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The ALPHA Center celebrated its success with the Kershaw County Youth Arbitration Program with a luncheon Friday. Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson attended and presented with an award in honor of his support and funding of the program which began in February 2012.
Kershaw County Council unanimously approved third and final reading of an ordinance to amend the county's Unified Code of Zoning and Land Development Regulations with regard to family exemptions. The amendment allows families owning land to subdivide their property into more lots on which family members can reside. The current code restricts such divisions by regulating access via roads or driveways.
There is something that has been bothering me lately. And no, I'm not referring to the fact that there will never again be a new episode of 30 Rock (RIP Liz Lemon) or the fact that the writers of Downton Abbey (SPOILER ALERT) decided to kill off two of the most likable characters on the show in particularly gruesome fashions. My beef is with something that we are servants to almost every single day of our lives -- stoplights.
The Kershaw County Recreation Department (KCRD) is back under its own roof after a recent flooding issue as a result from rain and a malfunctioning toilet. KCRD staff moved to the Kershaw County Government Center for two weeks while repairs were made to damaged carpeting and floors; paint touchups and some furniture replacement took place as well.
Darron Kirkley will be leaving his current position as Kershaw County's tourism director effective March 15.
Kershaw County Council will hold a public hearing on an amendment of the Kershaw County Unified Code of Zoning and Land Development Regulations with regards to family exemptions at Tuesday's meeting.
I always told myself I would never move back to Camden after graduating high school. In my mind, I was bigger than the small town life and it would hold me back from doing what I wanted to do. Although, I had no idea what exactly that big thing I wanted to do was in the first place.
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A UVA legend for over 20 years, The Biltmore is home to Charlottesville's only "Beach Bar" and the city's largest outdoor patio area. Enjoy house-smoked BBQ, huge salads and sandwiches, the famous Thumbs 'n Toes, and the soon-to-be-famous Crusties! Between our abundant outdoor options and the cozy indoor fireplaces, The Biltmore can accommodate your dining, drinking, or social demands in any season.

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Saudi Arabia Travel Planning & Travel Tips
Embassy Contact Information:Americans living in or visiting Saudi Arabia are encouraged to register at the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh or the Consulates General in Dhahran and Jeddah. U.S. citizens who register at the U.S. Embassy or the U.S. Consulates General may obtain updated information on travel and security within Saudi Arabia and can be included in the warden network.
The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is located at Collector Road M, Riyadh Diplomatic Quarter. The international mailing address is P.O. Box 94309, Riyadh 11693. Mail may also be sent via the U.S. Postal Service to: U.S. Embassy, Unit 61307, APO AE 09803-1307. The Embassy telephone number is (966) (1) 488-3800, fax (966) (1) 488-7275.
The U.S. Consulate General in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is located between Aramco Headquarters and the old Dhahran Airport at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals highway exit. The international mailing address is P.O. Box 38955, Doha-Dhahran 31942. Mail may also be sent via the U.S. Postal Service to: Unit 66803, APO AE 09858-6803. The telephone number is (966) (3) 330-3200, fax (966) (3) 330-0464.
The U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is located on Palestine Road, Ruwais. The international mailing address is P.O. Box 149, Jeddah. Mail may also be sent via the U.S. Postal Service to: Unit 62112, APO AE 09811-2112.
Saudi Arabia Climate: The best time to visit the entire country is during April and May and during October and November, when day temperatures are generally moderate and nights are cool. December-March the day temperatures are fine, although it can be very cold in mountain areas. Summers can be extremely hot (up to 130 F/55 C in some areas) and surprisingly humid (because of the sea) or very dry (because of inland winds). Coastal cities are warm-to-hot year-round and are more humid than inland areas. Temperatures are cooler where there's a rise in elevation (inland, it goes as high as 9,000 ft/2,750 m). Sandstorms can blow almost anywhere in the country, some lasting for days. A sweater or jacket will be useful for evenings year-round.
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How do you get bed bugs and how do you get rid of them?
The increase in bed bug infestations in the U.S. is a result of increased travel, lack of knowledge about preventing infestations, increased resistance of bed bugs to pesticides, and ineffective pest control practices, explains the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It's easy to mistake bed bugs for carpet beetles or similar-looking bugs, so infestations are often not noticed when they first occur. Prevention tips include keeping areas free of clutter, regularly washing sheets and mattress covers in hot water (and don't forget to wash the laundry bag, too), and vacuuming regularly and safely disposing of the sealed vacuum bag. Not everyone has reactions to bed bug bites, which also may be mistaken for the bites of other pests such as mosquitoes, so timely bed bug extermination depends on identification of bed bug activity. If you notice physical signs of an infestation, contact a bed bug extermination professional as soon as possible to learn about chemical and non-chemical (such as heat) treatment options. An integrated pest management plan may incorporate one or more methods.
How much does it cost to kill bed bugs?
The cost of bed bug extermination depends primarily on how widespread the pest infestation is and how many rooms need to be treated. Other factors that can affect bed bug extermination costs are the amount of clutter in the location, additional furniture that needs to be treated, and construction of the home. Pest management professionals often have rates for room treatments, which can vary based on these factors. As an example, a pest management company treating a 10-by-15-foot room with light infestation might charge clients about $250, while the same size room with a heavy infestation and large amounts of clutter might cost the clients $300-$400. Clutter and heavier bed bug populations mean more product and longer labor time for the workers. Rates will vary from company to company, and from region to region, but the national average bed bug extermination cost is $320-$400. Bed bug heat treatments are an alternative way to exterminate these pests. Heat treatments are typically charged per square foot and tend to cost more than chemical or non-chemical spray solutions. Although effective, they are not usually recommended for occupied spaces, as the extreme temperatures can damage televisions, window dressings and other home furnishings.
How long does a bed bug treatment last?
Bed bug extermination can last forever as long as the treatment killed all the bed bugs (and their eggs) and if new bed bugs are not transported into the location. Factors that can affect the outcome are how severe the infestation is and whether all bed bug sources were properly identified and treated. When working with a pest control professional, the EPA recommends you check and call references; ask if they offer both chemical and non-chemical treatment options, if they recommend both encasements and interceptors, and if they offer two or more service visits and follow-up. Bed bugs are tiny (adults are roughly the size of an apple seed) and can hide anywhere a credit card can slide into. They squeeze into cracks in walls, behind electrical outlet sockets, in bedding, and in other dark places. Learn how to prepare your home for a bed bug treatment for the best outcomes. Michigan State University shares some examples of possible reasons that a bed bug extermination is not 100 percent effective:
- Not all sources (aka hiding places) of the bed bugs were identified during initial inspection.
- Not all sources of bed bugs were treated.
- The insecticides used were not effective or, in the case of heat treatment, there was insufficient contact time.
- Infested items such as bedding or other materials were reintroduced into a cleaned area.
How do you check for bed bugs?
If you are concerned you have a bed bug infestation, look for physical signs of their presence. Bed bugs love to hide in small, dark spaces and typically come out to feed (generally on human blood) after dark — although they will come out in daylight if hungry enough. The Environmental Protection Agency states that indications of an infestation can include seeing shed exoskeletons of bed bugs, rusty spots on your bedding (which are either bug droppings or bloodstains), live bed bugs, bed bug egg casings, a sweet and musty odor (if the infestation is severe), and evidence of bites on your skin.
To spot bed bugs, look in and along mattress seams and bedding, in curtain and furniture folds, inside cracks or crevices in the walls, behind picture frames and mirrors, under loose wallpaper seams, on recently used luggage or backpacks, inside electronics, and inside clothing or cluttered areas such as closets. If you see signs of bed bugs, be careful not to disturb them too much as you don't want them scattering to other parts of your house.
