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DUE WEST, SC - The Pfeiffer men's basketball team (6-20, 3-13 CC) wrapped up its 2013-14 regular season with a 70-56 loss at Erskine (15-11, 8-8 CC) on Thursday evening. The Falcons struggled against the Conference Carolinas leading defense and were held to a season-low point total.

Freshman Andrew Guerrero paced the Falcons offensively as he scored 15 points and went 3-of-7 from beyond the arc. Sophomore AJ Clark added 14 points, five rebounds and two steals on the night. Sophomore center Silvere Aluko tied a career-high with seven blocked shots and chipped in eight points and finishes the regular season as the conference’s leader in blocked shots.

Roderick Perkins led all scorers with 22 points for the Flying Fleet and Chris Gore added nine points and 13 rebounds.

Pfeiffer was held to a season-low 32.7 percent shooting from the field and connected on just 4-of-19 from the three point line. The Falcons converted 75 percent of their 24 free throw attempts on the game.

Erskine led the whole way and pushed the lead to as many as 23 points in the second half. Pfeiffer's bench outscored the Flying Fleet's reserves 19-11 and each team committed 14 turnovers.

Pfeiffer's previous season low scoring total also came against Erskine on Jan. 18 when the Flying Fleet held Pfeiffer to 57 points.

The Falcons have less than 48 hours to regroup as they head to top-seeded Mount Olive for the quarterfinals of the conference tournament. The Trojans wrapped up the regular season crown on Tuesday night when they narrowly topped last year's regular season champion, Barton. Tipoff for the contest is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at Mount Olive with the winner advancing to the semifinals at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center in Concord, NC on Wednesday.

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This was the first preview showing of Peer Gynt and had a few rough spots but a very good show. It seemed a bit disconnected at times but expect that will improve. The actors put on a tour de force! It was an enjoyable evening!

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Peer Gynt invites a series of laudatory adjectives: ambitious, kaleidoscopic, meticulous, smart, bold, imaginative and at times very funny.” —_Kansas City Star _
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Join the world’s most famous wanderer, Peer Gynt, as he dreams, charms and swindles his way through life in an exhilarating quest for fame and fortune.

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"And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, 'Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' He said to him, 'What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?' So he answered and said, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.' And He said to him, 'You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.' But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?' Then Jesus answered and said: 'A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.'"

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People live with many mistaken illusions. It seems that they are especially vulnerable in this respect. They seem to be intelligent but are easily deceived and remain unaware of their evil sides. We are born without knowing ourselves, but we still live as if we do. Since people do not know themselves, the Bible repeatedly tells us that we are sinners.

People talk about the existence of their own sins. It seems that people are incapable of doing good, however, they are inclined to characterize themselves as good. They boast of their good works and show off, though they say they are sinners with their lips.

They don't know that they neither have good in them nor the ability to do good, so they try to deceive others and sometimes even deceive themselves. "Come on, we can't be completely evil. There's got to be some good inside of us."

Consequently, they look at others and tell themselves, "Gosh, I wish he hadn't done that. It would have been better for him if he hadn't. He would have been much better off if he talked like this. I think it is better for him to preach the gospel in such and such a way. He was redeemed before me, so I think he should act more like one who has been redeemed. I was redeemed just recently, but if I learn more, I will do much better than he does."

They sharpen the knives in their hearts whenever they are hurt. "You just wait. You will see that I am unlike you. You may think that you are ahead of me now, but just you wait. It is written in the Bible that those who come last will be first. I know it applies to me. Wait and I will show you." People deceive themselves.

Even though he would react the same way if he were in the other person's place, he still judges him. When he stands at the pulpit, he suddenly finds himself stuttering helplessly because he is over conscious of his attire. When asked if people have the ability to do good, most people say by their lips that they don't. But in their hearts, they are under the illusion that they themselves have the ability. So, they try hard to be virtuous until they die.

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What do we always do,
good or evil?

In our praise book, 'Praise the Name of Jesus,' there is a song that goes like this, "Without Jesus we only stumble. We are as worthless as a ship that crosses the sea without the sail." Without Jesus, we can only sin because we are evil beings. We have the ability to do righteous works only after being saved.

The Apostle Paul said, "For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice" (Romans 7:19). If a person is with Jesus, it doesn't matter, but when he/she has nothing to do with Him, he/she tries to do good deeds before God. However, the more the person tries, the more he/she practices evil.

Even King David had the same innate nature. When his country was peaceful and prosperous, one evening, he went up to the roof for a stroll. There, he saw a tempting picture and fell for sensual pleasure. What was he like when he had forgotten the Lord? He was truly evil. He committed adultery with Bathsheba and killed Uriah, her husband, but he couldn't see the evil in himself. He made excuses for his actions instead.

Then one day, the prophet Nathan came to him and said, "There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had numerous flocks and herds. But the poor man had nothing except one little lamb. And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd but took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him" (2 Samuel 12:1-4).

David said, "The man who has done this shall surely die!" His anger was greatly aroused, so he said, "He has so many of his own; he could surely take one of them. But instead, he took the poor man's only lamb to prepare food for his guest. He should die!" Then, Nathan told him, "You are the man." If we do not follow Jesus and be with Him, even the born-again can do such evil things.

It is the same for all people, even the faithful. We always stumble and practice evil without Jesus. So we are thankful again today that Jesus saved us, regardless of the evil in us. "I want to rest under the shade of the Cross" Our hearts rest under the shade of the redemption of Christ, but if we leave the shade and look at ourselves, we can never rest.

God Gave Us the Righteousness of Faith before the Law

Which one is earlier to follow
faith or the Law?

The Apostle Paul said that God gave us the righteousness of faith from the beginning. He gave it to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Seth and Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and finally to Jacob and his twelve sons. Even without the Law, they became righteous before God through the righteousness that came from the faith in His Word. They were blessed and given rest through the faith in His Word.

Time passed and Jacob's descendants lived in Egypt as slaves for 400 years because of Joseph. Then, God led them out through Moses into the land of Canaan. However, during the 400 years of slavery, they had forgotten the righteousness of faith.

