Dallas – Calling on resi-dents to become “311 ambas-sadors,” mayor mike rawl-ings today launched a new appthat will allow residents toeasily submit and track serv-ice requests from their smart-phones.

The City receives morethan 378,000 service requestsannually with 40,000 submit-ted online. Back in 1994 Dal-

las was the second city in thenation, only after Baltimore,

to implement the 311 numberas a connection point to CityHall. in 2003 residents wereable to submit service requestsvia the City’s website. Today,residents can report service re-quests on the go, from theirsmartphone. The new Dallas311 app will be available onapple iphone and androidplatforms and can be down-loaded for free by searching

for Dallas 311 in the appleiTunes app Store and thegoogle play Store.

“The Dallas 311 app com-plements our grow South ini-tiative and will allow residentsto become proactive 311 am-bassadors promoting a cultureof clean throughout our city,”mayor rawlings said. “usingthe app and their Smartphones,

By DEE lOuiS-SCOTT

(NNpa) psychologicalabuse can be as damaging tothe psyche as physical abusecan be to the body, yet little iswritten about this commonproblem, which is typicallythe precursor to physicalabuse. according to the Na-tional Coalition against Do-mestic Violence (NCaDV),

95 percent of men who physi-cally abuse their intimate part-ners also psychologicallyabuse them.

psychological abuse con-sists of impairing the mentallife and impeding mental de-velopment. it creates distortedbeliefs, taught by the abuser,about the world. Those beliefsbecome ingrained in the vic-

tim’s mind and can interferewith the flexibility that neededto constantly assess the envi-ronment and respond appro-priately. Knowing the signs ofpsychological abuse may savewomen from the physicalabuse that so often follows.

i experienced psychologi-cal abuse through the eyes of a

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DallaS – presbyte-rian Communities andSer-vices has selectedprDg architects to de-sign and build the new$54 million, 100,000+square-foot T. Boonepickens Hospice and pal-liative Care Center thatwill complement the orga-

nization’s Faith presbyte-rian Hospice, the lar-gestnot-for-profit hospice careprovider in Dallas. prDgwill partner with ila Bur-dette of make3 architec-ture in atlanta to designthe area’s first stand-alonehospice facility.

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On aug. 29, across thecountry, thousands of wo-rkers in low-paying jobsstood up to demand $15 anhour. most were at fast-food restaurants. There aremany people who supportthe need for these workersto be paid more. They un-derstand the unfairness ofmultinational corporationsprofiting on the wages oflow-wage work. and, thispast monday on laborDay, they probably re-flected on the value of

work and honoring thepeople who literally builtthis country.

To many people it is al-most obscene that the CEOof mcDonald's, for in-stance, gets a compensa-tion package worth $13.8million a year; a giant raisefrom his 2011 pay of $4.1million, a pay level thatequals 915 full-time, full-year minimum wage work-ers at mcDonald's. if paytruly reflected the produc-tivity of workers, then pre-sumably if 915 mcDon-

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pated in the 50th anniversarycelebration for the march onWashington in Washington,D.C. Wells Fargo joined na-tional partners NaaCp andNational urban league withsupport for panel discussionsand events in celebration of

future leaders. Wells Fargoleaders were also on the

ground marching along withthe nation during the 50thanniversary march on Wa-shington realize the Dreamrally and march.

Through its long-stand-ing partnerships with Na-aCp and Nul, Wells Fargo

is able to play a part in up-holding the legacy of thecountless civil rights leaderswho have opened the doorfor civil rights based on gen-der, ethnicity, religion, dis-ability and sexual orienta-tion.

The march on Washing-ton anniversary representsone of several significantmilestones in american his-tory of which Wells Fargo issupporting. During BlackHistory month, Wells Fargokicked off a yearlong cele-bratory campaign featuringthe Kinsey Collection inhonor of the 150th anniver-sary of the Emancipationproclamation. Wells Fargoalso supported commemora-tive events across the coun-try in celebration of the 50thanniversary of the Civilrights movement.

Wells Fargo recognizesthese milestones not only be-cause of the impact onafrican americans, but as

defining moments in ameri-can history.

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DallaS - Baylor Char-les a. Sammons Cancer Centerat Dallas will host its annualSole Sister event on Saturday,October 5, from 8 a.m. to Noonat the Tower Club Dallas.

The event will feature spatreatments, group workoutclasses, health & beauty con-sultations, and special guesthost miss Texas, ivana Hall. aninteractive question-and-an-swer panel will be the highlightof the event, as Baylor medicalprofessionals will provide theirexpertise and take questionsfrom the audience.

miss Texas ivana Hall is agovernment and political sci-ence major at Texas Women'suniversity. When she firststarted her college career, bothof her parents were laid offfrom their jobs and she had toprovide funding for her edu-cation. Through working parttime, financial aid and schol-arships through the missamerica Organization, shehas been able to pursue hereducational goals.

guests are invited to graba friend for the educationalhealth & beauty boot camp.

Come check out the latesttrends in health, fitness andbeauty while learning aboutthese cancers that affectwomen. group yoga andZumba workouts will be ahighlight at this event.

The panelists at the annualSole Sisters event will in-clude:

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“We’re hoping to equipwomen in the Dallas-FortWorth area with resources totake a proactive stance on theirhealth,” said Jennifer Will-iams, community outreach co-ordinator at Baylor SammonsCancer Center at Dallas. “Ourmission is to create a sister-hood of strength and account-ability in the fight againstbreast and ovarian cancerthrough health education andfitness.”

registration is $10 andproceeds will benefit the Heal-ing arts program at BaylorSammons Cancer Center atDallas. Space is limited. TorSVp, call 1-800-4BaylOr.

The united methodistWomenʼs unit of the Hamil-ton park united methodistChurch will present a paneldiscussion featuring Dr.renee Hornbuckle, Seniorpastor, agape Christian Fel-lowship in arlington on Sat-urday, Sept. 28 10 a.m. - 12noon. The panel will alsofeature Vanessa Vaughter,lmSW, m. Div., Teen Dat-ing Violence preventionCounselor at Hopeʼs Door,Womenʼs shelter in plano.

Domestic violence is oc-curring at an alarming rate.

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ald's workers went on strike,he would be able to fill inand do their work.

Still, understanding thatthe price of the hamburgerwas probably much more af-fected by giving the CEO a$9 million raise than themeager demands of the peo-ple serving them their food,many people scratched theirheads at the notion the work-ers' wages could be set at$15 an hour; a level theynow equate with more"skilled" workers. This re-flects the breakdown in ournation's understanding of thevalue of work and the pro-ductivity of america's work-ers. So, it is important togive an understanding of $15an hour and why it is neces-sary for us to embrace thismovement.

