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Wearing gloves you don't have to wrap the lines around the hand in order to pull the line for relauch or in case of an accident.
Without gloves its almost impossible to pull the kiteline without wrapping them around the hand; a gust gets your kite up faster than you'll able to get your hand out of the lines.
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PROVIDENCE – The owners of the Foundry complex in Providence have purchased the neighboring American Locomotive Works property off of Valley Street, they announced Thursday.
Foundry Associates L.P. said it acquired the five-building, 11.8-acre complex for $19.05 million in a news release.
Foundry Associates Partner Tony Thomas said the seller was American Locomotive HH LLC, and he did not know who the principals of that group are.
Thomas said Foundry's only immediate plans for the property are to work on landscaping bordering the new Waterfire headquarters and to find tenants for the remaining 60,000 square feet of commercial space.
The brick former locomotive factory buildings date to 1901 and were redeveloped as part of an unfinished $333 million mixed-use project launched by Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse in 2006. Stuever Bros. filed for bankruptcy protection before it could complete the project, which was to include apartments, a hotel, offices and a riverwalk along the Woonasquatucket River.
The 200,000 square feet of commercial space that was redeveloped is now 70 percent leased, according to Foundry. Tenants include United Natural Foods Inc., the R.I. Economic Development Corporation, Fuss & O'Neil Inc., New Horizons Learning Centers and the Guatemalan Consulate.
Foundry Associates has redeveloped nearly 1 million square feet in the Promenade neighborhood including the former Brown & Sharpe mill.
Thomas said improvements in the neighborhood and especially along the Woonasquatucket River encouraged Foundry to buy ALCO.
"The river keeps getting nicer and nicer and that is a reason we pursued this aggressively because we have been impressed by what is happening," Thomas said. "People are living and working there. It has been really quite a renaissance."
The ALCO acquisition was financed by The Washington Trust Company and Rockland Savings Bank.
CBRE New England is the leasing agent for the property.
Peregrine Property Management will continue to manage the complex, Thomas said.


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Chatt. School for the Arts & Sciences
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Cannon Co. High School
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Smith Co. High School
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Trousdale Co. High School
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Van Buren Co. High School
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Natchez Trace Youth Academy
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Dayspring Academy
(White House, TN)
East Nashville Magnet School
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Grace Christian Academy - Franklin
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KIPP Nashville Collegiate School
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LEAD Academy
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Merrol Hyde Magnet School
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Humboldt High School
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Daniel Boone High School
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David Crockett High School
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Dobyns Bennett High School
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Tennessee High School
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Unicoi Co. High School
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Carter High School
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Cherokee High School
(Rogersville, TN)
Cocke Co. High School
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Fulton High School
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Grainger High School
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Gibbs High School
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Knoxville Central High School
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Oak Ridge High School
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Powell High School
(Powell, TN)
Scott High School
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Union Co. High School
(Maynardville, TN)
District 4
Bearden High School
(Knoxville, TN)
Farragut High School
(Knoxville, TN)
Hardin Valley Academy
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Heritage High School
(Maryville, TN)
Karns High School
(Knoxville, TN)
Knoxville Catholic High School
(Knoxville, TN)
Lenoir City High School
(Lenoir City, TN)
Maryville High School
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West High School
(Knoxville, TN)
William Blount High School
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Region 3
District 5
Bradley Central High School
(Cleveland, TN)
Chattanooga Central High School
(Harrison, TN)
Cleveland High School
(Cleveland, TN)
East Hamilton High School
(Ooltewah, TN)
McMinn Co. High School
(Athens, TN)
Ooltewah High School
(Ooltewah, TN)
Sequoyah High School - Madisonville
(Madisonville, TN)
Walker Valley High School
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Cookeville High School
(Cookeville, TN)
Cumberland Co. High School
(Crossville, TN)
DeKalb Co. High School
(Smithville, TN)
East Ridge High School
(Chattanooga, TN)
Hixson High School
(Hixson, TN)
Livingston Academy
(Livingston, TN)
Red Bank High School
(Chattanooga, TN)
Rhea County High School
(Evensville, TN)
Soddy-Daisy High School
(Soddy-Daisy, TN)
Stone Memorial High School
(Crossville, TN)
The Howard School
(Chattanooga, TN)
Warren Co. High School
(McMinnville, TN)
White Co. High School
(Sparta, TN)
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Blackman High School
(Murfreesboro, TN)
LaVergne High School
(La Vergne, TN)
Murfreesboro Central Magnet School
(Murfreesboro, TN)
Oakland High School
(Murfreesboro, TN)
Riverdale High School
(Murfreesboro, TN)
Siegel High School
(Murfreesboro, TN)
Smyrna High School
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Stewarts Creek High School
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Coffee Co. Central High School
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Columbia Central High School
(Columbia, TN)
Franklin Co. High School
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Giles Co. High School
(Pulaski, TN)
Lawrence Co. High School
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Lincoln Co. High School
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Marshall Co. High School
(Lewisburg, TN)
Shelbyville Central High School
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Tullahoma High School
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Gallatin High School
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Greenbrier High School
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Lebanon High School
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Macon Co. High School
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Mt. Juliet High School
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Portland High School
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Station Camp High School
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White House High School
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Wilson Central High School
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Creek Wood High School
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Henry Co. High School
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Kenwood High School
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Montgomery Central High School
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Rossview High School
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Springfield High School
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Sycamore High School
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West Creek High School
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Brentwood High School
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Centennial High School
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Dickson Co. High School
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Franklin High School
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Independence High School
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Nolensville High School
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Page High School
(Franklin, TN)
Ravenwood High School
(Brentwood, TN)
Spring Hill High School
(Columbia, TN)
Summit High School
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Antioch High School
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Cane Ridge High School
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Glencliff High School
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Hillsboro High School
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Hillwood High School
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Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet
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Hunters Lane High School
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John Overton High School
(Nashville, TN)
Maplewood Comprehensive High School
(Nashville, TN)
Martin Luther King High School
(Nashville, TN)
McGavock High School
(Nashville, TN)
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District 13
Bolivar Central High School
(Bolivar, TN)
Chester Co. High School
(Henderson, TN)
Fayette-Ware Comprehensive High School
(Somerville, TN)
Hardin Co. High School
(Savannah, TN)
Jackson North Side High School
(Jackson, TN)
Jackson South Side High School
(Jackson, TN)
Lexington High School
(Lexington, TN)
Liberty Technology Magnet High School
(Jackson, TN)
McNairy Central High School
(Selmer, TN)
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Brighton High School
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Covington High School
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Crockett Co. High School
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Dyer Co. High School
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Dyersburg High School
