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The MPF Leadership Academy
February 11-12, 2016 ♦ Miami, Florida
Now more than ever, skilled and effective leadership is required for law firms to be successful in today's increasingly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace for legal services. Law schools teach little about it, and most firms are not adequately equipping their future leaders with the skills and perspectives necessary to be effective in these important and challenging leadership roles.
Introducing The MPF Leadership Academy
At The Managing Partner Forum, we find that today's law firm leaders are being challenged to develop their leadership skills at three important levels: as individuals, within groups and within the law firm as a whole.
This intimate, highly interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to increase their knowledge, raise their self-awareness, hone their skills through a combination of presentation, group discussion, case analysis and one-on-one debriefs.
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Who Should Attend?
The MPF Leadership Academy is designed especially for the future leaders of smaller and mid-sized law firms, including:
- Junior and Mid-Level Partners
- Executive/Management Committee Members
- Practice Group Leaders
- Department Heads
- Committee Chairs
- Firm Administrators
To ensure an intimate, interactive, high-level experience, registration is limited to 35 participants.
Workshop Themes and Topics
- The leadership imperative in today's law firm
- Leading and managing healthy, profitable firms
- Characteristics of effective firm leaders
- Group dynamics and building consensus
- Managing conflict and change
- Earning and using political capital
- Understanding and developing your personal leadership style
Workshop Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will understand the unique challenges of law firm leadership; appreciate the distinction between leadership and management; and have a greater appreciation of their own individual strengths, style and personality and their implications at the individual, team and firm level.
Participants will complete two diagnostic tests (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Thomas Kilmann Conflct Assessment) and leave with lots of materials and tools they can use immediately in their firms. The workshop also offers each participant an opportunity to discuss issues with program faculty on a confidential basis.


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The Unscrupulous Princess is the sixty-fifth chapter of the Vampire Knight manga series.
On cover: Takuma Ichijo, Sara Shirabuki
The title a reference to Sara Shirabuki.
Colour cover featuring Sara Shirabuki and Takuma Ichijo standing as her attendant.
- Cover catchphrase is "She is the Pureblood who wants to be Queen, he is the royal blood who lost his position"
- An empty bird cage and blue feathers appear on Sara's dress. The blue feathers have appeared previously in three previews.
- Sara is seated on a bed of skulls and wears black.
- Takuma holds a key in his right hand - which is similar to the key that Kaname gives to Yuki in 67th Night, but not identical.
Main plot points
- Sara is turning the girls of the school into her harem to Takuma's displeasure.
- Kaien and Yagari join Kaito and Zero in interrogating Hanabusa Aido.
- Yuki searches for Kaname thinking he has disappeared, after their discussion, Yuki tells him she will finally call him just "Kaname".
- Kaname tells Lord Aido he will save Hanabusa and find out what Sara Shirabuki is up to.
- Takuma discovers Sara has been turning humans against their will in a plan to create an army totally loyal to her.
Sara's vampire clique of girls happily serve her looking for her favour. Sara kisses the first she turned, Yukari[1]. The girls ask about turning more students into vampires, Sara expresses caution and notes Takuma's reticence. Takuma is worried about Sara's appearance of starting a harem. Sara pretends to garner sympathy because of her loss of her fiancee[2], Ouri and Takuma points out that Ouri was a lot more submissive. The girls wonder at Takuma's annoyance and Sara says that its all fine as long as she abide by the rules[3]. She prepares to leave and they clamour to know when they will see her again. Takuma visits the president who took over his grandfather's[4] company. He introduces Sara, who bids him to leave. When Takuma refuses to leave, she uses her Pureblood voice power to compel Takuma to leave. The vampire hunters outside observe that there are odd goings on.
The Hunters have Hanabusa tied to a chair as they interrogate him. Yagari shouts and threatens him with a whip, wanting to know if there have been communications between Kaname and Sara. Hanabusa denies it heavily and asks Zero to tell them he's not a liar. Kaien and Zero prepare some candles threateningly and Kaito pushes them aside and revs a chainsaw towards Hanabusa who promptly slumps over. Kaito and Yagari note that Hanabusa is a tough cookie to crack because of his unyielding loyalty to Kaname. Kaien intervenes believing their method is all wrong.
Kaien unties Hanabusa and tells him they are concerned about Sara's behavior and they want to ensure it doesn't turn into a disaster. Hanabusa says they are delusional if they think Kaname is involved. Kaien apologies and explains he doesn't think Kaname is involved, but they want to know why he's allowing it. Kaien comments that Kaname has gotten involved with other problematic Purebloods like Shizuka Hio and Rido Kuran and yesterday Kaien found that Toma had been punished[5]. Hanabusa asks Zero to explain and Zero says that in the disagreement between two Purebloods, Toma was punished because he started it. Kaien agrees that was Kaname's responsibility, but think since he agreed to the treaty[6], he cannot allow this issue with Sara to continue and then he asks Zero who was involved in the Toma matter. Zero reluctantly says Yuki Kuran[7]. Hanabusa then clarify that Kaname's involvement with the other Purebloods was to protect Yuki, but Sara isn't violating the treaty, so its not their concern, pissing off Yagari.
Zero escorts Hanabusa to a cell. Hanabusa tells Zero to forget about what he said earlier about Yuki in the car[8] and that he was just shooting off his mouth. Zero bids him goodnight and leaves, but a moment later rushes back in and grabs Hanabusa by the shirt neck. Zero tells Hanabusa to stop getting him involved in Yuki's matters and that Yuki didn't request that of Hanabusa. Hanabusa looks down and agrees, he says that Yuki is trying to do her best walking her path beside Kaname. Zero looks annoyed but says that is a good thing. He goes to leave and Hanabusa says that Zero needs to act more like her enemy if he's going to insist on staying Yuki's enemy and Zero agrees.
Kaname drinks faux blood[9] as Yuki frantically runs around the house searching for him. She slams open the door, huffing and sweating, upon seeing Kaname she crouches on the floor with her head down muttering that she thought he'd left. Kaname smiles slightly commenting on her expression being for naught. Yuki angrily holds up the rose and says it wasn't for nothing and demands to know why the rose then. Kaname comments that after he changed her, he thought she ought to see something nice that might remove the bad taste of her experiencing his foul memories. Yuki looks down, seeing there is no blood on her clothes, she realises that Kaname had changed her clothes, she comically goes red and smoke blows out her ears as she clutches her knees and calls Kaname a pervert repeatedly. Kaname casually comments that he had done it before[10] and assures her he did nothing else. Yuki calms down and stands up. Kaname stands with his back to her and says that he knew she would want to know the entire truth and that she was so obedient and accepting, but that he couldn't stand it and finally had to reveal his secrets without any concern for her situation[11]. Yuki drops the rose and clings to Kaname's back. She says its not the rose, but that she had awoken and wanted to see her Onii-sama's face, that she had awoken in such a confused state and that it was the only thing that would reassure her, but he wasn't there and instead was the rose. Kaname looks at her and asks if she still thinks of him as her brother, he says its natural since she thinks he took her brother's position. Yuki says she understands. She thinks that she cannot comprehend all of it, but thinks that Kaname will always embrace weaknesses. They look solemnly at each other and Yuki says that she will call him Kaname from now on.
Lord Aido looking disturbed as he drinks tea with Kaname. He clutches his head as he recalls Yuki apologizing on hands and knees for abandoning Hanabusa. Kaname calmly sips his tea and encourages Lord Aido to as well. Kaname believes Hanabusa will be fine in the hands of the Hunters and Lord Aido agrees. He looks at Kaname and expresses concern about Sara's actions, Kaname offers to check in on Sara and says he will also rescue Hanabusa when Lord Aido says nothing. Kaname calls him a good father. Lord Aido calls himself pathetic and that it is difficult to sacrifice even one to the greater good. Kaname puts his tea down and says that if Lord Aido is talking about the council, he did what was necessary. Lord Aido isn't referring to that and says that even before Shizuka went missing, Kaname participated in the worst crime against Purebloods in history[12].
Takuma has found Sara's basement where many men are in cells begging to be let go. Takuma clutches his head and mutters that Sara can no longer continue, he gets a shock to see the president of the company and angrily asks why he's there. The president says he disobeyed and let his guard down and now he too will be turned into a vampire against his will. He tells Takuma that he must stop Sara, as she is intending to use the company's research[13] for evil. Sara then arrives, she observes that the cooperation between hunters and vampires will probably fail and set them at each other's throats when they see the treaty has been broken, meanwhile Sara is prepared with an army that will serve her unfailingly. Takuma says she is a devil and that she has committed the most heinous crime a Pureblood can commit. He says that the association will hear of it and they have Zero who is on her level. Sara agrees and says Zero is also a chess piece in the game of Purebloods. The faces of Sara, Takuma, Shizuka, Zero, Yuki, Kaname and Rido appear on the last page.
Memorable Quotes
- "From now on, I'll call you...Kaname" (Yuki)
- "I learned from the late Ichijo, the reason why...you are so quick to sacrifice us without mercy."
- "If its about the council of Elders, I have no comments. They got what they deserved."
- "No...I'm referring to something which happened ...just before Mistress Shizuka went missing...you committed the most sinful crime in the history of the True-bloods." (Nagamichi Aido to Kaname Kuran)
Characters in order of appearance:
- This is the second chapter of Volume 14 of the Vampire Knight manga.
Image gallery
- ↑ Sara turned her in 57th Night
- ↑ Sara killed her fiance, Ouri in 54th Night
- ↑ The treaty allows Purebloods to only turn humans with mutual consent and full disclosure and also give them their blood.
- ↑ Takuma killed his grandfather in 43rd Night as they disagreed over Kaname's actions.
- ↑ After Touma attacked Yuki in 58th Night, Kaname went and punished Touma in 61st Night
- ↑ The treaty between hunters and vampires was signed in 53rd Night
- ↑ Zero usually avoids saying Yuki's name
- ↑ Hanabusa told Zero to confront it and steal her away in 62nd Night.
- ↑ This is the first time we've seen Kaname take blood tablets that wasn't in a flashback.
- ↑ Kaname changed her clothes after she had re-awakened as a vampire in 36th Night.
- ↑ Recovering from the attack by Touma and subsequent loss of blood.
- ↑ A new mystery?
- ↑ Takuma's grandfather's business creates and researches the blood tablets for vampires.