So God let them cross the Red Sea through His miracle and led them into the wilderness. When they reached the wilderness of Sin, He gave them the Law at Mount Sinai. He gave them the Law, which contained the Ten Commandments and the 613 detailed articles. God declared, "I am the Lord your God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. Let Moses come up to Mount Sinai, and I will give you the law." Then, He gave Israel the Law.

He gave them the Law so that they would 'have knowledge of sin'(Romans 3:20). It was to inform them about what He liked and disliked and to reveal His righteousness and holiness.

All the people of Israel who had been enslaved in Egypt for 400 years crossed the Red Sea. They had never met the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. They didn't know Him.

While they were living as slaves for those 400 years, they had forgotten the righteousness of God. At that time, they didn't have a leader. Jacob and Joseph were their leaders, but they had passed away long ago. It seems that Joseph failed to pass the faith onto his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Therefore, they needed to find their God again and meet Him because they had forgotten His righteousness. We have to bear in mind that God gave them the righteousness of faith first and then gave them the Law, after they had forgotten the faith. He gave them the Law to return them to Him.

To save Israel and to make them His people, He told them to be circumcised.

His purpose in calling them was to let them know that He existed by establishing the Law and secondly, to let them know that they were sinners before Him. God wanted them to come before Him and become His people by being redeemed through the sacrificial system that He had given them. And He made them His people.

The people of Israel were redeemed through the sacrificial system of the Law by believing in the Messiah who was to come. But the sacrificial system had also faded away with time. Let's see when that was.

In Luke 10:25, a certain lawyer who tested Jesus is mentioned. The lawyer was a Pharisee. The Pharisees were extreme conservatives who tried to live up to God's Word. They tried to protect the country first and then live by God's Law. Then, there were also the Zealots, who were very impetuous and tended to resort to violence in order to achieve their vision, the independence of Israel from Rome.

Whom did Jesus want
to meet?
Sinners without a shepherd

There are some religious figures like them even today. They lead social movements with slogans like 'save the oppressed people of the world.' They believe that Jesus came to save the poor and oppressed. So, after learning theology in seminaries, they take part in politics, and try to 'deliver the deprived' in every field of society.

They are the ones who insist, "Let us all live by the holy and merciful Law...live up to the Law, by His Words." But they don't realize the actual meaning of the Law. They try to live by the letter of the Law while not recognizing the divine revelation of the Law.

Therefore, we can say that there were no prophets, servants of God, in Israel for about 400 years before Christ. Because of this, they became a flock of sheep without a shepherd.

They neither had the Law nor a true leader. God didn't reveal Himself through the hypocritical religious leaders of that time. The country had become a colony of the Roman Empire. So, Jesus said to those people of Israel who followed Him into the wilderness that He would not send them away hungry. He took pity on the flock without a shepherd because there were many who were suffering at that time.

The lawyers and others in such positions were essentially the ones who had vested privileges; the Pharisees were of the orthodox lineage of Judaism. They were very proud.

This lawyer asked Jesus in Luke 10:25, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He seemed to think that there was no one better than him among the people of Israel. So this lawyer (one who had not been redeemed) challenged Him, saying, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

The lawyer is but a reflection of ourselves. He asked Jesus, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus replied, "What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?"

So he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind," and "love your neighbor as yourself."

And He said to him, "You have answered rightly; do this and you will live." Jesus told him, "You have answered rightly; do this and you will live."

He challenged Jesus while not knowing himself to be evil, a lump of sin who could never do good. So Jesus asked him, "What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?"

What is your reading
of the Law?
We are sinners who can
never keep the Law.

"What is your reading of it?" With this passage, Jesus asks how one, including you and me, knows and understands the Law.

As many people do nowadays, this lawyer also thought that God gave him the Law for him to keep. So he answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

The Law was without fault. He gave us the perfect Law. He told us to love the Lord with all our hearts and souls, with all our strength and minds and to love our neighbors as ourselves. It is right for us to love our God with all our hearts and strength, but it is a holy commandment that can never be kept.

"What is your reading of it?" means that the Law is right and correct, but how do you understand it? The lawyer thought that God gave it for him to obey. However, the Law of God was given to us so that we might realize our shortcomings, by completely exposing our iniquities. "You have sinned. You killed when I told you not to kill. Why did you disobey Me?"

The Law exposes the sins in people's hearts. Let's suppose that on my way here, I saw some ripe melons in the field. God warned me by the Law, "Don't pick those melons to eat. It will shame Me if you do." "Yes, Father." "The field belongs to Mr. so and so, therefore, you should never pick them." "Yes, Father."

The moment we hear that we should never pick them, we feel an inclination to pick them. If we push down a spring, it bounces back up in reaction. The sins of people are just like that.

God told us to never do evil deeds. God can say that because He is holy, complete and has the ability to do so. On the other hand, we can 'never' not sin and 'never' be purely good. We 'never' have good in our hearts. The Law is stipulated with the word 'never'. Why? Because people have lusts in their hearts. We cannot help but to act on our lusts. We commit adultery because we have adultery in our hearts.

We should read the Bible carefully. When I first tried, I analyzed the Word to the letter. I read that Jesus died on the Cross for me and couldn't stop the tears from flowing. I was such an evil person and He died on the Cross for me.... My heart ached so terribly that I believed in Him. Then I thought, 'If I'm going to believe, then I'm going to believe according to the Word.'

When I read Exodus 20, it said, "You shall have no other gods before Me." I prayed in repentance according to this commandment. I searched my memory to recall if I had ever had other gods before Him, called His name in vain, or if I had ever bowed before other gods. I realized that I had bowed to other gods many times during the rituals in honor of my ancestors. I had committed the sin of having other gods.

So I prayed in repentance, "Lord, I have worshiped idols. I have to be judged for it. Please forgive my sins. I shall never do it again." Afterwards, one sin seemed to be taken care of.

I then tried to recollect if I had ever called His name in vain. Then, I remembered that when I first started to believe in God, I smoked. My friends told me, "Aren't you bringing shame to God by smoking? How can a Christian smoke?"