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Haywood High School
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Munford High School
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Obion Co. Central High School
(Troy, TN)
Ripley High School
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South Gibson Co. High School
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Arlington High School
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Bartlett High School
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Bolton High School
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Cordova High School
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Craigmont High School
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Kingsbury High School
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Memphis Central High School
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Millington Central High School
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Collierville High School
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Germantown High School
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Houston High School
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Kirby High School
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Overton High School
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Ridgeway High School
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Southwind High School
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White Station High School
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Whitehaven High School
(Memphis, TN)
Wooddale High School
(Memphis, TN)
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Christian Academy of Knoxville
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Concord Christian School
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First Baptist Academy
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Grace Christian Academy - Knoxville
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The King's Academy
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Webb School of Knoxville
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Boyd Buchanan High School
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Chattanooga Christian School
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Collegedale Academy
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Grace Baptist Academy
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Notre Dame High School
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Silverdale Baptist Academy
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Battle Ground Academy
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Christ Presbyterian Academy
(Nashville, TN)
Ezell-Harding Christian School
(Antioch, TN)
Franklin Road Academy
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Middle Tennessee Christian School
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Providence Christian Academy
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Zion Christian Academy
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Clarksville Academy
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Davidson Academy
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Donelson Christian Academy
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Friendship Christian School
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Goodpasture Christian School
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Hendersonville Christian Academy
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Mt. Juliet Christian Academy
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Nashville Christian School
(Nashville, TN)
University School of Nashville
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Carroll Academy
(Huntingdon, TN)
Evangelical Christian School
(Cordova, TN)
Fayette Academy
(Somerville, TN)
First Assembly Christian School
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Jackson Christian School
(Jackson, TN)
Sacred Heart of Jesus High School
(Jackson, TN)
Tipton-Rosemark Academy
(Millington, TN)
University School of Jackson
(Jackson, TN)
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Harding Academy
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Immaculate Conception High School
(Memphis, TN)
Lausanne Collegiate School
(Memphis, TN)
Margolin Hebrew Academy
(Memphis, TN)
Memphis Catholic High School
(Memphis, TN)
Northpoint Christian School
(Southaven, MS)
Pleasant View School
(Memphis, TN)
Rossville Christian Academy
(Rossville, TN)
St. George's Independent School
(Collierville, TN)
Westminster Academy
(Memphis, TN)
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Briarcrest Christian School
(Eads, TN)
Christian Brothers High School
(Memphis, TN)
Hutchison School
(Memphis, TN)
Memphis University School
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St. Agnes Academy
(Memphis, TN)
St. Benedict at Auburndale
(Cordova, TN)
St. Mary's Episcopal School
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Baylor School
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Brentwood Academy
(Brentwood, TN)
Ensworth High School
(Nashville, TN)
Father Ryan High School
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Travel Warnings Released For The U.S Following Riots
Following decades of issuing travel warnings to its citizens, America is now at the centre of its own misfortune.
Four countries, including two from the Middle East, have dispatched tourist warnings for the US as civil unrest is fuelled by two more fatal shootings of black men by police last week.
The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and New Zealand have told travellers to steer clear of protests and large crowds because of the high potential for violence.
Another nation which issued a warning was the Bahama's, which was first to go, warned about the potentially fatal consequences of interacting with American police officers.
The statement from the Bahama's government said ''In particular young males are asked to exercise extreme caution in affected cities in their interactions with the police. Do not be confrontational and cooperate.''
It added ''If there is any issue please allow consular offices for the Bahamas to deal with the issues. Do not get involved in political or other demonstrations under any circumstances and avoid crowds.''
Bahrain advised it's citizens to ''be cautious of protests or crowded areas occurring around the US.''


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THE SPORTS DOCTOR- Where's Roger? Why no Maris in Hall of Fame?
It's that time again: awards season. Every year it's the same: the manufactured hoopla (how much can one really care about Kanye West?), the obscure new honors (ever heard of the Mobile Excellence Awards?), and the pity (Heath Ledger, really?). The Grammys and the Oscars may be the most hyped, but they don't compare to sports for gross injustice.
I'm not referring to Graham Harrell, although you may think the Heisman committee blatantly snubbed the Texas Tech quarterback. No, if you want true grossness, you have to look to Cooperstown and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Gil Hodges
Joe Torre
Ron Santo
Tony Oliva
You may not be able to pick Gil Hodges out of a line-up, but even the Amish know he played baseball. The same goes for Joe Torre. Ron Santo and Tony Oliva may be relatively unknown outside the baseball community, but their contributions to the sport are legendary. Why aren't these men in the Hall of Fame?
Good question. A better question might be why is Joe Gordon in it?
To understand, one must know a little about the Hall of Fame. After a player has been retired five years, he has a finite number of chances to be voted in by the Baseball Writers Association of America, an organization known for holding grudges. Only after 15 gut-wrenching years is a player finally evaluated by his peers. The Veterans Committee, the assemblage of last resort, was designed to offset the BWAA's influence. As if.
The committee is comprised solely of Hall of Fame members, and living legends like Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, and Hank Aaron must put pen to paper and evaluate a ballot prepared and screened primarily by– guess who?– the BWAA. Unable to handle even that miniscule responsibility, in 2007 the Hall of Fame Board created a separate pre-1943 Veterans Committee that included among the voters– guess who again?– the BWAA.
The Veterans Committee votes every two years. If 75 percent of the members vote for a nominee, he's in. The members are allowed to elect four people to the Hall of Fame from each ballot. Can you name any recent inductees?
If you can't, don't feel bad. There aren't any. The last time the Committee inducted a player was in 2001, when they graciously accepted Hilton Smith and Bill Mazeroski. In 2003, Billy Martin received only 22 of the requisite 60 votes. In 2005, the Committee failed to elect both Roger Maris and Thurman Munson. Both men were dissed again in 2007 and they didn't even make this year's (2009) ballot.
But there was no dearth of repeats. Twelve of the 20 total nominees were on the 2007 ballot. Hodges, Torre, Santo, and Oliva have been on three consecutive ballots, as has this year's only inductee: Joe Gordon.
When did Joe Gordon become so special? How did the man who received only 17.5 percent of the vote in 2005 and 12.2 percent in 2007 skyrocket to 83.3 percent this year?
The jump had nothing to do with Joe Gordon, believe me. When the BWAA was given the vote in 2007, they knew why. Years of inaction had made the Veterans Committee a joke, and if the titans of the sport couldn't or wouldn't elect anyone, come 2009, the BWAA would do it for them.
True to form, the post-1943 committee didn't elect anyone into the Hall this year; they let the BWAA have that honor. They had to elect someone, and Joe Gordon has been dead the longest of all the other pre-1943 nominees except Carl Mays, and there's no way he'll ever make it. Mays may have won four World Series, but he's also the only pitcher to ever kill a batter with a pitch (reputedly on purpose).
Ultimately, even if the BWAA is allowed a Veterans Committee vote on post-1943 ballots, even great players may be completely out of luck. The BWAA has already spent 15 years not electing Roger Maris, the man who broke Babe Ruth's home run record. Will they really change their minds if given a sixteenth opportunity? I'd say the odds are less than 75 percent.


