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"It is banana."
Translation:É banana.
September 23, 2013
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This is a very awkward English sentence. "It is banana"? The only time I can see that being said is if the question was "So what is the answer?" "It is banana"
this is probably not intended, but in some areas of the English-speaking world, you can say "That's bananas!" like "That's nuts!" or "That's crazy!"...
Anyways, I don't think that they are refering to this, but just so people know.
This sentence doesn´t make any sense, if it were speaking about something crazy it wouldnt be in the "food" section.
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It's not awkward. it could be the answer to the following question: "What flavor is this pudding?" for instance.

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You'd think a 6-4 team would be favored over a 3-7 team. Though you'd probably think that line would be somewhat significant one. Not the case for the Raiders who are favored by just three points in Atlanta over the Falcons.
On one hand, the Falcons have won all three of their games in their last five games since Raheem Morris took over as head coach. On the other hand, the Raiders have won six games despite playing one of the toughest schedules in the NFL over the first 11 weeks of the season.
If you take the Falcons record since Morris took over as their pace right now, they too would be 6-4. And the game is in Atlanta. That usually tends to give the home team a couple points in their favor. Then again, the Raiders are better on the road this season (4-1) than they are at home (2-3). And three of their four road wins were at 1pm Eastern (10am Pacific), so they've overcome the dreaded early start time that tends to plague West Coast teams.
That may have something to do with there being mostly no crowds and even in the instances there are fans present, it's something like Kansas City where the stadium was at 22% capacity. Hardly a hostile environment.
I think what it comes down to in this one is, while the Falcons may be better than their 3-7 record suggests, so too is the Raiders with regard to their 6-4 record. Take that for what it's worth.


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BEIJING—Amnesty International awarded its top honour Tuesday to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who has spent years shining light on his country's restrictive political atmosphere, and to U.S. folk singer Joan Baez for her civil rights activism.
Both were named recipients of Amnesty's Ambassador of Conscience Award, which recognizes lifetime human rights leadership.
Ai told the Associated Press that the award reminded him of his social responsibilities as an artist, especially as the Chinese government tightens its grip on free expression and activism.
He noted that the repression was affecting "ordinary people around us concerned about basic issues" while answering a question about five women's rights activists who remain in custody for planning anti-sexual harassment protests.
"I think as an artist, I use my own way to fulfil my responsibility to society," the bearded 57-year-old said. "Whether we have compassion for our own people or other countries, we all have to take responsibility."
Baez was cited by Amnesty International for her involvement in the U.S. civil rights activism since the 1960s.
Over the past four years, Ai has paid a high price for his activism, having been beaten by the authorities, imprisoned and blocked from leaving the country. In the process, he's become one of China's most internationally known figures, a fame that has partially protected him.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying declined comment on the award, but said China hopes Amnesty can regard China "objectively."
Ai made his first big splash by helping design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He fell afoul of Chinese authorities after taking up causes such as those of parents angry over what they said was shoddy construction of schools that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, killing hundreds of children.
Ai said Tuesday that he hasn't had a passport since his 2011 arrest for tax evasion, which he has called politically motivated, but still hoped he would be able to attend the May 21 award ceremony in Berlin.
Previous award winners include Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi and Irish rock band U2.


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Archive for April, 2008
Dreams, They Complicate My LifePublished April 28, 2008 Life , Music Leave a Comment
Tags: complications, Dreams, Get Up, irresolvable paradoxes, Life, livings, Michael Stipe, Music, REM
Creativity and Spirituality: A Possible FuturePublished April 23, 2008 Dreams , Foresight Leave a Comment
Tags: art, authenticity, creativity, Foresight, futures, integrity, Jesus, spirituality
Read 'The New Conspirators'!Published April 18, 2008 Books , Church , Community , Ecology , Emergent , eschatology , Faith , Foresight , God , House Church , Justice 4 Comments
Tags: beloved community, Books, Christine Sine, Community, Emergent, emergent church, Emerging, emerging church, God, Holy Spirit, intentional community, Jesus, Missional, Monastic, Mosaic, new conspirators, new monastic, revolution, subversion, Tom Sine
Boy oh boy. I recently got The New Conspirators from IVP's new Likewise imprint–this is like their New Friars, but even more comprehensive. It's a who's-who of todays New Monastic, 24/7 prayer, and other communal movements.
Some reviews/excerpts:
Open Source Theology is doing a multi-part interview/review.
