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CENTRAL CITY, Ky. (6/20/14) — A Central City man and a Central City woman were charged with several drug-related offenses after Kentucky State Police executed a search warrant at 6:41 p.m., Thursday, June 19 at a West Reservoir residence in Central City.
According to a KSP report, Troopers Jon McGehee and Jacob Fortney along with KSP Sgt. Tim Sales, the Muhlenberg County Sheriff's Department and the Central City Police Department discovered marijuana, prescription medication, methamphetamine and items used to distribute controlled substances while executing the search warrant.
Trooper McGehee charged Erica Smith, 26, Central City, with first-degree possession of a controlled substance, first offense/meth; possession of drug paraphernalia, trafficking in marijuana, first offense; illegal possession of a legend drug; third-degree possession of controlled substance; and, prescription controlled substance not in proper container, first offense.
Also charged was Carl Belcher, 48, Central City, for first-degree possession of a controlled substance/meth; trafficking in marijuana, first offense; illegal possession of a legend drug; third-degree possession of a controlled substance; second-degree possession of a controlled substance; prescription controlled substance not in proper container, first offense and failure to notify DOT of address change.
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Wexler's is a barbecue pit in San Francisco designed by San Francisco based architects Aidlin Darling. The centerpoint of the restuarant is a dynamic undulating ceiling installation evoking barbecue smoke. The sculpture is composed of laser cut MDF fins and bridges the gap between old and new by linking the modern insertion to the historic facade.


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How installed AV systems support event revenue
One of the museum's key AV elements is the 420-seat Robert H. Smith Auditorium, which was expanded with a mezzanine floor and configures in multiple ways—both to show an 18-minute multiscreen experience titled New York Story by Donna Lawrence Productions and to support a distinguished speaker series and other public programs and performances. The theater has already hosted Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, George Bush, and the borough president of Manhattan among others.
To support New York Story, Electrosonic installed a three-projector blend system comprising Christie WU12K-M projectors fed by Extron JMP 9600 2K JPEG2000 video players controlled by a Medialon show control system. Renkus-Heinz speakers supply surround sound, augmented by two double 15in. JBL subwoofers. Digital sound processing is by MediaMatrix Nion.
The show's imagery begins at the front of the stage on four 6ft.-wide screens, which roll up and down and widen to a total of 10. Images are also shown on gray drapes, set just behind the white roller screens. Midway through the show, some of the movable screens lift up to reveal the center portion of a 72ft.-wide backscreen bearing a single image. During the last five minutes of the experience, the entire 72ft. span is revealed. The stage machinery for the display surfaces was provided by PDO and LA Propoint.
Electrosonic's projection system is designed to cover the three screen planes, which are sometimes used simultaneously. To ensure that it was feasible, Donna Lawrence Productions did full size tests at Electrosonic's Burbank facility one year prior to installation.
The design consulting team also devised an innovative solution for the auditorium's sound system. Since the main screen had limited space behind it for speakers, and speakers behind the main screen could not be used once the 2ft.-wide screens were deployed, they opted to hide speakers in the apron and ceiling of the stage to give the audience the illusion that sound is coming from the center of the screen.
To maximize usability of the theater, an AMX-controlled full presentation system allows for everything from a complete band set up to a simple PowerPoint presentation. It features a Panasonic projector, connections for up to 18 microphones, Blu-ray and DVD players, and podium control for the PowerPoint computer. The presentation system only shares speakers and the screen with the show. The theater's mezzanine houses a touchscreen control position for Medialon and AMX, and features a Yamaha LS9-32 sound mixing board.
Beyond the theater, and on other floors, Electrosonic equipped the Smith Gallery and Dexter Hall with fixed speakers and portable special events audio and video systems that allow presentation in either gallery with either local or theater-generated audio and video.
The portable part of the system can be used as a standalone setup anywhere in the building. So this means a given room can either operate off the networked audio system via installed screens and loudspeakers, and/or plug in the available portable sources including wireless mics, DVD and Blu-ray, speakers and the like.
It's a level of flexibility that almost didn't happen, says Andrew Kidd, Electrosonic's sales consultant. "We knew from the beginning what Donna Lawrence would require for the theater, but only part way through the installation we learned that a presentation system was also needed," he says. There was, in fact, time to provide the necessary system, but this brings up one of the key takeaways in considering the multipurpose potential of a museum. The New-York Historical Society hired most of its event staff last fall, as the museum prepared to reopen. However, four years ago, as the renovation was being conceived and the systems design planned, the event staff was not on hand to participate—a situation Kidd says is not uncommon. It does however highlight the potential opportunity to address this important revenue stream early on. In fact, it may also help with systems budgeting when event support and the attendance revenue can be factored in.
