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July 9, 2011
TOMS Shoes Founder Distances Himself from Focus on the Family
Christianity Today recently published a cover story on Focus on the Family's shift away from politics back towards an emphasis on the family. Backlash, surprisingly, has come from a brief mention towards the end of the piece about its budding relationship with TOMS shoes, a company that donates shoes to children for every pair sold. After receiving criticism for partnering with Focus, founder Blake Mycoskie posted on his blog that "TOMS, and I as the founder, are passionate believers in equal human and civil rights for all."
Mycoskie partnered with Focus on the Family for a "Style Your Sole" event with about 500 people on June 30. Esther Fleece, who heads the organization's millennial outreach and gave CT permission to post the picture to the right, noted Focus's former dress code when she posted the picture on Facebook: "From panty hose and ties to staff in TOMS." Focus President Jim Daly is second to the left.
The partnership between Focus and TOMS prompted sites like Jezebel to question whether TOMS should partner with an "anti-gay, anti-choice group?" Ms. Magazine started a petition on Change.org that has received about 500 signatures, asking TOMS to drop its relationship with Focus.
Here's what Mycoskie posted on his blog:
Had I known the full extent of Focus on the Family's beliefs, I would not have accepted the invitation to speak at their event. It was an oversight on my part and the company's part and one we regret. In the last 18 months we have presented at over 70 different engagements and we do our best to make sure we choose our engagements wisely, on this one we chose poorly.
Furthermore, contrary to what has been reported, Focus on the Family is not a TOMS giving partner.
So there is no misunderstanding created by this mistake, let me clearly state that both TOMS, and I as the founder, are passionate believers in equal human and civil rights for all. That belief is a core value of the company and of which we are most proud.
To clarify, the CT report said that Focus is "working to become a TOMS international distributor in Africa," not that it was already a distributor. Here's the full context:
As this issue of Christianity Today goes to press, the ministry is scheduled to highlight the work of Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS, a company that donates shoes to an impoverished child for every pair sold.
"A year ago, they were like, 'Who's that?'," Fleece laughs. Now the company is working to become a TOMS international distributor in Africa. "We're making slow strides here."
CT has contacted Focus for its response. (Update: Focus responds here)
Mycoskie has been attending Mosaic Church in Los Angeles, led by Erwin McManus, according to a piece earlier this year from John Brown University's newspaper. In his TOMS role, he has partnered with other Christian organizations in the past. He recently did an interview with Catalyst's Brad Lomenick and will be a speaker at the October conference. He has also been a speaker for Willow Creek's Global Leadership Summit. In his MySpace bio, his favorite books include the Bible, John Eldredge's Wild at Heart, and C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
CT included a section on Mycoskie in a feature on "The Foot-Washers in Ethiopia" in the May issue.
The next chapter of the story introduces Blake Mycoskie, a young entrepreneur from Texas who started a number of successful small companies and, with his sister, competed on the reality television show The Amazing Race.
In 2006, Mycoskie vacationed in Argentina. While admiring a local style of footwear he thought could be adapted to American tastes, he noticed poor children running around barefoot. As a Christian businessman, his compassion kicked in, and a business model emerged.
TOMS Shoes was launched with the promise that for every pair of shoes sold, another pair will be given to an impoverished child. The idea was an immediate hit.
Nowhere is the model more appealing than in Ethiopia, where a pair of shoes can change a life. After visiting Dembi Dollo, Mycoskie called Thomas. "I thought, if we all worked collaboratively, we could make a big difference," says Thomas. "There's so much yet to be done. How many times in this era do you have a chance to be a pioneer?"
TOMS targets its shoe distribution to the children of podo patients, who are five times more likely than the general population to get podo. Through Mossy Foot alone, TOMS distributes 10,000 pairs of shoes a month.
Some podo activists express some nervousness about TOMS. They give TOMS high marks for its willingness to flex and learn, but can't forget that TOMS is a for-profit company. TOMS brings resources that outstrip what small foundations, churches, and individual contributors can do. Some, like Thomas, are nervous that the charitable impulse might give way to the profit motive down the road.
Not a huge Focus fan, for many reasons, but I am thoroughly tired of cowardly philanthropist and their pathological fear of being branded intolerant. Come on Tons, why are you apologizing for doing something with Focus on the Family? It would appear that being praises by the "right" sort of people is a higher priority than helping the poor.
If Mykoscie wants the TOMS brand to represent anti-choice and anti-gay bigotry, he should pal around with Focus on the Family. But if he wants his brand to represent positive, progressive values, he won't get within 2 miles of FotF. I hope he's smart enough to see that FotF is attempting to use him to rehabilitate the terrible image they have.
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY is well known as a hate group. I accept TOMS apology, but let it be a lesson to any others who partner with such a group.
Everytime I hear s group like FotF being described as a hate group, part of me wants to laugh, and part of me is incredulous. The KKK is a hate group. To out FotF in that same category is bizarre to me. I don't follow them closely. James Dobson was a familiar name in evangelical circles. I think I found the material too issue focused, not enough gospel focused. And maybe they were a bit aggressive in that? Like I said, I don't follow closely enough to say for sure. But hate group? Chick fil a recently opened in my adopted home town of Chicago. Before it opened, it got a lot of protests for being a hate organization. At this rate, every church I've ever been to will eventually be labelled a hate organization. Did hate get redefined sometime when I wasn't paying attention?
Anyway, I have trouble believing Mycoskie didn't do the research on FotF. He probably did, but didn't know it was a "hate group" until he got all the backlash. Because, you know, that's not gonna show up on their website or anything...
This makes me wonder... How as Christians do we respond to the world's accusations in a way that advances the gospel? I'm gonna chew on that one for a while, just for my own sake.
It's a shame that people trying to come together to do good in the world would receive such a hate-filled response. This is the danger society runs when we brand people and groups anti this and bigot that. People are too blinded by true hate and name calling to see good being done. I applaud Mr. Mycoskie for reaching across the political spectrum to people on the left and on the right to further common goals. It is sad that many people are not as accepting as he.
Well-said. It seems some would like to redefine hatred as standing up for one's values.
Nazis were a hate group; KKK was a hate group. Placing Focus on the Family among such organizations is laughable at best and extremely dangerous at worst. At what point does the hatred of those opposed to the work of Focus on the Family define them as a hate group?
I cannot agree more with Sarah P. Bailey and Javier above! I would also like to add that it bothers me that some Podo activists are "nervous about Tom's being a for-profit company." Can't they just be lauded for doing something rather than nothing to help? It is the profit that allows them to do that.
I just had to repeat Bethany:
At what point does the hatred of those opposed to the work of Focus on the Family define them as a hate group?
Opposing homosexual practice and gay marriage does not constitute hate people. It constitutes a difference of opinion. I don't think the people at FotF hate gays or women who have had abortions.
I think the abortion mills are much more likely to be a hate group.
Gay activists are successfully blackmailing US society. Anybody (individuals or enterprises) who expresses disgreement with their lifestyle is considered a hate group or a member of a hate group. They complaint about their rights but where are my rights to think whatever I want to think and to say whatever I want to say? Do we have to be tolerant with blackmailers?
Perhaps the most appropriate response to people labeling Focus on the Family a hate group is for Focus on the Family to sue said individuals for defamation of character.
People who make such statements are not only defaming the characters of those the accuse of being hate groups, but are also attempting to violate the first amendment rights of Christians to freely exercise their religion.
These people want to do away with the thousands of years of religious history that declares that homosexuality, adultery, abortion, and many other deviate human act are a sin against God.
