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The Vernon High School weightlifting team had the opportunity to present J.T. Padgett with his State Championship ring in recognition of his winning the 2014 Class 1A State Weightlifting title.
Padgett competed this season in the 183 pound class and led the Vernon Yellow Jackets to a ninth place finish at the State Finals. He posted a 620 pound total and brought home the gold from Kissimmee.
Padgett joins a select group of students from Vernon who've ever won a State Championship, and Wrestling Coach Bobby Johns says he's will the 2014 VHS graduate began a tradition for future State Champion weightlifters.
"J.T. also was a vital part of leading the Yellow Jackets to the school's only District Title in 2013 when the football team brought home a District Championship," said Johns. "J.T. has since departed for Washington, D.C. to play football at Gallaudet University, and he is a shining example of what makes Vernon High School a special place to attend. The entire Vernon community is proud of J.T.'s accomplishments and wish him the best in the future."

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Life After Concussions
What is it like to learn the latest information about the effects of head injuries, knowing you suffered a few yourself? Ex-NFL player Nate Jackson shares his perspective of being scared to death while simultaneously craving to play again
By Nate Jackson
My first football injury was a concussion, in my first season of organized football. It was my freshman year of high school and it was in practice. Our free-safety saw red and teed off on me, the pubescent scout-team freshman. He got me in the side of the head as I was looking back and up for the ball. I lay on the field half-dead, half-embarrassed in the mid-October twilight. Once I stuffed my brain back through my earhole, I got up and walked to the sideline. I spent that week watching practice. It hurt to move my head. It hurt to look into the light. It hurt to think too hard. But mostly it hurt to be standing there in shorts while my friends strapped it up. I was back on the field the following week.
It was the most severe head injury I sustained in my football life until the second to last game of my six-year NFL career, when linebacker Willie McGinest caught me in the same temple, producing the same result. This was in 2008: pre-concussion hysteria. I wasn't treated for my head and I missed no practice time. No one talked about head injuries back then. It was an assumed reality of a life of football. Your head will hurt and you will play anyway. Don't ask, don't tell.
The context of these two concussions is important when we consider the meaning of head injuries in football. Far away from the spotlight of the NFL and ESPN, from PBS documentaries and exposés, at this very moment, there are kids who can't move their heads too quickly and can't look into the light. They got lit up. They went temporarily blind. Their spines were compressed. Their brains were rebooted. And now they sit alone in a dark room, tormented by one thought and one thought only: getting back on the field.
There is something going on here: a dichotomy so counterintuitive that it informs the conventional wisdom of the spectator. Here's how that wisdom goes: "He knows what he signed up for. I don't sympathize with him at all. He is a meathead idiot if he believes that a football life will not hurt him. And if he experiences cognitive symptoms as a result, well, that's his problem." But if that spectator has paid $1 to watch a football game, he has cast his vote. The "shut up and play" argument holds no water for him, because that vote elects our gridiron heroes, and heroes don't walk away from burning buildings.
The fan dynamic was a powerful part of being a football player, as it reinforced the social meaning of the game and my status as a member of its highest order. People treated me differently because I was good at football. I understood that clearly. I went to a small Division III school called Menlo College in Northern California, far away from the money, hype and exposure of big-time college sports. But the power of the football moment and the impression it makes on people was alive and well. On a Monday morning after a big win, and in a class I was struggling with, my professor greeted me as I sat down: "Nate, after I saw you make that catch, there's no way you'll fail my class." The message is clear: play well on the field, and everything else will take care of itself.
But that wasn't all. We only played 10 games a season in college. And in the pros, even counting preseason, there are only 20 games. That's 345 days a year when there is no cheering. There was something else at work, something elemental. I learned to crave the test of manhood that waited for me between the lines. There was nowhere else I wanted to be, and nowhere else that was more terrifying. It seems to me now, as I sit back and watch the NFL, that this test of manhood is the thing. It's the attractor. Fans are able to have a vicarious manhood experience by watching a football game. They are stirred by the animal spirit but content to simply observe its roar, to marvel at the power, to say Whoa, damn, and then go home. That is enough for most. But for some of us who were born with a disproportionately athletic body and an athletic mind, that's not enough. (And make no mistake, it is the athletic mind of the athlete that connects the dots; brilliant performance artists, the lot of them, mistaken as dummies because they never learned to file a report or calculate a spreadsheet. But try visualizing an explosively violent and incredibly intricate physical task, and then DOING it with your two hands, your body, your limbs, your connections, the synapses, the will and the fire, in real time against the most dominant members of the species. That's genius too.)
I suppose that's the crux of the disenchantment then: the suicides, the depression, the regression and the underlying sadness that follows the professional football player off the field and into life. Aside from the science of it all, which I'm intentionally avoiding here, the psychological effect can be the most damning. The task for which I have trained every fiber of my body, solidified with a daily rendering of the mind, capitulated in the soul and exalted by a sub-sect of society, is gone. It no longer needs me. I am unneeded. Make no mistake, I still have the ability to act violently and decisively and crush someone, but I can't use those skills—the ones for which I was trained and praised. If I do, I will hurt someone and I will go to jail. So that's that.