"Museum designers are expected to factor the flow and guest experience into the layout of the halls and design of the exhibits. It would be ideal to have that kind of foresight for the event planning—someone who can consult and lay out a day in the life of the museum both during and after hours," Kidd says. "We would have liked to have been talking about this earlier, understanding the business plan and how to support it," Kidd says, but adds that the important things made it in, which are distributed, networked audio, a flexible presentation space and system, and portable audio and video solutions. "We got it 85 percent right without being able to know everything about how it would be used."
"We have a platform we can build upon as we learn," Licht says, and he uses the day-in-the-life analogy as well. "But I don't know if you really can foresee ahead of time everything you'll need. For example, streaming has become so much more accessible just over the past few years that we're looking to add it now in response to requests. I've had people requesting hard disk playback systems too; we'll see how that goes and how many requests we continue to get."
"The renovation really put us more on the map then we've ever been before," Maresca concludes. "We're already seeing the benefit of events, both in terms of revenue and museum awareness. And 9.9 of 10 events we do need AV."
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Joab procures Absalom's recall. (1-20) Absalom recalled. (21-24) His personal beauty. (25-27) He is admitted to his father's presence. (28-33)
Verses 1-20 We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy, and his clemency toward poor guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment from God. God pardons none to the dishonour of his law and justice, nor any who are impenitent; nor to the encouragement of crimes, or the hurt of others.
Verses 21-24 David was inclined to favour Absalom, yet, for the honour of his justice, he could not do it but upon application made for him, which may show the methods of Divine grace. It is true that God has thoughts of compassion toward poor sinners, not willing that any should perish; yet he is only reconciled to them through a Mediator, who pleads on their behalf. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and Christ came to this land of our banishment, to bring us to God.
Verses 25-27 Nothing is said of Absalom's wisdom and piety. All here said of him is, that he was very handsome. A poor commendation for a man that had nothing else in him valuable. Many a polluted, deformed soul dwells in a fair and comely body. And we read that he had a very fine head of hair. It was a burden to him, but he would not cut it as long as he could bear the weight. That which feeds and gratifies pride, is not complained of, though uneasy. May the Lord grant us the beauty of holiness, and the adorning of a meek and quiet spirit! Only those who fear God are truly happy.
Verses 28-33 By his insolent carriage toward Joab, Absalom brought Joab to plead for him. By his insolent message to the king, he gained his wishes. When parents and rulers countenance such characters, they will soon suffer the most fatal effects. But did the compassion of a father prevail to reconcile him to an impenitent son, and shall penitent sinners question the compassion of Him who is the Father of mercies?
2 Samuel 14:1-21 . JOAB INSTRUCTS A WOMAN OF TEKOAH.
2-21. And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman--The king was strongly attached to Absalom; and having now got over his sorrow for the violent death of Amnon, he was desirous of again enjoying the society of his favorite son, who had now been three long years absent. But a dread of public opinion and a regard to the public interests made him hesitate about recalling or pardoning his guilty son; and Joab, whose discerning mind perceived this struggle between parental affection and royal duty, devised a plan for relieving the scruples, and, at the same time, gratifying the wishes, of his master. Having procured a countrywoman of superior intelligence and address, he directed her to seek an audience of the king, and by soliciting his royal interposition in the settlement of a domestic grievance, convinced him that the life of a murderer might in some cases be saved. Tekoah was about twelve miles south of Jerusalem, and six south of Beth-lehem; and the design of bringing a woman from such a distance was to prevent either the petitioner being known, or the truth of her story easily investigated. Her speech was in the form of a parable--the circumstances--the language--the manner--well suited to the occasion, represented a case as like David's as it was policy to make it, so as not to be prematurely discovered. Having got the king pledged, she avowed it to be her design to satisfy the royal conscience, that in pardoning Absalom he was doing nothing more than he would have done in the case of a stranger, where there could be no imputation of partiality. The device succeeded; David traced its origin to Joab; and, secretly pleased at obtaining the judgment of that rough, but generally sound-thinking soldier, he commissioned him to repair to Geshur and bring home his exiled son.
7. they shall quench my coal which is left--The life of man is compared in Scripture to a light. To quench the light of Israel ( 2 Samuel 21:17 ) is to destroy the king's life; to ordain a lamp for any one ( Psalms 132:17 ) is to grant him posterity; to quench a coal signifies here the extinction of this woman's only remaining hope that the name and family of her husband would be preserved. The figure is a beautiful one; a coal live, but lying under a heap of embers--all that she had to rekindle her fire--to light her lamp in Israel.
