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When it comes to the cause she is fighting for, Benedicta Du-Baladad is the first to admit it isn't an easy one. As the 2005 president of the Tax Management Association of the Philippines (TMAP), Du-Baladad aimed for a balance between the ideals of taxation and the demands of business. Doing so amidst a fiscal crisis and a broiling debate over controversial tax reform measures, the tax lawyer could not have picked a bigger battle to lead.
Du-Baladad took over the helm of TMAP back when the value added tax (VAT) rate hike was still making its rounds in Senate halls, waiting for passage into law. Early on, she established TMAP's stand on the issue: "We acknowledged the government's appeal for an immediate increase in revenues, but we also pushed for a limit to the duration of the increases, in anticipation of a time when the country won't be in such a bind."
Recognized by government regulatory bodies as the bona fide representative of taxpayers in formulating and implementing tax reforms, TMAP made sure its voice was heard above the din caused by the government's call for tax reforms and the public's resistance to it.
The association presented critical position papers on various tax-related matters – including the Reformed VAT – to Congress, the Senate, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and other concerned sectors of the government. And the efforts made more than a dent: on more than one occasion, government bodies, including the BIR, acceded to and advocated TMAP's position, which has always been tempered by a keen understanding of the government-taxpayer relationship.
"Filipinos have to adjust their perspective and realize the importance of complying with our tax obligations. In turn, the government has to make sure that tax laws are fair, clear and properly implemented," says Du-Baladad.
The sentiment is a reflection of where she's coming from. Before moving to the private sector as a tax advisory and compliance partner for leading accounting firm Punongbayan & Araullo (P&A), Du-Baladad, a CPA lawyer, was head revenue executive for legal service at the BIR for 17 years, gaining experience in international tax planning and tax administration. This experience working on both sides of the fence influenced Du-Baladad's leadership style and further lent credence to TMAP's reputation as liaison between the government and taxpayers.
To cap off her term as president, Du-Baladad had the rare privilege of leading the association as it hosted the Asia-Oceania Tax Consultants Association (AOTCA) Conference for only the second time in 23 years. In November last year, over 180 foreign delegates from 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region attended the general meeting, which aimed to promote mutual cooperation among tax consultants in the region, and provide a forum for exchanges of information.
Department of Finance secretary Margarito Teves and Confederation Fiscale Européenne president Cor Visser were just some of the many speakers who shared insights on pertinent issues, such as the Asia-Pacific economic outlook and ways of managing a nation's fiscal environment. By keeping its finger on the pulse of the latest tax developments, TMAP had prepared well for the conference, which turned out to be a huge success. AOTCA president Kinijiro Mori even recognized the association for the precedent it set as a host.
When Du-Baladad accepted her post as TMAP president, she made a three-pronged commitment to address the needs of the organization, to heed the call for reform and advocacy, and to strengthen international relat ions. After only a year-long tenure, there is no doubt that she has delivered on all her promises.
"There were many challenges along the way," admits Du-Baladad. "But we always kept our eye on the ball. We wanted to elevate TMAP as a well-respected,
internationally recognized professional organization and a visible partner in shaping the future of the Philippines. I'm confident that we've done just that."
Du-Baladad is the current Division Head of Tax Advisory & Compliance at P&A.
(Also published in the Philippine Star, May 16, 2006)
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BURNSVILLE, Minn. - A Burnsville widow faces another painful loss after her home was burglarized and the urn containing her husband's ashes was stolen.
Last month, while on vacation over what would have been her 3-year anniversary, Patti Eriksen learned that thieves had broken into her home and stolen the urn.
"I have memories and I will be OK with the memories, but I would dearly, dearly love to have him back," said Eriksen. "My ashes were going to go in with his."
Dave Eriksen, 58, died from cancer of the esophagus in February of 2010. Each year on the anniversary of his death, Patti Eriksen has taken a vacation to escape.
She says the morning she took off for Florida, she left the front door unlocked for her nephew, who lives with her. She estimates her door was unlocked for around 12 hours. In that time, burglars walked in, taking coins, jewelry, her laptop and her love.
"He was my soul mate, had a passion for racing, he was the kindest and most considerate man," said Eriksen.
The urn reflected his passion for fixing up race cars. The Eriksens' adult children race sprint cars and chose a pewter box with a racing emblem on the front, depicting a wreath, checkered flag and a helmet.
She's offering $1,000 dollars to anyone who returns the urn, no questions asked.
"I bless you and I hope you have the compassion to bring him back to me. We all want him back home," she said.
Eriksen says the thieves also took an urn containing her dog's ashes.
"We can't figure out why somebody would take ashes. The value it has is to me and my family," she said.
Eriksen lives in the 1200 block of Echo Drive in Burnsville, if anyone saw suspicious activity on Feb. 11. She is asking anyone with information to call her at 651-249-9163.
Burnsville Police are investigating and are looking for tips as well. So far, Eriksen says she hasn't learned of any leads, which is why she is offering her own reward.
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Group: cellphone industry hiding tumor risks
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Group on Cellphone Tumors
A collection of groups dedicated to warning about electromagnetic field effects today published a report it claims should prove that cellphones can create brain tumors. The UK and US organizations behind the study maintain that an Interphone study that has been used to gauge the threat of wireless radiation has been intentionally misrepresented by the phone industry and that the only parts publicly touted have been those that downplay the actual effect of putting a cellphone close to an ear. A "systemic skew" has been in place ever since the Interphone study appeared, according to the activists.
Among the 11 criticisms and 15 reasons of the study are accusations that the industry-funded researchers consciously excluded those who would draw more attention to the risks, such as those who had become sick or died and may have been affected by cellphone use, or youth and younger adults who are allegedly more susceptible to prolonged exposure. Certain types of brain tumors may also have been factored out of the Interphone results.
Those attacking the study don't go so far as to reject cellphone use outright but caution that the dangers may be higher than once thought. The existing cellphone market is a very large "experiment" that's gauging the effects without the knowledge of those in the test, the criticism's author Lloyd Morgan argues.
Defenders of the current, more welcoming attitude to cellphones have previously contended that the actual amount of radiation exposure is low and that phones spend most of their time in pockets or bags, far enough away from the head to avoid creating any kind of long-term damage.


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LAS CRUCES >> The Interstate 10 westbound off ramp at Avenida de Mesilla will close Tuesday for about three months as work continues on the reconstruction of the overpass at I-10 and Avenida de Mesilla.
As the westbound ramps closes, the eastbound off ramp will be opened to traffic Tuesday. The eastbound bridge and driving lanes at I-10 and Avenida de Mesilla were recently completed with new pavement and approach to the Avenida de Mesilla exit.
Lane restrictions will continue for Avenida de Mesilla, also known as NM 28, between Hickory Drive and Lakeside Drive, and on I-10 between University Avenue, exit 142, and Motel Boulevard, exit 139.
Updates on road projects and traffic alerts will be posted on the New Mexico Department of Transportation website, NMroads.com. Updates are also available by calling 511 in New Mexico or 800-432-4269 from out of state.
For more information, call Ryan Tafoya, NMDOT project manager, 575-525-7313, or Bridget Spedalieri, NMDOT public information officer, 575-525-7340.


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Sarah Durdaller nailed a 3-pointer with nine seconds left to lift Furman to a 66-65 win over Elon in a key Southern Conference women's basketball game Saturday afternoon at Timmons Arena.
The Paladins, who trailed by as many as 11 in the first half and nine in the second half before rallying, improve to 11-8 overall and take over sole possession of third place in the SoCon at 5-3. The Phoenix fall to 8-11 and 4-4 in the league.
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Stringer was built by the team of Aidan Feldman, Tyler Williams, and Alexander Chen in one weekend for Music Hackday in NYC, 2011. A string instrument performed through the Kinect 3d camera.
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This was honestly the most interesting of the ideas for future Remix games. I'm trying to think of what games would fit best for this...without it just being a difficult platformer fest.