Part Zero
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
I'm looking forward to reading this, hopefully with other dreamers, practitioners, and rabble-rousers. Three cheers for Tom and Christine Sine, and their continuing work!
Related: Who's going to the PAPA Festival this summer?
Maybe 'Emergent' Is Not So ComplicatedPublished April 9, 2008 Church , Emergent , Faith , Friendship , God , Theology 9 Comments
Tags: Brad Cecil, Emergent, Emergent Village, emerging church, epistemology, modern, postmodern shift, postmodernism, Reform, Why We're Not Emergent
Sez early Emergent Village inspiration Brad Cecil:
"I hear comments like: Defining emergent is like "nailing Jell-O to the wall" and "postmodernism means a hundred different things", I disagree – it isn't all that hard to describe if you are listening and reading. Here are the simple basic ideas of what fueled the emergent conversation and friendships:
1. Post modern refers to the period after modernity. It appears to "us" that a significant epistemological shift is occurring – the likes of which we haven't seen in 400 years.
2. Language is limited
3. Human concepts are limited
4. There is no place of irreducible certainty (foundation)
5. Considering the above it would be very difficult to convey absolute meaning using language and human concepts
6. Christian theology has become enslaved to the 1st order assumptions of modernity and is far more Cartesian than Christian and has become ashamed of faith
7. A Reformation of recognition and repentance is needed
8. New theological thought is needed to free Christian theology from the enslavement of modernity and enlightenment assumptions and conversation and friendships would be more productive than developing imperatives.
9. This is just the beginning of the transition and a great deal of work and theological thought lay ahead for those who desire to join the conversation."
Read more in his review of Why We're Not Emergent. (By the way, I don't see this as backing down in my vow to Wayne, as I'm just quoting! 🙂 )
HT: Steve Knight in the EV Weblog
Heresy Hunters: I Get By With a Little Help from My FriendsPublished April 8, 2008 Absurdity , Faith , Friendship , God , Theology 19 Comments
Tags: 19th century, Acts 29, bible, Bishop Spong, Brad Cummings, Brian McLaren, Christianity Today, civility, Diana Butler-Bass, Emergent Village, eschatology, Foresight, Frank Viola, futures, futures studies, futurism, generosity, heresy, heresy-hunters, higher learning, Holy Writ, Inspiration and Incarnation, Jay Gary, Karis Productions, kindness, liberal arts, Mark Driscoll, Mike Morrell, orthodoxy, Pagan Christianity, Papa, Paul Young, Peter Enns, Resurgence, Sacred Feminine, Scripture, Steve Knight, The Shack, Theology, Tim Dale, Trinity, university, Wayne Jacobsen, Westminster Theological Seminary, William Young, Willie P Young, World Futures Society, YouTube
You know you're doing something worthwhile when all the right people are denouncing you.
A couple of weeks ago Herescope denounced Jay Gary, Diana Butler-Bass, Brian McLaren and myself, who will be hanging out at the World Future Society's annual conference in D.C. We'll be talking about "The Future of the Religious Right" and of global Christian faith in general, but the Heroscope team sees our work as promoting "new theologies and practices," and "disparaging…of biblical prophecy." Somehow, they suspect that all this winds up "creating an evolutionary convergence" where we all sing Kumbaya and venerate Gaia and Easter bunnies. As if that's a bad thing!
Moving along: I've already told you the kind of flack The Shack has been getting recently with the heresy-hunter websites. Well, as Steve Knight reports at Emergent Village, now our 'ol pal Mark Driscoll is in on the action too (you can watch his eight-minute YouTube rant on the E.V. link). Apparently he's mighty uncomfortable with the sacred feminine, anthropomorphic depictions of God, and the idea of the Trinity (and thus, human relatedness) as mutually submissive rather than chain-of-command hierarchical. Sigh. Co-publisher Wayne Jacobsen blogs his response to the question "Is The Shack Heresy?"
Of course Frank Viola has had his share of critique concerning Pagan Christianity–not all from shrill heresy hunters, but certainly enough of it. Well, Tim Dale over at Karis Productions produced this pretty funny spoof response:
I have two observations about all the shelling and attack from this past month: Most of the people above are friends of mine, and for the most part, we can all laugh this off (in the cases of Frank and Team Shack, they can laugh all the way to the bank, as these books have really struck a chord with most readers and have become best-sellers)–even if we don't know whether to laugh or cry sometimes. Others, though, are not so fortunate–heresy-hunters can cost people their livelihoods.
