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What I'm going to try to do is get in to some of the questions that you asked and do as many as I can in just forty minutes or so that we have.
Now let me answer one regarding this, it said, "I see that someone is speaking on MacArthurism, could you let us know from the pulpit what your belief is on the blood of Christ?"
I have done that in the past and just in order to touch base with the fact that he may have created some questions in your mind. Through the years there has been no question about what I believe regarding the blood of Christ, none at all. For twenty years that I've been preaching here, and all the myriads of books and tapes and things that have come out of the church and my ministry, no one needs to question anything that I believe about the blood of Christ. I believe that Jesus died on the cross and literally shed His physical blood. He died as a sacrifice for sin.
I saw a letter the other day from someone who said that Christ could have died any other way as long as He died. That is not correct, that is not true. I do not believe that. He had to die by being lifted up. He had to die shedding blood in a sacrificial way to fulfill the pattern of Old Testament prophetic truth. I believe what the church has always believed.
And somebody always says to me, "Well why are they always attacking you on the blood of Christ?" And I need to tell you what I have mentioned before that this basically has very little to do with theology, it has very little to do with the blood of Christ and everything to do with trying to discredit me. And so they're trying to pick an issue that is volatile, misrepresent what I believe just for the sheer sake of sort of attacking me.
I will never forget, of course, when this first came out. It came out in a magazine put out by a Christian college that I denied the blood of Christ. I called the president of the school and I said, "You know better than that, you know me, you know exactly what I believe, you know what I teach, why would you do that?"
He said to me on the phone, "We've made a terrible mistake."
I said, "Well is there some way you can correct it?"
He said, "No, we could never do that."
So he admitted to me that it was a mistake personally over the telephone. What was curious about it was I heard from a faculty member that there was a faculty prayer meeting there, a prayer meeting with the administration in which the request that was given for the prayer meeting was, "Lord, help us find a way to discredit the ministry of John MacArthur." Now that was the prayer request. Now if you're seeking to do that you can find some way, I suppose, to do it. For some reason perhaps unknown to me these people have decided to try to discredit our ministry and to attack our belief on the blood of Christ, that is the sufficiency of the atoning work of Christ for salvation would be definitely a way to upset people, and that's what they've done. But what we believe about the blood of Christ is available for all to see, in fact I gave a special communion message on that a number of months ago, and I believe exactly what the Bible teaches and what the church has always believed...was always believed. And I just think we have to just keep dealing with this onslaught because of the effort to discredit.
And I realize there are ramifications of this, I realize that. I realize that people have left our church over the last couple of years, it's been a tough two years, and part of it has been the endless attacks on our church. I know there have been attacks on our church but we just keep trying to be faithful to the Word of God, moving ahead. If you have any question about what we believe on the blood of Christ, you can read the New Testament and we believe that...exactly what it says.
Another person wrote a question, another practical question."T"This week in the newspapers it was reported that some experts, in fact they called them biblical scholars," I read the article,"b"biblical scholars met to discuss the Scripture regarding the Second Coming of Christ and they voted and twenty-seven out of thirty of the scholars voted that Christ did not promise to return a second time." So the article in the Daily News, I think it was, said that Bible scholars now agree that Christ will not return a second time and it's foolish for us to start a cult of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ because biblical scholars now know that He never said He would come again.
You know, that...that's difficult to understand in the light of the fact of several things, but one Scripture that comes to mind that seems to me to be rather significant, Jesus said this, "Heaven and earth will pass away, My words will not pass away, but of that day and hour knows no one, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son but the Father alone, for the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah." And then He goes on to describe the coming of the Son of Man. And then...that's Matthew 24.
In Matthew 25 we find again that He is going to come and when He comes He is going to bring about judgment on the earth. Verse 31,"When the Son of Man comes in His glory and all the angels with Him..." Now how can twenty-seven Bible scholars vote that that's not in the Bible? You say, "How do they do that?" Well they just eliminate that verse. They just say, "Well that doesn't mean what it says and Jesus didn't really say that. Somebody fabricated that. Somebody said He said that." And so forth and so on.
You know, one of the distinguishing marks of the Christian church from the very outset has been a hope in the coming of Christ. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 1 it says, "For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven." That's basic to the life of the church. Peter calls it a living hope. We have a living hope in Christ's return in spite of what these men say. We have to come up with a new definition of scholars, I think.
Here's another question of a different nature. And by the way, these are not necessarily related, I want to cover as many as I can so I won't take a lot of time on them. "Should Christians drink wine coolers?"
Perhaps some of you were hoping this question didn't come up. Should Christians drink wine coolers? Let me just give you a brief response to that.
A wine cooler is an alcoholic beverage. It is my own personal conviction that I do not drink alcoholic beverages of any kind any time and there are several reasons why. Reason, and they're not in a particularly spiritual order, but reason number one is the fact that I believe the Bible warns very, very strongly about drunkenness and very, very strongly about losing control in dissipation, Ephesians 5:18, "Be not drunk with wine in which is dissipation but be filled with the Spirit." If I'm going to be under the control of something I want it to be the Holy Spirit, not some substance.
Beyond that I am convinced after studying the Word of God and studying the backgrounds around the Word of God that that wine which was imbibed in the time of the New Testament, and even in the Old Testament, was highly diluted with water, five to one, six to one, seven to one, eight to one. And wine...and they really drank water if you want to see the true picture and they simply purified the water by putting a little bit of fermented wine in it because it...it killed whatever else would be in the wine that might cause them some physical problems. But it was not the normal drink of the time of our Lord for people to drink unmixed wine. You read in the Bible about two kinds of drink, wine and strong drink. Strong drink was unmixed and those who drank strong drink drank it for the purpose of drowning their problems. The wine that was consumed in the Bible was very definitely mixed with water extensively. Because you lived in a warm climate, the land of Palestine was hot, the very fact of thirst could contribute to a high consumption of wine. In order to prevent drunkenness they mixed it with water so that your body could not hold the amount that it would take to inebriate you.
So, that simply to point out to you that I don't think you can advocate wine drinking from the Bible unless you have diluted it sufficiently with water as they did in biblical times.
The other reason that I will give to you as to why I don't believe that Christians should drink wine is simply because of what the apostle Paul says, "The kingdom of God is not food and drink," Romans chapter 14. And he says if anything that I eat or drink offends my brother, I won't do it. Now I have lived long enough to have dragged enough people out of saloons to have tried to patch up enough shattered devastated lives, to have tried to put together families and marriages that have been devastated by alcohol to have a healthy hatred for it. And since we live in a culture where alcohol is only an option, not a necessity, it seems to me without particular constraint for us to consume that kind of beverage. I certainly would not want to be responsible for giving someone else the idea that it was okay to drink alcoholic beverages and then watch them in an out-of-control way be destroyed by what they saw me do. And so, in deference to a weaker brother, in deference to not making someone stumble, I choose not to do that. And since there's no compelling reason to do it because there are so many other things to drink, it has no place in my life.
Another question, what is dominion theology? Have you heard about that? Dominion theology, that's a new label for a new kind of theology, and they're always new theologies.
Dominion theology comes in a lot of forms, but I think what you're probably talking about is John Wimber who is now advocating a new kind of dominion. Let me give you this very simply, okay?
Dominion theology espoused primarily by John Wimber who is networked through a group of churches called The Vineyard churches, but basically what he is saying is that as believers we are to take power over Satan and demons. We are to exercise dominion over them.
There is another kind of theology that's existing today it's called Liberation Theology. It is a form of theology that says that the church is to take dominion over the institutions of the world. That's another form of dominion theology, or kingdom theology. And what it basically says is that the church's mandate is to take over the institutions of the world. That's the liberation theology side. And what dominion theology says is that we are to take over the powers of darkness, we are to take over the demons and we are to take over the spirits and we are to dominate Satan, we are to take dominion. And that's why they talk about power evangelism, talks about power healing. In other words, he trains people supposedly to invade the satanic world and take dominion over demons, that we as Christians by living in the natural world and by just moving around in the visible world have failed to exercise the power that we have to literally take over the satanic world. You hear them talk about binding Satan, have you heard that? Binding demons, pleading the blood on demons, pleading the blood on Satan, taking dominion over not only demons but all of the institutions of the world that are infiltrated and influenced by demons. And they believe that whatever people's problems are tend to be demon induced and it gets extreme. No matter what it is it's a demon and you have to take dominion over these demons. And that is why they talk about power evangelism. They say you cannot evangelize without signs and wonders, you have to overpower the demonic world and demonstrate your divine power to the lost in order for them to be saved. Power healing--break the bondage of demons and so forth.
It is unbiblical. We are never told, never told to take dominion over demons. We are told by James, "Resist the devil and he will...what?...flee from you." We are never told to bind Satan. We are never told to bind demons. We are never told to plead the blood on Satan or demons. Listen to Jude 9, "Michael the archangel when he disputed with the devil argued about the body of Moses did not dare pronounce against the devil a judgment but said the Lord rebuke you." Even Michael who is super angel did not dare rebuke Satan but rather said, "Lord, You take care of him." And if Michael as a holy angel does not take to himself the exercise of authority over fallen angels, where would we find a mandate to do that? The Bible simply tells us that if you want to deal with the enemy, you put on the whole armor of God, right? You put on the whole armor of God and you'll be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. We are not called to take dominion over the institutions of this world.
