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Jane Seigler
|A graduate of Brown University and Rutgers University Law School, Jane completed a judicial clerkship with the D.C. Court of Appeals before entering private practice. After 13 years as an antitrust and utility litigator with two major DC law firms, and then as government affairs counsel with the Washington office of a multi-national corporation, Jane decided to devote herself full-time to being the chief operating officer of Reddemeade Farm, Inc., one of the largest lesson and boarding stables in Maryland. Now living and training at her own Dressage at Sundown, she teaches, rides, trains and competes in dressage through the FEI level. Jane served on the Potomac Valley Dressage Association Board of Directors for nine years (including two as Chairman and two as Vice President) and is a former member of Montgomery County's Agricultural Advisory Committee. She has also served on the steering committee of the Maryland Horse Forums, and has been an organizer of MHC's Business Seminars. Currently, Jane serves on MHC's Business Network and Legislative Committees, and as an Advisory Board Member of the Maryland Fund for Horses.
Vice President
Neil R. Agate
Ph: 301-670-1295 x. 706
|Neil Agate is the founder of Four Gate, LLC a business and technology services firm that works with early stage companies. He is a board member of the British-American Business Association and is a co-chair of the Association's Communications Committee. While Neil enjoys all horse activities he is an avid polo player and a co-founder of Capitol Polo Club in Montgomery County and in addition to playing polo has announced many polo matches up and down the East Coast. Originally from England, Neil has lived with his wife Kathy and two daughters in Darnestown, MD for the last 25 years.
Valerie Ormond
|Valerie retired as a U.S. Navy Captain and has since pursued interests in writing and with horses. In 2014, she founded her own business, Veteran Writing Services LLC, providing professional writing, editing, and consulting services. Her two young adult novels, Believing In Horses, and Believing In Horses, Too, both received Gold Medals in the Military Writers Society of America Book Awards, among other honors and awards. Valerie is a certified riding instructor with the Certified Horsemanship Assn., a member of the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Assn., and competed in the National Capital Adult Equestrian League for nine years. She served on the Prince George's County Equine Industry Task Force and chaired the Maryland Horse Council's Save the Horse Farms Committee. Valerie and her husband, Jaime Navarro, also a retired Captain, ride their three horses in a variety of disciplines.
Dale Clabaugh
Ph: 301-606-4617
Fx: 301-898-0264
|Dale is a lifelong resident of Frederick County Maryland and a graduate of the University of Maryland. She has been an owner/agent with State Farm Insurance in Walkersville MD since 1979. She began riding as a child and charter member of the Frederick Pony Club (1962), and is the co-founder of the Woodvale Farms boarding facility and the Menfelt Horse Trials.
Elected Member
Chris Bricker
Ph: 410-788-3987
|Chris Bricker lives in Catonsville and works as an operations manager for Northrop Grumman. She is a lifetime member of the Maryland Horse Council and has served as secretary on the Executive Committee for 4 years. Chris is a Thoroughbred breeder and owner and presently has three horses in training at Pimlico and several mares at a farm in Woodbine. She is also on the board of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horseman's Association and is the program coordinator for the Thoroughbred Aftercare Program.
Elected Member
Royce Herman
Fx: 410-758-4760
|Before joining the MHC Executive Committee, Royce served on the MHC Board of Directors for seven years as the representative for Tuckahoe Equestrian Ctr. He graduated from Keystone College in 1966 and the University of Delaware School of Economics in 1971 and has spent over 40 years in food service marketing. He rode extensively as a youngster and competed in rodeos as a teenager while working on a dairy farm. He returned to horses after the kids were grown. Royce is currently involved in trail riding, and has competed in Mounted Cowboy Shooting and mounted Wild West shows. For 13 years, Royce directed and acted in western shows for the Outlaw Days at Tuckahoe. He is a national competitor in muzzle loading bulls-eye pistol shooting and is a master gunsmith, owning and operating Centreville Gunsmith. Royce also teaches Hunter Safety for the State of MD and is a member of the MD Hunter Safety Instructor Hall of Fame.
Elected Member
Steuart Pittman, Jr.
Fx: 410-507-3351
Steuart and his siblings are the eighth generation of his family to own their 550-acre Dodon Farm in Davidsonville. For the past fifteen years he has made his living there as a breeder, trainer and competitor in three-day eventing. Steuart was Maryland's first eventing instructor to be certified by the United States Eventing Association and he conducts clinics throughout the country at both private facilities and expos. He has competed through the Advanced level on his Maryland-bred Thoroughbred stallion Salute The Truth, who now stands at Dodon Farm.
Steuart grew up riding with St. Margaret's Pony Club and the Marlborough Hunt Club. He graduated from the University of Chicago and then spent eight years as a political and community organizer in Chicago, Des Moines, Iowa and Washington, D.C. before returning to the farm and horses. He became actively involved with the Maryland Horse Council during the campaign for the Maryland Horse Park and found that it was a good use of the skills he had acquired in his career as an organizer. His most recent undertaking is the creation of the Retired Racehorse Training Project, an educational organization that seeks to increase demand for Thoroughbred ex-racehorses.
Elected Member
Judy Smith
Ph: 301-662-2532
Fx: 301-865-1013
|Judy has been involved in the Horse industry, especially in Maryland, most of her life. She has enjoyed fox chasing in MD and NC, competing in driving with her 4-horse Percheron hitch, dressage, eventing and riding sidesaddle. Her areas of business and organizational involvement include being a current MHC Director-at-Large for Farms, a Frederick County Equine Alliance member and it's representative to the MHC, founding member and secretary for the North Carolina Horse Council, former member of the PVDA Board of Directors, and membership in several other associations. Currently, Judy and her husband Tommy have a boarding and driving training operation on their Good Friday Farm in Ijamsville, MD and have set up and run the Ultimate Equestrian schoolings and competitions. Judy also owns and manages her retail store Friday's Horse Giftware. Previously, Judy worked as an equine vet tech for 11 years, and also operated a successful operation of breeding, foaling and starting young thoroughbreds for the track for clients.
Elected Member
Kathleen Tabor
Kathleen is a solo practitioner of the Law Office of Kathleen J.P. Tabor, LLC, a general civil proactive with a special focus on agricultural and equine businesses, activities, and ownership. Her practice has taken her all across the State of Maryland. In addition to her legal training, Kathleen is a trained mediator and collaborative practitioner.
