No. Meaning
1 Unity; New beginnings
2 Union; Division; Witnessing
3 Divine completeness and perfection
4 Creation; The world; Creative works
5 Grace; God’s goodness; Pentateuch (first five books)
6 Weakness of man; Manifestation of sin ; Evils of Satan
7 Resurrection; Spiritual completeness; Fathers perfection
8 New birth; New beginnings
9 Fruit of the spirit; Divine completeness from the Father
10 Testimony; Law and responsibility
11 Disorder and judgement
12 Governmental perfection
13 Apostasy; depravity and rebellion
14 Deliverance; Salvation
15 Rest
16 Love
17 Victory
18 Bondage
19 Faith
20 Redemption
21 Exceeding sinfulness of sin
22 Light
23 Death
24 The Priesthood
25 Repentance; The forgiveness of sins
26 The Gospel of Christ
27 Preaching of the Gospel
28 Eternal life
29 Departure
30 Blood of Christ; Dedication
31 Offspring
32 Covenant
33 Promise
34 Naming of a son
35 Hope
36 Enemy
37 The word of our Father
38 Slavery
39 Disease
40 Trials; Probation; Testings
42 Israel’s oppression; First advent
44 Judgement of the World
45 Preservation
50 Holy Spirit; Pentecost
60 Pride
66 Idol worshi
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All posts for the month December, 2013
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Being a multiple of 7, (completion) 14 partakes of its importance and, being double that number, implies a double measure of spiritual perfection- The number 14 represents deliverance or salvation. There were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile in Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ. (Matthew 1:17)
Starting January 1, minimum wage workers in 13 states and four cities will see higher paychecks.
While most of the increases amount to less than 15 cents per hour, workers in places like New Jersey, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island will see a bigger bump.
Earlier this year, New Jersey residents voted to raise the state’s minimum wage by $1 to $8.25 per hour. And lawmakers voted to hike the wage by between 25 cents and 75 cents per hour, to $8.70 in Connecticut and $8 in Rhode Island and New York.
Residents in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington will see a higher wage floor due to annual cost of living adjustments.
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, used Census data to estimate that the increases will boost the incomes of 2.5 million low-wage American workers next year.
Related: 2013 minimum wage, state by state
Currently, 19 states have minimum wages set higher than the federal level of $7.25 per hour. Once the changes take effect on Jan. 1, the number rises to 21.
Wage increases are also set to take place at the local level. Voters recently approved a raise to $15 per hour for many workers in SeaTac, a tiny town centered around the Seattle-Tacoma airport in Washington. A judge ruled this past week that parts of the measure were not valid: The city could impose the minimum wage for some of the affected workers, the judge said, though not all. Supporters of the increase plan to appeal.
The push for $15 an hour could soon move beyond the one small town. Seattle’s mayor-elect has said he plans to also raise the city’s minimum wage to $15. Washington currently has the highest state minimum wage at $9.19 per hour.
Workers in San Francisco, San Jose and Albuquerque will also see wages go up.
Later in 2014, several other locales, including two counties in Maryland and Washington D.C., will raise their minimum wages. California is set to raise its minimum wage to $9 in July.
The piecemeal increases at the local level are occurring amidst a national debate over low wages and income inequality. Fast food and retail workers have been staging protests and walking off work for more than a year, calling for better pay and more hours.
Currently, fast food workers nationally earn an average of about $9 per hour. In September, Bill Simon, president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart U.S., said that less than half of the company’s U.S. employees make more than $25,000 per year.
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If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist..
If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist…”Kirk Franklin”.
A Realtor’s Night Before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse;
The sign was stuck in the lawn with care,
In hopes that the buyers soon would be there;
The Realtors at open house had all been fed,
While visions of commissions danced in their heads;
But the first buyer who saw the house on a map,
Had between what he had and the list price a gap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
It was buyer #2 – the Mad Hatter!
He had made a great offer with savvy and flash,
Tore open his briefcase and threw out the cash.
I thought the appraiser might value too low,
I’m just a Realtor – what do I know?
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But an acceptable contract and a lender no fear.
With a termite inspector so thorough and quick,
I knew in a moment, I wouldn’t be sick.
More home inspections that all sound the same,
We whistled and shouted and called them by name;
“Now ROOFER! Now, GARDENER! Now, PAINTER a mixin,
New carpet, new vinyl new hardwood we’re fixin.
To the top of the stairs! To the top of the wall!
More estimates, more bids, now more contractors call!”
And then, in a twinkling, I heard such good news,
After fretting and worrying, this I could use.
As I lifted my cell phone and dialed, I found,
the loan docs are here, with nary a sound.
Her eyes how they twinkled! Her dimples how merry!
Escrow instructions with her she carried.
Closing costs didn’t seem too low,
But I reminded the buyer sometimes we don’t know.
The cashiers’ check held tight in his teeth,
My buyer was calm his nerves underneath.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his home
I gave him the house keys no more to roam.
As we compose this real estate Christmas prose,
Alas this is not how each escrow does close.
With your Buyers and Sellers just give us a whistle,
At Danette ONeal Realtors we’ll keep you out of the thistles.
We’ll take care you and feel free to call,
“MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!”
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We got smarter and faster at fighting polio. You may have heard about recent polio outbreaks in Syria, Kenya, and Somalia. What you may not know is just how rapid and effective the response has been. It looks like the outbreak in the Horn of Africa was controlled in 4 months, less than half the time it took to control an outbreak there in 2005. That speed is due in part to the work done at the Global Vaccine Summit held in Abu Dhabi this year. In the past, the world has had to make tough trade-offs between responding to outbreaks, improving routine immunization, and fighting the disease in the last three countries where polio is still circulating (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria). There was no coordinated plan or long-term funding for doing all three at once. At the summit the world got both. We adopted a comprehensive plan for pursuing all three goals, including making the world polio-free by 2018. And more than 30 donors—including a number of very generous private individuals—backed the plan with a total of $4 billion in long-term funding. That means we won’t have to make those trade-offs anymore. It’s a huge step forward.
There’s also great news from India. In early 2014, India will have gone three years without a single polio case (assuming no new ones are reported between now and then). That’s a testament to the fantastic job they’ve done immunizing every child, even in the most remote parts of the country. Now they’re focused on keeping the disease from coming back.
Next door, in Pakistan, the political leaders are clearly resolved to get polio out of the country once and for all. When I met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif this fall, he made it clear that he sees vaccinating children as a matter of justice. Despite the ongoing violence there and in Afghanistan—including horrifying reprisals against vaccine workers—the next couple of years are a good opportunity for us to make progress on this goal.