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In addition to taking its toll on the Atlantic Coast States, Hurricane Bonnie did a number on the Internet server of Weather.com, the Web site of the Weather Channel cable network.
When Bonnie was at her mightiest last week, traffic volume was sky high at Weather.com. Todd Walrath, vice president for on-line services at the Weather Channel, said the Web site received some 40 million page views. Those included 10 million on Aug. 26, when Bonnie swept into North Carolina. That compares with three million page views on a typical day, Mr. Walrath said.
As a result, some visitors faced slow download times as they tried to get information from the overwhelmed servers.
Weather.com was not the only such site with heavy traffic. A study by Relevant Knowledge, an Atlanta-based market research business, found that the number of visits to seven major weather sites was 123 percent higher from Aug. 24 to Aug. 26 compared with the same period a week earlier. In all, the study found aggregate traffic on those sites to be 3.3 million visitors, compared with 1.5 million the previous week.
''This is another endorsement that the Web is becoming a primary source of instant information,'' said Ted Hawthorne, vice president for research and client information at Relevant Knowledge.Continue reading the main story


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If you are involved in an accident involving drones please report it to us by completing the general incident form and sending into us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Drones come in a huge and diverse range of forms. These vary from the small, hand-held radio controlled versions, which are for sale to young people as an alternative to model aircraft and are used in their gardens and open spaces, right through to the ones that are being used in industry and by an ever-widening range of businesses, as they are being proven to save manpower in many different areas.
It's important for riders to have some understanding of drones and the legal restrictions surrounding them, should they be encountered when out riding. This awareness should help you to reassure your horse, and reducing the risk of him becoming spooked by such random flying objects.
The operation of the aircraft must not endanger anyone or anything.
The aircraft must be kept within the visual line of sight - normally taken to be within 500m horizontally and 400ft vertically - of its remote pilot, i.e. the person in charge of it. Operations beyond these distances must be approved by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Small unmanned aircraft used for surveillance purposes are subject to tighter restrictions with regard to the minimum distances you can fly near people or properties that are not under the pilot's control. To fly within these minima, permission is required from the CAA before operations are commenced.
CAA permission is also required for all flights that are being conducted for aerial work, i.e. in very simple terms, you are getting paid for doing it. The 'remote pilot' has the responsibility for satisfying him/herself that the flight can be conducted safely.
The aircraft must not be flown:
Please refer to the air navigation order on the CAA site for specific details.


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As per usual, Steven Alan's got us covered when it comes to modest, well-tailored separates for fall. Blazers, crisp collars, and wool coats all make an appearance. But take a gander at the collection and you'll pick up on an unpredictable vibe. Though subtle, these looks are a tad disheveled — at least in comparison to what we're used to seeing from the label.
From slub sweaters to unbuttoned, untucked blouses — and even the models' slightly mussed hair — this is a relaxed comfort we can totally get behind. Also noteworthy are the live-in jumpsuits and pencil skirts layered over dresses. Not only did we add at least half these pieces to our wish list, we also took down a few styling notes. Click through to get inspired.


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Happy Sunday!
All of the mothers out there will probably agree with the fact that maintaining your pre-baby look becomes a little difficult after the baby comes. For me, I was quite naive. In my mind, once I had my son I would be a total MILF. Pre-baby, I assumed that since babies sleep most of the day that I would have endless amounts of time to primp, fluff, manicure, and beautify myself before leaving the house. In my ever so naive imagination, I pictured myself leaving the house in my pre-baby jeans (because come on, it's not hard to lose baby weight) with perfect hair and make up toting cute little one in his designer baby clothes. I mean, my mom was an image of perfection post-baby so why wouldn't I be as well?
Reality Check Time.
I learned I wasn't my mom. I learned that you can't just fit into those pre-baby size 4's and it's pretty depressing when you try. I learned that your hips get bigger (who knew!). I learned about a lovely thing called sleep deprivation. Lastly, I learned that looking smashing post-baby is pretty dang hard.
What I envisioned:
What actually happens:
A great article on how to bring sexy back as a new mom here and here.


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September 9, 2014
It's a well-known fact: moving is one of the most stressful situations in life. However, moving to a new home tends to be a necessary evil for many of us, especially depending on our life situation. If you're getting ready to make a big move, use these tips to stay calm and avoid stress during this pivotal time in your life.
If you think the holidays are stressful enough, add moving on top of it all and you have a recipe for disaster. Aside from the added stress of moving, you'll have to deal with a mass amount of traffic, relatives nagging, and packed stores.
You may have time off work during the holidays and think this is the best time to move, but in reality it's best to avoid the holidays completely.
The sooner you can organize your moving plans, the better. Being organized and having a schedule in place will calm your nerves about the entire moving process.
Make sure you have a system for packing, for transporting, and for unloading. This will provide you with such great peace of mind during the entire situation.
Clutter is quite possibly the top stressor of the moving process. Meaningless toys, clothes, and other household items can 'clog up' the moving van, causing more trips. In reality, do you really need all of these items?
It is in your best interest (both monetarily and with regard to your stress levels) to toss any old, unused and unwanted items prior to beginning your packing process. You'll save money by using fewer boxes and fewer trips back and forth!
For whatever reason, many individuals feel ashamed to ask for help when moving. Don't be! Your friends and family can be of great service to you during this crazy time. If you provide pizza, snacks and some drinks, your family and friends should be more than happy to help you out. Besides, it's much cheaper and easier than hiring a moving company!
From weather to schedule changes to family emergencies, you never know what could affect your moving plans. It is in your best interest to have some sort of a back-up plan in place, just in case.
Use these tips when moving into your brand new Heritage Custom Home in Murfreesboro, TN! Call us today to learn more about our custom-built homes available for you and your family.


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I feel bad that now that my life has quieted down, my blog is going to be very boring. So this one will be pretty short.
Plans for the summer:
Slave away at BK. Already begun.
Go to NYC with Cesca and some of her school friends. I'm sure you know a trip to Phantom there is inevitable.
Renaissance Festival. Oh yeah. This one is gonna be awesome.
Medieval Times and Toronto Zoo. Idk, Ronnie and Lauren thought of those.
Visit my cousin in Chicago.
See lots of movies. Already begun with Thor. Which was pretty good. I was actually impressed. And it was hilarious.
Marathon watch a bunch of TV shows, including but not limited to Doctor Who, Torchwood, Dollhouse and Game of Thrones.
Do my stupid summer class so I don't have to take 18 credits my senior year unless by choice. Signing up for this has been a real pain. Especially for my mother... Sorry mom.
Find some way in there to actually save money for Italy next spring. Yeah, that's gonna happen.
That's about it. Whoooo fun times.