Ultimately, Christ will return and overthrow the wicked, and we will no longer need to deal with their hatred.
Scott A Tovey:
Firstly Jews don't eat pork but are fine with beef and lamb.
Secondly, advocating for the preservation of traditional marriage is not hate. In fact it is an act of love. The Good Book says "they shall call good evil, and evil good." Christian teaching does not teach to hate gays, but it teaches that it is unredeemed behavior and as such not behavior that reflects the freedom from sin of a life in the Spirit.
Disappointing, but not entirely surprising given the vicious attacks that the totalitarian pro-GLBT activist movement now regularly perpetrates upon those who dare to hold to biblically orthodox views on biological sex, sexuality, marriage and family. TOMS has chosen to bow to the altar of political correctness and fears men more than God. I just pray that Focus holds to biblical truth and does not also start to cave. "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Mark 5:10)
Among refraining from pork, Orthodox Jews dont mix meat with dairy so Scott is correct in his analogy, albeit a strange one.
It's obvious that mycoskie regrets more the backlash he's received after this than ever partnering with focus in the first place.
So disappointed in Toms... FotF has helped so many people with their resources... Including me. They stand for the truth! We need that, not only in America but around the world. There is NO hate here only truth!
The incredibly disproportiate amount of political power GLBT activists have is absolutely mind-boggling. I'm convinced that, on a per capita basis, they do more political/economic bullying than anybody. The media, being totally on board with their agenda, doesn't report this. They have unethically tried to impugn Chick Fil-A and now they are doing the same to TOMS, except that TOMS has chosen to cave before finding out the facts...give the squeaky wheel the grease, even if it has no reason to squeak other than getting attention.
It's sad that TOMS, rather than defend the free speech right of Focus On the Family, decides to bow to the over-the-top pressure from what amounts to a paper tiger.
The comments I've seen from the rabid, Nazi-esce marriage redefinition crowd are more hateful than anything I've ever read from Focus on the Family. These folks have no shame.
Goodbye TOMS. Personally I think the shoes are butt ugly but if you feel like you're doing a good deed by supporting this hypocrytical company (Focus is a hate group and we hate them, won't associate with them until they change their evil ways) then by all means, carry on.
Why not just donate money to the cause of your choice and cut out the middle man? You don't have to buy TOMS shoes to help ANYONE.
Seriously, why did TOMS have to make this political? They've ruined a good idea.
As a boy watching western movies I always took the side of the good guys, and in those days the bad guys always lost. Today, a small group of "opinion shapers" decide who is right or who is wrong and have taken it upon themselves to castigate all whom they consider to be wrong.
Just imagine that in a so-called free society one cannot call homosexuality wrong or immoral, or even bad without these culture bullies wanting to lynch you or run you out of town. The day is fast approaching in the USA when to call homosexuality sinful will be to risk a fine, imprisonment or losing one's livelihood.
Under communism freedom of religion meant that if you were a religious person you were free to believe, and if you were a communist you were free to practice what you believed. The same seem to be true of these culture terrorists. They want people of faith to keep their beliefs to themselves and leave homosexuals free to change laws and ultimately shape society to their pleasing.
All those who oppose them are classified as fear-mongering, hate-filled, right-wing, conservative neanderthals. Like all school-yard bullies what they need is for someone to stand up to them. That is why they despise groups like FOF and that is why we need more faith based organisations (FBO)like FOF.
It is time the good guys start winning again.
Why is it that those who like to preach tolerance to others are so intolerant of any view other than their own?
Because of their stand, many needy children will have to do without shoes. As this word gets out, many will stop buying Toms because of this, preventing them from giving more shoes. how sad! simply because of the opinion of a few. Pray for these people.
Shoe less children is Africa are the big losers here as Tom's caves in to the intimidation of the big bad (homosexual) wolf, huffing and bluffing...There is no common ground with them, you are either for them or against them, and they have no equal when it comes to spreading hatred and X-rated vitriol.
Letter to Toms
Your intolerance of Christians, and bowing (pardon the pun) to a bunch of narcissist sodomites will certainly deprive many children(your company says it cares for)
of Your shoes.
* "We partner with humanitarian and health organizations around the world. They can help us give shoes year after year, providing shoes to the same children as they grow.
* unless they disagree with sodomites*
Patrick Fitzmichael has put it well:
"If only I loved poor children as much as I hate Christians..."
"Thanks to all of you who signed the petition. TOMS shoes really heard us loud and clear! As I've said before, we have corporate America in our pocket. We say 'jump', and they say 'how high?' Just remember–eternal vigilance is the price of guilt-free sodomy!"
Think about it, you are bowing to a group of people who's lifestyle leads to disease and early death, not only for their narcissist self's (who choose this life-style) but to the innocent who are adversely affected.
Millions of children have been infected with HIV due to the homosexuals you are bowing to. Christian organizations' help those children while your sodomites selfishly increase suffering and are a drain financially to medical research, while also increasing insurance costs.
You should look at these and re-think your position:
All anti-Christian, pro-perversion, pro-murder groups like the ones in this article are hate groups and should be referred to as such. In fact, all left-wing groups are hate groups that exist for no purpose but to crush dissent from their totalitarian agenda and molest the hearts and minds of any children who escape the abortionists' ongoing infanticidal Holocaust. The "tolerant" have earned their damnation in full for working in favor of the very evils they publicly denounce, such as bullying and oppression of the poor. "Tolerance" should be considered just another name for Evil.
@ Javier:
At this rate, every church I've ever been to will eventually be labelled a hate organization.
They already are, Javier.
Did hate get redefined sometime when I wasn't paying attention?
Yep. To the left, hate now means, "disagreeing with us".
As a senior citizen I've learned to identify hate when I see or hear it. People who demagogue FOtF are demonstrating their lack of knowledge and they are absolutely filled with hate!
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The controversy speaks for itself. What other businesses or corporations that have nothing to do with Focus, do you buy from anyway? The only loyalty that the Body of Christ has, is to Christ and to one another. Not being of the world, I personally have no idea about Toms or any other business, but I do know this; all businesses, as with all politicians, will say or do most anything to get dollars (or votes). They are "Christians" or "Gay", depending upon what the majority is made up of, at the time! We, the Body of Christ, purpose to separate ourselves from the world and the worldly (2 Cor.), and in doing so, we do not enable them any more than is absolutely necessary: I.E. Locate Christians who make shoes and buy those. Trying to negotiate with the worldly is futile.
Hope he doesn't speak at a homosexual event because that would be discrimination against Christians...and since all people are created equal I'm sure that homosexuals would understand and be tolerant.
Amazes me how groups that champion tolerance are intolerant!
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And upon the quoting of the Blessed Fashanu, there was much rejoicing.
The game began with the team starting strongly, deftly avoiding the evil laser beams shot from the sidelines by the evil substitutes, and playing with a passion and fire that left the Evil Device™ working in overdrive, trying to make the game a one sided annihilation. Sadly some of the wayward laser shots hit Jacksmuth Mundellica in the ankle and he could play no further part in the pitched battle for the empire, the galaxy and the heart of Princess Leia and that other one who was in Star Trek.
The epic fight soon took a sudden turn as the Evil Device™ temporarily possessed the totally impartial (and otherwise utterly utterly perfect in every single respect) umpires who gave a short corner. Which was parried away effortlessly by the solid wall of handsome defending the goal. And another. With the same result. Then, on the third attempt, the evil Stormtroopers hatched an evil plan to get the goal they so desperately needed to keep their vicious stranglehold on the empire that involved a bizarre flopping dive that meant the ball trickled into the goal in a mediocre, underhand and evil way that is totally unbefitting of a game against the stellar, amazing Refills.