How do you get and get rid of bed bugs?
Bed bugs can travel into your home via luggage, secondhand furniture or clothing, and other items that have been exposed to the little pests. Bed bugs are tiny and flat (about the size of an apple seed and the height of a credit card), so they can easily hide in dark, small places and hitchhike into your home. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most people don't even know they're transporting bed bugs as they travel from location to location, infecting areas as they travel. The sooner you notice a bed bug infestation in your home, the easier it is to get rid of it. The EPA suggests an integrated pest management plan to get rid of bed bug problems. This means a multi-pronged approach that takes the bug's life cycle into account, uses chemical treatment where needed, and takes all necessary measures (use of encasements, high heat washing and drying of bedding, etc.) to stop current and future life cycles. Unless you feel confident about controlling a bed bug infestation, it can be wise to hire a pest management professional to prevent the problem from getting bigger.


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Conservation at Olive Grove House: Cooper Joseph Studio
Spotted over at Contemporist, this house was designed for a beekeeping and olive oil making couple in Sonoma, California. Built on 25 acres and completely solar powered, both the home and property itself are designed with respect to environmental conditions of the area. Below the jump you'll learn how Cooper Joseph Studio incorporated more than just solar panels into the green design.
The three-level home runs 850 square feet with a northern exposure that allows for quality air circulation - crucial for the hot summer months in Dry Creek. In building the property on an open section, no trees were removed for construction.
Water conservation is increasingly important in Sonoma, as some agricultural practices have decreased water table levels. This is why the property is landscaped using xeriscaping techniques. Other than the olive groves, the garden requires no future irrigation and the lavender fields serve to protect erosion and provide for bees.
Overall, the building features smart design and green principles that ensure the longevity of the home and environment.
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Parts of Alamance County got thunder and a downpour Monday afternoon. Parts of Alamance County got virtually no precipitation.
�It was sporadic,� said Katie Roussy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Raleigh. �Some people got the good stuff and others didn�t.�
The rain was especially heavy around Gibsonville and in parts of northern Alamance County. Michael Barnette, chief of the Altamahaw-Ossipee Fire Department, said the rain caused flooding of several roads in the area � including Old N.C. 87 near its intersection with N.C. 87.
�You could hardly see your hand in front of your face out here for a little while,� Barnette said.
The worst rolled through about 1:30 p.m. The rain was accompanied by heavy lightning. Barnette said the precipitation and lightning resulted in no accidents or damage that he was aware of.
Still, it was an attention-getter.
�It was raining hard,� Barnette said. �The ditches were overflowing.�
Told that radar used by the National Weather Service indicated about three-fourths of an inch of rain fell around the Altamahaw-Ossipee community, Barnette said he disagreed.
�It had to be more,� he said.
Roussy admitted the National Weather Service�s radar isn�t a perfect way to gauge rainfall. She said the closest weather recording site to northern Alamance County is the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro. Roussy said only a trace of rain was recorded at the airport Monday, but said, �It intensified just east of there.�
�It�s been pretty spotty,� she said.
In some instances, a few miles made a world of difference. While Altamahaw and Ossipee were getting a deluge Monday, downtown Burlington only got a sprinkling of rain.
Roussy said 2.28 inches of precipitation have been recorded in Greensboro since the first of May. That compares to the month�s average of 1.88 inches.
Roussy said 17.55 inches have fallen since the first of the year while the average is 15.20 inches.
She said that while the Piedmont has received its share of rain in recent days, the trend should be changing. There�s a chance of a thunderstorm each day through Friday, but Alamance County shouldn�t be seeing more downpours like were experienced Monday.
�Just typical afternoon thunderstorms,� Roussy said, �and each day less and less of a chance.�


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It seems to me that if I were not a Christian and if I were just out there living in the world, and some well-intentioned person approached me and asked if I would be interested in being a Christian, the first question that I would ask would be, "What does Christianity provide for me? What does Christianity offer?"
And I'm afraid that I might get a whole lot of different answers. It seems to me that there is widespread confusion with regard to those who present themselves as the purveyors of Christianity and its benefits. Just exactly what do you think people assume Christianity offers? Health, wealth, success, peace of mind, a certain level of tranquility, perhaps the promise of a better job, a better career, the fulfillment of your dreams and ambitions and desires, perhaps even everything you can think of and articulate, that would be a fairly common presentation of Christianity.
But I think the overall general sense of Christianity is that it offers you whatever you want. Whatever it is that makes you happy, whatever it is that satisfies you, whatever it is that fulfills your ambitions, your desires and your dreams, that's what Christianity offers you. Christianity offers to make you everything you really want to be.
That is a very confusing message and a very unbiblical one. It also lays out a complex answer to what should be a very simple answer. In a word, what Christianity offers you is Christ, Jesus Christ, that's what Christianity offers. That is a very simple, straightforward, one word answer to what has become a very complicated issue. We offer Christ in offering the gospel. The surpassing theme of the Scripture, the surpassing theme of the New Testament, in particular, is Jesus Christ. And in not having Christ, you have nothing. And in having Christ, you have everything.
The writer of Hebrews says that Christ makes us perfect forever. The Apostle Paul in writing his first letter to the Corinthians sums up other significance of having Christ with these words, chapter 1 verse 30, "By His doing, by the work of God, you are in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption." All wisdom, all the benefits of wisdom, divine wisdom, all righteousness, all the reality and benefits of righteousness, all sanctification, that is the pursuit of and the attainment to holiness, all redemption including not only our soul redemption but our bodily redemption, all of that is found in Christ. Everything is found in Christ.
In Ephesians 1 we read this, verse 3, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ." There is little wonder then that the Apostle Paul in that same epistle of 1 Corinthians and that same section in chapter 2 said this, "I am determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ." That is our message and our message alone.
Christ is Christianity and He is all there is to offer because He is all that we need.
The Apostle Paul concerned about the Corinthians, deeply concerned about them, as he comes to the end of his second letter to them in chapter 11 says in verse 2, "I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, for I betrothed you to one husband, that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I'm afraid lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity associated with Christ."
Christianity is very simple, it is very pure, it is about having Christ, knowing Christ. Paul says in Philippians 1:21, "For to me to live is Christ, to die is gain." He says in Philippians chapter 3 that when he saw the glory of Christ, everything else became manure. Verse 8, "More than that, I count all things to be lost in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things but count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering, being conformed to His death." And so he says, "One thing I do, forgetting what lies behind, reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal which is the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." What is that? What is the prize when we're called up? It is to be like Christ. Paul says, "One day I will be like Christ. Until then, my goal is to pursue that Christlikeness."
We have only one message, and that is Christ. We tell sinners they can have a relationship with Christ and in that relationship with Him, they will receive everything they need, all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. And yet in the name of Christianity, in the name of the gospel, in the name of the church, in the name of evangelism, people are told all kinds of things, promised all kinds of things, sold all kinds of things and in the middle somewhere is, if recognizable, a significantly diminished Christ. Anything that diminishes Jesus Christ is a perverted presentation, it is another gospel, a false gospel.
To understand the centrality of Christ, you could go just about anywhere in the New Testament epistles, but for tonight I want you to look with me at Paul's letter to the Colossians...Paul's letter to the Colossians. This entire letter, I think, assumes that the church at Colossae was being beleaguered by people who were trying to convince them that Christ was not enough, that Christ was not sufficient, that they needed more, because this entire letter pounds home the theme of Christ's complete sufficiency.
