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Sweet Pea and Ricotta Crostini
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- 16 thin baguette slices
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 10-ounce package frozen peas, thawed
- 1/2 cup ricotta
- 1 scallion, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 ounce Parmesan, cut into pieces, plus more, grated, for topping
- kosher salt and black pepper
- Heat oven to 375° F. Place the baguette slices on a baking sheet and brush with 2 tablespoons of the oil. Toast until golden, 10 to 12 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a food processor fitted with the metal blade, puree the peas, ricotta, scallion, and Parmesan with the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper, scraping down the sides of the bowl occasionally, until the Parmesan is broken down and the mixture is nearly smooth.
- Spread the pea mixture on the crostini and top with grated Parmesan, if desired.
Nutritional Information
- Per Serving
- Calories 98
- Fat 4g
- Sat Fat 1g
- Cholesterol 5mg
- Sodium 210mg
- Protein 4g
- Carbohydrate 11g
- Sugar 1g
- Fiber 1g
- Iron 1mg
- Calcium 52mg
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Quick Tip
Fresh and soft cheeses, like ricotta and Brie, will keep about two weeks; hard cheeses, like Parmesan and Manchego, will last several months.
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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to say thanks and share that I've fallen in love with this distro rather quickly. Grew up learning LFS and Gentoo and I feel like a lot of the major distros since then have come with the kitchen sink pre installed and preconfigured for my grandma to use (so easy that it becomes difficult if that makes any sense).
Anywho, #! has been incredibly user friendly to a power user and pretty amazing to use just out of the box.
welcome to the #! forums Incudie, happy to hear that #! is working well for you too:)
#!, all else is but a shadow.
so easy that it becomes difficult
Agreed! Welcome to CrunchBang
Welcome aboard Incudie.
Linux since 1999
Currently: AntiX, & Crunchbang.
A good general beginners book for Linux :- http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
A good Debian read :- http://debian-handbook.info/get/now/
Welcome, valued customer happy user !
FreeBSD installation plan:
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3. Operating system!
Anywho, #! has been incredibly user friendly to a power user and pretty amazing to use just out of the box.
#! stays out of your way so you can do what you want to do, like Linux is supposed to be.
Welcome Incudie, glad you like it and hope you'll stay a while longer, like I did.
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ScanSource Europe has announced its new freely accessible online communication platform for the channel, The Source.
Designed to provide an outlet for discussion and networking for resellers and vendors, the blog platform enables resellers to learn about the latest goings-on in the industry, search for topics relating to technologies and vertical market offerings, find educational material and initiate dialogue with manufacturers, ISVs and ScanSource.
Available to resellers across Europe, The Source allows visitors working with either of the distributor's business units to find tips to successfully market their business and enhance and strengthen their sales offering. Users can contribute to the discussion, or simply read posts from other users if preferred.
What's more, the portal has an embedded translation functionality meaning resellers can post and comment on articles in their preferred language and also access the meaning of content posted in a language they may not have an understanding of, creating a pan-European knowledge base that can be shared by everyone. Together with ScanSource, Inc.'s North American incarnation of The Source, it offers resellers a vast range of technical and commercial material to utilise.
"The Source will help to stimulate conversation, ideas and creativity among resellers, manufacturers and distributors," said Kim Jennings, Sales Director, Communications Europe, ScanSource. "This type of collaboration can enable relationships and strengthen partnerships. The Source is a living site that gives our partners somewhere to share knowledge that may enable them to generate growth in their business."
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Im not talking about women. Cause we all now that we are a reflection of our life, if our life is depressing then we are depressed.
How do you create an attractive lifestyle.
I have issues finding passion in life! Ivé tried out a billion things but never found anything exciting in a passionate sense.
Then there is the dicipline to make it happen, keeping a routine and doing it everyday and not be limited by procrastination like me.
Does anyone have some solid advice on this one. Maybe on what it is that makes us tick or finding it out.


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The Menlo Park City School Board of Education announced Maurice Ghysels, Ed.D, to become the district's next superintendent.
"Dr. Ghysels possesses an impressive depth of educational and business leadership experience and a demonstrated passion for excellence," said Maria Hilton, president of the board of education. "We are thrilled that he is joining us."
Right now, Ghysels is the Chief Schools Officer at the Santa Clara Office of Education, and is primarily reponsible for leading the Student Services Branch, a department that services about 9,000 students through a variety of programs, according to the office of education website.
Prior to that position, Ghysels was the superintendent of the Mountain View Whizman School District from 2005-2010.
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The Municipal and Financial Services Group (MFSG) is a specialized management consulting practice that was established in 1976 and was for many years part of the management consulting department of national or regional CPA firms or engineering firms. MFSG focuses on the financial and management needs of public sector infrastructure (especially in environmentally related areas such as water, wastewater, stormwater and solid waste utilities) and in the efficient delivery of public sector services. The practice was organized in 2002 operating as a separate firm, incorporated in Maryland as a limited liability corporation (LLC). MFSG is certified as an MBE/WBE by the States of Maryland and Delaware and is recognized as such by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. MFSG's personnel are active and involved in professional and industry associations; the Director of MFSG's practice recently completed his term as chairman of the national American Water Works Association (AWWA) Finance and Accounting Committee and currently chairs that organization's GASB 34 Task Force. MFSG's personnel are active in AWWA, Maryland Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) and Water Environment Federation (WEF), both locally and nationally. In addition to the traditional functional services provided to utility clients, the specialized services we offer include:
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User Experience and Accessibility: An Analysis of County Web Portals
Norman E. Youngblood and Susan A. Youngblood
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1, November 2013, pp. 25 - 41
Article Contents
Below, we describe this study's design, our materials, and our procedures, arranged by line of inquiry.
Study Design
After compiling a list of counties, we identified websites that serve as portals—sites that represent not a single department but the county as a whole, often linking to departments and resources available in a given county. We then conducted a heuristic evaluation of the usability of each homepage, followed by an automated evaluation of best coding practices—the use of valid and accessible coding—and a manual evaluation of the homepage code to see if the designers had employed Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), style sheets that consolidate codes for appearance and separate those codes from the semantic, or meaning-laden, code, so sites are consistent and easier to maintain. We also examined code for CSS for mobile devices, or coding that would make a site more functional on a mobile device. We then analyzed the data to test each of our hypotheses.
The tests for each hypothesis examined correlations between the website variables and, separately, each of three county demographic variables: population, per-capita income, and median household income. In cases in which the website data were continuous, we tested for Pearson product-moment correlations (Pearson's r). In cases in which the website data were dichotomous, we tested for point bi-serial correlation (rpb), a variant of Pearson's r. In all cases, the level of significance was set at p<0.05 to establish critical values, and the t-value of the correlation coefficient, r or rpb, was compared to the critical value for t to test for significance. In cases where the expected correlation was directional, we used a one-tailed test.
We viewed the pages on an Apple computer using OSX 10.6.8 with Firefox 6.02. We set the browser size to 1024 x 768 pixels using Free Ruler v. 1.7b5 to check page sizes. We tested each county portal homepage's accessibility using the WAVE online accessibility tool (WebAIM, n.d. b) described above. We tested compliance with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) coding standards by submitting each county homepage to the W3C's HTML validation tool (W3C, 2010).
The following sections discuss how we categorized our data into four primary areas: the adoption of portals, usability, best coding practices, and the adoption of new communication technology.
Adoption of portals
To examine adoption of portals—main county websites—we compiled a list of county web portal addresses for the 67 Alabama counties. We built the list by doing the following:
- We examined the 45 county links on the State of Alabama website (State of Alabama, n.d.).
