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Touch of Evil
By Colleen Thompson
Dorchester PublishingCopyright © 2010 Colleen Thompson
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Chapter OneThe fog slips in on death's feet, then stoops to drink at the water's mirrored surface. In the eerie lakeside stillness, the silvery layers mute everything, from the outraged caws of disturbed crows to huge cypress trees grown shaggy with wiry, gray-green moss.
But along the wild shores of the big lake straddling the Texas and Louisiana borders, some things cannot be softened. Not by mist or deepening gloom or the chill rain that patters through the gold-and-blood-hued autumn foliage. Certain sounds, so out of place here, stand out starkly: the slap and rattle of a rope tossed over a stout oak branch, the panicked scrape of human breath, a guttural curse and stumble of footsteps. The harsh cacophony of a struggle quickly silenced.
Quickly silenced but for a single, strangled cry, followed by the rhythmic creaking of the newly burdened tree.
Monday, October 19
Death notifications were the worst part of Sheriff Justine Wofford's job. Worse even than the state's efforts to nail her on charges of corruption, the Dogwood Sentinel's calls for her head, and the county's demands that she slash her operating budget. Eight months after she'd claimed the remainder of her late husband's unfilled term, Justine's professional life wascircling the drain, and not even her deputies were bothering to disguise their relief about their boss's imminent demise. Nor were most inclined to follow orders, including her request for someone to accompany her on this hideous detail.
But the lack of support didn't matter. What mattered to Justine most was the knowledge that she was about to shatter the fragile shell of a family's well-being, as her own had been destroyed eleven months before.
Except she was for damned sure going to do this thing right, with all the care and compassion she'd been denied by the young physician who had delivered the news-with one foot out the door-that a sudden stroke had killed Justine's husband. Inconvenienced by her meltdown, the newly minted doctor had had the nerve to say, "What was he, twenty, twenty-five years older? I would have thought you'd have prepared yourself for something like this."
"Lou's sixty. Sixty, that's all," she had argued, as if she might talk the little pissant into a different diagnosis. "He's healthy, active, watches his diet. We still have plenty of time left."
With his gaze already straying to the nurse urgently flagging him down, the doctor had spared her a pitying look before leaving her alone with her nine-year-old autistic son. Noah could no more comprehend grief than he could decipher hieroglyphics, but he had keened in harmony with his mother's weeping because he liked the sound.
Yet as her decaying SUV veered onto a dirt road so rough it shook her fillings, Justine counted her blessings. Shocking as it was, Lou's passing had at least been natural. Not like this atrocity, the third hanging death discovered in the last month in rural Preston County.
"Suicides tend to cluster like that. Not uncommon to see a group of running buddies do themselves in, one by one," Chief Deputy Roger Savoy had lectured. Not only was the asshole gunning for her office in next year's election, he still felt it was his place to school her like a rookie.
Which was why it had given her a twisted burst of pleasure to point out a faint set of ligature marks on the man's untied wrists and a swollen bump behind his head. "Except this one's no suicide," she said loudly enough that he couldn't lay claim to the discovery later.
As Justine jounced over the road's chuckholes, any lingering satisfaction was swallowed by her growing dread. But in spite of the gut-churning apprehension, she noticed the play of late afternoon's light that lent deceptive charm to the ramshackle cabins she passed. Near the wooden steps beside a swaybacked trailer home, a trio of flop-eared pups wrestled, and yellow-breasted warblers darted through the underbrush.
She slowed, lowering her window to wave at a pair of skinny white girls whacking the heads off squat brown mushrooms with what looked like rusted golf clubs. Eight and ten, she recalled, with streaming yellow-brown hair and piping laughter that dried up when they saw her. The taller of the two flipped Justine the bird before she and her sister raced inside the small rental cabin that now served as the overcrowded residence of three kids and two adults.
"Make that one adult," Justine said. She parked beneath the gnarled arms of a primeval oak and stared at the tire swing suspended nearby. Hanging, while the Expedition's cooling engine ticked like an old clock. When she was finally able to tear her gaze away, she spotted the twitch of a stained curtain and the fierce glares of small faces pressed against the filmy window.
Doubtless the children figured she had come to talk to their grandmother about getting them to school more often, or to report that their daddy was in jail again for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, or any one of the penny-ante misdemeanors that so often left them in the sole care of their half-blind grandmother.
But for all of Caleb LeJeune's flaws, Justine reminded herself she faced a family that loved him. A family that would forever carry not only her words, but the tone and body language of the message that would irrevocably change their lives.
Steeling herself, she slid out of her truck. She brushed crumbled smears of crime-scene dirt from the dark suit she wore, took another deep breath, then strode toward the cabin's front door.
She didn't have to knock before it opened to a swirl of cigarette smoke and a round face braced for bad news. Dee LeJeune asked, "What's he done now, Sheriff?" in her two-pack-a-day voice.
Before Justine could think of how to answer, Dee flicked her cigarette into the yard and narrowed her gaze. "And don't be thinkin' I'm gonna pad the county's pockets bailin' him out this time. Not when I can't hardly feed these kids he's saddled me with."
In spite of her harsh words, her fingers skimmed the fine hair of a boy not five years old, and Justine knew Dee would rip the throat out of anyone who came between her and these children.
But it wouldn't matter in the long haul. In the end, the state would take Caleb's kids, would more than likely have to split them up.
"Ma'am, may I step inside and have a word?" Justine asked, her throat tightening in anticipation of the cabin's smoke-and-Pine-Sol reek.
Dee must have heard a new brand of misfortune in Justine's voice, for with a stricken look, she shooed the grandkids outside. "And mind, you two, you keep a close eye on your brother. Don't go nowhere near the water, and I mean it."
Once they'd slunk away, Dee said, "All right, then," her milky eyes already leaking tears.
By the time Justine stepped back outside, her eyes burned as well, and not only from the odors. She didn't see the kids around, so she headed back toward her mud-spattered Expedition, only to stop short when she noticed it was listing toward the driver's side.