Current ideas:
-Megaman 2
-River City Ransom
-Ninja Gaiden
-Tecmo Superbowl
-Gargoyle's Quest 2
-Blaster Master
-Bubble Bobble
-Final Fantasy
-Dragon Warrior
-Metal Gear
-maybe add another Megaman or Castlevania because why not
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It is commonplace to be against the law to feed feral cats. We filed a dog complaint about an animal across the street for barking and agression. The animal control officer came today and said best to let it drop or it will escalate etc. Then he notice the cat food dish on the porch and asked if we were feeding a cat (you know the cat I've been talking about) and husband said yes. And he said that is $100 fine for each time you feed it. But only if someone complains. So I guess we should stop feeding it. Unless we feed it in the back yard. So dog boy as we call him can't see it. This guy lets his doberman pinscher out at all hours. Wakes us up every weekend day at 6 am. The dog just barks and barks. Also lunges at people when they walk by if owner isn't holding him. This is the second time we complained. I'm sick of it but officer said not much we can do.
Guessing it could be the dog is a pet and has been tagged for registration as well as for shots required by the health department and strays (cats or dogs) are not.
Feed the cat in the back of the house where the dog as well as general public cannot see it.
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That's what we are probably going to do. It pisses me off that he can disturb the peace and scare the neighborhood children and residents and we can't feed a hungry cat. We've been feeding it for a month now and no one has complained. Just like our next door neighbor let's her cat run free also a violation of the lease laws in our county.
Continue to feed the cat in your yard, and continue to complain about an aggressive dog. The dog is a tragedy waiting to happen.
What the heck is that animal control officer thinking, beside the fact that HE doesn't want to follow up with the dog owner? You and the cat are easier targets.
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He wasn't concerned about the cat, he was just saying if dog boy saw it he could complain about us. While my husband was on the phone with me telling me all this, his next door neighbor came out and got into a fight with the animal control officer which I'm sure didn't help his case. But now my husband is pissed off, that my dd's is upset about the cat and I'm taking all the heat. I just wish I had never of filed the complaint now. If only I had remembered to take in the cat bowl last night.
I hope you document everything. It might help to record the barking and play it back to the owner with a log of the incidents. Sometimes people think neighbors are just being fussy. Plus, sound carries in weird ways-perhaps the owner cannot hear the dog barking when he is inside the house.
What a nuisance! Document and continue to file complaints. Can you also let your councilperson know? Here in Oregon, that person reports to City Council and the Mayor. They are elected and are responsible for certain areas of the city.
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Contact a feral cat rescue and get on their list to capture and take them to vet services. Then no one can complain because you're pet rescue.
We have a business that has 20 stray cats at his property and he feeds them all. I get the bleed over, and right now, my feral cat has changed. The last one I finally tamed down, and he found her a home. We've gotten complaints, and this was the solution that the businessman used; I was just "helping" since I had the time to work with the more hard cases.
I kinda of wished we'd never started feeding it. I thought it would become friendlier towards us and we could handle it, take to vets etc. But it still won't come very close to us.
We've been feeding a scared cat that one way or the other lost its home recently.
Less scared now but still extremely wary.
We hope to get him to a vet soon. And hope he won't run away from us for the rest of his life after that.
And your neighbor and his dog...isn't there something about some people and their guard dogs????? -- Edited on 6/27/13 2:07 PM --
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Feral cats are just a bad situation for all parties. They contract disease, are never really healthy, get hit, beaten up by other cats and dogs...and on and on. They're not truly wild, so they're not adapted to survive in the wild and as a result live miserable existences unless someone feeds them. But by feeding them you're keeping a population just enough alive to reproduce and make more.
In addition, native bird populations are in major, serious decline. Mostly due to habitat loss, but cats play a large part in their demise.
It's not fair to the cats to have domesticated them, then expect them to be able to thrive in feral communities. They either need to be wholly under the care of a person and kept in the house, or taken out of the environment, either to a shelter or euthanized. Frankly, a lot of these cats are better off not existing at all given the dangers and half-healthy existences they lead.
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Progress Field, founded by Gene Damschroder and now operated by his son Rex, marked its 50th anniversary recently, and it is widely known by local people.
But many younger people may not realize that when Progress field opened in the 1960s, the area already had airport service.
Joseph W. Slager had operated a local airport for decades prior to the opening of Progress Field.
I remember his operation on East State Street across from the Fremont Country Club. As a young editor, I covered the airplane crash there that killed Slager. Part of the plane clipped a line at the top of a power pole as it was being landed just off State Street.
A passenger survived.
But many Fremonters, however, will recall Slager Field from the 1940s and 1950s when it was located off Oak Harbor Road north of the area where Potter Village Shopping Center is now located.
The air field, which had previously been Overmyer Field, hosted many air shows and activities by the Cloud Clippers, an area aviation club.
So-called "Aviation Days" attracted large crowds for the air shows and on-ground exhibits and attractions.
Such events were extremely popular at a time when flying was not nearly as common as it is today.
But Slager Field also was the scene of plenty of other activity, including airplane traffic that brought business people, travelers and even some celebrities to Fremont. Vaughn Monroe, a popular singer, song writer, band leader and actor in the mid 20th century, reportedly landed a prototype craft there once. I wouldn't be surprised if he was heading for Rainbow Gardens to perform.
In addition to operating the facility for aircraft, Slager served as an instructor for military pilots during World War II and continued as a trainer for the rest of his life, until he died in that crash in 1972. He also served as an inspector and was certified with a seaplane rating.
The airport operator also was known for building "new" airplanes from the parts of other planes.
Eventually, progress on the ground had a huge impact on Slager Field.
The Fremont bypass highway, which opened in 1958, would have cut right through one of the airport's runways, forcing the airport's move to the east side.


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Spring Fest Pre-Show and Concert
The Oxy Programming Board invites you to the 2014 Spring Fest pre-show and concert, featuring Talib Kweli. Sample some of Talib's music: http://youtu.be/
The pre-show on Stewie Lawn (3-6 p.m.) will consist of live music on two stages, DJ, climbing wall, Greek Council bounce house, Delta/SAE dunktank, food trucks, free giveaways, and more! Wristbands ($7) are required for the food trucks and beer garden (ages 21 and over).
The concert doors at the Greek Bowl open at 8 p.m.; Talib is scheduled to appear at 9:30 p.m.
Both the pre-show and concert will be +1 events, open to Oxy students and their guests only. All +1s must purchase a wristband to enjoy all attractions.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Mentors in Violence Prevention
Gender Violence Prevention Education & Leadership Training
MVP utilizes a creative "bystander" approach to gender violence and bullying prevention. It focuses on young men not as perpetrators or potential perpetrators, but as empowered bystanders who can confront abusive peers – and support abused ones. It focuses on young women not as victims or potential targets of harassment, rape and abuse, but as empowered bystanders who can support abused peers - and confront abusive ones. In this model, a "bystander" is defined as a family member, friend, classmate, teammate, coworker– anyone who is imbedded in a family, school, social, or professional relationship with someone who might in some way be abusive, or experiencing abuse.
Sunday, April 13, 2014 - Monday, April 14, 2014
Annual Pal Sunday BBQ
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Syracuse forward C.J. Fair (5) dunks in front of Wisconsin guards Ben Brust (1) and Josh Gasser (21), Thursday, March 22, 2012.
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Individual game tickets for Syracuse men's basketball go on sale 10 a.m. Wednesday. This will be the Orange's last Big East season before they depart for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Coach Jim Boeheim's team opens its season Nov. 9 against San Diego State in the "Battle of the Midway," in a game that will be played on the flight deck of the USS Midway, a retired Navy aircraft carrier. Tip-off is 8 p.m. (ET) start. Tickets for home games will be available online at www.SUathletics.com, by phone through Ticketmaster at 888-DOMETIX (888-366-3849), or in person at the Carrier Dome Box Office.


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The Mountain Home Seventh Grade Lady Bomber volleyball team won five of six games at the Harrison Jamboree.
Mountain Home swept both matches from Berryville and Huntsville, and split matches with Harrison.
The Seventh Grade Lady Bombers travel to Green Forest for a 5 p.m. match today.


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"When I was in private practice, I never had the chance to do this, and I think that there is a lot of physicians, if given the opportunity, would rather spend their vacation time actually using their profession to bless the lives of other," says Dr. John Whiting, Bingham Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Whiting and his wife Pam, say that this is their way to give back and use the medical skills that they have to help others.