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Where we and Democrats can work together
When congressional leaders of both parties meet at the White House today, all of us will have an opportunity to show the American people that we got the message of the elections earlier this month.
Republicans heard the voters loud and clear. They want us to focus on preventing a tax hike on every taxpayer, reining in Washington spending and making it easier for employers to start hiring again. Today, Republican leaders renew our offer to work with anyone, from either party, who is ready to focus on the priorities of the American people.
The day after the election, President Obama seemed to acknowledge that a change in course is needed when he conceded that "the overwhelming message" he heard from the voters was "we want you to focus completely on jobs and the economy."
Despite what some Democrats in Congress have suggested, voters did not signal they wanted more cooperation on the Democrats' big-government policies that most Americans oppose. On the contrary, they want both parties to work together on policies that will help create the conditions for private-sector job growth. They want us to stop the spending binge, cut the deficit and send a clear message on taxes and regulations so small businesses can start hiring again.
Republicans got the message voters have been delivering for more than a year. That's why we made a pledge to America to cut spending, rein in government, and permanently extend the current tax rates so small-business owners won't get hit with a massive tax hike at the end of December. That's what Americans want. And that's the message Republicans will bring to the meeting today. In other words, you'll have a voice at that table.
We can work together and accomplish these things, but the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress first will have to prioritize. It's time to choose struggling middle-class families and small businesses over the demands of the liberal base. It's time to get serious.
While Americans have been asking "where are the jobs?" for more than two years, our friends across the aisle have clung for too long to the liberal wish list, including a job-killing health-care law, a "cap-and-trade" national energy tax and an out-of-control spending spree. The November elections represented a wholesale rejection of these policies.
Now we have a real chance to move away from the misplaced priorities of the past two years and work together on common-sense proposals that will build a foundation for the economic rebound we all want.
Despite the president's comments about focusing on job creation, Democrats in Congress are working feverishly to move legislation on everything except stopping the tax hikes and lowering spending. Their focus for the brief post-election "lame duck" session is on controversial items such as immigration, a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," more spending and environmental regulations. Indeed, their actual legislative plan for the rest of the lame-duck session is to focus on anything but jobs.
Time is running out. This Friday, funding for the government runs out. And at the end of December, every single taxpayer will get hit with one of the largest tax hikes in American history - unless we put aside the controversial items and work together on the things we know Americans want and our struggling economy needs.
Together, we can focus on the things Americans want us to do - not on what government wants Americans to accept. The clock may be winding down on this session of Congress, but there is still time to do the right thing. If President Obama and Democratic leaders put forward a plan during the lame-duck session to cut spending and stop the tax hikes on all Americans, they can count on a positive response from Republicans. If the president and Democratic leaders don't act before the end of the year, however, House and Senate Republicans will work to get the job done in the new Congress. But we hope it doesn't come to that.
The voters want us to show that we heard them, and Republicans are ready to work with anyone who is willing to do just that.
John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, is the incoming House speaker. Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is the Senate minority leader.


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The browser is a canvas of infinite potential; the ways in which content is delivered and consumed are just as numerous. LayoutEngine is one of the ways in which we attempt to tame that potential. Beyond the obvious usability improvements, LayoutEngine 2 is also touch-friendly – in fact, the very same component powers our recently released Blog app for iOS. Just as importantly, we've taken the time to solidify the underlying foundation of our core editing experience in anticipation of our future roadmap. But more on that later.
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We've already heard from Will Smith, who has vowed to fight on after the NFL re-issued a four-game ban against him on Tuesday.
Now it's time for Jonathan Vilma to vent. Like Smith, Vilma's suspension time -- in his case, one year -- is unchanged. Vilma will get paid for the time he's been on the New Orleans Saints' physically unable to perform list. Originally, Vilma's ban included no salary for the year.
In the ruling by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Vilma was again found to have pledged money to any teammate who could knock then-Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre out of the 2009 NFC Championship Game.
On Tuesday, Vilma's lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, released a statement on behalf of his client. The statement in full:
Commissioner Goodell has crafted a "revised punishment" that continues his previous grossly misplaced interpretation of the "evidence." What the Commissioner did today is not justice, nor just. The suspension has the fingerprints of lawyers trying to fit a square peg into a round hole to appease an Appeals Panel decision ordering the Commissioner to pay attention to his authority under the CBA. Someone needs to tell the Commissioner directly that his duties also include being true to the evidence, to fundamental notions of due process and to the integrity of the game. That time hopefully will come soon.
Rather than fairly and impartially evaluate the evidence, the Commissioner instead has wrapped his arms around the architect of pay-for-performance programs, Gregg Williams, and attributes Williams' inflammatory language and bizarre slide shows not to Williams but to the players Williams coached.
Jonathan Vilma did not offer a bounty or any incentive to any teammate to injure an opposing player. Commissioner Goodell has now called every one of the dozen or more players and coaches a "liar" who has played the games with Jonathan and been in the locker room with Jonathan and who has sworn under oath to that fact. And to make matters worse, the Commissioner blatantly ignores other evidence that shows Jonathan did not do what the Commissioner, again, accuses him of doing. As but one example, Jonathan's bank records show that he did not withdraw $10,000 from his account at any time during the 2009 playoffs (or at any other time), the time period when the Commissioner claims Jonathan offered that amount of money as a bounty on Kurt Warner and Brett Favre. Consistent with the Commissioner's disregard of the evidence, he did not even request to see the bank records showing this fact.
As another example, in the sworn statements of Williams and Mike Cerullo, the people the Commissioner found "credible," Cerullo swore under oath that he turned Jonathan's $10,000 over to Williams after the Warner game when no one "earned the bounty," and before the Favre game. Williams swears he never received any money from Cerullo or anyone else. Commissioner Goodell has further damaged Jonathan's reputation, compromised his career, and cast an unfair cloud over a fine and decent man. It is unfortunate that the process exhibited by the NFL has had no decency.
This will be a legal fight that will roll on long after the public's interest in the situation has faded. Frankly, that might have already happened.
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If President Barack Obama taps U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to take over for Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, her nomination will be met with stiff resistance by some Republican senators.
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., each pledged to filibuster Rice's prospective nomination as secretary of state due to her public explanations for the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Amid speculation that Obama might nominate Rice for the top diplomatic post to succeed Clinton, who has said she plans to step aide now that the president has won a second term, McCain said he would "do whatever to block the nomination that is within our power" at a press conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
Graham and McCain, joined by New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R), also called Wednesday for Congress to establish a temporary select committee to investigate the attacks in Libya.
But as Obama prepares for his first post-election news conference, at which he will likely be asked to address personnel issues in his administration, Republicans meant to send a strong pre-emptive warning.
"She is so disconnected from reality that I don't trust her," Graham said.


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As the holiday cooking season approaches, Cherie Sage, director for Safe Kids Kansas reminds parents and caregivers to check their kitchens for preventable hazards and to supervise children at all times in the kitchen.