"Shit." Leave it to Caleb LeJeune's brood to have the gall to puncture her tire. Justine broke into a jog, hustling past the giant oak in the hope of catching the budding delinquents in action.
But what Justine caught instead was a hard crack to the side of her skull. A blow that splashed like black paint over the jewel-bright October day.
With ER physicians almost impossible to replace, Dr. Ross Bollinger's boss had promised the moon, the stars, and half shifts if he would come back early on a trial basis. So it stood to reason that by seven p.m. on his third day, Ross had already been on for thirteen hours, chewed out for his ignorance of a new record-keeping protocol, and sworn at by a habitual drug seeker. Not to mention having been exposed to vast legions of germs by a pair of preschoolers he'd mentally rechristened Snotzilla and Vomitus Maximus.
In spite of the grueling work he'd done to build back his stamina, he was feeling every one of his thirty-nine years as he scrubbed his hands for the fiftieth time that day.
His favorite RN, Debbie Brown, stopped midstride to look him over, concern in her blue eyes. "You all right?"
Ross grimaced, wishing he had staged a comeback somewhere no one would remember the day he had keeled over. "I could do another twenty-four," he assured her. An outright lie, but he'd rather drop in his tracks than cop to the slightest hint of fatigue. Especially to the veteran charge nurse who all but ran the emergency department.
"Good," she said as she adjusted her clip to recapture a loose strand of auburn hair, "because Dr. Fleming's still AWOL, and EMS just radioed. We have a big one in the works, just a couple of minutes out. Thirty-eight-year-old female, blunt head trauma, unresponsive and bleeding from a laceration to the skull. It's Sheriff Wofford, Doctor-"
"Justine?" Ross felt a jolt deep inside his chest that had nothing to do with his new implant.
Debbie's gaze sharpened, and her head tilted slightly. "That's right," she said after a brief pause. "You're the one she always asks for when she brings in her son."
That was how Ross's affair with Justine had started this past summer, a little over four months earlier. Another set of stitches and an X-ray for her autistic nine-year-old. Another conversation about ways to keep the boy from harm. And suddenly, stupidly, he'd blurted out that they ought to discuss it over coffee.
Burning fast and hot, the relationship had flamed out only six weeks later. And to Ross's knowledge, no one else suspected anything had ever happened. Justine had insisted on that from the very start.
A recent widow-her husband had been dead just seven months when it had started-she had insisted on a lot of things, promises he'd broken. Not to hope for more from her. Not to press her on it. Since he'd ended their relationship, not a day had gone by when he didn't think about her, not even those days when the virus that had slammed him seemed more likely to kill him than relax its icy grip.
Debbie went on to say, "She was injured on duty, so we'll be ass-deep in badges before we know it."
Still shaken, Ross nodded, remembering from his Houston trauma center days how protective first responders were when it came to their own.
With no other choice but to set aside his own emotions, he downed an energy drink to keep him going and emerged from the lounge as a pair of EMTs wheeled in the sheriff, limp and bleeding through the gauze that partially covered her loose, dark brown hair. Strapped tightly to a backboard with her neck in a C-collar, the patient was pale, with her shadowed eyes closed.
Justine. God. His adrenaline-steeped brain flashed on images of the way they'd parted, the pain in her dark eyes as she had turned to leave him. Pain that reminded him of his wife's, when they had argued the last day he had seen her. The last time before the car she'd driven was broadsided, killing her on the spot.
Five years' worth of guilt washed over grief. Guilt that hit him harder than the virus that had attacked his heart. I can't let Justine die, too. I have to stop it this time.
One of the EMTs rattled off vitals as he and his partner whisked the stretcher past a handful of waiting patients and the usual check-in at the triage station. "Injury wasn't witnessed, but deputies found an old golf club lying near her, blood and hair on the business end."
"A golf club?" A newly graduated nurse gaped, still green enough to be surprised at the damage one human being could inflict upon another.
In the exam room, Ross fell back on training and experience to complete the primary assessment. As he checked the patient's airway, breathing, and circulation, he called repeatedly, "Sheriff Wofford. Justine, can you hear me?"
No response, but she gasped and pulled away, her eyelids flashing open when he pressed the base of her nail bed to check her response to pain. She attempted speech, too, though the words came out a jumbled murmur.
With a groan, she struggled to turn, and Debbie had a basin out in time to catch the vomit.
"We're going to need a chest X-ray, then head and spinal CT, CBC, and let's type and screen," Ross said as they began the secondary assessment.
"Justine, are you with us?" he repeated. "I need you looking at me."
No discharge from the ears or nose, and the laceration above her right ear seemed to have mostly clotted. No bruising patterns that would indicate a basilar skull fracture either, and her pupils looked and reacted normally.
Yet she seemed disoriented and lethargic, drifting off as he used a pair of trauma shears and both nurses' assistance to remove her clothing. Swallowing hard, he tried not to think about the last time he had seen her naked. Tried not to recall the way she had responded when he'd trailed kisses to her navel, laving his tongue in the depression before-
You're a damned professional. Act like one.
Ross wrenched his mind back on track and completed the head-to-toe check. Finding no further injuries visible and her blood pressure holding steady, he refocused on the head wound.
With years of emergencies under his belt, he had the procedure down cold. Yet the work itself, the adrenaline rush that went hand in hand with trauma, left him spent, reminding him that it had been months since he had done this. But part of his fatigue, he suspected, was the backwash of emotion, the flood of memories of times when he and Justine had laughed and fought and made love with such intensity that the outside world, even their past lives, disappeared.
A half hour later, he was looking at Justine's CAT scans when Carolyn, the triage nurse came in, a flush creeping from her neckline toward the roots of her cropped gray hair. "There's getting to be quite a crowd out in the waiting room." Above her squared-off glasses, her brow settled into well-worn worry grooves. "They're getting awfully impatient."
Ross nodded, understanding that, federal privacy laws or not, Justine's deputies would come down hard on anybody refusing to disclose details of her condition. Which still worried him, though nothing on the films jumped out as serious.