In addition to serving on the Maryland Horse Council's Executive Committee, Kathleen also serves on the advisory board of Maryland Fund for Horses, Inc. She is a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau, the American Horse Council, American College of Equine Attorneys and the American Agricultural Law Association. And she currently serves as the Trade & Support Industries representative on the Maryland Horse Industry Board, appointed by the Governor in 2009.
Non-Voting Advisory Member
Crystal Kimball
|Crystal Kimball is the owner and publisher of The Equiery. She rode on the University of Maryland equestrian team in college and has been involved with hunters, combined training, dressage, and foxchasing. She has been a member of MHC since 1991, and serves on the board of directors as a director-at-large representing the business membership. Crystal also serves as secretary for the Maryland Steeplechase Association and technical advisor to the Maryland Horse Industry Board.
Non-Voting Advisory Member
Bill Reightler
|Bill is a licensed agent and has distinguished himself in the Thoroughbred industry, with more than 35 years in the business. After training horses at Mid-Atlantic tracks for 10 years, Bill worked at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, in the training, broodmare and stud divisions for five years. He then returned to Maryland to manage Ross Valley Farms, where he built the farm and handled a top band of broodmares that included champions Heavenly Cause and Smart Angle. During his tenure at Ross Valley, he raised and prepped Houston (a $2.9 million sales yearling) and several stakes horses, including Two Punch. After five years at Ross Valley, Bill accepted a management position at Chanceland Farm. There he built the farm and helped establish it as a leading operation in the region.
In 1999 Bill started the Bill Reightler Sales Agency. He has established himself as one of the leading sales and bloodstock agents based in the Mid-Atlantic region. His accomplishments include selling Declan's Moon (2003 two-year-old Champion), owning and racing stakes winner Pagan Moon, owning and selling Rockcide, half-sister to champion Funnycide, carrying in utero multiple stakes winner Rule. Bill is also an avid foxhunter and currently serves as the field master of Mt. Carmel Hounds. Bill and his family reside in Maryland.


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Building Israel, one rock at a time
The rock, thrown by a Jewish settler, hit Rashida, a six-year old Palestinian girl, in the forehead as she walked from school in the South Hebron Hills one Wednesday (23 April).
Photos of her injury show six stitches on a deep, red gash.
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The Israeli NGO B'Tselem has given cameras to Bedouin who live in this remote part of the West Bank so that they can tell media about the violence because, they say, Israeli police does nothing to stop it.
Nasser Nawaj'ah, a Rashida family friend, told EUobserver that similar attacks took place "three or four times a week". He said settlers also vandalised Bedouin property.
"Thank God we have this technology, this internet, so we can tell the story," he said.
"If a settler attacks you, and you put up your hand to defend yourself, the Israelis arrest you for assault. You're gone from your family for a long time and your house is demolished."
Nawaj'ah spoke in a makeshift building of stones and tarpaulin. Israeli soldiers destroyed his original home, a Bedouin cave, by smashing it and filling it with rubble. The soldiers also destroyed his water cistern by dumping a car into it, so that the vehicle's rust and battery acid would poison the water.
Nawaj'ah's new house is also under a demolition order.
The demolitions are because the Hebron hills are in "Area C" - a vast swathe of the West Bank under full Israeli control where Palestinians rarely get construction permits.
Nawaj'ah's village
Nawaj'ah says Israelis are trying to drive out the Bedouin by making their life intolerable.
In a quirk of the system, Israel applies a law dating from the Ottoman Empire under which land left uncultivated for 10 years can be confiscated.
Many Bedouin have already moved to Yatta, a nearby town. If they all go, their confiscated land would connect Jewish outposts inside the West Bank with Israel's old border, the Green Line, cutting off a part of Palestinian territory.
Asked if he would leave, Nawaj'ah said: "If they demolish this place, we'll build it back and build it back. They cannot demolish our will to stay."
"It's not that the land belongs to us: We belong to the land," he said.
"When my father was a child, and Israel expelled our family from their home, my grandfather carried him away and said: 'Don't worry: We'll be back soon.' But they never went back. I was born in a cave. When Israel made the area into an archeological park, my father carried me away and said the same thing my grandfather had said", he added.
"I will not do this to my children", he said.
Asked if he could live in peace with Jewish people, he said: "I would love to drink tea with them if they stayed in their own borders. But if someone takes your land and says that God gave it to them, and they demolish your home, and they throw stones at your children, then how can you drink tea with them?".
Bedouin girl
Further north, in Hebron, the biggest Palestinian city in the West Bank, a similar process is unfolding, one house at a time.
In mid-April, settlers took over a building on a hill next to Hebron's old town.
What the Palestinians call the "House of Contention" connects the Kiryat Arba settlement on the outskirts of Hebron with Jewish outposts, such Avraham Avinu, in the old town centre.
Settlers first came to Hebron, which is the legendary burial place of Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in 1968, after Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan in the Six-Day War.
It has seen atrocious violence by both sides over the years, resulting in Israel's division of the city into "H1" and "H2".
H2, which covers the Jewish outposts in the old town and the Cave of the Patriarchs, a holy place for Jews and Muslims, is a mosaic of secure zones designed to keep settlers and Palestinians apart.
Hebron: from Arab market to ghost town
Israelis and foreign tourists move freely under the eyes of 600 Israeli soldiers armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers.
But Palestinians are forbidden to have shops on "yellow" roads. They are forbidden to drive on "purple" roads and forbidden to walk on "red" roads. Palestinians who live on red roads have had their doors welded shut, forcing them to use ladders to go out the back way.
Most Palestinians who can afford to have moved to H1 because life in H2 is intolerable.
Meanwhile, settlers have broken into old shops in a derelict Palestinian market to extend their homes.
The toxic atmosphere is on show.
On a wall beside the house of one H2 Palestinian family, which is headed by a deaf woman, Hebrew graffiti says: "The deaf woman is the daughter of a bitch." Another Palestinian home is known as "the cage house" because it needed to instal metal cages on its windows to stop Jewish settlers from smashing them.
"Hebron makes Belfast at the height of The Troubles look sane," Daniel Seidemann, a lawyer with the Israeli NGO Terrestrial Jerusalem, told this website, referring to sectarian warfare in Northern Ireland under British occupation .
