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By Zadina
Various bosses from The Witchwood's Monster Hunt are ready to battle it out in this week's brand new Tavern Brawl.
This is the first special Tavern Brawl that we will see during this year's Hallow's End.
You just queue up and you get assigned a random boss from the Monster Hunt. Some of these bosses include:
Azalina Soulthief (Hero Power: 2 mana - Summon three 1/1 Wisps) Blood Witch Greta (Passive Hero Power: Spells cost Health instead of Mana) Brushwood Centurion (Hero Power: 3 mana - All minions attack random enemy minions) Chupacabran (Hero Power: 1 mana - Give a friendly minion +1/+1 and Lifesteal) Plaguemaster Rancel (Hero Power: 2 mana - Deal 2 damage to a minion. If it survives, give it Poisonous) Shudderwock (Passive Hero Power - All Battlecries trigger twice) Winslow Tobtock (Hero Power: 2 mana - Each player shuffles their hand into their decks and draws that many cards) Wharrgarbl (Hero Power: 2 mana - Draw 3 Murlocs from your deck) Experiment 3C (Hero Power: 1 mana - Destroy a friendly minion and draw 3 cards) It's not sure how many bosses there are available, but they certainly have similar decks as during the PvE adventure. It might be worth checking our Monster Hunt guide to refresh your memory on some of their abilities or just experience them in action!
By Zadina
Hallow's End is going to last from October 17 until October 31.
As we've already discussed, you can log in to enjoy the spooky festivities and receive a free Golden Witch's Cauldron.
You will also get a free Arena entry ticket in order to test your mettle in the Dual Class Arena. Pick a Hero, choose the Hero Power of a second Hero and try to make the perfect mix with the combined might of both Heroes' class cards.
We'll have two Tavern Brawls during Hallow's end: Monster Smash (October 17-22) and The Headless Horseman Rides Again (October 24 - 29)!
Lastly, for a limited time you can purchase the new Paladin hero, Sir Annoy-o, as a Bundle along with 20 Witchwood packs at the price of $19.99 or 19.99 EUR. This mighty new hero even has his own backstory which you can read here.
Later today, we should also see the balance changes go live.
By Zadina
The update will take effect on October 18.
Well, the balance changes were smaller than expected as only three cards were affected this time.
As expected, Giggling Inventor was affected as it now costs 7 mana, up from 5. The team actually considered it too powerful for 6 mana, which raises the question why it was 5 mana in the first place. Anyway, it still remains an odd card if this is still relevant.
Now, a big and unexpected change was Mana Wyrm being raised to 2 mana. The iconic Classic minion has undergone the Tunnel Trogg treatment and after 4+ years of power, it is ready to retire.
And a Wild change to alleviate the devastating Druid combo: Aviana will now cost 10 mana. This means she can't be played at the same turn as Kun the Forgotten King and Juicy Psychmelon won't be able to draw both Kun the Forgotten King and Aviana with it.
The update will go live on October 18th with the weekly reset. What do you guys think about the changes?
By Zadina
The rewards on Hearthstone for purchasing a BlizzCon Virtual Ticket have been revealed.
You will receive a very elegant card back and 2 packs from each of the following expansions: Classic, The Witchwood, Kobolds & Catacombs, Knights of the Frozen Throne and Journey to Un'Goro.
You can purchase the virtual ticket for this year's BlizzCon here.
By Zadina
Bosses from various Hearthstone adventure battle it out in this week's Tavern Brawl.
This is the second time we see Boss Battle Royale 2, which itself is a variation of the original Tavern Brawl. This time, we have a new Druid hero and the Warlock hero Sindragosa has been slightly nerfed.
You pick a class and then you get a specific boss hero, which has its special hero power and a predetermined deck:
Druid: King Togwaggle (Magic Candle: 3 mana - Find a Treasure) Hunter: Skelesaurus Hex (Ancient Power: 0 mana - Give each player a random cards. It costs 0) Mage: The Curator (Gallery Protection: Passive - Your Hero has Taunt) Paladin: White King (Castle: 2 mana - Discover a chess piece) Priest: Professor Putricide (Mad Science: Passive - All Secrets cost 0) Shaman: Lady Naz'jar (Pearl of the Tides: At the end of your turn, replace all minions with new ones that cost 1 more) Rogue: Grobbulus (Poison Cloud: 2 mana - Deal 1 damage to all minions. If any die, summon a slime) Warlock: Sindragosa (Ice Claw: 2 mana - Do 2 damage. There will be 2 Blocks of Ice on your opponent's side of the board at the beginning of the game) Warrior: Coren Direbrew (Pile On!: 0 mana - Put a minion from each deck into the battlefield) Sindragosa is pretty powerful. Lady Naz'jar, Coren Direbrew and Skelesaurus Hex have random effects that can benefit your opponent - Lady Naz'jar seem to have more success than the other two. Grobbulus can work too, if you play smartly.
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Reward offered for information on Claremont robberyBy MEGHAN Pierce
Union Leader Correspondent
October 28. 2013 12:45AM
CLAREMONT — A $10,000 reward is offered for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the armed robbery of One Credit Union earlier this month.
The robbery of the credit union on Charlestown Road took place Oct. 11, a Friday, just before noon.
Police continue to investigate, but now One Credit Union has stepped forward with an offer of a $10,000 reward for information that will lead to the conviction of those responsible, Claremont Police Capt. Mark Chase said Friday.
"We're just looking for any assistance from the public that might know something or someone to come forward and do the right thing," Chase said.
Only one suspect robbed the credit union, using a handgun, but it is possible the robber had accomplices, Chase said.
"There may be other people involved," Chase said.
The investigation is progressing with the use of several leads, Chase said. "It's going forward, but at this point we don't have anybody in custody from it."
The suspect is described as someone in their 30s with a deep voice, Caucasian, between 5'6" and 5'10" in height, average build, brown eyebrows, and with brown hair with a forehead scar that is angled diagonally and ends above the left eyebrow.
The suspect was wearing dark shoes (possibly work boots), blue jeans, a winter coat with blue on sleeves and from chest up to shoulders and darker colored on the bottom half, dark ski mask, light colored hoodie and dark gloves.
The suspect was carrying a canvas tote bag with leather handles and a recycled shopping bag
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The suspect got away with cash, but police are not releasing just how much cash was taken in the robbery, Chase said.
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Police have raided 17 "JK reflexology" centres found to be offering patrons the chance to sleep with actual JKs rather than merely offering old women in school uniforms as elsewhere, alleging violations of child labour laws.
The "JK Refle" chain ran 80 establishments in such Tokyo locations as Akihabara and Kabuki-chou, in which patrons could pay for massages and the opportunity to sleep (and only sleep) with its girls, of which 17 were raided.
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As we begin this new year, before we get back into our study of the gospel of Luke, which we will commence again next Sunday, along with our series on doctrine next Sunday night, I wanna talk to you just personally and pastorally a little bit. Last Sunday, I spoke on 1 Corinthians chapter 10, on the danger of spiritual privilege, from the verse, "let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall." How that those who are singularly blessed can become smug about that blessing, and thinking they're firm in their stand can be headed for a serious collapse.
I wanna follow up on that same perspective today, because I feel like part of the ministry that I must discharge before the Lord, and you, is a ministry of warning about danger. Our church is not in particular danger from some dominating iniquity. It is not in particular danger from some infiltrating heresy. It is not in danger from some loss of resources financially, or human. Everything you can see on the surface looks to be good. And we would have every reason to think that we stand, and still be on the brink of a fall.