"Family member out there I can talk to? Patient's father, maybe?" He remembered the man, a weathered rancher type with woolly white brows and a John Wayne-style swagger, who'd come in the last time Noah cut himself.
Ross recalled the warning in Justine's dark eyes, her unspoken plea that he say nothing, do nothing to give away the fact that the two of them were intimate. The realization that he would never be anything to her but a dirty little secret had been what led to their unraveling, even more than her unwillingness to explain the newspaper's allegations.
"He's on his way, I'm told." Carolyn looked desperate. "If you could ... just offer a word on her condition. Deputy's out there. Roger Savoy. He seems to speak for the rest, and he's giving me all kinds of attitude."
Ross glanced back toward his patient. "Why don't you let them know we're still waiting for the-"
Justine opened her eyes before speaking, her words so low Ross had to lean in to hear them. "You can tell that bastard Savoy-tell all of them they're not getting rid of me this easy."
Ross took her hand and squeezed it, smiling to hear her more coherent. Her contrariness was music to his ears. "I'll let them know if that's what you'd like. But first, can you tell me your name?"
"You know-Justine Truitt. And my head's killing me."
It was her maiden name, he remembered. He asked her to tell him the day of the week and the current president. She couldn't recall the first and started out wrong on the latter, but corrected herself quickly before adding, "Come on, Ross. You have something in this place for a headache? And coffee-good Lord, do I need coffee."
Stroking her hand with his thumb, he ignored his body's surge of recognition, the relief of homecoming, and reminded himself she was a patient. "Do you know where you are?"
She looked up at him. "My home away from home, right? County Regional. But I usually bring ..." She stiffened. "Where's Noah? Was there an accident? Was he with me in the-"
"He wasn't with you when you were brought in. You were hurt on duty. Can you tell me what happened?"
Justine shook her head slightly, then squinched her eyes and groaned. "Stomach hurts."
Debbie, who'd stepped back in the room at Carolyn's bidding, grabbed a basin, but this time, Justine managed to regroup.
Still, Ross ordered an antinausea medication, as well as something for the pain. "You took quite a knock to the head. Do you remember any of it?"
"I was ... driving out to Tanager Trail. I have to tell Mrs. LeJeune her son is ... somebody has to let her know Caleb's dead. I get in a wreck on the way there?"
Caleb LeJeune's dead? But Ross kept his focus on his patient.
"The EMTs said you were found outside your vehicle," he said. "I think Charlie mentioned it was Dee LeJeune called it in."
"Dee ... Did I? Does she know? About her son? And the little ones, are they-"
"Right now you need to concentrate on feeling better. We'll be checking you over and admitting you for observation. You were out cold for quite a while, so we need to watch for-"
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This is the first time I've responded to anyone on forum although I've been really following it very closely for a few weeks now and find it very helpful.
I sympathize with you completely as i have had a similar experience. However, someone
on forum said the best words....and I repeat them often.
"Rejection is God's protection"
So, I have faith and trust in God that he is watching out for my interests and perhaps
knows something I don't yet know about the relationship I might have had with this person.
Obviously, he wasn't meant for me. So, I'll move on and stay strong and positive. Also,
as my mother use to say when I was much, much younger, There's plenty of fish in the sea. The right one will come along at some point and probably be a more fitting person for you.
Pray, thank God every day for our being and remember:
Rejection is God's Protection
Would it help to look upon this as another of God's stepping stones? He lovingly places each one in our path. Speaking for myself, I can look back and plainly see them and realizing His plan, I am grateful. It sounds glib but I think we always have an 'aha moment' later, and feel His embrace.
God bless!
That said, I have also had other men stop calling for no reason and I've never heard from them. This is just one reason why I never have long distant relationships. I only get to know men during face to face dates. I use this and another single site to be introduced. I don't open up and become vulnerable with anyone until we are dating.

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I'm curious as to why all of the stats, except business visitors, are open and visible. Is there a reason for this?
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Joel said he didn't set this, so it must be a default at Quantcast. He said he'd look at at and see if there's an easy way to make it visible (the whole point of Quantcast is public visibility..), but the Quantcast UI is not so great.
Two reasons for exposing your stats
Basically you can ask yourself the question, "would the site be better / more interesting / more profitable if this information was hidden?"


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July 23, 2016 - 07:00 GMT
Afghan security forces continued a push to force Daesh militants out of the eastern Nangarhar province.
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Syrian rebel groups called on the UN to condemn the US and French-backed airstrikes in Syria that have killed 140 civilians this week.
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Nulla Dies Sine Linea
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A piece of calligraphy over parchment by G.M.Meave
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John Wall is a theoretical ethicist whose research and teaching focus on the bases of moral life. He is particularly interested in moral life's relations to language, culture, and age. His work falls into three areas: post-structuralist ethics; ethics and religion; and the ethics of childhood.
His most recent book is Ethics in Light of Childhood (Georgetown 2010), an argument for "childism" or enabling considerations of children's experiences to transform moral theory. He also recently co-edited Children and Armed Conflict (Palgrave 2011). Previous books include Moral Creativity (Oxford 2005), a discussion of the creative nature of moral relations, and the co-edited volumes Marriage, Health, and the Professions (Eerdmans 2002) and Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought (Routledge 2002).
He is currently working on a book titled Children's Rights: Today's Global Challenge, a textbook on the global children's rights movement that will appear in 2016. He is also in the process of completing The Art of Being, a work of fiction that examines the role of creativity in generating meaning. Future book projects will be on globalization and democracy and the relation of ethics to poetics.
Dr. Wall has taught at Rutgers University, Camden since 2000. He received a Ph.D. in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago in 1999. He has chaired or read for a number of dissertations, serves on several scholarly journal editorial boards, in 2006 helped to create the first doctoral program in Childhood Studies in North America, and from 2010 to 2012 chaired the Childhood Studies and Religion Group at the American Academy of Religion.
He was awarded a 2006 Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence and a 2005 Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers University. He teaches courses in Evil, Biomedical Ethics, Religion and Culture, Introduction to the Bible, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Childhood, and Children's Rights.