"The most important safety precaution in the kitchen is constant, close, attentive supervision," Sage said.
Children in the kitchen should always be actively supervised — in sight and in reach at all times — whether they are helping an adult cook or simply watching.
"Burns from spills, steam, hot surfaces, and flame can be especially devastating," Sage said. "Young children have thinner skin than adults, so they burn more severely and at lower temperatures."
Safe Kids Kansas recommends these precautions against kitchen burns:
- Never leave a hot stove unattended
- Never hold a child while cooking or carrying hot items
- Cook on back burners whenever possible, and turn all handles toward the back of the stove
- Don't allow loose-fitting clothing in the kitchen
- Keep hot foods and liquids away from the edges of counters and tables. Be especially careful around tablecloths, children can pull hot dishes down onto themselves.
- Tie up the electrical cords of small appliances so toddlers cannot pull a toaster or microwave down from a countertop.
In addition to hot surfaces, hot liquids and sharp objects, the other major hazard in the kitchen is poison. People should store potentially hazardous goods, such as cleaning products and alcohol (including many baking extracts), in locked cabinets out of reach. Carbon monoxide detectors should be installed to alert everyone to get out of the house in the event of a buildup of the odorless toxic gas given off by fuel-burning appliances.


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We don't have a lot of time tonight and I'm going to try to just maybe wrap up some of the thoughts that I didn't get to last Sunday night. I'm not going to keep you as maybe as long as I normally would, and that's probably good for me. But I want you to open your Bible to Matthew chapter 5...Matthew chapter 5.
Some time ago I was reading an article in a national magazine and that article talked about the fact that people are seeking happiness. And there was a some kind of a survey done. All of the information data was gathered from the survey by the people in the magazine, I believe it was Cosmopolitan Magazine. And it was studied by some psychologists who then yielded their findings. And the findings of the psychologists from the survey that was done by the magazine indicated that true happiness is found by those who find personal fulfillment apart from any self-sacrifice, who reach the goals that they establish for their own life and see their ambitions fulfilled and their desires gratified.
And you know what? I think that's probably accurate. I think if you look at the world around you, that's exactly the way they operate. And even those people who were surveyed who did not experience that and therefore really couldn't speak first hand about happiness could at least say..."Well, we assume that's where it is to be found."
And I suppose if you were to do your own little survey and ask people what do you think would be the source of true happiness in life, they would circle all of those issues. They would talk about having all your desires fulfilled, all of your dreams and ambitions and goals met. All of the anticipated joys of life somehow fulfilled, everything working out well for you and you not needing to make any sacrifices.
But in fact, that is absolutely the very opposite of what Jesus teaches in Matthew chapter 5 about happiness. Jesus says here that true happiness which is blessedness comes in the very opposite way. It comes not through personal achievement, it comes through a recognition of personal bankruptcy. Happy are the poor in spirit, not the people who have achieved great things but the people who know they've achieved nothing really significant. Oh they may have been educated. They may have made money. They may have been successful. They may have made their little mark somewhere in the world. But when they stand before God and look at their own heart in honesty, they recognize that they are bankrupt, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Happy or blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. The really happy people are the people who have realized their spiritual bankruptcy and wept over their iniquity, wept over their lostness, wept over their being separated from God, wept over their hopeless condition, wept over their sin, wept over the anticipation, the prospect of hell, the judgment of God, eternal loss, wept over the utter lack of fulfillment of the heart.
And then in verse 5 it says, "Blessed are the gentle," or better the meek, "for they shall inherit the earth. And Jesus is saying here that true fulfillment in life comes in the very opposite way that you would expect it to come. True fulfillment in life, true joy, lasting happiness, real peace can only be granted by God. It cannot in the end and ultimately be found by man. It's not available in anything that man can achieve. It's not available in anything that man can attain to. It's not available to...in anything that man can buy. It's not available in anything that man might inherit or discover. In the end, real happiness, real soul satisfaction, true joy, profound peace comes when man realizes that it's utterly not available to him. He doesn't have it, he can't earn it, he can't buy it, he can't attain to it, he can't acquire it.
Having measured himself in all honesty he realizes his bankruptcy. Having compared himself with the law of God which requires perfect righteousness, he realizes he is nothing and he comes to God and pleads for God to do something in his life to bring about blessedness. That's really the penitent sinner. That's the person who's coming to God with the right attitude.
It's all really kind of summed up in verse 6, the fourth beatitude. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied." It's a matter of realizing you have nothing and you hunger for it. I've said this so many times through the years when people tell me they've witnessed to somebody, or talked to somebody about the Lord, or about the gospel, and there's no response. And I've said so often in my life, "Well that person isn't desperate enough. That person isn't hungry enough." And it's not just a hunger for something to fill the void. You'll notice here it's a hunger and thirst for righteousness. It's a weariness with sin. It's a weariness with the struggle. It's a weariness with guilt.
It's a weariness about always falling short of the law of God. Those people who are exposed to the law of God written in Scripture because they've been in a church, like you heard in the waters of baptism tonight, maybe they were raised in a Catholic Church where they certainly heard the moral law of God, they heard spiritual truth being taught. Some cases raised in a Christian family, as you heard from one young man who is in our seminary, how he was raised in a family where his father and his grandfather and I think one other member of his family were pastors and he was raised with all of that. Those people who are exposed to the law of God by knowing the Bible or being in a society where the Word of God is part of that society, they know the law of God. And when they're honest enough to measure themselves against the law of God, they will come to a recognition that they are guilty, there upon that guilt leads to shame and remorse and by the grace of God can lead to the spiritual bankruptcy here.
But it's also very possible for someone who has not been fully exposed to the written revelation of God to feel the same weight of iniquity because the law of God is written in their hearts, isn't that right? In Romans chapter 2 the law of God is written in their hearts so their conscience is accusing them when they violate that law of God. Even a person who doesn't know the Bible, doesn't know Christianity still has the law of God written in the heart. It's just a part of being human. And that disobedience to that law brings about sadness, brings about guilt, brings about remorse which can also drive a person to the seeking of the truth. And how many times do we hear that testimony in the waters of baptism? I knew something was wrong, I knew my life wasn't what it ought to be. I became weary of my sin and I sought to know the truth. This is the path to real happiness. This is how one receives the kingdom of heaven. This is how one is truly comforted. This is how one in the end will inherit the earth. You will become the possessor of everything in this earth when the Lord comes down and establishes His earthly kingdom with His people.
Verse 7, it is people who understand mercy. I suppose we would, some people in our society, would assume that true happiness belongs to people who are merciless, who step on everybody's neck to achieve their goals. Man, that's what people believe. They believe you just take every opportunity to use everybody you can to get where you want to get and when you've finally gotten there, when you've reached the top of the pile you're going to find true satisfaction there at the expense of many people along the way. Those people who pursue that kind of self-satisfaction generally are merciless people. And Jesus says it's the merciful people who in the end find mercy. It's those who are compassionate. It's those who care about others.