Yehuda Shaul, from the NGO Breaking the Silence and a former Israeli soldier who served in Hebron, said: "The settlers are trying to make the situation here into normality. They don't care if it's taking a long time because they see history in Biblical terms."
"The House of Contention will lead to more clashes, more secure zones, more army patrols, and the emptying of more Palestinian neighbourhoods in H2", he added.
The Cage House
Levi Shlomo, who lives in The House of Contention with his wife and seven children, surrounded by razor wire and guarded by three Israeli soldiers, sees things differently.
He calls it "The House of Peace."
He said his group bought it for more than $1 million from an Arab owner and that it could house 50 people. "I am free to live anywhere I like. I could buy a house in London, or in Tehran, so why not here?", he told EUobserver.
"I love Hebron. I was born here and my children live here," he said.
"There's 4,000 years of Jewish history in Hebron. It's written in The Bible. Jacob said: 'Our place is here: Israel, and the centre point is Hebron.' These are not my words. Jacob said them."
He said the H2 secure zones were the Palestinians' fault.
"There are good Arabs and bad Arabs. Some of my neighbours invite me for tea, and others threaten to kill me … If they want real peace, then why don't they just let us live here?", Shlomo said.
He believes that peace talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have made matters worse.
"Ever since the peace process began, all we've had is attacks and violence, stone throwing and shooting at cars. Twenty years ago there was no peace process, but we had peace," he said.
House of Contention/Peace
The situation in the South Hebron Hills and in Hebron is also replicated in other parts of the West Bank.
Over the past 50 years, the Jewish settler population has grown from almost zero to more than 500,000.
Some settlements house tens of thousands of people and have schools and hospitals. Settlers drive to Jerusalem or Tel Aviv on Israeli-only roads passing the Green Line - a strip of paint on the asphalt - in the blink of an eye.
Left- and right-wing Israeli governments have come and gone. But settlements, bypass roads, and secure zones have multiplied. They have encircled Palestinian population centres and severely restricted movement.
The Hebron-like mozaics of secure zones are also replicated.
One highway from Jerusalem leads to a tunnel that is Area C (Israeli control), the hill above it is "Area A" (Palestinian control), and the airspace above the hill is Israeli-controlled.
The current Israeli government is a right-left coalition, dominated by the right-wing Likud party of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He says he supports a two-state solution: a Palestinian state next to a Jewish state.
Shlomo at home
His foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is a settler, however.
The housing minister, Uri Ariel, is also from the hard right and has called for a new synagogue on Temple Mount, denigrating Arab rights in one of Islam's holiest places.
One Israeli official echoed settlers such as Hebron's Shlomo.
"We have a right, a claim to the entire West Bank - the last time it had any sovereignty attached to it was during the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire doesn't exist any more … so the West Bank is terra nullius - a land without sovereignty attached to it in legal terms," the official told EUobserver in Jerusalem.
"It's the cradle of our civilisation and it was taken during a defensive war", he said.
He added: "We're not forcefully displacing people, but we have allowed Israelis who want to live in the West Bank to go there."
Paul Hirschson, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, noted: "We don't accept that there is an 'occupation' or that we're an 'occupying' power. It [the West Bank] is disputed territory, not 'occupied territory'."
He said Israel would dismantle some settlements if there is a peace deal with the PLO.
"We'll get the raw end of the deal in terms of real estate. They'll get 90 percent to 100 percent of the land, we'll get 0 percent to 10 percent", he said.
"The settlements already built constitute something like 1.7 percent of the West Bank and have zero impact on the viability of a future Palestinian state. It's not intellectually honest to say that settlements are preventing us from reaching an agreement," the spokesman said.
Shlomo's son
Hirschson believes Palestinian people are not ready to make peace.
"If Israelis felt, deep down, that the Palestinians, and the Arab world more broadly speaking, are ready to recognise that we're here, that we're here by right, not by an accident of fate, and that we're not going away, we'd have a reconciliation by now," he said.
"We will resolve this. But we have to believe in it. We're not suicidal", he added.
He denied the allegation, made by Nawaj'ah from the South Hebron Hills, that settler violence goes unpunished.
"In every single case where we've got credible evidence, people are prosecuted," the Israeli spokesman noted.
The last round of Arab-Israeli peace talks ground to a halt in April, prompting mutual recriminations.
Israel said the Palestinians broke trust by planning to form a new government with Hamas, a Palestinian group in Gaza that was designated as a "terrorist" entity by the EU and US.
It also complained that Palestine applied to join UN treaties in a bid for statehood outside the negotiations.
Friday in Hebron
Xavier Abu Eid, an advisor to the PLO's negotiating team, notes that, Muslim states aside, even friends of Israel, such as the 28 EU countries and the US, considered the West Bank to be "occupied territory" and settlements to be "illegal under international law".
"To say settlements are not an obstacle to peace is nonsense. They are the main obstacle … If you steal an apple from me, and everyone accepts that it's mine, then you say 'let's talk' while you are eating the apple, there can be no talks," he told EUobserver in Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital.
"They are turning Palestine into Swiss cheese, making it impossible for us to connect, to have access to natural resources," he said.
"I'm not surprised Mr Hirschson is saying these things because he works for a settler ministry. His boss, Lieberman, lives in a settlement and when he drives to work each morning, he drives on a settler-only road which we call 'The Lieberman Road.' It's something you didn't see in the worst days of apartheid in South Africa," he added.
"They don't treat Palestinians as equals. They think that we're second class people who should be happy with what they leave us … They talk about recognising their 'rights,' but what they really want is for us to recognise this narrative," Abu Eid said.
'The deaf woman is the daughter of a bitch'
Politicians aside, numbers tell their own story.
Territorial Jerusalem, the Israeli NGO, has calculated that during the past nine months of peace talks Israel published plans for 13,851 new settler units - four times the yearly average before the talks began.
Breaking the Silence notes that while existing settlements constitute less than 2 percent of the West Bank, Israel has allocated another 9.5 percent of it for their future development, settlers farm on a further 1.5 percent of land, and settler councils have jurisdiction over 40 percent of the territory, creating a zone where Palestinians cannot build.
"There is even more land blocked for Palestinians due to military firing ranges, military camps, nature reserves and archeological parks," the NGO's Shaul said.