The Evil Device™ had been turned up and the evil powers of the Stormtroopers were getting stronger.
From this point, the Evil Device™ took hold and the hereto immense and wonderful refills started to crack. However, they fought through the evil brought forth by the Evil Device ™ and kept the score at a valiant 1-0 for the rest of the game, despite the evil, nefarious attempts of the evil Stormtroopers known as 'Wrecking Ball' and 'Captain Flop', the evil, monstrous goalscoring evildoer to break the spirit within the stunning crew of the SS Refillia.
The Imperial victory was only a matter of time, and it proved to be so. The annihilation of the Empire will have to wait until February when the Battle To End All Battles commences once more as the Empire take the fight to the good, noble and good refills once more, this time, without the help of the Evil Device™.
It was a dark and stormy night, and the merchant ship HMS Refillia had just left port, bound for the London docks. There was business to be made and goods to be bought and sold. However, the Wayfaring ship, HMS Midtablemediocrity, full of the greatest terrors the high seas had ever known, had other plans.
'RIGHT!' shouted Beardy the Intimidator 'THIS ENDS TODAY. FOR TOO LONG, THESE LANDLUBBERS HAVE TAKEN A ROUSING, HEROIC AND SPECTACULAR VICTORY AGAINST US FOR GRANTED. WELL, NO MORE. WE WILL CHALLENGE THEM, ON THEIR TERMS, AND WE SHALL CRUSH THOSE HANDSOME, DEVILISHLY COOL REFILLS ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA'
'B-b-but won't challenging them on their terms mean that we'll have to play pr-pr-proper hockey?' an insignificant underling asked
'NONSENSE, BOY. WE STILL HOLD THE POWER OVER THE DATE AND LOCATION. AND I KNOW JUST THE PLACE' laughed Whiner, mercilessly. 'THEY WON'T KNOW WHAT A SHIT PITCH IS UNTIL THEY'VE PLAYED HERE.'
Oblivious to the vile and devious plans being hatched against them, the crew of the good ship Refillia sailed on.
'In-200-metres… Turn left. Then, you have reached your destination' cried the navigator
'Wait a minute', swarthy, manly and incredibly sexually attractive rudder man Kempoli said. 'Thats not taking us to the good pitches at all. We're heading straight for the sandy beaches'
'Nonsense. These maps were given to us by the Wayfarers association. There's no way they could send us there'
'It's fine. Chill'
'But the Wayfarers crew are PIRATES'
'Then we must tackle them head on like the good and noble seamen that we are. ARE WE NOT GOOD AND NOBLE SEAMEN?!?!?!?'
'YES!!!!!' Came the resounding reply from all hands.
And there was much rejoicing.
The pirate crew heard this rejoicing, and were greatly intimidated by the show of force and team power expressed by the magnificent, superhero-like crew of the HMS Refillia. They held a team meeting, and decided that the best course of action was to do nothing.
'So… We meet at last, Captain…'
'Acting Captain Denchimus. Captain Laverson is in America arranging new trade routes' claimed the bold hero of the day, quietly ignoring the fact that the only trade route being established by the good captain was that between the bar and the swimming pool.
'Ahh, I see. So you have brought a weakened force out against us today? Not expecting much of a challenge?'
'Not at all. In fact, we have brought along the best rudderman in the entire world to face you' retorted the brave captain
'LET BATTLE COMMENCE!!!' Screamed Judge Judith, the great umpire of the high seas as the captain of the pirate fleet turned white with fear because he is a lily livered wally.
Both sides fought gallantly in a pitched struggle, with HMS Refillia coming out on top more often than not. The gallant front gunners fired many cannon into the side of the wicked, evil pirate ship, only to be denied by the superb rudderman (but he was not nearly as good as the one aboard HMS Refillia) time after time after time. After nearly 70 minutes of vicious battling, the deadlock finally broke, through a wonderful cannon-tag-team between front gunners Lord Nicolas Bartonsworth and Sir Dannicus along the starboard side. Having blown a hole in the wall of the seemingly impenetrable hull, they set about boarding and wreaking havoc within the lower chambers of the ship. Finally, having recovered all that other merchant ships had lost and fully intending to give it back to them at some point in the future, Sir Dannicus of Reading fired his blunderbuss at the ammunition crate from the edge of the gap in the hull. An ammunition crate that the rudderman was frantically trying to protect and had done so spectacularly thus far in the battle. Alas, this was the final curtain, as the ship exploded into a thousand pieces upon destruction of the ammo crate.
Upon leaving the scene of the battle, having picked up any survivors, the noble and good crew of the HMS Refillia breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and went away with the knowledge that that should probably have been a lot easier.
By the amazing, fantastic, hot, awesome, cool Sam at 1.45 in the morning because he couldn't sleep.
Also, we can't thank Judith enough for volunteering to help umpire. The game wouldn't have been possible without you. So… Thanks again.
27/10/13 Sonning Lane
The Refills came into this top of the table vs bottom of the table with confidence and a squad of 15 as Scott Wall was a little under the weather after catching a throat infection in France so it was decided he was practising his kissing too much!
The sun was out and the crowd was strong made up of some talented hockey players and some average, injured ones and also Laz. The game started with the sun in the Refills eyes which did not stop the them from having a good "old school Arsenal" passing routine. It switched through Barbour who was manning the central defence with the trusted partner Denchie. Ed Lowe was making some early runs up the wing mainly as he was on the side of the crowd so he wanted to woo them with his silky skills. Ed was helping Reza up the left hand side and again Reza was enjoying the encouragement of the crowd "If you feed Razor, he will score" yet to be decided. Rory Tuz was back from locating himself in the SW of the country and visibly enjoying his hockey sporting a countryfile style organic facial growth.
As the pressure grew, Kempie in the Refills goal had plenty of time to look at hot air balloons and whilst he was scratching his helmet, Ali H dribbled past a couple of the Chiswick defenders with ease, dropped the ball out to Nic Barton on the wing who drove the line, cracked a cross over which was easily dispatched by Ali turning that pressure into a score. The second goal came pretty quickly after another blast by Razor added to pressure on the left hand side of the oppositions D and the long corner saw a ball swung across the D and bang, Tino popped up out of nowhere to collect the ball with speed and skills no-one knew he possessed and then he slotted it past the ever tiring goal keeper. The pressure kept mounting and 5 mins before half time after a great run, the one man team wipe out machine got into the D and smashed a goal home – one for Toby HB. A reasonably relaxed half time talk from Lavers highlighted the good play but lets look for great play in the second half and not sit back on this. Some idle chat around other subjects then back onto it.
The refills pushed up and after all the short corners in the first half that were not converted the second half short corner saw a dark character jogging up form defence. Yes Dench had managed to persuade people that he can drag flic, Lavers and Barbour were not too sure on the validity of this claim but sure enough, the ball flew out, stopped and then Dench connected and kept it low to the side of the goal keeper and bang, 4 – 0 up. The crowd were baying for a double figure score but the opposition were still putting up a fight in defence where they were most the game.
The next goal after getting the defence involved came from Ed Lowe who had showed some flare form the back and was rewarded with a spell up front to bemuse the Chiswick defenders. He managed to break through (easily) and smashed the ball against the goal keeper which was saved but knocked the keeper to the floor so Lowe calmly took the ball back and lifted it over the goal keeper to the delight of the crowd 5 – 0.