And following that idea up a little bit, we have to go to the real core of what it means to be a Christian. And I, from my perspective, believe that the church in our day is completely losing this simple perspective. I think the Christian life is essentially a simple thing to understand. It is a life of loving Jesus Christ. I know that sounds probably pretty basic, and indeed it is, but just that simple statement has been lost to us. The Christian life is best defined as an ongoing relationship of love between the believer and Christ. We don't need to talk about his love for us. That's fixed. The issue is our love for Christ.
Evangelical Christianity has all but lost this perspective on the Christian life. Most people have the idea that the Christian life is about how much God loves me and wants to fulfill my dreams and my desires and my ambitions and my goals and my objectives. And what he wants to do is make something wonderful out of me, and life me up, and elevate me, and fulfill all the hopes of my heart. It's more about God loving me so much that he wants to do all of this than it is about me loving him.
But in reality, the Christian life is about loving Christ. Is about loving him singularly. It is about loving him totally. It is about loving him sacrificially. It is about loving him obediently. It is about loving him worshipfully. It is about loving him in terms of service. It really is about loving Jesus Christ. That's what it means to be a Christian. It's that you now commit your life to loving him.
Now, if you understand the Old Testament, the great commandment was to love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. This is the sum of all that God requires, and your neighbor as yourself. But it starts with loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, which is just a way of saying loving God comprehensively, totally, completely. Now if that's the sum of the law, then that has to be the sum of the relationship. That can't be altered when it comes to being a Christian. It is still the purpose of God that we would love the Lord, Jesus Christ, with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Being a Christian is about loving Christ so much that you wanna know him, so much that you wanna exalt him, so much that you wanna please him, so much that you wanna serve him, so much that you wanna be with him, so much that you wanna tell others about him. It's about this overwhelming, consuming affection for Christ. This is at the core of what it means to be a Christian.
And so, the real question to ask people, when you talk about their spiritual growth, or their spiritual condition, or where they are in terms of their life, is how much do you love Jesus Christ? How much do you love Christ? Are you growing in your love for Christ? Do you love him more now than you have in the past? Do you desire him more now than you did in the past?
Paul say that, "I may know him." He was driven to know more about Christ. To know everything he could know about Christ. To grasp every reality concerning Christ. To understand every word he said, every deed he did. To understand the fullness of his purposes, his redemption. To grasp completely the mind of Christ. To know how he thought about everything. Paul was driven to serve him, to exalt him, to honor him, to proclaim him, because he loved him. This is consistent with the Biblical definition of what it means to be a Christian. It is to love Christ. To love him as the one who first loved us and gave himself for us.
Listen to the language of the New Testament. Here are the words of Jesus in Matthew 10:37, "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. He who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." It starts out with loving Christ more than you love anybody else, even those that you most naturally love. It's about loving Christ to the point where you're willing to take up your cross. Where you're willing to lose your life. Where you're willing to hate yourself and all your dreams and ambitions, hopes, desires. It's loving Christ singularly. The apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians, chapter 5 that it's the "love of Christ that constrains us," or controls us, or drives us, or motivates us. The Christian life is about a heart attitude much more than it's about theology or conduct. And that heart attitude is an attitude of love. Listen to what the apostle Paul said at the very end of the Ephesians Epistle, a verse that often gets overlooked. "Grace be with all those who love our Lord, Jesus Christ incorruptibly." How do you define a Christian? One who has an undying, incorruptible love for Jesus Christ. Paul understood that. So did Peter. Peter wrote, in 1 Peter 1:8, "And though you have not seen him, you love him." And in chapter 2, verse 7, he said, "he is precious. He was the cornerstone. The rock. He's to us, precious." John, the apostle, also understood this, in 1 John chapter 4, in verse 16, "We have come to know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love." We know that. We know God is love. We know God loves us. We've come to believe that. But further, verse 19, "We love because he first loved us." That's why we can say, in verse 20, "I love God."
How do you define a Christian? By their love for God. By their love for the Lord, Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 16:22 looks at it from a negative side, "If any man love not Lord, Jesus Christ, let him be accursed." There are only two kinds of people in the world: the cursed and the damned, and those who love Jesus Christ.
This is the compelling reality for the Christian. It's a very simple thing to understand what it is to be a Christian. It is to love Jesus Christ. It is to love him singularly. It is to love him selflessly. It is to love him to the degree that you're willing to deny yourself, abandon everything you have, even hate yourself, you're willing to say goodbye to your family, your friends, your fortune, whatever it is, Jesus laid it all out. And the issue is to love him singularly. To love him so that you desire to obey him, to honor him, to serve him, and to proclaim him.
And that really is the question. The question is a heart question. Do you love the Lord, Jesus Christ, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength? It was he who said, "If you love me, you'll keep my commandments." It was he who said, "If you love me, you'll keep my word." It was he who said, "If you love me, you'll feed my sheep." That's the issue. That is the issue. That is the heart issue in the Christian life. It's about loving Christ.
And so, the right question, I suppose to ask all of us is, what is the condition of our love for Christ right now? In John 16:27, Jesus said, "The father himself loves you because you have loved me." That's right. You love Christ, God loves you. In fact, that's basic to experiencing God's love. Listen to John 14:21, "He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me, and he who loves me shall be loved by my father, and I will love him." Do you love Christ? Do you keep his commandments? Do you keep his word? And because you love Christ, the father loves you. This is what the Christian life is all about.
It is living the life in which you are literally attracted relentlessly to the beauty and the glory and majesty of Christ. That's why the Bible features him. That's why even the Old Testament is about him. Search the Scriptures. "They which speak of me," he said. That's why you have four gospels, not just three synaptic gospels going over the same history so that everything is confirmed in the mouth of two or three witnesses, and so that you have all the nuances. But so that you have a vast amount of material on Christ because of the glory of his person. People ask me all the time, what's your favorite thing to preach about? It's easy. My favorite thing to preach about is not a thing, it's a person. My favorite person to preach about is Christ, the most compelling person whose ever lived. The most magnificent. The most glorious. The most wonderful.
And why do you keep preaching? And why do you so relentlessly go through Matthew and John as we have now through Luke? Why with such care and such detail? Because every Sunday you get a glimpse of Christ. It adds to the wealth of understanding that you have to illicit that love, which is essential to Christian life. And it's not just the gospels. The rest of the New Testament defines the power of loving Christ in the Book of Acts, and begins to unfold the meaning of the sacrifice of Christ for us in the Epistles and the glory of Christ in the Book of Revelations. It's all about him. And he is so inexhaustible as to his glory that I have been preaching all my lifetime and haven't even begun to touch the fullness of the glories of Christ.
Christian life is about loving Christ. And the right question to ask yourself as you begin the New Year is what is the state of my love for Christ? And I'm not asking you about your doctrine. I'm not asking you about your Orthodoxy. I'm not asking you about your ministry or your service. I'm not asking about that. I'm asking the heart issue question that shows up on those other fronts, what is the condition of your love for Christ? And I am concerned about it. I'm concerned about it because as you go, so goes the church. So goes this church, and all the people this church influences. You say well, don't we all love Christ? Yes. We all love Christ, to some degree. But the level of that love can change.