See John Wall's Votes at 16 op-ed supporting UK Labour Minister Ed Miliband's proposal to lower the voting age to 16 at Democratic Audit UK (September 28, 2013).
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- This article is about the standard continuity Mystery Machine. For other continuities, see Mystery Machine (disambiguation).
The Mystery Machine is the main transportation of Mystery Inc., taking them on their adventures all over the world. Fred is the owner,[1] and has a very strong attachment to it.[2] Although he was kind enough to lend the Mystery Machine to Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, and Scrappy-Doo for a few years, when they went on their own adventures; eventually they reunited with Daphne Blake, and took the van out on their journalistic escapades. Ocassionally, Fred would help them out and take over the driving in that time.
Physical appearance
The Mystery Machine's shape lends itself to be a 1960's era panel van, however conflicting details does not indicate it to be a particular model of that lineage. The vehicle is painted a medium blue with a distinctive horizontal green stripe around the van, adorn with two orange flowers. Each side of the van has a distinctive painted green panel with "THE MYSTERY MACHINE" painted in orange. The front of the van has a spare tire carrier, painted green, with one large orange flower located in the center. Two roof racks protrude from the top of the van to secure further storage, and the van is also equipped with green and orange or yellow and orange flowered wheels or hub caps.
The Mystery Machine has the uncanny ability to adapt to any given situation (and the conveniently packed items that might be needed in any given situation):
- The back is filled with various equipments (ladder, lanterns, and ropes).[3]
- A bench running longwise can be stored in the rear of the van.[4]
- Also, the back can fit a table and chairs, plus the walls are lined with computer equipment; a large antenna can be attached on the roof.[5]
- Another time a table is included, the walls are lined with kitchen cabinets.[6]
Early history
The previous owners of the van were a popular family band, known as the Mystery Kids. The van's design was painted by Flash Flannigan, the band's pianist, before he stormed off and quit. (It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine)
News van
When the gang reunited to search for real ghosts, for Daphne Blake's show, Coast to Coast with Daphne Blake, Fred Jones, now her producer, surprised them all by removing a banner of the show's sign off of what was apparently their news van, to reveal the Mystery Machine logo underneath. The Mystery Machine now had a protruding engine in the front. (Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island)
The gang continued to use this new Mystery Machine for their subsequent adventures, (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase) though they did have a nostalgic encounter with the original model of the Mystery Machine, inside the Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase computer game. (Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase)
Return of the "classic" Mystery Machine
The gang soon returned to the "classic" Mystery Machine, even bringing it with them to Australia for one of their adventures. (Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire)
What's New, Scooby-Doo? era
The Mystery Machine was briefly taken over, apparently by a ghost, and chased its owners around town. The gang investigated and found that the mother of the Mystery Kids had sabotaged the machine to help her kids make a musical comeback. (It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine)
Scooby-Doo! And The Goblin King
The Mystery Machine was transformed into the Monstrous Machine.
Scooby-Doo: Behind the Scenes (Those Meddling Kids)
Even before the gang got the Mystery Machine they solved mysteries, but they didn't have their own transportation. So Daphne Blake's dad reluctantly drove them around everywhere they needed to go, with him tightly squeezed into the driver's seat driving the gang to places such as a haunted house.
- The license plate number as shown in Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo is revealed to be "195-343".
- The Mystery Machine looks like an early to mid 60s Ford Taunus Transit Van, obviously modified with a different dash, there's a bench seat with (possibly) either a ford small block 221 cui V8 with 145 hp and 218 lbft of torque if the van is an early 1960s or a 260 cui V8 with 164 hp and 258 lbft of torque if the van is mid 60s for the animated series (by the way the engine is most likely under the seat), while in the live-action films they used a late 80s Chevrolet Chevy Van in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and an 80s Ford Econoline for Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, but the first live-action movies they used a modified Australian Holden van which is actually a British Bedford van from the 1970s. In the direct-to-video animated films released between 1998 and 2001, the Mystery Machine bears a striking resemblance to the Chevrolet Astro / GMC Safari.


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My insomnia was sin. I spent hours a week awake in bed envisioning our church as another church. I even had a new name and logo, Emmaus Road Presbyterian, in the trendy all lower case letters with an ancient, but modern, open Bible and broken piece of bread. At 2 a.m. I agonized over our worship, wishing it was passionate, "authentic" (whatever that means).
Committee nights were either couch nights, so my wife could sleep, or medication nights, so I could sleep.
I remember a particular couch night several months ago—worship committee. The agenda consisted of discussion about the controversial change in schedule from our 10:30 service to 10:00, the excitement of the traditional singing of "For All the Saints" on All Saints Day, and when to decorate the church for Christmas, since Advent started in November last year.
Insomnia and church transformation are not a good combination. My insomnia was sin because these were the people who called me to be their pastor. These were the people who called me to love them, and serve them, and grow with them, and I believe these were the people whom God called me to pastor.
But, dare I say it, I spent most nights each week wishing they were other people, with other gifts, younger tastes, and sharper minds.
I had college friends visit last summer, and in the weeks leading up to their visit, I burrowed a nice dent in our pillow-top mattress. I wasted hours fretting about how embarrassing it was going to be when they came to the service on Sunday. I often wonder if people my age actually know that there are still churches like ours in the world. We don't have screens, let alone a satellite campus. We don't have podcasts. We don't have much youth. We don't have a latte machine and guest kiosk. We don't really have youth, did I mention that already?
Five people in our congregation (including me, my wife, and our one-year-old daughter) would know who David Crowder is.
And if you mentioned the "emerging church controversy," "ancient-modern worship," "postmodernity," or the bankruptcy of a "Christendom-based attractional model" of church mission, pretty much everyone in the congregation would look at you like you were speaking "freaky-deaky Dutch" á la Austin Powers, although 99 percent wouldn't know the Austin Powers reference.
Who did God call me to?
