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Spanish runner Ivan Fernandez Anaya was trailing Kenyan runner Abel Mutai in a cross-country race at an event in Burlada, Navarre. 32 feet from the finish line Mutai mistakenly thought he had crossed the finish line. Anaya had the opportunity to win the race, but he did not. Instead, he caught up to…

After Leslie Ray Charping, a 75-year-old Galveston, Texas resident died of cancer, his online obituary read, Leslie Ray lived “29 years longer than expected and much longer than he deserved. His hobbies were being abusive to his family, expediting trips to heaven for the beloved family pets, and fishing.”…

VW is a flagship German company representing the highest standard of reliability. Volkswagen has been synonymous with quality and high standards for at least the last 25 years. However, U.S. regulators recently discovered that the auto giant had been installing special software in its supposedly clean-diesel…

A good name is important for royalty. When Prince William and his wife Catherine named their first child, they choose a name that reflects a proud family heritage. The baby shares a name with six King Georges, including the father of the current queen of England. For William John Kane VIII, a database…

Businesses spend millions every year to attract customers and prove that they deserve the trust of the public. According to the 2013 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, that money is well spent because six out of ten American shoppers study a company’s reputation before buying from them. The reputation…

Since the Green bay Packers have racked up a record number of wins this football season, their quarterback is facing a unique dilemma. Aaron Rogers recently learned that he is on the way to becoming one of the most popular people in the history of Wisconsin. According to an opinion survey by Public Policy…

While it is true that people will obey their bosses, if for no other reason to keep their jobs, real influence isn’t wielded by brute force, but from personal relationships and character. In his book, Leadership as a Lifestyle: The Path to Personal Integrity and Positive Influence, John Hawkins writes,…

Each of your actions attaches itself to your name. Have you noticed that through the years, styles of names have changed? Depending on which culture or society you live in, your name will be different. But what about the meanings of these names? In Bible times, every name had a deeper meaning. Consider…

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost! -Anonymous Snarling at other folks is not the best way of showing the superior quality of your own character. -Anonymous Characters are achieved-not received. They grow out of the substance…

There is a structure which everybody is building. It is called character; and every act of life is a stone. Day by day you should be careful to build your life with pure, noble, upright deeds. Then the several deeds will unite to form a day; the days will grow into noble years; and the years, as they…

The minute you were born again, God gave you a new name—Christian. A man in the Army of Alexander the Great who was also named Alexander, was accused of cowardly actions. He was brought before Alexander, who asked what his name was. He replied softly, “Alexander.” “I can't hear you,” the ruler stated.…

A man was being tailgated by a stressed-out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly the light turned yellow. Just in front him was a crosswalk, so he did the right thing--he stopped at the crosswalk even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection. The tailgating woman…

Someone has come up with the following “Rules For Choosing a Superhero Name”: Don’t call yourself by your real name. (e.g., Ms. Jenny Pinchuck, The Amazing Stevie Foster). Don’t call yourself by someone else’s real name. (e.g., Mr. Teddy Kennedy, Captain Tom Cruise). Choose a name that suggests power,…

CHARACTER 1999's Super Bowl was remembered more for "the night before" than for the game itself. On Saturday before Super Bowl XXXIII, safety Eugene Robinson was awarded the NFL's first Bart Starr Award from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes for high moral character on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

To Illustrate... Cross My 9-year-old daughter Jennifer was'TdoftM forward to our family's mini-vacation. But when our vacation arrived, she became ill, and a long anticipated day at Sea World was replaced by an all-night series of cat scans, X-rays, and blood work at the hospital. As morning approached,…