We are not called to take dominion over demons and over the devil. We are called to get on our spiritual armor, to resist that demonic world and trust in the power of God who does take care of them.
Another question, isn't it true that only the regenerated, that is only the born again, the saved people, can communicate with God for the purpose of solving their problems?
The answer is yes. The only ones who have access to God are those that are His own because the only access to God is through whom? Christ...Christ. It says, "No man comes to the Father except by Me." You can't go to God on any terms for any reason unless you come through Christ. The way has been opened for us, the way has been opened for us and that's what the writer of Hebrews means when he says, "Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace to find help in time of need." No, there is no promise in the Bible that God will answer the prayer of an unsaved person, no promise at all. God is not obligated, God is not bound. God has made no such promise because there is no access to God, access only comes through Christ.
You say, "Does that mean that God does not always...or God does never do for a person what they ask done?"
That's a very difficult question. It's been asked a number of times. I would venture to say that an unbelieving, unsaved person might pray a prayer to God and say, "Well, God, I wish I had a wife," and three months later find a girl and marry her. Or he might pray, "You know, I wish my mother would get well," and maybe his mother gets well.
So it is possible that circumstances could appear to...to look like God answered a prayer when in fact it was just the working out of the providential plan of God anyway and the prayer was irrelevant to what God was going to do. I mean, if you pray, "Lord, heal my mother," only one of two things can happen, either she does or doesn't get healed. And if she does it doesn't mean God answered your prayer, it just means she got better.
But it is also true, and I want to say this, that God may for His own purposes hear the cry of an unregenerate person. The point is this, He is not obligated to do that. There is no claim on that because you see in John it says, "If you ask anything," Jesus said,"in My...what?...name." If you come in Christ's name, if you come in Christ then the Father will do it. He has no obligation to answer the prayer of an unregenerate person though sometimes He may in His sovereign choice and sometimes it may appear as if a prayer has been answered simply by the way things turned out.
In 1 Corinthians 7:29, someone asked, what does Paul mean when he says, "Those who have wives should be as though they had none." Now you could really preach on that passage and get in a lot of trouble. "Those who have wives are to be as they...as though they had none."
What he is talking about there is in context, he's talking about the significance of living a godly life in an ungodly culture. And as the apostle Paul is talking here about marriage and singleness, he says basically, verse 27, "Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife, do not seek a wife." You're a Christian, you're living in the end times, don't seek to get married. If you should marry you haven't sinned and if a virgin marries she hasn't sinned, yet such will have trouble in this life and I'm trying to spare you."
You know what he simply says? You get married, you complicate your life. Is that true? Yes....yes. Now wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold your wife's hand so she feels good. You do complicate your life because now all of a sudden you cannot do strictly what you would desire to do, you must be sensitive to the needs of a life partner. There is a complexity. You have introduced a very, very significant factor in to the quotient of living your life so you're going to have some trouble, you're going to have some distress.
I'll tell you one way you have it, before you were married you had the pain, for the most part, of your own troubles and now when you got married you have the pain that you bear in your heart because you bear the pain of the one you love so much. Marry someone and I'll make you a promise, somebody is going to live with grief because somebody in that marriage is going to die and that's pain, that's deep pain. Get married and I'll tell you something else you're going to have very likely, children. You say, "Children are a blessing." Yeah, you have children and I'll promise you something else, you'll have pain, you'll have trouble, you'll have anxiety that you wouldn't have if you didn't have children. It's just built into it. Multiply the people who are in my heart and in a troubled world you multiply the trouble of my heart. It doesn't mean I don't love them, no it reflects the fact that I desperately love them and that's why there's so much anxiety and such a burden to carry.
He says then in verse 29, "I say this, brethren, the time has been shortened so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none, and those who weep as though they didn't weep, and those who rejoice as though they didn't rejoice, and those who buy as though didn't possess, and those who use the world as though they didn't make full use of it, for the form of the world is passing away.
What he is saying is...Look, if you're married don't consume yourself in the matters of that marriage. That's what he's saying. Don't get all embroiled in that. Why? Verse 32, "I want you to be free from concern." One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord. Verse 33, "One who is married is concerned of the world, how he may please his wife and his interests are divided."
So, Paul is simply saying if you can stay single you have an undivided interest in the kingdom. As soon as you get married you have a divided interest, the kingdom and your wife, the kingdom and your kids. And so he's saying if you can do it, try not to lose yourself in all of the details of your life. That's why he means by be as though you had no wife. In other words, don't lose yourself. He's not saying get rid of your wife. He's not saying be indifferent to your wife, cause that would contradict many other Scriptures. But what he is saying is live your life as if this world and this marriage isn't the end of everything, isn't the purpose for everything.
And this is what I've been saying recently, consume yourself on the kingdom together. You know, this is such a basic point and I shared this with you a few weeks ago. You watch people...you watch the day in which we live and you watch how all this data about marriage is telling two people how to adjust to each to each other and you spend all your time doing that, all your time doing that. And when the real issue is if I live for the kingdom and if I am consumed with the glory of Christ and if my wife is consumed with the glory of Christ and the will of God and the purposes of Scripture and we lose our lives in that, then marriage is rich and wonderful because it's not focused on us, it's focused on Christ. And Christ pours back into that marriage all of the spiritual blessings that a marriage must have. But today the trend is to focus on each other and find out what your husband ought to know about you and what your wife ought to know about you and how you can adjust and move and shift and get along, and you spend your time being consumed with that. He's simply saying you're married, you're married in the difficult time when the kingdom must advance and sin is rampant, try to keep your focus on the kingdom, don't be consumed with the things of this life.
Okay, another question...can the people in heaven see what we are doing? Do they know what we think?
There's nothing in the Bible to indicate that they know what we think and there's every reason to assume they could care less. There is nothing in the Bible to assume that they could see what we were doing and there is every reason to assume they could care less about that.
Let me tell you something, folks, when you go to heaven you are lost in wonder, love and praise and you will gaze on the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be taken into the rapture of having reached perfection. There will be NO desire on the part of anybody to look back here and there is no indication that they can see back here anyway. There is none.
And I know it's a kind of a whimsical thing to think...My saintly grandmother who is now in heaven is looking over the edge and watching me. Don't you believe it. Your saintly grandmother isn't the least concerned with you and your daily routine. Your saintly grandmother is totally captive to the majestic, unimaginable glories of the eternal dwelling place of God.
Another question...is there such a thing as a carnal Christian?
Yes, in fact there is no such thing as a Christian who is not at times carnal. Did you get that? And if you're saying to yourself,"I've never been carnal," God have mercy on you.
But let me tell you what people mean by that. There was a definition of a Christian as a carnal Christian, as if that was a permanent condition. And they used to teach, people in the church used to teach...there are three kinds of people--natural, carnal, and spiritual. And they would define the natural person unregenerate, unsaved, self on the throne, life in chaos, sin everywhere.
Then there's the carnal person. What's that? It's a Christian, that's a Christian who still has self on the throne, Christ is in there somewhere running around but He's not in charge and the life is still in chaos. So the only difference between a natural and a carnal person is that Christ is in there somewhere but the life hasn't changed.
And then thirdly there's the spiritual Christian, self is off the throne and Christ is on it and the life is all in order. And so people came up with the idea that you could be either a carnal Christian or a spiritual Christian...you know, once you're saved you could say..."Well, I'm going to stay a carnal Christian, I like it better." And that brings in this whole idea of lordship because those are the people who accepted Jesus as Savior, but not as Lord. Those are the people who said, "I don't want to go to hell and I want You to save me from hell, and I want You to forgive my sins, I just don't want You to run my life." And the old definition of a carnal Christian was a person who believed in Jesus for salvation but didn't let Him be Lord and didn't let Him run his life.
That's not what a carnal Christian is. That isn't at all what Paul had in mind in 1 Corinthians chapter 3, not at all. Let me show you what it is. There's only two kinds of people in the world, my grandfather used to say, the saints and the aint's, that's it...Christians and non-Christians, believers and unbelievers.
Now listen, the natural man is the unregenerate. The spiritual man is the regenerate man. Read Romans 8, the spiritual man is the regenerate. But the spiritual man can act in a fleshly way. Any time you disobey the Lord, you're carnal. Any time you obey the Lord, you're spiritual. Any time you do what you ought not to do, you're carnal, that means fleshy, you're operating off the principle of sin. Any time you do what the Lord wants you to do, you honor the Word, you're spiritual. So carnality is not a permanent state of Christians who haven't given Christ lordship, carnality is simply a momentary experience of the believer who is disobedient to God. So it's not a state, it's simply a kind of behavior, okay? And all Christians at any given moment, right now, right now, this moment here, you're either carnal or spiritual depending on whether you're functioning in the Spirit or in the flesh. If you're sitting there and the Spirit of God is teaching you and you're enjoying what's happening, the Spirit of God is at work, you're a spiritual person. If you're sitting there saying, "I don't like what he's saying, I don't buy any of this stuff, I reject all this stuff, this stuff isn't true," you have hostility in your heart, you may be dealing with sin and you don't like what I've said, maybe you're still on the wine cooler thing, I don't know, your flesh is reacting, that's carnality...that's carnality. Understand? Okay.