You will notice chapter 1, for example, and verse 14. Verse 13 ends, "His beloved Son," which becomes the antecedent for verse 14, "His beloved Son in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." And who is He? "He is the image of the invisible God, the prototokos, the premiere one of all creation, by Him all things were created both in the heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, or rulers, or authorities," speaking of angelic beings, "all things have been created by Him and for Him and He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the premiere one ever raised from the dead so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything, for it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him."
All what fullness? All the fullness of God. That takes you back to John 1:14, "And the Word of God became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." He is the everything. He is the all in all. In Him all fullness dwells.
In the second chapter of Colossians and verse 2, the verse ends referring to Christ. Christ, the antecedent then to verse 3, "In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.:" Verse 9, "For in Him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form." Verse 10, "In Him you have been made complete."
In chapter 3 and verse 3, "For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God." And then this great statement, "When Christ who is our life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory."
When you ask...what is a Christian? It is one for whom to live is Christ. Christ is our life. We have no other life. We have nothing but Christ and we have everything in Christ.
Apparently the Colossians had been told that there was a lot more needed than just Jesus Christ. Something beyond Christ was necessary. There was some insufficiency in Christ that prompts the Apostle Paul to write these words. The insufficiencies in Christ can be made up by philosophy, human wisdom. The insufficiencies of Christ can be made up by legalism, ceremony, ritual, externalism. Or the insufficiencies in Christ can be made up by mysticism. Or the insufficiencies in Christ can be made up by asceticism, some efforts at self-denial. These, the Colossians were told, will make up what Christ lacks. Christ is not enough.
Though this is a long time ago, nothing has really changed. There are people today who tell us that Christ is not enough, we need more than Christ, more than all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge that are found in Him. We need Christ plus philosophy, human wisdom.
Let me take you to verse 8. "See to it that no one takes you captive," chapter 2, "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy." This is human opinion, the mind of man. There are no human solutions to spiritual problems. There are no human insights that take us places the Bible doesn't, or can't. That is to say, there is nothing necessary for life and godliness that is not delivered to us by the Word through the Spirit. We don't need Christ plus insights into human wisdom, spiritual intuition. You can take all the philosophers the world has ever known, in ancient and modern times, all the authors, all the writers, all the playwrights, all the movie producers, all the talk-show hosts, all the psychologists, sociologists, religious leaders and you can take all their endless verbosity about truth and life and morality, and all their solutions to human problems and dilemmas and they add nothing to what is already in Christ.
We don't even have much classic philosophy anymore. New Age philosophy is not about thinking, it's about feeling. Philosophy used to be rational exercise, now in a post-modern world it is an irrational exercise. I remember when I was in my university days I decided to take an emphasis in advanced European philosophy. In fact, the class I was in was so advanced, there were only two of us which always means you've got to do your daily work because the professor is going to check every day.
I wanted to understand just exactly how philosophers approached truth. In studying the history of western philosophy, I found nothing but an exercise of the degenerate mind of man without God trying to find reason and purpose and reality in the universe in life and inside himself...a hopeless effort. First Corinthians chapter 1, if you'll notice it for a moment, verse 19,
"It is written," quoting from Isaiah 29, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the cleverness of the clever, I will set aside, where is the wise man, where is the scribe?" That's the legal expert, the scholar. "Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God. God was well pleased with the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believed." Here is God's own commentary on the uselessness of human philosophy, the bankruptcy of any effort to discern truth that relates to the soul of man and his eternal life and destiny outside Christ.
I'm pretty sure Colossae had its list of purveyors of human wisdom and since the church at this time was only about six years old and sitting in a sea of corrupt human reasoning, it was easily engulfed like an island surrounded by a turbulent ocean could easily have been a wash in the surging philosophies of the day. And so the Apostle Paul warns them that they must understand that all they need is found in Christ. It is a call to vigilance and a call to affirm the sufficiency of Christ.
Verse 8 actually could be translated, "Be continually being aware." See to it could be spread out in that way because that's the Greek verb. Be continually being aware. The truth is never very far away from being attacked and the attacks often call from human efforts to discredit or add to Scripture. You need to be sure of this so that no one takes you captive, sulagogon, sulao, booty, ago, to carry off, so that nobody takes you captive, good translation in the NAS. Nobody kidnaps you. It was actually referred to kidnapings in Greek usage to plundering a house, seducing a maid, taking war captives. Paul uses it in Galatians 5:1, being led into bondage by human reasoning when Christ is utterly sufficient. Philosophy, it says, through philosophy is just human reason. It has to do with explaining the world, explaining origins, explaining laws, explaining creation, explaining spiritual reality, values, ultimate truth, the meaning of life apart from Christ. This is described here in verse 8 as empty deception. That's philosophy, it is empty deception...an empty lie, a delusion. It is deceitful because it sounds good and because it is purveyed by articulate people but it has no value.
Further, it is according to the tradition of men. It is inadequate human thinking. Further he says, it is according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. And he goes back, that all truth, the riches of knowledge and wisdom reside in Christ, all you need is in Christ. This does not advance you, this regresses you. This takes you back. It is rudimentary.
What does that mean? It is according to the elementary principles of the world, the basic elements of learning. It is not advanced, it is backward. Rudimentary here simply means ABC's, baby talk, principles for children, not adequate for adults. It is an explanation of nothing. It is like when your son comes to you fathers and says, "Daddy, what makes the car go?" And you say, "The engine." That is a very simplistic answer. Or you say, "Gasoline." Or when your little one says, "Where do babies come from, mother?" And you say, "God sends them down." That is anything but a complete answer and pretty soon they figure that out. Why would you go back to such rudimentary solutions when you have the most complex spiritual realities of the universe delineated clearly in Scripture and made clear to us in Christ?
Rather than advancing human wisdom, philosophy regresses it away from mature truth to the infantile musings of children, poverty stricken, puny minds offering their opinions. Galatians 4:3 calls this beggarly elements. Hebrews 5 calls it rudimentary elements.
The truth of the matter is, the philosophers of the world tend to look at Christianity's purveyors, those of us who are believers and proclaim the true gospel, as ignorant, lowlife, simplistic, unsophisticated. The truth is, we possess the mind of Christ because we have Christ. We have all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in Him, we have all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Him. We are complete in Him in whom all fullness of deity dwells. Philosophy adds absolutely nothing...absolutely nothing.
It is a myth that somehow the simple gospel is not sufficient. He is all we need. Follow the text. Verse 9, "All the fullness of deity dwells in Him in bodily form, in Him you have been made complete, full." He is the head over all rule and authority. There are no spirits above Him, no angels above Him. He is all we need. He has provided for us, let's look at verse 11, a complete salvation. You were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with Him in baptism in which you were also raised up with Him through faith and the working of God who raised Him from the dead." That is a magnificent statement about the fact which was demonstrated to you again tonight of our union with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection, as we saw illustrated in baptism again. We have literally died with Him to the old life, the removal of the body of flesh, been buried with Him in His death, raised with Him in His resurrection all through faith, complete salvation, transformation from death into new life.
In verses 13 and 14, not only a complete salvation but a complete forgiveness. "And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgression, having canceled out the certificate of death consisting of decrees against us...that's the record of all our sins which was, of course, hostile to us...and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
I want you to notice something. Verse 9, "In Him." Verse 10, "In Him." Verse 11, "In Him." Verse 12, "Buried with Him. Raised with Him." Verse 13, "He made you together alive with Him." It is about being in Him, in Him, with Him, with Him. And because we have Christ, we have complete salvation and complete forgiveness...so complete that He has literally blotted out our transgressions, canceled out, erased, wiped off our sins.