"Now tell me who's being 'intellectually dishonest,'," he added, referring to Hirschson's phrase.
Israeli authorities declined to give EUobserver data on how many settler attacks have ended in prosecutions.
But Yesh Din, another Israeli NGO, in a study in 2013 of 825 police investigations in the West Bank found that just 70 ended in an indictment. Seven hundred and forty seven were closed mostly on grounds of "offender unknown" or "insufficient evidence." Eight were closed because files had been "lost."
"The implication of these statistics is that … 84.1 percent were closed due to investigational failure on the part of the police," the NGO said. The 2013 figures are almost identical to ones published by Yesh Din every year since 2005.
Arab man in Hebron
The EU is wary of appearing to take sides in the conflict.
It voices complaints against the PLO.
A recent one is about "incitement" - anti-Semitic statements and support for anti-Semitic content in media. It has warned that if EU countries lose faith in the peace process, then the tap of €1 billion a year in aid to Palestine will run dry.
It also criticises Israeli settlements and settler violence.
Its foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, and foreign ministers have published dozens of objections to settlement expansion.
Lars Faaborg-Andersen, the EU's ambassador to Israel, told EUobserver in Tel Aviv that settler violence was "unacceptable and even more unacceptable if it happens with impunity, which, unfortunately, is the case in most of the instances".
In the past, the EU did little to enforce its policies, but there are signs of growing frustration with Israel.
Information war
The EU recently imposed new guidelines on grants for Israeli entities to stop them spending European money on activities in "occupied" land.
It also went against Israel on Palestine's Hamas deal and its application to the UN conventions.
John Gat-Rutter, the head of the EU mission to Gaza and the West Bank, told this website in Jerusalem: "I think it [the Hamas pact] can actually be a helpful contribution to the peace process. After all, the Israelis need to make peace with the Palestinian people, not half the Palestinian people."
Faaborg-Andersen said he was still "studying" the Hamas accord.
But when he listed "unilateral measures" which are "adverse" to peace talks, he named exclusively Israeli actions: refusal to give Palestinian authorities access to customs revenues and deposits in Israeli banks; refusal to authorise "master plans" for new Palestinian homes in Area C; settlement expansion.
Even the US is saying painful things to its old ally.
US secretary of state John Kerry in April told an event in Washington that Israel risks becoming an "apartheid state".
His logic was that if there was no two-state solution, then Israel would either have to permanently disenfranchise Palestinian voters, or stop being a "Jewish state" because demographics would create an Arab majority. "A unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens, or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state," he said.
The EU's Faaborg-Andersen shares Kerry's concerns.
"Yes. Absolutely. That's a point that we, as many others, are making to Israel all the time - this [a two-state solution] is also in their clear interest," he told EUobserver.
EU diplomats praise Netanyahu for his "courage" in releasing Palestinian prisoners during the recent talks. They also think his hard-man image is useful because Israelis trust him to guarantee their security if he makes a deal.
But they are unsure of his real intentions.
Hebron synagogue
Asked if the history of settlement expansion looks like spontaneous growth or like a strategy to undermine Palestinian statehood, Faaborg-Andersen said: "They [settlements] make the two-state solution more difficult because they're dividing the West Bank into a patchwork of small enclaves … [So] one can look at a map and one can judge for oneself on that."
Gat-Rutter added: "The fact settlement activity increased after the peace talks were launched last July shows it was a political decision."
Another EU contact noted: "The problem about the demographic challenge to the Jewish state is that it's like climate change - it's too far down the road to cause pressure, while Netanyahu is making decisions based on immediate political gains or losses."
The EU is prepared to increase pressure if need be.
Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the UK have already introduced national codes on labelling settler products in shops, harming Israel's reputation in the eyes of consumers. But the EU is preparing to publish a Europe-wide retail code if Israel ignores its appeals.
"It's in the drawer in Brussels and I think that if we go ahead, there would be, in private, a great deal of support from the White House," an EU diplomat noted.
Faaborg-Andersen said: "While there's no particular timeline for when this scheme will be presented and subsequently implemented, it's quite obvious that the issue on labelling will come even more to the forefront if the kind of settlement expansion that we have seen in the recent year continues in the future."
Bedouin olives: Small trees indicate settler vandalism
Israel's Hirschson played down the idea that Israel is becoming isolated in terms of diplomacy or public opinion.
He told EUobserver: "I honestly don't see the isolation: Jewish people have incredibly deep historical ties to Europe. At the same time, the extent of Israel's relationship with the EU and with individual member states is enormous. The levels of trade, of foreign investment in Israel, of security co-operation, of co-operation in science and in high-tech industries, are all greater now than they have ever been."
But EU diplomats say the relationship has a flip side.
One contact noted that mainstream Jewish voters would not be happy if Israel became a pariah state on Netanyahu's watch. "Jewish people have a very strong attachment to Europe and they are very sensitive to European sentiment," the EU source said.
There are worse case scenarios, however.
Gat-Rutter said: "My personal view is that today there isn't an appetite for a Third Intifada [Palestinian uprising]."
But he added: "There are provocations taking place every day, on Temple Mount, in Hebron, in Nablus, in Jenin, and there are regular skirmishes between Gaza and southern Israel, so there is plenty of potential for an outbreak of violence."
Faaborg-Andersen noted: "We're certainly very far away, fortunately, from the situation we had during the Second Intifada … but we could easily get into a downward-moving spiral that could spin out of control and then, eventually, we might hit a really hard rock."
Bedouin women at home
Seidemann, from Territorial Jerusalem, agreed.
"I don't smell the kind of volatile atmosphere I smelt in 2000 [the start of the Second Intifada]," he told EUobserver.
But when asked if an incident like the stone which hit Rashida could cause a new outbreak of fighting, he answered: "You have to remember the First Intifada started with a traffic accident … The Palestinians are tired. There will come a time when there is one settlement unit too many to bear, or when someone throws a pig's head at Al Aqsa [a mosque on Temple Mount]".
"Living in Jerusalem is like living in Los Angeles on the San Andreas fault: You can feel the pressure building, but you never know when the earthquake will strike."
