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The day I saw 248 girls suffering genital mutilationIn 2006, while in Indonesia and six months pregnant, Abigail Haworth became one of the few journalists ever to see young girls being 'circumcised'. Until now she has been unable to tell this shocking story
Abigail HaworthThe Observer, Sunday 18 November 201
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NYT: Genital Cutting Raises by 50% Likelihood Mothers or Their Newborns Will Die, Study Finds
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
one case is one too many...
Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has been appointed to lead a government taskforce aimed at preventing female genital mutilation.
There is no data on how widespread the practice is in Australia, but more than 120,000 migrant women here have suffered genital mutilation.
Ms Plibersek says one case of genital mutilation is one too many.
The practice is a crime in Australia, but Ms Plibersek says the Government's approach has to go beyond law enforcement.
"We have thousands of women now in Australia who've come from countries where this practice is common," she told 7.30.
"We need to make sure that we've got good obstetric and gynaecological care and that we help those women and their families ensure that this practice is never passed on to their daughters."
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a misguided belief among Muslim communities...
As a nine-year-old growing up in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Awezan Nuri narrowly escaped female genital mutilation. "My mother was 12 when she was mutilated," says the 31-year-old women's rights campaigner, who is also a renowned poet. "She has told me about the terrible pain, how much she bled that night and how ashamed she was to tell her family she was hurting. She couldn't talk to her mother, because her mother was the one who'd taken her to be cut. She felt alone and scared."
Despite the trauma of that experience, Nuri's mother still pushed for her six daughters to undergo the same process themselves. "She thought it was the responsibility of every Sunni Muslim to do this. Logically, she disagreed with it, but there was so much pressure from society."
It is a misguided belief among Muslim communities in dozens of countries around the world that the practice is mandated in Islam. For Nuri, it was an intervention by her father that saved her sisters from the knife – he said he did not agree with it. But most Iraqi Kurds are not so lucky. Figures from the Pana Centre – of which Nuri is vice president, in charge of the campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM) – show that 38 per cent of women in Kirkuk are victims. Among ethnic Kurds, that figure rises to 65 per cent...
read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-new-suffragettes-the-kurdish-woman-fighting-against-female-genital-mutilation-8640310.html
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Clinic treating victims of female genital mutilation opens in Berlin
A center to treat victims of female genital mutilation has opened in Berlin. The Desert Flower Medical Center was opened by the former supermodel and activist Waris Dirie, who was herself a victim of female circumcision.
Opened on Wednesday, the Desert Flower Medical Center will offer reconstructive surgery and psychological help to victims of female circumcision or FGM from around the world.
The center, located in Berlin's "Waldfriede" hospital, claims to be the first of its kind in the world. Its chief surgeon Roland Scherer told news agency AFP the clinic plans to treat between 50 and 100 women a year. It will serve as a pilot for other planned facilities in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
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as unforgivable as it is, it's better late than never...
The first UK prosecutions over female genital mutilation (FGM) have been announced by British authorities, nearly three decades after the practice was made illegal.
Dr Dhanoun Dharmasena, 31, of east London, has been charged over a surgery in 2012 in which he was alleged to have re-performed a genital mutilation on a woman after she gave birth at a London hospital.
"Having carefully considered all the available evidence, I have determined there is sufficient evidence and it would be in the public interest to prosecute Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena," said Alison Saunders, director of public prosecutions.
Another man, Hasan Mohamed, 40, from north London, also faces a charge of intentionally encouraging female genital mutilation.
It was not immediately clear what Mohamed's relationship to the victim was, but he is not a healthcare professional.
Both Dharmasena and Mohamed will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on April 15.MPs say it is 'unforgiveable' laws only used now
MPs have said it is unforgiveable these are the first prosecutions since laws against the practice were introduced.
It is estimated that 2-3 million girls worldwide are at risk of mutilation each year in Africa alone, while authorities say it is hard to know how common the practice is in countries where it is outlawed, including Australia, which has seen very few prosecutions for the crime.
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So, here we are…I have a team of level 25 pets….yes…3 pets at level 25!! Can you believe it, after all the whinging I did, I finally got there. Like the turtle, slow and steady wins the race.
I was chasing my safari/taming achievements as I was slowly building up my army and as you will see below I was quite successful
I managed to get my Northrend Safari and Tamer done and the realised I hadn't finished the Outland taming because my pets were not high enough.
So I travelled back in time and went to Outlands to finish:
Antari in Shadowmoon Valley…was hard. Super human hard. That elemental hits like a road truck. I started with full health and on one single hit he almost killed my little Onyxia. I had to change her out. I think I fought him 4 times to win. I was not sure I was going to be able to do it with my team.
I noticed after that and trolling through the achievement section that I could quiet easily get the Big City Brawlin achievements. So I hoped over to my druid and did all the Alliance ones. Goes to show how long it has been since I was on my druid, I forgot I even had flight form and kept looking for mounts on my bar only to realise I don't need them.