Here's another question...although a Christian's sins have been forgiven...that's true, 1 John 2, "My little children, He's forgiven you all your trespasses,"...will Christians still have to give an account for their bad deeds at judgment?
You know, I remember when I was a little kid hearing some guy say, "You know, you may be a Christian but some day all your sins are going to be flashed on a big screen." Did you ever hear anybody say that? Boy, it scared the life out of me. I thought to myself,"W"Well what's the sense of forgiveness if all that stuff is going to happen then?" And I've heard people say that.
But that is not what the Bible teaches. Your sins are forgiven and even God Himself says, "Your sins and iniquities I will remember no more, they are removed as far as...what?...the east is from the west." How far is that? That's far. The east is from the west, they're buried in the depths of the sea, they are forgotten by God, they are cancelled because of the blood of Jesus Christ.
You say, "Well wait a minute, doesn't it say that we have to give an account?" Yes, but listen to 2 Corinthians, this is very important, chapter 5, it says, verse 10, "We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ." Now the word here is notkrino, verb, or krima which means condemnation, or even katakrino which is even a stronger word, it's not damnation, condemnation, judgment punishment, but the word isbema and it is the bema that was speaking of a reward. I was in Corinth, the ruins of Corinth, and they took me to thebema that was there. And whenever they had the Corinthian games which was a major athletic event, they would take the winners up on the bema and what it was was a place of rewards. Okay? Not a place of punishment. Only the winners went there.
So he is saying here we'll all appear before the bema of Christ so that each one may be rewarded for his deeds in the body. The only evaluation for us future will be the level of reward we should receive. And then he says this, "According to what he has done whether it is good or bad." And would you please note that word "bad"? That's the word in the Greek phaulos, it really means useless, worthless. It's not kakia, evil, wicked, it's useless. And what is left then to evaluate there...our sins are forgiven, our sins are covered, the only thing to evaluate is what out of our life was spiritually valuable and thus worthy of reward and what was just worthless, useless, inconsequential, like mowing the lawn, or whatever. Not evil, just you don't reward it spiritually.
So I believe that our reward in the future is going to be a reward related to what we have done and that the dross will be burned away. The useless things burned away and what is left will be the gold, silver, precious stones. The other things aren't bad. Remember 1 Corinthians 3...wood, hay and stubble. Wood isn't bad. You build things out of it. Hay isn't bad, horses eat it. Even stubble is used to make bricks. But it just doesn't have any spiritual value and when fire gets to it, it burns it up. So there will be a reward for us but it will be the gold, silver, and precious stone that is left after the rest is set aside by which we will be rewarded.
And the apostle Paul looked forward to that with all his heart. He said, you remember that as he looked to the future, there would come a time when God would reveal the hidden things of the heart, 1 Corinthians 4:5, and then he said, "Then shall every man have...what?...praise from God." The only thing that will be at the coming bema will be praise and reward, sin will be already done away with. It has already been exposed and it has already been covered at the cross of Jesus Christ.
Here's another question...the Bible is clear on the fact that we should not use images of the Lord. Why do we use pictures of Jesus to teach our children?
Well that's an interesting question. Are we disobeying the Word of God? No, let me give you what I think might be a helpful answer. By the way, I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to believe that you should never have a picture of Christ at all. That's fine, I don't argue with that at all. In fact, personally I don't like pictures of Christ. I don't know why, I just...I don't care for them personally. I don't think they're wrong in this sense, it is one thing to have an image of Christ which is worshiped. It is another thing to have a representation on paper which is clearly not worshiped. And it is the heart attitude that is the issue. When the Old Testament commandment said that we are to not make images of God and we are to not make idols, the point was the purpose of worship. And, of course, remember now, that is the Old Testament and God was a spirit and had no image. But even God made Christ into an image that could be seen, right? He is the visible image of God, Hebrews 1. God actually appeared in a visible form.
And so, if in children's books there are pictures of Jesus, as long as we don't worship the picture as if it were Jesus or God, as long as we understand that it is simply a representation of a man that really did walk on the earth and really did live on the earth, I think we can make a distinction in the minds of children. We're not worshiping the picture. We're not drawing an image of God. God Himself came in the form of a man and we're simply reproducing the form of a man in which God came, not that the form is to be worshiped at all.
If a man is chosen by God for the ministry and later has to step down because of some sort of moral indiscretion, will God ever restore this person to the ministry?
Well let me have you look at 1 Corinthians 9:27 and just briefly give you a comment. The answer, I believe, is it depends on what the ministry is. I believe a person can fall into moral sin and be restored to some kind of ministry. But I believe that there is some ministry in which a man cannot engage himself, and that would be the ministry of preaching and teaching the Word of God as a pastor or elder. And I want you to look at 9:27 of 1 Corinthians, Paul gives us a very important statement here. Please notice verse 27,"I"I buffet my body," that's buffet not buffet, same spelling different meaning, "I buffet my body and make it my slave." Literally the word buffet means to give a black eye. It means to punch. I subject my body, make it my slave. Why? "Because I have this fear that after I have preached to others I myself should beadokimos...in the Greek...disqualified." And the word literally means to have been tested and tried and found inadequate.
Paul says...My great fear is that after I have preached to others I myself should be disqualified. I believe it is possible after having preached to be disqualified. You say, "What disqualifies you?" It's very clear from the verse. I beat my body into submission because it is my body that will disqualify me. Misuse of the body is a disqualifier for ministry. I have never heard anybody that talks about restoration deal with that verse. Paul says I have to beat my body into submission because it is those sins of the body.
You say, "Well what are the sins of the body?" Well he's already talked about them in this very same epistle. Verse 18 of chapter 6,"F"Flee immorality, every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body." And so Paul says it is immorality that is the unique sin of the body, so it is that I must control that immorality so that my body doesn't fall into immorality and in so doing render me disqualified. From what? From preaching, from the role of leadership.
Now maybe a person could come back in some ministry in some other way, sure. Restoration to the church, yes. Restoration to usefulness to God, yes. But restoration to a pulpit, restoration to an elder, how can it be? A man is to be blameless and above reproach. A man is to be a one-woman man, it says it as clearly as that in 1 Timothy and Titus. That man is not blameless who commits adultery. That man is not above reproach. That man is not a one-woman man. And the model has been shattered.
You see, spiritual leadership is not just a question of what you say, it's a question of what you are. It's the integrity of life. If you think spiritual leadership is just preaching a good sermon, raising the budget, moving the church, keeping things going, then you can get anybody in the pulpit. But if standing in the pulpit and spiritual leadership is all about the life you live, then the integrity of the man is crucial.
So, yes, persons who fall into sin can be restored to the church, to fellowship. They can be restored to some level of usefulness and serve the Lord. But I believe once they have shattered the model, they cannot step back as an elder, as a pastor, because they are no longer blameless, they are no longer above reproach. They have shown themselves not to be a one-woman man.
And that puts a heavy burden on the ministry. It really does. But it is one which the Spirit of God gives us the power to bear.
One final question, then we're going to sing a little bit...one final question...I like this question...how do I know the will of God for my life? I had about ten people ask that. How do I know the will of God? I'm trying, I'm praying, I'm asking how do I know if it's me, if it's God...so forth and so on, how can I know the will of God?
I have a simple little formula and if you get this in your mind I think it will help. Okay? First thing you do is go to the Bible, sound reasonable? You go to the Bible, find out what the will of God is.
Good, let's look very quickly. First Timothy chapter 2 verse 3 and 4, and I'll quote it from the Authorized Version. Verse 3 and 4, "God our Savior who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." First thing God's will...God wills is that you be...what? Saved...you be saved. You want to do the will of God? Get saved, come to Christ.
Second thing, Ephesians chapter 5 verse 17, it says, "So then do not be...what?...what is it?...foolish." Do you think of a word that means the same and starts with "S"? Right. Don't be stupid,"B"But understand what the will of the Lord is." Now let me ask you a question, if you don't know the will of God what are you? What are you? You say, "Is that in the Bible?" It says don't be stupid, know the will of God. If you don't know the will of God you're stupid.
So now wait a minute. I'm..it should say...don't be foolish but try to find the will of God. No. You say, "I'm looking, I'm looking." Well don't look too far it's in the next verse. "Do not get drunk with wine for that's dissipation but be filled with the Spirit."
First thing God wills is that you be saved. Second thing He wills is you be Spirit-filled. Spirit-filled, what does that mean? Controlled by the Holy Spirit, that's God's will...that's God's will.
First Thessalonians chapter 4...1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 3, you know it's amazing to me people running around looking for God's will, I've seen this through the years, you know, I'm trying to find God's will, I'm searching for God's will, you know. And they get real mystical, they think they're going to run down the street, slip on a banana and land on a map of Argentina, you know, and that's a missionary call. They're waiting for God to say something out of heaven, you know. They...look, verse 3, this is the will of God, "Your sanctification." God wills that you be saved, God wills that you be Spirit-filled, God wills that you be sanctified.