9. the woman said . . . O king, the iniquity be on me--that is, the iniquity of arresting the course of justice and pardoning a homicide, whom the Goel was bound to slay wherever he might find him, unless in a city of refuge. This was exceeding the royal prerogative, and acting in the character of an absolute monarch. The woman's language refers to a common precaution taken by the Hebrew judges and magistrates, solemnly to transfer from themselves the responsibility of the blood they doomed to be shed, either to the accusers or the criminals ( 2 Samuel 1:16 , 3:28 ); and sometimes the accusers took it upon themselves ( Matthew 27:25 ).
13-17. Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God, &c.--Her argument may be made clear in the following paraphrase:--You have granted me the pardon of a son who had slain his brother, and yet you will not grant to your subjects the restoration of Absalom, whose criminality is not greater than my son's, since he killed his brother in similar circumstances of provocation. Absalom has reason to complain that he is treated by his own father more sternly and severely than the meanest subject in the realm; and the whole nation will have cause for saying that the king shows more attention to the petition of a humble woman than to the wishes and desires of a whole kingdom. The death of my son is a private loss to my family, while the preservation of Absalom is the common interest of all Israel, who now look to him as your successor on the throne.
2 Samuel 14:22-33 . JOAB BRINGS ABSALOM TO JERUSALEM.
22. To-day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight--Joab betrayed not a little selfishness amid his professions of joy at this act of grace to Absalom, and flattered himself that he now brought both father and son under lasting obligations. In considering this act of David, many extenuating circumstances may be urged in favor of it; the provocation given to Absalom; his being now in a country where justice could not overtake him; the risk of his imbibing a love for heathen principles and worship; the safety and interests of the Hebrew kingdom; together with the strong predilection of the Hebrew people for Absalom, as represented by the stratagem of Joab--these considerations form a plausible apology for David's grant of pardon to his bloodstained son. But, in granting this pardon, he was acting in the character of an Oriental despot rather than a constitutional king of Israel. The feelings of the father triumphed over the duty of the king, who, as the supreme magistrate, was bound to execute impartial justice on every murderer, by the express law of God ( Genesis 9:6 , Numbers 35:30 Numbers 35:31 ), which he had no power to dispense with ( Deuteronomy 18:18 , Joshua 1:8 , 1 Samuel 10:25 ).
25, 26. But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty--This extraordinary popularity arose not only from his high spirit and courtly manners, but from his uncommonly handsome appearance. One distinguishing feature, seemingly an object of great admiration, was a profusion of beautiful hair. Its extraordinary luxuriance compelled him to cut it when it was found to weigh two hundred shekels--equal to one hundred twelve ounces troy; but as "the weight was after the king's shekel," which was less than the common shekel, the rate has been reduced as low as three pounds, two ounces [BOCHART], and even less by others.
28. So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face--Whatever error David committed in authorizing the recall of Absalom, he displayed great prudence and command over his feelings afterwards--for his son was not admitted into his father's presence but was confined to his own house and the society of his own family. This slight severity was designed to bring him to sincere repentance, on perceiving that his father had not fully pardoned him, as well as to convince the people of David 's abhorrence of his crime. Not being allowed to appear at court, or to adopt any state, the courtiers kept aloof; even his cousin did not deem it prudent to go into his society. For two full years his liberty was more restricted, and his life more apart from his countrymen while living in Jerusalem, than in Geshur; and he might have continued in this disgrace longer, had he not, by a violent expedient, determined ( 2 Samuel 14:30 ) to force his case on the attention of Joab, through whose kind and powerful influence a full reconciliation was effected between him and his father.


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Jagex games are played by millions of people from a great many different countries and a wide range of cultural backgrounds. The Jagex player community is much like the larger, real-world community: while most people within it are honest, courteous and respectful of others, there are a small number of individuals whose behaviour has the potential to alienate or offend. It is for this reason that we have an Offence System, which has been designed to help protect our players from this disruptive minority.
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Doss landed his small plane at the Cleveland Municipal Airport yesterday to rescue Junior, who is in need of a new home because of his former abusive owners.
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Doss volunteered his time and fuel to fly from Olive Branch to pick Junior up and transport him to the Mississippi Boston Terrier Rescue in Corinth, where he will be vetted and prepared for adoption.
"There's a lot of animals that need help and new homes, and it seems like transporting them is the biggest issue," said Doss. "I'm always flying, so I might as well be doing something meaningful while I'm flying."