That's the same thing as calling His name in vain, isn't it? So I prayed again, "Lord, I called Your name in vain. Please forgive me. I'll quit smoking." So I tried to quit smoking but continued to light up, on and off for a year. It was really hard, almost impossible to quit smoking. But at last, I managed to quit smoking completely. I felt that another sin had been dealt with.

The next one was "Keep the Sabbath day holy." This meant that I shouldn't do other things on Sundays; work or earn money.... So I stopped that too.

Then there was "Honor your father and your mother." I could honor them when I was away, but there was a source of heartache when I was near. "Oh my goodness, I have sinned before God. Please forgive me, Lord." I prayed in repentance.

But I couldn't honor my parents anymore because they were both dead by then. What could I do? "Lord, please forgive this worthless sinner. You died on the Cross for me." How thankful I was!

This way, I thought that I had dealt with my sins one by one. There were other laws such as not to kill, not to commit adultery, not to covet.... Until the day I realized I hadn't kept even a single one, I prayed all night every night. But you know, praying in repentance is not really enjoyable. Let's talk about it.

When I thought about Jesus' crucifixion, I was able to sympathize how painful it was. And He died for us who could not live up to His words. I cried all night thinking how He loved me and thanked Him for giving me real pleasure.

My first year of attending church was generally quite easy but for the next couple of years it became more and more difficult for me to cry in repentance because I had to think much harder for the tears to flow since I did it so often.

When the tears still did not come, often I went to pray in the mountains and fasted for 3 days. Then, the tears came back. I was soaked in my tears, came back to society, and cried in the church.

People around me said, "You have become so much holier with your prayers in the mountains." But the tears inevitably dried up again. It became really hard the third year. I would think of the wrongs I had done to my friends and fellow Christians and cry again. After 4 years of this, the tears dried up again. There were tear glands in my eyes, but they no longer worked.

After 5 years, I couldn't cry, no matter how hard I tried. My nose started to run. After a couple of more years of this, I became disgusted with myself, so God made me turn to the Bible again.

The Law Is for the Knowledge of Sin

What must we realize
about the Law?
We can never keep
the Law.

In Romans 3:20, we read, "By the law is the knowledge of sin." At first, I considered this verse to be merely a personal message to the Apostle Paul and only tried to believe in the words that I preferred. But after my tears dried up, I couldn't continue my religious life of faith.

So, I sinned repeatedly and found out that I had sin in my heart and that it was impossible to live by the Law. I couldn't bear it, but I also couldn't discard the Law because I believed that it was given to be obeyed. In the end, I became a lawyer, like those mentioned in the Scripture. It became so difficult for me to continue a life of faith.

I had so much sin that, while reading the Law, I began to realize those sins whenever I violated each of the Ten Commandments in my heart. Sinning in the heart is also committing sin, and I had unwittingly become a believer in the Law.

When I kept the Law, I was happy. But when I couldn't keep the Law, I became miserable, irritated and sad. Eventually, I became desperate over it all. How smooth it could've been if I were taught from the beginning the very true knowledge of the Law like this, "No, no. There's another meaning to the Law. It shows you that you are a lump of sin; you have love for money, the opposite sex and for things that are beautiful to look at. You have things that you love more than God. You want to follow the things of the world. The Law has been given to you, not to keep, but to recognize yourself as a sinner with evil in your heart."

If only someone had taught me the truth then, I would not have had to suffer for 10 years. Thus, I had lived under the Law for 10 years before I came to this realization.

The fourth commandment is "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." That means that we should not work on the Sabbath. They teach that we should walk, not ride if we are traveling far distances on Sunday. I thought that it was more appropriate and honorable to walk to the place where I was to preach. After all, I was about to preach the Law. Thus, I felt that I had to practice what I preached. It was so difficult that I was about to give up.

As it is recorded here, "What is your reading of it?" I didn't understand this question and suffered for 10 years. The lawyer misunderstood it as well. He thought that if he obeyed the Law and lived carefully, he would be blessed before God.

But Jesus told him, "What is your reading of it?" The man answered according to his legalistic faith. And then He said to the man, "Yes, you answered right; you are taking it as it is written. Try and keep it. You will live if you do, but die if you don't. The wages of sin is death. You will die if you don't." (The opposite of life is death, isn't it?)

But the lawyer still didn't understand. This lawyer is like every one of us, you and me. I studied theology for 10 years. I tried everything, read everything and did everything: fasting, having illusions, speaking in tongues.... I read the Bible for 10 years and expected to accomplish something. But spiritually, I was still a blind man.

That is why a sinner must meet someone who can open his/her eyes, and that someone is our Lord Jesus. Then, one can realize that "Aha! We can never keep the Law. No matter how hard we may try to keep the Law, we will only die while desperately trying. But Jesus came to save us with the water and the Spirit! Hallelujah!" The water and the Spirit can redeem us. It is the grace, the gift of God. So we praise the Lord.

I was lucky enough to graduate from the hopeless line of legalism, but some spend their whole lives studying theology in vain and never realize the truth until the day they die. Some people believe for decades or from generation to generation, but are never born again.

We graduate from being a sinner when we realize that we can never keep the Law, then stand before Jesus and listen to the gospel of the water and the Spirit. When we meet Jesus, we graduate from all judgments and damnation. We are the worst sinners, but we become righteous because He saved us by the water and the blood.

Jesus told us that we could never live in His will. He told this to the lawyer, but he did not understand. So Jesus told him a story to help him understand.

What makes men fallen
in the life of faith?

"A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead" (Luke 10:30). Jesus told the lawyer this parable to awaken him from the fact that he suffered all his life, just as this man was beaten by thieves and almost died.

A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. Jericho represents the secular world while Jerusalem represents the city of religion; the city of faith, populated with the boasters of the law. This story tells us that if we believe in Christ in just a religious way, we will be ruined.

"A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead." Jerusalem was a big city with a large population. There was a high priest, a host of priests, Levites and many outstanding men of religion there. There were many who knew the Law well. There, they tried to live up to the Law, but eventually failed and headed for Jericho. They kept falling into the world (Jericho) and could not avoid meeting thieves.