It's the pure in heart, it's those whom God has cleansed who will ultimately see Him. It's those who are peacemakers who will be called the sons of God. We've worked our way through all of that. That's contrary to everything the world would assume.
You want to really be happy? Realize your spiritual bankruptcy, come to God who alone can grant you true blessedness. You want to be happy? Groan and mourn and agonize over your sin and failure in violation of God's law and He'll provide the comfort of salvation. You want to be happy? Be meek about your condition, not proud. Be broken and you will ultimately in the end inherit the fullness of the kingdom of God which includes this earth and ultimately the new heaven and the new earth.
You want to truly be satisfied? Then stop hungering and thirsting for things that don't fill and don't satisfy and hunger and thirst for the righteousness of God which He gives to those who believe in Christ. And so it goes. Pursue mercy, pursue purity, and be a peacemaker and this is true happiness.
But as we know, all of that leads to something and what it leads to is in verses 10 to 12. And that's the last of the Beatitudes. This is sort of the inevitable outcome here. "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," that's the beatitude, it's in verse 10. The people who are really happy are the people who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness. And what He is saying is that persecution is evidence that they belong in the kingdom of heaven.
Now I don't want to go back and review everything, but there are a couple of passages that I want to take you back to and one of them just very briefly is John 15. Turn back in your Bible to John 15 and verse 18 because this is a principle that must be understood. Jesus is talking to His disciples. He knows what they're going to face. He knows that now He is in the upper room, of course, with them, this is the Last Supper as it's often called and He's really teaching them what they need to know in His absence. And in verse 18 He says, "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you." And the basic principle is if the world treated the most righteous person who ever lived the way they treated Him, why should you expect any better treatment? If they hated Him, and they did, they will hate you. And the reason they hate you is because you're not part of them. If you were of the world, the world would love its known, verse 19. But you're not of the world, I've chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you.
And it doesn't always...that doesn't always mean that it's overt, aggressive persecution on every occasion. But there is a deep-seeded resentment and animosity by those who are a part of the system, to those who confront that system with righteousness.
Verse 21, "The slave is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you." Verse 21, "They'll do this to you for My namesake." It's not that they, it's not that they really resent you as much as they resent Me. And that's really true. I mean, as a believer you can sort of, you know, wander through the world safely enough until you confront someone with the Word of God, until you confront someone with God's divine standards, or what Jesus has said. If you were to go, for example, to the Gay Pride Parade and announce what God says about homosexuality, you might experience persecution. If you were to engage yourself in any environment where sin is overtly being carried on and bring to bear upon the souls that are there the straightforward truth of God, you would experience persecution. You have probably experienced to some degree in the families that you're in if you have unbelievers in the family. And on occasion you have confronted the iniquity in the lives of those unbelievers. You have called them to recognize their sin and you have felt the animosity and the hostility. Nothing is more irritating, nothing is more offensive to an unregenerate person than to point out their iniquity and its consequences.
It's safe enough, in a sense, for me in the church. It's not quite so safe outside. They will persecute you, in verse 21 He says, for My namesake. It's because you identify with Me. It's because you say you are Christ's. It's because you bring My name and My Word and My truth to bear upon them. They will hate you the way they hated Me. And verse 23, "And he who hates Me hates My Father also." I mean, this is a very, very complex issue. They hate the truth. They hate you for bringing the truth. They hate Christ for being the truth. They hate God because He is the true and living God behind it all. So they hate Me, they hate My Father, they hate you, they hate the truth.
Verse 6...verse 1 of chapter 16 He says, "These things I've spoken to you that you may be kept from stumbling." I don't want you to go out there in the world and all this persecution is going to come your way and you're going to fall all over the place and say, "Wait a minute, what's happening here? This shouldn't be going on. This is impossible. Why is this happening? We thought that the truth would be proclaimed with great power and they would all fall down and believe and it's not going to be that way." In fact, verse 2 says, "They'll make you outcasts from the synagogue and they'll kill you and think they're doing service to God."
I told you months ago that there are more Christians today this year, 1998, dying for the sake of the gospel than any time since the gospel began to be preached. There is great persecution of believers in the world.
One other passage that I would draw to your attention is 1 Corinthians chapter 4, and again it's just a brief review because it's such an important one. The apostle Paul sort of identifies how he's treated in the world. He says in verse 9 of 1 Corinthians 4, "I think God has exhibited us apostles last of all as men condemned to death because we've become a spectacle to the world." He says we're condemned to death in the end. We are a spectacle to the world. We're considered as fools, verse 10, we're considered as weak. We're without honor. We hunger, verse 11. We thirst. We're poorly clothed. We're roughly treated. We're homeless. Verse 12, we're reviled, that's cursed, blasphemed, persecuted, slandered. And then he closes by saying we are the scum and the dregs, we're the filth and the off-scouring, the filth that you scrape off a dirty pan in which food has hardened, that's us.
The bottom line is not popular with the world in any way, shape or form. Now in 2 Corinthians, I'm not going to go over that, we see that over and over and over and over again. Now with that kind of in mind, go back to the Beatitudes in chapter 5.
I really believe it's true if we are faithful to proclaim the gospel to an unbelieving person or an unbelieving environment, an unbelieving family, an unbelieving classroom, an unbelieving group at work or wherever it might be, if we are faithful to proclaim the gospel and to speak straightforwardly the truth of Christ and the truth of the living God to those who love sin, who love darkness more than light because their deeds are evil, the response is to be an inevitable hostility.
But we have to keep this in mind, it is the path of blessing. Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. What is the kingdom of heaven? It's just the domain of God, the domain of salvation, the realm of salvation. That just goes with being a Christian. All of these things, the kingdom of heaven in verse 3, comfort, inheriting the earth, being satisfied, receiving mercy, seeing God, the beatific vision, being called the sons of God, having the kingdom of heaven again in verse 10, those are all synonyms for being in God's eternal kingdom. Second Timothy 3:12, "All that will live godly in this present age will suffer persecution." It's a question of degree, of course, we're not all being martyred. We're not paying with our life. We're not being imprisoned as some are. But in many cases, of course, we are not as bold as we ought to be. And we've gone into that. We've looked at that. We've looked at the principle here in this beatitude.
It is further defined in verse 11, and I'm just briefly reviewing and then we'll just kind of wrap up the end part of it. In verse 11, "Blessed are you when men cast insults at you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely on account of Me." And I think the Lord breaks down this one beatitude. He didn't break down any of the others, He didn't explain the others cause they were rather self-explanatory. But as soon as He says you're going to be persecuted, somebody is going to say, "Well what does that mean? Can You explain that further?" And so in verse 11 He doesn't repeat the benefit, theirs is the kingdom of heaven, so we know this isn't another beatitude, this is merely an explanation of the one He gave. What do you mean persecuted? He means when men cast insults at you. Sometimes that's what it's going to be. And as I told you last time, that's a face-to-face kind of insult, when people throw it back in your face and condemn you and insult you and do it face to face. That's what He's talking about here.