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Movie Audio: Getaway (2013)Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 by Dylan Benson in Labels: Movies, Music, Post Audio, Review, Sound Design
I am a huge fan of Fords – Mustangs specifically. Needless to say, when I first saw the trailers for the movie Getaway (2013), I have always wanted to see it. However, I only got the chance to see it recently. Since this is not a movie review blog, I'll save you my less-than-satisfied comments on the movie itself, and stick to the audio.
It's obvious that anything big budget these days (this movie cost $18 million to make) needs to have audio that is high quality. For the most part, this movie did a good job with the audio. Probably one of the best audio related aspects of the movie was in the car dialogue. When the two main actors Selena Gomez and Ethan Hawke were sitting in the Shelby GT500 talking to each other, the audio characteristics and reflections of the voices definitely sounded like they were in a car with the windows up. That was a nice touch.


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In the Holiday Spirit, here is a repost on what the first Noel probably looked like.
NARRATOR: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Jospeh also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child.
(Children sing quietly in background) "Little donkey, little donkey, on the dusty road … " etc
MARY: Stop! Stop! (Looks around wildly) I need to find a bush!
JOSEPH: I TOLD you to go before we left the house!
MARY: I DID go before we left the house!
JOSEPH: We've only been on the road 5 minutes! You must have a bladder the size of a pea!
MARY: Oh yeah? You try riding an ass with rickets over these bumpy roads with a great big full-term baby tap-dancing on your bladder! Maybe it's YOU that's got a BRAIN the size of a pea, mister!
NARRATOR: And when he heard this, he was troubled at her saying, and cast in his mind what manner of salutation this should be.
(Mary struggles to dismount and scurries off.)
JOSEPH: Come on, Mary, we'll get stuck in rush hour!
MARY: I AM hurrying – ow – drat these thorn bushes! – my center of gravity is off!
MARY: (anxiously) ummm, Joseph, do you see any good leaves?
(Mary climbs gingerly on donkey.)
MARY: Oooof!
JOSEPH: Think of the benefit to your pelvic floor, sweetie!
(They plod on.)
MARY: Are we there yet?
JOSEPH: (sighs) We've only been –
MARY: I know! I know! We've only been on the road 5 minutes.
(Joseph looks around.)
JOSEPH: I wonder which way?
MARY: Check the map.
JOSEPH: Maps haven't been invented yet.
MARY: Ask someone!
JOSEPH: No, no, it must be – this way, I think. (more hesitantly) This can't be right.
MARY: (climbs down) well, while you're trying to find out where we are, I'm going to find a bush ….
JOSEPH: (heavenward) God? God? Hey, is this your idea of being funny? Here I am, stuck in the middle of nowhere, going somewhere I've never been, with a wife I'm not married to, whose carrying a baby that's not mine! I sure hope there's some cosmic purpose in all this!
MARY: Joseeeeeeeph! My bowels are runny and I think I'm losing my mucous plug!
JOSEPH: Great! Thanks for sharing, honey!
MARY: (waddles back looking concerned). Are we th –
JOSEPH: (testily) NO!!!
MARY: All right, all right, keep your cloak on!
(Some time later)
MARY: (irritably) Can't you shut those children up? (They have been droning an endless loop of "Little Donkey" in the background throughout.)
JOSEPH: Shh! (to children, who stop singing, look disappointed, shrug and leave).
MARY: Ow! Joseph, PLEEEZE drive more smoothly, do you have to hit EVERY pothole and speedbump!
JOSEPH: I'm trying babe, but this donkey has a mind of its own!
Mary groans or catches her breath with each step and stumble the donkey makes.
JOSEPH: Are you OK, babe?
MARY: It's these Braxton-Hicks contractions. All this bumping and jiggling makes them happen more.
JOSEPH: Braxton and Hicks haven't been born yet.
MARY: (wails) You NEVER validate anything I say!
(Mary grips donkey's mane with both hands and look strained, trying not to groan with every footfall.)
JOSEPH: Are you sure you're OK, babe?
MARY: No, actually, I'm not OK! I'm 9 months pregnant, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, my back aches, my legs ache, my pants are wet and - (starts crying) – I just want to go home!
(Joseph stops leading the donkey and comes around to hold out his arms to her for a hug. Mary weeps. She starts to breath differently, holding on tight to Joseph.
MARY: Joe, I don't think that was a Braxton Hicks. That hurt right down low.
(Jospeh looks around, worried.)
JOSEPH: Look, you can already see the lights of Bethlehem. We're nearly there! Hang in there babe. Do you want to walk for a bit? Come on babe – (he helps her dismount. Mary walks. She stops, breathes, does a little labor dance, waggles her hands to indicate to Joseph to come hold her. She walks more, repeats...)
MARY: Joe, I think walking makes them come more. I think I'd better get back on.
They proceed with Joseph walking beside the donkey trying to support Mary.
They enter Bethlehem. It's very busy.
JOSEPH: Excuse me! Excuse me please – ah, my wife here is just about ready to have a baby and we're looking for the Inn –MAN: There's no room at the Inn – that was booked out weeks ago!
JOSEPH: Well, is there anywhere else?
MAN: Do you have a reservation?
JOSEPH (blankly) A reservation?
MARY: (Through gritted teeth) I can't BELIEVE you didn't make reservations!
(She clambers off the donkey purposefully and leans forward over the donkey's back, breathing and swaying her hips. The man stares, Joseph looks more concerned. A matronly woman notices Mary's posture and stops.)
WOMAN: This little lady hasn't long to go! You can't be schlepping about all over town trying to find a room! You poor little treasure (kisses and pats Mary) you're hardly more than a baby yourself! Is it easing now? Good. Come on then. I know a place that will do. It's not exactly 5 Star – Bring Your Own Star more like it – but it's shelter and it's private and you'll be left in peace at least. That's right darling, you're a strong healthy girl, take my arm, hubby's right there on the other side, we'll have you sorted out in no time. How far apart now?
NARRATOR: And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
WOMAN: Now it might smell a bit mucky, but the straw's all clean. Joseph, we'll need your cloak, that's right, just lay it down here. Now this milking stool will be perfect! Remember, Mary, the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, but they are lively and give birth upon the stools! We'll get gravity on your side!
That's your heritage darling, a quick easy birth for you, because you are blessed and the fruit of your womb is blessed, that's the blessing Yahweh gave to Abraham! That's right, that's right, settle yourself on the stool, lovely open pelvis, that's the way. Now Joseph, if you just kneel in front of her, she can lean forward and have a lovely cuddle, that's the way. And rest. Just rest.
Yes. Yes. There you go.
(Mary breathes intently through a contraction and moans at the peak)
WOMAN: All that walking and donkey riding has gotten you well along, you've already done most of the work. And you've prepared all these nice clean cloths. Perfect. Sensible girl. We'll put fresh straw in the feeding trough and it will make a perfect little cradle. You'll be holding him in your arms before you know it. You're doing perfectly.
JOSEPH: Lord, sorry about before. You've worked everything out. (He prays for his wife).
MARY: (starts her breathing only to grunt at the top) UMF! Uh, I think I just pushed. This is what Elizabeth did when I attended her. Johnny was born just a little after that. Joey, I think I am pushing!
(Mary leans forward with the next one, holding Joseph's hands and grunts into it)
JOSEPH: Whoa! There is something down there! It's got hair too!
NARRATOR: And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them at the inn.