The man also met thieves on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho and was stripped of his clothes. 'To be stripped of his clothes' means that he lost his righteousness. It is impossible for us to live by the Law, to live up to the Law. The Apostle Paul said in Romans 7:19-20, "For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me."

I wish I could do good and live in His words. But in the heart of a man are evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murder, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness (Mark 7:21-23).

Because they are in our hearts and come out now and then, we do what we will not to do and we do not do what we should do. We keep repeating those evils in our hearts. What the devil has to do is to give us only a small stimulus to sin.

The Sins within the Heart of All Humankind

Can we live by
the Law?

It is said in Mark 7, "There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him those are the things that defile a man."

Jesus is telling us that there are evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murder, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, and an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness in the heart of a man.

We all have murder in our hearts. There is no one who does not murder. Mothers yell at their children, "No. Don't do that. I told you not to do that, damn you. I told you over and over not to do that. I'm going to kill you if you do that again. I said don't do that." That is murder. You might have killed your children in your mind with your thoughtless words.

Our children must be alive because they run away from us so swiftly; but if we had let out all our anger on them, we may have killed them. Sometimes we scare ourselves. "Oh my God! Why did I do that?" We look at the bruises after hitting our children and think that we must have been crazy to do that. We cannot but act that way because we have murder in our hearts.

So, 'I do what I will not to do' means that we do evil because we are evil. It is so easy for Satan to tempt us to sin.

Let's say that a man who has not been redeemed sat in a hut for 10 years, facing a wall and meditating like Sungchol, the late great Korean monk. It is fine while he is sitting with his face to the wall, but someone has to bring him food and take away his excrement.

He has to have contact with someone. It would not be a problem if it was a man, but let's suppose it was a beautiful woman. If he happened to see her by chance, all of the time he spent sitting would have been in vain. He may think, "I should not commit adultery; I have it in my heart, but I have to blot it away. I have to drive it out. No! Get out of my mind!"

But his determination is evaporated the moment he sees her. After the woman leaves, he looks into his heart. 5 years of his ascetic exercises turns into nothing, all for naught.

It is so simple for Satan to take away a person's righteousness. All that Satan has to do is give him/her a little push. When a person struggles not to sin without being redeemed, he/she keeps falling into sin instead. That person may pay the tithe faithfully every Sunday, fast for 40 days, offer 100 days of dawn prayers...but Satan tempts and deceives him/her with the seemingly good things in life.

"I would like to give you an important position in the company, but you are a Christian and you cannot work on Sundays, can you? It is such a great position. Maybe you could work 3 Sundays and go to church just once a month. Then, you would enjoy such high prestige and have a big fat paycheck. How about it?" At this, probably 100 out of 100 people would be bought.

If that doesn't work, Satan plays another trick on people who are easily trapped in lust for women. Satan puts a woman in front of him and he falls head over heels in love, forgetting God in an instant. That is how the righteousness of man is stripped.

If we try to live by the Law, all we have in the end are the wounds of sin, pain and spiritual poverty; we lose all righteousness. "Went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead."

This means that though we may try to stay in Jerusalem by living by the will of Holy God, we will stumble time after time because of our weaknesses and will eventually be ruined.

You may still pray in repentance before God. "Lord, I have sinned. Please forgive me; I shall never do it again. I promise you that this will really be the last time. I beg and implore you to forgive me just this once."

But it never lasts. People cannot live in this world without sinning. They may be able to avoid it a couple of times, but it would be impossible not to sin again. So, we cannot help but to repeatedly commit sins. "Lord, please forgive me." If this goes on, they will drift away from the church and their religious lives. They drift away from God because of their sins and eventually end up in hell.

To travel to Jericho means to fall into the secular world; getting closer to the world and farther away from Jerusalem. In the beginning, Jerusalem is still closer, but as the cycle of sinning and repenting is repeated, we find ourselves standing in the downtown of Jericho; fallen deeply into the world.

Who can be saved
Those who give up to establish
their own righteousness

Who did the man meet on his way to Jericho? He met thieves. One who doesn't even know and live by the Law lives a life similar to an abandoned dog. He/she drinks, falls asleep anywhere and urines anywhere. This dog wakes up the next day and drinks again. An abandoned dog would eat its own excretion. That's why such a person is called a dog. He/she knows not to drink, yet does so and repents the next morning, repeating the process over and over again.

It is like the man who met thieves on the way to Jericho. He is left behind, wounded and almost dead. It means that there's only sin in his heart. This is what a human is.

People believe in Jesus while trying to live by the Law in Jerusalem, the religious community, but are left behind with only sin in their hearts. All they have to show for their religious lives are the wounds of sin. Those with sin in their hearts are thrown into hell in the end. They know it, but don't know what to do. Haven't you and I been in a similarly religious city too? Yes. We were there all the same.

The lawyer who misunderstood the law of God would struggle all his life, but end up in hell, wounded. He is one of us, you and me.

Only Jesus can save us. There are so many intelligent people around us and they constantly brag about what they know. They all pretend to live by the Law of God and aren't honest with themselves. They cannot call a spade a spade, but are always bent on grooming their outer appearances to look faithful.

Among them are sinners on the way to Jericho, the ones who are beaten up by thieves and left almost dead. We have to know how fragile we are before God.

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Those who know that they are heading for hell and give up trying to pursue their own righteousness, while hanging on to the Lord, are the ones who can be saved. We can never be saved by our own efforts.

We must understand that we are like the man who fell among thieves.