And I wanna draw you to a Scripture that serves as a warning to us, the second chapter of Revelation. It's not about nearly loving Christ. It's about fully loving Christ. And in the second chapter of Revelation, you have a letter from the Lord, himself, to a church. The church at the city of Ephesus. You remember that in chapter 1, there is a vision of Christ, really an amazing vision of Christ. He is clothed in a robe, verse 13, "reaching to the feets. Head in his like white wool, like snow. His eyes like a flame of fire. His feet like varnished bronze, as if they were glowing in a furnace. His voice like the sound of many waters crashing against the rocks, the thunderous roar of waves. In his right hand, he has seven stars. That is, he holds the leaders of the church, the pastors of the church. And out of his mouth comes a sharp, two-edged sword to defend his church. His face is like the sun shining in the strength." I mean, this is an immensely traumatizing vision, and of course, John falls over like a dead man when he sees it. That's the first of many visions in Revelation. But it pictures Christ moving in his church, the seven golden lamp stands are the seven churches, says in verse 20. So you have a picture of Christ, in all his glory, moving in his church. You see him empowering his church. You see interceding for his church as a high priest. That's what the robe and the girdle mean. You see him purifying his church with his flaming vision and varnished bronze feet. You seem him commanding his church with his voice. You see him reflecting his glory through his church like the sun shining in it. Here is Christ moving in all his glory in the church. He is the center. He is everything in the church.
Now, out of this vision of Christ in his church comes seven letters for seven churches. Those seven churches are listed back in verse 11, with Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea. Those are actual cities in Asia Minor, modern Turkey. Actual cities. And they really are a postal route, the general postal headquarters throughout Asia Minor followed the circuit from Ephesus ending up at Laodicea. So they were in those cities where churches were founded. They were basically planted by the Ephesian church, which was the first and the strongest and the mother church planting the rest. They are actual churches, and the Lord gives to John, the apostle, on the island of Patimuswhere he was when he received the Revelation, a letter for each of these churches. And these letters are contained in chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation. Seven churches, real churches, each unique with its unique characteristics and unique problems. Two of them, no set issues. Two of them were just honored churches. Five of them were seriously flawed churches. They were real churches, actual churches. They're not metaphoric or symbolic. But they do identify the kinds of churches that exist in all ages, even today. So that they stand as models or examples for churches. And therefore as warnings as well.
And the first letter goes to Ephesus, the main church, and the first church on the postal course. And it is written to the angel, or the minister. Probably on the island of Patimus there were delegates from each of these churches that had come to visit John, and each of them got a copy of the Book of Revelation to take back, with particular attention to the letter written to their church. This letter goes to whoever was the unveilas, the minister or the servant or leader of that church. The messenger is what the word really means. And tell them this, the writer is the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one that walks among the seven golden lamp stands, he says this, and that's of course Christ as I just described in chapter 1. "Christ has a message for your church," now that'll get your attention, wouldn't it? The messenger comes back and says folks, I have this wonderful book of Revelation. It tells all about what's gonna happen in the future. But right in the middle of this first opening section, chapters 1-3 being the opening, there's a letter to you from the Lord himself. He has something to say to your church. That would grab your attention. This is what he said, verse 2, "I know your deeds, and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot endure evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and they are not, and you found them to be false, and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember, therefore, from where you are fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first, or else I am coming to you and will remove your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent. Yet this you do have that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God."
This first letter is addressed to a strong church. The church of Ephesus, very strong, sound in theology, earnest, zealous, busy, evangelistic. In fact, this church had a really incredible beginning, not too many years before this, and it's recorded in the 19th chapter of Acts, verse 1 says, "Paul, having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus." So God uses Paul to launch this church. Down at verse 8, it says, "And he entered the synagogue and he continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God." Can you imagine that? He had access to the synagogue because of course he was a great Jewish teacher. But he went into a Jewish synagogue in a gentile city of Ephesus, and for three months, he preached the gospel in a Jewish synagogue persuasively. But verse 9 says, "Some were becoming hardened and disobedient, and speaking evil of the way before the multitude." The Jews began to get harder and harder, and then they began to speak evil of Paul before people who would listen, so "he withdrew from them and took away the disciples," by the way, the disciples were mentioned in verse 1 has already having been there. We don't know whether there were any converts in the synagogue. There were some disciples in verse 1 when he arrived, and there are some in verse 9. We don't know whether any came out of that synagogue, and he moved his whole operation to the "school of Tyrannus." Some man had a school, and Paul took over the place, and used it for teaching, and did it for "two years." Can you imagine these disciples under the tutelage of the apostle Paul for two years? And it was so powerful, "that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks." They didn't have television. They didn't have radio. They didn't have a printed page. How in the world did everybody in Asia Minor know what was going on in the school of Tyrannus with the few disciples from the city of Ephesus? Because the power of his preaching was so great, that everybody who heard him spread the message. And what even added to that was, verse 11, "God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out." There was so much power exploding through the apostle Paul that even in his absence people were being healed and delivered from demons. You're talking about a phenomenal movement of God in the city of Ephesus. I mean, they would remember the beginning of their church like no other church would ever remember it. Unless perhaps it was that first church in Jerusalem. An explosion of miracles. Power. It was so powerful, that "some of the Jewish exorcists," you know, that made their living purporting to be able to cast out demons started using the name Jesus. They thought Jesus was the magic word. And so, these exorcists began to say, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." Starting to command the demons in the name of Jesus. And of course, the demons said, Jesus we know, Paul we know, but who are you? Well, you remember the story. The power of the gospel began to take over the city. And verse 18 says, "Many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices." "The name of the Lord, Jesus," verse 17 says, "was being magnified." Verse 19 says, "those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them," they had a huge citywide book burning of all the magic books, "in the sight of everybody. It was up to 50,000 pieces of silver." Perhaps a drachma, 50,000 drachma would be a day's wages. That's a lot. "The word of the Lord," verse 20, "was growing mightily and prevailing." It was victorious.
And of course, a big battle ensues. And the business in town -- the big business in town was the Temple to Diana and Artemis, same god, Diana, Artemis, two names. This massive temple dominated the town, Pagan temple. And with the gospel spreading, and everybody burning their magic books and turning to Christ, the business at the temple was falling off. And they said, in verse 25, "Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business." And what they did was, they made little gods, and people came to the temple, bought the little gods, took them home, and kept them so that they would have a representation of the gods at home. And the business of making the little idols began to fall off as people were coming to Christ. And verse 28 says, "People were filled with rage, they began to cry out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" It's kind of like a riot starts. "The city was filled with the confusion. They rushed with one accord into the theater, dragged Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia." They dragged them out of the theater, "And Paul wanted to go into the assembly, the disciples would not let him. They repeatedly urged him not to go to the theater", because it was a total riot. And the riot was directly a result of the powerful explosion of the gospel.
Could you imagine being part of a church plant like that? Great beginnings. Incredible power. The whole city in confusion. The whole city in chaos. The whole business of idolatry crashes. This is big stuff. Temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. We're talking about a major place. Seven wonders of the ancient world. Massive. I've walked through the streets of Ephesus, one of the best-preserved set of ruins in the Middle East. Staggering to see a tribute to idols that existed in that place. I've even been in the theater where I've actually preached Acts 19 about the riot that occurred there. The temple was massive. Scores of eunuchs, thousands of prostitutes, priestesses, unnumbered heralds, singers, people playing musical instruments, dancers, and the worship, according to historians, was a kind of hysteria where people worked themselves into frenzies of shameless sexual conduct and mutilation. And huddled in the middle of this environment was a little church. And that little church turns Ephesus upside down. Wow, what glorious beginnings. How those people's lives must have been revolutionized. What kind of joy did they experience? What kind of bliss? What kind of peace? What kind of satisfaction? What kind of fulfillment? What kind of exhilaration to be delivered from all of that?