In verse 15, "On our behalf He disarmed the rulers and authorities, the host of hell, the demons, Satan." He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them. Again, through Him. When He disarmed the rulers and authorities, we triumphed over them through Him. Because we have Christ, we have complete salvation. Because we have Christ, we have complete forgiveness. Because we have Christ, we have complete victory over all the hosts of hell. Philosophy adds nothing whatsoever to that. What we offer in offering the gospel is what this text presents. We are offering a transformation through faith in Jesus Christ from death to life. We are offering the forgiveness of all our sins for Jesus paid in full the penalty for those sins, the list of our sins literally was nailed to His cross. We are offering in the gospel true, total, complete, triumph over Satan and demons. Philosophy can do nothing to embellish that.
But another attack comes on the sufficiency of Christ. It comes not from philosophy or rationalism, but from legalism.
Legalism...verse 16, "Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon, or a Sabbath day, things which are a mere shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ."
In the first point about rationalism or philosophy, we saw that we don't need philosophy or human wisdom, we have everything we need in Him. In Him we have the fullness of deity. In Him we have been made complete. In Him we have been cleansed, saved, had the flesh, as it were, removed, died to the old and risen to the new. In Him we have the total forgiveness of all our sins and through Him complete victory over Satan and all his hosts, all in Him.
Here in verses 16 and 17, the substance, again at the end of verse 17, belongs to Christ. All external things are only a shadow of that substance.
Now what are we seeing? Well we're looking at something very familiar to the Apostle Paul because he was a legalist. He was a faithful Jew, loyal to the law, a Pharisee, circumcised, zealous, he was a Pharisee in the extreme sense. Read Philippians 3:4 through 6 where he describes the fastidious extreme nature of his externalism. But his heart was wretched until he found in Christ a righteousness that was not his own, a righteousness of God given to Him by faith in Christ. Prior to that he was trying to achieve a righteousness on his own which he could not do.
And so Paul says in verses 16 and 17, "Don't let anybody act as your judge. Render a spiritual verdict on your life by some external measure, such as food, or drink, or a festival, or a new moon, or a Sabbath day." Don't let anybody judge you based on those kinds of things. If you will remember Romans chapter 10, you will remember Paul's clear assessment of the problem with the Jews. He says in verse 1 of Romans 10, "My heart's desire, my prayer to God for them is for their salvation." But here's the problem. "They have a zeal for God but not in accordance with knowledge. They don't know about God's righteousness and they seek to establish their own righteousness and therefore do not subject themselves to the righteousness of God for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
Here are the Jews and they're trying to achieve righteousness, they're trying to earn heaven. They're trying to gain righteousness by what they do morally, religiously, ceremonially. And this is a misunderstanding of God's righteousness. They don't know that God is as righteous as He is, He's way too righteous for them to achieve a righteousness that satisfies Him. They work so hard to achieve their own righteousness which falls way short and they don't realize that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Christ when you believe in Him ends the tyranny of the law. Christ becomes our law-keeper in our place and becomes the object of God's punishment for our sins. So, righteousness is gained only through the work of Christ and given only to those who depend solely on that work. Don't let anybody think they can render a verdict on your spiritual life by what you eat, what you drink, what religious festivals or events you go to and whether you observe new moon, Sabbath day laws. Those were merely shadows...just shadows. It's not about sacraments and ceremonies, and rituals, and fasting. It's not even about baptism, that can be just an external superficial act. Legalism is the attitude that says true spirituality is based on external behaviors.
This was big with the Jews, even among the Jews who gave some recognition to Christ. They said Christ is not enough. They can believe in Christ but they must be circumcised, they can believe in Christ but they must observe the Sabbath day. They can believe in Christ but they must observe the law of Moses or they will be rejected by God.
That is not to diminish the moral law of God, for when you come to Christ, you have a capability to obey that law by the work of transformation and the work of the Holy Spirit. There are so many who would like to come to us and say, "Yes, you may say you have Christ but if you're a real Christian, here's the kind of behavior that you need to do ceremonially to validate that, or to please God." Those things, and it's so important to understand that are merely shadows, the substance is Christ. If you have Christ, you have everything. Will you love t he Lord's day? Yes. Will you love the Lord? Yes. Will you desire to honor and worship Him? Yes. Will you desire to come to His table? Yes. Will you desire to be baptized? Yes, from the heart you will do that as the fruit of transformation, not as the means.
And much could be said about that. It's an ever-present issue. But for time's sake, the third possibility that had pressed itself against the Colossians was that Christ was not enough, there needed to be something more. Let's call this mysticism...mysticism. I've had to deal with this through my life. I have preached on the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, what the Bible teaches about spiritual life, what the Bible teaches about the dynamics of spiritual life. And I have been accused by many people of being void of the Holy Spirit because I've never spoken in tongues, being void of the Holy Spirit because I do not recognize that some are saying the Holy Spirit is doing a miracle ministry in this age and if I don't acknowledge that then I am quenching the Spirit of God, that I am somehow the enemy of the Spirit of God and therefore void of His influence and His power in my life, that I need to be open to deeper experiences, that I need to be open to higher experiences, that I need to be open to more intuitive spiritual realities. I've had strange conversations with people who tell me that Jesus talks to them and they talk to Jesus and ask me if I've ever had those personal conversations. And they shake their heads at the poor deprived guy that I am because I've never had these kinds of experiences.
There are people who talk about conversations they have with angels and conversations they have with the Lord and things the Lord says to them. And when I'm asked if I've ever had any of those conversations, my answer is...No, but God speaks to me constantly, God speaks to me every single day. In fact, He speaks to me every single time I open the Bible and read one word. And He speaks crystal clear and I know exactly what He is saying. And He speaks to me every time I recite a verse in my mind, or out loud. He speaks to me every time I think a biblical thought and a biblical truth. But somehow I'm being cheated and something profound is missing because I haven't had a mystical experience.
Look at verses 18 and 19, this is where Paul deals with that. "Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize." That's the idea that reminds us again that this was an attack coming on these Colossians, that Christ was not enough, they needed philosophy. Christ was not enough, they needed legalism. There would be Jews pressing the second one, there would be Gentiles, no doubt, pressing the first one. Then the mystics show up. "Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize." People telling you that somehow you're cheated, somehow you're forfeiting your reward, somehow you're missing the mark, you're falling short of all the spiritual events, realities, that are available to you by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of angels taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind.
Wow, that's a pretty strong assessment. Don't let anyone deny you your prize by saying you really are unworthy of the best that God has to give. Someone who comes along apparently humble, delighting in self-abasement. Now when you're happy about your humility, you haven't got it. When you're overjoyed to tell folks how humble you are, you just missed it. This is a person who is proud to be humble. This was a kind of reverse pride in which people were saying I know I am nothing, I am the lowliest of the low and it's so remarkable how the angels come to me and God speaks to me because I'm really nothing and I have these astonishing visions and I'm so lowly. This is a smarmy kind of hypocrisy. There are those people who say they have encounters with angels, who have visions, secret revelations...the Lord told me this, the Lord told me that. And they become puffed up in their fleshly mind and they are the opposite of the self-abasing people they want you to think they are.