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Walt Disney Co NYSE DIS 110.37 +0.93 (0.85%) 186.00B
The Walt Disney Company together with its subsidiaries and affiliates is a diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with five ...
James A. Rasulo
PulteGroup, Inc. NYSE PHM 19.38 -0.11 (-0.56%) 7.17B
PulteGroup, Inc. (PulteGroup) is a homebuilder operating in the United States. The Company's subsidiaries engage in the homebuilding business.
James J. Postl
Outerwall Inc NASDAQ OUTR 77.71 -0.03 (-0.04%) 1.44B
Outerwall Inc. is a provider of automated retail solutions. The Company's business segments include The Redbox, Coinstar and New Ventures.
James H. Gaherity
Equifax Inc. NYSE EFX 100.38 +1.36 (1.37%) 11.90B
Equifax Inc. is a provider of information solutions and human resources business process outsourcing services. The Company provides services for diversified ...
James E. Copeland Jr.
Computer Sciences Corporation NYSE CSC 69.21 +1.73 (2.56%) 9.53B
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is a provider of information technology (IT) and professional services and solutions. The Company's clients include ...
James R. Smith
United Bankshares, Inc. NASDAQ UBSI 38.23 +0.58 (1.54%) 2.64B
United Bankshares, Inc. (United) is a bank holding company. The Company has two banking subsidiaries doing business under the name of United Bank, ...
James J. Consagra Jr
Speedway Motorsports, Inc. NYSE TRK 22.03 +0.20 (0.92%) 907.07M
Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) is a promoter, marketer and sponsor of motorsports activities in the United States. The Company also provide souvenir ...
James P. Holden
BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. NASDAQ BBEP 5.43 -0.31 (-5.40%) 1.18B
BreitBurn Energy Partners LP is an oil and gas partnership focused on the acquisition, exploitation and development of oil, natural-gas liquids (NGL) and ...
James G. Jackson
Heritage Financial Group Inc NASDAQ HBOS 27.33 +0.16 (0.59%) 252.51M
Heritage Financial Group, Inc. (Heritage) serves as the bank holding company for HeritageBank of the South (HeritageBank or the Bank).
James Keith Land
Westfield Financial, Inc. NASDAQ WFD 7.48 +0.05 (0.67%) 136.97M
Westfield Financial, Inc. (Westfield Financial) serves as a holding company for Westfield Bank (the Bank). As a community bank, it focuses on servicing ...
James C. Hagan Jr
Fulton Financial Corp NASDAQ FULT 12.68 +0.08 (0.63%) 2.24B
Fulton Financial Corporation is a multi-bank financial holding company. The Company provides a range of banking and financial services to businesses and ...
James R. Moxley III
Teleflex Incorporated NYSE TFX 129.00 +1.55 (1.22%) 5.30B
Teleflex Incorporated, is a medical technology company which provides medical products to enhance clinical benefits, improve patient and provider safety and ...
James J. Leyden
Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. NASDAQ WVVI 6.84 +0.14 (2.09%) 33.34M
Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc., produces and sells premium, super premium and ultra premium varietal wines. The Company operates through two segments ...
James L. Ellis
Covenant Transportation Group, Inc. NASDAQ CVTI 31.11 +0.49 (1.60%) 568.32M
Covenant Transportation Group, Inc. provides truckload transportation services throughout the continental United States, into and out of Mexico, ...
James F. Brower
Handy & Harman Ltd NASDAQ HNH 31.08 -1.67 (-5.10%) 348.05M
Handy & Harman Ltd. is a holding company. The Company is a diversified manufacturer of engineered niche industrial products with market positions in many of ...
James F. McCabe Jr.
Reading International, Inc. NASDAQ RDI 13.50 +0.37 (2.82%) 308.20M
Reading International, Inc. (RDI) is an internationally diversified hard asset company. The Company is principally focused on the development, ownership and ...
James J Cotter JR
CSP Inc. NASDAQ CSPI 7.18 +0.11 (1.56%) 26.83M
CSP Inc. (CSPI), along with its subsidiaries develops and markets information technology (IT) integration solutions and high-performance cluster computer ...
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Exactech, Inc. NASDAQ EXAC 21.77 +0.51 (2.40%) 303.94M
Exactech, Inc. (Exactech) is an orthopaedic company. The Company develops, manufactures, markets and distributes and sells orthopedic implant devices, ...
James G. Binch
Infinity Property and Casualty Corp. NASDAQ IPCC 72.27 +1.37 (1.93%) 829.73M
Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation is a holding company that, through subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance with a concentration on ...
James R. Gober
Azure Midstream Partners LP NASDAQ FISH 16.77 -0.36 (-2.10%) 300.52M
Azure Midstream Partners, LP, formerly Marlin Midstream Partners, LP, develops, owns, operates and acquires midstream energy assets.
James P. Benson
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Consulting Group Large Cap Value Equity Fund TLVUX 13.52 +0.11 (0.82%)
The investment seeks total return, consisting of capital appreciation and dividend income. The fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus ...
James C. Kieffer


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Katie Holmes’ Untitled Television Gig: More Details!

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She can’t wait to be back on the small screen, and Katie Holmes has quite the project in the television pipeline.

Though the forthcoming ABC pilot is still untitled, GossipCenter has learned that Holmes will play “a well-bred and educated woman who runs a philanthropic foundation with her husband,” and that her name is Ann.

Furthermore, the show will be a “high-society drama” according to Entertainment Weekly, and will be set in the swanky Upper East Side of Manhattan.

“Behind the Candelabra” scribe Richard LaGravenese will helm the project, which is sure to have plenty of high-end clothing, snooty society functions and brilliant backstabbing!

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No. 5 BU Returns Home to Host No. 10 Northeastern on Wednesday Night

GO TERRIERS Junior Kerrin Sperry made 24 saves at Northeastern on Oct. 16 to set a new program record for career wins.
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The No. 5 Boston University women's ice hockey team will welcome No. 10 Northeastern to Walter Brown Arena on Wednesday night. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m.

BU (14-3-3, 9-2-1 WHEA) has won its first three games of the calendar year and is unbeaten in its last nine chances (7-0-2). The Terriers swept a two-game series with Maine this past weekend, including a 4-2 win on Sunday afternoon.

This will be the first home game for the Terriers since Dec. 1, when they defeated Providence, 6-4. BU owns an 8-2-0 record at home and is 8-1-0 at Walter Brown Arena. The Terriers topped the Huskies, 4-1, in the teams' only meeting so far this season on Oct. 16.