And then, when Paul wasn't there anymore, they had Timothy for a pastor. And they had Aquila. And they had even Apollos, the great Old Testament teacher. And they had the best beginning imaginable, and the best leadership. And it showed. They were strong. And it says in verse 2, "I know your deeds. I know your works." I know what you do. And it's commendable. And then he kind of splits it out. What were their deeds? What did they do? Well, "your labor," or your toil, cappas, that is a strenuous labor to the point of exhaustion. I know how hard you work for the kingdom. I know you toil for Christ. I know your work is diligent, consistent.
And there are a lot of Christians who do nothing. But not in Ephesus. They worked. They worked for the kingdom. And it wasn't always easy. That's why he says, "I also know your perseverance," your hoopa monet,from words that means to remain under. Your ability to stay under pressure. Your ability to stay under distress and hardship and difficulty and keep courageously gallantly what you should. It isn't that you're just doing it because it's easy to do. It isn't that you're doing it because the skies are fair. You faithfully work to the point of exhaustion against the grain, and you stay there, and you stay under it. Perseverance.
There's something else good about this church, and you cannot endure evil men. You have a very limited tolerance for sinners. You are intolerant of sinners is what it means. Very sensitive to sin. In fact, in specific, look at verse 6, he says, "This you do have. You hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate." You hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans. The best we can do in reconstructing the Nicolaitans is that it is a sect attached to a man named Nicolas, and early church fathers say that Nicolas started this sect apparently within Christianity, which was given over to immoral, lewd, licentious conduct. Clement says that, "they had the morals of goats," whatever that means.
But this church didn't have any tolerance for that. They hated any kind of libertinism, any kind of doctrine that allowed for immorality to be tolerated, any kind of antinomianism. Anything that was against the law of God. Hard working, enduring, persevering, suppressing evil. I'm quite sure that hating the deeds of the Nicolaitans came down in church discipline. I'm sure they had to deal with people in their church who were sinful, and they did it according to Matthew 18, and according to the prescription that was laid out by the Lord himself, as well as the instruction of the apostle Paul in several places.
I mean, everything about this church up to this point is so good. And then he adds this, "And you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false." This church was strong doctrinally so that it had discernment. Very discerning. Worked hard, relentlessly, in serving the Lord. Endured opposition difficulty, challenges, and persevered. Suppressed evil and sin wherever they found it, and held up the truth and held everyone up to the truth. They has discernment. They recognized the false prophet. And that wasn't always easy to do, because false prophets disguise themselves, don't they? You can wish for a church like this, really. You can say this is the dream church. The dream church. And discernment is at the heart of it. Boy, it's so important to be discerning. People say to me, what's the biggest problem in the church nowadays, I say a lack of discernment. I am floored by the utter absence of discernment in the church.
Where is discernment today? It's just not there. Well, not at Ephesus. They would have seen it. They would have understood it. They would have discerned it. They held everybody up, and they measured them, put them to the test, and they had the stuff to determine who was false. In verse 3, he says again, "you have perseverance and you have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary." And this is sort of the final comment. And all of this is continuing right now. All of this commendation is going on right now. This is a church to die for, folks. If we put up - this has the basic description of the church that was looking for a pastor, and put it in the lobby of the seminary, they'd kill each other to get the phone number, right? This is the perfect church. They've got it all.
Then verse 4 comes like a bomb, "But I have this against you, that you have left your first love." You left your first love. It's all become duty. The penetrating gaze, the laser eyes. Mentioned back in chapter 1, verse 14, "eyes like a flame of fire," had penetrated through to the core of that church, and the Lord found a fatal flaw. The hearts were growing cold. They had left their first love, first love for Christ. Oh, they were doing what they always did, because that's what you do. That's what's expected. That's what's planned. That's the way the program's laid out. That's the way people are gonna evaluate you and respect you and honor you, and they did it, and the theology was in place. But the honeymoon was over. It was like a marriage can be. Everything was there. Faithfulness was there, and duty was there, and responsibility was there. But the passion was gone. No great scandal. No great organization blunder. No loss of resources financial or human. But the heart was cold. The thrill was gone. The enthusiasm was drying out.
Those are the kind of things that I think about, because I think this church, if I were to have to compare it to a church in the New Testament, this church has those very characteristics that Ephesus had. I mean, you work hard, you persevere, and you have for years faithfully. You can't endure sin, and you don't. And your doctrine is strong, and you know heresy when you see it, and you're willing to expose it, and you never grow weary. You get an A for all of that, and an A for faithfulness. But the Lord can see what we can't see. He can see your heart. And I know we've been at it a long time. We're moving towards our 50th anniversary. We've outlived the life of most churches to remain vibrant and faithful and strong. I've always wondered when, or if it would crumble. I used to read things about well, when you hit year 20, it starts downhill, or when you get air conditioning, it starts downhill, or everybody's got an answer to that. Or when you get into the third generation, third generation Christians who know nothing but other Christians, and Christian schools and churches and all that, they become apathetic, indifferent, almost distant in their Christianity, and that's when it begins to crumble, and people become apathetic. Well, I don't know about all of the wins, but I do know that the warning of Scripture is that you can be doing all the right things, and believe in all of the right things, and have your heart grow cold, right?
You say well, how does the church get like that? A church gets like that when its people get like that. We're just a collection, and you're part of it. We become like that when you become like that. So the real question to ask yourself now, as you look at a new year is, what is the condition of my relationship to Christ? How would I describe my love for Christ on a 1-10 scale? Am I consumed in his glory and his honor and his word and his pleasure and his will? What is the description of my Christian life?
I don't really worry about some massive scandal striking Grace Church and bringing it down in a crash of simple corruption. I don't really worry about this church wandering off into heresy. My goodness, if I misquote a verse, somebody comes up afterwards and tells me about it. Thank you for doing it. I'm not worried about this church all of a sudden running out of human resources. Our church is growing and flourishing. We have a great history behind us. We have a great influx of new people, hundreds and hundreds of them, who came in last year all with high expectations and anticipation. We have no great fear that all of a sudden we're gonna lose our way in terms of ministry programs and what we do, and something's gonna come apart at the seams. Those aren't the things that concern me. The things that concern me have to do with the heart. It has to do with you becoming indifferent to Christ, and therefore compromising and falling into sin, and bringing destruction into your own life and your own family, and eventually into the church. It has to do with where I can't go, what I can't see, and neither can anybody else, except the Lord.