Their problem? "They do not...verse 19...hold fast to the head." Who's the head? Christ. I have Christ, I need nothing more. I'm not looking for conversations with angels. I'm not looking for voices from heaven. I only had one vision in my life and I married her. I have had no more. I want no more. I want no more, I seek no more, I have Christ...I need nothing more. If I need a vision of Christ, if I want to gaze in His glory and be transfixed, I open the pages of Scripture where His glory explodes on my mind. That's all I need. And it is not a distant glory that I see, it is that very glory that shines in my heart by the work of God for Christ is mine and I am His, and I'm actually not even sure where I end and He begins. "For to me to live is Christ. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ lives in me." I don't know where He ends and I begin or I end and He begins. All the good is Him, all the bad is me. I seek nothing else. I want to hold fast to the head from whom the entire body being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments grows with the growth which is from God. That goes not just for me but, friends, that goes for all of you, the whole body of Christ is held together by its connection to the head. All we need is the head, all we need is Christ, the Christ revealed in Scripture.
There were another group coming along and making suggestions about the insufficiency of Christ, not only those who were the rationalists saying you need Christ plus human wisdom. Paul disdained that. That's why he said, "I'm determined to know nothing among you except Christ and Him crucified, and I do not come to you with human wisdom," 1 Corinthians 2. There were those who said you need Christ plus legalism, they were the Judaizers, the ones holding on to their Judaism who wanted to impose all that external stuff on Christians which was but a shadow and not the substance. There were always those mystics, they're still around, who come along and tell you somehow you're falling short of the best that God can give you, you're getting cheated out of your ultimate prize because you're not living on the higher mystical intuitive spiritual plain. You need Christ plus so much more.
And then there are those, fourthly, who come with the offering of asceticism...asceticism...rationalism, legalism, mysticism and asceticism. What is asceticism? It's a word that means self-denial. In its extreme form it is self-injury, inflicting wounds on yourself.
Notice in verse 20, "If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, which would include all of these things that are supposedly additions to Christ, they are regressions, in fact, but if you have died with Christ, you now live with Christ. If you are dead to the elementary principles of the world, why as if you were living in the world do you submit yourself to decrees such as do not handle, do not taste, do not touch?" These are those who we could call the monastics, if you will. Those people who think Christ is not enough, you've got to go further in the realm of self-denial and self-inflicted pain. This again is another form of the religion of human achievement that looks not so much at ceremony, not so much at moral behavior and ritual, but it looks at ways in which somehow you can achieve a higher plain of spirituality by self-denial. You become a monk and you eat rice and drink water for the rest of your life and wear the same clothes and live in a tiny little cell. And you have no marriage, and no social life, and no family and no hope and no future. And if you're really serious, you become a monk who decides it's a sin to bathe because if you bathed, you would see yourself naked. And so, you acquire vermin which you then designate as holy vermin because they are the evidence of your holiness. Or you become a flagellante and you get a whip and you beat your body raw. Or you wear a belt. I've met people who have them on. The inside of which has nails that rip and tear your flesh as you move about your day, endeavoring by what is called here some kind of self-flagellation, do not handle, do not taste, do not touch, some kind of self-denial. Or crawling on your knees until they bleed.
This is useless, verse 22. All these things are destined to perish with the using. All of this stuff dies. It is just in accordance with the commandments and teaching of men. Monks waste their lives. Nuns, priests, in their foolish attempt to add something to Christ in their forms of self-denial, all of that is destined to perish. It is all human.
Verse 23 says, "These are matters which have to be sure the appearance of wisdom, of a kind of spiritual wisdom." We say, "Oh, so-and-so is so sacrificial, so self-denying, a vow of poverty, a vow of abstinence, a vow of isolation, even a vow of emasculation in the case of many in the past history. Vows of self-inflicted pain." There are many people even today who their whole lives fill their shoes with bits of glass and metal to wound their feet as they walk. This to be sure has the appearance of some kind of spiritual transcendent wisdom. But it is self-made religion, self-abasement. And this severe treatment of the body that has, please notice, no value against fleshly indulgence.
You say, "Oh they must be holy." Guess again. That does nothing. Witness the scandal of the priesthood. In fact, that's like pouring gasoline on a fire, it's a show of self-imposed fleshly religion that means nothing.
One writer said, "Any asceticism is to a great deal more to men's tastes than truly abandoning self." Wow. In fact, it was Alexander McClaren who said, "They would rather stick hooks in their backs and do the swinging pujah(??) than give up their sins." It just indulges the flesh in a different way and deceives the mind about the true condition. And they can't repress the flesh with any of that. And so they live in a kind of self-imposed repression that makes them moral time bombs that are going to explode somewhere.
Now, "No," people will say, "it's Jesus Christ plus human wisdom, it's Jesus Christ plus external rules, it's Jesus Christ plus visions and experiences, Jesus Christ plus self-denial, self-abasement, severe treatment of the body," and the Holy Spirit says, "It's Jesus Christ plus nothing." So the next time somebody says to you, "What does the gospel offer me? What does the Bible offer?", you say this, "Jesus Christ." That's the person that Christianity offers and in Him complete salvation and in Him complete forgiveness, and in Him complete victory, and in Him complete sufficiency. To have Him is to have everything. Not to have Him is to have nothing. John 1:16, "Of His fullness have all we received." Is that not a great statement? All that He is becomes ours. Ephesians 3:8 puts it this way, "In Him we have unsearchable riches." First Corinthians 3, "All things belong to you, whether the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all things belong to you because you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God." Pursue Him and Him alone.
It was Jeremiah Burrows, the powerful Puritan, who wrote in 1656, "God the Father is infinitely satisfied in Christ. He is all in all to God. Surely if Christ is an object sufficient for the satisfaction of the Father, much more than is He an object sufficient for the satisfaction of every soul." God can find His satisfaction in Christ. Surely you can find yours there, as well.
All that is in Christ in abundance then is ours. I'm going to close with the story...when I wrote the book Our Sufficiency in Christ, I think it's in that book, in one of the chapters I told this really odd story because it was true. Homer and Langley Collier were sons of a respected New York doctor. Both had earned college degrees. Homer had studied at Columbia University to be an attorney. When old Dr. Collier died in the early part of the century, his two sons inherited the family mansion and estate in New York. The two were both bachelors and financially secure because the father had made a lot of money. They chose a strange life style, not consistent with the material status their inheritance gave them. They received a fortune. They lived in seclusion, boarded up the widows and padlocked the doors of the great house. All the utilities, including the water, were shut off. No one was seen coming and going from the house, it appeared empty.
On March 21, 1947, police received anonymous telephone tip that a man had died inside the boarded-up house. It had been boarded up for many years. Unable to force their way into the front door, the authorities entered through a second-story window. Inside they found Homer's corpse on a bed. He had died clutching the February 22, 1920 issue of the Jewish Morning Journal though he had been totally blind for years. This macabre scene was set up against an equally grotesque backdrop. The brothers for decades had been collecting junk. The house was crammed full of broken machinery, auto parts, boxes, appliances, folding chairs, musical instruments, rags, assorted odds and ends and bundles of old newspapers, all of it was completely worthless. They were what we now call obsessive hoarders. An enormous mountain of debris blocked the front door. Investigators were forced to continue to use the upstair's windows for weeks while excavators worked to clear a path to the door.
Nearly three weeks later, as workman were still hauling heaps of refuse away, someone made a grizzly discovery. Langley's body was found, buried beneath a pile of rubbish six feet away from where Homer died. Langley had been crushed to death in a crude booby trap he had built to protect his junk from thieves. Eventually the authorities in New York took out 140 tons of garbage.
When I read that, I thought, Homer and Langley make a sad but fitting parable of the way many Christian people live. They have an inheritance in Jesus Christ that is sufficient for all their needs and they live in unnecessary self-imposed deprivation piling up junk and neglecting the abundant resources that are rightfully theirs to enjoy in Christ. Homer and Langley turned their home into a squalid dump. Spurning their father's great legacy they lived with trash.