Then jumped back to my mage and proceeded to get distracted trying to collect pets in the area I was in. I don't like it when my mod tells me I am missing creatures. After a few moment chasing randoms and deciding to get focused on the task at hand. Woot! Pretty sweet.
I then decided to head to panda land and just chase the last few battles I need to get my team to 25. I was so ecstatic when it happened, it took me 2 fights to get all three over the line but now I just need to work on getting the rest up and chasing the elusive ones that are awesome to have.
Awww my babies are all grown up :) I am happy, so very happy to have finally gotten this done. I am not saying I am in love with pet battles by any stretch, but they have been enjoyable side ventures when I just can't handle the thought of doing another LFR.
I am leaving this until the last minute I know, but, you know…so many things to write about!!! So this week, I bring you another topic to discuss which is also our first topic to have gone fortnightly!!! Yes, the executive decision was made to give the blogosphere a chance to get back into the topics by spreading them a little more. Fingers crossed this helps get people involved.
I am sure this has been done years ago perhaps, but I felt I should ask again as it is particularly relevant to me now that I am back
What sort of method do you use for leveling the multiple alts? Do you follow the same quest chains each time, do you avoid a certain quest section, do you only dungeon etc?? I am leveling my 5th to 90 now – from 85 and I just wondered how you guys do it??
I am not talking about the oddball leveling like just herbing to push yourself to the limit of insanity, but the more run of the mill levelling.
I have to confess, I sort of forget to buy heirloom gear for my characters, so aside from my warlock, stuck at level 23 and my hunter who has two pieces of heirloom gear, I pretty much only level with the guild bonus.
I find leveling a real struggle if I have to go through the same area – for example, my monk is now doing the Ashenvale area, which my rogue has only just started doing as well….do you think I can find the energy to log onto my monk anymore? Nope…I need to get him across to the eastern kingdoms and quest there for something different, because I can't even be bothered logging onto my rogue and doing it either. Both toons are stuck at level 23ish because I am too lazy to log on and spend the time moving one to the other continent.
My higher level toons, I always try to find a different quest zone for. My mage – of course did everything My druid was leveled with dungeons and herbing (and some skinning as well just to get some xp but only if the bare minimum quests required it) I think she has only done about 200 quests in her lifetime, for leveling purposes. My warrior did Kun lai and some of towlong steppes (I think), my pally did Dread wastes – and I struggled to find a starter quest, but no way was I doing Kun Lai or steppes again :p, my Shammy has been doing kun lai – and dragging her feet about it, but again, only because I can't be bothered flying to dread wastes and doing those damn spider quests. My priest will probably head to dread waste to be honest once she gets past the first few levels, but I will head to the wilds with her instead of pangs stead…so sick of that place!!
I do LFD as much as possible and generally am queuing up the second I am online, it just helps so much, especially those first couple of runs when you have quests to do and hand in.
I have found that I hate doing the same quests straight away, if I have to do it later – like a couple of months, that is fine, but when it is just one after the other, I don't really enjoy it. I think this time round it is worse as I have nothing to do but level alts, so all of them are getting done in pretty quick succession. Normally I level my mage straight off the xpac and then my next toon takes months as my mage has my focus for rep, gearing, re-learning etc, I would say that I don't really even level an alt until my mage is at a point that I can't get anymore upgrades before raiding or anymore rep for the day. That takes a few months at least, so the pain of leveling has somewhat diminished by then
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A couple of weeks ago I happened to be online at the right time to join in one of their runs.
OLRG is run by Matty and they do random raids and just go and have some fun.
I was pretty nervous about going as I only knew a couple of people in the raid and well..I am a little shy. My only level 90 toon is currently my druid and so I advised Matty and she asked if i could tank. EEP! IN theory I could tank – but never having tank don my druid could be a little difficult. I had changed my druid to bear recently because after everyone left my previous guild I thought I amy need to help out, but had done nothing since then.
So, there I was about to tank Firelands on a toon with half tank and half boomy gear….and I was thinking I was going to completely fail and look like a twat! I didn't fail horribly, however it turns out I can't tank on my druid worth a damn I couldn't hold aggro or even get aggro and I had no idea what I was doing, I was button mashing like a crazy person but it was fun.
Here are the piccies of the boss kills My Druid has now been to Firelands. The only negative from today is that I really really really want to get in there on my mage and get my embers so I can get m legendary!!!
Shared Topic this week from Matty:
What vows would your character say, intend, or break, and to what allegiance? Would it be to class/race/specialization, deity, or ruler? This is quite a challenging Blog Azeroth topic, however, I know you are all up to it because you are amazing writers.
I found this one a hard one…many of my readers would know, I am not a very good writer, in fact I would go so far as to say I suck!! Thinking about oaths and actually coming up with how to formulate those ideas into words was a struggle, however I believe I have come up with something that is only mildly crap :p
The thing you have to understand with my mindset about my toons is I don't really care about the faction that are in. If they are alliance, they hate horde or whatever the larger evil is (death wing anyone), and same with my horde toons, they typically hate the alliance. The issue I have found is that my toons have been back and forth so many times in their life, I tend to just see them as their class and leave it at that. I wrote some oaths trying to express how my main characters see their life and any oaths they may have taken to continue on their chosen path (horde or alliance - yes I know a whole bunch of friends just screamed that I have to choose a side!!!)