The day before thestrike, aug. 28, the nationpaused to recall the 50th an-niversary of the march forJobs and Freedom in Wash-ington. it was a big celebra-tion that masked the divi-sions of the country at thattime and surrounded themovement to gain dignityfor americans held in theshadows from the light ofamerica's middle-class free-doms. We will, no doubt, seesmaller notice given to thebombing that followedweeks later in the rev. FredShuttleworth's church inBirmingham that killed fourlittle girls. Nor should weshould forget the finalendgame of Dr. martinluther King Jr.'s journey forjustice five years after themarch, when he was assassi-nated in memphis continu-ing his struggle for dignityand freedom for sanitationworkers.

in 1966, in line with thedemands of the march forJobs and Freedom, the mini-mum wage was increasedand its coverage extended toinclude certain state andlocal government employ-ees; those who worked inhospitals, nursing homes andschools. it did not includesanitation workers. But, itdid boost the minimumwage to $1.60 an hour in1968. The Center for Eco-nomic research and policyhas compared that minimumwage to changes in wages,prices and productivity to

put it in context. adjustingfor inflation, today thatwould be $10.52 an hour.

in 1968, 40 percent ofthe sanitation workers inmemphis qualified for wel-fare payments because theirwages were too low to pulltheir families out of poverty.reflecting on that, Dr. Kingwas moved to give the ulti-mate labor Day sentiment:

if you will judge any-thing here in this struggle,you're commanding that thiscity will respect the dignityof labor. So often we over-look the worth and signifi-cance of those who are not inprofessional jobs, or thosewho are not in the so-calledbig jobs. But let me say toyou tonight, that wheneveryou are engaged in work thatserves humanity, and is forthe building of humanity, ithas dignity, and it has worth.One day our society mustcome to see this. One dayour society will come to re-spect the sanitation worker ifit is to survive....

you are doing anotherthing. you are reminding,not only memphis, but thenation that it is a crime forpeople to live in this rich na-tion and receive starvationwages....

Do you know that mostof the poor people in ourcountry are working everyday? They are making wagesso low that they cannotbegin to function in themainstream of the economiclife of our nation. These arefacts which must be seen.and it is criminal to havepeople working on a full-time basis and a full-time jobgetting part-time income.

We have, as a nation,moved a long distance fromthose words. instead, wehave come to accept lowwages, and there are manywho argue that if we are con-cerned with the poor, thenwe should simply subsidizelow wages; in short, putworking people on welfareas was the case in memphisin 1968. They want to ignoreDr. King and undo the suc-cess of that strike. a strikethat pulled together the labormovement, the NaaCp, Dr.King's Southern Christianleadership Conference andthe memphis black commu-nity; much as the coming

aFl-CiO Convention inlos angeles will bring to-gether today's allies of de-cent work.

But subsidizing lowwages is inefficient. it actu-ally subsidizes what low-wage companies produce.When employers pay wagestoo low to support workers,it is society that then mustpay for the SupplementalNutrition assistance pro-gram so the workers can eat,and housing assistance sothey have a roof over theirheads, child care blockgrants so someone canwatch over their children,medicaid so they have ac-cess to health care and grantthem tax relief with Earnedincome Tax Credits to pre-vent the government fromfurther impoverishing them.That means we are subsidiz-ing many billion-dollarmultinational corporations; aweird form of corporate wel-fare.

general subsidies are in-efficient, because it meanswe will artificially lower theprice of those goods, makingthem cheap to rich and pooralike. it lacks targeting. Fur-ther, it can lead to favoringlow-wage industries thatmay not produce outcomessociety values so high. manypeople believe that theamerican diet of fatty fastfoods has made us a nationthat is obese and is con-tributing to new projectionsthat our children will leadshorter - not longer - lives. ifthere are goods we thinkwould be priced too high forsegments of the economy ifworkers' earned decentwages, then the most effi-cient thing is to subsidizethose individuals who wouldbe priced out of the market;as might be the decision ofsociety with child care or thecare of the elderly, two in-dustries where the medianwage is less than $10 anhour.

it makes far more sensethat these huge corporationspay wages that reflect theproductivity of their work-ers. Since the late 1970s,america has gone on acrooked path. The produc-tivity of america's workershas gone up, but the pay ofamerica's workers has goneflat. That difference, be-

tween what americans canproduce and what ameri-cans earn creates a gapingproblem: if people can't buywhat is being made, then in-creasing their productivitycan only lead to lower levelsof employment. From 1980to 2007, the solution was tolet workers borrow enoughmoney to make up for thatgap, so demand would meetthe rise in productivity andwe could keep employmentup.

Obviously, such ascheme falls under HerbStein's law, "if somethingcannot go on forever, it willstop." and in 2008, the no-tion that household debtcould rise, with incomesstaying flat, to fill the gapcame to a stop. Now, wemust return to paying work-ers for their productivity tofill the gap between in-creased productivity andearnings.

So, reminded of themoral call from Dr. King,and the basic economics ofECON 101, we come to thecurrent situation. Even if webelieved that low-wageworkers have not kept upwith average productivityadvances-note that a mc-Donald's worker today pro-duces far more sales persquare foot and hour than amcDonald's worker in 1968-and we set the minimumwage to reflect only half thegain in average productivitysince 1968, then today theminimum wage would haveto be $15.34 an hour. So theworker serving you food atthat wage would not them-selves need help with foodstamps to buy food. and,more importantly, we wouldbe moving back toward pay-ing workers so they can af-ford to buy the goods com-ing from increased produc-tivity, rather than getting ridof workers when productiv-ity goes up for the lack ofbuyers.

There should be a relatedclause to Stein's law that "ifsomething is common sense,eventually it will be com-mon."

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The president of theunited States is attemptingto make a case to support hisbombing of Syria. This ad-ministration has called theBashar al-assad regime inSyria a nest of murderousleaders. This may indeed bethe appropriate words tomake the case for him beinga dictator but it doesn’t pro-vide a rational argument forwar.

Here are the facts thatmost agree with. On orabout august 21, 2013 atown near eastern Damascuswas attacked by what wasclearly a chemical weaponof some sort. The result ofthat attack left an estimated1,300 people dead (the num-bers vary) including over400 children. Both sidesdeny the use of theseweapons and both sidesblame the other.

The combatants on theground are a murky mix ofterrorist, islamic radicals,and proxy armies on oneside and the murderousbutchers of assad’s army onthe other side. There may besome legitimate elements ofthe assad resistance that areactually wanting a freecountry based on what we inthe west define as free, butthey are few and far be-tween. There are no goodguys in this conflict.

This presidents attempt

to involve the united Statesin this conflict is not onlyflawed but it is fraudulentand deceptive. it is not basedon the long held americanmilitary and diplomatic po-sitions. it is based on an am-ateurish, self-centered ap-proach to foreign policy.

The american militaryand former presidents haveheld to a long stated positionby our government as it re-lates to the use of force.They are clear and specific;

1. The use of militaryforce can only take place ifthe united States is underthe threat of eminent danger.That’s if some nation, groupor organization is clearlyabout to attack the unitesstates or its interest here orabroad.

2. The use of militaryforce can take place if thevital interest of the unitedStates is threated here orabroad.

mr. president wheredoes Syria fit in this? Howcould the use of chemicalweapons by the assadregime as horrid as it may bewarrant the use of forcebased on this long heldamerican policy?

any attempt by this ad-ministration to lead us towar outside the scope ofthese points will be fraudu-lent, illegal and a violationof our constitutional princi-ples.