Christ is all we need. He is more than enough. The Bible calls Him life, food, root, clothing, head, hope, righteousness, refuge, light, life, peace, Passover, portion, substitute, freedom, fountain, wisdom, standard, way, example, door, dew, sun, shield, reward, strength, song, sanctification, supplier, resurrection, redemption, teacher, ladder, shepherd, friend, truth, treasure, temple, ark, altar and more. And so we go back to where we started, it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him. In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. In Him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form and we are by faith in Him. He is enough. Learn Christ and you have all you will ever need.
Father, thank You for our time tonight. There could be no greater subject than this and we have offered a meager attempt to grasp the wonder of what it means to have Christ. May we define our lives this way, we love Christ, we know Christ, we serve Christ, we worship Christ. We desire Christ in all His glory to be displayed through us. May it be that for us to live is Christ, and when we are called Christians, may it be true that we are, as it were, little Christs. May we in gazing into His glory be transformed into His image. We ask nothing more than Christ. Christ is all and in all. Amen.
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Dimitri Kechagias. The heart of the shows Flux Bpm on the move and Flux presents House Anthems only is Dimitri and his love and devotion in quality dance music. He studied for 5 years in UK and he holds Ba(hons) and Ma in Media and Communications from respected UK Universities. His years of study in UK influence his music taste as he passed hours listening to radio shows such as Essential Selection, Essential Mix and dancing in famous clubs like The Garage/Heaven, The Complex, Hacienda(when was still open and running) Gallery/Turnmillis, The Fridge/Brixton and many more to mention. In order to complete his Master dissertation about the relation of independent record companies with the major ones in dance music in UK, he had fruitfull work placement at Truelove Label Collective with great success, and even his first production in the pocket called Dictum-Requiem co-produced with Larry Lush.
He worked as journalist for newspapers and magazines like the dance magazine Lemon as its correspondent from London. He was the producer and presenter of the youth magazine tv show: Flux TV that was broadcasted for 2 years with considerable success and exclusive interviews from djs like Paul Van Dyk, Marcel Woods, Judge Jules.RVG, Ernesto Vs Bastian and many more. For the purposes of that show he covered the dance festivals: Sensation White Germany and Trance Energy/ Dance Valley in Holland.
In August 2007 he traveled in Germany to cover for Dance Tv that is part of the web radio station danceradio.gr the world famous party Nature One and this year 2008 he covered the fantastic party Trance Energy 2008 with video interviews that were streamed from the site from artists like Ferry Corsten/Ernesto VS Bastian/Alex Morph/RVG/Jochen Miller and afterwards he went to Zurich in Swiss for interviews with Dj Tatana/Dave Joy and the mighty dj and super trance producer Sean Tyas. He has performed as a dj in various local clubs. If you wish to send your comments and thoughts do not mind to fire your feedback at (
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The good news are getting better as Flux Bpm On The Move goes online with its 2 hours special "International Edition" full in English. This online 2 hours special edition presents in the mix and with no particular order tracks from the official Flux Top 20 Countdown, the hot tunes not to be missed and the album/compilation of the week.
Flux radio show is the seal of approval and your guarantee that you will have your best 2 hours of your life as the tracks are carefully selected and nourished in the best possible combinations in order to uplift your inner self. The show is in the cutting edge as collects and presents the freshest new styles and trends in electronic music. Certainly its not your average radio trance show as at the beginning everything is deep and proggy and slowly the show builds till to reach the 140 bpm euphoric uplifting melodic climax. The success of the show is the result of the trust and the continuous support of the best dance record labels who feeds it with amazing and exciting new music.
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I'm a runner and I tend to accumulate a lot of race tees, which are often oversized and boxy – but this one is from a lovely little running shop I visited when I was in Baltimore, and I promised the owner I'd refashion it and send him photos of me wearing it by Tower Bridge!
I added a bit of seaming to this pattern due to fabric constraints, and I left off the sleeves, but otherwise it's a straight size 42. One thing I really like about this pattern is that there are no side seams – it uses side panels instead! One thing to note is that this pattern doesn't have much ease. This is fine if you're making the scuba/running/cycling view and expect it to be tight-fitting, but the pattern pieces are also shared for the teeshirt view and the dress with curved waist band, where the lack of ease might come as a surprise!
To see way more photos and see my other tips for this fab running/cycling/scuba pattern head over to FehrTrade.com!
Material Notes
Boston Street Running technical (wicking) tee with a moderate amount of stretch.
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Jul 9, 2013, 08.44 PMby Chloe Simone
Looks great! As for the size issue, I just noticed the pattern doesn't include seam allowances…. Could that be why?
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Jul 12, 2013, 10.56 AMby squirrellypoo
hahah no! I've made (no exaggeration) hundreds of patterns from Burda magazine, and I'm 100% comfortable with adding on my own seam allowances. But thanks for asking!
Jun 11, 2013, 11.44 PMby Mary Athey
this looks great on you, love the colours. i made a couple of the tops. i just cut both tops one size larger as i thought the pattern pieces looked small. its a great pattern x
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Jun 12, 2013, 10.01 AMby squirrellypoo
I saw yours after I uploaded, they look great! Glad to hear it wasn't just me who thought they fit a bit closer than normal. :)
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David Gregory Under Police Investigation Over Gun Magazine On 'Meet The Press'
I found this to be hilarious, and I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
David Gregory Under Police Investigation Over Gun Magazine On 'Meet The Press'
Posted: 12/26/2012 9:16 am EST | Updated: 12/26/2012 1:41 pm EST
UPDATE: NBC News had requested and was denied permission to use a high capacity magazine on "Meet the Press." Legal Insurrection's William A. Jacobson looked into an email allegedly from the Metropolitan Police Department which said that the network contacted the police before the segment. The MPD's Aziz Alali confirmed it, telling Jacobson:
"NBC contacted the Metropolitan Police Department inquiring if they could utilize a high capacity magazine for this segment. NBC was informed that that possession of a high capacity magazine is not permissible and the request was denied."
EARLIER: David Gregory is being investigated by police over the gun magazine that he showed on Sunday's "Meet the Press."
Gregory held up what appeared to be a 30-round gun magazine during his contentious interview with the NRA's Wayne LaPierre. He was asking LaPierre whether fewer victims would have died in the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School if the gunman had not had access to so many bullets.
Araz Alali, police officer and spokesman, confirmed to Politico on Tuesday that the Metropolitan Police Department is looking into The 'Meet the Press,' David Gregory incident. "There are D.C. code violations, D.C. code restrictions on guns, ammunition. We are investigating this matter. Beyond the scope of that, I cant comment any further," he said.
The code in question says, No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm," and has been mentioned by numerous conservatives making the argument against Gregory.
CORRECTION: The headline has been updated to say that Gregory was holding a gun magazine, not a clip, on "Meet the Press.
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How A Liberal Got Her Guns
MILLER: Smoking gun exposed- D.C. police covers up giving Feinstein illegal assault weapons
Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier seems to think that gun-control laws dont apply to the liberal elite. The police chief helped Sen. Dianne Feinstein acquire assault weapons, which are illegal to possess in the District, for a news conference early this year to promote a ban on these firearms, then tried to cover up the police involvement.
Now, a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals Chief Laniers shocking willingness to bend the rules for partisan and ideological purposes.
Feinstein wants guns
Lobbyist Chuck DeWitt emailed Chief Lanier on Christmas Eve last year. Sen. Feinstein has asked us to bring examples of assault weapons used in the worst incidents over the past few years. The CEO of the Lafayette Group told the chief that the guns would be put on display at a media event and asked, Could you put me in touch with your person who would have any of these weapons?