The final goal soon came from the stick of Ali H which made him search for an illustrious hat trick in the dying minutes but this goal was a good controlled finish whilst the goal keeper went for a cup of tea in the dugout – his hat trick did not appear and the game finished 6 – 0 to keep the RHC Refills at the top of the table.
Kempie touched it twice in goal and although fed with ball, on this occasion Razor was the supplier of the final ball and not the goal machine we were waiting for.
Crowd attendance – 32 (at its peak) and 1 dog


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Paul Kochanasz Jr. of Allentown was elected second vice president of Hair International, Pennsylvania at the 60th annual convention held recently at the Days Inn, Allentown.
More than 400 cosmetologists and barbers attended the three-day event that featured a trade and styling show.
Delegates from 23 chapters throughout the state heard Anthony Alfano of the Pennsylvania State Board of Barber Examiners explain precautions operators in styling salons and barber shops must take to protect themselves and the public against the spread of AIDS.


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The intrepid Michael Totten has some of the best reporting out of Iraq these days. Read his riveting eyewitness (minus night goggles, but armed with camera) account of a night raid in Baghdad with the 82nd Airborne on the lookout for curfew violators, both dangerous and not so dangerous.
Problem is, it's hard to tell at the outset which variety of unidentified night wanderer you're dealing with. Sometimes it's hard to tell even at the endpoint of the encounter. But Totten will help you understand what it's like for the troops these days patrolling the darkened streets of Baghdad.
Note the following exchange between Totten and a soldier concerning the rules of engagement under which our military must currently operate:
"They have a little bunker up [on the mosque roof]," he continued. "You can't see it from here, but it has sand bags and sniper netting around it."
"What are you going to do?" I said.
"Nothing," he said. "It's a mosque."
"They're violating curfew," I said, "and stalking us in the dark from a militarized mosque. And you aren't going to do anything?"
"Our rules of engagement say we can't interfere in any way with a mosque unless they are shooting at us," he said.
You could say that this is what PC considerations run amok have led to: killers know they can set up shop with impunity as long as they do so in a mosque. On the other hand, they also know that as soon as they start shooting from there, they are fair game.
It's a situation in which our forces can only react after the fact, not before, although we all know the truth of the old adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In this case, however, respecting mosques and their sanctity has the (supposed) added benefit of not inflaming the locals over what might be seen as random, poorly motivated attacks on Muslim places of worship.
It seems to me that when troops go into a mosque that's been equipped with sandbags and sniper positions it ought to be understood as a necessary defensive action taking place in a mosque that's already been "militarized," in Totten's phrase, by the insurgents/terrorists. The locals are not dummies; they'd get why this is being done, and that they themselves are ultimately also the targets of those taking refuge in that mosque.
But I'm not in Iraq (and unlike Totten, I'm not planning a trip any time soon). I truly don't know which approach is best. I wish I knew whether these rules of engagement are in place because the military experts on the subject of fighting insurgencies have decided they are best in the long run, or whether it's just a result of lawyers being ultra-careful and tying the hands of the military unduly.
I do know that the situation is a good example of the complexities of fighting this sort of war, which has to occur on so many levels—military, cultural, and psychological. That, unfortunately, includes the necessity to traverse the metaphorical minefield of Muslim religious sensitivities as well as the actual minefields of insurgent and terrorist explosives.
[ADDENDUM: Think about contributing to the tip jar if you so desire. And Michael, please stay safe.]
[ADDENDUM II: Oh, and I almost forget: here's the inspiration for the title of this post.]


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Birth & Early Life:
Born June 16, 1829, Geronimo was the son of Tablishim and Juana of the Bedonkohe band of the Apache. Geronimo was raised according to Apache tradition and lived along the Gila River in present-day Arizona. Upon coming of age, he married Alope of the Chiricauhua Apache and the couple had three children. On March 5, 1858, while he was away on a trading expedition, Geronimo's camp near Janos was attacked by 400 Sonoran soldiers led by Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco. In the fighting, Geronimo's wife, children, and mother were killed. The incident sparked a life-long hatred of the white man.
Personal Life:
During the course of his long life, Geronimo was married several times. His first marriage, to Alope, ended with her death and that of their children in 1858. He next married Chee-hash-kish and had two children, Chappo and Dohn-say. Through Geronimo's life he was often married to more than one woman at a time, and wives came and went as his fortunes changed. Geronimo's later wives included Nana-tha-thtith, Zi-yeh, She-gha, Shtsha-she, Ih-tedda, Ta-ayz-slath, and Azul.
Between 1858 and 1886, Geronimo raided and fought against Mexican and US forces. During this time, Geronimo served as the Chiricahua Apache's shaman (medicine man) and war leader, often having visions that guided the band's actions. Though the shaman, Geronimo often served as the Chiricahua's spokesman as the chief, his brother-in-law Juh, had a speech impediment. In 1876, the Chiricahua Apache were forcibly moved to the San Carlos reservation in eastern Arizona. Fleeing with a band of followers, Geronimo raided into Mexico but was soon arrested and returned to San Carlos.
For the remainder of the 1870s, Geronimo and Juh lived peacefully on the reservation. This ended in 1881, following the murder of an Apache prophet. Moving to a secret camp in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Geronimo raided across Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. In May 1882, Geronimo was surprised in his camp by Apache scouts working for the US Army. He agreed to return to the reservation and for three years lived there as a farmer. This changed on May 17, 1885, when Geronimo fled with 35 warriors and 109 women and children after the sudden arrest of the warrior Ka-ya-ten-nae.
Fleeing back the mountains, Geronimo and Juh successfully operated against US forces until scouts infiltrated their base in January 1886. Cornered, much of Geronimo's band surrendered to General George Crook on March 25, 1886. Geronimo and 38 others escaped, but were cornered in Skeleton Canyon that fall by General Nelson Miles. Surrendering on September 4, 1886, Geronimo's band was one of the last major Native American forces to capitulate to the US Army. Taken into custody, Geronimo and the other warriors were shipped to Fort Pickens in Pensacola, as prisoners, while the other Chiricahua went to Fort Marion.
Geronimo was reunited with his family the following year when all of the Chiricahua Apache were moved to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama. After five years, they were shifted to Fort Sill, OK. During his captivity, Geronimo became a popular celebrity and appeared at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. The next year he rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade. In 1909, after 23 years in captivity, Geronimo died of pneumonia at Fort Sill. He was buried in the fort's Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery.


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The Ultimate Fighter 14 started its run last night, and the ratings were pretty comparable to the last few seasons. The two-hour season premiere scored a 1.1 rating and averaged 1.5 million viewers. It was number one-rated program for males 18-34 and males 18-49, and was the second-highest rated program of the day for males 18-49. The first episode was arguably one of the best ever, and featured a ton of entertaining fights as the competitors needed to defeat an opponent to get into the TUF house.
While it can't compare to The Ultimate Fighter 10's incredible debut that averaged 4.1 million viewers, it's pretty similar to TUF 13 (1.6 million) and TUF 12 (1.9 million). This season is the first to have featherweights and bantamweights competing, and features Michael Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller as coaches. The coaches will meet in the season finale, currently scheduled for December 3rd.
This season of the show will be the last on Spike TV, due to the UFC signing a broadcast deal with Fox. The next season of the show will air on FX.


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Naturally occurring substances can be used, to put some missing spice back into your sex life, and if the desire is strong, why not?