My warrior has taken the following oath:
I pledge my life for yours to protect you from all danger and spill the blood of our enemies, before a drop of yours is shed. I shall honour our earth, I shall cleanse in the water, I shall breath in the air, I shall feast with our clan by the fire. Always must I believe my shield is as important as my heart, and should one break the other will follow. I am more than my weapon, and my scars will ever be a reminder of the trials we have suffered and the battles we have won.
My Paladin took:
The light shall absolve me; in the light, I shall triumph. Any pain shall be healed, any fear will be quelled. Within the light we will become one, our triple aspect becoming greater than any evil our world can attempt to destroy me with. Protection, healing and killing shall be my future with the understanding I must remember to always protect those who cannot protect themselves. This is my oath until the light leaves my body for the last time.
My Mage:
We bring the storms and we can bring the calm. We are the army that lights up the night sky. Together we are stronger than man, demon or god. The fire burns within us, seeking destruction; ice stills our mind, seeking the calm and the arcane flows through our veins; bursting with knowledge. Seek the wisdom to defeat our enemies, create the balance in your mind and allow the fire in your soul to be shared with your allies.
and finally my Druid:
I am bound to the moon, as the earth is bound by the sun. I feel the turning of the seasons as one feels the rage in battle, all my forms are given to the service of the old gods. I shall nourish the earth as she nourishes me and I will fight our enemies without reservation if they cause damage to the land and the spirits which inhabit it. I fight for those who do not understand the ways of the spirit, so that one day the fight will no longer be needed.
I can't wait to see more oaths!
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So returning to a game you love is pretty difficult because it is amazing the amount of information you forget that at one time seemed really important, but that you don't realise you have forgotten, because like a remembral – you can't remember what it is your forgot, even if you do know that you have forgotten something.
I have spent the last month trying to find Evocation in my spellbook, because I realised I had a glyph for it, but wasn't using it. I spend about 15 minutes every night trying to find it thinking I have missed it on each page, I checked my talent trees to see if it something I needed to spec into now, and concluded I was crazy because it was gone. I finally decided this morning to google it…turns out…I am using rune of power (duh – which I knew) but that is what replaces evocation! IDIOT!!! IDIOT!!!!!!
Of course, that is nothing compared to the idiocy of last night. I discovered noxxic has a list of approx DPS at differing gear levels, which is goddamn fantastic! I am of course nowhere near for any of my toons – but it certainly gives me something to aim for so I know what I should be doing. Anyway I found this after some heroics last night in which my boomy could not get above 20k and infact the healer was beating me in kitty form as resto – she is very well geared though at 550 something whereas I am only barely scraping into the 470 area. However according to noxxic I should be able to hit about 70k dps….LOL…sure thing buddy!!
I decided then to try and find more hit on my gear somehow, after complaining to the hubby about the lack of hit on boomy timeless isle gear and how I had to reforge all the spirit off because it was useless to me, he advised to check out Mr Robot. I was reticent, but did it anyway and it was telling me to reforge back into spirit – enter my tirade about spirit being useless I don't need mana regen blah blah blah…..yeah…you can all laugh at me now. Spirit = hit for some classes. What is worse, after the hubby had finished laughing at me I remembered the hundreds of disputes I had seen in LFD because DPSers had taken gear with spirit (boomies and SP's mainly – I am sure there was another class as well – I want to say shammies??). How could I forget something so instrumental to the classes?
I guess this is the joy of coming back to a game 12 months later, you do forget things and need to spend time re-learning. I know I am still trying to learn how to play again, I am better on my mage because I have played her for so long, but with other toons I am really struggling to get into the swing of it. Heroics are also very hard as most of the time I am running with people who are very well geared and hitting the 180k+ DPS mark, which means mobs die faster than I can cast a spell – on both my mage and my boomy. It makes it hard to see where I am sitting in reality and harder to judge what I need to improve.
I know on my mage in LFR I can sometimes be in the top 10 for damage and hitting just over 100k DPS, but according to noxxic I should be hitting 250k + dps…as a frost mage at my gear level and that is not maximum – that is realistic….no way!?!?!?!? I have to spend some time on a dummy and test out wtf I am doing wrong as I am missing out on a lot of dps. I need to examine combat logs of mages and see what they are doing that I am not. Anyway, I am sure, like the previous things, there is something I have forgotten to do….I just have to find out what that is!!!
I haven't really spoken about the current guild situation, which is to say, we don't really have one. We are in the old guild we created with just our toons as we switch them over to alliance to play with our best mates, but we haven't really considered our options in regards to the future, I don't want to just be by ourselves as it makes it hard to find groups and meet people to actually talk to about the game.