What we have witnessedfrom this white house isgross negligence and incom-petence. Here is what the

president said last year aboutthe potential use of chemicalweapons by the Syrians.

last year the presidentsaid; “red line” that “wouldchange my calculus”…“Would change my equa-tion”. last week the presi-dent back away from thosecomments in fact denying hebrought up the red line com-ments. Stating, “i didn’t seta red line in Syria….Theworld set a red line whengovernments representing98 percent of the world’spopulation said the use ofchemical weapons are ab-horrent and passed a [1993]treaty forbidding their useeven when countries are en-gaged in war.”

That is flawed reasoning;first the world is not withyou mr. president. Our clos-est ally, the British haveeven rejected any involve-ment in the Syrian civil war.Second the Syrians are not asignature of the chemicalweapons ban treaty. How dothey violate an agreementthat they never signed?

Our military should beused to inflict a devastating

and lethal blow to our ene-mies not to prove a point.The military is there forshock and awe, not showand tell.

This administration ne-eds a comprehensive foreignpolicy that includes the co-operation of our allies in theregion, building economicand diplomatic relationshipsthat serve our interest and astrong permanent militarypresence where needed.

Syria is not worthy ofamericas direct military in-volvement. The presidenthas further demonstrated hisfraudulent thinking by con-cluding that he has thepower to act without con-gress, yet he has decided togo to congress for authoriza-tion anyhow? i don’t thinkhe will be happy with the re-sults.

This continued amateurhour in the white house issurrounded with folly. Heknows as we do that we haveno national interest in Syria'scivil war. This reasoning isdangerous; it is being craftedas an act of necessity by

Families are invited todiscover the adventures thatawait through youth organ-izations serving the planoarea. Drop by the “Funtas-tic Fair” on Sunday, Sept.15, anytime between 1 p.m.to 5 p.m. at Heritage Farm-stead museum, 1900 W.15th Street in plano. Thisfree event will introducefamilies to the Cub Scoutsand Boy Scouts, girlScouts and the ymCayouth programs. Visitors

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child — part of the stories ishare in “Believe in the magic:let the Tenacity of mattieFisher inspire you,” (www.mattiefisher. com), the story ofmy mother’s remarkable jour-ney.

i watched as my father sys-tematically and maliciously at-tempted to drive my mothercrazy. He would constantlymove car keys and other itemsfrom the places she normallykept them. He would then pre-tend to find them in odd places,like the refrigerator. after play-ing the hero for a month or so,my father would start insultingmy mom with degrading re-marks.

after months of psycho-logical warfare, with her men-tal state sufficiently weakened,my father would begin thephysical abuse. For the rest ofher life, my mother was incon-solable and shaky wheneversomething went missing.

Signs of psychologicalabuse include:

• your partner uses fi-nances to control you.

• He often threatens toleave.

• She seeks to intimidateusing looks, gestures or ac-tions.

• He smashes things.• your partner seeks to

control you by minimizing,denying and blaming

• He makes light of theabuse and does not take yourconcerns about it seriously.

• you are continually criti-cized, called names and/orshouted at.

• She emotionally degradesyou in private, but acts charm-ing in public.

•He humiliates you in pri-vate or public.

• They withhold approval,appreciation or affection aspunishment.

Effects of psychologicalabuse on the victim, from the

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she is, e.g. “too sensitive,” etc.• a hesitancy to accept her

perceptions• a reluctance to come to

conclusions• a tendency to live in the

future, e.g. “Everything will begreat when/after . . .”

• a desire to escape or runaway

• a distrust of future rela-tionships

if you answered yes toeven one, you may be in anabusive relationship. get help!

Call the National DomesticViolence Hotline at 1-800-799-SaFE, or the National Sexualassault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOpE.

[Dee Louis-Scott is the au-thor of "Believe in the Magic:Let the Tenacity of MattieFisher Inspire You," (www.mattiefisher.com), the story ofher mother's remarkable jour-ney. Louis-Scott retired afterworking 30 years as a federalemployee. She has a Bachelorof Science degree in businessadministration. Scott has co-chaired the Black Family Tech-nology Awareness Associa-tion's Youth STEM Fair for

nine years; its mission is to en-courage studies in the Science,Technology, Engineering andMath curriculum in urban

communities. Twenty yearssince the death of her heroicmother, Mattie Fisher, Louis-Scott honors her life, which

was experienced in a time inAmerican history when it wasa double-curse to be a blackwoman.]

Special to the NNPA fromthe Pasadena/St. Gabriel va-lley Journal News

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auSTiN – a project toengage middle school youththrough an after-school“makerspace” and a plan topreserve an extensive filmfestival video and audio col-lection are among the daz-zling array of proposals ap-proved recently by the TexasState library and archivesCommission. agency com-missioners approved 70 li-brary grant awards totaling$1.6 million for numerousTexas libraries, institutions

of higher education, and re-lated nonprofit organiza-tions.

The commission awardslibrary grants annually thr-ough its Texas reads, im-pact, TexTreasures, libraryCooperation, and Specialprojects grant programs. allare funded by the federal li-brary Services and Technol-ogy act via the institute ofmuseum and library Serv-ices in Washington, D.C.The grant period for State

Fiscal year 2014 runs fromSeptember 1, 2013, to au-gust 31, 2014.

“These grants will helpimprove library programsand services in communitiesand institutions all overTexas,” said TSlaC interimDirector and librarian Ed-ward Seidenberg. “Thesefederal dollars augment lo-cal funds and help local li-braries fulfill their roles asvaluable community resour-ces.”

Several of the awardswill fund digitization, com-munity reading, and familyand early childhood literacyprojects; others will enhanceaccess to information andservices. For detailed de-scriptions of the funded pro-grams and projects, visit:http://bit.ly/libgrants2014

The awards include:•A $2,200 Texas Reads

Grant to the Rita and TruettSmith Public Library (Wylie,TX) for the Wylie Poetry

Festival: The public librarywill plan and implement apoetry Festival in april2014. The festival will in-clude workshops for tweens(grades 3-5), teens (grades6-12) and adults (ages 18and up). The workshops willbe led by Texas poet laure-ates and other publishedpoets.

•A $75,000 Library Co-operation Grant to the Uni-versity of North Texas –Denton for Inquiry 4 Life-

long Learning (DI4LL): acollaborative organization oflibrarians serving school,public, and academic li-braries, the Denton inquiry4 lifelong learning (Di4-ll, pronounced “Di-ll”),will focus on increasing theinformation literacy skills ofpre-kindergarten through gr-aduate school learners byimplementing a spiral infor-mation literacy curriculumin the region.

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in honor of Suicide pre-vention awareness monthin September, Kathy adamsFurniture + Design teamedup with the Suicide and Cri-sis Center of North Texasand celebrity chef Kentrathbun for a fun eveningof fashion, furniture andphilanthropy.

Kathy adams hosted aNight of Fashion + Furni-ture + Food + Fundraisingon Thursday, Sept. 5 at theirshowroom, located at 1509preston rd. in plano. Theevent featured a lovely dis-play of the store’s best-selling luxury furniturelines, including Kathy

adams’ new signature col-lection. guests enjoyed de-lectable cuisine from Kentrathbun Catering and wineprovided by The art ofWine. all proceeds from theevent benefited the Suicideand Crisis Center of NorthTexas.