- We searched for portals for 10 links that were incorrect (either abandoned URLs or links to an organization other than the county, such as a city in the county).
- We searched for the 22 counties listed as not having portals.
To identify missing sites, we used a Google search for the county name and Alabama, and we examined the first 30 results. In all, we identified 39 county portal websites out of the 67 counties in Alabama. Once we identified the sites, we collected our data during a 24-hour period in September 2011.
One county's portal was not functional during data collection That county's data were collected at a later date and used for the analysis of portal presence, n=67. The remaining analyses examined only the portals functional during the study (n=38). We did not code departmental sites, such as county school district and county sheriff sites. Nor did we include county commissioner sites because some serve only their commissions, functioning as departmental sites.
To address adherence to basic and broadly accepted usability standards, we used a set of 14 dichotomous web usability standards developed from prior research (Cappel & Huang, 2007; Youngblood & Mackiewicz 2012; Pew Center on the States, 2008) to code the homepage—and for several measures, a sample of three internal (secondary) pages—of each site. We analyzed all portals functional during the study (n=38). For each standard, we recorded the use of each practice contributing to site usability as a 1 and the failure to adhere to standards as a 0. The standards, listed in detail in the Results section, are grouped by adherence to the following:
- overall design standards, such as not using a splash page
- conventions for hyperlinked text in main text areas, such as using blue text links; where text links were absent from homepages, these measures were assessed on internal pages
- navigational standards, such as using a county logo/name as a home link on internal pages
- findability using a search engine, i.e., whether entering the county name and state into Google returns a link to the county website within the first 10 results; users will often not go past the first page
Intercoder reliability for these measures, based on an 11% overlap, had a Cohen's kappa value of 1.0 (the two coders, the authors, completely agreed), which is not unusual for a study using dichotomous measures. We examined the correlation between each demographic variable and web portal usability by testing both the usability index (the sum of each portal's usability scores, with a potential high score of 14) and each separate usability measure.
Best coding practices
To test for best coding practices, we used machine testing of accessibility and compliance with W3C coding standards, checking each of the 38 functional portals. First, using WAVE, we examined whether the page included any W3C Priority Level One accessibility compliance errors, standards that the W3C state developers must adhere to (West 2008). We also recorded the types of errors and how many of each error there were, and we documented major issues. WAVE does not test Flash-based content, and the majority of content on two of the portals was Flash based. We included these Flash-based portals in the analysis because WAVE checked the HTML containing the Flash, but we could not ensure that these sites were, in fact, accessible. Although automated accessibility testing software does not replace user and/or expert-based evaluations, it is a good start for accessibility testing, offering diagnostics and a general test of accessibility, particularly for a large set of sites.
Next, we used the W3C's HTML validation tool to test each county's homepage for compliance with W3C coding standards, and we recorded the number of errors. The validation tool was unable to analyze one of the websites, as noted in Table 3, despite multiple attempts. Using valid markup typically demonstrates a level of professional competency as well as helps with accessibility and keeps the site from being susceptible to browser changes, particularly as browsers have become more standards-based. Like WAVE, the W3C Validator is an automated tool, and this brings with it limitations, most notably the fact that coding errors can have a cascade effect in which a single error triggers multiple error messages. To test the possible correlation between best practices in coding and the demographic variables, we separately calculated the correlation between each demographic variable and both (a) passing WAVE with no errors and (b) having W3C valid code.
New communication technology
We also looked to see to how counties were approaching the user experience, particularly the use of new communication technology. To address this issue, we examined the HTML code to see if the associated style sheets included the attribute "media" and what media were included (such as print, screen, mobile) or if the accompanying style sheet included an "@media" statement, which serves the same purpose. We then tested for correlations between media styles (including @media statements) and the demographic variables.


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Some pictures that I took during 2012.
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Some pictures that I took during 2012.
The Battle of Wine_the documentary @ IDFAcademy•2013/11/13 • Leave a Comment
Once a year, the Spanish village Haro is captured by the allure of a Bacchanalian feast,
an amalgam of bodies soaked in wine, music, voices, colors and shapes,
transporting everyone into a catharsis.
La Batalla del Vino
Title: La Batalla del Vino (The Battle of Wine)
Length: 68′ (Rough Cut )
Original format: DVCPRO HD 720 25p
Once a year, the Spanish village Haro is captured by the allure of a Bacchanalian feast, an amalgam of bodies soaked in wine, music, voices, colors and shapes, transporting everyone into a catharsis
La Rioja is a Spanish mainly wine producer region since generations. On every 29th of June, the town of Haro celebrates the lasts days of festivities before the onset of summer. Marching at the early hours, a mass of people gathers at the nearby crags of Bilibio. Following a religious service, an allegoric orgiastic liquid battle begins. An amalgam of bodies soaked in wine, dance to the sound of the brass bands. People free their senses inside the ethylic human ocean, allowing the inner unconscious to come out by dancing, jumping, screaming or playing… After the storm the calm arrives and the soaked mass recomposes itself thanks to a brunch and more of the precious liquid. Turning back to the village, the combatants perform a sinuous startling dancing-walking procession showing themselves and the result of the battle, to the rest of the inhabitants. Arriving at the bull ring, a confrontation on the arena against nervous heifers, place the bravest contestants face to face with the animal beast. Finally the social drinking gatherings continue in the streets at the old part of the city, leading to the last event at night, a metaphorical fire spiting bull that chases the children, marking the end of the summer solstice celebrations.
The structure of the documentary is basically chronological in relation to the celebration, sprinkled here and there with non-observational footage. The opening scene is a father and his son, working at the vineyards the day before. After that we see them on the banks of the river accompanied by friends, children and adults, preparing a track for the celebration. The next sequence features Franco's dictatorship news bulletin from the early 50's and the early 70's in relation to the region and the festivity. In contrast to this, the following sequence is a personal video essay piece that captures my point of view regarding the festivity and its socio-cultural context. The documentary follows the celebration and festivity chronologically. During the core of the Battle there is a surrealistic visionary sequence that submerges us inside the maelstrom dancing mass. The documentary ends with a very visual and suggestive sequence of a metaphorical fire bull.
In the eighteenth century, a chapel dedicated to San Felices was built in the Bilibio crags located close to the Ebro river in the Haro municipality of La Rioja, Spain. This construction was an institutional and solemn sanctification for the performing of the Century-old Romeria pageant that commemorates the death of San Felices, San Millan's master and mentor during the sixth century. At the end of nineteenth century documented evidence revealed the Romeros (participants of the procession), who threw wine at each other. This annual event of wine throwing jokily arose as a result of a mid-morning wine drinking binge, coupled with the sun, a party spirit, and music played by brass bands; wine is thrown from traditional wine skins, botas de vino, a wine container made of leather.
The main visual style is observational, applying the canons of the visual anthropology; utilising a researched frame composition, a voice over narrative sequence, and surrealistic and vibrant subjective sequences to submerge the audience into the heart of the Battle. It is ultimately a modernised version of Jori Ivens' style, influenced by Chris Marker and Buñuel.
The wine is an economic engine and a social custom generator in the Spanish region of La Rioja. This documentary celebrates the extremely visual and eye-catching cultural festival and introduces it to an international audience. Haro is my mother's hometown. I have been exposed to this festivity and its surrounding circumstances since I was a child. After living in South Africa for few years my perception of this particular event changed completely. I saw it with different eyes and decided to explore my vision through a documentary, shooting and researching it passionately 3 years.
The Battle of Wine goes to IDFAcademy!!!•2013/11/12 • Leave a Comment
I am proud to announce that I will be attending the IDFAcademy this November with the documentary of the Battle of Wine.