The question was posed to me from a couple of my blogging friends, about our future plans so it got me thinking about what we actually want to do. I have toons spread across 3 servers now and in the end I really only want to just be in a home again.
My priest is in Gen's guild just slowly leveling and being a nuisance to the guildies who seem to be very non verbal when I am on my priest, so I could just be missing the exciting times :p. There was a plan to do some flexi's with them, but I think poor Gen has taken a break and has probably disappeared into the Caverns of Time!! I just moved my pally over to my second home with Navi and the Frostwolves. I confess to having further increased my soft spot for the frosties. I read "Rise of the Horde" recently and Durotar of the Frostwolves was very noble and honourable, every time they said "Frostwolves" in the book I felt a little spasm of pride that I can consider myself one. In name – if not deeds just yet.
With xpac looming as well, it would be nice to figure out what we want to do. I know with my schedule I cannot commit to a raiding team unless they also have enough DPS they can rotate me out for the weeks I am on late shift. Hubby has mentioned he would like to raid as it gives him something to always be looking into, takes his mind off work stress – which is a valid lifestyle choice in my opinion
I cannot imagine raiding on anything other than my mage, but I moved my pally (who is now 86.5) so I could do runs or flexis with the Frosties in any spec that was needed to fill the spots…if it comes up of course. I know I can tank, and I was starting to heal on her and I have DPS'd on a pally…so I sort of have all bases covered should it be needed until the xpac. I might add, thanks to the timeless isle, she has an entire set – excluding gloves and cloak of gear for when she hits 90..but only one set sadly. Plan to get her leveled first before doing much else.
My druid now has both a resto and boomy set from the timesless isle as well, so that means I essentially have another toon I can flexi on.
In another fortnight I may just move my mage over to the Frosties, but given I just changed her alliance it will cost me a pretty penny..but I am still thinking I might just do that and be done with it. I don't want to make any decisions that will affect my hubby negatively though and so I am trying to get him into other guilds to meet people before making decisions. I want to ensure he is happy, but he seems content to avoid people in game at the moment, and I don't blame him – we haven't really been successful with people in the past. Once bitten, twice shy?
Anyway we shall see how it pans out over the next fortnight.
This weeks shared topic is brought to us by Akabeko at Red Cow Rise and it is a doozy!!
Canon refers to the actual events and characters that exist in a fictional world. Headcanon refers to any situations or characters that are imagined by fans of said fictional world. Sometimes they are silly, like the fact that Garrosh's favorite treat is lemon squares. Sometimes they are serious, like positing that tauren store grief in the lungs. For my writing, I've come up with a lot of headcanon. Got a theory about a torrid romance between your favorite auctioneer and the patrolling guard? Given any thought to where mounts and pets go when they aren't summoned? Do you know how your characters do their laundry, or what Baine Bloodhoof does in his free time? What are your headcanons, and where did you get the idea?
This is going to be a very long post I have so much head cannon it will take me a while to post it all! I am just going to talk about my personal characters because they are the people I spend the most time with.
So let's start in order with my Mage She was technically born in elwynn forest on a lovely rainy night. She was not supposed to be born due to her parents heritage – their love was forbidden – so she grew up living a nomadic lifestyle, moving from place to place, raised by many different aunts and uncles until she was old enough to strike out on her own. She does not have a chip about this as she is well aware she is loved by her parents and had a fantastic upbringing.
Last night the guild decided to do some Firelands, yes I admit I am being slightly selfish there by wanting to get embers. I am now up to 9 of the little blighters – I am beginning to think I really need to find a Firelands group running 25 man via some of those Xrealm sites. I want my legendary!
Anyway we managed to get up to Alyzrazor, we wiped on her though. It is a tough fight for people seeing it the first time, and I was conscious of the time for the people that needed to leave. We had a couple of Frosties come with us and kept a spot for another one who eventually appeared like magic :) It was a fantastic run and even found out about someone who lives nearby, I like meeting people who live close to me given we are in regional Victoria.
We wiped on Lord Volcanowankerhead twice, the first time at 2%, the DK tank getting him 4% all by himself. My bad judgement on that one I forgot which one of the DK's was tanking and called the wrong thing. I felt so ashamed. The next attempt went awfully bad, then the third one was cake walk, although a little unsteady at the start. I really really really cannot stress how much I hate that fight. We wiped on Baleroc once, which given a few hadn't seen it we lasted quite while, we got him to below 20% pretty sure with about 4 of us dead. Then it all went weird because certain people who shall remain nameless wanted the boss to be tanked on the side!! THE SIDE?!!?!? OMG, I couldn't cope with it, I felt wrong the entire fight, never mind we were on the wrong side of the field anyway, we were on the left and should have been on the right!! ARGHH!!!!!
I can't handle change when I know stuff works a particular way, it messes my head up, not just ingame either, when hubby is driving and goes an alternate route it screws me up and I get all freaked out about it. He mocks me of course, but, seriously I know I am a control freak, just don't mess with my shizz!!! ehehehh
We went off to Malygos after that as hubby only needed that one boss on his Shammy for the title, and we managed to get the 6 minutes and under achievement as well.