Chief Laniers response was not turned over.
However, a week after Mr. DeWitts request, Mrs. Feinsteins press secretary, Tom Mentzer, asked the commander of the police departments Crime Scene Investigation Division, Keith Williams, for 10 specific firearm models used in high-profile mass shootings, including a Bushmaster XM-15, Tec-9 handgun, Smith & Wesson M&P15 and a Glock 19 with a high-capacity magazine.
Since Cmdr. Williams did not have all the firearms the senator sought, Mr. DeWitt asked Philadelphia police to provide the missing ones, which meant bringing the P15 and the Glock extended magazine to Washington.
All of these firearms are illegal in the city even on federal property owing to the Districts law banning rifles with a detachable magazine and such features as a pistol grip or folding stock and all firearms with a magazines capacity of more than 10 rounds.
Lanier's coverup
Chief Lanier wanted to help Mrs. Feinstein, but didnt want the media to know.
Cmdr. Williams emailed Mr. Mentzer to put a bug in his ear that the police would prefer that no mention of the fact that the weapons came from D.C. or were recovered by MPDC in the official language or speeches. Mr. Mentzer replied, By not mentioning where the weapons came from, we open ourselves up to the same charge against David Gregory.
He was referring to the anchor of NBCs Meet the Press, who knowingly procured an illegal 30-round magazine in the District as a stunt for his TV show, but was not charged.
The office of Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance W. Gainer coordinated bringing the illegal weapons onto Capitol Hill for Mrs. Feinsteins dramatic Jan. 24 news conference introducing her new assault weapons ban.
Kathryn Stillman, the campus-access coordinator for Mr. Gainer, emailed Cmdr. Williams and Mrs. Feinsteins staff to recommend the firearms be mounted on a board with zip ties so that Mrs. Feinstein could point or even touch, but no need for any particular handling. This was to ensure that it could be argued later that the senator never had possession of the illegal guns.
Coverup unravels
After seeing the weapons on display at the press event, I asked Mr. Gainers office about the legality and was told that the firearms were the property of the D.C. and Philadelphia police departments. A spokesman for Mrs. Feinstein, Brian Weiss, told me that his office coordinated with the police and that the weapons were under Washington MPD possession the entire time.
But when I asked Chief Laniers spokesman, Gwendolyn Crump, about the guns, she refused to confirm they belonged to MPD. I followed up the next day with several more questions to Ms. Crump.
From the FOIA documents, I now know that she sent my second email to Chief Lanier, who then forwarded it to three people with notes.
Chief Lanier wrote to Philadelphia Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, I am really disappointed in Terry [Gainer]. This is exactly why I didnt want to participate. She said to Mr. Gainer, This is completely contrary to our agreement to participate in this event. We will not participate again.
The chief wrote to lobbyist Mr. DeWitt, So much for our agreement. Mr. DeWitt replied: Well, Ramsey and Feinstein followed our script, but who would have guessed that [Gainer] would burn us. He drafted a response for the police to send to me and added in a note, I dont know how you put up with people like Emily ... . Chief
Lanier replied, Thanks, Chuck, unfortunately this will be the next tail wagging our dog for weeks.
No special favors for Republicans
A week after Mrs. Feinsteins publicity stunt, Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were refused permission to bring a hunting rifle and an AR-style rifle to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Mrs. Feinsteins assault weapon ban.
The Republican senators sent a letter of complaint to committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, but were still forced to use just a photo of a standard wooden hunting rifle with a plastic pistol grip at the hearing in order to demonstrate that simply adding the ergonomic feature transformed the gun into one that would be illegal under her ban.
Mrs. Feinsteins staff gloated: I was gratified to hear Sens. Cruz and Graham complaining that getting weapons into their hearing today was unworkable, Mr. Mentzer emailed Cmdr. Williams and another officer with a news story about the Republicans not being able bring in even a legal rifle. I find you guys ENTIRELY practical, for the record.
The police have yet to turn over a majority of the documents I requested. The FOIA officer wrote that she was still searching and will release them, if any are located.
The police stonewalling and cover-up are so that the public doesnt find out that Chief Lanier enforces laws differently in the District, depending on whether you are a powerful liberal who opposes Second Amendment rights, like Mr. Gregory and Mrs. Feinstein, or an average American.
Emily Miller is a senior editor of opinion for The Washington Times and author of Emily Gets Her Gun (Regnery, 2013).
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MILLER: D.C. police help get firearms to National Cathedral for event to promote gun control
The highly restrictive firearms laws in Washington, D.C., are enforced differently depending on your status and political position on gun control.
Once again, the D.C. police are using their resources to provide illegal guns for a public relations stunt intended to pressure politicians to pass federal restrictions on the Second Amendment.
Outside the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, blacksmiths will "forge firearms into garden tools" as a symbolic enactment of this year's theme, "Swords into Plowshares."
The Children's Defense Fund, which is cosponsoring the event, said in a press release that blacksmiths will be using "illegal guns confiscated by the police."
The dramatic scene will follows a children's church service in which the organization's president Marian Wright Edelman will speak.
It is illegal in the District to possess a firearm that is not registered. When asked about the event, Police Chief Cathy Lanier's spokesman said that, "These are not firearms. They are scrap parts only, and they are inoperable."
That's actually legally irrelevant. According to the District firearms laws written after the Supreme Court's Heller decision in 2008, even a non-functioning firearm must be registered and can result in criminal liability.
The chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police for D.C., Kris Baumann, disagrees with the department participating in this event.
"We are supposed to be the police and, as such, the laws must be applied to everyone without bias," the head of the 3,600 member union told me Friday. "The minute we become politicized in how we enforce the law, we become compromised and we lose public trust. This is not rocket science, and yet there appears to be no learning curve on this issue."
He's referring to two cases of Chief Lanier using her power to help gun-control advocates. David Gregory of NBC News possessed an illegal 30-round magazine in an interview in December 2012 with National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre, but the anchor was never arrested or charged.
Also, Chief Lanier provided confiscated guns for a press conference in January at Sen. Dianne Feinsteins request. As I reported in a column last week, Mrs. Feinstein used the weapons set by D.C. police on a pegboard as a backdrop to push for a new federal "assault weapon" ban for rifles with one feature like a pistol grip.
Using a Freedom of Information Act request, I uncovered emails between the chief, the senator's staff and the sergeant at arms office in which they coordinated how to transfer the weapons, without technically breaking laws for which civilians have been jailed.
The dean of the Cathedral, the Rev. Gary Hall, spoke at Mrs. Feinstein's media event. Wearing a clerical collar and standing in front of the illegal guns, he said that, "I can no longer justify a society that allows people other than military and police to own weapons like these."
The NRA sent an email to its members about the event at the cathedral: "We believe that overbroad laws unequally enforced to advance a political agenda constitute an abuse of authority. If MPD is to carve out exceptions to D.C.'s draconian gun-control laws to avoid absurd and unjust consequences, hopefully it will do so on an equal opportunity basis."
The organization added, "Better yet, hopefully the D.C. Council, or the U.S. Congress, will finally embrace the Second Amendment and reform D.C.'s unreasonable firearm laws."
No gun control law has ever reduced crime. Since they don't have facts on their side, advocates like the Rev. Hall, Mr. Gregory and Mrs. Feinstein resort to publicity stunts to attempt to persuade the public based on emotions.
Chief Lanier should spend more time focusing on the increasing violent crime in the nation's capital and less on getting props for her political friends.