I remember reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's advice to never say anything negative about the congregation you have been called to serve. I found myself, shortly after arriving here, doing nothing but that. Not publicly, of course. My stock answer was always, "Things are going great."
But at night, when I should have been sleeping, I brought my complaints before God. I justified myself at first by referring to the Psalms. Here were faithful people complaining to God about their lot in life, inspired by the Spirit to be included in Scripture, wouldn't my complaints be just as just?
Then I turned to the "After all, isn't this God's vision?" excuse. What I dreamt up at night was for our church to be more effective in God's kingdom mission. Wouldn't God want us to have a worship service that connects the great truths of the gospel to the contemporary culture? Wouldn't God want us to be filled with young families and children? Wouldn't God want us to rid the world of our pea-green, 1960s choir robes? Wouldn't God want me to be known as the pastor of that dying mainline church that turned things around?
This was about the time I read a chapter on sin by Timothy Keller. Keller explored Kierkegaard's observation that breaking any commandment was in actuality breaking the first commandment. Sin is choosing to find our identity in anything other than God.
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Puerto Rico to resolve its fiscal crisis
Puerto Rico moved a step closer to resolving a partial government shutdown when the island's Senate voted to impose a 5.9 percent sales tax and a new levy on large corporations.
The fifteen to ten Senate vote had the key support of opposition lawmakers. It's not clear however, when the House of Representatives will take up the proposal.
The vote came on the fourth day of a shutdown that has closed Puerto Rico's public schools and put more than ninety thousand government employees out of work.
Opposition lawmakers have been resisting Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila's proposed sales tax of seven percent that he said was necessary to obtain a loan to pay government salaries for the remainder of the fiscal year.
New tax on corporations
The just approved Senate measure includes a new tax on corporations with earnings of more than ten million dollars.
The governor had said previously that he would oppose the additional levy.
But he agreed to support it amid public protests over the government shutdown.
Governor Vila has also indicated that he would agree to the 5.9 percent sales tax voted on by the Senate.
Fiscal problems
The Puerto Rican government ran out of money last Monday, two months before the end of the fiscal year.
The governor and the opposition-dominated legislature have tried to find a negotiated settlement but have mainly ended up trading insults and accusations as the crisis escalated.
The shutdown forced the closure of 43 public agencies.
Thousands of government workers have since been applying for public assistance.
The Puerto Rican government has an estimated 740 million dollar shortfall in public funds.
Last week tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans took to the streets to demand that the politicians reach an agreement.
The government is the biggest employer in Puerto Rico, accounting for up to 200,000 jobs.
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Running Time: 84
Director: Jim DiGiogio
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Nash Finch Sued by U.S. for Labor Discrimination, Wages Sought
Nash Finch Co., the nation's second-largest wholesale food distributor, was sued for discriminating against women by the U.S. Labor Department, which sought back wages and offers for more than 80 jobs.
The Minneapolis-based company, which services more than 200 U.S. military bases under a federal contract, was accused of acting against more than 80 woman who failed to get hired at a plant in Lumberton, North Carolina, the agency said today in a statement. The company didn't immediately return a call for comment.
Nash Finch has settled three discrimination cases brought by the U.S. at operations in Virginia, Minnesota and Nebraska during the past decade, the agency said. The department found "serious violations of the law" at each plant related to recordkeeping and hiring discrimination, and said the company's policies put woman, minorities and veterans at a disadvantage when they seek jobs with the company.
"It is unacceptable that a company which profits from lucrative federal contracts would repeatedly violate the law in this manner," said Patricia Shiu, director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. "The American taxpayer should not have to bankroll this company's bad behavior."
Nash Finch fell 28 cents to $36.09 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.


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my wife took on my last name but never changed her Social Security name or her Driver license name. on the divorce papers i have her using my last name. if she signs using her maiden name can this be a problem?
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She should sign legal documents using her legal name.
which one is her legal name? the married or madien?
If she took your last name, that is her legal name, the fact that she hasn't changed it on her other documents doesn't change that fact.
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[7.11.2008] Roberta McCollums, of Hillsville PA, embraces Andy Fusco, of the west side of Youngstown after they are named queen and king of the 1st Annual Poland Relay for Life in Poland. "Every morning I put my feet on the floor, I thank God I've got another day," says Fusco who battled cancer in 1999 and it has since gone into remission. McCollums has six types of cancer and has been battling the illnes for 22 years. "Thats what we gotta do with cancer, keep busy," said Fusco.
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Swing states put American Catholics in a decisive position
Our take: With Election Day approaching, President Obama and Mitt Romney's campaigns are targeting groups that have the most undecided voters. Among religious groups, Catholics are more likely to be split down the middle with political party affiliation, compared to other religious groups like Jews and white evangelical Christians.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Once again, Catholics will decide who will live in the White House for the next four years. It is not that Catholics constitute a majority of the electorate. Nor is it the case that there is any monolithic "Catholic vote" poised to go one way or the other. But, for a variety of reasons, Catholics will nonetheless break one way or the other in the final weeks of the race, and that will decide whether President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney wins.
The final weeks of a race are all about targeting a campaign's message and trying to get one's supporters to the polls. Most other religious demographics lean decisively one way or another. White evangelical Christians are overwhelmingly Republican, so it makes no sense for Democrats to run ads on Christian radio or leaflet at an evangelical church: For every two or three Obama supporters they remind to vote, they will also be reminding seven or eight Romney voters to turn out at the polls. Jews vote overwhelmingly Democratic, so it is unlikely the GOP will be running ads in Jewish media. (When Republicans talk about Israel, they are targeting evangelical Christian voters, who champion Israel for their own theological reasons, not Jewish voters.) Conversely, black evangelicals are the most overwhelmingly Democratic constituency in the country.
Catholics, however, mirror the general electorate. About 46 percent are reliably Democratic voters and a like number almost always support the Republican candidate.