And sometimes that's all there is. We've all experienced that. There have been many times when I have endeavored to present the gospel to someone who has responded in an insulting way, wanted to hear nothing of it. You have perhaps experienced that yourself in those times when you tried to witness to an unconverted husband, or an unconverted son or daughter or family member or friend.
It also can mean they say all kinds of evil against you falsely. It's not just face-to-face abuse, and face-to-face unkindness and insult. It's some time behind your back they lie about you. They endeavor to undermine you. Boy, there's a lot of this. Certainly in my own ministry I have endured that. I mean, it's not that I'm suffering greatly from it, it...it's sad. When people ask me, "What is the hardest thing for you about the ministry?" I'm often asked that in a question and answer session. "What about the ministry is the most difficult thing for you to handle?" Inevitably I'll have to say this, what would be the most difficult thing for me to handle in the ministry would be anything in my life that discredited the integrity of my ministry. In other words, anything that I...that would cause someone to believe that I was not faithful to the Lord, that I was not faithful to the Word, that I was not faithful to honoring Christ, that I was not faithful to proclaiming the truth.
People know that about me. And there are those who will attack at that very point, who will say things that are not true. But having said them, they find people who will believe. And so in the eyes of some people you become severely discredited. That is a serious form of persecution because if someone believes those lies you literally then have nothing to do with them in terms of ministry. You have nothing to say. You're not believable. I mean, I have heard amazing things through the years. Not only have I heard on several occasions that I died which can't really be a criticism, I have heard things that, some of which I would never even repeat, attacks on my character, things said about me that were not true. There have been many who have tried to discredit the things I say by putting words in my mouth that I never said, saying I denied things like the blood of Christ and its efficacy and who knows, on and on, many things. That I have preached salvation by works. That's a form of persecution that's pretty serious. I frankly would rather have somebody step in my face and insult me than do that because wherever that's done there is serious discrediting and that just gives more reason for unregenerate people to reject the message because if they hear those discrediting statements then they assume that you're a hypocrite. And if you're a hypocrite you certainly can't have the truth. So persecution comes in many forms.
There are people, and you know them, they put stuff on the windshields out here in the parking lot, right? You've had them in your car. They stand on the corner over here and they pass out hate sheets. Some of you remember some two years ago when I was Moody at the Founders Week and I went into the auditorium, there are four thousand people there to preach that night and everybody was given a sheet of paper as we went in and it was a sheet of paper attacking me and calling me a heretic and it was single spaced on two sides of an eight and a half by eleven with all kinds of things that were untrue about me. The interesting thing about that was that it was being distributed by a man who knew me and to whose son I had given a scholarship to attend the Master's College, which he did. His father felt that he would do everything he could to discredit me.
Now that's not throwing me in a dungeon. Throwing me in a dungeon, I'm not asking for that, Lord, You understand. But...and there are some ways in which I would rather be in a dungeon with my integrity intact and my reputation intact than to be out roaming around preaching and having people believe I had no integrity.
But there are many ways in which persecution can come. You really want to be sure you live your life so that you can't legitimize any of those accusations, right? You want to be faithful. I don't want anybody to think that I teach something contrary to Scripture. And so people know that and so if they want to attack me, if the enemy wants to attack me, he concocts something about the fact that I'm a false teacher and then people drive up and down the street with a loud speaker and my name painted on the side of their truck, as you've seen out here, announcing to everyone that I'm a false teacher. The reason they do that...because they don't want to be confronted with the truth.
But there are all kinds of forms of persecution...many different ways. And the disciples needed to know that. I mean, there would be people, Jesus said, who will throw you out of the synagogue. There will be people who will think they do God a service when they kills you because they're protecting the true religion, namely in that case Judaism. There also will be people who will take this approach in persecution, they'll insult you to the face. I told you about some of those incidents last week where I was trying to speak at Cal State Northridge while people were shouting the whole time in my face so i couldn't be heard by the student body. There are those who do great damage, as I said, behind your back spreading lies.
I remember a few years ago when we were taken off 52 radio stations because lies were spread about me. And they began to believe that I was a heretic. Persecution comes in many ways and I'm just giving you the personal illustration from my own life, you have to experience in your life as it comes.
But He says now, this is what's so good about this, "Blessed are those who have been persecuted...Blessed are you when you are insulted, persecuted in this form, or when evil is said against you falsely on account of Me." Mark that, would you? On account of Me...it's not on account of you. I mean, if people are saying evil about you because it's true, if people are confronting you because you're offensive because you are offensive, that's not the issue here. This isn't some kind of pronouncement of blessing on anybody who suffers any kind of confrontation. This is...this is all about those who are persecuted because they are identified with Jesus Christ, that's the issue.
If you take My...if you take My cause, if you preach My gospel, if you speak My truth and they persecute you for that, blessed are you...blessed are you. And there's a lot of reason for that. I mean, we could sort of...sort of insert...can I insert James in here, just slide him in after verse 11? "Count it all joy when you fall into various...what?...trials." This would be a trial. "Knowing the testing of your faith produces endurance and endurance is a perfect work."
You know, these are...there are...there are so many benefits from trials. The first benefit from trials is that God uses them to elevate your dependence. Have you noticed that? You know, when false things are said about you, what are you going to do? When people reject you to the face, when you are persecuted for the cause of Jesus Christ, when you're accused of being narrow minded, dogmatic, unloving, divisive...a book has a chapter about me and they call me a heresy hunter...when those things happen to you, what can you do? You can't run around to everybody who has been influenced by those kinds of things and fix it. And yet it's so important to maintain the integrity of your reputation so that you can continue to minister to people. What do you do? You have nowhere to go but to the Lord and all you can say is, "Lord, You need to protect me if You want to use me. You need to protect me if You want to use me." And the Lord will respond by saying, "Well part of that...part of that protecting you is to keep you holy. And to keep you really holy so there never will be any legitimate accusations it's necessary to keep you humble." And this is part of that breaking process.
In the pastor's conference this week one guy stood up and he said, "Now look," he said, "you've written so many books and you've sold so many tapes," and he said all of this kind of stuff. He said, "How do you stay humble?" He said, "If I wrote that many books and sold that many tapes, I'd be such an egotist nobody could live with me."
You know what the answer to that is? I'm not hear to announce to you that I've maintained my humility completely intact through the whole process, but I am here to say that whenever the Lord lifts you up, He breaks you down at the same time. Now there's always going to be enough disaster in your life and enough trials in your life and enough trouble and enough disappointment and enough heartache, and enough pain, and enough of that accusation and that criticism and that false statement about you to cause you to always reach back and realize that if there's ever going to be any impact in your ministry it's going to have to be by the mercy and grace of God. So James is saying count it all joy when you fall into various trials cause trials are a part of God's perfecting work. Trials elevate your dependence.