I don't have the privilege of knowing Peter Enns, but his story has been all over the blogosphere recently. As Christianity Today reports, Enns has been suspended from his teaching post at Westminster Theological Seminary for writing his 2005 book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, which takes a hard look at the messy, complex, and human aspects of Scripture from an evangelically-informed text criticism point of view. The Board of Trustees said:
"That for the good of the Seminary (Faculty Manual II.4.C.4) Professor Peter Enns be suspended at the close of this school year, that is May 23, 2008 (Constitution Article III, Section 15), and that the Institutional Personnel Committee (IPC) recommend the appropriate process for the Board to consider whether Professor Enns should be terminated from his employment at the Seminary. Further that the IPC present their recommendations to the Board at its meeting in May 2008."
I understand that confessionally Christian schools are not as enamored with "freedom of thought at any cost" like their liberal arts counterparts; I get that evangelical higher learning institutions are trying to maintain a precarious balance between intellectual integrity and nurturing creedal faith commitments. All the same, Enns is not Bishop Spong or something–he's asking questions about Holy Writ that the rest of the Church (and world at large) have been asking since the 19th century. Like it or not, those who read and love the Bible are going to begin pondering its more troubling aspects with greater honesty and ideological flexibility.
Heresy-hunting is far from the world's worst problem. (Next time, I'm going to blog about sex trafficking. Please try to refrain from throwing yourself off a building.) Nonetheless, it is a downer. As I mused last year, sometimes I wonder why I even bother participating in this kind of 'dialogue'–it all seems so insular. Sometimes I just want to throw my blog into the ocean (so to speak) and becoming a wandering hermit…with my wife and child, of course. But for now, I suppose I'll leave everyone with an easily-rebuttable maxim: If you don't have something kind to blog, don't blog anything at all.
Mike Todd's The Shack Film casting call
John MacArthur launches Nothing Must Change tour
Heretic Hunter video
Brad Cummings and Wayne J have something constructive to say about all of this in their Doctrine Police podcast at The God Journey
Stepping into a Violent Wind: Writing This PentecostPublished April 8, 2008 Dreams , Publishing Leave a Comment
Tags: Jesus Manifesto, Pentecost, writing, writing contests
I'm pleased to be one of the judges in a literary competition this Pentecost season.
"We want your words. Jesus Manifesto is inviting you to submit an original article exploring the theme of Pentecost. In particular we want you to explore the theme of Pentecost in light of the world's struggles. In the so-called "first" world, Christendom is fading into memory. In the so-called "third" world, new religious realities are emerging as Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and Islam compete for souls. Meanwhile, our world is growing increasingly diverse as immigration patterns and globalization intensify both the interconnectedness and the fractured-ness of our world. Ours is a world where urban poor in US cities carry cell phones while urban poor in other cities live amidst disease and intractability.
How can Pentecost provoke our imagination for the 21st Century? In 1000 words or less, we want you to stoke the embers of our imagination into flame.
PRIZES: We're awarding one $50 prize for each of our categories (doxis, praxis, culture, aesthetics, and satire) with a $150 grand prize for the overall best general submission. That's $400 total in prizes."
For more, check it out.
Fun 80s Birthday Party for JasminPublished April 7, 2008 Absurdity 6 Comments
Tags: 1980s, 80's party, birthday parties, drag
…a picture says a thousand words, yes?
Deeper, Safer, Richer: Emergence into Global FamilyPublished April 2, 2008 Church , Emergent , Faith , Friendship , God , House Church , Theology 7 Comments
Tags: body of Christ, contingency, conversation, Corinth, Doug Pagitt, Emergent, emerging church, family, God, Jesus, Lifestream, Paul, post-emergent, situatedness, terminology, The God Journey, The Shack, Tony Jones, unity, Wayne Jacobsen
So my friend Wayne Jacobsen of The God Journey podcast (and co-publisher at Windblown Media, which you might've heard of 'cause of the runaway best-selling Trinitarian thriller The Shack) treated us with a visit yesterday, and Wayne is calling us to a fast from the 'e-word' in order to reach our truest ideals. Here's what he said:
Mike, I think you missed my point in the questions I posed to you. There's a difference, in my mind, between expressing your journey in 'emerging ways' and isolating that conversation as 'Emergent.' This term has moved way past describing emerging thinking on church life and has taken an identity as an organized group of people, identified spokespeople, and specific doctrine and agendas. Emergent is now a label that carries certain connotations and certainly some unfair accusations.