The day before I was cut from the NFL for the last time, I was a very good football player. Same with the day after. Same with this very moment, four years after it ended for good. But what else, then? And what do I do with this skill if I don't want to coach football or go on television and talk about football? The modern reductionist football narrative isn't real to me: this guy sucks and that guy should have made that play and this guy has GOT to make this play! I don't buy it.
I watched the PBS Frontline documentary: scary crap to be confronted with, football brains being sliced open and containing CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). Scary and not at all healthy for me going forward. Now I'm familiar with the intricacies of a debate that suggests that my friends and I are probably screwed, statistically speaking. That is, unless I believe the NFL establishment, which says there's no connection between head injuries and CTE. But I've come to understand the NFL's priorities—protecting the shield from bad publicity—and so I don't trust them. They recently reached a settlement with former players involved in a concussion negligence lawsuit. A settlement. Well, that sounds nice. But that $765 million does what exactly for me? Apparently, if I want some of the money, I submit to extensive cognitive testing, whereby a medical body determines how damaged my brain is, and I am awarded a dollar amount based on the findings. The higher the amount, the more brain-damaged I am. It's a bittersweet payday that I don't want to chase. I don't want to put myself through it anymore.
But it's hard to move on, because here I am writing about brain injuries, putting it all into my mind, giving me twisted thoughts. And I swear that when I read about CTE, or watch a story about it on TV, I feel an electrical current shoot through my brain. I forgot where my keys are. Is that life or is that CTE? I can't find a job. Must be the tau protein build-up. I am sad and I am depressed and suicidal thoughts, like raindrops, come down from the sky on seemingly sunny afternoons. Is this science, or the realization that my life peaked in my twenties? I have no skills other than football and no idea what else to do.
It's all very heavy to think about, so it's better if I don't. But let me also tell you this, brothers. And this is where it gets messy. If my phone were to ring this very moment, and Mike Shanahan was on the other line telling me that they are short at tight end and asking if I'm in shape and if I want to take another shot at this, I would have a hard time turning him down. Even with the electrical shocks shooting through my brain and mounting scientific evidence. Even with the sadness, the confusion and the doubt. Even with an intimate knowledge of the hell that I was dumped in four years ago when I was cut for the last time, a hell that I have finally climbed out of.
Because I know that for those moments that I spend employed by an NFL team, I will be validated. My skills will be needed. There will be no time for the what-ifs. No time for doubt. No time for science. Only time for THIS, brothers. Crack! Smack! Whammo! Unleash the trained beast! Give me a task to complete, with THESE, my two hands! My body, my heart, and my mind. I am a warrior! But there is no more war for me.
In discussing the violence of the game, people often wonder if some player might someday die on the field. Death from a football hit. It could happen, I suppose. The men playing the game are getting bigger, faster and stronger through better nutrition, better training and better technique. They are missiles, built by an industry with an ever-expanding budget. Of course the missiles get more deadly. But that won't stop me and it won't stop anyone else who society deems fit to be vicarious vessels for manhood benedictions. Because it feels good to be a missile, even when it leads to my destruction. We all know how the big story ends. If I don't die on the field, I promise you I'll die off of it.
Nate Jackson played six seasons for the Denver Broncos (2003-08). His book, SLOW GETTING UP: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile, published by Harper, is available in stores and online.
This is a great article about someone speaking out about brain injuries. It helps to know that I wasn't the only one affected that bad from concussions. It's hard to be in high school and only 16 and have something so dramatic, so life changing, happen and never know if you will ever be the same. Even one year later the symptoms still linger and I still have complications from it. I applaud you for speaking out and letting the world know your story.
Nate Jackson has created the most intimate and thoroughly enjoyable page-turner about life in the National Football League since Pete Gent's early 70's sports masterpiece North Dallas Forty. Although the latter is purportedly a work of fiction, it is obviously based on Mr. Gent's years playing wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. Mr. Jackson's description of his six years as a member of the Denver Broncos is relayed with brutal honesty, humor, and great poignancy. Though he finds himself literally and figuratively torn at the sudden ending of his days as a player, it appears he is just on the threshold of a long and successful writing career.
Great article that really gets down to the heart of the concussion dilemma. Even for non-professional athletes this is a huge issue. Playing lacrosse in college and being a senior, I know that I only have so many games left. If I were to get a concussion this year, it would be extremely hard to pull me off the field. I've played with torn ligaments and broken bones, but this one would have to be a decision that I took very seriously. Honestly, I'm not sure what I'd do.
Exceedingly well written. I'm getting the book.
Mike Webster, rest in peace.
oh--now we discover that football is a violent game??? and with lawsuits??? wow
I was 17 in just another rugby game against another school..(I played at least 40 games in any given season between school, club County and representative rugby that we better players were invited to)...I saw a punt (different but similar) about to go up and went up to block it, full layout as I was an ATHLETE.
Instead, he pulled the ball down and drove his knee into my temple (right side).. I think it was deliberate but was in no condition to ask..or speak..or walk..
I don't think I went out..just a lot of yellow..copper in my mouth and an inability to move in a direction of my own volition....I staggered off, sat down , had a bucket of water dumped on my head by a well meaning friend..and tottered back onto the field....Hospital for 24 hrs (I was found bare ass naked searching for a pint of Guinness..I think I was messed up some)..
I was playing two weeks later Could not BEAR not playing even tho the buzzing was kinda loud at times...