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BP Comment Quick Links
December 17, 2007
The Week in Quotes
December 10-16
"The response by baseball was slow to develop and initially ineffective... Players who follow the law and the rules are faced with the painful choice of either being placed at a competitive disadvantage or becoming illegal users themselves. No one should have to make that choice."
"Anyone interested in fairly assessing the allegations against a player should consider the nature of the evidence presented, the reliability of its source and the absence of procedural safeguards individuals who may be accused of wrongdoing should be afforded."
"If you are going to say every single one of these guys must be punished... are we going to have another inquiry to find out if there are other names back then? Because it's clear these are not the only names. There are very, very many others. We know that."
"All that Mitchell is doing is that he is reporting a fact. That is not libelous. It's a factual report about what someone said. It could be true; it could be untrue. ... [Mitchell] is not vouching for the correctness. He is just reporting that this is the information that was provided to him."
"I don't think there were a lot of surprises or anything. It was pretty much everybody you suspected, people who had been talked about in the past. Everybody knew the names that came out."
"It was definitely not a good day for baseball. I definitely was a little surprised by all the players on there."
"He's testified in public and I believe he's the kind of person that's going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn't use steroids, and I believe him. Still do."
"Now, of course, anyone who has been named would like to see everyone else named, but that means you never get to the end of it."
"I don't know what it's going to accomplish. I think we've done a lot to change our policy on the subject. We've agreed to stronger testing. I just don't know what this will do to change that."
"Senator Mitchell recommends certain changes in our program. We will review and consider what he has to say. We have demonstrated a willingness to continue to improve the program, and the program itself allows for midterm modifications."
"According to McNamee, during the middle of the 2000 season Clemens made it clear that he was ready to use steroids again. During the latter part of the regular season, McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times with testosterone from a bottle labeled either Sustanon 250 or Deca-Durabolin that McNamee had obtained from Radomski."
"He is a piece of shit. First of all, he is an alcoholic. He is a troubled soul and has got so many demons in his closets. He has a lot of problems in his life."
"This guy is very jealous. His ego is such that he has to be the guru."
"If Roger is guilty of anything, it's that he has a big heart. He has got to feel betrayed."
"I really don't think this would deter him from playing. He might think it would change the public opinion on him further. People would think, 'Why
would he come back and put up with all of this abuse if he did it?'"
"These are only accusations that somebody made. That doesn't mean he's guilty. Let's see what develops. These are no proven facts."
"This is it--two days out of my life; two days out of my entire career, when I was injured and on the disabled list."
"I wasn't looking for an edge. I was looking to heal. I have the utmost respect for baseball and have always tried to live my life in a way that would be honorable. If I have let down people that care about me, I am sorry, but I hope that you will listen to me carefully and understand that two days of perhaps bad judgment should not ruin a lifetime of hard work and dedication."
"I have tried to do things the right way my entire life, and, again, ask that you put those two days in the proper context. People that know me will know that what I say is true."
THE NEEDLE-SHY GUYS"I don't even know who Kirk Radomski is. If he walked up to me right now and said, 'Hello,' I would not know who he was."
--former MLB outfielder David Justice, on accusations he bought HGH in the Mitchell Report.
"I want to see the check that shows me paying something to a Kirk Radomski, because I don't even know who he is. I didn't pay for [any] human growth hormone, ever. He said to me that if you take this HGH--that was the first time I had ever heard of it--he said that if you take this, it will help you in your recovery from your injury."
"He said, 'Listen, I will put it in your locker, check it out.' When I looked at that and saw that it was needles, I said, 'No way, dude. I can't do needles.' Everybody knows that about me--I don't do needles. And I'm really glad that I chose not to do it. Now that I know about it, that would have been the worst thing for me to do."
"It's a serious situation, and I'm trying to take it as serious. It's my name, and I'm going to treat my name with respect and the game of baseball with respect."
"I want the fans of Boston to know that the Red Sox had no idea of the contents of this report because I didn't have any knowledge of the contents of this report. I just want to make it clear for anybody who thought there was any shady activity going on, it's just totally false and we're still currently talking with the Red Sox and looking at a deal when I do come back from Tommy John. It was understood I was getting taken off the roster months before."
"I walk around with my shirt off. If I had anything to hide I wouldn't do that. I really don't know what to say. I asked my agent about legal action, but he said it wasn't worth it. Maybe the president [of NBC] will write me a nice letter."
"People have to understand that the weight lifting program was always a big part of the deal there, more so than in a lot of places. I never saw anybody's body type, like say Miguel's, go from a size three to a size 15. I saw some guys get a little bigger and stronger, but I remember seeing Miguel and Jason and guys like that go to the weight room right away after every game, very dedicated to what they're doing. I told [then-Reds GM] Jim Bowden the same thing when I
interviewed with Cincinnati in 1999. He said, 'They've got some big guys over there in Oakland; how's that all happen?' I said, 'These guys are in the weight room all the time.'"
"Obviously there's been a problem in the game, and anything that goes toward fixing it is good, but a lot of it seemed like the biggest dog-and-pony act I've ever seen. There's no doubt it needs to be cleaned up, but it's really unfortunate they had to put on a circus act, trying to destroy guys' images."
"I know some people think a lot of people turned a blind eye to this or whatever, but that wasn't the case with us. The coaches are preparing for the next game, the next series, making sure guys are ready to pitch. We're not in people's lockers, poking around."
"When they started testing [for steroids], some guys continued to dabble in HGH and find other sources, even though HGH was red-flagged. To me, that's the biggest issue, the HGH stuff. We have to find a way to get that out of the game, too."
"I said the exact same things I said during that period. Jose was getting bigger and stronger without putting the work in, and comments were made to him by the staff. We made note of it to him. Did I make a mistake of not going up to him and grabbing him around his neck and demanding to know what was going on? Maybe so. But we let him know what we thought."
"I never saw one thing, and I'm old school enough that if I did see something I would have brought it to someone's attention. I'm not the Moral Majority, but I'm telling you I wouldn't want to have something like that going on a club I'm supposed to be in charge of. It never came up and it was never an issue. Now one guy says that it was? I'm calling baloney."
"But I want to make a point, and I'm not being flippant. But I have no desire to be in the Hall of Fame. I mean no disrespect to the Hall, but it should be for players and really special personalities. If someone wants to discount me, and take away 1,000 wins from my record and tell me I'm not getting in, that's fine. I was never worried about that. I never set that up as a goal."