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“prDg’s top notchteam of architects and de-signers has vast experi-ence creating senior liv-ing and healthcare facili-ties around the world,making them the mostsuitable company to leadour project,” said godwinDixon, president andCEO of presbyterian Co-mmunities and Services.“Our goal has alwaysbeen to provide unparal-leled service, and withthis new center we willtruly fill a gap in Dallas’continuum of care.”

The facility, madepossible by an $18.4 mil-lion lead gift by the T.Boone pickens Founda-tion and a $10 million giftby the Harold SimmonsFoundation, will be lo-cated at 12379 meritDrive in Dallas.

The T. Boone pickensHospice and palliativeCare Center, located onmore than nine acres, willprovide five centers ofexcellence, including: theHarold Simmons Founda-tion inpatient Care Cen-ter, offering 36 spacious

inpatient care suites andfour family or guestsuites; the Hamon re-source and Education Ce-nter of Excellence, part-nering with universities,hospitals, and healthcaresystems to support the lat-est training and educationin hospice and palliativecare; a Spiritual CareCenter, providing a sanc-tuary and chapel; theDonald and Charlotte TestOutdoor reflection Cen-ter; and a Child and Be-reavement Center, allow-ing families to exploreand process their grief attheir own pace, as a groupor individually.

“We are honored tohave been selected bypresbyterian Communi-ties and Services to de-sign a state-of-the-art ho-spice and palliative carecenter,” said paul Don-aldson, co-founding prin-cipal of prDg. “amongthe most rewarding as-pects of designing thishospice is the opportunityto create a comfortingend-of-life environmentfor patients and their

loved ones. Facing a life-limiting illness calls forno less than a compas-sionate, caring design te-am prepared to deliverend-of-life comfort andpeace of mind.”

Co-founding principalryan robinson addedthat special care has beentaken to provide soothingambient lighting and bu-ilt-in window seats thatflex to overnight beds forfamily watching aftertheir patient.

Burdette notes, “inworking with hospices forthe last 20 years, our goalhas always been to createa built expression of theinvaluable reassurancepalliative care staff ex-tend to the community.This new campus reflectsand supports their ex-traordinary mission.”

ground breaking forthe first phase of the T.Boone pickens Hospiceand palliative Care Cen-ter is scheduled for theFall, and completion isestimated to be in Sep-tember 2015.

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Alfonso Miller, the owner of Art of Wine, providedthe wine for the festive event. Art of Wine has threelocations including their flagship store at Prestonand Forest (near Starbucks). For more info visithttp://theart-ofwine.localplacement.net/.

Guests included (left to right) Tiffini Miller,Michael Flusche, and Regina Bruce

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By JElaNi COBB

The opening scene ofSteven Spielberg's cine-mythic portrait of the six-teenth president featurespresident abraham lincolnseated on a stage, halfcloaked in darkness, and ob-serving the union forces heis sending into battle. it's anapt metaphor for the manhimself-both visible and ob-scure, inside the tempest yetsomehow above the fray.lincoln was released in earlyNovember, just in time toshape our discussions of Jan-uary 1, 2013, the 150th an-niversary of the Emancipa-tion proclamation.

yet with its themes of re-demption and sacrifice,Spielberg's film could seemless suited for an anniversarycelebration than an annualone. Here is a vision of a loneman, tested by betrayal, be-sieged by enemies whom heregards without malice, aman who is killed for hisconvictions only to be resur-rected as a moral exemplar.Spielberg's Lincoln is per-haps less fitted to January 1stthan it is to the holiday thatprecedes it by a week.

in fairness, this narrativeof lincoln's Civil War, equalparts cavalry and Calvary,did not originate with Spiel-berg. The legend of the greatEmancipator began even aslincoln lay dying in a board-inghouse across from Ford'sTheater that night in april1865 in the same way thatJFK's mythic standing as acivil rights stalwart was bornat Dealey plaza in November1963.

in the wake of his assas-sination, lincoln, the contro-versial and beleaguered pres-ident, was remade into lin-coln the Savior, an americanChrist-figure who carried thenation's sins. pulling off thistransformation, this historicalalchemy, has required thatwe as a nation redact themessier parts of lincoln'sstory in favor of an untainted,morally unconflicted com-mander in chief who was un-touched by the biases of theday and unyielding in his op-position to slavery. We havelittle use for tainted Christs.Through lincoln the union

was "saved" in more than onesense of the word.

History is malleable.There is always the tempta-tion to remake the past in thecontours that are most com-forting to us. in a nationtasked with reconciling itsdemocratic ideals with the re-ality of slavery, lincoln hasbecome a rorschach test ofsorts. What we see when welook at him says as muchabout ourselves as it doesabout him. and what we see,or choose to see, most oftenis a figure of unimpeachablemoral standing who allowsamericans to gaze at our-selves in the mirror of historyand smile. if the half-life forthis kind of unblemishedheroism is limited-we'vegrown more cynical acrossthe board-it has remainedresonant enough for ourpoliticians today to profitfrom their association with it.The signal achievement ofSpielberg's Lincoln is therenovation of that vision oflincoln, a makeover for a na-tion that had elected its firstblack president to a secondterm just three days beforethe film hit theaters.

in 2007 Barack Obamaannounced his presidentialcandidacy in Springfield, ill.,deliberately conjuring com-parisons to that other lankylawyer who spent time in thestate legislature there. Thereis no shortage of politiciansclaiming an affinity with lin-coln-george W. Bush sawhimself as a lincolnesquefigure when he was prosecut-ing the war on terror-butrarely have the parallels beenas apparent as they are withObama. The candidateplayed up that angle, visitingthe lincoln memorial justbefore his inauguration, car-rying a well-thumbed copy ofTeam of Rivals on the cam-paign trail, slipping sly riffson lincoln's second inaugu-ral address into his own firstone, and taking the oath ofoffice on the lincoln Bible.

Beyond the obvious,though, lies a deeper themebetween Obama and lincoln:the identities of both men areinextricably bound to ques-tions of both disunity andprogress in this country. it'sworth recalling that Obama's

rise to prominence was aproduct of his 2004 speech tothe Democratic NationalConvention, in which he of-fered a compelling, if photo-shopped, vision of a unitedStates where there are no redstates or blue states, whereneither race nor religion norideology can undermine na-tional unity.

Obama walked onto thatstage an obscure state legis-lator; he left it a virtual avatarof american reconciliation,the most obvious brand ofwhich was racial. implicitwithin his subsequent cam-paign, particularly after theflashpoint of controversyover Jeremiah Wright's ser-mons, was the possibility ofamnesty for the past.Nowhere was this more ap-parent than in Obama's"more perfect union" speechin philadelphia in march2008. Delivered at a timewhen the campaign was vir-tually hemorrhaging hope,the speech was a deft manip-ulation of the very human as-piration to break with themessy past, to be reborn in anuntainted present.

in the wake of the releaseof Spielberg's Lincoln it wascommon to see pundits re-mark with amazement on theenduring public fascinationwith the sixteenth president.The biopic grossed $84 mil-lion by the beginning of De-cember-a grand haul for ahistorical drama with no spe-cial effects and an endingwe've known since gradeschool.