What do you mean by that? That you abstain from...what?...sexual immorality, that's God's will. Stay away from sexual immorality. You see, God's will is very, very specific.
Look at 1 Peter chapter 2...1 Peter chapter 2 verse 13, "Submit yourself for the Lord's sake to every human institution whether to a king as one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and the praise of those who do right, for such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men." Fourth thing, be submissive, submit to the authorities, be a model citizen, do right, that's the will of God. That's the will of God. Very basic...that's God's will.
God's will is that you be saved. God's will is that you be Spirit-filled. God's will is that you be sanctified. God's will is that you be submissive. And then would you notice in chapter 3, verse 17 of 1 Peter. "It is better if God should will it so that you suffer for doing what is right." How committed are you to doing what is right?
Five things...saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, willing to suffer for doing what is right. You say, "That doesn't help me know God's will." Sure it does...sure it does. Let me tell you something. If you're saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and doing right to the degree that would even suffer, you know what the next step in God's will is? Whatever you want.
You say, "You're kidding." No because who is controlling your desires? Do you know what it says in Psalm 37:4? "Delight in the Lord and He will give you...what?...the desires of your heart." Do you know what that means? That doesn't mean delight in the Lord and He'll give you what you want. What it means is delight in the Lord and He'll give you the desires of your heart. He'll put His desires in your heart.
People say, "Why did you go to Grace Church?" I say, "I wanted to." Oh...you wanted to? That's not very spiritual. Well it is if I'm saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive and suffering because who's in control of my wants? God leads through your desire, beloved. But don't trust your desire unless the things you know of God's will are true.
Simply this is the system. If I am doing what is already revealed as God's will, then I'm not going to have any trouble with the part that isn't revealed. Right? He's going to lead me to the right place, lead me to the right people, lead me to the right relationship. Guys always say...how do I find the right wife? Very simple, be the right husband. You be all that God has called you to be, you be living in the will of God, saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, suffering if need be for what is right, and if you're the person that God has designed you to be then God will lead you the next step and give you the desire of your heart for the woman that he wants you to marry. God moves through desires in the heart of a person who is committed to Him.
Well, I hope those few questions were helpful and there were many, many more and we'll have another question and answer time in the future. Let's pray together.
Thank You so much, Father, for the joy of being together tonight. We love You. Thank You for saving us through Christ, thank You for the clarity of Your Word. Thank You for the joy of the Spirit who is in us and for the fellowship we enjoy with each other because of Him in Christ's name. Amen.
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SPIDER-MAN AT 50: It's the 50th anniversary of Marvel's greatest icon, and all year Hero Complex will talk to notable names about the character's success and singular appeal. Today: A few thoughts on the hero from Damon Lindelof, the co-creator of "Lost" and screenwriter of "Prometheus," "Cowboys and Aliens" and the upcoming "Star Trek" sequel.
GB: It's the 50th anniversary of Spider-Man, is he one of your favorite characters? If so, why?
DL: Seriously, who doesn't like Spider-Man? Tell me who that person is so I can punch them. Why is he so special? There are so many reasons. First and foremost, his entire origin story is wrapped around the idea that he made a horrible error in judgment… that his own selfishness resulted in a terrible tragedy that he is personally responsible for. This would be the equivalent of Kal-El callously ignoring Krypton's impending doom or young Bruce Wayne pushing his parents into a dark alley behind the theater and then slamming the door behind them. Peter's guilt over his own complicity in Uncle Ben's death is nothing short of revolutionary.
GB: The humor was also new or different, certainly, in its tone…
DL: Much is said of how great it is that Spidey is a wise-ass … that he doesn't take himself as seriously as his caped brethren. I never interpreted it this way as I'm fairly certain that Peter's one-liners, while pithy, were actually a defense mechanism for being completely overwhelmed and scared while he was fighting bad guys. It is this fact — that Peter felt like a real teenager — that made him so revolutionary.
GB: What aspect of Spider-Man do you identify with most?
DL: I suppose it's the idea that Peter Parker was a geek. A bespectacled science nerd who was relatively invisible to the more popular kids … and daringly chose to stay invisible by wearing a mask that completely covered his face (had any major hero disguised themselves that thoroughly prior to '62? I don't think so) even though being Spider-Man easily would have made him the coolest kid at school.
— Geoff Boucher
Andrew Garfield: Fame terrifies me
Darywn Cooke: I found career in Spidey comic
Spidey film: Denis Leary's date with destiny?
Romita's 'Spider-Man' more amazing than ever
Neal Adams: The monster genius of Spidey
Marc Webb feels 'responsibility to reinvent'
'Spider-Man' ARG: A mystery arrives in the mail
'We're reclaiming the poetry of the hero'
Raimi: 'I would have done everything differently'

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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Sep 2006 21:10 UTC
Contrary to popular belief, Mac OS X does have a 'blue screen of death', only it's grey instead of blue, and it's called the kernel panic screen, and it sure does scare the pajeezers out of you if you just bought a Mac (sadly, I can know), and it has had this screen since 10.2; before that, the error information was spilled as raw data straight on the screen. Amit Singh writes about the history and workings of this kernel panic screen, and provides methods of modifying it, or turning it into the 'raw data baby' version. And yes, you can even make it look exactly like the real BSOD. Die-hard Windowfying OS X, this.
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Funerals held for Newtown, Conn. victims
NEWTOWN, Conn. - There were more painful goodbyes today in Newtown, Conn. following the elementary school massacre that claimed the lives of 20 children and six staff members.
Funeral services were held today for James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos, both 6.
The first-graders were among the 26 people gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday.
Several wakes were also held today, including one for Victoria Soto, a teacher who sacrificed herself to save many of her students.


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I am literally in tears and at wits end. Please help if you can! My oldest son, who is 3 now, had a dairy allergy when I was nursing him. I had to cut out all dairy (including ingredients and what not). He grew out of it by the time he was nine months....I thought that it was "hard." I nursed him until he was 13 months.
Well now I have my little 6 month old...so when he started having symptoms of
allergy at about a month old I knew exactly what to look for. So we took him in,
got it confirmed that there was blood in his stool (even though I couldn't see it)...
so I cut out dairy again. Nothing got better. I had no idea what to do, and all the
sites on infant food allergies say to cut out dairy, soy, wheat, corn, eggs and
peanuts. Well that pretty much left me with chicken and vegetables for a diet.
About a month ago I introduced wheat back in, and he started reacting again. He wasn't fussy during the day at all, but he was pooing a lot more. Like two times a
day instead of once every few days. But his sleeping (which has never been good
EVER... a "good night" is only waking up 2 or 3 times) got much worse. We couldn't get more than 45 mins of sleep at a time. I took him in to the doctor again to
check, and sure enough there was blood again.
So I cried. I really enjoyed my sandwiches that I ate that week. But then I was doing research and found that sometimes the vaccines have soy in them, and he had just got a round of vaccines a week or so before they tested his diaper. So now I'm wondering, could it have been the soy from the vaccine that caused the blood in the stool?
I don't know what the heck he is allergic to. Yes I could "test it out" by introducing things....but say I introduce wheat...and then he reacts....and then i have to wait a month...then soy...then wait a month....it seems like there are so many foods to test and in the meantime months are passing and my kid is getting big and I am BARELY keeping up enough milk for him now. My body is really struggling because I can't hardly eat a thing and so it's really hard for me to make milk and in return that is making for some really crappy nursing sessions (he doesn't "comfort nurse"...if there is no milk coming out right away he gets very upset and pulls off over and over until I FINALLY have a let down)...and my nipples are sore and he seems hungry all the time. And he wakes up all the time crying from hunger.
I am feeling so depressed lately because I am HUNGRY...and TIRED.... and I can't eat anything. I just want a taco. I am seriously considering going to the expensive sensitive formula. I am the biggest breastfeeding advocate EVER....so I cringe when I say it....but what else am I supposed to do? He's hungry, I'm hungry, neither of us are sleeping. And since my diet is SO limited, is he even getting the vitamins his little body needs from my milk? I have no idea. I heard of getting allergy tests done to see for sure what all he is allergic to...is that a good idea? Please help!
OR..should I just eat the wheat anyways even if he is allergic to it? He didn't sleep well but for the first time in months I had enough milk to make both of us happy. Ugh.


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CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- New York State Police from the Cortlandt barracks charged a White Plains man with threatening a family member and violating a protective order, police officials said.
Gerald R. Martin, 46, violated a Order of Protection when he called a family member and made graphic and specific threats to harm the protected party, according to State Police.
Martin, who was out on $10,000 bail for allegedly threatening the same family member last weekend, was found and arrested in Scarsdale. He was remanded to Westchester County Jail without bail, State Police said.