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Hello faithful few. Thanks for lighting up this blog to find out if I have anything brilliant or boring to say. Sad thing is sometimes we are so accustomed to being entertained or tickled by exciting speech that we think brilliance is only packaged in something shiny. I've been finding some brilliance lately in the boring. I was having coffee with a youth pastor recently who asked me how I came to teach the way I do. He asked "how do you know what to teach teenagers on a yearly basis." Instead of answering right back, I asked what he teaches his teenagers on a yearly basis. He said "well you're the expert I'd rather know what you do". I said "well you love your teenagers in your ministry I'd rather know what you do." "Well" he said "I think a lot about what it's like to be a teenager, what it's like to be facing what they're currently facing, and what they will be facing when they leave our youth ministry, then I go dig in the Scriptures for spiritual food for them." "Brilliant" I said, "really that's exactly the place that I start at." "I might use a different system or method but that's the most brilliant thing you can keep front and center." After we established that I was not the expert we were able to talk freely about things we've both learned and shared them without insecurity. Not everything brilliant is packaged in the shiniest book or presentation. So much of what I've acquired over the years is having an observant eye and a learner's heart about everything. It doesn't have to come from an expert or the publishing company that has the corner on youth ministry tools. Look around observe. Ask students, ask other youth pastors, ask your volunteers.
One thing I wanted to cover a little in this podcast is more of the nuts and bolts about teaching in the context of youth ministry. There is a lot of discussion and debate about methods of teaching and the role of sermons or small groups or discussion type groups. I think there is need for all of these modes in balance. I think one of the core pressing issues to be addressed no matter what your form for teaching is, is the dynamic of loyalty to Christian culture versus loyalty to Jesus Christ. In the last 13 years this pendulum swing has become a big deal to me and real point of concern, especially in light of the phenomena of truck loads of teens leaving the church only a couple years after they graduate high school. This phenomenon is forming the new post-Christian culture, which in raw definition is; young people who have an extended experience in the Christian subculture and decide it's more of a turn off or decide it's not a necessity for their everyday life. I was in youth group as a teen 20 years ago. I went every Thursday night and Sunday night. I was at every scavenger hunt, retreat, concert, and messy game night we did. I listened intently to most everything taught in our Bible studies, except when that cute girl visited. I had a youth leader I really looked up too. Somehow, I and many other youth group junkies extracted that the most important thing in our Christian life was committing to youth group and committing to "acting" like a Christian and being with Christian friends. I'm not sure if this was the message they intended to get across to us but really I've come to embrace that this shouldn't be our central message as youth leaders. Maybe that flips your lid "committing to church, acting like a Christian and being with Christian friends is not our central and most essential message?" What are you drink'n Dan?
Most of the teens who I was in youth group with eventually went off to college or worked. That's when things went south for most of them. When the youth group frenzied environment was gone so was the energy of their faith in God and the church. Now I know as youth workers we are not responsible for the decisions young people make after they leave us but I do think we are responsible to make sure we are emphasizing the essentials for loyalty to Jesus in a messy world not our Christian cultural/denominational hobby horses. For as much as church youth ministry has grown up and become more accepted and professional over the last 30 years, what we are teaching should always be at the core. I don't just mean propositional teaching but what are we teaching or better yet what is being retained from our small groups, events, activities, worship and themes we choose to highlight. A good parallel example of retention comes from a conversation I had with a teen a couple of years ago while we both ate a slice of cheap greasy pizza, I had asked him if he came from a Christian home? He replied "it depends on what you call Christian." "We do devotions together and go to church every Sunday but my dad screams at us all the time, can barely make eye contact with us and my mom is never home and my brother is a mess but my parents never do anything about it, I'm not sure I would call that Christian!"
Teens pick stuff up. We do a similar thing in youth ministry circles. We assume our teens are being taught about a deep loyalty to Jesus because we've got events every month, Bible study, worship night and a dynamic retreat once a year but they may not be picking up the most essential message, they could be picking up an alternate message that deep loyalty to youth group and eventually Christian things is what we are about and will keep them spiritually strong. Jesus exampled that teaching the kingdom was at the core of his earthly ministry and his miracles were supporting elements to his teaching not the other way around.
After all that babbling I want to get back to my original thought. What is the content of our teaching and are we teaching for loyalty to our youth group culture or loyalty to Jesus?
Here are my top 3 personal disciplines or guardrails in teaching for loyalty to Jesus instead of loyalty to youth group/church culture. These three reminders became more present in my ministries and became internal convictions over time and probably outwardly more obvious in my last 5 years of ministry.