"They don't pay me enough to lie and to cover things up. This is not espionage work. This is baseball, and I am definitely not going to let somebody say something that I know in my heart is a total fabrication. We had a lot of really good young men on those teams, and for them to be lumped in with that kind of a blanket statement where everyone was doing something, amazing. I don't think so."
"Did I ever look into a guy's eyes and think he's on something? No, never. Did I ever smell anything in that clubhouse or on the plane or on the buses? Never. If we had a bunch of marijuana smokers, I never smelled it. I can't even remember people staggering off a plane. I don't remember one incident, anybody being unruly on a plane or on a bus, anything. I never once went into the dugout and thought, 'Gee, I wonder who's high and who isn't.' Never happened."
"By far that's the thing that's bothered me the most about the whole entire thing. [Bigbie] threw Brian Roberts' name out on complete hearsay. Calling it hearsay would be giving it more credibility than it deserves. I'm at a loss as to why Brian Roberts' name would come out of his mouth."
"Brian Roberts has never met Kirk Radomski, at least not in my presence, who has admitted to taking steroids and to providing Radomski's contact information to several players who wanted to know more about performance-enhancers. And I don't know wherever else he would have met him."
"I'm not worried about damage control on my part, I don't care about that. What I care about is Brian Roberts. He is the kind of guy you want your daughter to marry. He is the kind of guy you want your son to grow up to be. Leave him out of this [stuff]. He has nothing to do with this."
"I think he has one of the biggest gripes in the report, that his name shows up among other players with specific evidence. There are canceled checks, eye witness reports of injections. But the sole evidence on Brian is the word of a guy who has been accused of using steroids and recalls one piece of a conversation. I think Brian has the biggest gripe of them all."
"When we traded Tim and Mark, we felt we had a group of players we could still compete with. Frankly, we need as many young players as we can get right now."
"We struggled with this even last year. We had confidence in those players, we just couldn't keep that group on the field. It wasn't easy making a decision like this, because you do hope for things to work out, but once it got to this point... this is clearly where we were going. And we're going to go full-bore."
"You have to wonder. That's a question mark. After the winter meetings, we all took a sigh of relief when we didn't do anything, but now there might be a few of us. I guess we'll just wait and see."
"Losing our ace, that's tough to deal with. You've just got to trust your management knows what they're doing."
"One of the hesitations of the Oakland deal was giving up depth, which is invaluable. I think the Houston deal brought back some of that depth."
"We're excited about Valverde. A lot of those saves were one-run games. This is something we worked on for a long time. It made all the sense in the world for us to do it. This brings us closer to being a champion."
"They were absolutely prepared from the start and were willing to talk about a number of young players. We talked about almost everybody in their organization at some point in the process."
"He made it evident at that time that they were moving on and that in light of the time of year, they felt it best to not let any more time pass before they made a decision."
"Tony had a significant impact on our club and our maturation as a club. As a result, we made a strong offer early and allowed a lot of time to pass. Unfortunately, for this circumstance, we were so deep into the offseason that a series of moves changed the complexion of the roster."
"I think if they can prove he (Clemens) actually cheated, he should be punished for it. I don't have the time of day for that stuff."
"No, I didn't. I was very anxious, and was not confident. The turning point was when I got my own interpreter one month after the season started. Being able to communicate with people through the interpreter made my being there more comfortable and then I was able to focus on playing baseball."
"It was going to involve giving up some of our good, young players. We talked about moving Tejada to third base and [Ryan] Braun to the outfield. [Tejada] would have done that for a team that was a contending club. It was going to be [giving up] some of the players that might have impacted our club; we felt it wasn't the right thing to do. Houston made a good deal. They got a good player in Tejada and the Orioles ended up getting five players back. We just weren't going to give up that kind of package for Tejada, who would have been signed for two more years."
"We had no knowledge of who was going to be on the list. We made the trade because we thought it really improved the Houston Astros. We were excited about Tejada, and we still are."
"We are a fraternity of 30, and people really don't understand... unless they sit in this chair they don't know the difficulty in navigating through the many minefields that confront you in the job. When you're talking about some of the issues in regards to this, there are no clear-cut answers in terms of how to go about solutions."
"Unless you have hard truth, you're just taking the word of a clubhouse guy. If you have anything with substance, we want to know. We want to rid that [drugs] out of the game, but I think you have to have some evidence. You just can't take someone's word for it."
"He was always the heir apparent, he just needed the right situation. He's not a media hound. He doesn't mind being in the background, which is different than his father."
"I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been (in) a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work as I've done since I was a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level."
Alex Carnevale is a contributor to Baseball Prospectus.
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Roderick Bombard score 19 and Gainesville graduate George Manomano had 14 points to lead Truett McConnell to a 73-68 road win over Young Harris on Monday.
Truett McConnell (7-8) trailed 34-32 at the break, but opened the second half on a 10-3 run and held off the Mountain Lions (3-6) down the stretch.
Young Harris' Frank Adams led all scorers with 27 points, while Tyler Thomas added 13 points and Daniel Chatchou grabbed a game-high 17 rebounds for Truett McConnell.
The Mountain Lions will host Southern Wesleyan at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; the Bears will host Emmanuel College at 4 p.m. Saturday.
TENNESSEE WESLEYAN 54, BRENAU 53: Amy Jo Castor hit a pair of free throws with no time left on the clock Monday night to lift the Lady Bulldogs to a win over the Golden Tigers on Monday.
Gabby Harvey (14 points, 11 rebounds) and Nikki Reed (13 points, 11 rebounds) led Brenau (8-3), while Tanya Khudiakova added 11 points and four blocks.
Brenau led 26-19 at the half before Tennesse Wesleyan (10-3) battled back to tie the score at 30. The Tigers took a 53-52 lead with 2.7 seconds left in the back-and-forth game before Castor's free throws delivered the win to the Bulldogs.
"I was really pleased with our defensive effort, particularly in the first half," Brenau coach Gary Bays said. "We continue to struggle offensively, both around the basket and from long range, and that has to improve if we hope to contend in the conference."
Brenau will open play in the Southern States Athletic Conference when it hosts Brewton Parker at 2 p.m. Saturday.


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In a world where business is driven by competitive advantage, power and wealth, it is easy for happiness to take a back seat. But we know that the ultimate goal of happiness has the power to bring not just well-being, but also career prosperity.