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WikipediaRead full entry
Porphyra is a coldwater seaweed that grows in cold, shallow seawater. More specifically, it is a foliose red algal genus of laver, comprising approximately 70 species.[1] It grows in the intertidal zone, typically between the upper intertidal zone and the splash zone in cold waters of temperate oceans. In East Asia, it is used to produce the sea vegetable products nori (in Japan) and gim (in Korea). There are considered to be 60 to 70 species of Porphyra worldwide[2] and seven in the British Isles.[3]
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Porphyra displays a heteromorphic alternation of generations.[4] The thallus we see is the haploid generation; it can reproduce asexually by forming spores which grow to replicate the original thallus. It can also reproduce sexually. Both male and female gametes are formed on the one thallus. The female gametes while still on the thallus are fertilized by the released male gametes, which are non-motile. The fertilized, now diploid, carposporangia after mitosis produce spores (carpospores) which settle, then bore into shells, germinate and form a filamentous stage. This stage was originally thought to be a different species of alga, and was referred to as Conchocelis rosea. That Conchocelis was the diploid stage of Porphyra was discovered by the British phycologist Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker in 1949 for the European species Porphyra umbilicalis.[5] It was later shown for species from other regions as well.[1][6]
Most human cultures with access to Porphyra use it as a food or somehow in the diet, making it perhaps the most domesticated of the marine algae,[7] known as laver, nori (Japanese), amanori (Japanese),[8] zakai, gim (Korean),[8] zicai (Chinese),[8] karengo, sloke or slukos.[2] The marine red alga Porphyra has been cultivated extensively in many Asian countries as an edible seaweed used to wrap the rice and fish that compose the Japanese food sushi, and the Korean food gimbap. In Japan, the annual production of Porphyra spp. is valued at 100 billion yen (US$1 billion).[9]
- Porphyra dioica
- Porphyra linearis Grev.
- Porphyra lucasii
- Porphyra mumfordii
- Porphyra purpurea (Roth)
- Porphyra umbilicalis (L.) J.Agardh.[10]
Many species previously included in the genus Porphyra has transferred to Pyropia, for example Pyropia tenera and Pyropia yezoensis.[11]
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- ^ a b Kain, J.M. 1991. Cultivation of attached seaweeds. in Guiry, M.D. and Blunden, G. 1992. Seaweed Resources in Europe: Uses and Potential. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester ISBN 0-471-92947-6
- ^ Hardy, F.G. and Guiry, M.D. 2006. A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. British Phycological Society, London. ISBN 3-906166-35-X
- ^ Porphyra life cycle
- ^ Drew, Kathleen M. (1949). "Conchocelis-phase in the life-history of Porphyra umbilicalis (L.) Kütz". Nature 164 (4174): 748–749. doi:10.1038/164748a0.
- ^ Thomas, D. 2002. Seaweeds. The Natural History Museum, London. ISBN 0-565-09175-1
- ^ Mumford, T.F. and Miura, A. 4.Porphyra as food: cultivation and economics. in Lembi, C.A. and Waaland, J.R. 1988. Algae and Human Affairs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-32115-8
- ^ a b c Abbott, Isabella A (1989). Lembi, Carole A.; Waaland, J. Robert, eds. Algae and human affairs (Food and food products from seaweeds). Cambridge University Press, Phycological Society of America. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-521-32115-0.
- ^ Aoki, Y. and Kamei, Y. 2006 Preparation of recombinant polysaccharide-degrading enzymes from the marine bacterium, Pseudomonas sp. ND137 for the production of protoplasts of Porphyra yezoensis Eur. J. Phycol. 41: 321-328.
- ^ Morton, O. 1994. Marine Algae of Northern Ireland. Ulster Museum, Belfast. ISBN 0-900761-28-8
- ^ Sutherland et al.. "A NEW LOOK AT AN ANCIENT ORDER: GENERIC REVISION OF THE BANGIALES (RHODOPHYTA)". J. Phycol. 47 (5): 1131–1151. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2011.01052.x.
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Dear Editor:
Recent legislation introduced by Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick to limit the number of food trucks and establish "food truck zones" is disappointing to thousands of hungry New Yorkers.
The owners and operators of food trucks and carts are role models to emulate. They have all assisted our community, which faces an 8 percent unemployment rate. They also collectively provide several thousand jobs for both direct employees and suppliers. All pay taxes and are our neighbors.
The free enterprise system made our nation great. Economic growth and the creation of wealth comes from these brave entrepreneurs without the assistance of "stimulus" federal taxpayer dollars
Larry Penner


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MLS Boxscore: Real Salt Lake 2, Seattle 1
September 10, 2011
Qwest Field, Seattle
Referee: Mark Geiger
In their last match the Sounders lost to Real Salt Lake on Sept 10th and while they are still in a good position to make the playoffs they really blew a chance to pad their cushion in the Western Conference standings.
I say blew a chance, as Seattle only lost by 1 goal and in the match they missed a penalty shot and reliable Kasey Keller made an error that led to an own goal.
First the sure handed Keller was anything but on a pass from the far post, as he looked to have control, but he didn't and after mishandling it the ball went in the new giving Real a 1-0 lead in the 13th minute.
Keller said he was just trying to bat the ball away, but he did not accomplish that to say the least.
One key that may hurt the Sounders if and when they make the playoffs is their penalty shots. In the Real match Seattle's Mauro Rosales could have knotted the score at a goal apiece, but his penalty shot was far left.
Seattle has not converted in 3 of their last 8 penalty shots and those are free goals that have to be made, especially when the post-season comes around.
Real's Alvaro Saborío passed Keller with a shot in the 56th minute from 10 yards out to give the visiting a team the lead, which would stick.
The sounders' offense came out in this home match a bit sluggish, as they only had 4 shots on target (9 shots on goal total) and could not take advantage of the fact that they had 11 corner kicks while Real only had 2.
Still, with only 6 matches remaining in the regular season Seattle is in good position to make the post-season with the 2nd most points in the Western Conference 7 points behind L.A. and 2 points clear of Dallas, 3 points clear of Salt Lake, and 7 points clear of Colorado.
You heard it here the Sounders will make the playoff, not a shocking prediction with where they are in the table, but to go far in the post-season they cannot make gaffes like they did in losing to Real Salt Lake.
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What should be perhaps this year's best feel-good deer hunting story has turned into one of the most gut-wrenching.
It happened when a 12-year-old Wisconsin boy shot an incredible buck while hunting in a special youth-only gun-hunting season in October (click here to see the photo). The mainframe 10-pointer also sports several kicker points and easily surpasses Boone and Crockett record-book standards.
We'd love to tell the heart-pounding story and show you more photos of it, but, unfortunately, the family now almost wishes the buck never made an appearance that day.
Why? Well, it seems as though some folks in that community, who are apparently avid bow-hunters, aren't sharing any of the joy. They are allegedly jealous to the point of being peeved.
"We don't know if we even want to tell the story anymore," the father said during a phone interview with D&DH's Jake Edson.
It seems there is jealously and anger in the community over the fact that the boy was able to shoot this deer during a special youth hunt where kids were allowed to use firearms.
When I heard the report, my jaw hit the ground. How in the world could someone be jealous of a kid shooting a big buck? It happens every year, and those are the best deer hunting stories, in my opinion, because they embody everything that hunting should be about: excitement, luck and unbridled enthusiasm.
After doing some more background work on this story, we learned that at least one of the jealous hunters was upset because the boy shot what he considered to be "his" deer. The guy apparently had been holding out for this buck for several seasons and, in the process, had obtained several trail camera photos of the deer on his property.
After discussing this sad story with another friend of mine, we concluded that as our epiphany moment in trying to understand the mindset.
"That is so typical," my friend said. "A guy gets a trail-cam picture, and now it's 'his' deer."
All I can say is, "wow" — and not in an excited, gosh-that-is-so-cool tone, but rather in utter disbelief.
Wow … really … has deer hunting gotten this far off track? This twisted? This self-centered? What happened to our common-ground hunting kinship? Can we not extend our hand to a youngster in congratulations on his first buck?
Do people honestly believe that free-ranging whitetails — products and property of the public domain — are truly theirs merely because they planted a food plot that the deer ate from or hung a camera that happened to snap a photo of the animal as it walked about freely within its several-square-mile home range?
Gosh, I hope not.
Would someone please tell me I'm wrong?


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Candia, Hooksett officials discuss Manchester superintendent search
Candia and Hooksett board members couldn't make a session Monday, so a hastily-arranged session was arranged Tuesday.
Nicole LaFlamme, vice chairman of the Candia School Board, and Hooksett board members Kim Royer and Cheryl Askin met with a consultant to Manchester's search panel.
"It was a very good meeting," LaFlamme said. "It's a tall order to find a strong leader with a brilliant mind and a big heart for the leadership position."
Board of School Committee member Ted Rokas said after the boards missed connections, he wanted to try again.
"It was important to get their input, so we made the calls," Rokas said.
He called the meeting "positive," a view shared in the towns.
"A superintendent search is one of the most challenging searches you can do." LaFlamme said. "As long as they don't take ours, we're fine. We love Dr. (Charles) Littlefield."


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A new shop opens in Goffstown, though only for the holiday seasonBy MELISSA PROULX
Union Leader Correspondent
November 16. 2017 3:05AM
GOFFSTOWN — Apopeca may be a "pop-up store," but the decorations, gifts and antiques you'll find there are the familiar things of which holiday memories are made.