IDFAcademy consist in a series of workshops were emerging filmmakers from all over Europe share knowledge and networking.
More info coming soon…
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Some of the moments of the show where I work the lights.
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Land occupation by Abahlali baseMjondolo the night of the 30th April and eviction by the City of Cape Town on the 1st of May.
Of Demolitions and Evictions•2012/03/04 • Leave a Comment
Again the confluence of power, money and greed are creating the perfect circumstances for the development, Again, of the same procedures that we are already perceiving constantly all over the world. Besides the socio-economic background by South Africa is well known, what is happening this time, is a fact that is occuring all over the world, if you are poor and do not have means of production (if only a little garden), your way to survive is left out to be dependent on someone who gives you money in exchange for something or somehow… Like almost everybody.
Not even structures (not only constructions…) more than twenty year old are respected.
Small projects of self-sufficiency can be a survival option in this case, against the established protocol of trying to keep the people down, therefore concentrating the aims in the development of artistic and agricultural projects merged with an organization based on the assembly.
La Batalla del Vino trailer v2•2012/02/01 • Leave a Comment
A new version of the trailer for this still orphan documentary about The Battle of Wine.


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In a Cottage By the Sea
Just one year ago today love
I became your happy bride
Changed a mansion for a cottage
To dwell by the river side.
You told me I'd be happy
But no happiness I see
For tonight Im a widow
In the cottage by the sea.
Chorus: Alone by the seaside he left me
And no other's bride Ill be
For in bridal flowers he decked me
In a cottage by the sea.
From my cottage by the seaside
I can see my mansion home,
I can see those hills and valeys
Where the Pleasure I have roamed.
The last time that I met him
Oh! how happy then were we
But tonight Im a widow
In a cottage by the sea.
Oh! my poor and aged father
How in sorrow he would wail
And my poor aged mother
How in tears her eyes would swell.
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Justin Bieber Breaks Make-A-Wish Foundation Record
We're so used to reading scandalous headlines about Justin Bieber, so when we finally heard about something good, we felt compelled to share it with all y'all.
He recently became the first musician to grant 200 wishes to sick or disabled fans through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Lucky #200 was none other than 8-year-old Annalysha Brown-Rafanan, who made girls around the world jealous when Bieber mock-proposed to her backstage at his Atlanta, Ga. concert.
"Despite his relentless schedule, Justin has been genuinely committed to granting wishes since the very beginning and a strong supporter of Make-A-Wish," David Williams, president of Make-A-Wish America, said in a statement. "Justin understands the impact on a child of a wish-come-true and how it can create positive changes in their outlook, help them feel better, and even influence their health."
@MakeAWish honored yesterday. one of the best moments ive ever had. thank u. looking forward to doing more together. thanks—
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This little nugget just came across the wire from CBS Sports:
As of Noon ET Tuesday, Jordan Senn's agent, Arthur B. Weiss, said the Panthers had yet to offer the LB a deal. "They're not offering (deals to) anybody," Weiss said. "They need to restructure Thomas Davis' deal (five years, $36.5 million). That's screwing them up and I don't think he'll play a down this season."
Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't Senn's agent be more concerned with trying to convince teams that his client is more than just a special teamer who overachieved last season when he was thrust into playing time due to multiple injuries to the Panthers' first four options at LB?* I'm not a sports agent, but something about the way this is being handled doesn't scream "doing what's best for my client".
*- This isn't my personal opinion of Senn based on what I saw from him last season, but it's most likely going to be the way he's viewed by other teams in the NFL.
Rather than criticizing an NFL front office for allowing your client to test free agency, shouldn't you be out there selling your client to other teams? Or, have you already done that and found that no one else is interested and this is your last resort? Seems like a desperate cry for help if you ask me.


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Shanté Bükes
17 years old
I've been racing for 2 years
Competed at Kings Cup 2010
1st in Ladies Runabout Limited class 2010 and 2011 - South African Nationals
How I feel about competing at the kings cup?
I am excited , it is a great privilege to be able to compete in 2011 again.
How I prepare myself?
I do training in the gym every day and practice on the water whenever possible.


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Maritimo Queensland dealer Ormonde Britton has strengthened his team with the appointment of sales support specialist Tony Jones.
Tony has more than 15 years of experience in the marine industry and is a qualified Marine Engineer.
He owned and operated a marine maintenance and service business on the Gold Coast for four years before working for two years as the European Service Manager for a large boat builder.
Since returning to Australia in 2007, Tony has been working in sales on the Gold Coast.
"Tony's skills in maintenance and service as well as undoubted sales capabilities will bolster our team," said Ormonde Britton.
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One day after former Sonoma County Supervisor Ernie Carpenter shocked many local residents by announcing his bid for his old west county seat, Efren Carrillo — who holds that seat — said he is undaunted and will campaign hard for a second term.
On Friday afternoon, Carrillo stopped by the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Office to finalize his election paperwork, submit his statement of qualification and pay his filing fee of $1,340.97. Friday was filing deadline for the June primary election.
Carpenter, an environmental advocate who also filed his elections documents Friday, said the day before that he was compelled to run because of his dissatisfaction with Carrillo's record on land-use issues. Carpenter said construction, real estate and development interests are some of Carrillo's biggest donors.
But Carrillo defended his environmental record.
"In my tenure here on the board, we have preserved forever the Jenner headlands, the 5,600-acre crown jewel of Sonoma County's coastline," Carrillo said.
Carrillo also said he's been a strong supporter of fish habitat in the Russian River and related streams and creeks, supported the development of local, affordable, sustainable food and championed the local water agency's goal of being carbon-free by 2015.
But Carrillo has supported several controversial projects, most notably the Dutra Materials asphalt plant south of Petaluma. That key vote — as well as his refusal to oppose the proposed Preservation Ranch forest-to-vineyard conversion project on 20,000 acres outside of Annapolis — have many Sonoma County environmentalists thinking twice about letting Carrillo have a second term.
Carrillo insists taking a position on Preservation Ranch prior to the completion of the state environmental review process would be "irresponsible," given the "quasi-judicial" role of the Board of Supervisors in the process.
"I can compare it to asking a judge to weigh in on a trial before the hearing," he said. "Are there environmental concerns that need to be addressed with a project of this magnitude? Absolutely."
On Friday, former Santa Rosa City Councilwoman Veronica Jacobi, also an environmentalist, finalized her election paperwork for the same supervisorial seat. Jacobi, Carrillo and Carpenter were among a number of local candidates for local and state elected office who beat the 5 p.m. deadline for filing election documents.
Tom Lynch, a Guerneville businessman and Democrat, finalized his bid against Green candidate Pamela Elizondo, an environmental health consultant from Laytonville, and Democratic Assemblyman Wes Chesbro for the 2nd Assembly District. Chesbro currently represents the 1st District.
Joe Boswell of San Rafael, who works for a small family-owned business that specializes in wine barrels, came to Sonoma County to submit his ballot statement.
Boswell is running as an independent for the 10th Assembly District, a packed race that includes Democratic 7th District Assemblyman Michael Allen. Boswell, 28, said it was his first bid for elected office. He said he was active in the Barack Obama campaign and was an executive assistant to the first lady's chief of staff.
Gloria Colter, assistant registrar of voters, said Friday saw a "steady flow of people" finalizing their candidacies.
Who's running for local, state and federal seats in Sonoma County?
The following candidates have filed for local, statewide and national office. The list is based on election filings at the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters Office. It may not be complete, since some candidates for statewide and congressional offices may have filed in neighboring counties.