Natural Alternatives To Viagra
Aphrodisiacs and sexual stimulants found in nature, have been sought eagerly by humans as long as they have been around. Rhino horn, ginkgo biloba, and oysters are but a few old favourites, along with herbs, roots, potions, and anything else that can theoretically enhance pleasure. Today, as ever was, these kinds of sex aids are still popular.
Swedish soft drink called Nexcite is one of the newer varieties. Brought out in 2008, blue in colour, fruit-flavoured, containing carbonated water, that has within it the herbal aphrodisiac damiana, along with ginseng, guarana ,and schizandra as well as the caffeine normally found in a large coffee.
This concoction, almost natural, will certainly get your hormones racing, as would. a completely natural compound, found in Venezuela, containing, ground-up ants and termites, chili peppers, and fruits. Made by the Yequana tribe Dr Elroy Rodriguez, of Cornell University, found that it had similar ingredients to the Viagra tablets made byPfizer, but was far more effective, as he could personally attest to after the tribesmen sprinkled some of it on his food.
Apparently, this and plant derivatives, from the Caribbean Dominican Republic, said to be the equal of the Yequana mixture, are now being investigated, and it is hoped that more serious chemical research willhelp to uncover 'natural' Viagras that might even be more potent than the synthetic ones.
Rhodiola Rosea, which looks quite pretty, grows in arctic regions, and it is claimed that extracts from it can boost sexual desire, both for men and for women, as well as possibly helping to prevent premature ejaculation. Exactly how the extract affects sexuality is unknown, possibly working on the dopamine system, in the brain, a very important aspect of libido and sexual function.
The ancient remedy of Gingko Biloba, best known for the boosting of mental powers, is also employed, in leaf extract form, to treat impotence in men. The male ability to achieve, and maintain, an erection during sexual stimulation is said to be improved through this treatment, ginseng, like Viagra, enhancing nitric oxide production, helping to relax artery walls, more blood flow into the penis thus being achieved..
The aptly named Horny Goat Weed is a leafy plant which grows, usually at higher altitudes, and is thought to improve erectile dysfunction in men and libido in both sexes, though also consuming foods that naturally boost the libido is also recommended, new research suggesting that couples eating lots of strawberries and bananas perform well in the bedroom
Traditional aphrodisiacs such as chocolate and oysters no longer top the list of libido enhancing foods, but are being supplanted somewhat by fruits, especially grapes, though 'passion' fruit recommendations cited smearing bananas over each other, and dipping grapes in warm chocolate, from the navel, before eating them.
The Cape fruit concern did a survey, asking 500 couples how often they enjoyed sex, and about lifestyle and fruit, discovering that those couples in their 40s and 50s were most keen on fruity romping, 41% using fruit during lovemaking, mainly through boredom with cream, ice cream or chocolate.
Middle aged people, it seems, are more adventurous with bedroom antics, while young couples, in their 20s, appear to be missing out on extra sexual pleasure, because they rarely, if ever use fruit during sex.
Muira Puama is well known to Amazonian natives, who use it regularly for boosting their own energy and health. Recreationally used, in most cases, to increase sexual desire, this plant extract does improve symptoms of erectile dysfunction, perhaps the reason for the natives calling it 'potency wood', and the best thing about is that there are no known negative side effects.
It is only natural that potency should diminish with age, though the desire will never die, but your performance will undoubtedly suffer. Naturally occurring substances can be used, to put some missing spice back into your sex life, and if the desire is strong, why not? Pleasure always comes in waves through good sex, so being able to enjoy it for as long as possible will justify taking any help you might need. I freely admit that I take whatever help I can get.


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September 2 2014 Latest news:
by Stephen Moore
Friday, February 21, 2014
Police are appealing for information as they try to trace an autistic man who has gone missing.
John Magloire, 45, from Hackney, was last seen at 10.30am on Wednesday, February 19, in Station Place, outside Finsbury Park station.
He is described as a slim black male and was last seen wearing a green coat over a white hoody, blue tracksuit bottoms with double white-stripe black trainers.
John has learning disabilities and autism.
Islington Police are leading the search for him and are appealing for anyone with information to call the missing person unit on 101 quoting reference 14MIS005710.
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For visitors accustomed to seeing ancient, but not modern Indian art in museums, the new exhibit at Peabody Essex Museum should be a revelation.
Featuring 70 works by 23 painters, "Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India After Independence," represents three generations of painters who have emerged in India since 1947.
The show may also be an eye-opener for members of the art establishment, who often think of modern art as happening only in Paris, London or New York, said Susan Bean, guest curator of the exhibit.
"We are now in the middle of a very energetic, global conversation in the art world and beyond about the 20th century in art," said Bean, who was previously curator of South Asian and Korean art at Peabody Essex. "People are looking around the world, and they are seeing that modernity was happening everywhere in the 20th century, all around the world, and that India had a very energetic art movement."
Modern Indian art had its origins in the first half of the 20th century, Bean said, before emerging in its second half in a "golden age" that is covered by the show.
This age began with the country's independence from Great Britain, which became official on Aug. 15, 1947, just after 12 a.m., the "midnight" in the exhibit's title.
"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom," said India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in a recording that plays on a videotape at the gallery entrance. "A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance."
The boom referred to in the title would follow decades after Nehru's speech, when economic liberalization brought prosperity to the country's middle and upper classes.


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Welcome to the fourth annual installment of "thomasikehara's best dunk of the season." In a season marked with losing, internal struggles, external struggles, fired coaches, tanking, cupcakes and Jamaal Crawford; it was remembered for one other thing: dunks--lots of dunks. Let's get right on to it. First, the previous winners:
Brandon Roy for this dunk
Andre Miller for this dunk
LaMarcus Aldridge for this dunk
Let's start with a little Crash
Nicolas Batum over McGee
Nicolas Batum outback against the Hornets
Nicolas Batum over Dudley
Nicolas Batum from Raymond Felton
LaMarcus Aldridge putback
Raymond Felton lob to LaMarcus Aldridge
This one has LaMarcus Aldridge over Gerald Wallace
This one has JJ Hickson over DeAndre Jordan
This one has JJ Hickson over the Clippers
This one has JJ Hickson over Jeremy Evans
This one has Hickson put back dunk
This one hasElliot Williams from Wes
This one has Elliot with the left hand


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h-madness: blog of the month april 2010
The German-speaking blog hist/net selected h-madness as blog of the month april 2010.
Archive for May, 2010
The German-speaking blog hist/net selected h-madness as blog of the month april 2010.
The social, political and cultural significance of shell shock, or war hysteria, in the First World War has been expertly analyzed by historians dealing with Britain and Germany.[1] However, except for Marc Roudebush's pioneering work, there has not been a major study of the history of psychological trauma in France.[2] Historian Gregory Thomas attempts to solve this with an exhaustively researched work that does more than just fill this gap in scholarship. Thomas' study successfully provides new insights into the history of mental illness from the perspectives of both doctors and war victims, including men and women, and the legacy of mental trauma long after 1918. His book is a model for how to integrate the history of shell shock's impact on medical debates over the origins and treatment of this illness with the history of ordinary individual's responses to these complex and long-term wounds.