But viewed from another

angle, the question becomesnot why we are still intriguedby lincoln but how we couldnot be. His life contains epicthemes: genius, war, personalloss, a narrative arc in whicha barely schooled young mangoes on to produce some ofthe most elegant prose in theamerican canon and a role inending the wretchedness ofslavery. The capacity of hislife to inspire and intrigue isrivaled only by its capacity toexonerate. it is this last ele-ment that takes center stagein Spielberg's film. The di-rector's artistic choice tofocus on the last four monthsof the president's life is si-multaneously a choice tofocus on his finest hour andto not focus on the troubled,torturous path he traveled toget there. There is no Freder-ick Douglass here goadingthe president toward themore humanitarian position,no Whites rioting at theprospect of being drafted tofight for Negro freedom.

On the 150th anniversaryof the Emancipation procla-mation, we see unwitting tes-timony to our ongoing racialquagmire in the reductiveways we discuss the authorof that document and the rea-sons for slavery's end. Wespeak volumes about our im-passes in the glib, self-con-gratulatory way we discussthe election of the presidentmost ostensibly tied to lin-coln's legacy.

it's important to note thatSpielberg's film about thedeath of slavery all but ig-nores the proclamation. That

choice allowed the director-and his audience-to avoidboth lincoln's support for themass colonization of freeblacks and also the fact thatthe now-hallowed proclama-tion left nearly a millionslaves in chains. it also madeunnecessary any discussionof the uncomfortable truththat the proclamation was de-vised in part as a war meas-ure to ensure the loyalties ofborder states and deprive theConfederacy of its laborforce, while leaving open thequestion of the South gettingthose very slaves back,should they return to theunion.

instead, Spielberg's Lin-coln centers on the compara-tively clean moral lines sur-rounding the Thirteenthamendment. But like a greatdeal of the popular ideasabout lincoln, the film con-fuses the president's strategicideas with his moral ones,and in so doing shifts thelandscape toward redemp-tion.

at issue here are not justlincoln's actions, but thecontext for those actions andthe motives behind them.The film highlights that lin-coln, in fighting for a consti-tutional amendment, freedfour million enslaved Blacks,as well as untold generationsyet to be born. The film doesnot highlight that by 1865,lincoln would have knownvery well that permanentlyending slavery would alsodeprive the readmittedSouthern states of the laborforce that had allowed it tonearly tear the country inhalf. The amendment was noless strategically motivatedthan the proclamation hadbeen. arguing that the end ofthe war gave lincoln leewayto strike the blow againstslavery he'd patiently waitedfor overlooks the fact thatCongress had attempted topass the amendment in theprevious session-when theoutcome of the war was farless certain. after the amend-ment passed lincoln referredto it as a "king's cure for allthe evils," but in his annualaddress given months earlier,in December 1864, he spokeof it as a prerogative of pre-serving the nation:

In a great national crisislike ours, unanimity of actionamong those seeking a com-mon end is very desirable, al-most indispensable. And yetno approach to such unanim-ity is attainable unless somedeference shall be paid to thewill of the majority simplybecause it is the will of themajority. In this case thecommon end is the mainte-nance of the Union, andamong the means to securethe end such will, through theelection, is more clearly de-clared in favor of such Con-stitutional amendment. (Em-phasis added.)

The strategic and moralbenefits of lincoln's actionsare not mutually exclusive,but the need for a redemptionfigure makes us behave as ifthey are. The fact that Blackfreedom occurred because aparticular set of national in-terests aligned with endingslavery doesn't diminish themoral importance of it. in-deed, the moral high groundhere is that lincoln, unlikemillions of americans inboth the South and the North,was able to recognize thatslavery was not more impor-tant than the union itself.

This seems somehow in-sufficient to the definition ofheroism today, but it should-n't. The by-product of ourmodern, mythical lincoln isthat he allows us to shift ourgaze to one american whoended slavery rather than themillions who perpetuated anddefended it. By lionizinglincoln, we are able to con-centrate on the death of anevil institution rather than itsongoing legacy. The paradoxis that lincoln's death en-abled later generations to im-patiently wonder when Blackpeople would cease fixatingon slavery and just get overit.

When Obama cast him-self in the mold of lincoln in2007, he could not haveknown how deeply he wouldfind himself mired in themetaphor. as a recent pewStudy revealed, our countryis more divided along parti-san lines today than at anypoint since they've been con-ducting studies. Basic demo-graphic divisions-gender,

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Editor’s Note: Eatzi’s of-fered chef-crafted food longbefore Central Market andWhole Foods came to town.Their sandwiches are incred-ible, and I remember squeez-ing in with others for one ofthe few tables to enjoy one ofthe freshly prepared entrees.The Oak Lawn location feltlike a New York, get in whereyou fit in type of vibe. Thefood was incredible, fairlyaffordable and worth thewait. The announcement eat-Zi’s Market & Bakery willopen its fourth store inPlano, Texas, on Sept. 20 re-minds me it has been toolong since I visited a localeatZi’s.

The market & Bakerywill serve breakfast, lunchand dinner, 7 days a week,from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thestore will be located at 5967West parker road at the cor-ner of the Dallas North Toll-

way and West parker road.The 10,000 square foot storewill employ approximately180 talented team members.

“We are extremely ex-cited to finally be in plano,”said adam romo, CEO ofeatZi’s. “The residents ofplano are veritable foodieswith sophisticated palatesand tastes. Our vast selec-tion of high-quality, afford-able “meals For The Taking”provides relief from thechore of everyday cooking.”romo also emphasized, “theplano store will provide allthe same wonderful selec-tions found in its iconic Oaklawn location.”

eatZi’s chef-crafted me-als are prepared fresh fromscratch, on-site, every day.limited seating underscoresthe “meals For The Taking”strategy for this non-restau-rant, specialty food retailer.With over 1,500 items for

sale, there truly is somethingfor everyone at eatZi’s. Thefull production bakery pro-duces 200 varieties of artisanbreads and pastries.

The kitchen producesover 350 varieties of food(including sushi), which aresold cold for reheating laterand hot for immediate con-sumption. The deli carriesover 130 varieties of exoticmeats and cheeses. Customsandwiches and salads aremade to order, hot or cold.The grill prepares daily spe-cials in addition to its regularofferings.

The “grab and go” sec-tion offers complete meals,pre-packed with eatZi’s mostpopular foods. The produceand specialty product selec-tions can’t be found in thetypical grocery store. TheCafé offers specialty coffeesand teas, which can also bepurchased in bulk.

To complement its wo-rld-class cuisine, eatZi’s ex-

tensive wine and beer selec-tion is equally impressive

with over 340 varieties fromaround the world.

DallaS – DanceAfrica,a cultural experience that cel-ebrates african and africanamerican dance, culture andarts will take place at theaT&T performing arts Cen-ter October 4 and 5. modeledafter the largest festival of itskind in america (Bam inNew york), DanceAfrica willfeature a free marketplacewith vendors and perform-ances by local talent at theannette Strauss Square onSaturday, October 5 and twoticketed performances in the

Winspear Opera House onFriday and Saturday even-ings, Oct. 4 - 5.

This year, Dallas BlackDance Theatre is featuringthe Booker T. WashingtonHS-pVa World Dance En-semble, Bandan Koro Drumand Da-nce Ensemble and allfive of the performing com-panies of DBDT (DBDT,DBDTii, allegro, Senior per-forming Ensemble, Juniorperforming Ensemble) as apart of the celebration. BabaChuck Davis, founder and

artistic director forDanceAfrica returns for an8th season to lead the cele-bration. as a highlight, com-munity elders will be per-forming choreography byDavis. Davis will also visit

several area schools and pro-grams prior to the weekend toteach master classes and per-form various outreach activi-ties.