Located at 9 Church St., Apopeca is across the parking lot from Apotheca Flower and Tea Shoppe. If the names sound oddly similar, maybe it's because they share a founder, Alyssa Van Guilder, and the same staff.
Van Guilder, the creative director for Apotheca, says the pop-up store is an offshoot of a holiday artisan festival formerly held at the cafe and flower shop.
This year, Van Guilder said, she and staff wanted to bring it back, so earlier this month Apopeca had its soft opening.
The store offers an eclectic selection of gifts, decorations and other treasures sourced from local artisans, antique dealers and buyers.
"We missed being able to feature (them)," Van Guilder said. "The beauty of it is it's very much a collaboration. It's really not just Apotheca."
Pop-up stores — temporary retail spaces that set up for seasonal or event-oriented sales — have become a $50 billion industry, according to PopUp Republic, a company that promotes the concept for small and large companies nationwide. They often have novel designs, such as a giant shoebox built for an Adidas pop-up store, according to a PopUp Republic image featured at venturebeat.com.
Feedback from the community at Saturday's Apopeca grand opening was great, Van Guilder said. During the event, visitors learned to make holiday ornaments.
Van Guilder has an eye to continue the concept, possibly at a different location with additional space to accommodate workshops and other activities.
"That part, in particular, we are really hoping to continue," she said. "For now, our plan is to just focus on the holiday season."
Apopeca will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays until Dec. 31.


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What the hell ? No, we are not dead, far from dead actually, if you want to know what the reason for the rather long news delay was, follow the last couple of news on the nosferatuthegame.com front page (if you haven't done so yet).
Anyway enough excuses time for some content.
We showed you Frog's thug model before but this time he got a sweet skin to go with, made by the man himself. The skeleton, while not really a playermodel is used for the vampire dieing effect and various other things (map props etc.). To further aid your plessure, I included a nice highres render for each model.
Oh wait, what's that ? Can you trust your eyes ? Indeed, the first screenshots of the thug playermodel ingame (btw. the first public ingame playermodel pics)
Btw. we are targeting a closed beta release around x-mas, and right now the ETA looks pretty realistic.
Finally I would like to say thank you to all the fans who are still with us, even after the quite long summer break.


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NEW YORK (AP) — NBC's decision not to stream a feed of the Winter Olympic opening ceremony live in the United States didn't mean that video couldn't be found.
Links to the ceremony from other sources popped up online Friday on social media sites like Twitter, sometimes accompanied by complaints about NBC's decision. NBC has rights to Olympic video in the United States, but there are other rights holders outside the country that aired the ceremony live.
NBC said Friday that a "very small number of users" watched online instead of waiting for the network's prime-time coverage. During the London Olympics in 2012, NBC estimated that less than 2 percent of Olympics video viewed in the United States was not from NBC's official feed.
The network would not discuss anti-piracy efforts taken in conjunction with the International Olympic Committee.
The ceremony over, NBC is showing all of the competition live online or on cable TV. No decision has been announced on the closing ceremony, although NBC streamed that online. There is a nine-hour time difference between the eastern United States and Sochi.


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TNA taped the February 21st episode of Impact Wrestling last month in London, England. Thanks to WrestlingINC.com reader Paul Davis for sending in these spoilers:
Rockstar Spud vs. Robbie E. (w/ Robbie T.)
Short match but Rockstar Spud looked very strong as a character and seems to know his role within the match very well. The crowd are slowly gassing out at this point but still in good enough spirits to cheer for Spud throughout the match. The ending see's Robbie E. attempt to cheat by taking 'The List' from Robbie T. but Big Rob doesn't allow it and Rockstar Spud roles up Robbie E. for the win. After the match Spud runs off to the back and Robbie E. shouts at Robbie T. for not letting go of 'The List' and Robbie T. takes his, pink, shirt off and intimidates Robbie E. who shortly after runs off.
Winner: Rockstar Spud
Joseph Parks, James Storm, Hernandez and Chavo Guerrero vs. Christopher Daniels and Kazarian, Roode and Aries
Interesting to note is that Joseph Parks got a great reception from the crowd as soon as he appeared and tends to have an extremly distinctive presence from the other performers on the match. The heel teams of Bad Intentions and Roode & Aries fall out of favour with each other very quickly and Roode and Aries leave Bad Intentions to get quickly disected by the opposing teams. Each opponent executes their finishing moves and leave Joseph Parks to add the finishing touches with a big splash on Kazarian.
Winners: Joseph Parks, James Storm, Hernandez and Chavo Guerrero
Rob Van Dam (c) vs. Kenny King
RVD defeated King after hitting a five star frog splash.
Samoa Joe vs. Garett Bichoff
Not too much to note in this match other than Garett Bischoff receiving 'you can't wrestle' chants and then makes the obvious mistake of attempting 'wrestling' moves on the submission expert Samoa Joe. Wes Briscoes causes the DQ which lead to Angle hitting the ring for the save which worked as the set up for Angle to announce, on the mic, that he was the one that got Wes his contract and that he wants to face him at Lockdown to inflict un-imaginable pain on him.
Match up made for Lockdown: Ace's and 8's Vs. Sting and three others of his choosing.
Winner: Samoa Joe via DQ
- Hogan makes his third appearance of the night to announce his number one contender choice for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship match to be Bully Ray, who had no part in the #1 Contenders matches. Bully Ray comes to the ring and shows respect for Hulk and says that he feels he doesn't deserve above all those that competed. If you ask me, something seems very suspicious with Bully and Hulk at this point in time. However, Bully suggest the match of himself, Hulk and Sting in the main event against three members of Ace's and 8's that Hulk agrees to.
Tara (c) vs. Gail Kim vs. Velvet Sky vs. Brooke Tessmacher
Tara, for whatever reason, began her entrance with Brooke Hogans music playing; Tara ever the professional works through it and doesn't react. This was a 4-way elimination match up but the first elimination, which was Tara, proved to be confusing seeing that the crowd either forgot or it wasn't announced that it was an elimination match up. Once Brooke pinned Tara the crowd reacted as though the match was over. However the running order of elimination was Tara, Brooke Tessmacher, Gail Kim which leaves Velvet Sky as your new Knockouts champion. Even with a gased out crowd the fans seemed to lap this win up and Velvet proves her worth as female attraction.
Winner and new TNA Knockouts Champion: Velvet Sky
Mr. Anderson, D.O.C and Devon vs. Hulk Hogan, Sting and Bully Ray
Hogans music hits twice but no show from Hogan both times so Bully and Sting continue the match alone. I was looking out for any pre-planned reaction from Bully Ray and Sting since we had to backstage segments shown throughout the night, no such reaction happened. From this point on it all built to the ending which saw the Ace's and 8's holding Hulk and Brooke hostage on the long ramp way causing Bully Ray to leave Sting in the ring all alone so he could chase away the Ace's and 8's. Bully Ray is then seen screaming down the ramp after noticing Sting being attacked in the ring, so Bully runs off backstage and comes out with all the faces members of the TNA locker room including RVD, Magnus, James Storm, Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle, Hernandez and Chavo and Rockstar Spud who beat down the Ace's and 8's and the crowd pops one last time.
- Once off the air the remaining TNA roster members in the ring thanked the crowd. Funny thing to note is that Rockstar Spud looked as though he didn't know whether or not to stay or leave the ring and appeared to ask Magnus that very same question, he soon after had his moment with the crowd. Dixie Carter comes out with The Blossom Twins and Marty Scurll (who seems fine at this point) and thanks the crowd one last time. The two shows proved to be very well put together and everyone involved seemed to have a great time. Myself included.
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January 30. 2013 10:29PM
Nashua panel is criticized in report
By KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
NASHUA - Several months after city officials criticized Review and Comment commissioners for failing to provide necessary budget documentation, a new report is echoing those concerns, among other operational problems.
Last summer, the commission received significant attention after a handful of local human service agencies complained about the process being used to determine how city funds are distributed among agencies.
An ad hoc committee was formed to study the Review and Comment Commission procedures, and its final report was released earlier this month. Some of the concerns raised in the report include a lack of meeting minutes, no formal documentation on votes that were taken or who attended meetings, no comprehensive uniform training process for volunteers, a lack of administrative support, and insufficient recruitment of volunteers, among other findings.
The Review and Comment Commission is a volunteer board that reviews funding requests from local human service agencies and then votes on recommended funding levels during each budget cycle.
Last year, about 28 agencies requested nearly $780,000 in funds, but there was only $438,000 in city dollars and $82,000 in federal dollars available to distribute. It is up to the commission to study the applications and decide how to allocate the available funds.
"Feedback to agencies is lacking thorough and comprehensive information that would allow them to come back next year with a better chance of obtaining funds," says the report, which was submitted by ad hoc committee members Aldermen Lori Wilshire, Diane Sheehan, Mary Ann Melizi-Golja and commissioners Jean Gottesman and Kevin Moriarty.
Another problem, according to the report, is that the application used by the agencies has unclear information and inconsistent language.