2nd Congressional District: Susan Adams, Democrat and Marin County supervisor; Mike Halliwell, college professor, a Cotati Republican; Tiffany Renee, a Democrat and Petaluma vice mayor; Norman Solomon, Democrat of Point Reyes Station; Jared Huffman, San Rafael Democrat and state assemblyman; Stacey Lawson, Democrat of San Rafael; Brooke Clarke, a Ukiah small-business owner, no party affiliation; Daniel Roberts, securities broker dealer and Mill Valley Republican; Larry Fritzlan, a Mill Valley Democrat.
5th Congressional District: Mike Thompson, 1st District congressman, a St. Helena Democrat; Stewart John Cilley, certified public accountant and Rohnert Park Republican; Randy Loftin, a tax and financial planning adviser and Napa Republican.
3rd District State Senate: Lois Wolk, the current 5th District state senator from Davis.
10th Assembly District: Michael Allen, a San Rafael Democrat and state assemblyman; Joe Boswell, a San Rafael independent; H. Christian Gunderson, a chiropractor and Petaluma Democrat; Marc Levine, Democrat and San Rafael city councilman; Peter J. Mancus, Republican small-business owner of Sebastopol.
Sonoma County 3rd District supervisor: incumbent Shirlee Zane; Tim Smith of Rohnert Park, a small-business owner and educator.
Sonoma County 1st District supervisor: Filing deadline extended to March 14 because there is no incumbent.
Sonoma County 5th District supervisor: Incumbent Efren Carrillo; Veronica Jacobi, former Santa Rosa City Council member; Ernie Carpenter, former county supervisor and consultant.
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An entirely greater level of political interference is manifestly run on behalf of Bosco and allied financial interests by many members of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. As only one example, the precocious political career of present Fifth District Supervisor Efren Carillo was wholly engineered by people like Bosco and former Fifth District Supervisor Eric Koenigshofer, an attorney and long-standing member in good faith of the Bosco Boys. In the final weeks of the race, Carillo's campaign received a virtually unheard-of campaign donation of $23,500 from none other than Bosco's Northwestern Pacific Railroad business partner, Skip Berg, by way of his company Berg Holdings. Syar, the gravel mining company, gave over $8,000. Bosco himself chipped in $5,000. Carillo's opponent, long-time Sonoma
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1). "one thing thing" is sort of an oxymoron being two thing thing (s)
2). Who is Castillo?
3). "He's a lair." In what context are you referring Mr. Castillo as a dwelling?
There's nothing wrong with Ernie spending his money in a losing campaign. If he wants to take time off from his work promoting garbage companies and forest to vineyard applicants in NW Sonoma County (remember Ernie was the paid representative of this proposal in 1999); run Earnie run. Good for a few laughs anyway.
Yeah, everyone just loves to spend all their money on a campaign with a strong possibility of losing.
One thing thing article proves is that Castillo is perfect for politics.
He's a lair.
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As a more casual Mystics fan who hadn't followed the team closely for years and years until this year, I thought I'd go ahead and answer Albert's call. Gondor has called for aid and Rohan will answer. Errrrrrrrrrrr, something like that. :)
What if, on that ever so fateful day of June 1, 2007, Richie Adubato woke up in the morning, looked in the mirror, and said to himself "Well, this is certainly messed up. We're 0-5 and now this. Crystal Robinson has retired, which isn't that surprising, and we think she'll make a good assistant coach. However, I've got no clue why GM Linda Hargrove didn't at least call me before shipping Chasity Melvin out to Chicago for Monique Currie. I mean, as the dang coach, I ought to at least be consulted on stuff like this. However, the more that I think about it, the more I think that this is probably a good idea in the long run. I mean, I want to see what this Sanford kid's got. In addition, the idea of hitching all of our small forward wagons to Tamara James - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEECK. I don't even wanna go there! So, we'll go ahead and stick it out and see what we can do with it."
In spite of the "Washington Post's" Dan Steinberg having fun writing about the angry and bitter Chasity literally suiting up that night to stick it to her now former team, the "new-look" Mystics make quick work of the visiting 1-3 Sky. I mean, the Mystics weren't exactly frightened of Sneaky [Stacey] Dales-Schuman and her still expansion-teamish minions. Dropping the next three games as the new starting unit begins to gel and James gets Mo up to speed, the team finally gets out of its funk for real, winning its next group of games against Western Conference foes Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Houston. The cataclysmic game for the first-half of the season is the June 29th home game against Detroit, the very game in which the franchise turns the corner and finally establishes itself as capable of winning in the long run (in fact, that's not all fictional. In real life, this remains not only the best-ever performance by a Mystics team that I've seen, but the best basketball game I've ever seen. Period.)
The second half of the season features some interesting developments, including:
1. Seeing Alana Beard, Mo, and DeLisha Milton-Jones hitting crazy-hard shot after crazy-hard shot, a fire begins to burn under Nikki Blue, and she abandons her campaign to get hip-hop clothing labels to provide free goodies to WNBA players. Instead, she uses her newfound free time to - you guessed it - practice shooting. Spending every waking hour that she can in the gym taking just about every type of shot you can imagine, she finds herself replacing the hobbled Nikki Teasley in the starting lineup. With her solid speed and quickness, Blue's court vision begins to improve, enabling the team to win some additional close games and enabling her to lock up the starting spot for at least the next three seasons. In fact, when the season ends, she doesn't ship out for Greece, opting to stay home and continue work on her shooting.
2. Not bogged down with head coaching duties, assistant coach Tree Rollins finds himself with plenty of time to work with the undersized and to this point, underutilized Bernice Mosby. Having noticed Mosby's exceptional lateral quickness inside the paint, Tree slowly enables her to become a solid interior defender. Although Hargrove's assessment of B-Mo's offensive game was a bit off (Sorry, Linda, but she's no D-Nasty,) and she isn't going to poach many of D-Nasty's minutes (after all, the Mystics are a team that usually needs to come from behind, not protect a lead), Mosby goes on the become a key defensive specialist who boxes out, rebounds well, and helps the team.
On the road late in the season, the team really proves its mettle, with solid inside scoring from longshot-project-turned-blue-chip-prospect Gillian Goring and a barrage of three-pointers from Coco Miller and Laurie Koehn leading the way. The team finds itself winning all four games of its murderously-hard west-coast swing against San Antonio, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sacramento and then finishing the season a solid 18-16, snagging the fourth and final playoff spot.
As things are finally going right in Mysticsland, Alana (admittedly one of the best perimeter defenders in the league at the time) finally solves the Deanna Nolan riddle in the first round of the playoffs, shutting Nolan down and enabling the Mystics to pull perhaps the most stunning upset in WNBA playoff history. However, it all goes for naught when the team runs headlong into Loree Moore, Cathrine Kraayeveld and company, who sweep the Mystics and advance to the Finals. In the end, Richie vows to build an even better, more balanced Mystics team in 2008, Alana vows to get past her nagging shoulder injury and continue her quiet leadership in 2008, and most importantly, DeLisha vows that even though she's disappointed that the franchise didn't market the heck out of her, she's looking forward to remaining a Mystic for a great many years.
One of the best things about this particular fantasy is what we don't get. We don't get the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night on that June 1st, allegedly leaving resident tough-gal Coco Miller in tears on the sideline and (at the time) apparently dooming the rest of the season. We don't get poor Tree eventually getting overwhelmed and in the long run, in over his head as head coach. We don't get an angry DeLisha holding the franchise hostage in the following offseason, first demanding a trade and then vetoing a prospective trade to Minnesota because she suddenly decides that she only wants to play for New York, Detroit, or Los Angeles. After Goring and Mosby tear up their knees playing abroad, we don't get the Mystics suddenly having to use their 2008 first round pick on Crystal Langhone because they don't know who their front-court is going to be, eliminating their ability to address other needs elsewhere (although, in a way, this did turn out for the best. Lang's ended up being Hargrove's best decision). We do get Taj for a bit, which is good, but we don't get a hobbled, overwhelmed Nikki Blue joined by an equally-hobbled, equally-overwhelmed Crystal Smith trying to hold down the fort at point guard in a point guard-driven league – contributing heavily to the 10-24 debacle of a 2008 season. We don't get our inept team president, Dr. Sheila Johnson, ripping the players, telling the media that they lack talent and thus alienating them, their families, and prospective free agents like, say, Ticha Penicheiro, who'd probably rather drink her own bath water than sign a free agent contract to play for Johnson.