And it came to pass that verily, Mary was at the end of her tether because the holy infant was screaming its head off.
(Mary is lying down, an exhausted arm flopped over her eyes. Joseph is pacing with the roaring baby, jiggling it. A childish chorus croons "Silent Night" in the background.)
JOSEPH: Maybe he needs changing.
MARY: I just changed him.
JOSEPH: Maybe he needs to nurse.
(Joseph tries to rock and soothe, to no avail).
MARY: Ei Ei Ei! I need some shepherd's purse and milk thistle to calm my nerves! Can't you take him outside for a moment so I can at least clean myself up?
JOSEPH: It's freezing out there!
MARY: Just for 5 minutes? Please? Use the sheepskin!
JOSEPH: Blessed art thou among women? CRANKY art thou among women more like it! (He struggles to wrap the sheepskin around the screaming baby and leaves.)
MARY: Lord, that angel I thought I saw - unless it was just too much falafel – said I was highly favored! I sure don't feel very favored right now! I'm sore both ends, I'm LEAKING both ends – and if that baby is really your baby then why is he screaming blue bloody murder all the time? Shouldn't he be meek and mild and QUIET???
NARRATOR: And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, not being sure of exactly where to find the new born king, they heard the screaming from afar and drew nigh.
SHEPHERD 1: (a family man, uncertainly) Ummm, is this the kid that's wrapped in swaddling cloths and sleeps in the feeding trough?
JOSEPH: (sleep-deprived) Huh?
SHEPHERD 2 (a younger man, eyeing the squalling bundle in Joseph's arms) Man, what's wrong with him?
JOSEPH: I'd better take him inside before he gets too cold.
SHEPHERD 1: (knowledgeably) No, they don't like to be cold. Uh – is there a - a manger in there?
JOSEPH: A manger?
(Singing children promptly launch forth into 'Away In A Manger).
SHEPHERD 3 (a boy) : well, you see these heavenly host dudes were going about a manger, saying it was a sign and all.
JOSEPH: well, yes, there is a manger actually, but we hardly ever use it. He seems to like sleeping next to us where he can smell Mary's milk. Then she doesn't have to get up when he wants to feed.
(They go in.)
JOSEPH: Hi honey. There's some guys here to see the baby.
MARY: (wearily) Do they know how to get him to stop crying?
SHEPHERD 1: Er, well, there is something we do that seems to work well with the lambs. May I?
(He takes the baby and holds him over his shoulder, head down.)
MARY: (startled, starts to get up). What on earth are you doing for heaven's sake!?
(Baby belches loudly and the crying begins to ease.)
SHEPHERD 1: There you go, it was just a bit of wind. He might have a touch of colic. If the lambs get discomforted like this, we just - (he adjusts the baby so he is "wearing" the baby around his neck) - carry them like this, so their tummy gets a massage. (He bounces gently, with confidence, and the baby settles). Works on my kids, too! I used to walk down the road carrying my second boy like this, to give his mother a break.
Why don't you two go out for a moment? You could use a break. Even the ewes get stir-crazy if they're cooped up with their lambs too long. We'll keep an eye on this little feller.
JOSEPH: Come on babe! (pulls Mary up).
SHEPHERD 1: (to Jesus, as he cradles him in his arms.) So you're the one who's going to be the Shepherd of your people Israel! Well, well! (He starts to hum, and begins crooning a lullaby):
"He shall lead His flock like a shepherd. He shall carry the lambs in His arms. And carry them in His bosom. And gently lead those that are with young."
(Jospeh and Mary see their baby is in good hands and venture outside. They sit down on a hill side and snuggle close because of the cold.)
JOSEPH: Did you ever see such an amazing starry sky? Like you could reach out and touch them.
MARY: Is that a planet? Look at that one! It's huge! Right above us!
JOSEPH: Maybe it's the star!
MARY: What star?
JOSEPH: You know. The star you have to bring when you bring your own star.
MARY: God even provided the star. Joseph, do you really think that little baby in there is the son of God?
JOSEPH: (chuckles and cuddles Mary). Look at this way babe. You know how the baby was born, right?
MARY: All too well!
JOSEPH: (Meaningfully) Well, do you have any idea at all how you got pregnant?
(Mary laughs and blushes).
MARY: (musing) A virgin shall bring forth a child. Remember the old prophecy? Joe, don't you find it strange how these supernatural, miraculous things are all mixed up with such ordinary things? Why would God choose such ordinary people like us, and have his son born in a smelly old shed? I sometimes wonder if I imagined the angel and everything.
JOSEPH: I know for a fact that I didn't imagine my angel. I was terrified! I didn't sleep for a week! Did you know those shepherds back there saw a whole sky full of angles? That's how they knew to come find us!
MARY: (wryly) I thought it was all my yelling.
JOSEPH: Well, that too!
MARY: But you know, Joseph, it hasn't been easy, it's not always a smooth ride –
JOSEPH: yeees dear, and you let me know it!
MARY: (playfully thumps Joseph) You have your ornery moments too! But even so, it seems like God has every little detail all worked out, you know, even that long journey helped my labour, and the midwife who just happened to be there, and the shed just happened to have fresh straw –
JOSEPH: And those shepherds sure turned up right when we seriously needed a break!
MARY: That dear little baby! It's amazing. I can hardly take it all in.
JOSEPH: I guess God likes to use ordinary people and ordinary things so His miracles are all the more special. Just store these things in your heart, Mary. They'll come back to you like precious jewels in a treasure chest in years to come.
MARY: Yes. I will.
NARRATOR: And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
The First (More Accurate Than Most) Noel
7 comments:
- Rebekah Costello said...
That was darling. :)
- 23/12/09
- Wendyrful said...
Very sweet.
- 27/12/09
- Beth said...
This was one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. Thank you for sharing.
- 31/12/09
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
- 4/1/10
- alexandra said...
What a beautiful story.
I loved it, thank you
- 9/1/10
- Hippie Housewife said...
I love it! What a cute read.
- 13/1/10
- Joy, LCCE said...
I loved this, so great! In light of this...I have to share my birth interview of Mary. It seems you and I had the same idea here: http://thejoyofthis.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/the-birth-interview-project-marys-natural-birth-in-a-stable-2000-years-ago/
- 3/1/12
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MANILA (REUTERS) - Former European basketball champions France beat Canada 83-74 in the final of an Olympic qualifying tournament on Sunday, to seal the last remaining berth at the Aug 5-21 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The French have joined host nation Brazil, champions the United States, Spain, Lithuania, Argentina, Australia, Serbia, Croatia, China, Venezuela and Nigeria in the Olympic event.
San Antonio Spurs playmaker Tony Parker, who has won four National Basketball Association titles with the Texan franchise, inspired France with a superb performance as he scored a game-high 26 points.
The French never looked back in a see-saw encounter, after a 12-2 run late in the first half and early in the second gave them a 48-38 lead in the Philippine capital.
Whenever Canada closed the gap, Parker responded with either an audacious three-pointer or a vicious drive through the paint past his dazzled markers.
Nando de Colo, named the tournament's most valuable player, added 22 points for France and forward Boris Diaw chipped in with nine.
Toronto Raptors guard Cory Joseph led the Canadians with 20 points and Melvin Ejim netted 19, but centre Tristan Thompson of the Cleveland Cavaliers, last season's NBA champions, was restricted to eight points and seven rebounds.