"Well when I think about our experience, it just brings chills to my body, it was just overwhelming in a sense that it was a wonderful experience and for us to be able to go over there and use our skills to help these patients that so much needed it," says Pam Whiting, Certified Medical Assistant.
"We would start working and you would just have the whole entire courtyard packed full of people. A lot of those people had slept overnight, some of those people had come a week earlier to try to be the first ones in line," added Dr. Whiting.
Pam says that the Hondurans may not have a lot of money, but they are rich in spirit.
"They come in with big smiles. They have traveled for days. They have waited for days and they are dressed just beautifully in their best and just so gracious to have the help and the care that they come to seek at our clinic," concluded Pam.
Dr. Whiting and his wife Pam, say they plan on going back to Honduras every year from here on out and they are planning another medical training mission to Cameroon (West Africa) in August.
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AVON >> For decades, women who were diagnosed with breast cancer kept silent about it. Others whispered about the dreaded disease. There was a stigma attached to breast cancer.
Pat Halpin-Murphy, president and founder of the PA Breast Cancer Coalition, which has its headquarters in Lebanon, said attitudes toward breast cancer are changing.
When she founded the coalition in 1993, many women were not comfortable saying they had breast cancer because there was a stigma attached to it, Halpin-Murphy said. Halpin-Murphy was a teacher and held government positions throughout her life. She is also a breast-cancer survivor.
"I was always public about mine because I worked in a building with 2,000 people and they could see the changes, and I was sick," she said.
The coalition has worked to change attitudes about women who suffer from breast cancer. Several years ago, they published a photo booklet, called "67 Women, 67 Counties," that depicted a woman who has or had breast cancer in each of the state's counties posing with family and friends.
"If you have a serious illness, it's enough to deal with it, but if you have to hide it, it makes it so much harder," Halpin-Murphy said.
The stigma attached to the disease dealt both with women's breasts and cancer itself, both of which were spoken about in whispers, she said. As more women acknowledged that they had breast cancer, it took away the stigma, she said.
"As it became known how many women were breast cancer survivors, that took the stigma off," Halpin-Murphy said. "I don't run into women anymore who hide it. It's okay now to say, 'I was diagnosed with breast cancer.'"
Jeanne Barnhart of Avon, who was diagnosed with breast cancer, doesn't recall much talk about the disease growing up. "I don't remember hearing as much about it as I do now," she said.
Barnhart said there is little history of breast cancer in her family. But in May 2008, a suspicious mass was discovered during a routine mammogram examination. Barnhart had a biopsy the next day and was diagnosed with an aggressive HER2 positive breast cancer.
"We didn't think it was going to be cancer," Barnhart said. "I have no strong family history. I thought it was going to be benign. I was really taken aback when we got the diagnosis."
Barnhart had a tumor that was between stage 1 and stage 2 when she was diagnosed. Between May and September 2008, she underwent standard chemotherapy, with two Herceptin treatments in between these treatments. Herceptin, one of the new cancer drugs, is used in more directed therapies to target cancer cells.
"Her cancer was so aggressive that they didn't want to do the surgery first," said her husband, George. "They wanted to do chemotherapy first and try to shrink the tumor and get anything that might be floating around."
Her oncologist, however, was concerned that they might not have gotten all of the cancerous cells. That October, Barnhart opted to have a bilateral mastectomy.
"I wanted to be proactive. I didn't want to risk it coming back," she said.
Several months later, she had reconstructive surgery. Barnhart sees her oncologist every six months for follow-up exams and blood work. "I still am somewhat nervous about it. They gave me a pretty good prognosis, but it was a hormone-fed cancer, so I still take a maintenance drug," she said.
During the process, some people were uncomfortable talking about her cancer, which left her feeling isolated and alone, she said.
"People didn't know what to say." Barnart recalled. "It wasn't just cancer; I had my breasts removed. I guess people didn't know what to say. They feel they're going to say the wrong thing. They just don't know how to deal with it."
Barnhart's two children and six grandchildren were the least intimidated by her illness, she said. While her daughter was shaving her head -- she lost her hair during chemotherapy -- her 5-year-old granddaughter Bella was sweeping up the hair.
"I asked her, 'Bella, how does it look?' She grabbed my face and said, 'Don't worry, Meme, it's still your same face,'" Barnhart recalled.
Barnhart attended one support group meeting after her surgery but felt at the time it wasn't something she wanted to continue. But she recommends women who have breast cancer seek out such groups.
After her experience, Barnhart decided she wanted to help other women with the disease. Recently, she joined the Reach For Recovery program through the American Cancer Society. The program matches breast cancer survivors with women who have just been diagnosed to provide some support. "I'm waiting for my first match-up, which I think will be therapeutic for me and, hopefully, for them," she added.
Her advice to is to just reach out to the women who are going through it.
"It affected me profoundly that I rarely heard from anyone. I got a lot of cards, but people didn't call me, they didn't come to see," she said.
George was very supportive of his wife's decisions.
"For me, I just wanted her to make the decision that made her most comfortable," he said. "It really didn't make a difference to me one way or the other."
Dolores Magro, patient advocate for the PA Breast Cancer Coalition, acknowledged that sometimes people simply don't know what to say when a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and may avoid the woman, making her feel alone.
"When that happens, it's because people are being careful and they don't know what to say, so they're not saying anything," Magro said.
If you know a woman with breast cancer, Magro suggested talking to her. "First, you want to make sure you're not overstepping. Respect them by offering to help and not just saying, 'Let me know if there is something that I can do,'" she said. "Approach the woman and ask her about her treatment schedule and ask her if she needs help with cooking or watching children."
Barnhart believes that actress Angelina Jolie has raised awareness about breast cancer. In September, Jolie announced that she decided to have a preventive double mastectomy because she tested positive for a BRCA gene mutation. The mutation raises a woman's risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer. Jolie's mother died of ovarian cancer.
"I think Angelina Jolie has definitely given it a boost, made women not so afraid," Barnhart said.
Halpin-Murphy agreed, saying "I thought she was very courageous. She's a very public person and her fame is really partially connected to her physical person. The publicity also has made more women aware that certain breast cancers are inherited."
Magro said she has seen a change in the attitudes over the past three decades.
"Women are much more open about having had a diagnosis of breast cancer," she said."Women themselves and advocates like Pat, who were loud and realized that you can't advocate for change and not talk about it and be open, changed the attitudes."


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Chapter 1
How to Get (Nearly) Killed in the Bathroom
To say Seth Tristan was annoyed was an understatement.
It all commenced when they shifted to England because of his father's archaelogy gig in the nearby University but that wasn't why Seth was in a pissed-off mood that morning.
It could be the stupid, pretentious uniform of a crisp buttoned shirt and ironed navy blue trousers or it could be that every vestige of data- apps, music and whatnot- was flushed down the toilet due to the idiocy in which his twin sister had displayed wonderfully just a few recent nanoseconds ago.
"It was an accident; I swear I'll make it up to you."
Seth did what he did best: he ignored her.
Zahra always had a problem with technology; her birthday iPod was malfunctioning the first five minutes she touched it. "Christ," She muttered and she blew a strand of red hair from her face and slumped back into the corrugated cab seat.
His attention span reversed into the predicament he had been sweating over since their plane has landed in British grounds. His father had forced him, despite there was only two weeks left of school, to attend the nearby Richmond comprehensive.
Ever since he had touched down in the Heathrow airport, he felt as if a feverish flu had overcome him. His head ached quite frequently at night and the birthmark enclosed into his wrist itched excessively and it didn't have anything to do with the incessant perpetual cycle of being the new kid again.
Being the new kid was not what Seth was particularly new to. His father's work took them literally everywhere in the States, from living in a musty barn in Montana to an Upstate apartment in New York.
His expectations on his popularity- despite their dad's ardent enthusiasm on aforementioned non-existent subject- were drastically low. The only group of "friends" (to put it charitably) he would normally sit on a cheap cafeteria table was a ragtag bunch of outcasts and awkward literary geniuses he hated making small talk with. It was miserable and reclusive but Seth didn't really care.
He stood by his motto: new place, same shit.