The night before we went to Ulduar 25 with the Frosties and Arvash as well. I went on my boomy as she had never seen the place and OMG it was so much fun. I sucked all night, I am so out of practice on my girl, but we were smashing through everything. She got achievements on every single boss
Freya's room had me wanting to spend hours in there, so many herbs I wanted to pick!!! I HAVE TO GO BACK!!!
My beautiful girl, even saw Algalon!!! ALGALON!! Can I just say that is a horible fight…maybe it is just me and I am blind as a bat, but I can barely see the red circles to get out of them. I know hubby was happy to see that fight, as he had never seen it before. I do wonder how hard it would be to do that Herald of the Titans thing…I am tempted to find a group – but I need a toon first that I can even do it on. My hunter is the closest to 70.
It was pretty cool though, I would have stayed for the Razormaw achievements, but I was falling asleep as it was, and I hope they did it!! Grats to them if they did
I am having so much fun now doing old content!!
We helped Songblossom out on an Occ run the other day and this is my hubby on his drake.
I was giggling my butt off!! It just looks damn weird if you ask me.
We did an alt run tonight because of the save to the DW kill. It was a pretty good run considering we had 8 alts in the run, we got the first four bosses down.
The shame I mention is my own. I was an awful raid leader tonight, I was so focused on trying to get my rotation as boomy that I wasn't leading very well, so when I tried leading my rotation suffered. I couldn't balance everything (no pun intended) but a boomy rotation is so different to a Mage. I do ok in LFR because I only need to watch my rotation and not anything else.
I healed on yorsahj because it was a little heavy for the healers, I sucked by the way. I gave it my best though and we got him down. I also called out badly on the colours which didn't work and then we wiped, but then after copping shit for it, it didn't wipe us the next time. Anyway, I guess something was different the other time, anyway I apologised profusely for my bad calls.
My DPS was barely above 16k all night, I have seen myself do much better, but I was just disappointed. If I want this o be my main in MoP, I have to be able to play the fucking thing better. My hubby however, jumped on his shammy and was fighting for top spot with 2 hunters, sitting at about 25k with pretty sub gear; he is so impressive as a player
Onto other things, hubby and I spent all day playing the shammy and paladin, we got them to 84! About 40% through, so not long to go :). We also have hubby's druid to 83 and his tips were helping me in healing DS.
All in all an eventful night and I am exhausted.

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in those regions? The answers to these questions depend on scientific advances in agronomy, water science and economics.
In considering the means of strengthening science based decision making the agenda was divided in to segments. One segment included general presentations on Science and Decision-Making, including the unique role of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Science and Technology of Senegal. Another segment included presentations on science and water management and yet another examined specific water management issues in Tunisia. There was an extensive discussion of innovations in agricultural water management. One innovation which has significant potential for the region is the use of regulated deficit irrigation regimes on permanent crops which allow growers to produce high quality yields with very limited water supplies. In all of these presentations and in the related discussions participants recognized that there is much existing science waiting to be applied and utilized in the management of agricultural water. In addition, significant new scientific innovations are likely to be available to help growers everywhere utilize water in a highly productive and highly efficient fashion.
Many participants also recognized that the generation and availability of science alone is not sufficient for good agricultural water management. The science must be transferred to policy makers, water managers and water users. The workshop considered the questions of what constitutes good scientific advice from both the perspective of the scientist and the policy maker. Agricultural water users and managers provided perspectives on what constitutes good scientific advice. Water users also reported on how they had used science in their own endeavors. Finally, there were a number of presentations and discussions on how to link science with action. The structure of the program, the presentations, and the resulting discussions illustrated that while good science and the development of good science will be crucially important in resolving the water problems of Tunisia and its neighbors, communications of that science to a broad array of users, including policy makers, managers and growers will be at least as important.
The workshop was enriched by participants from many of the countries of North Africa and the Middle East. All participants engaged in the workshop discussions, bringing examples from their own situations to bear on the deliberations. It is the hope of the workshop sponsors and organizers that the presentations and deliberations of this workshop on strengthening science based decision making in agricultural water management will help in fashioning solutions to the significant water problems of North Africa and the Middle East.


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June 11, 2011
Iron Mountain Half: 1.2 mi S / 56 mi B / 13.1 mi R
Iron Mountain Aqua Bike: 1.2 mi S / 56 mi B
Iron Mountain Open water swim: 1.2 mi Swim
Sprint Triathlon: 400y S / 11 mi B / 3 mi R
June 12, 2011
Iron Mountain Duathlon: 3 mi R / 18 mi B / 3 mi
Entry l Lodging & Amenities l Awards l Transitions & Parking l Contingency & Refunds
Open Water Swim Map
Event Schedule
Friday - 6/10
|5:00pm - 7:30pm
|Packet Pick up for Half Iron and Sprint Tri at Race Site (Map)
Saturday 6/11
Triathlon Race Day
|Transition and Packet pickup opens at race site (Map)
|Half Iron Tri, open water swim and aqua bike Start
|Sprint Tri start
|Sprint Tri awards @ Race Site
|Half Iron Awards @ Race Site
|Sunday 6/12
|Duathlon Race Day
|Transition and Packet pickup opens at race site (Map)
|Duathlon Start
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Course Information
Half Iron Swim - 1.2 miles
DeGray Lake: rated as one of the cleanest fresh water lakes in America. You can drink it...