“unity is the theme forthis year’s celebration,” saidann Williams, founder andartistic director of DallasBlack Dance Theatre. “Wewanted to showcase our highschool and local dancegroups this year to promotethe strength of the dancecommunity and highlight ouracademy dancers.”

One of the highlights ofDanceAfrica is the annual fes-tival and marketplace. Held onSaturday, October 5 at the an-nette Strauss Square, the freeevent features a main stagewith performances by local tal-ent and a marketplace with cul-tural vendors. Several of thecity’s most prominent africanVendors will also be in atten-dance to sell goods and demon-strate unique techniques.

DanceAfrica performan-ces are Friday and Saturdayevenings, October 4-5, at

7:30pm at the aT&T perform-ing arts Center WinspearOpera House. Tickets can bepurchased by calling theaTTpaC Box Office at214.880.0202 or visiting att-pac.org. group tickets avail-able at the DBDT Ticket Salesoffice at 214-871-2390. Da-nceAfrica Festival and market-place is Saturday, Oct. 5 from10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the annetteStrauss Square with the paradebeginning at 9:45 a.m. Formore information, visit dbdt.com

Dallas Black Dance Theatre launches season with DanceAfrica

BY SHENICE SANDERS, NDG INTERN

Former NFl wide re-ceiver Chad Johnson is backin action. according to TMZ”Basketball Wives” realitystar Evelyn lozada, is nowgainfully employed again asa CBS fantasy football ana-lyst.

Johnson married loz-adaearly July of last year with themarriage only lasting a little overa month. in that short time frameon august 12 Johnson wascharged with domestic batteryfor headbutting lozada in a ar-gument.

Following the arrest John-son was cut from the miamiDolphins Team, lost several en-

dorsements and his future realityshow with lozada that was set toair on vH1. lozada soon aftertook matters into her own handsand filed for divorce, which wasfinalized that following Septem-ber.

it seems as though thingscould not get any worse for theformer athlete, but following thedivorce came more problems.

Johnson faced bankruptcyand baby mama drama overchild support. There were manyreports of Johnson wanting tosign on with a NFl team, butno one would sign him.

many are excited for John-son’s “come up” and being anew analyst for Fantasy Foot-ball on the CBS Sports Net-work.

Johnson took to twitter tomake his comment stating:

“Now I have to change bioto employed adding @CBSS-ports which also means mytweets will now be censored.I’m gonna party tonight athome”

Give us your opinion, doyou think Chad Johnson willmake a good analyst?

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iglesia luterana Santamaria De guadalupe is host-ing a celebration of Centralamerica and mexico inde-pendence on Sunday, Sept.15. The church is located inirving at 2601 S. macarthurBlvd. The celebration will

kick off at 8 a.m. and willrun until at least 7 p.m.

This is the 10th year ofthe celebration and it annu-ally draws friends and fami-lies from throughout themetroplex. in fact, up to5,000 will stop by through-

out the day to enjoy latincuisine and activities forchildren of all ages. it is afamily affair. This year theyare excited to include a foot-ball tournament which willinclude a financial prize tothe first place team.

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race, ethnicity, religion, andclass-do not predict differ-ences in values more thanthey have in the past. menand women, Whites, Blacks,and Hispanics, the highly re-ligious and the less religious,and those with more and lesseducation differ in many re-spects, but those differenceshave not grown in recentyears, and for the most partthey pale in comparison tothe overwhelming partisandivide we see today. This isonly partly because of thegrowth of cable news pro-grams offering relentlessblue-versus-red commentaryand a la carte current events.it's also because party iden-tity has become a stand-in forall the other distinctions thestudy explained.

That chasm is the ste-pchild of the sectionalism oflincoln's era. Today, we areanother House Divided, th-ough the lines are now drawnmore haphazardly. and thisis where Obama and lincolnpart ways. in future featurefilms about the current era, itwon't be the details of thepresident's life that will beredacted, but the details ofour own. more specifically, itwill be the details of thoseamericans who greetedObama's reelection with se-cession petitions; those whoreacted to the 2008 electionby organizing themselvesand parading racially inflam-matory banners in the na-tion's capital; those whosought solace from dema-gogues and billionaire con-spiracy theorists who de-manded that a sitting presi-dent prove his own citizen-ship.

The heralded "age ofObama" began with a sugarhigh of postracialism, butfour years later the number ofWhites subscribing to explic-itly racist ideas about Blackshad increased, not dimin-ished. The vision of a Blackperson executing the dutiesof the nation's highest officewas supposed to becomemundane; we were supposedto take his identity forgranted. Somewhere therewas a little-voiced hopeamong Black people that hissimple existence as presidentwould be a daily brief for ourcollective humanity, that wewould be taken to be every

bit as ordinary as the man oc-cupying the Oval Office.

at points in the last fouryears, it seemed as if wecould live in a poetic mo-ment, as if our founding doc-uments could be taken at facevalue. But the numbers tellus it's not true. many ameri-cans have reacted to thepromise of the Obama era asa threat, as a harbinger of thedevaluing currency of white-ness. The problem is not thatthese people want to taketheir country back, it's thatthey were loathe to share it inthe first place. The recalci-trant racism of the Obama erawill be as vexing to the storyof american virtue as lin-coln's racial failings were tothose of his era. lincoln wasnot as flawless as we've beentold, and we are not as virtu-ous as we've begun to tellourselves.

To be clear, though, so-mething in the nation haschanged. at no point prior to2008 could a presidential as-piration have been so effec-tively yoked to this yearningfor a clear racial conscience.But beneath the high-blown,premature rhetoric of postra-cialism lies the less inspira-tional fact that those changeswere as much about math asthey were about morality.

Depending on your per-spective, we have eitherreached a point of racial ma-turity that facilitated the elec-tion of an african-americanpresident or we've reached apoint where a supermajorityof Black voters, a large ma-jority of latino and asianones, and a minority of Whitepeople are capable of win-ning a presidential election.again, these ideas need not

be mutually exclusive, butthe need for clean lines andeasy redemption makes usbehave as if they are.

lincoln's apotheosis in-spired self-congratulationamong Whites and a back-lash of doubt and outrightdisdain among Blacks.among many african-amer-icans, a justifiable skepticismof lincoln as the originalFriend of the Negro has mor-phed into a broader dismissalof him altogether. But how-ever conservative and incre-mentalist his policies seemedto them, and to many of ustoday, they were still far tooradical for John WilkesBooth and the millions whosympathized with him.

lincoln's death is furtherevidence that men who areahead of their times have atendency to die at the handsof men who are behind them.it is also proof that the sim-ple sentiment that the unionwas more important thanslavery was, in its own right,radical. However far lincolnwas from advocating racialequality, his second inaugu-ral address stands as a monu-ment of national conscience:

Fondly do we hope, fer-vently do we pray, that thismighty scourge of war mayspeedily pass away. yet, ifgod wills that it continueuntil all the wealth piled bythe bond-men's two hundredand fifty years of unrequitedtoil shall be sunk, and untilevery drop of blood drawnwith the lash, shall be paid byanother drawn with thesword, as was said threethousand years ago, so still itmust be said "the judgmentsof the lord, are true andrighteous altogether."

indeed, the real problemis not that the nation has soconsistently sought balm forits racial wounds, and draftedlincoln-and Obama-for th-ose purposes; it's the beliefthat we could be absolvedfrom the past so cheaply. Nolincoln, not even an unfail-ingly moral one who waskilled in service of a right-eous cause, could serve as anantidote for ills that persisted,and continue to persist, for acentury and a half after hisdemise. We find ourselvesnow in circumstances whereactual elements of racialprogress are jeopardized pre-cisely because we've smuglyaccepted the idea of our-selves as racially progressive.