The line of junior Louise Warren, senior Isabel Menard and sophomore Kayla Tutino has been fantastic over the last three games, as each player has earned one point on four goals in that stretch. In total, the trio has combined for 17 points (7g, 10a) since the new year and Warren, Tutino and Menard are first, second and third, respectively, on the team in scoring in 2013.

Junior Kerrin Sperry is expected to earn the start for the Terriers after she made 21 saves in a 5-2 win over Maine on Saturday. Senior Alissa Fromkin has played in two of the last three games and earned a pair of wins thanks to a combined 34 saves and a 2.00 goals-against average.

Northeastern (11-8-2, 5-5-1 WHEA) enters the midweek matchup having lost three of its last four games, including two straight losses against top-five teams in Boston College (Jan. 9, 6-2) and Cornell (Jan. 12, 4-2). The Huskies’ one win in that stretch came at then-No. 2 Clarkson, a 4-3 victory; however, Clarkson was without its two best players at the time.

Sophomore Kendall Coyne leads the team in goals (17), assists (16) and points (33). Seniors Casey Pickett (12g, 11a) and Rachel Llanes (8g, 14a) are the other two Huskies with at least 20 points. Sophomore goaltender Chloe Desjardins owns an 11-8-2 record with a 2.69 goals-against average and a .905 save percentage.

Following Wednesday's tilt, the Terriers will be idle until Jan. 25, when they travel to Vermont for a single game against the Catamounts. Game time will be at 2 p.m.

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Gothenburg High School Instrumental band students grades fifth through 12 presented a holiday concert Monday night in the performing arts center. Varsity band participants play “A Christmas Suite.” They are, l-r: Ryan Ostendorf, Coltin Bebensee and Elisa Meridith. Ostendorf and Bebensee were emcees.

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Anoxic events are a common occurrence in Island estuaries during the summer months.  The symptoms of an anoxic event include:

  • milky white or green discolouration of the water,
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A list of sites that have recorded anoxic events in 2014 is provided below. A map of these sites is available.   A map that highlights the intensity of anoxic events across PEI from 2009 to 2014 is also provided.

Historical information, from 2004 to 2013, is available.

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Investment in smart grid technology grew steadily last year — report

Source: Nathanael Massey, E&E reporter • Posted: Friday, March 1, 2013

Global investment in smart grid technology rose 7 percent in 2012, according to a new report by the Worldwatch Institute, buoyed by the growing presence of renewables in the energy mix and the integration of new technologies into infrastructure upgrades. World markets saw $13.9 billion invested in smart grid technology.

The United States remains the lead investor in smart grids, though its investments fell last year to $4.3 billion, from $5.1 billion in 2011. China, in second place, appears to be closing the gap, increasing its smart grid spending 14 percent to $3.2 billion.

Much of the early investment has been in smart metering, which many experts consider a fundamental first step in advancing other smart grid technologies. Smart meters allow customers to monitor and adjust their consumption of electricity, or cycle power usage during peak periods through demand-response programs.

Currently, about a third of American households employ smart meters. According to utility plans, that number should rise to more than half by 2015, the report notes.

A European Union directive mandates that 80 percent of E.U. households deploy smart meters by 2020. Currently, its ratio is closer to 10 percent.

The growth of investment in smart meter technology has been steadier than that of wind and solar. Solar investment rose steeply last year, 36 percent over 2011. Global wind power investment fell 17 percent due to a drop in price in raw materials and the resulting glut in supply


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William Evanina served nearly two decades in the FBI before joining the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. William Evanina served nearly two decades in the FBI before joining the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ODNI

Among the many actions the Obama administration took in the “post-Snowden” era of insider threats was to appoint a new governmentwide counterintellligence chief.

The man filling that role, or the “NCIX,” as acronym-inclined national security feds call the National Counterintelligence Executive, is Bill Evanina, 47, a former FBI special agent with a counter-terrorism specialty.

Tapped in May 2014 by James Clapper, director of the Office of National Intelligence, Evanina is now immersed in coordinating multi-agency efforts to mitigate the risk of foreign infiltration, assess damage from intelligence leaks and tighten the security clearance process.

He spends most days at the NCIX office in Bethesda, Md., but spoke to Government Executive from ODNI headquarters in McLean, Va., as part of the intelligence community’s “marketing strategy of new openness, which includes explaining which part of the federal government does what,” he said.

Evanina debuts at a time when the administration is under new pressure to prevent internal spying by bad-actor employees. His team also helps U.S. industry fend off cyber attacks and anticipate military threats from emerging terrorist groups.

From the left, the administration must also answer the rising chorus of critics in the press and whistleblower advocacy communities who say President Obama isn’t living up to his 2009 vow to run “the most transparent administration in history.”

As of this summer, this administration has brought eight prosecutions of agency leaks under the 1917 Espionage Act—more than all other administrations combined, according to Jesselyn Radack, an attorney who works national security and human rights issues for the nonprofit Government Accountability Project. Her group and others warn that crackdowns on leakers and agency overreliance on classification inhibit the free pursuit of journalism in a democratic society.

“Instead of getting carried away with the concept of leakers as heroes, we need to get back to the basics of what it means to be loyal,” Evanina says. “Undifferentiated, unauthorized leaking is a criminal act. If you want to call yourself a whistleblower, there are methods in place,” he said. “A security clearance is considered sacred, a privilege and an honor. We need to ensure that both the employees and the individuals doing the background checks are solid.”

Dealing with insider threats—a priority goal in the fiscal 2015 budget—has actually been on the intelligence community front burner since the WikiLeaks debacle in 2010, Evanina noted. “But it sped up from a regional railway to the Acela train,” the Pennsylvania native added, with the June 2013 leaks on National Security Agency domestic surveillance exposed by contractor Edward Snowden, the former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor with NSA now exiled in Russia.

One of Evanina’s central tasks now is chairing the governmentwide assessment of the damage caused by Snowden, a report slated for completion next summer.

Asked about suggestions by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., that Snowden may have had prior links to the Russians, Evanina said, “There is no evidence on that either way.”