Wayne! Oh, I'm glad you saw my initial posts–I was going to alert you, but it's been crazy moving around here (barely time to write the entries!). Thank you for taking the time to say all this; I think if anyone is, you'd be a helpful someone to offer some gentle corrective to 'the conversation' and how it inhabits or inhibits relationships in God's ever-expanding kingdom.
Did I miss your point? Hmm. I may indeed have; I'm just not sure who you're talking about. Besides maybe Tony Jones (happy 40th) or Doug Pagitt, can you name any Emergent Village folks? Most of 'em or rather low-key, and Tony & Doug are obnoxious in a good way. (did I just say that in print?) But point taken that emergent now carries a particular 'taste' in many people's mouths, and not a very pleasant one among her most vocal critics.
You mention 'emergent' as having an agenda, and I agree that there is one. The tragical irony of it all is that the agenda is fostering hospitable place for respectful dialogue regardless of differences, so that there is no 'insider-outsider' conception. And I'd say that this worked beautifully until around 2005 when Christian and mainstream media began taking notice, alerting people who didn't want to converse and indeed thought that this theological hospitality was a dangerous thing. In recent years our 'enemies' have defined us too much, which might seriously jeopardize the value of the descriptor.
As to your concern with labels themselves–I'm with you almost all the way on that one. Have you ever read Wendell Berry's essay In Distrust of Movements ? A great little piece; on distributed, incidentally, in 2004 I think by Brian McLaren when some people ceased referring to an emerging 'conversation' and started referring to it as a 'movement.' I think Mr. Berry's points (and yours) are to be heeded.
And yet when you say "I just want my focus to be on Jesus," I have a split reaction. In my heart of hearts I say "Oh yes, me too"–and mean it, just as you mean it (and live it out quite compellingly). But the other part of me is reminded of the first century situation in Corinth, where the "Just Jesus" folks were every bit as labeled and movemented as any of the other factions–maybe even more so because they were blinded to it by a false assurance that they were 'just about Jesus'!
You know me, Wayne; I've been around the house church/simple church/relational Christianity/'outside the camp' scene for 10 years now–several years longer than my reflecting on postmodernity's interactions with faith, the mood and probing that gradually became known as 'emerging church.' Well, in the outside-the-camp land, folks blast what they call "the institutional church" or "the IC" with aplomb–'cause they thank God they're not that. While there are some lovely people in this stream that I call dear friends to this very day, I can't help but see their desire to be "just about Jesus and the pristine simplicity of Scripture and divine revelation" as a modernist impulse to escape history and retreat to some kind of 'objectivity' that is above the messy situatedness and contingency of life. But there is no escape. I have green eyes and am 6-foot-2 and kinda overweight and I was born in Georgia. I like sci-fi and comic books and have a wonderful wife and little girl. Amid my journey into God I was Baptist then Pentecostal then Presbyterian. These days I'm way more permeable spiritually but I can still accurately describe myself as practicing apprenticeship to Jesus in a house church community context, asking questions of God, friends and reality along similar lines as those involved in a conversation we see as indicative of a kind of emergence occurring on a global scale. Try as I might seek to transcend the particulars of my life, I cannot. We are all contextual people, historically situated in a particular time and place, with proclivities that can indeed be summed up from time to time. It grates on enlightenment Western individualism, but I'm not all that original. And so sociologists can sum us up, Wayne—you and me both. We may as well enjoy it.
But I agree with your heart, brother, that we as friends and followers of the risen Jesus shouldn't seek to sum up or size up, ever. Why eat from the Tree of Judgement (aka 'Knowledge of Good and Evil') when you can dine on life itself? I yearn to be more like a family with this great conglomeration we call the cosmos. I want deeper, richer, safer conversation—and not just conversation, dammit, but bold new creative, loving action! So if we need to be (I cannot help but snicker as I write this) post-emergent in order to evolve into this, then so be it.
So let me take you up on your challenge, Wayne: No "e-word" for the next 30 days on this here blog (my own commented replies to this post notwithstanding). Last time I checked I don't have a green "e" tattooed on my forehead, and I'd be quite fine forgoing it as a source of identity and comfort. Let's see if the fast will last!