Thomas' central argument is that the project of healing mental trauma played a key role in reforming France's health care and welfare system for the mentally ill. As doctors sought to understand the psychological impact of the war, they were influenced by three intertwining factors: serving a state at war, healing a nation in crisis, and asserting their medical expertise and professional authority. These aims directly influenced their medical conclusions about the origins, nature and paths for treating psychological trauma, and they were inclined to view traumatized soldiers and civilians as conscious or unconscious shirkers. One of the most interesting aspects of Thomas' argument is that although French doctors were, similar to their counterparts in Germany and Britain, inclined to denounce war 'hysterics' as 'malingerers,' psychiatrists also played an instrumental role in spearheading sweeping reforms in pensions and health care. On the surface, Thomas convincingly argues, the war did not alter psychiatric theory, as there was more continuity than change in perceptions of the mentally ill as social outsiders. But the war did alter psychiatric practice, making mental medicine accessible for the masses as the prison-like asylum system gave way to open door health care services that benefited a diverse population of the 'living dead' who struggled in postwar society.
Thomas' book is well-organized, with chapters that move through events chronologically while examining the symbiotic relationships between doctors and their patients. In chapter one, Thomas analyzes the flashpoint of 'hysteria,' or what was often described as 'mental confusion' or 'commotion' illness, in the terrifying experience of the modern industrial warfare. As doctors debated the origins of psychological wounds and paths of treatment, they were strongly influenced by their cultural environment. Though they were eager to prove the superiority of French over German psychiatry, French doctors were quite similar to their German counterparts: they were highly nationalistic and saw the war as an opportunity to weed out the weak and 'degenerate' from the psychologically healthy. Closely aligned with the military, psychiatrists' main goal was to return men to battle, and they opted for shock and suggestion therapy as the best means to this aim. Doctors imposed their own assumptions and alleged that these men, especially those from the working class or 'other' ethnic groups, were predisposed to illness and malingering. At the same time, doctors were concerned about the possibility of a 'hysteria' diagnosis stigmatizing men as unmanly, and were eager to prevent the perception that there was a wider crisis of masculinity in French culture. Overall, psychiatrists' main concern was asserting their professional goals and authority. Using case studies Thomas demonstrates that doctors had little patience for investigating the complex nuances of traumatic injuries, or listening to soldiers who insisted that the main culprit for their problems was the war experience.
In chapters two and three, Thomas turns to mental illness on the home front and the foundations for legislative and health care reforms in the immediate postwar period. Thomas places Great War psychiatrists in the larger historical context of French doctors who analyzed connections between national upheaval and mental illness since the 18th century. Doctors long-believed that heightened passions triggered symptoms of psychological illness in predisposed, 'weak' civilians, and psychiatrists in 1914-1918 were no exception. However, while psychiatrists reassured themselves and the public that there was no significant spike in insanity on the home front, they admitted that the war stirred strong 'emotions' that triggered a wide range of mental illness. With the end of the war, intersecting interests created the perfect environment for reforming pensions and health care for veterans, and ultimately the mentally ill as a whole. Traumatized veterans demanded health care, legislators were eager to prove their patriotic support for returning soldiers, and the public sentiment was behind compensation for war heroes. Psychiatrists, however, fought the liberal legislative proposals, which guaranteed compensation for all mentally ill veterans regardless of pre-existing or war-induced causes. Similar to most politicians, doctors wanted to speed demobilization and clear out the hospitals, but they also wanted to weed out 'malingerers' and chronic neurotics. Advocates for the mentally ill eventually won over the majority of parliamentarians with patriotic pleas for reparation. When the law was enacted in 1919, burden of proof regarding the origins of injury shifted to from soldiers to the state. Doctors mobilized to modify the law to shift the burden of proof back to soldiers. By the early 1920s, doctors got their way, as they asserted themselves at the bureaucratic level and saved the state money by weeding out 'hysterical' men and women whose symptoms were allegedly not war-related.
In the midst of these battles between psychiatrists and patients, broader health care reforms unfolded that ultimately benefited France's 'living dead.' In chapters four and five, Thomas examines the stories of war victims to highlight the development of an 'open door' system of care that had a more positive impact on the mentally ill than the bureaucratically tangled 1919 reform law. Despite parliamentarians' patriotic rhetoric, few were willing to allocate resources to the often stigmatized, destitute 'human wrecks' who languished in asylums were cut off from families. However, by the late 1920s and 1930s, doctors spearheaded the creation of open health services for any mentally ill French citizens, which enabled traumatized soldiers to seek affordable care in public clinics without being subjected to dehumanizing bureaucracy, stigmatization, or neglect in asylums. Originally intended to solve the administrative burden of coping with an overwhelming number of shattered civilians and soldiers, as well as the economic costs of hospitalization and asylums, the open services system revolutionized psychiatry, marking the end of the custodial asylum and replacing it with a modern psychiatric model that especially helped mildly troubled individuals who could not afford private assistance. According to Thomas, the psychiatric profession continued to stigmatize, all the way to the brink of the next war, psychologically ill men and women as predisposed, chronic neurotics. However, new health care practices made it easier for citizens to take control of their own health and seek assistance in a setting that where the treatment itself had become less traumatic.
Thomas' study utilizes an impressive range archival research, including medical journals, hospital records, and letters by war victims. Effectively balancing the stories of both doctors and their patients, Thomas constructs a compelling, convincingly argued narrative driven by case studies that give us a fascinating glimpse into the experiences of ordinary French soldiers and civilians. At the same time, there is one area of Thomas' analysis that could be developed. Promising to provide a cultural, as well as medical and political, history of traumatic neurosis, Thomas generally neglects the issue of gender as a factor that shaped perceptions of soldiers who broke down in combat. Especially since Thomas mentions briefly that the hysteria diagnosis challenged patients' masculinity, this topic could have been further explored in light of extensive scholarship that points to the central importance of shell shock in medical and societal debates over manliness and the legacy of the war. How did physically disabled veterans perceive 'war hysterics'? Did this 'unmanly' stigma, in addition to other social and economic factors explored by Thomas, affect the experiences of traumatized men in work, family life and politics? Despite these lingering questions, Thomas successfully makes a vital contribution to the field, providing scholars with a long-awaited, substantial study of the French experience with shell shock. With his insightful analysis of the politics of health care and social welfare for the mentally ill, his work should appeal to specialists in the history of psychiatry, experts in the social and cultural history of medicine, and a broader audience of those interested in the changing culture of psychiatry and the experiences of populations devastated by the experience of total war.
[1]See, for example, Paul Lerner, Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003); Peter Leese, Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and British Soldiers of the First World War (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
[2]Marc Roudebush, "A Battle of Nerves: Hysteria and its Treatments in France during World War I," in Mark Micale and Paul Lerner, eds, Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Jason Crouthamel, History, Grand Valley State University
Gregory Thomas, Treating the trauma of the Great War : soldiers, civilians, and psychiatry in France, 1914-1940 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009). ISBN: 9780807134368, 39.95$
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The Institute of Philosophy (University of Leuven, Belgium) organises a public lecture and two seminars by Jerome C. Wakefield, University Professor and Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry at New York University.
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If NBA trade rumors suggests one thing right now, it's that Devin Harris will almost assuredly be traded somewhere by the New Jersey Nets by Thursday's deadline. The Nets have floated Harris all season, and were once hoping to include him in a Carmelo Anthony trade. That fell apart when 'Melo went to the New York Knicks, leaving the Portland Trail Blazers and Dallas Mavericks as the top remaining suitors for the former All-Star point guard.
Al Iannazzone of the Bergen Record reports that the Mavericks are the favorites to land Harris. The Nets want Caron Butler's expiring contract, rookie Dominique Jones and a first-round pick in exchange for Harris. ESPN.com's Marc Stein reports that the Mavericks will only give up Butler.
Harris, of course, came into the league with the Mavericks. He thrived there as a young scoring point guard, but Dallas, looking to get over the top, dealt him to New Jersey in exchange for veteran star Jason Kidd in 2008. Dallas sent New Jersey a couple of picks, too, but the Nets flipped those and, all told, haven't gotten much out of the deal.