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Plans are being made to hold a fifth minute applause for Clarke Carlisle during Burnley's Boxing Day clash with Liverpool.
The former Clarets number five is currently in Leeds General Infirmary after being struck by a lorry on the A64 early Monday morning.
Supporter Lee Dane said he emailed Burnley Football Club asking if they would be open to the idea of the minute's applause.
"I had a very positive response on one of the fan pages regarding this, so I emailed the club about this idea and they have emailed me back saying they would fully co-operate and display a picture of Clarke during the applause."


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No room for violent conduct
Posted on 18 June 2013 - 08:25pm
THIS writer was one of the many who was in one way or another connected with the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the Royal Malaysian Police Force.
Having written extensively on the forgery of the minutes of the Selangor Executive Council on matters related to the housing project in Taman Mentrai, inaction by the police compelled the residents to take the matter to the commission where, among others, I met three members who were personally known to me – Tun Hanif Omar, Datuk Kadir Jasin and Tunku Aziz Tunku Ibrahim.
I never participated or gave evidence because I was personally unhappy that the police were being singled out despite abuse and misuse of power by various other law enforcement agencies.
The police, I had then reasoned, were being sought out because they enforced the Penal Code which meant that crime was their forte while those who enforce other enactments were not being included.
Instead of an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC), I had proposed the setting up of an ombudsman to hear complaints against not only members of the police force, but also officers of the Customs Department, immigration officers, health officers and every other civil servant who was tasked with enforcement.
As usual, my proposal found its way into the wastepaper basket and so did the recommendations of the RCI that the IPCMC be set up. Then, I was also of the opinion that the IPCMC cannot prevent or reduce deaths in custody. And this stance has not changed since.
That was seven years ago and a lot of water has flown under the bridge. And so has the number of people dying in custody. The outcry for justice for the victims has reached consequential proportions and judging from what has been said and done, the voice of anger is getting louder and louder.
The government can no longer quell these voices which want the perpetrators of such heinous crimes to be brought to book. This is because deaths in custody are no longer isolated.
Human Rights lawyer Charles Hector says that merely on data provided by the government, there has been an increase in custodial deaths over the years. He says: "There have been 150 deaths from 1990 until 2004 (10.7 deaths a year), 108 deaths between 2000 and 2006 (18), and, 85 deaths between 2003 and 2007 (21.25), 153 deaths between 1999 and 2008 (17), and 147 deaths between 2000 and 2009 (16.3).
He says: "There has been an increase in the number of deaths in custody until 2007, and the numbers seem to be dropping but it certainly is still higher than the 1990-2007 period."
These are startling figures which ought to jolt the powers-that-be to move into gear to reverse this shocking state of affairs. Perhaps, policies of the past have allowed those involved to get away, at the most, with a slap on the wrist.
There must be zero-tolerance against violent conduct, not only by the police, but also all gazetted officers who are entrusted with enforcing the law.
Having said that, whoever is entrusted with this task should not just confine himself or herself to just death or physical harm but other shortcomings.
It should encompass a host of other areas to include dereliction of duties, being biased, mistreating the public and even causing unnecessary delay in providing documents or information as provided in the law.
Let us not confine ourselves to looking at mere violence and ignore the other forms of inadequacies within the system which cause unnecessary problems for the rakyat.
People have not even got acknowledgements for their letters and requests, let alone decent replies. Would this not amount to indiscipline? In the private sector, they would have been censured for their inaction.
The list is endless but if we want our administrative system to be first class, then don't single out just one arm – the police – but include everyone who has dealings with the public.
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Greg Dolley has done something amazing. Greg ported id software's video game, Quake 3, to .Net.
I'm going to take a quote from his website regarding the port
- Before I begin explaining the port, I'd like to clarify one thing. Someone emailed me last week regarding this port and judging from his/her message it led me to believe that some people don't understand the difference between a .NET port versus simply compiling a C++ application with MSVC++ 2008. Here's the difference: taking the Quake III codebase and making the changes necessary so that it will compile with Visual Studio 2008 is not a .NET MC++ port. That is a C port to a different compiler. Yes, C not C++; the project files included in Id Software's codebase are all set to compile as native C. Furthermore, changing the settings to compile everything as C++, then fixing 3,000 compile errors, is also not, I repeat not, a .NET port. That is a native C++ port of Quake III to a different compiler. Lastly, taking the former C++ build I just mentioned, turning on the "/clr" Visual Studio option, fixing 28,000 compile errors with 4,000 warnings, patching all managed to native calls such that the first run doesn't "blue-screen" your machine, and finally doing everything else necessary to be able to view the EXE with its supporting DLL's under ILDASM (the .NET CLR disassembler), now THAT is a .NET port! 😉
I'm in awe and slightly want to play Quake again.
Source:→ MSDN Blogs
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Romans 8:22 "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."
It has transpired a handful of times over the years; the most recent incident being in August of 2013. I was on the south side of town, distributing tracks on the bicycle. I turned north onto Eighth street when suddenly, it was as though the perimeters of the battlefield became astonishingly clear. Every domestic contention, every life-consuming addiction, every flash-point of blistering fury, every secret fear, every facet of overwhelming despair, every affliction with no apparent remedy, every broken promise, ….. every embattled soul who is being assaulted by an enemy whom they don't see nor understand. The result was a time of intercession for people whom I had never met; praying over the area, the houses, and the souls of everyone who resided within." Coupled with this was a reflective inquiry that carries one directly into the spiritual examination room. "Lord Jesus; do any of us have, even have a remote clue, as to the magnitude and seriousness of the war that we are in?" The battles along Eighth street are representative of those playing out on every block, of every city, in every nation under the sun. Over seven billion individual campaigns, wherein Satan seeks to destroy those who are created in Gods image.
II Timothy 3:1-3 "Know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,"
I John 3:8 "he that commiteth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
We are surrounded by eternal souls who are merely a heartbeat away from an eternity. Of all that we behold through the five senses, the only thing that will remain forever, is the souls. For those who know not the Lord Jesus, the enemy is working feverishly to keep them in darkness. Through a myriad of customized deceptions, distractions and full-blown wild goose chases, he locks them into a fast-moving and continuously readjusting stream of diversion. The objective is simple: prevent them from hearing of, and believing on, the Lord Jesus Christ, until their final breath has expired and no more opportunities remain. The hatred that he has for God, and those whom God created in his own image, is immeasurable. In the case of one who knows the Lord Jesus, the battle is even more intense because these have authority over the works of darkness. They can cast out demonic entities, they can take authority over strongholds that have been in place for generations, in Jesus name ….. and they carry with them the truth of the gospel; whereby the captive can hear the truth, believe on the Lord Jesus in sincere repentance, and be given a new nature as their names recorded in the book of life. When they understand who the are in Jesus, they can turn the world upside down.
Acts 17:6 "And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the elders of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;"
The question remains and each of us must seek the answer for ourselves. "Is my life and priorities reflective of the spiritual conditions presiding in my sphere of influence? My neighbors are lost; people at my place of employment are heading into eternity without Jesus, my children have no desire to know the Lord – does the way that I spend my time reflect the seriousness of this? Lives are in chaos, infidelity is rampant, the love of many is waxing cold because of the rampant iniquity – am I standing in the gap in whatsoever capacity I am able – or has a love for my present life in this world transformed me into a well without water? Have I succumbed to a socially acceptable "form of godliness" which puts on a show but does nothing for those in need of deliverance and restoration? When was the last time I wept during the middle of the night; interceding for a lost soul that has one foot in the grave and is completely unconcerned? Do the words of Jesus, found in Matthew 25:31-46 resonate at all with me?" It's not an easy thing to consider. It exposes us for who we really are. it calls to our attention all of the time and resource that we have squandered on foolishness. it's painful, but necessary if we are to move into a place, spiritually speaking, whereby the Holy Spirit can fully transform us into the "city on a hill" that our contemporaries so desperately need for us to be.
John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
Corinthians 4:3 "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost."
"Namida de yonaka desu" (tears in the middle of the night) is all encompassing. It tells of an abusive husband who, despite a myriad of promises, cannot cease from inflicting pain on those around him. It relates the story of a phenomenally brilliant student whose recreational partaking led to uncontrollable substance abuse, until all potential was forfeited. It tells of an executive who was lured into corruption and has now become so entangled that he continuously has to repair breaches in the facade while being consumed by fear and despair. It's the lady who lives with daily lamentation because, as a teen, she forsook the natural instincts and succumbed to the advice of her contemporaries. In a moment of fear and destablizing confusion, she allowed the life that she was carrying to be snuffed out by those who despise that which is fearfully and wonderfully made. It's the middle-aged man who, decades before, was violated in the most unnatural of ways by a trusted uncle, whereby demonic presence was transferred. Every attempt to lead a normal life, resulted in failure and today that unholy thing drags him mercilessly through the corridors of filth uncontested. It's the "picture perfect family who had it all" until unforeseen circumstances circumvented every precautionary measure and carried the sandy foundations out to sea.
It's a young child, born into a dysfunctional situation, where they must endure manifold forms of abuse and neglect. A mother of three who now has to take care of everything because the one to whom she promised "till death do us part" decided to go off and "find himself." This could go on and on. The manifestations of despair are as numerous as the number of souls who currently walk upon the earth. Each one is a vivid example of an enemy who seeks desperately to destroy them but can only go so far. A key passage of scripture, not only sheds light on why such sorrow is permitted to continue, it reveals how we are to join the battle.
II Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
If Satan was capable of doing so, he would instantly kill everyone on the face of the earth. The incomprehensible level of suffering gives evidence to this. But God, in his mercy, maintains a persons place in this world for an allotment of days, giving them opportunity to believe on Jesus; his only begotten Son, who shed his innocent blood on an old rugged. This is also why so many people who are given to evil are permitted to remain standing. God will grant a person (regardless of how we classify them) opportunity to believe on him, which is why so many of our contemporaries seem to "get away" with committing grievous trespasses against their neighbors. For one at the receiving end of sorrows and trespass, God may allow such events for the purpose of bringing a person to repentance and faith in Jesus. We tend to see a single angle of the surface picture. A snapshot which is further distorted by our limited understanding and prevailing bias'. Gods vantage point is all-encompassing and eternal. As we begin to spend more quality time in his presence, he will begin to open our eyes to the "bigger picture" that is in play ….. which brings us to the final part of this posting. (It's long; I apologize)
Namida de yonaka desu also identifies an intregal component in the life of one who knows the Lord Jesus. For the sake of time, it must be addressed in bullet-point format.
1 – Sorrow over our sinful nature. When we love the Lord Jesus, the old nature that remains in our members (but is not a pass to sin) grieves us. While we strive to walk in sincere holiness, we are inevitably going to stumble at times and sometimes that stumbling will have painful consequences such as a damaged testimony before someone whom we have been praying for, or what have you. This godly sorrow brings us to repentance and a renewed determination to avoid the pitfall in the future. Years ago, after a lengthy season of backsliding, the Lord brought me to II Corinthians 7:11.
2 – Tears of intercession. This almost demands a separate posting. When we take on a burden to pray for another; be it a neighbor who knows not the Lord Jesus, a family who is facing incomprehensible circumstances, or what have you, it's as though we begin "feeling their pain." Their burden becomes our burden with intensity that cannot be drummed up by natural means. In the middle of a dark night we awaken and. go before the throne of grace for that person or group of persons. With tears and groanings which cannot be uttered, we petition the Lord Jesus on their behalf. This is where strongholds are often broken, impasses resolved, and clarity is granted. If we are facing an antagonist; someone who is determined to send ill-will in our direction, intercession for that person is a most effective response. As we carry that person before the Lord in prayer, we begin to see the bigger picture. Sorrow over a soul who is headed for an eternity apart from Jesus begins to overpower any ill-feelings that we may have been harboring. This can be a very difficult thing; depending on the severity of the offense, however, it is very liberating and necessary (for both parties)
3 – Tears of longing. If we are born of the Spirit, we will find ourselves "betwixt" between here and our eternal place. As we draw closer to Jesus, our desire for being here will gradually merge into a single purpose: to be about our Fathers business. To reach whomsoever we can in whatsoever fashion we can reach them, with the gospel of Jesus Christ. All vanities and earthly attachments will gradually dissipate until we reach a place where we can say with all honesty "Lord Jesus; thy will be done in my life. May I go where you would have me go and do what you would have me do." Increasingly, we will long to be absent from here and present with the Lord Jesus. There are,most likely many things that we would like to do prior to departing, however, all of them center around being about the Fathers business. Our preference is to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.
Psalms 6:6 "I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my bed with tears."
This post didn't even scratch the surface of this very complex topic. The conclusion is simply this: we are in a war that is increasing in its intensity by the hour. Time is running out; not only in the prophetic sense, but also "right where we live." None of us are promised another sunrise. (Ecclesiastes 8:8) It's imperative that we begin to fathom the nature and intensity of the wrestling that we are in and respond accordingly. A short while ago, I had to pray over our dwelling as something paranormal in nature had made its way in. (There are unsaved people in this household) In fact, reports of paranormal activity being witnessed by acquaintances who normally would not consider such things seem to be increasing. Soon, Revelation 12:12 will be in fully manifest.
Blessings in Jesus name.
II Timothy 1:7 "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
II Timothy 2:4 "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."