Randstad's consulting psychologist and author of the best-selling book 'Emotional Capitalists', Dr Martyn Newman, has found evidence that illustrates strong links between particular emotional skills and our health, well-being and wealth in his research.
"We have found high levels of emotional capital lead to increased productivity, and as many studies show, happy people are more creative, solve problems better and more quickly, live longer and enjoy high levels of leadership influence. When people feel better they perform better."
So how can we feel happier more often? Some of the following points may surprise you:
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No more than 10 - 15% of your overall satisfaction is down to "outward conditions", such as wealth, being in a committed relationship or high IQ.
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Although there is a basic level of genetic predisposition for happiness, genetic studies also illustrate that the future of a person's life satisfaction is not set in stone. To this effect, a study of 4,000 sets of twins concluded that only about half of life satisfaction comes from genetic programming.
"This means that half of our future happiness rests in our own hands," Dr Newman says, "We are neither at the mercy of our moods nor our environment, but rather our emotional well-being is more in our control that we ever imagined"
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"Repeated emotions like joy or sadness act like drops of water on a rock. Each one evaporates quickly, but over time many drops carve out a channel. Fortunately, it is not only negative emotions that can become entrenched with regular use – optimism, too, can become a habit."
As well as the effect of practising positive thoughts, another fundamental finding from the science of happiness is that almost everyone feels happier when they're with other people, especially when they are contributing to the lives of others. As Newman states, "Practicing kindness, compassion and other virtues lifts your stocks of emotional capital. Giving makes you feel good about yourself and it creates meaning in your life".
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The NCAA is trying to get as serious and threatening as its ever been when it comes to punishing programs and teams. New rules are in place. Here's what you need to know.
It's Aug. 1, which means the NCAA's new enforcement program officially takes effect.
The NCAA on Thursday released a reminder that new order is in order.
"The new enforcement structure creates additional levels of infractions, hastens the investigation process and offers stauncher penalties for the most egregious violations," the NCAA said in a statement. It also adds this effort will continue "to offer harsh consequences (postseason bans, scholarship reductions, recruiting limits, head coach suspensions, show-cause orders and financial penalties) that align more predictably with the severity of the violations. The new penalty structure also places a premium on aggravating and mitigating circumstances in each case."
A lot of this action comes in the midst/quasi-aftermath of the Miami investigation, which is still not complete, and has drawn plenty of criticism, much of it (for legitimate reasons) in the past year. It should be noted the NCAA in 2011 put in plans to redefine its enforcement structure before the Miami case became a debacle; it just so happens that mishandling of said case ran parallel to the NCAA's reset on this. Talk about appropriate-yet-terrible timing on that one.
All in all, it's a big day for college hoops coaches and NCAA programs in general. These changes could one day very well affect the program you love. So, here are the elements to this you should know. The first, as we passed along last October, is that college coaches will be held more accountable for every transgression that takes place under their watch. The NCAA put many months into studying and restructuring the way it governs itself, watches for cheaters and then hands out punishments to the violators. Feedback deemed the NCAA was too soft or too loophole-riddled when it came to letting coaches off the hook. No more. Coaches can no longer put their head in the sand on any cheating in the program whether they legitimately knew about it or not.
There are now four levels of cheating a coach can commit with suspension penalties that range from 10 percent of a season to an entire year's worth. Read about the tiers here.
In terms of expedience in hashing out cases and coming to conclusions, that's clearly a big point of emphasis. The NCAA in general is pledging that cases of all shapes and sizes simply will not take the time (read: multiple years) to complete. Uncertain timelines on the lifespans of infractions cases has been a consistent criticism of the NCAA for a very long time.
(Recently, Miami football coach Al Golden acquiesced to the fact his team will have to play under a dark cloud for the third straight season, awaiting a verdict from Indianapolis.)
Finally, the Committee on Infractions -- once a 10-person board -- is expanding with the option of as many as 24 people on the jury, so to speak. The NCAA is actively bringing in more voices from different background including, for the first time, recruiting former college coaches. Notable names on the new COI are former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr and former Georgia Tech hoops coach Bobby Cremins. The entire roster is here.
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HTC's Q4 forecast shows that the company is still bleeding money
0. phoneArena posted on 05 Nov 2013, 08:41
The story of HTC is really beginning to scare us a bit, due to the parallels our minds instinctively draw. A company of zero repute in the 1997, HTC became one of the biggest (contract) manufacturers...
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1. roldefol (Posts: 4365; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
I could not recommend HTC to someone inquiring about iPhone replacements, even with the One's premium materials and sound quality. It's hard to push a company that's clearly in trouble. They need a saviour, and quick. Lenovo? ASUS?
4. 14545 (Posts: 1676; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Dear god no, Asus has worse QC than anyone. And if you have ever dealt with their warranty program you would never want to deal with the company again. That being said, it's sad. I really like the ideas they have, and they make decent products. Just pray they don't break.
7. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
Seems like a Taiwanese thing, their QC is horrible for both Suck T C and Asus. Acer was the worst but surprisingly they seem to be the only Taiwanese company going in the right direction as far as quality is concerned now.
8. Mittal (Posts: 494; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
They need to realize the importance of competitive offerings in low-mid range
Their currents mid range devices are ridiculously overpriced for what they offer
Kindly change yourself HTC....
10. Finalflash (Posts: 3527; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)
They need to differentiate themselves more. There is a massive android following for AOSP and just pure vanilla that no one but Google is targeting with their limited nexus offerings. HTC could easily target that market and make mad money but they would rather compete with juggernauts like LG and Samsung. Apple makes an insane amount of money on a small share of the market. Copy that model a bit and target a segment of the market that the opponent isn't targeting with a range of devices that are good.
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just like the ''wii u''.maybe its the ''brand''. cant they have a more friendly name? htc...sounds kinda annoying or weird to say.
3. roldefol (Posts: 4365; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
They have some name recognition, but it's more related to their being the first to sell Android phones. Once Samsung took over with the Galaxy S series though, HTC was no longer synonymous with Android. So while LG, Sony, and Samsung are recognized leaders across electronics, and Nokia and Motorola have decades of history selling phones, HTC is kind of a non-entity.