Whether Harris would start over Kidd in Dallas or join Jason Terry's bench crew remains to be seen. Iannazzone reports the Nets are seeking, in addition to the expiring contracts of Andre Miller and Joel Przybilla, former No. 1 pick Greg Oden from the Blazers. That is almost assuredly not going to happen.


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Being a Bruins blog there may be a lot of bias on here for this question, but who has the better career between either one of these upcoming superstars? Hall had a much better season last year even though he didn't finish the year. And Seguin is having what looks to be a monster year in the works this season.
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Tyler Seguin 8g 7a 15p +11
Taylor Hall 3g 6a 9p +3
I decided to post this on the front page because, I added the same poll the the Copper & Blue and they gave it front page life on their blog.


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FOUR people from North-East are among six arrested by armed police after a member of the public reported seeing a man with a gun.
The alarm was raised in Carlisle, Cumbria, at 4.15am today by the member of the public who stopped police officers to report the sighting.
The man was followed from a nearby bar into the Ibis hotel, sparking a huge police operation with armed officers and dogs.
A spokesman for Cumbria Police said the area had been cordoned off and is being searched, and five men and a woman were arrested.
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October 2013 Civil Service Exam application starts
The Civil Service Commission or CSC is now accepting applications for the October 2013 Civil Service Examination – Pencil-and-Paper Test (CSE-PPT) with period of filing from April 15, 2013 to August 30, 2013. The exam will be conducted on October 13, 2013.
Acceptance of applications shall be on a first come-first served basis, which means that applications may no longer be accepted before the deadline if the target number of applicants has already been reached by the CSC Regional/Field Offices.
Who can apply for the October 2013 Civil Service Exam?
- Must be 18 years of age on the date of filing of application;
- Must be Filipino citizen;
- Must be of good moral character;
- Must have not been convicted by final judgment of an offense or crime involving moral turpitude, or disgraceful or immoral conduct, dishonesty, examination irregularity, drunkenness or addiction to drugs;
- Must have not been dishonorably discharged from military service or dismissed for cause from any civilian positions in the government; and
- Must have not taken the same level of Career Service Examination in less than three (3) months.
What are the requirements for application?
1. Fully accomplished application form (CS Form No. 100 Revised 2012);
2. Four (4) copies of identical pictures with specifications, as follows:
- taken within the last three (3) months prior to filing of application
- Philippine passport picture size (4.5 cm x 3.5 cm or 1.78" x 1.38")
- colored, with white background and printed on quality photo paper
- in standard close-up shot (from shoulder level up with the head and face occupying at least 80% of the picture and with the name tag positioned at approximately 1 inch below the chin)
- in bare face (without eyeglasses or any accessories that may cover the facial features and showing left and right ears
- taken in full-face view directly facing the camera, with neutral facial expression and both eyes open
- with full and handwritten (not computer-generated) name tag in the format: First Name, Middle Initial, Last Name, and Extension Name, if any, and signature over the printed name
3. Original and photocopy of any valid ID containing applicant's clear picture, date of birth, signature, and signature of the authorized head of the issuing agency such as Driver's License, SSS ID, GSIS ID, Philhealth ID, current Company/Office ID, current School ID, Postal ID, BIR ID, Barangay ID, Voter's ID, Valid Passport, or Police Clearance (Note: Any other ID not included in the list shall NOT be accepted)
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Family portraits that may be hanging in your grandparents house probably don't look very fun, but you still enjoy them because they are photos of your loved ones. It seems that having a formal family photo taken every year or every few years comes into vogue as soon as it goes out and right now the trend is on the uprising. Shooting family photos don't have to be so static and boring, like what you have seen in old albums or on the walls of your relatives homes. Here's some tips to ensure you don't make catastrophic mistakes shooting families.
Discuss what the family wants to accomplish. This may be the most skipped step when talking with a family about doing their shoot. Find out if they intend to use the photos for holiday cards, if they want something to hang above the couch, if their kids are about to leave from college and they want to capture the whole family under one roof for a last time. The point is, talk with the family, have a conversation, engage them about their interests and intentions. You'd be surprised how much they will enjoy this part and it will enhance your photo shoot.
Avoid matching outfits. Everyone has seen the family in white shirts and khaki shorts or pants on the beach, barefoot, or black long sleeve shirts and jeans in a park. Don't be tempted to do this. Not only is it tacky, it doesn't allow individual personalities to come through and more often than not, one person in the family is totally against doing this, their facial expressions in the photos will ruin the final product.
Pick the right time to shoot. If there are children involved that are under the age of 3 or so, inquire when their normal nap and feeding times are, that will help dictate the best time to shoot. Pay attention to sunrise and sunset schedules, especially if you're shooting on location. High noon is never a great time to shoot but depending on the time of year and the position of the sun you could be fighting deep shadows. For example, the eastern coast of Florida is far better suited to shoot sunrise photos on the beach than sunsets while the gulf coast part of Florida is better suited for sunset photos on the beach.
Family Portrait by Corey Ann, on Flickr
Watch your aperture. Shooting wide open, f/3.5 or wider on virtually any lens when there are two or more people will often lead to someone in the photo being out of focus. Most lenses have a sweet spot, typically in the f/8 to f/13 range. For location portraits shallow depth of field is often desired, with groups the focal plane tends to shift and ensuring everyone is sharp is very important.
Glasses add to personalities, and frustrations. If someone in the family wears prescription glasses it could be a total pain to shoot them as glare from your flash and the sun may show through on the photos. If they wear their glasses all the time don't ask them to remove them for the photos, keep working with them till you find just the right way to avoid the glare. A circular polarizer will help but you can lose up to two full stops of light. If they remove the glasses they will lose part of their personality that their family and friends already know.
Be aware of flash cycle times. Digital photography has enabled us to shoot millions more frames than every financially possible with film. Because of this, I will often overshoot family photographs to ensure I have a frame with every one's eyes are open, chimping (reviewing on the back of the camera) after every shot isn't always an option. Because most cameras shoot at fairly high frame rate, be aware that your flash probably can't keep up with your constant shooting unless you are running an external battery pack.
Russell Family Portraits – Greg Dawson Photography by GregDawson, on Flickr
Learn all the family members names and remember them. Nothing will ensure you don't get re-hired for the job than not learning the family members names. It shows you care, besides, no one wants to hear, "sir, can you please move over here," they want to be called by their name.
The family is all that matters. I try my best to never show clients photos on the back of my camera, it slows the shoot down and may give a false impression of your skills, it also often leads to a question that can be hard to answer: well what do you think, you're the professional. Let me share something with you now, it does not matter what YOU think, all that matters is that the family is happy. They are the ones who hired you, they are the ones who will be sharing these photos and hanging them on their walls. They need to be happy and your opinion shouldn't matter. If they press you, find something in the photo you love and tell them.
Limit shooting in extreme weather. If you're shooting location photos with a family during colder months, limit the shoots to 20-30 minutes tops, and either warm up again in a car or drive to another location. Rosy red cheeks, blue lips and goosebumps are not desirable in family photos. The same goes for warmer clients, where fogged glasses, sweat stains and beads of sweat on the brow will ruin your photos.
Shooting family photos can be a lot of fun, and if you're shooting on a part time or full time basis it's a great way to get repeat business and capture a family continually growing through the years. My style of shooting location family photographs is as an observer, where I'll ask the family to enjoy the park or beach or location we're at and pretty much forget I'm there. We'll do some posed photos here and there but capturing those moments as they interact is where the real magic an happen.