1. Place less emphasis on serving the church programs and more emphasis on serving the community. This might make some of you panic "that's what teens do, they care for kids in the nursery and help in children's ministry and serve on our youth ministry worship teams etc." But here is what we are teaching young people that over time is biting us in the fluffy back side. We communicate that we care more about our programs than we do about the world we live in. This issue has shown to become a significant point of disillusionment with young people after they graduate youth group and start pondering what the church is really up to. Help your teens move into the world, into broken places in their circles of influence. Stop sounding the siren that serving God is serving the programs of the church. There is something that whiffs of a lack of authenticity and potential church culture narcissism that the world revolves around the activities of the church. Be careful you're not sending this message. Practically you should be more encouraged if a teen is regularly volunteering at a local woman's shelter than if they are attending one of your many youth outings. The beginning of youth ministry in the 60's and 70's was about providing alternatives to what the world offered. I still hear this all the time "we are providing a safe alternative." This mode of thinking is increasingly finding less traction with teens nor is it intentionally building lifelong disciples of Jesus. Let me tell you why, eventually those Christian alternatives dissipate and a young person has to integrate into the culture and learn to love unbelievers, relate with unbelievers without living just like them and plug into needs within the secular world. But too often they were never taught to stick with Jesus they were taught more between the lines to stick with youth group, Christian events and Christian people. So if I were in your place I'd pull back on striving to gets teens to serve in the church and more to follow you into the world to serve the world.
2. Be careful of accepting and inviting decisions during emotionally charged environments. Careful. I know that God moves and the Holy Spirit pulls on us and on our affections to make an immediate choice. But I'm seeing more and more fallout from alter calls and the use of emotionally intoxicating environments to get responses from teens. We've swung too far with this. Teens begin to think that loyalty to Jesus can be widdled down to an emotional moment where they felt something. They begin to bank on these markers to stay close or feel close to God. But fast-forward to when they don't feel something in the middle of their stressful college life, they equate that with not feeling God which then equates to not having the will power to stick with God. Let's be honest, loyalty to Jesus is not sexy, most of the time it's not publicly applauded, not too many people will recognize their obedience and when it comes down to it you don't feel a big rush when you stick with Jesus. Jesus himself modeled that his loyalty to his Father God was not built on an emotional return. His loyalty was gritty, not understood by his friends, and he didn't get high fives or fist bumps for his commitment. I call this Blue Collar spirituality (I'll expand on this in a later podcast). I know the fear "if I don't get outward responses (raised hands, crying eyes, someone coming down front, and signing a pledge) then how do I know they are choosing to change or that we are being effective. Sister, brother, it is not our territory to measure success this way. We trust Jesus and we hope to see him working his heart into them and we guide them to translate that into the way they make choices in their daily life.
3. In your teaching, avoid teaching only on topics that are trendy or current like: Sex, Dating, Friendship, or the internet. I did teach on those things but they need to fit into a holistic construction of what a Jesus Follower needs and looks like. Practically, lay out your cycle of teaching for an entire year put it down on paper. Try not to do one week teaching snippets and try not to go longer than 2 months on a subject. Create a rhythm in you teaching calendar. When you get it down on paper get some perspective on it. Does it have balance? Will a teenager get a lopsided perspective if they sit in your teaching a whole year? Youth Pastors have the tendency to teach their hobby horses or what they are doing for their own personal devotions. This is not a good rhythm to teach in. I know because I used to do it when I first started out. I meet quite a lot of youth leaders who pick one mode of teaching and park there; inductive Bible studies or teenage issues or what's happening in culture. If you go with that approach I genuinely feel your setting up your teens for a really lopsided view on what God is concerned and passionate about. If you're thinking long-term then this becomes compounded when they graduate and they realize they are only prepared for hot button issues or apologetics or how to study the Bible. Maybe that last one might bug you "how to study the Bible, that's a good thing." I've met a lot of young people who know how to study the Bible but don't know how to navigate seemingly grey choices with wisdom or they don't know much about the dynamic of trusting God when they can't see him or feel him. 10 years ago I fell in love with the concept of the 7 checkpoints which is a book by Andy Stanley. I didn't really ingest the book's philosophy whole but I have to say the concept of teaching through the basic irreducible minimums over and over changed my youth ministry approach 10 years ago. Disciplining myself to hold a balance thematically I believe was instrumental in retention and transformation over the years. I purposed to lean less on a grenade type experience or moment and leaned more on the progressive formation provided by the Spirit's work through biblically rooted principles. There are a lot of new helps and guides out there that have expounded on the 7 checkpoints type model.
There are a few other dimensions of teaching that are important pieces like; building a conversant environment and small groups. I'll get to those another time since this blog is way too long and is challenging my own attention span. Next time I'd like to work out what Blue Collar Spirituality is. Let me know what you think, give your me feedback on something in this teaching blog ramble. Peace.