Rugby is different..No-one hits another guy head on 50 times (or on every snap)..It's less frequent and there is more restraint because we don't wear armour for protection that all too often is used as a weapon..But when those head hits happen?
Last game was decades ago...I don't get headaches, I do deal with depression..I have memory lapses that concern me (just getting older? Is something finally happening?) I do have less feeling on my left side of my body..The assumption was that hit, but it may have been the others..I was one of 'those guys" that ran skull into skull (accidently but OUCH) The other guy would fall, I would smile and run to the next play..I was indestructible (I was 17)..I also lived on aspirin..
I have arranged for full body donation after I pass..I have no clue if I have the issues discussed on Frontline...I know I have had "stuff" but was it THAT hit? Was it just life in general being messy and growing up? So many unknowns...
I would do it all again...Hell yes I would....
My point in sharing is that those of us who were exposed to violent events in high school etc should also consider donating to medical research..It's not just pro athletes that will benefit, it's the military, car wreck or any violent head trauma victims...They need a large baseline of "healthy" or "possibly unhealthy" brains to look at too, to differentiate between the Mike Websters and the rest of the populace.
Thanks for reading...
Great article, I bought his book on my Kindle a week ago and read it within a few days.
Obviously if Nate thinks his career peaked in his 20s he could hopefully have a 2nd career in wrting. The book was incredible, very well written and informative.
"I have no skills other than football and no idea what else to do."
Nate, you have definitely have skills other than football. One in particular is abundantly evidenced here, i.e., you can write. Not just "write" in the ordinary pen-to-paper sense — I mean in the professional-level writer sense. You can flat-out write. Your compositions are frank, accessible, and evocative of a keen self-awareness.
You say you don't have a job; I don't know if that's an example of the depression talking or an assessment that others share. But in either case, I hope you're getting paid well to write the articles of yours I've read so far, because you're worth it. I'm gonna buy your book now, too, so I hope in my own small way I can contribute to your writing career. From other writers I know, I'm thinking even if you didn't get a big advance for your first book, hopefully the response to it and sales will earn you a big advance for your next one.
Be well. And hey — Pioneer High and Menlo College? South Peninsula representin'! Palo Alto High right here, and my Dad taught at Menlo back in the day (before your or my time).
Great article - maybe best I have ever read about the dilemma any athlete has, but especially football players. The love of the sport, and all that goes with that, camaraderie, dedication, is very powerful. Hard to just give up, maybe even more so as you move up the ladder from HS to college to pro - beating the odds and becoming one of the few.
" It seems to me now, as I sit back and watch the NFL, that this test of manhood is the thing. It's the attractor. Fans are able to have a vicarious manhood experience by watching a football game"
This is something I recognized in my 30's and did not like then or now. The violence is a huge part of the attraction of football, The vicarious thrill fans get, the armchair macho attitude that demands the players go out and sacrifice their bodies (exactly what they are doing) so the fan can get a hard on. Just don't understand that, don't like, and is maybe the ultimate reason I got turned off. It is truly amazing to see/ watch fans at games or at home(often drunk) who are basically out of their minds.
The players I understand, the fans not so much.
There is a non-stop assault on football by SI and it's writers. We get it now...football is dangerous. If football is such a barbaric sport then why do you cover the games and bring attention to the glory of it all? If you truly believe that football players from the earlier days didn't know that what they were doing was dangerous? Then your a fool...guys got paralyzed on the field...that didn't stop anybody.
SI should stop with the hypocritical garbage. Either line up behind the "ban football" crowd and stop covering a sport that is so dangerous...or, shut up. Because this non-stop assault never ends. Football is dangerous, you can get head trauma that lasts, yada yada yada...there is nothing new except pointing at new victims. What's the end game here? Seriously, what's the end game!?
FYI, EVERY player in the current NFL knows the risks and they are all still playing. I don't see any retirement announcements. Because they love the game, know the risks, and get paid huge money. You know what else? All of those "victims" that SI keeps trotting out would play tomorrow again if they could. SI is fast becoming an anti-football website that still makes money off of covering all of the games and the glory that comes with it.
Nate - great book I purchased it two months ago - between work, everyday life, family time and putting kids to bed I still managed to go through this book in 3 evenings. It was such a great, page turning 'I don't want to go to sleep yet because I want to see what happens to him next' type of book.
Nate, I read your book and loved it. I consider myself well-read and it was one of the best sports books I've ever picked up...well-written and incredibly informative. Don't believe it when you tell yourself you can't do anything but play football. Keep writing!
I like these NFL logos a whole lot more than the existing ones. What are your thoughts? http://snip.ps/NewLogos
I bought (kindle version) and read your book. Your depiction of the paradox of being a pro football player, knowing the cost to your body, yet craving playing the game at its highest level is compelling. I don't have any words of wisdom for you, but please know that a lot of us are out here rooting for you.
the writing sounds like that of an anthropologist. being very well written, i thought that mr. jackson could have a talent in journalism. then the closing caption stated that it was from his new book, which leads me to believe that he spoke and somebody else crafted the writing part. if that's not the case, mr. jackson you have an exemplary skill set that you could continue to build upon.
"If you truly believe that football players from the earlier days didn't know that what they were doing was dangerous? Then your a fool...guys got paralyzed on the field...that didn't stop anybody."