People used to say to me in the early years when I was at Grace Church, oh, you're in the honeymoon. It'll end. And I used to end, well, what does it mean when the honeymoon ends? What is that? When the passion is gone, and the joy is gone, and the exuberance is gone, and it all just becomes duty and doctrine. Well, I've done my best to make sure that honeymoon never ends. It hasn't ended for me. I don't know whether your experience is the same or not, but if enough of you have found the end of the honeymoon, then we're in some serious trouble, because if we go down this road, the end of verse 5 says, the Lord told Ephesus, "I'm coming to you, and I'll remove your lamp stand out of its place". Literally, I'll shut you down. It's amazing to think about the Lord being an enemy of his own church, isn't it? And you know what happened? That happened to Ephesus. The Lord shut that church down. It's testimony disappeared, and there's none there even now. Oh, there were some overcomers, verse 7, who listened to what the spirit said. There were some believers there, true believers, perhaps most, and they would eat the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. They were headed for heaven. It's not that they weren't believers. I would venture to say that most of them had to be believers. They were headed for heaven, but they were still gonna lose their ministry because they lost their love.
What do you do? Well, three things. Verse 5, remember. Remember. What he's saying to them is hey, go back, remember, remember your Paganism. Remember how lost you were. Remember how desperate and destitute you were. Remember what it was like to worship idols. Remember the immorality that you were involved in. And remember what happened when the gospel exploded and the power of God was seen everywhere in the midst of miracles preaching of the gospel into your heart, and you were given faith to believe and repentance, and your heart was turned around, and literally replaced, and you were transformed. Remember the joy, the exhilaration, the satisfaction, the overwhelming peace. Remember. Remember what it was like to see the city completely overturned, chaos, as the gospel triumphed over idols. Spiritual defection can come from forgetting. That's what makes it hard. That's why we talk about second and third generation, they got nothing to remember. And sometimes I say to people, go ask your grandparents how it was before they came to Christ. Go ask your grandparents to tell you the story of that transformation. Find somebody that's been transformed. Hang around new Christians. Remember. Bible constantly calls for us to remember all the feasts and festivals throughout the Old Testament were designed to teach Israel to remember what God had done for them so they would never forget.
Peter said, "I write these things to put you in remembrance." Go back and remember what you felt at the beginning when you were overwhelmed with joy, you couldn't get enough Bible teaching. You couldn't get enough time alone with the Lord, couldn't get enough Christian fellowship. You couldn't talk about Jesus to the people around you enough. You couldn't get enough of him. Remember the flashes of first love, because if you don't, you follow the path of a diminishing love. You follow it right into compromise, and then into corruption. Look at your life. Is there anything you love more than Christ? Is there anything you want more than Christ? Is there anyone that you want to serve more than Christ? Anyone you might wanna honor more than Christ? Anyone you might wanna proclaim more than Christ? If there is, you left your first love. Go back and remember how it was, or find out how it is for people transformed from a Pagan environment.
Secondly he says, "not only remember from where you have fallen," and by the way, where you have fallen indicates this is sin. Leaving your first love is sin. That's why you have fallen. It is a fall. And when you have fallen into sin, you need then to repent. He says repent there in verse 5, and he repeats it again at the end of the verse, "unless you repent, the judgment will come." The second thing is to repent. See, it is sin. Confess the sin of losing your first love, or leaving your first love. Confess the sin of your coldness. Confess the sin of the sort of routine approach to worship and everything else in your Christian life. Confess the sin of serving the Lord without exuberance, without joy. Confess the sin of only doing your duty. Confess the sin of doing what you do because you think somebody wants to see you do it, and therefore somehow will think well of you. If you love your theology more than Christ, you've left your first love. There was a time when you didn't know enough theology to love it, and you just loved him. Paul says that, "I may know him." He loved him so much he could never get enough of him.
And so, repent. And thirdly, he says, "repeat". Do the deed you did at first. Go back. When you were swept up in prayer and Bible study and fellowship and witnessing and worship, and it was all so exhilarating, pretty simple little path, remember how it was, how it is, for people transformed. And if you have fallen, repent, because it's a sin not to love him with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. I don't know if you often ask for forgiveness for that sin, but you should, and so should I. And then begin to repeat the things you did at first when you were swept up in the joy of salvation.
It is a disaster, but it's a silent killer when a church leaves its first love. And the church doesn't necessarily see it. Stop loving Christ and making him the focus of everything, and you will descend in the compromise with the world, and the whole idea of loving Christ will disappear from your vocabulary. And then you'll go from compromise to corruption. In a word, you'll go from Ephesus to become a church like the one in Pergamus, to become a church like the one in Thyatira, to become a church like Sardis, which was dead. And it starts here.
We look at a new year. My prayer, my desire for all of us is that the Lord would grant us an increasing love for Christ. Let's Pray. Thank you, Father, for the power of your truth. We have nothing that we could say, no thought could ever come out of a human source that could even come close to the power of divine truth. We thank you for the letter to the church, to our church, to us, that reminds us of the fire, the flames of love for Christ. May we be a church lost in wonder love, praise, and service to our Christ. And now, Lord, we do ask that you would grant us grace to be the people you want us to be. The spirit is shining bright in our hearts, and is the source of that love to which we must yield. Cultivate that in us that we might, instead of leaving our first love, find that first love increasing constantly into a fuller love for our Christ. In his name, we pray. Amen.
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Grayson, Long battle for open District 9 seat
Grayson, Long battle for open District 9 seat
ORLANDO, Fla. —
The District 9 Congressional race is an open seat but features a former Congressman in the race.
District 9 includes all of Osceola county along parts of Orange and Polk counties.
The candidates are Todd Long and Alan Grayson.
WESH 2 political reporter Greg Fox talked with both men on WESH 2's new show, "Commitment 2012: Extra" Wednesday.
"Commitment 2012: Extra" runs through Nov. 6 and will air every weekday at 12:30 p.m. following WESH 2 News at noon. It will also air on WESH.com.
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If you're struggling with today's Sudoku or crossword puzzle, it may have more to do with a lack of houseplants than with a lapse in your mental acuity.
Research shows that today's well-sealed buildings often have elevated levels of carbon dioxide, particularly during winter. Although the levels aren't dangerous, the stale air can make people a bit drowsy and less able to concentrate.
Houseplants can help counteract those effects because while we breathe carbon dioxide out, plants breathe it in. It's a terrific relationship, and one I think more people should exploit to help improve the air quality in their homes and offices.
Now lest you think a lone African violet on your desk will do the trick, think again. Yes, every plant helps, but the amount of carbon dioxide that can be removed depends on variety, size and number of plants, as well as the quantity of sunlight the plants get.
All plants remove carbon dioxide from the air, but some, such as peace lilies, Chinese evergreens and pothos are better scavengers than others. For example, a peace lily might absorb three or four times the quantity of carbon dioxide as would a dracaena of equal size. That said, total leaf surface area is even more significant than the type of plants you have. Carbon-dioxide-extracting superstars can easily be outdone by bigger, less efficient houseplants. That same peace lily might pull a kilogram or two of carbon dioxide out of the air in a year, but a three-metre-tall fig tree can absorb a whopping 11 kilograms.
To get the maximum benefit from houseplants, they also need lots of sunlight. Without it, plants don't have enough fuel to draw in the carbon dioxide and store it as sugars. A houseplant that sits in a dark corner won't help reduce carbon dioxide levels. But move that same plant to a sunny spot where it will grow and thrive, and its extraction factory will fire up.
Now, there are scientific ways of determining the number of plants you need to achieve significant carbon dioxide removal, but suffice to say that the more plants one has, the better.
Perhaps the simplest way to determine if you have enough is to keep adding plants until your puzzle-solving speed plateaus.