His mother died in an accident in Manhattan when he was a few months shy from his first birthday. He barely knew her and wondered if his life wouldn't be so humorlessly boring and dethatched from others if she was still alive, perhaps the reason why his father leap from places to places abundant was to discard the pain of losing his wife. It explained why he had been single all these years…
His dad-Regales Tristan- worked as a historian on multiple mythologies and religions, jumping from universities and professors to shady dealings with wandering miscreants on the side of the road who were either A) homeless B) obsessed with supernatural cults and holy rituals or C) both with serial killer motives.
Although his father talked animatedly about legends and musty history which was embedded into his head by his Dad at least a thousand times, there was this large chunk of him Seth never really bother to contemplate about. His father was always cautious and had no close friends. Another reason why Regales Tristan was perpetually single but who was he to talk? Girls who he had, like, nine classes with never heard of him- ever.
There was one time when Seth was invited to a sleepover by this very friendly boy at school when he was four and his dad freaked big time. He made them packed all their belongings at the dead of the night and drove on until they were out of the state of Pennsylvania. Talk about paranoid.
He glanced over at his opinionated sister with her bleached flaming hair and doe hazel eyes with stubby eyelashes. Her fingers clutching a frayed book with bended page tips and cracked end, engrossed in a book she had read way too many times before going back to staring aimlessly outside the window.
Dark clouds gathered threateningly around the area as the cab sped past the oh-so sunny London, driving in sporadic paces to the unpredictable traffic due to the rush hour of the city.
London was a cool place. For starters, it was different from the dramatically exaggerated greatness of a typical American town but after shifting from places to places so many times everything blended together into this gigantic chunk called the world. However it was different than the numerous suburbs he had stayed in. London reminded him of his hometown, New York, but with an older and a more sophisticated ambience encompassing it.
"We're nearly there." Seth said to his sister, nudging her in the elbow.
"I know." Her annoyed response was said subconsciously as she shut the book and shoved it back into her tie-dye bag with the chunks of metal smiley pins jangling rattling adjacently together.
They were nearly late when they reached the school.
Seth adjusted his blazer for the hundredth time that morning when he stepped onto the school courtyard, unpleasant with the stiff material encompassing his gawky limbs. "I hate this." Zahra tugged her black school skirt before marching into the school with him trailing slowly behind her.
The school was a large brown building with a flat roof, the bricks were well worn; but it was built in classical, old English style. Greenery played a large roll on shrouding the grounds surrounding the school building, clumps of bushes and wild, dull plants tangled together into one big, gigantic assemblage of revolting evergreens.
The hallways were obnoxiously noisy with echoing, cream walls and glaringly bright fluorescent light illuminating the whole room. Here we go again, Seth thought wryly.
After a few misguided turns and perplexed directions, they found the administration office. The Vice Principal, Mrs. Abbey, was not a happy camper. She kept raging on about how they could've equivocate 'unorganized transportations' if they were more 'responsible' and do more 'time management'.
Seth really wondered what crawled up her ass and died but he refrained from rolling his eyes. The corners of Zahra's lips twitched in agitation as she narrowed her deep set hazel eyes when the Vice Principal harangued about her tomato red hair and unkempt blouse collars.
After that unnecessary, evitable berate from the Vice Principal, they collected the timetable and newsletter with the Principal's note on last few weeks of school and a reminder about graduation for the seniors or Year Twelve as how the British name the grades.
They journeyed down the long hallway with echoing, glaringly white walls and shiny trophy cases with fake, gleaming golden miniscule statues staring at the perpetually moving cliques of students in a perturbed manner before descending down a pair of stairs only to find out all the corridors were the same: no lockers, white and dull.
"Excuse me," Seth poked a pug-face boy who was laughing raucously with his friends by a tight corner. "Do you know where all the lockers are?"
The dude glanced at him oddly. "Classrooms obviously," A pug face boy with a strong Cockney accent scoffed. "Christ, Americans are idiots…"
"Keep talking and maybe someday you'll say something intelligent!" Zahra narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms. "Racist bigoted idiot,"
"Take a chill pill," He hissed and hauled her over to the silver hunks of drinking fountains by the corner away from the rude pug-face boy. The last thing he needed was to be lectured by the kindred, reasonable Mrs. Abbey…again.
Zahra cooled down (thank God) but she never stopped shooting the pug face boy dirty looks at his supremacist comment. People regarded them as air, crashing and bumping into them as they rushed to their classes. Occasionally, a few stared at Zahra's hair but they were almost invisible to the others.
He was fine with it.
He noticed that the social system in London were nearly similar to the ones in America. There were the cliques who are stereotypically pretentious and shallow as their entire personality with the impassive disregard to people who were "uncool" while the majority of the lower class of the pyramid worshipped them like gods. His motto had never been truer.
Just when they pivoted sharply at another archway towards their first lesson for the day a girl who was running to her classroom accidentally came crashing head on towards him, sending the agendas and spare notebooks flying across the passageway of navy uniform cladded students.
"Oh God," She gasped when he toppled over onto Zahra, nearly knocking her onto the ground. "I'm so sorry!"
His sister prevented him from impacting the ground dramatically with an overwhelming flair of embarrassment by pushing him back up irately. "Here," She handed him his disconcerted planner. "This is yours."
She smiled warmly at him and pushed the notebook into his hand. "Thanks," Seth pocketed the notebook into his black bag pack and slung it back onto his shoulder.
She wasn't wearing a replica of Zahra's pleated blue skirt, white buttoned top and navy blazer but a sloppy swimming sweater and tights. Her jet black hair braided into a long side plait with two yellow smiley pins to clip her fringe from falling into her intense Asian dark eyes.
"You're Americans," She said, sounding delightfully surprised as she hoisted her blue knapsack onto her back.
"What gave it away?" Zahra asked bluntly, the tone was flippant rather than snide.
Seth shot her one of his shut up and be nice looks and Zahra returned it with the classic one finger salute because she had no other insults to spare him with. Oh please, Seth snorted.
The girl evaded Zahra's tactless with oblivious ease. "So what do you think of London so far?" Her buttery British accent brushed upon the words, lacing it with an aura of sophistication that all English people had. He wished he had an accent- it was like having a superpower; making people listen to you so that they'll bother to listen to him drone on and on about a mandatory essay for a school he'll probably only be in for three to four months.
"It's okay, I guess." He guessed about a horde of other mindless little towns but it was the only half-assed response he could come up with at the moment.
"Glad you don't hate it," She laughed while Zahra muttered sporadically under her breath. "I'm Astoria Lee but people call me Toria. Are you two together?"
Seth and Zahra exchanged glances of horrified expressions at the ludicrous suggestions.
"We're siblings," Zahra corrected adamantly, her fingers playing with the small red pocket lighter in her pocket with imprudent disregard to the astounding capability of her uniform catching on fire.
"Fraternal twins," They rattled in unison as if they had been saying it a thousand times.
"Oh sorry, it's just you don't like siblings," God, if he had a penny every time he heard that he would've own the world already. The only physical resemblance they shared was hazel eyes and pale olive skin. Their personalities didn't help much either.
Zahra was loud. He was quiet. She alerted the whole goddamn media about her opinions while he liked having his trap shut and blending into the backgrounds.
"Good," Zahra smiled mischievously. "It's nice to know I don't look much like a genetic freak,"
"Shut up." He resisted the temptation to give her a good flick on the neck and grinned at Toria, who watched the banter in amusement. "I'm Seth and this is my evil twin, Zahra."
Zahra rolled her eyes and scoffed at his pathetic attempt of a comeback. "So what are your first classes?" Toria followed them as they strode past a section in one of the identical hallways of the school where it was the noises.
"History," Zahra announced noticeably over the mild, pronounced hums of chatter.
"Oh, me too!"
"Science," Seth said with relief flooding his body when he re-read the schedule and saw the little inscription in morbid, austere print on the crumpled paper.
Science was, thankfully, his forte. It was one of those things that came naturally to him- it wasn't as frustratingly irritating as Math and he was not as linguistically literate as Zahra was.