I mean, at this point in my life, and I know this is kind of a personal testimony approach to this tonight, but at this point in my life so many things are being said in so many ways, some very affirming, some very wonderful and very encouraging, and supporting. But I've taken on a lot of issues through the years and a lot of negative things and I can only say that if the ministry continues and if God continues to give us blessing and if God continues to use us in the days ahead, it will be because He has granted a measure of protection in the midst of this. And I'm grateful. And in your life He'll do the same thing...the Lord Himself is there to guard you and you should be happy about the persecution if it's for the truth...if it's for the truth.
And, you know, I can honestly say it's not something that I lose sleep over, it's not something you should lose sleep over. It's not something you should be pained by. It's something you should rejoice in. Verse 12, "Rejoice...don't just rejoice, be glad." He sort of doubles up on us there. "For your reward in heaven is...what?...great."
Can I give it to you simply? The more powerfully you proclaim Christ, the more clearly you live Christ, the more evident it is that you are Christ's. The more your life and your words, the loving, they are direct, confront this world, the more hostility you will receive on earth and the more reward you will receive...where?...in heaven. There's just always persecution there.
I've been reading the biography of William Carey, the founder of really of Modern Missions. And it's just really...it's really a thrilling thing to read. Here was this guy who was a...they said, "You're...you're a shoemaker." And he said, "No, I'm not even a shoemaker, I'm a cobbler, I can't make them I just fix them." He was really humble...no education, no formal education. Eventually went to India as the first missionary of the British Missionary Society and translated the Bible into eleven languages. Taught himself Greek, taught himself Hebrew, taught himself Latin and taught himself to be a linguist all by himself while he was a cobbler. His wife didn't even learn to read until after she was married and they had children. Very humble origins.
He went over to India, this is just one little aspect of it, of the story, he went over to India and he's feverishly working in of all horrible places, Calcutta. Calcutta in the 1700's would be unimaginable, probably not a lot different, in some ways, than it is today, but even more primitive. And he's working on all these eleven translations. And back in England from which he needs support to carry on his work, just a minimal amount of support, just a little tiny bit, because he lived in very meager gifts, he needed money to make these translations to get them copied and get them in the hands of people. And there were people back in England who were accusing him of inventing languages and falsifying translation work to get rich. And the guy is in Calcutta giving up his life for the gospel.
And you want to find those kind of people, you know, and...(laughter)...and then...I mean, I do. If I'd been around England at the time, I would have told a few folks. But, you know, you have to remember...(laughter)...come to the aid of my brother, you have to remember that Jesus said, "Blessed are you when that happens for His sake," because you're a true kingdom citizen. That's just evidence that you, listen to this, are invading the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of darkness doesn't like it. Rejoice and be glad because when you get to heaven your reward will be great.
Two reasons to rejoice. The promise...you get the kingdom. The principle is you're going to suffer. The posture you take, third point, rejoice. In fact, rejoice a whole lot, just be flat-out glad about this for two reasons...I love this...first, your reward in heaven is great.
You say, "Well, isn't that sort of selfish?" No, because it's the reward born out of a pure motive which is to honor God. Right? It's a reward born out of an identification with Jesus Christ that says I will serve Jesus Christ for His honor and His glory and the sake of His gospel no matter what comes. You'll have a great reward in heaven.
I believe the church is depicted in Revelation as the twenty-four elders and when they receive their crowns, remember, they're shown with crowns. They take those crowns and they cast them at the feet of Jesus Christ. In the end He gets all the glory but we will have a great reward for suffering on account of Him. In fact, you remember that the disciples, James and John, came to Jesus and said, "Hey, we'd like to sit on Your right hand and left hand in the kingdom." And Jesus said, "Wait a minute, that's not Mine to give." Then He went on to talk about those who suffer most. It's not going to be those who had the best publicity agent, it's not going to be those who had the widest audience on television, it's going to be those who suffered most purely on account of Him who will receive the greatest reward.
The assumption here is that there are variations in reward. That's true. There are variations in reward. The apostle John said this in 2 John, I believe it is, "Look to yourselves that you lose not what you have wrought." In other words, you better be careful or you might lose your reward. You could have had a reward coming but forfeited it by some sin...which is to say you can have more, or you can have less. The rewards will vary. There will be some who receive a great reward and some a lesser reward. And it's related to faithfulness. It's related to self-sacrifice. It's related to one who has no regard for himself. Like Paul said, "I don't count my life dear to myself," Acts 20, "I just want to finish the ministry God's given me." It doesn't really matter what happens to me. "If I live, I live," he said, "if I die, I die, it's immaterial."
So, you've got to get your eye on the heavenly reward. And you know, that gets kind of exciting. You look at persecution with a different perspective, insults or false accusations, whatever. You look with a different perspective. And even perhaps some day I would think some of you have lost your job because of your faith. Some of you may have lost a marriage partner because of your love for Christ, on account of Him the husband walked out and left you with children to struggle. Rejoice. If it was on account of Christ the first great promise is you will receive a great reward in heaven. Just a reminder, heaven lasts forever. So there won't be any limit to your enjoyment of it.
I just happen to believe, this is another message, that eternal rewards are connected to service there. I don't think they're buttons that you wear. I don't think they're capes you wear. I don't think they're stripes on your sleeve. And I don't think they're crowns stacked up higher and higher on your head. I think it is a capacity for service. Greater reward means that you will have a greater capacity, a greater opportunity, a greater privilege of service.
The second thing is equally a wonderful promise. "Rejoice and be glad when you are persecuted for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you." You are in some pretty classy company. That's right. If you're persecuted for the cause of Christ, you're in some pretty good company. The first one that comes to my mind is Hebrews 11, Moses was willing to suffer the reproach of Christ, right? Said no to being the son of Pharaoh's daughter, said no to all the wealth and prestige of Egypt and identified himself with his people and took what the writer of Hebrews calls the reproach of Christ. You stand in line with Moses.
There were many others, all those wonderful, faithful prophets...Isaiah who most likely was sawn in half as referred to in Hebrews 11. Jeremiah who was cursed and thrown in a slimy pit. And many others, as you know who paid a serious price for their representation of God. You remember when Jesus was indicting the city of Jerusalem. He said, "You that stonest the prophets and murderous those that are sent to you." And you remember when He told the parable about the man who owned the vineyard, and he had let somebody run the vineyard for him, that was depicting God as the owner of the land and the nation and the Israelites running it. And he sent his messengers to them and they killed them all, that again was an indictment of Israel for killing the prophets. And finally he said, "Well, I'll send My Son," you remember and the owner of the vineyard sent the son and they murdered the son. Jesus certainly is the supreme prophet. He was persecuted for the sake of His Father even to death. Persecution puts you in some pretty fast company. It's a pretty classy group. What a privilege, isn't it, to wear the uniform and be considered a soldier like so many others.