First, the argument, which has been clearly stated and was the basis for the lawsuit that was settled by the NFL, is that although the dangers to body have always been well understood, the dangers to mind were actively denied by the NFL. That is, the NFL said, repeatedly and vehemently, that concussions were NOT dangerous to mind.
Second, no one is trying to take away the choice to play football. However, it is important to inform. This "hypocritical" reporting has been essential to going where the NFL was to where it is now and where it will go. That is, from denying concussions were bad to changing the game to diminish the chances of concussion and, more importantly, to treating players that suffer a concussion appropriately.
Your arguments essentially rest on willful ignorance and name calling. That's it. No substance or meaningful thought. Gibberish.
@bralinshan YOUR A FOOL
@bralinshan Read the article and try to understand what it says before you spew into the comments about arguments that it directly addresses.
@bralinshan ...said the person who saw the title and clearly did not read the article.
@brentmar2635 Nono it just says he wrote a book -- the article is unrelated.
@BigEl @bralinshan Well, I read the entire article, and it is indeed very well written and make its ppoints clearly and succinctly.
However, bralinshan has a point, two salient points at that.
1. What is the end game? Football inherently cannot be made safe. In fact, a strong argument can be made that every effort to make it safer actually leads to more devastating injuries when they occur. Players would not and did not launch themselves for head-to-head shots prior to the advent of the helmet. Your career would last one game. The new rules are already leading to an increase in knee injuries. So what is the end game? Flag football with no contact allowed? Elimination of football as a sport? It is a serious question that needs to be answered, because the answer to that question then drives what the next steps are to take in modifying, or eliminating, the game.
2. Certainly the sports press is being self-serving and hypocritical about player safety. All major football sports shows still feature clips of the big hits, they are still admired, though now they have to temper their enthusiasm if helmet-to-helmet contact occurs. But if it does not, them all praise the big-hitter. I see this hypocrisy as equivalent to baseball back in the 80's and 90's. Everyone from the Commissioner of Baseball down the the lowest beat writers KNEW the players were jacking up on steroids and other PED's, but the ratings they got were too big to be ignored, until the problem was too big and prevalent to hide. But it was not altruistic concern for the players that finally made the press report on the issue, now was it?
@MTBinDurham @AustinRoth @BigEl @bralinshan I agree with many of the suggestions above. I also think that banning launching tackles and teaching arm tackling would help. Also, making the field wider would reduce injuries. These athletes are bigger, stronger, and faster than every and they're still playing on fields that are the same size. Make the field wider by 10 yards and there will be more open space.
@AustinRoth @BigEl @bralinshan Dr. Z, before his own brain issues took him out of the game, addressed this well. They used to call unnecessary roughness a lot more -- if you hit a guy with excessive violence when you could have just made the tackle, they threw a flag. Now they put you on SportsCenter.
The NFL's rules changes for "safety" are window dressing, and don't address how the game has gotten more dangerous in recent years because it's now more "exciting." Football today is radically different than it was in the 70s for a lot of reasons. Here's a number of rule changes that would largely make the bleacher bums scream bloody murder but would dramatically reduce injuries:
1. Dr. Z's "no cutting unless face up." This isn't even concussions, but the complicated rules for cut blocking today are meant to protect the big aerial assault offenses that the NFL loves to promote rather than the safety of the players. O-linemen shouldn't be able to cut block unless they're face-up on the D-linemen.
2. Let cornerbacks get back to actually defending receivers. The whole "no touching" before a catch isn't to reduce violence or injury, it's to make big 40-yard deep balls more common. Cornerbacks have no choice but to try to hit receivers as hard as they possibly can on the reception in order to try to jar the ball loose. Make receivers fight to the open spots, then ban huge hits on the reception. Johnny Unitas and Otto Graham managed to complete passes that way, make modern QBs do the same.
3. No more running backs lowering their heads. 10 yard penalty if an RB leads with the head. Make them get low in the legs, not just bend their waists.
4. Change legal tackling rules. We've banned horsecollar tackles and face masks, we can ban missile launches and forearm shivers. Set your feet, square your shoulders, wrap up, and take the guy off his feet like you're supposed to.
5. Most importantly, start calling unnecessary roughness again. Yes, it's a violent game, but it's possible to play it without coiling and striking. No more Warren Sapp blow-up hits. No more Rodney Harrison bone crushers. Block and tackle like you're playing a game, not like you're on WWE.
Yes, this will "change football." It will make it less "exciting." But it's that "excitement" factor that's ruining the game, not the core physicality. With this, football would be a less dynamic, less vertical, less adrenaline-pumping experience, and ratings would probably fall, which is why they won't happen. But it would still be football, it would still be very physical, and it would get back to being a game instead of violence theater. In fact, it would make it look a lot more like it used to look, before "entertainment value" was considered all-important.
@AustinRoth @BigEl @bralinshan It seems as if the NFL keeps making rule after rule after rule to clean up the game and make it safer. Are the rule changes really that effective in promoting player safety? Keep the helmet hits out of the game but instead of implementing a plethora of new rules, stiffen the penalties. Fines aren't going to bother guys. Take away their paycheck and they'll listen. Stiffen the penalties, expand the rosters, and cut the preseason down to two games.