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Officials say enforcement of anti-bullying law not yet perfectBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 06. 2013 1:06AM
New Hampshire has a law targeting bullies, but some may not know what it is, and others want it improved.
"There's no question that it's one of the strongest anti-bullying laws on the books in the country," said Carol Croteau of Kingston, who launched the website BullyFreeNH.org and helped craft the law's language. "But I do think some changes could improve some areas and address situations I'm hearing about from parents."
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Among the law's requirements, local authorities must determine whether an incident reported is actually a case of bullying. If it is deemed to be, parents of all those involved must be notified within 48 hours.
Rep. Donna Schlachman, D-Exeter, a sponsor of the anti-bullying legislation, said she has heard from parents who didn't know where to turn when they disagreed with the way a bullying incident was handled.
"One thing I definitely would like to see changed is language added that spells out that the school board is where parents should go if they disagree with a determination ...?."
Croteau agreed. She doesn't think members of local school boards are shirking their responsibilities, but are unaware they should be handling the appeals.
"It's a lack of training about the law that's at fault here," said Croteau. "I don't think administrators are aware of that aspect of the bill."
Mark Joyce, executive director of New Hampshire School Administrators Association, didn't see it that way.
"I think by and large school administrators are doing a good job with it," Joyce said. "It's new, and with anything new, there's a period of adjustment. I think administrators are balancing handling the reports and notifying the parties, while protecting the confidentiality of the students."
The law requires school districts and charter schools to provide informational programs for students and parents in how to identify, prevent, report and respond to incidents of bullying or cyberbullying. It mandates the state Department of Education prepare an annual report of substantiated incidents of bullying or cyberbullying in the schools. And it stipulates that a school principal or designee must develop a response to address any substantiated case, including imposing discipline if appropriate, to reduce the risk of future incidents and, where deemed appropriate, to offer assistance to the victim or perpertrator.
Schlachman would like the law expanded to cover college students.
"I'm hearing that bullying issues follow students to college," said Schlachman. "It affects students of all ages. Older students should be afforded the same protection under the law."
Schlachman has filed a Legislative Service Request (LSR) - a precursor to a formal bill - to create an Anti-Bullying Day in New Hampshire on the second Wednesday in November. The request came after a meeting Dec. 6 with about 16 students involved in the New Hampshire Kids Against Bullying (NHKAB) group at Strafford School in Strafford.
"Having a designated anti-bullying day will serve as a springboard for interested parties to focus more needed attention and resources on the complex problem of bullying," said Richard Kauffman, a guidance counselor at Strafford School who works with the NHKAB group. "A well-publicized anti-bullying day will help to galvanize schools, businesses and community organizations as well as individuals and families to engage in educational programming.''
According to a Department of Education report, during the 2010-11 school year, 5,561 incidents of suspected bullying were reported in New Hampshire, with 2,988 investigated and confirmed.
Among the districts, Manchester had 409 "bullying incidents of any kind" reported. Nashua had 205, Rochester 400, Laconia 85, and Hudson 71. Londonderry had 44, Concord had 25, Bedford had 19 and Colebrook had 11.
Statistics for the 2011-12 school year are being compiled.
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Garth Brooks recently announced he'd be making his comeback with a world tour in 2014. And I don't want to disappoint anyone, but I have to let everyone know that Garth Brooks at 52 might not be exactly like Garth Brooks at 35.
Yes, 35. Brooks was 35 when he put on an amazing show in 1997, Garth Brooks Live in Central Park. It was a free show, and Brooks played for right around 1 million fans stretched out over 14 acres in New York City.
And Jake Owen was watching on television.
"I'll never forget when HBO aired Garth Brooks Live in Central Park," Owen said in a recent radio interview. He added that he loved all the envelopes Brooks was pushing back in the '90s.
"Just watching this dude on a full-on swing set, like rope swing, swing out over the crowd and then come back?" he said. "I want to do that."
Owen promises that someday the guy on the swing will be him.
"That will happen at some point in one of my shows, but I just haven't gotten there yet," he said.
Brooks was definitely the trendsetter in the swing-out-over-the-crowd innovations. He was one of the first country stars to use a cordless headset microphone and a harness so he could sing to the fans in the seats in the way, way back. Since then, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and more have all borrowed Brooks' great idea.
So it makes sense that Owen would want to follow Brooks' lead, too. I'm not sure if Brooks is going to go back to his harness for his 2014 tour. If not, maybe Owen could borrow it for his next tour.


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Children in a southern Russian village had the ultimate wildlife encounter when they found a lion cub and, naturally, took it to school.
The cat is a 5-month-old cub who had escaped from a car on the way to a zoo in Dagestan in the North Caucasus. The kids came upon him in the grasslands of the Rostov region and brought the lion to their teacher, who put it in the school gym.
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As the children waited for the police, they petted and played with cub. One boy even tried to ride the animal like a stick horse—poor puss! The lion was named Barsik—a common kitty name in Russia, which means "little leopard."
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man faces four counts of first-degree murder after police say he fatally shot four people early Friday, including an elderly father and his son who were delivering newspapers when they apparently stumbled upon a drug deal gone wrong, authorities said.
Sidney A. Muller, 27, of Harrison County was arrested in Marion County, where police said he had fled after the early-morning shooting Friday in a Clarksburg neighborhood.
Harrison County Prosecuting Attorney Jack Shaffer said police and deputy sheriffs responding to a 4:30 a.m. shooting call found Todd Russell Amos, 29, of Clarksburg dead at the scene. Christopher A. Hart, 26, was found injured and died on the way to the hospital. Hart's address was listed as Locust Avenue, the scene of the shootings that Shaffer said "was directly related to drug activity."
Also found dead were two bystanders: Freddy Donald Swiger, 70, and his son, 47-year-old Fred Swiger. The two Harrison County men were delivering The Exponent Telegram, as they had done as contractors for about 30 years.
"They were extremely nice, loyal, and cared very deeply about their customers, said Exponent-Telegram President Brian Jarvis in a statement. "Their customers cared very deeply about them from the calls already this morning. They built a connection with people that was unique and special in every regard."
Police obtained information suggesting that Muller would flee to Marion County, and law enforcement officers were alerted to the Buick Verano that he was believed to be driving, Shaffer said. A Marion County deputy sheriff stopped Muller in the Whitehall area, where he was arrested for allegedly driving on a suspended license. Clarksburg Police detectives later interviewed Muller, leading to the murder charges, Shaffer said.


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Army psychiatrist Hasan expected to enter plea on charges in 2009 deadly Fort Hood shootings
FORT HOOD, Texas – The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will finally enter a plea.
Maj. Nidal Hasan is expected to plead not guilty Tuesday, a week before jury selection begins in his court-martial.
In military cases, a defendant is not asked to enter a plea until right before the trial is to start.
Hasan faces execution or life without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the massacre on the Texas Army post.
Under military law, a death penalty case requires a plea of not guilty.
If Hasan tries to plead guilty, the judge will reject it and enter a not guilty plea for him.
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My daughter sleeps in a queen size bed. I nurse her down, slip away and then rejoin her after her first waking.
My daughter sleeps in a queen size bed. I nurse her down, slip away and then rejoin her after her first waking.