"Oh, I'm in your history class!" Toria saw a peek of Zahra's wrinkled schedule and beamed at Zahra as if she was glad Zahra had finally found her guardian angel which Zahra raised one of her naturally arched eyebrows at. "Maybe I can show you around at Morning Tea?"
Before they could asked her what was Morning Tea, one of the punk rock girls by the bathrooms caught their attention by shouting across the hallway.
"Toria, hurry up and get your arse over here!" Her dark hair shadowed over her face except for a couple of blue eyes.
Those dangerous almond ice blue eyes bored into his dark hazel ones and her uncanny imitation of Mona Lisa's surreptitious smirk was spot on.
"Well, it's nice meeting both of you and I hope you'll enjoy your stay here in Richmond," She skipped over towards the last person you expected a bubbly girl like Toria to be friends with.
"Weird kid," Zahra's frizzy hair nuzzled him in the nose when a sixth former the size of a refrigerator slammed past her without a half-hearted apology.
It happened so suddenly. His wrist began to itch severely like a pestering rash when scorching, clamorous pain seared into his head so viciously- similar to the migraine he received last night but magnified tenfold. "Ouch," He gasped, clutching his head.
"What?" asked Zahra placidly, eyebrows arched like an alley cat.
"Nothing," Seth shut his eyes to blocked the pounding pain in his head. God, the headache's a bitch, he rubbed his wrist.
The agony ended as soon as it had come. He opened his eyes, trying to shake off his heaving head.
The cramped passageway was dispersing as students hurried over to their first classes for the day in packs with sneakers grinding onto the cheap white tiled floor with squeaks rebounding against the walls.
And that was when he saw her.
She appeared like a mirage with her regal face bathed in ghostly light, her pale green eyes wide alive with fear and her dark hair hung limply by the apples of her cheekbones. Her white pallor skin had scrapes and contusions marked all over her thin, sickly body.
"Did you see that?" Seth asked his sister.
"What?" Zahra's eyes lingered at the spot where his eyes were fixed pointedly onto. "I see nothing. Jesus, can we not be late on the first day of school?"
She pulled him away from the bathroom doors at the same time his throat constricted tightly, creating friction and convulsing violently.
He tried to get the words out- four simple words: I need the bathroom- but he was afraid if he did, the leftovers from last night he had for breakfast would spew out all over the reflective floor.
"Bathroom," He choked out to Zahra before clapping his mouth with his palm and allowing his gag reflex defense mechanism to kick in as he take off to the bathroom with Zahra's soft mumble of an "okay" and her roaring, completely subtle yell across the hallway that she'll be in the classroom.
Wheeling around, he fumbled past through the crowds and ran inside the bathroom. Breathing sharply, he hurled himself upon the ceramic sink and splashed water shakily onto his face. Staring in front of the mirror of smashed prints and bored little annotations hand-decorated by the male occupants of the school, he rubbed his eyes; trying with all the luck to convinced himself he wasn't sick nor crazy.
His mark started to prickle like a metal detector in a steel room but he ignored it and inspected the unhealthy knots forming on his temples to the size of the topographical map of Mount Everest. He desperately tried (and failed) to massage himself back into a therapeutic state when a boy no less than a few years away from Seth ambled in.
The boy's lanky dark hair shadowed over his face, bright muddy green eyes limpid between strands of split ends and his face gaunt, doubling his actual age when his body was tall and athletic- he was packed with more muscle than Seth dreamed of having.
Those green eyes stared at Seth with an unsettling manner as Seth washed his hands, murmuring softly to get to class in a bitter, here-we-go-again-life-sucks-so-much tone and advanced to the bathroom door when the boy began whispering an incantation which let iciness spread throughout the room.
Numbness crawled into the Seth's limbs; he stood motionless and frozen in a half-pace to his destination. The fact that thought I'm going to die ambled into his skull more than what the hell is going on uncertain him quite a bit but not as much as the distressing thought as what is happening to me?!
He tried to peel his lips agape so he could scream or call for some sort of help but it was like he had stared into Medusa's deadly, patronizing glare and transformed into a statue with moving eyes.
His nerves crawled into his throat and pulsed with terror when the unsettling green orbs bore into his dark hazel ones, the incantation grew louder and he recognize the language from one of his father's Historical Translation papers. Celtic, Seth urged his hand to break out of this unrealistic, wacky- even for his standards- dream.
Black smoke suddenly weaved out of air, his eyes widened, curling up his nostrils and poisoning his lungs with god-knows-what. He could nearly see his funeral where Zahra would pop the champagne bottle and call it a celebration. That was depressingly morbid.
The burning temptation to cough on the nauseating, gaging vehement fog was killing him as his wrist seared, doubling the pain. So I die like this, Seth contemplated dryly just a few moments before an honest-to-god, earth-shattering explosion erupted.
The impact penetrated Seth into the brick bathroom wall opposite of the boy but the "wall" had crumbled into a burning heap of rubble and dusty remnants of plaster. His skull vibrated, nearly shattering and he dropped like a sack of potatoes.
By all incompatible means he could still hear the hasty drumming in his ears to the beat and air ventilating his lungs. He blinked his eyes open cautiously with trickles of sticky crimson liquid running into his eyelashes.
He stretched his fingers to test out the sensation of his body parts moving and functioning like they should be, his head felt like it split open. So he was alive. That was a pleasant surprise.
"You're alive?" The green-eyed murderer snarled .
Seth wanted to reply with a half-hearted, sassy retort of no shit, Sherlock but his disjointed thoughts spiraled around his head like animated stars on cartoon before passing out of the floor.
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Archive for May, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Kenny.
- CMO: #kidmin Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24 http://bit.ly/9JfIPO #
- CMO: #kidmin Updating my weekly parent update http://bit.ly/cV7jgM #
- @coveredindust @jonros I have an overwhelming urge to soot something with an arrow today. Plus, I'm paying dearly for what I ate… #
- @coveredindust @jonros more like festering… in reply to coveredindust #
- CMO: #kidmin Help me with patience http://bit.ly/bCdUqe #
- any1 know anything about "the City" (Especially in regard to the check-in module)? Been hearing positive things about it. #kidmin #orange10 #
- @anthony_prince was that a joke? The link to "my" website? in reply to anthony_prince #
- Having a T-Shirt designed my Amb3r right now for our kids summer camp. I'm very excited! #kidmin #
- @stocksohio I'm teaching this Sunday to our 4th and 5th graders. First time in 18 months… I miss it. Teaching on patience. #kidmin in reply to stocksohio #
- @aaronlozano of course. in reply to aaronlozano #
- Family time… Thinking exploring some Austin we've never seen. Walking Waller Creek Trail in downtown. #
- CMO: #kidmin Patience illustration http://bit.ly/9uLzFX #
- Eating NY style pizza in Austin. I got a feeling this is better than anything I'll find in NY. What do you think @samluce? #kidmin #
- @samluce your first problem was that you were in N. Dakota. You were delerious… Not thinking straight. probably think anything was good. in reply to samluce #
- @JoeMcAlpine: @samluce Chicago style pizza is better than NY style…/ I'm with sam… NY is better, specially if you get it in Austin. #
- @samluce: @JoeMcAlpine I never suggested Mellow Mushroom was better than anything in NY… just decent… or better than anything around GA #
- @samluce: @JoeMcAlpine #
- On my way to a wedding rehearsal at lakeway on beautiful lake Travis!
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Some things have to wait…
Posted on 29. May, 2010 by Kenny.
I've got an unbelievable schedule for the next 4-5 weeks. This just released this week. Looks like I'm going to have to wait until I'm not so busy…
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Patience illustration
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Kenny.
Thanks for the feedback the other day on my patience talk. I've got one more favor to ask of you though. I need help with an illustration though. I think it's an illustration I want to use in the introduction, a place where I can get us to laugh at ourselves over our natural inclination to be impatient.
I'm thinking of offering it up as a bit of a verbal quiz that would indicate your level of patience. Here are some of the questions I've already thought of:
- As a child, did you ever unwrap your presents early so you'd know what you got?
- Have you ever read the last page of a book you were reading just to see what would happen?
- Do you ever repeatedly push the menu button on your DVD remote during the FBI warning and get frustrated that nothing happens?
- Have you ever pushed the elevator call button after it was already illuminated just to make sure it was working?