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As a mother of kids who went off to college and lost their seeming closeness to Jesus, I can totally relate and agree wholeheartedly with your points. One went to a Christian college for 2 years and had the same type of "safe" Christian environment as youth group/church, before transferring to a secular state school. The time spent at the Christian college, similar to the time spent in youth group, created a desire to stay in that type of environment, although it did open the mind to social justice. Even with a period of "wing stretching" and testing, this child is still seeking the cloesness to Jesus, yet is completely disillusioned w/ religion.
The second went directly to a secular school w/ no "safe" Christian environments, so to speak. Life quickly began to move towards keeping God at a distance, with the closeness to Jesus slipping further and further away. As the parent, I can only pray and model how I believe Jesus lived his life, in hopes that this child will find a true closeness with the One who will save him.
I believe that building that relationship in a youth group, teaching how to really hash things out in the Word and teaching by example on how Jesus treats people, is the proper way to build the foundation that every teenager needs.
And again, I couldn't agree more with your points.
Definitely long, a hard read on the computer screen. You've got stuff worth chewing on tho. When I substitute teach at middle and high schools it saddens me to see the cluster of blatantly youth group attending teens, with bracelets, t-shirts, stickers and blaring Christian music on their iPods, not to mention their dialect, functioning as a separate group, completely uninvolved in the lives of the people they're surrounded by. I believe you're emphasis on teaching loyalty to Christ addresses an extremely relevant problem in youth groups today. It's time for Christian teens to engage with their surroundings and impact the world.
True, amen, and heck yes.
My background in youth ministry was pretty heavily focused on the "conversion experience", but some of the most lasting results in true growth have been from kids I worked with up to ten years ago and I've only heard from lately. We plant seeds, we can't always expect to be there for the harvest.


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Re: FOR COMMENT: Syria Update
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Subject: FOR COMMENT: Syria Update
This is seriously a beast of an update, but I had to include everything
opc wanted in the syria update including: Clinton's statements, her visit,
the returning of Ford, the recent crackdown on Homs, the pipeline attack
and the skirmishes on the Turkish border... Also I will be adding in tons
of links. Here it is:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made statements Dec. 6 in Geneva
that repeated Pres. Obama's call in August for Assad to step down, as she
illustrated that Bashar Al Assad must leave from power. Clintona**s
statements were issued the same day as the US State Department's
announcement that US Ambassador Robert Ford is returning to Syria. The
State Departmenta**s official announcement noted that the return of Ford
to Damascus is one of the most effective ways to show US support for the
people of Syria.
Since August the US stance on Syria has projected that Al-Assad cannot
continue in his presidency while official US remarks (what's the
difference between the "US stance" and "US remarks"?) condemning Syria
have not gone too much further than that. The US and other Western
countries are very careful not to engage too deeply with the Syrian
opposition, limiting interaction thus far to dialogue while only
acknowledging the SNCa**s legitimacy as an interlocutor, instead of
officially recognizing and endorsing it as the legitimate representatives
of the Syrian people <LINK>. Despite some rumors detailing the active
development of plans for a buffer or no fly zone in Syria, Turkey and
western nations have not yet taken steps that would even suggest such a
move has been decided on and at this moment they remain merely contingency
plans. <Link to piece on no fly/buffer zone>.
Meeting with the Syrian National Council
During Clintona**s visit to Geneva (when?) she met with Syrian exiled
leaders of the Syrian National Council (SNC) including president, Burhan
Ghalioun. This served as Clintona**s second meeting with members of the
Syrian opposition and follows the US desire to remain engaged with
elements of the opposition as a contingency in case the opposition becomes
united and proves adept. During the discourse Clinton made it clear to
the SNC that they need to engage with and include Syrians of every
ethnicity and gender into the opposition organization. Since the
beginning of the SNC's inception in September there have been concerns
that the SNC is not sufficiently representative of the entire Syrian
opposition. As an opposition group based outside Syria, the amount of real
support the SNC garners from Alawites, Druze, Kurds, Christians and even
Sunni anti-regime protesters within Syria is unknown.
It is one of the key interests of the SNC to portray itself to the
international community as the united front of the Syrian opposition in
efforts to gain international recognition and support. Furthermore it is
in the necessary interest of the greater Syrian opposition including
protesters, SNC members and supporters, and soldiers in the Free Syrian
Army (FSA), to tilt the scales in their favor by winning the support of
the international community though the media and propaganda. If the
opposition can force the western nations to recognize a severe
humanitarian crisis as well as present a unified contingency plan for
Assada**s ouster, only then can international intervention truly be
considered. (this statement is suggesting that the US and the west
intervene if there is a humanitarian crisis and a unified contingency
plan. I think that the opposition is using these two things as part of its
public strategy, but we can't say that the fulfillment of those two things
will lead to the west considering more serious intervention.