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I recommend co-sleeping. I seem to remember that when DD was a much younger infant (0-3 or 4 months) I used to be able to nurse her down on the bed for naps and then sneak away for a short while if I needed to eat/do something. Around 4 months, and since then, I no longer can really sneak away. I'm okay with it. So I'm next to her for all her naps (and read or look online). She goes to bed at 7:30 and, as I've done since she was born, because I couldn't find another way, I go to bed when she does. I don't fall asleep then though! I really enjoy the time relaxing in bed-- I read for a while, and sometimes just watch the sky get darker and darker, and watch dd sleeping, until I fall asleep too. So much better than my tv watching days!
I put DD to sleep by nursing or comfort nursing in our bed anywhere from 7:30pm to 9:00pm. I leave the door open so I will hear her if she wakes up, but I am constantly checking on her too. Then my fiance will go to bed first before me usually. And then I will slip in between 11pm and 1am or so. She will usually wake up once before I come to bed and i will nurse her back to sleep.
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According to a book titled "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child", at around 4 months babies start to sleep more like adults ), with actual sleep cycles (except in 30 minute cycles instead of 90 minutes, which often causes the '4 month sleep regression'. My DD went through it and by 8 months I was still kinda reeling from it because of one thing: I was not consistent. DD was extremely stubborn cosleeping wasn't an option because was on pain meds at the time and when I was 8 1/2 months prego he rolled on top of me and it took me a few minutes to wake him up because I couldn't move. After that we decided cosleeping wasn't safe for our family. Unfortunately, I had to use CIO methods because nothing else seemed to work. But again, whatever type of sleep training method you choose, you have to be consistent. DD would do well for like a week after sleep training and then get worse and I would have to start over. Eventually, I talked to pedi and they told me it can take 5-6 weeks of CONSISTENCY, even when using a cio method. Things well get better though, I promise!


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Headmaster: Accepting more towns could slow Pinkerton enrollment declineBy HUNTER McGEE
Union Leader Correspondent
November 12. 2013 12:36AM
DERRY — Headmaster Mary Anderson discussed the possible ramifications of declining enrollment at Pinkerton Academy during a meeting with the Board of Trustees on Thursday.
The scenario she presented was based on the school continuing with four sending towns — Auburn, Chester, Derry and Hampstead. Anderson didn't, however, discuss the possibility of Hooksett becoming a new sending town, said Chip Underhill, the school's executive director of public affairs.
The projections show that unless new sending towns are added, the trend of declining enrollment will continue in coming years, Underhill said.
Hooksett has agreed to enter into contract negotiations with Pinkerton to send most of the district's high school students there starting next September. If Hooksett reaches an agreement with Pinkerton, it would become the fifth sending town.
Enrollment reports provided by Pinkerton to the New Hampshire Department of Education show that enrollment has dropped from 3,392 students in 2005-06 to 3,014 for the 2013-14 school year.
Enrollment projections show that enrollment will increase slightly for the 2014-15 school year to 3,030 students. Enrollment will then decrease over the next five years and decline to 2,489 by the 2019-20 school year, the projections from the New Hampshire School Superintendents Association show.
While enrollment has decreased in recent years, the cost per pupil has risen, according to tuition records. The cost per pupil rose from $10,467.50 in 2009-10 to $11,310.94 for the 2011-2012 school year, the records show.
If enrollment drops, there will be fewer course offerings and, in turn, fewer academic opportunities for students, Anderson told trustees. Class size would also be reduced, especially for AP & Honors, Arts, and Career and Technical Education courses.
Anderson's presentation concluded with the statement that stable enrollment is the key for offering the most opportunity for all students.
Stable enrollment equates to the best control of program opportunity and tuition costs for taxpayers, parents and families, she said. Also during the meeting, an update was presented on the search to replace Anderson, who is retiring at the end of the 2014 school year.
The search began after Anderson said in the spring that she would be retiring at the end of the 2014 school year, marking nearly four decades at the academy.
Consultants for the executive search firm Carney, Sandoe & Associates continued interviewing candidates during the fall.
Plans call for the Board of Trustees search committee to select the semifinalists and begin the interview process during the winter. The committee will then select finalists, who will be invited to come to the campus.
The committee and the full Board of Trustees will then make the hiring decision.
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Here Maps by Nokia, the mapping alternative to Google Maps and Apple's own Maps service, is now available for iOS. It's compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices running iOS 4.3 or above and is optimised for the iPhone 5.
Pocket-lint went to San Francisco recently to get some hands-on time with the application, but we discovered that it is feature-light in comparison to the Android and Windows Phone 8 versions. However, when taken head to head with Apple's own service, it beats it hands down, thanks to Nokia's long heritage in the sector.
In addition, although a dedicated Google Maps iOS app is currently in the testing phase is could be a fair way off because it has to go through the Apple approval process first before it gets on to iTunes. That leaves Here Maps by Nokia as the only viable alternative to Apple Maps at present.
The announcement of its arrival was made by Nokia's European communications director Mark Squires on his Twitter feed (as @DrPinball). "Apple users, the Here maps app is available now for iPhone and iPad," he posted, before linking to the iTunes link where you can download the app for free.
At present, there's no sign of the more feature-rich Android version on Google Play. Pocket-lint will update you when we know more about its release.


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Posted on July 1, 2009 in Health & Nutrition Miscellaneous
As we deal with our pain from the game we love, our methods of therapy vary. As Wimbledon approaches the final rounds, we find ourselves playing more aggressively much like our favorite picks. Do we know when to draw the line if an injury is too bad? Or do we try to play through it hoping the injuries will miraculously go away?
The office's current injuries are as follows:
Spencer Boller: Plantar Fasciitis
Jason Huang: Golfer's Elbow
Myself: Tendonitis
The most common of our remedies have included icing, stretching, strength training, and of course the addictive remedy of choice, the Topical Pain Reliever, China Gel.
No doubt about it, I love China Gel! Not because I'm Chinese, actually I'm not even Chinese, though some people think I am, rather it is the enhancing healing sensation China Gel brings to my body that attracts me the most. The main points of application for China Gel have been my Iliotibial band (IT) Band, back, arm, and most commonly, my shoulder. I have nothing but praises toward this gel.
Not only does this gel help me feel better, it has given our office the added aroma of minty joy. Kind of like a Mojito or Mentos – the fresh maker! The usage of China Gel not only fills our office with its mint-like smell, but the hallways we walk through as well. Of course there are other topical gels out there such as Tiger Balm or Ben-Gay, which I used in my younger days, but my China Gel preference inevitably comes down to the non-greasy feel and use of herbal remedies.
There's something addictive about this greaseless gel that makes me feel complete after a hard tennis session. It isn't the only thing I rely on to calm my pains, but it definitely helps therapeutically. What remedies are you using to help you through the pain?
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BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox struck out 10 times in a 6-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday. It was the two strikes thrown off the mound that made the difference, though.
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox struck out 10 times in a 6-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday. It was the two strikes thrown off the mound that made the difference, though.
Right-fielder Jose Bautista threw out Shane Victorino at the plate in the sixth inning, and reliever Darren Oliver scooped up a bunt by Jonathan Diaz and nailed Jarrod Saltalamacchia at home an inning later, both plays preserving Toronto's 2-0 lead.
"We're looking for anyone to score. We left some opportunities out there," Boston manager John Farrell said. "I have no question with the decision on (third base coach) Brian Butterfield. I'll live and die with every decision he makes at third base. He's an outstanding third-base coach.
"We forced (Bautista) to throw a 260-foot strike and he did," he added.
