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12/8: Sword drill, gun rampage legislation, past haven

12/8: Sword drill, gun rampage legislation, past haven

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Old Times and Baptist Sword Drill

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gun Rampage Legislation Can Start at the Local Level

ANOTHER VIEW: Gwinnett Was Once Haven for Dumping of Atlanta Bodies

FEEDBACK: More on Brokered Convention, TV Antennas and Americans Being Fearful

UPCOMING: Duluth Seeking Members of Citizen’s Budget Review Commission

NOTABLE: First Student at PCOM Gets Award Fund

RECOMMENDED READ: Gamble by Felix Francis

GEORGIA TIDBIT: First American College Sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, Founded at Wesleyan

TODAY’S QUOTE: Why You Should Not Tell People Your Problems

MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Recognize Lodge at National Park

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by · December 8, 2015 · Full issues
BRACK: Gun rampage legislation can start at the local level

BRACK: Gun rampage legislation can start at the local level

By Elliott Brack | Researchers know that getting to the root of a problem is the best way to solve it.

Jonas Salk recognized his vaccine immunizing youth would solve polio. It was a scourge in the days before 1955 when parents were fearful of allowing their children in public swimming pools. Now polio is approaching eradication world-wide.

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by · December 8, 2015 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: Baptist Sword Drill imprints Bible verses on children’s minds

FOCUS: Baptist Sword Drill imprints Bible verses on children’s minds

By Vally Sharpe, Asheville, N.C. | I recently ran across a news clipping of me in 1971. It was a listing of the regional winners of what was called the “Bible Drill” by then, a competition held in the Southern Baptist Church for younger kids. Older youth in the church participated in a speaker’s tournament. When I first began to participate, the competition had been known as the “Sword” Drill, a name I still prefer, although the “Bible” Drill is, admittedly, a more descriptive term. Successfully competing in the Sword Drill meant one had to know the books of the Bible and the order in which they appear, from Genesis to Revelations.

The whole “sword” reference came from the fact that the “word of God” is sometimes called the “sword of the spirit.” But it didn’t stop there. The commands “Attention!” and “Draw swords!” and scripture references like “Joshua 4:14” or “Philemon 1:16” would be called out and the sound of pages rustling would commence.

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by · December 8, 2015 · Today's Focus
HOUSTON: Gwinnett was once haven for dumping bodies from Atlanta

HOUSTON: Gwinnett was once haven for dumping bodies from Atlanta

By Debbie Houston | When I was young, Gwinnett County’s claim to fame was a morbid one — murderers in Atlanta would hide the evidence by dumping the remains in county woods. Because Gwinnett was rural, there were plenty of places to hide a body.

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by · December 8, 2015 · Another View
MYSTERY: Are there only two clues for this photo?

MYSTERY: Are there only two clues for this photo?

The clues are, as you can see, it’s a bridge, and it’s across what appears to be a river. Can you locate where this is? Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.

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by · December 8, 2015 · Mystery photos
12/4: European vacation, TV antenna, free college

12/4: European vacation, TV antenna, free college

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Roving Photographer Returns from Roving Around Europe

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Having Problems Trying To Hook Up Local-TV Antenna

ANOTHER VIEW: Should College Be Free to All? More on Brokered Convention

FEEDBACK: Wants Next President to Leave Party Label at the White House Door

UPCOMING: Lionheart Theatre Offers Big Variety of Programs for the Holidays

NOTABLE: Michigan Public Health Selects Gwinnett Fire Department for an Award

RECOMMENDED READ: The Abolition of Man; The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wesleyan in Macon Is Oldest Degree-Granting Women’s College

TODAY’S QUOTE: Here’s What Memory Can Give you During the Cold Season

MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Spotted Recent Mystery Photo

LAGNIAPPE: Snellville Police Citizens Academy Graduates Another Class

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by · December 4, 2015 · Full issues
BRACK: Cutting your pay-TV bill possible, but not by much

BRACK: Cutting your pay-TV bill possible, but not by much

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Do you think your cable or pay television cost too much, especially compared to the channels you actually watch? What good are 500 channels if you only watch a half dozen?

1We thought that way, and sought to do something about it. So we embarked on learning more about over-the-air TV, buying two different types of inside-the-house antennas and started experimenting. Be careful: this venture took most of a Saturday.

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by · December 4, 2015 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: Roving photographer returns from roving around Europe

FOCUS: Roving photographer returns from roving around Europe

By Frank Sharp | An ambitious and taxing trip to Europe began with a Delta flight to New Jersey to a hotel close to the airport – a move that saved my wife and I a total of $500. We both got our flu shots before leaving and I carried a bottle of antibiotics just in case. Who knows what might happen on such a long and ambitious trip: six countries in 14 days and 2,000 miles on the ground?

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by · December 4, 2015 · Today's Focus
WILSON: It works in Germany; Should college be free in USA?

WILSON: It works in Germany; Should college be free in USA?

By George Wilson | All German universities are now free to Americans and all other international students. Why are they offering such a generous plan?
It is because their government feels tuition fees are “unjust” and they discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study.

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by · December 4, 2015 · Another View
MYSTERY: One or two clues looking at you in today photo

MYSTERY: One or two clues looking at you in today photo

Hmmmm. Perhaps this edition’s Mystery Photo is too easy. The dead give-away is the modern clock in this photo. So try to figure out where this photo was taken. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.

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by · December 4, 2015 · Mystery photos
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