Propaganda War Continues
In the midst of the propaganda war that has ensued since February, Assad
gave his first interview with US media since that time, and it consisted
of carefully crafted answers including his firm pronouncement that he
maintains the overwhelming support of the Syrian people. On a similar
note, when asked about the reports of the numerous human rights abuses
attributed to Syrian security forces and Shabiyha -pro regime plain
clothed militia- Al-Assad assured that such accounts and video footage
cannot be trusted. In some ways Assad's statement on the media is true,
in that claims from both the media and the opposition should be take with
a grain of salt considering the intentions of both sides and that such
claims cannot be independently verified.
Assada**s interview aired just one day after the apparent crackdown in
Homs Dec. 5 a** 6th according to several Syrian opposition groups
including the Syria based Local Coordinating Committee (LCC). The LCC
claims to receive their information from members of numerous LCC groups
throughout Syria and has proved to be fairly consistent during the course
of the unrest compared to many other opposition organizations based
outside Syria who tend to heavily inflate and even construct (you mean
"invent"?) claims. Even in the case that LCC reports are inflated, their
consistent daily reports serve as a trend line that can be monitored.
According to the LCC, during the span of the two days, of the 65
reportedly killed across Syria, 53 of them were reportedly killed in
Homs. On average 20-25 deaths are reported throughout Syria daily, the
majority of which are scattered between the main restive cities, and on
Friday the numbers can swell up to 30-35. During the course of the unrest
crackdowns such as the one reported in Homs do happen occasionally,
roughly every 1-1/2 to 2 months a crackdown in a particularly restive city
like Homs, Hama, Deraa, and Idlib is reported.
Role of the Free Syrian Army
Another key player in the propaganda war, in addition to SANA and Syrian
activist groups, is the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a group that appears to
consist of mainly mid- to low-ranking Sunni soldiers who defected from the
Syrian army who announced their formation via video in late July <LINK>.
In early October, the FSA began to claim responsibility for military-style
operations against armored vehicles, checkpoints and blockades manned by
Syrian forces and Shabiha a** a plainclothes pro-regime militia <LINK>.
Just as the SNC needs to appear as the united front of the opposition,
the FSA needs to appear as protectors of the innocent in order to counter
daily claims by the Syrian regime regarding attacks by the FSA as being
the work of 'armed terrorists.' Additionally, the FSA needs international
powers to perceive the FSA as capable in efforts to encourage military
intervention and to portray that in such a case, the FSA can successfully
magnify and fortify efforts of international forces.
It should be noted that the unity of the FSA and effectiveness of their
communication capabilities are unknown, and that the FSA has not claimed
every attack that State media and activist groups report has occurred.
During the past few weeks, of the attacks reported by Syrian activist
groups and Syrian State media (SANA), the FSA has claimed nowhere near all
of them, possibly due to three different reasons. One, it could be that
the attack carried out was not caused by FSA soldiers but rather other
defectors from the Syrian Army who are not affiliated with FSA, or simply
anti-regime individuals. Two, it could be that claiming the attack would
impair the international image of the Free Syrian Army. Three, the
attacks could have been construed (fabricated?) by Syrian state media.
During the past few weeks the FSA has appeared to make a greater effort to
appeal to the international community as it has formed a joint commission
with the Syrian National Council and solidified an official relationship
which helped to send the message that if the Syrian regime is brought
down, the opposition military would not seek utilitarian power. (I
thought Riyad al-Asad went back on this statement from the SNC?
Additionally the commission serves to create a unified plan and vision
between the FSA and SNC, which is a key factor in the equation of foreign
military intervention.