I think I want to use this illustration for both the kids message as well as the adult message. Do you have any additional questions? How about some questions that would relate specifically to 4th and 5th graders. Remember, this is creating opportunities to laugh at oursleves, not meant to make us feel guilty.
Also, can you think of any other examples of our impatience that is just kinda ridiculous? These would be things that we do that are a little absurd, but our impatience leads us to do them.
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate you crowdsourcing help with this message.… Read the rest
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Help me with patience
Posted on 26. May, 2010 by Kenny.
So I'm in the middle of a blog series on Kidmin careers and unfortunately I have to take a quick break this week. So much is going on. However, I could really use your help. So, whether your a Kids Pastor, Senior Pastor, volunteer or a family member of mine who is reading this post, I would appreciate your help.
I'm in the middle of message planning craziness. In a few weeks, I'm speaking at our kids camp and I'm currently planning 9 separate messages (10-15 minute talks in the morning and 20-25 minute talks in the evening). In addition, I'm speaking this Sunday to our 4th and 5th graders which I'm working on that talk right now. Last of all, my Pastor is leading a four week training where he's teaching about 10-12 staff/leaders how to plan and prepare a message the way he does it. As a part of the training, we're planning a message that we can and will deliver. Yes, I'm just a little overwhelmed right now.
So, I'm speaking this Sunday on patience as they've been focused on the virtue of patience all month; however, I'm speaking of patience from a fairly different perspective. Since I'm having to prepare a message from scratch for the kids this Sunday, I decided to make patience the message I'm working on for the training. So, I'll do a lot of the work for this message I'm required in the training. Although I'll give a talk on patience aimed at 4th and 5th graders this Sunday, I'll prepare the same talk geared for adults as well.
So, I'm at the end of my content/information gathering stage and I want a little input.
One of the things I'm learning is that in every message, we should address resistance. Whatever we are talking about, someone has resistance to the message.… Read the rest
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Updating my weekly parent update
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Kenny.
I've been using Constant Contact for almost two years to communicate news to parents. I've been very happy with it as a communication tool. I get all kinds of great feedback from every email like what emails are being read, forwarded and the like. However, I've been very slow to adjust to using all that Constant Contact has to offer. For the first several months, I didn't use any graphics. It was just a boring text email. Then a few months later I added a snappy header and that's what I've been using ever since. However, I've been inspired to make some changes and have a semi-final product. I'd be curious as to what you think.
Here's the template I've been using (click on image to see full page):
Here's the new template (blue version, not sure we're going to use this one):
Here's another new template (green version, probably going to go with this one):
I'll be using this new template this week, so any input you have would be much appreciated. Thanks!
BTW, I think I'm going to have to extra things done this week. I'm going to have my graphic designer tweak the header "The KQ Update" so it doesn't look so plain. In addition I think I'm going to have her tweak the "Join Our Mailing List" as well so it looks a little better designed.… Read the rest
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Kenny.
- CMO: #kidmin Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-17 http://bit.ly/a7aEz7 #
- CMO: #kidmin Random (but not usless) information http://bit.ly/b6BErt #
- CMO: #kidmin What matters now? http://bit.ly/9hmrfC #
- CMO: #kidmin Free Ugly Towel Sunday http://bit.ly/aTFZXI #
- CMO: #kidmin Starting/Restarting your Childrens Ministry Career http://bit.ly/bsU9yx #
- On the treadmill… Or should I say dreadmill. First time in 3 weeks. Here we go! #
- @ryanwynia oh, I'm taking it slow, no worries there. 😉 in reply to ryanwynia #
- CMO: #kidmin Video Review: What's in the Bible Disc One http://bit.ly/cOXt4Q #
- CMO: #kidmin Childrens Ministry Career: Starting options http://bit.ly/dapnvG #
- Eye-Fi'd 1 photos to Facebook. http://is.gd/cfxZf #
- http://twitpic.com/1p5jne Saweeeet! Look what just came for me in the mail. A free gift because of my awesomeness. It's like Christmas! #
- @aaronlozano Yes, thank you. Incredibly helpful. I've got some volunteers processing it and coming up with a plan. w00t! in reply to aaronlozano #
- CMO: #kidmin Childrens Ministry Networking to find that job http://bit.ly/cG5Gbf #
- CMO: #kidmin My career path could have looked differently http://bit.ly/b2VdjJ #
- Heading home. It was a long day today. My day is looking pretty packed for tomorrow too. Got a feeling I won't be staying up very late 2nite #
- Last day of preschool. At Titus' spring sing! #
- http://twitpic.com/1pfd16 I got a feel Titus is going to rock out on the Puppie, Puppies song! Oh yeah! #
- CMO: #kidmin Discover the next stage of your Kidmin career through job boards http://bit.ly/aMjCVT #
- CMO: #kidmin Best commercial I've seen about parents in years http://bit.ly/dtOu6i #
- RE: @mattmckee That's a great list my friend. Happy birthday! http://disq.us/dnaav #
- Just finished the final update to my site http://bit.ly/a3ylVs. I moved it over to Dreamhost last weekend. Now just to add new content.
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Another post dedicated to Sam Luce
Posted on 21. May, 2010 by Kenny.
This isn't the first time I've dedicated a post to my Yankee friend. However, Jonathan Cliff sent this to me a few weeks ago (not becasue he thought this was cool, but becasue he was picking on me) and I figured I should post this. Let me defend myself first.
I am not a Trekkie. I do not own any Star Trek paraphernalia, movies or costumes. Of the TV shows that have been running for literally decades, I've seen only a dozen or so episodes, most of them back when I was a teenager. However, I have seen all the movies, I think. There may be one in there that I missed.
However, because I do like the Sci-Fi genre and becasue I've I can recall a few random Star Trek facts that I've picked up and remembered from watching the movies, Sam Luce thinks I'm a Trekkie. Whatever. So Sam, I dedicate this post to you, perhaps it will give you more things to pick on.
However, just so everyone knows, Sam Luce too is a closet fan of Sci-Fi. He enjoyed the X-Files television series and secretly enjoys dressing up as a Wookie for Halloween.… Read the rest
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Best commercial I've seen about parents in years
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Kenny.
This is a silly commercial advertising the Toyota Sienna. I laughed out loud many times.
I think what I like most about this commercial were the parents and they way they were portrayed. Really, it was a commercial geared to mini-van moms and dads showing how cool you might be driving a Sienna. Although these parents might be a little over confident (and arrogant), they look like pretty good parents. They're engaged in their kids lives. Period. When statistics say that the average parent spends only 15 minutes a day interacting with their kids, I say we need more parents like these.
Maybe Toyota is trying to tell people that paretns who drive Siennas are cool. I didn't catch that. I saw parents who connect with their kids are cool.… Read the rest
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Discover the next stage of your Kidmin career through job boards
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Kenny.
As I said yesterday, I think the best place to locate a ministry job is through the network you've created. However, depending on the situation you are in, you might need to exhaust all available options. If that's the case, you need to spend some time on the ministry job boards. Landing that next job might be a little combination of utilizing your network along with searching the job boards. So many churches put available positions out there, so look regularly. Here are a few of the sites I'd recommend:
There are more than just these though, you just need to look around and wee what there is.
In addition there are a handful of ministry search firms, one of which is the Shepherd's Staff. I had a pretty phenomenal experience with them. There were several churches that I had made connections with about a possibly position, but it was them that brought me to Gateway, and I'm really happy about that.
Another place to search are Christian university websites. Many of them have career centers and job boards, specifically if they're connected to a certain denomination. I've tracked down some great leads in the past from those job boards in particular. Another place to look is on the websites of specific churches. A lot of your larger churches that actually have someone on staff than handles HR will usually post open jobs on the website. So, if there are 10-20 churches that you follow that you know would be the kind of church you'd love to work at, check their websites every week just to see if something is open. It could be that there's an open position that would at least get you on the team with room to grow.… Read the rest
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My career path could have looked differently
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by Kenny.