In addition, volunteers were not permitted to vote on the overall funding plan but only a select portion of the requests assigned to teams under the guidance of a single commissioner, says the document.
"They are also only being given a small portion of the funding requests, and no one has the overall total picture to make informed decisions. This was established as a citizen's committee, and the ordinances say the volunteers vote for funding and present, as a whole, to the commissioners," notes the report. Last year, one of the agencies - the Nashua Children's Home - initially received a cut of 33 percent, while a different organization - the Tolles Street Mission - originally saw an increase from $7,100 to $25,000, or a jump of about 250 percent.
"These are tax dollars," Wilshire said at the time, saying someone needs to be held accountable on how and why they are being distributed or not being distributed to certain agencies.
Some of the agencies requesting funds include the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter, Child Advocacy Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Nashua Senior Center, Nashua Pastoral Care, Harbor Homes and more.
Recommendations in the report include establishing and documenting procedures that allow for a more transparent process, including audio recordings of meetings, along with written minutes of all meetings. Other recommendations include the establishment of an annual calendar and timeline, documentation on how the chairperson is selected, establishing term limits for the chairman, increasing volunteer recruitment efforts, holding orientation sessions, mandating that all volunteers receive applications from every agencies and more. The report will be presented to the aldermanic Human Affairs Committee today for discussion. Meanwhile, two proposed ordinances that establish new procedures and amend the composition of the Review and Comment Commission have been tabled in committee.


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Yamaha @ Sound City Expo 2012 | What to Expect
Yamaha at the Liverpool Sound City Expo 2012
Sound City Expo - Friday 18th & Saturday 19th May, 2012
As most of you probably already know, the Liverpool Sound City Expo is being held this weekend at the Liverpool Echo Arena.
Taking inspiration from the golden age of Expos, where the new, the innovative and the exciting were brought together under one roof to delight and amaze, Sound City Expo will bring the newest and most forward-thinking exhibitors to the Echo Arena in Liverpool - providing access for both consumers and music/digital professionals to the people, tools and services they will need as we move ever onwards in the digital age.
Featuring live demos, masterclasses, discussions and more.
We're happy to tell you that our friends at Yamaha will be attending this year's Sound city Expo as "Pulse on the Road" with their expert Pulse Staff on hand to guide you through their products. So what's going to be on show then?
Well, the incredible new THR practice amplifier for one, with Yamaha demonstrator Steve Williamson on hand to show you why this little amp has received such a great reception since its release just a few months ago.
Steve will be showing you just what this amp can really do! But please be warned; after you see this demo you might just feel a slight gravitational force pulling you to the Dolphin Music stand to order one of these bad boys for yourself. We'll be at stand C6 by the way!
Also on show will be the DTX500 Electric drum kit. The DTX500 trigger module has high-quality sounds, built-in practice songs, and training functions. With the ability for upgrading and expanding with DTX-PADs, the DTX500K is perfect for anyone getting into drumming.
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Wellington computer hub initiatives win open-source award for social services
Press Release – Wellington City Council
Two computer hub initiatives that give free or affordable access to the internet, and computer training, for thousands of Wellingtonians have jointly won the 2012 NZ Open Source Award for social services.
Wellington City Council's Housing Computer Hubs, and the Wellington Soup Hub, were named the joint winners at the open source software industry's biennial awards in Wellington on Wednesday night.
The computer hubs at the Council's Arlington and Newtown Park apartments are run on contract by Wellington ICT – a charitable trust. WICT works with local communities and non-profit organisations to get the best out of communications technology and the internet.
All of the Council's 4000 tenants across the city have access to the hubs.
Mayor Celia Wade Brown congratulates Wellington ICT. "This is a real win for Wellington and a great partnership between the Council and Wellington ICT and the users of this service."
The computer hubs use open-source technology (free software). They provide access to computers and training, with the aim of bridging the digital divide for many of the Council's housing tenants.
WICT employs tenants to help run the hubs and many tenant volunteers also provide peer support.
The Council's Social Portfolio Leader, Councillor Stephanie Cook, says the hubs, and the open source technology, are great ways to break down barriers for tenants.
"Not everyone owns their own personal computer or has the skills to use them well. Which must make life difficult – a lot of our day-to-day transactions and communications now take place online," says Cr Cook.
"The hubs not only help our tenants learn skills, but they give them direct access to all the information and services they need – many of which only use the internet for the provision of information.
"I know the staff at City Housing work hard to foster social inclusion for our tenants. Enabling them to join and confidently navigate the virtual world is a crucial part of that work."
WICT is also involved with the Soup Hub – an e-inclusion community telecentre at the Suzanne Aubert Compassion Centre in Tory Street. Its mission is to help people develop digital literacy skills by providing access to computer technology, the internet and some help from friendly mentors.
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Fourth-graders welcome back classmate who's fighting cancer
Groton - Korey Page noticed one thing different about his 10-year-old classmate, Marik Tucker, but only one.
"He has a new leg," said Korey, 9, a fourth-grader at Charles Barnum Elementary School. Korey said he was "happy and cheerful" to see Marik back at school, even if just temporarily.
Marik has osteosarcoma, a cancer that attacks the bones and sometimes other tissue, and he's been out for months in treatment. In October, his parents made an agonizing choice to have doctors amputate their son's leg rather than put him through multiple surgeries and risk losing him.
He has a prosthetic leg and has lost his hair due to chemotherapy. He has difficulty hearing due to an unrelated issue, so he wears a hearing aid. Yet his classmates reacted to his arrival as they would to any other returning friend.
"They just all cheered and shouted out his name," said Shaun Farquhar, Marik's fourth-grade teacher.
Marik's mother, Kelli Tucker, said her son was so happy to go back to school that he had trouble getting to sleep Thursday night.
"I was just excited," Marik said. His favorite part of the day was "playing with my friends," he said.
He cannot return full-time to school because he is still in treatment, Tucker said. Marik started 40 weeks of chemotherapy in August and has two treatments left.
His white cell count will fall in the coming days, making him susceptible to infection. But Tucker said he's handled the treatment well. While other children require dozens of transfusions or repeated hospitalizations, Marik has needed three transfusions and has been admitted to the hospital twice.
She said she hopes Marik will be able to visit or attend school more when his chemotherapy is done and he's feeling better, perhaps in June.
His friends are already making plans.
"I might go to his house next weekend," said Gianni Galatioto, 10. "I need to ask his mom and my mom."
The students had some help understanding what was happening.
After the surgery, a child life specialist from Yale-New Haven Hospital - trained to help children through medical procedures - visited Marik's classroom with Marik and his mother and explained what kind of cancer Marik had, how doctors treated it and how prosthetic legs work.
In October, Paula Bell, the teacher of the deaf for Groton Public Schools and the American Sign Language teacher at Robert E. Fitch High School, began visiting Marik's class on Fridays and teaching the children sign language. She did so on her own time.
The students have learned simple phrases such as "Hello," "How are you?" "I'm happy" and "I'm sad."
Students from Bell's sign language class at Fitch also visited Charles Barnum on Friday. Marik's sister is an American Sign Language student at Fitch but did not attend.
Once chemotherapy is done, Marik will have scans every three weeks to see if the cancer has come back, Tucker said. After one year of clear scans, he'll be declared to have "no evidence of disease," she said.
She said his classmates made him feel welcome and just like them, and that has real value.
"He looks a lot different from the other kids now because he doesn't have hair, he's got (a) prosthetic leg, he wears a hearing aid," Tucker said. "It's awesome that they make him feel like just another kid. That's what he needs."
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Dick McClure has missed but a handful of Pacific men's basketball home games since he was 12 years old.
Dick McClure has missed but a handful of Pacific men's basketball home games since he was 12 years old.
Now 57, that probably puts the number of games he's witnessed at Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium and Spanos Center at 500.
On Monday, something happened for the first time to McClure, a 1978 Pacific graduate, longtime booster and the director of architectural marketing for the Woodwork Institute. He was asked to leave Spanos Center at halftime of the Pacific-Oral Roberts game by the on-court officials. They didn't like the comments he directed at them.
"I was on them pretty good, but I was not belligerent," McClure said. "I do not drink. I was not obscene. There were other people around me saying the same things."
It all started prior to tipoff; McClure said he saw an official fist-pumping, laughing and patting the shoulder of an Oral Roberts' player, a no-no in McClure's unofficial book on officiating etiquette. The crew for Monday's game commonly works the Southland Conference, of which Oral Roberts is a member. The game was the home-and-home continuation of an ESPN BracketBuster between the Tigers and Golden Eagles played in 2011 at the Mabee Center in Tulsa, Okla. ESPN mandates the visiting team supply the officials.
McClure "voiced" his opinion to the officials about the fraternizing and "commented" on several of their calls thereafter, as he is wont to do. Dick is, let's say, passionate about Pacific. He repeatedly called one of the officials "Phantom" because McClure said the official couldn't have possibly seen a call he made against the Tigers given his position on the court. McClure said he also complimented the officials several times for making what he viewed as good calls.