After all, we'll close with this, you're going to have to confront so you might as well consider it joy to do it. The reason you have to confront is in verse 13, "You're the salt of the earth. If the salt has become tasteless, how is it going to be made salty again? It's good for nothing anymore except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men."
Look, if you're not an agent salting the world, you might as well get out of here, right? I mean, if you're not salt in the wound of sin, what good are you? You're the light of the world, verse 14 says. You better shine, nobody..nobody lights a lamp and puts it under some kind of basket to hide it. What's the point? You put it on a lampstand. It's like a city set on a hill. If you were...if you were walking around in Palestine in that day, there weren't any street lights as such. There weren't any great sources of artificial light. If you were in a valley and there was a city on a hill, at night you would see all the candlelight, all the lamplight coming out of the openings. That's a city set on a hill, you can't hide it, can't put something over it. The sky is so dark there, you see the light so clearly. You're the light. Nobody puts it under a basket, they put it on a lampstand. "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who's in heaven."
Isn't that an interesting twist at the end there? There will be some who will see the light and they will give glory to God. There's some hope there, isn't there. There really is. There's some hope if they see the pattern of your life, if they hear the truth that you proclaim, there will be some who will glorify your Father who's in heaven.
We have a world to reach in whom we shine, Philippians, as lights in the darkness, right? For many, they're not going to listen, they're going to resent. Like God told Isaiah, they're going to have ears that don't hear, they're going to have eyes that don't see, they're going to have a heart that is hard. But there's going to be a remnant out there, going to be some who will hear and believe.
That's the reason I'm so committed to doing baptismal services because I want you to know that there are people out there who will hear, who will see your life and will believe by the grace of God. And we see them week after week after week here. We can have that confidence. Sure there's persecution, sure there's animosity. The kingdom of darkness reacts in a self-protective way as you invade with the truth. That's why the hostility comes. But God turns that earthly hostility into heavenly glory and uses it because it's the bringing of the truth to turn some hearts to salvation.
So we go in this beatitude passage all the way from being a broken, bankrupt, mourning, meek, hungry sinner to living a life that so dramatically effects the world that on the one hand they persecute us and on the other hand there are some who believe our message and give glory to God. I mean, that's the sum of all of our life, isn't it? And it is to that that the Lord calls us and it is in that that we find our true happiness. Join me in prayer.
Father, it is a joy unspeakable and full of glory to share in this company of the redeemed. Who are we and why us? We're overwhelmed that You would have chosen us for Your kingdom, that You would have by the Holy Spirit convicted us of sin and righteousness and judgment and broken us against Your law, that You would have caused us to grieve over our sin and to humble ourselves and cry out for a righteousness we did not have. We are amazed that You selected us to receive Your mercy, to be purified in heart and to become peacemakers and to count us among the prophets, count us among those through the ages who have named Your name and proclaimed Your truth. Ah, we are so privileged, so honored to be included among those in the past and even the future as well as the present who are persecuted for their righteousness sake, persecuted for Your namesake, persecuted on account of You. What a privilege to stand with them.
Father, we can't even imagine that our name would ever belong in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews with the heroes of the faith. But by Your grace we are there. We are this generation's heroes of the faith, we who are faithful, we who are kingdom citizens truly and genuinely, we who live and proclaim truth at any cost. Thank You for the privilege of standing with them and running the race that is set before us with endurance, laying aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us that we might be faithful to the One who ran the perfect race, our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, use us mightily to be that salt and that light at any cost knowing that while there will be hostility there will also be the opportunity to bring men and women to the place where they will glorify You by believing the truth. Use us greatly for that. We pray in our Savior's name, and everyone said, amen...amen.
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A spectator is asked to think of any card of the 52 in a deck. No force! Any of the 52 cards can be selected. The performer hands him eight specially printed computer cards, which have some random card pips printed on them. The spectator is asked to retain the cards which show his selected card, and discard the others. The magician is instantly able to reveal the selected card. Very easy to do.
GREAT effect!. a person could not get a better mind reading effect for the price. I have seen the effect go for a whole lot more from other distributers. As a professional magician,I could have never figured out how the effect works. In my opinion,out of a scale of,1-10,I would give it a ten. Get the effect. - Homer Smith
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To determine if hosting impacts site speed according to the Site Performance feature in Google Webmaster Tools.
Hosting can impact site speed.
"80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front end." The preceding statement could be interpreted to mean that back end hosting has little impact on front end site performance.
To test this experiment, an existing site was replicated at a new and separately hosted IP address. DNS was changed from the original host IP to the new host IP. A few days later, DNS was changed back to the original host IP. A few days after that, DNS was again changed to the new host IP from the original host IP.
According to Google's Site Performance tool, pages at the new host IP (dashed line) loaded much faster than pages at the original host IP (solid line). There appears to be an obvious and immediate improvement of more than 50% when DNS was initially pointed from the original host to the new host. Similarly there appears to be a decrease in speed when DNS was pointed back at the original host IP from the new host IP and increase when pointed back at the new host IP again. Since DNS was pointed at the new host IP, site speed and performance have continued to improve according to Google Webmaster Tools.
This experiment seems to indicate a strong correlation between changes in hosting and changes in site performance. This correlation is no real surprise given, the new host is highly rated as fast and reliable. Conventional wisdom is that "hosting" doesn't impact site performance but, I think it's worth testing just in case your site is one of those rare exceptions.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. --- Lees-McRae seniors Evan Webb and Kortnie Curry finished in the top-15 of their respective events pacing the Bobcats at the Hilton Garden Invitational at JDL Fast Track on the campus of Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Webb (Salisbury, N.C.) finished ninth in the men's pole vault with a height of 4.60 meters. Webb cleared the bar on his second attempt. Curry (Lexington, N.C.) tied for 15th in the women's high jump with a jump of 1.60 meters. She accomplished the feat on her final try.
Bobcat teammate Persephanie McRae (Brooklyn, N.Y.) finished tied for 28th in the event at 1.50 meters.
The men's 4x400 relay squad that consisted of Davante Scott (Hopkins, S.C.), Charles Coleman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Razhede Highsmith (Gastonia, N.C.) and Cody McNeely (Salisbury, N.C.) enjoyed a top-30 finish while claiming 26th with a time of 3:38.85.
Freshman Erin Bingham (Jefferson, N.C.) impressed in her spring debut with a time of 28.29 seconds performance in the 200-meter race. Bingham used a 9.54 second performance to qualify for the 60-meter hurdles. She finished 25th overall with a time of 9.62 in the semifinals.
Moyock, N.C. natives, Kayla Powell and Rachelle Cleveland finished 24th and 26th in the shot put with heaves of 11.12 and 11.10 meters, respectively.
LMC will make the short trip to Boone next weekend to participate in the Mountaineer Open starting Friday.