In short, we don't get a chain reaction of adverse events that caused explosive decompression that struck at the very heart of our beloved franchise's foundation, causing fissures that ran so deep that Mike Thibault is only now beginning to repair them.
I guess this post was inspired by seeing Nadirah McKenith and Tayler Hill doing the funky pass drill during pre-game warm-ups. That brought back the Blue and James pre-game funky pass drill memories. Like every Mystics fan, I'm forever thinking of what might've been. :)


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WORCESTERSHIRE racer Rob Austin will contest this weekend's British Touring Car Championship meeting at Thruxton after working round the clock to fix his Audi A4.
The car, nicknamed Sherman, suffered extensive rear-end damage after being rammed by another car during the previous meeting at Donington Park last month.
Mechanics from the Pershore-based Rob Austin Racing have worked through the night on several occasions in recent days in a bid to restore the car.
"The damage was worse than we first thought but the work that's gone in since Donington has been unbelievable and yet again my crew have done the most remarkable job in the timeframe," said Austin.
"After the graft the lads have put in the least I can do now is go to Thruxton and drive the hell out of it."
He added: "The speeds are incredibly high all the way round the lap – we're nudging 150mph in some places with some of the corners taken at over 130mph. It really sorts the men from the boys."
Meanwhile, Pershore rivals Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal will be looking to heap more pressure on the leaders.
The Honda Yuasa Racing duo are breathing down the necks of joint leaders Andrew Jordan and Jason Plato ahead of the Hampshire meeting.
Shedden is just a single point off the pace with Neal a further seven points back in fifth following rounds at Brands Hatch Indy and Donington.
After the Honda Civic Tourer secured the first victory for an estate-style car in the BTCC last time out, when Shedden won race three, the team are looking to maintain their momentum.
"It was great to see 'Flash' break the duck with the new car at Donington," Neal said. "That was really something special.
"I've always tried to take each weekend as it comes and, although it wasn't a perfect one for me, I still scored a lot of points.
"To be close to the top but a little further down in the classification is a blessing in many ways – we'll have less ballast on-board than our rivals, so we need to capitalise upon that."
At the Thruxton meeting last season, triple champion Neal won the first two races with Shedden making it three-out-of-three in the final contest.
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Hey im coming to you as a jags fan and bills fan with Denver being my third favorite Team in the league so im by no means a die hard denver fan. But that is not to say i do not wish the best for yal and root for denver as long as you arent playing jacksonville or buffalo.i am curious to see how denvers season shapes up next year and that starts with free agency. I was wondering how things were shaping up as far as free agency?
These are some names for free agency i looked at and thought could be good fits for denver and i was wondering what some hardcore denver fans thought of this? feed back is always welcomed and sorry if these names have already been floated around and am just stating the obvious
Jason Jones-DT Tennessee
Bio-6'5 276 age 25
Last year stats-34 pressures from DT position, best in the league
Breakdown-had a bad year this year playing DE and doesnt look like hes going to resign with tennessee(thank god) considering he is better suited at DT. He is one of the Best pass rushing DT in the league leading the league in pressures for DT in 2010 with 34. From first hand experience watching two games a year of this guy, he is a beast and can really change the game and he isnt a huge liability in the run game. With Bunkley on the other side stuffing the run i think the combo of Jones, Miller, and Dumervil would be unblockable for many teams on passing downs. He IMO would sure up the DT position for the broncos at least for next year and he wont be a huge cost.
Ben Grubbs-OG Baltimore
Bio-6'3 310 age 27
This year stats-4 sacks and 6 pressures allowed in 10 games
Breakdown-probably most everybody on this site knows atleast a little about Ben Grubbs so i wont spend a lot of time talking about him. Denvers interior line play could use some upgrading after last season and Grubbs could be a reasonably priced guy(in comparison to Carl Nicks) that could do that. He is a solid pass blocker and a road grading run blocker with a wide body and some good power. He would fit right in with Denvers run game. Hes also coming off of turf toe which is worth noting. There are reports the ravens aren't optimistic that he will be resigned, so he could be a good player to watch if the Broncos are looking to address interior line this offseason.
Martellus Bennett-TE Dallas
Bio-6'6 272 age 24
This year stats-nothing special
Breakdown-this is the guy I'm the most iffy on out of this list. He isn't hugely productive but he has every physical attribute you look for in a TE. He is big great blocker and a good receiver. The reason i put him on this list is due to the fact he has been behind Witten his entire career and that might have been impeding his development. He should be alot better than he is and in the right system he could explode into a very productive young tight end. COULD is the key word there though. He would come extremely cheap and i have a gut feeling he could be a good outlet for tebow but he is like i said, he has the most bust potential out of this list. Even though he'll sign for about tree fitty.


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It was a busy weekend for Taylor Swift. On Saturday, she cut the ribbon at her new Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Sunday night, she was across the street at the new Music City Center, accepting the Artist Songwriter of the Year award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International.
It was the record sixth time she's won the award, topping five time winners Vince Gill and Alan Jackson. "I don't see a world where I would have been a singer without a writer. That's definitely the most important part of what I do, and that's where my biggest heroes lie, in the songwriting," She told The Tennessean.
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News: Beyonce Offers To Sing At Obama's Inauguration
Thursday, Nov 6, 2008 12:54PM
Still excited over President-elect Barack Obama's win this week, Beyonce has stepped forward offering her vocals for his Inauguration ceremony.
According to the Associated Press, the R&B superstar wants to be in Washington, DC on January 20th and is ready, willing and able to help the Illinois Senator in any way she can.
"I'm there," she told the AP. "I can't wait. I feel like all of us, we're ready to do whatever we have to do. Whatever they want - if they need me to volunteer, they need me to sing, I'm there, and I'm ready."
Originally scheduled to promote her upcoming album I Am...Sasha Fierce in Japan on Election Day, the singer revealed her inability to be away on such a important night.
"I said, 'What am I doing?' I'm completely making a bad decision," she said. "I have to go home, I'm gonna kill myself if I'm not home in America. I knew I needed to be here."
As of press time there has been no word on who will be performing at the historic date when Obama will be officially sworn in as the 44th President of the U.S.
In related news, with only a few weeks away from its release date, Beyonce's new album has been leaked online
In related news, with only a few weeks away from its release date, Beyonce's new album has been leaked online
The two disc album follows up Bey's 2006 platinum-selling disc, B'Day, and features production from Rodney Jerkins along with a contribution from Justin Timberlake. Serving as her third solo release, the project is led by the singles "If I Were A Boy" and "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)."
I Am...Sasha Fierce is currently scheduled to hit retail stores Tuesday, November 18 via Sony Records.
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Easter HighlightsPosted: April 27, 2011 Filed under: Awaken Church, Mission Leave a comment
We had an incredible Easter Sunday at Awaken as we celebrated our Triumphant King Jesus! God graced us with beautiful weather, record attendance, and a powerful move of His spirit as we saw lives changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ!