But when queried about an Aug. 6 New York Times report of leaked internal documents showing “secret terror lists” that include 28,000 Americans kept by the National Counterterrorism Center, Evanina was firmer. “No unauthorized leak is routine,” he said. “It’s a criminal act that has us very concerned. In the intelligence community’s view, every disclosure is a problem because it betrays the people who collected that data. There’s a rationale on why it was classified,” he added, citing a need to protect “both the collection methods and lives.” The FBI is moving forward,” he said, with a probe into how the lists were leaked to an online magazine called The Intercept.

Evanina, who most recently headed the CIA’s Counterespionage group, smiles when a visitor mentions a new biography of Kim Philby, the notorious upper-crust Briton who betrayed both the British and American intelligence agencies in the 1940s through 1960s, when he defected to Russia.

In 18 years at the FBI based primarily in New Jersey, Evanina worked on the post-9/11 investigation of Flight 93, the 2001 Anthrax attacks, and the investigation into the al Qaeda killers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. He also led the espionage investigation of convicted FBI-agent-turned-spy Leandro Aragoncillo.

The top priority of his current job, which was created in 2002, is to coordinate enforcement of Obama’s November 2012 memorandum on National Insider Threat Policy and the Minimum Standards. It tasks agencies with confronting threats “by establishing common expectations; institutionalizing executive branch best practices; and enabling flexible implementation across the executive branch.”

That challenge is a “whole of government issue, but it’s tailored to individual agencies,” Evanina said, “to test and identify when something nefarious is going on, either through data movement or exfiltration.” More than 70 agencies store classified material, he notes, but the quality of their counterintelligence shops varies. “Some have one retired police officer, others have several former CIA or FBI employees.”

Today’s threats, of course, have grown exponentially alongside new technologies. The 22-year-old Florida man recently discovered as an al-Qaeda suicide bomber in Syria “could have chosen to be a hacker and put a virus or malware at Cape Canaveral,” Evanina said. “Globalization has made things more complicated, and individuals have multiple venues to go to. With the click of a finger, they’re in chat rooms and in gaming systems and they may go after our more nondescript agencies as the weakest link. Everybody’s vulnerable.”

China and Russia are probably both the No. 1 threats, Evanina said, because they target U.S. industry’s communications security and intellectual property. “They don’t have a robust research and development effort, and in the long-term what’s at stake is not just our ships and missiles, but our economic leadership in the world.”

The NCIX also plays a pivotal role in improving the government’s security clearance background checks. “We need more continuous evaluation,” said Evanina, adding that five or 10 years is too long to wait in the modern era to revisit a cleared employee’s personal background. Both the Snowden breach and the September 2013 shootings at the Washington Navy Yard by a mentally ill contractor “might have been helped if we’d employed a risk-based approach to prioritizing employees to get new background checks sooner than others,” he said. Continuous evaluation will be “supplemental—it won’t replace standard background checks and it won’t prolong hiring time,” he said.

One crisp action taken following agency auditing after Snowden’s exposure: 100,000 fewer people have security clearances than did a year ago, Evanina said. “That’s a lot.”

Evanina meets regularly with agency working groups, congressional staff and the Office of Personnel Management to refine the current system. Continuous evaluation “would not just expose future Snowdens, it would identify people in need—those with financial or emotional problems—so we can get them help,” he said.

More-frequent background updates “do cost money and resources are tight,” he agrees. But it’s money well spent.” Does it harm morale? “That’s a fair question, but employees understand that it’s done to protect them.” Continuous evaluation “may identify someone at risk to themselves or others, perhaps they’re mad at not getting promoted and may download information.”

The NCIS’s insider threat agenda, the executive noted, is not oblivious to the public’s right to know what its government is up to. His team works to expedite “unclassification” of documents no longer viewed as sensitive in agencies within and outside the intelligence community, which are “far too stovepiped,” Evanina said.

“Concerns over privacy and civil liberties are significant,” he insisted. “We have attorneys who serve as wickets as part of our fabric, for checks and balances. We work with the White House and the president’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to make sure that all understand this,” Evanina said. “Civil liberties folks have been a critical part of our country going back to John Adams.”

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An interesting story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about elections technology highlights the complexity and technical hurdles of vote tabulation.

In Georgia, centralized reporting of voting results requires poll workers to drive to a main office to upload the data to a secure computer. Georgia invested in a new computer for election night, but a roadway traffic jam could delay results from being posted. The $230,000 Election Night Reporting (ENR) system allows all 159 of Georgia's counties to post election results to a central location where residents can view the results, reported. But the system was designed for reporting only, not tabulation, so a courier must physically drive the results to the main election office where a secure computer finishes the process.

"Underneath [the new ENR system] there are 159 individual elections going on with hundreds of thousands of moving parts, and all that has to be orchestrated into a very narrow period of time to collect that data and push it out," said Merle King, executive director of the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University. "So these things are not trivial to put together."

In neighboring Alabama, 85 percent of counties use a similar system and a county deputy drives the results to the main election office. Georgia first began updating its ENR system in 2002.

While Georgia's situation is not unique, the concept that road traffic can impact when voting results are announced is a factor that's rarely discussed.

Read the Atlanta Journal Constitution's story to learn more.


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Cameras in airports give control room operators a good handle on all airport activity — long security lines, busy check-in counters and terminal waiting areas included. These cameras are typically used for security purposes. But in Houston, city airport officials are taking an even closer look at understanding airport activity through a customer service perspective — and standard surveillance cameras may not be enough.

“Certainly we use cameras all over the airport for security purposes, but there are some implications that are a little more related to customer service where we are looking to get data collected about what’s happening within our facilities and on our roadways,” said Lisa Kent, CIO of the Houston Airport System (HAS), which represents Houston’s three airports: George Bush Intercontinental, William P. Hobby and Ellington. Last year, HAS partnered with Purdue University to conduct a unique study: The two entities used Bluetooth technology to track the nearly 50 million people who passed through Houston’s airports. Officials hope the study’s results, which are also of interest to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), will ultimately improve customer service and the general airport experience.