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text: Bilzy's Sandstorm and Swords Dance At a glance I. Introduction This team was built as soon 5th gen was released, and as soon as I saw Doryuzu's ability I knew sandstorm was a priority, I experimented with many different sandstorm viable pokemon before I came to this team (such as Heatran, Terakion, Goruugu, Tyranitar and a couple others). The main aim of this team is constantly put pressure on the opponent, and even though three pokemon on my team have swords dance, they don't need it to put massive dents in the opponents team. Another big focus of the team is to try and avoid having to many common weaknesses commonly associated with sandstorm, that's why Empoleon and Latios are in the team, It has peaked at #1 at the PO server Changes in Bold II. Closer look Hippowdon @ Leftovers Sand stream EVs:252 hp/ 152 Def/ 104 Sp.Def Nature: Impish - Yawn - Stealth Rock - Ice Fang -Earthquake I tried having both tyranitar and Hippowdon in my team at first, however not only was two sandstorm inducers not necessary, but i found Hippowdon much more suited to my team, the thing that stands out on my hippowdon is it's moveset, at first I had Slack Off in place of Yawn, as most sets do, however yawn is what truly makes him so useful, most people underestimate Yawn, it forces leads out that would typically get many layers of spikes in, and quite often, after setting Stealth Rocks up can spam Yawn forcing the opponent to constantly switch or give up a pokemon to sleep (I have only ever seen one person switch till there was no PP left, not only this but many opponents switch a couple of times before giving up a pokemon to sleep, while this happens they take sandstorm and stealth rock damage, and because of the new sleep mechanic Hippowdon can just Roar the sleeping pokemon out to reset its sleep counter), my Hippowdon has favorable match ups against most of the leads i have seen, the only pokemon that give it trouble are: Erufuun (which I havn't seen in a lead spot for months), Sazandora due to the fact it can OHKO with Draco meteor, so i switch to Empoleon (same goes for Latios), and finally Borutorosu, which I also switch to Empoleon, because it cant be KO'd by max sp. atk thunderbolt, and does alot of damage with ice beam, and takes little damage form the incomming grass knot or HP-ice. Also note that against polytoad lead make sure I switch out to Latios and make sure Hippodown lives longer than it, and against the rare Ninetails, earthquake off the bat. Added ice fang in the place of Roar for now, Glisgor leads completly shut it down, and it would be nice to have a solution to glisgor even if it isnt at the lead position, also the ability to break balloons is needed Garchomp @ Life Orb Sand Veil EV's:4 HP/ 252 Atk/ 252 Spd Nature: jolly - Outrage - Earthquake - Fire Fang - Swords Dance I can see how this got moved to Ubers in Gen 4, it hits like a tank, even without the swords dance, has a reasonable amount of bulk, quite fast and has fantastic coverage. The reason for jolly is because his speed is fantastic and there are many other pokemon around his speed, and I also want to at least tie with other Garchomp. Originally I had Stone Edge instead of Fire Fang, and was sceptical about the change, however I'm glad i made the change, my team needed a fire move, and hitting some of my biggest threats super effectively was needed (such as scarmory, Scisor, and mainly Nattori). This is probably the pokemon I'm most willing to replace, because the majority of it's roles are filled by other pokemon. Another thing to note is its ability, it is so game changing, I almost feel bad for using something so luck based (but not really). Empoleon @ Leftovers Torrent EV's: 252 HP/ 160 Def/ 92 Sp.Def/ 4 Spd Nature: Calm - Yawn - Surf - Ice Beam - Grass Knot Empoleon is my most individual set, so many people underestimate its bulk, and as I previously stated so many people underestimate Yawn, the reason I initially picked Empoleon was his low usage and fantastic typing, it can take so many hits aimed at the rest of my pokemon can't (ice, water ect.) and is really the glue that holds my team together. I have debated replacing one of the moves to put in toxic, but decided against it, surf is a great STAB, ice beam is great for dealing with Dragons locked into Outrage, and grass knot for the many swampert that think they can KO with earthquake. The EV's were taken from a deffensive smogon set, and they are still fantastic this gen, the most important thing is being able to take a thunderbolt from Borutorosu, and hit back with an ice beam. Randorosu @ Leftovers Sand Power EV's: 8 HP/ 252 Atk/ 248 Spd Nature: Jolly - Earthquake - Stone Edge - Substitute - Swords Dance When i was originally testing this team, i went through many pokemon that seemed to be useful in a sandstorm, most of them were horrible, however this very much under used pokemon is so underrated. He is often my MVP, especially against inexperienced players, this was the first set I tested (have only seen one other player with a sword dance set, none with substitute) and I havn't looked back, he makes a solid counter to Roobushin, and a good check to Breloom (because of substitute). I often bring him in on Chansey/ Blissy or anything else that will be tempted to lay status on him (also Nattori) then substitute and sword dance. Or if i bring him out after someone has been KO'd substitute and then deal with the pokemon that comes in, which works on many pokemon that expect an earthquake and are faster than Randorusu (Lati@s, Borutorosu), the only situation where i would sword dance before the sub, is if i expect a phaser, which 99 times out of 100 is scarmory and hit them back before they roar me out. The EV's are to outspeed positive nature and EV's base 100's. Latios @ Choice Specs Levitate EV's: 4 HP/ 252 Sp.Atk/ 252 Spd Nature: Timid - Surf - Trick - Draco Meteor - Thunderbolt My most recent addition to the team, added because it can do heavy damage to anything not Blissy or Steel. Most people run Trick instead of the two Dragon moves, however I have never had a situation where that would be useful. Anther thing Latios has going for it is it's natural bulk and fantastic typing, Surf is generally for other sandstorm teams, Dragon Pulse is a late game move, when steel types have been removes or weakened enough to KO, Draco Meteor is for early game mayhem especially when trying to remove that daym Polytoad, and thunderbolt is almost entirely for Scarmory, which was previously one of the biggest problems for my team. Added Trick because having two dragon moves is not productive, decided to keep draco meteor as it helps the hit and run strategy of choice items, and helps with the elimination of polytoad Doryuuzu @ Balloon Sand Throw EV's: 4 HP/ 252 Atk/ 252 Spd Nature: Jolly - Swords Dance - X-Scissor - Earthquake - Rock Slide Easily the best Doryuuzu set (although putting