Rules will be broken, guys will pay fines, and move on. Suspend them. Take their pay. Bigger fines and suspensions would probably have a greater effect on deterring head shots than rules changes. Knee injuries, even before the high hit rules were in place, were prevalent in football. They will always be prevalent regardless of the rules. Accidental head shots will happen, I understand that. It is the blatant shots that need to be more harshly penalized. A $30,000 fine isn't going to stop a guy. Two games and losing $200,000 of compensation is much more likely to stop the head hunters than a 'measly' $30,000.


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After finally earning their first point, the Washington Capitals believe they might be on the verge of ending the club's worst start in almost two decades. In danger of opening 0-3 at home for the first time in 29 years, the Capitals continue the search for their first victory while trying to hand the visiting Buffalo Sabres a third consecutive defeat Sunday. Though Washington (0-3-1) went winless in its first six games (0-3-1 with two ties) in 2000-01, it has not dropped five straight to open a season since going 0-6 in 1993-94. However, the Capitals are optimistic their current slide won't reach that point after showing some fight in Friday's 3-2 overtime loss at New Jersey. Mike Ribeiro and Mike Green each scored third-period goals to help Washington rally from a 2-0 deficit. Despite being outshot 8-1 in the extra session before Ilya Kovalchuk netted the winner at 4:39, the Capitals feel they have plenty to build on. "You have to take the positives,'' first-year Washington co...
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The people of Bayreuth erected a statue to commemorate their first great patron of tourism in 1705. The Margrave Christian Ernst, former successful commander in the war against the Turks, proved during his lifetime his acumen as far as transport matters were concerned. Today a larger-than-life-size statue on top of the fountain in front of the New Castle reminds him. He ensured that the first mail coach service from Nuremberg to Leipzig in 1648 travelled via Bayreuth. As a crossing of two important trade routes Bayreuth obtained an "imperial post station".
When at the beginning of the 19th century individual tourism developed more and more, the bourgeoisie found its way to Bayreuth. Real tourism however didn't begin until the time of Richard Wagner. In order to channel the stream of visitors for the first festival in the summer of 1876, the town appointed an official accommodation agent.
Richard Wagner remains even now the focal point of tourism in Bayreuth. There are, however, a number of reasons why tourism
has become one of the most important flagships and significant economic factors for the region. Its renown as a popular conference town was internationally widened thanks to the University.
With the construction of new hotels the number of beds has almost doubled over the past few years. With a capacity of 4,000 people at the multiple-purpose-hall (Oberfrankenhalle) the town has
become host to many important sporting and cultural events.
The list of events for the whole year is long: from the small district fair to a series of concerts to large open-air festivals. The construction of the thermal baths – the Lohengrin Therme in immediate proximity to the baroque garden of the Hermitage, provided a further impulse for tourism in Bayreuth.
The Bayreuth Marketing & Tourism is operated as an independent economic enterprise. The DERPART-travel agency in the city centre, the theatre box-office, the fairground and the majority of public bill-postings fall within its remit. The office provides a range of services and activities, for example tours of the historical Margraves sites, or weekends on the trail of famous Bayreuth personalities like Jean Paul or Richard Wagner. As well as providing the standard promotional literature, lists of events, guides for hotels and museums, The Bayreuth Marketing & Tourism also offers an all round service for promoters, visitors and inhabitants.
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In the next of the 22 Psalm 119 stanzas is the Beth stanza. The sound of the letter is "b" as in bait. This letter can acutally have two sounds. If there is a dot in the middle of the letter (called a dagesh) then the letter has the hard "b" sound. Without the dagesh, the letter has a soft sound like the "v" in vet. The Hebrew letter Beth carries the meaning of house, home or more widely, dwelling place. It's interesting to note that the Tanakh (The Hebrew Scriptures) starts with the letter Beth (Bereshith – means "in the beginning.") Why doesn't it start with Aleph, the first letter? Well, Yeshua said He was the beginning and the end, the Aleph and the Tav. God existed before His creation.
In Psalm 119:9-16, each verse starts with the letter Beth.
This stanza deals with three things … the heart (ha-lev), God's Word (Yeshua Ha-Mashiach – Jesus, the Messiah [see John 1]) and the overflow of God's blessing out of our hearts. Jesus occupying the dwelling place of our hearts means we are righteous in the eyes of God. What occupies the dwelling place of your heart? Is it money, your job, possessions? Each one of us has only one thing that truly belongs to us. That one thing is our heart. What will you give your heart to? Will you give it to the things of this world or will you give it to HaShem – to God? Whatever occupies that dwelling place, will flow out into the things of our lives … you will become like that thing (see Tehilim [Psalms] 115:4-8).
In the Psalm 119, what is the outflow of God's Word in the dwelling place of your heart? The outflow is rejoicing, righteousness, blessing and delight. Let the Word of God dwell in your heart and these things will inhabit your days and will be the joy of your family. Colossians 3:16 says, "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Normally, I don't quote The Message as it's just someone's paraphrase of God's Word and not a literal translation, but I really like the way it puts Colossians 3:16 "Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way."
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KEY energy, infrastructure and ICT projects have been underfunded to the tune of Sh160.4 billion in the next budget to be unveiled in June, Treasury estimates show.
A report on the three crucial sectors of the economy released yesterday shows that while key targeted projects require up to Sh356.5 billion for development expenditure and another Sh45.8 billion for recurrent operations, they will be allocated Sh200.3 billion for development and Sh41.6 billion for recurrent in the financial year 2014/15.