The Thirteenth amend-ment states that "[n]eitherslavery nor involuntary servi-tude, except as a punishmentfor crime whereof the partyshall have been duly con-victed, shall exist within theunited States, or any placesubject to their jurisdiction."We are a nation in which aBlack president holds officewhile more than half a mil-lion duly convicted Blackmen populate the prisons andcounty and municipal jailshold hundreds of thousandsmore. The symbolic ideal ofpostracialism masks aSupreme Court that may un-dermine affirmative action inhigher education and the pre-clearance clause of the Vot-ing rights act.

Our most recent electionsaw both unprecedented Bl-ack turnout and efforts atBlack voter suppression thatresound with echoes of badhistory. Black unemploy-ment, even among the col-lege educated, remains vastly

higher than it is for Whites.(among the more hideoushypocrisies of the recentelection was mitt romney'scynical appeals to Blackamericans, pointing out thatBlacks have suffered dispro-portionately in the Obamaeconomy. The Black presi-dent, we were to believe, isnow also responsible forracism in the labor market.)

Obama himself was wiseto these contrasts as far backas 2008, when he gave thespeech in philadelphia thatsaved his political career.

[W]ords on a parchmentwould not be enough to de-liver slaves from bondage, orprovide men and women ofevery color and creed theirfull rights and obligations ascitizens of the united States.What would be needed wereamericans in successivegenerations who were willingto do their part-throughprotests and struggle, on thestreets and in the courts,through a civil war and civildisobedience and always atgreat risk-to narrow that gapbetween the promise of our

ideals and the reality of theirtime.

The election of an af-rican-american president is awatershed in our history. Butthe takeaway is that what wedo during these moments issomehow smaller than whatwe do between them, that ourheroes are no better than weare, nor do they need to be.Harriet Tubman is often citedas saying she could have freedmore blacks if only she'd beenable to convince them theywere slaves. in our own era,the only impediment to realiz-ing the creed of "We ShallOvercome" is the narcotic be-lief that we already have.

Jelani Cobb is the authorof "The Substance of Hope:Barack Obama and the Para-dox of Progress" and the di-rector of the Institute forAfrican-American Studies atthe University of Connecticut.This article, the ninth of an11-part series on race, issponsored by the W. K. Kel-logg Foundation and wasoriginally published by theWashington Monthly Maga-zine.

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residents can quickly reportcommon code violations such ashigh weeds, litter, trash, junk ve-hicles, graffiti and illegal dump-ing.”

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The most common servicerequest over the past five yearshas been high weeds, with34,000 requests submitted, fol-lowed by litter, with an averageof 19,748 requests submitted an-nually. annual service requestvolume has increased from336,474 in Fy10-11 to 343,575in Fy11-12.

Earlier this month, the cityupgraded its 311 system, giv-ing residents the ability to at-tach photos, videos and docu-ments to their service requests,and the ability to check theirrequest status online. Softwareimprovements also now allow311 Customer Service agentsto capture caller informationfaster and more efficiently.

“The app offers one moreway users can communicatewith the City for non-emer-gency City services,” said in-terim City manager a.C. gon-zalez. “in addition to beingable to talk to a live CustomerService representative byphone 24 hours a day, sevendays a week, the public cannow use the mobile Dallas 311app.”

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ence in arizona. 3Cma, the City-County

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September 15, 2013 8 a.m.

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1026 Avenue F

Plano, TX 75074

972-423-8833

www.avefchurchofchrist.org

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BIBLE WAY COMMUNITY

BAPTIST CHURCH

September 22

you’re invited to our grandpar-

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ship and praise god for all of His

blessings.

Dr. Timothy Wilbert, Sr.

Senior Pastor

4215 N. Greenview Drive

Irving, TX 75062

972-257-3766

www.biblewayirving.org

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CHRIST COMMUNITY

CHURCH IN RICHARDSON

September 15, 8:45 or 11 a.m.

Join us in our Worship Services as

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Senior Pastor

George Bush Fwy at

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Garland/Richardson Border

972-991-0200

www.followpeace.org

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DAYSTAR DELIVERANCE

MINISTRIES

September 2013

For those in need visit Helen’s

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Pastor Minnie

Hawthorne-Ewing

635 W. Campbell Road

Suite 210

Richardson, TX 75080

972-480-0200

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FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN

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ALLEN “The Ship”

Monday – Friday

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

TheShip3C’s prayer lines for

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for emergency shelter, clothing,

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City Hall for details.

September 15, 8 a.m.

And 9:30 a.m.

Join us for Worship Services as we

praise god for the victories in our

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you’re also invited to a new series

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September 18, 7 p.m.

Join us for Wednesday Night

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Senior Pastor

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Morning Worship.

Admin. Building Address

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972-359-9956

www.theship3c.org

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SHILOH MBC IN PLANO

September 15

8 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Join us for Worship Service as

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you for prayer or questions.

September 27-28

mark your calendars and join us

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speakers minister Verna

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Dr. Isaiah Joshua, Jr.

Senior Pastor

920 E. 14th Street

Plano, TX 75074

972-423-6695

www.smbcplano.org

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September 15, 7:30 a.m.

Join us this as we worship, honor

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September 16, 7 p.m.

Come to monday School as we

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September 20, 7:30 p.m.

Join us at our men’s Fellowship

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Pastor Rickie Rush

7701 S Westmoreland Road

Dallas, TX 75237

972-372-4262

www.ibocjoy.org

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WORD OF LIFE

CHURCH OF

GOD IN CHRIST

Early Prayer, 5 a.m.

Join us in prayer early in the morn-

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day at 1-661-673-8600, Code #

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prayer does change people, things

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September 15, 9:30 a.m.

Join us for Sunday School with

Elder/Superintendent greg mason;

Sis. Vicki mason, adult class

teacher and Evangelist Elizabeth

mcafee, children class teacher and

Director of our children’s choir.

Then stay for morning Service at

11 a.m. as we worship, honor and

praise god for His goodness.

Dr. Gregory E. Voss,

Senior Pastor

2765 Trinity Mills Road

Building 300

Carrollton, TX 75006

214-514-9147

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arliNgTON -- Con-gressman marc Veasey, TX-33 was joined recently byu.S. reps. Joe Barton, r-ar-lington, Councilman Ji-mmyBennett, Bill porter, mayorCluck and arlington businessowners at a press conferencein support of the marketplaceFairness act.