Emergent Church: Denomination or Common Grammar?Published April 1, 2008 Church , Community , Emergent , eschatology , Faith , Friendship , Gatherings , God , House Church , Theology 5 Comments
Tags: anabaptist, Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, charismatic, charismatic renewal, church unity, denomination, denominationalism, Emergent, Emerging, emerging church, Episcopal, God, Holy Spirit, House Church, Jesus, John 17, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, Pentecostal revival, Presbyterian, Quaker, revival, Vineyard church
So my friend and former fellow communard, Johnny T commented on yesterday's Why We're Not Emergent post:
I dunno man…"Emergent" seems like just another denomination to me. As a group, they have their own "common" (more so than not)way at talking about and looking at things…just like everyone else…and like any denomintaion, they fall into the same traps that they make for themselves. (Just like individuals who place too much importance on why they are different)
While I agree, Johnny, that we all have traps we lay for ourselves (no matter what labels we share or shun), I'm not sure if it's automatically a bad thing when lots of people (in this case, friends and followers of Jesus) begin thinking similar thoughts and taking similar actions and conversing amongst themselves. And I think the emerging conversation is actually more analogous to the charismatic movement in the 60's-80's than a denomination per se. The charismatic movement, interpreted by most participants as a move of the Holy Spirit, by and large touched people in whatever churches they were in. Whereas the early Pentecostal revivals made people leave their established churches (mainly because the 'mother churches' ostracized them, but no doubt too because the newly spiritually-gifted and enthused were likely quite fanatical in cases), the charismatic movement renewed already-existing churches for the most part. And a couple of denominations were also founded, like the Vineyard. But many stayed Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, etc…
Similarly today, most of us see 'emergent' as the life emerging on the spiritual trees we're already on–the fresh life budding on Lutheran, Anabaptist, Presbyterian, Quaker, Anglican, house church, etc… trees. The outermost rung of the bark, as it were. Check this directory out to see what I mean. And it's not just an insular kind of "We're sticking to our tree" kind of thing. For me, one of the most beautiful and helpful things about the emerging conversation has been its function as a common 'grammar' if you will, a way of speaking that's allowed me to respectfully dialogue with Christians from across the traditions spectrum–and it's even taught me how to share and converse with people who (gasp!) aren't even Christians. It's an open table where nobody's trying to convert, which was rare in all of the heavily denominated churches where I grew up, where everyone thought they had a corner market on "Truth."
I might be into fulfilled covenant eschatology, but I still don't see how Jesus' prayer in John 17 has been realized with any kind of tangible fullness. "That we all be one" has been my heart's longing for 15 years now, ever since I first found that passage as a teenager. On its best days (when we aren't spending all of our energy trying to defend ourselves to a tiny-but-vocal group of online critics that we have zero actual relationship with), the emerging conversation is a stunning example of grassroots ecumenicism and unity-building in our shared living amidst God's kingdom. And of course on its worst, we can be as prideful, cantankerous, quarrelsome and unhelpful as anyone else out there.
Here is Josh Brown's take on whether emergent faith is 'becoming another denomination.' His whole series on this is worth reading–see
1 – An Introduction, 2 – A White Man's World, 4- A Public Service Announcement on Friendship, 5 – We Hate Scripture
Anyway, here's the thing: I consider myself an emerging contributor and an emerging beneficiary. I think that the emerging conversation (and Emergent Village in particular) often get an undeserved bad rap among those for whom the conversation is not helpful. But all the same–unlike Michael Vick–I don't feel like I have any particular dogs in any particular fights. I can let all this go tomorrow; it'd be sad, but my guess is it'll eventually happen–whether next year or in 10 years. Addiction to permanence is not my goal. Like I said yesterday, "I've been on a journey in, through, and toward a Christ-transformed reality before I began naming it in this way, and will likely be if and when this way of articulating things ceases to be helpful. But right now, that I do find it helpful."


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Sephora Is Driving Change To Combat Systemic Racism In Retail
Forbes | July 7, 2020
Today, Sephora will close its stores for two hours, dedicating the time to training on racial profiling and education on Sephora's national study on racial bias in retail. Corporate employees will also participate in Conscious Leadership training. The retailer, which sells multi-branded beauty products in 490 stores across the Americas, has been recognized as an industry leader in terms of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts.
Sephora has been actively creating various initiatives to combat racial bias and to foster equality and inclusion in retail, as demonstrated by the recent commissioning of a first-of-its-kind national study on racial bias in retail settings.
The findings of the study are informing Sephora on ways to implement and pilot various policies and procedures to improve in-store experiences and overall business practices, and Reign continues to say that Sephora is planning to encourage the entire retail industry to address bias in retail. "A common challenge for a complex issue like racial bias is making sure that all the right voices are in the room to provide more diverse perspectives," according to Reign. She continues by noting that having a group of thought-leaders that are well-versed in DEI issues and can speak to diverse cultural perspectives aides in developing plans that are both detailed and wide-reaching.


