "God, I acknowledge I'm able to love." "God, I acknowledge it's just normal to love." And, "God, I acknowledge I'm able to love in a normal way to fulfill the commandment only in the energy of the Spirit."
And then the fifth, practice. That's it ... practice. Did you know that even Jesus learned obedience, the Bible says? Practice. Start at your house, put all these fifteen characteristics into action and the world will look at us and they'll say what God wants them to say ‑ "Oh how they love one another." And that will exalt Christ. Let's pray.
Father, thank You again this morning for loving us. And we pray that we would love each other in an equal way as You have loved us. If there's anyone here who has not experienced Your love cause they do not know the Son, may this be the day they come to know Him. If there are Christians here who do not love as they ought to love, may they make the commitment to love because they are able, because it is normal in the energy of the Spirit. May they begin today to practice and may the rest of us continue to do it daily that we might know the fullness of blessing that we might know victory over sin for to love is to exclude sin, and so live that we may give glory to Yourself. And we'll thank You for our time together in Christ's name, whom we love, who loves us and because of whom we love each other. Amen.
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Truly great the criminal being chased inside of himself ( in his intestines, etc. ) by the police.
(the voices are more often those of Gil and Mike, sometimes Gray - i.e. in the "TV is bad for your eyes" animation I'm sure they're mike and gray)
hahaha the animation that has the giant cat that attacks the killer cars when my friend and I watched that one she laughed like a maniac at the cat because I just love how it is just a picture of what a cat looks like when you pick it up underneath its front legs and he made it like walk around bahahaha it is just hysterical
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the_thina: dont know their names but one with a bunch of fairy policemen who takes care of a bunch of frogs that have a spell. loads of frogs that sit around burping.
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Heavily armed men move away from the suspects home at the scene of a Dale County hostage scene in Midland City, Ala. on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2013. Authorities were locked in a standoff Wednesday with a gunman authorities say on Tuesday intercepted a school bus, killed the driver, snatched a 6-year-old boy and retreated into a bunker at his home in Alabama. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh) NO SALES
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Jimmy Lee Dykes moved to a rural Alabama neighborhood on a rutted red clay road more than a year ago. It didn't take long before he had developed a frightening reputation as a volatile man with anti-government views who threatened his neighbors at gunpoint and was viciously violent to wandering pets.
Multiple neighbors said Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver, was the man suspected of boarding a school bus full of children near his home, killing the driver and taking one 5-year-old boy hostage to open a standoff that entered its second full day Thursday.
The neighborhood near Midland City, population 2,300, remained under siege after the Tuesday shooting, with the suspect and child holed up in a bunker-type shelter on the man's property that was equipped with electricity, food and TV.
On Thursday, dozens of police cars and rental cars that had brought FBI agents to the site were parked about the state highway at the clay road's entrance. A large law enforcement truck also pulled up before dawn to a staging area for law enforcement agents that was lit by bright lights overnight.
At least one ambulance was parked nearby and numerous television news satellite trucks also lined up across the rural highway.
Homes on the road had been evacuated earlier after authorities found what they believed to be a bomb on the property. SWAT teams earlier had taken up positions around the gunman's property and police negotiators tried to win the kindergartener's safe release.
The situation remained unchanged for hours as negotiators continued talking to the suspect, Alabama State Trooper Charles Dysart told a news conference late Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Sheriff Wally Olson said that authorities had "no reason to believe that the child has been harmed."
Local TV station WDHN obtained a police dispatch recording of the moment officers first arrived at the site. On it, the officers are heard saying that they were trying to communicate with Dykes through a PVC pipe leading into the shelter.
Authorities gave no details of the standoff, and it was unclear if Dykes made any demands from the bunker, which resembled a tornado shelter.
State Rep. Steve Clouse, who met with authorities and visited the boy's family, said the bunker had food and electricity, and the youngster was watching TV.
At one point, authorities lowered medicine into the bunker for the boy after his captor agreed to it, Clouse said.
The standoff began after school Tuesday afternoon. Sheriff Wally Olson said the man shot the bus driver several times when he refused to hand over the child. The gunman then took the boy away.
"As far as we know there is no relation at all. He just wanted a child for a hostage situation," said Michael Senn, a pastor who helped comfort other traumatized children after the attack.
The bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the 21 students aboard the bus. Authorities say most of the students scrambled to the back of the bus when the gunman boarded and said he wanted two boys 6 to 8 years old.
But when the gunman went down the aisle, authorities said, Poland put his arm out to grab a pole near the front steps of the vehicle, trying to block the suspect. That's when authorities say the driver was shot four times before the gunman grabbed the child at random and fled.
Asked about Dykes, neighbors said he was a man who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a shotgun.
He had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning to answer charges he shot at his neighbors in a dispute last month over a speed bump.
Mike and Patricia Smith, who live across the street from Dykes and whose two children were on the bus, said their youngsters had a run-in with him about 10 months ago.
"My bulldogs got loose and went over there," Patricia Smith said. "The children went to get them. He threatened to shoot them if they came back."
"He's very paranoid," her husband said. "He goes around in his yard at night with a flashlight and shotgun."
Another neighbor, Ronda Wilbur, said Dykes beat her 120-pound dog with a lead pipe for coming onto his side of the dirt road. The dog died a week later.
"He said his only regret was he didn't beat him to death all the way," Wilbur said. "If a man can kill a dog, and beat it with a lead pipe and brag about it, it's nothing until it's going to be people."
Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to face a charge of menacing some neighbors as they drove by his house weeks ago. Claudia Davis said he yelled and fired shots at her, her son and her baby grandson over damage Dykes claimed their pickup truck did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road. No one was hurt.
"Before this happened, I would see him at several places and he would just stare a hole through me," Davis said. "On Monday I saw him at a laundromat and he seen me when I was getting in my truck, and he just stared and stared and stared at me."
Associated Press writers Bob Johnson in Montgomery and Jay Reeves in Birmingham contributed to this report.
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"Everyone who has received the invitation has complemented on how beautiful it is. I choose a gold envelope which added a nice touch!"
"We purchased this from WPD and once again, their products are stunning. I always shop here for paper needs - reasonable prices and outstanding work!!"
"This design is elegant and feminine. I ordered these with the pearlescent upgrade and they look magnificent! I will buy all my invitations here in the future."
"Chose purple background - beautiful choice, color as represented, paper quality excellent. Very happy with this product!"
"I changed the colors on the text and some of the wording in the text and it came out perfect. The quality of the paper is awesome. These invitations are perfect!"