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In a Bluetooth environment, data is transmitted over short distances between fixed or mobile devices. In Houston, the technology will reveal whether construction was causing traffic backups, or if passengers were delayed from leaving parking garages because payment transactions took too long. The TSA wants data on how long customers wait in line before going through security checkpoints. After passengers are through security, Kent wonders where they go next. “Do they spend much time in the concession areas? Do they go straight to the gate hold room and stay there?” she asked.

 The Bluetooth study, she said, was a way to track the transit time for people carrying Bluetooth-enabled devices that are in discoverable mode, and to measure that transit time between point A and point B.

The project went live inside Bush Intercontinental’s terminal and on the roadway and parking garage. HAS officials analyzed customer activity by tracking people’s movements between those points. “That helps us plan for a better customer experience so that people are happy while they’re in our facility,” Kent said. Bluetooth antennas with sensors were installed in various areas and captured discoverable unique serial numbers. The numbers, called media access control (MAC) addresses, are emitted by phones, iPads, phone earbuds or other Bluetooth-enabled devices. The sensors captured a person’s MAC address as he or she passed by, and then successive sensors also captured it as the person continued on his or her way. Long-range sensors detected movement on roadways, and short-range sensors detected movement inside the building. The pilot also incorporated GPS technology.

In total, nine sensors were deployed, including one on each roadway coming into the airport, in the garages, at the two terminal entrances, at the ticket lobby, in the north and south concourses, and near airport checkpoints.

“We were trying to demonstrate that not only were we capturing the wait time through the checkpoint, but then how long it took the passenger to get through the checkpoint and actually out to one of the gate concourses,” said Project Manager Darryl Daniel.

There’s bound to be worry about privacy and anonymity with a project that tracks people’s movements. But according to Kent, there’s no reason for concern. “We truncate that MAC address, so even if I had the full MAC addresses, there isn’t a way for me to associate that address with your cell phone number,” she said, “and certainly not with your name.”

The technology was used to calculate passenger transit time from sensor to sensor. The data wasn’t transmitted in real time during the pilot, but that’s something HAS would shoot for in a permanent deployment, along with ways to involve security cameras.  “We are looking at camera locations to give us views of things like those queues so that, in a future phase, when we do see that wait time is increasing, we can actually look at the queue to determine if there is a problem [there],” Daniel said.

HAS considered using video analytics for the customer wait-time analysis, but Bluetooth was cheaper and easier, Kent said. Airport lines can be fluid and unpredictable, making it tough to rely solely on camera technology without backup for deep study.

With the pilot completed in September, airport system officials have a better understanding of how to approach a permanent deployment. Neither Kent nor Daniel specified when that would happen, but they offered details on how data from a long-term project could be applied. Customer preferences, for example, may become more obvious. “If we have certain concessions in an area that passengers are just walking right past, they’re not even dwelling to look, it helps us make decisions from a commercial standpoint about what we should consider changing,” Kent said.

They would also have a better understanding of where sensors should be located. During the study, some sensors were too close together or long range when they should’ve been short range and vice versa.

HAS also must work with the federal government on interpreting and applying the data. “If you’re comparing information about how many people went through at the same time [that] you’re measuring wait time, you’re getting feedback from your partners like the TSA about how many lanes were open at that point,” Kent said.

A History of Change

A partnership with the TSA could benefit HAS airport personnel. Kent said the TSA could handle operational deficiencies at terminals, and information gleaned from the Bluetooth pilot could tell them how.

But airport officials aren’t relying on that project alone to strengthen the alliance. HAS is also working with the TSA on an advanced surveillance program so the federal government can learn how much and what type of technology it would need to enhance airport security. The Aviation Safety Program allows the TSA to fund a portion of the camera system and recording capabilities for that project and, in exchange, TSA workers view the camera feeds.

“In general terms, we are deploying newer camera technologies, some additional storage capabilities, and additional viewing and monitoring capabilities that enable us to do a better job of monitoring more and more cameras,” Kent said.

Video surveillance has been in place in HAS’ system for as long as Kent and Daniel can remember, but technical migrations have happened over time. The cameras at Bush and Hobby, for example, were analog, but staff incorporated digital functionality from 2006 to 2009. And more digital units are on the way. “We are just now starting to design and deploy pure IP digital cameras,” Daniel said. They include high-definition and megapixel units. “It’s an ongoing migration, and you’ll see that in every industry with their surveillance technology.”

Today the camera hardware environment is a conglomerate of units from different vendors (Kent and Daniel couldn’t divulge which for security reasons) and they’re supported by Honeywell software. Kent added that HAS is committed to routine technology refreshing, which keeps security updated and enhances efficiency. She admits that the surveillance technology in the terminals isn’t as sophisticated as what’s in most casinos, but she’s happy with it so far. And according to Daniel, most units are built to last. “The life cycles of the cameras are pretty robust,” he said.

Hilton Collins, Staff Writer Hilton Collins  |  GT Staff Writer

By day, Hilton Collins is a staff writer for Government Technology and Emergency Management magazines who covers sustainability, cybersecurity and disaster management issues. By night, he’s a sci-fi/fantasy fanatic, and if he had to choose between comic books, movies, TV shows and novels, he’d have a brain aneurysm. He can be reached at and on @hiltoncollins on Twitter.


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Track & Field

Finley Collects Third MW Weekly Honor of the Season

Mason Finley

Mason Finley

Feb. 25, 2014

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Wyoming's Mason Finley has been named the Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Male Athlete of the Week, the conference office announced on Tuesday. The weekly accolade is the third for Finley this season and fourth of his career. He has won the award three of the seven times it has been bestowed this season.

Finley highlighted eight event titles for the Cowboys during last Friday's Rocky Mountain Classic in War Memorial Fieldhouse with a record-breaking toss of 66-3 1/4. The mark broke the school and facility record of 66-0 1/4 that Finley had established during last December's Power Meet. The throw keeps him first in the current Mountain West standings and fourth in the NCAA, while ranking second in conference history. In his career, Finley has broken Wyoming's school record in the shot put three times.

Wyoming continues its season at the 2014 Mountain West Indoor Championships on Thursday through Saturday in the Cadet Field House at the Air Force Academy.

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