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By Elizabeth Colman for the Australian. Originally published here.
The Turnbull government is reconsidering its hardline coastal shipping changes after unprecedented talks with the militant maritime union, casting doubt on its plan to open waterways to cheaper foreign competition.
Infrastructure Minister Darren Chester is reviewing the coastal shipping bill, which reverses Labor's 2012 changes, after a fierce backlash from the unions and crossbench senators.
It is the first sign of a break in the deadlock over the proposed changes that were defeated in the Senate in November and that have been branded by Bill Shorten as "Work Choices on water".
The proposals are a hot-button issue in marginal Tasmanian seats where Coalition politicians have campaigned on the policy of deregulating coastal shipping, saying it will cut freight costs.
Last month, seven Tasmanian Liberal senators petitioned Mr Chester to reintroduce the legislation in its current form during budget week. The move was spearheaded by senator Eric Abetz, who slammed Labor's reforms as a deal for the benefit of the Maritime Union of Australia.
Mr Chester's predecessor Warren Truss took a tough stance against the union over its opposition to the proposals. However, The Australian has learned Mr Chester, who took over from Mr Truss in February, met (former) MUA deputy national secretary Mick Doleman and executive policy officer Rod Pickette this month.
Mr Chester's chief of staff, Robert Curtin, subsequently wrote to MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin saying: "The Minister will be happy to meet you in order to work together to ensure the viability of the coastal shipping industry in Australia.
"The Government is willing to work collaboratively with all shipping industry participants, including the Maritime Union of Australia, to build the coastal shipping industry in Australia.


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Troop 33 - DeKalb, IL - News Archives
Elgin Courier - Friday April 24, 2009
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Scouts from Boy Scout Troop 33, chartered to First Lutheran Church in DeKalb, recently traveled to Galveston Island, Texas, to help with hurricane relief efforts. The troop includes Scouts from Sycamore and neighboring communities.
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RAAM!?!?!The latest? My buddy Josef Ajram of Spain and my Ultraman compadre is trying to talk me into doing RAAM with him as part of a 2 man relay this June. Say Whaaaat?
At first, I was all like, no way, no how. Too hard. Too expensive, too cray, too this, too that. Every reason to pass it off as ludicrous. Irresponsible. Insane. For those of you who may not know, "RAAM" stands for "Race Across America". And what, pray-tell does that mean? Exactly what it says. A race across the entire United States. Its "Cannonball Run". Only on a bicycle.
Then I started to think about it. That's how my addictive brain works, you see. A crazy idea just gets lodged in there. It festers. And before long, it becomes an obsession. That's how my Ultraman journey began. And I feel it happening again.
Because when you think about it, you realize, wow, that could be pretty darn cool. 2 guys and a crew guttin' it out in June for 3000 miles across the entire U.S. of A. From Oceanside, CA all the way to Annapolis, MD. And unlike Ultraman, this ain't no stage race. Its straight through -- stop at your peril. From what I understand, the top soloists essentially ride non-stop coast to coast in about 12 days, on a diet of Ensure and 40 minutes of sleep per night in the bushes along the road. Can there be anything more insane? Of course. But this is right up there at the top of the lunacy chart.
Then again, what an epic experience. I can hardly say I'm ready for something like that solo, but I think I can begin to wrap my brain around doing it as a 2 man team in shifts. Hardcore Absolutely. But plausible? Definitely.
My boy Jason Lester from Ultraman is doing it solo. And he only has one arm. Ultraman Alums David Goggins & Tony O'Keefe (3rd at UM this year) are doing it solo. And Shanna Armstrong from Ultraman is the reigning queen of this event. If they can gut it out alone, I'm confident I can do a relay.
I'm not saying I'm committed. Yet. Let's just say its swirling around in the brain at the moment. But it is exciting to think about. Its 6 months away -- so just enough time to get ready if I shift focus. But I would have to decide soon. Very soon.
The only true limiter is finances. But I know from experience, that when I have faith and just begin to move forward, if its in alignment with God's plan for me to do this, then somehow it will work out.
I'm told it would take a minimum of about $25 - $30K to fund the adventure -- crew vans, support, etc. And I certainly can't afford to foot that bill. Josef said he can raise 1/2 the budget from Spanish sponsors, which leaves me with needing to raise about $12 - $15K in sponsor funding. So I have a few sources I plan to approach, but if anyone out there has any ideas for me or any companies / persons who would be willing to jump on the funding bandwagon, I'm all ears. I guess what I'm saying is that if I can raise the money to do it, then I'm in. And if I'm in, then I plan to raise alot of charity money.
Did I just commit to this? I think I just did. No, not really. Well, maybe. God help me:)
For more information on RAAM, click HERE.


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The Eagles owed quarterback Mike Vick $15.5 million for 2013. They'll pay him considerably less.
The Raiders owe quarterback Carson Palmer $13 million for 2013. Vick's new deal could provide the template for a similar arrangement.
Though many assume the Raiders will simply cut Palmer, Palmer needs to consider what could be lurking behind Door No. 2 before telling the Raiders to take their offer of a reduced contract and shove it. If, in the end, the Raiders are willing to pay as much or more than any other team, why wouldn't Palmer take less money to stay?
When Palmer retired two years ago, he was widely believed to be interested in playing for a team on the West Coast. Unless he's planning to join the Cardinals in the suddenly-elite NFC West, Palmer has no real options that don't entail moving far away from California.
Ultimately, the question is whether any other team would pay him a significant amount to become that team's starting quarterback in 2013. It could be that only the Raiders want him to be the starter — and that only the Raiders will pay a significant chunk of change, even if it's much less than what he's currently owed.This video is no longer available. Click here to watch more NBC Sports videos!