Rapid Spin is also accceptable), theres a reason this thing is so popular, and even though people now pack so many counters to it, it still remains a fantastic sweeper, and a perfect revenge killer. Some people use return or Brick Break, I prefer pefect neutral coverage! I could go into more deatail about this thing, but I'm sure it has been done by many different people in many different ways (anyone who says this is overated is wrong). III. Conclusion I would like some feedback on this team, however mainly I would just like to share this creation with everyone, and contribute to the many examples of succesful sandstorm team. Even with the many threats being released in the wifi tier, this team still holds up. Update 20/12/10-Threat List -Natorri#1-Low threat, normally switch to Randorosu while it sets up a layer of spikes, substitute while it tries to leech seed, then sword dance and earthquake, verry few survive this, if Randorosu is out, go to Garchomp, and depending on the hp left either swords dance and then fire fang, or just firefang -Tyranitar#2-Low threat to anything but Latios, generally they sponge an incoming dragon pulse and then pursuit, so I generally just dragon pulse again, sacrafising my Latios to deal 60-80 percent of it's health -Scisor#3- Low threat unless it gets a swords dance up, the band varient cant do anything to empoleon unless they carry superpower, so if they are either locked on to super power, or about to use it on Empoleon I switch to Randorosu and set up a sub, stopping a Scisor with swords dance is harder and generally requires a sacrafice of heavy damage, Dorys Baloon, or maybe more if I switched out instead of dealing damage while it used swords dance -Doryuuzu#4- Medium threat, even with 3-4 of my pokemon that make good Doryuuzu checks this thing still causes me troubles, the amount of games that have been reliant on a speed tie are ridiculous, and the amount of rage at a Rock slide finch is hilarious, it does the most damage when saved till lategame, also if it has swords dance up and i send in my Doryuuzu to break the balloon/KO it only to find out it has brick break -Gengar#5- Low threat, I'm surprised to see this at number 4 empoleon can switch in on shadowball and can take a thunderbolt, or (if it hits) Focus blast and do alot of damage back with surf, and if it has taken a bit of damage, Doryuuzus rock slide can take it out -Garchomp#6- Medium threat, only because of that daym sand veil, the choice versions are easy to deal with, either switch to Empoleon or Randorusu/Doruuzu, depending on wether you expect an earthquake or outrage, if it is the swords dance variety, lure it into using outrage, and let Empoleon ice beam it, also I have seen a set abusing sand veil, the substitute set, that thing is a beast, also note that any solution I have to this can be redundant due to sand veil -Roobushin#7- Low threat, fails to ever do anything to my team, always a perfect opportunity for Randorosu to set up, often it comes in on Empleon and Doryuuzu, sometimes if I notice that they have no answer to my Randorosu after it has a sub, I sacrifice Empoleon and yawn,then bring out Randorosu -Heatran#8- Low threat, I tried Heatran in my team, however the restriction and predictability of the scarf is too much, but without it it is simply way too slow, the balloon variant is underwhelming, many try to come in on Randorusu, however this dosnt work as it only takes two hits to kill and even if it does manage the KO, stone edge with sand power does alot of damage -Berungeru#9- Low threat, a good pokemon I admitt, solid typing, good ability, good defensive stats and most importantly recover, normally i send in Empoleon to sponge the boiling water or ice beam, and then yawn to make it switch out, however getting burnt is a problem, alot of players overestimate it's bulk and asume it can take Randorusu with a sub, and this is normally there downfall -Starmie#10-Medium threat, as many of you have said this poses a threat to my team, however yet again Empoleon saves the day, when it has not taken damage beforehand Empoleon can take 1-2 thunderbolts and grass knott does about 70 percent to starmie, the rest is handled by sandstorm and the life orb damage, Doyuuzu also makes it switch out or x-scissor it. -Polytoad#11- Medium threat, only because it signals a rain team, the statergy for polytoad is to lure it into taking hits, and to make sure it gets KO'd before Hippowdon, normally I send Latios out and draco meteor, which does alot even to the most defensive of Polytoad. -Gliscor#12- High threat, it completly shuts down Hippowdon due to taunt (although the recent addation of ice fang on hippowdon will help), Randorosu with a swords dance up and full Hp can normally take it down, although ice fang does most of Randorosu's Hp, also Outrage does a resonable amount. -Kingdra#13- Low threat, luckily I have one of the three only pokemon that completly resists it's two STAB moves, and Empoleon can deal damage with Grass knot, even if it does have a couple of Dragon dances up -Blaziken#14-Low threat, Randorosu can take it down if it hasnt yet swords danced, and most importantly Hippowdon can Yawn/Earthquake it even when it has Swords danced. If I need Garchomp can also take a hit -Hippowdon#15- Low threat, Normally in the lead position, Yawn to force it out, sometimes they think it can take a swords danced Randorosu, but few actually can take the hit, fails to threaten anything on my team, except for Doryuuzu without a swords dance. -Gyarados#16-Low threat, almost all of these try to come in and force Randorosu out, however even factoring in intimidate stine edge with sand power is still an OHKO, taunt dragon dance varients can be a bit of a hastle for empoleon and Hippowdon, but other than that Gyarados is not a threat -Dragonite#17-Low threat, surprised to see this here and not Salamance, Dragonite is just not verry good, to slow, Randorosu, Garchomp, Empoleon, and Hippowdon and Latios haddle Dragonite with ease, so the only thing it poses any threat to is Doryuuzu -Sazandora#18- Low threat, The most common sets are scarf, and Empoleon resists any attack that this can throw at it except for Earthquake/Earth power, and that just lets Randorosu set up a sub, and if it isnt a scarf set, both Garchomp and Latios haddle it with ease. Many scarf sets will try to switch in on a Randorosu earthquake and surf, however with good prediction you can set up a sub on the switch, and then stone edge for the KO -Swampert#19- Low threat, normally I will send out Empoleon, and grass knot, this will normally do about 70 percent, Empoleon is always faster and Swampert always stays in because it expects a switch out or a STAB earthquake (which normally dosnt KO) -Skarmory#20- High threat, Easily the most painful pokemon to deal with, and the reason thunderbolt is on Latios, if I see that Skarmory is on the team I swords dance with Randorosu before the sub, stone