That's why they might be better off under the ownership of an established tech giant like Lenovo or Asus, two companies that have yet to get a toehold in phones, at least in the west.
5. mottykels (Posts: 387; Member since: 15 May 2013)
They are so over pricing with thier phone thats why they are lossing all
6. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
They are trying to cut more costs? Your quality control is what landed you in this mess in the first place. Last thing you need to do is cut even more corners......
9. 14545 (Posts: 1676; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Not just cutting corners, but doing so while not listening to what we as the consumer want. We asked for better batteries(removable or not) and SD cards. We get neither. That's why I refused to buy the One when I upgraded. I bought the S4. Not to mention, why are they still lagging on updates. Sure the one got an update, but they still refused to support their older hardware. (DNA, Rezound, etc.). Screw them. That's why my rezound is now just a dash cam.


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50 retired racehorses due to be put down find new home helping to rehabilitate prisoners
In the world of horse racing, once a horse reaches the end of its professional career, it very seldom has the opportunity for a quiet and peaceful retirement.
Once they grow too old or become too injured to continue competing, most owners opt to put their horses down rather than bear the cost of maintaining an animal that will bring in no further prize winnings.
In an effort to address this depressing practice, an Australian program has been running for a number of years in a minimum-security prison to the north of Sydney.
As part of the program, the St Heliers Correctional Centre has accepted a total of 50 retired racehorses since 2011 that would otherwise have been likely destined to be put down. In return, the horses provide a valuable resource for the prisoners that would otherwise not be available.
For example, the horses are made available for recreational riding, equestrian events, police work and as companion animals. They also provide a useful resource to help rehabilitate inmates by offering a wide range of new skills.
The governor of the centre spoke to the media regarding the program, saying: "It just adds another dimension to the rehabilitation of the inmates, but then also obviously contributes back to the horse industry and the animal welfare aspect of it… It's great then to see them re-homed and go on and live happy lives after the track."
"We've got about 48 horses here on site at the moment and about 10 inmates involved in their handling and then retraining… They're really excitable animals [but] with that gentle handling from the inmates and the care and attention that's taken with them, they turn them right around."
The prisoners are tasked with caring for the horses, and also for maintaining the facilities that house them at a farm adjacent to the centre. It is hoped that some prisoners will gain skills that could be used to gain employment in the racing industry following their release from prison.
The prison itself also has a number of other inspiring programs that help the inmates feel a sense of worth, such as the vegetable farm where food is grown that ends up being served in over 12,000 daily dinners served in prison meals across the state.
For the horses, it's a win-win scenario. Instead of having their lives abruptly terminated after their brief careers come to an end, it's a way for them to enjoy a new lease on life during their retirement. Animal rights groups are united in their support of the program.
"For so long we have campaigned for former race horses to be rehomed and repurposed rather than sent to the glue factory," said a spokesperson for a Sydney-based group. "This program is one of the things that we hope can be rolled out in other parts of Australia in future."


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Healing for the Brokenhearted
Healing for the Brokenhearted
We live in a world of shattered dreams and broken promises. Things in our lives do not always work out in the way we envisioned them. Sometimes life deals us a bad hand. Sometimes life throws us a curve that knocks us for a loop. Bad things happen to us. It may involve the shattered lives of our children, family, loved ones or close friends, or the death of a loved one. No one could have predicted the devastating loss of life incurred on September 11, 2001. This was something that was not supposed to have happened on American soil. Yet it happened. Life's tragedies are unpredictable. Two years ago, my daughter died of cancer. She was the mother of three young children. Parents are supposed to outlive their children.
This brief passage from Psalm 147:3 quoted above reminds us that when life throws us an unsuspected curve, we are not alone to face life's difficulties and uncertainties. God's Spirit is always present with us to wipe the tears from our eyes and to comfort us. God came in the person of Jesus Christ to be near us in good times and in not so good times. Nothing that happens in our lives catches God by surprise. God has made provisions to not only ease our pain and suffering, but to ultimately overcome any evil that befalls us. Jesus' death on the cross was, in part, to take our pain and suffering upon himself. He is our weight bearer. He came to heal our broken hearts.
Millie Stamm, in her inspirational book Be Still and Know, gives a wonderful illustration to help us to visualize how completely God in Christ is able to heal our broken hearts and to put our lives back together so that we can experience the shalom of God. She tells of a cathedral in Europe that had a beautiful stained glass window that was broken during a strong storm into many small pieces. The pieces were gathered and stored.
A skillful craftsman from outside the village learned of the damage of the glass window. He came to the village to ask permission to restore the window. Reluctantly the villagers gave him permission, but they had little hope that anyone could repair their shattered window. Months passed without word from the stranger. Then one day the stranger returned with the window. He replaced the window in the cathedral. He invited the people to come and see the restored stained glass window. To everyone's amazement, the restored window was now more beautiful than it had been originally. This was truly a miracle.
When we give the broken pieces of our lives to God, God receives them as a skilled craftsman, and God miraculously makes our lives better and more beautiful than they were before. However, this can only happen when we are willing to give God all of the pieces of our broken lives. Yes, we must give all of the "shattered pieces" to God. Jesus is God's handy man. God specifically sent Jesus to us, to mend our broken hearts. (See Isaiah 61.) Jesus is not a stranger but a friend who loves us and knows what we are feeling and going through.
The Psalmist tells us that the Lord is close to all who have a broken heart (Ps. 34:18). What is keeping you from giving God all the pieces of your shattered dreams and broken promises? Place them on the altar of God's grace. Picture Jesus Christ lovingly and tenderly taking the pieces of your brokenness and putting them back together to make you well and whole. Thank Christ for putting the pieces of your life back together, and for making something even more beautiful from them. Ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live your life more fully and more faithfully than before.
Pray for a friend, loved one, family member, or co-worker that is experiencing a broken heart in some area of their life. Continue to pray for him or her until you see all the brokenness put back together.
John I. Penn was Director of The Upper Room's Healing and Wholeness Ministry.
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Jacare came out on fire in this fight and has now made a large case for why he is one of the best middleweights in the world. He's at the top of his game and put his tremendous skills on display for the fans tonight in Brazil.
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As Okami was throwing a kick Jacare landed the overhand right and dropped Yushin to the canvas.
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Jacare Souza Wins via TKO at 2:47 of Round 1
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