I'm so proud of our partners and volunteers. Easter was our first Sunday doing two services and they pulled it off like they've been doing it for years! Everything from set-up to tear-down ran smoothly. And, all that with a record number of adults and children in attendance and baptism after both services. Awesome job!
Over 30 people indicated they trusted Jesus as Savior! 5 of those immediately took the next step and were baptized on the spot. There were a couple of incredible stories:
- During the first service, a mom and her two kids all trusted Jesus as Savior and were baptized following the service. The family was invited by one of our Partners who stayed with them the entire time and was absolutely overjoyed at what God did in their lives!
- In the second service, a lady trusted Jesus as Savior and took the step to be baptized. Her husband and parents were with her and all were totally overjoyed. After the baptism, her parents told me with tears in their eyes how they have prayed for years for their daughter to trust Jesus as Savior and God answered their prayer on Sunday!
- Between services, a man told me he trusted Jesus as Savior and wanted to be baptized after the second service. The cool thing about that is on Monday, he and his wife had their second child! A new Christian, baptized, and a dad again all in the span of a few hours – amazing!
- Later on Easter afternoon, I talked with one of our AwakenKids elementary students and her parents. She trusted Jesus as Savior and after talking with her parents, she wanted to let me know. She kept saying over and over how the gospel became real to her on Sunday! Way to go parents and AwakenKids team!
All this week, we have heard story after story of people who were at Awaken on Sunday who have not been to church in years, if at all. With almost all of them, we're hearing those same people say they can't wait to come back this week. And, thanks to the initiative of some of our Community Group leaders, some of those who were with us for the first time on Easter have been invited to and are attending various Community Group gatherings over the next week or so. Win, win, win win!
I could go on and on. Suffice it to say that Easter was a game-changing day for Awaken Church. We saw our mission to make God's name great through lives changed by the gospel of Jesus come to life. I can't wait to see what's next. I know this much already – the best is yet to come!
Somebody Invite SomebodyPosted: April 19, 2011 Filed under: Awaken Church, Mission 2 Comments
Anticipating is building for Easter at Awaken Church! I absolutely cannot wait to see how God moves as we gather to celebrate the Risen Jesus.
If studies are correct, then over 80% of your friends who are not Christians or do not attend church are at least open to and likely to respond favorably to your invitation to church for Easter Sunday. In anticipation of what God is going to do and to create more room to invite more people, Awaken will have two identical Easter services at 9:30 am and 11:00 am. It's going to be a huge day!
A lot of you grabbed a stack of invite cards on Sunday and by the time you got home, the fear had already begun to set-in. What if they say no, what is they punch me in the face, what if they cuss me out, what if inviting them hurts our friendship…all these thoughts may have run through your head.
Let me encourage you to push out of your comfort zones and fight through the doubts to invite your friends to hear the gospel and worship Jesus on Sunday.
If you had free tickets for choice seats to see your favorite sports team, you would have no problem inviting people to join you. This is really no different…but it is because what Jesus has done for us is WAY more important than anything teenagers or grown men/women have ever done with a ball or a puck!
Here are some practical ways you can invite friends to Easter at Awaken:
- Pray for people by name each day. Trust that God is already at work in their lives. Ask Him to soften their heart.
- Share a meal with your friend and invite them over the meal. Pick up the tab and invite them to church. Or, you could invite their family over for a meal in your home. Serve them well.
- If you go out for a meal, ask how you can pray for your server before you bless your food, tip them well, and hand them an invite card before you leave.
- Offer to eat lunch together after church on Sunday. Offer to pick them up or caravan with them on Sunday morning.
- Talk about Easter at Awaken on Facebook and Twitter. Aim for at least one status update per day that would include an invite to Easter at Awaken.
- Point people to our website. They can listen to previous sermons, get all the info they need for AwakenKids, etc.
- Prayerwalk through your neighborhood and invite people who are out working in the yard, playing outside, out for a walk, etc.
- Put some invite cards on your desk, your coffee table, your car console, etc. where people will see them and ask you about them.
- Keep invite cards with you all the time and be ready to step up when the opportunity pops up!
- There are literally a zillion ways to invite people…these are just a few.
The point is this – God can use your invitation to radically transform a life. Don't miss this incredible opportunity to invite your friends to hear and respond to the gospel on Easter Sunday.
AC'ers…I'm praying for you as you invite your friends and people you cross paths with this week. I am praying for and expecting a move of God on Sunday – that God would make His name great through lives changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Friday FivePosted: March 11, 2011 Filed under: Awaken Church 1 Comment
It's been an incredible week as I was able to spend a couple of days with church planters and leaders from across our state dreaming and strategizing about what it looks like for our churches to be "in the city, for the city." This week adds to my already pretty high excitement about what is happening around Awaken in the upcoming weeks.
Here are the top 5 things happening at Awaken that you need to know about :
1. Community Group registration is open and groups will officially launch the week of March 20. We are very excited about this important next step for our church! Join us Sunday for part 2 of Tangible Kingdom as we cast vision for Community Groups at Awaken. You can also visit the website for more info and to sign up for a group.
2. Our next Partnership Class in on Sunday, March 27. We use the term Partner instead of member because we want our Partners to be active participants in our mission of making God's name great through lives changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can check out our website for more information on Partnership. If you're ready to jump in, you can register online right now.
3. Our new sermon series, Christ Alone, launches next Sunday, March 20. I am praying for a harvest during this series – that we will see many, many lives changed by the good news of what Jesus has done for us. Start inviting your friends now – we will have series invite cards available on Sunday. Christ Alone will run through Easter.
4. More and more people are signing up for Online Giving, which is awesome. Online giving is a great way for you to give consistently and generously. To get signed-up for online recurring giving, check out our website and follow the instructions. It's easy, safe, and helpful.
5. 2011 is off to a great start for Awaken Church! January and February were the best back to back months since we launched and I am confident it is just the beginning. If you're not involved yet, I want you to be a part of what God is doing in our city. Take advantage of these opportunities and join us in making God's name great through lives changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
A Culmination and A New BeginningPosted: March 1, 2011 Filed under: Awaken Church Leave a comment
Last Sunday at Awaken was electric! I loved every minute of our worship service as we wrapped up the RESTORE series through Nehemiah and launched into a new season of life and ministry as a church.
In response to how God worked among us through the RESTORE series, we have embraced a new mission statement as the rallying cry for why we do what we do. It is the ultimate answer to why we exist and what we hope to accomplish. Everything we do…everything…will be aimed at fulfilling this mission.
Our mission is "making God's name great through lives changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ."
Making God's name great :: there is no other name worthy of being made great. In 1000 years, no one will remember Awaken Church, Jay Hardwick, or anyone else…but God and His glory will reign forever. Therefore, we will live our lives to make His name great, pray for His name to be made great in our city, and use what He has given us to make His name great in lives, communities, and sectors where it is not.
Through lives changed :: we believe there is healing, redemption, and new life in the name of Jesus. The path to change in a city begins with change in a life and a family. We want to see Jesus move people from death to life, from broken to whole, from slave to free, from immature to mature, from consumer to missionary.
By the gospel of Jesus Christ :: the only means of real change and the only lasting change in a person's life comes by the gospel of Jesus Christ. While God uses events and circumstances to align us with His purposes, it is ultimately the gospel – that Jesus has died for our sins and by His resurrection, given us redemption, forgiveness, and victory – that changes lives. We will ferociously seek to know, live, and share the gospel.
In short, we desire to be a force for God's glory in the city of Columbia and around the world! He's called us to be a city within a city whose sole desire is making His Name great through lives changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
God has done a great work in us over the last 40 days of this series and season of prayer and fasting. Now we are ready to act on what He has put in front of us knowing that He is able to do exceedingly abundantly more than we could ever ask for, dream of, or imagine…ALL for His glory (Eph 3:20-21).