On Monday I wrote a blog post about starting your Kidmin career. Yesterday I followed it up with another post about starting options. These posts got me thinking a lot about my humble beginnings in Children's Ministry. There is no doubt, if I could have done it over again, I'd do it the same. Why? I believe that God ordained my steps each and every step along the way. I believed I was following God in the steps I took. Looking back, I see that was true. However, would I recommend someone do exactly what I did? I'm not sure, maybe not. Not unless they felt God was opening up that door.
Here's my story. I did a one year internship after High School with a missions organization. That year was dedicated to refining my call in ministry. I knew God had called me to Children's Ministry, but in that year, God gave me specific marching orders. I left that internship with a five year plan that had been bathed in prayer and inspired by God. Part of that plan was to be a Children's Pastor while getting my degree in college. I really hadn't thought about how difficult it would be to become a Children's Pastor as a 19 year old in a town that wasn't home, but I felt that it was the plan God gave me. I was attending Church on the Move at the time, which I LOVED! I wanted to get more involved there, bud I didn't have a car at the time and it was a good 20-25 minute drive from campus. It wasn't really a viable option, so I just started serving in a Children's Ministry outreach to inner-city kids through my school's community outreach program. After a few weeks, I was leading that ministry.… Read the rest


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Sustainability Sundays contributor Mike Millikin, editor of the fantastic Green Car Congress website, is the subject of an interview in the current Mother Jones. The discussion is a good one, and the interview could serve as a primer on the current and near-future trends in building more efficient vehicles. (And if you shy away from Mother Jones for political reasons, you don't need to for this piece -- it's almost entirely focused on vehicle technology and its social context.)
Millikin: ...one of the things I try to do is emphasize new engine concepts. It's very difficult to develop an engine, and it's hard for inventors and innovators to come up with something that can really make any headway. And so in at least one case – and I'll be doing this with other cases – I've thrown up a new concept on the site, and the inventor and the readers interacted and discussed it in great depth.
I've got the educated or leading-edge consumers, researchers from universities, engineers and developers from the auto companies checking in regularly. It's a good cross section. And I've been very pleased with the types of discussions and interactions that have developed. All I'm really trying to do is to get people learning and thinking and then taking what they've learned and doing more.
You know what I find interesting? In all the talk on this site about how to solve the car transportation issue, I don't recall ever seeing suggestions for promoting more car-pooling. The closest I've seen is car-sharing.
You could take ANY motor vehicle and at least double the mileage (or at least reduce the cost of that mileage in 1/2) by getting at least one person to ride with you. Why does this alternative not get any press? Has it proven to be useless in those places which have experimented with car-pool lanes? Is everyone who can do it already doing it? Obviously the American car tradition is the freedom to drive where they want when they want, so there's obviously an entrenched mind-set. But that's never been a reason for Worldchanging to shy away from a subject before.


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Chronicle Craft: Kat Macleod Coming to San Francisco
This just in: Kat Macleod is making her first US appearance to support the book she illustrated, Like I Give a Frock. The event is Monday July 13 at Candystore Collective. Just wanted to get the date on your calendars, and we'll post more details in July.
I would have loved to look over Kat's shoulder as she created the sartorially stunning art for Like I Give a Frock. Wish granted! This video shows a bird's eye view of Kat drawing, painting, sewing, and collaging a few of her signature fancy frocked ladies.
Thanks to Happy Mundane for the tipoff.
To get more of Kat's art, come to Candystore on July 13th. In the meantime, you can buy Like I Give a Frock and download free desktop wallpaper here. Or send a friend an e-postcard here. I just updated my computer with this peek-a-boo print:
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Janet June 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Love this! I hope to make it out to the Candystore!
CakeSpy June 26, 2009 at 9:20 am
I love being able to see the process–that is just too cool. Wish I could be there!


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Justin Timberlake received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and reunited onstage with his 'N Sync bandmates at the 2013 MTV VMAs, but Miley Cyrus is who we're all still talking about.
The reason, of course, is her provocative, half-naked performance with Robin Thicke at Brooklyn's Barclay's Center on Sunday, Aug. 25. The Hannah Montana star took the stage before Justin got to perform his extended, multi-=song set, and according to 'N Sync's Chris Kirkpatrick, he was a tad upset when he saw his fellow Disney alum and her twerktastic moves.
"I think when we were watching [Miley's performance]—I saw Justin getting a little angry," Chris told Johnny's House, an Orlando radio show, on Monday, Aug. 26. "And when he gets angry, I said 'Uh-oh. That means we better be on point, because he's about to go out and kill it now.'"
And that's just what he—and the rest of 'N Sync—did. Even so, Chris, 41, wasn't a fan of Miley's overtly exerting her womanhood onstage. "You know, it was what it was. I don't get it," he said. "To me, it just seems like sometimes people think you have to out-weird people."
"That's not what it's about," he added. "You know, the kids wanna see you out there doing your songs and just being you—and I'm sure she's a great girl, but I was a little disappointed."
'N Sync's Lance Bass also spoke out against the 20-year-old pop star, saying on his Sirius XM show, Dirty Pop With Lance Bass, that he felt uncomfortable his nieces and nephews had been watching from the audience. "I didn't know I had to warn them that their little Hannah Montana was going to be naked and humping a finger," he said. "I think it's her thing…I think she shocked a lot of her younger fans, especially the parents, who might not be so happy with her thing, but she's just being Miley."
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'Meditation is the journey to the big mind'
Sydney, Australia, April 5: Participants of the Health & Happiness workshop did more than breathe in and out and stretch their bodies to postures from the Sukshma vyayam. Amidst the stress-relieving breath techniques, Sri Sri spoke on various subjects: "Prayers arise when you feel helpless – or you can say it is the small mind praying to the big mind. Meditation is the journey to the big mind. Are you getting what I am saying? God is not outside. God is love and you are made up of love."
A few words from Sri Sri and the floor was open to different queries from the audience.
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When you do your 100 percent, when you feel that you cannot do any more. That is exactly when you should meditate, instead of getting frustrated. You have put your 100 percent. When exactly do you know that you have had enough food? Do you know?
When exactly do you know you have had enough water? You burp! (laughter)
Usually you get frustrated when you feel: 'I have done enough, I can't do anymore. I just give up'. I tell you – you need not go to that extent of getting frustrated. Just say from the very beginning – I give up.
Yes, they say everything is fair in love and then it turns into a war! (laughter)
When they say everything is fair in war, they, in turn, get jailed. That's what happened to Miloshevich and many other people who just didn't care for any rules and thought everything is fair in war and love and finally, they landed up in jail.
Yes, you are forgiven. You made a mistake, that's ok. Done, finished! With every mistake you learn something and you move forward. But if you keep repeating the same mistake again and again, then you have to be a little more concerned.
You can make new mistakes, not the same old ones. That won't be forgiven. Once, twice, thrice … No fun in repeating the same old mistake!
You know, in Tamil it is difficult. Soghum in Tamil means sadness. In Tamil, there is very little difference between soghum and sohum.
It is not soghum, it is sohum.
It is the natural sound of the breath. Sohum. If you deeply observe the breath, you will observe that with every inhalation, there is sohum.
Yes. Forgiveness is a quality of a matured mind. A cultured, civilised, matured, intelligent person will always forgive.
I say very mean things to people, when I get angry. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Nothing new, what's new about it?)
I don't mean anything. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Nobody really means anything. Mother tells a kid, 'Come on, get lost.' She doesn't really mean it.)
You are! You were never yourself when you are angry, when you were upset. Why do you have to worry? Whenever a mistake happens, it happens in an unconscious state. So become more conscious.
I take it as a challenge and I enjoy challenges!
Evil things happen through people who are victims themselves. Inside every culprit, there is a victim crying for help. You have to correct that person, heal that person. Then such things won't happen. If you have worked in any prison, you will know. And if you're an Art of Living teacher and worked in prisons, you will appreciate this. You will see how those people whom you think are evil people, are actually good people. Unfortunately, they were not exposed to the type of knowledge and culture that you have been. They have been victims themselves. So we need to heal them. That is why spiritual knowledge is so much needed. When people do the course in prisons, they say if only they had this knowledge before, they wouldn't have been there. They wouldn't have done the things that they had done.
So it's our responsibility to reach out to those people who are doing wrong.