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A Kenilworth schoolboy has become the youngest person to petition Parliament after speaking before a committee of MPs on Monday.
Alex Rukin appeared before the HS2 Select Committee at 2pm on January 12 when he urged MP to call for changes to the proposed London to Birmingham route.
The 9-year-old who has also starred in a video letting people know how to petition for change, is the son of Joe Rukin, campaign manager for Stop HS2 who spoke alongside his enthusiastic son.
Describing Parliament as "a lot like Hogwarts", Alex raised issues including noise and loss of woodland where he would like to ride his bike to school.
Speaking to MPs, he said: "I am really worried that I won't be able to sleep when HS2 is going past my bedroom window."
He also said that once he starts secondary school he would like to use the Greenway to cycle with his friends, but that diversion and closures during line construction could seriously affect the outdoor space.
Raising points of traffic and delays during years of construction he said: "I have to travel from my mum's house to my dad's house and I am not looking forward to HS2 being built because it will make the roads messed up.
"It will also make it difficult for me to get to tennis as three of the roads will be closed."
Kenilworth Town Council, Golf Club and residents will all have their say before the independent group of MPs up until Wednesday.
The committee has the authority to call for changes to the proposed route as well as improved mitigation measures and individual compensation packages. Burton Green villagers had their say last week where they made a case for a deep bore tunnel to prevent houses having to be sold or demolished.
Cubbington, Offchurch and Stoneleigh resident will appear next, starting next week.
It is not known when the decision of the committee will be made known but residents hope for some answers before the General Election in May as the Hybrid Bill continues its progression through Parliament.
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The cirrus is the coming or going of stormclouds, their vanguard or their echo. If the ground is wet, the sky was violent yesterday; otherwise it will be tonight.
August, so the smell of rain on hot asphalt lingered. An evening thunderstorm blew out quick, and the sky bled orange and purple through every window. You would leave for the war in the morning. I was afraid but couldn't say so. I slammed the house door and the porch door and got goosebumps from the air suddenly chilled. I wanted to walk to clear my head. I walked all night. By the time I returned, the moon had risen and set. I fell asleep on the couch. Your car was gone when I woke.
A note on the kitchen table:
Went early to spare you. We'll talk soon.
We live under the takeoff path. I ran outside and tried to find your plane flying over our house. All I saw were cirrus clouds marring an otherwise perfect sky. No trace of last night's rain, no trace of your jet trails. I wondered if the cirrus were for last night's storm, or one yet to come.
Cumulus humilis form in fair weather. They are light and fluffy, and abundant on idyllic spring days. Often found in the memories of young lovers and parents teaching their children to fly kites.
It was inevitable you would fall in love with airplanes. I don't blame you, of course—we live by the airbase because I love them too.
Six years old, running in a dandelion-spotted field hidden in Virginia hills. Your mother and I felt young under the endless cumulus parade. We lied in the May grass and let our eyes hop from one cloud to the next, while you made jet noises and ran zigzags on the hill, your arms outstretched. You soared over and hovered above us, a sunlight corona around your head and shoulders.
Daddy, you said, can you fly airplanes?
I smiled. I used to, but not anymore.
I wanted to be with you and Mommy.
I want to fly airplanes too.
Your mother rolled her eyes. I leapt up and flew you around in my arms, and we made jet noises together.
When it seems as though the sky simply wants to deny you sunlight—that is nimbostratus. It looks gray all day but never rains.
Annapolis, twenty-two. The pictures never show a gray commencement—God knows mine wasn't. The hats went up anyway, as did the cheers.
I was proud, of course, but anxious. I knew what came next: Pensacola, then San Antonio or Corpus Christi, then maybe home to Virginia. Oceana is where they fly the fast jets.
I'm gonna get those gold wings like my old man, you said.
I told you I loved you no matter what you did, but I don't think you believed me. Somehow in your four midshipman years—and maybe in the years of daydreaming before—you had made those wings the only way to make me proud.
I was proud when you acted in the school plays, too. Or when you wanted to learn the guitar.
Anything you did would have made me beam, but you couldn't see.
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Tonight's storm has hail to it; you would love it.
I forgive you for leaving how you did. I know why. I'm sorry I couldn't say what needed saying better.
The first deployment is always the hardest, but easier these days. Your mother and I will write you every day, and send you videos if we can figure out how to work the camera. Don't forget how many people care about you here. Keep safe for them as much as yourself.
I won't say anything about the job. You have plenty to tell you about that where you are.
This is going to be a long summer without you around. I already miss naming clouds and airplanes on our morning run. It will be a long fall and winter too. We just have to push through, as always.
If I were a braver man, I could say some of these things to you. There are old pilots, bold pilots, but no old bold pilots. Having lived to see you become you, I am happy to not be bold. More honest, I wish, but there it is.
You will not read this soon. It doesn't matter, though—the clouds won't come in different shapes then.


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Episode 76: Dragonomics by Lance Schonberg
Narrated by Graeme Dunlop
Listen above or download here.
Show Notes
Today we present Lance Shonberg's story, Dragonomics. Learning from his children how to follow his dreams again, Lance has long since allowed his writing to tip over the border into obsession, and typically has too many writing projects in progress at any given moment. Some of his stories have even seen publication. In between trips to the word processor, Lance is currently conspiring to commit both a podcast and electronic publication. He can be found lurking on Twitter as WritingDad, on Facebook, and even on his own website (where you can also find several wonderful stories he's serialized).
Theme music is "Appeal To Heavens" by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.