I don't know what's going to happen next, but I do know that the best is yet to come!
The Means of RenewalPosted: February 22, 2011 Filed under: Awaken Church, Discipleship 1 Comment
I've been preaching through the book of Nehemiah the last few weeks at Awaken. Nehemiah's vision was never just to rebuild the walls, but to rebuild the walls and renew the people as a means of restoring the glory of God to Jerusalem.
Yesterday, we turned the corner from the work of rebuilding the walls to the work of renewing the people. What we find is renewal in any city starts with the people of God and renewal within the people of God always starts with God's Word.
God's Word is not a moral law book that must be followed in order to receive God's love. Just the opposite, it's the story of God's love and pursuit in spite of our absolute failure to follow His law. Our joy and freedom to follow Him are based on what He has done for us, not what we must do for Him to earn His grace or favor.
It's in experiencing this joy and freedom that is ours in Christ that we long to submit to His authority and to live for His glory. It's through His Word that God gives us His heart for people, our city, and the nations.
That can't happen if we are not intentionally studying God's Word with others and individually. Here are some tips to help you take that important step:
- Set a no exemption time and place to meet with God. Get up extra early, use your lunch break, take a break during the day. Whenever, wherever…just pick the time and place and commit to it.
- Start your Bible reading with prayer. Spend time worshiping God for His goodness and grace. Spend time confessing known sin in your life and ask God to restore you. Ask God to speak to you through His Word.
- Have a plan. Don't just flip the Bible open and go. You need a place. There are several great plans you can follow online or on your phone, several you can print and take with you, and others you can use a variety of ways. Pick one that works and go with it.
- Write down significant insights and scriptures. Get a notebook or a journal and spend time after each Bible reading writing down key insights and scriptures. Write about verses that give joy because of how they reveal the gospel, verses that convict you of present sin, verses that teach you how to follow and honor God, etc.
- Share your reading and insights with others. Following Jesus and gleaning from His Word was never meant to be a solo sport. You need others to keep you accountable and to help you understand and apply the Word. You can do the same for others. This will be a key part of Community Groups (launching in March!) at Awaken.
- Commit to action. The book of James calls us to not just be hearers of the Word, but doers. As God reveals His will to you through His Word and as He prompts you to follow Him, do what He says! Give, serve, share, go, tell…whatever it is, do it!
If we want to see renewal come to our lives, our city, and if we truly want to see God's name made great in and through out lives and our church, then we must be people who are hungry to hear and committed to do God's Word.
Get started today. If you miss a day, just pick up where you left off and keep going. Just because you miss a meal doesn't mean you stop eating!
Go for it – your joy and freedom to follow Him will explode as you dive into His Word!
Friday FivePosted: February 18, 2011 Filed under: Awaken Church, Personal Leave a comment
Wrapping up what was a busy, but very productive and forward-reaching week for me and Awaken Church. I'm excited about what is ahead for our church! Here are a few personal and Awaken Church updates:
- We have two weeks left in the RESTORE series. I am very excited about these next two Sundays as we cast some specific vision for next steps at Awaken. To say these are can't miss Sundays would be an understatement!
- On that note, we had to make a slight change in plans for Feb 27. We had to cancel the Night of Worship we planned to have that evening. Never fear, we'll do it as our morning worship service that day as we cry out to God on behalf of our city and beg God to use us to make His name great in Columbia and beyond.
- Pastor Steve Burnette, our Community & Admin Pastor, led our first Community Group leader training this week and groups will launch in mid-March! I absolutely cannot wait and I thank God for Pastor Steve's leadership.
- I have the honor of preaching at the South Carolina Baptist Convention Evangelism Conference next week in Anderson, SC. Please pray that God will use me to encourage pastors and leaders from across our state to push back the darkness and work for the glory of God in their cities.
- Our family is finally well! After battling a flu-like bug for over a week, everyone is pretty much back to normal. Somehow, I didn't get it. But, my appreciation for my wife went to whole new level as I attempted to care for her and our girls while they were sick. Moms are amazing!
Have a great weekend and Awaken Church…I'll see you Sunday!
Around AwakenPosted: December 17, 2010 Filed under: Awaken Church Leave a comment
Here are a few things happening around Awaken Church:
- This Sunday, we will receive the Advance Offering. This year, the Advance Offering will help fund international missionaries through the IMB, fund our local ministry partnerships and benevolence ministry, and help Awaken add a pastoral staff member. I am asking all AC'ers to come prepared to give on Sunday. If you will be out of town or are out of town, but would like to give, you can give online.
- Make plans to attend and invite your friends to Christmas Eve at Awaken :: Friday, December 24 at 5:00 pm at Polo Rd Elementary School. The family-friendly service will feature some great Christmas music from our band, a Christmas message, and Communion. There will be no childcare so you can attend and worship together as a family. Should be a great night as we worship Jesus!
- Because we are having a Christmas Eve service, we will not have a worship service on Sunday, December 26. Spend the morning celebrating Jesus and worshiping with family and friends. Our staff and volunteers work extremely hard to make a Sunday happen at Awaken, so this is also a chance to give them a Sunday off.
- 2011 is going to be a great year! God is stirring up some incredible opportunities and giving clear vision for the next steps for Awaken Church. Let's pray and work hard to finish 2010 with momentum and believe God for even greater things in 2011!
See you Sunday at 10:30 am at Polo Rd Elementary!
This Sunday at Awaken :: Going All the WayPosted: October 1, 2010 Filed under: Awaken Church Leave a comment
Going All the Way (Part 5) :: Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God
Did you really think we would do an entire series on marriage an not talk about sex?! For some of you, this is probably THE sermon you've been waiting on!
Far too many marriages slowly drift into a dark, cold, roommate-like relationship void of the romance and pursuit that defined the dating and engagement stage. Sex, then, becomes an obligatory, forced, and less than enjoyable experience that is endured occasionally rather than celebrated often.
We must not and cannot takes our cues for romance and sex from the sinful impulses of ourselves and the world we live in. The good news is that God has not left us in the dark. Join us on Sunday as we see what God says about growing in love for one another and celebrating the gift of sexual intimacy the way He intended it.
Awaken Church meets on Sundays at 10:30 am at Polo Road Elementary School (1250 Polo Road, Columbia, 29223). AwakenKids classes (6 weeks – 5th grade) open at 10:10 am.
This Sunday at Awaken :: Going All the WayPosted: September 17, 2010 Filed under: Awaken Church Leave a comment
After a powerful One Year Anniversary celebration last week, I'm excited about jumping back in to the Going All the Way Series this Sunday at Awaken.
"I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive him." "I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive her."
Have you ever said that in response to something your spouse has done or said? Does it seem that every new disagreement winds up in an argument about past sins and failures? Have you said, "I forgive you," but struggled to actually do so in your heart?
10 out of 10 marriages have to deal with sin and failures. You're not perfect and neither is your spouse. Join us on Sunday to find out how to deal with sin and failures by offering the greatest gift you could offer your spouse. It's the same gift Jesus freely gives to you.
Sunday promises to be a powerful day. Don't miss it and be sure to invite friends to join you. See you Sunday at 10:30 am at Polo Road Elementary.
Sunday at Awaken :: One Year AnniversaryPosted: September 10, 2010 Filed under: Awaken Church Leave a comment
Hard to believe, but one year ago this Sunday, Awaken Church said "Hello" to the world. Absolutely cannot wait to celebrate on Sunday!
We have much to celebrate – lives changed by the power of God, marriages healed, addictions broken, community renewal, global opportunities, growth. We also have much to look forward to – even more of all the above!