The race begins with a deep water start. The Entry and Finish area is located on a concrete boat ramp.
Half Iron Swim course will close 1 Hour 10 minutes after the send off of the last wave. Historically the water
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Among Thorns -- Now is the Time to Worship
- Friday, March 30, 2001
Matt Turner: How long have you all been together?
Among Thorns (Jason): Five years. We started out as a college Bible study. We led worship, and we started this Bible study just for kids in our hometown. It was there. We just began to learn about worship and what it meant to worship and how to lead other people in worship. From there we started traveling with an evangelist named Ken Freeman, and we've just been doing it for five years now. We're still learning how to be a worshipper, and so is the church.
Matt Turner: So you started five years ago with the intent to be a worship band?
Among Thorns (Jason): The intent was not to be a band at all. We just wanted to do this Bible study. We were all in different bands, and they all broke up around the same time. The band that I was in was doing the Bible study for college students. We wanted to keep going, and so I went to college with one of the guys, this guy went to church with this guy, so we just pieced the band together for the sole purpose of the Bible study. Worship was the only thing we had ever done, and we even told each other, "Hey, we don't want be a band." We just want to do this Bible study and then when it's over, it's over. But I think God had other plans, and we've been doing it non-stop for five years now.
Matt Turner: Where did the name Among Thorns come from?
Among Thorns (Jason): I was reading in Job one night and Job 5:5 says, "The hungry consume his harvest taking it even from among thorns." When I read that it was just like a light went off in my head. It wasn't even like, ''I'm looking for a scripture so I can identify a band," I was just reading. When I read the scripture, God was just, like, "this is what I want you to be. You know you want some of Me; you want some of the fruits of Me that are easy to obtain and that you may not have to strive for." Then there are other things that God wants us to have of Him that we may suffer to get or that we may have to be persecuted to get. Just the deep things of God. When I read it, it was reminding me of fruit that may have been surrounded by thorns. The people that were hungry and starving, they're not going to get fruit that is easy to grab, they're going to get stuck. They're going to try to go for the good fruit that is protected. When I read that, I was just like, "I want that for me, to even grab the stuff that may be out of my reach. So, we just talked about that scripture together and we decided that we wanted a ministry with that kind of theme; that we were going to go after God and teach people how to worship and let God teach us how to be worshippers ourselves. It's almost like a "live among the thorns" mentality. That's where we got it from. It was Job 5:5.
Matt Turner: Have you been leading worship at mostly youth retreats and camps, or is it an all-across-the-board, coffee houses kind of thing?
Among Thorns (Matt): It's seasonal. In summertime, mostly camps, pretty much all camps, but as we get into the winter we love to do revival and we get to do crusades with that Ken Freeman guy; we started off with him, doing a lot of those. Now we're working with a lot of other people, but that is probably the most fun time of the year, because we get to pull up to a church, meet the people, and pretty much be there for five days sometimes. You get to know the people and what the church is going through, and you get to minister to them (to me) better than if we just pulled in one night, said, "Hi," and then you're up on stage and you're leading worship. So a lot of that in the winter, and coffee shops sometimes, usually with youth and college-age type of crowds.
Matt Turner: Do you find that worship is relational, not necessarily on a vertical level, but even a horizontal level?
Among Thorns (Jason): I think a lot of times we can go to church, and we have the mentality, "Alright, bust me." So I think a lot of times when you can have somebody come in to a church and do a revival, I think almost always the first service is just a throw-away service. Everyone is just sitting back and taking in who you are and seeing if you're going to be a head-banger and tick off the old people and be too loud, so everyone's kind of got their feelers out. I think it is relational. It's hard to trust somebody you don't know and really understand what somebody's motives are if you just go in one night. So, I think it has a lot to do with the relationship part.
Among Thorns (Brandon): You can almost see the people change every night, just like Jason was saying. In the beginning it's like the service might be considered a throw-away night where people are just trying to feel you out, but if we're there for a week, or five nights, then, by the last night the people have hopefully connected with us and trust us. And it helps them be able to get into worship and not be concerned with the music or earrings.
After the first night, on the second night, people understand what we're about better and are able to put us aside, because we're not there to perform as much as we are to lead them in worship, so it gets better as the days go on in revivals, and it gets more special.
Among Thorns: (Matt) I think so, too. And this is usually when we have adult audiences. It's easy with kids, because the music is big and fun and fast. It grabs kids. What we're talking about is connecting with an audience of adults, which we are quickly becoming.