This is Sh160.4 billion less the amount that would have seen the sectors achieve their objectives and detailed outputs.
The sectors will require Sh346.7 billion for development projects in financial year 2015/16, Sh339 billion for 2016/17 and an additional Sh47.8 billion and Sh49.6 billion recurrent funding for the two financial years respectively.
The energy, infrastructure and ICT sector consist of energy and petroleum, transport and infrastructure and information communications and technology subsectors. These sectors have been recognised in Vision 2030 as key enablers for sustained economic growth.
The report has given the key priority projects that are lined up for implementation between 2014 July and 2017 July. In the energy and petroleum sub sector, its is expected that 5,888Km of electricity transmission lines will be constructed abd 600,000 new consumers of electricity to connected with power. It is also targeted that 450MW of power will be generated from the Menengai geothermal fields in Nakuru and another 150MW from Suswa geothermal fields.
In the period, it is estimated that 18,214 rural electrification projects will be undertaken including connecting 205 secondary schools, 12,124 primary schools, 2,706 trading centres and 3,179 health and tea buying centres.
Also lined up for implementation is connecting 3,000 public primary schools in the government laptop project with solar energy as well as another 500 public institutions with solar power.
In the petroleum exploration and distribution, projects to be undertaken include creation and gazettement of new petroleum blocks and the establishment of a national petroleum data centre. The National Oil Corporation is also going to be restructured during the period. A new 14 inch 450km Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline is targeted to be built as well as a 6 inch 121km parallel oil pipeline from Sinendet to Kisumu .
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2012
State Natural Resources Board approves major addition to Morning Star NRCA in Snohomish CountyTransfer of acreage will put $14.8 million into public school constructionBoard also approves statements on marbled murrelet conservation proposal
OLYMPIA – The state Board of Natural Resources today approved the transfer of 3,097 acres of forested state trust land in Snohomish County into the Morning Star Natural Resources Conservation Area (NRCA). Today's action will increase the scenic and popular hiking area, located 25 miles east of Everett, to nearly 30,000 acres.
"This transfer puts much-needed funds into the school construction account while adding to the footprint of a vital wildlife habitat and popular area for hiking and camping in Snohomish County," said Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark.
The Common School Trust will be compensated in exchange for transferring the land from trust to conservation status. The funds will come from the 2011 Legislature's appropriation to the state's Trust Land Transfer (TLT) Program. Through the TLT program, $14.8 million – the value of timber on the land – will be used for public school construction statewide. The $3.5 million appraised value of the property will be used to purchase more productive forestland for the trust.
Direct transfer to Lewis County Cemetery DistrictThe board also approved a direct transfer of 1.27 acres of DNR-managed state trust land west of Centralia to the Lewis County Cemetery District 3. The district plans to use the parcel for future expansion of the Doty/Dryad Cemetery. To complete the transfer, the Common School Trust will receive the parcel's appraised value of $6,400 from the district.
Marbled murrelet statements approvedThe Board today also approved a set of statements that describe the need, purpose and objectives for the development of a long-term Marbled Murrelet Conservation Strategy, as part of the State Trust Lands Habitat Conservation Plan. The statements provide a starting point for the public scoping process, which will include opportunities for the public to comment as DNR and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service jointly develop an Environmental Impact Statement. Information about the public scoping process can be found on DNR's website or by contacting DNR's SEPA Center: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Nairobi — The massive humanitarian response in the Horn of Africa in 2011 reversed the spread of famine and saved tens of thousands of children's lives, but the outlook is increasingly worrisome, threatening the tentative gains achieved to date, according to a new UNICEF report.
"Despite significant progress in the food security outlook for the Horn of Africa, the child survival crisis is far from over. Millions of children require sustained assistance in the critical months ahead. Otherwise we can easily see a reversal of the hard-won achievements," said Elhadj As Sy, UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, on the occasion of the launch of the report Response to the Horn of Africa emergency that describes the UNICEF humanitarian operation in the six months after famine was declared in parts of Somalia in July 2011.
"The prospects for a sustained recovery are increasingly precarious. The most recent weather outlook in combination with persisting insecurity and violence in many areas can lead to new shocks and disruptions, a development which again puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of children at risk," said Mr. As Sy, who is the UNICEF Global Emergency Coordinator for the Horn of Africa crisis.
According to the latest projections, the March-May seasonal rains will remain below average in most parts of the region. On-going conflict in Somalia, terror attacks and ethnic violence in parts of Kenya as well as threats against aid workers are limiting humanitarian access to refugees and communities affected by the crisis.
More than 8 million people across the Horn of Africa need emergency assistance. Nearly a third of Somalia's population--some 2.51 million people--are still in acute humanitarian crisis, including more than 323,000 acutely malnourished children. Some 463,000 Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps in north eastern Kenya, 142,000 people in the Dollo Ado camps in Ethiopia as well as 22,000 people in the Ali Addeh camp in Djibouti as well as 1.35 million Somalis displaced within their own country also continue to require support.
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The report details the results of UNICEF's massive humanitarian response in the second half of 2011 which include:
The delivery of more than 60,000 metric tons of life-saving UNICEF supplies to Horn of Africa countries by air, land and sea routes;
The treatment of close to 350,000 severely malnourished children;
The vaccination of 7.9 million children against measles;
The provision of safe water to 3.2 million people; and
The facilitation of access for more than 200,000 children to child-friendly spaces or other safe environments.