Even terrorists, they (Art of Living teachers) have taught so many terrorists in the world who are in prison as well as outside. Their lives changed the moment they did the Sudarshan Kriya.
Last month I went to one of the toughest parts of India, where Maoist violence is rampant. They had declared a 72-hour bandh. Nobody could stir out of their homes. My programme was organised there. Over 1,50,000 people came in a remote village and they lifted the ban to allow the people to come. And it was very nice.
People have changed, have transformed. When I went to jail, I met a lady and a man who have been ambushed. Not one or two – dozens and dozens have been ambushed. There are people there who have 200-300 cases against them.
The wife of a high court judge in the area is an Art of Living teacher. She went into this prison and taught these people. Their lives have been transformed. I had a talk with them.
After Iraq, the country most affected by violence is India. It is the highest in terror-hit regions. These communists are against spirituality, technology, business and industry. They are against democracy. They are against everything that is good. They don't know why they are against them. They are indoctrinated by Maoist principles. Just as jihadis are indoctrinated by the promise of heaven: 'If you kill the non-believers, you will go into heaven right away.' Maoists are brainwashed – 'If you throw out democracy, religion and spirituality, you can establish a just society.'
One approach is so material and another is so religious. These two types of violence are created to brainwash people. And if these people are educated in non-violence and spirituality, they will turn around. That is what is happening.
So we need to bring spiritual education in schools and class rooms. Talibans hit a young girl with big knives, suspecting her to have an illicit relation. Last month, they bombed five schools for girl children in Pakistan. I tell you, it is terrible, these people are being brainwashed because they never studied anything other than their fundamentalist religious beliefs.
They all should learn meditation, they all should know spirituality. We must teach them. They were never exposed to anything else, not a multi-dimensional or a multi-cultural education. 'Only my way is the true way, only my God is the true God': this sort of mentality puts the whole world into trouble. When someone thinks: 'Only I will go to heaven and everyone else goes to hell, they will create a hell for everyone else.'
We need to change this. That can happen only through education.


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Oak Ridge Boys Honored by Congressional Medal of Honor Society
After winning numerous awards, you'd think The Oak Ridge Boys would be used to it. The Oaks were honored again, this time by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
After winning numerous awards, you'd think The Oak Ridge Boys would be used to it. The Oaks were honored again, this time by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
The Country Music Association has announced the 2015 inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Oak Ridge Boys band member Richard Sterban's mother, Victoria Sterban, passed away on Sept. 1. She was 94 years old.
Duane Allen of the Oak Ridge Boys has been inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame.
Don't count The Oak Ridge Boys out just yet, these guys are still touring regularly. Their latest album "Boys Night Out" may have helped the foursome reach another career milestone. Recently, while on 'The Wendy Williams Show' they were recognized for selling over 41 million albums worldwide. A special presentation took place during their appearance on The Wendy Williams Show. Williams awarded The Oak Ridge Boys with the official RIAA commemorative plaque. The ORB also performed their hit "Elvira" on the show, check it out.
The 2014 CMA Fest went out with a bang on Sunday (June 9), the last day of the four-day music festival. It was highlighted by performances from several fan-favorite artists who lit up the stage at LP Field in Nashville.
When was the last time you heard the Oak Ridge Boys Live? In this recent interview, the Oaks admitted that they prefer the live show music over their studio sessions. So why did it take them three decades to release "Boys Night Out " their first 'Live' album?


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Tech's Lomnicky looking for an "A" in hammer and classes | VTEffect
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For many, putting the hammer down means their favorite NASCAR driver is making a move toward the front of the field.
Or, it means finishing a satisfying day of home improvement. Or spewing a few well-chosen words after smashing a thumb with a particular tool.
For Marcel Lomnicky, the hammer is a way to reach the 2012 Summer Olympics. And his hammer weighs considerably more than the hammer found in most tool boxes.
The Virginia Tech student-athlete is less than three meters (9.8 feet) from becoming a member of the Slovakian Olympic team and competing in the London Games in August.
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wtf is she wearing. I hate this slut. Like i have no problem with girls wearing provocative clothing, even under age girls. However, i have a massive problem with them marketing themselves to children, creating a whole new generation of sluts
Time for you nap, grandpa.
They'll be whores anyway. Mays well ride the new generation train like I will be!
contradicting much?
any nipple exposure?
There may have been nipple exposure but due to her age, those pictures can't be shown. The guy who took them will just lack off to them.
She's getting kinda chunky
Jack off to her? Have you seen her face lately? She's got, maybe, 3 years at best before she's boning every twink who can keep her coke habit going.
could not say i didn't see this coming…she's a Disney star for christs sake lol
I hate Miley Cyrus with a passion. Slutty cunt is what she is.
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"Hi, Orlando Bloom here. I know we've never met, but I just like to call people up and let them know I'm the guy screwing Miranda Kerr. Now, put your dad on the phone so I can tell him too."
"And in case you're wondering, my feet are extremely small."
That was my first thought too – yes, the shoes are ugly but his feet look freakishly small. Too bad…
Yep, just hanging out in my hightops with my pants sagging.
He was hot once. ONCE.
"No, no, Lance, I swear it works. I just grow the hair out a little, tell Jessica it's 'for a role,' and then I can bang Miranda Kerr.
Well, maybe she wouldn't if Orlando wasn't always over at YOUR place, bud."
"Hello, is this Perms R Us?"
"Yeah, Johnny Depp…I totally banged him. Could have any bird on the set. But because I'm O. Bloom, we sweated that mascara right off his face."
"No, I love you more. No, you hang up first!"
is it gay if my first thought was "wtf is going on with his shoes?"
I like his shoes. I wonder if they're available in a slip-on…
I read about this. 'Noddy and the Stolen Shoes'
Can you hear me now? Now?
"no, i'm telling you. they were a SIZE C and then they just disappeared right before my eyes. it was like black magic."
Please, somebody tomahawk him.
Yes, we do wash and detail large vehicles. What kind of car would it be? A pirate ship?! Damn it, Johnny!
Man Fred Savage looks old all of a sudden.
" Hi Penn Badgley.. Lets wear the same hipster clothes and freak everyone out". " We're so cool ( squeal ) ".
"Oh, Mr. Bruckheimer isn't in? Well just tell him Orlando called. Again. Sooooo….any word on any upcoming pirate movies? Or anything involving a sword?"
Yeah, a lot of people from all over tell me they are really bright and colorful, but I never got a call from the International Space Station.
"Hello Peter, This is Orlando. Are you sure you don't have a part for me in the new Hobbit films?"
Yup, I walked all ten blocks and not one shit kicking.
"So Miranda, what are you wearing…".


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After several inches of new snow first thing in the morning, beautiful sunshine & off and on snowy spells during the day...we got to witness the most beautiful sunset.
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Prices in New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire are at or near highs for the year and are also about 40 cents higher than a year ago.
Gas prices trickled lower in most parts of the U.S. after a late-summer surge.
Oil prices have fallen since mid-September and demand for gasoline is down, but refinery and pipeline problems have shrunk supplies of gasoline on the coasts and driven up prices in states that typically have some of the highest gas prices in the U.S. anyway.
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Justin Bieber and his partner Khalil were back in Miami, the site of their DUI arrests earlier this year, for some partying early on Thursday. While leaving the club Dream at approximately 4 a.m. and making his way to a waiting vehicle, Bieber was cool with his fans, posing for pictures and expressing gratitude.
Khalil was… less cool.
Apparently upset by the crowd, he mimicked shooting a gun and (repeatedly) declared, "That's how a n**ga gets shot!"
BTW … as reported … Khalil and Bieber have worked out a plea deal and prosecutors are currently processing the paperwork.
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Chemical formulas for photographic processing and printing, frequently recommend the use of distilled water, whilst deionised and purified water are considered acceptable substitutes. I have found that both distilled and purified water are nigh on impossible to obtain. Whereas deionised water is readily available as car battery top up water.
What I would like to know is, what advantages and/or disadvantages are there, if any, of using one of these types of water over another?
(I don't need to know the difference between each of the three types of water.)
An alternative is bottled water intended for drinking, sold by supermarkets. The analysis of the water is given on the bottle and some have very low impurity levels.