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MILLER: D.C. businessman faces two years in jail for unregistered ammunition, brass casing
Mark Witaschek, a successful financial adviser with no criminal record, is facing two years in prison for possession of unregistered ammunition after D.C. police raided his house looking for guns. Mr. Witaschek has never had a firearm in the city, but he is being prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The trial starts on Nov. 4.
The police banged on the front door of Mr. Witaschek's Georgetown home at 8:20 p.m. on July 7, 2012, to execute a search warrant for "firearms and ammunition ... gun cleaning equipment, holsters, bullet holders and ammunition receipts."
Mr. Witaschek's 14-year-old daughter let inside some 30 armed officers in full tactical gear.
D.C. law requires residents to register every firearm with the police, and only registered gun owners can possess ammunition, which includes spent shells and casings. The maximum penalty for violating these laws is a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.
Police based their search on a charge made by Mr. Witaschek's estranged wife, who had earlier convinced a court clerk to issue a temporary restraining order against her husband for threatening her with a gun, although a judge later found the charge to be without merit.
After entering the house, the police immediately went upstairs, pointed guns at the heads of Mr. Witaschek and his girlfriend, Bonnie Harris, and demanded they surrender, facedown and be handcuffed.
In recalling what followed, Mr. Witaschek became visibly emotional in describing how the police treated him, Ms. Harris and the four children in the house.
His 16-year-old son was in the shower when the police arrived. "They used a battering ram to bash down the bathroom door and pull him out of the shower, naked," said his father. "The police put all the children together in a room, while we were handcuffed upstairs. I could hear them crying, not knowing what was happening."
Police spokesman Gwendolyn Crump would not provide further information on the events in this case.
The police shut down the streets for blocks and spent more than two hours going over every inch of his house. "They tossed the place," said Mr. Witaschek. He provided photos that he took of his home after the raid to document the damage, which he estimated at $10,000.
The police found no guns in the house, but did write on the warrant that four items were discovered: "One live round of 12-gauge shotgun ammunition," which was an inoperable shell that misfired during a hunt years earlier. Mr. Witaschek had kept it as a souvenir. "One handgun holster" was found, which is perfectly legal.
"One expended round of .270 caliber ammunition," which was a spent brass casing. The police uncovered "one box of Knight bullets for reloading." These are actually not for reloading, but are used in antique-replica, single-shot, muzzle-loading rifles.
This was the second police search of his home. Exactly one month earlier, Mr. Witaschek allowed members of the "Gun Recovery Unit" access to search without a warrant because he thought he had nothing to hide.
After about an hour and a half, the police found one box of Winchester .40 caliber ammunition, one gun-cleaning kit (fully legal) and a Civil War-era Colt antique revolver that Mr. Witaschek kept on his office desk. The police seized the Colt even though antique firearms are legal and do not have to be registered.
Mr. Witaschek is a gun owner and an avid hunter. However, he stores his firearms at the home of his sister, Sylvia Witaschek, in suburban Arlington, Va.
Two weeks after the June raid, D.C. police investigators went to his sister's house — unaccompanied by Virginia police and without a warrant — and asked to "view" the firearms, according to a police report. She refused. The next day, the D.C. police returned to her house with the Arlington County police and served her with a criminal subpoena.
The Office of Attorney General of the District of Columbia Irvin Nathan signed an affidavit on Aug. 21, 2012, in support of a warrant to arrest Mr. Witaschek. A spokesman for Mr. Nathan would not comment on a pending case.
Mr. Witaschek went to the police station on Aug. 24 at 5:30 a.m. to turn himself in, but was not transferred to central booking until 11:30 a.m., at which time he was told it was too late to be arraigned that day. He spent the night in jail and was released the next day at 10 a.m.
Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier reserves such harsh tactics for ordinary citizens. When NBC News anchor David Gregory violated the gun-registration law last year by wielding an illegal 30-round magazine on live television, he was not arrested.
Mr. Nathan also gave Mr. Gregory a pass, writing that prosecuting him "would not promote public safety."
Mr. Nathan, who is unelected, showed no such leniency to Mr. Witaschek. In September 2012, the attorney general offered Mr. Witaschek a deal to plead guilty to one charge of unlawful possession of ammunition with a penalty of a year of probation, a $500 fine and a contribution to a victims' fund.
Mr. Witaschek turned down the offer. "It's the principle," he told me.
To increase the pressure a year later, Mr. Nathan tacked on an additional charge in August of illegal ammunition from the first, warrantless search. Mr. Witaschek chose to accept the risk of prison time by going to trial instead of pleading guilty.
The firearms laws in places such as the District of Columbia, Chicago, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey do nothing to reduce violence, but merely infringe on the Second Amendment rights of the law-abiding.
However, if these laws are going to be enforced, the police and government must treat everyone equally.
The charges against Mr. Witaschek should be dropped.
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This is pretty stupid. The press should always be able to access personal weapons (and their implements) like this for the purposes of reporting, without needing police oversight.
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I haven't found anything about the ongoing trial of Witasheck. It started Nov 4th. I did see an update article with not much new info, but they posted copies of the DC laws that were used and a pic for clarity:
A Law Fit For a Police State
To understand just how draconian this prohibition is, we need to look at the law itself which is almost unbelievable to someone unfamiliar with the police state in D.C. But here it is, according to D.C. Code § 7-2506.01:
(a) No person shall possess ammunition in the District of Columbia unless:This is one of the most oppressive ammunition laws in the country. Possessing something that arbitrary and innocuous in most parts of the USA will get a person a SWAT raid and prison time in Washington D.C. The crime doesnt need to involve an actual firearm or any malicious behavior. Enforcers are exempt from the law, and anyone else must seek the districts permission to exercise their rights.
But it gets worse. D.C. code has an interesting way of defining ammunition.
Per D.C. Code § 7-2501.01 (2), ammunition in Washington D.C. is defined as:
(2) Ammunition means cartridge cases, shells, projectiles (including shot), primers, bullets (including restricted pistol bullets), propellant powder, or other devices or materials designed, redesigned, or intended for use in a firearm or destructive device.Most shooters consider ammunition to be the finished product of several components that is ready to be discharged. This would include a casing fitted with a primer, loaded with powder, clamped to a projectile. While a person can use basic tools to combine the components into a usable round of ammunition, the components themselves cannot be fired. For an idea of how a typical pistol round is configured, examine this diagram:
What is striking about the districts definition is that it labels all of the separate components as ammunition. This means that the already-oppressive ammo ban was written in such a broad manner that it goes far beyond usable rounds of ammo. It was written to include things that couldnt even be fired if the owner wanted to.
An empty brass casing illegal.
A tiny BB, known as shot illegal.
A piece of metal capable of being a projectile illegal.
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MILLER: Prosecution rests in trial for D.C. man charged for one shotgun shell
Mark Witaschek faces six months in jail for unregistered ammunition but no gun
The District of Columbia has finished presenting its case on why Mark Witaschek is a danger to society for possessing a single shotgun shell and muzzleloader sabots in his home. This outrageous legal battle shows how far unelected, anti-gun liberals will go to attempt to destroy a mans life.
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MILLER: Exclusive — Shock verdict — Mark Witaschek guilty of possessing muzzleloader bullets in D.C.
… while NBC's David Gregory got off scot free
In a surprising twist at the end of a long trial, a District of Columbia judge found Mark Witaschek guilty of "attempted possession of unlawful ammunition" for antique replica muzzleloader bullets.
Judge Robert Morin sentenced Mr. Witaschek to time served, a $50 fine and required him to enroll with the Metropolitan Police Department's firearm offenders' registry within 48 hours.
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