The act is proposed bipar-tisan legislation in Congressthat would allow states to col-lect sales and use taxes fromout-of-state retailers, as wellas streamline sales tax laws.

arlington Camera host-edthe gathering as part of itssupport of the legislation.Owner, Bill porter, shared apersonal account of his ownstruggles competing withvendors that do not have tocharge sales tax.

“as i saw here today, it isclear that Congress must ad-dress the ability of cities andstates to collect sales taxesfrom online and catalog re-tailers,” said rep. Veasey.“This inequity allows onlinecompanies to play by a differ-ent set of rules.”

“as of now, if an onlineretailer does not have a phys-ical presence within a state,they are not required to col-lect and remit sales tax there,”Veasey continued. “Thisloophole, created before theinternet, gives online-onlycompanies an unfair advan-tage. This special treatmentalso means that cities andstates lose millions of dollarsin revenue that would go tolocal schools, police and firedepartments, as well as roadand bridge maintenance.”

“That is why i am proudto serve as a cosponsor ofH.r. 684, the marketplaceFairness act, that not only al-lows states to levy sales taxeson online purchases but alsoallows each state to decidehow best to do so while pro-tecting consumers,” he said.

Veasey added, “i look for-ward to working with my col-leagues like CongressmanBarton on a bipartisan basis toensure that the House followssuit and we pass this impor-tant legislation as soon aspossible.”

Rep. Veasey discusses supportof Marketplace Fairness Act

Dr. Hornbuckle willdiscuss her personal testi-mony through her newbook, Suffering in Si-lence. Copies of her bookwill be available for pur-chase and she will signautographs.

Hamilton park umC is

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anger, sometimes de-fined as “a strong feel ofdispleasure or being irri-tated;” is a powerful emo-tion, so much so that it hasbeen labeled a universal sinand i is said that it is oneletter from “danger.”

it happens all the timeand to all kinds of people.an absolutely pleasant con-versation can be ruinedwhen someone’s displeas-ure surfaces. a perfectlyhappy relationship can bedamaged under the assaultof a displeased person.

and a good day can bespoiled because the bosscomes in with “a strongfeeling of displeasure.”

anger is tricky be-cause, unlike fear, theScriptures say there is anappropriate time to beangry. god said, “Be ye

angry, and sin not: let notthe sun go down upon yourwrath: Neither give placeto the devil. Ephesians

4:26-27

Someone can becomeenraged over the mistreat-ment of a child or an ani-mal, and if it is within his orher power, he or she canmove to put a stop to thesituation.

Keep in mind that thekind of anger that is kindledby the abuse of a helplessliving being is not destruc-tive.

However, anger that isburied or improperly ex-pressed has lethal power.god calls that kind of angerbitterness and warns: “Fol-low peace with all men, andholiness, without which noman shall see the lord: . . .”

“...looking diligentlylest any man fail of thegrace of god; lest any rootof bitterness springing uptrouble you, and therebymany be defiled; lest therebe any fornicator, or pro-fane person, as Esau, who

for one morsel of meat soldhis birthright. Hebrews

12:14-16

How can you know thedifference between a prop-erly control anger and a de-

structive anger? you caneasily check yourself forbitterness in two ways:

1) Listen to yourself.

When you speak, do youmake sarcastic, cutting, orheated remarks about the

person toward whom youhave a “strong feeling ofdispleasure?”

Whenever his or hername is mentioned, do youhave something negative to

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say? as god has beenshowing me this truth in myown life, i have identifiedsome anger i have to dealwith.

Speech is the first-lineindicator of a bitternessproblem. as i have toldyou, my daughter Sheilahas said to me; and it hasbeen said by many others,“all of the time, it is notwhat you have to say thathurts but how you say it tothe person.”

2) Observe your own

actions. you may notovertly attack the personwith whom you are angry,but how about the many

subtle ways of gettingyour point across?

The silent treatment,for example; silencespeaks volumes and, incase you think other peo-ple don’t notice the ten-sion your “displeasure”causes, think again.

avoidance is anotherway of showing your dis-pleasure, when you aredispleased with a person,you seek to stay out oftheir company. please donot forget how you look ata person that you are dis-pleased with.

i have often heard,“Oh, if looks could kill . .

.” you may be pridingyourself on the restraintyou have shown in not at-tacking openly, but nomatter how you may try tohide it, unresolved anger

shows.

give yourself the bit-terness test today. if youpass, great! To god be theglory. if not, you have achoice to make. god saysyou can pull up those bit-ter roots. get rid of themand move on. ask god tohelp you make the rightchoice.

Good things to con-

sider: 1) We get our mo-ral bearings by looking at

god, and only Him. Wemust begin with god. Weare right when, and onlywhen, we stand in a rightposition relative to god,and we are wrong so farand so long as we stand inany other position--A. W.Tozer.

2) How far you go inlife depends on your beingtender with the young,compassionate with theaged, sympathetic with thestriving, and tolerant of theweak and strong. Becausesomeday you will havebeen all of these--GeorgeWashington Carver.

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David Vann, that’s dou-bly true when it goes soterribly wrong.

He had been to thehunting camp before.

Each year, his father;his father’s best friend,Tom; and his grandfathertook him on the long ridethrough land that hadbeen in the family forages. up hills, aroundwinding roads, acrosscliffs that made him be-lieve they’d crash and die.He stood in the back ofthe truck and watched fordeer.

This year, his eleventhsummer, he’d be allowedto shoot one.

His rifle wasn’t nearlyas powerful as the one his

father carried or the oneTom owned. Still, he’dbeen shooting the .30-.30for two years, anticipatingthis week. He was angry,sometimes, that he’d beenborn too late: he’d seenphotos of hunts past, andwished he’d been there.

and then they got to thegate.

His father had poacher-proofed it, secured it againstgun and truck, but that did-n’t seem to matter: Tom sawa poacher sitting on a ledgesome two hundred yardsout. it angered him; it an-gered them all that this manwas trespassing, scaringaway their deer. So they de-cided to scare the poacher.

leaning against thehood of the truck, his fatherdropped a shell in the cham-ber of a .300 magnum,aimed, and drove the bolthome. On the ledge, therewas no reaction to the click,so his father offered him apeek through the more-powerful rifle.

Through the scope, hecould see rocks and dust.He could see everything:clothes the poacher waswearing, his skin, his jeansas he stood up, having no-ticed the glint of something,maybe a rifle in the hands ofan eleven-year-old boy.

Then that boy squeezedthe trigger…

There you have a syn-opsis of the first chapter ofthis book. But could authorDavid Vann sustain theheart-pounding drama here?

The answer is a re-sounding “yes.”

Told from the obviouspoint of an adult who wasonce that boy, “ goatmountain ” takes readersthrough incredible beauty,

lush views, and breathtak-ing landscapes, down into asharp cone of grieved mad-ness and brutality. it’s easyto think the boy is a brat;easier to think he’s a mon-ster, but Vann teases out hisstoryline until we’re not re-ally sure where evil lies orwhere it came from. i likethat in a novel, and i lovedthis one.

So pour yourself a coldone this week, settle intoyour easy chair, and beready to miss a lot of sleep.you’ve been waiting a longtime for a novel that’ll cap-ture your attention like thisdoes, which makes GoatMountain the book to huntfor.

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