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Posted On February 13, 2020
The Rod Eccles Show: Podcast: 2 13 2020: All is quiet on the NH home front now that the Primary is completed. Rod talks a little about the winners and losers and why the DNC is still scared to death of Sanders but doen't want to waste Buttigieg on an election he can't win.
Rod also brings you some surprising news about Jussie Smollett that the Lamestream Media is not covering. Is it all just a cover up?
Michael Doomberg rears his ugly racist side at an interview back on February 5. The former NYC Mayor then made sure that the event organizers did not share or broadcast that video. Rod has his take on what the former Mayor said and why its so dangerous and racist.


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Hill had a "never quit" attitude. As her disease slowly prevented her body from functioning, she still made a great impact in her community and affected millions of people in her home state and across the nation.
In battling terminal cancer, she taught many people how to live in the face of adversity. When she found out she had an inoperable cancer, she decided to raise money to fund research. So, this past December, she reached her goal of $1 million dollars and thousands came in afterwards. People listened and cared.
Lebron James, perhaps the greatest player in the NBA, heard about Lauren and became a fan, sending her one of his shoes, and some earphones. She joked about the shoe size, saying "one shoe was enough, because it's too big for her." Lebron tweeted an open message to her today saying his late Grandma knows of her because they've talked about her. "Say hi to Grandma," he wrote.
She loved the game of basketball and when she couldn't play anymore she became an honorary coach on her team. A determined young woman impacted so many people in her short time on earth.
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I remember this building as a kid. It stood next to Interstate 20, right off of Hwy. 165. It always stuck out, due to a story my dad told me once. The last time Elvis came to Monroe, Dad happened to be near the Ramada and saw Elvis with his entourage coming down the steps. He says that was as close to him as he ever got! Unfortunately, "Elvis slept here" didn't save the building and it came down in the late 80's or early 90's.
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The National Football League saw action on Thursday night when two winless teams collided in the Meadowlands of East Rutherford, N.J. Something had to give, and the Denver Broncos pulled off the road win against the New York Jets, 37-28, to earn their first victory of the year.
The game was close right up to the end, and one former Florida Gator helped heighten the suspense in the fourth quarter. Cornerback Brian Poole made a big interception of Broncos quarterback Brett Rypien on a second-and-eight play with 8:43 remaining in the game and his Jets down by two points.
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Unfortunately, it was not enough to put New York over the top, as Denver went on to score another touchdown while the Jets only managed a meager field goal for the remainder of the game. Poole finished with a total of four solo tackles and that one pass defended; his fellow former defensive back Gator Marcus Maye had two solo tackles, one assisted tackle and a tackle for a loss.
Also of note, rookie running back Lamical Perine also appeared in the game for New York, carrying the ball five times for 15 yards.


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THIS INTENSE new documentary about parents trying to reclaim children from foster care also reminds us that custody issues never exist in a vacuum.
As the two cases examined here illustrate, they are almost always intertwined with equally sticky and often-subjective matters like sobriety, addiction, family relationships, maturity and the economics of the working poor.
"Tough Love" keeps a steady focus on its own mission, which is custody decisions, and lets the other issues fall where they will.
The first subject here is Patrick, a single father in Seattle. He's been a meth addict and says he's recovering. He now holds a steady job and wants his 4-year-old daughter Natalya back from foster care, where she has a stable, caring family.
Subject two is Hannah, a New Yorker who is seven months pregnant with her fiance's child.
Her two children from a prior abusive relationship are in foster care, largely because then-teenage Hannah would leave them with her mother for days at a time to go out and enjoy herself.
The documentary is even-handed, but sympathetic toward its subjects.
Hannah's fiance Philly works two jobs and can barely pay the rent, which makes it a struggle to provide the required stable home.
The people we end up admiring most here are the ones who have to weigh all this and come to a decision that won't put anyone in harm's way. From the outside, it feels like the game plan is to do your best and cross your fingers.


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So bright. I once found a field loaded with female calicos. It was quite a treat crawling from plant to plant photographing them. I've never posted them on the blog though.
Another Dragonfly image from our walk at the Audubon Plainsboro Preserve. The featured image is made from 2 images shot with a 300mm lens with a 1.4X Teleconverter @ f/8. I usually shoot my series of images starting at the head and work my way back down the body. I would have shot 1 more image for the tail but it flew off before I could get that shot.