I hope you will make plans to join us on Sunday. After what promises to be a powerful time of worship, we will have a baptism celebration with many who are going public with their faith. It's not too late to be baptized, but you need to get registered today.
I have so much hope for Sunday and for the future of Awaken Church. As much as we have already seen God do, the best is STILL yet to come!
See you Sunday at 10:30 am at Polo Road Elementary School (1250 Polo Road, Columbia, 29223).


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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Exhaustion from Quilting
I went to crafters night at Scrap and Sew – let me just say, this place is awesome and Tess the owner is incredible. She really helped me every step of the way. I quilted the entire thing (the inside panels were stitch in the ditch quilting and the outside border was free quilting) and got my binding strips put on. All I have left is to handsew the binding to the back of the quilt and put on the buttons. The threads also need to be clipped as well. I can't believe how much I got done tonight. It looks amazing and Tess showed me a super nice way to put binding strips on without...Read More »


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School of Science Research Highlights
The Climate Conundrum: Challenging Science, Economics, Technology, and Policy
Ron Prinn, ScD '71
TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
I must confess that my views have evolved over the many years that I have worked in climate science. Twelve years ago, at the 1997 "Countdown to Kyoto" hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives, I testified that I was not convinced that human activity had yet made a detectable impact on the natural variations of the climate. But in the ten years that followed—amid the observations of continued overall warming, and the recent improvements in climate theory and modeling—I had good reason to change my conclusions. By the time I was invited to appear before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee in 2007, I could confirm that human activity was indeed affecting the Earth's climate.
That we are experiencing a change of climate is well documented: An examination of the actual temperature records since 1860 shows some ups and a few downs, but an overall warming of about 0.8°C—a seemingly small, but yet significant increase. However, the crux of the intense debates on climate change is not about whether warming has occurred; rather, it is about whether warming is the result of human activity or is simply part of the naturally occurring fluctuations in temperature observed over the Earth's history.
Central to these debates is the influence of greenhouse gases on global warming. Any global imbalance between the energy the Earth receives as visible light from the Sun and the energy it radiates back to space as infrared radiation will drive global warming or cooling. The greenhouse effect is one driver of climatic warming, where clouds and gases absorb outgoing infrared radiation and re-emit it back toward the Earth's surface, causing temperatures to rise. A significant portion of the greenhouse effect occurs naturally through quickly dissipating water vapor, and is countered by the cooling properties of snow, desert sand, clouds, and colorless sulfate aerosols that reflect sunlight back to space.
However, concerns that human activity is propelling global warming arise from the accumulation of long-lived greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and lower atmospheric ozone. The concentrations of these gases have increased substantially over the past two centuries, due in large part to human activity that can upset the long-term balance between global warming and cooling mechanisms.
When I first testified at the U.S. House of Representatives in 1997, there were not enough powerful observations, theories, and models to sort out how much of the climate change we had experienced could be attributed to a natural warming phenomenon and how much could be attributed to human activity. But since then, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has combined multiple models to separate the "noise" of natural variability in climate from the "signal" of human-caused changes. Model runs that include human influences and those that exclude them were compared. If human activity has a negligible effect on the climate, then models that exclude human influence should be able to simulate the patterns of climate change already observed over the past 50 to 100 years. The reverse is also true: If human activity has a significant impact on the climate, then those models that account for human influence should match observed patterns. The IPCC concluded in 2007 that the latter case was correct: There is a greater than 90 percent chance that most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas levels.
Given this human influence, integrating and understand-ing the diverse human and natural components of the problem is essential if we are to objectively address uncertainty in forecasts and inform policy development and implementation. Toward this end, over the past 15 years at MIT, we have developed the Integrated Global System Model (IGSM). To make effective forecasts of climate change, the IGSM combines models not only of natural biogeochemical cycles, climate dynamics, and natural ecosystems, but also urban air pollution and the increase in emissions from such essential human activities as energy and food production linked with economic growth.
Though the IGSM accounts for numerous variables affecting climate change, there is still some amount of uncertainty associated with climate forecasts—a model, after all, can only give us probable outcomes. Toward this end, we have used thousands of IGSM runs applying different assumptions to quantify the uncertainty of future climate change forecasts. We can provide the probability range of outcomes expected for proposed policies and account for important feedback relationships between submodels, the sensitivities of certain policy-relevant variables (such as rainfall, temperature, and ecosystem state) to the accuracy of assumptions built in the submodels, structural uncertainties present in existing models, and uncertainties in economic parameters such as labor productivity and efficiency growth.
No matter how persuasive comprehensive models like the IGSM are to the scientific community, the results of such an uncertainty study must be communicated with force and clarity to the public and policymakers to be useful. My colleagues and I have found our "greenhouse gamble" wheels to be effective in communicating the value of climate policy despite the uncertainties. The probabilities of various amounts of warming from the above IGSM runs are projected onto two exemplary wheels. One represents the range of probable results when implementing no policy, and the other reflects the results from implementing a stringent policy that keeps total long-lived atmospheric greenhouse gas levels in the year 2100 just below the equivalent of 660 parts per million (ppm) of CO2. If there are no significant efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the "no policy" wheel shows about a 1-in-4 chance of greater than 6 °C warming between now and 2100. Most climate scientists regard such an amount of warming as undeniably dangerous. The "policy" wheel indicates that the odds of exceeding a 6°C warming drop to less than 1 in 400, clearly showing the value of the policy in lowering the risks. Therefore, the exact odds of various amounts of warming depicted in the two wheels are not as important as the differences between them.
To illustrate the dangers of a 6°C warming, I note that the warming of the Arctic and Antarctic regions is predicted to be about twice that of the global average warming shown on these wheels. A 12°C polar warming would undoubtedly lead to total loss of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets that together contain the equivalent of 12 meters (39 feet) of sea-level rise. The last time the polar latitudes were only a few to several degrees warmer than present for an extended period (about 125,000 years ago), reductions in polar ice volume led to 4 to 6 meters of sea-level rise. Arctic tundra and frozen soils (which contain the equivalent of over 200 years of current fossil fuel carbon emissions that would be released on melting) and Arctic summer sea ice cover (an already diminishing polar cooling mechanism) are also vulnerable.
We cannot wait for perfection in either climate forecasts or impact assessments before taking action. The long-lived greenhouse gases emitted today will last from decades to centuries in the atmosphere. Added to this is the multi-decade period needed to change the global infrastructure for energy and agricultural production and utilization without serious economic impacts.
How You Can Help...
As long-time backpackers in the Sierras and the Rockies, Audrey Buryn '58, PhD '66 and Alan Phillips '57, PhD '61 have seen firsthand the impact humankind has had upon nature in the form of shrinking glaciers and warmer temperatures. By establishing the Ally of Nature Fund in the School of Science, they are seeking partners to help reverse this unfortunate trend.
One way you can support a sustainable Earth is by contributing to the Ally of Nature Fund. All gifts to this fund will be matched up to $500,000—this means that your gift will have twice the impact!
Professor Ron Prinn was the first grant recipient from this fund.


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The Blue Ridge District softball regular season title came down to the rematch between the Cavaliers and the perennial power Vikings. Northside handed Lord Botetourt its only loss of the District season 10-7 a few short weeks ago. On Tuesday night at Northside the Vikings rallied from two runs down for a six to two win. Ruthie Williams had a three-run double in the Vikings 6-2 win. Northside moves to 10-0 in the Blue Ridge and clinches the regular season title. Lord Botetourt falls to 8-2, 15-4 overall. Both teams look to continue their fine seasons in the Blue Ridge District tournament and beyond.
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