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This piece is opinion, and a play on words, like Wizzard of OZ, and Oliver Twist, but it just may be true. As a piece passed on to me, it was worthy of republication. The author attributation is at the bottom, and by no means am I trying to violate any copywrite.
|Priests in white coats kill a baby of the State
Priests in white coats kill a baby of the State
-a short story-
by Jon Rappoport
September 14, 2013
I'm writing this on June 24, 2036.
Right now I have the dubious status of being the most wanted man in America. Number one on the FBI's list.
Let them try to find me. I'm buried deep.
You all know the sensational story of Baby Joe and the Serenity Hospital in Tenafly, New Jersey. That is, you know what the press is reporting non-stop.
I'm here to correct the story. I'm here to talk to all the sleeping citizens in their homes and the bureaucrats and the police and the doctors and the lunatics in Congress and the parents who are taking orders from the State and the reporters who are selling themselves out every day of their lives and following the party line and the teachers who are trying to sound like doctors and the killers at the FDA and the DHS robots...
Here is what really happened at the hospital.
On June 1, at three in afternoon, after the mother of Joe had been in labor for an hour or so, the doctor gave her a shot and let her float. Then he delivered Joe, who started crying. A nurse calmed him down. They put Joe on his mother's belly and she reached for him and took him in her arms.
A new doctor walked into the room and held up a syringe and said he was going to give Joe a shot. The Hepatitis B vaccine.
There was no argument, contrary to what the Times wrote. The mother said, "I only have sex with my husband, and I'm not an IV drug user." Those were her words.
She said this because the Hepatitis B vaccine is supposed to prevent Hepatitis, which comes through sexual transmission and IV drug use.
The doctor said, "It's mandatory. Your baby has to have the vaccine. And I can already see he has a problem. His head is lolling a little. His eyes are unfocused."
This was a lie. The baby's eyes were closed. His head wasn't lolling, it was cradled in his mother's arms.
The mother did not then sit up in bed. She didn't threaten a lawsuit. She didn't argue. She just said, "No vaccine." Again, the Times was wrong.
The doctor said, "I can't release the baby from the hospital until he has the shot. If you won't give your permission, I'll have to notify Child Services. They'll send someone over. You don't want that."
He stepped over to the mother and bent down and looked at the baby. He said to the mother, "You and the baby are in our care. We have to do what's best for both of you."
She said, "Joe is mine." She didn't tell the doctor not to touch Joe. The Times misreported that, too.
The doctor said, "You're covered under national insurance. The rules say we decide what's best for the baby. If you refuse treatment, you can be deleted from the program. You'll be uninsured."
Once more, the mother said, "No vaccine."
The doctor said, "I'll have to call Child Services, and they'll bring the police with them."
Now, the mother sat up in bed. She tried to shake off the effects of the pain killer. She said, "The government doesn't own my baby."
The doctor said, "No, but we control its medical treatment. You have to go along with this. And if you refuse, then the State does take custody of the baby. Then the State decides everything that happens to the baby."
The mother said, "They can't own my boy."
A nurse standing next to the doctor said, "They can. They will. And a judge will back that up."
I was standing in the room. That's how I know everything that was being said.
And I acted on it.
I said to the doctor, "Back away."
He looked at me. He said to his nurse, "Call security."
She took out her cell and pressed a button.
The doctor said to me, "You realize this baby has to come to the hospital every three months for the next six years, for checkups? I'll be here. If I say he's depressed, I'll put him on an anti-psychotic, or any drug I choose. If I say he has ADHD, I'll give him some kind of amphetamine. I'm the one who decides."
I walked over to the doctor and grabbed him by the throat.
I didn't punch him. I didn't try to strangle him. I just put him under control for the moment. I said, "Don't move."
He didn't move.
Then I kneed him hard in the groin. He yelled and I let go of his throat. He doubled over and fell on the floor.
There was a second nurse in the room. She laughed and said, "Damn!"
So this was the situation. The mother was still holding Joe. She was looking at me. Her expression, understandably, was one of shock. The baby was all right. He wasn't crying. He was lying with his head on his mother's chest.
The second doctor, who had delivered Joe, backed up against the wall. He was afraid. The nurse who'd signaled for security bent down to help the doctor who was on the floor. The nurse who laughed stood near the bed and just smiled.
The nurse who was bending down helping the doctor on the floor looked up at me and said, "You're going to the psych ward."
"No I'm not," I said.
"You're a terrorist," she said.
I didn't bother to reply to that.
The nurse who was smiling took a step toward me. She said, "By the time this baby is four years old, he's going to have sixty shots. The vaccines have poison in them. Aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, foreign genes. I'm not going to do this anymore."
She didn't say, as the Times reported, that she was going to help me get out of the hospital. She didn't say, "I'm a rebel." I know she's in the hospital psyche ward, as I write this. I'm sure they've drugged her.
Then, before I realized what was happening, the nurse who was helping the doctor on the floor, picked up the syringe, walked over to Joe and injected him with the vaccine. It happened fast. The baby screamed.
I walked out of the room. I made it to the elevator before security arrived. I got off in the lobby and was in the street when I heard alarm bells ringing.
I caught a taxi and rode a few miles north in the city. Then I took a subway east and...that's all you need to know about my escape route.
The press has reported that Joe died because I attacked him. The mother was taken into "protective custody," so we won't be hearing from her.
I'm now wanted for murder. The press is stating I'm an investigator for a "militia-style" anti-vaccine group called Stop Injection.
DHS has labeled me a domestic terrorist. If I'm caught, I could spend the rest of my life in prison. The vice-president of the United States has said I should be shot if I resist arrest.
This tells you how hard the government is protecting the pharmaceutical industry. Now that vaccines are mandated for every child by federal law, we're a nation under the gun and the needle.
The government will do whatever it takes to inject poison into children. They don't care about the truth. They're covering up the actual rates of injury and death from vaccinations. They're labeling these injuries with various disease names.
They're even using tax dollars to fund research into finding the germs that "cause" these diseases, when they know it's the vaccines.
The sun may be shining where you are, and it may be a beautiful day, but we're all living in a concentration camp, where doctors inject poison into every child.
If you believe what I'm saying is true, the government and its media allies will call you a primitive savage or a religious nut. That's how they keep the population under control.
There is no way out of this except by active resistance.
I have files with me. Every week or so, I'll be releasing portions of them. Evidence that the State has been lying to you about vaccines. Evidence that the human damage and destruction is much, much greater than you imagine.
The government has banned many independent reports and books about vaccines and taken them out of circulation.
I see there are rumors about whether I'm still in the country or have fled to another nation and secretly applied for political asylum. Let me set the record straight. In this world, as it exists now, no nation would grant me protection.
I could steal secrets about US war plans or about surveillance of private citizens or rigged elections, and I'd be able to live in some distant place and avoid extradition. But when it comes to titanic medical crimes, there is no safe haven.
You should visit a kindergarten or elementary school at your earliest convenience. Notice the burgeoning enrollments in special ed units. Many of these children have suffered vaccine damage, as well as the toxic effects of psychiatric drugs and "ordinary" medicines.
Even in conventional normal classes, schools have vastly simplified lesson-plans, because the children can't handle the usual material. They, too, many of them, are dealing with neurological damage.
The state-sanctioned daily "periods of silence" for meditation are now longer. This is an attempt to avoid the burden of trying to teach physically compromised children how to read, write, and do arithmetic. The "social interaction studies" are gaining as well. Sitting, talking, sharing---this postpones the moment when the teacher actually has to embark on substantive instruction.
Everything possible is being done to prevent an individual child from having to stand on his own merit---and reveal his educational deficiencies.
Last year's outbreak of pertussis among thousands of children in Indiana? The State suppressed a report revealing upwards of 80% of those children had been vaccinated against pertussis---the real cause of the outbreak was the vaccine.
A hundred thousand people in Southern India suddenly developed paralysis last summer, as health workers were injected 14 million residents with the Gates-Buffet polio vaccine. This, too, was shut out of the press.
There is much, much more.
I only ask that you examine the information I'll be releasing shortly. Then you can make up your own minds.
My files are divided into four sections:
unpublished drug-company studies that document maiming and death in an extraordinary number of children who were given vaccines in clinical trials;
company and FDA data analyzing intended and unintended toxic ingredients in several dozen vaccines;
unpublished government statistics on outbreaks and epidemics caused by vaccines;
drug-company memos documenting over 50 refusals to carry out studies comparing the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
The holocaust is here. It has been here for some time.
Now, in June of 2036, the President has just announced he is calling on DHS to make sure mandatory vaccination is enforced to the fullest. This means you'll be seeing agents in your cities and towns. In your schools.
In addition to that, a combined CDC/World Health Organization "crisis group" is moving into 30 major cities to monitor vaccination sites and guarantee they are adequately staffed.
There remain three questions. How did Joe die in the hospital? How did I obtain all these secret files? Who am I?
I came by the files through a government whistleblower you've never heard of. He was researching this subject for a book on his own. He gave up and passed his work to me. I took it because I wanted to learn the truth and the facts.
I have some medical training. I have a license as a physician's assistant. I obtained a job at Serenity Hospital so I could investigate reports of extreme vaccine damage there. I belong to no group.
The Times articles were correct on one point. Joe's body was cremated within two hours of his death. There can only be one reason for that. Hospital officials wanted to avoid a coroner's investigation that would show the Hepatitis B vaccine killed him.
He was a healthy baby. I was in the room. I saw that.
Who are the real terrorists here?
As a child, I incurred damage as a result of vaccines and medical drugs. You probably did, too, because all Americans are forcibly enrolled in the national health insurance plan at birth.
This is a system that extends from cradle to grave. That's the whole point. Imagine a long, long line of millions and millions of people trudging through life, receiving 40 or 50 diagnoses of diseases and disorders as they go. With each drug prescription, they develop new symptoms, and these symptoms are then called diseases, requiring more toxic treatments.
It's controlled life in half-light, and it moves inexorably toward the cemetery.
Is a population like this even going to be able to think about the political condition in which they find themselves?
There was a turning point in the first decade of the 21st century. The Congress, under tremendous pressure, without considering that they were supposed to represent the people, passed into law the skeleton of the present government health insurance plan.
It was hailed as a humanitarian victory.
But people in power knew what it really was. And they didn't care.
People above them in the food chain not only knew what it was, they insisted on it. They intended to use this heinous system as an instrument of control.
And now, in 2036, here we are.
Essentially, the country is on lockdown. We live in a medical police state.
It's called good science. It's called greatest good for the greatest number. It's called enlightened democracy.
Perhaps you read about the recent death of the oldest serving US Senator, Nancy Reid. One of the architects of the original vote that brought national healthcare into being, she died at a California rest home, when she leaped from the balcony of her 19th floor suite.
For the last years of her life, she was living in a psychotic state, having been driven mad by a cocktail of psychiatric drugs that cause motor brain damage and several rounds of "preventive" chemotherapy, which did, in fact, prevent the cells of her body from reproducing.
One more casualty in the war that never ends.
The United States is party to an international treaty that forbids the use of chemical weapons. What I'm describing in this message...I wish I could go back into the past and alert the people of, say, 2013, who were watching their government debate a proposed attack on a country called Syria, based on a charge that the president of that country deployed chemical weapons on his people.
The debate took place at the time when the US medical system was killing, at minimum, 225,000 Americans every year, like clockwork, with its medicines.
What kind of ignorance and brainwashing did it take, then, to make the people of the United States overlook the fact that this was sustained chemical warfare at home, on themselves.
Legal, praised, heralded chemical warfare.
Delivered by needles, by pills.
Every hour of every day.
Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
Jon Rappoport
The author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, and the New EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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