Among Thorns: (Jason) When I go to a church, my focus is the adults. I want to reach them more than anything, because we've all gone to youth camp and had an experience and gone back to church just ready to hang from the chandeliers, and the adults are just like, "What? I don't get it." And so, as long as that keeps happening, they're gonna go to camp, have fun, have an experience and water is going to be thrown on it. I think a big part is that we get the adults at the same place where the kids are. The older you get, the more skeptical you become.
Among Thorns: (Matt) I think skeptical, and also, that generation pretty much was deprived of worship. Today there is more emphasis over other youth and young people and college age of worship. You have all these worship CDs coming out, and they didn't have that stuff and they had hymnals, or one type of thing, and there is such a large variety of music. Now the adults are just starting to connect and buy new stuff, and they're, like, "Well, what is this?" Then we come in, and they're trying to say, "Are these what worship leaders look like?" It pretty much freaks them out at times.
Among Thorns: (Jason) It's hard, too. A worship leader, in most people's minds, is somebody who directs, holds a hymnbook, is very unemotional and very structured.
Matt Turner: Do you still have to fight that stereotype? I mean, at least in this neck of the woods, a worship leader is a guy with a guitar. Do you still go to places where you fight the mentality that it needs to come from a hymnal?
Among Thorns (All): Oh, yeah. All the time.
Among Thorns: (Jason) I mean, we even take our earrings out on Sunday mornings just to appease the older crowds. It's just like, "Trust us. And we'll start off with a couple of hymns. It's not the appearance. It's the inside that they need to look at, and they understand. We've even had some real elderly women come up to us and say, "We love you, even with your earrings." Once they got to know us, they cook for us and make cookies and they trust us. We're not as scary.
Matt Turner: Being a worship-driven band for five years in this new wave of worship music, you guys are veterans, because it seems in the last three years the worship music has just exploded. What do you think about the way worship music is being commercialized? Is it a good thing or is it a bad thing?
Among Thorns: (Jason) I think God is definitely waking up people, and people are starting to understand. It's not that hymns are bad, it's just that we've done them the same for so long. All growing up for me it was a piano on this side; an organ on this side, and it was the same way for years. So, it's not that hymns are bad, I just think people are waking up, seeing that we can go beyond and do something new. With the move deal, I think the move deal has been cheapened a lot by the big influx of bands that have come in, but it's only because there are labels that are just seeing the money aspect of it, so they just throw stuff out there. It doesn't even have to be a praise and worship leader, you just have to be, like, bands who just put people together and throw out a worship band. I think that's bad for it. I think that it's also been great, because now, more than ever, there are more resources that you can pull from in your church. If you don't like this style, then there's this. It's a catch-22. There's some great things about it, and there's things that definitely cheapen the move.
Matt Turner: What are the components of a good worship song?
Among Thorns:(Jason) I think the most important part is it has to be singable. When Darren and I are writing, or me and Gary, or any of the other guys in the band, we start off with this melody, and there'll be times we say, "A crowd is never gonna be able to sing this." Singability, and more than anything, the depth of it; it has to be honest and be able to convey what you're feeling, and not just for me and my reaction, but for the people in the congregation. Can they wrap their arms around it and say, "Yeah that's me. This really sums up what I'm going through, and it really sums up how I feel about God." And obviously that it glorifies God. For me, that's what I'm looking for.
Matt Turner: We all know the stereotype of how we think a Christian musician should live. Does it add pressure because you focus on worship, to live that life, as opposed to just getting up there and being a rock band?
Among Thorns: (Matt) They look at us, certainly a lot more skeptically, because you can look at D.C. Talk or Newsboys or any of these guys and see they're singing about the Lord and they love the Lord, but they're not for the most part, a lot of them now are leading worship, but they're not in the church every week. They're in these large venues in front of wild kids, so it's more like a rock concert, I think. When they look to us, even though there's a performance aspect in what we do, they're looking for purity in worship, and a lot of people associate that with looks, which is something you have to get past. I mean, obviously, you don't want to go around looking wild. A lot of people associate your purity with how you maintain yourself and how you go about in your speech, and so you have to pay attention.
Matt Turner: You bring up an interesting point with the whole concert thing. In most concerts they usually have a worship element. Whether it's the acoustic set in the middle of the rock set or something at the end, is there something wrong with just going and entertaining, as opposed to having the feel like there's a necessity - to worship. I mean, what's wrong with just entertaining?
Among Thorns: (Jason) Don't you think that cheapens the move, too?
Matt Turner: You're absolutely right. I do. It's frustrating to me.
Among Thorns: (Matt) It's like, this is popular so this is what we're just gonna do.
Among Thorns: (Jason) Well, I think that people have created that thinking, because it's like, a group goes in and basically they're Christian performers and there's two callings or two different jobs: there're worship leaders and there're Christian performers, and there's nothing wrong with either one. It's just what you do, but I think that a Christian performer goes in there and does his thing and he feels he has to do that, because when the crowd leaves, the first thing they're gonna say is, "He didn't even minister. They didn't even say anything." So, they have to do that, make sure people in their eyes are saying, "They are Christians." We've heard that so many times. We've come across other groups that say, "That group didn't even minister." It's like, "Well, they were performing."