During the sub-4-minute media timeout, the officials huddled at the scorer's table and asked Pacific to warn McClure. Pacific associate director of athletics for development, Jim Dugoni, delivered the warning. McClure voiced more objections after being warned. At halftime, the officials huddled at the scorer's table again and Pacific athletic director Ted Leland told McClure that he had to leave the arena.
Leland, whose 40-year resume as a college coach and administrator includes a 14-year stint as the athetlic director at Stanford (think he hasn't seen it all?), said he feels bad for McClure, whom he called a "great fan."
"That's the first time I've ever seen that happen," Leland said. "And I've been in some really tough environments and that certainly wasn't the case last night."
From what I could see, at no time was McClure profane or belligerent. In 40 years of attending and nearly 20 years covering Pacific basketball, I've never seen McClure use profanity, act belligerently or appear to be inebriated. I've been to plenty of sports events where fans acted much more rudely than McClure and weren't asked to leave the game.
The contest on the court was entertaining. Both teams played hard and Oral Roberts prevailed 69-67. Maybe the officials could hear McClure because the crowd was so disappointingly small - only 1,430 in 6,150-seat Spanos Center.
Some back story is in order.
McClure's father, Ralph, was the Babe Ruth of vociferous fans. Ralph had season tickets in the front row at the Civic Auditorium, often with his son by his side. When Ralph wasn't stomping his feet on the well-worn wooden floor, the tips of his shoes actually rested inside the sideline of the court because of the auditorium's cramped configuration. Ralph's sometimes ruthless verbal shots at the officials and the opposing team rang through the auditorium.
Dick McClure said he doesn't remember his father ever being asked to leave a game in the 40 or so years he attended them. Ralph passed away in 2002 at age 79.
McClure picked up where his father left off. But if Ralph was the Babe Ruth of the leather lungs, his son is more like the Frank Robinson. McClure has cleared the fence a bunch of times, but his dad was a dagger-mouthed legend.
McClure's seat at Spanos Center isn't even on the floor. It's at mid-court in the first row behind a guard rail with a row of folding chairs on the court in front of him. He's actually about 8 feet from the sideline.
Seated on the court in front of McClure on Monday was Ron Addington, president and chief executive officer of the Business Council of San Joaquin. Addington has attended Pacific games for years and has been on the board of the Pacific Athletic Foundation for about 10 years. He currently is president of the PAF. He said he doesn't believe McClure should have been removed from the game.
"There was no (profane) language of any sort, zero," Addington said. "When I found out the three referees were from Oklahoma I thought, 'How did that happen?' Referees are human, but they seemed a little in favor of Oral Roberts. I love the university and they have a fabulous basketball team, very aggressive, very fast, but I thought the calls were a little out of whack. But I'm Pacific, too."
On Tuesday, McClure said he was puzzled more than angry about what had happened. He said he will continue to attend Pacific games and help support the program, and sees no reason not to call it like he sees it.
"I'm still going to be out there to support them because I think (Pacific head coach) Bob Thomason and the Pacific program is so laudable on the good things they do: the graduation rates and running a clean program.
"What's not to like?"
Contact sports editor Bob Highfill at (209) 546-8282 or email@example.com.


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Number: 110-13
Date: October 4, 2007
President Signs Public Law 110-90, the "TMA, Abstinence Education and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007"
On September 29, 2007, President Bush signed into law H.R. 3668, the "TMA, Abstinence Education and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007" (P.L. 110-90). The bill extended authorization for several expiring Federal programs through December 2007, and also expanded application of the SSI access to financial institutions information initiative to Medicaid. Following are provisions of interest to SSA:
Extension of Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) and Abstinence Education Program through December 31, 2007
• Authorized TMA (an extension of Medicaid benefits for certain low-income families who would otherwise lose coverage due to income changes) through December 31, 2007. Extended the Abstinence Education program through this same date.
Extension of Qualifying Individual (QI) Program through December 31, 2007
• Extended the QI Medicare Savings Program through December 31, 2007, also allocating an amount of $100 million to fund the program.
Extension of SSI Web-Based Asset Demonstration Project to the Medicaid Program
• Required the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use the current process that SSA uses in the access to information held by financial institutions pilot project to be utilized for verification of assets for Medicaid eligibility of individuals not applying for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Extension to Medicaid is limited to States in which the SSI pilot project is operating. This provision is effective for the period beginning October 1, 2007 and ending September 30, 2012.
NOTE: As drafted the provision expands the application of a fully automated "web-based" request and response process that does not yet exist. The current SSI asset verification process involves both manual and "web-based" transactions.
Additional Funding for the Medicare Physician Assistance and Quality Initiative Fund
• Provided $325 million to the Medicare Physician Assistance and Quality Initiative Fund for expenditures during 2009 and an additional $60 million for expenditures during or after 2013. This fund is earmarked to provide bonus payments (thus offsetting scheduled Medicare physician reimbursement cuts) to physicians for successfully meeting quality measures for certain services.


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It's almost like Black Friday. But instead of lining up for flat-screen televisions or the latest video games, these early risers - many of them low-income residents - wait hours for a smog check, knowing that if their cars fail they will qualify for hundreds of dollars in free repairs.
It's almost like Black Friday. But instead of lining up for flat-screen televisions or the latest video games, these early risers - many of them low-income residents - wait hours for a smog check, knowing that if their cars fail they will qualify for hundreds of dollars in free repairs.
The Tune In & Tune Up program returns Saturday at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds in Stockton, fresh off a $4 million infusion that will allow for even more of these events to be scheduled up and down the San Joaquin Valley.
The goal is to fix cars so they're no longer gross polluters.
And in the process, many drivers who have never properly registered their vehicles because they couldn't afford the repairs will be steered toward compliance with the law.
"We're seeing there's a lot of folks out there who, when they have to make the decision between feeding their family and smogging their cars, it's easy to fall behind," said Tom Knox, a spokesman for Valley Clean Air Now, a business-backed group looking to control the Valley's air pollution problem.
There is "real pent-up demand" to get car repairs done, he said, which explains why 500 or more motorists have lined up as early as 3 or 4 a.m. for the drive-up smog checks.
"The turnout is huge," Knox said. "And we don't see any sign of running out of customers."
Valley Clean Air Now organized the first tune-up events in 2006. With financial support from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, those events are being held more frequently.
The $4 million awarded over the summer will pay for 22 events in the Valley. The money originally came from Department of Motor Vehicles fees paid by Valley drivers.
"It's a terrific deal in two ways: certainly for the environment, but it also helps folks that do need to have their cars repaired and can't afford to do it," said Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce CEO Douglass Wilhoit, a Valley Clean Air Now board member.
San Joaquin Delta College automotive students run the smog check on-site. Usually, about half of the cars that show up for the event fail the test.
Those motorists get vouchers for as much as $500 in repairs at a qualified smog shop.
About two-thirds of those motorists follow through and make the repairs - a number organizers consider to be high.
The event is geared toward low-income residents, whose neighborhoods are often home to a high percentage of gross-polluting cars.
But there is no income requirement. Anyone is invited. Free hot dogs, chips and soda are given to those waiting in line.
"We do try to make it fun," Knox said.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/breitlerblog.


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Little Surfer Girl
Cora Miller 7/29/2005 12:13:46 AMWonderful image, Brenda! It's as if she is longing to join them. #285562
Brenda Diaz 7/30/2005 12:10:54 AMThank you, Cora! I just realized that my photos can get replies from viewers. :) I really appreciate your comments.
Brenda #1655137
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Brenda M. Wolfensberger 8/20/2005 3:27:30 PMCongrats Brenda! This is a great shot, not only does it look like she wants to join them, she could be thinking... "I can beat them all!" :) #1741029
Jennifer S 8/21/2005 6:24:24 AMCongratulations on being a finalist, Brenda! This is a wonderful photo! #1745097
Jill M. Higgins 8/21/2005 10:33:17 AMAwesome!
How did you get the color? Looks kinda like in between B/W and sepia? #1746513
Cora Miller 8/21/2005 7:01:59 PMCongratulations, Brenda! #1748274
Cora Miller 8/23/2005 12:27:25 AMCongratulations on your win, Brenda! #1754217
Brenda Diaz 8/23/2005 12:33:03 AMI'am thrilled to be a winner! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
~God bless!
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Kerby Pfrangle 8/23/2005 2:43:25 AMBrenda congratulations on your second place win.
Well deserved.
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Brenda M. Wolfensberger 8/23/2005 5:27:37 AMCongrats on your win Brenda! It's well deserved! #1755377
Colette M. Metcalf 8/24/2005 3:58:34 AMCongratulations Brenda!! #1759464
Megan p 8/24/2005 4:22:39 PMCongratulations Brenda!! I love the point of view. I hope she got to go surfing! #1762780
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Brenda Diaz 9/1/2005 7:08:49 AMThank you so much! :) #1792577
Kevin Anderson 9/3/2005 1:26:09 AMCongrats Brenda! Looks like she saying,
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 10/6/2005 3:36:56 PMSo adorable, a late congratulations!! #1924930
My little surfer girl at South Beach (Miami) Florida. Picture taken with 20D - 50mm 1.4.
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