Thanks to massive support from donors and other partners, UNICEF contributed to the downgrading of Somalia's originally six famine zones to the lower emergency level; a three-fold reduction in global acute malnutrition in Kenya's Turkana region; and very high recovery rates from acute malnutrition and low mortality rates among children in Ethiopia.
Building the resilience of families and communities
In 2011, UNICEF received more than $405 million for its humanitarian response in the Horn of Africa, reaching 96 per cent of the total amount needed. This year, UNICEF needs an additional $413.8 million for its relief and recovery operations in the Horn of Africa.
Interventions include a strong focus on resilience building among families and communities, for instance through targeted cash transfers, the increased use of mobile health teams, strengthening capacities at community level for early surveillance and treatment of acute malnutrition, mapping of water and sanitation facilities in high risk areas to enable better preparedness, alternative basic education with flexible schooling hours and mobile schools for hard-to-reach populations such as pastoralists and the inclusion of peace education in teacher training programmes as well as other activities to reduce the risk that natural and other hazards turn into yet another disaster.
"The coming months demand continued and sustained support to ensure that the multiple needs of vulnerable children are met and that another catastrophe can be averted," said As Sy.
"If vigilance is not maintained, famine may return. However, together we can make a fundamental difference for millions of children in the Horn of Africa."


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How Does the Conspiracy Work?
By John F. McManus, President
The John Birch Society is back in the news. We've been getting blamed for the rise of the Tea Party movement and targeted by some pundits who are searching for someone to blame for the nation's shift to the right. It is good news that JBS has been "rediscovered" by those who wish the Society would simply go away.
A favorite topic of those who find JBS unacceptable is the Society's claim regarding conspiracy. Yes, JBS believes that the problems facing our nation are largely the result of a conspiratorial drive to build a totalitarian world government. So when Time magazine's Joe Klein scoffed at the Society because of "ridiculous conspiracy theories," or Brit Hume of Fox News targeted the JBS belief that our nation's policies are "dominated by a Communist conspiracy," we can at least be sure they are paying attention.
The JBS has always maintained that things happen because men want them to happen and, further, that we are battling persons more than combating ideas. If what harms our nation and its people is evil, and a plan or a pattern can be shown promoting it, the three elements of conspiracy are present: secrecy, more than one person, and evil. When the perpetrators of the misdeeds aren't held accountable, or when the misdeeds are portrayed as beneficial advances, more evidence of conspiracy arises.
While the conspiratorial designs of some (Edward Mandell House, Alger Hiss, David Rockefeller, and numerous Establishment figures) can be shown, work toward the conspiracy's goals is always carried out by great numbers of self-serving individuals whose lack of moral principles combined with no-holds-barred ambition make them excellent worker bees. Lenin's famous claim that "communism must be built with non-communist hands" can and should be converted into "the conspiracy to create a totalitarian new world order is being built with non-conspiratorial hands."
The reality is that there aren't that many totally committed conspirators aiming to destroy freedom and make slaves of mankind. But these satanically driven cretins have acquired great stature and wealth, and have the capability of rewarding anyone who carries out their desires. For many years, self-serving political figures have supported destructive measures in order to receive favorable treatment from the media, academia, campaign-funding groups, etc. They are not conspirators; they are the conspiracy's willing hands. Journalists, pundits, and policy wonks who continually mislead the public aren't conspirators as much as they are willing subverters of truth in order to stay employed or get promoted. Academics who feed rubbish to their students may themselves be victims of what they probably received when they were students, but they continue to be credited with superior wisdom and given tenure, promotions, even monetary awards for dispensing absolute nonsense. The result: More rubbish is drilled into students and the conspiracy's goals become more achievable.
If a pundit or a local Birch-baiter attacks our Society because of our belief that a conspiracy exists and is moving steadily toward its sinister goal, none of us should back away. The opponent should be asked if he believes Henry Kissinger to be a fool, or David Rockefeller a sadly mistaken humanitarian, or the New York Times a completely reliable authority regarding national policy. He should be queried about our leaders ignoring the Constitution's requirement for a congressional declaration of war before sending troops into battle; asked to defend the government's grasp for the nation's medical system when government has failed so miserably in the fields of education, energy, and housing; made to defend horrendous debt accumulated through an array of unconstitutional programs.
During the height of the 18th century French Revolution when many in France had been persuaded that the uprising would benefit their nation, a revolutionary figure named Marmontel worried aloud to confrere Chamfort that the nation might be taken further than it wished. Chamfort, obviously privy to more inside knowledge about what was really occurring in France, responded, "True, but does the nation know what it wishes? One can make it wish, and one can make it say, what it has never thought." Manipulation of the public's thinking helped to lead France into unspeakable horror.
Can the American people be similarly misled? Can millions of Americans be persuaded that evil is good, dark is light, and falsehood is truth. Today, many have been persuaded that wars authorized by the United Nations are good; that inflation is rising prices and not a thieving corruption of currency's value; that pouring additional taxpayer dollars into departments of education, energy, housing and foreign aid programs constitutes wisdom; that the republic deliberately created by our Founders is a democracy; that the Constitution is an outdated relic needing modern "interpretation," and so much more. Can all of this be attributed to stupidity? Or to ignorance? Doesn't all of it, and a great deal more, suggest hidden design? As the nation's first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, once stated, "Consistency has never been the mark of stupidity. If [our leaders] were merely stupid, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor."