Bautista also hit two home runs for the Blue Jays, who snapped Boston's four-game winning streak.
"Obviously capable of hitting balls out of the ballpark every time he steps in the box," Farrell said.
While it was Bautista's bat that put Toronto ahead to stay in the seventh, when he hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer off reliever Junichi Tazawa, it was his arm that kept the momentum on Toronto's side.
Victorino led off the sixth with a double and tried to score from second on Dustin Pedroia's single to right.
Bautista, who had put the Blue Jays on top 2-0 in the top of the inning with his first homer of the game and 200th of his career, scooped up the ball and fired home to catcher J.P. Arencibia. Victorino came crashing into Arencibia, who blocked the plate and held onto the ball.
"Unfortunately the situation is going to be, 'Why did you go? Or why did you send him in that situation?'" Victorino said. "But again, hey, we're being aggressive, we're going to stay aggressive, we've been aggressive all year long. He just made a great play."
Neither Farrell nor Victorino blamed Butterfield for waving Victorino home, even after Bautista threw out David Ortiz at the plate on Friday night.
"It's tough for a third base coach to read that. He's got one of his speed guys running, so automatically you think all those scenarios go into play," Victorino said. "Unfortunately I did hesitate because of the low liner. I wanted to be safe than sorry. Unfortunately on the back side we were sorry."
It was his throw that made Bautista happiest.
"It's more difficult and more rare to throw people out on the bases," he said. "Anytime I do that I enjoy it a lot more."
With two on and no outs in the seventh, Farrell called for the safety squeeze with Diaz at the plate. Diaz, making his major league debut, laid down a bunt that Oliver fielded to the left of the mound before making an off-balance throw to home just in time to nail Saltalamacchia.
"Looking to force Darren Oliver to move off the mound and he makes a do-or-die play, bare hands it, throws it sidearm, fortunately throws a strike for them to cut down Salty at the plate," Farrell said. "We forced them to execute about as perfect a defensive play and they did."
Victorino eventually tied the game with a two-run single off Steve Delabar (5-1) in the seventh, but Bautista followed Jose Reyes' leadoff single in the eighth with a drive off Tazawa (4-3) that went off the base of a light-tower in left-center.
Reyes boosted the lead with an RBI single in the ninth against Craig Breslow and scored from first on a fielding error by Diaz at third.
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NORTHBORO — A decision by the Zoning Board of Appeals to allow a 20-unit apartment project even though town meeting limited the number of units on any lot to eight has left some residents and Planning Board members upset.
The ZBA approved special permits and variances Tuesday night for a mixed-use development at 61 and 65 W. Main St. that includes an 8,800-square-foot retail building and a 22,000-square-foot two-story building with retail use on the first floor and 20 apartments on the second floor. The development, called Northboro Commons, is at the long-vacant former Pierce gas station on Route 20, across from Dunkin' Donuts.
Town meeting in April overwhelmingly approved a zoning bylaw limiting the number of apartment units on a lot to eight. Tuesday night, the ZBA voted 4-1 to grant a variance to allow 20 units with the condition that each unit would have only one bedroom.
Facebook was busy Wednesday morning with contentious discussions among residents, ZBA Chairman Frances P. Bakstran and Planning Board member Michelle Gillespie.
Ms. Gillespie, reached by phone, said that while the Planning Board is not the permitting authority for the project, members asked the applicants, James Vogel of Northboro and his lawyer and partner, Paul Ayoub, several times to reduce the number of apartments to come into compliance or at least to 10 or 12, but they refused.
She said the Planning Board members sent a letter to the ZBA reminding it about the town meeting votes and that residents did not want a large apartment complex downtown.
"In the end, the ZBA did not care, didn't even try to negotiate the number of units and voted it in. What a shame for downtown Northboro," Ms. Gillespie wrote on Facebook, initiating the discussion. "One final note — Thank you Rob Berger, the only ZBA member who opposed the 20 apartments and doing the right thing!"
Ms. Bakstran responded: "Michelle, Shame on you … for your negative slant on a meeting that you did not even attend!"
Ms. Bakstran did not readily return a telephone call and an email from a reporter seeking a comment.
Mr. Burger said Wednesday night, "Based on the citizens' votes at previous town meetings, I felt this residential volume of units didn't meet what the people of Northboro would want for downtown."
Amy Poretsky, who lives on Indian Meadow Drive, said she attended the meeting and was disappointed by the outcome. She said the entire 52,800-square-foot project and the 20 apartments are not in keeping with the character of the town.
"A lot of people were disappointed. I just felt the ZBA didn't follow the will of the people. It's another strip mall. Route 20 is going to look like Route 9," Ms. Poretsky said when reached by phone.
Before 2009, when zoning bylaws were revised, multifamily developments were not allowed in the downtown. Two years ago, the ZBA approved a proposed development at 130 Main St. that has 12 apartment units. Some residents have appealed that decision to Worcester Superior Court. A trial is scheduled for February.
That in part led to the April 2013 town meeting vote at which members overwhelmingly approved a warrant article limiting the number of apartment units on a site to eight.
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I left a local store this morning very frustrated. I spend between $100 and $200 a week at the local establishment. In today's economy, we have to cut costs where we can and the prices at that particular establishment can't be beat.
Many of us can remember listening to Everette Lee, one of the founders of Campbellsville's Fourth of July Celebration, remark on Main Street during opening ceremonies: "They're one of ours," when introducing someone being honored.
That phrase could not be any more evident than when John "J.B." Holmes plays for the United States during the 37th Ryder Cup this week at Valhalla.
The "c" word is one no one wants to hear.
It changes your life, and the lives of your friends, family and perhaps everyone who comes into contact with you.
After interviewing the Payne family (see today's front page story), I began thinking of how cancer has impacted my life.
Three of my four grandparents have had some form of cancer. Today, only one of those grandparents is still living.
It was a strange funeral. Just me, my husband Bud and a one-legged chicken.
I was blubbering like a baby; Bud was punching at the rock-hard ground with a pair of post hole diggers and the chicken, wrapped in a soft towel and sprayed with ammonia to keep the neighbor's dog away, was going in the hole.
My sweet little Crippie chicken died. She was the daughter of Russell Crow - who also survived various maladies before being mauled by a passing opossum - layer of many large brown eggs and a good companion.
I am writing to give readers my testimony. I participate in Jane Todd Crawford Hospital's yearly health fair. This year, I went on a Tuesday morning to have my blood drawn.
By 7:30 the next morning, my family doctor's office called to tell me to have some more blood work done as there was an abnormality in my white blood cell count.
It is that time again. Oh, I know, it still feels like summer, but before you know it we will be doing our Christmas shopping.
It is also time to start Operation Christmas Child and shop for children around the world again. These gifts may be smaller, but they're precious to the children who receive them and you will be blessed in return.
This letter is for some pet owners ... Since when do you think it is all right to take baby kittens and other helpless animals and dump them on the city street or on a back road where no one can see you?
You know they cannot find food, so you expect them to starve to death. Your neighbors do not want them foraging in their garbage looking for food and water. I have - and take care of - five beautiful animals that someone in town just discarded like a worn-out shoe. Shame on you.
"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever." -Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)
We're excited! Woody, the Kentucky Wiener dog is back. And starting next week, children in Campbellsville and Taylor County can follow along through 10 weeks of his misadventures.
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