The most recent example of the absence of FSA claims and reports occurred
Dec. 8 when SANA reported that an armed terrorist group opened fire on a
crude oil transfer pipeline to the northwest of the Homs refinery. The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a** a Syrian activist group based in
the UK a** also reported that an oil pipeline in Homs was bombed, but
offered no details on the perpetrators. No individual or group has claimed
responsibility for the attack, but the fact that both sides are reporting
it (along with imagery of the alleged fires) indicates that an explosion
on pipeline did occur. In this case it is possible that the FSA,
defectors, or anti-regime individuals could have been responsible for the
attack or even that the bombing was carried out by the regime in order to
blame a**armed terroristsa** and de-legitimize the FSA. (Considering that
taking the pipeline offline affects 20-30% of total oil production, this
would be a foolish way for the Syrian regime to attempt to "de-legitimize"
the FSA. From everything we can tell so far, this looks to be pretty
damaging - not a symbolic but empty attack that you'd expect from a
regime looking to provoke outrage against a group. The point here is that
we need to watch to see if this tactic catches on or if it's just a
one-off attack)
Turkey/Syrian Border
Another incident not claimed by the FSA has been the skirmishes reported
by SANA and other independent claims on the Turkey/Syria border. Dec. 6
SANA claimed that Syrian border security forces clashed with an a**armed
terrorist groupa** and that the group eventually fled back to Turkey,
however this was not claimed or reported by FSA, Syrian activists groups,
or the Turkish government. One day earlier, Dec. 5 SANA reported that
Syrian vehicles crossing into Turkey were attacked by a group of
individuals with knives and stones. Dec. 7 Turkish Foreign Ministry
sources denied both claims, but in spite of these denials Turkish governor
Murat Girgin closed one of its border gates with Turkey in the town of
Nusaybin. Girgin stated that Syrian officials indicated the gate was
closed due to maintenance and that it would be reopened upon completion of
the maintenance. Whether or not any of these claims are true, it is
important to remember that in many cases perception is reality and that
during the past week relations between Ankara and Damascus have remained
strained to say the least. (alerts list today had an item saying that the
border crossing at Nusaybin was closed, too)
Turkey has played an important role during the Syrian unrest as well and
hosts 5 Syrian refugee camps, and openly hosts FSA leadership including
leader Colonel Riyad Al Asaad. Turkey has been the most vocal in
pressuring al Assad, with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on
Nov. 22 calling for al Assada**s resignation and on numerous occasions
threatening to implement a buffer zone extending into Syrian territory
<LINK reva's piece>. However, intervening militarily is not Turkeya**s
primary interest, it is instead to ensure that instability in Syria does
not cause a refugee crisis or encourage Kurdish separatist activity within
Turkeya**s borders. (just look at how the fall of Saddam in Iraq increased
Kurdish calls for autonomy.) Though strong in their words, Turkey has been
careful to avoid direct involvement in with Syrian forces and has refuted
claims of arming FSA soldiers. At this point Turkey will likely remain
reluctant to get involved militarily in the Syrian conflict as it faces
numerous constraints, and such a military commitment will not even be
contemplated without the support, financially and militarily, of western
It is important to remember that thus far Syrian protesters have not been
able to overwhelm Assada**s forces just as the crackdowns by Syrian forces
on demonstrators has not been able to silence protesters and quell the
unrest. As long the largely Alawite forces remain united and loyal to
Assad, the unity of the Al Assad clan ensues, and the Baath party monopoly
holds strong, Assad will continue to hold a grasp on power. If one of
those pillars falters, Assad will render exposed and even more vulnerable.
Until the elements of the opposition can overwhelmingly tip the scales of
the international community in their favor, the western approach to Syria
will remain the same, relying mostly on discourse with the opposition
while only verbally condemning the human rights abuses conducted by the
Nothing to disagree with here in terms of the four pillars, but something
for eventual discussion is how do those four pillars remain strong? For
example, does oil affect one of those pillars? What about relations with
turkey? We've been pounding on these pillars since May but given the
drawn-out aspect of this, it might be worth drilling down to the next
level of support so that we can get even more advanced warning.


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Brown was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated arson. Authorities with a local motel alerted Cleveland Fire Department that a room at the motel was on fire and subsequently a man's body was discovered.
Harold Lee Montgomery, 39, reportedly died of multiple stab wounds to his neck and upper torso, according to reports from findings of the Cleveland Police Department Criminal Investigations Division.
Autopsy results indicated Montgomery died of 13 stab wounds and not smoke inhalation. Montgomery's body was found in the burning motel room New Year's Day just after 7 a.m. and investigators began looking for clues that might help to identify the perpetrator. According to Lt. Mark Gibson of the Cleveland Police Department Criminal Investigations Division, Brown, 35, was arrested the next day. Brown and Montgomery had reportedly celebrated New Year's at Brown's apartment the night before, leaving to get alcohol and drugs, then a motel room at Days Inn located on Georgetown Road. The two men were also celebrating Brown's birthday, which was New Year's Eve, according to investigator's reports.
The Cleveland Fire Department was notified of a fire at the motel and when firefighters arrived they dragged Montgomery out of the burning room and discovered he was deceased. Further investigation revealed he had been stabbed. After learning Brown could be a possible suspect in the alleged murder, detectives released information about his identifying characteristics and about the car he was apparently driving.
Montgomery's 1995 Volkswagen Cabriolet was missing from the motel parking lot, according to early reports. Meanwhile, as investigators claimed Brown as a "person of interest" in the alleged homicide, detective Stacy Smith issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with the reported arson at the motel.
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