Among Thorns: (Brandon) But it's beyond that. It's not just, "we're gonna minister," it's "we're gonna do a worship set." I think it's because (I don't know if Christians are demanding that right now, if you want to be godly).
Matt Turner: Do you think it's our need for community? Because worship is the easiest way for the artist to quickly relate to the audience?
Among Thorns: (Jason) Especially if they don't know your songs. It's like, "I'm gonna sing Shout to the Lord and everybody's gonna be able to jump on it.
Matt Turner: Yeah, like, Creed goes out there and has everybody singing Higher or their latest hit, and I just think that sometimes Christian artists feel that pressure to create that community, create that relationship between them and their audience, and worship nails it that quick.
Among Thorns (Brandon): This is a difficult subject, but if you look at Christian artists from the beginning, like Steve Green, Steve Camp, Keith Green, Dallas Holm, all these guys started out with a considerable amount of worship in their music. Steve Camp and even Steven Curtis Chapman (when I was a little kid going to his concerts there'd also be a worship section) ... I don't think it's something new. I think that a lot of music got away from that, at a certain point, where there wasn't that aspect in Christian music. I think now it's getting back to that, because there's a worship movement. I don't think it's a bad thing, cuz' when Chapman did it - I believed him. I totally believed him.
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Drawings on the Shipping wall that was set up on the homestuck art jam today! I had such a blast and I met so many cool people eeeeaAA
Is it bad that this is in my official IB art book.
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Darling Dames Kinky Box Skirt from Pinup Girl Clothing. This was my birthday present from Sam (though I picked it out and bought it!) but I couldn't wear it until today because of Frocktober.
Two things to say first off. 1. I am a bone head and put the zipper at the back for this photo, and only realised after I got to work that it should be on the side, so if it looks a little wonky that is partly why. 2. Today is the first time I've actually worn it, and on reflection it might be a little too high waisted for short waisted me. Not that it wasn't comfortable or anything - there is room in the waist for me so it was super comfortable. But the waist band kind of scrunches up against the underside of my boobs, and bunches when I sit. Not a huge deal, not going to make me not wear it, just wanted to mention it. Otherwise, I love it! The colour and print are to die for. I wore a petticoat under it but you certainly don't have to. I called this a mullet outfit: business on top, party on the bottom. LOL (yes, I am a dork).
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Following a cathartic 15-5 blowout of the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered through a difficult Saturday afternoon at PNC Park.
Not only did the Bucs fall 9-3 to the first-place Brewers to level the weekend series, they also learned they would be without their young ace-in-the-making Gerrit Cole for his Sunday start.
According to Travis Sawchik of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the 23-year-old Cole will be shelved in favor of Jeff Locke for the last game of the Milwaukee series, with a trip the 15-day disabled list also a possibility. Cole's reported ailment is shoulder fatigue.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said the team's medical staff would re-evaluate Cole's condition after a few days. General manager Neal Huntington called the decision to sit Cole "precautionary."
UPDATE: The Pirates placed Cole on the disabled list Sunday morning. Huntington is expected to address the situation prior to the series finale against the Brewers.
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- Developer: Frontier Developments
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- Release Date: Oct 9, 2007
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..Who would like me to do a playthrough of White 2?
Once you go Black, you never go back.
Will it involve more MS Paint Magic?
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Will it involve more MS Paint Magic?
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He may not live in the NTX any more, but we still pay attention when @Astronautalis does cool stuff.
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It's a saturday night and IM GOING OUT. Lol ok just kidding, how about a movie and coughsyrup? (throat is hurting so bad ;__;)
Montréal, city I love. Wish I could take the 5 pm plane from Amsterdam to Canada and arrive in that lovely city when everybody's waking up. I'll sleep in its heart.
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A big THANK YOU! to my first Tumblr follower, Uncharted Play. This is a really cool company with an even cooler concept.
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How cool is that? Not only are they running a business, they are making a difference.
Now what is even cooler is this contraption you see pictured at the top of the post. You know that if some has a fascinating gadget I'm going to be all about it. This is the Soccket. At first glance you would think that it is a soccer ball, and you would be right. What makes this ball unique is that there is a gyroscopic mechanism inside of it that generates power and stores the power for later use. So the kids can take it out for an afternoon and kick the mess out of it. When they bring it home they have a six watt power supply that can be used to do anything from run a lamp to charge a phone, or even run a water sterilizer. When the power discharges, guess what? It's time to go play soccer again! So a family gets power that it otherwise wouldn't have, and the kids have lots of good reasons to exercise. Everybody wins! The Soccket reportedly can provide three hours of light after only 30 minutes of play.
At Uncharted Play's site you can send one of these to your choice of under developed areas for $60. Nice. They also sell t-shirts for $30 in order to raise funds for an area that is in need. Even nicer.
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