A detective who investigates a crime would begin immediately by asking, "Cui bono?" Who benefits? Crimes are being committed against the American people, against common sense, and against enduring moral principles. Who benefits? The answer is that a conspiracy against civilization reaps rewards, a conspiracy that has a strong grip on our nation. The number of evil men directing the plot isn't huge. But the plotters have induced many to do their work. They are the hordes of pundits, academics, politicians, clergymen, and others who allow themselves to be bought.
Some who attack JBS because of our insistence regarding conspiracy understand a very important aspect of human nature. This is the basis of the kind of attack we receive. Human nature doesn't impel anyone to get involved if what is happening to our nation results from stupidity or ignorance. But if someone decides that a conspiracy is actively pushing the nation toward bankruptcy, chaos, and world government, self-preservation kicks in and he or she gets involved. The highest instinct in mankind, something which all of us possess, can't be altered. Our enemies certainly understand this. So should we.
Let us never back away from explaining that a conspiracy is at the root of our nation's problems and that exposing it is absolutely essential. Asking the right questions will help us to locate and enlist many in the freedom fight — those who haven't been bought and haven't been led away from the responsibility to oppose evil. The job can be done. With God's help — only because we deserve it — we can defeat the conspiracy.


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During the Italian invasion Tigraeans were employed as askaries and bandas to fight against Ethiopian patriotic. Similarly, now they are led by Melles Zenawi to destroy Ethiopian unity.
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Let us move together and we can remove zem from zer power with in 24hr time if we organize ourselves to bring those criminals to justice.Pple,unity,knowledge and information is power!The time is up!Love.
The plight of Amaras is no different from their plight during the Italian invasion of our country. Like now, Amaras were singled out and hunted down because of the perception that the warrior Amaras would be the bigest obstacle to Italy's imperial ambitions.
The perpetrators of the genocide were Tigringa-speaking mercinaries who were killing people of their own kind for gagets and gold.
Now, they use instruments like Shigute.
Ethiopians must evolve as people and realise the monstosity of the woyane whose main objective is the undoing of Ethiopia. These career mercinaries fought alongside the British to topple the Nationalist Teodros over 150 years ago.
Many gullibly believe that Tigreans have scores to settle. Amaras and Woyane Tigres are two different animals altogether. Amaras in general are people who are still willing to suffer incalculable misery for their Ethiopian identies and values.
Woyane-Shabia are poor souls who cannot surmount their deeply-seated sense of inferiority becuse of the actions of their forebears. Their misplaced anger should have mellowed them in shame. They seem to glorify themselves for attempting to destroy the Ethiopia they mistakenly beleive has ben built by Amhara alone.
Well the day, the Woyanes resent being what they are ,may not be long. Under dogs like Shigute are of course incapable of doing any better than subserve the upper dog, Meles, the ugly traitor!
THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM IS TPLF AND TPLF ONLY -OUR FOCUS GOT TO BE ON TPLF AND TPLF ONLY THEN ONLY THEN WE CAN DEAL WITH THE ROOT OF ETHIOPIANS SUFFERING, TORTURE,IMPRISONMENT AND ETHNIC CLEANSING -Ato Shigute of Sidama ,The Arab Maid Importing Agencies are the effects and TPLF is the cause
"………For how long do we allow the physical and psychological suffering of our mothers and fathers? How long do we let a mother cry because her son is tortured? How long do we watch a woman cry because her husband is mutilated? How do we let a child cry because it's orphaned? How long should an Amahara boy worry because he is born to Amhara parents? How long should a young Oromo choose between servitude and prison? How long should a farmer from Afar choose between giving-up his ancestral land and his life? How long do we see our sisters go to the Middle East and commit suicide? How long does a nation tolerate when the physical and mental abuse of an ethnic psychopath crashes a nine month dream of an expecting mother? Oh Ethiopia for how long? … How long?"
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Kevin Harvick won the pole for the Brickyard 400 with a dominating qualifying run Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Comments
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German authorities have begun investigations into a possible security breach after 21 people died and over 300 were injured Saturday in a panic stampede at a techno music festival called Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany.
According to a management document obtained from organizers by German newspaper Der Spiegel, the venue in Duisberg where the Love Parade was held, had a 250,000-person maximum capacity. The total number of people at the free festival is not known, but Der Spiegel reported that festival organizers were expecting over a million attendees. The paper reported that 105,000 people had arrived by train that day.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014 — What do you do if you have a problem to solve? Most, as I do, "Google it." Consistently answers to questions; directions to destinations; tips on places to vacation; best methods to accomplish a task; or instructions for making something can be found on the Internet through a search engine.
While Google isn't the only search engine — other familiar names include Bing, Yahoo, Ask and WebCrawler —the company name "Google" managed to become synonymous with the act of doing a computer search for information.
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The bellringers' loft at Christ Church Spitalfields. The church's "great bell" was installed in 1731. A gift of £600 allowed for the hanging of eight more bells and, by the end of 1787, the bells totalled ten – hence the name of the famed local pub.
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