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Dan Oksnevad:
Great practical tips. I utilize many of these when photographing weddings. Too often wedding photogs leave out the importance of family photos, or don't take care to implement these simple tips.
Nice tips especially about the kids. It's always good to find out what the kids are interested in to – and everyone else for that matter – it can help in deciding a location.
Ultimately the input of the family is the most important thing. They can give you a million ideas and the more they are involved the more comfortable they and you will be.
Tina Mills:
Great tips. I just shot a family at F8 yesterday. Just a group of 3 and we shot outside. Wanted to try and get some background blur, which I did, but felt the family was a little on the softside.
Great tips.. except your opinion that matching shirts is "tacky." It's a trend that might have run it's course, but I've seen some really great family shots and disagree that it's 'tacky' just because you say so. Opinions.. don't make something a fact. :)
A photographer I know writes the names of the family being photographed on tape and tapes it to his flash for a quick memory jog.


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---- — After a number of pitchers tried their luck, the only thing that could stop Saturday's offensive showcase between St. Anthony's summer team and Louisville Post 914 was the uncooperative weather.
The teams combined to score 13 total runs in the first four and a half innings before lightning and a steady bout of rain brought out the tarp with Post 914 ahead 8-5.
"I don't know what the final would have been if we kept playing," St. Anthony coach Kenny Miller said. "Maybe 20-18. They were definitely a good hitting team."
Post 914 racked up ten hits in the rain-shortened affair, four against starter Alex Hoelscher and six off Eric Gurtner in relief. Hunter Clifton racked up a monster day at the plate for Post 914, hitting two singles and a double for a game-high four RBIs. The Bulldogs closed with nine hits themselves, five coming off Nick McKnelly and four against relief pitcher Dylan Walker.
In what turned out to be a tight contest, Post 914 threatened to break the game wide open early, jumping out to a 4-0 cushion in the top of the first. Post 914 began its first at-bat with four straight singles, including Clifton's shot to right field that scored Lawson Britton for a 1-0 edge. After Hoelscher struck out Walker, the St. Anthony pitcher had some troubles with control. McKnelly was hit by a pitch to score Micklautz, who had singled earlier, and a walk to Braden McNeely two batters later brought a third baserunner home.
"Our guys were locked in from the get-go," Post 914 coach John Frech said. "Our guys have that mentality, they've been playing against St. Anthony for years."
Hoelscher walked Jordan Byers in the ensuing at-bat that scored Clifton for a 4-0 edge. Gurtner entered the game for St. Anthony after 0.2 innings from Hoelscher, and got Lawson Britton to fly out to right to prevent any further damage.
The score remained 4-0 until the bottom of the third, when St. Anthony strung together its own four-run frame to climb out of the early hole.
"We got settled in," Frech said. "We thought we were going to coast."
Kyle Bourgeois singled to start the frame, and Jared Having's single to right field two batters later scored Bourgeois and put St. Anthony on the board. Neil Williams brought St. Anthony within one when he unloaded a two-RBI double to left center that had the dugout on their feet. One batter later, Eli Dasenbrock completed the comeback with his RBI single to right.
"I'm really proud of the kids for bouncing back," Miller said. "All but one kid had a hit in the starting lineup, that's real encouraging."
But as hard as the Bulldogs fought to inch back into the game, Clifton erased the comeback in the fourth with one smooth swing in the batter's box. Following singles from Britton, Micklautz and Logan Hilderbrand, Clifton smoked a double to left field that brought home three runs and pushed the Post 914 lead back to three at 7-4.
"Hunter's been locked in from day one," Frech said. "He's a really, really good hitter, he works on his craft."
St. Anthony scored one in the bottom of the fourth off an RBI single from Jacob Lorenz, but Post 914 against answered the call in the top of inning five when Micklautz cruised home off a wild pitch. Then, with Post 914 ahead 8-5 and Walker at the plate, the familiar flash of lightning and a loud crack of thunder sent both teams back to their dugout. When the initial sprinkle turned into much heavier rains, St. Anthony unloaded the tarp and the game was called off in the fifth, just shy of an official game.
McKnelly pitched three innings for Post 914, allowing four runs off four hits and no walks or strikeouts. Walker pitched a one-run fourth with one strikeout. Post 914 is back in action on Tuesday at Fairfield.
Gurtner pitched 2.1 innings for St. Anthony, scattering six hits with three runs and three strikeouts. Will Clausius pitched the fourth and the start of the fifth, striking out one with three walks. The Bulldogs play at Teutopolis Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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Louisville: Britton (2 1B); Micklautz (2 1B); Hilderbrand (2 1B); Clifton (1B, 2 2B, 4 RBI); McKnelly (1B, RBI); McNeely (RBI); Byers (RBI).
St. Anthony: Having (2 1B, RBI); Lorenz (1B, RBI); Williams (2B, 2 RBI); Dasenbrock (1B, RBI); Puckett (1B); Grunloh (1B); Bourgeois (1B); Stephens (1B).


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We can't wait to host Joel Salatin for 3 one-day masterclasses in February. This will be the first time that Joel will present the in-depth specifics of the various integrated animal systems of Polyface Farm to a NSW audience.
Leading on from our previous 2 years of working with Joel, we very much wanted to get specific with him for these masterclasses. The Polyface Farm animal systems are fantastic to look at from the outside, but what about all the little important details? How do you design for producing 200 clean eggs a day in the eggmobile laying boxes, so you don't have to wash them all? How to make your small farm systems cost-efficient enough to ensure you're still farming in 2 years time, edging forwards with fertility and security?
So this time around, Joel is all about the detail. The three masterclasses are split into: You Can Farm (an overview of designing for successful small farm enterprise setup, including marketing and buying club systems), Pastured Poultry (egg laying systems, broiler systems, turkey systems, on-farm processing, direct marketing) and Pastured Beef + Pork (mob stocked beef systems, pigerator and pastured pork systems, direct marketing) Continue reading


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Stuff I'm Reading this Morning…
All the earnings and economic events happening today. (Benzinga)
Twitter is the new stock market chupacabra, hide your babies. (NYT)
Commodity cool-off means the Aussie Dollar could be the "short of the century". (BusinessInsider)
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This hedge fund manager has a huge bet against the Canadian economy and thinks a crisis is imminent. Maybe! (GlobeAndMail)
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Emerging markets dividend ETFs have been thrashing the index in a weak environment. (ETFTrends)
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Opinions, tips, experiences, smurfing potential?
Opinions, tips, experiences, smurfing potential?
I'm finding that if u get a VERY pokey mid champ, it shuts him down hard. If he moves closer, you just back off and then poke him sum more. I'm finding alot of AD bruisers mids losing since the seekers armguard came into play. They can't punish as early as they Need to
Other AD Casters destroy AP mids easier, but he destroys the other AD Casters aswell (due to his shield and his poke).
Smurfing potential is kind of odd here since low levels might even go something like Ashe mid or Tryndamere mid, so you never know what kind of opponents you get.
He's pretty much your average AD mid; assassin, good poke, high damage.
It's worth to note that alongside Master Yi, Pantheon has the highest base movement speed IN THE GAME, sitting at 355. This makes him extremely good at roaming, not to mention he brings his stun which is great.
I hate when my mate picks him mid agaisnt my ap. he always gets 13 hp pots and out sustains me :/


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Welcome to the Surface Pattern Design Guild Website
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_SPDG is a community of professionals in the textile, surface, and pattern design industry.
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