edge then does about 75 percent, and hope fully either it gets a crit, or the Roar sends out either Latios or Garchomp, (or Empoleon, and Empoleon is faster), Skarmory unfortunately does not want to stay in on Latios. OTHER HIGH THREATS -Breloom#29- High threat, only because of spore, with a bit of prediction you can tell that often it will try to come in after you have Yawned a pokemon, so after the first yawn switch to Randorosu, set up a sub while they spore, swords dance then earthquake (which does more than youd think) -Weavile#48- High threat, the combination of priority ice, a fighting move, and ice punch causes problems for the team,normally this involves sacraficing a pokemon as well as Doryuuzu's balloon, however if Empoleon has taken little damage, it can take the fighting move and hit back with surf -Borutorosu#58- High threat, however as long as Empoleon has full hp, it can come in on an HP ice and then take the thunderbolt and then ice beam, however this pokemon becomes alot harder to deal with if Empoleon has taken damage or they decide to use Volt change on Empoleon -Mamoswine#76-High threat, can OHKO the majority of the team, barring Hippowdon on full health and Doryuuzu, so the only real solution is to sacrifice the balloon, however if it is Ko'd only a great deal of luck can save me


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Another helpful webinar from EducationUSA: on Thursday, April 16, at 1300 UTC (9 AM ET) they'll be holding an interactive discussion on everything you need to know about the student visa process. Do you have questions about the steps to obtain a student visa? Wonder how long the the process will take? Want to make […]
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State Dept Increases Student Visa Processing Fee
by Jessica Stahl - Posts (449). Posted Monday, April 2nd, 2012 at 8:08 am
The State Department has announced that, as of April 13, it is raising the visa processing fee for student visas. The fee will now be $160, up from $140. What other costs can you expect? Students from some countries may pay a visa reciprocity fee. Look up your country here: Reciprocity by Country As a […]
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sable 1
1A marten with a short tail and dark brown fur, native to Japan and Siberia and valued for its fur.
- Martes zibellina, family Mustelidae.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Tradition had it that the island was rich in game (reindeer, polar bears, sables, marten, fish, and certain monsters - perhaps walrus), and that it abounded in marble, crystals, and so on.
- Then patrol the shorelines to observe sables and the world's biggest brown bears, and to scout potential nature-reserve sites.
- He wrote, 'The principal riches of Kamchatka consist in the great number of wild beasts: among them are foxes, sables, stone foxes, hares, marmots, ermines, weasels, wolves, reindeer, wild and tame, and stone rams.'
1.1 [mass noun] The fur of the sable.
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- Larsson should have been adorned in ermine and sable in Andalucia.
- Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
- He does not wear his silks and sables to accurately represent his status, nor does he dress sumptuously to insidiously advance himself.
Late Middle English: from Old French, in the sense 'sable fur', from medieval Latin sabelum, of Slavic origin.
Palabras que riman con sableAbel, able, Babel, cable, enable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, stable, table
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adjetivoliterary or Heraldry
Black: the sable blackness of her hair [postpositive]: six martlets sable
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- Her skin was sable black and shining lightening blue.
- As he left, he did not notice the hateful eyes of the sable raven, watching Calanthas go, from a windowsill.
- Although her intended audience is not black, she still refers to 'our sable race.'
1 [mass noun] literary or Heraldry Black.
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- Colours are orchestrated in dark tones, such as sable, olive and black accented with flashes of ultramarine.
- They say he's tall and handsome, and that his hair is as black as sable.
- Shar-Pei come in just about every colour there is - black, red, red-fawn, fawn, black-pointed cream, sable and blue.
1.1 (sables) archaic Mourning garments.
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- Our spirits are dressed in sables, and to laugh so very suddenly seems out of character.
- He is in mourning for his father still, even though it's been 3 years, and goes about dressed in sables which people think terribly unfashionable.
2 (also sable antelope) A large African antelope with long curved horns, the male of which has a black coat and the female a russet coat, both having a white belly.
- Hippotragus niger, family Bovidae.
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- The 14 species of the game include giraffes, zebras, sables, kudus, elands, impalas, pukus, waterbucks, reedbucks, siatoongas, bushbucks, common buickers and graycebucks.
- Also present are elephant, sable antelope, reedbuck, common duiker, blue and vervet monkeys.
- I grew up with impala and sable antelope, burnt-amber kudu, zebra and wiry wildebeest.
Middle English: from Old French (as a heraldic term), generally taken to be identical with sable1, although sable fur is dark brown.
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May 07, 2012
On behalf of 44 higher education associations, this letter expresses ACE's strong support for enacting legislation to maintain the subsidized Stafford student loan interest rate at 3.4 percent. Allowing this rate to double, as it is scheduled to do on July 1, would impose significant additional costs on more than 7.4 million students and their families.
Maintain Student Loan Interest Rate at 3.4%
March 21, 2016
A new monograph written for ACE finds little evidence that increases in federal financial aid drive up college tuition, and that institutions rarely rely on federal aid as a rationale to give out less of their own institutional aid.
December 16, 2015
Congress is poised this week to reinstate the Federal Perkins Loan Program, which expired on Oct. 1. The Senate today approved a bill renewing the program for two years, although with restrictions that will raise costs for many borrowers. The House is expected to follow suit on Thursday.
December 11, 2015
An exploration of the data on college and university enrollment of low-income students.
November 23, 2015
ACE, 53 higher education organizations and 535 colleges and universities are requesting a one-year extension of the Perkins Loan Program, which expired on Oct. 1.
September 28, 2015
The House has passed a bipartisan bill to extend the Perkins Loan Program through October 2016. The program is set to expire Oct. 1 barring action by the Senate.